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00:00MUSIC
00:04APPLAUSE
00:19University 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 that round one
00:49does have a reperchage as they lost their opening game to Warwick.
00:52Their score of 170 points, however,
00:55was 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 they did get a little bit mixed up
01:08on bonuses about 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, and I study English literature.
01:34APPLAUSE
01:38The 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 that 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.
02:11I'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, studying chemical engineering.
02:19Hi, I'm Tom McHugh.
02:21I'm from Glasgow, and I'm studying mechanical engineering.
02:24APPLAUSE
02:26Welcome 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.
02:36What occupation appears in the titles
02:38of all of the following television programmes?
02:40A 1986 serial written by Dennis Potter
02:43and starring Michael Gambon as a writer suffering
02:46from psoriatic arthropathy.
02:48A 2008 series starring Jill Scott based on a series
02:51of novels by Alexander McCall Smith.
02:53And a...
02:55Detective.
02:56It is detective, yes.
02:57Three questions for you, Sheffield, on 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,
03:31Snowstorm, Hannibal and his army crossing the Alps,
03:33is an 1812 work by which English painter?
03:34Turner.
03:35It is Turner.
03:36Well done.
03:37Well done.
03:38It is indeed.
03:39Yes.
03:40Well done.
03:41Three questions for you, Sheffield.
03:42Three questions for you, Sheffield, on prunes in literature.
03:45In an essay of 1929, which author wrote,
03:48One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well?
03:51The lamp in the spine does not light on beef and prunes.
03:52Before going on to ask,
03:53One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well.
03:54The lamp in the spine does not light on beef and prunes.
03:55Before going on to ask,
03:56One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well.
03:59Yes.
04:00Nice.
04:01Book two, Sheffield...
04:02What Western European family's name is the origin of a...
04:03Herbona Pot.
04:04Well done.
04:05It is indeed, yes.
04:06Three questions for you, Sheffield, on prunes in literature.
04:11In 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,
04:25Virginia Woolf.
04:26Yeah.
04:27Virginia Woolf.
04:28Book two, chapter seven of which novel by Dickens
04:30is titled Mostly Prunes and Prism?
04:33Mrs. General advises the title character
04:35that 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.
04:46Correct.
04:47In which of Shakespeare's plays
04:48does Pompey refer to a pregnant woman's longing for stewed prunes,
04:52possibly 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.
05:05Is it Angel or like...
05:07Two Gentlemen of Verona?
05:08Two Gentlemen of Verona?
05:10No, it's measure for measure.
05:11Let's start the question.
05:13Which photographer's work did Susan Sontag say
05:15was an occasion to demonstrate
05:17that life's horror can be faced without squeamishness?
05:21Known for her photographs of outsiders,
05:22such as those of drag artists and carnival performers,
05:25she became the first American photographer
05:27to be exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1972,
05:30the year after her death.
05:33Strathclyde Sterling.
05:34Cindy Sherman.
05:35No, you may not confer.
05:37Anyone will have a go?
05:38Sheffield Assisi.
05:40Arbus.
05:40It is Diane Arbus.
05:41Well done, yeah.
05:43Your bonuses, then, Sheffield,
05:44are 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,
06:06but I don't think it's going to be there.
06:07I don't think it's tin.
06:07Antimony is tin.
06:08Antimony, do we have any ideas?
06:10Uh...
06:10I don't know if I've got pewter, it's not.
06:12Pewter Pass.
06:12Do you have pewter?
06:13Pewter?
06:14I don't think so.
06:14Try it.
06:15Pewter?
06:15It is pewter.
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,
06:24burning this alloy gives sight of one's own future.
06:26Yeah, definitely.
06:27Yeah.
06:27Electrum.
06:28Yes.
06:29Finally, an alloy composed of a larger quantity of copper
06:31and smaller quantity of zinc.
06:33In the Mistborn series,
06:34this alloy is burned by soothers
06:36to manipulate the emotions of others.
06:38It's not copper and zinc.
06:40Copper and zinc is not this.
06:40Copper and tin is bronze.
06:41It's not going to be that.
06:42It's not brass.
06:43It's got aluminium in it.
06:44We could go brass.
06:45Are you sure?
06:45Just try it.
06:46I don't think it's brass,
06:47but we can just try it.
06:47It's not nothing else.
06:48Brass.
06:49It is brass.
06:51Picture round now.
06:52For a picture starter,
06:52you're going to see an image of a passport.
06:55For ten points,
06:56simply tell me the name of the country that issues it.
06:59Some helpful wording has,
07:00of course, been removed.
07:03Sheffield Price.
07:04Singapore.
07:05Yes, it is Singapore.
07:05Well done.
07:07You just saw the passport for Singapore,
07:09rated as the most powerful passport in the world
07:11by the Henley Passport Index,
07:13granting visa-free access
07:14to around 195 countries and territories.
07:18For your bonuses,
07:18you'll see passports that feature
07:20towards the bottom of that index.
07:22In each case,
07:22I need the issuing country for five points.
07:25Some wording will have been redacted on each.
07:27First, this country.
07:30Oh, Syria.
07:31Syria?
07:31Yeah.
07:31Syria?
07:32Yes.
07:33Secondly?
07:34Turkey.
07:35Yes.
07:35Eritrea.
07:36Eritrea.
07:37Yes, finally.
07:38Bangladesh?
07:39It is.
07:40That is literally Bangladesh.
07:41Yeah, definitely.
07:41Bangladesh.
07:42It is Bangladesh.
07:42Well done.
07:43Let's start the question.
07:45Which French scientist,
07:47born in 1736,
07:49gives his name to all of the following?
07:51A so-called explosion that can occur in molecules
07:54when electrons are removed,
07:55a type of mechanical damping that relies on sliding friction,
08:00a potential energy barrier that particles must...
08:02Sheffield Price.
08:03Coulomb.
08:04It is Coulomb.
08:05It is Coulomb, yes.
08:05Well done.
08:06Your bonuses, Sheffield,
08:07are 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,
08:16the Cats are said to be the second oldest AFL club.
08:19They are based in which city?
08:21A large seaport south-west of Melbourne.
08:24I was going to say that.
08:24Geelong.
08:25Geelong.
08:26It is Geelong.
08:26With a joint record, 16 premiership titles,
08:30which club is known as the Magpies?
08:32It shares its name with the surname of Nelson's second-in-command
08:35at the Battle of Trafalgar
08:36and that of the cricketer who captained England
08:38to 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,
08:48known as the Lions?
08:49They are based in an Australian state capital
08:51and play their home matches at the Gabba.
08:53Brisbane.
08:54It is indeed Brisbane, yes.
08:55That's our question.
08:56There's a plenty of time, Sheffield.
08:56Let's see if you can get going with this.
08:58Who declared that, quote,
08:59This is no ordinary time in a speech intended
09:02to encourage the nomination of Henry Wallace
09:04as US Vice President in 1940,
09:07a phrase that would later be used by Doris Kearns Goodwin
09:09as the title of her Pulitzer Prize-winning historical biography
09:13of this figure and her husband.
09:16She later chaired the committee which drafted...
09:17Sheffield Dobby.
09:19Eleanor Roosevelt.
09:20It is indeed, yes.
09:21Your favourites, Sheffield, are on works that feature
09:24or mention chicken hypnotism.
09:27The streak of chalk bewitcheth the head
09:29is a line from which work by Friedrich Nietzsche,
09:31published in four volumes between 1883 and 1885.
09:34The work comprises the imagined discourses
09:36of an ancient Iranian religious figure.
09:39Oh, yeah.
09:40Thus spoke Zarathustra.
09:41That's the word.
09:42Thus spoke Zarathustra.
09:43Correct.
09:44In which film, written and directed by Charles Burnett,
09:46does Danny Glover's character Harry hypnotise a rooster?
09:49Harry is an enigmatic drifter
09:51whose 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?
09:571990.
09:59I don't know.
10:00I don't know.
10:01Pass.
10:02To sleep with anger.
10:04Well, that's like hypnotising chickens,
10:06is a line from which 1977 song by Iggy Pop?
10:08It was re-released in 1996
10:10after featuring in the soundtrack to the film Trainspotting.
10:13Lust for life.
10:13It is lust for life.
10:15Fingers and buzzers, here's another starter for 10.
10:17What surname is shared by all of the following?
10:21The 19th century author said by T.S. Eliot
10:23to have written, quote,
10:24the first, the longest and the best
10:26of modern English detective novels,
10:28a genre invented by him and not by Poe.
10:30The character from Pride and Prejudice, who's, quote...
10:33Sheffield Dobby.
10:34Collins.
10:34Well done.
10:37Three questions for you, Sheffield, on tourism.
10:39In 1782, clergyman and author William Gilpin
10:43published an influential travel book titled
10:45Observations on Which British River?
10:48It established the tour of the river
10:49as an essential for those unable to take the grand tour
10:52because of the wars in Europe.
10:54And notable sites included the ruins
10:55of Goodrich Castle and Tintern Abbey.
10:58Oh, it's Wales.
10:59Is it Seven?
11:00Tintern Abbey is like...
11:01Is it?
11:01It's like near the Welsh English border.
11:03Try Seven then, yeah.
11:04Seven?
11:04No, it's the River Wye.
11:05Oh, thanks.
11:06Observations on the River Wye
11:07attempted to guide travellers to, quote,
11:09examine the face of a country by the rules of
11:12what type of beauty?
11:13Gilpin popularised this 11-letter term
11:16referring to the aesthetic pleasures available
11:18through the contemplation of landscape scenes
11:20and now particularly associated with tourism.
11:24No idea.
11:25Sightseeker?
11:26Sightseeing.
11:27Sightseeing.
11:28Come on.
11:28Sightseeing?
11:29No, it's picturesque.
11:30The Wye tour would begin in Ross-on-Wye
11:33and end in which Monmouthshire town
11:35whose ruined castle was the final major site of the journey?
11:38Oh, um...
11:39This is...
11:40Is it...
11:41I think it could be Ask.
11:42I don't know what the other...
11:43Just try to ask.
11:43I don't think it is, but try it.
11:45Ask?
11:45No, it's Chepstone.
11:47Let's start a question.
11:47Documents 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,
12:03a god of maze,
12:04and the so-called hero twins.
12:05Sheffield Assisi.
12:08Mayans.
12:08It is the Mayans, yes.
12:10Three 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
12:27of globalisation, information overload,
12:30virtual reality and body modification.
12:32Cyber...
12:33Cyberpunk?
12:34Yeah.
12:34Sure, yeah.
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, no, no.
12:50Pass.
12:50Pass.
12:51Mirror Shades.
12:52The first story in Mirror Shades,
12:53titled The Gernsback Continuum,
12:55is 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?
13:04Oh.
13:05Oh.
13:05I've heard this, but I can't remember.
13:06It's not going to call it.
13:08Um...
13:09Anything?
13:10Do you want to guess?
13:11Le Guin?
13:12Le Guin?
13:12Le Guin?
13:12No, it's William Gibson.
13:14Let's start with 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,
13:20I need you to name the composer.
13:22Strathekline Sterling.
13:29Less.
13:29No.
13:30You can hear a bit more,
13:31but 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
13:49are usually attached to hair follicles
13:51and secrete an oily, complex mixture of lipids,
13:54which helps to waterproof the hair
13:56and prevent skin desiccation?
13:57Strathekline 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 with the question.
14:08At different points along its course,
14:10which major African river is known by names
14:13including Joliba and Quara?
14:15This river rises in the Futa Jalon highlands of Guinea,
14:18near the border with Sierra Leone.
14:21Strathekline Sterling.
14:22Niger.
14:22Yes, the Niger.
14:23Well done.
14:24Your bonuses, Zach Klaff.
14:25For your music starter,
14:27you heard Chopin's Revolutionary Etude,
14:29whose tempo is marked Allegro con fuoco,
14:32or Allegro with fire.
14:33For your bonuses,
14:34three more classical pieces
14:35with tempo markings of Allegro con fuoco.
14:38I want you to name the composer of each.
14:41First, this composer.
14:48Ferdie?
14:49Ferdie.
14:50There it is, Mendelssohn.
14:52Secondly, the German composer of this symphony.
14:57Ferdie.
14:57Ferdie.
14:57Ferdie.
14:58Ferdie.
14:58Ferdie.
15:00Ferdie.
15:00Ferdie.
15:00Ferdie.
15:01Ferdie.
15:02Ferdie.
15:02No, that's Karl Maria von Weber.
15:06Lastly.
15:14Bozak.
15:15Bozak.
15:15Yes.
15:16New World Symphony.
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
15:30with the central powers in May 1918,
15:33but later gained substantial territories
15:34at the Paris Peace Conference
15:36and with subsequent treaties,
15:38including most of the Banat, Bukovina,
15:40Bethany.
15:41Sheffield Price.
15:42Romania.
15:42It is Romania, yes.
15:43Well done.
15:45Your bonuses are on television dramas
15:46set in West Yorkshire.
15:47In each case,
15:48I want you to give me the title of the drama
15:50from the description.
15:51First, a three-part miniseries set in Halifax
15:54and first broadcast in 2009
15:55about Ruth Slater's attempts to rebuild her life
15:58following an extended term in prison.
16:00It shares its one-word title
16:02with an Academy Award-winning 1992 film
16:05directed by Clint Eastwood.
16:07I don't know any late Eastwood film.
16:09I don't know.
16:09I can't think it's going to fit.
16:11No, I don't know.
16:12Fate.
16:13Yeah.
16:14Fate.
16:14No, it's Unforgiven.
16:15Secondly, a 2023 series
16:17based on Benjamin Myers' novel of the same name
16:20about the 18th century counterfeiting gang
16:22known as the Cragvale Coiners,
16:25based near the village of Calderdale.
16:26Nominate 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.
16:40Another starting question.
16:41The Time-Torn Man is the subtitle
16:43of 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
16:56after a 1918 visit to Dorchester.
16:59Strathclyne Stirling.
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
17:09became the first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861?
17:14Garibaldi.
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.
17:41Nominate, 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
17:52of 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, Seth.
18:09Thanks.
18:11Your 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 roughly where that's going to be.
18:34Tournai is like...
18:35Do you know how 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
18:42of the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
18:44is contiguous with the city of Gisenyi,
18:47the second largest city in which country?
18:49Rwanda.
18:49Rwanda.
18:50Yes.
18:50The Mexican city of Juarez forms a large cross-border conurbation
18:53with which US city?
18:55El Paso.
18:55It is El Paso, yes.
18:57Let's start a question.
18:58Henry Willis, J.W. Walker, Thomas Harrison,
19:01and Aristide Cavallé-Col all founded firms in the 19th century
19:05primarily known for making what type of musical instrument?
19:09A number of these instruments created by Cavallé-Col
19:11are 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.
19:22Your bonuses, Sheffield,
19:23are 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,
19:32as 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,
19:38but of the movement in which I had become involved.
19:41Morrison also edited her work,
19:43Women, Race and Class.
19:44Oh, okay, Lord.
19:46Lord?
19:47Lord?
19:48No, it's Angela Davis.
19:50An exploration of generational black trauma
19:52centred 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.
20:03The Birdcatcher.
20:04No, it doesn't.
20:05Pass.
20:06That's Gail Jones.
20:07Tony Cade Bambara's novel,
20:09Those Bones Are Not My Child,
20:11is a response to the disappearance and murder
20:13of more than 40 black children
20:14between 1979 and 1981
20:16in which major southern US city?
20:19The birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr.?
20:21Um, Montgomery.
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...
20:25I think...
20:26I think...
20:26I think...
20:26I think...
20:26I think...
20:27I think...
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,
20:33you're going to see a painting of a fruit.
20:36For ten points,
20:36I 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,
20:46you saw an illustration of a jackfruit
20:47by Victorian botanical artist Marianne North.
20:50For your picture bonuses,
20:51three 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.
21:01It's not like a mangosteen, is it?
21:03Is that what mangosteen is like?
21:03It does.
21:04I don't know.
21:05You just try it.
21:06It sounds fine.
21:07Mangosteen.
21:07There's an ackee.
21:08Secondly, this fruit.
21:10Is that custard apple?
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
21:21to a number of related fruits,
21:23but I needed to hear the specific fruit,
21:25which is soursop.
21:27Bad luck.
21:28This one's your last one.
21:29Have a look at this.
21:32It's not like a papaya, is it?
21:33Yeah.
21:34It could be.
21:35Papaya?
21:36No, that's a cashew.
21:37Let's start a question.
21:38In the 17th century,
21:40Nzinga Mabande was queen of the kingdoms of...
21:43Angola.
21:45Well done.
21:46Well done indeed.
21:47Three questions for you, Sheffield,
21:49on shipwrecked animals.
21:51Unsinkable Sam was a nickname given to a cat
21:53that was on board which German battleship
21:55when it was sunk during the 1941 Operation Reinerborn?
21:58Bismarck.
21:58The cat was picked up by the crew of the HMS Cossack,
22:01which would later also sink with Sam surviving
22:03a 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,
22:10the first example of what animal seen in Europe since antiquity?
22:14It was immortalised in a woodcut by Albrecht Dürer
22:16but 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 Tullea is a small dog breed named after Tolleyara,
22:26a port city in which island country?
22:28The breed is said to be descended from a group of dogs
22:30that were shipwrecked there centuries ago.
22:32I think Honeara is Micronesia.
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
22:42founded as Riverside AFC in 1899,
22:45Singers FC in 1883,
22:48Small Heath Alliance FC in 1875,
22:50and sent Marks FC...
22:53Sheffield Price.
22:54City.
22:54It is City, yes.
22:55Bad luck, Sheffield.
22:56Fraction late.
22:58Well done, Sheffield.
22:58Another set of bonuses on the theatre director Emma Rice.
23:02Rice's works at the Knee High Theatre
23:04include 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,
23:12both of which centre on an affair
23:14that begins in a railway station buffet.
23:16How is it like that as Strangers on the Train?
23:18No, no, no.
23:19That's Patricia Heisman.
23:20Private Life, is that a thing?
23:21Private Life 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,
23:33Nights at the Circus and Which Other,
23:35that 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,
23:42Nora and Dora, Chance.
23:44Nominate Dobby.
23:45Wise Children.
23:45Yes.
23:46In 2018, Rice directed The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk,
23:49a two-hander by Daniel Jameson about which artist,
23:52born in 1887 near Vitebsk, and his wife Bella?
23:55The title refers to his paintings depicting him and Bella
23:57in 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,
24:05Justice no longer takes public responsibility for the violence
24:09that is bound up with its practice.
24:11Which French thinker wrote those words in his 1975 work,
24:15Discipline at...
24:16Strathclyde Sterling.
24:17Foucault.
24:18It's Foucault, yes, indeed.
24:19Your bonuses, Strathclyde, are on Chinese words linked
24:23by the character for fire.
24:25First, considered one of the four great inventions
24:28of ancient China,
24:29what word literally translates from Chinese as fire medicine?
24:33Anyone?
24:34No.
24:36No, let me keep.
24:36Gunpowder.
24:37Yes, well done.
24:38Second, which planet of the solar system
24:40has a Chinese name that translates as fire star?
24:43It's Venus.
24:45Really?
24:46Well, 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
24:51that literally means fire vehicle?
24:54Train.
24:55Train.
24:56It is train.
24:56Well done.
24:57Let's start with the question.
24:58Featuring the world's largest vertical drop
25:00at over 4,100 feet,
25:03Kikutinkwak, or Mount Thor,
25:05is a peak in which mountain range,
25:08named after the large Canadian island
25:09on which it is primarily found?
25:12Strathclyde McHugh.
25:13Baffin?
25:14It is the Baffin Mountains.
25:15Well done.
25:16Three questions and a poem.
25:17Quote,
25:18Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
25:20or what's a heaven for?
25:22These words are from a dramatic monologue
25:23published in 1855 by which poet?
25:28Anyone?
25:29What is the language?
25:31Longfellow.
25:32No, it's Browning.
25:33Which Italian artist is the title character
25:35and narrator of the poem?
25:36His works include
25:37Madonna of the Harpies
25:38and Madonna del Sacco,
25:40both found in his native Florence?
25:42Um...
25:43Vassari.
25:45No, that was Andrea del Sato.
25:47For the poem's source material,
25:49Browning used the work
25:50of which Renaissance artist,
25:51historian and biographer,
25:52who described del Sato's work
25:54as without errors
25:55in his work,
25:56Lives of the Artists?
25:58No.
25:59Um...
26:02Vassari.
26:02That was Vassari.
26:03Okay.
26:03Let's start the question.
26:06In the international system of units,
26:08one second,
26:09the base unit of time,
26:10is formally defined
26:11in terms of the resonant frequency
26:13of which chemical...
26:15Césium.
26:16It is cesium, yes.
26:17Well done.
26:18Your bonuses, Sheffield,
26:19are on Cabinet Ministers.
26:20In each case,
26:21I'll read the names
26:22of the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
26:23Foreign Secretary,
26:24and Home Secretary
26:25in that order.
26:26All I want from you
26:27is the name of the Prime Minister
26:29when they held
26:30all those offices.
26:31First,
26:32Brad Butler,
26:33Anthony Eden,
26:33David Maxwell Fyfe.
26:35When is this?
26:36Um...
26:36Macmillan?
26:37Yeah, for Eden.
26:38No, Eden's not sure.
26:39Macmillan's after Eden, right?
26:40Oh, Churchill?
26:41Sure.
26:42Churchill?
26:42Yes.
26:43Secondly,
26:44Anthony Barber,
26:45Alec Douglas Hume,
26:46Robert Carr.
26:47Douglas Hume is like 60s.
26:49It could be put on to be like...
26:50Yeah.
26:50Macmillan?
26:51No, that was Ted Heath.
26:52Finally,
26:53Kenneth Clark,
26:54Douglas Heard,
26:54Michael Howard.
26:56No, I didn't.
26:57Oh, is it not?
26:59I was just thinking...
27:00Thatcher, yeah.
27:01Thatcher.
27:02Oh, it's after Thatcher.
27:02It's major.
27:03Bad luck.
27:04What middle initial links
27:05the authors of the following novels?
27:07The African Queen,
27:09In a Free State,
27:10The Naked Lunch,
27:11and...
27:12S.
27:14It is S.
27:14Well done.
27:15Your bonuses, Sheffield,
27:16are on literary figures.
27:18In each case,
27:18give the historic county of England
27:19that was the birthplace
27:21of the following.
27:21All three are in the Midlands.
27:23First of five points,
27:24the poet T.E. Hume,
27:26the novelist Arnold Bennett,
27:27and the 18th century essayist
27:29Samuel Johnson.
27:31Samuel Johnson,
27:32maybe?
27:33Samuel Johnson,
27:33not the dictionary.
27:34Yeah.
27:35Where he was born.
27:36Go Warwickshire.
27:37No, it's in the Midlands.
27:39Warwickshire.
27:39Warwickshire.
27:40Staffordshire.
27:41Second,
27:41the poet Wilfred Owen
27:42and the novelist Barbara Pym
27:43and Edith Pargeter,
27:44who also used the pen name
27:45Ellis Peters.
27:46And at the gong,
27:49Strathclyde,
27:49I think,
27:49she's in Shreffield,
27:50a 290.
27:54The answer to the last one
27:56was Shropshire.
27:58Oh,
27:58Strathclyde,
27:59the thing...
27:59I just think you were up
28:01against an unbelievable team
28:02in the form of their life
28:03who were incredible
28:05on the buzzers,
28:05and that was just
28:06incredibly bad luck.
28:07I'm so sorry,
28:09but it was very obvious
28:10how enormously clever you are
28:11when you got a chance
28:12to answer some questions,
28:13so well done.
28:14It's been wonderful
28:14getting to know you.
28:15Sheffield,
28:15I think you just need
28:16to try and capture that
28:17and take that form
28:18into the next stage
28:19because that will terrify
28:20everyone you're up against.
28:22I mean,
28:22290 is absolutely phenomenal
28:23and you were amazing,
28:25really,
28:25in 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 will see you again
28:31for another second round match,
28:32but until then,
28:33it is goodbye from Strathclyde.
28:34Goodbye.
28:35It's goodbye from Sheffield.
28:37Goodbye.
28:38And it's goodbye from me.
28:39Goodbye.
28:39Goodbye.
28:41APPLAUSE
28:41And it's goodbye from me.
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