University Challenge Season 55 Episode 18

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00:00MUSIC

00:04APPLAUSE

00:19The University Challenge.

00:21Asking the questions...

00:23..and more writing.

00:25APPLAUSE

00:28Hello and welcome to University Challenge.

00:30The second round of the competition continues tonight.

00:33Last time, Darwin College Cambridge beat Morden College Oxford

00:36to become the first team through to this year's quarter-finals.

00:39And whoever wins this match will join them.

00:41Unfortunately, there's no reperchage in this round,

00:43so the losing team tonight will be leaving the competition.

00:46The team from Sheffield were lucky

00:48that round one does have a reperchage

00:50as they lost their opening game to Warwick.

00:52Their score of 170 points, however,

00:54was the joint highest losing score of the first round,

00:57which earned them a play-off against New College Oxford.

01:00And that they won relatively comfortably.

01:02In both their matches so far,

01:04they've looked strong on geography and fine art.

01:06But against New College,

01:07they did get a little bit mixed up on bonuses

01:09about the early roles of notable actors.

01:12Let's meet the team from Sheffield for the third time.

01:15Hi, I'm Rhys Lewis.

01:17I'm from Hufford West in Pembrokeshire,

01:19and I'm studying maths.

01:20Hi, I'm Abdurrahman Assisi.

01:22I'm from Alexandria, Egypt, and I study engineering.

01:24And their captain.

01:26Hi, I'm Jacob Price.

01:27I'm from Heatherset in Norfolk, and I study astrophysics.

01:30Hi, I'm Isabelle Dobby.

01:31I'm from Haringey in North London,

01:32and I study English literature.

01:34APPLAUSE

01:36The team from Strathclyde are coming into this match

01:40off the back of a comfortable win over Harper Adams University.

01:43Strathclyde showed in that game

01:45that they are very good on the buzzer.

01:47Captain Jack's personal total of nine correct starters

01:50was the joint highest of the round.

01:52However, they converted just 40% of the bonuses that followed.

01:55They scored no points at all on four of the 12 sets that they won,

01:59but they did answer well on football, Salvador Dali,

02:02and women in the Bible.

02:04Let's meet the team from Strathclyde once again.

02:06Hi, I'm Matthew Johnston.

02:08I'm from Dumfries and Galloway, and I study chemistry.

02:10Hi, I'm Kate Lockery.

02:12I'm from Glasgow, and I'm doing a Masters in Diplomacy

02:14and International Security.

02:15And their captain.

02:16Hi, I'm Jack Sterling from Inverness,

02:18studying chemical engineering.

02:19Hi, I'm Tom McHugh.

02:20I'm from Glasgow, and I'm studying mechanical engineering.

02:27Welcome back.

02:28Nice to see you applauding each other.

02:29And this is for a place in the quarterfinals.

02:31Good luck. Fingers on buzzers.

02:33Here's your first starter for ten.

02:35What occupation appears in the titles

02:38of all of the following television programmes?

02:41A 1986 serial written by Dennis Potter

02:44and starring Michael Gambon as a writer

02:46suffering from psoriatic arthropathy.

02:48A 2008 series starring Jill Scott,

02:50based on a series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith.

02:53And a...

02:55Detective.

02:56It is detective, yes.

02:57Three questions for you, Sheffield,

02:59on early romantic art.

03:01In an essay of 2004, the art historian Catherine Gallitz notes

03:05that though often posited in opposition to neoclassicism,

03:08early romanticism was shaped largely by artists

03:11trained in which French artist's studio?

03:14His works include Oath of the Horatio.

03:16Oh, David.

03:18David, yes.

03:19David.

03:20Yes.

03:21Is it just Italy?

03:22I don't know.

03:23Switzerland?

03:24Sure.

03:25Switzerland.

03:26No, it's Russia.

03:28An early example of romantic art in the Tate collection,

03:33Snowstorm, Hannibal and his army crossing the Alps,

03:35is an 1812 work by which English painter?

03:37Turner.

03:38It is Turner.

03:39Well done.

03:40Don't start with questions.

03:41Discussed in an 1852 essay by Karl Marx about a recent coup d'etat,

03:45what Western European family's name is the origin of a...

03:48Sheffield Assisi.

03:49Bonaparte.

03:50Well done, it is indeed, yes.

03:51Three questions for you, Sheffield, on prunes in literature.

03:54In an essay of 1929, which author wrote,

03:56One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

03:57The lamp in the spine does not light on beef and prunes.

03:58Before going on to ask,

03:59now what food do we feed women as artists upon?

04:00Virginia Woolf.

04:01Virginia Woolf.

04:02Yeah.

04:03Virginia Woolf.

04:04Yes.

04:05Book two, chapter seven, of which novel by Dickens,

04:06is the origin of a...

04:07Sheffield Assisi?

04:08Herb on a pot.

04:09Well done, it is indeed, yes.

04:10APPLAUSE

04:11Three questions for you, Sheffield, on prunes in literature.

04:12In an essay of 1929, which author wrote,

04:13One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

04:18The lamp in the spine does not light on beef and prunes.

04:21Before going on to ask,

04:22Now what food do we feed women as artists upon?

04:25Virginia Woolf.

04:26Yeah, Virginia Woolf.

04:27Yes.

04:28Nice.

04:29Chapter seven, of which novel by Dickens, is titled Mostly Prunes and Prism?

04:33Mrs. General advises the title character that lips form a pretty shape,

04:37when speaking the words,

04:38Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism.

04:41Little Dorrit is set in a prison, so...

04:43Can I nominate you?

04:44Yeah.

04:45Nominate Dobby.

04:46Little Dorrit.

04:47Correct.

04:48In which of Shakespeare's plays does Pompey refer to a pregnant woman's

04:51longing for stewed prunes,

04:53possibly alluding to the belief that they cure venereal disease?

04:56In this scene, he has been brought before Duke Angelo,

04:59accused of being a parcel board.

05:02Something in Italy, presumably.

05:04Twelfth night.

05:05Um...

05:06Is it ancient or like...

05:07Two gentlemen of Verona?

05:08Yeah.

05:09Two gentlemen of Verona?

05:10No, it's measure for measure.

05:11Let's start the question.

05:12Which photographer's work did Susan Sontag say was an occasion

05:16to demonstrate that life's horror can be faced without squeamishness?

05:20Known for her photographs of outsiders,

05:22such as those of drag artists and carnival performers,

05:25she became the first American photographer to be exhibited

05:27at the Venice Biennale in 1972, the year after her death.

05:31Strathclyde Sterling?

05:34Cindy Sherman?

05:35No, you may not confer anyone would have a go.

05:38Sheffield or Cece?

05:39Arbus?

05:40It is Diane Arbus.

05:41Well done, yeah.

05:42Your bonuses then, Sheffield, are on real-world metal alloys

05:46that play a role in the magic system

05:48of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series of fantasy books.

05:52Name each from the description.

05:53First, a malleable metal alloy containing mostly tin

05:57mixed with antimony, copper and sometimes silver.

06:00Burning this material in the Mistborn series

06:02enhances physical characteristics such as brute strength.

06:05Well, copper and tin is bronze, but I don't think it's going to be there.

06:07Antimony is tin, antimony.

06:09Do we have any ideas?

06:10Uh...

06:11I've got pewter, it's not.

06:12Pewter Pass.

06:13Do you have pewter?

06:14I don't think so, try it.

06:15Pewter?

06:16Secondly, a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver,

06:19usually containing trace quantities of other metals

06:21such as copper and platinum.

06:23In Sanderson's books, burning this alloy

06:25gives sight of one's own future.

06:27Yeah, definitely.

06:28Electrum.

06:29Yes.

06:30Finally, an alloy composed of a larger quantity of copper

06:32and smaller quantity of zinc.

06:34In the Mistborn series, this alloy is burned by soothers

06:36to manipulate the emotions of others.

06:39Salt.

06:40Copper and zinc.

06:41Copper and tin is bronze, it's all going to be that.

06:43Brass, it's got aluminium in it.

06:45Brass.

06:46Are you sure?

06:47Just try it.

06:48I don't think it's brass, but we can just try it.

06:49Brass.

06:50It is brass.

06:51Picture round now.

06:52For picture starter, you're going to see an image of a passport.

06:55For ten points, simply tell me the name of the country that issues it.

06:58Some helpful wording has, of course, been removed.

07:01Singapore.

07:02Yes, it is Singapore.

07:03Well done.

07:04Singapore.

07:05Yes, it is Singapore.

07:06Well done.

07:07You just saw the passport for Singapore, rated as the most powerful passport in the world

07:11by the Henley Passport Index, granting visa-free access to around 195 countries and territories.

07:17For your bonuses, you'll see passports that feature towards the bottom of that index.

07:22In each case, I need the issuing country for five points.

07:25Some wording will have been redacted on each.

07:27First, this country.

07:29Oh, Assyria.

07:30Assyria?

07:31Yes.

07:32Assyria?

07:33Yes.

07:34Secondly?

07:35Eritrea?

07:36Yes.

07:37Eritrea.

07:38Yes.

07:39Finally.

07:40Bangladesh?

07:41It is.

07:42Bangladesh.

07:43It is Bangladesh.

07:44Well done.

07:45Let's start the question.

07:46Which French scientist, born in 1736, gives his name to all of the following?

07:51A so-called explosion that can occur in molecules when electrons are removed, a type of mechanical

07:57damping that relies on sliding friction, a potential energy barrier that particles must...

08:03Coulomb.

08:04It is Coulomb, yes.

08:05Well done.

08:06Your bonuses, Sheffield, are on leading clubs in the Australian Football League.

08:10That's Aussie rules football.

08:12Founded in 1859 and thus older than any club in the English Premier League, the Cats are

08:17said to be the second oldest AFL club.

08:19They are based in which city, a large seaport south-west of Melbourne?

08:24Geelong.

08:25Geelong.

08:26It is Geelong.

08:27It is Geelong.

08:28With a joint record 16 premiership titles, which club is known as the Magpies?

08:32It shares its name with the surname of Nelson's second-in-command at the Battle of Trafalgar

08:36and that of the cricketer who captained England to the T20 World Cup in 2010.

08:40Collingwood.

08:41Yes, as in Cuthbert and Paul respectively.

08:43Which club beat Sydney Swans in the 2024 AFL Grand Final, known as the Lions?

08:49They are based in an Australian state capital and play their home matches at the Gabba.

08:53Brisbane.

08:54It is indeed Brisbane, yes.

08:55That's our question.

08:56Plenty of time, Shasta.

08:57Let's see if we can get going with this.

08:58Who declared that, quote, this is no ordinary time in a speech intended to encourage the

09:03nomination of Henry Wallace as US Vice President in 1940?

09:07A phrase that would later be used by Doris Kearns Goodwin as the title of her Pulitzer Prize-winning

09:12historical biography of this figure and her husband.

09:16She later chaired the committee which drafted the...

09:19Eleanor Roosevelt.

09:20It is indeed, yes.

09:21Your focuses, Sheffield, are on works that feature or mention chicken hypnotism.

09:27The Streak of Chalk, Bewitcheth the Hen, is a line from which work by Friedrich Nietzsche,

09:31published in four volumes between 1883 and 1885.

09:34The work comprises the imagined discourses of an ancient Iranian religious figure.

09:39Thus spoke Zarathustra.

09:41That's the word.

09:42Thus spoke Zarathustra.

09:43Correct.

09:44In which film, written and directed by Charles Burnett, does Danny Glover's character Harry

09:48hypnotise a rooster?

09:50Harry is an enigmatic drifter whose arrival at his friend's home in south central Los Angeles

09:54disrupts their middle class lives.

09:56I don't know.

09:57What year is it?

09:581990.

09:59I don't know.

10:00Not even really well.

10:01I don't know.

10:02Pass.

10:03To sleep with anger.

10:04Well, that's like hypnotising chickens, is a line from which 1977 song by Iggy Pop?

10:09It was re-released in 1996 after featuring in the soundtrack to the film Trainspotting.

10:13Yeah, lust for life.

10:14It is lust for life.

10:16Fingers and buzzers, here's another starter for ten.

10:18What surname is shared by all of the following?

10:21The 19th century author said by T.S. Eliot to have written, quote,

10:24the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels,

10:28a genre invented by him and not by Poe.

10:30The character from Pride and Prejudice, who's, quote...

10:34Collins.

10:35Well done.

10:38Three questions for you, Sheffield, on tourism.

10:40In 1782, clergyman and author William Gilpin published an influential travel book titled

10:46Observations on Which British River?

10:48It established the tour of the river as an essential for those unable to take the grand tour

10:52because of the wars in Europe.

10:54And notable sites included the ruins of Goodrich Castle and Tintern Abbey.

10:58Oh, it's Wales.

10:59Is it Seven?

11:00Tintern Abbey is like...

11:01Is it?

11:02It's like near the Welsh English border.

11:03Try Seven then, yeah.

11:04Seven?

11:05No, it's the river Wye.

11:06Oh, thanks.

11:07Observations on the river Wye attempted to guide travellers to, quote,

11:10examine the face of a country by the rules of what type of beauty?

11:14Gilpin popularised this 11-letter term, referring to the aesthetic pleasures available

11:18through the contemplation of landscape scenes and now particularly associated with tourism.

11:24No idea.

11:25Sightseeker?

11:27Sightseeing.

11:28Come on.

11:29Sightseeing?

11:30Sightseeing.

11:31The Y tour would begin in Ross on Y and end in which Monmouthshire town whose ruined

11:36castle was the final major site of the journey?

11:38Oh, um...

11:40I think it could be Ask.

11:42I don't know what the other...

11:43Just try to ask.

11:44I don't think it is, but try it.

11:45Ask.

11:46No, it's Chepstone.

11:47Let's start a question.

11:48Documents known as the Madrid, Dresden and Paris Codices

11:52are three of the major sources of information

11:55regarding the mythological system of which civilisation.

11:59Figures commonly featured in the codices

12:00include the creator deity Itzamna, a god of maize,

12:04and the so-called hero twins.

12:06Sheffield Assisi.

12:08Mayans?

12:08It is the Mayans, yes.

12:10Two questions for you on a genre of fiction, Sheffield.

12:14The name of what subgenre of science fiction

12:16was first coined in the title of a short story

12:18by Bruce Bethke, published in 1983.

12:21Early writers in the genre include Tom Maddox and Pat Cadigan,

12:25and it is characteristically concerned with themes of globalisation,

12:28information overload, virtual reality and body modification.

12:32Cyberpunk?

12:34Yeah.

12:35Cyberpunk?

12:36Yes.

12:37What is the title of the landmark 1986 collection

12:39of cyberpunk fiction edited by Bruce Sterling?

12:42Its name refers to a fashion accessory defined by, quote,

12:44the movement's totem colours of chrome and matte black.

12:49No, pass.

12:50Pass.

12:51Mirror Shades.

12:52The first story in Mirror Shades,

12:53titled The Gernsback Continuum,

12:56is by which American novelist,

12:58whose other works include the short story Burning Chrome,

13:00widely credited with popularising the term cyberspace,

13:03and the novel Neuromancer?

13:05I've heard this, but I can't remember what it's a lovely color.

13:08Um...

13:09Anything?

13:10Er, Le Guin.

13:12Le Guin?

13:13No, it's William Gibson.

13:14Let's start the question.

13:15It's a music round now,

13:16and for your music starter,

13:17you're going to hear a piece of classical music.

13:19For ten points, I need you to name the composer.

13:28Strathcline Sterling.

13:29Less.

13:29No.

13:30You can hear a bit more, but you may not confer.

13:32Sheffield Lewis.

13:418-7.

13:41No, it's Chopin.

13:42The revolutionary etude.

13:44Now, we'll take your music bonuses in a moment.

13:46What glands found in the skin of mammals are usually attached to hair follicles

13:51and secrete an oily, complex mixture of lipids,

13:54which helps to waterproof the hair and prevent skin desiccation?

13:59Strathcline Johnston.

14:00Epidermal.

14:01No.

14:03Anyone want to have a guess?

14:03Come on.

14:04No, I'll tell you.

14:05It's the sebaceous glands.

14:07Let's start the question.

14:08At different points along its course,

14:10which major African river is known by names including Joliba and Quara?

14:15This river rises in the Futa Jalon highlands of Guinea,

14:18near the border with Sierra Leone.

14:21Strathcline Sterling.

14:22Niger.

14:22Yes, the Niger.

14:23Well done.

14:24Your bonuses, Zaka.

14:26For your music starter, you heard Chopin's revolutionary etude,

14:29whose tempo is marked Allegro con fuoco, or Allegro with fire.

14:33For your bonuses, three more classical pieces with tempo markings

14:36of Allegro con fuoco.

14:38I want you to name the composer of each.

14:41First, this composer.

14:45It's Mendelssohn.

14:52Secondly, the German composer of this symphony.

15:04Beethoven.

15:05No, that's Karl Maria von Weber.

15:06Lastly.

15:07Korsak.

15:15Korsak.

15:15Yes.

15:16New World Century.

15:16Well done.

15:17Let's start the question.

15:18Which country chose neutrality at the start of World War I,

15:22but joined the Entente powers in August 1916?

15:25Cut off from its allies by the Russian Revolution,

15:28it was forced to conclude a separate peace with the central powers in May 1918,

15:32but later gained substantial territories at the Paris Peace Conference

15:36and with subsequent treaties, including most of the Banat, Bukovina, Bexar...

15:41Sheffield Price.

15:42Romania.

15:42It is Romania, yes.

15:43Well done.

15:44Your bonuses are on television dramas set in West Yorkshire.

15:47In each case, I want you to give me the title of the drama from the description.

15:51First, a three-part miniseries set in Halifax and first broadcast in 2009

15:55about Ruth Slater's attempts to rebuild her life following an extended term in prison.

16:01It shares its one-word title with an Academy Award-winning 1992 film

16:05directed by Clint Eastwood.

16:07I don't know any late Eastwood one.

16:09I don't know.

16:09I can't think it's going to fit this.

16:11No, I don't know.

16:12Fate.

16:13Yeah.

16:14Fate.

16:14No, it's Unforgiven.

16:15Secondly, a 2023 series based on Benjamin Myers' novel of the same name

16:20about the 18th-century counterfeiting gang known as the Cragvale Coiners,

16:25based near the village of Calderdale.

16:27Nominate Dobby.

16:27The Gallows Pole.

16:28Yes.

16:29Lastly, a crime drama created by Sally Wainwright

16:31and set in a fictionalised version of Hebden Bridge.

16:34It stars Sarah Lancashire as Police Sergeant Catherine Kaywood.

16:37Happy Valley.

16:38It is indeed, yes.

16:39Another starting question.

16:40The Time-Torn Man is the subtitle of Claire Tomalin's 2007 biography

16:46of which novelist and poet who died in 1928?

16:51Siegfried Tassoon said he was the nearest thing to Shakespeare

16:53I should ever go for a walk with,

16:55referring to a friendship that developed after a 1918 visit to Dorchester.

17:00Strathclyne Sterling.

17:01Hardy.

17:01It is Thomas Hardy.

17:02Well done.

17:02Three questions on Italian unification.

17:05A leading force behind Italian unification,

17:07which Piedmontese statesman became the first prime minister

17:10of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861?

17:12Garibaldi.

17:15No, that was Camillo Benzo, the Count of Cavour.

17:18Cavour served the kings of Sardinia, Piedmont,

17:20who belonged to what ruling house?

17:22From 1861, this house ruled the Kingdom of Italy?

17:27Bourbon.

17:29Bourbon.

17:29No, that was the House of Savoy.

17:31Including the present-day regions of Lazio, Umbria and Marche,

17:35what territories did the Kingdom of Italy annex in 1870?

17:38They're often known by a two-word name after their ruler.

17:40Normally, we do people states.

17:43Yes, well done.

17:43Let's start with the question.

17:44A single-word answer is enough here.

17:46In astrophysics, Atira, Arton, Apollo and Amor

17:50are names given to orbital classes of what type of astronomical object?

17:54All four of these classifications refer specifically

17:57to groups of these objects that pass relatively close...

18:00Comets.

18:02No one afraid you lose five points to Earth.

18:07Asteroids.

18:08It is asteroids.

18:08Bad luck, Sass, Clyde.

18:09Your bonuses, Sheffield, are on conurbations

18:13that cross international borders.

18:15One of the first cross-border urban areas

18:17designated a European grouping of territorial cooperation

18:20by the EU is named after three cities.

18:23Courtreich, Tournai, and which major French city?

18:28Other cities in this conurbation include Roubaix and Tourcois.

18:31I don't know, like, roughly where that's going to be.

18:34Torn eyes, like, do you know what I want to say?

18:36Like, Lille, maybe?

18:37Is that, yeah?

18:37Lille?

18:38Yes.

18:38The city of Goma, capital of the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo,

18:44is contiguous with the city of Gisenyi, the second largest city in which country?

18:49Rwanda.

18:50Yes.

18:50The Mexican city of Juarez forms a large cross-border conurbation with which US city?

18:54El Paso.

18:55El Paso.

18:55It is El Paso, yes.

18:57Let's start a question.

18:58Henry Willis, J.W. Walker, Thomas Harrison, and Aristide Cavallé-Col

19:03all founded firms in the 19th century primarily known for making what type of musical instrument?

19:09A number of these instruments created by Cavallé-Col are still used in Paris,

19:13including ones at Saint-Sulpice and the Basilica of Saint-Denis.

19:18Sheffield Dobby.

19:19Organs?

19:20Yes, well done.

19:20Your bonuses, Sheffield, are on works edited by the author Toni Morrison

19:26during her two decades working at Random House Publishers.

19:29Which academic and activist said of Morrison, as editor of her autobiography,

19:34she persuaded me that I could write it the way I wanted to.

19:37It could be the story not only of my life, but of the movement in which I had become involved.

19:41Morrison also edited her work, Women, Race and Class.

19:44Oh, I don't know what.

19:46Holy Lord.

19:47Lord?

19:48No, it's Angela Davis.

19:49An exploration of generational black trauma centred on a Kentucky blues singer,

19:54the 1975 novel Corregidora is by which US author?

19:58Her more recent works include Palmares and The Birdcatcher.

20:02Oh, no, it's The Birdcatcher.

20:03Um, no, it is.

20:05No, it is.

20:05Pass.

20:06That's Gail Jones.

20:07Tony Cade Bambara's novel, Those Bones Are Not My Child,

20:11is a response to the disappearance and murder of more than 40 black children

20:14between 1979 and 1981, in which major southern US city?

20:19The birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr.?

20:21Montgomery.

20:22Was he born in Montgomery?

20:23Was it Birmingham?

20:24Birmingham's where he was in jail.

20:25Was he born in...

20:25I think...

20:26I think...

20:26Don't look up.

20:27I thought Memphis.

20:28You know who it was, but he is.

20:29Memphis.

20:30No, it was Atlanta.

20:32Picture round now.

20:32For your picture starter, you're going to see a painting of a fruit.

20:36For ten points, I need you to give me the name of the fruit.

20:38Sheffield Assisi.

20:41Jackfruit.

20:42It is a jackfruit, yes.

20:43Well done.

20:44For your picture starter there, Sheffield, you saw an illustration

20:46of a jackfruit by Victorian botanical artist Marianne North.

20:50For your picture bonuses, three more illustrations by North

20:52of tropical fruits on the trees that produce them.

20:55Five points for each fruit you can name.

20:57First, this fruit.

20:59Uh, I don't know.

21:01It's not like a mangosteen, is it?

21:03Is that what a mangosteen is like?

21:03I don't know.

21:05You just try it.

21:06It sounds fun.

21:07Mangosteen.

21:07There's an ackee.

21:08Secondly, this fruit.

21:10Oh, is that custard apple?

21:11What?

21:12Custard apple?

21:14No, I need more than that.

21:16No, I don't know.

21:18No, I'm afraid I can't accept that.

21:19The term custard apple is applied to a number of related fruits,

21:23but I needed to hear the specific fruit, which is soursop.

21:27Bad luck.

21:28This one's your last one.

21:29Have a look at this.

21:30That's not like a papaya, is it?

21:33Yeah.

21:34It could be.

21:35Papaya?

21:35No, that's a cashew.

21:37Let's start a question.

21:38In the 17th century, Nzinga Mabande was queen of the kingdoms of...

21:43Angola.

21:45Well done.

21:46Well done indeed.

21:47Three questions for you, Sheffield, on shipwrecked animals.

21:50Unsinkable Sam was a nickname given to a cat that was on board which German battleship when

21:55it was sunk during the 1941 Operation Reinerborn?

21:58Bismarck.

21:58The cat was picked up by the crew of the HMS Cossack, which would later also sink with

22:02Sam surviving a second time and a third time in a later shipwreck.

22:05Bismarck?

22:06Yeah.

22:06The year 1515 saw the arrival in Lisbon of Ulysses, the first example of what animal

22:11was seen in Europe since antiquity.

22:14It was immortalised in a woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, but would later die in a shipwreck

22:17while being sent as a gift to Pope Leo X.

22:20It is?

22:20Yeah, I think so.

22:20Rhinoceros?

22:21Yes.

22:22The Coton de Tulea is a small dog breed named after Toliara, a port city in which island

22:28country?

22:28The breed is said to be descended from a group of dogs that were shipwrecked there centuries

22:31ago.

22:32I think Honiara is Micronesia.

22:34Yeah.

22:35Micronesia?

22:36No, it's Madagascar.

22:37Another starting question.

22:38What word is common to the modern names of the British football clubs founded as Riverside

22:43AFC in 1899, Singers FC in 1883, Small Heath Alliance FC in 1875, and St. Marks FC?

22:53Sheffield Price.

22:54City?

22:54It is City, yes.

22:55Bad luck, Steph.

22:56Fraction late.

22:57Well done, Sheffield.

22:58Another set of bonuses on the theatre director, Emma Rice.

23:02Rice's works at the Knee High Theatre include an adaptation of which film by David Lean,

23:07itself based on a play by Noel Coward.

23:09Rice's version combines elements of both film and play, both of which centre on an affair

23:14that begins in a railway station buffet.

23:16How is it in, like, Air Strangers on the Train?

23:18No, no, no, that's Patricia Heisman.

23:20Private Live, is that a thing?

23:21Private Live is different.

23:23Go for Blythe Spirit.

23:25I don't think it's...

23:25Blythe Spirit.

23:25Blythe Spirit, yeah.

23:26Blythe Spirit?

23:27No, that was Brief Encounter.

23:29Oh, yeah.

23:29Rice has directed stage versions of two of Angela Carter's novels, Nights at the Circus

23:34and Which Other, that also gives its name to the theatre company set up by Rice in 2018.

23:39The novel's main characters are the twin chorus girls, Nora and Dora, Chance.

23:44Nominate Dobby.

23:45Wise Children.

23:45Yes.

23:46In 2018, Rice directed The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, a two-hander by Daniel Jameson about

23:51which artist, born in 1887 near Vitebsk and his wife Bella?

23:55The title refers to his paintings depicting him and Bella in the sky over Vitebsk.

24:00Chagall.

24:00Yes, well done.

24:01Let's start the question.

24:03I'm looking for the name of a person here.

24:05Quote,

24:06Justice no longer takes public responsibility for the violence that is bound up with its practice.

24:11Which French thinker wrote those words in his 1975 work Discipline...

24:16Strathclyde Sterling.

24:17Foucault.

24:18It's Foucault, yes, indeed.

24:20Your bonuses, Strathclyde, are on Chinese words linked by the character for fire.

24:25First, considered one of the four great inventions of ancient China,

24:29what word literally translates from Chinese as fire medicine?

24:33Anyone?

24:34No.

24:35No, let me keep.

24:36Gunpowder.

24:37Yes, well done.

24:38Second, which planet of the solar system has a Chinese name that translates as fire star?

24:44Venus?

24:45Really?

24:45Well, isn't it the really bright one?

24:47Venus?

24:47No, it's Mars.

24:48And finally, which mode of transport has a Chinese name that literally means fire vehicle?

24:54Train.

24:55Train.

24:56It is train, well done.

24:57Let's start with the question.

24:58Featuring the world's largest vertical drop at over 4,100 feet,

25:03Kigutinkwak, or Mount Thor, is a peak in which mountain range,

25:07named after the large Canadian island on which it is primarily found?

25:13Strathclyde McHugh.

25:14Baffin.

25:14It is the Baffin Mountains, well done.

25:16Three questions and a poem.

25:17Quote,

25:18Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?

25:22These words are from a dramatic monologue published in 1855 by which poet?

25:25Um, anyone, does he have a language or?

25:30Um, Longfellow.

25:32No, it's Browning.

25:33Which Italian artist is the title character and narrator of the poem?

25:36His works include Madonna of the Harpies and Madonna del Sacco, both found in his native Florence?

25:42Um, sorry.

25:45No, that was Andrea del Sato.

25:47For the poem's source material, Browning used the work of which Renaissance artist, historian and biographer,

25:53who described del Sato's work as without errors in his work, Lives of the Artists?

25:58No, hang on.

25:59Oh, um, Vasari.

26:02That was Vasari.

26:03Okay.

26:05Let's start the question.

26:06In the international system of units, one second, the base unit of time, is formally defined in terms of the resonant frequency of which chemical...

26:14Sheffield Price.

26:16Cesium.

26:16It is cesium, yes, well done.

26:18Your bonuses, Sheffield, are on Cabinet Ministers.

26:20In each case, I'll read the names of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary in that order.

26:26All I want from you is the name of the Prime Minister when they held all those offices.

26:31First, Brad Butler, Anthony Eden, David Maxwell-Fyfe.

26:35When is this?

26:36Um, Macmillan?

26:37Yeah, I think, no, Eden, I'm sure Macmillan's after Eden, right?

26:40Oh, Churchill?

26:41Sure.

26:42Churchill?

26:42Yes.

26:43Secondly, Anthony Barber, Alec Douglas Hume, Robert Carr.

26:47Douglas Hume is, like, 60s.

26:49It could be put on to be like, Macmillan.

26:50Yeah.

26:50Macmillan?

26:51No, that was Ted Heath.

26:52Finally, Kenneth Clark, Douglas Heard, Michael Howard.

26:56No, I didn't.

26:57Oh, is it not that?

26:59I was just thinking, yes, Thatcher.

27:01Thatcher.

27:02That was after Thatcher, it was major.

27:03Bad luck.

27:03What middle initial links the authors of the following novels?

27:07The African Queen, In a Free State, The Naked Lunch and...

27:11Sheffield Dolby.

27:13S.

27:14It is S.

27:14Well done.

27:15Your bonuses, Sheffield, are on literary figures.

27:18In each case, give the historic county of England that was the birthplace of the following.

27:21All three are in the Midlands.

27:23First of five points, the poet T.E. Hume, the novelist Arnold Bennett, and the 18th century

27:29essayist Samuel Johnson.

27:31Samuel Warwickshire, maybe?

27:33Samuel Johnson, not the dictionary, I think.

27:34Yeah.

27:35Where he was born.

27:37Go Warwickshire.

27:37No, they're on the Midlands.

27:39Warwickshire.

27:40Staffordshire.

27:41Second, the poet Wilfred Owen, and the novelist Barbara Pym and Edith Pargeter,

27:44who also used the pen name Ellis Peters.

27:46And at the point, Strathclyde, I think, Sheffield, are 290.

27:54The answer to the last one was Shropshire.

27:58Oh, Strathclyde.

27:59The thing...

27:59I just think you were up against an unbelievable team in the form of their life who were incredible

28:05on the buzzers, and that was just incredibly bad luck.

28:07I'm so sorry.

28:09But it was very obvious how enormously clever you are when you got a chance to answer some

28:12questions, so well done.

28:14It's been wonderful getting to know you.

28:15Sheffield, I think you just need to try and capture that and take that form into the

28:19next stage, because that will terrify everyone you're up against.

28:22I mean, 290 is absolutely phenomenal, and you were amazing, really, in your range of knowledge

28:26and your speed on the starter.

28:27So well done.

28:27That was a fantastic performance.

28:29I hope we'll see you again for another second round match.

28:32But until then, it is goodbye from Strathclyde.

28:34Goodbye.

28:35It's goodbye from Sheffield.

28:37Goodbye.

28:38And it's goodbye from me.

28:39Goodbye.

28:57Goodbye.

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