0:00:16 > 0:00:18APPLAUSE
0:00:20 > 0:00:22University Challenge.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. Two more teams are preparing not just to answer some taxing
0:00:32 > 0:00:34general knowledge questions but to do so
0:00:34 > 0:00:38under the disobliging glare of friends, family, tutors,
0:00:38 > 0:00:42supervisors and a well-informed audience of taxpaying millions.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46There's a place in the second round for whichever team holds its nerve.
0:00:46 > 0:00:48Now, although it was first mooted in the early 17th century,
0:00:48 > 0:00:52York University didn't come into being until 1963,
0:00:52 > 0:00:55since when its alumni have included the writers
0:00:55 > 0:00:59Graham Swift, Anthony Horowitz and Sally Wainwright,
0:00:59 > 0:01:00the politician Harriet Harman
0:01:00 > 0:01:03and the former BBC director-general Greg Dyke.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06Of perhaps greater renown are the university's ducks,
0:01:06 > 0:01:10all celebrities in their own right and all competing to be
0:01:10 > 0:01:16Duck of the Day on a Facebook page with nearly 56,000 followers.
0:01:16 > 0:01:17What do these people do all day?!
0:01:17 > 0:01:20Facing a competition of a different kind tonight,
0:01:20 > 0:01:22with an average age of 23
0:01:22 > 0:01:25and representing around 15,000 non-avians,
0:01:25 > 0:01:28let's meet the York team.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31Hi, I'm Connor Bindler, I'm from London, I'm studying history.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34Hi, I'm Ben Longworth from Halifax in West Yorkshire,
0:01:34 > 0:01:37and I'm studying for a PGCE in history.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40- And their captain.- Hello, my name is Benjamin Maier, I'm from Oxford
0:01:40 > 0:01:42and I'm studying English.
0:01:42 > 0:01:46Hello, I'm Matthew de Sousa, I'm from Macclesfield in Cheshire
0:01:46 > 0:01:48and I'm studying medicine.
0:01:48 > 0:01:49APPLAUSE
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Now, Warwick University is a near-contemporary
0:01:55 > 0:02:00of its opponents tonight, having received its royal charter in 1965.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03Alumni include the politicians Andrea Leadsom and David Davis,
0:02:03 > 0:02:07the writers and performers Ruth Jones and Stephen Merchant
0:02:07 > 0:02:08and the broadcaster Simon Mayo.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12The university is also home to an enterprising boat club which since
0:02:12 > 0:02:162009 has produced an annual nude calendar, which, mercifully,
0:02:16 > 0:02:18we don't have a copy of.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21Tonight's fully clothed team have an average age of 24
0:02:21 > 0:02:26and represent 22,000 students. Let's meet the Warwick team.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29Hi, I'm Flora Jackson, I'm originally from York
0:02:29 > 0:02:31and I'm studying English and creative writing.
0:02:31 > 0:02:35Hello, I'm Daniel Arribas, I'm from Madrid and I'm studying maths.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37- And this is their captain. - Hi, I'm Ben Salter,
0:02:37 > 0:02:39I'm originally from Wiveliscombe in Somerset,
0:02:39 > 0:02:41and I'm reading mathematics.
0:02:41 > 0:02:45Hello, I'm Charlotte Symons, I'm originally from Mid Wales
0:02:45 > 0:02:47and I'm studying for an MA in writing.
0:02:47 > 0:02:48APPLAUSE
0:02:50 > 0:02:53Well, the rules are the same as ever on this show -
0:02:53 > 0:02:56ten points for starter questions, 15 for bonuses.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59Starter questions you must answer on your own.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05What seven-letter word connects a dough or batter containing
0:03:05 > 0:03:09wild yeast and bacteria for making sourdough,
0:03:09 > 0:03:12an electric motor responsible for turning over an...?
0:03:12 > 0:03:14Starter.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16Starter is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:03:19 > 0:03:21Warwick, the first bonuses are on poetry.
0:03:21 > 0:03:26"All that glisters is not gold Often have ye heard that told."
0:03:26 > 0:03:30In which play by Shakespeare do those lines occur?
0:03:30 > 0:03:31Merchant Of Venice.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33Correct. Secondly,
0:03:33 > 0:03:36"Nor all that glisters gold" is the final line of the poem
0:03:36 > 0:03:40entitled On A Favourite Cat Drowned In A Tub Of Goldfishes.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42Which 18th-century poet was the author?
0:03:44 > 0:03:47- Pope?- You think Pope? - Pope, yeah.- Why not?
0:03:47 > 0:03:48Pope.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50- No, it was Thomas Gray.- Oh, OK.
0:03:50 > 0:03:55"All that is gold does not glitter Not all those who wander are lost."
0:03:55 > 0:03:58These lines from Tolkien's The Fellowship Of The Ring refer
0:03:58 > 0:04:00to which character?
0:04:00 > 0:04:02- Gollum?- Gandalf?
0:04:02 > 0:04:06- He wanders. Gandalf wanders. - Oh, could be, yeah.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08- No, it's Aragorn. - Are you sure?- Mm.
0:04:08 > 0:04:09Aragorn.
0:04:09 > 0:04:10- Correct. - Nice!
0:04:10 > 0:04:11Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:04:11 > 0:04:13Which US state has given its name
0:04:13 > 0:04:17to the element formerly known by the placeholder name ununseptium?
0:04:18 > 0:04:20California.
0:04:20 > 0:04:21No. You lose five points.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23The state's name was chosen to acknowledge both
0:04:23 > 0:04:28the Vanderbilt University and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
0:04:29 > 0:04:30Tennessee?
0:04:30 > 0:04:32Tennessee is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:04:35 > 0:04:38Your bonuses are on figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Warwick.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40The six-volume History Of England
0:04:40 > 0:04:43and A Treatise Of Human Nature are among the works of which
0:04:43 > 0:04:46empiricist philosopher, born in Edinburgh in 1711?
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Hume.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51Correct. Which philosopher was born in 1723
0:04:51 > 0:04:53and died at St Andrews in 1816?
0:04:53 > 0:04:57He's been described as the father of modern sociology, and his most
0:04:57 > 0:05:02notable work is his 1767 essay On The History Of Civil Society.
0:05:02 > 0:05:07- Oh... Not Blackstone, is it? Could be. Any ideas?- No.
0:05:07 > 0:05:08Blackstone?
0:05:08 > 0:05:10No, it's Adam Ferguson of Raith.
0:05:10 > 0:05:15And finally, in 1759, The Theory Of Moral Sentiments is a work
0:05:15 > 0:05:17by which philosopher and political economist?
0:05:17 > 0:05:22His magnum opus of 1776 is widely regarded as the first
0:05:22 > 0:05:23work of modern economics.
0:05:23 > 0:05:24Smith.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26Correct. Adam Smith is correct. APPLAUSE
0:05:26 > 0:05:27Right, ten points for this.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31Of what prominent structure did the art critic Robert Hughes say,
0:05:31 > 0:05:36"One thing is sure, this is the first Catholic temple whose
0:05:36 > 0:05:39"bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism -
0:05:39 > 0:05:43"not even Gaudi, who believed in miracles, could have foreseen that"?
0:05:44 > 0:05:46The Sagrada Familia?
0:05:46 > 0:05:48Correct. APPLAUSE
0:05:49 > 0:05:53Three questions on ancient writings for you, Warwick, now.
0:05:53 > 0:05:57In which present-day country are the Bisotun Cliffs,
0:05:57 > 0:06:00the site of a set of cuneiform inscriptions that
0:06:00 > 0:06:05helped in the deciphering of Elamite, Old Persian and Akkadian?
0:06:05 > 0:06:08- Iran, I think.- Iran?- Or Iraq. - I think it's Iran.
0:06:08 > 0:06:09- Iran, with an N?- Yeah.- OK.
0:06:09 > 0:06:10Iran?
0:06:10 > 0:06:11- Correct.- Nice.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14Which scroll is a key written example of the ancient
0:06:14 > 0:06:17Egyptian approach to mathematical problem solving?
0:06:17 > 0:06:19It's often named after the Scottish lawyer who acquired
0:06:19 > 0:06:21it in Egypt in the 1850s.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24- That one's beyond me. - I'm sure it's famous, but...
0:06:24 > 0:06:29- Rosetta?- No, it's a scroll.- Sorry. - I mean...- It's named after a city.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31Named after a city, you say?
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Give me a city.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38- Perth.- No, it's after a lawyer.- Oh.
0:06:38 > 0:06:39Er, MacDonald.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41No, it's the Rhind Papyrus.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45And finally, the Rosetta Stone bears writing in three different
0:06:45 > 0:06:49scripts. Egyptian demotic is one. Name the other two.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51- Hieroglyphs. Greek.- Yeah.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53Hieroglyphs and Greek.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55Correct. APPLAUSE
0:06:57 > 0:06:58Ten points for this.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00"The incomparable light of English letters" - these
0:07:00 > 0:07:06words of the Dutch humanist Erasmus refer to which court poet, whose...?
0:07:06 > 0:07:07Thomas Wyatt?
0:07:07 > 0:07:09No. You lose five points.
0:07:09 > 0:07:13..whose satirical poems include Phillip Sparrow and Ware The Hawk?
0:07:13 > 0:07:18In 1512, he was granted the title orator regius by Henry VIII,
0:07:18 > 0:07:20whose tutor he'd once been.
0:07:23 > 0:07:24Sidney?
0:07:24 > 0:07:27No, it's John Skelton. Ten points for this.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30Which upper-case Greek letter represents, in statistics,
0:07:30 > 0:07:34the sample, space or total set of possible outcomes...?
0:07:34 > 0:07:35Omega?
0:07:35 > 0:07:37Omega is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:07:39 > 0:07:43These bonuses are on minimalism, Warwick.
0:07:43 > 0:07:47"Less is more" and "God is in the details" are phrases
0:07:47 > 0:07:52associated with which minimalist architect, born in Germany in 1886?
0:07:52 > 0:07:55His buildings include Farnsworth House in Illinois
0:07:55 > 0:07:57and the Seagram Building in New York City.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
0:07:59 > 0:08:00Correct.
0:08:00 > 0:08:04Consisting of 120 identical firebricks arranged in various
0:08:04 > 0:08:06configurations, the series of installations
0:08:06 > 0:08:11known as Equivalents was created by which American minimalist artist?
0:08:11 > 0:08:14Er...!
0:08:14 > 0:08:17- Minimalist artist?- Rothko? - Could be Rothko. Yeah, why not?
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Rothko?
0:08:19 > 0:08:20No, it was Carl Andre.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23And finally, described as a 30-second play consisting
0:08:23 > 0:08:28only of a pile of rubbish, a breath and a cry, the minimalist
0:08:28 > 0:08:311969 stage work with the title Breath
0:08:31 > 0:08:34was created by which Nobel laureate?
0:08:34 > 0:08:35Beckett.
0:08:35 > 0:08:36Samuel Beckett is right. APPLAUSE
0:08:36 > 0:08:38We're going to take our first picture round now.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41For your picture starter, you're going to see a chart
0:08:41 > 0:08:43showing details of a decisive battle.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45For ten points, I want you to identify the present-day
0:08:45 > 0:08:49country whose independence this battle helped secure.
0:08:54 > 0:08:55Chile?
0:08:55 > 0:08:58Chile is correct. It's the Battle of Chacabuco during
0:08:58 > 0:09:01the Chilean War of Independence. APPLAUSE
0:09:01 > 0:09:05OK, so your picture bonuses are graphics relating to
0:09:05 > 0:09:09three more notable events of 1817.
0:09:09 > 0:09:14Firstly, what is the name of the waterway in red begun in 1817?
0:09:16 > 0:09:20- Looks like the Mojave river. - No, it's the Great Lakes.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22Is it the Hudson-Ontario...?
0:09:22 > 0:09:25- Hudson-Eyrie Canal?- Yeah. - Eyrie-Hudson Canal, you think?
0:09:25 > 0:09:28- Nominate Jackson. - Eyrie-Hudson Canal?
0:09:28 > 0:09:31I'll accept that. Normally known as the Eyrie Canal, just, I think.
0:09:31 > 0:09:36Secondly, name the missing element discovered in 1817.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40Oh, God, next to silver...
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Oh, is that...? No, it's not that.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44- What's below zinc?- Oh, cadmium.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46- Cadmium?- I can't see cadmium on there.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48- I think it's cadmium.- Why not?
0:09:48 > 0:09:49Cadmium?
0:09:49 > 0:09:51- Correct.- Nice.- Yeah, well done.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53And finally, can you name this bridge,
0:09:53 > 0:09:56opened by the Prince Regent in 1817?
0:09:58 > 0:10:00Oh, gosh. It's not Tower Bridge, is it?
0:10:00 > 0:10:02No, it's definitely not Tower Bridge.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04It's over near Westminster, but not quite.
0:10:04 > 0:10:08- Vauxhall...?- Is that a bridge? - Probably...?- Blackfriars, maybe?
0:10:08 > 0:10:10- Blackfriars Bridge? - That is a bridge.- Why not?
0:10:10 > 0:10:11Blackfriars Bridge?
0:10:11 > 0:10:13No, it's Waterloo Bridge.
0:10:13 > 0:10:14- Oh, OK. - Ten points for this.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16Consisting of three vertical bands,
0:10:16 > 0:10:20the flag of which EU member state could be described by the names
0:10:20 > 0:10:25of the seas on which the ports of Odessa, Incheon and...?
0:10:25 > 0:10:27Ukraine?
0:10:27 > 0:10:32No. You lose five points. ..Incheon and Suez respectively are situated?
0:10:32 > 0:10:33One of you buzz from York.
0:10:35 > 0:10:36Belgium?
0:10:36 > 0:10:38Belgium is correct, yes! APPLAUSE
0:10:42 > 0:10:45That gets you off the mark - or gets you to zero, anyway.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49Your bonuses now are on analytical techniques used in art conservation.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52Firstly, name the technique by which chemicals in the paint's
0:10:52 > 0:10:56binding medium can be identified by the sorting of gaseous
0:10:56 > 0:10:58ions in electric and magnetic fields
0:10:58 > 0:11:01according to their mass-to-charge ratios.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08- Any idea?- Mass spectrometry.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10- Mass spectrometry?- Yeah.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12- Nominate me, if you want. - Nominate de Sousa.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14Mass spectrometry?
0:11:14 > 0:11:15Correct.
0:11:15 > 0:11:19Born in 1888, which Indian Nobel laureate gives his name to a type
0:11:19 > 0:11:22of spectroscopy that, among other applications, allows
0:11:22 > 0:11:25characterisation of pigments used in a painting?
0:11:28 > 0:11:30QUIET CONVERSATION
0:11:39 > 0:11:41Ramanajan.
0:11:41 > 0:11:42Er, no, it's CV Raman.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45And finally, involving electromagnetic radiation
0:11:45 > 0:11:51with wavelengths of 0.1 to 7.5 times ten to the minus five centimetres,
0:11:51 > 0:11:54which imaging technique is used to see the underdrawings
0:11:54 > 0:11:56and later revisions by the artist?
0:11:59 > 0:12:01X-ray crystallography.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03X-ray crystallography.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05It's infrared. Ten points for this.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07What five-letter surname connects
0:12:07 > 0:12:11the New York State governor who was the Republican presidential
0:12:11 > 0:12:15nominee in 1944 and '48, the pragmatist philosopher who led
0:12:15 > 0:12:17the progressive movement in education...?
0:12:18 > 0:12:20Smith.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22No. You lose five points.
0:12:22 > 0:12:26..and the originator of a numerical library classification system?
0:12:26 > 0:12:27Dewey.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30Dewey is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:12:32 > 0:12:35Your bonuses are on post-war US presidential elections.
0:12:35 > 0:12:39Firstly for five points, the South Dakota Democrat George McGovern
0:12:39 > 0:12:43lost 49 states in the 1972 election.
0:12:43 > 0:12:44Which Republican won?
0:12:44 > 0:12:48- Reagan.- Nixon.- No, Reagan.- You sure? - '72. It's Nixon.- Did he say '72?
0:12:48 > 0:12:50Yeah. Nixon.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52- Are you sure it's Nixon? - '72, it's Nixon.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54I only know that 49 states was also by Reagan in '84.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56Er...
0:12:56 > 0:12:57Nixon.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59- It was Richard Nixon, yes. - Oh, right.
0:12:59 > 0:13:03Which Republican won only 52 electoral votes in 1964?
0:13:03 > 0:13:07His campaign claimed, "In your heart you know he's right."
0:13:07 > 0:13:11His opponents replied, "In your guts you know he's nuts."
0:13:11 > 0:13:17- It's the Republican who went against LBJ.- '64...- Any ideas?- LBJ... No.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19- It's a person that's against LBJ. - It's not Goldwater?
0:13:19 > 0:13:22- We could try him.- Goldwater?
0:13:22 > 0:13:23Goldwater?
0:13:23 > 0:13:24It was Barry Goldwater.
0:13:24 > 0:13:28And finally, who won re-election by defeating Walter Mondale, winning
0:13:28 > 0:13:3349 states with 525 electoral votes to his opponent's 13?
0:13:33 > 0:13:35Reagan.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37That WAS Ronald Reagan, yes. APPLAUSE
0:13:37 > 0:13:38Ten points for this.
0:13:38 > 0:13:42Quote - "The slamming of Helen Huntingdon's bedroom door
0:13:42 > 0:13:46"against her husband reverberated throughout Victorian England."
0:13:46 > 0:13:49These words of the author May Sinclair refer to which novel,
0:13:49 > 0:13:54first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton...?
0:13:54 > 0:13:56The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:14:01 > 0:14:04Right, you get a set of bonuses on Razia Sultan,
0:14:04 > 0:14:08the first female Muslim ruler in the Indian subcontinent.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12Firstly, in which city was Razia crowned in 1236?
0:14:12 > 0:14:16It was the capital of the principal Muslim sultanate in north
0:14:16 > 0:14:19India from the 13th to the 16th centuries.
0:14:19 > 0:14:20Delhi.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23Correct. Razia's father, Iltutmish,
0:14:23 > 0:14:27named her as his successor despite having sons.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29This incurred the displeasure of the Council of Forty,
0:14:29 > 0:14:33composed of former slaves with origins in which country?
0:14:36 > 0:14:38QUIET CONVERSATION
0:14:41 > 0:14:43Persia, maybe?
0:14:44 > 0:14:46- Afghanistan? - Afghanistan?
0:14:46 > 0:14:47Afghanistan?
0:14:47 > 0:14:48No, it's Turkey.
0:14:48 > 0:14:52Razia's preferential treatment of her Habshi advisor
0:14:52 > 0:14:57Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut is believed to have caused her downfall.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00The term "Habshi" is derived from the Arabic for Africans
0:15:00 > 0:15:02from which present-day country?
0:15:03 > 0:15:05Ethiopia.
0:15:05 > 0:15:06Ethiopia.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09Ethiopia or Eritrea is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:15:12 > 0:15:14Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of popular music.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19For ten points, I'd like you to identify the band.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:22 > 0:15:23Blondie.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25It is Blondie, yes.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28Well done. Union City Blues. APPLAUSE
0:15:28 > 0:15:30They made their name at the now-defunct New York club
0:15:30 > 0:15:33CBGB in the mid-1970s,
0:15:33 > 0:15:37which had become a focal point for the city's punk and new-wave scenes.
0:15:37 > 0:15:41For your bonuses, three more bands closely associated with the CBGB,
0:15:41 > 0:15:44and five points for each you can identify. Firstly...
0:15:46 > 0:15:50- # Hold tight - Wait till the party's over
0:15:50 > 0:15:53- # Hold tight - We're in for nasty weather... #
0:15:53 > 0:15:54Talking Heads.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57It was Talking Heads, Burning Down The House. Secondly...
0:15:59 > 0:16:02# I wanna fly
0:16:02 > 0:16:05# Fly a fountain
0:16:06 > 0:16:09# I wanna jump, jump, jump
0:16:09 > 0:16:11# Jump a mountain
0:16:13 > 0:16:16- # I understand all - I see no... #
0:16:16 > 0:16:18Stranglers or Pretenders?
0:16:20 > 0:16:22The Stranglers.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25No, that's Television, See No Evil. And finally...
0:16:28 > 0:16:31# Twenty-twenty-twenty-four hours to go
0:16:31 > 0:16:33# I wanna be sedated... #
0:16:33 > 0:16:34The Ramones.
0:16:34 > 0:16:36The Ramones, I Wanna Be Sedated. APPLAUSE
0:16:36 > 0:16:37Ten points for this.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40What expression is the Japanese for "hello"
0:16:40 > 0:16:45and is also the title of the 2016 Mercury Prize...
0:16:45 > 0:16:46Konnichi wa?
0:16:46 > 0:16:48Konnichi wa is correct. APPLAUSE
0:16:50 > 0:16:53You get bonuses this time on diseases.
0:16:53 > 0:16:56The answer in each case is derived from an African language, Warwick.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59What condition is caused by severe protein deficiency?
0:16:59 > 0:17:02It is characterised by reddish-orange
0:17:02 > 0:17:05discolouration of the hair and symptoms including dry skin,
0:17:05 > 0:17:08rashes, a potbelly and oedema.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11Is this beriberi or pellagra?
0:17:11 > 0:17:14"Beriberi" sounds like it could come from an African language.
0:17:14 > 0:17:15Beriberi?
0:17:15 > 0:17:17- No, it's kwashiorkor.- Oh, yeah.
0:17:17 > 0:17:21Secondly, which viral fever is transmitted by mosquitoes
0:17:21 > 0:17:23and causes patients to walk with a stooped
0:17:23 > 0:17:27posture as a result of severe musculoskeletal pain?
0:17:27 > 0:17:32- Is that dengue fever?- Yeah. - Is dengue the tsetse fly?
0:17:32 > 0:17:33Oh, no, that's sleeping sickness.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35Dengue fever?
0:17:35 > 0:17:36No, that's chikungunya.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39And finally, which mosquito-borne viral disease is also called
0:17:39 > 0:17:41breakbone fever?
0:17:41 > 0:17:44Its name is thought to come from a Swahili phrase meaning
0:17:44 > 0:17:46"disease caused by an evil spirit".
0:17:46 > 0:17:47Dengue fever.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50That IS dengue fever, yes. APPLAUSE
0:17:50 > 0:17:52Right, ten points for this. Consisting of units of
0:17:52 > 0:17:56the amino sugar glucosamine, which polysaccharide is...?
0:17:56 > 0:17:58Chitin?
0:17:58 > 0:18:00Chitin is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:18:01 > 0:18:05These bonuses are on Robert Baden-Powell, Warwick.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07First published in 1908,
0:18:07 > 0:18:10which manual by Baden-Powell has the subtitle
0:18:10 > 0:18:14A Handbook For Instruction In Good Citizenship Through Woodcraft?
0:18:14 > 0:18:17I need the precise three-word title, please.
0:18:17 > 0:18:18Scouting For Boys, I think.
0:18:18 > 0:18:19Scouting For Boys?
0:18:19 > 0:18:23Correct. Brownsea Island was the site of an experimental camp
0:18:23 > 0:18:25organised by Baden-Powell in 1907
0:18:25 > 0:18:28to test his ideas for the Scouting movement.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31It lies in the harbour of which south-east port?
0:18:32 > 0:18:34- South-east...- Poole. - Poole? Is it?- Yeah.
0:18:34 > 0:18:35Poole.
0:18:35 > 0:18:37- Correct.- Nice.- And finally,
0:18:37 > 0:18:39what is the two-word motto of the Scouts that
0:18:39 > 0:18:42Baden-Powell claimed was inspired by his own initials?
0:18:42 > 0:18:43"Be prepared."
0:18:43 > 0:18:46Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:18:46 > 0:18:49in which country is the National University of San Marcos,
0:18:49 > 0:18:51usually regarded as the oldest in...?
0:18:52 > 0:18:54Philippines.
0:18:54 > 0:18:58No. You lose five points. ..regarded as the oldest in South America?
0:18:58 > 0:19:02Founded by royal decree in 1551, its main campus
0:19:02 > 0:19:05is about three kilometres from the Pacific Ocean.
0:19:07 > 0:19:08Chile?
0:19:08 > 0:19:10No, it's Peru. Ten points for this.
0:19:10 > 0:19:14Which bird does Gerard Manley Hopkins describe as
0:19:14 > 0:19:18"kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn falcon"?
0:19:18 > 0:19:21The same bird is the title figure...
0:19:21 > 0:19:22It's a kestrel.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24It is a kestrel, or a windhover, as he calls it.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27APPLAUSE Right, you get a set of bonuses,
0:19:27 > 0:19:30then, on the hormone leptin, Warwick.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33Specialised in producing and storing fat,
0:19:33 > 0:19:38what type of connective-tissue cells secrete the satiety hormone leptin?
0:19:39 > 0:19:43Sebum? No, it's the cells. Isn't it something in the pancreas?
0:19:43 > 0:19:47Might not be. It's not in the skin.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49Stomach or something, isn't it?
0:19:50 > 0:19:52Oh... I don't know.
0:19:52 > 0:19:54Epithelium or something.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56Epithelial cells.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58No, it's adipocytes.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01Secondly, leptins are proteins belonging to which
0:20:01 > 0:20:03class of intercellular messengers?
0:20:03 > 0:20:06Examples include interleukins and interferons.
0:20:06 > 0:20:10Oh. Maybe not hormones. I mean, it could be hormones.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13- "Hormones" is in the first part of the question, though.- Oh, OK, fine.
0:20:13 > 0:20:17Er, in which case, I don't know. Catecholamines? They're a thing.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19- I don't think it's that. - I don't know.
0:20:19 > 0:20:20Catecholamines?
0:20:20 > 0:20:21No, it's cytokines.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Leptin expression and secretion
0:20:23 > 0:20:25can be regulated by which endocrine hormone?
0:20:25 > 0:20:28It's secreted by beta cells of the islets of Langerhans
0:20:28 > 0:20:31in response to increased blood glucose concentration.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33Insulin.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35Correct. APPLAUSE
0:20:35 > 0:20:37We're going to take another picture round now.
0:20:37 > 0:20:38You will see a notable sculpture.
0:20:38 > 0:20:42For ten points, name the European country in which it's located.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47Spain.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49Spain is right. It's the Court of the Lions in Alhambra, Granada.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51APPLAUSE
0:20:51 > 0:20:54Following on from the Court of the Lions at the Alhambra,
0:20:54 > 0:20:57your picture bonuses are three more sculptures of lions.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59Again, in each case simply name
0:20:59 > 0:21:02the country where they're located. Firstly for five...
0:21:04 > 0:21:06That is in...
0:21:06 > 0:21:09- Greece. It's Mycenae in Greece. - Are you sure? OK.
0:21:09 > 0:21:10Greece.
0:21:10 > 0:21:14It is! It's the Lion Gate at Mycenae. Secondly, where's this?
0:21:15 > 0:21:16- Singapore.- Singapore.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Singapore.
0:21:18 > 0:21:20Singapore is correct. And finally...
0:21:21 > 0:21:26- That one is lost on me. - It looks Indian.
0:21:26 > 0:21:30- Could be India, couldn't it?- Or Sri Lanka. Oh, Sri Lanka is the...
0:21:30 > 0:21:35- Sri Lanka has a lion on its flag, so it could be.- OK.
0:21:35 > 0:21:36Sri Lanka.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39No, it's Cambodia. That's Angkor Wat. Ten points for this.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41From the Greek for "two households",
0:21:41 > 0:21:45what term in botany describes plants in which male and female organs are
0:21:45 > 0:21:50separated on different individuals, thus ensuring cross-fertilisation?
0:21:52 > 0:21:54Dichotoledanous?
0:21:54 > 0:21:56No. Anyone want to buzz?
0:22:00 > 0:22:02Angiosperms.
0:22:02 > 0:22:03No, they're diecious.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06Ten points for this. In February 2017,
0:22:06 > 0:22:10a late goal by Vincent Aboubakar against Egypt helped which
0:22:10 > 0:22:15country to win the Africa Cup of Nations for the fifth time?
0:22:15 > 0:22:16Cameroon.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18Cameroon is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:22:20 > 0:22:23Right, these bonuses, York, are on UK geography.
0:22:23 > 0:22:27In each case, give the predominant cardinal direction in which
0:22:27 > 0:22:31one would travel in the shortest straight line from the first
0:22:31 > 0:22:36town or city to the second. For example, Lancaster to York is east.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39Firstly, Chester to Bangor, the university city.
0:22:40 > 0:22:41West.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44Correct. Secondly, Ballymena to Newry.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52QUIET CONVERSATION
0:22:55 > 0:22:58- I'd say north.- Where is it, Ballymena?- It's in Northern Ireland.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01- Come on.- Pick one.
0:23:01 > 0:23:03East.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06No, that's south. And finally, Leicester to Nottingham.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10North.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12That is north, yes. Well done. APPLAUSE
0:23:12 > 0:23:15Ten points for this. Published in 2016, Here I Am
0:23:15 > 0:23:18is the first novel in 11 years by which US
0:23:18 > 0:23:21author, whose prizewinning Princeton thesis formed
0:23:21 > 0:23:24the basis of his first novel, Everything Is Illuminated?
0:23:26 > 0:23:27Jonathan Safran Foer.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30Correct. APPLAUSE
0:23:32 > 0:23:34You get a set of bonuses on royal burials, Warwick.
0:23:34 > 0:23:39Charles II, Queen Anne and George II are all buried at Westminster Abbey
0:23:39 > 0:23:43in a lady chapel constructed on the orders of which Tudor monarch?
0:23:44 > 0:23:47- Was George II there? - Yeah, he was.- George III?
0:23:47 > 0:23:49Tudor monarch.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51- Hm... - THEY LAUGH
0:23:51 > 0:23:54- Henry VIII? Elizabeth? It could be any of them.- Elizabeth?
0:23:54 > 0:23:55I don't know.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57Elizabeth I.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59- No, it was Henry VII.- Oh.
0:23:59 > 0:24:03Charles I, William IV and Edward VII are among the British
0:24:03 > 0:24:08monarchs buried at which place of worship within Windsor Castle?
0:24:08 > 0:24:12- Do we know any places of worship within Windsor Castle at all?- No.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14- Any ideas?- We've got to pass on that one.
0:24:14 > 0:24:18- The George Chapel or something?- Is that a thing?- I think so...- Why not?
0:24:18 > 0:24:19The George Chapel.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22It's St George's Chapel. I can't accept that.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24Queen Victoria and Edward VIII are buried within
0:24:24 > 0:24:27the estate of which former royal residence in Windsor?
0:24:30 > 0:24:33Not Windsor Castle, then!
0:24:33 > 0:24:36I would assume not, no! Does anyone have any ideas?
0:24:36 > 0:24:38- No.- We're bad on royal residences.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40Er, Widdowson House.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43No, it's Frogmore House. There's about three and a bit minutes to go
0:24:43 > 0:24:45and ten points for this.
0:24:45 > 0:24:49Which two consonants link Bos indicus, a humped species of ox,
0:24:49 > 0:24:53the director of Moulin Rouge! and The Great Gatsby
0:24:53 > 0:24:55and a pen name of Charles Dickens?
0:24:57 > 0:24:58B and Z.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00- Correct.- Nice!
0:25:00 > 0:25:01APPLAUSE
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Right, your bonuses this time, Warwick,
0:25:03 > 0:25:06are on British species of tit.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09In each case, give the common name from the binomial.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11First, Periparus ater.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15The second part of the binomial refers to its distinctive cap.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18Blue? Great?
0:25:18 > 0:25:20Great tit?
0:25:20 > 0:25:23- That's a thing.- Crested tit.- Crested tit? OK. Do you reckon it's that?
0:25:23 > 0:25:25- Could be...!- Why not?
0:25:25 > 0:25:26The crested tit.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28- No, it's a coal tit.- Oh, OK.
0:25:28 > 0:25:34Secondly, Aegithalos caudatus. The specific refers to the common name.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38QUIET CONVERSATION
0:25:38 > 0:25:43- It's all tits. - Well, blue? Great?
0:25:43 > 0:25:45- Yeah, blue.- Blue?
0:25:45 > 0:25:46Blue tit?
0:25:46 > 0:25:48No, that's the long-tailed tit.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50And finally, Cyanistes caeruleus...
0:25:50 > 0:25:52Blue tit.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54- Yeah.- Sorry!- Blue tit is correct. APPLAUSE
0:25:54 > 0:25:57Right, ten points for this. Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00A transformer in an electrical circuit has a primary
0:26:00 > 0:26:05coil of 1,200 turns and a secondary coil of 600 turns.
0:26:05 > 0:26:10If the input voltage is 240 volts, what would be the output voltage?
0:26:12 > 0:26:14120?
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Correct! APPLAUSE
0:26:18 > 0:26:22You get three questions on debut novels by musicians,
0:26:22 > 0:26:23York, for your bonuses.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27Which Canadian's first novel, The Favourite Game, charts the coming of
0:26:27 > 0:26:31age of Laurence Breavman, the only son of a Jewish Montreal family?
0:26:33 > 0:26:36Leonard Cohen?
0:26:36 > 0:26:37Leonard Cohen?
0:26:37 > 0:26:40Correct. Secondly, the children's fantasy novel Wildwood
0:26:40 > 0:26:45is by Colin Meloy, the lead singer of which US band named
0:26:45 > 0:26:50after participants in a Russian uprising towards the end of 1825?
0:26:50 > 0:26:52The Decemberists.
0:26:52 > 0:26:53The Decemberists is correct.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56Which English musician described the many negative
0:26:56 > 0:27:00reviews of his 2015 debut novel List Of The Lost as
0:27:00 > 0:27:02"an attack against me as a human being"?
0:27:02 > 0:27:03Morrissey.
0:27:03 > 0:27:05Morrissey is correct. APPLAUSE
0:27:05 > 0:27:09Ten points for this. "I've wasted time, and now doth time waste me..."
0:27:10 > 0:27:11Richard II.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13Richard II is correct. APPLAUSE
0:27:15 > 0:27:18These bonuses are on elements known since antiquity.
0:27:18 > 0:27:22In each case, name the element from its position on the periodic table.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24Firstly for five, which element appears on the periodic
0:27:24 > 0:27:28table below oxygen and between phosphorus and chlorine?
0:27:28 > 0:27:30Er, this is sulfur, I believe.
0:27:30 > 0:27:31Sulfur.
0:27:31 > 0:27:32Correct.
0:27:32 > 0:27:36Which element appears between tin and tellurium and above bismuth?
0:27:36 > 0:27:39- That's antimony, isn't it? - Yeah.... Arsenic?
0:27:39 > 0:27:40Arsenic?
0:27:40 > 0:27:41No, it's antimony.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44Finally, which element appears between platinum and mercury
0:27:44 > 0:27:46and below silver?
0:27:46 > 0:27:47Gold.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:27:49 > 0:27:51Prussia and Austria's war against which country is
0:27:51 > 0:27:55the subject of a 2015 historical work entitled 1864...
0:27:55 > 0:27:56GONG
0:27:56 > 0:27:59And at the gong... APPLAUSE
0:28:00 > 0:28:04..York have 80, Warwick University have 240.
0:28:04 > 0:28:08Right, York, you came back from a catastrophically bad start,
0:28:08 > 0:28:11but you didn't have quite enough time to make up the ground you
0:28:11 > 0:28:12needed to make up.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15Warwick, 240 is a terrific score. We shall look forward to seeing you
0:28:15 > 0:28:19for sure in the next round. Many congratulations to you, too.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21I hope you can join us next time for another first-round match,
0:28:21 > 0:28:24but until then, it's goodbye from York University...
0:28:24 > 0:28:25- ALL:- Bye.
0:28:25 > 0:28:27..it's goodbye from Warwick University...
0:28:27 > 0:28:30- ALL:- Goodbye. - ..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.