0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31And so we reach the quarterfinals.
0:00:31 > 0:00:35Out of the 130 or so teams who applied to compete in this contest,
0:00:35 > 0:00:3728 made it to the first round,
0:00:37 > 0:00:3916 entered the second round
0:00:39 > 0:00:42and now only eight remain. They're...
0:00:55 > 0:00:57At this stage of the competition,
0:00:57 > 0:01:00the rule devised by Torquemada in the 1480s
0:01:00 > 0:01:03demands that a team must win two matches
0:01:03 > 0:01:05in order to reach the semifinals.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08Lose two matches and you go home.
0:01:08 > 0:01:12A team that wins one match but loses another has to play again
0:01:12 > 0:01:14and win to qualify.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17From now on, the questions get just a little bit harder.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20The team from Bristol University have reached this stage
0:01:20 > 0:01:22without being greatly troubled by their opponents,
0:01:22 > 0:01:28beating Trinity College Cambridge by 230-95 in round one
0:01:28 > 0:01:31and, the last time we saw them, sending home Trinity College Oxford
0:01:31 > 0:01:33by 205-100.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35Their average age is 22.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37Let's meet them again.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40Hi, I'm Ollie Bowes, I'm from Market Harborough in Leicestershire
0:01:40 > 0:01:41and I'm studying music.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45I'm Kirsti Biggs, I'm originally from Southampton
0:01:45 > 0:01:47and I'm doing a PhD in mathematics.
0:01:47 > 0:01:49And this is their captain.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51Hi, I'm Sam Hosegood, I'm from Bedford
0:01:51 > 0:01:54and I do chemical physics.
0:01:54 > 0:01:56Hi, I'm Dom Hewett, I'm from Stroud in Gloucestershire
0:01:56 > 0:01:58and I study English.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00APPLAUSE
0:02:02 > 0:02:05Now, the team from Newcastle University have arrived here
0:02:05 > 0:02:09without being unduly vexed by Sheffield Hallam University,
0:02:09 > 0:02:12whom they beat in round one by 170-40,
0:02:12 > 0:02:16or by their second round opponents, the University of Southampton,
0:02:16 > 0:02:21whom they dispatched with a margin of 215-130.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23With an average age of 29,
0:02:23 > 0:02:26let's meet the Newcastle team again.
0:02:26 > 0:02:30Hi, my name's Jack Reynard, I'm from Leeds and I'm studying medicine.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33I'm Molly Nielsen, I'm from London and I'm studying medicine.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35And here's their captain.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37Hi, I'm Jonathan, from Newcastle upon Tyne
0:02:37 > 0:02:39and I'm studying for a PGCE.
0:02:39 > 0:02:40Hi, my name's Adam Lowery,
0:02:40 > 0:02:43I'm from Sunderland and I'm reading chemistry.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45APPLAUSE
0:02:47 > 0:02:49Right, let's just get on with it, then. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:51 > 0:02:57The phrase "that sharp female newly born" refers to what device
0:02:57 > 0:03:01in Dickens' A Tale Of Two Cities?
0:03:01 > 0:03:02The guillotine.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04Correct. APPLAUSE
0:03:06 > 0:03:09You get a set of bonuses on an author, Bristol.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Firstly, the September 2016 update to the Oxford English Dictionary
0:03:12 > 0:03:17marked the centenary of the birth of which British author
0:03:17 > 0:03:21with revised entries of several words including frightsome,
0:03:21 > 0:03:24splendiferous and human bean?
0:03:24 > 0:03:25- Is that...- Roald Dahl.
0:03:25 > 0:03:27- Roald Dahl.- Correct.
0:03:27 > 0:03:32Originally a dialect word meaning stingy, what word developed
0:03:32 > 0:03:36in American usage to mean scrupulous and then stylish or smart?
0:03:36 > 0:03:40Dahl brought it to a wider audience in its sense of delicious
0:03:40 > 0:03:43or enjoyable, for example in James And The Giant Peach.
0:03:43 > 0:03:45- Scrumptious?- Scrumptious.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47- Scrumptious.- Indeed.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50Appearing in the title of his first novel published in 1943,
0:03:50 > 0:03:53what word did Dahl, an RAF pilot,
0:03:53 > 0:03:57popularised in its sense of a mischievous sprite,
0:03:57 > 0:03:59imagined as the cause of mishaps to aircraft?
0:04:00 > 0:04:02- Gremlin?- Gremlin.
0:04:02 > 0:04:03- Gremlin.- Correct.
0:04:03 > 0:04:04APPLAUSE Ten points for this.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06Which African country's
0:04:06 > 0:04:11lowest elevation is about 1,400 metres, higher...
0:04:11 > 0:04:12Djibouti.
0:04:12 > 0:04:13No, you lose five points.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16Higher than the summit of Ben Nevis?
0:04:16 > 0:04:19Around the size of Wales, Devon and Cornwall combined,
0:04:19 > 0:04:22it gained independence from Britain in 1966
0:04:22 > 0:04:25and is entirely surrounded by the Republic of South Africa.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29- Lesotho.- Correct.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32APPLAUSE
0:04:32 > 0:04:36These bonuses, Bristol, are on temporary capital cities.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39Which city was designated the temporary capital of Lithuania
0:04:39 > 0:04:44between 1920 and '39, Vilnius being under Polish control?
0:04:44 > 0:04:46Do you know any other cities...?
0:04:50 > 0:04:52- No, sorry.- It's Kaunas.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54Secondly, which city on the river Loire briefly
0:04:54 > 0:04:57acted as the seat of the French government
0:04:57 > 0:05:01in June 1940 because of the imminent invasion of Paris, before another
0:05:01 > 0:05:05temporary capital was established at Vichy the following month?
0:05:05 > 0:05:08- Nantes.- Nantes?- Nantes or Lyon.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11- Nantes.- No, it was Tours.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13And finally, which port in South Korea was
0:05:13 > 0:05:17named as its country's temporary capital during the Korean War?
0:05:17 > 0:05:20It was one of the few large cities in the south not be
0:05:20 > 0:05:22occupied by North Korean forces.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24Incheon.
0:05:24 > 0:05:25Incheon. Incheon.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28No, it's Busan. Ten points for this.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31Which prominent character in the Harry Potter world has a given
0:05:31 > 0:05:36name that derives from that of the Greek messenger of the gods?
0:05:36 > 0:05:38She shares this name with the queen of...
0:05:38 > 0:05:40- Hermione.- Hermione is right.
0:05:40 > 0:05:43APPLAUSE
0:05:43 > 0:05:47Your first bonuses, Newcastle, are on star clusters.
0:05:47 > 0:05:51M13 in the constellation Hercules is an example of what
0:05:51 > 0:05:53type of star cluster?
0:05:53 > 0:05:55In contrast to open clusters,
0:05:55 > 0:05:58they may have many thousands of stars, held
0:05:58 > 0:06:02together by gravity in a relatively dense spherical arrangement.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04- Globular cluster.- Correct.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06Containing the star Alcyone
0:06:06 > 0:06:08and also known as the Seven Sisters,
0:06:08 > 0:06:12which open star cluster in the constellation Taurus is named
0:06:12 > 0:06:15after the daughters of the Titan Atlas in Greek mythology?
0:06:15 > 0:06:17- The Pleiades.- Correct.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20Praesepe, also known as the Beehive Cluster,
0:06:20 > 0:06:22is a major open star cluster
0:06:22 > 0:06:24located in which other zodiacal constellation?
0:06:24 > 0:06:26- Cancer.- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:06:26 > 0:06:29Ten points for this. Work this out before you buzz.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32Using a UK standard computer keyboard,
0:06:32 > 0:06:36what is the result of multiplying together the three numbers
0:06:36 > 0:06:40that share a key with the pound sign, the dollar sign
0:06:40 > 0:06:42and the percentage sign?
0:06:45 > 0:06:47- 60.- 60 is correct.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49APPLAUSE Three by four by five.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54These bonuses are on a painting technique, Newcastle.
0:06:54 > 0:06:56What name is commonly given to the painting technique
0:06:56 > 0:07:00prominent in neo-impressionism that uses dots of colour
0:07:00 > 0:07:03which from a distance visually blend together?
0:07:03 > 0:07:05- Pointillism.- Correct.
0:07:05 > 0:07:11The term peinture au point was coined in 1886 by the critic
0:07:11 > 0:07:14Felix Feneon to refer to the works of which artist?
0:07:14 > 0:07:18His paintings in the pointillist manner include Bathers At Asnieres.
0:07:21 > 0:07:22Cezanne.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24Pointillist? It has to be Seurat.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26Seurat? Yeah. Seurat?
0:07:26 > 0:07:27Seurat is correct.
0:07:27 > 0:07:31Which post-impressionist painter moved to Asnieres in 1887
0:07:31 > 0:07:33and adopted pointillist techniques
0:07:33 > 0:07:37in many of his works, notably in his self-portrait of 1887,
0:07:37 > 0:07:40now in the Art Institute of Chicago?
0:07:40 > 0:07:41Is it van Gogh?
0:07:41 > 0:07:44- Would you say van Gogh?- Yes. - Yeah?- I think it is.- Van Gogh?
0:07:44 > 0:07:45Correct. APPLAUSE
0:07:45 > 0:07:47We're going to take a picture round now.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50For your picture starter, you're going to see a map of the early
0:07:50 > 0:07:55Holy Roman Empire with one of its German stem duchies highlighted.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57Ten points if you can identify the duchy.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04Schleswig.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Anyone like to buzz from Newcastle?
0:08:10 > 0:08:11Holstein.
0:08:11 > 0:08:15No, it's Saxony. So picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18Ten points at stake for this starter question. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:08:18 > 0:08:19What's being described?
0:08:19 > 0:08:23Moko is the form practised by the Maori people,
0:08:23 > 0:08:28while a traditional style associated with the Japanese yakuza is...
0:08:28 > 0:08:29Tattoos.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32Tattoos is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:08:34 > 0:08:37So we follow on from Saxony in the picture starter with three
0:08:37 > 0:08:41more stem duchies that formed the early kingdom of Germany
0:08:41 > 0:08:42and the Holy Roman Empire.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45Five points for each you can correctly identify.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48Firstly, the duchy marked A.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54It's around, like, modern-day Baden-Wurttemberg.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56So would it be...Baden or... I don't know.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59Baden or Baden-Wurttemberg.
0:08:59 > 0:09:00Baden.
0:09:00 > 0:09:01Now, it's Swabia.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03Secondly, the duchy marked B.
0:09:07 > 0:09:08Any ideas?
0:09:10 > 0:09:12Erm...
0:09:12 > 0:09:13Rhineland.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15No, that's Franconia.
0:09:15 > 0:09:16And finally, the duchy marked C.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18- Bavaria.- Bavaria.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20It is Bavaria, yes. APPLAUSE
0:09:20 > 0:09:22Right, ten points for this.
0:09:22 > 0:09:26A group of infectious diseases caused by Rickettsia bacteria
0:09:26 > 0:09:29and transmitted by lice, fleas, mites or ticks,
0:09:29 > 0:09:33which disease is associated with overcrowded and unhygie...?
0:09:35 > 0:09:36Typhus.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39Typhus is correct. APPLAUSE
0:09:39 > 0:09:42OK, you get a set of bonuses on insects, Newcastle.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45With more than 100,000 species and including bees,
0:09:45 > 0:09:51wasps and ants, which insect order has a name meaning membrane wings?
0:09:51 > 0:09:55- I'll nominate you. Hymenoptera. - Hymenoptera.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57- Hymenoptera.- Correct.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Including dragonflies and damselflies,
0:09:59 > 0:10:02which order of more than 5,000 species has a name
0:10:02 > 0:10:04derived from the Greek word for tooth?
0:10:07 > 0:10:09THEY WHISPER
0:10:11 > 0:10:14- Dentoptera.- Dentoptera?
0:10:14 > 0:10:16- Dentoptera.- No, they're odonata.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19And finally, including the caddisflies,
0:10:19 > 0:10:22which insect order has a name that means hairy-winged?
0:10:25 > 0:10:27THEY WHISPER
0:10:29 > 0:10:31Trichoptera?
0:10:34 > 0:10:36- Say it again.- Trichoptera.
0:10:36 > 0:10:37- Trichoptera.- Correct.
0:10:37 > 0:10:38APPLAUSE Ten points for this.
0:10:38 > 0:10:44In 1791, what seven-letter word did the revolutionary Bourbon Prince
0:10:44 > 0:10:48Louis Philippe Joseph, Duke of Orleans adopt as his byname?
0:10:48 > 0:10:52The same word forms part of a tripartite motto closely
0:10:52 > 0:10:54associated with the French Revolution.
0:10:58 > 0:10:59Egalite.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02Correct. APPLAUSE
0:11:03 > 0:11:06These bonuses are on the novels of Saul Bellow.
0:11:06 > 0:11:10Firstly for five points, The Adventures Of Augie March
0:11:10 > 0:11:13fictionalises a real-life incident in which Bellow
0:11:13 > 0:11:18arrived in Mexico too late to see which exile who was murdered
0:11:18 > 0:11:20the morning they were due to meet?
0:11:20 > 0:11:22- Trotsky.- Trotsky?- Trotsky. - Trotsky?- Yeah.
0:11:22 > 0:11:23- Leon Trotsky.- Correct.
0:11:24 > 0:11:28Bellow's final novel, Ravelstein, fictionalised the life
0:11:28 > 0:11:29of which US philosopher?
0:11:29 > 0:11:33He wrote the provocative 1987 work The Closing Of The American Mind.
0:11:34 > 0:11:35- I don't know.- Oh!
0:11:37 > 0:11:39Rawls? John Rawls? No?
0:11:40 > 0:11:41- What?- John Rawls is a...- Yeah.
0:11:41 > 0:11:42John Rawls.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45No, it was Allan Bloom.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47"If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me."
0:11:47 > 0:11:50This is the opening thought of which of Bellow's title characters,
0:11:50 > 0:11:53a Jewish intellectual in a novel of 1964?
0:11:53 > 0:11:55- Herzog.- Herzog is right.
0:11:55 > 0:11:56APPLAUSE Ten points for this.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59What four-letter word denotes the Hindu festival commemorating
0:11:59 > 0:12:01the triumph of...
0:12:01 > 0:12:03- Holi.- Holi is correct, yes.
0:12:03 > 0:12:07APPLAUSE
0:12:07 > 0:12:09These bonuses are on logic, Newcastle.
0:12:09 > 0:12:10In mathematical logic,
0:12:10 > 0:12:14what name is given to a composed statement that is always true,
0:12:14 > 0:12:17regardless of the truth of the partial statements
0:12:17 > 0:12:18used in its composition?
0:12:19 > 0:12:21- Sorry?- Law.
0:12:23 > 0:12:27- I don't know. - Is that what you reckon as well?
0:12:27 > 0:12:29- Do you know?- Law.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31- Law.- It's tautology.
0:12:31 > 0:12:32Born in 1806,
0:12:32 > 0:12:36which English mathematician gives his name to the so-called law
0:12:36 > 0:12:40or logical relation that can be expressed as the negation
0:12:40 > 0:12:45of A or B is equivalent to not A and not B?
0:12:46 > 0:12:48Boole.
0:12:48 > 0:12:49Boole or...
0:12:49 > 0:12:50Boole.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52No, it's De Morgan.
0:12:52 > 0:12:56And finally, what two-word Latin phrase is used for the logical rule
0:12:56 > 0:13:01that states that if A is true and A implies B, then B is true?
0:13:01 > 0:13:04- SHE WHISPERS INAUDIBLY - No, no, it's a Latin two-word
0:13:04 > 0:13:06- phrase.- Oh, sorry. Sorry.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10- You don't know?- No, no, no.
0:13:10 > 0:13:11Don't know? Sorry, we don't know.
0:13:11 > 0:13:12The modus ponens.
0:13:12 > 0:13:14Ten points for this.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Which genus of the pea family links
0:13:16 > 0:13:20an influential sutra of Mahayana Buddhism,
0:13:20 > 0:13:22a Baha'i temple in New Delhi,
0:13:22 > 0:13:23a tribe encountered by Odysseus
0:13:23 > 0:13:28and his men during their return from Troy and a position in yoga?
0:13:29 > 0:13:31- Lotus.- Lotus is correct.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33APPLAUSE
0:13:34 > 0:13:37Your bonuses are on molecular biology.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40What term is defined as the entire complement of proteins
0:13:40 > 0:13:43of a cell, tissue or organism at a particular time?
0:13:45 > 0:13:47HE GROANS
0:13:47 > 0:13:48No, sorry. No idea.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50It's a proteome.
0:13:50 > 0:13:54From the Greek for to move, what term denotes an enzyme that adds
0:13:54 > 0:13:59phosphate groups to other molecules, for example proteins and lipids?
0:14:01 > 0:14:03THEY WHISPER
0:14:06 > 0:14:08A transfer?
0:14:08 > 0:14:09No, it's a kinase.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12And finally, phosphate groups are one of the building blocks
0:14:12 > 0:14:17of the nucleotide ATP. For what do those letters stand?
0:14:17 > 0:14:19- Adenosine triphosphate.- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:14:19 > 0:14:21We're going to take a music round now. For your music starter,
0:14:21 > 0:14:25you'll hear a piece of classical music by an American composer.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28Ten points if you can identify that composer.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30PIANO MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:34 > 0:14:35Glass.
0:14:35 > 0:14:39It is Philip Glass, yes. APPLAUSE
0:14:39 > 0:14:40It's the Opening of Glassworks.
0:14:40 > 0:14:44The minimalist composer Philip Glass celebrated his 80th birthday
0:14:44 > 0:14:46earlier this year. For your music bonuses,
0:14:46 > 0:14:51three more composers who have written music in a minimalist form.
0:14:51 > 0:14:54For five points, in each case simply give me the name of the composer.
0:14:54 > 0:14:55Firstly...
0:14:55 > 0:14:58ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:00 > 0:15:01Steve Reich.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Steve Reich.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06It is Terry Riley, I'm afraid.
0:15:06 > 0:15:10Secondly, I want the name of this contemporary British composer.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:16 > 0:15:18Nominate Bowes.
0:15:18 > 0:15:19Birtwistle.
0:15:19 > 0:15:20No, that's Anna Meredith.
0:15:20 > 0:15:21And finally...
0:15:21 > 0:15:23# Come out to show them
0:15:23 > 0:15:24# Come out to show them
0:15:24 > 0:15:26# Come out to show them Come out to show them... #
0:15:26 > 0:15:27- Steve Reich.- Right.
0:15:27 > 0:15:28We'll try Steve Reich again.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30It is, yes. Well done.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32APPLAUSE Ten points for this.
0:15:32 > 0:15:33Listen carefully.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36In increasing order of orbital radius, the initial
0:15:36 > 0:15:41letters of the inner moons of which planet spell out the word met?
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Titan. Oh, Saturn.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49Well, I'm sorry, I've got to take the first answer you give
0:15:49 > 0:15:50and you said Titan.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54- Saturn.- Saturn is correct, yes.
0:15:54 > 0:15:58LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:15:58 > 0:16:00Your bonuses, this time, Bristol, are on mothers,
0:16:00 > 0:16:04specifically those who've given birth to two kings of England
0:16:04 > 0:16:05or Great Britain.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08In each case, listen to the description and name the queen
0:16:08 > 0:16:11and both her crowned progeny.
0:16:11 > 0:16:16Firstly, born circa 1132, died in 1204,
0:16:16 > 0:16:19probably at Fontevraud at Anjou.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21- Eleanor of Aquitaine. - And Henry the...
0:16:21 > 0:16:24- Henry II?- Richard I and John.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26OK, can I nominate you?
0:16:26 > 0:16:28- So...- Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard...
0:16:28 > 0:16:33- Nominate Bowes.- Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard I and John.
0:16:33 > 0:16:39Correct. Secondly, born in Paris in 1609, died in 1669 near Paris.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42Oh. Henrietta Marie,
0:16:42 > 0:16:44Charles I, James II.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47Sorry, erm, Charles II, James II.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50Henrietta Marie, Charles II, James II.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Yes, Henrietta Maria. Yes.
0:16:52 > 0:16:57And finally, born at Mirow in north Germany in 1744
0:16:57 > 0:16:59and died at Kew Palace in 1818.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04It's George IV and Henry IV but I can't remember her name.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07- Is it...- Catherine. - Catherine, yeah, I was thinking...
0:17:07 > 0:17:08George IV, Henry IV, Catherine.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11Right, Catherine, George IV, William IV.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14Charlotte of Mecklenburg with George IV and William IV.
0:17:14 > 0:17:15Ten points for this.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18A manor house in the Cotswolds, villages in Somerset
0:17:18 > 0:17:19and Huntingdonshire...
0:17:20 > 0:17:22- Four Quartets. - Four Quartets is right.
0:17:22 > 0:17:25APPLAUSE
0:17:25 > 0:17:28Your bonuses are on politics and social science.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32In each case, give the single word that completes these titles.
0:17:32 > 0:17:36All three answers and end in the letters I-S-M.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38First, Roger Scruton's 2006 work
0:17:38 > 0:17:42A Political Philosophy - Arguments For what?
0:17:42 > 0:17:44- Conservatism.- Conservatism.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46Conservatism is correct.
0:17:46 > 0:17:49Secondly, complete the title based on a website project,
0:17:49 > 0:17:53Laura Bates' 2014 work Everyday what?
0:17:53 > 0:17:55Feminism.
0:17:55 > 0:17:57- No, it's sexism.- Oh.- Sorry.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00And finally, Slavoj Zizek's 2014 work
0:18:00 > 0:18:05Absolute Recoil - Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical what?
0:18:05 > 0:18:06Materialism?
0:18:07 > 0:18:09- Materialism.- Materialism is right.
0:18:09 > 0:18:10Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:18:10 > 0:18:12I need a precise number here.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15The human body has how many thoracic vertebrae?
0:18:18 > 0:18:19Nine.
0:18:19 > 0:18:23Anyone like to buzz from Newcastle?
0:18:23 > 0:18:25- 12.- 12 is correct, yes.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28APPLAUSE
0:18:28 > 0:18:31Your bonuses, Newcastle, are on genetics.
0:18:31 > 0:18:35From the Greek for many forms, what term describes cells with
0:18:35 > 0:18:39more than the normal diploid set of chromosomes?
0:18:39 > 0:18:42- Polymorphs.- No, they're polyploid.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45Secondly, extracted from autumn crocus,
0:18:45 > 0:18:48what agent may be used to induce polyploidy in plants?
0:18:50 > 0:18:52It's colchicine.
0:18:54 > 0:18:55It's colchicine.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58- HE WHISPERS INAUDIBLY - Do you know what it is?- No.- No.
0:18:58 > 0:18:59Colchicine.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Colchicine.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03Col-kye-cine, I think it's normally called. Yes.
0:19:03 > 0:19:07And finally, if colchicine inhibits 'microcubule' formation,
0:19:07 > 0:19:10to which protein does colchicine bind to achieve this effect?
0:19:12 > 0:19:14- Tubulin.- Yeah, that's a good shout.
0:19:14 > 0:19:15What do you think about tubulin?
0:19:15 > 0:19:17Causes gout.
0:19:17 > 0:19:18It causes gout...
0:19:18 > 0:19:19I think it's tubulin.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21It causes gout.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23Yeah, tubulin.
0:19:25 > 0:19:26What did you say about gout?
0:19:26 > 0:19:29- It causes gout... Jack, what you saying?- Come on.- Tubulin.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31- Tubulin.- Tubulin is correct.
0:19:31 > 0:19:32APPLAUSE Ten points for this.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35What surname links the author of Death In The Afternoon
0:19:35 > 0:19:38with the founders of the fashion house Red Or Dead?
0:19:42 > 0:19:43Christie?
0:19:43 > 0:19:45No, anyone like to buzz from Bristol?
0:19:47 > 0:19:51- Smith.- No, it's Hemingway. Ten points for this.
0:19:51 > 0:19:52Similar to the bilberry,
0:19:52 > 0:19:56plants of the genus Gaylussacia have what common name?
0:19:56 > 0:20:01It's the forename of an enduring figure of American literature...
0:20:01 > 0:20:03- Huckleberry.- Huckleberry is right.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05APPLAUSE
0:20:06 > 0:20:09You get a set of bonuses on battles of the Civil War.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13Firstly for five, taking place on the evening of July the 2nd 1644,
0:20:13 > 0:20:17what is often cited as being the largest battle
0:20:17 > 0:20:18fought on English soil?
0:20:20 > 0:20:22- Edgehill, Edgehill. - Edgehill, yeah. Yeah.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25- Edgehill.- No, it's Marston Moor.
0:20:25 > 0:20:26In March 1646,
0:20:26 > 0:20:30the last royalist field army was destroyed at which battle in
0:20:30 > 0:20:34Gloucestershire, effectively marking the end of the First Civil War?
0:20:34 > 0:20:37THEY WHISPER
0:20:37 > 0:20:38- Tewkesbury.- Tewkesbury.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41Was there one then?
0:20:41 > 0:20:42The War of the Roses one...
0:20:42 > 0:20:45- Tewkesbury's the War of the Roses... OK. Go for it.- OK.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47- Tewkesbury. - No, that was at Stow-on-the-Wold.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50- Tewkesbury, I think, was in the Second Civil War.- Yeah.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53Which decisive parliamentarian victory of 1648 was
0:20:53 > 0:20:56the largest battle of the Second Civil War?
0:20:56 > 0:21:00It takes its name from a city in central Lancashire.
0:21:00 > 0:21:01- Preston.- Oh, yeah. Preston.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03Preston is correct. APPLAUSE
0:21:03 > 0:21:06Right, we're going to take the second picture round now.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09For your picture starter, you'll see a painting of a mythological figure.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11For ten points, I want you to identify that figure.
0:21:14 > 0:21:15Andromeda.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18It is Andromeda, yes, by Dore. APPLAUSE
0:21:18 > 0:21:22Chained to a rock as an offering to the sea monster Cetus
0:21:22 > 0:21:24before her rescue by Perseus.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27For your bonuses, three more depictions of Andromeda.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30In each case, I want the name of the artist for five points.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32Firstly, this French artist.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36WHISPERING
0:21:36 > 0:21:38Cezanne?
0:21:38 > 0:21:40I think so, yeah.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42- Cezanne.- No, that's by Delacroix.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45Secondly, the Polish artist who painted this.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49The name starts with an L.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51THEY CHUCKLE
0:21:51 > 0:21:54It's like...Leschenko or something.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57- Leschenko? - It's something like that.
0:21:57 > 0:21:58Leschenko.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00No, that's Lempicka.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02And finally, this British artist.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06Well, that's Burne-Jones, isn't it? Burne-Jones?
0:22:06 > 0:22:09You don't think it's Rossetti or...
0:22:09 > 0:22:11Ooh. Ooh, I don't know.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13- I fancy Burne-Jones. - Go for it.- Yeah.
0:22:13 > 0:22:14Edward Burne-Jones.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16That is Burne-Jones. Well done.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18APPLAUSE Right, ten points for this.
0:22:18 > 0:22:22Answer promptly. Name any three of the five most spoken languages
0:22:22 > 0:22:24in the UK after English,
0:22:24 > 0:22:26according to the 2011 census.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28Polish, Urdu and...
0:22:28 > 0:22:30..erm, Hindi.
0:22:31 > 0:22:32No.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34HOSEGHOOD SIGHS Anyone like to buzz from Newcastle?
0:22:38 > 0:22:40Polish, Urdu and Punjabi?
0:22:40 > 0:22:43Correct. The other one is Gujarati. APPLAUSE
0:22:43 > 0:22:45But not Hindi.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47So you get a set of bonuses, Newcastle,
0:22:47 > 0:22:49on dependencies in the Caribbean Sea.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52The island of Saint Martin, located towards
0:22:52 > 0:22:56the north of the Leeward Islands, is divided into two parts
0:22:56 > 0:23:00that are territorial possessions of which two European countries?
0:23:00 > 0:23:01France and the Netherlands.
0:23:01 > 0:23:03- France and the Netherlands.- Correct.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06Secondly, noted for its coral reefs and beaches,
0:23:06 > 0:23:08which British Overseas Territory
0:23:08 > 0:23:12lies approximately 20km north of Saint Martin?
0:23:12 > 0:23:15Its chief town is called The Valley.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17Anguilla? Yeah.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19- Anguilla.- Correct.
0:23:19 > 0:23:24Saint Croix and Saint Thomas are the two largest islands in which group,
0:23:24 > 0:23:27a territorial possession of the United States of America,
0:23:27 > 0:23:30located to the south and east of Puerto Rico?
0:23:30 > 0:23:32- American Virgin Islands. - Yeah? American Vi...
0:23:32 > 0:23:34- American Virgin Islands.- Correct.
0:23:34 > 0:23:36APPLAUSE Four minutes to go.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38Ten points for this. Used for example in the Kyoto Protocol,
0:23:38 > 0:23:42the abbreviation GWP stands for what?
0:23:42 > 0:23:44It's a measure of how much heat a greenhouse gas
0:23:44 > 0:23:47traps in the atmosphere relative to carbon dioxide.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52Global warming potential.
0:23:52 > 0:23:53Correct.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55APPLAUSE
0:23:55 > 0:23:59You get three bonuses on the US journalist and scholar HL Mencken.
0:23:59 > 0:24:03What is the title of Mencken's magnum opus of 1919,
0:24:03 > 0:24:05a study of how the English language was spoken
0:24:05 > 0:24:07in the United States?
0:24:08 > 0:24:11- Don't know?- Never heard of the boy.
0:24:11 > 0:24:12No. No.
0:24:12 > 0:24:13- Let's have it. - Sorry, we don't know.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15That's The American Language.
0:24:15 > 0:24:19Mencken was known as the sage of which city on the eastern seaboard?
0:24:19 > 0:24:23He worked for that city's Sun newspaper for more than 30 years.
0:24:24 > 0:24:25- Er, Baltimore.- Baltimore.
0:24:25 > 0:24:26- Yeah, Baltimore.- Baltimore?
0:24:26 > 0:24:28Correct.
0:24:28 > 0:24:29A fictionalised version of Mencken was
0:24:29 > 0:24:33portrayed by Gene Kelly in which 1960 film,
0:24:33 > 0:24:37a dramatisation of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925?
0:24:37 > 0:24:39Erm... Yeah!
0:24:39 > 0:24:41Something the wind... Something the wind...
0:24:41 > 0:24:42Inherit The Wind?
0:24:42 > 0:24:43- Maybe, yes. Yes.- Yeah.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45- Inherit The Wind.- Correct.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47APPLAUSE A starter question.
0:24:47 > 0:24:51The name of what natural phenomenon links the Chinese term feng shui
0:24:51 > 0:24:53with the Japanese term kamikaze?
0:24:54 > 0:24:56- Wind.- Wind is correct.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58APPLAUSE
0:24:58 > 0:25:01Your bonuses are on words that originated in the Quechua
0:25:01 > 0:25:03languages of South America.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05In each case, give the word from the definition.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07Firstly, a genus of large cats,
0:25:07 > 0:25:11including the species also known as the mountain lion or cougar.
0:25:13 > 0:25:17You've got caracal, ocelot...
0:25:17 > 0:25:19- It's not ocelot because it's not... - Yeah. Yeah.- ..but...
0:25:19 > 0:25:22- What are others?- Caracal.- Cougar.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24- Cougar?- That was in the question.
0:25:24 > 0:25:25Oh, was it in the question?
0:25:25 > 0:25:26We'll go caracal then.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28Yeah. Caracal.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30No, it's the puma.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32An alkaloid obtained from the cinchona bark,
0:25:32 > 0:25:35it's used in the treatment of malaria.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37- Oh, quinine.- Yeah, quinine.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40Correct. Finally, a natural fertiliser found, for example,
0:25:40 > 0:25:43on the Chincha Islands off the coast of Peru.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45- Guano.- Guano?- Yeah. Yeah.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47- Guano.- Guano is correct. APPLAUSE
0:25:47 > 0:25:49Ten points for this. Answer promptly.
0:25:49 > 0:25:53Give me the reginal names of any two of the three women who
0:25:53 > 0:25:56served as Queen of the Netherlands during the 20th century.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06Margaret and Anne.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08No, anyone like to buzz from Bristol?
0:26:10 > 0:26:12Margarita and Louise.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14No, they're Wilhelmina, Juliana and Beatrix.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16I think they all abdicated in the end.
0:26:16 > 0:26:17So we get another starter question now.
0:26:17 > 0:26:22In which New York borough is Conference House Park, which lies
0:26:22 > 0:26:25at the southernmost point of both the state and the city of New York?
0:26:29 > 0:26:30Bronx.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32No, anyone like to buzz from Newcastle?
0:26:34 > 0:26:36- Staten Island.- Correct.
0:26:36 > 0:26:37APPLAUSE You get a set of bonuses
0:26:37 > 0:26:39on the wives of Roman emperors.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Notorious for her licentious behaviour
0:26:41 > 0:26:44and political intrigues, Messalina was the third wife
0:26:44 > 0:26:49of which Roman emperor, who ruled from AD 41 to 54?
0:26:49 > 0:26:53- Was that Caligula?- No, no, no, no, Claudius.- Claudius.- Claudius.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56- Yeah, Claudius.- Correct. Deified by Claudius, Livia Drusilla
0:26:56 > 0:27:01was the wife of which Roman emperor throughout his 40-year reign?
0:27:01 > 0:27:03- Augustus.- Augustus. Augustus.
0:27:03 > 0:27:08Correct. Ulpia Severina was the wife of which emperor who reunited
0:27:08 > 0:27:12the empire in 274. It's thought she may have ruled in her own right
0:27:12 > 0:27:14for six months after his death.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16- Is that Diocletian?- I think so.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18Diocletian.
0:27:18 > 0:27:19No, it was Aurelian.
0:27:19 > 0:27:20Ten points for this.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22Which present-day European country is largely
0:27:22 > 0:27:26composed of the historical region of Bessarabia
0:27:26 > 0:27:29and the separatist enclave of Transnistria?
0:27:30 > 0:27:31- Moldova.- Moldova is right. APPLAUSE
0:27:31 > 0:27:34You get a set of bonuses now on world history.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37In each case, give the precise year of the 20th century...
0:27:37 > 0:27:38GONG
0:27:38 > 0:27:40APPLAUSE And at the gong Bristol have 130,
0:27:40 > 0:27:42Newcastle have 225.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46Well, I don't know about you,
0:27:46 > 0:27:48but it felt to me slightly closer than that scoreline suggests.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50Thank you both very much for playing.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53Bristol, you get another chance to fight again.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56You have to win the next two matches you play in these
0:27:56 > 0:27:58quarterfinals to stay in the match.
0:27:58 > 0:28:02Newcastle, you have to win one more to go through to the semis.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04Thank you for joining us, both of you.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match,
0:28:06 > 0:28:10- but until then, it's goodbye from Bristol University...- Bye.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12- ..it's goodbye from Newcastle University...- Bye.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17APPLAUSE