[Music] thank you [Applause] the university challenge asking the questions [Applause] [Music] hello the eight teams left in the competition have already sent home 20 of those that entered the first round matches with them having survived the second round as well they're now about to embark on the quarterfinals and they are Imperial College London the universities of strathclyde Warwick and Durham balial College Oxford King's College London modeling College Cambridge and birkbeck College London all those teams will know that to progress to the semi-final they must now win two matches so two straight wins puts a team through two straight losses sends them home but a team that wins one match and loses another must play again and win if they're to go through to the semi-finals now modeling College Cambridge got here by sending home two Oxford institutions University College whom they beat by a 40-point margin and Corpus Christi in round two which saw them take a 70-point lead so with a combined score of 355 and an average age of 30. let's meet the modeling team again hello I'm James Byrne I'm from Wollongong City in Hertfordshire and I study maths hi I'm Adam Davies from Wichita Kansas I just graduated to Green history this is their Captain hello I'm Daniel Lawson I'm from the Wirral and I'm studying medicine hello I'm Kerry Payne I'm from Little Wheaton in Yorkshire and I'm studying theology for Ministry in their first round match birkbeck beat the University of reading by 295 points to 50 and in their second round they scored 205 points to the 95 secured by the open University so with a combined score of 500 at an average age of 49. let's now meet the birkbeck team again hi I'm Jonathan Taylor I'm from London and I'm studying environment and sustainability hi I'm Nikki Clark I'm originally from leicestershire and I'm studying for a PhD in early modern history this is their Captain hello I'm Jonathan Williams I'm from London and I'm studying for an M.
A in classics hello I'm Joshua mutio I'm originally from St Helens I'm Sony friend MSC in politics philosophy and economics well you all know the rules so let's get on with it here's your first starter for 10. in 1592 which future Lord Chancellor wrote I have taken all knowledge to be my Province he later published the advancement of learning the new Atlantis and essays on subjects such as truth adversity and cunning modeling Davies Thomas More no ah work by Clark Francis Bacon Francis Bacon is correct yes I think you've been quicker on that as an early modern historian three questions on representations of the Trojan War and its aftermath for your bonuses was this the face that launched a thousand ships and burned the topless towers of ilium these words appear in which play by Christopher Marlowe DrFaustus correct in an oil painting of about 1610 which artists of the Spanish Renaissance depicted the Trojan priest layer Koon yeah Velasquez that was El Greco really based on the story of dido and Denise late quayen is an epic Opera of the 1850s by which French composer is correct right 10 points for this according to the novelist Elizabeth Bowen fate is not an eagle it creeps like what animal in all worlds 1984 these animals appear more times than cats and dogs combined backpack Taylor rats rats is correct your bonuses are on bricks the shorter side of a standard brick is known as a header what term is used for the longer side the word also denotes an item of equipment used by paramedics stretcher is correct what general term is used for the pattern of headers and stretches as they appear when laying a wall the word also denotes a type of financial instrument a bond bond is correct after a region of Western Europe what is the name of the specific bond that consists of single alternating headers and stretches within each row Dutch no it's a Flemish Bond ten points for this you'll never be a bricklay the origin of which modern day country can be traced to the 7th Century occupation of land south of the Danube by a horde led by asparuk in pre-history part of the region was inhabited by thracian tribes modeling burn Bulgaria Bulgaria is correct yes but you're going to say the bonuses on tautological place names for example River Avon where Avon means River in Welsh in each case identify the name from the description first a mainly Roman Catholic country in the Lesser Sunder islands that achieved its independence from Indonesia in 2002.
