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00:27Hello and welcome to University
00:29Challenge. The second round of the competition
00:31continues tonight. Last time
00:33Darwin College Cambridge beat Morden College Oxford
00:35to become the first team through to this
00:37year's quarterfinals and whoever wins
00:39this match will join them. Unfortunately
00:41there's no reperchage in this round
00:43so the losing team tonight will be leaving the
00:45competition. The team from Sheffield
00:47were lucky that round one does have
00:49a reperchage as they lost their opening game
00:51to Warwick. Their score of 170
00:53points however was the joint
00:55highest losing score of the first round
00:57which earned them a playoff against New College
00:59Oxford and that they won
01:01relatively comfortably. In both their matches
01:03so far they've looked strong on geography
01:05and fine art but against New College
01:07they did get a little bit mixed up on bonuses
01:09about the early roles of notable
01:11actors. Let's meet the team from Sheffield
01:13for the third time.
01:15Hi I'm Rhys Lewis
01:17I'm from Hufford West in Pembrokeshire and
01:19I'm studying maths. Hi
01:21I'm Abdurrahman Assisi. I'm from Alexandria
01:23Egypt and I study engineering. And their captain.
01:26Hi I'm Jacob Price. I'm from
01:27Heatherset in Norfolk and I study astrophysics.
01:30Hi I'm Isabel Dobby. I'm from
01:31Haringey in North London and I study English
01:33literature.
01:38The team from Strathclyde are
01:39coming into this match off the back of a
01:41comfortable win over Harper Adams University.
01:44Strathclyde showed in that game that
01:45they are very good on the buzzer.
01:47Captain Jack's personal total of
01:49nine correct starters was the joint
01:51highest of the round. However
01:53they converted just 40% of the bonuses
01:55that followed. They scored no points
01:57at all on four of the 12 sets
01:59that they won but they did answer well
02:01on football, Salvador Dali and
02:03women in the Bible. Let's meet the team
02:05from Strathclyde once again.
02:07Hi I'm Matthew Johnston. I'm from
02:09Dumfries and Galloway and I study chemistry.
02:11Hi I'm Kate Lockery. I'm from Glasgow
02:13and I'm doing a Masters in Diplomacy
02:15and International Security. And their captain.
02:17Hi I'm Jack Sterling from Inverness
02:19studying chemical engineering.
02:21Hi I'm Tom McHugh. I'm from Glasgow
02:22and I'm studying mechanical engineering.
02:27Welcome back. Nice to see you
02:29applauding each other. And this is for a
02:30place in the quarterfinals. Good luck.
02:32Fingers on buzzers. Here's your first
02:33starter for 10.
02:36What occupation appears in the titles of
02:38all of the following television programmes?
02:40A 1986 serial written by Dennis Potter
02:44and starring Michael Gambon as a writer
02:46suffering from psoriatic arthropathy.
02:48A 2008 series starring Jill Scott
02:50based on a series of novels by
02:52Alexander McCall Smith.
02:54And a...
02:54Sheffield Dobby.
02:56Detective. It is detective, yes.
02:58Three questions for you Sheffield
02:59on early romantic art.
03:01In an essay of 2004, the art historian
03:03Catherine Gallitz notes that
03:05though often posited in opposition to
03:07neoclassicism, early romanticism was
03:10shaped largely by artists trained in
03:12which French artist's studio?
03:14His works include Oath of the Horatii.
03:16Oh, David.
03:18David, yes.
03:19David?
03:19Yes.
03:20Charles Brulot or Karl Brulov
03:22spanned the period of transition from
03:24neoclassicism to romanticism
03:26in what country?
03:27His major works include the monumental
03:29Last Day of Pompeii, completed in 1833.
03:32Is it just Italy?
03:34I don't think one.
03:37Switzerland?
03:38Sure.
03:40Yeah.
03:40Switzerland.
03:41No, it's Russia.
03:41An early example of romantic art
03:43in the Tate collection,
03:44Snowstorm, Hannibal and his army
03:46crossing the Alps,
03:47is an 1812 work by which English painter?
03:50Turner.
03:51It is Turner.
03:51Well done.
03:52Go start with the question.
03:54Discussed in an 1852 essay by Karl Marx
03:56about a recent coup d'etat,
03:58what Western European family's name
04:00is the origin of a...
04:01Sheffield de Sisi.
04:03Urban apart.
04:04Well done, it is indeed, yes.
04:06Three questions for you, Sheffield,
04:08on prunes in literature.
04:10In an essay of 1929,
04:12which author wrote,
04:13One cannot think well,
04:14love well,
04:15sleep well,
04:15if one has not dined well.
04:17The lamp in the spine
04:19does not light on beef and prunes.
04:21Before going on to ask,
04:22Now what food do we feed women
04:23as artists upon?
04:24Virginia Woolf.
04:26Yeah, Virginia Woolf.
04:27Yes.
04:28Book two, chapter seven,
04:29of which novel by Dickens
04:30is titled Mostly Prunes and Prism?
04:33Mrs General advises the title character
04:35that lips form a pretty shape
04:37when speaking the words
04:38Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism.
04:41Little Dorrit is set in a prison,
04:42so...
04:43Yeah.
04:43Can I nominate you?
04:44Yeah.
04:45Nominate Dobby.
04:46Little Dorrit.
04:46Correct.
04:47In which of Shakespeare's plays
04:48does Pompey refer to a pregnant woman's
04:50longing for stewed prunes,
04:52possibly alluding to the belief
04:54that they cure venereal disease?
04:56In this scene,
04:57he has been brought before Duke Angelo,
04:59accused of being a parcel board.
05:02Something in Italy,
05:03presumably.
05:04Off tonight.
05:05Is it ancient or like...
05:07Two gentlemen of Verona?
05:08Two gentlemen of Verona?
05:10No, it's measure for measure.
05:11Let's start the question.
05:12Which photographer's work
05:14did Susan Sontag say
05:15was an occasion to demonstrate
05:17that life's horror
05:18can be faced without squeamishness?
05:20Known for her photographs of outsiders
05:22such as those of drag artists
05:24and carnival performers,
05:25she became the first American photographer
05:27to be exhibited
05:27at the Venice Biennale in 1972,
05:30the year after her death.
05:33Strathclyde Sterling.
05:34Cindy Sherman.
05:35No, you may not confer.
05:37Anyone will have a go?
05:38Sheffield Assisi.
05:40Arbus.
05:40It is Diane Arbus.
05:41Well done, yeah.
05:42Your bonuses then, Sheffield,
05:44are on real-world metal alloys
05:46that play a role
05:47in the magic system
05:48of Brandon Sanderson's
05:50Mistborn series
05:51of fantasy books.
05:52Name each from the description.
05:54First,
05:54a malleable metal alloy
05:55containing mostly tin
05:57mixed with antimony,
05:58copper,
05:58and sometimes silver.
06:00Burning this material
06:01in the Mistborn series
06:02enhances physical characteristics
06:03such as brute strength.
06:05Well, copper and tin is bronze,
06:06but I don't think it's going to be there.
06:07Antimony is...
06:08Yeah, it's tin, antimony.
06:09Do we have any ideas?
06:10I don't know.
06:11I've got pewter, it's all.
06:12Pewter Pass.
06:12Do you have pewter?
06:13It's pewter.
06:14I don't think so.
06:14Try it.
06:15Pewter.
06:15It is pewter.
06:16Secondly,
06:17a naturally occurring alloy
06:18of gold and silver,
06:19usually containing trace quantities
06:20of other metals
06:21such as copper and platinum.
06:23In Sanderson's books,
06:24burning this alloy
06:25gives sight of one's own future.
06:26Yeah, definitely.
06:27Yeah.
06:28Electrum.
06:28Yes.
06:28Finally,
06:29an alloy composed
06:30of a larger quantity of copper
06:31and smaller quantity of zinc.
06:33In the Mistborn series,
06:34this alloy is burned by soothers
06:36to manipulate the emotions of others.
06:38It's not copper and zinc.
06:40Copper and zinc is not this.
06:40Copper and tin is bronze.
06:41It's not going to be that.
06:42It's not brass.
06:43It's got aluminium in it.
06:44We could go brass.
06:45Are you sure?
06:46Just try it.
06:46I don't think it's brass,
06:47but we can just try it.
06:47It's not nothing else.
06:48Brass.
06:49It is brass.
06:51Picture round now.
06:52For a picture starter,
06:52you're going to see
06:53an image of a passport.
06:55For ten points,
06:56simply tell me
06:57the name of the country
06:57that issues it.
06:58Some helpful wording
07:00has, of course,
07:00been removed.
07:03Sheffield Price.
07:04Singapore.
07:04Yes, it is Singapore.
07:05Well done.
07:07You just bought a passport
07:08for Singapore,
07:09rated as the most powerful passport
07:10in the world
07:11by the Henley Passport Index,
07:13granting visa-free access
07:14to around 195 countries
07:17and territories.
07:18For your bonuses,
07:18you'll see passports
07:19that feature towards
07:20the bottom of that index.
07:21In each case,
07:22I need the issuing country
07:23for five points.
07:24Some wording
07:25will have been redacted
07:26on each.
07:27First, this country.
07:29Oh, Syria.
07:31Syria?
07:32Yes.
07:33Secondly?
07:34Eritrea?
07:35Yes.
07:36Eritrea.
07:37Yes, finally.
07:38Bangladesh?
07:39It is that.
07:41Bangladesh.
07:42It is Bangladesh.
07:42Well done.
07:43Let's start the question.
07:45Which French scientist,
07:47born in 1736,
07:49gives his name
07:50to all of the following?
07:51A so-called explosion
07:52that can occur in molecules
07:54when electrons are removed,
07:55a type of mechanical damping
07:57that relies on sliding friction,
07:59a potential energy barrier
08:01that particles must...
08:03Sheffield Price.
08:03Coulomb?
08:04It is Coulomb.
08:05Yes, well done.
08:06Your bonuses, Sheffield,
08:07are on leading clubs
08:08in the Australian Football League.
08:10That's Aussie rules football.
08:12Founded in 1859
08:13and thus older than any club
08:15in the English Premier League,
08:16the Cats are said to be
08:17the second-oldest AFL club.
08:19They are based in which city,
08:21a large seaport
08:22south-west of Melbourne?
08:24I was going to say that.
08:24Geelong.
08:25Geelong.
08:25Geelong.
08:26It is Geelong.
08:27With a joint record
08:2816 premiership titles,
08:30which club is known
08:30as the Magpies?
08:32It shares its name
08:33with the surname
08:33of Nelson's second-in-command
08:35at the Battle of Trafalgar
08:36and that of the cricketer
08:37who captained England
08:38to the T20 World Cup in 2010.
08:40Collingwood.
08:41Yes, as in Cuthbert
08:42and Paul, respectively.
08:43Which club beat Sydney Swans
08:45in the 2024 AFL Grand Final,
08:47known as the Lions?
08:49They are based
08:49in an Australian state capital
08:51and play their home matches
08:52at the Gabba.
08:53Brisbane.
08:54It is indeed Brisbane, yes.
08:55That's our question.
08:56Plenty of time, Strasburg.
08:56Let's see if you get going with this.
08:57Who declared that, quote,
08:59this is no ordinary time
09:01in a speech intended
09:02to encourage the nomination
09:03of Henry Wallace
09:04as US Vice President in 1940,
09:07a phrase that would later
09:08be used by Doris Kearns Goodwin
09:09as the title of her
09:11Pulitzer Prize-winning
09:12historical biography
09:13of this figure
09:14and her husband.
09:15She later chaired the committee
09:17which drafted...
09:17Sheffield Dobby.
09:19Eleanor Roosevelt.
09:20It is indeed, yes.
09:21Your favourses, Sheffield,
09:23are on works that feature
09:24or mention chicken hypnotism.
09:27The Streak of Chalk,
09:28Bewitcheth the Hen
09:29is a line from which work
09:30by Friedrich Nietzsche
09:31published in four volumes
09:32between 1883 and 1885.
09:34The work comprises
09:35the imagined discourses
09:36of an ancient Iranian
09:37of an ancient Iranian
09:38religious figure.
09:39Oh, yeah.
09:40Thus spoke Zarathustra.
09:41That's the word.
09:42Thus spoke Zarathustra.
09:43Correct.
09:44In which film,
09:45written and directed
09:45by Charles Burnett,
09:46does Danny Glover's character
09:48Harry hypnotise a rooster?
09:49Harry is an enigmatic drifter
09:51whose arrival at his friend's home
09:52in south-central Los Angeles
09:54disrupts their middle-class lives.
09:56I don't know.
09:57What year is it?
09:571990.
09:59I don't know.
10:00I don't know.
10:01Pass.
10:02To sleep with anger.
10:03Well,
10:04that's like hypnotising chickens
10:05is a line from which 1977 song
10:07by Iggy Pop?
10:08It was re-released in 1996
10:10after featuring in the soundtrack
10:11to the film Trainspotting.
10:13Lust for life.
10:13It is lust for life.
10:15Fingers and buzzers.
10:16Here's another starter for 10.
10:18What surname is shared
10:19by all of the following?
10:20The 19th century author
10:22said by T.S. Eliot
10:23to have written,
10:23quote,
10:24the first,
10:25the longest and the best
10:26of modern English detective novels,
10:28a genre invented by him
10:29and not by Poe.
10:30The character from Pride and Prejudice
10:32who's, quote,
10:33Sheffield Dobby.
10:34Collins.
10:35Well done.
10:37Three questions for you,
10:38Sheffield,
10:39on tourism.
10:39In 1782,
10:41clergyman and author
10:42William Gilpin
10:43published an influential travel book
10:45titled Observations on
10:46Which British River?
10:48It established the tour
10:49of the river
10:49as an essential
10:50for those unable
10:51to take the grand tour
10:52because of the wars
10:53in Europe
10:53and notable sites
10:54included the ruins
10:55of Goodrich Castle
10:56and Tintin Abbey.
10:58Oh, it's Wales.
10:59Was it seven?
11:00Tintin Abbey is like...
11:01It's like near the Welsh English border.
11:02Try seven then, yeah.
11:04Seven?
11:04No, it's the river wire.
11:05Oh.
11:06Observations on the river wire
11:07attempted to guide travellers
11:09to, quote,
11:09examine the face
11:10of a country
11:11by the rules of
11:12what type of beauty?
11:13Gilpin popularised
11:14this 11-letter term
11:15referring to the
11:16aesthetic pleasures
11:17available through
11:18the contemplation
11:19of landscape scenes
11:20and now particularly
11:21associated with tourism.
11:24No idea.
11:26Sightseeker.
11:27Sightseeker.
11:27Sightseeker.
11:28Come on.
11:28Sightseeing?
11:29No, it's picturesque.
11:30The Y tour would begin
11:31in Ross-on-Y
11:33and end in which
11:34Monmouthshire town
11:35whose ruined castle
11:36was the final major
11:37site of the journey?
11:38Oh, um...
11:39It's a...
11:40I think it could be
11:41Ask.
11:42I don't know what the other...
11:43I had to try to ask.
11:43I don't think it is,
11:44but try it.
11:45Ask?
11:45No, it's Chepstone.
11:47Let's start a question.
11:47Documents known as
11:49the Madrid, Dresden
11:51and Paris Codices
11:52are three of the major
11:53sources of information
11:55regarding the mythological
11:56system of which
11:57civilisation.
11:58Figures commonly featured
11:59in the Codices
12:00include the creator deity
12:02Itzamna,
12:03a god of maze
12:04and the so-called
12:04hero twins.
12:06Sheffield Assisi.
12:08Mayans?
12:08It is the Mayans, yes.
12:10Three questions for you
12:11on a genre of fiction,
12:13Sheffield.
12:13The name of what
12:14subgenre of science fiction
12:16was first coined in the title
12:17of a short story
12:18by Bruce Bethke
12:19published in 1983.
12:21Early writers in the genre
12:23include Tom Maddox
12:24and Pat Cadigan
12:25and it is characteristically
12:27concerned with themes
12:27of globalisation,
12:28information overload,
12:30virtual reality
12:30and body modification.
12:33Cyber...
12:33Cyberpunk?
12:34Yeah.
12:35Sure.
12:35Cyberpunk?
12:36Yes.
12:36What is the title
12:37of the landmark 1986
12:39collection of cyberpunk fiction
12:40edited by Bruce Sterling?
12:42Its name refers to
12:42a fashion accessory
12:43defined by, quote,
12:44the movement's totem colours
12:46of chrome and matte black.
12:49No, pass.
12:50Pass.
12:51Mirror Shades.
12:52The first story
12:52in Mirror Shades
12:53titled The Gernsback Continuum
12:55is by which American novelist
12:57whose other works include
12:58the short story
12:59Burning Chrome,
13:00widely credited
13:01with popularising
13:02the term cyberspace
13:03and the novel
13:03Neuromancer?
13:05Oh.
13:05Oh.
13:05I've heard this
13:06but I can't remember
13:06what it's a lovely color.
13:09Um...
13:09Anything?
13:10Do you want to guess?
13:11Le Guin.
13:12Le Guin.
13:13No, it's William Gibson.
13:14Let's start the question.
13:15It's a music round now
13:16and for your music starter
13:17you're going to hear
13:17a piece of classical music.
13:19For ten points
13:20I need you to name
13:21the composer.
13:28Strathcline Sterling.
13:29Less.
13:29No.
13:30You can hear a bit more
13:31but you may not confer.
13:40Sheffield Lewis.
13:418-7.
13:41No, it's Chopin.
13:42The revolutionary etude.
13:44Now, we'll take your
13:44music bonuses in a moment.
13:46What glands found in the skin
13:48of mammals are usually
13:49attached to hair follicles
13:51and secrete an oily
13:52complex mixture of lipids
13:54which helps to waterproof
13:55the hair and prevent
13:56skin desiccation?
13:59Strathcline Johnston.
14:00Epidermal.
14:01No.
14:02Anyone want to have a guess?
14:03Come on.
14:04No, I'll tell you.
14:05It's the sebaceous glands.
14:07Let's start the question.
14:08At different points
14:09along its course
14:10which major African river
14:12is known by names
14:13including Joliba and Quara.
14:15This river rises
14:16in the Futa Jalon
14:17highlands of Guinea
14:18near the border
14:19with Sierra Leone.
14:21Strathcline Sterling.
14:22Niger.
14:22Yes, the Niger.
14:23Well done.
14:24Your bonuses, Zaka.
14:26For your music starter
14:27you heard Chopin's
14:28revolutionary etude
14:29whose tempo is marked
14:30allegro con fuoco
14:31or allegro with fire.
14:33For your bonuses
14:34three more classical pieces
14:35with tempo markings
14:36of allegro con fuoco.
14:38I want you to name
14:39the composer of each.
14:41First, this composer.
14:50It's Mendelssohn.
14:51Secondly,
14:52the German composer
14:53of this symphony.
15:02Beethoven.
15:05No, that's
15:05Karl Maria von Weber.
15:06Lastly.
15:14Korczak.
15:15Korczak.
15:15Yes.
15:16New World Century.
15:16Well done.
15:17Let's start the question.
15:18Which country chose neutrality
15:20at the start of World War I
15:21but joined the Entente powers
15:23in August 1916?
15:25Cut off from its allies
15:26by the Russian Revolution
15:28it was forced to conclude
15:29a separate peace
15:30with the central powers
15:31in May 1918
15:32but later gained
15:33substantial territories
15:34at the Paris Peace Conference
15:36and with subsequent treaties
15:37including most of the
15:39Banat, Bukovina,
15:40Beth...
15:40Sheffield Price.
15:42Romania.
15:42It is Romania.
15:43Yes, well done.
15:44Your bonuses are
15:45on television dramas
15:46set in West Yorkshire.
15:47In each case
15:48I want you to give me
15:49the title of the drama
15:50from the description.
15:51First,
15:52a three-part miniseries
15:52set in Halifax
15:54and first broadcast
15:54in 2009
15:55about Ruth Slater's
15:57attempts to rebuild her life
15:58following an extended term
16:00in prison.
16:01It shares its one-word title
16:02with an Academy Award-winning
16:031992 film
16:05directed by Clint Eastwood.
16:07I don't know any late Eastwood.
16:09I don't know.
16:10Can it fit?
16:11No, I don't know.
16:12Fate.
16:13Yeah.
16:14Fate.
16:14No, it's Unforgiven.
16:15Secondly,
16:16a 2023 series
16:17based on
16:18Benjamin Myers' novel
16:19of the same name
16:20about the 18th century
16:21counterfeiting gang
16:22known as
16:23the Cragvale Coiners
16:24based near the village
16:25of Calderdale.
16:27Nominate Dobby.
16:27The Gallows Pole.
16:28Yes.
16:29Lastly,
16:29a crime drama
16:30created by Sally Wainwright
16:31and set in a fictionalised
16:32version of Hebden Bridge
16:34is stars Sarah Lancashire
16:35as Police Sergeant
16:36Catherine Kaywood.
16:37Happy Valley.
16:38It is indeed, yes.
16:39Another starting question.
16:41The Time-Torn Man
16:42is the subtitle
16:43of Claire Tomalin's
16:442007 biography
16:46of which novelist
16:47and poet
16:48who died
16:49in 1928?
16:51Siegfried Tassoon
16:52said he was the nearest
16:52thing to Shakespeare,
16:53I should ever go
16:54for a walk with,
16:55referring to a friendship
16:56that developed
16:56after a 1918 visit
16:58to Dorchester.
17:00Strathclye Sterling.
17:01Hardy.
17:01It is Thomas Hardy.
17:02Well done.
17:02Three questions
17:03on Italian unification.
17:05A leading force
17:06behind Italian unification,
17:07which Piedmontese statesman
17:09became the first
17:10Prime Minister
17:10of the Kingdom of Italy
17:11in 1861?
17:14Garibaldi.
17:15No, that was Camillo Benzo,
17:16the Count of Cavour.
17:18Cavour served the kings
17:19of Sardinia, Piedmont,
17:20who belonged
17:21to what ruling house?
17:22From 1861,
17:23this house ruled
17:24the Kingdom of Italy.
17:27Bourbon.
17:29Bourbon.
17:29No, that was
17:30the House of Savoy.
17:31Including the present-day
17:32regions of Lazio,
17:33Umbria and Marche,
17:35what territories
17:35did the Kingdom of Italy
17:36annex in 1870?
17:38They're often known
17:39by a two-word name
17:39after their ruler.
17:41Normally,
17:41we do people states.
17:43Yes, well done.
17:43Let's start with this question.
17:44A single-word answer
17:45is enough here.
17:46In astrophysics,
17:48Atira,
17:48Arton,
17:49Apollo and Amor
17:50are names given
17:51to orbital classes
17:52of what type
17:53of astronomical object?
17:54All four of these
17:55classifications refer
17:56specifically to groups
17:57of these objects
17:58that pass relatively close...
18:02Comets.
18:02No one afraid
18:03you lose five points
18:04to Earth.
18:07Asteroids.
18:08It is asteroids.
18:08Bad luck,
18:09Asteroids.
18:10Your bonuses,
18:12Sheffield,
18:12are on conurbations
18:13that cross
18:13international borders.
18:14One of the first
18:16cross-border urban areas
18:17designated a European
18:18grouping of
18:19territorial cooperation
18:20by the EU
18:21is named after
18:22three cities.
18:23Courtreich,
18:25Tournai,
18:25and which
18:26major French city?
18:27Other cities
18:28in this conurbation
18:29include Roubaix
18:30and Tourkouin.
18:31And you don't know
18:32roughly where
18:33that's going to be.
18:34Tournai is like...
18:35Do you know how
18:35I want to say...
18:36Like Lille, maybe?
18:37Is that...
18:37Lille?
18:38Yes.
18:39The city of Goma,
18:40capital of the North Kivu region
18:42of the Democratic Republic
18:43of the Congo,
18:43is contiguous
18:45with the city of
18:46Gisenyi,
18:47the second largest city
18:48in which country?
18:49Rwanda.
18:49Rwanda.
18:50Yes.
18:50The Mexican city of Juarez
18:52forms a large cross-border
18:53conurbation with which
18:54US city?
18:54El Paso.
18:55It is El Paso, yes.
18:57Let's start a question.
18:58Henry Willis,
18:59J.W. Walker,
19:00Thomas Harrison,
19:01and Aristide Cavallé-Col
19:03all founded firms
19:04in the 19th century
19:05primarily known for making
19:06what type of musical instrument?
19:09A number of these instruments
19:10created by Cavallé-Col
19:11are still used in Paris,
19:13including ones at
19:14Saint-Sulpice
19:15and the Basilica
19:16of Saint-Denis.
19:18Sheffield Dobby.
19:19Organs?
19:20Yes, well done.
19:21Your bonuses, Sheffield,
19:23are on works edited
19:24by the author
19:25Toni Morrison
19:26during her two decades
19:27working at
19:28Random House Publishers.
19:29Which academic
19:30and activist
19:31said of Morrison
19:32as editor of her autobiography,
19:34she persuaded me
19:35that I could write it
19:36the way I wanted to.
19:37It could be the story
19:37not only of my life
19:38but of the movement
19:39in which I had become involved.
19:41Morrison also edited her work
19:42Women, Race and Class.
19:45Organs, Lord.
19:46Lord.
19:47Lord.
19:48Lord?
19:48No, it's Angela Davis.
19:50An exploration
19:50of generational black trauma
19:52centred on a Kentucky blues singer,
19:54the 1975 novel
19:56Corregidora
19:56is by which US author?
19:58Her more recent works
19:59include Palmares
20:00and The Birdcatcher.
20:02The Birdcatcher.
20:04No, it is.
20:05No, it is.
20:05Pass.
20:06That's Gail Jones.
20:07Tony Cade Bambara's novel
20:09Those Bones Are Not My Child
20:11is a response
20:11to the disappearance
20:12and murder
20:13of more than 40 black children
20:14between 1979 and 1981
20:16in which major
20:18southern US city?
20:19The birthplace
20:19of Martin Luther King Jr.?
20:21Montgomery?
20:22Was he born in...
20:23Was it Birmingham?
20:24Birmingham's where he was in jail.
20:25Was he born in...
20:25I say Montgomery.
20:27I thought Memphis.
20:28You know who it is.
20:29Memphis?
20:30No, it was Atlanta.
20:31Picture round now.
20:32For your picture starter,
20:33you're going to see
20:34a painting of a fruit.
20:36For ten points,
20:36I need you to give me
20:37the name of the fruit.
20:41Jackfruit.
20:42It is a jackfruit.
20:43Yes, well done.
20:44For your picture starter there,
20:45Sheffield,
20:46you saw an illustration
20:46of a jackfruit
20:47by Victorian botanical artist
20:48Marianne North.
20:50For your picture bonuses,
20:51three more illustrations
20:52by North
20:52of tropical fruits
20:53on the trees
20:54that produce them.
20:55Five points
20:56for each fruit you can name.
20:57First, this fruit.
21:01It's not like a mangosteen,
21:02is it?
21:03Is that what mangosteen is like?
21:03It does.
21:05I don't know.
21:05If you just try it,
21:05we don't know.
21:07Mangosteen?
21:07There's an ackee.
21:08Second, this fruit.
21:10Is that custard apple?
21:12Custard apple?
21:13No, I need more than that.
21:16No, I don't know.
21:18No, I'm afraid
21:18I can't accept that.
21:19The term custard apple
21:21is applied to a number
21:22of related fruits,
21:23but I needed to hear
21:24the specific fruit,
21:25which is soursop.
21:27Bad luck.
21:28This one's your last one.
21:29Have a look at this.
21:30It's not like a papaya,
21:33is it?
21:33Yeah.
21:34It could be.
21:35Papaya?
21:36No, that's a cashew.
21:37Let's start a question.
21:38In the 17th century,
21:40Nzinga Mabande
21:41was queen of the kingdoms of...
21:44Angola.
21:45Well done.
21:46Well done indeed.
21:47Three questions for you,
21:48Sheffield,
21:49on shipwrecked animals.
21:51Unsinkable Sam
21:51was a nickname given
21:52to a cat
21:53that was on board
21:54which German battleship
21:55when it was sunk
21:56during the 1941 operation
21:57Reineborn?
21:58Bismarck.
21:58The cat was picked up
21:59by the crew of the HMS Cossack,
22:01which would later also sink
22:02with Sam surviving
22:03a second time
22:03and a third time
22:04in a later shipwreck.
22:05Bismarck.
22:06Yeah.
22:06The year 1515
22:07saw the arrival
22:08in Lisbon of Ulysses,
22:10the first example
22:11of what animal
22:11seen in Europe
22:12since antiquity?
22:13It was immortalised
22:14in a woodcut
22:15by Albrecht Dürer
22:16but would later die
22:17in a shipwreck
22:17while being sent
22:18as a gift
22:18to Pope Leo X.
22:20It is?
22:20Rhinoceros?
22:21Yes.
22:22The Coton de Tulear
22:23is a small dog breed
22:24named after Toleara,
22:26a port city
22:27in which island country?
22:28The breed is said
22:29to be descended
22:29from a group of dogs
22:30that were shipwrecked
22:31there centuries ago.
22:32I think Honiara
22:33is Micronesia.
22:35Micronesia?
22:36No, it's Madagascar.
22:37Another start of the question.
22:38What word is common
22:39to the modern names
22:40of the British football clubs
22:42founded as
22:42Riverside AFC
22:44in 1899,
22:45Singers FC
22:46in 1883,
22:48Small Heath Alliance
22:49FC in 1875
22:50and sent Marks FC...
22:53Sheffield Price.
22:54City.
22:54It is City, yes.
22:55Bad luck, Jeff.
22:56Well, it's a fraction late.
22:58Well done, Sheffield.
22:58Another set of bonuses
22:59on the theatre director
23:01Emma Rice.
23:02Rice's works
23:03at the Knee High Theatre
23:04include an adaptation
23:05of Witch Film
23:06by David Lean,
23:07itself based on a play
23:08by Noel Coward.
23:09Rice's version
23:10combines elements
23:11of both film and play,
23:12both of which centre
23:13on an affair
23:14that begins
23:14in a railway station buffet.
23:16How is it
23:17in like
23:17A Stranger's on a Train?
23:18No, no, no.
23:19That's Patricia Heisman.
23:20Private Life,
23:21is that a thing?
23:21Private Life is different.
23:23Go for Blythe Spirit.
23:25I don't think it's...
23:25Blythe Spirit.
23:26Blythe Spirit, yeah.
23:26Blythe Spirit?
23:27No, that was Brief Encounter.
23:29Oh, yeah.
23:29Rice has directed
23:30stage versions
23:31of two of Angela Carter's novels,
23:33Nights at the Circus
23:34and Witch Other,
23:35that also gives its name
23:36to the theatre company
23:37set up by Rice in 2018.
23:39The novel's main characters
23:40are the twin chorus girls,
23:42Nora and Dora, Chance.
23:44Nominate Dobby.
23:45Wise Children.
23:45Yes.
23:46In 2018,
23:46Rice directed
23:47The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk,
23:49a two-hander by Daniel Jameson
23:51about which artist,
23:52born in 1887 near Vitebsk
23:54and his wife, Bella?
23:55The title refers to his paintings
23:56depicting him and Bella
23:57in the sky over Vitebsk.
24:00Chagall.
24:00Yes, well done.
24:01Let's start the question.
24:03I'm looking for the name
24:04of a person here.
24:05Quote,
24:05Justice no longer takes
24:07public responsibility
24:08for the violence
24:09that is bound up
24:10with its practice.
24:11Which French thinker
24:12wrote those words
24:13in his 1975 work,
24:15Discipline and...
24:16Strathclyde Sterling.
24:17Foucault.
24:18It's Foucault, yes.
24:19Indeed.
24:20Your bonuses, Strathclyde,
24:21are on Chinese words
24:23linked by the character
24:24for fire.
24:25First,
24:26considered one of the
24:27four great inventions
24:28of ancient China,
24:29what word literally
24:30translates from Chinese
24:31as fire medicine?
24:33I don't...
24:35I don't like my cute
24:36gunpowder.
24:37Yes, well done.
24:38Second,
24:38which planet of the
24:39solar system
24:40has a Chinese name
24:41that translates
24:41as fire star?
24:43It's Venus.
24:45Really?
24:46Well, isn't it
24:46the really bright one?
24:47No, it's Mars.
24:48And finally,
24:49which mode of transport
24:50has a Chinese name
24:50that literally means
24:51fire vehicle?
24:54Train.
24:55Train.
24:56It is train.
24:56Well done.
24:57Let's start the question.
24:58Featuring the world
24:59the world's largest
24:59vertical drop
25:00at over 4,100 feet,
25:03Kigutinkwak,
25:04or Mount Thor,
25:05is a peak
25:06in which mountain range
25:07named after
25:08the large Canadian island
25:09on which it is
25:10primarily found?
25:12Strathclyde McHugh.
25:13Baffin.
25:14It is the Baffin Mountains.
25:15Well done.
25:16Three questions
25:16and a poem.
25:17Quote,
25:18Ah, but a man's reach
25:19should exceed his grasp
25:20or what's a heaven for?
25:22These words are
25:22from a dramatic monologue
25:23published in 1855
25:25by which poet?
25:28Anyone?
25:29What is the language?
25:31Longfellow.
25:32No, it's Browning.
25:33Which Italian artist
25:34is the title character
25:35and narrator of the poem?
25:36His works include
25:37Madonna of the Harpies
25:38and Madonna del Sacco,
25:40both found in his native Florence.
25:44Sorry.
25:45No, that was Andrea del Sarto.
25:47For the poem's source material,
25:49Browning used the work
25:50of which Renaissance artist,
25:51historian and biographer,
25:52who described del Sarto's work
25:54as Without Errors
25:55in his work
25:55Lives of the Artists?
25:58Nope.
25:59Anyone?
25:59Oh.
26:00Um,
26:02Vasari.
26:02That was Vasari.
26:03Okay.
26:05Let's start the question.
26:06In the international system
26:07of units,
26:08one second,
26:09the base unit of time,
26:10is formally defined
26:11in terms of the resonant frequency
26:13of which chemical...
26:16Césium.
26:16It is cesium.
26:17Yes, well done.
26:18Your bonuses,
26:19Sheffield,
26:19are on Cabinet Ministers.
26:20In each case,
26:21I'll read the names
26:22of the Chancellor
26:22of the Exchequer,
26:23Foreign Secretary
26:24and Home Secretary
26:25in that order.
26:26All I want from you
26:27is the name
26:28of the Prime Minister
26:29when they held
26:30all those offices.
26:31First,
26:32Rab Butler,
26:33Anthony Eden,
26:33David Maxwell-Fyfe.
26:35When is this?
26:36Um,
26:37Macmillan?
26:37Yeah,
26:38no, Eden,
26:39sure.
26:39Macmillan's after Eden,
26:40right?
26:40Oh,
26:40Churchill?
26:41Sure.
26:42Churchill?
26:42Yes.
26:43Secondly,
26:44Anthony Barber,
26:45Alec Douglas-Hulme,
26:46Robert Carr.
26:47Douglas-Hulme is like 60s.
26:49It could be put on to be right.
26:50Yeah.
26:50Macmillan?
26:51No,
26:51that was Ted Heath.
26:53Kenneth Clark,
26:54Douglas Hurd,
26:54Michael Howard.
26:56No, I didn't.
26:57Oh,
26:58is it not that?
26:59Thatcher, yeah.
27:01Thatcher.
27:02That was after Thatcher,
27:02it was major.
27:03Bad luck.
27:04What middle initial
27:05links the authors
27:06of the following novels?
27:07The African Queen,
27:09In a Free State,
27:10The Naked Lunch
27:11and Her...
27:12S.
27:14It is S.
27:14Well done.
27:15Your bonuses,
27:16Sheffield,
27:17are on literary figures.
27:18In each case,
27:18give the historic county of England
27:19that was the birthplace
27:21of the following.
27:21All three are in the Midlands.
27:23First of five points,
27:24the poet T.E. Hulme,
27:26the novelist Arnold Bennett
27:27and the 18th century essayist
27:29Samuel Johnson.
27:31Samuel Johnson,
27:32maybe?
27:33Samuel Johnson,
27:33not the dictionary,
27:34I think.
27:34Yeah.
27:35Like when he was born.
27:36Go Warwickshire.
27:37No,
27:38they're on the Midlands.
27:39Warwickshire.
27:39Warwickshire.
27:40Staffordshire.
27:41Second,
27:41the poet Wilfred Owen
27:42and the novelist Barbara Pym
27:43and Edith Pargeter
27:44who also used the pen name
27:45Ellis Peters.
27:48And that is gone,
27:49Strathclyde,
27:49I think she's
27:50Sheffield,
27:50a 290.
27:54The answer to the last one
27:55was Shropshire.
27:58Oh,
27:58Strathclyde,
28:00I just think you were up
28:01against an unbelievable team
28:02in the form of their life
28:03who were incredible
28:05on the buzzers
28:05and that was just
28:06incredibly bad luck.
28:07I'm so sorry,
28:08but it was very obvious
28:10how enormously clever you are
28:11when you got a chance
28:12to answer some questions.
28:13So well done.
28:14It's been wonderful
28:14getting to know you.
28:15Sheffield,
28:15I think you just need to try
28:16and capture that
28:17and take that form
28:18into the next stage
28:19because that will terrify
28:20everyone you're up against.
28:22I mean,
28:22290 is absolutely phenomenal
28:23and you were amazing really
28:25in your range of knowledge
28:26and your speed on the starter.
28:27So well done.
28:27That was a fantastic performance.
28:29I hope we will see you again
28:31for another second round match
28:32but until then,
28:33it is goodbye from Strathclyde.
28:34Bye.
28:35It's goodbye from Sheffield.
28:37Goodbye.
28:38And it's goodbye from me.
28:39Goodbye.
28:40Goodbye.
28:57Goodbye.
29:04Goodbye.
29:06Goodbye.
29:07Goodbye.
29:08Goodbye.
29:10Goodbye.
29:10Goodbye.
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