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0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE

0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge.

0:00:22 > 0:00:26- Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman. - APPLAUSE

0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. A spotless school career unblemished by detentions

0:00:32 > 0:00:37with long hours spent in the library, homework handed in on time

0:00:37 > 0:00:41and fistfuls of end of term prizes can land a diligent student

0:00:41 > 0:00:44not just with a place at university, but even more rewardingly

0:00:44 > 0:00:47with a seat behind one of our desks tonight.

0:00:47 > 0:00:51England plays Wales this evening for a place in the second round.

0:00:51 > 0:00:54Now, the team from the University of Southampton represent

0:00:54 > 0:00:57an institution founded by the bequest of a local wine merchant

0:00:57 > 0:00:58in the mid-19th-century.

0:00:58 > 0:01:01It received its Royal Charter in 1952.

0:01:01 > 0:01:04Alumni include the journalist Jon Sopel

0:01:04 > 0:01:06and the MP Justine Greening,

0:01:06 > 0:01:09Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web,

0:01:09 > 0:01:12was appointed a professor in the computer science department

0:01:12 > 0:01:15and the university is also home to Boaty McBoatface,

0:01:15 > 0:01:19the robot submarine connected to RSS David Attenborough,

0:01:19 > 0:01:21which is currently part of a research project

0:01:21 > 0:01:25based on its world-renowned national oceanographic centre.

0:01:25 > 0:01:27With an average age of 20,

0:01:27 > 0:01:30representing a student population of around 24,000,

0:01:30 > 0:01:32let's meet the Southampton team.

0:01:32 > 0:01:35Hello, I'm Juan Paulo Ledesma, I grew up in Hampshire

0:01:35 > 0:01:37and I'm studying medicine.

0:01:37 > 0:01:40Hi, there, I'm Andrew Knighton, I'm from Fareham in Hampshire

0:01:40 > 0:01:41and I'm studying medicine as well.

0:01:41 > 0:01:43And this is their captain...

0:01:43 > 0:01:45Hello, I'm Lorna Frankel, I'm from Wiltshire

0:01:45 > 0:01:47and I'm studying natural sciences.

0:01:47 > 0:01:48Hello, I'm Niall Jones,

0:01:48 > 0:01:50I'm from Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire

0:01:50 > 0:01:52and I do English.

0:01:52 > 0:01:54APPLAUSE

0:01:55 > 0:01:59Now the University of Cardiff began life as a university college

0:01:59 > 0:02:03in the late 19th century and having later been part of

0:02:03 > 0:02:07the federal University of Wales, became independent in 2005.

0:02:07 > 0:02:09Alumni include Glenys and Neil Kinnock who,

0:02:09 > 0:02:12as students, were nicknamed the power and the glory,

0:02:12 > 0:02:14in that order.

0:02:14 > 0:02:17The news presenter Susanna Reid and Huw Edwards studied there,

0:02:17 > 0:02:20as did the former national poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke.

0:02:20 > 0:02:22Also with an average age of 20

0:02:22 > 0:02:24and representing around 30,000 students,

0:02:24 > 0:02:27let's meet the Cardiff team.

0:02:27 > 0:02:28Hi, I'm Freddie Colleran,

0:02:28 > 0:02:31I'm from Halifax in West Yorkshire and I'm studying engineering.

0:02:31 > 0:02:34Hi, I'm Daniel Conway, I'm from Chiswick in West London

0:02:34 > 0:02:36- and I'm studying medicine. - And this is their captain...

0:02:36 > 0:02:39Hello, I'm Ian Strachan, I'm from Nuneaton in Warwickshire

0:02:39 > 0:02:40and I'm studying chemistry.

0:02:40 > 0:02:41Hi, I'm Rosie Cowell,

0:02:41 > 0:02:44I'm originally from Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire

0:02:44 > 0:02:46and I'm studying philosophy.

0:02:46 > 0:02:48APPLAUSE

0:02:51 > 0:02:53OK, the rules never change on this programme.

0:02:53 > 0:02:54It's 10 points for starter questions,

0:02:54 > 0:02:58which have to be answered individually on the buzzer or bell,

0:02:58 > 0:03:00and bonus questions, which are worth 15 points,

0:03:00 > 0:03:02are team efforts, you can confer on those.

0:03:02 > 0:03:04There's a five-point fine

0:03:04 > 0:03:06if you interrupt a starter question incorrectly.

0:03:06 > 0:03:09So, fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.

0:03:09 > 0:03:13What short word links the legislature of the German Empire

0:03:13 > 0:03:15or Holy Roman Empire

0:03:15 > 0:03:18from the early medieval period to the early 19th century

0:03:18 > 0:03:20with a prescribed course of food

0:03:20 > 0:03:23restricted in kind or limited in quantity?

0:03:26 > 0:03:27Diet.

0:03:27 > 0:03:29Correct. APPLAUSE

0:03:31 > 0:03:34The first bonuses are on the stories of Sinbad the Sailor

0:03:34 > 0:03:36in One Thousand and One Nights.

0:03:36 > 0:03:39Firstly for five points, in the third and fifth voyages,

0:03:39 > 0:03:43Sinbad's ships are wrecked by large stones

0:03:43 > 0:03:45dropped by which mythological bird?

0:03:45 > 0:03:47Was it a roc?

0:03:47 > 0:03:49- Roc?- Yeah.- Roc.

0:03:49 > 0:03:50Roc.

0:03:50 > 0:03:52A roc or "rook" is correct.

0:03:52 > 0:03:54In the seventh and last voyage,

0:03:54 > 0:03:57Sinbad and his shipmates are captured by pirates

0:03:57 > 0:04:00believed to be based on the inhabitants of which archipelago

0:04:00 > 0:04:02between India and Burma?

0:04:02 > 0:04:04It's now a union territory of India.

0:04:04 > 0:04:06- Andaman Islands. - Definitely the Andaman?- Yeah.

0:04:06 > 0:04:07The Andaman Islands.

0:04:07 > 0:04:11Correct. From which city does Sinbad set sail on his voyages?

0:04:11 > 0:04:13It is the principal port of Iraq.

0:04:13 > 0:04:15- Basra.- Basra? Basra.

0:04:15 > 0:04:16Correct.

0:04:16 > 0:04:19Ten points for this... APPLAUSE

0:04:19 > 0:04:22A mixture of Yiddish, Italian, Spanish,

0:04:22 > 0:04:27Occitan, Thieves' cant, Romany, Cockney rhyming side,

0:04:27 > 0:04:29back slang and lingua franca,

0:04:29 > 0:04:33which former slang was a major part of gay culture until the late 1960s?

0:04:36 > 0:04:37Polari?

0:04:37 > 0:04:39Polari is correct, yes. APPLAUSE

0:04:41 > 0:04:43These bonuses are on citizenship, Southampton.

0:04:43 > 0:04:47"I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece, but of the world."

0:04:47 > 0:04:49Which philosopher said that

0:04:49 > 0:04:51according to the Greek biographer Plutarch?

0:04:51 > 0:04:55- Socrates?- Socrates was what I was thinking.

0:04:55 > 0:04:56Socrates.

0:04:56 > 0:04:57Socrates is correct.

0:04:57 > 0:05:00"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers,

0:05:00 > 0:05:02"it shows he is a citizen of the world."

0:05:02 > 0:05:06Those are the words of which English philosopher born in 1561?

0:05:06 > 0:05:07Is that Francis Bacon?

0:05:07 > 0:05:10- Bacon?- Yeah, try him.- OK.

0:05:10 > 0:05:11Francis Bacon.

0:05:11 > 0:05:12Correct.

0:05:12 > 0:05:15"The idea of a law of world citizenship is no high-flown

0:05:15 > 0:05:17"or exaggerated notion."

0:05:17 > 0:05:19Which German philosopher wrote those words

0:05:19 > 0:05:22in the 1795 work Perpetual Peace?

0:05:22 > 0:05:23- JONES:- Kant?

0:05:23 > 0:05:25- LEDESMA:- He's the right era of time, so I'd say Kant.

0:05:25 > 0:05:26Kant.

0:05:26 > 0:05:29Kant is correct, yes. Ten points for this starter question.

0:05:29 > 0:05:30APPLAUSE

0:05:30 > 0:05:33In medicine, what term derived from the Greek for concurrence

0:05:33 > 0:05:36is defined as a collection of symptoms of a disorder...?

0:05:37 > 0:05:39Syndrome.

0:05:39 > 0:05:40Syndrome is right. APPLAUSE

0:05:42 > 0:05:47These bonuses are on events of 1867.

0:05:47 > 0:05:49Which physician first published his findings

0:05:49 > 0:05:52on antiseptic surgery in The Lancet in 1867?

0:05:52 > 0:05:53- Lister.- Lister?

0:05:53 > 0:05:56Through these means, he had greatly reduced surgical mortality

0:05:56 > 0:05:58in his Glasgow hospital.

0:05:58 > 0:05:59Joseph Lister.

0:05:59 > 0:06:00Correct.

0:06:00 > 0:06:02The Physiology and Pathology of Mind

0:06:02 > 0:06:05is an 1867 work by which psychiatrist?

0:06:05 > 0:06:08He gives his name to a leading training hospital in South London.

0:06:08 > 0:06:12William James? No, he's American. What do you think?

0:06:12 > 0:06:14- KNIGHTON:- Is it Guy's Hospital? - JONES:- Oh, yeah.

0:06:14 > 0:06:17- KNIGHTON:- Is it Thomas Guy? - Thomas Guy.

0:06:17 > 0:06:20No, it's Henry Maudsley. And, finally, in 1867,

0:06:20 > 0:06:24the English chemist Henry Roscoe first isolated

0:06:24 > 0:06:27which metallic element? Used in high-speed tool steels,

0:06:27 > 0:06:31it's named after a Nordic goddess of beauty?

0:06:31 > 0:06:35THEY WHISPER

0:06:35 > 0:06:37Don't think that's named after...

0:06:37 > 0:06:41THEY MUMBLE

0:06:41 > 0:06:43Shall I just say tungsten?

0:06:43 > 0:06:44Just go with that? Tungsten.

0:06:44 > 0:06:46- No, it's vanadium.- Oh.

0:06:46 > 0:06:4910 points for this. At the Rio Olympic Games

0:06:49 > 0:06:53in 2016, athletes from Tajikistan and Poland respectively won

0:06:53 > 0:06:57the men's and women's gold medals in which field event?

0:06:57 > 0:07:01In 1986, the Russian Yuriy Sedykh set the men's...

0:07:02 > 0:07:03Is it discus?

0:07:03 > 0:07:05Nope. You lose five points.

0:07:05 > 0:07:08..set the men's world record at 86.74 metres.

0:07:10 > 0:07:11Hammer throw?

0:07:11 > 0:07:13Hammer throw's correct, yes.

0:07:13 > 0:07:16APPLAUSE

0:07:16 > 0:07:19These bonuses are on city planning, Southampton.

0:07:19 > 0:07:22Responding to the ills of unrestricted private developers,

0:07:22 > 0:07:24the British urban planner Ebenezer Howard

0:07:24 > 0:07:29published his model for what type of city in the 1898 work

0:07:29 > 0:07:32To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform.

0:07:32 > 0:07:33OK. Garden City.

0:07:33 > 0:07:38Correct. In his 1465 work, Treatise on Architecture,

0:07:38 > 0:07:42Antonio di Filarete proposed a model city which he calls Sforzinda

0:07:42 > 0:07:45after the ruler of which Italian state?

0:07:45 > 0:07:47Sforza was Milan?

0:07:47 > 0:07:51- Sforza was...- I don't know. If you think it's Milan...- JONES:- Milan.

0:07:51 > 0:07:52Milan.

0:07:52 > 0:07:53Milan is correct.

0:07:53 > 0:07:57Which Swiss architect presented his vision of an ideal modern city

0:07:57 > 0:08:01in works such as Towards A New Architecture in 1929

0:08:01 > 0:08:03and The Radiant City in 1935?

0:08:03 > 0:08:05Le Corbusier, I think.

0:08:05 > 0:08:07- LEDESMA:- Is he Swiss? - JONES:- I think he is, yeah.

0:08:07 > 0:08:08OK, nominate Jones.

0:08:08 > 0:08:10Le Corbusier.

0:08:10 > 0:08:12Le Corbusier is correct, yes. APPLAUSE

0:08:12 > 0:08:13Right, we're going to take a picture round now.

0:08:13 > 0:08:15For your picture starter,

0:08:15 > 0:08:18you're going to see a map of the United States,

0:08:18 > 0:08:22however a border between two states has been erased.

0:08:22 > 0:08:2410 points if you can identify the two states

0:08:24 > 0:08:26that have been merged on the map.

0:08:32 > 0:08:34Mississippi and Alabama.

0:08:34 > 0:08:35Correct. We can see how it's meant to look.

0:08:35 > 0:08:37APPLAUSE

0:08:37 > 0:08:40Right, you get the picture bonuses then, Southampton, congratulations.

0:08:40 > 0:08:43Following on from that super state, three more maps,

0:08:43 > 0:08:48but in these a border between two sovereign countries has been erased.

0:08:48 > 0:08:51Five points if you can identify in each case the two countries

0:08:51 > 0:08:52that have been merged.

0:08:52 > 0:08:56Firstly, what two European countries have been merged here?

0:08:58 > 0:08:59Ooh, Romania and Bulgaria.

0:08:59 > 0:09:01- Romania and Bulgaria?- Yeah.

0:09:01 > 0:09:02Romania and Bulgaria.

0:09:02 > 0:09:04Correct. Here's how they really look.

0:09:06 > 0:09:07And, secondly...

0:09:09 > 0:09:10Afghanistan and Pakistan.

0:09:10 > 0:09:12Afghanistan and Pakistan.

0:09:12 > 0:09:14We'll see the real borders now. That's correct.

0:09:14 > 0:09:18And, finally, which two African countries have been merged here?

0:09:20 > 0:09:23Ooh, Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

0:09:23 > 0:09:26Congo and Democratic Republic of Congo.

0:09:26 > 0:09:29Correct. Here's how the map should look.

0:09:29 > 0:09:30Well done. APPLAUSE

0:09:30 > 0:09:32Right, 10 points for this starter question.

0:09:32 > 0:09:35In 2014 and 2016,

0:09:35 > 0:09:38which country staged the first two World Nomad Games?

0:09:38 > 0:09:44The venue was Cholpon-Ata, a resort town on the Issyk-Kul Lake,

0:09:44 > 0:09:46not far from its country's borders with Kazakhstan?

0:09:48 > 0:09:49Kyrgyzstan.

0:09:49 > 0:09:53Kyrgyzstan is correct, yes. APPLAUSE

0:09:53 > 0:09:57You get a set of bonuses on Helen of Troy in stage work, Southampton.

0:09:57 > 0:10:02"The ravished Helen, Menelaus' queen, with wanton Paris sleeps,

0:10:02 > 0:10:04"and that's the quarrel."

0:10:04 > 0:10:07These words appear in the prologue to which of Shakespeare's plays?

0:10:07 > 0:10:08Troilus and Cressida.

0:10:08 > 0:10:10Troilus and Cressida.

0:10:10 > 0:10:11Correct. In his play Helen,

0:10:11 > 0:10:14which Greek dramatist offered a version of the legend

0:10:14 > 0:10:17in which a phantom Helen absconds with Paris

0:10:17 > 0:10:21while the real and faithful Helen is in Egypt?

0:10:21 > 0:10:23Euripides, maybe? I don't know...

0:10:23 > 0:10:24OK. Euripides.

0:10:24 > 0:10:25Correct.

0:10:25 > 0:10:29Helen of Troy is described as "that peerless dame of Greece"

0:10:29 > 0:10:32by the protagonist of which play by Christopher Marlowe?

0:10:32 > 0:10:33Doctor Faustus.

0:10:33 > 0:10:34Doctor Faustus.

0:10:34 > 0:10:35Correct. APPLAUSE

0:10:35 > 0:10:3710 points for this starter question.

0:10:37 > 0:10:40Which early 17th century revenge tragedy

0:10:40 > 0:10:43is the source of the title of Stephen Fry's novel

0:10:43 > 0:10:45The Stars' Tennis Balls?

0:10:45 > 0:10:49Its themes include incestuous desire, madness and murder

0:10:49 > 0:10:52and along with the White Devil, it is one of the best-known works...

0:10:52 > 0:10:54The Duchess of Malfi.

0:10:54 > 0:10:56Correct. APPLAUSE

0:10:58 > 0:11:01You get a set of bonuses this time on scientific terms.

0:11:01 > 0:11:04In each case, give the term from the description.

0:11:04 > 0:11:06All three begin with the same five-letter prefix.

0:11:06 > 0:11:09In biology, firstly, a term referring to any process

0:11:09 > 0:11:13actively used by living things to maintain stable conditions

0:11:13 > 0:11:17necessary for survival, such as temperature, blood oxygen,

0:11:17 > 0:11:18water and sugar.

0:11:18 > 0:11:19Homeostasis.

0:11:19 > 0:11:20Correct.

0:11:20 > 0:11:24Secondly, a DNA sequence of around 180 base pairs

0:11:24 > 0:11:26which occurs in all metazoa.

0:11:26 > 0:11:30Genes containing this element encode DNA binding proteins that

0:11:30 > 0:11:33regulate gene expression and control morphogenesis

0:11:33 > 0:11:35and cell differentiation.

0:11:35 > 0:11:37It's homeo-something so...

0:11:37 > 0:11:39Homeozygote or something?

0:11:39 > 0:11:41- I don't know.- I don't know.

0:11:41 > 0:11:42Homeozygote.

0:11:42 > 0:11:44No, it's homeobox.

0:11:44 > 0:11:46And, finally, in mathematics,

0:11:46 > 0:11:49a correspondence between two figures, surfaces

0:11:49 > 0:11:53or other geometrical objects defined by a one-to-one mapping

0:11:53 > 0:11:56that is continuous in both directions.

0:11:56 > 0:11:58Entomological so...

0:11:58 > 0:12:00homeo...

0:12:01 > 0:12:03..topology?

0:12:03 > 0:12:04- JONES:- Yeah, I have no idea.

0:12:04 > 0:12:06Andy, anything?

0:12:06 > 0:12:07- I've got nothing.- OK.

0:12:07 > 0:12:09Homeotopology.

0:12:09 > 0:12:10No, it's homeomorphism.

0:12:10 > 0:12:1210 points for this.

0:12:12 > 0:12:15Named after the Scottish botanist who first studied it in 1827,

0:12:15 > 0:12:18what phenomenon is the random movement

0:12:18 > 0:12:19of microscopic particles...?

0:12:21 > 0:12:22Brownian motion.

0:12:22 > 0:12:23Brownian motion is correct.

0:12:23 > 0:12:25APPLAUSE

0:12:26 > 0:12:30Three questions on 20th century psychologists for your bonuses.

0:12:30 > 0:12:33Which Swiss psychologist was the first to make a systematic study

0:12:33 > 0:12:36of the acquisition of understanding in children?

0:12:36 > 0:12:39He's noted for his theory of the four stages of development,

0:12:39 > 0:12:41the first being the sensorimotor.

0:12:41 > 0:12:42- Jung?- I think Jung...

0:12:42 > 0:12:44- LEDESMA:- Freud was Austrian.- OK.

0:12:44 > 0:12:45Jung.

0:12:45 > 0:12:47No, it's Piaget.

0:12:47 > 0:12:49Which German-born US psychologist conceived of

0:12:49 > 0:12:51eight stages of development?

0:12:51 > 0:12:54His psychohistory includes Young Man Luther

0:12:54 > 0:12:58and Gandhi's Truth: On The Origins Of Militant Nonviolence.

0:12:58 > 0:12:59I don't know.

0:12:59 > 0:13:01German-born American.

0:13:01 > 0:13:03Just say...

0:13:03 > 0:13:05- Freud? - KNIGHTON:- Schmidt? I don't know.

0:13:05 > 0:13:07Freud.

0:13:07 > 0:13:08It's Erik H Erikson.

0:13:08 > 0:13:11And, finally, the author of the 1948 novel Walden Two,

0:13:11 > 0:13:15which US behaviourist invented the air crib tender?

0:13:15 > 0:13:18A large container designed to provide an optimal environment

0:13:18 > 0:13:20for child growth.

0:13:20 > 0:13:22Bowlby?

0:13:22 > 0:13:24- Bowlby?- JONES:- OK? I don't know. - Bowlby.

0:13:24 > 0:13:26No, it's BF Skinner.

0:13:26 > 0:13:2810 points for this. Give the surname

0:13:28 > 0:13:32of the US economist who won the Nobel Prize in 1971.

0:13:32 > 0:13:33Born in the Russian Empire,

0:13:33 > 0:13:37he gives his name to a hypothesis that income inequality

0:13:37 > 0:13:42would increase and then decrease as income grew within countries.

0:13:44 > 0:13:45Friedman.

0:13:45 > 0:13:46Nope.

0:13:47 > 0:13:48Stiglitz.

0:13:48 > 0:13:51No, it's Kuznets. Simon Kuznets.

0:13:51 > 0:13:5210 points for this.

0:13:52 > 0:13:54"All shall be well and all shall be well

0:13:54 > 0:13:57"and all manner of things shall be well."

0:13:57 > 0:13:59These are the words of Jesus as revealed

0:13:59 > 0:14:02to which medieval mystic in her Revelations of Divine Love?

0:14:02 > 0:14:03The first work in English...

0:14:03 > 0:14:05Julian of Norwich.

0:14:05 > 0:14:06Julian of Norwich is correct, yes.

0:14:06 > 0:14:08APPLAUSE

0:14:09 > 0:14:13A set of bonuses now on Frederic Chopin.

0:14:13 > 0:14:15Chopin composed more than 50 works for piano

0:14:15 > 0:14:18in the style of which Polish national dance,

0:14:18 > 0:14:20characterised by foot stamping and heel clicking

0:14:20 > 0:14:22with music in triple time?

0:14:22 > 0:14:24Polka or polonaise?

0:14:24 > 0:14:25Polka, probably?

0:14:25 > 0:14:27Does polka involve a lot of foot stamping?

0:14:27 > 0:14:28- JONES:- I don't know.

0:14:28 > 0:14:31- I think that polka might be in four. Shall I say polonaise?- OK.

0:14:31 > 0:14:32Polonaise.

0:14:32 > 0:14:34- No, it's the mazurka.- Oh.

0:14:34 > 0:14:36Secondly, from the French meaning "to rock",

0:14:36 > 0:14:38what name is given to Chopin's piano composition

0:14:38 > 0:14:41in the form of a lullaby, published in 1844?

0:14:43 > 0:14:45- French for rock?- I don't know.

0:14:45 > 0:14:48- LEDESMA:- It would end in E-R.

0:14:49 > 0:14:51- I don't know, pass.- Pass.

0:14:51 > 0:14:54It's Berceuse, from bercer, "to rock".

0:14:54 > 0:14:58Chopin was a prominent composer of works for piano in what form,

0:14:58 > 0:15:01that of a stately dance often used to open a court ball

0:15:01 > 0:15:03or other royal function?

0:15:03 > 0:15:06- Waltz?- Notable examples include the military of 1838.

0:15:06 > 0:15:08OK. Waltz.

0:15:08 > 0:15:10No, that's a polonaise. LAUGHTER

0:15:10 > 0:15:12Right, we're going to take a music round now.

0:15:12 > 0:15:16For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of popular music.

0:15:16 > 0:15:19For 10 points, simply give me the name of the artist

0:15:19 > 0:15:21you hear singing.

0:15:21 > 0:15:23# Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh... #

0:15:24 > 0:15:25Katy Perry.

0:15:25 > 0:15:27That is Katy Perry, yes.

0:15:27 > 0:15:29APPLAUSE

0:15:30 > 0:15:34That song, as you know, contains an example of the millennial whoop,

0:15:34 > 0:15:37a term coined by the music blogger Patrick Metzger

0:15:37 > 0:15:40to indicate a singer alternating between the fifth

0:15:40 > 0:15:42and third notes of a major scale,

0:15:42 > 0:15:45an especially pleasing feature of pop music of this decade.

0:15:45 > 0:15:48So, coming up, three more millennial whoops.

0:15:48 > 0:15:50Five points for each artist or group you can identify.

0:15:50 > 0:15:53Firstly, I want the name of either artist

0:15:53 > 0:15:55listed as collaborating in this song.

0:15:55 > 0:15:58# Whoa-oa-oa-oa... #

0:15:58 > 0:16:00This is Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen, I think.

0:16:00 > 0:16:02- Yeah.- Carly Rae Jepsen.

0:16:02 > 0:16:05Yes, the other one was Owl City or Adam Young.

0:16:05 > 0:16:06Secondly, this group...

0:16:08 > 0:16:09# Until you go-o-o-o. #

0:16:09 > 0:16:12- I think this is Chvrches. - Chvrches.- Chvrches.

0:16:12 > 0:16:13Chvrches.

0:16:13 > 0:16:15Correct. And, finally, this group.

0:16:15 > 0:16:17# Dance while we're young Oh-oh-oh-oh... #

0:16:17 > 0:16:20Oh, this is One Direction. One Direction.

0:16:20 > 0:16:21One Direction is right.

0:16:21 > 0:16:24Cardiff, there's still plenty of time to get going.

0:16:24 > 0:16:26APPLAUSE Ten points at stake for this.

0:16:26 > 0:16:30In the 1960s, which London-born artist evolved the op art style

0:16:30 > 0:16:32through which she explores the dynamic potential

0:16:32 > 0:16:34of optical phenomenon?

0:16:34 > 0:16:38An example of her work is the Fall in the collection of the Tate.

0:16:41 > 0:16:42Tracey Emin.

0:16:42 > 0:16:45No. Anyone like to buzz from Southampton?

0:16:47 > 0:16:48It's Bridget Riley.

0:16:48 > 0:16:50Another starter question now.

0:16:50 > 0:16:54What six-letter word links a mould from which a piece of type is made

0:16:54 > 0:16:58in printing, a rectangular array of numbers arranged in rows

0:16:58 > 0:17:00and columns in mathematics...?

0:17:00 > 0:17:01Matrix.

0:17:01 > 0:17:02Matrix is right, yes.

0:17:02 > 0:17:04APPLAUSE

0:17:06 > 0:17:09Right, let's crack on with it if you're going to get back on terms.

0:17:09 > 0:17:12Your bonuses are on Doris Day, Cardiff.

0:17:12 > 0:17:16In Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 film The Man Who Knew Too Much,

0:17:16 > 0:17:18which song performed by Doris Day

0:17:18 > 0:17:22won the Academy Award for the Best Original Song?

0:17:22 > 0:17:23Any ideas at all?

0:17:23 > 0:17:26I haven't got any.

0:17:26 > 0:17:28- COLLERAN:- What was the film called?

0:17:28 > 0:17:31The song's by Doris Day. I guess if we know it, we know it,

0:17:31 > 0:17:32if we don't, we don't.

0:17:32 > 0:17:34We're going to pass, sorry.

0:17:34 > 0:17:35It's Que Sera, Sera.

0:17:35 > 0:17:38Doris Day, secondly, gained her only Academy Award nomination

0:17:38 > 0:17:41for the 1959 film Pillow Talk.

0:17:41 > 0:17:46Who was her co-star playing the composer and playboy Brad Allen?

0:17:49 > 0:17:51Actors in 1959.

0:17:55 > 0:17:56Anyone?

0:17:56 > 0:17:58- I'm going to guess. - Warren Beatty.

0:17:58 > 0:18:01- Who, sorry?- Warren Beatty.

0:18:01 > 0:18:02Warren Beatty.

0:18:02 > 0:18:04No, he's much younger. It's Rock Hudson.

0:18:04 > 0:18:08And, finally, in 1987, Doris Day founded a charity to educate

0:18:08 > 0:18:11and influence legislation in what general area?

0:18:15 > 0:18:18- Women's rights?- Yeah, go with women's rights.- Women's rights?

0:18:18 > 0:18:19Women's rights.

0:18:19 > 0:18:21No, it's animal welfare or animal protection.

0:18:21 > 0:18:2310 points for this. What five-letter word

0:18:23 > 0:18:29follows salt and long in events of the 1930s associated with...?

0:18:29 > 0:18:30March.

0:18:30 > 0:18:33March is correct. Well done. APPLAUSE

0:18:35 > 0:18:39These bonuses, Cardiff, are on estates with landscapes designed

0:18:39 > 0:18:42by the 18th-century gardener Capability Brown.

0:18:42 > 0:18:45In each case, name the estate from the description.

0:18:45 > 0:18:48Firstly, built in the early 18th century for John Churchill,

0:18:48 > 0:18:51first Duke of Marlborough, the UNESCO world Heritage site

0:18:51 > 0:18:53that was the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill.

0:18:53 > 0:18:54Blenheim Palace.

0:18:54 > 0:18:58Correct. Secondly, built in 1594 by Sir Walter Raleigh,

0:18:58 > 0:19:01the castle in Dorset that is the ancestral home

0:19:01 > 0:19:03of the Wingfield Digby family.

0:19:03 > 0:19:05Dorset castles.

0:19:07 > 0:19:09- What was it?- Yeah, try that.

0:19:09 > 0:19:11- What was it? - CALLERAN:- I didn't say anything.

0:19:12 > 0:19:14Paul Castle.

0:19:14 > 0:19:16No, it's Sherborne Castle.

0:19:16 > 0:19:18And, finally, home to the Carnarvon family,

0:19:18 > 0:19:20the Hampshire estate that doubled as the residence

0:19:20 > 0:19:24of the fictional Crawley family in the television series Downton Abbey.

0:19:29 > 0:19:31Grantham?

0:19:31 > 0:19:33Grantham House.

0:19:34 > 0:19:37- I thought it was just Downton Abbey. I don't know.- No?

0:19:37 > 0:19:40Grantham House.

0:19:40 > 0:19:44No, it's Highclere Castle. Ten points for this. In 1817,

0:19:44 > 0:19:46who published The History of the Island of Java,

0:19:46 > 0:19:48where he'd served as Lieutenant Governor

0:19:48 > 0:19:50during a brief period of British rule?

0:19:50 > 0:19:53Intent on developing British trade in eastern Asia,

0:19:53 > 0:19:55he later founded the Port of Singapore.

0:19:57 > 0:19:58Mountbatten.

0:19:58 > 0:20:00No.

0:20:00 > 0:20:01Raffles.

0:20:01 > 0:20:03Sir Stamford Raffles is correct.

0:20:03 > 0:20:05So you get a set of bonuses this time...

0:20:05 > 0:20:07APPLAUSE ..on the human skeleton.

0:20:07 > 0:20:11From the Latin for loin, what name denotes the five vertebrae

0:20:11 > 0:20:14that lie between the ribcage and the pelvis?

0:20:14 > 0:20:16Wait, yeah.

0:20:16 > 0:20:17Lumbar.

0:20:17 > 0:20:18Lumbar is correct.

0:20:18 > 0:20:21Secondly, what name is given to C1,

0:20:21 > 0:20:24the uppermost cervical vertebra at the top of the spine

0:20:24 > 0:20:26which supports the skull and is articulated above

0:20:26 > 0:20:28with the occipital bone.

0:20:28 > 0:20:29Atlas.

0:20:29 > 0:20:31Correct. Finally, how many thoracic vertebrae

0:20:31 > 0:20:34are usually found in the human spine?

0:20:34 > 0:20:36- 12.- 12.

0:20:36 > 0:20:3912 is correct. APPLAUSE

0:20:39 > 0:20:41Right, another picture round now.

0:20:41 > 0:20:43For your picture starter, you're going to see a photograph

0:20:43 > 0:20:45of a tourist attraction in North America.

0:20:45 > 0:20:49For 10 points I want you to identify its principal architect.

0:20:53 > 0:20:54Buckminster Fuller.

0:20:54 > 0:20:55Correct.

0:20:55 > 0:20:57APPLAUSE

0:20:57 > 0:21:00That was the Montreal Biosphere which was initially designed by

0:21:00 > 0:21:03Buckminster Fuller for the 1967 Montreal World's Fair.

0:21:03 > 0:21:06Your picture bonuses, three more tourist attractions

0:21:06 > 0:21:08that are relics of world fairs.

0:21:08 > 0:21:11I want the name of the city in which each is located.

0:21:11 > 0:21:15Firstly, for five, this is in which European city?

0:21:15 > 0:21:18Does it look like Barcelona? It looks Spanish to me.

0:21:18 > 0:21:20- COWELL:- Yeah, Spanish.- COLLERAN: - There's a fountain in Barcelona.

0:21:20 > 0:21:23There's a fountain in Barcelona, encouraging. Erm...

0:21:23 > 0:21:25- Shall we go with it?- COWELL:- Yeah.

0:21:25 > 0:21:26Barcelona.

0:21:26 > 0:21:30- It is Barcelona.- Oh.- It's the National Palace and Magic Fountain.

0:21:30 > 0:21:32Secondly, this is in which Asian city?

0:21:33 > 0:21:35- Any thoughts?- Taipei?

0:21:35 > 0:21:37- Taipei?- COWELL:- I was thinking Tokyo, but...

0:21:37 > 0:21:41- You think Tokyo?- I'm thinking Tokyo but go for Taipei if you want.

0:21:41 > 0:21:45Vote. Dan, Taipei or Tokyo?

0:21:45 > 0:21:46- CONWAY:- Taipei.- OK. Taipei.

0:21:46 > 0:21:48No, that's Shanghai.

0:21:48 > 0:21:51It's the China Pavilion in the 2010 Shanghai Expo.

0:21:51 > 0:21:54And, finally, this is in which European city?

0:21:56 > 0:21:59It's the Atomium, but where is it?

0:21:59 > 0:22:00I think it's in Belgium somewhere.

0:22:00 > 0:22:02- Belgian cities?- Brussels.

0:22:02 > 0:22:04- Brussels. - COWELL:- There's Bruges.

0:22:04 > 0:22:07- I don't think it's Bruges. - Just go for Brussels.

0:22:07 > 0:22:08Brussels.

0:22:08 > 0:22:10Brussels is correct. It is the Atomium, yes.

0:22:10 > 0:22:11APPLAUSE

0:22:11 > 0:22:13Built for the 1958 World Fair.

0:22:13 > 0:22:15And here we go with 10 points at stake for this.

0:22:15 > 0:22:19In the preface to his Three Plays for Puritans,

0:22:19 > 0:22:20what term did George...?

0:22:21 > 0:22:23George Bernard Shaw. Sorry.

0:22:23 > 0:22:25No, you lose five points.

0:22:25 > 0:22:28What term did George Bernard Shaw coin to denote what

0:22:28 > 0:22:32he perceived to be excessive adulation of William Shakespeare?

0:22:35 > 0:22:37One of you can buzz.

0:22:37 > 0:22:40- I don't think we will.- You don't think you will.- Nope.- All right.

0:22:40 > 0:22:41It's bardolatry.

0:22:41 > 0:22:4210 points for this.

0:22:42 > 0:22:46Which city links the bear, the hen and the queen

0:22:46 > 0:22:48in a group of six symphonies by Hayden?

0:22:53 > 0:22:54Vienna.

0:22:54 > 0:22:57No. Anyone like to buzz from Southampton?

0:22:58 > 0:22:59London. London.

0:22:59 > 0:23:00No, it's Paris.

0:23:00 > 0:23:0210 points for this.

0:23:02 > 0:23:05The name of which eponymous instrument follows The Bastille

0:23:05 > 0:23:08and The Constitution in the titles of volumes

0:23:08 > 0:23:11of Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution?

0:23:18 > 0:23:19Clarinet.

0:23:19 > 0:23:20No.

0:23:22 > 0:23:24One of you buzz.

0:23:24 > 0:23:25Contrabassoon.

0:23:25 > 0:23:27No, it's the guillotine. LAUGHTER

0:23:27 > 0:23:2910 points for this.

0:23:29 > 0:23:31Which US President was in office at the time of the deaths

0:23:31 > 0:23:34of the Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov

0:23:34 > 0:23:36and Konstantin Chernenko.

0:23:38 > 0:23:39Ronald Reagan.

0:23:39 > 0:23:40Correct.

0:23:40 > 0:23:42APPLAUSE You get a set of bonuses now.

0:23:42 > 0:23:44They're on US presidents. In each case,

0:23:44 > 0:23:47name the monarch of Great Britain who acceded to the throne

0:23:47 > 0:23:49during the presidency of the following.

0:23:49 > 0:23:52Firstly, for five points, James Monroe.

0:23:52 > 0:23:531820s...

0:23:53 > 0:23:551820.

0:23:55 > 0:23:57- 1820s?- So, George IV.- George IV? - LEDESMA:- Go with that.

0:23:57 > 0:23:58George IV.

0:23:58 > 0:23:59Correct.

0:23:59 > 0:24:02Secondly, Andrew Jackson.

0:24:02 > 0:24:04Probably Queen Victoria. It was 1830s.

0:24:04 > 0:24:06Queen Victoria.

0:24:06 > 0:24:08No, that was William IV in 1830.

0:24:08 > 0:24:10And, finally, William Howard Taft.

0:24:10 > 0:24:14Edward VII, I think.

0:24:14 > 0:24:15- LEDESMA:- Taft was...

0:24:15 > 0:24:17- JONES:- He's about 1900.- 1900s, OK.

0:24:17 > 0:24:19- Edward the...- Edward VII.- VII?- Yes.

0:24:19 > 0:24:20Edward VII.

0:24:20 > 0:24:22No, it was George V.

0:24:22 > 0:24:24Right, there's about two and three quarters minutes to go.

0:24:24 > 0:24:2610 points for this.

0:24:26 > 0:24:27In logic, what property of an argument

0:24:27 > 0:24:30is based on the fact that the truth of the premises

0:24:30 > 0:24:33logically guarantees the truth at the conclusion?

0:24:35 > 0:24:36Coherence.

0:24:36 > 0:24:38No. Anyone like to buzz from Southampton?

0:24:38 > 0:24:39Certainty.

0:24:39 > 0:24:41No, it's validity. 10 points for this.

0:24:41 > 0:24:44In ornithology, what birds of the Anatidae family

0:24:44 > 0:24:48may be whooper, bewick's or mute?

0:24:48 > 0:24:49Swan.

0:24:49 > 0:24:50Swan is correct, yes.

0:24:50 > 0:24:53APPLAUSE

0:24:53 > 0:24:56These bonuses are on astronomy, Southampton.

0:24:56 > 0:24:59In the Morgan-Keenan spectral classification of stars,

0:24:59 > 0:25:02what letter designates a star with spectral signatures

0:25:02 > 0:25:05of highly ionised silicon and nitrogen

0:25:05 > 0:25:08and an effective temperature of 40,000 Kelvin?

0:25:09 > 0:25:12- You were reading up on stars last night.- I know. Erm...

0:25:12 > 0:25:16- M?- I don't know, but...

0:25:16 > 0:25:17M.

0:25:17 > 0:25:18No, it's O.

0:25:18 > 0:25:22And what letter denotes stars with effective surface temperatures

0:25:22 > 0:25:26from about 7,500 to 10,000 Kelvin?

0:25:28 > 0:25:31- P?- What did you say?- Start with P, it's after O. I don't know.

0:25:31 > 0:25:32P.

0:25:32 > 0:25:33No, it's A.

0:25:33 > 0:25:37And, finally, what letter denotes the spectral class of our sun?

0:25:37 > 0:25:39THEY WHISPER

0:25:39 > 0:25:40- C?- I have no idea.

0:25:40 > 0:25:42- KNIGHTON:- Maybe C.- OK. C.

0:25:42 > 0:25:44No, it's G. Ten points for this.

0:25:44 > 0:25:47From the Greek for crescent, what term denotes the curve

0:25:47 > 0:25:51in the surface of a liquid caused by surface tension...?

0:25:51 > 0:25:52Meniscus.

0:25:52 > 0:25:53Meniscus is right.

0:25:53 > 0:25:55APPLAUSE

0:25:55 > 0:25:58These bonuses are on sparkling wine.

0:25:58 > 0:26:01Which town in Piedmont has given its name to a sparkling wine

0:26:01 > 0:26:04made from the Moscato Bianco grape?

0:26:04 > 0:26:06Yeah, prosecco.

0:26:06 > 0:26:07Prosecco.

0:26:07 > 0:26:09It's Asti.

0:26:09 > 0:26:10And, secondly,

0:26:10 > 0:26:15what four-letter German term denotes quality sparkling wine?

0:26:15 > 0:26:18Brut, is that German? I thought that was French.

0:26:18 > 0:26:19I don't know.

0:26:19 > 0:26:21I don't know anything about...

0:26:21 > 0:26:24HE WHISPERS

0:26:24 > 0:26:27I'm just going to say although it's not German. Brut.

0:26:27 > 0:26:28It's Sekt.

0:26:28 > 0:26:31And, finally, what Catalan word can mean cellar

0:26:31 > 0:26:33and denotes a Spanish sparkling wine,

0:26:33 > 0:26:35the great majority of which is produced in Catalonia.

0:26:35 > 0:26:37- What were you going to say? - JONES:- No, Cava, Cava.

0:26:37 > 0:26:39- LEDESMA:- I was going to say Bodega...- JONES:- Cava.

0:26:39 > 0:26:40Cava.

0:26:40 > 0:26:42Cava is correct. APPLAUSE

0:26:42 > 0:26:4310 points for this.

0:26:43 > 0:26:45In the standard model of particle physics,

0:26:45 > 0:26:50what flavour of quark has the lowest mass and the shortest name?

0:26:50 > 0:26:51Up.

0:26:51 > 0:26:53Up is correct. You get a set of bonuses this time

0:26:53 > 0:26:55on the Nobel Peace Prize. APPLAUSE

0:26:55 > 0:26:57In each case, give the decade in which the following

0:26:57 > 0:26:59all received the prize.

0:26:59 > 0:27:01First, Fridtjof Nansen, Austen Chamberlain

0:27:01 > 0:27:04and Charles Gates Dawes.

0:27:04 > 0:27:06Austen Chamberlain, dates-ish.

0:27:06 > 0:27:09I don't know. I'm guessing late 1800s...

0:27:09 > 0:27:11- LEDESMA:- No, Nobel Prize wasn't... Nobel Prize would be after that.

0:27:11 > 0:27:13- 1920?- Go for it.

0:27:13 > 0:27:141920s.

0:27:14 > 0:27:15It was the 1920s.

0:27:15 > 0:27:19Secondly, Lech Walesa, Desmond Tutu and the 14th Dalai Lama.

0:27:19 > 0:27:20- 1980s.- Yeah.- JONES:- I think so.

0:27:20 > 0:27:211980s.

0:27:21 > 0:27:23Correct. Finally... GONG

0:27:23 > 0:27:25APPLAUSE

0:27:25 > 0:27:27Now that's the gong. Cardiff have 40 points

0:27:27 > 0:27:29but the University of Southampton have 280.

0:27:32 > 0:27:34Well, you never got much of a chance to show us

0:27:34 > 0:27:35what you're made of, Cardiff.

0:27:35 > 0:27:38Although you've got certainly the best bow tie

0:27:38 > 0:27:40we've ever had on University challenge.

0:27:40 > 0:27:41- Thank you.- Congratulations.

0:27:41 > 0:27:44Southampton, well done to you, 280 is a terrific score.

0:27:44 > 0:27:45We shall look forward to seeing you

0:27:45 > 0:27:47in the next stage of the competition.

0:27:47 > 0:27:49Thank you very much for joining us.

0:27:49 > 0:27:51I hope you can join us next time for another first-round match.

0:27:51 > 0:27:54But until then, it's goodbye from Cardiff University...

0:27:54 > 0:27:55- ALL:- Goodbye.

0:27:55 > 0:27:58- It's goodbye from Southampton University... ALL:- Goodbye.

0:27:58 > 0:27:59And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.

0:27:59 > 0:28:03APPLAUSE