University Challenge - S49E05 - Wolfson, Cambridge v St John's, Oxford

[Music] [Applause] the university challenge asking the questions Jeremy Paxman hello time to reach for the boat race cliche again as a team of Oxford clever clogs take on smarty pants from Cambridge whichever team stays fast and afloat to the end of this cliche we'll go through to the second round we may see losers again as well if they're not too far behind at uh Chiswick bridge now Wilson College is one of cambridge's newer institutions founded in 1965 as University College it changed its name in 1973 to acknowledge an endowment from the wolves person Foundation which

made its pile from a number of familiar High Street retailers as one of the newer institutions its list of notable alumni is a work in progress but as it stands it is undoubtedly topped by the sage of Oakville Ontario Eric monkman who memorably captained the college to the finals in 2017 representing around 760 students from 70 or so countries and with an average age of 25 let's meet the Wolfson team hello I'm Tom Gregg I'm from Leeds in West Yorkshire and I'm studying English hello my name's Aaron I'm from Sydney Australia and I'm studying for

an M Phil in public health this is their Captain hi I'm Ryan Reese Griffiths I'm from Kilkenny in the Republic of Ireland and I'm working towards PhD in physics and machine learning hi I'm Tommy Lee I'm from Norwich and I'm studying classics St John's College Oxford was founded in 1555 to provide an education for Roman Catholic clerics to support the counter-reformation under Mary Tudor although it later became known for the education of Anglican clergyman it's now loudly rumored to be the richest College in Oxford being so long in the tooth its list of alumni is

to coin another cliche a veritable Smorgasbord of accomplishment from the writers Robert Graves a houseman Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amos to more recently Victoria coren Mitchell and Evan Davis with an average age of 20 and representing around 600 students let's meet the team from St John's hi I'm Sam I'm from London and I'm reading history Elizabeth I'm also I'm reading English language is there captain shelix I'm also from London and I'm reading for a default and evolutionary biology hi I'm Aaron I'm also from London and I'm reading mathematics well the rules are the same as

ever 10 points for starter questions which have to be answered on the buzzer individually and bonuses are worth 15 e for those who can confer so fingers on the buzzer here's your first start of a ten who wrote of her early impressions of her future husband to me he was sort of like a unicorn unusual to the point of seeming almost unreal the recollection occurs in her 2018 Memoir becoming Saint John's Burns Michelle Obama correct so the first set of bonuses are on song in the electronic age firstly in the OED what five-letter word is

defined as to sing popular sentimental songs in a low smooth voice especially into a closely held microphone croon is correct learn to croon You'll eliminate each rival soon those words appear in a 1933 song by which leading exponents of the style in question yeah Frank Sinatra no it's Bing Crosby and finally which political figure has regularly been referred to as a former cruise ship crooner his most recent term as prime minister of his country entered in 2011. food no one Impressions Kevin red Kevin Rudd I don't even know you can hold a note no it's

Silvio Berlusconi the man with the ridiculous haircut right 10 points for this starter question what short word links a back claw on a bird's foot a hill or Mountain Ridge that projects laterally a short Branch line of a railway and in the plural St John's leaks strut no use Five Points and in the plural a basketball team from San Antonio and the Premier League Wilson Lee Spurs Spurs is correct yes your first bonus isn't there on tapestries firstly for Five Points in 1515 the Medici Pope Leo the tenth commissioned which artist to design a series

of full-scale tapestries for the Sistine Chapel depicting the lives of Saint Peter and Saint Paul uh Michelangelo Raphael tarmani Raphael I think more likely because Michelangelo what do you think I think Michelangelo because he's later Michelangelo no it was Raphael which Pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement designed the series of six wall hangings based on Mallory's Mort dature and known as the Holy Grail tapestries William Morris now that was Edward Byrne Jones and finally in the 1970s which British Artist collaborated with the West Dean tapestry Studio to produce a series of large-scale tapestries based

on his drawings of mothers and children I have no clue um Lucien Freud no it's Henry Moore ten points for this the nadium pentoxide is widely used in the commercial production of which major industrial chemical catalyzing the oxidation of sulfur dioxide to sulfur trioxide in part of a method known as the contact process John's leaks sulfuric acid correct these bonuses are on SI base units and John's in 2018 the general conference on weights and measures approved a new definition of the kilogram the previous definition was expressed in terms of an international prototype nicknamed Legrand K

an alloy of Which two elements platinum and something comes Platinum bands I think it's two for us is better than gold uh yeah okay plus cinnamon gold no it's platinum and iridium and secondly the conference also agreed that a mole would be redefined in relation to the Avogadro number the previous definition was based on the number of atoms in naught Point naught one two kilograms of what element Vision repair right carbon 12. correct yes carbon the second remains defined as the time period related to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of

what element yes hydrogen no it's cesium we're going to take a picture on now if your picture starter you'll see a map of Africa for 10 points named the country highlighted St John's Burns um Guinea no anyone want to buy some Wolfson Wilson Griffiths Uganda no that's uganda's on the other side of the country no it's Liberia so we'll take the picture bonuses in a moment or two 10 points for this Jerome quanyard's recent book a woman disappears concerns which crime committed in Paris in 1911. the title and subtitle refer to both the object in

question Watson Spike the theft of the Mona Lisa that is correct yes so we go back to the picture round for your picture bonuses you will see having seen Liberia in the starter question that is the flag state of at least 11 of the world's ocean-going ships remarkably despite a population of under 5 million it's widely regarded as a flag of convenience your picture bonuses are three more small countries with implausibly large shipping registers five points for each country you can name firstly somewhere in Caribbean or uh what's wrong with two it's against not it's

not Trinidad is too big um could be yeah correct secondly could be Micronesia Solomon Islands special violence I think it might be easier yeah maybe Micronesia no that's the Marshall Islands where apparently there is one ship for every 18 people and finally Caribbean again uh it's at the Bahamas could be yeah no no no do you want to try some kids nervous what do you think um Saint Kitts Nevis no it's Vincent and the Grenadines ten points for this possibly named after a figure of Norse mythology the aegir or igra is a tidal bore on

the lower reaches of which major English River it occurs when a high spring tide from the Humber Estuary meets the river's Downstream flow Wilson Greg the ball no I'm afraid that was just an interruption so you