0:00:17 > 0:00:20APPLAUSE
0:00:20 > 0:00:22University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24Asking the questions,
0:00:24 > 0:00:26Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Hello. The winners and losers in this quarterfinal stage
0:00:31 > 0:00:34of the competition are starting to make themselves known.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37After five matches, the team from Ulster University
0:00:37 > 0:00:38has said its final goodbye,
0:00:38 > 0:00:40but St John's College, Cambridge
0:00:40 > 0:00:44have taken the first of the four places in the semifinals,
0:00:44 > 0:00:47and whichever team wins tonight will join them there
0:00:47 > 0:00:51as both already have one quarterfinal victory behind them.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54The losers will return for a last chance to qualify.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Now, the team from Merton College, Oxford
0:00:56 > 0:00:58have an unblemished record so far.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01They dispatched King's College London in round one
0:01:01 > 0:01:04by 285 to 110, and then in round two,
0:01:04 > 0:01:08they rained on the parade of Oxford Brookes University,
0:01:08 > 0:01:11beating them by a margin of 255 to 175.
0:01:11 > 0:01:15Their first quarterfinal victory was at the expense of
0:01:15 > 0:01:17Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge,
0:01:17 > 0:01:19with 270 points to 125,
0:01:19 > 0:01:23so with an accumulated score of an impressive 810
0:01:23 > 0:01:25and an average age of 23,
0:01:25 > 0:01:29let's meet the Merton team for the fourth time.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32Hello. I'm Edward Thomas, I'm originally from Oxford,
0:01:32 > 0:01:33though I now live in Kent,
0:01:33 > 0:01:37and I'm reading ancient and modern history.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40Hello. I'm Alexander Peplow from Amersham in Buckinghamshire,
0:01:40 > 0:01:42and I'm reading for a masters in medieval studies.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44And here's their captain.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47Hello. I'm Leonie Woodland, I'm from Cambridge,
0:01:47 > 0:01:49and I'm reading physics.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52Hello. I'm Akira Wiberg, I'm from Sweden and Japan,
0:01:52 > 0:01:56and I'm reading for a doctorate in molecular and cellular medicine.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59APPLAUSE
0:02:00 > 0:02:04The team from Edinburgh University have a similarly spotless career
0:02:04 > 0:02:06but they like to cut it pretty fine.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08They beat Ulster University in round one
0:02:08 > 0:02:10by only a five-point margin,
0:02:10 > 0:02:12University College London in round two,
0:02:12 > 0:02:14again by a five-point margin,
0:02:14 > 0:02:16and Emmanuel College, Cambridge
0:02:16 > 0:02:20in their first quarterfinal by a scarcely more comfortable 15 points.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22Their accumulated score is 460,
0:02:22 > 0:02:24their average age is 22.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26Let's meet them again.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29Hi. I'm John, I'm from Edinburgh
0:02:29 > 0:02:31and I'm studying Russian and history.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Hi. I'm Stanley, I'm from Edinburgh,
0:02:33 > 0:02:37and I'm studying for an MSc in speech and language processing.
0:02:37 > 0:02:38And this is their captain.
0:02:38 > 0:02:43Hi. I'm Innes. I'm from Glasgow, and I'm doing a PhD in chemistry.
0:02:43 > 0:02:47Hi. I'm Phillipa. I'm from Oxford and I'm studying biology.
0:02:47 > 0:02:48APPLAUSE
0:02:51 > 0:02:53OK. No point in wasting time reciting the rules.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:56 > 0:03:00Who is the only person to have won both an Academy Award
0:03:00 > 0:03:02and a Nobel Prize?
0:03:02 > 0:03:04- George Bernard Shaw.- Correct.
0:03:07 > 0:03:11Three questions on Britain and Asia for the first set of bonuses.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14Firstly, seeking to extend its control
0:03:14 > 0:03:15and forestall Russian influence,
0:03:15 > 0:03:18Britain launched military expeditions against which country
0:03:18 > 0:03:22in 1839, 1878 and 1919?
0:03:22 > 0:03:24Afghanistan.
0:03:24 > 0:03:28Correct. In 1826 and 1852, Britain annexed portions of which country,
0:03:28 > 0:03:31finally subjugating it in a war of 1885?
0:03:31 > 0:03:36Upon independence in 1948, it declined to join the Commonwealth.
0:03:39 > 0:03:41Could it be Pakistan?
0:03:41 > 0:03:43Wasn't that '47?
0:03:43 > 0:03:44Um...
0:03:46 > 0:03:48- Burma. Burma?- Burma.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50Burma is correct.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53By the 1816 Treaty of Sugauli,
0:03:53 > 0:03:55which country agreed to receive a British resident
0:03:55 > 0:03:57with the status of an ambassador?
0:03:57 > 0:04:00As a result, it never became part of British India.
0:04:05 > 0:04:07Nepal, maybe?
0:04:07 > 0:04:09Is this a country?
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Yeah.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13China or Nepal?
0:04:13 > 0:04:14Nepal, they've got Gurkhas.
0:04:14 > 0:04:15- Nepal?- Yeah.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17Nepal.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Nepal is correct. 10 points for this.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23In molecular biology, what term denotes those proteins that assist
0:04:23 > 0:04:27newly synthesised proteins to fold into their...
0:04:27 > 0:04:29Chaperone proteins.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31Correct.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35Your bonuses this time, Merton, are on Russian literature.
0:04:35 > 0:04:39In each case, name the creator of the following characters.
0:04:39 > 0:04:43All three authors were born AND died during the 19th century.
0:04:43 > 0:04:47Firstly, Arkady Kirsanov, Fyodor Lavretsky
0:04:47 > 0:04:49and the sculptor Pavel Shubin.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53It's not Gorky.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56- Could be Turgenev.- Could have been.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58- Could be. It's not Tolstoy.- Yeah.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00Turgenev.
0:05:00 > 0:05:01Correct.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05Secondly, the merchant Kalashnikov, Maxim Maximych
0:05:05 > 0:05:08and Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12- Gogol?- Dostoevsky?
0:05:12 > 0:05:15Did he live into the 20th century, though?
0:05:15 > 0:05:17- Gorky did.- Say Gogol.
0:05:17 > 0:05:18Gogol.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21No, it's Lermontov.
0:05:21 > 0:05:27And finally, Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov and Rodion Raskolnikov.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29- That's Dostoevsky.- Dostoevsky.
0:05:29 > 0:05:31Correct. 10 points for this.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34Estimated to hold the world's largest reserves of bauxite,
0:05:34 > 0:05:38which country, in 1958, became the first independent...
0:05:40 > 0:05:41Oh. Australia.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46..became the first independent francophone state
0:05:46 > 0:05:47in Sub-Saharan Africa?
0:05:47 > 0:05:50It shares borders with five other coastal countries,
0:05:50 > 0:05:55including Senegal, Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57Ghana.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59No, Ghana's not francophone.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01It's Guinea.
0:06:01 > 0:06:02Right, ten points for this.
0:06:02 > 0:06:07What name and regnal number link the King of Navarre, known as the Bad,
0:06:07 > 0:06:10the holy Roman emperor known as the Bald,
0:06:10 > 0:06:13the last Habsburg King of Spain, known as the Bewitched,
0:06:13 > 0:06:17and the British King, whose accession in 1660
0:06:17 > 0:06:19marked the restoration...
0:06:19 > 0:06:22- II.- Name?- James.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24No, you lose five points.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26- Anyone like to buzz... - Charles II.
0:06:26 > 0:06:28Charles II is correct, yes.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32A set of bonuses this time for you, Merton College,
0:06:32 > 0:06:36on Danish scientists. I need an 11-letter answer here.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38In 1897, Bernhard Lauritz Bang
0:06:38 > 0:06:42discovered a causative agent of which contagious zoonotic disease,
0:06:42 > 0:06:47known in humans as undulant or Malta fever?
0:06:47 > 0:06:48Brucellosis.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50- Nominate Wiberg.- Brucellosis.
0:06:50 > 0:06:51Correct.
0:06:51 > 0:06:56In 1920, August Krogh was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine
0:06:56 > 0:07:00for his discovery of the motor regulating mechanism
0:07:00 > 0:07:02of which minute blood vessels
0:07:02 > 0:07:05that bridge between arterial and venous circulation.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07Capillaries, presumably.
0:07:07 > 0:07:08Yeah. Probably, bridging.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Capillaries.
0:07:10 > 0:07:11Correct.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13In the early 20th century, Johannes Schmidt discovered
0:07:13 > 0:07:18that European eels migrate to which area of the North Atlantic to spawn?
0:07:18 > 0:07:21It takes its name from a genus of free-floating seaweed.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23It's the Sargasso Sea.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25- Sargasso?- Yeah.
0:07:25 > 0:07:26- The Sargasso Sea.- Correct.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29We're going to take a picture round now.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31For your picture starter, you'll see
0:07:31 > 0:07:34the flag of a large administrative subdivision of a country.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36For ten points, I want you
0:07:36 > 0:07:39to name that national subdivision.
0:07:40 > 0:07:41Alaska.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43Alaska is correct.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48Now, if Alaska were an independent nation,
0:07:48 > 0:07:52it would displace Iran as the world's 18th-largest country.
0:07:52 > 0:07:57Your picture bonuses are the flags of three more sub-national polities,
0:07:57 > 0:08:00all of which would be amongst the 20 largest countries in the world,
0:08:00 > 0:08:02if independent.
0:08:02 > 0:08:03Firstly, for five points,
0:08:03 > 0:08:05this sub-national division.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07If independent, it would supplant Mexico
0:08:07 > 0:08:10as the 14th-largest country in the world.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15THEY CONFER
0:08:15 > 0:08:16- Nunavut.- Correct.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19Secondly, this sub-national division, if independent,
0:08:19 > 0:08:22it would find itself just behind India
0:08:22 > 0:08:25as the world's eighth-largest country.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27Where could that be?
0:08:27 > 0:08:29It might be Russia.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31I'm just trying to think of really big places.
0:08:31 > 0:08:36I'd be inclined to go for the Sakha Republic.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Shall we just try that?
0:08:38 > 0:08:39The Sakha Republic.
0:08:39 > 0:08:40Correct.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43And finally, this sub-national division that, if independent,
0:08:43 > 0:08:46would be the world's 10th-largest state,
0:08:46 > 0:08:48being slightly smaller than Kazakhstan.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51Oh, that's Western Australia, isn't it?
0:08:51 > 0:08:52Yeah.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54Western Australia.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Correct. Ten points for this.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59From the Urdu for veil or curtain,
0:08:59 > 0:09:01what word is used...
0:09:01 > 0:09:03Purda.
0:09:03 > 0:09:04Purda is correct, yes.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10Three questions on British theatre directors for your bonuses,
0:09:10 > 0:09:14Merton College. Born in 1925, which theatre director and producer
0:09:14 > 0:09:16is noted for his productions of Shakespeare,
0:09:16 > 0:09:20the first of which he directed at the age of 20?
0:09:20 > 0:09:24He later directed epic works, such as the 1985 Mahabharata.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29- Can you remember...?- Directors?
0:09:29 > 0:09:31Um...
0:09:31 > 0:09:33Polanski?
0:09:33 > 0:09:36- Polanski.- He's not British. - No, it's Peter Brook.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39Who, in 2013, became the first female artistic director
0:09:39 > 0:09:41of the Royal Court Theatre?
0:09:41 > 0:09:43She was a founder of the National Theatre of Scotland,
0:09:43 > 0:09:46where she commissioned the award-winning play Black Watch.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50- Any idea?- No.- We don't know.
0:09:50 > 0:09:51That was Vicky Featherstone.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55And finally, which former director of both the RSC
0:09:55 > 0:09:56and the National Theatre
0:09:56 > 0:09:59formed his own production company in 1988,
0:09:59 > 0:10:02staging The Merchant Of Venice with Dustin Hoffman,
0:10:02 > 0:10:06and Coward's Hay Fever with Dame Judi Dench?
0:10:08 > 0:10:13- What was the theatre director...? Trevor Nunn.- Yeah. Go for it.
0:10:13 > 0:10:14Trevor Nunn.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16No. It was Sir Peter Hall.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18Ten points for this.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21A special case of interference within thin films,
0:10:21 > 0:10:25what optical phenomenon is often used in the quality control
0:10:25 > 0:10:26of optical surfaces?
0:10:26 > 0:10:29It's observed when light falls on a spherical surface
0:10:29 > 0:10:32that's in contact with a flat surface,
0:10:32 > 0:10:36and appears as concentric alternating bright and dark rings.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42Lens flare.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44No. Anyone like to buzz from Merton College?
0:10:44 > 0:10:46Newton's rings.
0:10:46 > 0:10:47Correct.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53You get bonuses on US philosophers, Merton College.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56Born in 1839, the US philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce
0:10:56 > 0:11:00is generally held to be the founder of which school of philosophy?
0:11:00 > 0:11:02It states that an idea can be understood in terms
0:11:02 > 0:11:05of its real-life consequences.
0:11:05 > 0:11:06Pragmatism.
0:11:06 > 0:11:07Pragmatism.
0:11:07 > 0:11:11Correct. In the 1903 work Studies In Logical Theory,
0:11:11 > 0:11:14which US philosopher put forward a former pragmatism
0:11:14 > 0:11:16known as instrumentalism?
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Oh... That was Dewey.
0:11:18 > 0:11:19Dewey.
0:11:19 > 0:11:20Correct.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23Pragmatism, A New Name For Some Old Ways Of Thinking
0:11:23 > 0:11:26is a 1907 work by which philosopher,
0:11:26 > 0:11:28the brother of a major novelist?
0:11:28 > 0:11:30- William James.- I need his given name and surname.
0:11:30 > 0:11:31William James.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34Correct. Ten points for this.
0:11:34 > 0:11:38In 1924, to whom did the publisher Geoffrey Faber write,
0:11:38 > 0:11:42"What will impress my directors favourably..."
0:11:42 > 0:11:43TS Eliot.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45TS Eliot is correct.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50These bonuses are on our constellation, Merton College.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53The Ancient Greek constellation of Argo Navis
0:11:53 > 0:11:55comprises three modern constellations -
0:11:55 > 0:11:58Vela, representing the sails,
0:11:58 > 0:11:59Puppis the stern,
0:11:59 > 0:12:01and which other, representing the keel?
0:12:01 > 0:12:06The same word refers to a ridge on the breastbone of a bird.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12- I don't know what this is. - Dorsal maybe?
0:12:12 > 0:12:14That's not a constellation.
0:12:14 > 0:12:15That's the wrong side.
0:12:15 > 0:12:16Sternum.
0:12:16 > 0:12:18No, it's Carina.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21The white giant Canopus in the constellation Carina
0:12:21 > 0:12:25is the second-brightest star in the night sky when viewed from Earth,
0:12:25 > 0:12:29and is named after a helmsman of which figure of the Trojan War?
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Is that Achilles?
0:12:34 > 0:12:36Odysseus?
0:12:36 > 0:12:37Helmsman.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39Or...
0:12:39 > 0:12:42No, Odysseus would make sense because...
0:12:42 > 0:12:44Odysseus.
0:12:44 > 0:12:45No, it's Menelaus.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48What two-word name is commonly given to the feature formed by two
0:12:48 > 0:12:52stars in Carina and two stars in Vela that, because of its shape,
0:12:52 > 0:12:55is sometimes confused with the constellation Crux?
0:12:59 > 0:13:00Is it Lyra?
0:13:00 > 0:13:02- That is a constellation.- OK.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05Is it a cross? Is it the Southern Cross?
0:13:05 > 0:13:09- No. He just said it is confused with...- Anything else?
0:13:09 > 0:13:12We don't know.
0:13:12 > 0:13:13It's the False Cross.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15Ten points for this.
0:13:15 > 0:13:21In 1946, the letter O vanished, and the letters E-W were changed to a U
0:13:21 > 0:13:24in the name of what commercial product,
0:13:24 > 0:13:28launched in 1901 by the Falkirk and Glasgow-based Barr family?
0:13:30 > 0:13:32Irn-Bru.
0:13:32 > 0:13:34Irn-Bru, of course.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38Doubtless made you what you are. LAUGHTER
0:13:38 > 0:13:42Right, your bonuses are on female authors with male pen names.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44The so-called "rustic novels",
0:13:44 > 0:13:47La Mare Au Diable, Francois Le Champi
0:13:47 > 0:13:52and La Petite Fadette are about love transcending class and convention.
0:13:52 > 0:13:56They're among works of which 19th-century French writer?
0:13:56 > 0:13:59- A pseudonym.- I've no idea.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02- Just say that. Say the pseudonym. - What were you saying?
0:14:02 > 0:14:05- I've no idea. - What were you saying?
0:14:05 > 0:14:08I don't know what her pseudonym was.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10- I can't... I nominate you.- No!
0:14:10 > 0:14:11- I don't know.- I thought...
0:14:11 > 0:14:14- Never mind.- We don't know. Sorry.
0:14:14 > 0:14:15It was George Sand.
0:14:15 > 0:14:19Born in 1832, which US author wrote sensationalist stories under
0:14:19 > 0:14:22the pseudonym AM Barnard
0:14:22 > 0:14:26before finding fame with children's books published under her real name
0:14:26 > 0:14:28and based on her own childhood?
0:14:29 > 0:14:33Would that be LM Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables? I don't know.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35- Yeah.- LM Montgomery.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38No, it's Louisa May Alcott.
0:14:38 > 0:14:42Finally, born Helen Lyndon Goff in 1899,
0:14:42 > 0:14:44which Australian-born writer is best known for a series
0:14:44 > 0:14:47of children's books about a nanny?
0:14:52 > 0:14:53It's not Mary Poppins, is it?
0:14:53 > 0:14:56- I've no idea. Who wrote that? - That's something Travers.
0:14:56 > 0:14:57Travers.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59Initials, please?
0:14:59 > 0:15:01- Oh, no!- PL.- PL?
0:15:01 > 0:15:03- PL Travers.- Correct.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07Right, we're going to take a music round.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09For your music starter, you'll hear part of an opera.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12Ten points if you can identify its composer.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15OPERATIC MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:26 > 0:15:27Britten.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30No. Anyone like to buzz from Merton?
0:15:30 > 0:15:32MUSIC RESUMES
0:15:40 > 0:15:42Bizet?
0:15:42 > 0:15:46No. That was the Witches' Chorus from Verdi's Macbeth.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48So ten points for this.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51From 1976, the military junta in which country
0:15:51 > 0:15:52conducted a violent campaign
0:15:52 > 0:15:55of suppression against left-wing opponents...
0:15:55 > 0:15:57Is it Chile?
0:15:57 > 0:15:59No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01..such as the Montoneros?
0:16:01 > 0:16:05Commonly known as the Dirty War, it came to an end following a...
0:16:05 > 0:16:06Argentina.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08Argentina is correct.
0:16:11 > 0:16:12So you failed to identify
0:16:12 > 0:16:14the Witches' Chorus from Verdi's Macbeth,
0:16:14 > 0:16:17but your music bonuses are three more classical pieces
0:16:17 > 0:16:19evoking witches or witchcraft.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22Firstly, for five, the original Russian composer of this piece,
0:16:22 > 0:16:25here arranged for a full orchestra.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:31 > 0:16:33Musorgsky.
0:16:33 > 0:16:37It is Musorgsky. Secondly, this Spanish composer.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:48 > 0:16:51THEY CONFER
0:16:59 > 0:17:00De Falla.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03It is De Falla, yes. It's the Ritual Fire Dance.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06And finally, this French composer.
0:17:06 > 0:17:10ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:17:22 > 0:17:24THEY CONFER
0:17:24 > 0:17:26Berlioz.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29Berlioz, part of the Symphonie Fantastique.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32OK. Ten points for this.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34What is the inverse of the SI derived unit,
0:17:34 > 0:17:37whose name is a homophone of the third person singular
0:17:37 > 0:17:40of a verb meaning to cause pain?
0:17:45 > 0:17:48Capacitance.
0:17:48 > 0:17:49No.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56Second.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58Second is correct, yes.
0:18:00 > 0:18:01Well worked out.
0:18:01 > 0:18:05Your bonuses are on pairs of place names, Merton College,
0:18:05 > 0:18:08in which the final letters of the first name begin the second.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11For example, Dewsbury and Bury St Edmunds.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14In each case, give both names from the descriptions.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17Firstly, the city that gives its name to the 1569 union
0:18:17 > 0:18:19of Poland and Lithuania,
0:18:19 > 0:18:23and the capital of the US state of Nebraska.
0:18:23 > 0:18:24Lublin and Lincoln.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26Lublin and Lincoln.
0:18:26 > 0:18:27Correct.
0:18:27 > 0:18:31Secondly, a large Polish city between Berlin and Warsaw,
0:18:31 > 0:18:34and a former capital of China on the Yangtze.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37The latter is now the capital of Jiangsu province.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42Poznan... Oh, Poznan and Nanking.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44Poznan and Nanking.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47That's correct. And finally, a major Polish seaport,
0:18:47 > 0:18:50and the capital of Macedonia.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56Gdansk and Skopje.
0:18:56 > 0:18:57Gdansk and Skopje.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00Correct. Ten points for this.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03The Elements Of Ethics by Hierocles,
0:19:03 > 0:19:06the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
0:19:06 > 0:19:08and The Discourses Of Epictetus...
0:19:08 > 0:19:11Stoicism.
0:19:11 > 0:19:12Stoicism is correct.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17Your bonuses are on scientific terms.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19In each case, name the term from the description.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22All three begin with the same four-letter prefix.
0:19:22 > 0:19:26Firstly, coined by Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy,
0:19:26 > 0:19:29to designate orthodox medical treatment,
0:19:29 > 0:19:33what term comes from the Greek for "other than the disease"?
0:19:33 > 0:19:36THEY CONFER
0:19:41 > 0:19:43No, but its prefix.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Four-letter prefix?
0:19:46 > 0:19:47Don't know.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49We don't know.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51- It's allopathy.- Oh.
0:19:51 > 0:19:55And secondly, what term denotes the regulation of a protein's function,
0:19:55 > 0:19:58structure and/or flexibility through the binding of a molecule
0:19:58 > 0:20:01at a site other than the active site?
0:20:01 > 0:20:03Allo something.
0:20:11 > 0:20:14Sorry. My mind's gone blank.
0:20:14 > 0:20:15Allocytic?
0:20:15 > 0:20:17No.
0:20:17 > 0:20:18Just go with it.
0:20:18 > 0:20:19Allocytic.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21No, it's allosteric regulation.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24Finally, what term denotes the phenomenon of biological scaling,
0:20:24 > 0:20:26or the study thereof?
0:20:26 > 0:20:29It concerns the change in organisms in relations to proportional
0:20:29 > 0:20:31changes in size.
0:20:31 > 0:20:32Allometry.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Allometry.
0:20:34 > 0:20:35Correct.
0:20:35 > 0:20:36Right, a picture round now.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39For your picture starter, you're going to see an illustration.
0:20:39 > 0:20:43For ten points, I want you to identify the artist, please.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45Durer.
0:20:46 > 0:20:47No.
0:20:49 > 0:20:50Dore.
0:20:50 > 0:20:51No, it's Arthur Rackham.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53So picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56Ten points at stake for this starter question. Listen carefully.
0:20:56 > 0:21:00To drive from Canada to Mexico, one must pass through at least
0:21:00 > 0:21:05three US states - for example, Washington, Oregon and California.
0:21:05 > 0:21:09Which state appears in the other four three-state combinations,
0:21:09 > 0:21:13this being the result of its characteristic panhandle?
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Oklahoma.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19No. Anyone want to buzz from Edinburgh?
0:21:21 > 0:21:23Texas.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26No, it's Idaho. Ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:21:26 > 0:21:31In botany, what six-letter term denotes the part of a plant's stamen
0:21:31 > 0:21:33that produces and contains pollen?
0:21:33 > 0:21:35Anther.
0:21:35 > 0:21:36Anther is correct, yes.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42All of you failed to identify one of Arthur Rackham's illustrations
0:21:42 > 0:21:44of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47For your bonuses, you're going to see
0:21:47 > 0:21:49three more of those illustrations
0:21:49 > 0:21:52and five points in each case if you can identify the character depicted.
0:21:52 > 0:21:54Firstly...
0:22:00 > 0:22:01Siegfried.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04It is Siegfried, yes. Secondly...
0:22:08 > 0:22:10Brunnhilde.
0:22:10 > 0:22:11It is Brunnhilde.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14And finally, how are these characters collectively known?
0:22:14 > 0:22:18Are they the...
0:22:18 > 0:22:21- It's the German equivalent of that kind of thing.- Loreleis?
0:22:21 > 0:22:23It's one of those mermaid things.
0:22:23 > 0:22:24OK.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26Loreleis.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28- They're the Rhinemaidens.- OK.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30Ten points for this.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33120 days separate the dates of birth
0:22:33 > 0:22:36of which two British prime ministers,
0:22:36 > 0:22:40the 100th anniversaries of which fell in March and July 2016?
0:22:40 > 0:22:43The two were in office from 1964 to '76.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45Wilson and Heath.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47Correct.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52These bonuses are on dogs in art.
0:22:52 > 0:22:56Born in 1955, which US artist is known for his production
0:22:56 > 0:22:59of large stainless-steel balloon animals?
0:22:59 > 0:23:03His balloon dog Orange sold for 58 million in 2013.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05- Jeff Koons.- Correct.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08Commissioned by Sir Joseph Banks and depicting a dingo,
0:23:08 > 0:23:11Portrait Of A Large Dog is by which English artist?
0:23:11 > 0:23:14It's one of the first depictions of an Australian animal
0:23:14 > 0:23:16in Western art.
0:23:16 > 0:23:17No idea.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19I've no idea.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23Try...Reynolds.
0:23:23 > 0:23:24Reynolds.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26It was George Stubbs.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28And finally, the US artist CM Coolidge
0:23:28 > 0:23:32is noted for producing a series of much-reproduced oil paintings,
0:23:32 > 0:23:35known collectively by what three-word title,
0:23:35 > 0:23:38referring to a leisure activity?
0:23:38 > 0:23:40Dogs Playing Poker.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42Correct. Four minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:23:42 > 0:23:46Which county follows Kerry, Donegal, Mayo and Galway,
0:23:46 > 0:23:48being in ascending order of area,
0:23:48 > 0:23:51the five largest counties of the Republic of Ireland?
0:23:53 > 0:23:55Mayo.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58No. Anyone like to buzz from Merton College?
0:23:58 > 0:24:00Kildare.
0:24:00 > 0:24:01No, it's Cork.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03Ten points for this.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:24:05 > 0:24:09The number 2001 in ternary,
0:24:09 > 0:24:13or base three, corresponds to which...
0:24:13 > 0:24:1428.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17No. ..to which decimal number? You lose five points.
0:24:21 > 0:24:2255.
0:24:22 > 0:24:23Correct.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28You get a set of bonuses on the Roman historian
0:24:28 > 0:24:31Ammianus Marcellinus.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34Ammianus's surviving books begin 17 years after
0:24:34 > 0:24:35the death of Constantine the Great
0:24:35 > 0:24:38and continue until the Battle of Adrianople.
0:24:38 > 0:24:43Give any of the three decades that this covers in part or in whole.
0:24:44 > 0:24:48Constantine dies in, what, 315?
0:24:48 > 0:24:50When did Constantine die?
0:24:50 > 0:24:52360s?
0:24:52 > 0:24:54- 360s.- 360s.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56360s.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59That will do, yes. The 350s and 370s are the others.
0:24:59 > 0:25:03"Experience had taught him that no wild beasts are such
0:25:03 > 0:25:07"dangerous enemies to man as Christians are to one another."
0:25:07 > 0:25:10Ammianus said this of which emperor,
0:25:10 > 0:25:12known as the Apostate?
0:25:12 > 0:25:13Julian? Julian.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15Correct.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18Writing in the late 18th century, which historian described Ammianus
0:25:18 > 0:25:21as "an accurate and faithful guy"?
0:25:21 > 0:25:23- Gibbon.- Gibbon.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26Gibbon is right. Ten points for this.
0:25:26 > 0:25:30The sculptor Edward Hodges Baily and the architect William Railton
0:25:30 > 0:25:33are now chiefly remembered for which London landmark,
0:25:33 > 0:25:35erected in the early 1840s?
0:25:38 > 0:25:40The statue of Eros.
0:25:40 > 0:25:41No.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45One of you buzz from Edinburgh?
0:25:47 > 0:25:49Nelson's Column.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51Nelson's Column is correct!
0:25:53 > 0:25:54Your bonuses this time, Edinburgh,
0:25:54 > 0:25:57are on the scientific names of plants and animals.
0:25:57 > 0:26:01The common name of the British bird Aegithalos caudatus
0:26:01 > 0:26:04suggests it's a member of the tit family.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07"Caudatus" refers to what distinctive part of its body?
0:26:07 > 0:26:08What does "cauda" mean?
0:26:08 > 0:26:11Cauda is like a bone of some kind of the spine.
0:26:11 > 0:26:12In your back.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14Its back. Spiny back.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16- It's its tail.- Right.
0:26:16 > 0:26:20The plant Hypericum hirsutum, the woodpecker Picoides villosus
0:26:20 > 0:26:23and the bat Artibeus hirsutus
0:26:23 > 0:26:26all what have what adjective in their common names?
0:26:26 > 0:26:27Hairy, hirsutus?
0:26:27 > 0:26:28Try it.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30Hairy.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33Hairy is correct. The sea animals in the genus Hippocampus
0:26:33 > 0:26:36and the bat species Rhinolophus hipposideros
0:26:36 > 0:26:39both have the name of what mammal name in their common name?
0:26:39 > 0:26:41- Horse.- Horse.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43Correct. Ten points for this.
0:26:43 > 0:26:48The US physicists Lee, Osheroff and Richardson won the 1996 Nobel Prize
0:26:48 > 0:26:51for their discovery of super-fluidity in what isotope?
0:26:54 > 0:26:55Helium-3.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57Correct.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Your bonuses are on artists. In each case,
0:27:01 > 0:27:04name the monarch of England or Great Britain
0:27:04 > 0:27:07whose lifetime corresponded most nearly to that of the artist
0:27:07 > 0:27:08or artists given.
0:27:08 > 0:27:12Firstly, Andrea Mantegna and Sandro Botticelli.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15THEY CONFER
0:27:21 > 0:27:23I think we'd better have an answer, please.
0:27:23 > 0:27:24- Henry VI.- Henry VI.
0:27:24 > 0:27:28No, it's Henry VII. Secondly, Jan Vermeer.
0:27:32 > 0:27:33- Come on!- Charles I.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35Charles I.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37No, it's Charles II. GONG CRASHES
0:27:37 > 0:27:39And at the gong, Edinburgh have got 85
0:27:39 > 0:27:41but Merton College, Oxford have 210.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43APPLAUSE
0:27:43 > 0:27:45Well, it's not a disaster, Edinburgh.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48You can come back and have another go at it next time.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50We shall look forward to seeing you again.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53Merton, many congratulations to you. It's a very impressive performance.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56We shall look forward to seeing you in the semifinals.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match
0:27:59 > 0:28:02but until then, it's goodbye from Edinburgh University...
0:28:02 > 0:28:05- ALL:- Goodbye.- ..it's goodbye from Merton College, Oxford...
0:28:05 > 0:28:08- ALL:- Goodbye. - ..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10APPLAUSE