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00:27Hello and welcome to University Challenge.
00:29There are just two matches remaining in this year's quarterfinal stage.
00:34Edinburgh and Imperial are safely through to the semis.
00:37UCL and Warwick have been eliminated and in this match and the next,
00:40the remaining four quarterfinalists will be going head-to-head for the last two semifinal spots.
00:46This year's team from Manchester beat New College Oxford and the LSE on their way to this round.
00:50They then lost their first quarterfinal against Edinburgh
00:52and looked at risk of losing their second against UCL
00:55until they heard the first notes of a music starter
00:58that was clearly very much their collective cup of tea.
01:00They scored a quick full marks on that round
01:03and proceeded to dominate the second half of the match,
01:05finishing on 150 points to UCL's 120.
01:09Their average score so far is 140 points.
01:12Let's meet the team from Manchester for the fifth time.
01:16Hi, I'm Ray Power. I'm from Bangkok, Thailand,
01:18and I study film studies and English literature.
01:21Hi, my name's Kirsty Dixon. I'm from Worley Green in Cheshire and I study medicine.
01:25And their captain.
01:26Hi, I'm Kai Madrick. I'm from Foy in Cornwall and I'm studying for a PhD in AI and astrophysics.
01:31Hi, I'm Rob Faulkner. I'm from Norwich and I'm studying physics with astrophysics.
01:39The team from Sheffield seemed determined this year to take the longest possible route
01:43to what would be their university's first appearance in our semifinals since 2011.
01:47They lost their opening game against Warwick
01:49but survived as one of the highest scoring losing teams of round one.
01:53They then beat New College Oxford in their repoussage, Strathclyde in round two
01:56and Darwin College Cambridge in their first quarterfinal
01:59before losing their second quarterfinal to Imperial,
02:02despite some very good answers on European geography and South American cowboys.
02:06With an average score of 180, let's meet the Sheffield team for the sixth time.
02:11Hi, I'm Rhys Lewis. I'm from Haverford West in Pembrokeshire and I'm studying maths.
02:16Hi, I'm Abdurrahman Assisi. I'm from Alexandria, Egypt and I study engineering.
02:20And their captain.
02:21Hi, I'm Jacob Price. I'm from Heatherset in Norfolk and I study astrophysics.
02:25Hi, I'm Isabel Dobby. I'm from Haringey in North London and I study English literature.
02:31APPLAUSE
02:33Welcome back to all of you.
02:35You need to win this one, but I think you know that, don't you?
02:37Good luck. Best of luck, in fact.
02:38Fingers on buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
02:42In two-letter internet country codes,
02:44what letter of the alphabet precedes N for November
02:47in the code of the Central American country whose cities include San Pedro Sula,
02:52T in the code of a populous Caribbean island country,
02:56K in the code of a special administrative region just...
02:59Manchester Magic, H.
03:00It is H. Well worked out.
03:02Three questions for you, Manchester, on regions of Chile.
03:06With its capital at Rancagua,
03:08what central Chilean region derives its name from the landowner and military leader
03:12who served as the country's first post-independence head of state?
03:15Oh, well, that's like Bernardo O'Higgins, I think.
03:19Oh, well, O'Higgins is a place. I know there's a football team called O'Higgins.
03:21OK. O'Higgins?
03:23Well done.
03:23What is the capital of Magallanes, Chile's southernmost region?
03:27Formerly known itself as Magallanes,
03:29it is the world's southernmost city with over 100,000 inhabitants.
03:32It's Oshuaia in Argentina.
03:35It's one of the things in Tierra del Fuego.
03:36Oh, I don't know.
03:37I don't know, sorry.
03:38Do you think it's something you've got out there, I think?
03:39Oshuaia?
03:40No, that's Punta Arenas.
03:42Ah.
03:42Which Chilean region includes both Rapa Nui, or Easter Island,
03:45and the Juan Fernandez Islands,
03:48one of the country's largest by population.
03:49It is named for the large coastal city
03:51about 60 miles northwest of Santiago
03:53that serves as its capital.
03:55So, Rapa Nui is it, probably?
03:56Yeah.
03:57Rapa Nui is it?
03:58Yes, correct. Well done.
03:59Let's start the question.
04:00The Cathedral Church of St John the Divine in New York City
04:04houses a bronze and white gold altarpiece
04:06understood to be one of the final works
04:09completed by which American artist
04:11before his death in 1990?
04:13The altarpiece is densely covered...
04:15Sheffield and Dolby.
04:16Keith Haring.
04:17It is indeed. Well done.
04:18Your question's then, Sheffield,
04:20on a group in Greek mythology.
04:23In Greek myth, the sisters Penfredo, Inayo and Dino
04:25are known collectively by what name,
04:28meaning old women in ancient Greek,
04:30daughters of Phorsis and Seto.
04:32They share a single eye and tooth between them?
04:35It's not the heartbeat, is it?
04:37It's not like the fates or...
04:39No.
04:40Yeah, go for what I've just said.
04:42Moirai?
04:42No, it's the Griei.
04:44In most sources, the three Griei are also sisters.
04:47To which group of monstrous women?
04:49Hesiod names three of them, including Steno and Uriades.
04:52Gorgons, yeah.
04:52Gorgons, yeah.
04:53Gorgons.
04:54Yes.
04:54Which Greek hero is said to have met the Griei
04:56on his quest to obtain the head of the Gorgon Medusa
04:58and compelled them to help him by stealing their shared eye?
05:01Perseus.
05:02Yes, well done.
05:03Let's start the question.
05:04What colour links all of the following?
05:06A 1639 oath that required Ulster Scots
05:10to reject the National Covenant.
05:11A set of diaries that purported to show the, quote,
05:14sexual degeneracy of Irish revolutionary
05:16and early human rights campaigner Roger Casement.
05:19Sheffield Dobby.
05:20Rad.
05:20No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
05:22You can hear more of the question,
05:23but you may not confirm, Manchester.
05:24A designation given to the year 1847,
05:27widely considered the worst of the Irish famine,
05:29and a nickname given to British soldiers
05:31in the Royal Irish Constabulary
05:32during the Irish War of Independence.
05:36Manchester, Maitwick.
05:37Black.
05:38It is black, yes.
05:39The soldiers were known as the Black and Pans.
05:41Right, three questions for you, Manchester, on a shape.
05:44The lack of an algebraic equation
05:46for calculating the perimeter of what shape
05:48has led to the development of a number of formulae
05:50for approximating it,
05:52the simplest being pi times the sum of A and B,
05:55where A and B are the lengths of the semi-major
05:57and semi-minor axes of the shapes.
05:59Ellipse, actually.
06:00Ellipse.
06:00Ellipse.
06:01Yes.
06:01Which mathematician's 1914 paper,
06:03Modular Equations and Approximations to Pi,
06:06concludes with a statement of two approximations
06:08for the perimeter of an ellipse,
06:10which he states were obtained empirically,
06:12without further elaboration?
06:13Ramanujan.
06:14Oh, that makes sense.
06:15I did a lot of it, I don't think.
06:16Yeah, probably.
06:16Ramanujan.
06:17Great man.
06:18Often used in more advanced approximations,
06:20what property of an ellipse is given by the square root of
06:22A squared minus B squared all over A?
06:25It may be informally defined as a measure
06:27of how far an ellipse deviates from a perfect circle.
06:30That's interesting.
06:30Yeah, accentristic.
06:31Correct.
06:32Let's start a question.
06:33Picture round now.
06:34And for your picture starter,
06:35you'll see the title of a well-known 19th century novel
06:37in various European languages.
06:39For ten points,
06:40give me the novel's original English title.
06:48I'm afraid if you buzz, you must answer immediately.
06:51You can have a bit more time, Manchester, but not much.
06:57Manchester Dixon.
06:58Wuthering Heights.
06:58It is Wuthering Heights.
06:59It is Wuthering Heights.
06:59Yes, well done.
07:00For your picture starter, you saw the title of Wuthering Heights
07:03in Dutch, French, Catalan and Portuguese.
07:06For your picture bonuses, you'll see the titles
07:08of three more 19th century novels in various languages.
07:12Simply give the English title in each case.
07:15All three are works by British authors.
07:18First, this novel.
07:20World Ruin.
07:21What's Veldt?
07:22I mean, Veldt is just Veldt.
07:24Yeah.
07:25I'm afraid I don't speak these languages.
07:26Crazy Foller.
07:28I'm afraid I...
07:29Come on.
07:29I don't know.
07:30No, sorry, pass.
07:31It's far from the madding crowd in Italian, German and Spanish.
07:33Second, what novel is this?
07:35Is it just going to be War and Peace, maybe?
07:37Something and something.
07:38Or crime and punishment?
07:39No, British authors, though.
07:41Oh.
07:41Oh, are they British?
07:42Yeah, probably right.
07:44Pride and Prejudice, why not?
07:46Pride and Prejudice.
07:47No, it's the woman in what?
07:48In Polish, Ukrainian and Swedish.
07:50And finally?
07:51Pride and Prejudice, surely.
07:52Yeah.
07:53Pride and Prejudice.
07:55That is Pride and Prejudice, yes.
07:56In Czech, Danish, in Esperanto.
07:58Another starter question.
07:59In 2024, the physicist Rosemary Fowler
08:02was awarded an honorary doctorate by Bristol University
08:04in belated recognition of her role in the discovery
08:07of which family of sub-atomic particles.
08:10The discovery that one member of this family
08:12can decay into either two or three pions demonstrated...
08:16Sheffield Price.
08:17Kayons.
08:18Yeah, Kayons is correct, yeah.
08:19Your bonus to Sheffield are three questions
08:21on documentaries by the director, Wim Wenders.
08:23Which German dancer and choreographer,
08:26founder of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Company,
08:28was the subject of a 2011 documentary by Wenders?
08:31She died during the production of the documentary
08:33and it was reconceived as a tribute.
08:35Anything?
08:35I don't know any...
08:36Pass.
08:37Pass.
08:38Pina Bausch.
08:39Filmed like Pina in 3D,
08:41a 2023 documentary by Wenders examines the work
08:44of which German artist?
08:46Born in 1945, he is known for large-scale textured paintings
08:49incorporating organic matter and metal debris
08:52that confront Germany's fascist past.
08:54I do not know.
08:55No?
08:55No.
08:56Any German modern artist?
08:57No.
08:57No, I can't.
08:58Pass.
08:59That's Anselm Kiefer.
09:00Named after a music venue in Havana,
09:02which group of musicians was the subject of a 1999 documentary by Wenders
09:06that was nominated for both an Academy Award and a BAFTA?
09:09Anything?
09:10No, we don't have one.
09:10Reasoned in Havana, I don't know any, but like...
09:12No, not really.
09:13No.
09:13No, pass.
09:14No, pass.
09:15That's the Bonavista Social Club.
09:16Oh, of course.
09:17Now let's start the question.
09:19In Islam, the Zabur is the name given to a text analogous to which book of the Old Testament?
09:25It is often known as the Zabur of Dawud, or David,
09:28in the belief that he was the primary author.
09:30Sheffield Assisi.
09:31Psalms?
09:32It is the book of Psalms.
09:33Well done.
09:34Your bonuses, Sheffield, are on the 8,000ers,
09:37the only 14 mountains in the world recognised by the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation,
09:43or UIAA, as rising more than 8,000 metres above sea level.
09:47The UIAA's grouping was challenged when what country reclassified the heights of six of its mountains in 2025 as over
09:558,000 metres?
09:56Peaks in the UIAA's official list that can be found entirely within this country include
10:01Daolaghiri, Manaslu, and Annapurna.
10:04Oh, Annapurna. Where's that?
10:05It's not Bhuta, no.
10:07Is it Nantes Nepal?
10:08No, it isn't Everest in Nepal's.
10:10Yeah, but not entirely.
10:11Oh, gosh, I shouldn't.
10:12Nepal?
10:12Yes.
10:13Four of Nepal's reclassified mountains are in the range named for which peak,
10:17the third tallest in the world?
10:19Kankenjunga?
10:19Sure.
10:20Kankenjunga?
10:21Yes, I'll accept that. It's pronounced Kang-chenjunga.
10:24Nanga Parbat is the only one of the 14 to be located entirely within which country.
10:29Other peaks in the 14 to be shared between this country and China include Gashabrum 1 and 2, Broad Peak
10:34and K2.
10:35Pakistan.
10:36Pakistan?
10:37Yes, correct.
10:38Let's start the question.
10:39The Queen's Park Swizzle and the Queen's Park Super Cocktail are both drinks named for a former hotel and resort
10:46in which island country?
10:48They, along with a popular variety of sour cocktail named for this country,
10:51are characterised by heavy use of Angostura bitters, which were originally...
10:55Manchester Medjwick.
10:56Trinidad.
10:57Yes, I'll accept that.
10:58Trinidad and Tavoga.
10:59Your bonuses are on a scientist and his relationships with his contemporaries.
11:03In a 1936 address on the personalities of men of science,
11:07Robert Strutt described which Scottish chemist and physicist as secretive and quarrelsome,
11:12while noting his generosity and the fact that he gave his invention of the vacuum flask freely to the world.
11:18Oh, who did this?
11:20It sounds like something my dad would know.
11:22It's a chemist, physicist.
11:23It's just kind of...
11:23It's a Scottish...
11:24I haven't got nothing, I'm afraid.
11:26I could just...
11:27Something flask, give it a name.
11:28Kelvin.
11:29No, it was James Dewar who invented the vacuum flask.
11:32Dewar had a notably acrimonious relationship with which other Scottish chemist?
11:36Winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize,
11:38Dewar publicly attacked this chemist's claim to have discovered a new gas,
11:41now known to be argon, and that further inert gases existed.
11:46Any names?
11:47I don't know.
11:49I've got any chemistry at all.
11:50I don't know.
11:50I believe you.
11:51Just have them again.
11:52It's a bit.
11:53No, it's a William Ramsey.
11:54The Dutch physicist Heike Kameling Onnes was Dewar's principal rival
11:58in the race to liquefy witch gas.
12:00Dewar refused Onnes access to both his laboratory
12:03and his own source of this gas,
12:04but Onnes was still the first to succeed.
12:06In 1908...
12:08Is it nitrogen or was it a helium, I thought?
12:10It's like, source of this gas.
12:11Yeah, it's a separate weapon.
12:13I'm sorry if this is wrong.
12:14No, it's OK.
12:15Helium?
12:15It is helium.
12:16Nice.
12:17That's not the question.
12:19Anwar Kongo is the central figure of witch documentary film of 2012,
12:23in which he and associates of his candidly recall
12:26and then re-enact in the styles of various film genres
12:28some of the hundreds of executions they carried out in Indonesia in 1965.
12:34Manchester Power.
12:35Act of Killing.
12:35It is the Act of Killing.
12:36Yes, well done.
12:37Your bonuses, Manchester, are three questions
12:39on the archaeologist Jaquetta Hawks.
12:42Soon after her graduation from Cambridge,
12:44Hawks travelled to mandatory Palestine
12:46in order to join a dig led by Dorothy Garrod
12:48in witch mountain range?
12:50Today, in northern Israel.
12:51Their work alongside a Palestinian researcher named Yusra
12:54led to the discovery of a Neanderthal skull
12:56identified as Tabun 1.
12:59Yeah, Natham range.
13:01I'm not really good with geography around here.
13:02Yeah, I do.
13:03Sorry.
13:04Zagros?
13:04No, it's the Mount Carmel range.
13:06Hawks served as the theme convener
13:08for a James Gardner-designed pavilion
13:10at what national exhibition held in 1951,
13:13the same year as the publication of her book, A Land?
13:16Oh, sorry.
13:181951, A Landau.
13:19I'm sorry.
13:20I don't know.
13:23Smith.
13:24It's a festival of Britain.
13:25In her 1968 book, Dawn of the Gods,
13:28Hawks argued for the essentially feminine nature
13:30of which ancient civilisation,
13:32in contrast to the masculinity of Mycenaean Greece?
13:35Other archaeologists who analysed this civilisation
13:37include Harriet Hawes and Arthur Evans.
13:40That's the Minoans for Arthur Evans.
13:41Minoans.
13:42Yes, well done.
13:43Let's start the question.
13:44It's a music round now.
13:45And for your music starter,
13:46you're going to hear a piece of popular music.
13:49For ten points, I need you to name the band.
14:00Sheffield Price.
14:01The Cure.
14:01It is The Cure, yes.
14:03For your music starter there, Sheffield,
14:04you heard an untitled track
14:05taken from The Cure's 1989 album, Disintegration.
14:09For your bonuses, three more tracks listed as Untitled.
14:12Name the artist or band in each case.
14:15First, this band.
14:18Interpol.
14:19Yes.
14:20Secondly, this band.
14:24Oh, is it...
14:25Is it Neutral Milk Hotel?
14:27Sure.
14:29Neutral Milk Hotel.
14:30Well done.
14:31Lastly, this singer.
14:34D'Angelo.
14:35D'Angelo.
14:36Well done.
14:38Let's start with the question.
14:39What two words are used to describe the type of analysis
14:42developed by Vasily Leontiev
14:44that accounts for the interdependency
14:46between different economic sectors
14:47and for which Leontiev won the 1973 Nobel Prize in economics?
14:52The same words may be used in computing
14:54to distinguish between the two different channels
14:56of data transfer to or from a computing system.
15:02Sheffield Assisi.
15:04Paro.
15:05No.
15:08Anyone want to have a guess from Manchester?
15:10No, I'll tell you.
15:11It's input and output.
15:12Now, let's start the question.
15:13What legendary character is named in the subtitle
15:16of the 2024 action role-playing game
15:18Black Myth made by Chinese developer...
15:20Manchester Manchwick.
15:21Sun Rukon.
15:22Well done.
15:23Your bonuses are on words
15:24and their earliest citations
15:26in the Oxford English Dictionary.
15:28The earliest OED citation of the word moral
15:31is in Chaucer's description
15:32of which Canterbury pilgrim
15:34noted for his collection of books
15:35on Aristotle and his philosophy.
15:37Chaucer says of him,
15:38gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
15:41Oh, my gosh.
15:42Well...
15:43Name a pilgrim.
15:45All right.
15:46The parsoner.
15:48No, it's the clerk.
15:48The earliest citation of the word immoral
15:50is in the 1660 work
15:52Justice Vindicated by Roger Cook.
15:55An attack on the ideas of Thomas White,
15:57Hugo Grotius
15:58and which leading English political philosopher?
16:01What time did it say?
16:031660.
16:04It could be like Locke.
16:06No, Hobbes, maybe.
16:08The Leviathan guy.
16:09Hobbes.
16:10Very much Hobbes, the Leviathan guy, yeah.
16:12Very much so.
16:13The earliest citation of amoral
16:14dates to 1882
16:16in an article by which Scottish novelist and poet,
16:19one of his best-known works
16:20is a moral allegory
16:21about a man with an alter ego.
16:23Oh, it's Stevenson.
16:25Yes, of course.
16:26Robert Louis Stevenson.
16:27Yes, it is.
16:28Well done.
16:28Let's start the question.
16:30The principle that a class of more than 40 students
16:33should have more than one teacher
16:34is the rule
16:35named for which philosopher
16:36who proposed it
16:37in his 12th century study
16:38of rabbinic law
16:40known as the Mishneh Torah?
16:43Sheffield Assisi.
16:44Maimonides.
16:45Yes, it is.
16:46Well done.
16:47Your bonus is then
16:48two questions on an architect.
16:50Delirious New York,
16:51a history of the architecture
16:52and urban design of Manhattan
16:53is a 1978 book
16:55by which Dutch architect?
16:57Co-founder of the practice OMA
16:59or Office for Metropolitan Architecture?
17:01I think it's German,
17:03but go for it.
17:03He is German.
17:04I can't name a Dutch architect.
17:05It's not Gary, isn't it?
17:06He's not.
17:07No, he's passed then.
17:07Pass.
17:08That's Rem Colhass.
17:09Designed by Colhass
17:10and opened in 2005,
17:12the Casa da Musica
17:13is a concert hall
17:14in which European city?
17:15It is located on the site
17:17of a former tram station
17:18at the Rotunda da Boa Vista
17:20or Boa Vista Roundabout.
17:21Sounds like Lisbon.
17:23Sure.
17:23Lisbon.
17:24Porto.
17:24Colhass was born
17:25in which Dutch city?
17:27Which is home to buildings
17:28designed by him
17:29including the Kunstaal Artspace
17:30and a complex
17:31of three interconnected
17:33office towers
17:33by the Newer Mars River,
17:35a continuation of which
17:36flows into the city's port?
17:38Rotterdam.
17:39Yeah.
17:39Rotterdam?
17:40It is Rotterdam, yes.
17:41Which musical term
17:42derived from the Italian word
17:44for crush
17:45describes an ornamental note
17:47that is usually played
17:48with emphasis
17:49on the note it precedes?
17:50In music notation,
17:52it is written as a grace note
17:53with a diagonal line...
17:55Sheffield Lewis.
17:56Ascettatura.
17:57Yes, correct.
17:57Well done.
17:58Your bonuses, Sheffield,
17:59are on a religious text
18:01and its use in classical music.
18:03Written in the 1220s
18:04in an Umbrian dialect of Italian,
18:07the Song of Praise
18:07known as the Canticle of the Sun
18:09or the Canticle of the Creatures
18:10is understood to be
18:11the work of which saint?
18:14Hildegard.
18:14Oh, sure.
18:15Is that a saint?
18:16Yeah, same thing.
18:17Hildegard?
18:18No, it's Francis of Assisi.
18:19Which Russian composer
18:20who died in 2025
18:21set the Canticle of the Sun
18:23for cello,
18:24chamber choir
18:24and percussion in 1997?
18:26She dedicated the work
18:27to the cellist
18:28Mstislav Rostropovich
18:29saying it reflected his
18:31quote,
18:31sunny personality.
18:33I came across the name
18:35a couple of days ago
18:36and I cannot put it.
18:37I don't know.
18:37It begins with E, I think,
18:39but I don't.
18:40Ekaterina.
18:41Something like that.
18:43Ekaterinovich.
18:44That was Sofia
18:44Gubaydalina.
18:45Bad luck.
18:46Which Hungarian composer,
18:48born 1811,
18:49wrote a setting
18:50of the Canticle
18:51for baritone,
18:52male chorus,
18:53organ and orchestra,
18:54which you also arranged
18:55for solo piano?
18:56List.
18:57List.
18:57Yes, it is Fran's list.
18:58Five points in it.
19:00What weather phenomenon
19:01links all of these?
19:02A large stainless steel sculpture
19:04in Chicago
19:05by Anish Kapoor.
19:06Manchester Mertwick.
19:07Cloud.
19:08Well done.
19:09Well done.
19:10Your bonuses there in Manchester
19:11are on DNA damage.
19:13One of the most common causes
19:14of DNA damage
19:15in the cell,
19:16the abbreviation
19:17ROS
19:18denotes
19:19a class of
19:19unstable,
19:20oxygen-containing molecules
19:22produced naturally
19:23as a by-product
19:24of metabolic processes.
19:25For what do the letters
19:26ROS stand?
19:28Reactive oxygen species.
19:30Laminate, Dixon.
19:30Reactive oxygen species.
19:32Correct.
19:33Gamma H2AX
19:35is a major marker
19:36for DNA damage
19:37directing cellular repair pathways.
19:39It is a phosphorylated variant
19:41of what type of protein
19:42which make up the nucleosomes
19:43around which DNA is wrapped?
19:46Oh.
19:46Like a histone?
19:48Yeah, a histone.
19:48Is it a protein?
19:49Yeah, a histone.
19:50Histone.
19:51Yes.
19:52In order to reduce
19:53the risk of cancer,
19:54if the level of DNA damage
19:55exceeds the cell's
19:56repair capacity,
19:57it will trigger
19:58what process,
19:59also known as
20:00programmed cell death
20:01or PCD?
20:02Apoptosis.
20:03Yes, well done.
20:05That's the other question.
20:06In biochemistry,
20:07what specific type
20:08of functional group
20:09is formed
20:10upon the acetylation
20:11of coenzyme A?
20:13It is similar
20:13to the functional group
20:14formed in a condensation reaction
20:16between a carboxylic acid
20:18and an alcohol
20:19but with an oxygen atom
20:20replaced by sulphur.
20:24Sheffield Assisi.
20:26Thiolation.
20:27No.
20:30Anyone want to have a guess?
20:32Manchester Dixon.
20:33An amide.
20:34No, it's Thio Esther.
20:36Fingers on buzzers.
20:37Here's your next start
20:38of a ten.
20:39Which ruler became
20:40the king of Jerusalem
20:41in 1225
20:42after marrying
20:43Isabella II of Jerusalem
20:45prompting his leadership
20:46of the Sixth Crusade?
20:48Manchester Manchwick.
20:49Frederick II.
20:50It is Frederick II.
20:51Well done.
20:51Three questions
20:52for Manchester
20:52on royal succession.
20:54The 1534 Act of Succession
20:56declared which future monarch
20:57illegitimate
20:58on the grounds
20:58that the king's marriage
20:59to this person's mother
21:00had been invalid?
21:02So marry the first time probably.
21:03Yeah.
21:03Marry the first.
21:04Yeah, the 1701 Act
21:06that determined
21:06a Protestant succession
21:07via the Hanoverian line
21:09is known as the Act of what?
21:11I don't know.
21:12Like, uh, continuation.
21:15Yeah, active.
21:17Like, uh, continuation.
21:21No, settlement.
21:22The Succession to the Crown Act 2013
21:24removed provisions
21:25whereby those who marry
21:26Roman Catholics
21:27are disqualified
21:28from the line of succession
21:29as well as ending
21:30what long-held principle
21:31of succession?
21:32So, like, the first,
21:33like, male supremacy?
21:35Yeah, like the first, uh...
21:36Male supremacy.
21:38Oh, yeah, yeah.
21:38Male supremacy.
21:40Yes, I'll accept that.
21:41Yeah.
21:41We'll marry film
21:42a genitalist, though.
21:43Yeah, that's good.
21:43No side of the question.
21:44It's a picture round now
21:45and for your picture starter
21:46you're going to see
21:47an image of both
21:48a film director
21:49and an actor.
21:50For ten points
21:51I need you to give me
21:52both of their names.
21:55Manchester Medjwick.
21:56No, sorry.
21:57A bit more time,
21:58Sheffield,
21:58but you may not confer.
22:02Sheffield Dobby.
22:04Uh, Ford and Fonda.
22:07No bad luck.
22:08It's John Wayne
22:08and John Ford.
22:10Another starter question.
22:10We'll take your picture bonuses
22:11when we get the next starter right.
22:13In 1926,
22:14the first purpose-built
22:15English venue
22:16of what sport
22:17opened at Bellevue
22:18in Manchester?
22:19In recent years,
22:20Toaster in Northamptonshire
22:21has been a regular venue
22:23for its prestigious derby.
22:24One in 2024...
22:25Manchester Falkner.
22:27Greyhound racing?
22:28It is greyhound racing, yes.
22:29For your picture starter,
22:30you saw John Wayne
22:31and John Ford
22:32who collaborated
22:33on 14 films together.
22:34For your picture bonuses,
22:35three more actor-director pairs
22:37who are known
22:37for their work together.
22:39Again,
22:39I want you to name
22:40both the director
22:41and the actor
22:42you see in each case.
22:44First,
22:44this pair
22:45who collaborated
22:46on eight films.
22:48That's Jean-Luc Goddard
22:49and Anna Karina.
22:50Not it, pal.
22:50Jean-Luc Goddard...
22:53Jean-Luc Goddard
22:54and Anna Karina.
22:56Correct.
22:57Secondly,
22:57this pair
22:58who have so far
22:58worked together
22:59on four films.
23:00That's Jane Campion
23:03and...
23:04Well,
23:04that's Michelle Williams,
23:05right?
23:06Jane Campion
23:06and Michelle Williams,
23:07then?
23:08Yeah,
23:08Jane Campion
23:08and Michelle...
23:09Jane Campion
23:10and Michelle Williams.
23:11No,
23:11it's Michelle Williams
23:12with Kelly Reichardt.
23:13Oh, sorry.
23:13Bad luck.
23:14And finally,
23:15this pair
23:15who to date
23:15have made
23:16eight films together?
23:17Right,
23:18so that's Almodovar
23:19and Antonio Banderas.
23:22Pedro Almodovar
23:23and Antonio Banderas.
23:25It is indeed.
23:25Well done.
23:26Let's start with question.
23:27Which poem
23:28of 1842
23:29is this?
23:30Its first four nouns
23:32are king,
23:33hearth,
23:33crags
23:34and wife.
23:35Its first four adjectives
23:36are idle,
23:37still,
23:38barren
23:38and aged
23:39while its final line
23:40contains four verbs
23:42to strive,
23:42to seek,
23:43to find...
23:44Manchester Madwick.
23:44Ulysses.
23:45Well done.
23:46Yes,
23:46it is Ulysses.
23:47Your bonuses,
23:47Manchester,
23:48are on football clubs
23:49that are the only ones
23:50that compete
23:50in the top four tiers
23:51of the English Football League
23:52pyramid
23:53as of the 2024-25 season
23:55based in the given
23:56metropolitan or London
23:58boroughs.
23:58Name each club
23:59from the borough.
24:00First,
24:01the metropolitan borough
24:02of Wirral.
24:04Look,
24:04I don't know
24:05London borough,
24:05so I don't even know
24:07what that is.
24:07It's not a London football tier.
24:08Do you have anything?
24:09Any guesses?
24:10Yeah.
24:10Brentford.
24:11Brentford.
24:11I said metropolitan borough
24:13for this one.
24:13And that's Tranmere Rovers.
24:14Secondly,
24:15the metropolitan borough
24:16of Sandwell.
24:17I don't know where that is.
24:19That bigotie.
24:21You've got like one in whatever.
24:22Come on.
24:23I don't know.
24:23Pass.
24:24Sandwell's just west of Birmingham.
24:25That's West Bromwich Albion.
24:26And finally,
24:27the Royal London Borough of Greenwich.
24:30I'm just going to change.
24:31Not Crystal Palace?
24:32Yeah, Crystal Palace.
24:33Is it?
24:33Well, it could be, yeah.
24:34OK, Crystal Palace.
24:35No, it's Charlton Athletic.
24:36All right.
24:36Fingers for buzzers.
24:37Here's another starter for 10.
24:39Emitted in large quantities by volcanoes
24:41and used its antiquity as a preservative,
24:44for example, in dried fruits and winemaking,
24:46what chemical compound is,
24:48along with nitrogen oxides,
24:49a major cause of acid rain?
24:52Sheffield Lewis.
24:53Suphod oxide.
24:53Yes, your bonus is, Sheffield,
24:55three questions on a work of social science.
24:57What single word completes the title
24:59of the influential 1971 work
25:01of critical pedagogy by Paolo Freire,
25:03which examines the role of education
25:05in sustaining or disrupting structures
25:06of economic and social domination,
25:08the pedagogy of the what?
25:10We need to be...
25:11Pass.
25:13The oppressed.
25:13In that work, Freire criticised
25:15a model of education
25:16in which children are viewed as receptacles
25:18into which information is deposited
25:20without them truly understanding
25:22or being able to challenge it,
25:23which he called the what model?
25:26No, click fast.
25:26Propaganda, sorry, that?
25:27Sure, propaganda.
25:28A banking model.
25:28In the UK, Freire's ideas
25:30were notably put into practice
25:31in an adult learning project
25:32created by Colin and Jerry Kirkwood
25:34in the Gorgie dal Rai area
25:36of which Scottish city?
25:38Edinburgh, Glasgow.
25:39Sure, one of the most.
25:39Glasgow, Glasgow.
25:40Glasgow.
25:41No, it's Edinburgh.
25:41Let's start a question.
25:42Derived from a Sanskrit word meaning joining,
25:45what term in linguistics refers to...
25:46Shafield, the city.
25:48Sandee.
25:49Well done, yes.
25:49Your bonus is,
25:50three questions on seaweed in cooking.
25:52What is the name of Condrus crispus,
25:54a red-purple seaweed widely used
25:56in the food industry as a gelling agent?
25:57Condrus.
25:57It's also used in a namesake
25:59milk-based dessert native to Ireland.
26:01Milk-based, oh, I don't know.
26:02Pass.
26:03Karajin.
26:03In Japanese cuisine,
26:04what Japanese name is given
26:05to a type of sushi roll
26:07in which dried seaweed appears
26:08inside the roll
26:09with rice forming an outer layer?
26:11The term can be translated
26:11as inside-out roll.
26:13It's a tokamaki, it could be that.
26:14Tokamaki?
26:15No, it's uramaki.
26:15What is the name of the setting agent
26:17made from red algae
26:18that is used in Japanese desserts
26:19such as anmitsu and yokan,
26:21as well as having applications
26:22as a vegan alternative to gelatin?
26:24I don't know.
26:26Pass.
26:27It's Agar,
26:28as I think Abdel might have known.
26:29Another question.
26:30The fictional Indian town of Malgudi
26:32features prominently in many of the works
26:34of which author,
26:35born in 1906,
26:37including The Bachelor of Arts,
26:38The English Teacher,
26:39and Swami and Friends?
26:43Seth?
26:45No.
26:46Sheffield Price?
26:47Roy?
26:47No, it's Arkane Narayan.
26:48Another starter question.
26:49Now defined in a formal sense
26:51in terms of two electrodes
26:52and the electromotive force between them,
26:55what common scale or measurement
26:56did the Danish chemist
26:57S.P.L. Sorensen
26:59introduce in 1909
27:01to represent the...
27:02Sheffield Price?
27:02P.A.
27:03Yes.
27:03Your bonuses, then, Sheffield,
27:05are on British screenwriters
27:06and their stage plays.
27:07Name each writer
27:08from the description.
27:09First,
27:09a playwright whose works for stage
27:10include The Sugar Syndrome,
27:11The Effect,
27:12and Enron.
27:13On screen,
27:13her writing credits include
27:14Succession and I Hate Susie.
27:16Any idea?
27:16No.
27:16Smith.
27:17It's Lucy Preble.
27:18Secondly,
27:18a playwright whose works for stage
27:19include Many Moons,
27:20Anatomy of a Suicide
27:21and Revolt,
27:22she said Revolt Again.
27:23Her screen credits include
27:24the television adaptation
27:25of Normal People
27:26and the 2016 film
27:28Lady Macbeth.
27:29No, nothing.
27:30Rune.
27:30Smith.
27:31Alice Birch.
27:32And finally,
27:32a playwright whose stage works
27:33include Best of Enemies,
27:34This House and Dear England.
27:35His work for television
27:36includes Sherwood and Quiz.
27:37Who did you for England?
27:38I don't know.
27:39I don't know.
27:39Johnson.
27:40No, it's James Graham.
27:41Another starter question.
27:42In geomorphology,
27:43what short word denotes
27:44the lowest point of a ridge
27:46between two matches?
27:47Mountain Peaks.
27:48Derived from French
27:49and Latin words meaning neck,
27:50it is often used to mean
27:51Mountain Pass
27:52with notable examples
27:54including the Tourmalet Pass
27:55frequently appearing in the...
27:57And at the gong,
27:58Sheffield have 135
27:59and Manchester have 185.
28:02The answer to the last one
28:04was Cole, C-O-L.
28:06Sheffield,
28:07it's such ridiculously tight margins
28:09at this stage
28:09of the competition
28:10and the fact is
28:11on so many of those starters
28:12I could see you
28:13a split second behind
28:14the annoying Manchester captain
28:16who's frequently got
28:17those starters right
28:18and it seems so unfair.
28:19I think that's,
28:20not to say it flatters Manchester
28:21but I think that scoreline
28:22doesn't reflect
28:22what a fantastic performance
28:24it was by you.
28:25We've loved having you.
28:26Thank you so much.
28:26I'm sorry we have to say goodbye.
28:28I hope you have enjoyed it.
28:29Manchester,
28:29you like to make it
28:31really stressful
28:31for yourselves,
28:32don't you?
28:32But I've got to say
28:33that was a wonderful performance
28:34and can I just say
28:35I really appreciate the fact
28:36that even though
28:37you had a lead at the end,
28:38you played in the spirit
28:39of the game
28:39and didn't slow down.
28:40I think that really matters
28:41the spirit of the game
28:41so thank you.
28:42We shall see you again
28:43and I hope you can join us
28:44again next time
28:44for the last of this year's
28:46quarterfinal matches
28:46but until then
28:47it is goodbye from Sheffield.
28:48Goodbye.
28:49It's goodbye from Manchester.
28:50Goodbye.
28:51And it's goodbye from me.
28:52Goodbye.
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