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00:00Hello and welcome to
00:29University Challenge. We're now halfway through
00:31the round of 16 in this year's competition.
00:34Darwin College Cambridge, Sheffield,
00:36Imperial and Warwick have all secured
00:38their spots in the quarterfinals and
00:40whichever team wins this match will join
00:42them. Unlike the first round, this stage of the competition
00:44is strictly single elimination
00:45so the losing team tonight will
00:47unfortunately be going home.
00:50This year's team from Manchester looked very much
00:52in control of their opening game against New College
00:54Oxford until the final quarter
00:55in which New College scored 90 points and
00:58Manchester lost 15. Luckily,
01:00Captain Kai was able to right the Manchester
01:02ship last minute with their 8th and 9th
01:04correct starters of the match.
01:06Manchester answered well in that game on flags,
01:08physics and Chinese history but
01:10they did receive the joint most five-point
01:11penalties of the teams in round one, an honour
01:14they share with their opponents tonight.
01:16Let's meet the team from Manchester for the second
01:18time. Hi, I'm
01:20Ray Power. I'm from Bangkok, Thailand and I
01:22study film and English literature.
01:24Hi, my name's Kirsty Dixon.
01:26I'm from Morley Green in Cheshire and I
01:28study medicine. And their captain.
01:30Hi, I'm Kai Matrick. I'm from Foy in Cornwall
01:32and I'm studying for a PhD in AI and
01:34astrophysics. Hi, I'm Rob
01:36Faulkner. I'm from Norwich and I'm studying physics
01:38with astrophysics.
01:42The team from the LSE are here tonight
01:44having beaten Trinity Hall, Cambridge in a
01:46high scoring and slightly hectic heat
01:47which featured a total of eight
01:49incorrect interruptions on starters.
01:52Trinity Hall had the better of the first half
01:54of the match, but LSE were much stronger in
01:56the second, sailing through bonus sets on ancient
01:58Roman authors, Nigerian history and
02:00geography and elements in the halogen
02:02group. Like many teams in round one, however,
02:04they scored no points at all on the music
02:06round. Let's meet the team from the LSE
02:08once again. Hi,
02:10I'm Ryan Sharpe. I'm from Oklahoma, Ontario,
02:12Canada, and I'm studying history and philosophy.
02:15Hi, I'm Cormac Byrne. I'm from Ireland and Canada
02:18and I'm doing a master's in history of international relations.
02:20And their captain. Hi, I'm Andy Huff.
02:22I'm from Houston, Texas, and I'm studying international
02:25social and public policy.
02:26Hi, I'm Catherine Tan.
02:28I'm from Lexington, Massachusetts, and I'm studying
02:30anthropology and international relations.
02:34Welcome back. Very nice to see you all again.
02:36How are you feeling? Thumbs up.
02:38Let's get going, shall we? Fingers on buzzers.
02:40This is for a place in the quarter final.
02:42In 2024, the M Plus Museum in Hong Kong hosted the first solo
02:47retrospective of the work of which architect who had died
02:51five years before the exhibition highlighted works,
02:53including the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong,
02:56the Museum of Islamic Art.
02:58LSE Huff.
02:59Hey, I'll take that this time because Andy was fractionally
03:02first, but in future, Cormac, please wait for your name
03:06to be called. Right.
03:07Your bonuses then LSE are three questions on theories of
03:10intelligence. In a paper of 1904, Charles Spearman first
03:15proposed the concept of a single general intelligence
03:17factor that enters into individuals performance on all
03:20cognitive tasks.
03:22This factor is usually known by what single letter of the
03:24alphabet?
03:26Is it G?
03:27It's either G or Q.
03:29Q?
03:30I've said G.
03:32OK, G.
03:33Correct.
03:34Which US psychologist set out his theory of multiple
03:36intelligences in the 1983 book, Frames of Mind?
03:40He identified eight separate modalities of intelligence,
03:42including musical, kinesthetic, and interpersonal.
03:46Who did the test?
03:50What's the name of that test?
03:54I'm not going to come up with it.
03:55Raven, maybe?
03:56What did you say?
03:56Like Raven?
03:58Like a Raven something?
03:59I'm going to go with Benet, I think.
04:00Benet?
04:01No, it's Howard Gardner.
04:02In an article of 1941, the psychologist Raymond Cattell
04:06introduced two contrasting terms to denote respectively the
04:10ability to reason and manipulate new information and the
04:13ability to use skills and knowledge acquired through prior
04:15learning.
04:16The former he termed fluid intelligence.
04:19What word did he use to describe the latter?
04:21I think it's static.
04:23That would be the opposite of fluid.
04:24Sure.
04:24Static?
04:25No, it's crystallised intelligence.
04:27Bad luck.
04:28This is a quote.
04:28The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be
04:32seek simplicity and distrust it.
04:34Which English thinker wrote those words in the 1920 work that...
04:39LSE Hough.
04:40I'm afraid if you buzz, you must answer straight away.
04:42I'll pass it over, you'll lose five points.
04:43The concept of nature.
04:45His other works include the 1898 Treatise on Universal Algebra
04:49and a collaboration with Bertrand Russell entitled...
04:51Manchester Manchwick.
04:52Whitehead.
04:53It was Whitehead.
04:55Your bonuses, Manchester, are on the sculptor Zurab Zereteli.
04:59Zereteli is known for his monumental works, including some of the
05:02tallest statues in the world.
05:04Among these are The Birth of the New World, a 110-metre-tall
05:07sculpture of Christopher Columbus located in Arecibo on which
05:11Caribbean island?
05:13Where's Arecibo?
05:15Oh, it's in Puerto Rico.
05:16It's the telescope.
05:16Puerto Rico.
05:17Yes.
05:18Consisting of 16 pillars featuring historical figures as well as
05:21a cross of St Nino, Zereteli's unfinished 1985 monument is known
05:26as the Chronicle of which country?
05:28The place of his birth?
05:30He sounds...
05:30That's a very Georgian-sounding name.
05:31Georgia?
05:33Yes.
05:34Originally entitled The Tear of Grief, a sculpture by Zereteli featuring
05:38a 12-metre-metal teardrop inside a torn tower is a memorial for
05:42what event?
05:429-11.
05:43It is 9-11.
05:44Well done.
05:45Think of us another starting question.
05:47The main part of the Cathedral of St Domnius in Split, Croatia,
05:51was originally constructed as the mausoleum for which Roman emperor?
05:56L.C. Sharp.
05:57Diocletian.
05:57It is.
05:58Well done.
05:58There are three questions on books set or partly set in Vienna.
06:03Letter from an Unknown Woman is a 1922 work by which Austrian author?
06:08It tells the story of a woman's sporadic encounters in Vienna with a writer whom she
06:12loves intensely but who barely remembers her from one meeting to the next.
06:16I'm going to nominate you.
06:17Nominate Bern?
06:18Zweig?
06:19Yes.
06:20Erika Kohut, an instructor at the prestigious Vienna Conservatory,
06:24is the central character in which 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek?
06:28It was adapted into a 2001 film starring Isabel Hubert as Erika.
06:32Do you know this?
06:34Um, is it funny?
06:35Was there something about funny games or something?
06:36These aren't like the, like, sunrise movies or whatever?
06:40No, I don't think so.
06:41Do you have anything?
06:42Funny games.
06:43Nominate Bern?
06:44Funny games?
06:44No, it's the piano teacher.
06:46Ulrich, a mathematician who has recently returned to Vienna after time abroad,
06:50is given what sobriquet in the title of a three-volume modernist novel
06:54left unfinished on the death of its author, Robert Musel, in 1942.
06:59The loser, maybe?
07:01Got nothing, I don't know.
07:02The loser.
07:04The loser.
07:05It's a wonderful book called The Man Without Qualities.
07:08Picture round now.
07:09For your picture starter, you're going to see a diagram of a chess position
07:12and a map on which is marked the location after which the position is named.
07:17For ten points, I need the name shared by both.
07:21L.C. Sharp.
07:23Budapest.
07:24Yes, well done.
07:26For your picture starter, you saw the Budapest Gabit,
07:28first played in a recorded game in Budapest in 1896.
07:31For your picture bonuses, three more diagrams of chess positions
07:35and maps showing the European locations they're named after.
07:39In each case, I need the shared name.
07:41First, this opening.
07:43We just need the location, right?
07:44Yeah.
07:44Okay, that's Zaragoza or something, right?
07:47The Catalan is a chess thing.
07:48Yeah.
07:48No, that's...
07:49Vienna is a chess thing.
07:51It's a specific point, though.
07:53It's not just...
07:53Okay.
07:54Is there a Zaragoza or something?
07:55I think that's Zaragoza.
07:56Okay.
07:57Nominate Sharp.
07:58Zaragoza.
07:58Yes, well done.
08:00Secondly, this variation of the Sicilian defence.
08:04Oh, that's, like, The Hague or Rotterdam.
08:08Is there...
08:08I think Rotterdam makes more sense.
08:10Okay.
08:11Nominate Sharp.
08:12Rotterdam.
08:12No, no, it's Sheviningen.
08:13And lastly, this variation of the Rui Lopez.
08:18That's...
08:19Riga, I think?
08:20Yeah, that's...
08:21Is that a thing?
08:22Yeah.
08:22Okay, go Riga.
08:23Riga.
08:23Well done.
08:24It is indeed.
08:25Let's start with a question.
08:26In eukaryotic cells,
08:28origin licensing and origin firing
08:30are necessary precursors
08:32to which fundamental biological process
08:35that occurs in the S phase of the cell cycle?
08:38These steps involve the loading and activation,
08:41respectively, of DNA helicases
08:43to allow access to DNA polymerases.
08:46LSE Hough.
08:47Replication?
08:48It is indeed, yeah.
08:50With three questions for you on an anime director.
08:52The anime series Paranoia Agent,
08:54which centers on a series of apparently random assaults
08:56carried out by a young boy with a baseball bat,
08:58was created by which Japanese director?
09:01His films include Tokyo Godfathers
09:03and Millennium Actress?
09:05I don't know.
09:05I don't know.
09:05Oh, uh...
09:06Is his name like, uh, Bon or something?
09:11Try it.
09:12Nominate Bon?
09:13Bon?
09:13No, it's Satoshi Kon.
09:15Bad luck.
09:16Loosely based on a novel by Yoshikazu Takeuchi,
09:19which 1997 film by Kon
09:21centers on a J-pop idol
09:22who becomes a victim of stalking
09:24after she gives up her music career
09:26to become an actress.
09:28What's the name?
09:29Purple in the name.
09:31Perfect Blue.
09:32Do you want me to go with that?
09:34Perfect Blue.
09:35Well done.
09:36Psychiatrist Atsuko Chiba
09:37is the main character
09:38of which 2006 science fiction film by Kon?
09:41She heads a team experimenting with a new technology
09:43that allows them to enter their patients' dreams
09:45and explore their unconscious thoughts.
09:47Is this where Ghost in the Shell is?
09:49No, no.
09:49This is the one that, um...
09:52Uh...
09:53Inception steals from.
09:55I forget the title.
09:56Okay.
09:58You're sorry.
09:59Uh, Ghost in the Shell.
10:00No, I think you are thinking of the right film.
10:01It's called Paprika.
10:03Bad luck.
10:04Let's start a question.
10:05In 1907, which playwright co-founded a theatre company
10:08called Intima Theatern, or The Intimate Theatre,
10:11based in a small performance base
10:12modelled on Max Reinhardt's Berlin Kammenspielhaus
10:15and designed to suit what he similarly called
10:17the chamber plays he was beginning to write?
10:20He wrote a number of such plays for the company,
10:22including The Pelican and The Ghost Sonata.
10:25Elissi Byrne.
10:26Ibsen.
10:27No, I'm afraid you'll lose five points,
10:28but is perhaps better known today
10:29for some of his earlier works,
10:31such as The Father and Miss Julie.
10:33Manchester Manchwick.
10:35Strindberg.
10:36It is Strindberg, yes.
10:38Two questions for you, Manchester, on blood glucose.
10:40Used to prevent hypoglycemia,
10:42what process in the body involves the synthesis of glucose
10:45from non-carbohydrate sources?
10:49Gluconeogenesis?
10:50The synthesis of glucose from non...
10:51From non...
10:52Gluconeogenesis.
10:54Uh, normally Dixon.
10:55Gluconeogenesis?
10:56Yes.
10:57A type of gluconeogenesis,
10:58what biochemical pathway is also known as the lactic acid cycle?
11:02It is named after the husband and wife Nobel laureates,
11:05Getty and Carl?
11:08Non-glucose-deriven pathway.
11:10Name for people.
11:10And it's eponymous.
11:11Yeah.
11:13Um...
11:13Do you just have any cycles that are eponymous?
11:17I'm so sorry.
11:18Right, pass.
11:19It's the Corey cycle.
11:20The Corey cycle and most other instances of gluconeogenesis
11:24occur in what organ of the body?
11:26It's the liver.
11:27Liver.
11:27Yes, it is liver.
11:28Well done.
11:29Let's start with the question.
11:30For what do the letters LT stand in the abbreviations LTP and LTV,
11:36the form of being an idea popularised by John Locke,
11:39which claims that land ownership is tied to those who utilise it?
11:42The latter?
11:43A claim associated with...
11:44LSE Hough?
11:45Labour theory?
11:46It is indeed.
11:47Well done.
11:48Your bonuses then, LSE, are on a member of the House of Habsburg.
11:52Who became king of the Romans in 1486,
11:55while his father Frederick III was Holy Roman Emperor,
11:57a title he would inherit himself in 1508?
12:02I...
12:03I don't know.
12:04Frederick...
12:05Okay.
12:05Joseph I...
12:07Anyone feel confident about Henry IV?
12:09Henry IV?
12:11No, that's Maximilian I.
12:12In 1493, Maximilian agreed the Treaty of Sonny with Charles VIII of France
12:17to divide the territories of the Burgundian inheritance
12:20left by which figure, who had died at the Battle of Nancy?
12:24He was the last Duke of Burgundy of the House of Valois
12:27and was the father of Maximilian's first wife, Mary.
12:31This Charles the Bold?
12:32That's a Burgundian.
12:34Charles the Bold?
12:34Yes, it is indeed.
12:36Maximilian arranged for the marriage of his and Mary's son,
12:38Philip the Handsome, to Joanna the Mad.
12:40This ensured the future Habsburg inheritance
12:42of which two polities that were ruled in personal union
12:45by Joanna's parents?
12:47Which two?
12:47Yeah.
12:48So Hungary?
12:49No, one of La Loca is Spanish,
12:50so it's like Castile and Aragon or Leon?
12:53I think...
12:53I think Castile and Aragon, right?
12:58Okay, Castile and Aragon.
12:59Well done.
13:00It is indeed, yes.
13:01Let's start with a question.
13:03Which strait or channel separates the islands of Oste and Navarino
13:06from Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego?
13:09It is named after a ship that explored...
13:11Manchester Magic.
13:13Golden Hind.
13:14No, I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
13:16A ship that explored it during an expedition of 1826 to 30
13:19and that returned there during a notable voyage of 1831 to 36
13:23under the captaincy of Robert Fitzroy.
13:26LSE Sharp.
13:27The Beagle Channel.
13:28It is the Beagle Channel.
13:29Your bonuses, LSE, are on the use of almonds in alcoholic beverages.
13:33Translating into English as a little bitter,
13:35what name is given to the Italian liqueur
13:37originating in the region of Saronno
13:39that may be made either from almonds
13:41or from apricot or peach kernels
13:43which impart an almond-like flavour?
13:46Amaretto?
13:46Yeah, sure.
13:47Amaretto.
13:48Delicious.
13:48A common ingredient in Mai Tai cocktails,
13:50which sweet almond-derived syrup
13:52takes its name from the French word for barley?
13:55So it's O-R-G-E.
13:57Do you want to just say that?
14:03Oh, it's like O-R-G-E-A-T.
14:05Is that a thing?
14:06I'm going to nominate you and you're going to say that.
14:08Nominate Sharp.
14:10O-R-G-E-A-T.
14:14Yes, correct.
14:14Well done.
14:15Finally, also known for its wines,
14:17which region in the south of Portugal
14:19is the origin of a notable type of bitter almond liqueur,
14:22specific brands of which include Amarginia?
14:25Algarve, is that what you said?
14:27Algarve, yeah.
14:28Algarve?
14:29Yes, it is indeed.
14:30First time, a music round now.
14:32For your music starter,
14:33you're going to hear a piece of popular music.
14:35For ten points, I need you to name the artist performing.
14:38I'd have to get drunk every night and talk about...
14:41Manchester Madrid.
14:42Scott Walker.
14:43It is Scott Walker.
14:44Well done.
14:45So you just heard Scott Walker's cover of Jackie,
14:48originally performed in French by Jacques Braille.
14:50For your music bonuses,
14:51three English-language versions of pop songs
14:53originally performed in French.
14:55In each case,
14:56I need you to name the artist or group you hear performing.
14:59First, this singer.
15:01I say c'est bon.
15:04I say c'est bon.
15:05So I say c'est bon.
15:06What's that?
15:07Charles Aznavour.
15:08Do you mind if I know what I do?
15:09I know what I have.
15:10Charles Aznavour?
15:11No, that's Dean Martin.
15:13Secondly, this artist.
15:14This is going to really hurt Kirstie.
15:41It's Little Peggy March.
15:43Oh!
15:43Bad luck.
15:44Lastly, this group.
15:50Sounds like the sugar babes.
15:51Yeah, I was going for it.
15:54Sugar babes.
15:56Don't look so embarrassed about that.
15:58It is the sugar babes.
16:00Definitely sounds like them.
16:01Right, now let's start the question.
16:02In optics and mathematics,
16:04what seven-letter word denotes the envelope of rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface
16:10from a light source at a given point?
16:13The same word is used in chemistry to indicate that a substance is corrosive
16:16and may burn living tissue on contact.
16:19For example, in a common name for sodium hydroxide.
16:22Manchester Metroid.
16:23Caustic.
16:24It is caustic, yes.
16:25The bonuses are on operas that feature the card game Faro.
16:30Which opera by Tchaikovsky centres on an army officer who becomes obsessed with persuading
16:34an elderly countess to reveal a secret combination of cards that once won her a fortune at Faro?
16:39It is based on a novella by Pushkin.
16:42Ace of Spades, isn't it?
16:43Or the Queen of Spades.
16:44It's Pushkin, yeah.
16:45The Queen of Spades.
16:46Queen of Spades.
16:47Yes, it is the Queen of Spades.
16:48In which opera by Massanet, based on an 18th century French novel, do the title character
16:53and her cousin persuade her lover to win money for them by playing Faro at the Hotel Transylvania?
16:59Can you name any Massanet?
17:00Yes.
17:00Can you?
17:01That's a really bad thing.
17:02Okay, pass.
17:02No, that's Manon, based on Manon Lescaux.
17:05A group of minors play Faro in the polka saloon in Act 1 of La Fanciulla del West,
17:10or The Girl of the Golden West, a 1910 opera by which Italian composer?
17:15It could just be Puccini.
17:17It's 1910.
17:18Yeah, Puccini.
17:18It is just Puccini, yes, go ahead.
17:20I'll start the question.
17:21Its inhabitants addressed in the title of a letter of St Paul.
17:24What ancient city in northern Greece was the site of a victory by Octavian and Mark Antony
17:29over Brutus and Cassius that is the scene of the final act of Shakespeare's...
17:35Philopi.
17:37Yes, Philopi.
17:37Your bonuses are on a language family.
17:40Discovered in modern-day Mongolia, the Orkon inscriptions found on two large stone monuments
17:45erected in the 8th century CE are the oldest extant records of a language from what family?
17:53Sinod Tibetan.
17:55Yeah.
17:55Sinod family, yeah.
17:56Or India-European.
17:58Wait, what century did it say?
17:598C?
18:01Yeah, I think.
18:03I think Sinod Tibetan.
18:04I think it's better than India.
18:05Sinod Tibetan.
18:06There's Turkic.
18:06The most aberrant of the Turkic languages and possibly the earliest to split from the
18:11common ancestor language.
18:12What language is one of the two official languages of the Republic within the Russian Federation
18:16that borders Tatarstan to the west and whose capital is Tjeboksari?
18:20Oh, I was going to say Chechen, but that's fine.
18:25I don't know.
18:27Ah, I don't know.
18:30Dark Chistani.
18:31That is ChuvaÅŸ.
18:32Which extinct Turkic literary language, once widespread across Central Asia, is the ancestor
18:38of Uzbek and Uyghur?
18:40It shares its name with a subdivision of the Mongol Empire, which was named after the second son
18:44of Genghis Khan.
18:45Oh, this is going to annoy me.
18:51It looks like the second son, Genghis Khan.
18:54It's like the Ilkati is a thing.
18:55Come on.
18:56Ilk.
18:57No, it's the Chagatai.
18:58Another starter question.
18:59What German word for a common animal is also a surname shared by all of the following people?
19:05Vivian, a British explorer who led the first overland crossing of Antarctica in 1958.
19:10Klaus, a physicist convicted in 1950 of being a Soviet spy in the Manhattan Project.
19:15And Lenard.
19:16Manchester, Mandwick.
19:17Fuchs.
19:18It is indeed Fuchs.
19:19Well worked out.
19:20Three questions for you, Manchester, with five points in it.
19:22On a constellation.
19:23Heart and soul are names given to a pair of emission nebulae in which constellation?
19:28This constellation also contains a distinctive W-shaped asterism.
19:32Cassiopeia.
19:32Cassiopeia.
19:33Cassiopeia.
19:33Cassiopeia.
19:33Yes.
19:33Cassiopeia encompasses IC10, the nearest starburst galaxy to our solar system.
19:38IC10 is specifically an example of a BCD galaxy.
19:42The letters BCD standing for what three-word term?
19:45My mind's going like...
19:47BCD.
19:47Oh, I don't know.
19:50That's okay.
19:51I do.
19:51I wish I could carry half in the stairs.
19:54I didn't want to be fair.
19:56It's okay.
19:57Pass.
19:57It's blue compact dwarf.
20:00Cassiopeia also contains a supernova remnant often known by the name of which Danish astronomer
20:04who observed the supernova in 1572?
20:07He's going to be Brahe.
20:08Yeah.
20:08Brahe?
20:09Yes.
20:10Taika Brahe.
20:10Yeah.
20:11Don't start the question.
20:12Picture round.
20:12For your picture starter, you're going to see a 20th century sculpture.
20:16For 10 points, I need you to give me its artist's name.
20:21Manchester metric.
20:22Duchamp.
20:22It is indeed, yes.
20:24For your picture starter, you saw Marcel Duchamp's Bottle Rack, one of the artworks cited by
20:28Barbara Rose in her influential essay ABC Art, as contributing to the birth of artistic minimalism.
20:34For your picture bonuses, three more artworks discussed in Rose's essay.
20:38Five points for each artist you can name.
20:40First, this painter, whom Rose identified with the search for the transcendent universal
20:45absolute.
20:47Oh, Malavich.
20:48Malavich.
20:48Yep.
20:49Secondly, this American artist who, according to Rose, showed that spontaneous splashes and
20:53drips could be manufactured.
20:55It doesn't look like Pollock.
20:56Yeah.
20:57Nor does it look like Twombly.
20:58I could guess a random guy.
21:00I don't think it's John.
21:01I don't think it's John there.
21:02Yeah.
21:03Do you mind if I just guess a random guy?
21:04Yeah.
21:04Um, Hatz Hoffman?
21:05No, that's Rauschenberg.
21:06Oh.
21:07Lastly, this American artist whose work Rose characterises as sharp visual punning.
21:14Oh.
21:15What was the nationality?
21:16American.
21:17American.
21:17Kenneth Nolan, maybe?
21:18He's a colour...
21:19What is it?
21:20Do you have anything?
21:22Kenneth Nolan is a colour-filled guy.
21:23Yeah.
21:24Yeah.
21:24All right.
21:25Kenneth Nolan?
21:26No, it's Jasper Johns.
21:27Let's start the question.
21:29The answer I'm looking for here is a short Japanese word.
21:33The British botanist Kathleen Drew Baker is known in Japan as Mother of the Sea and celebrated
21:39in an annual festival for research that helped revolutionise the cultivation in Japan of
21:43what edible seaweed product?
21:45It is principally...
21:46LSE Hough.
21:47Nori.
21:48It is Nori.
21:48Well done.
21:49Yeah.
21:50Three questions for you, LSE, on books found on Sight and Sound magazine's list of the
21:54best ever written about film.
21:56Andrew Sarris' The American Cinema, Directors and Directions, 1929-1968, features on the
22:02list in part for its role in popularising what theory of film that focuses on the artistic
22:07role of the director.
22:09Originating in France, it was popularised in the Anglophone world by Sarris in the 1960s.
22:14Yeah, I was thinking about you.
22:14Auteur.
22:15Yeah.
22:16Go, go, go.
22:16Auteur?
22:17Yes, auteur theory.
22:18Also featured on the list is Notes on the Cinematographer, a 1975 book by which French
22:23director of films such as A Man Escaped and Pickpocket?
22:27The Bresson.
22:28Go with it.
22:29Nominate Byrne.
22:30Bresson.
22:31Yes, Robert Bresson.
22:32Finally, which filmmaker was the subject of a number of interviews conducted by Francois
22:36Truffaut and compiled into one of the books featured on the list?
22:39It begins with the two discussing some of this director's early films such as The Lodger
22:43and Blackmail.
22:44This is Hitchcock.
22:45Hitchcock.
22:46Yes, five and a half minutes to go.
22:47Which ballet by Aram Kachaturian features the dance of the...
22:51LSE Bun.
22:52Spartacus.
22:53Well done.
22:54Well done.
22:55Bonuses for you on two-word Latin terms from Roman law.
22:59In each case, I need you to give me the term from its description.
23:02First, a term meaning property that is either currently not in possession of any individual
23:06or, in some cases, is exempt entirely from ownership.
23:11Res something?
23:12Nullia?
23:13Res nullus?
23:14Nullus?
23:15Res nullus?
23:16Okay.
23:16Res nullus?
23:18I can't accept that.
23:19It's res nullius.
23:20Oh.
23:21Bad luck.
23:21Secondly, the legal category for an individual who may be killed with impunity but may not
23:26be sacrificed in a ritual.
23:28Italian philosopher Giorgia Agamben used this phrase as the title of his 1995 book, examining
23:33its parallels to contemporary society.
23:35Homo sacer?
23:37Homo something?
23:42Anyone have something?
23:43Homo recidivis.
23:45Nominate Byrne.
23:46Homo recidivis.
23:47It's Homo sacer.
23:48As Catherine knew.
23:50Bad luck.
23:51Lastly, the male figure who held near complete legal power over his family.
23:55Potter familias.
23:56It is indeed.
23:57Well done.
23:57Let's start the question.
23:59The American actor Gina Rowlands, who died in 2024, is known for her partnership with
24:04which actor turned director.
24:06She was married to him from 19...
24:08Welles.
24:10No, I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
24:11From 1954 until his death in 1989 and appeared in 10 of his films, receiving Academy Award nominations
24:18for two of them, Gloria and a woman under the influence.
24:22Have a punt.
24:23Can't lose any point.
24:25Manchester Faulkner.
24:26Ford.
24:26No, it's John Cassavetes.
24:28Another starter question.
24:29In his 15th century surgical treatise, Philomena, John Bradmore describes in detail the treatment
24:35of a facial arrowhead wound to which future King of England?
24:40Manchester, Manchester, Henry V.
24:42It is Henry V.
24:43Well done.
24:43Your bonuses are on cultural figures named in Cole Porter's 1934 song, Anything Goes.
24:48In each case, I need you to give me their name from a description.
24:52Which playwright and Hollywood actor arrested for obscenity in 1927 during the production
24:56of her play, Sex, does Porter mention following the lyric, If bare limbs you like?
25:01Do you know this?
25:01No, sorry.
25:02No, pass.
25:03Mae West.
25:03Which wealthy American family who lend their name to a major museum of contemporary art in
25:07Manhattan's West Village, does Porter rhyme with Chitneys?
25:11Oh, Chitneys.
25:11I was going to say Vanderbilt, but that doesn't rhyme.
25:13Yeah.
25:14I was going to say Vanderbilt, but that doesn't rhyme.
25:15Um, Whitney's.
25:17Yeah.
25:17Whitney's.
25:17Yes.
25:18Who does Porter refer to as Mrs R in reference to her radio show in which she discussed various
25:23aspects of her daily life in the White House?
25:25Mrs R, Mrs R, Mrs R, oh.
25:28Nancy Reagan.
25:28Yeah, Nancy Reagan.
25:29In 1934, come on, that was Eleanor Roosevelt.
25:32Scores level.
25:33Another starting question.
25:34Published posthumously in 1558, what is the common one-word title given to the story
25:40collection by Marguerite de Navarre in which a group of travellers trapped in the spa town
25:44of Courterettes share tales until they bridge...
25:46Manchester Magic.
25:47De Cameron.
25:48No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
25:49It's built that allows them to leave.
25:51Inspired by Boccaccio, Marguerite originally planned for it to contain 100 stories.
25:55stories told across 10 days, though she only completed a full seven days' worth.
26:01L.C.
26:01Burn.
26:02Uh, no, I'm afraid if you buzz, you've got to answer straight away.
26:05The answer we're looking for is Hep Tameron.
26:07Let's start the question.
26:09Which journal of art, criticism and theory, co-founded by Rosalind Krauss and Annette Michelson,
26:14takes its one-word name from a 1928 film by Sergei Eisenstein depicting an uprising that
26:19had taken place in...
26:21Manchester Magic.
26:22Tamkin.
26:22No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
26:24In Petrograd, 11 years prior.
26:26L.C. Burn.
26:28Odessa.
26:29No, it's October.
26:30Another starter question.
26:31Which British tennis player completed a career Grand Slam at Wimbledon in 2024 when he defeated
26:37Martin de la Puente in the final of the Men's Wheelchair Singles Tournament?
26:42Alfie Hewitt.
26:43Alfie Hewitt.
26:44It's correct.
26:44Your bonuses are three questions on a novel.
26:47In which novel by George Eliot does the title character marry Meera Lapidoth after discovering
26:52his Jewish identity?
26:53Daniel Dorinda.
26:54Daniel Dorinda.
26:54Yes.
26:55Gwendolyn is the widow of which man whose will disinherited her if she failed to produce
26:59a male heir?
27:00Uh, Casabon, maybe?
27:02What?
27:03Casabon?
27:03No, it's not Middle March, is it?
27:05You could say it, right?
27:06No, I don't like that.
27:07Uh, Edward Casabon.
27:09No, it's Henry Grandcourt.
27:10Dorothea Brooke also contracts an ill-advised marriage to the jealous Casabon, with a similarly
27:14controlling condition of his will, in which other novel by George Eliot?
27:18Middle March.
27:19It is.
27:19Now to start the question.
27:20In which African country are all the following UNESCO World Heritage sites located?
27:25The fortress city of Fazil Gebi, the rock-hewn churches of Lali...
27:29Manchester, Manchester!
27:30Ethiopia.
27:31Yes, it is indeed.
27:31Your bonuses are on scientific terms that begin with the same prefix.
27:35In mathematics, Viviani's theorem concerns the sum of the distances from any interior point
27:39to the sides of what type of triangle?
27:42Uh...
27:43I think it's been quite in terms of, like, going to do it.
27:45It's OK.
27:46It'll be equilateral isosages.
27:47Equilateral.
27:48Yes.
27:49What term is used for a state of...
27:51And now the Gardeners of 135 and Manchester have 160.
28:00It was so tight until about two minutes to go.
28:03Guys, bad luck.
28:04You played so fantastically well and up against such a fantastic team.
28:07I'm so sorry, but it means we're going to have to say goodbye to you and you're wonderful.
28:11Who is that mascot?
28:11Uh, Felix the Beaver.
28:14Felix the Beaver.
28:14Well, Felix the Beaver's been great and so have you.
28:16So thank you so much.
28:17It's been wonderful getting to know you.
28:18Manchester, that was a pretty animated buzzing going on at the end.
28:21Once again, I next three times.
28:23You next three times.
28:23Yeah, I thought you'd screwed up big time, Kai, but then you recovered with Ethiopia towards
28:27the end and nearly fell out of your chair doing so, which is a wonderful sight.
28:31We shall see you again.
28:32And I hope we'll see you again, too, for another second round match.
28:34But until then, it is goodbye from the LSE.
28:37Goodbye.
28:38It's goodbye from Manchester.
28:39Goodbye.
28:40And it's goodbye from me.
28:41Goodbye.
28:43Goodbye.
28:45Goodbye.
28:45Goodbye.
28:46Goodbye.
28:47Goodbye.
28:49Goodbye.
28:49Goodbye.
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