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00:27Hello and welcome to University
00:29Challenge. At stake in tonight's game is the last spot in the second round of this year's
00:34competition and playing for it are two teams who lost their opening heat but scored enough
00:38points in doing so to earn themselves this second shot at qualification. The team from Sheffield
00:44played Warwick in their first game and with 10 minutes to go looked like they were going to win
00:47comfortably. Warwick however had other ideas they took nine of the next 10 starters and the game
00:52finished with Sheffield on 170 points and Warwick on 210. Before Warwick shut them out Sheffield did
00:59have time to demonstrate some impressive knowledge of ancient cities the works of Olga Takarchuk
01:03and Antmen and they were very consistent on their bonuses overall taking on average two out of every
01:09three. Let's meet the team from Sheffield once again. Hi I'm Rhys Lewis I'm from Haverford West in
01:15Pembrokeshire and I'm studying maths. Hi I'm Abdurrahman El-Sisi I'm from Alexandria Egypt and I study
01:21engineering. And their captain. Hi I'm Jacob Price I'm from Heatherset in Norfolk and I study
01:25astrophysics. Hi I'm Isabel Dobby. I'm from Haringey in North London and I study English literature.
01:35The team from New College Oxford are here having lost their opening match narrowly to Manchester.
01:39New College were the ones that made a comeback in that game going into the second picture round
01:43they were 110 points behind but some quick buzzes from Benji and Paige and a few incorrect interruptions
01:49from Manchester got them back into the game and the final score was Manchester 170 New College 150.
01:57New College weren't quite so consistent on their bonuses but they did answer well on linguistics
02:01architecture and nanoparticles. Let's meet the team from New College for the second time.
02:07Hello I'm Benji Stimpson I'm from North Norfolk I'm doing a DPhil in conservation biology.
02:13Hi my name is Paige Crawley I'm from Toronto Canada and I'm studying for a master's in linguistics.
02:17And their captain. Hi I'm Jonah Poulard I'm from North West London and I'm studying Russian and
02:21linguistics. Hi I'm Dan Dimmers I'm from Utrecht in the Netherlands and I'm studying for a DPhil in
02:27theoretical physics. You all know how this works don't you? Feeling ready? Here we go the
02:36things on buzzers here's a starter for 10. Good luck. What two-word phrase typically associated
02:41with the novels of H. Ryder Haggard denotes a sub-genre of adventure fiction concerned with
02:47the discovery of ancient or unknown civilizations? This phrase taken from the title of a novel about
02:52the exploits of zoologist George Challenger by Arthur Conan Doyle. New College Crawley. Lost City.
02:59Now I'm afraid you lose five points. Also appears in the title of Michael Crichton's 1995 sequel
03:04to his earlier novel Jurassic Park. Sheffield and Cece. Lost World. It is Lost World. Well done. Yes.
03:12Bad back page. Your bonuses then Sheffield are on national flags on which stars represent islands.
03:19Which Pacific Islands nation flag features nine yellow stars on a blue field representing the
03:26country's nine principal islands and atolls? The arrangement of the stars roughly corresponds to
03:31the islands positions in the archipelago. I think Tuvalu. Has Tuvalu got stars in it? Yeah and let's
03:37give the Union Jackman a call for it. Oh yeah fine. Tuvalu? Yes. Which African country's flag
03:41features a green triangle at the hoist on which are a white crescent and four white stars? The stars
03:46represent four islands including the French Departement of Mayotte which this country claims? Comoros?
03:52Yeah. Comoros? Yes. Finally. The flag of which other African country includes a ring of 10
03:59yellow stars positioned towards the lower hoist corner representing islands including Sal Vicente
04:04and Santiago. Sal Vicente? Cape Verde? I think it's Cape Verde. Cape Verde. Cape Verde? Cape Verde? Cape Verde? Yes.
04:13Cool. Well started question. What polysyllabic word has its origins in the Latin name of a committee
04:19of cardinals founded in 1622 to organise missionary work where it had the neutral meaning of spread
04:26or disseminate. In the mid 19th century it acquired its current connotations of
04:30New college crawling. Seminary? I'm afraid you lose five points. Of bias or deception. The Oxford
04:36Dictionary of Philosophy defining it as the active manipulation of opinion by means that include
04:41distortion or concealment of the truth. Sheffield Dobby? Propaganda? It is propaganda yes.
04:47Your bonuses Sheffield are three questions on listed buildings used as filming locations in the Avengers films.
04:54A grade two listed building designed by Norman Foster which art gallery in
04:59Norwich was chosen to stand in for the Avengers training compound in 2015's Avengers Age of Ultron.
05:05Its collection includes notable sculptures by Henry Moore as well as tribal art from across the world.
05:10I should know this. Anglia Ruskin Gallery?
05:18No it's the Sainsbury Centre. Also in Age of Ultron, scenes taking place at the Barton family farm, the home
05:24of the superhero Hawkeye, were filmed on the grounds of Stratfield Say House in Hampshire, a grade one listed building
05:30and seat of the holders of which hereditary peerage?
05:35The Earl of Winchester, is that the Duke of Winchester?
05:39Earl of Winchester.
05:43No it's the Duke of Wellington. An early scene in Avengers Infinity War features an aerial combat across the rooftops
05:49of Edinburgh's old town before the combatants crash into which category A listed railway station named for a work by
05:57Sir Walter Scott?
05:57Waverley. Waverley. Waverley. It is Waverley, yes.
06:00Let's start a question.
06:02What two word term links all of the following?
06:05In biochemistry, an approximation used by George Briggs and JBS Haldane to determine the rate of enzyme catalyzed reactions.
06:12In economics, an economy in which neither the amount of capital or population changes over time.
06:18New College Stimson. Steady state.
06:20It is steady state, yes. Well done.
06:23Your bonuses are three questions on the absurd.
06:26Quote, the final conclusion of absurdist reasoning is, in fact, the repudiation of suicide and the acceptance of the desperate
06:34encounter between human inquiry and the silence of the universe.
06:37This statement appears in The Rebel, an essay by which French Nobel laureate born in 1913?
06:42Camus.
06:43Yes.
06:44Which mythical ruler is the title figure of a 1942 long essay by Camus that explores the absurd?
06:50He is condemned by the gods to repeat and endless...
06:52Sisyphus.
06:53Yes.
06:53Of course.
06:54The appendix to the myth of Sisyphus is entitled, Hope and the Absurd in the work of...
06:59Which German language author?
07:01Camus cites characters such as Gregor Samsa and the land surveyor Kaye.
07:05Oh, yeah.
07:06Correct.
07:07Picture round now.
07:08For your picture starter, you're going to see a map with a European city marked on it.
07:12For ten points, I need you to give me that city's name.
07:17New college pool art.
07:18Naples.
07:19It is Naples, yes.
07:21Your picture starter showed Naples, whose traditional art of pizzaiulo was inscribed on UNESCO's representative list of the intangible cultural
07:30heritage of humanity in 2017.
07:32For your bonuses, three more locations that have been recognised by UNESCO for their culinary heritage.
07:38Five points for each you can name.
07:41First, this city, which was made a World Heritage Site in 2015 for the role its industrial landscape played in
07:47packing meat for the European market.
07:50Oh.
07:51It's Montevideo, isn't it?
07:52No.
07:53It's not Montevideo, no.
07:54Is it...
07:54It might be Rosario.
07:57Different guess on it.
07:58No, Rosario.
07:59Salta.
08:00No, it's Freybentos.
08:02Secondly, this Mexican state, whose traditional cooking practices were awarded intangible cultural heritage status by UNESCO in 2010.
08:09I think that is Oaxaca.
08:11Yeah.
08:11Oaxaca?
08:12No, that was Michoacán.
08:13Lastly, this city made a creative city of gastronomy in 2019, in part for the role food plays in its
08:20festivals.
08:21Um...
08:22Ooh.
08:23I've no idea.
08:24It might be...
08:25Is that too far north of Hyderabad?
08:28I don't know.
08:29You go for it.
08:30It could be...
08:32Papal.
08:32Uh, Hyderabad.
08:34Well done.
08:34Yes, it is.
08:36Let's start the question.
08:37The answer I'm looking for here is a city.
08:39Referring to the stylised, sinuous, elongated, human and organic forms in their work, the Spook School was a derogatory name
08:47given to a group of artists also known as the Four of Which British City?
08:51The group includes the sisters Frances and Margaret McDon...
08:54Sheffield Dobby.
08:56Edinburgh.
08:56No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
08:58You can hear more of the question, but you may not confer New College.
09:00Margaret MacDonald and Margaret's husband Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
09:05Glasgow.
09:05Glasgow.
09:06It is Glasgow, yes.
09:08Three questions for you on responses to war by female artists.
09:12A critique of the Second Afghan War, the remnants of an army, depicts the last survivor of a British expeditionary
09:18force.
09:19It is an 1879 painting by which British artist who specialised in battle paintings?
09:24I don't know.
09:25Yeah.
09:25Pass.
09:26It's Lady Elizabeth Butler.
09:28Portraying imagined scenes from a revolt of the 1520s, The Peasants War is a series of monochrome prints published in
09:351908 by which leading German proponent of humanitarianism?
09:40I don't know Dora.
09:42Pass.
09:42That was Keter Kollwitz.
09:44Which US artist responded to her brother's service in World War One with a 1918 work, The Flag?
09:49It depicts an indistinct blood red banner set against a deep blue sky.
09:54O'Keeffe.
09:56Yeah.
09:56Georgia O'Keeffe.
09:56It is Georgia O'Keeffe.
09:59Let's start the question.
10:00In literature, what short word links all of these?
10:03Grigori Pechorin, as described in the title of a novel by Mikhail Lermontov.
10:07New College Poulard.
10:08Hero.
10:09It is indeed a hero.
10:12Hero of our time.
10:13Great book.
10:13Three questions for your New College on muscles of the human body.
10:16What large muscle lies on top of the clavicle, scapula and humerus?
10:20It takes its name from a letter of the Greek alphabet.
10:23Tau.
10:24Delta.
10:24Deltoid.
10:26Deltoid.
10:26Deltoid.
10:27Yes.
10:28What large paired muscles spread from the base of the neck, extending across the shoulders and down the spine?
10:33The right and left muscles together form an irregular four-sided shape from which the name derives?
10:39Trapezoid.
10:40Trapezoid.
10:41Trapezoid.
10:41Trapezoid.
10:42No, I can't accept that.
10:44The name of the muscle is trapezius.
10:46Trapezius.
10:47Okay, we're all wrong.
10:47Finally, from the Greek for rump or buttock, what word precedes maximus, medius and minimus
10:53in the name of three muscles in the region of the hip joint?
10:57Gluteus.
10:58Yes, it is indeed.
10:59Well done.
10:59Let's start the question.
11:00What village in southern Luxembourg, on the west bank of the river Moselle, beside the
11:05tri-point where the borders of Luxembourg, France and Germany meet, gave its name to an agreement
11:10signed on a riverboat at...
11:11New College Pulau.
11:12Uh, Bettenborg.
11:13No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
11:15At the tri-point in 1985, by five European countries, that resolved to gradually remove
11:20controls at their internal borders and to introduce...
11:23Sheffield Price.
11:24Schengen.
11:24It is indeed the Schengen.
11:26Applause.
11:27Your bonuses then, Sheffield, are three questions on a writer.
11:30Centering on a recently widowed professor, Baumgartner was the final novel published by
11:35which American writer before his death in April 2024?
11:39His other works include a series of post-modern detective novels known as the New York Trilogy.
11:44Oh.
11:45I don't know.
11:46It's not Cormac.
11:47No, he was earlier.
11:48It's 11 pages.
11:49No.
11:49Just get someone.
11:50Get a Smith.
11:51Smith.
11:53No, it's Paul Oster.
11:54A 2007 novel by Oster, in which an old man is visited in a mysterious closed room by characters
12:00from Oster's other works, has the title Travels in the...what?
12:04The single word in question denotes a specific type of room in a monastery.
12:09Um, I don't know.
12:11Not our best ones.
12:12Hmm?
12:12No, it's not our best.
12:13That's the name of the person.
12:14Any room?
12:15No, I don't want to put it.
12:17No, pass.
12:18It's Scriptorium.
12:20Published in 1992, which of Oster's novels takes its one-word title from the name of
12:24a sea monster mentioned in several books of the Old Testament?
12:27Leviathan?
12:28Is that a sea monster?
12:30Yeah.
12:31Well, he is a sea monster.
12:33No, Leviathan is a monster.
12:34Leviathan?
12:34It is Leviathan, yes.
12:35Well done.
12:36Let's start the question.
12:38The London Conference of 1832 determined that the Bavarian Prince Otto von Wittelsbach would
12:43be the first king of what country?
12:46What?
12:47Sheffield, Assisi.
12:48Belgium.
12:48Oh.
12:50No.
12:51Um, you can hear more of the question, but you may not confer a new college.
12:54Following the end of its war for independence, the 1832 polity was considerably smaller than
12:59the current one, but grew following the annexation in 1881 of Arta and Thessaly.
13:05New college crawling.
13:06Greece.
13:07Greece.
13:07Greece is correct.
13:08I'm so sorry, Sheffield, but at this stage in the competition, if you buzz, we do need
13:12an answer without hesitation from the person who buzzed.
13:15Bad luck.
13:15We're going to fine you five points.
13:17A new college, you did get the answer.
13:18Right, so let's have your bonuses.
13:19Three bonuses for you then, new college, on Confucius.
13:23Confucius was born in 551 BCE in the state of Lu, in which present-day province of eastern
13:29China?
13:30Situated to the west of the Korean peninsula, its capital is Jinan.
13:33Is that just Manchuria?
13:36No.
13:36No, that's not a province.
13:38I don't know.
13:39I'll just go.
13:40Manchuria.
13:41Shandong.
13:42Meaning literary gleanings, what word is commonly used in the title of English
13:46translations of the Lunyu, the Discourses of Confucius?
13:49Annals.
13:50Is it the annals or is it the Analects?
13:52Analects, that's right.
13:52The Analects?
13:54Correct.
13:55Confucius was born near the end of an era known as the Spring and Autumn period,
13:59after a book of chronicles.
14:00This period is a subdivision of which dynasty that fell in the third century BCE?
14:06No, I don't know.
14:07I think that's too...
14:08Chen?
14:08Tang?
14:09Sure, I don't know.
14:10Pick one.
14:10The Tang dynasty?
14:11No, that was the Zhou dynasty.
14:14Right, another starter question.
14:14Fingers on buzzers.
14:15It's a music round.
14:16And for your starter, you're going to hear a piece of 20th century music.
14:20For 10 points, name the artist performing.
14:23When the union's in creation...
14:25New College Stimson.
14:26Pete Seeger.
14:27That is Pete Seeger, yes.
14:28For solidarity forever.
14:30For solidarity forever.
14:31For your starter, you heard Pete Seeger, who appeared regularly on musicologist Alan Lomax's
14:361940s radio show, Back Where I Come From, which thought to expose a wide audience to American folk music.
14:42For your bonuses, you'll hear three more recordings from artists who appeared on Lomax's programme.
14:46In each case, I need you to name the artist performing.
14:50First, this artist.
14:53Is this Hank Williams?
14:55No, it's Blind Willie Johnson.
14:56Okay.
14:58Are you sure?
14:58No, no.
14:58I think it could be Hannah.
15:02No, that's right.
15:06Nominate Stimson.
15:08Blind Willie Johnson.
15:09No, that was Lead Belly.
15:11Secondly, this actor and singer.
15:13Way down yonder in a wooden trough, an old woman died up and fall.
15:19He's the one who's the yodeler, I thought.
15:22Yodeler.
15:23What's that?
15:24Ben Crosby?
15:25No, it's the guy who's sitting on top of the world.
15:27Doc Watson.
15:28Doc Watson?
15:30No, it's Burl Ives.
15:31And finally, this musician and songwriter.
15:35This land is your land, and this land is my land.
15:40Yes.
15:40Woody Guthrie.
15:41It is, of course, Woody Guthrie.
15:43Thank goodness you got that one.
15:45Fingers on balance.
15:46This is another starting question.
15:47I need only the short single word name of an animal here.
15:51Along with the closely related Rodriguez Solitaire, which species is now grouped into the sub-tribe Raffina, endemic to the
15:58Masarene Islands?
15:59The Nicobar pigeon is thought to be their closest living relative since the entire clade went into...
16:05Sheffield Assisi.
16:06Dodo.
16:06It is a dodo, yes.
16:07Your bonuses are on winners at the 2024 Peabody Awards, which celebrate outstanding public service and achievement in electronic media.
16:16The documentary directed by Davina Pardo and Leah Walchok, that won in the arts category, was about which young adult
16:22writer?
16:22The citation praised their examination of how novels such as Forever and Blubber have been subject to censorship and used
16:29as fodder in American culture wars.
16:31I don't know.
16:32I don't know.
16:32Only young adult.
16:33Is that...
16:34No, that's...
16:36No, that's...
16:38Nominate you.
16:38No.
16:39Manny Blackman.
16:40Blackman?
16:41No, it's Judy Blume.
16:42Which 2D role-playing game set in 16th century Bavaria won an award for, quote,
16:48its innovative fusion of sweeping historical sagas with smaller personal tales?
16:53Its title derives from an Italian term used for a change made by an artist while painting.
16:59No.
17:01Pass.
17:02Pentiment, from pentimento, which means to repent or change one's mind.
17:05Recognised for, quote, its ability to seamlessly unite childhood bliss with meaningful life lessons,
17:11which animated TV series about a family of Australian dogs won a children's and youth award in 2024?
17:17Louis.
17:18Louis, yes.
17:18I was going to say, you've got to look forward to.
17:20It sounds like you're already into it.
17:21Right, I want a two-word answer here.
17:24The fifth movement of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, the fifth movement of Mahler's Second Symphony,
17:29Franz Liszt's Totentants, and Making Christmas from the Nightmare Before Christmas,
17:34all incorporate which 13th century Gregorian chant?
17:39Sheffield Lewis.
17:40DSRA?
17:40Yes, it is indeed.
17:41Your bonuses, Sheffield, are on Lev Landau's genius scale, his personal ranking of the importance
17:47and contributions of physicists.
17:49Landau ranked Newton and Einstein at the top of his scale.
17:52You need to identify three of the figures he put on the next tier down.
17:56First, a physicist born in Bristol in 1902, who shared the 1933 Nobel Prize with Erwin Schrodinger
18:03for, quote, the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory.
18:07Dirac, maybe?
18:08Dirac?
18:09It was.
18:10Secondly, a physicist born in Dieppe in 1892, who was awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize for, quote,
18:16the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has inter alia led to the discovery
18:35of the allotropic forms of hydrogen.
18:38It's not Planck who was born in 1901.
18:41Sure.
18:42It's not.
18:42It's not Maxwell, maybe?
18:44No.
18:45Like, Bourne?
18:46Stark, maybe?
18:47I don't know.
18:47Stark.
18:48No, it was Heisenberg.
18:50Let's start the question.
18:51What three letters begin the names of all of the following Roman emperors?
18:55The third-century ruler who co-reigned with his father, Valerian.
18:59The emperor who ended the Diocletian...
19:01G-A-L.
19:03Well done.
19:03It is indeed, yes.
19:06Scores level.
19:06Your bonuses, Sheffield, are on the novels of Charles Dickens.
19:09In each case, I want you to identify the work from an extract taken from its opening
19:13paragraphs.
19:14First, quote, London, Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in
19:18Lincoln's Inn Hall.
19:20Implacable November weather.
19:22Could it be, like, tale in two cities if it's set duly London?
19:24No.
19:24Definitely.
19:26Our mutual friend is in London.
19:28Our mutual friend?
19:29Yeah.
19:30Our mutual friend?
19:30No, it's Bleak House.
19:31Second, quote,
19:32Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within as the river wound, 20 miles of the
19:37sea.
19:38Should we just know our mutual friend again?
19:40That's what it was.
19:41Yeah, fine.
19:41It's about the terms.
19:43It opens with the terms.
19:44Our mutual friend?
19:45No, marsh country is great expectations.
19:47Oh, yeah.
19:47Finally, quote,
19:48There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face on the throne of England.
19:53There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face on the throne of France.
19:56Yes.
19:56Ten of two cities.
19:57Had to be, didn't it?
19:57Yes, well done.
19:58Let's start the question.
19:59It's a picture round now.
20:00For your picture starter, you'll see a late 16th century painting.
20:04For ten points, name the artist.
20:07Sheffield Dobby.
20:08Caravaggio.
20:09It is, of course, Caravaggio, yes.
20:11APPLAUSE
20:12That was Caravaggio's Narcissus, depicting the character of the same name from Greek mythology.
20:17Your picture bonuses will be three paintings depicting the story of Echo and Narcissus.
20:21And I want you to name the artist in each case.
20:24First, this painting from 1903.
20:28Waterhouse.
20:29Waterhouse?
20:29Yeah.
20:29Waterhouse?
20:30Yes.
20:31Next, this early 17th century work.
20:33Um, it looks French, so...
20:36Early 17th.
20:38Poussin.
20:39Poussin.
20:40Poussin, do you like that?
20:40Poussin.
20:41Well worked out.
20:42Finally, this painting from 1804.
20:44Oh, Constable.
20:45Oh, wait.
20:46Is it Turner?
20:46It will be Turner, yeah.
20:47Turner.
20:48It is Turner, yes.
20:49Well done.
20:49Now to start the question, fingers and puzzles.
20:52A 1977 agreement between Commonwealth nations to boycott South Africa in sporting competitions
20:57on account of the country's system of apartheid is known by the name of what hotel,
21:01located near Okhtarada in Perthshire, where it was signed and which hosted the 2014 Ryder
21:07Cup and 2019 Solheim Cup.
21:11Anyone want to have a guess?
21:14Sheffield Dobby.
21:15McDonald Hotel.
21:16No.
21:17Anyone from New College?
21:19New College Poulard.
21:20The Ritz.
21:21No, it's Glen Eagles.
21:22Let's start the question.
21:23The Caravanks, the Kamnik-Savinia Alps and the Julian Alps are three of the major mountain ranges in which European
21:31country?
21:31The last of these contains this country's highest mountain, Triglav, which was...
21:36New College Poulard.
21:37Slovenia.
21:37It is Slovenia.
21:38Well done.
21:38Your Burmese New College are on dumplings.
21:41In French cuisine, what term denotes dumplings made from finely ground fish or meat that are usually oval-shaped and
21:47cooked by poaching?
21:48The term is sometimes used more broadly to refer to rugby ball-shaped scoops of any soft food.
21:54Canel?
21:55Yeah.
21:55Canel?
21:56Yes.
21:56In Tibetan and Nepali cuisine, what short reduplicative name is given to a traditional type of steamed dumpling?
22:03Momo.
22:03Yes.
22:04In Polish cuisine, what term denotes small crimped dumplings that are usually boiled and which can have either savoury or
22:10sweet fillings?
22:11The term...
22:12Piorogi.
22:12Yes, well done.
22:13Let's start the question.
22:14The practices known as the Five Pillars originate in a hadith named for what figure who questions Muhammad on the
22:21principles of Islam?
22:22This figure had previously appeared to Muhammad in the cave of Hira.
22:26New College Crawley.
22:27Jibril.
22:28Yes, Jibril or Gabriel.
22:29Well done.
22:31Your bonuses, New College, are on dentistry.
22:33Widely used in dental fillings, the term amalgam indicates an alloy of what metal with other metals?
22:40Mercury.
22:41Mercury?
22:42Yes.
22:42Dental amalgam is typically a mixture of liquid mercury and a powdered alloy containing tin, copper and a slightly larger
22:50quantity of which other group 11 metal, which lies immediately below copper in the periodic table?
22:56Let's see.
22:57Silver?
22:57No.
22:59Is it cadmium?
23:00Sure.
23:01Cadmium?
23:01No, it's silver.
23:03Which group 12 metal is sometimes added to amalgam as an oxygen scavenger, improving the alloy's resistance to corrosion and
23:10fatigue?
23:10The process of galvanising involves adding a coating of this metal to iron or steel to the same end?
23:16Yes, well done.
23:17Let's start the question.
23:18Described as using fashion as a powerful tool to express identity and personality, a 2024 exhibition in Tate Britain featured
23:26the portraits of which artist?
23:29Sheffield Dobbit.
23:30Sheffield Dobbit.
23:30John Singer Sargent.
23:31Well done.
23:31It is indeed.
23:32Your bonuses then, with five points in it, are on a Greek god.
23:35In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pyrois, Eos, Ethon and Phlegon are the names given to the four horses that draw the carriage
23:44of which god?
23:45He is the son of Hyperion and Thea and the brother of Eos and Selene.
23:49Sun god?
23:51Helios?
23:53Helios, yeah.
23:53Helios?
23:54Yes.
23:54In book 12 of Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus and his crew visit which mythical island, where, despite Odysseus' warnings, his men
24:01eat the sacred oxen belonging to Helios?
24:03I think it's still in Charybdis, but in the name of the island.
24:05I don't know.
24:05It's not that big part.
24:06No, it's different.
24:07Pass.
24:08Pass.
24:09No, pass, just pass.
24:10Pass.
24:11It's Thrinasea.
24:12Finally, Oxen of the Sun is the title of episode 14 of which 20th century novel?
24:17The episode opens with the words, Dechil Hollis Earmus.
24:20Ulysses.
24:21Repeated three times.
24:21Ulysses.
24:22Yes, well done.
24:23Let's start the question.
24:25Natasha Subramanian and Luke Williams were awarded the 2022 Goldsmith's Prize for their novel titled For Which Island?
24:32The novel sees two friends learn of the forced expulsion of the residents of the Chagos Islands.
24:36New College Stimson.
24:38It's all right.
24:39I'm afraid you lose five points and you can hear more of the question, but you may not confer.
24:42Including from the titular island, the location of a naval support facility leased to the United States of America by
24:48Britain.
24:48Sheffield Prize.
24:49Diego Garcia.
24:50It is, of course, Diego Garcia.
24:51Bad luck, New College.
24:52Your bonuses then, Sheffield, are on smaller locations in England that include the place name element burgh.
24:59That's B-U-R-G-H, meaning fortification or stronghold.
25:04It has various local pronunciations.
25:07Which English monarch died at Brough by Sands, a village near Carlisle, in 1307?
25:13He and his son made unsuccessful attempts to conquer Scotland?
25:16Yes.
25:17Edward I?
25:18Yes.
25:19Burr Castle in Norfolk is the site of a late third century fort that was part of what system of
25:24coastal defences named in part after a Germanic people?
25:28Third century.
25:31Angle Saxons.
25:32Saxons.
25:33Saxons.
25:33Saxons.
25:34Saxons defences.
25:35Saxon walls.
25:36Saxon walls.
25:36Bad luck.
25:36It's Saxon Shore I needed.
25:37Site of an art deco hotel.
25:39Burr Island in Devon is the setting of two novels by which author, born in 1890?
25:44Um...
25:45Um...
25:45It's not...
25:46Um...
25:47DHLite?
25:48No.
25:48Even more.
25:49Even more.
25:49No, it's Agatha Christie.
25:50Two minutes to go.
25:51Egyptian, Omotic, Chadic, Cushitic, Berber and Semitic.
25:56New college below.
25:58Now, Fred, you must answer straight away.
25:59You lose five points.
26:00Are principal branches of which major language family?
26:04Sheffield Assisi.
26:05Afroasiatic.
26:06It is Afroasiatic, yes.
26:07Your bonuses are three questions on the BAFTA award for most promising newcomer to leading film roles.
26:12A category that lasted from 1952 to 1984.
26:15In each case, I need you to name the actor from the role and film for which they received the
26:19award.
26:20First, the winner of the 1982 award for the role of Joey LaMotta in Raging Bull.
26:24Oh, is it De Niro?
26:26Not Newcomer, I'm not sure.
26:27I think it's De Niro.
26:28Yeah, go for it.
26:28De Niro?
26:29No, De Niro played Jake LaMotta.
26:30That was Joe Pesci.
26:31Secondly, the winner of the 1961 award for the role of Arthur Seaton in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.
26:38Pass.
26:38It's Albert Finney.
26:39Lastly, the winner of the 1977 award for the roles of Tallulah in Bugsy Malone and Iris Steensma in Taxi
26:44Driver.
26:45Is that De Niro?
26:46No.
26:46Oh, is it Dench?
26:48I'll nominate you.
26:49Judy Dench.
26:49Nominator Cece, Judy Dench.
26:50No, it's Jodie Foster.
26:51Another starter question.
26:52I need a single word here.
26:54An archaic form of a common verb.
26:56What word links the titles of a 1946 play by Eugene O'Neill and a comedic song by the duo
27:01Flanders and Swan?
27:03Sheffield Price.
27:04Cometh.
27:05It is indeed Cometh.
27:06Yes, your bonuses are on words that appear only once in the complete writings of William Shakespeare.
27:10The word honorifi cabili tudini tatibus, meaning able to receive honours, is used by the illiterate costard in which of
27:16Shakespeare's plays?
27:18Costard.
27:18No.
27:19Othello, maybe.
27:20King Lear.
27:21King Lear.
27:22No, it's Love's Labour's Lost.
27:23Possibly derived from an old term for ebony, what name does Shakespeare give to the poison used to kill Hamlet's
27:27father?
27:28Shakespeare may have been inspired by use of a similar word in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta.
27:32Anything?
27:33No.
27:34Barabas.
27:35Barabas.
27:36No, it's Hebenon.
27:36What adjective does Kate use in The Taming of the Shrew to describe the disorienting effect of the sun upon
27:41her eyes?
27:42In modern usage, this word can also mean embellished, often with jewels or rhinestones.
27:48Glitter.
27:49Glittered.
27:50Glittered.
27:50Glittered.
27:51No, it's bedazzled.
27:51Another starter question.
27:52Which two islands are separated by the Strait of Bonifacio?
27:57And that, the Golden U College of 125, the Strait of 175.
28:05You were so far ahead for so long, guys.
28:07What I was doing.
28:08What you were doing, what do you mean?
28:10Me new.
28:10At the end, with a...
28:10Yeah, Diego Garcia.
28:12I wouldn't let that colour the way you look back on this, because you were so impressive.
28:15It's just the last five minutes went against you.
28:18But crucially, Jonah, you knew everything you needed to be about Russia and Russian literature, so that's fine.
28:21Yeah, yeah, my cheaters won't be after me, I think.
28:23Exactly.
28:23And you sounded very clever about HydroBank.
28:25It's been wonderful getting to know you.
28:26Well done for playing so fantastic.
28:27Well, I'm sorry that we're going to be saying goodbye to you guys, but it's been an honour.
28:30Sheffield, you did sort of slightly leave it rather late, but in that last five minutes,
28:33which was crucial, you came storming through, so well done.
28:36We shall see you again.
28:36And I hope we'll see you again.
28:38I hope you can join us next time for the first of the second round matches.
28:41But until then, it is goodbye from New College, Oxford.
28:43Goodbye.
28:44Goodbye.
28:44It's goodbye from Sheffield University.
28:46Goodbye.
28:47And it's goodbye from me.
28:48Goodbye.
28:48Goodbye.
28:49Goodbye.
28:50Goodbye.
28:59Goodbye.
29:03Goodbye.
29:06Goodbye.
29:07Goodbye.
29:08Goodbye.
29:09Goodbye.
29:11Goodbye.
29:12Goodbye.
29:13Goodbye.
29:14Goodbye.
29:17Goodbye.
29:18Goodbye.
29:18Goodbye.
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