APPLAUSE
Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
Hello. Two teams are preparing to
shake their intellectual
tail feathers again tonight.
Whichever puts on the better
display will end up in the
quarterfinals while their rivals
will fly off home.
The School of Oriental
and African Studies lost their
first round match to
Wolfson College, Cambridge,
on a tie-break question,
but then convincingly beat
Durham University in the playoffs
with a score of 270 to a mere 85.
They knew about stereotypes,
cyberspace and species of the loris,
and in the bonuses had clean sweeps
on Roman history, the novel
Hard Times, and the poster as art.
With an average age of 44,
let's meet them again.
Hello, I'm David Bostock,
I'm from Cheltenham,
and I'm reading for a Masters in
South-East Asian Studies.
Hello, I'm Magda Biran-Taylor,
originally from Harrow,
and I'm also reading for a Masters
in South-East Asian Studies.
And this is their captain...
Hi, I'm Henry Edwards,
I'm from London,
and I'm reading for an MA in
Near and Middle Eastern Studies.
Hi, I'm Odette Chalaby,
I'm from London,
and I'm also reading for an MA in
Near and Middle Eastern Studies.
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The team from Emmanuel College,
Cambridge quickly dug themselves
into the minuses in their
first round match against the
University of Nottingham,
and were trailing for much of
the contest, but managed to
pull away in the dying minutes and
won by 175 points to 135.
They struggled with The Forsyte Saga
but they were better on
Iris Murdoch and Ian McEwan,
and much better again on
the works of George RR Martin.
With an average age of 22,
let's meet the Emmanuel team again.
Hi, I'm Tom Hill, I'm from London,
and I'm reading History.
Hello, I'm Leah Ward, I'm from
Oxfordshire, and I'm reading Maths.
This is their captain...
Hello, my name's Bobby Seagull,
I'm from East Ham in the
London borough of Newham,
and I'm studying for a
Masters in Education,
specialising in Maths.
Hi, I'm Bruno, I'm from Wandsworth
in South West London,
and I'm studying Physics.
APPLAUSE
Right, let's not waste any
time with the rules.
Let's just get on with it.
Fingers on the buzzers,
here's your first starter for 10.
Arnold Smith, Don McKinnon
and Sonny Ramphal,
representing Canada, New Zealand
and Guyana respectively,
are among the former
Secretaries-General of which...?
BUZZ
Erm, Nato.
Er, I'm afraid you lose five points.
Of which organisation?
BELL RINGS
The Commonwealth.
Correct.
APPLAUSE
Right, SOAS, your first set
of bonuses are on two-word terms
whose first citation in the OED
dates to the First World War.
Identify each term from the
description. Firstly...
Now used primarily in a metaphorical
sense, a term that appeared in
a British Medical Journal article
in 1915 noting that
"a Belgian officer was the victim."
Shellshock? Correct.
Secondly, the part of
a mechanical dial corresponding to
recommended or safe conditions.
It's also used for an area that is
safe for forces to occupy
during a military conflict.
THEY CONFER QUIETLY
Green zone?
Correct. Also used as a
synonym for midnight,
more generally the time when
an important event such as
a military operation is
due to begin.
Zero hour.
Zero hour?
Correct. Another starter question...
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Answer promptly.
From the 1890s to the 1960s, several
British politicians served in
three of the four great
offices of state.
Name the two who served in
the three offices of
Home Secretary, Chancellor
and Prime Minister?
Both were prominent figures in the
Liberal landslide of 1906.
BELL RINGS
Churchill and Asquith?
Correct.
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Your bonuses are on novels.
The title in each case is
a short pronoun.
Firstly, which Booker longlisted
novel by David Nicholls
centres on the marriage between
the arts administrator Connie
and the scientist Douglas as they
embark on a grand tour of Europe?
Us? Correct.
Secondly,
Yevgeny Zamyatin's works include
which dystopian novel of 1924,
which was itself an influence on
Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four?
I need the English title.
We? Correct.
And, finally, which 1986 novel by
Stephen King features
a shape-shifting monster
whose different forms include
a clown called Pennywise?
It? Correct.
APPLAUSE
Ten points for this.
Which EU member state includes
historical regions known in English
as Courland and Semigallia?
It's principal river is
the Daugava, or Western Dvina,
which flows into an inlet of
the Baltic.
BELL RINGS
Finland?
Anyone like to buzz from Emmanuel?
BUZZ
Estonia? No, it's Latvia.
Another starter question. In
physics, what is the significance of
the number 299,792,000?
BUZZ
The speed of light?
In a vacuum, yes, that's right.
APPLAUSE
You get a set of bonuses on physics,
Emmanuel College.
Which Nordic physicist
gives his name to a radius
equal to about 5.3 x 10
to the minus-11 metres, related to
the mean distance of an electron
in its lowest energy state
from the nucleus of a hydrogen atom?
Bohr.
Bohr is correct.
Also known as gyroradius,
the radius of gyration of a charge
particle in a magnetic field is
sometimes known by the name of which
British physicist, born in 1857?
Physicist... I think, Dirac...
I thought it was the...
Dirac's much later. Is it Max, Max,
Maxwell? No. Rutherford? Sorry?
Rutherford? He was born in New
Zealand. Erm, British physicist...
Er... Who else could there be?
Er, just say Dirac. Ah! Dirac?
No, it's not Paul Dirac,
it's Joseph Larmor.
And finally, which German physicist
gives his name to the
critical radius that must be
exceeded if light is to be able
to escape from a gravitating body?
Is it British? German. German?
Oh, erm... Einstein, could it be?
No, er, it's...
As in... In black holes, it's...
German... No. Einstein,
do you have anything else?
Er...
Sure, say Einstein. Erm, Einstein?
The answer's Schwarzschild radius.
OK, ten points for this.
In geography, what six-letter term
identifies the lesser circle
on which one would be standing
if at the Summer Solstice
the sun reaches...?
BUZZ
Cancer?
No, you lose five points - the sun
reaches the zenith.
BELL RINGS
Asimov?
No, it's a tropic.
Right, ten points for this.
Subtitled The History Of A Young
Lady, which epistolary novel
by Samuel Richardson is often
cited as the longest...?
BUZZ
Clarissa? Correct.
APPLAUSE
Your bonuses are on people
associated with the city of Leeds.
In each case, identify the person
from the wording on the
Leeds Civic Trust blue plaque.
Firstly, a committed Christian.
In 1953, she established the
foundation that bears her name.
The international charity
devoted to the relief of suffering
and giving affection to the unloved,
regardless of age, race or creed.
Like, Sue Ryder?
Could be. Any other names, no?
Sue Ryder?
Correct.
Which Frenchman is this?
Quote - "In 1888, he patented a
one-lens camera with which
"he filmed Leeds Bridge.
"These were probably the world's
first successful moving pictures."
So, like, a guy called Daguerre,
but he's French...
Just go for it. Er, Daguerre?
No, he was mainly associated with
still photographs.
No, it's Le Prince.
And finally, the great
propagandist of Victorian values
through his books Self-Help,
Character, Thrift and Duty,
inspired by his lectures
to Leeds working men in 1845.
I don't know,
Keir Hardie is the person...
Hardie, yeah, er... I don't know.
Shall we go for that? Er, Hardie?
No, it's Samuel Smiles.
We're going to take a
picture round now.
For your picture starter,
you're going to see the name of an
Ancient Greek thinker, written in
the modern Greek alphabet.
Ten points if you can identify
the thinker.
BUZZ
Archimedes. Correct.
APPLAUSE
Now, following on from Archimedes,
you're going to see the names now
for your bonuses of
three more Ancient Greek thinkers
and writers all written in the
modern Greek alphabet.
For five points each, I'd like you
to identify them. Firstly...
Xenophon. Xenophon.
Correct. Secondly...
Erm, Heraclitus. Heraclitus.
Correct, and thirdly...
Pythagoras. Yep. Pythagoras.
Well done.
APPLAUSE
Ten points for this starter
question.
Which French sociologist developed
the concept
of collective consciousness to
describe how
all members of society are united
in a single system of values?
BUZZ
Er, Durkheim?
Durkheim is correct.
APPLAUSE
Emmanuel, your bonuses are on
Shakespeare's sonnets this time.
In each case, give the words
missing from these lines.
In Sonnet 116, what two words
complete the opening lines,
"Let me not to the marriage of
true minds admit impediments
"Love is not love
which alters when it..."
Alteration finds. Yes.
Alteration finds. Alteration finds.
Correct.
From Sonnet 130, what two words
complete the first line,
"My mistress' eyes are
nothing like..."?
The sun. The sun.
Yes, and finally,
what two words complete
the first lines of Sonnet 29 -
"When in disgrace
with fortune and..."?
Don't know this. No.
And despair.
No, it's "men's eyes."
Ten points for this.
In physiology, what term denotes
the propulsive movement of the
gastrointestinal tract, consisting
of coordinated waves of...?
BUZZ
Peristalsis?
Yes.
APPLAUSE
These bonuses are on plant names,
Emmanuel College.
Derived from the Latin meaning
"to twist the nose",
what name has been given to
a form of edible cress
with a pungent smell,
and to the flowering plant
Tropaeolum majus?
Er, Tropaeolum is sunflower, erm,
so is it just...?
But wait, sunflowers aren't edible.
Wait, wait, what's the...?
Heliotrope? Related to cress,
it said. Related to cress. Dill?
Twist the nose, that's Latin. So
what should I say? What could it be?
Rhincus is nose, or no, Latin, it
would be nasus. Nasus, go for that?
Delphinium, I don't know.
Erm, delphinium.
No, it's nasturtium, as in
"nasus tortus".
And secondly, originally grown for
animal fodder and for seeds
that were prepared as a vegetable
dish,
the name of which plant comes
from the Latin for "wolf-like"?
Wolf-like, ooh...
That's lupin, yeah.
Just lupin, yeah? Just lupin, yeah.
Yeah? Yeah. Lupin.
Correct. Which herb was used by the
Ancient Greeks as a burnt offering
and derives its name from the Greek
for sacrificial incense?
Insects, like, is that...?
Incense.
Incense, yeah?
No, no. No. I was just...
Is it like "otra", like,
something otra...?
THEY CONFER
Incense. Incense, oh, not insect!
We're all trying to explain to you.
No, erm... Do you have
anything sensible? Anything?
Rosemary. Rosemary? No...
OK, fine, just say rosemary.
Rosemary?
No, it was thyme.
Ten points for this.
Carmen et error,
meaning a poem and a mistake,
is an enigmatic explanation
given by which Roman...?
BELL RINGS
Ovid. Ovid is right.
Degraded as the reason for
his exile.
These bonuses, SOAS, are on India.
Slightly larger than England,
the state of Chhattisgarh was
formed in 2000 from south-eastern
districts of which state?
Rajistan? No, erm...
Could it be...Uttar Pradesh?
Try it. Uttar Pradesh?
No, it's Madhya Pradesh.
Secondly, a little smaller than
Scotland, Jharkhand borders
Chhattisgarh to the north-east,
and was formed in 2000 from
southern districts of which state?
Try again. Uttar Pradesh?
Uttar Pradesh? No, that was Bihar.
And finally, a little larger
than Scotland and Wales combined,
the inland state of Telangana was
formed in 2014 from western
districts of which state?
The city of Hyderabad continues
to be the capital of both states.
Andhra Pradesh.
Correct. Right, another
starter question now.
What animal appears in the title of
the 2011 book by the Swedish
behavioural scientist
Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin?
The book aims to help the parents of
young children at bedtime.
BUZZ
Tiger?
Er, no.
Anyone like to buzz from SOAS?
BELL RINGS
Bear?
It's a rabbit, Roger the Rabbit.
Ten points for this,
listen carefully.
Two non-continuous countries each
share borders with five
countries whose names end in "stan".
For 10 points, name either.
BELL RINGS
Iran and Pak... India.
No.
Emmanuel, one of you buzz.
BUZZ
Er, China?
China is one, the other one is
Uzbekistan, well done.
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Your bonuses are on
dairy farming in the UK.
Using figures from the RSPCA
and the information website AHDB,
or Agriculture and
Horticulture Development Board.
Firstly, the number of
dairy cows in the UK
has remained fairly constant
over the past few years,
and is close to the population of
which of the constituent parts,
or home nations, of the UK?
So, 40 million's about England,
Wales about, maybe,
a couple of million, Northern...
Scotland, maybe?
Scotland, five million?
Five million? It seems...
Yeah? I don't know.
OK, why not? Scotland.
No, it's Northern Ireland.
Secondly, what was the average milk
yield per cow per annum in 2013-'14?
You can have 1,000 litres
either way. So, per cow.
So, cow, 365 days,
how many would it do in a day?
Like, one, two litres, three litres
per day? 1,000? Depends on the cow.
Yeah! To the nearest 1,000, yeah?
Yeah. So let's go for...
2,000? ..2,000!
You know some very lazy cows!
No, it's 7,717 litres.
And finally, raw milk is milk
that hasn't been pasteurised or
homogenised and can only be
sold directly to consumers
rather than through shops.
It's often known by what colour,
that of its foil bottle tops?
There used to be blue milk and...
Yeah, I know, but...
What colour? Yellow milk?
Is it yellow?
I don't think yellow. Red?
There used to be red bottle tops.
Gold, there's definitely gold.
Gold, there's gold tip.
OK, why not? Gold?
No, it's green.
Right, we're going to take
a music round now.
For your music starter, you'll hear
an excerpt from a piece of music.
For ten points, I'd like the name of
the composer please.
MUSIC PLAYS
BUZZ
Gershwin.
Gershwin, Rhapsody In Blue,
well done.
APPLAUSE
That 1924 version of Rhapsody In
Blue was one of the first recordings
chosen to be preserved in the
National Recordings Registry of the
US Library Of Congress.
Bonuses, excerpts from three more
recordings from the registry.
All were among the first inductees.
Five points for each
you can identify.
Firstly the singer of this song...
MUSIC: This Land Is Your Land
Oh, this is Guthrie, yeah.
# This land is your land... #
This is Woody Guthrie.
Er, Woody Guthrie?
Yes.
Secondly, the performer
and writer of this piece.
MUSIC: Koko
Duke Ellington? Is it
Charlie Parker? Charlie Parker?
I think it's Charlie Parker.
Yeah, Charlie Parker, yeah? Go for
that? Go for it. Charlie Parker?
It is Charlie Parker.
Finally, give me the name
either of the lead performer
or of the group as a whole.
MUSIC: The Message
Oh, this is...!
Grandma... Grandmaster and the
Furious...? Grandmaster Flash.
Grandmaster Flash and
the Furious Five! Yeah.
Grandmaster Flash
and the Furious Five.
Very good!
APPLAUSE
Ten points for this starter
question.
Born in New Jersey in 1909,
which physician gives her name to
a score introduced in 1952 that
provides a swift assessment
of the health of
a child immediately after birth?
BELL RINGS
Hapgar score.
Apgar is correct, yes,
Virginia Apgar.
APPLAUSE
Your bonuses are on works, SOAS,
on the shortlist of academic books
that changed the world
compiled by UK publishers in 2015.
Name the author in each case.
Firstly, the 1792 work A Vindication
Of The Rights Of Woman.
Wollstonecraft, Mary...
Yes, Mary Wollstonecraft.
Mary Wollstonecraft.
Correct. Secondly,
the 1962 work, Silent Spring.
Rachel Carson. Rachel Carson.
That was correct. Finally,
the 1949 work, The Second Sex.
Simone de Beauvoir.
Simone de Beauvoir.
Yes. Right, ten points for this.
Mirandese is an officially
recognised minority language of
which country of the European Union?
It's spoken primarily in the
north-east,
in the region around the town of
Miranda do Douro.
BELL RINGS
Spain?
Anyone like to buzz from
Emmanuel College?
Er, Italy?
No, it's Portugal. Ten points
for this.
What six-letter word links
a drama series broadcast by BBC Four
and described as "The Sweeney in the
Bonlieu", with a plane curve
that winds around a point while
moving even farther from...?
BUZZ
Spiral. Spiral is right.
APPLAUSE
Right, your bonuses are on
chromosomal proteins,
Emmanuel College.
Which protein complexes are required
for the condensation of chromosomes
to make them more compact?
Do we know? I didn't understand
any of those words.
Shall I say something? Rabisco?
Say rabisco! Rabisco!
No, it's condensins.
Similar in shape and
composition to condensins,
which protein complexes
hold sister chromatids together?
Protein complex holds chromatids...
Protein complex... Say transposons.
Yeah? Transposons?
Transposons?!
No, they're cohesins!
Separase is a protease
that helps to remove cohesin from
sister chromatids at the onset
of which mitotic phase,
thus allowing chromatid segregation.
Oh, so this is, like,
G1 or something, isn't it? I mean.
There's everything...
Anaphase? Anaphase, telephase?
Go for telephase, yeah.
Telephase? Telephase?
No, it was anaphase.
Ten points for this.
Which tree links a fictional poet in
AS Byatt's Possession,
the most prominent family in
Scott's The Bride Of Lammermoor,
and the title character of
Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier?
The ash tree? Yes.
Right, bonuses this time on
symphonic music for you,
Emmanuel College.
Completed around 1858, Richard III
is a symphonic poem
by which composer, the founder of
the Czech National School Of Music?
Smetana. Smetana.
Smetana is right.
Premiered in 1888, what was the last
of Tchaikovsky's symphonic poems
based on Shakespeare and other
literary sources?
So... Who? Other literary sources,
so it'll be somebody like...
Other literary, Hansel And Gretel...
Midsummer Night's Dream?
Midsummer Night's Dream doesn't come
from anything else, though, does it?
Yeah, cos there's a
Lope de Vega version.
OK. Go for Midsummer Night's Dream?
Midsummer Night's Dream?
No, it's Hamlet.
Which German composer wrote Macbeth,
an 1888 symphonic poem,
after Shakespeare's play?
His other works in the genre include
Don Quixote and Don Juan.
German, so there's Wagner...
What was the date? 1888.
Wagner's... I mean,
it could be Wagner or Strauss.
Wagner makes sense... I haven't
heard. I don't think it is Wagner.
Strauss the... Which one?
Richard Strauss. Richard Strauss?
Richard Strauss is correct.
We're going to take another
picture round now.
For your picture starter,
you're going to sea photograph of
a national capital.
For ten points,
I want you to identify the city.
Sofia.
No.
SOAS, one of you buzz.
Oslo. No, it's Quito.
So picture bonuses in a moment or
two. Ten points for this.
Answer promptly and give all three
of the rhyming words that mean
a young horse,
the insectivore talpa europaea,
and a rodent whose British
species...
Foal, vole and stole...
No. Sorry.
Foal, mole and vole.
Correct, yes.
I'm afraid you have to lose five
points, SOAS, for that.
You get the set of bonuses,
Emmanuel College, on Unesco cities.
The city of Quito was named as one
of the first
World Heritage Sites in 1978.
Your bonuses are three more cities
which appear
on Unesco's World Heritage list.
This time, all three are in Europe.
Five points for each one you
can identify. Firstly...
Bratislava? Bratislav... That looks
a bit like the castle, but...
Budapest?
What shall we go for, Bratislava?
Go for Bratislava.
Skopje, maybe?
Try Bratislava.
Bratislava?
No, that's Toledo. Secondly...
Toledo. Oh, my God, it is Toledo.
It's like Salzburg or Vienna.
It looks quite Austrian.
Is it Austrian? Sound Of Music.
Salzburg?
No, that's Luxembourg City.
Finally...
Need to go there.
Is that Bath? Bath? Yeah, that is.
I think it does look like Bath.
Crescents.
OK, we're going closer to home.
We think it's Bath.
It is Bath, yes.
Ten points for this.
What term did the Italian Marxist
Antonio Gramsci adopt...?
Cultural hegemony.
Yes, that's correct. All we needed
was hegemony, but you got it.
You get a set of bonuses,
this time on the 19th century.
In each case, give the precise year
in which the following occurred.
All three questions have
a six-word clue to
a year that ends in the number 6.
Firstly, Democrat Van Buren
beats Whig Harrison.
'56, '46? No, no,
no, it was much earlier.
So '36?
I think '26. Really?
I think '26, cos...
1826. Just '26, yeah, not '36?
We'll go for '26. '26.
No, it was 1836.
Second Opium War, Britain
bombards Canton.
It's definitely '56.
'56.
1856 is right.
Germany and Britain
partition East Africa.
Ooh. It must be '86
because the Conference of Berlin was
around then.
'86.
1886 is right.
Ten points for this.
Which pre-20th-century composer is
associated with the
soundtracks of the 1967 Swedish
film Elvira Madigan...?
Mozart. Mozart is correct, yes.
Your bonuses are on film directors
of the silent era.
Born in Vienna in 1885,
which director is especially noted
for the 1924 film Greed?
In Jean Renoir's 1937 film,
La Grande Illusion,
he plays a German prison camp
commandant.
Von Stroheim. Correct.
Which US director's films include
Our Daily Bread and The Crowd?
He's perhaps best known for the 1925
anti-war film The Big Parade.
Pass. It's King Vidor.
Intolerance, Orphans Of The Storm,
and Birth Of A Nation are
works by which director born in
Kentucky in 1875?
DW Griffith. Correct.
Ten points for this. Answer as soon
as your name is called.
In Chemistry, what is the oxidation
state of nitrogen in nitric acid?
Em...five.
Specifically? Plus five.
Plus five, of course, yes.
Right, your bonuses this time,
Emmanuel College,
are on French Literature.
In each case, identify the
Nobel Laureate
from the list of their works.
Fruits Of The Earth,
The Counterfeiters,
and The Pastoral Symphony are works
by the 1947 winner.
Name?
Like, Camus... What are we talking
about? French Nobel winner, 1947.
Camus? It's not Camus.
Roland? Come on,
let's have it, please.
Roland?
No, it's Andre Gide.
Secondly, The Stranger, The Plague
and The Fall are works by...
Camus. Correct.
Finally, The Interrogation,
The Giants
and Ritornello Of Hunger,
works by the 2008 winner.
The one you mentioned on the train.
LAUGHTER
No, she was German, wasn't she?
Oh, of course.
Muller, Herta Muller.
No, that was 2009.
Let's go for another German name.
No, no, no, it wasn't.
Why are we...? 2008.
2008, no.
What nationality?
It's entertaining seeing you try to
recall what you said on the train...
Schmidt.
..but it's not getting us anywhere.
It's Le Clezio.
Ten points for this.
Name either of the two continuous
inland US states admitted to
the union in 1792 and 1796.
They share a border of more than 400
miles along an almost straight line.
Tennessee.
Correct, yes. Kentucky
is the other one. Well done.
Right, your bonuses this time are on
the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.
By the Versailles Treaty,
Germany ceded the districts of
Malmedy and Eupen to which country?
(Belgium.) Belgium.
Correct. Germany also lost much of
West Prussia and Upper Silesia.
These territories came under the
rule
of which newly independent state?
(Poland.) Poland.
Correct. Following a plebiscite,
northern Schleswig rejoined
which country?
(Denmark.) Denmark.
Correct. Ten points for this.
Her novels are the maxims of
La Rochefoucauld set in motion.
GONG
APPLAUSE
At the gong, SOAS have 130, Emmanuel
College, Cambridge, have 195.
Well, you did pretty well, SOAS,
so there's no shame in going out
with 130 points.
But we have to say goodbye to you.
Emmanuel College, congratulations.
We shall look forward to seeing you
in the quarterfinals of the contest.
Congratulations. Thank you.
I hope you can join us next time for
another second round match,
but until then,
it's goodbye from the School Of
Oriental And African Studies.
ALL: Goodbye.
It's goodbye from
Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
ALL: Goodbye.
And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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