0:00:20 > 0:00:23'Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.'
0:00:27 > 0:00:30Hello. Last time, we played the final first-round match
0:00:30 > 0:00:33in this seasonal version of University Challenge
0:00:33 > 0:00:36for former students. The four highest-scoring teams
0:00:36 > 0:00:38are through to the semifinals.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42Next time we'll see Magdalen College, Oxford play Trinity College, Cambridge.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46The graduates from Edinburgh University tonight
0:00:46 > 0:00:48include a weather forecaster, a politician,
0:00:48 > 0:00:51a television presenter and an entomologist.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55They beat Durham in the first round by 135 points to 60,
0:00:55 > 0:00:58and although they didn't know much about Jacques Derrida,
0:00:58 > 0:01:00and, indeed, why should they, they made up for it
0:01:00 > 0:01:04by telling us about writers' houses, the poetry of Milton
0:01:04 > 0:01:07and Winston Churchill's views on modern art. Let's meet them again.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10Hello. I'm Kirsty McCabe. I graduated from Edinburgh
0:01:10 > 0:01:14with a degree in geophysics in '97, and I now get up very early,
0:01:14 > 0:01:173:30 in the morning, to present the weather on ITV Breakfast.
0:01:17 > 0:01:21I'm David Steel, and I took arts and law degrees in the early '60s,
0:01:21 > 0:01:25and I found constitutional law quite useful in Parliament.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27- Their captain.- I'm Sally Magnusson.
0:01:27 > 0:01:32I'm a graduate in English from Edinburgh University in 1978.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34I'm a TV news presenter and occasional author
0:01:34 > 0:01:37of such weighty tomes as Life Of Pee. LAUGHTER
0:01:37 > 0:01:41I'm George McGavin. I took a degree in zoology
0:01:41 > 0:01:45which I completed in '75. I went to the ivory towers of Oxford,
0:01:45 > 0:01:48but now I'm in the real world of broadcasting.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51APPLAUSE
0:01:53 > 0:01:57The graduates from the University of Warwick
0:01:57 > 0:01:59include a film director, a teacher,
0:01:59 > 0:02:03an expert on British transport and an actor.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06They gave a very spirited performance in the first round
0:02:06 > 0:02:10and came away with a joint highest score in that stage of the contest,
0:02:10 > 0:02:14225 points against the 50 earned by a team from Sheffield
0:02:14 > 0:02:16who looked as if they wished they'd stayed there.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19Warwick shone on everything, from British theatre
0:02:19 > 0:02:22to Shakespearean metaphors and Thomas Paine to William Blake.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24Let's meet them again.
0:02:24 > 0:02:29Hi. I'm Vadim Jean. I graduated in 1986, got a degree in history,
0:02:29 > 0:02:32and I'm now a film and TV director and producer.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34Hi. I'm Daisy Christodoulou. I graduated from Warwick
0:02:34 > 0:02:37with a degree in English literature in 2007,
0:02:37 > 0:02:39and I work as an English teacher in London.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42- And their captain. - Hi. I'm Christian Wolmar.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45I graduated in 1971 with a degree in economics.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48I'm a journalist specialising in transport matters,
0:02:48 > 0:02:51and I also write books about railway history.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54Hi. I'm Carla Mendonca. I graduated from Warwick in 1983
0:02:54 > 0:02:59with a degree in theatre studies and dramatic art, and I'm an actress.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01APPLAUSE
0:03:05 > 0:03:08The rules are unchanging, so fingers on the buzzers.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12Here's your first starter for 10. A collection of poems by TS Eliot,
0:03:12 > 0:03:15the most famous creation of PG Wodehouse,
0:03:15 > 0:03:18the son of a Biblical patriarch, a film of 1961
0:03:18 > 0:03:23directed by Bryan Forbes and the faded screen icon Norma Desmond
0:03:23 > 0:03:25have all provided the base for stage works
0:03:25 > 0:03:28by which British composer?
0:03:31 > 0:03:33Britten?
0:03:33 > 0:03:36No. Edinburgh? You may not confer. One of you may buzz.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42- Vaughan Williams? - No, it's Andrew Lloyd Webber!
0:03:42 > 0:03:44- Cats, Jeeves, Joseph and so on. - LAUGHTER
0:03:44 > 0:03:4810 points for this. What two-word term refers to a 14th-century theologian
0:03:48 > 0:03:52and is generally used to denote the principle "Entia non sunt" -
0:03:53 > 0:03:55- Occam. Occam's Razor. - That's correct, yes.
0:03:58 > 0:04:03Your bonuses are on Shakespeare's twins, Warwick.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06What is the name of Viola's twin brother in Twelfth Night,
0:04:06 > 0:04:08whom she believes to be dead?
0:04:08 > 0:04:10- Sebastian.- Correct.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13Which play features two pairs of identical twins,
0:04:13 > 0:04:18Antipholus and Dromio of Syracuse and Antipholus and Dromio of Ephesus?
0:04:18 > 0:04:21- Comedy Of Errors.- Correct. Shakespeare himself had twins.
0:04:21 > 0:04:25- The girl was named Judith. Who was the boy, who died aged 11?- Hamnet.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28- Hamnet.- Hamnet is correct, yes.
0:04:28 > 0:04:3110 points for this. "Dear Ken,
0:04:31 > 0:04:33your book was very useful to me."
0:04:33 > 0:04:36Which British writer wrote those words in 1981
0:04:36 > 0:04:38to thank the Australian Ken Welsh
0:04:38 > 0:04:40for inspiring the title of his novel?
0:04:40 > 0:04:43Welsh was the author of a popular guide
0:04:43 > 0:04:46on low-budget travel around Europe.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49- Bill Bryson.- No.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52Warwick?
0:04:52 > 0:04:54- Douglas Adams?- Correct, yes.
0:04:57 > 0:05:01Your bonuses now are on three-letter British place names.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04In each case, name the place from the description.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07First, a market town in Suffolk. Its name means "island"
0:05:07 > 0:05:11or "dry ground in a marsh", and it shares its spelling
0:05:11 > 0:05:14- with that of an organ of the body. - An organ of the body?
0:05:14 > 0:05:17Ely's in Cambridgeshire. An organ of the body?
0:05:17 > 0:05:21Three letters, Suffolk. Was it Suffolk?
0:05:21 > 0:05:23- Organ of the body.- Ear?
0:05:23 > 0:05:26- Ear.- No, it's Eye.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29A river and town in Monmouthshire,
0:05:29 > 0:05:31birthplace of the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33River and town. Hay?
0:05:33 > 0:05:35- Or Wye.- Hay or Wye.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37- Haye.- No, it's Usk.
0:05:37 > 0:05:41And finally, a royal borough on the Firth of Clyde,
0:05:41 > 0:05:43strongly associated with Robert Burns.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45That's Ayr.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47That's Ayr.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49- Ayr.- Ayr's correct, yes.
0:05:49 > 0:05:5210 points at stake for this starter question.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55Along with sloths and armadillos, which insectivorous mammals
0:05:55 > 0:05:59are classified as edentata, meaning "with no teeth"?
0:05:59 > 0:06:01They have tubular muzzles, and...
0:06:02 > 0:06:04- Anteaters.- Correct.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10Right. Your bonuses, Edinburgh, are on band names.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13For five points, the final four words
0:06:13 > 0:06:15of a Hull furniture-shop slogan
0:06:15 > 0:06:18gave Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt the name of a band
0:06:18 > 0:06:22that had three UK top-10 hits in the mid-1990s.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25The slogan ran, "For your bedroom needs,
0:06:25 > 0:06:28we sell"...what?
0:06:28 > 0:06:31Bedroom needs, we sell...
0:06:31 > 0:06:34- Beds. - THEY LAUGH
0:06:34 > 0:06:36- Dreams?- Dreams?
0:06:36 > 0:06:38Dreams?
0:06:39 > 0:06:42- Dreamers? - No. It's Everything But The Girl.
0:06:42 > 0:06:46Secondly, which band from Bury in Lancashire
0:06:46 > 0:06:49were originally called Mr Soft? They changed the name
0:06:49 > 0:06:53to a five-letter word described as "the most sensuous word in the English language"
0:06:53 > 0:06:56during an episode of The Singing Detective.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02- A sensuous word?- Oh!
0:07:02 > 0:07:05The most sensuous in the language.
0:07:05 > 0:07:06THEY WHISPER
0:07:06 > 0:07:09- Insect. - George thinks it might be insect,
0:07:09 > 0:07:11but I think not. LAUGHTER
0:07:11 > 0:07:15No. It's Elbow. And finally, originating in Nevada,
0:07:15 > 0:07:17which band took their name from a fictional band
0:07:17 > 0:07:20in a New Order video, and have an official fan club
0:07:20 > 0:07:24- known as The Victims? - That's Spinal Tap, isn't it?
0:07:24 > 0:07:27- Spinal Tap.- No. It's The Killers.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30Right. We're going to take a picture round.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33You're going to see the starting layout
0:07:33 > 0:07:37of a common variant of the card game patience or solitaire.
0:07:37 > 0:07:4010 points if you can give me its name.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47If you buzz you must answer. I'm sorry. Edinburgh?
0:07:47 > 0:07:49Patience.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51No. I told you it was patience.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54No, it's Klondike, but you gave the wrong answer, both of you,
0:07:54 > 0:07:58so a picture bonus shortly. Another starter question now.
0:07:58 > 0:08:0110 points for this. Sterling silver is an alloy
0:08:01 > 0:08:05of 92.5 percent silver with, most commonly, which other element
0:08:05 > 0:08:07that serves to harden the metal?
0:08:09 > 0:08:11- Copper?- Copper is right. Yes.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16So you get the picture bonuses, Warwick.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19They're three more starting layouts of patience.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21Five points for each you can identify.
0:08:21 > 0:08:23Firstly for five, this two-deck game.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26Two-deck... Um, it's not Klondike...
0:08:26 > 0:08:29- Poker patience?- Yeah, go for it.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32- Poker patience?- No, it's Sultan, or Sultan of Turkey.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35You've got to build a harem around the kings, apparently.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37Secondly, this two-deck game.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39Two-deck game...
0:08:39 > 0:08:41THEY WHISPER
0:08:42 > 0:08:44- Spider. Try that.- Spider?
0:08:44 > 0:08:48No. That's Miss Milligan. And finally this single-deck game.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50- Clockwork.- No, no, no.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52Just clock.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55- Clock.- Clock patience is right, yes.
0:08:55 > 0:08:59Another starter question. A concordance of Shakespeare's plays
0:08:59 > 0:09:02reveals that the word "melt" appears most frequently
0:09:02 > 0:09:05in which play, as in "The crown of the earth doth melt"
0:09:05 > 0:09:08and "Let Rome in Tiber melt"?
0:09:09 > 0:09:11- Antony And Cleopatra.- Correct.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17Your bonuses are on geologists, Warwick.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19Born in 1790, the English geologist Gideon Mantell
0:09:19 > 0:09:22is remembered for giving what name to a dinosaur
0:09:22 > 0:09:26that possessed a broad, stiff tail and a thumb developed into a spike?
0:09:26 > 0:09:29THEY WHISPER
0:09:29 > 0:09:31A stegosaur?
0:09:31 > 0:09:34Not tyrannosaur. Stegosaurus, maybe?
0:09:34 > 0:09:37- Stegosaurus? - No. It was an iguanodon.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40In The Principles Of Geology, who popularised the theory
0:09:40 > 0:09:43that rocks are formed by slow, continual processes?
0:09:43 > 0:09:45His works were a great influence on Charles Darwin.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48- THEY WHISPER - Lyell. Correct. Sir Charles Lyell.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51Harry Blackmore Whittington, who died in 2010,
0:09:51 > 0:09:55is noted for his paper on which Palaeozoic marine arthropod,
0:09:55 > 0:09:58distinguished by its flattened oval body?
0:09:58 > 0:10:00THEY WHISPER
0:10:02 > 0:10:04THEY WHISPER
0:10:04 > 0:10:06Duck-billed platypus?
0:10:06 > 0:10:09- Duck-billed platypus? - No, trilobites. 10 points for this.
0:10:09 > 0:10:13What nationality links the common names of a giant extinct deer
0:10:13 > 0:10:16of the genus Megaloceros and four breeds of dog -
0:10:16 > 0:10:20a water spaniel, a terrier, a setter and a wolfhound?
0:10:21 > 0:10:23- Irish. Ireland.- Yes.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26Your bonuses now, Edinburgh.
0:10:26 > 0:10:30They're on 17th-century England. Although not its prime instigator,
0:10:30 > 0:10:32which minister of Charles II gives his name
0:10:32 > 0:10:35to a code of laws that reinforced the established Church
0:10:35 > 0:10:39and restricted the activity of Protestant dissenters?
0:10:46 > 0:10:48THEY WHISPER
0:10:50 > 0:10:53- We do not know. - It's Clarendon, the Clarendon Code.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Sharing its name with an act of 1559,
0:10:55 > 0:10:59which act required clergy to consent to everything in The Book Of Common Prayer
0:10:59 > 0:11:03and to be ordained according to the rites of the Church of England?
0:11:03 > 0:11:06Unification?
0:11:06 > 0:11:08- Unification.- Try it.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11- Unification? - No, it's the Act of Uniformity.
0:11:11 > 0:11:15Nearly there. Clarendon fell from power after military setbacks
0:11:15 > 0:11:18in a war of 1665 to '67.
0:11:18 > 0:11:22Which commercial rival of England was the principal adversary in that war?
0:11:22 > 0:11:24Scotland?
0:11:24 > 0:11:26THEY WHISPER
0:11:26 > 0:11:29France, Spain or Scotland.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31Take your pick.
0:11:31 > 0:11:35- Take your pick.- Come on!
0:11:35 > 0:11:38- Spain?- No. It's the Netherlands. 10 points for this.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41Which country consists of several islands in the Baltic Sea,
0:11:41 > 0:11:44some of the North Frisian islands in the North Sea -
0:11:45 > 0:11:47I'm sorry. If you buzz, you must answer.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49- Yeah. Yeah. Finland. - No. You're wrong, as well,
0:11:49 > 0:11:53and you lose five points. And most of the Jutland Peninsula.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56One of you may buzz, Edinburgh. You may not confer!
0:11:56 > 0:11:58One of you may buzz.
0:12:00 > 0:12:02- Poland.- Poland?
0:12:02 > 0:12:05No. It's Denmark. You had a lucky escape there, Warwick.
0:12:05 > 0:12:0910 points for this. Blue Mauritius, Tyrian Plum,
0:12:09 > 0:12:13IR Official and Inverted Jenny are all rare examples
0:12:13 > 0:12:15of which collector's items?
0:12:15 > 0:12:19- Stamps.- Stamps is right. Postage stamps, yes.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25Your bonuses, Warwick, are on the novels of Ian McEwan.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28Identify the novel from the description of its main character.
0:12:28 > 0:12:32Henry Perowne, a 48-year-old neurosurgeon
0:12:32 > 0:12:35in a novel described as "a post 9/11 variation
0:12:35 > 0:12:37of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway"?
0:12:37 > 0:12:40- Saturday.- Yes. Michael Beard, secondly, a Nobel Laureate
0:12:40 > 0:12:44devoted to womanising, inordinate consumption of food and drink
0:12:44 > 0:12:46and averting of climate change.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48- Solar.- Correct.
0:12:48 > 0:12:52Briony Tallis, who at the start of the novel is 13 years old
0:12:52 > 0:12:54and writing a play for her brother Leon.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56- Atonement.- Correct.
0:12:56 > 0:12:5910 points for this. The Nidd, the Ayr, the Wharfe and the Don
0:12:59 > 0:13:02are all tributaries of which major river...
0:13:02 > 0:13:05- The Nevsky. - No. You lose five points.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Which major river that joins the Trent
0:13:07 > 0:13:10east of Goole to form the Humber?
0:13:12 > 0:13:15No, you may not confer. One of you may buzz.
0:13:16 > 0:13:20- Ouse?- The Ouse is correct. The Yorkshire Ouse.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23Right. A set of bonuses for you,
0:13:23 > 0:13:27this time on the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30Which former tennis player of the 1960s and '70s,
0:13:30 > 0:13:32one of the first openly gay sports stars,
0:13:32 > 0:13:34received the Medal of Freedom in 2009,
0:13:34 > 0:13:36having championed gender-equality issues
0:13:36 > 0:13:38in sport and other areas of life?
0:13:38 > 0:13:41THEY WHISPER Was it King?
0:13:41 > 0:13:43THEY WHISPER
0:13:46 > 0:13:49Is it not Mrs King? Billie Jean King?
0:13:49 > 0:13:52Oh, Billie Jean King. Yeah.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54- We think Billie Jean King.- Correct.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57Which recipient of the medal was a Supreme Court justice
0:13:57 > 0:14:00from 1981 until her retirement in 2006?
0:14:00 > 0:14:03She was the first woman to hold that position.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Oh! THEY WHISPER
0:14:06 > 0:14:09THEY WHISPER AND LAUGH
0:14:09 > 0:14:12- We've forgotten her name. Sorry. - Sandra Day O'Connor.
0:14:12 > 0:14:16And finally, which political figure was murdered in 1978
0:14:16 > 0:14:20and received the medal posthumously? His life as a gay-rights activist
0:14:20 > 0:14:23was the subject of a film of 2008.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27THEY WHISPER
0:14:29 > 0:14:31It's gone. We're past it.
0:14:31 > 0:14:34- LAUGHTER - It's Harvey Milk.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36We're going to take a music round now.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39For your starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music.
0:14:39 > 0:14:4210 points if you can give me the name of the composer.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44STIRRING ORCHESTRAL AND CHORAL MUSIC
0:14:48 > 0:14:50Wagner.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53No. You can hear a little more, Edinburgh.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55MUSIC CONTINUES
0:15:05 > 0:15:07Tchaikovsky?
0:15:07 > 0:15:10No, it's Berlioz. It's from Romeo And Juliet.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13Music bonuses shortly. Here's another starter question.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17Produced in bone marrow and found in the blood of all mammals,
0:15:17 > 0:15:21which small, disc-like structures are important factors in stopping -
0:15:21 > 0:15:23- Platelets.- Correct.
0:15:26 > 0:15:30So, we'll pick up with the music bonuses.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33Berlioz's Romeo And Juliet, which was the starter question,
0:15:33 > 0:15:35is an example of a choral symphony,
0:15:35 > 0:15:39a term Berlioz himself coined to describe the work.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42Your bonuses are three more excerpts from choral symphonies.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45Simply name the composer in each case.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48MAJESTIC CHORAL MUSIC
0:15:53 > 0:15:56THEY WHISPER
0:16:04 > 0:16:07THEY SPEAK UNDER MUSIC
0:16:08 > 0:16:11- Faure.- No, it's Liszt.
0:16:11 > 0:16:15It's the final chorus from the Faust Symphony. Secondly...
0:16:15 > 0:16:18ROUSING MALE-VOICE CHORAL MUSIC
0:16:18 > 0:16:22- THEY WHISPER - Could be Rimsky-Korsakov.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25Feels more like Tchaikovsky.
0:16:28 > 0:16:32- Tchaikovsky?- No, that's Shostakovich, from his Symphony No. 13.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34And finally...
0:16:34 > 0:16:37DRAMATIC CHORAL MUSIC
0:16:48 > 0:16:50- THEY WHISPER - It's Russian.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52- Tchaikovsky again.- Tchaikovsky?
0:16:52 > 0:16:55No, that's Mahler. Right, 10 points for this.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58Published in 1591, five years after his death,
0:16:58 > 0:17:00Astrophel And Stella -
0:17:00 > 0:17:03- Sir Philip Sidney.- Correct.
0:17:04 > 0:17:08Right, Warwick. This set of bonuses are on shorter words
0:17:08 > 0:17:12that may be made from the eight-letter word "broccoli".
0:17:12 > 0:17:15Give each word from the definition.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19An Italian word meaning liveliness, dash, vigour or spirit.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22- Brio.- Brio.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24Correct. Secondly, a programming language
0:17:24 > 0:17:28created by Grace Hopper and others in 1959
0:17:28 > 0:17:30and intended for use in commerce.
0:17:30 > 0:17:32THEY WHISPER
0:17:32 > 0:17:36A commerce code... Something "co".
0:17:36 > 0:17:39Could it end in "co", maybe?
0:17:39 > 0:17:40Loco?
0:17:40 > 0:17:44- Loco?- No. It's COBOL.
0:17:44 > 0:17:48And finally, an attack of severe spasmodic pain in the abdomen.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50- Um... Colic.- Colic.
0:17:50 > 0:17:54Correct. 10 points for this. The orbit of which planet
0:17:54 > 0:17:56has the least pronounced eccentricity -
0:17:56 > 0:17:59that is, its orbit is most nearly a true circle?
0:18:01 > 0:18:03- Mercury. - Anyone like to buzz from Edinburgh?
0:18:04 > 0:18:08- Earth.- No, it's Venus. 10 points for this.
0:18:08 > 0:18:14Listen carefully. Two groups have had three successive Christmas number-one hit singles,
0:18:14 > 0:18:17the former in the 1960s, the latter in the 1990s.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20For 10 points, name each of them.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23- The Beatles and the Spice Girls. - Correct.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31Warwick, your bonuses this time are on a European ruler.
0:18:31 > 0:18:33In 1279, Diniz, nicknamed "the Farmer",
0:18:33 > 0:18:37succeeded his father, Alfonso III, to become the sixth king
0:18:37 > 0:18:39of which present-day European country?
0:18:39 > 0:18:42THEY WHISPER
0:18:42 > 0:18:44Um, Portugal? No, you'd know if it were Portugal.
0:18:44 > 0:18:49- Um...- No. - But it is a present-day country.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52THEY WHISPER
0:18:52 > 0:18:54- Italy?- No, it was Portugal.
0:18:54 > 0:18:59Portugal's first university, founded by Diniz in Lisbon in 1290,
0:18:59 > 0:19:02later moved to which city? It now gives its name to a group
0:19:02 > 0:19:06of leading European research universities.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09THEY WHISPER
0:19:12 > 0:19:15Cadiz? Porto?
0:19:15 > 0:19:19- Porto?- No, it's Coimbra. Finally, Diniz's correspondence in 1308
0:19:19 > 0:19:22with which English king is often cited
0:19:22 > 0:19:25as the first commercial treaty between the two countries?
0:19:25 > 0:19:30Um, I think that's Henry IV. I think it's Henry IV.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33Henry IV. No, it's Edward II. 10 points for this.
0:19:33 > 0:19:35In finance, what Italian-derived term
0:19:35 > 0:19:38refers to unsecured, higher-yielding loans
0:19:38 > 0:19:41that are often used to fund takeovers?
0:19:41 > 0:19:44In more general usage, it denotes a low storey
0:19:44 > 0:19:46between two others in a building -
0:19:47 > 0:19:49- Mezzanine.- Mezzanine is right, yes.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55Your bonuses are on tributaries of the River Thames.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58Give the tributary whose name corresponds to the following.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01A surname shared by two US literary figures,
0:20:01 > 0:20:05authors of the 1895 novel The Red Badge Of Courage
0:20:05 > 0:20:08and the 1930 poem, The Bridge.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10Crane.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13THEY WHISPER
0:20:16 > 0:20:19THEY WHISPER It's not Emerson, is it?
0:20:19 > 0:20:21Come on. Let's have it, please.
0:20:21 > 0:20:22- Crane.- Correct.
0:20:22 > 0:20:24The second half of the name of the ship
0:20:24 > 0:20:28that carried the first large group of West Indian immigrants to the UK
0:20:28 > 0:20:31- after World War II.- Windrush.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34- Windrush.- Correct. And finally, the chilled-out entertainer
0:20:34 > 0:20:37of the fictional company Wernham Hogg.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39Oh, that's David Brent.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41- Brent.- Brent is correct, yes.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43We're going to take a second picture round.
0:20:43 > 0:20:47You will see a painting depicting a scene from a romantic poem.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49For 10 points, name the poem.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55- The Lady Of Shalott?- No.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58One of you may buzz, Edinburgh. You may not confer.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00Morte d'Arthur?
0:21:00 > 0:21:02No. It's La Belle Dame Sans Merci, by Keats.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05So your picture bonuses will be retained
0:21:05 > 0:21:08until someone gets a starter question right.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11Listen carefully. What is the present name of the English city
0:21:11 > 0:21:16whose Roman name is an anagram of the television channel
0:21:16 > 0:21:20formerly known as UKTV G2
0:21:20 > 0:21:25and renamed because, allegedly, everyone knows a bloke of this name?
0:21:29 > 0:21:32Well, I know it's Dave, is the channel.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34That wasn't what I asked for. Warwick?
0:21:35 > 0:21:38- Is it "Veda", Chester? - It is Chester. Correct. Yes.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45You get the picture bonuses. Three more paintings
0:21:45 > 0:21:48based on the poetry of John Keats. I want the name of the poem
0:21:48 > 0:21:50each takes as its subject. Firstly, for five...
0:21:52 > 0:21:54Do you have any ideas?
0:21:54 > 0:21:56THEY WHISPER
0:22:04 > 0:22:07- Eve Of St Agnes.- No. It's Isabella, or The Pot Of Basil.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Secondly...
0:22:09 > 0:22:12THEY WHISPER
0:22:12 > 0:22:13Eve Of St Agnes.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16No, that's Lamia. And finally...
0:22:16 > 0:22:19- THEY LAUGH - Go for it. Go on.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21- You've got to.- Eve Of St Agnes.
0:22:21 > 0:22:23- Well done! - LAUGHTER AND CHEERING
0:22:25 > 0:22:2810 points for this starter.
0:22:28 > 0:22:32The Chinese Feng Bo, the Hindu and Vedic Indian Vayu,
0:22:32 > 0:22:35the Guatemalan Huracan and the Greek Boreas
0:22:35 > 0:22:37are among deities -
0:22:37 > 0:22:40- The wind.- The wind is correct, yes.
0:22:41 > 0:22:45Bonuses on industrial chemistry for you lucky things.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48A term denoting the process by which rubber is heated with sulphur
0:22:48 > 0:22:51to produce a more durable form such as ebonite
0:22:51 > 0:22:53is derived from the name of which Roman god?
0:22:53 > 0:22:57Vulcan. Correct. In oil refining, what term is used for the process
0:22:57 > 0:22:59by which heavy, long-chain hydrocarbons
0:22:59 > 0:23:01are broken into lighter, shorter-chain molecules
0:23:01 > 0:23:04either by heat or by catalysis?
0:23:04 > 0:23:06SHE WHISPERS
0:23:06 > 0:23:08- Heat... - THEY WHISPER
0:23:08 > 0:23:10THEY WHISPER
0:23:15 > 0:23:18- Petrolification?- No. It's cracking.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20What basic inorganic chemical is produced
0:23:20 > 0:23:24in the Castner-Kellner process of electrolysis of sodium chloride?
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Salt?
0:23:26 > 0:23:28No, no, no. An inorganic chemical.
0:23:28 > 0:23:33- No. That is sodium chloride. - Oil... Sodium...
0:23:33 > 0:23:36- Calcium carbonate?- No. Sodium hydroxide, or caustic soda.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38Four minutes to go. 10 points for this.
0:23:38 > 0:23:44Which contemporary novelist's name is composed of the given names of the fourth-century Roman emperor
0:23:44 > 0:23:47known as The Apostate, and of the engineer who devised the bouncing bomb?
0:23:49 > 0:23:51You may not confer.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54- Julian Barnes. - Julian Barnes is correct, yes.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59A set of bonuses on English history.
0:23:59 > 0:24:03Name the kings during whose reigns the following plots and rebellions took place.
0:24:03 > 0:24:07The Barons' War, in which Simon de Montfort was a major figure.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10Was it Henry II?
0:24:10 > 0:24:13- Simon de Montfort was the guy who went to France...- It's Henry III.
0:24:13 > 0:24:17De Montfort. I think it's Henry. I think it's Henry III.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19- Henry III? - Correct. The Southampton Plot,
0:24:19 > 0:24:22which aimed to replace the king with the Earl of March.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24Conspirators were executed for treason
0:24:24 > 0:24:27shortly before the king sailed for France.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30- Edward II. No, no, no. - Was it Charles?
0:24:30 > 0:24:33Do you think it's Charles? I was thinking Edward I.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Come on. Let's have it, please.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37- Edward I.- No, it was Henry V.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40Finally, the Pilgrimage of Grace, a widespread northern rising
0:24:40 > 0:24:43- against the king's religious policies.- Henry VIII.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46Henry VIII. Correct. Another starter question now.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49Which Mediterranean island was held successively
0:24:49 > 0:24:52by the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans and Arabs,
0:24:52 > 0:24:54until, in 1090, it was conquered by...
0:24:54 > 0:24:56- Malta.- Malta is right, yes.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01Your bonuses this time are on a bird.
0:25:01 > 0:25:05In Act I of Macbeth, which bird is described by Lady Macbeth
0:25:05 > 0:25:08as that which "croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
0:25:08 > 0:25:11- under my battlements"?- Raven?
0:25:11 > 0:25:13- Maybe Raven.- Raven.
0:25:13 > 0:25:17Correct. Which Roman statesman, whose speeches against Marc Antony cost him his life,
0:25:17 > 0:25:21was reputedly forewarned of his death by the fluttering of ravens?
0:25:21 > 0:25:23Is it Cicero?
0:25:23 > 0:25:26- I don't think he was executed. - Cassius?
0:25:26 > 0:25:29- Cassius?- No. It was Cicero. In Christian art,
0:25:29 > 0:25:31the raven is an emblem of God's providence,
0:25:31 > 0:25:35an allusion to the ravens that fed which Old Testament prophet
0:25:35 > 0:25:38- during his time in the wilderness? - THEY WHISPER
0:25:38 > 0:25:41- Was it Moses?- Isaiah?
0:25:41 > 0:25:44- Isaiah. - No, it's Elijah. 10 points for this.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47If their surnames are arranged alphabetically,
0:25:47 > 0:25:50who comes first among the British prime ministers
0:25:50 > 0:25:52of the 20th century?
0:25:53 > 0:25:55Callaghan.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57No. Warwick?
0:25:57 > 0:25:59- Asquith.- Of course. Yes.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02You get the bonuses, this time on Maurice Ravel.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05Ravel wrote the music for which Diaghilev ballet
0:26:05 > 0:26:09first performed in 1912, of a tale of love between a goatherd and a shepherd?
0:26:09 > 0:26:11Something and something.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13THEY WHISPER
0:26:13 > 0:26:15Come on.
0:26:15 > 0:26:19- No.- Daphnis and Chloe. Secondly, the author of the Claudine books
0:26:19 > 0:26:23and Gigi, who wrote the libretto for Ravel's 1925 opera
0:26:23 > 0:26:26L'enfant Et Les Sortileges.
0:26:26 > 0:26:30- Colette.- Correct. In 1922, Ravel produced an orchestral version
0:26:30 > 0:26:33of which work, originally written as a suite in 10 movements
0:26:33 > 0:26:36for piano by Mussorgsky?
0:26:36 > 0:26:39- Pictures At A Museum? - Um...- Pictures At A Museum?
0:26:39 > 0:26:43I'll accept that. It's Pictures At An Exhibition.
0:26:43 > 0:26:4610 points for this starter question. Born in 1791,
0:26:46 > 0:26:49which scientist was Humphry Davy's assistant
0:26:49 > 0:26:51at the Royal Institution?
0:26:51 > 0:26:54- Michael Faraday.- Correct. Another set of bonuses for you.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58They're on world geography, the relative areas
0:26:58 > 0:26:59of various political entitles.
0:26:59 > 0:27:03What is the fourth-largest country in the world?
0:27:03 > 0:27:05- China...- Is it Russia?
0:27:05 > 0:27:08- Is it size, or...- Er, the USA.
0:27:08 > 0:27:13Correct. What is the fourth-largest US state?
0:27:13 > 0:27:15Texas is probably too big, so after that?
0:27:15 > 0:27:18- Montana's very big. - The north one, the very big one...
0:27:18 > 0:27:21- Montana and Nevada. All those... - Come on.
0:27:21 > 0:27:24- Er, Montana.- Correct.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26What is the fourth-largest EU member state?
0:27:26 > 0:27:29- Are Germany and France the biggest? - Spain?- Italy?
0:27:29 > 0:27:32- Spain is the next. - Poland's big. Poland's probably...
0:27:32 > 0:27:36Poland. No, it's Germany. 10 points for this starter question.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39Deriving from a Greek word meaning both a pebble and a vote,
0:27:39 > 0:27:41what term denotes the -
0:27:41 > 0:27:44- Psephology.- Psephology is correct.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47Your bonuses this time are on Christian festivals.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49What single word is an alternative name
0:27:49 > 0:27:51for the festival held on February 2nd...
0:27:51 > 0:27:54- GONG RINGS - Edinburgh University have 35.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56The University of Warwick have 265.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05It felt much closer than that.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07THEY LAUGH
0:28:07 > 0:28:11Not to you, obviously. It did feel much closer than that,
0:28:11 > 0:28:14and you're very good sports for taking part, so thank you very much.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17Warwick, that is the highest score so far in this series.
0:28:17 > 0:28:21Congratulations. We shall look forward to seeing you in the final.
0:28:21 > 0:28:25Warwick University will go through, where they'll play the winners of the next fixture,
0:28:25 > 0:28:29between Magdalen College, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge.
0:28:29 > 0:28:33I hope you can join us for that, but now it's goodbye from Edinburgh,
0:28:33 > 0:28:37goodbye from Warwick, and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:37 > 0:28:40APPLAUSE
0:28:40 > 0:28:43MUSIC: I Believe In Father Christmas by Greg Lake
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