[Music] thank you the university challenge asking the questions [Applause] [Music] hello like golden tickets in random bars of chocolate one by one the places in the next stage of the competition are being claimed four have already gone with the fifth due to go to tonight's winners all of whom will find themselves in the quarterfinals a land every bit as challenging as anything in the imagination of Roald Dahl now St John's College Cambridge had an easy time of it in round one beating a specialist institution the Royal Academy of Music by 220 points to 50. moths and mythological deities were among the strong points as were those tiring Giants of the fictional Universe squirrel nutkin and Mr Tiggy Winkle with an average age of 21 let's meet the Saint John's team again hi I'm Rebecca I'm from the Peak District and I'm studying biology hi I'm Milena I'm from Krakow in Poland and I'm studying biological Natural Sciences this is their Captain hi I'm Tom I'm from schatzam in Norfolk I've just graduated from a undergraduate degree in history and I'm about to start an M Phil in world history hi I'm Sam I'm from London and I've recently competed in Masters in history now the team from Bailey ill College Oxford had a much closer match against Claire College Cambridge in their first round appearance with both of them pretty much neck and neck until the final moments when balial pulled away to be on 150 points at the gong to Claire's 135 with an average age of 26 and on this occasion playing their Reserve let's meet the balial team again g'day I'm Ben I'm from Sunny Perth Western Australia and I recently completed a master's degree in law hi I'm Salon I'm originally from Bath and I'm studying classics their Captain hello I'm Michael from Blackheath in London I've just finished a degree in philosophy in politics and um about to start a graduate degree in philosophy also baleel hello I'm Lily from Leamington Spa in Warwickshire and I'm rooting for a d fill in history okay well let's just get on with it fingers on buzzers please here's your first start of a ten what name links the fence after the canal turn on the Grand National course the title character of a 1986 play by Willie Russell one of the two Gentlemen of Verona and a Roman Saint whose Feast Day falls in the middle of February Bailey O'Connor Valentine Valentine is correct price your bonuses are on histories of the world which explorer and adventurer wrote the history of the world while imprisoned in the Tower of London he was executed in 1618. okay should we go for that uh Sir Walter Valley correct an unfinished history of the world is a 1979 work by which academic also noted for histories of the Spanish Civil War and the Atlantic slave trade Raymond Carr I'm leaving to see you should I go for you Thomas Hugh Thomas Hugh Thomas is correct in the early 1920s which prolific author published the outline of history and a short history of the world is this dude no what was the what was the year do you know your biggest wines for men Tony Tony that was H.
G Wells ten points for this which composer is the subject of a sculpture by Max Klinger and a freeze by Gustav Klimt Bailey O'Connor Beethoven correct well done your bonuses are on shorter words that can be made using any of the eight letters of the word sluggard in each case give the word from the description firstly a plural noun that appears twice with exclamation marks in the title of a novel about the ankh morepork City watch it's God God yes guards that's correct yes secondly a Scottish form of a common adjective that appears in a nickname of the City of Edinburgh in a historical context it may precede the word Alliance old yep old old is correct yes an acronym denoting a forced labor camp often for political prisoners it appears in the title of a three-volume work by Alexander solsher Nixon if you like do you like it do you like Gulag is correct some points for this I need the name of a branch of physics here in A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking outlines the psychological and cosmological arrows of time what third Arrow does he describe as the direction of time in which disorder or entropy increases O'Connor thermodynamic thermodynamic is correct these bonuses are on thought experiments in physics in each case name the scientists who gives their name to the following firstly after a physicist born in 1831 a hypothetical demon that can apparently violate the second law of Thermodynamics and enable Perpetual emotion excellent Maxwell correct secondly a paradox in quantum mechanics involving two observers one is the so-called friend of the eponymous scientist and it investigates the timing of wave function collapse in the Copenhagen interpretation [Music] Eugene wigner and finally a ship that originated as a thought experiment later carried out in reality to demonstrate the classical principle of relativity other person sure yeah okay Theseus oh it's Galileo 10 points for this the great living Chola temples is a UNESCO world heritage site in which Indian State said to represent John's Musgrove Tamil Nadu is correct yes these bonuses are on French painters in 1894 the art critic Gustav Jeff identified the three grand AMS of impressionism as Marie brackmore Mary cassette and which other artist anybody got any idea here is it a woman yeah I think so do you know your name we don't know Palace no sorry I didn't think we know this one it's better tomorrow so maurico is said to have persuaded Manny to experiment with paintings executed outside the confines of a studio what two-word French term denotes that practice I'm just going to nominate malharic Plein Air is correct maurico is believed to have been related to which painter and printmaker his works in the Rococo style include the swing in the Wallace collection it's fragoner uh Frank fragon is correct yes rise begin to take a picture around now for your picture starter you're going to see the titles of three works of classical music all by the same composer and all in his original language for 10 points please name the composer John's Murrow just kovich no anyone wants a bus from balio O'Connor with MC Corsica it is it's the snow Maiden sector right we follow on from those works by rimsky-korsakov all of which have been turned into ballets with picture bonuses being the titles in Russian of three more Russian ballets this time I want the usual English title of each you'll be given the composer's name to help you firstly okay this is Tchaikovsky presumably Petty yeah so Swan Lake do you think or crossover s should we go for a Swan Lake others yeah no no that's I think cross Evo is beautiful Sleeping Beauty it is Sleeping Beauty yes secondly uh prokofiev is this Firebird no that's that's little something yeah assistant try a little Sun um nominate showfield little Sun no it's Cinderella and finally this is Stravinsky so maybe Firebird Pizza yeah yeah uh the firebird correct well done 10 points for this quote I am a novelist painter sculptor philosopher draftsman critic politician journalist essays pamphletier all rolled into one who wrote those words in his 1937 autobiography blasting and bombardiering he was a co-founder of the vortices movement Bailey O'Connor Windham Lewis correct you might have added modest I think three questions on the standard London version of the board game Monopoly starting at go and rolling two dice the most probable opening move having probability 1 6 is a move of seven landing on which non-property Square like normal chance should we have a chance yeah sure chance chance is correct as a fraction in its lowest terms what is the probability of moving directly to the electric company by Rolling a total of 12 on the first throw [Music] 36 yeah one in 36 correct also as a fraction in its lowest terms what is the probability of rolling a total of four on the first row resulting in an immediate income tax charge of 200 pounds so what's that one in 12 12 1 in 12. correct 10 points for this dominance in the Mesozoic Era and now found more frequently in colder and drier regions what group of plants have exposed Mal haddock given the sperms conifers gymnosperms is correct I'm going to accept that but do you get the set of bonuses on the Electoral College of the United States in each case name the state from the description firstly carrying 29 votes a southeastern state that voted in 2012 for Barack Obama and in 2016 for Donald Trump is it Florida Florida is correct carrying five votes a Midwestern State that split its votes by congressional district since 1968 it has voted almost entirely for Republican presidents Nebraska Nebraska is correct finally carrying 55 votes a western state that has voted for every Democratic candidate since 1992. California correct answer in English French or Latin especially associated with this staticism what short formulation expresses the idea that art needs no justice James Musgrove Archer Art's Sake Art For Art's Sake is correct yes your bonuses are on medieval history born in valencian in around 1337 which French writer is best known for his Chronicles that document earlier events of the Hundred Years War I don't know anybody um uh 100 Years War um beyond the French is um well what the hell let's say that nominate malharic no it wasn't dressing it was Jean fusser about which battle of June 1340 did Quasar write sea battles are always more terrible than those on land for those engaged can neither Retreat nor run away I think there was a there was a sea Battle near Berlin I think should we go for that one yeah balloon there's the Battle of slice later in the work Quasar describes the capture of the French King John II at which battle fought in west central France wasn't it put here I think it may be yeah is it what year it is born in Warsaw in 1882 which mathematician gives his name to fractals including the carpet John smells Grove yes correct you get three questions on the church and the Nativity in Bethlehem which Saint instigated the building of the original church at the reputed site of Christ's birth she was the mother of Constantine the first Christian Roman Emperor and Helen Saint Helen correct the Persians are believed to have spared the church from destruction in 614 out of respect from Mosaic showing which biblical figures wearing Persian attire the major is correct finally three denominations of Christianity currently have custody of the church Roman Catholic Armenian Orthodox and which other Coptic or Eastern Orthodox yes okay Eastern Orthodox that's Greek Orthodox so we're going to take a music round now if your music Started you're going to hear an aria from an opera for ten points name its composer [Music] of course and it was performed there by the Italian soprano Mirella freini who died in February 2020.
for your music bonuses you're going to hear Franny singing in three more operas name the composer of each please firstly here singing with Pavarotti [Music] somebody um anybody have this one before when I don't know it's usually 30. yeah it does it kind of sounds better so it could be okay so go with that okay very secondly [Music] Magic Flute we don't actually need to say that do we should I say that what are you going to say absolutely what Mozart [Music] do you think that okay Mozart that's Tchaikovsky that's the letter scene from ujjain on jagin and finally from [Music] 10 points for this in which Latin American country is Hoyer de ceren sometimes known as the Pompeii of the Americas buried under a volcanic eruption in about ad600 it is situated about 60 kilometers east of its country's border with Guatemala John's Musgrove Belize knew I want to buzz from balial Balia O'Connor El Salvador El Salvador is correct these bonuses are on rocks and minerals also known as volcanic glass which black mineral can be fractured to produce a razor sharp edge historically this led to its widespread use in tool making obsidian correct the blackish sulfide mineral acanthite is a major ore of which precious metal so I'm going to the Platinum what's what the count of the preciousness Platinum yeah Platinum no it's silver what short name is given to the black or dark brown form of lignite coal that has traditionally been used in jewelry especially for pieces associated with morning chat jet is correct ten points for this the half and the salamander the sieve and the sand and burning bright are the three parts of which dystopian novel first published in 1953 it's based on an earlier Novella entitled the fireman St John's Willis Fahrenheit 451 correct thank you your bonuses are on the novelist Jean Reese Reese was born in 1890 on which island situated between Martinique and Guadalupe it gained independence in 1978. I want to say Barbados but I'm not sure I don't think Trinidad is I think Trinidad's down at the bottom of the chain if you think Barbados go forward Barbados no it's Dominica which English novelist was a major influence on Rhys his Works include the Parade's End to Trilogy that's um Ford Mannix Ford isn't it um nominate Wireless Ford Maddox Ford correct finally Reese's best known work wide sargasso C reconstructs the life of Antoinette Causeway the first wife of which fictional character MrRochester from Jane Eyre uh nominate melharic rotester from Jane Eyre from Jane Eyre is correct ten points for this war is always proof of failure which leading head of state said that in 2003 shortly before the U.
S led Coalition forces invaded Iraq from 1995 to 2007 he was president of France is correct your bonuses are on administrative Department of France what river appears in the names of departments whose capitals are Le Puig San etien and North sound is on the name system departments as well isn't it is North Northwest come on the cell on is the capital of which department named after a river okay okay so that's North isn't it yeah it could be send something I don't know any names there's a few sand departments that's song what river appears in the names of de Papa whose capitals are non-tier Bobby knee and Rule maybe this is the same okay okay sen this is the same yes well done right we're going to take another picture around now for your picture start you're going to see a painting 10 points if you can name the artist it is Miro yes that was one of his painting perms and for your picture bonuses you're going to see three more 20th century artworks that make notable use of text five points for each artist you can name firstly a work of 1986 does anybody know this no it's rather not royaltenstein again it's it's too early for Banksy isn't it yeah yeah I think so yeah it's really English language um could it be um Nikon I thought I had to put that okay sorry pass Jean-Michel basket Jim Crow secondly this conceptual artist this photograph is one of a series from the 1990s wasn't it it's an artist called Cindy something Cindy like the one who like many disguises sure wasn't it send this as surname maybe I don't know what do you say Rebecca Sherman Cindy Sherman Cindy Sherman no it's Jillian Waring and finally this work of 1962.
