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00:19University Challenge. Asking the questions, I'm all ready.
00:28Hello and welcome to University Challenge. With all the first round heats now played,
00:33this game and the next are repercharge matches in which the four highest scoring losing teams
00:38from round one will have a second chance to join the 14 teams already safely through to
00:43round two. The team from London's School of Oriental and African Studies or SOAS played
00:48next door neighbours UCL in their opening game and in that match UCL took an early lead
00:53and then stayed in front throughout but SOAS were never much more than a starter or two behind them
00:57and the game finished with UCL on 210 points and SOAS on 170. Along the way, SOAS showed us they
01:04know a lot about sport, philosophy and punk music and their overall bonus conversion rate was the
01:09highest of the round at just under 80%. Let's meet the team from SOAS once again. Hi, I'm Hattam
01:17Zane. I'm from Manchester by way of Ethiopia and I'm studying history and politics. Howdy howdy. I'm
01:23V Davis-Aldren. I'm from Islington and I'm studying politics, philosophy and economics. And their captain.
01:29Hello, I'm Andrew Graham from Cheddington in Buckinghamshire. I'm studying a masters in medical
01:33anthropology and mental health. Hi, I'm Matthew Regan. I'm from Dublin, Ireland and I'm studying global
01:39liberal arts. The team from Imperial are here tonight having had a real tussle in their first
01:47game with Churchill College Cambridge. The lead changed hands in that match several times and
01:52going into the final minute, only five points separated the two teams. But in the end, it was
01:57Churchill who managed to take one last starter, meaning at the gong they had 175 points to Imperial's
02:02160. Imperial have answered particularly well so far on mathematical logic, paleontology and Korean
02:08food, but slightly less well on classical music. Let's meet them for the second time. Hi, I'm Raheem
02:15Dina. I'm originally from Seychelles and now I live in Peterborough and I'm doing a PhD in ecology and
02:19evolution. Hi, I'm Eugenia Tong. I'm from Hong Kong and I study chemistry. And their captain. Hello,
02:26I'm Oscar Flanagan. I'm from London and I'm doing a PhD in atmospheric physics.
02:31Hi, I'm Justin Koen. I'm from Hong Kong and I study computing.
02:37Well, it's very nice to see you all again and your outlandish mascots. Hopefully they'll bring
02:41you some luck. Very, very best of luck. Here we go. Fingers on buzzers. Here's your first starter
02:45for 10. Good luck. What short word links all of the following? In mycology, fungal plant pathogens of
02:52the order Pucsinealis and by extension the diseases caused by them. In computer science,
02:57a programming language created by Graydon. Imperial Dina. Rust. It is rust. Well done.
03:03Your bonuses, Imperial, are questions on works in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
03:08In 1856, a portrait of whom became the gallery's first acquisition, receiving the catalogue number
03:15of one. The portrait is notable for its subject's prominent earring.
03:21No, but it's not in the National Portrait Gallery, though. Oh, right.
03:25I don't have anything. Do you have anything else?
03:26Wait, Queen Elizabeth I, maybe? The digitally portrait? I don't know.
03:30The digitally portrait of Elizabeth I? No, it's William Shakespeare.
03:33Oh, oh. With catalogue number 7153. A portrait by Joshua Reynolds of the first
03:39Polynesian known to have visited Britain was acquired by the gallery in 2023. By what name
03:44is the subject known? No, pass. I've seen this painting. I don't know the name. Pass.
03:48It is famous. It's my or oh my. Bad luck. The oldest object in the National Portrait Gallery's
03:52collection is a coin from circa 796 depicting which ruler of Mercia? Offer, maybe? Yeah, that makes
04:00sense. Let's start the question. The name of which country appeared in print for the first time in
04:07the 1933 pamphlet, Now or Never? Are We to Live or Perish Forever? Written by Chowdhury Ramat Ali.
04:15Its original spelling is today rendered with an additional letter I between letters standing for
04:20Imperial Cairn. Tokyo. I'm afraid you'll lose five points for Kashmir and Sindh.
04:26So has Graham. Pakistan? It is Pakistan, yes.
04:30Your bonus is then so asked for three questions on a shared surname. What is the surname of the
04:35married couple Mortimer and Tessa, known for their work at Romano-British archaeological sites
04:41including Sagontium and Verulamium in the early 20th century? Along with their student Kathleen Kenyon,
04:47they gave their name to a method for archaeological excavation.
04:51It is a genuine move. Anything? No idea. Pass. It's Wheeler. Lyle Wheeler won the first of his
04:59five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction. For which 1939 film directed by Victor Fleming and based on a
05:05novel of 1936?
05:071936.
05:08Victor Fleming?
05:10Victor Fleming?
05:10Wizard of Oz.
05:10Bad luck. That was 1939 and it was directed by Victor Fleming but the answer we wanted was gone
05:15with the wind. In a 1957 paper, the physicist John Archibald Wheeler coined the name for which
05:21hypothetical structure connecting two distant points in space-time, special cases of which are called
05:26Einstein Rosenbridges. Is this wormhole? Could it be wormholes?
05:31I think so.
05:33Yeah.
05:35Wormhole?
05:36It is wormholes, yes.
05:40Fingers on buzzers. Here's another starter question. I need a single short word here.
05:45Writing in the early 17th century, what branch of philosophy did Francis Bacon distinguish from
05:50rhetoric in that, quote, it handleth reason exact and in truth and rhetoric handleth it as it is
05:57planted in popular opinion.
05:59So ask Graham.
06:00Logic.
06:01It is logic, yes. Well done.
06:03Two questions for you, Soas, on umbrellas in British novels.
06:06Quote, all men are equal. All men, that is, who possess umbrellas.
06:11Those words appear in which novel by E.M. Forster?
06:13Its plot stems in part from Helen Schlegel accidentally taking home an umbrella
06:17belonging to a clerk named Leonard Bast.
06:20It might be Howard's End.
06:22Yeah, any thoughts?
06:23Yeah, it's definitely not ours.
06:24No, no, no.
06:24Howard's End.
06:25Well done.
06:26The slang term, gamp, meaning a large umbrella, refers to Mrs Gamp,
06:30an umbrella-toting character from which Charles Dickens novel?
06:33Her umbrella is described as an object of great price and rarity
06:37that she displays with particular ostentation.
06:40If it's about any...
06:42I think...
06:43I think the terms of the city is because it's ostentatious and rich.
06:46Yeah, but I haven't read it.
06:48Tale of Two Cities would probably be my guess as well.
06:50Tale of Two Cities.
06:51It's Martin Chusselwit.
06:52Published in 2012, Umbrella is the first novel in a trilogy by which British writer?
06:57His other novels include Great Apes and The Book of Dave.
07:00Will Self.
07:00It is Will Self.
07:01Yeah, now we start the question.
07:02Picture round now.
07:04For your picture starter, you're going to see a chart representing the amount of electricity
07:08generated in the UK from a particular source.
07:11For ten points, I need you to identify the source.
07:18Coal.
07:18It is coal, yes.
07:20Your picture starter there, you saw a chart representing the precipitous decline in electricity
07:24generated from coal in the UK.
07:26For your bonuses, Imperial, you're going to see a chart representing electricity generation
07:30in the UK from three more sources.
07:33Five points for each energy source you can work out.
07:36First, the source represented by the line labelled A.
07:40Oh, this is shut up.
07:42Could be wind power, there's been a lot of offshore wind.
07:45Could be biomass burning, because that's what it's called.
07:48Wait, I'm curious, could one of them be nuclear energy?
07:50One of them is probably nuclear energy.
07:52But it's not A, I don't think it's A.
07:55Okay, any preference?
07:57Wind power.
07:58Yes.
07:59Secondly, the source represented by the line labelled B.
08:05So this is, okay, not the biggest now.
08:08So it could be nuclear.
08:10I mean, it was high in 1985.
08:11Like, it was fairly consistent.
08:14So, okay.
08:14Could we have to do that?
08:15Nuclear.
08:16Yes.
08:16Finally, the source represented by the line labelled C.
08:19Couldn't this be solar?
08:21Like, why would it be flat before 2010?
08:24Yeah.
08:25It could be solar.
08:26Hydro.
08:26Hydroelectric.
08:27No, because it wouldn't be zero before.
08:29There's been hydroelectric for a long time.
08:30Solar maybe?
08:31Because I saw solar panel.
08:32What else is there?
08:33Maybe they were that efficient.
08:35Solar.
08:36It is solar, yes.
08:38Let's start the question.
08:39Fingers on buzzers.
08:40Scores level.
08:41The Spallanzani Award is given to researchers who primarily study which order of animals.
08:47The award's name is taken from Italian biologist Lazzaro Spallanzani, who published an influential
08:52set of letters in 1794, describing these animals' ability to navigate around his room at night,
08:59even after he had blown out his candle, laying the groundwork for later theories of animal...
09:03Imperial O'Flanagan.
09:05Bats.
09:06It is bats.
09:06Yes, well, thank you.
09:07Your three bonuses, Imperial, are questions on the American chemist Darlene Hoffman.
09:12In 1971, Hoffman published the groundbreaking discovery of tiny amounts of which element in a rock
09:17formation several billion years old?
09:19This constituted the first evidence of a transuranic element occurring in nature.
09:24Oh, uh...
09:24Oh, that's not...
09:25Plutonium occurs in nature, which is in very small quantities.
09:28Sure.
09:28Sure.
09:29Plutonium.
09:29Yes.
09:30In 1993, Hoffman helped confirm the existence of which transuranic element discovered in 1974
09:36by Albert Giorso and with atomic number 106.
09:41After some debate, it eventually became the first element named after a living scientist.
09:45Seaborgium.
09:46OK, yeah.
09:46Seaborgium.
09:47Yes.
09:48Hoffman is also credited with the discovery of symmetric spontaneous fission,
09:52which he observed in isotope 257.
09:54of which actinide element, the heaviest synthetic element that can be formed by neutron bombardment
09:59of lighter elements?
10:00Ooh.
10:01Um...
10:02257.
10:02Which actinide?
10:03Well, 257.
10:04They use berkelium in bombardment.
10:06Um...
10:06Sure.
10:07Berkelium?
10:08No, it's fermium.
10:09Oh.
10:09Another starter question.
10:10What is the final word of the titles of all of the following?
10:15A text-based computer game developed in the 1970s by Will Crowther,
10:19usually cited as the first significant example of interactive fiction.
10:23The English title of a Shonam manga series by Hirohiko Araki,
10:27whose characters include Jonathan Joestar.
10:31Soas Davis-Aldron.
10:32Adventure.
10:33It is adventure, well done.
10:34Your bonuses are on Spanish food terms.
10:37All three answers begin with the same letter and end with the same three letters.
10:41Literally meaning seasoned with chili in Mexican Spanish,
10:45what name is given to a dish originating in Mexico,
10:47consisting of a tortilla that is rolled around a filling,
10:50covered in chili sauce, and baked?
10:53Enchilada, I believe?
10:54Enchilada, enchilada.
10:56I think it's enchilada.
10:57Enchilada.
10:57Another significant ingredient.
10:58Enchilada.
10:59Yes.
10:59Borrowed from Catalan, what name meaning roasted in ashes
11:03is given to a traditional Catalan dish of slow-roasted aubergine,
11:07bell peppers, onions, and tomatoes, similar to ratatouille?
11:11Is this...
11:12I want to say...
11:13It begins with E and ends in A.
11:15Pass.
11:16Bad luck.
11:17It's escalivada.
11:19What name literally meaning enclosed in dough or bread
11:22is given to a type of baked or fried pastry turnover
11:25with a savoury filling, widespread in both Spain and Latin America?
11:28Enchilada.
11:29It is indeed, yes.
11:30Scores level.
11:31Now start with the question.
11:32In January 2025, Birmingham City Council announced that which poet
11:36and writer who died in 2023 would be the first...
11:40So, Regan.
11:41Benjamin Zephaniah.
11:43Certainly was.
11:43Your bonuses, Salas, are three questions on biographies.
11:47Biographers of Richard III.
11:49The earliest substantial account of Richard III's reign
11:51was written by which lawyer and statesman in the 1510s?
11:55His most notable work was published by his friend Erasmus in 1516.
11:59I think it could be like Thomas Cromwell or what?
12:00Yeah, that's what I was going to say, yeah.
12:02Thomas Cromwell.
12:04No, that was Thomas More.
12:05One of the chief sources of More's biography of Richard was which Archbishop of Canterbury
12:09whose household More joined at the age of 13?
12:12He developed a reputation for his harsh fundraising tactics
12:15while serving as Chancellor for Henry VII.
12:18Any thoughts at all?
12:21I'm trying to think.
12:24He probably is somewhere famous in London after him.
12:27Talks to say Grady.
12:29It's John Morton, as in Morton's Fork.
12:31More's characterisation of Richard was disputed in historic doubts on the life and reign of King Richard III,
12:37a work by which 18th-century writer published four years after his first novel, The Castle of Otranto?
12:45William Beckford, I think.
12:46Yeah.
12:47William Beckford?
12:48No, it's Walpole. Horace Walpole.
12:50Let's start with a question.
12:51Born in 1879, which British economist gives his name to a curve that represents the relationship
12:56between the level of unemployment in an economy...
12:58So I stay for Saladran.
13:00Laffer?
13:01No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
13:02..and the level of job vacancies.
13:04His works include Unemployment, A Problem of Industry, Full Employment in a Free Society,
13:09and a 1942 report formerly titled Social Insurance and Allied Services,
13:14but more commonly referred to as his namesake report.
13:18Imperial Tong.
13:19Bevan.
13:20Bevan? It was the Beverage Report.
13:22One of the great works of 20th-century Britain. No.
13:25Let's start with a question.
13:26American artist Harvey Littleton was an influential figure in the use of which medium in fine art?
13:32In the early 1960s, he and Dominic Labino pioneered a method for manipulating this medium
13:37at significantly lower temperatures than usual, thus influencing the work of artists such as
13:42Ginny Rufner and Dale Chihuly.
13:45Imperial Dina.
13:46Glass.
13:47Yes, Studio Glass specifically.
13:49Your bonuses are on Virgil's Aeneid, specifically instances of the word infelix or its inflections,
13:56variously translated as luckless, unhappy, unfortunate or ill-boding.
14:00What kind of monstrous winged creature is Seleno?
14:04Described in book three as infelix vatis or ominous prophetess.
14:09She is the leader of a group of these creatures encountered by Aeneas on the Strophides.
14:14Harpies?
14:14Yeah.
14:15Harpies or furies?
14:17I was thinking my first thought was harpies.
14:19Okay, harpies.
14:20Harpies.
14:20Harpies.
14:21Yes.
14:21Later in the same book, the Trojans rescue Achaemenides,
14:24a comrade of which luckless Greek leader?
14:26Achaemenides was left behind after his shipmates fled from Polyphemus, the Cyclops.
14:31It's not the Odysseus.
14:33Yeah.
14:33Odysseus.
14:34Yes, or Ulysses.
14:35Virgil describes which queen as infelix.
14:38In book six, Aeneas encounters her in the underworld and swears that he left her country unwillingly.
14:43Dido.
14:43Yeah.
14:44Dido.
14:44Yes.
14:45Let's start the question.
14:46And it's a music round now.
14:47For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of classical music.
14:50For ten points, I need the name of its composer.
14:58Imperial Kang.
14:59No, it's not.
15:00I'm afraid if you buzz, you must answer straight away.
15:01So as you can hear more, but you may not confer.
15:11So ask Graham.
15:13Prokofiev?
15:14No, it was Brahms, the Hungarian dance in G minor.
15:18We'll take your music bonuses in just a moment.
15:19Let's start with a question.
15:21I need the name of a disease here.
15:23During the Dutch famine of 1944 and 1945, physician Willem Carroll Dicker observed...
15:29So ask Graham.
15:30Obeties.
15:31I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
15:33Observed that the condition of many of his patients suffering from which disease improved,
15:37leading him to determine that the original aggravating factor in their illness had been
15:41the protein fraction of wheat, which had been cut out of their diets.
15:46Imperial O'Flanagan.
15:48Berry Berry.
15:48No, it's celiacs.
15:50Celiac disease.
15:52Oh.
15:52Let's start the question.
15:53Which play by Shakespeare is the source of the titles of both a 2022 novel by Gabrielle
15:58Zevin about the relationship between two game designers and a 2023 novel by Eleanor
16:33Catton about a guerrilla gardening collective.
16:33The composer you can name.
16:34First, the composer of this piece, intended to represent the modern age.
16:43Glass?
16:43Yeah, please.
16:45Could you just float glass or John Adams?
16:48Uh, photo glass.
16:50Photo glass, please.
16:51Philip Glass.
16:51Uh, it's John Adams.
16:53Okay.
16:53Secondly, this composer, whose music plays during the medieval age, despite him being born in
16:58the 1520s.
17:02Oh, I like it.
17:05It's not Monteverdi, right?
17:10We're not going to zero across me?
17:12Monteverdi.
17:13No, it's Palestrina.
17:14Finally, this composer, whose music represents the Renaissance age, despite him having been born
17:18in 1756.
17:23Is this a motor cable start?
17:251750s could make sense, no?
17:29What instruments are they?
17:33That's a wind.
17:36I see a motor.
17:38Bloody outside.
17:40Sorry.
17:42Mozart.
17:43It was Mozart.
17:45Absolutely wonderful.
17:47Things are buzzed.
17:47Let's now start the question.
17:48The defeat of Guy of Lusignan at the Battle of the Horns of Hattin prompted which military
17:54venture by European rulers two years...
17:56Imperial O'Flanagan.
17:58The Third Crusade.
17:58Well done.
17:59It was indeed.
18:00Your bonus is Imperial.
18:02Three questions on computing vocabulary in French.
18:05What French term denotes a computing directory?
18:07That is, a means of locating data files.
18:10Borrowed into English, this word has come to mean a stock of dramatic or musical pieces
18:14that performers are accustomed to playing.
18:19Cannon?
18:21Yeah, I mean, I don't...
18:22That's not a French word I know, but...
18:25Cannon.
18:25No, it's repertoire.
18:26What is the French word for a computer keyboard?
18:30Originally meaning key-bearer.
18:32Clavier.
18:33Correct.
18:34In the computing sense, what is the standard French term for a bookmark?
18:37In English, a word with the same spelling denotes a small seal used for authentication
18:41and often appears before the word ring.
18:44Signet?
18:46Oh.
18:46Signet?
18:47Signet?
18:47Yes.
18:48Signet.
18:49Signet.
18:49Signet.
18:50Signet.
18:50Now start a question.
18:51Born in 1792, which Italian composer was nicknamed Signor Crescendo for his frequent and
18:56distinctive use of this effect in his music?
18:58The finale of act one of his 1812 opera, The Touchstone, is an early example of this.
19:04And later examples can be found in his overtures for The Thieving Magpie and...
19:09Imperial king.
19:10Rossini.
19:10It is.
19:11Rossini.
19:11Well done.
19:12Two questions for you, Imperial, on literature.
19:14What six-letter acronym was adopted by a group of mid-20th century French writers
19:18who experimented with works restricted by logical or mathematical constraints?
19:23Members included Georges Perec and Raymond Queneau.
19:26I have no idea.
19:27No.
19:27Just pass.
19:28Pass.
19:28That's Oulipo.
19:30Perec's 1969 novel La Disparition, translated into English under the title A Void,
19:36is an example of a work known as a Lipogram.
19:39What is the defining characteristic of a Lipogram?
19:42Are those the ones that they do?
19:43There's like a letter that they never use.
19:45There's like...
19:45Oh, they omit a certain letter, yes.
19:47Er, omitting a certain letter.
19:49That's exactly right.
19:51Associated with the Oulipo group during his later career,
19:54which Italian writer created the 1979 experimental narrative work,
19:58if, on a winter's night, a traveller?
20:00Calvino.
20:01Yes, indeed.
20:02Let's start the question.
20:03Which Canadian province is the only one whose borders are not determined
20:07by any natural features, bays, rivers or coastlines?
20:12Imperial O'Flanagan.
20:13Saskatchewan.
20:14Well done.
20:14It is indeed.
20:15Three questions for your appeal on a historic building.
20:18Commissioned by Hungarian Orientalist Gertlieb Leitner,
20:21the Shah Jahan Mosque became Britain's first purpose-built mosque in 1889,
20:26upon its completion in which large town in Surrey,
20:29about six miles north of Guildford?
20:32What?
20:33What? I don't know.
20:34I don't know.
20:35I don't know.
20:37Smoking?
20:38Yes.
20:39Oh.
20:40Funds for the mosque's construction were provided partially by Shah Jahan Begum.
20:44At the time, she was the sultan of which Islamic principality in India,
20:48the territory of which is now part of Madhya Pradesh?
20:57No, that's a long way away.
20:59It's Bhopal.
21:00In which novel of 1898 does the narrator describe the destruction of the mosque during an invasion,
21:05saying, quote,
21:06the pinnacle of the mosque had vanished and the roofline of the college itself looked as if a
21:10hundred-ton gun had been at work upon it?
21:1318, I kept playing, I don't know.
21:15Something about keeping.
21:16I don't know.
21:17I don't know.
21:19I don't know.
21:20A passage to India.
21:20A passage to India.
21:22No.
21:22It's the War of the Worlds.
21:24Picture round now.
21:25For your picture starting, you're going to see a photo of an American politician.
21:29For ten points, I need you to give me his name.
21:32So-and-so Regan.
21:34I'm afraid, no, sorry, I'm afraid if you buzz, you must answer straight away.
21:38Imperial O'Flanagan.
21:39McCarthy.
21:39It is McCarthy, yes.
21:41Your photos is Imperial.
21:42For your picture starting, you saw Joseph McCarthy, who encouraged a government-wide
21:45investigation into the presence of communists in American culture.
21:49That was then led by the House Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC.
21:53For your picture bonuses, you'll see three pictures of notable people testifying before HUAC.
21:58Five points for each you can name.
22:00First, this author who testified as a friendly witness.
22:04Oh, that's Ayn Rand.
22:05Okay, Ayn Rand.
22:06Yeah, secondly, this actor who had signed a 1947 letter condemning the committee.
22:11I don't know.
22:13Is it actor or...
22:14Yeah, I don't know.
22:15No.
22:16Cary Grant.
22:17Oh, my goodness.
22:18No, it's Jose Ferrer.
22:19And lastly, this man who testified that communists had infiltrated the Screen Actors Guild.
22:24Ronald Reagan.
22:26Oh.
22:27Yeah, Reagan.
22:28That is Reagan, yes.
22:30Let's start the question.
22:31I need a 12-letter answer here.
22:35Mongoliensis and Osmolski are the only two identified species of what dinosaur of the Cretaceous
22:41period?
22:41A citation in the OED reads, Mr. Spielberg insisted on the poetic license of having these animals a little...
22:48Someone's Korean.
22:49Velociraptor.
22:50It is indeed.
22:51Well done.
22:51Your bonuses, though, are on people who died on their birthday.
22:54In each case, name the person from the description.
22:56First, a prominent figure in the women's movement and author of The Feminine Mystique.
23:01She died in 2006, aged 85.
23:04Betty Frieden.
23:05Yeah.
23:06Betty Frieden.
23:07Yes.
23:07Secondly, a German physician who founded the Scientific Humanitarian Committee.
23:11He was a strong advocate for sexual minorities in Nazi Germany and was forced into exile in
23:15France, where he died in 1935.
23:17He's old.
23:20Pass.
23:20No, I'll tell you, it was Magnus Hirschfeld.
23:22Finally, a Swedish actress who received Oscars for the films Gaslight, Anastasia and Murder on
23:27the Orient Express.
23:28She died in 1982.
23:30Ingrid Bergman.
23:31Yes, it is Ingrid Bergman, yes.
23:32Four minutes to go.
23:33Soretze Kama was the first president...
23:36Botswana.
23:37Botswana.
23:38Well done.
23:38Sorry.
23:39Your bonuses, Imperial are three questions on water polo at the Summer Olympics.
23:44What European national side has won the most gold medals in men's Olympic water polo with nine?
23:49Hungary.
23:50Yeah, I think so.
23:51Hungary.
23:51Yes.
23:52Set against the backdrop of a popular revolt, the 2006 documentary film, Freedom's Fury,
23:57concerns the unusually violent 1956 Olympic semi-final between Hungary and what national team?
24:03The Soviet Union, yeah.
24:04The Soviet Union.
24:05Yes.
24:06After widespread lobbying by its sports authorities for inclusion of the event,
24:09what country won the inaugural women's tournament in 2000, playing in front of a home crowd?
24:15Australia?
24:16Women's 2000.
24:17Oh, home crowd, yeah.
24:17Australia.
24:18It is Australia.
24:19Well done.
24:20Well started the question.
24:21When referring to the Welsh language, what English word translates the term
24:25traiglad, meaning a change in initial consonant that may be termed soft, aspirate or nasal?
24:31In biology, the same word denotes an alteration in genetic material that results in...
24:36Imperial and Flemington.
24:37Mutation.
24:38It is mutation, yes.
24:39The alternatives are on waterways in London.
24:42Originating in Luton, which river forms much of the boundary between Hertfordshire and Essex?
24:46It passes the site of the Olympic Stadium in Stratford and meets the Thames near Blackwall.
24:51Oh.
24:51I don't know that.
24:52The...
24:53Why?
24:54The why?
24:55No, I was thinking something else.
24:57Originating in Luton.
24:58No, it's the River Lee.
24:59A man-made waterway completed in 1613.
25:03The 20-mile-long New River supplies London with fresh water.
25:06It empties into the east reservoir of which district in the London borough of Hackney?
25:11I need a two-word name.
25:16I don't know any district.
25:18Seven Sisters, I don't know.
25:19Yeah, why not? Seven Sisters.
25:20No, it's not far from there.
25:21It's Stoke Newington, which supplies about 10% of London's drinking water.
25:24Rising near Barnet, which tributary of the Thames gives its name to the London borough
25:29whose districts include Kneesden, Dollisill, Cricklewood and Wembley?
25:33Brent.
25:33Well done.
25:35Another start of the question.
25:37In which English county is the Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve,
25:42a stretch of coastline that runs from the edge of Skegness to the mouth of the Wash?
25:47So it's Mosean.
25:48Lincolnshire.
25:49It is Lincolnshire, yes.
25:50Your bonuses are on winners of the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film,
25:55formerly known as the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
25:58In each case, Soas, I need you to name the country from the titles in English
26:02of some of the films from it that have won.
26:05First, 2010's In A Better World, 1987's Babette's Feast and 2020's Another Round.
26:12Oh, that's Denmark, I'm pretty sure.
26:14Denmark is Danish, please.
26:15Denmark?
26:16Yes.
26:16Secondly, 1985's The Official Story and 2009's The Secret In Their Eyes.
26:22I think it might be Mexico, but I'm not 100% sure in that.
26:26Actually, no, that wouldn't make sense.
26:28Maybe Argentina?
26:29No, that doesn't work.
26:30Come on.
26:30Argentina.
26:31Yes.
26:32Lastly, 2008's Departures, 2021's Drive My Car and 1950's Rashomon.
26:38Japan.
26:38Yes, well done, no starting question.
26:41Mentioned in a record of about 250 CE, Funan was the Chinese name of an early state founded
26:48in which large river delta?
26:50It was a major centre for the diffusion of Indian culture in the region.
26:55So, that's Graham.
26:56Mekong.
26:57Well done.
26:57Your bonuses, sir, are three questions on civilisations of the ancient Near East.
27:01Located in the south of present-day Iraq, what was the first Mesopotamian civilisation,
27:06its city-states in the third millennium BCE included Kish, Lagash, Adab and Ur.
27:12Oh, I guess not.
27:13I didn't see it.
27:14I didn't see it.
27:15I didn't see it.
27:15Uruk.
27:16It's Summa.
27:17Active in the 23rd century BCE, Sargon the Great ruled what kingdom to the north-west of Summa?
27:24Its language is the oldest Semitic dialect still preserved.
27:28Nominate V.
27:30Accard.
27:30Well done.
27:31Sargon was also the name of two rulers of which empire in north-western Mesopotamia?
27:36Its capital, Nineveh, was destroyed in 612 BCE.
27:40Nominate Matthew.
27:41Neo-Babylonian.
27:42No, it's Assyria.
27:43Bad luck.
27:44Let's start the question.
27:45In physics, Boyle's law or Marriott's law concerns the relationship between what two properties of...
27:51Imperial and Flanagan.
27:52Pressure and volume.
27:52Well done, yes.
27:54Your bonuses, Imperial, are three questions on a translator.
27:56Anthea Bell, who died in 2018, is noted both for her translations of Freud and Kafka and...
28:01And at the gong, Saratab 115, an Imperial of 220.
28:09Oh, Saras, you were so phenomenal when you got in with the starters and you were so effective on the
28:14bonuses.
28:14And the confidence and relish with which you delivered all the correct bonuses was wonderful.
28:18So, I'm afraid we'd say goodbye, but it's been a huge pleasure getting to know you.
28:22Imperial, that was a hell of a performance.
28:25To get over 200 at this stage of the competition is amazing.
28:27And it makes me want to ask you about what looks either like a jar of marmalade that's gone off,
28:32or is that kimchi?
28:34It's kimchi in honour of the bonus set in our first round match that gave us enough points to stay
28:40in the competition.
28:41Well, I hope we see not just you, but that jar of kimchi again.
28:44And I hope we can see you again next time, too, for the second of the Repechage matches.
28:47But until then, it is goodbye from Saras.
28:50Goodbye.
28:50It's goodbye from Imperial.
28:52Goodbye.
28:53And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
28:54APPLAUSE
28:57APPLAUSE
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