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00:27Hello and welcome to the
00:29second round of this year's University Challenge. In this stage of the competition, starting
00:33tonight, 16 teams will play each other in eight knockout matches, with the winners
00:37and only the winners going through to the quarterfinals. There's no repechage in this
00:41round. Losing by any margin means the end of the road. The team from Magdalen College,
00:47Oxford earned their place in round two with a convincing win over Robinson College, Cambridge.
00:51After a slightly slow start, they dominated the middle third of that match, and though
00:55Robinson rallied bravely towards the end, the damage had already been done, and the final
01:00score was more than 245, Robinson 105. So far, they've looked strong on geography, history
01:05and biochemistry, but less so on literature, with the exception, of course, of the poetry
01:10of Kendrick Lamar, which they recognised very quickly. Let's beat the team from Magdalen
01:14once again.
01:15My name is Aidan Wu. I'm from Sydney, Australia, and I'm studying history and politics.
01:20Hi, I'm Lily Costa-Ferrara. I'm from southwest London, and I study human sciences.
01:24And their captain.
01:25I'm Benjamin Sharkey. I'm from Harrow in North London, and I'm doing a doctorate in history.
01:30Hi, I'm Sasha Walker. I'm from Ely in Cambridgeshire, and I'm studying for a master's in computer
01:35science.
01:40Darwin College, Cambridge are here tonight, having beaten Oxford's Green Templeton College.
01:44That match was a cagey, low-scoring contest with a dramatic finale. With seconds to go,
01:48the scores were level, and Darwin had just won themselves a bonus set somehow. Under enormous
01:53pressure, they remembered that Charles X was the last French king crowned at Reims, just
01:58in time to put them five points ahead at the gong. Before that, they'd answered well on modern
02:03art and Chinese geography, but shockingly failed to identify the music of David Bowie.
02:08Let's meet them for the second time.
02:10Hi, I'm Louis Strachan. I'm from North Lanarkshire, and I'm doing a PhD in parasite biology.
02:16Hello, I'm Ruth Newver-Hertig. I'm from Cork in Ireland, and I study education.
02:20And their captain.
02:21Hello, I'm Louis Cameron. I'm from London, and I'm doing a PhD in English.
02:26Hi, my name's Jonathan White. I'm from Buckinghamshire. I'm studying for a PhD in geography.
02:30APPLAUSE
02:33You know the rules. Remember them?
02:36Good. Let's get going.
02:37Fingers on buzzers. Here's your first, second round starter for ten. Good luck.
02:42George Lukács' landmark 1937 study of the historical novel begins with a discussion of the works of
02:49which writer, born in 1771?
02:51Lukács writes his greatness lies in his capacity to portray the typically human terms
02:56in which great historical trends become tangible. In his life work, we meet with the most important
03:01personalities of English and even French history. Richard Kerr de Lyon, Louis XI, Elizabeth,
03:07Mary Stewart, Cromwell, etc. Yet he is never prompted by a feeling of romantically...
03:11Darwin Cameron.
03:12Walter Scott.
03:13..it is Walter Scott, yes. Your bonuses are on artists who studied at Paris' Académie de la Grande Chaumière,
03:20founded in 1904 by Martha Stetler and Alice Dannenberg. Name each artist from the description.
03:26First, a painter born in Warsaw in 1898 who studied under André Lotte at the Academy.
03:31Her works have a distinctive art deco style influenced by cubism and include a self-portrait in a green
03:37Bugatti sports car.
03:39I think this is Tamara de Lempica.
03:41Yeah.
03:42Tamara de Lempica.
03:43Yes.
03:44Secondly, a photographer born in Ohio in 1898, she studied sculpture at the Academy before becoming
03:50an assistant to Man Ray and her works include Changing New York, a series of documentary photographs
03:54of the city for the Federal Art Project.
03:57I think this is Leigh Miller.
03:59I think she was associated with Man Ray.
04:01I don't really know.
04:01Anything?
04:02I can't think of anything.
04:03Leigh Miller.
04:04No, it's Berenice Abbott.
04:05Finally, a French-born sculptor who attended the Academy in the 1930s, the Academy's website
04:10says her often monumental sculptures explore universal themes like sexuality, femininity and motherhood
04:16with striking depth.
04:17Louise Bourgeois.
04:18That sounds good.
04:191910 born.
04:20OK.
04:20Louise Bourgeois.
04:22Yes, indeed.
04:22Well done.
04:23Let's start with questions.
04:24What surname links all of the following?
04:26The American computer scientist who, along with her collaborator Carver Meade,
04:30names a so-called revolution in the teaching of chip design, the English philosopher who
04:35argued against Cartesian dualism in her 1690 work The Principles of the Most Ancient and
04:40Modern Philosophy, and the British mathematician who lent his name to various notation systems
04:45for polyhedra, knots, and very large numbers, and invented the cellular automaton known as the game of life.
04:52Darwin, neither her take.
04:53Conway.
04:54Yes, as in Lynn, Anne, and John.
04:56Your bonuses, Darwin, are on video game characters voiced by the notably prolific voice actor
05:02Jennifer Hale.
05:03Hale voiced the character of Bastilla Sian in which role-playing game?
05:07First released in 2003 and set in the Star Wars universe.
05:10It is often known by a five-letter acronym, and either that acronym or the full title are
05:15acceptable here.
05:16Nominate me.
05:17Nominate Strachan.
05:18Knights of the Old Republic.
05:19Yes.
05:20Also voiced by Hale, the gunslinger Elizabeth Caledonia Calamity Ash, leader of the Deadlock
05:25Rebels gang, is one of the playable heroes in which series of team-based first-person shooter
05:30games developed and published by Blizzard?
05:32Yeah.
05:32Nominate me.
05:33Overwatch.
05:33Nominate Strachan.
05:34Overwatch.
05:35Yes.
05:36Hale also provided the voice for the female version of Commander Shepard, the player character
05:40of which series of science fiction role-playing games developed by Bioware?
05:45Nominate Strachan.
05:46Mass Effect.
05:47Yes.
05:47Well done.
05:48Nice start with question.
05:50In 1835, the first railway in Germany linked the city of Fuerth in the historical region
05:55of Franconia with which larger city a little to the southeast?
06:00Associated...
06:00Maudlin Walker.
06:01Nurnberg.
06:02It is indeed.
06:03Well done.
06:04Three questions for you, Maudlin, on physics.
06:07Which physicist, born in 1831, gives his name to a set of four equations which, together,
06:12provide a complete description of the behaviour of and relationships between electric and
06:18magnetic fields?
06:19Maxwell, surely.
06:20Nominate Walker.
06:21Maxwell.
06:22It is, of course.
06:23The first and second of these equations are laws relating to electric flux and magnetic
06:27flux, and usually both bear the name of which German mathematician and physicist, born 1771?
06:331771.
06:341771.
06:35Um, I really can't think of anybody.
06:38Pass.
06:39It's Gauss.
06:39The third equation, which relates to electromagnetic induction, is named after and developed from
06:44the work of which British scientist, born in 1791?
06:501791.
06:54That's pretty scientist.
06:56Don't worry.
06:57Pass.
06:57Pass.
06:58That's Faraday.
06:59Michael Faraday.
06:59A picture round now, and for your picture starter, you're going to see some iconography
07:04associated with a certain Christian saint.
07:07For ten points, I need you to give me the saint's name.
07:12Darwin Cameron.
07:13Uh, St Peter?
07:14It is St Peter, yes.
07:16For your picture starter, you saw St Peter's cross inverted in order to indicate the manner
07:21of his crucifixion.
07:22For your bonuses, Darwin, three more crosses, this time each associated with a saint from Britain
07:27or Ireland.
07:28In each case, I need the name of the saint.
07:30First.
07:31St Bridget.
07:32St Bridget, yeah, that's the Irish thing.
07:34Okay, nice.
07:35Uh, St Bridget.
07:36I'll accept that because the name is sometimes written with a T for Bridget, but as Ruth knew,
07:40it's more correctly Bridget.
07:42Secondly.
07:45Um, I don't know.
07:47It's British, so maybe like St Edward the Confessor, something like that.
07:51St Auburn.
07:52St Auburn was the first.
07:54I think there was an Auburn as well.
07:55St Edmund.
07:55Uh, St Auburn.
07:57No, St Chad of Mercia.
07:59Lastly.
08:00It's a Celtic movie.
08:02Again, St Edmund is the first person who's sent.
08:04It does look a bit Celtic, though.
08:06Could have been.
08:07St Andrew.
08:08No, he's not from.
08:09It's not actually.
08:09And it's not that new.
08:10Or any choice of St Edmund.
08:12St Edmund.
08:13No, St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne.
08:15Let's start with a question.
08:16What country was the birthplace of all of the following artists?
08:20The creator of the performance piece 12 square metres, which sees the artist covered in honey
08:24and fish oil and sitting naked in a dirty public latrine.
08:27The artist who jumped on Tracy Emin's piece, My Bed, in 1999.
08:31And the artist who covered the floor of the Tate Modern Turbine Hall with porcelain sunflower
08:35seeds.
08:36Darwin Cameron.
08:37Uh, China.
08:38It is indeed China, yes.
08:40APPLAUSE
08:41Your bonuses are about aristocratic women in pre-conquest England.
08:45A queen of what name commissioned the Vita Eduardi, a biography of her husband, Edward
08:50the Confessor.
08:51Her brother, Harold Godwinson, had two wives of this name, possibly simultaneously.
08:56Oh, God.
08:56I don't know.
08:57I don't know.
08:58I don't know.
09:01I don't know.
09:01I can't remember.
09:02Can you hear me?
09:03Is this for the last?
09:03No.
09:04Is it for the last?
09:04No.
09:04No.
09:05Isabella.
09:06No, it's Edith.
09:07St Edith of Wilton was daughter of which Anglo-Saxon king, nicknamed the Peaceable or
09:12Peacemaker, who reigned from approximately 9.59 to 9.75?
09:26Is it Ethelstan?
09:27No, it's Edgar.
09:29King Edgar's cousin, also called Edith, was the first wife of which German ruler, the
09:33son of Henry the Fowler?
09:34She died before this ruler won the Battle of Lechfeld and was crowned as the first post-Carolingian
09:39German emperor.
09:40Are you sure that's Charlemagne Battle of Lechfeld?
09:42Or is it?
09:42I mean, first...
09:43Yeah.
09:44Charlemagne?
09:45No, it's Otto the First or Otto the Great.
09:47Let's start the question.
09:48In 2024, which state of the US officially adopted a new flag consisting of a light blue field
09:55with a dark...
09:56Maudlin Walker.
09:57Minnesota.
09:57It is Minnesota.
09:58Well done.
09:59Your bonuses, Maudlin, are three questions on opera houses.
10:02In which European capital is the Estates Theatre, where Mozart conducted the premiere of
10:07Don Giovanni in 1787?
10:08It's got to be Vian, isn't it?
10:09I mean, Estates sounds like Paris.
10:13It could be Paris.
10:13It could be Paris.
10:15It could be Vianna.
10:15Go for Vienna.
10:16Vienna.
10:16No, it's Prague.
10:17Noted for its acoustics, the Teatro Colón is an opera house in which Latin American capital?
10:23The current building was completed in 1908, replacing the theatre's earlier home on this city's Plaza de Mayo.
10:29Okay, it's Plaza de Mayo.
10:30I don't know where that is, but let's think of Buenos Aires, maybe?
10:33Do you want the country or the capital?
10:35No, capital.
10:35Buenos Aires.
10:36Yes.
10:37Location of the Premiers of Rossini's Tancredi and Verdi's Rigoletto, La Fenice, or The Phoenix, is the principal opera house
10:44of which city?
10:45I was thinking...
10:47It's not Milan.
10:49I don't think it's Rome.
10:50Venice.
10:51Roma, maybe?
10:52No.
10:52Not Venice.
10:54Florence.
10:54Florence?
10:56No, it is Venice.
10:57Bad luck.
10:58Another question.
10:59An essential component of DNA repair pathways, among other functions, which broad class of enzymes is responsible for breaking the
11:06phosphodiester bonds of DNA or iron?
11:09Darwin's drinking.
11:10Endonuclease.
11:11Yes, I'll accept that.
11:12It's a bit more specific than we need it, but I'll take that.
11:14I was looking for nucleos.
11:15Your bonuses then, Darwin, are three questions on tar water, a dilute solution of pine tar, popular as a medicine
11:22in the medieval and Victorian eras.
11:24In a work of the 1740s entitled Ceres, which philosopher and theologian expounded upon the virtues of tar water, claiming
11:31that thousands have received benefit from its medicinal use in its native Ireland and elsewhere?
11:37Barclay?
11:38Barclay?
11:39Barclay.
11:401740s.
11:42Barclay.
11:42Barclay?
11:43Yes.
11:43In his work, The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, which British novelist described following Barclay's recommendation, taking tar water
11:50for his dropsy?
11:51He found it relieved many of his symptoms, but not the swelling, which was the main problem.
11:54The book was first published in 1755, the year following his death.
11:58Is it not?
12:00No, he's not a novice novelist.
12:02Samuel Johnson, maybe?
12:02He travelled around a lot.
12:04Is he paid a lot?
12:05Samuel Johnson.
12:06No, it's Henry Fielding.
12:07Which Dickens character complains that some medical beast was responsible for the revival of tar water after being forced to
12:14drink a pint of it by his sister, Mrs. Jo Gargery?
12:18Do you know what book is?
12:21Yeah, it's Great Expectations.
12:27So, is that just Pip?
12:29Yeah.
12:30You can try it.
12:32I'm going to...
12:33Pip?
12:34Yep.
12:34It is just Pip.
12:36Well done.
12:37Well done.
12:37Now I'll start the question.
12:39What three words precede all of the following?
12:42Fingers, in the title of Edgar Wright's independently produced 1995 feature directorial debut.
12:48Dynamite, in one title of a film of 1971 known alternatively as Duck You Sucker, or Once Upon a Time
12:54The Revolution.
12:56And Dollars, in the title of...
12:58A Fistful Of.
13:00Well done, yes.
13:01It is indeed.
13:01Your bonuses are on tapestries.
13:04A series of tapestries, lightly commissioned by Henry VIII and currently displayed in the Great Hall of Hampton Court Palace,
13:09depicts scenes from the life of which Old Testament patriarch and prophet, after whom the series is usually named?
13:16Abraham, maybe?
13:17I'm happy to go with that.
13:18Abraham.
13:19Yes.
13:19Shortly after his election in 1513, which Pope commissioned the artist Raphael to design a series of ten tapestries for
13:26the Sistine Chapel,
13:27depicting scenes from the Acts of the Apostles?
13:30I think it's Julius II.
13:31Julius II.
13:32No, it's Leo X.
13:33The Apocalypse Tapestry, said to be the largest surviving set of medieval tapestries in the world,
13:38depicts scenes from which book of the Bible?
13:40Revelation.
13:41It is the Book of Revelation, yes.
13:42Use it round now.
13:43For your music starter, you're going to hear a version of a piece of traditional music.
13:47For ten points, I need you to give me the name by which it is most commonly known.
13:55BELL RINGS
13:56BELL RINGS
13:57Bolero?
13:57No, you can hear a bit more Darwin, but you may not confer.
14:11Come on.
14:16Darwin White.
14:17Yankee Doodle.
14:18No, it's the British Grenadiers.
14:20We'll take your music bonuses in a moment.
14:21Here's another starter question.
14:24Alongside Rehoboth-ir, Kala and Reason, which ancient city is said in the book of Genesis to have been built
14:30by Nimrod?
14:31The books of Nahum and Jonah both contain prophecies of its destruction and...
14:35Darwin Cameron.
14:37And Nineveh.
14:37It is Nineveh, yes.
14:38Well done.
14:39Your bonuses, Darwin.
14:40For your music starter, you heard the British Grenadiers, a traditional marching song used prominently during several scenes in Stanley
14:46Kubrick's 1975 film Barry Lyndon.
14:49For your music bonuses, three more pieces of music heard in Barry Lyndon.
14:53From here, I want you to name the composer in each case.
14:57First, this Italian composer.
15:11Rossini.
15:11No, it's Vivaldi.
15:13Second, this Austrian composer.
15:16Rossini.
15:22Rossini.
15:24No, it's Vivaldi.
15:25Second, this Austrian composer.
15:31Um...
15:32Mozart, do I say it?
15:33Heiden.
15:39It's Strings.
15:41Heiden.
15:42Heiden.
15:42Heiden.
15:43Schubert.
15:43And lastly, this German composer.
15:47Um, this is Bach.
15:51What?
15:52Yeah.
15:52This is Bach.
15:54Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is Bach.
15:57Bach's Handel.
15:58Goodness me.
15:59Right, another starter question.
16:00What month of the year appears in the titles of novels by Deborah Levy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, William Faulkner and
16:06Alexander Solzhenitsyn?
16:08Darwin Cameron.
16:09Um...
16:10Orton.
16:11You must answer straight away.
16:12You lose five points.
16:12The last of these, along with a similarly titled historical work by Barbara Tuchman, concerns the opening weeks of the
16:18First World War.
16:20You may not confer.
16:23November?
16:24No, it's August.
16:25Bad luck, Darwin.
16:26I'm sorry.
16:27I've got to be brutal about that.
16:28If you interrupt a starter, you buzz.
16:29You must answer straight away.
16:30Bad luck.
16:30Another starter question.
16:32Of what island were the Beirthuk people, the indigenous inhabitants?
16:36Thought to have been speakers of an Algonquian language like the neighbouring Mi'kmaq, they became marginalised and their numbers
16:42were drastically reduced by the encroachments of European fishermen that followed the landing of the explorer John Cabot.
16:50Newfoundland.
16:50It is Newfoundland, yes.
16:51Well done.
16:52Your focus is then, three questions on the psychology of memory.
16:55The cognitive psychologist George Armitage Miller is known for a landmark 1956 paper in which he proposed a magical number
17:03plus or minus two for the number...
17:04Nominate Wu.
17:05Seven.
17:05Yes.
17:24Nominate Wu.
17:25Wilhelm Wund.
17:25No, it's Hermann Ebbinghaus.
17:27Oh.
17:27A 1972 paper by Endel Tulving proposed the division of memory into two classes, semantic memory or the long term
17:34store of facts and knowledge, and which type of memory? A collection of personal experiences.
17:38Oh, yeah.
17:39I was going to say...
17:41A collection of personal experiences.
17:43I don't know.
17:44A collection of personal experiences.
17:44I don't know.
17:45No, semantic isn't the question.
17:46Really?
17:47I don't know.
17:48I don't know.
17:48A pass.
17:49It's episodic memory.
17:50Another starter question.
17:51What short given name links these three women?
17:54The Hollywood figure who directed the 1953 film The Hitchhiker.
17:58The author of a 1904 expose of the Standard Oil Company that contributed to the passing of antitrust laws.
18:05And an African-American journalist who led an anti-lynching campaign in the 1890s.
18:10Their surnames are Lupino, Tarbell and Wells.
18:15Darwin White.
18:16Ida.
18:16It is Ida, yes.
18:17Well done.
18:18Your focus is then, Darwin.
18:20Three questions on ingredients commonly found in the spice mix chat masala.
18:24A distinctive ingredient of this masala is amchur, a powder made from what fruit in its unripe form?
18:30Important cultivars of this fruit grown in India include Alfonso and Kesar.
18:34Alfonso?
18:35It's not mango.
18:36Mango is a good idea, yeah.
18:37It's a mango or apricot?
18:39I think it's mango.
18:41Mango.
18:42Of course it's mango, yeah.
18:43Give either the English or the Hindi name of the dried resin obtained from the rhizomes of
18:47plants in the genus ferrula, commonly added to chat masala and widely used in Indian cooking as a digestive aid
18:54and flavour enhancer.
18:55Its English name refers to its pungent smell.
18:58Ginger, ginger.
18:59I don't have no idea what it is.
19:01I don't have no idea what it is.
19:02Um...
19:02Digestive and hence.
19:04Yeah, pungent smell.
19:05Pungent smell.
19:06Like strong smell.
19:06Tamarind or something?
19:07Come on.
19:08Tamarind.
19:09No, it's asafetida or hing.
19:11Widely regarded as an essential component of chat masala, khala namak or black salt imparts a smoky egg-like flavour
19:17principally due to its containing traces of which group's 16 elements?
19:21Sulfur.
19:21Sulfur properly, yeah.
19:22Sulfur.
19:22It is, yes.
19:23That'll start a question.
19:24What word most commonly used to refer to a psychological phenomenon saw an addition to its OED entry in 2025
19:30that reflects its more recent use in the field of computer science, where it is applied to the propensity of
19:37artificial intelligence, quote...
19:38Darwin Stricken.
19:39Blob.
19:40No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
19:42Maudlin Wu.
19:43Hallucinating?
19:44Yes, I'll accept that.
19:45Hallucinating.
19:46Hallucinate.
19:47Your bonuses are on dinosaurs, specifically the gigantic herbivores known as sauropods.
19:53In each case, name the animal from the description.
19:55First, one of the longest terrestrial animals in the fossil history and noted for its unusually small skull.
20:01Its name comes from the Greek for double beam.
20:04Double beam.
20:05What do you think it could be?
20:06What do you think it could be in Greek?
20:07What can you think of any other?
20:08Brachiosaurus.
20:09Brachiosaurus.
20:10No, it's Diplodocus.
20:10Secondly, similar to Diplodocus, but with a more heavily built skeleton, some reference works describe its name as a senior
20:17synonym of Brontosaurus.
20:21Brachiosaurus.
20:22No, that's an Apatosaurus.
20:24Finally, a sauropod with a name meaning arm lizard, a reference to its long forelegs.
20:29Giraffe Titan, one of the largest complete sauropod skeletons found, was long classified as belonging to this genus.
20:35Yeah.
20:36Brachiosaurus.
20:36Got there in the end.
20:37Well done.
20:39Picture round now.
20:40And for your picture starter, you will see a painting.
20:43For ten points, name the artist.
20:46Darwin Cameron.
20:47Goya.
20:48It is Goya, yes.
20:51For your picture starter, you saw Goya's painting, Self Portrait at the Easel.
20:54And for your picture bonuses, Darwin, you will see three more self portraits in which the artists have depicted themselves
20:59with brush and palette.
21:01Name the artist in each case.
21:03First, this painting from 1926.
21:06No.
21:06This could be like...
21:07Cezanne.
21:08No.
21:09No, I don't think so.
21:10One of those of, like, Duncan Grant-y ones.
21:14Grant.
21:15Come on.
21:15Duncan Grant.
21:16No, it's Munch.
21:17Next, this painting from 1847.
21:20Um...
21:201847.
21:21It could be Turner.
21:24Turner.
21:25No, it's Millet.
21:26Finally, this self portrait from 1890.
21:29Um...
21:29Is that Russo, maybe?
21:31It's not condensed.
21:32No, I don't think it's condensed.
21:33Russo.
21:33It is Russo.
21:34Well done.
21:35First started question.
21:36In which Indian state are the Ghir National Park and the main part of the large area of salt marshes
21:42known as the Ran of Kutch?
21:45Cities in this state include Rajkot, Surat.
21:48Maudlin Walker.
21:49Rajasthan.
21:50No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
21:51Surat, the planned capital of Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad.
21:55Darwin White.
21:56Gujarat.
21:57It is Gujarat, yes.
21:58Your bonuses, Darwin, are on musicals that have won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics.
22:03In each case, I want you to give me the title of the musical from a list of some of
22:07its songs.
22:08First, the 2013 winner, When I Grow Up, Revolting Children, Naughty and the Hammer.
22:13Matilda.
22:14Matilda.
22:15Yes.
22:16Secondly, the 1984 winner, No Life, Colour and Light, Finishing the Hat, Children and Art.
22:22Ooh.
22:23Could this be Walk With...
22:24Is it George Surratt in the Park or something?
22:27Um...
22:27No.
22:28I don't know the name of it.
22:30Aw.
22:33Yeah, I don't think...
22:34I'm not sure.
22:35Come on.
22:36Um...
22:36Ciara.
22:37Bad luck.
22:38Louis, you're on to it.
22:39You were thinking of Sunday in the Park with George.
22:41Bad luck.
22:41Finally, the 2011 winner, You and Me, but Mostly Me.
22:44Turn It Off, Tomorrow is a Latter Day, and Hello.
22:47Hello.
22:48What year is it?
22:502011.
22:50This isn't Avenue Q, is it?
22:52Oh, this is the Alicentric one.
22:53Can I nominate you?
22:54No, because I don't know the name.
22:56I can try Avenue Q, but...
22:57Avenue Q?
22:58No.
22:59It's the Book of Mormon, as every single member of the Magdalene team definitely knew.
23:03Another starter question.
23:04The FTA-ABS test, which detects the presence of the bacterium Tryponema pallidum in...
23:10Darwin, stretch it.
23:11Syphilis.
23:11It is syphilis.
23:12Well done.
23:14Three questions on Edmund Wilson's book, To the Finland Station, A History of Revolutionary
23:19Thought.
23:19The book begins with five chapters about which 19th century French historian, author of
23:23the many-volumed History of France?
23:25Um, the guy who's...
23:28De Tocqueville, is he...?
23:29Yeah, de Tocqueville is a good idea, yeah.
23:31De Tocqueville.
23:31No, it's Michelet.
23:32Wilson's writing on the origins of socialism includes a section about which Welsh factory
23:36owner and utopian socialist who developed the co-operative movement in his cotton mills
23:41at New Lanark?
23:41Robert Owen?
23:42Um, Robert Owen.
23:42It's Robert Owen, I think, yeah.
23:44Robert Owen?
23:44Yes.
23:45The title of To the Finland Station refers to a journey undertaken by which revolutionary,
23:50after which he unveiled his April theses?
23:52It's Lennon.
23:53Uh, Lennon?
23:53It is Lennon, yes.
23:54Let's start the question.
23:56The consorts of King James VI and I, Queen Anne, and King Edward VII were all born in what
24:03country of which...
24:05Portugal.
24:06No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
24:07Of which their respective fathers were all king?
24:11Come on.
24:13Darwin White.
24:13Spain.
24:14No, it's Denmark.
24:15Now, let's start the question.
24:16For what do the letters BPS stand in the name of a model of healthcare pioneered by George
24:21Engel in the 1970s?
24:23It seeks to understand illness and health as a product of interactions between physiological,
24:28emotional and environmental and cultural factors, and not physical factors alone.
24:34Anyone?
24:35Darwin Cameron.
24:37Biopsychological science.
24:38No, anyone from Magdalen?
24:41No, I'll tell you, it's biopsychosocial.
24:43I'll start the question.
24:45In 1939, the first of a series of state edicts enacted by Prime Minister Plek Pibbon Songkram
24:50change the name of which modern-day country to one which literally translates as land of the free?
24:59Liberia.
24:59No.
25:03Darwin Strachan.
25:04Thailand.
25:04It is Thailand, yes.
25:05Your bonuses are on pairs of people who have the same two given names.
25:09In each case, give those two names from the description of both individuals.
25:12First, the 19th century artist who painted the Manchester murals and the author of the novel The Good Soldier.
25:18Ford Maddox.
25:19Ford Maddox.
25:20Yes.
25:21Second, a German artist who served as court painter to Napoleon III and the composer who completed Mozart's Requiem after
25:27his death.
25:27So, Le Brun?
25:29This isn't Salieri, is it?
25:31Or Amos?
25:31Antonio.
25:33I didn't know it was possible.
25:35Pass.
25:35It's Franz Xaver.
25:36Finally, two Danes, one the author of stories including The Tinder Box and The Red Shoes.
25:41The other are scientists who discovered the relationship between electricity and magnetism.
25:45Hans Christian.
25:45Hans Christian.
25:46Hans Christian.
25:47Yes, well done.
25:48Let's start with questions.
25:49What letter of the Latin alphabet is used to denote the block of elements in the periodic table that consists
25:55of the lanthanides and...
25:57Darwin Strachan.
25:58Yes.
25:58Well done.
25:59It is indeed.
25:59Your bonus is, Darwin.
26:01Three questions on language families.
26:02In each case, name the continent on which languages from the following families are primarily spoken.
26:07First, the Wakashan and Salishan language families.
26:10Do you need a continent?
26:12Do I...
26:13Do you know the...
26:14Do you know the...
26:15Do you know the language?
26:15No, I don't.
26:16I think you just have to guess one.
26:17Uh, Africa.
26:18No, it's North America.
26:18Secondly, the Gunwinguan and Pama Nyungan language families.
26:23Sounds like Asia to me.
26:24Could be.
26:26Uh, Asia.
26:26No, that's Australia.
26:27And finally, the Mon-Khmer and Dravidian language families.
26:30Oh, Dravidian.
26:30Is Dravidian, um...
26:32The Mon-Khmer is about Asia.
26:33The Mon-Khmer is Korean.
26:34Yeah.
26:34The Mon-Khmer is Korean.
26:35Asia?
26:35Yeah, you're right, but for the wrong reason.
26:37It is Asia.
26:38Let's start the question.
26:39In which city on the Pacific Ocean is the Iolani Palace, the official residence of a monarchy
26:43that was overthrown in 1893?
26:45The last monarch to reside there was Queen Liliokalani.
26:48Don't wear white.
26:50Um...
26:50Now, I'm afraid if you...
26:51Why?
26:52No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
26:54Sister of the preceding King Kalakua.
26:57Mon-Khmer Walker.
26:58Honolulu.
26:58It is Honolulu.
26:59Bad luck, darling.
27:00Three questions for you, Mordin, on sport in 1925.
27:03In 1925, which Surrey batsman scored his 126th first-class century, beating a career record set by WG...
27:10Pass.
27:10It's Jack Hobbs.
27:12The 1925 Tour de France saw a second win for a rider from what country?
27:16The venue of the 2024 Grand Depart.
27:18Seven riders from this country have won the tour, most recently in 2014.
27:212014?
27:22Germany.
27:23Germany.
27:23Italy.
27:24Which Yorkshire club won the FA Cup in 1925, to date its most recent major honour?
27:29The club in question was relegated from the Premier League in 2024?
27:32Sheffield Wednesday, I don't know.
27:33Sheffield?
27:34Sheffield.
27:35Sheffield United, we can't accept that.
27:37Bad luck.
27:37Another starter question.
27:38Taken from Act 3, Scene 4 of King Lear.
27:41What seven-word phrase incorporating the medieval term for a young candidate for knighthood
27:45is the title of a narrative poem by Robert Browning, published in 1855?
27:50That one's Cameron.
27:51Uh, Child Harold to the Dark Tower came?
27:53No.
27:54Anyone from Maudlin?
27:56Nope, I'll tell you.
27:58And that's the goal.
27:59Maudlin got dropped to have 80, and Darwin have 190.
28:06Bad luck, Louie, it's Charles Boulogne to the Dark Tower came as you knew the minute
28:09you said the wrong answer.
28:10Bad luck.
28:11Oh, Maudlin, it's so brutal in this game how if you're a split second behind on the starters,
28:15you have to sit there as they get all these bonuses.
28:17And I could see throughout that you knew all the answers, because every time a question
28:20came up with the bonuses, you all went, oh, no, bad luck.
28:23It's been wonderful getting to know you've come a long way in this competition.
28:26You've been beat by a terrific team, so well played.
28:28Darwin, that was a hell of a performance.
28:30I mean, you're up against a really strong team, and in the end, you made it look almost
28:33easy, so well done.
28:34We shall see you and your various mascots again in the next round.
28:37We look forward to that.
28:38Well done.
28:39I hope you could join us next time for another second round match.
28:41But until then, it is goodbye from Maudlin College, Oxford.
28:44Goodbye.
28:45It's goodbye for now from Darwin College, Cambridge.
28:47Goodbye.
28:48And it's goodbye for now from me.
28:49Goodbye.
29:19Goodbye.
29:20Goodbye.
29:20Soisco.
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