[Music] [Applause] University challenge asking the questions of Jeremy Paxman [Music] hello those school days spent sitting at the front of the class and actually paying attention are paying off for two more teams tonight rewarded for their youthful diligence with the opportunity to entertain us for the second time with what they know and how quickly they can remember what they know there's a place in the quarterfinals for the winners and four seats on the minibus of despond to take the losers home now the team from Trinity College Cambridge were trailing behind the University of Durham in the opening stages of their first round match but once they hit their stride they dominated the game taking the lead around the halfway mark and then barely allowing their opponents to look in with 200 points at the gong to Durham's 145 with an average age of 21 let's meet the Trinity Cambridge team again I'm Nadia Harahan I'm from Dublin and I'm reading English hello I'm Lillian Crawford I'm from beersted in Kent and I'm reading history and this is their Captain hi I'm Joseph Weber I'm originally from Barrison Edmonds in Suffolk and I do maths hi I'm Liam Hughes I'm originally from Cardiff and I'm also doing maths the team from Lady Margaret Hall Oxford beat Downing College Cambridge by the narrowest margin a mere Five Points in their first round match hitting a respectable score of 150 but then sitting on it as Downing edged ever closer with only the gong preventing them from Drwing level like the team they're facing tonight they too have an average age of 21. let's meet the lady Margaret Hall team again hi I'm Matthew lequisette I'm from reading and I'm studying medicine hi I'm Mary Lobo I'm from woodcoat near Reading and I study law with German law and this is their Captain hi I'm Isaac Brown I'm from Sheffield and I'm studying French and linguistics hi I'm Ro I'm from London and I study classics you all know the rules so let's just get on with it fingers on the buzzers here's your first starter for 10. what six letter word is this denoting either an item of clothing or a type of person its earliest OED citation in the latter sense dates to 1984 when it was applied to boatloads of Pirate Radio fans derived from a greenlandic Inuit word it has come to me Trinity Hughes and Iraq and Iraq is correct yes the first set of bonuses then is on poetry which year appears in the title of Rupert Brooks collection that includes the sonnet the soldier 19 1914 correct also titled 1914 who wrote the poem that begins war broke and now the winner of the World with perishing great Darkness closes in Spanish Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen is right 50 years after the start of the first world war who wrote the poem mcmxiv containing the lines never such innocence never before or since has changed itself to past without a word Philip Larkin Philip Larkin is correct non-fiction book Bad Blood concerns the collapse of which large biotech startup it's founder and see Trinity Weber Serranos correct these bonuses are on Sports grounds with shared names I want you to give the shared name from the description firstly a test cricket ground in Hobart Australia and a golf course in Missouri that hosted the 2018 PGA Championship the name translates from the French meaning beautiful Shore not sure Bell coat no it's Bellerive secondly a test cricket ground in Rosso Dominica and the home ground of the Northern Ireland national football team no pass it's Windsor Park and finally a test cricket ground in Kolkata and a multi-sports venue in Auckland that hosted the 2011 Rugby World Cup final Eden Eden Park yes it's Eden Gardens is the other one in school but you've got the evening ten points first the name of which 20th century U.
S artist is shared in hyphenated form with the name of an empirical formula for estimating human body density the artist in question was a protege of Peggy Guggenheim and a leading exponent of abstract expressionism lady Margaret Hall Brown Pollock they'll accept that yes it's Jackson Pollock in the hyphenated form of the empirical formula so you get a set of bonuses now on a mathematician born in Budapest in 1903 which mathematician gives his name to the basic design of the single processor stored program computer any idea uh we don't know it's John Von Neumann secondly with stanislav ulam Neumann invented a class of computational systems known by the letters c a for what do those letters stand John Conway's Game of Life is a better known example of this class computational analysis computational analysis no it's cellular automaton Neumann is also noted for the development of Game Theory along with the Princeton academic Oscar Morgenstern what was morgenstern's principal subject in which he held a professorship at the University of Vienna from 1928 economics economics correct 10 points for this what four letters all begin the names of the historical region of Southwestern France the first woman to be elected president of the Philippines an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock and a small Northern constellation conventionally represented by an eagle correct so your bonuses this time are on the screen star Rinko Kikuchi described as a go-to Japanese actress for hipster oturs Kikuchi was nominated for an Academy Award in 2007 for her role as a deaf mute high school student in which film by Alejandro Gonzalez Babel is correct Kikuchi plays the pilot Mako Mori in which 2013 film in the Kaiju or Monster film genre directed by Guillermo del Toro Pacific Rim correct Kikuchi plays the female lead in which 2010 adaptation of a novel by Haruki murakami directed by Tran and hungry Norwegian Wood Norwegian Wood Norwegian Wood is correct you'll see a crown that forms part of the arms of a Sovereign Nation but shown in isolation for ten points name the country on Whose arms it appears lady Margaret Hall Lobo Croatia Croatia is correct we'll see the whole thing now following on from Croatia your picture bonuses are three more crowns taken from National arms or state emblems in each case I want the name of the country in question firstly this European country [Music] Slovenia yeah try it Slovenia no it's Hungary here it is with the shield secondly this Asian country the crown also appears on its national flag S I have no idea Brunei no that's Tajikistan let's see the whole thing and finally another European country is that Portugal Portugal no let's see the whole thing it's Spain right 10 points for this native to North America which bird of the thrash family connects a play of 1908 by Morris betterlink the car in which Malcolm Campbell said lady Margaret Hall Brown bluebird bluebird is correct well done lmh your bonuses are on hell in 20th century literature which first novel of 1916 contains numerous utterances of the word hell in particular during a sermon given by father Arnel do you think um portrait of the Artist as a Young Man correct Garcia Estelle and Ines are characters in which 1944 stage work it includes the memorable words there is no need for red hot pokers hell is other people no exit no exit or weaklo or in camera or dead end yes and finally in which novel of 1990 does Hell involve endless viewings of other people's holiday slides and the reading aloud of health and safety rules the author is Terry Pratchett not necessarily anything Mort no it's Eric or Faust Eric 10 points for this Lord Cupid was the nickname of which 19th century prime minister the holder of an Irish peerage he sat in the Commons for more than 50 years and died in office a few months after the end of the American Civil War lady Margaret whole Brown um Derby Trinity Hughes Palmerston Palmerston is correct yes are you just guessing there yeah your bonuses are on Ireland in each case name the Irish County from the description all three answers have the same number of letters in the Modern English spelling firstly the site of the hill of Tara and the Neolithic burial place at Newgrange it has a short Coastline on the Irish sea is right second a doubly landlocked County with neighbors including Kilkenny Kildare and Tipperary among its towns are Mount Melech and Port Arlington is correct and finally a county of Southwestern Island that borders Limerick and cork it's the location of Karan tul Ireland's highest point Kerry correct 10 points for this it's name taken from an Italian word meaning scratch or scratching what genre of art numbers among its exponents Barry McGee Sandra Lady Pink fabera and John mattus better known as crash Trinity Weber graffiti graffiti is correct your bonuses are on members of the committee of the first Venice biennale in 1895. in each case Name the artist from the titles of three of their works all three were either born or largely based in England first Christ in the house of his parents the return of the dove to the ark and Ophelia Miller is correct secondly the beguiling of Merlin king kofetua and the beggar made and the golden stairs now that was burn Jones and finally the Roses of Helio gabilus sappho and alseas and Silva favorites nominate howeran no I'm sorry you were thinking along the right lines but it was Alma tadima right Italy Italy Poland Germany and Argentina have since 1963 been the countries of birth of the holders of what Global office Trinity Hughes Pope the papacy is correct yes these bonuses are on human anatomy Trinity which long muscle of the thigh has a name from the Latin for Taylor referring to the cross-legged position in which Taylor is traditionally sat ellite it's Sartorius which part of the small intestine takes its name from a Latin word meaning fasting because it was usually found to be empty during dissection is that the ilium or the Eugene Ilium no it's the jejunum finally which small bone of the wrist has a Latin name that means p-shaped no that's enough yeah um Sigma I don't know pass it's pity form right begin to take a music question now if you're a music starter you'll hear a piece of classical music by a French composer 10 points if you can give me the composer's name [Music] Trinity Hughes messian Messiah is correct that's part of his true language Symphony which includes a part for the owned matino an early electronic instrument that uses an oscillator your music bonuses are three more Works featuring the old first I want the name of this singer [Music] it is Jack Brown yes secondly I want the composer of this film soundtrack where the honors used with the theremin [Music] no that's Danny Elfman and finally name this band [Music] yes right 10 points for this along with Enrico femi which British physicist gives his name to a statistical theory in Quantum lady Margaret Hall Brown Dirac Dirac is correct you get a set of bonuses on a tree lmh sir is a large genus of trees known by what five-letter common name British species include the Sycamore Dutch no it's a maple Maples and maple viewing are a frequent Motif in Snow Country a novel of 1948 by which Japanese Nobel Laureate um that was by kawabata and concerning the approach of death Japanese maple is a 2014 poem by which australian-born broadcaster his Works include cultural Amnesia and unreliable Memoirs Clive James correct 10 points for this the desires are the central archipelago of which island nation including Panay Samar and Cebu they lie about 1 000 kilometers east of Southern Vietnam Trinity Hughes Philippines the Philippines is correct yes you get a set of bonuses on ecosystems Trinity what short term from Russian denotes the belt of relatively level grassland that extends from Central Europe to East Asia tiger now it's step meaning land of the little sticks what Russian term is used of the Boreal forest region to the north of the step [Music] that is Tiger bad luck taken from the Sami language what short term denotes the treeless Arctic region to the north of the tiger for example in Siberia or Alaska that's Tundra that is Tundra yes what word means you know the role of a monarch in a political theory developed by Sir Robert filner the highest position in the Orthodox church and the biblical figures Jacob lady Margaret Hall Lobo patriarch patriarch is correct yes your bonuses are on physics lmh each question relates to a physical constant whose value is within 10 percent of a power of 10 and I simply want that power of 10. first the mass of the electron in kilograms Okay so any idea minus uh it's very very what do you think minus 90.
minus 60. no it's minus 30. secondly the Faraday constant in coulombs per mole okay minus 15.
no that's five and finally the reduced Planck constant in Joule seconds minus 16. no one one no I don't think it's one ten uh 16. no it's minus 34.
10 points for this it was announced in February 2019 that the European space agency's rover due to land on Mars in 2021 will be named after which British Pioneer of DNA research Trinity Weber Rosalind Franklin correct your bonuses are on ethics now Trinity in each case Name the German author of The Following works first the philosophy of right first published in 1821 Schlegel no it's Hegel secondly economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844 sometimes known as the Paris manuscripts finally on the genealogy of morals first published in 1887 Nietzsche nature is correct yes right we're going to take our second picture around for your picture starter you'll see stills from two films regarded by their director as forming part of a Trilogy even though there seems to be no continuity between their narratives the first film in this Trilogy is missing for 10 points please give me its title lady Margaret Hall acquisition is shown at the dead it is Sean of the dead yes what's wrong so we follow on from Edgar Wright's Cornetto Trilogy with picture bonuses being three more examples of thematic film trilogies that is sets of films seen by their directors as linked by style and theme but not narrative again I want you to work out the missing film in each Trilogy first I want the final film in this set um do you think Moulin Rouge Moulin Rouge is correct yes next I need the second film here the ring no it's old boy and finally the third film of this trilogy um three colors so how does the French flag go red white blue yeah three colors red well done work out before you buzz which two three digit square numbers differ by exactly 100 being respectively lady Margaret Hall the courgette 125 and 225 no being respectively this you lose five points the squares of 24 and 26. 176 and 676. correct your bonuses are on milk rajanand a pioneer of the English language Indian novel in the 1920s and 30s Anand worked at which Publishing House founded in 1917 by Virginia and Leonard Wolff Bloomsbury no it's the Hogarth press I'm sorry secondly which British novelist and critic wrote a preface to anan's first novel Untouchable his own book set in India had been published in 1924 to wider claim yeah Foster em Foster is correct yes and and was again in London during World War II and joined the Indian section of the BBC at the suggestion of which writer who was working there as a producer asani no it was George Orwell 10 points for this what initial letter is that of only a small number of countries including those whose UNESCO world heritage sites include the Koro and its Port Chief Roy Mattis domain and Ha Long Bay Trinity Hughes the V is correct yes you get three bonuses on Iceland Trinity now a UNESCO world heritage site which volcanic island emerged from the Atlantic Ocean off the south coast of Iceland in 1963 certsey correct from 9 30 to 1798 think velia in Southwest Iceland was the annual meeting place of what the old thing the old thing is correct the parliament yes one of the most visited attractions in Iceland what is the English name of the geothermal spa located close to keflavik International Airport Blue Lagoon the Blue Lagoon correct there's about three minutes left ten points for this which london-based journalists won the jalak prize for her 2017 book why I'm no longer talking to white people about race Trinity Harahan uh Rennie Edo Lodge correct these bonuses are on U.
S presidential inaugurations who wrote the poem The Gift outright which he recited at the inauguration of John F Kennedy in January 1961. Robert Frost correct who read her poem pray his song for the day at the inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009 yeah it was Elizabeth Alexander which poet who died in 2014 read her poem on the pulse of the morning at Bill Clinton's Inauguration in 1993 [Applause] are all compounds of which group two metallic elements Trinity Weber magnesium correct Ness is which Metropolitan county is bounded to the South by County Durham and to the east by the North Sea Northumberland now it's time and we're which is the only English County that is wholly an island um yeah the Isle of Wight correct name two of The Three Counties that border Rutland leicestershire and leicestershire and northamptonshire correct the other one's Lincolnshire ten points for this glamstone Marion Hall Holcomb and Sergeant cuff are characters in novels by which author born in London in 1824.
