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00:18University Challenge. Asking the questions, Amol Rogen.
00:27Hello and welcome to University Challenge. Tonight we continue the second round of fixtures in our double elimination quarter-finals
00:34stage.
00:34The teams returning for this match both won their first quarter-finals, meaning if they win again here they'll join
00:39Edinburgh in the semis and if they lose they'll still have one last chance to do the same.
00:44This year's team from Sheffield started their series campaign with a loss to fellow quarter-finalists Warwick but have won
00:50all three of their matches since,
00:51beating New College Oxford in the highest scoring loser play-offs, Strathclyde in round two and Darwin College Cambridge in
00:57their first quarter-final.
00:59Against Darwin they demonstrated great knowledge of international politics, test cricket and the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
01:05but had a little more difficulty with questions on Joseph Boyes and Shellac and coming into this match their average
01:10score per game is around 200.
01:12Let's meet the team from Sheffield once again. Hi, I'm Rhys Lewis, I'm from Hertford West in Pembrokeshire and I'm
01:19studying maths.
01:20Hi, I'm Abdurrahman Assisi, I'm from Alexandria, Egypt and I study engineering.
01:24And their captain. Hi, I'm Jacob Price, I'm from Heatherset in Norfolk and I study astrophysics.
01:29Hi, I'm Isabelle Dobby, I'm from Haringey in North London and I study English literature.
01:36Their opponents tonight are this year's team from Imperial, who also lost their first game in the competition against Churchill
01:42College Cambridge.
01:43They bounced back with a reperchage win over fellow Londoners SOAS and then beat Southampton in round two to become
01:49the sixth team from Imperial to reach our quarter-finals in the last seven years.
01:53In their last match, they defeated Warwick by a comfortable margin and along the way gave some very impressive answers
01:58on gothic literature, African geography and Hawaiian food.
02:02Imperial's average score so far is exactly 190 points per game. Let's meet them for the fifth time.
02:08Hi, I'm Raheem Dina, I'm originally from Seychelles and I'm doing a PhD in ecology and evolution.
02:13Hi, I'm Eugenia Tong, I'm from Hong Kong and I study chemistry.
02:17And their captain.
02:18Hello, I'm Oscar O'Flanagan, I'm from London and I'm doing a PhD in atmospheric physics.
02:23Hi, I'm Justin Koen, I'm from Hong Kong and I study computing.
02:30Well, it's very nice to see you all and I think you know how this works.
02:33So let's get straight into it. Fingers on buzzers, here's your first starter for ten. Good luck.
02:37What is the common English name of Simba Pogon Citratus?
02:41A plant in the family Poesii that is native to Southeast Asia and is used widely in the various cuisines
02:47of that region.
02:48In Thailand, it is known as Thakrai and its slim, pale green, fibrous stems are a key ingredient in curry
02:55pastes and the soup Tom Yum Gung, imparting a citrusy flavour with floral and ginger.
03:01Sheffield Price.
03:02Lemongrass.
03:03It is lemongrass, yes, well done.
03:05Three questions for you on a play by Shakespeare Sheffield.
03:09According to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which play was the most painful or rather the only painful part of Shakespeare's works?
03:15Its characters include novice nun Isabella and her brother Claudio, who is sentenced to death at the beginning of the
03:20play for having extramarital sex.
03:23Measure for measure.
03:23Measure for measure.
03:27Measure for measure.
03:32His 1656 work, The Siege of Rhodes, is regarded as the first English opera.
03:39Oh, I mean it's not Dryden because he was official.
03:42I don't, I don't, any idea.
03:43Did Marvell do, just go for Marvell, I don't know.
03:46Marvell?
03:47No, it's Sir William Davenant.
03:49Measure for measure includes a plot device known as a bed trick.
03:52In which other Shakespeare play does Helena set up a bed trick in which she takes Diana's place in Bertram's
03:57bed?
03:58Oh, this is, this is one of the like really annoying ones.
04:02Two, two gentlemen of Verona.
04:05Two gentlemen of Verona.
04:07The annoying ones.
04:08No, it's always well that it ends my heart.
04:09OK.
04:09Another slightly question.
04:11Which Anglican cathedral in the north of England contains the Five Sisters window?
04:16The only memorial in the UK dedicated exclusively to women who died in the First World War.
04:22The window itself dates from the 13th century, but was rededicated and restored in the 1920s using lead from
04:28Revo Abbey, which is located around 25 miles north of the cathedral in question.
04:34Imperial O'Flanagan.
04:36Durham.
04:37No.
04:37Anyone want to have an address?
04:38Sheffield, Lewis.
04:39Newcastle.
04:40No, it's York Minster.
04:41Let's start the question.
04:42La Ayun or El Ayun is the largest city in which...
04:46Sheffield Price.
04:47Western Sahara.
04:47It is indeed.
04:48Well done.
04:49Your bonuses are on South American cowboys.
04:52What general name is given to the horsemen of the large South American region known as the Pampas
04:57and particularly associated with Argentina?
04:59One of their first representations in literature is in Martin Fierro, an epic poem by Jose Hernandez
05:05published in two parts in the 1870s.
05:08The groups of cowherds known as the Chalanes and the Morachucos can be found primarily in which country?
05:14The name of the latter derives from a Quechua word for their multi-coloured headgear.
05:19It's Quechua, it could be Bolivia or Peru.
05:21Peru because of the Incas, I don't say Bolivia.
05:23If you go to Bolivia then go around.
05:25It's the Incas right, is that not?
05:26No, I'm not sure all that Quechua is in the Quechua.
05:28Go for that, go for it.
05:29Peru.
05:30It is Peru, well done.
05:32Llaneros are herdsmen that operate on the large area of grasslands known as the Llanos,
05:36which stretches across which two South American countries?
05:40I want to say Argentina.
05:41No, if you think it is, I think the North.
05:44Wait, you know, no, that's, is it Gran Colombia, so that's Colombia and what?
05:47Ecuador?
05:48Venezuela.
05:49Sure.
05:49Yeah, Colombia and Venezuela.
05:50Well worked out, it is indeed, yeah.
05:52Let's start with the question.
05:54Officially abolished by the Local Government Act of 1888,
05:57what administrative category was used for areas in which the monarch had devolved powers
06:02to a private landowner with prominent examples including Ripon, Ely, St Albans and Havering?
06:08In reference to the latter, the term in question was adopted in November 2024
06:13as the new name of the line on the London Overground running from Romford to Upminster.
06:18Imperial O'Flanagan.
06:19Liberty.
06:20It is Liberty, well done.
06:21Your bonus is Imperial.
06:23Two questions on particle physics.
06:24Coined by Homi Bhabha in 1939, what name is given in particle physics
06:29to the family of subatomic particles that consist of a quark and an antiquark?
06:34They are a subclass of hadrons.
06:36Mesons.
06:37Yeah.
06:37Which Greek letter denotes the type of meson discovered by Ehud Pevsner in 1961,
06:42consisting of a mixture of up, down and strange quarks and their antiquarks?
06:46Their discovery completed the meson octet proposed in the Eightfold Way model.
06:51Um, I don't know, K mesons perhaps? Wait, Kappa?
06:54Hmm.
06:55I don't know.
06:56What's the last random thing in the book yesterday?
06:58Upsalon.
06:58Oh, yeah.
06:59Yeah, why not?
06:59Upsalon.
07:00No, it's the Eta meson.
07:01Oh.
07:02Which Greek letter denotes the lightest type of meson discovered in 1947 through the study
07:07of cosmic rays?
07:08It can be positively charged, negatively charged or neutral depending on the specific combination
07:12of up and down quarks and antiquarks?
07:15Pions.
07:16Pions.
07:17Yes, correct.
07:17Well done.
07:18Let's start with a question.
07:19It's a picture round now.
07:20And for your picture starter, you're going to see a map on which two European cities
07:23have been marked.
07:25For ten points, I need you to name both.
07:30Dortmund and, uh, Frankfurt?
07:33No.
07:34Anyone from Sheffield, you can have a bit more time.
07:37Cologne and Frankfurt?
07:38No, it's Cologne and Mainz.
07:40Bad luck.
07:41Fingers on buzzers.
07:43Often divided up into categories including presentational, procedural and descriptive,
07:47what two-word name is given in computing to the text-encoding systems that determine
07:53the structure and formatting of documents?
07:55Notable examples include Sheffield Assisi.
07:58Market language.
07:59Yes, it is.
07:59Well done.
08:00Your picture starter, you saw Mainz and Cologne, the two cities mentioned in the title
08:04of the first guidebook printed by Karl Baedeker, originally published in 1828.
08:09For your picture bonuses, you'll see maps showing three more pairs of cities
08:12mentioned in the titles of Baedeker's guidebooks.
08:15Again, I want you to name both cities in each case.
08:18First, this pair from a guidebook printed in 1873.
08:21Oh, is that Constans?
08:24I would say this one down here is Constans and then, was it Rotterdam maybe?
08:28Yeah, sure.
08:29Constans and Rotterdam?
08:30Well done.
08:31Secondly, this pair from a guidebook printed in 1914,
08:33here I'll accept either the modern names of the cities or the names as they
08:37appeared in the book's title.
08:39Oh, it's Qingdao and...
08:43Is that Beijing?
08:44No, Beijing's the...
08:45Well, because if it's surrounded by Tianjin...
08:48Shall we just say Tianjin and Qingdao then?
08:52I think it might just be Beijing.
08:56OK, sure.
08:58Beijing and Qingdao?
08:59It's Beijing and Dalian, or as they were Peking and Port Arthur.
09:03Lastly, this pair mentioned in the title of a 1911 guidebook.
09:07Um...
09:08Belgrade and Bucharest, right?
09:10Short shot.
09:10Yeah.
09:11Belgrade and Bucharest?
09:12It is, well done.
09:12Nice question.
09:14What military rank links the titles of all of the following?
09:18A 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield about two sisters whose tyrannical father has just died.
09:23A 1961 novella by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
09:27Imperial O'Flanagan.
09:29Colonel.
09:29Well done.
09:30It is indeed, yeah.
09:31Your bonuses are on Alpine cheeses, Imperial.
09:34In each case, name the cheese being described.
09:37First, a French semi-soft cheese from the Haute Savoie de Parment with a mild nutty flavour and thin rind.
09:43Its name is derived from a French word meaning to re-milk, referring to a 13th century farming practice
09:49whereby farmers would re-milk their cows after the churns had been counted to avoid paying tax.
10:04Well done.
10:06Secondly, an Italian cheese originating in a namesake plateau in the Veneto region with two main varieties,
10:11the softer Pressato and the crumbly, more mature D'Alevo variety.
10:16What's provolone?
10:17That's like an American, I don't know, it's not crumbly.
10:21No, okay, crumbly Italian, no, pass.
10:25Asiago.
10:26Finally, a firm Swiss cheese with distinctive holes that are a result of its hard rind trapping gases released during
10:31fermentation.
10:32It takes its name from a valley, itself named after a river in the canton of Byrne.
10:38River, um...
10:39Something something tan?
10:40What?
10:41Something something tan.
10:42Tan, what, Emmental or something?
10:43It's a famous Swiss cheese, no?
10:44Is it?
10:44Is Emmental Swiss?
10:46No.
10:47Oh, oh.
10:48Emmental?
10:48Yes, correct, well done.
10:50Well worked out.
10:50Let's start the question.
10:51I'm looking for the name of a country here.
10:54In climbing, routes known as B.I.G. and Silence are two of the only three climbing routes to have
11:00a suggested grade of 9c,
11:02the most difficult in the French rating system, and can both be found in which you're...
11:06Imperial at Flanagan.
11:08Norway.
11:08It is Norway, well done.
11:10Three questions for you, Imperial, on a term in social science.
11:13What two-word term was coined by author and theorist Shoshana Zuboff to designate, quote,
11:17the unilateral claiming of private human experiences as free raw material for translation into behavioural data,
11:24particularly by large tech companies.
11:25Uh, oh, yeah.
11:27Big data, data scraping, um...
11:29No, but it's not data, so it's not big data, so it's not big data, so it's not big data.
11:33Big data.
11:35No, that book of hers was called The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
11:38In a 2014 article, John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney tied surveillance capitalism to the rise of which
11:44phenomenon defined as the long-term growth of speculation on securities and derivatives relative to GDP.
11:51Speculation on securities.
11:53So, it's something financial.
11:59Short selling.
12:00It is something financial, it's financialisation.
12:02Science fiction author Bruce Sterling has written on the relationship between surveillance capitalism
12:06and what technological concept that emphasises the connectivity between different technologies across a network,
12:12generally abbreviated as IoT.
12:15Oh, yeah. Internet of Things.
12:16No, no, that's IoT.
12:17Uh, Imperial, I have to take your first answer, but luckily for you, it's correct.
12:20OK.
12:21Let's start with the question.
12:21Which book of the Bible did Martin Luther describe as
12:25the most important piece of the New Testament and the purest gospel?
12:29Luther controversially added the word alone to his translation of a passage in this,
12:33said to be the longest Pauline epistle, to support his interpretation
12:37that justification was only by faith and not by works.
12:42Sheffield Dobby.
12:44Um, John?
12:45No.
12:47Imperial Dina.
12:48Galatians.
12:49No, it's the epistle to the Romans.
12:51Let's start with the question.
12:51The arid landscape type, known in Italian as Calanqui,
12:55is often known in English by what word originating in the US?
12:59Notable examples of this type of terrain characterised by jagged,
13:02tooth-like rock...
13:03Sheffield Price.
13:05Maces.
13:05I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
13:07Tooth-like rock formations caused by erosion can be found in the national park named after it
13:11in the US state of South Dakota.
13:15Badlands.
13:16It is Badlands.
13:17Well done.
13:18Your bonuses are on works by the architect and photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto
13:23that engage with works by other artists.
13:25In 2001, Sugimoto produced a pair of paintings in photographs inspired by the Shorenzu folding
13:32screens of Hasegawa Tohaku.
13:34Both works are views of what type of coniferous tree?
13:38A single word common name is enough here.
13:40Is Ginkgo coniferous?
13:42I don't know.
13:44I don't know.
13:44I don't know.
13:44It's something else.
13:45Oh, Sakura?
13:46No, Sakura.
13:47No, that's not coniferous.
13:48Um, I'd rather go with Ginkgo, but I think it could be something else.
13:51OK, let's start with Ginkgo.
13:51Ginkgo.
13:52No, it's pine trees.
13:54Sugimoto's 2003 photo series, Joe, is a collection of views of a large sculptural installation
13:59by which American artist who died in 2024?
14:03Located in the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, the sculpture consists of a huge sheet of pre-rusted
14:07steel torqued into a spiral.
14:10Pre-rusted.
14:11Died recently.
14:12Any sculptors who died recently?
14:14No.
14:14Well, this one, apparently.
14:15I don't know.
14:18No.
14:19Johnson.
14:20No, that's Richard Serra.
14:22For his 2004 series, The Wooden Box, Sugimoto photographed a replica of the bride stripped
14:28bare by her bachelor's even, also known as the large glass, a work completed in 1923
14:33by which French artist?
14:34Oh, no.
14:35French, I don't know.
14:36Matisse.
14:37Matisse, do you think?
14:38Oh, no.
14:39I don't know.
14:40Matisse, it's...
14:43Matisse.
14:44It's Marcel Duchamp.
14:45Oh, OK.
14:46Another start around now, and it's a music starter.
14:48For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music from 1884.
14:52For 10 points, name the composer.
15:04Sheffield Lewis.
15:05Grieg.
15:06Yes, well done.
15:07It is Edvard Grieg.
15:08For your music starter, you heard Grieg's Saraband from his Holberg suite.
15:12For your music bonuses, you'll hear three more classical pieces for triple-time dances.
15:16From here, I want you to name the type of dance you hear, in each case reflected in the name
15:21of the piece.
15:22First, this piece by Chopin.
15:26Polonaise.
15:29Polonaise.
15:29No, it's mazurka.
15:30Oh, it's in the one.
15:31Next, this piece by Clara Schumann.
15:40I don't know, um, I don't have any eye on, like, what kind of timing or what.
15:46Well, like, early, like, 1840, so it could be like a, it could be a minuet, but I doubt it.
15:51What does, did you write?
15:52Should you try, try minuet?
15:56Minuet, yeah.
15:56Minuet?
15:57That's Bolero.
15:58Finally, this piece by Germaine Taifair.
16:06I'm not, I'm not at it at all.
16:07Try a waltz.
16:08Yes, a waltz.
16:09Waltz?
16:10Yes, it is a waltz, well done.
16:12Let's start the question.
16:14Which metallic element is the most common catalyst used in the Hiyama reaction,
16:19the Still reaction, the Suzuki reaction, and the Heck reaction?
16:23Imperial top.
16:24Oh, palladium.
16:24It is palladium, well done.
16:26Puts you in the knee.
16:27Three questions for you, Imperial, on an academic journal.
16:29Founded by August Krell in 1826, the periodical, commonly known simply as Krell's Journal,
16:36publishes research in which academic discipline?
16:39Contributors to its first issue included Jakob Steiner and Carl Jacobi.
16:44Carl Jacobi?
16:45Jakob Steiner?
16:47I feel like I've read these before.
16:48Jacobi is, wait, Jacobi is like Jacobian of Jacobi.
16:51What, sorry, maths, maybe?
16:52Oh, yeah, maybe.
16:53Maths?
16:53Yes, mathematics.
16:55Krell supported and published the early career work of several notable mathematicians,
16:59including papers on the convergence conditions for Fourier series and proof of Fermat's Last
17:03theorem for n equals five, by which German mathematician born 1805?
17:091805?
17:10So I don't think this is Gauss.
17:12Name a non-Gauss German mathematician.
17:14When is Nothen?
17:14Nothen from?
17:15No, there's...
17:16No, there's...
17:16No, there's...
17:16No, there's...
17:17No, there's...
17:18Anyone else you can think of?
17:19One is Nothen from.
17:21Nothen's later.
17:24Gauss.
17:25Note that's Dirich Klee.
17:27The first two issues of Krell's journal included 10 papers by which Norwegian mathematician born 1802,
17:33of whom Krell was a champion and close friend.
17:36These papers included an elaboration of his proof of the insolubility of the Quintic.
17:40Is this Abel or Abelian?
17:42Abel.
17:42Yep, Niels Arbel.
17:44I'll start the question.
17:45The first of cinematographer Agnes Goddard's many collaborations with which French film director
17:51was the 1988 film Chocolat, this director's feature film debut, on which Goddard was a camera operator.
17:57Goddard went on to act as cinematographer on nine of this director's feature films,
18:02including Let the Sunshine In, 35 Shots of Rum, Trouble Every Day and Beau Travail.
18:09Imperial Dina.
18:10Bresson.
18:11No.
18:13Anyone want to have a guess?
18:16No, I'll tell you, it's Claire Denis.
18:18Let's start the question.
18:19What six letter word can precede conservatism in the name given by historian Mark Philp to the populist
18:25form of English loyalism of the 1790s?
18:28Modernism, in a term coined by critic Jay Hoberman for instances of self-conscious irony in 20th century
18:34American culture and Latin to designate the vernacular form of the language...
18:39Imperial O'Flanagan.
18:40Vulgar.
18:41It is vulgar.
18:42Well done.
18:43Three questions for you, Imperial, on a film trilogy.
18:47Which Indian director's works include a set of three films made in the 1950s known collectively
18:51as the Apu trilogy, which chronicle the life of a young Bengali man of that name through his
18:56childhood and early adulthood?
18:58Ray, Ray, Ray, R-A-Y.
19:00Ray.
19:01Well done.
19:01This is a great Sachajit Ray here.
19:03Meaning Song of the Little Road in English, what is the Bengali title of the first film in the Apu
19:08trilogy,
19:08which focuses on Apu's early life in rural West Bengal?
19:12I don't know.
19:14Pass.
19:14It's called Pate Panchali and you really got to watch it.
19:17The principal composer for all three films in the trilogy was which Indian musician, born 1920?
19:22This composer also co-scored the 1982 film Gandhi.
19:27I think Ravi Shankar was born in 1928, 1920.
19:31Was he a composer though?
19:33Shankar?
19:34It was Ravi Shankar.
19:37Let's start the question.
19:39Born in 1888, which Swiss mathematician's works include the two-volume Foundations of Mathematics,
19:46co-authored with David Hilbert, and 1958's Axiomatic Set Theory?
19:51He is represented by the letter B in the abbreviation N-B-G, referring to a version of set theory
19:57that emerged from work by him, John von Neumann and Kurt Gödel.
20:04Badak?
20:05No.
20:07Sheffield Lewis?
20:08Benui?
20:09No.
20:09That was Paul Bernay.
20:11Let's start the question.
20:13Writing in the early 18th century, what city did Daniel Defoe describe as the cleanest
20:18and beautifulest and best-built city in Britain?
20:21London accepted.
20:22Whilst noting its fine university buildings, he calls it a city of business,
20:27explaining that its merchants have made much of the opportunity of trade
20:29with the American colonies enabled by the recent union with England and its west...
20:33Imperial O'Flanagan.
20:35Edinburgh?
20:35No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
20:37It's west-facing geographical location.
20:40Sheffield Dobby.
20:41Glasgow?
20:42It is Glasgow, yeah.
20:43Your bonuses, Sheffield, are on countries that have exactly three official languages.
20:48Which Pacific island nation, despite its significant number of indigenous languages,
20:53has three foreign-derived languages with official status?
20:56English, French, and the English-based Creole Bislama.
21:00Bislama?
21:03English and French.
21:05Was that New Caledonia or something?
21:07No, it's not country.
21:08Micronesia, maybe.
21:10Yeah.
21:10Micronesia?
21:11No, it's Vanuatu.
21:12The three official languages of the Comoros are French, Arabic and Comorian, or Shikomoro,
21:17a language closely related to which other more widely spoken language?
21:21I was thinking Swahili.
21:24Sure.
21:25Swahili?
21:26Yes, well done.
21:27Which mainland African country has Spanish, Portuguese, and French as official languages?
21:32Equatorial Guinea, maybe?
21:33Yeah.
21:34Yeah, is that Lucifer as well?
21:36Yeah, I think so.
21:36Yeah, definitely.
21:37Equatorial Guinea?
21:38Yes, well done.
21:39Time for a picture round now.
21:41And for your picture starter, you're going to see an engraving.
21:44For ten points, I need you to name its artist.
21:49Imperial Kang.
21:50Hogarth?
21:50It is Hogarth, yeah, exactly.
21:53For your picture starter, you saw Hogarth's satirical critique of the South Sea scheme,
21:57which featured a prominent Wheel of Fortune at its centre.
22:00For your picture bonuses, three more representations of the metaphorical Wheel of Fortune in art.
22:04Five points for each artist you can name.
22:07First, this French artist.
22:10Oh, no.
22:10French, okay.
22:12I can't tell if it's Impressionist or after that.
22:14I assume it's Impressionist, but...
22:16The colours are very weird, though.
22:18Let's just come up with some names, why don't we?
22:19Uh, Monet?
22:20No.
22:21You don't think it's Monet?
22:21Okay.
22:22I don't think it's Monet.
22:23Cassatt?
22:23No, definitely not Cassatt, not Cassatt.
22:25Okay.
22:25Just go Monet.
22:26Monet.
22:27No, it's red on.
22:27Secondly, this British artist.
22:30This is Edward Byrne-Jones.
22:31Edward Byrne-Jones.
22:32It is.
22:33Lastly, the Venetian artist behind this painting of Cupid with Fortune's Wheel.
22:38Oh, is this, like, one of the Lorenzettis?
22:42How many are there?
22:44No, no, no, no, he's not Venetian, though, he's Siennes.
22:47Um, okay, Titian, Tintoretto, it's not...
22:50It's not going to be Canaletto.
22:51Um, Tintoretto?
22:52Okay.
22:53I don't know.
22:54Tintoretto.
22:54The wrong horse, it was Titian.
22:55Uh-huh.
22:56Another start of the question.
22:58The picking of what fruit is the subject of a 1966 poem by Seamus Heaney?
23:03Imperial O'Flanagan.
23:04Blackberries.
23:05Well done.
23:06Your three questions on foundation myths.
23:09The establishment of the city of Dvaraka, or Dwarka, in modern-day Gujarat,
23:13is closely associated with which Hindu divinity?
23:17Born in Mathura, to the south of Delhi,
23:19he is sometimes depicted with blue-black skin and a crown of peacock feathers.
23:24Oh, does Shiva have blue skin?
23:26Yeah, I mean, they all kind of sometimes...
23:28Oh, right.
23:29Maybe go...
23:29Yeah, I don't know.
23:30Well, do you...
23:30Well, maybe just go Shiva, I don't know.
23:32Did you have anything?
23:33No, I can't think.
23:33Are you sure?
23:34Okay, sure.
23:35Shiva?
23:36No, it's Krishna.
23:37Oh.
23:37Depicting an Aztec foundation myth,
23:39the flag of Mexico bears an emblem showing what two animals,
23:42the one holding the other in its beak?
23:44Snake.
23:44Eagle and snake.
23:45Yeah, an eagle.
23:46An eagle and a snake.
23:47Correct.
23:48In the Roman foundation myth, Romulus and Remus were the sons of
23:50Princess Rhea Silvia of Alba Longa and which Roman god?
23:54Mars.
23:55It is Mars.
23:56Well done.
23:56Four minutes to go.
23:57What eight-letter word derived from the Latin for carrying away
24:01can be used to indicate all of the following?
24:04In machine learning, a study in which parts of a network are removed
24:07in order to test their impact on a network's overall performance.
24:10In meteorology, the processes that reduce a glacier's total mass.
24:14And in medicine...
24:15Imperial O'Flanagan.
24:17Deposition.
24:18I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
24:19And in medicine, a procedure, often surgical, that removes bodily tissue.
24:25No, I'll tell you.
24:26It's ablation.
24:27Now, let's start the question.
24:28Isabel of Gloucester and Isabel of Ongulem were successive consorts
24:32of which King of England?
24:34Imperial O'Flanagan.
24:35John.
24:36Yes, it is King John.
24:37Well done.
24:37Three questions on a chemical reaction.
24:39Named after the Australian scientist who developed it,
24:42what name is given to the organic reaction?
24:44In which an aromatic compound is converted into 1,4-cyclohexadiene.
24:49Aromatic.
24:50No.
24:51Come on.
24:51I don't know.
24:52Pass.
24:52It's birch reduction.
24:53Name either of the two alkali metals that can be used as reducing agents
24:58in the birch reduction.
25:00Probably lithium or sodium.
25:02OK.
25:03Lithium.
25:03Correct.
25:04Well done.
25:04And the other one was sodium.
25:05Well done.
25:05Pass.
25:05What compound is the most commonly used solvent in the birch reduction,
25:09turning a striking blue colour when the alkali metal is added to it
25:13due to the presence of solvated electrons?
25:15Ammonia.
25:16Ammonia.
25:16It is indeed.
25:17Well done.
25:18In metallurgy, what short word refers to rapid cooling of a metal in water or oil
25:23to achieve a...
25:24Imperial O'Flanagan.
25:26Quench.
25:26It is quench.
25:27Well done.
25:27Three questions for you, Imperial, on a literary work.
25:30A novelistic treatment of the story of Ben Grandier, who was burned at the stake after
25:34being found guilty of witchcraft, The Devils of Luden, is a 1952 work by which author,
25:40born in Godalming in 1894?
25:431894.
25:45England.
25:48Graham Greene.
25:49No, it's all just Huxley.
25:50In the late 1960s, which Polish composer wrote Die Teufel von Luden,
25:54an opera based on John Whiting's stage version of Huxley's book?
25:57This composer's other works include A Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima.
26:01Pandaretsky.
26:02Yes, well done.
26:03Which British filmmaker directed the 1971 film The Devils,
26:06based in part on both Huxley's book and Whiting's play?
26:091971.
26:10British.
26:10Um, blanking here.
26:13No, just pass.
26:13Pass.
26:14It's Ken Russell.
26:15Let's start the question.
26:16Which genus of 35 or so species of popular garden plants in the nightshade family
26:21is said ultimately to take its name from a word in the South American Guarani language
26:26that roughly translates as...
26:29Tomato.
26:30No, I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
26:31Tobacco plant.
26:34No, I'll tell you, it's petunia.
26:36Let's start the question.
26:38Used in an elusive sense by authors such as Herman Melville and James Joyce
26:41to indicate a mix of incongruous parts or something simply outlandish,
26:45what fabulous flying beast was first named in Ariosto's 1516 work Orlando...
26:51Sheffield Assisi.
26:52Hippogriff.
26:53It is indeed.
26:53Your bonuses are three questions on the British Crown Colony.
26:57The Crown Colony of Labuan, established in 1848, was located off the northwestern coast of what...
27:02Borneo.
27:02Yes.
27:03In 1907, Labuan became part of which British Crown Colony that included Singapore, Penang and Malacca?
27:09Straight settlements.
27:10Yes.
27:10After the Second World War, Labuan was incorporated into the Crown Colony of North Borneo,
27:14which became a state of Malaysia in 1963 with what name?
27:17This state ceded Labuan to the federal government in 1984.
27:22Sarawak.
27:22No, Sabah.
27:23Bad luck.
27:24Another question.
27:24Introduced into physics by Kepler and formulated into a law by Galileo for horizontal motion on earth,
27:30what Latin word meaning inactivity or idleness?
27:34Sheffield Price.
27:35In Asher.
27:35Yes, your bonuses are on motorsport, popular since the 1920s.
27:39What motorsport consists of races on oval dirt tracks by teams of riders on single-speed motorcycles
27:45with no brakes?
27:45Motocross?
27:46No, it's Speedway.
27:47The Speedway Great Britain Premiership champions in 2024 were Bellevue Aces,
27:51based at the National Speedway Stadium in which city?
27:55Well, that was one Sheffield of 120 and Imperial of 160.
28:02Well, the answer to that last one was Manchester.
28:04Sheffield, you sort of, it was so even for the first 20-odd minutes,
28:08and then basically Oscar woke up and suddenly had a little run of answers
28:11and you were slightly left behind.
28:13But we're going to get to see you one more time.
28:14You've still got a chance, so you may yet get to the semi-finals.
28:17Um, Imperial, that kimchi keeps bringing you luck, doesn't it?
28:20You might just have to remind us why you've got the kimchi, Oscar.
28:23Um, because if it weren't for a bonus on Korean Cuisine in the first round,
28:27uh, we'd be out.
28:27You would be out.
28:28Well, you're very much here and we're going to very much see you again.
28:30Congratulations on that superb victory against a very strong team.
28:34I hope you could join us next time for another quarterfinal match,
28:36but until then, it is goodbye from Sheffield.
28:38Goodbye.
28:39Goodbye.
28:39It's goodbye from Imperial.
28:40Goodbye.
28:41And it's goodbye from me.
28:42Goodbye.
28:42applause
28:46APPLAUSE
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