[Music] the university challenge asking the questions Jeremy Paxman [Music] hello despite having lost their first round matches the two teams competing tonight are playing for the final place in the second round but heaven for fend that anyone should think this procedure exists in order to be kind to students the four losing teams in these playoffs earn scores that would have seen them win in other fixtures and teams that have survived by this rule in the past have gone on to be Series champions so tonight's two are still very much in contention the team from the University of York lost to modeling College Oxford in their first round match but only by a margin of 170 to 150 and they were level pegging for much of the fixture that allowed them to demonstrate their knowledge of video War Games the dodo and Little Red Riding Hood with an average age of 26 let's meet the York team again hello I'm Mickey I'm originally from Goblin in Surrey and I'm studying for a PHD in social policy hi I'm Sophie I'm from Telford and I'm doing a masters in medieval study and this is their Captain hi again my name is Sam I'm from Seven Oaks in Kent and I'm reading history and philosophy hello I'm David I'm from Lancaster and I'm reading archeology the team from Durham made a confidence start in their first round match answering well on cave systems sporting positions and battles named after Rivers but after that their blood sugar levels dropped with an almost audible thump and they allowed the team from Trinity College Cambridge to catch up overtake and beat them by 200 points to 145 with an average age of 20 that's meet the Durham team again hello I'm Charles I'm from Sutton in Surrey and I study philosophy hi my name is William I'm from Kirby Steven in convert 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 right you all know the rules by now so let's just get on with it fingers on the buses here's your first starter for 10. what seven letter word links the titles of all of the following firstly a 1930 stage work by Noel coward subtitled an intimate comedy secondly a novel by Michael Moore Pergo about the first world war and third year Steven Spielberg private private is correct yes your bonuses are on the 19th century French painter Jean Leon Geron firstly for Five Points which allegorical figure is named in the title of a painting of the 1896 by Jerome she's shown emerging naked from a well having had her clothes stolen by an adversary um Echo no it's truth set in the 1630s a painting by Jerome shows Dutch soldiers destroying what crop they're attempting to limit Supply and hence stabilize the market during a speculative Frenzy historical painting poliche Verso or turn thumb is said to have influenced the imagery of which Academy award-winning film of 2000. yeah Gladiator correct ten points for this the most abundant isotope of which actinoid element has a half-life slightly greater than the age of the universe at about 14 billion years it's been used as a fuel in experimental nuclear reactors and is named after a Norse god Durham Cooper thorium thorium is correct these bonuses are on welsh-born scientist Durham born in usk in 1823 who was listed along with Charles Darwin as the co-author of on the tendency of species to form varieties he developed almost identical theories independently Alfred Russell Wallace correct secondly the cardiff-born Nobel Laureate Brian Josephson gives his name to an effect in which electron pairs pass directly through an insulating barrier a Quantum phenomenon generally referred to by what name tunneling correct in his 1706 work synopsis palmari Orem bath essios the Welsh mathematician William Jones is believed to have introduced which piece of notation thought to be an abbreviation of a word translating as periphery come on greater than or less than no it's Pi ten points for this which literary figure did DrJohnson describe as a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock but could not carve heads upon Cherry Stones Johnson was contrasting Mastery in the writing of epic poetry with a perceived weakness Milton Milton is correct yes these bonuses York are on pairs of words that differ only by the letters l-e-t at the end of one for example Gob and goblet in each case give both words from the description firstly an acronym for a television coding system used in much of Europe and a portable platform for stacking and transporting goods pal and pallet correct secondly the home of a Tamworth or Berkshire for example and a slender medical probe here ideas correct and finally an adjective meaning abnormally lean and an item of clothing used symbolically to indicate Defiance or a challenge Gauntlet correct 10 points for this I came I saw God conquered attributed to King John III of Poland those words refer to which military engagement of the late 17th century named after a major European Capital it was an armed term the CG Vienna correct yes your bonuses this time daramar on ancient history all three answers begin with the same letter firstly from around 500 BCE Monte Alban in southern Mexico emerged as a center of which pre-columbian civilization influenced by Olmec culture maybe toll tank yeah I'm trying to think maybe it's better than anything or maybe it's Upper Deck I think I think okay okay Toltec no zapotec bad luck which Chinese dynasty is traditionally held to have been founded in 1122 BCE when King Wu overthrew the tyrannical ruler of Shang I need you to spell this short word as it appears in the pinyin romanization z h o u correct finally this ancient cities of ER and choga zambil are characterized by stepped Temple Towers known by what name ziggurat ziggurat is correct right we're going to take a picture round your first picture started you're going to see a map of the world showing the official positions of G20 and EU countries on the sovereignty of a partially recognized State countries in green recognize it as Sovereign countries in red do not for ten points name the state in question Durham towns Kosovo Kosovo is correct yes your picture bonuses are three more maps this time highlighting only the UN member nations which do officially recognize the sovereignty of a partially recognized State five points for each state you can work out firstly is it Palestine good idea yes yeah yeah Palestine correct secondly here you can give either the name of the partially recognized State or the name of the disputed territory it partially controls that would be um Western Sahara correct or the Arab Democratic Republic thereof and finally Northern Cyprus indeed yes 10 points for this 1920 which jazz musician is noted for his role in the development of Bebop and his Innovative use of eighth notes as the basic units of his phrases influenced by the saxophonists Lester Young and Buster Smith his recording Louis Armstrong no his recordings you lose five points include Night in Tunisia and Ornithology Darren Bland um Charlie Parker Charlie Parker is correct yes these bonuses are on chemical compounds together with calcium hydroxide what commercially important chemical is formed by the action of water on calcium carbide yeah calcium hydroxide because he Covenant was all he said he wasn't what he said yeah calcium carbonate no it's acetylene or ethene secondly which calcium compound is a major byproduct of the LeBlanc process for manufacturing sodium carbonate this process involves heating a sodium compound with colon limestone calcium carbonate that's calcium sulfide which Belgian chemist gives his name to the industrial method also known as the ammonia soda process for producing sodium carbonate from calcium carbonate and sodium chloride 10 points for this which layer of the Earth's atmosphere includes the orbits of the lowest altitude satellites beginning at the mesopause it extends to around 500 kilometers Cooper exosphere no you lose five points characterized by temperatures that rise with altitude Stratosphere now it's the thermosphere 10 points for this Tito Alba and strix aluko are common British species of what bird an ivy mental Tower is home to one in a poem by Thomas Gray while another in a work by Edward Lear plays a small guitar is correct yes right your set of bonuses are on the composer Sally Beamish born in London in 1956 Beamish has written three concerto for which stringed instrument she cites as one of her early Inspirations a noted concerto for the same instrument by William Walton oh I mean bye then shall we violin now it's the viola which 2005 concerto for flute and Orchestra is named after a follower of Artemis who was seduced by Zeus a Galilean moon of Jupiter also Bears her name yeah Callisto correct first performed in 1997 a Cello Concerto by Beamish is subtitled River after a 1983 collection by which poet he became Poet Laureate the following year Andrew motion no it's Ted Hughes before Andrew motion another starter question Cranium scapula patella and phalange are singular terms that roughly correspond to the four plural nouns in the title of which children's song Durham Cooper Head Shoulders Knees and Toes correct right these bonuses are on a folk story what name is shared by a trickster animal figure of medieval story cycles and the title character of a poem of 1919 by John maysfield who describes the lean red bolt of his body running Swift on grass Reynard the fox correct in the medieval Fable of Reynard the fox the character isn't Grim or isn't Grimace is an anthropomorphized version of which animal is it a wolf yeah I mean that's what I was gonna guess yeah a wolf correct what name is traditionally given to the cat in the story of Reynard the fox in Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare used a similar name for a character described by Mercutio as more than Prince of cats [Music] yes tibolt tibult is correct yes ten points for this the name of which European volcano appears within the names of both a Scottish town near the soulway Perth Durham raffle Aetna Etna is correct yes you get a set of bonuses Darren on space exploration 1500 meters wide and over 80 kilometers long the Hadley real is a lava tube on what body of the solar system [Music] IO no it's the Moon the Hadley real is at the foot of which lunar mountain range it shares its name with the mountain range often called the backbone of a large European Peninsula oh is it the yeah is correct and finally the Apollo 15 Mission landed to the east of the Hadley real in what year about two years after the first moon landing 1971 1971 is correct your music starter you'll hear a piece of classical music 10 points if you can name its composer Shostakovich no you can hear a little more Durham if you wish [Music] Durham raffle Elgar Elgar is correct that was part of Pomp and Circumstance number four which is the official slow March of the British Army's parachute regiment your music bonuses are three more tunes which are official marches of parts of the British Armed Forces this time I need the name by which each tune is conventionally known firstly [Music] the official slow March of the Welsh guards secondly [Music] the British grenadiers that is correct it's an official March of all British military regiments whose Badge of identification features a grenade apparently and finally yes music for the Royal fireworks no that's the prince of Denmark's March or the trumpet voluntary which is this is often known as it's apparently the marching song of the royal Army chaplains Corps right 10 points for this from the Greek for throwing down what term in biology denotes the breaking down of complex organic compounds into simpler ones in other words destructive metabolism foreign land catabolic yes Alex said that catabolism that's correct right your bonuses this time are on Extinct Mega herbivores similar in size to a rhinoceros the diprotodon is closely related to the koala and which burrowing Australian marsupial yes definitely the wombat yeah it's a giant wombat native to South America glyptodons had protective casings resembling those of a turtle they're related to which present-day mammals whose species include the nine Bandits armadillos correct many species of megaphone and became extinct during which geological Epoch the predecessor of the Holocene it ended about 12 000 years ago place this in place the scene is correct ten points for this correct it was first performed by Sarah Bernhardt in 1887 in a play by Victorian sadhu in January 1900 the soprano heraclia darcele played the character in the premiere of an opera by Puccini Durham raffle Tosca Tosca is correct yes right these bonuses are on a territory Durham which present-day territory is named after the Umayyads General who landed there in 711 during the Islamic conquest of Spain Gibraltar correct tariq's Army landed in response to an invitation to intervene in a civil war between factions of which Germanic people the rulers of Spain at that time the Visigoths correct Admiral Sir George Rook captured Gibraltar in 1704 in the name of Charles III a claimant to the Spanish Throne from which Royal House the treaty will treat later confirmed British possession okay Habsburg correct 10 points for this give two answers that differ only in a single letter the first meaning one of the ancient people who include Paris and Hector the second being the ruler under whom the York Williams Trojan and trajan correct right your bonuses are on slave rebellions York after a slave revolt and series of conflicts Jean-Jacques desaline became a president of which newly formed country in 1808 Haiti is correct popularized by a 1967 novel by William styron who was the leader of an unsuccessful slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831.
is that John Brown Harper's Ferry maybe I don't know John Brown no it was Nat Turner which film of 1997 concerns a successful slave rebellion that began in Cuban Waters in 1839 I'm Amistad I'm a sad is correct ten points for this answer as soon as your name is called to the nearest whole number if normal human blood temperature is taken to be 37 degrees Celsius what value does it have on the Kelvin scale Durham Cooper 315 no you lose five points I'm afraid on the Kelvin scale of temperature your Kingston 310 310 is correct yes you haven't had to add 37 to 273. 15 right your bonuses this time York are on women in education an advocate of education for women and the underprivileged which U. S social reform became in 1931 the first female recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize that might be Jane Adams Jane Adams correct secondly a pioneer of women's education in India Savvy tribai pule gives her name to a university in which major city about 150 kilometers from Mumbai uh Calcutta no it's Pune and finally one of the first women to graduate in medicine in Italy who opened the first Casa de Bambini preschool in 1907.
