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University Challenge Champion of Champions.

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Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

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APPLAUSE

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Hello. This year is the 50th anniversary of BBC Two,

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making it almost as old as this programme.

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To celebrate the occasion, we've invited two remarkable

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institutions to compete against each other in an exhibition match.

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Magdalen College, Oxford and the University of Manchester

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have both taken the title of Series Champions four times,

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more than any other institutions.

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Tonight's teams include a representative

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from each of their triumphant years.

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Over the decades, about 5,000 students

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have taken part in this contest.

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They've done so not for money or for prizes, not even a cuddly toy.

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This must be the only television competition

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in which they have to bring their own one.

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They do it for a trophy and for glory.

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This show, though, is different. There's no trophy.

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Now it's perhaps fair to say that the team representing

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Magdalen College, Oxford are the more senior,

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simply because they started their winning earlier in 1997.

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-CHEERING

-Calm down,

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-and be presented with the trophy.

-Thank you very much.

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APPLAUSE

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'They're fielding the captain of each successful team.

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'They won the series again in 1998.'

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Many congratulations.

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'Then again in 2004.

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APPLAUSE

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'And most recently in 2011.'

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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But let's ask them to introduce themselves

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in the time-honoured fashion.

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Hello, I'm Matthew Chan. I'm from Warwickshire,

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and I captained the team in 2011.

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After graduating with a BA and Masters in History, I spent two years

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in the Graduate School at Princeton before returning to Magdalen

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recently to begin studying for a doctorate in Modern French History.

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Hello, my name is Freya McClements and I'm from Derry.

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In 2004, I captained the team from Magdalen College, Oxford,

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which became the first team ever to have won

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the series of University Challenge three times.

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I've since graduated with a BA in Modern History, and I'm now

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a writer and I'm also a journalist and producer with the BBC.

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And their captain?

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Hi, I'm Jim Adams.

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I was the captain of the first Magdalen team

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to win University Challenge back in 1997,

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and I graduated with a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy.

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I'm now a consultant working

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for a business information company in London.

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Hello, I'm Sarah Healey. I captained the Magdalen winning team in 1998.

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I graduated with a degree in Modern History and English

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and I'm now a civil servant

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working in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

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APPLAUSE

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Now, the team from the University of Manchester have selected

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one former captain from their past champions,

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and he led the team that won the 2012 series.

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-There we are.

-Thank you.

-Many congratulations, well done.

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Alongside him are players from the winning teams of 2006...

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APPLAUSE

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..2009,

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and most recently, 2013.

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Let's meet them again and find out what they're doing now.

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Hi, my name's Henry Pertinez.

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I'm from Birmingham, and I was part of the Manchester team in 2009.

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I graduated with a PhD in Pharmacokinetics

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and I'm now a postdoctoral scientist at the University of Liverpool.

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Hi, I'm Gareth Aubrey, originally from Gloucester.

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I was a member of the winning team in 2006,

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and I graduated with degrees in

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Physics and Nuclear Science and Technology.

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I'm now a conveyancing paralegal

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and I start my traineeship as a solicitor later in the year.

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And this is their captain.

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Hi, I'm Tristan Burke from Ilkley in West Yorkshire.

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I captained the winning team in 2012

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when I was studying for a BA in English Literature.

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I've since studied for an MA in English Literature

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and I'm now studying for a PhD in English Literature.

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Hi, I'm Adam Barr. I'm from Muswell Hill in North London.

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I was on the 2013 winning team

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and I'm currently studying Physics and Astrophysics.

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I'll be graduating next year.

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APPLAUSE

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Er, well, one thing you should all know, of course, is the rules, so

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I won't bother reciting them, I will just tell you to

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put your fingers on the buzzers and here is your first starter for ten.

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"I judge no land in England better bestowed

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"than that which is given to our universities,

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"for by their maintenance our realm should be well governed

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"when we be dead and rotten."

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These are the words of which monarch, reputedly uttered when a

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subject requested their dissolution as quasi-monastic establishments?

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-BUZZER

-Henry VIII.

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Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses, Manchester, are on political figures as described by

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Winston Churchill in his 1935 work, Great Contemporaries.

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In each case, identify the person from his words.

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"Does he, in the full sunlight of worldly triumphs,

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"still feel wracked by the hatreds and antagonisms

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"of his desperate struggle,

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"or will they be discarded under the mellowing influences of success?"

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Struggle suggests Hitler but would he have known Mein Kampf?

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That would have been my guess.

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Would he have known "kampf" meant "struggle?" I'm sure he would.

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Er, Hitler.

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Correct. "In the last phase, we see the aged president,

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"having betrayed all the Germans who had re-elected him to power,

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"joining reluctant and indeed contemptuous hands

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"with the Nazi leader."

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Is it Von Hindenburg?

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Is it Von Hindenburg or...?

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Yeah, Hindenburg.

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Correct. "He has reached a phase

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"when the greater part of Europe would regard

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"the Hohenzollern Restoration they formerly abhorred beyond expression

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"as a comparatively hopeful event."

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Er, the Hohenzollern...

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Does that mean Kaiser Wilhelm? Kaiser Wilhelm?

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-Yeah.

-Yeah?

-Is that the obvious one?

-Wilhelm II, yeah.

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Erm, Kaiser Wilhelm II.

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It was the Kaiser, yes.

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10 points for this.

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APPLAUSE

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The character who marries Sebastian in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night,

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the surname of the English physicist who wrote The Principia,

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and the given name of Tony Blair's predecessor...?

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-BUZZER

-Olivia Newton-John.

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Yes, well done!

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APPLAUSE

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I see you haven't learned any shame in the intervening years.

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These bonuses, Manchester, are on Art In Literature.

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"A man's faith might be ruined by looking at that picture."

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In which novel by Dostoevsky

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does a copy of Holbein's painting of The Dead Christ

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prompt this reaction from Prince Myshkin?

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The...uh, no. The Idiot.

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The Idiot is correct, yes.

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In which short novel by James Joyce

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does the protagonist student friend Lynch argue

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that "art induces desire",

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confessing that he once wrote his name in pencil

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on the backside of the Venus of Praxiteles?

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-Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man?

-I don't know.

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Yeah - the Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man.

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Correct. In which novel by Evelyn Waugh

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does the protagonist recall with dismay

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that as a student at Oxford, he decorated his rooms

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with a reproduction of van Gogh's Sunflowers

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and a porcelain figure of Polly Peachum?

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Brideshead Revisited, I guess.

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Brideshead Revisited.

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Correct. Ten points for this.

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Which engineer is this - born in Dijon in 1832,

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his career was marked by work on the Porto and Garabit Viaducts

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and on the framework of the Statue of Liberty?

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Bartholdi?

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No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

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He was nicknamed "The Magician of Iron"

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for the construction in 1889

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of the Paris structure that still bears his name.

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Eiffel.

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Gustave Eiffel is correct, yes.

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Right, these bonuses, Magdalen College, are on cosmology.

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By analogy with the Big Bang model of the origin of the universe,

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several competing hypotheses about the end of the universe

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also carry the epithet "Big".

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Which one posits that the universe will recollapse to a singularity,

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akin to the Big Bang in reverse?

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The Big Crunch?

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Correct.

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In what "Big" event does that collapse turn around

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to produce a re-expanding universe,

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a fate that's been predicted in various physical theories

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including loop quantum gravity?

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(Any idea?)

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THEY CONFER

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The Big Boomerang?

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No, it's the Big Bounce.

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And finally, what "big" end would involve

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the rapid disintegration of all matter,

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an idea developed in 2003

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by Robert Caldwell, Marc Kamionkowski

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and Nevin Weinberg?

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The Big Nothing?

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No, it's the Big Rip.

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We're going to take a picture round, now - for your starter,

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you're going to see a map of the world.

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Countries have been renamed

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so that their population correlates with their total area

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according to data from the invaluable CIA World Factbook.

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Therefore China, the most populous country,

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occupies Russia, the largest in area.

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Everyone understand?

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Assuming this principle,

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what country should occupy the highlighted area?

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Canada.

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India.

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India is correct, yes.

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It was Canada, of course.

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It's the second-biggest country and India is the second most populous.

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So you get the picture bonuses, then, Manchester.

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I want you to identify the countries

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that should occupy the highlighted areas

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according to the same principle - firstly, for five.

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China's...

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No, China's smaller than the USA, so the fifth...

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-Fourth or fifth.

-Indonesia or something, maybe?

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-Indonesia?

-I've no idea.

-That sounds really plausible.

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Indonesia.

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It is - the fourth most populous country,

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relocated to the fourth largest country.

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Secondly...

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-Australia.

-Is that third or fourth?

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Australia's smaller than the USA, isn't it?

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It's like, fifth or sixth...Nigeria?

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-Nigeria's already on it.

-Hang on, Bangladesh is big.

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-Bangladesh is on there.

-It's on there?

-Yeah.

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-Oh, yeah.

-Yes, it is.

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-Pakistan?

-Yeah...

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Pakistan.

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Indeed - the sixth most populous and sixth largest. Finally...

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-The United States, fourth...

-No, third.

-Third?

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-China was the fourth, so the third.

-China, India, then...

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-USA?

-It might well be.

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The United States.

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Yes, well done, it's in the right place.

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Ten points for this -

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what is the name of the element which has a symbol

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corresponding to the forename and surname initials

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of the physicist responsible

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for the non-relativistic quantum wave equation?

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Palladium?

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No, anyone like to buzz...?

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Erbium.

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No, it's Einsteinium.

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Ten points for this - listen carefully.

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The answer is a common four-letter word.

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"A case of grammaticalization in progress"

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and "something we wish English had"

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are two responses by linguists

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to the frequently decried trend in colloquial speech

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of using what short word as a...?

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Like?

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Like is correct, yes.

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These bonuses are on Belgian cheese, Manchester.

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Which village in the province of Hainaut

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is home to a Trappist monastery

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that produces the Classique and Poteaupre cheeses

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and beers just as Blue and Gold.

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Uh...Chimay, isn't it Chimay?

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Yes! Is that how you say it?

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I have no idea - chim-ay?

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Um...Chim-ay or Chim-aye...

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You get the right place. It's "shim-aye", yes.

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Which historical duchy gives its name

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both to present-day provinces of Belgium and the Netherlands

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and to pungent soft cheeses, often with a reddish-brown rind?

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-Nominate Aubrey.

-Limburg.

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Correct.

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Which village in West Flanders gives its name to a mild, creamy cheese

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made from cow's milk

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and to an Allied defensive of 1917,

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also known as The Third Battle of Ypres?

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-Passchendaele.

-Passchendaele, yes.

-Passchendaele.

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Passchendaele is right.

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Ten points for this -

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one of the most widely performed orchestral compositions

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of the Baroque era,

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what collective name is given to the six works, completed in 1721...?

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The Brandenburg Concertos.

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Correct.

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Your bonuses are on WEEE, Manchester -

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that is, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment,

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using information from the website of the Health and Safety Executive.

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Firstly, the HSE website mentions four chemical elements

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that may be found in e-waste - lead, arsenic

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and which two metals in the periodic table?

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They appear below zinc.

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-Gold?

-Gold isn't dangerous, is it?

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-Mercury's one of them.

-Mercury.

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-Cadmium.

-Mercury and cadmi...

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Do you say cadMIum? You say it - nominate Aubrey.

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Mercury and cadmium.

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Correct.

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Older electrical equipment may include toxic substances

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known as PCBs.

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For what do the letters stand?

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Polychlorol...

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-Benzo...benzoates? Or Benzyls?

-Yeah, it's...

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-It's polychloro-something.

-Polychloroborides, I think?

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-Borides?

-No, benzoates sounds more...

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-OK, benzoates?

-I don't know.

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Polychlorobenzoates.

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No, they're polychlorinated biphenyls.

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And finally, the Health and Safety Executive website

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describes the number of televisions discarded in the UK each year

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as being over what round figure?

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-A million.

-A million, why not?

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How many televisions are there in the UK?

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It's going to be high - a million.

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No, it's 2 million.

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We're disgustingly profligate.

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Right, ten point for this - in atmospheric physics,

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what term denotes the transition zone

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where the environmental lapse rate changes from positive to negative?

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It forms the boundary between the troposphere and...

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The tropopause.

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Yes, well done.

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Right, your bonuses this time, Manchester,

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are on Asian maritime empires.

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Firstly, for five points, founded in the 7th century

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and important in the spread of Mahayana Buddhism,

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the maritime empire known as Srivijiya

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had its capital at Palembang on which island?

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-That's Sumatra.

-Sumatra.

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-Does that sound plausible to you?

-Yeah.

-Sumatra.

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Sumatra is correct.

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Secondly, the Chola empire which seized Palembang in 1025

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was a maritime and commercial kingdom

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based in which present-day Indian state?

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Tamil Nadu, maybe?

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-That's the obvious one.

-Yeah.

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-Nominate Barr.

-Tamil Nadu?

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Correct.

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Claiming much of Sumatra, Bali and Borneo,

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the Majapahit empire flourished in the 14th century

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and was based in the valley of the Brantas River on which island?

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So...this is going to be either...

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-Did he mention Borneo?

-Yeah, that was Bali and parts of Borneo.

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-Java, then?

-Java, yeah.

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Java.

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Java is correct - plenty of time yet, Magdalen.

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They're going to get embarrassed

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about looking a bit too keen very shortly.

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LAUGHTER

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We're going to take a music round, now - for your music starter,

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you'll hear two pieces of classical music in quick succession.

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For ten points, tell me the nationality

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these two composers have in common.

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MUSIC: "The Rustle Of Spring, Op. 32, No. 3"

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MUSIC: "Morning Mood"

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Uh, Norwegian.

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You're right, yes.

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The Grieg was a dead giveaway, wasn't it?

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The other person was Sinding's Rustle of Spring.

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Your bonuses, three other pairs of composers,

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both of whom are associated with the same present-day country.

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In each case, simply name the country.

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Remember, you'll be hearing two pieces per question. Firstly...

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SONG: "Ma Vlast"

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Czechoslovakia...

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Present-day country. Oh, OK.

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Let's just wait till we hear the other.

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MUSIC: "Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 - No. 1 in C"

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One of two Czechs.

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-Do you know what this is?

-I know the music, I don't know who did it.

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-Shall I say the Czech Republic?

-Yeah.

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The Czech Republic.

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That's correct.

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Secondly...

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SONG: "The Merry Widow - Overture"

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Is it...?

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They could be Polish dances, they could be Hungarian dances.

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-Who were they by?

-I don't know, I just know the countries.

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Thinking of countries with dances.

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CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS

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I thought it might be Poland or it might be...

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-Poland or what?

-I'd go with Poland.

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-Does anyone have a better suggestion?

-No.

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Poland.

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You could have taken a better suggestion. It's Hungary.

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Lehar and Bartok. And finally...

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MUSIC: "Violin Concerto No.1 in G Minor, Op. 26-3. Finale"

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MUSIC: "Violin Concerto In E Minor, Op. 64-1"

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-Austria?

-Austria or Germany.

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Austria?

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah - Austria.

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No, it's Germany.

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LAUGHTER

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Right, ten points for this - what French verb is this?

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In English, the adjective from its past participle is sometimes

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applied to questions on this programme

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with the meaning of "far-fetched" or "obscure".

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Other forms of the same verb appear on French web pages

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where they mean "search."

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Chercher? Cherche?

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BUZZER

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Ouvrir?

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No, it's rechercher.

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So ten points for this.

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Listen carefully - ICANN, that's I-C-A-N-N,

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is a nonprofit organisation set up in 1988 to oversee

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and administer certain aspects of the internet...

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Internet domain names?

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Uh, no. You lose five points.

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Certain aspects of the internet, for example, top-level domains.

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For what do the letters "NN" of ICANN stand?

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Network name.

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No, it's names and numbers. Ten points for this.

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The name of which board game rhymes with words meaning

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"take part in in a superficial way",

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"talk rapidly and unintelligibly", and...?

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Scrabble.

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Yes.

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Magdalen, your bonuses are on anthropomorphic locomotives

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in the Reverend W Awdry's railway series.

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For each answer, I want the name of the engine and its colour,

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or other designation.

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Each question consists of two clues to the name.

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Firstly, a 10th century king of Germany nicknamed "The Fowler"

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and a 12th Duke of Saxony and of Bavaria, nicknamed "The Lion".

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-Henry is the second one.

-So Henry...

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-Is Henry blue?

-Is Henry blue? I don't know.

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It's only one name.

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-So it's Henry, and you think he's blue.

-I think he might be blue.

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-You think he's green?

-I have no idea.

-Edward...

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THEY CONFER

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-Oh, no, he's green.

-He's green.

-Henry, green.

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Henry the green engine is correct, yes!

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Secondly, the English painter of King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid

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and the US artist whose works include Nighthawks.

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-That's, um...

-Hopper.

-Edward.

-Edward.

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Edward is blue.

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Edward is blue?

0:20:390:20:40

Edward, blue.

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Well done, yes.

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And finally, the England goalkeeper in the 1966 World Cup final

0:20:430:20:47

and the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997-2007.

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Gordon.

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Gordon, and he's also green?

0:20:530:20:55

No - Gordon was the big engine

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and so there was no colour involved at all.

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Did ask for other designations.

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Right, ten points for this -

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they're spellings differing by only one letter.

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Give the two words which mean an apparent orbital oscillation

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and an offering of wine to the gods,

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for example, in the title of a play by Aeschylus.

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Libration and libation?

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Correct.

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These bonuses are on physics.

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If two parallel conductors of infinite length are 1m apart

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and experience a force of 2x10 to the -7 Newtons per metre of length,

0:21:280:21:33

what is the constant current flowing in each of the wires?

0:21:330:21:36

Leave him to it...

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3...

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-1 amp?

-Yeah, just go for it.

-1? Not 3?

-3...try 3.5.

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3.5 amps.

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No, it was 1 amp.

0:21:540:21:56

LAUGHTER

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Ampere's law states that a constant net current through an area

0:21:570:22:01

is proportional to the line integral around the area of which quantity?

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The...

0:22:050:22:06

Resistance?

0:22:060:22:07

No, it's line integral around the surface it's flowing through.

0:22:070:22:10

-Flowing through?

-The surface it's flowing through.

-The surface?

-Yeah.

0:22:100:22:13

The surface it's flowing through.

0:22:130:22:15

No, it's the magnetic field or magnetic field strength.

0:22:150:22:18

Finally, what is the value of the line integral

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taken around the closed loop of an electric field

0:22:200:22:23

in the presence of a magnetic field B,

0:22:230:22:26

which does not vary in time?

0:22:260:22:28

-Does not vary in time?

-Zero.

-Zero?

-Yeah.

-Zero.

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Zero is correct, yes.

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A second picture round. For your starter, you'll see

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a painting illustrating a major literary work.

0:22:380:22:41

For ten points, I want you to give me the name of the character

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seated on the left.

0:22:440:22:46

Penelope?

0:22:510:22:52

It is Penelope, yes.

0:22:520:22:54

She was waiting at her loom for Odysseus.

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Your picture bonuses are paintings of three more of the three

0:23:000:23:03

major female figures in Homer's Odyssey.

0:23:030:23:05

Five points for each you can name. Firstly, for five...

0:23:050:23:08

That's Circe, isn't it?

0:23:100:23:12

Circe?

0:23:120:23:13

Correct. Secondly, the central figure here.

0:23:130:23:16

-Oh. Um...

-Samson and...?

0:23:190:23:20

No, she's not - that's the Bible.

0:23:200:23:23

Um - anyone? Any ideas?

0:23:230:23:26

-You know the name?

-Oh, it's, um...Agamemnon's wife.

0:23:280:23:32

-Clytemnestra.

-Clytemnestra? Clytemnestra.

0:23:320:23:34

Correct. And finally, the figure on the right here.

0:23:340:23:38

-Oh, that's...

-That's Athena, isn't it?

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Pallas Athena.

0:23:420:23:43

Athena is correct - Minerva, yes.

0:23:430:23:45

Ten points for this - what four words

0:23:450:23:47

describe all of the following,

0:23:470:23:49

according to the title of a song first released in 1979?

0:23:490:23:53

"The juice of a carrot The smile of a parrot

0:23:530:23:55

"A little drop of claret Anything that rocks."

0:23:550:23:58

Reasons to be cheerful.

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Yes.

0:24:010:24:02

Manchester, these bonuses are on chemical symbols.

0:24:060:24:09

I will give definitions of two words that end in the same two letters

0:24:090:24:12

which form the symbol of a chemical element.

0:24:120:24:15

I want you to name the element in each case.

0:24:150:24:18

One example might be the Greek letter that follows sigma is tau,

0:24:180:24:21

which gives Au, so the answer is gold,

0:24:210:24:24

if you understand.

0:24:240:24:26

Firstly, the principle language of Bangladesh

0:24:260:24:29

and the Prime Minister who succeeded Gladstone in 1874.

0:24:290:24:33

Bengali - it's lithium.

0:24:340:24:36

-Lithium.

-Lithium.

0:24:360:24:37

Correct.

0:24:370:24:38

Secondly, the prefix denoting 10 to the -12

0:24:380:24:41

and the largest river of Venezuela.

0:24:410:24:44

Nano is 10 to the -9.

0:24:450:24:46

Pico.

0:24:460:24:47

-Co - cobalt, cobalt.

-Cobalt?

-Cobalt.

0:24:470:24:50

Cobalt.

0:24:500:24:51

Cobalt is correct.

0:24:510:24:53

And finally, a mission in San Antonio, Texas,

0:24:530:24:56

besieged in 1836,

0:24:560:24:58

and a musical direction meaning "very softly."

0:24:580:25:01

Nominate Pertinez.

0:25:010:25:02

-Molybdenum.

-Correct.

0:25:020:25:04

Ten points for this.

0:25:040:25:05

APPLAUSE

0:25:050:25:07

From a short verb meaning "trouble" or "harass,"

0:25:070:25:10

what nine-letter term is applied to litigation

0:25:100:25:13

initiated without sufficient...

0:25:130:25:15

Vexatious.

0:25:150:25:16

Correct.

0:25:160:25:17

APPLAUSE

0:25:170:25:19

Your bonuses this time, Magdalen College, are on a campaigner.

0:25:210:25:24

Born in 1870, Maria Dickin is best known as the founder of which

0:25:240:25:28

charity during World War II?

0:25:280:25:30

She instituted an eponymous award sometimes called

0:25:300:25:34

"the animals' Victoria Cross."

0:25:340:25:35

THEY WHISPER

0:25:350:25:38

The RSPCA... The Dickin Medal is the medal. The RSPCA?

0:25:380:25:41

RSPCA.

0:25:410:25:43

No, it was the PDSA, the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals.

0:25:430:25:46

Since 1943, the Dickin Medal has been awarded 64 times

0:25:460:25:50

to 28 dogs and 3 horses.

0:25:500:25:52

What species has the most recipients with 32?

0:25:520:25:56

-It's pigeons, isn't it?

-Mm.

-Pigeons.

0:25:560:25:58

Correct.

0:25:580:26:00

Simon is the only cat to received the Dickin Medal for disposing of

0:26:000:26:04

many rats although wounded by shell blast

0:26:040:26:06

aboard on HMS Amethyst in 1949.

0:26:060:26:09

This occurred after shelling by the People's Liberation Army

0:26:090:26:12

in an international incident named after which major river?

0:26:120:26:16

That's the Yangtze, isn't it?

0:26:160:26:17

It's the Yangtze.

0:26:170:26:19

Correct. 10 points for this.

0:26:190:26:20

Before 1921, which US game show host gives his name

0:26:200:26:23

to a much-discussed question...

0:26:230:26:26

-Monty Hall.

-Monty Hall is right.

0:26:260:26:28

APPLAUSE

0:26:280:26:30

Your bonuses are on linguistic typology, Manchester.

0:26:310:26:34

When describing the common word order of languages

0:26:340:26:38

such as English, Malayan and Mandarin Chinese,

0:26:380:26:41

for what do for what do the letters SVO stand?

0:26:410:26:44

Subject-verb-object.

0:26:440:26:45

-Subject-verb-object.

-Correct.

0:26:450:26:47

Welsh and Irish are frequently cited examples of what word order

0:26:470:26:50

type comprising around 10% of the world's languages?

0:26:500:26:53

Verb at the end, I think.

0:26:530:26:54

-Verb at the end.

-And then... Er...

0:26:540:26:57

How does it work in Latin?

0:26:570:26:58

Subject-object-verb or object-subject-verb?

0:26:580:27:01

-SOV.

-I think it's...

0:27:010:27:02

Subject-object-verb.

0:27:020:27:04

No, it's verb-subject-object.

0:27:040:27:06

And finally, object-subject-verb constructions such as

0:27:060:27:10

"much to learn you still have" are a feature of the speech of which

0:27:100:27:13

fictional character who first appeared in a film in 1980?

0:27:130:27:17

-Yoda.

-Correct. 10 points for this.

0:27:170:27:18

In mathematics, what is the determinant of

0:27:180:27:21

a nilpotent matrix defined to be

0:27:210:27:24

9a matrix that equals the null matrix after

0:27:240:27:27

being raised to some positive integer power?

0:27:270:27:30

-Zero.

-Zero is correct, yes.

0:27:310:27:33

APPLAUSE

0:27:330:27:35

Your bonuses are on epidemiology, Manchester, this time.

0:27:360:27:39

What two-word terms denoting the initial case in an

0:27:390:27:43

epidemiological investigation of an outbreak of infectious disease?

0:27:430:27:47

-Patient zero.

-Patient zero.

-Can you corroborate that?

-Sounds right.

0:27:470:27:51

Patient zero.

0:27:510:27:52

Patient zero or index case or primary case.

0:27:520:27:54

Born in 1869, the cook Mary Mallon was the index case of a number

0:27:540:27:59

of outbreaks in North America of which foodborne disease?

0:27:590:28:03

-It's typhoid because she's Typhoid Mary.

-Sure?

-Sure.

0:28:030:28:06

-Typhoid.

-Correct.

0:28:060:28:07

An outbreak of which infectious disease in the 1850s was

0:28:070:28:11

investigated by the physician John Snow, who traced its source

0:28:110:28:15

to Broad Street, now Broadwick Street, in Soho?

0:28:150:28:18

-Cholera.

-Correct. 10 points for this.

0:28:180:28:20

From the Greek meaning to cut,

0:28:200:28:22

what term denotes the figure of speech in which...

0:28:220:28:24

GONG APPLAUSE

0:28:240:28:26

Magdalen College Oxford have 80, Manchester University have 230.

0:28:260:28:30

It was a bit of a whitewash, Magdalen, wasn't it?

0:28:330:28:35

Thank you very much for taking part.

0:28:350:28:37

Congratulations, Manchester, you receive absolutely nothing

0:28:370:28:40

at all beyond a bit of opportunity to boast, I suppose.

0:28:400:28:43

But actually, I'd like to say to both teams,

0:28:430:28:46

it was jolly nice of you to come, you didn't have to,

0:28:460:28:48

you're all grown-ups with other things you could've done

0:28:480:28:50

with your time, so thank you all very much for taking part.

0:28:500:28:53

And thank you for watching. Good night.

0:28:530:28:55

APPLAUSE

0:28:550:28:58

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