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00:18University Challenge. Asking the questions, I'm Moe Roger.
00:28Hello and welcome to University Challenge. Tonight, the last of our eight quarter finalists
00:32will be playing their first of a possible three matches in this round of the competition.
00:36If they win, they'll have one foot in the semis, along with Edinburgh, Merton College,
00:40Oxford and Sheffield. But if they lose, they'll join Manchester, UCL and Darwin College, Cambridge
00:45on the brink of elimination. This year's team from Imperial lost their opening game narrowly
00:50to Churchill College, Cambridge, but still qualified for round two by beating Soas in
00:54a repishage playoff. Their subsequent match against Southampton was the closest and overall
00:59the highest scoring of the second round. At the gong, all that separated the teams was
01:03one five-point penalty and one correct bonus question. In that game, Imperial demonstrated
01:09impressively in-depth knowledge of astrophysics, computer science and the writer Wale Soyinka.
01:14And throughout the series so far, they've scored on average 190 points per game.
01:18Let's meet the team from Imperial for the fourth time.
01:21Hi, I'm Raheem Dina. I live in Peterborough. I'm doing a PhD in ecology and evolution.
01:26Hi, I'm Eugenia Tong. I'm from Hong Kong and I study chemistry.
01:30I'm their captain.
01:31Hi, I'm Oscar O'Flanagan. I'm from London and I'm doing a PhD in atmospheric physics.
01:36Hi, I'm Justin Koen. I'm from Hong Kong and I study computing.
01:43Our last quarter finalists this year are the team from Warwick, who began their series campaign
01:47with a remarkable victory over Sheffield, in which they overturned a deficit of 115 points.
01:53In their second round match against Bristol, they also had to come from behind, albeit
01:57slightly less far behind. They took the lead for the first time in the second picture round
02:01and then pulled ahead with a good run of answers on Indonesian geography, potassium and the novels
02:07of Virginia Woolf. With an average score so far of 195 points, let's meet the team from Warwick
02:12once again.
02:14Hi, I'm Josh Howarth. I'm from St Albans in Hertfordshire and I study history.
02:18Hi, I'm Anthony Klusowski. I'm from Chingford in North London and I study English, literature
02:22and history.
02:23And their captain.
02:24Hi, I'm Chris Leavesley. I'm from Derby and I study maths.
02:27Hi, I'm Lucy Dennett. I'm from Southest London and I study politics and international studies.
02:35Welcome back. You all know how this works. So shall we crack on with it? Let's do it.
02:39Alright, fingers and buzzers, here's your first starter for ten. Good luck.
02:43Published in 1982, issue number one of the comic book Warrior contained the first instalment
02:49of a black and white series that would eventually be published as a graphic novel under what title?
02:54It opens with its protagonist, Evie Hammond, being detained by a member of the Fingermen,
02:59a secret police unit.
03:00Warren Dennett.
03:02FIFA Vendetta?
03:03It is indeed. Well done.
03:04Your bonuses are three questions on the labours of Heracles or Hercules.
03:09Unusual among his labours in that it did not involve a dangerous beast,
03:13the ninth labour of Heracles required the hero to obtain the belt or girdle of which Amazon queen?
03:19She later married Theseus.
03:20Hippolyta.
03:21Yes.
03:22In his tenth labour, Heracles journeyed to the distant island of Erythia
03:26to capture the cattle of which giant, variously described as having three heads or three bodies?
03:31Yes.
03:31Heracles again needed to travel far from Greece for his eleventh labour,
03:35the taking of the golden apples of which group of nymphs whose name means...
03:39Yes, well done.
03:41Now to start the question.
03:43I need a specific word here.
03:46Historically used to refer to the study of nature or natural philosophy,
03:50which ultimately Greek-derived word gained its modern meaning
03:53via the title of a 1542 work written by Jean Fernell,
03:57which, along with Pathologia and Therapeutis,
04:00formed a trilogy known as the Universa Medicina?
04:03The word in question can be found in the full name of the Nobel Prize,
04:07whose first recipient...
04:08Imperialo Flanagan.
04:10Physiology.
04:11Well done.
04:11It is indeed, yeah.
04:13Three questions for you, Imperialo,
04:14on people born in the UK
04:15who have played in the National Basketball Association, or NBA.
04:19Oh, dear.
04:19The London-born Oji Anunobi won an NBA championship in 2019
04:23as part of which Eastern Conference team?
04:26Their victory over the Golden State Warriors
04:28marked this team's first NBA championship,
04:30led by Finals MVP Kawi Leonard.
04:33They are the only NBA team to play their home games
04:36outside of the United States.
04:39Oh, Toronto Raptors.
04:41Oh, OK.
04:42Toronto Raptors.
04:43Toronto Raptors.
04:44Yes.
04:44Born in Farnham, Joel Freeland spent three years in the NBA
04:48playing for the Portland Trail Blazers
04:49as a power forward and centre,
04:51positions that are designated with which two numbers?
04:55In Rugby Union, these two numbers are assigned
04:57to a squad's second row.
05:00Six, five and six.
05:02Six and five?
05:04Yes.
05:04All right.
05:05Six and five?
05:06No, it's four and five.
05:07Bad luck.
05:08Also born in London, Ben Gordon was drafted in 2004
05:11by which NBA team?
05:12He won the league's sixth Man of the Year award
05:14during his rookie season,
05:16which came the year following Scotty Pippen's retirement
05:18after having won six championships for this team
05:20in the 1990s with teammate Michael Jordan.
05:23Bulls?
05:24Chicago Bulls?
05:24Oh, yeah.
05:26The Bulls.
05:26Chicago Bulls.
05:28Correct, yeah.
05:29Let's start with the question.
05:30What is the short one-word title
05:31of the Unix-based 1980 video game
05:34created by Michael Toy and Glenn Wickman
05:37in which players navigate a series of random...
05:40Warwick Leesley.
05:40Rogue.
05:41It is rogue, yes.
05:42Well done.
05:43Your bonuses, Warwick,
05:44are three questions on theoretical physics.
05:45Which U.S. physicist born in 1918 gives his name
05:49to a type of diagram representing interactions
05:52between elementary particles?
05:54Feynman.
05:54Correct.
05:55Feynman diagrams represent antiparticles
05:57as ordinary matter particles propagating backwards in time,
06:01an interpretation earlier proposed by
06:03and often jointly named after
06:05which Swiss mathematician and physicist?
06:08Who's Swiss?
06:09Maybe Bernoulli?
06:10Could be Bernoulli.
06:11Bernoulli?
06:11That was Ernst Stoeckelberg.
06:13On a Feynman diagram,
06:15fermions are represented with straight lines,
06:17photons, W and Z bosons with wavy lines
06:20and gluons with helices.
06:22Which specific elementary particle
06:25is conventionally represented with a dashed line?
06:36I'm not sure.
06:37Just as good as that is.
06:38Electron.
06:39No, that's the Higgs boson.
06:41Picture round now.
06:41And for your picture starter,
06:42you're going to see the logo
06:43of a British governmental organisation.
06:46For ten points,
06:47I need you to give me the organisation's name.
06:51Imperial and Flanagan.
06:52The Department for Waterways.
06:54No.
06:58Warwick Dennis.
06:59The Department for Food and Rural Affairs.
07:01No.
07:02It's historic England.
07:04Bad luck.
07:04Another start of the question.
07:05After serving in the Black Pioneers Unit
07:08of the Loyalist Army
07:09during the American War of Independence,
07:11Thomas Peters would go on to become
07:13one of the so-called founding fathers
07:15of which African country?
07:17Following his...
07:18Warwick Kluzowski.
07:19Liberia.
07:20I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
07:21You can hear more of the question,
07:22but you may not confer, Imperial.
07:24Following his military service,
07:25Peters had attempted to negotiate land grants
07:27for black veterans
07:28with the governor of Nova Scotia
07:30before eventually settling
07:31in this country's modern-day capital
07:33of Freetown.
07:35Imperial Dena.
07:36Sierra Leone.
07:37It is Sierra Leone.
07:38Well done.
07:39For your picture starter a moment ago,
07:40you saw the logo of Historic England,
07:42the country's largest public body
07:44dedicated to heritage.
07:45For your picture bonuses,
07:46you'll see the logos
07:47of three more public heritage organisations
07:49from around the world.
07:51Five points for each country you can name
07:53and note that some lettering
07:54will have been removed from each.
07:56First, this is the logo
07:58of which Commonwealth country
08:00heritage body?
08:02Ooh.
08:04Does that building ring a bell for anyone?
08:06Could it be an island or something?
08:07No, I don't think it's...
08:08What's the...
08:09Bahamas symbol?
08:11What's that bottom symbol
08:12meant to represent?
08:13I don't know.
08:15What did you do?
08:17Bahamas.
08:18I don't know.
08:18Yeah, why not?
08:19The Bahamas.
08:20No, that could have taken quite some time.
08:21No, that's New Zealand.
08:22Bad luck.
08:23Secondly,
08:23this is the logo
08:24of the National Heritage Council
08:26of which African country?
08:29Any details from a flag we can see?
08:32Is that an ibex on the bottom?
08:35We'll figure out how long
08:35the country name is, no?
08:37Oh, is it like...
08:38Yeah, I guess we can.
08:40Is it like South Sudan?
08:42Or South Africa?
08:43No, it's too long for that black flag.
08:44Too long to be South Sudan, I think.
08:45South Africa?
08:46Too long, I think.
08:48Come on.
08:49Sudan.
08:50Sudan.
08:51No, it's Namibia.
08:52Lastly, this is the logo
08:53for the National Monuments Centre
08:55of which European country?
08:57Ooh.
08:58OK, let's have a...
08:59Oh, these are...
09:00Greece?
09:01Or Italy?
09:03I...
09:04I can't recognise any of these.
09:07Um...
09:07Any ideas?
09:09Greece.
09:10That's France.
09:11Now, let's start with a question.
09:13In the collection of the Courtauld Gallery,
09:15a group portrait of the family
09:16of Jan Bruegel the Elder
09:18from the 1610s
09:20is by which other Flemish artist,
09:22born in 1577.
09:24This artist was a close friend of Bruegel
09:26and collaborated with him
09:28on a number of works,
09:29including a series of paintings
09:30on the...
09:31Imperial Kong.
09:32Rubens?
09:32It is Rubens.
09:33Well done.
09:34Your bonuses and free questions
09:35on a prize.
09:36In early 2025,
09:38M.K. Stalin,
09:39the premier of the Indian state
09:40of Tamil Nadu,
09:41offered a $1 million US dollar prize
09:44for the deciphering
09:45of what ancient script?
09:47Research into this script
09:48began with the engineer
09:49Alexander Cunningham's publication
09:50of an inscribed seal
09:52he had excavated at Harappa.
09:55This is the Indus script
09:56of the Indus River Valley script.
09:57Yeah, I know.
09:57What is it called?
09:58Indic?
09:59I don't know.
09:59It might just be
10:00Indus River Valley script
10:01or something.
10:01Sure.
10:02Indus River Valley script?
10:04Yes.
10:04Well done.
10:06Efforts to decipher Indus script
10:07often revolve around
10:09the frequent use of symbols
10:10depicting what animal
10:11theorised variously
10:12to represent stars,
10:13gods or precious goods.
10:17What animal is an Indian?
10:18Cows?
10:19Cow are a big deal
10:20in prehistory.
10:21Cows?
10:22They are a big deal
10:22but it's definitely not cows,
10:23but it's fish.
10:24Attempts to locate the Indus
10:25or Harapan language
10:26within the Dravidian language family
10:28have emphasised the Indus script's
10:30use of a symbol
10:31for what material,
10:32which some researchers
10:33have claimed
10:34is related to a
10:35proto-Dravidian word
10:36for elephant?
10:38Ivory?
10:39Oh, sure.
10:41Ivory?
10:42Yes, well done.
10:42Let's start the question.
10:44Which element
10:45of the periodic table
10:46has ten stable isotopes
10:48more than any other element
10:49with the atomic weights
10:51of all of them
10:52lying between 112
10:53and 124?
10:55This element's large number
10:56of stable isotopes
10:57is thought to be related
10:58to its magic atomic number
11:00and its 120 isotope
11:02is the one most commonly found
11:04in nature,
11:05often in the form
11:06of its principal
11:07or cassiterite.
11:14No, you may not confer.
11:17Anyone want to have a guess?
11:21Zirconium.
11:22No, it's tin.
11:23Let's start the question.
11:24From an archaic
11:25or regional word
11:26meaning hedgehog,
11:27what word has since
11:28the 16th century
11:29been applied
11:29in the words of the OED
11:30with commiserative force
11:32to children poorly,
11:33raggedly
11:34or untidily clothed?
11:35This word also follows...
11:38Urchin?
11:39It is, actually.
11:39Well worked out, yes.
11:41Your bonuses, Warren,
11:42are on the National Film Awards
11:43of non-anglophone countries.
11:45The National Film Awards
11:47of which country
11:47are nicknamed
11:48the Lolas
11:49after, among other things,
11:50the 1999 winner
11:51of its Best Film Award,
11:53Run, Lola, Run,
11:54directed by Tom Tikva.
11:56New Zealand?
11:57New Zealand.
11:58No, it's Germany.
11:58Taking their name
12:00from an essay
12:00by Uruguayan author
12:01Jose Enrique Rodot,
12:03the Ariel Awards
12:04are the National Film Awards
12:05of which country?
12:07Recent winners
12:07of the Ariel Award
12:08for Best Picture
12:09include Totem
12:09and Northern Skies
12:11over Empty Space.
12:14No, we haven't heard of it.
12:17We haven't heard of it, so no.
12:20Mexico?
12:21Mexico?
12:22It is Mexico, yes.
12:24Finally,
12:24the Blue Dragon Awards
12:25are awarded annually
12:26in which country?
12:27Winners in the 21st century
12:29have included
12:29a taxi driver,
12:31Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
12:32and Parasite.
12:34South Korea.
12:35It is South Korea, yes.
12:37Let's start with the question.
12:38The escarpment
12:39known as the Drakensberg
12:40forms part of the border
12:42between what...
12:43Imperial Tong.
12:44South African Lesotho.
12:45Well done.
12:46Yes, indeed.
12:47Your bonuses, Imperial,
12:48are on the seven modes
12:49of the Western musical tradition.
12:51What name is given
12:52to a mode
12:53which in its modern form
12:54comprises a natural minor scale
12:56with a second degree
12:57flattened by one semitone?
12:59It takes its name
13:00from an ancient Anatolian kingdom
13:01whose leaders include
13:02Kings Gordias and Midas.
13:04Oh, is this the Lydian?
13:06Oh, yeah.
13:07The Lydian.
13:07No, it's the Phrygian.
13:08Sometimes called
13:09the Hyper Aeolian,
13:11what other name
13:11is given to the mode
13:12which in its modern form
13:13comprises a natural minor scale
13:15with the second
13:16and fifth degrees
13:17of the scale
13:18flattened by one semitone?
13:19This name comes
13:20from that of a kingdom
13:21which, according to Greek legend,
13:22was led by the father
13:23of the Greek hero
13:24Ajax the Lesser.
13:26This is natural minor
13:27with the second
13:27and fifth flattened.
13:28This must be the Locrian, right?
13:29I don't know.
13:31The Locrian?
13:32Yes.
13:32Finally, which mode,
13:33synonymous with the
13:34diatonic major scale,
13:35takes its name
13:36from an ancient region
13:37that was situated
13:38on the central west coast
13:39of modern Turkey?
13:41Ionian, right?
13:42I think...
13:43I don't know.
13:45The Ionian?
13:46Yes.
13:46Well done.
13:47Let's start the question.
13:48Music round now.
13:48Now, for your music starter,
13:49you're going to hear
13:50an extract from an opera.
13:52For ten points,
13:52I need you to name
13:53the composer.
14:08Forkofiev's The Love for Three Oranges.
14:13For your bonuses,
14:14three more marches from operas.
14:16I need you to name
14:16the composer in each case.
14:18First, this composer.
14:30Can you hear vibrato?
14:35Why is the march so slow?
14:37I want to say Elgar,
14:38but it's not that piece.
14:40He didn't write operas, did he?
14:44Mendelssohn?
14:45Oh, it's...
14:46No, that's not...
14:46Do you think it's...
14:47Of course, I feel it's Mendelssohn.
14:48Mendelssohn?
14:49Mendelssohn.
14:50No, it's Mozart.
14:51That was the priest's march
14:52from the magic flute.
14:53Secondly,
14:54the French composer of this piece,
14:56often staged as an opera.
15:11Um...
15:13Oh, I love Banyos.
15:15Banyos?
15:16Yes, the Hungarian march
15:17from the damnation of Faust.
15:18Lastly, this Italian composer.
15:23This...
15:23Verdi.
15:24It's Aida, is it?
15:25I think so, Tom.
15:26It's horrible.
15:28Verdi.
15:29Yes, well done.
15:30Let's start the question.
15:31What term of endearment
15:32links all of the following?
15:34The name of a trans actor
15:35who is one of Warhol's superstars...
15:38Roy Cleansley, darling.
15:39Well done.
15:40It is indeed.
15:41Your bonuses were on the chess-playing computer programmes
15:44known as Engines.
15:46Which chess engine won the inaugural knockout
15:48Top Chess Engine Championship,
15:50or TCEC,
15:51Cup in 2018,
15:53and has won the majority of the cup since?
15:55It shares its name with a Norwegian seafood product
15:57preserved on drying racks.
15:59Stockfish.
15:59Yes.
16:00In 2018,
16:01which engine became the first to use a neural network
16:04and compete in the TCEC?
16:07I need a three-word name,
16:08the first part of which it shares
16:10with that of a character from Futurama.
16:13This is Leela,
16:15but I don't know what the other bits of Leela are.
16:17Do you have any idea?
16:19No.
16:20Pass.
16:21Bad luck, Anthony.
16:22It's Leela Chess Zero.
16:23Bad luck.
16:24Which supercomputer and precursor
16:26to modern chess engines
16:27achieved prominence in the mid-1990s
16:29with two matches
16:30against world champion Garry Kasparov?
16:32The latter...
16:33Deep Blue.
16:33..was, of course, yeah.
16:34That's another question.
16:35Which astronomical observatory,
16:37located on the Cerro Pacron Ridge in Chile,
16:40contains a 3,200 megapixel camera
16:43said to be the largest digital camera ever built,
16:45which will be used to create
16:47an ultra-high-definition time-lapse record
16:49of the universe over a period of 10 years.
16:51Formerly known as
16:52the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope,
16:54it was renamed in 2019
16:56after an American astronomer
16:58whose work on galactic rotation
17:00helped evidence the existence...
17:02Imperial O'Flanagan.
17:03Rubin.
17:04Yes, it is the Vera Rubin Observatory.
17:06Well done.
17:06Your bonuses, Imperial,
17:08are on literary works with similar titles.
17:10The title of which 1973 novel by Martin Amis
17:13refers to a set of obsessional notes
17:16and observations
17:16kept by protagonist Charles Highway
17:18about a woman he first meets
17:20while preparing for his Oxford University
17:21entrance exams.
17:23The Notebook?
17:25The Notebook.
17:26Very much not.
17:27It's the Rachel Papers.
17:28The Purcell Papers
17:29is a collection of Gothic short stories
17:32by which 19th-century Irish author,
17:34whose other works include the novel
17:36Uncle Silas
17:37and the collection In a Glass Darkly,
17:39the latter containing the vampire tale
17:41Camilla?
17:42Sheridan Lafano.
17:44What?
17:45Sheridan Lafano.
17:46Nominate Tom.
17:47Sheridan Lafano.
17:48Yes, it is indeed.
17:49Well done.
17:49The story of an editor
17:50who is trying to procure
17:51the titular documents
17:52from the elderly widow
17:53of a famous poet,
17:55The Aspern Papers,
17:56is a novella of 1888
17:58by which American-British writer,
18:00born in New York City in 1843...
18:03Ooh.
18:04American-British.
18:06I don't know.
18:07Um...
18:07No. Pass.
18:08That's Henry James.
18:09Oh.
18:10Let's start the question.
18:11In his early 50s,
18:12Lord George Murray,
18:14a younger son
18:14of the first Duke of Athol,
18:16served as lieutenant-general
18:17under which British royal figure,
18:19more than 20 years his junior?
18:21Murray was involved
18:22in the controversial decision
18:23to retreat from Derby
18:24and is often credited...
18:25Imperial and Flanagan.
18:27Bonnie Prince Charlie?
18:28Yes, he's in charge of his truth.
18:30Well done.
18:30Three questions
18:31on 14th-century Europe.
18:33The 14th-century
18:34Holy Roman Emperors
18:35Henry VII
18:36and Charles IV
18:37were members
18:38of what royal house?
18:40It shares its name
18:41with a present-day
18:42European country.
18:44House of...
18:45What have we got?
18:46Luxembourg.
18:47No, I don't know.
18:48We've got the whole
18:48and Stalfman place.
18:49It's not that.
18:49Could it just be like
18:50House of Vienna?
18:51Probably not.
18:51Country.
18:52Country.
18:52Country.
18:53Oh, yeah.
18:53Oh, House of Austria.
18:55House of Austria?
18:56It was Luxembourg.
18:57Oh.
18:57In 1356,
18:59Charles IV issued
19:00a proclamation
19:01regulating the process
19:02of election
19:02of the Holy Roman Emperor.
19:04This decree is usually
19:05known in English
19:06by what two-word name
19:07that includes a word
19:09for a kind of seal?
19:13Justin Lee is screaming
19:14at us right now.
19:17The...
19:18Wax?
19:19The gold...
19:20The gold lock.
19:22Bad luck.
19:22It's the golden bull.
19:23Unlucky.
19:24From 1346 to 1378,
19:26Charles IV ruled
19:27as emperor
19:27from what city,
19:29founding the university
19:30that bears his name?
19:31Is it like Prague?
19:34There's a Charles
19:34something university
19:35in...
19:36I think they did
19:36sometimes rule from Prague.
19:37Prague?
19:38It is Prague, yes.
19:39Picture round now.
19:40For your picture starter,
19:41you'll see a painting
19:42by an American artist.
19:44For ten points,
19:44give me the artist's name.
19:48Warrick Kluzowski.
19:49Church.
19:49It is Frederick Church.
19:50Well done.
19:52Following on
19:52from Frederick Church's
19:53depiction of Niagara Falls,
19:54which you saw
19:55for your picture starter,
19:56Warrick,
19:56your picture bonuses
19:57are three more paintings
19:58that also prominently
19:59feature rainbows,
20:00this time all
20:01by British artists.
20:03Five points
20:03for each artist
20:04you can name.
20:05First,
20:06who painted this?
20:09This is actually
20:10pretty awful.
20:10I like this man around.
20:11OK, I'm going to
20:13just rattle it off.
20:14I'm going to say...
20:15What stars, maybe?
20:15Millais?
20:16Millais.
20:18Yes.
20:18Second,
20:19which 18th century
20:20artist painted this?
20:2218th century,
20:23so this is going to be
20:23an 18th century guy.
20:24What's the 18th century guy?
20:25What's the 18th century guy?
20:26What's the 18th century guy?
20:26What's the 18th century guy?
20:27This is not the headway in there.
20:28Um,
20:29it's not Constable.
20:30It's not Constable.
20:31Reynolds.
20:32Reynolds.
20:33No, it's Joseph Wright of Derby,
20:34Landscape with the Rainbow,
20:35from 1794.
20:36Finally,
20:37who is the artist here?
20:39Constable.
20:39Constable.
20:40That is Constable, yeah.
20:41Let's start the question.
20:42In the Oxford English Dictionary,
20:43which ancient thinker
20:44is cited in translation
20:46under more than 200 headwords?
20:48These including
20:49speculative,
20:50third man,
20:51aristocracy,
20:52timocracy,
20:53antithesis,
20:54hamartia,
20:55and political animal.
20:57Warren Dennett.
20:59Aristotle.
21:00It is Aristotle, yes.
21:01Go on.
21:01Your bonuses, then, Warren,
21:03are on a phylogenetic classification.
21:05Including the giant anteater,
21:08nine-banded armadillo,
21:09and the two-toed sloth,
21:10the superorder Zenatha
21:12had previously been classified
21:13as part of which
21:15now defunct order,
21:16so named for its species
21:17supposed lack of teeth?
21:20Teeth?
21:21Uh,
21:21maybe like Adontera or something?
21:24Yeah, like Adontera.
21:25Adontera.
21:26Adontera?
21:27I'm afraid that's not close enough.
21:28I can't accept that.
21:29It's Eden Tata
21:30that we were looking for.
21:32Bad luck.
21:33Zenatha mammals
21:34had previously been classed
21:35as Eden Tates,
21:36alongside which
21:37old-world animal
21:38of the order
21:39Folidota,
21:40which, like the aardvark,
21:41was later reclassified?
21:43Old-world...
21:44Is the echinah in?
21:45Uh, no.
21:47Maybe.
21:47Could be...
21:48Yeah.
21:49Echidna?
21:50No, it's a pangolin.
21:51Zenatha is divided
21:52into two orders,
21:53Singulata,
21:54in which armadillos can be found,
21:56and Pilosa,
21:57which contains sloths
21:58and anteaters,
21:59and whose Latin name
22:00indicates that species
22:01within it
22:02have what physical
22:03characteristic?
22:04Is it something
22:05with female rulers?
22:07Pilosa?
22:07Pilosa.
22:08Hair?
22:09Pilosa.
22:10Pilosa could be hairy.
22:11Hair?
22:12Yes, it means they're hairy.
22:14Ten points in it,
22:15six minutes to go.
22:16In 1817,
22:17Thomas Rickman
22:18published a groundbreaking work
22:19entitled
22:19An Attempt to Discriminate
22:21the Styles of English
22:22What?
22:23From the Conquest
22:24to the Reformation.
22:25He was the first
22:26to divide the medieval styles
22:27in this field
22:28into Norman,
22:29early English...
22:31Castles?
22:31I'm afraid you lose
22:32five points.
22:33Decorated English
22:34and perpendicular English.
22:37Imperial O'Flanagan?
22:38Gothic architecture?
22:39No, that's too specific,
22:41I'm afraid.
22:41It's just architecture
22:42that we needed,
22:43and Norman is not a style
22:44of Gothic architecture.
22:45Bad luck.
22:46Another question.
22:47I need a two-word term here.
22:50When asked by the Soviet
22:51Laboratory of the Plywood Trust
22:52to devise a method
22:53for producing wooden sheets
22:54with as little waste
22:56as possible,
22:57Leonid Kantorovich
22:58began work
22:59on what would eventually
22:59become
23:00which mathematical technique
23:02for maximising
23:03or minimising
23:03the results
23:04of an objective function...
23:07Imperial count.
23:08Optimisation.
23:09No, I'm afraid you lose
23:10five points.
23:10Within given constraints.
23:13Or a clean slate.
23:14The simplex method.
23:15No, Chris, that's too specific,
23:17and, Justin, I'm afraid
23:18you weren't quite specific enough.
23:19I needed to hear
23:20linear programming,
23:22though I would have taken
23:22linear optimisation.
23:24Another starter question.
23:26Which decade of the 19th century
23:27saw the birth of Thomas Hardy,
23:29the marriage of Robert Browning
23:31and Elizabeth Barrett,
23:32and the death
23:33of Frederic Chopin?
23:35Imperial O'Flanagan.
23:361840s?
23:37Yes, it is indeed.
23:38Bad luck.
23:39I think you knew that as well.
23:40Your bonuses, then, Imperial,
23:41are on the Amazon
23:42and its tributaries.
23:43The Putumayo
23:44is a tributary of the Amazon
23:45that flows mainly eastwards
23:47from what country,
23:48forming borders
23:48with two countries
23:49to the south
23:50before entering Brazil?
23:51Two countries to the south.
23:53Before entering Brazil?
23:54I don't know.
23:54Like Peru and Bolivia or something?
23:56Colombia.
23:57I don't know.
23:57No, not to the south, though.
23:58South of Brazil,
23:59are you saying?
24:00Or south of Brazil?
24:00And then to Brazil.
24:01Come on.
24:02Peru and Bolumbia.
24:03Colombia.
24:04Colombia.
24:04No, the answer I needed
24:05was Colombia.
24:06The Madeira
24:07is a large tributary
24:08that begins at a confluence
24:10in the northeast
24:10of what country?
24:11It goes on to form
24:12this country's border
24:13with Brazil
24:14before flowing northeast
24:15to join the Amazon
24:16in the region of Manaus.
24:18Manaus?
24:19Manaus is in Amazonas,
24:20which is near the north.
24:21So, what's it near to?
24:22Peru? Ecuador?
24:23Venice.
24:24But it could float
24:26on that side as well.
24:27Now, what are you going...
24:27You know this better than I do.
24:30I don't know.
24:30In Venezuela?
24:31In Venezuela?
24:32No, it's Bolivia.
24:32The Ucayali
24:33and the Marañon
24:34are two major headstreams
24:36of the Amazon
24:37that rise in the Andes
24:38in what country?
24:39Their confluence
24:40is south-southwest
24:41of the river port
24:42of Iquitos.
24:43Iquitos?
24:43Is it a bit awkward?
24:44No.
24:44Yeah, no, that's Quito.
24:46Wait.
24:46Is it obviously just like
24:47being Peru?
24:47I don't know.
24:48I don't know.
24:48It hasn't been Peru yet.
24:49Peru?
24:50It is Peru.
24:50Yes.
24:51Let's start the question.
24:52Meaning cut into chunks,
24:54what short word
24:55is used in Hawaiian cuisine
24:56for a dish consisting
24:58of small pieces
24:58of dress...
24:59In Peru or Flanagan?
25:01Poke?
25:01It is poke, yes.
25:02Your bonus is
25:03a few questions
25:04on disguise
25:04in Shakespeare's plays.
25:06In Act 2,
25:07Scene 4 of Witch Plays,
25:08does a character
25:08disguised as a servant
25:09named Cesario
25:10declare,
25:11My father had a daughter
25:12loved a man
25:12as it might be.
25:13Perhaps were I a woman,
25:14I should your lordship.
25:16OK, South Knight.
25:17Yes.
25:17In which play
25:17does Julia ask her maid,
25:19Lucetta,
25:19to help disguise her
25:20as a boy
25:21in order to deter
25:22lascivious men
25:23as she travels to Milan...
25:24The Taming of the Shrew.
25:25No, it's the Two Gentlemen
25:26of Verona.
25:27In King Lear,
25:27which character assumes
25:28the identity of poor Tom
25:29by saying,
25:30My face I'll grime with filth,
25:31blanket my loins,
25:33alpha my hair in off...
25:34It is Edgar.
25:35Well done.
25:36Next question.
25:37Which letter of the alphabet
25:38denotes the most common
25:39double helical structure
25:40adopted by DNA
25:41under natural conditions?
25:43It is also the first...
25:44Alpha?
25:44Alpha?
25:45Oh, no, sorry.
25:47It is also the first letter
25:48of the alphabet
25:49that is not used
25:50in the single letter
25:50amino acid code.
25:53Z.
25:54No, it's B.
25:55Another starter question.
25:56What three-digit number
25:57is shared by the number
25:58of Penelope's suitors
26:00in the Odyssey
26:00and the number of outlaws
26:02or stars of destiny...
26:04...in the...
26:04...in the...
26:05...in the...
26:05...in the...
26:06It is 108, yes.
26:08Three questions for you
26:09on a process
26:10in industrial chemistry.
26:11Also used to produce
26:12zirconium and hafnium,
26:14the Kroll process
26:15is the primary method
26:16used today
26:16to extract which group 4 metal
26:18from ores including
26:19ilmenite and rutile.
26:21This metal is strong
26:22and lightweight
26:23with multiple
26:24industrial applications.
26:25Titanium.
26:26Yes.
26:26Today, the process
26:27usually involves reducing
26:28a tetrachloride of titanium
26:30with which group 2 metal?
26:32Grignard reagents
26:33are organic compounds
26:34of this metal.
26:35Magnetium.
26:36Yes.
26:36The reduction is carried out
26:37in an inert atmosphere,
26:39usually either helium
26:40or which other noble gas?
26:41Also used for this purpose
26:42in welding
26:43and in incandescent light bulbs.
26:45Neon.
26:46I thought...
26:47No, argon.
26:47Yeah, argon.
26:48Yes, it is.
26:49I need a two-word term here.
26:52By the Berlin and Milan decrees
26:54from 1806,
26:55Napoleon I instituted
26:57what economic strategy
26:58against Britain?
27:00Imperial and Flanagan.
27:02The continental system.
27:03Yes, it is indeed.
27:04The bonuses then,
27:05three questions
27:05on depictions
27:06of a historical figure.
27:07The 1890 painting
27:09What is Truth
27:09by Russian artist
27:11Nikolai Gay
27:11depicts which figure
27:13questioning Jesus
27:14as recounted
27:15in chapter 18
27:16of John's Gospel?
27:18Who questions Jesus?
27:19I don't know.
27:20John's...
27:20Judas, I don't know.
27:22Thomas?
27:23Thomas.
27:23No, that's Pontius Pilate.
27:25In which novel
27:26by Mikhail Bulgakov
27:27does one of the title characters
27:28write a novel
27:29about Pontius Pilate,
27:30the contents of which
27:31are included
27:32as a novel
27:32within the novel?
27:34Marta Margarita,
27:35Heart of the Dog,
27:36I don't know.
27:37Kovzato.
27:37Heart of the Dog?
27:38No, it's the master
27:39of the way to have had that.
27:40Who played the role
27:41of Pontius Pilate
27:42in the 1979 film
27:43Life of Brian?
27:44Oh, no.
27:48Come on.
27:49John Cleese.
27:49No, it was Michael Palin.
27:51Now, let's start the question.
27:52Which king was
27:53on the English throne
27:54at the time
27:54of the deaths
27:55of Giotto, Petrarch
27:56and Boccaccio
27:57and the births
27:58of Christine de Pizan
27:58and Geoffrey Chaucer?
28:01The Imperial of Flanagan.
28:02Edward III.
28:03It was Edward III, yes.
28:04The bonuses are on me.
28:05And that's the God of Warwick
28:06of 1005
28:07with a period of 190.
28:11Well, I think that scoreline
28:12is brutally unfair to you
28:13because it was so close
28:14until about three minutes to go
28:16and you knew all the answers
28:17to all the bonuses
28:18which they got at the end.
28:19But bad luck, guys.
28:20It's not the end.
28:20We get to see you again,
28:22which means this is not
28:23the end of the road,
28:24which is a good thing
28:24because you're a fantastic team.
28:26Imperial,
28:27you just sort of ran away
28:28with it at the end
28:29and made it look kind of easy,
28:30which was nice.
28:30Got into a rhythm.
28:31Congratulations.
28:32Well done.
28:32I hope you can join us next time
28:33for another quarterfinal match.
28:35But until then,
28:36it is goodbye from Warwick.
28:37Goodbye.
28:38It's goodbye from Imperial.
28:39Goodbye.
28:40And it's goodbye from me.
28:41Goodbye.
28:41I hope you can join us next time.
29:11Bye.
29:12Bye.
29:12Bye.
29:12Bye.
29:12Bye.
29:12Bye.
29:12Bye.