[Music] [Applause] the university challenge asking the questions Jeremy patchman [Music] it's craniotomy time two constituent colleges of the University of London are competing tonight for a place in the second round of this competition the winners go straight through of course if the losers can earn a score that places them among the four highest scoring losing teams they could get one more chance to qualify now the London School of Economics first opened its doors in 1895 the brainchild of the Fabian Society members Sydney and Beatrice Webb and others with the aim of studying industrial and economic
life in the UK and overseas it became a part of the University of London in 1900 Clement athlete taught there as did the historian David Starkey former students include Pierre Trudeau Ed Miller abandon George Soros as well as the novelist Pat Barker and the fictional Jim hacker of Yes Minister Fame representing around 11 000 students and with an average age of 23 let's meet the lse team hi I'm Kevin Schilling I'm from Burien Washington and I'm getting a master's in international history hi my name's Finn I'm from Bristol and I'm studying for a master's in
economic history this is their Captain hi I'm Zara elstein I'm from London and I'm studying economics hi I'm James Ingles I'm from Holland Michigan and I'm also studying for a master's in international history one of the smaller specialist colleges of the University of London The courthold Institute of Art was founded in 1932 with funding from Samuel cortold whose Fortune came from his family's textiles firm the college has impressive premises in the north block of Somerset house but sadly for tonight's team the builders have moved in for a major refurbishment and they've had to relocate to
King's Cross or in their words go from neoclassical Jewel to the workhouse Anthony blunt served as the institute's Director from 1947 until 1974. during which time his pupils included the art critic Brian Sewell the broadcaster Andrew Graham Dixon studied there as did the former director of the Tate Nicholas Sirota and the novelist Anita Bruckner with an average age of 21 representing just under 500 students let's meet the courthold team hi I'm Asha Silva I'm from North London and I'm studying for a ba in history of Art hello my name is Morgan Hague I'm from Cardiff
in Wales and I'm studying for an undergraduate degree in the history of art this is their Captain hello my name is Harry plantz I'm from winchcomb in gloucestershire and I'm studying for a PhD or middle byzantineucharistic objects history of Arts so the rules stay the same as ever they were starter questions are Solo efforts answered on the buzzer and bonuses are team efforts so fingers on buzzer here's your first starter for 10. usually given annually what specific award has been withheld on 19 occasions after the awarding committee found no one of the importance necessary to
receive it the most recent occasion was in 1972 and others have included periods around the two World Wars that's correct you get the first set of bonuses then courthold they're on the muses in each case name the Muse as described by Stephen Fry in his book Mythos the Greek myths retold quote rather undignified end meets The Muse of epic poetry somehow she became a steam-powered organ commonly played in Fairgrounds euphonium no that's Calliope secondly the Muse of Sacred Music dance poetry and rhetoric as well as pantomime geometry and meditation I suppose today we would call
her the Muse of mindfulness uturpee no that's polyhemnia and finally The Muse of history now relegated to a model of Renault Motorcar and a series of Awards in the advertising industry Cleo Cleo is correct well done Ben Fountain Eileen Chang Annie Prue Jan Martell and Jane Austen are among authors whose Works have been adapted into films by which director is correct yes so you get a set of bonuses on tortoises and Turtles as cultural symbols firstly e japa the tortoise is a trickster figure in the folk tales of which large ethnic group of Southwest Nigeria
Togo and Benin foreign dating to the second millennium BCE and used for divination a script written on Tortoise shells and animal bones is the oldest writing in which language Chinese correct also known as The Cosmic tortoise or Turtle akumpara supports the world in the mythology of which major religion Hinduism Hinduism is right 10 points for this from the Greek for setting in motion what term denotes signaling molecules produced by one group of cells that exert an effect on a group of distant cells examples include gastrin insulin and lse angles transmitters no and adrenaline you lose
five points I'm afraid no I can see the problems don't studying much of that do you the answer is hormones 10 points for this a tributary of the Thames that now flows underground which stream had two branches that formed the courthold France the river Fleet now you lose five points had two branches that formed the island on which Westminster Abbey was built it shares its name with the Gallows that stood near the site of marble art indictment the tyburn tyburn is correct yes right your bonuses are on a byproduct of the coal industry lse formed
by Cold distillation what liquid contains polyaromatic hydrocarbons and is used in antiseptic skin preparations I need a two-word term us it's coal tar also used to describe intense Darkness what name is given to the black residue obtained by distilling coal tar it's used as Road tar and to waterproof roofs pitch correct one use of coal Taurus to treat which common skin condition a scaliness of the scalp from flakes of dead skin often caused by siberoic dermatitis dandruff dandruff is correct yes right we're going to take a picture around now if your picture start you're going
to see a section of dialogue from a play by Shakespeare with two words removed for 10 points please give both the missing words Heath and Macbeth that's correct we'll see the whole thing now right those lines from Macbeth are an example of a lost rhyme that is Lions which might have rhymed under the Norms of pronunciation in Shakespeare's time but no longer do so when spoken today and received pronunciation your picture bonuses are three more excerpts from Shakespearean plays with a lost rhyme removed again give both missing words for the points especially from Romeo and
Juliet okay love and come no it's haste and last gosh they must have spoken funnily then so from A Midsummer Night's Dream s should we pass what else could it be but tears if so my eyes are often a washed than hers and finally from Henry V charge and George correct well done it's religion celebrate festivals known as Glo parabs to commemorate events such as birthdays and martyrdoms in the lives of ten gurus believed to have embodied Sikhism Sikhism is correct your bonuses you'll be pleased to hear Court elderon great paintings of the 1880s in
the words of the Tashan series of art guides I simply need the location named in the title of the work described firstly Jesus Christ The Lonely contemporary these words had a discussion of a work by James enser which city is named in its title New York New York now it's Christ's entry into Brussels and secondly which specific venue is named in the title of Edward Manny's 1881 work described by Tashan as a declaration of love for the capital of the world Paris no you would ask for the specific location and it was a bar at
the Folly Beach which is in the courthold and lastly in the paradise of the petty bourgeoisie all are strangers these words describe a work by George Surah now in the Art Institute of Chicago what location is named in its title correct maybe enough to retrieve some honor but I doubt it right 10 points for this the conspicuously Bohemian lifestyle of which welsh-born artist was said to have been stimulated by a head injury sustained during a diving accident Court old hay Augustus John correct your bonuses caught old are on trees in Britain in each case I
simply need a five-letter common name Coralis avalana has what common name a member of the Birch family it's commercially important fruit is sometimes known as a filbert I'd like two things quince Hazel what is the common name of populist tremula the smallest European Poplar its name appears in the second stanza of Tennyson's poem The Lady of shalot ICS box no it's Aspen they quiver what is the common name of the genus Acer the Sycamore is probably the commonest species of this genus in Britain a maple correct right ten points for this develop from the 1960s
by the French mathematician Renee Tom what Theory shows how the growth of an organism proceeds by a series of gradual changes that are triggered by and in turn trigger large-scale changes or jumps it's also been applied to engineering economic and political events cultural prawns exponential growth Theory nope Chaos Theory that's catastrophe Theory ten points for this what is the common name of the culinary herb anathem graviolens it rhymes with the surnames of the authors of the woman in black and on the subjection of women called Silver Target nope I'm afraid that was just an interruption
so you're gonna have to lose five points anyway I like to buy some LSD lse LST rosemary no it's Dill rhymes with Susan Hill and John Stuart Mill of course right 10 points for this Carl Von Frisch shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology with Lawrence and Tim Bergen for studies of animal behavior what particular insects did vonford study Engels fruit fly nope I'm afraid you lose five points stick insects
