Episode 30

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

0:00:19 > 0:00:20University Challenge.

0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello, as the quarterfinal stage of this competition continues,

0:00:31 > 0:00:35we now know that the first team through to the semifinals

0:00:35 > 0:00:37is St John's College, Cambridge.

0:00:37 > 0:00:39The institutions playing tonight

0:00:39 > 0:00:42both lost their first quarterfinal matches -

0:00:42 > 0:00:45so, while the winners will get one last opportunity

0:00:45 > 0:00:48to stay in the competition, for the losers,

0:00:48 > 0:00:50it's the final curtain.

0:00:50 > 0:00:51The team from Bristol University

0:00:51 > 0:00:55left Trinity College Cambridge and Trinity College Oxford

0:00:55 > 0:00:56reeling in the first two rounds,

0:00:56 > 0:01:00winning the first of those matches by 230 points to 95,

0:01:00 > 0:01:03and the second by 205 to 100.

0:01:03 > 0:01:06Then the shine wore off during their first quarterfinal match

0:01:06 > 0:01:11when Newcastle University had the better of them by 225 to 130.

0:01:11 > 0:01:14So, tonight is undoubtedly the night

0:01:14 > 0:01:16they need to recover their earlier form.

0:01:16 > 0:01:20With an accumulated score of 565 from three matches

0:01:20 > 0:01:24and with an average age of 22, let's meet the Bristol team again.

0:01:25 > 0:01:27Hi, I'm Ollie Bowes.

0:01:27 > 0:01:29I'm from Market Harborough in Leicestershire

0:01:29 > 0:01:31and I'm studying music.

0:01:31 > 0:01:32Hi, I'm Kirsty Biggs.

0:01:32 > 0:01:36I'm originally from Southampton and I'm doing a PhD in mathematics.

0:01:36 > 0:01:39- This is their captain. - Hi, I'm Sam Hosegood.

0:01:39 > 0:01:42I'm from Bedford and I study chemical physics.

0:01:42 > 0:01:43Hi, I'm Dom Hewett.

0:01:43 > 0:01:46I'm from Stroud in Gloucestershire and I study English.

0:01:46 > 0:01:47APPLAUSE

0:01:51 > 0:01:52The team from Ulster University

0:01:52 > 0:01:55have had something of a chequered career so far -

0:01:55 > 0:01:57losing in round one by a mere five points

0:01:57 > 0:01:59against the University of Edinburgh,

0:01:59 > 0:02:03then winning their losers playoff against St Anne's College, Oxford,

0:02:03 > 0:02:06and their second round match against Warwick University.

0:02:06 > 0:02:08Their quarterfinal defeat

0:02:08 > 0:02:11was at the hands of St John's College, Cambridge.

0:02:11 > 0:02:15So, with an accumulated score of 635 earned over four matches,

0:02:15 > 0:02:19at an average age of 50, let's meet the Ulster team again.

0:02:20 > 0:02:23Hello, I'm Cathal McDaid from Buncrana in County Donegal,

0:02:23 > 0:02:25and I'm studying for a Masters degree in English literature.

0:02:25 > 0:02:27Hi, I'm Kate Ritchie.

0:02:27 > 0:02:30I'm from Waringstown, County Armagh, and I'm studying fine art.

0:02:30 > 0:02:32This is their captain.

0:02:32 > 0:02:33Hi, I'm Iain Jack.

0:02:33 > 0:02:35I'm originally from Peterhead in Aberdeenshire,

0:02:35 > 0:02:37and I'm reading for a PhD in pharmacy.

0:02:37 > 0:02:40Hi, my name's Matthew Milliken.

0:02:40 > 0:02:44I'm from Comber in County Down, and I'm studying for a PhD in education.

0:02:44 > 0:02:45APPLAUSE

0:02:50 > 0:02:52Well, the rules are boringly unchanging,

0:02:52 > 0:02:54so fingers on the buzzers.

0:02:54 > 0:02:55Here's your first starter for ten.

0:02:55 > 0:03:00Four quarterings, one depicting a harp, one a lion rampant,

0:03:00 > 0:03:01and two showing three lions...

0:03:02 > 0:03:04- The Royal Standard.- Correct.

0:03:07 > 0:03:09Bristol, the first set of bonuses

0:03:09 > 0:03:11are on winners of the Nobel Prize in literature.

0:03:11 > 0:03:14In each case, name the writer from the description.

0:03:14 > 0:03:19Firstly, born 1923, the first South African winner of the prize.

0:03:19 > 0:03:22Her works include July's People and The Conservationists.

0:03:22 > 0:03:24- Nadine Gordimer.- Nadine Gordimer.

0:03:24 > 0:03:25Correct.

0:03:25 > 0:03:30Secondly, the first black African winner of the prize born in Nigeria,

0:03:30 > 0:03:33his works for the stage include Kongi's Harvest,

0:03:33 > 0:03:35and Death And The King's Horseman.

0:03:35 > 0:03:37- Soyinka.- Soyinka.

0:03:37 > 0:03:39- Soyinka.- Correct.

0:03:39 > 0:03:42And finally, who was the recipient in 2003?

0:03:42 > 0:03:45He has also won the Booker prize twice,

0:03:45 > 0:03:48first for The Life & Times Of Michael K,

0:03:48 > 0:03:50and later for Disgrace.

0:03:50 > 0:03:52- It's JM Coetzee. - All right. JM Coetzee.

0:03:52 > 0:03:54JM Coetzee is correct.

0:03:54 > 0:03:56Ten points for this.

0:03:56 > 0:03:58What first name links the artist

0:03:58 > 0:04:02who painted Christ Preaching At The Cookham Regatta,

0:04:02 > 0:04:05the Prime Minister at the time of the abdication crisis,

0:04:05 > 0:04:07and the director of...

0:04:07 > 0:04:09- Stanley.- Stanley is correct.

0:04:11 > 0:04:14Your bonuses are on essential oils.

0:04:14 > 0:04:16Firstly, what ten letter name is given to the essential oils

0:04:16 > 0:04:20obtained from the lemongrasses, or genus Cymbopogon,

0:04:20 > 0:04:22used in insect repellent and soap?

0:04:24 > 0:04:26Ten letters? I don't know.

0:04:26 > 0:04:27Um...

0:04:29 > 0:04:31Citronols.

0:04:31 > 0:04:32Er, no - it's citronella.

0:04:32 > 0:04:34Oh!

0:04:34 > 0:04:36Used in perfumery, what oil is distilled from the flowers

0:04:36 > 0:04:37of the Seville orange?

0:04:37 > 0:04:40It takes its name from an Italian princess

0:04:40 > 0:04:43who's said to have popularised it in France in the later 17th century.

0:04:45 > 0:04:46Um...

0:04:46 > 0:04:48- BOWES:- Elizabeta?

0:04:48 > 0:04:51Or something like that, but I don't know...

0:04:51 > 0:04:53- BIGGS:- That was probably somebody else.

0:04:53 > 0:04:55Bergamot, maybe?

0:04:55 > 0:04:57- Is it who you thought...? - No, that's...

0:04:57 > 0:04:58Elizabeta?

0:04:58 > 0:05:00No, it's neroli.

0:05:00 > 0:05:03And finally, Earl Grey tea is flavoured with an oil

0:05:03 > 0:05:05derived from which citrus fruit?

0:05:05 > 0:05:08Its name resembles and possibly derives from

0:05:08 > 0:05:10that of a city north-east of Milan.

0:05:10 > 0:05:12Bergamot, isn't it? It's Bergamot.

0:05:12 > 0:05:14- Bergamot.- Correct.

0:05:14 > 0:05:17Ten points for this. Take the initial letters

0:05:17 > 0:05:20of the names of the eight planets of the solar system.

0:05:20 > 0:05:21The name of which of those planets

0:05:21 > 0:05:25can be spelled with a combination of some of those letters.

0:05:28 > 0:05:29Venus?

0:05:29 > 0:05:30Venus is correct, yes.

0:05:33 > 0:05:34You get three bonuses

0:05:34 > 0:05:38on the 19th century science writer Mary Somerville.

0:05:38 > 0:05:40Firstly, the discovery of which planet

0:05:40 > 0:05:43stemmed from research inspired by Somerville's conjectures

0:05:43 > 0:05:46the difficulties in calculating the position of Uranus,

0:05:46 > 0:05:48might point to the existence of such a body?

0:05:50 > 0:05:51- Neptune?- Correct.

0:05:51 > 0:05:55Noted for her contributions to her brother's astronomical research,

0:05:55 > 0:05:59which German-born British astronomer was elected with Somerville

0:05:59 > 0:06:01by the Royal Astronomical Society

0:06:01 > 0:06:04as its first female honorary members in 1835?

0:06:07 > 0:06:08I can't remember any female...

0:06:08 > 0:06:12Can you think of just somebody who might have had a sister?

0:06:14 > 0:06:15- No.- German.

0:06:15 > 0:06:17Um... No.

0:06:17 > 0:06:19- HEWETT:- Kepler? - Oh, who? Maybe.

0:06:19 > 0:06:22- Kepler.- No, it's Caroline Herschel. - Oh.

0:06:22 > 0:06:25Somerville may have been responsible for introducing Charles Babbage

0:06:25 > 0:06:27to which of his collaborators

0:06:27 > 0:06:31who subsequently created a programme for his prototype computer?

0:06:31 > 0:06:32Lovelace?

0:06:32 > 0:06:35- Lovelace?- Ada Lovelace is right.

0:06:35 > 0:06:37Right, we are going to the picture round now.

0:06:37 > 0:06:39For your picture starter, you will see a map

0:06:39 > 0:06:42showing the effects of a rise in sea level of 60 metres,

0:06:42 > 0:06:46as a result of which, five capital cities have been submerged.

0:06:46 > 0:06:48For ten points, name two of them.

0:06:54 > 0:06:56Dhaka and Rangoon.

0:06:56 > 0:06:58Er, nope.

0:07:00 > 0:07:01- Dhaka and Singapore.- Nope.

0:07:01 > 0:07:03The capital cities in question

0:07:03 > 0:07:07are Dhaka, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Hanoi and Colombo.

0:07:07 > 0:07:08So, no-one got that,

0:07:08 > 0:07:10so, when someone gets a starter question correctly,

0:07:10 > 0:07:12they will get the picture bonuses.

0:07:12 > 0:07:15Ten points for this. Dark Heart, about poverty in Britain,

0:07:15 > 0:07:19and Flat Earth News concerning media falsehood and distortion

0:07:19 > 0:07:23are among the works of which author and investigative journalist...?

0:07:24 > 0:07:26Jon Ronson?

0:07:26 > 0:07:28No. You lose five points.

0:07:28 > 0:07:29..who played a key role

0:07:29 > 0:07:32in reporting the News of the World phone hacking scandal?

0:07:37 > 0:07:38Crick?

0:07:38 > 0:07:40No, it was Nick Davies.

0:07:40 > 0:07:42Right, ten points for this.

0:07:42 > 0:07:45Give the three words differing only in their first letters

0:07:45 > 0:07:49that are respectively a generic term for a group of people,

0:07:49 > 0:07:53the surname of the 11th president of the United States

0:07:53 > 0:07:55and a part of an egg rich in fat and protein.

0:07:56 > 0:07:58Folk, Polk, and Yolk.

0:07:58 > 0:07:59Correct.

0:08:03 > 0:08:05You'll recall that the picture starter

0:08:05 > 0:08:08which everyone had such difficulty with showed capital cities

0:08:08 > 0:08:12named by the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change as being at risk

0:08:12 > 0:08:15of coastal inundation as a result of global warming.

0:08:15 > 0:08:17Picture bonuses - three more maps

0:08:17 > 0:08:20showing the effects of a 60 metre rise in sea level.

0:08:20 > 0:08:24Each has an endangered location, pinpointed in red.

0:08:24 > 0:08:26Firstly, name this city.

0:08:26 > 0:08:30It has a population of around 5.8 million.

0:08:30 > 0:08:32Is that... Is that Singapore?

0:08:33 > 0:08:36- BIGGS:- Is it just a tiny island that's gone, or is it...?

0:08:36 > 0:08:37I thought it was Singa...

0:08:37 > 0:08:39What do you think?

0:08:40 > 0:08:42- Singapore.- It is Singapore.

0:08:42 > 0:08:43Let's see the whole thing.

0:08:45 > 0:08:47And secondly, name this city.

0:08:47 > 0:08:50It's a population of approximately 1.2 million.

0:08:51 > 0:08:54- Is it Bahrain, is it? - HEWETT:- No...

0:08:54 > 0:08:55Oh, yeah.

0:08:56 > 0:08:58Or is it Qatar?

0:08:58 > 0:09:01- BIGGS:- Is that the capital, Bahrain? - No, Bahrain is Bahrain.

0:09:01 > 0:09:04- No, it's not. The capital of Bahrain is...Manama.- Oh, Manama, yeah, yeah.

0:09:04 > 0:09:07- Manama.- No, it's Basra.

0:09:07 > 0:09:10This has a population of approximately 1.2 million -

0:09:10 > 0:09:11and there's the whole thing.

0:09:11 > 0:09:15Finally, name this city with a population of around 440,000.

0:09:18 > 0:09:19Where is that?

0:09:19 > 0:09:22- BIGGS:- That's really close to America, so is that...?

0:09:22 > 0:09:23- Oh, it's America!- Yes!

0:09:23 > 0:09:25You can see its coast...!

0:09:25 > 0:09:27Is that going to be somewhere in Florida?

0:09:27 > 0:09:29- Yeah, it'll be somewhere in Florida.- So...- Miami?- Miami.

0:09:29 > 0:09:31Miami.

0:09:31 > 0:09:32It is Miami, yes.

0:09:32 > 0:09:34After a bit of a flood.

0:09:35 > 0:09:37Right, ten points for this.

0:09:37 > 0:09:38Answer as soon as your name is called.

0:09:38 > 0:09:41Using the atomic numbers of the periodic table,

0:09:41 > 0:09:46if boron plus carbon is sodium, what is nitrogen plus oxygen?

0:09:47 > 0:09:49- Phosphorus.- Correct.

0:09:52 > 0:09:57You get a set of bonuses on Academy Award-winning films of 1976.

0:09:57 > 0:09:59The winner of the award for Best Adapted Screenplay,

0:09:59 > 0:10:03which film was a dramatisation of the Washington Post's investigation

0:10:03 > 0:10:04into the Watergate scandal?

0:10:04 > 0:10:07- All The President's Men. - All The President's Men.- Correct.

0:10:07 > 0:10:11Beatrice Straight won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

0:10:11 > 0:10:14for a performance of less than six minutes

0:10:14 > 0:10:17in which satire on television news?

0:10:19 > 0:10:21Ideas?

0:10:21 > 0:10:23- No.- No.

0:10:23 > 0:10:25- Pass.- It's Network.

0:10:25 > 0:10:28And finally, the Academy Award for Best Costume Design

0:10:28 > 0:10:29went to which film by Fellini

0:10:29 > 0:10:32with Donald Sutherland in the title role

0:10:32 > 0:10:34of an 18th-century historical figure?

0:10:37 > 0:10:40Give me an 18th-century historical figure!

0:10:40 > 0:10:42- 18th or 19th? - 18th.

0:10:44 > 0:10:46- I don't know. I'm sorry.- No...

0:10:46 > 0:10:47George Washington.

0:10:47 > 0:10:50- George Washington. - No, it's Casanova.

0:10:50 > 0:10:51Ten points for this.

0:10:51 > 0:10:55In 1914, Miss Fowler-Tutt, a Sussex headmistress,

0:10:55 > 0:10:58was prominent in objections to the public display

0:10:58 > 0:11:00of a version of which sculpture?

0:11:00 > 0:11:04Commissioned in 1888, it represents Paolo and Francesca...

0:11:06 > 0:11:07Rodin's Kiss.

0:11:07 > 0:11:09Rodin's the Kiss is correct, yes.

0:11:13 > 0:11:14Your bonuses are on Russia.

0:11:14 > 0:11:16In each case, name the city from the description.

0:11:16 > 0:11:19All three answers begin with the same letter of the Roman alphabet.

0:11:19 > 0:11:24First, a major city on the Volga, about 800km east of Moscow.

0:11:24 > 0:11:28Captured in 1552 by Ivan the Terrible,

0:11:28 > 0:11:31it is now the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan.

0:11:32 > 0:11:34I don't know.

0:11:35 > 0:11:38- Nizhny Novgorod?- Yeah, try that.

0:11:38 > 0:11:39Nizhny Novgorod.

0:11:39 > 0:11:41No, it's Kazan.

0:11:41 > 0:11:45Secondly, the capital of a krai, or a region, in the Russian far east

0:11:45 > 0:11:48situated at the point where the trans-Siberian railway

0:11:48 > 0:11:50crosses the Amur River.

0:11:51 > 0:11:53THEY CONFER

0:11:57 > 0:11:59Kaliningrad? Does that still exist, or...?

0:11:59 > 0:12:01You were going to say...

0:12:01 > 0:12:03- Sorry, no, pass.- That's Khabarovsk.

0:12:03 > 0:12:06And finally, a major city of Siberia,

0:12:06 > 0:12:09between Novosibirsk and Irkutsk,

0:12:09 > 0:12:10it is on the Yenisey River.

0:12:13 > 0:12:15Kursk.

0:12:15 > 0:12:16No, it's Krasnoyarsk.

0:12:16 > 0:12:18Ten points for this.

0:12:18 > 0:12:21Which king prosecuted the seven bishops for seditious libel

0:12:21 > 0:12:25when they petitioned against his second Declaration of Indulgence?

0:12:25 > 0:12:28Their acquittal is thought to have contributed to his overthrow

0:12:28 > 0:12:29later in the same year.

0:12:31 > 0:12:33Henry II.

0:12:33 > 0:12:34Nope.

0:12:36 > 0:12:38- James II.- James II is correct. Yes.

0:12:42 > 0:12:44Your bonuses are on prominent people.

0:12:44 > 0:12:46In each case, name the person from the description.

0:12:46 > 0:12:49All three names begin with the same three letters.

0:12:49 > 0:12:52First, a Chilean literary figure and diplomat

0:12:52 > 0:12:55who adopted his name from that of a Czech poet.

0:12:55 > 0:12:58He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1971.

0:12:58 > 0:13:00- Pablo Neruda.- Yeah.

0:13:00 > 0:13:03- Neruda. - Correct, Pablo Neruda is right.

0:13:03 > 0:13:04Secondly, a German scientist,

0:13:04 > 0:13:08recipient of the 1920 Nobel Prize in chemistry,

0:13:08 > 0:13:13he formulated what became known as the third law of thermodynamics?

0:13:13 > 0:13:16N-E-R, beginning N-E-R?

0:13:16 > 0:13:19- Er... - No, I...I assumed surnames, but...

0:13:19 > 0:13:20N-E-R...

0:13:22 > 0:13:25- Nerman. - No, that is Walther Hermann Nernst.

0:13:25 > 0:13:31- Oh!- And finally, the Roman Emperor who succeeded Domitian in AD 96.

0:13:31 > 0:13:32He is the first of the group

0:13:32 > 0:13:35traditionally known as the five good emperors.

0:13:38 > 0:13:40Nerva.

0:13:40 > 0:13:42- Nerva.- Nerva is correct.

0:13:42 > 0:13:43Ten points for this.

0:13:43 > 0:13:47What six-letter word links a bright chestnut colour

0:13:47 > 0:13:49used especially of horses,

0:13:49 > 0:13:53a culinary plant of the genus Rumex with sour tasting leaves

0:13:53 > 0:13:55and the surname of Hetty,

0:13:55 > 0:13:57a character in George Eliot's Adam Bede?

0:14:00 > 0:14:01Maroon.

0:14:01 > 0:14:03No, anyone like to buzz from Bristol?

0:14:06 > 0:14:08Ginger.

0:14:08 > 0:14:10No, it's sorrel. Ten points for this.

0:14:10 > 0:14:14"Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

0:14:14 > 0:14:17"That is why the little decisions you and I make every day

0:14:17 > 0:14:19"are of such infinite importance."

0:14:19 > 0:14:23Which literary figure wrote those words in the 1952 work,

0:14:23 > 0:14:25Mere Christianity?

0:14:26 > 0:14:28- CS Lewis.- CS Lewis is right.

0:14:30 > 0:14:33You get a set of bonuses on components of the human brain.

0:14:33 > 0:14:36In each case, give the term from the definition.

0:14:36 > 0:14:37Firstly, the layer of grey matter

0:14:37 > 0:14:40covering the superior surface of the brain.

0:14:40 > 0:14:42It integrates sensory impulses,

0:14:42 > 0:14:47directs motor activity and controls higher intellectual functions.

0:14:47 > 0:14:50- Cerebrum, do you think?- Campus...

0:14:50 > 0:14:52- Cerebellum? - Cerebellum?

0:14:52 > 0:14:53I thought that was... I don't know.

0:14:53 > 0:14:54THEY CONFER

0:14:57 > 0:14:58Cerebrum?

0:14:58 > 0:15:00No, it's the cerebral cortex.

0:15:00 > 0:15:02What collective name is given

0:15:02 > 0:15:06to the dura mater, arachnoid mater and pia mater membranes?

0:15:10 > 0:15:12Hippocampus?

0:15:12 > 0:15:15- Hippocampus.- They are meninges.

0:15:15 > 0:15:17What term denotes either of a pair of organs

0:15:17 > 0:15:21that form most of the lateral walls of the third ventricle of the brain

0:15:21 > 0:15:25and translate neural impulses from receptors to the cerebral cortex?

0:15:30 > 0:15:31Hippocampus.

0:15:31 > 0:15:33- No, they're thalamus, or thalami. - Oh.

0:15:33 > 0:15:36Right, we're going to take a music round now.

0:15:36 > 0:15:39For your music starter, you will hear a piece of music from a film.

0:15:39 > 0:15:41For ten points, simply give me the name of its composer.

0:15:41 > 0:15:43SWELLING ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

0:15:46 > 0:15:48James Cameron.

0:15:48 > 0:15:50No. You can hear a little more.

0:15:57 > 0:15:58John Williams.

0:15:58 > 0:16:00No, that was Alan Menken, apparently -

0:16:00 > 0:16:02the score was from the Little Mermaid.

0:16:02 > 0:16:05OK, so, music bonuses in a moment or two.

0:16:05 > 0:16:06Here's another starter question.

0:16:06 > 0:16:09Including several distinctive species,

0:16:09 > 0:16:13Diprotodontia is an order within which infraclass of mammals,

0:16:13 > 0:16:16its name deriving from the Latin for pouch?

0:16:17 > 0:16:19- Marsupials.- Correct.

0:16:22 > 0:16:24We follow on from the Little Mermaid,

0:16:24 > 0:16:27which was scored, as were many Disney musicals,

0:16:27 > 0:16:29by the composer Alan Menken.

0:16:29 > 0:16:31Three Disney songs composed by him.

0:16:31 > 0:16:33This time, in each case,

0:16:33 > 0:16:34I want the name of the film

0:16:34 > 0:16:37and the name of the actor you can hear singing.

0:16:37 > 0:16:38Firstly, for five.

0:16:40 > 0:16:42# Tale as old as time... #

0:16:44 > 0:16:46- That's Angela Lansbury.- Is it?

0:16:46 > 0:16:48Was it Aladdin?

0:16:48 > 0:16:49Aladdin, Angela Lansbury.

0:16:49 > 0:16:53It was Angela Lansbury, but it was Beauty And The Beast.

0:16:53 > 0:16:54Secondly...

0:16:55 > 0:16:59# I'd given up hope that someone would come along

0:17:00 > 0:17:03# A fella who'd ring the bell for once

0:17:03 > 0:17:05# Not the gong

0:17:05 > 0:17:07# The kind who wins trophies

0:17:07 > 0:17:10# Won't settle for low fees

0:17:10 > 0:17:12# At least semi-pro fees

0:17:12 > 0:17:15# But no, I get the greenhorn

0:17:15 > 0:17:18# I've been out to pasture, pal my ambition gone... #

0:17:18 > 0:17:20- Jimmy Durante?- Jimmy Durante, or...

0:17:20 > 0:17:21# Content to spend lazy days... #

0:17:21 > 0:17:25- Lady and the Tramp? Is it Jimmy Durante?- Yeah.

0:17:25 > 0:17:27Jimmy Durante, Lady and the Tramp.

0:17:27 > 0:17:30No, that was Danny DeVito in Hercules.

0:17:30 > 0:17:32And finally...

0:17:32 > 0:17:36# Life is your restaurant and I'm your maitre d'

0:17:36 > 0:17:38# Come on, whisper what it is you want

0:17:38 > 0:17:40# You ain't never had a friend like me

0:17:40 > 0:17:43# Yes, sir we pride ourselves on service

0:17:43 > 0:17:46# You're the boss the king, the shah

0:17:46 > 0:17:47# Say what you wish

0:17:47 > 0:17:49# It's yours, true dish

0:17:49 > 0:17:51# How about a little more baklava?

0:17:51 > 0:17:53# Have some of column A

0:17:53 > 0:17:55# Try all of column B

0:17:55 > 0:17:59- # I'm in the mood... # - It sounds like somebody jazzy.

0:17:59 > 0:18:02I've no idea. It's an actor, but...

0:18:02 > 0:18:04We think it's Ratatouille, but we don't know the actor.

0:18:04 > 0:18:08No, it was Robin Williams as the Genie in Aladdin.

0:18:08 > 0:18:09Right, ten points for this.

0:18:09 > 0:18:10In which federal state

0:18:10 > 0:18:13is the University of Marburg, Germany's first...

0:18:14 > 0:18:17Er... Saxon... Lower Saxony.

0:18:17 > 0:18:18No, you lose five points.

0:18:18 > 0:18:20Ulster - you can hear the whole thing, actually.

0:18:20 > 0:18:24First Protestant university, founded in 1527 by Philip the Magnanimous,

0:18:24 > 0:18:27it's situated between Frankfurt and Castle.

0:18:30 > 0:18:33- Hessen.- Hesse is correct, yes.

0:18:36 > 0:18:38You get a set of bonuses on the French Directory.

0:18:38 > 0:18:41Which Director was known as the Organiser of Victory

0:18:41 > 0:18:43in the Revolutionary Wars?

0:18:43 > 0:18:46His son Sadi was a pioneer of thermodynamics

0:18:46 > 0:18:50and gave his name to a cycle, an efficiency and a heat engine.

0:18:52 > 0:18:53No.

0:18:53 > 0:18:56- Pascal, is it?- Try it.

0:18:56 > 0:18:58- Pascal.- No, it's Carnot.

0:18:58 > 0:19:01Serving as a Director for only a few months in 1799,

0:19:01 > 0:19:03which political theorist and clergyman

0:19:03 > 0:19:07was the author of the pamphlet What Is The Third Estate?

0:19:09 > 0:19:11THEY CONFER

0:19:15 > 0:19:17Was it Rousseau, or something?

0:19:17 > 0:19:18Was he around that time?

0:19:18 > 0:19:20No idea.

0:19:20 > 0:19:21- Rousseau.- No, that was Sieyes.

0:19:21 > 0:19:25And finally, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs

0:19:25 > 0:19:29between 1797 and 1799, and later as Napoleon's chief diplomat?

0:19:29 > 0:19:32His career is noted for a capacity for political survival.

0:19:34 > 0:19:35Somebody that survives.

0:19:36 > 0:19:38THEY CONFER

0:19:39 > 0:19:41What was the name?

0:19:41 > 0:19:43Stab in the dark.

0:19:43 > 0:19:44Try it.

0:19:44 > 0:19:46Marshal Ney?

0:19:46 > 0:19:47Nominate Ritchie.

0:19:47 > 0:19:48Marshal Ney.

0:19:48 > 0:19:50Er, no - not at all!

0:19:50 > 0:19:52- He wasn't a diplomat in the slightest.- No.

0:19:52 > 0:19:54- No, it was Talleyrand. - Oh, Talleyrand.

0:19:54 > 0:19:55Ten points for this.

0:19:55 > 0:19:57In Norse mythology, what name is given

0:19:57 > 0:20:00to the figures charged with selecting those casualties of war

0:20:00 > 0:20:02who are deemed...

0:20:02 > 0:20:04- Valkyries. - Valkyries is correct, yes.

0:20:08 > 0:20:11Your bonuses are on fundamental constants in physics.

0:20:11 > 0:20:14In the MKS formulation of Coulomb's law,

0:20:14 > 0:20:17what symbol represents Coulomb's constant?

0:20:17 > 0:20:19Um...

0:20:20 > 0:20:22Is it epsilon 0, maybe?

0:20:22 > 0:20:25- Epsilon 0.- No, it's K, or kappa.

0:20:25 > 0:20:28Coulomb's Constant is usually written

0:20:28 > 0:20:31as the reciprocal of four pi times what constant?

0:20:31 > 0:20:33Oh, that might be...

0:20:33 > 0:20:36It's the... I think it's the permittivity of free space.

0:20:36 > 0:20:37The permittivity of free space.

0:20:37 > 0:20:41Correct. Finally, the permeability of free space

0:20:41 > 0:20:42is represented by what symbol?

0:20:42 > 0:20:45- Mu 0.- Correct. Ten points for this.

0:20:45 > 0:20:48Born in 1841, the Danish botanist Eugenius Warming

0:20:48 > 0:20:52is regarded as the founder of which field of study

0:20:52 > 0:20:53within the life sciences?

0:20:53 > 0:20:55It concerns the relationships

0:20:55 > 0:20:57between living things and their environment.

0:20:58 > 0:21:00- Ecology.- Ecology is correct.

0:21:03 > 0:21:05A set of bonuses on the actress Greta Garbo.

0:21:05 > 0:21:09Garbo's first spoken words on-screen were, "Give me a whisky,"

0:21:09 > 0:21:11in Anna Christie, a 1930 film

0:21:11 > 0:21:15based on a play by which future Nobel laureate?

0:21:18 > 0:21:21- Pinter?- No.- No.

0:21:21 > 0:21:23OK, Miller, did he win it?

0:21:23 > 0:21:24I don't think so.

0:21:24 > 0:21:25Or Tennessee Williams?

0:21:25 > 0:21:26THEY CONFER

0:21:30 > 0:21:32Any American playwright?

0:21:33 > 0:21:34Come on, let's have it, please.

0:21:34 > 0:21:37- Miller.- No, it's Eugene O'Neill.

0:21:37 > 0:21:41Secondly, what five words form the first line spoken by Garbo

0:21:41 > 0:21:45playing an ageing ballerina in the 1932 film Grand Hotel?

0:21:48 > 0:21:50Hello, I'm an ageing ballerina.

0:21:50 > 0:21:52- Don't know.- Pass.

0:21:52 > 0:21:54- I want to be alone.- Oh!

0:21:54 > 0:21:59One of Garbo's best-known roles was playing the title character

0:21:59 > 0:22:00of which film, based on a novel

0:22:00 > 0:22:02first published in Russian from 1875?

0:22:02 > 0:22:05- Anna Karenina.- Anna Karenina.

0:22:05 > 0:22:07Correct. We're going to take another picture round now.

0:22:07 > 0:22:11For your picture starter, you'll see a photograph of a tennis player.

0:22:11 > 0:22:13Ten points if you can give me her name.

0:22:15 > 0:22:17- Billie Jean King.- Correct.

0:22:21 > 0:22:24In 2006, the tennis complex at Flushing Meadows

0:22:24 > 0:22:27where the US Open is played was named after Billie Jean King.

0:22:27 > 0:22:29Picture bonuses - three more tennis players

0:22:29 > 0:22:31who've had Grand Slam courts named after them.

0:22:31 > 0:22:33Five points for each player you can name.

0:22:33 > 0:22:35Firstly for five...

0:22:36 > 0:22:37Arthur Ashe.

0:22:37 > 0:22:39- Arthur Ashe.- Correct.

0:22:39 > 0:22:40Secondly...

0:22:42 > 0:22:44THEY CONFER

0:22:47 > 0:22:49Maureen...

0:22:51 > 0:22:54- We need to speed up.- No, no.

0:22:54 > 0:22:55Roland Garros.

0:22:55 > 0:22:57Er...

0:22:57 > 0:23:00Good heavens, he's had a gender change.

0:23:00 > 0:23:02No, it's Suzanne Lenglen.

0:23:02 > 0:23:04She is the person after whom

0:23:04 > 0:23:07the second court at Roland-Garros is named.

0:23:07 > 0:23:08And finally...

0:23:10 > 0:23:12Rod Laver?

0:23:12 > 0:23:14Rod Laver.

0:23:14 > 0:23:15It is Rod Laver,

0:23:15 > 0:23:18and it's the principle court of the Australian open.

0:23:18 > 0:23:19Right, ten points for this.

0:23:19 > 0:23:24Flappers and Philosophers is an early collection of short stories

0:23:24 > 0:23:27by which US author, born in 1896?

0:23:27 > 0:23:31It appeared in the same year as his novel, This Side Of Paradise...

0:23:32 > 0:23:34- Fitzgerald. - Fitzgerald is correct, yes.

0:23:38 > 0:23:41Your bonuses are on fictional characters, Bristol.

0:23:41 > 0:23:44In each case, give the three-letter surname of the following.

0:23:44 > 0:23:47Firstly, in Joseph Heller's Catch-22,

0:23:47 > 0:23:51the airman with whom Yossarian shares a tent.

0:23:51 > 0:23:53Skilled at crash landing his aircraft,

0:23:53 > 0:23:54he later escapes to Sweden.

0:23:57 > 0:23:59- Bay.- Bay.

0:23:59 > 0:24:02No, it's Orr. O-R-R.

0:24:02 > 0:24:04In AS Byatt's Possession,

0:24:04 > 0:24:06a leading poet who embarks on an illicit liaison

0:24:06 > 0:24:08with Christabel LaMotte.

0:24:10 > 0:24:12No.

0:24:13 > 0:24:16- Bay.- No, it's Randolph Henry Ash.

0:24:16 > 0:24:19And finally, in Thomas Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd,

0:24:19 > 0:24:23a shepherd who woos and finally marries Bathsheba Everdene.

0:24:23 > 0:24:25- Oak.- Oh, yeah, Oak.

0:24:25 > 0:24:26Gabriel Oak is correct.

0:24:26 > 0:24:28Three minutes to go, ten points for this.

0:24:28 > 0:24:32In 1991, Khaleda Zia became the first female Prime Minister

0:24:32 > 0:24:34of which country?

0:24:34 > 0:24:36Her husband Ziaur Rahman

0:24:36 > 0:24:40was a former independence fighter assassinated in 1981.

0:24:42 > 0:24:43- Bangladesh.- Correct.

0:24:46 > 0:24:48You get a set of bonuses on a composer.

0:24:48 > 0:24:52The Espana rhapsody and the operas L'etoile and Gwendoline

0:24:52 > 0:24:55are works by which French composer born in 1841?

0:25:02 > 0:25:04- Bizet?- Come on.- Bizet.

0:25:04 > 0:25:05No, it's Chabrier.

0:25:05 > 0:25:09What is the English sense of the title of Chabrier's Opera,

0:25:09 > 0:25:13Le Roi Malgre Lui, first performed in 1887?

0:25:13 > 0:25:15The King...

0:25:19 > 0:25:20Himself...

0:25:21 > 0:25:24The King himself?

0:25:24 > 0:25:25The King himself.

0:25:25 > 0:25:28No, it's The King In Spite Of Himself.

0:25:28 > 0:25:29Chabrier was the original owner

0:25:29 > 0:25:32of the painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergere

0:25:32 > 0:25:33by which of his contemporaries?

0:25:37 > 0:25:40French painter... Manet?

0:25:40 > 0:25:42- Manet.- Correct.

0:25:42 > 0:25:44Ten points for this. Answer promptly.

0:25:44 > 0:25:47In astronomy, how many degrees of apparent sky rotation

0:25:47 > 0:25:49is three hours of right ascension?

0:25:52 > 0:25:5390.

0:25:54 > 0:25:57No. Bristol, one of you buzz?

0:25:59 > 0:26:01- 45.- 45 is correct.

0:26:04 > 0:26:07These bonuses are on India, Bristol.

0:26:07 > 0:26:11What name is common to the Eastern and Western mountain ranges

0:26:11 > 0:26:14that together mark the approximate edges of the Deccan Plateau

0:26:14 > 0:26:16in southern India?

0:26:17 > 0:26:20- Erm...- Any idea?

0:26:20 > 0:26:22- No.- Come on.- The Himalayas.

0:26:24 > 0:26:26No! They're the Ghats.

0:26:26 > 0:26:28It's the other end of India.

0:26:28 > 0:26:31Mount Abu is a feature of the Aravalli Range.

0:26:31 > 0:26:34Running for several hundred kilometres south-west of Delhi,

0:26:34 > 0:26:36it lies substantially in which state?

0:26:36 > 0:26:38Gujarat?

0:26:38 > 0:26:40- Gujarat.- No, it's Rajasthan.

0:26:40 > 0:26:44The Siachen Glacier, close to the border between India and Pakistan

0:26:44 > 0:26:47is a feature of which mountain system, whose name means black rock?

0:26:47 > 0:26:49Black rock...

0:26:51 > 0:26:53Is it like Chiang Jiang?

0:26:53 > 0:26:56- What's the ones in China? - This is not in China, so...

0:26:56 > 0:26:59Oh... Oh, is not China?

0:26:59 > 0:27:00No this... Say the Himalayas.

0:27:00 > 0:27:03- Himalayas. - No, it's the Karakoram.- Oh!

0:27:03 > 0:27:05Ten points for this. Named after a monarch,

0:27:05 > 0:27:08which town is situated at the Great Glen Fault

0:27:08 > 0:27:10at the north-eastern end of Loch Linnhe?

0:27:10 > 0:27:14It's often a starting point of ascents of Ben Nevis.

0:27:15 > 0:27:17- Fort William? - Fort William is correct.

0:27:20 > 0:27:22Your bonuses are on chemistry, Bristol.

0:27:22 > 0:27:24In each case, give the formula of the named chemical.

0:27:24 > 0:27:27For example, tungsten carbide would be WC...

0:27:27 > 0:27:28GONG

0:27:31 > 0:27:34At the gong, Ulster University have 45,

0:27:34 > 0:27:36but Bristol have 205.

0:27:36 > 0:27:38Well, I'm afraid, Ulster,

0:27:38 > 0:27:39we're going to have to say goodbye to you -

0:27:39 > 0:27:42but never mind, thank you, you've been a fun team to have.

0:27:42 > 0:27:43Thank you very much for joining us.

0:27:43 > 0:27:48Bristol, congratulations, you get to do it again, you lucky things!

0:27:48 > 0:27:51I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match,

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

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

0:27:55 > 0:27:57It's goodbye from Bristol University...

0:27:57 > 0:27:59- Goodbye.- ..and it's goodbye from me, goodbye.

0:27:59 > 0:28:00APPLAUSE