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00:00MUSIC
00:04APPLAUSE
00:19University Challenge.
00:21Asking the questions...
00:23..and Mo Renter.
00:25APPLAUSE
00:28Hello and welcome to University Challenge.
00:30Tonight, the last of our eight-quarter finalists
00:32will be playing their first of a possible three matches
00:35in this round of the competition.
00:37If they win, they'll have one foot in the semis,
00:39along with Edinburgh, Merton College, Oxford and Sheffield.
00:42But if they lose, they'll join Manchester, UCL
00:44and Darwin College, Cambridge on the brink of elimination.
00:47This year's team from Imperial lost their opening game
00:50narrowly to Churchill College, Cambridge,
00:52but still qualified for round two by beating SOAS
00:54in a rep-a-charge play-off.
00:56Their subsequent match against Southampton was the closest
00:58and, overall, the highest scoring of the second round.
01:01At the gong, all that separated the teams
01:03was one five-point penalty and one correct bonus question.
01:07In that game, Imperial demonstrated impressively
01:09in-depth knowledge of astrophysics, computer science
01:12and the writer Wale Soyinka.
01:14And throughout the series so far,
01:15they've scored, on average, 190 points per game.
01:18Let's meet the team from Imperial for the fourth time.
01:21Hi, I'm Raheem Dina, I live in Peterborough,
01:23and I'm doing a PhD in ecology and evolution.
01:26Hi, I'm Eugenia Tong, I'm from Hong Kong, and I study chemistry.
01:30And their captain.
01:31Hi, I'm Oscar O'Flanagan, I'm from London,
01:33and I'm doing a PhD in atmospheric physics.
01:36Hi, I'm Justin Koen, I'm from Hong Kong, and I study computing.
01:43Our last quarter-finalists this year are the team from Warwick,
01:46who began their series campaign with a remarkable victory over Sheffield,
01:49in which they overturned a deficit of 115 points.
01:53In their second-round match against Bristol,
01:55they also had to come from behind, albeit slightly less far behind.
01:58They took the lead for the first time in the second picture round,
02:01and then pulled ahead with a good run of answers
02:03on Indonesian geography, potassium, and the novels of Virginia Woolf.
02:07With an average score so far of 195 points,
02:10let's meet the team from Warwick once again.
02:13Hi, I'm Josh Howarth, I'm from St Albans in Hertfordshire,
02:16and I study history.
02:18Hi, I'm Anthony Klusowski, I'm from Chingford in North London,
02:21and I study English literature and history.
02:23And their captain.
02:24Hi, I'm Chris Leavesley, I'm from Derby, and I study maths.
02:27Hi, I'm Lucy Dennett, I'm from Southest London,
02:30and I study politics and international studies.
02:35Welcome back.
02:36You all know how this works, so shall we crack on with it?
02:38Let's do it.
02:39Alright, fingers on buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
02:42Good luck.
02:43Published in 1982, issue number one of the comic book Warrior
02:48contained the first instalment of a black and white series
02:51that would eventually be published as a graphic novel under what title?
02:54It opens with its protagonist, Evie Hammond, being detained
02:57by a member of the Fingermen, a secret police unit.
03:01Why damn it!
03:02FIFA Vendetta?
03:03It is indeed, well done.
03:04Your bonuses.
03:06Three questions on the labours of Heracles or Hercules.
03:09Unusual among his labours in that it did not involve a dangerous beast,
03:13the ninth labour of Heracles required the hero to obtain the belt
03:16or girdle of which Amazon Queen?
03:18She later married Theseus.
03:20Hippolyta.
03:21Yes.
03:22In his tenth labour, Heracles journeyed to the distant island of Erythia
03:26to capture the cattle of which giant, variously described as having
03:29three heads or three bodies?
03:30Garyon.
03:31Yes.
03:32Heracles again needed to travel far from Greece for his eleventh labour,
03:35the taking of the golden apples of which group of nymphs,
03:38whose name means...
03:39The Hesperides.
03:40Yes.
03:41Well done.
03:42Another slightly question.
03:43I need a specific word here.
03:46Historically used to refer to the study of nature or natural philosophy,
03:50which ultimately Greek-derived word gained its modern meaning
03:53via the title of a 1542 work written by Jean Fernell,
03:57which, along with Pathologia and Therapeutis,
04:00formed a trilogy known as the Universa Medicina.
04:03The word in question can be found in the full name of the Nobel Prize
04:07whose first recipient...
04:08Imperialo Flanagan.
04:10Physiology.
04:11Well done.
04:12It is indeed, yes.
04:13Three questions for you, Imperial, on people born in the UK
04:15who have played in the National Basketball Association, or NBA.
04:19Oh, dear.
04:20The London-born OG Anunobi won an NBA championship in 2019
04:24as part of which Eastern Conference team?
04:26Their victory over the Golden State Warriors
04:28marked this team's first NBA championship,
04:31led by finals MVP Kawi Leonard.
04:34They are the only NBA team to play their home games outside
04:37of the United States.
04:39Oh, Toronto Raptors.
04:41Oh, OK.
04:42Toronto Raptors.
04:43Toronto Raptors.
04:44Yes.
04:45Born in Farnham, Joel Freeland spent three years in the NBA
04:48playing for the Portland Trail Blazers as a power forward and centre,
04:51positions that are designated with which two numbers?
04:55In rugby union, these two numbers are assigned to a squad's second row.
05:00Six.
05:01Five and six.
05:02Six and five?
05:03Yes.
05:04All right.
05:05Six and five?
05:06No, it's four and five.
05:07Bad luck.
05:08Also born in London, Ben Gordon was drafted in 2004 by which NBA team?
05:12He won the league's sixth Man of the Year award during his rookie season,
05:15which came the year following Scottie Pippen's retirement
05:18after having won six championships for this team in the 1990s
05:21with teammate Michael Jordan.
05:23Bulls?
05:24Chicago Bulls?
05:25Oh, yeah.
05:26The Bulls.
05:27Chicago Bulls.
05:28Correct, yeah.
05:29Let's start with the question.
05:30What is the short one-word title of the Unix-based 1980 video game
05:35created by Michael Toy and Glenn Wickman in which players navigate
05:39a series of random...
05:40Warwick Leasley.
05:41Rogue.
05:42It is rogue, yes.
05:43Well done.
05:44Your bonuses, Warwick, are three questions on theoretical physics.
05:46Which US physicist, born in 1918, gives his name to a type of diagram
05:51representing interactions between elementary particles?
05:53Yes, Feynman.
05:54Correct.
05:55Feynman diagrams represent antiparticles as ordinary matter particles
05:59propagating backwards in time, an interpretation earlier proposed by,
06:03and often jointly named after, which Swiss mathematician and physicist?
06:08Who Swiss?
06:09Maybe Bernoulli?
06:10Could be Bernoulli.
06:11Bernoulli?
06:12That was Ernst Stoekelberg.
06:14On a Feynman diagram, fermions are represented with straight lines,
06:18photons W and Z bosons with wavy lines, and gluons with helices.
06:23Which specific elementary particle is conventionally represented
06:27with a dashed line?
06:28What's left?
06:29What's left?
06:30What's left?
06:31Er...
06:36I'm not sure.
06:37Just...
06:38Electron.
06:39No, that's the Higgs boson.
06:40Picture round now.
06:41And for your picture starter, you're going to see the logo
06:43of a British governmental organisation.
06:46For ten points, I need you to give me the organisation's name.
06:49Imperial O'Flanagan.
06:50The Department for Waterways.
06:51No.
06:58Warwick Dennis.
06:59The Department for Food and Rural Affairs.
07:01No.
07:02It's historic England.
07:03Bad luck.
07:04Another starter question.
07:05After serving in the Black Pioneers Unit of the Loyalist Army
07:09during the American War of Independence,
07:11Thomas Peters would go on to become one of the so-called founding fathers
07:15of which African country?
07:17Liberia.
07:18I'm afraid you lose five points.
07:19You can hear more of the question, but you may not confer Imperial.
07:23Following his military service, Peters had attempted to negotiate
07:26land grants for black veterans with the Governor of Nova Scotia
07:30before eventually settling in this country's modern-day capital
07:33of Freetown.
07:35Imperial Dena.
07:36Sierra Leone.
07:37It is Sierra Leone.
07:38Well done.
07:39For your picture starter a moment ago, you saw the logo
07:41of Historic England, the country's largest public body
07:44dedicated to heritage.
07:45For your picture bonuses, you'll see the logos of three more
07:48public heritage organisations from around the world.
07:51Five points for each country you can name, and note that some
07:54lettering will have been removed from each.
07:57First, this is the logo of which Commonwealth country's heritage
08:01body?
08:02Ooh.
08:04Does that building ring a bell for anyone?
08:06Could it be an island or something?
08:08No, I don't think it's...
08:09What's the...
08:10No, island's not Commonwealth.
08:11What's that bottom symbol meant to represent?
08:14I don't know.
08:16What did you do?
08:17The Bahamas, I don't know.
08:18Yeah, why not?
08:19The Bahamas.
08:20No, that could have taken quite some time.
08:21No, that's New Zealand.
08:22Bad luck.
08:23Secondly, this is the logo of the National Heritage Council
08:26of which African country?
08:30Any details from a flag we can see?
08:33Is that an Ibex on the bottom?
08:35We forget how long the country name is, no?
08:37Oh, is it like...
08:38Yeah, I guess we can.
08:41Is it like South Sudan?
08:42Or South Africa?
08:43No, it's too long for that black bar.
08:44Too long to be South Sudan, I think.
08:45South Africa?
08:46It's still too long.
08:47Too long, I think.
08:48Come on.
08:49Sudan.
08:50Sudan.
08:51No, it's Namibia.
08:52Lastly, this is the logo for the National Monuments Centre
08:55of which European country?
08:57Ooh.
08:58OK, let's have a...
08:59Oh, these are...
09:00Greece?
09:01Or Italy?
09:02Or Italy?
09:03I...
09:04I can't recognise any of these.
09:06Um...
09:07Any ideas?
09:09Greece?
09:10That's France.
09:11Let's start with a question.
09:13In the collection of the Courtauld Gallery,
09:15a group portrait of the family of Jan Bruegel the Elder
09:18from the 1610s is by which other Flemish artist,
09:22born in 1577?
09:24This artist was a close friend of Bruegel and collaborated
09:27with him on a number of works, including a series of paintings
09:30on the...
09:31Imperial Kong.
09:32Rubens?
09:33It is Rubens.
09:34Well done.
09:35Your bonuses are three questions on a prize.
09:36In early 2025, M.K. Stalin, the premier of the Indian state
09:40of Tamil Nadu, offered a one million US dollar prize
09:44for the deciphering of what ancient script?
09:47Research into this script began with the engineer Alexander
09:49Cunningham's publication of an inscribed seal he had excavated
09:53at Harappa.
09:55What's the Indus?
09:56The script of the Indus River Valley script?
09:57Yeah, I know.
09:58Or what is it called?
09:59Indic?
10:00I don't know.
10:01It might just be Indus River Valley script or something.
10:02Sure.
10:03Indus River Valley script?
10:04Yes.
10:05The Indus Valley script.
10:06Well done.
10:07Efforts to decipher Indus script often revolve around the
10:09frequent use of symbols depicting what animal theorised
10:12variously to represent stars, gods or precious goods.
10:17What animal was in India?
10:18Cows?
10:19I mean, cows are a big deal in prehistory.
10:21Cows?
10:22They are a big deal, but it's definitely not cows.
10:23It's fish.
10:24Attempts to locate the Indus or Harapan language within the
10:27Dravidian language family have emphasised the Indus script's
10:30use of a symbol for what material, which some researchers
10:33have claimed is related to a proto-Dravidian word for elephant?
10:37Ivory?
10:38Oh.
10:39Sure.
10:40Ivory?
10:41Yes.
10:42Well done.
10:43Let's start the question.
10:44Which element of the periodic table has ten stable isotopes more
10:49than any other element, with the atomic weights of all of them
10:52lying between 112 and 124?
10:55This element's large number of stable isotopes is thought to be
10:58related to its magic atomic number.
11:00And its 120 isotope is the one most commonly found in nature,
11:05often in the form of its principal or cassiterite.
11:08Imperial O'Flanagan.
11:09Molybdenum.
11:10No.
11:11You may not confer.
11:12Anyone want to have a guess?
11:13Zirconium.
11:14No, it's tin.
11:15Let's start the question.
11:16From an archaic or regional word meaning hedgehog, what word has
11:17since the 16th century been applied, in the words of the OED,
11:19with commiserative force to children poorly, raggedly or untidily clothed?
11:23This word also follows...
11:38Urchin?
11:39It is urchin.
11:40Well worked out, yes.
11:41Your bonuses, Warren, are on the National Film Awards of non-Anglophone countries.
11:46The National Film Awards of which country are nicknamed the Lolas after,
11:49among other things, the 1999 winner of its Best Film Award,
11:52Run, Lola, Run, directed by Tom Tikva.
11:56New Zealand.
11:57New Zealand.
11:58No, it's Germany.
11:59Taking their name from an essay by Uruguayan author Jose Enrique Rodot,
12:03the Ariel Awards are the National Film Awards of which country?
12:07Recent winners of the Ariel Award for Best Picture include Totem
12:10and Northern Skies Over Empty Space.
12:13Um, no.
12:16We haven't had it, obviously, no.
12:19Come on.
12:20Come on.
12:21Mexico.
12:22It is Mexico, yes.
12:24Finally, the Blue Dragon Awards are awarded annually in which country?
12:27Winners in the 21st century have included A Taxi Driver,
12:30Sympathy for Lady Vengeance and Parasite.
12:33South Korea.
12:34It is South Korea, yes.
12:36Let's start with the question.
12:38The escarpment known as the Drakensberg forms part of the border between what...
12:44South African Lesotho.
12:45Well done.
12:46It is indeed.
12:47Your bonuses, Imperial, are on the seven modes of the Western musical tradition.
12:51What name is given to a mode which, in its modern form, comprises a natural minor scale with a second degree flattened by one semitone?
13:00It takes its name from an ancient Anatolian kingdom whose leaders include Kings Gordias and Midas.
13:04Is this Lydian?
13:05Oh, yeah.
13:06The Lydian.
13:07No, it's the Phrygian.
13:08Sometimes called the Hyper Aeolian, what other name is given to the mode which, in its modern form, comprises a natural minor scale with a second and fifth degrees of the scale flattened by one semitone?
13:19This name comes from that of a kingdom which, according to Greek legend, was led by the father of the Greek hero Ajax the Lesser.
13:26This is natural minor with the second and fifth flattened.
13:28This must be the Locrian, right?
13:29I don't know.
13:30The Locrian?
13:31Yes.
13:32Finally, which mode, synonymous with the diatonic major scale, takes its name from an ancient region that was situated on the central west coast of modern Turkey?
13:41Ionian, right?
13:42I think...
13:43I don't know.
13:44The Ionian?
13:45Yes.
13:46Well done.
13:47Let's start the question.
13:48Music round now.
13:49For your music starter, you're going to hear an extract from an opera.
13:52For ten points, I need you to name the composer.
14:07Prokofiev.
14:08Yes, it is indeed.
14:09Well done.
14:10For your music starter, you heard the march from Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges.
14:14For your bonuses, three more marches from operas.
14:16I need you to name the composer in each case.
14:18First, this composer.
14:19Can you hear vibrato?
14:20Why is the march so slow?
14:21I want to say elegant, but it's not that piece.
14:22He didn't write operas, did he?
14:24Mendelssohn?
14:25Oh, Phil, I mean, it's not that one.
14:26Do you think it's...
14:27Oh, Phil, it's...
14:29No, that's not.
14:30Mendelssohn?
14:31Can you hear vibrato?
14:35Why is the march so slow?
14:37I want to say Elgar, but it's not that piece.
14:40He didn't write operas, did he?
14:43Mendelssohn?
14:45Oh, it's...
14:46No, that's not...
14:46Do you think it's...
14:47Mendelssohn?
14:49Mendelssohn.
14:50Mendelssohn.
14:50No, it's Mozart.
14:51That was a priest's march from the Magic Flute.
14:53Secondly, the French composer of this piece,
14:56often staged as an opera.
15:01I don't know, that's brass.
15:11I don't know, that.
15:12Oh, I like Banyos.
15:14Banyos?
15:16Yes, the Hungarian march from the damnation of Faust.
15:18Lastly, this Italian composer.
15:22It's Verdi.
15:24It's Aida, is it?
15:25I think so, Thomas.
15:28Verdi.
15:29Yes, well done.
15:29Let's start with a question.
15:30What term of endearment links all of the following?
15:34The name of a trans actor who is one of Warhol's superstars.
15:38Maury Cleansley, darling.
15:39Well done.
15:40It is indeed.
15:41Your bonuses are on the chess-playing computer programmes
15:44known as Engines.
15:46Which chess engine won the inaugural knockout
15:48Top Chess Engine Championship, or TCEC, Cup in 2018
15:52and has won the majority of the cup since?
15:55It shares its name with a Norwegian seafood product
15:57preserved on drying racks.
15:59Stockfish.
15:59Stockfish.
16:00Yes.
16:00In 2018, which engine became the first to use a neural network
16:04and compete in the TCEC?
16:06I need a three-word name, the first part of which it shares
16:10with that of a character from Futurama.
16:13This is Leela, but I don't know what the other bits of Leela are.
16:16Do you have any idea?
16:18No.
16:19No.
16:19No.
16:20OK, pass.
16:20Bad luck, Anthony.
16:21It's Leela Chess Zero.
16:22Bad luck.
16:23Which supercomputer and precursor to modern chess engines
16:27achieved prominence in the mid-1990s with two matches
16:30against world champion Garry Kasparov?
16:32The latter...
16:32Deep Blue was, of course, yeah.
16:34Let's have a question.
16:35Which astronomical observatory, located on the Cerro Patron Ridge
16:39in Chile, contains a 3,200 megapixel camera, said to be the
16:43largest digital camera ever built, which will be used to create
16:47an ultra-high-definition time-lapse record of the universe
16:50over a period of ten years?
16:51Formerly known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope,
16:54it was renamed in 2019 after an American astronomer whose work
16:58on galactic rotation helped evidence the existence...
17:03Rubin.
17:04Yes, it is the Vera Rubin Observatory.
17:06Well done.
17:07Your bonuses, Imperial, are on literary works with similar titles.
17:10The title of which 1973 novel by Martin Amis refers to a set of
17:15obsessional notes and observations kept by protagonist Charles
17:18Highway about a woman he first meets while preparing for his
17:21Oxford University entrance exams.
17:22Do we open it?
17:23The Notebook?
17:24No.
17:25The Notebook.
17:26Very much not.
17:27It's the Rachel Papers.
17:28The Purcell Papers is a collection of Gothic short stories by
17:32which 19th-century Irish author, whose other works include the
17:35novel Uncle Silas and the collection In A Glass Darkly, the
17:39latter containing the vampire tale, Carmilla?
17:42Sheridan La Fanu.
17:43What?
17:45Sheridan La Fanu.
17:46Nominate Tom.
17:47Sheridan La Fanu.
17:48Yes, it is indeed.
17:49Well done.
17:50The story of an editor who is trying to procure the titular
17:52documents from the elderly widow of a famous poet.
17:55The Aspern Papers is a novella of 1888 by which American-British
17:59writer, born in New York City in 1843?
18:02Ooh.
18:04American-British.
18:05I don't know.
18:06Um.
18:07No.
18:08Pass.
18:09That's Henry James.
18:10Let's start the question.
18:11In the early 50s, Lord George Murray, a younger son of the first Duke of Athol, served as
18:16Lieutenant-General under which British royal figure, more than 20 years his junior?
18:21Murray was involved in the controversial decision to retreat from Derby and is often credited...
18:25Imperial at Flanagan.
18:26Bonny, Prince Charlie.
18:27Yes, he's in charge of his two.
18:29Well done.
18:30Three questions on 14th century Europe.
18:33The 14th century Holy Roman Emperors Henry VII and Charles IV were members of what royal
18:39house?
18:40It shares its name with a present-day European country.
18:43House of...
18:44Luxembourg.
18:45No, I don't think so.
18:46We've got the Holland-Stauffen, but it's not that...
18:49Could it just be like House of Vienna?
18:50Probably not.
18:51Country.
18:52Country, country.
18:53Oh, yeah.
18:54Oh, House of Austria, because...
18:55House of Austria.
18:56It was Luxembourg.
18:57Oh.
18:58In 1356, Charles IV issued a proclamation regulating the process of election of the Holy
19:03Roman Emperor.
19:04This decree is usually known in English by what two-word name that includes a word for a kind
19:09of seal?
19:10Seal.
19:11It's not a signal or something like that.
19:13Justin Lee is screaming at us right now.
19:15Um...
19:16The...
19:17Wax?
19:18No.
19:19The gold...
19:20The gold lock.
19:21Bad luck.
19:22It's the golden bull.
19:23Unlucky.
19:24From 1346 to 1378, Charles IV ruled as emperor from what city, founding the university that bears
19:29his name?
19:30Is it like...
19:32Is it like Prague?
19:33There's a Charles-something university in...
19:35I think they did something.
19:36Sure.
19:37Prague?
19:38It is Prague, yes.
19:39Picture round now.
19:40For your picture starter, you'll see a painting by an American artist.
19:43For ten points, give me the artist's name.
19:46It is Frederick Church.
19:47Well done.
19:48Following on from Frederick Church's depiction of Niagara Falls, which you saw for your picture
19:53starter, Warwick, your picture bonuses are three more paintings that also prominently
19:58feature rainbows, this time all by British artists.
20:02Five points for each artist you can name.
20:04First, who painted this?
20:05This is actually pretty awful.
20:06This time around.
20:07OK.
20:08I'm going to just rattle it off.
20:09I'm going to say Millais.
20:10Millais.
20:11Millais.
20:12Yes.
20:13Second, which 18th century artist painted this?
20:1418th century, so this is going to be an 18th century guy.
20:15What's the 18th century guy?
20:16What's the 18th century guy?
20:17What's the 18th century guy?
20:18What's that 18th century guy?
20:19This is not the Hayway in there.
20:20It's not Constable.
20:21It's not Constable.
20:22Reynolds.
20:23Reynolds.
20:24No, it's Joseph Wright of Derby, Landscape with the Rainbow from 1794.
20:36Finally, who is the artist here?
20:38Constable.
20:39Constable.
20:40That is Constable, yes.
20:41Let's start the question.
20:42In the Oxford English Dictionary, which ancient thinker is cited in translation
20:45under more than 200 head words?
20:48These including speculative, third man, aristocracy, timocracy, antithesis,
20:53hamartia and political animal.
20:58Aristotle.
20:59It is Aristotle, yes.
21:00Your bonuses then, Warwick, are on a phylogenetic classification.
21:05Including the giant anteater, nine-banded armadillo and the two-toed sloth,
21:10the super order Zenatha had previously been classified as part of which now defunct order
21:16so named for its species' supposed lack of teeth?
21:19Teeth?
21:20Maybe, like, aedontia or something.
21:23Yeah, like aedentia.
21:24Aedont...
21:25Aedonta?
21:26I'm afraid that's not close enough.
21:28I can't accept that.
21:29It's edentata that we were looking for.
21:31Bad luck.
21:32Okay.
21:33Zenarthan mammals had previously been classed as edentates alongside which old-world animal
21:38of the order Folidota, which, like the aardvark, was later reclassified?
21:43Old-world...
21:44It's edentia.
21:45Echidna.
21:46No.
21:47Maybe.
21:48Yeah.
21:49Echidna.
21:50No, it's a pangolin.
21:51Zenatha is divided into two orders,
21:53Singulata, in which armadillos can be found,
21:55and Pilosa, which contains sloths and anteaters,
21:59and whose Latin name indicates that species within it have what physical characteristic?
22:04Pilosa.
22:05Pilosa.
22:06Pilosa.
22:07Hair.
22:08Pilosa.
22:09Yeah.
22:10Pilosa could be hairy.
22:11Hair.
22:12Yes, it means they're hairy.
22:13APPLAUSE
22:14Ten points in it, six minutes to go.
22:15In 1817, Thomas Rickman published a groundbreaking work entitled
22:19An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of English...
22:22What?
22:23From the Conquest to the Reformation.
22:25He was the first to divide the medieval styles in this field into Norman,
22:28Early English...
22:30Castles.
22:31No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
22:32Decorated English and Perpendicular English.
22:38Gothic architecture.
22:39No, that's too specific, I'm afraid.
22:41It's just architecture that we needed,
22:42and Norman is not a style of Gothic architecture.
22:45Bad luck.
22:46Another starter question.
22:47I need a two-word term here.
22:49When asked by the Soviet laboratory of the Plywood Trust
22:51to devise a method for producing wooden sheets with as little waste as possible,
22:56Leonid Kantorovich began work on what would eventually become
22:59which mathematical technique for maximising or minimising the results of an objective function...
23:06Imperial count.
23:07Optimisation.
23:08No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
23:09Within given constraints.
23:12Or a clean slate.
23:13The simplex method.
23:14No, Chris, that's too specific.
23:16And, Justin, I'm afraid you weren't quite specific enough.
23:18I needed to hear linear programming, though I would have taken linear optimisation.
23:23Another starter question.
23:25Which decade of the 19th century saw the birth of Thomas Hardy,
23:28the marriage of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett,
23:31and the death of Frederic Chopin?
23:33Imperial and Flanagan.
23:351840s.
23:36Yes, it is indeed.
23:37Bag up, Warren.
23:38I think you knew that as well.
23:39Your bonuses, then, Imperial, are on the Amazon and its tributaries.
23:42The Putumayo is a tributary of the Amazon that flows mainly eastwards
23:46from what country, forming borders with two countries to the south
23:49before entering Brazil?
23:50Two countries to the south.
23:52Before entering Brazil?
23:53I don't know.
23:54Like Peru and Bolivia or something?
23:55Colombia.
23:56I don't know.
23:57Well, not to the south, though.
23:58South of Brazil, are you saying?
23:59Or south of Brazil?
24:00Come on.
24:01Peru and Bolivia.
24:02Colombia.
24:03No, it's Colombia.
24:04No, the answer I needed was Colombia.
24:06The Madeira is a large tributary that begins at a confluence
24:09in the north-east of what country?
24:11It goes on to form this country's border with Brazil
24:13before flowing north-east to join the Amazon in the region of Manaus.
24:17Manaus?
24:18Manaus is in Amazonas, which is near the north.
24:20So, what's it near to you? Peru, Ecuador?
24:22Venice.
24:23But it could float on that side as well.
24:26Now, while you're going...
24:27You know this better than I do.
24:28I don't know.
24:30Venezuela?
24:31No, it's Bolivia.
24:32The Ucayali and the Marañón are two major headstreams
24:35of the Amazon that rise in the Andes in what country?
24:38Their confluence is south-southwest of the river port of Iquitos.
24:42Iquitos?
24:43Is it a bit awkward?
24:44No.
24:45Yeah, no, that's Quito.
24:46Wait.
24:47Is it obviously just like the Peru?
24:48I don't know.
24:49It hasn't been Peru yet.
24:50Peru?
24:51It is Peru, yes.
24:52Let's start the question.
24:53What short word is used in Hawaiian cuisine for a dish
24:56consisting of small pieces of dress...
24:58..Poke?
25:00It is poke, yes.
25:01Your bonus is a few questions on disguise in Shakespeare's plays.
25:05In Act 2, Scene 4, of which play does a character disguised
25:08as a servant named Cesario declare...
25:10My father had a daughter, loved a man, as it might be.
25:13Perhaps were I a woman, I should your lordship.
25:1512th night.
25:16Okay, 12th night.
25:17Yes.
25:18In which play does Julia ask her maid, Lucetta,
25:19to help disguise her as a boy in order to deter lascivious men
25:22as she travels to Milan...
25:23The Taming of the Shrew.
25:24No, it's the Two Gentlemen of Verona.
25:26Oh, no.
25:27In King Lear, which character assumes the identity of poor Tom
25:29by saying...
25:30Edgar.
25:31It is Edgar.
25:33Well done.
25:35Let's start the question.
25:36Which letter of the alphabet denotes the most common double helical structure
25:39adopted by DNA under natural conditions?
25:42It is also the first...
25:44Alpha?
25:45Oh, no.
25:46Sorry.
25:47It is also the first letter of the alphabet that is not used
25:49in the single letter amino acid code.
25:53Zed.
25:54No, it's B.
25:55Another starter question.
25:56What three-digit number is shared by the number of Penelope's suitors
25:59in the Odyssey and the number of outlaws or stars of destiny...
26:04108.
26:05It is 108, yes.
26:07Two questions for you on a process in industrial chemistry.
26:11Also used to produce zirconium and hafnium,
26:13the Krull process is the primary method used today to extract
26:16which group four metal from ores including ilmenite and rutile?
26:20This metal is strong and lightweight with multiple industrial applications.
26:24Titanium.
26:25Yes.
26:26Today the process usually involves reducing a tetrachloride of titanium
26:29with which group two metal?
26:31Grignard reagents are organic compounds of this metal.
26:34Magnetium.
26:35Yes.
26:36The reduction is carried out in an inert atmosphere,
26:38usually either helium or which other noble gas?
26:40Also used for this purpose in welding and in incandescent light bulbs.
26:44Neon.
26:45I thought...
26:46Argon.
26:47OK.
26:48Argon.
26:49Yes, it is.
26:50I need a two-word term here.
26:51By the Berlin and Milan decrees from 1806, Napoleon I instituted
26:56what economic strategy against Britain?
26:59Aiming to...
27:00Imperial and Flanagan.
27:01The continental system.
27:02Yes, it is indeed.
27:03The bonuses then, three questions on depictions of a historical figure.
27:06The 1890 painting, What is Truth?, by Russian artist Nikolai Gay,
27:11depicts which figure questioning Jesus?
27:14As recounted in chapter 18 of John's Gospel?
27:16Who questions Jesus?
27:18I don't know.
27:19John's...
27:20Judas, I don't know.
27:22Thomas?
27:23Thomas.
27:24No, that's Pontius Pilate.
27:25In which novel by Mikhail Bulgakov does one of the title characters
27:28write a novel about Pontius Pilate, the contents of which are included
27:31as a novel within the novel?
27:33Marta Margarita, Heart of the Dog, I don't know.
27:36What's that?
27:37Heart of the Dog?
27:38No, it's the mastermind.
27:39Who played the role of Pontius Pilate in the 1979 film Life of Brian?
27:43Oh, no.
27:47Come on.
27:48John Cleese.
27:49No, it was Michael Palin.
27:51Let's start the question.
27:52Which king was on the English throne at the time of the deaths of Giotto,
27:55Petrarch and Boccaccio, and the births of Christine de Pizan
27:58and Geoffrey Chaucer?
28:01Edward III.
28:02It was Edward III, yes.
28:03Your bonuses are on me.
28:04And that's gone.
28:05Warrick have 105 with a period of 190.
28:11Well, I think that scoreline is brutally unfair to you
28:13because it was so close until about three minutes to go
28:15and you knew all the answers to all the bonuses which they got at the end.
28:18But bad luck, guys.
28:19It's not the end.
28:20We get to see you again, which means this is not the end of the road,
28:23which is a good thing because you're a fantastic team.
28:25Imperial, you just sort of ran away with it at the end.
28:28It made it look kind of easy, which was nice.
28:30Got into a rhythm.
28:31Congratulations.
28:32Well done.
28:33I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match.
28:35But until then, it is goodbye from Warwick.
28:37Goodbye.
28:38It's goodbye from Imperial.
28:39Goodbye.
28:40And it's goodbye from me.
28:41Goodbye.
28:42APPLAUSE
29:01We'll see you next time to Wed Hut.
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