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00:27Hello and welcome back to the
00:29quarter-final stage of this year's University Challenge. This match is a must-win game for
00:34both teams. They have each lost one quarter-final already and if they lose again tonight they will
00:39be leaving the competition. If they do win they'll still need to come back and win once more if they're
00:44to join Edinburgh in the semi-finals. This year's team from Manchester started their run to this point
00:48with two impressive wins over tough opposition from New College Oxford and the LSE. Both those
00:54games were close and very competitive so it was something of a surprise when their first quarter
00:58final against Edinburgh was fairly one-sided. In the first half of that match Manchester managed
01:02just one correct starter to Edinburgh's eight. They were stronger in the second but still finished on
01:0680 points to Edinburgh's 195 meaning their average score is now around 140. Let's meet the team from
01:13Manchester for the fourth time. Hi I'm Ray Power. I'm from Bangkok, Thailand and I study film studies
01:18and English literature. Hi my name is Kirsty Dixon. I'm from Morley Green in Cheshire and I study medicine.
01:25And their captain? Hi I'm Kai Madrick. I'm from Foy in Cornwall and I'm studying for a PhD in AI
01:29and
01:30Astrophysics. Hi I'm Rob Faulkner. I'm from Norwich and I'm studying physics with Astrophysics.
01:38The team from UCL saw off first SOAS and then Lincoln to reach this round and in their first
01:43quarterfinal came agonisingly close to beating Merton College Oxford as well. That match was neck
01:48and neck throughout. In the middle third neither team had a run of more than one correct starter in a
01:52row
01:52and the lead passed back and forth from question to question but in the end it was Merton who were
01:57in front
01:58at the gong by just 10 points. The UCL team's average score so far is now just over 180. Let's
02:04meet them
02:05once again. Hi I'm Zach Lakota-Baldwin. I'm from London and I'm doing a PhD in science and technology
02:11studies. Hi I'm Alice Lee. I'm from Kendall and I'm studying for a master's in Russian and post-Soviet
02:18politics. And their captain? Hi I'm Michael Dougherty. I'm from Derry and I'm doing a PhD in optical
02:23communications. Hi I'm Manny Campion-Dye. I'm from Bath and I'm studying for a PhD in philosophy.
02:32Welcome back. Very nice to see you all and to see you applauding each other. You need to win this
02:37one. No pressure. Fingers on buzzers. Good luck. Here's your first starter for 10. Writing in the early
02:443rd century CE about 150 years after her death. Whom did the Roman historian Cassius Dio describe as
02:51being very tall in appearance most terrifying with a harsh voice and with a great mass of the
02:56tawniest hair itself. Manchester Magic. Boudicca. It is Boudicca yes. Your bonuses are on transnational
03:03UNESCO World Heritage properties that is those with multiple sites in more than one country.
03:10A site inscribed in 1983 comprises the ruins of several religious missions in the rainforests
03:16of southern Brazil and northern Argentina. Founded in the 17th and 18th century by which religious
03:22order for the purpose of converting the native Guarani people?
03:26Er, I mean it could be like the Jesuits or something like that. Somewhere around that.
03:29The Jesuits? It is the Jesuits. The mining sites of Almaden in Spain and Idria in Slovenia
03:35are two UNESCO sites inscribed under the title Heritage of what relatively rare heavy metal
03:41mined at these sites since antiquity and medieval times respectively? The international importance
03:46of this metal increased due to its role in the working of gold and silver mines in the Americas.
03:52Oh, is it mercury? Is that quite... Well, they've used that to like my gold and stuff,
03:57I'm fairly sure. And it's fairly rare. It's fairly rare. Yeah. Mercury?
04:00Yes. The Moravian church settlements listed by UNESCO include four towns and villages established
04:06according to principles reflecting Moravian religious ideals. Three are located in Germany,
04:12Denmark and the US, while the fourth is the village of Grace Hill, just outside Ballymena,
04:17in which county of Northern Ireland?
04:20Is it... Is it Katya Down? I was thinking Katya Down, but I mean it sounds... I don't know.
04:26I don't think it's a... Katya Down? No, it's Antrim. Now, let's start a question.
04:31Characters in which play that premiered in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2024
04:35include Argentinian diplomat Raul Estrada Oyuela?
04:39Kyoto. Kyoto. It is Kyoto. Well done.
04:42Your bonuses, UCL, are on alliteratively named psychologists.
04:46Five points for each person you could identify.
04:49First, an Austrian psychologist born 1870,
04:52whose works include practice and theory of individual psychology.
04:55He emphasised the importance of birth order and feelings of worth and belonging in a family
05:00to the development of personality,
05:01and introduced the concept of an inferiority complex.
05:06Alliterative?
05:07I don't know. Austrian psychologist. I don't know.
05:11Do you have a guess? No. Adler? Let's just pass.
05:14Adam Adler. I can't accept that, guys.
05:16I'm so sorry. Bad luck. It's Alfred Adler. Bad luck.
05:19Sorry. Secondly, another psychologist born 1897 in Austria-Hungary,
05:24a pioneer of infant and young child psychology.
05:26She developed a model of child development
05:28known as the separation individuation model.
05:32No, I don't know.
05:33I think it's Klein or Freud are the only women psychologists.
05:36Pass it, yeah.
05:37Barnett?
05:38No, it's Margaret Mahler.
05:40Finally, born in Frankfurt in 1902,
05:42a psychologist known for a theory of personality
05:45in which people progress through stages in which the ego
05:48is pulled between what he labelled virtues and psychosocial crises.
05:52He also coined the term identity crisis.
05:55This is a tough round.
05:59If we haven't got anything, we should keep it moving.
06:00Go for John and Simon.
06:01Go for Freud or something.
06:02Yeah, go for Freud.
06:04No, it's Eric Erickson.
06:05Now, let's start the question.
06:06In mathematics, what seven-letter adjective
06:09can precede all of the following?
06:11Graph, to indicate a graph where,
06:13for every induced subgraph,
06:15the clique number equals the chromatic number.
06:18Group, to refer to a group...
06:19Manchester metric.
06:21Complete.
06:21No, I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
06:22Information, to refer to a group equal to its commutator subgroup.
06:26Information, to refer to a class of game
06:28in which players move alternately
06:30and each player is completely informed of all previous moves.
06:34And number, to indicate a positive integer
06:36that is equal to the sum of its proper divisors.
06:40UCL Lekord of Baldwin.
06:41Perfect.
06:42It is perfect. Well done.
06:43We'll balance this UCLR on the work of historian Timothy Snyder.
06:47Subtitle, 20 Lessons from the 20th Century,
06:50Snyder's 2017 book about the rise
06:52of authoritarianism in the United States
06:54is titled on what concept?
06:57In it, Snyder quotes James Madison's remark
06:58that this concept rises, quote,
07:00on some favourable emergency.
07:02It's not on evil or something.
07:03Some favourable emergency.
07:04Favourable emergency?
07:06He's doing like authoritarianism, right?
07:07Opportunism or something?
07:08Yeah, he does like authoritarianism, like...
07:10That's what he mentioned, right?
07:11A concept?
07:13Democracy?
07:14No.
07:15On evil? I don't know.
07:17No, it's tyranny.
07:19Snyder's 2008 book,
07:21The Red Prince, The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke,
07:24centres on which historical figure
07:25and his efforts to establish a kingdom of Ukraine
07:27during World War I?
07:29During World War I, I'd go, like,
07:33Petliura, or...
07:34I don't know.
07:35Can I nominate you?
07:36Sure.
07:37Nominate Lee.
07:37Petliura?
07:38No, it's Archie Wilhelm Franz of Austria.
07:41Snyder has written extensively
07:42on the intellectual and cultural history
07:44of which nation in books such as
07:46Nationalism, Marxism and Modern Central Europe
07:48and Sketches from a Secret War,
07:50which centre on the thinker Kazimierz Kellis Krauss
07:53and the artist Henrik Jusevski.
07:56I think this is Poland.
07:56Sounds Poland.
07:57Yeah?
07:57Yeah.
07:57Poland?
07:58It is Poland.
07:59Well done.
07:59Don't start with the question,
08:00and it's a picture round now.
08:01For your picture starter,
08:02you're going to see a map
08:03on which a British city has been marked.
08:06For ten points,
08:06I need you to give me the name of that city.
08:11Manchester, Manchewick.
08:12Cardiff.
08:13No.
08:13Anyone from UCL, you may not confer.
08:15UCL Duerty.
08:16Swansea.
08:17No, it's Newport.
08:18We'll take your picture bonuses in just a moment
08:20when we get the next starter right.
08:22What in motion appears in the titles
08:24of all the following films?
08:26The final film, directed by Luis Buñuel,
08:28released in 1977,
08:29the 1952 directorial debut
08:32of Stanley Kubrick
08:33about a group of...
08:34You shall do it.
08:36Desire.
08:36It is desire.
08:37Well done.
08:38For your picture starter,
08:39you saw the city of Newport in Wales,
08:41which was the site
08:42of the last major armed uprising
08:43in Great Britain
08:44when a group of Chartists
08:45staged an insurgency in 1839.
08:49For your bonuses,
08:50you're going to see three more locations
08:51of notable Chartist protests
08:53and rebellions.
08:54Five points for each place
08:56you can name.
08:57First, this city,
08:57the location of an 1842
09:00Chartist strike and riot.
09:04We're in Lancashire,
09:05so I think it's a bit south of Lancaster,
09:08but let's go Lancaster.
09:10Yeah, you sure?
09:11Not like Preston or something like that.
09:13No.
09:13OK, Lancaster?
09:14It's Preston.
09:15Secondly, this city,
09:17the site of an 1854 rebellion
09:18inspired by Chartist demands.
09:21Wait, is this like...
09:22It's Australia.
09:22It's Australia.
09:23Yeah, it's Australia, right.
09:25So what's down there that's...
09:27It's not coastal.
09:29I really don't know.
09:31Is it Brisbane?
09:32Is it Melbourne?
09:33No, no, no.
09:34Is it coastal?
09:35Try like Adelaide.
09:37Yeah, OK.
09:38Or is it like Canberra?
09:39No, it's not Canberra.
09:40Adelaide?
09:40No, that's Ballarat.
09:41The rebellion was the battle
09:42of the Eureka Stockade.
09:44Lastly, this modern-day city
09:46in which the so-called
09:46Battle of Montgomery's Tavern,
09:48claimed by some historians
09:49to have been part
09:50of a global Chartist movement,
09:51took place in 1837.
09:54OK, in Canada?
09:55This is in Canada.
09:56Is this like going to be Toronto?
09:59It's quite near the border.
10:00Shall we try that?
10:00Is that on the lake like that?
10:02Oh, I don't know that it is,
10:03but I'm...
10:05I don't really have anything better.
10:06Go with your guy.
10:07Toronto?
10:08Yes, it is Toronto.
10:09Well done.
10:09Let's start with the question.
10:10APPLAUSE
10:10What European minority ethnic group
10:12that speaks two mutually intelligible,
10:14standardised varieties
10:15of a Slavic language
10:16most closely related to Czech,
10:18Slovak and Polish
10:19descend from peoples
10:20who settled from the 5th century CE
10:22in the historical region of Lusatia,
10:24now in the eastern German states
10:26of Brandenburg and Saxony,
10:28where they've been historically referred to
10:29by German speakers as Vens?
10:33Manchester metric.
10:34Pomeranians?
10:35No.
10:36Anyone from UCI have a guess?
10:38No, I'll tell you,
10:39it's the Sorbs.
10:40Another starter question.
10:41The monumental winter landscape,
10:43Bigger Trees Near Water,
10:45completed in 2007,
10:46a 2025 self-portrait titled
10:48Play Within a Play Within a Play
10:50and Me With a Cigarette,
10:51and a number of works executed on an iPad
10:53during the COVID-19 lockdown.
10:55UCL campaign dying.
10:56David Hockney.
10:57It is David Hockney, well done.
10:58Your bonuses are on terms coined
11:00by the 19th century academic
11:01William Huell.
11:02What adjective did Huell coin
11:04in a review of the ideas of Charles Lyle
11:06to describe the doctrine
11:08that Earth's geologic processes
11:09are relatively unchanging?
11:12He contrasted it with catastrophist,
11:13a word also of his own invention.
11:17So it's something to do with
11:18sort of being more like long-term,
11:20more like stable.
11:20It's like stable earth.
11:21I don't know that it's quite...
11:23I think it's just a single word.
11:24It's an est, like statist or something.
11:25Oh, no, it's not coming.
11:29Gaia.
11:29Gaia hypothesis.
11:30Right?
11:31No, it's not that.
11:31It sounds like Lovelock.
11:32That's way later.
11:33I don't know.
11:33I don't know.
11:34Come on.
11:35Statist?
11:35No, it's uniformitarian.
11:37What two Greek-derived words
11:38did Huell suggest to Michael Faraday
11:40in a letter of 1834,
11:42stating that they, quote,
11:43signify Eastern and Western way
11:45and imply rising and setting
11:47more simply than Faraday's original terms?
11:51If it's Eastern, Western,
11:52Oriental and Occidental...
11:54I mean, those terms probably precede him.
11:55But for Faraday, yeah.
11:57Oh, Faraday.
11:57It's like anode and cathode.
11:58It's like flux.
11:59Anode and cathode, yes.
11:59Oh, wait, because I'm inside.
12:01Anode and cathode?
12:02Yes, well done.
12:02In a review also written in 1834
12:05of a book by Mary Samoville,
12:06what word did Huell first use
12:08to describe, quote,
12:12he also suggested nature peeper
12:14as a possible alternative?
12:16Scientist?
12:17I mean...
12:18Oh, yes, he did coin the word scientist,
12:19your son, right?
12:20Yeah, that was Huell...
12:20Scientist.
12:21It's correct. Well done.
12:22Let's start with a question.
12:24In the Olympics,
12:25what race was first run by women
12:27in Amsterdam in 1928
12:29with German Lina Radke winning gold?
12:31The race's intense finish
12:33led organisers to declare it
12:34too long for women to run in.
12:35UCL champion die.
12:37The 400 metres.
12:38I'm afraid you lose five points.
12:39And the event was for men
12:40only until 1960
12:41when Lyudmila Lysenko
12:43won gold for the Soviet Union
12:44with a then world record time
12:46of two minutes and 4.3 seconds.
12:49Manchester Dixon.
12:501,500 metres?
12:52No, it's 800 metres.
12:53Down the middle.
12:54Bad luck.
12:54Another starter question.
12:56What Latin-derived name
12:57is given to the fluid
12:58produced by the mammary glands
12:59during the first stage
13:00of lactogenesis during pregnancy
13:02that can be expressed
13:03from the breast
13:04from the third trimester
13:05and continues to be produced
13:07in the first few days?
13:08UCL Doherty.
13:10Clostrum.
13:10It is indeed, yeah.
13:11Your bonuses are on art
13:13in the 18th century.
13:15In the 1720s,
13:16the Venetian artist
13:17Rosalba Carriera
13:18popularised the use
13:19of what artist's material
13:21in France?
13:22It comprises pigments
13:23bound with gum or resin
13:24and moulded into sticks
13:25similar to coloured chalks.
13:28Oh, it's pastels.
13:29Pastels?
13:29Oh, it's pastels, yeah.
13:30Pastels.
13:30Not crayon.
13:31No, pastels.
13:32Pastels.
13:33Pastels is great.
13:34A self-portrait of Swiss pastel painter
13:36Jean-Étienne Lyotard
13:37depicts him in a loose-fitting robe
13:39and thick beard.
13:40A legacy of his time
13:41in which eastern Mediterranean city,
13:43then the capital
13:44of a major empire?
13:46Oh, it's pastels.
13:47It's Constantinople.
13:47It's Istanbul.
13:48Yeah.
13:49That's not Mediterranean, though?
13:50No, it's not really, no.
13:53Of a major empire?
13:55I mean, I don't know.
13:57In the 1720s?
13:59Eastern Mediterranean?
14:01Beirut?
14:02Yeah.
14:02That's not a capital of an empire?
14:03Come on.
14:05Constantinople?
14:05It was Constantinople, yeah.
14:06He was known as the Turkish painter.
14:08A lost pastels portrait
14:09by Adelaide Labil-Gillard
14:11of which radical Jacobin
14:13executed in 1794
14:14had the label
14:15The Incorruptible,
14:17one of the first recorded uses
14:18of this epithet
14:19for this figure.
14:22Is it...
14:22Is it...
14:22So, it could be Rosario,
14:24but I think it might be Sanjust.
14:25Any strong feelings
14:26for Y either way?
14:27I don't know,
14:27but I just feel like
14:28I wouldn't have thought about it.
14:29Where have you got Sanjust?
14:30Nominate Campion, Diane.
14:31Sanjust?
14:31No, it's Robespierre.
14:32Good luck.
14:33Now, start the question.
14:35What Christian denomination
14:36links the family
14:37of Ephraim Tellwright
14:38in Arnold Bennett's
14:39Anna of the Five Towns
14:40with Diana Morris,
14:41a preacher in George Eliot's
14:43Adam Bede?
14:43Originating in the 18th century,
14:45it saw growth in Wales,
14:47Cornwall
14:47and industrial areas.
14:49Manchester-Matchwick.
14:50Methodist.
14:50Is correct.
14:51Well done.
14:52Good questions for you
14:53on a British film.
14:55Directed by Robert Hamer,
14:56which 1949 film centres
14:57on the ambitious
14:58Louis Mazzini
14:59as he attempts
14:59to murder various members
15:00of the Daskoin family,
15:02all eight of whom
15:03are played by Alec Guinness
15:04in order to secure
15:05a dukedom?
15:06Oh, my God.
15:07Never heard of this.
15:0849.
15:09Yeah.
15:10Do you have anything?
15:11No, I'm sorry.
15:12Pass.
15:12It's Kind Hearts and Coronets.
15:13What day of the week
15:14is mentioned
15:15in the title of the film
15:16Hamer directed
15:16immediately prior
15:17to Kind Hearts and Coronets?
15:19Widely seen
15:20as a precursor
15:21to later
15:21kitchen sink
15:22realist films.
15:22It depicts the flight
15:23of an escaped convict
15:24as he attempts
15:25to hide out
15:26in the East End.
15:27Well,
15:28one in seven shots.
15:30That's right.
15:31Friday?
15:32I've got no idea.
15:33Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
15:35Sorry, I feel...
15:37I don't know.
15:38Thursday.
15:39Thursday.
15:40Sunday, as in
15:40It Always Rains on Sunday.
15:42Both It Always Rains on Sunday
15:44and Kind Hearts and Coronets
15:45were produced
15:46by a studio named
15:46for which London borough
15:47best known for its
15:48namesake comedies
15:49including Passport to Pimlico
15:50and Whiskey Galore.
15:51Ealing.
15:52It is Ealing, yes.
15:53Let's start with a question
15:54and it's a music round.
15:55For your music starter
15:56you're going to hear
15:56a song from the 2010s.
15:58For ten points
15:59I need you to name
16:00the band you hear playing.
16:02You know I don't know
16:04Manchester Faulkner.
16:05Fontaine's DC.
16:06Yes.
16:08Well done for keeping
16:08your composure
16:09as your captain
16:10nearly jumped out of the studio.
16:12For your music starter
16:13you heard Fontaine's DC's
16:15Liberty Bell
16:15which was produced
16:16and mixed by songwriter
16:18and producer Dan Carey.
16:19For your music bonuses
16:20three more tracks
16:21produced by Carey
16:22five points for each band
16:23you can name.
16:24First.
16:27It's Fakmadi!
16:29Fakmadi!
16:31Second, yes.
16:32Secondly.
16:35How's this?
16:37Oh, Squid!
16:38Yes.
16:38You're so excited
16:39I'm struggling to hear the idea.
16:40It's so good!
16:41Well done.
16:42Lastly.
16:44Lastly.
16:53It's like around this.
16:55Oh.
16:56Oh.
16:58It's not wet leg.
16:59It's not wet leg.
17:00It's not wet leg.
17:01Wet leg.
17:01It could be that.
17:02Wet leg?
17:02Yes, it is wet leg.
17:04Now to start the question.
17:06Born in the 7th century BCE,
17:09which Greek philosopher
17:09is the oldest figure
17:10mentioned in physicist
17:11Tuomo Suntola's textbook
17:13The Short History of Science
17:15which refers to him as
17:16quote,
17:17the grandfather of the
17:18scientific tradition
17:19in Western culture.
17:20Suntola later discusses
17:21this man's theory
17:22of an archae
17:23or fundamental substance
17:25Use your campion die.
17:27Failures of melatus.
17:28It is indeed.
17:28Well done.
17:29Your bonuses are
17:30on members of the
17:31Göttingen 7,
17:32a group of professors
17:33at the University of Göttingen
17:34who were dismissed
17:35after protesting
17:36against the annulment
17:37of Hanover's constitution.
17:39In each case,
17:39I need you to name
17:40the professor
17:41from a description.
17:42First,
17:43the German physicist
17:43who, along with Carl Gauss,
17:45invented the first
17:46electromagnetic telegraph.
17:48He gives his name
17:48to the SI unit
17:50of magnetic flux.
17:52Oh, flux?
17:54Wait, so that's...
17:55Oh, God.
17:59I'm thinking
17:59it's like Helmholtz
18:01but that's not correct.
18:02I mean, that's German-sounding.
18:03Yeah, that's not the unit of flux.
18:05You haven't got anything else.
18:08Helmholtz?
18:08No, that's Wilhelm Weber.
18:10Secondly,
18:11the group's leader,
18:11a German nationalist
18:12whose ideas played
18:13a large role
18:14in the proposed constitution
18:15to unite Germany
18:16put forth by the
18:17Frankfurt National Assembly
18:18in 1849.
18:20Do anything for this.
18:22Another scientist.
18:23No idea.
18:23It's a scientist
18:24but also a German nationalist.
18:25I mean, I just don't think.
18:26Yeah, I don't know.
18:27Could be Helmholtz.
18:28No, it's Friedrich Dahlmann.
18:30Lastly,
18:30a pair of linguists
18:31and folklorists
18:32who were later offered
18:33posts at the University
18:34of Berlin.
18:35One of them had published
18:36his Deutsche Mythology
18:37while in Göttingen.
18:38Their surname is enough.
18:40It is.
18:40Oh, Grimm.
18:41It is the Brothers Grimm.
18:42Well done.
18:43Let's start the question.
18:44In Mexican cuisine,
18:45the word nopalis
18:46refers to the edible leaves
18:48of...
18:48Newseal Doherty.
18:49Cactus.
18:50Yes, absolutely right.
18:51Well done.
18:51Your bonuses
18:52are three questions
18:53on a book.
18:54What two-word term
18:55is the title
18:55of a 1998 book
18:57by Paul Anastas
18:58and John Warner
18:59which the authors describe
19:01as, quote,
19:01a fundamental methodology
19:03for changing
19:03the intrinsic nature
19:04of a chemical product
19:05or process
19:06so that it is inherently
19:07of less risk
19:08to human health
19:09and the environment?
19:11I don't know.
19:12I kind of missed
19:13the start of it.
19:14It's like a term
19:15for this process,
19:17basically.
19:18Come on.
19:20Sanitising?
19:20No, it's green chemistry.
19:21An example of a green reaction
19:23given in the book
19:24is the production
19:24of which class
19:25of organic compounds
19:26without the use
19:27of halogenated intermediates?
19:29The authors describe
19:30the traditional method
19:31for making these compounds
19:32as requiring, quote,
19:33chlorination of benzene
19:35followed by nitration
19:36and nucleophilic displacement
19:37of the chlorine
19:38with a new
19:40substituting group.
19:41Like polyphenols
19:43maybe
19:44or, yeah?
19:45Yeah?
19:46OK.
19:46Polyphenols?
19:47Aromatic amines.
19:49Designing safer chemicals
19:50is the subject
19:51of a section of the book
19:51titled
19:52Minimising
19:53What Quantity
19:54typically defined
19:55as the proportion
19:55of a drug
19:56that enters circulation?
19:58Dosage.
20:00Well, like,
20:00would it be, like,
20:01not severity
20:02or something similar
20:03to that word like that?
20:04Exposure?
20:05Oh, exposure.
20:06They might have a drug
20:07that enters...
20:08Well, isn't even a lot
20:09of drug...
20:09Like tonicity or something?
20:10I don't know.
20:11Come on.
20:13Exposure?
20:14No, it's bioavailability.
20:15Eight minutes to go.
20:16Fingers on buzzers.
20:17The Linimo in Japan,
20:19the Shanghai Transrapid
20:20in China,
20:21and...
20:22Manchester Merchwick.
20:23McLeod.
20:23Well done.
20:24It is indeed.
20:25Your bonuses, Manchester,
20:26are on low-seeded
20:28or unseeded players
20:29who reached the late stages
20:30of Grand Slam
20:31tennis tournaments
20:31in 2024.
20:33The 25th seed that year,
20:35which Italian player
20:36reached the semifinals
20:36of the Wimbledon men's
20:38singles competition
20:38in 2024
20:39where he lost
20:40to Novak Djokovic?
20:42Oh, no.
20:42Do you have a name?
20:43I was going to say
20:44Berrettini,
20:45but it won't be him.
20:46I don't think.
20:47If it's not like that.
20:48No, Berrettini.
20:49Berrettini.
20:50No, it's not him.
20:50It's Musetti.
20:51Which unseeded
20:52Croatian player
20:52reached the semifinals
20:53of the women's
20:54singles competition
20:55at Wimbledon
20:56in 2024
20:56where she lost
20:57to Jasmine Paolini?
20:59That same year,
21:00she won a silver medal
21:00at the Paris Olympics,
21:02losing in the final
21:03to Zheng Chinwen.
21:04Nothing.
21:04I wouldn't know it.
21:05Von Drusseva,
21:06but I think she's Czech.
21:07Not it.
21:08Faulkner.
21:08Von Drusseva.
21:09That was Donna Vekic.
21:10Which British player
21:11made it to the semifinals
21:12of the men's singles competition
21:13at the 2024 US Open,
21:15having entered the tournament
21:16seeded 25th?
21:17He ended the year
21:18as the British number one.
21:19Jack Draper.
21:20Jack Draper.
21:21Yes, it is.
21:22Let's start the question.
21:22It's a picture round.
21:23For your picture starter,
21:24you're going to see
21:25an image of an athlete.
21:27For ten points,
21:27I need you to give me his name.
21:31UCL Doherty.
21:32Fred Perry.
21:33No.
21:34You may not confirm Manchester.
21:38Manchester Mantwick.
21:39Roger Bannister.
21:39It is Roger Bannister.
21:40Yes, well done.
21:42For your picture starter,
21:43you saw Roger Bannister,
21:44who was runner-up
21:44for the BBC's
21:45first ever
21:45Sports Personality of the Year
21:47award in 1954,
21:48the same year
21:50he ran his sub
21:50four-minute mile.
21:52For your picture bonuses,
21:53three more athletes
21:54who were runners-up
21:54for Sports Personality of the Year
21:56in the same year
21:57that they had
21:58a major achievement
21:59in their sport.
22:00Five points
22:00for each you can name.
22:02First,
22:02this 1965 runner-up.
22:05What sport is that?
22:07Absolutely no idea.
22:09I mean,
22:10can we even have
22:11a guess here?
22:11No, I can't.
22:12We should just pass then.
22:13Yeah, pass.
22:14That's Jim Clark.
22:15It's the same year
22:15he won the Formula One
22:16World Drivers Championship
22:17and the Indianapolis 500.
22:19Secondly,
22:19this runner-up
22:20in 1998
22:21and 2000.
22:23Oh.
22:24Denise Lewis.
22:25Yeah.
22:25Is that Denise Lewis?
22:26Yeah.
22:27Nomad Feltner.
22:27Denise Lewis.
22:28Yeah.
22:282000's the year
22:29she set the then
22:30British record
22:30in the heptathlon.
22:32And lastly,
22:32this 2021 runner-up.
22:34Tom Daley.
22:35Tom Daley.
22:36That is Tom Daley,
22:36yes.
22:37In 2021,
22:37he won gold
22:38with Matthew Lee
22:38in the men's
22:39synchronised
22:4010-metre platform diving
22:41at the Tokyo Olympics
22:42and he also became
22:43the first Brit
22:44to win four
22:44Olympic diving medals.
22:46Ten points in it.
22:48Provinces known
22:48as Sukt and Katlon
22:50as well as
22:50the districts
22:51under Republic subordination
22:52are three of the
22:53primary subdivisions
22:54of which country
22:55whose territory
22:56also includes
22:57the autonomous region
22:58of Gorno-Badakshan
22:59in which can be found
23:00a large section
23:01of the Pamir Mountains.
23:04No.
23:08Tajikistan.
23:08It is Tajikistan,
23:09yes,
23:09but to level.
23:10Three questions
23:11on the northeast
23:12Caucasian languages.
23:13What is the most
23:14spoken language
23:15of the northeast
23:15Caucasian languages
23:16with approximately
23:181.8 million speakers,
23:19the majority of whom
23:20are to be found
23:21in a Republic
23:21of the Russian Federation
23:23bordering Georgia?
23:24So,
23:25bordering Georgia?
23:26I was going to say
23:26Tajikistan,
23:27but I think that's wrong.
23:28I think that's on the other side.
23:30What's the other one?
23:32I can't think of anything else.
23:33Do you have anything?
23:34No, sorry.
23:36Tajikistani.
23:36Chechen.
23:37What language
23:37closely related to Chechen
23:39in the Nakh branch
23:40of the family
23:40is an official language
23:41of a neighbouring republic
23:42of the Russian Federation
23:43to the west of Chechnya?
23:45It's the west.
23:46None of these
23:46are going to be
23:47Dutch style.
23:48I don't even think
23:49it's called Christian.
23:50It's the west.
23:52Yeah.
23:52Asechian or something,
23:53because it got south
23:53of the same year.
23:54Yeah.
23:56Asechian.
23:56No, it's English.
23:57Avar,
23:58the second most spoken
23:59language of the family,
24:00is primarily spoken
24:01in what republic
24:01of the Russian Federation
24:02to the east of Chechnya
24:03on the Caspian Sea?
24:05It's this,
24:06Dagestan.
24:07Dagestan.
24:07It is,
24:08although it's pronounced
24:09Dagestan.
24:10We'll take that.
24:11Right, another start
24:11of the question.
24:13Exposition,
24:13development
24:14and recapitulation
24:15are typically
24:16the three main sections
24:17of what form
24:18of instrumental music
24:20common in this structure
24:21since the early
24:22classical period?
24:23Its name is derived
24:24from a Latin word
24:24meaning to sound,
24:26distinguishing it
24:27from the sung
24:27cantata.
24:30Sonata.
24:30Yes.
24:31Your bonus is a few questions
24:32on songs inspired
24:33by the 1992 riots
24:35in Los Angeles.
24:36Released on a posthumous
24:371997 album,
24:38Are You Still Down,
24:39the song Hellraiser
24:40is by what rapper?
24:41It's one of many songs
24:42by this artist
24:43to mention the 1991
24:44killing of Latasha Harlins,
24:45one of the events
24:46that led to the riots.
24:48I mean,
24:48if it's like a posthumous
24:49one of a rapper,
24:49like maybe like
24:50Eazy-E or something?
24:51Yeah, or 2Pac or something.
24:52Yeah.
24:53Oh, but where's
24:54the location of this,
24:55was it?
24:55It's L.A.
24:56L.A.
24:56I mean,
24:57they're both.
24:57I'd go Eazy-E
24:58over 2Pac.
24:59Eazy-E.
24:59No, it is 2Pac.
25:00Inspired by experiences
25:01of staying in L.A.
25:02during the 1992 riots,
25:04Black Tie, White Noise
25:05is the title track
25:06of a 1993 album
25:08by which British artist?
25:09Yeah.
25:10David Bowie.
25:10David Bowie?
25:11Yes.
25:12When will they shoot
25:12and who got the camera?
25:14Both feature on
25:14The Predator,
25:15a 1992 album
25:16by which rapper
25:17and former member of NWA?
25:19This could just be like
25:20Ice Cube, maybe,
25:23or it sounds like
25:23his sort of vibe.
25:24Yeah, yeah.
25:24Ice Cube.
25:25Yes, it is.
25:26Another starter question.
25:26What three-word title
25:28links both these works?
25:30First,
25:30a trilogy of Japanese films
25:32directed by Masaki Kobayashi.
25:34Manchester Magic.
25:35The Human Condition.
25:36Well done.
25:36Your bonuses are on physics.
25:38Each part relates
25:39to a situation in which power
25:41in the physical sense
25:42depends on another quantity
25:43raised to a certain power
25:45in the mathematical sense.
25:47According to the
25:47Stefan Boltzmann law,
25:49the power emitted
25:49as electromagnetic radiation
25:51by a black body radiator
25:53depends on temperature
25:54raised to what power?
25:55Four.
25:56Yes.
25:56Assuming constant
25:57aerodynamic drag coefficient,
25:59the power required
25:59to drive an aircraft
26:00in straight-level flight
26:01depends on speed
26:02to what power?
26:04I don't know.
26:05It could be two.
26:06Two.
26:06I was going to say two.
26:07Two.
26:07No, it's three.
26:08By Ohm's and Jules laws,
26:10the power dissipated
26:11in a resistor
26:11is proportional to voltage
26:13raised to what power?
26:15Voltage.
26:16It was just...
26:17Ohm's law was just...
26:19It's just one, isn't it?
26:21One?
26:21No, it's two.
26:22Another starter question.
26:23Prior to his death
26:24in prison in 1924,
26:26Manuel Estrada Cabrera
26:27had served as the
26:28president of which country
26:29from 1898 to 1920?
26:32His time in office
26:33saw him grant large
26:34tracts of land
26:34to the American-owned
26:35United Fruit Company.
26:37Manchester, Medjugorje.
26:38Guatemala.
26:38It is Guatemala, yes.
26:40Your bonuses are
26:40on Asian rivers.
26:41More than 2,000 kilometres
26:42in length,
26:43the Irrawaddy River
26:44lies entirely
26:45within the territory
26:46of what country
26:46flowing roughly
26:47north-south
26:47into a delta
26:48on the Andaman Sea?
26:49Myanmar.
26:50Yes.
26:50Also emptying
26:51into the Andaman Sea,
26:52what river flows
26:53through southwest China
26:54where it is known
26:54as the Nui Giang?
26:55Its lower course
26:56forms part of the border
26:57between Myanmar and Thailand.
26:59Sorry, it won't be
27:00a Chinese name.
27:00Border between
27:01Myanmar and Thailand.
27:02Uh, Chao Pria.
27:03No.
27:04Do you find my nominate?
27:05Come on.
27:05Nominate power.
27:06Chao Pria.
27:06No, that was Salwin.
27:07What river enters Myanmar
27:08from southwest China
27:09where it is known
27:10as the Lansang Giang?
27:12It forms the border
27:12between northeast Myanmar
27:13and Laos
27:14and is more than
27:154,000 kilometres in length.
27:16It's just going to be
27:17the Mekong, right?
27:18Sure.
27:18Mekong.
27:19Yes.
27:19Another slightly question.
27:20Answer, as soon as your name
27:21is called,
27:22giving any two
27:23of the three isotopes
27:24that the IUPAC
27:25allows to be identified
27:26by name
27:27rather than by the
27:28traditional superscript...
27:29Manchester, Medjugorje.
27:30Deuterium, tritium.
27:31Yes, the other one is proteum.
27:32Three questions
27:33on the German author
27:34and dramatist Friedrich Schiller,
27:35born in 1759.
27:37Schiller's early play,
27:37The Robbers,
27:38is an example
27:39of what literary movement
27:40characterised by its emphasis
27:41on feeling and individuality?
27:42I need a three-word term
27:44in German or English.
27:45Er, so, like,
27:46like, new German romanticism.
27:47New German, yeah.
27:48I don't know.
27:49What was it?
27:50English, then?
27:50I don't know.
27:51New German romanticism.
27:52No, Sturmund Drang.
27:53In the early 1790s,
27:55Schiller published
27:55a history of what
27:5617th century conflict,
27:57his later stage work,
27:58Wallenstein,
27:59concerns a leading
28:00military commander
28:01in this war?
28:02I've carded this.
28:03It's the...
28:0417th century?
28:0530 years war.
28:06I'm not sure.
28:0617th century war.
28:08And the answer to the
28:08war for the 30 years war,
28:10and I've got
28:10UCL at 120,
28:11and Manchester at 150.
28:15That seems so brutal.
28:17That seems so brutal.
28:18You were ahead
28:18for so long, UCL,
28:20and just in the last
28:20five minutes,
28:22they pulled even
28:23and then away.
28:23I'm so sorry.
28:24It means we're going
28:25to have to say goodbye.
28:26Has it been a vaguely
28:26enjoyable journey?
28:27Will it be a sad conclusion?
28:28Yeah, it's been great.
28:29Well, we've loved having you,
28:31and Jeremy Bentham,
28:32your wonderful mascot as well.
28:33Manchester, you've got to
28:34start more strongly in future.
28:36You've got to really
28:36turn up in the first
28:3815 minutes or so
28:39and not make it so stressful.
28:40But it was a fantastic match.
28:41You're not there yet
28:42in the semifinals.
28:43We're going to see you
28:43play one more quarterfinal,
28:44which you have to win
28:45if you want to get through.
28:46But until then,
28:47it is goodbye.
28:48From UCL.
28:49Goodbye.
28:50It's goodbye from Manchester.
28:51Goodbye.
28:52And it's goodbye from me.
28:53Goodbye.
28:54Goodbye.
29:10Goodbye.
29:11Goodbye.
29:14Bye.
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