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APPLAUSE

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Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.

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And so we reach the quarterfinals.

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Out of the 130 or so teams who applied to compete in this contest,

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28 made it to the first round,

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16 entered the second round

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and now only eight remain. They're...

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At this stage of the competition,

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the rule devised by Torquemada in the 1480s

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demands that a team must win two matches

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in order to reach the semifinals.

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Lose two matches and you go home.

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A team that wins one match but loses another has to play again

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and win to qualify.

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From now on, the questions get just a little bit harder.

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The team from Bristol University have reached this stage

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without being greatly troubled by their opponents,

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beating Trinity College Cambridge by 230-95 in round one

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and, the last time we saw them, sending home Trinity College Oxford

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by 205-100.

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Their average age is 22.

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Let's meet them again.

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Hi, I'm Ollie Bowes, I'm from Market Harborough in Leicestershire

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and I'm studying music.

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I'm Kirsti Biggs, I'm originally from Southampton

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and I'm doing a PhD in mathematics.

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And this is their captain.

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Hi, I'm Sam Hosegood, I'm from Bedford

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and I do chemical physics.

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Hi, I'm Dom Hewett, I'm from Stroud in Gloucestershire

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and I study English.

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APPLAUSE

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Now, the team from Newcastle University have arrived here

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without being unduly vexed by Sheffield Hallam University,

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whom they beat in round one by 170-40,

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or by their second round opponents, the University of Southampton,

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whom they dispatched with a margin of 215-130.

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With an average age of 29,

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let's meet the Newcastle team again.

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Hi, my name's Jack Reynard, I'm from Leeds and I'm studying medicine.

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I'm Molly Nielsen, I'm from London and I'm studying medicine.

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And here's their captain.

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Hi, I'm Jonathan, from Newcastle upon Tyne

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and I'm studying for a PGCE.

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Hi, my name's Adam Lowery,

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I'm from Sunderland and I'm reading chemistry.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, let's just get on with it, then. Fingers on the buzzers.

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Here's your first starter for ten.

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The phrase "that sharp female newly born" refers to what device

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in Dickens' A Tale Of Two Cities?

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The guillotine.

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Correct. APPLAUSE

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You get a set of bonuses on an author, Bristol.

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Firstly, the September 2016 update to the Oxford English Dictionary

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marked the centenary of the birth of which British author

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with revised entries of several words including frightsome,

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splendiferous and human bean?

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-Is that...

-Roald Dahl.

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-Roald Dahl.

-Correct.

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Originally a dialect word meaning stingy, what word developed

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in American usage to mean scrupulous and then stylish or smart?

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Dahl brought it to a wider audience in its sense of delicious

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or enjoyable, for example in James And The Giant Peach.

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-Scrumptious?

-Scrumptious.

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-Scrumptious.

-Indeed.

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Appearing in the title of his first novel published in 1943,

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what word did Dahl, an RAF pilot,

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popularised in its sense of a mischievous sprite,

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imagined as the cause of mishaps to aircraft?

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-Gremlin?

-Gremlin.

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-Gremlin.

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE Ten points for this.

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Which African country's

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lowest elevation is about 1,400 metres, higher...

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Djibouti.

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No, you lose five points.

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Higher than the summit of Ben Nevis?

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Around the size of Wales, Devon and Cornwall combined,

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it gained independence from Britain in 1966

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and is entirely surrounded by the Republic of South Africa.

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-Lesotho.

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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These bonuses, Bristol, are on temporary capital cities.

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Which city was designated the temporary capital of Lithuania

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between 1920 and '39, Vilnius being under Polish control?

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Do you know any other cities...?

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-No, sorry.

-It's Kaunas.

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Secondly, which city on the river Loire briefly

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acted as the seat of the French government

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in June 1940 because of the imminent invasion of Paris, before another

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temporary capital was established at Vichy the following month?

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-Nantes.

-Nantes?

-Nantes or Lyon.

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-Nantes.

-No, it was Tours.

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And finally, which port in South Korea was

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named as its country's temporary capital during the Korean War?

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It was one of the few large cities in the south not be

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occupied by North Korean forces.

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Incheon.

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Incheon. Incheon.

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No, it's Busan. Ten points for this.

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Which prominent character in the Harry Potter world has a given

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name that derives from that of the Greek messenger of the gods?

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She shares this name with the queen of...

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-Hermione.

-Hermione is right.

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APPLAUSE

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Your first bonuses, Newcastle, are on star clusters.

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M13 in the constellation Hercules is an example of what

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type of star cluster?

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In contrast to open clusters,

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they may have many thousands of stars, held

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together by gravity in a relatively dense spherical arrangement.

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-Globular cluster.

-Correct.

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Containing the star Alcyone

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and also known as the Seven Sisters,

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which open star cluster in the constellation Taurus is named

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after the daughters of the Titan Atlas in Greek mythology?

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-The Pleiades.

-Correct.

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Praesepe, also known as the Beehive Cluster,

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is a major open star cluster

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located in which other zodiacal constellation?

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-Cancer.

-Correct. APPLAUSE

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Ten points for this. Work this out before you buzz.

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Using a UK standard computer keyboard,

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what is the result of multiplying together the three numbers

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that share a key with the pound sign, the dollar sign

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and the percentage sign?

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-60.

-60 is correct.

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APPLAUSE Three by four by five.

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These bonuses are on a painting technique, Newcastle.

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What name is commonly given to the painting technique

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prominent in neo-impressionism that uses dots of colour

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which from a distance visually blend together?

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-Pointillism.

-Correct.

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The term peinture au point was coined in 1886 by the critic

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Felix Feneon to refer to the works of which artist?

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His paintings in the pointillist manner include Bathers At Asnieres.

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Cezanne.

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Pointillist? It has to be Seurat.

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Seurat? Yeah. Seurat?

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Seurat is correct.

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Which post-impressionist painter moved to Asnieres in 1887

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and adopted pointillist techniques

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in many of his works, notably in his self-portrait of 1887,

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now in the Art Institute of Chicago?

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Is it van Gogh?

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-Would you say van Gogh?

-Yes.

-Yeah?

-I think it is.

-Van Gogh?

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Correct. APPLAUSE

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We're going to take a picture round now.

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For your picture starter, you're going to see a map of the early

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Holy Roman Empire with one of its German stem duchies highlighted.

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Ten points if you can identify the duchy.

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Schleswig.

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Anyone like to buzz from Newcastle?

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Holstein.

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No, it's Saxony. So picture bonuses in a moment or two.

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Ten points at stake for this starter question. Fingers on the buzzers.

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What's being described?

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Moko is the form practised by the Maori people,

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while a traditional style associated with the Japanese yakuza is...

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Tattoos.

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Tattoos is correct, yes. APPLAUSE

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So we follow on from Saxony in the picture starter with three

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more stem duchies that formed the early kingdom of Germany

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and the Holy Roman Empire.

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Five points for each you can correctly identify.

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Firstly, the duchy marked A.

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It's around, like, modern-day Baden-Wurttemberg.

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So would it be...Baden or... I don't know.

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Baden or Baden-Wurttemberg.

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Baden.

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Now, it's Swabia.

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Secondly, the duchy marked B.

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Any ideas?

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Erm...

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Rhineland.

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No, that's Franconia.

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And finally, the duchy marked C.

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-Bavaria.

-Bavaria.

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It is Bavaria, yes. APPLAUSE

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Right, ten points for this.

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A group of infectious diseases caused by Rickettsia bacteria

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and transmitted by lice, fleas, mites or ticks,

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which disease is associated with overcrowded and unhygie...?

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Typhus.

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Typhus is correct. APPLAUSE

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OK, you get a set of bonuses on insects, Newcastle.

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With more than 100,000 species and including bees,

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wasps and ants, which insect order has a name meaning membrane wings?

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-I'll nominate you. Hymenoptera.

-Hymenoptera.

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-Hymenoptera.

-Correct.

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Including dragonflies and damselflies,

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which order of more than 5,000 species has a name

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derived from the Greek word for tooth?

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THEY WHISPER

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-Dentoptera.

-Dentoptera?

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-Dentoptera.

-No, they're odonata.

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And finally, including the caddisflies,

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which insect order has a name that means hairy-winged?

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THEY WHISPER

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Trichoptera?

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-Say it again.

-Trichoptera.

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-Trichoptera.

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE Ten points for this.

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In 1791, what seven-letter word did the revolutionary Bourbon Prince

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Louis Philippe Joseph, Duke of Orleans adopt as his byname?

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The same word forms part of a tripartite motto closely

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associated with the French Revolution.

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Egalite.

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Correct. APPLAUSE

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These bonuses are on the novels of Saul Bellow.

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Firstly for five points, The Adventures Of Augie March

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fictionalises a real-life incident in which Bellow

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arrived in Mexico too late to see which exile who was murdered

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the morning they were due to meet?

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-Trotsky.

-Trotsky?

-Trotsky.

-Trotsky?

-Yeah.

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-Leon Trotsky.

-Correct.

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Bellow's final novel, Ravelstein, fictionalised the life

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of which US philosopher?

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He wrote the provocative 1987 work The Closing Of The American Mind.

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-I don't know.

-Oh!

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Rawls? John Rawls? No?

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-What?

-John Rawls is a...

-Yeah.

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John Rawls.

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No, it was Allan Bloom.

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"If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me."

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This is the opening thought of which of Bellow's title characters,

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a Jewish intellectual in a novel of 1964?

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-Herzog.

-Herzog is right.

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APPLAUSE Ten points for this.

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What four-letter word denotes the Hindu festival commemorating

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the triumph of...

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-Holi.

-Holi is correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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These bonuses are on logic, Newcastle.

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In mathematical logic,

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what name is given to a composed statement that is always true,

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regardless of the truth of the partial statements

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used in its composition?

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-Sorry?

-Law.

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-I don't know.

-Is that what you reckon as well?

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-Do you know?

-Law.

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-Law.

-It's tautology.

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Born in 1806,

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which English mathematician gives his name to the so-called law

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or logical relation that can be expressed as the negation

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of A or B is equivalent to not A and not B?

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Boole.

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Boole or...

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Boole.

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No, it's De Morgan.

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And finally, what two-word Latin phrase is used for the logical rule

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that states that if A is true and A implies B, then B is true?

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-SHE WHISPERS INAUDIBLY

-No, no, it's a Latin two-word

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-phrase.

-Oh, sorry. Sorry.

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-You don't know?

-No, no, no.

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Don't know? Sorry, we don't know.

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The modus ponens.

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Ten points for this.

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Which genus of the pea family links

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an influential sutra of Mahayana Buddhism,

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a Baha'i temple in New Delhi,

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a tribe encountered by Odysseus

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and his men during their return from Troy and a position in yoga?

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-Lotus.

-Lotus is correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses are on molecular biology.

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What term is defined as the entire complement of proteins

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of a cell, tissue or organism at a particular time?

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HE GROANS

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No, sorry. No idea.

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It's a proteome.

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From the Greek for to move, what term denotes an enzyme that adds

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phosphate groups to other molecules, for example proteins and lipids?

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THEY WHISPER

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A transfer?

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No, it's a kinase.

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And finally, phosphate groups are one of the building blocks

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of the nucleotide ATP. For what do those letters stand?

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-Adenosine triphosphate.

-Correct. APPLAUSE

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We're going to take a music round now. For your music starter,

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you'll hear a piece of classical music by an American composer.

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Ten points if you can identify that composer.

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PIANO MUSIC PLAYS

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Glass.

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It is Philip Glass, yes. APPLAUSE

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It's the Opening of Glassworks.

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The minimalist composer Philip Glass celebrated his 80th birthday

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earlier this year. For your music bonuses,

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three more composers who have written music in a minimalist form.

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For five points, in each case simply give me the name of the composer.

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Firstly...

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ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS

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Steve Reich.

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Steve Reich.

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It is Terry Riley, I'm afraid.

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Secondly, I want the name of this contemporary British composer.

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ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS

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Nominate Bowes.

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Birtwistle.

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No, that's Anna Meredith.

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And finally...

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# Come out to show them

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# Come out to show them

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# Come out to show them Come out to show them... #

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-Steve Reich.

-Right.

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We'll try Steve Reich again.

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It is, yes. Well done.

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APPLAUSE Ten points for this.

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Listen carefully.

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In increasing order of orbital radius, the initial

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letters of the inner moons of which planet spell out the word met?

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Titan. Oh, Saturn.

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Well, I'm sorry, I've got to take the first answer you give

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and you said Titan.

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-Saturn.

-Saturn is correct, yes.

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses, this time, Bristol, are on mothers,

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specifically those who've given birth to two kings of England

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or Great Britain.

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In each case, listen to the description and name the queen

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and both her crowned progeny.

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Firstly, born circa 1132, died in 1204,

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probably at Fontevraud at Anjou.

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-Eleanor of Aquitaine.

-And Henry the...

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-Henry II?

-Richard I and John.

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OK, can I nominate you?

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-So...

-Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard...

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-Nominate Bowes.

-Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard I and John.

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Correct. Secondly, born in Paris in 1609, died in 1669 near Paris.

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Oh. Henrietta Marie,

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Charles I, James II.

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Sorry, erm, Charles II, James II.

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Henrietta Marie, Charles II, James II.

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Yes, Henrietta Maria. Yes.

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And finally, born at Mirow in north Germany in 1744

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and died at Kew Palace in 1818.

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It's George IV and Henry IV but I can't remember her name.

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-Is it...

-Catherine.

-Catherine, yeah, I was thinking...

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George IV, Henry IV, Catherine.

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Right, Catherine, George IV, William IV.

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Charlotte of Mecklenburg with George IV and William IV.

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Ten points for this.

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A manor house in the Cotswolds, villages in Somerset

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and Huntingdonshire...

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-Four Quartets.

-Four Quartets is right.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses are on politics and social science.

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In each case, give the single word that completes these titles.

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All three answers and end in the letters I-S-M.

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First, Roger Scruton's 2006 work

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A Political Philosophy - Arguments For what?

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-Conservatism.

-Conservatism.

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Conservatism is correct.

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Secondly, complete the title based on a website project,

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Laura Bates' 2014 work Everyday what?

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Feminism.

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-No, it's sexism.

-Oh.

-Sorry.

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And finally, Slavoj Zizek's 2014 work

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Absolute Recoil - Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical what?

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Materialism?

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-Materialism.

-Materialism is right.

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Ten points for this. APPLAUSE

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I need a precise number here.

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The human body has how many thoracic vertebrae?

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Nine.

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Anyone like to buzz from Newcastle?

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-12.

-12 is correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses, Newcastle, are on genetics.

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From the Greek for many forms, what term describes cells with

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more than the normal diploid set of chromosomes?

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-Polymorphs.

-No, they're polyploid.

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Secondly, extracted from autumn crocus,

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what agent may be used to induce polyploidy in plants?

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It's colchicine.

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It's colchicine.

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-HE WHISPERS INAUDIBLY

-Do you know what it is?

-No.

-No.

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Colchicine.

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Colchicine.

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Col-kye-cine, I think it's normally called. Yes.

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And finally, if colchicine inhibits 'microcubule' formation,

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to which protein does colchicine bind to achieve this effect?

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-Tubulin.

-Yeah, that's a good shout.

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What do you think about tubulin?

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Causes gout.

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It causes gout...

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I think it's tubulin.

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It causes gout.

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Yeah, tubulin.

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What did you say about gout?

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-It causes gout... Jack, what you saying?

-Come on.

-Tubulin.

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-Tubulin.

-Tubulin is correct.

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APPLAUSE Ten points for this.

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What surname links the author of Death In The Afternoon

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with the founders of the fashion house Red Or Dead?

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Christie?

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No, anyone like to buzz from Bristol?

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-Smith.

-No, it's Hemingway. Ten points for this.

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Similar to the bilberry,

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plants of the genus Gaylussacia have what common name?

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It's the forename of an enduring figure of American literature...

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-Huckleberry.

-Huckleberry is right.

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APPLAUSE

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You get a set of bonuses on battles of the Civil War.

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Firstly for five, taking place on the evening of July the 2nd 1644,

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what is often cited as being the largest battle

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fought on English soil?

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-Edgehill, Edgehill.

-Edgehill, yeah. Yeah.

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-Edgehill.

-No, it's Marston Moor.

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In March 1646,

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the last royalist field army was destroyed at which battle in

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Gloucestershire, effectively marking the end of the First Civil War?

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THEY WHISPER

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-Tewkesbury.

-Tewkesbury.

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Was there one then?

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The War of the Roses one...

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-Tewkesbury's the War of the Roses... OK. Go for it.

-OK.

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-Tewkesbury.

-No, that was at Stow-on-the-Wold.

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-Tewkesbury, I think, was in the Second Civil War.

-Yeah.

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Which decisive parliamentarian victory of 1648 was

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the largest battle of the Second Civil War?

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It takes its name from a city in central Lancashire.

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-Preston.

-Oh, yeah. Preston.

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Preston is correct. APPLAUSE

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Right, we're going to take the second picture round now.

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For your picture starter, you'll see a painting of a mythological figure.

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For ten points, I want you to identify that figure.

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Andromeda.

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It is Andromeda, yes, by Dore. APPLAUSE

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Chained to a rock as an offering to the sea monster Cetus

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before her rescue by Perseus.

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For your bonuses, three more depictions of Andromeda.

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In each case, I want the name of the artist for five points.

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Firstly, this French artist.

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WHISPERING

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Cezanne?

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I think so, yeah.

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-Cezanne.

-No, that's by Delacroix.

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Secondly, the Polish artist who painted this.

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The name starts with an L.

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THEY CHUCKLE

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It's like...Leschenko or something.

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-Leschenko?

-It's something like that.

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Leschenko.

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No, that's Lempicka.

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And finally, this British artist.

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Well, that's Burne-Jones, isn't it? Burne-Jones?

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You don't think it's Rossetti or...

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Ooh. Ooh, I don't know.

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-I fancy Burne-Jones.

-Go for it.

-Yeah.

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Edward Burne-Jones.

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That is Burne-Jones. Well done.

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APPLAUSE Right, ten points for this.

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Answer promptly. Name any three of the five most spoken languages

0:22:180:22:22

in the UK after English,

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according to the 2011 census.

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Polish, Urdu and...

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..erm, Hindi.

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No.

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HOSEGHOOD SIGHS Anyone like to buzz from Newcastle?

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Polish, Urdu and Punjabi?

0:22:380:22:40

Correct. The other one is Gujarati. APPLAUSE

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But not Hindi.

0:22:430:22:45

So you get a set of bonuses, Newcastle,

0:22:450:22:47

on dependencies in the Caribbean Sea.

0:22:470:22:49

The island of Saint Martin, located towards

0:22:490:22:52

the north of the Leeward Islands, is divided into two parts

0:22:520:22:56

that are territorial possessions of which two European countries?

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France and the Netherlands.

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-France and the Netherlands.

-Correct.

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Secondly, noted for its coral reefs and beaches,

0:23:030:23:06

which British Overseas Territory

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lies approximately 20km north of Saint Martin?

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Its chief town is called The Valley.

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Anguilla? Yeah.

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-Anguilla.

-Correct.

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Saint Croix and Saint Thomas are the two largest islands in which group,

0:23:190:23:24

a territorial possession of the United States of America,

0:23:240:23:27

located to the south and east of Puerto Rico?

0:23:270:23:30

-American Virgin Islands.

-Yeah? American Vi...

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-American Virgin Islands.

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE Four minutes to go.

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Ten points for this. Used for example in the Kyoto Protocol,

0:23:360:23:38

the abbreviation GWP stands for what?

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It's a measure of how much heat a greenhouse gas

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traps in the atmosphere relative to carbon dioxide.

0:23:440:23:47

Global warming potential.

0:23:500:23:52

Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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You get three bonuses on the US journalist and scholar HL Mencken.

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What is the title of Mencken's magnum opus of 1919,

0:23:590:24:03

a study of how the English language was spoken

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in the United States?

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-Don't know?

-Never heard of the boy.

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No. No.

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-Let's have it.

-Sorry, we don't know.

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That's The American Language.

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Mencken was known as the sage of which city on the eastern seaboard?

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He worked for that city's Sun newspaper for more than 30 years.

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-Er, Baltimore.

-Baltimore.

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-Yeah, Baltimore.

-Baltimore?

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Correct.

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A fictionalised version of Mencken was

0:24:280:24:29

portrayed by Gene Kelly in which 1960 film,

0:24:290:24:33

a dramatisation of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925?

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Erm... Yeah!

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Something the wind... Something the wind...

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Inherit The Wind?

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-Maybe, yes. Yes.

-Yeah.

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-Inherit The Wind.

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE A starter question.

0:24:450:24:47

The name of what natural phenomenon links the Chinese term feng shui

0:24:470:24:51

with the Japanese term kamikaze?

0:24:510:24:53

-Wind.

-Wind is correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses are on words that originated in the Quechua

0:24:580:25:01

languages of South America.

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In each case, give the word from the definition.

0:25:030:25:05

Firstly, a genus of large cats,

0:25:050:25:07

including the species also known as the mountain lion or cougar.

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You've got caracal, ocelot...

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-It's not ocelot because it's not...

-Yeah. Yeah.

-..but...

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-What are others?

-Caracal.

-Cougar.

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-Cougar?

-That was in the question.

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Oh, was it in the question?

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We'll go caracal then.

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Yeah. Caracal.

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No, it's the puma.

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An alkaloid obtained from the cinchona bark,

0:25:300:25:32

it's used in the treatment of malaria.

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-Oh, quinine.

-Yeah, quinine.

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Correct. Finally, a natural fertiliser found, for example,

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on the Chincha Islands off the coast of Peru.

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-Guano.

-Guano?

-Yeah. Yeah.

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-Guano.

-Guano is correct. APPLAUSE

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Ten points for this. Answer promptly.

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Give me the reginal names of any two of the three women who

0:25:490:25:53

served as Queen of the Netherlands during the 20th century.

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Margaret and Anne.

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No, anyone like to buzz from Bristol?

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Margarita and Louise.

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No, they're Wilhelmina, Juliana and Beatrix.

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I think they all abdicated in the end.

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So we get another starter question now.

0:26:160:26:17

In which New York borough is Conference House Park, which lies

0:26:170:26:22

at the southernmost point of both the state and the city of New York?

0:26:220:26:25

Bronx.

0:26:290:26:30

No, anyone like to buzz from Newcastle?

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-Staten Island.

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE You get a set of bonuses

0:26:360:26:37

on the wives of Roman emperors.

0:26:370:26:39

Notorious for her licentious behaviour

0:26:390:26:41

and political intrigues, Messalina was the third wife

0:26:410:26:44

of which Roman emperor, who ruled from AD 41 to 54?

0:26:440:26:49

-Was that Caligula?

-No, no, no, no, Claudius.

-Claudius.

-Claudius.

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-Yeah, Claudius.

-Correct. Deified by Claudius, Livia Drusilla

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was the wife of which Roman emperor throughout his 40-year reign?

0:26:560:27:01

-Augustus.

-Augustus. Augustus.

0:27:010:27:03

Correct. Ulpia Severina was the wife of which emperor who reunited

0:27:030:27:08

the empire in 274. It's thought she may have ruled in her own right

0:27:080:27:12

for six months after his death.

0:27:120:27:14

-Is that Diocletian?

-I think so.

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Diocletian.

0:27:160:27:18

No, it was Aurelian.

0:27:180:27:19

Ten points for this.

0:27:190:27:20

Which present-day European country is largely

0:27:200:27:22

composed of the historical region of Bessarabia

0:27:220:27:26

and the separatist enclave of Transnistria?

0:27:260:27:29

-Moldova.

-Moldova is right. APPLAUSE

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You get a set of bonuses now on world history.

0:27:310:27:34

In each case, give the precise year of the 20th century...

0:27:340:27:37

GONG

0:27:370:27:38

APPLAUSE And at the gong Bristol have 130,

0:27:380:27:40

Newcastle have 225.

0:27:400:27:42

Well, I don't know about you,

0:27:440:27:46

but it felt to me slightly closer than that scoreline suggests.

0:27:460:27:48

Thank you both very much for playing.

0:27:480:27:50

Bristol, you get another chance to fight again.

0:27:500:27:53

You have to win the next two matches you play in these

0:27:530:27:56

quarterfinals to stay in the match.

0:27:560:27:58

Newcastle, you have to win one more to go through to the semis.

0:27:580:28:02

Thank you for joining us, both of you.

0:28:020:28:04

I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match,

0:28:040:28:06

-but until then, it's goodbye from Bristol University...

-Bye.

0:28:060:28:10

-..it's goodbye from Newcastle University...

-Bye.

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..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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APPLAUSE

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