[Music] thank you University challenge asking the questions Jeremy Paxman [Music] hello the two teams playing tonight have won their first and second round matches and one of their quarterfinals but they've both lost a quarterfinal as well so whichever of them wins tonight will join Corpus Christi Cottage Cambridge and Imperial College London in the semi-finals while the losers can and perhaps should remind themselves that well it was only a quiz now the team from Wolfson College Oxford seemed to have developed a Porsche for tiebreak victories the first of them was against Sheffield University in round one which they followed by trouncing the reigning Champions Edinburgh University in round two in their first quarterfinal they lost to Corpus Christi College Cambridge but won their second match at this stage on another tiebreak question when they played the University of Manchester 670 is their total so far from four matches with an average age of 31 let's meet them again hi I'm Mike Perrin and after 30 years in Japan I'm writing a d fill in Japanese Maritime archeology at the Oxford Center for maritime archeology hi I'm Mary Capel I'm from Victoria Canada and I'm studying art history and this is their Captain hi I'm Claire Jones I'm from Houston Texas and I'm studying for a masters in history hi I'm Ryan Walker I'm from Stone in Staffordshire and I'm reading for a defill in clinical medicine now the team from Durham University lost their first round match against Trinity College Cambridge but won their loses playoff against York University they beat Southampton in the second round and Jesus College Oxford in their first quarterfinal but lost to Imperial College London on their last appearance with an accumulated score of 940 from five appearances and with an average age of 20 let's meet the Durham team again hello I'm Charles from Sutton in Surrey and I study philosophy hi my name is William I'm from campus 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 [Applause] get on with it because on the buses it will first start of a ten a plaque in Gower Street in Bloomsbury marks the foundation in 1848 of which Brotherhood or movement Durham raffle the pre-raphaelite Brotherhood correct [Applause] so the first set of bonuses Durham are on 14th century texts and their modern translations I'll kneel bear my neck and take the first knock so who has the gall the gumption the guts spoken by a Title Character these lines appear in Simon armitage's translation of which narrative poem 13th you said the 14th century yeah it's to go in and the Green Knight one summer time when the sun was mild I dress myself in sheepskin clothing the habit of a Hermit of Unholy life these words open a modern translation of which medieval text Inferno is that too too early yeah 1300 sounds okay Dante's Inferno no that was pierce Plowman and finally Peter aykroyd's retelling of which medieval text begins when the soft sweet Showers of April reach the roots of all things I don't know I've never heard of these birds I think it's the country Tales but the Canterbury Tales it is from the prologue of the country ten points for this writing in Europe history which present-day country did the historian Norman Davis describe as the land through which the greatest number of European peoples approached their eventual Homeland it's modern slavonic name means on the edge Ukraine Ukraine is correct yes you get a set of bonuses on ferromagnetism Durham ferromagnetic elements remain magnetized when an external field is removed these include some lanthanides and which three consecutive members of the 3D block and I need all three iron Cobalt nickel correct the vice theory of ferromagnetism says that materials can be divided into regions each acting like an individual magnet how these small regions usually known no they're magnetic domains usually born in 1859 which French Nobel Laureate gives his name to the temperature at which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism yeah correct 10 points for this answer as soon as your name is called what number results from adding the most scale value for corundum to the atomic number of lithium then multiplying the total by the number of faces on an icosahedron uh Durham Cooper 144 anyone like to buzz from Wilson Walker 220 note 240 but well done for trying to work it out another starter question then sometimes known as The Shining prince who is the title figure of the 11th century Japanese work that has been described as the world's first Durham raffle Genji Genji is correct yes three questions on Queen's consort for you Durham if your bonuses who at the age of 15 left France for the Stewart court and at the first cross-confessional marriage of a Protestant King of England to a Catholic princess I don't think he said he said it was Protestant Catholic so yeah I think it must be anywhere and we had to move in Henrietta Maria correct Catherine Braganza was forced to receive one of Charles II's Mistresses at court namely the Countess of castlemaine later Duchess of Cleveland how is she better known I think so uh [Music] if you haven't gone outside I I can't think yeah my mind's gone blank Nell Gwen Mel Gwen no it's Barbara Villas after an Italian city how is the second wife of James II usually known Mary of Medina Mary of Medina correct if you have to take a picture there your picture started you'll see a simplified diagram of a metabolic pathway which takes place in the human body for 10 points I need the name of the specific compound highlighted in red glucose glucose is correct right Durham you get a set of bonuses now on more simplified representations of human metabolic pathways each of them is commonly named after a particular chemical compound which is highlighted in red in each case I need the name by which the highlighted compound is most commonly known firstly this is the ionic form of Which acid is that citric acid yeah I think so it's interesting pathway citric acid correct secondly which compound is this I can't I don't know what it's called um no I mean I mean no time you know diamino methane no it's urea and finally this is the ionic form of Which acid yeah why not lactic acid correct ten points for this from the Latin four to rub what name is given to consonant sounds formed by forcing Lawson Jones fricative fricative is correct yes right your first set of bonuses Wilson are on the German mathematician David Hilbert how many outstanding problems in mathematics appeared on a list published in 1900 by David Hilbert the numbering question is the smallest odd prime that is not a twin Prime smallest odd prime so odd primes are what's that seven yeah yeah seven no it's 23. Hilbert's eighth problem concerns the gold back conjecture and which hypothesis on the distribution of prime numbers named after another German mathematician [Music] could be pancreas Juan car race conjecture no it was the Riemann hypothesis and finally Hilbert's tenth problem concerns what class of polynomial equation named after an ancient Greek mathematician an example is x squared minus y squared equals z cubed where X Y and Z are integers well could this be like uh a euclidean problem or something like that I don't I don't know euclidean equation no they're diophantine equations right 10 points for this answer promptly naming the two elements in the periodic table with symbols that contain the letter V for Victor one is a metal named off Vanadium and Livermore correct Wilson these bonuses are on pairs of countries whose short English names end in the same two letters for example France and Greece both of which end in CE of course in each case give both countries from the descriptions none of the answers end with the letter A firstly two countries on the Pacific coast of Latin America both have the US dollar as their sole currency so Belize no that's not specific um um [Music] I know I just don't know what else I might be Latin America that yeah um we can we can say it Ecuador and El Salvador correct yes secondly a country in the Northwest Pacific that includes the island of coral and the former Portuguese territory border by Senegal that's um that's Guinea bissau and um no no no no no no no yeah I don't think so anything um Guinea basal and Palau correct and finally the largest country of the Scandinavian Peninsula and the second largest country of the Arabian Peninsula so Sweden and Yemen yeah Sweden and Yemen correct ten points for this the fates of the individuals in which specific historical grouping were in chronological order killed in Syria killed in Egypt and killed in Italy the last of these in 44 BC know anyone like to buzz from Wolfson Walton Jones members of the first triumvirate correct you get three bonuses on recluses in literature firstly for five telling the story of Mary cat Blackwood and her agrophobic sister Constance who become isolated after a family tragedy we have always lived in the castle it's a 1962 novel by which U. S author I don't really know um to [Music] um no we don't we don't know that's Shirley Jackson secondly which short story of 1839 concerns the decline of the twins Roderick and Madeleine in The Morbid atmosphere of their family home which neither feels able to leave a story of 1839 it's not like it could be what would that be though yeah I don't really know um uh the mask of the Red Death no it's The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe of course inside the house lived in malevolent Phantom people said he existed but Jim and I had never seen him these words refer to which reclusive character in a novel of 1960 ooh Radley Boo Radley is correct ten points for this what term describes the motion of the Moon that allows us to see about 59 of its surface from Earth the term in question comes from the Latin for scales or balance Durham Bland libation vibration is correct you get three bonuses on Helen tausig the U.
S founder of pediatric cardiology firstly tausik researched an infant syndrome known by what term referring to the skin color resulting from the reduced circulation of oxygenated blood in the body blue baby syndrome correct secondly to treat a cause of blue baby syndrome Towson co-developed a technique to join the pulmonary artery to a systemic artery a technique known by what five-letter term graft yeah of that a graft no it's a shunt in developed the shunting collaboration with her colleagues Alfred Blalock and Vivian Thomas at which hospital in Baltimore Maryland founded by the bequest of a U. S philanthropist and alabolitionist Johns Hopkins correct right we're going to take a music round now your music starter is a piece of classical music it's an orchestral arrangement of a suite by which British composer Durham raffle form Williams Vaughn Williams is correct yes you heard the orchestration of Vaughn Williams's English folk song Suite based on traditional folk Melodies your bonuses are three more classical Works which were directly inspired by British folk music in each case I need you to name the composer firstly the German composer of this work [Music] tonight [Music] Beethoven now that's by Brooke his Scottish fantasy secondly the British composer of this work s [Music] and finally the German composer of this work [Music] Beethoven No that's by Mendelssohn right 10 points for this published posthumously in 1941 which unfinished novel has as its protagonist the film studio executive Monroe Star Durham raffle The Last Tycoon correct right Darren these bonuses are on Central Asia talast is an oblast all region of which country it borders Kazakhstan to the north and a narrow finger of Uzbekistan to the Southwest two isn't it I think so if you speak Russian Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan is correct a military defeat at the river talas in 751 was a setback for Chinese expansion in Central Asia name the Islamic caliphate and the Chinese dynasty whose forces were involved Tang there's the Abbasid and the Tang knowledge of what manufactured product is believed to have reached the Arab world through Chinese prisoners taken at talas its invention is traditionally attributed to the hand in a sea Court eunuch Cylon he said gunpowder no it's paper ten points for this Roger shoots massage also known as brother Roger was the founder in 1940 of which ecumenical Community named after the French Village in which it's based it's teze 10 points for this give your answers promptly naming two of the three colors of the rainbow that take their names from plants darum Cooper orange and indigo correct yes the other one is violet right you're going to say the bonus is now on wildlife native to Australia and New Guinea the egg-laying Echidna is known by what two-word common name after its appearance and the invertebrates on which it feeds yeah spiny anteter that is correct along with other species of tenrec the greater Hedgehog 10 wreck is endemic to what large island Madagascar [Music] Madagascar Madagascar is correct what name refers to an order of predatory arachnids and is given to a family of mainly marine fish characterized by their venomous dorsal spines scorpion fish scorpion fish is correct yes right uh we're going to take another picture round now if your picture started you're going to see three politicians who concurrently held three of the UK's four great offices of State I need you to name the person who held the fourth office at the time when the people you see held the other three uh darm Cooper John Major anyone like to Buster Wolfson Wolfson Walker William Hague no it was Michael Howard so the rest of the picture bonuses are coming up shortly but in the meantime here's a starter question the birthplace of Thomas Mann which Seaport to the east of Hamburg in the state Walton Perrin Hanover no I'm afraid you lose five points in the state of schlesvig Holstein was one of the chief cities of the hansier league in the middle no it was Lubeck right we're going to get on with another starter question now who wrote the 1827 work with the title observations on the visiting superintendents and government of female prisoners based in part on her experience working at Newgate darn times Elizabeth Phi correct yeah so you'll be pleased to hear you get the picture bonuses on sets of concurrent holders of the great offices of State again I want you to name the person who held the remaining office at the same time as the other three firstly this is Tony gray golden brown is it phone secretary oh that would be Jack strong Would You Know Jack straw yeah probably I think so unless unless the home secretary's Jack I don't recognize him is that Jack sure David Miller Band maybe he was foreign secretary I think yeah yeah he was about David Miller Band doesn't last long does it political Fame no it was Robin Cook secondly this is how many chances yeah yeah I guess Larson Lawson no that was Jeffrey how and finally you have to recognize any of these people so Harold Wilson Harold Wilson Harold Wilson well done yeah right 10 points for this born in Vienna in 1883 which composer wrote The Works known as the six PCS and the five cannons much of his output is characterized by its extremely brief duration Strauss no anyone want a bus from Durham Durham raffle uh they been vaben is correct yes these bonuses are on aviation history in June 1919 which British Duo made the first non-stop transatlantic flight Alcock and Brown correct which Warwickshire born engineer obtained a patent for a turbojet engine in 1930 and tested his first jet engine on the ground seven years later nothing involved as an engineer engineer Royce no it was a Frank Whittle and finally made by the de Havilland company what was the world's first commercial jet aircraft no I don't think so jet aircraft though jet aircraft I recognize the name pass was the comet ten points for this Johnston's organs are located in which sensory structures prominent in many insect species uh Darren terms antennae correct you get to say the bonuses on ferry ports in Scotland Durham the islands of Sandy and stronte may be reached by ferry from which town it's Romanesque Cathedral is the most Northerly in the UK um Wick no it's north of there it's kirkwall the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Saint Columba stands on the waterfront of which Port the terminusa ferries from coal Tyree Lismore and Castle Bay on Barrow Stone away no it's open which port on the island of Lewis is the departure point of ferries to Allah pool yeah that is stored away yes 10 points for this answer promptly naming two of The Three Irish counties which in addition to litrim and Laos border Northern Ireland uh Durham raffle uh cavan and Monahan correct the other one's Donegal these bonuses are on operas of the 1980s first performed in full in London in 1984 which one act Opera was the first major collaboration between Oliver Newson and the children's author Maurice Sendak ER Where the Wild Things Are yeah Where the Wild Things Are correct Yen tan tetherer and the major work the mask of Orpheus are operas completed in the 1980s by which English composer born in Lancashire in 1934 foreign whistle Nigel Osborne's 1987 Opera the electrification of the Soviet Union is based on the works spectorsky and the last summer by which writer who died in 1960.
