APPLAUSE
Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
Hello. So far, we've seen
St John's College, Cambridge,
and Merton College, Oxford
take the first two places
in the semifinals
of this competition.
Both teams playing
the Cambridge derby tonight
lost their first quarterfinal
matches, which means the winners
will earn themselves
one last chance to qualify,
while the losers will clamber
into their canoe
to paddle across
the Slough Of Despond
and we shall see them no more.
LAUGHTER
Now, the team
from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge,
notched up two solid wins earlier
against Leicester University,
with 200 points to 105,
and Magdalen College, Oxford,
with 200 points - again - to 155.
The wheel came off, though, during
their first quarterfinal match
against Merton College, Oxford,
which left them trailing
270 points to 125 points.
With a timely opportunity
to recover their earlier form,
an accumulated score of 525
and an average age of 20,
let's meet the Fitzwilliam team
for the fourth time.
Hi, I'm Theo Tindall,
I'm from Backwell near Bristol,
and I'm studying Russian and Arabic.
Hi, I'm Theo Howe,
I'm from Forest Hill in Oxfordshire
and I'm reading Japanese studies.
This is their captain.
Hello, I'm Hugh Oxlade, I'm from
South Woodford in north-east London
and I'm reading history.
Hello, I'm Jack Maloney, I'm
from Harpenden in Hertfordshire
and I'm reading medicine.
APPLAUSE
Now, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
lost their first quarterfinal match
by 110 points to the 125
of the University of Edinburgh.
But their earlier wins were against
Saint Hugh's College, Oxford,
in Round One by 170 to 155,
and Strathclyde University
by 170 to 105 in Round Two.
With an accumulated score of 450
and an average age of 19,
let's meet the Emmanuel team again.
Hi, I'm Ed Derby,
I'm from Manchester
and I study physics.
Hello, I'm Kitty Chevallier,
I'm from Hampshire
and I'm studying Arabic and Hindi.
This is their captain.
Hi, I'm Alex Mistlin,
I'm from Islington in north London
and I'm studying politics
and international relations.
Hi, I'm James Fraser, I'm from
Bristol and I'm reading medicine.
APPLAUSE
OK. Straight into
the first starter question.
Fingers on the buzzers, please.
Give both answers promptly.
On August 30th 1889,
which two authors
did the US publisher
Joseph Marshall Stoddart invite
to dinner at the Langham Hotel?
The meeting resulted
in the commission of two books
for Lippincott's magazine -
The Sign Of Four
and The Picture Of Dorian Gray.
Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde.
Correct.
APPLAUSE
Your bonuses are on specific works
that have been cited
in support of the award
of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
In each case, give the author
and the decade of the award.
For example, The Forsyte Saga would
give John Galsworthy, the 1930s.
Firstly, Buddenbrooks,
described by the Nobel committee
as "one of the classic works
of contemporary literature."
Thomas Mann. Yeah.
It's Thomas Mann, I think
might have been '40s or '50s.
1940s? Or was it earlier than that?
I think earlier.
So '40s? 1940s?
Not really sure. Go '40s. 1940s?
Thomas Mann, 1940s?
No, it's Thomas Mann in the 1920s.
Secondly, The History Of Rome,
described as "the monumental work
"of the greatest living master
of the art of historical writing."
Don't know.
It's not, like, one of the classic
historians? So, like, Gibbon?
No, but this is the Nobel Prize,
so Taylor or...?
Taylor, like 1950s? Sure.
Taylor, 1950s?
No, it was Theodor Mommsen
in the 1900s.
And, finally, cited for its mastery
of the art of narrative,
The Old Man And The Sea.
So it's Hemingway. Hemingway, 19...
Think it was '50s.
Hemingway, 1950s.
Correct.
APPLAUSE
Ten points for this.
In physics, what seven-letter term
is used of collisions
in which the total kinetic energy
is conserved?
Elastic. Elastic is correct.
APPLAUSE
These bonuses are on US presidents
and England
international footballers.
LAUGHTER
Firstly, what surname
links the 28th US President,
inaugurated in
the early 20th century,
with England's left back
in the 1966 World Cup final?
THEY CONFER QUIETLY
Yeah, it could be, actually.
Or it could be...
Taft, possibly?
Wilson's more plausible, isn't it?
Wilson? Wilson is correct.
Woodrow Wilson and Ray Wilson.
Secondly, the second given name
of a post-war president,
what is the surname
of the England left back
who played in two matches
during the 2014 World Cup finals?
So it's Shaw, isn't it?
The second given name, so is that
like a middle name or something?
I don't... Shaw, possibly.
Or... No.
Baines?
Baines is correct, yes. Lyndon
Baines Johnson and Leighton Baines.
And, finally,
a more recent president
has what second given name,
which is also the surname
of an England right back,
who played three times
at the European Championships
in 2016?
Walker. Walker is correct.
APPLAUSE
Kyle and George Walker Bush.
Ten points for this.
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote his
early poem The Book Of The Duchess
in memory of the wife
of which royal figure
whose patronage Chaucer enjoyed?
The father of King Henry IV,
he's often known by an epithet
denoting the Flemish city
of his birth.
John of Gaunt.
Correct.
APPLAUSE
Your bonuses are on geneticists,
Fitzwilliam.
The work of which two US scientists
in the Neurospora crassa mould
led to the "one gene,
one enzyme" hypothesis?
They shared the 1958 Nobel Prize
for Physiology or Medicine.
Have you got anything on geneticists
at all? Absolutely nothing.
LAUGHTER
Let's not waste time, then.
We don't know.
It's Beadle and Tatum.
Secondly, which US geneticist
publicly derided chromosome theory
for the lack of experimental
evidence, and subsequently
discovered sex-linked inheritance
in fruit flies?
He won the Nobel Prize for
Physiology or Medicine in 1933.
You might know. He's big.
God, no, nothing. No, sorry again.
That's Morgan. Thomas Hunt Morgan.
And, finally, which US geneticist
pointed out in 1902
that chromosomes obey
Mendel's rules?
He thus provided the basis for
the chromosome theory of heredity,
independently of the German
cytologist Theodor Boveri.
THEY CONFER QUIETLY
I don't know.
No, we don't know that either.
That's Walter Sutton. Right,
we're going to take a picture round.
For your picture starter,
you'll see
an outline map of Europe
with a number
of cities marked.
Ten points if you can
give me the final letter
that all their names share.
Z. Z is correct, yes.
Cadiz, Biarritz, Koblenz,
Graz and Lodz.
Right, your picture bonuses.
Three more maps of Europe.
Again, in each case,
simply tell me the final letter
common to the English names
of all the cities marked.
Firstly, for five.
So that's Bordeaux.
X? Yeah, Halifax, Bordeaux.
X? X is correct.
Halifax, Bordeaux, Montreux
and Chamonix. Secondly...
Oh, V. V, V ,V. Kiev.
V. V is correct.
Kiev, Lviv and Kharkiv.
And finally...
Er...W? W? Yeah, cos Moscow...
Yeah.
W? W.
Glasgow, Warsaw, and so on.
APPLAUSE
Right, ten points for this.
Which three successive letters of
the alphabet follow the letters AL,
the first in a word meaning
the height of an aircraft
above sea-level,
the second naming a metal...
T-U-V?
T-U-V is correct, yes.
APPLAUSE
Right, you get a set of bonuses
on figures of speech,
with reference to the Monty Python
Dead Parrot Sketch.
LAUGHTER
Firstly, for five points.
Which expression
in the Dead Parrot Sketch
includes an alternative common name
of the aster
or composite family of plants?
Pine? Pining for the fjords.
Oh, pining...?
Pining for the fjords?
No, it's pushing up the daisies. Oh.
LAUGHTER
Secondly, the expression
"join the choir invisible"
appears in the title
of an 1867 poem by which author?
Her novels include Daniel Deronda
and Felix Holt, The Radical.
George Eliot. Correct.
The expression
"shuffle off this mortal coil"
appears in Act Three of which
of Shakespeare's tragedies?
Hamlet. Correct.
Ten points for this.
APPLAUSE
The orthography
of which Romance language
includes a dot known
as a punt volat, or flown point?
Similar in form to a decimal point,
it occurs between two letter Ls to
indicate a specific pronunciation.
The language is the sole
official language of Andorra.
Catalan. Catalan is correct.
APPLAUSE
These bonuses are on
Angevin queens of England.
Firstly, in 1191, Berengaria
of Navarre married which king?
After their wedding in Cyprus,
she accompanied him to Palestine
during the Third Crusade.
Richard Coeur de Lion.
Correct.
Married to King John
when she was 12 years old,
which Angevin queen effectively
abandoned her children
on her husband's death, to take up
her inheritance in France?
Isabella of Angouleme. Correct.
Which Queen of France and later
England was the mother-in-law
of both Berengaria of Navarre
and Isabella of Angouleme?
Oh, is this going to be
Eleanor of Aquitaine?
Possibly? I have no idea.
Eleanor of Aquitaine?
Correct. Ten points for this.
APPLAUSE
In medicine, what term denotes
an inadequate blood supply
to a part of the body,
for example the heart?
An adjectival form of the term
appears in the abbreviation TIA.
Ischaemia.
Ischaemia is correct, yes.
APPLAUSE
You get a set of bonuses on Icarus,
the son of Daedalus
in Greek mythology.
Firstly, portraying the death of
Icarus only as an incidental detail,
the 16th-century painting
Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus
has generally been attributed
to which Flemish artist?
Bruegel the Elder.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder? Correct.
In his 1947 book, Jazz,
which French artist portrayed Icarus
as a simple black form
against a royal blue background?
Matisse, isn't it? Royal blue
and all that. Yeah.
Matisse? Matisse is right.
"I'm not the first or last
"To stand on a hillock
"Watching the man she married
"Prove to the world
"He's a total, utter,
absolute Grade A pillock."
Which poet wrote those lines
reflecting on the myth of Icarus?
Carol Ann Duffy. Correct.
In The World's Wife.
APPLAUSE
Right, ten points for this.
Treatise On Instrumentation
And Orchestration
was an influential work of 1844
by which French composer?
His works include the comic opera
Beatrice And Benedict,
Grande Messe Des Morts,
and the symphony Harold In Italy.
Berlioz. Berlioz is correct.
APPLAUSE
You get a set of bonuses
on astrophysics, Emmanuel.
Which German physicist solved
Einstein's equations
of general relativity
for a spherically symmetric
mass distribution?
In doing so, he predicted
the existence of black holes.
No idea.
Schrodinger or something.
It might be Schwarzschild.
Nominate Derby.
Schwarzschild.
Yes, Karl Schwarzschild.
The Schwarzschild radius
measures the size of the event
horizon of a nonrotating black hole.
It's given what formula in terms
of the gravitational constant, G,
the mass of the hole, M,
and the speed of light, c?
No idea.
Do you have any idea?
Anything I can say?
(G ¸ (M x M)) x c.
Just say a number!
Nominate Derby.
(G ¸ (M x M)) x c.
No, it's (2 x G x M) ¸ (c x c).
And, finally, therefore, how does
the density of a black hole change
if its mass increases
by a factor of ten?
I'm going to need a precise answer.
It...multiplies by 100.
Does it increase or decrease
the mass? Increase.
So it increases by a factor of 100.
It increases by a factor of 100.
No, it falls by a factor of 100.
GROANING
Right, ten points for this.
Listen carefully.
I need two answers here.
In the mnemonic "Karl Marx gave the
proletariat eleven zeppelins, yo,"
if the words "Karl Marx"
stand for kilo and mega,
for what do the words
"elevens zeppelins" stand?
Zepta and eota?
No. Anyone want to buzz
from Emmanuel?
Exa and zepta?
I can't accept that.
It's exa and zetta.
Right, ten points for this.
Which novel by Charles Dickens
begins with the death
of a wealthy
shipping merchant's wife
after giving birth
to their second...?
Is it Dombey And Son?
It is Dombey And Son, yes.
APPLAUSE
These bonuses are on literary
bad feeling, Fitzwilliam.
The US novelist and essayist
Gore Vidal had a long-standing feud
with which fellow author?
In 1971, he head-butted
Vidal backstage
during a recording
of the Dick Cavett Show.
Think it's Truman Capote.
Truman Capote?
No, it was Norman Mailer,
prompting Norman Mailer to say...
Prompting Vidal to say, "Once again,
words failed Norman Mailer."
LAUGHTER
Vidal also had a long-standing
feud with which author,
born in 1924 in New Orleans,
whom Vidal called
"a full-fledged housewife from
Kansas with all the prejudices"?
Presumably this is Truman Capote,
is it? Is that too late for him?
'24? Was that Harper? But who did
you think it was, though?
I was just saying Harper,
but Truman Capote, why not?
Let's try Truman Capote again.
That was Truman Capote, yes.
Capote, in turn,
condemned the jazz-influenced work
of which US author and poet,
saying of it, "That's not writing,
that's typing?"
Kerouac. Jack Kerouac?
Correct.
Right, we're going to take
a music round now.
For your music starter, you'll hear
a piece of popular music.
Ten points if you can give me
the name of the band, please.
'80s MUSIC PLAYS
U2?
U2 is correct.
APPLAUSE
They were named by the music critic
Kelefa Sanneh
as a band "often liked by
adherents to 'rockism',
"which is defined as the belief that
white macho guitar music
"is superior to all other forms of
popular music."
Your music bonuses are three
guitar solos of a similar ilk.
Firstly, name this band,
described in Rolling Stone magazine
as "hammering out one herculean
riff after another."
ROCK MUSIC PLAYS
MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH
Is it...AC/DC or...?
AC/DC?
Correct. Secondly,
identify this artist.
The music critic Dave Marsh
claimed his music
should "shake men's souls
"and make them question
the direction of their lives."
NEW ROCK SONG PLAYS
TEAM MEMBER LAUGHS
MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH
Solo artist?
MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH
Geoff Burch?
No, that's Bruce Springsteen.
And, finally, who's this?
A Telegraph article claimed that
they "weren't the greatest band
"of all time,
they were even better than that"!
NEW ROCK SONG PLAYS
MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH
MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH
Oasis?
Good heavens, no!
That's Led Zeppelin.
LAUGHTER
The immortal Stairway To Heaven.
So, ten points for this.
Listen carefully, answer promptly.
If the eight major planets
of the solar system
and the first eight elements of the
periodic table are both arranged
in ascending order of mass,
which planet
is matched with lithium?
Earth.
No. Anyone want to buzz from
Emmanuel?
Venus.
Venus is correct, yes.
APPLAUSE
So, you retake the lead thereon.
Anthropologists, your bonuses.
Born in Scotland in 1854,
which anthropologist was
a prominent scholar of mythology
and comparative religion?
His most notable work
is The Golden Bough. Fraser!
Nominate Fraser!
Sir James Frazer?
That's correct, yes.
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
Secondly,
born in Philadelphia in 1901,
which cultural anthropologist
is noted for her work
on adolescents in Southeast Asia
and the South Pacific?
Her publications include
the much-debated
Coming Of Age In Samoa.
Um...Margaret Mead?
Yeah, I'm not sure...
There's another one that I can't
remember. Shall we just say it?
Margaret Mead?
Correct. Born in 1908,
which French anthropologist
is noted for his development
of the theory of structuralism?
Is this Foucault? Probably.
Or... Could be Derrida.
Shall we say Foucault? Yeah.
Foucault?
That's Claude Levi-Strauss.
Ten points for this.
Which decade saw the publication
of Blaise Pascal's
Provincial Letters,
James Harrington's
Commonwealth of Oceana
and Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan?
16...40s.
No, you lose five points.
The last year of the decade saw
the resignation of Richard Cromwell
as Lord Protector of England.
1650s?
Correct.
APPLAUSE
You get a set of bonuses,
Fitzwilliam, on the periodic table.
The naming of element 106
caused controversy
because the team that discovered it
suggested the name should
reflect that of which chemist,
who was still alive at the time?
Well, it is Seaborgium.
Um... OK, Seaborg, shall we say?
Wait, did he say it's not...
They want the actual...
I think they succeeded, didn't they?
So, let's say...Seaborg.
Correct. Also named after
a scientist alive at the time,
what are the names of elements
numbers 99 and 100
discovered at the location of
the first thermonuclear explosion
in November, 1952?
That's Einstein and Fermi. Do we
need to name the elements, though?
Oh, the elements,
Einsteinium, Fermium.
Einsteinium and Fermium?
Correct. Give either the name of
element 118
or the surname of the living
Russian nuclear physicist
of Armenian descent after whom
it was named in 2016.
Yeah, so, the element is Oganesson.
Oganesson?
Correct.
APPLAUSE
Ten points for this.
The Anvil Chorus
and the Soldiers' Chorus
feature in which...?
Um, Verdi operas, but...
HE SIGHS
I'm afraid you lose five points.
..feature in which opera
first performed in Rome in 1853?
Il trovatore.
Correct.
APPLAUSE
You get a set of bonuses on extinct
Indo-European languages,
Emmanuel College.
Lydian, Palaic and Hittite
are extinct languages
given a collective name
after which peninsula?
It comprises a large part
of present-day Turkey.
WHISPERING
Um....
Anatolia? I don't even know
of a peninsula...
Shall we say... Anatoly?
Anatolic languages?
I'll accept that, yes.
Anatolia is the name
I was looking for for the peninsula.
Tocharian A and B are attested by
Buddhist texts
from the first millennium of
the common era.
They were spoken in the Tarim Basin
in which present-day country?
Tarim Basin...
Buddhist, so it's going to be...
India? Could be.
India?
No, they were in China.
Sabine, Oscan and Volscian are
extinct languages
of which present-day
European country?
Italy? Do you reckon? Mm, I don't
know, I'm just going with Sabine.
As in, Rape Of The Sabine Women?
Well, that's all I'm going with!
Italy?
It is Italy, yes. We're going to
take the second picture round now.
For your picture starter, you're
going to see a still from a film.
For ten points, I want you to
identify the name of the film
and the actor on the right
who also directed it.
Unforgiven and Clint Eastwood.
Correct.
APPLAUSE
So, he directed
and starred in Unforgiven.
Your bonuses are stills from
three more films whose directors
also acted in them.
Each film is preserved
in the National Film Registry
of the US Library Of Congress.
Firstly, I want the full
four-word title of this film
and its director,
seen here on the left.
This Is Spinal Tap and Rob Reiner.
This Is Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner?
Correct. Secondly, again,
the title of the film
and the name of the actor
and director.
Uh, is that Easy Rider?
Dennis Hopper? Did he direct that?
Possibly. OK.
Easy Rider and Dennis Hopper?
Correct. And, finally, title
and actor-director again.
Modern Times and Charlie Chaplin.
Modern Times and Charlie Chaplin?
Correct. Ten points for this.
APPLAUSE
In English grammar, opinion, size,
age, shape, colour,
origin and material
is the most usual order of what...?
Adjectives?
Adjectives is correct, yes.
APPLAUSE
Right, you get a set of bonuses
on the Messner version
of the Seven Summits.
That is, the highest mountains
on each continent.
In each case, name the peak
from its geographical coordinates.
Firstly, 63.07 degrees north,
151 degrees west.
So, it's... Asia? In Asia?
Is that not Everest, then?
Everest?
No, that's Denali, McKinley
in North America.
Secondly, 43.35 degrees north,
42.45 degrees east.
Would that be Europe or Asia?
God knows!
Shall we try... Everest, I mean...
Is this... Hmm? Is this Europe?
So, Mont Blanc? No, no, no.
What am I saying? Just...Everest?
Everest?
No, it's Elbrus, Europe.
And finally, 78.53 degrees south,
85.62 degrees west.
Is that Aconcagua?
..South America, so Aconcagua?
Aconcagua?
No, that's the Vinson Massif
in Antarctica.
There are 3.5 minutes to go
and there's ten points for this.
The history of King Richard III
was written in the 1510s
by which statesman?
From 1518, he served on Henry VIII's
Privy Council,
and later became Lord Chancellor.
Thomas Cromwell?
No, anyone like to buzz
from Emmanuel?
Francis Bacon?
No, it was Sir Thomas More.
Ten points for this
starter question.
Talas, Jalal, Abad, Osh and Batken
are among the oblast,
or administrative regions,
of which central Asian country?
Kyrgyzstan?
Kyrgyzstan is correct.
APPLAUSE
You get three bonuses on helium.
"The helium capital of the world"
is an epithet
of which city
in the Texas Panhandle?
Its name is the Spanish word
for the colour yellow.
SEVERAL: Amarillo.
Amarillo?
Amarillo is correct.
The United States produces a large
proportion of the world's helium,
recovering it from what other
specific product?
And I need a two-word answer.
HE GROANS
It's a by-product of
radioactive decay.
Some sort of ore.
Iron ore?
Iron ore?
No, it's natural gas.
ALL: Ah!
The helium in natural gas
comes from radioactive decay.
What term denotes particles
that are the nucleus of
a Helium-4 atom?
Alpha particle.
Alpha particle?
Correct. Ten points for this.
APPLAUSE
I need a precise answer here.
In the opening scene
of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night,
what seven words precede,
"Play on, give me excess of it..."
"If music be the food of love"?
"If music be the food of love"
is correct, yes.
APPLAUSE
These bonuses are on excursions.
Who wrote the 1863 anthology
Excursions, a series of essays
that includes A Walk To Wachusett
and Natural History Of
Massachusetts?
Mark Twain?
No, it's Henry David Thoreau.
The Steam Excursions is a short
story by Charles Dickens
that forms one of
the so-called Tales
in which collection
known by a three-word name?
Pass.
They're Sketches By Boz.
Which 1974 novel by Beryl Bainbridge
describes a series of
darkly comic events that occur
during the annual excursion
of a glass manufacturing company?
Pass.
That's The Bottle Factory Outing.
Ten points for this.
Curicta is the Latin name for which
island off the coast of Croatia,
noted for the discovery of the stone
slab known as the Baska Tablet?
It has a three-letter name
that contains no vowels.
Tyr?
No, anyone want to buzz from
Emmanuel?
Lys? No, its Krk.
Ten points for this.
Lan Xang, or kingdom of
the million elephants,
was an early polity
in which present-day country?
It flourished from the 14th century
until the 18th,
and later became part of
French Indochina.
Thailand.
No, anyone like to buzz
from Fitzwilliam?
Vietnam?
No, it's Laos. Ten points for this.
Rearranging the letters
of the chemical formula for
table salt gives what word,
meaning a large...?
Clan.
Clan is correct.
APPLAUSE
Your bonuses now are on
perpendicular Gothic architecture.
In each case, name the county in
which the following churches
are located. Firstly, Tattersall,
Thirlby and Louth.
Uh, Lancashire?
GONG BOOMS
APPLAUSE
At the gong, Emmanuel College,
Cambridge have 150.
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
have 175.
APPLAUSE
Well, that was a great game,
and it was very, very close.
And you very nearly took it,
Emmanuel.
Who knows what would have happened
if we'd gone on another few minutes.
Who can say? But thank you
very much for joining us.
We're going to have to say
goodbye to you.
Fitzwilliam, congratulations,
you get another chance to
stay in the competition,
so many congratulations to you.
I hope you can join us
next time for another quarterfinal.
But until then, it's goodbye
from Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
ALL: Goodbye. And it's goodbye
from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
ALL: Goodbye. And it's goodbye
from me - goodbye.
