[Music] thank you University challenge asking the questions Jeremy Paxman [Music] hello time to stick a broom handle under the beds of students and see what's there apart from the usual horrible things now both teams playing tonight represent institutions that have won this competition in the past admittedly on the first of those occasions Harold Wilson was in number 10 about a quarter of a century before tonight's lot were even born but no doubt such Rich Heritage will spurn them both onto extraordinary things now the University of Durham is the third oldest university in England and the granting of its Royal Charter was one of the last acts of Willian IV before he died in 1837. it operates a Collegiate system but one that reflects students pastoral concerns rather than teaching and so it enters this competition as a single entity alumni include the novelist Pat Barker and Minette Walters the England cricketers Andrew Strauss and NASA Hussein the former Sunday Times editor sir Harold Evans the actor James wilby and the great helmswoman of blue Peter biddy Baxter tonight's team represents an institution that took the trophy in 1977 and 2000 with an average age of 20 playing on behalf of around 18 000 students let's meet the Durham team hello I'm Charles I'm from Sutton in Surrey and I'm studying philosophy hi my name is William I'm from Kirby's evening come here and I'm studying biosciences this is their Captain hi I'm Joe I'm from London and I'm studying chemistry hi I'm Arthur I'm from Manchester I'm studying French and German thank you Trinity College Cambridge was founded in 1546 by Henry VIII and now has the largest body of undergraduates in the University its Library designed by Christopher Wren houses a statue of the former student Lord Byron intended for Westminster Abbey before it was declined on account of his disreputable ways other parts on Trinity's list of alumni include Marvel Drden and Houseman the philosophers Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein went there as did the prime minister's Balfour and bullwin and the spies Burgess and McLean champions in 1974 and 1995 and 2014 with an average age of 21 and representing around a thousand students let's meet the Trinity team hi my name is Nadia haruhan I'm from Dublin and I'm reading English hello I'm Lillian Crawford I'm from beer student Kent and I'm reading history this is their Captain hi I'm Joseph Weber I'm originally from buryson Edmonds in Suffolk and I'm doing maths hi I'm Liam Hughes I'm originally from Cardiff and I'm also doing maths okay you all know the rules so fingers on the buzzers here's your first start of a tin in use since the Middle Ages to mean a failure to fulfill a legal obligation what seven-letter word is used in sport to refer to a win by the disqualification or withdrawal of an opponent John Cooper default correct yes the first set of bonuses are on Cave Systems Durham discovered by teenage boys in 1940 what cave system in the door doing is the location of a series of Paleolithic paintings chiefly of large animals Alaska Lasco Lasco is correct said to be capable of holding 40 Boeing 747 aircraft the Sarawak chamber is part of the mulu cave system on which large island correct The Witch's kitchen is a chamber in which series of limestone caves named after a village near wells in Somerset cheddar it's Wookie hole 10 points for this the origins of which African countries name lie in the Portuguese for River of prawns the name was given to the worry River Estuary by 15th and 16th century explorers located a few degrees north of the equator it was a German protectorate until 1916 and gained its independence from British and French Cameroon is correct right so you get a set of bonuses on sporting positions firstly which specific position in football represents the last line of defense before the goalkeeper the word in question appears in the name of a vessel that detects and destroys objects underwater sweeper sweeper is correct in cricket what is the name of the Fielding position between point and the slips it's thought to be derived from an alternative name for the esophagus Gully is correct meaning free which Italian word is used in volleyball for a specialized defensive player who is only allowed in the back row and wears a different color shirt libero libero is right yes 10 points for this what two-digit number links in Mahayana iconography the major physical characteristics of the Buddha in music the number of complete piano sonatas composed by Beethoven and in binary notation a one followed by five zeros uh Trinity Hughes 32 32 is correct you get a set of bonuses on scientific Memoirs Trinity what name for a general type of nidarian appears in the subtitle of spineless a 2017 Memoir by the U. S scientist Julie berwald jellyfish correct the name of what primate appears in the title of Diane fosse's 1983 Memoir of her researches in Rwanda gorillas correct denoting a general group of cartilaginous fish what single word completes the title of a memoir by the U.
S zoologist Eugenie Clark the lady and the no it's sharks right 10 points for this in the OED Limehouse in San Francisco appear in early citations of what word denoting a distinctive area of a city that of Manila is said to have been the earliest while other notable examples are located in Yokohama Melbourne and the area Durham Cooper Chinatown Chinatown is correct yes write your bonuses this time are on battles named after rivers in each case named the battle from the description first a battle of July 1690 in County meath between Jacobite and williamite forces yeah yeah Battle of the Boyne correct secondly a battle of 1939 between three British Cruisers and the German Admiral Graff spey it is named after an estuary in South America Battle of the River Plate correct and finally a prolonged battle from July to November 1916. it's named after a river that rises near San kanta in Piketty the battle of the Somme correct we're going to take a picture around that your picture starter I would like the name of the country whose national flag results from taking the colors that form part of the names of the three geographical locations given and placing them in the order shown sometimes island island is correct yes Greenland the White Sea and Orange County so following on from the Irish flag your bonuses are three more national flags for you to construct from the given clues in other words a color within the name of the location or feature arranged in the order shown firstly is that yellow no no um territory yeah is that white or Blue Nile white so we've got white Estonia if okay yeah go for that then Estonia correct yes the Blue Nile a black forest and the white horse secondly I don't know let's see so it's Green Park yes Green Park yeah Lithuania Lithuania that is correct Yellowstone Green Park and Red Sea and finally Belgium no it's Romania it's the Blue Ridge Mountains you missed uh the Yellow Sea Baton Rouge of course 10 points for this which prominent 19th century Russian mathematician proved Joseph betron's conjecture that a prime must exist Trinity Hughes Cheba Chef German Chef is correct yes so using a set of bonuses now on artists who were also Muses to others firstly the Parisian artist and singer Kiki de montpanas was the Muse of wish surrealist photographer in his leviolon dangra he superimposed the F holes of a violin on a study of her torso Man Ray correct who painted his fellow Impressions Berta Morrison numerous times including two Works Of 1872 depicting her with a bouquet of violets and with a fan is correct Elizabeth siddle exhibited with the pre-raphaelites and was also the model for many Works including bayata Beatrix by which member of the Brotherhood whom she married in 1860 that was Rosetti 10 points for this which century of the Common Era saw the building of the Angkor Wat Temple the Georgian invasion of the song Empire in China the establishment of the Kamakura shogunate in Japan and the founding of the Knights Templar Trinity Crawford the 14th and he would like to buzz from Durham Durham raffle 13th no it was the 12th 10 points for this the premieres of Wagner's tanhauser and gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue both occurred within the lifetime of which French composer a pupil of sansos his Works include the Opera Penelope and the orchestral piece Pavan Trinity Weber 4A 4A is correct these bonuses are on elements in the periodic table Trinity the name of which artificially produced transuranium element is derived from that of a U. S state and begins with the three-letter name of a number Tennessee Tennessee is correct used in aircraft construction which element has a name that begins with the three-letter name of birds whose species include the bearded and the blue titanium titanium's correct highly ductile and resistant to most common acids which element has a name that begins with a three-letter word meaning to convert hide into leather tantalum tantalum is Right 10 points for this comprising The Oaks quercus is the largest genus in a family of trees often known by what five letter common name the same name is also given to Fajr silvatica a tall tree that bears triangular nuts in pretty sea cases Trinity Weber no sorry Birch no you lose five points anyone like to buzz from Durham are intense Cedar there's a beach ten points for this the orchard keeper was the first novel by which U.
S author born in 1933 and known for his work in the western and southern gothic genres his Works include All the Pretty Horses Blood Meridian Trinity Harahan at Cormac McCarthy call Matt McCarthy's correct yes you get three bonuses Trinity on the architect Amanda levite with an Innovative semi-monocoque structure once described as an alarm clock on stilts Levitz works as part of future systems include the 1999 winner of the Sterling prize the media center at which cricket ground Lords it is at Lords yes levit's major projects with her own practice include the Museum of Art architecture and technology in which European Capital City likened to an oyster shell it sits at the North End of the city's 25th of April Bridge no it's Lisbon 2017 saw the completion of levite's extension to which London Museum it comprises a new underground Gallery space and a porcelain tiled Courtyard that opens onto exhibition Road the VNA correct now if you're a music starter you'll hear a piece of popular music 10 points if you can name the solo artist singing thank you everybody's doing a random Trinity Crawford Connie Minogue it is Kylie Minogue well done that was her version of The Locomotion which was co-written by Carol King one of the most prolific songwriters of the 20th century your music bonuses 3 songs written or co-written by King named the artist or the band performing in each case firstly this band now that's The Shirelles Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow secondly this artist [Music] James Taylor it is James Taylor yes you've got a friend and finally this artist [Music] from the Latin for related to what linear two-dimensional geometric transformation in mathematics preserves collinearity and ratios of distances Durham Cooper translation no anyone want to buy some Trinity Trinity Weber a conformal mapping now it's an affine transformation right ten points for this give the four-letter name of the Kingdom tradition he's said to have been formed by the union of the pits and Scots under Kenneth Durham Thames Albert Albert is correct yes you get three bonuses on scientific terms Durham from the Greek For Thread what name is given to the diverse phylum also called the round worms nematodes correct members of what phylum can produce a nematocyst a form of intracellular stinging capsule it's the only phylum to produce them um tennis Falls maybe hold on your diamonds are tennis got Tanner Falls tenor Falls telephone no it's nadaria and finally pneumatic and spectic are terms used in connection with what type of substance widely used in visual displays in electronic devices I need a two-word term Liquid Crystal correct 10 points for us in Materials Science for what do the letters t p stand in abbreviations such as tpe and tpv the term in question refers to a material that can be reheated and reshaped Trinity Weber thermoplastic thermoplastic is correct get these premises you'll retake the leads they're on the author Elizabeth Gaskell subtitled the tale of Manchester life in which of gaskell's novels does the Title Character reject her working-class lover in favor of a milliona's son North and South no it's Mary Barton Which novel by Gaskell concerns a young orphan who gives birth to an illegitimate son the title figure shares her name with the book of the Old Testament Ruth is correct John Thornton and Margaret Hale are characters in which novel by Gaskell originally serialized in the periodical household words okay are you sure North and South correct what term denotes an arrangement of five objects as if four are placed on each Trinity Hughes quincunx correct these bonuses are on an English town Trinity which town on the river Trent shares its name with an 18th century suffolk-born portrait and landscape painter Gainsborough correct secondly known by a descriptive by name which Danish King began his conquest of England from Gainsborough in 1013 and died there shortly afterwards Harold hareford no it was Sven forkbeard and finally Which novel of 1860 features the town of Saint August thought to have been based on Gainsborough Middle March no it's the middle on the floor another picture right now if your picture started you'll see a painting now widely believed to be a copy of a lost original for 10 points simply give the surname of the artist to whom the original is attributed Trinity Crawford is correct yes that was broil's landscape with the fall of Icarus which inverts the Renaissance hierarchy of genre by placing scenes of everyday life in the foreground and its mythological subject in the background your picture bonuses three more examples of that all from the early 1600s firstly who painted this portrait which includes a depiction of Christ and the disciples in the top left corner that is correct yes kitchen made with a separate Emmaus secondly who painted this work which depicts a Biblical scene using the conventions of genre painting um Rembrandt now that's Caravaggio and finally the painter of these mythological figures a specialist collaborator added the unusually prominent still life elements why not petition no that's Reubens ten points for this who wrote these lines here and here did England help me how can I help England say who so turns as I this evening turn to God to praise and pray they appear in his 1845 poem home thoughts from the sea for him raffle Robert Browning correct these bonuses are films based on French language comics with a cast including Steve Buscemi Simon Russell Beale and Michael Palin which 2017 filmed by Armando yannucci is based on the death of Stalin is correct secondly which 2013 film by abde Latif kashish is an adaptation of a French graphic novel by Julie marrow it tells the story of A Love Affair between the shy student Adele and the artist Emma POS it was blue is the warmest color which French Iranian cartoonist wrote and directed the 2007 animated film persepolis an adaptation of her graphic novel of the same name foreign points for this in contrast to a combination where the order does not matter Trinity Hughes permutation permutation is right yes your bonuses this time are on Chinese Emperors Trinity in each case name one year during the lifetime of the following firstly the emperor Wendy his father Liu bang founded the Han Dynasty Wendy's Reign was one of sound government and peaceful consolidation no that's 203 to 157 BCE second Yang chian he reunified China after 300 years instability and founded the suede Dynasty pass that was 541 to 604 in the Common Era and finally schwanzung the longest reigning emperor of the Tang Dynasty okay 1350. now that's 685-762 Common Era right ten points for this born Murray Suzanne francette port in 1947. what is the professional name of the French artist whose work in the 1990s centered on her undergoing cosmetic surgical procedures uh Trinity Harahan Orlan Orlando is correct yes you get three questions on chemistry for your bonuses Trinity what term describes the structure of molecules whose Bond angles are set at 180 degrees an example is carbon dioxide linear linear linear is right also known as asane what simple compound is often cited as an example of trigonal pyramidal molecular structure um a boron dry hydride is it Boron trifluoride no it's ammonia related to a platonic solid what term describes the molecular structure of methane tetrahedral correct I'm going for this at the age of 16 Amy tinkler team gb's youngest competitor in the Rio Olympics won a bronze medal in which sport Durham Cooper gymnastics gymnastics is correct your bonuses are on Thunder this time Thunder Bay in Northwest Ontario is a major port on which large body of water no it's Lake Superior a traditional structure with large red pillars the Thunder gate is an entrance to sen so g a temple and leading tourist attraction in which capital city Tokyo correct what the Thunder said is the title of the fifth and final part of which major poem of the early 20th century Wasteland the Wasteland is correct 10 points for this give answers both of them promptly what names were adopted in the 19th century for the Irish Towns now known as dunleary and Cove Trinity Harahan Kingstown and Queenstown correct the real bonuses they're on recent winners of the booker prize in each case give the name of the book from its year of publication and its first word from 2009 so now get up failed dazed silent he has fallen knocked full length on the cobbles of the yard she's awesome if you like be on and write the Gathering right and and write the Gathering no it's Hillary mantel's Wolf Hall from 2013 secondly the 12 men congregated in the smoking room at the crown Hotel gave the impression of a party accidentally met 2013.
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