[Music] [Applause] University challenge asking the questions Jeremy patchman it's time once again to train a quizzical eye on two teams of students as they entertain us with their efforts to win a place in the second round of this competition both teams tonight represent sizable institutions each with a formidable reputation especially in teaching the Sciences engineering and business now Imperial College London is one of the bigger beasts in this competition they were Series champions in 1996 and again 2001 earlier this year we saw them lift the trophy for the third time the college was formed from several 19th century institutions and was part of the University of London for much of its existence before achieving Independence in 2007. alumni include the discoverer of penicillins for example Fleming the cricketer w. g Grace the missionary David Livingston and the musician Brian May playing on behalf of around 18 000 students and with an average age of 19 let's meet the Imperial team hi I'm Justin I'm from Hong Kong and I study maths hi I'm Katie I'm from the Peak District and I study Physics this is the captain hi I'm Michael I'm from North London and I study maths hi I'm Imran I'm from petalingjay in Malaysia and I study theoretical physics at the University of strathclyde is the more senior of tonight's two teams tracing its Origins to an institution founded in 1796 by John Anderson a forward-thinking professor at Glasgow University it's received its Royal Charter in 1964 and is now the third largest university in Scotland alumni include the inventor John Logie Baird who's got a great deal to answer for the comedian Ed Byrne went there as did Alex capranos of France Ferdinand the fame and Lauren Mabry of the band churches playing on behalf of around 23 000 students and with an average age of 29.
let's meet the strathclyde team hi I'm Cameron I'm from Glasgow and I'm studying statistics hi I'm David I'm from Glasgow and I study civil engineering this is their Captain hi I'm James I'm from Glasgow and I'm studying for a PhD in Power Systems hi I'm Tom I'm not from Glasgow I'm from London and I'm studying for a PhD in speech and language therapy well the rules are the same as ever 10 points for starter questions you had to answer those on the buzzer by yourselves 15 points for bonuses their team efforts if you interrupt to start a question incorrectly you'll lose five points right fingers on the buzzards here's your first start of a ten what color links the field of the flag of The Basque Country William Morris's house in bexleyheath strathclyde Star Marshall red red is correct right you get the first set of bonuses on cliffs firstly for Five Points home to a major seabird colony which Cliff near Bridlington in Yorkshire is Britain's only Northern chalk sea cliff Whitby no it's flambre head in which U. S state are the Vermillion Cliffs a national monument that includes the fossilized Sandstone rock formation known as The Wave okay yeah South Dakota no they're in Arizona more than twice the size of the UK which large island is the location of Thor Peak its West face is the world's greatest purely vertical drop at more than 1200 meters svalbard no it's Baffin Island 10 points for this what given name was shared by Daughters of John Frederick margrave of Brandenburg and spack and Charles II Duke of Brunswick both of them became the queen consort of a Hanoverian King of England Imperial marrow Caroline Caroline is correct yes right your bonuses Imperial are on styles of Windows in each case name the star from the definition firstly a perpendicular window located in a sloping roof they may be crowned with pediments and they often provide light for attic bedrooms um nominate marry Garrett now it's a dormer window secondly an arched window immediately flanked by two smaller non-arched Windows popularized in Northern Italy and named after a 16th century Italian architect I don't know I've never heard of a panini in window so I'm just going to nominate you again nominate Mario palladian correct a window frame that is hinged on one vertical side thirdly and which swings open to either the inside or the outside of the building they often occur in pairs right 10 points for this caused by the growth of cork-like layer on the skin what name is given to the rough reddish brown patches that develop on certain cultivars of apple pear and potato Imperial marrow rust no do you lose five points I'm afraid Imperial and in the first scene of Hamlet Horatio uses the same term in reference to the dawn strathcline star Marshall is it canker no it's russet or russeting right 10 points for this starter question according to John Ruskin no person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be a member of what profession Ambrose Beers defined it as one who drafts a plan of your house and plans the draft of your money strength light star Marshall architect correct these bonuses are on mathematics strathglide first awarded in 2003 What annual prize was initially championed by the Norwegian mathematician Sophos Lee because the Nobel Prize lacked mathematics as a category is evil able able is correct in differential topology a Lee bracket represents what type of operation on Vector fields dot product no it's commutation and finally for what do the letters s-u stand in groups subject to Lee algebra I don't know pass it's special unitary we're going to take a picture around for your picture starter you'll see a map showing the area of a large river Delta for 10 points name the major river that feeds it which has been highlighted within the delta in red client Whittle is it the Mississippi it is the Mississippi yes so we follow one from the Mississippi River delta with picture bonuses showing three more major Deltas again you simply need to name the main river feeding each firstly so yeah the Volga it is the Volga empty into the Caspian secondly [Music] The Orinoco that is the Orinoco the island there is Trinidad and finally the mecon it is the Mekong yes well done ten points for this born in 1802 which English physicist invented the concertina and the Playfair cipher but is perhaps best known for an eponymous bridge that measures electrical resistance Imperial Kong wheatstone wheatstone is correct yes these bonuses are on Art in 1964. firstly a hovering green apple obscures the face of a bowler-hatted figure in the son of man a work of 1964 by which artist Magritte correct who painted the problem we all live with depicting a young black girl being escorted to school by U.
S Marshals in New Orleans Norman Rockwell correct the words oh Jeff I love you too but appear in a speech bubble on a 1964 work by which artist Roy Lichtenstein correct 10 points for this the name of what mammal appears within the words that satisfy each of the following definitions the official proving of a will a Latin term meaning word for word and the bird the burdens the Ancient Mariner Strife Clyde Welsh bat bat is correct yes your bonuses are on television series that have won the Hugo award one of science Fiction's greatest accolades name each of the following winners in the category of best short form dramatic presentation firstly which comedy set in the afterlife won in 2018 for its episode The Trolley problem Michael an immortal forces a deceased philosophy Professor through hundreds of iterations of his thought experiments the good place correct secondly winning in 2015 for its season 2 finale which science fiction drama Stars Tatiana maslani as multiple characters who are all clones of one another is it Orphan Black yeah Orphan Black correct which British Series has won this award a record six times for episodes including the girl in the fireplace that Pandora opens and blink Doctor Who correct 10 points for this a Norse word meaning Bay is the derivation of the name of which fishing port in Keith Ness a Terminus of the far North railway line the same four-letter word appears as a suffix in the name of the largest town in Clyde Whittle Wick Wick is correct yes these bonuses are on Plastics as designated by the Plastics industry Association identification code firstly designated as polymer code one the widely recycled compound pet stands for polyethylene Watt tetrafluoride all right tariff phthalate and secondly designated as code 2 the form of polyethylene abbreviated to HDPE is used for bottle caps and water pipes for what do the letters HD stand high density correct designated as code 5 and used for a variety of applications PP stands for what compound important polypropylene polypropylene polypropylene correct 10 points for this first performed in Vienna not long before the composer's death which German language Shing Spiel was Mozart's last opera its characters Imperial Clemente no you lose five points I'm afraid Imperial was Mozart's last opera its characters include the lovers pamina and tamino and the verb Whittle The Magic Flute The Magic Flute is correct of course right these bonuses are on an American state the Badlands National Park and the Jewel Cave and wind cave systems are among the natural features of which midwest state come on yeah Utah no it's South Dakota the mining town of Deadwood is located in which Hills in the Border region between South Dakota and Wyoming the hills also contain Mount Rushmore hahaha any ideas cat skills but I think they might be too far Catskills no they're in New York it's the Black Hills in 1948 the local Chief Henry Standing Bear and the scarter courgette Jewel kovsky initiated work on a Monumental Stone Memorial in the Black Hills to which Native American leader is this could be sitting bold but I can't remember yeah setting bill no it's crazy horse right we get to take a music round for your music starter you'll hear a piece of popular music for 10 points give me the name under which this Duo [Music] performed Welsh Outcast Outcast is correct yes we follow on from Outcast staff played with your bonuses three more significant acts from the Atlanta rap and hip-hop scene five points for each you can identify firstly I want the lead artist on this 2003 track featuring Shauna come on we gonna party tonight y'all use YouTube [Music] it's just possible you can pass very wise yes secondly this artist crazy [Music] we've absolutely no idea you're wisdom there's no bounds and finally this group I can't candy yeah I think you'll be spotting a pattern here right 10 points for this what organ of the body links the first line of keatsu's Ode to a Nightingale with a stress blind star Marshall heart is correct yes right your bonuses are on the back from the brink conservation project the aims of which include protecting 20 species threatened with Extinction in England in each case name the species from the description firstly with subdued coloring a tit somewhat smaller than the great tit its common name comes from the Salix genus of trees um farted no it's a willow tit and secondly a rare Bumblebee with a reddish orange tail its name refers to its high-pitched Buzz squealing bee that's the shrill Carter B and finally Martis Martis a member of the weasel family distinguished by a creamy white patch on its throat yeah Pine Martin this is a pine Martin yes 10 points for this in 1735 Leonard Euler proved that there was no solution to a mathematical puzzle based on the Seven Bridge draft Clyde Welsh koenigsberg konigsberg is correct yes your bonus is this time strathclyde are on Truth a short history of Truth consolations for a post-truth world is a work of 2017 by which prolific author also noted for the pig that wants to be eaten um Naomi Klein no it's Julian bajini secondly a former Chief book critic for the New York Times and described by one commentator as the most powerful book critic in the English-speaking World which Japanese American wrote the 2018 work the death of Truth do you have a guess pass that was Michiko kakutani and finally elected MP for Birmingham Yardley in 2015 who wrote Every Woman one woman's truth about speaking the truth Jess Phillips correct 10 points for this typically found in granite rock formations which gemstone is a silicate and fluoride of aluminum and has a value 8 on the Imperial con topaz topaz is correct yes right your bonuses are on approximations using quantum chemistry the bo approximation was introduced in 1927 by J Robert Oppenheimer and which German physicist [Music] Max born is correct useful in the electronics what approximation is an expansion of a periodic function in terms of an infinite sum of Sines and cosines Fourier series correct finally a mathematics Sterling's formula is used to approximate what yeah the factorial function factorials is correct 10 points for this what five-letter word links an ironic synonym for force in Evelyn walls scoop and the second word of the name of the alternative rock group often known by the initials tmbg Imperial con Beast no abstract Clyde Welsh Giant no it's might 10 points for this give both answers promptly naming two of the three cities of the Southern Hemisphere that have hosted the Olympic Games Imperial one uh Rio de Janeiro and uh sorry if you are if you buzz you must answer anyone want to buy some shirts Rio de Janeiro in Sydney correct the other one is Melbourne of course so South Side your bonuses are on the Belgian scholar and critic Simon Lee's Simon Lee's 1971 work the Chairman's new clothes challenged the romanticized Western View prevalent at the time of which national leader who'd come to power in 1949 Mao Zedong correct as a lecturer in Chinese literature in Canberra Lee students included which future Diplomat and politician who became Prime Minister of Australia in 2007. runt it was Kevin radius and finally I have never seen anyone who loved virtue as much as sex those words appear in Lisa's 1997 translation of the analects of which philosopher born in about 551 BCE mber I had an ominous Talis no it's Confucius right we're going to take another picture around now if your picture started you'll see a painting for 10 points please Name the artist Imperial Kong Da Vinci Da Vinci is correct yes that wasn't John the Baptist so the model for that is widely believed to be Leonardo's apprentice and assistant salai your picture bonuses are three more portraits of artists assistance Name the artist in each case firstly I should have no idea it looks British did you go with Reynolds Reynolds no that's velasque with that's Juan de pareha a Slave at the time of the painting later a painter in his own right secondly Matisse Matisse that is Matisse that's Lydia delectuskaya who worked with Matisse for two decades and finally yeah this is uh what's called Lucian Freud it is Lucian Freud that's his assistant David George right 10 points for this a symphonic Suite of 1888 by rimsky-korsakov has what title which is also the name of the narrator of the tales of the Arabian Night upon Imperial romance is correct set of bonuses now on Films whose titles begin with the same two words in each case identify the film from the description firstly Howard hawks's 1946 adaptation of a novel by Raymond Chandler it stars Humphrey Bogota Lauren Bacall he's a big sleep um come on the Big Sleep the big sleep is correct a 2015 oscar-winning film secondly described as the strongest The Big Short is correct and finally the Cohen Brothers 1998 crime comedy starring Jeff Bridges as a Big Lebowski The Big Lebowski is correct ten points for this in 1909 in what turned out to be an accurate prediction Mark Twain said I came in with it in 1835. Imperial Roman Halley's Comet Ali's comet is correct your bonuses are on UNESCO world heritage sites in each case name the Canadian province or territory in which the following are located firstly Old Town Lunenburg described as the best surviving example of a planned British colonial settlement in North America can then you'll save a very easy okay Ontario yeah Ontario no it's Nova Scotia secondly Dinosaur Provincial Park and head smashed in Buffalo Jump the latter is where Aboriginal peoples chase their prey over a precipice none of it no it's Alberta finally Los o Meadows National Historic Site evidence of the first European presence in North America new family Newfoundland Newfoundland and Labrador is correct yes great I was about two minutes ago 10 points for this in Norse mythology Valhalla was believed to be part of which realm connected to midgard by the by Frost Bridge Asgard is correct your bonuses are on bones of the human body in each case give the scientific name from the common name firstly the Stirrup bone of the inner ear it articulates with the incus come on let's have it please come on is correct yes you've got to be quicker though second the collarbone clavicle correct finally the kneecap correct right 10 points for this described as a small flashy X crescents the structure called the lacrimal karuncle joins the innermost external edge of which organ Imperial the eye is correct yes your bonuses are on novels associated with the genre of magic realism in each case name the author firstly the brief wondrous life of Oscar Wilde is a 2007 novel but yes Juno Diaz is correct secondly which Mexican author wrote the 1989 novel Like Water for Chocolate Octavia pass that was Laura Esquivel which Nobel laureate's Works include the new life snow and the White Castle pass well that's all hand payment ten points for this the surname of which Jacobian translator appears in the title of the early 19th century poem that begins much of I traveled in the Realms of gold no idea none of you it's George Chapman or first looking into Chapman's Homer right ten points for this New Zealand was named after a region of which country following Imperial one Netherlands Netherlands is correct yes these bonuses are in Indonesia arche and lampung are respectively the northernmost and southernmost provinces of which Indonesian Islands Sumatra correct what name is given to the part of Indonesia that comprises the majority of the island of Borneo oh Clementine nominate Ramen kalimantan Kelly mantan is correct then Pasar is the largest city of which of the Lesser Sunder Islands Bali is correct 10 points for this characterized by Massive Stone pillars and round arches what style of architecture is depicted 85 South try the University of 190.
