0:00:15 > 0:00:18APPLAUSE
0:00:20 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30Hello. Over the past few matches,
0:00:30 > 0:00:34it's proved difficult to characterise the members making up our teams of graduates
0:00:34 > 0:00:38without overusing words like motley or sometimes shower.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40Tonight's no exception - for the first word at least
0:00:40 > 0:00:46as two more eclectic teams prepare to do battle for the honour of the university that nurtured them.
0:00:46 > 0:00:51Five first-round matches, so five winners, but only four places in the semifinals.
0:00:51 > 0:00:58So for tonight's teams to be guaranteed a place, they need to win with a score of at least 130.
0:00:58 > 0:01:04Playing on behalf of the University of Warwick is an award-winning film director
0:01:04 > 0:01:08working on both sides of the Atlantic whose works include Leon the Pig Farmer
0:01:08 > 0:01:13and the Terry Pratchett adaptations Hog Father and The Colour of Magic.
0:01:13 > 0:01:18With him the woman who led the Warwick students team to victory in 2007
0:01:18 > 0:01:22and who's written on education for The Times Educational Supplement and The Observer.
0:01:22 > 0:01:28Her first book on reform of the school curriculum in England comes out next year.
0:01:28 > 0:01:33Their captain is a writer and broadcaster with a peculiarly British specialism, the railways,
0:01:33 > 0:01:37and he's been described as the greatest expert on British trains.
0:01:37 > 0:01:43Finally, an actor whose stage work includes Twelfth Night and King Lear
0:01:43 > 0:01:48but may be more familiar to viewers from her episodes of Bottom and The Young Ones
0:01:48 > 0:01:52and as the mums in both My Dad's the Prime Minister and My Parents are Aliens.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Let's meet the Warwick team.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59I'm Vadim Jean and I graduated in 1986 from Warwick in history.
0:01:59 > 0:02:05I'm now a film director working on the latest Terry Pratchett Discworld adaptations for the screen.
0:02:05 > 0:02:10I'm Daisy Christodoulou. I graduated from Warwick in 2007 with a degree in English Literature.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13Since then, I've worked as an English teacher in London.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15- And their captain. - I'm Christian Wolmar.
0:02:15 > 0:02:19I graduated from Warwick in 1971 with a degree in Economics.
0:02:19 > 0:02:24I'm a journalist specialising in transport and I write history books on the railways.
0:02:24 > 0:02:28Hi. I'm Carla Mendonca. I graduated from Warwick in 1983
0:02:28 > 0:02:32with a degree in Theatre Studies and Dramatic Arts. I'm an actress.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35APPLAUSE
0:02:36 > 0:02:39The team from the University of Sheffield
0:02:39 > 0:02:42includes a former leader of Manchester City Council,
0:02:42 > 0:02:47now an MP who serves on the House of Commons transport select committee.
0:02:47 > 0:02:52Alongside him, an academic who's directed various archaeological and heritage projects,
0:02:52 > 0:02:57familiar to us as one of the experts shivering in a ditch on Channel 4's Time Team.
0:02:57 > 0:02:59Welcome to the warm!
0:02:59 > 0:03:05Their captain has been described as the most powerful BBC Radio Head of Music in the corporation's history,
0:03:05 > 0:03:07the recipient of numerous awards,
0:03:07 > 0:03:11he's championed the careers of artists such as Dizzee Rascal and Ms Dynamite.
0:03:11 > 0:03:16Finally, a scientist and academic whose specialisms include ultrasound, osteoporosis
0:03:16 > 0:03:20and something slightly baffling but doubtless invaluable,
0:03:20 > 0:03:23helical magnetic domains in antiferromagnetic materials.
0:03:23 > 0:03:28He also happens to be deputy vice-chancellor of the University of Warwick.
0:03:28 > 0:03:30Let's meet the Sheffield team.
0:03:30 > 0:03:34Hello, I'm Graham Stringer. I graduated in chemistry in 1971.
0:03:34 > 0:03:38I'm now Member of Parliament for Blackley and Broughton.
0:03:38 > 0:03:43Hi, I'm Faith Simpson. I graduated in 2002 with a degree in archaeology and pre-history.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46I'm now a lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University.
0:03:46 > 0:03:52- And their captain.- Hello. I'm George Ergatoudis. I graduated in architecture in 1986
0:03:52 > 0:03:55and I'm now head of music at BBC Radio One and One Extra.
0:03:55 > 0:04:03Hello. I'm Stuart Palmer. I graduated from the University of Sheffield with a degree in physics in 1964.
0:04:03 > 0:04:07I'm now Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick
0:04:07 > 0:04:12and also honorary secretary of the Institute of Physics in London.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15APPLAUSE
0:04:17 > 0:04:20The rules are constant as the northern star.
0:04:20 > 0:04:2510 points for starters, 15 for bonuses. Starters are individual efforts, bonuses team efforts.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28A five-point fine if you interrupt a starter incorrectly.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32Fingers on buzzers. Your first starter for 10.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35"Your time is limited. Don't waste it living someone else's life.
0:04:35 > 0:04:39"Don't be trapped by dogma, living with the results of other people's thinking."
0:04:39 > 0:04:42These are the words of which US entrepreneur...
0:04:42 > 0:04:45- Steve Jobs.- Steve Jobs is correct.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47You get the first set of bonuses, Warwick.
0:04:47 > 0:04:5220th-century history. Denoting friendly relations but falling short of an alliance,
0:04:52 > 0:04:57what two-word French term is used to describe the Anglo-French agreement of 1904?
0:04:57 > 0:05:03- Entente cordiale.- The 1904 entente was entitled A Declaration between the United Kingdom and France
0:05:03 > 0:05:06respecting Egypt and which other North African country?
0:05:19 > 0:05:21- Libya.- No, Morocco.
0:05:21 > 0:05:28In 1907 with which country did France and Britain form an alliance known as the Triple Entente?
0:05:31 > 0:05:33- Russia.- Correct. Ten points for the starter.
0:05:33 > 0:05:38In his Sonnet 130, Shakespeare compares the colour of his mistress's lips...
0:05:39 > 0:05:41- Coral.- Correct, yes.
0:05:44 > 0:05:48Your bonuses, Warwick, are on British theatre. Firstly for five.
0:05:48 > 0:05:53In 1963, what term, originally applied to a genre of figurative painting,
0:05:53 > 0:05:56was used by critics including G.Wilson Knight
0:05:56 > 0:06:00to describe plays such as Look Back in Anger that dealt with domestic reality?
0:06:01 > 0:06:05- Kitchen sink drama.- Correct. The kitchen sink trilogy
0:06:05 > 0:06:10of Chicken Soup with Barley, Roots and I'm Talking About Jerusalem is by which playwright?
0:06:10 > 0:06:14- Arnold Wesker.- The cover for the Smiths' single, Girlfriend in a Coma,
0:06:14 > 0:06:18featured a photo of which dramatist associated with kitchen sink drama,
0:06:18 > 0:06:21author of A Taste of Honey, who died last month?
0:06:21 > 0:06:24- Sheila Delaney.- Correct. Ten points for this starter.
0:06:24 > 0:06:29What institution was "addled" in 1614, "useless" in 1625,
0:06:29 > 0:06:32"short" in 1640...
0:06:33 > 0:06:35- Parliament.- Correct. Yes.
0:06:37 > 0:06:41Your bonuses, Warwick, are on financial jargon
0:06:41 > 0:06:45as defined by The Financial Times's online lexicon. For five points.
0:06:45 > 0:06:50In the UK, what three-word phrase is defined as the effect of a market recovering sharply
0:06:50 > 0:06:57from a steep fall, although the rebound is due to technical factors rather than fundamentals?
0:06:58 > 0:07:01- Dead cat bounce.- Correct. After an EU member state,
0:07:01 > 0:07:05what two-word term is defined as the negative impact on an economy of anything
0:07:05 > 0:07:09that gives rise to a sharp inflow of foreign currency
0:07:09 > 0:07:12such as the discovery of large oil reserves?
0:07:14 > 0:07:19I don't know the answer, but it's definitely Dutch. Do they want a country? It's Holland.
0:07:20 > 0:07:24- Holland. Dutch disease. - Dutch disease is correct, yes.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27What two-word term is defined as a company or individual
0:07:27 > 0:07:30that is sought out by the management of a takeover target
0:07:30 > 0:07:33to help defend itself against a hostile bid?
0:07:34 > 0:07:36- Poison pill.- No, the opposite. White knight.
0:07:36 > 0:07:42Ten points for this. The Greek-derived onomatopaeic term borborigmos, or borborigmi,
0:07:42 > 0:07:45refers to what phenomenon in the alimentary canal,
0:07:45 > 0:07:48often alleviated by eating?
0:07:49 > 0:07:51You may not confer!
0:07:51 > 0:07:54- Swallowing.- No. Anyone want to buzz from Sheffield?
0:07:56 > 0:07:59- Hiccups.- No, stomach rumbling.
0:07:59 > 0:08:04Ten points for this. "The Athens of the south", "the Protestant Vatican" and "Music City"
0:08:04 > 0:08:07are among the nicknames of which US state capital?
0:08:07 > 0:08:10It's home to a full-scale replica of the Parthenon
0:08:10 > 0:08:14and to the weekly broadcast concert known as the Grand Ole Opry.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19- Austin?- No. Sheffield, one of you buzz.
0:08:22 > 0:08:26- Washington.- No, Nashville. Ten points for this.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28Originally published in 1979 by Software Arts,
0:08:28 > 0:08:31a company founded by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston,
0:08:31 > 0:08:36"VisiCalc" was the first commercial program of what type to be made available to users?
0:08:38 > 0:08:40- Spreadsheets.- Correct.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45Right, you're off the mark with your first set of bonuses
0:08:45 > 0:08:49on the charters of international organisations.
0:08:49 > 0:08:55Which charity states that it was created as "a response to the failure of conventional trade
0:08:55 > 0:09:02"to deliver sustainable livelihoods and development opportunities to people in the poorest countries"?
0:09:07 > 0:09:11- Oxfam.- No, Fairtrade. Which organisation's charter begins,
0:09:11 > 0:09:13"Literature knows no frontiers
0:09:13 > 0:09:20"and must remain common currency among people in spite of political or international upheavals."
0:09:28 > 0:09:31- Pass, sorry.- It's PEN. Which organisation's charter states
0:09:31 > 0:09:35that its aim is, "To maintain international peace and security
0:09:35 > 0:09:40"and to that end, to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal
0:09:40 > 0:09:42"of threats to the peace."
0:09:42 > 0:09:47- United Nations.- Correct. A picture round now. For your starter,
0:09:47 > 0:09:49you'll see a Royal Mail special issue stamp
0:09:49 > 0:09:55showing a portrait of a monarch. Name the monarch and the royal house to which they belonged.
0:09:58 > 0:10:02- Queen Victoria, Saxe-Coburg Gotha. - Anyone like to buzz from Sheffield?
0:10:04 > 0:10:09I'll tell you. It's Queen Victoria and Hanover. I can't accept Saxe-Coburg Gotha.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12Picture bonuses in a moment. Ten points for this.
0:10:12 > 0:10:16Between late 2009 and early April 2010,
0:10:16 > 0:10:22a broad, dark band known as the South Equatorial Belt disappeared from the atmosphere
0:10:22 > 0:10:24of which planet?
0:10:24 > 0:10:26- Jupiter.- Jupiter is correct.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33So we go back, then, to the picture bonuses.
0:10:33 > 0:10:38Queen Victoria appeared on the starter. You got the House of Hanover wrong there.
0:10:38 > 0:10:44But three more stamps from the Royal Mail's special issue of Hanoverian kings and queens.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47Five points for each monarch you can identify.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59- George III.- No, that's George I. Secondly, who's this?
0:11:06 > 0:11:09- William IV.- Correct. And finally...
0:11:16 > 0:11:19- George IV.- A flattering portrait, yes. Ten points for this.
0:11:19 > 0:11:25"All national institutions of churches appear to me no other than human inventions
0:11:25 > 0:11:29"set up to terrify and enslave mankind and monopolise power and profit."
0:11:29 > 0:11:34These are the words of which radical author in the 1794 work The Rights of Man?
0:11:35 > 0:11:41- Thomas Payne.- Correct. Your bonuses are on plant poisons.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44What poison may be released from the glycoside amygdalin
0:11:44 > 0:11:48found in the stones of a number of Prunus species?
0:11:48 > 0:11:51- Cyanide.- Cyanide.- Cyanide is correct.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54What is the common name of the seeds of Myristica Fragrans,
0:11:54 > 0:11:59a common culinary spice containing the monoamine oxidase inhibitor myristicin?
0:12:06 > 0:12:08- Cayenne pepper?- No, it's nutmeg.
0:12:08 > 0:12:13The seeds of which plant contain ricin, an inhibitor of protein synthesis
0:12:13 > 0:12:16which has been investigated as a possible biological weapon?
0:12:16 > 0:12:20QUIET CONFERRING
0:12:25 > 0:12:27Rice.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30No, the castor oil plant. Ten points for this.
0:12:30 > 0:12:35One of the earliest programmable electronic digital devices, operational from 1944,
0:12:35 > 0:12:39what name was given to the device devised by the Post Office engineer Tommy Flowers
0:12:39 > 0:12:42and used at Bletchley Park to decrypt...
0:12:43 > 0:12:44Enigma.
0:12:44 > 0:12:48No. You lose five points. ..to decrypt the German Lorenz ciphers?
0:12:48 > 0:12:50One of you buzz.
0:12:52 > 0:12:58- Baby.- No, it's Colossus. Enigma was the German code machine.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02Another starter. What adjective has been formed from the English name
0:13:02 > 0:13:07of the Chinese city of Guangzhou and has been applied to the city's inhabitants, dialect...
0:13:08 > 0:13:10- Cantonese.- Correct.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15A set of bonuses on yoga, for you, Sheffield.
0:13:15 > 0:13:19In each case identity the style of yoga from the description given.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22Its name meaning eight limbs in Sanskrit,
0:13:22 > 0:13:26what form of yoga involves synchronising the breath in a series of postures
0:13:26 > 0:13:29intended to detoxify the muscles and organs?
0:13:39 > 0:13:41- No, pass.- That's Ashtanga.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44Sometimes referred to as the mother of all yogas,
0:13:44 > 0:13:49the name of which style of yoga is derived from a Sanskrit word meaning curled or spiral?
0:13:56 > 0:14:00- No, sorry.- Kundalini. And finally, developed from hatha yoga,
0:14:00 > 0:14:03which method involves a sequence of 26 postures
0:14:03 > 0:14:07which are performed in rooms heated to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit?
0:14:07 > 0:14:09- Bikram.- Correct.
0:14:09 > 0:14:15A music round now. For your starter question, you will hear a piece of popular music.
0:14:15 > 0:14:19For ten points all you have to do is name the band playing.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22# Summer's gone
0:14:22 > 0:14:26# Days spent with the grass and sun
0:14:26 > 0:14:30- # I don't mind - I don't mind
0:14:30 > 0:14:32# To pretend I do seems really dumb... #
0:14:35 > 0:14:39- Squeeze.- No. Sheffield, you can hear more if you like.
0:14:39 > 0:14:43# I'm right as the morning comes
0:14:43 > 0:14:46# Comes through the blinds
0:14:46 > 0:14:49# I shouldn't be up at this time... #
0:14:50 > 0:14:55- Dodgy.- Dodgy answer, for sure! It's The Boo Radleys.
0:14:55 > 0:14:59So, music bonuses shortly. Another starter question.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01Identify the poet who wrote these words.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04"He who binds to himself a joy
0:15:04 > 0:15:06"does the winged life destroy.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09"But he who kisses the joy as it flies..."
0:15:10 > 0:15:11- William Blake.- Correct.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18It was the Boo Radleys in the music starter,
0:15:18 > 0:15:21named after a character in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird.
0:15:21 > 0:15:27For your music bonuses, you'll hear tracks by three more bands whose names were inspired by books.
0:15:27 > 0:15:34In each case, name the band and the author of the book from which they took their name.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36# Do you remember
0:15:37 > 0:15:40# Chalk hearts melting on a playground wall
0:15:40 > 0:15:42# Do you remember
0:15:42 > 0:15:45# Dawn escapes from moon-washed college halls
0:15:45 > 0:15:46# Do you remember
0:15:46 > 0:15:49# The cherry blossom in the market square
0:15:49 > 0:15:51# Do you remember
0:15:51 > 0:15:53# I thought it was confetti in our hair
0:15:53 > 0:15:57# By the way... #
0:15:57 > 0:15:59Come on.
0:15:59 > 0:16:00No.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03That was Marillion. They took their name from Tolkien's Silmarillion.
0:16:03 > 0:16:07Secondly, see if you can identify the band and the author.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10# You know the day destroys the night
0:16:10 > 0:16:12# Night divides the day
0:16:12 > 0:16:16# Try to run, try to hide... #
0:16:16 > 0:16:19- The Doors, Aldous Huxley.- Correct.
0:16:19 > 0:16:20And finally.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23# I've never been closer
0:16:23 > 0:16:27# I've tried to understand
0:16:28 > 0:16:31# That certain feeling
0:16:31 > 0:16:34# Caught by another's hand
0:16:36 > 0:16:39# But it's too late to hesitate
0:16:39 > 0:16:43# We can't keep on living like this... #
0:16:47 > 0:16:51- Depeche Mode.- No, it's not. It's Heaven 17
0:16:51 > 0:16:55who took their name from a band in Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57So another starter question.
0:16:57 > 0:17:03Often described as the largest tank battle in history, Operation Citadel in 1943
0:17:03 > 0:17:07was a German offensive in the vicinity of which Russian city?
0:17:07 > 0:17:09It resulted in a Soviet victory.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13- Stalingrad.- No.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15Sheffield?
0:17:15 > 0:17:19- Tobruk?- No, that's in North Africa. It's Kursk. Ten points for this.
0:17:19 > 0:17:23Which word in this question contains the same number of letters
0:17:23 > 0:17:26as its immediate predecessor?
0:17:32 > 0:17:34- Contains.- Correct.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41Your bonuses are on art thefts, Warwick.
0:17:41 > 0:17:44Stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
0:17:44 > 0:17:50in 1990, Storm on the Sea of Galilee is the only seascape by which Dutch artist?
0:18:00 > 0:18:03- Rembrandt.- Correct. Painted between 1812 and 1814,
0:18:03 > 0:18:09Goya's portrait of which public figure was stolen less than three weeks after its hanging
0:18:09 > 0:18:12in the National Gallery in August 1961?
0:18:15 > 0:18:17INDISTINCT CONFERRING
0:18:27 > 0:18:30- Napoleon. - No, the Duke of Wellington.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33Along with a Madonna by the same artist,
0:18:33 > 0:18:37which expressionist painting was stolen from a museum in Oslo in 2004?
0:18:37 > 0:18:38The Scream.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42- The Scream.- The Scream is correct. 10 points for this starter.
0:18:42 > 0:18:46Answer as soon as you buzz. Multiply the number of platonic solids
0:18:46 > 0:18:50by the number of faces on the most multi-faceted among them.
0:18:50 > 0:18:53What three-digit number results?
0:19:00 > 0:19:03- 200.- Anyone like to buzz from Sheffield?
0:19:07 > 0:19:10Is anyone actually working it out, or are you just...
0:19:10 > 0:19:12Right, it's 100.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15Ten points for this. Answer promptly.
0:19:15 > 0:19:19Of the 12 countries of South America, three are smaller than the United Kingdom.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21For ten points, name two of them.
0:19:21 > 0:19:27- Guyana and French Guyana.- No.
0:19:27 > 0:19:31No, I can't accept that. Anyone like to buzz from Sheffield?
0:19:31 > 0:19:32Come on!
0:19:35 > 0:19:38Oh, come on, one of you - please!
0:19:38 > 0:19:42You were right. You've already been given one of them. Guyana.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45The others are Uruguay and Surinam. Ten points for this.
0:19:45 > 0:19:51Le Duc Tho in 1973 and Jean Paul Sartre in 1964 are linked...
0:19:51 > 0:19:55- They refused to accept their Nobel prize.- Correct. Yes.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00Your bonuses, Warwick, are on a shared term.
0:20:00 > 0:20:04What adjective meaning of mixed character derives from a Latin term
0:20:04 > 0:20:09denoting offspring such as that of a freeman and a slave or a tame sow and a wild boar?
0:20:09 > 0:20:11- Hybrid.- Hybrid.- Correct.
0:20:11 > 0:20:15The name of which hybrid animal may also denote hybrid machines,
0:20:15 > 0:20:18such as the one developed by Samuel Crompton in 1779
0:20:18 > 0:20:21that combined a Spinning Jenny with Arkwright's water frame?
0:20:21 > 0:20:26- A mule.- Correct. Which mythological hybrid is the offspring of a griffin and a mare
0:20:26 > 0:20:31and appears in Canto 4 of the 16th-century poem Orlando Furioso?
0:20:41 > 0:20:45- Come on.- Griffin. - No, it's a hippogriff.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47A second picture round now.
0:20:47 > 0:20:51For your starter, you'll see a photo of a well-known Nordic crime writer.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53Ten points if you can give me his name.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00Stig Larsson?
0:21:00 > 0:21:03No. Sheffield. Someone like to buzz?
0:21:07 > 0:21:12OK. It's Jo Nesbo. Pictures bonuses shortly. Another starter question.
0:21:12 > 0:21:17Which EU member state has a capital whose name concatenates the two-letter abbreviations
0:21:17 > 0:21:20of the US states of Rhode Island and Georgia?
0:21:20 > 0:21:22Riga.
0:21:22 > 0:21:27- Anyone like to...- Estonia.- I'm sorry. You give one answer, please!
0:21:27 > 0:21:29Sheffield. Anyone like to buzz?
0:21:32 > 0:21:34Estonia.
0:21:34 > 0:21:39Of course it's not. It's Latvia. Riga is the capital. I asked for the EU member state.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42Ten points for this. What term was coined in 1883
0:21:42 > 0:21:45by Sir Francis Galton to refer to the improvement of the human race
0:21:45 > 0:21:49by the use of a policy based on the principles of heredity?
0:21:49 > 0:21:51- Eugenics.- Eugenics is right.
0:21:54 > 0:21:58Back to the picture bonuses, following on from Jo Nesbo,
0:21:58 > 0:22:03the writer we saw in that picture starter, nominated for the 2011 Norwegian Booksellers' prize,
0:22:03 > 0:22:06here are three pictures of Swedish crime writers.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08Five points if you can name them.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10Firstly, who's this?
0:22:21 > 0:22:23- Henning Mankell.- Mankell is correct. Secondly.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28It's a woman.
0:22:28 > 0:22:29LAUGHTER
0:22:29 > 0:22:31"It's a woman"!
0:22:36 > 0:22:39No? That's Liza Marklund. And finally, who's this?
0:22:39 > 0:22:43- Stig Larsson.- Stig Larsson. - That is Stig Larsson, yes.
0:22:43 > 0:22:47Ten points for this. What fraction links mercy to someone who's surrendered,
0:22:47 > 0:22:50an area of a city, a phase of the moon...
0:22:50 > 0:22:53- Quarter.- Quarter is correct, yes.
0:22:56 > 0:23:01These bonuses are on philosophy in the 1650s.
0:23:01 > 0:23:05Which work of 1651 is named after a sea monster mentioned in the Book of Job?
0:23:05 > 0:23:10The author uses its immense power as a metaphor for the power of the state he describes.
0:23:10 > 0:23:15- Leviathan.- Correct. Which philosopher left the Jewish community in Amsterdam in 1656
0:23:15 > 0:23:20possibly under pressure from the authorities because of his rationalist approach to religion?
0:23:20 > 0:23:23His best-known work is the posthumously published Ethics.
0:23:23 > 0:23:27- Spinoza.- Correct. In the mid-1650s, which French philosopher
0:23:27 > 0:23:32wrote the anonymous Provincial Letters attacking the casuistry of the Jesuits?
0:23:36 > 0:23:43- Descartes.- No, Pascal. Four minutes to go roughly. Another starter question.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46Typing the first eight letters of the name of which country
0:23:46 > 0:23:51gives the name of another island state further east in the Caribbean?
0:23:56 > 0:24:00- Dominican Republic.- Correct. Yes, you get Dominica.
0:24:02 > 0:24:08A set of bonuses for you guys, on pairs of words that are easily mis-typed.
0:24:08 > 0:24:12In each case, give both words from the definitions given. For five points,
0:24:12 > 0:24:20long-eared hoofed mammals or foolish people, and to fix the amount of tax or evaluate performance.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29Asses and assets.
0:24:29 > 0:24:34No, you've got an extra T in there. It's asses and assess.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37After France, the largest country in the European Union
0:24:37 > 0:24:40and the French word for fir tree.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54Sapin and Sapine.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56No, it's sapin and Spain.
0:24:56 > 0:25:00Finally, a person who organises the activities of others
0:25:00 > 0:25:03and a long trough from which horses or cattle feed.
0:25:12 > 0:25:13No, sorry.
0:25:13 > 0:25:17It's manager and manger. Ten points for this. Born in 1870,
0:25:17 > 0:25:22which Swedish mathematician gives his name to the star, snowflake or island
0:25:22 > 0:25:25that is one of the earliest described types of fractal curve?
0:25:32 > 0:25:35- Mandelbrot.- No. Anyone like to buzz from Warwick?
0:25:36 > 0:25:40It's Helge von Koch. Ten points for this.
0:25:40 > 0:25:44In the King James Bible, what is the third book of the Pentateuch?
0:25:46 > 0:25:48- Leviticus.- Correct. Yes.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53These bonuses are on Asian mountains.
0:25:53 > 0:25:58Over 7,000 metres high, Kunlun Goddess, the highest mountain of the Kunlun range
0:25:58 > 0:25:59is in which country?
0:25:59 > 0:26:02QUIET CONFERRING
0:26:10 > 0:26:11- India.- No, it's China.
0:26:11 > 0:26:18Almost 7,500 metres in height, Ismoil Somoni Peak is the highest mountain in the Pamir range
0:26:18 > 0:26:20and lies in which country?
0:26:24 > 0:26:28- Bhutan.- Tajikistan. The second highest mountain in the world,
0:26:28 > 0:26:31what is the highest peak of the Karakoram range?
0:26:31 > 0:26:34- K2.- Correct. Ten points for this. In France,
0:26:34 > 0:26:38what corresponds to the Vuelta of Spain and the Giro of Italy?
0:26:38 > 0:26:40It was first held in 1903...
0:26:41 > 0:26:46- Tour de France.- Correct. Your bonuses this time are on ecstasy.
0:26:46 > 0:26:50"Share the ecstasy" is a tagline of which 2002 film?
0:26:50 > 0:26:55Set largely in Manchester, it features music by Joy Division and the Happy Mondays.
0:26:57 > 0:27:01- 24-hour Party People.- "What if somebody gave a war and nobody came?
0:27:01 > 0:27:04"Life would ring the bells of ecstasy and forever be itself again."
0:27:04 > 0:27:10These are the words of which US poet in the 1972 work Graffiti?
0:27:14 > 0:27:16- Try Ginsberg.- Ginsberg.- Correct.
0:27:16 > 0:27:20Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy is a fictional biography
0:27:20 > 0:27:23of which artist born in Tuscany in 1475?
0:27:27 > 0:27:30- Caravaggio.- No, Michelangelo. Ten points for this.
0:27:30 > 0:27:34In mathematics, the term sphere refers strictly to a spherical surface.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36What short term is used for a solid sphere?
0:27:39 > 0:27:44- A ball.- Correct. Your bonuses are on computer science this time.
0:27:44 > 0:27:48For what does the acronym BIOS stand? B-I-O-S.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55- Binary operating system. - No, basic input or output system. - GONG
0:27:55 > 0:27:58At the gong, Sheffield University have 50.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00The University of Warwick have 225.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10Sheffield, you never got a chance to get going.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12You were strangely mute at all sorts of points.
0:28:12 > 0:28:16But thank you for being sporting enough to take part.
0:28:16 > 0:28:21Warwick, that is the highest winning score so far in this graduates series.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24We look forward definitely to seeing you in the semifinals.
0:28:24 > 0:28:29Thank you for joining us. I hope you can join us for the last of the first round matches.
0:28:29 > 0:28:33- Until then, it's goodbye from Sheffield University.- Bye.
0:28:33 > 0:28:37- Goodbye from Warwick University. - Bye.- And goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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