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VOICEOVER: Asking the questions,
Jeremy Paxman.
Hello. Two more teams of students
are making what they hope will be
the first of several appearances
in this competition, and, of course,
the longer they stay in,
the closer they get
to being series champions.
Winning all their matches is
a sure-fire way of staying in,
but for these first round fixtures,
there is a safety net
for the four highest scoring
losing teams,
who will return to compete
in the play-offs
for the last two places
in the next round.
Now, the University of Edinburgh
received its charter
in 1583 from James VI.
Alumni include
the philosopher David Hume,
although he failed to graduate,
reputedly finding little in
the university's professors
that couldn't be found in books.
The authors Sir Walter Scott,
JM Barrie and Arthur Conan Doyle
all went there, as did both
the Olympic athlete Eric Liddell
and the actor Ian Charleson,
who played him in Chariots of Fire.
The Tory politicians Amber Rudd
and Ruth Davidson are among those
who graduated by being doffed
on the head with a bonnet
reputedly fashioned out of
John Knox's breeches.
With an average age of 23
and representing
around 36,000 students,
let's meet the team from Edinburgh.
Hi, I'm Matt Booth,
I'm originally from Bristol
and I'm studying
for a PhD in mathematics.
Hello, my name is Marco Malusa.
I come from Monfalcone, Italy,
and I'm studying for a degree
in economics and politics.
And this is their captain.
Hi, I'm Max Fitz-James.
I'm from Burgundy in France and
I'm doing a PhD in cell biology.
Hi, I'm Robbie Campbell Hewson,
I'm from Edinburgh
and I'm studying maths.
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Sidney Sussex College Cambridge
has twice fielded teams
who have gone on
to be series champions -
although that was back in the 1970s,
long before any of
tonight's lot were born.
It was founded in 1396
by Lady Frances Sidney,
Countess of Sussex,
and aunt of the poet
Sir Philip Sidney.
Oliver Cromwell was among
its earlier students,
and his head is reputed
to have been buried
beneath the college's ante-chapel
after it had been retrieved
from a spike
outside Westminster Hall.
Alumni include the TV presenter
Carol Vorderman,
the journalist Andrew Rawnsley
and the politician David Owen.
With an average age of 20
and representing
around 540 students,
let's meet the Sidney Sussex team.
Hi, I'm Radu.
I'm from the West Midlands
and I study history.
Hi, I'm James.
I'm from Fleetwood
and I study maths.
And this is their captain.
Good evening. I'm Jay Vinayak Ojha.
I am from Lucknow in India
and I'm reading law.
Hi, I'm Isobel. I'm from London
and I'm studying natural sciences.
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Right, so, fingers on the buzzers.
Here's your first starter for 10.
What five-letter word can refer to
the protruding head of a glacier,
a tinker in
A Midsummer Night's Dream,
the nose or muzzle of an animal
and a slang term...
Snout.
Snout is correct, yes.
You get a set of bonuses, first off,
on heraldry, then, Sidney Sussex.
Appearing on the coat of arms
of the Republic of Latvia,
which fabulous beast has
the head and wings of an eagle
and the body and hindquarters
of a lion?
Griffin? The griffin.
Griffin.
Correct.
Which mythical quadruped
with horns and tusks
appears on the arms
of Lady Margaret Beaufort,
the mother of King Henry VII?
It shares its name with
an Ivy League university.
Harvard, Princeton, Cornell?
Any of those ring a bell?
I don't see a relevant...
Phoenix? What? No, that's not...
No, no.
Princeton.
No, it's a yale.
And finally, which mythical creature
takes the form
of a two-footed winged dragon
with a serpent-like barbed tail?
It's the traditional
symbol of Wessex.
Um...
THEY CONFER
Wyrm. Hmm? Wyrm. Wyrm.
Shall I nominate you? No.
Wyrm. Wyrm.
A worm? Wyrm, Y-R-M. Try it.
A wyrm.
A wyrm?! No, it's a wyvern.
10 points for this.
In the Nomenclature
of Inorganic Chemistry, or Red Book,
published by IUPAC,
oxidane is a recommended name
for what common substance?
Water? Water is correct, yes.
Your bonuses are on rivers
of England and Wales,
according to A System
Of Universal Geography
published in the United States
in 1834.
In each case, name the river
from the extract.
Firstly, the first link in that
vast chain of inland navigation
which unites all
the central parts of England.
It falls into the Humber about five
miles below Burton upon Stather.
Any ideas? The Ouse, the Dee,
something like that.
It could be. The Ouse?
No, it's the Trent.
It waters a country of which
the inhabitants are distinguished
by their industry and their wealth.
Formed by several streams
in Cheshire,
it's navigable for vessels
of considerable burden
from the sea
to the confluence of the Irwell.
THEY CONFER
Will we try that, the Mersey?
Sure, yeah.
The Mersey? Correct. Nice.
As it proceeds, it is joined by
the numerous canals
that bear the treasures of
Birmingham, Kidderminster
and the trading towns
in Warwickshire,
Staffordshire and Worcestershire.
THEY CONFER
There is an Avon in... Sure.
The Avon.
No, that's the Severn.
10 points for this.
Which French naval vessel
sank in 1816
having run aground off
the West Coast of Africa?
Some survivors infamously turned
to murder and cannibalism
and the incident has been portrayed
in Julian Barnes'
A History Of The World In...
Um...the...
No, sorry. I'm sorry,
if you buzz you must answer.
So I'm going to offer
the whole thing...
You're going to be penalised too,
I'm afraid. I'm sorry.
...been portrayed in Julian Barnes'
A History of the World
In 10½ Chapters
and in a painting of 1819
by Theodore Gericault.
The Medusa? It is the Medusa, yes.
Your bonuses this time
are on cross gender productions of
Shakespeare plays, Sidney Sussex.
A media description
of her Chairman Mao suit
and David Bowie hair referred
to whose portrayal of Hamlet
at Manchester's
Royal Exchange Theatre in 2014?
That could apply to Tilda Swinton.
That sounds right.
Yes, Tilda Swinton.
Tilda Swinton.
No, it was Maxine Peake.
In the National Theatre's 2017
production of Twelfth Night,
the yellow stockings scene saw
whirling tassels adorning the chest
of which actor
in the role of Malvolio?
I don't know.
Name me a theatre actor.
I don't know. Benedict Cumberbatch.
Benedict Cumberbatch.
No, it's a cross... Never mind.
Tamsin Greig.
And, finally, in 2003,
Janet McAteer played the
fortune-seeking protagonist
who's left Verona for Padua
in all-female production
of which play at the Globe Theatre?
The Taming Of The Shrew.
The Taming Of The Shrew. Correct.
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We're going to play
the picture round now.
For your picture starter,
you'll see the names
of some of the title characters
of works by a single author.
For 10 points, name the author.
Tolstoy.
No, anyone want to buzz
from Sidney Sussex?
Dostoevsky.
No. It's Pushkin. Eugene Onegin
Boris Godunov, and so on.
Right, we're going to take the
picture bonuses in a moment or two
when someone gets the starter
question right.
In 2017, who followed
Norman Yardley,
David Gower and Kevin Pietersen
to become the fourth
men's England cricket captain
to lose a Test after declaring
in the third innings?
The match in question was the second
Test against the West Indies...
Alastair Cook.
No. You lose five points.
It was the second Test against
the West Indies in August 2017.
Jones.
No, it was Joe Root. So, 10 points
at stake for this starter question.
Now a capital city,
which settlement was established
in 1787
by the abolitionist Granville Sharp
and others
as a home for freed slaves
on the West African...
Freetown.
Freetown is correct, yes.
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Following on that list we saw
a moment ago of works by Pushkin,
your picture bonuses list characters
featuring in a single Russian novel,
all from the 19th century.
Again, you'll see them
in Cyrillic script.
This time, I need the English title
of each novel.
Firstly...
P... Peter...or something. Yeah.
And then K... R... Natasha.
Natasha. Nikolai...something.
What should I try?
Brothers Karamazov?
It's not that. Not Karamazov.
Try War And Peace. War And Peace.
It is War And Peace, yes.
Secondly...
Na...
Nast... Natasha?
Petrov...
Sounds familiar. Manil...
Manilov or something.
Is it The Master And Margarita?
The Master And Margarita.
No, it's Dead Souls by Gogol.
And finally...
Rod... Rodion...
Is that Raskolnikov?
Yeah, that is Raskolnikov.
That's Crime And Punishment.
Crime And Punishment.
Crime And Punishment
by Dostoyevsky is right.
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10 points for this.
Answer as soon as your name
is called.
Measured about its
longitudinal axis of symmetry,
what is the moment of inertia
of a thin cylindrical shell
of radius R and mass M?
½MR squared.
No.
2 pi MR squared.
No, it's MR squared.
10 points for this.
Which city is located approximately
midway between Sofia and Tirana?
It became the capital of the former
Yugoslav Republic...
Skopje.
Skopje is correct, yes.
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These bonuses, Edinburgh,
are on particle physics.
Which subatomic particle might be
indicated by the crossword clue -
"campaign slogan of Reagan
or the father of Rand Paul?
The father of Rand Paul is Ron Paul.
So...
Ron...
The father of Rand Paul. Particle.
I don't know what they're asking.
Paulson... Ron?
Fermion. No, it's "elect-ron".
Secondly, what term encompasses
a large class of particles
that do not feel
the strong nuclear force?
In a crossword,
it might have the clue -
"Mounted athletically
by the sound of it."
Maybe neutrons or...
It's a class of particles.
Do leptons feel the strong
nuclear force? Maybe hadrons.
Leptons is the... Hadrons...
I don't know, one of them.
Lepton, yeah. Lepton.
Lepton is correct.
That makes sense, yeah.
And, finally, which particle
involved in binding nucleons
might bear the clue
"affix width adhesive"?
Gluon. Gluon.
Gluon is right.
10 points for this.
In molecular biology,
what two nucleobases are found
in the eukaryotic promoter sequence
known as the Hogness box?
Is it BA? Is it BA?
No. Anyone like to buzz
from Sidney Sussex?
Adenine and guanine. No.
It's adenine and thymine.
Right, 10 points for this.
Listen carefully.
Quebec and Ontario were two
of the four provinces
that were incorporated into
the Dominion of Canada
through the Constitution Act
of 1867 -
name the other two.
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Correct.
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Right, these bonuses are
on an ancient people.
The order of battle against
the Alans is a work
by which historian and
public servant born in about AD86?
He's best known for a work
on Alexander the Great.
Uh...
Cassius Dio? Yeah.
Cassius Dio.
No, it's Arrian.
Secondly, along with the Alans,
which Germanic people
founded a kingdom
in North Africa in the 430s?
They sacked Rome in 455.
The vandals. Correct.
The Alans are thought to be
the ancestors
of which Iranian-speaking people?
They give their name
to a Russian republic
and to a partially-recognised state
in the Caucasus.
Ossetia. Ossetians. Yeah.
The Ossetians.
Correct. 10 points for this.
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Described by Siegfried Sassoon
as Wilfred Owen's
passport to immortality,
what is the two word title
of the latter's poem
which contains the line, "I am
the enemy you killed, my friend."
Strange Meeting.
Strange Meeting is right.
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These bonuses are on
scientific terms.
In each case,
give the term from the definition.
All three begin
with the same two letters.
First a violent inward collapse
due to external pressure,
such as the failure
of an evacuated glass vessel.
Implosion. Implosion.
Correct.
Indicated by the letter J,
a measurement that is equal to
the change in an object's momentum.
In everyday use,
the same term means
a sudden inclination
to perform an action.
Impetus. Impetus.
Impetus, yeah. Impetus.
No, it's impulse.
And, finally, a two word term
for the resulting depression
in the surface of a planet
caused by a high velocity object.
Impact crater. Is it two words?
Impact crater, yes.
Impact crater. Correct.
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Right, we're going to take
a music round.
For your music starter, you'll hear
a piece of popular music.
10 points if you can give me
the name of the group.
# Follow you
You will follow me... #
Genesis. It was Genesis.
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Well done.
For your music bonuses,
I want you to give me
the single word title
of the book of the Old Testament
in the King James Bible
that's contained within the name
of the band or the artist
that you're about to hear.
Firstly...
# She don't love me like you
# She don't know what to do
# And it's so hard
# She don't care what you say
# So just say it, say it anyway
# It's so hard...#
Job.
No, that was The Magic Numbers, so
what I was looking for was numbers.
Secondly...
# You bet your life it is
# You bet your life it is
# Oh, you bet your life... #
Job again.
No, that was Tori Amos,
so I was looking for Amos.
And, finally...
# When I dance alone
and the sun is beating down... #
Ezra.
Ezra is correct, yes.
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10 points for this.
Meaning bark or rind in Latin,
what six letter term
is used in anatomy...?
Phloem.
No, you lose 5 points.
..in anatomy for the outer tissues
of an organ,
for example, the kidney or brain.
Epidermis.
No, it's the cortex.
So, another starter question now.
In North America,
the Commissioner's Trophy is awarded
to the winner
of which sporting contest?
Since 2009, the San Francisco Giants
have won three times.
American football.
No.
The World Series.
The World Series is right, yes.
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Your bonuses are on the names of
countries in their native language.
In each case give
the common English name
of the country in question.
Firstly, Suomi, S-U-O-M-I.
Finland. Correct.
Secondly, Hrvatska...
Croatia.
That's H-R-V-A-T-S-K-A.
Croatia. Correct.
Third, Ellada, E-L-L-A-D-A.
Greece.
Correct.
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Right, 10 points for this.
What game links the films
The Dark Horse and Queen Of Katwe,
both based on real events,
with the Nabokov adaptation
The Luzhin Defense?
Chess.
Chest is correct, yes.
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These bonuses are on the 2009 book
Twitterature,
subtitled The World's Greatest Books
Retold Through Twitter.
Give the title of the work parodied
in each of the following tweets.
Firstly, a novel of 1815.
"Isn't it funny how I'm always
thinking about things
"I seem not to care about,
people I don't love
"and marriages
I don't want to have?"
1815. It's too late for Austen,
right? Uh... Could be.
She died around then.
Like, Northanger Abbey
I don't know.
Doesn't make much sense though,
does it?
Sense And Sensibility?
Pride and Prejudice?
Sense And Sensibility.
No, it was Emma.
You worked it out pretty well,
though. Secondly, a novel of 1942.
"Mom dead, at the funeral now,
bored.
"People seem sad. Text don't call."
L'Etranger. Correct,
The Stranger by Albert Camus.
Finally, a 1937 novella.
"First you squashed the mouse
"and now you've gone
and squashed the girl.
"I'm going to have to kill you."
Huh?
It is not the Wizard Of Oz, no. What
date did he say? The 1937 novella.
Oh, is it Steinbeck? Yes,
it's Steinbeck. Of Mice And Men.
Yes, yes.... Of Mice And Men.
Yes.
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10 points for this.
The Lilac Fairy and
the Evil Carabosse are characters
in which ballet choreographed by...
Sleeping Beauty.
Sleeping Beauty is correct.
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You get a set of bonuses on spots.
An example of op art,
Hesitate is a 1964 painting
by which British artist?
It comprises rows of grayscale spots
positioned to create an illusion
of movement.
THEY WHISPER
Bridget Riley. Correct.
Polka dots are a characteristic
feature of the installations
of which Japanese artist
born in 1929?
Her Infinity Rooms use mirrors
to create apparently endless
reflections of thousands of
spots and dots.
The Kusamatrix one, it was
from that... I don't know. Ah!
No.
Kusamatrix maybe.
Kusamatrix was my best guess.
Can I nominate you? Sure.
I nominate Delaney.
Kusamatrix.
No, it's Kusama.
Five points for this one
if you get it.
The spot paintings of which
British artist include works titled
Morphine Sulphate and Aprotinin?
Damien Hirst. Correct.
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Right, we're going to take
a picture around now.
For your picture starter,
you're going to see a painting
by an Austrian artist.
For 10 points, name the artist.
Egon Schiele.
Correct.
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That was his Autumn Sun.
Three more depictions of autumn now,
and again, in each case,
I just need the name of the artist.
First, from a work from about 1573.
Pass.
That is Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Secondly, from around 1830.
Pass.
That's Caspar David Friedrich.
And, finally, from around 1902.
Nominate Thomas. Toulouse-Lautrec.
No, it's Gustav Klimt.
10 points for this.
Which dish of lamb or other meat
in a rich tomato-based sauce
is known by a two word name from
the Urdu meaning stewed in ghee?
Rogan Josh.
Rogan Josh is correct.
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You get bonuses on the polymath
Thomas Young, Edinburgh.
Born in 1773, Young originally
trained as a physician
and gave his name alongside that
of which German scientist
to a theory of trichromatic vision?
What did he say the nationality
was? German. German scientist.
Someone and Young.
Holzmann.
It's Helmholtz.
Secondly, writing across a variety
of subjects including carpentry,
chromatics, weight and measures
and tides,
Young contributed many articles
to what publication?
It first appeared in 1768.
Was it the Royal Society?
Transaction of the Royal Society.
Transaction? Proceedings?
I think it's... I don't know.
I think it is proceedings.
Proceedings of the Royal Society.
No, it was
the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
And, finally,
in the early 19th century,
Young helped decipher what artefact?
His breakthrough was
in demonstrating
that some names of royal figures
were spelt phonetically.
The Rosetta Stone. Correct.
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10 points for this.
"You must go on, I can't go on.
"I'll go on."
Samuel Beckett.
Samuel Beckett is correct, yes.
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Bonuses are on the
British Empire this time.
In 1814, Britain purchased Demerara,
Berbice, and Essequibo.
These territories now comprise
which present-day country
of the mainland Americas?
Belize? That was a British colony.
Panama? Belize was a British colony
Belize?
No, it's Guyana.
Secondly, in 1885,
Britain established
the Oil Rivers Protectorate
in a major river delta in which
present-day country?
Nigeria.
Correct.
The Federation of South Arabia
was a British protectorate
that ended in 1967.
Its territory now forms part of
which present-day country?
Yemen.
Yemen is correct.
10 points for this.
Name either of the two alkali metals
discovered spectroscopically
from 1860 by the German scientists
Bunsen and Kirchhoff.
Lithium.
No, anyone want to buzz
from Edinburgh?
Caesium.
Caesium. The other one's rubidium.
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Right, 15 points for these
bonuses coming up now.
They're on zoology.
What is the single-word
common name of the Hylobatidae,
also called the small or
lesser apes?
Oh, erm...
Is it not bonobo?
No.
It's not orangutan...
Oh, gibbon.
Gibbons.
Correct.
Gibbons can swing and leap from
branch to branch at great speeds.
From the Latin for "arm",
what specific term denotes
this type of locomotion?
Brachial something.
So a motion...
Brachial motion.
Like... Brachial motion?
Brachial motion?
Brachia-podia, or something.
Brachial motion.
It's brachiation,
so you were getting there,
but you didn't get there
closely enough.
After a character
in the Star Wars film,
what name has been given to
the new species of hoolock gibbon
described in January 2017?
It might be Yoda. What are you
thinking? What are you thinking?
It's not that. I was thinking Yoda.
There's one that looks like a...
Sure.
Is it Yoda?
No, it's Skywalker gibbon.
There is about 2.25 minutes to go.
10 points for this.
In Greco-Roman mythology,
what meteorological phenomenon
links Favonius, Aquilo, Notus,
Eurus, Boreas, and Zephyrus?
Wind.
Wind is correct.
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Your bonuses are on diverse
works of fiction.
In each case, identify the novel
from some of its chapter titles.
Firstly, from a novel of 1860,
Aunt Glegg Learns The Breadth Of
Bob's Thumb,
Borne Along By The Tide,
and St Ogg's Passes Judgment.
No idea. 1860... Could it be...
Early Dickens? I don't know,
I didn't hear what he said.
Bleak House?
Bleak House.
No, it's The Mill On The Floss.
Secondly, from a novel of 1991,
Paul Smith, Taking An Uzi To The
Gym, and End Of The 1980S.
When was The Black Album?
Black Album?
The Black Album?
No, it's American Psycho.
Finally, from a work published
in the 1880s, I Go To Bristol,
What I Heard In The Apple Barrel,
and The Last Of The Blind Man.
Is it Treasure Island?
Treasure Island.
Treasure Island is correct.
10 points for this.
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In molecular biology,
for what was the P stand in the
abbreviation NADP+?
Phosphate?
Phosphate is right.
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These bonuses this time are on US
state capitals.
In each case, I need both
the capital and the state
in which it's located.
The name of which state capital ends
in the two letters
that form the Roman numeral
for nine?
So IX... Phoenix? Phoenix, yeah.
Phoenix.
And the state?
Arizona.
Correct.
The name of which state capital ends
in the letter
that is the Roman numeral for 1,000?
So that's M.
What ends with M?
Salem. Oregon.
Salem, Oregon.
Correct.
The names of two state capitals
begin with the Roman numerals
for 51. Name either.
LI...
Begin with.
GONG
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They were Little Rock, Arkansas,
and Lincoln, Nebraska.
Still, you did enough to win,
Edinburgh.
Sidney Sussex, that was a...
Well, you never really got
into your stride at all, did you?
I don't know what happened there -
but you were up against
strong opposition.
Edinburgh, congratulations to you.
We will look forward to seeing
you in round two.
I hope you can join us next time
for another first round match.
But until then, it's goodbye from
Sidney Sussex College Cambridge.
Goodbye.
Don't look so sad, it's only a game!
LAUGHTER
And it's goodbye from
Edinburgh University.
Goodbye.
And it is goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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