0:00:20 > 0:00:23Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:26 > 0:00:31Hello. Welcome to another seasonal demonstration of the wisdom
0:00:31 > 0:00:34that's supposed to come with age, as we reach the
0:00:34 > 0:00:38midway point in the first round of this contest for teams of graduates.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41The four teams with the highest winning scores go through.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44Now, students from Magdalen College, Oxford, had been series champions
0:00:44 > 0:00:48four times, which is more than any other institution.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51No pressure, then. The first of them is an entrepreneur,
0:00:51 > 0:00:54whose interests have ranged from pizza parlours to expensive
0:00:54 > 0:00:57restaurants, dentistry and greyhound racing.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00Until last year, he was also chairman of Channel 4,
0:01:00 > 0:01:03which is a television station. Next to him,
0:01:03 > 0:01:06someone who knows what it feels like to sit behind that desk.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08In 1999, then with the name Fitzpatrick,
0:01:08 > 0:01:12she captained Magdalen to one of their series titles.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15After which she became a civil servant in the Cabinet Office,
0:01:15 > 0:01:17and the Department of Education.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20Their captain is one of the UK's leading novelists,
0:01:20 > 0:01:22winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and,
0:01:22 > 0:01:26more recently, of the Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28Last month, his latest novel, The Stranger's Child,
0:01:28 > 0:01:32was named Book of the Year at the Galaxy National Book Awards.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36Finally, a former leader writer for the Telegraph, now specialising
0:01:36 > 0:01:39in politics, architecture, language and heroic causes.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42Most recently, his attempt to rekindle the country's doomed
0:01:42 > 0:01:47love affair with Latin in his book Amo Amas Amat...And All That.
0:01:47 > 0:01:51Let's meet the four hoping to say "Veni, vidi, vici."
0:01:52 > 0:01:53My name is Luke Johnson.
0:01:53 > 0:01:58I graduated in 1983 in Physiology, and I'm a restaurateur.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01Hello, I'm Sarah Healey. I read Modern History and English.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05I graduated in 1998, and I work at the Department for Education.
0:02:05 > 0:02:06And their captain.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08Hello, I'm Alan Hollinghurst.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12I took my degree in English in 1975, and I'm a writer.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Hello, I'm Harry Mount.
0:02:14 > 0:02:18I took my degree in 1993 in Ancient and Modern History,
0:02:18 > 0:02:20and I'm a writer and journalist.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23APPLAUSE
0:02:23 > 0:02:25Now, their opponents tonight represent
0:02:25 > 0:02:28University College, London.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32And first up, they're fielding a journalist who started
0:02:32 > 0:02:35working in Honduras, reporting on local politics after being
0:02:35 > 0:02:39thrown out of school for releasing a rat in assembly.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42She has since made a career trying to render popular culture
0:02:42 > 0:02:44intelligible to Daily Telegraph readers.
0:02:44 > 0:02:48Next to her, a performer who once addressed the Oxford Union,
0:02:48 > 0:02:52and in doing so, refuted Descartes' maxim, "Cogito ergo sum,"
0:02:52 > 0:02:56which makes him of decidedly questionable usefulness tonight.
0:02:56 > 0:03:00Their captain is Lady Macgregor of Macgregor of Clan Gregor,
0:03:00 > 0:03:03but she's better known to us as a television journalist and
0:03:03 > 0:03:07news presenter whose work has taken her from ITN to GMTV and the BBC.
0:03:07 > 0:03:11Finally, a journalist who's avoided the laundry chute to oblivion
0:03:11 > 0:03:14by staying with the same newspaper for 30 years,
0:03:14 > 0:03:16for whom he is now an assistant editor,
0:03:16 > 0:03:20having also been Washington correspondent and political editor.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23So let's now ask them for the formal "How do you do?"
0:03:23 > 0:03:24Hello, I'm Lucy Jones.
0:03:24 > 0:03:28I graduated in 2007, with a degree in English Literature,
0:03:28 > 0:03:30and I work for the Daily Telegraph.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36Hello, I'm Trevor Lock, and I graduated in the '90s from UCL
0:03:36 > 0:03:39with a degree in Philosophy, and whilst I wonder what to do
0:03:39 > 0:03:43with that, I work as a comedian in people's living rooms.
0:03:43 > 0:03:44And their captain.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Hello, I'm Fiona Armstrong.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49I graduated in 1980 with a degree in German Literature,
0:03:49 > 0:03:53and I work for BBC News, and I write about fishing.
0:03:53 > 0:03:54Hello. I'm Michael White.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57I read History, graduated in 1966 I'm afraid,
0:03:57 > 0:04:01and as Jeremy kindly reminded you, I still work for the Guardian.
0:04:01 > 0:04:05APPLAUSE
0:04:06 > 0:04:08Well, you all know the rules.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11Starter questions are 10 points. They're solo efforts.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14Bonus questions are team efforts, they're worth 15.
0:04:14 > 0:04:18If you interrupt a starter question incorrectly, there's a fine.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21So, fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for 10.
0:04:21 > 0:04:25The Rise and Fall of Music Hall and More Than A Game,
0:04:25 > 0:04:30the story of cricket's early years, are works by which political figure,
0:04:30 > 0:04:33who left the House of Commons at the 2001 General Election?
0:04:40 > 0:04:42Julian Critchley?
0:04:42 > 0:04:44Anyone like to buzz from UCL?
0:04:49 > 0:04:50- John Major.- Correct.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52APPLAUSE
0:04:52 > 0:04:57You get the first set of bonuses, then, UCL, on a historical family.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00For five points. Originating in the Spanish province of Valencia,
0:05:00 > 0:05:03which family produced several popes,
0:05:03 > 0:05:08the first being Callixtus III in 1455?
0:05:08 > 0:05:09THEY CONFER
0:05:21 > 0:05:22Castilians?
0:05:22 > 0:05:26Er...no, that's a provincial description. No, the Borgias.
0:05:26 > 0:05:30Created Archbishop and Cardinal by his father, Pope Alexander VI,
0:05:30 > 0:05:34which Borgia made himself master of several cities of northern Italy,
0:05:34 > 0:05:37and was praised by Machiavelli as a model prince?
0:05:37 > 0:05:41THEY CONFER
0:05:41 > 0:05:43- Cesare.- Cesare Borgia is correct.
0:05:43 > 0:05:47Which illegitimate child of Rodrigo Borgia founded
0:05:47 > 0:05:50the San Bernardino Convent, created to house the illegitimate
0:05:50 > 0:05:52daughters of her own and other leading families?
0:05:56 > 0:05:59- Lucrezia?- Lucrezia Borgia is correct. 10 points for this.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Catherine of Braganza was the last queen to inhabit
0:06:02 > 0:06:03which building on the Strand?
0:06:03 > 0:06:07It was redesigned in the Palladian style in the 18th century,
0:06:07 > 0:06:09and became home to various...
0:06:09 > 0:06:11- Somerset House.- Correct.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14So your first set of bonuses, now, Magdalen College, Oxford,
0:06:14 > 0:06:16are on political magazines.
0:06:16 > 0:06:21Launched in 1995 by David Goodhart, which monthly title has featured
0:06:21 > 0:06:26columns including Dear Wilhelmina, France profonde and Out of Mind?
0:06:26 > 0:06:28- Prospect.- Correct.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31Founded in 2008, which monthly magazine describes its core mission
0:06:31 > 0:06:35as to "celebrate our civilisation, in particular democracy debate
0:06:35 > 0:06:39and freedom of speech, at a time when they're under threat."
0:06:41 > 0:06:42- Standpoint.- Correct.
0:06:42 > 0:06:46Which magazine's past editors include Ian Gilmore, Nigel Lawson,
0:06:46 > 0:06:48Boris Johnson and Matthew D'Ancona?
0:06:48 > 0:06:51- The Spectator.- Correct. 10 points for this question.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54Based at Wrightington Hospital in Lancashire from the early 1960s,
0:06:54 > 0:06:59Sir John Charnley was a pioneer of which surg...?
0:06:59 > 0:07:00- Hip replacement.- Correct.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03APPLAUSE
0:07:03 > 0:07:06Your bonuses, UCL, are on retirement.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09Derived in part from the Greek for "old man," what term denotes
0:07:09 > 0:07:12the science that studies the biology, psychology
0:07:12 > 0:07:16and sociology of ageing and the problems faced by the elderly?
0:07:20 > 0:07:23Geri...geriatrics?
0:07:23 > 0:07:27No, that is the medical problems of old age, it's gerontology.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30Deriving its name from a militant group, which organisation
0:07:30 > 0:07:33was founded by the US activist Maggie Kuhn in 1970,
0:07:33 > 0:07:36on her forced retirement from the Presbyterian Church,
0:07:36 > 0:07:39and is concerned with the problems faced by those in retirement.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43- Grey Panthers.- Correct. First cited in
0:07:43 > 0:07:45the Daily Telegraph in 2003,
0:07:45 > 0:07:50the name of which smoked fish is used in the plural to denote
0:07:50 > 0:07:53offspring who stay in the parental home well into adulthood,
0:07:53 > 0:07:56thereby reducing their parents' retirement savings?
0:07:56 > 0:07:59THEY CONFER
0:08:12 > 0:08:15- Sorry, we don't know.- It's a pity, cos you did know. They're kippers.
0:08:15 > 0:08:1610 points for this.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19Richard Hamilton, a pioneer of British pop art,
0:08:19 > 0:08:23who died in September 2011, is noted for Swingeing London,
0:08:23 > 0:08:27a silk screen depicting which rock star...?
0:08:27 > 0:08:29Er, Mick Jagger and Robert Fraser.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32We only needed Mick Jagger, but that's correct.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34A set of bonuses for you. They're on primatologists.
0:08:34 > 0:08:38Which British primatologist's research in Tanzania includes
0:08:38 > 0:08:42the discovery that chimpanzees use tools in the form of sticks,
0:08:42 > 0:08:44which they strip of leaves
0:08:44 > 0:08:47and use to take termites out of their mounds to eat.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49THEY CONFER
0:08:55 > 0:08:56- Dian Fossey?- No, Jane Goodall.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59Regarded as the foremost authority on orang-utans,
0:08:59 > 0:09:02which German-born scientist received
0:09:02 > 0:09:08the prestigious Kalpataru Award in 1977 from the Republic of Indonesia,
0:09:08 > 0:09:10given for outstanding environmental leadership?
0:09:17 > 0:09:19- We don't know.- It's Birute Galdikas.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21Finally, which American primatologist was,
0:09:21 > 0:09:23along with Goodall and Galdikas,
0:09:23 > 0:09:26a protege of Louis Leakey, and dubbed one of Leakey's Angels.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29She was particularly associated with the study
0:09:29 > 0:09:32of the mountain gorillas of Rwanda.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34- Dian Fossey. - That was Dian Fossey, yes.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37A picture round now. For your picture starter,
0:09:37 > 0:09:39you'll see a map of part of Europe,
0:09:39 > 0:09:41with a wine-producing region highlighted.
0:09:41 > 0:09:45For 10 points, I'd like you to name the wine region, please.
0:09:48 > 0:09:52- Rioja?- Rioja is correct, yes.
0:09:52 > 0:09:56So, your bonuses, Magdalen College, are on maps of three more
0:09:56 > 0:09:59wine producing regions from around the world.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01In each case, name the wine region highlighted.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03Firstly, this specific region.
0:10:16 > 0:10:17Burgundy?
0:10:17 > 0:10:20No, that's much further south. It's Chablis.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23Secondly, the precise region here.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32- Stellenbosch.- Correct.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34And finally, this wine region.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41- Chianti.- Correct. Another starter question.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44Quote, "Painting is not made to decorate apartments.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy."
0:10:47 > 0:10:50Which artist made that statement in 1945,
0:10:50 > 0:10:52probably in reference to The Charnel House,
0:10:52 > 0:10:55and other works by him of the same period?
0:11:00 > 0:11:05- Salvador Dali?- No. Magdalen College, one of you buzz.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07You may not confer.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09- Picasso?- Picasso is correct, yes.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12APPLAUSE
0:11:12 > 0:11:15This set of bonuses are on an Elizabethan courtier, Magdalen.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18Sir John Harrington was the inventor, in the 1590s
0:11:18 > 0:11:22of a version of what now-ubiquitous device?
0:11:22 > 0:11:25His godmother, Elizabeth I, had one installed at Richmond Palace,
0:11:25 > 0:11:28but was reputed to be too afraid to use it.
0:11:35 > 0:11:39- An indoor toilet?- No, it was a flushing toilet or a water closet.
0:11:39 > 0:11:43Among Harrington's achievements was the first translation into English
0:11:43 > 0:11:47of which early 16th century verse epic by Ludovico Ariosto?
0:11:56 > 0:12:00- Gerusalemme Liberata?- No, it's Orlando Furioso. Finally...
0:12:00 > 0:12:02among Harrington's achievements was the command of
0:12:02 > 0:12:06horsemen in Ireland during the Nine Years War, under which nobleman,
0:12:06 > 0:12:10to whom Shakespeare dedicated some of his verse?
0:12:18 > 0:12:21- Southampton?- Yes, it is. Henry Wriothesley, yes.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24Right, another starter question.
0:12:24 > 0:12:28Chushingura is one of the most familiar stories of which country?
0:12:28 > 0:12:31The term refers to fictionalised accounts of 47 warriors who
0:12:31 > 0:12:34avenge their lord, who's been forced by a corrupt official
0:12:34 > 0:12:36to take his own life.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40- Japan?- Correct.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42APPLAUSE
0:12:42 > 0:12:45These bonuses are on geography. After the Dead Sea Depression,
0:12:45 > 0:12:48the lowest land elevation on earth
0:12:48 > 0:12:51is often held to be Lake Assal, close to the junction
0:12:51 > 0:12:55of three tectonic plates in which small African country?
0:12:55 > 0:12:57THEY CONFER
0:13:10 > 0:13:14- I think we'd better have an answer. - Rwanda.- No, it's Djibouti.
0:13:14 > 0:13:17At a similar elevation to Lake Assal, the Turfan Depression
0:13:17 > 0:13:23lies south-east of the city of Urumchi in which Asian country?
0:13:34 > 0:13:36- Can we have an answer?- China?
0:13:36 > 0:13:40Correct. The lowest point in South America is the Laguna del Carbon,
0:13:40 > 0:13:44more than 100 metres below sea level in which country?
0:13:47 > 0:13:48- Peru.- No, it's Argentina.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51A music round, now. For your music starter,
0:13:51 > 0:13:56you'll hear a piece of music which featured in a film released in 2001.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00For 10 points, I simply want you to name the film.
0:14:02 > 0:14:06MUSIC: "The Blue Danube" by Johann Strauss II
0:14:20 > 0:14:22Pride and Prejudice?
0:14:22 > 0:14:26Anyone like to have a go from Magdalen? You can hear some more...
0:14:26 > 0:14:29- Moulin Rouge? - No, it's Hannibal.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32So, music bonuses shortly. Another starter question in the meantime.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35Fingers on the buzzers. For 10 points.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38Described by its inventor, Jean-Paul Nerriere,
0:14:38 > 0:14:41as a tool rather than a language, which international
0:14:41 > 0:14:44auxiliary language is a highly simplified form of English,
0:14:44 > 0:14:48with a 1500-word vocabulary designed for non-native speakers?
0:14:55 > 0:14:56Scouse?
0:14:56 > 0:14:58LAUGHTER
0:14:58 > 0:15:00No, er...Magdalen College.
0:15:00 > 0:15:05- Esperanto?- No, it's Globish. 10 points for this.
0:15:05 > 0:15:08October 2011 saw the announcement of the winner of a competition
0:15:08 > 0:15:11by the Royal Institute of British Architects,
0:15:11 > 0:15:14the National Grid and the Department of Energy...
0:15:14 > 0:15:17- Er, telegraph pole.- No.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20You lose five points. The Department of Energy and...
0:15:20 > 0:15:25Erm, it's the electricity...things that carry electricity.
0:15:25 > 0:15:30- What are they called?- Pylons. - I'm sorry, I can't accept that.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33That's what she was looking for, and you were very kind to help out,
0:15:33 > 0:15:36but she'd buzzed, so I can't accept that.
0:15:36 > 0:15:37Another starter question...
0:15:37 > 0:15:40Which village on the River Erne in Ireland lends its name to
0:15:40 > 0:15:44the thin, ivory-coloured porcelain manufactured there from 1857?
0:15:47 > 0:15:51- Waterford.- No, UCL, one of you buzz.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53You may not confer, one of you can buzz.
0:15:57 > 0:16:02- Delph?- Wrong country altogether. No, it's Belleek, in County Fermanagh.
0:16:02 > 0:16:0410 points for this. Which century links
0:16:04 > 0:16:07the beginning of the Gupta Dynasty in India,
0:16:07 > 0:16:09the fall of the Han Dynasty in China,
0:16:09 > 0:16:12the establishment of the Sassanid Empire in Persia,
0:16:12 > 0:16:16and the excision of the reforming Roman Emperor, Diocletian?
0:16:20 > 0:16:21The 4th?
0:16:21 > 0:16:23Anyone like to buzz from Magdalen?
0:16:23 > 0:16:26- 3rd century. - The 3rd is correct, yes.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28APPLAUSE
0:16:30 > 0:16:35So we follow on, after that interval with the music bonuses, which
0:16:35 > 0:16:39we were due to hear earlier, but no-one identified the music starter.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42You, however, get the bonuses, having got a starter question right.
0:16:42 > 0:16:46Following on from The Blue Danube. Three more pieces of classical music
0:16:46 > 0:16:49which have featured in the Hannibal Lecter films.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52I want you to name the composer in each case. Firstly, for five...
0:16:52 > 0:16:56MUSIC: "Goldberg Variations" by JS Bach
0:17:17 > 0:17:21- Mozart?- No, that's one of the Goldberg Variations by Bach.
0:17:21 > 0:17:27The second is a piece composed specifically for Hannibal in 2001.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30MUSIC: "Vide Cor Meum" by Patrick Cassidy
0:17:55 > 0:17:58- Come on.- John Taverner?- No, it's by Patrick Cassidy. And finally...
0:17:58 > 0:18:02MUSIC: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Felix Mendelssohn
0:18:23 > 0:18:27- Grieg?- No, that's by Mendelssohn, from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
0:18:27 > 0:18:2910 points for this.
0:18:29 > 0:18:34The Ariege, Tarn and Lot are among tributaries of which...?
0:18:34 > 0:18:35- Garonne.- Correct.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38APPLAUSE
0:18:38 > 0:18:41Right, your bonuses, UCL, are on scientific terms.
0:18:41 > 0:18:45Specifically, those that can be made using any of the seven
0:18:45 > 0:18:48letters of the word "gondola." In each case,
0:18:48 > 0:18:50give the word from the description.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54Firstly, for five, an animal organ that secretes
0:18:54 > 0:18:58substances for use in the body, for example, the thyroid.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01THEY CONFER
0:19:19 > 0:19:23It sounds a bit, no, well, the only thing we can come up with, dongon.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25Whereabouts in the body is that?
0:19:25 > 0:19:29- I'm not sure. But if I say it with authority.- No, it's a gland.
0:19:29 > 0:19:33Secondly. Pertaining to the joint of a stem, or the part where
0:19:33 > 0:19:35a leaf or several leaves are inserted,
0:19:35 > 0:19:38or to a point of intersection in general.
0:19:49 > 0:19:53- Gload. We're having a big guess, there.- No, it's nodal.
0:19:53 > 0:19:54Finally, for five points,
0:19:54 > 0:19:57the three-letter short form of a term meaning "power to which
0:19:57 > 0:20:02a fixed number of base must be raised to produce a given number."
0:20:09 > 0:20:12- Come on.- We don't know that one. - No, it's log.
0:20:12 > 0:20:1510 points for this. Deriving from a Maldivian word,
0:20:15 > 0:20:20what term denotes a ring-shaped coral reef that surrounds a lagoon?
0:20:20 > 0:20:23Examples include the Chagos Bank in the Indian Ocean,
0:20:23 > 0:20:26and Bikini in the Pacific.
0:20:26 > 0:20:31- Atoll.- Correct. Here are your bonuses. They're on Italian cheeses.
0:20:31 > 0:20:36Which cheese is an essential ingredient of the dessert tiramisu?
0:20:37 > 0:20:38- Mascarpone.- Correct.
0:20:38 > 0:20:42Which cheese is produced primarily in Sardinia, Sicily and Tuscany,
0:20:42 > 0:20:48and has a name deriving ultimately from the Latin meaning "sheep?"
0:20:56 > 0:21:00- Come on.- Ovario?- No, it's Pecorino.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03Finally, which soft blue-vein cheese was developed
0:21:03 > 0:21:07in the 1960s for the British market as a milder alternative to
0:21:07 > 0:21:11Gorgonzola, and has a name which is the Italian for sweet milk?
0:21:11 > 0:21:12- Dolcelatte.- Correct.
0:21:12 > 0:21:17A picture round, now. For your starter you'll see a painting.
0:21:17 > 0:21:2110 points if you can give me the name of the artist, please.
0:21:25 > 0:21:27- Ford Madox Brown?- Correct.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29APPLAUSE
0:21:29 > 0:21:34Following on from that, he was associated with the Pre-Raphaelites.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37You're going to see three paintings by artists
0:21:37 > 0:21:40who were members of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood.
0:21:40 > 0:21:44And unusually for that group, it's a landscape painting in each case.
0:21:44 > 0:21:48Five points for each artist you can name. Firstly.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01- Holman Hunt?- Indeed, it's the scene in Cornwall. Secondly...
0:22:16 > 0:22:19- Rossetti?- No, that's by James Collinson. And finally...
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Who painted that?
0:22:30 > 0:22:35- Rossetti?- No, that's by Millais. The Sound of Many Waters of 1876.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37Right, listen carefully.
0:22:37 > 0:22:436, 28, 496 and 8,128 are the first four examples
0:22:43 > 0:22:47of what type of number, defined as a positive integer that is
0:22:47 > 0:22:50the sum of all its divisors apart from itself.
0:22:52 > 0:22:56- Prime?- No, UCL, one of you may buzz.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02Proud?
0:23:02 > 0:23:05No, another P. It's perfect. 10 points for this starter question.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08What area of Stoke-on-Trent took its name from an ancient
0:23:08 > 0:23:11state of central Italy known for its artistic...?
0:23:11 > 0:23:13- Etruria.- Correct.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18Your bonuses are on the novels of Thomas Hardy. In each case,
0:23:18 > 0:23:22identify the character, from DH Lawrence's description or opinion.
0:23:22 > 0:23:26Firstly, for five. "Monkish, passionate, medieval,
0:23:26 > 0:23:30belonging to woman yet striving away from her, refusing to know her."
0:23:43 > 0:23:47- Tess?- No, it was Jude Fawley of Jude The Obscure.
0:23:47 > 0:23:51Secondly, "Dark, wild, passionate, quite conscious of her desires
0:23:51 > 0:23:54and inheriting no tradition which would make her ashamed of them,
0:23:54 > 0:23:57since she is of a novelistic Italian birth."
0:23:57 > 0:24:00Which of Hardy's characters is Lawrence describing?
0:24:12 > 0:24:14- Shall we have an answer, please?- Tess?
0:24:14 > 0:24:16No, it's Eustacia Vye. And, finally...
0:24:16 > 0:24:18"She is passive out of self-acceptance.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21A true aristocratic quality amounting almost
0:24:21 > 0:24:24to self-indifference."
0:24:24 > 0:24:27- Tess, I think.- That is Tess, yes.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29Right, four minutes to go. 10 points for this.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32In 2005, Labour MP Kate Hoey became the chair of which
0:24:32 > 0:24:35campaigning organisation, formed in 1997,
0:24:35 > 0:24:38out of the British Field Sports Society and two other.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40- Countryside Alliance?- Correct.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42APPLAUSE
0:24:42 > 0:24:46Your bonuses, UCL, are on words that can be spelt from the
0:24:46 > 0:24:50chemical symbols of the first 10 elements in the Periodic Table.
0:24:50 > 0:24:52In each case, give the elements whose symbols
0:24:52 > 0:24:55spell the word defined. For example, for the name "Ben,"
0:24:55 > 0:24:59the answer would be "beryllium" and "nitrogen." OK?
0:25:00 > 0:25:03Firstly, the tissue of the body in which Haversian canals
0:25:03 > 0:25:06and osteocytes are found.
0:25:13 > 0:25:17We preferred the cheese answers. We don't know that one.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20It's boron, oxygen and neon, i.e. bone. B-O-N-E.
0:25:20 > 0:25:23The surname, secondly, of the Italian playwright who won
0:25:23 > 0:25:26the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51- Right, let's have it. Come on. - We don't know the answer.
0:25:51 > 0:25:55Well, that was a lot of fuss about nothing. Fluorine and oxygen,
0:25:55 > 0:25:58as in Dario Fo. F-O. In geometry, an infinitely extending,
0:25:58 > 0:26:02one-dimensional figure that has no curvature.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14Come on, let's have it, please.
0:26:14 > 0:26:15It's the infinity thing, but...
0:26:15 > 0:26:19No it's not, it's Line, and that comes from lithium and neon.
0:26:19 > 0:26:2010 points for this.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23The French painter Louis Lejeune is noted for a panoramic
0:26:23 > 0:26:27painting of which major battle of September 1812,
0:26:27 > 0:26:31named after a village 120 kilometres west of Moscow?
0:26:31 > 0:26:33- Borodino.- Correct.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35APPLAUSE
0:26:36 > 0:26:39Your bonuses this time are on similar names. Five points firstly.
0:26:39 > 0:26:43Substituting the first letter of the surname changes the author
0:26:43 > 0:26:46of The Rape of the Loch into the star of The Road To Singapore.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49For five points, name both.
0:26:57 > 0:27:01- Pope and JG Farrell.- What?!
0:27:01 > 0:27:03That's not by changing one letter, is it?
0:27:03 > 0:27:07- It's Pope and Bob Hope! Road movies.- Oh, road movies!
0:27:07 > 0:27:10Right, substitution of the final letter of the surname changes
0:27:10 > 0:27:13the composer of the Academic Festival Overture
0:27:13 > 0:27:16into the creator God in Hinduism.
0:27:16 > 0:27:20Five points if you can name both, please.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31Come on.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34Come on, we're nearly at the gong. Come on!
0:27:34 > 0:27:36- Shiva.- No, it's Brahms and Brahma.
0:27:36 > 0:27:40Finally, substituting the third letter of the surname changes
0:27:40 > 0:27:43a figure of the Gothic Revival into the president of Russia
0:27:43 > 0:27:44from 2000 to 2008.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46For five points, name both.
0:27:46 > 0:27:50- No need to buzz, just tell us. Come on!- Just getting excited.
0:27:50 > 0:27:51- Pugin and Putin.- Correct.
0:27:51 > 0:27:5310 points for this question.
0:27:53 > 0:27:57Martini's Law is an informal term for the assessment of the probable
0:27:57 > 0:28:02effects of increasing nitrogen narcosis in which specific activity?
0:28:05 > 0:28:10- Drinking.- Er, obviously not! - GONG SOUNDS
0:28:10 > 0:28:13APPLAUSE
0:28:14 > 0:28:19It was scuba diving, UCL, but thank you very much for taking part.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21Magdalen, we look forward to seeing you
0:28:21 > 0:28:24in the next stage of the contest. Congratulations.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26I hope you can join us for another match. Until then,
0:28:26 > 0:28:30- it's goodbye from University College, London.- ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:30 > 0:28:32- Goodbye from Magdalen College, Oxford.- ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:32 > 0:28:35And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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