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00:00Hello and welcome to University
00:29Challenge, where another two teams are about to play their first quarterfinal. Whatever
00:34happens in tonight's match, they'll both need to come back and play again. The format
00:37of this round means teams have to win twice to qualify for the semis and can lose once
00:41without being eliminated. This year's team from Darwin College, Cambridge, scraped through
00:45the first round of the competition with a last gasp five-point win over Green Templeton
00:49College, Oxford. In the second round, however, they knocked out one of the highest scoring
00:53teams of round one, Morden College, Oxford, and made it look almost easy. They answered
00:58very well in that game on chemistry, medicine, religion, and video games, but less well
01:02on classical music. And their average score across both their matches has been just over
01:07160 points. Let's meet the team from Darwin for the third time. Hi, I'm Louis Strachan,
01:13I'm from North Lanarkshire, and I'm doing a PhD in Parasite Biology. Hello, my name is
01:18Ruth Newver-Hurtig, I'm from Cork in Ireland, and I study Education. And their captain. Hello,
01:23I'm Louis Cameron, I'm from London, and I'm doing a PhD in English. Hi, my name's Jonathan
01:28White, I'm from Buckinghamshire, I'm studying for a PhD in Geography.
01:32APPLAUSE
01:34This year's team from Sheffield also came close to leaving the competition in round
01:38one after throwing away a 115-point lead against Warwick in their opening game. Luckily for
01:43them, their final score was high enough to earn them a reperchage match against New College, Oxford,
01:48which they won. And in round two, they beat Strathclyde emphatically to secure their spot in this
01:53quarter-final stage. On the evidence of those three matches, their main strengths appear to
01:57be geography, history and fine art, and their average score per game is about 210. Let's
02:02meet the team from Sheffield once again. Hi, I'm Rhys Lewis, I'm from Haverford West in
02:07Pembrokeshire, and I'm studying maths. Hi, I'm Dhani Nassisi, I'm from Alexandria,
02:11Egypt, and I study engineering. And their captain. Hi, I'm Jacob Price, I'm from
02:15Hetherset in Norfolk, and I study astrophysics. Hi, I'm Isabelle Dobby, I'm from Haringey in
02:19North London, and I study English literature.
02:22APPLAUSE
02:25Nice of you to applaud each other. Very warm welcome back. The good news is if you
02:28lose, you do get to come back, but try to win, I think, is the general principle.
02:32All right, feeling ready? Fingers on buzzers. Here's your starter for ten. Good luck.
02:36What given name is shared by all the following 19th century French artists? A leading
02:42symbolist painter, whose works include Oedipus and the Sphinx, and Jupiter and Semele. An
02:47artist associated with the Impressionists, but whose style was often more realist, as in
02:51works such as The Floor Scrapers. An artist principally known as an engraver and...
02:56Sheffield Dobby. Gustave. Yes, Gustave is correct. It's in Moro, Kaibot and Doré.
03:01Your bonuses, Sheffield, are three questions on a writer. Which English poet wrote the
03:061857 verse novel Aurora Lee, which tells the story of a young woman's attempts to
03:11educate herself and pursue a literary career? The poet viewed the work as expressing her
03:15quote, highest convictions upon life and art. Yeah. Nominate Dobby. Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
03:21Yes. Which American writer dedicated an 1845 collection of poems to Barrett Browning, calling
03:27her the noblest of her sex? The complex metre and rhyme scheme of its title poem are widely
03:32regarded as influenced by her Lady Geraldine's courtship. American woman poet?
03:38Is it Bishop American? No, that's early... Oh, yeah. Actually, was it 1945?
03:4418. 18. No, that's too... Not a clue. No. Sure.
03:49Bishop. No, it's Edgar Allan Poe, the poem's The Ravens. Oh. Containing some of her best-known
03:54poems, the sequence of 44 love sonnets by Barrett Browning, published in 1850, has the title
03:59Sonnets from the what language? Portuguese, yeah. Despite none of them being translations
04:03from this or any language? Portuguese. Portuguese is correct. Let's start the question.
04:07Cis-Lythania and Trans-Lythania were informal names given to the two primary
04:12divisions of which historical state? In reference to their...
04:16Sheffield Price. Austria-Hungary. It is Austria-Hungary, yes. Your bonus is, Sheffield,
04:19and three questions on a political figure. After being arrested and imprisoned for guerrilla
04:24activity against Brazil's military dictatorship in 1970, which politician went on to serve
04:30in the first cabinet of Lula da Silva before becoming the first woman to be elected president
04:34of Brazil? Is it Rousseff? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Rousseff? Yes, Dilma Rousseff. Rousseff was later
04:40implicated in a scandal involving the misallocation of government funds known
04:44as Operation What. The investigation into the scandal was mired in controversy
04:48and it is claimed that some of the allegations against her were
04:50fabricated or exaggerated? It brings a bow. Yeah.
04:52No, no, no. No, no, no. No.
04:55São Paulo?
04:56Operation Car Wash. Operation Car Wash revolved around a probe into what state-owned
05:01oil company of which Rousseff had previously served as Chair? What was that? Yeah.
05:05What was that? Yeah. I think it's Petra Brass.
05:07Petra Brass? Yes.
05:08Let's start with the question.
05:10The province of Jaén in Andalusia is Spain's leading producer
05:14of what processed culinary commodity,
05:16responsible in the 2023-24 season
05:18for just under a quarter of the country's output?
05:21Though badly affected by drought in recent years,
05:23the province has in the past been responsible
05:25for as much as 20% of the world's production of this good
05:28and is home to more than 60 million...
05:30Jarwin, need for her take?
05:32Salt.
05:33No, I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
05:34It's home to more than 60 million of the trees
05:36from whose fruit it is obtained,
05:38mostly of the Piqual variety.
05:43Oranges? No, it's olive oil.
05:45I'll start the question.
05:46In response to a competition to find a substitute
05:48for the use of ivory in billiard balls,
05:51American inventor John Wesley Hyatt began development
05:54on what would eventually become what specific material?
05:58Similar to one created by British inventor Alexander Parks,
06:01this material's thermoplastic properties...
06:04Sheffield Price.
06:05Pyrex?
06:06No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
06:07Would quickly lead to its application in the production of false teeth,
06:11cheap household objects and film.
06:15Darwin Strecken.
06:16Veinal?
06:17No, it's celluloid.
06:18Fingers with buzzers, another starter question.
06:20In the Vulgate and in early Roman Catholic translations of the Bible,
06:24what books are known by the Greek title Paralipomenon?
06:27Concerning the history of Israel from the earliest times
06:29until the 6th century BCE,
06:32in the Old Testament they precede the Book of Ezra,
06:35follow the two books of Kings,
06:37and have a name that derives ultimately from the Greek for time.
06:41Darwin Cameron.
06:42Chronicles.
06:43It is Chronicles 1 and 2, yes.
06:44Three questions on integral transforms.
06:47Which French mathematician gives his name to the integral transform
06:50that converts a function of a real variable to a function of a complex variable,
06:55transforming operations of calculus in the time domain
06:58to operations of arithmetic in the frequency domain?
07:01Fourier, is it Fourier transformation?
07:04Fourier transformation.
07:05No, it's Laplace.
07:06Which Finnish mathematician gives his name to an integral transform
07:10that can be used to transform the exponential function to the gamma function
07:14and which can be regarded as the multiplicative version
07:17of the two-sided Laplace transform?
07:20Any Finnish mathematicians?
07:22Oh, Sobelov.
07:23Sobelov?
07:24Yeah.
07:25Sobelov?
07:26No, it's Mellin.
07:27Which French mathematician gives his name to an integral transform
07:30that decomposes a complex valued function into its frequencies and amplitudes
07:35as well as to a closely related series in which a periodic function
07:39is expanded into a sum of trigonometric functions?
07:42Fourier.
07:43That is Fourier.
07:44Well done.
07:45Picture round now.
07:46And for your picture starter, you're going to see the logo
07:48of an intergovernmental organisation.
07:51For ten points, I need you to give me the organisation's name.
07:57The ICG.
07:58No.
07:59Sheffield Dobby.
08:02ICC.
08:03It is the ICC, yes.
08:04The International Criminal Court.
08:06For your picture starter, you saw the logo of the International Criminal Court
08:09or ICC established by the UN General Assembly in order to prosecute
08:13violations of international law.
08:14For your picture bonuses, you're going to see the logos of three special
08:18tribunals established by the UN to adjudicate in specific countries
08:22in the aftermath of crises.
08:24This time, I want you to identify the country in each case and note that some
08:29lettering has been removed from each.
08:32First, the location of this tribunal established in 1997.
08:36What happened was...
08:37What year was that?
08:38What happened was...
08:39What year was that?
08:40That looks like...
08:41Is that Cambodia or Myanmar?
08:42It looks like Cambodia.
08:43Was there anything that happened in 1997?
08:44I'd say Cambodia.
08:45Cambodia.
08:46Cambodia.
08:47Yes, that was for trying former leaders of the Khmer Rouge.
08:49Secondly, this is the logo of a tribunal established in 1994 to prosecute those
08:53responsible for crimes in what country?
08:56Rwanda, maybe.
08:571994.
08:58That makes sense.
08:59Yeah.
09:00Rwanda.
09:01Yes, for trying perpetrators of the genocide there.
09:03Lastly, this tribunal was established in 2009 to investigate and prosecute
09:07those responsible for crimes in what country?
09:10Lebanon.
09:11Lebanon.
09:12That is Lebanon, yes.
09:13The assassins of the Khmer Rouge.
09:16Let's start the question.
09:17What ballad by John Keats did William Morris describe as the germ from which
09:21all the poetry of his group had sprung, whilst Robert Graves said it represented
09:25love, death by consumption, and poetry...
09:28Oh, and Cameron.
09:30La Belle Dame sans Merci.
09:31Well done.
09:33Your bonuses then are on actors who have played the same role in different
09:37films that are not part of a franchise.
09:40The actor Joseph Olita played the title figure in a 1981 film titled
09:44Rise and Fall of which 20th century political figure?
09:48He played the same man in Meera Nair's 1991 film Mississippi Masala,
09:53which opens with this leader's expulsion of Asians from his country.
09:56I suppose it's, um...
09:58It's more of an expulsion.
10:00FDRs, like in Japanese, in terms of...
10:02I mean, in terms of sort of the opposite of expulsion.
10:04Yeah.
10:05It's about Stalin.
10:06Stalin?
10:07Yeah.
10:08Stalin.
10:09No, it's Idi Amin.
10:11Michael Keaton portrayed ATF agent Ray Nicolette in Quentin Tarantino's 1997 film Jackie Brown and Steven Soderbergh's 1998 film Out of Sight, both of which are adaptations of novels by which author?
10:25Of course.
10:26I didn't know Jackie Brown as an other feature.
10:28That's fine.
10:29Um...
10:30Yeah.
10:31Um...
10:32Raymond Chandler.
10:33No, it's Elmore Leonard.
10:34In Michael Mann's 2004 film Collateral, which British actor appears in a brief cameo in which he bumps into a hitman played by Tom Cruise, which the makers of both films describe as a reprisal of this actor's role as the title character in the Transporter franchise?
10:48Uh...
10:49Jason Statham?
10:50No, Jason Statham?
10:51Or...
10:52Yeah, something like that.
10:53Yeah, that could be right.
10:54Okay.
10:55Uh, Jason Statham.
10:56That was a good guess.
10:57Well done.
10:58Yes, correct.
10:59Let's start the question.
11:00Fingers on buzzers.
11:01In art conservation and archiving, what two-word term refers to the susceptibility of an object to deterioration due to fundamental properties of the materials it is made from, as opposed to damage or wear caused by external forces?
11:14This term was used as the title of a 2009 novel by Thomas Pynchon that was adapted into a 2014 film by Paul...
11:21Darwin Cameron.
11:22Uh, Inherent Vice.
11:23Well done.
11:24It is indeed.
11:25Your bonuses, Darwin, are on prominent sexologists.
11:28In each case, I want you to name them from a description.
11:30First, the British physician, best known for his series entitled Studies in the Psychology of Sex, whose first published entry, Sexual Inversion, was a subject of significant controversy and an obscenity trial for its frank treatment of same sex.
11:44Attraction.
11:45Yeah.
11:46I definitely have this, but there's no way.
11:47I have no idea.
11:48I'm sorry.
11:49Uh, pass.
11:50Havelock Ellis.
11:51Secondly, the pair of American researchers whose 1966 book, Human Sexual Response, was notable for its groundbreaking analyses of the physiological aspects of sex observed under laboratory conditions.
12:04Um, yeah, again, we're not going to get this.
12:05Uh, pass.
12:06That's Masters and Johnson.
12:07Lastly, the Indiana University-based researcher whose 1948 book, Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male, introduced his namesake, Scale, for categorising sexual practice.
12:21Is it Kinsey?
12:22No, it's for sexual orientation, but, uh...
12:23I mean, if we have nothing else.
12:24Yeah.
12:25What did you say?
12:26Kinsey.
12:27Kinsey.
12:28It is Alfred Kinsey.
12:29Again, good punks.
12:30OK, another starter question.
12:31Fingers on buzzers.
12:32Which national capital city is located on the southern coast of the Absheron Peninsula?
12:37Other major cities on this peninsula include Sumkayt on its northern coast, and the island of Chilov lies off its eastern tip in the Caspian Sea.
12:48Sheffield Price.
12:49Baku.
12:50It is Baku, yes.
12:51Well done.
12:52The three questions, then, Sheffield, are on a test cricket record.
12:55At Lords in 2013, which two England players became the first pair of bowlers in the 21st century to bowl unchanged in a completed men's test innings, bowling New Zealand out for 68 in the final innings?
13:06Between them, they would go on to take more than 1,300 test wickets.
13:09Anderson and Broad.
13:10I'm going to nominate you.
13:11Nominate Lewis.
13:12Anderson and Broad.
13:13It is indeed.
13:14In 2022, Keshav Maharaj and Simon Harmer accomplished this feat twice in successive months, both times against Bangladesh.
13:21What country do they represent?
13:23South Africa.
13:24Yeah.
13:25At Multan in October 2024, Sajid Khan and Noman Ali became the sixth pair in the 21st century to achieve this feat, as England were bowled out for 144 in the final innings of a test against which team?
13:38So, Pakistan then, right?
13:41If it's Multan, then that would make sense, yeah.
13:43Pakistan?
13:44Yeah, that does make sense.
13:45Well done.
13:47Music round now.
13:48And for your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of popular music.
13:51For ten points, I need you to name the artist performing.
13:58Sheffield Price.
13:59Patti Smith.
14:00That is Patti Smith, yes.
14:02For your starter, you heard Redondo Beach by Patti Smith, who is strongly associated with Max's Kansas City.
14:07A New York City venue she described as, quote, a social hub of the subterranean universe.
14:12For your bonuses, you're going to hear songs by three bands who also played at Max's Kansas City from the 70s into the early 80s.
14:19In each case, I need you to give me the name of the band.
14:23Firstly, this band.
14:24Well, we can't take her this week.
14:27And a friend don't want another speech.
14:30I don't know, but I don't know.
14:31I don't know.
14:32I don't know.
14:33I don't know.
14:34I don't know.
14:35It's not The Remains, but I don't know.
14:39Come on.
14:40It's The Remains.
14:41No, it's New York Dolls with Personality Crisis.
14:43Secondly, this group.
14:45Oh, this is...
14:47Oh, television.
14:49Television.
14:50Yes, that was Venus.
14:51And lastly, this band, whom David Bowie introduced at the club as, quote, the band of the future.
14:56I don't know if I'm going to go home.
15:01I don't know if I'm going to go home.
15:03I don't know if I'm going to go home.
15:05Is it The Cure?
15:06I think it could be The Cure.
15:08No, it's Devo with gut feeling.
15:10Let's start the question.
15:11On its establishment in 2009, the principal aim of the Moedal experiment at CERN was to search for which hypothetical particles known by a two-word alliterative name.
15:22The second of Maxwell's equations states mathematically that these particles cannot exist.
15:27But...
15:28Sheffield Price.
15:29Magnetic monopoles.
15:30It is indeed, yes.
15:31Three questions on a resin.
15:33What naturally occurring resin consists primarily of aleuritic and jalaric acid connected by lactide and ester linkages?
15:40It is produced by female insects of the family keriidae.
15:44Nothing.
15:45No, I didn't know.
15:46Can anyone name a resin?
15:47Amber.
15:48Is amber a resin?
15:49I think amber is from a tree.
15:50Yeah.
15:51Try that.
15:52Amber.
15:53No, it's shellac.
15:54While jalaric acid is a type of sesquiterpene, aleuritic is a variant of what acid?
15:58The most common saturated fatty acid found in the human body.
16:01Its name is derived from its presence in the fruit of trees of Janus eleise.
16:06It's not going to be glycerol and it's not a fatty acid.
16:10Citric acid.
16:11If it's the fruits of a tree.
16:12That's not fatty, I don't think.
16:13Lactic acid.
16:14What's that?
16:15No, because that would be...
16:16I don't know.
16:17It's not...
16:18Try lactic acid.
16:19It's not.
16:20Lactic acid.
16:21If it's carbon content, shellac can undergo cyclisation in order to produce what material
16:26comprising a thin layer of carbon atoms arranged hexagonally?
16:29Graphene then, right?
16:30It's graphene, yeah.
16:31Because it's...
16:32Oh, is it going to be graphite?
16:33No, because it's graphene.
16:34Because it's like...
16:35It's a thin layer.
16:36Graphene.
16:37Graphene.
16:38Well worked out.
16:39It is graphene, yes.
16:40Let's start the question.
16:41The surname of what footballer precedes the word plan in the name often given to a strategy
16:46developed in the early 1950s by Manchester City manager Les McDowell inspired by the Hungarian
16:52national team whereby the opposing team's centre half was drawn out of position by playing
16:57this man as deep centre forward.
16:59As a manager, this player would go on to win the FA Cup once and the first division
17:03of the Football League twice with Leeds United.
17:06Sheffield Lewis.
17:07Don Revy.
17:08It is Don Revy, yes.
17:09Your bonuses then, Sheffield, are on major settlements located close to the Tropic of Capricorn.
17:14In each case, identify the place from the description.
17:17First, a large coastal city associated with the author Clarice Lispector.
17:21It is home to football clubs including Flamengo, Botafogo and Vasco da Gama.
17:26Oh, Vasco da Gama.
17:28Is Flamengo not?
17:29It's Sao Paulo.
17:31I thought...
17:32I think so.
17:33Sao Paulo?
17:34No, it's Rio de Janeiro.
17:35Secondly, a national capital situated roughly in the centre of its country,
17:38at a height of more than 1600 metres.
17:41It was founded by Germans in 1890 in an area occupied by Coichoy and Herero people.
17:47Windeck could make sense.
17:48Yeah.
17:49Windeck?
17:50Yes.
17:51Finally, the second largest settlement of Australia's Northern Territory.
17:54For many years, it was the northern terminus of the Central Australia Railway until this was extended to Darwin in 2003.
18:01Pretty sure this is just Alice Springs.
18:03Yeah.
18:04Alice Springs.
18:05Another sort of question.
18:06I need a two-word term here.
18:08Theorised by Tom Beauchamp and James Childress, autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice are considered to be the four key principles of which subfield of philosophy?
18:21Important practical documents in this field...
18:25Ethics?
18:26No, I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
18:27Include the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and the 1948 Declaration of Geneva, the latter of which has been dubbed the modern Hippocratic Oath.
18:39Darwin Cameron.
18:40Medical ethics?
18:41Yes, we'll accept that.
18:42Biomedical ethics.
18:43I did say I needed a two-word term.
18:44Your bonuses then, Darwin, are on quarter days and cross-quarter days in England.
18:49Christian festivals traditionally used to mark tenancies, labour contracts and for payment of debts.
18:55Which quarter day falls on the 25th of March?
18:58Its name is a short two-word term for the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary.
19:01And until 1752, it marked the official start of the year in England and Wales.
19:07Did you say a short two-word term for the Annunciation?
19:09Yeah.
19:10So, Ave Maria?
19:11Yeah.
19:12Ave Maria?
19:13No, Lady Day.
19:14Which cross-quarter day falls on the 2nd of February, between Christmas and Lady Day, on the Christian festival that marks the presentation of Christ in the temple?
19:23Certainly, Adoration or something like that.
19:27No, that's not Christ in the temple.
19:30What did you say?
19:31Adoration.
19:32Candlemas.
19:33Named after an old English word for a loaf of bread, which cross-quarter day falls on the 1st of August, that is, between Midsummer and Micklemas?
19:40Anything?
19:43No, pass.
19:44Lammas.
19:45Another start of the question.
19:46It's a picture round now.
19:47And for your picture starter, you're going to see a still from a film.
19:50For ten points, give me its title.
19:53Darwin Cameron.
19:54Citizen Kane.
19:55Of course it is.
19:56Of course it is.
19:57Indeed.
19:58It is.
19:59Your picture starter, you saw a still from Citizen Kane, the highest ranked directorial debut on the BFI's list of the greatest films of all time.
20:04For your picture bonuses, three more featured directorial debuts that appear on that list.
20:09I need the title of the film in each case.
20:12First, this 1955 film.
20:15That's The Night of the Hunter.
20:18The Night of the Hunter.
20:19Yes, by Charles Lawton.
20:20Well done.
20:21Secondly, this 1959 film.
20:2459.
20:25Um...
20:26Who is that?
20:27God, I don't know.
20:28Maybe...
20:29How do you know?
20:30Uh...
20:31Debut...
20:33I don't know.
20:34Pass.
20:35It's Hiroshima Mon Amour by Alain Rene.
20:37Lastly, this 1960 film.
20:42Um, this is, uh, Breathless.
20:44Yes.
20:45Breathless.
20:46I don't know if you want to reach their buzz.
20:47Thank you so much.
20:48This is nice to start with the question.
20:49At which battle of 1265 did forces led by the future Edward I trick the defenders into complacency by marching under standards captured at Kenilworth?
20:59The ensuing battle saw the rescue of Henry III, captive since the Battle of Lewis, and the death and dismemberment of Simon de Montfort.
21:07Darwin White.
21:08Battle of Eversham.
21:09Yes, well done.
21:10You're very sweet.
21:11Our three questions on an extinct language.
21:13With its last native speaker dying around 1960, the language of Ornier was primarily spoken on which island, part of a British Crown dependency?
21:22Ornier, um...
21:24Crown dependency?
21:30Yes.
21:31Give me a Crown dependency.
21:32Uh, Reunion.
21:34Or Tristan de Quay.
21:35Reunion Island.
21:36Reunion Island.
21:37No, it's Alderney.
21:38The decline of Ornier was hastened by the mid-19th century influx of English-speaking immigrants
21:42who were sent to make Alderney the, quote, Gibraltar of the Channel, in response to French plans to fortify which port?
21:49About 25 miles east of the island?
21:51Is that...
21:52Is that...
21:53No, no, no, it's in the channel, so...
21:54The channel, like, which port?
21:55Dover?
21:56Or the other one?
21:57What's the one that Dover goes to?
21:58French plans, uh, French...
22:00Calais?
22:01Le Havre, maybe.
22:02Le Havre.
22:03Ornier is a variety of the insular form of what language, historically spoken across the Channel Islands?
22:08It is a variety of the longue d'oeil that includes modern standard French.
22:13This is terrible.
22:14Occitan, maybe?
22:15Is it as itself?
22:16Um, Occitan.
22:18No, it's Norman or Norman French.
22:21Let's start a question.
22:22I need two answers promptly here.
22:24In their 1944 book, Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour,
22:28John von Neumann and Oscar Morgenstern discuss a problem involving which two fictional characters,
22:35in which each attempts to deduce the likelihood that the other would...
22:38The two prisoners?
22:40No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
22:42...deduce the likelihood that the other would alight from a train at either Dover or Canterbury.
22:47The game was inspired by an episode in the 1893 short story, The Final Problem.
22:53Holmes and Watson?
22:54Bad luck.
22:55No, it's Holmes and Moriarty.
22:56Bad luck.
22:57Another starting question.
22:58Theories of the mechanism and function of which biological process include the activation synthesis theory,
23:05the reverse learning hypothesis, the defensive activation theory,
23:09and Anti-Revoncuo's threat simulation theory,
23:12the last suggesting that it can be seen as evolutionarily beneficial,
23:16insofar as it allows the brain to simulate threatening events and rehearse threat perception...
23:21Darwin Strecker.
23:22Dreams.
23:23Yes, dreams dreaming.
23:24I'll take that.
23:25Your bonuses, Darwin, are on water-dwelling creatures that can produce silk or silk-like threads.
23:29The common species of witchfish of the genus Cyprinus,
23:32closely related to the minnow,
23:34creates a silk-like substance in order to attach its eggs to the substrate of flowing water.
23:39Do we have any idea?
23:40Perch or pike or so?
23:41Perch looks kind of like a minnow.
23:42Perch.
23:43No, it's carp.
23:44The crustacean Cimanfittoe femurata produces silk in order to create shelters
23:48on the blades of giant kelp.
23:50It is a member of witch order that also includes sandhoppers.
23:53Sandhoppers?
23:54Or...
23:55Is this like...
23:56Mollus or Snidarians?
23:57An order?
23:58I don't know.
23:59I don't know.
24:00Snidaria.
24:01Snidaria.
24:02Snidaria.
24:03There's amphipods.
24:04Used by Romans to produce so-called sea silk,
24:06the pinna nobilis produces a number of bisous threads in order to attach itself to rocks.
24:11It is a fan variety of what general category of bivalve mollusk,
24:15of which it is the largest in the Mediterranean?
24:17Mussel?
24:18What do you use?
24:19No, it's not coral, so mussel or oyster?
24:21Mussel.
24:22Mussel.
24:23Yes, three and a half minutes to go.
24:24The narrator of which 2005 novel begins by saying,
24:27I'm 31 years old and I've been a carer now for over 11 years?
24:30Never let me go.
24:31Never let me go.
24:32Never let me go is correct, I disagree.
24:34Yes, your bonuses on the artist Joseph Beuys.
24:37In 1982, Beuys proposed planting 7,000 of what type of tree around the city of Castle?
24:42Each tree would be accompanied by a basalt stone that was originally piled up in front of the museum Friderichianum.
24:48A one word common name is enough here.
24:51Birch, maybe oak.
24:52Yeah.
24:53Birch.
24:54Birch, yeah.
24:55Birch.
24:56Bad like it's oak.
24:57What is the title of the piece by Beuys that features a Volkswagen bus trailed by 24 sleds,
25:00each containing a torch, a roll of felt and a lump of animal fat?
25:04Yeah, no clue.
25:05No.
25:06No.
25:07Pass.
25:08It's the pack.
25:09A performance piece by Beuys sees him explaining pictures to a dead body of what animal?
25:12One of these animals is depicted running across the tracks in JMW Turner's Rain Steam Speed.
25:17Like a rabbit.
25:18A rabbit?
25:19Yeah.
25:20I can't accept that.
25:21It is specifically a hare.
25:22Bad luck.
25:23Another starter question.
25:24What single short word can follow sand, bush, hard, thorn, high and low in the names
25:32of several different types of arid grassland that can be found across southern Africa?
25:37It is ultimately derived from an old Dutch word meaning field.
25:43Velt?
25:44Yes, correct.
25:45Your bonuses are on the Spanish violin virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate.
25:49Among the many works dedicated to Sarasate are the second violin concerto and the Scottish
25:53fantasy of which German composer born in Cologne in 1838?
25:56Mendelssohn.
25:57No, it's Bruch.
25:58In which Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Edith Wharton, set in the 1870s, are Newland
26:03Archer and Ellen Olenska invited at one point...
26:05The Age of Innocence.
26:06Yes.
26:07Sarasate's own compositions include a fantasy on the music of which opera of 1875,
26:12including its Aragonese, Entract, and the Cegadilla and Habanera from Act One.
26:16Habanera.
26:17That's like...
26:18Carmen.
26:19Carmen.
26:20Yes.
26:21Let's start the question.
26:22What term may be used of all of these?
26:24The moveable flap over the ears of an owl, the bony covering of the gills of a fish,
26:29and the plate that secures the opening to the shell of a snail.
26:33It means lid or covering in Latin.
26:40Anyone?
26:41Darwin Cameron.
26:42Cooper.
26:43No.
26:44Quickly.
26:45No, I tell you, it's the operculum.
26:47Let's start the question.
26:48In 1825, how many US states were there?
26:51This number is exactly half that of the number of states 100 years later.
26:55That is, between the admissions of Arizona and Alaska.
26:5924.
27:00It is 24.
27:01Yes, well done.
27:02Your bonuses are on Greek letters as used in physics and statistics.
27:05In each case, give the single Greek letter that conventionally represents both the concepts
27:10or quantities described.
27:11First, in physics.
27:12The radioactive decay constant of a nuclide and in the Poisson probability distribution,
27:16the expected rate of occurrences of an event.
27:18Is it lambda?
27:19I thought it was lambda.
27:20It's lambda.
27:21Oh, yeah, it is lambda.
27:22Lambda.
27:23Yes.
27:24Secondly, in physics, the fine structure constant and in statistics,
27:25the significance level is defined for a particular...
27:27Alpha.
27:28Alpha.
27:29Yes.
27:30Finally, in physics, the Stefan Boltzmann constant and in statistics,
27:31standard deviation.
27:32Sigma.
27:33Yes, well done.
27:34Let's start the question.
27:35In Czech, German, Italian, Russian and French respectively,
27:38names of what chess piece translate as gunner, runner, standard bearer...
27:43Rook.
27:44No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
27:46Elephant and fool or jester.
27:48Darwin White.
27:49The knight.
27:50No, it's a bishop.
27:51Let's start the question.
27:52In music theory, what two-word term...
27:54And out of the gong, Darwin have 115 and Sheppard have 155.
27:57Oh, Darwin, I thought you were going to pull off the most monumental comeback there.
28:04There was about two minutes where I thought you were going to do this and in the end you didn't.
28:08But it's not goodbye.
28:09We get to see you again.
28:10Sheffield, can I just say, I really appreciated the fact that you played properly at the end
28:14and didn't waste any time.
28:15I think that was the spirit in which we should play the game.
28:16So, well done.
28:17You've got to win again, alas, if you want to make it to the semifinals.
28:19So, we shall see you again.
28:20We look forward to that.
28:21I hope you can join us next time for another quarter-final match.
28:24But until then, it is goodbye from Darwin College, Cambridge.
28:26Goodbye.
28:27Goodbye.
28:28It's goodbye from Sheffield University.
28:29Goodbye.
28:30And it's goodbye from me.
28:31Goodbye.
28:32Thank you so much.
28:37Aww, I am sorry.
28:54None.
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