0:00:17 > 0:00:20APPLAUSE
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. So far, we've seen St John's College, Cambridge,
0:00:31 > 0:00:35and Merton College, Oxford take the first two places
0:00:35 > 0:00:37in the semifinals of this competition.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40Both teams playing the Cambridge derby tonight
0:00:40 > 0:00:44lost their first quarterfinal matches, which means the winners
0:00:44 > 0:00:47will earn themselves one last chance to qualify,
0:00:47 > 0:00:50while the losers will clamber into their canoe
0:00:50 > 0:00:52to paddle across the Slough Of Despond
0:00:52 > 0:00:54and we shall see them no more. LAUGHTER
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Now, the team from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge,
0:00:56 > 0:00:58notched up two solid wins earlier
0:00:58 > 0:01:02against Leicester University, with 200 points to 105,
0:01:02 > 0:01:07and Magdalen College, Oxford, with 200 points - again - to 155.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10The wheel came off, though, during their first quarterfinal match
0:01:10 > 0:01:13against Merton College, Oxford,
0:01:13 > 0:01:17which left them trailing 270 points to 125 points.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20With a timely opportunity to recover their earlier form,
0:01:20 > 0:01:24an accumulated score of 525 and an average age of 20,
0:01:24 > 0:01:28let's meet the Fitzwilliam team for the fourth time.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31Hi, I'm Theo Tindall, I'm from Backwell near Bristol,
0:01:31 > 0:01:33and I'm studying Russian and Arabic.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36Hi, I'm Theo Howe, I'm from Forest Hill in Oxfordshire
0:01:36 > 0:01:38and I'm reading Japanese studies.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40This is their captain.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43Hello, I'm Hugh Oxlade, I'm from South Woodford in north-east London
0:01:43 > 0:01:44and I'm reading history.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49Hello, I'm Jack Maloney, I'm from Harpenden in Hertfordshire
0:01:49 > 0:01:50and I'm reading medicine.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53APPLAUSE
0:01:54 > 0:01:58Now, Emmanuel College, Cambridge lost their first quarterfinal match
0:01:58 > 0:02:02by 110 points to the 125 of the University of Edinburgh.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06But their earlier wins were against Saint Hugh's College, Oxford,
0:02:06 > 0:02:09in Round One by 170 to 155,
0:02:09 > 0:02:14and Strathclyde University by 170 to 105 in Round Two.
0:02:14 > 0:02:19With an accumulated score of 450 and an average age of 19,
0:02:19 > 0:02:21let's meet the Emmanuel team again.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23Hi, I'm Ed Derby, I'm from Manchester
0:02:23 > 0:02:25and I study physics.
0:02:25 > 0:02:26Hello, I'm Kitty Chevallier,
0:02:26 > 0:02:29I'm from Hampshire and I'm studying Arabic and Hindi.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31This is their captain.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34Hi, I'm Alex Mistlin, I'm from Islington in north London
0:02:34 > 0:02:37and I'm studying politics and international relations.
0:02:37 > 0:02:41Hi, I'm James Fraser, I'm from Bristol and I'm reading medicine.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44APPLAUSE
0:02:46 > 0:02:48OK. Straight into the first starter question.
0:02:48 > 0:02:52Fingers on the buzzers, please. Give both answers promptly.
0:02:52 > 0:02:56On August 30th 1889, which two authors
0:02:56 > 0:03:00did the US publisher Joseph Marshall Stoddart invite
0:03:00 > 0:03:02to dinner at the Langham Hotel?
0:03:02 > 0:03:04The meeting resulted in the commission of two books
0:03:04 > 0:03:06for Lippincott's magazine -
0:03:06 > 0:03:10The Sign Of Four and The Picture Of Dorian Gray.
0:03:11 > 0:03:13Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15Correct.
0:03:15 > 0:03:16APPLAUSE
0:03:18 > 0:03:21Your bonuses are on specific works that have been cited
0:03:21 > 0:03:24in support of the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
0:03:24 > 0:03:27In each case, give the author and the decade of the award.
0:03:27 > 0:03:32For example, The Forsyte Saga would give John Galsworthy, the 1930s.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36Firstly, Buddenbrooks, described by the Nobel committee
0:03:36 > 0:03:39as "one of the classic works of contemporary literature."
0:03:39 > 0:03:41- Thomas Mann.- Yeah.
0:03:41 > 0:03:45It's Thomas Mann, I think might have been '40s or '50s.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47- 1940s?- Or was it earlier than that? - I think earlier.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49- So '40s?- 1940s?
0:03:49 > 0:03:51- Not really sure. Go '40s.- 1940s?
0:03:51 > 0:03:53Thomas Mann, 1940s?
0:03:53 > 0:03:55No, it's Thomas Mann in the 1920s.
0:03:55 > 0:03:59Secondly, The History Of Rome, described as "the monumental work
0:03:59 > 0:04:03"of the greatest living master of the art of historical writing."
0:04:05 > 0:04:06Don't know.
0:04:07 > 0:04:11- It's not, like, one of the classic historians?- So, like, Gibbon?
0:04:11 > 0:04:14No, but this is the Nobel Prize, so Taylor or...?
0:04:14 > 0:04:16- Taylor, like 1950s?- Sure.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18Taylor, 1950s?
0:04:18 > 0:04:21No, it was Theodor Mommsen in the 1900s.
0:04:21 > 0:04:25And, finally, cited for its mastery of the art of narrative,
0:04:25 > 0:04:26The Old Man And The Sea.
0:04:26 > 0:04:30- So it's Hemingway.- Hemingway, 19... Think it was '50s.
0:04:30 > 0:04:31Hemingway, 1950s.
0:04:31 > 0:04:32Correct.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35APPLAUSE Ten points for this.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38In physics, what seven-letter term is used of collisions
0:04:38 > 0:04:41in which the total kinetic energy is conserved?
0:04:41 > 0:04:43- Elastic.- Elastic is correct.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46APPLAUSE
0:04:46 > 0:04:48These bonuses are on US presidents
0:04:48 > 0:04:50and England international footballers.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52LAUGHTER
0:04:52 > 0:04:55Firstly, what surname links the 28th US President,
0:04:55 > 0:04:57inaugurated in the early 20th century,
0:04:57 > 0:05:01with England's left back in the 1966 World Cup final?
0:05:01 > 0:05:04THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:05:04 > 0:05:07Yeah, it could be, actually. Or it could be...
0:05:07 > 0:05:09Taft, possibly?
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Wilson's more plausible, isn't it?
0:05:11 > 0:05:13- Wilson?- Wilson is correct.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15Woodrow Wilson and Ray Wilson.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18Secondly, the second given name of a post-war president,
0:05:18 > 0:05:21what is the surname of the England left back
0:05:21 > 0:05:25who played in two matches during the 2014 World Cup finals?
0:05:26 > 0:05:29So it's Shaw, isn't it?
0:05:29 > 0:05:32The second given name, so is that like a middle name or something?
0:05:32 > 0:05:34I don't... Shaw, possibly. Or... No.
0:05:34 > 0:05:35Baines?
0:05:35 > 0:05:38Baines is correct, yes. Lyndon Baines Johnson and Leighton Baines.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40And, finally, a more recent president
0:05:40 > 0:05:43has what second given name, which is also the surname
0:05:43 > 0:05:46of an England right back, who played three times
0:05:46 > 0:05:49at the European Championships in 2016?
0:05:49 > 0:05:50- Walker.- Walker is correct.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53APPLAUSE Kyle and George Walker Bush.
0:05:53 > 0:05:54Ten points for this.
0:05:54 > 0:05:58Geoffrey Chaucer wrote his early poem The Book Of The Duchess
0:05:58 > 0:06:01in memory of the wife of which royal figure
0:06:01 > 0:06:04whose patronage Chaucer enjoyed?
0:06:04 > 0:06:07The father of King Henry IV, he's often known by an epithet
0:06:07 > 0:06:10denoting the Flemish city of his birth.
0:06:11 > 0:06:12John of Gaunt.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14Correct.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17APPLAUSE
0:06:17 > 0:06:20Your bonuses are on geneticists, Fitzwilliam.
0:06:20 > 0:06:27The work of which two US scientists in the Neurospora crassa mould
0:06:27 > 0:06:30led to the "one gene, one enzyme" hypothesis?
0:06:30 > 0:06:34They shared the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37- Have you got anything on geneticists at all?- Absolutely nothing.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39LAUGHTER
0:06:39 > 0:06:41Let's not waste time, then. We don't know.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43It's Beadle and Tatum.
0:06:43 > 0:06:47Secondly, which US geneticist publicly derided chromosome theory
0:06:47 > 0:06:50for the lack of experimental evidence, and subsequently
0:06:50 > 0:06:54discovered sex-linked inheritance in fruit flies?
0:06:54 > 0:06:58He won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1933.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01You might know. He's big.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04- God, no, nothing.- No, sorry again.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06That's Morgan. Thomas Hunt Morgan.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09And, finally, which US geneticist pointed out in 1902
0:07:09 > 0:07:12that chromosomes obey Mendel's rules?
0:07:12 > 0:07:15He thus provided the basis for the chromosome theory of heredity,
0:07:15 > 0:07:19independently of the German cytologist Theodor Boveri.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:07:22 > 0:07:24I don't know.
0:07:24 > 0:07:25No, we don't know that either.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28That's Walter Sutton. Right, we're going to take a picture round.
0:07:28 > 0:07:29For your picture starter,
0:07:29 > 0:07:31you'll see an outline map of Europe
0:07:31 > 0:07:32with a number of cities marked.
0:07:32 > 0:07:35Ten points if you can give me the final letter
0:07:35 > 0:07:37that all their names share.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43- Z.- Z is correct, yes.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46Cadiz, Biarritz, Koblenz, Graz and Lodz.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49Right, your picture bonuses. Three more maps of Europe.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52Again, in each case, simply tell me the final letter
0:07:52 > 0:07:55common to the English names of all the cities marked.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57Firstly, for five.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00So that's Bordeaux.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02- X?- Yeah, Halifax, Bordeaux.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04- X?- X is correct.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07Halifax, Bordeaux, Montreux and Chamonix. Secondly...
0:08:10 > 0:08:12- Oh, V.- V, V ,V.- Kiev.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14- V.- V is correct.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17Kiev, Lviv and Kharkiv. And finally...
0:08:19 > 0:08:22- Er...W?- W?- Yeah, cos Moscow... - Yeah.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24- W?- W.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Glasgow, Warsaw, and so on.
0:08:26 > 0:08:27APPLAUSE Right, ten points for this.
0:08:27 > 0:08:33Which three successive letters of the alphabet follow the letters AL,
0:08:33 > 0:08:35the first in a word meaning
0:08:35 > 0:08:37the height of an aircraft above sea-level,
0:08:37 > 0:08:39the second naming a metal...
0:08:40 > 0:08:42T-U-V?
0:08:42 > 0:08:43T-U-V is correct, yes.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45APPLAUSE
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Right, you get a set of bonuses on figures of speech,
0:08:47 > 0:08:50with reference to the Monty Python Dead Parrot Sketch.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52LAUGHTER Firstly, for five points.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55Which expression in the Dead Parrot Sketch
0:08:55 > 0:08:58includes an alternative common name of the aster
0:08:58 > 0:09:00or composite family of plants?
0:09:02 > 0:09:05- Pine?- Pining for the fjords. - Oh, pining...?
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Pining for the fjords?
0:09:07 > 0:09:09- No, it's pushing up the daisies.- Oh.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11LAUGHTER
0:09:11 > 0:09:14Secondly, the expression "join the choir invisible"
0:09:14 > 0:09:17appears in the title of an 1867 poem by which author?
0:09:17 > 0:09:22Her novels include Daniel Deronda and Felix Holt, The Radical.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24- George Eliot.- Correct.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27The expression "shuffle off this mortal coil"
0:09:27 > 0:09:30appears in Act Three of which of Shakespeare's tragedies?
0:09:30 > 0:09:32- Hamlet.- Correct.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:09:34 > 0:09:35The orthography of which Romance language
0:09:35 > 0:09:40includes a dot known as a punt volat, or flown point?
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Similar in form to a decimal point,
0:09:42 > 0:09:47it occurs between two letter Ls to indicate a specific pronunciation.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50The language is the sole official language of Andorra.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54- Catalan.- Catalan is correct.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57APPLAUSE
0:09:57 > 0:10:00These bonuses are on Angevin queens of England.
0:10:00 > 0:10:05Firstly, in 1191, Berengaria of Navarre married which king?
0:10:05 > 0:10:06After their wedding in Cyprus,
0:10:06 > 0:10:10she accompanied him to Palestine during the Third Crusade.
0:10:10 > 0:10:11Richard Coeur de Lion.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13Correct.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15Married to King John when she was 12 years old,
0:10:15 > 0:10:18which Angevin queen effectively abandoned her children
0:10:18 > 0:10:22on her husband's death, to take up her inheritance in France?
0:10:22 > 0:10:24- Isabella of Angouleme.- Correct.
0:10:24 > 0:10:27Which Queen of France and later England was the mother-in-law
0:10:27 > 0:10:31of both Berengaria of Navarre and Isabella of Angouleme?
0:10:31 > 0:10:33Oh, is this going to be Eleanor of Aquitaine?
0:10:33 > 0:10:35- Possibly?- I have no idea.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37Eleanor of Aquitaine?
0:10:37 > 0:10:40Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:10:40 > 0:10:44In medicine, what term denotes an inadequate blood supply
0:10:44 > 0:10:46to a part of the body, for example the heart?
0:10:46 > 0:10:51An adjectival form of the term appears in the abbreviation TIA.
0:10:52 > 0:10:53Ischaemia.
0:10:53 > 0:10:58Ischaemia is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:10:58 > 0:11:00You get a set of bonuses on Icarus,
0:11:00 > 0:11:03the son of Daedalus in Greek mythology.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06Firstly, portraying the death of Icarus only as an incidental detail,
0:11:06 > 0:11:10the 16th-century painting Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus
0:11:10 > 0:11:13has generally been attributed to which Flemish artist?
0:11:13 > 0:11:15Bruegel the Elder.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17- Pieter Bruegel the Elder?- Correct.
0:11:17 > 0:11:22In his 1947 book, Jazz, which French artist portrayed Icarus
0:11:22 > 0:11:25as a simple black form against a royal blue background?
0:11:25 > 0:11:29- Matisse, isn't it?- Royal blue and all that.- Yeah.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31- Matisse?- Matisse is right.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33"I'm not the first or last
0:11:33 > 0:11:34"To stand on a hillock
0:11:34 > 0:11:36"Watching the man she married
0:11:36 > 0:11:37"Prove to the world
0:11:37 > 0:11:41"He's a total, utter, absolute Grade A pillock."
0:11:41 > 0:11:44Which poet wrote those lines reflecting on the myth of Icarus?
0:11:44 > 0:11:45- Carol Ann Duffy.- Correct.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48In The World's Wife. APPLAUSE
0:11:48 > 0:11:49Right, ten points for this.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52Treatise On Instrumentation And Orchestration
0:11:52 > 0:11:56was an influential work of 1844 by which French composer?
0:11:56 > 0:12:00His works include the comic opera Beatrice And Benedict,
0:12:00 > 0:12:02Grande Messe Des Morts,
0:12:02 > 0:12:04and the symphony Harold In Italy.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08- Berlioz.- Berlioz is correct.
0:12:08 > 0:12:10APPLAUSE
0:12:11 > 0:12:14You get a set of bonuses on astrophysics, Emmanuel.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16Which German physicist solved
0:12:16 > 0:12:18Einstein's equations of general relativity
0:12:18 > 0:12:21for a spherically symmetric mass distribution?
0:12:21 > 0:12:24In doing so, he predicted the existence of black holes.
0:12:26 > 0:12:27No idea.
0:12:29 > 0:12:30Schrodinger or something.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32It might be Schwarzschild.
0:12:32 > 0:12:33Nominate Derby.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35Schwarzschild.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37Yes, Karl Schwarzschild.
0:12:37 > 0:12:38The Schwarzschild radius
0:12:38 > 0:12:43measures the size of the event horizon of a nonrotating black hole.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46It's given what formula in terms of the gravitational constant, G,
0:12:46 > 0:12:50the mass of the hole, M, and the speed of light, c?
0:12:53 > 0:12:55No idea.
0:12:55 > 0:12:56Do you have any idea?
0:12:56 > 0:12:58Anything I can say?
0:12:59 > 0:13:03- (G ¸ (M x M)) x c. - Just say a number!
0:13:03 > 0:13:06- Nominate Derby. - (G ¸ (M x M)) x c.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09No, it's (2 x G x M) ¸ (c x c).
0:13:09 > 0:13:13And, finally, therefore, how does the density of a black hole change
0:13:13 > 0:13:16if its mass increases by a factor of ten?
0:13:16 > 0:13:18I'm going to need a precise answer.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21It...multiplies by 100.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25- Does it increase or decrease the mass?- Increase.
0:13:25 > 0:13:26So it increases by a factor of 100.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28It increases by a factor of 100.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30No, it falls by a factor of 100. GROANING
0:13:30 > 0:13:32Right, ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:13:32 > 0:13:34I need two answers here.
0:13:34 > 0:13:39In the mnemonic "Karl Marx gave the proletariat eleven zeppelins, yo,"
0:13:39 > 0:13:42if the words "Karl Marx" stand for kilo and mega,
0:13:42 > 0:13:46for what do the words "elevens zeppelins" stand?
0:13:48 > 0:13:50Zepta and eota?
0:13:50 > 0:13:53No. Anyone want to buzz from Emmanuel?
0:13:56 > 0:13:57Exa and zepta?
0:13:57 > 0:14:00I can't accept that. It's exa and zetta.
0:14:00 > 0:14:01Right, ten points for this.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04Which novel by Charles Dickens begins with the death
0:14:04 > 0:14:06of a wealthy shipping merchant's wife
0:14:06 > 0:14:08after giving birth to their second...?
0:14:08 > 0:14:10- Is it Dombey And Son? - It is Dombey And Son, yes.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12APPLAUSE
0:14:13 > 0:14:17These bonuses are on literary bad feeling, Fitzwilliam.
0:14:17 > 0:14:21The US novelist and essayist Gore Vidal had a long-standing feud
0:14:21 > 0:14:23with which fellow author?
0:14:23 > 0:14:27In 1971, he head-butted Vidal backstage
0:14:27 > 0:14:29during a recording of the Dick Cavett Show.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31Think it's Truman Capote.
0:14:31 > 0:14:32Truman Capote?
0:14:32 > 0:14:35No, it was Norman Mailer, prompting Norman Mailer to say...
0:14:35 > 0:14:38Prompting Vidal to say, "Once again, words failed Norman Mailer."
0:14:38 > 0:14:39LAUGHTER
0:14:39 > 0:14:42Vidal also had a long-standing feud with which author,
0:14:42 > 0:14:46born in 1924 in New Orleans, whom Vidal called
0:14:46 > 0:14:50"a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices"?
0:14:50 > 0:14:54Presumably this is Truman Capote, is it? Is that too late for him?
0:14:54 > 0:14:57- '24? Was that Harper?- But who did you think it was, though?
0:14:57 > 0:14:59I was just saying Harper, but Truman Capote, why not?
0:14:59 > 0:15:01Let's try Truman Capote again.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03That was Truman Capote, yes.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06Capote, in turn, condemned the jazz-influenced work
0:15:06 > 0:15:08of which US author and poet,
0:15:08 > 0:15:11saying of it, "That's not writing, that's typing?"
0:15:11 > 0:15:13- Kerouac.- Jack Kerouac?
0:15:13 > 0:15:14Correct.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of popular music.
0:15:20 > 0:15:23Ten points if you can give me the name of the band, please.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26'80s MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:36 > 0:15:37U2?
0:15:37 > 0:15:38U2 is correct.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40APPLAUSE
0:15:40 > 0:15:43They were named by the music critic Kelefa Sanneh
0:15:43 > 0:15:48as a band "often liked by adherents to 'rockism',
0:15:48 > 0:15:52"which is defined as the belief that white macho guitar music
0:15:52 > 0:15:55"is superior to all other forms of popular music."
0:15:55 > 0:15:59Your music bonuses are three guitar solos of a similar ilk.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02Firstly, name this band, described in Rolling Stone magazine
0:16:02 > 0:16:05as "hammering out one herculean riff after another."
0:16:05 > 0:16:07ROCK MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:10 > 0:16:12MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH
0:16:21 > 0:16:24Is it...AC/DC or...?
0:16:24 > 0:16:25AC/DC?
0:16:25 > 0:16:28Correct. Secondly, identify this artist.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31The music critic Dave Marsh claimed his music
0:16:31 > 0:16:32should "shake men's souls
0:16:32 > 0:16:36"and make them question the direction of their lives."
0:16:36 > 0:16:38NEW ROCK SONG PLAYS
0:16:41 > 0:16:43TEAM MEMBER LAUGHS
0:16:43 > 0:16:45MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH
0:16:47 > 0:16:48Solo artist?
0:16:51 > 0:16:53MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH
0:16:55 > 0:16:56Geoff Burch?
0:16:56 > 0:16:59No, that's Bruce Springsteen. And, finally, who's this?
0:16:59 > 0:17:02A Telegraph article claimed that they "weren't the greatest band
0:17:02 > 0:17:05"of all time, they were even better than that"!
0:17:07 > 0:17:09NEW ROCK SONG PLAYS
0:17:11 > 0:17:13MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH
0:17:16 > 0:17:19MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH
0:17:26 > 0:17:28Oasis?
0:17:28 > 0:17:30Good heavens, no! That's Led Zeppelin. LAUGHTER
0:17:30 > 0:17:33The immortal Stairway To Heaven. So, ten points for this.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35Listen carefully, answer promptly.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37If the eight major planets of the solar system
0:17:37 > 0:17:41and the first eight elements of the periodic table are both arranged
0:17:41 > 0:17:43in ascending order of mass,
0:17:43 > 0:17:45which planet is matched with lithium?
0:17:47 > 0:17:49Earth.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52No. Anyone want to buzz from Emmanuel?
0:17:52 > 0:17:53Venus.
0:17:53 > 0:17:54Venus is correct, yes.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56APPLAUSE
0:17:57 > 0:17:59So, you retake the lead thereon.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02Anthropologists, your bonuses.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05Born in Scotland in 1854, which anthropologist was
0:18:05 > 0:18:08a prominent scholar of mythology and comparative religion?
0:18:08 > 0:18:12- His most notable work is The Golden Bough.- Fraser!
0:18:12 > 0:18:14Nominate Fraser!
0:18:14 > 0:18:16Sir James Frazer?
0:18:16 > 0:18:17That's correct, yes.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:18:20 > 0:18:23Secondly, born in Philadelphia in 1901,
0:18:23 > 0:18:26which cultural anthropologist is noted for her work
0:18:26 > 0:18:30on adolescents in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific?
0:18:30 > 0:18:32Her publications include the much-debated
0:18:32 > 0:18:33Coming Of Age In Samoa.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35- Um...Margaret Mead? - Yeah, I'm not sure...
0:18:35 > 0:18:38- There's another one that I can't remember.- Shall we just say it?
0:18:38 > 0:18:39Margaret Mead?
0:18:39 > 0:18:42Correct. Born in 1908, which French anthropologist
0:18:42 > 0:18:46is noted for his development of the theory of structuralism?
0:18:46 > 0:18:49- Is this Foucault?- Probably. Or...- Could be Derrida.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51- Shall we say Foucault?- Yeah. - Foucault?
0:18:51 > 0:18:54That's Claude Levi-Strauss. Ten points for this.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56Which decade saw the publication
0:18:56 > 0:18:58of Blaise Pascal's Provincial Letters,
0:18:58 > 0:19:01James Harrington's Commonwealth of Oceana
0:19:01 > 0:19:04and Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan?
0:19:04 > 0:19:0716...40s.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10No, you lose five points. The last year of the decade saw
0:19:10 > 0:19:15the resignation of Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector of England.
0:19:15 > 0:19:161650s?
0:19:16 > 0:19:17Correct.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20APPLAUSE
0:19:20 > 0:19:23You get a set of bonuses, Fitzwilliam, on the periodic table.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26The naming of element 106 caused controversy
0:19:26 > 0:19:29because the team that discovered it suggested the name should
0:19:29 > 0:19:34reflect that of which chemist, who was still alive at the time?
0:19:34 > 0:19:38- Well, it is Seaborgium. Um...- OK, Seaborg, shall we say?
0:19:38 > 0:19:40Wait, did he say it's not... They want the actual...
0:19:40 > 0:19:42I think they succeeded, didn't they?
0:19:42 > 0:19:44So, let's say...Seaborg.
0:19:44 > 0:19:48Correct. Also named after a scientist alive at the time,
0:19:48 > 0:19:50what are the names of elements numbers 99 and 100
0:19:50 > 0:19:55discovered at the location of the first thermonuclear explosion
0:19:55 > 0:19:57in November, 1952?
0:19:58 > 0:20:02- That's Einstein and Fermi.- Do we need to name the elements, though?
0:20:02 > 0:20:04Oh, the elements, Einsteinium, Fermium.
0:20:04 > 0:20:05Einsteinium and Fermium?
0:20:05 > 0:20:09Correct. Give either the name of element 118
0:20:09 > 0:20:13or the surname of the living Russian nuclear physicist
0:20:13 > 0:20:17of Armenian descent after whom it was named in 2016.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20Yeah, so, the element is Oganesson.
0:20:20 > 0:20:21Oganesson?
0:20:21 > 0:20:22Correct.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25APPLAUSE
0:20:25 > 0:20:27Ten points for this. The Anvil Chorus
0:20:27 > 0:20:31and the Soldiers' Chorus feature in which...?
0:20:31 > 0:20:34- Um, Verdi operas, but... - HE SIGHS
0:20:34 > 0:20:35I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:20:35 > 0:20:40..feature in which opera first performed in Rome in 1853?
0:20:40 > 0:20:41Il trovatore.
0:20:41 > 0:20:42Correct.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44APPLAUSE
0:20:45 > 0:20:49You get a set of bonuses on extinct Indo-European languages,
0:20:49 > 0:20:50Emmanuel College.
0:20:50 > 0:20:54Lydian, Palaic and Hittite are extinct languages
0:20:54 > 0:20:57given a collective name after which peninsula?
0:20:57 > 0:21:00It comprises a large part of present-day Turkey.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02WHISPERING
0:21:02 > 0:21:03Um....
0:21:03 > 0:21:06Anatolia? I don't even know of a peninsula...
0:21:06 > 0:21:10Shall we say... Anatoly? Anatolic languages?
0:21:10 > 0:21:11I'll accept that, yes.
0:21:11 > 0:21:15Anatolia is the name I was looking for for the peninsula.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18Tocharian A and B are attested by Buddhist texts
0:21:18 > 0:21:21from the first millennium of the common era.
0:21:21 > 0:21:26They were spoken in the Tarim Basin in which present-day country?
0:21:26 > 0:21:27Tarim Basin...
0:21:27 > 0:21:29Buddhist, so it's going to be...
0:21:29 > 0:21:32- India?- Could be.
0:21:32 > 0:21:33India?
0:21:33 > 0:21:35No, they were in China.
0:21:35 > 0:21:39Sabine, Oscan and Volscian are extinct languages
0:21:39 > 0:21:42of which present-day European country?
0:21:42 > 0:21:45- Italy?- Do you reckon?- Mm, I don't know, I'm just going with Sabine.
0:21:45 > 0:21:48- As in, Rape Of The Sabine Women? - Well, that's all I'm going with!
0:21:48 > 0:21:49Italy?
0:21:49 > 0:21:52It is Italy, yes. We're going to take the second picture round now.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55For your picture starter, you're going to see a still from a film.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58For ten points, I want you to identify the name of the film
0:21:58 > 0:22:01and the actor on the right who also directed it.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Unforgiven and Clint Eastwood.
0:22:06 > 0:22:07Correct.
0:22:07 > 0:22:08APPLAUSE
0:22:10 > 0:22:13So, he directed and starred in Unforgiven.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16Your bonuses are stills from three more films whose directors
0:22:16 > 0:22:17also acted in them.
0:22:17 > 0:22:20Each film is preserved in the National Film Registry
0:22:20 > 0:22:22of the US Library Of Congress.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25Firstly, I want the full four-word title of this film
0:22:25 > 0:22:28and its director, seen here on the left.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32This Is Spinal Tap and Rob Reiner.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35This Is Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner?
0:22:35 > 0:22:38Correct. Secondly, again, the title of the film
0:22:38 > 0:22:41and the name of the actor and director.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Uh, is that Easy Rider?
0:22:46 > 0:22:48- Dennis Hopper?- Did he direct that?
0:22:48 > 0:22:49- Possibly.- OK.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52Easy Rider and Dennis Hopper?
0:22:52 > 0:22:56Correct. And, finally, title and actor-director again.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58Modern Times and Charlie Chaplin.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00Modern Times and Charlie Chaplin?
0:23:00 > 0:23:02Correct. Ten points for this.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04APPLAUSE
0:23:04 > 0:23:07In English grammar, opinion, size, age, shape, colour,
0:23:07 > 0:23:09origin and material
0:23:09 > 0:23:12is the most usual order of what...?
0:23:12 > 0:23:13Adjectives?
0:23:13 > 0:23:15Adjectives is correct, yes.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17APPLAUSE
0:23:17 > 0:23:19Right, you get a set of bonuses
0:23:19 > 0:23:22on the Messner version of the Seven Summits.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24That is, the highest mountains on each continent.
0:23:24 > 0:23:28In each case, name the peak from its geographical coordinates.
0:23:28 > 0:23:32Firstly, 63.07 degrees north,
0:23:32 > 0:23:35151 degrees west.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37So, it's... Asia? In Asia?
0:23:37 > 0:23:39Is that not Everest, then?
0:23:39 > 0:23:40Everest?
0:23:40 > 0:23:44No, that's Denali, McKinley in North America.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47Secondly, 43.35 degrees north,
0:23:47 > 0:23:5042.45 degrees east.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52Would that be Europe or Asia?
0:23:52 > 0:23:54God knows!
0:23:54 > 0:23:55- Shall we try...- Everest, I mean...
0:23:55 > 0:23:59- Is this...- Hmm?- Is this Europe?
0:23:59 > 0:24:02- So, Mont Blanc?- No, no, no. - What am I saying?- Just...Everest?
0:24:02 > 0:24:03Everest?
0:24:03 > 0:24:05No, it's Elbrus, Europe.
0:24:05 > 0:24:09And finally, 78.53 degrees south,
0:24:09 > 0:24:1185.62 degrees west.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13Is that Aconcagua?
0:24:13 > 0:24:15..South America, so Aconcagua?
0:24:15 > 0:24:17Aconcagua?
0:24:17 > 0:24:19No, that's the Vinson Massif in Antarctica.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22There are 3.5 minutes to go and there's ten points for this.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25The history of King Richard III was written in the 1510s
0:24:25 > 0:24:27by which statesman?
0:24:27 > 0:24:30From 1518, he served on Henry VIII's Privy Council,
0:24:30 > 0:24:33and later became Lord Chancellor.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Thomas Cromwell?
0:24:37 > 0:24:39No, anyone like to buzz from Emmanuel?
0:24:41 > 0:24:42Francis Bacon?
0:24:42 > 0:24:44No, it was Sir Thomas More.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46Ten points for this starter question.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49Talas, Jalal, Abad, Osh and Batken
0:24:49 > 0:24:51are among the oblast, or administrative regions,
0:24:51 > 0:24:54of which central Asian country?
0:24:54 > 0:24:55Kyrgyzstan?
0:24:55 > 0:24:56Kyrgyzstan is correct.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59APPLAUSE
0:24:59 > 0:25:00You get three bonuses on helium.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03"The helium capital of the world" is an epithet
0:25:03 > 0:25:05of which city in the Texas Panhandle?
0:25:05 > 0:25:08Its name is the Spanish word for the colour yellow.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10- SEVERAL:- Amarillo. - Amarillo?
0:25:10 > 0:25:11Amarillo is correct.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15The United States produces a large proportion of the world's helium,
0:25:15 > 0:25:18recovering it from what other specific product?
0:25:18 > 0:25:20And I need a two-word answer.
0:25:20 > 0:25:21HE GROANS
0:25:21 > 0:25:23It's a by-product of
0:25:23 > 0:25:25radioactive decay.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27Some sort of ore.
0:25:27 > 0:25:28Iron ore?
0:25:28 > 0:25:29Iron ore?
0:25:29 > 0:25:31- No, it's natural gas. ALL:- Ah!
0:25:31 > 0:25:35The helium in natural gas comes from radioactive decay.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37What term denotes particles
0:25:37 > 0:25:39that are the nucleus of a Helium-4 atom?
0:25:39 > 0:25:41Alpha particle.
0:25:41 > 0:25:42Alpha particle?
0:25:42 > 0:25:44Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:25:44 > 0:25:46I need a precise answer here.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49In the opening scene of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night,
0:25:49 > 0:25:52what seven words precede, "Play on, give me excess of it..."
0:25:55 > 0:25:56"If music be the food of love"?
0:25:56 > 0:25:58"If music be the food of love" is correct, yes.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01APPLAUSE
0:26:01 > 0:26:03These bonuses are on excursions.
0:26:03 > 0:26:07Who wrote the 1863 anthology Excursions, a series of essays
0:26:07 > 0:26:09that includes A Walk To Wachusett
0:26:09 > 0:26:11and Natural History Of Massachusetts?
0:26:13 > 0:26:14Mark Twain?
0:26:14 > 0:26:16No, it's Henry David Thoreau.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19The Steam Excursions is a short story by Charles Dickens
0:26:19 > 0:26:21that forms one of the so-called Tales
0:26:21 > 0:26:25in which collection known by a three-word name?
0:26:25 > 0:26:26Pass.
0:26:26 > 0:26:27They're Sketches By Boz.
0:26:27 > 0:26:31Which 1974 novel by Beryl Bainbridge describes a series of
0:26:31 > 0:26:34darkly comic events that occur during the annual excursion
0:26:34 > 0:26:37of a glass manufacturing company?
0:26:37 > 0:26:38Pass.
0:26:38 > 0:26:41That's The Bottle Factory Outing. Ten points for this.
0:26:41 > 0:26:45Curicta is the Latin name for which island off the coast of Croatia,
0:26:45 > 0:26:49noted for the discovery of the stone slab known as the Baska Tablet?
0:26:49 > 0:26:53It has a three-letter name that contains no vowels.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59Tyr?
0:26:59 > 0:27:02No, anyone want to buzz from Emmanuel?
0:27:03 > 0:27:05- Lys?- No, its Krk. Ten points for this.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08Lan Xang, or kingdom of the million elephants,
0:27:08 > 0:27:11was an early polity in which present-day country?
0:27:11 > 0:27:14It flourished from the 14th century until the 18th,
0:27:14 > 0:27:18and later became part of French Indochina.
0:27:18 > 0:27:20Thailand.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23No, anyone like to buzz from Fitzwilliam?
0:27:23 > 0:27:24Vietnam?
0:27:24 > 0:27:26No, it's Laos. Ten points for this.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29Rearranging the letters of the chemical formula for
0:27:29 > 0:27:32table salt gives what word, meaning a large...?
0:27:33 > 0:27:34Clan.
0:27:34 > 0:27:35Clan is correct.
0:27:35 > 0:27:36APPLAUSE
0:27:36 > 0:27:39Your bonuses now are on perpendicular Gothic architecture.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42In each case, name the county in which the following churches
0:27:42 > 0:27:46are located. Firstly, Tattersall, Thirlby and Louth.
0:27:46 > 0:27:47Uh, Lancashire?
0:27:47 > 0:27:48GONG BOOMS
0:27:48 > 0:27:49APPLAUSE
0:27:49 > 0:27:52At the gong, Emmanuel College, Cambridge have 150.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge have 175.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57APPLAUSE
0:27:57 > 0:28:01Well, that was a great game, and it was very, very close.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03And you very nearly took it, Emmanuel.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06Who knows what would have happened if we'd gone on another few minutes.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08Who can say? But thank you very much for joining us.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10We're going to have to say goodbye to you.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12Fitzwilliam, congratulations, you get another chance to
0:28:12 > 0:28:15stay in the competition, so many congratulations to you.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21But until then, it's goodbye from Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24- ALL:- Goodbye.- And it's goodbye from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27- ALL:- Goodbye.- And it's goodbye from me - goodbye.