[Music] thank you the university challenge asking the questions Jeremy patchman hello two more quartets of clever clogs join us tonight fighting for a place in the second round for the losers it's goodbye unless their losing score is good enough to bring them back for the playoffs now Wilson College Oxford is a postgraduate institution making its debut in this competition founded as ifley College in 1965 it was endowed by the Scottish businessman Sir Isaac Wolfson who also funded the Cambridge College of the same name sir Isaiah Berlin was its first president with the ethos that the college should be new untrammeled and unpyramided and its alumni include Reed Hoffman who gave us the LinkedIn social media site and the geneticist Dame K Davis many of its students grew up outside the UK and so tonight's our doubtless hoping there won't be too many questions on British motorways and Cricket grounds with an average age of 31 representing around 600 students let's meet the Wolfson team hello I'm Mike Perrin from East Anglia via 30 years in Japan I do a defill at Oxford in Maritime archeology with the Oxford Center for maritime archeology hi I'm Mary keeple I'm from Victoria Canada um and I'm studying art history this is their Captain hi I'm Claire Jones I'm from Houston Texas and I'm studying for a masters in global and imperial history hi I'm Ryan Walker I'm from Stone in Staffordshire and I'm reading for a default in clinical medicine [Applause] field emerged from a number of 19th century institutions and received its Charter in 1905 placing it among the first wave of red bricks when we asked the team what makes the university distinctive they cited not its membership of the Russell group nor its ranking by the Times Higher Education supplement but that it's the only UK University to have a source Factory on its premises alumni who've benefited from this happy fact include The Aviator Amy Johnson the Nobel Prize winner sir Harry croto the politician David blanket who's also a professor there and the authors Lee Child and Hillary mantel with an average age of 23 representing nearly 29 000 students let's meet the Sheffield team hi my name is Alistair laule I'm originally from Chiswick in West London and I'm studying for a PhD in metallurgy hi I'm Sam Kelly I'm from Seaford in East Sussex and I'm studying English literature and this is their Captain hi I'm Jonathan Newhouse I'm from Skipton in North Yorkshire and I'm studying for a master's in cognitive science hi I'm Daisy Frye I'm from Kent and I'm studying politics it's too boring to waste time reciting the rules so fingers on the buzzers here's your first start of a ten Olympic sports DrJohnson's dictionary squirrel nutkin and the 150th anniversary of the public libraries act have all been depicted on coins of what denomination produced by the Royal Wilson Walker 50 pence 50 pence is correct these bonuses are on National museums in the UK Wolfson firstly the science museum group of national museums includes which attraction in York home to artifacts such as Evening Star Duchess of Hamilton and old copper knob foreign National Maritime Museum no it's the National Railway Museum secondly a national museum in the former dinorwig Quarry in Clan Beres tell us the story of which extractive industry slate mining yes Slate's Quarry but I'll accept state mine his slate finally the international slavery Museum and the Border Force National Museum are both in which Port City Maybe Bristol no it's Liverpool 10 points for this of whom did the critic Robert Hughes say the notion that his paintings were mad is the most idiotic of all impediments to understanding them it was his Madness that prevented him from working the paintings themselves are inevitably sane the artist in question was born in brabant in 1853. Sheffield new house van Gogh van golf is correct yes whereas your bonuses are on foreign language films that have won Academy Awards in categories other than the best foreign language film in each case name the film from the description firstly a Spanish film about two men who strike up a friendship while they care for two comatose women Pedro motivate won the Academy Award for best original screenplay in 2003 talk to her talk to her you happy with that it's correct and secondly an Italian tragic comedy about a Jewish Bookseller and his young son in a Nazi concentration camp for which Roberto benigni won the Academy Award for best actor in 1999. life is beautiful indeed and finally a 2007 French biopic of the singer Edith Piaf for which Marion cutia won the Academy Award for best actress La Vie En Rose correct particularly associated with the financial crisis of 2008 what two-word term did The Economist Paul Krugman Define as any situation in which one person makes the decision about how much risk to take while someone else Bears the cost if things go badly Wilson Jones greater fool no Sheffield new house moral hazard moral hazard is correct yes these bonuses Sheffield are on Materials Science for what does the abbreviation CTE stand this indicates how much a material changes in size as it is heated coefficient of thermal expansion coefficient of thermal expansion correct sometimes described as a material's maximum resistance to fracture for what do the letters UTS stand ultimate tensile strength ultimate tensile strings correct and finally in the abbreviations hbhv and HRC for what property of metals does the letter h stand hardness correct right 10 points for the starter question from the Latin for Holy bone what name is given to the Triangular bone at the base of the vertebral column above the coccyx Sheffield new house sacrum sacrum is correct well done right these bonuses are on the Asterix characters created by Renee gossini and Albert udazo in each case give the published English version of the original French name all three end with the letters i x in both languages first obelix's pet canine edeeks dogmatics correct Assurance turix The tuneless Village Bard who is never allowed to sing his English name is based on a term for Harsh discordant sounds cacophonics correct finally panoramics the chief Drid who mixes magic potions is correct yes I've got time I think for our first picture round if your picture started you're going to see the emblem of a religion 10 points if you can name the religion Sheffield Lyle Buddhism they would like to buzz from Wolfson Wilson Jones Hinduism no it's not it's Jainism parts of that are used of course in symbols for Hinduism but uh we'll take the picture bonuses in a moment or two 10 points for this which French King was the first husband of Eleanor of equity Wilson Jones Louis VII correct the emblem you saw a moment ago was chosen as an official symbol of Jainism in 1975 by consensus among the Jain Community who live primarily in India your bonuses are symbols of three more religions but the substantial number of followers in India in each case name the religion with which the symbol is primarily associated firstly Zoroastrianism correct secondly um no that's the Baha'i faith and finally Sikhism that is Sikhism yes right 10 points for this millions of what term include a wave-shaped blob of toothpaste for example in a trademark a marine pollutant comprising tiny Palace nerdle nerdle is correct yes thank you right these bonuses are on pairs of words that differ only by the addition of the letter G for golf at the beginning of one word for example Rumble and Grumble in each case give both words from the descriptions firstly the final word of the title of a poetry collection of 1896 by A.
E Houseman and a word that may proceed I hand and rags in set expressions okay so um yeah yeah because that because um Shropshire lad and then glad racks loud and glad correct secondly two verbs meaning respectively give formal consent or approval and give pleasure to objects of the former verb may include contract agreement and treaty that's a forgive pleasure to um um I was looking for verbs so I wouldn't have thought that they would be um approve I'm saying do we any ideas uh no sorry no pass it's ratify and gratify and finally a six-letter word that may follow wholly to describe matrimony and fourth to indicate the news media and a word meaning carry in the womb before birth yep Estates and just States that's correct ten points for this in the Czech Republic and statue in Poland are cities on which river along with the nicer it forms much of the boundary between Germany and Poland Wolfson Jones the odor the odor is correct yes your bonuses Wolfson are on physical chemistry firstly which French scientist gives his name to a law stating that at constant pressure the volume of a fixed massive confined gas is directly proportional to the absolute temperature Charles correct named after the English chemist who formulated it in 1801 which law states that the pressure of a mixture of gases is equal to the partial pressures of the component gases [Music] Dalton's law correct named after a 19th century Scottish chemist which law states that the rate of diffusion or refusion of a gas is inversely proportional to the square root of its molecular mass hmm scholarships aren't they good okay okay fine haldane's law no that's Graham's law ten points for this which artist said of his controversial 1996 painting the holy Virgin Mary that it was simply a hip-hop version of those found in the National Gallery the eight foot tall canvas portrays Mary revealing a breast constructed from a ball of lacquered elephant dung Wilson Capel Chris o'feely christophilia is correct yes what bonuses are on an artist born in Lisbon in 1935 who in 1989 became the first artist in Residence at the National Gallery in London and in 2010 received a damehood [Music] Santos no it was Paula Rego rego's 1987 worked the maids was inspired by a 1947 play by which literary figure it was Loosely based on the real-life Pac-Man sisters who murdered two members of the family that employed them and finally in the early 2000s Paula Rego produced a series of illustrations based on Which novel of 1847 written in the first person that's it Frankenstein it was Jane Eyre right we're going to take a music round now for your music starter you'll hear an aria from an opera for 10 points please name the composer [Music] Mozart is correct yes of course you heard the catalog Arya there from Don Giovanni in which leparello lists his master's lovers your music bonuses are three more recent examples of list songs this time I want you to Name the artist or band performing each time firstly this performer and composer yeah it is called porter yes secondly this band [Music] [Music] no we don't know that's LCD sound system Losing My Edge and finally this artist [Music] right 10 points for this founded by Emily Williamson in Manchester in 1889 and Incorporated by Royal Charter in 1904 what National Organization has an avocet as its emblem Sheffield fry the rspb correct the rules of Saturday the birds thank you get three bonuses on 16th and 17th century quotations I would not make Windows into men's Souls possibly originating in a letter drafted by Francis Bacon this statement is attributed to which English monarch okay just more likes around that time yeah we'll guess that James the first no is Elizabeth the first busy old fool unruly son why does thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us which poet wrote those words yeah um Shakespeare no it's John Dunn and finally but soft what light through yonder window breaks in which play by Shakespeare do those words occur Romeo and Juliet correct 10 points for this it's named derived from the Latin for to kidnap what practice does Ambrose Beast Define as to take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never never read plagiarism correct your bonuses this time are on the Italian Empire in the 20th century were two of the three administrative regions of which country under Italian occupation from 1911 until the second World War part of Libya from Libya Libya is correct the other one was tripolitania of course which European country was invaded by Italian forces on April the 7th 1939 forcing its king into Exile and later to abdicate Albania correct to which country did the Italian government return the Obelisk of Aksum in 2005 it had been removed by the Italian army during the country's occupation in the 1930s Ethiopia Ethiopia is correct that puts you on level 10. 10 points for this what condition may be tested for by rectal palpation in cattle the Cubone test in mares and in humans by an hCG test Sheffield Lyle pregnancy pregnancy is correct yes right your bonuses are on Japan and its neighbors Sheffield Tokyo lies close to the 140th Meridian East traveling due north on this Meridian which is the first country outside Japan that one would reach what Russia is correct traveling to South from Tokyo on the 140th Meridian East what is the first large island outside Japan that one would reach yeah Indonesia but then yeah yeah which um well that New Guinea with the island yeah New Guinea New Guinea is correct Tokyo lies close to the 36th parallel North sailing due east along this parallel in which U. S state would one first make landfall interesting it's either going to be California Oregon or Washington I think I think I think yeah okay should we split the difference say Oregon okay Oregon no it's California ten points for this bemba and Tonga are among the official vernacular languages of which country it gained independence from Britain in 1964 with Kenneth cowander as president and is by area the largest landlocked country of southern Africa Sheffield new house Zambia Zambia is correct these bonuses are on religious Shrine Sheffield which town on the river 7 became a major place of pilgrimage in the Medieval Era following the enshrinement of the Welsh Saint winifreds relics in its Abbey uh it's a little bit number seven is wearing the computer you think I don't know yeah okay uh Shrewsbury Shrewsbury is correct secondly since about 1590 the Temple of the tooth in candy Sri Lanka has preserved what is said to be the left upper canine of which religious teacher Buddha correct and finally housed under a green colored dome in the prophet's mosque complex in which Saudi Arabian city is the prophet Muhammad's tomb it is the second holiest city of Islam Medina Medina Medina is right find another picture your picture started you're going to see a photograph of a singer 10 points if you can give me her name Wilson Jones Billy Holiday Billy Holiday is right Billy Holiday performed regularly at New York's Cafe Society widely held to be the first racially integrated nightclub in the city where she performed Strange Fruit your picture bonuses are three more Cafe Society regulars from its Heyday five points for each you can name first this musician Charlie Parker alto sex yeah that's not okay Charlie Parker it is Charlie Parker secondly this comedian and actor oh yeah sure Groucho Marx no that's zero mostel and finally this musician Nat King Cole Nat King Cole is correct some points for this what specific three-word term denotes an organic molecule unable to be synthesized in the body and which consists of a carboxyl group a side chain and an nh2 group Central amino acid correct your bonuses are on philosophy in each case name the author of The Following Major Works on ethics first a theory of Justice first published in 1971.
John Rawls is correct second ethics and the limits of philosophy which first appeared in 1985.
