0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:22University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:29 > 0:00:30Hello. The game's afoot.
0:00:30 > 0:00:35Two quarterfinals down, two teams a step closer to the semifinals,
0:00:35 > 0:00:37and two more teams playing tonight to secure
0:00:37 > 0:00:41the first of the two victories they'll need to make the semifinals.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44The team from St John's College, Cambridge,
0:00:44 > 0:00:47may well be hoping for rather stiffer opposition tonight
0:00:47 > 0:00:49than they've had so far in this competition,
0:00:49 > 0:00:52just to show us what they're like under pressure.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54The teams from St Andrews University
0:00:54 > 0:00:55and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,
0:00:55 > 0:00:59didn't do much to make them break sweat.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01And with only those two matches behind them,
0:01:01 > 0:01:04their accumulated score is already 540.
0:01:04 > 0:01:09With an average age of 23, let's meet the St John's team again.
0:01:10 > 0:01:14Hi, I'm John-Clark Levin, I'm from Los Angeles, California,
0:01:14 > 0:01:18and I'm studying for a PhD in politics and international studies.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21Hello, I'm Rosie McKeown, I'm from Kingston upon Thames
0:01:21 > 0:01:24in South West London, and I'm studying French and German.
0:01:24 > 0:01:25And their captain.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28Hi, I'm James Devine-Stoneman from Southall in West London,
0:01:28 > 0:01:31studying for a PhD in superconducting spintronics.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34Hi, I'm Matt Hazell from Ringwood in Hampshire,
0:01:34 > 0:01:36and I'm studying veterinary medicine.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38APPLAUSE
0:01:40 > 0:01:44Now, the team from Ulster University have had ample opportunity
0:01:44 > 0:01:45to show us grace under fire.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48They lost their first-round match by a mere five points
0:01:48 > 0:01:50against Edinburgh University,
0:01:50 > 0:01:53survived as one of the highest-scoring losing teams,
0:01:53 > 0:01:57then to beat St Anne's College, Oxford, in the play-offs.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00They then knocked off the University of Warwick
0:02:00 > 0:02:02in Round Two by a 30-point margin.
0:02:02 > 0:02:07With an accumulated score of 505 earned over those three matches,
0:02:07 > 0:02:09and with an average age of 50,
0:02:09 > 0:02:11let's meet the well-preserved Ulster team again.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13LAUGHTER
0:02:13 > 0:02:16Hello, I'm Cathal McDaid from Buncrana in County Donegal,
0:02:16 > 0:02:19and I'm studying for a Masters degree in English literature.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21Hi, I'm Kate Ritchie, I'm from Waringstown, County Armagh,
0:02:21 > 0:02:23and I'm studying fine art.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25And this is their captain.
0:02:25 > 0:02:29Hi, I'm Ian Jack, I'm originally from Peterhead in Aberdeenshire,
0:02:29 > 0:02:31and I'm reading for a PhD in pharmacy.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34Hi, my name's Matthew Milliken, I'm from Comber in County Down,
0:02:34 > 0:02:37and I'm studying for a PhD in education.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40APPLAUSE
0:02:42 > 0:02:45OK, the rules are the same as ever, so fingers on buzzers.
0:02:45 > 0:02:46Here's the first starter for ten.
0:02:46 > 0:02:51What short surname links a trade unionist born in 1864,
0:02:51 > 0:02:54after whom a new town in County Durham is named,
0:02:54 > 0:02:56the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia
0:02:56 > 0:02:59during the American Civil War...?
0:02:59 > 0:03:00- Lee.- Lee is correct.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03APPLAUSE
0:03:03 > 0:03:05You get a set of bonuses on literary figures
0:03:05 > 0:03:07who served as members of the House of Commons.
0:03:07 > 0:03:11In each case, I want you to identify the MP from the description.
0:03:11 > 0:03:12Firstly, for five,
0:03:12 > 0:03:16the member for Liskeard between 1774 and 1780,
0:03:16 > 0:03:20and for Lymington between 1781 and 1784.
0:03:20 > 0:03:24In the former period, he published the first of the six volumes
0:03:24 > 0:03:28of the work of non-fiction for which he is most remembered.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Try, um, Edward Gibbon.
0:03:31 > 0:03:32Edward Gibbon?
0:03:32 > 0:03:34Er, Gibbon?
0:03:34 > 0:03:35Correct.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38Secondly, a playwright who was the member for three constituencies -
0:03:38 > 0:03:41Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester -
0:03:41 > 0:03:44at different times between 1780 and 1812,
0:03:44 > 0:03:48and was appointed treasurer of the Navy in 1806.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54- Anything on that? - There's a faint thing...
0:03:56 > 0:03:58Try Sheridan, but it's not.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00Sheridan.
0:04:00 > 0:04:01- Sheridan is correct.- Oh.
0:04:01 > 0:04:05And, finally, a French-born writer who was the Liberal Party MP
0:04:05 > 0:04:09for South Salford between 1906 and 1910.
0:04:09 > 0:04:10During this time,
0:04:10 > 0:04:13he published a collection of verse parodies for children.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15Hilaire Belloc.
0:04:15 > 0:04:16- Hilaire Belloc.- Correct.
0:04:16 > 0:04:17Ten points for this.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20In astronomy, what seven-letter term is defined as
0:04:20 > 0:04:23"the great circle formed by the intersection
0:04:23 > 0:04:27"of the celestial sphere with a plane perpendicular to the...?
0:04:27 > 0:04:28The ecliptic?
0:04:28 > 0:04:30No, you lose five points.
0:04:30 > 0:04:34"..plane perpendicular to the line from an observer to the zenith"?
0:04:34 > 0:04:37In more general speech, it denotes a boundary or limit,
0:04:37 > 0:04:40for example of knowledge or perception.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45One of you buzz from Ulster.
0:04:45 > 0:04:46Tangent?
0:04:46 > 0:04:48It's horizon.
0:04:48 > 0:04:49Ten points for this.
0:04:49 > 0:04:53"I have spent my life since I first read it trying to solve it.
0:04:53 > 0:04:58"It's incredibly prophetic, full of pre-Freudian insights."
0:04:58 > 0:05:00These words of Leonard Bernstein
0:05:00 > 0:05:03refer to which opera or musical drama
0:05:03 > 0:05:06inspired by two lovers in Celtic legend?
0:05:06 > 0:05:08Completed in...
0:05:08 > 0:05:09Tristan and Isolde.
0:05:09 > 0:05:13Correct. APPLAUSE
0:05:13 > 0:05:15Your bonuses are on art museums.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17In each case, give the name of the museum
0:05:17 > 0:05:20and the city in which it's located.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Firstly, originally built for the Medici family,
0:05:23 > 0:05:25which Italian museum's collection
0:05:25 > 0:05:28includes Gentile da Fabriano's Adoration Of The Magi
0:05:28 > 0:05:31and Titian's Venus Of Urbino?
0:05:31 > 0:05:34- Is that the Uffizi?- Could be the Uffizi in Florence, yeah.- Yes.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36- The Uffizi in Florence?- Correct.
0:05:36 > 0:05:40Incorporated in 1870, which American museum's collection
0:05:40 > 0:05:44includes John Singer Sargent's Portrait Of Madame X
0:05:44 > 0:05:46and Winslow Homer's The Gulf Stream?
0:05:49 > 0:05:51It's the one in New York.
0:05:51 > 0:05:52- The Moma?- Moma?- The Moma?
0:05:52 > 0:05:54It could be.
0:05:54 > 0:05:55- Try that?- Yeah.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57The Moma in New York?
0:05:57 > 0:06:00No, it's the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Met.
0:06:00 > 0:06:04And, finally, housed in a building completed in 1819,
0:06:04 > 0:06:06which museum's collection includes
0:06:06 > 0:06:09Titian's Equestrian Portrait Of Charles V
0:06:09 > 0:06:12and Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son?
0:06:12 > 0:06:14The Prado in Madrid.
0:06:14 > 0:06:15- The Prado in Madrid.- Correct.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17Ten points for this.
0:06:17 > 0:06:19What letter of the alphabet is used to designate
0:06:19 > 0:06:23the atmospheric region also known as the Kennelly-Heaviside layer?
0:06:23 > 0:06:25It is responsible for the reflections involved
0:06:25 > 0:06:29in Marconi's original transatlantic radio communication in 1902.
0:06:33 > 0:06:34X?
0:06:34 > 0:06:36No. Anyone like to buzz from St John's?
0:06:36 > 0:06:39- A?- No, it's E.
0:06:39 > 0:06:40Ten points for this.
0:06:40 > 0:06:44"George I was a Doge. George II was a Doge.
0:06:44 > 0:06:48"They were what William III, a great man, would not be."
0:06:48 > 0:06:52Who wrote those words in the 1844 novel Coningsby?
0:06:52 > 0:06:56On his elevation to the peerage, he was created Earl of Beaconsfield.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59- Benjamin Disraeli.- Correct.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01APPLAUSE
0:07:02 > 0:07:06These bonuses are on experiments at CERN. Firstly, for five.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08What five-letter name is given
0:07:08 > 0:07:10to the general-purpose particle detector
0:07:10 > 0:07:14at the Large Hadron Collider which, along with the CMS detector,
0:07:14 > 0:07:17discovered the Higgs boson in 2012?
0:07:17 > 0:07:18- Atlas.- Correct.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21What five-letter name is given to the detector array
0:07:21 > 0:07:25spread up to half a kilometre around the CMS interaction point?
0:07:25 > 0:07:28It's designed to study the forward direction region
0:07:28 > 0:07:31inaccessible to other LHC experiments.
0:07:34 > 0:07:35Not sure on this.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38Not Prism or something?
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Could try that.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42- Prism?- No, it's Totem.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45Using arguably the cleanest box in the world,
0:07:45 > 0:07:49the Cloud experiment at CERN investigates possible links
0:07:49 > 0:07:51between cloud formation and what?
0:07:54 > 0:07:58- Magnetism?- Something like that. - Magnetic fields?
0:07:59 > 0:08:03Or it could be like a charged particle, like... Or...
0:08:03 > 0:08:05I think maybe it's something forming around particles...
0:08:05 > 0:08:07Electromagnetic fields.
0:08:07 > 0:08:08No, it's cosmic rays.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10Ten points for this.
0:08:10 > 0:08:11It's a picture question.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13For your picture starter, you will have to tell me
0:08:13 > 0:08:18the name of the specific body of water highlighted in red here.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24- The Gulf of Guinea.- Correct.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27APPLAUSE
0:08:27 > 0:08:31Your picture bonuses are three more alliterative geographical features.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Five points for each you can name. Firstly...
0:08:35 > 0:08:36- It's Lake Ladoga.- Yeah.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38- Lake Ladoga.- Correct.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41Secondly, this specific part of the Gulf of Guinea.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46- LEVIN:- The Bight of Benin, I think.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48- The Bight of Benin?- Correct.
0:08:48 > 0:08:49And finally...
0:08:49 > 0:08:51- MCKEOWN:- Hook of Holland. Oh, no, no.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54- LEVIN:- This is Massachusetts. - Oh, yes.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56- HAZELL:- Could be a hook or spit. - Oh, yeah.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58- Any idea?- Massach...
0:09:01 > 0:09:02- Come on.- No?
0:09:02 > 0:09:04Um...pass.
0:09:04 > 0:09:05It's Cape Cod.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08Ten points for this. I need a two-word term here.
0:09:08 > 0:09:13The diamond-water paradox of value that Adam Smith was unable to solve
0:09:13 > 0:09:16can be explained with the help of which concept,
0:09:16 > 0:09:19referring to the amount of extra satisfaction
0:09:19 > 0:09:22gained from the last unit of the commodity consumed?
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Marginal utility?
0:09:24 > 0:09:26Yes, that's correct. APPLAUSE
0:09:26 > 0:09:28Your bonuses are on films that have won
0:09:28 > 0:09:30the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
0:09:30 > 0:09:34In each case, give the English title under which the film was released,
0:09:34 > 0:09:37and the decade in which it was released.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40Firstly, Das Leben Der Anderen.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42- BOTH:- The Lives Of Others.
0:09:42 > 0:09:43That was the 2000s.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46Yeah, The Lives Of Others in the noughties.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48That's correct, yes.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51Secondly, Voyna I Mir.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57- Any idea?- No.- Voyna I Mir...
0:09:57 > 0:09:59- Russian?- Probably. Something Slavic.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01Yeah, pass.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03It's War And Peace in the 1960s.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06And, finally, La Vita E Bella.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08Life Is Beautiful, 1990s.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10Life Is Beautiful, 1990s.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12Correct. Ten points for this.
0:10:12 > 0:10:16With masses thought to be less than a millionth of that of an electron,
0:10:16 > 0:10:19what group of particles were the subject of research
0:10:19 > 0:10:22that earned Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald...?
0:10:23 > 0:10:26- Neutrinos.- Neutrinos is correct.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29APPLAUSE
0:10:29 > 0:10:31These bonuses, St John's,
0:10:31 > 0:10:36are on the early 20th-century political activist Annie Kenney.
0:10:36 > 0:10:40Born in Lancashire in 1879, Annie Kenney was a leading figure
0:10:40 > 0:10:44in which specific movement, known by a four-letter acronym?
0:10:44 > 0:10:47The Women's Social And Political Union.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50Um, The Women's Social And Political Union.
0:10:50 > 0:10:51Correct, yes.
0:10:51 > 0:10:55In her work in the WSPU, a biographer says that Kenney's value
0:10:55 > 0:11:00lay in her total and almost mystical devotion to which person,
0:11:00 > 0:11:03the eldest daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst?
0:11:03 > 0:11:06It's either Sylvia or Christabel.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08I think Sylvia was older.
0:11:08 > 0:11:09Sylvia.
0:11:09 > 0:11:10No, it's Christabel.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13And, finally, in Manchester in 1905,
0:11:13 > 0:11:17Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst were among the first suffragettes
0:11:17 > 0:11:21to be imprisoned after they heckled which Liberal politician,
0:11:21 > 0:11:23who became Foreign Secretary later that year?
0:11:24 > 0:11:30- Was that Asquith? Was he a Liberal? - What year?- Er, 1905.
0:11:30 > 0:11:31Yeah, try Asquith.
0:11:31 > 0:11:32Asquith?
0:11:32 > 0:11:34No, it was Sir Edward Grey.
0:11:34 > 0:11:35Ten points for this.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37Answer in French or in English.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40Used in Bernard Shaw's Man And Superman,
0:11:40 > 0:11:44in an imagined conversation between Don Juan and the devil,
0:11:44 > 0:11:48what two-word term was also used by the philosopher Henri Bergson
0:11:48 > 0:11:52to refer to the impetus or spirit that animates living creatures?
0:11:56 > 0:11:58Life force or vital force?
0:11:58 > 0:12:01Life force is correct, the elan vital.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04APPLAUSE
0:12:04 > 0:12:07These bonuses on a theory of the origin of life, St John's.
0:12:07 > 0:12:12Independently put forward by Alexander Oparin and JBS Haldane,
0:12:12 > 0:12:14what theory proposes that life began
0:12:14 > 0:12:17in an ocean of organic molecules on ancient Earth?
0:12:18 > 0:12:22- Oh, that's the primordial soup, something like that?- Yeah.
0:12:22 > 0:12:23Primordial Soup Theory?
0:12:23 > 0:12:24Correct.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26Published in 1953,
0:12:26 > 0:12:29which experiment tried to test the Primordial Soup Theory
0:12:29 > 0:12:32by sending electricity through a mixture
0:12:32 > 0:12:34of water, methane, ammonia and hydrogen?
0:12:36 > 0:12:39- Urey-Miller.- Urey-Miller?- Yeah.
0:12:39 > 0:12:40Urey-Miller?
0:12:40 > 0:12:42The Miller-Urey experiment, yes.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44Which essential biomolecules
0:12:44 > 0:12:48did Miller and Urey manage to synthesise in their experiment?
0:12:48 > 0:12:50It was amino acids.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52- Yeah, amino acids.- Correct.
0:12:52 > 0:12:53Ten points for this.
0:12:53 > 0:12:57In which present-day country is the city of Kalisz?
0:12:57 > 0:13:01It gives its name to a statute of 1254 that defined freedoms
0:13:01 > 0:13:05and safeguards for Jews granted by Duke Boleslaw The Chaste.
0:13:09 > 0:13:10Poland?
0:13:10 > 0:13:11Poland is correct.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14APPLAUSE
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Your set of bonuses are on poetry.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18In classical poetry,
0:13:18 > 0:13:21the ode is a formal lyric poem with a three-part structure
0:13:21 > 0:13:25of which the first two parts are the strophe and the antistrophe.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27What name is given to the third part?
0:13:33 > 0:13:35The panegyric? I haven't...
0:13:35 > 0:13:37- Nominate McKeown.- The panegyric?
0:13:37 > 0:13:39No, it's the epode.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42And, secondly, consisting of a verse of 11 lines
0:13:42 > 0:13:46with the same phrase used in the 1st, 4th and 11th lines,
0:13:46 > 0:13:50what poetic form was developed by Algernon Swinburne
0:13:50 > 0:13:52for a collection of 1883?
0:13:54 > 0:13:55No idea.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57Pass.
0:13:57 > 0:13:58That's a roundel.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01And, finally, what poetic form of French origin
0:14:01 > 0:14:05has its first and third lines each repeated three times
0:14:05 > 0:14:08in a total length of 19 lines?
0:14:08 > 0:14:12An example is Dylan Thomas's Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.
0:14:12 > 0:14:13Villanelle.
0:14:13 > 0:14:15Villanelle.
0:14:15 > 0:14:16Correct. APPLAUSE
0:14:16 > 0:14:18We're going to take a music round now.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20You're going to hear a piece of popular music.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22For ten points, I'd like you to give me
0:14:22 > 0:14:25the name of its original composer.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27# Birds do it... #
0:14:29 > 0:14:31- Cole Porter.- Correct.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:14:35 > 0:14:36OK, you're off the mark.
0:14:36 > 0:14:38Your bonuses are three more performances
0:14:38 > 0:14:41by Ella Fitzgerald of works from The Great American Songbook.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44In each case, I want the name of the original songwriter
0:14:44 > 0:14:47and the title of the song. Firstly...
0:14:47 > 0:14:54# Dressed up like a million-dollar trooper
0:14:54 > 0:14:57# Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper... #
0:14:57 > 0:14:59Puttin' On The Ritz.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01# Super duper
0:15:01 > 0:15:02# Come, let's mix where Rockefellers... #
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Puttin' On The Ritz by Irving Berlin.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06Correct. Secondly...
0:15:06 > 0:15:10WOMAN SCATTING
0:15:19 > 0:15:23# It makes no difference if it's sweet or hot
0:15:23 > 0:15:26# Just gave that rhythm everything you've got... #
0:15:26 > 0:15:30RESUMES SCATTING
0:15:31 > 0:15:34- Putting On The Ritz. - No, we've had that.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36No.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38- Anything?- No.
0:15:38 > 0:15:39Sorry.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42That was It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
0:15:42 > 0:15:43by Duke Ellington.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46And, finally, I want the two writers and the title of this.
0:15:46 > 0:15:50# And, oh, if we ever part
0:15:50 > 0:15:54# Then that might break my heart
0:15:54 > 0:15:57# So if you go for oysters
0:15:57 > 0:15:59# And I go for er-sters
0:15:59 > 0:16:01# I'll order oysters
0:16:01 > 0:16:02# And cancel the er-sters
0:16:02 > 0:16:06# For we know we need each other... #
0:16:06 > 0:16:09- It's Po-tay-to, Po-ta-to and... - Who?- It's...
0:16:09 > 0:16:11- It's two writers. - Let's Work The Whole Thing Out.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14Let's Work The Whole Thing Out, who's that by?
0:16:14 > 0:16:15Work The Whole Thing Out?
0:16:15 > 0:16:19- It's the whole thing about two... - No.- Rodgers and Hammerstein.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21Rodgers and Hammerstein, Work The Whole Thing Out.
0:16:21 > 0:16:22No, you were getting there.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25It's Let's Call The Whole Thing Off by George and Ira Gershwin.
0:16:25 > 0:16:26Right, ten points for this.
0:16:26 > 0:16:30Name either of the Nobel laureates in physiology or medicine
0:16:30 > 0:16:33in 1923 who shared their prize-money
0:16:33 > 0:16:35with Charles Best and Bertram Collip.
0:16:35 > 0:16:39The award was made for the discovery of insulin.
0:16:39 > 0:16:41- Banting.- Correct.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44Banting and the other one was Macleod.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46Right, you get a set of bonuses this time
0:16:46 > 0:16:49on the Biblical book of Judges, Ulster.
0:16:49 > 0:16:51The only female judge,
0:16:51 > 0:16:54which prophet led an attack against the forces of Canaan?
0:16:54 > 0:16:58She gives her name to an oratorio of 1733 by Handel.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00Handel...
0:17:00 > 0:17:02Deborah, she was a judge.
0:17:02 > 0:17:03That's the only one I can think of.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05What about the Handel oratorio?
0:17:05 > 0:17:07- I don't know a Handel oratorio about her.- Go on.
0:17:07 > 0:17:08Deborah.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10Deborah is correct.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12Secondly, which judge was sent by God to deliver
0:17:12 > 0:17:15the Israelites from domination by the Moabites?
0:17:15 > 0:17:18His name is the given name of two prime ministers of Israel
0:17:18 > 0:17:21who served after 1999.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24Given names?
0:17:24 > 0:17:25Oh!
0:17:25 > 0:17:27- Ariel?- No...- Ariel Sharon?
0:17:27 > 0:17:28I think it's Ehud.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30- Ehud.- Correct.
0:17:30 > 0:17:35Which judge won a decisive victory over a Midianite army?
0:17:35 > 0:17:36His name was adopted
0:17:36 > 0:17:38- by an international evangelical association...- Gideon.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40..founded in 1899.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43- Gideon.- Gideon is correct. Ten points for this.
0:17:45 > 0:17:48Derived ultimately from the Greek for drum,
0:17:48 > 0:17:50what six-letter word denotes
0:17:50 > 0:17:53the quality or character of a sound?
0:17:53 > 0:17:54- Timbre.- Correct.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01You get a set of bonuses on volcanoes this time.
0:18:01 > 0:18:05Novarupta is in the Katmai National Park in which US state?
0:18:05 > 0:18:08Its eruption in 1912 is often stated
0:18:08 > 0:18:11as being the largest of the 20th century.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13- Volcanoes in US states? - What about the...?
0:18:13 > 0:18:15Could it be in Alaska?
0:18:15 > 0:18:18- Hawaii?- Hawaii? - It's possible.
0:18:18 > 0:18:19Hawaii.
0:18:19 > 0:18:20No, it's Alaska.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22- Argh!- Secondly, an eruption of...
0:18:22 > 0:18:24- HE LAUGHS - Sorry.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26Take it easy!
0:18:26 > 0:18:31Secondly, an eruption of Mount Pelee in 1902 killed about 30,000 people
0:18:31 > 0:18:37on which Caribbean island situated between Dominica and Saint Lucia?
0:18:37 > 0:18:40What about the one that Granada had? They had one.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42Granada?
0:18:42 > 0:18:43No, it's Martinique.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46And, finally, eruptions of Mount Pinatubo
0:18:46 > 0:18:51in 1991 and '92 caused devastation in which country
0:18:51 > 0:18:55in addition to widespread stratospheric disturbances?
0:18:56 > 0:18:59Would that be the one in Iceland, the ash cloud?
0:18:59 > 0:19:01No, it's not the right name.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04- It was somewhere in Indonesia. - Indonesia?
0:19:04 > 0:19:06Java or somewhere? Say Indonesia?
0:19:06 > 0:19:08Indonesia.
0:19:08 > 0:19:09No, it was the Philippines.
0:19:09 > 0:19:10Ten points for this.
0:19:10 > 0:19:13Josephine The Singer, Or The Mouse Folk
0:19:13 > 0:19:16was the final fictional work of which author?
0:19:16 > 0:19:19It appeared in a German language publication
0:19:19 > 0:19:22known as the Prague Press some weeks before his death
0:19:22 > 0:19:24in 1924. BUZZER
0:19:24 > 0:19:26- Kafka?- Kafka is correct.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32Your bonuses, Ulster, are on organic chemistry.
0:19:32 > 0:19:36In each case, I need the IUPAC name of the substance.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39Firstly, I need you to spell a six-letter term here.
0:19:39 > 0:19:46C6H5OH is the chemical formula of which white soluble substance,
0:19:46 > 0:19:49also known as carbolic acid?
0:19:49 > 0:19:50C6H5...
0:19:50 > 0:19:52Is it Phenol?
0:19:52 > 0:19:54- P-H-E-N-O-L.- Six letters.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56- Are you sure it's six letters in it? - P-H-E-N-O-L.
0:19:56 > 0:19:57P-H-E-N-O-L.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59Correct.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02Phenyl, P-H-E-N-Y-L,
0:20:02 > 0:20:06is a group formed from which aromatic hydrocarbon
0:20:06 > 0:20:09by the removal of one hydrogen atom?
0:20:09 > 0:20:11Phenylalanine, is that from...?
0:20:11 > 0:20:13Aromatic... Aromatic hydrocarbon?
0:20:13 > 0:20:15Could it be benzene, or...?
0:20:15 > 0:20:17Um...
0:20:17 > 0:20:19Phenylalanine.
0:20:19 > 0:20:23- Is that what we say? Is it aromatic?- I don't know.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25- Benzene?- Correct.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28Also known as amino benzene,
0:20:28 > 0:20:33which colourless, oily, organic compound has the formula C6H5NH2?
0:20:33 > 0:20:36It's used in the manufacture of synthetic dyes.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38- Aniline.- Correct.
0:20:38 > 0:20:41We're going to take another picture round now.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43For your picture starter, you're going to see a still
0:20:43 > 0:20:46from a television series. Ten points if you can name it, please.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49BUZZER
0:20:49 > 0:20:51Mad Men?
0:20:51 > 0:20:53Nope. BUZZER
0:20:53 > 0:20:54Twin Peaks?
0:20:54 > 0:20:55Twin Peaks is right, yes.
0:20:58 > 0:21:02It was co-created, co-written and co-directed by David Lynch.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05Your picture bonuses show three more examples of directors
0:21:05 > 0:21:08primarily known for feature films working on the small screen.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11This time, I want both the title of the show
0:21:11 > 0:21:13and the director in question.
0:21:13 > 0:21:14Firstly for five, this show
0:21:14 > 0:21:17and the man who directed its opening episodes.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20He continues to be one of the executive producers of the show.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22House... That's House Of Cards.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24Who executive produces?
0:21:24 > 0:21:26Obviously, written by Michael Dobbs. Did he do the production?
0:21:26 > 0:21:30Director, it's the director of the first episodes of it.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32We need the director.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34House Of Cards, Michael Dobbs.
0:21:34 > 0:21:38Nope, it's House Of Cards and David Fincher.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40Secondly, this show and the Oscar-nominated director
0:21:40 > 0:21:44who co-created, co-writes and co-directs it.
0:21:44 > 0:21:48It's something like On The Shore. It was set in New Zealand.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51Erm... So a New Zealand director, do you know any?
0:21:51 > 0:21:54Jane Campion, maybe? Try that.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56She's a New Zealander.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58On The Shore, Jane Campion?
0:21:58 > 0:22:00It's Top Of The Lake, Jane Campion.
0:22:00 > 0:22:04And, finally, this show and its Oscar-winning executive producer.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06He also directed the pilot.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08It's Boardwalk Empire.
0:22:10 > 0:22:11A director?
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Scorsese? Try Scorsese.
0:22:16 > 0:22:17Boardwalk Empire, Scorsese.
0:22:17 > 0:22:18Correct.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21Right, we're going to take another starter question now.
0:22:21 > 0:22:23From the Russian meaning east,
0:22:23 > 0:22:28what was the name of the spacecraft in which, on April the 12th 1961,
0:22:28 > 0:22:32Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth for 108 minutes?
0:22:33 > 0:22:35Soyuz.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37No, anyone like to buzz from St John's?
0:22:38 > 0:22:40Meer?
0:22:40 > 0:22:41No, it's Vostok 1.
0:22:41 > 0:22:42Ten points for this.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45Which state of India contains Cape Comorin,
0:22:45 > 0:22:47the southernmost point of the Indian Peninsula?
0:22:49 > 0:22:51- Tamil Nadu.- Correct.
0:22:54 > 0:22:58You get three bonuses on the Danish author Karen Blixen.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01Many of Karen Blixen's well-known works were published under
0:23:01 > 0:23:04what pseudonym, especially in the United States?
0:23:04 > 0:23:07- It's like Dinesen? Dinen-sen?- Dinesen.
0:23:07 > 0:23:08Dinesen.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10- Isak Dinesen.- Correct.
0:23:10 > 0:23:14Secondly, a film based on which of Blixen's short stories
0:23:14 > 0:23:17won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1988?
0:23:17 > 0:23:21The story concerns a French refugee who prepares a meal for her
0:23:21 > 0:23:24Danish neighbours after she wins the lottery.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28No. I'm not good on Danish literature.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30Er... Pass.
0:23:30 > 0:23:31That was Babette's Feast.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34And, finally, who won an Academy Award for directing
0:23:34 > 0:23:36the 1985 film Out Of Africa,
0:23:36 > 0:23:41partly based on Blixen's memoir of her life in a colonial Africa?
0:23:41 > 0:23:43Who could that be? Someone like...
0:23:43 > 0:23:45David Lean or is that too...?
0:23:45 > 0:23:47I don't know. Starring Meryl Streep.
0:23:47 > 0:23:51- No, it wouldn't be David Lean, would it?- No. I don't know.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53- Come on.- John Ford? - Er, John Ford?
0:23:53 > 0:23:54No, it was Sydney Pollack.
0:23:54 > 0:23:56There are about four minutes to go and ten points for this.
0:23:56 > 0:24:01In organic chemistry, what compound has the empirical formula H2CO?
0:24:01 > 0:24:03In aqueous solution,
0:24:03 > 0:24:07it's been used extensively to preserve biological specimens.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09- Formalin.- Yes. - Formaldehyde, sorry.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11Yeah, I'll accept that, formalin.
0:24:14 > 0:24:18Here are a set of bonuses for you on cities in the UK, Ulster.
0:24:18 > 0:24:22Of the seven places in Scotland with official city status,
0:24:22 > 0:24:25which is the most remote in the sense that its distance
0:24:25 > 0:24:28from the nearest of the other six is the greatest?
0:24:29 > 0:24:32I'd say it's Inverness. That's miles from anywhere.
0:24:32 > 0:24:33- Inverness.- Correct.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36By the same measure, which is the most remote
0:24:36 > 0:24:39of the five official cities of Northern Ireland?
0:24:40 > 0:24:41Erm...
0:24:41 > 0:24:43It's probably Derry.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45- There's Newry, Belfast...- Lisburn.
0:24:45 > 0:24:46Derry.
0:24:46 > 0:24:47It is Derry, yes.
0:24:47 > 0:24:51Similarly, which is the most remote of the six cities of Wales
0:24:51 > 0:24:53irrespective of whether English cities
0:24:53 > 0:24:55are considered as possible neighbours?
0:24:55 > 0:24:57- Irrespective?- Aberystwyth, because it's...- Could be.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00- What about St David's?- Caernarfon.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02- Caernarfon.- Is that a city?
0:25:02 > 0:25:04Yeah, I think so. It's got a castle in it.
0:25:04 > 0:25:05St David's is a city as well.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07St David's.
0:25:07 > 0:25:08It is St David's.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Ten points for this.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15Derived ultimately from the Greek for something assumed,
0:25:15 > 0:25:18what term is used to describe a subsidiary theorem
0:25:18 > 0:25:19of a more complicated proof,
0:25:19 > 0:25:22particularly in mathematics?
0:25:22 > 0:25:24- Lemma.- Correct.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30These bonuses are on the 17th-century parliamentarian
0:25:30 > 0:25:31John Pym.
0:25:31 > 0:25:36Firstly, in January 1642, Charles I attempted to arrest
0:25:36 > 0:25:39for treason how many members of the House of Commons,
0:25:39 > 0:25:42John Pym among them, in an act that precipitated the Civil War?
0:25:45 > 0:25:47Hmm... Was it, like, 40?
0:25:47 > 0:25:50- Something like that, yeah. - Probably has a good name.
0:25:50 > 0:25:51- Come on.- 40?
0:25:51 > 0:25:53No, it was five.
0:25:53 > 0:25:57In 1626, Pym played a major part in the attempted impeachment
0:25:57 > 0:26:00of which royal favourite, assassinated two years later?
0:26:00 > 0:26:02Duke of Buckingham.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04- The Duke of Buckingham.- Correct.
0:26:04 > 0:26:08Which leading adviser of Charles I did Pym call "the wicked earl"?
0:26:08 > 0:26:11He was executed for treason in 1641.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15- I don't know. - Is it the Earl of Stratford?
0:26:15 > 0:26:16Could be.
0:26:16 > 0:26:17The Earl of Stratford?
0:26:17 > 0:26:19The Earl of Stratford is correct.
0:26:19 > 0:26:20Ten points for this.
0:26:20 > 0:26:26The words dreary and weary appear in the first line of which 1845 poem?
0:26:26 > 0:26:31Its title character appears tapping at the chamber door and regularly...
0:26:31 > 0:26:33The Raven by Poe.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36Yes, you're right. 15 points for these bonuses.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38They're on Italian composers.
0:26:38 > 0:26:41Which composer died at his villa in Passy on the outskirts
0:26:41 > 0:26:44of Paris in November 1868?
0:26:44 > 0:26:46His remains were later reinterred
0:26:46 > 0:26:49at the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence.
0:26:49 > 0:26:53- Is it Paganini?- I don't know.
0:26:53 > 0:26:55- Paganini.- No, it was Rossini.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58Which composer revised a piece originally written to commemorate
0:26:58 > 0:27:03Rossini for his requiem for the poet Alessandro Manzoni?
0:27:03 > 0:27:05It was first performed in 1874.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10- Manzoni...- Could be Verdi? - Try that.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12- Giuseppe Verdi.- Correct.
0:27:12 > 0:27:16Which composer adapted melodies by Rossini for the 1918 ballet
0:27:16 > 0:27:19La Boutique Fantasque, or The Magic Toyshop,
0:27:19 > 0:27:22choreographed by Leonide Massine?
0:27:22 > 0:27:26- Was it Puccini? He was... Go for it?- Yeah.
0:27:26 > 0:27:27Puccini.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29No, it's Respighi. GONG
0:27:29 > 0:27:32And at the gong, Ulster University have 130,
0:27:32 > 0:27:35but St John's College, Cambridge, have 185.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37Well, Ulster, you're going to have to come back again
0:27:37 > 0:27:40and you're going to have to win to stay in the game,
0:27:40 > 0:27:42but it was an absolute treat to hear a man from Fraserburgh...
0:27:42 > 0:27:46- You're from Fraserburgh, aren't you? - Peterhead.- Peterhead, sorry, yes,
0:27:46 > 0:27:48describing Inverness as being miles from anywhere!
0:27:48 > 0:27:51LAUGHTER Very good.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53St John's, many congratulations.
0:27:53 > 0:27:54Another storming performance from you.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57We shall look forward to seeing you again, too.
0:27:57 > 0:28:01You only have to win one more time to go through to the semifinals.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal,
0:28:04 > 0:28:07- but until then, it's goodbye from Ulster University. ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10- It's goodbye from St John's College, Cambridge. ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.