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00:27Hello and welcome to University
00:29University Challenge.
00:30Tonight, another two teams will be playing their second match in this year's competition.
00:34By the end of it, one will have won themselves a place in the quarterfinals, while the other,
00:38sadly, will be leaving the competition for good.
00:42Bristol's first match in this series was a seven-side derby against Cardiff University,
00:46and they won it convincingly by 180 points to 115.
00:50In that game, the two teams were quite evenly matched on the buzzer, but Bristol answered
00:54almost twice as many bonus questions correctly as their opponents, scoring full marks on several
00:59sets, including one about T.S. Eliot's Book of Practical Cats and another on the chemistry
01:04of cheese.
01:05They did struggle a little, however, on British geography and 1960s pop music.
01:09Let's meet the Bristol team for the second time.
01:12Hi, I'm Lewis Jenkins, I'm from Swansea and I'm studying mathematics.
01:16Hi, I'm Lois Connolly, I'm from Brighton and I'm studying liberal arts.
01:20And their captain.
01:21Hi, I'm Hugo Goodwill, I'm from Surrey and I'm studying for a master's in aerospace
01:25engineering.
01:26Hi, I'm Nathaniel Joyce, I'm from Southampton and I'm studying biology.
01:34This year's team from Warwick are here tonight having made an astonishing comeback in their
01:38opening game against the University of Sheffield.
01:41With ten minutes to go, they were more than 100 points behind, but they then took nine of
01:45the last ten starters and most of the bonuses that went with them, and the score at the gong
01:50was Warwick 210, Sheffield 170.
01:52Warwick were particularly impressive in that match on global politics, mythology and Japanese
01:57geography, but they did drop a few points on fine art and English castles.
02:01Let's meet them once again.
02:04Hi, I'm Josh Howarth, I'm from St Albans in Hertfordshire and I study history.
02:08Hi, I'm Anthony Klosowski, I'm from Schenkerford in North London and I'm studying English literature
02:12and history.
02:13And their captain.
02:14Hi, I'm Chris Leavesley, I'm from Derby and I'm studying maths.
02:18Hi, I'm Lucy Dennett, I'm from South-West London and I'm studying politics and international
02:22studies.
02:27Welcome back, very nice of you to applaud the opposition.
02:29I think they did the same to you, so this has all started very well, but from now it's
02:33war and sadly, whoever loses is out, but best of luck, fingers on puzzles, here's your first
02:38starter for ten.
02:39The name of what ceramic material probably derives ultimately from the Italian for female pig
02:45and, more directly, from the French for...
02:48Bristol Goodwill.
02:49Porcelain.
02:50Well done, it is indeed.
02:51Your bonuses then, Bristol, are on trees in poems.
02:55What kind of fruit tree is described as loveliest of trees in the second poem from A.E.
03:00Houseman's collection, A Shropshire Lad?
03:02In the poem, the narrator laments that he has only 50 springs left in which to see its blooms.
03:07Well, it's a blossom, right, so cherry.
03:10Cherry's a good guess, yeah.
03:11OK.
03:12Are you happy with that?
03:13Yeah.
03:13Cherry.
03:14It is a good guess, yeah.
03:15Binsey Poplars is a lament by a witch poet for the felling of a row of trees near Oxford
03:19in 1879, remarking, not spared, not one, that dandled a sandal shadow that swam or sank
03:26on meadow and river and wind-wandering weed-winding bank.
03:30Oxford 1870.
03:32Browning or Rossetti?
03:34It's a good guess.
03:34It's a good guess.
03:35It's a good guess.
03:36It's a good guess.
03:37It's a good guess.
03:38What's your idea?
03:39I don't know.
03:39Browning or Rossetti?
03:40Was that too late for them?
03:42I would go Browning maybe.
03:44Browning?
03:46Browning?
03:46No, that is unmistakably Gerard Manley Hopkins.
03:49Finally, Birch's is a poem by which American poet it was included in the 1916 collection Mountain
03:55Interval?
03:56Robert Frost.
03:57Frost.
03:57It is Robert Frost.
03:58Well done.
03:59Let's start the question.
04:01What surname is shared by the Governor General of India in office at the time the Sepoy
04:05Mutiny began in 1857, who subsequently became the colony's first viceroy following the transfer
04:10of power from the East India Company to the Crown, and his father, a Tory Prime Minister,
04:15whose tenure lasted for less than four months before he died in office in 1827?
04:20Warrick Dennis.
04:22Percival?
04:22No.
04:24He may not confer.
04:25Bristol Jenkins.
04:26Canning.
04:26Canning.
04:27Yes, it was Canning.
04:28Charles and George respectively.
04:29Your bonuses, Bristol, are on works by the architectural firm Sejima and Nishizawa and
04:34Associates, who were awarded the 2025 RIBA Royal Gold Medal.
04:39After winning an international competition in 2005, SANA collaborated with Imri Culbert and
04:44Catherine Mosbach to design a sister gallery to the Louvre Museum in which French city?
04:50located around 20 kilometres south-west of Lille.
04:53Oh, I saw what's the border with Belgium.
04:55South-west of Lille.
04:55I saw what's the border with Belgium.
04:56I saw what's the border with Belgium.
04:56No, it is on the border.
04:57Is it like Rouen or something?
04:59That's the right sort of area, isn't it?
05:00Is that Normandy, isn't it?
05:01Rouen.
05:01Yeah, probably.
05:02Does anyone have anything better than that?
05:04I don't know.
05:05Is it like Cairn?
05:06Cairn or something like that?
05:07No?
05:08I think so.
05:08I'm going to say Rouen now.
05:10Rouen?
05:10No, it's Lonne.
05:12The firm's other notable works in Europe include a learning centre at the Ecole Polytechnique
05:16Federal of which Swiss city on the north shore of Lake Geneva?
05:21This city is also home to the Swiss Supreme Court and the IOC, the International Olympic
05:25Committee.
05:26It's not Lausanne, is it?
05:28Well, I was thinking that.
05:29Well, Geneva's on the south-west.
05:31It's not Geneva.
05:32IOC.
05:32I'm happy with that.
05:34Lausanne.
05:34Yes, it is.
05:35SANA's buildings in the USA include the new Museum of Contemporary Art, in which
05:40major city their original building occupies a small footprint and resembles an offset
05:44stack of rectangular boxes clad in pale aluminium mesh?
05:49New York?
05:50Chicago?
05:51I don't know.
05:51Oh, no, I think Chicago.
05:53I think it's New York.
05:53It's even New York.
05:54Should I say Chicago?
05:56It's New York.
05:56Chicago?
05:57No, it's New York.
05:58Another question.
05:59The Name of What Family of Insects is the title of the zoology textbook by Bert
06:05Hull-Dubler and E.O. Wilson that won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction.
06:11The book provides a systematic study of their biology and behaviour including their altruism,
06:16pheromonal communication and caste system.
06:20Right, isn't it?
06:21Ants?
06:22It is ants.
06:23Yes, well done.
06:23The abundance of world are on video games where you play as a non-anthropomorphic animal.
06:28In which 2022 game by Blue 12 Studio does the player control a cat trying to escape from
06:33a decaying cyber planet?
06:35Stray.
06:35Yes.
06:36The Japanese goddess Amaterasu in the form of a white wolf is the protagonist of which...
06:41Okami.
06:41Well done.
06:42The Name of What Bird completes this tagline of a 2019 game by House House.
06:46It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible...
06:49Goose.
06:50Goose is correct.
06:52Let's start the question.
06:53Picture round now.
06:54And for your picture starter, you are going to see the flag of a British overseas territory.
06:59For ten points, give me that territory's name.
07:03Bristol Jenkins.
07:04Bermuda.
07:05Well done.
07:06Well done.
07:07Your picture starter was the flag of Bermuda which features on its coat of arms a depiction
07:11of the wreck of the sea venture near the territory in 1609.
07:16For your picture bonuses, you are going to see three more flags that feature ships or boats.
07:20First, this is the flag of which Canadian province?
07:25New Brunswick.
07:26New Brunswick.
07:26I think it's New Brunswick.
07:28I think it's New Brunswick.
07:29Is that what it's called?
07:30New Brunswick.
07:31Correct.
07:32Secondly, this is the flag of which dependent territory?
07:35Tokolau.
07:36Yeah.
07:36Tokolau.
07:36Correct.
07:37Finally, this is the flag of which unincorporated territory of the US?
07:41Some helpful wording has been removed here.
07:43Guam.
07:43Guam, yeah.
07:44Guam.
07:44That is Guam.
07:45Yes.
07:45Which of Thomas Hardy's novels begins with this epitaph from the first book of Ezra's?
07:53Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women and become servants for their sakes.
07:58Many also have perished, have erred and sinned for women.
08:01Its characters include Tinker Tailor, an ironmonger.
08:04Vilbert, an itinerant quack doctor.
08:07Sue Bridehead, the title character's cousin and principal love interest.
08:11And Drusilla Forley, the title characters aren't...
08:14Mark Kluzowski.
08:15Mayor of Casterbridge.
08:16No.
08:18Bristol Joyce.
08:19Jude the Obscure.
08:20It is Jude the Obscure, yeah.
08:21Well done.
08:22Your bonuses, Bristol, are three questions on an opera.
08:26A ball in which 1787 opera features three ensembles playing three different dances at the same time?
08:32The ball is ostensibly held to celebrate the marriage of Zolina and Masetto.
08:36Er...
08:37Do you think...
08:38Don Giovanni?
08:38Oh, yes, yes.
08:39Don Giovanni.
08:40Correct.
08:41The ball is, in fact, a ploy in Don Giovanni's plan to seduce Zolina,
08:45which he had earlier attempted during which act one duet?
08:48An early work of Frederic Chopin is a series of variations on the melody of this duet.
08:53The answer I need here is a five-word Italian phrase.
08:57Any ideas?
08:58From Don Giovanni.
08:59No.
09:00Don Giovanni.
09:01Any five-word Italian phrases?
09:02I can think of one, but it's not from Don Giovanni.
09:04What is it?
09:04It's not from Don Giovanni.
09:06OK, pass.
09:07It's La ci darem le manno.
09:09Later in the opera, Don Giovanni listens to some more onstage music,
09:13including the aria Non, Pew and Dry, from which of Mozart's other operas,
09:18in which Count Almaviva is pitted against Susanna and his valet?
09:21Marriage of Figaro.
09:23Marriage of Figaro.
09:23Yes, it is. Well done.
09:24Let's start with questions.
09:26In the 1960s, who directed episodes of the Wednesday play for the BBC titled The End of Arthur's Marriage,
09:33Up the Junction and Cathy Come Home?
09:36The last of these would, according to the BFI, establish his reputation for, quote,
09:40sensitivity to his usually working-class characters.
09:44Ken Loach.
09:45It is Ken Loach, yes.
09:46Well done.
09:48Three questions for you, Warwick, on prime numbers.
09:50On the number of prime numbers less than a given quantity is an 1859 paper by which German mathematician,
09:57in it he relates what is now usually known as his namesake zeta function to the distribution of prime numbers?
10:03Riemann.
10:03Yes.
10:05Name either of the two mathematicians who, building on Riemann's work, proved independently in 1896
10:10that the number of prime numbers less than a given number n approaches n over the natural logarithm of n,
10:15as n tends to infinity.
10:17I don't know.
10:19Is it Gauss?
10:21No, that's Jacques Hadamard and Charles de la Vallée-Poussant.
10:25Which ancient Greek mathematician proved the infinitude of prime numbers in his elements?
10:30Euclid.
10:31Euclid.
10:32It is Euclid, yes.
10:32Well done.
10:33Let's start the question.
10:34What European country is divided into two regions?
10:37The larger, Guttland, occupies the southern...
10:40Russell Jenkins.
10:41Luxembourg.
10:42It is Luxembourg.
10:42Well done.
10:44Your bonuses, Bristol, are on noodles used in Japanese cuisine.
10:48Name each variety of noodle from the description.
10:51First, a flat grey-brown noodle, similar in thickness to spaghetti and made using buckwheat flour.
10:56They are often served cold with a dipping sauce or used in soups.
11:00Soba.
11:01Yes.
11:01Secondly, a variety of noodle made from the corm of a plant sometimes known as devil's tongue.
11:08They are thin, gelatinous in texture and have very little nutritional content, being mostly made up of water and fibre.
11:14It's not udon, is it?
11:15It's not udon, is it?
11:16It's not crystal.
11:16It's not glass pasta.
11:17It's not glass spaghetti stuff.
11:18I don't know.
11:19Do you want to come up with something?
11:23Shin...
11:23Shall...
11:24Yeah, I can...
11:25Okay.
11:25Nominate Connolly.
11:26Shin Gami.
11:28Shirataki or Konyaku.
11:29Of course.
11:29Finally, a variety of noodle typically made from mung bean, potato or sweet potato starch.
11:34Its Japanese name means spring rain, while its common English names refer to its translucent appearance.
11:40And either the Japanese or the English names will do here.
11:43It's not angels.
11:44It's glass noodles.
11:45It's glass noodles.
11:45Oh, is it crystal?
11:46I think it's glass noodles.
11:47It's glass glass.
11:48Glass noodles.
11:48Yeah.
11:49Glass noodles.
11:50That'll do.
11:50Yep, well done.
11:51Let's start with the question.
11:52Speaking of the country in which he was living at the time, the Danish born Johannes Karl Anderson wrote in
11:58the early 20th century that, quote,
12:00Local poets should leave the Greek and turn to the myths and legends of what indigenous people?
12:05Figures in these stories include the lovers Hinomoa and Tutanekai and the trickster hero, Maui.
12:10BELL RINGS
12:11BELL RINGS
12:12BELL RINGS
12:13BELL RINGS
12:13BELL RINGS
12:15BELL RINGS
12:16It's the Jenkins Hawaiian.
12:17No, it's the Maori.
12:19Oh.
12:19Bad luck, Anthony.
12:20Polynesian just isn't specific enough.
12:21I needed to hear Maori.
12:22Bad luck.
12:23Let's start with the question.
12:24In collaboration with Rudolf Geiger, who co-edited the five-volume Handbook of Climatology, begun in 1927, and is also
12:32known for the mathematical system of climatic classification.
12:35BELL RINGS
12:36BELL RINGS
12:36It is Kirpen.
12:38Well done.
12:38APPLAUSE
12:39Your bonuses, Warwick, are on Black Mountain College, an experimental liberal arts college in North Carolina.
12:45In 1952, while teaching at the college, which composer staged an influential theatre piece in its dining hall that incorporated
12:52paintings by Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor playing piano, and the composer's partner, Merce Cunningham dancing?
12:59Maybe just...
13:00I think it's either Cage or Adams.
13:01Go with one of those things.
13:03Maybe Adams?
13:04I think Cage.
13:04Adams.
13:05Adams.
13:06Bad luck, it's Cage.
13:07Bad luck.
13:08Which Japanese-American artist came to study at Black Mountain in 1946 after her heritage prevented her from qualifying as
13:14a school teacher?
13:15She began her work with looped and woven wire there, influenced by a visit to Mexico with teacher Joseph Albers.
13:22Pass.
13:23Pass.
13:24Ruth Asawa.
13:25Helped by his students and artist Kenneth Snelson, which American architect and inventor made his first attempt at constructing a
13:31large-scale geodesic dome at Black Mountain College while teaching there in 1948?
13:37Dockminster Fuller.
13:37It is indeed.
13:38Yeah, well, now let's start the question.
13:39And it's a music round now.
13:40For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of classical music.
13:43For ten points, I need you to name its composer.
13:52Warrick Howarth.
13:53Adams.
13:54No, you can hear a bit more, but you may not confer.
14:07Come on, someone have a guess if you want to.
14:09Otherwise we'll be here all day.
14:15Bristol Joyce.
14:16Mussorgsky.
14:17No, it's Edvard Grieg.
14:18We'll take your music bonuses in a moment when we get the next starter right.
14:21According to the historian Tony Jute, in what European country in 1918 did most Social Democrats regard the emergence of
14:28their truncated state out of the ruins of an empire as, quote, an economic and political...
14:33Bristol Goodwill.
14:34Germany.
14:34Germany.
14:34No, I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
14:36Nonsense.
14:37Conservative parties controlled its federal government from 1920 to 1934 when a coup saw the murder of the authoritarian Chancellor
14:43Engelbert Dolfus.
14:47Austria.
14:48It is Austria, yes.
14:51For your music starter, you heard Grieg's Arabian dance from his Peer Gint suite.
14:55Your music bonuses will be three more dances ostensibly inspired by Arab and Middle Eastern music.
15:00Again, I want you to name the composer of each.
15:02All three are Russian.
15:04First, this piece.
15:16It's Rachmaninoff with the oriental dance number two.
15:19Secondly, this excerpt from an opera.
15:29Tchaikovsky.
15:31And that's Glinka.
15:32Oriental dances from Ruslan and Lyudmila.
15:35And lastly.
15:38This is...
15:42Tchaikovsky.
15:42That's right.
15:44Tchaikovsky.
15:44That is Tchaikovsky, the origin dance from The Nutcracker.
15:47Now, let's start the question.
15:48What item of furniture links a common English translation of the musical form known as a bursers with an 1872
15:56painting by Burt Morisot that depicts her sister and baby niece?
16:00The same word is often applied to places such as Olduvai Gorge, Yellow River and Mesopotamia to indicate a...
16:07Mark Gluzowski.
16:08Cradle.
16:08It is cradle.
16:09Well done.
16:09APPLAUSE
16:10The following questions are on a relic.
16:13The Sainte Chapelle in Paris was built to house what famous relic brought to Paris in 1239?
16:19An extravagant reliquary for a single piece of this object made for Jean-Duc de Berry was part of the
16:25Waddesdon bequest to the British Museum.
16:27Any idea?
16:28Maybe, like, something to do with Christ.
16:29Maybe, like, I don't know.
16:29Like the Christ's cross or something.
16:31Just a piece of...
16:32Yeah, I guess a piece of the cross.
16:35Nominate Howarth.
16:36A piece of Christ's cross.
16:37Yes.
16:37No, that was one of the relics eventually installed in Sainte Chapelle, but it doesn't fit all the other clues.
16:42The Crown of Thorns is what I was looking for.
16:45The Crown of Thorns was acquired by Louis IX of France from the last Latin Emperor of Constantinople.
16:50What was this Emperor's regnal name?
16:53Last Latin Emperor.
16:54Last Latin Emperor.
16:56Um...
16:56Last Latin Emperor.
17:01Maybe Theodosius.
17:03Theodosius.
17:03No, it's Baldwin II.
17:04Second.
17:04In the 19th century, the Crown of Thorns was moved from the Sainte Chapelle to which other religious building in
17:10Paris?
17:10Remaining there until a catastrophic 2019 fire, which the relics survived?
17:14Notre Dame.
17:15Of course it was.
17:15Yes, indeed.
17:15Five points in it.
17:16Let's start a question.
17:18A precursor to the more widespread Valdivia culture, what name is given to the prehistoric culture that flourished in coastal
17:25Ecuador between around 8,000 BCE and 4,500 BCE, and which was one of the earliest South American cultures
17:33to practice agriculture?
17:34Its name translates as...
17:36Mark Kluzowski.
17:37Nor to Chico.
17:38I'm afraid you lose five points.
17:40As the Meadows and is shared with a major US city.
17:43Bristle Jenkins.
17:44Las Vegas.
17:45It is Las Vegas culture, yes.
17:46Your bones and bristle are on elements that are used to make control rods in nuclear reactors because of their
17:51ability to absorb neutrons.
17:54Name each element from the description.
17:55First, a bluish white metal in Group 12.
17:58It is both carcinogenic and teratogenic, so its use in most contexts is highly restricted.
18:03But it has in the past been used as a pigment and is still used in rechargeable batteries.
18:08In rechargeable.
18:09Cadmium.
18:10Cadmium.
18:11Cadmium blue, yes.
18:12Cadmium.
18:13Yes.
18:14Secondly, a Group 4 metal named after the city in which it was discovered in 1923.
18:19It is highly resistant to corrosion in water and used particularly in the reactors of nuclear submarines.
18:24Is it Yttrium?
18:26I don't know.
18:27Is it?
18:27It's Group 4.
18:28It must be, yes.
18:29It's Group 4.
18:29I think 1923.
18:30I think Yttrium.
18:32Are you happy with that?
18:33It's Yttrium.
18:34Yeah.
18:35Yeah.
18:35Yttrium.
18:36No, it's hafnium, which is named after Copenhagen.
18:39Finally, a semi-metallic element in Group 13, its neutron absorbing capacity has led not only to its widespread use
18:45in nuclear reactors, but also to its use in a form of cancer treatment, known by the abbreviation BNCT.
18:51I think it's boron, yeah.
18:52Boron.
18:53Yes, a boron neutron.
18:55Well done.
18:55Let's start the question.
18:57The 2024 musical starring Kristin Chenoweth, based on a documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, is titled The
19:04Queen of Where.
19:06The title refers to a lavish mansion in Florida.
19:09It's self-named for a...
19:11Bristol Jenkins.
19:12Motherlago.
19:12I'm afraid you lose five points.
19:14Nave, you can hear a bit more of the question, but you may not confer, Warwick.
19:17Named for a European palace that hosted the equestrian events at the 2024 Olympic Games.
19:21And the gardens of which were designed by André Le Notre, the principal gardener of Louis XIV of France.
19:28Warwick Dennett.
19:30Versailles?
19:30It is Versailles, yes.
19:31Well done.
19:32Your bonuses are on the history of Australia's National Rugby League, commonly abbreviated to NRL.
19:39The precursor of the modern National Rugby League was a league founded in 1907, consisting of teams based in which
19:45of Australia's states?
19:46New South Wales.
19:47Give me that.
19:48New South Wales?
19:49Yes.
19:50In 1988, the New South Wales Rugby League was expanded to include two teams representing the Queensland cities of Brisbane
19:56and Gold Coast, as well as the Knights, representing which New South Wales city?
20:02Adelaide?
20:03Brisbane?
20:04It's Adelaide.
20:04New South Wales City.
20:05Adelaide, I think.
20:06I think it's Wollongong.
20:08Wollongong.
20:09Come on.
20:10Wollongong.
20:10There's Newcastle.
20:11The modern NRL was formed in 1998 from the merger of rival leagues following the so-called Super League War,
20:17largely driven by a dispute over broadcast rights between Rupert Murdoch's News Limited and Channel 9, owned by which Australian
20:24media tycoon?
20:27Pass.
20:28Pass.
20:29That's Kerry Packer.
20:30Picture round now.
20:31And for your picture starter, you're going to see a still from a film.
20:34For ten points, I need you to give me the film's title.
20:38Bristol?
20:39Bristol Connolly.
20:40Taxi Driver?
20:40No, you can have a bit more time, but you can't confer.
20:45Oric Howarth?
20:46Glengarry Glen Ross.
20:47No.
20:48As a graduate, we'll take your picture bonuses in a moment.
20:50I'll start the question.
20:51Which Russian city gives its name to a paradox in probability theory, first posed by Nicholas Bernoulli, and notably analysed
20:58by Daniel Bernoulli, which asks how much a player should be willing to stake on a game where they will
21:03receive an exponentially increasing payoff for every consecutive time,
21:07a coin toss comes up tails.
21:11Warwick Leesley.
21:12St. Petersburg.
21:12It is St. Petersburg.
21:13Well done.
21:15For your picture starter, you saw a still from The Graduate, one of the films analysed in Mark Harris's book
21:19Pictures at a Revolution, about the year 1967 in film.
21:23For your bonuses, three more stills then, Warwick, from films discussed in Harris's book.
21:28I want the title of the film in each case.
21:30First, this film.
21:32OK.
21:33Oh.
21:34Um.
21:35Quite frankly, I don't know.
21:36Do you have anything?
21:37Anything.
21:37Why do I look at?
21:39Pass.
21:40That's In the Heat of the Night.
21:41Secondly, this film.
21:43Oh.
21:44Um.
21:45No.
21:46No.
21:46OK.
21:47Pass.
21:47That's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
21:49Lastly, this film.
21:51Bonnie and Clyde.
21:52Bonnie and Clyde.
21:53That is Bonnie and Clyde.
21:54Well done.
21:55Put you in the lead.
21:56The 20th century American theologian Albert Outler developed a so-called quadrilateral named for which British religious figure?
22:03It's four divisions of scripture, tradition, reason and experience are said to reflect the principles of this man's thought, as
22:10expressed in his sermons, which heavily influenced early Methodist preachers.
22:15Frank Howarth.
22:17John Wycliffe.
22:18No.
22:20Russell Goodwill.
22:21Wesley.
22:22I need more than that.
22:22Uh.
22:24Charles.
22:24No.
22:25Bad luck.
22:26It was his brother John.
22:27I can't accept Charles Worsley.
22:28Sorry.
22:29Five points in it.
22:29Five and a half minutes to go.
22:31I'll start the question.
22:32Which group one element was the first metal isolated by electrolysis by Humphrey Davy in 1807?
22:38The fourth heaviest element in the group, it is a soft silvery metal that tarnishes quickly in air and reacts
22:45vigorously with water.
22:47Bristol Jenkins.
22:47Robidium.
22:48No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
22:50Self-igniting and burning with a lilac coloured flame.
22:52You may not confer.
22:54Robidium.
22:55Potassium.
22:55It is potassium.
22:56Yes.
22:57Your bonuses are on a 21st century ballet.
23:00Which author is the subject of a 2015 ballet choreographed by Wayne McGregor for the royal ballet to music by
23:06Max Richter?
23:06The title role was created for Alessandra Ferry, then 52 years old.
23:11Author.
23:12Maybe Dickinson.
23:13I don't know.
23:15It sounds like something.
23:16George Eliot?
23:16I don't know.
23:17No, it's going to be American.
23:18Come on.
23:19No clue.
23:20Eliot.
23:21It's Virginia Woolf.
23:21The last act of the ballet, Tuesday, draws from which of Wolves novels in which the overlapping monologues of six
23:26characters narrate the course of their lives?
23:28It's the waves.
23:29The waves.
23:30Yes.
23:30The choreography of the ballet's second act, The Cummings, is characterised by its androgynous costuming and rejection of ballet's gender
23:37norms.
23:38Reflective of which of Wolves novels, whose title character changes from male to female halfway through?
23:43Orlando.
23:43Yes, well done.
23:44Let's start the question.
23:45Common in Britain, from the Iron Age until medieval times, and also used in half-timbered buildings of the Tudor
23:51era, what three-word term describes a building technique...
23:55Bristol O'Connolly.
23:56Wattle and Dog.
23:57It is indeed.
23:58Your bonuses are on novels with numbers in the title.
24:021Q84 is a 2011 novel by which author?
24:05The letter Q stands for question mark.
24:07Novenate Jenkins.
24:08Havuki Muvakami.
24:09Yes.
24:09What sequence of consecutive numbers in descending order forms the title of a 2017 novel by the US author Paul
24:16Oster?
24:214321.
24:224321.
24:224321.
24:254321.
24:264321.
24:26And finally, which 1953 novel opens with the words, It was a pleasure to burn?
24:30Oh, Fahrenheit 451.
24:31Fahrenheit 451.
24:33Well done.
24:33Let's start the question.
24:34Which play by Shakespeare ends with the following lines?
24:36Quote,
24:37Till then I'll sweat and seek about for eases, and at that time bequeath you my diseases.
24:42They are spoken by the syphilitic Pandarus, the uncle of one of the eponymous lovers.
24:47.
24:48.
24:49.
24:49.
24:49.
24:49.
24:49.
24:50.
24:53.
25:18.
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25:21.
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25:22.
25:22.
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25:27.
25:27No, pass. No, that's a river. Why? Finally, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.
25:32Trent. Trent. Yes, it does start with a question.
25:36Which two large islands are separated by the Macassar Strait?
25:40They are the largest and third largest...
25:42More at Gleasville! Sulawesi and Borneo. It is indeed. Well done.
25:45Your bonuses are three questions on monarchs who founded universities.
25:49In 1224, the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II founded which university in southern Italy
25:53to train civil servants and counteract papal influence, and that of the northern universities such as Bologna?
25:58I don't know. Or Borneo. Genoa.
26:01Do you know... Genoa? No, it's Naples.
26:03Which monarch founded Trinity College Dublin in an attempt to consolidate the Protestant Reformation
26:06and strengthen English rule in Ireland?
26:09The Nine Years' War, or Tyrone's Rebellion, broke out soon afterwards?
26:12It's Elizabeth I. Elizabeth I.
26:15Yes. Which monarch founded the University of Göttingen,
26:17the oldest university in the German state of Lower Saxony?
26:19The Ivy League universities of Columbia and Princeton also originate in royal charters granted during his reign.
26:25Maybe George II or III, what do you think?
26:29Who's the chairman, George?
26:30George III.
26:31Come on.
26:32George III.
26:33No, it's George II.
26:34I'll start the question.
26:35What nationality is shared by the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner,
26:38Alice Bialyatsky, and the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in literature...
26:42That's not Jenkins!
26:43That's a Russian.
26:44Yes, your bonuses are three questions on vegetables.
26:46When appearing in the botanical names of plants such as the cucumber,
26:49Cucumus sativus, or the parsnip, Pastanaca sativa...
26:52Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet.
26:54No, sativa means that the plant is cultivated.
26:56That's what I needed to hear.
26:58Raffinus sativus is which vegetable,
27:00usually eaten raw with a name derived from the Latin for root?
27:03Radish?
27:04Yeah, yeah, yeah.
27:05Radish?
27:05Yes.
27:05Having varieties known botanically as crispa, capitata,
27:08and longifolia,
27:10Lactuca sativa is which widely cultivated vegetable?
27:14Lactuca...
27:15Lactuca...
27:16Leak, I don't know.
27:17Leak.
27:18No, it's lettuce.
27:19Now, start the question.
27:20Consider the largest moon of each of the four largest planets
27:23of the solar system.
27:24Of those four moons, which is the smallest?
27:29Org Leasley.
27:30Titania.
27:31It is indeed, yes.
27:31Your bonuses are on hill figures,
27:33images cut into hillsides that are visible from afar.
27:36In each case, identify the locality after which the following are named.
27:39First, dating to prehistoric times,
27:41a curvilinear figure cut into chalk down a few miles east of Swindon,
27:45the white horse of where?
27:47Oh, I don't know.
27:48I've seen it.
27:48Where's the white horse?
27:49No, I don't know.
27:50No, I've just found it.
27:51Pass.
27:51Suffington.
27:52Secondly, a white horse carved into the Hambleton Hills
27:54in North Yorkshire near Sutton Bank in 1857.
27:57Name and place in North Yorkshire?
27:59That's in North Yorkshire, come on.
28:00Just stop.
28:01Let's list some places in North Yorkshire.
28:02Come on.
28:03Pass.
28:04It's Kilburn.
28:04Finally, a club-wielding giant
28:05on a chalk hillside in Dorset.
28:07I need a two-word name here.
28:08This is famous.
28:09This is famous.
28:10Big Bob.
28:12Caveman.
28:12I don't know.
28:13The caveman.
28:13Cern Abbas.
28:14Another starter question.
28:15And that's a gold book to have on your 45.
28:17And a warwick of 180.
28:23It's so good of you to applaud so generously
28:25because it was so tight until so late.
28:28And at the end,
28:29they just beat you to a couple of those starters.
28:31I'm so sorry, guys,
28:32but it's goodbye to you and your wonderful mascot.
28:34Have you vaguely enjoyed the experience?
28:36Absolutely.
28:37It's been a massive pleasure having you here.
28:39Warwick, that was wonderfully stressful.
28:42And we shall see you again in the quarterfinals.
28:44Well done.
28:45Brilliantly played against a really strong team.
28:47I hope you could join us next time, too,
28:49for another second-round match.
28:50But until then,
28:51it is goodbye from Bristol University.
28:53Goodbye.
28:54It's goodbye from Warwick University.
28:56Goodbye.
28:57And it's goodbye from me.
28:58Goodbye.
29:28Goodbye.
29:28Goodbye.
29:28Goodbye.
29:29Goodbye.
29:29Goodbye.
29:29Goodbye.
29:29Goodbye.
29:29Goodbye.
29:29Goodbye.
29:29You
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