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University Challenge - Season 55 Episode 21 -
LSE v Manchester
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00:00Hello and welcome to University Challenge.
00:25We're now halfway through the round of 16 in this year's competition.
00:29Darwin College Cambridge, Sheffield, Imperial and Warwick have all secured their spots in the quarterfinals.
00:35And whichever team wins this match will join them.
00:37Unlike the first round, this stage of the competition is strictly single elimination.
00:41So the losing team tonight will unfortunately be going home.
00:45This year's team from Manchester looked very much in control of their opening game against New College Oxford until the final quarter,
00:51in which New College scored 90 points and Manchester lost 15.
00:54Luckily, Captain Kai was able to right the Manchester ship last minute with their eighth and ninth correct starters of the match.
01:01Manchester answered well in that game on flags, physics and Chinese history.
01:04But they did receive the joint most five-point penalties of the teams in round one, an honour they share with their opponents tonight.
01:11Let's meet the team from Manchester for the second time.
01:13Hi, I'm Ray Power. I'm from Bangkok, Thailand, and I study film and English literature.
01:19Hi, my name's Kirstie Dixon. I'm from Morley Green in Cheshire, and I study medicine.
01:24And their captain.
01:25Hi, I'm Kai Matrick. I'm from Foy in Cornwall, and I'm studying for a PhD in AI and astrophysics.
01:30Hi, I'm Rob Faulkner. I'm from Norwich, and I'm studying physics with astrophysics.
01:34The team from the LSE are here tonight, having beaten Trinity Hall Cambridge in a high-scoring and slightly hectic heat,
01:43which featured a total of eight incorrect interruptions on starters.
01:47Trinity Hall had the better of the first half of the match, but LSE were much stronger in the second,
01:51sailing through bonus sets on ancient Roman authors, Nigerian history and geography, and elements in the halogen group.
01:57Like many teams in round one, however, they scored no points at all on the music round.
02:01Let's meet the team from the LSE once again.
02:04Hi, I'm Ryan Sharp. I'm from Oakville, Ontario, Canada, and I'm studying history and philosophy.
02:10Hi, I'm Cormac Byrne. I'm from Ireland and Canada, and I'm doing a master's in history of international relations.
02:15And their captain.
02:16Hi, I'm Andy Huff. I'm from Houston, Texas, and I'm studying international social and public policy.
02:21Hi, I'm Catherine Tan. I'm from Lexington, Massachusetts, and I'm studying anthropology and international relations.
02:26Welcome back. Very nice to see you all again. How are you feeling? Thumbs up.
02:34Let's get going, shall we? Fingers on buzzers. This is for a place in the quarterfinal.
02:38In 2024, the M Plus Museum in Hong Kong hosted the first solo retrospective of the work of which architect who had died five years before?
02:47The exhibition highlighted works including the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong,
02:50the Museum of Islamic Art in LSE Huff.
02:54Hey.
02:55I'll take that this time because Andy was fractionally first, but in future, Cormac, please wait for your name to be called.
03:02Right, your bonuses then, LSE, are three questions on theories of intelligence.
03:06In a paper of 1904, Charles Spearman first proposed the concept of a single general intelligence factor
03:13that enters into individuals' performance on all cognitive tasks.
03:16This factor is usually known by what single letter of the alphabet?
03:21Is it G? It's either G or Q.
03:24Q.
03:25I have to say G.
03:26I would go G.
03:27OK, G.
03:28Correct.
03:29Which US psychologist set out his theory of multiple intelligences in the 1983 book, Frames of Mind?
03:35He identified eight separate modalities of intelligence, including musical, kinesthetic, and interpersonal.
03:41Who did the test?
03:43What's the name of that test?
03:49I could have come up with it.
03:50Raven, maybe?
03:51What did you say?
03:52Like Raven?
03:53Like a Raven something?
03:54I'm going to go with B'nai, I think.
03:55B'nai?
03:56No, it's Howard Gardner.
03:57In an article of 1941, the psychologist Raymond Cattell introduced two contrasting terms
04:03to denote respectively the ability to reason and manipulate new information
04:07and the ability to use skills and knowledge acquired through prior learning.
04:11The former he termed fluid intelligence.
04:14What word did he use to describe the latter?
04:16I think it's static.
04:18That would be the opposite of fluid.
04:19Sure.
04:19Static?
04:20No, it's crystallized intelligence.
04:22Bad luck.
04:22This is a quote.
04:24The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be seek simplicity and
04:28distrust it.
04:30Which English thinker wrote those words in the 1920 work...
04:34LSE Hough.
04:35I'm afraid if you buzz you must answer straight away.
04:37I'll pass it over, you'll lose five points.
04:38The concept of nature.
04:40His other works include the 1898 Treatise on Universal Algebra and a collaboration with
04:45Bertrand Russell entitled...
04:46Manchester Manchwick.
04:48Whitehead.
04:48It was, Whitehead.
04:50Your bonuses, Manchester, are on the sculptor Zurab Zereteli.
04:54Zereteli is known for his monumental works, including some of the tallest statues in the
04:58world.
04:59Among these are The Birth of the New World, a 110-metre-tall sculpture of Christopher Columbus
05:04located in Arecibo on which Caribbean island?
05:08Where's Arecibo?
05:10Oh, it's in Puerto Rico.
05:11It's the telescope.
05:11Puerto Rico.
05:12Yes.
05:12Consisting of 16 pillars featuring historical figures, as well as a cross of St. Nino,
05:18Zereteli's unfinished 1985 monument is known as the Chronicle of which country?
05:23The place of his birth?
05:25He sounds...
05:25That's a very Georgian-sounding name.
05:27Yeah.
05:27Georgia?
05:28Yes.
05:29Originally entitled The Tear of Grief, a sculpture by Zereteli featuring a 12-metre metal teardrop
05:34inside a torn tower is a memorial for what event?
05:389-11.
05:38It is 9-11.
05:39Well done.
05:40Thanks for the first another start of the question.
05:42The main part of the cathedral of St. Domnius in Split, Croatia, was originally constructed
05:47as the mausoleum for which Roman emperor?
05:51LSE Sharp.
05:52Diocletian.
05:53It is.
05:53Well done.
05:54There are two questions on books set or partly set in Vienna.
05:58Letter from an Unknown Woman is a 1922 work by which Austrian author?
06:03It tells the story of a woman's sporadic encounters in Vienna with a writer whom she loves intensely
06:08but who barely remembers her from one meeting to the next.
06:11I'm going to nominate you.
06:12Nominate Bern.
06:13Zweig.
06:14Yes.
06:15Erika Kohut, an instructor at the prestigious Vienna Conservatory, is the central character
06:20in which 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek?
06:23It was adapted into a 2001 film starring Isabel Hubert as Erika.
06:27Do you know this?
06:28Is it funny?
06:30Is there something about funny games or something?
06:31These aren't like the sunrise movies or whatever?
06:35No, I don't think so.
06:36Do you have anything?
06:37Funny games.
06:38Nominate Bern.
06:39Funny games.
06:39No, it's the piano teacher.
06:41Ulrich, a mathematician who has recently returned to Vienna after time abroad, is given what sobriquet
06:46in the title of a three-volume modernist novel left unfinished on the death of its author, Robert
06:51Musel, in 1942.
06:54The Loser, maybe?
06:56Got nothing.
06:56I don't know.
06:58The Loser.
06:59The Loser?
07:00It's a wonderful book called The Man Without Qualities.
07:03Picture round now.
07:04Now, for your picture starter, you're going to see a diagram of a chess position and a
07:08map on which is marked the location after which the position is named.
07:12For ten points, I need the name shared by both.
07:16L.C. Sharp.
07:18Budapest.
07:19Yes, well done.
07:21For your picture starter, you saw the Budapest Gabbit, first played in a recorded game in Budapest
07:25in 1896.
07:27For your picture bonuses, three more diagrams of chess positions and maps showing the European
07:32locations they're named after.
07:34In each case, I need the shared name.
07:36First, this opening.
07:38We just need the location, right?
07:39Yeah.
07:40Okay, that's Zaragoza or something, right?
07:42The Catalan is a chess thing.
07:43Yeah.
07:43No, that...
07:44Vienna is a chess thing.
07:46It's a specific point, though.
07:48It's not just...
07:48Okay.
07:49Is there a Zaragoza or something?
07:50I think that's Zaragoza.
07:51Okay.
07:52Nominate Sharp.
07:53Zaragoza.
07:53Yes, well done.
07:55Secondly, this variation of the Sicilian defence.
07:59Oh, that's like The Hague or Rotterdam?
08:03Is there...
08:04Rotterdam makes more sense.
08:05Okay.
08:06Nominate Sharp.
08:07Rotterdam.
08:07That is Shevin Ingen.
08:08And lastly, this variation of the Rui Lopez?
08:13That's Riga, I think.
08:16Yeah, that's...
08:16Is that a thing?
08:17Yeah.
08:17Okay.
08:17Go Riga.
08:18Riga.
08:18Well done.
08:19It is indeed.
08:20Let's start with the question.
08:21In eukaryotic cells, origin licensing and origin firing are necessary precursors to which fundamental
08:29biological process that occurs in the S phase of the cell cycle?
08:33These steps involve the loading and activation, respectively, of DNA helicases to allow access
08:39to DNA polymerases.
08:41LSE Hough.
08:42Replication?
08:43It is indeed, yeah.
08:45Two questions for you on an anime director.
08:47The anime series Paranoia Agent, which centres on a series of apparently random assaults carried
08:52out by a young boy with a baseball bat, was created by which Japanese director?
08:56His films include Tokyo Godfathers and Millennium Actress.
09:00I don't know.
09:00I don't know.
09:00Oh.
09:03Is his name like Bon or something?
09:06Try it.
09:07Nominate, pardon?
09:08Bon?
09:08No.
09:09It's Satoshi Kon.
09:10Bad luck.
09:11Loosely based on a novel by Yoshikazu Takeuchi, which 1997 film by Kon centres on a J-pop idol
09:17who becomes a victim of stalking after she gives up her music career to become an actress?
09:22What's the name?
09:26Perfect Blue or something?
09:28Do you want me to go with that?
09:29Perfect Blue.
09:30Well done.
09:31Psychiatrist Atsuko Chiba is the main character of which 2006 science fiction film by Kon?
09:36She heads a team experimenting with a new technology that allows them to enter their patients' dreams
09:40and explore their unconscious thoughts.
09:43Is this what goes in the shadows?
09:44No, no.
09:44This is the one that Inception steals from.
09:49I forget the title.
09:51Okay.
09:53You're sorry.
09:54Ghost in the Shell.
09:55No, I think you are thinking of the right film.
09:56It's called Paprika.
09:58Bad luck.
09:59Let's start the question.
10:00In 1907, which playwright co-founded a theatre company called Intimate Theater, or the Intimate
10:05Theatre, based in a small performance base modelled on Max Reinhardt's Berlin Kammenspielhaus
10:10and designed to suit what he similarly called the chamber plays he was beginning to write?
10:14He wrote a number of such plays for the company, including The Pelican and The Ghost Sonata.
10:20Lizzie Byrne.
10:21Ibsen.
10:22No, I'm afraid you lose five points, but he's perhaps better known today for some of his
10:25earlier works, such as The Father and Miss Julie.
10:29Manchester Manchwick.
10:30Strindberg.
10:31It is Strindberg, yes.
10:33Three questions for you, Manchester, on blood glucose.
10:35Used to prevent hypoglycemia, what process in the body involves the synthesis of glucose
10:40from non-carbohydrate sources?
10:44Gluconeogenesis.
10:45The synthesis of glucose from non...
10:46From non...
10:48Gluconeogenesis.
10:49Narnie Dixon.
10:50Gluconeogenesis.
10:51Yes.
10:52A type of gluconeogenesis, what biochemical pathway is also known as the lactic acid cycle?
10:58It is named after the husband and wife Nobel laureates Getty and Carl?
11:03Non-glucose-deriven pathway.
11:05Name for people.
11:05And it's eponymous.
11:06Yeah.
11:08Do you just have any cycles that are eponymous?
11:12I'm so sorry.
11:13No, don't worry.
11:13Pass.
11:14The Cori cycle.
11:15The Cori cycle and most other instances of gluconeogenesis occur in what organ of the
11:20body?
11:21Liver.
11:22Liver.
11:22Yes, it is liver.
11:23Well done.
11:24That's right, the question.
11:25For what do the letters LT stand in the abbreviations LTP and LTV, the form of being an idea popularised
11:33by John Locke, which claims that land ownership is tied to those who utilise it.
11:37The latter, a claim associated with...
11:39LSE Hough.
11:40Labour theory.
11:41It is indeed.
11:42Well done.
11:42Your bonuses then, LSE, are on a member of the House of Habsburg.
11:47Who became king of the Romans in 1486 while his father Frederick III was Holy Roman Emperor,
11:52a title he would inherit himself in 1508?
11:55Henry IV.
11:59Frederick III.
12:00Okay.
12:00Joseph I.
12:02Anyone feel confident about Henry IV?
12:04Henry IV.
12:06No, that's Maximilian I.
12:07In 1493, Maximilian agreed the Treaty of Sonny with Charles VIII, the France, to divide
12:13the territories of the Burgundian inheritance left by which figure, who had died at the Battle
12:17of Nancy?
12:19He was the last Duke of Burgundy of the House of Valois and was the father of Maximilian's
12:24first wife, Mary.
12:26This Charles the Bold?
12:27That's a Burgundian.
12:29Charles the Bold?
12:29Yes, it is indeed.
12:31Maximilian arranged for the marriage of his and Mary's son, Philip the Handsome, to
12:34Joanna the Mad. This ensured the future Habsburg inheritance of which two polities that were
12:39ruled in personal union by Joanna's parents?
12:42Wait, which two?
12:42Yeah.
12:43So Hungary?
12:44No, one of La Loca is Spanish, so it's like Castile and Aragon or León?
12:48I think Castile and Aragon, right?
12:53Okay, Castile and Aragon.
12:54Well done, it is indeed, yes.
12:56Let's start with a question.
12:58Which strait or channel separates the islands of Oste and Navarino from Isla Grande de Tierra
13:03del Fuego. It is named after a ship that explored it...
13:06Manchester Magic.
13:08Golden Hind.
13:09No, I'm afraid you'll lose five points. A ship that explored it during an expedition
13:12of 1826 to 30 and that returned there during a notable voyage of 1831 to 36 under the
13:19captaincy of Robert Fitzroy.
13:21LSE Sharp.
13:22The Beagle Channel.
13:23It is the Beagle Channel. Your bonuses, LSE, are on the use of almonds in alcoholic beverages.
13:28Translating into English as a little bitter, what name is given to the Italian liqueur
13:32originating in the region of Saronno that may be made either from almonds or from apricot
13:37or peach kernels, which impart an almond-like flavour?
13:41Amaretto.
13:41Yes.
13:42Amaretto.
13:43Delicious.
13:43A common ingredient in Mai Tai cocktails, which sweet almond-derived syrup takes its name
13:48from the French word for barley?
13:50It's O-R-G-E.
13:52Do you want to just say that?
13:58Oh, it's like O-R-G-E-A-T. Is that a thing?
14:01I'm going to nominate you and you're going to say that.
14:03Nominate Sharp.
14:04O-R-G-E-A-T.
14:09Yes, correct. Well done.
14:10Finally, also known for its wines, which region in the south of Portugal is the origin of
14:15a notable type of bitter, armoured liqueur, specific brands of which include Amarginia?
14:21Algarve.
14:21Algarve, is that what you said?
14:22Algarve, yeah.
14:23Algarve?
14:24Yes, it is indeed.
14:25Let's start the question.
14:26A music round now.
14:27For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of popular music.
14:30For ten points, I need you to name the artist performing.
14:33I'd have to get drunk every night and talk about...
14:36Manchester Madrid.
14:37Scott Walker.
14:38It is Scott Walker.
14:39Well done.
14:40So, you just heard Scott Walker's cover of Jackie, originally performed in French by Jacques
14:44Braille.
14:45For your music bonuses, three English-language versions of pop songs originally performed
14:49in French.
14:50In each case, I need you to name the artist or group you hear performing.
14:54First, this singer.
14:56I say c'est bon.
15:00So I say c'est you.
15:03Do you mind if I nominate you?
15:04Nominate Pam?
15:05Charles Aznavour?
15:06No, that's Dean Martin.
15:07Secondly, this artist.
15:10And nothing can keep him from me.
15:13He is my destiny.
15:15I don't know.
15:16X.
15:17It's not the winner.
15:18X.
15:20Is it a city?
15:21No.
15:22I think it's just enough.
15:23It's like a woman's name.
15:25It's just number one.
15:26Do you have any idea?
15:27Oh, no.
15:28It's not number one.
15:29Is it Peggy somebody?
15:31Oh, Peggy Lee.
15:32Maybe.
15:33Peggy Lee.
15:33Peggy Lee.
15:35This is going to really hurt Kirstie.
15:37It's little Peggy March.
15:38Oh.
15:39Lastly, this group.
15:40Sounds like the sugar babes.
15:46Yeah, I was all for it.
15:49Number eight, Falkman.
15:50Sugar babes.
15:51Don't look so embarrassed about that.
15:53It is the sugar babes.
15:55Definitely sounds like them.
15:56Right, another starter question.
15:57In optics and mathematics, what seven-letter word denotes the envelope of rays reflected
16:03or refracted by a curved surface from a light source at a given point?
16:08The same word is used in chemistry to indicate that a substance is corrosive and may burn living
16:13tissue on contact, for example, in a common name for sodium hydroxide.
16:17Manchester Metroid.
16:18Caustic.
16:19It is caustic, yes.
16:20Your bonuses are on operas that feature the card game Faro.
16:24Which opera by Tchaikovsky centres on an army officer who becomes obsessed with persuading
16:29an elderly countess to reveal a secret combination of cards that once won her a fortune at Faro?
16:34It is based on a novella by Pushkin.
16:37Ace of Spades, isn't it?
16:38Or the Queen of Spades.
16:39It's Pushkin.
16:40The Queen of Spades.
16:41Queen of Spades.
16:42Yes, it is the Queen of Spades.
16:43In which opera by Massonet, based on an 18th century French novel, do the title character
16:48and her cousin persuade her lover to win money for them by playing Faro at the Hotel Transylvania?
16:53Can you name it in Massonet, please?
16:55Can you?
16:56That doesn't really matter.
16:57Okay, nice.
16:58No, that's Manon.
16:58Based on Manon Lescaux.
17:00A group of miners play Faro in the Polka Saloon in Act 1 of La Fanciulla del West, or The
17:05Girl of the Golden West, a 1910 opera by which Italian composer?
17:10It could just be Puccini.
17:12It's 1910.
17:13Yeah, Puccini.
17:14It is just Puccini, yes.
17:14Go ahead.
17:15Let's start the question.
17:16It's inhabitants addressed in the title of a letter of St. Paul.
17:20What ancient city in northern Greece was the site of a victory by Octavian and Mark Antony
17:24over Brutus and Cassius that is the scene of the final act of Shakespeare's...
17:30Manchester Metric.
17:31Philippi.
17:32Yes, Philippi.
17:32Your bonuses are on a language family.
17:35Discovered in modern-day Mongolia, the Orkhan inscriptions found on two large stone monuments
17:40erected in the 8th century CE are the oldest extant records of a language from what family?
17:48Sinai Tibetan.
17:50Yeah.
17:50Sinai family, yeah.
17:51Or Indi-European.
17:53Wait, what century did it say?
17:558th century CE.
17:56Yeah, I think.
17:58I think Sinai Tibetan.
17:59I think it's better than Indi-European.
18:00Sinai Tibetan.
18:01There's Turkic.
18:01The most aberrant of the Turkic languages, and possibly the earliest to split from the
18:06common ancestor language, what language is one of the two official languages of the
18:09Republic within the Russian Federation that borders Tatarstan to the west and whose capital
18:14is Tjeboksari?
18:16Oh, I was going to say Chechen, but that's fine.
18:20I don't know.
18:22Ah, don't worry.
18:24Um, Dr. Cestani.
18:26That is Chuvash.
18:27Which extinct Turkic literary language, once widespread across Central Asia, is the ancestor
18:33of Uzbek and Uyghur?
18:35It shares its name with a subdivision of the Mongol Empire, which was named after the second
18:39son of Genghis Khan.
18:45This is going to annoy me.
18:46It's like the second son, Genghis Khan.
18:47It's like the Ilkai as a thing, but like...
18:51Come on.
18:51Ilkai.
18:52No, it's the Chagatai.
18:54Another starter question.
18:54What German word for a common animal is also a surname shared by all of the following people?
19:00Vivian, a British explorer who led the first overland crossing of Antarctica in 1958.
19:05Klaus, a physicist convicted in 1950 of being a Soviet spy in the Manhattan Project.
19:10And Lenard.
19:11Manchester Manchewick.
19:12Fuchs.
19:12It is indeed, Fuchs.
19:14Well worked out.
19:15Three questions for you, Manchester, with five points in it.
19:17On a constellation, heart and soul are names given to a pair of emission nebulae in which
19:22constellation?
19:24This constellation also contains a distinctive W-shaped asterism.
19:27Cassiopeia.
19:28Yes.
19:29Cassiopeia encompasses IC10, the nearest starburst galaxy to our solar system.
19:33IC10 is specifically an example of a BCD galaxy.
19:37The letters BCD standing for what three-word term?
19:40My mind's going blank.
19:41BCD.
19:44I don't know.
19:45That's okay.
19:46I do.
19:47I wish I could carry half in the stairs.
19:49I shouldn't lie, to be fair.
19:51It's okay.
19:52Pass.
19:52It's blue compact dwarf.
19:55Cassiopeia also contains a supernova remnant often known by the name of which Danish astronomer
19:59who observed the supernova in 1572?
20:02He's in blue Brahe.
20:03Yeah.
20:03Brahe?
20:04Yes.
20:05Taika Brahe.
20:05Yeah.
20:06Don't start the question.
20:07Picture round.
20:08For your picture starter, you're going to see a 20th century sculpture.
20:11For 10 points, I need you to give me its artist's name.
20:16Manchester Magic.
20:17Duchamp.
20:17It is indeed, yes.
20:18For your picture starter, you saw Marcel Duchamp's Bottle Rack, one of the artworks cited by
20:23Barbara Rose in her influential essay, ABC Art, as contributing to the birth of artistic
20:28minimalism.
20:29For your picture bonuses, three more artworks discussed in Rose's essay.
20:33Five points for each artist you can name.
20:35First, this painter, whom Rose identified with, the search for the transcendent universal absolute.
20:42Oh, Malavich.
20:43Malavich.
20:43Yep.
20:44Secondly, this American artist who, according to Rose, showed that spontaneous splashes and
20:48drips could be manufactured.
20:50It doesn't look like Pollock.
20:51Yeah.
20:52Nor does it look like Twombly.
20:53I could guess a random guy.
20:55I don't think he's John.
20:56I don't think he's John.
20:57Yeah.
20:58Do you mind if I just guess a random guy?
20:59Yeah.
20:59Um, Hatz Hoffman?
21:00No, that's Rauschenberg.
21:01Oh.
21:02Lastly, this American artist whose work Rose characterises as sharp visual punning.
21:09Oh.
21:10What was the nationality?
21:11American.
21:12American.
21:12Can you be Kenneth Nolan, maybe?
21:13He's a colouring guy.
21:15What is it?
21:16Do you have anything?
21:17Kenneth Nolan is a colour-filled guy.
21:18Yeah.
21:19Yeah.
21:19All right.
21:20Kenneth Nolan?
21:21No, it's Jasper Johns.
21:22Oh, God.
21:24Let's start the question.
21:24The answer I'm looking for here is a short Japanese word.
21:27The British botanist Kathleen Drew Baker is known in Japan as Mother of the Sea and celebrated
21:34in an annual festival for research that helped revolutionise the cultivation in Japan of
21:38what edible seaweed product?
21:41It is principally...
21:41LSE Hough.
21:43Nori.
21:43It is Nori.
21:43Well done.
21:44Yeah.
21:45Three questions for you, LSE, on books found on Sight and Sound magazine's list of the best
21:50ever written about film.
21:51Andrew Sarris' The American Cinema, Directors and Directions, 1929-1968, features on the
21:57list in part for its role in popularising what theory of film that focuses on the artistic
22:02role of the director.
22:04Originating in France, it was popularised in the Anglophone world by Sarris in the 1960s.
22:09Yeah, I was thinking about you.
22:09Auteur.
22:10Yeah.
22:11Go, go, go.
22:11Auteur?
22:12Yes, auteur theory.
22:13Also featured on the list is Notes on the Cinematographer, a 1975 book by which French
22:18director of films such as A Man Escaped and Pickpocket?
22:22Bresson.
22:23Go with it.
22:24Nominate Byrne.
22:25Bresson.
22:26Yes, Robert Bresson.
22:27Finally, which filmmaker was the subject of a number of interviews conducted by Francois
22:31Truffaut and compiled into one of the books featured on the list?
22:35It begins with the two discussing some of this director's early films such as The Lodger
22:38and Blackmail.
22:39This is Hitchcock.
22:40Hitchcock.
22:41Yes, five and a half minutes to go.
22:42Which ballet by Aram Cacciatorian features the dance of the...
22:46L.A.C. Bum.
22:48Spartacus.
22:48Well done.
22:49Well done.
22:50Bonuses for you on two-word Latin terms from Roman law.
22:54In each case, I need you to give me the term from its description.
22:57First, a term meaning property that is either currently not in possession of any individual
23:01or, in some cases, is exempt entirely from ownership.
23:06Res something?
23:07Nullia?
23:08Res nullus?
23:10Nullus?
23:10Res nullus?
23:11Okay.
23:11Res nullus.
23:13I can't accept that.
23:14It's res nullius.
23:15Oh.
23:16Bad luck.
23:16Yeah.
23:16Secondly, the legal category for an individual who may be killed with impunity but may not
23:21be sacrificed in a ritual.
23:23Italian philosopher Giorgia Agamben used this phrase as the title of his 1995 book, examining
23:28its parallels to contemporary society.
23:30Homo sacca?
23:31Homo sacca?
23:32Homo something?
23:33Homo...
23:33Something?
23:34Uh...
23:35Anyone have something?
23:38Homo recidivis.
23:40I don't know.
23:40Nominate Byrne.
23:41Homo recidivis.
23:42It's Homo sacca.
23:43No.
23:44As Catherine knew, bad luck.
23:46Lastly, the male figure who held near complete legal power over his family.
23:50Potter familias?
23:51It is indeed.
23:52Well done.
23:53Let's start the question.
23:54The American actor Gina Rowlands, who died in 2024, is known for her partnership with
23:59which actor turned director?
24:01She was married to him from 19...
24:03Ellis E. Byrne.
24:04Wells.
24:05No, I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
24:06From 1954 until his death in 1989 and appeared in ten of his films, receiving Academy Award
24:13nominations for two of them, Gloria and A Woman Under the Influence.
24:17Have a punt.
24:19Can't lose any points.
24:20Manchester Faulkner.
24:21Ford.
24:21No, it's John Cassavetes.
24:23Another starter question.
24:25In his 15th century surgical treatise, Philomena, John Bradmore described...
24:29..in detail the treatment of a facial arrowhead wound to which future King of England?
24:35Manchester Manchester, Henry V.
24:37It is Henry V.
24:38Well done.
24:38Your bonuses are on cultural figures named in Cole Porter's 1934 song, Anything Goes.
24:43In each case, I need you to give me their name from a description.
24:47Which playwright and Hollywood actor arrested for obscenity in 1927 during the production of
24:51her play, Sex?
24:52Does Porter mention, following the lyric, if bare limbs you like?
24:56Do you know this?
24:56No, sorry.
24:57No, pass.
24:58Mae West.
24:58Which wealthy American family, who lend their name to a major museum of contemporary art in
25:02Manhattan's West Village, does Porter rhyme with chitneys?
25:06Oh, chitneys.
25:06Oh, all right.
25:07I was going to say Vanderbilt, but that's not right.
25:08Yeah.
25:09I was going to say Vanderbilt, but that's not right.
25:10Um, Whitney's.
25:12Yeah.
25:12Whitney's.
25:12Yes.
25:13Who does Porter refer to as Mrs R in reference to her radio show in which she discussed various
25:18aspects of her daily life in the White House?
25:20Mrs R.
25:21Mrs R.
25:21Mrs R.
25:23Nancy Reagan.
25:24Yeah.
25:24Yeah, great.
25:24In 1934, come on.
25:26That was Eleanor Roosevelt.
25:27Scores level.
25:28Another starter question.
25:29Published posthumously in 1558, what is the common one-word title given to the story collection
25:35by Marguerite de Navarre, in which a group of travellers trapped in the spa town of
25:39Corterettes share tales until a bridge with...
25:41Manchester metric.
25:42De Cameron.
25:43No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
25:44It's Bilt that allows them to leave.
25:46Inspired by Boccaccio, Marguerite originally planned for it to contain 100 stories told across
25:5110 days, though she only completed a full seven days' worth.
25:56LSE burn.
25:57Uh.
25:58No, I'm afraid if you buzz, you've got to answer straight away.
26:00The answer we're looking for is Hep Tameron.
26:02Let's start the question.
26:03Which journal of art, criticism and theory, co-founded by Rosalind Krauss and Annette Michelson,
26:09takes its one-word name from a 1928 film by Sergei Eisenstein depicting an uprising that
26:15had taken place in...
26:16Manchester metric.
26:17Temkin.
26:18No, I'm afraid you lose five points in Petrograd 11 years prior.
26:22LSE burn.
26:23Odessa.
26:24No, it's October.
26:25Another starter question.
26:26Which British tennis player completed a career Grand Slam at Wimbledon in 2024 when he defeated
26:32Martin de la Puente in the final of the Men's Wheelchair Singles Tournament?
26:37Manchester for that!
26:38Alfie Hewitt.
26:39It's correct.
26:39Your bonuses are three questions on a novel.
26:42In which novel by George Eliot does the title character marry Mira Lapidoth after discovering
26:47his Jewish identity?
26:48Daniel Dorinda.
26:49Daniel Dorinda.
26:49Yes.
26:50Gwendolyn is the widow of which man whose will disinherited her if she failed to produce
26:54a male heir?
26:55Uh...
26:56Casabon, maybe?
26:57What?
26:58Casabon?
26:58No, it's not Middle March, is it?
27:00You could say it anyway.
27:01No, I don't like that.
27:02Uh, Edward Casabon.
27:04No, it's Henley Grancourt.
27:05Dorothea Brooke also contracts an ill-advised marriage to the jealous Casabon with a similarly
27:09controlling condition of his will in which other novel by George Eliot?
27:13Middle March.
27:14It is.
27:14Now, let's start the question.
27:15In which African country are all the following UNESCO World Heritage sites located?
27:20The fortress city of Fazil Gebi, the rock-hewn churches of Lali...
27:24Manchester, Manchester!
27:25Ethiopia.
27:26Yes, it is indeed.
27:26Your bonuses are on scientific terms that begin with the same prefix.
27:30In mathematics, Viviani's theorem concerns the sum of the distances from any interior point
27:35to the sides of what type of triangle?
27:37Uh...
27:38Think about in terms of right-going, do you know?
27:40It's OK.
27:41Are we equilateral isosages?
27:43Equilateral.
27:43Yes.
27:44What term is used for a state of...
27:46And now, the Garden of the Sea of 135 and Manchester of 160.
27:55It was so tight until about two minutes to go.
27:58Guys, bad luck.
27:59You played so fantastically well and up against such a fantastic team.
28:03I'm so sorry, but it means we're going to have to say goodbye.
28:05To you and your wonderful...
28:06Who is that mascot?
28:08Felix the Beaver.
28:09Felix the Beaver.
28:09Well, Felix the Beaver's been great and so have you.
28:11So, thank you so much.
28:12It's been wonderful getting to know you.
28:13Manchester, that was a pretty animated buzzing going on at the end.
28:16Once again, I negged three times.
28:18You negged three times.
28:18Yeah, I thought you'd screwed up big time, Kai, but then you recovered with Ethiopia towards
28:22the end and nearly fell out of your chair doing so, which was a wonderful sight.
28:26We shall see you again.
28:27And I hope we'll see you again, too, for another second-round match.
28:30But until then, it is goodbye from the LSE.
28:32Goodbye.
28:33Bye.
28:33It's goodbye from Manchester.
28:34Goodbye.
28:35And it's goodbye from me.
28:36Goodbye.
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