0:00:20 > 0:00:22University Challenge.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29APPLAUSE
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Hello. Too late now to wish they'd applied for Pointless,
0:00:32 > 0:00:36instead, two more teams of students are about to tackle several dozen
0:00:36 > 0:00:40general knowledge questions in full view of an expectant nation,
0:00:40 > 0:00:43with the chance to do it all over again in the second round
0:00:43 > 0:00:46for the winners. We might see tonight's losers again,
0:00:46 > 0:00:49if they're among the four highest-scoring losing teams
0:00:49 > 0:00:51from these first-round matches too.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54Now, Oxford Brookes University began life in the 19th century
0:00:54 > 0:00:57as a one-room art school in the city centre.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00The artist and author John Henry Brookes became
0:01:00 > 0:01:03its vice principal in 1928,
0:01:03 > 0:01:07and was a powerful influence on its development over the next 30 years.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09In 1970, it became Oxford Polytechnic,
0:01:09 > 0:01:13and it took its present form as a university in 1992.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17Alumni include the politicians Lynne Featherstone and Jonathan Djanogly,
0:01:17 > 0:01:21and the double-Olympic rowing gold medallist, Steve Williams.
0:01:21 > 0:01:25With an average age of 36 and representing around 17,000 students,
0:01:25 > 0:01:28let's meet the Oxford Brookes team.
0:01:28 > 0:01:32Hello, I'm Inigo Purcell, I'm from Chiswick in west London,
0:01:32 > 0:01:35and I'm a third-year English literature student.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38Hello, I'm Pat O'Shea, I live in Oxford and I'm studying film.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40And this is their captain.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43Guten Tag, hoeijendagh, bonjour - I'm Thomas De Bock,
0:01:43 > 0:01:46I'm from Liege in Belgium, and I study motorsport engineering.
0:01:46 > 0:01:50Hi, I'm Emma-Ben Lewis, I'm originally from Woodford Green in
0:01:50 > 0:01:53north-east London, and I'm studying for a Master's in psychology.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55APPLAUSE
0:01:58 > 0:02:01Now, the Courtauld Institute of Art owes its foundation
0:02:01 > 0:02:03to a number of art collectors in the 1930s,
0:02:03 > 0:02:06among them the textile magnate, Samuel Courtauld,
0:02:06 > 0:02:11who leant the Institute both his name and the bulk of its funding.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13And it now occupies a corner of Somerset House
0:02:13 > 0:02:15on the Strand in London.
0:02:15 > 0:02:19The spy Anthony Blunt was its director from 1947 until 1974,
0:02:19 > 0:02:22where he taught the late Brian Sewell.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25Andrew Graham-Dixon studied there, as did the actor Vincent Price,
0:02:25 > 0:02:28the former director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor,
0:02:28 > 0:02:31and the former director of the Tate, Nicholas Serota.
0:02:31 > 0:02:36With an average age of 23 and representing only 460 students,
0:02:36 > 0:02:38let's meet some of the current lot.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41Hi, I'm Ty Vanover I'm from Clintwood, Virginia,
0:02:41 > 0:02:43and I'm studying for an MA in 19th-century art.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Hi, I'm Margaret-Anne Logan from Patchogue, New York,
0:02:47 > 0:02:50and I'm studying for an MA in 18th-century French art.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52And here's their captain.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55Hello, I'm Harvey Shepherd, I'm from Chesterfield in north Derbyshire,
0:02:55 > 0:02:57and I'm studying for a BA in the history of art.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00Hello, I'm Jack Snape, I'm from Bolton and I'm studying
0:03:00 > 0:03:03for a Master's degree in the conservation of wall paintings.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05APPLAUSE
0:03:08 > 0:03:10OK, the rules are the same as ever.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12Starter questions are worth 10 points,
0:03:12 > 0:03:14they have to be answered on your own, on the buzzer,
0:03:14 > 0:03:18but you can confer on bonuses for a possible 15 points.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21So, fingers on the buzzers, here's the first starter for ten -
0:03:21 > 0:03:24from a word meaning "forced labour",
0:03:24 > 0:03:27what short word did the Czech author, Karel Capek...?
0:03:29 > 0:03:30Robot.
0:03:30 > 0:03:32Robot is correct, yes.
0:03:32 > 0:03:33APPLAUSE
0:03:35 > 0:03:37So you get the first set of bonuses, Oxford Brookes,
0:03:37 > 0:03:40they're on English indie bands.
0:03:40 > 0:03:44Chocolate and The City are tracks on the 2013 number-one debut album
0:03:44 > 0:03:47by which Manchester four-member band?
0:03:47 > 0:03:50Its name includes the year that saw the Sex Pistols first gig
0:03:50 > 0:03:52at St Martin's School of Art.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54- 1975.- The 1975?
0:03:54 > 0:03:55Correct.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58In 2015, which band had their first number-one album with
0:03:58 > 0:04:00Marks To Prove It?
0:04:00 > 0:04:04Their name is that of a priestly family of Jews who organised
0:04:04 > 0:04:06a successful rebellion against Antiochus IV
0:04:06 > 0:04:08in the second century BC.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11I think it begins with M...
0:04:11 > 0:04:13- Maccabees?- Maccabees, yeah.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16- Maccabees.- The Maccabees is right.
0:04:16 > 0:04:17And finally, which band had
0:04:17 > 0:04:21a number-one album in 2013 with Bad Blood?
0:04:21 > 0:04:23It shares its name with the Paris fortress that was
0:04:23 > 0:04:26first used by Colonel Richelieu as a state prison?
0:04:26 > 0:04:29- Bastille.- Correct.
0:04:29 > 0:04:30Ten points for this - now in common use,
0:04:30 > 0:04:33which two terms did William Whewell recommend
0:04:33 > 0:04:38in 1834 for describing opposing directions of electric current
0:04:38 > 0:04:39after rejecting...?
0:04:40 > 0:04:42AC/DC.
0:04:42 > 0:04:45No. ..after rejecting... You lose five points too.
0:04:45 > 0:04:49..after rejecting some of Michael Faraday's suggestions?
0:04:51 > 0:04:54- Positive and negative? - No, it's anode and cathode.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57Ten points for this - what seven-letter word is this?
0:04:57 > 0:05:01Originally an American slang term for a dishonest means of regulating
0:05:01 > 0:05:03a gambling game, it can also mean an item used
0:05:03 > 0:05:07in a conjuring trick, a professional wrestler's in-ring persona...
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Prestige.
0:05:11 > 0:05:12No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15..a professional wrestler's in-ring persona,
0:05:15 > 0:05:18and a showy device used to attract attention or publicity.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22You may not confer, one of you may buzz.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26- Enigma?- No, it's a gimmick.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28Ten points for this - although considered to be
0:05:28 > 0:05:32one of the founding members of the Impressionist movement, which
0:05:32 > 0:05:36French artist preferred to call himself a realist or an independent?
0:05:36 > 0:05:37His outdoor scenes...
0:05:38 > 0:05:41- Edouard Manet? - No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43..his outdoor scenes often depicted horse races,
0:05:43 > 0:05:46but he's chiefly associated with indoor subjects,
0:05:46 > 0:05:49such as lawn dresses and ballet dancers?
0:05:51 > 0:05:52Degas.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54Degas is correct, yes.
0:05:54 > 0:05:55APPLAUSE
0:05:57 > 0:06:00These bonuses are on Galileo, Oxford Brookes.
0:06:00 > 0:06:04In 1613, Galileo published a work on what astronomical phenomena,
0:06:04 > 0:06:07disputing Christophe Scheiner's contention that there were
0:06:07 > 0:06:10satellites orbiting a major heavenly body?
0:06:12 > 0:06:13Erm...
0:06:14 > 0:06:16Meteors?
0:06:17 > 0:06:20Could be that there may be satellites around the moon?
0:06:20 > 0:06:21Satellites around the moon?
0:06:21 > 0:06:23No, it's sunspots.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26Studied and named by Galileo in 1599,
0:06:26 > 0:06:30which curve is the locus of a point on the rim of a circle
0:06:30 > 0:06:33of radius A, if the circle is rolled along a straight line?
0:06:34 > 0:06:37That is a cycloid... Cycloid?
0:06:37 > 0:06:38Correct.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41When Galileo used a telescope to observe the night sky,
0:06:41 > 0:06:45which was the furthest of the planets he studied in detail?
0:06:45 > 0:06:48He initially described it as, "Not a single star,
0:06:48 > 0:06:51"but a composite of three, which almost touch each other."
0:06:52 > 0:06:55Maybe, like, Saturn, and he thinks maybe Saturn and...?
0:06:55 > 0:06:57- Yeah.- Saturn.
0:06:57 > 0:06:58Saturn is correct.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00Ten points for this -
0:07:00 > 0:07:03the body of Mary Queen of Scots was interred for a time at which
0:07:03 > 0:07:07East Anglian cathedral before it was removed to Westminster Abbey,
0:07:07 > 0:07:09at the wish of James I?
0:07:09 > 0:07:11Catherine of Aragon was also buried there,
0:07:11 > 0:07:15and is commemorated each year by a festival in January.
0:07:16 > 0:07:17Norwich.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20Anyone like to buzz from Oxford Brookes?
0:07:20 > 0:07:21Peterborough.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23Peterborough is correct, yes.
0:07:23 > 0:07:24APPLAUSE
0:07:26 > 0:07:30These bonuses are on Ancient Greece and modern theme parks.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32In each case, listen to the explanation
0:07:32 > 0:07:35and give the single-word name of the roller coaster
0:07:35 > 0:07:38and the name of the UK theme park at which it's located.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41Firstly, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world,
0:07:41 > 0:07:45it commemorated a victory over Demetris the Besieger,
0:07:45 > 0:07:47the son of Antigonus the One-eyed.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51It's Colossus, but what's the theme park?
0:07:51 > 0:07:53- Thorpe Park?- Yeah.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55Nominate Purcell.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57- Colossus at Thorpe Park?- Correct.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00Secondly, a long, poetic work,
0:08:00 > 0:08:03its characters include Polyphemus, Calypso and Circe?
0:08:03 > 0:08:05- Odyssey.- But where is it?
0:08:05 > 0:08:07There's only a certain number of theme parks.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10Chessington...?
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Yeah, go for that.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14Nominate Lewis.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16Odyssey, Chessington World of Adventures.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19No, it is Odyssey, but it's at Fantasy Island, near Skegness.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21LAUGHTER And finally...
0:08:21 > 0:08:23Why is Skegness funny?
0:08:23 > 0:08:27And finally, the single-word name of which roller coaster means -
0:08:27 > 0:08:31"Spirit of retribution against those who display hubris"?
0:08:31 > 0:08:33- Nemesis, Alton Towers?- OK.
0:08:33 > 0:08:34Nemesis, Alton Towers.
0:08:34 > 0:08:35Correct, yes.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37APPLAUSE
0:08:38 > 0:08:40Time for a picture round.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42We're going to take a picture starter,
0:08:42 > 0:08:44which will show you three flags.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46For ten points, name the country that's bordered by
0:08:46 > 0:08:48all three of these countries.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54- Cambodia.- Cambodia is correct.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56They're the flags of Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59APPLAUSE
0:08:59 > 0:09:02For your bonuses, you're going to see three more sets of three flags,
0:09:02 > 0:09:07in each case, name the country that borders all three, but no others.
0:09:07 > 0:09:08Firstly...
0:09:10 > 0:09:12That's Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya.
0:09:13 > 0:09:14Like...Somalia.
0:09:14 > 0:09:15Somalia would be my guess.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17- Somalia?- Correct.
0:09:17 > 0:09:18Secondly...
0:09:20 > 0:09:21Guyana, Brazil and France.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23So, Suriname.
0:09:23 > 0:09:24Suriname.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27Suriname is right. And finally...
0:09:27 > 0:09:29So, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro.
0:09:31 > 0:09:32Erm...
0:09:32 > 0:09:33Bosnia?
0:09:33 > 0:09:34It could be Bosnia.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37- Bosnia-Herzegovina.- Correct.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40APPLAUSE
0:09:40 > 0:09:41Ten points for this -
0:09:41 > 0:09:43born in Brunswick in 1777,
0:09:43 > 0:09:47which German mathematician gives his name both to the law that
0:09:47 > 0:09:49states that the electric flux across...?
0:09:51 > 0:09:53- Gauss.- Gauss is correct, yes.
0:09:53 > 0:09:54APPLAUSE
0:09:56 > 0:09:58These bonuses are on fathers and sons known as
0:09:58 > 0:09:59the elder and the younger.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01Firstly, for five points -
0:10:01 > 0:10:04give the surname of the two 18th-century British architects
0:10:04 > 0:10:07and town planners, best known for Palladian buildings
0:10:07 > 0:10:10in Bath, such as the Circus and the Royal Crescent.
0:10:10 > 0:10:11THEY CONFER
0:10:16 > 0:10:19Me? The surname, I don't know.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21I have no idea.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24- Pass. - It's Wood, the elder and younger.
0:10:24 > 0:10:27Secondly, what name can denote either of two Roman literary
0:10:27 > 0:10:30figures, the elder being a teacher of rhetoric, while the younger
0:10:30 > 0:10:34was an author of verse tragedies, who tutored the Emperor Nero?
0:10:35 > 0:10:38- Seneca.- Correct.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41Give the surname of the two 16th-century Flemish painters,
0:10:41 > 0:10:44whose works between them include The Peasant Wedding
0:10:44 > 0:10:46and The Census At Bethlehem?
0:10:46 > 0:10:49- HE USES FLEMISH PRONUNCIATION, THEN CORRECTS TO ENGLISH - Breugel.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Breugel is correct, yes.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53Or as we call it, incorrectly, no doubt.
0:10:53 > 0:10:54You would know.
0:10:54 > 0:10:57Ten points for this - "A happy ending was imperative,
0:10:57 > 0:11:00"I was determined that, in fiction, anyway, two men should fall
0:11:00 > 0:11:05"in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows."
0:11:05 > 0:11:09These words refer to which novel, published in 1971...?
0:11:11 > 0:11:14- Maurice.- Maurice is correct, yes.
0:11:14 > 0:11:15APPLAUSE
0:11:15 > 0:11:17By EM Forster.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19So you get your first set of bonuses, Courtauld,
0:11:19 > 0:11:22they're on American artists.
0:11:22 > 0:11:26Firstly, born in 1915, which abstract expressionist
0:11:26 > 0:11:29created the series entitled Elegy To The Spanish Republic?
0:11:29 > 0:11:33His surname is also the name of a town in North Lanarkshire.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35- Robert Motherwell.- Correct.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38Secondly, appearing in various forms in different media,
0:11:38 > 0:11:41which pop artist's most enduring image is the word "love"
0:11:41 > 0:11:43in upper case, red lettering,
0:11:43 > 0:11:47with the L and a tilted O on top of the V and E?
0:11:47 > 0:11:51In 1958, he changed his surname to that of his home state.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54- Robert Indiana.- Correct.
0:11:54 > 0:11:55And finally, adopting the name
0:11:55 > 0:11:57of the Midwest city in which she was born,
0:11:57 > 0:12:00which feminist artist's works include the large,
0:12:00 > 0:12:031970s, mixed-media installation entitled The Dinner Party?
0:12:05 > 0:12:07Judy Chicago.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09- Judy Chicago.- Correct.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11Ten points for this -
0:12:11 > 0:12:15in the 1947-48 cricket season, the Australian Bill Brown
0:12:15 > 0:12:20was twice run out while backing up, by which Indian bowler?
0:12:20 > 0:12:22His name is now used eponymously for this form of dismissal,
0:12:22 > 0:12:24regarded by some as controversial.
0:12:28 > 0:12:29Bodyline.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31No, that was a style of bowling.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34No, anyone like to buzz from The Courtauld?
0:12:38 > 0:12:41It's Mankad. Ten points for this - published in 2016,
0:12:41 > 0:12:45The Bricks That Built The Houses is the debut novel by which
0:12:45 > 0:12:49south London poet, playwright, spoken-word performer and rapper...?
0:12:51 > 0:12:52- Kate Tempest.- Correct.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54APPLAUSE
0:12:56 > 0:12:59You get three questions on the shipping forecast, Oxford Brookes.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02Two shipping forecast areas share their names with firths,
0:13:02 > 0:13:04or estuaries, on the Scottish coast.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06Please name both of them.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Forth and...?
0:13:11 > 0:13:14- I don't know, Clyde?- Yeah.- Try that.
0:13:14 > 0:13:15Forth and Clyde?
0:13:15 > 0:13:17No, it's Forth and Cromarty.
0:13:17 > 0:13:21And secondly, in 2002, the Finisterre shipping forecast area
0:13:21 > 0:13:24was renamed after which historical figure,
0:13:24 > 0:13:27the founder of the meteorological office?
0:13:28 > 0:13:29I don't, sorry.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31Does anyone listen to the shipping forecast at all?
0:13:31 > 0:13:33Just say somebody's name.
0:13:33 > 0:13:34Erm...Smith.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37No, it's Robert FitzRoy, the captain of HMS Beagle.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40And finally, "Is this your ridiculous idea of a joke?" -
0:13:40 > 0:13:43says a teacher in the 1969 film Kes,
0:13:43 > 0:13:47when Billy Casper interrupts his reading of the register
0:13:47 > 0:13:49after the name Fisher.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52What shipping forecast area does Billy call out?
0:13:52 > 0:13:55- German Bight.- Dogger. - Dogger? Is it Dogger?
0:13:55 > 0:13:56Dogger.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58No, it's German Bight.
0:13:58 > 0:13:59Ten points for this -
0:13:59 > 0:14:02what six-letter surname links a general who
0:14:02 > 0:14:05defected to the British during the American Revolution...?
0:14:07 > 0:14:08Arnold.
0:14:08 > 0:14:09Arnold is right, yes.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11APPLAUSE
0:14:12 > 0:14:16You get a set of bonuses on the works of Tennyson, Courtauld.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19In a poem by Tennyson, who what is described as sleeping...
0:14:19 > 0:14:22"Below the thunders of the ancient deep
0:14:22 > 0:14:25"Far, far beneath, in the abysmal sea
0:14:25 > 0:14:28"His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep"?
0:14:31 > 0:14:34- King Arthur.- No, it's the Kraken.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37"To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield,"
0:14:37 > 0:14:41is the last line of which dramatic monologue by Tennyson,
0:14:41 > 0:14:42named after a figure in Greek myth?
0:14:42 > 0:14:44Odysseus.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46Odysseus.
0:14:46 > 0:14:47No, it's Ulysses.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50And finally, referring to an episode in Homer's Odyssey,
0:14:50 > 0:14:52which poem by Tennyson states that,
0:14:52 > 0:14:55"Surely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil"?
0:14:55 > 0:14:56THEY CONFER
0:15:06 > 0:15:07Circe.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09No, it's the Lotus-eaters.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of music from an opera.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16For ten points, I want you to name the opera, please.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20SPARSE, ETHEREAL MUSIC
0:15:21 > 0:15:28# Summertime... #
0:15:30 > 0:15:32Porgy and Bess.
0:15:32 > 0:15:33Correct.
0:15:33 > 0:15:34APPLAUSE
0:15:36 > 0:15:39Summertime is, of course, one of the most-covered songs of all time.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42For your music bonuses, three more recordings of Summertime,
0:15:42 > 0:15:44each by a different solo artist.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47Five points in each case if you can give me the name of the artist.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49Firstly...
0:15:49 > 0:15:51LIVELY JAZZ SAXOPHONE
0:16:04 > 0:16:07Charlie Parker did play saxophone.
0:16:07 > 0:16:11- Miles Davis? - No, Miles Davis was the trumpet.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16No, I think Charlie Parker seems... Charlie Parker?
0:16:16 > 0:16:19- Charlie Parker. - No, that's John Coltrane.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21Secondly, who's this?
0:16:21 > 0:16:25SHUFFLING BLUES SOPRANO SAX AND GUITAR
0:16:45 > 0:16:49I don't think it's Miles Davis, because I think of Kind Of Blue...
0:16:49 > 0:16:51Louis Armstrong?
0:16:51 > 0:16:54No, that's Sidney Bechet. And finally...
0:16:54 > 0:16:55BRASS-BACKED FEMALE VOCALS
0:16:55 > 0:16:59# Summertime
0:16:59 > 0:17:03# And the living is easy
0:17:04 > 0:17:08# Fish are jumping
0:17:08 > 0:17:12# And the cotton is high... #
0:17:12 > 0:17:13Billie Holiday.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15It is Billie Holiday, yes.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17APPLAUSE Right, ten points for this -
0:17:17 > 0:17:21with a total mass probably no more than 5% of that of our moon,
0:17:21 > 0:17:25which group of objects are classified according to their
0:17:25 > 0:17:29reflection spectra by letters including S for siliceous,
0:17:29 > 0:17:32M for metallic, and C for carbonaceous?
0:17:34 > 0:17:36Asteroids.
0:17:36 > 0:17:37Correct.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40APPLAUSE
0:17:40 > 0:17:42You get a set of bonuses on the British coast,
0:17:42 > 0:17:43this time, Oxford Brookes.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46Flamborough Head is a chalk promontory that separates
0:17:46 > 0:17:51Filey Bay from which other bay, immediately to the south?
0:17:51 > 0:17:53It's also named after a seaside resort.
0:17:54 > 0:17:55Whitby?
0:17:55 > 0:17:59- Because they're both in Yorkshire. - Yes, yes. Go for Whitby.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01Whitby?
0:18:01 > 0:18:03No, it's Bridlington Bay.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05At the Battle of Flamborough Head,
0:18:05 > 0:18:10the Bonhomme Richard embarrassed the Royal Navy by capturing HMS Serapis.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12During which conflict did that occur?
0:18:14 > 0:18:17So, it's British and...American, did I hear?
0:18:17 > 0:18:20Or something else completely?
0:18:22 > 0:18:24I don't know.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27Conflict in British waters, I don't know...
0:18:27 > 0:18:29- Could it be the Civil War? - No, not in the water.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32I think we'd better have an answer, please.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34- Sorry, we don't know.- It's the American War of Independence.
0:18:34 > 0:18:38And finally - a few miles north of Flamborough Head, Bempton Cliffs
0:18:38 > 0:18:42is the site of a visitor centre owned by which registered charity?
0:18:44 > 0:18:48- Is that Salvation Army?- RSPCA?
0:18:48 > 0:18:51RSP... Birds.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53- The RSPB.- Yep, go with that.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55- What's that?- RSPB.
0:18:55 > 0:18:56RSPB.
0:18:56 > 0:19:00The RSPB, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, is correct.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Ten points for this -
0:19:02 > 0:19:04"Is he French or is he Flemish?
0:19:04 > 0:19:07"Whatever we say, someone will complain."
0:19:07 > 0:19:09To which painter does this refer?
0:19:09 > 0:19:10Born in 168...
0:19:10 > 0:19:14- Watteau.- Watteau is correct, yes.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16APPLAUSE
0:19:16 > 0:19:19You get a set of bonuses, Courtauld Institute, on human anatomy.
0:19:19 > 0:19:24To which organ of the human body does the adjective "otic" refer?
0:19:34 > 0:19:35The spleen.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37No, it's the ear.
0:19:37 > 0:19:41Secondly, which two nerve branches transmit sensory impulses
0:19:41 > 0:19:43for balance and hearing to the brain?
0:19:51 > 0:19:52Any ideas?
0:19:57 > 0:20:00- Central nervous system...- No, it's the vestibular and the cochlear.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03And finally, the cochlear and the vestibular nerves form
0:20:03 > 0:20:07a cranial nerve given what numerical designation?
0:20:12 > 0:20:13- Ten.- No, it's eight, or the eighth.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16Ten points for this -
0:20:16 > 0:20:19in 1984, what did George Orwell describe as,
0:20:19 > 0:20:23"The one public event to which the proles paid serious attention?"
0:20:25 > 0:20:27Ford's Day?
0:20:27 > 0:20:28No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31"..the proles paid serious attention.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33"It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne,
0:20:33 > 0:20:35"their intellectual stimulant."
0:20:36 > 0:20:37You may not confer.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44Drinking.
0:20:44 > 0:20:45No, it's the lottery.
0:20:45 > 0:20:49Ten points for this - which novel by Thackeray relates the life
0:20:49 > 0:20:53and times of its eponymous narrator, an 18th-century Irishman...?
0:20:55 > 0:20:57- Barry Lyndon.- Correct.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59APPLAUSE
0:20:59 > 0:21:03Your bonuses are on women buried in London's Highgate Cemetery.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Born in Bournemouth in 1880,
0:21:05 > 0:21:09which author was noted for The Unlit Lamp and The Well Of Loneliness?
0:21:13 > 0:21:15Any ideas?
0:21:15 > 0:21:17..I think early '20s...
0:21:17 > 0:21:20- I think we'd better have an answer, please.- Erm...
0:21:20 > 0:21:22Ah...
0:21:22 > 0:21:23Agatha Christie.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26No, I don't think so, no. It's Radclyffe Hall.
0:21:26 > 0:21:30Born in London in 1829, a poet, artist
0:21:30 > 0:21:32and model for several of the Pre-Raphaelite artists,
0:21:32 > 0:21:35known by what name before she married
0:21:35 > 0:21:38Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1860?
0:21:38 > 0:21:40- Lizzie Siddal.- Correct.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42And finally - born in London in 1902,
0:21:42 > 0:21:48an author and journalist noted for the 1932 novel, Cold Comfort Farm?
0:21:48 > 0:21:49- Stella Gibbons.- Correct.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Right, we're going to take another picture round now.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55For your picture starter, you're going to see a painting.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57Ten points if you can tell me who painted it?
0:22:02 > 0:22:03Turner.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06No, anyone like to buzz from The Courtauld? Quickly?
0:22:09 > 0:22:11You should have got this!
0:22:12 > 0:22:13It's by Constable.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16So we're going to take the picture bonuses in a moment or two,
0:22:16 > 0:22:19when someone gets a starter question right.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22Ten points at stake for this - the eighth-century Muslim saint,
0:22:22 > 0:22:26Rabiah al-Adawiyah, is seen principally as a mystic
0:22:26 > 0:22:29with direct experience of the divine,
0:22:29 > 0:22:33and hence is associated with which branch of Islam?
0:22:34 > 0:22:37- Sufi.- Sufism is correct, yes.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39APPLAUSE
0:22:39 > 0:22:41Now, you'll recall that you failed to identify
0:22:41 > 0:22:43John Constable's Harwich Lighthouse, which is
0:22:43 > 0:22:46part of the collection of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48For your bonuses, you're going to see
0:22:48 > 0:22:51three more English artists who are housed there.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54Five points for each artist you can identify. Firstly...
0:22:56 > 0:22:58THEY CONFER
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Come on.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10Erm...Waterhouse.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12No, that's Edwin Landseer, The Hunting Of Chevy Chase.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15Secondly, who's this by?
0:23:17 > 0:23:19THEY CONFER
0:23:26 > 0:23:27Turner.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30No, that's by Joseph Wright of Derby. And finally...
0:23:33 > 0:23:35- Ford Madox Brown.- Correct.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38You would have been in really deep doo-doo if you hadn't got that one.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40Right, ten points for this - whose use of the
0:23:40 > 0:23:44modularity conjecture for semistable elliptic curves was noted
0:23:44 > 0:23:49in the official citation for the Abel Prize for mathematics in 2016,
0:23:49 > 0:23:52in particular, as part of his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem?
0:23:54 > 0:23:57- Wiles.- Andrew Wiles is correct, yes.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59APPLAUSE
0:23:59 > 0:24:02So you get a set of bonuses on African capitals.
0:24:02 > 0:24:06In each case, name both the capital and its country.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09Firstly, the first four letters of the name of which African
0:24:09 > 0:24:15capital spell a word meaning a thump or sudden explosive noise?
0:24:16 > 0:24:18Bang. It might just be bang?
0:24:18 > 0:24:19Mombasa...?
0:24:22 > 0:24:25I don't know what starts with a bang.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27- Starts with bang?- Three letters? - No, four letters.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29Erm...
0:24:29 > 0:24:31I can't think of anything, really.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36Ah...
0:24:36 > 0:24:38Oh, Bangui, Central African Republic.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40Correct, yes.
0:24:40 > 0:24:44The first four letters of which capital spell an everyday, natural
0:24:44 > 0:24:49phenomenon, examples of which include helm, chinook and mistral?
0:24:49 > 0:24:52It's wind, so Windhoek...
0:24:52 > 0:24:54- Windhoek, Namibia.- Correct.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57And finally, the first four letters of which capital spell
0:24:57 > 0:25:01the name of an extinct, flightless bird of Mauritius?
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Dodo... So, Dodoma, Tanzania.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05- Dodoma, Tanzania.- Correct.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07APPLAUSE
0:25:07 > 0:25:10Ten points at stake for this - in 1935 and '57,
0:25:10 > 0:25:13which current German state was returned to Germany...?
0:25:15 > 0:25:17- Saarland.- Saarland is correct, yes.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19APPLAUSE
0:25:19 > 0:25:22Your bonuses are on baroque architecture now, Oxford Brookes.
0:25:22 > 0:25:26One of Germany's largest baroque palaces, the Ludwigsburg is
0:25:26 > 0:25:30situated in the south-west, just north of which state capital?
0:25:31 > 0:25:33What's southwest?
0:25:33 > 0:25:36It's Baden-Wurttemberg, so it might be Stuttgart that's around there.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39- Munich?- No, Munich is south-east.
0:25:39 > 0:25:40Stuttgart?
0:25:40 > 0:25:42Stuttgart is correct.
0:25:42 > 0:25:44And secondly, a Unesco World Heritage Site,
0:25:44 > 0:25:48the baroque residence of the former Prince-bishops is in which
0:25:48 > 0:25:52Bavarian city, between Nuremberg in Frankfurt?
0:25:53 > 0:25:56It's not Munich, that's nowhere near.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58Heidelberg?
0:25:58 > 0:25:59I don't think that's in Bavaria.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01We can try that.
0:26:03 > 0:26:04Heidelberg?
0:26:04 > 0:26:05No, it's Wurzburg.
0:26:05 > 0:26:09And finally, the Chinese House is in the grounds of the
0:26:09 > 0:26:14Palace of Sanssouci, in which German state capital, not far from Berlin?
0:26:14 > 0:26:17Leipzig isn't far from Berlin?
0:26:17 > 0:26:19I don't know if it's a state capital.
0:26:19 > 0:26:20Leipzig?
0:26:20 > 0:26:22- No, it's Potsdam.- Potsdam!
0:26:22 > 0:26:24Ten points for this -
0:26:24 > 0:26:26in 1914, the ruler of which Empire held
0:26:26 > 0:26:29titles including King of Jerusalem, Lord of the Windic March,
0:26:29 > 0:26:32Grand Prince of Transylvania and Grand Duke...?
0:26:33 > 0:26:36- Ottoman Empire. - No, you lose five points.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39..and Grand Duke of Tuscany and Krakow?
0:26:40 > 0:26:42One of you buzz, Courtauld?
0:26:44 > 0:26:45Austro-Hungarian Empire?
0:26:45 > 0:26:50Correct. You get a set of bonuses now on the US performer, Danny Kaye.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52Firstly for five - early in his career,
0:26:52 > 0:26:55Danny Kaye was noted for a patter song that recited names
0:26:55 > 0:26:59such as Stravinsky, Glinka and Rachmaninov in rapid succession.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02Which composer is the title figure of the song?
0:27:04 > 0:27:05THEY CONFER
0:27:08 > 0:27:09Come on.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11Who did Flight Of The Bumblebee?
0:27:14 > 0:27:16Let's have it, please.
0:27:16 > 0:27:17Tchaikovsky.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19It is Tchaikovsky. And other Russians.
0:27:19 > 0:27:24In a 1947 film, Kaye played which henpecked husband,
0:27:24 > 0:27:26the title character of a short story by James Thurber?
0:27:28 > 0:27:29THEY CONFER
0:27:34 > 0:27:35- Come on.- We don't know.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37It's Walter Mitty, as in The Secret Life Of.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39And finally, form the 1950s...
0:27:39 > 0:27:40GONG
0:27:40 > 0:27:43And at the gong, the Courtauld Institute of Art have 85,
0:27:43 > 0:27:45Oxford Brookes have 175.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47APPLAUSE
0:27:47 > 0:27:49Well, bad luck, Courtauld.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52You are going to get some stick for not identifying one or two
0:27:52 > 0:27:55of those paintings, I think. But never mind. Thank you very much.
0:27:55 > 0:27:58And Oxford Brookes, congratulations to you, we shall look forward to
0:27:58 > 0:28:01seeing you in the second round. Thank you for joining us.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03I hope you can join us next time for another first-round match.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06But until then, it's goodbye from the Courtauld Institute of Art...
0:28:06 > 0:28:09- Goodbye.- It's goodbye from Oxford Brookes University...
0:28:09 > 0:28:12- Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14APPLAUSE