[Music] thank you [Applause] University challenge asking the questions Jeremy Paxman [Music] hello tonight sees the penultimate match in the first round of this contest eight teams have already gone home 12 teams are through to the second round and tonight's winners will join them the four losing teams with the highest scores will return to compete in the playoffs and we already know that Imperial College London and Exeter University will be among them if tonight's losing team score 145 or more they too will definitely return now the University of Edinburgh received its Royal Charter in 1582 from James VI judging by the present day volume of applications it's one of the UK's most popular universities perhaps because there's a persistent rumor that its students really know how to enjoy themselves it also has a strong record in this competition having twice been semi-finalists in recent years and winning outright in 2019 alumni include the writers Sir Walter Scott Arthur Conan Doyle Robert Louis Stevenson JM Barry and Philippa Gregory and also the politicians Gordon Brown Ruth Davidson and Amber Rudd representing around 36 000 students and with an average age of 23 let's meet the Edinburgh team hi my name is Zach Jeffco I'm from Edinburgh and I study architectural history hi my name is Matthew fricker I'm originally from Shipley in West Yorkshire and I'm studying maths and physics and this is their Captain hi I'm Neve Clark I'm from Hollywood County Wicklow in Ireland and I do physics with meteorology hello I'm Nicholas winter I'm originally from London and I study mathematics Manchester University can claim an even stronger record in this competition being one of only two institutions to have won it four times the result of numerous mergers since the 19th century it is now the UK's largest single-site University alumni include James Lovelock famous for the Gaia hypothesis the writer Anthony Burgess the composers of Peter Maxwell Davis the film critic Mark commode and the actor miracle representing around 40 000 students and with an average age of 28 let's meet the Manchester team hi I'm Ralph originally from Everest in Wales and I'm studying for a PhD in politics I'm Patrick from State College Pennsylvania and I study Linguistics and social anthropology dear captain hello I'm Alex Spacey I'm originally from Pharaoh New Hampshire and I'm studying for a PhD in history hello I'm Andrew sneddon from God domain sorry and I'm studying for a PhD in neuromuscular disease now any students who've been watching this series and who've seen just how much of a hoot it really is should know that their students union or jcr has already received all the information needed to put forward a team for the next series so inquire there and give it a go and good luck well the rules are still the same as ever 10 points for starter questions 15 for bonuses starter questions or individual efforts bonuses are team efforts 10 points at stake for this fingers on the buzzer buildings Roman feminist orphan governess and Victorian are among words that search engines associate with Which novel first published in 1847 under a student Manchester Spacey Jane Eyre Jane Eyre is correct right these bonuses are on statues of composers which composer is depicted in an art nouveau statue quote sitting under a weeping willow in the wind as if playing an invisible piano the composer in question was born in 1810 near the capital of a newly independent Grand duchy yes Chopin Chopin is correct secondly a memorial to which composer in Westminster Abbey depicts him with a sheet of music bearing the words I know that my redeemer liveth handle handle indeed it's words from the Messiah and finally a statue of which composer in Vienna Bears a relief based on an illustration of 1764 showing him as a young child performing with his father and sister that's out that is Mozart 10 points for this what's six letter term three C's words such as spanner and screwdriver in the names of tools that allow a measurement of the force in question talk talk is correct right your bonuses are on television series created or co-created by Jesse Armstrong give the title of each series from the description firstly a comedy drama that stars Brian Cox as an aging media Tycoon and concerns family squabbles for control of the company following a decline in his health succession correct secondly a comedy that ran from 2011 to 2016 concerning students at the fictional Manchester Medlock University the ensemble cast included zawi Ashton and Jack Whitehall fresh meat correct and finally a comedy that ran from 2003 to 2015 making notable use of interior monologues and point of view shots it follows the lives of two Dysfunctional Friends Peep Show correct jump points for this what three-word phrase is the title of the 1964 autobiography by Evelyn War the phrase appears in Alexander Pope Edinburgh Jeffcoat a little learning a little learning is correct these bonuses are on planetary transits firstly which astronomer was the first to correctly predict that transits of Mercury and Venus although he never witnessed either event having died the year before the 1631 Transit of Mercury Kepler Kepler is correct yes secondly denoted with a double quotation mark what unit is often used to show the degree of separation between the sun's Center and that of the transitory planet second that's correct and finally the second and last Transit of Venus in the 21st century was in 2012. when was the first the same year saw NASA's spirit and opportunity craft land on Mars and Cassini Huygens entered the orbit of Saturn 2004. it was 2004 yes begin to take a picture around if you're a picture starter you'll see a map of part of England the ten points name the town marked in Orange whose population is around 110 000 to help you a nearby city has also been marked and abrafrica Eastbourne nowhere near respawn Manchester Scott Southampton no it's Worthing so we'll get the picture bonuses in a moment or two but in the meantime here's another starter question give either of the two names that precede the word Chase in the names of areas of outstanding natural beauty one of these is in South Staffordshire the other lies largely richer and Manchester space here Canuck Canuck and the other one is cranbourne of course okay you saw Worthing marked on a map in the picture search for a moment ago the pier there Worthing pier in 2019 was named peer of the Year by the national peers Society your picture bonuses will show three more winners of this award I just want the name of the town in each case first with the population of around 180 000 people South End on sea correct secondly with the population of around fifteen thousand uh it's pretty close correct and finally with the population of around 76 000 um Western Superman correct ten points for this according to Petersburg in 1845 which mathematician used the diagonal method or diagonal slash argument to prove that the set of real numbers is larger than the set of integers Edinburgh frica Canto Cantor is correct your bonuses are on the first monarchs of European Royal houses from each description give the regnal name the regnal number and the Royal House firstly a French monarch born in Navarre in 1553 he reputedly declared that Paris is well worth a mass and what else Henry Ivan Henry IV bourbon correct and secondly an Italian Monarch born in Turin in 1820 he was the first Sovereign of unified Italy Victor Emmanuel the first and Savoy there's Victor Emmanuel II and Savoy finally a British monarch born in Germany in 1660 he was married to Sophia durathia of Cellar George the first in Hanover correct 10 points for this described as the first modern portrait Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the young chichilia galarani is known by the name of what small white mammal that appears Edinburgh winter I mean ermine is correct yes right if your bonuses are on British seabirds Edinburgh belonging to the petrol family which heavily built short-tailed seabird has a name derived from the old Norse for fowl and Gull usually breeding on Sea Cliffs which bird has established an inland breeding site on part of the Baltic Center in gateshead its name is imitative of its call yeah puffin [Music] I don't know what the Puffin school is like it's a kitty wake and finally which black and white member of the orc family is characterized by the sharp edges of its upper beak improving its ability to grasp fish and defend itself against predators Soul balance razor Bill razor bill is correct 10 points for this who is the only English player to have won the European Golden Boot given to the player who scores the most goals in the top division of one of Europe's National leagues he played for Sunderland from 1997 to 2003.
Manchester Scott Evan Phillips it is Kevin Phillips yes you get a set of bonuses on books set in U. S states firstly which Southern state is the setting of Fanny flag's 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe and of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Alabama correct Gilead by Marilyn Robinson a thousand acres by Jane Smiley and Bill Bryson's Memoir The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt kid a set in which Midwestern State decision yeah with that then Iowa Iowa is correct the Pulitzer prize-winning Olive kitteridge by Elizabeth strout and John Irving's novel The Cider House Rules are set mainly in which New England State Maine Maine is correct ten points for this comprising the color and the name of a larger different species what is the two-word common name for Alias fulgence native to the Himalayas it's an arboreal Carnival with a Chinese name meaning and a brick Clark red panda red panda is correct yes your questions are on Art in the 19th century for your bonuses along with Edward Byrne Jones which artist saw Jane burden in the theater audience in 1857 and asked her to model for him she was the model for his Venus astarte and prozipine really melee no it was Rosetti burden married which other artist in 1859 they moved to the Red House in bexleyheath and worked together on embroidery techniques William Morris correct and finally in 1871 Rosetti and the Morris is least which Elizabethan Manor House in Oxfordshire it gives its name to a private press established by Morris to publish Illustrated works it's completely escaped me I can't remember we don't know that's kelm Scott as in kelm Scott Manor 10 points for this music starter you're going to hear now a piece of popular music for 10 points I simply want you to tell me who's singing [Music] Manchester Spacey Bing Crosby no you can hear a little more Edinburgh won't you please arrange it cause I lost yes was that a guess [Laughter] no shame in knowing the way you look tonight was written by the prolific Broadway and Hollywood Lyricist Dorothy fields for your music bonuses you're going to hear three more songs with lyrics by Dorothy fields in each case I want you to Name the artist singing firstly and get your head leave your worries on the doorstep just direct your feet [Music] too sunny inside of the streets David Crosby no that's Willie Nelson secondly they could see me now that little Gangnam Style drinking fancy wine I'd like those stumble bombs to see for a bat the kind of top of the drawer first right jumped by a tracked that's Shirley McLean and finally [Music] still unmistakable of course what two initials linked the authors of the civilization of the Renaissance in Italy panoptican or the inspection house and the gulf ward in Manchester Scott is it JB it is JB yes right these bonuses are on physics and Mathematics born near Manchester in 1852 which physicist gives his name to the vector that describes the rate and direction of the transfer of energy per unit area of an electromagnetic wave foreign sorry no pointing is the answer there born in 1895 secondly which Dutch physicist gives his name to a vector that describes the degree and direction of a deformation in a dislocated Crystal lasses [Music] Van de Graaff there's Yan Burgers as in Burgers vector and finally born in koenigsberg in 1862 which prominent mathematician gives his name to an infinite dimensional Vector space that is used in functional analysis no it's David Hilbert we're going to take another starter question now Thomas Lanier were the given names of which writer born in Mississippi in 1911. his plays often deal with sexual and violent impulses underlying a veil of romantic Manchester spicy Tennessee Williams correct you get three questions on the singer-songwriter Joan armatrading Joan armatrading was born in 1950 in bastere on which specific island of the Lesser Antilles do it do it that's probably the biscuit sync kids correct I want to go to China and to see Japan those words appear on the title track of which 1980 album by armor Trading me myself I correct in 2016 armor trading wrote the music for Philadelphia Lloyd's all-female production of which of Shakespeare's later plays yeah cymbaline no it's the Tempest ten points for this which scientist is the subject of Eduardo palazzi's sculpture displayed in The Piazza outside the British Library the work Manchester Scott is it Newton it is Isaac Newton yes you get three bonuses on a shared title in a translation from the Latin the words my mind is bent to tell of bodies changed into new forms begin which major work by Ovid metamorphosis correct created between 1937 and 1968 and depicting sequences and gradually changing abstract patterns the three woodcuts with the title metamorphosis are works by which Dutch artists no it's Escher who composed the 1945 work metamorphosum for 23 stringed instruments I don't know too late come on Schoenberg no it's Strauss record Stroud Ten points for this a steel bangle known as a Cara is one of the five Manchester United Sikhism Sikhism is correct yes three questions on medical terms in anatomy what term denotes a dense group of nerve cells in surgery the same term means an enlargement of the sheath of a tendon containing fluid ganglion correct what six-letter term for a network of fibers vessels or nerves may follow cardiac Celiac or solar plexus plexus plexus is correct and finally the basal ganglia are found in what organ of the human body the brain correct you can take over as Captain if you like 10 points for this the title character of Which novel of 1938 is described by her former husband as vicious damnable rotten through and through Lawrence Olivier and Joan Fontaine starred in the alpha hitch Manchester Spacey Rebecca Rebecca is correct your bonuses are on UNESCO world heritage sites in each case name the Mediterranean country that's the location of the following firstly The Phoenician cities of biblos and balbec and the forests of the Cedars of God Lebanon Lebanon is correct secondly megalithic temples including those of tahagrat and scorber um it's Malta and finally the archaeological sites of sabrafis cyrini and leptus Magnus Liberia is correct we're going to take a second picture around now if your picture started you can see a painting 10 points if you can name the artist Edinburgh Jeffcoat Digger day guys correct yes so you get the picture bonuses that was dagar as you got it it depicts a performer at the SEC Fernando in Montmartre your picture bonuses are three more paintings inspired by that same circus between 1880 and 1910 I want you to Name the artist in each case firstly I think is it yeah because it becomes the big one Sira now that's to lose the track it's equestrian secondly that might be Cezanne no he did these kind of harlequin kind of things okay Suzanne no that's Picasso and finally yeah is correct yes well done don't forget words meaning a variety of dark China Tea a cloud of icy bodies proposed to surround the solar system and the scientific study of eggs all begin with Manchester spicy oh double O is correct yes is on Geometry in three dimensions what operation takes two vectors as its input and outputs another Vector which is perpendicular to them authentic converter okay um orthogonal no it's a cross product or a vector product what is the only Dimension higher than three in which a similarly defined Vector product exists yeah four four no it's seven the magnitude of the cross product of two vectors is the product of the vector's individual magnitudes and what trigonometric function tangent no It's The Sign of the angle between the two vectors right 10 points for this on what date is the Feast of the enunciation or Lady Day it marks the day when the angel Gabriel is supposed to have visited the Virgin Mary and when Jesus was conceived o'clock the 8th of December no sorry Manchester Spacey second of December now these are very short conceptions that's the 25th of March right 10 points for this two leaves of which deciduous tree formed the emblem of the conservation charity the Woodland trust its scientific name is quercus robber clock Oak that's correct yes whereas your bonuses are on science fiction and 19th century literature a time travel fast set in Oxford Connie Willis's 1997 novel to say nothing of the dog takes its title from which comic novel of 1889.
come on we don't know it's three men in a boat Ray Bradbury's short Story collection I sing The Body Electric shares its title with a poem of 1855 by which U. S writer Walt Whitman correct The Works of Which Romantic poet are substantially referenced in both the plot and titles of Dan Simmons's Hyperion quartet John Keats correct ten points for this in Roman history of vexilum was an early example of what object a flag a flag is correct your bonuses are on world history in the 1590s the Battle of tondibi took place in 1591 in which present-day country it was a decisive victory for the Moroccan forces in their invasion of the Songhai Empire Molly Molly is correct the forces of which Mughal Emperor conquered Sindh and Kandahar during the 1590s quickly Akbar Akbar is correct the first or the great in the Indian War of the 1590s Ming Dynasty China aided which country in repelling large-scale Invasion attempts by an island neighbor Korea Korea is correct ten points for this plus minus Mantra and kreutch Spiel are among the works of which German composer noted for his use of serialism who died in 2007. [Applause] know anyone want to buy some Edinburgh quickly Schmidt no it's stockhausen 10 points for this situated on the Yangtze about 300 kilometers Northwest of Shanghai which former Chinese capital is the provincial capital of jinsu Province now it is Five Points zhengzu Province his name means Southern Capital Manchester Jones O'Brien Wuhan no it's Nanjing or Nanking 10 points for this in Shakespeare's Hamlet which character says this above all to thine own self be true Polonius is correct on color codes Edinburgh a hashtag followed by six letter F's for foxtrot is the HTML hexadecimal color code for what black no it's for white sorry secondly in the color codes used on European gas cylinders what specific gas is indicated by white come on propane no it's oxygen finally in a four band resistor what number does white represent for resistance value 10 ohms no it's nine ten points for this national parks near which major Commonwealth City include cool ring guy Chase [Music] Panthers on Edinburgh have 155 Manchester have 200.
