[Music] [Applause] University challenge asking the questions Jeremy Paxman [Music] hello the first round matches are done but not quite dusted four teams who lost their first matches are going to play a game for the last two places in the second round because they're losing scores were higher than the winning scores in some other fixtures the universities of Sheffield and York on 170 and 150 points respectively are playing again which leaves three teams tied on 145 Points each for the two remaining places in these playoffs we judge that the two teams who reached that score on hearing fewer questions are the ones to go through so we say goodbye to Downing College Cambridge and invite Durham University and Jesus College Oxford to play again now the team from Sheffield University dominated the first half of their first round match but then rather lost their grip on proceedings and allowed wolves and College Oxford to catch up and not only get themselves on level pegging at the gong but to snatch Victory on a tiebreak question still their score of 170 is the highest of the teams in these playoffs with an average age of 23 let's meet the Sheffield team again hi I'm Asda Lau I'm originally from chivik in West London and I'm studying for a PhD in metallurgy hi I'm Sam Kelly I'm from Seaford in East Sussex and I'm studying English literature and this is their Captain hi I'm Jonathan Newhouse I'm from Skipton in North Yorkshire and I'm studying for a masters in cognitive science hi I'm Daisy fry I'm from Kent and I'm studying politics the team from Jesus College Oxford suffered defeat at the hands of Manchester University an institution with over 70 times their number of students they're showing in the first half was a tad dismal but once they got into their stride they pulled themselves back into contention and were only 40 points behind at the gong with an average age of 21 let's meet the Jesus team again hi I'm Lucy Clark I'm originally from artist Shore in Surrey and I'm reading for a d fill in early modern history hello I'm James Cashman I'm from Guildford in Surrey and I'm studying history this is there Captain hi I'm Matt I'm originally from Wellington New Zealand and I'm studying philosophy politics and economics well everybody knows the rules by now so let's just get on with it fingers on the buses here's your first start of the ten beginning about 4. 1 billion years ago the noekian period is thought to have been a relatively warm and wet phase in the history of which planet of the solar system this period was followed by the Hesperian period notable for the eruption of lava planes Jesus cook Jupiter Mars Mars is correct yes your bonuses are on Britain in the 1960s in 1963 a campaign led by the activist Paul Stevenson succeeded in overturning a ban widely referred to as a color bar on minorities working in the partly Council owned bus service in which English City Bristol Bristol's correct which supporter of the Bristol bus boycott was re-elected as MP for Bristol Southeast after an Act of 1963 allowed him to renounce a hereditary peerage he died in 2014. I think that's Tony Ben yeah Tony Ben Tony Ben is correct and finally which conservative disclaimed an earldom and succeeded Harold MacMillan as prime minister in October 1963.
63 would that have been Eden Heath yes I'm sorry Douglas Hume it was Alec Douglas who yes so 10 points for this in which month of the year did The Following fall culture day in Japan National Independence Day in Poland the traditional Scottish quarter day of Martin Mass Veterans Day in the United States the Christian Festival of All Souls and in 2018 Jesus Clark November November is correct yes you get bonuses on a U. S rock band Jesus formed in New York in 1965 which influential rock band took its name from the title of a non-fiction work by Michael Lee about paraphilia its members included John Cale and Maureen Tucker Velvet Underground correct which german-born singer is named on the Velvet underground's eponymous debut album a single Nico is correct designed by Andy Warhol the artwork for the album The Velvet Underground and Nico featured what fruit originally in the form of a pilaf sticker banana banana is correct ten points for this what general type of geographical feature links an allegory of Education or Enlightenment in book Seven of Plato's Republic Jesus Clark the cave the cave is correct yes these bonuses are on ecology Jesus College originally an architectural term what word did the U. S zoologist Robert T Payne use to describe species that exert a major influence on their habitat and help to maintain biodiversity Keystone correct pain identified disaster ocaracius as a keystone species because it preyed on muscles that would otherwise dominate The Seashore to what general category of echinoderm does the species belong correct the reintroduction of the wolf is said to have led to an increase in beavers songbirds and willow trees in which U.
S national Park it's part of an ecosystem known by the letters g-y-e Yellowstone correct 10 points for this subjects of operas by which composer include a fifth century leader of the Huns a king of Babylon in the 6th Century BC an 11th century king of Scots a Shakespearean night Jesus Cashman at Verdi Verdi is correct yes your bonuses are on pairs of countries in which the last three letters of one name begin the name of the other for example Belarus and Russia in each case give both countries from the description two countries first off whose UNESCO world heritage sites include respectively the cultural landscape of the bamian Valley and the Serengeti National Park it's Afghanistan and Tanzania and secondly a single Island Pacific state that became wealthy from phosphate Mining and a Latin American country that legalized cannabis in 2013. um a river in Cuba no it's nauru and Uruguay and finally two present-day European countries that fought one another in the scanian war of the 1670s Sweden and Denmark correct right we're gonna put your picture around that your picture starter you'll see a sentence for ten points I want the two-word name of the font in which it's been typed Sheffield Kelly Comic Sans Comic Sans is correct yes that is one of the typefaces discussed by Simon Garfield in his book just my type under the chapter heading the worst fonts in the world your picture bonuses are three quotes from that chapter each written in the font they describe five points for each typeface you can identify firstly Papyrus Papyrus is correct secondly a two-word name here I recognize that yeah but no I don't know um okay Gothic italic no it's brush script and finally this font was created specifically for which event the London 2012 Olympics that is correct yes right 10 points for this in medicine the term glomerular filtration rate measures the function of what organ of the body Jesus Clark kidneys correct these bonuses are on a human action Jesus College in his story the mysterious stranger Mark Twain wrote that Humanity has only one really effective weapon against the assault of which nothing can stand what is it no it's laughter secondly a plaque on the wall of a London department store declares the site to be the birthplace in 1788 of which poet and includes the quotation attributed to him always laugh when you can it's a cheap medicine Byron it is Byron it's on the side of John Lewis and finally in which novel by Nietzsche does the Title Character say false be every truth which has not had laughter along with it I don't know okay full of the Gods knows thus broke Zara sustra ten points for this which decade saw the foundation of the cities of Montevideo and Baltimore the dedication of Bach's Brandenburg concertos the publication of Swift's Gulliver's Travels the collapse of the south sea company and Jesus Cashman the 1730s no you lose five points and the accession of King George II foreign forties no it's the 1720s right 10 points for this I need the name of an SI unit here what unit is used to express the physical quantity that is a homophone of a heavy item of jewelry worn around the neck and associated with Celtic civilizations in its most usual form it has the Jesus Clark talk nope you lose five points in its most usual form it has the abbreviation NM you may not confer one of you can buy Sheffield Sheffield loyal newton meters newton meters is correct which is talk of course but I want to be a scientist so you also had a bonuses this time Sheffield are on scientific terms in each case give the Arabic derived English term from the definition firstly a soft colorless mineral used in cleaning products and as a component of glass it consists of oxygen sodium hydrogen and another element whose name derives from that of the mineral absolute yeah yeah is that does that cause liquid of colorless look no it wasn't enough I thought that the acetone did that no it's borax the angle between a point on the horizon and a reference point typically due north or south along with altitude it's used as a coordinate to define the positions of celestial objects sorry no it's Azimuth and finally a systematic procedure typically followed by a computer which yields the solution to a given problem in a finite number of steps algorithm correct 10 points for this what four letters appear at the beginning of a word meaning departing from an accepted type or standard and at the end of the names of a method of producing ammonia and the leading Sheffield new house Aber correct you get a set of bonuses on Scottish football clubs now Sheffield firstly for Five Points Sir Alex Ferguson's professional career began in 1964 when he signed with witch club based in Fife they won the Scottish cup twice during the 1960s so his managerial career starting with Aberdeen which is what I thought the question would be yeah it's five East Fife no it's done firmly and athletic secondly for Five Points in 1978 what became the only Club to dismiss Alex Ferguson as manager this club's home ground is a few miles Southeast of Glasgow Airport so a few months ago so will that be one of the Glasgow teams so it's celtico Rangers or I am surely not no um um they're Edinburgh aren't they I don't know um Rangers no it's Saint Miron after Saint Miron Ferguson managed which Scottish club winning numerous trophies including the European Cup winners Cup in 1983. Aberdeen that was Aberdeen yes right time for the music rounds your music Started you'll hear a piece of classical music 10 points if you can name its composer [Music] Jesus Cashman Tchaikovsky no anyone like the bus from Sheffield you might be able to hear a bit more I feel new house Haydn by Brahms so music bonuses in a moment or two 10 points at stake for this fingers on the buzzers please which Royal Borough close to the antonine wall was the site of a defeat for William Wallace in 1298 and a victory for Charles Edward Stewart in 1746.
it is noted for Gigantic equine sculptures known as The Kelpies Jesus Clark Falkirk Falkirk is correct yes yeah right you heard a bit of brahms's academic Festival Overture there according to an official commemorative album It's regularly played at Nobel Prize ceremonies your music bonuses are three more frequent choices which apparently meet the foundation stating criteria being not too demanding and preferably well known name the composer in each case firstly [Music] uh nominate Clark smetana no it's sibelius it's a bit from The corralia Suite secondly [Music] Rossini [Music] now that's Bojack part of his slavonic dance number one and finally Greek Greek Greek is correct morning from here again so ten points at state for this similar in height to Ben Nevis howty or hautier is the highest point in which EU member State it's located in the far Northwest of the country in question Sheffield Lyle Finland Finland is correct yes so your bonuses are on the sculptor Hazel Reeves Hazel Reeves sculpture of the engineer sir Nigel Gresley was unveiled at King's cross station in 2016. the accompanying plaque states that he designed which two elegant and fast steam locomotives want them maybe uh fly Scotland 's got me yeah uh The Flying Scotsman and the mallard correct a 2012 work by Reeves depicts satico Sasaki a young girl holding a folded paper crane one of a large number of people known in Japan as hibakusha sadaku died in 1955 as a result of what event s right okay yeah the dropping atomic bomb that's correct on Hiroshima and finally December 2018 saw the unveiling in Manchester of Reeves's sculpture of which political figure born in Moss side in 1858 Emily Pankhurst correct 10 points for this you buy Pius V the papal bull regnan's in excelsis described which monarch as a usurper heretic Jesus Glock Elizabeth the first correct your bonuses are on works in the collection of the Borghese Gallery in Rome sacred and profane love is an early 16th century work by which Venetian artist petition correct bearing the date 1507 who painted the 10-figure deposition of Christ also known as the Borghese entombment he was born in central Italy in 1483. Raphael Raphael is correct you retake the lead and finally for Five Points also in the Borghese Gallery boy with fruit basket Saint Jerome writing and young sick backers are among paintings by which Italian artist in the Olympic Games what is the last event in the women's heptathlon Britain's Kelly Holmes won Gold in the individual Jesus Cashman 800 meters correct you're going to say the bonuses on dysfunctional families in television created by Mitchell hervitz which comedy series centers on the once wealthy Bluth family in the aftermath of their father's imprisonment Arrested Development correct which comedy Drma by Jill soloway revolves around the dysfunctional fiferman family with particular focus on issues of gender sexuality and Jewish identity Modern Family that's transparent according to its creator David Chase which acclaimed drama series developed from an idea for a feature film about a mobster in therapy having issues with his mother The Sopranos correct 10 points for this easy wallet what two-word hyphenated expression is an alternative to the Greek derived term poikilothermic and means having a body temperature that changes in response to ambient temperature Sheffield new house cold-blooded correct these bonuses are on mineralogy distinct from fracture or partying what term denotes the tendency of minerals such as diamonds and slate to split along planar surfaces uh purple brittle now it's cleavage exhibiting perfect cleavage and widely used in electrical components muscovite is the most common member of what mineral group I need a four-letter term please um could be I mean yeah talc no it's maker easily identifiable from its perfect cleavage in three directions Galena is the chief ore of which metal known since ancient times is that copper copper no it's lead oh right we're going to take another picture around now do a picture starter you're going to see a painting for 10 points Name the artist ah Jesus Cashman El Greco El Greco is correct yes beautiful lady the city where he spent the latter part of his life your bonuses are three more notable cityscapes this time I want you to name the city depicted in each case firstly name this city the artist lived in its Center for 40 years thanks Paris that is Paris yes that's Paris Street rainy day by kaibot secondly this city where the artist spent his whole life Antwerp no that's delft by Vermeer and finally this city where the artists lived intermittently throughout his life Oslo Oslo it is more yes for this in this abbreviated form what is the only SI unit to feature as part of the NATO spelling alphabet Phil Kelly kilo kilo is correct yes Shepherd your bonuses are on an ancient rating system from the Latin for wedge-shaped what term denotes a writing system widely used in the ancient Middle East from at least 3000 BCE canoephon correct which civilization produced the earliest attested Works in cuneiform located in the southern part of present-day Iraq it was supplanted by akad and elans yeah Sumerian correct the multilingual behestan inscription of Darius the great was significant in the deciphering of cuneiform in which present-day country is it located uh Iran it is in Iran yes give the fourth in this chronological sequence of Roman emperors galba Otto vitellius and Sheffield new house aphasian Vespasian is correct your bonuses are on words that have the same three-letter ending give each word from the description firstly a large blunt needle used for threading tape or cord in Shakespeare's Hamlet it refers to a short pointed weapon is that an old I think that's using shoemaking and stuff isn't it come on all that's a Bodkin secondly the common name of spinner spinous a small Finch with grayish green plumage and black and yellow markings that is resident in Britain yes the running kitten any birds hunting in kin sorry yeah Larkin Larkin as in the lock you mean no it's siskin thought to be from the Dutch meaning little trees or Little Barrel and unsophisticated or socially awkward person from the countryside pumpkin correct ten points for this level taking three minutes to go conventionally denoted by the Greek letter ETA and measured in Pascal seconds Which property describes the internal friction of a moving liquid viscosity viscosity is correct you take the lead and your bonuses are on Greek mythology in each case name the figure from the description all three names begin with the same two letters firstly a daughter of Uranus and Gaia she was the mother of Zeus and gives her name to the second largest moon of Saturn Ria correct secondly a ruler of Crete ousted by his brother Minos after his death he was appointed one of the judges of the Dead in the Underworld could begin with no I'm not getting anything I know Minos is one of them but um no we don't know sorry it's redomanthus and finally a nymph who married hemus the mountains that bear her name are in Bulgaria and Northern Greece mountains he's gonna begin with RH Ino no idea um no no we don't know sorry 10 points for this what surname links the authors of the following non-fiction works all published since 2006 murder in samakand the strange death of Europe and 77 my part Jesus Cashman Murray Murray is correct you take the lead with these bonuses they're on geography which U.
S state capital is situated on an isthmus between Lakes Mendota and Monona about 100 kilometers west of Lake Michigan pass it's Madison the capital of Wisconsin secondly peace Berg lies at the south of the coralian Isthmus between the Gulf of Finland and which large lake and finally the most populous of its country which city is situated on the Isthmus of Tamaki to the west of the hauraki Gulf Istanbul no it's Auckland ten points for this ah happy happy bows that cannot shed your leaves nor ever bid the spring or deer those words refer to designs on what object in an ode by John Key Jesus aggression earn the Grecian earn is correct yes [Music] your bonuses this time are on films of the 1960s [Music] [Applause] [Music] Olympic of 70.
