0:00:16 > 0:00:18APPLAUSE
0:00:21 > 0:00:23Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30Hello. Tonight is the second contest in this series,
0:00:30 > 0:00:36in which the honour of some of the UK's top universities lies in the hands, not of their students,
0:00:36 > 0:00:38but in those of their distinguished graduates.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42Here to prove that the passage of time doesn't necessarily only lead
0:00:42 > 0:00:45to that common typo, older and wider.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48The four winning teams with the highest scores
0:00:48 > 0:00:51will go through to the semi-final stage of this contest.
0:00:51 > 0:00:56First tonight, a team trying to live up to the fearsome reputation of the University of Durham,
0:00:56 > 0:00:59which has produced student champions twice in the past.
0:00:59 > 0:01:05They are an England cricketer, who has been described as having the grace and timing
0:01:05 > 0:01:10of a right handed David Gower. She's been part of the winning England team in the World Cup,
0:01:10 > 0:01:13the World Twenty20 and in the team that's taken the Ashes twice.
0:01:13 > 0:01:20With her, an actor who came to prominence in the Merchant Ivory films Maurice and Howard's End,
0:01:20 > 0:01:22followed by Gosford Park, Regeneration and next year
0:01:22 > 0:01:25he'll be seen in ITV's drama production Titanic.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28Their captain is a man named by the Independent newspaper
0:01:28 > 0:01:32as amongst the UK's top 50 people making the world a better place.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35He's founder of Tearcraft and Tradecraft,
0:01:35 > 0:01:39the ethical importers of food and crafts from the developing world.
0:01:39 > 0:01:44Their fourth team member is one of Britain's leading crime writers. Winner of numerous awards,
0:01:44 > 0:01:50including an Edgar Allen Poe, and two Gold Daggers from the Crime Writers Association.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53But in case we'd missed anything out, let's ask the Durham team to speak for themselves.
0:01:53 > 0:01:59Hi, I'm Caroline Atkins, I received my sports degree from Durham University in 2002,
0:01:59 > 0:02:02and I'm now a Chance to Shine coaching ambassador.
0:02:02 > 0:02:08Hi, I'm James Wilby, and I received my degree in mathematics from Durham University in 1980
0:02:08 > 0:02:11and I'm currently working as an actor.
0:02:11 > 0:02:12And their captain.
0:02:12 > 0:02:18Hello, I'm Richard Adams, I received my degree in Sociology from Durham in 1968
0:02:18 > 0:02:24and I'm currently working on the safety of nuclear energy and the Common Fisheries Reform.
0:02:24 > 0:02:32Hello, I'm Minette Walters, I received my degree in French from Durham University in 1971.
0:02:32 > 0:02:36I am currently a psychological thriller writer,
0:02:36 > 0:02:44and I'm working on a quick reads book for adults who want to improve their reading skills.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47APPLAUSE
0:02:47 > 0:02:54Their opponents are products of Edinburgh University. The first of them took up an internship at NASA,
0:02:54 > 0:02:59then studied climate change at Oxford and worked on the New Scientist magazine before
0:02:59 > 0:03:04her current eminence predicting the weather on television for people who get up very early.
0:03:04 > 0:03:08Her teammate's dream of a career as a television reporter was shattered
0:03:08 > 0:03:12when he became the youngest member of the House of Commons in 1965.
0:03:12 > 0:03:16He failed to recover in time to prevent him being made leader of the Liberal Party
0:03:16 > 0:03:17and later the Lib Dems.
0:03:17 > 0:03:22Their captain is the author of a social history of urine, The Life of Pee,
0:03:22 > 0:03:26a work perhaps accurately described as a surprise best seller.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29But you may recognise her as the journalist and broadcaster
0:03:29 > 0:03:32and presenter of Reporting Scotland and Songs of Praise.
0:03:32 > 0:03:37Their fourth member is one of the world's leading entomologists, whose name will live forever
0:03:37 > 0:03:41in various types of cockroaches, plant hoppers and ants.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44He also advocates eating the subjects of his work,
0:03:44 > 0:03:48which is more than can be said for the average professor of Sanskrit or indeed metallurgy. Let's meet them.
0:03:48 > 0:03:54Hello, I'm Kirsty McCabe, I graduated from Edinburgh University with a degree in Geophysics in '97
0:03:54 > 0:03:56and I'm now a weather presenter.
0:03:56 > 0:04:01I'm David Steel, I took arts and law degrees in Edinburgh in the 1960s
0:04:01 > 0:04:04but was led astray into politics very early on.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06And their captain.
0:04:06 > 0:04:13I'm Sally Magnusson, I graduated from Edinburgh in English in 1978 and I'm a TV news presenter
0:04:13 > 0:04:15and do some writing when I've got time.
0:04:15 > 0:04:21Hi, I'm George McGavin, and after my degree in Zoology in Edinburgh,
0:04:21 > 0:04:27I went to Oxford for 25 years, but I'm now a presenter on TV.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30APPLAUSE
0:04:32 > 0:04:37I guess you all know the rules, 10 points for starters which are solo efforts. 15 points for bonuses,
0:04:37 > 0:04:42which are team efforts. 5 point penalties if you interrupt a starter question incorrectly.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for 10.
0:04:44 > 0:04:48Described ironically by the sitter as a remarkable example of modern art,
0:04:48 > 0:04:52who was presented with a portrait of himself by Graham Sutherland, in...
0:04:54 > 0:04:57- Churchill.- Winston Churchill is correct, yes.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59APPLAUSE
0:04:59 > 0:05:04The first bonuses go to you, Edinburgh. They're on a game.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07Mary, Queen of Scots, was accused of failing to observe
0:05:07 > 0:05:11proper mourning for her second husband, Lord Darnley,
0:05:11 > 0:05:13when shortly after his death in 1567
0:05:13 > 0:05:17she was seen playing what game, of which she was an enthusiastic proponent?
0:05:17 > 0:05:21- Tennis?- Curling?- Curling?
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Lacrosse? I'm thinking curling.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26- Shooting? Lacrosse? - Shall we go with curling?
0:05:26 > 0:05:30- The consensus is curling. - The consensus, I'm afraid, is wrong. It's golf.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33Which US President was reputed to have played golf almost daily
0:05:33 > 0:05:37while in office, including on the morning of April 2nd 1917,
0:05:37 > 0:05:43the day on which he asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany?
0:05:43 > 0:05:45Roosevelt?
0:05:45 > 0:05:48- Roosevelt?- Wrong war! No, it's Woodrow Wilson.
0:05:48 > 0:05:54- Oh.- And, finally, what was the significance of a golf ball hit in February 1971,
0:05:54 > 0:05:59the player in question excitably but erroneously claiming that it travelled for miles and miles?
0:06:04 > 0:06:06What's the significance? No idea.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08No idea.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10We haven't a clue!
0:06:10 > 0:06:12That was Alan Shepard hitting a golf ball on the moon.
0:06:12 > 0:06:17Right, ten points for this starter question. HOMES - that's H-O-M-E-S -
0:06:17 > 0:06:22is a mnemonic for the main constituents of what geographical feature of North America?
0:06:22 > 0:06:27Together they form one of the most important commercial waterways in the world.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31- The Great Lakes?- Correct.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33APPLAUSE
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Your bonuses, Durham,
0:06:35 > 0:06:38are on graduates of University College London.
0:06:38 > 0:06:45Firstly for five points, born 1826, which UCL graduate's works include The English Constitution
0:06:45 > 0:06:49and Lombard Street, a description of the money market?
0:06:51 > 0:06:53The 1820s...
0:06:53 > 0:06:58Born in the 1820s, so an economist...
0:06:59 > 0:07:04- Parliamentary? - No, it'll be an economist, 19th century.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07- Adam Smith, something like that. - No? No idea?
0:07:07 > 0:07:10Sorry, we don't know.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13There's two people on the other team who SHOULD know. It's Walter Bagehot.
0:07:13 > 0:07:17Secondly, born 1880, which social reformer's works include
0:07:17 > 0:07:21Married Love and Contraception: Its Theory, History And Practice?
0:07:21 > 0:07:23- Marie Stopes.- That's Marie Stopes. - It is, yes.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26The works of which academic, born in 1941, include
0:07:26 > 0:07:30The Cambridge Encyclopaedia Of Language, The Stories Of English
0:07:30 > 0:07:32and Txtng: The Gr8 Db8?
0:07:33 > 0:07:361941.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38- Lynne Truss? - No, she wrote...
0:07:38 > 0:07:41Yeah, I know, but we can try. Anybody else know?
0:07:41 > 0:07:45- Lynne Truss.- She'd be mortified to think she was born in 1941.
0:07:45 > 0:07:49No, David Crystal. Ten points for this. What entity has been described as follows -
0:07:49 > 0:07:51by Wordsworth as too much with us,
0:07:51 > 0:07:55by a ballad of 1646 as having been turned upside down,
0:07:55 > 0:08:00by Woodrow Wilson as having to be made safe for democracy and by Shake...
0:08:01 > 0:08:06- The world?- The world is right, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Your bonuses are on history this time, Durham.
0:08:09 > 0:08:13Born 1638, which princess's marriage to a British king
0:08:13 > 0:08:19was seen by merchants as "the most beneficial that ever our nation was engaged in"?
0:08:19 > 0:08:23- 1638.- Born. Born 1638.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26So the king would have been Charles II.
0:08:26 > 0:08:31- Henrietta. - No, that was his sister. Charles was married to...
0:08:31 > 0:08:36THEY CONFER
0:08:36 > 0:08:39No? We think it was Henrietta.
0:08:39 > 0:08:40No, it was Catherine of Braganza.
0:08:40 > 0:08:44For five, Catherine of Braganza's dowry gave Charles II which port
0:08:44 > 0:08:46close to the Strait of Gibraltar?
0:08:46 > 0:08:50Now a major city of Morocco, it proved costly to defend
0:08:50 > 0:08:52and was evacuated in 1684.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55THEY CONFER
0:09:00 > 0:09:02- Casablanca?- No, it's Tangier.
0:09:02 > 0:09:07Of more enduring significance was Charles's acquisition by marriage of which port on the Arabian Sea?
0:09:07 > 0:09:10It's now one of the largest cities in the world.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13- That's... - Bombay?
0:09:14 > 0:09:17- Bombay.- Bombay, Mumbai, is correct, yes.
0:09:17 > 0:09:22Right, a picture round now. For your picture starter you'll see a coat of arms from a British university
0:09:22 > 0:09:24from which we've removed any helpful wording.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27Ten points if you can identify the university.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34- Cardiff?- Well done. Yes, it is.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38APPLAUSE
0:09:38 > 0:09:41So you get a set of picture bonuses now, Edinburgh.
0:09:41 > 0:09:46There are three more coats of arms of British universities, five points for each one you can identify.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48Firstly...
0:09:48 > 0:09:50THEY CONFER
0:09:56 > 0:10:00- Newcastle?- No, that's the University of Bristol.
0:10:00 > 0:10:02Secondly...
0:10:02 > 0:10:03Glasgow.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06- That is Glasgow, yes!- And finally...
0:10:09 > 0:10:12- Oxford? - Uhh...dah!
0:10:12 > 0:10:15- No, I'm afraid if you've given an answer... - LAUGHTER
0:10:15 > 0:10:19We're enjoying it, go on! No, the line of birds are the giveaway.
0:10:19 > 0:10:23It's the University of Liverpool. Ten points for this.
0:10:23 > 0:10:29Quote, "Here is something more terrible than Cain killing Abel. It is Washington killing Spartacus."
0:10:29 > 0:10:33These words of Victor Hugo refer to the execution of which US abolitionist
0:10:33 > 0:10:38after an attack on a Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia in 1859?
0:10:41 > 0:10:42John Brown?
0:10:42 > 0:10:43Correct.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46APPLAUSE
0:10:46 > 0:10:51Your bonuses are on biology. Which group of infectious agents
0:10:51 > 0:10:55are classified by the Baltimore system, which is based on the nature
0:10:55 > 0:10:59of their genetic material and how they generate messenger RNA?
0:10:59 > 0:11:01- Sorry.- That's all right.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04THEY CONFER
0:11:06 > 0:11:09HE LAUGHS
0:11:09 > 0:11:11- We don't know.- They're viruses.
0:11:11 > 0:11:14Which group of viruses contain sense RNA and produce DNA
0:11:14 > 0:11:19as an intermediary in the production of their messenger RNA?
0:11:22 > 0:11:24I'm sorry, we don't know that.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26Retroviruses.
0:11:26 > 0:11:30Finally, what enzyme is required by retroviruses for the production of
0:11:30 > 0:11:32DNA from the RNA of their genome?
0:11:32 > 0:11:34Think of an enzyme...
0:11:37 > 0:11:39Let's have it, please.
0:11:39 > 0:11:43- No, sorry, don't know. - It's reverse transcriptaise.
0:11:43 > 0:11:47Right, another starter question. 10 points for this.
0:11:47 > 0:11:51The pre-decimal values of a guinea plus a crown together represent
0:11:51 > 0:11:56how much in present-day pounds and pence?
0:11:57 > 0:12:00- £1.30.- Correct.
0:12:00 > 0:12:02APPLAUSE
0:12:02 > 0:12:05One pound, one shilling and five shillings.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09Right, your bonuses this time, Durham, are on Greek mythology.
0:12:09 > 0:12:13A son of Cronus, Chiron was among the wisest and most learned
0:12:13 > 0:12:16of which mythical beings?
0:12:16 > 0:12:18THEY CONFER
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Centaurs?
0:12:25 > 0:12:26Correct.
0:12:26 > 0:12:30The centaurs fought against which people who drove them out
0:12:30 > 0:12:35of Thessaly after a violent brawl at the wedding of Hippodamia?
0:12:36 > 0:12:37No... I don't know.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40- No, we don't know. - They fought the Lapiths.
0:12:40 > 0:12:45Finally, which hero died after he wore a tunic that had been dipped
0:12:45 > 0:12:49in the poisoned blood of the centaur Nessus?
0:12:49 > 0:12:52It's going to be... THEY CONFER
0:12:55 > 0:12:57- Agamemnon?- No, it's Hercules.
0:12:57 > 0:12:5810 points for this.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02Examples being aphids and cicadas, what term denotes
0:13:02 > 0:13:05the taxonomic order of true bugs...
0:13:05 > 0:13:06BUZZER
0:13:06 > 0:13:09- Hemiptera?- Correct, yes.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11APPLAUSE
0:13:12 > 0:13:16Your bonuses, Edinburgh, are on a French philosopher.
0:13:16 > 0:13:20The Algerian-born French philosopher Jacques Derrida initiated and led
0:13:20 > 0:13:26which specific movement, a sceptical approach the possibility of coherent meaning?
0:13:31 > 0:13:34- Existentialism? - No, it's deconstruction.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36Existentialism is much earlier.
0:13:36 > 0:13:40The notion of deconstruction was presented in the introduction to
0:13:40 > 0:13:44Derrida's 1962 translation of Origin Of Geometry,
0:13:44 > 0:13:48by which philosopher and founder of phenomenology?
0:13:51 > 0:13:54- We're not big on phenomenlogy. - LAUGHTER
0:13:55 > 0:13:56Count your blessings, I say!
0:13:56 > 0:13:58It's Husserl.
0:13:58 > 0:14:02And finally, in which work of 1967 did Derrida argue against
0:14:02 > 0:14:05the phonocentrism that privileges speech above writing?
0:14:11 > 0:14:14Yes, it's on the tip of our tongues.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16Obviously. It's of grammatology.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18Music, now.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22For your Music starter you'll hear an exert from a piece of classical music.
0:14:22 > 0:14:25Ten points if you can name the composer.
0:14:36 > 0:14:38- BUZZER - Edinburgh McGavin.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40Glinka?
0:14:40 > 0:14:41No, you may hear a little more, Durham.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47- BELL - Durham, Adams.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50- Tchaikovsky.- No, it's Rachmaninov. His Piano Concerto No 2.
0:14:50 > 0:14:54So, another set of bonuses.
0:14:54 > 0:14:55Those music bonuses coming up
0:14:55 > 0:14:56when someone gets a starter question right.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59Ten points for this. What term derives from the Latin meaning
0:14:59 > 0:15:01"marriage with a morning gift"
0:15:01 > 0:15:05and refers to a marriage in which a person of lower social rank has
0:15:05 > 0:15:08no rights to the title or possessions of a spouse of higher rank?
0:15:08 > 0:15:09- BELL - Durham, Wilby.
0:15:09 > 0:15:10- Morganatic.- Correct.
0:15:14 > 0:15:20So that piece of Rachmaninov you heard earlier was voted number one in the 2011 Classic FM Hall of Fame.
0:15:20 > 0:15:23For your Music bonuses, three more pieces that all appear
0:15:23 > 0:15:27- in the top 30 of that chart, in each case, all you have to do is to name the composer.- Firstly:
0:15:49 > 0:15:53- Thomas Tallis?- No, it's Allegri. - And secondly:
0:16:13 > 0:16:18- Cesar Franck?- No, Saint-San, Third Symphony. And finally.
0:16:37 > 0:16:42- Rutter?- No, that was Faure's Requiem. Ten points for this starter question.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44Fingers on buzzers.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47Which play was both an adaptation of both the book Goodbye To Berlin
0:16:47 > 0:16:50and a precursor to the stage and film musical Cabaret?
0:16:52 > 0:16:54- BELL - Durham, Adams.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56Mr Norris Changes Trains?
0:16:56 > 0:16:57No. Edinburgh?
0:17:03 > 0:17:05It's I Am A Camera. Ten points for this.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07In the A B system of the classification of blood groups, list
0:17:07 > 0:17:12all those groups which can safely be given to a person who is group AB.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15- BUZZER - Edinburgh, McCabe.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18- Isn't that the universal receiver and can have all of them?- Correct.
0:17:20 > 0:17:24A set of bonuses for you now, Edinburgh.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26They are on UNESCO World Heritage Sites,
0:17:26 > 0:17:28specifically those located in British Overseas Territories.
0:17:28 > 0:17:29Firstly, for 5 points.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32In which British Overseas Territory is Henderson Island,
0:17:32 > 0:17:37a raised coral atoll in the South Pacific, described by the RSPB as the
0:17:37 > 0:17:40world's last large limestone island still in a near pristine condition?
0:17:55 > 0:17:57- Come on.- Pitcairn Islands?- Correct.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00What is the closest populated island to Gough,
0:18:00 > 0:18:04an inaccessible island described as one of the least disrupted
0:18:04 > 0:18:08ecosystems in the cool temperate zone?
0:18:11 > 0:18:12Nominate McCabe.
0:18:13 > 0:18:17I'm thinking it must be somewhere near the Antarctic,
0:18:17 > 0:18:21so I tried to think of something that we owned there.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24We can't hang around all day. It's Tristan Da Cunha.
0:18:24 > 0:18:28And finally, in which British Overseas Territory is the historic town of St George?
0:18:28 > 0:18:31Founded in 1612,
0:18:31 > 0:18:33it's one of the earliest English urban settlements in the New World.
0:18:39 > 0:18:40- We'll try Bermuda.- Correct.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43Ten points for this.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45Meaning of what word include, in Biology,
0:18:45 > 0:18:49a genus of sea snails, in physics, the ratio of stress to strain in an
0:18:49 > 0:18:54elastic material and in mathematics, the absolute value of a number?
0:18:59 > 0:19:00It's the modulus. Ten points for this.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02What specific human disposition
0:19:02 > 0:19:05is both provoked and unprovoked by drink
0:19:05 > 0:19:09according to the Porter in Shakespeare's Macbeth?
0:19:10 > 0:19:12Edinburgh, McGavin!
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Lust.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17Durham?
0:19:17 > 0:19:18Durham, Adams!
0:19:18 > 0:19:20Love?
0:19:20 > 0:19:23- No, it's lechery! I need the speci...- Oh!
0:19:23 > 0:19:27It may be the same to you, matey, but that's not what the Porter says!
0:19:27 > 0:19:29LAUGHTER
0:19:29 > 0:19:3310 points for this. The US anthropologist Ruth Fulton-Benedict's 1946 work
0:19:33 > 0:19:39The Chrysanthemum And The Sword explored the patterns of culture in which country?
0:19:41 > 0:19:42Durham, Walters!
0:19:42 > 0:19:46- Papua New Guinea? - No, Edinburgh, one of you buzz.
0:19:46 > 0:19:48Edinburgh, McGavin.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50- Japan.- Correct!
0:19:50 > 0:19:52APPLAUSE
0:19:52 > 0:19:56Get these bonuses you'll take the lead. They're on eye rhymes,
0:19:56 > 0:19:59that is pairs of words that end in the same letters but do not rhyme,
0:19:59 > 0:20:02for example "gander" and "wander".
0:20:02 > 0:20:05In each case, give both words from the definitions.
0:20:05 > 0:20:11Firstly, to administer a sleeping draught and upper legislative body of France or Australia?
0:20:11 > 0:20:13THEY CONFER IN WHISPERS
0:20:18 > 0:20:19Sedate and senate.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22Correct. Secondly, to inspire with spirit or hope
0:20:22 > 0:20:24and a group of followers or attendants?
0:20:24 > 0:20:26THEY CONFER IN WHISPERS
0:20:35 > 0:20:37Come on, let's have it, please.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42Inspire, aspire?
0:20:42 > 0:20:47No, it's encourage and entourage. And finally, the shape of the Swiss flag
0:20:47 > 0:20:52and paralysing substance obtained from the bark of South American trees?
0:20:52 > 0:20:54THEY CONFER IN WHISPERS
0:21:07 > 0:21:08Curare and square?
0:21:08 > 0:21:12- Curare is correct and square is correct. - APPLAUSE
0:21:12 > 0:21:16Our second picture round now. It's a photograph of a house in the United States.
0:21:16 > 0:21:21For 10 points, I want you to name the US author who at one time lived there.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30BUZZER
0:21:30 > 0:21:31Durham, Wilby.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33Fitzgerald?
0:21:33 > 0:21:35No, somebody like to have a go from Edinburgh?
0:21:37 > 0:21:40You may not confer, one of you may buzz... I'll tell you,
0:21:40 > 0:21:45- it's Ernest Hemingway.- Hemingway. - It was but I'm sorry, I had already started answering by the time you...
0:21:45 > 0:21:48I'm going to have to enforce the rule of law.
0:21:48 > 0:21:52That was Hemingway's house. You got there too slowly, I'm afraid.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55Picture bonuses in a moment or two but another starter question in the meantime.
0:21:55 > 0:22:00Which environmental activist died in Nairobi in September 2011.
0:22:00 > 0:22:04The founder of the Green Belt Movement in 2004, she became the first African...
0:22:04 > 0:22:05Edinburgh, Steel!
0:22:05 > 0:22:07Wangari Maathai.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09- Yes. - APPLAUSE
0:22:09 > 0:22:12So you get some picture bonuses now.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15Three more photographs of writers' houses,
0:22:15 > 0:22:17this time in the UK.
0:22:17 > 0:22:20In each case simply name the writer who lived there.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23First, which writer, born in the 20th century, lived here?
0:22:23 > 0:22:25THEY CONFER IN WHISPERS
0:22:37 > 0:22:39- Daphne du Maurier. - It is, at Fowey in Cornwall.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42Secondly, which writer, born in the 18th century, lived here?
0:22:42 > 0:22:45THEY CONFER IN WHISPERS
0:22:48 > 0:22:52- Sir Walter Scott. - Indeed! That's in David Steel's old constituency, isn't it?
0:22:52 > 0:22:55I can't recognise the picture! LAUGHTER
0:22:55 > 0:22:57I've been there many times.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00- Awful photograph! - Oh, I'm so sorry about that!
0:23:00 > 0:23:02Good excuse!
0:23:02 > 0:23:05Finally, for 5 points, this writer, born in the 19th century?
0:23:05 > 0:23:07THEY CONFER IN WHISPERS
0:23:07 > 0:23:09Thomas Hardy.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12- Thomas Hardy is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:23:14 > 0:23:16Another starter question, 10 for this.
0:23:16 > 0:23:21Born 1905, which Dutch-born astronomer found carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Mars,
0:23:21 > 0:23:24discovered the dense atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan
0:23:24 > 0:23:29and gave his name to a large belt of icy bodies orbiting beyond Neptune?
0:23:29 > 0:23:30Edinburgh, McCabe.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32Kepler?
0:23:32 > 0:23:34No. Durham, one of you buzz.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40It's Kuiper. 10 points for this.
0:23:40 > 0:23:44Which prime number may be obtained by adding the number of sovereign states in South America
0:23:44 > 0:23:49to the number of countries whose English names end in "stan",
0:23:49 > 0:23:51that's S-T-A-N?
0:23:53 > 0:23:55Durham, Walters!
0:23:56 > 0:23:5820.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01No. Edinburgh, one of you buzz?
0:24:01 > 0:24:03- 27.- No. It's 19 - 12 and 7.
0:24:03 > 0:24:09For ten points, in compound nouns, what word of five letters can come before drive,
0:24:09 > 0:24:11mail, reaction, letter...?
0:24:11 > 0:24:13I think it's chain.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16Chain is correct, yes.
0:24:16 > 0:24:17APPLAUSE
0:24:17 > 0:24:22Your bonuses are on naval history. In 1667, which country's fleet achieved a major victory
0:24:22 > 0:24:27when it surprised the English Navy at Anchor in the River Medway?
0:24:28 > 0:24:31THEY CONFER
0:24:32 > 0:24:34- Spain?- No, the Dutch Republic.
0:24:34 > 0:24:38In 1776, British troops surrendered to United States naval and marine forces
0:24:38 > 0:24:41at which port on New Providence Island,
0:24:41 > 0:24:42now a national capital?
0:24:46 > 0:24:48THEY CONFER
0:24:48 > 0:24:50Let's have it, please.
0:24:54 > 0:24:58- We'll try Ottawa.- No, Nassau. The largest naval action between Britain and France
0:24:58 > 0:25:03during the French Revolutionary Wars, the Third Battle of Ushant is often known by what name,
0:25:03 > 0:25:07referring to the day in 1794 on which it was fought?
0:25:12 > 0:25:14THEY CONFER
0:25:14 > 0:25:16- Come on!- Thursday.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18No! It's Glorious First of June.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20Only a couple of minutes to go. 10 points for this.
0:25:20 > 0:25:24The author of the 1961 Cottage Garden Flowers,
0:25:24 > 0:25:30who created the garden at East Lambrook Manor in Somerset from 1938?
0:25:33 > 0:25:35- Gertrude Lawrence?- No.
0:25:39 > 0:25:40Vita Sackville-West?
0:25:40 > 0:25:43No, it's Margery Fish. 10 points for this.
0:25:43 > 0:25:47Collagen is the constituent protein of which strong,
0:25:47 > 0:25:50flexible connective tissue that joins bone to bone...?
0:25:50 > 0:25:52Cartilage?
0:25:52 > 0:25:55No, you lose five points.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57- Ligaments.- Correct.
0:25:57 > 0:26:01Your bonuses are on 19th-century American painting.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03Which river in New York state gives its name
0:26:03 > 0:26:09to a mid-19C school of landscape painting, influenced by Romanticism?
0:26:09 > 0:26:12THEY CONFER
0:26:20 > 0:26:22- Come on!- Hudson.- Correct.
0:26:22 > 0:26:26As seen in the latter's work of Breezing Up, Fitz Hugh Lane
0:26:26 > 0:26:29and Winslow Homer were well-known painters of what genre?
0:26:33 > 0:26:36- Come on!- Landscape? - No, it's seascape.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38A painting of 1888 at the Boston Arts patron
0:26:38 > 0:26:41Isabella Stewart Gardner is among the works of which US artist,
0:26:41 > 0:26:44also associated with portraits of European society?
0:26:47 > 0:26:51- No idea.- It's John Singer Sargent. 10 points for this.
0:26:51 > 0:26:55Written in the 1620s, On The Death Of A Fair Infant Dying Of A Cough
0:26:55 > 0:26:57was the first original poem in English
0:26:57 > 0:27:02by which poet? His large major poem was Samson Agonistes in 1671.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04- Milton.- It was.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07APPLAUSE
0:27:07 > 0:27:09Your bonuses are on Africa.
0:27:09 > 0:27:13In each case, identify the country from its three main ethnic groups.
0:27:13 > 0:27:18Firstly, Wolf, at around 40%, Fula and Serer.
0:27:19 > 0:27:21- No.- Senegal.
0:27:21 > 0:27:26Secondly, Ovimbundu at around 37%, followed by Kimbundu...
0:27:26 > 0:27:27GONG
0:27:27 > 0:27:29That's the gong.
0:27:29 > 0:27:33Durham University have 60 points, Edinburgh University have 135.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35APPLAUSE
0:27:39 > 0:27:42Durham, thank you very much for playing.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45You started well but faded a bit as it went on.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48Edinburgh, we shall look forward to seeing you again.
0:27:48 > 0:27:52I hope you can join us next time for another of these graduate matches,
0:27:52 > 0:27:55but until then, it's goodbye from Durham University...
0:27:55 > 0:27:56ALL: Goodbye.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58And goodbye from Edinburgh University...
0:27:58 > 0:28:01- ALL: Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye!
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