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Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
Hello. 12 teams are already through
to the second round
of this competition,
and tonight's winners
will join them.
The losers could get one more
chance to qualify
if their score is among
the four highest losing scores
and we now know that a losing score
of 150 or more
will guarantee entry
to the play-offs.
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,
was founded in the mid-14th century
to replenish a priesthood ravaged
by the effects of the Black Death.
Since, well, it's evolved into
one of the university's smaller
but wealthier colleges.
Alumni include the playwright
Christopher Marlowe,
the writers John Cowper Powys
and Christopher Isherwood,
and the actor Hugh Bonneville.
Tonight's team have an average age
of 19
and represent a student body
of around 470.
Let's meet the Corpus team.
Hi, I'm Tristan Roberts
from Amersham in Buckinghamshire
and I'm studying Physics.
Hi, I'm Kripa Panchagnula
from Hemel Hempstead
in Hertfordshire
and I'm studying Natural Sciences.
And this is their captain.
Hi, I'm Joseph Krol.
I'm from Bingley in West Yorkshire
and I'm studying Maths.
Hello, I'm Benedict McDougall.
I'm originally from London
and I'm studying Classics.
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Now, St Anne's College, Oxford,
was founded as
The Society of Home-Students
by a group of radical Victorians
to provide a means
for women to study at Oxford without
the expense of living in a college.
It received its Royal Charter
in 1952
and on its centenary in 1979
it began to admit men.
Alumni include the novelists
Iris Murdoch, Penelope Lively,
Helen Fielding and Zoe Heller
and the conductor Sir Simon Rattle.
With an average age of 22,
let's meet the St Anne's team.
Hi. I'm Ramani Chandramohan.
I'm from Canterbury in Kent
and I'm reading Classics and French.
Hi. My name is Cameron.
I'm from Fleet in Hampshire
and I study Chemistry.
And this is their captain.
Hi. I'm Kanta Dihal.
I'm from Eindhoven
in the Netherlands
and I reading for
a D.Phil in Science Communication.
Hi, I'm Andrew.
I'm from Northampton
and I'm reading
for a Masters in Earth Sciences.
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Well, you all know the rules,
so fingers on the buzzers.
Here's your first starter for ten.
Meanings of what six-letter word
include a weapon that projects
a small bomb at a high trajectory
or a bowl...?
Mortar?
Mortar is correct, yes.
You get the first set of bonuses,
then, St Anne's.
They're on rebellions
in English history.
Firstly, Robert Fitzwalter
was a leader of baronial opposition
to which king,
refusing to pay scutage
after the latter's defeat
at Bouvines?
THEY CONFER
John I? Go Richard II.
Richard II?
No, it was King John.
Secondly, executed in 1537,
the Yorkshire lawyer Robert Aske
was a leading figure
in the series of risings known
by what three-word name?
Pass.
That was the Pilgrimage Of Grace.
And finally, Robert Catesby
was the chief instigator
of which abortive rebellion
of the early 17th century?
The Monmouth Rebellion?
Monmouth Rebellion?
No, it's the Gunpowder Plot.
Ten points for this.
Born in Cordoba, the 12th-century
Islamic scholar Ibn Rushd
is noted for his works
on which ancient Greek philosopher,
neglected in the West
for more than 500 years?
Aristotle?
Aristotle is correct.
You get a set of bonuses on islands.
A little smaller than Scotland
with a population of more
than 20 million,
which Commonwealth member state
is often called "the Teardrop"
because of its distinctive shape?
Sri Lanka.
Correct.
Similar in shape to Sri Lanka
but closer in size
to the Isle of Man,
which Commonwealth member state lies
between St Vincent and Martinique?
It was the birthplace of the poet
Derek Walcott.
Oh, now, this is St Lucia.
St Lucia, yeah. St Lucia.
Correct.
Which rock off the coast
of County Cork
is known as "Ireland's Teardrop"
because it was the last land seen
by emigrants to the New World?
It gives its name to a sea area
of the shipping forecast.
Oh, um... Is it Fastnet?
Yeah. Does Fastnet work? Yeah.
Fastnet?
Correct. Ten points at stake
for the starter question.
"Nothing is so surprising
as the descriptions of his battles,
"which take up no less
than half the work
"and are supplied with so vast
a variety of incidents
"that no one
bears a likeness to another."
To which epic poem is Alexander Pope
referring in the preface
to his translation of the work?
The Iliad.
The Iliad is correct, yes.
You get a set of bonuses on physics.
Some SI-derived units are denoted
by scientists' surnames.
If, instead, the same scientist's
main given name were used,
what physical quantity
would we measure in Heinrichs?
Heinrich Hertz, so frequency.
Yes. Frequency.
Correct.
And what quantity would be
given in Nikolas?
I need a three-word term.
Is it field strength?
Field strength.
Magnetic field strength.
Correct, or magnetic flux density.
Finally, what quantity
would be given in Henris?
Henri Becquerel, perhaps?
What's a becquerel?
Radioactivity. Yeah.
Radioactivity?
Radioactivity is right.
Ten points for this.
In which English city
is the district called NOMA,
an acronym formed from its location
within that city?
Its buildings include
One Angel Square,
the headquarters
of the Co-operative Group which,
when it opened in 2013, was declared
the most environmentally-friendly
building in the world.
Brighton?
No. St Anne's?
Sheffield.
No, it's Manchester.
Ten points for this.
Sometimes called "green gold",
what is the name of the natural
or artificial alloy
of gold and silver which contains
trace amounts of copper...?
Electrum.
Electrum is correct.
Right,
a set of bonuses on popinjays.
In heraldry, a popinjay
is a stylistic representation
of which bird?
Starling?
Starling?
Starling?
No, it's a parrot.
Secondly, for five points,
the martyrdom of which
3rd-century saint
included being used as a popinjay -
in other words, as a target for
archers to practise their skills?
St Sebastian?
Correct.
"A serious writer is not to be
confounded with a solemn writer.
"A serious writer may be a hawk,
or a buzzard, or even a popinjay,
"but a solemn writer
is always a bloody owl."
These are the words of which writer,
the winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize
in Literature?
Heaney? Try it.
Heaney?
No, it Ernest Hemingway.
We're going to take
a picture round now.
For your picture starter,
you will see a map
on which four countries
have been marked.
For ten points, I want you
to tell me the decade in which
all four achieved full independence
as republics.
The 1940s.
1940s is right, yes.
For your picture bonuses again,
you're going to see three more sets
of countries that gained full
independence in the same decade.
This time, for the points,
I'll need both the decade
and the former colonial power.
Firstly...
So this is probably
going to be France.
So what decade are we looking at?
The '50s or '60s?
I'm thinking...
Well, possibly...
Yeah, I think...
'50s, I think.
I'm slightly preferring '50s.
So...France and the 1950s.
Correct. Secondly...
So, Portugal, and...
When were these independent?
Possibly the 19...
Possibly the '70s?
I don't know. Not sure.
Shall we try that? Yes.
Portugal, 1970s.
Correct.
And finally, these countries.
OK, so, this one must be Britain.
Britain, yeah. Is it?
Oh, yes, that is, yes.
Is it Britain?
Are you sure this is Britain?
Yes, yes, that is.
Yes. So... Hm...
Have we had the '60s yet?
No, we haven't. Go for that.
OK. Britain, the '60s?
That's correct, yes.
Ten points for
this starter question.
Fraternite, Egalite 1 and 2
and Liberte
are arcs within the outermost ring
of which planet?
The ring is named after
the British astronomer
John Couch Adams, who...
Neptune.
Neptune is correct.
Your bonuses are on titles that
differ only by their final word -
for example,
Star Wars and Star Trek.
In each case,
listen to the description
and give both titles.
Firstly,
a novel of 1904 by Henry James
and an influential 1890 work
by James Frazer,
later published with the subtitle
"A study in magic and religion."
So, do we know...
Did it say Henry James? Yeah.
Do we know a James work
that starts with "Golden"?
Compass?
Shall I just guess something?
Golden Hind?
Uh... I don't know. The Golden Girl?
Shall I just guess that?
Um... The Golden Girl
and The Golden Bough?
No - it was The Golden Bough.
The Golden Bowl was the Henry James
novel, though. Ah.
Right - the first novel
of Iris Murdoch,
which includes the kidnapping
of a film star dog,
and a 1947 novel by Malcolm Lowry
set in Mexico.
Is that Under The Volcano, possibly?
I don't know either.
The second one, I think,
is Under The Volcano.
Any ideas for "Under The"?
Under The Sea - how about that?
Under The Sun?
Under The Sea and Under The Volcano.
No. It's Under The Net
and Under The Volcano.
Under The Net is the Iris Murdoch.
And finally, the work by
Wilkie Collins
that features Count Fosco
and a 2016 mystery novel
by Elly Griffiths.
I don't think I know either
of these. Um...so...
The Wilkie Collins one
has to be The Moonstone.
I certainly don't...
No, I can't really think
of anything, to be honest.
The Moonstone and The...Voyager -
I don't know.
The Moonstone and the Voyager.
No, it's The Woman In White
and The Woman In Blue.
Ten points for this.
A traditional system of healing
popular in South Asia,
unani, or Arabic medicine,
has its origins in the doctrines of
which two ancient Greek physicians?
Hippocrates and Galen?
Correct.
Your bonuses, Corpus Christi,
are on Kings of the Belgians.
Having served in the Napoleonic Wars
and declined the throne of Greece,
which German prince was elected
King of the Belgians in 1831?
I need his name and regnal number.
They had a lot of Leopolds,
didn't they?
Well, they were at the fifth
by the time they...
ALL TALK AT ONC£
Could go for Leopold I,
if we're not sure. Yeah, why not?
Leopold I.
Correct.
LAUGHTER
Who succeeded Leopold II
as King of the Belgians in 1909?
He refused free passage
to the German Army in 1914
and was active in reconstruction
efforts after the war.
Again, I need his name
and his regnal number.
Anything? They had a lot of Alberts
as well. Yeah, let's try Albert.
Albert... I think they are
on the second quite recently.
Try Albert I? OK.
Albert I?
Albert I is right.
Who succeeded to the throne in 1951
on the abdication of his father,
Leopold III?
He gives his name to a major stadium
used by the Belgian national
football team.
Any idea?
Come on, you do sport! I don't know
the football stadium, though.
Uh... Any other names I can go with?
Leopold IV?
Mm...Leopold IV.
No, it's Baudouin I.
Ten points for this.
Which decade of the 19th century
saw the beginning of the building
of the present-day British Museum
to a design by Robert Smirke
and the completion of both
Thomas Telford's
Menai Suspension Bridge
and John Nash's remodelling
of the Brighton Pavilion?
1840s?
Anyone like to buzz from Corpus?
1830s?
No, it's the 1820s.
Ten points at stake
for this starter question.
At a UN summit in September 2015,
world leaders adopted 17 SDGs,
aimed at ending poverty,
fighting inequalities
and tackling climate...
Sustainable development goals?
Correct.
Your bonuses, St Anne's,
are on chemistry.
Denoted by a lower case
Greek letter, chi,
what term is defined as a measure
of the tendency of an atom to
attract a bonding pair of electrons?
Electronegativity.
Nominate Royle.
Electronegativity.
Correct.
Electronegativity
is commonly measured on a scale
devised by which US Nobel laureate,
one of the few people to win
the Nobel prize
in two different fields?
Linus Pauling. Linus Pauling.
Correct.
Finally, which halogen is
the most electronegative element?
Fluorine.
Fluorine.
Fluorine is right, well done.
Time for a music round.
For your music starter,
you'll hear a well-known piece
of classical music.
Ten points
if you can name the composer.
Rimsky-Korsakov.
Rimsky-Korsakov is correct, yes.
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The Flight Of The Bumblebee,
famously.
It's an orchestral interlude
which is based on a poem by
Alexander Pushkin.
For your music bonuses,
there are three more
extracts you're going to hear
from works inspired by Pushkin.
Simply name of the Russian
composer in each case.
First, the composer of this piece?
STRIDENT RUSSIAN OPERA
Shostakovich?
No, that's Modest Mussorgsky.
It's from Boris Godunov.
Secondly...
DRAMATIC SYMPHONY MUSIC
Tchaikovsky? No, that's Glinka.
The overture to Ruslan and Ludmila.
And finally...
MELODIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
Tchaikovsky?
That is Tchaikovsky,
the polonaise from Eugene Onegin.
Right, ten points for this.
What five-letter name is
given to the era of the
great-grandfather of the
Japanese Emperor Akihito?
Meiji.
Meiji is right, yes.
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You get three questions on the
USA in the 19th century.
Firstly for five -
and early opponent of slavery,
Elias Hicks gives his name to a
faction that emerged in the 1820s
following a schism in which
Christian group?
THEY WHISPER
The Mennonites.
No, it's the Society of Friends,
or Quakers.
Hicks' cousin Edward was prominent
in which field of artistic
expression?
His works include
The Peaceable Kingdom.
He was an artist.
Yeah, Edward Hicks, an artist?
Which field?
Which field? Paintings?
A painter?
Painting is correct, fine art, yes.
Hicksite Quakerism is regarded as
having been an influence on the work
of which poet, whose collections
include the 1855 Leaves Of Grass?
Walter Whitman.
Walt Whitman is correct.
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Right, ten points for this
starter question -
moving clockwise on a 16-point
compass rose,
how many degrees separate west
northwest from north northeast?
90?
90 is correct, yes.
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Your bonuses, Corpus Christi,
are on zoology.
In each case,
name the order of mammals -
for example, rodents -
to which the following belong.
Firstly, for five points - skunks,
raccoons, civets and walruses?
Walruses?
Oh, I can't remember.
Is it eutherians, maybe?
I have no idea,
but I shall say that. Eutherians.
No, they're carnivores.
Secondly, rabbits, hares and pikas?
So, erm...
What's the word I'm looking for?
I've known this for a while. Erm...
It's not coming.
I can't remember.
I don't know any.
Omnivores? Oh, why not?
Omnivores.
No, they're lagomorphs.
And finally, lorises, lemurs,
tarsiers and bush babies?
Primates? Yeah.
Are they...? They are primates,
aren't they? Yes...
Yes. Go for it.
Primates? Yes, they are primates.
Ten points for this -
what given name links
an Archbishop of Canterbury
executed in 1645, the discoverer
of Uranus, and the author...?
William.
William is correct, yes.
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Your bonuses are on leading ladies
in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
In each case, I need the actress
and the title of the film.
Firstly, in a film of 1960,
who plays Marion Crane,
an embezzling office worker?
What's the actress in Psycho?
Was it? Is it Leigh and...?
Shall I try that?
Janet? Janet Leigh in Psycho?
Janet Leigh in Psycho is correct,
yes.
And in the 1958 film, who is
introduced first as Madeline Elster
and later appears as Judy Barton?
The plot concerns
an attempt to deceive
and acrophobic detective,
played by James Stewart.
Who's in Vertigo? I don't know.
Shall I just guess something?
Katharine Hepburn in Vertigo?
No, it's Kim Novak in Vertigo.
And finally, who plays the socialite
Melanie Daniels in a 1963 film
set largely at Bodega Bay
in Northern California?
Is this North By Northwest?
Would that be The Birds?
Oh, The Birds, yes. So who's
in The Birds? I don't know.
Shall I just try Katharine Hepburn?
Yeah.
It really isn't,
but Katharine Hepburn in The Birds?
No, it's Tippi Hedren in The Birds.
Ten points for this - born in 1880,
which German geophysicist pioneered
the use of balloons
to track air circulation?
He's now chiefly
remembered for introducing
the concept of plate tectonics.
I'm sorry, you lose five points.
Anyone want to buzz from Corpus?
Wegener. Wegener is correct, yes.
Right, 15 points for these bonuses.
They're on time zones.
What is the largest
and most populous country
wholly within the UTC,
or universal time, +8 zone?
China is all in one time zone, isn't
it? Yes.
China? China is correct.
Which landlocked country has its own
time zone, known as NPT,
5.75 hours ahead of universal time?
Nepal.
Nepal is correct.
Which US state capital is
the most populous city
in the UTC -10 time zone?
-10? So is that...West Coast?
Did he say state capital? Yes.
Oh, is that something like mountain
time? Is that Hawaii?
Shall I try Denver, maybe?
How far is it? I don't know.
Denver? No, it's Honolulu.
Right,
time for a second picture round.
For your picture starter,
you're going to see
a painting by a Dutch artist.
10 points if you can tell me
the name of the painting?
Pandemonium?
No. Anyone like to buzz from Corpus?
The Garden of Earthly Delights.
No, it's The Temptation of
St Anthony by Hieronymous Bosch.
So we'll take the picture
bonuses in a moment or two.
Ten points at stake for this other
starter question now -
answer as soon as your name
is called.
Of the states of Australia,
how many have a total area less
than that of the UK?
Two?
Two is correct,
Victoria and Tasmania.
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OK, well, you all failed to identify
one of a number of triptychs
painted by Hieronymous Bosch
over his lifetime.
Your picture bonuses,
three more triptychs,
this time all created
in the 20th century.
In this instance,
for five points in each case,
I simply need
the name of the artist.
Firstly...
Erm... Ooh.
That looks a bit...
I don't know,
it doesn't look that Dali.
I don't know, really. Cezanne?
No, not feeling it. Any ideas?
Shall I just go with Picasso? Yeah.
Picasso?
No, that's Francis Bacon's
Three Studies for a Portrait
of Lucien Freud.
Secondly...
Do you recognise this? Erm...
Let's have it, please.
I don't know. Picasso again.
No, that's Otto Dix's Metropolis.
And finally...
Roy Lichtenstein, I presume.
Lichtenstein.
Roy Lichtenstein is right,
As I Open Fire.
Right, ten points for this
starter question -
a constituent of vitamin B12,
which ferromagnetic element...?
Cobalt. Cobalt is correct.
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Your bonuses are on a carnivore,
St Anne's.
One of the largest land carnivores,
Ursus maritimus is known
by what two-word common name?
SHE MOUTHS
Polar bear. Correct.
Churchill, the town designated the
polar bear capital of the world,
lies on a migratory route
on the Hudson Bay
in which Canadian province,
close to its border with Nunavut?
Yukon?
No, it's Manitoba.
What animal is the primary
prey of the polar bear?
Among the species it hunts
are the ringed and the bearded.
Seal. Seal is right.
Four minutes to go,
ten points for this -
"Philosophy may in no way interfere
with the actual use of language.
"It can, in the end,
only describe it."
Who made this statement in the 1953
work, Philosophical Investigations?
Wittgenstein.
Wittgenstein is right.
APPLAUSE
You get a set of bonuses
on screenplay writers.
Which English author wrote
the novella and the screenplay
for the 1949 film The Third Man?
Greene, surely? Mmm-hmm. Greene?
Graham Greene is correct.
Which American novelist wrote
the screenplay
for the 1952 film Viva Zapata!
Both the film and his earlier
short novel,
The Pearl, were set in Mexico.
Pearl, that rings a bell
for Steinbeck, for some reason.
OK, go for it. Steinbeck? Correct.
Together with the director
Stanley Kubrick,
which science-fiction author is
credited with writing the screenplay
for the 1968 film
2001: A Space Odyssey?
Arthur C Clarke.
Well done. Ten points for this -
in the SI system of units,
what prefix indicates a decimal
multiple of 10 to the 15?
Peta.
Peta is correct, yes.
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You get a set of bonuses
on India, St Anne's.
Rajasthan and Gujarat
are among Indian states
that border which country?
Pakistan. Correct.
Which country shares borders with
four Indian states,
namely Sikkim, Assam, West Bengal
and Arunachal Pradesh?
Bangladesh. No, it's Bhutan.
Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and
Himanchal Pradesh
are among states
that border which country?
Nepal. No, it's China.
Ten points for this -
what raw material is processed
at facilities at Humber, Lindsey,
Pembroke, Fawley, Stanlow and
Grangemouth?
Petroleum. Yes, it's crude oil, yes.
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So you get a set of bonuses
now on CGS units.
Derived ultimately from
a Greek word,
what is the CGS unit of force?
Erg. No, erm...
Dyne? Could be.
Dyne.
Nominate Jamieson. Dyne.
Dyne is correct.
Equal to ten to the power of six
dynes per square centimetre,
what is the CGS unit of pressure?
PSI? No.
PSI? No, it's Ba.
What three-letter term is the CGS
unit for energy or work?
Erg? Yeah.
Erg. Erg is right.
Another starter question -
which playing card was known as the
best bower, or highest trump,
when it was introduced in the
United States in the 19th century
for use in the game euchre?
The joker? The joker is right, yes.
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You get a set of bonuses
now on a year.
2016 saw the 500th anniversary
of the publication of which book,
written in two parts as a discourse
in Latin between its author
and the fictional
Raphael Hythlodaeus?
Utopia. Correct.
Which Italian city
gives its name to the
concordat agreed in 1516 by the Pope
and the King of France, giving the
latter the power to make nominations
for ecclesiastical positions?
Milan, possibly? Yeah, maybe.
Milan? No, it's Bologna.
Which future English monarch
was born in February 1516
at Greenwich Palace?
So, could this be Edward...?
No, Mary, possibly?
Mary I? It was Mary I, yes.
Ten points for this -
WH Auden's words "mad Ireland hurt
you into poetry" appear in his
elegy for which Nobel laureate who
died in the south of France in 1939?
Yeats? Yeats is right.
GONG
And at the gong,
St Anne's College, Oxford have 135,
but Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge have 225.
It's possible you could go through,
St Anne's.
We may see you again, who knows?
Corpus Christi, many congratulations
to you, that's a terrific score
and we shall look forward to seeing
you for certain in round two.
I hope you can join us next time,
but until then it's goodbye from
St Anne's College, Oxford. Goodbye.
It's goodbye from Corpus Christi
College, Cambridge. Goodbye.
And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
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