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00:00Hello and welcome to
00:29University Challenge. With all the first round heats now played, this game and the next
00:34are reperchage matches in which the four highest scoring losing teams from round one
00:38will have a second chance to join the 14 teams already safely through to round two.
00:44The team from London's School of Oriental and African Studies or SOAS played next door
00:49neighbours UCL in their opening game and in that match UCL took an early lead and then stayed in
00:54front throughout but SOAS were never much more than a starter or two behind them and the game
00:58finished with UCL on 210 points and SOAS on 170. Along the way, SOAS showed us they know a lot
01:05about sport, philosophy and punk music and their overall bonus conversion rate was the highest of
01:10the round at just under 80%. Let's meet the team from SOAS once again.
01:15Hi, I'm Hatham Azain. I'm from Manchester by way of Ethiopia and I'm studying history and politics.
01:21Howdy howdy. I'm Vee Davis-Aldren. I'm from Islington and I'm studying politics, philosophy and economics.
01:27And their captain.
01:28Hello, I'm Andrew Graham from Cheddington in Buckinghamshire. I'm studying a master's in medical anthropology and mental health.
01:34Hi, I'm Matthew Regan. I'm from Dublin, Ireland and I'm studying global liberal arts.
01:39The team from Imperial are here tonight having had a real tussle in their first game with Churchill College, Cambridge.
01:49The lead changed hands in that match several times and going into the final minute, only five points separated the two teams.
01:55But in the end, it was Churchill who managed to take one last starter, meaning at the gong they had 175 points to Imperial's 160.
02:04Imperial have answered particularly well so far on mathematical logic, paleontology and Korean food, but slightly less well on classical music.
02:12Let's meet them for the second time.
02:14Hi, I'm Raheem Dina. I'm originally from Seychelles and now I live in Peterborough and I'm doing a PhD in ecology and evolution.
02:20Hi, I'm Eugenia Tong. I'm from Hong Kong and I study chemistry.
02:24And their captain.
02:25Hello, I'm Oscar O'Flanagan. I'm from London and I'm doing a PhD in atmospheric physics.
02:30Hi, I'm Justin Koeng. I'm from Hong Kong and I study computing.
02:34Well, it's very nice to see you all again and your outlandish mascots.
02:40Hopefully they'll bring you some luck. Very, very best of luck.
02:42Here we go. Fingers on buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten. Good luck.
02:46What short word links all of the following?
02:49In mycology, fungal plant pathogens of the order Pucsinealis and by extension the diseases caused by them.
02:56In computer science, a programming language created by Graydon...
03:00Imperial Dina. Rust.
03:01It is Rust. Well done.
03:03Your bonuses, Imperial, are questions on works in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
03:09In 1856, a portrait of whom became the gallery's first acquisition, receiving the catalogue number of one.
03:15The portrait is notable for its subject's prominent earring.
03:18Ear...
03:19Gal... Gal... Gal...
03:20Yeah, the Vermeer thing? No, but it's not in the National Portrait Gallery, though.
03:23Oh, right.
03:24I don't have anything. Do you have anything else?
03:26Wait, Queen Elizabeth I, maybe? The Ditchley portrait? I don't know.
03:30The Ditchley portrait of Elizabeth I? No, it's William Shakespeare.
03:33Oh. With catalogue number 7153, a portrait by Joshua Reynolds of the first Polynesian known to have visited Britain was acquired by the gallery in 2023.
03:43By what name is the subject known? No, pass. I've seen this painting, I don't know the name. Pass.
03:48It is famous. It's my or oh my. Bad luck. The oldest object in the National Portrait Gallery's collection is a coin from circa 796 depicting which ruler of Mercia?
03:58Offer, maybe? Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. Offer.
04:00It is offer, yes. Yes, probably.
04:02Let's start the question.
04:03The name of which country appeared in print for the first time in the 1933 pamphlet, Now or Never, Are We to Live or Perish Forever?
04:12Written by Chowdhury Ramat Ali.
04:14Its original spelling is today rendered with an additional letter I between letters standing for Ka...
04:20Imperial Khan.
04:21Tokyo.
04:22I'm afraid you'll lose five points for Kashmir and Sindh.
04:25You can buzz if you want to have a go.
04:26So is Graham.
04:27Pakistan? It is Pakistan, yes.
04:30Your bonus is then so asked for three questions on a shared surname.
04:34What is the surname of the married couple Mortimer and Tessa, known for their work at Romano-British archaeological sites including Segontium and Verulamium in the early 20th century?
04:45Along with their student Kathleen Kenyon, they gave their name to a method for archaeological excavation.
04:50I don't know this.
04:52Genuinely.
04:53Anything.
04:54No idea.
04:55Pass.
04:56It's Wheeler.
04:57Lyle Wheeler won the first of his five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction.
05:01For which 1939 film directed by Victor Fleming and based on a novel of 1936?
05:0739 stuff.
05:08Victor Fleming.
05:09Victor Fleming.
05:10Wizard of Oz.
05:11That was 1939 and it was directed by Victor Fleming but the answer we wanted was Gone with the Wind.
05:16In a 1957 paper, the physicist John Archibald Wheeler coined the name for which hypothetical structure connecting two distant points in space-time, special cases of which are called Einstein-Rosen bridges.
05:28Is this wormhole?
05:29Could it be wormholes?
05:31I think so.
05:32Yeah.
05:33Wormhole?
05:34It is wormholes.
05:35Yes.
05:36It is wormholes.
05:37Yes.
05:38As I think everybody would appear to be new.
05:40Fingers on buzzers.
05:41Here's another starter question.
05:43I need a single short word here.
05:45Writing in the early 17th century, what branch of philosophy did Francis Bacon distinguish from rhetoric in that, quote,
05:51It handleeth reason exact and in truth, and rhetoric handleeth it as it is planted in popular opinion.
05:59Soas Graham.
06:00Logic.
06:01It is logic.
06:02Yes, well done.
06:03Two questions for you Soas on umbrellas in British novels.
06:06Quote,
06:07All men are equal.
06:08All men, that is, who possess umbrellas.
06:10Those words appear in which novel by E.M. Forster?
06:13Its plot stems in part from Helen Schlegel accidentally taking home an umbrella belonging to a clerk named Leonard Bast.
06:19It might be Howard's End.
06:21Yeah, any thoughts?
06:22Yeah, it's definitely not Morris.
06:24Howard's End.
06:25Well done.
06:26The slang term Gamp, meaning a large umbrella, refers to Mrs. Gamp, an umbrella-toting character from which Charles Dickens novel.
06:33Her umbrella is described as an object of great price and rarity that she displays with particular ostentation.
06:40If it's about any...
06:42I think...
06:43I think Tennessee City is because it's ostentatious and rich.
06:46Yeah.
06:47But I haven't read it.
06:48Tale of Two Cities would probably be my guess as well.
06:50Tale of Two Cities.
06:51It's Martin Chuzzlewit.
06:52Published in 2012, Umbrella is the first novel in a trilogy by which British writer?
06:57His other novels include Great Apes and The Book of Dave.
07:00Will Self.
07:01It is Will Self.
07:02Yeah.
07:03Now to start the question.
07:04Picture round now.
07:05You're going to see a chart representing the amount of electricity generated in the UK from a particular source.
07:11For ten points, I need you to identify the source.
07:17Coal.
07:18Coal.
07:19It is coal, yes.
07:20Your picture started there.
07:21You saw a chart representing the precipitous decline in electricity generated from coal in the UK.
07:26For your bonuses, Imperial, you're going to see a chart representing electricity generation in the UK from three more sources.
07:33Five points for each energy source you can work out.
07:36First, the source represented by the line labelled A.
07:39Oh, this is shut up.
07:41Solar?
07:42Could be wind power.
07:43Oh.
07:44There's been a lot of offshore wind.
07:45Could be biomass burning.
07:46Cool.
07:47Because that's what the place is called.
07:48Could one of them be nuclear energy?
07:50One of them is probably nuclear energy.
07:52But it's not A.
07:53I don't think it's A.
07:55Okay.
07:56Any preference?
07:57Wind power.
07:58Yes.
07:59Secondly, the source represented by the line labelled B.
08:06So this is...
08:07Okay, not the biggest now.
08:08Yeah.
08:09Could be nuclear.
08:10I mean, it was high in 1985.
08:11Yeah.
08:12It was fairly consistent.
08:13So...
08:14Okay.
08:15Nuclear.
08:16Yes.
08:17Finally, the source represented by the line labelled C.
08:19Couldn't this be solar?
08:21Like, why would it be flat before 2010?
08:23Yeah.
08:24Could be solar.
08:25Or hydro?
08:26Hydroelectric?
08:27No, because it wouldn't be zero before.
08:28There's been hydroelectric for a long time.
08:30Solar maybe?
08:31Because I saw solar panel.
08:32What else is there?
08:33Maybe they were that efficient.
08:35Solar.
08:36It is solar, yes.
08:38Another starter question.
08:39Fingers on buzzers.
08:40Scores level.
08:41The Spallanzani award is given to researchers who primarily study which order of animals.
08:47The award's name is taken from Italian biologist Lazaro Spallanzani, who published an influential set of letters in 1794, describing these animals' ability to navigate around his room at night, even after he had blown out his candle, laying the groundwork for later theories of animal...
09:03Imperial O'Flanagan.
09:04Bats.
09:05Bats.
09:06It is bats.
09:07Your three bonuses, Imperial, are questions on the American chemist Darlene Hoffman.
09:12In 1971, Hoffman published the groundbreaking discovery of tiny amounts of witch element
09:17in a rock formation several billion years old.
09:20What's constituted the first evidence of a transuranic element occurring in nature?
09:24Oh.
09:25That's not...
09:26Plutonium occurs in nature, which is in very small quantities.
09:28Sure.
09:29Plutonium.
09:30Yes.
09:31In 1993, Hoffman helped confirm the existence of witch transuranic element discovered in 1974 by Albert Giorso and with atomic number 106.
09:41After some debate, it eventually became the first element named after a living scientist.
09:45C-Borgium.
09:46Okay, yeah.
09:47C-Borgium.
09:48Yes.
09:49Hoffman is also credited with the discovery of symmetric spontaneous fission, which he observed in isotope 257.
09:54Of which actinide element, the heaviest synthetic element that can be formed by neutron bombardment of lighter elements?
10:00Ooh.
10:01Which actinide?
10:02Well, 257.
10:03They use berkelium in bombardment.
10:06Sure.
10:07Berkelium?
10:08No, it's fermium.
10:09Oh.
10:10Another starter question.
10:11What is the final word of the titles of all of the following?
10:15A text-based computer game developed in the 1970s by Will Crowther, usually cited as the first significant example of interactive fiction.
10:24The English title of a Shonam manga series by Hirohiko Araki, whose characters include Jonathan Joestar.
10:32Adventure.
10:33It is adventure.
10:34Well done.
10:35This is OSR on Spanish food terms.
10:37All three answers begin with the same letter and end with the same three letters.
10:41Literally meaning seasoned with chili in Mexican Spanish.
10:44What name is given to a dish originating in Mexico consisting of a tortilla that is rolled around a filling, covered in chili sauce and baked?
10:52Enchilada, I believe?
10:53Enchilada?
10:54Enchilada?
10:55Yeah.
10:56I think it's enchilada.
10:57Enchilada.
10:58Yes.
10:59Borrowed from Catalan, what name meaning roasted in ashes is given to a traditional Catalan dish of slow-roasted aubergine, bell peppers, onions and tomatoes similar to ratatouille?
11:11This is...
11:12I want to say peace.
11:13It begins with E and ends in a...
11:15Pass.
11:16Bad luck.
11:17It's escalivada.
11:18What name literally meaning enclosed in dough or bread is given to a type of baked or fried pastry turnover with a savoury filling, widespread in both Spain and Latin America?
11:28Enchilada.
11:29It is indeed.
11:30Yes.
11:31Scores level.
11:32Now start with question.
11:33In January 2025, Birmingham City Council announced that which poet and writer who died in 2023 would be the first...
11:41Soas O'Regan.
11:42Benjamin Zephaniah.
11:43Certainly was.
11:44Your bonuses, Soas, are three questions on biographers of Richard III.
11:49The earliest substantial account of Richard III's reign was written by which lawyer and statesman in the 1510s?
11:55His most notable work was published by his friend Erasmus in 1516.
11:59I think it could be like Thomas Cromwell or whatever.
12:01Yeah, that's what I was going to say, yeah.
12:02Thomas Cromwell?
12:03No, that was Thomas More.
12:05One of the chief sources of More's biography of Richard was which Archbishop of Canterbury whose household More joined at the age of 13?
12:12He developed a reputation for his harsh fundraising tactics while serving as Chancellor for Henry VII.
12:18Any thoughts still?
12:21I'm trying to think.
12:23He probably is somewhere famous in London after him, I think.
12:27Toxtus O'Grady.
12:29It's John Morton, as in Morton's Fork.
12:31More's characterisation of Richard was disputed in historic doubts on the life and reign of King Richard III,
12:37a work by which 18th-century writer published four years after his first novel, The Castle of Otranto?
12:44William Beckford, I think.
12:46Yeah.
12:47William Beckford?
12:48No, it's Walpole, Horace Walpole.
12:49Let's start with a question.
12:51Born in 1879, which British economist gives his name to a curve that represents the relationship between the level of unemployment in an economy...
12:57So I stay for Salatran.
12:59Laffer?
13:00No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
13:01And the level of job vacancies.
13:03His works include Unemployment, A Problem of Industry, Full Employment in a Free Society, and a 1942 report formerly titled Social Insurance and Allied Services, but more commonly referred to as his namesake report.
13:15Imperial Tong.
13:18Bevan.
13:19Bevan?
13:20It was the Beverage Report.
13:22One of the great works of 20th-century Britain.
13:24No.
13:25Let's start with a question.
13:26American artist Harvey Littleton was an influential figure in the use of which medium in fine art?
13:32In the early 1960s, he and Dominic Labino pioneered a method for manipulating this medium at significantly lower temperatures than usual, thus influencing the work of artists such as Ginny Rufner and Dale Chihuly.
13:44Imperial Dina.
13:46Glass.
13:47Yes, Studio Glass.
13:48Specifically.
13:49Your bonuses are on Virgil's Aeneid, specifically instances of the word Inphalix or its inflections, variously translated as luckless, unhappy, unfortunate or ill-boding.
14:00What kind of monstrous winged creature is Seleno, described in Book 3 as Inphalix Vatis or Ominous Prophetess?
14:08She is the leader of a group of these creatures encountered by Aeneas on the Strophides.
14:13Harpies?
14:14Yeah.
14:15Harpies or furies?
14:16I was thinking my first thought was Harpies.
14:19Harpies.
14:20Harpies.
14:21Yes.
14:22Later in the same book, the Trojans rescue Achaemenides, a comrade of which luckless Greek leader?
14:26Achaemenides was left behind after his shipmates fled from Polyphemus the Cyclops.
14:31It's not the Odysseus.
14:32Yeah.
14:33Sure.
14:34Odysseus.
14:35Yes, or Ulysses.
14:36Virgil describes which queen as Inphalix?
14:38In Book 6, Aeneas encounters her in the underworld and swears that he left her country unwillingly.
14:43Dido.
14:44Yeah.
14:45Dido.
14:46Yes.
14:47Let's start the question.
14:48It's a music round now.
14:49For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of classical music.
14:50For ten points, I need the name of its composer.
14:53Imperial Kang.
14:54I'm afraid if you buzz, you must answer straight away.
14:55Sorry, as you can hear more, but you may not confer.
15:00So ask Graham.
15:01Prokofiev?
15:02No, it was Brahms, the Hungarian dance in G minor.
15:17We'll take your music bonuses in just a moment.
15:19Let's start the question.
15:20I need the name of a disease here.
15:23During the Dutch famine of 1944 and 1945, physician Willem Carol Dicker observed...
15:28So ask Graham.
15:29Don't beat these.
15:30Diabetes.
15:31I'm afraid you lose five points.
15:32Observed that the condition of many of his patients suffering from which disease improved,
15:37leading him to determine that the original aggravating factor in their illness had been
15:41the protein fraction of wheat, which had been cut out of their diets.
15:46Imperial O'Flanagan.
15:47Berry Berry.
15:48No, it's celiac disease.
15:50Oh.
15:51Let's start the question.
15:52Which play by Shakespeare is the source of the titles of both a 2022 novel by Gabrielle
15:58Zevin about the relationship between two game designers and a 2023 novel by Eleanor
16:03Catton about a guerrilla gardening collective?
16:05Those titles being, respectively, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.
16:09Imperial Kang.
16:10Macbeth.
16:11It is Macbeth.
16:12Well done, yes.
16:13Well, the title is, of course, Burnham Wood.
16:15In a music starter, you heard one of Johannes Brahms' Hungarian dances, which appears on
16:19the soundtrack to the computer game Civilization IV as a representation of the Industrial Age.
16:25For your music bonuses, Imperial, three more pieces of classical music that appear in Civilization IV.
16:31Five points for each composer you can name.
16:34First, the composer of this piece intended to represent the modern age.
16:38Glass?
16:39Oh, please.
16:40Could it be just Philip Glass or John Adams?
16:41Uh, Philip Glass.
16:42Philip Glass.
16:43Philip Glass.
16:44Philip Glass.
16:45Philip Glass.
16:46Philip Glass.
16:47Philip Glass.
16:48Philip Glass.
16:49Philip Glass.
16:50Philip Glass.
16:51Philip Glass.
16:52John Adams.
16:53Secondly, this composer whose music plays during the medieval age, despite him being born in the
16:581520s.
16:59Oh, I like it.
17:00It's not Monteverdi, right?
17:01We're not going to zero across me.
17:02Monteverdi.
17:03No, it's Palestrina.
17:04Finally, this composer whose music represents the Renaissance age, despite him having been born
17:18in 1756.
17:19Is this Mozart Kielstadt?
17:20The 1756 could make sense of it.
17:21What instruments are they?
17:22Oh, he's got a wind.
17:23Could I see Mozart?
17:24I'm sorry.
17:25Sorry.
17:26Mozart.
17:27It was Mozart.
17:28Absolutely wonderful.
17:29Things are buzzers.
17:30Let's now start the question.
17:31The defeat of Guy of Lusignan at the Battle of the Horns of Hattin prompted which military
17:54venture by European rulers two years...
17:56Imperial O'Flanagan.
17:57The Third Crusade.
17:58Well done.
17:59It was indeed.
18:00Your bonus as Imperial are three questions on computing vocabulary in French.
18:05What French term denotes a computing directory?
18:07That is, a means of locating data files.
18:10Borrowed into English, this word has come to mean a stock of dramatic or musical pieces
18:15that performers are accustomed to playing.
18:18What the...
18:19Canon?
18:20Yeah.
18:21I mean, I don't...
18:22That's not a French word I know, but...
18:25Canon.
18:26No, it's repertoire.
18:27Oh, wow.
18:28The French word for a computer keyboard, originally meaning key-bearer.
18:32Clavier.
18:33Correct.
18:34In the computing sense, what is the standard French term for a bookmark?
18:37In English, a word with the same spelling denotes a small seal used for authentication and often
18:42appears before the word ring.
18:44Signet.
18:45Signet.
18:46Oh.
18:47Signet, true.
18:48Signet.
18:49Signet.
18:50Yes.
18:51Signet in French.
18:52Another starter question.
18:53Born in 1792, which Italian composer was nicknamed Signor Crescendo for his frequent and distinctive use of this effect in his music?
18:59The finale of Act 1 of his 1812 opera, The Touchstone, is an early example of this.
19:04And later examples can be found in his overtures for The Thieving Magpie and...
19:09Imperial king.
19:10Rossini.
19:11It is Rossini.
19:12Well done.
19:13Two questions for you, Imperial, on literature.
19:14What six-letter acronym was adopted by a group of mid-20th century French writers who experimented with works restricted by logical or mathematical constraints?
19:23Members included Georges Perec and Raymond Queneau.
19:26I have no idea.
19:27No, just pass.
19:28Pass.
19:29That's Oulipo.
19:30Perec's 1969 novel La Disparition, translated into English under the title A Void, is an example of a work known as a lipogram.
19:39What is the defining characteristic of a lipogram?
19:42Are those the ones where there's like a letter that they never use?
19:45Oh, they omit a certain letter.
19:47Um, omitting a certain letter.
19:49That's exactly right.
19:50Associated with the Oulipo group during his later career, which Italian writer created the 1979 experimental narrative work, if on a winter's night a traveller?
20:00Calvino.
20:01Yes, indeed.
20:02Let's start the question.
20:03Which Canadian province is the only one whose borders are not determined by any natural features, bays, rivers or coastlines?
20:11Imperial O'Flanagan, Saskatchewan.
20:13Well done.
20:14It is indeed.
20:15Three questions for your appeal on a historic building.
20:18Commissioned by Hungarian Orientalist Gertlieb Leitner, the Shah Jahan Mosque became Britain's first purpose-built mosque in 1889 upon its completion in which large town in Surrey, about six miles north of Guildford?
20:31What?
20:32I don't know.
20:33I don't know.
20:34I don't know.
20:35I don't know.
20:36I don't know.
20:37Uh, Voking?
20:38Yes.
20:39Oh.
20:40Funds for the mosque's construction were provided partially by Shah Jahan Begum.
20:44At the time, she was the sultan of which Islamic principality in India, the territory of which is now part of Madhya Pradesh?
20:51I don't know.
20:53I don't know.
20:54Part of Madhya Pradesh, I don't know.
20:55Somewhere in India.
20:56No.
20:57Uh, Assam.
20:58No, that's a long way away.
20:59It's Bhopal.
21:00In which novel of 1898 does the narrator describe the destruction of the mosque during an invasion, saying, quote,
21:05the pinnacle of the mosque had vanished and the roofline of the college itself looked as if a hundred-ton gun had been at work upon it?
21:1218.
21:13I kept playing.
21:14I don't know.
21:15Something about keeping.
21:16I don't know.
21:17I don't know.
21:18Um.
21:19I don't know.
21:20A passage to India.
21:21A passage to India.
21:22No.
21:23It's the War of the Worlds.
21:24Picture round now.
21:25For your picture starting, you're going to see a photo of an American politician.
21:29For ten points, I need you to give me his name.
21:32So is O'Regan.
21:34I'm afraid...
21:35No, sorry.
21:36I'm afraid if you buzz, you must answer straight away.
21:38Imperial O'Flanagan.
21:39McCarthy.
21:40It is McCarthy, yes.
21:41Your bonus is Imperial.
21:42For your picture starting, you saw Joseph McCarthy, who encouraged a government-wide investigation
21:46into the presence of communists in American culture that was then led by the House Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC.
21:53For your picture bonuses, you'll see three pictures of notable people testifying before HUAC.
21:58Five points for each you can name.
22:00First, this author, who testified as a friendly witness.
22:03Oh, that's Ayn Rand.
22:05Okay.
22:06Ayn Rand?
22:07Yeah.
22:08Secondly, this actor, who had signed a 1947 letter condemning the committee.
22:10I don't know.
22:12Is it actor?
22:13Yeah.
22:14I don't know.
22:15No.
22:16Cary Grant.
22:17Oh, my goodness.
22:18No.
22:19It's Jose Ferrer.
22:20And lastly, this man who testified that communists had infiltrated the Screen Actors Guild.
22:24Ronald Reagan.
22:26Oh.
22:27Yeah.
22:28Reagan.
22:29That is Reagan, yes.
22:30Let's start the question.
22:31I need a 12-letter answer here.
22:34Mongoliensis and Osmolskai are the only two identified species of what dinosaur of the Cretaceous period?
22:41A citation in the OED reads, Mr. Spielberg insisted on the poetic license of having these animals a little...
22:48So as Graham.
22:49Velociraptor.
22:50It is indeed.
22:51Well done.
22:52Your bonuses, Sarah, are on people who died on their birthday.
22:54In each case, name the person from the description.
22:56First, a prominent figure in the women's movement and author of The Feminine Mystique.
23:01She died in 2006, aged 85.
23:04Betty Frieden.
23:05Yeah.
23:06Betty Frieden.
23:07Yes.
23:08Secondly, a German physician who founded the Scientific Humanitarian Committee.
23:11He was a strong advocate for sexual minorities in Nazi Germany and was forced into exile in France, where he died in 1935.
23:18He's a horse.
23:19Pass.
23:20No, I'll tell you, it was Magnus Hirschfeld.
23:22Finally, a Swedish actress who received Oscars for the films Gaslight, Anastasia and Murder on the Orient Express.
23:28She died in 1982.
23:29It's England Bergman.
23:30Yes, it is England Bergman.
23:31Yes, four minutes to go.
23:33Siretse Karma was the first president...
23:36Imperial and Tom.
23:37Botswana.
23:38Well done.
23:39Sorry.
23:40Your bonuses, Imperial are three questions on water polo at the Summer Olympics.
23:44What European national side has won the most gold medals in men's Olympics?
23:47With Hungary?
23:48Yeah, I think so.
23:49Hungary?
23:50Yes.
23:51Set against the backdrop of a popular revolt, the 2006 documentary film Freedom's Fury concerns the unusually violent 1956 Olympic semi-final between Hungary and what national team?
24:02The Soviet Union.
24:03Yeah.
24:04The Soviet Union.
24:05Yes.
24:06After widespread lobbying by its sports authorities for inclusion of the event, what country won the inaugural women's tournament in 2000, playing in front of a home crowd?
24:14Australia?
24:15What was in 2000?
24:16Oh, home crowd, yeah.
24:17Australia.
24:18It is Australia.
24:19Well done.
24:20They'll start the question.
24:21When referring to the Welsh language, what English word translates the term traiglad, meaning a change in initial consonant that may be termed soft, aspirate or nasal?
24:31In biology, the same word denotes an alteration in genetic material that results in...
24:36Imperial and Flanagan.
24:37Mutation.
24:38It is mutation, yes.
24:39Your bonuses are on waterways in London.
24:42Originating in Luton, which river forms much of the boundary between Hertfordshire and Essex?
24:46It passes the site of the Olympic Stadium in Stratford and meets the Thames near Blackwall.
24:51Oh.
24:52The...
24:53Why?
24:54The why?
24:55No, I was thinking of something else.
24:57Originating in Luton.
24:58No, it's the River Lee.
24:59A man-made waterway completed in 1613, the 20-mile-long New River supplies London with fresh water.
25:06It empties into the East Reservoir of which district in the London borough of Hackney?
25:11I need a two-word name.
25:16I don't know any district.
25:17I don't know.
25:18Seven Sisters, I don't know.
25:19Yeah, why not?
25:20Seven Sisters.
25:21No, it's not far from there.
25:22It's Stoke Newington, which supplies about 10% of London's drinking water.
25:24Rising near Barnet, which tributary of the Thames gives its name to the London borough whose districts include Kneesden, Dollisill, Cricklewood and Wembley?
25:32Brent.
25:33Well done.
25:34APPLAUSE
25:35Another start of the question.
25:37In which English county is the Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve, a stretch of coastline that runs from the edge of Skegness to the mouth of the Wash?
25:47So it's Mosean.
25:48Lincolnshire.
25:49It is Lincolnshire, yes.
25:50Your bonuses are on winners of the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, formerly known as the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
25:58In each case, Soas, I need you to name the country from the titles in English of some of the films from it that have won.
26:04First, 2010's In A Better World, 1987's Babette's Feast and 2020's Another Round.
26:11Oh, that's Denmark, I'm pretty sure.
26:13Denmark?
26:14Denmark.
26:15Denmark?
26:16Yes.
26:171985's The Official Story and 2009's The Secret in Their Eyes.
26:22I think there might be Mexico, but I'm not 100% sure in that.
26:25Actually, no, that wouldn't make sense.
26:28Maybe Argentina?
26:29No, that doesn't work.
26:30Argentina.
26:31Yes.
26:32Lastly, 2008's Departures, 2021's Drive My Car and 1950's Rashomon.
26:38Japan.
26:39Yes, well done.
26:40Let's start this question.
26:41Mentioned in a record of about 250 CE, Funan was the Chinese name of an early state founded in which large river delta?
26:50It was a major centre for the diffusion of Indian culture in the region.
26:55So where's Graham?
26:56Mekong.
26:57Your bonuses are three questions on civilisations of the ancient Near East.
27:01Located in the south of present-day Iraq, what was the first Mesopotamian civilisation?
27:06Its city-states in the 3rd millennium BCE included Kish, Lagash, Adab and Ur.
27:12Oh, look, it's not.
27:13Uruk is Sumer.
27:17Active in the 23rd century BCE, Sargon the Great ruled what kingdom to the north-west of Sumer?
27:24Its language is the oldest Semitic dialect still preserved.
27:28Nominate V.
27:29Akkad.
27:30Well done.
27:31Sargon was also the name of two rulers of which empire in north-western Mesopotamia?
27:35Its capital, Nineveh, was destroyed in 612 BCE.
27:40Nominate Matthew.
27:41Neo-Babylonian.
27:42No, it's Assyria.
27:43Bad luck.
27:44Let's start the question.
27:45In physics, Boyle's law or Marriott's law concerns the relationship between what two properties of...
27:50Imperial O'Flanagan.
27:51Pressure and volume.
27:52Well done, yes.
27:53Your bonuses, Imperial, are three questions on a translator.
27:56Anthea Bell, who died in 2018, is noted both for her translations of Freud and Kafka and...
28:01And at the gong, Saras have 115 and Imperial have 220.
28:09Oh, Saras, you were so phenomenal when you got in with the starters and you were so effective on the bonuses and the confidence and relish with which you delivered all the correct bonuses was wonderful.
28:18So, I'm afraid we say goodbye, but it's been a huge pleasure getting to know you.
28:22Imperial, that was a hell of a performance.
28:24To get over 200 at this stage of the competition is amazing.
28:27And it makes me want to ask you about what looks either like a jar of marmalade that's gone off, or is that kimchi?
28:34It's kimchi in honour of the bonus set in our first round match that gave us enough points to stay in the competition.
28:40Well, I hope we see not just you, but that jar of kimchi again, and I hope we can see you again next time too for the second of the Repechage matches.
28:47But until then, it is goodbye from Saras.
28:49Goodbye.
28:50It's goodbye from Imperial.
28:51Goodbye.
28:52And it's goodbye from me.
28:53Goodbye.
29:23So.
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