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00:18University Challenge. Asking the questions, Amal Ranjan.
00:28Hello and welcome to University Challenge. At State tonight is the fourth and final place
00:32in this year's semi-finals. The teams from Edinburgh, Imperial and Manchester are all
00:38safely through already and the team that wins this last quarter-final will join them. The
00:41team that loses will, sadly, be leaving us. The team from Merton College Oxford won their
00:46first and second round matches convincingly against Durham and Churchill College Cambridge.
00:50Their first quarter-final against UCL was more competitive but Merton still managed a hard-fought
00:55ten-point win. In their second quarter-final, however, everything just seemed to go wrong
00:59for them. They spent the first ten minutes on minus 20 and were lucky that their opponents
01:03Edinburgh didn't pick up more of what they dropped. They did still answer well in that
01:06match on film and literature and their average score remains around 160 points. Let's meet
01:11the team from Merton College Oxford once again. Hi, I'm Kieran Duncan. I'm from High
01:16Wickham and I'm doing a PhD in English Literature. Hi, I'm Evelyn Ong. I'm from Singapore and
01:22I'm studying for an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Philosophy. And their
01:25captain. Hi, I'm Elliot Cosner. I'm from Hatton in Warwickshire and I'm studying for an
01:29undergraduate degree in History. Hi, I'm Verity Fleetwood Law. I'm from Amersham
01:34in Buckinghamshire and I'm studying English and French.
01:41They're facing this year's team from Darwin College Cambridge, who have already beaten
01:44two Oxford colleges on their way to this point, Green Templeton and Magdalen. They lost to
01:49Sheffield in their first quarter-final, but kept themselves in the competition with a very
01:53impressive win over Warwick in their second. In that latter match, they demonstrated a lot
01:57of knowledge of fine art, music theory and both modern and early modern literature, but
02:02slightly less knowledge of African geography and types of moss. Darwin's average score so far is
02:07155. Let's meet them for the fifth time. Hi, I'm Louis Strachan. I'm from North Lanarkshire
02:13and I'm doing a PhD in Parasite Birology. Hello, I'm Ruth Newver-Hertig. I'm from Cork
02:18in Ireland and I'm studying Education. And their captain. Hello, I'm Louis Cameron. I'm from
02:23London and I'm doing a PhD in English. Hi, my name's Jonathan White. I'm from Buckinghamshire.
02:29I'm studying for a PhD in Geography. Welcome back. It's very nice to see you all and I think you
02:36know how this works. So let's get straight into it. Fingers on buzzers. Here's your first
02:39starter for ten. The group known as Los Tres Grandes, or the Big Three, was a trio of
02:4520th century Mexican artists known primarily for creating what specific...
02:51Murals. Well done. It is indeed. Your bonuses, Merton, are on treaties conducted between the
02:56Government of the United States of America and Native American nations. One of the first
03:01of such treaties was that made at Fort Pitt in 1778, whose first article states that all
03:07offences or acts of hostilities be mutually forgiven and buried in the depth of oblivion,
03:11never more to be had in remembrance. It was made during the War of Independence with the
03:15Leni Lenape people, known to Europeans by what name? Also that of a river, a bay and a state.
03:21Delaware, I think. Yeah. Delaware? Yes. Following the 1830 Indian Removal Act, the Treaty of New
03:28Ikota was agreed in 1835 between the US and a rogue delegation from what nation? Despite the
03:34delegation having no right to represent this people, the treaty ceded the tribe's ancestral
03:38lands in the south-east and led to their forced march to what is now Oklahoma, a journey known as
03:43the Trail of Tears. Cherokee? Cherokee. Cherokee? Yep. Agreed between General William T. Sherman and Chief
03:50Barboncito, the 1868 treaty agreed at the internment camp of Bosque Redondo in New Mexico allowed
03:56which people to return to a portion of their ancestral lands, from which they'd been removed
04:01by the US Army in an event known as their Long Walk. Their reservation is now the largest in the
04:06US.
04:08Choctaw, maybe? I'm not sure. Choctaw? No, that's the Navajo, or the Dine as they call themselves.
04:15Let's start the question. In an essay of 1936, which poet did T.S. Eliot describe as having
04:21done damage to the English language from which it has not wholly recovered, arguing that...
04:25Darwin Cameron. Milton. It is John Milton, yes. We all remember that. Well done.
04:30Three questions for you on linguistic morphology. In contrast to free morphemes, which can be used in
04:37isolation, what word is used to describe morphemes that cannot stand alone and must be attached to other
04:43morphemes? Examples in English would include the plural suffix S. Dimorphemes.
04:50Like dependent morphemes? Yeah, dependent. Dependent morphemes.
04:53Next, it's bound. Bound morphemes are further subdivided into two groups. Inflectional morphemes,
04:59which signal grammatical information, and what other type, which changes a word's meaning?
05:04Examples include the use of un to indicate negation. Semantic. Yeah, semantic is a pretty good guess.
05:10Semantic. No, it's derivational. What term is used for a member of a set of alternative forms of a morpheme
05:16that realised the same function? An example would be the two endings E-N, or N, and E-D, or
05:22E-D,
05:23that form the past participle in words like taken and played, respectively.
05:27Would it be like synonymous or something like that? No.
05:32Oh, OK. Synonymous. No, it's allomorph. Let'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...
05:51Martino.
05:52La.
05:53I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
05:54While the US philosopher John Rawls describes it as
05:56the first virtue of social institutions,
05:59the word in question appearing in the title of his 1971 work on the subject.
06:03Darwin, leave a heartache.
06:04Justice.
06:04It is indeed justice, yes.
06:06A theory of justice.
06:08Your bonuses 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 said invasion, but it's not that. Like 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.
06:51What 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.
07:07It'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,
07:13with a specific word removed.
07:15For ten points, I need you to tell me
07:17what single word fills all of the blanks you see.
07:23Dream.
07:25Yes, well worked out.
07:27Well done.
07:28For your picture starter, Merton, you saw chapters, didn't you,
07:30from Sigmund Freud'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?
08:01Bad 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?
08:31Totalitarianism.
08:32Totalitarian.
08:33Elliot, I'm so sorry, I 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.
08:40Let's start the 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
08:53to the alpha particle energy...
08:55Merton Ong.
08:56Geiger.
08:57Well done, it is indeed.
08:58Your bonus is then, Merton.
08:59Three questions on a writer.
09:00The works of which leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance,
09:04born in Missouri in 1902,
09:06include a number of translations of Spanish
09:08and French language literature,
09:10such as Lorcan's Gypsy Ballads
09:11or Jacques Roumen's Masters of the Dew?
09:14Langston Hughes.
09:15Langston Hughes.
09:15Yes.
09:16Together with Ben Frederick Carruthers,
09:18Hughes translated a selection of the poems
09:20of 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,
09:30including Give Me Your Hand and Those Who Don't Dance.
09:34By which Chilean poet?
09:35Gabriella Mistral.
09:36The first Latin American writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize?
09:38Gabriella Mistral.
09:39Gabriella Mistral.
09:40Yes, it is. Well done.
09:40Let's start the question.
09:41From a Latin word meaning to filter,
09:45what 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?
09:55This word also describes a method of brewing coffee involving...
10:00Darwin Cameron.
10:01Percolation.
10:02Well done.
10:02It is indeed.
10:04Your bonuses, Darwin, are on dishes whose names have similar meanings.
10:07Halo-halo, with halo meaning to mix,
10:10is a dessert consisting of shaved ice layered with a variety of toppings,
10:14originating in which South-East Asian country?
10:17Common toppings include nata de coco, ube or purple yam ice cream,
10:22and saba bananas in syrup.
10:24Philippines.
10:26Philippines.
10:27Yes.
10:28Of 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...
10:41Oh, my God.
10:41It's like a Berber on there.
10:43No, no, it's like a Turkish dish.
10:46It's not shakshuka.
10:47It's shakshuka, is it?
10:48Yeah.
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.
11:08Let's start the question.
11:10What four-letter prefix begins the names of all of the following?
11:14A typesetting machine created by Otmar 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,
11:24is one of the two essential fatty acids
11:26that cannot be synthesised by humans,
11:28and a floor covering whose name is derived
11:30from the Latin words for flax and oil?
11:33Darwin White.
11:34L-I-N-O.
11:35Lion O 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?
11:56Fischer or something?
11:57Fischer is like a good name.
11:58Fischer, yeah, Fischer-Troger.
11:59Fischer.
12:00Yes.
12:00Which American scientist won a share of the 2001 Nobel Prize
12:04in chemistry for his development of the multiple
12:06chirally-catalyzed redox reactions named for him?
12:10This is Suzuki.
12:12Is it?
12:13Let's try that. Let'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
12:23namesake reagents?
12:25It's hollow.
12:25No, this could be Greenyard.
12:27Greenyard.
12:29Yeah, I'd go for it.
12:30Nominate Strachan.
12:31Greenyard.
12:32No, that's Georg Wittig.
12:33Fingers on buzzers.
12:34Here's another start of 410.
12:36Name either of the historic counties that have territory
12:39in the area that the historian and topographer
12:42William Camden's 16th-century work Britannia
12:44calls Anglia Transwaliana,
12:46later translated as Little England Beyond Wales,
12:49so named because of the entrenched use of English customs
12:52and language there, especially since the Norman Conquest.
12:59Darwin Strachan.
13:00Pembrokeshire?
13:01Yeah, Pembrokeshire and the other one's Pembrokeshire.
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
13:13a 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. Derry means Oak Grove.
13:32The short common name of what tree precedes Tun, that's T-O-N,
13:37in the names of three localities in Greater Manchester?
13:40Born, in the name of a Derbyshire market town,
13:42and Ford, in the name of an international railway station in Kent.
13:46Ashford, yeah. Ash. Ash. Ash, 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?
13:59Um, Southport, near Liverpool.
14:02This is so not my... Yeah.
14:04I mean, you could just try Oak or something.
14:06Oh, we've had Oak, yeah.
14:08Willow or Birch. I don't know. Try Birch.
14:10Birch. Birch is correct.
14:11Oh!
14:13For Birkenhead and Birchdale.
14:15Music 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.
14:38Martin Ong.
14:39Martin Ong.
14:40Well, I'm sorry?
14:40No, you can hear a bit more Darwin. You obviously can't confer.
14:50Come on, someone have a go.
14:52Darwin, never hurting!
14:54Meyer beer?
14:55No, 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...
15:10..mountain cosmet?
15:11Gallium?
15:12No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
15:13..into the body before an MRI scan
15:15to improve the clarity and quality of the images produced.
15:19Discovered 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...
15:39Almost everyone prefers cash to holding a debt
15:41which yields so low a rate of interest.
15:43In this event, the Monetary Authority would have lost
15:45effective control over the rate of interest.
15:48That was John Maynard Keynes' description of a so-called trap named for...
15:52Merton Cosmet.
15:53Liquidity.
15:53Well done, it is indeed.
15:55For your music starter, you heard part of Haydn's cantata,
15:59Ariana A Naxos, inspired by the story of Ariadne from Greek mythology.
16:03For your music bonuses, you'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, right?
16:21Oh, no.
16:23It's not English.
16:24It's a string?
16:25Sure.
16:26I feel like it would be Monte Verdi, though.
16:28Monte Verdi?
16:29Yes.
16:30Next, this piece from the early 18th century.
16:36Early 18th century?
16:38Could it be Gluck?
16:40Gluck?
16:41Gluck?
16:41I don't know.
16:41Nothing better?
16:43I don't think so.
16:4317th?
16:45No.
16:46Anything?
16:47No?
16:47Let me just check it out.
16:48Gluck.
16:48No, it's Alessandro Scarlatti.
16:50Finally, this early 20th century opera.
16:52What's this in France?
16:54This will be the only time.
16:58It's print to say, I want to be shocked.
17:00Yeah, do you think?
17:01I don't know.
17:04No, it's in German.
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 Rickard Strauss.
17:09Another starter question.
17:11In a 1965 film, Rupert Davies became the first actor to play which fictional character on screen?
17:17In 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 media
17:37magnate Kerry Packer to provide sport for his Channel 9 network following a broadcast rights
17:42dispute with the Australian Cricket Board.
17:44It 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.
18:0170s.
18:0270s.
18:04The 70s, I don't know.
18:06I can pass.
18:06Geoffrey Boycott.
18:09Anything?
18:10I have no idea.
18:11Pass.
18:12That's Tony Gregg.
18:13Besides the team representing Australia and the rest of the world, the third to appear
18:17in both seasons of the tournament was made up of players who usually represented what test
18:21team?
18:22Maybe the West Indies?
18:23Yeah.
18:24Cool.
18:25West Indies?
18:26Yes, well done.
18:27Let's start with the question.
18:27Name 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.
19:02The 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 goldman, Swiss.
19:15Leibniz wasn't Swiss, was he?
19:17No.
19:18Bernoulli, maybe?
19:19Bernoulli?
19:19No, it's 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?
19:31Newton.
19:31Newton?
19:32Newton.
19:33Newton.
19:33It is Newton, yeah, puts it in the E.
19:34In 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
19:59society.
19:59Le Jeté.
20:00Well done.
20:01Producer Tim Kaine has cited Le Jeté as an influence upon both him and artist Leonard
20:06Boyarski 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...
20:16It's going to be...
20:29Terry Gilliam.
20:30It is indeed.
20:31Yep, well done.
20:32In Buddhism, the 6th century Chinese teacher Tian Tai and the 13th century Japanese priest
20:38Nichiren both stressed the primacy of what Mahayana Sutra?
20:42It introduces the eternal Buddha who attained perfect enlightenment in the infinite past
20:47and is 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 diarchies, 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.
21:10I shouldn't call France.
21:11Girona.
21:12Note that's Urgell.
21:13In January 2025, the Congress of what country approved reforms that made President Daniel
21:18Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, co-presidents under an authoritarian constitution?
21:25South America.
21:26Bolivia, maybe.
21:29Bolivia?
21:29No, he's Nicaragua.
21:31The 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.
21:38San Marino?
21:39It is San Marino, yes.
21:40It's the score's level.
21:41Picture round.
21:41For 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.
21:52It 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.
22:19Go for Harry Clark.
22:21Nominate Niva Hurtig.
22:23Harry Clark.
22:24No, it's Trachere.
22:25And finally, this Russian artist.
22:28Oh, that's Chagall.
22:29Go ahead.
22:30Uh, actually, no.
22:32Wait, hang on.
22:33Is it Chagall?
22:34Yes.
22:35Who else did you don't know?
22:37Do you know?
22:38You're Kandinsky or something?
22:40No, I don't think so.
22:41I don't think so.
22:41Chagall.
22:42No, it is Kandinsky.
22:43Bad luck.
22:44Let's start the question.
22:45What word is this?
22:46In neurology, it can follow nerve to indicate the electrical signal transmitted along a neuron.
22:52Darwin Strachan.
22:53Impulse.
22:54Well done.
22:55Your bonuses, Darwin, are on precision in computer science.
22:59Single precision number format is also known as FP32 format, where 32 is the number of bits
23:05it uses to store the number, and FP stands for what.
23:08This term refers to a way of storing decimal numbers in three parts, a sign, an exponent,
23:13and a mantissa.
23:15So that's a sign, an exponent, a mantissa, a fixed point, I think.
23:21Fixed point, maybe.
23:23Floating point?
23:24Floating point.
23:25Floating point.
23:26Nominate Strachan.
23:27Floating point.
23:28Yes.
23:28According to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standard 754, in FP32 format,
23:35how many bits are used to store the aforementioned unsigned exponent component?
23:3964.
23:40I don't know.
23:4116, FP32.
23:4232, maybe 8.
23:434, right.
23:45Yeah.
23:464.
23:474.
23:48No, it is 8.
23:48Bad luck.
23:49Developed in the 1950s at IBM by John Bacchus, which programming language was one of the first
23:54to use single and double precision floating point number formats?
23:58Fortran.
24:00Nominate Niva Hurtig.
24:01Fortran.
24:01Yes, well done.
24:02Nice writing question.
24:04Featuring several lions rampant against a blue field, the first ever coat of arms passed
24:08between generations was given by Henry I in 1128 to which man, who became Henry's son-in-law
24:14in the same year following his marriage to Matilda?
24:18Darwin Cameron.
24:19Henry V of the Holyroon Empire.
24:23Martin Cosmet.
24:24John of Gaunt.
24:24No, that's Geoffrey of Anjou.
24:26Another starter question.
24:27In botany, what adjective, derived from the Latin for feathered or winged, is used to
24:32refer to a type of leaf pattern in which leaves are arranged in parallel rows either side
24:37of a common stem?
24:41Darwin Strachan.
24:42Frilled.
24:43No.
24:44Martin Duncan.
24:45Tessellated.
24:46No, I'll tell you, it's pinnate.
24:48Another starter question.
24:48First published in the early 20th century, Odor of Chrysanthemums, The Woman Who Rode
24:53Away and The Rocking Horse Winner are among...
24:56Darwin Cameron.
24:57D.H. Lawrence.
24:57They are D.H. Lawrence.
24:58Well done.
24:58The bonuses are on crater names used by Giovanni Riccioli in 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, Riccioli labelled one
25:12large crater close to the moon's northeast limb with the name of which mortal lover of
25:16the goddess Selene in Greek myth?
25:18This figure is the subject of a poetic romance by John Keats.
25:21So Selene's the goddess of the moon.
25:23Yeah.
25:23Could it be the sun or like Helios or something?
25:27Come on.
25:29Um...
25:29Come on.
25:30You're the parser.
25:31No, it's Endymion.
25:32Riccioli named a small impact crater near the Lachus Somniorum after which figure in
25:37Greek myth, the father of Andromeda.
25:39This figure is also the namesake of a constellation, a star in which is the prototype of a class
25:44of pulsating variable star.
25:46Did he say Andromeda?
25:50Andromeda and...
25:51Oh, God.
25:51I've completely blanked on this.
25:53Do you have any...
25:53No.
25:54Parser.
25:55It's Cepheus.
25:55Two neighbouring craters near the Lachus Mortis were named after Hercules and which titan
26:00from Greek myth encountered 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, Misser Pogon, meaning beard haters, which Roman emperor used his beard
26:14as a symbol of his...
26:16Merton Kosmets.
26:17Julian the Apostate.
26:18Well done.
26:18Your bonuses are on the 19th century French architect Eugène Viollet-Leduc, noted for his
26:24restorations of prominent medieval buildings.
26:26Early in his career, Viollet-Leduc was commissioned to restore the Romanesque basilica of Vézelay
26:30in Burgundy, long a site of pilgrimage, on account of its relics of which biblical figure?
26:35Legend says she travelled to southern France after the crucifixion.
26:38Mary Magdalene, maybe.
26:39Mary Magdalene.
26:40Yes.
26:41This architect later worked on which cathedral in the Somme department north of Paris?
26:44It is France's largest Gothic cathedral.
26:47No, no, it's the 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, Viollet-Leduc worked on the fortifications of which town southeast
27:01of Toulouse its 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 Madres de Plaza de Mayo met every Thursday
27:11since 1977?
27:13The group was originally set up for the purpose of demonstrating outside the Casa
27:16Rosada government building to seek justice regarding the disappearances of their children.
27:21Mountain Continent.
27:23Madrid.
27:23No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
27:25During the Dirty War.
27:27Darwin White.
27:28Buenos Aires.
27:29It is indeed, yes.
27:30We brought this to you on a British writer.
27:32Telling the story of a shell-shocked soldier returning from the trenches, the 1918 modernist
27:36work The Return of the Soldier was the debut novel of which feminist, novelist, journalist
27:40and public intellectual born in 1892?
27:43I'm a snorkeler, a snorkeler, a snorkeler, a snorkeler, a snorkeler, a snorkeler.
27:47Come on.
27:49Edith Sitwell.
27:49No, that was Rebecca West.
27:51Taking its title from symbols in local folklore, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is a travelogue
27:55by West documenting three trips taken around which kingdom.
27:58It was released in 1941, the same year the Axis powers invaded.
28:01And it's yanking.
28:01And at the gong, Merton of 130 and Darwin of 175.
28:09And the answer to that last one was Yugoslavia.
28:13Oh, Merton, you played so fantastically well and it was such a magnificent match which was
28:18so tight until the last possible moment against a brilliant team.
28:21But I know that's no consolation and I know it hurts like hell to lose.
28:25But you've been absolutely magnificent in the series.
28:27You've played so well against ridiculously strong teams.
28:29Thank you so much.
28:30We've loved getting to know you and watching you excel.
28:33Darwin, to win against a team that was that strong is an amazing performance.
28:37We shall see you in the semifinals.
28:38Congratulations to you.
28:40Commiserations to Merton.
28:41But I hope very, very much indeed that you can join us next time for the first of this
28:44year's semifinal matches.
28:46But until then, it is goodbye from Merton College, Oxford.
28:49Goodbye.
28:50It's goodbye from Darwin College, Cambridge.
28:52Goodbye.
28:52Goodbye.
28:53And it's goodbye from me.
28:54Goodbye.
28:55Goodbye.
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