0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:29Hello.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Two more teams of almost irritatingly clever young people
0:00:32 > 0:00:36are playing each other tonight, with a place in the second round
0:00:36 > 0:00:38for whichever team can outwonk the other.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41The losers may earn the chance to play again if they are among the
0:00:41 > 0:00:45four highest-scoring losing teams from these first round matches.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47Now, St Edmund's College, Cambridge,
0:00:47 > 0:00:49hasn't been seen in this competition since 2004.
0:00:49 > 0:00:54It was founded in the late 19th century after the repeal of the
0:00:54 > 0:00:58Universities Tests Act in 1871, which allowed Roman Catholics
0:00:58 > 0:01:01to take up fellowships for the first time since the Reformation.
0:01:01 > 0:01:05The team modestly tells us that no-one of any note goes to
0:01:05 > 0:01:08St Edmund's, but research reveals that previous Eddies include
0:01:08 > 0:01:11the former Leader of the House of Commons, Norman St John-Stevas,
0:01:11 > 0:01:13and Father Georges Lemaitre,
0:01:13 > 0:01:16widely acknowledged as the father of the Big Bang theory.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20The college has a policy of taking students over the age of 21,
0:01:20 > 0:01:23and tonight's team has an average age of 25,
0:01:23 > 0:01:26representing around 470 students.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28Let's meet the St Edmund's team.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31Hi, I'm Zou Tangsheng from Singapore,
0:01:31 > 0:01:34and I study Chemical Engineering.
0:01:34 > 0:01:36Hi, I'm Alex Knight-Williams from Putney,
0:01:36 > 0:01:37and I am studying Mathematics.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39And this is their captain.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41Hello, I'm Seb Motala from London,
0:01:41 > 0:01:42and I'm reading Economics.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45And I'm Ryan Blank, from San Jose, California,
0:01:45 > 0:01:47and I'm reading History.
0:01:47 > 0:01:49APPLAUSE
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Now, Magdalen College, Oxford dates back to the mid-15th century,
0:01:55 > 0:01:57and at the time of its foundation,
0:01:57 > 0:01:59it was the largest College in Oxford.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01The author and the theologian, CS Lewis,
0:02:01 > 0:02:05and the historian AJP Taylor were fellows there, and former students
0:02:05 > 0:02:09include Oscar Wilde, John Betjeman, and more recently, Ian Hislop.
0:02:09 > 0:02:13The team tell us their selection process involved blind auditions,
0:02:13 > 0:02:14a gruelling boot camp,
0:02:14 > 0:02:17and a gladiatorial death match on the buzzer.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19Let's see if it pays off for them.
0:02:19 > 0:02:23With an average age of 20, representing around 570 students
0:02:23 > 0:02:26at an institution which has won this competition four times,
0:02:26 > 0:02:28let's meet the Magdalen team.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30Hi, I'm Winston Wright from Seattle, Washington,
0:02:30 > 0:02:33and I study Computer Science.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35Hi, I'm Christopher Stern from Dulwich in London,
0:02:35 > 0:02:36and I'm reading chemistry.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38And this is their captain.
0:02:38 > 0:02:39Hello there. I'm Johnny Gibson.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42I'm from Glasgow in Scotland, and I'm studying history.
0:02:42 > 0:02:46Hi, I'm Sara Parkin, I'm from Hinckley in Leicestershire,
0:02:46 > 0:02:48and I'm reading English and French.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50APPLAUSE
0:02:52 > 0:02:54Well, you all know the rules, of course.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57Ten points for starters, 15 points for bonuses,
0:02:57 > 0:03:01starters are individual efforts, bonuses are team efforts.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04Ten points at stake, then, for the first starter for ten.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Fingers on the buzzers.
0:03:06 > 0:03:11More than 1,500km in length, Rio Solimoes is a name given to
0:03:11 > 0:03:13the upper portion of which major river?
0:03:13 > 0:03:16Its brown, muddy waters join the darker waters of
0:03:16 > 0:03:19the Rio Negro near the city of Manaus.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23- Amazon.- Correct.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25APPLAUSE
0:03:26 > 0:03:28St Edmund's, you get the first set of bonuses.
0:03:28 > 0:03:30They're on educational philosophy.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33Firstly, in 1837, the German educator, Friedrich Frobel,
0:03:33 > 0:03:36founded what type of infant school,
0:03:36 > 0:03:40now the first unit of elementary school in the US?
0:03:40 > 0:03:41Kindergarten.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43- Kindergarten?- Correct.
0:03:43 > 0:03:45Born in the Austrian Empire in 1861,
0:03:45 > 0:03:47which philosopher founded the Waldorf School movement,
0:03:47 > 0:03:50based on his ideas of anthroposophy?
0:03:57 > 0:03:58Any philosophers?
0:04:01 > 0:04:02No. We'll just pass.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04That was Rudolf Steiner.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07And finally, born in 1870, which Italian educator originated
0:04:07 > 0:04:12an eponymous educational system that uses self-directed activities
0:04:12 > 0:04:14and self-correcting materials?
0:04:14 > 0:04:16Nominate Zou.
0:04:16 > 0:04:17Montessori.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Maria Montessori is correct.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:04:21 > 0:04:25Sometimes described as the most famous Kurd in history,
0:04:25 > 0:04:29which Muslim ruler overthrew the Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt,
0:04:29 > 0:04:33and in 1187, recaptured Jerusalem after...?
0:04:33 > 0:04:34Saladin?
0:04:34 > 0:04:37Saladin is right, yes. APPLAUSE
0:04:38 > 0:04:42Your bonuses, Magdalen College, are on sleep in Shakespeare.
0:04:42 > 0:04:45Firstly, for five, the final speech of which play by Shakespeare
0:04:45 > 0:04:47invites the audience to consider they may have been asleep
0:04:47 > 0:04:49rather than watching a stage production?
0:04:49 > 0:04:51- Is it A Midsummer Night's Dream? - Yeah, it must be.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53- A Midsummer Night's Dream.- Correct.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55Shakespeare used the word sleep most frequently in A Midsummer
0:04:55 > 0:04:58Night's Dream, and in which of his tragedies, in which it is
0:04:58 > 0:05:01said to knit up the ravell'd sleeve of care?
0:05:01 > 0:05:02Macbeth.
0:05:02 > 0:05:05Correct - who murders sleep, of course, famously.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09In which of Shakespeare's tragedies does the main antagonist describe
0:05:09 > 0:05:12"a kind of men so loose of soul, that in their sleeps
0:05:12 > 0:05:15"will mutter their affairs?"
0:05:15 > 0:05:17Othello, maybe? Could that be something...?
0:05:17 > 0:05:18I don't recognise that verse.
0:05:18 > 0:05:19OK, erm, Othello?
0:05:19 > 0:05:21Othello is correct, yes.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23APPLAUSE
0:05:23 > 0:05:25Ten points for this.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28Born in Vienna in 1902, who proposed the paradox of tolerance,
0:05:28 > 0:05:32namely that unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance
0:05:32 > 0:05:36of tolerance? The argument appears in the 1945 work,
0:05:36 > 0:05:38The Open Society And Its Enemies.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40Karl Popper.
0:05:40 > 0:05:41Karl Popper is correct.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43APPLAUSE
0:05:43 > 0:05:47A set of bonuses on physics in the 1970s for you guys.
0:05:47 > 0:05:52The 1971 Nobel Prize for physics was awarded to the Hungarian-born
0:05:52 > 0:05:54Dennis Gabor for his invention of what technique?
0:05:54 > 0:05:58It utilises the interference between two parts of a split laser beam
0:05:58 > 0:06:01to produce a photographic image without a lens.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03- Holography.- Correct.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07Burton Richter and Samuel Ting shared the 1976
0:06:07 > 0:06:11Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the J/psi particle.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13This heavy particle proved the existence of what?
0:06:13 > 0:06:16I think it's the charm quark. Charm quark.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19- Charm quarks. - Charm quark is correct.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22In 1974, the first Nobel Prize in physics to be given for
0:06:22 > 0:06:26astronomical research was awarded jointly to Anthony Hewish
0:06:26 > 0:06:28and which fellow radio astronomer?
0:06:28 > 0:06:32He held the post of Astronomer Royal at the time of the award.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Erm... I'm lost.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37- Martin Reece. - No, it's Sir Martin Ryle.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39- Oh!- Ten points for this.
0:06:39 > 0:06:43Reconstructed in 1907, the Great Mosque of Djenne is part of a
0:06:43 > 0:06:46World Heritage site in which West African country?
0:06:48 > 0:06:49Mali.
0:06:49 > 0:06:50Mali is correct, yes.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53APPLAUSE
0:06:53 > 0:06:57These bonuses are on fathers and sons in Greek legend, St Edmund's.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00In different accounts, who was variously killed, lamed,
0:07:00 > 0:07:03or struck blind by a thunderbolt, for revealing
0:07:03 > 0:07:06that the goddess Aphrodite was the mother of his son, Aeneas?
0:07:08 > 0:07:10THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:07:12 > 0:07:15Anchises.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17OK.
0:07:17 > 0:07:18- Anchises.- Correct.
0:07:18 > 0:07:22Which sea takes its name from the father of Theseus? He flung himself
0:07:22 > 0:07:26from the Acropolis when Theseus forgot to raise a sign
0:07:26 > 0:07:28to show he had returned alive from killing the Minotaur?
0:07:28 > 0:07:30- Aegean Sea.- Correct.
0:07:30 > 0:07:34And finally, for five points, during The Sack of Troy, which son of
0:07:34 > 0:07:37Achilles and Deidamia killed King Priam at an altar?
0:07:37 > 0:07:40He later took Hector's wife as his concubine.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:07:44 > 0:07:45Ayat.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47No, it's Pyrrhus.
0:07:47 > 0:07:48Ten points for this.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51In logic, the symbol of a double-headed horizontal arrow,
0:07:51 > 0:07:54or three horizontal lines, indicates...
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Congruence.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01..a bi-conditional logical connective between statements,
0:08:01 > 0:08:05also represented by the written abbreviation, IFF.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07For what does the abbreviation stand?
0:08:09 > 0:08:10If and only if.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12If and only if is correct.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14APPLAUSE
0:08:14 > 0:08:16Another set of bonuses for you, St Edmund's.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18They are on birdsong in music.
0:08:18 > 0:08:22Born in 1908, which French composer and ornithologist is noted
0:08:22 > 0:08:25for incorporating birdsong into many of his compositions?
0:08:25 > 0:08:30Examples include Chronochromie and Catalogue d'oiseaux.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33- Messiaen?- What's that?- Messiaen.
0:08:33 > 0:08:34Messiaen.
0:08:34 > 0:08:35Messiaen is correct.
0:08:35 > 0:08:39Described as "A concerto for taped birdsong and orchestra,"
0:08:39 > 0:08:42Cantus Arcticus is a 1972 work
0:08:42 > 0:08:45by which composer, born in Helsinki in 1928?
0:08:52 > 0:08:54- Sibelius.- No, it's Rautavaara.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57First performed in 1808, which symphony includes a cadenza
0:08:57 > 0:09:00in which woodwind instruments are used to represent
0:09:00 > 0:09:03the calls of the nightingale, the quail, and the cuckoo?
0:09:06 > 0:09:07Beethoven?
0:09:08 > 0:09:10Are we going with Beethoven?
0:09:11 > 0:09:14- Beethoven.- Beethoven's...?
0:09:15 > 0:09:17Which one? Come on.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19- Sixth Symphony.- Sixth Symphony.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21Sixth is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:09:21 > 0:09:23Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25For your picture starter, you're going to see a short quotation
0:09:25 > 0:09:27in French. For ten points,
0:09:27 > 0:09:30please tell me the philosopher to whom it is attributed.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34- Voltaire.- Voltaire is correct.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37"If God did not exist, then we would have to invent him."
0:09:37 > 0:09:38APPLAUSE
0:09:38 > 0:09:40Right, three more short quotation from French philosophers for
0:09:40 > 0:09:43your bonuses, then, Magdalen, all in the original language.
0:09:43 > 0:09:44In each case, for five points,
0:09:44 > 0:09:47simply identify the philosopher in question.
0:09:47 > 0:09:48Firstly, for five, who wrote this?
0:09:51 > 0:09:53Oh, was that Pascal?
0:09:53 > 0:09:56- Pascal. - It is Pascal, Blaise Pascal,
0:09:56 > 0:09:58"If you win, you win everything, if you lose, you lose nothing."
0:09:58 > 0:10:00That's his wager, famously. Secondly...
0:10:03 > 0:10:09- "When I play with my cat..." Who played with cats?- Who was that?
0:10:09 > 0:10:10Who knows...?
0:10:14 > 0:10:16- STERN:- I've no idea.
0:10:16 > 0:10:17- PARKIN:- It's not Sartre.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19Descartes.
0:10:19 > 0:10:20No, that was Montaigne.
0:10:20 > 0:10:24"When I play with my cat, how do I know she is not playing with me?"
0:10:24 > 0:10:25Finally, who is this?
0:10:28 > 0:10:30- Oh, that's Simone de Beauvoir. - Oh, yes, of course it is.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32- Simone de Beauvoir.- It is, yes. "One is not born,
0:10:32 > 0:10:34"but rather becomes a woman. APPLAUSE
0:10:34 > 0:10:35Ten points for this.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38Which lower case Greek letter represents in biochemistry
0:10:38 > 0:10:41a protein implicated in neurodegenerative diseases
0:10:41 > 0:10:44like Alzheimer's, in particle physics, a charge lepton
0:10:44 > 0:10:46with a mass of 1,700...?
0:10:49 > 0:10:52- Vu?- No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:10:52 > 0:10:56..1,777 mega electron volts, and in mechanics, torque?
0:10:59 > 0:11:01- Tau.- Tau is correct, yes.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04APPLAUSE
0:11:04 > 0:11:06Right, a set of bonuses this time
0:11:06 > 0:11:08on the Mayfair district of London, Magdalen.
0:11:08 > 0:11:13Based in Mayfair, which organisation was founded in 1799 for diffusing
0:11:13 > 0:11:15the knowledge and the application of science
0:11:15 > 0:11:17for the common purposes of life?
0:11:17 > 0:11:19- Royal Society? - Go for it, might as well do.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21- Royal Society. - No, it's the Royal Institution.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24The Royal Society is a 17th century foundation.
0:11:24 > 0:11:28Secondly, supposedly located in Mayfair's Dover Street,
0:11:28 > 0:11:31which members-only club appears in novels by PG Wodehouse, and has
0:11:31 > 0:11:35been described as "Arguably the best-loved London club in fiction"?
0:11:35 > 0:11:37- The Drones Club.- Correct.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40And finally, which area of central Mayfair features in the title of
0:11:40 > 0:11:43a popular romantic song, covered by, among others,
0:11:43 > 0:11:44Vera Lynn and Nat King Cole?
0:11:44 > 0:11:47Berkeley Square, A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square.
0:11:47 > 0:11:48Berkeley Square.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50Berkeley Square is correct - a nightingale sang there.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52APPLAUSE
0:11:52 > 0:11:53Right, ten points for this.
0:11:53 > 0:11:57From the tenth century, Fulk the Red, Fulk the Good, Fulk the Black,
0:11:57 > 0:11:59and Fulk the Surly were among counts
0:11:59 > 0:12:02of which historical region of France?
0:12:02 > 0:12:05A term derived from the region's name was later given to
0:12:05 > 0:12:07the empire ruled by Henry II of England.
0:12:11 > 0:12:12Er... Anjou?
0:12:12 > 0:12:14Anjou is correct, yes.
0:12:14 > 0:12:15APPLAUSE
0:12:17 > 0:12:21Here are your bonuses - they are on stereoisomers in chemistry.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24Firstly, what term is commonly used for each of the two stereoisomers
0:12:24 > 0:12:26that are mirror images of each other,
0:12:26 > 0:12:29but are non-superimposable, and thus not identical?
0:12:29 > 0:12:32- Enantiomers.- Sorry?- Enantiomers.
0:12:32 > 0:12:33Nominate Zou.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35- Enantiomers.- That's correct, yes.
0:12:35 > 0:12:39What term describes an equimolar mixture of two enantiomers,
0:12:39 > 0:12:42that does not exhibit optical activity?
0:12:43 > 0:12:44Racemic.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47- Racemic.- Racemic mixture, correct.
0:12:47 > 0:12:51And depending on how they rotate, plain polarised light,
0:12:51 > 0:12:55enantiomers may be classified as D or L isomers.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57For what to the letters D and L stand?
0:12:57 > 0:13:00Dextro- and levoro-.
0:13:00 > 0:13:02Dextro- and levoro-.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04It's dextro- and levo-rotatory.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07- Is that what you said? - No, I just gave the prefix.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10OK, fair enough. I can't give you the points, then.
0:13:10 > 0:13:11Ten points for this.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14Of interest in part because they can be used to constrain the change
0:13:14 > 0:13:17of fundamental constraints over time, examples of what type of
0:13:17 > 0:13:21power source, operated at over 15 separate sites,
0:13:21 > 0:13:24about two billion years ago, within oil deposits
0:13:24 > 0:13:26in Oklo in Gabon?
0:13:26 > 0:13:28Nuclear fission.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31Nuclear fission reactors is correct, yes.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33APPLAUSE
0:13:33 > 0:13:37These bonuses are on Spanish cities and their patron saints.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40Firstly, martyred in the third century, Justa and Rufina
0:13:40 > 0:13:44are the patron saints of which Andalusian city?
0:13:44 > 0:13:46They are often depicted with the city's Giralda Tower
0:13:46 > 0:13:48as one of their attributes.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51Seville? Might be Seville.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54- I was thinking Grenada. - That would make sense.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57- Could be...- Go for what you said.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59- Seville.- Seville is correct.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02The Cathedral of which Mediterranean seaport is dedicated to
0:14:02 > 0:14:05St Eulalia, who was martyred in around 300
0:14:05 > 0:14:07during the last wave of Roman persecution?
0:14:07 > 0:14:09Could be, like, Cadiz, that's a seaport.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12Is that Mediterranean? I thought it was the south coast.
0:14:12 > 0:14:15Oh... Do we have anything better?
0:14:15 > 0:14:17- Cadiz?- No, it's Barcelona.
0:14:17 > 0:14:21St Leocadia is a patron saint of which city in Castille,
0:14:21 > 0:14:24at one time the capital of the Visigothic Kingdom?
0:14:24 > 0:14:26Oh, wait... What would that have been?
0:14:28 > 0:14:32- It is relatively central. - Segovia?- Go for it.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35- Segovia?- No, it's Toledo.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37Right, we are going to take a music round now.
0:14:37 > 0:14:39For your music starter, you're going to hear an excerpt
0:14:39 > 0:14:42from a film score. Ten points if you can identify its composer.
0:14:43 > 0:14:47EERIE MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:56 > 0:14:58Is it Maurice Jarre?
0:14:58 > 0:15:00No. You can hear a little more, St Edmund's.
0:15:00 > 0:15:04MUSIC BUILDS
0:15:09 > 0:15:10Hans Zimmer.
0:15:10 > 0:15:11No, it's John Barry.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14We are going to take the music bonuses in a moment or two, then,
0:15:14 > 0:15:17and ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20What common surname links the first US president to be impeached,
0:15:20 > 0:15:22the first female pilot...?
0:15:22 > 0:15:24- Johnson.- Johnson is correct, yes.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27APPLAUSE
0:15:27 > 0:15:30So, lucky old you, Magdalen - you get the music bonuses.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32That music you heard was by John Barry.
0:15:32 > 0:15:34It was the theme to Out Of Africa.
0:15:34 > 0:15:38He is the only composer to have won a Golden Raspberry Award for
0:15:38 > 0:15:41the Worst Musical Score, and then gone on to win the Academy Award
0:15:41 > 0:15:44for the Best Original Score for a different film.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47All three composers coming up have also been nominated for
0:15:47 > 0:15:50a Golden Raspberry, but you will hear an excerpt from the score
0:15:50 > 0:15:51which won them an Oscar.
0:15:51 > 0:15:55Firstly, who composed this, from a film released in 1976?
0:15:56 > 0:15:58OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:58 > 0:15:59Oh, that's from The Omen.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02Is it by...? It might be Jerry Goldsmith.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04- If you say so. - Is it Julie Goldsmith?
0:16:04 > 0:16:07It is Jerry Goldsmith - that was from The Omen, yes, well done.
0:16:07 > 0:16:11Secondly, who was the composer for this film, released in the 2010s?
0:16:11 > 0:16:14EXCITING MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:16 > 0:16:19MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH
0:16:20 > 0:16:23THAT could be Hans Zimmer.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26Possibly? Yeah?
0:16:26 > 0:16:28- Hans Zimmer? - No, that is Ennio Morricone.
0:16:28 > 0:16:32That was the theme from Quentin Tarantino's 2015 film,
0:16:32 > 0:16:33The Hateful Eight.
0:16:33 > 0:16:37And finally, who composed this, from a film released in 1978?
0:16:37 > 0:16:40DISCO MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:43 > 0:16:46- What film is this?- I don't know.
0:16:49 > 0:16:50I've no idea.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Not a clue.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02Erm... What was that?
0:17:02 > 0:17:04Kraftwerk.
0:17:04 > 0:17:05No, that's Giorgio Moroder.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07That was from Midnight Express.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09So, ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11Listen carefully, then answer promptly.
0:17:11 > 0:17:15"My brother is an aficionado of oolong tea."
0:17:15 > 0:17:19Give the dictionary spelling of the word...
0:17:19 > 0:17:21O-O-L-O-N-G.
0:17:21 > 0:17:22No, you lose five points.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24..of the word "Aficionado" in this sentence.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26LAUGHTER
0:17:28 > 0:17:30One of you buzz, come on!
0:17:30 > 0:17:32A-F-F-I...
0:17:32 > 0:17:34No, it's one F.
0:17:34 > 0:17:35Aficionado.
0:17:37 > 0:17:38Oolong, you are quite right.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Right, ten points for this starter question.
0:17:42 > 0:17:47After the English calico printer, who discovered it in 1844,
0:17:47 > 0:17:50what term denotes the process in which cotton yarns and fabrics
0:17:50 > 0:17:54under tension are treated with aqueous sodium hydroxide
0:17:54 > 0:17:56in order to increase their lustre?
0:18:01 > 0:18:03Bleaching?
0:18:03 > 0:18:05No - anyone like to buzz from St Edmund's?
0:18:08 > 0:18:09Immersion.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11No, it's mercerisation.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13Ten points for this, then.
0:18:13 > 0:18:17What initial letter links the names of countries that border Azerbaijan,
0:18:17 > 0:18:21Pakistan, Kuwait, Papua New Guinea, and the United Kingdom?
0:18:23 > 0:18:24I.
0:18:24 > 0:18:25I is correct.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27APPLAUSE
0:18:30 > 0:18:33These bonuses are on music, St Edmund's.
0:18:33 > 0:18:38Which US composer's landmark 1964 work, In C, has no fixed duration,
0:18:38 > 0:18:42and starts with the note C played repeatedly in a steady rhythm?
0:18:43 > 0:18:46- Cage?- Who's this?
0:18:46 > 0:18:47John Cage.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49- John Cage.- No, it's Terry Riley.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52Terry Riley is among those to have written works for
0:18:52 > 0:18:54which influential string quartet, founded by
0:18:54 > 0:18:58the violinist David Harrington in Seattle in 1973?
0:19:01 > 0:19:03Emerson String Quartet?
0:19:03 > 0:19:04- You happy with it?- Sure.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06Emerson String Quartet.
0:19:06 > 0:19:07No, it's the Kronos Quartet.
0:19:07 > 0:19:12And finally, the Kronos Quartet's 1988 album, Winter Was Hard,
0:19:12 > 0:19:15includes works by Terry Riley and a recording of the
0:19:15 > 0:19:181977 composition, Fratres,
0:19:18 > 0:19:21written without fixed instrumentation, by which composer?
0:19:23 > 0:19:26- Stockhausen.- Nominate Zou.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29- Stockhausen.- No, it's Arvo Part.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31Right, another starter question now.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34The only words uttered by the title character
0:19:34 > 0:19:36of which narrative poem of 1842 are,
0:19:36 > 0:19:41"I am half sick of shadows, and the curse is come upon me"?
0:19:43 > 0:19:44The Lady Of Shalott.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Correct.
0:19:46 > 0:19:48APPLAUSE
0:19:48 > 0:19:51These bonuses, Magdalen, are on British armies in India.
0:19:51 > 0:19:55In 1751, Robert Clive captured the Fortress of Arcot
0:19:55 > 0:19:58on the route between Bangalore and which other
0:19:58 > 0:20:03present-day Indian state capital on the Coromandel Coast?
0:20:03 > 0:20:07- How are you on state capitals? - Not too good.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09Oh, it could be. Possibly.
0:20:09 > 0:20:10Hyderabad.
0:20:10 > 0:20:14No, it's Chennai, or Madras, as it was then.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Secondly, the capital of Uttar Pradesh,
0:20:16 > 0:20:19which city was the scene of a notable siege of 1857
0:20:19 > 0:20:22during the Indian Rebellion or Mutiny?
0:20:22 > 0:20:23It's possible that could be Hyderabad.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26Oh, no. I tell you what it is - it's Lucknow.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28Lucknow.
0:20:28 > 0:20:29Lucknow is correct.
0:20:29 > 0:20:34The capitals of Nagaland and Manipur gave their names to battles of 1944
0:20:34 > 0:20:38that became a springboard for the 14th Army's reconquest of Burma.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40Name either battle.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44THEY CONFER
0:20:50 > 0:20:52We don't know.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54They're Kohima and Imphal.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59For your picture starter, you'll see a distinctive cultural artefact
0:20:59 > 0:21:03made during which particular Chinese dynasty?
0:21:06 > 0:21:07Ming.
0:21:07 > 0:21:08Ming is correct, yes.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11APPLAUSE
0:21:11 > 0:21:12Following on from that Ming vase,
0:21:12 > 0:21:17three more iconic cultural artefacts from particular Chinese dynasties.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19Again, simply name the relevant dynasty.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21You may give the usual English spelling
0:21:21 > 0:21:23if you're unsure of the pronunciation.
0:21:23 > 0:21:24Firstly, this object.
0:21:26 > 0:21:27I think it's quite modern.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30- No, I think it's quite old.- Old.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32THEY CONFER
0:21:35 > 0:21:37- Nominate Blank.- Oh, dear!
0:21:37 > 0:21:39Han.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41Han is correct. Yes. The Eastern Han.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45Secondly, this ritual vessel.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50THEY CONFER
0:21:55 > 0:21:57We'll go for the Qing dynasty.
0:21:57 > 0:21:58No, it's the Shang dynasty.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01And finally, during which dynasty were these objects made?
0:22:04 > 0:22:06THEY CONFER
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Nominate Zou.
0:22:09 > 0:22:10Qin.
0:22:10 > 0:22:11That is the Qin dynasty, yes.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13APPLAUSE
0:22:13 > 0:22:14Right, ten points for this.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17What five-letter word was used in the mid-19th century
0:22:17 > 0:22:19to mean a lucky stroke in billiards,
0:22:19 > 0:22:21and can now mean a parasitic flatworm,
0:22:21 > 0:22:23a part of an anchor,
0:22:23 > 0:22:25or a surprising twist of fortune?
0:22:28 > 0:22:30Fluke.
0:22:30 > 0:22:31Fluke is correct, yes.
0:22:31 > 0:22:34APPLAUSE
0:22:34 > 0:22:38These bonuses, which could give you the lead, are on chemistry.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40Firstly, also known as the oxo process,
0:22:40 > 0:22:43hydroformylation involves the addition
0:22:43 > 0:22:47of carbon monoxide and hydrogen to an alkene
0:22:47 > 0:22:49to form what organic compounds?
0:22:49 > 0:22:50Alcohols.
0:22:50 > 0:22:51Alcohols.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53No, it's aldehydes.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56Secondly, an aldehyde reacted with a Grignard reagent
0:22:56 > 0:22:57will produce an alcohol.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00What metal is used to make a Grignard reagent?
0:23:04 > 0:23:05Magnesium.
0:23:05 > 0:23:06No, wait...
0:23:07 > 0:23:11- I did this last year. - LAUGHTER
0:23:11 > 0:23:12Magnesium.
0:23:12 > 0:23:13Magnesium.
0:23:13 > 0:23:14Magnesium is correct.
0:23:14 > 0:23:18What alcohol would be formed by the oxidation of formaldehyde?
0:23:22 > 0:23:23Ethanol.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25Ethanol.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27No, it's methanol. Four and a half minutes to go.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29Ten points for this. In astronomy, what two-word term
0:23:29 > 0:23:31denotes the time taken for the sun
0:23:31 > 0:23:33to return to the same position in the sky...?
0:23:35 > 0:23:36Sidereal day.
0:23:36 > 0:23:39No. You lose five points.
0:23:39 > 0:23:40..to return to the same position in the sky
0:23:40 > 0:23:43with reference to the background of fixed stars?
0:23:49 > 0:23:50Solar year.
0:23:50 > 0:23:51It's a sidereal year.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57The third meridian west crosses the Firth of Forth
0:23:57 > 0:23:59just to the east of Edinburgh.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01In which county does it meet the English Channel
0:24:01 > 0:24:03at a point on the Jurassic coast?
0:24:05 > 0:24:06Dorset.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09Anyone like to buzz from St Edmunds'?
0:24:09 > 0:24:11East Sussex.
0:24:11 > 0:24:12No, it's Devon.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14It is next door to Dorset, of course.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17Right, another starter question now.
0:24:17 > 0:24:18A little larger than Scotland,
0:24:18 > 0:24:22what is the most sparsely populated US state east of the Mississippi?
0:24:22 > 0:24:25Its highest point is Mount Katahdin,
0:24:25 > 0:24:28the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33Maine.
0:24:33 > 0:24:34Maine is correct, yes.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36APPLAUSE
0:24:37 > 0:24:41Your bonuses now are on Italian neorealist cinema, Magdalen.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44Directed by Vittorio De Sica,
0:24:44 > 0:24:47which 1948 film concerns a father and son's search for their...?
0:24:47 > 0:24:48Bicycle Thieves.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50Bicycle Thieves is correct.
0:24:50 > 0:24:52Which director's war trilogy
0:24:52 > 0:24:54began with a 1945 film - Rome, Open City - followed...?
0:24:54 > 0:24:56- Rossellini.- Rossellini is correct.
0:24:56 > 0:25:01And finally, Luchino Visconti's 1942 film Ossessione
0:25:01 > 0:25:04was an adaptation of which novel by James M Cain?
0:25:04 > 0:25:06The Postman Always Rings Twice.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09The Postman Always Rings Twice is right.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11APPLAUSE Another starter question.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15Used in photography, which yellowish, light-sensitive compound
0:25:15 > 0:25:18has the chemical formula...?
0:25:18 > 0:25:19Silver iodide.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21No, you lose five points.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24..has the chemical formula AgBr?
0:25:25 > 0:25:27Silver bromide.
0:25:27 > 0:25:28Silver bromide is correct, yes.
0:25:30 > 0:25:34Your bonuses this time, Magdalen, are on human physiology.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36Noted for its great functional complexity,
0:25:36 > 0:25:38what is the largest gland of the human body?
0:25:41 > 0:25:42THEY CONFER
0:25:44 > 0:25:46Thyroid?
0:25:46 > 0:25:47No, it's the liver.
0:25:47 > 0:25:51The metabolic pathway known as GNG occurs mainly in the liver.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54For what term do these letters stand?
0:25:54 > 0:25:56- Gluconeogenesis.- Nominate Stern.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58Gluconeogenesis.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01Correct. Which two vessels supply blood to the liver?
0:26:01 > 0:26:04THEY CONFER
0:26:06 > 0:26:07OK. Nominate Stern again.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10Hepatic portal vein and hepatic artery.
0:26:10 > 0:26:11Correct.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13APPLAUSE
0:26:13 > 0:26:14Ten points for this.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17Which artist painted the early 14th-century frescoes
0:26:17 > 0:26:20of the lives of Jesus and the Virgin Mary
0:26:20 > 0:26:23that covered the internal walls of the Arena Chapel in Padua?
0:26:25 > 0:26:26Giotto.
0:26:26 > 0:26:28Giotto is correct, yes.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30APPLAUSE
0:26:30 > 0:26:34These bonuses are all on Russia and the United States.
0:26:34 > 0:26:35The reign of which Russian tsar
0:26:35 > 0:26:39spanned the presidencies of Cleveland, McKinley,
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Theodore Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson?
0:26:41 > 0:26:43THEY CONFER
0:26:43 > 0:26:45Oh, wait it'll be Nicholas II, won't it?
0:26:45 > 0:26:46Nicholas II.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48Correct. Who acceded to the Russian throne
0:26:48 > 0:26:50when Thomas Jefferson was in office,
0:26:50 > 0:26:53and died during the presidency of John Quincy Adams?
0:26:53 > 0:26:54This is early 1800s.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58Do we have any names?
0:26:58 > 0:26:59I don't think we do.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02She was slightly later.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04When did they get Alaska?
0:27:05 > 0:27:07Catherine the Great.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09- No, it was Alexander I.- Oh, yeah.
0:27:09 > 0:27:13Who was the only US president during the reign of Catherine the Great?
0:27:13 > 0:27:15THEY CONFER
0:27:15 > 0:27:17Washington, then?
0:27:17 > 0:27:19No, she was...
0:27:19 > 0:27:20When did the US get Alaska?
0:27:20 > 0:27:24THEY CONFER
0:27:26 > 0:27:27Come on.
0:27:28 > 0:27:29Washington.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32It was George Washington, yes. Ten points for this.
0:27:32 > 0:27:33Beset by war,
0:27:33 > 0:27:36tropical storms, and plagues of insomnia,
0:27:36 > 0:27:40the fictional town of Macondo is a central...?
0:27:40 > 0:27:41Colombia.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45..is a central location in which...? GONG
0:27:45 > 0:27:46And at the gong...
0:27:46 > 0:27:48APPLAUSE
0:27:48 > 0:27:52..St Edmund's College, Cambridge, have 105,
0:27:52 > 0:27:54but Magdalen College, Oxford, have 185.
0:27:56 > 0:28:00Well, bad luck. You had some really good answers there, St Edmund's,
0:28:00 > 0:28:04but not enough of them to come back as the winning team -
0:28:04 > 0:28:07and, probably, I suspect, not as one of the four highest-scoring losers,
0:28:07 > 0:28:08but we'll see.
0:28:08 > 0:28:09Magdalen, 185 - well done.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12We shall look forward to seeing you in round two.
0:28:12 > 0:28:13I hope you can join us next time,
0:28:13 > 0:28:16but, until then, it's goodbye from St Edmund's College, Cambridge.
0:28:16 > 0:28:17- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19- It's goodbye from Magdalen College, Oxford. ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21And it's goodbye from me - goodbye.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24APPLAUSE