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00:18University Challenge. Asking the questions, Moe Rogan.
00:28Hello and welcome to University Challenge. At stake tonight is the fourth and final place in this year's semifinals. The
00:35teams from Edinburgh, Imperial and Manchester are all safely through already and the team that wins this last quarterfinal will
00:41join them. The team that loses will sadly be leaving us.
00:44The team from Merton College, Oxford won their first and second round matches convincingly against Durham and Churchill College, Cambridge.
00:50Their first quarterfinal against UCL was more competitive, but Merton still managed a hard-fought 10-point win.
00:56In their second quarterfinal, however, everything just seemed to go wrong for them. They spent the first 10 minutes on
01:00minus 20 and were lucky that their opponents Edinburgh didn't pick up more of what they dropped.
01:04They did still answer well in that match on film and literature and their average score remains around 160 points.
01:11Let's meet the team from Merton College, Oxford once again.
01:14Hi, I'm Kieran Duncan. I'm from High Wycombe and I'm doing a PhD in English Literature.
01:20Hi, I'm Evelyn Ong. I'm from Singapore and I'm studying for an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Philosophy.
01:25And their captain.
01:26Hi, I'm Elliot Cosner. I'm from Hatton in Warwickshire and I'm studying for an undergraduate degree in History.
01:32Hi, I'm Verity Fleetwood-Law. I'm from Amersham in Buckinghamshire and I'm studying English and French.
01:41They're facing this year's team from Darwin College, Cambridge, who have already beaten two Oxford colleges on their way to
01:46this point, Green Templeton and Magdalen.
01:49They lost to Sheffield in their first quarterfinal but kept themselves in the competition with a very impressive win over
01:54Warwick in their second.
01:55In that latter match, they demonstrated a lot of knowledge of fine art, music theory and both modern and early
02:01modern literature, but slightly less knowledge of African geography and types of moss.
02:05Darwin's average score so far is 155. Let's meet them for the fifth time.
02:11Hi, I'm Louis Strachan. I'm from North Lanarkshire and I'm doing a PhD in Parasite Biology.
02:16Hello, I'm Ruth Newver-Hertig. I'm from Cork in Ireland and I'm studying Education.
02:19And their captain. Hello, I'm Louis Cameron. I'm from London and I'm doing a PhD in English.
02:26Hi, my name's Jonathan White. I'm from Buckinghamshire. I'm studying for a PhD in Geography.
02:34Welcome back. It's very nice to see you all and I think you know how this works.
02:37So let's get straight into it. Fingers on buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
02:41The group known as Los Tres Grandes, or the Big Three, was a trio of 20th century Mexican artists known
02:48primarily for creating what specific...
02:50Mertonon. Murals. Well done. It is indeed.
02:53Your bonuses, Merton, are on treaties conducted between the Government of the United States of America and Native American nations.
03:00One of the first of such treaties was that made at Fort Pitt in 1778, whose first article states that
03:06all offences or acts of hostilities be mutually forgiven and buried in the depth of oblivion, never more to be
03:12had in remembrance.
03:13It was made during the War of Independence with the Leni Lenape people, known to Europeans by what name, also
03:19that of a river, a bay and a state?
03:21Delaware, I think.
03:23Yeah.
03:23Delaware?
03:24Yes. Following the 1830 Indian Removal Act, the Treaty of New Ikota was agreed in 1835 between the US and
03:31a rogue delegation from what nation?
03:33Despite the delegation having no right to represent these people, the treaty ceded the tribe's ancestral lands in the southeast
03:39and led to their forced march to what is now Oklahoma, a journey known as the Trail of Tears.
03:44Oh, Cherokee.
03:45Cherokee.
03:53Cherokee.
04:07Cherokee.
04:08Choctaw, maybe.
04:09I'm not sure.
04:11Choctaw.
04:12No, that's the Navajo, or the Dina, as they call themselves.
04:15Let's start the question.
04:16In an essay of 1936, which poet did TS Eliot describe as, having done damage to the English language from
04:22which it has not wholly recovered, arguing that...
04:25Darwin Cameron.
04:26Milton.
04:27It is John Milton.
04:29Well done.
04:29We all remember that.
04:30Well done.
04:31Three questions for you on linguistic morphology.
04:33In contrast to free morphemes, which can be used in isolation,
04:38what word is used to describe morphemes that cannot stand alone
04:41and must be attached to other morphemes?
04:44Examples in English would include the plural suffix S.
04:48Dimorphemes.
04:50Like dependent?
04:51Yeah, dependent.
04:52Dependent morphemes.
04:53It's bound.
04:54Bound morphemes are further subdivided into two groups.
04:58Inflectional morphemes, which signal grammatical information,
05:01and what other type, which changes a word's meaning?
05:04Examples include the use of un to indicate negation.
05:08Semantic.
05:09Yeah, semantic is a very good guess.
05:10Semantic.
05:11No, it's derivational.
05:12What term is used for a member of a set of alternative forms of a morpheme
05:16that realise the same function?
05:18An example would be the two endings en or n and ed or ed
05:22that form the past participle in words like taken and played, respectively.
05:27Would it be like synonymous or something like that?
05:29No.
05:32Oh, OK.
05:33It's synonymous.
05:34No, it's allomorph.
05:35Let's start a question.
05:36In David Hume's, an inquiry concerning the principles of morals,
05:39a chapter on what concept follows one on benevolence.
05:43The 6th century code of Justinian defines this concept as
05:46the constant and perpetual will to render to each his due,
05:50while the US philosopher...
05:51Martina.
05:52Law.
05:53Now, I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
05:54While the US philosopher John Rawls describes it as
05:56the first virtue of social institutions, the word in question appearing in the title
06:00of his 1971 work on the subject.
06:03Darwin, neither hurtig.
06:04Justice.
06:04It is indeed justice, yes.
06:06It's a theory of justice.
06:08Your bonus is then, Darwin, three questions on bacteriophages,
06:11or viruses that infect bacteria.
06:14Derived from a Latin word for a box used to hold books or scrolls,
06:17what term is used to describe the proteinaceous head of a bacteriophage
06:21that surrounds its genetic material?
06:23Nominate strachan.
06:24Capsid.
06:25Yes.
06:26What term is used for the initial interaction of bacteriophages
06:29at the surface of the host bacteria?
06:31The term is used more generally to describe the accumulation of particles
06:34from a liquid or gas onto a solid surface.
06:38It's like some type of condensation or something like that.
06:41I mean, I said invasion, but it's not that.
06:42Like deposition, or...?
06:44It's definitely not condensation.
06:46I don't think so.
06:47Deposition?
06:48Yeah.
06:48Deposition.
06:49No, it's adsorption.
06:50Adsorption.
06:51What cycle is initiated by viruses such as the T4 bacteriophage,
06:55which replicate within bacterial cells,
06:57eventually causing the bacteria to burst open?
07:00In molecular biology, it is contrasted with the lysogenic cycle.
07:04Nominate strachan.
07:05Lytic.
07:05Yes, well done.
07:06Let's start a question. It's a picture round now.
07:08For your picture starter, you're going to see a selection of chapters
07:10from a 19th-century work in translation with a specific word removed.
07:15For ten points, I need you to tell me what single word
07:19fills all of the blanks you see.
07:24Merton Cosnett.
07:25Dream.
07:25Yes, well worked out.
07:27Well done.
07:28For your picture starter, Merton, you saw chapters, didn't you,
07:30from Sigma Froy's 1899 book, The Interpretation of Dreams.
07:33For your picture bonuses, three more selections of chapters
07:35from books by German thinkers.
07:38In each case, I need you to tell me the word that has been removed.
07:42First, from a 1947 book, the text is given here in translation,
07:46and I want your answer in English.
07:50Oh, the culture industry is Adorno and Hawthorne.
07:53Yes, but it is.
07:54Ideology?
07:55That sounds good.
07:56Oh, just give me a second.
07:57I think myth and ideology sounds right, I think.
08:00Ideology?
08:00Bad luck.
08:01You've done all the hard work.
08:02It's Enlightenment.
08:03Those guys wrote the dialectic of Enlightenment.
08:05Secondly, from a 1927 book, again, the text has been translated,
08:08but this time, the term I want is a German one.
08:12Dasein.
08:13Pardon?
08:13Dasein.
08:14Nominate Ong.
08:15Dasein.
08:15Yes, as in, from Heidegger's Being and Time.
08:17And lastly, from a 1951 book, first written in English.
08:21Is it Hannah Arendt?
08:23Yeah, but what is it?
08:24Is it fascism or authoritarianism?
08:27It's the origins of totalitarianism.
08:30Totalitarianism.
08:31Totalitarian.
08:31Pardon?
08:32Totalitarian.
08:33Elliot, I'm so sorry.
08:34I can't take the answer you gave,
08:36because it was the specific word I needed,
08:38which is totalitarian.
08:39Bad luck.
08:39Don't worry.
08:40Bad luck.
08:40Now, let's start a question.
08:42Which German physicist, born 1882,
08:45gives his name to all of the following?
08:47Together with John Mitchell Nuttall,
08:49a rule or law relating the half-life of a radioactive nucleus
08:52to the alpha particle energy...
08:55Merton Ong.
08:56Geiger.
08:57Well done, it is indeed.
08:58Your bonus is then, Merton, three questions on a writer.
09:01The works of which leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance,
09:04born in Missouri in 1902,
09:06include a number of translations of Spanish and French language literature,
09:10such as Lorca's Gypsy Ballads or Jacques Roumen's Masters of the Dew?
09:13Yes, Langston Hughes.
09:14Langston Hughes.
09:15Yes.
09:16Together with Ben Frederick Carruthers,
09:18Hughes translated a selection of the poems of Nicolas Guillen,
09:21a prominent 20th-century poet and political activist
09:24from which country?
09:25Pretty sure it's Cuba.
09:26Cuba?
09:27Yes.
09:27Hughes also produced translations of a selection of works,
09:31including Give Me Your Hand and Those Who Don't Dance.
09:34By which Chilean poet?
09:35The first Latin American writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize...
09:39Gabriella de Straal.
09:40Yes, it is.
09:40Well done.
09:40Let's start the question.
09:41From a Latin word meaning to filter.
09:44What 11-letter word describes a process in the hydrological cycle
09:49in which water passes through soil into porous or fractured rock,
09:54eventually reaching the water table?
09:56This word also describes a method of brewing coffee involving...
10:00Darwin Cameron.
10:01Percolation.
10:02Well done.
10:02It is indeed.
10:03Your bonuses, Darwin, are on dishes whose names have similar meanings.
10:08Halo-halo, with halo meaning to mix,
10:10is a dessert consisting of shaved ice layered with a variety of toppings
10:14originating in which Southeast Asian country?
10:17Common toppings include nata de coco, ube or purple yam ice cream
10:21and saba bananas in syrup.
10:23Also as well.
10:24It's Philippines.
10:25Philippines.
10:26Philippines.
10:26Yes.
10:27Of uncertain origin, but most likely related to a word meaning
10:30to mix or beat together, what name from Maghrebi Arabic
10:33is given to a North African dish of eggs baked in a spiced tomato
10:37and pepper sauce, usually eaten at breakfast?
10:39Yeah, is this...
10:40I mean...
10:40It's like a Berber on there.
10:43No, no, it's like a Turkish dish.
10:45It's not shakshuka.
10:47Yeah, it's shakshuka.
10:48Yeah, yeah.
10:50Shakshuka?
10:50It is shakshuka.
10:51It's delicious.
10:52In Korean cuisine, what name literally meaning mixed rice
10:55is given to a dish of warm white rice topped with meat
10:58and or vegetables, gochujang sauce and an egg arranged separately
11:02and mixed together by the diner before eating?
11:04That sounds like bibimbap.
11:05Yeah, bibimbap.
11:06Bibimbap?
11:07Yes, well done.
11:08Nice to have the question.
11:10What four-letter prefix begins the names of all of the following?
11:14A typesetting machine created by Ottmar Mergenthaler,
11:17which printed letters in keyboard set matrices,
11:19an organic compound that, along with the alpha variety
11:22of a similarly named molecule, is one of the two essential fatty acids
11:26that cannot be synthesised by humans,
11:28and a floor covering whose name is derived from the Latin words
11:31for flax and oil.
11:33Darwin White.
11:34L-I-N-O.
11:35Lino is correct.
11:36Well done.
11:37Your bonuses, Darwin, are on chemists who lend their names
11:40to multiple reactions.
11:42Which scientist names both the synthesis,
11:44in which aryl hydrozones are converted to indoles,
11:47and an acid-catalyzed esterification,
11:50the latter of which is sometimes co-named for Arthur Speyer?
11:54Is this Leibig, maybe?
11:56The Speyer something.
11:57Fisher is like a good name.
11:58Fisher, yeah, Fisher-Trobe.
11:59Fisher.
12:00Yes.
12:00Which American scientist won a share of the 2001 Nobel Prize in chemistry
12:04for his development of the multiple chirally-catalyzed redox reactions
12:09named for him?
12:10This is Suzuki.
12:12Yeah, let's try that.
12:13Let's go.
12:14Suzuki.
12:14No, it's Sharpless.
12:16Which chemist gives his name to multiple ether rearrangements,
12:18as well as an alkene preparation,
12:20in which an aldehyde or ketone reacts with one of his namesake reagents?
12:25It's hollow.
12:25No, this could be Greenyard.
12:27Greenyard?
12:29Yeah, I'd go for it.
12:30Nominates Drakon.
12:31Greenyard.
12:32No, that's Georg Wittig.
12:33Fingers on buzzers.
12:34Here's another starter for 10.
12:35Name either of the historic counties that have territory in the area
12:40that the historian and topographer William Camden's 16th-century work
12:43Britannia calls Anglia Transwalliana,
12:46later translated as Little England Beyond Wales,
12:49so named because of the entrenched use of English customs and language there,
12:54especially since the Norman Conquest.
12:59Darwin Strachan.
13:00Pembrokeshire?
13:01Yeah, Pembrokeshire, the other one's for Marvinshire.
13:03Well done.
13:03Your bonuses, Darwin, are on place names in the UK.
13:06In each case, I need the name of a tree.
13:09The second most populous city in Northern Ireland
13:11has a name derived from a word denoting a grove of what type of tree?
13:15The name of this tree also appears in the names of London stations
13:18on the Northern Line near Edgware,
13:20on the Circle Line near Paddington
13:22and the North London terminus of the Suffragette Line.
13:24Oak. Royal Oak is near Paddington.
13:27On the Circle Line.
13:28OK. Oak.
13:29Yes, it is oak, yeah.
13:30Derry means oak grove.
13:32The short common name of what tree precedes Tun,
13:35that's T-O-N,
13:37in the names of three localities in Greater Manchester,
13:40Bourne, in the name of a Derbyshire market town,
13:42and Ford, in the name of an international railway station in Kent?
13:46Ashford, yeah.
13:47Ash.
13:48Ash, yes.
13:49A large town on the Mersey Estuary opposite Liverpool
13:52and a Royal Golf Club near Southport
13:54both have names that contain an element derived from the name of what tree?
14:00Southport, it's only a Liverpool.
14:02This is so not my...
14:03Yeah, I mean, you could just try oak or something.
14:06Oh, we've had oak, yeah.
14:08Willow or birch.
14:09I don't know, try birch.
14:10Birch.
14:11Birch is correct.
14:13For Birkenhead and Birkdale.
14:14Music round now.
14:15And for your music starter,
14:16you will hear a piece of classical music from 1790.
14:20For ten points, name the composer.
14:39Martin Ong.
14:40No, you can hear a bit more, Darwin.
14:42You obviously can't confer.
14:50Come on, someone, have a go.
14:52Darwin, neither her take.
14:54Meyerbeer?
14:54No, that was Joseph Hayden.
14:56We'll take your bonuses when we get the next starter right.
14:59Which lanthanide element is represented by the letter G
15:02in the medical abbreviation GBCA,
15:06referring to a family of contrast agents
15:08that can be injected into the body...
15:10Martin Cosnett?
15:11Galleon?
15:12No, I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
15:13Into the body before an MRI scan
15:15to improve the clarity and quality of the images produced.
15:18Discovered in 1880 and named after a Finnish scientist,
15:22this element also has applications
15:24in magnetocaloric refrigeration technologies.
15:31Darwin Strachan.
15:32Thallium?
15:33No, it's gadolinium.
15:35Let's start the question.
15:36I need a specific word here.
15:38Quote,
15:38Almost everyone prefers cash to holding a debt
15:41which yields so low a rate of interest.
15:43In this event,
15:44the monetary authority would have lost effective control
15:46over the rate of interest.
15:47That was John Maynard Keynes' description
15:49of a so-called trap named for...
15:52Martin Cosnett.
15:53Liquidity.
15:53Well done, it is indeed.
15:55For your music starter,
15:57you heard part of Haydn's cantata
15:58Ariana A Naxos,
16:00inspired by the story of Ariadne
16:01from Greek mythology.
16:03For your music bonuses,
16:04you'll hear three more pieces of music
16:05inspired by her story.
16:07I want you to name the composer in each case.
16:10First, this piece from 1608.
16:19Is it English?
16:21It's English, right?
16:21No.
16:23It's not English.
16:24It's English.
16:26I think it would be Monteverdi, though.
16:28Monteverdi?
16:29Yes.
16:30Next, this piece from the early 18th century.
16:36Early 18th century?
16:38Could it be Gluck?
16:40Might have.
16:41Nothing better?
16:43I don't think so.
16:43Is it Italian?
16:44No, I don't.
16:46Anything?
16:47No?
16:47Let me just check out.
16:48Gluck.
16:48No, it's Alessandro Scarlatti.
16:49Finally, this early 20th century opera.
16:52It's British.
16:59I don't know.
17:01I don't know.
17:02No, it's in German.
17:03No.
17:04Oh, it's in German.
17:05Do you think it would be Schoenberg?
17:06No, I don't.
17:07Schoenberg?
17:08No, that was Richard Strauss.
17:09Now to start the question.
17:10In a 1965 film, Rupert Davies became the first actor to play which fictional character on
17:16screen in a small role opposite Richard Burton as Alec Lemus.
17:20As a leading character, this figure has since been portrayed by Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman.
17:25Merton Duncan.
17:26Smiley.
17:27It is George Smiley.
17:28Well done.
17:29Three questions for you, Merton, on a cricket tournament.
17:31Running between 1977 and 1979, what breakaway cricket tournament was created by Australian
17:36media magnate Kerry Packer to provide sport for his Channel 9 network following a broadcast
17:41rights dispute with the Australian Cricket Board?
17:43It was often abbreviated to WSC.
17:48World Series Cricket.
17:49World Series Cricket?
17:50Yes.
17:50The tournament's rest of the world team was captained by which South African-born player
17:54who'd previously captained England and had helped recruit many players to Packers tournament?
17:59South African-born player.
18:01In the 70s.
18:02In the 70s.
18:04The 70s, I don't know.
18:05I can pass.
18:06Geoffrey Boycott.
18:09Anything.
18:10David, I have no idea.
18:11Pass.
18:12That's Tony Gregg.
18:12Besides the team representing Australia and the rest of the world, the third to appear
18:16in both seasons of the tournament was made up of players who usually represented what
18:21test team?
18:22Maybe the West Indies?
18:23Yeah.
18:24Cool.
18:25West Indies?
18:26Yes, well done.
18:27Let's start with the question.
18:28Name either of the geographical areas that give their names to trilogies of novels in the
18:33Fortunes of War series by Olivia Manning.
18:36One is a historical region whose name was used for the post-First World War...
18:40Merton Fleetwood Law.
18:42Balkan?
18:42Yes, that's one.
18:43The Levant is the other.
18:45Your bonuses are on different notations for the derivative of a function.
18:49Which mathematician, born in 1736, gives his name to the system of notation that uses
18:54a prime symbol to denote a derivative?
18:57I think this is Leibniz.
19:00Leibniz?
19:01No, it's Lagrange.
19:01The use of an uppercase D to denote a derivative is usually known as the notation of which Swiss
19:07mathematician, though it is believed to have actually been introduced by Louis Arbogast.
19:12Swiss mathematician, Swiss goldback, Swiss.
19:14Leibniz?
19:15Leibniz wasn't Swiss, was he?
19:17No.
19:18Bernoulli, maybe?
19:19Bernoulli?
19:19Yes, Euler.
19:20Still sometimes used for time derivatives, dot notation, in which a derivative is indicated
19:25by one or more dots above the dependent variable, was used in early works by which scientist?
19:30Newton.
19:31Newton.
19:32It is Newton, yes.
19:34Puts you in the lead.
19:35In mathematics, what six-letter adjective is used to describe a function that is continuously
19:39differentiable up to a desired...
19:41Darwin, me for her take.
19:43Smooth.
19:43It is smooth, yes.
19:44Your bonuses, then, Darwin, are on a film and its influence.
19:48Comprising almost entirely still images, which 1962 film directed by Chris Marker tells
19:54the story of a prisoner who is forced to time travel in order to help save his post-apocalyptic
19:58society?
19:59Le jeté.
20:00Well done.
20:01Producer Tim Cain has cited Le jeté as an influence upon both him and artist Leonard
20:06Boyarsky in their development of the first video game in which ongoing series, first developed
20:11by Interplay Productions in 1997?
20:14It's going to be something with time travel...
20:16Chrono Trigger?
20:17Chrono Trigger.
20:18No, it's Fallout.
20:19Itself a loose adaptation of Le jeté, the 1995 film Twelve Monkeys is the work of which
20:24director, whose other films include 1981's Time Bandits and 1985's Brazil?
20:29Terry Gilliam.
20:30It is indeed.
20:31Well done.
20:32In Buddhism, the 6th century Chinese teacher Tian Tai and the 13th century Japanese priest
20:38Nichiren both stress the primacy of what?
20:41Mahayana Sutra.
20:42It introduces the eternal Buddha who attained perfect enlightenment in the infinite past and
20:47is known in English by a short name after a distinctive water plant.
20:52Martin Cosnes.
20:53Lotus.
20:53It is a lotus century, yes.
20:55Your bonuses are on hierarchies or countries with two heads of state.
20:59The co-princes of Andorra are positions held by the President of France and the Roman Catholic
21:04Archbishops of what diocese headquartered in Catalonia?
21:08Yeah, it's like Girona I think.
21:11Girona?
21:11Note that's Urgell.
21:13In January 2025, the Congress of what country approved reforms that made President Daniel
21:18Ortega and his wife Rosaria Murillo co-presidents under an authoritarian constitution?
21:23No.
21:25South American.
21:26South American.
21:26South American.
21:27Bolivia maybe.
21:28I'm trying, yeah.
21:29Bolivia?
21:29No, he's Nicaragua.
21:30The role of head of state of what country is shared by two captains regent elected since
21:35the late 13th century to serve six-month terms?
21:38Is this San Marino?
21:39It is San Marino, yes.
21:40This scores level.
21:41Picture round.
21:42For your picture starter, you're going to see a sculpture by an Italian artist.
21:45For ten points, I need the name of the sculptor.
21:50Darwin Cameron.
21:51Donatello.
21:51Donatello.
21:52It is Donatello, yes.
21:54For your picture starter, you saw Donatello's sculpture of St George.
21:57For your picture bonuses, Darwin, three more depictions of the saint in art.
22:01Five points for each artist you can name.
22:03First, this Italian artist.
22:06That's Uccello.
22:07Uccello.
22:08Yes.
22:08Secondly, this is an embroidery by which Irish-born artist who worked mostly in Scotland?
22:15Oh, this is old.
22:17I have no idea.
22:18I have no idea.
22:19I'll go for Harry Clarke.
22:22Nominating Yver Hurtig.
22:23Harry Clarke.
22:24No, it's Trachere.
22:25And finally, this Russian artist.
22:28Oh, that's Chagall.
22:29Go ahead.
22:31Actually, no.
22:32Wait, hang on.
22:33Is it Chagall?
22:34Could be Chagall.
22:35Who else?
22:35Who else would you don't know?
22:37Do you know?
22:38Do you know it?
22:39Are you Kandinsky or something?
22:40No, I don't think so.
22:41I don't think so.
22:41Chagall. No, it is Kandinsky. Bad luck.
22:44Let's start the question.
22:45What word is this?
22:46In neurology, it can follow nerve to indicate the electrical signal
22:50transmitted along a neuron.
22:52Darwin Stricken. Impulse.
22:54Well done.
22:55Your bonuses, Darwin, are on precision in computer science.
22:59Single precision number format is also known as FP32 format,
23:03where 32 is the number of bits it uses to store the number,
23:06and FP stands for what.
23:08This term refers to a way of storing decimal numbers in three parts,
23:12a sign, an exponent, and a mantissa.
23:15So that's a sign, an exponent, a mantissa, a fixed point, maybe.
23:23Floating point?
23:24Floating point, exactly.
23:25Floating point.
23:26Nominate Stricken.
23:27Floating point.
23:28Yes.
23:28According to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standard 754,
23:33in FP32 format, how many bits are used to store the aforementioned
23:37unsigned exponent component?
23:3964, I don't know.
23:41It's an FP32.
23:4232, maybe 8.
23:434, right.
23:45Yeah.
23:464?
23:47Yeah, 4.
23:48No, it is 8.
23:48Bad luck.
23:49Developed in the 1950s at IBM by John Bacchus,
23:53which programming language was one of the first to use
23:55single and double precision floating point number formats?
23:58Fortran.
24:00Nominate Niva Hurtig.
24:01Fortran?
24:01Yes, well done.
24:02Nice start the question.
24:03Featuring several lions rampant against a blue field,
24:07the first ever coat of arms passed between generations
24:09was given by Henry I in 1128 to which man,
24:13who became Henry's son-in-law in the same year
24:15following his marriage to Matilda?
24:18Darwin Cameron.
24:19Henry V of the Hulu-Nimpa.
24:23Martin Cosmes.
24:24John of Gaunt.
24:24No, that's Geoffrey of Anjou.
24:26Another start the question.
24:27In botany, what adjective derived from the Latin for feathered
24:31or winged is used to refer to a type of leaf pattern
24:34in which leaves are arranged in parallel rows
24:37either side of a common stem?
24:41Darwin Strachan.
24:42Frilled.
24:43No.
24:44Martin Duncan.
24:45Tessellated.
24:46No, I'll tell you, it's pinnate.
24:47Now, let's start a question.
24:49First published in the early 20th century,
24:51Odour of Chrysanthemums,
24:52The Woman Who Rode Away and The Rocking Horse Winner
24:55are among...
24:56Darwin Cameron.
24:56D.H. Lawrence.
24:57They are D.H. Lawrence.
24:58Well done.
24:59The bonuses are on crater names used by Giovanni Riccioli
25:02in his 1651 mapping of the moon,
25:05the origin of many of the modern names of lunar features.
25:07Following the name used by Michael van Langren a few years earlier,
25:11Riccioli labelled one large crater close to the moon's northeast limb
25:14with the name of which mortal lover of the goddess Selene in Greek myth?
25:18This figure is the subject of a poetic romance by John Keats.
25:21So Selene is the goddess of the moon.
25:23Yeah.
25:23Could it be the sun or like Helios or something?
25:26Come on.
25:28Um...
25:29Come on.
25:31Pass.
25:31No, it's Endybion.
25:32Riccioli named a small impact crater near the Lachas Somniorum
25:36after which figure in Greek myth,
25:37the father of Andromeda.
25:39This figure is also the namesake of a constellation,
25:41a star in which is the prototype
25:43of a class of pulsating variable star.
25:45Did he say Andromeda?
25:49Andromeda and...
25:51Oh, God.
25:51I've completely blanked on this.
25:53Do you have any...
25:53Pass.
25:54It's Cepheus.
25:56Two neighbouring craters near the Lachas Mortis
25:57were named after Hercules
25:59and which titan from Greek myth
26:01encountered and tricked by Hercules in his 11th labour?
26:04Atlas.
26:05Atlas.
26:06Atlas.
26:06Yes, well done.
26:07Let's start the question.
26:08In his satirical essay,
26:10Miser Pogon, meaning beard haters,
26:12which Roman emperor used his beard
26:14as a symbol of his...
26:17Well done.
26:18Your bonuses are on the 19th century French architect
26:21Eugène Viollet-le-Duc,
26:23noted for his restorations of prominent medieval buildings.
26:26Early in his career,
26:27Viollet-le-Duc was commissioned to restore
26:28the Romanesque basilica of Vézelay in Burgundy,
26:31long a site of pilgrimage,
26:32on account of its relics of which biblical figure?
26:35Legend says she travelled to southern France
26:36after the crucifixion.
26:38Mary Magdalene, maybe.
26:39Mary Magdalene.
26:40Yes, this architect later worked on which cathedral
26:43in the Somme department north of Paris?
26:44It is France's largest Gothic cathedral.
26:47No, no, it's...
26:49Oh, it's...
26:50The Offensive in World War I.
26:53I can't remember.
26:54Rouen.
26:55No, that was Amiens.
26:56That's it.
26:56From 1852 until 1879,
26:58Viollet-le-Duc worked on the fortifications
27:00of which town south-east of Toulouse
27:02its medieval walls have featured in numerous films?
27:04Carcassonne.
27:05Yes, well done.
27:06Let's start the question.
27:06In which capital city have the group known as
27:09Madres de Plaza de Mayo
27:10met every Thursday since 1977?
27:12The group was originally set up
27:14for the purpose of demonstrating
27:15outside the Casa Rosada government building
27:17to seek justice regarding the disappearances
27:20of their children...
27:21Martin Cottenit.
27:23Madrid.
27:23No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
27:25During the Dirty War.
27:27Darwin White.
27:28Buenos Aires.
27:28It is indeed, yes.
27:30Free bonuses for you on a British writer.
27:32Telling the story of a shell-shocked soldier
27:33returning from the trenches,
27:35the 1918 modernist work The Return of the Soldier
27:37was the debut novel of which feminist,
27:39novelist, journalist and public intellectual
27:41born in 1892?
27:42It's not clear, it's not even though.
27:44Do anything, thank you.
27:47Sanger or something?
27:48Come on.
27:48Edith Sitwell.
27:49No, that was Rebecca West.
27:50Taking its title from symbols in local folklore,
27:53Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is a travelogue by West
27:55documenting three trips taken around which kingdom?
27:58It was released in 1941,
27:59the same year the Axis powers invaded
28:01and it's yanking.
28:01And at the gong, Merton have 130
28:04and Darwin have 175.
28:09The answer to that last one was Yugoslavia.
28:13Oh, Merton, you played so fantastically well
28:16and it was such a magnificent match
28:18which was so tight until the last possible moment
28:20against a brilliant team.
28:21But I know that's no consolation
28:23and I know it hurts like hell to lose,
28:25but you've been absolutely magnificent in the series
28:27and you've played so well
28:28against ridiculously strong teams.
28:29Thank you so much.
28:30We've loved getting to know you.
28:31And watching you excel.
28:33Darwin, to win against a team that was that strong
28:36is an amazing performance.
28:37We shall see you in the semi-finals.
28:38Congratulations to you.
28:40Commiserations to Merton.
28:41But I hope very, very much indeed
28:42that you can join us next time
28:43for the first of this year's semi-final matches.
28:46But until then, it is goodbye
28:48from Merton College, Oxford.
28:49Goodbye.
28:50It's goodbye from Darwin College, Cambridge.
28:52Goodbye.
28:53And it's goodbye from me.
28:54Goodbye.
28:56APPLAUSE
28:56And it's goodbye from me.
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