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00:28Hello and welcome to
00:29University Challenge where another two
00:31student teams are about to face their first
00:34starter for 10. They need
00:36to win this match to be certain of a place
00:38in the next round. If they lose, they'll
00:40need to have scored at least 145
00:42points to avoid
00:43elimination and keep themselves in with a chance
00:45of advancing via the Repechage
00:48at the end of the round.
00:50Trinity Hall, Cambridge was founded in
00:511350 by the Bishop of Norwich
00:53who needed a way to rebuild his clergy
00:56in the wake of the Black Death.
00:57It was established initially as
00:59a college of scholars of the canon
01:01and civil law and its original statutes
01:04required all students to meet
01:05on three evenings a week to hold
01:07legal disputes among themselves.
01:09Rachel Weiss, Marshall McLuhan and
01:11Stephen Hawking have all studied there and it's
01:13won our Christmas series once but hasn't
01:15appeared in this version of the competition
01:17since 2008.
01:19Let's meet this year's team from Trinity Hall,
01:21Cambridge.
01:22Hi, I'm Temur Taj, I'm from London and I'm a third year
01:26studying astrophysics.
01:28Hi, my name's Jake Bransgrove,
01:30I'm originally from Auckland, New Zealand
01:32and I'm studying towards a PhD
01:34in history.
01:35And there, Captain.
01:36Hi, I'm Geoffrey Oprey, I'm originally
01:38from Mauchraten in the Netherlands and I'm
01:40studying for a PhD in mathematical physics.
01:43Hello, I'm Shannon Gilbert,
01:44I'm from Brechve in South Wales
01:46and I'm studying a PhD in Chinese studies.
01:52The London School of Economics was founded in 1895
01:56following a bequest from lawyer Henry Hutchinson
01:59to the Fabian Society, requesting that £20,000
02:02be spent on socialist projects and propaganda.
02:05It was set up in two rented ground floor rooms
02:08in Clerkenwell and from those beginnings
02:10has produced notable alumni from across
02:12the political spectrum, including Kwame Nkrumah,
02:14Kim Campbell and Thomas Piketty.
02:17Tonight marks the LSE's 15th appearance
02:19on this programme and its best run to date
02:21has been on the 1995-96 series
02:24when it finished runner-up.
02:26Let's meet the team representing the LSE tonight.
02:29Hi, I'm Ryan Sharp, I'm from Oakville, Ontario, Canada
02:32and I'm studying history and philosophy.
02:35Hi, I'm Cormac Byrne, I'm from Ireland and Canada
02:38and I'm doing a Masters in the History
02:40of International Relations.
02:41And there, Captain.
02:42Hi, I'm Andy Huff, I'm from Houston,
02:44Texas and I'm studying international, social
02:47and public policy.
02:48Hi, I'm Catherine Tan, I'm from Lexington, Massachusetts
02:51and I'm a third year studying anthropology
02:52and global studies.
02:57Welcome to University Challenge.
02:58You all know the rules, don't you?
03:00Yeah.
03:01Shall we crack on?
03:02Here we go.
03:02Fingers on buzzers, here's your first start at 4.10.
03:05Good luck.
03:06The title figure of an early film by Derek Jarman
03:09and a favourite subject of Renaissance artists.
03:12What early Christian saint said by tradition...
03:15Trinity Hall Gilbert.
03:16Saint Sebastian.
03:17It is Saint Sebastian, well done.
03:19Your three questions for you, Trinity Hall,
03:22on novels that have a single letter as their title.
03:25Comprising of a number of interconnected vignettes,
03:281963's V is the debut novel of which American author?
03:32Its third chapter was an adaptation
03:33of his earlier story, Under the Rose,
03:36which would later be republished
03:37in the collection Slow Learner.
03:39It's Thomas Pynchon.
03:40Thomas Pynchon?
03:41Correct.
03:42The 2013 novel Z by Therese Fowler
03:45is a fictionalisation of the life
03:47of which American writer and socialite?
03:49Also the subject of a 1970 biography by Nancy Milford.
03:53This writer's own works include the 1932 novel
03:56Save Me the Waltz.
03:57Zelda Fitzgerald.
03:58Zelda Fitzgerald.
04:00Yep.
04:00Featuring thinly veiled fictionalisations
04:01of Edie Sedgwick, Paul Morrissey and Lou Reed,
04:04the 1968 work A, a novel,
04:07is by which visual artist,
04:09based on interviews he conducted
04:11with one of his superstars, Ondine?
04:13That's Warhol.
04:14Yeah.
04:15It's Warhol superstars.
04:16Andy Warhol.
04:17Andy Warhol.
04:17Correct, yeah.
04:18Let's start with the question.
04:20Following a preparatory meeting in Cairo
04:23earlier that year,
04:24a 1961 summit held in Belgrade
04:27was the first official conference
04:28of what international...
04:30LSE Hough.
04:31The Not Aligned movement?
04:32It is indeed.
04:33Well done.
04:34Your three bonuses, LSE,
04:36are on the office of Mayor of Paris.
04:38The office of Paris Mayor
04:40was abolished between 1871 and 1977
04:42until the election of which figure?
04:45He held a position for almost 20 years
04:46before serving two terms as president.
04:49Sure.
04:50Sure.
04:50Sure.
04:51Okay.
04:52I'll nominate.
04:5477...
04:54Yeah.
04:55Nominate Byrne.
04:57Uh, Chirac.
04:58It was actually right, yeah.
04:59In 2014,
05:00which Spanish-born socialist
05:01became the first woman
05:02to be elected mayor of Paris?
05:03She won a second term in 2020.
05:06Hidalgo.
05:06Hidalgo?
05:07Okay.
05:08Nominate Byrne.
05:09Hidalgo?
05:09Yes, it is.
05:10Well done.
05:11Finally,
05:11Bertrand Delanoe took office in 2001
05:14and six years later
05:15introduced the Valibe programme
05:17that encouraged Parisians
05:18and tourists to rent what?
05:20Is it just going to be bikes, I think?
05:21Yeah.
05:22Bikes?
05:23It is indeed, yeah.
05:24Let's start with the question.
05:26The projective transformations,
05:28which leave an n-dimensional
05:29hypersphere invariant,
05:31form a group named
05:32after which German mathematician?
05:34He also gives his name
05:35to a function in number theory
05:37that is defined
05:37as the sum
05:38of the primitive nth roots of unity,
05:41as well as...
05:42Trinity Hall of Paris.
05:44Riemann.
05:45No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
05:46As well as the simplest
05:47non-orientable surface,
05:49a so-called strip
05:50with only one side.
05:52LSE half.
05:53Mobius?
05:54It is Mobius, yes.
05:55Your bonuses are
05:56three questions
05:57on Japanese history.
05:58The Battle of the Uji River
06:00in 1180
06:01was an early engagement
06:02in the Genpei War.
06:04Name either of the two
06:05warrior clans
06:06represented by the name
06:07Genpei.
06:08Their leaders included
06:09Yoritomo and Kiyomori.
06:11So, Hideyoshi?
06:12Yeah, Hideyoshi.
06:14Hideyoshi?
06:15No, the two clans
06:16are Minamoto and Taira.
06:18In 1904,
06:19Japan defeated Russia
06:20at the Battle of the Yalu River.
06:23This river forms the border
06:24between what two
06:25present-day countries?
06:26OK, so Yalu is,
06:28I think,
06:28China and North Korea?
06:30I think so.
06:31Is that...
06:31China and North Korea?
06:32Correct.
06:33In 1939,
06:34the USSR defeated Japan
06:35at the Kalkingol,
06:37or Halha River,
06:38at the border
06:39of the Japanese puppet state
06:40of Manchukuo.
06:41And what country?
06:45Um...
06:46Manchukuo is China.
06:46Could that be Russia?
06:47Yeah.
06:48Russia is in the second part.
06:52South Korea?
06:53Mongolia.
06:54Mongolia.
06:54Mongolia?
06:55It is indeed.
06:56Well worked out.
06:56Yeah.
06:57Picture round now.
06:58For your picture starter,
06:58you will see a definition
07:00in French
07:01of a French term
07:02that is in common use
07:04in English.
07:05For ten points,
07:06simply give me this term.
07:09LSE Sharp.
07:10Coup d'etat.
07:11It is coup d'etat.
07:12Well worked out.
07:12Yeah.
07:14Following the definition
07:15of coup d'etat
07:15that you saw
07:16for your picture starter,
07:17your picture bonuses
07:18are three more definitions
07:19of loan words
07:20concerning political
07:21or military matters
07:22that originate
07:24in other European languages.
07:25Five points
07:26for each word
07:27you can identify.
07:28First,
07:28this Spanish word.
07:31It's a junta,
07:32I think.
07:33Junta?
07:34No,
07:34that was the definition
07:35of a guerrilla.
07:36Second,
07:37this German word.
07:40Something like
07:41realpolitik.
07:42Realpolitik?
07:42Yeah,
07:43okay.
07:43Nominate burn.
07:44Realpolitik?
07:45Yeah,
07:45well worked out.
07:46Finally,
07:46this Italian word.
07:48Manifesto?
07:49Yeah.
07:51Manifesto?
07:51Yeah.
07:52Manifesto?
07:52Correct.
07:53Let's start the question.
07:54What six-letter word
07:56is the first word
07:57of a sonnet
07:57by John Keats
07:58that continues,
07:59would I
08:00were steadfast
08:01as that?
08:01Trinity Hall,
08:02Gilbert.
08:03Right.
08:03Well done.
08:04It is indeed.
08:05Your bonus is Trinity Hall
08:06of three questions
08:07on insects
08:08belonging to the order
08:09Hemiptera,
08:10sometimes known
08:10as true bugs.
08:12Which insect family
08:13includes over 3,000
08:15species notable
08:15for their loud singing,
08:17particularly during
08:17hot periods?
08:18Whilst most species
08:19are annual,
08:20several North American
08:21species have
08:22synchronised periodicity,
08:24emerging en masse
08:25every 13 or 17 years.
08:27Cicadas, isn't it?
08:28Cicadas?
08:29Yes.
08:30Sometimes written
08:30as two words,
08:31sometimes as a single
08:32compound word,
08:33what common name
08:34is given to the species
08:35in the family
08:35Simicidae
08:36that feed on human blood?
08:38They have flat,
08:39reddish-brown bodies
08:40around five millimetres long?
08:44Flat, reddish-brown bodies.
08:47They're leeches.
08:48No, no, no.
08:50It's like sometimes
08:50tick, maybe,
08:51of some sort?
08:53Something tick.
08:55Blood tick.
08:59Grass tick.
08:59Common tick.
09:01Grass tick.
09:02No, it's bed bugs.
09:03Which large insect group
09:04are notable in that
09:05females routinely give birth
09:06to live young
09:07without the intervention
09:09of a male,
09:09a common garden pest
09:11they are frequent prey
09:11for ladybirds?
09:13Aphids.
09:14Aphids.
09:15It is aphids, yes.
09:15Well done.
09:16Another final question.
09:17In a 2003 article,
09:19Margaret Costa
09:21argued that which painting
09:22was intended as a memorial
09:24for Costanza Trenta,
09:25a merchant's wife
09:26who had died in childbirth
09:27a year before the painting
09:28was...
09:29Ill as he burn.
09:30De Angelus.
09:31No, I'm afraid you lose
09:32five points
09:32before the painting
09:33was completed.
09:34Costa's account of this painting
09:36conflicts with that
09:36of Irvin Panofsky,
09:38whose claim that it represents
09:39a marriage contract
09:40gave this painting
09:41one of its common names.
09:43Trinity Hall, Bransgrove.
09:45Mona Lisa.
09:46No, it's the Arnofini portrait
09:47or the Arnofini wedding.
09:49Another sort of question.
09:50Which Caribbean country's cuisine
09:52makes extensive use
09:53of a flavour base
09:54known as epis,
09:56a rough puree of...
09:57Trinity Hall, Taj.
09:58I, Haiti.
09:59It is Haiti.
10:00Well done.
10:02Three questions for you,
10:03Trinity Hall,
10:04on economic anthropology.
10:06Born in Vienna in 1886,
10:08which economic anthropologist
10:09argued that applying
10:10traditional economic theories
10:12to social,
10:12non-industrial societies
10:14was flawed in his book
10:15The Great Transformation,
10:16leading to the development
10:17of substantivism?
10:20Um, that's...
10:21That's not Whipster.
10:23The Great Transformation,
10:24um,
10:25I can't remember his name,
10:27sorry.
10:27Sam Webb.
10:29No, it's Carl Polanyi.
10:31Marshall Sarlin's
10:32substantivist essay collection,
10:34Stone Age Economics,
10:35suggests that the simple
10:36satisfaction of wants
10:38in a hunter-gatherer society
10:39made them the original example
10:41of what two-word concept,
10:43coined in a namesake 1958 book
10:45by John Kenneth Galbraith.
10:53Simple satisfaction for the one.
10:55Hunter-gatherer?
10:57No.
10:58No.
10:59Come on.
10:59Hunter-gatherer.
11:00No.
11:01Galbraith wrote
11:02The Affluent Society.
11:03Finally,
11:04which student of Marshall Sarlin's
11:05is known for works
11:07of economic anthropology,
11:08including Debt,
11:09The First 5,000 Years,
11:10and The Utopia of Rules,
11:12as well as helping develop
11:13the Occupy Wall Street slogan,
11:14We Are the 99%?
11:17Is that bigotin'?
11:18No, that's not bigotin'.
11:21I can't give it to you, though.
11:23Thank you for surname.
11:25Well, I...
11:26That is David Graeber.
11:28Another start of the question.
11:28In Laura Mulvey's landmark essay,
11:30Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,
11:33what film of 1954
11:34does she describe as
11:36a metaphor for the cinema?
11:38Because its main character,
11:39L.B. Jeffries,
11:41quote,
11:41is the audience
11:42the events in the apartment block
11:43opposite his correspond to the screen?
11:45Trinity Hall, Bransgrove.
11:47Rear window.
11:47It is rear window.
11:48Well done.
11:50Three questions for you,
11:51Trinity Hall,
11:51on the plays of Tom Stoppard.
11:53In the 1974 play,
11:55Travesties,
11:55British consular official
11:56Henry Carr
11:57recalls his interactions
11:58with Tristan Tzara,
12:00Vladimir Lenin,
12:01and James Joyce
12:02during World War I,
12:03when all were living
12:04in which central European city?
12:07I think it's Vienna.
12:08Vienna?
12:09No, it was Zurich,
12:10the home of Dada.
12:11Which English classicist
12:12and poet,
12:13born 1859,
12:14is the principal character
12:15of the 1997 play,
12:17The Invention of Latter?
12:18Love.
12:18It focuses on his time
12:20at Oxford University
12:20and his relationship
12:22with fellow student
12:23Moses Jackson.
12:26What did I say?
12:27Keats.
12:28No, no, no, no, no.
12:28That's weird.
12:29And is it Forster?
12:33I'm named Bransgrove.
12:34Ian Forster.
12:35No, it's A.E.
12:36Houseman.
12:37Which romantic poet
12:38is an unseen
12:39but frequently mentioned character
12:40in Stoppard's Arcadia?
12:42In the play's 1809 scenes,
12:44he is referenced
12:45as a friend of Septimus Hodge,
12:46while in the present day scenes,
12:48Bernard is investigating
12:49a duel he may have fought.
12:53Byron?
12:55Byron.
12:55It is Byron, yeah.
12:57Five points, isn't it?
12:59Bruce Merrifield
13:00was awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize
13:02in Chemistry
13:03for developing
13:03a solid-phase synthetic method
13:05used originally
13:06and most commonly
13:07to produce
13:08which biomolecules?
13:10His method uses
13:11polymer beads
13:12as a framework
13:12to grow controlled sequences
13:14of amino acids.
13:17Proteins?
13:18Yeah, we'll take that.
13:21Your bonuses are
13:22on concepts in physics
13:23usually represented
13:24by an uppercase H.
13:26In astrophysics,
13:27an uppercase H
13:28with a subscript zero
13:30is used to denote
13:30a constant relating to the...
13:32Double constants?
13:32Yes.
13:33In thermodynamics,
13:34an uppercase H
13:35is used to represent
13:36what property
13:36of a thermodynamic system
13:38defined as the sum
13:39of its internal energy
13:40and the product
13:41of its pressure and volume?
13:44The...
13:45Is that the Helmholtz?
13:45Helmholtz free energy.
13:47Helmholtz free energy.
13:48No, it's enthalpy.
13:50Finally,
13:50an uppercase H
13:51is also the symbol
13:52of which SI-derived unit
13:54named after
13:55an American scientist?
13:57It is the unit
13:58of inductance.
13:59Henry.
14:00It is Henry.
14:00Well done.
14:01Music round now.
14:02And for your music starter,
14:03you'll hear an excerpt
14:04from an opera
14:05of 1914.
14:07For ten points,
14:08name the composer.
14:14MUSIC PLAYS
14:33TRINITY HALL, TAGE.
14:34PUCINI?
14:34No, you can hear
14:35a bit more LSE,
14:36but you can't confer
14:37and you can't have
14:38that long either.
14:38Come on.
14:40LSE Hough.
14:41No, it's Igor Stravinsky.
14:43We'll take your music bonuses
14:44in a moment.
14:45What is the single word,
14:46common name,
14:47of the plant
14:48Dianthus cariophyllus
14:50that appears in the title
14:51of a painting of the Madonna
14:52attributed to Leonardo da Vinci?
14:54TRINITY HALL,
14:55Gilbert.
14:56The lily?
14:56No, I'm afraid you'll lose
14:57five points.
14:58As well as in the name
14:59of the 1974 revolution
15:01that ended
15:01the Estado Novo regime
15:03in Portugal.
15:05LSE Hough.
15:06Carnation.
15:06It is Carnation, yes.
15:07For your music starter,
15:09you heard an excerpt
15:09from Stravinsky's
15:10The Nightingale
15:11inspired by the
15:11Hans Christian Andersen
15:12story of the same name.
15:14For your music bonuses,
15:15you'll hear three more pieces
15:16of classical music
15:17inspired by the works
15:18of Hans Christian Andersen.
15:20Again, I just want the name
15:21of the composer
15:22in each case.
15:24First, this lead
15:25from 1840.
15:29Schubert?
15:31Is it lead?
15:32Schubert?
15:33No, it's Schumann.
15:34Bad luck.
15:35Robert Schumann.
15:36Next, this song
15:37from a 1901 opera
15:38that drew on
15:39one of Andersen's stories.
15:51Nominate Tim.
15:52Donazetti.
15:52No, that was by
15:53Vorjak from Rusalka.
15:55Finally, this piece
15:56from 1865.
16:06Anyone have anything?
16:08We don't know.
16:11That was by Grieg.
16:13Now, let's start a question.
16:14What is the only region
16:15of Italy
16:16to have neither a coastline
16:17nor a border
16:18with another country?
16:20It's large...
16:21Trinity Hall,
16:22Bransgrove.
16:23Sardinia.
16:24No, I'm afraid
16:24you'll lose five points.
16:25You can hear a bit more
16:26of the question
16:26you may not confer.
16:27Its largest body of water,
16:29Lake Trasimino,
16:30lies near its border
16:31with Tuscany
16:31around 10 miles west
16:32of this region's capital,
16:34Perugia.
16:36Umbria.
16:37It is Umbria, yes.
16:38Your bonus things
16:39are on ancient Roman authors.
16:41The philosopher
16:42Seneca the Younger
16:43and the prose author
16:44Petronius Arbiter
16:45took their own lives
16:47during the reign
16:47of which emperor
16:48following the failed
16:49conspiracy of Piso?
16:50Is it just Nero?
16:52That makes sense.
16:52I think it's just Nero.
16:53Nero?
16:53Yes.
16:54Noted for his epigrams,
16:56the poet Marshall
16:56died during the reign
16:58of which Roman ruler,
16:59the second
17:00of the five good emperors?
17:02Hadrian or Trajan?
17:03Which one do you think?
17:05Trajan.
17:06Nominate Byrne?
17:06Trajan.
17:07Yes, Trajan is correct.
17:09Finally,
17:09the lyric poet Horace
17:10and the epic poet Virgil
17:12died during the reign
17:13of which emperor?
17:14It's Augustus.
17:15Is this Augustus?
17:16Yeah, Augustus.
17:16Yes.
17:17Let's start the question.
17:18The essay Algeria Unveiled
17:21appears in Who's 1959 book
17:23A Dying Colonialism
17:25which documents
17:25the Algerian War.
17:27Trinity Hall, Bransgrove.
17:29Franz Fanon.
17:29Yes, Franz Fanon.
17:30Yes, indeed.
17:32Three festings
17:32on the German-American
17:33sculptor Elisabeth Ney.
17:35In the 1860s,
17:36Ney was appointed
17:37as the personal sculptor
17:38of which Bavarian king,
17:40a patron of the arts
17:41who began the construction
17:42of Neuschwanstein Castle?
17:44I need the name
17:45and regnal number.
17:46It's a little bit
17:47the second, I think.
17:48A little bit the second.
17:49Well done.
17:50In the 1890s,
17:51Ney created sculptures
17:51of which two leading figures
17:53in the establishment
17:54of the Republic of Texas?
17:55Both give their names
17:57to major cities
17:57in the modern state
17:58and I simply need
17:59their surnames.
18:00Houston and Austin.
18:01What have I just checked with?
18:02What about Shabas?
18:03Houston and Austin.
18:04Sam Houston and Austin.
18:07Houston and Austin.
18:08Is correct.
18:10Part of the collection
18:10of the Smithsonian
18:11and interpreted
18:12as being partly self-referential,
18:14a 1905 marble sculpture
18:16by Ney depicts
18:17which Shakespearean character
18:18in a sleepwalking pose?
18:22Macbeth, sleepwalks.
18:24That would be an onshore.
18:26She's a female.
18:27Ophelia?
18:28No, it's Lady Macbeth.
18:30Now, let's start the question.
18:31Set to music
18:32by Benjamin Britton.
18:33Wilfred Owen's poem,
18:34The Parable of the Old Man
18:35and the Young,
18:36concerns which
18:37biblical father and son?
18:39The poem diverges
18:40from the biblical narrative,
18:41stating in its final lines
18:43that the father,
18:43rather than sacrificing...
18:45LSE Byrne.
18:46Abraham and Isaac.
18:47It is indeed, yes.
18:48Your bonuses are
18:49on the Dravidian language family.
18:51With approximately
18:5280 million native speakers
18:53in India,
18:54what is the most widely spoken
18:56Dravidian language
18:56in the country?
18:57As of the last census in 2011,
18:59it's an official language
19:01of the Indian states
19:01of Andhra Pradesh
19:02and Telangana.
19:03Is it Telugu?
19:04Yeah.
19:05Telugu?
19:06Yes.
19:06Which southern Dravidian language
19:08is the official language
19:09of the state of Karnataka?
19:10The language has a literary tradition
19:12dating back to 850 CE,
19:14early instances of which,
19:15are primarily poems
19:16by writers from the Jain faith?
19:18It's just Kanada.
19:19Yeah.
19:20Canada.
19:21Nominate sharp?
19:22Canada.
19:22Yeah.
19:23Usually pronounced Kanada,
19:24but we'll take that, yeah.
19:25Which Dravidian language
19:25is one of the four
19:26official languages
19:27of Singapore,
19:28despite being spoken at home
19:30by only about 2.5%
19:31of the population?
19:32Tamil?
19:33Malayalam?
19:34Malayalam?
19:34Malayalam, you think?
19:35Tamil?
19:36Are you...
19:36Malayalam?
19:37No, it's Tamil.
19:38Bad enough.
19:39Let's start a question.
19:39In cell biology,
19:41the structure of what
19:41eukaryotic organelle
19:43is maintained by the
19:44GM-130 protein.
19:46This organelle consists
19:47of several flattened
19:48membrane-enclosed discs
19:50called cystinine.
19:51It's involved in the
19:52glycosylation and packaging
19:53of proteins
19:54into secretory vesicles.
19:56LSE!
19:57Top.
19:58Golgi body?
19:59Yes, there's a
19:59Golgi operation.
20:00Your bonuses, LSE,
20:01are three questions
20:02on the halogens.
20:04Which halogen element
20:05is a reddish-brown liquid
20:06at room temperature,
20:08having a melting point
20:09of around minus 7 degrees Celsius?
20:11Bromine.
20:11Bromine?
20:12Yes.
20:12Which of the halogen elements
20:13has the highest
20:14electronegativity
20:15and the highest
20:16first ionisation energy?
20:18Fluorine.
20:19Fluorine, yeah.
20:19Fluorine.
20:19Yes.
20:20Which transuranic element
20:21assigned to the halogen group
20:23was officially named
20:23after an American state
20:24in 2016?
20:25So, Tennessean?
20:28Are there others?
20:29That sounds right.
20:30Nominate sharp.
20:31Tennessean.
20:32Yes.
20:32Well done.
20:33Let's start with a question.
20:34Picture round now.
20:35And for your picture starter,
20:36you're going to see a portrait.
20:38For 10 points,
20:39name the artist.
20:41Trinity Hall, Brunsgrove.
20:43Courbet.
20:44No, you can have a bit more time
20:45but you may not confer.
20:47Ellis Ebert.
20:48Gainsborough.
20:49No, it's Joshua Reynolds.
20:50We'll take your picture bonuses
20:52in a moment.
20:53That's a painful miss.
20:54Bad luck.
20:55Another starter question.
20:55Following the dissolution
20:57of a union with a neighbouring country
20:58and a plebiscite
20:59in favour of a monarchy,
21:01what country invited Prince Carl,
21:03the son-in-law of Edward VII,
21:05to become its king in 1905?
21:08In 1940,
21:09he formed a government
21:10in exile in London
21:11when his country was invaded.
21:12LSE shop.
21:14Norway.
21:14It is Norway, yes.
21:16For your picture starter, LSE,
21:18you saw Joshua Reynolds' portrait
21:19of 17th and 18th century actor
21:22Sarah Siddons
21:23as the tragic muse.
21:24For your picture bonuses,
21:26three more paintings of actors
21:28and again,
21:29I want the name of the artist
21:30of each for five points.
21:33First, this artist.
21:36It could be Hal's.
21:38You good, trust you.
21:40Nominate Byrne.
21:41Hal's.
21:41No, it's Antoine Watteau.
21:43Secondly, this German artist.
21:48Kandinsky German?
21:49No.
21:52Take your time.
21:53Come on.
21:55Dix.
21:56No, it's Kirchner.
21:57Lastly.
21:59It's a sergeant.
22:00Sergeant?
22:00It is sergeant, yes.
22:01Let's start with a question.
22:03Published posthumously in 1634,
22:05the novel Somnium,
22:06in which a boy and his mother
22:07travelled to the moon,
22:08was written by which scientist?
22:10Like the boy in the story,
22:11he was apprenticed to Tycho Brahe
22:14before being appointed
22:15as a mathematical advisor
22:16to the court of...
22:17LSE Hough.
22:19Copernicus?
22:19No, I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
22:21To the court of Emperor Rudolf II.
22:25Kepler?
22:26It is Johannes Kepler, yes.
22:28Your bonuses, Trinity Hall,
22:30are on world capitals and textiles.
22:32The animal fibre, mohair,
22:34is derived from a breed of goat
22:35that takes its name
22:36from the archaic form
22:37of the name of which capital city?
22:39Ankara?
22:40Yes.
22:40Related to bananas,
22:42the abaca tree
22:42is the source of a fibre name
22:44for which Asian capital city?
22:46It is used to make paper,
22:47notably used in envelopes and folders,
22:50as well as...
22:50Vanilla?
22:51Yes.
22:51Which capital city gives its name
22:52to a type of patterned textile
22:54with one set each of warps and wefts,
22:56producing a lustrous satin field
22:58over which a less vibrant pattern is woven?
23:01It was introduced to Europe by crusaders
23:03returning from the Near East.
23:05That sounds like Damascus.
23:08Damascus, maybe.
23:09What do you think?
23:11Damascus?
23:11Yes.
23:12Let's start with the question.
23:13Hope, blood and the name
23:15of the title character
23:16are the answers to three riddles
23:18posed to the Prince Calaf
23:19in which opera by Puccini?
23:21Left unfinished at the composer's death.
23:26Tyrandott?
23:27It is.
23:27Your bonuses are three questions
23:29on an African country.
23:30Major cities of which African country
23:32include Ibadan in the southwest
23:34and Kano,
23:35a former Hausa kingdom
23:36of the northern savannah?
23:37Nigeria.
23:38Nigeria?
23:39Yes.
23:40Nigeria's largest city, Lagos,
23:41is located approximately 80 kilometres east
23:43of Porto Novo,
23:44the capital of which neighbouring country?
23:46Benin.
23:47Benin?
23:48Yes.
23:48Enugu in southeastern Nigeria
23:50was briefly the capital
23:51of what short-lived breakaway state
23:53that declared independence in 1967?
23:57Biafra?
23:57Biafra?
24:08Biafra?
24:10Biafra?
24:10Biafra?
24:10Trinity Hall, Brunsgrove.
24:12Andalusia.
24:12No, I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
24:14On the Iberian Peninsula,
24:15it shares its name with the inland city
24:17that is the location of the Alhambra.
24:20Biafra?
24:21Biafra?
24:32Biafra?
24:38Biafra?
24:39Biafra?
24:42Biafra?
24:50Biafra?
24:52Biafra?
25:05Biafra?
25:06Biafra?
25:07Quality?
25:08No, it's qualia.
25:09Finally, from the Latin for how much,
25:11what term in theoretical physics
25:13was introduced by Max Planck
25:14and developed by Niels Bohr...
25:16Quantum.
25:17Yes.
25:17Let's start with the question.
25:18Which ten-letter adjective
25:20can precede both of the following?
25:22Property in philosophy
25:23to denote a circumstance
25:24in which if A equals...
25:27Fundamental.
25:28No, I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
25:29If A equals B and B equals C,
25:31then A equals C and...
25:33It's transitive.
25:34Oh, what I'm saying?
25:35No, it's transitive.
25:36Another starter question.
25:37Major cities on which island
25:39include Balikpapan
25:41on the Makassar Strait,
25:43Pontianak,
25:44a little inland
25:45from the South China Sea,
25:46Kuching,
25:47a sea shop.
25:48Borneo.
25:49It is Borneo, yes.
25:50Your bonuses are
25:51an American television series
25:52that premiered in the US in 1999.
25:54In each case,
25:55I want you to identify the series
25:56from the titles
25:57of some of its early episodes.
25:59First,
26:0046 Long,
26:01Denial, Anger, Acceptance,
26:03I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano.
26:04Uh, I think that's
26:06The Sopranos.
26:07Uh, nominate Byrne,
26:08The Sopranos.
26:08Yes.
26:09Secondly,
26:09a proportional response,
26:11The Crackpots and These Women,
26:12Mr. Willis of Ohio.
26:14The winners of what?
26:16Willis of Ohio.
26:17I have no idea.
26:18Yeah, this isn't ringing any bells.
26:19Is that like...
26:20Come on.
26:20Nominate Sharp.
26:22No.
26:23No, it's the West Wing.
26:24Finally,
26:24I, roommate,
26:25My three sons,
26:26Hell is Other Robots.
26:27Futurama.
26:28Yeah.
26:28Futurama.
26:29Yes,
26:29and I'll start the question.
26:30Answer as soon as you buzz.
26:32What three numbers make up
26:33the second smallest
26:35primitive Pythagorean triple,
26:37the smallest being
26:37three, four, five?
26:39L.A.C.
26:40Huff.
26:40Five, 12, 13.
26:41It is.
26:42Well done.
26:42Your bonuses are
26:43on geographical extremities.
26:44In each case,
26:45name the constituent country
26:46of the UK
26:47in which the following
26:47are located.
26:48St Agnes is the
26:49southernmost populated
26:51island of which
26:51of the home nations?
26:54England, I think.
26:55Okay.
26:56England?
26:57Yes.
26:58Located close to
26:58Chemice Bay,
26:59the uninhabited
27:00Middlemouse,
27:00or St Patrick's Island,
27:02is the northernmost
27:03point of which
27:03constituent country?
27:05So, northern Ireland,
27:06probably?
27:07St Patrick?
27:08Okay.
27:09Northern Ireland?
27:09No, it's Wales.
27:10The northernmost point
27:11of which constituent country
27:12is on Rathlin Island?
27:14That's northern Ireland.
27:15Yeah.
27:15Okay.
27:16Northern Ireland?
27:16Yes.
27:17Now, I'll start the question.
27:18What name is given
27:18to the group of
27:19diving waterfowl
27:20that includes
27:21the smew,
27:22the red-breasted merganser
27:23and the gusander
27:24in reference
27:25to their serrated beaks?
27:27Trinity Hall Gilbert.
27:29Sheerwaters?
27:30No.
27:30Anyone from LSE?
27:31LSE Shop.
27:32Razor pill?
27:33No, it's sawbill ducks.
27:34Bad luck.
27:35Another side of the question.
27:36Accused of flinging
27:36a pot of paint
27:37in the public space...
27:38LSE Burn.
27:39Whistler?
27:40It is James McNeil Whistler.
27:41Well done.
27:42Three questions
27:42on the Byzantine Empire.
27:44Known as the First
27:45or the Thracian,
27:46which emperor
27:46gives his name
27:47to the dynasty
27:47that followed
27:48the Theodosian
27:49in 457?
27:51Justinian.
27:53I like that as an answer.
27:55And at the gong,
27:56Trinity Hall of 135
27:57with LSE of 215.
27:59APPLAUSE
28:03The answer for the last one
28:04was Leo
28:04or the Leonid dynasty.
28:06Trinity Hall,
28:06I'm so sorry,
28:07but you're fantastically entertaining
28:08and you came across
28:09as humongously clever,
28:10so I hope you had a good time.
28:11Was it vaguely enjoyable?
28:12Yes.
28:13Not the last two minutes,
28:14maybe,
28:15but it's been wonderful
28:15having you.
28:16Thank you so much.
28:17LSE, I mean,
28:17215 is a magnificent score
28:19and you ran away
28:20with it a bit at the end,
28:21but it was a very tight match
28:21until then.
28:22Well done.
28:22We shall see you again
28:23and I hope we shall see you again
28:25as well for another
28:26first round match,
28:26but until then,
28:27it is goodbye
28:28from Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
28:29Goodbye.
28:30It's goodbye from LSE
28:32and it's goodbye from me.
28:33Goodbye.
28:35APPLAUSE
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