[Music] thank you [Applause] the university challenge asking the questions Jeremy Paxman [Music] hello the first round is now complete out of the 28 teams who qualify to compete in this series 16 have gone through to the second round with their heads held high and 12 have not they're still crying we're playing the first of those second round matches tonight and so the winners of this match and the next seven will find themselves in the quarterfinals now the team from Imperial College London represent the institution that currently holds the university challenge trophy even so they lost their first match against the University of strathclyde but then won a very tight playoff against Exeter University by the smallest possible margin of 160 points to their opponent's 155. let's meet them again hi I'm Justin I'm from Hong Kong and I study maths hi I'm Katie I'm from the Peak District and I study Physics this is their Captain hi I'm Michael I'm from Finchley in North London and I study pure maths hi I'm inline I'm from Battalion Malaysia and I study theoretical physics now the team from Saint Andrews University weren't unduly troubled by their opponents Darwin College Cambridge in their first round match beating them by 255 points to 90 and in doing so they gave themselves one of the highest scores in this competition so far they were strong on William mavokum fictional assassins and the mountains of Ireland and were nothing short of dazzling on the subject of musicals with an average age of 23. let's meet the Saint Andrews team again hi Auntie I'm from Hertfordshire and I'm studying international relations in modern history hi I'm Max I'm from Maine and I just graduated in maths and physics this is their Captain hi my name is Asha I'm from Glasgow and I'm studying economics hi I'm John I'm from New York and I stay philosophy [Applause] my name is ever so fingers on buzzers here's your first start of a 10.
traditionally used in relation to competitions or the awarding of prizes the Latin term proximate access it has what meaning when describing the final placings of the candidates players or teams Imperial one second runner up it means runner-up or second place that's correct I'll accept that right we've been single bonuses now on Ancient philosophers active in the later 4th Century BCE hippakia belonged to which school of Greek philosophy that is stewed materialism and propounded shamelessness Shameless [Music] materialism sounded like it would be more to do with what we call it cynicism but it's more like it could be stoicism stoicism no it's cynicism secondly acting in the 7th Century BCE the philosopher Gaga Navi is credited with writing several hymns in which sacred texts the Elder scriptures of Hinduism uh since either the ramion or the map right I think from was responsible for shaping the views on love of both Socrates and which other Greek philosopher according to the letters writing in his Symposium okay correct described by its created David Simon as a visual novel Saint Andrews the wire the wire is correct can you get a set of bonuses sometimes to see you off The Mark with questions on European trees on the red list of the international Union for conservation of nature firstly what is the two-word common name of ischulus hippocastinum classified as vulnerable to extinction by the iucn because of the impact of disease and the leaf minor moth it says hippo and so maybe Horse Chestnut oh yeah horse chestnut correct secondly lays white beam classified as critically endangered belongs to the sawbus genus along with which tree also known as the mountain ash it's not a silver Dutch isn't it I don't know almost a bit like ganache Ash Poplar yeah what was going for a silver bushler oh it's the Rowan the iucn regards 454 species of tree to be native to the European region how many of that number does it identify as being threatened whether vulnerable endangered or critically endangered you can have 20 either way so out of four five three they usually give a 10 margin so 200. um [Music] I was thinking a bit more because like maybe it was only like say 15 G's that 90 is yeah let's say like 250 or three or 240. yeah two three five two three five maybe please here it's not as high as that it's 168.
right 10 points for this the Chuck Walla the spiny tail and the basilisks are among species of which large tropical family of lizards the common species is Brighton Andrew Sherlock monitor no you lose five points the common species is bright green or brown with a crest of spines running from the neck to the long banded tail Imperial con iguanas iguana is correct yes thank you your bonuses this time are on chemical elements Imperial what is the heaviest halogen element occurring in these are previously known as Echo iodine the Austrian scientist Berta colic and crowded Burnet show that it was part of natural Decay chains yeah astatine correct with atomic number 75 Which rare metal of group 7 was discovered by the German chemist Ida and Walter noddak and Otto Carl Berg it is used to make turbine blades and thermocouples uranium rhenium is correct yes discovered finally by the French scientist Marguerite Perry which is the heaviest element of group one it exists only in short-lived radioactive forms and has the atomic number 87 francium correct well done points for this having won an election for the leadership of his party who became leader of the opposition a few weeks after the death of Hugh Gates School the following year he won a general election and was prime minister when England won the FIFA World Cup Saint Andrews Martin kempter Harold Wilson Harold Wilson is correct well done three questions on slow television for your bonuses in 2009 the national broadcaster nrk showed a groundbreaking seven and a half hour real-time documentary of a railway Journey between which two Nordic cities oh um MLK sounds like the way maybe yeah so it could be uh Tromso to Oslo or Bergen doesn't have to be in the same country doesn't it but nrk in the sense yeah Oslo Stockholm no it's Bergen and Oslo secondly sometimes site is a forerunner of the genre the 1964 film sleep is by which artist and director it shows the poet John jono sleeping for more than five hours a Spanish name is 64 Fellini maybe sure yeah Fellini no it's Andy Warhol in 2018 BBC four broadcast the Gan a three-hour documentary of a 54 hour south to North rail journey from Adelaide to which tropical city um Darwin Owens North Australia so Darwin Darwin Darwin is correct right we're going to take a picture of you a picture start you'll see a map of India for 10 points I want the name of the state highlighted so Andrews Holtzman Goa go is correct it is the home of the International Film Festival of India which is one of the festivals accredited by the International Federation of film producers associations your picture bonuses are the locations of three more festivals on that list first name this city with the population of 180 000. oh is that San Sebastian no build battles like artsy stuff is it nice yeah oh sorry enough I think they've got a film festival yeah San Sebastian correct secondly this town population 15 000. not switzerlands so it could be um [Music] fifteen thousand fifteen thousand so it's probably one of the small ones Grindelwald no I think billions owner no it's locarno finally this city with a population of over 20 million yeah Shanghai it is yes which country is leading sports teams include carp and dragons in baseball antlers and gambler St Andrew Sherlock South Korea no you lose five points antlers and Gamba in football and suntory Sun Goliath in Rugby Union since 2001 this country has hosted men's World Cups in the latitude Sports Imperial Roman Japan correct these premises are on Rivers including sections of three major Asian Rivers the UNESCO world heritage site of the three parallel Rivers lies in a mountainous province in the southwest of which country [Music] China could it be like Vietnam um so it will be China yeah China China is correct in Yunnan Province one of the three parallel Rivers the Jin Shah or Golden Sands is a leading Headwater of which river that flows through the cities of Wuhan and Chongqing this is going to be slightly further north it's not the answer is it I know it is too that's it's like more motorcycle do we have anything Nicole no that's the Yankee and finally further south on its course which of the three parallel Rivers forms much of the border between Thailand and Laos [Music] yeah the Mekong that is the Mekong yes for this what phenomenon was captured for the first time in an image released in 2019 photographed Imperial con black hole correct we get three questions on Prophecy and poetry for your bonuses Imperial granted the gift of Prophecy which mythological figure appears in T.
S eliot's the Wasteland in which he says he has forsuffered all enacted on this same Divan or bed possible yeah but I said he okay uh uh he has a she has a brother called Helen is fine Hellenist no it's tyreseus and secondly a sea God given the gift of Prophecy which figure of Greek mythology is the subject of an idol in Ezra pounds collection personai uh so you see God's nerius country it's the only one I have there's probably more nearest oh it's Glaucus and finally which Title Character of a poem by the U. S writer HD or Hilda Doolittle shares her name with a figure of Greek mythology given the gift of Prophecy but destined never to be believed right Cassandra that is Cassandra 10 points for this who described her earliest influences as being quote forms and shapes and textures moving through and over the West riding landscape with my father in his car the hills said Andrews Martin kemta O'Keefe no I'm afraid you lose five points the hills were sculptures the roads defined the forms born in 1903 the UK now has two museums named after her incidents Barbara Hepworth is correct these bonuses are on geology what branch of geology is concerned with the order geographical pattern and composition of the geologic column or layers that was stratigraphy secondly the sub-discipline of pedo stratigraphy relates to the analysis of strata made of what substance or materials yeah yeah soils soil is correct what term is used in pedo stratigraphy for the pattern or variation in soil types along a slope uh uh yeah let's go with that striation no it's a topo sequence or cation sorry right we're going to take a music round now if you're a music starter you'll hear a piece of popular music for 10 points please tell me the name of the group performing [Music] Imperial con The Supremes nope you can hear a little more Saint Andrews [Music] oh yeah said Andrew Sherlock the renats it is the renettes yes well done baby I love you was co-written by the songwriting Partnership of Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry for your bonus questions you're going to hear three more songs written or co-written by Greenwich and Barry in each case I want you to Name the artist or group singing firstly this group please [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] the Isley Brothers no that's Manfred man do I did he secondly this group okay [Music] um the crystals it is the crystals yes and finally name this artist singing please yes [Music] right 10 points for this stating that some business decisions are a spontaneous urge to action and not always rational what two-word term did John Maynard Keynes use to refer to Saint Andrews Martin Kemps are animal spirits Animal Spirits is correct yes these bonuses are on writing systems all three answers are languages with at least 50 million speakers firstly formally using a modified form of Chinese characters known as Chu Norm or Southern script what major language is now written with an alphabetic script um no they're not alphabetics Southern script could be uh Thai or Vietnamese oh I see what you're saying okay fine Vietnamese is like yeah so Vietnamese and it was insteaded Vietnamese Vietnamese is correct secondly in use from the 8th Century man yogana was a forerunner of the present-day syllabaries of what language think that's Japanese there's a syllabic thing so as well yeah okay yeah Japanese correct hanja is the name given to Chinese characters incorporated into which major East Asian language now largely written in a phonetic script yeah I think so Korean that is Korean well done ten points for this known by a three-word name which rebellion in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire was directed against Royal policies such as the dissolution of the monasteries Imperial commuter of Grace correct these bonuses Imperial are on styles of beer what name is given to the unblended Belgian beer made via spontaneous fermentation and offered flavored with cherry or raspberry and gluten intolerance absolutely no idea absolutely we're gonna look like idiots either way Trappist no it's lawn beak often described as salty the style of German sour beer known as Gosa is associated with which major city 100 kilometers Northwest of Drsden I said Northwest yeah sure yeah Leipzig is correct the top fermented copper colored beer known as alt is associated with which city the capital of North Rhine West failure Dusseldorf is Right 10 points for this in a 1911 painting of a cow what color does Franz Mark whose Imperial con yellow yellow is correct I was going to ask you what color he used to symbolize femininity but there we are you got it right you get a set of bonuses then Imperial on a shared surname who in January 2020 retired as president of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom having been the first woman to hold the post I was a hail lady yes yes hail it was Brenda Hale yes secondly the U. S author Sarah Hale published the 1830 collection poems for our children containing which nursery rhyme later notably recited by Edison let's try it Humpty Dumpty no it's Mary had a little lamb and finally Margaret Hale is a leading character in which novel of 1855 by Elizabeth Gaskill North and South right yes North and South correct 10 points for this the Roman goddess of childbirth and fertility the husband of Pompeo and Calpurnia and the author of the rest Jedi give their names and Andrews Martin kemsar Pompeii Julius Caesar Augustus no you lose five points so Imperial you get the rest of the question the author of the res Gest I give their names to which three consecutive months Imperial con January February March uh it's June July and August 10 points for this give the name of the S block element that has a symbol comprising the initial letters of the SI unit of inductance and the human organs of vision helium is correct well done here are your bonuses they're on astronomy this time what is the two-word name of the NASA spacecraft that made a flyby of Pluto in 2015.
new voice New Horizons correct indicating a distant place what two-word Latin nickname has been given to the Kuiper belt object 2014 mu69 which New Horizons flew by in early 2019. I think ultimate fuel can be turned to tno that is a trans-neptunian object or a kbo for what do the letters k b stand here belt type about correct right we're going to take another picture your picture starter you'll see a photograph of a writer 10 points if you can give me his name Saint Andrews Martin Kemps are Gene choice that is correct but if you buzz you must answer straight away you can't think after you've Buzz so I'm not going to give it to you we're going to take another starter question whoever gets this gets the picture bonuses and I need a single word here name either of the two U. S states whose Mutual border is straddled by the Boston mountains a range that includes Buffalo Lookouts Massachusetts no I'm afraid you lose five points the highest point in the Ozarks Imperial Wong uh yeah I'm sure now it's Oklahoma and Arkansas so 10 points for this starter question born in 1958 and dying in 1990 which U.
S artist employed a graffiti style of artwork to reflection Sherlock Basquiat no no I'm afraid not you lose five points to reflect his stance on social and political issues a frequent Motif in his work is a stylized human figure rendered in outline no idea sorry Nick it's Keith Herring 10 points for this in 1836 the German scientist Theodore Schwann made the first isolation of an animal enzyme when he discovered which substance present in gastric juice it digests proteins Imperial calm pepsin pepsin is correct you recall we saw a picture of Joyce James Joyce was one of the writers supported by Sylvia Beach founder of the Paris Bookshop Shakespeare and Company she was the first to publish Ulysses in 1922 your picture bonuses are three more of the expat Circle that frequented beaches shop around that time five points for each you can name firstly Hemingway definitely two I don't think it kind of looks like Fitzgerald a bit sure Fitzgerald it is F Scott Knight well done secondly yeah that's got your Stein uh oh yeah go to Stein it is Gertrude Stein yes and finally is that one happening oh um Hemingway I think it might be it kind of looks like him Hemingway it is Ernest Hemingway yes 10 points for this name two of the three countries whose national anthems were written or inspired by the first non-european recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature rabindran Khan uh India and Pakistan no so you lose five points anyone else want to buzz I said India and Bangladesh that is correct yes the other one was Sri Lanka these bonuses are on Athletics at the world championships in 2019 Dinah Asha Smith became the first British woman to win a major global Title in what track event she's a Sprint I think it was the 200 two yeah 200 meters correct between 2004 and 2016 Elaine Thompson and Veronica Campbell Brown won three gold medals for which country in the women's 200 meters Jamaica Veronica Jamaica is correct at the 1988 Olympics which U. S athlete set an enduring world record in both the women's 200 and 100 meters flojo is correct yes 10 points for this which Swift running mammal is the most abundant ruminant in the African savannas it has the largest homes of any East African antelope and is able to LEAP up to three meters Imperial calm no you lose five points anyone want to buy some dandrus sir Andrew Sherlock ebex no it's the Impala 10 points for this you may have one year either way here in terms of the adoption of the Gregorian calendar what year is Russia if Spain is 1582 Great Britain is 1752 and Greece 1923. Andrews Martin Kemps are 1923 no Imperial Wong 1919 it's 1918.
you can have one year either way so yeah okay all right I'll accept that so you get a set of bonuses this time on the US singer Woody Guthrie give the two words that complete the title of a song by Guthrie written as they were taught to Irving Berlin's God Bless America This Land is What great wait how many words [Music] wouldn't be a parody of that one okay let's go with our land no this land is your land I'm sorry goes on this land is my land this land was made for you and me in a song written to promote Federal hydroelectric projects what structure on the Columbia River does Guthrie describe as the greatest Wonder Hoover Dam yeah sounds good Hoover Dam no that's on the Colorado River it's the Grand Coulee Dam photographs at Guthrie often show him playing a guitar bearing the legend this machine kills whom or what I got nothing I'm sorry come on people no it's fascists [Music] 180.
