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