[Music] thank you [Applause] the university challenge asking the questions Jeremy Paxman hello two more teams have exchanged their Ivory tasks for our perspex cubicles as they pay for a place in the semi-final stage of this competition the task ahead of them tonight is to win the first of the two victories that we demand for a place in that stage of the competition the team from Imperial College London are of course representing the reigning Series champions they lost their first round match by 155 points to the University of strathcly's 190 but returned as one of the highest scoring losing teams to beat Exeter University in the playoffs by a mere five-point margin the second round finally gave them an opportunity to show more metal when they beat Saint Andrews 180 points to 90 with an average age of 20 let's meet the Imperial team for the fourth time hi I'm Justin I'm from Hong Kong and I study maths hi I'm Katie I'm from the Peak District and I study Physics this is their Captain hi I'm Michael I'm from North London and I study pure maths hi I'm Imran I'm from Battalion Malaysia and I study theoretical physics the team for Warwick took rather less time to get here beating Wolfson College Oxford in round one by a hearty 255 points to 105 and Merton College Oxford by 190 points to 90 with an average age of 22. let's meet the Warwick team hi I'm Richard Pollard I'm from Cheshire and I'm studying history and politics hello I'm George praise I'm originally from Brighton and I was doing a PhD in physics this is there Captain hi I'm Andrew Rao I'm from beers did in Kent and I'm studying for a PhD in maths hi I'm Aaron Burrell I'm from Lancaster and I'm studying for masters in English literature okay you all can recite the rules in your sleep so let's get fingers on buses on the first starter for 10 let's get on with it what specific word follows jewelry French and Armenian in the names of areas of Birmingham New Orleans quarter quarter is correct yes right you get the set of bonuses on a geographical region Illyria is named in the second scene as the setting for which of Shakespeare's plays in response to Viola's question what country friends is this um it's like Twelfth Night it could be there is a viola yeah uh 12th night 12th night is correct in the First Century A. D the Roman province of illyricum included pan owner in the North and which other region in the South it shares its name with the region of modern-day Croatia correct aside from the small independent Kingdom of Ragusa from 1420 until 1797 much of the dalmatian Coast came out of the control of which Italian polities yes Venice Venice is correct right ten points for this the nylon-like polymer developed by Stephanie qualic of the DuPont company and first marketed in 1971 is usually known by what six-letter trademark name Imperial Ramen Kevlar that's correct yes your bonuses are on a mathematician Paul Hoffman's 1998 biography The Man Who Loved only numbers concerns which mathematician born in Budapest in 1913 yeah is correct in 1949 erdosh and selberg gave a simple proof of the prime number theorem which states that as n tends to Infinity the number of primes less than or equal to n tends to what ratio is it the N over login or log n Over N which one is that well and it will it's going to be the small ones yeah another login isn't it yeah should we okay n over log n correct nice and finally quoting a fellow Hungarian erdosh claimed that a mathematician is a machine for turning water liquid into theorems I think coffee office correct yes thank you for this what three letters all begin words but the following meanings firstly a device for keeping a compass horizontal in a moving vessel secondly a small tool for boring holes Imperial marrow gyr no I'm afraid you lose five points a small tool for boring holes a trick to attract attention or trade and a colloquial expression for something that is easy to perform or obtain Ed Warrick route t r i no it's gim gimbal gimlet gimmick and gimme right 10 points for this following an exhibition in 1927 of which artist did one critic say it is as if a pre-raphaelite had shaken hands with the Cubist the remark referred in particular to his version of the Resurrection depicted as taking place in his hometown in Berkshire Imperial Khan Stanley Spencer correct give it a set of bonuses on the US Aviator Harriet Quimby in April 1912 Quimby became the first woman to fly solo over what body of water although news of the feet was overshadowed by the reporting of the sinki of the Titanic I thought Atlantic was no because it would be limber yeah Mediterranean Maybe what do you think so if they said U.
S Aviator okay USA so gold from Mexico yeah sure Gulf of Mexico that was the English Channel Quimby works as a journalist and was also a screenwriter for the Biograph film company with her scripts being made into silent movies by which director noted for the 1916 epic intolerance uh that's DW Griffith I think okay if I nominate you nominate Ramen DW Griffith correct finally in July 1912 Quimby died when she fell from her plane over Dorchester Bay off the coast of which city on the Charles River um okay Montreal no it's Boston 10 points for this in reference to the Latin terms in Vivo and in vitro what two-word term was coined in 1987 to refer to a biological experiment performed as a computer simulation it alludes to a chemical element commonly used in computer chips Imperial con um silicon bottle no Mark Brave in silico in silico is correct yes right even a set of bonuses on microscopic structures boric which 17th century Italian naturalist and early microscopist gives his name to several anatomical structures such as the corpuscles of the kidneys and the tubules of the insect excretory system um someone from the kidneys presumably wasn't Italian I man no it's malpighi consider one of the founders of Neuroscience which biologist gives his name to the nuclear bodies he first observed in neurons and which are characterized by the presence of the protein p80 or coilin which country do you say didn't wow um anything from around there pass that was Santiago or Ramon ikahal finally which Italian shared the Nobel Prize in medicine with kahal in 1906 he gives his name to the cellular organelle that packages proteins into vesicles for transport Golgi correct so your picture started you're going to see a map of South America with a marker indicating a try point that is a point where the boundaries of three countries meet for ten points name all three countries and you must give me your complete answer as soon as your name is called so to all your thinking before you buzz please Imperial Wong uh Peru Ecuador Colombia correct following on from the tripod between Colombia Ecuador and Peru your picture bonuses will show three more try points and again you need to name all three countries that meet at the point indicated firstly um so turkey's one no it's too far from Turkey that's like maybe like Afghanistan uh oh yes completely Afghanistan Iraq and no rocks two Falls West so maybe Iran Iran Afghanistan and no it runs no the missing one is Turkmenistan it is Afghanistan Iran the other two secondly um [Music] maybe like Nigeria and bikini yeah sure Burkina Faso Nigerian Nigeria now that's Algeria Malia Niger and finally Romania and um and nominate one uh Bulgaria Romania Serbia correct nice right we're going to take another starter question now Henry Elston served which U. S president as Secretary of State events during his time in office included the London Naval conference the Japanese Occupation um Hoover Hoover is correct yes three bonuses on Herald Review the rule of tinctures in heraldry states that Metals should not be placed on Metals nor colors on colors what are the two metals you can give the heraldic name or the common name or or silver and gold silver and gold correct or and Argent to conform to the rule a stripe of a metal is used to separate two colors for example in the six color flag of what country adopted in April 1994. um 1994 so I Eritrea maybe well that's possible yeah ever try it no it's South Africa adopted at Independence in 1962 which Commonwealth country has a flag that is blazing ghouls a Ben Sable fimbriated Argent 1962 oh 1962.
yeah I still don't know um is it um Trinidad and Tobago could be Trinidad and Tobago it is Trinidad and Tobago well done right 10 points for this in Japanese mythology what name is given to a type of often malevolent Spirit or Yokai that can possess individuals and cause suffering the word appears in the English title of a 1997 Studio Ghibli film about this conflict between a human settlement and a group of foreign correct these bonuses are on a French city a former capital of The Dukes of Lorraine which city is located on the river mert about 100 kilometers south of Luxembourg um anything stressful yeah it could be Strasbourg well it's Nazi Nancy is the site of the UNESCO listed Place Stanislas named after a deposed king of Poland who was the father-in-law of which French King I don't know maybe Louis XIV yes Louis XIV that was Louis the 15th Nancy was the birthplace of a writer whose bequest established an eponymous literary prize first awarded in 1903 what was his surname flower bear possibly yeah flower bear no it was gone cool oh okay 10 points for this starter question in contrast to the XY sex determination system in mammals what two letters of the alphabet are used to represent the sex chromosomes of animals such as birds in which the homogenemetic sex is male the same two letters denote the two gauge bosons that together mediate the Greek nuclear Warren Kraut wnz wnz is correct your bonuses are on inaugural recipients of the Kennedy Center annual Awards established in 1978 name each person from the description please firstly a singer who gave a landmark concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC in 1939. she later became a soloist with the Metropolitan Opera it's Gerald maybe yeah I was thinking anything else Fitzgerald that was Marion Anderson secondly one of the 20th Century's leading pianists born in Poland in 1887 he became a U. S citizen after the second world war and gives his name to an international piano competition do you know where was Wittgenstein from I mean his first name was Paul so Rosie was in Polish but he was Austrian I think was he uh anything no sorry Wittgenstein that was Rubenstein and finally a prolific choreographer born in Saint Petersburg in 1904 his Works include serenade and Apollo to music by Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky respectively you think possible no it's balancing right it's time for a music round for your music starter you'll hear a piece of instrumental music from an opera ten points if you can name its composer [Music] Wagner is correct yes the piece you heard was from 10 houses opening back in Ireland for your music bonuses you're going to hear three more classical pieces depicting back in alia all are by French composers and all I need is each composer's name for the points firstly from an opera [Music] it sounds a little elephant yes values no it's the right sort of time but it's sad songs from Samson and Delilah secondly from a ballet yeah oh this is toughness [Music] Ravel is correct yes from deafness and Chloe as you said and finally from a programmatic work [Music] yes yes that is by barely as well Which Romantic but wrote these lines when old age shall this generation waste Thou shalt remain in midst of other woe work Keats please is correct these bonuses on a shape in an Argan diagram of the complex plane what shape is traced out by the parametric curve Z of T equals T times e to the power i t as T increases from zero it's probably going to be a spiral spiral Archimedean spiral yes a cornea spiral can be used in physics to find the intensity distribution of light following which near field Optical effect named after a French scientist um what's the diffraction yeah fresnel diffraction yeah for an L diffraction correct spiral scroll like ornaments known as volutes are a characteristic feature of columns first seen in which order of classical architecture which one but maybe it's during any thoughts um I'm not sure I think dark um ionian yes or ionic right 10 points for this I need a specific name here with the binomial vulpis zerda which animal native to the Sahara is the world's smallest species Warwick Borough fennec fox fennec fox is correct yes right it's a set of bonuses on a religious term meaning three baskets the word tripitica is a traditional term for the written teachings of which major religion okay so it's in Journey to the West which probably means it's Buddhism because I think they're Buddhist monks going to the West uh Buddhism Buddhism is correct tropitica is a leading character in the Ming Dynasty novel The Journey to the West what single word title is often given to the work for example in Arthur Whaley's translation so the main character is a monkey so reasonably it would be called monkey do we think yeah monkey monkey is correct tripitica is based on the Chinese monk schwad Zhang who traveled to India in the early years of which Dynasty I want to say it's the tongue Dynasty but I'm not entirely convinced you're going to know more than we are okay the tongue Dynasty bang Dynasty is correct 10 points for this which explorer led the small team of handsome Hassle beerland and wisting that in 1911 became the first to reach the South Pole Warwick Pollard will Donaldson rolled Amazon is correct three questions linked by a six-letter word meaning a playful action what word was contrasted with detour in a case of tort law from 1834 that ruled on an employer's liability for the actions of their workers do we have anything no I've got nothing um Lorry terms contract or something stupid yeah yeah no contract that's Frolic DrFrolic is a poem of the 1975 collection sadness and Happiness by which writer he became the US Poet Laureate in 1997.
current U. S poets do you know any current U. S poets um no that's a woman um level no it's Robert Pinsky featuring a tuba and mandolins Frolic by Luciano michelini is the theme for which cult comedy series first shown in 2000 it stars a co-creator of Seinfeld I think Curb Your Enthusiasm maybe um yeah be believable I'm not certain but I can't think of anything better okay Curb Your Enthusiasm correct [Applause] how many watts of power are dissipated in a resistor of seven ohms if the potential difference between its ends is 7 volts Warwick braid seven seven is correct yes your bonuses are on London Fog born in Paris in 1840 which leading artists produced numerous paintings of fog around the towers of Westminster and the Thames some painted from a window of the Savoy Hotel Monet was in England for a bit do you think money money is correct The boldest Stroke of 19th century fog art is how one writer described nocturning gray and gold Piccadilly a work of about 1882 by which U.
S artist whistling did nocturnes Whistler Whistler is correct London fogs did not exist till art had invented them who wrote those words in the 1891 MOX Socratic dialogue the decay of lying when was it the late 91 [Music] um I don't know what I would it could be yes wild it was Oscar Wilde yes you'll see a photograph of an architect 10 points if you can give me his name uh Warren Crouch Frank Lloyd Wright it is Frank Lloyd Wright that portrait was by the photographer Berenice Abbott although best known for her documentary photographs of New York she was also a portraitist and for your picture bonuses I want you to identify three more of her subjects first this Blues musician um any ideas nothing at all and do we know any blues musicians anything no sorry pass that was Lead Belly or had he led better secondly this Poe poet particularly known for her sonnets um Plath roots on it right yeah that's possible anyone else from around that time that it could be quite a few I don't know who he is so should we just go with Plath that's before her it's ednas and Vincent Millay and finally this designer um designers Mary Quant Maybe that looks like probably before then but Mary Quant no that's not Mary court it's Coco Chanel ten points for this he rode on a white horse splashed with blood he was pale even to his lips Imperial Wong William III I'm afraid not you lose five points he was barely even to his lips like death in the apocalypse these words refer to what personification named in the title of a work written by Shelley in response to the Peter Lou Massacre Murray Crouch Anarchy and he's correct yes now on medical terms in each case give the term from the description all three begin with the same letter first what term denotes the sheath that surrounds many nerve fibers it is produced by Schwann cells and is composed of lipids and proteins the myelin Chief correct second the fixed bone of the jaw that contains the upper teeth um so the maxilla not the mandible the maxilla the maxilla is correct finally a contagious disease also known as rubiolo or morbilly mumps I don't know preference for one of them measles measles is correct 10 points for this it composers Imperial can't trumpet trumpet is correct yes these bonuses are on 20th century China subtitled three women at the heart of the 20th century China big sister little sister red sister is a 2019 work by which author it's Jung Chang all through Wild Swans in 1915 Ling the red sister of the title married which political figure sometimes known as the father of modern China um correct the little sister is often known as madam what after the Chinese leader she married in 1927. okay Mao no it's much earlier than that is chenko-shek right ten points for this what type of subatomic particle triggered event 170922a at the Ice Cube Observatory at the South Pole uh neutrito neutrino sorry neutrino is correct these businesses are on post-war literature the number in its name reflecting the year in which it was founded group 47 was an informal Association of writers in what European language uh Frenchman it's French or Spanish I think uh well maybe Spanish actually I don't know Spanish that was German who received the group 47 literary prize for his work the black sheep he won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1972. uh heinek ball and Rick ball is correct what is the English translation of the title of Gunter grass's novel The Blick trommel which one yeah the tin drum is correct yes 10 points for this are towns in which Inland Irish County bordering or equal art cork no you lose five points bordering both go away and cool since the early 20th century its name has been associated with the Popular Song um Imperial marrow temporary temporary is correct yes right you get three bounces on Norway since the early 1970s which port in Southwest Norway has been the center of Norwegian North Sea oil and gas exploration established in 1928 for the study of the Northern Lights The auroral Observatory is in which Arctic Port between narvik and hammerfest yle Trump says correct which city on the west coast of Norway was the birthplace in 1843 of the composer Edvard Street Bergen is correct ten points for this the Triumph of the Innocence the scapegoat another one Imperial College have 120 the University of work had 200.
