0:00:19 > 0:00:22University Challenge Champion of Champions.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:24 > 0:00:27APPLAUSE
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. This year is the 50th anniversary of BBC Two,
0:00:31 > 0:00:34making it almost as old as this programme.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37To celebrate the occasion, we've invited two remarkable
0:00:37 > 0:00:41institutions to compete against each other in an exhibition match.
0:00:41 > 0:00:45Magdalen College, Oxford and the University of Manchester
0:00:45 > 0:00:48have both taken the title of Series Champions four times,
0:00:48 > 0:00:51more than any other institutions.
0:00:51 > 0:00:53Tonight's teams include a representative
0:00:53 > 0:00:56from each of their triumphant years.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58Over the decades, about 5,000 students
0:00:58 > 0:00:59have taken part in this contest.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03They've done so not for money or for prizes, not even a cuddly toy.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06This must be the only television competition
0:01:06 > 0:01:08in which they have to bring their own one.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10They do it for a trophy and for glory.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13This show, though, is different. There's no trophy.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16Now it's perhaps fair to say that the team representing
0:01:16 > 0:01:18Magdalen College, Oxford are the more senior,
0:01:18 > 0:01:22simply because they started their winning earlier in 1997.
0:01:22 > 0:01:24- CHEERING - Calm down,
0:01:24 > 0:01:26- and be presented with the trophy. - Thank you very much.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28APPLAUSE
0:01:28 > 0:01:31'They're fielding the captain of each successful team.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34'They won the series again in 1998.'
0:01:34 > 0:01:36Many congratulations.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38'Then again in 2004.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40APPLAUSE
0:01:40 > 0:01:43'And most recently in 2011.'
0:01:43 > 0:01:44CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:01:44 > 0:01:46But let's ask them to introduce themselves
0:01:46 > 0:01:47in the time-honoured fashion.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52Hello, I'm Matthew Chan. I'm from Warwickshire,
0:01:52 > 0:01:54and I captained the team in 2011.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57After graduating with a BA and Masters in History, I spent two years
0:01:57 > 0:02:00in the Graduate School at Princeton before returning to Magdalen
0:02:00 > 0:02:05recently to begin studying for a doctorate in Modern French History.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Hello, my name is Freya McClements and I'm from Derry.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12In 2004, I captained the team from Magdalen College, Oxford,
0:02:12 > 0:02:15which became the first team ever to have won
0:02:15 > 0:02:18the series of University Challenge three times.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22I've since graduated with a BA in Modern History, and I'm now
0:02:22 > 0:02:25a writer and I'm also a journalist and producer with the BBC.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27And their captain?
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Hi, I'm Jim Adams.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31I was the captain of the first Magdalen team
0:02:31 > 0:02:33to win University Challenge back in 1997,
0:02:33 > 0:02:36and I graduated with a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38I'm now a consultant working
0:02:38 > 0:02:40for a business information company in London.
0:02:40 > 0:02:46Hello, I'm Sarah Healey. I captained the Magdalen winning team in 1998.
0:02:46 > 0:02:50I graduated with a degree in Modern History and English
0:02:50 > 0:02:51and I'm now a civil servant
0:02:51 > 0:02:54working in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56APPLAUSE
0:02:59 > 0:03:02Now, the team from the University of Manchester have selected
0:03:02 > 0:03:05one former captain from their past champions,
0:03:05 > 0:03:08and he led the team that won the 2012 series.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12- There we are.- Thank you. - Many congratulations, well done.
0:03:12 > 0:03:16Alongside him are players from the winning teams of 2006...
0:03:16 > 0:03:18APPLAUSE
0:03:18 > 0:03:19..2009,
0:03:19 > 0:03:21and most recently, 2013.
0:03:25 > 0:03:29Let's meet them again and find out what they're doing now.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Hi, my name's Henry Pertinez.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34I'm from Birmingham, and I was part of the Manchester team in 2009.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37I graduated with a PhD in Pharmacokinetics
0:03:37 > 0:03:41and I'm now a postdoctoral scientist at the University of Liverpool.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44Hi, I'm Gareth Aubrey, originally from Gloucester.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46I was a member of the winning team in 2006,
0:03:46 > 0:03:48and I graduated with degrees in
0:03:48 > 0:03:50Physics and Nuclear Science and Technology.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52I'm now a conveyancing paralegal
0:03:52 > 0:03:55and I start my traineeship as a solicitor later in the year.
0:03:55 > 0:03:56And this is their captain.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58Hi, I'm Tristan Burke from Ilkley in West Yorkshire.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01I captained the winning team in 2012
0:04:01 > 0:04:03when I was studying for a BA in English Literature.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06I've since studied for an MA in English Literature
0:04:06 > 0:04:09and I'm now studying for a PhD in English Literature.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13Hi, I'm Adam Barr. I'm from Muswell Hill in North London.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15I was on the 2013 winning team
0:04:15 > 0:04:19and I'm currently studying Physics and Astrophysics.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21I'll be graduating next year.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23APPLAUSE
0:04:27 > 0:04:30Er, well, one thing you should all know, of course, is the rules, so
0:04:30 > 0:04:33I won't bother reciting them, I will just tell you to
0:04:33 > 0:04:37put your fingers on the buzzers and here is your first starter for ten.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39"I judge no land in England better bestowed
0:04:39 > 0:04:42"than that which is given to our universities,
0:04:42 > 0:04:45"for by their maintenance our realm should be well governed
0:04:45 > 0:04:47"when we be dead and rotten."
0:04:47 > 0:04:51These are the words of which monarch, reputedly uttered when a
0:04:51 > 0:04:54subject requested their dissolution as quasi-monastic establishments?
0:04:54 > 0:04:56- BUZZER - Henry VIII.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58Correct.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00APPLAUSE
0:05:01 > 0:05:05Your bonuses, Manchester, are on political figures as described by
0:05:05 > 0:05:09Winston Churchill in his 1935 work, Great Contemporaries.
0:05:09 > 0:05:13In each case, identify the person from his words.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16"Does he, in the full sunlight of worldly triumphs,
0:05:16 > 0:05:20"still feel wracked by the hatreds and antagonisms
0:05:20 > 0:05:22"of his desperate struggle,
0:05:22 > 0:05:26"or will they be discarded under the mellowing influences of success?"
0:05:26 > 0:05:29Struggle suggests Hitler but would he have known Mein Kampf?
0:05:29 > 0:05:30That would have been my guess.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33Would he have known "kampf" meant "struggle?" I'm sure he would.
0:05:33 > 0:05:34Er, Hitler.
0:05:34 > 0:05:38Correct. "In the last phase, we see the aged president,
0:05:38 > 0:05:42"having betrayed all the Germans who had re-elected him to power,
0:05:42 > 0:05:45"joining reluctant and indeed contemptuous hands
0:05:45 > 0:05:46"with the Nazi leader."
0:05:46 > 0:05:47Is it Von Hindenburg?
0:05:47 > 0:05:49Is it Von Hindenburg or...?
0:05:49 > 0:05:50Yeah, Hindenburg.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Correct. "He has reached a phase
0:05:52 > 0:05:54"when the greater part of Europe would regard
0:05:54 > 0:05:58"the Hohenzollern Restoration they formerly abhorred beyond expression
0:05:58 > 0:06:01"as a comparatively hopeful event."
0:06:01 > 0:06:02Er, the Hohenzollern...
0:06:02 > 0:06:05Does that mean Kaiser Wilhelm? Kaiser Wilhelm?
0:06:05 > 0:06:08- Yeah.- Yeah?- Is that the obvious one? - Wilhelm II, yeah.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Erm, Kaiser Wilhelm II.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12It was the Kaiser, yes.
0:06:12 > 0:06:1310 points for this.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15APPLAUSE
0:06:15 > 0:06:20The character who marries Sebastian in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night,
0:06:20 > 0:06:23the surname of the English physicist who wrote The Principia,
0:06:23 > 0:06:26and the given name of Tony Blair's predecessor...?
0:06:26 > 0:06:29- BUZZER - Olivia Newton-John.
0:06:29 > 0:06:30Yes, well done!
0:06:30 > 0:06:32APPLAUSE
0:06:33 > 0:06:38I see you haven't learned any shame in the intervening years.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41These bonuses, Manchester, are on Art In Literature.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45"A man's faith might be ruined by looking at that picture."
0:06:45 > 0:06:46In which novel by Dostoevsky
0:06:46 > 0:06:49does a copy of Holbein's painting of The Dead Christ
0:06:49 > 0:06:52prompt this reaction from Prince Myshkin?
0:06:52 > 0:06:54The...uh, no. The Idiot.
0:06:54 > 0:06:55The Idiot is correct, yes.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57In which short novel by James Joyce
0:06:57 > 0:06:59does the protagonist student friend Lynch argue
0:06:59 > 0:07:01that "art induces desire",
0:07:01 > 0:07:05confessing that he once wrote his name in pencil
0:07:05 > 0:07:07on the backside of the Venus of Praxiteles?
0:07:08 > 0:07:11- Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man?- I don't know.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15Yeah - the Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17Correct. In which novel by Evelyn Waugh
0:07:17 > 0:07:19does the protagonist recall with dismay
0:07:19 > 0:07:22that as a student at Oxford, he decorated his rooms
0:07:22 > 0:07:25with a reproduction of van Gogh's Sunflowers
0:07:25 > 0:07:28and a porcelain figure of Polly Peachum?
0:07:28 > 0:07:30Brideshead Revisited, I guess.
0:07:30 > 0:07:31Brideshead Revisited.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33Correct. Ten points for this.
0:07:35 > 0:07:39Which engineer is this - born in Dijon in 1832,
0:07:39 > 0:07:44his career was marked by work on the Porto and Garabit Viaducts
0:07:44 > 0:07:47and on the framework of the Statue of Liberty?
0:07:47 > 0:07:48Bartholdi?
0:07:48 > 0:07:50No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:07:50 > 0:07:54He was nicknamed "The Magician of Iron"
0:07:54 > 0:07:56for the construction in 1889
0:07:56 > 0:07:59of the Paris structure that still bears his name.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01Eiffel.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03Gustave Eiffel is correct, yes.
0:08:06 > 0:08:10Right, these bonuses, Magdalen College, are on cosmology.
0:08:10 > 0:08:14By analogy with the Big Bang model of the origin of the universe,
0:08:14 > 0:08:17several competing hypotheses about the end of the universe
0:08:17 > 0:08:20also carry the epithet "Big".
0:08:20 > 0:08:25Which one posits that the universe will recollapse to a singularity,
0:08:25 > 0:08:27akin to the Big Bang in reverse?
0:08:27 > 0:08:28The Big Crunch?
0:08:28 > 0:08:29Correct.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32In what "Big" event does that collapse turn around
0:08:32 > 0:08:34to produce a re-expanding universe,
0:08:34 > 0:08:38a fate that's been predicted in various physical theories
0:08:38 > 0:08:40including loop quantum gravity?
0:08:42 > 0:08:43(Any idea?)
0:08:43 > 0:08:44THEY CONFER
0:08:44 > 0:08:45The Big Boomerang?
0:08:45 > 0:08:47No, it's the Big Bounce.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50And finally, what "big" end would involve
0:08:50 > 0:08:52the rapid disintegration of all matter,
0:08:52 > 0:08:54an idea developed in 2003
0:08:54 > 0:08:57by Robert Caldwell, Marc Kamionkowski
0:08:57 > 0:08:59and Nevin Weinberg?
0:08:59 > 0:09:00The Big Nothing?
0:09:00 > 0:09:02No, it's the Big Rip.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05We're going to take a picture round, now - for your starter,
0:09:05 > 0:09:07you're going to see a map of the world.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09Countries have been renamed
0:09:09 > 0:09:12so that their population correlates with their total area
0:09:12 > 0:09:17according to data from the invaluable CIA World Factbook.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19Therefore China, the most populous country,
0:09:19 > 0:09:22occupies Russia, the largest in area.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Everyone understand?
0:09:24 > 0:09:26Assuming this principle,
0:09:26 > 0:09:28what country should occupy the highlighted area?
0:09:32 > 0:09:33Canada.
0:09:36 > 0:09:37India.
0:09:37 > 0:09:38India is correct, yes.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40It was Canada, of course.
0:09:41 > 0:09:45It's the second-biggest country and India is the second most populous.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48So you get the picture bonuses, then, Manchester.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50I want you to identify the countries
0:09:50 > 0:09:52that should occupy the highlighted areas
0:09:52 > 0:09:55according to the same principle - firstly, for five.
0:09:57 > 0:09:58China's...
0:09:58 > 0:10:01No, China's smaller than the USA, so the fifth...
0:10:01 > 0:10:03- Fourth or fifth. - Indonesia or something, maybe?
0:10:03 > 0:10:07- Indonesia?- I've no idea. - That sounds really plausible.
0:10:07 > 0:10:08Indonesia.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10It is - the fourth most populous country,
0:10:10 > 0:10:12relocated to the fourth largest country.
0:10:12 > 0:10:13Secondly...
0:10:15 > 0:10:18- Australia.- Is that third or fourth?
0:10:18 > 0:10:21Australia's smaller than the USA, isn't it?
0:10:21 > 0:10:23It's like, fifth or sixth...Nigeria?
0:10:23 > 0:10:26- Nigeria's already on it. - Hang on, Bangladesh is big.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29- Bangladesh is on there. - It's on there?- Yeah.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31- Oh, yeah.- Yes, it is.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35- Pakistan?- Yeah...
0:10:35 > 0:10:36Pakistan.
0:10:36 > 0:10:40Indeed - the sixth most populous and sixth largest. Finally...
0:10:41 > 0:10:46- The United States, fourth... - No, third.- Third?
0:10:46 > 0:10:50- China was the fourth, so the third. - China, India, then...
0:10:50 > 0:10:51- USA?- It might well be.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53The United States.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Yes, well done, it's in the right place.
0:10:58 > 0:10:59Ten points for this -
0:10:59 > 0:11:02what is the name of the element which has a symbol
0:11:02 > 0:11:05corresponding to the forename and surname initials
0:11:05 > 0:11:07of the physicist responsible
0:11:07 > 0:11:09for the non-relativistic quantum wave equation?
0:11:12 > 0:11:14Palladium?
0:11:14 > 0:11:16No, anyone like to buzz...?
0:11:16 > 0:11:17Erbium.
0:11:17 > 0:11:18No, it's Einsteinium.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21Ten points for this - listen carefully.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23The answer is a common four-letter word.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26"A case of grammaticalization in progress"
0:11:26 > 0:11:28and "something we wish English had"
0:11:28 > 0:11:30are two responses by linguists
0:11:30 > 0:11:33to the frequently decried trend in colloquial speech
0:11:33 > 0:11:37of using what short word as a...?
0:11:37 > 0:11:38Like?
0:11:38 > 0:11:40Like is correct, yes.
0:11:43 > 0:11:48These bonuses are on Belgian cheese, Manchester.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50Which village in the province of Hainaut
0:11:50 > 0:11:52is home to a Trappist monastery
0:11:52 > 0:11:56that produces the Classique and Poteaupre cheeses
0:11:56 > 0:11:59and beers just as Blue and Gold.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01Uh...Chimay, isn't it Chimay?
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Yes! Is that how you say it?
0:12:03 > 0:12:04I have no idea - chim-ay?
0:12:04 > 0:12:07Um...Chim-ay or Chim-aye...
0:12:07 > 0:12:09You get the right place. It's "shim-aye", yes.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11Which historical duchy gives its name
0:12:11 > 0:12:14both to present-day provinces of Belgium and the Netherlands
0:12:14 > 0:12:18and to pungent soft cheeses, often with a reddish-brown rind?
0:12:18 > 0:12:19- Nominate Aubrey.- Limburg.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21Correct.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24Which village in West Flanders gives its name to a mild, creamy cheese
0:12:24 > 0:12:25made from cow's milk
0:12:25 > 0:12:28and to an Allied defensive of 1917,
0:12:28 > 0:12:31also known as The Third Battle of Ypres?
0:12:31 > 0:12:33- Passchendaele.- Passchendaele, yes. - Passchendaele.
0:12:33 > 0:12:34Passchendaele is right.
0:12:38 > 0:12:39Ten points for this -
0:12:39 > 0:12:42one of the most widely performed orchestral compositions
0:12:42 > 0:12:43of the Baroque era,
0:12:43 > 0:12:50what collective name is given to the six works, completed in 1721...?
0:12:50 > 0:12:51The Brandenburg Concertos.
0:12:51 > 0:12:52Correct.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58Your bonuses are on WEEE, Manchester -
0:12:58 > 0:13:01that is, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment,
0:13:01 > 0:13:05using information from the website of the Health and Safety Executive.
0:13:05 > 0:13:09Firstly, the HSE website mentions four chemical elements
0:13:09 > 0:13:12that may be found in e-waste - lead, arsenic
0:13:12 > 0:13:15and which two metals in the periodic table?
0:13:15 > 0:13:17They appear below zinc.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19- Gold?- Gold isn't dangerous, is it?
0:13:19 > 0:13:22- Mercury's one of them.- Mercury.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24- Cadmium.- Mercury and cadmi...
0:13:24 > 0:13:27Do you say cadMIum? You say it - nominate Aubrey.
0:13:27 > 0:13:28Mercury and cadmium.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30Correct.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33Older electrical equipment may include toxic substances
0:13:33 > 0:13:35known as PCBs.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37For what do the letters stand?
0:13:37 > 0:13:39Polychlorol...
0:13:39 > 0:13:44- Benzo...benzoates? Or Benzyls? - Yeah, it's...
0:13:44 > 0:13:47- It's polychloro-something. - Polychloroborides, I think?
0:13:47 > 0:13:50- Borides? - No, benzoates sounds more...
0:13:50 > 0:13:52- OK, benzoates?- I don't know.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55Polychlorobenzoates.
0:13:55 > 0:13:58No, they're polychlorinated biphenyls.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01And finally, the Health and Safety Executive website
0:14:01 > 0:14:04describes the number of televisions discarded in the UK each year
0:14:04 > 0:14:07as being over what round figure?
0:14:09 > 0:14:11- A million.- A million, why not?
0:14:11 > 0:14:13How many televisions are there in the UK?
0:14:13 > 0:14:16It's going to be high - a million.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18No, it's 2 million.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20We're disgustingly profligate.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22Right, ten point for this - in atmospheric physics,
0:14:22 > 0:14:25what term denotes the transition zone
0:14:25 > 0:14:29where the environmental lapse rate changes from positive to negative?
0:14:29 > 0:14:32It forms the boundary between the troposphere and...
0:14:32 > 0:14:33The tropopause.
0:14:33 > 0:14:34Yes, well done.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42Right, your bonuses this time, Manchester,
0:14:42 > 0:14:44are on Asian maritime empires.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47Firstly, for five points, founded in the 7th century
0:14:47 > 0:14:50and important in the spread of Mahayana Buddhism,
0:14:50 > 0:14:54the maritime empire known as Srivijiya
0:14:54 > 0:14:57had its capital at Palembang on which island?
0:14:57 > 0:14:59- That's Sumatra.- Sumatra.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02- Does that sound plausible to you? - Yeah.- Sumatra.
0:15:02 > 0:15:03Sumatra is correct.
0:15:03 > 0:15:07Secondly, the Chola empire which seized Palembang in 1025
0:15:07 > 0:15:10was a maritime and commercial kingdom
0:15:10 > 0:15:13based in which present-day Indian state?
0:15:13 > 0:15:15Tamil Nadu, maybe?
0:15:15 > 0:15:16- That's the obvious one.- Yeah.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18- Nominate Barr. - Tamil Nadu?
0:15:18 > 0:15:19Correct.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22Claiming much of Sumatra, Bali and Borneo,
0:15:22 > 0:15:25the Majapahit empire flourished in the 14th century
0:15:25 > 0:15:29and was based in the valley of the Brantas River on which island?
0:15:31 > 0:15:33So...this is going to be either...
0:15:33 > 0:15:37- Did he mention Borneo?- Yeah, that was Bali and parts of Borneo.
0:15:37 > 0:15:38- Java, then?- Java, yeah.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40Java.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42Java is correct - plenty of time yet, Magdalen.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44They're going to get embarrassed
0:15:44 > 0:15:46about looking a bit too keen very shortly.
0:15:46 > 0:15:47LAUGHTER
0:15:47 > 0:15:50We're going to take a music round, now - for your music starter,
0:15:50 > 0:15:53you'll hear two pieces of classical music in quick succession.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55For ten points, tell me the nationality
0:15:55 > 0:15:59these two composers have in common.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02MUSIC: "The Rustle Of Spring, Op. 32, No. 3"
0:16:07 > 0:16:10MUSIC: "Morning Mood"
0:16:10 > 0:16:11Uh, Norwegian.
0:16:11 > 0:16:12You're right, yes.
0:16:16 > 0:16:18The Grieg was a dead giveaway, wasn't it?
0:16:18 > 0:16:23The other person was Sinding's Rustle of Spring.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25Your bonuses, three other pairs of composers,
0:16:25 > 0:16:28both of whom are associated with the same present-day country.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30In each case, simply name the country.
0:16:30 > 0:16:34Remember, you'll be hearing two pieces per question. Firstly...
0:16:34 > 0:16:37SONG: "Ma Vlast"
0:16:37 > 0:16:39Czechoslovakia...
0:16:39 > 0:16:41Present-day country. Oh, OK.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46Let's just wait till we hear the other.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50MUSIC: "Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 - No. 1 in C"
0:16:52 > 0:16:53One of two Czechs.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57- Do you know what this is?- I know the music, I don't know who did it.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00- Shall I say the Czech Republic? - Yeah.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02The Czech Republic.
0:17:02 > 0:17:03That's correct.
0:17:03 > 0:17:04Secondly...
0:17:04 > 0:17:07SONG: "The Merry Widow - Overture"
0:17:10 > 0:17:11Is it...?
0:17:11 > 0:17:14They could be Polish dances, they could be Hungarian dances.
0:17:14 > 0:17:18- Who were they by?- I don't know, I just know the countries.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Thinking of countries with dances.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:17:29 > 0:17:33I thought it might be Poland or it might be...
0:17:33 > 0:17:35- Poland or what?- I'd go with Poland.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37- Does anyone have a better suggestion?- No.
0:17:37 > 0:17:38Poland.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41You could have taken a better suggestion. It's Hungary.
0:17:41 > 0:17:44Lehar and Bartok. And finally...
0:17:44 > 0:17:46MUSIC: "Violin Concerto No.1 in G Minor, Op. 26-3. Finale"
0:17:58 > 0:18:00MUSIC: "Violin Concerto In E Minor, Op. 64-1"
0:18:03 > 0:18:05- Austria?- Austria or Germany.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07Austria?
0:18:07 > 0:18:10Yeah. Yeah.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13Yeah - Austria.
0:18:13 > 0:18:14No, it's Germany.
0:18:14 > 0:18:15LAUGHTER
0:18:17 > 0:18:20Right, ten points for this - what French verb is this?
0:18:20 > 0:18:23In English, the adjective from its past participle is sometimes
0:18:23 > 0:18:26applied to questions on this programme
0:18:26 > 0:18:28with the meaning of "far-fetched" or "obscure".
0:18:28 > 0:18:32Other forms of the same verb appear on French web pages
0:18:32 > 0:18:33where they mean "search."
0:18:35 > 0:18:38Chercher? Cherche?
0:18:38 > 0:18:39BUZZER
0:18:39 > 0:18:40Ouvrir?
0:18:40 > 0:18:42No, it's rechercher.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44So ten points for this.
0:18:44 > 0:18:49Listen carefully - ICANN, that's I-C-A-N-N,
0:18:49 > 0:18:53is a nonprofit organisation set up in 1988 to oversee
0:18:53 > 0:18:56and administer certain aspects of the internet...
0:18:57 > 0:18:59Internet domain names?
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Uh, no. You lose five points.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04Certain aspects of the internet, for example, top-level domains.
0:19:04 > 0:19:09For what do the letters "NN" of ICANN stand?
0:19:11 > 0:19:12Network name.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15No, it's names and numbers. Ten points for this.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18The name of which board game rhymes with words meaning
0:19:18 > 0:19:20"take part in in a superficial way",
0:19:20 > 0:19:24"talk rapidly and unintelligibly", and...?
0:19:24 > 0:19:25Scrabble.
0:19:25 > 0:19:26Yes.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34Magdalen, your bonuses are on anthropomorphic locomotives
0:19:34 > 0:19:37in the Reverend W Awdry's railway series.
0:19:38 > 0:19:41For each answer, I want the name of the engine and its colour,
0:19:41 > 0:19:43or other designation.
0:19:43 > 0:19:47Each question consists of two clues to the name.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51Firstly, a 10th century king of Germany nicknamed "The Fowler"
0:19:51 > 0:19:56and a 12th Duke of Saxony and of Bavaria, nicknamed "The Lion".
0:19:57 > 0:20:01- Henry is the second one.- So Henry...
0:20:01 > 0:20:05- Is Henry blue?- Is Henry blue? I don't know.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08It's only one name.
0:20:09 > 0:20:14- So it's Henry, and you think he's blue.- I think he might be blue.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17- You think he's green? - I have no idea.- Edward...
0:20:17 > 0:20:18THEY CONFER
0:20:18 > 0:20:21- Oh, no, he's green.- He's green. - Henry, green.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Henry the green engine is correct, yes!
0:20:25 > 0:20:29Secondly, the English painter of King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
0:20:29 > 0:20:33and the US artist whose works include Nighthawks.
0:20:34 > 0:20:37- That's, um...- Hopper.- Edward.- Edward.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39Edward is blue.
0:20:39 > 0:20:40Edward is blue?
0:20:40 > 0:20:41Edward, blue.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43Well done, yes.
0:20:43 > 0:20:47And finally, the England goalkeeper in the 1966 World Cup final
0:20:47 > 0:20:50and the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997-2007.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53Gordon.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55Gordon, and he's also green?
0:20:55 > 0:20:57No - Gordon was the big engine
0:20:57 > 0:20:59and so there was no colour involved at all.
0:20:59 > 0:21:00Did ask for other designations.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02Right, ten points for this -
0:21:02 > 0:21:04they're spellings differing by only one letter.
0:21:04 > 0:21:08Give the two words which mean an apparent orbital oscillation
0:21:08 > 0:21:11and an offering of wine to the gods,
0:21:11 > 0:21:14for example, in the title of a play by Aeschylus.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Libration and libation?
0:21:18 > 0:21:19Correct.
0:21:23 > 0:21:24These bonuses are on physics.
0:21:24 > 0:21:28If two parallel conductors of infinite length are 1m apart
0:21:28 > 0:21:33and experience a force of 2x10 to the -7 Newtons per metre of length,
0:21:33 > 0:21:36what is the constant current flowing in each of the wires?
0:21:39 > 0:21:40Leave him to it...
0:21:42 > 0:21:433...
0:21:48 > 0:21:52- 1 amp?- Yeah, just go for it. - 1? Not 3?- 3...try 3.5.
0:21:52 > 0:21:543.5 amps.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56No, it was 1 amp.
0:21:56 > 0:21:57LAUGHTER
0:21:57 > 0:22:01Ampere's law states that a constant net current through an area
0:22:01 > 0:22:05is proportional to the line integral around the area of which quantity?
0:22:05 > 0:22:06The...
0:22:06 > 0:22:07Resistance?
0:22:07 > 0:22:10No, it's line integral around the surface it's flowing through.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13- Flowing through?- The surface it's flowing through.- The surface?- Yeah.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15The surface it's flowing through.
0:22:15 > 0:22:18No, it's the magnetic field or magnetic field strength.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20Finally, what is the value of the line integral
0:22:20 > 0:22:23taken around the closed loop of an electric field
0:22:23 > 0:22:26in the presence of a magnetic field B,
0:22:26 > 0:22:28which does not vary in time?
0:22:31 > 0:22:33- Does not vary in time?- Zero. - Zero?- Yeah.- Zero.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35Zero is correct, yes.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38A second picture round. For your starter, you'll see
0:22:38 > 0:22:41a painting illustrating a major literary work.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44For ten points, I want you to give me the name of the character
0:22:44 > 0:22:46seated on the left.
0:22:51 > 0:22:52Penelope?
0:22:52 > 0:22:54It is Penelope, yes.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00She was waiting at her loom for Odysseus.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03Your picture bonuses are paintings of three more of the three
0:23:03 > 0:23:05major female figures in Homer's Odyssey.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08Five points for each you can name. Firstly, for five...
0:23:10 > 0:23:12That's Circe, isn't it?
0:23:12 > 0:23:13Circe?
0:23:13 > 0:23:16Correct. Secondly, the central figure here.
0:23:19 > 0:23:20- Oh. Um...- Samson and...?
0:23:20 > 0:23:23No, she's not - that's the Bible.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26Um - anyone? Any ideas?
0:23:28 > 0:23:32- You know the name? - Oh, it's, um...Agamemnon's wife.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34- Clytemnestra. - Clytemnestra? Clytemnestra.
0:23:34 > 0:23:38Correct. And finally, the figure on the right here.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42- Oh, that's... - That's Athena, isn't it?
0:23:42 > 0:23:43Pallas Athena.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45Athena is correct - Minerva, yes.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47Ten points for this - what four words
0:23:47 > 0:23:49describe all of the following,
0:23:49 > 0:23:53according to the title of a song first released in 1979?
0:23:53 > 0:23:55"The juice of a carrot The smile of a parrot
0:23:55 > 0:23:58"A little drop of claret Anything that rocks."
0:24:00 > 0:24:01Reasons to be cheerful.
0:24:01 > 0:24:02Yes.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09Manchester, these bonuses are on chemical symbols.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12I will give definitions of two words that end in the same two letters
0:24:12 > 0:24:15which form the symbol of a chemical element.
0:24:15 > 0:24:18I want you to name the element in each case.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21One example might be the Greek letter that follows sigma is tau,
0:24:21 > 0:24:24which gives Au, so the answer is gold,
0:24:24 > 0:24:26if you understand.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29Firstly, the principle language of Bangladesh
0:24:29 > 0:24:33and the Prime Minister who succeeded Gladstone in 1874.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36Bengali - it's lithium.
0:24:36 > 0:24:37- Lithium.- Lithium.
0:24:37 > 0:24:38Correct.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41Secondly, the prefix denoting 10 to the -12
0:24:41 > 0:24:44and the largest river of Venezuela.
0:24:45 > 0:24:46Nano is 10 to the -9.
0:24:46 > 0:24:47Pico.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50- Co - cobalt, cobalt.- Cobalt?- Cobalt.
0:24:50 > 0:24:51Cobalt.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53Cobalt is correct.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56And finally, a mission in San Antonio, Texas,
0:24:56 > 0:24:58besieged in 1836,
0:24:58 > 0:25:01and a musical direction meaning "very softly."
0:25:01 > 0:25:02Nominate Pertinez.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04- Molybdenum.- Correct.
0:25:04 > 0:25:05Ten points for this.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07APPLAUSE
0:25:07 > 0:25:10From a short verb meaning "trouble" or "harass,"
0:25:10 > 0:25:13what nine-letter term is applied to litigation
0:25:13 > 0:25:15initiated without sufficient...
0:25:15 > 0:25:16Vexatious.
0:25:16 > 0:25:17Correct.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19APPLAUSE
0:25:21 > 0:25:24Your bonuses this time, Magdalen College, are on a campaigner.
0:25:24 > 0:25:28Born in 1870, Maria Dickin is best known as the founder of which
0:25:28 > 0:25:30charity during World War II?
0:25:30 > 0:25:34She instituted an eponymous award sometimes called
0:25:34 > 0:25:35"the animals' Victoria Cross."
0:25:35 > 0:25:38THEY WHISPER
0:25:38 > 0:25:41The RSPCA... The Dickin Medal is the medal. The RSPCA?
0:25:41 > 0:25:43RSPCA.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46No, it was the PDSA, the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals.
0:25:46 > 0:25:50Since 1943, the Dickin Medal has been awarded 64 times
0:25:50 > 0:25:52to 28 dogs and 3 horses.
0:25:52 > 0:25:56What species has the most recipients with 32?
0:25:56 > 0:25:58- It's pigeons, isn't it?- Mm. - Pigeons.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00Correct.
0:26:00 > 0:26:04Simon is the only cat to received the Dickin Medal for disposing of
0:26:04 > 0:26:06many rats although wounded by shell blast
0:26:06 > 0:26:09aboard on HMS Amethyst in 1949.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12This occurred after shelling by the People's Liberation Army
0:26:12 > 0:26:16in an international incident named after which major river?
0:26:16 > 0:26:17That's the Yangtze, isn't it?
0:26:17 > 0:26:19It's the Yangtze.
0:26:19 > 0:26:20Correct. 10 points for this.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23Before 1921, which US game show host gives his name
0:26:23 > 0:26:26to a much-discussed question...
0:26:26 > 0:26:28- Monty Hall.- Monty Hall is right.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30APPLAUSE
0:26:31 > 0:26:34Your bonuses are on linguistic typology, Manchester.
0:26:34 > 0:26:38When describing the common word order of languages
0:26:38 > 0:26:41such as English, Malayan and Mandarin Chinese,
0:26:41 > 0:26:44for what do for what do the letters SVO stand?
0:26:44 > 0:26:45Subject-verb-object.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47- Subject-verb-object.- Correct.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50Welsh and Irish are frequently cited examples of what word order
0:26:50 > 0:26:53type comprising around 10% of the world's languages?
0:26:53 > 0:26:54Verb at the end, I think.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57- Verb at the end.- And then... Er...
0:26:57 > 0:26:58How does it work in Latin?
0:26:58 > 0:27:01Subject-object-verb or object-subject-verb?
0:27:01 > 0:27:02- SOV.- I think it's...
0:27:02 > 0:27:04Subject-object-verb.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06No, it's verb-subject-object.
0:27:06 > 0:27:10And finally, object-subject-verb constructions such as
0:27:10 > 0:27:13"much to learn you still have" are a feature of the speech of which
0:27:13 > 0:27:17fictional character who first appeared in a film in 1980?
0:27:17 > 0:27:18- Yoda.- Correct. 10 points for this.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21In mathematics, what is the determinant of
0:27:21 > 0:27:24a nilpotent matrix defined to be
0:27:24 > 0:27:279a matrix that equals the null matrix after
0:27:27 > 0:27:30being raised to some positive integer power?
0:27:31 > 0:27:33- Zero.- Zero is correct, yes.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35APPLAUSE
0:27:36 > 0:27:39Your bonuses are on epidemiology, Manchester, this time.
0:27:39 > 0:27:43What two-word terms denoting the initial case in an
0:27:43 > 0:27:47epidemiological investigation of an outbreak of infectious disease?
0:27:47 > 0:27:51- Patient zero.- Patient zero.- Can you corroborate that?- Sounds right.
0:27:51 > 0:27:52Patient zero.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54Patient zero or index case or primary case.
0:27:54 > 0:27:59Born in 1869, the cook Mary Mallon was the index case of a number
0:27:59 > 0:28:03of outbreaks in North America of which foodborne disease?
0:28:03 > 0:28:06- It's typhoid because she's Typhoid Mary.- Sure?- Sure.
0:28:06 > 0:28:07- Typhoid.- Correct.
0:28:07 > 0:28:11An outbreak of which infectious disease in the 1850s was
0:28:11 > 0:28:15investigated by the physician John Snow, who traced its source
0:28:15 > 0:28:18to Broad Street, now Broadwick Street, in Soho?
0:28:18 > 0:28:20- Cholera.- Correct. 10 points for this.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22From the Greek meaning to cut,
0:28:22 > 0:28:24what term denotes the figure of speech in which...
0:28:24 > 0:28:26GONG APPLAUSE
0:28:26 > 0:28:30Magdalen College Oxford have 80, Manchester University have 230.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35It was a bit of a whitewash, Magdalen, wasn't it?
0:28:35 > 0:28:37Thank you very much for taking part.
0:28:37 > 0:28:40Congratulations, Manchester, you receive absolutely nothing
0:28:40 > 0:28:43at all beyond a bit of opportunity to boast, I suppose.
0:28:43 > 0:28:46But actually, I'd like to say to both teams,
0:28:46 > 0:28:48it was jolly nice of you to come, you didn't have to,
0:28:48 > 0:28:50you're all grown-ups with other things you could've done
0:28:50 > 0:28:53with your time, so thank you all very much for taking part.
0:28:53 > 0:28:55And thank you for watching. Good night.
0:28:55 > 0:28:58APPLAUSE