Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
APPLAUSE
Hello. The universities of Oxford
and Cambridge, two institutions who
readily admit to the merest
whiff of rivalry,
are each fielding a college
in this second round
match for the penultimate place
in the quarterfinals.
There'll be no place for
the losers, however,
who are already beginning
their final appearance.
Now, the team from
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge,
pulled off a comfortable first round
win against the University
of Leicester, with 200 points
to 105, perhaps surprising
themselves by knowing as much as
they did about banana cultivation.
US states,
the favourites of Elizabeth I,
and British cities in 1907 were
other strengths.
We'll see what arcane knowledge
they can produce tonight.
With an average age of 20, let's
meet the Fitzwilliam team again.
Hi, I'm Theo Tindall,
I'm from Bristol,
and I'm studying Russian and Arabic.
Hi, I'm Theo Howe,
I'm from Oxfordshire,
and I'm reading Japanese Studies.
And their captain...
Hello, I'm Hugh Oxlade, I'm from
South Woodford in north-east
London, and I'm reading History.
Hello, I'm Jack Maloney, I'm from
Harpenden in Hertfordshire,
and I'm reading Medicine.
APPLAUSE
The team from Magdalen College,
Oxford, were neck-and-neck against
their opponents,
St Edmund's College, Cambridge,
up until the midway point of
their first round fixture,
then pulled away and were ahead by
185 points to 105 at the gong.
They were fast to the buzzer on
questions about Saladin,
The Lady of Shalott,
and the state of Maine,
and were also very prompt to give us
the spelling of the word "Oolong",
which was a pity because we were
actually asking for "aficionado."
Also with an average age of 20,
let's meet the Magdalen team again.
Hi, I'm Winston Wright,
I'm from Seattle, Washington,
and I study Computer Science.
Hello, my name's
Christopher Stern, I'm from Dulwich
in south-east London,
and I'm reading Chemistry.
And here's their captain...
Hello there, I'm Johnny Gibson
from Glasgow in Scotland,
and I'm reading History.
Hi, I'm Sarah Parkin, I'm from
Hinckley in Leicestershire,
and I'm reading English and French.
APPLAUSE
Well, the rules are the same
as they were last time
you were here,
so let's get on with it.
Fingers on the buzzers,
your first starter for ten.
What common adjective links a Viking
army subdued by King Alfred...?
BELL
Great?
Correct.
APPLAUSE
Your first set of bonuses,
Fitzwilliam,
are on Ducal residences.
Firstly, designed by James Wyatt
in the early 19th century,
which stately home in Leicestershire
is the ancestral home of
the Dukes of Rutland?
I don't think we know this somehow.
No, that's the kind of thing
you're supposed to know.
The Vale of Belvoir, that's
all I've got! We don't know, sadly.
It is Belvoir Castle,
if you listened to your friend,
but there we are.
You don't get the points.
Five points for this, though.
Designed by Robert Adam
in the 1770s,
which house at Hyde Park Corner
is a London residence of the Dukes
of Wellington and houses a museum
named after the first Duke?
No, its address is 1, London...
Erm, I can't... Is it Aps...?
Apsley House?
Go for it.
Apsley House?
Correct.
The seat of the Dukes of Beaufort,
which Palladian mansion
in South Gloucestershire
gives its name to an Olympic sport?
Er, badminton, presumably.
Yeah? Badminton?
Correct. 10 points for this.
According to Shakespeare, White
Surrey was the horse of which king?
Its death in battle
prompts his final words...
Richard III?
Correct.
APPLAUSE
You get a set of bonuses, Magdalen,
on environmental agreements.
Firstly for five points,
the 1979 convention
on the conservation of European
wildlife and natural habitats
is named after which capital city?
Ohh... It's not Copenhagen
or somewhere...? Oh, it could be.
Yeah? No? All right,
let's go for that. Copenhagen.
No, it's Bern, the Bern Convention.
Also agreed in 1979, the CMS,
or Convention on Conservation of
Migratory Species of wild animals,
is named after which city?
At the time, it was also
the capital of its country.
Oh! So what's changed capital since
then? Erm, I really can't think.
Might be Bonn. Sure.
Bonn?
It is Bonn, yes,
the Bonn Convention. And finally,
which two European cities
give their names to the so-called
OSBA Convention of 1992 for the
protection of the marine
environment of the North Atlantic?
Any idea? Could it be Oslo
and Barcelona, maybe? Oh, OK, yeah!
Yeah, sure.
Er, Oslo and Barcelona?
No, it's Oslo and Paris.
Ten points for this.
The Barghest of Northern England,
the Padfoot of Wakefield,
the Red-Eyed Cwn Annwn of Wales,
the Skriker of Lancashire and
Black Shuck of East Anglia are all
wild or monstrous manifestations...?
Dogs.
Dogs is correct, yes.
Black dogs, in particular.
Your bonuses are on
English literature.
Published from 1740 and placed
on the Roman Catholic Church's
index of prohibited books,
with epistolary
novel by Samuel Richardson has
the subtitle Virtue Rewarded?
Pretty sure that's Pamela. Pamela?
Pamela is right.
Richardson took the title
Pamela from the name of a princess
in the late 16th century prose
romance Arcadia by which writer?
Philip Sidney. Correct.
The satirical imitation
An Apology For The Life
of Mrs Shamela Andrews is usually
credited to which writer?
He used the same surname
for the title character of his next
novel, Joseph Andrews.
Joseph Andrews? Oh,
is that Henry Fielding? Er, yeah.
Henry Fielding. Correct.
Ten points for this.
After uranium and tungsten,
what is the next heaviest element
also to have...?
Pfft... Iridium. That's wrong.
I'm going to fine you five points.
..a single letter designation?
Its name derives from the Greek
for violet and it is a non-metal,
once widely used as a disinfectant
and antiseptic.
Iodine. Correct.
Your bonuses are on biology,
Fitzwilliam.
Give either of the two general
classes of organism that
comprise the subclass of
arachnids known as Acari.
Scorpions? Crabs?
Scorpions... Crabs?
They're crustaceans, aren't they?
Shall we try scorpions?
Scorpions.
No, they're ticks or mites.
The golden mantled ground squirrel
is the main mammalian
reservoir of mountain fever,
a tick-borne disease,
often known by the name of which
landlocked western US state?
THEY CONFER
Montana...
Montana? Shall we try Montana?
Try Nevada. OK, Nevada.
No, it's Colorado.
And finally, plants infected
with the Eriophyid mites show
localised swellings and outgrowth.
By what short,
common name are these lesions known?
THEY CONFER
The type of like...
Something on plants. I think we
should give up and get on with it.
Pass.
They're galls or cecidia.
Ten points for this.
It's a picture round.
For your picture starter,
you're going to see
a map on which a major British
port has been marked.
Ten points if you can name it.
Felixstowe.
Correct.
Felixstowe, Liverpool, London
Gateway
and Southampton are currently
the only British ports
capable of accommodating
the largest container ships
in the world, which are too large
even for the expanded Panama Canal.
For your picture bonuses, I'd like
you to identify three more of the
European ports equipped to handle
this latest generation of mega ship.
Firstly, the port at A.
Is that Calais? Le Havre.
Nominate Maloney.
Le Havre.
Correct. Secondly, the port at B.
Is that...? Gothenburg is...
OK. Go with that one.
Gothenburg sounds good. Gothenburg.
Correct.
Finally, the port at C.
So, Gdansk?
Gdansk.
Gdansk is correct.
Ten points for this.
"No society can legitimately
call itself civilised
"if a sick person is denied
medical aid because of lack"...?
Nye Bevan. Correct.
The architect of the NHS.
Your bonuses are on novels
about dictators, Magdalen.
Concerning the dictator
of a fictional West African country,
Anthills of the Savannah is
a work by which Nigerian author,
who died in 2013?
Is that Achebe or Okri?
I think Okri is a bit more...
Ben Okri.
No, it's Chinua Achebe.
Mario Vargas Llosa's The Feast
Of The Goat concerns the dictator
Rafael Trujillo shortly
before his overthrow in 1961.
Which Caribbean country did
he rule for more than 30 years?
Any idea at all?
What are you saying? Any idea?
Dominican Republic.
Correct.
Who is the title
figure of The Dictator's Last Night,
a recent work by the Algerian
author Yasmina Khadra?
The person in question was
killed by rebel forces in 2011,
after ruling for more than 40 years.
Gaddafi.
Gaddafi is correct.
Ten points for this.
Which ancient region was bordered
by the River Oxus in the north...?
Mesopotamia.
I'm afraid you lose five points.
..and the Hindu Kush
mountains in the south?
The religious founder, Zoroaster,
is believed to have lived there
and Alexander the Great's wife
Roxana was from that region.
It gives its name to
a species of even-toed...?
Bactria.
Bactria is correct.
Bonuses, this time on the works
of Goethe, Fitzwilliam.
What is the single word
title of Goethe's 1788 play
based on the life of a 16th century
Dutch count,
associated with
the Counter-Reformation?
Beethoven wrote incidental music
to a later revival of the play.
Unfortunately,
that clue doesn't help, does it?
Know any plays that aren't
The Robbers? No.
OK. We don't know.
It's Egmont.
The Damnation of Faust,
first performed in 1846 and based
on Goethe's Faust, is a work
described as a "legende dramatique"
by which French composer?
Could be Berlioz. Seems
like the kind of thing he might do.
OK, nominate Tindall. Berlioz.
Berlioz is correct.
What is the English title
of Goethe's poem Der Zauberlehrling?
It's also the title of a symphonic
poem by Paul Dukas.
Well, "zauber" is clean.
OK. Making Clean? Cleaning?
I mean, you're the one who does
German. No, I don't know.
Cleaning Up.
No, it's the Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Ten points for this.
The addition of which two letters
of the alphabet transforms the
name of the largest moon of Saturn
into that of the largest moon of...?
IA.
IA Titan becomes Titania, well done.
Fitzwilliam, these
bonuses are on data compression.
What adjective is applied to
forms of non-destructive data
compression that allow
the processes to be reversed,
recreating the original data
exactly?
Zipped? Encrypted?
I think it's an adjective.
Zipped. Zipped.
No, it's lossless compression
or bit preserving.
Using an adaptive method
based on the encoding of sequences
of data previously encountered,
the LZ77 algorithm for lossless data
compression was created by which two
Israeli computer scientists?
Name your favourite two Israeli
computer scientists!
We can't name one Israeli
computer scientist.
Lempel and Ziv.
Five points for this then.
What term denotes lossless
compression in which
blocks of matching data values
are stored as the value and account?
It is abbreviated to RLE.
Real Lossless Encryption?
Real Lossless Encryption.
No, it's Run Length Encoding.
Ten points for this.
What Biblical structure links
an unfinished
oratoria by Arnold Schoenberg,
a stepped path up the side of
the Cheddar Gorge...?
Tower of Babel.
No, you lose five points. ..and
a perennial with a binomial...?
Jacob's Ladder. Correct.
You get a set of bonuses, this time,
Fitzwilliam, on football.
Of the 12 clubs that competed in the
first English Football League season
in 1888-89, six played their home
matches on grounds in which
historic county?
There are a lot of clubs
in Lancashire.
So...? Lancashire.
Lancashire is correct.
A club from which Lancashire town
competed in the first
Football League season, but went out
of business just seven years later?
A different
club from the same town was
promoted into the
Football League in 2006.
Accrington?
No, no.
I think Accrington Stanley did
come into the league recently.
The league... I'm going
with Accrington.
Accrington. Correct.
In addition to Accrington,
the other founder league clubs
based in Lancashire in 1888 included
Everton and Preston North End.
Can you name two of the other three?
OK, so it would be Blackburn Rovers,
presumably. And Liverpool?
Try Liverpool?
Blackburn Rovers and Liverpool.
No, it's Bolton Wanderers
and Burnley who are the other ones
apart from Blackburn Rovers.
Right, we're going to take
a music round now.
For your music starter, you're going
to hear a piece of popular music.
For ten points,
I want you to tell me
the name of the artist
you can hear singing.
# Grips on your legs
Front way, back way... #
Drake.
It is Drake. Yes.
His One Dance is a notable example
of a song that employs the dembow
rhythm, a musical feature that
originates from Jamaican dancehall.
For your music bonuses, three more
pieces of music that have been
influenced by Jamaican dancehall and
have made use of the dembow rhythm.
Five points for each
artist you can name.
Firstly, name either of the artists
listed as collaborating
on this track.
# Hypnotised, pull another one
# It's all right
I know what you want
# Get the vibe
It's gonna be lit tonight
# No lie
# Feels how we do it
No lie... #
Nominate Howe. Rihanna?
No, it's Sean Paul and Dua Lipa.
Secondly, name any one of the three
artists listed on this song.
DANCEHALL INFLUENCED TRACK PLAYS
Nominate Howe.
DJ Snake?
That's correct.
Mo and Major Lazer were the others.
Finally, name this solo artist.
DANCEHALL INFLUENCED BEAT
Justin Bieber. Yeah, Justin Bieber.
Justin Bieber.
Indeed, yes!
Said wonderfully disdainfully!
Right, ten points for this.
Who is this?
Born in Switzerland in 1879,
his work as an artist was influenced
by Expressionism, Surrealism...?
Paul Klee.
Paul Klee is correct.
Three bonuses on the French author
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin,
better known as George Sand.
The pen name George Sand first
appeared on which 1832 novel,
in which a wife
struggles for independence?
It shares its name with a
US state on Lake Michigan.
Nominate Parkin.
FRENCH ACCENT: Indiana.
Er, Indiana.
Indiana is correct.
In 1838, Sand began a liaison
with which composer?
She said that he made a single
instrument speak
a language of infinity.
Chopin. Correct.
An autobiographical work by Sand
tells of a winter spent with
Chopin on which Balearic island?
The author Robert Graves
is buried there.
Majorca, Minorca...
Which one do you reckon?
Er, Minorca.
No, it's Majorca. Bad luck.
Ten points for this.
Cladonia rangiferina,
or reindeer moss,
is an example of what form of
organism, consisting of a symbiotic
association between a fungus
and an algae or cyanobacterium?
Lichen.
Lichen is correct.
Your bonuses are on Africa.
In each case, name all
of the countries whose territories
lie on the shortest straight
line between the cities named,
including those at the start
and the end of the route.
Firstly, Casablanca and Tripoli.
Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria.
Yeah, it would go through Tunisia.
So, Morocco...
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia... Libya.
OK, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia,
Libya. Correct.
Secondly, Addis Ababa
and Dar es Salaam.
Ethiopia... Kenya, Tanzania.
Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, OK.
Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania.
Correct. Finally Monrovia and Accra.
Liberia, Sierra Leone... No,
other side. Is that the other side?
Liberia... Togo...
Cote d'Ivoire.
This is quite a lot of countries.
No, it's just Liberia,
Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana.
Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana.
Correct.
Right, ten points for this.
Which British political party was
formed in 1934 by the merger
of two earlier bodies?
It has its headquarters
at Gordon Lamb House.
The Scottish National Party.
Correct. Oh, is it? Oh, right!
APPLAUSE
Your bonuses are on physiology,
Magdalen.
In addition to the thyroid hormones,
which hormone plays a role
in calcium homeostasis and
is secreted by the thyroid gland?
Er...
Anyone?
We have no idea.
That's calcitonin, apparently.
Thyroid hormones are synthesised
from iodine and which amino acid?
What are amino acids?
Let's say glycine. Glycine.
No, it's tyrosine.
Secretion of thyroid hormones
is regulated by TSH.
What two-word term denotes
the specific endocrine gland
that secretes TSH?
Uh... Pituitary?
Might be, might be.
Go for that.
Pituitary gland.
It's, no, it's the
anterior pituitary gland.
I needed both words. Oh, right.
Ten points for this.
In physics, what term is used
to describe quantities
such as weight, force,
velocity and acceleration...?
Vector? Vector is right.
APPLAUSE
Your bonuses are on 17th and
18th century philosophers.
In each case, identify the person
from the English titles
of their works.
Firstly, An Essay Towards
A New Theory Of Vision
and Three Dialogues
Between Hylas And Philonous.
Oh, no.
LAUGHTER
Oh, is...? Is it Berkeley?
Try it.
Berkeley? Correct.
The Monadology, secondly,
the Theodicy,
and the Discourse On Metaphysics.
Oh...
Any ideas?
I've got Locke in my head,
for some reason.
We could say...
No, that's not
18th and 19th century.
Oh, 19th century...
Um...OK, Locke.
No, it's Leibniz.
And finally, the
Principles Of Cartesian Philosophy
and the Ethics.
Must be...
Spinoza.
Spinoza is right.
Ten points for this.
APPLAUSE
Name either of the two French
rivers that may precede the word
maritime in the names
of administrative departements.
Rhone.
No, you lose five points.
Anyone want to buzz from...?
Seine.
Seine is one,
and the other one is Charente.
APPLAUSE
So you get the points.
Your bonuses are on an insect.
Imitative in origin, what
common name is given to insects
in the family Gryllidae
of the order Orthoptera?
Species include ant-loving
and sword-bearing.
Beetles? Go for it.
Beetle.
No, they're crickets.
Divided into chapters called chirps,
The Cricket On The Hearth
is a Christmas novella
of the 1840s by which author?
Dickens.
Correct.
Published in his first collection
in 1817,
On The Grasshopper And The Cricket
is a work by which English poet?
Any ideas?
Um...1817...
1817, what would that sound like?
Say a name.
Browning?
Browning? No, it's Keats.
We're going to take a picture round.
For your picture starter,
you'll see a painting. Ten points
if you can identify the artist.
Vermeer. Vermeer is right, yes.
APPLAUSE
That painting was stolen in 1990
and remains missing.
It was one of the earliest major
acquisitions by the US art patron
and collector
Isabella Stewart Gardner.
Your picture bonuses are three more
works from Gardner's collection
which can still be
seen in Boston today.
Five points for each artist you
can identify. Firstly...
Oh, what does that look like?
I think this is, like...
It looks like...
I think it's a Spanish artist.
Yeah... I think...
We can say Goya? Go for it.
Goya?
No, that's by John Singer Sargent.
Gardner was a friend
and patron of his. Secondly...
So this is, like, really old.
Very old.
Do you have any ideas?
THEY CONFER
Giotto?
No, that's by Fra Angelico.
Gardner was the first to introduce
Fra Angelico's work to the US.
And finally...
Is that Botticelli? Hmm...
I would... Go for it. Right.
Might not be. Botticelli?
It was Botticelli. That was the
first Botticelli...
Ten points for this. What vowel
links the Swahili word for freedom,
an official language of Pakistan
and the giant monolith known...?
U?
U is correct.
APPLAUSE
Your bonuses are on place
names this time.
In each case, name the town or
city from the description.
All three names begin with
the same two letters.
Firstly, a city in south-west
Germany, the location of the tallest
church steeple in the world,
and the birthplace of Einstein.
Ulm.
Correct. Secondly, a city on the
River Volga,
formerly known as Simbirsk.
It was renamed in 1924 after
the family name of Lenin
who was born there in 1870.
Oh! Ulyanov, isn't it? Go for it.
Ulyanov?
Ulyanovsk was the name of the town.
And finally, a town in South
Lakeland, close to Morecambe Bay.
The comedian Stan Laurel was
born there in 1890.
Ooh, no!
Ah, no! Don't say that.
Um, Ulthorpe.
No, it's Ulverston. Ah!
Ten points for this.
From an Algonquian language,
what five-letter word denotes
the largest extant
member of the deer family?
In North America it's a nickname for
a person of unusual size
or strength.
Fitzwilliam, Howe. Moose?
Moose is correct.
APPLAUSE
These bonuses are on a writer,
Fitzwilliam.
First published in 1857, two years
after its author's death,
The Professor is a novel by which
literary figure?
Is that Charlotte Bronte?
She's... Cos she wrote one
originally, didn't she,
and scrapped it?
I'll go with that.
Charlotte Bronte?
Correct.
Like The Professor, Charlotte
Bronte's novel Villette draws on her
experiences of teaching English in
the 1840s in which European country?
France, Switzerland?
Shall we try Switzerland?
Switzerland?
No, it's Belgium. Which Victorian
novelist wrote the biography
The Life Of Charlotte Bronte,
also published in 1857?
Ooh, goodness me.
That doesn't ring a bell.
George Eliot, that's more...
Come on!
Eliot? No, it's Mrs Gaskell.
We've got about three
and a half minutes to go.
Ten points for this.
Referring to a centre for the
robotic exploration of the solar
system, the letters JPL...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
That's correct, yes.
APPLAUSE
Your bonuses now are on Greek
civilisation, Fitzwilliam.
Meaning "great Greece", what Latin
term refers to the
regions of southern Italy that were
colonised by Greek settlers from
the eighth century BC?
Nominate Tindall. Magno Graecia?
Magna Graecia, yes.
The wrestler Milo,
reputed to have won events at six
Olympic games, was a native of
which city of Magna Graecia, located
in the modern region of Calabria?
Calabria's...
There's Reggio-Calabria.
Reggio?
No, it's Crotone. And finally,
denoting a person with a fondness
for luxury or pleasure, what term is
derived from the name of an ancient
city of Magna Graecia,
lying on the Gulf of Taranto?
Syracuse, is that...? No, that's in
Sicily. Oh, er, Sybarite.
Sybarite, yeah. Sybarite?
Sybarite is correct.
Ten points for this.
Arms And The Man I Sing is John...
Fitzwilliam, Tindall!
The Aeneid?
The Aeneid is correct! Yes.
APPLAUSE
These bonuses are on birthplaces of
British monarchs.
George II was born in 1683 in
the Schlossel Castle
at Herrenhausen in
which German city?
I don't know that.
I'd say Hanover, but
that's... Hanover?
Correct. George VI, born in 1895, is
the only British monarch to have
been born at which royal residence?
Balmoral?
No, it's Sandringham. And, finally,
two British monarchs were born at
Buckingham Palace.
For five points,
name either of them.
I think she was born... We could
try it. Elizabeth II?
No, it's William IV and Edward VII.
Ten points for this.
Listen carefully.
In terms of internet country codes,
if Comoros is kilometre,
what metric unit is Madagascar?
Metre?
No. Anyone want to buzz from
Magdalen? Milligram?
Milligram is correct, yes.
APPLAUSE
Your bonuses are on asteroids
classified according to their
spectral class.
Discovered in 1849, firstly,
which is the largest of the dark,
C-type asteroids?
It shares its name with the Greek
goddess of health.
THEY CONFER
Come on! Um, Sairwees.
No, it's Hygeia.
With a diameter of roughly 200km,
what is the largest known M-class
asteroid?
It's named after a lover of Cupid
in classical mythology.
Is that Psyche? Psyche?
Correct. What S-type asteroid was
the fifth to be discovered and
shares its name with the
mythological virgin goddess of
purity?
Um, Vester?
No, it's Astraea.
Ten points for this.
In birds, what is produced
by the organ called the syrinx?
The call?
I'll accept that, yes, it's the song
or the sound.
APPLAUSE
Right, you get a set of bonuses on
Scotland. In each case,
give the council area whose name
corresponds to the following.
First, the noble title
of John Graham of Claverhouse,
a Jacobite general killed at the
battle of Killiecrankie in 1689?
Marr? There was certainly a Marr.
Let's try Marr.
No, it's Dundee.
Secondly, the government
commander at the 1715 battle
of Sheriffmuir, followed by the
Prime Minister at the end...
GONG
APPLAUSE
And at the gong, Magdalen College,
Oxford have 155,
but Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
have 200.
APPLAUSE
Bad luck, Magdalen,
you were very entertaining.
You can always get a job doing
voiceover, any of you, I'm sure.
Fitzwilliam,
many congratulations to you.
We shall look forward to seeing
you in the quarterfinals.
Congratulations.
I hope you can join us next time
for the last of the second round
matches,
but until then, it's goodbye
from Magdalen College, Oxford.
Bye-bye. Goodbye. Bye.
It's goodbye from Fitzwilliam
College, Cambridge. ALL: Goodbye.
And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
