[Music] thank you [Applause] the university challenge asking the questions Jeremy Paxman hello as the quarter-final stage progresses two more teams have demonstrated their ability to solve the intractable problem of getting themselves from A to B while adhering to lockdown restrictions so the questions that follow over the next 30 minutes may prove a Doddle by comparison or not so far in this round of the competition modeling College Cambridge and paleo College Oxford have achieved the first of the two victories they'll need to put themselves in the semi-finals and tonight's winners will join them but the losers must win their next match if they're to stay in the competition the team from strathclyde University won their first round match by 190 points to the 155 from Imperial College London they beat the University of Manchester by 135 points to 100 in the second round so they're here with a total of 325 points with an average age of 29 let's meet the strathglide team again hi I'm Cameron I'm from Glasgow and I've graduated with a master's degree in applied statistics hi I'm David I'm from westerton in Glasgow and I'm studying civil engineering and their Captain hi I'm James I'm from Glasgow and I'm studying for a PhD in power systems engineering hi I'm Tom I'm an assassinet from colindale in London and I'm studying for a PhD in speech and language therapy now the team from the University of Darren beat Leicester University by 180 to 125 points in round one and Edinburgh University in round two by 165 points to 145. this puts them on a grand total of 345 so far with an average age of 21. let's meet the Durham team again hi I'm Harry I'm from Sevenoaks in Kent and I study liberal arts hi I'm Tom I'm from ships nonstar in Warwickshire I was reading for a ba in history and I'm now studying for an MA in history this is their Captain hi I'm Holly I'm from ringwear near Brighton and I'm reading physics hi I'm Thomas from Ramsgate Kent and I'm studying biology okay you all know the rules by now so let's just get on with it okay fingers on the buses here's your first starter for 10.
elements of which structure include the Aubry holes the blue stone horseshoe and the sarson tri license Durham Banbury uh the Stonehenge Stonehenge is correct your bonuses are on English words taken from French all three answers begin with the same two letters firstly what short word means an unfounded story often one that is purposely misleading in French it means a kind of waterfowl oh correct what word means the permanent establishment of a military unit or in communist countries a party or state official in French it means picture frame cut yes what word means a pamphlet or report of the proceedings of a meeting in French it commonly denotes a school exercise book okay yeah is correct ten points for this yeah you can see the British Shakespeare's place comprises just 61 words the longest of those words being lightning Hurley Burley and Darren will kenning Macbeth Macbeth is correct yes you get three bonuses on the politician Ellen Wilkinson as the local Member of Parliament Wilkinson was influential in organizing which event of 1936 provoked by the unemployment caused by the closure of Palmer's Shipyard to the January March I'm sorry no you obviously misheard it's the gero March Wilkinson died in 1947 while holding what cabinet position the corresponding post was later held by Margaret Thatcher um uh Home Secretary um I would imagine it would be more senior yeah Home Secretary no neither of them was Home Secretary the minister of Education as Minister for Education Wilkinson's tasks to include the implementation of the 1944 Education Act introduced by which conservative minister 1944 conservative education the children were still prime minister um so 44 Education Act uh yeah he was a conservative prime minister after he didn't even was a right-hand man but I don't know he didn't that was Rob Butler's Education Act Right another starter question then quote I found him completely ignorant of the elementary principles of genetics it was like trying to explain the differential calculus to a man who did not know his 12 times table those words refer to which Soviet agronomist who led disastrous breeding I think it was correct yes but your boat scissors on Renaissance artists all three answers begin with the same letter born in 1449 which Italian artist Works include Saint Jerome in his study and the frescoes of the sassetti Chapel in Florence his numerous apprentices included the young Michelangelo 1449 um that's not Leonardo it's not one of the big ones that's probably not can a little no it's too late yes Raphael maybe yeah Raphael no it's Dominico girol and Dio okay and secondly which German artist of the northern Renaissance is perhaps best known for the painting of the Eastern Heim Altarpiece on display Kolmar in Alsace so it's typically came with the same letters yeah so what was it D yeah what's what's the name Dura no that's grunavaled and finally in about 1505 which Phoenician artist painted the early landscape work entitled The Tempest uh georgioni georgioni georgioni georgioni georgioni is correct ten points for this it's set by a worsening physical Affliction which composer addressed The heinestadt Testament to his two younger brothers in 1802 in the following year he produced the Sonata in strathclyde Welsh Beethoven Beethoven is correct yes so you get your first set of bonuses strathclyde there on Materials Science link to compressibility which two-word term describes the ratio of the applied pressure on a material to the magnitude of the fractional volume change produced isn't it yeah you know better than that Young's modulus it's bulk modulus or hydrostatic modulus or volume elasticity secondly for Five Points stretching materials makes them thinner at right angles to the stretch the ratio of the contractile of the tensile strains is named after which French scientists born in 1781. poisson croissant is correct Young's modulus is given by the ratio of tensile stress to the resulting tensile strain and is measured in what SI units um program picture around your picture starter will show a city highlighted on a map of the contiguous United States I want you to give me the name of the only major league sports team in either American football baseball basketball or ice hockey currently based in that City uh Durham Regan uh Utah Jazz they are the Utah Jazz yes the Utah Jazz basketball team is the only major league sports team based in Salt Lake City your bonuses are three more cities which are currently home to only one major league sports team again give the name of the team in each case each will either be a professional baseball basketball or American football team firstly the team in the city at a I think well it's the Austin uh anything in the Boston Red Sox um I don't really know any baseball teams it might be the baseball team but try the Texas Rangers they might be somewhere else but does it not have to happen by the Rangers the Rangers the Rangers no it's the San Antonio Spurs secondly name the team in City B uh I think at San Diego Padres it is it is the San Diego Padres but you got that earlier uh there in baseball and finally the team in City C I think it might be the Milwaukee Bucks yeah I think it's Milwaukee the Milwaukee Milwaukee Bucks yeah Milwaukee Bucks no it's the Green Bay Packers oh sorry 10 points for this who is the only Nobel Laureate to date to have played first class Cricket born in 19 strathcline star Marshall Samuel Beckett Samuel Beckett is correct these bonuses are on names in each case the surname of the first person Begins the surname of the second for example Bell and Bellaman identify both surnames in each case firstly the man who is director general of both MI5 and MI6 in the 50s and 60s and the mathematician who collaborated with Bertrand Russell on the principia Mathematica yeah it'll be white and Whitehead white and Whitehead white and Whitehead correct secondly the early 19th century English mathematician noted for a theorem relating to integrals of functions bounded by a plane and the children's book illustrator who gives her name to an annual award or something green and Greenwood oh it's George green and Kate greenaway you've got the difficult one I think the austrian-born physicists who proposed the link between pulsars and neutron stars and the mathematician who gives his name to the statement of every even number greater than two is the sum of two Primes would not be or is it um golden Goldberg golden gold pack I think the Gold Stone from the physicist no he must be British golden gold back maybe golden gold back you're right well done same points for this born in Massachusetts which writer described her life with autism in the 1995 book thinking in pictures her knowledge of animal behavior and experience in cattle farming inspired her to create the darn well canning Temple Grandin Temple Grandin is correct yes right if you get a set of bonuses now on British birds of the genus corvus or crow in each case identify the species from the description by the British transfer Ornithology firstly frequent nesters in chimneys the gray nape black forehead and white eyes are distinctive in Flight it appears neat and often speedier than the larger corvids with a little covered Brook maybe I don't know it's got white eyes The Rock's not I don't know maybe go for it yeah Rick that's a jack door the most striking feature is its bare white face and pale Bill base they always look somewhat scruffy and baggy with Splendid baggy pantalooms wow a coffee like I can only think of Magpie type things but they're not they don't look like that do they um I think any ideas what a cool vids like crowy thing yeah Magpie yeah okay The Magpie are they're Rooks and finally by far the largest passerine with a similar wingspan to a buzzard the bill is strikingly long and very heavy Raven The Raven they're big boys The Raven The Raven is correct they are big as you say this answer as soon as your name is called radioactive isotope X decays in a single step to stable isotope y starting with a pure sample of x if after one day there are seven times more atoms of Y than of X what is the half-life of isotope X ah storm Parkinson so a third of a day it is a third of a day you'll get three questions on the French third Republic in the 1880s General boulanger developed a large following that threatened the stability of the third Republic his nickname reflected what movement aimed at reversing France's losses in the franco-prussium wars okay can I nominate will canning please of course revanchism correct General revosh 1892 Surah corruption Scandal implicating the government in the French company's failed attempt to build what structure in the Americas it was eventually completed in 1914 by another country is it Panama Canal or something like that okay um Panama Canal it is the Panama Canal yes and finally history shall record that it was under your presidency that this crime against Society was committed who wrote those words in an open letter to Felix in 1898. yeah it might be the japheth yeah Emil Zola Emil Zola is correct yes right it's time for a music question if you're a music start you're going to hear a piece of classical music 10 points if you can name its German composer [Music] strathcline Welsh Brahms no [Music] [Applause] is the piano quintet in E-flat major Opus 44 the first movement thereof so we're going to take another starter question and the music bonuses in a moment or two born in the same year as sirano de Bergerac which Royal figure gives his name to a tadpole shaped glass bead made by dropping Darren bambury Prince Rupert Prince Rupert is correct yes one of the first Major Works composed for the specific combination of piano and string quartet your music bonuses are three later quintets that follow schumann's model name the composer of each please firstly this German composer actually should we try it yeah would you say it's got bronze lives bronze it is bronze yes well done his piano quintet and F Minor Opus 34 secondly a British composer [Music] no hold on [Music] Trayvon Williams yeah I think old friend Vaughn Williams no it's Elgar finally this central European composer [Music] or something oh yeah sorry can I nominate Banbury please right 10 points for this what five letter word links all of the following in musical theater and understudy who takes multiple roles anti-mechanization rights by agricultural workers in the 19th century Durham Parkinson's Swing Swing is correct yes right your bonuses this time are on DNA stains among the more commonly used DNA stains the fluorescent dyes Hurst and dappy bind to DNA and upon excitation emit light of what primary color oh it's primary color of light isn't it isn't it I mean primary colors of not you have red blue yellow red red is that likely I think you said green first should we say green because you said it first yeah Green no it's blue oh the one we didn't talk about secondly the ethereum salt of which halogenic element is a commonly used DNA stain is used in agarose gel electrophoresis to highlight DNA under UV light bromine correct the red DNA stain saffronin is the traditional counter stain used in what technique named after a Danish biologist is that gram staining because you have the red one yes and the purple one staining gram staining is correct yes at 479 meters Ward Hill about five miles Southwest of stromness is the highest point of which island group its Summit gives views of the Pendle and Firth and Scupper flow find Whittle the ark news is correct yes but you get a set of bonuses this time on an English City located close to fountains Abbey in which city does an officer once call the Wake Man sound a horn each evening in the ritual of setting the watch different things there's maybe somewhere in Northern yeah um could have been like Beric or something yeah like Barrick on tweets could be better yet yeah no it's ripping the Ripon inscribed on ripon's Georgian Town Hall the adapted quotation except ye Lord keep you City ye wake man waketh in vain is taken from which book of the Old Testament um I don't know I kind of think it's all Leviticus um Exodus or computer uh maybe try maybe try access Exodus oh it's from The Book of Psalms and finally the tradition of the Wake Man dates to 886 when Ripon was granted its Royal Charter and presented with the first ceremonial horn by which king it is 86 could be is that too early for Alfred [Music] all right ten points for this which ancient Greek mathematician was the first recorded person to conceive and Define a spherical triangle he shares a name with the mythical King of Sparta whose wife Helen was abducted leading to the Trojan War Durham Menelaus is correct yes these bonuses Durham are on novels with alliterative titles Roderick random and Peregrine pickle are the title characters of novels by which author born in dumbartonshire in 1721 .
um Walter Scott no it's Tobias smallett secondly first published in 1877 Which novel bore the subtitle translated from the original equine that's correct and finally Vincent kramels Newman nogs and Madeleine Bray are characters in which novel published from 1838 published from 1838 um Madeleine bright um Bleak House Bleak House that doesn't literate oh sorry uh um time for a picture around now for your picture started you're going to see a painting for 10 points Name the artist strengthened Welsh uh season it is Cezanne yes the card players you must answer though as soon as you buzz your picture bonuses are three more paintings on the same theme Name the artist in each case firstly yeah Caravaggio it is caravaggio's the card shop secondly [Music] um oh Garth yeah go for that okay no that's Jan Steen gamblers quarreling and finally [Music] um oh it's it's Cubist doesn't it so maybe um maybe it's maybe back it was 20th century at least no that's Otto Dix the scat players right 10 points for this in 1907 Charles Collier and Harry REM Fowler were the first winners in their classes at What annual event in Motorsport the current lap record is just under 17 minutes giving an average speed of about 100 strathcline star Marshall is that Iron Man TT it is the Isle of Man TT yes these bonuses are on scientific terms referring to the total number of carbon atoms in the molecule what single word name is alternatively given to the specific branched organic compound to methyl butane and it's probably pentane painting painting no it's isopente and secondly what is the name of the essential amino acid found naturally in leguminous Plants but that is sometimes abbreviated as i l e i l e um isoleucine correct the large insect class isoptera so-called because of the similarity in size of their front and back pairs of wings are also known by what common name um large wind that is a large one large come on damsel flies no they're termites right 10 points for this the birthplace of Joseph Louis LaGrange and Primo Levy which city on the river Poe was the first capital of United Italy and the value of the Winter Olympics Darren Regan uh Milan no you lose five points anybody Torino it is your bonuses are on international events of 1969 in March 1969 armed clashes erupted between which two major Powers at the usuri river yeah Russia and Sunday Russia Russian Finland Russian no well no Indian Pakistan India and Pakistan as China and the USSR in October led a bloodless coup in which African country in the late 1970s it began the ogaden war against Ethiopia um no it's Somalia which Social Democrat became German Chancellor in October 1969. Billy Brandt Billy Brandt is correct ten points for this what term for a type of particle accelerator also applies to a type of electromagnetic radiation generated synchrotron correct can you get a set of bonuses on the Topography of Pluto giving his name to a large heart-shaped plane or Reggio on its surface which U. S astronomer discovered Pluto in 1930 to the west of tombauer Reggio is a whale-shaped area named after kuhulu that's kahulu c-t-h-u-l-h-u and Lovecraft Lovecraft is correct the western part of tombau Reggio is known by the name of what artificial satellite launched in 1957.
Sputnik correct ten points for this the occupation of a group [Music] start private university 155.
