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00:27Hello and welcome to University Challenge.
00:29Tonight we continue the second round of fixtures in our double elimination quarterfinal stage.
00:34The teams returning for this match both won their first quarterfinals, meaning if they win again here they'll join Edinburgh
00:39in the semis and if they lose they'll still have one last chance to do the same.
00:44This year's team from Sheffield started their series campaign with a loss to fellow quarterfinalists Warwick but have won all
00:50three of their matches since, beating New College Oxford in the highest scoring loser playoffs, Strathclyde in round two and
00:56Darwin College Cambridge in their first quarterfinal.
00:58Against Darwin they demonstrated great knowledge of international politics, test cricket and the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning but had a
01:05little more difficulty with questions on Joseph Beuys and Shellac and coming into this match their average score per game
01:11is around 200.
01:13Let's meet the team from Sheffield once again.
01:15Hi, I'm Rhys Lewis, I'm from Hufford West in Pembrokeshire and I'm studying maths.
01:20Hi, I'm Abdurrahman Estesi, I'm from Alexandria, Egypt and I study engineering.
01:24And their captain.
01:25Hi, I'm Jacob Price, I'm from Heatherset in Norfolk and I study astrophysics.
01:29Hi, I'm Isabelle Dobby, I'm from Haringey in North London and I study English literature.
01:36APPLAUSE
01:36Their opponents tonight are this year's team from Imperial who also lost their first game in the competition against Churchill
01:42College Cambridge.
01:43They bounced back with a reperchage win over fellow Londoners SOAS and then beat Southampton in round two to become
01:49the sixth team from Imperial to reach our quarterfinals in the last seven years.
01:53In their last match, they defeated Warwick by a comfortable margin and along the way gave some very impressive answers
01:58on gothic literature, African geography and Hawaiian food.
02:02Imperial's average score so far is exactly 190 points per game.
02:05Let's meet them for the fifth time.
02:08Hi, I'm Raheem Dina, I'm originally from Seychelles and I'm doing a PhD in ecology and evolution.
02:13Hi, I'm Eugenia Tong, I'm from Hong Kong and I study chemistry.
02:17And their captain.
02:18Hello, I'm Oscar O'Flanagan, I'm from London and I'm doing a PhD in atmospheric physics.
02:23Hi, I'm Justin Keung, I'm from Hong Kong and I study computing.
02:27APPLAUSE
02:30Well, it's very nice to see you all and I think you know how this works.
02:33So let's get straight into it.
02:33Fingers on buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
02:36Good luck.
02:37What is the common English name of Simbapogon citratus, a plant in the family Poesii that is native to Southeast
02:44Asia and is used widely in the various cuisines of that region?
02:48In Thailand, it is known as Thakrai and its slim, pale green, fibrous stems are a key ingredient in curry
02:55pastes and the soup Tom Yum Gung, imparting a citrusy flavour with floral and gin.
03:01Sheffield Price.
03:02Lemongrass.
03:03It is lemongrass.
03:04Yes, well done.
03:05Three questions for you on a play by Shakespeare, Sheffield.
03:08According to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which play was the most painful, or rather the only painful part, of Shakespeare's works?
03:15Its characters include novice nun Isabella and her brother Claudio, who is sentenced to death at the beginning of the
03:20play for having extramarital sex.
03:22Yeah, this is Measure for Measure.
03:23Measure for Measure.
03:24Measure for Measure.
03:25Yes.
03:25Which unofficial Poet Laureate wrote The Law Against Lovers, an adaptation of Measure for Measure that includes characters from Much
03:32Ado About Nothing?
03:33His 1656 work, The Siege of Rhodes, is regarded as the first English opera.
03:38Oh, I mean, it's not Dryden because he was official.
03:42I don't, I don't, any idea.
03:43Did Mar-Vell do, just go for Mar-Vell?
03:46Mar-Vell?
03:46No, it's Sir William Davenant.
03:49Measure for Measure includes a plot device known as a bed trick.
03:52In which other Shakespeare play does Helena set up a bed trick in which she takes Diana's place in Bertram's
03:57bed?
03:58Oh, this is, this is one of the, like, really annoying ones.
04:02Two, two gentlemen of Verona.
04:05Two gentlemen of Verona.
04:07The annoying ones.
04:07No, it's always well that it ends well.
04:09OK.
04:10Now, let's start the question.
04:11Which Anglican cathedral in the north of England contains the Five Sisters window?
04:16The only memorial in the UK dedicated exclusively to women who died in the First World War.
04:22The window itself dates from the 13th century, but was rededicated and restored in the 1920s using lead from Revo
04:29Abbey,
04:30which is located around 25 miles north of the cathedral in question.
04:34Imperiello Flanagan.
04:36Durham.
04:36No.
04:37Anyone want to have a guess?
04:38Sheffield, Lewis.
04:39Newcastle.
04:40No, it's York, Minster.
04:41Let's start the question.
04:42La Ayun, or El Ayun, is the largest city in which...
04:46Sheffield Price.
04:47Western Sahara.
04:47It is indeed.
04:48Well done.
04:49Your bonuses are on South American cowboys.
04:52What general name is given to the horsemen of the large South American region known as the Pampas,
04:57and particularly associated with Argentina?
04:59One of their first representations in literature is in Martin Fiero,
05:03an epic poem by Jose Hernandez, published in two parts in the 1870s.
05:07Yeah, it is Gauchos.
05:08Gauchos?
05:08Yes.
05:09The groups of cowherds known as the Chalanes and the Morachucos can be found primarily in which country?
05:14The name of the latter derives from a Quechua word for their multicolored headgear.
05:19It's Quechua, it could be Bolivia or Peru.
05:21Peru, because of the Inca, but I don't say Bolivia.
05:23If you go to Bolivia, then go for it.
05:24Because it's the Incas, right?
05:26Is that not right?
05:26No, I'm not sure all that Quechua is in the Quechua.
05:28Go for that.
05:29Peru.
05:30It is Peru, well done.
05:31Llaneros are herdsmen that operate on the large area of grasslands known as the Llanos,
05:36which stretches across which two South American countries?
05:40I want to say Argentina.
05:41No, I think the North.
05:43No, is it from Colombia, so that's Colombia and what?
05:47Ecuador?
05:48Venezuela.
05:48Sure.
05:49Yeah, Colombia and Venezuela.
05:50Well worked out, it is indeed, yeah.
05:51Let's start with questions.
05:53Officially abolished by the Local Government Act of 1888,
05:57what administrative category was used for areas
06:00in which the monarch had devolved powers to a private landowner
06:03with prominent examples including Ripon, Ely, St Albans and Havering?
06:08In reference to the latter, the term in question was adopted in November 2024
06:12as the new name of the line on the London overground
06:15running from Romford to Upminster.
06:18Imperial O'Flanagan.
06:19Liberty.
06:20It is Liberty, well done.
06:21The opposing Imperial, two questions on particle physics.
06:24Coined by Homi Bhabha in 1939,
06:27what name is given in particle physics
06:29to the family of subatomic particles
06:31that consist of a quark and an antiquark?
06:33They are a subclass of hadrons.
06:36Mesons.
06:37Yeah.
06:37Which Greek letter denotes the type of meson
06:39discovered by Ehud Pevsner in 1961?
06:42Consisting of a mixture of up, down and strange quarks
06:45and their antiquarks,
06:46their discovery completed the meson octet
06:48proposed in the Eightfold Way model?
06:51Um, I don't know, k-mesons perhaps?
06:53Wait, kappa?
06:54Wait, hmm.
06:55I don't know.
06:56What's the last round thing in the book yesterday?
06:58Upsilon.
06:58Yeah, why not?
06:59Upsilon.
07:00No, it's the eta meson.
07:01Oh.
07:02Which Greek letter denotes the lightest type of meson
07:05discovered in 1947 through the study of cosmic rays?
07:07It can be positively charged, negatively charged, or neutral
07:11depending on the specific combination
07:12of up and down quarks and antiquarks?
07:15Pions.
07:16Pion meson.
07:17Yes, correct.
07:17Right on.
07:18Let's start with a question.
07:18It's a picture round now, and for your picture starter
07:20you're going to see a map on which two European cities
07:23have been marked.
07:25For ten points, I need you to name both.
07:29Imperial O'Flanagan.
07:30Dortmund and Frankfurt.
07:33No.
07:33Anyone from Sheffield, you can have a bit more time.
07:36Sheffield Price.
07:37Cologne and Frankfurt.
07:38No, it's Cologne and Mainz.
07:40Bad luck.
07:41Fingers on buzzers.
07:42Often divided up into categories including
07:45presentational, procedural and descriptive,
07:47what two-word name is given in computing
07:50to the text-encoding systems that determine the structure
07:53and formatting of documents?
07:55Notable examples include Sheffield Assisi.
07:58Marker Plangmich.
07:59Yes, it is.
07:59Well done.
08:00For your picture starter, you saw Mainz and Cologne,
08:02the two cities mentioned in the title of the first guidebook
08:05printed by Carl Baedeker, originally published in 1828.
08:08For your picture bonuses, you'll see maps
08:10showing three more pairs of cities mentioned in the titles
08:13of Baedeker's guidebooks.
08:15Again, I want you to name both cities in each case.
08:18First, this pair from a guidebook printed in 1873.
08:21Oh, is that Constans?
08:24What one?
08:24I would say this one down here is Constans.
08:26And then, was it Rotterdam, maybe?
08:28Yeah, sure.
08:29Constans and Rotterdam.
08:30Well done.
08:31Secondly, this pair from a guidebook printed in 1914.
08:34Here, I'll accept either the modern names of the cities
08:36or the names as they appeared in the book's title.
08:39Oh, it's Qingdao and...
08:43Is that Beijing?
08:44No, Beijing's the...
08:45Well, because if it's founded by Tianjin...
08:48Shall we just say Tianjin and Qingdao?
08:51Well, I think it might just be Beijing.
08:56OK, sure.
08:58Beijing and Qingdao?
08:59It's Beijing and Dalian,
09:01or as they were Peking and Port Arthur.
09:03Lastly, this pair mentioned in the title of a 1911 guidebook.
09:07Belgrade and Bucharest, right?
09:10Yeah.
09:11Belgrade and Bucharest?
09:11It is, well done.
09:12Another start with the question.
09:14What military rank links the titles of all of the following?
09:18A 1921 short story by Catherine Mansfield
09:21about two sisters whose tyrannical father has just died.
09:24A 1961 novella by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
09:27Imperial O'Flanagan.
09:28Colonel.
09:29Well done, it is indeed, yeah.
09:30Your bonuses are on Alpine cheeses, Imperial.
09:35In each case, name the cheese being described.
09:37First, a French semi-soft cheese from the Haute Savoie de Parment
09:40with a mild nutty flavour and thin rind.
09:43Its name is derived from a French word meaning to re-milk,
09:47referring to a 13th century farming practice
09:49whereby farmers would re-milk their cows
09:51after the churns had been counted to avoid paying tax.
09:54No, I don't know.
09:56I don't know.
09:57It's...
09:58What's milk in French?
09:59It's l'air, but it's...
10:00This is going to be that old French.
10:02It's going to be something weird.
10:04Re-blanchant.
10:05Well done.
10:05Secondly, an Italian cheese originating in a namesake plateau
10:08in the Veneto region with two main varieties,
10:11the softer Presato and the crumbly, more mature D'Alevo variety.
10:15What's provolone?
10:17That's like an American...
10:19I don't know.
10:19OK, well...
10:20It's not crumbly.
10:21No, OK.
10:22Crumbly Italian.
10:23Pass.
10:24Asiago.
10:25Finally, a firm Swiss cheese with distinctive holes
10:28that are a result of its hard rind trapping gases
10:31released during fermentation.
10:32It takes its name from a valley,
10:34itself named after a river in the canton of Bern.
10:37River.
10:38Something from Tann.
10:40What?
10:40Something from Tann.
10:42Tann?
10:42What?
10:42Emelton or something?
10:43It's a famous Swiss cheese, no?
10:44Is Emelton Swiss?
10:46No.
10:47Emelton?
10:48Yes, correct.
10:49Well done.
10:49Well worked out.
10:50Let's start the question.
10:51I'm looking for the name of a country here.
10:54In climbing, routes known as B.I.G.
10:56and Silence
10:57are two of the only three climbing routes
10:59to have a suggested grade of 9C,
11:02the most difficult in the French rating system,
11:04and can both be found in which...
11:06Imperial and Flanagan.
11:08Norway.
11:08It is Norway.
11:09Well done.
11:10Three questions for you, Imperial,
11:11on a term in social science.
11:13What two-word term was coined by author and theorist
11:16Shoshana Zuboff to designate, quote,
11:17the unilateral claiming of private human experiences
11:20as free raw material for translation into behavioural data,
11:24particularly by large tech companies?
11:25Big...
11:26Oh.
11:26Big data?
11:27Data scraping?
11:29No, but you said data, so it's not...
11:30Big data.
11:30No, you said big data.
11:32Big data.
11:34No, that book of hers was called
11:36The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
11:38In a 2014 article,
11:40John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney
11:42tied surveillance capitalism
11:43to the rise of which phenomenon
11:45defined as the long-term growth
11:46of speculation on securities
11:48and derivatives relative to GDP?
11:51Speculation on securities.
11:52Derivatives is...
11:53No.
11:54So something financial.
11:56Sorry?
11:57No.
11:59Short selling.
12:00It is something financial.
12:01It's financialisation.
12:02Science fiction author Bruce Sterling
12:04has written on the relationship
12:05between surveillance capitalism
12:06and what technological concept
12:08that emphasises the connectivity
12:10between different technologies
12:11across a network
12:12generally abbreviated as IoT.
12:15Oh, yeah.
12:15Internet of Things.
12:16No, no.
12:16IOT.
12:17Imperial, I have to take your first answer,
12:18but luckily for you, it's correct.
12:20OK.
12:20Let's start with the question.
12:21Which book of the Bible
12:23did Martin Luther describe as
12:25the most important piece of the New Testament
12:27and the purest gospel?
12:29Luther controversially added the word alone
12:31to his translation of a passage in this,
12:33said to be the longest Pauline epistle
12:35to support his interpretation
12:37that justification was only by faith
12:39and not by works.
12:42Sheffield Dobby.
12:44Um, John?
12:45No.
12:47Imperial Dina.
12:48Galatians.
12:49No, it's the epistle to the Romans.
12:50Let's start with the question.
12:51The arid landscape type,
12:53known in Italian as calanqui,
12:55is often known in English
12:56by what word originating in the US?
12:59Notable examples of this type of terrain
13:01characterised by jagged, tooth-like rock...
13:03Sheffield Price.
13:05Maces.
13:05No one afraid you'll lose five points.
13:07Tooth-like rock formations caused by erosion
13:09can be found in the national park
13:10named after it in the US state of South Dakota.
13:14BELL.
13:14Pirillo Flanagan.
13:15Badlands.
13:16It is Badlands.
13:17Well done.
13:18Your bonuses are on works
13:20by the architect and photographer
13:21Hiroshi Sugimoto
13:23that engage with works
13:24by other artists.
13:25In 2001,
13:27Sugimoto produced a pair of paintings
13:29in photographs
13:30inspired by the
13:31Shorin-Zu
13:32folding screens
13:32of Hasegawa Tohaku.
13:34Both works are views
13:35of what type of
13:36coniferous tree?
13:38A single word,
13:39common name,
13:40is enough here.
13:40Is ginkgo coniferous?
13:42I don't know.
13:43But Japanese things...
13:45Oh, sakura.
13:46I don't know.
13:46Sakura?
13:47No, that's not coniferous.
13:49I'd rather go with ginkgo.
13:50I think it would be something else.
13:51Ginkgo.
13:51Ginkgo.
13:52No, it's pine trees.
13:53Sugimoto's 2003 photo series
13:55Joe
13:56is a collection of views
13:57of a large sculptural installation
13:59by which American artist
14:00who died in 2024?
14:02Located in the Pulitzer Arts Foundation,
14:04the sculpture consists
14:05of a huge sheet
14:06of pre-rusted steel
14:08torqued into a spiral.
14:10Pre-rusted?
14:11Died recently?
14:12Any sculptors who died recently?
14:13No.
14:14I don't know.
14:19I don't know.
14:20No, that's Richard Serra.
14:22For his 2004 series
14:24The Wooden Box,
14:25Sugimoto photographed
14:26a replica of
14:27the bride stripped bare
14:28by her bachelor's even,
14:29also known as
14:30the large glass,
14:31a work completed in 1923
14:33by which French artist?
14:34Oh, no.
14:35I don't know.
14:36Matisse.
14:37Matisse?
14:37Oh, no.
14:39I don't know.
14:40Matisse.
14:40It's...
14:44It's Marcel Duchamp.
14:45Oh, okay.
14:46Another start around now,
14:47and it's a music starter.
14:48For your music starter,
14:49you'll hear a piece of classical music
14:50from 1884.
14:52For ten points,
14:53name the composer.
15:04Sheffield Lewis.
15:05Grieg.
15:06Yes, well done.
15:07It is Edvard Grieg.
15:08For your music starter,
15:09you heard Grieg's Sarabande
15:10from his Holberg suite.
15:12For your music bonuses,
15:13you'll hear three more classical pieces
15:14for triple-time dances.
15:16From here,
15:16I want you to name
15:17the type of dance you hear,
15:19in each case reflected
15:20in the name of the piece.
15:22First, this piece by Chopin.
15:27Polonaise.
15:28Polonaise?
15:29No, it's mazurka.
15:30Next, this piece by Clara Schumann.
15:39I don't know.
15:43I don't have any idea
15:43on, like,
15:44what kind of technique or...
15:46Well, like,
15:471840,
15:47so it could be, like,
15:49It could be a minuet,
15:50but I doubt it.
15:51What does it do you write?
15:51Do you try a...
15:53It's not even...
15:54Try a minuet.
15:56Minuet?
15:56Minuet?
15:57No, it's Bolero.
15:58Finally,
15:58this piece by Jermaine Taifert.
16:06No, I'm not on it at all.
16:08Try a waltz.
16:08Yes, a waltz.
16:09Waltz?
16:10Yes, it is a waltz.
16:11Well done.
16:12Let's start with question.
16:14Which metallic element
16:15is the most common catalyst
16:16used in the Hiyama reaction,
16:19the Still reaction,
16:20the Suzuki reaction,
16:21and the Heck reaction?
16:22Imperial, Tom.
16:23Oh, palladium.
16:24It is palladium.
16:25Well done.
16:26Puts you in the knee.
16:27Three questions for you, Imperial,
16:28on an academic journal.
16:29Founded by Auguste Krell in 1826,
16:33the periodical,
16:34commonly known simply as Krell's Journal,
16:36publishes research
16:37research in which academic discipline.
16:39Contributors to its first issue
16:41included Jakob Steiner
16:42and Carl Jacobi.
16:44Carl Jacobi?
16:45Jakob Steiner?
16:47I feel like I've read these before.
16:48Jacobi is...
16:49Wait, Jacobi is like Jacobian of Jacobi.
16:51What, sorry, maths maybe?
16:52Oh, yeah, maybe.
16:53Maths?
16:53Yes, mathematics.
16:55Krell supported and published
16:56the early career work
16:57of several notable mathematicians,
16:58including papers
16:59on the convergence conditions
17:01for Fourier series
17:02and proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
17:04for n equals five,
17:05by which German mathematician
17:06born 1805?
17:091805?
17:10So I don't think this is Gauss.
17:12Name a non-Gauss German mathematician.
17:14When is Mothen from?
17:15No, no, no.
17:15Oh, let's not suspect.
17:16Maybe it's Gauss.
17:17I'm going to say it.
17:18Anyone else we could think of?
17:19When is Mothen from?
17:21No, this is later.
17:24Gauss.
17:25No, that's Derek Clay.
17:26The first two issues
17:27of Krell's journal
17:29included ten papers
17:30by which Norwegian mathematician
17:31born 1802
17:33of whom Krell was a champion
17:35and close friend?
17:36These papers included
17:37an elaboration of his proof
17:38of the insolubility
17:39of the quintic.
17:41Is this Abel?
17:42Abel.
17:42Yep, Niels Arbel.
17:43Let's start with the question.
17:45The first of cinematographer
17:47Agnes Goddard's
17:48many collaborations
17:49with which French film director
17:51was the 1988 film Chocolat,
17:53this director's feature film debut
17:55on which Goddard
17:56was a camera operator.
17:57Goddard went on
17:58to act as cinematographer
17:59on nine of this director's feature films
18:01including Let the Sunshine In,
18:0335 Shots of Rum,
18:05Trouble Every Day
18:06and Beau Travail.
18:09Imperial Dina.
18:10Bresson.
18:11No.
18:13Anyone want to have a guess?
18:15No, I'll tell you,
18:16it's Claire Denis.
18:17Another start of the question.
18:18What six-letter word
18:20can precede conservatism
18:22in the name given
18:23by historian Mark Philp
18:24to the populist form
18:25of English loyalism
18:26of the 1790s?
18:28Modernism,
18:29in a term coined
18:29by critic Jay Hoberman
18:31for instances
18:32of self-conscious irony
18:33in 20th century
18:34American culture
18:35and Latin
18:36to designate
18:37the vernacular form
18:38of the language...
18:39Imperial O'Flanagan.
18:40Vulgar.
18:41It is vulgar.
18:41Well done.
18:43Three questions for you,
18:44Imperial,
18:45on a film trilogy.
18:47Which Indian director's works
18:48include a set of three films
18:49made in the 1950s
18:50known collectively
18:51as the Apu Trilogy,
18:53which chronicle the life
18:54of a young Bengali man
18:55of that name
18:56through his childhood
18:56and early adulthood?
18:58Ray.
18:58Ray.
18:59Ray.
18:59R-A-Y.
19:00Ray.
19:01Well done.
19:01This is a great
19:01Satyajit Ray, yeah.
19:03Meaning song
19:03of the Little Road
19:04in English.
19:05What is the Bengali title
19:06of the first film
19:07in the Apu Trilogy,
19:08which focuses
19:09on Apu's early life
19:10in rural West Bengal?
19:12I don't know.
19:14Pass.
19:14Pate Panchali,
19:15and you really gotta watch it.
19:17The principal composer
19:18for all three films
19:19in the trilogy
19:19was which Indian musician
19:21born 1920?
19:22This composer also
19:23co-scored
19:24the 1982 film Gandhi.
19:27I don't know.
19:28I think Ravi Shankar
19:28was born in 1920.
19:31Was he a composer though?
19:33Maybe.
19:33Shankar?
19:34It was Ravi Shankar.
19:36Well done.
19:37Let's start the question.
19:39Born in 1888,
19:41which Swiss mathematician's
19:43works include
19:44the two-volume
19:44Foundations of Mathematics,
19:46co-authored with David Hilbert,
19:48and 1958's
19:49Axiomatic Set Theory?
19:51He is represented
19:52by the letter B
19:53in the abbreviation
19:54NBG,
19:55referring to a version
19:56of Set Theory
19:57that emerged
19:58from work by him,
19:59John von Neumann
20:00and Kurt Gödel.
20:02Imperial Dena.
20:04Barack?
20:05No.
20:07Sheffield Lewis.
20:08Benui?
20:09No.
20:09That was Paul Bernay.
20:11Let's start the question.
20:12Writing in the early 18th century,
20:15what city did Daniel Defoe
20:16describe as
20:17the cleanest
20:18and beautifulest
20:19and best-built city
20:20in Britain,
20:21London accepted.
20:22Whilst noting
20:23its fine university buildings,
20:24he calls it
20:25a city of business,
20:26explaining that
20:27its merchants
20:28have made much
20:28of the opportunity
20:29of trade
20:29with the American colonies
20:30enabled by the
20:31recent union
20:32with England
20:32and its west...
20:33Edinburgh?
20:34Edinburgh?
20:35No,
20:36I'm afraid
20:36you lose five points.
20:37It's west-facing
20:38geographical location.
20:40Sheffield, Dobby.
20:41Glasgow?
20:42It is Glasgow, yeah.
20:43Your bonuses,
20:44Sheffield,
20:45are on countries
20:45that have
20:46exactly three
20:47official languages.
20:48Which Pacific
20:49island nation,
20:50despite its
20:50significant number
20:51of indigenous languages,
20:53has three
20:53foreign-derived languages
20:54with official status?
20:56English,
20:56French
20:57and the English-based
20:58Creole,
20:59Bislama?
21:00Bislama?
21:02Um...
21:03English and French.
21:05Was that New Caledonia
21:06or something?
21:07No, it's not country.
21:08Micronesia, maybe?
21:09Yeah.
21:10Micronesia?
21:11No, it's Vanuatu.
21:11The three official
21:12languages of the
21:13Comoros are
21:14French, Arabic
21:15and Comorian
21:16or Shikomoro,
21:17a language closely
21:18related to which
21:19other more widely
21:20spoken language?
21:21Portuguese, man.
21:22I was thinking
21:23Swahili.
21:24Sure.
21:25Go for it.
21:25Swahili?
21:26Yes, well done.
21:27Which mainland
21:27African country
21:28has Spanish,
21:29Portuguese and French
21:30as official languages?
21:31Equatorial Guinea?
21:33Is that Lucifer as well?
21:36Yeah, I think so.
21:37Equatorial Guinea?
21:38Yes, well done.
21:39Time for a picture round now
21:40and for your picture starter
21:41you're going to see
21:42an engraving.
21:44For ten points
21:44I need you
21:45to name its artist.
21:49Imperial Kang.
21:50Hogarth?
21:50It is Hogarth,
21:51yeah, exactly.
21:53For your picture starter
21:54you saw Hogarth's
21:54satirical critique
21:55of the South Sea scheme
21:56which featured
21:57a prominent
21:58Wheel of Fortune
21:58at its centre.
22:00For your picture bonuses
22:01three more representations
22:02of the metaphorical
22:03Wheel of Fortune
22:03in art.
22:04Five points
22:05for each artist
22:06you can name.
22:07First,
22:07this French artist.
22:09Oh, no.
22:10French, okay.
22:11I can't tell if it's
22:12Impressionist or after that.
22:14I assume it's Impressionist,
22:15but...
22:16The colours
22:16are very weird though.
22:18Let's just come up
22:18with some names,
22:19why don't we?
22:20Monet?
22:20No.
22:21You don't think it's Monet?
22:21Okay.
22:22I don't think it's Monet.
22:22I don't think it's Monet.
22:22Cassatt?
22:23No, definitely not Cassatt.
22:24No, definitely not Cassatt.
22:25Monet.
22:25Just go Monet.
22:26Monet.
22:26No, it's Red On.
22:27Secondly,
22:28this British artist.
22:29This is Edward Burne-Jones.
22:31Edward Burne-Jones.
22:32It is.
22:33Lastly,
22:33the Venetian artist
22:34behind this painting
22:35of Cupid with Fortune's Wheel.
22:38Oh,
22:39oh,
22:40is this like
22:40one of the Lorenzettis?
22:42How many are there?
22:44No,
22:44no,
22:44no,
22:44he's not Venetian,
22:45he's Siennes.
22:47Okay,
22:48Titian,
22:48Tintoretto,
22:49it's not going to be
22:50Canaletto.
22:52Tintoretto?
22:52Okay.
22:53I don't know.
22:54Tintoretto.
22:54The wrong horse,
22:55it was Titian.
22:55Let's start the question.
22:58The picking of what fruit
22:59is the subject
23:00of a 1966 poem
23:01by Seamus Heaney?
23:03Imperial O'Flanagan.
23:04Blackberries.
23:04Well done.
23:06Three questions
23:07on foundation myths.
23:09The establishment
23:09of the city
23:10of Dvaraka
23:11or Dwarka
23:12in modern-day Gujarat
23:13is closely associated
23:14with which Hindu divinity?
23:17Born in Mathura
23:17to the south of Delhi,
23:19he is sometimes depicted
23:20with blue-black skin
23:21and a crown
23:22of peacock feathers.
23:23Oh,
23:24does Shiva have
23:25blue-black skin?
23:26Yeah,
23:27I mean,
23:27they all kind of sometimes...
23:28Oh, right.
23:29Maybe go...
23:29Yeah, I don't know.
23:31maybe just go Shiva.
23:31Did you have anything?
23:32No,
23:33I can't think of it.
23:33Are you sure?
23:34Okay.
23:35Sure.
23:35Shiva?
23:36No,
23:36it's Krishna.
23:37Depicting an Aztec
23:38foundation myth,
23:39the flag of Mexico
23:40bears an emblem
23:40showing what two animals,
23:42the one holding
23:43the other in its beak?
23:44It's an eagle
23:44and a snake.
23:45Yeah,
23:45an eagle and a snake.
23:47Correct.
23:47In the Roman foundation myth,
23:49Romulus and Remus
23:50were the sons of
23:50Princess Rhea Silvia
23:52of Alba Longa
23:53and which Roman god?
23:54Mars.
23:55It is Mars.
23:56Well done.
23:56Four minutes to go.
23:57What eight-letter word
23:59derived from the Latin
24:00for carrying away
24:01can be used to indicate
24:02all of the following?
24:04In machine learning,
24:05a study in which
24:05parts of a network
24:06are removed
24:07in order to test
24:08their impact
24:08on a network's
24:09overall performance.
24:10In meteorology,
24:11the processes
24:12that reduce
24:12a glacier's total mass.
24:15And in medic...
24:15Imperial O' Flanagan.
24:17Deposition.
24:17I'm afraid you'll lose
24:18five points.
24:19And in medicine,
24:20a procedure,
24:20often surgical,
24:21that removes bodily tissue.
24:25No, I'll tell you.
24:26It's ablation.
24:27Now, let's start the question.
24:28Isabel of Gloucester
24:29and Isabel of Ongolem
24:31were successive consorts
24:32of which king of England?
24:34Imperial O' Flanagan.
24:35John.
24:36Yes, it is King John.
24:37Well done.
24:37Three questions
24:38on a chemical reaction.
24:39Named after the Australian
24:40scientist who developed it,
24:42what name is given
24:42to the organic reaction
24:44in which an aromatic compound
24:46is converted
24:47into 1,4-cyclohexadiene?
24:49Aromatic.
24:50No.
24:50Come on.
24:51I don't know.
24:52Pass.
24:52It's birch reduction.
24:53Name either
24:54of the two alkali metals
24:56that can be used
24:57as reducing agents
24:58in the birch reduction.
24:59Probably lithium or sodium.
25:02OK.
25:03Lithium.
25:03Correct.
25:04Well done.
25:04And the other one was sodium.
25:05Well done.
25:05What compound
25:06is the most commonly used solvent
25:08in the birch reduction,
25:09turning a striking blue colour
25:11when the alkali metal
25:12is added to it
25:12due to the presence
25:13of solvated electrons?
25:15Ammonia.
25:15Ammonia.
25:16It is indeed.
25:17Well done.
25:18In metallurgy,
25:19what short word
25:20refers to rapid cooling
25:21of a metal
25:22in water or oil
25:23to achieve...
25:24Imperial O'Flanagan?
25:26Quench.
25:26It is quench.
25:27Well done.
25:27Three questions for you,
25:29Imperial,
25:29on a literary work.
25:30A novelistic treatment
25:31of the story
25:32of Ben Grandier,
25:33who was burned at the stake
25:34after being found guilty
25:35of witchcraft,
25:36The Devils of Luden
25:37is a 1952 work
25:39by witch author
25:39born in Godalming
25:41in 1894.
25:431894.
25:45England.
25:48Graham Greene.
25:49No, it's Aldous Huxley.
25:50In the late 1960s,
25:51which Polish composer
25:52wrote
25:52Die Teufel von Luden,
25:54an opera based on
25:55John Whiting's
25:55stage version
25:56of Huxley's book?
25:57This composer's other works
25:58include
25:58A Threnody
25:59for the Victim
25:59of Hiroshima.
26:01Penderecki.
26:02Yes, well done.
26:02Which British filmmaker
26:03directed the 1971 film
26:05The Devils,
26:06based in part
26:06on both Huxley's book
26:07and Whiting's play?
26:091971.
26:10British.
26:12Blanket here.
26:13No, just pass.
26:13Pass.
26:14It's Ken Russell.
26:15Let's start the question.
26:16Which genus
26:16of 35 or so species
26:18of popular garden plants
26:20in the nightshade family
26:21is said ultimately
26:22to take its name
26:23from a word
26:24in the South American
26:25Guarani language
26:26that roughly translates as
26:29Tomato.
26:30No, I'm afraid
26:30you'll lose five points.
26:31Tobacco plant.
26:34No, I'll tell you,
26:35it's petunia.
26:36Let's start the question.
26:38Used in an elusive sense
26:39by authors such as
26:40Herman Melville
26:41and James Joyce
26:41to indicate a mix
26:42of incongruous parts
26:43or something simply
26:44outlandish,
26:45what fabulous flying beast
26:47was first named
26:48in Ariosto's 1516 work
26:50Orlando Perua...
26:52Hippogriff.
26:53It is indeed.
26:53Your bonuses
26:54are three questions
26:55on a British crown colony.
26:56The crown colony
26:57of Labuan,
26:58established in 1848,
27:00was located
27:00off the northwestern coast
27:02of what...
27:02Borneo.
27:03Yes.
27:03In 1907,
27:04Labuan became part
27:05of which British crown colony
27:06that included Singapore,
27:08Penang and Malacca?
27:09Straight settlements.
27:09Yes.
27:10After the Second World War,
27:11Labuan was incorporated
27:12into the crown colony
27:13of North Borneo,
27:14which became a state
27:15of Malaysia in 1963
27:16with what name?
27:17This state ceded Labuan
27:19to the federal government
27:19in 1984.
27:22Sarawak?
27:22No, Sabah.
27:23Bad luck.
27:24Let's start the question.
27:24Introduced into physics
27:25by Kepler
27:26and formulated
27:27into a law
27:27by Galileo
27:28for horizontal motion
27:29on earth.
27:30What Latin word
27:31meaning inactivity
27:32or idleness?
27:34Sheffield Price.
27:35In Usher.
27:35Yes, your bonuses
27:36are on motorsport.
27:38Populous since the 1920s,
27:39what motorsport
27:40consists of races
27:41on oval dirt tracks
27:42by teams of riders
27:43on single-speed motorcycles
27:45with no brakes?
27:45Motocross?
27:46No, it's Speedway.
27:47The Speedway Great Britain
27:48Premiership champions
27:49in 2024
27:50were Bellevue Aces,
27:51based at the National
27:52Speedway Stadium
27:53in which city?
27:54And that was on Sheffield
27:56of 120.
27:56Imperial have 160.
28:01Well, the answer
28:02to that last one
28:03was Manchester.
28:04Sheffield,
28:05it was so even
28:06for the first
28:0720-odd minutes
28:08and then basically
28:09Oscar woke up
28:10and suddenly had
28:10a little run of answers
28:11and you were
28:12slightly left behind
28:12but we're going to
28:13get to see you
28:14one more time.
28:14You've still got a chance
28:15so you may yet
28:15get to the semifinals.
28:18Imperial,
28:18that kimchi
28:18keeps bringing you luck,
28:19doesn't it?
28:20You might just have
28:21to remind us
28:21why you've got
28:22the kimchi, Oscar.
28:24Because if it weren't
28:24for a bonus
28:25on Korean cuisine
28:25in the first round,
28:26we'd be out.
28:27You would be out.
28:28Well, you're very much here
28:29and we're going to
28:29very much see you again.
28:30Congratulations
28:31on that superb victory
28:32against a very strong team.
28:33I hope you could join us
28:34next time
28:35for another quarterfinal match
28:36but until then,
28:37it is goodbye from Sheffield.
28:38Goodbye.
28:39It's goodbye from Imperial.
28:40Goodbye.
28:41And it's goodbye from me.
28:42Goodbye.
29:07Goodbye.
29:10Goodbye.
29:12Goodbye.
29:13Goodbye.
29:13Goodbye.
29:13Goodbye.
29:13Goodbye.
29:13Goodbye.
29:13Goodbye.
29:13Goodbye.
29:13Goodbye.
29:13You
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