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00:18University Challenge. Asking the questions, I'm all grunting.
00:28Hello and welcome to University Challenge, where another two teams are about to play
00:32their first quarter-final. Whatever happens in tonight's match, they'll both need to
00:36come back and play again. The format of this round means teams have to win twice to qualify
00:39for the semis and can lose once without being eliminated.
00:43This year's team from Darwin College, Cambridge, scraped through the first round of the competition
00:46with a last-gasp five-point win over Green Templeton College, Oxford. In the second round,
00:51however, they knocked out one of the highest-scoring teams of round one, Morden College, Oxford,
00:55and made it look almost easy. They answered very well in that game on chemistry, medicine,
01:00religion and video games, but less well on classical music. And their average score across both
01:05their matches has been just over 160 points. Let's meet the team from Darwin for the third
01:10time.
01:11Hi, I'm Lewis Strachan. I'm from North Lanarkshire and I'm doing a PhD in Parasite Biology.
01:17Hello, my name is Riesny Verhurtig. I'm from Cork in Ireland and I study Education.
01:21And their captain.
01:22Hello, I'm Louis Cameron. I'm from London and I'm doing a PhD in English.
01:27Hi, my name's Jonathan White. I'm from Buckinghamshire. I'm studying for a PhD in Geography.
01:32APPLAUSE
01:34This year's team from Sheffield also came close to leaving the competition in round one after throwing away
01:39a 115-point lead against Warwick in their opening game. Luckily for them, their final score was high
01:45enough to earn them a reperchage match against New College, Oxford, which they won.
01:49And in round two, they beat Strathclyde emphatically to secure their spot in this quarter-final stage.
01:54On the evidence of those three matches, their main strengths appear to be geography, history and fine art.
01:59And their average score per game is about 210. Let's meet the team from Sheffield once again.
02:04Hi, I'm Rhys Lewis. I'm from Haverford West in Pembrokeshire and I'm studying Maths.
02:09Hi, I'm Rahein Assisi. I'm from Alexandria, Egypt and I study Engineering.
02:13And their captain.
02:14Hi, I'm Jacob Price. I'm from Heatherset in Norfolk and I study Astrophysics.
02:17Hi, I'm Isabelle Dobby. I'm from Haringey in North London and I study English Literature.
02:25Nice of you to applaud each other. Very warm welcome back.
02:28The good news is if you lose, you do get to come back, but try to win, I think, is
02:31the general principle.
02:32Alright, feeling ready? Fingers on buzzers. Here's your starter for ten. Good luck.
02:57Gustave?
02:58Yes, Gustave is correct. It's in Moro, Kaibot and Doré.
03:02Your bonuses, Sheffield, are three questions on a writer.
03:05Which English poet wrote the 1857 verse novel Aurora Lee?
03:09She tells the story of a young woman's attempts to educate herself and pursue a literary career.
03:14The poet viewed the work as expressing her, quote,
03:16highest convictions upon life and art.
03:19Yeah. Nominate Dobby.
03:20Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
03:21Yes. Which American writer dedicated an 1845 collection of poems to Barrett Browning, calling her the noblest of her sex?
03:29The complex meter and rhyme scheme of its title poem are widely regarded as influenced by her Lady Geraldine's courtship.
03:36American woman poet.
03:38Is it Bishop American?
03:40No, that's early...
03:42Oh, yeah.
03:42Actually...
03:43Was it 1945?
03:4418.
03:4518...
03:45No, that's too...
03:46I'm not a clue.
03:48No.
03:48Sure.
03:50Bishop?
03:50No, it's Edgar Allan Poe.
03:51The poem's The Ravens.
03:52Oh.
03:53Containing some of her best-known poems, the sequence of 44 love sonnets by Barrett Browning, published in 1850, has
03:59the title,
04:00Sonnets from the what language?
04:01Portuguese, yeah.
04:02Despite none of them being translations from this or any language?
04:04Portuguese.
04:05Portuguese is correct.
04:06Let's start the question.
04:07Cis-Lithania and Trans-Lithania were informal names given to the two primary divisions of which historical state?
04:15In reference to their...
04:16Sheffield Prize.
04:17Austria-Hungary.
04:17It is Austria-Hungary, yes.
04:19Your bonus is Sheffield with a few questions on a political figure.
04:21After being arrested and imprisoned for guerrilla activity against Brazil's military dictatorship in 1970,
04:28which politician went on to serve in the first cabinet of Lula da Silva,
04:31before becoming the first woman to be elected president of Brazil?
04:35Is it Rousseff?
04:36Oh, yeah.
04:37Yeah?
04:37Yeah.
04:38Rousseff?
04:38Yes, Dilma Rousseff.
04:39Rousseff was later implicated in a scandal involving the misallocation of government funds known as Operation What?
04:45The investigation into the scandal was mired in controversy
04:48and it is claimed that some of the allegations against her were fabricated or exaggerated.
04:52It rings a bell.
04:53No.
04:54No.
04:55No.
04:56No.
04:57No.
04:57No.
04:58No.
05:09No.
05:17No.
05:22No.
05:22No.
05:22No.
05:24No.
05:32Salt.erman
05:33French. Golds.
05:43No. No.
05:44it's
05:44a whale or an enough person.
05:46In response to a competition to find a substitute
05:49for the use of ivory in billiard balls,
05:51American inventor John Wesley Hyatt
05:54began development on what would eventually become
05:56what specific material?
05:58Similar to one created by British inventor Alexander Parks,
06:01this material's thermoplastic properties...
06:04Sheffield Price.
06:05Pyrex.
06:06No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
06:08..would quickly lead to its application
06:09in the production of false teeth,
06:11cheap household objects and film.
06:15Darwin Strachan.
06:16Venal.
06:17No, it's celluloid.
06:18Fingers with buzzers and I'll start the question.
06:20In the Vulgate and in early Roman Catholic translations of the Bible,
06:24what books are known by the Greek title Paralypomenon?
06:27Concerning the history of Israel from the earliest times
06:29until the 6th century BCE,
06:32in the Old Testament they precede the book of Ezra,
06:35follow the two books of kings
06:36and have a name that derives ultimately from the Greek for time.
06:41Darwin Cameron.
06:42Chronicles.
06:42It is Chronicles 1 and 2, yeah.
06:45Three questions on integral transforms.
06:47Which French mathematician gives his name
06:49to the integral transform
06:50that converts a function of a real variable
06:53to a function of a complex variable,
06:56transforming operations of calculus in the time domain
06:58to operations of arithmetic in the frequency domain?
07:02Does it speak Fourier?
07:03Is it Fourier transformation?
07:04Fourier transformation.
07:05No, it's Laplace.
07:07Which Finnish mathematician gives his name
07:09to an integral transform that can be used to transform
07:12the exponential function to the gamma function
07:14and which can be regarded as the multiplicative version
07:17of the two-sided Laplace transform?
07:20Any other Finnish mathematicians?
07:22Oh, Sobelov.
07:23Sobelov?
07:24Yeah.
07:25Sobelov?
07:26No, it's Mellon.
07:27Which French mathematician gives his name
07:29to an integral transform
07:30that decomposes a complex valued function
07:33into its frequencies and amplitudes
07:35as well as to a closely related series
07:37in which a periodic function
07:39is expanded into a sum of trigonometric functions?
07:42Fourier.
07:43That is Fourier.
07:44Well done.
07:45Picture round now.
07:46And for your picture starter,
07:47you're going to see the logo
07:48of an intergovernmental organisation.
07:51For ten points,
07:52I need you to give me the organisation's name.
07:57Darwin Strachan.
07:58The ICJ.
07:59No.
08:01Sheffield Dobby.
08:02ICC.
08:03It is the ICC, yes.
08:04The International Criminal Court.
08:05For your picture starter,
08:07you saw the logo
08:07of the International Criminal Court,
08:09or ICC,
08:10established by the UN General Assembly
08:12in order to prosecute violations
08:13of international law.
08:15For your picture bonuses,
08:16you're going to see the logos
08:17of three special tribunals
08:19established by the UN
08:20to adjudicate in specific countries
08:22in the aftermath of crises.
08:24This time,
08:25I want you to identify
08:26the country in each case
08:28and note that some lettering
08:30has been removed from each.
08:32First,
08:33the location of this tribunal
08:34established in 1997.
08:37What happened?
08:37What year was that?
08:39That looks like,
08:40you're assuming...
08:41Is that Cambodia?
08:42Yeah, it looks like Cambodia.
08:43Was there anything that happened
08:43in 1997?
08:44I'd say Cambodia.
08:45Cambodia?
08:45Cambodia?
08:46Yes,
08:46that was for trying
08:47former leaders of the Khmer Rouge.
08:49Secondly,
08:49this is the logo
08:50of a tribunal
08:51established in 1994
08:52to prosecute those responsible
08:54for crimes
08:55in what country?
08:56Rwanda, maybe.
08:58In 1994,
08:59that makes sense.
08:59Yeah.
09:00Rwanda?
09:01Yes,
09:01for trying perpetrators
09:02of the genocide there.
09:04this tribunal
09:04was established
09:05in 2009
09:06to investigate
09:07and prosecute
09:07those responsible
09:08for crimes
09:09in what country?
09:11Oh,
09:11Lebanon.
09:12Lebanon.
09:13That is Lebanon,
09:13yes,
09:13for the assassins
09:14of the Khmer Rouge.
09:16Now,
09:16let's start a question.
09:17What ballad
09:18by John Keats
09:19did William Morris
09:20describe as
09:20the germ
09:21from which
09:21all the poetry
09:22of his group
09:23had sprung,
09:24whilst Robert Graves
09:25said it represented
09:26love,
09:26death by consumption
09:27and poetry...
09:29Darwin Cameron.
09:30La Belle Dame
09:30Well done.
09:33Your bonuses then
09:34are on actors
09:35who have played
09:36the same role
09:36in different films
09:37that are not part
09:39of a franchise.
09:40The actor
09:41Joseph Olita
09:42played the title figure
09:43in a 1981 film
09:44titled Rise and Fall
09:45of which 20th century
09:47political figure?
09:48He played the same man
09:49in Meera Nair's
09:501991 film
09:52Mississippi Masala,
09:53which opens
09:54with this leader's
09:54expulsion of Asians
09:55from his country.
09:56I suppose
09:57it's more an expulsion
10:00FDRs like
10:01Japanese internments.
10:02And the internment
10:03is sort of
10:03the opposite of
10:04expulsion.
10:06Stalin?
10:08Stalin.
10:09No, it's Idi Amin.
10:11Michael Keaton
10:12portrayed ATF agent
10:14Ray Nicolette
10:14in Quentin Tarantino's
10:161997 film
10:17Jackie Brown
10:18and Steven Soderbergh's
10:191998 film
10:20Out of Sight,
10:21both of which
10:22are adaptations
10:23of novels
10:24by which author?
10:26I didn't know
10:27Jackie Brown
10:27was an Out of Sight.
10:32Raymond Chandler.
10:33No, it's Elmore Leonard.
10:34In Michael Mann's
10:352004 film
10:36Collateral,
10:37which British actor
10:37appears in a brief
10:38cameo in which
10:39he bumps into
10:40a hitman
10:40played by Tom Cruise,
10:42which the makers
10:42of both films
10:43describe as a
10:44reprisal of this
10:45actor's role
10:45as the title
10:46character in
10:47the Transporter
10:48franchise?
10:50No, Jason Statham?
10:52Yeah, something like
10:53that.
10:54Yeah, that could be
10:54right.
10:55OK, Jason Statham.
10:56That's a good guess.
10:57Well done, yes.
10:57Correct.
10:58Let's start the question.
10:59Fingers on buzzers.
11:01In art conservation
11:02and archiving,
11:03what two-word term
11:04refers to the
11:05susceptibility of an
11:06object to
11:06deterioration
11:07due to fundamental
11:08properties of the
11:09materials it is
11:10made from,
11:10as opposed to
11:11damage or wear
11:12caused by
11:12external forces?
11:14This term was
11:15used as the title
11:16of a 2009 novel
11:17by Thomas Pynchon
11:18that was adapted
11:19into a 2014 film
11:20by...
11:21Darwin Cameron.
11:22Inherent Vice.
11:23Well done.
11:24It is indeed.
11:24The oboises Darwin
11:26are on prominent
11:27sexologists.
11:28In each case,
11:28I want you to name
11:29them from a description.
11:30First, the British
11:31physician best known
11:32for his series
11:33entitled Studies
11:34in the Psychology
11:35of Sex,
11:36whose first published
11:36entry,
11:37Sexual Inversion,
11:38was a subject
11:39of significant
11:40controversy
11:40and an obscenity
11:41trial for its
11:42frank treatment
11:43treatment of same-sex
11:44attraction.
11:45Yeah, I definitely
11:46heard of this,
11:47but there's no way.
11:48I've seen an idea.
11:48I'm sorry.
11:49Pass.
11:50Have a lot, Ellis.
11:51Secondly, the pair
11:52of American researchers
11:54whose 1966 book
11:56Human Sexual Response
11:57was notable for its
11:58groundbreaking analyses
12:00of the physiological
12:01aspects of sex
12:02observed under
12:03laboratory conditions.
12:08Yeah, again,
12:08we're not going to get
12:09this.
12:09Pass.
12:10That's Masters
12:11and Johnson.
12:12Lastly, the Indiana
12:13University-based
12:14researcher whose 1948
12:15book Sexual Behaviour
12:16in the Human Male
12:17introduced his namesake
12:19scale for categorising
12:20sexual practice.
12:22Is it Kinsey?
12:23No, that's for
12:24sexual orientation,
12:25but I mean,
12:25if we have nothing else.
12:26Yeah.
12:27What did you say?
12:27Kinsey.
12:28Kinsey.
12:29It is Alfred Kinsey.
12:30Again, good punt.
12:31OK, now let's start
12:31with the question.
12:32Fingers on buzzers.
12:32Which national capital
12:34city is located
12:35on the southern coast
12:36of the Absheron
12:37Peninsula?
12:38Other major cities
12:38on this peninsula
12:39include Sumkayet
12:40on its northern coast
12:41and the island
12:43of Chilov
12:43lies off its eastern
12:45tip in the Caspian Sea.
12:48Sheffield Price.
12:49Baku.
12:49It is Baku, yes.
12:50Well done.
12:51Your three questions
12:52then, Sheffield,
12:53are on a test
12:54cricket record.
12:55At Lords in 2013,
12:56which two England
12:57players became the
12:58first pair of bowlers
12:59in the 21st century
13:00to bowl unchanged
13:01in a completed
13:02men's test innings,
13:03bowling New Zealand
13:04out for 68
13:05in the final innings.
13:06Between them,
13:07they would go on
13:07to take more than
13:081,300 test wickets.
13:10Anderson and Broad,
13:10thank you.
13:11Nominate Lewis.
13:12Anderson and Broad.
13:13It is indeed.
13:13In 2022,
13:15Keshav Maharaj
13:16and Simon Harmer
13:17accomplished this feat
13:18twice in successive months,
13:20both times
13:20against Bangladesh.
13:22What country
13:22do they represent?
13:23South Africa.
13:24South Africa.
13:25Yep.
13:25At Multan
13:26in October 2024,
13:28Sajid Khan
13:29and Noman Ali
13:30became the sixth pair
13:31in the 21st century
13:32to achieve this feat
13:33as England
13:34were bowled out
13:34for 144
13:35in the final innings
13:36of a test
13:37against which team?
13:38So,
13:39Pakistan then,
13:40right?
13:41If it's Multan,
13:42then that would make sense.
13:42Yeah.
13:43Pakistan?
13:43Yeah,
13:44it does make sense.
13:44Hold on.
13:46Music round now.
13:48And for your music starter,
13:49you're going to hear
13:49a piece of popular music.
13:51For ten points,
13:52I need you to name
13:52the artist performing.
13:58Sheffield Price.
13:59Patti Smith.
14:00That is Patti Smith,
14:01yes.
14:02For your starter,
14:02you heard Redondo Beach
14:04by Patti Smith,
14:04who is strongly associated
14:05with Max's Kansas City,
14:07a New York City venue
14:08she described as,
14:09quote,
14:09a social hub
14:10of the subterranean universe.
14:12For your bonuses,
14:13you're going to hear songs
14:14by three bands
14:15who also played
14:16at Max's Kansas City
14:17from the 70s
14:18into the early 80s.
14:19In each case,
14:20I need you to give me
14:21the name of the band.
14:23Firstly,
14:24this band.
14:25Well,
14:25we can't take her this week
14:28And a friend
14:29don't want another's speech
14:30I don't know,
14:31but I don't know.
14:32I don't know.
14:33I don't know.
14:34Tell me what she's got to say
14:36I don't know.
14:37It's not the Ramones,
14:38but I don't know.
14:39Come on.
14:40The Ramones.
14:41No,
14:41it's New York Dolls
14:41with Personality Crisis.
14:43Secondly,
14:43this group.
14:46Oh,
14:46this is...
14:47Oh,
14:49television.
14:49Television.
14:50Yes,
14:50that was Venus.
14:51And lastly,
14:52this band,
14:52whom David Bowie
14:53introduced at the club
14:54as, quote,
14:55the band of the future.
14:56As a specific lady,
14:59but you're right to the wall.
15:01Did you say so?
15:02I'm a fan of the comm.
15:05Is it the cure?
15:07The cure?
15:08No, it's Devo
15:09with gut feeling.
15:10Let's start the question.
15:11On its establishment in 2009,
15:14the principal aim
15:15of the Moedal experiment
15:16at CERN
15:17was to search
15:17for which hypothetical particles
15:19known by a two-word
15:21alliterative name.
15:22The second of Maxwell's equations
15:24states mathematically
15:25that these particles
15:26cannot exist.
15:28Sheffield,
15:28magnetic monopoles.
15:30It is indeed,
15:30yes.
15:31Three questions
15:32on a resin.
15:33What naturally occurring resin
15:34consists primarily
15:35of aleritic
15:36and jalaric acid
15:38connected by lactide
15:39and ester linkages?
15:40It is produced
15:41by female insects
15:42of the family
15:43keriidae.
15:44Nothing.
15:45There's no.
15:46Can anyone name a resin?
15:48Amber.
15:48Is amber a resin?
15:49I think amber is from a tree.
15:50I'm trying to talk about that.
15:51Amber.
15:52No, it's shellac.
15:52While jalaric acid
15:54is a type of sesquiterpene,
15:56aleritic is a variant
15:57of what acid?
15:58The most common
15:59saturated fatty acid
16:00found in the human body.
16:02Its name is derived
16:02from its presence
16:03in the fruit of trees
16:04of Janus eleis.
16:07It's not going to be
16:08glycerol, then,
16:08isn't it?
16:08There's not a fatty acid.
16:10Citric acid.
16:11If it's the fruits of a tree...
16:12That's not fatty,
16:13I don't think.
16:13Lactic acid.
16:15No, because that would be...
16:16I don't know.
16:16It's not a...
16:17Try lactic acid.
16:18It's not.
16:19Lactic acid.
16:20No, it's palmitic acid.
16:20Due to its carbon content,
16:22shellac can,
16:22undergo cyclisation
16:23in order to produce
16:25what material
16:25comprising a thin layer
16:27of carbon atoms
16:28arranged hexagonally?
16:30Oh, graphene, then, right?
16:31It's graphene, yeah.
16:32Because it's...
16:32Oh, is it going to be graphite?
16:33No, because it's graphene.
16:35It's a thin layer.
16:37Graphene.
16:37Graphene.
16:38Well worked out.
16:39It is graphene, yeah.
16:39Let's start the question.
16:40The surname of what footballer
16:42precedes the word plan
16:44in the name often given
16:45to a strategy developed
16:46in the early 1950s
16:48by Manchester City manager
16:49Les McDowell,
16:50inspired by the Hungarian
16:52national team,
16:53whereby the opposing team's
16:54centre-half was drawn
16:55out of position
16:56by playing this man
16:57as deep centre-forward.
16:59As a manager,
17:00this player would go on
17:01to win the FA Cup once
17:02and the first division
17:03of the Football League twice
17:04with Leeds United.
17:06Sheffield Lewis.
17:07Don Revy.
17:07It is Don Revy, yes.
17:09Your bonuses, then,
17:10Sheffield,
17:11are on major settlements
17:12located close to the
17:13Tropic of Capricorn.
17:14In each case,
17:15identify the place
17:16from the description.
17:17First, a large coastal city
17:19associated with the author
17:20Clarice Lispector.
17:21It is home to football clubs
17:23including Flamengo,
17:24Botafogo
17:24and Vasco da Gama.
17:26Oh, Vasco da Gama.
17:28Is Flamengo not...
17:29It's Sao Paulo.
17:31I thought...
17:32Yeah, I think so.
17:33Sao Paulo?
17:34No, it's Rio de Janeiro.
17:35Secondly,
17:35a national capital
17:36situated roughly
17:37in the centre of its country
17:39at a height of more
17:40than 1,600 metres.
17:41It was founded by Germans
17:43in 1890
17:44in an area occupied
17:45by Coichoy and Herero people.
17:47Windeck would make sense.
17:48Yeah.
17:50Windeck?
17:50Yes.
17:51Finally,
17:51the second largest settlement
17:52of Australia's
17:53Northern Territory.
17:54For many years,
17:55it was the northern terminus
17:56of the Central Australia Railway
17:58until this was extended
17:59to Darwin in 2003.
18:01Pretty sure this is just
18:02Alice Springs.
18:03Yeah.
18:03Alice Springs?
18:04It is right.
18:05Another start with questions.
18:07I need a two-word term here.
18:09Theorised by Tom Beauchamp
18:10and James Childress,
18:12autonomy,
18:13beneficence,
18:14non-maleficence
18:15and justice
18:16are considered to be
18:17the four key principles
18:19of which subfield
18:20of philosophy?
18:22Important practical documents
18:23in this field...
18:25Ethics?
18:26No, I'm afraid
18:27you'll lose five points.
18:28Include the 1964
18:29Declaration of Helsinki
18:31and the 1948
18:32Declaration of Geneva,
18:33the latter of which
18:34has been dubbed
18:35the modern Hippocratic Oath.
18:39Darwin Cameron.
18:40Medical ethics?
18:41Yes, we'll accept that.
18:41Buy a medical ethics.
18:42Bad luck, Abdel.
18:43I did say I needed
18:44a two-word term.
18:45Your bonuses, then,
18:46Darwin,
18:46are on quarter days
18:47and cross-quarter days
18:49in England.
18:50Christian festivals
18:50traditionally used
18:51to mark tenancies,
18:52labour contracts
18:53and for payment of debts.
18:55Which quarter day
18:56falls on the 25th of March?
18:58Its name is a short
18:59two-word term
19:00for the Annunciation
19:01of the Virgin Mary
19:02and until 1752
19:03it marked the official
19:05start of the year
19:06in England and Wales.
19:07Did you say a short
19:08two-word term
19:09for the Annunciation?
19:11So, Ave Maria, maybe?
19:12Yeah.
19:13Ave Maria?
19:14No, Lady Day.
19:15Which cross-quarter day
19:16falls on the 2nd of February
19:18between Christmas
19:18and Lady Day
19:19on the Christian festival
19:20that marks the presentation
19:21of Christ in the temple?
19:23Certainly, Adoration
19:24or something like that.
19:27No, that's not Christ in the temple.
19:30Adoration.
19:30What did you say?
19:31Adoration.
19:32Candlemas.
19:33Named after an old English word
19:34for a loaf of bread,
19:35which cross-quarter day
19:36falls on the 1st of August?
19:38That is,
19:38between Midsummer
19:39and Micklemas?
19:43Anything...
19:43No, pass.
19:45Lammas.
19:45Another start of the question.
19:46It's a picture round now
19:47and for your picture starter
19:48you're going to see
19:48a still from a film.
19:50For ten points
19:51give me its title.
19:53Darwin Cameron.
19:54Citizen Kane.
19:55Of course it is.
19:56Of course it is, indeed.
19:57It is.
19:58Your picture starter there
19:59you saw a still from Citizen Kane
20:00the highest-ranked
20:01directorial debut
20:02on the BFI's list
20:03of the greatest films
20:04of all time.
20:05For your picture bonuses
20:05three more featured
20:07directorial debuts
20:08that appear on that list.
20:09I need the title
20:10of the film
20:11in each case.
20:12First,
20:12this 1955 film?
20:16That's...
20:16The Night of the Hunter.
20:18The Night of the Hunter.
20:19Yes, by Charles Lawton.
20:20Well done.
20:20Secondly,
20:21this 1959 film?
20:2459.
20:25Um...
20:26Who is that?
20:27God, I don't know.
20:29Maybe...
20:29How do you know?
20:30Uh...
20:32Debut...
20:33I don't know.
20:34Pass.
20:35It's Hiroshima Mon Amour
20:36by Alain Rene.
20:37Lastly,
20:38this 1960 film?
20:41Oh, my goodness.
20:42Um, this is...
20:43Brattles.
20:44Yes.
20:44Brattles.
20:45Yes, by Jean-Luc Brattles.
20:47I'll start with the question.
20:49At which battle of 1265
20:51did forces led
20:52by the future Edward I
20:53trick the defenders
20:54into complacency
20:55by marching under standards
20:57captured at Kenilworth?
20:59The ensuing battle
20:59saw the rescue
21:00of Henry III,
21:02captive since the Battle of Lewis,
21:03and the death
21:04and dismemberment
21:05of Simon de Montfort?
21:07Darwin White.
21:08Battle of Eversham.
21:09Yes, well done.
21:10You're going to see
21:11our three questions
21:12on an extinct language.
21:13With its last native speaker
21:15dying around 1960,
21:17the language of Ornier
21:18was primarily spoken
21:19on which island,
21:20part of a British
21:21crown dependency?
21:23Ornier.
21:24Crown dependency?
21:28What's that word?
21:29Yes.
21:31Give me a crown dependency.
21:33Reunion.
21:34Orchristin Decay.
21:35Reunion Island.
21:36Reunion Island.
21:37No, it's Alderney.
21:37The decline of Ornier
21:38was hastened
21:39by the mid-19th century
21:40influx of English-speaking
21:42immigrants
21:42who were sent
21:43to make Alderney
21:44the, quote,
21:44Gibraltar of the Channel
21:46in response to French plans
21:47to fortify which port
21:49about 25 miles
21:50east of the island?
21:51Is that...
21:53No, no, no.
21:53It's in the Channel, so...
21:56Dover?
21:56The other one?
21:57What's the one that
21:58Dover goes to French plans?
22:00French...
22:00Calais?
22:01Le Havre, maybe.
22:02Le Havre.
22:02Cherbourg.
22:03Ornier is a variety
22:04of the insular form
22:05of what language,
22:07historically spoken
22:07across the Channel Islands?
22:08It is a variety
22:09of the Languedoy
22:10that includes
22:11modern standard French.
22:13This is terrible.
22:14Occitan, maybe?
22:16Is it itself?
22:17Um, Occitan.
22:19No, it's Norman
22:20or Norman French.
22:21Now, start a question.
22:22I need two answers
22:23promptly here.
22:24In their 1944 book,
22:26Theory of Games
22:27and Economic Behaviour,
22:29John von Neumann
22:30and Oscar Morgenstern
22:31discuss a problem
22:32involving which
22:33two fictional characters
22:35in which each attempts
22:36to deduce the likelihood
22:37that the other
22:38would alight...
22:39Sheffield Assisi.
22:40Two prisoners.
22:41I'm afraid you'll lose
22:42five points.
22:43Deduce the likelihood
22:43that the other
22:44would alight from a train
22:45at either Dover
22:46or Canterbury.
22:47The game was inspired
22:48by an episode
22:48in the 1893 short story,
22:51The Final Problem.
22:52Following Cameron.
22:53Holmes and Watson?
22:55Bad luck.
22:55No, it's Holmes and Moriarty.
22:57Bad luck.
22:58Another start of the question.
22:59Theories of the mechanism
23:00and function
23:01of which biological process
23:03include the
23:03activation synthesis theory,
23:05the reverse learning hypothesis,
23:07the defensive activation theory,
23:09and anti-Revonso's
23:11threat simulation theory,
23:12the last suggesting
23:13that it can be seen
23:14as evolutionarily beneficial
23:16insofar as it allows
23:17the brain to simulate
23:19threatening events
23:20and rehearse threat perception...
23:22Darwin Strecker.
23:22Dreams.
23:23Yes, dreams.
23:24Dreaming, I'll take that.
23:25Your bonuses, Darwin,
23:26are on water-dwelling creatures
23:27that can produce
23:28silk or silk-like threads.
23:29The common species
23:30of which fish
23:31of the genus Cyprinus,
23:33closely related to the minnow,
23:34creates a silk-like substance
23:36in order to attach
23:37its eggs to the substrate
23:38of flowing water?
23:39Do we have any idea?
23:40Perch or pike.
23:40A perch looks kind of like
23:41a minnow.
23:42Perch.
23:43No, it's carp.
23:43The crustacean
23:44Cimamphitoe femurata
23:46produces silk
23:47in order to create shelters
23:48on the blades of giant kelp.
23:50It is a member of which order
23:51that also includes
23:52sandhoppers?
23:53Sandhoppers?
23:54Um, is this like...
23:55Mollus of Snidarians?
23:56An order?
23:57I don't know.
23:59Um, I don't know.
24:00Snidaria?
24:01Snidaria.
24:02Snidaria.
24:02There's amphipods.
24:03Used by Romans
24:04to produce so-called sea silk,
24:06the Pinnat nobilis
24:07produces a number
24:08of byssus threads
24:09in order to attach itself
24:10to rocks.
24:11It is a fan variety
24:13of what general category
24:14of bivalve mollusk
24:15of which it is the largest
24:16in the Mediterranean?
24:17Muscle?
24:18No, it's not called
24:19Muscle or Oyster.
24:21Muscle.
24:22Muscle.
24:23Yes, three and a half minutes to go.
24:24The narrator of which 2005 novel
24:26begins by saying,
24:27I'm 31 years old
24:28and I've been a carer now
24:29for over 11 years.
24:31Chef Alba Sisi.
24:32Never Let Me Go.
24:33Never Let Me Go is correct.
24:34I agree.
24:34Yes, your bonuses
24:35on the artist
24:36Joseph Boyes.
24:38In 1982,
24:39Boyes proposed
24:39planting 7,000
24:40of what type of tree
24:41around the city of Castle?
24:43Each tree would be
24:43accompanied by
24:44a basil stone
24:45that was originally
24:46piled up
24:46in front of the museum
24:48Friderichianum.
24:49A one-word
24:49common name
24:50is enough here.
24:51Birch, maybe oak.
24:53Yeah.
24:53Birch.
24:54Birch, yeah.
24:55Birch.
24:55I'd like it's oak.
24:56What is the title
24:56of the piece by Boyes
24:57that features a Volkswagen bus
24:59trailed by 24 sleds,
25:00each containing a torch,
25:02a roll of felt
25:02and a lump of animal fat?
25:04Yeah, no clue.
25:07Pass.
25:07It's the pack.
25:08A performance piece by Boyes
25:09sees him explaining pictures
25:10to a dead body
25:11of what animal?
25:12One of these animals
25:13is depicted running
25:14across the tracks
25:14in JMW Turner's
25:16Rain, Steam, Speed.
25:17A rabbit.
25:18A rabbit?
25:18Yeah.
25:19Rabbit?
25:19I can't accept that.
25:21It is specifically a hare.
25:22Bad luck.
25:23Another starter question.
25:24What single short word
25:26can follow sand,
25:28bush,
25:28hard,
25:29thorn,
25:30high and low
25:31in the names
25:32of several different types
25:33of arid grassland
25:34that can be found
25:35across southern Africa?
25:37It is ultimately derived
25:38from an old Dutch word
25:39meaning field.
25:42Darwin Cameron.
25:43Velt?
25:44Yes, correct.
25:45Your bonuses are
25:46on the Spanish violin
25:47virtuoso
25:48Pablo de Sarasate.
25:49Among the many works
25:50dedicated to Sarasate
25:51are the second violin concerto
25:53and the Scottish fantasy
25:54of which German composer
25:55born in Cologne in 1838?
25:57Mendelssohn.
25:57No, it's Bruch.
25:58In which Pulitzer Prize winning novel
26:00by Edith Wharton
26:01set in the 1870s
26:02are Newland Archer
26:03and Ellen Olenska
26:04invited at one point...
26:05The Age of Innocence.
26:06Yes.
26:07Sarasate's own compositions
26:08include a fantasy
26:09on the music
26:10of which opera
26:10of 1875
26:11including its
26:13Aragonese,
26:13On Tract
26:14and the Segadilla
26:15and Habanera
26:16from Act 1.
26:17Habanera.
26:18Carmen.
26:19Carmen.
26:20Yes.
26:20Let's start with questions.
26:21In theology,
26:22what term may be used
26:23of all of these?
26:24The movable flap
26:25over the ears
26:26of an owl,
26:26the bony covering
26:27of the gills
26:28of a fish
26:29and the plate
26:30that secures
26:30the opening
26:31to the shell
26:32of a snail.
26:33It means lid
26:34or covering
26:35in Latin.
26:39Anyone?
26:41No, in camera.
26:42Uh, Cooper.
26:43No, quickly.
26:45No, I tell you,
26:46it's the operculum.
26:47Let's start the question.
26:48In 1825,
26:50how many US states
26:51were there?
26:51This number
26:52is exactly half that
26:53of the number of states
26:54100 years later.
26:55That is,
26:56between the admissions
26:57of Arizona and Alaska.
26:5924.
27:01It is 24, yes.
27:02Well done.
27:02Your bonuses are
27:03on Greek letters
27:04as used in physics
27:05and statistics.
27:06In each case,
27:06give the single Greek letter
27:07that conventionally represents
27:09both the concepts
27:10or quantities described.
27:11First, in physics,
27:13the radioactive decay constant
27:14of a nuclide
27:14and in the Poisson
27:15probability distribution,
27:17the expected rate
27:17of occurrences of an event.
27:19Is it lambda?
27:20I thought it was lambda.
27:20Oh, yeah, it is lambda.
27:22Lambda.
27:22Yes.
27:22Secondly, in physics,
27:23the fine structure constant
27:24and in statistics,
27:25the significance level
27:26is defined for a particular...
27:28Alpha.
27:28Yes.
27:29Finally, in physics,
27:29the Stefan Boltzmann constant
27:31and in statistics,
27:32standard deviation.
27:32Yes.
27:33Sigma.
27:33Yes, well done.
27:34Let's start the question.
27:35In Czech, German, Italian,
27:37Russian and French,
27:38respectively,
27:39names of what chess piece
27:40translate as gunner,
27:42runner, standard bearer...
27:44Rook.
27:45No, I'm afraid you lose
27:46five points.
27:46Elephant and fool or jester.
27:49Darwin White.
27:49The knight.
27:50No, it's a bishop.
27:51Let's start the question.
27:52In music theory,
27:53what two-word term...
27:54And out of the gun,
27:55Darwin have 115,
27:56and Sheffield have 155.
27:59APPLAUSE
28:01Oh, Darwin,
28:02I thought you were going to
28:02pull off the most monumental
28:03comeback there.
28:04There was about two minutes
28:05where I thought you were going
28:06to do this,
28:06and in the end,
28:07you didn't.
28:08But it's not goodbye.
28:09Get to see you again.
28:10Sheffield, can I just say,
28:11I really appreciated the fact
28:13that you played properly
28:14at the end
28:14and didn't waste any time.
28:15I think that was the spirit
28:16in which we should play the game.
28:16So well done.
28:17You've got to win again,
28:18alas,
28:18if you want to make it to the semi-finals.
28:19So we shall see you again.
28:21We look forward to that.
28:21I hope you can join us next time
28:23for another quarterfinal match,
28:24but until then,
28:25it is goodbye
28:25from Darwin College, Cambridge.
28:27Good night.
28:27Goodbye.
28:28It's goodbye from Sheffield University.
28:29Goodbye.
28:30And it's goodbye from me.
28:31Goodbye.
28:32APPLAUSE
28:49Good night.
28:54Bye.
28:56Bye.
28:57Bye.
29:00Bye.
29:01Bye.
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