[Music] University challenge asking the questions Jeremy Paxman hello the end is nigh tonight's match is both the second semi-final and the penultimate match in this entire competition in around half an hour we'll know which team will be taking on Corpus Christi College Cambridge in the series final now the team from Imperial College London haven't been hampered by representing a specialist scientific institution quite the opposite in fact given that so far they've beaten two Oxford colleges brazenos and St John's as well as the courthold Institute of Art and their fellow semi-finalist Dara University that's given them a score of 935 from those four matches with an average age of 23 let's meet them again hi I'm Richard Brooks I'm from Stockton teased and I study mechanical engineering I'm Brandon out of Jamaica Queens New York City I'm doing a master's in Computing this is the captain hi I'm Caleb I'm from lewisham in London and I'm studying for an amres in controlled Quantum Dynamics hi I'm Connor I'm from Dublin I'm doing a PhD in computer science now the team from Trinity College Cambridge also have four wins behind them having defeated Durham University Lady Margaret Hall Oxford the University of Manchester and Jesus College Oxford they also have one defeat at the hands or buzzer fingers of Corpus Christi College Cambridge but those five matches have brought them here with an accumulated score of 1 110 points with an average age of 21 let's meet the Trinity team again hi my name is Nadia howrahan I'm from Dublin and I'm reading English hello I'm Lillian Crawford I'm from beer still in Kent and I'm reading history this is there Captain hi I'm Joseph Weber I'm originally from Barrister Edmonds in Suffolk and I do maths hi I'm Liam Hughes I'm originally from Cardiff but now I live in northamptonshire and I'm also doing maths right fingers on the buses here's your first start of a ten what is the only surviving mammal of the order Jubilee dentata it is a medium-sized nocturnal African mammal with long ears and elongated snout and a diet of ants and termites Imperial Brandon aardvark The Aardvark is correct yes right these bonuses are on political campaigners the abio kuta women's Revolt was a successful Mass protest against oppressive taxation in which country in the 1940s it took place in a city about 70 kilometers north of what was then the country's capital one of West Africa's largest cities so this could be Nigeria right because Lagos is like the big city yeah yeah let's try Nigeria Nigeria correct in which country did wangari matai found the green belt movement in 1977 an attempt to tackle rural poverty through the direct action of tree planting this was in Kenya okay Kenya correct in May 1988 Four Women stormed the studio of the BBC six o'clock news to protest against which new Clause of the Local Government Act usually referred to by its number 28 28 is correct yes right 10 points for this what term in physical science connects words that fit these Clues a county of Northern Ireland a bambaram dridal or tea totem a 2009 Disney Pixar film Imperial Brendan uh now you lose five points the surname of the magician Jonathan in Susanna Clarke's debut novel a trinket worn on a bracelet and the Weaver Trinity Weber charm they're all flavors of cork you obviously had the right idea but you're all wrong right 10 points for this during the 1930s in which country did military factions known in English as control and Imperial Way compete for influence Imperial Brooks Japan Japan is correct three questions on astronomy cited in the Chilean desert an astronomical instrument sensitive to millimeter and submillimeter waves is known by what acronym identical to a Latin word that means nourishing um nourishing is like it's like attrition so it's like allere sorry is there something close to that it's the big telescope that's like it's not the very large telescope it's something array so we try like alera nobody yeah yeah I mean yeah Lea no it's Alma the alma telescope Atacama large millimeter secondly designed to search for the imprint of primordial gravitational waves a series of instruments cited at the South Pole are known by what acronym one letter short of the name of the specific muscle of the human body icep now you've dropped the wrong letter of course it's bicep background Imaging of cosmic extra Galactic polarization and finally led by the French space agency and orbiting instrument for detecting exoplanets by the transit method was known by what five-letter acronym it is also the surname of a landscape painter born in Paris in 1796. foreign listen to the statement and answer the question that follows a small number of English verbs have an irregular past tense that ends in the letters u g h t for example catch and Court what term for a charity Bazaar includes two of these verbs no you don't know it's a bringing buyers in the bring it by sale ten points for this born in 1861 which French engineer gives his name to a tendency or effect in Psychology in which individuals in a group become less productive as group size increases it was originally noted by observing participants in a rope pulling exercise it's the Ringle man effect 10 points for this what is the only consonant in all of the following the title of an oscar-winning musical of 1958 starring Leslie Caron Imperial Brandon g g is correct yes Gigi was the film of course right your bonuses on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar what four words spoken by Mark Anthony in act three scene 1 gave Frederick Forsyth the title of his novel set in the fictional African country of zangaro yeah the dogs of war correct what two words spoken by Brutus in act 2 scene 1 appear in the only Hollywood film of ingmar Bergman oh is this um no this is not the third question it's the other one um yeah no that's from Revelation yeah yeah no um it's not going to come to me um Ides of March no it's Serpent's egg what five word title did the US author and vlogger John Green give to his novel of 2012 adapted from words spoken by Kevin in act one scene two The Fault in Our Stars is correct yes you'll see the title of a play in its original language for ten points name the play's author Imperial Brendan Aristophanes aristophanese is correct we follow on from that to see the titles in Greek of three more plays attributed to Aristophanes and this time I want you to give me the usual title of each play in English firstly the clouds yeah the clouds the clouds is correct secondly cloth that means letters wow it's um Roots frogs ah it's not birds of frogs yeah um the Wasps uh the Wasps no it's the Assembly women yeah and finally that's the gotta be the birds that's that is the birds yes ten points for this what's her name is shared by Margaret a 17th century natural philosopher Henry a scientist whose experiments from 1797 measured the Earth's gravitational constant and Mark Trinity Weber Cavendish Cavendish is correct yes your bonuses Trinity are on world currencies in each case name the currency unit and the word defined that results from reading the currency name backwards firstly the unit of currency of a country that borders both the Caspian Sea and an extension of the Indian Ocean and a generic term for a den or resting place of a wild animal [Music] real and layer correct secondly the unit of currency of a country that borders both the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea and a Botanical term for a fleshy outgrowth covering a seed Lira and Ariel correct and finally the unit of currency of a landlocked country bordering turkey and Iran and a regional word meaning to spoil a child by Indulgence correct 10 points for this what six-letter word of French origin has been applied to Graham green Wallace Simpson and the wife of Mozart from a Latin term meaning blind in one eye it implies a disreputable or sordid character that is still rakishly appealing the word in question rhymes with the French words for shower fly and mouth Trinity Hughes loose Lucius correct yes you get three bonuses on the pioneering ornithologist William McGillivray at the age of 23 in 1819 McGillivray walked from Aberdeen to London to view the Bird collection of which National Institution founded in 1753 um yeah it's a Royal Institution or Natural History Museum yes Natural History Museum no it was the British museum the Natural History Museum was founded much later from 1830 McGillivray wrote the accompanying text for which ornithologists Illustrated work the birds of America nominate Hughes OdoBan OdoBan is correct In 1832 McGillivray published the travels and researches of which German naturalist and Explorer he gives his name to an ocean current off the coast of South America Humboldt Humboldt is correct yes 10 points for this a statement and answer the question that follows caracalla was Roman emperor in the year 216 or 6 cubed who was Emperor in five cubed he was the third in the succession known as the five good Emperors Imperial Brandon Hadrian Hadrian is correct yes your bonuses are mathematics in each case name the method of mathematical proof being described firstly to show a statement is true for any natural number n First shows is true for n equals one then assume it is true for n equals some value K and show that it is also true for n equals K plus one induction that is induction yes secondly to show that proposition P implies proposition Q show instead that the negative proposition not Q implies the negative proposition not p correct also called proof by case analysis or the brute force method what method involves testing to see if a statement is true for all possible values in a set cost of searches exhaustive search I'll accept that yeah it's proof by exhaustion yes right we're going to take a music round now for your music Started you'll hear an extract from an opera for 10 points I simply need you to Name the German composer [Music] Imperial Brooks Strauss Strauss is correct that's from the dance of the seven barrels from Saturday probably the most notorious part of that Opera it's 1910 British Premier was organized and conducted by Thomas Beacham who was a champion of strauss's work your bonuses are works by three more composers whom Beacham also championed five points for each you can name firstly the British composer of this tone poem [Music] this era the straps are like trying to build 20th century videos Vaughn Williams now that's by ideally as it's on here in the first cuckoo in Spring secondly the British composer of this anthem [Music] uh host no that's Ethel's my March of the women and finally the composer of this tone poem um sibelius it is sibelius yes it's Finlandia like 10 points born in Sterling you're in 1671 whom did Wordsworth describe as the poor man's stay the poor man's heart the poor man's hand he's the title character of a novel by Sir Walter Scott Imperial Brenton oh Rob Roy Rob Roy is correct you get three bonuses on artists and murder Imperial born in Milan in 1571 which painter was forced to flee Rome in 1606 after killing a man well that's definitely gonna find you uh no wait Brandon Caravaggio correct born in 1500 in Florence which manner is sculpt a Goldsmith and writer claimed in his somewhat fancible autobiography to have stabbed his brother's murderer to death killed a rival Goldsmith and shot an Innkeeper no mate Randa Cellini Cellini is correct and born in 1860 and a member of the Camden Town Group which painter had a keen interest in the Jack the Ripper murders the writer Patricia Cornwall has suggested that he himself was responsible for them I have a guess it's a messy guess James and sir he was kind of correct me yeah answer no it's Walter sickett 10 points for this the 20th century mathematician stanislav ulam gave what name to a statistical method that examines problems of the generation Trinity Hughes Monte Carlo correct yes you get three bonuses on philosophical Concepts imagine a donkey that is halfway between two equally delicious looking piles of hay but starves itself to death by being unable to choose between them this situation is named after which 14th century French thinker Puritan correct the ship of which Hero Greek myth this is correct yes after a taxi exacting Archbishop of Canterbury which Fork is a sophistical dilemma with choices that are equally undesirable I think it's like Carlisle or someone go for it Carlisle no it's Morton's fault ten points for this give either of the two word Latin phrases that appear in titles of Art and music centering on the sufferings of the Virgin Mary at the crucifixion they mean the mother was standing Trinity Crawford Ave Maria no you lose five points the mother was standing and sorrowful mother Imperial Brandon Dolorosa Mater it's Mata doloroso I'll accept that yes right so you're going to say the bonuses this time on enzymes used in molecular cloning what specific single word is applied to bacterial enzymes that recognize and cut DNA at specific sites and so are used to isolate Gene containing fragments DNA lizases no they're restriction enzymes the abbreviation Alp represents which enzyme purified from E coli or calf intestine it is used to prevent recircularization of vectors in cloning anti-ligation protein it's alkaline phosphatase and finally isolated from the bacteriophage T4 among others which enzyme connects blunt and cohesive DNA ends resulting from restriction enzyme digestion to any luggage or crisper crisp as well is that an easy Christmas yeah crisper no it's Legos right we're going to take a picture around for your picture starter you'll see a drawing I simply need you to tell me the artist who created it Imperial Brandon Durer know anyone want to buy some Trinity Crawford Hogarth no it's by Michelangelo so we'll take the picture bonuses in a moment or two and ten points at stake for this born in 1960 which U. S graphic artists work includes fun home and Imperial Brandon Bechtel Alison Bechtel is correct yes a moment ago you saw Michelangelo's the dream which is part of a group of drawings he created for his beloved Muse Tomaso de Cavalieri your picture bonuses are three examples of the relatively uncommon phenomenon of artists depicting their male Muse and in each case I need you to Name the artist firstly yeah you have any thoughts empty um Brooks now it's Leonora Carrington's portrait of Max Ernst secondly this artist who can herself be seen on the left I mean you do we have an idea who that is on the right I mean I feel really bad just to say Lee krasner because that's the only person that I know would probably come up in you but like all right let's just go no name Brandon krasner no it's marine or abremovich that's rest energy a performance featuring herself and her Muse the artist oulay and finally that's like um bacon isn't it it looks like a kid yeah bacon it is three studies for George ten points for this apogee of the symphony is the subtitle of a biography of which Austrian composer born in 1824.
Trinity Hughes uh Marla no you lose five points anyone want the bus from Imperial Brando Bruckner Bruckner is correct yes yeah so you get a set of bonuses on the films of Audrey Hepburn Hepburn won the Best Actress Academy Award for her performance as Princess Anne in which comedy of 1953 directed by William Wyler uh Roman Holiday correct also featuring Carrie Grant and Walter matto which film of 1963 Stars hepburners Regina Lampert it opens in an Alpine Ski Resort come on pass that's charade and finally which film of 1967 Stars Hepburn and Albert Finney as a married couple re-examining their relationship while traveling in the south of France that's two for the road there's five minutes to go and ten points for this which of the 24 official languages of the European Union is closely related to Arabic Imperial Rich Maltese Maltese is correct these bonuses are on Schrodinger's cat in fiction firstly described as a riff off shoulderinger's cat the cat who walks through walls is a 1985 novel by which leading U. S author of speculative fiction the walls is this like um Jackson Brown Braun bro yeah she wrote like the cat who walks backwards no wait random Lily and Jackson Browne no it's Robert a Heinlein Schrodinger's cat is a short story by which author who died in 2018 her Works include the dispossessed and Lavinia well laviniaism correct and finally wouldn't it be easier just to stomp on the kitten this suggestion occurs in a discussion of shreddinger's cat in which Booker prize-winning novel by DBC Pierre well that was Vernon God little uh Vernon got little Vernon God little is correct 10 points for this answer as soon as your name is called the hexadecimal representation of the base 10 number 173 spells what common Latin preposition Trinity web ber oh AB know anyone to bus from Imperial Brendan um add ad is correct ad yes right you get three questions on Chinese poetry Lee Poe also known as Lee Bai and do Foo have both been described as China's greatest poet both lived during which Dynasty is correct what number appears in the title of the preeminent anthology of Tang poems it is the Triangular number between 276 and 325. do the math 2019 wait do you have it um 300.
300 is correct yes automation took so long get it there the 300 Tang poems were compiled by the retired master of hang Tang during which Dynasty The Collection appeared about a thousand years after Lee Beau was active so that's ching ching ching ching is correct in which country is the hyper saline Lake assel the lowest point Imperial Brandon Djibouti is correct yes I'm gonna say the bonus is on British India named after a major port which presidency of British India until the 1930s covered territory of present-day States and provinces including Gujarat Maharashtra and Sindh in the Imports moving on I wasn't listening what was it just Indian thoughts like on the west yes but Maharaja there's it's not on the Seas come on no it's Bombay also named after a Seaport which territory on the Arabian Peninsula became independency of the Bombay presidency when first and next by Britain in 1839.
