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00:28Hello and welcome to
00:29University Challenge. We're now halfway through
00:31the round of 16 in this year's competition.
00:34Darwin College Cambridge, Sheffield,
00:36Imperial and Warwick have all secured
00:38their spots in the quarterfinals and
00:40whichever team wins this match will join
00:42them. Unlike the first round, this stage of the competition
00:44is strictly single elimination
00:45so the losing team tonight will
00:47unfortunately be going home.
00:50This year's team from Manchester looked very much
00:52in control of their opening game against New College
00:54Oxford until the final quarter
00:55in which New College scored 90 points and
00:58Manchester lost 15. Luckily
01:00Captain Kai was able to right the Manchester
01:02ship last minute with their 8th and
01:049th correct starters of the match.
01:06Manchester answered well in that game on flags,
01:08physics and Chinese history but
01:09they did receive the joint most five point
01:11penalties of the teams in round one, an honour
01:14they share with their opponents tonight.
01:16Let's meet the team from Manchester for the second
01:18time. Hi, I'm
01:20Ray Power. I'm from Bangkok, Thailand and I
01:22study film and English literature.
01:24Hi, my name's Kirsty Dixon.
01:26I'm from Morley Green in Cheshire and I study
01:28medicine. And their captain.
01:29Hi, I'm Kai Matrick. I'm from Foy in Cornwall
01:32and I'm studying for a PhD in AI and
01:34astrophysics. Hi, I'm Rob
01:36Faulkner. I'm from Norwich and I'm studying physics
01:38with astrophysics.
01:42The team from the LSE are here tonight
01:44having beaten Trinity Hall Cambridge in a
01:46high scoring and slightly hectic heat
01:47which featured a total of eight incorrect
01:50interruptions on starters.
01:52Trinity Hall had the better of the first half
01:54of the match but LSE were much stronger in
01:56the second sailing through bonus sets on
01:57ancient Roman authors, Nigerian history and
02:00geography and elements in the halogen group.
02:02Like many teams in round one, however, they
02:04scored no points at all on the music round.
02:06Let's meet the team from the LSE
02:08once again.
02:09Hi, I'm Ryan Sharpe. I'm from Oklahoma, Ontario,
02:12Canada and I'm studying history and philosophy.
02:15Hi, I'm Cormac Byrne. I'm from Ireland and Canada
02:18and I'm doing a master's in history of international relations.
02:20And their captain.
02:21Hi, I'm Andy Huff. I'm from Houston, Texas and I'm studying
02:24international social and public policy.
02:26Hi, I'm Catherine Tan. I'm from Lexington, Massachusetts
02:29and I'm studying anthropology and international relations.
02:34Welcome back. Very nice to see you all again.
02:36How are you feeling? Thumbs up.
02:38Let's get going, shall we? Fingers on buzzers.
02:40This is for a place in the quarterfinal.
02:42In 2024, the M Plus Museum in Hong Kong hosted the first
02:47solo retrospective of the work of which architect
02:50who had died five years before.
02:52The exhibition highlighted works including
02:54the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong,
02:56the Museum of Islamic Art in...
02:58LSE Huff.
02:59Hey.
03:00I'll take that this time because Andy was fractionally first,
03:03but in future, Cormac, please wait for your name to be called.
03:07Right, your bonuses then, LSE.
03:08Three questions on theories of intelligence.
03:11In a paper of 1904, Charles Spearman first proposed
03:15the concept of a single general intelligence factor
03:18that enters into individuals' performance
03:20on all cognitive tasks.
03:22This factor is usually known by what single letter
03:24of the alphabet?
03:25Is it G?
03:27It's either G or Q.
03:29Q?
03:30I said G.
03:31I had to go G.
03:32OK, G.
03:33Correct.
03:34Which US psychologist set out his theory
03:36of multiple intelligences in the 1983 book
03:39Frames of Mind.
03:40He identified eight separate modalities of intelligence,
03:43including musical, kinesthetic and interpersonal.
03:46Who did the test?
03:50What's the name of that test?
03:54I'm not going to come up with it.
03:55Raven, maybe?
03:56What did you say?
03:57Like Raven?
03:57Like a Raven something?
03:59I'm going to go Benet, I think.
04:00Benet?
04:01No, it's Howard Gardner.
04:02In an article of 1941,
04:04the psychologist Raymond Cattell
04:06introduced two contrasting terms
04:08to denote respectively
04:09the ability to reason
04:11and manipulate new information
04:12and the ability to use skills
04:14and knowledge acquired
04:15through prior learning.
04:16The former he termed fluid intelligence.
04:19What word did he use
04:20to describe the latter?
04:21I think it's static.
04:23That would be the opposite of fluid.
04:24Sure.
04:24Static?
04:25No, it's crystallised intelligence.
04:27Bad luck.
04:27This is a quote.
04:28The guiding motto in the life
04:30of every natural philosopher
04:31should be
04:32seek simplicity and distrust it.
04:34Which English thinker
04:36wrote those words
04:37in the 1920 work...
04:39LSE Hough.
04:40I'm afraid if you buzz
04:41you must answer straight away.
04:42I'll pass it over.
04:42You'll lose five points.
04:43The concept of nature.
04:45His other works include
04:46the 1898 Treatise
04:47on Universal Algebra
04:49and a collaboration
04:50with Bertrand Russell
04:50entitled...
04:51Manchester Manchwick.
04:52Whitehead.
04:53It was Whitehead.
04:55Your bonuses, Manchester,
04:56are on the sculptor
04:57Zurab Zereteli.
04:59Zereteli is known
05:00for his monumental works
05:01including some of the tallest
05:02statues in the world.
05:03Among these are
05:05The Birth of the New World,
05:06a 110-metre-tall sculpture
05:08of Christopher Columbus
05:09located in Arecibo
05:10on which Caribbean island?
05:13Where's Arecibo?
05:14Oh, it's in Puerto Rico.
05:16It's in Puerto Rico.
05:17Yes.
05:18Consisting of 16 pillars
05:19featuring historical figures
05:20as well as a cross
05:21of Saint Nino,
05:23Zereteli's unfinished
05:241985 monument
05:25is known as
05:26the Chronicle of
05:27which country?
05:28The place of his birth?
05:29He sounds...
05:30That's a very Georgian-sounding name.
05:32Georgia?
05:33Yes.
05:33Originally entitled
05:34The Tear of Grief,
05:36a sculpture by Zereteli
05:37featuring a 12-metre
05:38metal teardrop
05:39inside a torn tower
05:40is a memorial
05:42for what event?
05:429-11.
05:43It is 9-11.
05:44Well done.
05:45It's a big surprise
05:46and I'll start the question.
05:47The main part
05:48of the Cathedral
05:48of Saint Dominus
05:49in Split, Croatia
05:51was originally constructed
05:52as the mausoleum
05:53for which Roman emperor?
05:55L.C. Sharp.
05:57Diocletian.
05:58It is.
05:58Well done.
05:58There are a few questions
06:00on books
06:01set or partly set
06:02in Vienna.
06:02Letter from an Unknown Woman
06:04is a 1922 work
06:06by which Austrian author?
06:07It tells the story
06:09of a woman's sporadic
06:10encounters in Vienna
06:11with a writer
06:12whom she loves intensely
06:13but who barely remembers her
06:15from one meeting
06:15to the next.
06:16I'm going to nominate you.
06:17Nominate Bern?
06:18Zweig?
06:19Yes.
06:20Erika Kohut,
06:21an instructor
06:22at the prestigious
06:22Vienna Conservatory,
06:23is the central character
06:25in which 1983 novel
06:26by Elfride Jelinek?
06:28It was adapted
06:29into a 2001 film
06:30starring Isabel Huppert
06:31as Erika.
06:33Do you know this?
06:34Is it funny?
06:35Is there something
06:35about funny games?
06:36These aren't like
06:37the sunrise movies
06:39or whatever?
06:40No, I don't think so.
06:41Do you have anything?
06:42Funny games.
06:43Nominate Bern?
06:44Funny games?
06:44No, it's the piano teacher.
06:46Ulrich,
06:46a mathematician
06:47who has recently
06:48returned to Vienna
06:49after time abroad,
06:50is given what sobriquet
06:51in the title
06:52of a three-volume
06:53modernist novel
06:54left unfinished
06:54on the death
06:55of its author,
06:56Robert Musil,
06:57in 1942.
06:59The Loser, maybe?
07:01Got nothing.
07:01I don't know.
07:03The Loser?
07:04The Loser?
07:05It's a wonderful book
07:06called The Man Without Qualities.
07:08Picture round now.
07:09For your picture starter,
07:09you're going to see
07:10a diagram of a chess position
07:12and a map on which
07:13is marked the location
07:14after which
07:15the position is named.
07:17For ten points,
07:18I need the name
07:19shared by both.
07:21LSE shop.
07:23Budapest.
07:23Yes, well done.
07:25For your picture starter,
07:27you saw the Budapest Gabbit,
07:28first played
07:28in a recorded game
07:29in Budapest in 1896.
07:32For your picture bonuses,
07:33three more diagrams
07:34of chess positions
07:35and maps showing
07:36the European locations
07:37they're named after.
07:39In each case,
07:39I need the shared name.
07:41First, this opening.
07:42We just need the location, right?
07:44Yeah.
07:45OK, that...
07:46The Catalan?
07:46...goza is something, right?
07:47The Catalan is a chess thing.
07:48Yeah.
07:48No, that...
07:50Vienna is a chess thing.
07:51It's a specific point, though.
07:53It's not just...
07:53OK.
07:54Is there a Zaragoza or something?
07:55I think that's Zaragoza.
07:56OK.
07:57Nominate Sharp.
07:58Zaragoza.
07:58Yes, well done.
07:59Secondly,
08:00this variation
08:01of the Sicilian defence.
08:03Oh, that's like The Hague
08:07or Rotterdam.
08:08Is there...
08:08I think Rotterdam
08:09makes more sense.
08:10OK.
08:11Nominate Sharp.
08:12Rotterdam.
08:12That is Shevin Ingen.
08:13And lastly,
08:14this variation
08:14of the Rui Lopez.
08:18That's...
08:19Riga, I think.
08:20Yeah, that's...
08:21Is that a thing?
08:22Yeah.
08:22OK, go Riga.
08:23Riga.
08:23Well done.
08:24It is indeed.
08:25First part of the question.
08:25In eukaryotic cells,
08:28origin licensing
08:29and origin firing
08:30are necessary precursors
08:32to which fundamental
08:33biological process
08:35that occurs in the S phase
08:37of the cell cycle?
08:38These steps involve
08:39the loading and activation,
08:40respectively,
08:41of DNA helicases
08:43to allow access
08:44to DNA polymerases.
08:46LSE Hough.
08:47Replication?
08:48It is indeed, yeah.
08:50Three questions for you
08:51on an anime director.
08:52The anime series
08:53Paranoia Agent,
08:54which centres on a series
08:55of apparently random assaults
08:56carried out by a young boy
08:57with a baseball bat,
08:58was created by
08:59which Japanese director?
09:01His films include
09:02Tokyo Godfathers
09:03and Millennium Actress?
09:04I don't know.
09:05Oh.
09:08Is his name like
09:09Bon or something?
09:11Try it.
09:12Nominate Bon?
09:13Bon?
09:13No, it's Satoshi Kon.
09:15Bad luck.
09:16Loosely based on a novel
09:17by Yoshikazu Takeuchi,
09:19which 1997 film by Kon
09:21centres on a J-pop idol
09:22who becomes a victim
09:23of stalking
09:24after she gives up
09:25her music career
09:26to become an actress.
09:28What's the name?
09:29Purple in the name.
09:31Perfect Blue.
09:32Do you want me to go with it?
09:34Perfect Blue.
09:35Well done.
09:36Psychiatrist Atsuko Chiba
09:37is the main character
09:38of which 2006
09:39science fiction film
09:40by Kon?
09:41She heads a team
09:42experimenting
09:42with a new technology
09:43that allows them
09:44to enter their patients' dreams
09:45and explore
09:46their unconscious thoughts.
09:47Is this where Ghost in the Shell is?
09:49No, no.
09:49This is the one that
09:53Inception steals from.
09:55I forget the title.
09:56Okay.
09:58Sorry.
09:58Ghost in the Shell.
09:59I think you are thinking
10:00of the right film.
10:01It's called Paprika.
10:03Bad luck.
10:04Let's start the question.
10:05In 1907,
10:06which playwright
10:06co-founded a theatre company
10:08called Intima Theatern
10:09or the Intimate Theatre
10:10based in a small performance
10:12base modelled
10:13on Max Reinhardt's
10:14Berlin Kammenspielhaus
10:15and designed to suit
10:16what he similarly called
10:17the chamber plays
10:18he was beginning to write?
10:20He wrote a number
10:20of such plays
10:21for the company
10:21including
10:22The Pelican
10:23and The Ghost Sonata.
10:25Elissi Byrne.
10:26Gibson.
10:27No, I'm afraid
10:27you'll lose five points
10:28but is perhaps
10:29better known today
10:29for some of his earlier works
10:31such as
10:31The Father
10:32and Miss Julie.
10:34Manchester Manchwick.
10:35Strindberg.
10:36It is Strindberg, yes.
10:38Two questions
10:38for you, Manchester,
10:39on blood glucose.
10:40Used to prevent
10:41hypoglycemia,
10:42what process in the body
10:43involves the synthesis
10:44of glucose
10:45from non-carbohydrate sources?
10:49Gluconeogenesis.
10:50The synthesis of glucose
10:51from non...
10:51From non...
10:52Gluconeogenesis.
10:54No, I'm sorry, Dixon.
10:55Gluconeogenesis.
10:56Yes.
10:56A type of gluconeogenesis,
10:58what biochemical pathway
11:00is also known
11:01as the lactic acid
11:02cycle
11:02and is named
11:03after the husband
11:04and wife
11:04Nobel laureates
11:05Getty and Carl?
11:08Non-glucose-deriven pathway
11:09and it's eponymous.
11:11Yeah.
11:13Do you just have
11:14any cycles
11:15that are eponymous?
11:17I'm so sorry.
11:18Right, pass.
11:19It's the Corey cycle.
11:20The Corey cycle
11:21and most other instances
11:22of gluconeogenesis
11:24occur in what organ
11:25of the body?
11:26Liver.
11:26Liver.
11:27Yes, it is liver.
11:28Well done.
11:29Let's start the question.
11:30For what do the letters
11:31LT stand
11:32in the abbreviations
11:33LTP and LTV?
11:36The form of being
11:37an idea popularised
11:38by John Locke
11:38which claims that
11:39land ownership
11:40is tied to those
11:41who utilise it.
11:42The latter,
11:42a claim associated with...
11:44LSE Hough.
11:45Labour theory?
11:46It is indeed.
11:47Well done.
11:48Your bonuses then LSE
11:49are on a member
11:50of the House of Habsburg.
11:52Who became king
11:52of the Romans
11:53in 1486
11:54while his father
11:55Frederick III
11:56was Holy Roman Emperor
11:57a title he would
11:58inherit himself
11:59in 1508?
12:05Okay.
12:06Joseph I.
12:07Anyone feel confident
12:08about Henry IV?
12:09Henry IV?
12:10No, that's
12:11Maximilian I.
12:12In 1493
12:13Maximilian agreed
12:14the Treaty of Sonny
12:15with Charles VIII
12:16of France
12:17to divide the territories
12:18of the Burgundian
12:19inheritance
12:19left by which figure
12:21who had died
12:22at the Battle of Nancy?
12:24He was the last
12:25Duke of Burgundy
12:25of the House of Valois
12:27and was the father
12:28of Maximilian's
12:29first wife Mary.
12:31This Charles the Bold?
12:32That's a Burgundian.
12:33That's what I mean.
12:34Charles the Bold?
12:34Yes, it is indeed.
12:36Maximilian arranged
12:36for the marriage
12:37of his and Mary's son
12:38Philip the Handsome
12:39to Joanna the Mad.
12:40This ensured
12:41the future Habsburg
12:42inheritance of which
12:43two polities
12:43that were ruled
12:44in personal union
12:45by Joanna's parents?
12:47Which two?
12:47Yeah.
12:48So Hungary?
12:49No, one of the locas
12:50is Spanish
12:50so it's like Castile
12:51and Aragon or Leon?
12:53I think Castile
12:56and Aragon, right?
12:58Okay, Castile
12:58and Aragon.
12:59Well done.
13:00It is indeed.
13:01Let's start with a question.
13:03Which strait
13:03or channel
13:04separates the islands
13:05of Oste and Navarino
13:06from Isla Grande
13:08de Tierra del Fuego.
13:09It is named after
13:10a ship that explored it.
13:12Manchester Magic.
13:13Golden Hind.
13:14No, I'm afraid
13:15you'll lose five points.
13:16A ship that explored it
13:17during an expedition
13:17of 1826 to 30
13:19and that returned there
13:20during a notable voyage
13:21of 1831 to 36
13:23under the captaincy
13:24of Robert Fitzroy.
13:26LSE Sharp.
13:27The Beagle Channel.
13:28It is the Beagle Channel.
13:29Your bonuses LSE
13:30are on the use of almonds
13:31in alcoholic beverages.
13:33Translating into English
13:34as A Little Bitter.
13:35What name is given
13:36to the Italian liqueur
13:37originating in the region
13:38of Saronno
13:39that may be made
13:40either from almonds
13:41or from apricot
13:42or peach kernels
13:43which impart an almond-like flavour?
13:46Amaretto?
13:46Yes, sure.
13:47Amaretto.
13:48Delicious.
13:48A common ingredient
13:49in Mai Tai cocktails,
13:50which sweet almond-derived syrup
13:52takes its name
13:53from the French word
13:53for barley?
13:55It's O-R-G-E.
13:58I don't know.
14:00Do you want to just say that?
14:02Oh, it's like O-R-G-E-A-T.
14:05Is that a thing?
14:05OK.
14:06I'm going to nominate you
14:07and you're going to say that.
14:08Nominate Sharp.
14:09O-R-G-E-A-T.
14:14Yes, correct.
14:14Well done.
14:15Finally,
14:16also known for its wines,
14:17which region in the south
14:18of Portugal
14:19is the origin
14:20of a notable type
14:21of bitter almond liqueur,
14:22specific brands
14:23of which include
14:24Amarginia?
14:26Algarve.
14:26Algarve,
14:27is that what you said?
14:27Algarve, yeah.
14:28Algarve?
14:29Yes, it is indeed.
14:30Let's start with questions.
14:31And a music round now.
14:32For your music starter,
14:33you're going to hear
14:33a piece of popular music.
14:35For ten points,
14:35I need you to name
14:36the artist performing.
14:38I'd have to get drunk
14:39every night
14:40and talk about...
14:41Manchester Madrid.
14:42Scott Walker.
14:43It is Scott Walker.
14:44Well done.
14:45So, you just heard
14:46Scott Walker's cover
14:47of Jackie,
14:48originally performed
14:48in French by Jacques Braille.
14:50For your music bonuses,
14:51three English-language versions
14:52of pop songs
14:53originally performed
14:54in French.
14:55In each case,
14:56I need you to name
14:56the artist or group
14:57you hear performing.
14:58First, this singer.
15:10Charles Aznavour?
15:11No, that's Dean Martin.
15:13Secondly, this artist.
15:39This is going to really hurt Kirstie.
15:41It's Little Peggy March.
15:43Oh!
15:43Bad luck.
15:44Lastly, this group.
15:50Sounds like a sugar babes.
15:51Yeah, I was going for it.
15:53Oh, no.
15:54Number eight, Falkman.
15:55Sugar babes.
15:56Don't look so embarrassed
15:57about that.
15:58It is the sugar babes.
16:00Definitely sounds like them.
16:01Right, now let's start
16:01the question.
16:02In optics and mathematics,
16:04what seven-letter word
16:05denotes the envelope
16:06of rays reflected
16:08or refracted
16:09by a curved surface
16:10from a light source
16:11at a given point?
16:13The same word
16:13is used in chemistry
16:14to indicate that
16:15a substance is corrosive
16:16and may burn
16:17living tissue on contact.
16:19For example,
16:20in a common name
16:20for sodium hydroxide.
16:22Manchester, Madrid.
16:23Caustic.
16:24It is caustic, yes.
16:25Your bonuses are
16:26on operas that feature
16:28the card game Faro.
16:29Which opera by Tchaikovsky
16:31centres on an army officer
16:32who becomes obsessed
16:33with persuading
16:34an elderly countess
16:35to reveal a secret
16:36combination of cards
16:37that once won her
16:38a fortune at Faro?
16:39It is based on a novella
16:40by Pushkin.
16:41Ace of Spades, isn't it?
16:43Or the Queen of Spades.
16:44It's Pushkin.
16:45The Queen of Spades.
16:46Queen of Spades.
16:47Yes, it is the Queen of Spades.
16:48In which opera by Massonet,
16:50based on an 18th century
16:51French novel,
16:52do the title character
16:53and her cousin
16:54persuade her lover
16:55to win money for them
16:56by playing Faro
16:57at the Hotel Transylvania?
16:58Can you name your name
16:59in Massonet?
17:00Yes.
17:00Can you?
17:01That's the real version.
17:02OK, pass.
17:02No, that's Manon.
17:03Based on Manon Lescaux.
17:05A group of miners
17:05play Faro in the polka saloon
17:07in Act 1 of
17:08La Fanciulla del West
17:10or The Girl of the Golden West,
17:11a 1910 opera
17:12by which Italian composer?
17:15It could just be Puccini.
17:17It's not 1910.
17:17Yeah, Puccini.
17:18It is just Puccini, yes.
17:19Fair enough.
17:20That's right, the question.
17:21It's inhabitants addressed
17:22in the title
17:23of a letter of St Paul.
17:25What ancient city
17:26in northern Greece
17:26was the site of a victory
17:28by Octavian and Mark Antony
17:29over Brutus and Cassius
17:31that is the scene
17:32of the final act
17:33of Shakespeare's...
17:35Manchester metric.
17:36Philippi.
17:36Yes, Philippi.
17:37Your bonuses
17:38are on a language family.
17:40Discovered in modern-day Mongolia,
17:42the Orkon inscriptions
17:43found on two large stone monuments
17:45erected in the 8th century CE
17:48are the oldest extant records
17:50of a language
17:51from what family?
17:52Uh, Sinod, Tibetan.
17:55Yeah, Sinod family, yeah.
17:56Or India-European.
17:58Wait, what century did it say?
18:008th century CE?
18:01Yeah, I think.
18:03I think Sinod.
18:04I think it's better than India.
18:05Sinod, Tibetan.
18:06There's Turkic.
18:06The most aberrant
18:08of the Turkic languages
18:09and possibly the earliest
18:10to split from
18:11the common ancestor language,
18:12what language
18:13is one of the two
18:13official languages
18:14of the Republic
18:15within the Russian Federation
18:16that borders
18:17Tatarstan to the west
18:18and whose capital
18:19is Jabbokseri.
18:20Oh, I was going to say
18:21Chechen, but that's me.
18:25I don't know.
18:27Ah, I don't know.
18:30Um, Dakjistani.
18:31That is Chuvash.
18:32Which extinct Turkic
18:34literary language,
18:35once widespread
18:36across Central Asia,
18:37is the ancestor
18:38of Uzbek and Uyghur?
18:40It shares its name
18:40with a subdivision
18:41of the Mongol Empire,
18:42which was named
18:43after the second son
18:44of Genghis Khan.
18:49This is going to annoy me.
18:53It's like the
18:54Ilkati is a thing,
18:55but like...
18:56Come on.
18:56Ilk.
18:57No, it's the Chagatai.
18:58Another starter question.
18:59What German word
19:00for a common animal
19:02is also a surname
19:03shared by all
19:04of the following people?
19:05Vivian,
19:06a British explorer
19:06who led the first
19:07overland crossing
19:08of Antarctica in 1958.
19:10Klaus,
19:11a physicist convicted
19:12in 1950
19:13of being a Soviet spy
19:14in the Manhattan Project.
19:15And Lenard.
19:16Manchester Magic.
19:17Fuchs.
19:18It is indeed Fuchs.
19:19Well worked out.
19:19Three questions for you,
19:21Manchester,
19:21with five points in it.
19:22On a constellation,
19:23heart and soul
19:24are names given
19:25to a pair
19:25of emission nebulae
19:27in which constellation?
19:28This constellation
19:29also contains
19:30a distinctive
19:30W-shaped asterism.
19:32Cassiopeia.
19:33Cassiopeia.
19:33Yes.
19:34Cassiopeia encompasses
19:34IC10,
19:36the nearest starburst
19:37galaxy to our solar system.
19:38IC10 is specifically
19:39an example
19:40of a BCD galaxy.
19:42The letters BCD
19:43standing for what
19:44three-word term?
19:45My mind's going like...
19:46BCD.
19:50That's OK.
19:51I do.
19:51I wish I could carry
19:53half in the stars.
19:54It's OK.
19:56Pass.
19:57It's blue compact dwarf.
19:59Cassiopeia also contains
20:01a supernova remnant
20:02often known
20:03by the name
20:03of which Danish astronomer
20:04who observed
20:05the supernova in 1572?
20:07Presumably Brahe.
20:08Yeah.
20:08Brahe?
20:09Yes,
20:09Tiger Brahe.
20:10Correct.
20:11Don't start the question.
20:12Picture round.
20:13For your picture starter,
20:14you're going to see
20:14a 20th century sculpture.
20:16For 10 points,
20:16I need you to give me
20:17its artist's name.
20:21Manchester Magic.
20:22Duchamp.
20:22It is indeed, yes.
20:24For your picture starter,
20:25you saw Marcel Duchamp's
20:26Bottle Rack,
20:27one of the artworks
20:27cited by Barbara Rose
20:29in her influential essay
20:30ABC Art
20:31as contributing
20:32to the birth
20:33of artistic minimalism.
20:34For your picture bonuses,
20:35three more artworks
20:36discussed in Rose's essay.
20:38Five points
20:39for each artist you can name.
20:41First, this painter
20:41whom Rose identified with
20:43the search
20:44for the transcendent
20:44universal absolute.
20:47Oh, Malavitch.
20:48Malavitch.
20:48Yep.
20:49Secondly,
20:49this American artist
20:50who, according to Rose,
20:51showed that spontaneous
20:52splashes and drips
20:53could be manufactured.
20:55It doesn't look like Pollock.
20:56Yeah.
20:57Nor does it look like Twombly.
20:58No.
20:59I could guess a random guy.
21:00I don't think it's Jones.
21:01I don't think it's Jones.
21:01I don't think it's Jones.
21:02Yeah.
21:03Do you mind if I just
21:03guess a random guy?
21:04Yeah.
21:04Hans Hoffman?
21:05No, that's Rauschenberg.
21:06Oh.
21:07Lastly,
21:07this American artist
21:08whose work Rose
21:09characterises as
21:10sharp visual punning.
21:13Oh.
21:15What was the Russian?
21:16American.
21:17American.
21:18Maybe Kenneth Nolan,
21:18maybe?
21:18He's a colour...
21:19What is it?
21:20Do you have anything?
21:22Kenneth Nolan is a colour-filled guy.
21:23Yeah.
21:24Yeah.
21:24All right.
21:25Kenneth Nolan?
21:26No, it's Jasper Johns.
21:27Oh, God.
21:29Let's start the question.
21:29The answer I'm looking for here
21:31is a short Japanese word.
21:33The British botanist Kathleen Drew Baker
21:35is known in Japan as Mother of the Sea
21:38and celebrated in an annual festival
21:40for research that helped revolutionise
21:41the cultivation in Japan
21:43of what edible seaweed product.
21:45It is principally...
21:46LSE Hough.
21:47Nori.
21:48It is Nori.
21:48Well done.
21:49Yeah.
21:50Three questions for you, LSE,
21:51on books found on Sight and Sound magazine's
21:54list of the best ever written about film.
21:56Andrew Sarris'
21:57The American Cinema Directors and Directions
21:591929 to 1968
22:01features on the list
22:02in part for its role
22:03in popularising
22:04what theory of film
22:06that focuses on the artistic role
22:08of the director.
22:09Originating in France,
22:10it was popularised in the Anglophone world
22:12by Sarris in the 1960s.
22:14Yeah, I was thinking about you.
22:14Auteur.
22:15Yeah.
22:16Go, go, go.
22:16Auteur.
22:17Yes, or Auteur Theory.
22:18Also featured on the list
22:19is Notes on the Cinematographer,
22:21a 1975 book
22:22by which French director
22:24of films such as
22:24A Man Escaped
22:25and Pickpocket?
22:27Is it Bresson?
22:28Go with it.
22:29Nominate Byrne.
22:30Bresson.
22:31Yes, Robert Bresson.
22:32Finally,
22:32which filmmaker
22:33was the subject
22:33of a number of interviews
22:35conducted by Francois Truffaut
22:36and compiled
22:37into one of the books
22:38featured on the list?
22:39It begins with the two
22:40discussing some of this director's
22:42early films
22:42such as The Lodger
22:43and Blackmail.
22:44This is Hitchcock.
22:45Hitchcock.
22:46Yes, five and a half minutes to go.
22:47Which ballet
22:48by Aram Kachaturian
22:50features the dance
22:51of the...
22:51LSE Bun.
22:52Spartacus.
22:53Well done.
22:54Well done.
22:55Bonuses for you
22:56on two-word Latin terms
22:57from Roman law.
22:59In each case,
22:59I need you to give me
23:00the term
23:01from its description.
23:01First, a term meaning
23:03property that is either
23:04currently not in possession
23:05of any individual
23:06or, in some cases,
23:08is exempt entirely
23:09from ownership.
23:11Res something?
23:12Nullia?
23:13Res nullus?
23:14Nullus?
23:15Res nullus?
23:16Okay.
23:16Res nullus?
23:18I can't accept that.
23:19It's res nullius.
23:20Oh.
23:21Bad luck.
23:21Secondly,
23:22the legal category
23:23for an individual
23:24who may be killed
23:24with impunity
23:25but may not be sacrificed
23:27in a ritual.
23:28Italian philosopher
23:29Giorgia Agamben
23:30used this phrase
23:31as the title
23:31of his 1995 book
23:33examining its parallels
23:34to contemporary society.
23:35Homo sacer?
23:37Homo something?
23:42Anyone have something?
23:43Homo recidivis.
23:45Nominate Byrne.
23:46Homo recidivis.
23:47It's Homo sacer.
23:48As Catherine knew.
23:50Bad luck.
23:51Lastly,
23:51the male figure
23:52who held
23:52near complete legal power
23:54over his family.
23:55Potter familius?
23:56It is indeed.
23:57Well done.
23:57Let's start the question.
23:59The American actor
24:00Gina Rowlands
24:01who died in 2024
24:02is known for her partnership
24:04with which actor
24:05turned director?
24:06She was married to him
24:07from 19...
24:08Ellis E. Byrne.
24:09Wells?
24:10No, I'm afraid
24:10you'll lose five points.
24:11From 1954
24:12until his death
24:13in 1989
24:14and appeared
24:15in ten of his films
24:16receiving Academy Award
24:18nominations for two of them
24:19Gloria
24:19and A Woman Under
24:21the Influence.
24:22Have a punt.
24:23Can't lose any points.
24:24Manchester Faulkner
24:26Ford.
24:26No, it's John Cassavetes.
24:28Another starter question.
24:30In his 15th century
24:31surgical treatise
24:32Philomena
24:32John Bradmore
24:34describes in detail
24:35the treatment
24:35of a facial arrowhead wound
24:37to which future
24:38King of England?
24:40Manchester Mantua
24:41Henry V.
24:42It is Henry V.
24:42Well done.
24:43Your bonuses are
24:44on cultural figures
24:45named in Cole Porter's
24:461934 song
24:47Anything Goes.
24:48In each case
24:49I need you to give me
24:50their name from a description.
24:51Which playwright
24:52and Hollywood actor
24:53arrested for obscenity
24:54in 1927
24:55during the production
24:56of her play
24:56Sex
24:57does Porter mention
24:58following the lyric
24:59If Bare Limbs You Like?
25:00Do you know this?
25:01No, sorry.
25:02No, pass.
25:03May West.
25:03Which wealthy American family
25:05who lend their name
25:05to a major museum
25:06of contemporary art
25:07in Manhattan's
25:08West Village
25:08does Porter rhyme
25:09with Chitneys?
25:11Oh, Chitneys.
25:11I was going to say
25:13Vanderpool
25:13but that doesn't rhyme.
25:13Yeah, as well.
25:14Chitneys.
25:15Um, Whitney's.
25:17Yeah.
25:17Whitney's.
25:17Yes.
25:18Who does Porter refer to
25:19as Mrs R
25:20in reference to her radio show
25:22in which she discussed
25:22various aspects
25:23of her daily life
25:24in the White House?
25:25Mrs R, Mrs R, Mrs R.
25:28Nancy Reagan.
25:28Yeah, Nancy Reagan.
25:29In 1934, come on.
25:31That was Eleanor Roosevelt.
25:32Scores level.
25:33Another starter question.
25:34Published posthumously
25:35in 1558,
25:37what is the common
25:38one-word title
25:39given to the story collection
25:40by Marguerite de Navarre
25:41in which a group of travellers
25:43trapped in the spa town
25:44of Courterettes
25:45share tales
25:45until they bridge
25:46Manchester Magic.
25:47To camera.
25:48No, I'm afraid
25:48you lose five points.
25:49It's built that allows them
25:50to leave.
25:51Inspired by Boccaccio,
25:52Marguerite originally planned
25:54for it to contain
25:54100 stories told
25:55across 10 days
25:56though she only completed
25:58a full seven days' worth.
26:01LSE burn.
26:02Uh, no, I'm afraid
26:03if you buzz,
26:04you've got to answer
26:04straight away.
26:05The answer we're looking
26:05for is Hep Tameron.
26:07Let's start the question.
26:09Which journal of art
26:10criticism and theory
26:11co-founded by Rosalind Krauss
26:13and Annette Michelson
26:14takes its one-word name
26:15from a 1928 film
26:17by Sergei Eisenstein
26:18depicting an uprising
26:19that had taken place
26:20in...
26:21Manchester Magic.
26:22Tampkin.
26:22No, I'm afraid
26:23you lose five points
26:24in Petrograd
26:2511 years prior.
26:27LSE burn.
26:28Odessa.
26:29No, it's October.
26:30Now let's start the question.
26:31Which British tennis player
26:33completed a career
26:34Grand Slam
26:34at Wimbledon in 2024
26:36when he defeated
26:37Martin De La Puente
26:38in the final
26:39of the Men's
26:40Wheelchair Singles Tournament?
26:43Alphie Hewitt.
26:44It's correct.
26:44Your bonus books
26:45are three questions
26:46on a novel.
26:47In which novel
26:48by George Eliot
26:48does the title character
26:49marry Mira Lapidoth
26:51after discovering
26:52his Jewish identity?
26:53Daniel Dronda.
26:54Daniel Dronda.
26:54Yes.
26:55Gwendolyn is the widow
26:56of which man
26:57whose will disinherited her
26:58if she failed
26:59to produce a male heir?
27:01Casabon maybe?
27:03Casabon?
27:03No, it's not Middle March
27:04is it?
27:05You could say
27:06Edward Casabon.
27:09No, it's Henry Grancourt.
27:10Dorothea Brooke
27:11also contracts
27:11an ill-advised marriage
27:12to the jealous Casabon
27:13with a similarly controlling
27:14condition of his will
27:16in which other novel
27:17by George Eliot?
27:18Middle March.
27:19It is.
27:19Now to start the question.
27:20In which African country
27:22are all the following
27:23UNESCO World Heritage
27:24sites located?
27:24The fortress city
27:26of Fazil Gebi
27:27the rock-hewn churches
27:28of Lali...
27:29Manchester,
27:30Manchester,
27:30Ethiopia.
27:31Yes, it is indeed.
27:31Your boatswain are
27:32on scientific terms
27:33that begin with
27:34the same prefix.
27:35In mathematics
27:36Viviani's theorem
27:37concerns the sum
27:37of the distances
27:38from any interior point
27:39to the sides
27:40of what type of triangle?
27:42Er...
27:43Think about
27:44in terms of
27:44right-going,
27:45do you know?
27:45It's OK.
27:46It'll be equilateral
27:46isosimages.
27:47Equilateral.
27:48Yes.
27:49What term is used
27:50for a state of...
27:50And that we've got
27:51now a C of 135
27:52and Manchester
27:53have 160.
27:56APPLAUSE
28:00It was so tight
28:01until about
28:02two minutes to go.
28:03Guys, bad luck.
28:04You played so
28:04fantastically well
28:05and up against
28:06such a fantastic team.
28:07I'm so sorry,
28:08but it means
28:09we're going to have
28:09to say goodbye
28:09to you and your wonderful...
28:11Who is that mascot?
28:12Er...
28:13Felix the Beaver.
28:14Felix the Beaver.
28:14Well, Felix the Beaver's
28:15been great and so have you.
28:16So thank you so much.
28:17It's been wonderful
28:17getting to know you.
28:18Manchester,
28:18that was a pretty
28:19animated buzzing
28:20going on at the end.
28:21Once again,
28:22I next three times.
28:23You next three times.
28:23Yeah, I thought
28:24you'd screwed up
28:24big time, Kai,
28:25but then you recovered
28:26with Ethiopia
28:27towards the end
28:27and nearly fell
28:28out of your chair
28:28doing so,
28:29which was a wonderful sight.
28:31We shall see you again
28:31and I hope we'll see you
28:33again too
28:33for another second round match.
28:35But until then,
28:35it is goodbye
28:36from the LSE.
28:37Goodbye.
28:38It's goodbye
28:38from Manchester.
28:39Goodbye.
28:40And it's goodbye
28:41from me.
28:41Goodbye.
28:41And it's goodbye.
29:11Applause
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