0:00:19 > 0:00:22University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:28Hello.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Last time, we saw Newcastle University
0:00:31 > 0:00:34win the first of the two quarterfinal victories
0:00:34 > 0:00:38our trenchant rules demand before teams can take a place
0:00:38 > 0:00:39in the semifinals.
0:00:39 > 0:00:41Tonight's teams are planning on doing the same thing.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44Only one of them will succeed, of course.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47The team from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge,
0:00:47 > 0:00:51beat the University of Leicester in round one by 200 points to 105.
0:00:51 > 0:00:52Round two was a closer call,
0:00:52 > 0:00:56but they still managed to send home Magdalen College, Oxford,
0:00:56 > 0:00:57by 200 points to 155.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00With an average age of 20,
0:01:00 > 0:01:03let's meet the Fitzwilliam team for the third time.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05Hi, I'm Theo Tindall.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08I'm from Bristol and I'm studying Russian and Arabic.
0:01:08 > 0:01:09Hi. I'm Theo Howe.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12I'm from Oxfordshire and I'm reading Japanese studies.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14This is their captain.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17Hello. I'm Hugh Oxlade from South Woodford in north-east London,
0:01:17 > 0:01:18and I'm reading history.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20Hello. I'm Jack Maloney.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23I'm from Harpenden in Hertfordshire and I'm reading medicine.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25APPLAUSE
0:01:28 > 0:01:30The team from Merton College, Oxford,
0:01:30 > 0:01:32brushed off King's College, London,
0:01:32 > 0:01:36in round one by 285 points, the highest score in that round,
0:01:36 > 0:01:38to their opponents' 110.
0:01:38 > 0:01:42Oxford Brookes University gave them a bit more of a fright
0:01:42 > 0:01:45in round two with an impressive fightback in the later stages,
0:01:45 > 0:01:50but Merton College still came away with 255 points
0:01:50 > 0:01:52to their opponents' 175.
0:01:52 > 0:01:57With an average age of 23, let's meet the Merton quartet again.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59Hello. I'm Edward Thomas.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01I'm originally from Oxford, though I now live in Kent,
0:02:01 > 0:02:04and I'm reading ancient and modern history.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07Hello. I'm Alexander Peplow from Amersham in Buckinghamshire,
0:02:07 > 0:02:09and I'm reading for a Masters in medieval studies.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11And here is their captain.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14I'm Leonie Woodland from Cambridge and I'm reading physics.
0:02:16 > 0:02:17I'm Akira Wiberg.
0:02:17 > 0:02:18I'm from Sweden and Japan
0:02:18 > 0:02:22and I'm reading for a doctorate in molecular and cellular medicine.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27Let's get on with it.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30Fingers on the buzzers, here's the first starter for 10.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33"What the detective story is about is not murder,
0:02:33 > 0:02:36"but the restoration of order".
0:02:36 > 0:02:40These are the words of which noted exponent of the genre in question?
0:02:40 > 0:02:42Her works include...
0:02:42 > 0:02:45- Agatha Christie. - No, you lose 5 points.
0:02:45 > 0:02:51..An Unsuitable Job For A Woman, Death Comes To Pemberley...
0:02:51 > 0:02:53PD James.
0:02:53 > 0:02:54PD James is correct.
0:02:57 > 0:03:01Your bonuses, Fitzwilliam, are on 19th-century history.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03Firstly, the widespread restructuring
0:03:03 > 0:03:05of European political boundaries
0:03:05 > 0:03:10was a major objective of which international conference
0:03:10 > 0:03:13held between September 1814 and June 1815?
0:03:13 > 0:03:16- Vienna? The Congress of Vienna? - Correct.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19Resulting in the formation of an independent state
0:03:19 > 0:03:22known as the United Provinces of South America,
0:03:22 > 0:03:28the Congress of Tucuman took place in 1816 in which modern-day country?
0:03:28 > 0:03:30Is Tucuman in Argentina?
0:03:30 > 0:03:32- Argentina?- Correct.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36"Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace,
0:03:36 > 0:03:37"but a peace, I hope, with honour".
0:03:37 > 0:03:42Who said those words on returning from the Congress of Berlin in 1878?
0:03:44 > 0:03:45Disraeli?
0:03:45 > 0:03:50- I think it is.- Disraeli? - Correct. 10 points for this.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52Celebrated by Marco Polo,
0:03:52 > 0:03:56who became the first emperor of the Yuan dynasty
0:03:56 > 0:03:57to rule the whole of China?
0:03:57 > 0:04:01More than 500 years after his death, he inspired a poem.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04Kubla Khan?
0:04:04 > 0:04:07Kubla Khan is correct, yes.
0:04:07 > 0:04:11Your bonuses are on mathematics in poetry.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13Firstly, for 5 points,
0:04:13 > 0:04:17"Best witchcraft is geometry To the magician's mind -
0:04:17 > 0:04:21"His ordinary acts are feats to thinking of mankind".
0:04:21 > 0:04:24These are lines by which prolific American poet
0:04:24 > 0:04:27who saw less than 10 of her poems published in her lifetime?
0:04:27 > 0:04:29- Dickinson?- Correct.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31Emily Dickinson.
0:04:31 > 0:04:35"One small, precise, poetic spiralling mixture".
0:04:35 > 0:04:38These words begin a short poem by Gregory Pincus
0:04:38 > 0:04:41in a form based on an integer sequence
0:04:41 > 0:04:44named after which Italian mathematician?
0:04:44 > 0:04:46- Fibonacci?- Correct.
0:04:46 > 0:04:50Finally, what mathematical identity does the Nobel laureate
0:04:50 > 0:04:52Wislawa Szymborska describe as having
0:04:52 > 0:04:56"a pageant of digits that doesn't stop at the page's edge,
0:04:56 > 0:05:00"it goes on across the table through the air straight into the sky"?
0:05:00 > 0:05:01- Is Pi an identity?- Yeah.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05- Pi?- Absolutely. 10 points for this.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:05:07 > 0:05:11In metres, what is the sum of the distances
0:05:11 > 0:05:13of the three athletics events
0:05:13 > 0:05:17for which the men's world records in early 2017
0:05:17 > 0:05:25were 19.19 seconds, 43.03 seconds and 3 minutes, 26 seconds?
0:05:26 > 0:05:292,100.
0:05:29 > 0:05:30Correct.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34200, 400 and 1,500 metres.
0:05:34 > 0:05:38So you get a set of bonuses now on a scientist.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40Born in 1769, which French scientist
0:05:40 > 0:05:45made major contributions to the fields of palaeontology,
0:05:45 > 0:05:48comparative anatomy and natural history?
0:05:48 > 0:05:51His works include The Animal Kingdom of 1817.
0:05:54 > 0:05:55Lamarck?
0:05:55 > 0:05:56No, it's Georges Cuvier.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Cuvier was an advocate of which theory,
0:05:58 > 0:06:02stating that the Earth's natural history and fossil record
0:06:02 > 0:06:05are affected by a series of cataclysmic events
0:06:05 > 0:06:08rather than gradual incremental changes?
0:06:08 > 0:06:09Ooh.
0:06:09 > 0:06:13INDISTINCT CHATTER
0:06:13 > 0:06:16Cataclysm? Antediluvianism?
0:06:16 > 0:06:17I've got nothing.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20- We don't know.- It's catastrophism.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22Cuvier is credited with coining what term
0:06:22 > 0:06:25for an extinct flying or gliding reptile
0:06:25 > 0:06:29derived from the Greek for "wing" and "finger"?
0:06:29 > 0:06:33- Pterodactyl.- Correct. 10 points for this.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36Name any three of the seven US states
0:06:36 > 0:06:38that are both contiguous with each other
0:06:38 > 0:06:41and have names of seven letters or fewer.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48Utah, Ohio and Iowa?
0:06:48 > 0:06:51No. Anyone like to buzz from Merton?
0:06:56 > 0:06:59Utah, Nevada and Wyoming?
0:06:59 > 0:07:01Correct, yes.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08You get a set of bonuses now on the works of Charles Dickens.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10In each case, identify the full-length novel
0:07:10 > 0:07:11from its opening words.
0:07:11 > 0:07:16"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life
0:07:16 > 0:07:19"or whether that station will be held by anybody else,
0:07:19 > 0:07:21"these pages must show".
0:07:21 > 0:07:23- David Copperfield.- Correct.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27"30 years ago, Marseille lay burning in the sun one day".
0:07:28 > 0:07:29Tale Of Two Cities?
0:07:29 > 0:07:30No.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32Bleak House?
0:07:32 > 0:07:34I don't know.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36Anything else? Bleak House?
0:07:36 > 0:07:38No, it's Little Dorrit. Finally:
0:07:38 > 0:07:41"London, Michaelmas term lately over
0:07:41 > 0:07:45"and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall.
0:07:45 > 0:07:46"Implacable November weather".
0:07:51 > 0:07:53Bleak House has lots of lawyers.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56- Go with that.- Bleak House again?
0:07:56 > 0:07:59Bleak House is correct. We're going to take a picture round.
0:07:59 > 0:08:00For your picture starter
0:08:00 > 0:08:03you'll see a definition of an everyday French word,
0:08:03 > 0:08:04taken from a French dictionary.
0:08:04 > 0:08:09For 10 points, I want you to tell me the word, in French, of course.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16Biere?
0:08:16 > 0:08:17Biere is correct, yes.
0:08:20 > 0:08:25Your picture bonuses are definitions of three more common French words.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28Again, give me the word in French for 5 points.
0:08:28 > 0:08:29All contain five letters.
0:08:29 > 0:08:33For clarity, I'll need the spelling in each case. Firstly:
0:08:41 > 0:08:43That's rouge, isn't it?
0:08:43 > 0:08:44R-O-U-G-E.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47Correct, rouge. Secondly:
0:08:53 > 0:08:56- Avion?- Yes.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58A-V-I-O-N.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01Avion is correct, yes. And finally:
0:09:09 > 0:09:12- C-H-I-E-N.- Chien, dog, yes, that's correct.
0:09:12 > 0:09:1410 points for this.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17Answer with a four-letter abbreviation.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20With its headquarters in Paris, which international organisation
0:09:20 > 0:09:26was founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade?
0:09:27 > 0:09:29Its origins lie...
0:09:29 > 0:09:30- OECD.- Correct.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38You get three bonuses on the Absurd Cycle of Albert Camus.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40Firstly, for 5 points,
0:09:40 > 0:09:43a 1942 essay by Camus has as its title figure
0:09:43 > 0:09:45which mythical king of Corinth
0:09:45 > 0:09:50who was condemned to repeat for ever the same meaningless task?
0:09:50 > 0:09:52- Sisyphus.- Correct.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54Secondly, a precursor of the theatre of the absurd,
0:09:54 > 0:09:55which play by Camus
0:09:55 > 0:10:00concerns the Roman emperor who was born Gaius Caesar in AD 12?
0:10:00 > 0:10:04INDISTINCT CHATTER
0:10:04 > 0:10:06Tiberius?
0:10:06 > 0:10:07Could be Tiberius.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10Tiberius was born later, wasn't he?
0:10:10 > 0:10:12- Caligula?- Correct.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15"Mother died today, or maybe it was yesterday".
0:10:15 > 0:10:19These are the opening lines of which novel by Camus, published in 1942?
0:10:19 > 0:10:23- L'etranger.- Correct, The Stranger.
0:10:23 > 0:10:2510 points for this.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28Movements in which early 20th-century orchestral suite
0:10:28 > 0:10:30have names that correspond
0:10:30 > 0:10:34to the French word for the month of March...
0:10:34 > 0:10:37- Holst's Planets.- Correct, yes.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43Your bonuses now are on biochemistry, Merton.
0:10:43 > 0:10:44Also called synthetase,
0:10:44 > 0:10:49what class of enzymes joins two molecules with covalent bonds?
0:10:49 > 0:10:53The name comes from the Latin for "to bind".
0:10:53 > 0:10:55- Ligases.- Ligases.- Correct.
0:10:55 > 0:10:56After two Japanese biologists,
0:10:56 > 0:10:58what term denotes the short fragments of DNA
0:10:58 > 0:11:03formed on the lagging template strand during DNA replication?
0:11:03 > 0:11:05They're joined by DNA ligase.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08- Okazaki fragments.- Nominate Wiberg.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10Okazaki fragments.
0:11:10 > 0:11:11Correct.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13Finally, formed by DNA ligase,
0:11:13 > 0:11:17what type of bond joins two DNA strands end to end?
0:11:21 > 0:11:23Is that just hydrogen?
0:11:23 > 0:11:26No, no...two DNA strands? Oh, yeah. Must be.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29- Because it's between the strands. - Hydrogen bond?
0:11:29 > 0:11:31No, it's phosphodiester.
0:11:31 > 0:11:3310 points for this.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35After the pilot to Menelaus, King of Sparta,
0:11:35 > 0:11:38what is the common name of Alpha Carinae,
0:11:38 > 0:11:41the second brightest star in the night sky?
0:11:41 > 0:11:43- Canopus.- Canopus is correct.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48These bonuses could give you the lead again.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50They're on the book of Genesis. In each case,
0:11:50 > 0:11:55name the biblical figure whose age at death in the King James Bible
0:11:55 > 0:11:57equals the number of years' difference
0:11:57 > 0:11:59between the two given events.
0:12:00 > 0:12:02Firstly, the Battle of Bosworth Field
0:12:02 > 0:12:05and the restoration of the monarchy in Britain.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09Well, that's...217?
0:12:09 > 0:12:10Jacob?
0:12:10 > 0:12:17- Let's try. Jacob?- No, it's Abraham. It was 1485 and 1660, 175 years.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20Secondly, the accession of Hadrian as Roman emperor
0:12:20 > 0:12:24on the death of Trajan and the compilation of the Domesday Book.
0:12:25 > 0:12:29- That was 900-odd years.- Methuselah.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32- Methuselah?- Correct.
0:12:32 > 0:12:33Finally, the Battle of Hastings
0:12:33 > 0:12:37and the resignation of David Cameron as Prime Minister.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39That's also a jolly long time.
0:12:39 > 0:12:40That's 950 years.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43Seth was around for quite a while?
0:12:43 > 0:12:47Or Adam himself? We could try Adam, couldn't we?
0:12:47 > 0:12:51- Adam?- No, it's Noah. 950 years old he was when he died, apparently.
0:12:51 > 0:12:5310 points for this.
0:12:53 > 0:12:58Starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, which 1990 film...
0:12:58 > 0:13:00- Awakenings.- Awakenings is correct.
0:13:04 > 0:13:09You get bonuses on the art historian and biographer Frances Spalding.
0:13:09 > 0:13:13In 1998, Spalding published her history of which art institution,
0:13:13 > 0:13:17which opened its first premises in 1897
0:13:17 > 0:13:21on the site of the former Millbank Prison?
0:13:21 > 0:13:22Oh, that's...
0:13:22 > 0:13:23Tate Britain.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26- Tate Britain? - No, I can't accept that.
0:13:26 > 0:13:30It's known as Tate Britain now, but it was the Tate.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32Secondly, a 1983 biography by Spalding
0:13:32 > 0:13:35concerns which member of the Bloomsbury Group?
0:13:35 > 0:13:38Noted for her portraits and book cover designs,
0:13:38 > 0:13:41she was the sister of Virginia Woolf.
0:13:41 > 0:13:45- Vanessa Bell.- Vanessa Bell. - Vanessa Bell is right.
0:13:45 > 0:13:49And in 1988, Spalding published a biography of which poet,
0:13:49 > 0:13:54perhaps best known for the 1953 poem Not Waving But Drowning?
0:13:54 > 0:13:58- Stevie Smith.- Stevie Smith. - Correct. 10 points for this.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03It's a music question. Your music starter is a song from a musical.
0:14:03 > 0:14:0510 points if you can identify the musical.
0:14:07 > 0:14:08# Like Romeo and Juliet
0:14:08 > 0:14:11# Twas written in the stars before they even met... #
0:14:12 > 0:14:15- Matilda?- It is Matilda. It's Naughty from Matilda.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22Tim Minchin's Matilda was the 2013 winner
0:14:22 > 0:14:25of the Drama Desk Award for outstanding lyrics.
0:14:25 > 0:14:26For your music bonuses,
0:14:26 > 0:14:29you're going to hear songs from three more musicals,
0:14:29 > 0:14:31similarly rewarded for their lyrics.
0:14:31 > 0:14:355 points for each musical you can identify. Firstly for 5...
0:14:35 > 0:14:37# It has no presence
0:14:37 > 0:14:38# No passion
0:14:38 > 0:14:40# No life
0:14:41 > 0:14:43# It's neither pastoral nor lyrical
0:14:43 > 0:14:46# You don't suppose that it's satirical... #
0:14:49 > 0:14:51I don't know.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum?
0:14:58 > 0:15:01# It's so mechanical... #
0:15:01 > 0:15:02- Try it.- Nominate Peplow.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum?
0:15:04 > 0:15:07No, it's Sunday In The Park With George. Secondly...
0:15:07 > 0:15:09# Oh, that hurts!
0:15:09 > 0:15:12# I'm not numb!... #
0:15:12 > 0:15:14Little Shop Of Horrors.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17- Little Shop Of Horrors?- Correct.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19And finally...
0:15:19 > 0:15:20- # Hello - Hi
0:15:20 > 0:15:24- # My name is... - Jesus Christ... #
0:15:24 > 0:15:26- Book Of Mormon. - It is The Book Of Mormon, yes.
0:15:26 > 0:15:2810 points for this.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32The Earl of Strafford, the artist Fra Lippo Lippi, Andrea del Sarto
0:15:32 > 0:15:37and the Swiss physician Paracelsus are among the subjects...
0:15:37 > 0:15:39- Robert Browning.- Correct.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46Your bonuses are on granite, Merton College.
0:15:46 > 0:15:51Built around large granite columns and begun in 1892,
0:15:51 > 0:15:54the Episcopal Cathedral of St John the Divine
0:15:54 > 0:15:56is one of the largest churches in the world.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58In which North American city is it?
0:16:00 > 0:16:01Washington?
0:16:01 > 0:16:05Montreal? I don't know.
0:16:05 > 0:16:09INDISTINCT CHATTER
0:16:09 > 0:16:14- Go for it.- Washington, DC. - No, it's in New York.
0:16:14 > 0:16:16Secondly, the burial place of Spanish monarchs,
0:16:16 > 0:16:19which palace and monastery north-west of Madrid is often cited
0:16:19 > 0:16:22as being the largest granite building in the world?
0:16:25 > 0:16:28It's not Alhambra, it's the, um...
0:16:28 > 0:16:30The other one.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33I've been there! Um...
0:16:36 > 0:16:38Let's have it, please.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41- We don't know.- It's the Escorial.
0:16:41 > 0:16:45Finally, the Marischal College and St Machar's Cathedral
0:16:45 > 0:16:50are among noted granite buildings in which Scottish city?
0:16:51 > 0:16:52Aberdeen?
0:16:52 > 0:16:56- Granite City, yeah.- Aberdeen. - Correct. 10 points for this.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59Give the two-word name of the town in North Carolina
0:16:59 > 0:17:04associated since 1903 with the first sustained powered flight
0:17:04 > 0:17:06by a heavier than air aeroplane.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08- Kitty Hawk?- Kitty Hawk is right.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15Your bonuses are on Greek mythology now.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17In each case, name the figure from the description.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20All three answers begin with the same two letters.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23Firstly, a titan who rebelled against Zeus
0:17:23 > 0:17:27and a mountain range in North Africa which bears his name.
0:17:27 > 0:17:28- Atlas.- Atlas.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32Correct. Secondly, one of the three fates.
0:17:32 > 0:17:36Her name means "inflexible" because she rendered irreversible
0:17:36 > 0:17:40the decisions of her sisters, Clotho and Lachesis.
0:17:40 > 0:17:44Atropos, I think. Atropine comes from her name.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47- OK. Atropos?- Atropos is correct.
0:17:47 > 0:17:51Along with Hera and Aphrodite, the goddess who asked Paris
0:17:51 > 0:17:54to judge the recipient of the apple inscribed "For the fairest"?
0:17:54 > 0:17:58- Athena.- Correct. 10 points for this.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01The Spaniard Santiago Ramon y Cajal
0:18:01 > 0:18:04and the Italian Camillo Golgi shared the 1906 Nobel Prize
0:18:04 > 0:18:08for medicine for their work on which main system of the body?
0:18:09 > 0:18:10- The nervous system.- Correct.
0:18:14 > 0:18:15These bonuses are on a sea.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18The Strait of Otranto links the Ionian Sea
0:18:18 > 0:18:22to which arm of the Mediterranean?
0:18:22 > 0:18:25Adriatic to the Ionian...
0:18:25 > 0:18:27So it's the Adriatic?
0:18:27 > 0:18:30- Yeah, I think so.- The Adriatic? - Correct.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32Roughly triangular in shape,
0:18:32 > 0:18:34which peninsula at the head of the Adriatic
0:18:34 > 0:18:37is divided between Croatia, Slovenia and Italy?
0:18:37 > 0:18:39Its main town is Pula.
0:18:39 > 0:18:44- I can't remember its name. - We don't know.
0:18:44 > 0:18:45Istria.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47And after the Second World War,
0:18:47 > 0:18:49which port to the north of Istria
0:18:49 > 0:18:51became part of the free territory
0:18:51 > 0:18:55that was later divided between Italy and Yugoslavia?
0:18:55 > 0:18:56Trieste?
0:18:56 > 0:18:57Dubrovnik?
0:18:57 > 0:18:59No, it's further south.
0:18:59 > 0:19:02Trieste is a port in that area.
0:19:02 > 0:19:03Trieste?
0:19:03 > 0:19:06Trieste is correct. 10 points for this.
0:19:06 > 0:19:11The inhabitants of which Central American country are known as ticos,
0:19:11 > 0:19:15and use the phrase "pura vida" as a greeting to show appreciation?
0:19:15 > 0:19:18The country has one of the highest literacy rates
0:19:18 > 0:19:22in the Western Hemisphere and abolished its army...
0:19:22 > 0:19:24- Costa Rica?- Costa Rica is correct.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28Your bonuses are on Chinese history
0:19:28 > 0:19:30before the start of the common era.
0:19:30 > 0:19:34Firstly for 5, give any year during the lifetime of Confucius.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37He lived most of his life in the small state of Lu
0:19:37 > 0:19:40in present-day Shandong province.
0:19:42 > 0:19:46Was that the second, third century?
0:19:46 > 0:19:49I'd guess second, but it could easily be third.
0:19:49 > 0:19:53Go in the middle, then. 250?
0:19:53 > 0:19:55- 250?- That's too early.
0:19:55 > 0:19:59He lived between 551 and 479.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01Secondly, name any year during the Qin Dynasty.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03The first Chinese empire,
0:20:03 > 0:20:06this dynasty saw the persecution of Confucian scholars.
0:20:06 > 0:20:10That's a really short one just before the Han Dynasty.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12- The Tang.- The Han.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14- The Tang is a lot later. - Sorry, you're right.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16It's the short one before the Han.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19So it's about 250 BC or something like that.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21280 BC is probably safer.
0:20:21 > 0:20:25- What do you think?- 280? - No, that's too early.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28It's 221 to 207 BCE.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31Finally, give any year during the lifetime of Emperor Wu
0:20:31 > 0:20:34of the Western or former Han Dynasty.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36One of the longest reigning emperors,
0:20:36 > 0:20:39he made Confucianism the state orthodoxy.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42So they're 207 to 25 CE,
0:20:42 > 0:20:44but I don't know in which...
0:20:44 > 0:20:46Pick a number.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48100? 180.
0:20:48 > 0:20:49150.
0:20:49 > 0:20:53I'll accept that, yes. It was 156 to 87 BC. Well done.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:20:56 > 0:20:57For your picture starter
0:20:57 > 0:21:00you're going to see a photograph of a German composer.
0:21:00 > 0:21:0210 points if you can give me their name.
0:21:05 > 0:21:06Clara Schumann?
0:21:06 > 0:21:09It is Clara Schumann, yes.
0:21:09 > 0:21:13She is one of the first 17 women
0:21:13 > 0:21:17that are now listed in the Edexcel A-level music syllabus
0:21:17 > 0:21:21after the student Jessy McCabe petitioned the exam board in 2015.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23For your picture bonuses,
0:21:23 > 0:21:26three more composers or artists featured on that syllabus.
0:21:26 > 0:21:295 points for each you can name. Firstly, this British composer.
0:21:33 > 0:21:37- No idea.- Do we know any female...? - Judith Weir.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40- Judith Weir?- No, that's Ethel Smith.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43Secondly, this British film composer.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51- Do you know any?- No.- We don't know.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54That's Rachel Portman. And finally...
0:21:56 > 0:21:58- Is that Bjork?- Could be.
0:21:58 > 0:22:02I think it is Bjork. There's a sort of runic tattoo.
0:22:02 > 0:22:06- Bjork?- It is Bjork, yes. 10 points for this.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08Which economist questioned the competitive ideal
0:22:08 > 0:22:09in industrial organisation
0:22:09 > 0:22:12and developed the concept of countervailing power
0:22:12 > 0:22:18in his first major work in 1952, American Capitalism?
0:22:18 > 0:22:21- Milton Friedman? - No, you lose 5 points.
0:22:21 > 0:22:23Anyone like to buzz from Fitzwilliam? You may not confer.
0:22:23 > 0:22:24One of you can buzz.
0:22:29 > 0:22:32No? It's JK Galbraith. 10 points for this.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35"Demand me nothing. What you know, you know.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38"From this time forth, I never will speak word".
0:22:38 > 0:22:42These are the final words of which of Shakespeare's...
0:22:42 > 0:22:44- Iago.- Iago is correct, yes.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50You get a set of bonuses, Merton College, on the River Severn.
0:22:50 > 0:22:51The source of the Severn
0:22:51 > 0:22:54is only a short distance from that of which river
0:22:54 > 0:22:56on Plynlimon in mid-Wales?
0:22:56 > 0:23:00This river flows into the Severn estuary at Chepstow.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02It's the Wye.
0:23:02 > 0:23:03- Yeah.- The Wye?- Correct.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06Which decade saw the construction of the Severn Bridge
0:23:06 > 0:23:08that originally carried the M4 motorway?
0:23:08 > 0:23:11It now carries part of the M48.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14'70s or something?
0:23:14 > 0:23:16Yeah, or maybe earlier.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19- It's relatively recent.- '70s.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22- '70s?- No, it's the 1960s.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24What short name links two rivers,
0:23:24 > 0:23:28one joining the Severn at Tewkesbury, the other at Bristol?
0:23:28 > 0:23:30- Avon.- Avon.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33Avon is correct. 10 points for this.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37Which Austronesian language is the basis of Filipino...
0:23:37 > 0:23:40- Tagalog.- Tagalog is correct. Yes.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46Your bonuses are on elements known since antiquity.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48In each case, name the element
0:23:48 > 0:23:51from its position on the periodic table, Fitzwilliam.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53Firstly for 5 points,
0:23:53 > 0:23:56which element appears on the periodic table
0:23:56 > 0:23:59between gold and thallium and below cadmium?
0:23:59 > 0:24:00- Mercury.- Mercury.- Correct.
0:24:00 > 0:24:04Which element appears between thallium and bismuth?
0:24:04 > 0:24:06- Lead.- Lead.- Correct.
0:24:06 > 0:24:10Finally, which element comes between nickel and zinc and above silver?
0:24:10 > 0:24:12- Copper.- Cobalt.- No, copper.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15- Oh, sorry!- I'm sorry, you misheard him, but it was copper.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17We're going to take another starter question now.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19Retty Priddle, Mercy Chant,
0:24:19 > 0:24:22Farmer Groby and Dairyman Crick
0:24:22 > 0:24:26are minor characters in which novel by Thomas Hardy?
0:24:26 > 0:24:29Its subtitle is "A Pure Woman".
0:24:29 > 0:24:32- Tess Of The D'Urbervilles.- Correct.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35Your bonus is on Indian prime ministers and their home states.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Which state has been the birthplace
0:24:37 > 0:24:39of the highest number of India's prime ministers?
0:24:39 > 0:24:43It's the most populous state as well as the fourth largest.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45Is that Uttar Pradesh?
0:24:45 > 0:24:47- Uttar Pradesh?- Correct.
0:24:47 > 0:24:48Name the home state
0:24:48 > 0:24:51of either of India's South Indian prime ministers,
0:24:51 > 0:24:54Narasimha Rao and Deve Gowda.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57- Tamil Nadu?- Tamil Nadu?
0:24:57 > 0:25:00No, it's Karnataka or Andhra Pradesh.
0:25:00 > 0:25:01Bordering Pakistan,
0:25:01 > 0:25:06which is the home state of both Morarji Desai and Narendra Modi?
0:25:06 > 0:25:10- The Punjab?- It's either that or Jammu and Kashmir.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12The Punjab is more populous, so it's more likely.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14- Punjab?- No, it's Gujarat.
0:25:14 > 0:25:1510 points for this. Listen carefully.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17When spelled as words,
0:25:17 > 0:25:20which three consecutive words between one and ten
0:25:20 > 0:25:22share an initial letter
0:25:22 > 0:25:26with the regnal names of kings and queens of England since 1066?
0:25:33 > 0:25:36- Six, seven, eight.- Correct.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41Your bonuses are on history now, Fitzwilliam.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43As the Lord Admiral of England,
0:25:43 > 0:25:46who commanded the English naval force
0:25:46 > 0:25:49that confronted the Spanish Armada in 1588?
0:25:49 > 0:25:52- Howard of Effingham?- Correct.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55Who was the naval treasurer and commander of the Victory
0:25:55 > 0:25:57who was third in seniority in the battle
0:25:57 > 0:25:59behind Howard and Sir Francis Drake?
0:25:59 > 0:26:02He was an early proponent of the slave trade.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05- We don't know. - That was Sir John Hawkins.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08Which English sailor commanded the Triumph at this time?
0:26:08 > 0:26:11He's perhaps better known for his voyages
0:26:11 > 0:26:13in search of the Northwest Passage in the 1570s.
0:26:13 > 0:26:14Hudson, maybe?
0:26:14 > 0:26:18- Hudson?- No, it's Frobisher. 10 points for this.
0:26:18 > 0:26:19In pharmacology,
0:26:19 > 0:26:24what receptor denoted by a Greek letter is blocked by atenolol,
0:26:24 > 0:26:26a drug used...
0:26:26 > 0:26:28- Beta.- That's correct, yes.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31Your bonuses this time are on Africa.
0:26:31 > 0:26:35Meaning "Diverse people unite", which country's motto
0:26:35 > 0:26:38appears on its coat of arms in the Khoisan language Xam?
0:26:38 > 0:26:44That's got to be southern Africa, so South Africa?
0:26:44 > 0:26:45South Africa?
0:26:45 > 0:26:46Correct.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49Which country's single-word motto "Pula"
0:26:49 > 0:26:51is also the name of its national currency?
0:26:51 > 0:26:55It means rain and hence hope or prosperity.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57- That's Botswana.- Botswana.- Correct.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59Mottos in what language
0:26:59 > 0:27:03appear on the coats of arms of Kenya and Tanzania?
0:27:03 > 0:27:06- Swahili.- Swahili is correct. 10 points for this.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09Prominent in the mid-19th century, Peter Asbjornsen
0:27:09 > 0:27:11and Jorgen Moe are particularly noted
0:27:11 > 0:27:15as collectors of the literary folklore of which country?
0:27:15 > 0:27:17- Iceland.- No.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19Anyone like to buzz from Fitzwilliam?
0:27:22 > 0:27:24- Norway?- Norway is correct, yes.
0:27:26 > 0:27:27You get three bonuses
0:27:27 > 0:27:31on the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34Firstly, the financier Andrew Mellon founded the National Gallery...
0:27:34 > 0:27:35GONG
0:27:35 > 0:27:37And at the gong,
0:27:37 > 0:27:39Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, have 125,
0:27:39 > 0:27:41but Merton College, Oxford, have 270.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46Well, you had some pretty impressive displays of knowledge there,
0:27:46 > 0:27:47Fitzwilliam, but not good enough.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49You were up against strong opposition tonight.
0:27:49 > 0:27:53You have to win one more quarterfinal to stay in contention
0:27:53 > 0:27:56and then another one after that to go through to the semis.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58Merton, you have only to win one more match to go
0:27:58 > 0:28:01through to the semifinals. Congratulations.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match
0:28:03 > 0:28:06but until then, it's goodbye from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
0:28:06 > 0:28:10- Goodbye.- It's goodbye from Merton College, Oxford.- Goodbye.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.