[Music] thank you in University challenge asking the questions Jeremy Paxman hello last time we saw Trinity College Cambridge win the first of the two quarterfinal victories are disobliging rules demand of the eight teams still standing in this contest tonight's winners will place themselves in the same happy position but the losers will have to play again and win if they're to remain in contention now the team from Wolfson College Oxford had a very close first round win over the University of Sheffield but in the second round they sent home the reigning Series champions Edinburgh University by a margin of 220 to 100 with an average age of 31 let's meet the Wolfson team again hi I'm Mike Perrin I'm from East Anglia via 30 years in Japan I am studying a d fill in archeology at the Oxford Center for maritime archeology hi I'm Mary Capel I'm from Victoria Canada and I'm studying art history and this is their Captain hi I'm Claire Jones I'm from Houston Texas and I'm studying for a master's in history hi I'm Ryan Walker I'm from Stone and Staffordshire and I'm reading for a default in clinical medicine [Applause] College Cambridge sent home the fall from Merton College Oxford in their first round match and in the second round they crushed any sense of entitlement that four times Champions modeling College Oxford may have felt by beating them by 270 points to 75 with an average age of 21 let's meet the Corpus team again hi I'm Alexander I'm from Bristol and I'm studying Japanese studies hi I'm will I live near Peterborough and I'm studying the history of Art and this is their Captain hi I'm Ian I'm from Salem greater Manchester and I'm studying English hi I'm Alex I'm from Whitney near Oxford and I'm studying chemistry right let's just get on with it 10 points at stake fingers on the buzzers here's your first started for 10. the mother of Saint Augustine of Hippo a Bayon Antarctica the biblical mother of Joseph Wilson Jones Monica now you lose five points the feminine form of a name meaning bright or shining the young of a marsupial and a dealer in Maritime supplies are linked by what television comedy series first seen in 1994. Corpus Christi Wang friends friends is correct yes so you get the first set of bonuses they're on the writer Ruth Prower javala including adaptations of em Fosters A Room With a View and Howard's end and her own novel heat and dust jab valo wrote several screenplays for which pair of filmmakers yes motion Ivory correct javala also worked with Merchant and ivory in the 1981 film quartet based on a novel of 1928 published under the title postures by which writer born in Dominica oh so that must be um what's the name the one who wrote genres correct who wrote the novels the Europeans and the bostonias which jab Valor adapted for films of 1979 and 1984 respectively that sounds like Henry James Henry James correct 10 points for this what two-word phrase was coined in 1978 by Marilyn Lowden then manager at a New York telephone company tasked with exploring why more women were not entering management positions it didn't Compass Christy Stewart glass ceiling glass ceiling is correct S names in each case give both names from the descriptions both names begin with the same three letters firstly an island of the inner Hebrides separated from Iona by a narrow strait and a peak in the Sierra Nevada the highest mountain of Continental Spain Stuart mul uh oh yeah I want the names of the two places and Mel that's correct yes the secondly the second largest island of the Shetland archipelago and a U.
S national Park established in 1872 and noted for its hydrothermal features so Yellowstone Yellowstone and then could it be another one I mean it could be like what's the alarm called yeah but what the island be called Yellowstone and yeah uh Yellowstone and yellow gold no it's Yellowstone and yell an island of the inner Hebrides lastly known as the Hawaii of the north for its surf beaches and high levels of sunshine and the capital of the Breakaway Republic of transnistria I don't know I don't know we're not going to get this already pass it's Tyree and tiras Paul 10 points for this on seeing his opponents before battle which English Monarch repeatedly said they kneel and ask for Mercy an official replied they asked for Mercy but not from you to God they pray for them it's death or Victory their Victory is marked by a monument near the city of Sterling Wilson Jones uh Edward the first no anyone like the bus from Corpus Corpus Christi Russell Edward the third that was Edward II ten points for this from the French for to ice what adjective is used of cloth or leather that has a smooth surface with a high luster it is more commonly known as a descriptor of glazed or candied fruit and in the name Walton Walker classic is correct yes you get three questions on Modern Art and 20th Century history the work of the U. S sculpture and installation artist Katie Noland includes a 1989 silk screen depiction on aluminum plate of which assassin with eight perforations representing Larger than Life bullet holes the Harvey Oswald correct the U. S artist Ben Shan created a series of 23 paintings about the trial for murder of which two Italian immigrants both anarchists executed in 1927 on evidence regarded by many as unsatisfactory Sacco and venzetti correct created in 1988 the October the 18th 1977 cycle of photo paintings by Gerhard Richter was a result of the German artist's fascination with which terrorist group [Music] gang the Red Army faction right 10 points for this in an epigram by the Russian poet osip mandelstam who is described as having fingers like ten thick worms and huge laughing cockroaches on his top lip the epigram played a role in mandelstan's arrest Watson Jones Stalin Stalin is correct yes your bonuses are on a physicist in 1963 Maria gobert Mayer shared the Nobel Prize for developing which model in nuclear physics foreign [Music] the Vesper model that's the shell model one prediction of the shell model is that nuclei with closed shells are particularly stable what term is used for the number of neutrons and protons corresponding to closed shells the atomic weight they're magic numbers the birthplaces of both gopet mayor and the only female physics Nobel Laureate to precede her are located in which present-day country [Music] Poland Poland is correct yes right begin to take your picture around now you're going to see a map showing the territory of an Empire in the year indicated for 10 points I want you to give the name by which the capital of that Empire was known in the given year Corpus Christi Stewart Constantinople correct that was the Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire your picture bonuses will show the territorial extents in the Mediterranean of three more Empires as of the specified dates this time I want the name by which each Empire is usually known firstly that's the accommended Empire okay yeah yeah so you sure which is Persian Empire will be fine okay Persian Empire the first Persian Empire you've got it yeah secondly oh well 750 A.
D I think is the year that the Abbasid caliphate is founded okay so I think Abbasid caliphate okay the opposite caliphate there's the um and finally that's the carthaginian Empire oh that makes sense because that's an easy yeah Carthage Carthage or The Virginian Empire is correct ten points for this flying at the Confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers which city is the home of Carnegie Mellon University and the first team to win Wilson Jones Pittsburgh correct yes your bonuses are on shorter words that can be made using the letters of the name of the largest city in Canada in each case give the word from the definition firstly a four-letter term meaning the breach of a Duty imposed by law [Music] secondly a 1982 film starring Jeff Bridges as a programmer and hacker transported into the software of a Mainframe computer yeah Tron Tron is correct and finally the four letter name of a theoretical Cloud at the extremes of the solar system it is named after a Dutch astronomer word what is correct ten points for this a 1907 oil Crazy by Gustav Klimt depicts which mythological figure the daughter of a crisius and eurydice she was impregnated by Zeus after he visited her disguised Corpus Christi Wang oh Danny it's not sorry are you answering or not yes no don't I but it's not say it don't know you're quite right it is Danny yes we have to accept the first thing we hear so you were lucky you said that before you said no it isn't it right you get a set of bonuses on people associated with the albertus University of koenigsberg now the Russian city of kaliningrad established in 1544 the albertus University was named after the last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knight and the founder of which hereditary dukedum Prussia pressure is correct in 1547 Martinez mads vides published the first printed book a catechism in which Indo-European language is it not like Europe and actually oh it's Russian is older than um yeah so is it like oh it could be uh um Hungarian no it's Lithuanian born in koenigsberg in 1690 which mathematician is noted for the conjecture that every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes that's called back right yeah I think goldback goldback is correct 10 points for this DNA is conserved which U. S president as Secretary of State this President gives his name Corpus Christi Russell Harry Truman Harris Truman is correct yes you get a set of bonuses on astronomy what two-word term is commonly used for stars with spectral Class K or M so some kind of dwarf maybe your giant that's a neutron I don't think it's going to be a neutral stars like red giant movie Red Giant no it's a red dwarf less than six light years away which M4 Red Dwarf star is changing its position in the Sky by more than 10 seconds of Arc per year the most rapid search change of any Star the only one only that place is like something do you think it's something yeah Proxima centauro no it's Barnard Star by what two-word term are such positional changes known and they let red shift or something yeah I mean that's me no I don't I don't think it is either I don't know redshift no they're proper motion 10 points for this larger in area than Portugal or Hungary but smaller than Romania name either of the two EU member states that fulfill these criteria both were formerly part of the Ottoman Empire Corpus Christi Stewart Bulgaria and oh Grace that'll do the other one yeah cool you've got them both well done it's even better more than I asked for in the question your bonuses are on winners of the Academy Award for best original screenplay in each case give the name of the writer from the title of one of his award-winning screenplays and a quotation from the other first the apartment and all right MrDeMille I'm ready for my close-up well it's the director's Billy Wilder but I don't know if he wrote them he probably did yeah Billy Wilder correct yes the hospital and I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore correct Hannah and her sisters and those who can't do teach and those who can't teach teach gym oh no no no no no it's wait it's it's Richard link that's from school of rock is it is it but did he write 100. so that'd be quite weird maybe Rich yeah letter no it's Woody Allen [Laughter] right we're going to take a music round for your music starter you'll hear an excerpt from a ballet by a Russian composer 10 points if you can give me the composer's name [Music] Corpus Christi gunasankara Stravinsky no anyone like to buzz from Wolfson you can hear a little more all right Alton Jones for coffee f it is prokofiev yes right so you get the music bonuses following on from prokofiev Cinderella which as you heard imitates the sound of pendulums to represent the approach of midnight so your bonuses are three more Works which musically depict pendulums again I want you to name the composer firstly this French composer foreign [Music] Spanish time secondly named a composer who originally conceived this example of process music cage now that's Steve reich's pendulum music created by feedback from microphones swung-like pendulums finally this composer [Music] [Applause] Heath was written as a homage to which novelist and poet who died shortly before its first public performance in 1928 egden Heath is located in the fictional region of Wessex Wilson Jones Hardy Thomas Hardy is right here thank you right you get three bonuses on southeast Asia in the early 17th century born in 1590 iskandar muda the Sultan of arche ruled a significant Regional power with its capital on which large island correct in 1629 an alliance including ships of which European power defeated this Scandal mood and near Malacca yeah the no no it was Portugal the Dutch came a bit later I think and finally the economic basis of arches power was the trade and cultivation of what spice it comes from a climbing vine native to the Malabar coast of India it should be closed all right pepper it is pepper yes 10 points for this Express has a power of 10 what is the square root of a Google Corpus christ at 10 to the 50.
correct that long name gives you a bit more time to work it out doesn't it right your bonuses are on insecticides what group of insecticides was developed from a natural compound found in chrysanthemums with several synthesized versions being created in the 1960s oh like what's the DDT uh do you think yeah DDT that's pyrethrins secondly what group of insecticides was developed in the 1980s from an alkaloid found in the plant family solanasi is this 80s when the DDT scare started yeah DDT no that is neo-nicotinoids and finally neo-nicotinoids act as agonists of receptors of which neurotransmitter serotonin maybe that's a neurotransmitter I don't know serotonin yeah it's acetylcholine 10 points for this what short name links the titles of novels by Arnold Bennett and Tolstoy were the authors Watson Jones Anna Anna is correct your bonuses are on U. S state capitals in each case I need the name of the capital and its state what is the closest state capital to San Diego California Phoenix Arizona correct what is the closest state capital to Chicago Illinois Indianapolis Indiana no it's Madison Wisconsin and finally what is the closest state capital to New York City community [Music] Hartford Connecticut no it's Trenton New Jersey we're going to take a second picture around for your picture starting you'll see a painting 10 points if you can identify the artist uh Compass Christie Stewart Rembrandt it is Rembrandt well done that was Rembrandt's depiction of a scene from The Book of Esther your bonuses are on three more paintings based on this book but using slightly more poetic license in each case I want the name of the artist firstly this looks Renaissance no no it's like a neocasco oh so it could be Renaissance I think well yeah okay yeah maybe pink sound it is yes secondly could this become a virgin maybe uh it's not what would your guess is kind of a verb here it's definitely 16th century dress yeah late 16th it's not like the tenorism isn't quite care of it could be changed Alaska you think it's strong yellow do you think so okay correct and finally and this looks like a Rubens oh oh I'm not sure I think it I think it looks like Delaware angra maybe um because it just looks very orientalist I know that's what I'm thinking yeah but I would I would just I'm really sorry if I'm wrong okay so Reuben's then sorry I think it's Reubens and look at it's like Tish it's Titian veronesial Reubens I'll go with your first Reubens oh it's none of those it's tintoretto right 10 points for this born in 1904 which U. S psychologist is particularly associated with the term operant conditioning he gives his name to a box Wilson Jones Skinner Skinner is correct three questions on a poem for you Wolfson first published in 1845 which poem begins Once Upon a Midnight dreary impose The Raven the bird perched above the narrator's door on a bust of Palace Palace being a title given to which Greek goddess Athena Athena is correct the poem is said to have been inspired in part by a talking Raven called grip who accompanies the title character in which historical novel by Charles Dickens Barnaby reg Barnaby Raj is right 10 points for this tsotp is an abbreviation used of which series of young adult novels its characters include Lena caligaris and Carmen Lowell Corpus Christi Wang like the seagull and the peacock no Orson Capel the Neapolitan novels no it's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants right 10 points for this in medieval European Warfare the salad armit and bassinet were examples of what Corpus Christy Stewart helmet they were all helmets you're right your bonuses this time are on Military events of the 18th century I need the precise year in which the following occurred all three questions have a six-word clue to a year that ends in the number six firstly French defeated at Turin and ramalis 1796.
it could be the start of the Revolutionary War before Napoleon arrives okay yeah 1796. no it's 1706. in late August Frederick invades Saxony think I mean 1756 is the start of the Seven Years War so it'd be that kind of thing yeah do you want to go with that I could be 77 sorry that's fine correct Napoleon's victories at Lodi and Arcola okay 1796.
correct ten points for this so what does the letter h stand in the medical abbreviations t-s-h-l-h Compass Christian hormone is correct yes you get a set of bonuses on the US author Barbara Kingsolver set in the former Belgian Congo Which novel by King solver is narrated by the wife and four daughters of the Baptist missionary Nathan price the only one I never hear is The Poisonwood Bible so it's probably not The Poisonwood Bible correct Which novel by King solver has a title the definitions of which include a blank or Hiatus or a missing portion or empty page uh I don't know what could that be empty portion yeah but whatever Gap there's the Lacuna and finally what species of butterflies the subject of King solver's novel flight behavior in the book large numbers of them abandon their usual Mexican winter habitat arriving instead in Tennessee I was thinking that yeah okay yeah Monarch Monarch is correct ten points for this this political figure was born Archibald Primrose in 1847. he was foreign secretary in two liberal governments before succeeding Gladstone as prime minister in 1894. Orson Jones Roseberry Roseberry is correct yes your bonuses are on popes of the 20th century Wolfson in each case give the papal name and number from the birth name and dates of the pontificate first Eugenio pacelli from March 1939 to October 1958.
Pius IX now it's past the 12th secondly albino Luciani August 1978 to September 1978. oh it's Paul the sixth sixth no that was John Paul the first and finally Joseph ratzinger April 2005 to February 2013.
