[Music] the university challenge asking the questions Jeremy Paxman [Music] hello as much a test of sheer endurance as of general knowledge the quarter-final matches are now over and only the four best teams remain next time we'll see Imperial College London and Trinity College Cambridge compete for a place in the final of this competition and they'll be playing whichever team wins tonight now first the team from Corpus Christi College Cambridge we're pleased to say that no thought goes unexpressed with these guys who've allowed us to share every moment of the deliberations which have so far helped them beat three Oxford colleges Merton Maudlin and Wilson they've also had a win over their fellow semi-finalist Trinity College Cambridge and those four matches have given them a total of 890 points with an average age of 21 let's say hello to them again hi I'm Alexander I'm from Bristol and I'm studying Japanese studies hi my name is will I live near Peterborough and I'm studying history of art this is their Captain hi I'm Ian I'm from Salem greater Manchester and I'm studying English hi I'm Alex I'm from Whitney near Oxford and I'm studying chemistry [Applause] from University have spent a lot of time in this competition getting things right and even when they were getting things wrong at least they reminded themselves that they should have been paying more attention although they lost to Trinity College Cambridge in the first round they beat York University in the playoffs and then won against Southampton University and two Oxford colleges Jesus and Wilson although they also lost to Imperial in the quarterfinals those six matches against their opponents four have given them a score of 1145 and remarkably given the length of the quarterfinal round their average age is still only 20. let's meet them again hello I'm Charles I'm from Sutherland Surrey and I study philosophy hi my name's William I'm from Kirby's evening come here and I'm studying biosciences and this is their Captain hi I'm Joe I'm from London and I'm studying chemistry hi I'm Arthur I'm from Manchester I'm studying French and German okay you all know the rules so fingers on the buzzers here's your first start of the ten consider the names of the philosophical system of platinus and the chemical elements with the atomic numbers 10 and 60. the three letters that begin all these words spell Durham Cooper an EO yes well done thank you you get a set of bonuses on Gertrude Stein Stein is credited with coining what two-word term often associated with the post-world war one generation Hemingway popularized it through his novel The Sun Also Rises The Lost Generation correct Stein's 1914 poetry collection tender buttons was especially influenced by which artistic movement whose exponents include George BRAC cubism yeah cubism correct overshadowing her in death just as much as in life those words of one Observer refer to Stein's tombstone in perlashes which also Bears what other name albeit on the back of the stone and in much smaller letters what about Alice B topless yeah I I don't know Alice B topless correct 10 points for this answer as soon as your name is called if straight lines are drawn from two adjacent vertices of a regular pentagon towards the center what is the size in degrees of the acute angle at which the two lines meet Corpus Christi Stewart 72 degrees 72 degrees is correct yes you get three bonuses on theories of evolution firstly named after a French biologist which theory is based on the principle that physical changes developed by organisms in their lifetime are transmitted to their offspring it is also known as the inheritance of acquired characteristics lamarckism is correct advanced in the early 1900s by the Dutch scientist Hugo DeVries which Theory suggests that new species have formed from Sudden and unexpected alterations in their defining traits I mean catastrophism is the geological one but that's probably not right um it's not like mutation or something suddenly I don't know um do you have any other I don't know catastrophism no it's mutation Theory bad luck which English clergymen and utilitarian use the watchmaker analogy in his 1802 work natural theology arguing that a design implies a designer I'm pretty sure that's Paley William Paley because that's paley's watch I think that's what the design yeah Paley Paley is correct 10 points for this living during his treatment for opium Addiction in 1929 what is the French title of the novel by the poet author and filmmaker Jean cocktow concerned office Christy Wang correct so these bonuses are on depictions of rain in Fine Art firstly who painted the 1844 work rain Steam and speed the Great Western Railway now in the collection of the National Gallery uh jmw Turner correct Landscapes under rain appear frequently in the work of which Japanese artist of the floating World genre including his 1857 work sudden shower over Shin okhashi bridge and attackie I think that's actually hiroshigo yeah hiroshige correct men in bowler hats and overcoats appear as if falling like rain in Golconda a 1953 work by which surrealism I think yeah Rene Magritte correct ten points it is about the size of Greater Manchester and at a height of 1900 meters say van is the largest lake in which landlocked Asian country a 9th century Monastery lies on the northwest Shore about 50 kilometers from the border with Azerbaijan Corpus Christi Wang Armenia Armenia is correct you get three bonuses on mathematical physics named after an item of headwear What alternative name is given to the rectangular function that has value 1 between minus a half and plus a half and zero elsewhere so the top okay function okay Top Hat function correct describing the pattern produced when waves pass through a single slit what frequency space function is given by the Fourier transform of a top hat function um might be a sync function sync function okay do you want to go with that then yeah uh I'll nominee nominate a sync function sync function is correct squaring the sync function gives the intensity variation of the wave as it spreads out after the slit what name is given to this spreading out process yeah I was thinking that yeah diffraction diffraction is correct right we're going to take a picture around now if your picture starter you'll see a section of a Java code which if executed would yield an output of true if and only if the positive integer input a had a certain property for ten points I need you to name that property uh Darren Bland evenness I know I want to buzz from Corpus Christi Corpus Christi gonna singcraft it just a is um greater than three no it's odd bad luck you were nearly there ten points for this in chemistry what method of volumetric analysis involves determining the quantity of a substance by gradually adding a measured volume of another Corpus Christi gunasinkara titration titration is correct so you get the picture bonuses which no one managed to get the starter for you're going to see three more sections of java code which would perform albeit Securities the various mathematical functions on positive integer inputs this time making use of two variables A and B in each case I need you to identify the function performed firstly the output of this code would be what function of a positive integer input um does this look like anything to you oh I'm not sure what kind of functions could it be like what is it not is it like something like a parabola or something or um it could be oh it's factorial yeah okay yeah factorial factorial is correct secondly the output of this code would be what function of a positive integer input um it's it'll be um it's a triangle number isn't it okay so just say triangle numbers or yeah triangular numbers all yeah yeah triangular numbers it's square and finally the single output of this code would be what function of the two positive integer inputs uh uh what's a function that can use too much it's just the difference okay that makes sense okay the difference between uh the two inputs no that's the greatest common divisor which is roughly the same thing but not specific enough 10 points for this born in Lorraine which Royal figure appears in all three parts of Shakespeare's Henry VI and in his Richard III in 1445 at the age of 15 he was is correct yes you get three bonuses on the U.
S linguist and social commentator John McWater in the language hoax why the world looks the same in any language McWater attacks Which hypothesis named after two early 20th century linguists it is sometimes called linguistic determinism it's what the film arrivals about the Super Wolf the same hypothesis correct yes mcwhata is a co-author of a grammar of Sarah Macken Creole along with stranan this is one of the main vernacular languages of which South American country oh no I thought it's going to be Indonesia uh Sarah Mackin what does that what does that sound like I mean Brazil is just huge could be yeah and they have a lot of individuals in the Amazon um it was owned by the British and they used the term crail that's true but I think they're pretty languages everyone yeah I suppose yeah what do you want to go with in 2016 McWhorter lauded the ever-changing English language in an analysis of what short word he described it as ubiquitous and often reviled noting both its modal and quotative uses I think it's like yeah yeah like like is correct example it is your answer is the English name of a vegetable its French name can be spelled by concatenating the initial letters of English words meaning a combination of two or more Metals the Anvil bone of the ear Durham Cooper garlic garlic is correct yes are on afrofuturism the term afrofuturism was coined by the critic Mark Derry in conversation with which U. S science fiction writer his Works include Babel 17 and Nova Philip K dick no it was Samuel R or chip Delaney secondly featuring the characters star child and Drfunkenstein the P-Funk universe is an afrofuturist mythology created by which U. S musician the leader of the Parliament Funkadelic Collective built of Clinton something Clinton uh no no Parliament Hill is um George Clinton George Clinton is correct yes which Marvel Superhero is the king of the fictional African nation of wakanda black panther black panther is correct well done right 10 points for this I saw to my great astonishment that scientific time does not endure those are the words of which philosopher born in Paris Henry bergson Ari bergson is correct yes your bonuses are on the Russian psychologist Sabina Spiel rein Sigmund Freud cited Spiel Ryan's early work as the foundation for his work on what Concept in psychoanalysis sometimes called Thanatos it is usually known in English by a two-word term yes death Instinct death Instinct Death Drve is correct yes Spiel Ryan's paper on the origins of the words Papa and Mama influence the object relations theory of which British psychoanalyst born in Vienna in 1882 her notable case stories include that of the two-year-old Rita I don't know the only one I know this another psychologists Adler but I think he's a guy oh yeah I think it's I think he's I think it's a guy but Adler no it's Melanie Klein in the 1920s Spiel Ryan collaborated with which Swiss developmental psychologist noted for his work on the acquisition of understanding in children wait is it um Piaget is correct yes the game says his music language if you're a music starter you'll hear an excerpt from a symphony for 10 points name its composer [Music] Copeland is correct yes that was part of a recording of his third Symphony conducted by Leonard Bernstein who was mentored by Copeland throughout his early career for each of your music bonuses you're going to hear two short clips the first is by a well-known composer and the second by one of their notable pupils I'll need both names for the points firstly [Music] do you think it's something French or foreign might be it sounded like humans okay do you want to go with that then yeah okay Schumann and Beezy no you've got BJ's coming of course the first one was by guno though the funeral March of a marionette secondly oh yeah that makes sense [Music] yeah this is this is I think this is I think this is Club three permanently yeah yeah because it Ravel is a bit more on the card and finally oh so this is this is yeah this is wrong do you know who was taught by Ravel uh [Music] this is um do you know that he was a people okay sure yeah okay I'm happy together yeah that's it um is it Ravel and Vaughn Williams you've got it well done 10 points for this what two words denote the subject of an ode by Shelley in which it is described as that Corpus Christi Wang the West Wind correct yeah okay yeah for your bonuses imagine a straight line from the Vatican to the city of Mecca name each of the following places that lie on or close to that line first an island just off the coast of the peloponnese in Antiquity it was sacred to Aphrodite and its name appears in the title of a painting by watto is that oh I think I know the painting though and I don't think it is um correct with its own International Airport a tourist Resort on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt secondly Southwest of charmel Sheikh and noted for scuba diving do we know any of this um that's one of the things yeah I can't remember what his name is okay should we guess something or can we guess something no I don't know I mean yeah and finally a major city on the site of the ancient Greek colony of parthenpe its football team is often a leading contender in Syria ah absolutely yeah I could be like Napoli Napoli yeah okay because that was a quick Colony Annapolis okay you sent to Naples then well but hang on because Naples is further south yeah from right so Vatican down to Mecca okay it could be Naples because that's on the west come on yeah okay okay Naples Naples is correct yeah what was the sole three-digit integer with the following characteristics firstly that reversing the order of its first two digits gives its square root and secondly its last digit is also its cube root Corpus Christi gunasinkra 729 correct [Applause] that is impressive right your bonuses are on films of 1970 Glenda Jackson won the Best Actress Academy Award for her rollers good room brangwin in Ken Russell's adaptation of Which novel by D.
