Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
Hello. Time again to rattle
the cage of the student mind.
An ancient college is playing a more
modern university with a place
in the second round at stake.
Both teams will be aware,
or certainly should be,
that tonight's losers could earn the
right to play again, too,
if their score is good enough.
Now, the team from Emmanuel College,
Cambridge,
are representing an institution
which won the championship in 2010.
It was founded in 1584
by Sir Walter Mildmay,
who would later become Chancellor
of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I.
It now has around 630 students.
Alumni include the 17th century
clergyman John Harvard,
after whom Harvard University
is named,
the novelists Sebastian Faulks
and Maggie O'Farrell
and Monty Python's Graham Chapman.
With an average age of 22,
let's meet the Emmanuel team.
Hi, I'm Tom Hill.
I'm from London
and I'm reading history.
Hello. I'm Leah Ward. I'm from
Oxfordshire and I'm reading maths.
This is their captain.
Hello. My name is Bobby Seagull.
I'm from East Ham in
the London Borough of Newham.
I'm studying for a Masters in
education, specialising in maths.
Hi, I'm Bruno.
I'm from Wandsworth in south-west
London and I'm studying physics.
APPLAUSE
Now, their opponents represent
the University of Nottingham,
whom we saw in the second round
of the last series.
It was endowed by Jesse Boot of
Boots the Chemist fame in the 1920s
and received university status
in 1948.
It now has a student body
of nearly 32,000
and its alumni include
the writer DH Lawrence,
the actors Haydn Gwynne
and Ruth Wilson
and the former head of MI6,
Sir John Sawers.
With an average age of 22,
let's meet four of the current crop.
Hello, my name is Joseph Meethan.
I'm originally from
Plymouth in Devon
and I'm doing
a BA in Viking Studies.
Hello, my name is Wester Van Urk.
I'm from Culemborg
in the Netherlands
and I'm doing a PHD in mathematics.
And this is their captain.
Hello. My is Hugh Smith.
I'm originally from Brighton
and I'm studying for a Masters
in international social policy.
Hi, I'm Isaac Cowan.
I'm from Ottawa, Canada,
and I'm studying medicine.
APPLAUSE
Well, the rules are unchanging
on this -
ten points for starters, which have
to be answered on the buzzer
as an individual effort
and 15 points for bonuses,
which are team efforts.
Fingers on the buzzers.
Here is your first starter for ten.
What term for a type
or flavour of quark
is found in words or
phrases meaning...?
Colour.
No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
Meaning time off,
crushed by oppression,
decline in economic activity
and the lower or business part
of an urban area.
Down. Down is correct, yes.
APPLAUSE
Your bonuses are on Euro coins using
information from the website
of the European Central Bank.
Firstly, for five points.
One of the more recent entrants
to the Eurozone,
which country's euro coins bear
a geographical image
of the country that includes
two large islands and a large lake?
It must be coastal.
Estonia joined...
Or it could be a Baltic.
Estonia has islands.
Go Estonia.
Yeah, let's go with Estonia.
Estonia? Estonia.
Correct.
Which country's Euro coin bears
a portrait of Protestant reformer
Primoz Trubar,
the author of the first book
printed in that country's
main language?
Central European, probably.
Hungary. Could be hungry. Hungary.
No, it's Slovenia.
And, finally, a stylised tree
symbolising life,
continuity and growth appears on
which country's
one and two Euro coins?
It's enclosed in a hexagon
and encircled by the motto
of the Republic.
France. France, yeah.
France. France is correct.
Ten points for this.
Daisy, Doady, Davy,
Trot and Trotwood are names
variously given by his relatives
and acquaintances to the narrator
and protagonist
of which novel by Charles Dickens?
Little Miss Dorrit?
No.
I'm afraid you lose five points.
First published in
book form in 1850.
David Copperfield. Correct.
APPLAUSE
These bonuses are on the rocketry
pioneer Wernher von Braun.
Von Braun led the development of
the rocket that launched both
the Apollo Lunar Lander and Skylab.
Give the two-word designation
of this rocket.
THEY WHISPER
Happy with that? Saturn V.
Correct.
In 1958, Von Braun's team launched
the first US satellite, Explorer 1.
This discovered the innermost
of which radiation belts
around the Earth?
THEY WHISPER
Nominate Cowan. Van Allen belt.
Correct.
1960 saw the release of the film
about Von Braun
entitled I Aim At The Stars,
alluding to Von Braun's wartime
development of the V2 rocket bomb.
The comedian Mort Sahl suggested
the subtitle should be
But Sometimes I Hit what?
People? Cars. Something that rhymes,
maybe, I don't know.
Let's go with people.
People.
No, it's London.
Ten points for this.
Who, when asked in 1929
whether he considers himself
a German or a Jew replied,
"I look upon myself as a man.
"Nationalism is
an infantile disease.
"It is the measles of mankind"?
The speaker was a physicist...
Albert Einstein.
Correct.
APPLAUSE
Your bonuses, Emmanuel, are on
fictional works set in Shanghai.
Japanese spies and opium smuggling
in Shanghai
feature in The Blue Lotus,
published serially in the 1930s.
Which fictional European reporter
is its protagonists?
Tintin. Tintin.
Correct.
Who wrote When We Were Orphans?
Shortlisted for
the Man Booker Prize in 2000,
it tells of an Englishman who
returns to 1930s China
to discover the truth
about his parents' disappearance.
Know anything? No orphans?
Any names?
2000? Not immediately, no.
Nothing? Johnson.
No, it was Kazuo Ishiguro. Oh!
Finally, largely set in Shanghai,
which novel of 1984 by JG Ballard
is based on his experiences in China
during World War II?
Empire Of The Sun. Yeah.
Empire Of The Sun. Correct.
Ten points for this.
Coquet Island in Northumberland,
South Stack in Anglesey
and Papa Westray in Orkney
are among the habitats
of which bird of the auk family?
Known binomially
as Fratercula arctica,
it's distinguished by its colourful,
parrot-like beak.
Puffins?
Puffin is correct, yes.
APPLAUSE
You get a set of bonuses on
aquarium fish.
In each case, give the common name
of the following.
Firstly, the two-word common name
of Paracheirodon innesi,
a small fish named in part
after a noble gas.
It is strikingly coloured -
iridescent blue
on the upper body and
bright red underneath.
THEY WHISPER
Argon fish?
Neon, surely. Oh, yeah.
Something to do with neon.
Neon fish.
No, it's a neon tetra.
You were halfway there but not
precise enough, I'm afraid.
Betta splenden, secondly,
a small perciform fish.
Males behave aggressively
towards one another
and in Southeast Asia they have been
bred with long flowing fins
for use in contests.
Carp? Some sort of carp?
A koi carp?
Nominate Cowan.
Betta?
No. It's a Siamese fighting fish.
And, finally, Poecilia reticulata.
A small, prolific,
live-bearing fish,
the males are noted for their long
ornamental caudal and dorsal fins.
Carp?
Let's go with a carp.
It's a guppy, or a million fish,
or mosquito fish.
We are going to take our first
picture round now.
For your picture starter you'll see
a map with a capital city marked.
For ten points, all you have to do
is identify the city.
Abuja.
Abuja, the capital of Nigeria,
is correct.
APPLAUSE
Like Brasilia or Islamabad,
Abuja is a purpose-built
capital city
constructed in the 1970s and '80s
in response
both to the overcrowding of Lagos
and a political desire
for a more neutrally-located
national capital.
Picture bonuses, three more
planned capital cities.
Five points for each
you can identify.
Firstly for five.
I think that's... Is that in Belize?
Yeah, it's Belmopan.
Belmopan.
Belmopan.
Belmopan in Belize is correct.
Secondly...
That's Mauritania. Nouakchott.
Nominate van Urk. Nouakchott.
It is Nouakchott in Mauritania.
And finally...
That's Gaborone.
I don't know how to say it.
It's either Gaboron or Gaboron-ay.
Gaborone. Gaborone is correct.
In Botswana.
Right, ten points for this.
APPLAUSE
Originalism and textualism
are principles...?
They are different ways of
interpreting the US Constitution.
I'm afraid that wasn't the question.
Aw...
So you're going to lose five points.
Are principles of interpretation
associated
with which US Supreme Court
Justice who died in February 2016?
Scalia.
Antonin Scalia is correct, yes.
Your bonuses, Emmanuel College,
are on the novels of Jane Austen.
In each case, give the full name
of the character and the novel
in which she appears.
All three have the given name Mary.
Firstly, "I hope I am as fond
of my child as any mother,
"but I do not know that
I am of any more use
"in the sick room than Charles,
"for I cannot always be scolding and
teasing a poor child when it's ill.
"I have not nerves
for that sort of thing."
Do you know any Marys?
It's not Pride And Prejudice Mary.
Sense And Sensibility.
Give a surname from
Sense And Sensibility.
Give me a surname.
I haven't read it.
Sense And Sensibility, Smith.
No, it's Mary Musgrove
in Persuasion.
Secondly, "There I will stake
my last like a woman of spirit.
"No cold prudence for me.
"I am not born to sit still
and do nothing.
"If I lose the game it shall not be
from not striving for it."
Do you know this one?
Not a clue.
Do you have anything at all? No.
Nothing?
We're going to pass on that.
That's Mary Crawford
in Mansfield Park.
And finally, "Unhappy as the event
must be for Lydia,
"we may draw from it
this useful lesson,
"that loss of virtue in a female
is irretrievable.
"That one false step involves
her in endless ruin."
Mary Bennett. Pride And Prejudice.
Correct.
Ten points for this.
What unit of measurement
was defined in 2012 is being
149,597,870.7 kilometres?
In other words, the average distance
from the Earth...?
Astronomical unit.
Correct.
APPLAUSE
You get a set of bonuses on
biochemical separation techniques.
Firstly, for five points,
which technique uses an electric
current to separate proteins
and polynucleotides in a gel
such as agarose or polyacrylamide,
according to size and charge?
Electrophoresis, I think.
Yeah, yeah. Nominate Barton-Singer.
Electrophoresis.
Correct.
Which method uses a difference
in diffusion rates across
a semipermeable membrane to separate
molecules from a solution?
That sounds like something
to do with osmosis.
Osmotic something?
Do you have a word?
No. Just say chromatography, then.
Chromatography. No, it's dialysis.
And finally, a technique for
separating the components
of a mixture, which versatile method
has a name from the Greek
for coloured writing?
Chromatography. Correct.
Ten points for this.
In a 1999 obituary,
who was described as a novelist
and philosopher who used fiction to
chart the progress of a metaphysical
battle between evil and good?
Her novels include The Bell, The
Black Prince and The Sea, The Sea.
Iris Murdoch.
Correct.
APPLAUSE
Your bonuses, Emmanuel,
are on novelists,
music, science and rivers.
In each case,
I want the novelist whose name
corresponds to the following.
Firstly, the SI-derived unit of
magnetic inductance
followed by the first name
of the US soul performer
whose hits include Say It Loud,
I'm Black And I'm Proud.
So the first part's Henry.
Is it Aretha Franklin?
Henry James. Henry James, yeah?
It's a guess. Henry James.
Correct.
Secondly, the surname
of the US physicist
who explained an affect
or scattering that occurs
when electromagnetic radiation
is scattered by free electrons
followed by the name of
the longest river of Canada.
Compton...
Compton Mackenzie, yeah?
Is that a thing?
Yeah? Compton Mackenzie?
Go for that? There are lots
of other kinds of scattering,
so I'm just...
Which one? Is there another?
There's Rayleigh... Thomson.
Does anybody know a writer
Mackenzie?
Just say Compton.
That's not a name.
Compton scattering.
Compton Mackenzie, then.
Compton Mackenzie?
Compton Mackenzie.
Correct. Yes!
Finally, the given name of the
usual lead guitarist of the Beatles
followed by the name of
the river that reaches the sea
between Harwich and Felixstowe.
The name of which novelist results?
Is it the Thames? No.
Felixstowe? No.
Who is the lead guitarist
in the Beatles?
John... John Lennon?
No, it wasn't John Lennon.
George Harrison. George...
What's the name of the river?
Felixstowe. George Thames?
No, no. It's in Suffolk.
It is going to be, like...
George Dun.
John Dun? No. John Donne?
John Donne.
John Donne! No, it's George Orwell.
Oh! The Orwell is the river.
Ten points for this.
Now implying brutality
and criminality,
what the word derives from the Hindi
term for a member of a traditional
cult of robbers and assassins?
Thug.
Thug is correct, yes.
APPLAUSE
Your bonuses are on philosophy
in the 1620s.
Firstly, in 1624, the Parliament
of France passed a decree
forbidding criticism of which Greek
philosopher on pain of death?
Don't know.
Plato, Socrates.
Plato? Plato.
Plato. No, it's Aristotle.
Departing from Aristotle's approach,
which English philosopher made an
early expedition
of the scientific method
in the 1620 work Novum Organum?
It's either Francis Bacon or...
Francis Bacon. Bacon.
It was Francis Bacon, yes.
In the 1620s,
which French philosopher wrote
Rules For The Direction Of The Mind,
a further contribution
to the scientific method?
It was later published posthumously.
Pascal died quite young.
I was thinking Pascal.
Pascal.
It's Rene Descartes.
We're going to take
a music round now.
For your music starter you're going
to hear an excerpt from an opera.
For ten points, I want you to give
me the title of the opera.
OPERA PLAYS
The Marriage Of Figaro.
It is indeed. Well done.
APPLAUSE
That was the act three dueting
between Susanna and the Countess.
For your music bonuses, three more
well-known operatic duets.
In each case I want the title of
the opera from which each is taken.
Firstly, for five...
MAN AND WOMAN SING
Guess something.
Just say something.
That is an opera.
I know nothing about operas.
LAUGHTER
Don Giovanni.
No, that's Rodolfo and Mimi
in La Boheme.
Secondly...
MEN SING
Eugene Onegin.
No, that's from The Pearl Fishers.
And finally...
WOMEN SING
I don't know the opera.
I just know what it's called.
Something about butterflies.
It could just be Madame Butterfly.
Madame Butterfly?
Madame Butterfly.
No, it is the Flower Duet from Lakme
or the British Airways commercial.
Ten points for this.
The architectural events
of which decade include
the introduction
of Giles Gilbert Scott's
K2 red telephone box in Britain,
the completion of the Bauhaus
at Dessau in Germany
and in New York,
the start of the construction
of the Chrysler building?
1920s?
Correct.
Your bonuses, Emmanuel,
are on Italian history.
Which Italian nationalist leader
founded the
Young Italy movement in 1831?
Garibaldi? Mussolini?
Garibaldi. Garibaldi, yeah?
Garibaldi. No, it was Mazzini.
Once a member of Young Italy,
which revolutionary lead the army
that occupied Sicily and Naples
in 1860
as part of
the Risorgimento movement?
Garibaldi. Any other names?
Garibaldi?
That was Garibaldi.
And finally, the founder of the
political newspaper Il Risorgimento,
who became the first Prime Minister
of Italy
following the unification
of the country in 1861?
I don't know.
Do we know?
No.
Just pass. Silvio.
As in Berlusconi?
No, he's not that old.
No, it's Cavour.
Ten points for this.
First published in 1906,
The Man Of Property is the first
of which series of novels
tracing the story of an
upper-middle-class family?
The author won the Nobel Prize
for literature in 1932.
The Rabbit series?
Nope. Nottingham, one of you buzz?
It's the Forsyte Saga.
Ten points for this.
Which four letters begin the names
of the Hindu goddess of wisdom,
arts and learning,
a British defeat of 1777,
often seen as a turning point
in the American Revolution,
a state of Malaysia
in north-west Borneo
and the capital of Bosnia?
S-A-R-A.
Correct.
Emmanuel, your bonuses are on
noble families
in George RR Martin's novel series
A Song Of Ice And Fire.
Firstly, the name of which
noble family in the series
means strong or powerful in German?
That's Stark. Stark, yeah?
Stark. Correct.
Which noble family has a name
similar to that
of the Frankish leader
who defeated the Moors
at the Battle of Tours in 732?
Martell, yeah?
Martell. Correct.
The name of which noble house
rhymes with the surname
of the English athlete who ran
the first sub-four-minute mile?
Bannister, Lannister. Lannister.
Lannister.
Lannister is correct. Yes.
APPLAUSE
That's given you the lead,
and we are coming to
our second picture round.
For your picture starter,
you'll see a still from a film.
Ten points if you can identify
the actor you'll see.
Christopher Lee. Correct.
Puts you on level pegging again.
He died in 2015,
having appeared in around 200 films,
spanning nearly 70 years.
For your bonuses, you'll see
three more stills from films
featuring Christopher Lee.
Five points if you give me
the title of the film
and the name of the character
he played. Firstly...
I'm assuming that's
The Man With The Golden Gun.
Yeah. The name of the character?
Dr No, isn't it?
No. Dr No is in Dr No.
I don't know. I don't know
what it's called. Scaramanga?
Scaramanga in
The Man With The Golden Gun.
Correct. Secondly...
It's the Wicker Man.
The character's name?
Mr Wicker?
Mr Jones in the Wicker Man.
No, it's Lord Summerisle
in the Wicker Man.
Finally, I want the character
and the series of films
he appeared in here.
Saruman, Lord Of The Rings.
Correct.
Ten points for this.
Which scientist's laboratory
notebooks are so radioactive
they're kept in a lead-lined...?
Curie. Marie Curie is correct. Yes.
These bonuses are on
European football stadia.
Firstly, Estadio Vicente Calderon
was built in the 1960s
as the home of which football club,
mainly in response
to their rival's new ground
at Estadio Santiago Bernabeu?
Atletico Madrid.
Atletico Madrid.
Correct. The largest stadium
of Belgium,
where the national team plays
most of its home matches,
is named after which former
ruler of the country?
Try Leopold? Yeah, Leopold.
Leopold? No, it's King Baudouin.
In which city is
the Ernst Happel Stadium?
Formally known as
the Prater Stadium,
it hosted the final of Euro 2008.
It's Switzerland or Austria,
I think.
I don't know. Try Bern.
Bern? No, it's Vienna.
Ten points for this.
The metallic element tantalum
is closely associated with
which other element found with it
in ores and sharing its properties,
and named after the mythological
daughter of Tantalus?
Niobium. Niobium is right. Yes.
APPLAUSE
Right, these bonuses are on
a scientific term, Emmanuel.
The Latin for liquid,
what word refers to a dispersion
of polymer particles in water?
Found in many plants, it may also be
manufactured synthetically.
Martian coloid...
No, I have no idea.
Shall we just pass? Pass, yes.
Coloid. No, it's latex.
Those with a latex allergy
often use NBR gloves.
For what does
the abbreviation NBR stand?
Borate? NBR.
Nitro borate something.
Nominate Barton-Singer.
Nitro borate reticulum.
No, it's Nitrile butadiene rubber.
And finally, what five-letter,
common name is given to
the dry latex collected from
the capsule of Papaver somniferum?
Five letter. I don't know.
No, we don't know. Pass.
It's opium. Four minutes to go.
Ten points for this.
Named after a dialect song,
the Lyke Wake Walk is a challenge
walk across which National Park?
The North Yorkshire moors.
Correct.
APPLAUSE
Your bonuses are on words
in other languages.
What four letters spell in English a
word meaning familiar or casual talk
and in French
a particular domesticated animal?
Chat. Correct.
The German word for a child or baby
spells which common
English adjective?
Kind. Kind. Correct.
The Spanish word for the number 11
spells which common English adverb?
Once. Once.
Once is correct.
You've got the lead.
Ten points for this.
Meanings of what four-letter word
include a fungal disease of plants,
especially cereals, in which black
spores cover the affected parts?
Soot or sooty matter...
Rust. No, I'm afraid you lose
five points.
..and something indecent or obscene.
Smut. Smut is correct. Yes.
APPLAUSE
Your bonuses, Emmanuel,
are on the author Ian McEwan.
In each case, identify the novel
from its description on the website
of the publisher's, Vintage Books.
"It is July 1962.
"Edward and Florence, young
innocents married that morning,
"arrive at a hotel
on the Dorset coast."
On Chesil Beach?
On Chesil Beach, yeah?
On Chesil Beach. Indeed.
"The year is 1972.
"The Cold War is far from over.
"Britain is being torn apart by
industrial unrest and terrorism.
"Serena Frome, in her final year
at Cambridge,
"is being groomed for MI5."
Atonement? No, what was the...?
It's not Atonement.
Enduring Love is the only one...
It's not Enduring Love. Solar.
I think it's a different one.
Solar. No, it's Sweet Tooth.
"On the hottest day
of the summer of 1934,
"13-year-old Briony Tallis sees her
sister Cecilia strip off her clothes
"and plunge into the fountain
in the country house..."
Atonement. Atonement is correct.
Ten points for this.
Which King of England was
the son of Isabella of France
and was married to
Philippa of Hainault?
He was succeeded by his grandson
who was later deposed
and died in captivity.
Edward III. Correct.
You get a set of bonuses this time
on 19th-century British history.
In each case give the decade
during which the three named
Prime Ministers all held office.
Firstly, the Earl of Liverpool,
George Canning
and Viscount Goderich.
It could be '10s or '20s.
Liverpool was '20s?
I think '10s. '10s?
'10s, I think.
Then we'll go for that.
'10s? No, it was the 1820s.
The Earl of Derby, the Earl of
Aberdeen and Viscount Palmerston.
'50s sounds plausible, yeah?
'50s. It was the 1850s.
Finally, the Marquess of Salisbury,
WE Gladstone
and the Earl of Rosebery.
Was it '90s? Was it '90s?
'90s, I was thinking.
No, it might be '80s.
I think it's '80s. It's '80s.
It's '80s. '80s.
No, it's the '90s. 10 points
for this. Answer promptly.
Name the three Platonic solids
whose faces are triangular.
Tetrahedron, octahedron
and icosahedron.
Correct.
APPLAUSE
These bonuses are on dentistry,
Nottingham.
What Greek-derived term describes
animals possessing teeth
that are differentiated
into several forms?
Polydont?
No, it's heterodont.
In mammals, which teeth are known as
cuspids or eye teeth?
Incisors. No, it's canines.
In which bone are the sockets of the
lower canines of humans located?
GONG
And at the gong,
Nottingham have 135, Emmanuel
College, Cambridge, have 175.
Well, Nottingham, you were
in the lead earlier.
I don't know what happened
towards the end.
But thank you for playing.
You may come back as a high-scoring
losing team, who knows?
But we thank you very much
for joining us.
Emmanuel, congratulations to you.
You had a terrible start,
but you came back strongly.
Congratulations. We look forward to
seeing you in round two, for sure.
I hope you can join us next time,
but until then it's goodbye from
Nottingham University. Goodbye.
It's goodbye from Emmanuel College,
Cambridge. Goodbye.
And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
