[Music] the university challenge asking the questions Jeremy Paxman hello the wickling process continues of the 28 teams who played in round 1 12 made it no further than that stage of the 16 who got through to these second round matches another three have already gone home tonight's losers will say goodbye as well but for the winners there's a place in the court of finals alongside Jesus College Oxford Durham University and the Cortel Institute of Art now the team from Imperial College London achieved the highest score in all of round one 255 points against 70 scored by brazenose College Oxford perhaps all the more impressive because all of the team as science Specialists as one would expect from that institution ballet was something of an Achilles heel perhaps understandably as was a set on human anatomy but the new range of Barbie dolls proved an unexpected area of expertise and they were strong to on the Winter Olympics to philosophy with an average age of 23 let's meet the Imperial team again hi I'm Richard Brooks I'm from stops on tees and I study mechanical engineering I'm Brandon from Jamaica Queens New York City and I'm doing a masters in Computing this is their Captain hi my name is Kayla bridge I'm from lewisham in London and I'm studying for an amres in controlled Quantum Dynamics hi I'm Connor I'm from Dublin and I'm doing a PhD in computer science the team from John's College Oxford also enjoyed a walk over in their first round match beating Wolfson College Cambridge by 115 points to 40. their strengths included German Rococo architecture missions to Mars and the Arts and Crafts movement although we couldn't recommend they pursue careers as wedding planners after they fail to recognize any of the music most commonly played at such ceremonies with an average age of 20 let's meet the Saint John's Oxford team hi I'm Sam I'm from walthamstown London and I'm reading history hi I'm Isabella I'm also from London and I'm reading and this is their Captain hello I'm Ashley I'm originally from beckenham in southeast London and I'm meeting for a defil and evolutionary biology hi I'm Aaron I'm from Woodford in London and I'm reading mathematics shall we just get on with it fingers on the buzzers here's your first starter for 10. we are the vile three Spaniards who came to America to bleed her white and to breed with their victims those are the words of which political figure of the early 19th century born in Caracas he played a leading role in The Establishment John saw Benito Suarez they lose five points those are the words of which political figure of the early 19th century born in Caracas he played a leading role in establishing the independence of South America and is known by the epithet El libertador Imperial Rich Simon Bolivar correct you get a set of bonuses on books and their subtitles Imperial first published in 1859 which book is subtitled the preservation of favored races in the struggle for Life On the Origin of Species that's correct based on his experience of the bombing of Drsden Which novel by Kurt Vonnegut is subtitled the Children's Crusade a duty dance with death Slaughterhouse Five correct Which novel by George Eliot is according to its subtitle a study of provincial life middlematch correct ten points for this is what four-letter word begins the names of all the following the Prime Minister who repealed the Stamp Act in 1766 the founder of the Standard Oil company and the U.
S illustrator who's working Imperial Brooks John now you lose five points and the U. S illustrator whose Works include the problem we all live with and the Four Freedoms no it's rock r-o-c-k Rockefeller and uh Rockwell okay 10 points for this in physics what two-word term is abbreviated as the letter mu subscript capital B it is Saint John's Burns coefficient of friction no you lose five points it is a unit for measuring Atomic magnetic moments and is named in part after a northern European physicist who is a pioneer of quantum mechanics Imperial Rich the bull Magneton correct you get a set of bonuses on asterisms the stars markab al-jeneb shiat and Alpha Rats the last of which lies in the constellation of Andromeda form the asterism known as the square of what Instagram the Titans just try something uh the Titans no it's Pegasus which of the zodiacal constellations contains an asterism of seven stars known as the circlet set to make up the head of one of the two animals representing it uh Pisces correct which other zodiacal constellation contains an eight star asterism known as the teapot and a secondary feature called the milk Dipper [Applause] and his son in the early 17th century which people overthrew the Ming Empire capturing Beijing Saint johnsor oh the Manchu correct your bonuses are on place name St John's listen to this description and for each question give three answers that begin with the letters a b and c respectively firstly the capitals of three contiguous U. S states these capitals stand on the rivers Hudson Charles and Merrimack respectively in New York um [Music] Albany [Music] Baltimore Charlotte now it's Albany Boston and Concord secondly three Indian States whose capitals or major cities are guahatti Patna and raipur respectively um Andhra Pradesh behold and it's and finally three countries that meet at the volcano zapulari um Argentina I believe you're in Chile correct 10 points for this according to the author Simon Jenkins which county has quote the finest collection of medieval churches overall of any in England he gives a special recognition to those at Brant Bruton heckington Stowe long Saturn louth and Stamford Imperial Brooks Lincolnshire Lincolnshire is correct yes Imperial your bonuses are on scientific terms with a shared suffix in each case give the term from the definition firstly an adjective describing changes in Mineral composition upon Cooling and also the emotional rotation of an astronomical body in the opposite direction to most of the other bodies in the system retro okay retrograde come on uh retro flexion and retroduction no it's retrograde and secondly a manner of mammalian Locomotion exemplified by bears and humors in which the entire surface of the foot touches the ground while walking just try one of those uh pedigrade no it's planty grade and finally a member of a phylum of invertebrates typically one millimeter or smaller in size that are able to survive in extreme conditions including temperatures close to absolute zero tardigrade correct [Applause] a world map illustrating an outbreak of disease classified by The Who as a public health emergency of international concern the color coding indicates the number of confirmed cases per country as of the date shown for 10 points give me the common name of the disease so John saw oh the Ebola virus that's correct so we follow on from the 2013 to 2016 Ebola outbreak with similar maps representing more 21st century outbreaks of disease classified by The Who as epidemics again give me the common name of the disease in each case firstly that's SARS severe acute respiratory syndrome secondly excuse Mez MERS is correct and finally that's fine fluid swine flu swine flu is correct ten points for this born in Pittsburgh in 1844 which artists quote had three strikes against her her gender her foreign yes you get three questions on Pulitzer prizes Imperial who is the only poet who have been awarded four Pulitzer prizes the first came in 1924 for his collection New Hampshire a poem with notes and Grace notes uh Frost correct in 1974 the fiction prize was not awarded as The Advisory Board overturned the jury's recommendation of Which novel its author published bleeding edge in 2013.
uh nominate Brandon gravity's rainbow correct the gold medal awarded with the prize for public service in journalism depicts a printing press on one side and which 18th century figure on the other thank you uh Franklin it is Benjamin Franklin yes ten points for this from the Latin for nest what five-letter term in ecology denotes the functional role of an organism in an ecosystem including John's leaks Niche Niche is correct yes these bonuses are on the Yorkshire Dale St John's most of the Yorkshire Dales are named after rivers or streams that run through them an exception is which Dale associated with a food product are named after a small village rather than its River the Euro yeah Wednesday Wednesday that is correct the Sphinx and the dancing bear are among the unusual formations at brimham rocks near petely bridge in which Yorkshire Dale um cases I don't think it's spelled again it's not spelled him no it's knitterdale dentdale deepdale and garsdale contain streams that Feed West to which river it reaches the sea between Fleetwood and Morecambe um still um um [Music] come on still the stir no it's the river loon ten points for this meaning Ireland what place name element appears in the name of the southernmost prefecture of Kyushu and in that of a major city of Western honor shoe the latter is the location of a museum and cenotaph that marked the 6th of August 1945 and it's aftermath uh Hiroshima no Imperial Brandon Shima Shima is correct yes bonuses are on the 2018 FIFA World Cup Imperial of the countries represented at the 2018 World Cup which has the smallest population at around one tenth of the next smallest Uruguay Iceland correct which of the competing countries has the largest population the team in question lost in the quarterfinals wasn't in it it's Brazil yeah Brazil Brazil is correct which of the competing countries has the smallest land area their team won six of the seven matches they played in the competition Croatia here yeah uh Croatia no it's Belgium we're going to take a music round for you a music starter you'll hear a jazz composition 10 points if you can name its composer Imperial Rich Miles Davis Miles Davis is correct that was some kind of blue so following on from that recording by Miles Davis and his Ensemble the music bonuses are compositions by three Jazz musicians who performed for a time as part of Davis's ban before going on to significant Fame in their own right five points for each musician you can name firstly yeah that is John Coltrane Blue Train secondly [Music] Cannonball was the size [Music] uh Hancock oh it's chick Korea that was his Spain and finally this composer and band leader this is uh Herbie Hancock it is Herbie Hancock watermelon right ten points for this the work of the Scottish engineer William Roy played a prominent part in the founding of which government agency in 1791 it's two-word name includes a term for military stores or artillery Imperial Rich Ordinance survey correct you should have said the bonus is on powers of 10 in physics and astronomy giving your answer is the nearest power of 10 the speed of light in a vacuum is faster than the speed limit on UK motorways by what factor well it's certainly going to be 10 times 10 to the 1 so it's going to be 10 to the 7 right because like if it's say it's 30 meters right and then it's three times that's 3 times 10 to the one and that's three times uh 10 to the 7. 10 to the 7th is correct yes 10 million times faster expressed in terms of the electron mass the mass of the Sun is approximately 2 times 10 to what power you may have a power of 10 either way sorry electron nice is like I like Target 27 and then this is going to be 10 to the same try 40. it's nice 14.
so it's 60. expressed in astronomical units the distance from the Salford television studio in which you're now sitting to London by road is about 2 times 10 to what power so yeah and Au is 150 uh 150 million you should figure what that's like 150 kilometers right so that's a million yeah okay yeah so tens of the sixth uh 10 to the sixth ten to the minus six oh ten points for this answer as soon as your name is called excluding Earth how many planets in our solar system were known by the year 1820. Imperial Brandon six six is correct yes [Music] you look as if you find the question insultingly no no it's not like that good question because you want the more difficult one no no please I can't my heart right your bonuses are on works by The Traveler and archaeologist Gertrude Bell Imperial in 1897 Bell published a highly regarded translation of poems from the Divan of the 14th century Sufi poet hafez in what language did hafez write Farsi correct Persian yes the 1911 travel work amarat to amarath is a notable account of changes in the Ottoman Empire in the wake of what political reform movement I need a two-word term s Young Turks correct and finally Bell's 1914 worked the palace in the mosque of ukaido is an archaeological study of an Abbasid structure situated about 150 kilometers Southwest of which present-day capital no it's Baghdad ten points for this which is the only year in British history to have seen four different Prime Ministers hold office the first of the four was Earl Gray the last Imperial Brandon 1834.
correct thank you right sure bonuses this time we're on historic counties of England Chatsworth House near Bakewell is the seat of the Dukes bearing a title named after which county about 200 miles distant you're asking me uh Devonshire correct which historic County in Northwest England shares its name with the title of the youngest son of George II Cumberland correct the Cricket Club of which county in Southern England plays its home games at Lords Middlesex Middlesex is correct we're going to take another picture round up your picture starter you'll see a still from a film 10 points if you can give me the film's title St John's Morris foxy Malone anyone want to buzz from Imperial Imperial Brooks Untouchables no it's Bonnie and Clyde so we'll take the picture bonuses in a moment or two 10 points for this what short Norwegian derived term is applied to species of small Crustaceans that form the main food of blue whales and small uh Krill Krill is correct yes right you saw something from Bonnie and Clyde for your picture starter which you all fail to get it's among the films edited by DD Allen the first Editor to be given the solo opening credit on a feature film and one of the first to be regarded as an otur for your bonuses I simply want you to identify three more of her films firstly this 1975 film thank you and Rocky no that's Dog Day Afternoon secondly this 1961 film Good Fellas now that's the Hustler and finally this 1985 film Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club correct right 10 points for this lives of girls and women and the view from Castle Rock are short story collections by which Nobel Laureate born in Ontario in 1931 Imperial McNeil Monroe Alice Monroe is correct yes right your bonus is this time Imperial are on high scoring four-letter words in Scrabble in each case give the word from the definition all three words are worth at least 17 points first having the feel or texture of sarumen or of a potato variety such as Charlotte yeah waxy correct secondly a style of popular music originating in the French Antilles and characterized by a strong fast beat mm-hmm that's not that's not 17 points it's got it yeah no Scrabble tile letters just try something Jazz no it's zuke and finally a French preposition often used in English to mean at the house of shame Shay Shay is easy isn't it in genetics what do the letters NC denote in the abbreviation ncrna St John's leaks non-coding non-coding is correct write your bonuses are on Asian countries with English names that end in the suffix Stan s-t-a-n name either of the two stands that are smaller in land area than the UK okay Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan the other ones Tajikistan name either of the two stands that does not claim a border with China foreign yes which of the stands has the largest population with more than 200 million Pakistan Pakistan is correct ten points for this which Mediterranean city became the capital of a newly independent country in 1956. it was the location of the Jasmine revolution of 2011.
