[Music] the university challenge asking the questions Jeremy Portsmith [Music] Hello both of the teams playing tonight are representing institutions that have won this competition in the past although even the more recent of those occasions was shortly after the Millennium and the earlier one was the day after JFK's funeral so it's clearly High time for them both to focus and try and get their names on the trophy again now it was the University of Leicester who won this competition around the time of the Kennedy assassination in 1963 in what was the first series of this contest to be broadcast on television the university dates itself to an institution founded in 1921 on land donated by a local philanthropist to serve as a memorial to those killed in the first world war it received its Charter in 1957 alumni include the novelist CP snow and Malcolm Bradbury the broadcaster Sue cook and the comedian Bob Mortimer representing around 17 000 students with an average age of 25 let's meet the Leicester team hi I'm Rob I'm originally from gloucestershire and I'm working on a PhD in astrophysics no chemistry hi I'm Tom I'm from tadcaster in North Yorkshire I originally studied chemistry and now I'm studying for a pgce with science hi I'm Sean I'm from Woodford Green in Essex and I'm doing a masters in Victorian studies now the University of Durham won this competition in 2000 in other words a little after tonight's team were busy being born it's often regarded as being the third oldest university in England after Oxford and Cambridge depending upon how you calculate these things having been founded in 1832 and receiving its Royal Charter from William IV five years later alumni include the broadcasters Gabby Logan and George alagaya the cricketer Andrew Strauss the crime writer Minette Walters and the comedian Nish Kumar with an average age of 21 and representing around 18 000 students let's meet the Durham team hi I'm Harry I'm from stepnotes in Kent and I'm studying liberal arts hi I'm Tom I'm from straps on oven and I'm reading history this is their Captain hi I'm Holly I'm from ringman near Brighton and I'm studying physics hello I'm Tom from Ramsgate Kent and I'm studying biology the rules are unchanging in this competition starter questions are Solo efforts they're worth 10 points bonus questions a team collaborative efforts and they're worth 15. interrupt or start a question incorrectly you lose five points so here's your first start of a ten describe the tongue of a woodpecker and get the master of arithmetic to show you how to square a triangle are among items on the to-do list in the extensive notebooks of which Renaissance artist the art historian Kenneth Clark described him as the most relentlessly curious man in history Lester Isles Leonardo da Vinci correct right the first set of bonuses are on a romantic film firstly for Five Points Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort play Hazel and Gus in which film of 2014 based on a novel by John Green The Fault in Our Stars correct in the film Hazel says some infinities are simply bigger than other infinities Scientific American discussed this statement with reference to the set theory of which German mathematician born in 1845 nominate Clark mandelberg no it's Kent or Guild cantle in which of Shakespeare's plays does a conspirators say the fault is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings Julius Caesar correct it's Cassius in Greek mythology King eurystheus was responsible for allocating to the son of Al Kamina the series of 12 tasks known collectively by what name Lester Harper the labors of Hercules correct these bonuses are on recipients of the presidential medal of freedom firstly a computer programmer who wrote code for the Apollo space project Margaret Hamilton popularized what two-word term to describe her profession human calculator I think you know human calculator I think human calculator no it's a software engineer Catherine Graham received a posthumous medal in 2002 having transformed which U. S newspaper and supported its investigation into a major political Scandal of the 1970s Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal that's the Washington Post the architect and sculptor Maya Lin is perhaps best known for Designing part of the Memorial in Washington DC to Veterans of What conflict the Vietnam War correct 10 points for this the meanings of what word include in linguistics the weakening or obscuring of a vowel in cookery a concentrated source and in chemistry a reaction Lester oils reduction reduction is correct yes these bonuses are on Bones what general name is given to the small bone in the human body that's embedded within a tendon the name is derived from that of an edible seed used in Tahini paste Sesame no it's the sesamoid bone but you didn't get the answers the question present in only a movie of individuals the fabella is a sesamoid bone that lies at the back of which joint [Music] the knee correct two small sesamoid bones are located within the tendons of the flexor hallucis brevis a muscle that's primarily responsible for the motion of what specific body part some nominee Harper thumb that's the big toe right we're going to take a picture right now if your picture started you're going to see the national flag of an island country everything has been erased except for its depiction of the sun ten points if you can identify the country and Barbuda yes it is let's see the whole thing so we follow one from the flag of antida and Barbuda with three more national flags with all but the sun erased for Five Points tell me each country you can work out firstly this African country for five Malawi that is Malawi yes let's see the whole thing secondly this island nation for five um I know past we don't know sorry that's curious let's see the whole thing and finally this Asian country Kyrgyzstan it is Kyrgyzstan yes well done right 10 points for this a heraldic emblem of a maiden appears on the coat of arms of which of London's Livery companies dating from the 14th century and occupying first place in the traditional order of Precedence historically the term denotes a dealer in textile Durham Regan nurses is correct yes right your businesses this time are on prominent West Africans in each case I just want you to give the country of origin of the following firstly the singers Baba Mal and yusu indur a Senegal Senegal is correct yes secondly the country of origin of the actor and director Genevieve Naji and chioma and junwa the first African woman to win an Olympic field event Nigeria correct and finally the country of origin and the journalist kamla dumour and the footballer abedi Pele What ruler is the subject of Carl Brandy's mid-20th Century work subtitled the growth and Destiny of a man and of a world Empire his grandparents included the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian and the Catholic monarchs of Spain Darren Banbury Charles V Charles V is correct yes okay you're on level pegging 15 points to these bonuses they're on German words used in English in each case give the word from the definition all three answers in English end in the same two letters firstly a German word meaning lard or dripping used in English to signify excessive sentimentality for example in arts or entertainment here's something's over land like sort of um excessive figure no no uh everybody knows no sorry pass it's Sports after a 19th century German scientist secondly a unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second correct and finally the silica mineral that defines values seven in the Mohs scale of hardness quartz quartz is correct ten points for this 2020 marks the Centenary of the Throop College of Technology changing its name to what located in Pasadena it has a strong emphasis on science and engine Lester Isles California Institute of Technology correct Caltech so these bonuses are on Comics published under DC's vertigo imprint firstly which series by Garth Ennis tells the story of Jesse Caster who sets out on a road trip to find God and make him answer for his neglect of Earth a television adaptation starring Dominic Cooper began in 2016.
preacher correct which occult detective is the main character of the hellblazer comics series Keanu Reeves played this character in an eponymous film John Constantine correct one of the seven endless beings dream is also known as Morpheus is the main character of which vertigo series written by Neil Gaiman the Sandman correct 10 points for this what five-letter name links the U. S astronomer who discovered Pluto a football club that moved from Glasgow to cumber Darren Parkinson Clyde correct right these bonuses are on chemistry all three answers begin with the same letter what six-letter term denotes a molecule or iron that donates a pair of electrons to a central metal atom or iron to form a coordination complex a ligand correct meaning readily undergoing chemical change what term is used in relation to the easy replacement of certain ligands in an equilibrium reaction s um no no sorry pass its lability or labile born in 1875 which U. S scientist gives his name to a theory concerning electron pair donors and acceptors his name May precede acid or base Lewis is correct 10 points for this what common name is given to mammals in the family Fosse day Baikal being the smallest and elephant the largest the crab eater and Weddell species are abundant Durham will kenning Seal Seal is correct yes these bonuses Durham are on an area of outstanding natural beauty in 1956 which Hills were designated England's first area of outstanding natural beauty they curve Inland from the Bristol channel to the west of Bridgewater mendips there's the contacts secondly a walking route named after Which Romantic poet runs about 50 miles from the foothills of the quantics to Pollock and linmouth in Exmore right um Shelley who wrote um Coleridge Coleridge is correct color region Wordsworth spent a year together in the Quantic region their stay inspiring which collaborative collection of poems foreign music round for your music starter you'll hear a well-known piece of classical music incorporating a cadenza that is an ornamental solo typically written or improvised by the performer for ten points name the composer of the overall work [Music] Darren Banbury friends list friends list is correct it was from the second Hungarian Rhapsody there that was performed by Rachmaninoff your bonuses are three more standard cadences for Major Works written by other notable composers you need to name the composer of the original work for which each was written firstly this was written by Clara Schumann for a piano concerto by which composer [Music] [Music] Beethoven correct secondly this was written by Josef Joachim for which composers Violin Concerto [Music] ire okay Brooke no it's Brahms finally this was written by Beethoven for a concerto by which composer [Music] [Applause] Mozart Mozart's correct ten points for this what bird links all of the following hugin and moon in the companions of Odin in Norse mythology Lester Isles Raven Raven is correct well done you get three bonuses on astronomy Sloan cfa2 and boss are examples of what kind of cosmic superstructure some of which are over a billion light years across um go with Galaxy cluster Galaxy cluster I'll accept that yes yes great walls so what do the letters z-o-a stand when denoting a region characterized by an apparent lack of galaxies all right zone of um something absence yeah zone of absence no it's zone of avoidance abbreviated to GA what two-word term denotes a major perturbation in the Hubble flow with an apparent Mass equivalent of tens of thousands of galaxies aberration Galactic aberration no it's the great attractor so we can take another starter question now the English words kiosk Caravan talc and satrap Lester pinell Turkish now you lose five points all derive ultimately from which Indo-European language its varieties include tajik and Dari Darwin will kenning Persian Persian is correct yes your bonuses are on Spa towns in England name each town from the description firstly a town roughly midway between Manchester and Whitby in 2019 it hosted the road cycling World Championships correct a town at the foot of the north town secondly where Springs rich in magnesium sulfate were discovered in the early 17th century Tunbridge Wells no it's Epsom oh and finally the birthplace of Gustav Holst and the location of festivals of literature Jazz and National hunt racing Cheltenham Cheltenham is correct ten points for this from a collection of 1940 by wh Jordan which perm contains the line we must love one another or die its title is the date of the German invasion of Poland in the previous year Durham Regan 1939 nope you lose five points Leicester Isles first of September 1939 it's September the 1st 1939 but I'll accept that yes you've got the date well done right you've got the set of bonuses this time on Fusion first proposed by Hans beta in 1938 what three element cycle provides most of the energy radiated by hotter Stars I'm not sure oxygen burning that's the carbon nitrogen oxygen cycle what's thermonuclear cycle is the primary source of energy radiated by the sun secondly hydrogen Banner hydrogen burning no it's the proton proton and finally what is the only state of matter in which self-sustaining thermonuclear reactions can occur plasma plasma is correct yes right if you want to take a picture of your picture started you'll see a photograph of a physicist 10 points if you can give me his name Darren Parkinson Lev Landau no anyone like the buzz from Leicester you can see it for a moment Schrodinger Schrodinger is correct Erwin Schrodinger he's among the scientists who have streets named after them at the CERN complex which houses the world's largest particle physics laboratory and lies on the franco-swiss border your bonuses are three more physicists with streets in the certain complex named after them first no that's Dirac secondly I need only the surname here um I don't know pass that's woo and finally Feynman it is Feynman yes right 10 points for this what is the largest national park in the contiguous United States straddling the borders of California and Nevada it is noted for experience of Leicester Isles Yosemite no you lose five points it is noted for extremes of heat and dryness Thurman Death Valley Death Valley is correct you get three bonuses on a Chinese City Durham about 600 kilometers east Northeast of Beijing the city of anshan is a leading producer of what infrastructure material yeah asphalt oh it's steel and Shan is about 100 kilometers Southwest of which provincial capital Beijing [Music] in itself west of um and Shan also holds a significant proportion of the world's reserves of what common silicate it defines value one on the Mohs scale talc talc is correct that's right we're four and a half minutes ago and there's ten points at stake for this the physical constant pie is within a few hundredths of the square root of which whole number Durham Parkinson tennis correct these bonuses are on wallpaper becoming popular in England from the 17th century what name is given to the process of overlaying wallpaper with a substance such as powdered wool as a means of adding texture laminated um laminating no it's flocking or Flop a major influence on wallpaper design the Source book published by Owen Jones in 1856 had the title the grammar of what no it's ornament trellis Daisy and fruit are among the wallpaper patterns of the 1860s by which designer William Morris correct 10 points for this published in 1893.
Katrina is a sequel to Which novel characters in both Leicester Harper kidnapped kidnapped is correct yes area your bonuses they're on colloids what three-letter term describes a colloid formed from a solid dispersed in a liquid such that the suspension does not solidify as it does in a gel a soul soul is correct yes a colloid composed of a gas in either a liquid or a solid is generally known by what four letter name pass it's a foam and finally a suspension of one liquid in another is generically described as what I'd imagine yeah an Emulsion an Emulsion is correct ten points figures the Baroque facade of the ruins and Paul's Church is a landmark in which former Portuguese Colony the Church formed MrHopper Goa nope you lose five points the Church formed part of a complex sometimes described as the first European style University in East Asia darum Regan Macau the cow is correct these bonuses are on rivers in which landlocked country is the source of the river selenga a major source of water for Lake Baikal and hence for the NSI River because Mongolia correct the chambeshi the most distant Headwater of the Congo Rises not far from the border with Tanzania in which landlocked country um go for around or anything you want to speak up Rwanda no Zambia the Missouri River has its source in which landlocked U. S state Missouri not Missouri yes no wait where's William mountainous um Colorado Colorado no it's Montana 10 points for this solo nets and chunism are Russian words that describe types of what substance or habitat the study of which is called pedology Lester Harper step no you want to buzz Darren one of you Darren Parkinson forests no it's soil 10 points for this for what do the letters i and S stand in the names of the islm model a key feature of Keynesian economics Durham Regan International standard no [Music] [Applause] you should have taken a Lester it's investment in the savings they're out they've gone less I have 125 but the University of Durham have 180.
