[Music] thank you [Applause] the university challenge asking the questions Jeremy Paxman [Music] hello of the teams competing in this second round match one represents an institution making its debut in the competition while the other is a frequent Contender that's been serious Champions four times in the past both of them are chasing a place in the quarterfinals and whichever of them wins tonight will take the fifth of the eight available slots in that stage of the contest the day Beatles from the University of Huddersfield beat the open University by 145 to 125. Huddersfield managed to hold on to their lead until the final moments when their opponents Drw level but they were saved by knowing about things to do with the neck and the Gordon Riots of 1780 and that put them back on top with an average age of 40. let's meet the Huddersfield team again hello my name is Sean I'm from Huddersfield and I'm studying for a PhD in history he's their Captain hi I'm Andy long-term Huddersfield resident originally from Walsall in the West Midlands I'm studying for a PhD in history I'm Aaron I'm from Norwich in Norfolk and I study drama the team from Manchester University got off to a blistering start in their first round match against Jesus College Oxford with a score in three figures while Jesus languished on 15 they didn't have things all their own way though but a final starter question on saccharin put them on 185 points to 145 with an average age of 24.
let's meet the Manchester team again 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 mpumalanga in South Africa and I'm studying economics this is their Captain hello I'm James Green I'm from the world and I'm doing a PhD in modernist literature hi I'm Adam Booth I'm from Greenfield in West London and I'm studying physics you go to the rules so fingers on buzzers here's your first start of a ten what two-word term was popularized by the financier Bernard Baruch in a speech of 1947 to the South Carolina House of Representatives describing the worsening relations between the United States how does Phil cook Cold War cold war is correct so you get the first set of bonuses Huddersfield they're on breeds of donkey firstly for Five Points which large breed of donkey shares its name with a romance language the animal is often depicted on car stickers along with the red and yellow flag of the region from which it takes its name red in yellow Spain Spanish there's the Catalan on you secondly a distinct breed of small albino donkey is named after asinara a small island Northwest of the city of sasari on which larger Mediterranean island yeah go for that yeah Sicily no it's Sardinia what recognized breed of donkey takes its name from the historical area that was the birthplace of Frederick Mistral and Paul Cezanne well Historical Area performance Prevost correct 10 points for this I need a four letter term here what is the only s i prefix to be given an abbreviation of two letters rather than one Manchester Booth Kila no you lose five points it's abbreviation spells a Welsh word meaning good a Latin word meaning give and a Russian word for yes Huddersfield cook d a no it's Decca d a is the symbol of course but I need a four-letter term as I asked for right another starter question with his partner juman Malouf who opened the exhibition Spitz Mouse mummy in a coffin and other Treasures in Vienna in 2018 the person in question directed The film's Rushmore and The Grand Budapest Manchester green where's Anderson correct your bonuses are on overstatement quote few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas saved by being overstated which liberal philosopher wrote those words born in Riga his family moved to the UK in 1920. but nothing yeah liberal philosopher sorry pass that's Isaiah Berlin the Scottish poet Don Patterson writes overstate one thing mute another no one remembers the third rule of which 1996 novel so it's not Jeopardy um [Music] or maybe a Fight Club correct in its earliest iteration in the novel The Third rule of Fight Club comprises 13 words with an extended conditional Clause give the general sense of the rule okay well the first two are you didn't talk about vocals that was the third one I honestly can't remember it's been here since I've seen the film um internet I think it's like um once blood is spilled I just need the idea once blood is spilled the fight's over uh I don't think that's quite good enough it's if someone yells stop goes limp or taps out the fight is over so 10 points for this the orantes river flows north from Lebanon and reaches the sea near which city founded by a general of Alexander the Great it was an early Center of Christian activity and in 1098 came under the root of the Crusader Prince Belmont Manchester Booth Tire no I'm afraid that was just an interruption so you're gonna have to lose five points anyone like the bus from Huddersfield how does Phil cook sidon no it's Antioch right 10 points for this my only two regrets in life are that I did not hang John Cahoon or shoot Henry Clay these words are attributed to which president of the United States Manchester green Hoover no I'm afraid you lose five points born in 1767 to Ulster Scott's parents he led the U. S forces at New Orleans in 1815 before defeating John Quincy Adams in the presidential elections of 1828.
Andrew Jackson correct you get a set of bonuses Huddersfield on the British sculptor Rachel white Reed the first woman to win the Turner prize white treat is identified with which artistic group known for its entrepreneurial spirit and used as shock tactics especially in the 1990s the group includes Tracy Amin and Damien Hurst yeah yeah why be a young British artists correct in 1997 white Reed represented Great Britain at which International art exhibition in Italy it features numerous art forms and is held every two years correct which European capital is the location of white treats Holocaust Monument known as the nameless Library Berlin No it's Vienna right we're going to take a picture around for your picture started you'll see a map with the location of a city indicated 10 points if you can name the city Manchester Booth cork cork is correct yes talk will host in 2020 the annual conference held as the main event of European Maritime day which takes place in May each year to raise the visibility of Maritime Affairs fuel bonuses I simply want you to identify three more cities that have hosted this conference since its Inception firstly this city which hosted the Gathering in 2016. no it was turkey or bad luck secondly this port city which hosted the conference in 2015 . Athens no that's Perez Perez is a separate City to Athens and I did ask for a port city finally this city the 2010 host santanders I think it might well be sent on this Santander 10 points for this in mathematics and geography what an adjective is used as another name for an orthomorphic mapping that is one in which angles are preserved Manchester Rogers conformal correct you'll get a set of bonuses on physics firstly to single digit Precision what is the heat capacity a one metric ton of water expressed in joules per Kelvin and it's a ton of water yeah so it's a thousand kilograms a lot so it's four thousand four point two million yeah 4.
2 million that's correct that's more accurate than you were asked for in fact we only needed one digit uh to the same Precision in joules what is the energy equivalent of one metric ton of TNT IC um yes there's less I think maybe a million a million no it's four billion and finally so if it's explosion energy we're entirely converted to heat what quantity of TNT in terms will be required to warm up one cubic kilometer of Water by one degree would weigh what cubic kilometer would be oh I can that would be the weight of uh TNT it's the weight of TNT right kilogram I don't know a kiloton a thousand five thousand tons yeah no it's a million tons right 10 points for this what positive human quality precedes of women and of strangers in the title of works but Manchester Johnson kindness kindness is correct yes your bonuses are on cities in Germany in each case name the city from the description all three answers begin with the same letter first a major city of North rhine-westphalia Northeast of cologne and Dusseldorf it's the southern Terminus of a canal linking the rural area to the North Sea okay Dortmund Dortmund is correct secondly a former capital of the state of Hess as the location of the institute for heavy ion research it gives its name to a transuranic element darmstadt correct and finally a city formerly known as the Florence on the Elba for its Baroque and Rococo buildings built by rulers such as Augustus the strongest Drsden Drsden is correct a Target is a portmanteau of the Russian words for compromising and material Manchester green complement compromat is correct these bonuses are on orders of architecture which of the orders of classical architecture is characterized by fluted columns topped with capitals featuring scroll-like ornamentations ionian I'll accept those ionic yes in the U. S Capitol Building Columns of the Corinthian order are topped by Scout ideas of corn in place of the leaves of which plant traditionally used in such columns um no it's it's sort of like um can't really describe it sort of like floats out like that I'm just going to say Olive olives no it's a canthus Columns of the Britannic order feature depictions of which two beasts also frequently appearing in heraldry magogan oh sorry what do you say so frequently appearing in Hell dress so like lions and Drgons lions and dragons no it's the lion and the Unicorn 10 points for this in physics the capital letters u and v are often used to designate what form of energy it's if Manchester Rogers potential energy potential energy is correct yes you get a set of bonuses this time on planetary science which planet of the solar system Bears unusual volcanic features known as arachnoids they have a central structure surrounded by a network of fractures Venus Venus is Right often hundreds of kilometers across simpler circular volcanic features on Venus share a name with what part of the Sun okay that makes sense Corona correct a lack of relatively small impact craters below 20 kilometers in diameter is attributed to what aspect of the planet closest to this one no it's not the closest to Sunday um I don't know density I don't know I don't know that's a wild one the density of the specifically what of the crust no no that's wrong it's the density of the atmosphere right we're going to take a music round now for your music Started you're going to hear an aria from an opera for 10 points please name its composer [Music] how does Phil Cahill uh Verdi no you can hear a little more Manchester Manchester Johnson no it's not it's Rossini so we're going to take the music bonuses in a moment or two here's 10 points for a starter question peddling prosperity and the conscience of a liberal are among the works of which U. S Economist a regular columnist in the New York Times he received Manchester green is it Paul Krugman it is Paul Krugman yes okay that was Rossini's Barbara Sevilla heard a moment ago it's believed to have been written in its entirety in under three weeks your music bonuses are three more classical Works generally held to have been written in unusually short periods of time I want you to name the composer of each firstly the composer of this 1947 concert Overture believed to have been written in just a few days [Music] 1947 so it doesn't sound too experimental [Music] is it Bernstein no that shostakovich's festive Overture secondly the Austrian composer of this Mass which apparently took him just under a week [Music] tomorrow is it Mozart no that's Shubert it's the Curie from his mass in G major and finally the composer of this Overture to an opera [Music] is it Mozart it is Mozart it's the Overture for John Giovanni which believes was written the night before the Opera's Premiere right ten points for this what two-word term did the critic Wayne C Booth coin in the 1961 work the rhetoric of fiction to describe a Storyteller such as those in notes on a scandal By Zoe Heller and Yen martel's Life of Pi Manchester green unreliable narrator correct here are your bonuses they're on Words that differ only by their first letter I want you to give both words from the description firstly the surname of the title character ever played by Frederico Garcia Loca and the location of Napoleon's first Exile elbow Maybe could be here that makes sense Elba and Alba it's Alba and Elba yes a cereal grain with the binomial hordium vulgari and a conference or discussion between enemies under a truce um oh yeah yeah Bali and Pali correct and finally the primordial Greek god of the air and atmosphere and a roport chain used to tie an animal to a fixed object it's not oh no sorry wasn't that a Uranus like Uranus the original or not um the primordial god of the air and some kind of like rope thing looks different times yeah that doesn't sound very great to me uh I'm probably going to keep myself um I can guess that come on um no pay and rope no it's ether and tether right ten points for this in physiology the French derived term sacard denotes rapid movement of what paired organ of the human body how does Phil cook always eyes is correct yes these bonuses are on nuclear physics firstly occurring for example in californium 252 what form of nuclear Decay has the abbreviation SF gamma no it's spontaneous Vision resulting in the emission of an atomic electron what form of Decay has the abbreviation I see that's internal conversion and finally occurring in beryllium seven what form of nuclear Decay is abbreviated to the letters e c electron capture electron capture correct 10 points for this which French utopian socialists coined the term feminism in 1837.
Manchester Rogers Fourier Fourier is correct yes these bonuses are on single span suspension bridges Manchester on its completion in 1964 the Verrazano Narrows Bridge became the world's longest single span suspension bridge in which major city is it located okay New York correct in 1981 a bridge over which Estuary became the world's longest suspension bridge yeah I mean oh yeah okay yeah the tagus no it's the Humber in the late 1990s the great belt Bridge became the longest suspension bridge and is still the longest outside Japan and China in which country is it absolutely go select New Orleans yeah yeah there's a massive one in Florida okay but so just saying the US no it's in Denmark 10 points for this which two major rivers give their names to the large language family whose members include walloff Fuller Yoruba and Swahili ah Manchester Rogers uh Niger Congo correct right these bonuses are artists colonies associated with open-air painting from the mid 19th century firstly stand up Forbes was a leading member of which school based in a fishing Village just west of Penzance and Ives no it was newlyn rising in the Adirondack Mountains which river gives its name to a school which included Thomas Cole and Asher Durand so it's not Hudson center maybe maybe Hudson yeah goes into Great Lakes as well okay Hudson Hudson correct established from the 1840s and thought to be the site of Britain's first colony of artists better secret in the Conway Valley lies in which national park so I think that's snow down here snowdonia correct right we're going to take another picture after your picture starter you'll see a painting 10 points if you can name the artist Manchester green Cezanne Suzanne is right it's your life with apples part of a collection that of Lily Bliss who co-founded New York's Museum of Modern Art with Abby Rockefeller and Mary Sullivan your picture bonuses are three more works from the foundational collection donated to MoMA by Bliss five points for each artist you can name firstly um I think that's um model correct secondly does anyone have any guesses no could it be crimped it's a bit oh I don't think it's a bit too wishy-washy does weird it does I mean that's as good a guess as anything Max Ernst that's redone and finally this artist please oh I think rightly no um it looks like a familiar style it could be Van Gogh but yeah it looks better go for it yeah yeah Van Gogh no that's Dave guys race horses right 10 points for this with a high concentration of hydrogen in its atmosphere which planet has a mean density of about 70 percent that of water the lowest of any known object in the solar system Manchester green is that Saturn it is Saturn yes right these bonuses are on South America in addition to Brazil which three South American countries have subdivisions with the name amazonas yeah okay yeah go ahead okay Peru Colombia Venezuela correct secondly bordered by antofagasta and kokimbo which administrative region of Chile shares its name with an arid region often described as the driest desert in the world yeah um yeah Atacama correct and Santa Cruz are Argentinian provinces that lie within what large semi-arid geographical region Patagonia Patagonia is correct ten points for this set in the Carney farmhouse in Northern Ireland in 1981 which played by jez Butterworth has a title that alludes to the mythical figure chairon who took Souls from this world to the next Manchester Rogers my left foot know anyone like to buzz from Huddersfield how does Phil cook the ferryman the fairy man is correct yes your bonuses this time are on human anatomy Huddersfield which cavity of the inner ear takes its name from the Greek for snail or snail shell cochlear correct secondly which curved structure in the brain takes its name from a Latin word meaning seahorse hippocampus hippocampus correct which muscle of the arm takes its name from Latin for two-headed advice yeah bicep correct right 10 points for this data question what form of artistic expression is most associated with the names Martha Cooper Francesca Woodman Berenice Abbott Nan Goldin how does Phil cook uh photography photography is correct yes you get a set of bonuses on the Jacobian playwright Huddersfield in T. S eliot's poem Whispers of immortality which 17th century dramatist is described as much possessed by Death Ben Johnson that's John Webster many of Webster's works are collaborations including the two comedies Westwood ho and Northwood ho both co-written with which dramatist you know should we go for Johnson again yeah Johnson that's Thomas Decker would you Webster's plays concerns an aristocratic Widow whose secret marriage to her Steward has violent consequences yeah Duchess of Alfie correct great another question now which Sans serif typeface is the subject and title of a 2007 feature-length documentary by Gary hustvit its name comes from the Latin name of Switzerland Manchester green helvetica helvetica is correct you're going to say the bonuses this time on colors the name of which Phoenician artist has been applied to hair that according to the OED is bright Golden Auburn foreign [Music] [Applause] Manchester have 205.
