[Music] [Applause] the university challenge asking the questions Jeremy Paxman hello there are four places in the semi-finals of this competition and last time we saw the first of them go to Corpus Christi College Cambridge tonight's match is between two teams who lost their first quarterfinal fixtures so for the winners there'll be one final chance to qualify but for the losers it'll be the last time we see them the Manchester University team are here having beaten Jesus College Oxford in the first round and Huddersfield University in the second but they fail to find their form in their first quarterfinal match losing by 95 points to the 300 of Trinity College Cambridge on a total score of 485 with an average age of 24. let's meet the Manchester team for the fourth time hi I'm Jack I'm from Cheshire and I'm studying for a PhD in maths hi I'm Melissa Johnson I'm from pumalanga in South Africa and I'm studying economics this is their Captain hello I'm James Green I'm from the will and I'm doing a PhD in modernist literature hi I'm Aben I'm from Greenfield in West London and I'm studying physics now Wolfson College Oxford had a narrow victory over the University of Sheffield in round one at an easier time of it over Edinburgh University in round two but they came a Cropper in their first quarterfinal against Corpus Christi College Cambridge so they're in the same boat as their opponents tonight needing a win from this match and their next in order to go through on a total of 540 points and with an average age of 31 let's meet the Wilson team for the fourth time hi I'm Mike Perrin after 30 years in Japan I'm now writing a D field thesis in Japanese Maritime archeology hi I'm Mary Capo I'm from Victoria Canada and I'm studying art history this is their Captain hi I'm Claire Jones I'm from Houston Texas and I'm studying for a masters in history hi I'm Ryan Walker I'm from Stone in Staffordshire and I'm reading for a default in clinical medicine okay you all know the rules so let's just get on with it shall we 10 points at stake for this fingers on the buzzers please building on a concept postulated in 1913 by Niels Bohr in his shell model what mathematical function describes the wave properties of one or two electrons in an atom different types can be designated by the letters s p d and f Wilson Jones well Atomic orbitals orbital is what I was looking for that'll accept that yeah so your bonuses are on the social reformer Eglinton Jeb firstly for Five Points born in Shropshire in 1876 Jeb witnessed the condition of refugees on a visit in 1913 to which present-day country a part of the Ottoman Empire partitioned after the Balkan Wars probably could oh being used I know it could either be Greece or it could just be Turkey um I'm not sure is is it turkey no it's North Macedonia secondly Jeb co-founded which charitable organization in 1919 in response to the plight of young refugees displaced by the first World War um possibly oh yeah that's true um we can just say it uh UNICEF no it's save the children and finally Jeb's five-point document the Declaration of the rights of the child was officially endorsed and adopted in 1924 by which International body possibly yeah the League of Nations the League of Nations is correct right ten points for this the second largest of its country which city was the birthplace of Kemal Ataturk and of the Saint Cyril Wilson Jones Thessaloniki correct right your business is this time we're on video games included in the recent V and a exhibition entitled design play disrupt give the title of each game from the description firstly an adventure game first released in 2012 the player guides a red robed figure through a desert towards a distant Mountain containing no speech or text it is often cited as an example of an art game um uh all right through the desert uh race the sun no it's Journey secondly a point-and-click game developed by cardboard computer it centers on the delivery driver Conway and his encounters while navigating the fictional Road of the game's title um that's going to be like root yeah something something um I don't know rainbow road now it's Kentucky Route Zero and finally an action adventure game first released in 2016. here the player is free to explore potentially millions of planets each with a unique procedurally generated ecosystem do you have any idea what year was it 2016.
space space I remember there was one but I think it's early in 26 I think what was it though that's it sport no it's no man's Sky ten points for this answer with a fraction as soon as your name is called an unpolarized beam of light is incident on a pair of Ideal polarizers whose transmission axes have an angle of 60 degrees between them Manchester Booth half no you lose five points what fraction of the original incident intensity is transmitted through the pair Walton Walker a third no it's 1 8 10 points for this quote either the last great Concerto in the classical style or because of its immensely powerful gestures the first of the great 19th century romantic concertos these words refer to which composer's final piano concerto popularly known as the emperor Manchester green is it Beethoven of course these bonuses are on thermodynamics which German scientist is credited with the version of the second law of Thermodynamics that states that heat does not pass from a body at low temperature to one at higher temperature without an accompanying change occurring elsewhere nominate Booth clausius correct clausius defined a change in what property of a system as the energy transferred reversibly as heat divided by the temperature at which the transfer took place entropy correct which physicist gives his name to the constant that is equal to the absolute entropy of a system divided by the logarithm of the number of possible Arrangements of the molecules of the system to achieve the same total energy nominate please boltzmann boltzmann is correct we're going to take a picture around for your picture started you're going to see a part of the Earth where the sea highlighted in Orange 10 points if you can name it Watson Jones uh the Arctic sea anyone later Manchester you may not confer one of you can vote Manchester Booth sea of momansk no it's not it's the berance see so we'll take the picture bonuses in a moment or two 10 points at stake though for this starter question born in 1758 which German astronomer gives his name to a paradox relating to the Manchester Booth Oliver's Paradox Albus is correct yes want from the bear currency which none of you got you're going to see the same view of the Arctic with three more Seas highlighted five points for each you can name firstly okay maybe yeah that makes sense makes sense yeah so Siberian see that's the Cara see secondly the bones yep bearing no that's the chukchi sea and finally uh that's I mean I have no idea you can't see no that's the Beaufort sea so ten points for this after her marriage in 1793 which writer was known as Madame darbly her Works include the novels Evelina Cecilia and Camilla Manchester green funny Burnett no anyway I like to buy some Wolfson it's Fanny Bernie ten points for this well there's no point in sighing like that he was wrong remypedia isopods and mantis shrimps belong to which Texans Manchester Rogers crustacea correct yes on monochrome Art White Flag is a 1955 work by which U. S abstract expressionist it comprises a U. S flag painted over entirely with white and caustic because yeah I think he does a load of flags it's Jasper Johnson Jasper John's correct born in Canada in 1912 which abstract expressionist produced multiple Works consisting of barely perceptible ruled lines on off-white backgrounds she's associated with the Taos art colony in New Mexico um Keith I don't think she's abstract expressionist um should we just say pass sorry that's Agnes Martin and finally depicting a tilted off-center white square on a slightly warmer White Square Ground supremities composition white on white is a work of 1918 by which Russian artist um um content ski no it's Casimir malevich 10 points for this the time span of which Chinese dynasty saw the death of the French poet Christine De pizan the birth of Pierre de ferma to capture Manchester green mink Ming is correct yes these bonuses are on botany what short name is given collectively to the large group of vascular plants whose British species include War Rue and common polypody do we know anything lilies no they're ferns what name is given to the clusters of sporangia or Spore capsules that develop on Fern fronds and are released in the first stage of the reproductive cycle no um sorry pass sorry it was the correct answer give it sorry or Soros is the answer what name is given to the green plate-like structure that develops from a germinating fernspore and initiates the growth of a new plant mirror stem that's a prothalis or brothalum 10 points for this which poet mocked The Scholar Lewis Theobald calling him tibbled the son of the goddess of dullness in a work first published anonymously in 1728 and entitled the dunseer Watson Jones Pope Alexander Pope is correct yes three questions on a Russian composer for you guys Wolfson a display in Saint Petersburg in 1874 of works by the artist Victor Hartman inspired which composers piano Suite pictures at an exhibition yeah Missouri correct which Opera by mazovski is based on the life of the Russian Czar whose Reign inaugurated the time of troubles in 1598.
right Boris gordonov correct mazovski's orchestral work night on ball Mountain gained a wider audience when it was used in the penultimate scene of which 1940 Disney film Fantasia Fantasia is correct yes right she presents take your music around for your music starts you will hear a piece of popular music 10 points if you can tell me the band performing awesome cable T-Rex T-Rex is right yes in 1970 T-Rex headlined the pilton festival in Somerset an event that would eventually develop into the Glastonbury Festival to Mark the festival's 50th anniversary in 2020 you will hear three more acts associated with significant moments in its history firstly this track was played at the festival's first laser light show I want the name either of the band or its singer [Music] um oh God we should know this I don't think we know this okay fine that's tubeway Army Gary Newman was the performer secondly this solo artist who was the first to headline the festival three times [Music] Van Morrison it is Van Morrison could be anyone else could it and finally this artist also a three-time headliner who headlined the year the festival was first broadcast live radio I'm sorry I have nothing I'm sorry we'll say Tom Petty it certainly wasn't Tom Petty it was Elvis Costello right 10 points for this of low density and impervious to liquids what natural product comes from quercus Suba a tree grown widely in Mediterranean climates it is used to make cricket balls and bottle stoppers Wilson Jones Quirk cork is correct yes [Applause] right these bonuses are on critical theory terms each answer is a four-letter word in his 1974 work what short word does Raymond Williams call the defining characteristic of broadcasting he contrasts this with what he describes as discrete forms of communication such as film letters um broadcasting well broadcasting talk yeah yeah I mean not very critical theory no but I'm not sure um go for it yeah talk no it's flow what English word is typically used to translate concept of Monk m-a-n-q-u-e in his psychoanalytic framework it is defined as the cause of Desire the loss no it's lack in a 1936 essay what where did the German cultural critic Walter Benjamin use to refer to the Quality that is lost when a work of art is reproduced he defines it as the sense of its unique existence at the place where it happens to be Aura correct ten points for this using resistors and thermocouples Constantine is an alloy of which two metals the same Metals in different proportions replace silver in British coinage in 1947. Manchester Booth copper nickel copper nickel is correct get these bonuses you'll be on level pegging there are Romanesque Village churches described by pevsner as one of the most complete Norman churches in Yorkshire the church of Saint John the Baptist at Adel lies a few miles south of the river Wharf on the outskirts of which city that makes sense yeah Leeds Leeds is correct no difference find Norman carvings the church of Saint Mary and Saint David at killpeck lies roughly midway between the black mountains and which English City do you know where the Black Lantern is known black countries say that yeah Birmingham no it's Hereford it's in herefordshire notable for its Norman chancell Arch the Parish Church of rock is situated in The Wire Forest a few miles west of which major river s seven the seven is correct right 10 points for this what color is the top most band of the flag of Palestine the bottom Manchester Rogers luck black is correct yes you take the lead Manchester and you get a set of bonuses on Chinese historians the Imperial official ban goo is noted for a history of the former or Western period of which major Chinese dynasty yeah Okay Hand Dynasty correct ban Goose death left the completion of his work to his sister ban Zhao she is sometimes likened to which Byzantine historian born in 1083 and the author of The Alexian Anaconda correct ban Goose twin brother ban Chao was a general who brought the terrim Basin under Chinese control in which present-day autonomous region of China is this basin it's going to be in a monkey and probably yeah there's only three on there so in a Mongolia uh no it's xinjiang 10 points for this what initial letter links the names of the three artists who painted Juan de pareja the family of Darius before Alexander and the milkmaid Watson cable uh v v is correct you'll get a set of bonuses on European rodents Wolfson living at Heights above 600 meters Alpine is a European species of which large ground squirrel it is in the same genus as the North American groundhog chinchillas European European yeah um Norway Brown and colored are species of which mouse-like rodent its numbers fluctuate widely with high populations leading to mass migrations a lemming lemming is correct the genus historix comprises large rodents known by what common name derived in part from the Latin for pig the crested species may be seen in Italy like or go or something anything or something like that it could be that come on Evol it's a porcupine and with 95 points a piece we go into a picture round for your picture start you're going to see a photograph from a production by the English national ballet of a work first performed in 1870 for 10 points give me its title Wilson Jones uh Tales From Hoffman know anyone liked about some Manchester the green Pinocchio no it's capelia so we'll take the picture bonuses in a moment or two and ten points at stake for this starter question in anatomy what term denotes the structure in the roof of the mouth that separates oral and nasal cavities it is also used figuratively to indicate the sense of taste Manchester Johnson palette pallet is correct yes so you take the lead and you get your bonuses following on from capelia three photographs of more Productions by the English national ballet I need you to name the ballet in each case firstly this work to music by a French composer do we have any ideas is that is it a cow but is that a ballet it could be common there's the afternoon of a thorn secondly with music by a Russian composer depression that um is that like uh the Comedia Del Arte is that one of the the clowns oh kind of view I mean it's a good guess I don't know Patricia correct and finally also by a Russian composer Swan Lake should we just go for that Swan Lake no it's Cinderella right 10 points for this give the title of the 14 line perm in which the first three adjectives are antique vast what's amorcup Ozymandias Ozymandias is correct right these bonuses are on an annual award the parliament of which Country Awards the Hallberg prize honoring work in the Arts Humanities and social sciences um it could be Denmark's Norway it could be Germany um yeah how about that Denmark no it's Norway which British author won the Hallberg prize in 2015. her Works include monuments and maidens the allegory of the female form and once upon a time a short history of fairy tales I really don't know this no um no pass that's Marina Warner and finally described as by far the most cited legal scholar in the United States who won the Holberg prize in 2018.
