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00:18Hello and welcome to University Challenge.
00:21Asking the questions, I'm all welcome.
00:28Hello and welcome to University Challenge.
00:30Tonight, two more teams will be playing their first match
00:33in the quarterfinal stage of this year's competition.
00:35This is a double elimination round,
00:38meaning the winning team tonight will need to win another game
00:40in order to advance to the semifinals,
00:42while the losers will have a chance at redemption in a later match.
00:46This year's team from UCL have beaten next-door neighbours SOAS
00:49and the University of Lincoln on their way to these quarterfinals.
00:52Across the whole of those two matches,
00:54they have never once been behind
00:55and they've answered well on a wide range of topics,
00:57including flags, African textiles and cybernetics.
01:01In their second match, however,
01:02they did reveal that they don't know too much
01:04about the quarrying of limestone or the works of George Bernard Shaw.
01:08UCL's average score from their game so far is exactly 200 points.
01:12Let's meet them for the third time.
01:14Hi, I'm Zach LaCotta-Baldwin.
01:16I'm from London and I'm doing a PhD in science and technology studies.
01:20Hi, I'm Alice Lee.
01:22I'm from Kendal in Cumbria and I'm studying for a master's in Russian and post-Soviet politics.
01:27And their captain.
01:27Hi, I'm Michael Dougherty.
01:29I'm from Derry and I'm doing a PhD in optical communications.
01:33Hi, I'm Manny Campion-Dye.
01:34I'm from Bath and I'm studying for a PhD in philosophy.
01:40APPLAUSE
01:40The team from Merton College Oxford are here tonight having seen off Durham University in their first match
01:46and Churchill College Cambridge in their second by a considerable margin each time.
01:51That second victory was perhaps a little less comfortable than the scoreline suggested.
01:55It had a couple of runs of unanswered bonuses and incorrect interruptions from both teams.
02:00But ultimately, Merton's very impressive knowledge of the plays of Thomas Middleton,
02:04the philosopher Hilary Putnam and the German house of Torn und Taxis was enough to secure them the win.
02:10Their average score so far is just under 210 points.
02:13Let's meet the team from Merton once again.
02:16Hi, I'm Kieran Duncan.
02:18I'm from High Wycombe and I'm doing a PhD in English literature.
02:22Hi, I'm Evelyn Ong.
02:23I'm from Singapore and I'm studying for an undergraduate degree in mathematics and philosophy.
02:27And their captain.
02:28Hi, I'm Elliot Cosnett.
02:30I'm from Hatton in Warwickshire and I'm studying for an undergraduate degree in history.
02:34Hi, I'm Verity Fleetwood Law.
02:36I'm from Amersham in Buckinghamshire and I'm studying English and French.
02:40APPLAUSE
02:43Well, welcome back.
02:44So this is one of those games that if you lose, you're not out,
02:46but do try to win because it'll make life easier, won't it?
02:49OK, fingers on buzzers.
02:50Here's your first starter for ten.
02:51Good luck.
02:53Which of Shakespeare's works did Samuel Taylor Coleridge call
02:56the most wonderful of his historical plays
02:58that should be perused in mental contrast with Romeo and Juliet
03:01as the love of passion and appetite opposed to the love of affection and instinct.
03:07Joyce Carol Oates notes that the lovers at its centre
03:09swear their love in impossibly exaggerated terms and argues that...
03:16I'm afraid you lose five points and argues the tension in the play
03:19is between those who deal in lieutenantry and those to whom passion has become...
03:23UCL Lee.
03:24Anthony and Cleopatra.
03:25It is indeed, yes.
03:27Your bonus of UCL are on films whose titles contain the name of a chemical element.
03:32In each case, give the full title of each film from the description.
03:37First, a 2016 psychological horror film directed by Nicholas Winding Refn
03:42and set in the Los Angeles fashion world,
03:45starring Elle Fanning as an aspiring model.
03:47The element in the title is in Group 18.
03:50Nominate Lacket of Baldwin.
03:51The Neon Demon.
03:52Correct.
03:53Secondly, a 1944 black comedy directed by Frank Capra,
03:57starring Cary Grant as writer Mortimer Brewster
03:59and Josephine Hull and Jean Adair
04:01as his murderous maiden aunts Martha and Abby.
04:04The titular element is in Group 15.
04:06It's going to be like Arsenic and Old Lace or something, you know?
04:09Oh, yeah, sure.
04:10I think.
04:10Arsenic and Old Lace.
04:12Arsenic and Old Lace?
04:13Yes.
04:14Finally, a 1999 animated children's film directed by Brad Bird,
04:19based on a book by Ted Hughes about a boy named Hogarth,
04:21who finds and befriends the titular creature after he crash lands on Earth.
04:25The element in the title is in Group 8.
04:28The Iron Giant.
04:29It is indeed, yeah.
04:29Nice question.
04:31What name, used as both a surname and given name,
04:34derives from the Irish for South Munster?
04:36And links all of the following.
04:38A series of rebellions from 1569 to 1583
04:41against encroaching English authority in Munster.
04:44A West Indian cricketer of the late 70s to early 90s,
04:47known for his formidable opening batting partnerships
04:49with fellow Barbadian Gordon Greenwich.
04:52A Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer,
04:54whose hits include the 1969 UK number one single,
04:57Israelites.
04:59A British...
04:59UCL Lee.
05:00Dekker.
05:01No, I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
05:02A British sitcom that aired from 1989 to 1994,
05:05set in a Peckham barbershop,
05:07and the South African human rights activist
05:09who was the first black Anglican archbishop of Cape Town.
05:13Merton Cosmet.
05:14Desmond.
05:14It is Desmond.
05:15Bad like Alice.
05:17Your bonuses then, Merton,
05:18are three questions on a Jacobean play.
05:21Quote,
05:21Why, man, we are all philosophical monarchs or natural fools?
05:25Those words are spoken by the title character,
05:27a deposed duke named Giovanni Altofronto,
05:30in which play of 1604 by John Marston?
05:33Ooh, I've not heard of this one.
05:34I've heard of this one.
05:35No, John Marston plays.
05:36There's one called The Malcontent.
05:38The Malcontent sounds good.
05:39There's a playroom around that.
05:40The Malcontent.
05:41Yes.
05:41Very nice.
05:42The Malcontent is dedicated to which of Marston's contemporaries?
05:45Some years earlier,
05:46this playwright had satirised Marston in the plays
05:48Every Man in His Humour and Poetasta,
05:51as part of a public feud known as...
05:52Ben Johnson.
05:53Yes.
05:54The Malcontent is set in which port city in Liguria?
05:57Though Marston stresses in a note to the reader
05:59that he has willingly erred in supposing this city has a duke
06:02and in the names he gives to its major families.
06:05I'm guessing Genoa.
06:05Genoa?
06:06Yes, it is.
06:07Let's start with the question.
06:08While visiting London in 1820 and 21,
06:11which French artist produced a series of lithographs
06:14of daily life in the city,
06:16many of which illustrate poverty,
06:17unemployment and disability,
06:19such as pity the sorrows of a poor old man
06:22and the piper?
06:23Shortly after he returned to France,
06:25he began producing a series of portraits
06:27depicting patients of the psychiatrist...
06:29Merton Ong.
06:30Jimmy Kuhl.
06:30Correct, yes.
06:32Your bonuses are on Hollywood actors
06:34who appear in the top ten
06:36on the American Film Institute's list
06:38of screen legends of the 20th century.
06:40All three were born outside the USA.
06:43During the 1930s,
06:44who played notable roles in Blue Angel,
06:46Blonde Venus and Destry Rides Again?
06:49Marlena Dietrich.
06:50Yes.
06:50Having secured a Hollywood contract in 1925,
06:53whose US film career lasted just under 20 years?
06:56Her well-known films including The Kiss,
06:59Grand Hotel, Anna Karenina and Ninochka.
07:02Greta Garbo.
07:02Greta Garbo.
07:03Yes.
07:04Born in 1932,
07:05who won Academy Awards for her performances
07:07in Butterfield 8 and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
07:10Her other films include Giant,
07:12Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Suddenly Last Summer.
07:15Elizabeth Taylor.
07:16Elizabeth Taylor.
07:17Yes, it is.
07:17Well done.
07:18Picture round now.
07:19And for your picture starter,
07:21you're going to see a map
07:22with the location of a town marked,
07:25accompanied by a photograph
07:27of a notable building located there.
07:29For 10 points,
07:30simply name the town.
07:33UCL Lee.
07:34Preston.
07:35No.
07:37Merton Cosmet.
07:38Chester.
07:39No.
07:39They're both cities
07:40and Chester is absolutely nowhere near there.
07:42It was Blackburn.
07:43We'll take your picture bonuses
07:44when we get a starter right.
07:46I need a chemical compound here.
07:48In the 1860s,
07:49in an early attempt at molecular modelling,
07:51the German chemist August Wilhelm Hoffman
07:53made models using rods and croquet balls,
07:56black balls for carbon atoms,
07:57white balls for hydrogen and so on.
07:59Which of his molecular models
08:00takes the form of a cross
08:02with a black ball at the centre
08:03and white balls at the ends of the forearms?
08:07Merton.
08:08Merton.
08:08It is indeed.
08:09Your picture bonuses then, Merton.
08:11For your starter,
08:12you saw Blackburn and its cathedral.
08:13Blackburn is one of the few places
08:15in England and Wales
08:16that has an Anglican cathedral
08:17but lacks city status.
08:19For your bonuses,
08:20you'll see maps showing the locations
08:22of three more such towns
08:23along with photographs of their cathedrals.
08:25Five points for each.
08:26You can identify it.
08:27First.
08:28Ooh.
08:29Where's Dan there?
08:33No.
08:34Anything.
08:34Is that Suffolk?
08:35That is in Suffolk, I think, yeah.
08:37What's in Suffolk?
08:39Kingsland, maybe?
08:40Try that.
08:40Kingsland.
08:41No, that's Rochester.
08:42Second.
08:44It's not Haverford West, maybe?
08:47Yeah.
08:49Haverford West.
08:50No, that's Brecon.
08:51And finally...
08:52Ooh, OK.
08:53My geography's terrible.
08:55Is it East Anglican?
08:56That is in East Anglican.
08:57That's not a county.
08:58I don't know where that could be.
08:59No, no, no.
09:00Kingsland.
09:02Kingsland.
09:03Now, you're quite right
09:03to say your geography's terrible
09:04because that's Bury St Edmunds.
09:06Now, let's start the question.
09:07In 1783,
09:08who wrote that the influence
09:10of David Hume,
09:11quote...
09:12UCL champion died?
09:13Emmanuel Kant.
09:14It was indeed.
09:15Well done.
09:16Three questions for you
09:17on veterinary medicine.
09:19In sheep and goats,
09:20which common contagious condition
09:22is principally caused
09:23by dichelobacter nodosus bacteria
09:26in conjunction
09:27with a warm and wet environment?
09:29Symptoms include
09:29inflammation and lameness.
09:32Is it, like, anthrax
09:34or ringworm?
09:35I don't know.
09:35I don't know.
09:35What's specific to those?
09:37Foot and mouth.
09:37Foot and mouth is an animal thing,
09:38but is that for sheep and goats?
09:40Yeah.
09:40Oh, do you want to try that?
09:41Oh, no.
09:42I think it's for everything.
09:43Cows as well.
09:44No, BSC is for cows.
09:46Just try foot and mouth.
09:47OK, foot and mouth.
09:48No, that's foot rot.
09:49Which infectious disease
09:50seen particularly in sheep
09:52and causing fever
09:53and ulcerations
09:54around the mouth and lips
09:55is caused by the serotypes
09:57of the orbivirus genus
09:58known as BTV?
10:01BTV.
10:03Cusing sores.
10:07Um...
10:08I don't...
10:08The name of the disease?
10:10Yeah.
10:11I don't know.
10:11I don't know.
10:13Anthrax?
10:14It's blue tongue.
10:15Blue tongue.
10:15The various related parasitic infections
10:18generally known as mange
10:19are caused by which arthropods?
10:22Could it be like...
10:23Mites?
10:24Ticks or mites?
10:25Ooh.
10:27I mean...
10:28It's not...
10:28I don't think...
10:29Yeah, mites then.
10:30Mites?
10:31Well done.
10:31It is mites, yeah.
10:32I've got the question.
10:33Between 1699 and 1701,
10:36the naturalist and nature artist
10:37Maria Sibylla Merian
10:39carried out a landmark study
10:41of the insects
10:41of which South American country.
10:44Her expedition is believed
10:45to have been the first
10:46purely scientific expedition
10:47to this country
10:48and she had to seek permission
10:49for it from the city of Amsterdam.
10:54Suriname?
10:54It is Suriname.
10:55Well done.
10:56Your bonuses are on
10:58Plutarch's parallel lives.
11:00In each case,
11:00I need the Greek figure
11:01being described
11:02who is the pair
11:03to the given Roman figure.
11:05Five points for each.
11:06First, the parallel to Cicero,
11:08a Greek statesman and orator
11:10who is vocal in his support
11:11of the Athenian cause
11:12against Alexander the Great.
11:14Plutarch says
11:15that he overcame
11:15a speech impediment
11:16by practising his addresses
11:17while holding pebbles
11:18in his mouth.
11:19Nominate Campion Day.
11:21Demosthenes.
11:22Yes.
11:22Secondly, the parallel
11:23to Cato the Elder,
11:25an Athenian general
11:25and statesman
11:26who commanded
11:27the Athenian forces
11:28at the 479 BCE
11:30Battle of Plataea
11:31and who is nicknamed
11:32The Just.
11:35Uh, is it
11:36Themistocles?
11:39Could be.
11:40Yeah.
11:40Nominate Campion Day.
11:41Themistocles?
11:42No, that's Aristides.
11:43Finally, the parallel
11:44to Fabius Maximus,
11:46an Athenian general
11:46who fought in the
11:47Peloponnesian Wars
11:48and took command
11:49of the Athenian army
11:50in 429 BCE,
11:52shortly before his death
11:53from plague.
11:54The historian Thucydides
11:55recounts a notable
11:56funeral oration,
11:57supposedly given by this man
11:59at the end of the war's
12:00first year.
12:01Pericles, yeah.
12:02Pericles.
12:03It is indeed.
12:03Right on.
12:04Let's start the question.
12:05Following the introduction
12:06of a three-note
12:07orchestral motif,
12:09which opera,
12:09first performed in 1909,
12:12opens with a maidservant
12:13asking,
12:14Volbleibt,
12:14or Where Stays,
12:16the title figure?
12:17Mazinong.
12:18Electra.
12:19It is Electra, yes.
12:20The oboe's of our
12:21three plays
12:21that contain the word
12:22God in their titles.
12:24OK.
12:24First,
12:25which 2006 play
12:26by Yasmina Reza
12:27depicts a confrontation
12:28between two sets of parents
12:30over a playground incident
12:31involving their children?
12:33It has got in the title.
12:35I've heard of this.
12:35The only one by her
12:36I know is art.
12:38Do we know?
12:39Are we just passing?
12:41Pass.
12:41God of Carnage.
12:42The 2015 play
12:43Indecent
12:44by Paula Vogel
12:45is partly based
12:46on the introduction
12:46of Broadway's
12:47obscenity laws
12:48following the 1906
12:49production
12:49of a Yiddish drama
12:51entitled
12:51God of...
12:52What single word?
12:55Um...
12:55I don't know.
12:56Pain.
12:57Tears.
12:59Tears.
13:00Love.
13:01Tears.
13:01No, it's vengeance.
13:02Lastly,
13:03Mark Medoff's play
13:04Children of a Lesser God
13:05set in a school
13:06for the deaf
13:06takes inspiration
13:07for its title
13:08from a line
13:09in which Victorian
13:10poet's narrative cycle
13:11Idols of the King?
13:12I believe it's
13:13Tennyson.
13:13Tennyson.
13:14It is Tennyson,
13:15yeah.
13:17Another starter question.
13:18Titulus Regius
13:19meaning royal title
13:20was a statute
13:21passed by Parliament
13:22that established
13:23which man
13:24as King of England?
13:25It declared
13:25that the offspring
13:26of a previous king
13:27were illegitimate.
13:28Martin Cosnett.
13:29William III.
13:30I'm afraid you lose
13:31five points
13:31due to what it claimed
13:32was the ungracious
13:34pretenced marriage
13:35between that
13:36recently deceased king
13:37and the children's mother
13:38Elizabeth Woodville.
13:42UCL champion dying.
13:44Henry IV?
13:44No, it's Richard III.
13:45The illegitimate children
13:46were the princes
13:47in the tower.
13:48Let's start with a question.
13:50In the course
13:50of their studies
13:50of the tobacco plant
13:52the Russian
13:52Dmitry Ivanovsky
13:54and the Dutchman
13:54Martinus Biorink
13:56are among those
13:56credited with the
13:57discovery of what
13:58biological entities
14:00originally named
14:01Contagium vivum fluidum
14:02for their ability
14:03to pass through
14:04all known filters?
14:06UCL Lekker de Baldwin.
14:08Viruses.
14:08It is, well done.
14:09Your bonus is then
14:11UCL three questions
14:12on women honoured
14:13in the pantheon
14:13in Paris.
14:14In each case
14:15I need you to name
14:16the person
14:16from a description.
14:17First, the first woman
14:19to act as president
14:19of the European Parliament
14:20who, as France's
14:22health minister
14:22instituted a law
14:23legalising abortion
14:24that is commonly
14:25named after her.
14:27I don't know.
14:29I don't know.
14:30Pass.
14:30Simone Vale.
14:32Secondly, an ethnologist
14:33and freedom fighter
14:34who acted as a mediator
14:35during the Algerian
14:36War of Independence
14:37and published
14:37a first-hand account
14:38of her experiences
14:39in the Ravensbrook
14:41concentration camp.
14:47I can't think.
14:49Pass.
14:50It's Germaine Tillion.
14:51Lastly, an American-born
14:52singer and actor
14:53whose role in the 1927 film
14:55Siren of the Tropics
14:56made her one of the first
14:57black women to star
14:58in a studio feature.
14:59A cenotaph was established
15:00in the Pantheon
15:01in 2021
15:02to honour her service
15:04to the French resistance.
15:05Josephine Baker.
15:06It is indeed, yeah.
15:07Music round now.
15:08And for your music starter,
15:10you're going to hear
15:10an excerpt from an opera.
15:12For ten points,
15:13I need you to name
15:14its composer.
15:18Mountain on.
15:19Delete.
15:20Well done.
15:21It is indeed.
15:22Very good.
15:23For your music starter,
15:24you heard the flower duet
15:25from L'Acme,
15:26an opera whose libretto
15:27was co-written by
15:28Philippe Gilles.
15:29For your bonuses, Merton,
15:31three more musical works
15:32with words written by Gilles.
15:33In each case,
15:34I need you to name
15:35the composer.
15:36First, the composer
15:37of this piece.
15:38It sounds like Offenbach.
15:46Offenbach?
15:47Yes.
15:47Nice.
15:48Secondly, this composer.
16:00Poulenc, maybe?
16:01Pardon?
16:01Poulenc.
16:01Poulenc?
16:02No, that's by
16:03Lily Boulanger.
16:03Lastly, this is an excerpt
16:05from an opera
16:06by which composer?
16:16Do you think it could be
16:18Gounon?
16:19Maybe.
16:20Gounon?
16:20No, it's Massanet.
16:22Another starting question.
16:23Located on the island of Funen,
16:25which city was the site in 1086
16:27of the murder of King Canute IV,
16:30whose remains are in the cathedral
16:32now named after him
16:32and of the birth in 1805
16:35of the author Hans Christian Andersen?
16:38Merton Cosmet.
16:39Copenhagen?
16:40Copenhagen.
16:40I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
16:42It is the third most popular city in Denmark
16:43after Copenhagen and Aarhus.
16:47Odense?
16:48It is Odense.
16:49Well done.
16:49Your bonuses are on statistical mechanics, UCL.
16:52In thermodynamics,
16:54the words canonical
16:54or grand canonical
16:56may precede
16:58what eight-letter word
16:59to refer to a collection
17:00of many sets of particles
17:01that each represent
17:02a possible state
17:03of a physical system?
17:05Ensemble?
17:05Yes.
17:06What ten-letter compound word
17:07is given to a single
17:08possible configuration
17:09of a system's energy
17:11across the particles in the system?
17:12The natural logarithm
17:13of the number
17:14of these configurations
17:15is proportional to entropy
17:17via Boltzmann's constant.
17:19It's a state.
17:19I think it's microstate.
17:21Is that...
17:21Or is it macrostate?
17:23Microstate.
17:23They're both...
17:24They're both times.
17:24Yeah.
17:25I think it's microstate.
17:26Microstate?
17:27Well done.
17:27Born in 1839,
17:29which US scientist
17:29coined the term
17:30statistical mechanics?
17:31He gives his name
17:32to a type of free energy
17:33that must decrease
17:34over the course
17:35of a chemical reaction
17:36for a reaction
17:37to be able to occur
17:37spontaneously.
17:38Gibbs.
17:39It is.
17:40Now to start the question.
17:41Listen carefully
17:42and spell your answer.
17:44Derived from the Sanskrit
17:45for to yoke
17:46or join together,
17:48what short word
17:49is used in Hinduism
17:50to designate time periods
17:52within the larger
17:53cosmic cycle?
17:54This word may follow
17:55satya, treta,
17:57dhwapura or khali
17:58to designate
17:59the individual...
18:01Y-U-G-A.
18:03Yes, yuga.
18:04Well done.
18:05Your bonuses then,
18:06Merton,
18:07are on the poems
18:08of Shakespeare.
18:10In which long narrative poem
18:11published in 1593
18:13does one of the two
18:14title characters
18:15rebuke the other
18:16after being forced
18:17into a kiss?
18:18Love comforteth
18:19like sunshine
18:20after rain
18:20but lust's effect
18:22is tempest
18:22after sun.
18:23Venus and Adonis.
18:24Yes, Venus and Adonis
18:25is dedicated to Henry,
18:27Earl of Southampton,
18:28a favourite candidate
18:28for the identity
18:29of the addressee
18:30of Shakespeare's
18:31sonnets 1-126.
18:33Scholars usually refer
18:35to this addressee
18:35by what two words?
18:37Is it the something youth?
18:40Beautiful youth,
18:41I don't know.
18:42Dark youth?
18:43Dark youth?
18:43Something.
18:44Dark youth?
18:45Bad luck,
18:45it's fair youth.
18:46Bad luck.
18:47Instead of remaining
18:48with Venus,
18:48Adonis goes to hunt
18:49which animal
18:50which fatally injures him?
18:51In the Henry IV
18:52plays Falstaff
18:53holds court
18:54in a tavern
18:54named for this animal's head.
18:56A boy?
18:56Presumably.
18:57I think it's the boy.
18:58A special heart?
19:01I think it's the boy.
19:03Bull?
19:03Yes.
19:04It's a sports level.
19:05In the Knights
19:06to the Wasteland,
19:07T.S. Eliot
19:07describes which figure
19:09as a mere spectator
19:10yet the most...
19:11UCL champion by...
19:13Tiresias.
19:14Well done.
19:15Indeed, yes.
19:16Your bonuses
19:17are on Japanese authors
19:18whose surnames include
19:19the word kawa
19:20or gawa
19:21meaning river.
19:22Born in 1892,
19:23which author's works
19:24include Rashomon
19:25and Inner Grove?
19:26He gives his name
19:27to a prestigious
19:28Japanese literary prize.
19:31Hasegawa?
19:33Yes.
19:34That sounds right, yeah.
19:35Hasegawa?
19:36No, that's Akutagawa.
19:37Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
19:39Who won the Akutagawa prize
19:41in 2008
19:42for Breasts and Eggs,
19:44a novel about
19:44working-class women
19:45from Osaka?
19:46Her other works include
19:47Miss Ice Sandwich
19:48and All the Lovers in the Night.
19:52Any idea?
19:53Ruth?
19:54I think this one
19:54has a kawa in it.
19:55Oh, right.
19:56It's got an akawa.
19:56It is one or the other,
19:57but I think this one
19:58is actually something kawa,
19:58but I can't get the rest of it.
20:00Yeah.
20:00So I would have to pass it.
20:01Can you think of a kawa name?
20:04Hasegawa?
20:04No, that's Kawakami,
20:06Miyako Kawakami.
20:07In 1968,
20:08who became the first
20:09Japanese person
20:10to win the Nobel Prize
20:11in Literature?
20:11His novels include
20:12The Izu Dancer
20:13and Snow Country.
20:21Anything?
20:22I can't.
20:23Come on.
20:24Yeah.
20:24Hasegawa?
20:25No, that was Yasunari
20:27kawa butter.
20:28Picture round now.
20:29For your picture starter,
20:29you're going to see
20:30a 16th century
20:31work of art.
20:33For 10 points,
20:33I simply need
20:34the name of its artist.
20:37Martin Kolsmet.
20:38Jura.
20:39It is Jura, yeah.
20:40For your starter,
20:41you saw Albrecht Jura's
20:42Agony in the Garden,
20:43an etching made
20:44using an acid
20:45in order to incise
20:46the design
20:47onto a metal plate.
20:48For your bonus,
20:49three more etchings
20:50made using this technique.
20:51In each case,
20:52I simply need you
20:52to name the artist.
20:53First, this artist.
20:56Ooh.
20:57Etchings, it's hard.
21:00Looks 18th century.
21:01Could it be like a...
21:02Is it not William Blake?
21:03Who is he?
21:04Kaufman?
21:05Angelica Kaufman, maybe?
21:06Kaufman?
21:07No, it's Rembrandt.
21:08Secondly, this artist.
21:11It's French.
21:12It's French.
21:13Um, hey, French.
21:15It's a little bit like Poussin.
21:16Would it be Poussin?
21:17Who else could it be?
21:17Sure, I guess.
21:19Poussin?
21:19No, that's by Jacques Cayot.
21:21And lastly, a self-portrait?
21:24That's...
21:24Is that Renoir?
21:26That is...
21:27Who?
21:28Van Dyck?
21:29Yes, yeah, it is.
21:30Van Dyck?
21:31It is Van Dyck, yeah.
21:33Six minutes to go,
21:33five points in it.
21:34In which European country
21:36is Mirandesse,
21:37an officially recognised
21:38minority language?
21:39It is spoken principally
21:40in a small region
21:41in the north-east
21:42of this country
21:43around the town
21:44of Miranda do Duro
21:45in the district
21:46of Braganza.
21:47UCL do it.
21:48Portugal.
21:49Got it at Braganza,
21:50yes, well done.
21:51Your bonuses in UCL
21:52are three questions
21:53on the ceremonial county
21:54of South Yorkshire.
21:56The De Morgan art collection
21:57is located
21:58in which metropolitan borough
21:59centred on a large town
22:01on the River Deirne
22:02to the north of Sheffield?
22:04The borough is also associated
22:05with Ken Loach's 1969 film
22:07Kez.
22:08Oh, Kez is in...
22:10Is it Bradford?
22:11No, Loach time.
22:11No.
22:13Um...
22:14Uh...
22:16Sorry.
22:16Halifax or something?
22:17Uh, yes, whatever.
22:19That's...
22:19Halifax?
22:20I think you knew it, Alice.
22:21It was Barnsley.
22:22Barnsley.
22:23Which borough,
22:24named after its principal settlement
22:25that achieved city status
22:26in 2022,
22:27is home to the railway works
22:29that produce
22:29the Flying Scotsman
22:30and Mallard locomotives
22:31and the racecourse
22:32that hosts
22:33the St Ledger Stakes?
22:34Real news?
22:35Uh, I don't know.
22:36Pick a South Yorkshire.
22:37Isn't there that city
22:39and the thing
22:39that became a city
22:40that's like...
22:41It's like it begins
22:42with an R
22:42and it, like,
22:43became a city.
22:44South Yorkshire.
22:45Will I just say Halifax?
22:46Come on.
22:47Halifax.
22:48No, it's Doncaster.
22:48Which borough lies
22:49on an industrial belt
22:50between Doncaster
22:51and Sheffield?
22:52It is the site
22:53of the former
22:53Cistercian monastery
22:54of Roche Abbey.
22:56Rotherham.
22:57Rotherham?
22:58It is Rotherham, yes.
22:59Let's start with the question.
23:00Developed by the FBI
23:01Behavioural Science Unit
23:02in the 1970s,
23:04the top-down approach
23:05to offender profiling
23:06divides violent offenders
23:08into which two categories?
23:10This work,
23:11done into criminal behaviour,
23:12provided the basis
23:13for the 2017 Netflix series
23:14Mindhunter.
23:18UCL Doherty.
23:19Serial and...
23:20Once?
23:21No.
23:24Anyone from Merton
23:25want to buzz?
23:26Merton Duncan.
23:27Violent and non-violent?
23:29No, Serial and once
23:30got more and more entertaining
23:32as it went along.
23:32No, it was organised
23:33and disorganised.
23:34Now, let's start the question.
23:36Quote,
23:36A nation without
23:37a national government
23:38is, in my view,
23:39an awful spectacle.
23:41This appears
23:41in the final entry
23:42of which collection
23:43of 85 essays?
23:45Merton Cosnett.
23:46Fabulous papers.
23:47Yes, indeed, yes.
23:48Your bonus is, Merton,
23:49three questions
23:50on baked goods
23:51made from shoe pastry.
23:52A particular speciality
23:54of Burgundy,
23:55savoury balls
23:56or puffs
23:57made from a shoe dough
23:58that includes cheese
23:59are known by what French term?
24:01No, I don't know.
24:02A profit on...
24:03Savoir.
24:04Cheese.
24:06A profit on Savoir.
24:08No, it's...
24:08Scougere.
24:09Meaning none,
24:11that's N-U-N,
24:12in French,
24:13what name is given
24:13to a patisserie
24:14consisting of one small ball
24:16of sweet shoe pastry
24:17placed on top of a larger one,
24:18both of which are filled
24:19with creme patissiere
24:20and decorated
24:21with cream and ganache?
24:22Not a noun in French.
24:23It's not mac.
24:25Not a noun.
24:26It's moan,
24:27but it's not that.
24:28I don't know.
24:29Noan.
24:30No, that's a religieuse.
24:31Literally meaning
24:32crunch in the mouth,
24:33what French term
24:34denotes an elaborate dessert
24:35consisting of balls
24:36of sweet-filled
24:37shoe pastry
24:38arranged into a cone-shaped tower
24:39and bound together
24:40with caramel?
24:42No, no,
24:43this is a croquembouche.
24:44A croquembouche.
24:45Yes, it is.
24:46Three minutes to go.
24:47I need two answers,
24:49promptly here.
24:50The Yalu River,
24:51also known as
24:52the Amnok River.
24:54Martin Cusnett.
24:55North Korea and China.
24:56It is indeed.
24:57Your bonuses are
24:57on European history.
24:59In 843,
25:00the Treaty of Verdun
25:01divided the realms
25:02of Louis the Pious
25:02into three.
25:03Which son of Louis
25:04became ruler
25:05of the West Frankish kingdom?
25:07I need a regnal name
25:08and a number or by name.
25:09I think it's Charles the Bald.
25:11Charles the Bald.
25:12Yes.
25:13Who is the title figure
25:14of the Shakespeare history
25:15in which Mortimer outlines
25:16the tripartite indenture
25:18that proposed a vision
25:19of England and Wales
25:20between himself,
25:20Percy and Owen Glendower?
25:22Owen Glendower.
25:23What period?
25:24When is this?
25:25Is there Henry II?
25:26No, there's no Henry II.
25:28This would be early one.
25:29Henry IV, maybe.
25:30Henry IV?
25:31Yes.
25:31In the opening words
25:32of a commentary
25:32by Julius Caesar,
25:33the entirety of what
25:35is divided into three parts.
25:36Gol.
25:38Yes.
25:38Let's start with the question.
25:39Which Swiss-American physicist
25:40born in Zurich in 1905
25:42became the first Director General
25:44of CERN in October 1954?
25:46Two years earlier,
25:47he had chaired the Nobel Prize
25:48for Physics
25:49with E.M. Purcell
25:50for his work
25:51on nuclear magnetic resonance?
25:54Yes.
25:56Yes.
25:56Your bonuses are
25:57on a writer
25:58first published in 1942.
26:00Dust Tracks on a Road
26:00is the autobiography
26:01of which U.S. writer
26:02and anthropologist?
26:04A central figure
26:04of the Harlem Renaissance?
26:07Franz Boas.
26:08Franz Boas.
26:08No, that's Zora Neale Hurston.
26:10Hurston's anthology,
26:11Mules and Men,
26:12is a record
26:13of African-American folklore
26:14collected through
26:15two ethnographic visits,
26:16one to New Orleans
26:17and one to her hometown
26:18of Eatonville
26:19in which U.S. state?
26:20It is the setting
26:21of much of her fiction?
26:23I don't know.
26:24Tennessee.
26:25No, it's Florida.
26:26Ships at a distance
26:27have every man's wish
26:28on board.
26:29Which 1937 novel
26:30by Hurston
26:30begins with these words
26:32shortly before
26:32introducing its main character?
26:33Nominate Campion Day.
26:34Their Eyes Were Watching God?
26:35Yes.
26:36Go start the question.
26:37What is the shared surname
26:38of this wife and husband?
26:39The former was a pianist,
26:41organist and harpist
26:42who recorded the albums
26:43Universal Consciousness
26:44and Journey
26:44in Sachida Nanda
26:46and the latter
26:47was saxophonist
26:47who recorded...
26:48Is he a lick of the Baldwin?
26:49Coltrane.
26:50Yes, your bonuses
26:51are on a disguise in opera.
26:53First, the Duke of Mantua
26:54disguises himself
26:55as a humble,
26:55impoverished student
26:56to Wu Gilda,
26:57the daughter of the title character
26:58in which opera of 1851?
27:01Anything.
27:01No.
27:01Madame Butterfly.
27:02There's Rigoletto.
27:03Secondly,
27:03Count Almaviva
27:04sings the aria
27:05Echo Redente in Tiello
27:06while in disguise
27:07as another penniless student
27:09in which 1816 opera?
27:11Norma.
27:12Norma.
27:12The Barbara of Seville.
27:13Lastly,
27:14Leonor disguises herself
27:15as the title figure
27:16in what opera
27:16by Ludwig van Beethoven?
27:18Fidelio.
27:18Fidelio.
27:19Fidelio is correct.
27:19You've got a question.
27:20I need you to give me
27:21a French word here.
27:22What plural French noun
27:23appears in the titles
27:24of all of the following?
27:26The first novel
27:26by Jean Genet
27:27written while he was in prison.
27:29The second volume
27:29of Proust's
27:30A La Racheche
27:31du temps perdu
27:31and a groundbreaking
27:321857 poetry collection
27:34by Charles Baudelaire.
27:36Merton Goldsmith.
27:37Fleur.
27:37It is Fleur.
27:39Your focus is on
27:40test ticket captains.
27:41What decade of the 20th century
27:42saw Stanley Jackson
27:43of England
27:43and Monty Noble
27:44of Australia
27:44become the first two captains
27:46to win the toss
27:46in Ulfa?
27:47And up the far
27:48of UCL
27:48and Merton have 160.
27:55What a ridiculous match
27:57to lose.
27:57I mean,
27:58you barely lost that UCL.
27:59I mean,
27:59what a fantastic comeback.
28:01But at least
28:02it's not goodbye.
28:02We get to see you again.
28:03But well done,
28:04well played
28:04against a terrific team.
28:06Merton,
28:06you just need to be
28:07a bit quicker,
28:08generally,
28:08and a little bit
28:09less stressful.
28:11And it's nice as captain
28:12to win with the final answer
28:13as well.
28:13So well done.
28:14That was a thrilling contest
28:15and we shall see you again.
28:17I hope you can join us
28:18next time
28:18for another quarterfinal match.
28:19But until then,
28:20it is goodbye for now
28:21from UCL.
28:22Goodbye.
28:23It's goodbye
28:23from Merton College, Oxford.
28:25Goodbye.
28:25And it's goodbye from me.
28:27Goodbye.
28:28Goodbye.
28:30Bye.
28:32Bye.
28:38Bye.
28:44Bye.
28:46Bye.
28:48Bye.
28:48Bye.
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