[Music] thank you [Applause] the university challenge asking the questions [Applause] [Music] hello the 28 teams who qualified to appear in this competition were whittled down to 16 by the first round and of those 16 seven have gone through to the quarter-final stage whichever team wins tonight will take the eighth and final place there the open University team arrived here by beating lineker College Oxford by 210 points to 140 in the first round they maintain the leads throughout the match by knowing about botanical gardens Belgian museums and the rather grubby private life of Zeus with an average age of a sprightly 52 let's meet the open team again hello I'm Beverly Randall from Bristol and I'm studying the Roman Empire hi I'm David lamb from stockports I'm studying philosophy with psychology this is their Captain hello I'm Jill I'm from riddleston and I'm doing engineering hi I'm Chris Macklin from Manchester and I'm studying law the team from birkbeck achieved the highest score in the first round 295 points against the rather meager 50 notched up by the University of reading their strengths included Bosch belt comedians Shakespeare's Julius Caesar porcelain and tulips and compared to their opponents tonight this slot are still in their salad days with an average age of only 49. let's meet the birkbeck team again hi I'm Jonathan Taylor I'm from London and I'm studying environment and sustainability hi I'm Nikki Clark I'm originally from leicestershire and I'm studying for a PhD in early modern history and this is their Captain hello I'm Jonathan Williams I'm from London and I'm studying for an M. A in classics hello I'm Joshua mutio I'm originally from Saint Helens and I'm studying for an MSC in politics philosophy and economics okay the rules don't change on this show so let's just get on with it fingers on the business here's your first starter for ten what year links all of the following Martin Luther King's I Have a Dram speech backpack mutio 1963 1963 is correct you get a set of bonuses on the writer CP snow what three-word term for organizations containing senior governmental or civil service positions did snow popularize in his novel homecomings it formed the title of another novel published in 1964.
okay NGO is it non-governmental I don't know it's only three word phrase non-governmental organization no it's corridors of power literary intellectuals at one poll at the other scientists what phrase relating to the conflict between academic disciplines did Snow describe in those terms in a lecture of 1959 later published under a title including the phrase in question I think it's the two cultures okay yeah the two cultures the two cultures is correct in the same lecture snow likened asking someone if they could describe the second law of Thermodynamics is the scientific equivalent of asking if they'd read a work by which writer Shakespeare yeah sounds good Shakespeare correct can call us for this the first British parliamentary election to use the secret ballot was held at a by-election in 1872 in which West Yorkshire town the wax seal on the ballot box was made with a stamp from a local Factory where it was used to Mark the licorice Suites formerly known as Taylor pontefract pontefract is correct three bonuses on fictional islands for you birkbeck the Antarctic island of caprona or capric features prominently in a Trilogy of early 20th century Adventure novels by which U. S author we don't know it's Edgar Rice Burrows which fictional island nation was the subject of an elaborate hoax perpetrated by the guardian on April Fool's Day 1977. its name derived from that of a type of letter form sansarif Chancery sansarif correct the North Pacific island of gondal featured in the games and early writings of which literary siblings the brontes is correct well done 10 points for this give the name of the chemical element that has a two-letter symbol that begins the names of all of the following the German state whose capital is Wiesbaden a long river of Southwest Afghanistan and the English cathedral that houses the mapamundi open Macklin what's done no anyone like to buy some backpack like Beck Williams helium helium is correct yes it's HP of course so your bonuses are on the Indian mathematician Nila kantha born in 1444.
Nila kantha is associated with which school of astronomy in mathematics active between the 14th and 16th centuries and named after an area now a state on the southwestern coast of the Indian subcontinent Kerala yeah okay is correct developed a computational scheme for planetary motion that implied a heliocentric model similar to that proposed by which Danish astronomer Ang yeah yeah correct Nila kantha is credited with developing an inverse tangent series for the approximation of what mathematical constant much before the series was rediscovered in the West [Music] great we're going to take a picture around now your picture starter is a list of the dying words of major characters in the play by Shakespeare major off-stage deaths are also listed but the characters names are not the 10 points name the play ah backpack Taylor Macbeth Macbeth is correct starting with Duncan and ending with Macbeth himself following on from Macbeth for your picture bonuses I want you to identify three more of Shakespeare's plays from the dying words of major characters represented in the same way firstly yeah try it try that yeah Othello's correct secondly Hamlet is it I don't know blessing I don't think so I don't know but an answer a soldier just give them an answer yeah pamlet no it's Anthony and Cleopatra and finally yes yeah yeah Roman Juliet it is Romeo Juliet 10 points for this who's being described born in Oxford in 1924 his father was a translator of rabindranath tagore his own Works include the novel the skios papers a study of William Blake entitled witness against the Beast and the seminal history the making of the English working class y Thompson EP Thompson is correct your bonuses are on sport the English cricketer Wilfred Rhodes holds the record for the oldest player in a test match how many years old was he when he made his final appearance against the West Indies in 1930 you can have two years either way what would you say Nikki 49. can you try that I don't know 49 49 no he wasn't he was 52 it's even older in the 1908 Summer Olympics the 61 year old army officer Joshua Milner won an Olympic gold medal representing Great Britain in an event in which sport must be shooting I would guess we'll try it yeah shoot yeah shooting it is shooting and finally which English footballer made his last International appearance against Denmark in 1957 at the age of 42. Stanley Matthews yeah Stanley Matthews it was Stanley Matthews yes 10 points for this sometimes known by a three-letter abbreviation which hormone is produced by the hypothalamus and stimulates the reabsorption of Water by the kidneys thus regulating urine production a lateral malfunction open rental Angiotensin now you lose five points a lack or malfunction of this hormone causes diabetes insipidus I don't know is face of pressing 10 points for this I need a two-word term here often used in weather reports what physical quantity is defined as the water content of the air expressed as a percentage relative to the material well as if humidity relative humidity is correct yes your bonuses are on pairs of words that differ by a single letter such as dance and dance give both words in each case firstly a Caribbean dance in Bolero Rhythm that appears in the title of a song by Cole Porter and a verb meaning to deceive or defraud and drinks if we don't know swindle we don't know I don't know no we don't know it's begin and beguile secondly a quick dance resembling the minuet originating from Southeastern France and one form of spelling for a method of capital punishment by strangulation correct and lastly a lively dance from the Dominican Republic often accompanied by an accordion and a sweet meat made of beaten egg whites and sugar the daughters of the late Colonel and the garden party are two of the best known works by which new zealand-born author of Open Taylor Catherine Mansfield correct right your bonuses are on works of The Counter Culture in Jack keroux 1957 novel on the road the two main characters Sal paradise and Dean Moriarty are based on Kerouac himself and which of his friends no it's Neil Cassidy with sections on how to grow cannabis how to protest and how to shoplift what three-word instruction forms the title of the 1971 book by the political activist Abby Hoffman oh is it okay anything and the Anarchist Cookbook no it's steal this book in Ken keese's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest set in an Oregon Psychiatric Hospital what is the name of the Native American who narrates the story we don't know it's chief bromden 10 points for this what seven letters singular noun may follow star in judicial history dream of the red back Clark chamber chamber is correct yes these bonuses are on physics birkbeck in one formulation the first law of thermodynamics states that the change in internal energy of a system is equal to the sum of what two quantities two single word answers are sufficient I don't energy and uh Mass I don't know try yeah energy and mass no it's heat and work in one version the second law of thermodynamics states that no process is possible whose sole result is the transfer of heat from a colder to a hotter body this statement of the law is attributed to which physicists born in 1822 no it's classiest we are looking at two cultures here and finally the third law of thermodynamics describes a limiting behavior of entropy and implies among other things the unattainability of what state absolutely zero what did you think you're much more likely to be right absolute zero absolute zero is correct yes right we're going to take the music around there if you're a music starter you'll hear a piece of popular music 10 points if you can tell me the name of the singer George farmby it is George Formby yes I did what I could with me gas mask following on from George Formby three more comic songs popular during the second world war in each case I want you to name the singer firstly [Music] especially when you don't know [Music] it is Gracie feels the thing of me Bob secondly this Duo [Music] [Music] Flanagan and Alan it is Flanagan Allen you want to be careful don't seem too familiar with this and finally splittle the Germans ultimately won Noel cowet it is an old coward yes there we go right 10 points for this it's named derived from a Sanskrit word meaning South what roughly triangular Plateau covers much of Southern India its name appeared in that of a former IPL cricket team based in Hyderabad and known as the charges back by Clark Deccan correct yes you get three questions on Travelers for your bonuses birkbeck the niece of William Pitt the younger which British Adventurer was noted for her travels in the Middle East in the early 19th century including a visit to Palmyra in 1813.
I think it's Mary Kingsley I think it's Mary Kingsley yeah yeah Mary Kingsley no that was Lady Hester Stana sorry which archaeologist and traveler in the Middle East had a major role in the establishment of the national museum in Baghdad before her death in 1926. I'm tempted to say Mary no it's lost it completely Mary Kingsley no that was Gertrude Bell and finally which travel writers Works include the values of the assassins and the southern Gates of Arabia based on her Journeys in the Middle East in the 1930s it's too late isn't it France right Stark it was Freya Stark yes ten points for this sometimes known as The Rainbow Fish which popular live bearing aquarium fish takes its common name from the naturalist who sent specimens of the species from Trinidad to the Natural History Museum is correct three questions on a Spanish artist for your bonuses birkbeck the defense of Cadiz and the death of Hercules are works by which Spanish painter born the year before Velasquez he is primarily known for his religious works try that yeah really yeah Murillo no it's zerberan purchased by Bishop Trevor in 1756 zerberan's series entitled Jacob and his 12 sons may be seen at Auckland Castle in which English County no it's Durham it was once home to the prince Bishops of Durham of course in his use of tenebra's obserberan is often likened to which Italian painter born 1571. yeah yeah Caravaggio is correct 10 points for this what's common word precedes all of the following few in the Saint crispin's Day speech in Shakespeare's Henry V open lamb happy yes happy is correct your bonuses open are on the novels of Margaret drabble in each case give the title of the novel that matches the description first a period of geologic time characterized by a particular climatic Trend the most recent of which ended around 11 700 years ago [Music] the Ice Age correct a species of lepidoptera widely cited as an example of natural selection through its ability to camouflage itself against darkened surfaces during and after the Industrial Revolution so it's the black moth the Kettlebell Moss or something like that must get a little almost um the black moth it's the peppered moth and finally a group of chalk Cliffs on the English Channel Coast near Eastbourne in East Sussex speech she had yeah beachy head no it's the Seven Sisters ten points for this I need a two word term here in the 1970s the U.
S astronomers Vera Rubin and Kent Ford confirmed the existence of what component of the universe earlier postulated by Fritz Wiki backpack Williams Dark Matter dark matter is correct you get a set of bonuses this time on Pottery born in 1899 which designer is noted for the ceramic design known as bizarre that she developed in the 1920s at the Newport Pottery Studio yeah Clarence Cliff Clarice Cliff is correct with designs including Trudeau Carter's twin tone range the Dorset Pottery Studio previously called Carter Stabler and Adams is more commonly known by what name no idea why most I mean it could be Weymouth no it's pool Pottery what name was given to the Pottery Studio established in Saint Ives in Cornwall in 1920 by its eponymous founder and the Japanese Potter Shoji Hamada leech and a leech is correct leech pocket right we're going to take another picture out your picture started you'll see a photograph of a musician whom you'll need to identify to get Five Points it is Duke Ellington yes that photograph was taken by William P dotleyb whose work documented the so-called golden age of jazz your picture bonuses are three more photographs by Gottlieb all of leading figures in jazz history please identify the subject in each case firstly that's it Thelonious Monk yep Thelonious Monk that is Thelonious Monk secondly who's this yeah that's what now that's Art Tatum and finally okay I'll show you that is many trumpeters it's not Charlie Parker is it is a sense of nurse Lee Morgan Lee Morgan no it's Dizzy Gillespie ten points for this which U. S state capital is closest to the Canadian city of Winnipeg it shares its name with a major figure in the 19th century unification of Germany open lamb Bismarck Bismarck is correct in North Dakota weather you get three questions on batsmen who have made individual Innings of 300 or more in test Cricket since 2001. which batsman made his test debut in 1990 and scored 400 not out against England in Antigua in 2004.
Brian Lara correct secondly name any of the batsmen who've scored two triple centuries in the 21st century all right for cash okay um not such intentalker well I think it was around for Coach okay Mark ramprakash no he never got anywhere near it no it's Chris Gayle and virender seawag finally his clubs including Derbyshire and Essex which South African batsman made 311 not out against England at the oval in 2012. he retired in 2019. I can't think of anyone else but no no he played for England though didn't it no idea anyone else not a strong subject Kevin Peterson no it was Hashim amla ten points for this I wish Martin was my surname for mine own is not a very pretty one and it takes a long time to sign these are the words of the title character in which novel by Charles Dickens Open Taylor Martin chiselwitt correct you get a set of bonuses on winners of the Wolfson prize for history the 2008 winner of the Wolfson price Gods architect concerns which 19th century figure okay well that would be um scouty [Music] Antonio Goudy no it's poojian Jonathan Samson a future Justice of the Supreme Court won the 2010 prize for divided houses the third volume of his history of which conflict what the Roses okay yeah War of the Roses no it's the Hundred Years War conversions and confessions is the subtitle of Robin Lane Fox's 2016 Prize winner a biography of which religious figure we don't know that was Saint Augustine of Hippo ten points for this the veil of raid old Narrow Gauge Railway begins in which coastal town Due West of Birmingham and home to the National Library of world open lambrismouth abrasmith is correct these bonuses are on Central Europe the historical region known as upper silasia lies largely within which present-day country London Poland correct what is the capital of the federal state of Upper Austria its name is a by name of Mozart Symphony Number 36 in C majorettes Salzburg Salzburg I don't know okay congrats no it's linse upper Franconia and upper palatinate are subdivisions of which German federal state Australia nothing no it's further south further south of that um yeah yeah button wurttemberg no it's Bavaria ten points for this do your working out before you buzz for this what number results from adding together the number of stars on the following five national flags Australia New Zealand Liberia Ghana and Somalia Taylor 15.
no anyone want to buzz from open lab thirteen thirteen is correct hold on your bonuses are on Films based on novels by the US author Edna Ferber based on ferber's 1926 novel of the same name which musical includes the songs Old Man River and can't help loving that man Game Pass yeah I think so yeah poking best uh Showboat Which novel of 1929 by Ferber was filmed twice its title is the name of the territory and at the goal the open University had 95 but bet College London have 205.
