[Music] University challenge asking the questions of Jeremy Paxman welcome to the show that proves no knowledge is ever entirely useless especially if you're one of those infuriating people who remember things now the University of Edinburgh was the fourth to be founded in Scotland and the first of them to be established not by papal bull but by Royal Charter granted by James VI in 1582 the philosopher David Hume was a student there from about the age of 12 although his reputed to have said that nothing could be learned from his professors that couldn't be learned from books how well we know that feeling other perhaps more grateful alumni include the writers Walter Scott Conan Dora Robert Louis Stevenson and J. M Barry and more recently the politicians David Steele Gordon Brown Ruth Davidson and Amber Rudd representing the reigning Series champions and around 36 000 students with an average age of a sprightly 30 let's meet the Edinburgh team hello I'm Richard Moon originally from North London and I'm doing a masters in classics I'm Adam McLaughlin from Edinburgh and I'm doing an M chem in chemistry this is their Captain hi I'm Emma Williams I'm from Brighton and I'm studying linguistics hi I'm Isaac Stevens I'm from Sutton coldfield in the West Midlands and I'm studying German and history [Applause] now birkbeck College London traces its Origins to a lecture given in a pub on the Strand in 1823 by DrGeorge Burke on the virtues of educating the working people of London despite him being accused of scattering the seeds of Evil his talk led to the foundation of the London Mechanics Institute renamed after him in 1866 it became part of the University of London in 1920 and gives the majority of its lectures in the evening to allow students to combine study with a working life alumni include the politician John McDonnell the adventurer of Bear Grylls and briefly the Star Wars actress Daisy Ridley T. S Eliot and Eric hobsbourne taught there and Anthony Beaver has been among its visiting professors representing an institution which took the trophy in 2003 and around 13 000 students tonight's team have an average age of 46.
let's meet the birkbeck team hi I'm Rob I grew up in Geneva and I'm studying for a masters in cognition and computation hello I'm Rosemarie I'm from buckinghamshire and I'm studying for an M. A in historical research and here's their Captain hi I'm nurdin from London and I'm studying for an M. A in medieval history hi I'm Ian I'm originally from Huntington and I'm studying history of art and architecture okay well the rules never change on this program 10 points for starters which are Solo efforts bonuses are worth 15 and their team efforts right 10 points at stake for this fingers on the buzzers please began in 1173 as the final part of a cathedral complex what structure has had corrective work done on its foundations since 1992.
Edinburgh Moon correct you get the first set of bonuses then Edinburgh they're on a literary term what descriptive noun appears in the full title of Marlow's Dido queen of Carthage and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar tragedy tragedy is correct coined by the U. S ecologist Garrett Hardin the term for the concept that a society shared resources tend to be overused or exploited is the tragedy of the what Commons Commons correct Henry Fielding 1731 played the tragedy of tragedies concerns the life and death of which diminutive character who is ultimately eaten by a cow it's Tom Thumb the great right ten points for this meanings of what three-letter word include in geology the downward slope of a stratum or vein a strength straining exercise using parallel bars a slight fall in the price of a share of commodity backpack Anderson dip dip is correct yes your bonuses are on Nigel Hamilton's 2010 Book American Caesars in each case identified the precedent from the quotation firstly he was the only president in the 20th century in fact where spectacles permanently which he kept on even when swimming in the White House pool to use Teddy Roosevelt no that was Harry S Truman secondly in his Latter-Day role of Iago he demonstrated unmatched talents of all post-war U. S presidents he was by far and away the most skillful in his use of courtroom techniques Richard Nixon it was yes and finally as the six foot three inch All-State saxophone player Prodigy from Hot Springs High School went out into the wider world he was like an accident waiting to happen Bill Clinton it was Bill Clinton ten points for this in medicine what is the single word common name for pyrosis or Cardiology it is a pain in the chest in the form of annoying sensation caused by the reflux of acidic stomach contents into the esophagus Edinburgh McLaughlin heartburn correct right your bonuses are on mnemonic devices for each mnemonic I don't want you to tell me the individual terms just the overall series it might help one to remember firstly this six word mnemonic please excuse my dear Aunt Sally the order of operations in in in arithmetic in arithmetic yes in math that's correct yes order of mathematical operations secondly an eight word mnemonic dear Kate please come over for great spaghetti no idea any ideas possible it's the order of taxonomy in biology and finally A six word mnemonic able-bodied semen catch hairy Pirates something in chemistry no it's not it's the wives of Henry VII ten points for this these words refer to a visual depiction of which fictional character quote why did you make the web wind round and round her like the threads of a cocoon I did not say it floated round and round her the words were addressed to William Holman hunt by Tennyson Edinburgh McLaughlin The Lady of Shallot correct your bonuses are on the dancer and Patron Ida Rubinstein firstly rubenstein's career began in 1908 with an attempt to Stage which play by Oscar Wilde her production was banned by the church on grounds of blasphemy and of Sanity but she persisted in giving private performances of its Central dance Salome correct for several years Rubenstein was the Muse and lover of which U.
S painter known for her almost monochromatic portraits Rubenstein was the model for her painting the cross of France which shows a nurse outside of burning City like that you don't have any thoughts that was Romaine Brooks and finally which popular orchestral work of 1928 was originally commissioned by Rubenstein as a short ballet in which she would play a dancer in a Spanish tavern whose steps get more and more animated as the crowd around her cheers the right of spring no it's Bolero Rebel of course right we're going to take a picture around now if your picture started you'll see a musical Stave with a single note on it for 10 points give me the letter by which this note is conventionally named in English B for Bravo's correct yes your picture bonuses three more staves showing a single note again in each case I just need the single letter of the alphabet by which each note is conventionally named in English firstly I think so it would be G in the base class and see I see everything see now I think we see it's g in the bass clef come on let's have an answer please uh C no it's F you know it if you're a viola player secondly here you'll see a note written in guitar tablature name the note which will be produced assuming a six string guitar with standard tuning is correct and finally a b c d so it's D yeah d d is correct yes 10 questions what three letters all begin the names of a South American language family often grouped with guarani the Mississippi birthplace of Elvis Presley a Russian designer of jet aircraft Anderson now you lose five points a Russian designer of jet aircraft and an eponymous storage device developed in Massachusetts from the 1940s come on Edinburgh Stevens t-u-s no it's t-u-p 10 points for this starter question I need a two word term here and you can give either the common name or the binomial what is the largest indigenous land animal in Britain it's depicted in sir Edwin Lancers the painting the monarch of the Glen Edinburgh Moon Stag no Hammer Red Deer Red Deer is correct yes so you get the points and you lose five points Edinburgh I'm afraid right here are your bonuses birkbeck they're on chemical elements discovered in Sweden discovered by bezelius and hissinger in 1803 which element has after length of them the lowest atomic number in the F block of the periodic table you may confer if you'd like to if anyone has a clue hafnium no it's cerium secondly which metal did Nielsen and Cleve discover in 1879 it has the lowest atomic number of the elements of the d block and is usually classed as a transition metal and sometimes as a rare Earth element titanium actinium no that's Scandium and finally discovered by alfredson in 1817 which element after hydrogen and helium has the lowest atomic number in the S block of the periodic table lithium lithium is correct hold on 10 points for this muddy Hill and pigsty Hill are alternative derivations of the name of which Metropolitan Borough the location of the National Motorcycle Museum and the national Exhibition Center it's situated between the cities of Coventry and Birmingham is correct yes these bonuses are on Anglo-Saxon kingdoms Edinburgh Alfred the Great Edward the Elder and Ethel Stam were the last rulers of which kingdom before England was unified in the mid 10th Century Wessex correct elf win the daughter of Ethel red was briefly the last ruler of which kingdom it was annexed to Wessex after she was deposed by her Uncle Edward the Elder in 918. Mercier is correct which northern kingdom had experienced several decades of Norse rule before accepting athelstone as King in about 927 making him effectively the first king of England correct ten points for this traditionally the days on which rents were paid what Collective name is given in England to Lady backpack Chad Muhammad quarter days quarter days is correct well done you get three questions on philosophers born in Ireland born near Kilkenny in 1685 which churchman's Works include an essay towards a new theory of vision and three dialogues between hylas and fellowness nominating Swift Jonathan Swift that was Barkley secondly born near saintfield in 1694 whose lectures at the University of Glasgow had a formative influence on the Scottish Enlightenment he's noted for a system of moral philosophy published posthumously in 1755. Francis Hutchinson yes Hutchison I'll accept that yes born in Dublin in about 1729 which statesman's Works include a Vindication of natural society and Reflections on the revolution in France Evan Burke correct yes right we're going to take a music round now you're going to hear a piece of popular music 10 points if you can name the duo performing Edinburgh McLaughlin Simon and Garfunkel correct that came from bookends it was one of the first albums reviewed by the New Yorker critic Ellen Willis one of the first pop critics to write for a substantial National audience in the U.
S for your music bonuses I want you to name three more bands or artists she reviewed firstly name this band Willis wrote their terrain was the city at its hardest and sleaziest their themes perversity desperation and death [Music] so [Music] [Music] the birds no that's the Velvet Underground secondly name either this band or their lead singer who Willis described as an oddballs oddball the archetypal High School creep in all his pain and anarchic innocence [Music] to chooses [Music] Billy Idol no that was that Modern Love as Jonathan Richmond and finally this singer Willis described her as screaming out the misery and confusion of what others wanted her to be Janice Joplin which is Janice Joplin yes right 10 points for this Robert Burns said he could never hear the solitary whistle of which wading bird without feeling an elevation of the Soul found in Winter estuaries and some are more land it's distinguished by its long down curved bill Edinburgh McLaughlin Stokes no anyone want to buzz from birkbeck John Mohammed curly curly was correct yes write your bonuses are on gardening terminology in each case give the five-letter singular term from the definition firstly a surface layer spread over the ground to conserve moisture suppress weeds and maintain good soil texture it may be organic or non-organic mulch correct secondly a swollen root that provides stored food for dormant plants they often possess buds or eyes from which new plants can grow tuba correct and finally a relative description meaning that a plant will normally survive outside in temperatures down to -15 without any special protection from the cold hardy hardy is Right 10 points for this the common name of what genus of tree links tea rooms designed by Charles Brenny McIntosh in Glasgow in 1903 The Perennial herbaceous plant also known as Fireweed and a 1908 novel by Kenneth Graham Edinburgh Moon Willow Willow is right yes you get three bonuses on the 1956 Olympic Games Edinburgh having won the 1956 event in Melbourne who remains the last British gold medalist in the 3 000 meter Steeple Chase he later became one of the founders of the London Marathon that's great yeah Roger Clark no it's Chris Brasher who defeated the Romanian Mercier dobrescu to become one of two British boxing gold medalists at the 1956 Olympics here's Britain's last Olympic champion in the flyweight division I don't know I mean we have nothing else yeah I'm sorry pass that was Terry Spinks and finally the 1956 gold medalist Jillian Sheen Remains the only British individual Olympic champion in which sport individual sport [Music] um tend to be quite good at shooting don't we yeah javelin no it's fencing do you want it in the foil 10 points for this your answer is a five-letter term types of what electrical components include tunnel pin Zena and light emitting Edinburgh McLaughlin diode diode is correct these bonuses are on poets and Railways and is no Nook of English ground secure from rash assault who wrote those words in a Perma protest on hearing of plans to extend the railway from Kendall to Windermere Wordsworth correct The Apparition of these faces in the crowd petals on a wet black bow entitled in a station of the Metro this two-line poem is the work of which poet born in Idaho in 1885 Lincoln right you're right um HD who's HD or Doolittle HD then she came to the Britain come on Hilda Doolittle knows Ezra a pound faster than fairies faster than witches Bridges and houses Hedges and ditches these words begin from a railway Carriage a work of 1885 by which Scottish poet yeah McGonagall no it was Robert Louis Stevenson his fans would be very insulted by that comparison right we're going to take a picture around now if your picture started you're going to see a painting 10 points if you can name the artist Edinburgh moon is correct yes that was his where do we come from what are we where are we going and your picture bonuses are three more allegorical paintings representing the three stages of Life Name the artist in each case firstly I have no idea she doesn't look like anything I've seen I have no idea Scandinavian it looks like in 19th century Wednesday come on yeah sorry that's Casper David Friedrich and secondly tissue okay petition it is Titian yes and finally Clint yeah Clint Three Ages a woman yes right 10 points for this One Night in Winter Red Sky at noon and sashenka are novels in the Moscow Trilogy by which British historian and television presenter he has written non-fiction works on Stalin the city of Jerusalem and the romanovs Edinburgh Stevens Robert service no anyone like the bus from birkbeck you may not confer I'm back Simon seabag Montessori that's correct these bonuses are on 18th century Europe the last and Beyond doubt the greatest of the habsburgs these words of the Catholic encyclopedia refer to which ruler born in Vienna in 1717. one two three four nominate Ian Empress Marita is Maria Theresa is correct yes in her educational reforms Maria Theresa reduced the powers of which religious order suppressed by several Catholic monarchs during the 18th century Jesuits correct Maria Theresa's image appears on a silver trade coin often known as the MTT and still in use in the 20th century for what does the denomination T the final T of MTT stand ten points for this k447 and k495 are among four concetti by Mozart for what Burke Mozart yeah I'm afraid you lose five points for what instrument the comedy duo Slanders and Swan set the Rondo the fourth concerto to words that included embouchure I'm feeling sad and so forlorn and gone trumpet no it's french horn right 10 points for this carnations and pinks belong to which genus of flowering plants its name derives from the Greek four of Zeus and flower backpack Anderson azaleas anyone like to buy some Edinburgh dianthus 10 points for this written for a doctoral degree around 1899 the piece now known as a Cambridge Mass is by which English composer it received its Premiere in 2011 nearly 53 years after the composer's death that is by Vaughn Williams yes Edinburgh your bonuses are on Words that in 2018 were added to the official U. S Scrabble dictionary in each case give the word from the definition firstly meaning little oranges in Italian the name given to balls of rice stuffed with a Savory filling and coated in breadcrumbs before being fried yeah Aaron Cheney correct secondly a unit of currency in Azerbaijan a five-letter word it adds to the collection of about 20 playable words that begin with a cube but do not require a u k um [Music] 165.
