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00:18University Challenge. Asking the questions, I'm all ready.
00:27Hello and welcome to University Challenge. Tonight, an Oxford college founded in the
00:3215th century plays a Cambridge college founded more than 500 years later in the last of this
00:37year's first round heats. Whoever wins will join 13 teams that have already secured a place
00:42in round two, while the losing team will need to score at least 150 points if they're to qualify
00:48for the Repechage. Magdalen College Oxford was founded in 1458 by Lord Chancellor William Wayne
00:54Fleet, with an endowment that at the time was the largest in the university's history. Its grounds
00:59include Oxford's tallest building, Magdalen Tower, as well as a park home to one of Britain's oldest
01:04herds of fallow deer. And its notable alumni include the archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam, the theatre
01:10director Katie Mitchell and the historian AJP Taylor. In 2011, Magdalen became the first institution to
01:17win this competition four times, a record later equaled by Manchester University and only surpassed
01:22by Imperial. Let's meet the team looking for trophy number five. Hi, my name is Aidan Wu,
01:28I'm from Sydney, Australia and I study history and politics. Hi, my name is Ali Costa-Ferrera,
01:33I'm from South West London and I'm studying human sciences. And their captain. Hi, my name is Benjamin
01:38Sharkey, I'm from North London and I'm studying for a defail in history. Hi, I'm Sasha Walker,
01:44I'm from Ely in East Cambridgeshire and I'm studying for a master's in computer science.
01:52Robinson College is Cambridge's newest, founded in 1977 following a donation by businessman David
01:58Robinson. In 2022, the entire college grounds were granted listed status. Its main buildings are
02:04distinctive in their use of handmade red brick, while its chapel is noted for stained glass by the
02:08same team that designed the windows of Coventry Cathedral. Despite Robinson's relative youth,
02:14it has a number of well-known alumni, including Mark Quinn, Connie Huck and Robert Webb. And its best
02:19result in this competition has been a quarter final finish in 1995. Let's meet this year's team from
02:25Robinson College, Cambridge. Hello, I'm Michael Shipman, I'm from North Yorkshire and I'm studying natural
02:30science. Hi, I'm Jessica Cronin, I'm from Litchfield and I'm studying history. And their captain. Hi, I'm
02:37Eve Temmink, I'm from North London and I study medicine. Hi, I'm Otis Moran, I'm from County Durham
02:42and I'm studying archaeology. Welcome to University Challenge. You look full of smiles. I'm very excited.
02:50Let's see how you are in about 28 minutes time. Okay, let's go. Fingers on buzzers. Here's your first
02:54start of a ten. Good luck. Derived from a Sanskrit word whose meanings include uncultivated land, what word
03:01appears in the titles of these two fictional works. The first, an exposé of the Chicago meatpacking
03:06industry by Upton Sinclair and the second, an 1894 story collection by a future British...
03:12Robinson Cronin. Jungle. It is jungle, yes.
03:17Your bonuses are on cities named after Roman emperors. In each case, give the modern name of the city from
03:24the description. First, a Bavarian city named after the first emperor of Rome. It was a major economic
03:29centre of the Holy Roman Empire as the headquarters of the Fugger and Velser banking families.
03:35Anyone in Augsburg? Okay. Augsburg? Yes. Secondly, a major city of northeast Algeria,
03:40home to the monumental Emir Abdel Kader Mosque. It was named capital of Arab culture by the Arab League
03:46and UNESCO in 2015. Any ideas? I think it's got something to do with Constantine, maybe.
03:53It's something Constantine-y. Constantine? I don't know.
03:57Is the correct answer? Yes. Finally, a city on the River Loire whose name derives from the third
04:02century emperor who rebuilt it. It was the site of a major siege of the Hundred Years' War,
04:06often regarded as a turning point for the French.
04:11Any ideas? Unless you're on this one. Okay. Michael? No. Pass.
04:16That was Orléans, named after Aurelien. Let's start the question.
04:19The subtitle of a 2024 biography by Nicholas Fox Weber references the quest for the absolute
04:25of which Dutch artist, born in 1872? In 1917, together with Theo van Duisburg,
04:31he co-founded an abstract art movement whose approach he called neoplasticism.
04:37Robinson Temmig. Mondrian? It is.
04:41Three questions for you, Robinson, on botanicals commonly used to flavour gin.
04:45The seeds of which plant in the parsley family are used widely to add a citrus top note to gins?
04:51The seeds are small, round and yellowish-brown and contain linala wool, which contributes to their
04:56lemony floral flavour?
04:58Ooh. What are we thinking?
04:59What was the family? In the parsley family.
05:03Would it be fennel? Could be.
05:05Fennel? No, it's coriander. The root of which other plant in the parsley family is used for its perceived
05:10ability to hold and marry the volatile flavours of other botanicals, as well as for its own sweet,
05:16woody flavour. The candied stalks of this plant are a traditional cake decoration.
05:20This could be parsnips or carrots, what are you thinking?
05:26I have no idea. I think I'm right with one of those, but I just don't know.
05:30We'll go parsnips. No, it's angelica.
05:34The predominant flavour in most gins comes from the seed cones, usually called berries,
05:38of which genus of coniferous plants in the cypress family?
05:42Is this juniper? It is juniper berries, but I don't know.
05:44Juniper. It is juniper berries, yes. Let's start with the question.
05:46What was the surname of the following pair of brothers,
05:50both prominent members of the English nobility?
05:52The younger brother, Thomas, was executed for treason in 1549
05:56on the orders of the elder, Edward, Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector,
06:01who suffered the same fate three years later.
06:04Both were uncles of the then king.
06:08Cromwell? No.
06:12Howard. No, it's Seymour.
06:14Another starter question.
06:16Which mathematician used formal logic to argue that there must exist
06:19a being with every conceivable positive property in his version
06:23of the ontological argument?
06:24He also gives his name to a method of assigning a number
06:27to every formula and symbol in a formal...
06:31Girdle. Yes, it is indeed Kurt Girdle.
06:33Great questions for you, Mordyn, on a philosophical concept.
06:36For what do the letters DE stand in the abbreviation PDE,
06:41a principle in philosophical ethics that states that a harmful action
06:45may be permissible if it also produces a certain degree of good?
06:50Um, I don't know.
06:53Deterministic...
06:54Oh, maybe it is degree, I don't know.
06:56Degree? No, I'm not sure.
06:57Something ethics, maybe?
06:59Deterministic ethics.
07:00No, it's double effect.
07:01One of the earliest known examples of double effect thinking
07:04comes from a 13th century argument by which philosopher,
07:07in which he claimed that killing is ethically justified in cases of self-defence?
07:10Okay, any thoughts?
07:12Absolutely.
07:12Gluteus, maybe?
07:13Could be Anselm, could be Aquinas.
07:16Uh, Anselm.
07:17No, it is Aquinas.
07:18Oh.
07:18Philippa Foote's 1967 article,
07:20The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect,
07:23introduced what popular philosophical thought experiment?
07:26The trolley problem.
07:27It is indeed.
07:28Let's start the question.
07:29This is a picture round now.
07:30For your picture starter, you'll see a map with points on two historic cities,
07:34both home to UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
07:37For ten points, tell me the name of both cities.
07:41Maudlin Walker.
07:43Petra and Agra.
07:44Well done.
07:45It is indeed.
07:47Well, following on from Petra and Agra,
07:49for your picture bonuses, Maudlin,
07:50you'll see maps of three more pairs of twin cities,
07:53all home to UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
07:55For five points, you'll need to name both cities.
07:59First...
07:59Oh, gosh.
08:00Um...
08:01Is that Kyoto?
08:02That is Kyoto.
08:03I don't know.
08:03Is this Machu Picchu or...?
08:05I don't know where Machu Picchu is.
08:07I think Machu Picchu.
08:09Cusco.
08:09Cusco, yeah.
08:10Kyoto and Cusco.
08:11Well done.
08:12Next.
08:13That's Tabriz and...
08:15Ooh, that's in Russia.
08:17Yes, that is Kazan.
08:19Kazan.
08:20Um, Tabriz and Kazan.
08:22Yes.
08:23Finally.
08:24Oh, my gosh.
08:25Is that Salzburg?
08:26Yeah, it looks like Salzburg.
08:28Is that Verona?
08:28Verona, okay.
08:29Salzburg and Verona.
08:30Well worked out, yeah.
08:32APPLAUSE
08:32Let's start the question.
08:33I'm looking for the title of an album here.
08:36Quote...
08:36I remember you as conflicted, misusing your...
08:39Maudley Mou.
08:40To Pimper Butterfly.
08:40Well done.
08:42Right.
08:44I think Kendrick Lamar probably watches University of Canada, so he'll be delighted.
08:47Right, three questions on diseases named after geographical locations.
08:50Lassa fever, which can be spread following contact with the urine or faeces of infected rodents,
08:56is named for a town in which African country where the disease was first described?
09:01Any thoughts?
09:03What country?
09:05Um...
09:06Ghana?
09:07Maybe Tanzania.
09:09Uh, Tanzania.
09:10No, it's Nigeria.
09:10Referring to the geographical region where the first case was identified in 2012,
09:14for what does the acronym of the viral infection MERS, that's M-E-R-S, stand?
09:20Oh, I can't remember.
09:23I can't remember.
09:24No thoughts.
09:25Um...
09:26No thoughts whatsoever.
09:26Pass.
09:27It's Middle Eastern or Middle East respiratory syndrome.
09:30Murray Valley encephalitis is a mosquito-borne viral disease named for a geographical
09:35feature in what country?
09:36Uh, Murray is, I think, Australia.
09:38Yeah.
09:38Australia.
09:39Yes, well done.
09:40Let's start the question.
09:41Including an early example of exponentiation to express very large numbers,
09:46the sand reckoner is a work by which ancient thinker in which he attempts
09:50to estimate how many grains of sand could fit into the universe.
09:54It was written as a letter to Gellon II, king of Syracuse.
09:59Robinson Shipman.
10:00Archimedes.
10:01It is Archimedes, yes.
10:02Your bonuses, Robinson, three questions on Romanesque architecture in England.
10:07Romanesque features of which minster near Sherwood Forest include an elaborate porch
10:11and twin pepper pot towers.
10:13It became a Church of England cathedral in 1884.
10:16Any ideas?
10:17I mean, this is like, this is near Nottingham.
10:19Which is a minster in York, isn't it?
10:21That's not very close, I think.
10:23What do you think?
10:24Nottingham.
10:24Nottingham?
10:25No, it's Southwell.
10:26Which largely rural English county gives its name to a distinctive school of Romanesque sculpture,
10:31examples of which include fonts at Castle Froome between Bromyard and Ledbury,
10:36and Erdesley, just north of the River Wye?
10:38I think Froome is in Somerset, so maybe Somerset?
10:42Somerset?
10:43No, it's Herefordshire.
10:44Begun in 1093 and often cited as an outstanding example of Romanesque design,
10:50which cathedral was founded as a monastic cathedral built to house the Shrine of Saint Cuthbert?
10:55Oh, Durham.
10:56Yeah, Durham.
10:57Yes, it is.
10:58Well done.
10:58Let's start with the question.
10:59Possibly after a British queen consort, what name is given to a moulded dessert
11:04that may be baked or unbaked, made by lining a bucket-shaped pan with either bread slices
11:10or sponge fingers and filling it with one or a combination of...
11:13Robinson Chipman.
11:14Trifle.
11:15No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
11:16You may not confer, but you can hear more of the question.
11:19Of fruit, mousse, custard and whipped cream,
11:22the probable namesake in question was the wife of George III.
11:26Charlotte.
11:27Charlotte.
11:28Yes, as in Charlotte or Mecklenburg.
11:31Three questions for you, Magdalene, on a US Secretary of State.
11:34Elected Governor of New York in 1839 and a prominent anti-slavery senator in the 1850s,
11:40who unexpectedly lost the 1860 Republican nomination to Abraham Lincoln,
11:45later becoming his Secretary of State?
11:47Any thoughts?
11:48No idea.
11:48Sorry.
11:49No ideas. Pass.
11:49It was William Henry Seward.
11:52As Secretary of State, Seward negotiated which major diplomatic crisis with the United Kingdom,
11:56provoked by the capture of John Sliddle and James Murray Mason?
12:00The Trent Affair.
12:01Yes.
12:02During the presidency of Andrew Johnson, Seward arranged the purchase of which territory,
12:06an act referred to as Seward's Folly?
12:08That's Alaska, is it?
12:09It could be Alaska, sure.
12:11Alaska.
12:11It is indeed, yes.
12:12That was kind of a question.
12:14In the singular or plural, what word links all of these?
12:18Kurtz's dying words in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness,
12:21a 1982 science-fiction comedy musical by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman,
12:26adapted from a 1960 film by Roger Corman, with songs including Suddenly Seymour,
12:30and a cult 1973 musical film starring Tim Curry.
12:35Magdalene Costa-Ferrera.
12:36Or Horrors?
12:37Yes, exactly that.
12:40Your bonuses, Magdalene, three questions on a theme in fiction.
12:442024 saw the first West End run of which musical by Eve Blake?
12:49According to Blake, one of its inspirations was the way people responded to
12:52and reported on Zayn Malik's departure from One Direction in 2015.
12:56I have no idea.
12:57No idea.
12:58Any thoughts?
13:00No.
13:01No, pass.
13:01Fangirls.
13:02Who wrote the 2018 young adult novel, I Was Born For This,
13:06which explores fandom through the character of Angel Rahimi,
13:09a super fan of fictional pop rock boy band The Ark.
13:12This author's other works include the graphic novel series Heartstopper.
13:16Oh, I can't remember what her name is, sorry.
13:18I don't know.
13:20Um...
13:20What?
13:22Heartstopper.
13:22I can't remember her name.
13:23Pass.
13:23Alice Oseman, as I think Robinson knew.
13:25Love of a boy band called Fourtown is one of the things that unites
13:2913-year-old protagonist Mei Li and her friends in which 2022 Disney Pixar film?
13:34Oh, um, Turning Red, I think.
13:37OK, Turning Red.
13:38It is indeed, yeah.
13:39Let's start the question.
13:40Music round.
13:40For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of rock music.
13:43For ten points, name the band playing.
13:46MLA, right now.
13:48Baudlin Costa Ferreira.
13:50The Stooges.
13:50It is indeed, yes.
13:53That was, of course, the Stooges' 1969 song,
13:56I Wanna Be Your Dog.
13:57For your music bonuses, you'll hear three more songs from the 1960s
14:00with titles that mention dogs.
14:03For five points, name the artist.
14:06First, from 1968.
14:09My man is a watchdog.
14:12My man is a watchdog, yeah.
14:15I wanna watchdog.
14:17This is so music.
14:19I really have no idea.
14:21I can't hear what this sounds like.
14:22That's Etta James with Watchdog.
14:24Next, this track from a 1967 album.
14:30Oh, this is, um, uh, Cat Stevens.
14:34Cat Stevens.
14:35Yes, that was Cat Stevens, later known as Youssef,
14:37with I Love My Dog.
14:38And finally, from 1966.
14:43Well, he's my...
14:45Oh, this is...
14:46Johnny Cash.
14:47Who else could it be?
14:48Yeah, dirty old egg-sucking dog.
14:50Let's start with the question.
14:51A notable example in vertebrates being CTCF bound sites.
14:56What name is given to genetic elements
14:58that contribute to the regulation of genes,
15:01either by blocking the activity of enhancers,
15:03or by acting as a barrier to the spread
15:05of epigenetic modifications?
15:07In other scientific fields,
15:09the same word can denote a material
15:11that blocks the transfer of heat,
15:13or the flow of...
15:14Maudlin Walker.
15:15Insulator.
15:16It is indeed.
15:17Well done.
15:19Your bonuses, Maudlin, are on discoveries made
15:22by the French chemist Henri Braconneau.
15:23In 1811, Braconneau isolated a polysaccharide
15:27from mushroom samples that he called fungine.
15:29It is now known by what name, coined 12 years later
15:32by August Odier, who found it in the exoskeleton of insects.
15:37Um, this is chitin, I think.
15:39Nominate Costa Ferreira.
15:40Uh, chitin.
15:41It is indeed.
15:42In 1825, Braconneau isolated polygalacturonic acid,
15:45the main component of what polysaccharide found in the cell walls
15:48of most fruits and vegetables?
15:50Braconneau named it from the Greek for congealing,
15:53reflecting that it is a...
15:54Cellulose.
15:55No, it's a pectin.
15:57Which amino acid was discovered by Braconneau in 1820
16:00through boiling gelatin in sulphuric acid?
16:03It is the simplest of the amino acids with the molecular formula
16:07C2H5NO2.
16:08Glycine.
16:09It is indeed, yeah.
16:11Let's start the question.
16:12Peter O'Toole was nominated for the Academy Award
16:15for Best Actor in both 1964 and 1968
16:18for playing which king of England on screen?
16:21The later film, entitled The Lion in Winter,
16:24fictionalises this monarch's relationship with his wife, Eleanor of...
16:28BELL RINGS
16:28Maudlin Chucky.
16:29Henry's in second.
16:30Yes, it is. Well done.
16:33Your bonuses, Maudlin, are on places commemorating battles
16:36of the Napoleonic Wars.
16:38Designated a historic monument in 1997,
16:41which railway station on the left bank of the Seine
16:43is named for a major Napoleonic victory of 1805
16:47in what is now Czechia?
16:50Austerlitz, I'm pretty sure.
16:51Austerlitz.
16:52Yes.
16:53Derived from the name of a historic pub in the area,
16:56which district of West London is thus indirectly named
16:59after a major Anglo-Sicilian victory of 1806
17:02in the Napoleonic Wars?
17:03It's landmarks include a complex of BBC Sound Studios
17:06and a Grade II listed Sephardi synagogue.
17:09Well, BBC Sound Studios, that could be White City,
17:13it could be, like, Shepard's Bush.
17:16Shepard's Bush, maybe?
17:17Uh, Shepard's Bush.
17:19It's made of ale.
17:21Settled by a group of Bonapartist soldiers,
17:23which county in Alabama takes its name from a major battle of 1800?
17:28Napoleon gave the same name to one of his most prized horses.
17:31Oh, this is, um...
17:33Marengo. Marengo.
17:34It is Marengo, yes.
17:35Let's start a question.
17:36I need a short English word here.
17:38Words in various languages, meaning what shape,
17:41appear in the names of all of the following?
17:43The largest of the US Virgin Islands,
17:46a Mexican state on the Gulf of Mexico, whose capital is Jalapa,
17:50the largest city of Bolivia,
17:52the capital of the island of Tenerife...
17:56Cross.
17:56Cross. Yes, it is Cross. Well done.
17:58Three questions for you on the poems of Elizabeth Bishop.
18:02Quote,
18:02Now I live here, another island that doesn't seem like one.
18:06Those lines are from a 1979 poem by Bishop
18:08that imagines the feelings of which fictional character,
18:11first seen in a novel of 1719,
18:13on his return to England after a long absence?
18:16Is this going to be Robinson Crusade?
18:17Yeah.
18:18Robinson Crusade.
18:18Of course, yes.
18:20A funeral attended as a child is the subject of a 1962 poem
18:23by Bishop titled,
18:24First Death in Which Canadian Province?
18:27Where she spent her childhood?
18:28Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem,
18:30Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie, is also set in this province.
18:34Is it Acadia? I don't know.
18:35Acadia?
18:35No, no, no, that's not...
18:36Prince Edward Island.
18:37Um, there's Ontario, Alberta and Yukon.
18:40Alberta.
18:40I'm happy to go Alberta.
18:41Alberta.
18:42No, it's Nova Scotia.
18:43What single word is missing from the following line,
18:45repeated across Bishop's villanelle, One Art?
18:48The art of what isn't hard to master?
18:53Love.
18:55If only.
18:56It's losing.
18:57Let's start a question.
18:58Plenty of time, Robinson.
18:59See if you get going again with this.
19:00A recent work by the Belgian historian David van Raybroek,
19:04Revolusie focuses on...
19:06Indonesia.
19:07It is Indonesia, yes.
19:09Your bonuses, Mordin, are on gate monuments.
19:13Commemorating its country's independence in 1957,
19:16the Black Star Gate stands in which capital city?
19:20Uh, country that was...
19:22Um, I'm thinking maybe Ghana?
19:24Ghana?
19:24Oh, yes.
19:25Yes, Ghana.
19:25No, the capital city.
19:26Oh.
19:27No, I can't accept that.
19:28I asked for the city.
19:29It's Accra.
19:29Bad luck.
19:30Which is the capital of Ghana.
19:31Opened in 2018, the Sabiata Dwar, or civilisation gate,
19:36is located in which city?
19:37The capital of India's Bihar state.
19:40Where is Bihar state?
19:41Oh, Bihar...
19:41Um, is that...
19:43Is that...
19:44Baud Gaya?
19:45Sorry, what do you think?
19:46Baud Gaya?
19:47Sure.
19:48Nominate who?
19:48Baud Gaya?
19:49No, it's Patna.
19:50The Menin Gate is located in which city in Belgium?
19:53It serves as a monument to British and Commonwealth casualties
19:56of the First World War?
19:57Is that Ypres or is it Waterloo?
19:59Ypres, I think it's all right.
20:00Sure, Ypres.
20:01Ypres, yes.
20:02It is indeed.
20:03Picture round now.
20:04For your picture starter, you're going to see an artefact.
20:06For ten points, I need the name of the Chinese dynasty
20:09during which it was created.
20:13Robinson Temmink.
20:15Chen?
20:15Yes, well done.
20:16Your picture starter there, Robinson, you saw a soldier in
20:19Qin Shi Huangdi's terracotta army.
20:22For your picture bonuses, three more Chinese artefacts.
20:25And again, I want you to name the dynasty during which they were created.
20:28A single word answer is enough in each case.
20:31First...
20:32This looks quite early.
20:33That is open, I know.
20:34Um, what are you thinking?
20:35Anyone ideas?
20:36Nothing specific.
20:38No.
20:38OK, uh, Joel?
20:40Correct.
20:40Secondly.
20:41Oh, anyone got any ideas?
20:43Is that only our later?
20:44Huh?
20:45It looks quite obvious.
20:46Do you think earlier than...
20:47Come on.
20:48Uh, Shang?
20:48No, it's Han.
20:51Lastly...
20:51Ming.
20:52Yeah.
20:53It is indeed Ming.
20:53Let's start the question.
20:55The gymnasts, Yelena Produnova, Simone Biles, Natalia Yorchenko and
20:59Simona Amanaha all give their names to skills in what specific...?
21:04Robinson Temmink.
21:05Floor.
21:06No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
21:07What specific discipline?
21:08In the Olympic Games, it is one of only two events that is performed in both
21:12men's and women's gymnastics.
21:16Portland Sharkey.
21:17Pommelhorse.
21:18No, it's a vault.
21:19Let's start the question.
21:21A malar rash often said to resemble the wings of a butterfly across the cheeks...
21:26Robinson Temmink.
21:27Lupus.
21:27Well done.
21:28It is lupus.
21:29Yeah.
21:30Your bonuses...
21:31That felt good, didn't it?
21:32Your bonuses are three questions on insects.
21:35Philiids, or members of the family philiidae, are insects that typically
21:39resemble what naturally occurring objects as camouflage?
21:42Hmm.
21:43Snicks, maybe.
21:44I don't know what else.
21:45OK.
21:46I think maybe leaf, maybe.
21:47Maybe.
21:47Leaf?
21:48Yes, correct.
21:49Thought to be derived from the sound of the insect's call, what common name is given to
21:53the bush cricket Pterophylla camelifolia, a common North American species that is coloured
21:58green as camouflage?
21:59Cicada.
22:00I don't know if they're green.
22:01Well, it's the only one I can think of that makes a noise.
22:05OK.
22:05Cicada.
22:06Cicada did.
22:06Also coloured green as camouflage and native to Southern Europe, which predatory insect has the
22:11specific epithet religiosa and a common two-word name that refers to its apparent crouching posture?
22:16Praying mantis.
22:17Yes.
22:18In what present-day country was the now-extinct language Burbis Dutch spoken?
22:23The language emerged on the slave plantations in the Burbis colony,
22:27which were later ceded to the British, along with neighbouring Demerara and Essequibo.
22:31Robinson Timic.
22:32Serenon.
22:33No.
22:33Anyone from Magdalene?
22:35You may not confer.
22:37Magdalene Wu.
22:38Guiana.
22:38It is Guiana.
22:40Three questions for you, Magdalene, on cattle deities in world mythology.
22:45Nandi is the bull Vahana, or mount, of which Hindu deity?
22:49In cities such as Varanasi, some bulls are allowed to roam free,
22:52having been marked with this god's trident insignia?
22:57Vishnu?
22:57Vishnu?
22:58Yeah, yeah.
22:58I have no idea.
23:00Vishnu.
23:00No, it's Shiva.
23:01Which Egyptian goddess of love and fertility is often depicted in the form of a cow?
23:06Her name means house or estate of Horus.
23:08Maybe Hassel?
23:09Um, sorry?
23:10Hassel, I don't know.
23:11Nominate Costa Ferreira.
23:12Hassel.
23:13Correct.
23:13Which Greek goddess does Homer often describe as cow-eyed or ox-eyed?
23:18Io, whom Zeus transformed into a heifer,
23:20was a priestess of this deity at Argos.
23:23I was, um...
23:25Is it...
23:27Yes, I think it's a goddess.
23:28Oh, goddess.
23:29Yeah, so is it Artemis then?
23:30Yeah.
23:30Artemis.
23:31No, that was Hera.
23:32Four and a half minutes to go.
23:33In economics, what general 13-letter term is used for policies that aim to assist
23:38domestic production against foreign competition using measures...
23:42Maudelyn Walker.
23:43Protectionism.
23:44It is indeed, yes.
23:47Your bonuses, Maudelyn, are on a ballet.
23:50Prince Siegfried and the sorcerer von Rothbart are characters in which 1877 ballet?
23:55Swan Lake.
23:55Yes.
23:56The usual climax of the coda of the pas des deux between Siegfried and Rothbart's
24:00daughter Odile is a series of 32 instances of which step in which a turn on one leg is
24:06propelled by a rapid whipping movement of the other?
24:08What's it called?
24:09Pirouette.
24:10Is that a pirouette?
24:11I don't know.
24:11Pirouette.
24:12No, it's a fuete.
24:13What is the name of the cursed princess identical to Odile with whom Siegfried falls in love?
24:17Odette.
24:18It is indeed, yes.
24:19Let's start with the question.
24:20What is the most populous of the major administrative regions of Italy?
24:24Bordering Switzerland to the north, its largest city...
24:27Maudelyn Walker.
24:28Lombardy.
24:29It is Lombardy.
24:30Well done.
24:31Three bonuses for you, Maudelyn, on velodromes.
24:34Denoting the fastest possible path, the black line on a velodrome track is
24:38sometimes known by what name, used in engineering and surveying for a reference point or line
24:43against which other measurements are made?
24:45Oh, the plumb line?
24:47Sure.
24:47Is that?
24:48Yeah, sure.
24:49Plumb line.
24:49No, it's a datum line.
24:51On a velodrome track, the sprinter's lane is the space between the datum line and line of which colour?
24:56Red.
24:57Red.
24:58Red?
24:59Red.
24:59Yes.
25:00The blue inner edge of the track shares its name with what area of southern France,
25:04also known as the French Riviera?
25:07That's Provence.
25:08Yes.
25:08Yeah, yeah, yeah.
25:09Yeah, yeah, yeah.
25:10Cote du jour, maybe?
25:11Because it's blue.
25:12Cote du jour.
25:13Yes, it is.
25:14Three minutes to go.
25:14It's name deriving from the belief that possession of it could prevent the wearer from becoming drunk.
25:19What gemstone is a variety of quartz and contains iron impurities that confer a purple colour?
25:27Robinson Cronin.
25:28Anethyst.
25:29It is indeed.
25:30Your bonuses are on geological terms derived from Gaelic languages.
25:34Borrowed from Irish, what geological term describes a narrow ridge comprised of sand
25:38or gravel strata deposited by a subglacial meltwater stream?
25:42Is this moraine?
25:43Moraine?
25:44No, it's esca.
25:45It's origins in both Scottish Gaelic and Irish.
25:47What term refers to a type of oval hill formed by the movement of glacial ice across rock debris?
25:52Is it tor?
25:53OK, nominate shipman.
25:55Tor?
25:56No, it's drumlin.
25:57What short word for a type of peat-rich wetland comes from a Gaelic word meaning soft?
26:01It's just bog.
26:02OK, bog?
26:03Yes.
26:03Let's start the question.
26:04Lasting from 869 to 883 AD, the Zanj Rebellion was an uprising of slaves from sub-Saharan Africa
26:12in which empire named for its ruling dynasty?
26:15It began in the salt marshes around the city of Basra and was finally crushed by the...
26:20Abbasid.
26:21Yes, it is, the Abbasid.
26:23Your bonuses, Magdalene, are on literary trilogies named after cities.
26:27In each case, give the name of the city that is the collected title for the following trios of novels.
26:33First, childhood, youth and dependency by Terva Ditlevsen.
26:37That sounds Canadian, so Stockholm.
26:39Stockholm, yeah.
26:40Stockholm?
26:41No, it's Copenhagen.
26:42Secondly, The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse and Dog Years by Gunter Grass.
26:47Gunter, Germany.
26:49Um, I don't know.
26:51Sure.
26:51Hamburg.
26:52No, it's Danzig.
26:53Finally, Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street by Nagi Mahfuz.
26:58Palace.
26:59So, probably somewhere in the Caribbean.
27:01I don't know.
27:02Port-au-Prince.
27:03I don't know.
27:03Port-au-Prince.
27:04No, it's Cairo.
27:04Let's start the question.
27:05The beverage known as Jun or Shun is a Tibetan version of which more widely known drink made
27:11with green tea and honey instead of black tea and cane sugar?
27:14Both drinks employ a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast.
27:17Robinson Timming.
27:19It is kombucha.
27:20Your bonuses are on the Department of France.
27:23Camper is the prefecture of which department the northernmost of the Bay of Biscay?
27:27Its name comes from the Latin for Land's End.
27:30Finisterre.
27:30Yeah.
27:30Which department on the Bay of Biscay shares its name with France's most extensive forested region?
27:34This was formerly an expanse of marshes and other uncultivated land?
27:38I'm not sure.
27:39I don't know.
27:40Anyhow?
27:40Pass.
27:41It's Lorne.
27:41Which department on the Bay of Biscay shares its name with a series of royalist uprisings
27:46in revolutionary France between 1793 and 96?
27:49Any ideas?
27:50Uh, if I had more time.
27:52It's Vendée.
27:53Another start of the question.
27:54Which letter of the alphabet denotes the most-
27:56And out we're going.
27:57Robinson have 105, but more than lots there, 245.
28:04Oh, Robinson.
28:06Well, the thing is, they were just so fast on the buzzers, and they were also almost always right.
28:12Yeah.
28:12Both of which are quite annoying from your point of view, and quite impressive from our point of view.
28:16But you were absolutely brilliant, honestly, against an amazing team.
28:18Maudlin, that was fantastic.
28:19I mean, 245 against such a strong team was really quite something.
28:23And the range of knowledge was phenomenal.
28:26And thank you very much, Lee, for playing fast at the end.
28:27We'll see you again for sure.
28:29I hope you could join us next time for the first of the Repechage matches.
28:33But until then, it is goodbye from Robertson College, Cambridge.
28:36Bye.
28:37Goodbye.
28:37Goodbye.
28:38It's goodbye from Magdalen College, Oxford.
28:39Goodbye.
28:40Goodbye.
28:40And it's goodbye from me.
28:41Goodbye.
28:43APPLAUSE
28:59Goodbye.
29:01Goodbye.
29:03Goodbye.
29:10Goodbye.
29:12Happylympics.
29:13Goodbye.