0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:20 > 0:00:24Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:33Hello. In this contest, that has a little more grey around the temples than its student counterpart,
0:00:33 > 0:00:35we've reached the final match of the first round.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38Eight of our graduate teams have played so far
0:00:38 > 0:00:40and the winners are:
0:00:43 > 0:00:46But with only four places in the semi-final round,
0:00:46 > 0:00:49tonight's teams will both know that they need to win
0:00:49 > 0:00:51with a score of more than 125
0:00:51 > 0:00:54to knock out Manchester and to qualify for that stage.
0:00:54 > 0:00:59Student teams from Trinity College Cambridge have been serious champions twice
0:00:59 > 0:01:04and on the latter occasion, they were captained by their first player tonight,
0:01:04 > 0:01:08who should be able to swat away any maths questions directed at him
0:01:08 > 0:01:12since he runs a bootcamp for school students training for the Maths Olympiads.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15With him is a novelist, poetry anthologist and TV producer,
0:01:15 > 0:01:20whose output for the screen includes a major slice of the UK's lifestyle programming,
0:01:20 > 0:01:23from Grand Designs to Escape To The Country.
0:01:23 > 0:01:27Their captain is also a grand fromage in that industry,
0:01:27 > 0:01:29he is the inventor of QI
0:01:29 > 0:01:34and has a CV that includes Not The Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image and Blackadder.
0:01:34 > 0:01:38His mantelpiece positively groans under the weight of the awards.
0:01:38 > 0:01:44Finally, a familiar face and voice, founder member of Channel 4 News, diplomatic editor for ITN,
0:01:44 > 0:01:47and for ten years, the only person on Radio 4's Today programme
0:01:47 > 0:01:51who sounded as if he hadn't got out of the wrong side of his bed that morning!
0:01:51 > 0:01:53Let's hear their own versions of themselves.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55Hello. I'm Robin Bhattacharyya.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58I graduated from Trinity in 1995 in maths
0:01:58 > 0:02:00and now I'm a maths teacher.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02Hello. I'm Daisy Goodwin.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06I left Trinity in 1983, where I read history,
0:02:06 > 0:02:08and now I'm a writer and TV producer.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10- And their captain. - Hello, I'm John Lloyd.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13I graduated from Trinity in 1973 with a law degree
0:02:13 > 0:02:16and I'm the founder and series producer of QI.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19I'm Edward Stourton. I read English and graduated in 1979
0:02:19 > 0:02:22and I present the Sunday programme on Radio 4.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25APPLAUSE
0:02:25 > 0:02:29Now, playing them is the team from St Andrews University.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31First, a theatre director and actor
0:02:31 > 0:02:35who had the single line, "Here's your hat, Father" in the film Howard's End,
0:02:35 > 0:02:38but delivered it with such eye-catching verve
0:02:38 > 0:02:41that it led to roles in Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jones's Diary,
0:02:41 > 0:02:44Absolutely Fabulous and Casino Royale.
0:02:44 > 0:02:48With him, a journalist who spent three years as a correspondent in Moscow
0:02:48 > 0:02:50before joining his present newspaper,
0:02:50 > 0:02:54for which he's been political editor and Chief of the Rome Bureau.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57Their captain is one of the BBC's most familiar sports broadcasters,
0:02:57 > 0:03:02having presented Grandstand, Football Focus and the Open Golf Championships.
0:03:02 > 0:03:06She should've picked up some tips on the way about captaincy, with any luck.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10Failing that, she can defer to the former Commanding Officer of the Household Cavalry,
0:03:10 > 0:03:15a lieutenant general, who's seen active service in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq.
0:03:15 > 0:03:19Let's put the team from St Andrews on parade, then.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22Hello, I'm Crispin Bonham-Carter. I graduated from St Andrews in 1992
0:03:22 > 0:03:25with a joint honours in Latin and Greek.
0:03:25 > 0:03:27I now teach English at Alexandra Park School,
0:03:27 > 0:03:31an outstanding comprehensive in Haringey.
0:03:31 > 0:03:36Hello, I'm James Blitz. I graduated from St Andrews in 1983 in modern history
0:03:36 > 0:03:38and I'm defence editor of the Financial Times.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41- And their captain. - Hello, I'm Hazel Irvine.
0:03:41 > 0:03:45I graduated with an honours degree in the history of art in 1986
0:03:45 > 0:03:50and I'm now putting that to full use as a sports broadcaster for BBC Television!
0:03:50 > 0:03:55I'm Barney White-Spunner. I left St Andrews in 1978 with a degree in history and economics
0:03:55 > 0:03:57and I've recently retired from the army.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00APPLAUSE
0:04:00 > 0:04:03The rules are the same as they always are.
0:04:03 > 0:04:0710 points for starters, 15 for bonuses. Starters are solo efforts, bonuses team efforts.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10Five-point penalty for incorrect interruptions to starters.
0:04:10 > 0:04:16Fingers on buzzers. Here's your first starter for 10. You can answer in English or German.
0:04:16 > 0:04:20Which carol was first heard at Christmas 1818...
0:04:21 > 0:04:23- Silent Night.- Correct.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29Your bonuses are on a Greek god, Trinity.
0:04:29 > 0:04:30Firstly for five,
0:04:30 > 0:04:34which Greek god competed against Athena to be the patron deity of Athens?
0:04:34 > 0:04:38When he lost, he flooded the surrounding plain of Attica.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41- (Poseidon.)- Poseidon.- Correct.
0:04:41 > 0:04:46The Isthmian Games was a festival of athletic, literary and musical competitions in Ancient Greece
0:04:46 > 0:04:50in honour of Poseidon, held at his sanctuary on which Isthmus?
0:04:50 > 0:04:53- Corinth.- Correct.
0:04:53 > 0:04:57To which king of Crete did Poseidon send a bull to be sacrificed?
0:04:57 > 0:05:00The bull was not to be killed, but fathered a monster,
0:05:00 > 0:05:02hidden by the king in an underground maze.
0:05:02 > 0:05:05- Minos.- Correct. Another starter.
0:05:05 > 0:05:06Thoughts On Lotteries,
0:05:06 > 0:05:10The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
0:05:10 > 0:05:12and Notes on the State of Virginia
0:05:12 > 0:05:14are among the writings of which political figure,
0:05:14 > 0:05:18the third president of the United States?
0:05:18 > 0:05:21- Jefferson. - Thomas Jefferson is correct.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25Bonuses on Italian composers, Trinity College.
0:05:25 > 0:05:30L'Orfeo is among the compositions of which key figure in the early development of opera?
0:05:30 > 0:05:36He was maestro di cappella at St Mark's Basilica in Venice from 1613 to 1643.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38(Vivaldi.)
0:05:38 > 0:05:40- Vivaldi.- No, it's Monteverdi.
0:05:40 > 0:05:45Born 1602 in the Republic of Venice, which composer was an assistant organist under Monteverdi
0:05:45 > 0:05:51and wrote a number of operas, including Didone, Erismena and Calisto?
0:05:52 > 0:05:55- Vivaldi.- No, Cavalli.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58Which Venetian composer made his first-known public appearance
0:05:58 > 0:06:00as a violinist at St Mark's Basilica in 1696?
0:06:00 > 0:06:05He's best known for his concertos, of which around 500 survive.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08- That's Vivaldi.- That is Vivaldi, yes! - LAUGHTER
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Ten points for this.
0:06:10 > 0:06:14Quote, "I am sure he didn't find all his queer characters hereabouts.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17"He must've discovered a good many when he went to London."
0:06:17 > 0:06:21These are the words of Theresa, the cousin of which novelist and poet,
0:06:21 > 0:06:25in an interview in Dorset soon after his death in 1928?
0:06:25 > 0:06:28- Thomas Hardy.- Correct.
0:06:30 > 0:06:34Your bonuses, Trinity, are on the words of Sir Robert Walpole.
0:06:34 > 0:06:38Quote, "We must muzzle this terrible young Cornet of Horse."
0:06:38 > 0:06:44Of which future wartime prime minister did Walpole say those words in 1736?
0:06:46 > 0:06:49Lord North.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52- Lord North. - No, it was William Pitt, the Elder.
0:06:52 > 0:06:57"Madam, there are 50,000 men slain this year in Europe and not one Englishman."
0:06:57 > 0:07:02Of which war of succession did Walpole say those words in 1734?
0:07:02 > 0:07:07- The War of Spanish Succession. - That was earlier. The War of the Polish Succession.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11Finally... "They now ring the bells, but they will soon wring their hands."
0:07:11 > 0:07:16This was Walpole's reaction to the declaration of war with which country in 1739?
0:07:19 > 0:07:22- France?- Mm?- France?- France?
0:07:22 > 0:07:23- France.- No, Spain.
0:07:23 > 0:07:2610 points for this. Answer promptly if you buzz.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29Give all five of the three-letter words,
0:07:29 > 0:07:32which differ only in their middle letters,
0:07:32 > 0:07:35and mean, in reverse alphabetical order,
0:07:35 > 0:07:38greyish brown, a Spanish nobleman,
0:07:38 > 0:07:42a loud noise, an animal's lair...
0:07:42 > 0:07:45Dun, don, din...
0:07:45 > 0:07:50- Five?- I'm sorry, if you buzz, you've got to answer. I'm sorry.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53You lose five points. I'm offering it to the other side.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56..a loud noise, an animal's lair
0:07:56 > 0:07:58and a level of proficiency in karate?
0:07:59 > 0:08:02No conferring! One of you may buzz, quickly.
0:08:04 > 0:08:08Dan, din, don, den...
0:08:09 > 0:08:10LAUGHTER
0:08:10 > 0:08:14- ..dun.- OK, I'll accept that because you're behind!
0:08:14 > 0:08:18You've got to be quicker next time! They gave you three-fifths of it!
0:08:18 > 0:08:22You get your first set of bonuses, St Andrews, on women in mathematics.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24Which 18th-century Italian
0:08:24 > 0:08:28is credited with writing the first book on differential and integral calculus,
0:08:28 > 0:08:32and also has a cubic curve named after her?
0:08:33 > 0:08:35- Any idea?- No.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38- Don't know, sorry.- Maria Agnesi.
0:08:38 > 0:08:43In the early 19th century, French mathematician Sophie Germain proved a special case of a theorem
0:08:43 > 0:08:46left by which mathematician who died in 1665?
0:08:46 > 0:08:50The theorem was proved for all cases in 1995.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54- Leibniz.- OK.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56- Leibniz.- No, it's Fermat.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59Gabrielle Emilie, Marquise du Chatelet,
0:08:59 > 0:09:03produced the first French translation of which 1687 work by Newton
0:09:03 > 0:09:06that includes his work on gravitation?
0:09:06 > 0:09:09- Principia Mathematica. - PRONUNCIATION: Principee Mathematica.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11Er, Principia is correct, yes.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14We're going to take a picture round now.
0:09:14 > 0:09:19You're going to see a section of the family tree of characters in a work of literature.
0:09:19 > 0:09:23Ten points if you can tell me the missing character.
0:09:27 > 0:09:31- Kitty. - Kitty is correct. Or Catherine.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35From Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, of course.
0:09:35 > 0:09:39Three more of the family trees of characters in novels by Jane Austen.
0:09:39 > 0:09:44In each case, five points if you can identify the novel and the missing character.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Firstly for five...
0:09:50 > 0:09:52Any idea?
0:09:54 > 0:09:57Is it Northanger Abbey?
0:09:58 > 0:10:02I think it's Sense and Sensibility.
0:10:02 > 0:10:06Erm, but I don't know the missing person.
0:10:06 > 0:10:10- We think it's Sense and Sensibility - - No, it's Persuasion. The missing character is Mary.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12Secondly...
0:10:16 > 0:10:19- This is... - THEY WHISPER
0:10:19 > 0:10:22- The missing character is... - THEY WHISPER
0:10:25 > 0:10:29I think it's Sense and Sensibility, but I don't know the missing character.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32We're back to Sense and Sensibility, but we can't give the character.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35You're wrong on both counts! Wrong and ignorant!
0:10:35 > 0:10:38It's Mansfield Park and William.
0:10:38 > 0:10:39Finally...
0:10:44 > 0:10:46THEY WHISPER
0:10:48 > 0:10:50We don't know.
0:10:50 > 0:10:54- Any idea?- Shall we go for Sense and Sensibility?!
0:10:54 > 0:10:56Shall we try Sense and Sensibility again?
0:10:56 > 0:11:01- You can try. - We're going to keep going with this. - I need the character, too. Quickly!
0:11:01 > 0:11:05- I don't know. Sorry, we don't know. - It's Marianne.
0:11:05 > 0:11:0810 points for this. Tony Benn in 1951,
0:11:08 > 0:11:11Charles Kennedy in 1983, David Lambie in 2000,
0:11:11 > 0:11:15Chloe Smith in 2009 and Pamela Nash in 2010...
0:11:15 > 0:11:20Youngest people to get a cabinet position?
0:11:20 > 0:11:22No. I'm going to charge you five points.
0:11:22 > 0:11:28..are among those who have shared what singular distinction as member of parliament?
0:11:29 > 0:11:34- The youngest members of the House of Commons. - Correct. The baby of the House.
0:11:36 > 0:11:40These bonuses could give you the lead. They're on Irish counties.
0:11:40 > 0:11:44Give the county name that corresponds to the surname of each of the following...
0:11:44 > 0:11:47The presidential nominee of the Democratic Party
0:11:47 > 0:11:49in the 2004 US Presidential Election.
0:11:49 > 0:11:54- Kerry.- That's right. You don't need to buzz. Confer and go through your captain.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57A poet from Northamptonshire, author of the 1820 poems
0:11:57 > 0:12:02descriptive of rural life and scenery.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07THEY WHISPER
0:12:11 > 0:12:12Galway?
0:12:12 > 0:12:14Shall we try Louth?
0:12:14 > 0:12:17- Louth.- No, it's John Clare.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20A detective who first appeared in the 1964 work
0:12:20 > 0:12:25From Doon with Death by Ruth Rendall?
0:12:25 > 0:12:28- Ruth Rendall. Who was her detective? - Kildare?
0:12:28 > 0:12:31- ALL: Kildare. - Shall we try it?
0:12:31 > 0:12:35- Kildare.- No, it's Inspector Wexford. 10 points for this. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:12:35 > 0:12:39An aficionado of Douglas Adams has a successful day at the races
0:12:39 > 0:12:42and decides to donate 42 percent of his winnings
0:12:42 > 0:12:44to his university alumni association.
0:12:44 > 0:12:50The winning's total £850. How much does he donate?
0:12:54 > 0:12:57- £357?- Correct! Yes!
0:12:57 > 0:13:00APPLAUSE
0:13:00 > 0:13:06Your bonuses, Trinity College, are on boots in literature.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09Identify the author of the following lines.
0:13:09 > 0:13:13"O Jonny, the power of your boot And the accurate heart-stopping route of your goal
0:13:13 > 0:13:16"As it goes through Australian posts
0:13:16 > 0:13:19"Is a triumph we gladly salute".
0:13:19 > 0:13:21- No idea.- Pass.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25- We don't know, I'm afraid. - It was Andrew Motion. Amazing to think he was poet laureate!
0:13:25 > 0:13:28"Every woman adores a fascist The boot in the face
0:13:28 > 0:13:33"the brute Brute heart of a brute like you".
0:13:35 > 0:13:37We're bootless, Jeremy.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39That's Sylvia Plath. "Daddy", written in 1963.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42Finally... "If you want a picture of the future
0:13:42 > 0:13:46"imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
0:13:46 > 0:13:48Orwell. George Orwell.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51Correct. We're going to take a music round.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54You'll hear a piece of classical music
0:13:54 > 0:13:57popularly associated with a particular type of weather.
0:13:57 > 0:14:03Ten points if you can identify the meteorological phenomenon after which the piece is named.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06GENTLE MELODY
0:14:30 > 0:14:32- Rain.- Correct, yes.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34APPLAUSE
0:14:36 > 0:14:37Well done. Chopin.
0:14:37 > 0:14:43So you get these bonuses on other bits of music. You could take the lead.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46Classical music inspired by and named after types of weather.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49Five points for each meteorological condition you identify.
0:14:49 > 0:14:53- Firstly for five... - LIVELY & DRAMATIC MELODY
0:15:05 > 0:15:08THEY WHISPER
0:15:13 > 0:15:14Snowstorm?
0:15:14 > 0:15:16Let's go gale.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19- Wind.- Let's go gale.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21We're going to go gales.
0:15:21 > 0:15:26No. You are right almost. It's the dialogue between wind and the sea from Debussy's La mer.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28I really had to be told "wind".
0:15:28 > 0:15:29Secondly...
0:15:29 > 0:15:32HAUNTING & GENTLE MELODY
0:15:41 > 0:15:43ALL: Snow.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46- We're going to go snow, Jeremy. - Correct. That's Liszt.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49- And finally... - DRAMATIC MUSIC
0:15:56 > 0:15:59Sounds like thunder. Thunder and lightning.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02- Thunder and lightning.- A storm.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04- Storm Symphony.- Yes?
0:16:04 > 0:16:08- Storms.- Storm is correct. It's from the Pastoral Symphony by Beethoven.
0:16:08 > 0:16:09Ten points for this.
0:16:09 > 0:16:15A concordance of Shakespeare's plays reveals that the word "sleep" appears most frequently in...
0:16:17 > 0:16:19Macbeth.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22- Well done, yes.- Oh!
0:16:22 > 0:16:26Right, your bonuses are on astronomy.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29- Right!- The asteroid belt, in which the majority of asteroids are found,
0:16:29 > 0:16:33lies between the orbits of which two planets?
0:16:33 > 0:16:36Mars and...
0:16:37 > 0:16:41Which is closer, Jupiter or Saturn?
0:16:41 > 0:16:44I think it's Saturn.
0:16:44 > 0:16:48- Mars and Saturn or Saturn and Jupiter? - I think it's Mars and Jupiter.
0:16:48 > 0:16:49- Happy with that?- Come on!
0:16:49 > 0:16:53- Saturn and Jupiter, I'd say. - No, it's between Mars and Saturn OR Jupiter.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55Say Mars and Saturn, then.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57Mars and Saturn.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00You shouldn't have listened to him. It's Jupiter and Mars.
0:17:00 > 0:17:04Named after the Roman goddess of agriculture and now regarded as a dwarf planet,
0:17:04 > 0:17:07what is the largest object in the asteroid belt?
0:17:07 > 0:17:10- Ceres.- Ceres.- Correct.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13Amors, apollos and atens are groups of small asteroids
0:17:13 > 0:17:18that form part of a larger group of bodies known as NEOs.
0:17:18 > 0:17:22For what do the letters NEO stand?
0:17:22 > 0:17:25- Something "object". - "Near" something "object".
0:17:25 > 0:17:28- Near-earth object.- Near earth? - Near-earth orbit.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32NEO. Near-earth orbit?
0:17:32 > 0:17:34- Near-earth orbit. - Nearly. Near-earth object.
0:17:34 > 0:17:3910 for this. Probably founded by James III of Scotland in the 15th century,
0:17:39 > 0:17:45which order of knighthood was revived by James VII and II in 1687...
0:17:46 > 0:17:47Order of the Garter.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49No. You lose five points.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52..it comprises the sovereign and 16 knights
0:17:52 > 0:17:55and its motto is "Nemo me impune lacessit"
0:17:55 > 0:17:59or "No-one provokes me with impunity."
0:17:59 > 0:18:02- The Thistle.- It is, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:18:04 > 0:18:07Right, your bonuses, Trinity, require an answer, in each case,
0:18:07 > 0:18:12that is the name of a country which, with a different meaning or etymology,
0:18:12 > 0:18:16could be permissible in a game of Scrabble. For example, China.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19Give the name of the country from the definition.
0:18:19 > 0:18:23A fine goatskin leather, tanned with sumac
0:18:23 > 0:18:26and used, for example, in bookbinding.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28- (Morocco.)- Morocco.- Correct.
0:18:28 > 0:18:32A light horse-drawn, two-wheeled vehicle in India.
0:18:41 > 0:18:42No, we pass on it.
0:18:42 > 0:18:48Tonga. Finally, a glossy black varnish or lacquer.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52Chinois.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56- Japan.- Correct. 10 points for this starter question.
0:18:56 > 0:19:02In the House of Commons, the practice in which members cluster around a speaker
0:19:02 > 0:19:03in order to give the...
0:19:03 > 0:19:07- Doughnutting. - Doughnutting is right, yes.
0:19:08 > 0:19:12Your bonuses are on theatre. According to the Roman architect Vitruvius,
0:19:12 > 0:19:16Greek theatre was divided into scenes of three types, or genres,
0:19:16 > 0:19:19each indicated by a specific style of scenery.
0:19:19 > 0:19:23Name each genre from the description of the scenery.
0:19:23 > 0:19:27Which genre was delineated with columns, pediments,
0:19:27 > 0:19:30statues and other objects suited to kings?
0:19:30 > 0:19:33- ALL: Tragedy.- Tragedy.- Correct.
0:19:33 > 0:19:38Trees, caverns, mountains and other rustic objects delineated in landscape style
0:19:38 > 0:19:42were used to decorate a scene of which genre?
0:19:42 > 0:19:44- Pastoral.- Pastoral.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Is there better word for that?
0:19:46 > 0:19:48- Pastoral?- No, it's satyric.
0:19:48 > 0:19:52Finally... Private dwellings with balconies and views,
0:19:52 > 0:19:56representing rows of windows after the manner of ordinary dwellings,
0:19:56 > 0:19:58were used for scenes of which genre?
0:19:59 > 0:20:02- Comedy.- Comedy is correct.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04Second picture round.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07You'll see a photograph of a place of worship in the United States.
0:20:07 > 0:20:1210 points if you can give me the two-word name by which it's usually known.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19Is anyone going to buzz?
0:20:19 > 0:20:21Crystal Church?
0:20:21 > 0:20:24No. Anyone like to buzz from St Andrews? Quickly.
0:20:25 > 0:20:26BUZZER
0:20:26 > 0:20:29The Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City?
0:20:29 > 0:20:34It's called the Crystal Cathedral. You were nearly right, Daisy.
0:20:34 > 0:20:3610 points for this starter question.
0:20:36 > 0:20:40Which year saw the discovery of nuclear fission by Hahn and Strassman,
0:20:40 > 0:20:42the publication of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock,
0:20:42 > 0:20:45first coverage of the boat race by BBC Television
0:20:45 > 0:20:48and the annexation of Austria by the Third Reich?
0:20:48 > 0:20:501936.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53No. Anyone like to buzz from Trinity?
0:20:53 > 0:20:56- 1938.- 1938 is correct, yes.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58APPLAUSE
0:20:58 > 0:21:01You get the picture bonuses, Trinity.
0:21:01 > 0:21:04They're on photographs of distinctive places of worship
0:21:04 > 0:21:06built since World War Two.
0:21:06 > 0:21:11In which South American country is this cathedral?
0:21:11 > 0:21:13- Brazil.- Brazil is correct.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16Secondly, in which European country is this cathedral,
0:21:16 > 0:21:20rebuilt and reopened in 1999?
0:21:21 > 0:21:24- Dresden?- I think that's in Ukraine.
0:21:24 > 0:21:28- It looks Orthodox.- OK.
0:21:28 > 0:21:32- Ukraine.- Correct. In which Nordic country is this?
0:21:32 > 0:21:34THEY WHISPER
0:21:37 > 0:21:39- Finland?- We'll go for Finland.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41No, it's Iceland.
0:21:41 > 0:21:4310 points at stake for this starter question.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46"Probably the greatest film artist, all things considered,
0:21:46 > 0:21:49"since the invention of the motion picture camera."
0:21:49 > 0:21:53These words of Woody Allen refer to which Swedish director who...
0:21:53 > 0:21:57- Ingmar Bergman.- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Your bonuses are on scientific terms,
0:21:59 > 0:22:05specifically those that can be made using any of the letters of the word "coxswain".
0:22:05 > 0:22:08Give the word from the description.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11Firstly, a long thread-like part of a nerve cell
0:22:11 > 0:22:14that transmits impulses from the cell body.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25Come on, we'd better crack on!
0:22:25 > 0:22:26Pass.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28It's an axon.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30The adjectival form of a medical term
0:22:30 > 0:22:34meaning "a deficient supply of oxygen to the tissues"?
0:22:37 > 0:22:38- Pass.- That's anoxic.
0:22:38 > 0:22:43Finally, an imaginary line about which a body rotates.
0:22:43 > 0:22:47- ALL: Axis.- Axis is right. Four-and-a-half minutes to go. 10 points for this.
0:22:47 > 0:22:51Often used disparagingly, what term is the trademark name of the system
0:22:51 > 0:22:56developed by the US inventor Major General George O Squier in 1922
0:22:56 > 0:23:00to transmit recorded music to public places?
0:23:02 > 0:23:03Musak.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05Correct!
0:23:05 > 0:23:09Your bonuses are on mountains.
0:23:09 > 0:23:13Mount Logan, which rises to almost 6,000 metres in the Saint Elias Mountains,
0:23:13 > 0:23:15is the highest mountain in which country?
0:23:15 > 0:23:17- Canada.- Correct.
0:23:17 > 0:23:21Mount Robson and Columbia are peaks in which Canadian mountain range,
0:23:21 > 0:23:26an extension of a range that stretches along the border between Alberta and British Columbia?
0:23:26 > 0:23:29- The Rockies.- Correct. Which formation within the Rockies,
0:23:29 > 0:23:32close to the town of Field near the Yoho National Park,
0:23:32 > 0:23:36is one of the world's most significant fossil fields?
0:23:38 > 0:23:41- Don't know. - The Burgess Shale Formation.
0:23:41 > 0:23:45Keller's operation is a common medical procedure for which complaint
0:23:45 > 0:23:49associated with displacement of the hallux towards the other toes?
0:23:52 > 0:23:55- Bunions?- Bunions is correct, yes!
0:23:56 > 0:24:00These bonuses are on music and the English Civil War.
0:24:00 > 0:24:04Firstly for five. Recorded by Billy Bragg in 1985, which song by Leon Rosselson
0:24:04 > 0:24:08takes its name from a book by Christopher Hill
0:24:08 > 0:24:10and refers to the state of revolution?
0:24:10 > 0:24:14- The World Turned Upside Down. - World Turned Upside Down.- Correct.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16Formed in the late 1980s,
0:24:16 > 0:24:20which band shares its name with a group of Civil War agitators and pamphleteers
0:24:20 > 0:24:23who believed in extended suffrage and religious toleration?
0:24:23 > 0:24:26- The Levellers? - The Levellers.- Correct.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28What name for the full-time force
0:24:28 > 0:24:33formed by the Parliamentarians in 1645 under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax
0:24:33 > 0:24:36is also that of a British rock band?
0:24:36 > 0:24:40- The Roundheads?- New Model Army. Three minutes. 10 points for this.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43Identify the 20th-century poet who wrote these lines...
0:24:43 > 0:24:46"The sunlight on the garden hardens and grows..."
0:24:46 > 0:24:50- Louis MacNeice. - Louis MacNeice is right.
0:24:50 > 0:24:54Your bonuses are on librarians. Which Scottish Empiricist philosopher and historian
0:24:54 > 0:24:59resigned as librarian of the Faculty of Advocates in 1757?
0:25:00 > 0:25:02- Hume.- Hume. David Hume.- Correct.
0:25:02 > 0:25:07Which French artist was working at Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve in 1913,
0:25:07 > 0:25:12around the time he created his first ready-made piece entitled Bicycle Wheel?
0:25:12 > 0:25:14Duchamp?
0:25:14 > 0:25:16- Marcel Duchamp.- Correct.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18The author of the story The Library of Babel,
0:25:18 > 0:25:24which Argentinean writer became director of the National Library in 1955 after losing his sight?
0:25:24 > 0:25:26- Jorge Luis Borges.- Correct.
0:25:26 > 0:25:2910 points for this. James Grieve, Thomas Laxton,
0:25:29 > 0:25:33Matthew Bramley and Richard Cox are among those who have had varieties of which...
0:25:33 > 0:25:35- Apple.- Apple is correct.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37Your bonuses are on US foreign policy.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40Which US president issued the doctrine of 1823
0:25:40 > 0:25:44that warned European nations against interference in the Americas?
0:25:44 > 0:25:46- Monroe.- Correct. The Truman Doctrine of 1947
0:25:46 > 0:25:49stated that the US would support free peoples
0:25:49 > 0:25:53resisting subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures
0:25:53 > 0:25:58and was directed initially at two Mediterranean countries. Name either.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00- Greece.- Turkey's the other.
0:26:00 > 0:26:05The Carter Doctrine of 1980 stated that the US would use military force if necessary
0:26:05 > 0:26:07to defend its interests in the Persian Gulf
0:26:07 > 0:26:11and was a response to the Soviet invasion of which country?
0:26:11 > 0:26:12- Afghanistan.- Correct.
0:26:12 > 0:26:18In 1709, Abraham Darby established an ironworks in which Shropshire village, close to the River Severn?
0:26:18 > 0:26:22His grandson constructed the world's first cast-iron...
0:26:22 > 0:26:24- Telford.- I can't accept. You lose five points.
0:26:24 > 0:26:28..constructed the world's first cast-iron bridge there in 1779.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32- Coalbrookdale.- Correct.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35Another set of bonuses. They're on literature.
0:26:35 > 0:26:39In each case, name the US author whose first major published work was the following...
0:26:39 > 0:26:46For five points, the 1846 work Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life?
0:26:46 > 0:26:47- Herman Melville.- Correct.
0:26:47 > 0:26:51The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,
0:26:51 > 0:26:54a short story of 1865?
0:26:54 > 0:26:56Twain?
0:26:56 > 0:26:58Which? Mark Twain.
0:26:58 > 0:27:02Correct. Finally, Soldiers' Pay, a novel of 1926?
0:27:02 > 0:27:05- Hemingway?- Hemingway.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08No, William Faulkner. In 1961, who became the first living artist
0:27:08 > 0:27:11to have his work exhibited at the Louvre?
0:27:11 > 0:27:14His paintings include Terrace of Hotel Mistral,
0:27:14 > 0:27:17The Portuguese and Violin and Candlestick?
0:27:20 > 0:27:23- Matisse?- No. Anyone want to buzz from St Andrews?
0:27:23 > 0:27:25- Picasso.- No. Georges Braque.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28- END-OF-QUIZ GONG - At the gong, St Andrews have 80.
0:27:28 > 0:27:32Trinity College Cambridge have 225.
0:27:34 > 0:27:39You had the lead early on, but I'm afraid we're going to have to say goodbye to you.
0:27:39 > 0:27:43Congratulations to you. That's the equal highest score so far in this series.
0:27:43 > 0:27:48Thank you, Trinity College. We shall look forward to seeing you in the semi-finals.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51I hope you can join us next time for the first of those.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54- Until then, it's goodbye from St Andrews University.- ALL: Bye.
0:27:54 > 0:27:58- Goodbye from Trinity College. - ALL: Bye.- And goodbye from me.
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