0:00:23 > 0:00:26Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:29Hello.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32The first-round matches continue tonight with one of
0:00:32 > 0:00:33Oxford's smaller colleges playing
0:00:33 > 0:00:36a heavyweight London university.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39Whichever team prevails will earn a place in the second round,
0:00:39 > 0:00:42and if the losers can get themselves among the four highest-scoring
0:00:42 > 0:00:44losing teams from these first-round matches,
0:00:44 > 0:00:47they too could play again.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49Unlike its Cambridge namesake,
0:00:49 > 0:00:51which has appeared on this series on numerous occasions,
0:00:51 > 0:00:55Trinity College, Oxford, was last here in 2006.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58It was founded in the mid-16th century as a training house
0:00:58 > 0:01:00for Catholic priests by Sir Thomas Pope,
0:01:00 > 0:01:03a privy counsellor to Mary Tudor, but it later became a pillar
0:01:03 > 0:01:07of the Anglican establishment under Elizabeth I.
0:01:07 > 0:01:11It boasts an impressive old library dating to around 1420,
0:01:11 > 0:01:14a garden quad designed by Sir Christopher Wren
0:01:14 > 0:01:16and a formal hall requiring
0:01:16 > 0:01:18the wearing of gowns five nights a week.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20Alumni include Cardinal Newman,
0:01:20 > 0:01:23the playwright Terence Rattigan, the MP Jacob Rees-Mogg
0:01:23 > 0:01:26and in fiction, F Scott Fitzgerald's
0:01:26 > 0:01:28Jay Gatsby claimed to have gone there.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30Representing 430 students,
0:01:30 > 0:01:34with an average age of 19, let's meet the Trinity, Oxford, team.
0:01:34 > 0:01:36Hi, I Maxim. I'm from Olney,
0:01:36 > 0:01:40in Buckinghamshire, and I'm reading for a BA in history and politics.
0:01:40 > 0:01:41Hi, I'm Nicole.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43I'm for Hertfordshire and I'm studying maths.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45This is their captain.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47Hi, I'm James. I'm from Melbourne, Australia,
0:01:47 > 0:01:48and I'm studying classics.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51Hi, I'm Ben. I'm from Hadlow, in Kent,
0:01:51 > 0:01:54and I'm studying philosophy, politics and economics.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57APPLAUSE
0:01:57 > 0:02:01Now, University College London was established in 1826
0:02:01 > 0:02:03by the poet Thomas Campbell
0:02:03 > 0:02:06and the lawyer Henry Brougham with the aim of opening education
0:02:06 > 0:02:11in England for the first time to students of any race or religion.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13Its spiritual father, Jeremy Bentham,
0:02:13 > 0:02:15condemned Oxford and Cambridge,
0:02:15 > 0:02:18the only English universities at the time,
0:02:18 > 0:02:19as "the two public nuisances -
0:02:19 > 0:02:23"storehouses and nurseries of political corruption,"
0:02:23 > 0:02:26and his remains are famously housed within the college.
0:02:26 > 0:02:30Alumni include Mahatma Gandhi, the philosopher John Stuart Mill,
0:02:30 > 0:02:32the birth-control pioneer Marie Stopes
0:02:32 > 0:02:34and all the members of Coldplay.
0:02:34 > 0:02:39Representing around 38,000 students, with an average age of 22,
0:02:39 > 0:02:41- let's meet the team.- Hi, I'm Tom.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43I'm from Whitchurch, in Hampshire,
0:02:43 > 0:02:45and I'm studying for a BA in history.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48Hi, I'm Charlie. I'm from Chelmsford,
0:02:48 > 0:02:50and I'm sending for an MSc in neuroscience.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52- This is their captain. - Hi, I'm Robert Gray.
0:02:52 > 0:02:57I'm from Kings upon Thames, I'm doing a PhD in cell biology.
0:02:57 > 0:02:59Hi, I'm Omar Raii.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02I'm originally from Kabul and I study mathematics.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08OK, the rules are the same as ever.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10Starter questions are solo efforts.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12They have to be answered on the buzzer.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14They're worth ten points.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16And bonuses are team efforts worth 15.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18So, fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22Coined in the 1970s, what nine-letter term
0:03:22 > 0:03:24indicates the phenomenon in which the moon appears to be
0:03:24 > 0:03:27unusually large in the sky?
0:03:27 > 0:03:28Super moon.
0:03:28 > 0:03:32Super moon is right. APPLAUSE
0:03:32 > 0:03:36You get a set of bonuses on patience, Trinity.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39"One of the most notable examples of what can be achieved
0:03:39 > 0:03:42"by patience without much in the way of genius,"
0:03:42 > 0:03:46these words of Bertrand Russell refer to which German astronomer
0:03:46 > 0:03:48born 1571?
0:03:50 > 0:03:52German astronomers?
0:03:52 > 0:03:54- Hegel?- Pardon?- Hegel?
0:03:54 > 0:03:56- Astronomer. - That's not an astronomer.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58- Kepler, but he's not... - No, he's not German.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00- What about Herschel, where is he from?- Want to say Herschel?
0:04:00 > 0:04:03- I reckon he's later, but go on. - OK. Herschel.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05No, it was Kepler. THEY GROAN
0:04:05 > 0:04:09"Patience and time are my warriors, my champions."
0:04:09 > 0:04:13In which novel of the late 1860s does General Kutuzov
0:04:13 > 0:04:15make that observation?
0:04:15 > 0:04:18- I think that's War And Peace. - War And Peace.
0:04:18 > 0:04:19Correct.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23"She sat like patience on a monument, smiling at grief.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25"Was not this love indeed?"
0:04:25 > 0:04:28In which of Shakespeare's plays does Viola say those words?
0:04:28 > 0:04:30Oh, I guess that's me.
0:04:30 > 0:04:31Comedies...
0:04:31 > 0:04:34You've got Viola. Something like...
0:04:34 > 0:04:36Twelfth Night, that kind of thing?
0:04:36 > 0:04:38I always get those mixed up.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40- Do you want to just go with that, then?- Yeah.
0:04:40 > 0:04:41Twelfth Night?
0:04:41 > 0:04:43It is Twelfth Night, yes.
0:04:43 > 0:04:44Ten points for this.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47Called by the French philosopher Auguste Comte
0:04:47 > 0:04:48in the mid-19th century,
0:04:48 > 0:04:50what term...?
0:04:50 > 0:04:52- Sociology?- No, you lose five points.
0:04:52 > 0:04:56What term is defined as the disinterested or selfless concern
0:04:56 > 0:04:58for the wellbeing of others,
0:04:58 > 0:05:01especially as a principle of action and as opposed...?
0:05:01 > 0:05:03- Altruism?- Altruism is correct, yes.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06APPLAUSE
0:05:06 > 0:05:09You get a set of bonuses on an American organisation.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Firstly, for five.
0:05:11 > 0:05:15In 1871, the Union veterans Colonel William C Church
0:05:15 > 0:05:18and George Wingate founded which association?
0:05:18 > 0:05:22Its primary goal was to promote and encourage shooting
0:05:22 > 0:05:23on a scientific basis.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25- The NRA?- Yeah.- The NRA.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28The National Rifle Association is correct, yes.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32In 2000, which Oscar-winning actor and NRA president taunted
0:05:32 > 0:05:35opposing organisations with his declaration that they could
0:05:35 > 0:05:39have his gun when they prised it, "from my cold, dead hands"?
0:05:39 > 0:05:42- Clint Eastwood, isn't it? - Clint Eastwood?
0:05:43 > 0:05:46He'd be mortified. No, it's Charlton Heston.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49And finally, which film-maker became a lifetime member of the NRA
0:05:49 > 0:05:53in order to run against Heston as the organisation's president?
0:05:53 > 0:05:56His works include the documentary Bowling For Columbine.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58- Michael Moore. It's Michael Moore. - Yeah.- Michael Moore.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01Correct. Ten points for this.
0:06:01 > 0:06:05Andrea Wulf's 2016 work, The Invention Of Nature, concerns
0:06:05 > 0:06:10the life of which naturalist and explorer born in Berlin in 1769?
0:06:13 > 0:06:15- Alexander von Humboldt.- Correct.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18APPLAUSE
0:06:18 > 0:06:21Right, your bonuses are on recipients of the Royal Society's
0:06:21 > 0:06:25Hughs Medal, awarded in recognition of original discoveries
0:06:25 > 0:06:27in the physical sciences. In each case,
0:06:27 > 0:06:29identify the recipient from the citation.
0:06:29 > 0:06:33Firstly, the 1942 recipient for his outstanding contributions
0:06:33 > 0:06:37to the knowledge of the electrical structure of matter,
0:06:37 > 0:06:42his work in quantum theory and his experimental studies of the neutron.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44- BOTH:- Chadwick.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47- Chadwick?- No, it's Enrico Fermi.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50Secondly, the 1929 recipient for his invention
0:06:50 > 0:06:55and development of methods of counting alpha and beta particles.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58THEY WHISPER
0:06:58 > 0:07:00No idea. I think that's right. Geiger?
0:07:00 > 0:07:02Hans Geiger is right.
0:07:02 > 0:07:06And finally, the 1913 recipient for his share in the invention
0:07:06 > 0:07:08of the telephone and more especially the construction
0:07:08 > 0:07:10of the telephone receiver.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13- Graham Bell.- Bell?
0:07:13 > 0:07:15Alexander Graham Bell is correct, yes.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17APPLAUSE Ten points for this.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21In which ancient land of Western Anatolia were the first coins
0:07:21 > 0:07:24thought to have been created in the 7th century BC?
0:07:24 > 0:07:27The same word is the given name of Miss Languish
0:07:27 > 0:07:29in Sheridan's The Rivals
0:07:29 > 0:07:32and of a sister of Elizabeth...
0:07:32 > 0:07:34- Lydia?- Lydia is correct.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40These bonuses are on an allegorical poem, Trinity.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43John Dryden's verse satire Absalom And Achitophel
0:07:43 > 0:07:47represents contemporary public figures under biblical names.
0:07:47 > 0:07:51In the poem, King David is generally held to represent
0:07:51 > 0:07:52which royal figure?
0:07:52 > 0:07:54- So it's 17th century.- Mm-hm.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57- So...- Charles I, isn't it? No...
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Charles I because it's...
0:07:59 > 0:08:02- Charles I.- Charles I?
0:08:02 > 0:08:04No, it's Charles II. THEY GROAN
0:08:04 > 0:08:09Secondly, the character of Cora represents which renegade priest,
0:08:09 > 0:08:11the fabricator of the 1678 Popish plot?
0:08:13 > 0:08:16- Any idea?- John Fisher, just random guess.- John Fisher?
0:08:16 > 0:08:18No, it's Titus Oates.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21And finally, the title figure Absalom represents
0:08:21 > 0:08:23which of Charles's illegitimate sons?
0:08:23 > 0:08:26Four years after the poem's publication, he was executed,
0:08:26 > 0:08:29following a failed rebellion.
0:08:29 > 0:08:30I'm trying to think of his...
0:08:30 > 0:08:33Richmond or something? The Earl of Richmond?
0:08:33 > 0:08:35No, it was the Duke of Monmouth.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39For your picture starter, you'll see a map showing
0:08:39 > 0:08:43the distribution of rocks from a particular geological period.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45Ten points if you can name the period.
0:08:52 > 0:08:53Silurian.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55Anyone like to buzz from Trinity?
0:08:56 > 0:08:58Cambrian?
0:08:58 > 0:09:00No, it's Carboniferous, so we'll take the picture bonuses
0:09:00 > 0:09:03in a moment or two. Ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05Fingers on the buzzers, please.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08"Sculpture to me is primitive, religious, passionate and magical."
0:09:08 > 0:09:12These are the words of which 20th-century British artist?
0:09:12 > 0:09:15A fellow student of Henry Moore at Leeds College of Art,
0:09:15 > 0:09:17her home at St Ives is now...
0:09:18 > 0:09:19- Barbara Hepworth?- Correct.
0:09:19 > 0:09:23APPLAUSE
0:09:23 > 0:09:25So you get the picture bonuses.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28We follow on from that map of carboniferous rocks which
0:09:28 > 0:09:32you failed to identify with picture bonuses - three more outline maps
0:09:32 > 0:09:35showing the distribution of rocks of a particular geological period.
0:09:35 > 0:09:40Again, I simply need the period in each case. Firstly, this.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44It's not going to be Jurassic, like the Jurassic Coast.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47It could be... Ordovician?
0:09:47 > 0:09:50- OK.- Go for it.- Yeah, maybe that?
0:09:50 > 0:09:52- Ordovician?- No, that's Devonian.
0:09:52 > 0:09:53And secondly, this period.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57- That's Cambrian.- Cambrian, you think?- Cambrian.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00Cambria is in Wales, so it can't be Cambrian.
0:10:01 > 0:10:06- Permian?- I don't know... - They're quite old, aren't they?
0:10:06 > 0:10:09- Permian?- No, that's Jurassic. And finally this period.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14Oh, this is the chalk, isn't it?
0:10:14 > 0:10:16It's all chalk, so what's chalk going to be?
0:10:16 > 0:10:18Aside from "Calciriferous" or something like that.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20- That isn't one.- Um...
0:10:20 > 0:10:22- Cretaceous? - Cretaceous, yeah, good shout.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25- Cretaceous?- Correct.
0:10:25 > 0:10:26Ten points for this.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29The discovery of what particle in 1936 prompted the physicist
0:10:29 > 0:10:33Isidor Isaac Rabi to say, "Who ordered that?"
0:10:33 > 0:10:35It has a...
0:10:35 > 0:10:37- The positron? - No, you lose five points.
0:10:37 > 0:10:41It has a half life of about two microseconds
0:10:41 > 0:10:44and a mass of about 200 times that of the electron,
0:10:44 > 0:10:47with the same charge and spin as the electron.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52The anti-proton?
0:10:52 > 0:10:55No, it's the muon. Ten points for this.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58What is the original language of the literary works
0:10:58 > 0:11:01known by the English titles The Book Of Disquiet,
0:11:01 > 0:11:03The Elephant's Journey,
0:11:03 > 0:11:06The Posthumous Memoirs Of Bras Cubas,
0:11:06 > 0:11:08and The Lusiads?
0:11:12 > 0:11:13Venetian?
0:11:13 > 0:11:16No, anyone like to buzz from Trinity?
0:11:16 > 0:11:18- Sanskrit?- No, it's Portuguese.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20Ten points for this.
0:11:20 > 0:11:21Referring to a human activity,
0:11:21 > 0:11:26what general name is given to fish of the order Lophiiformes,
0:11:26 > 0:11:29which include several species in which males live as
0:11:29 > 0:11:33permanent parasites on their mates? They're characterised by...
0:11:33 > 0:11:36- Anglerfish? - Anglerfish is right, yes.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Your bonuses this time, Trinity, are on a fruit.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45Which tropical fruit is the most widely cultivated food crop
0:11:45 > 0:11:47of the plants in the bromeliad family?
0:11:47 > 0:11:50It's a source of the enzyme bromelain,
0:11:50 > 0:11:52used as a meat tenderiser.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56Mango or something?
0:12:00 > 0:12:02- Mango?- Go for it.
0:12:02 > 0:12:04- Mango?- No, it's pineapple.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06Secondly, which park near Stirling
0:12:06 > 0:12:10contains an elaborately sculpted giant stone pineapple,
0:12:10 > 0:12:12constructed in the 18th century?
0:12:12 > 0:12:16It forms a cupola of one of the buildings in its walled garden.
0:12:16 > 0:12:18I've seen a photo of it.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22I don't know. Pass.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24It's Dunmore Park.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26And finally, later arranged by Charles Mackerras,
0:12:26 > 0:12:29the music to the ballet Pineapple Poll
0:12:29 > 0:12:33was written by which English composer, born 1842?
0:12:33 > 0:12:35SHE WHISPERS
0:12:35 > 0:12:38- Elgar?- That's a good shout. Go with Elgar.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40- Elgar?- No, it's Arthur Sullivan.
0:12:40 > 0:12:41Ten points for this.
0:12:41 > 0:12:45The American Alfred G Badger is particularly associated with
0:12:45 > 0:12:49the manufacture in the 19th century of which musical instrument,
0:12:49 > 0:12:51helping to popularise the new system of keying
0:12:51 > 0:12:55developed by the German musician Theobald Boehm?
0:12:57 > 0:12:59- Trumpet?- No.
0:13:00 > 0:13:01- One of you buzz.- Saxophone?
0:13:01 > 0:13:04No, it's the flute. Ten points for this.
0:13:04 > 0:13:08What adjective links a 1919 work by HL Mencken,
0:13:08 > 0:13:11a painting of 1930 by Grant Wood,
0:13:11 > 0:13:16a novel of 1997 by Philip Roth, a film of 1999...
0:13:18 > 0:13:20- American.- American is correct, yes.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26Right, your bonuses are on Ireland this time, UCL.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28In each case, name the Irish county
0:13:28 > 0:13:30that shares its name with the following.
0:13:30 > 0:13:35Firstly, a Cambridge college founded in 1326
0:13:35 > 0:13:37and named after a granddaughter of Edward I
0:13:37 > 0:13:39and a follower of St Francis of Assisi
0:13:39 > 0:13:44who founded The Order Of Poor Ladies and was canonised in 1255?
0:13:45 > 0:13:50- Old Cambridge colleges. Pembroke, there's...- No.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53Irish counties. Cavan, Monaghan...
0:13:53 > 0:13:57- Downing.- Downing? - Downing's not old enough.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01- Peterhouse.- Kerry?
0:14:01 > 0:14:04- Sidney Sussex.- Galway.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07- Pembroke, go for that.- Pembroke?
0:14:07 > 0:14:10What, County Pembroke? That's in Wales, I think.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12No, it's Clare. THEY GROAN
0:14:12 > 0:14:15Secondly, a major Australian film director of the silent era
0:14:15 > 0:14:18and a British peer noted for championing penal reform
0:14:18 > 0:14:20and causes celebres?
0:14:21 > 0:14:24- Australian film director? - Of the silent era?- Yeah.
0:14:24 > 0:14:26The peer. Pick a county.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28The... No, that's Northern Ireland.
0:14:31 > 0:14:35- Social reform. Falconer? - No, it's not Falconer.
0:14:35 > 0:14:39- Donegal?- Not going to be Donegal, surely?- Donegal?
0:14:39 > 0:14:41No, it's Longford.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44And finally, a flavour of quark found in the neutron
0:14:44 > 0:14:47and a physician noted for his description of the genetic disorder
0:14:47 > 0:14:50caused by a third copy of chromosome 21?
0:14:50 > 0:14:52- Down.- Down is correct.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55Another starter question.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58Bruttium, or "Aga Brutius", was the name given in antiquity
0:14:58 > 0:15:03to the area roughly corresponding to which present-day Italian region?
0:15:03 > 0:15:06Having coastlines on both the Ionian and Tyrrhenian seas,
0:15:06 > 0:15:10it occupies the so-called toe of the country.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15- Calabria?- Calabria is correct, yes.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21Trinity, you get a set of bonuses on matrices.
0:15:21 > 0:15:26Firstly, from the name of a French mathematician born in 1822,
0:15:26 > 0:15:29what term is applied to a square matrix,
0:15:29 > 0:15:31the elements of which are complex numbers,
0:15:31 > 0:15:35and which is unchanged by taking the transpose of its complex conjugate?
0:15:39 > 0:15:42- Go for it.- Name a mathematician.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44Cauchy.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48- Cauchy? - No, it's a Hermitian matrix.
0:15:48 > 0:15:52Secondly, what name is given to a matrix with complex elements
0:15:52 > 0:15:55whose inverse is equal to the transpose of its complex conjugate?
0:15:58 > 0:16:01Transpose. Er...
0:16:05 > 0:16:07- Unitary?- Unitary?
0:16:07 > 0:16:09Unitary is correct.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12What term is commonly applied to the special case of a unitary matrix,
0:16:12 > 0:16:15all of whose elements are real numbers?
0:16:15 > 0:16:18- Orthogonal.- Orthogonal?- Correct.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20It's about time we had some music,
0:16:20 > 0:16:22so we're going to take a music starter.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24An excerpt from a musical, ten points if you can give me
0:16:24 > 0:16:26the title of the musical.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28# Your hero in... #
0:16:28 > 0:16:30- Hamilton.- Hamilton is correct.
0:16:34 > 0:16:36It's based on the life of the founding father
0:16:36 > 0:16:39and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42For your music bonuses, three more excerpts from that musical.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44This time, in each case, I want you to tell me
0:16:44 > 0:16:48the name of the historical character you can hear. Firstly...
0:16:52 > 0:16:55# France is following us to revolution... #
0:16:55 > 0:16:56Jefferson.
0:16:56 > 0:17:00That is Thomas Jefferson. Secondly name the soloist here.
0:17:00 > 0:17:01# Seven
0:17:01 > 0:17:03# Confession time Here's what I've got... #
0:17:03 > 0:17:05Aaron Burr. Aaron Burr?
0:17:05 > 0:17:07It is Aaron Burr, yes,
0:17:07 > 0:17:11the third vice president of the United States and Hamilton's killer.
0:17:11 > 0:17:12And finally...
0:17:12 > 0:17:14# You'll be back... #
0:17:14 > 0:17:17- George III. - George III is right, yes.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22Have you seen it yet?
0:17:22 > 0:17:23LAUGHTER
0:17:23 > 0:17:24Right, ten points for this.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27Which King of England defeated his older brother
0:17:27 > 0:17:29in the Battle of Tinchebray in Normandy?
0:17:29 > 0:17:31The defeated brother, Robert Curthose,
0:17:31 > 0:17:33was imprisoned until his death...
0:17:33 > 0:17:36- Henry I?- Henry I is correct.
0:17:39 > 0:17:43You get a set of bonuses on an animal, UCL.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46"With monstrous head and sickening cry
0:17:46 > 0:17:47"And ears like errant wings
0:17:47 > 0:17:51"The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things."
0:17:51 > 0:17:55These words from a poem by GK Chesterton refer to which animal?
0:17:57 > 0:17:59- Was it an elephant?- Yeah. Go for it. - Elephant?
0:17:59 > 0:18:02No, it's the donkey.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04Secondly, which 14th-century French philosopher gives his name
0:18:04 > 0:18:08to the dilemma of free will exemplified by an ass
0:18:08 > 0:18:11unable to decide between two identical haystacks
0:18:11 > 0:18:13from which to feed?
0:18:16 > 0:18:1814th-century French philosopher?
0:18:18 > 0:18:20- De Montaigne?- No, no, let's go...
0:18:20 > 0:18:22I can't think...
0:18:22 > 0:18:25Rabelais, Rabelais.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28- Rabelais?- No, it's Jean Buridan.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31And finally the pons asinorum, or ass's bridge,
0:18:31 > 0:18:34is a name given to a proposition related to the angles
0:18:34 > 0:18:38of an isosceles triangle in the works of which mathematician?
0:18:39 > 0:18:42Is it going to be Euclid, or...
0:18:42 > 0:18:44He wouldn't have done it in Latin, would he?
0:18:46 > 0:18:48But the name's just given to it.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54- I don't know. Euclid's better, I think.- No, why would it be in Latin?
0:18:54 > 0:18:56- It's given to it now.- Fine, OK.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59- Euclid?- Euclid is correct, yes.
0:19:00 > 0:19:01OK, 10 points for this.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03Quote, "A significant provincial adjective,
0:19:03 > 0:19:06"descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station
0:19:06 > 0:19:08"is exposed in stormy weather."
0:19:08 > 0:19:11What word is described in these terms
0:19:11 > 0:19:15in a novel of 1847 by Emily Bronte?
0:19:17 > 0:19:19Wuthering.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21Wuthering is correct, yes.
0:19:23 > 0:19:27Your bonuses, Trinity, are on female politicians in the Americas.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29Firstly, for five, from 1990,
0:19:29 > 0:19:33Eugenia Charles served as Prime Minister of which island country,
0:19:33 > 0:19:36situated between Martinique and Guadeloupe?
0:19:39 > 0:19:40St Lucia, maybe?
0:19:40 > 0:19:43- Do you know...? - St Lucia.
0:19:43 > 0:19:44No, it's Dominica.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Secondly, born in Chicago in 1920,
0:19:46 > 0:19:50Janet Jagan was the first female president in South America.
0:19:50 > 0:19:54Which country elected her to the office in 1997?
0:19:54 > 0:19:56THEY CONFER
0:20:00 > 0:20:03- What do you think? - Chile, maybe?- Chile, yeah...
0:20:04 > 0:20:06But mine's a guess.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08OK, that's two. Peru?
0:20:08 > 0:20:09No, it's Guyana.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13Since 2006, Portia Simpson-Miller has twice
0:20:13 > 0:20:18served as Prime Minister of which Caribbean island nation?
0:20:18 > 0:20:19What do you think?
0:20:19 > 0:20:22I thought it could be Barbados, but you had Jamaica first,
0:20:22 > 0:20:23and your politics is better than mine.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26- You're saying Jamaica? - Go for Jamaica?- Jamaica.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28It is Jamaica, yes. 10 points for this.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31What Latin preposition appears in two-word expressions meaning
0:20:31 > 0:20:35enduring forever, intended only for a specific purpose,
0:20:35 > 0:20:38and argument that criticises a person rather than...
0:20:38 > 0:20:40Ad.
0:20:40 > 0:20:41Ad is correct.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44Ad infinitum, ad hominem, etc.
0:20:44 > 0:20:48Right, you get a set of bonuses this time on the Roman Empire, UCL.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51Which client kingdom became a Roman province in AD 46?
0:20:51 > 0:20:54Covering much of modern day Bulgaria,
0:20:54 > 0:20:57notable figures from the area include the philosopher
0:20:57 > 0:21:01and mathematician Democritus and the slave Spartacus?
0:21:01 > 0:21:04THEY CONFER
0:21:07 > 0:21:09Thrace.
0:21:09 > 0:21:10Thrace is correct.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13Established by Augustus in Anatolia in 25 BC,
0:21:13 > 0:21:16which Roman province is thought to have given its name to
0:21:16 > 0:21:19the ninth book of the New Testament?
0:21:21 > 0:21:24THEY CONFER
0:21:31 > 0:21:34- No, we don't know. - It's Galatia.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37The letter of Paul to the Galatians being the reference, of course.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40And Camulodunum was the first capital of which province,
0:21:40 > 0:21:43established as a result of Claudius's invasion in AD 43?
0:21:43 > 0:21:45- Britain.- Correct.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50For your picture starter, you're going to see a painting.
0:21:50 > 0:21:5110 points if you can name the artist.
0:21:55 > 0:21:56Van Dyck.
0:21:56 > 0:21:57That is correct, yes.
0:22:00 > 0:22:04That is part of the collection at Holkham Hall, UCL,
0:22:04 > 0:22:06the seat of the Earls of Leicester in Norfolk.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09Your picture bonuses are three more paintings from that collection,
0:22:09 > 0:22:12with five points for each artist you can name.
0:22:12 > 0:22:14Firstly, for five....
0:22:15 > 0:22:18Looks like Poussin.
0:22:18 > 0:22:19Poussin.
0:22:19 > 0:22:20No, that's by Claude.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22And secondly...
0:22:26 > 0:22:27Gainsborough.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29That is Gainsborough - Thomas William Coke.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31And finally...
0:22:35 > 0:22:36Canaletto.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39It is Canaletto, yes. Right, 10 points at stake for this.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42"As soon as the coin in the coffer rings
0:22:42 > 0:22:44"The soul from Purgatory springs."
0:22:44 > 0:22:48In the 16th century, this couplet was attributed to the German friar
0:22:48 > 0:22:52Johann Tetzel and referred to what form of religious payment?
0:22:54 > 0:22:55Indulgences.
0:22:55 > 0:22:56Correct.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01Trinity, your bonuses are on pairs of words separated
0:23:01 > 0:23:07only by the prefixes pro and con - for example, profuse and confuse.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10In each case, give both words from the definitions.
0:23:10 > 0:23:14Firstly, the byname of the King of England from 1042 and the title
0:23:14 > 0:23:18held by Challenger and Moriarty in the stories by Conan Doyle.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20Confessor and Professor.
0:23:20 > 0:23:24Correct. Secondly, the political party led by Gandhi and Nehru,
0:23:24 > 0:23:28and an official term made by a monarch or a high dignitary.
0:23:30 > 0:23:31Progress?
0:23:31 > 0:23:34- Progress and Congress. - Is that right?
0:23:34 > 0:23:35OK.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37Progress and Congress.
0:23:37 > 0:23:38This is Congress and progress, yes.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41And finally, the fundamental principles according to which
0:23:41 > 0:23:43a body politic is governed,
0:23:43 > 0:23:48and an activity associated with Zola's Nana and Hugo's Fantine.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50Constitution and prostitution.
0:23:50 > 0:23:51That is correct. 10 points for this.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53Named after a pre-Columbian people,
0:23:53 > 0:23:57the Lucayan Archipelago comprises the Turks and Caicos Islands
0:23:57 > 0:24:01and which island nation lying to the north of the Greater Antilles?
0:24:04 > 0:24:06Bahamas.
0:24:06 > 0:24:07Correct.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12These bonuses, UCL, are on physiology.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14In each case, give the generic descriptor letter
0:24:14 > 0:24:17for the following vitamins. No numbers are required.
0:24:17 > 0:24:20Firstly, for five points, tocopherol.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24I haven't heard of that one.
0:24:24 > 0:24:25E or K?
0:24:25 > 0:24:28K, or it's not D, um...
0:24:28 > 0:24:31- E?- E is good, yeah, maybe, I don't know.
0:24:31 > 0:24:32- E.- Correct.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35Secondly, cholecalciferol.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38Cholecalciferol, I don't know.
0:24:38 > 0:24:39- Sound like bones - D? - D sounds right, yeah.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41- D.- Correct.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43And finally, phylloquinone.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45Phylloquinone...
0:24:47 > 0:24:48Well, it could be a B vitamin?
0:24:48 > 0:24:50Yeah, it might be B, yeah.
0:24:50 > 0:24:52B.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55No, K. Less than three minutes to go and 10 points at stake for this.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57"If God exists, why write literature?
0:24:57 > 0:25:00"And if he doesn't, why write literature?"
0:25:00 > 0:25:03These are the words of which French dramatist, whose works include
0:25:03 > 0:25:06The Bald Soprano and Rhinoceros?
0:25:09 > 0:25:10Eugene Ionesco.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Correct.
0:25:13 > 0:25:16These bonuses are on Russia, UCL.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19About the size of Scotland, what is Russia's largest island?
0:25:20 > 0:25:23THEY CONFER
0:25:23 > 0:25:25Sakhalin? Sakhalin?
0:25:25 > 0:25:27- Nominate Raii. - Sakhalin.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29Sakhalin is correct.
0:25:29 > 0:25:34Secondly, which Russian literary figure travelled to Sakhalin in 1890
0:25:34 > 0:25:37and later wrote a research thesis about the penal colony there?
0:25:37 > 0:25:39Dostoyevsky?
0:25:39 > 0:25:42Yeah, could be. Chekhov wouldn't do that, would he? So, Dostoyevsky.
0:25:42 > 0:25:43- Dostoyevsky. - No, it was Chekhov.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46And the Sakhalin oblast, or province,
0:25:46 > 0:25:49includes the Kuril Islands. Which country disputes sovereignty
0:25:49 > 0:25:51of the southernmost islands of that group?
0:25:51 > 0:25:52- Japan.- Japan.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54Correct. 10 points for this.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56Which decisive battle
0:25:56 > 0:25:57is the subject of the novelist
0:25:57 > 0:26:00Bernard Cornwell's first non-fiction work?
0:26:00 > 0:26:03Its subtitle is The History Of Four Days...
0:26:04 > 0:26:05Waterloo.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07Waterloo is correct.
0:26:08 > 0:26:12Your bonuses are on the Victorian company promoter Albert Grant.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15Grant is often said to have been the model for the bogus financier
0:26:15 > 0:26:18Augustus Melmotte in The Way We Live Now,
0:26:18 > 0:26:21a novel of 1875 by which author?
0:26:21 > 0:26:22Do you have any idea?
0:26:22 > 0:26:25THEY CONFER
0:26:29 > 0:26:31- Come on, let's have it. - Hardy?
0:26:31 > 0:26:32No, it's Trollope.
0:26:32 > 0:26:36In 1868, Grant was created a baron of the Kingdom of Italy
0:26:36 > 0:26:38in recognition of his services in the building of
0:26:38 > 0:26:42the Victor Emmanuel Gallery, a large commercial arcade in which city?
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Rome? Florence?
0:26:46 > 0:26:47Milan?
0:26:47 > 0:26:49In that time, Victor Emmanuel was King of...
0:26:49 > 0:26:51- Milan? Venice?- Yeah, could be Milan.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53Milan.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56It is Milan. And finally, in 1874,
0:26:56 > 0:26:58Grant restored the gardens of which London square, donating
0:26:58 > 0:27:02a statue of William Shakespeare which still stands there?
0:27:02 > 0:27:04Think of a London square.
0:27:04 > 0:27:05Um...Trafalgar?
0:27:05 > 0:27:08No... Leicester Square or something?
0:27:08 > 0:27:10- Let's have it, please. - Leicester Square.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Leicester Square is correct.
0:27:12 > 0:27:1410 points for this.
0:27:14 > 0:27:18Described heraldically as saltire gules in a field argent,
0:27:18 > 0:27:20the cross associated with which saint
0:27:20 > 0:27:23was added to the union flag in 18...?
0:27:23 > 0:27:25Andrew.
0:27:25 > 0:27:29No, you lose five points. ..In 1801.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31St Patrick.
0:27:31 > 0:27:32St Patrick is correct, yes.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36If you get these bonuses, it'll be level pegging.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38They're on politics and social science.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41In each case, give the single word that completes these titles.
0:27:41 > 0:27:45All three answers end in the letters -ism.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47GONG
0:27:54 > 0:27:56I could see why you were hurrying me, Mr Raii,
0:27:56 > 0:27:59but, I mean, if I hadn't told you what the answer needed to be,
0:27:59 > 0:28:01you'd have killed me!
0:28:01 > 0:28:04So, never mind, 145 may be well enough to come back
0:28:04 > 0:28:06as one of the highest-scoring losing teams.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09And Trinity Oxford, congratulations to you, you've won,
0:28:09 > 0:28:11you'll be back definitely in the second round,
0:28:11 > 0:28:13we shall look forward to seeing you again, thank you.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16I hope you can join us next time for another first round match,
0:28:16 > 0:28:18but until then, it's goodbye from UCL...
0:28:18 > 0:28:21- ALL:- Goodbye. - ..goodbye from Trinity Oxford...
0:28:21 > 0:28:23- ALL:- Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.