University Challenge Season 55 Episode 16

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00:00University Challenge. Asking the questions, Amor Brunchen.

00:25Hello and welcome to University Challenge. At stake in tonight's game is the last spot

00:32in the second round of this year's competition and playing for it are two teams who lost

00:37their opening heats but scored enough points in doing so to earn themselves this second

00:41shot at qualification. The team from Sheffield played Warwick in their first game and with

00:46ten minutes to go looked like they were going to win comfortably. Warwick however had other

00:49ideas. They took nine of the next ten starters and the game finished with Sheffield on 170

00:54points and Warwick on 210. Before Warwick shut them out Sheffield did have time to demonstrate

01:00some impressive knowledge of ancient cities, the works of Olga Tokarchuk and Antmen and

01:04they were very consistent on their bonuses overall taking on average two out of every three. Let's

01:10meet the team from Sheffield once again. Hi I'm Rhys Lewis, I'm from Haverford West in Pembrokeshire

01:16and I'm studying maths. Hi I'm Abdurrahman El-Sisi, I'm from Alexandria Egypt and I study engineering.

01:21And their captain. Hi I'm Jacob Price, I'm from Heatherset in Norfolk and I study astrophysics.

01:26Hi I'm Isabel Dobby, I'm from Haringey in North London and I study English literature.

01:31The team from New College Oxford are here having lost their opening match narrowly to Manchester. New

01:40College were the ones that made a comeback in that game going into the second picture round they were

01:44110 points behind but some quick buzzes from Benji and Paige and a few incorrect interruptions from

01:50Manchester got them back into the game and the final score was Manchester 170, New College 150. New College

01:57weren't quite so consistent on their bonuses but they did answer well on linguistics, architecture and

02:02nanoparticles. Let's meet the team from New College for the second time. Hello I'm Benji Stimpson,

02:08I'm from North Norfolk, I'm doing a DPhil in conservation biology. Hi my name is Paige Crawley,

02:14I'm from Toronto Canada and I'm studying for a master's in linguistics. And their captain. Hi I'm Jonah

02:19Poulard, I'm from northwest London and I'm studying Russian and linguistics. Hi I'm Dan Dimmers,

02:24I'm from Utrecht in the Netherlands and I'm studying for a DPhil in theoretical physics.

02:32You all know how this works don't you? Feeling ready? Here we go the fingers on buzzers,

02:37here's the start of a ten. Good luck. What two-word phrase typically associated with the novels of H.

02:43Ryder Haggard denotes a sub-genre of adventure fiction concerned with a discovery of ancient or unknown

02:49civilizations. This phrase taken from the title of a novel about the exploits of zoologist George

02:55Challenger by Arthur Conan Doyle. New College Crawley. Lost City. No I'm afraid you lose five

03:00points. Also appears in the title of Michael Crichton's 1995 sequel to his earlier novel Jurassic Park.

03:06Sheffield and Ceci. Lost World. It is Lost World, well done, yes. Bad that page. Your bonuses then,

03:14Sheffield, are on national flags on which stars represent islands. Which Pacific Islands nation flag

03:22features nine yellow stars on a blue field representing the country's nine principal islands and atolls?

03:29The arrangement of the stars roughly corresponds to the island's positions in the archipelago?

03:33I think Tuvalu. Has Tuvalu got stars in it? Yeah and let's get the Union of Japanese.

03:37Yeah. Oh yeah fine. Tuvalu? Yes. Which African country's flag features a green triangle at the

03:43hoist on which are a white crescent and four white stars? The stars represent four islands including the

03:48French Departement of Mayotte which this country claims? Comoros? Yeah. Comoros? Yes. Finally, the flag of which

03:56other African country includes a ring of ten yellow stars positioned towards the lower hoist corner

04:02representing islands including Sal Vicente and Santiago. Cape Verde. Cape Verde. Cape Verde.

04:11Cape Verde? Yes. Let's start a question. What polysyllabic word has its origins in the Latin name of a

04:19committee of cardinals founded in 1622 to organise missionary work where it had the neutral meaning

04:25of spread or disseminate. In the mid 19th century it acquired its current connotations of

04:31New college crawling. Seminary? I'm afraid you lose five points. Of bias or deception. The Oxford

04:36Dictionary of Philosophy defining it as the active manipulation of opinion by means that include

04:41distortion or concealment of the truth. Sheffield Dobby? Propaganda? It is propaganda yes. Your bonuses

04:48Sheffield are three questions on listed buildings used as filming locations in the Avengers films.

04:55A grade two listed building designed by Norman Foster which art gallery in Norwich was chosen

05:00to stand in for the Avengers training compound in 2015's Avengers Age of Ultron. Its collection

05:06includes notable sculptures by Henry Moore as well as tribal art from across the world. I should know this.

05:11Anglia Ruskin Gallery? No it's the Sainsbury Centre. Also in Age of Ultron, scenes taking place at the

05:23Barton family farm, the home of the superhero Hawkeye, were filmed on the grounds of Stratfield Say House in

05:28Hampshire, a grade one listed building and seat of the holders of which hereditary peerage?

05:33Earl of Winchester. No it's the Duke of Wellington. An early scene in Avengers Infinity War features an aerial

05:48combat across the rooftops of Edinburgh's Old Town before the combatants crash into which category A

05:54listed railway station named for a work by Sir Walter Scott? Waverley. Waverley. It is Waverley yes.

05:59Let's start your question. What two-word term links all of the following? In biochemistry,

06:06an approximation used by George Briggs and JBS Haldane to determine the rate of enzyme-catalyzed

06:11reactions. In economics, an economy in which neither the amount of capital or population changes over

06:17time. New College Stimson. Steady state. It is steady state, yes. Well done.

06:24Your bonuses are three questions on the absurd. Quote,

06:27the final conclusion of absurdist reasoning is in fact the repudiation of suicide and the acceptance

06:33of the desperate encounter between human inquiry and the silence of the universe. This statement

06:38appears in The Rebel, an essay by which French Nobel laureate born in 1913? Camus. Yes. Which mythical

06:44ruler is the title figure of a 1942 long essay by Camus that explores the absurd? He is condemned by the

06:51gods to repeat an endless... Sisyphus. Of course. The appendix to the myth of Sisyphus is entitled

06:57Hope and the absurd in the work of which German language author? Camus cites characters such as

07:03Gregor Samsa and the land surveyor Kay. Kafka. Correct. Picture round now. For your picture starter,

07:09you're going to see a map with a European city marked on it. For ten points, I need you to give me that city's name.

07:15New college pool art. Naples. It is Naples, yes. Your picture starter showed Naples, whose traditional

07:24art of pizzaiullo was inscribed on UNESCO's representative list of the intangible cultural

07:30heritage of humanity in 2017. For your bonuses, three more locations that have been recognised by UNESCO

07:37for their culinary heritage. Five points for each you can name. First, this city, which was made a world

07:42heritage site in 2015 for the role its industrial landscape played in packing meat for the European

07:48market? Oh. It's Montevideo, isn't it? No. It's not Montevideo. Is it? It might be Rosario.

07:57Different guessable. No Rosario. Salta. No, it's Freybentos. Secondly, this Mexican state,

08:03whose traditional cooking practices were awarded intangible cultural heritage status by UNESCO

08:09in 2010. I think that is Oaxaca. Yeah. Oaxaca. No, that was Michoacan. Lastly,

08:14this city made a creative city of gastronomy in 2019, in part for the role food plays in its festivals.

08:21Um, ooh. I have no idea. It might be... Is that too far north of Hyderabad?

08:28I have no idea. You go for it. It could be Bhopal. Uh, Hyderabad. Well done.

08:34Let's start the question. The answer I'm looking for here is a city. Referring to the stylised,

08:41sinuous, elongated, human and organic forms in their work, the Spook School was a derogatory name

08:47given to a group of artists also known as the Four of Which British City? The group includes the sisters

08:53Francis and Margaret Macdon... Sheffield Dobby. Edinburgh. No, I'm afraid you'll lose five points.

08:57You can hear more of the question, but you may not confer, New College. Margaret Macdonald and

09:01Margaret's husband, Charles Rennie Macintosh.

09:05New College Poulard. Glasgow. It is Glasgow, yes.

09:09Three questions for you on responses to war by female artists. A critique of the second Afghan war,

09:14the remnants of an army depicts the last survivor of a British expeditionary force.

09:19It is an 1879 painting by which British artist who specialised in battle paintings?

09:23I don't know. Yeah. Pass. Pass.

09:26It's Lady Elizabeth Butler. Portraying imagined scenes from a revolt of the 1520s,

09:31The Peasants' War is a series of monochrome prints published in 1908

09:36by which leading German proponent of humanitarianism?

09:40I don't know, Dara. Pass. That was Keter Kollwitz.

09:43Which US artist responded to her brother's service in World War I with the 1918 work,

09:49The Flag. It depicts an indistinct blood-red banner set against a deep blue sky.

09:56Georgia O'Keeffe. It is Georgia O'Keeffe, yes.

09:59Let's start the question. In literature, what short word links all of these?

10:03Grigori Pechorin, as described in the title of a novel by Mikhail Lermontov.

10:07New College Poulard. Hero. It is indeed a hero.

10:12Hero of our time. Great book. Three questions for you, New College, on muscles of the human body.

10:16What large muscle lies on top of the clavicle, scapula and humerus?

10:20It takes its name from a letter of the Greek alphabet.

10:26Deltoid? Yes.

10:28What large paired muscles spread from the base of the neck,

10:31extending across the shoulders and down the spine?

10:34The right and left muscles together form an irregular four-sided shape

10:37from which the name derives? Trapezoid. Trapezoid?

10:42No, I can't accept that. The name of the muscle is trapezius.

10:45Trapezius. Okay, we're all wrong.

10:47Finally, from the Greek for rump or buttock, what word precedes maximus, medius and minimus

10:54in the name of three muscles in the region of the hip joint?

10:56It's luteus. Yes, it is indeed.

10:59Right on. Let's start the question. What village in southern Luxembourg,

11:02on the west bank of the river Moselle, beside the tri-point where the borders of Luxembourg,

11:07France and Germany meet, gave its name to an agreement signed on a riverboat...

11:11New College Pulau. Uh, Bettenborg.

11:13Now, I'm afraid you lose five points. At the tri-point in 1985 by five European countries,

11:18that resolved to gradually remove controls at their internal borders and to introduce...

11:23Sheffield Price. Schengen.

11:25It is indeed the Schengen.

11:26Applause. Your bonuses then, Sheffield, are three questions on a writer.

11:30Centering on a recently widowed professor, Baumgartner was the final novel published

11:35by which American writer before his death in April 2024?

11:39His other works include a series of postmodern detective novels known as the New York Trilogy.

11:44Oh. I don't know.

11:46It's not Cormac. No, he was earlier.

11:47It's my death pages.

11:48Smith. No, it's Paul Oster.

11:54A 2007 novel by Oster, in which an old man is visited in a mysterious closed room by characters

12:00from Oster's other works, has the title Travels in the... what?

12:05The single word in question denotes a specific type of room in a monastery.

12:08Um, I don't know. Not our best. What was it?

12:12Hmm? No, it's not our best. That's another person.

12:14Any room in a monastery?

12:15Pass. No, I don't want to put it.

12:17No, pass. It's Scriptorium.

12:20Published in 1992, which of Oster's novels takes its one-word title from the name of a sea monster

12:25mentioned in several books of the Old Testament?

12:27Leviathan?

12:28Is it the final of the sea monster?

12:29Is it the final of the sea monster?

12:31Well, he is a behemoth sea monster.

12:33No, Leviathan is the monster.

12:34Leviathan?

12:35It is Leviathan, yes. Well done.

12:36APPLAUSE

12:36Let's start with the question.

12:38The London Conference of 1832 determined that the Bavarian Prince Otto von Wittelsbach

12:43would be the first king of what country?

12:46What?

12:47Sheffield Assisi.

12:48Belgium.

12:49Oh.

12:50No.

12:51Um, you can hear more of the question, but you may not confer a new college.

12:54Following the end of its war for independence, the 1832 polity was considerably smaller than

12:59the current one, but grew following the annexation in 1881 of Arta and Thessaly.

13:04New College Crawley.

13:06Grease.

13:07Grease is correct.

13:08APPLAUSE

13:09I'm so, so shuffled, but at this stage in the competition, if you buzz, we do need an answer

13:13without hesitation from the person who buzzed.

13:15Bad luck. We're going to fine you five points, and New College, you did get the answer.

13:18Right, so let's have your bonuses.

13:20Three bonuses for you then, New College, on Confucius.

13:23Confucius was born in 551 BCE in the state of Lu, in which present-day province of eastern China?

13:29Situated to the west of the Korean peninsula, its capital is Jinan.

13:34Is that just Manchuria?

13:35No, that's not a province.

13:37I don't know.

13:40Manchuria.

13:41Shandong. Meaning literary gleanings, what word is commonly used in the title of English

13:46translations of the Lunyu, the discourses of Confucius?

13:49Anals.

13:50Is it the Anals or is it the Analects?

13:51Analects, that's right.

13:53The Analects?

13:54Correct.

13:55Confucius was born near the end of an era known as the Spring and Autumn period, after a book of

14:00Chronicles. This period is a subdivision of which dynasty that fell in the third century BCE?

14:06I don't know.

14:07I think that's too...

14:08Chin?

14:08Tang?

14:09Sure, I don't know. Quick one.

14:10The Tang dynasty?

14:11Nope, that was the Zhou dynasty.

14:13Right, another starter question.

14:14Fingers on buzzers.

14:16It's a music round, and for your starter, you're going to hear a piece of 20th century music.

14:20For 10 points, name the artist performing.

14:25New College, Stimson.

14:26Pete Seeger.

14:27That is Pete Seeger, yes.

14:28For solidarity forever.

14:31For your starter, you heard Pete Seeger, who appeared regularly on musicologist Alan Lomax's

14:361940s radio show, Back Where I Come From, which sought to expose a wide audience to American folk music.

14:42For your bonuses, you'll hear three more recordings from artists who appeared on Lomax's program.

14:46In each case, I need you to name the artist performing. First, this artist.

14:54Is this Hank Williams?

14:55No, it's one Willie Johnson.

14:57Okay.

14:58Are you sure?

14:58No, no.

14:58I think it could be Hank Williams.

15:02No, I'm sorry.

15:04Tell me how long, how long.

15:06Um, nominate Stimson.

15:08Blind Willie Johnson.

15:09No, that was Lead Belly.

15:11Secondly, this actor and singer.

15:13He's the guy sitting on top of the world.

15:27Doc Watson.

15:28Doc Watson.

15:29No, it's Burl Ives.

15:31And finally, this musician and songwriter.

15:35This land is your land and this land is my land.

15:40Yes.

15:41Woody Guthrie.

15:41It is, of course, Willie Guthrie.

15:43Thank goodness you got that one.

15:45Things are bad.

15:46This is another start of the question.

15:47I need only the short single word name of an animal here.

15:51Along with the closely related Rodriguez Solitaire, which species is now grouped into the sub-tribe

15:56Raffina, endemic to the Maserine Islands.

15:59The Nicobar pigeon is thought to be their closest living relative since the entire clade went extinct.

16:04BELL RINGS

16:05Sheffield Assisi.

16:06Dodo.

16:06It is a dodo, yes.

16:07Your bonuses are on winners at the 2024 Peabody Awards, which celebrate outstanding public service

16:14and achievement in electronic media.

16:16The documentary directed by Davina Pardo and Leah Walchok, that won in the arts category,

16:21was about which young adult writer?

16:23The citation praised the examination of how novels such as Forever and Blubber have been subject to censorship

16:28and used as fodder in American culture wars.

16:31I don't know.

16:32No, no, no.

16:33Only young adult.

16:33Is that the size of an adult?

16:34I don't think it's that, that's the size of an adult.

16:36No, it's no.

16:36No, that's...

16:37It doesn't mean that's what it's worth.

16:38Nominate you.

16:38No.

16:39OK, not who?

16:39Mallory Blackman.

16:40Blackman?

16:41No, it's Judy Blume.

16:42Which 2D role-playing game set in 16th century Bavaria won an award for, quote,

16:48its innovative fusion of sweeping historical sagas with smaller personal tales?

16:53Its title derives from an Italian term used for a change made by an artist while painting.

17:00No.

17:00Pass.

17:01Pass.

17:02Pentiment, from pentimento, which means to repent or change one's mind.

17:05Recognised for, quote, its ability to seamlessly unite childhood bliss with meaningful life lessons,

17:11which animated TV series about a family of Australian dogs won a children's and youth award in 2024?

17:17Louis.

17:18Yes.

17:18I was going to say, you've got to look forward to, but it sounds like you're already into it.

17:21Right, I want a two-word answer here.

17:24The fifth movement of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique,

17:27the fifth movement of Mahler's Second Symphony, Franz Liszt's Toten Tantz, and Making Christmas

17:33from the Nightmare Before Christmas all incorporate which 13th century Gregorian chant?

17:39Sheffield Lewis.

17:39DSRA?

17:40Yes, it is indeed.

17:41Your bonuses Sheffield are on Lev Landau's genius scale, his personal ranking of the importance and

17:47contributions of physicists. Landau ranked Newton and Einstein at the top of his scale. You need to

17:53identify three of the figures he put on the next tier down. First, a physicist born in Bristol in 1902,

17:59who shared the 1933 Nobel Prize with Erwin Schrodinger for, quote, the discovery of new

18:04productive forms of atomic theory. Dirac, maybe?

18:08Dirac?

18:09It was. Secondly, a physicist born in Dieppe in 1892, who was awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize for,

18:15quote, his discovery of the wave nature of electrons.

18:18Um, no, De Broglie, maybe? Sure.

18:24De Broglie?

18:24Yes. Finally, a physicist born in Würzburg in 1901,

18:28he won the 1932 Nobel Prize for, quote,

18:30the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has inter alia

18:34led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen.

18:38It's not Planck. It wasn't born in 1901.

18:41Uh, sure.

18:42It's not.

18:43It's not metal, maybe?

18:44No. Um, like, Born? Stark, maybe?

18:47I don't know.

18:47Stark.

18:48No, it was Heisenberg.

18:50Let's start the question.

18:51What three letters begin the names of all of the following Roman emperors?

18:55The third-century ruler who co-reigned with his father, Valerian.

18:59The emperor who ended the Diocletian...

19:01Sheffield Assisi.

19:02G-A-L.

19:03Well done. It is indeed, yes.

19:06Scores level. Your bonuses, Sheffield, are on the novels of Charles Dickens.

19:09In each case, I want you to identify the work from an extract taken from its opening paragraphs.

19:14First, quote, London, Michaelmas term lately over,

19:17and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall.

19:19Implacable November weather.

19:22Could it be like 10 and 2 cities if it's... That's like Julie London.

19:24No, no, definitely not.

19:25Um, Our Mutual Friend is in London.

19:28Our Mutual Friend?

19:29Yeah.

19:29Our Mutual Friend?

19:30No, it's Bleak House.

19:31Second, quote,

19:32Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within as the river wound, 20 miles of the sea.

19:37Should we just go Our Mutual Friend again? That's what it was.

19:41Yeah, fine.

19:41It's about the terms.

19:42Is it like great, isn't it?

19:43It opens with the terms.

19:44OK, Our Mutual Friend?

19:45No, marsh country's great expectations.

19:47Oh, yeah.

19:47Finally, quote,

19:48There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face on the throne of England.

19:52There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face on the throne of France.

19:56Yes, 10 of 2 cities.

19:57Had to be, didn't it? Yes, well done.

19:58Let's start the question. It's a picture round now.

20:00For your picture starter, you will see a late 16th century painting.

20:03For 10 points, name the artist.

20:07Sheffield Dobby.

20:08Caravaggio.

20:09It is, of course, Caravaggio, yes.

20:13That was Caravaggio's Narcissus, depicting the character of the same name from Greek mythology.

20:17Your picture bonuses will be three paintings depicting the story of Echo and Narcissus,

20:21and I want you to name the artist in each case.

20:24First, this painting from 1903.

20:28Wart House.

20:28Wart House?

20:29Yeah.

20:29Wart House?

20:30Yes.

20:31Next, this early 17th century work.

20:33Um, it looks French, so...

20:36Early 17th.

20:38Mm, Poussin.

20:39Poussin, do we like that?

20:40Poussin.

20:41Well worked out.

20:42Finally, this painting from 1804.

20:44Oh, Constable.

20:45Oh, wait.

20:46Is it Turner?

20:46It will be Turner, yeah.

20:47Turner?

20:48It is Turner, yes.

20:49Well done.

20:49Now to start the question, fingers on puzzles.

20:51A 1977 agreement between Commonwealth nations to boycott South Africa in sporting competitions

20:57on account of the country's system of apartheid is known by the name of what hotel located

21:02near Ohtarada in Perthshire, where it was signed and which hosted the 2014 Ryder Cup

21:08and 2019 Solheim Cup?

21:11Anyone want to have a guess?

21:12Yes.

21:14Sheffield Dobby.

21:15McDonald Hotel.

21:17No.

21:17Anyone from New College?

21:19New College Poulard.

21:20The Ritz.

21:21No, it's Glen Eagles.

21:22Let's start the question.

21:23The Caravanks, the Kamnik-Savinia Alps and the Julian Alps are three of the major mountain

21:29ranges in which European country?

21:32The last of these contains this country's highest mountain, Triglav, which was...

21:35New College Poulard.

21:37Slovenia.

21:37It is Slovenia.

21:38Well done.

21:38And your burdens of New College are on dumplings.

21:41In French cuisine, what term denotes dumplings made from finely ground fish or meat that are

21:46usually oval-shaped and cooked by poaching?

21:49The term is sometimes used more broadly to refer to rugby ball-shaped scoops of any soft food.

21:54A canal?

21:55Yeah.

21:55A canal?

21:56Yes.

21:57In Tibetan and Nepali cuisine, what short reductive name is given to a traditional

22:02type of steamed dumpling?

22:03Momo.

22:03Yes.

22:04In Polish cuisine, what term denotes small crimped dumplings that are usually boiled

22:08and which can have either savoury or sweet fillings?

22:11The term...

22:12Pirogi.

22:12Yes.

22:13Well done.

22:13Let's start the question.

22:14The practices known as the five pillars originate in a hadith named for what figure who questions

22:20Muhammad on the principles of Islam?

22:22This figure had previously appeared to Muhammad in the cave of Hira.

22:26New College Crawley.

22:27Jibril.

22:28Yes, Jibril or Gabriel.

22:29Well done.

22:31Your bonuses, New College, are on dentistry.

22:34Widely used in dental fillings, the term amalgam indicates an alloy of what metal with other metals?

22:40Mercury.

22:41Yes.

22:42Dental amalgam is typically a mixture of liquid mercury and a powdered alloy containing tin,

22:48copper and a slightly larger quantity of which other group 11 metal, which lies immediately below

22:54copper in the periodic table?

22:55Let's see.

22:56Silver?

22:57No.

22:59Is it cadmium?

23:00Cadmium?

23:00Sure.

23:01Cadmium?

23:02No, it's silver.

23:03Which group 12 metal is sometimes added to amalgam as an oxygen scavenger, improving the

23:08alloy's resistance to corrosion and fatigue?

23:10The process of galvanising involves adding a coating of this metal to iron or steel to the same

23:15end.

23:16Zinc.

23:16Yes, well done.

23:17We'll start with the question.

23:18Described as using fashion as a powerful tool to express identity and personality,

23:23a 2024 exhibition in Tate Britain featured the portraits of which artist?

23:28Who moved...

23:29Sheffield Dobby.

23:30John Singer Sargent.

23:31Well done.

23:31It is indeed.

23:32Your bonuses then, with five points in it, are on a Greek god.

23:36In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pyrois, Eos, Ethon and Phlegon are the names given to the four horses

23:43that draw the carriage of which god?

23:45He is the son of Hyperion and Thea and the brother of Eos and Selene.

23:49Er, some god, where, some, er...

23:51Helios?

23:52Helios, yeah.

23:53Helios?

23:54Yes.

23:54In book 12 of Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus and his crew visit which mythical island where,

23:59despite Odysseus' warnings, his men eat the sacred oxen belonging to Helios?

24:03I think it's Hyl and Charybdis, but in the name of the island.

24:05I don't know.

24:05There's not that big part.

24:06No, it's definitely...

24:07Pass.

24:08It's not with N.

24:09No, pass.

24:10Pass.

24:11It's Thrinasea.

24:12Finally, Oxen of the Sun is the title of episode 14 of which 20th century novel?

24:17The episode opens with the words,

24:19Dechil Hollis Aeamus.

24:20Unities.

24:21Repeated three times.

24:22Yes, well done.

24:23Let's start the question.

24:24Natasha Subramanian and Luke Williams were awarded the 2022 Goldsmiths Prize

24:30for their novel titled For Which Island?

24:32The novel sees two friends learn of the forced expulsion of the residents of the Chagos Islands.

24:37New College Stimson.

24:38Sorry.

24:38I'm afraid you lose five points, and you can hear more of the question,

24:41but you may not confer.

24:42Including from the titular island, the location of a naval support facility

24:46leased to the United States of America by British...

24:48Sheffield Prize.

24:49Diego Garcia.

24:50It is, of course, Diego Garcia.

24:51Bad luck, New College.

24:52Your bonuses then, Sheffield, are on smaller locations in England

24:56that include the place name element burgh.

24:59That's B-U-R-G-H, meaning fortification or stronghold.

25:04It has various local pronunciations.

25:07Which English monarch died at Brough by Sands, a village near Carlisle in 1307?

25:13He and his son made unsuccessful attempts to conquer Scotland.

25:16Yeah.

25:16Is Edward the First?

25:17Yeah.

25:17Edward the First?

25:18Yes.

25:18Burr Castle in Norfolk is the site of a late third-century fort that was part of what system

25:24of coastal defences, named in part after a Germanic people?

25:27Erm, third-century.

25:29Erm, Anglo-Saxons.

25:31Saxons.

25:32Saxons.

25:33Saxons defences, yeah.

25:34Saxon walls.

25:35Saxon walls.

25:36Bad luck, it's Saxon Shaw I needed.

25:37Sight of an art deco hotel, Burr Island in Devon is the setting of two novels by which author,

25:42born in 1890?

25:43Erm, it is...

25:45It's not, erm...

25:46D.H. Law?

25:47No, Evelyn Wall.

25:48Evelyn Wall.

25:49No, it's Agatha Christie.

25:50Two minutes to go.

25:51Egyptian, Omotic, Chadic, Cushitic, Berber and Semitic.

25:56New College, Boulogne.

25:57Now, Fred, you must answer straight away, you lose five points.

26:00Are principal branches of which major language family?

26:04Sheffield Assisi.

26:05Afro-Asiatic.

26:05It is Afro-Asiatic, yes.

26:07Your bonuses are three questions on the BAFTA award for the most promising newcomer to leading

26:11film roles, a category that lasted from 1952 to 1984.

26:15In each case, I need you to name the actor from the role and film for which they received the award.

26:20First, the winner of the 1982 award for the role of Joey LaMotta in Raging Bull.

26:24Oh, is it De Niro?

26:26Not Newcomer, I'm not sure.

26:27I think it's De Niro.

26:28De Niro?

26:29No, De Niro played Jake LaMotta.

26:30That was Joe Pesci.

26:31Secondly, the winner of the 1961 award for the role of Arthur Seaton in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.

26:38Pass.

26:38It's Albert Finney.

26:39Lastly, the winner of the 1977 award for the roles of Tallulah in Bugsy Malone and Iris Steensma in Taxi Driver.

26:45Is that De Niro?

26:46No.

26:46Oh, is it Dench?

26:48I'll nominate you.

26:49Judy Dench.

26:49Nominator Cece, Judy Dench.

26:50No, it's Jodie Foster.

26:51Another starter question.

26:52I need a single word here.

26:53An archaic form of a common verb.

26:56What word links the titles of a 1946 play by Eugene O'Neill and a comedic song by the duo Flanders and Swan?

27:03Sheffield Price.

27:04Cometh.

27:05It is indeed Cometh.

27:05Yes, your bonuses are on words that appear only once in the complete writings of William Shakespeare.

27:10The word honorifi cabili tudini tatibus, meaning able to receive honours, is used by the illiterate Costard in which of Shakespeare's plays?

27:17No.

27:18Costard.

27:18No.

27:19No.

27:19Othello, maybe the other one.

27:21King Lear.

27:22No, it's Love's Labour's Lost.

27:23Possibly derived from an old term for ebony, what name does Shakespeare give to the poison used to kill Hamlet's father?

27:28Shakespeare may have been inspired by use of a similar word in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta.

27:31Anything?

27:33No.

27:34Barabas.

27:35Barabas.

27:36No, it's Hebenon.

27:36What adjective does Kate use in The Taming of the Shrew to describe the disorienting effect of the sun upon her eyes?

27:42In modern usage, this word can also mean embellished, often with jewels or rhinestones.

27:48Glitter.

27:48Glittered.

27:49Glittered.

27:50Glittered.

27:51No, it's bedazzled.

27:51Another starter question.

27:53Which two islands are separated by the Strait of Bonifacio?

27:57And that, the Golden New College of 125 is separate of 175.

28:01You were so far ahead for so long, guys.

28:07That's what I was doing.

28:09What you were doing, what do you mean?

28:10At the end with the...

28:10Yeah, Diego Garcia.

28:12I wouldn't let that colour the way you look back on this, because you were so impressive.

28:15It's just the last five minutes went against you.

28:18But crucially, Jonah, you knew everything you needed about Russia and Russian literature, so that's fine.

28:21Yeah, yeah, my cheaters won't be after me, I think.

28:23Exactly, and you sounded very clever about Hydrobat.

28:25It's been wonderful getting to know you.

28:26Well done for playing so fantastic.

28:27Well, I'm sorry that we're going to be saying goodbye to you guys, but it's been an honour.

28:30Sheffield, you did sort of slightly leave it rather late, but in that last five minutes,

28:33which was crucial, you came storming through, so well done.

28:35We shall see you again.

28:37And I hope we'll see you again.

28:38I hope you can join us next time for the first of the second round matches.

28:41But until then, it is goodbye from New College, Oxford.

28:43Goodbye.

28:44It's goodbye from Sheffield University.

28:46Goodbye.

28:47And it's goodbye from me.

28:48Goodbye.

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