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00:27Hello and welcome to the first
00:29match in the quarter-final stage of this year's University Challenge. In this round,
00:34each team will play at least two matches, lose twice and they'll leave the competition
00:38for good, while two wins will earn them a spot in the semis. If they win one match and
00:43lose another, they'll then need to play a third game and win it to stay in the competition.
00:48This year's team from Manchester are here tonight having beaten New College Oxford in
00:52round one and LSE in round two. Manchester really had to fight for both those wins. In
00:57their first match, they had to defend an early lead against a late New College comeback,
01:01while they spent most of their second match playing catch-up before pulling ahead in the
01:04final minutes, thanks to their knowledge of wheelchair tennis and Ethiopian geography.
01:08They've looked strong so far on history, physics and modern sculpture, and their average score
01:13is 165. Let's meet the team from Manchester for the third time.
01:18Hi, I'm Ray Power. I'm from Bangkok, Thailand, and I study film and English literature.
01:23Hi, my name's Kirstie Dixon. I'm from Wally Green in Cheshire, and I study medicine.
01:28And their captain.
01:29Hi, I'm Kai Matrick. I'm from Foy in Cornwall, and I'm studying for a PhD in AI and astrophysics.
01:34Hi, I'm Rob Faulkner. I'm from Norwich, and I'm studying physics with astrophysics.
01:39APPLAUSE
01:42The team from Edinburgh are here in these quarterfinals at the expense of Newcastle University
01:46and Trinity College Cambridge. Against Newcastle, they were very good on the buzzer,
01:50but a bit more hit and miss on bonuses. Against Trinity, however, they were very impressive
01:55all round, demonstrating a real range and depth of cultural knowledge. They answered particularly
02:00well in that match on literature, film, and a number of genres of music, but did drop points
02:04on paintings of Alexander the Great. With an average score of 190, let's meet the team
02:09from Edinburgh once again.
02:11Hi, I'm Parth of Ishwar. I'm from Portland, Oregon, in the United States, and I'm studying
02:15for a Masters in Sustainable Lands and Cities.
02:18Hi, I'm Johnny Richards. I'm from Los Angeles, California, and I'm doing a PhD on ancient
02:22DNA. And their captain.
02:24Hi, I'm Alice Leonard. I'm from Portsmouth, and I'm studying for a Masters in Environment,
02:28Culture and Society.
02:30Hi, I'm Rehan Amjad. I'm from Dublin and Glasgow, and I'm studying for a PhD in Computer Science.
02:36APPLAUSE
02:38Very nice to see you. You definitely know how this works, so let's get straight to it,
02:42shall we? Fingers on buzzers. Here's your first start of a ten.
02:45I need a single, short English word here. The revision theory, the identity theory, the
02:51coherence theory, the pragmatic theory, and the correspondence theory.
02:55Edinburgh Amjad.
02:57Truth.
02:57It is truth. Well done.
03:00Three questions for you, Edinburgh, on poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
03:04According to its title, an 1802 ode by Coleridge addresses what mental state, which he describes
03:10as, quote, a grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, a stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned
03:16grief, which finds no natural outlet, no relief.
03:19Makes sense, yeah. Melancholy.
03:21No, that's Keats. It's dejection.
03:23Published in 1816, which poem by Coleridge describes a series of nights spent tortured
03:27by fiendish dreams, feeling desire with loathing strangely mixed?
03:31It ends with the affirmation, to be loved is all I need, and whom I love, I love indeed.
03:37I can't name one.
03:38Yeah, I have no clue.
03:39Pass.
03:40The pains of sleep.
03:41What type of bird is the subject of a 1798 conversation poem by Coleridge, which begins
03:46by quoting Milton's description of it as, most musical, most melancholy.
03:49This type of bird is also the subject of an ode by John Keats.
03:53Oh, yeah, yeah, that makes more sense.
03:56Nightingale.
03:56It is, of course, yeah.
03:58Now let's start the question.
03:59Despite working across multiple genres and media, which French cultural figure, born 1889,
04:06insisted throughout his career that he was a poet first and foremost, and regarded all
04:10his works as different forms of poésie, such as poésie d'etat, or poésie cinemato...
04:16Edinburgh Richards.
04:17Cocteau.
04:17It is Jean Cocteau, yes, well done.
04:19Your bonuses are on a labour movement.
04:22What union of workers' associations was founded in London in 1864?
04:26And was a unifying force for labour in several countries during the latter part of the 19th
04:30century?
04:31Is it the ideal?
04:31It is often known by a two-word name that includes an ordinal number.
04:35No, then it's not that.
04:36Oh, it's maybe one of the internationals?
04:38First, second, third?
04:40Oh, for what time?
04:41If it's eight?
04:43Second.
04:44Second.
04:44Nominate Amjad.
04:45The second international?
04:46No, bad luck.
04:46It's the first international.
04:48Sorry.
04:49Karl Marx was a leading figure in the first international, but many of its members favoured
04:53the less authoritarian approach of which French libertarian socialist, the author of What
04:57Is Property?
04:58Prudol?
05:00Yeah, because Bakunin's Russian, yeah.
05:02Nominate Amjad.
05:03Prudol?
05:03It was Prudol, exactly.
05:05The first international began to collapse after the expulsion of which Russian revolutionary
05:08in 1872?
05:10He was a major figure in the anarchist wing of the movement.
05:12I think this is Bakunin.
05:13That might be Bakunin, yeah.
05:15Bakunin?
05:15That is Mikhail, Bakunin.
05:17Let's start a question.
05:19In human neurons, what three-word term is used to describe the principle that an action
05:25potential will only be fired if a certain threshold level of polarisation is achieved?
05:31The action potential produced will be the same size each time the threshold is met, regardless
05:36of the intensity of the stimulus.
05:40Anyone want to have a guess?
05:43No, I'll tell you.
05:44It's all or nothing.
05:45Let's start a question.
05:46First awarded in 2019 to Andrew McMillan's poetry collection Playtime, which annual award
05:52is part of the UK's only prizes dedicated to LGBTQ literature?
05:57It takes its name from a form of slang that borrowed words from Yiddish, Italian.
06:00Edinburgh Amjad.
06:01Polari?
06:02It is Polari, yes.
06:03Your bonuses, Edinburgh, are on science fiction and fantasy literature and the Fallout game
06:07franchise.
06:08Both Fallout 2 and Fallout 4 include characters inspired by which characters are the best
06:12novel by Daniel Keyes.
06:13One is a learning disabled man with extraordinary mechanical skills.
06:17The other is a super mutant who has undergone experiments to increase his intelligence.
06:21It's Flowers Hall.
06:22For Algernon.
06:23Flowers for Algernon.
06:24Yes.
06:25In Fallout 3, the player can explore the McClellan family townhome, which is deserted apart from
06:30a dormant home helper robot.
06:32This location directly references the story There Will Come Soft Rains by which American
06:37SF writer?
06:38Oh, I...
06:39Come Soft Rains.
06:40Come Soft Rains.
06:41American science fiction.
06:42Just guess one.
06:42It's not one that I write.
06:43Just guess one.
06:43Let's try Dick.
06:44Yeah, let's go with Dick.
06:45Or who did you steal again?
06:46It's not...
06:47I don't think it's...
06:47Dick.
06:58Let's go with what you said.
07:03Anything.
07:0419, 20, 20, Vegas, right?
07:06If it's meant to be sci-fi and fantasy, Wells was writing around that.
07:09Okay, let's go with that.
07:10Wells.
07:10It's H.P. Lovecraft.
07:11Another starter question.
07:13You all went, ah, collectively.
07:15In unison.
07:16A 1772 portrait by Johann Zoffany depicts most of the founder members of what cultural body
07:23then based in Old Somerset House in London?
07:26Approved by George III four years earlier...
07:28Edinburgh Richards.
07:30The Royal Academy?
07:31Yes, the Royal Academy of Arts.
07:34Three questions for you on the French philosopher Nicolas Malbranche, born in 1638.
07:39Building on work by Al-Ghazali and Aquinas, Malbranche is best known for developing which doctrine
07:44which holds that all events must be caused directly by God rather than by created substances?
07:50Oh, my God.
07:51What's this called?
07:51This is like...
07:53Oh, my God.
07:54I don't know.
07:54It's like divine.
07:55It's not going to do this.
07:55Have you got anything?
07:56Uh, what did you suggest?
07:58Oh, omnipotent.
07:58Tri-omnipotent.
07:59Omnipotence.
08:00No, it's occasionalism.
08:02Malbranche also discussed the problem of evil in a theodicy, a term coined contemporaneously
08:07by which German polymath, whose philosophical works include the theories of monads and pre-established
08:12harmony?
08:13Leibniz.
08:14Viz.
08:15Malbranche's other works in philosophy include an attempt to synthesise Cartesian thought
08:19with that of which much earlier philosopher and bishop known for his works, Confessions
08:23and City of God?
08:24Augustine.
08:25Yeah.
08:25Augustine.
08:26Yes.
08:27Picture round now.
08:29For your picture starter, you're going to see the flag of a defunct organisation.
08:33For ten points, I need you to give me its name.
08:38Edinburgh Ishua.
08:39Uh, the Kingdom of Hawaii.
08:41No, you can have a bit more time, Manchester.
08:43Manchester, Manchester.
08:44British East India Company.
08:45It is the British East India Company.
08:47Well done.
08:48For your picture starter, you saw a flag of the East India Company founded in 1600 to
08:53facilitate colonialist commerce.
08:55For your picture bonuses, Manchester, three more examples of the iconography of colonial
08:59or neo-colonial companies.
09:01Five points for each you can name.
09:03First, this is the coat of arms of what company founded in London in 1711?
09:09Oh, South Sea Company, I think.
09:11South Sea Company?
09:12Yes.
09:12Secondly, this is the maritime flag of which company founded in Boston in 1899?
09:17Oh.
09:19It could be United Fruit.
09:20That's like neo-colonial.
09:21Yeah.
09:22United Fruit Company?
09:23Yes.
09:24Lastly, this is the original flag of which joint stock company established in 1602?
09:30Dutch East India Company.
09:31It is indeed.
09:32Well done.
09:33Let's start the question.
09:34The term kalachakra, used in Tantric Buddhism, is commonly translated with what three-word
09:40English phrase also used to describe a cosmological concept in Hinduism?
09:44The phrase has been used in the title of a series of fantasy novels by Robert Jordan,
09:49later adapted into a TV series.
09:51Edinburgh M.
09:52Jack.
09:52Wheel of Time?
09:53It is Wheel of Time.
09:54Well done.
09:55Your bonuses are on doubly eponymous experiments in physics.
09:58In each case, I need you to give me the surnames of both scientists that carried out the experiment
10:04in question.
10:05First, an experiment conducted primarily at the Savannah River Nuclear Refinement Site
10:10in South Carolina by two scientists who met while working at Los Alamos.
10:14Its result confirmed the existence of the neutrino.
10:17It is not.
10:18Pardon?
10:18No, no, it's not.
10:19I don't know.
10:20Yeah.
10:21I, yeah.
10:21Nothing.
10:23We could try Lawrence and, um, what's his name?
10:27Frummi.
10:27Yeah, Frummi wasn't at Los Alamos, right?
10:30I don't know.
10:31Lawrence and Teller.
10:32No, that's the Cowan-Rhinus neutrino experiment.
10:35Secondly, an experiment whose results, published in 1927, confirmed Louis de Broglie's previously
10:40stated theory of the wave nature of the electron.
10:44Is this?
10:44Is this Mickelson-Morley?
10:45I think Mickelson-Morley minus one.
10:47Mickelson and Morley.
10:48No, that was the Davison-Germa experiment.
10:51Lastly, an experiment carried out at Ohio's Case Western Reserve University in 1887 that
10:56provided strong evidence against the existence of luminiferous ether.
11:01Mickelson and Morley?
11:02Mickelson and Morley is correct, yes.
11:04Right, here we go.
11:05Fingers on buzzers.
11:06According to the OED, a Chinese word for a brine of pickled fish or shellfish, which
11:11probably came into English partly through a Malay word, meaning for...
11:14Edinburgh Richards.
11:15Ketchup.
11:16It is ketchup.
11:16Yes, well done.
11:17Three questions for you, Edinburgh, on a play by Shakespeare.
11:20Believed to have been written in collaboration with John Fletcher, which of Shakespeare's
11:24plays is also known as All Is True.
11:26It concerns events that took place between 1520 and 1533.
11:31Mm-mm.
11:32I don't know if it's a...
11:33It's a history play.
11:34It's a history play, but...
11:35Yeah.
11:35Oh, that's true.
11:36Weird period.
11:37Yeah.
11:38I have nothing.
11:39Let's move on.
11:40I don't think any of his...
11:41Purs.
11:42Henry VIII.
11:43The play begins with the arrest of one of the most powerful men in Henry's court,
11:46Edward Bohun, who will later be executed.
11:49What dukedom does Bohun hold?
11:51It's either Durham or Northumber...
11:53Yeah.
11:54Northumberland sounds better.
11:55Northumberland.
11:56There's Buckingham.
11:57Having fallen from Henry's favour, Cardinal Wolsey advises which leading political figure
12:01to fling away ambition and to love thyself last?
12:04Surely.
12:05Yeah.
12:05Yeah.
12:06Cromwell.
12:06It is Tom's Cromwell, yes.
12:08Let's start a question.
12:08Encoded by the nucleotide sequence, ATG, which protein-coding amino acid is the only one
12:16other than cysteine to contain sulphur?
12:19In eukaryotes, it is almost always the first amino acid in a new...
12:24It is indeed.
12:25Well done.
12:26Your bonus is a few questions on fabrics named after cities and towns.
12:30Sometimes called Baptiste, what is the dense cloth typically made from cotton or linen before
12:35being bleached?
12:36Whose more common name is derived from the city in the north of France where it was historically
12:40produced?
12:41Chambray?
12:42Yeah.
12:43Yeah.
12:44Chambray.
12:44Yes, I'll accept that.
12:45Chambray can mean a slightly different fabric, but it's the common North American term for
12:50cambric, which is what I was looking for.
12:52We'll take that.
12:53Known for its lightweight and popularity in Regency fashion, Parramatta cloth was historically
12:59produced by inmates at a women's prison located in a namesake suburb of which Commonwealth
13:04city?
13:06Oh.
13:07I was thinking maybe like DACA, like DACA cloth?
13:10So DACA?
13:12Yeah.
13:12DACA?
13:13No, it's Sydney.
13:14An irregular tartan-like pattern of coloured checks is the characteristic style of which
13:19fabric known by the former name of the capital of Tamil Nadu?
13:23Oh, Chinnae.
13:23Madras.
13:24It's a madras cloth.
13:25Madras.
13:26Good job you got that one.
13:27It is indeed the madras cloth.
13:29Let's start the question.
13:30Plenty of time, Manchester.
13:31Here we go.
13:31In a large painting by Frederick Layton in the collection of the Manchester Art Gallery,
13:35which figure from Greek mythology is depicted captive in Epirus, having been awarded
13:40as a prize to Neoptolemus.
13:42In the 1667 tragedy by Racine, she and her son, Astyanax, emerge unscathed after an unrequited
13:49love chain results in death for Pyrrhus and Hermione and insanity for Orestes.
13:53While in the Iliad, Homer describes her as laughing through her tears as she accepts her infant
13:59son from her husband...
14:00Manchester Magic.
14:01Clinton Mastro.
14:02No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
14:04Hector.
14:06Edinburgh Amjad.
14:07Um, Hecuba.
14:09No, it's Andromache.
14:10Let's start the question.
14:11What word for practitioners of a specific academic discipline completes the following abridged
14:17quotation from Native American scholar and activist Vine DeLoria Jr.
14:22Quote,
14:22Into each life it is said some rain must fall.
14:25Some people have bad horoscopes.
14:27Others take tips on the stock market.
14:29But Indians have been cursed above all other people in history.
14:33Indians have...
14:34What?
14:36Edinburgh Ishwar.
14:37Doctors.
14:38No.
14:41No, I'll tell you.
14:42It's anthropologists.
14:43Another start of the question.
14:45In which Italian city are the Palazzo Carignano, the Palazzo Madama and the Castello del Valentino,
14:51three of a number of buildings that together comprise a UNESCO World Heritage Site known as
14:56Residences of the Royal House of Savoy?
14:59Manchester Magic.
15:00Uh, Piedmont.
15:02No.
15:02Edinburgh Richards.
15:04Turin.
15:04It is Turin, yes.
15:06Three questions for you, Edinburgh, on the Irish Defence Forces.
15:08Between 1960 and 1964, over 6,000 Irish personnel served in a peacekeeping mission known by
15:16the French acronym ONUC.
15:18Referring to a country, for what does the final letter C for Charlie in this acronym stand?
15:24Is it Colombia?
15:25Yeah, I've got nothing.
15:26Colombia.
15:27No, it's Congo.
15:27From 1964 to 1973, an Irish infantry group served with a UN peacekeeping force in what country?
15:34Following independence from Britain in 1960, fighting broke out between different ethnic
15:39communities on this island.
15:40Is it Sri Lanka?
15:42Yeah.
15:42Sri Lanka.
15:43No, it's Cyprus.
15:44Since 1978, over 30,000 members of the Irish Defence Forces have served with UNIFIL, U-N-I-F-I
15:51-L,
15:51a long-running peacekeeping mission in what country, represented by the final L for LIMA of the acronym?
15:58Lebanon.
15:58It is Lebanon, yes.
15:59Well done.
16:01Music round now.
16:02And for your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of classical music.
16:05For ten points, I need you to name the composer.
16:10Manchester Madrid.
16:11Shostakovich.
16:12Well done.
16:13It is indeed.
16:14For your music starter, you heard Shostakovich's Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2.
16:19For your bonuses, three pieces of jazz that are each part of a suite.
16:22In each case, I need you to name the composer.
16:25First, this saxophonist.
16:30Could be Charlie Parker, maybe.
16:32Yeah.
16:32Sounds very deep.
16:33Yeah, it does.
16:35Charlie Parker.
16:36No, it's Ornette Coleman.
16:37Secondly, this drummer and bandleader.
16:41Is Sonny Rollins the drummer?
16:44No, Art Blakey is.
16:45Yeah.
16:47I might root on.
16:47It's okay.
16:48It's Art Blakey.
16:50No, it's Buddy Rich.
16:51Lastly, this pianist and bandleader.
16:57It's old.
16:58Could be good.
17:00Honestly, yeah, but I think so.
17:04Duke Ellington.
17:05It is Duke Ellington.
17:06Well done.
17:07Let's start with the question.
17:09Mass persuasion and sociological ambivalence and other essays are among the works of which
17:15prominent US sociologist born in 1910?
17:19He's also associated with concepts including focus group, role model and self-fulfilling prophecy.
17:26Anyone want to have a guess?
17:28Manchester metric.
17:29Silicon.
17:30No.
17:31Have a punt if you want to.
17:33No, I'll tell you.
17:34It was Robert K. Merton.
17:35Another question.
17:36What eponymous method or rule for finding the approximate area under a curve is named after
17:42a weaver born in Leicestershire in 1710?
17:45Generally more accurate than the trapezium rule.
17:48Manchester metric.
17:49Simpsons rule.
17:49Well done.
17:50Yes, it is.
17:51Your bonus is then, Manchester, three questions on Austrian-American film director Otto Preminger.
17:57Starring Dorothy Dandridge as an employee in a parachute factory, what is the two-word
18:01title of the 1954 film directed by Preminger that adapted music from an opera by Georges
18:06Bizet to its setting in the American South?
18:09What Bizet operas are they?
18:10It's Carmen's Bizet.
18:11Two words, but it's too bad.
18:12But you learn how to do anything.
18:15Dorothy, what was it?
18:17Sorry.
18:18Sorry.
18:19That's okay.
18:19I don't know.
18:20Sorry.
18:21I don't know how I do.
18:22Alabama, Carmen.
18:24No, it's Carmen Jones.
18:25Okay.
18:26What is the one-word title of Preminger's 1944 film noir in which Dana Andrews investigates
18:31the murder of the titular young woman, played by Jean Tierney?
18:35Have you heard of this?
18:36How many?
18:37Just one word.
18:37One word.
18:39That's okay.
18:40Sorry.
18:40Sorry.
18:41Pass.
18:41Laura.
18:42Which comic book villain was played by Preminger in the 1960s Batman series starring Adam West?
18:47This character would later be played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1970s Batman and Robin.
18:52Mr. Freeze.
18:53It is Mr. Freeze.
18:53Well done.
18:54Let's start the question.
18:56What geographical and ecological term links the title of the first two volumes of Carl Sandburg's
19:02six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln and an American architectural style...
19:06Manchester Magic.
19:08Prairie.
19:08It is Prairie.
19:09Well done.
19:09Three questions on the British contemporary composer Mark-Anthony Turnage.
19:14Premiering in Flanders in 2014, an orchestral work by Turnage written to commemorate the
19:19First World War has what title after the location of a 1917 battle also known as the Third Battle
19:25of Ypres and widely regarded as a costly victory for the Allies?
19:28I think it's Passchendaele.
19:29Yeah.
19:29Passchendaele.
19:30Yes.
19:30February 2025 saw the premiere of an opera by Turnage based on which 1998 film by Thomas
19:35Vinterberg, one of the first films of the Dogmere 95 movement?
19:39Um...
19:40Uh...
19:41Uh...
19:41It's not...
19:44It's...
19:44Oh, no, I'm thinking of Dogmere 95.
19:46Um...
19:46Anything?
19:47I just don't know.
19:47Come on.
19:48Pass.
19:48Sorry.
19:49It's Festin or The Celebration.
19:50Turnage's first opera was an adaptation of Stephen Berkhoff's verse play Greek, itself
19:54based on which of Sophocles' plays?
19:56Characters in Turnage's opera include Eddie, Sphinx I and Sphinx II.
20:00Um...
20:00It's not Antigone, is it?
20:02Uh...
20:02Yes, sure.
20:02Antigone.
20:03No, it's Oedipus Rex.
20:05Let's start with a question.
20:06Which artist's 1573 depiction of The Last Supper, painted to replace one by Titian,
20:12destroyed by fire, led to...
20:13Manchester Magic?
20:15Manchester.
20:15No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
20:17Led to his being tried by the Venetian Holy Inquisition, which deemed some of its content
20:22inappropriate for such a theme.
20:23The artist chose to retitle the painting The Feast in the House of Levi, now to be found
20:28in Venice's Galerie della Accademia.
20:31Da Vinci.
20:33No, it's Paolo Veronese.
20:34Another starter question.
20:36In the Bible, God shelters which minor prophet from the sun by causing a gourd to grow above
20:42him, then causing it to writher...
20:44Edinburgh MJ.
20:45Jonah.
20:45It is Jonah, yes.
20:46Your bonuses are on women depicted in paintings by John William Waterhouse.
20:51In a painting of 1891, which sorceress from Greek myth is depicted seated with a sword
20:56in one hand and a cup of poison in the other, which she's offering to an unseen Ulysses?
21:00Yeah, yeah.
21:01Circe.
21:02Yes.
21:02Which figure from Greek myth is depicted in a 1907 painting by Waterhouse, preparing a
21:08potion for Jason, who is shown seated beside her, looking on...
21:11Medea.
21:12Medea.
21:12Yes.
21:13In a 1916 painting, which character from Shakespeare is depicted windswept on a rocky shore, looking
21:18out over a rough sea towards a shipwreck?
21:21Yes, indeed.
21:23Yes, indeed.
21:23For your picture starter, you're going to see a sculpture.
21:25For ten points, I need you to give me the name of its central figure.
21:31Edinburgh Richards.
21:32Yeah.
21:58Edinburgh Richards.
21:59Leo Koan.
21:59Where was Holbein born?
22:00Pardon?
22:01Holbein.
22:01Where's he from?
22:02I think he's German.
22:03Okay, yeah.
22:04Maybe Rubens or...?
22:05Yeah, Rubens.
22:06No, it's the Laurence Alma-Tedema.
22:08Secondly, the French artist of this painting, which depicts the moment of the sculpture's
22:12discovery.
22:14French.
22:15Maybe Delacroix.
22:16Maybe Delacroix?
22:17Delacroix.
22:17He does feel Delacroix.
22:18Delacroix.
22:19No, it's Robert.
22:20Lastly, this artist.
22:23Oh.
22:24Blake?
22:26Um...
22:26Interesting.
22:27Yeah, it could be.
22:28Yeah, I don't know.
22:29Blake.
22:30It is William Blake, yeah.
22:31That was quite a question.
22:33Shores Bridge, Albert Bridge and the Queen Elizabeth Bridge are all crossings over what river
22:38that rises in the Sleeve-Krubbe mountain and flows through Dromore and Lisbon before entering
22:42into the Irish Sea at Belfast Loch.
22:50Anyone want to have a guess?
22:52No, I'll tell you.
22:53It's the River Lagan.
22:54Another starter question.
22:55In John Webster's play The Duchess of Malfi, the title character unwittingly reveals her
22:59secret pregnancy after eating witch fruit that was said to induce labour.
23:04Known as Prycocum, the precocious one by the Romans because it ripened early in the summer,
23:09it's used to make the jam filling in a traditional sacca torta.
23:13Annabella Richards.
23:14Apricot?
23:15It is an apricot, yes.
23:16Your bonuses are on possible drought-tolerant plants for UK gardens.
23:20In each case, give the genus from the information given.
23:23First, the evergreen shrub whose name derives from the Greek for pitch and seed.
23:27It is recommended they be kept away from cold, drying winds.
23:30What's the Greek for seed?
23:31We have to give the genus as well.
23:33Germ?
23:33Yeah, yeah.
23:34Maybe?
23:34Is it?
23:35Or sperm maybe?
23:37Or I don't know which of them is.
23:38Lucosporum?
23:40Lucas...
23:41Nominate Richards.
23:42Ah, Lucas spermum.
23:43No, it's Pitosporum.
23:45Secondly, the spiky-leaved plant with spherical flower heads whose name derives from Greek
23:49words which when placed together suggest it looks like a hedgehog.
23:53Recommendations include planting at the back of a border with other late summer flowering
23:57plants.
23:58This is so hard.
24:00Multiple...
24:01It's like a...
24:02Have we got anything?
24:03Yeah, let's just pass.
24:04Econops.
24:05Finally, the grey-green velvety foliaged herbaceous perennial whose name is thought
24:09to derive from that of an ancient Etruscan city.
24:11The genus includes species whose leaves when crushed produce an aromatic scent, notorious
24:16for its effect upon cats.
24:18Catnip.
24:18What is catnip?
24:19Is it a salvia?
24:21A herb?
24:22Is it...
24:22Catnip...
24:23What would the Etruscan city be?
24:25Yeah, sure.
24:26I don't know.
24:27Salvia.
24:28So it's napita, which does include catnip.
24:30Oh, sure.
24:31Another starter question.
24:32In 1839, Sengber Pierre led a mutiny on board what ship bound for Puerto Principe in
24:38Cuba?
24:38In an ensuing court case in the United States, it was determined that he and the other
24:42mutineers had been kidnapped and enslaved illegally by Spanish plantation owners and were
24:48therefore allowed to return home to Sierra Leone.
24:51Anistat.
24:53It is indeed Anistat, yes.
24:54Your bonuses are on historic figures whose hearts are buried separately from the rest of
24:58their bodies.
24:59In each case, I need you to name the figure from the locations of both.
25:02First, which king of Scotland's body is interred at Dunfermline Abbey, while his heart is
25:06buried at Melrose Abbey in the Scottish borders?
25:08Is it the king doth rest in Dunfermline Abbey?
25:10It could be James IV, actually, if it's in the borders, because, like, Flodden.
25:13I'm sorry.
25:14James IV?
25:14No, that's Robert the Bruce.
25:15Okay.
25:16Secondly, which 19th century figure's body is interred at Westminster Abbey, while his
25:20heart is buried in the village of Cipundu in Zambia?
25:22Livingston?
25:23Yeah.
25:24Livingston.
25:25Yeah.
25:26Finally, the body of which composer is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris,
25:29while his heart is interred at the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw?
25:32Chapin.
25:33Yes.
25:33That's not a question.
25:34Escape from Spiderhead and The Semplicate Girl Diaries are among short stories in 10th
25:40December, a 2013 collection by which US author, who later won the Booker Prize for his
25:452017 debut novel, Lincoln in the Bardot?
25:48Edinburgh MJD.
25:49George Saunders.
25:50Yes, it is indeed.
25:52Edinburgh, your bonuses, then, are on a medieval English text.
25:56Discovered in 1934, the Winchester manuscript is now believed to be the earliest known text
26:00of what prose work.
26:02Printed and reworked in 1485 by William Caxton, modern editions following the discovery often
26:07divide it into eight sections, the last of which gives the whole work its name.
26:12Surely it's the Canterbury Hill.
26:13Is it divided into eight sections?
26:14I don't know.
26:15I think it's something else.
26:16If we don't know, let's keep going, yeah.
26:18Pass.
26:18Le Morte d'Arthur.
26:19The fourth book of Sir Thomas Mallory's Le Morte d'Arthur concerns which knight, derided
26:24as Beaumont by Sir Kaye, the knight defeats other successive knights in black, red, green
26:29and blue armour?
26:30Is it the green knight?
26:31No.
26:32It's not.
26:32It's something else.
26:34Which knight, I don't think it's Lancelot, Gawain.
26:37Come on.
26:38Galahad?
26:39Galahad.
26:39No, it's Gareth.
26:40So Gareth of Orkney.
26:41According to a note at the end of the text, Le Morte d'Arthur was completed in, quote,
26:44the ninth year of which English king?
26:46Which puts its publication date at some point in either 1469 or 1470, soon before this
26:52king's brief exile in Flanders.
26:54Flanders.
26:55Oh no.
26:56I think it's...
26:57Oh, it's Henry the...
27:00Come on.
27:01Nominate each one.
27:03Hurry up.
27:04Henry the seventh.
27:04No, he said with the fourth.
27:06Let's start the question.
27:07Used by a revolutionary leader in a speech of the 1940s to illustrate the power of perseverance
27:12and collective action, the foolish old man removes the mountains is a fable from what
27:17country?
27:17It appears in a philosophical treatise attributed to...
27:20And at the gold, Manchester of 80 is Edinburgh of 195.
27:27Well, the answer to that last one was China, as I think several of you knew.
27:32Manchester, you were so unlucky in that I could see, especially with Kai, your extremely
27:37flamboyant buzzer action, that you were so close on a lot of those starters at the beginning,
27:41but just a fraction late, which meant they sort of sped away with a lead and never quite
27:45relinquished it.
27:45But it's not the end of the road.
27:46We shall see you again.
27:48Edinburgh, you're halfway there.
27:49Congratulations.
27:50That was a magnificent performance, really, against such a strong team.
27:53We shall see you again and look forward to it.
27:54I hope you could join us next time for another quarterfinal match.
27:57But until then, it's goodbye for now from Manchester.
27:59Bye.
27:59Goodbye.
28:00It's goodbye for now from Edinburgh.
28:02Goodbye.
28:03And it's goodbye for now from me.
28:04Goodbye.
28:34Bye-bye.
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