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00:28Hello and welcome to the
00:29semi-finals of this year's University Challenge. Tonight the first two of our final four teams
00:34will be going head-to-head for a place in the series final. One is looking to take a step
00:39closer
00:39to a second trophy for their university. The other will be hoping to be the first ever from their
00:44college to get past this stage in the competition. The team from Edinburgh are yet to lose a match
00:49in this series but they came closest in their last game against Merton College Oxford. Both teams
00:53struggled to find their rhythm in that match and incurred eight five-point penalties between them
00:57but in the end Edinburgh were ahead when it counted and their other wins have been very convincing
01:02indeed as Newcastle, Trinity College, Cambridge and Manchester know to their cost. Music, film and
01:08philosophy are just a few of their many strengths and their average score so far is 170. Let's meet
01:13the team from Edinburgh once again. Hi I'm Partha Vishwar. I'm from Portland, Oregon in the United
01:18States and I'm starting for a Masters of Sustainable Lands and Cities. Hi I'm Johnny Richards. I'm from
01:27a PhD on ancient DNA. And their captain. Hi I'm Alice Leonard. I'm from Portsmouth and I'm studying
01:32for a Masters in Environment, Culture and Society. Hi I'm Rehan Amjad. I'm from Dublin and Glasgow
01:38and I'm studying for a PhD in Computer Science. The team from Darwin College Cambridge are also
01:46coming into this match off the back of a victory over Merton College Oxford albeit a slightly more
01:50comfortable one. They've also beaten Green Templeton College Oxford, Morden College Oxford and Warwick
01:55on their way to this point but they have lost once to Sheffield in their first quarterfinal.
01:59They've consistently answered well on literature, fine art, biochemistry and mathematics but
02:04have occasionally shown a tendency to talk themselves out of right answers and their average score
02:08is just under 160. Let's meet the team from Darwin for the sixth time. Hi I'm Lewis Strachan.
02:15I'm from North Lanarkshire and I'm doing a PhD in Parasite Biology. Hello I'm Ruth Newver-Hurtig.
02:21I'm from Cork in Ireland and I study Education. And their captain. Hello I'm Louis Cameron.
02:25I'm from London and I'm doing a PhD in English. Hi my name's Jonathan White. I'm from Buckinghamshire.
02:31I'm studying for a PhD in Geography. Welcome back. Just two wins from glory. Here we go then.
02:41Here's your first start for ten. Good luck. By a resolution of the 20th of December 2024, the Royal House
02:48of which country officially changed its coat of arms?
02:51The inner scutcheon contains the two bars of the dynasty's parent house, the House of Oldenburg, while the Sheard is
02:57divided...
02:58Darwin White. Denmark. It is Denmark, yes. Your bonuses then are on a phrase used in the UK Parliament.
03:04In January 2022, which Conservative former Secretary of State for exiting the European Union implored the then Prime Minister Boris
03:10Johnson to resign by telling him,
03:12In the name of God, go. David Davis.
03:14In 2005, he lost his party's leadership contest to David Cameron. David Davis. David Davis. David Davis.
03:20Yes. The MP Leo Amory finished an attack on Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with the words,
03:25In the name of God, go, during a parliamentary debate of May 1940, discussing the military campaign in which country
03:31that had been invaded by Nazi Germany on the 9th of April.
03:34Norway. The debate is most commonly known by the name of this country.
03:38Yeah, Norway. Norway. Yes.
03:39Davis and Amory were both quoting which politician and military leader, who is supposed to have dissolved the rump parliament
03:45with the same words in 1653,
03:48the year which would also see the founding of the Protectorate?
03:51Oliver Cromwell. It is indeed, yeah.
03:53That's a great question. In which city is the open-air architectural museum, Poblé Espanol, or Spanish Town, an artificially
04:00constructed village containing 117 full-scale recreations of characteristic buildings from different parts of Spain?
04:07The Poblé was created for the International Exposition of 1929, held in this city, and is located near other notable
04:14attractions built for that expo, including the Magic Fountain of Montjuic and a pavilion...
04:19Edinburgh Richards.
04:20Barcelona.
04:21It is Barcelona, yes.
04:23Your bonuses are three questions on a sign language.
04:25For what do the letters P.I. stand in the abbreviation P.I.S.L., used to designate a sign
04:31language commonly used as a lingua franca between indigenous peoples in large parts of pre-Columbian North America.
04:38Also known as hand talk, it has been the subject of numerous revival efforts in recent decades.
04:44It doesn't make sense.
04:45It doesn't make sense.
04:45It doesn't make sense.
04:46It doesn't make sense.
04:46Is it Pacific something, then?
04:47I sit...
04:49Pigeon...
04:49Is it Paraguayan indigenous?
04:51I think there's a...
04:51Sure, sure.
04:52Let's go with that.
04:53Paraguayan indigenous.
04:54No, it's Plains Indian.
04:58Sorry.
04:59Paraguayan indigenous.
04:59Linguists including Lamont West and Brenda Farnell have used what word by analogy with phoneme to describe, quote, a unit
05:07of movement or a shape of the hand, for example, that provides a constituent part of a sign.
05:12Okay, so what's that?
05:13Moni?
05:14For hand.
05:16Movement.
05:16Gesture.
05:17Sorry, that's Latin.
05:19Movement, yeah.
05:20It could be mani.
05:21I don't know, Greek for hand.
05:24Let's keep it moving.
05:25Mani.
05:26No, that's a kainim.
05:27George Drillard, a part Shawnee man from Missouri, served as a translator of several languages, including PISL, for which two
05:35men during their early 19th century expedition across the newly acquired Louisiana territory?
05:40Lewis and Clark.
05:41Nominate Amjad.
05:42Lewis and Clark.
05:43It is indeed.
05:44Well done.
05:44Let's start the question.
05:46In his poem, Whispers of Immortality, of which Jacobean dramatist does T.S. Eliot...
05:51Darwin Cameron.
05:52Webster.
05:53It is John Webster.
05:53Well done.
05:55Your bonuses are on a European river.
05:58Sometimes referred to historically by the German name Memel, the Nehrman is the longest river of what European country?
06:04It flows roughly southeast to northwest, draining into the Curonian, or Courland, lagoon.
06:10Oh, this I don't know.
06:12So you could try, I don't know, like Hungry Slovenia or Hungary maybe?
06:19Something real German name?
06:21Yeah, German.
06:21Slovenia.
06:22No, it's Lithuania.
06:23Located on the river Nehrman, northwest of Vilnius, what city was the capital of independent Lithuania from 1920 to 1940,
06:30when Vilnius was under Polish occupation?
06:33Try Kanaus.
06:34Kanaus is another city in Lithuania.
06:36Kanaus?
06:37No, bad luck.
06:38The city is Kaunas, so I can't accept that.
06:41Oh.
06:41A western stretch of the Nehrman forms the border between Lithuania and what Russian oblast?
06:46Kaliningrad.
06:48Nominate White.
06:49Kaliningrad.
06:50It is indeed, yes.
06:50Let's start with a question.
06:51There's a picture round now.
06:53And for your picture starter, you will see a map of the Holy Roman Empire in 1618 on the eve
06:58of the Thirty Years' War.
07:00For ten points, name the polity in black.
07:06Any break each way?
07:07Prussia.
07:08No, you can have a bit more time, Darwin, but not much.
07:12Darwin White.
07:13Brandenburg.
07:13It is indeed.
07:14Well done.
07:15Following on from that map of the Holy Roman Empire in 1618, you will see three more maps from the
07:20same time on which electorates of the empire have been highlighted.
07:24Five points for each you can name.
07:26First, in blue.
07:27Um, OK, so this is in, like, West Germany.
07:32You could try Palatinate, maybe.
07:35Palatinate.
07:36It is the county of the Palatinate.
07:38Well done.
07:38Secondly, in purple, with its central city marked.
07:42Uh, so this is also West Germany.
07:44So is this Mainz or, yeah, it could be Mainz.
07:49Mainz.
07:50No, that's the Archbishopric of Trier.
07:52Oh.
07:52And finally, the red region circled.
07:55Bavaria, I guess.
07:56So, I'm not sure.
07:57Um, yeah.
07:59To try Bavaria.
08:00Yeah, try Bavaria.
08:01Bavaria?
08:01No, that's Bohemia.
08:02Bad luck.
08:03Another sort of question.
08:04What short surname links all of these?
08:07An Austrian chemist who developed a process to convert bauxite into aluminium oxide in the 1880s.
08:13The German author of a 1603 star atlas whose designations, for example, Alpha Centauri, are still in use.
08:20And the German chemical company that first marketed aspirin.
08:24Darwin Stricken.
08:25Bosch.
08:26No, I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
08:27And whose headquarters are in Leverkusen.
08:29Edinburgh.
08:30Braishwa.
08:30Bayer.
08:31Bayer is correct, yes.
08:32Your three questions, Edinburgh, are on physics.
08:35In physics, a parity transformation takes the coordinate x to minus x, y to minus y, and z to minus
08:42z.
08:42What four-letter word describes a function or property which does not change under a parity transformation?
08:48Is it an identity or no?
08:50It's a four-letter word.
08:52So something that doesn't change?
08:54Like...
08:55Fixed.
08:55What?
08:56Zero.
08:58Yeah, we should keep moving.
09:00It's even.
09:01In 1956, Qian Xiong Wu led a collaboration which conducted experiments showing that parity is not conserved in beta decay,
09:09for which she was later awarded the inaugural Wolf Prize.
09:12Which of the fundamental forces governed beta decay?
09:16It'd be...
09:18The weak or strong.
09:18It's one of the...
09:19Let's go with...
09:20I feel like...
09:21Which one do you feel more comfortable about?
09:22Yeah.
09:23Weak?
09:23Yes, it is the weak force.
09:25The CPT theorem states that physical laws are symmetric under the combination of three transformations,
09:30with P referring to parity.
09:32Name either of the other transformations referred to in the CPT theorem.
09:37CPT.
09:39Complementary.
09:40I like complementary.
09:41Charge.
09:41Let's go with that.
09:41Is that a transformation?
09:42Sorry.
09:43What do you think of that?
09:44It's a type of transformation complementary.
09:45I mean, I'm just going...
09:46Just as I can describe it.
09:46I think it would be charged.
09:47I don't know.
09:48Charge.
09:48No, I can't accept that, I'm afraid.
09:50It's charge conjugation.
09:51Oh, God.
09:52Sorry.
09:53But another starter question.
09:55In what present-day landlocked country is the town of Khodok, known historically as
10:00Fashoda?
10:01In 1898, an expedition led by Jean-Baptiste Marchand provoked an international crisis when
10:06it raised the French flag there, attempting to forestall a British force from opening a...
10:11And a British one.
10:12India.
10:12No, I'm afraid you'll lose five points, opening a corridor between Egypt and southern Africa.
10:17The crisis was resolved by demarcating British and French spheres of influence along the
10:21watersheds of the Congo and Nile rivers.
10:26Darwin White.
10:27Central African Republic.
10:28Bad, that is.
10:28South Sudan.
10:29Another starter question.
10:30What noun, in either the singular or plural, appears in the titles of all of the following
10:35video games?
10:36A 1999 game developed by Acclaim Studios, the title of which is the alter ego of player
10:42character Michael Leroy.
10:43A 2005 game created by Fumito Ueda and developed by his studio, Team Ico.
10:49Edinburgh Amjad.
10:50Shadow.
10:51Yes, those two games were Shadow Man and Shadow of the Colossus.
10:54Your bonus is Edinburgh.
10:56Three questions on a novel.
10:57First published in 1952, Player Piano is the debut novel of which American writer?
11:02Its depiction of widespread unemployment caused by automation was inspired partially
11:06by this author's time working for General Electric.
11:09General Electric.
11:10Is it one of the sci-fi guys like Kurt?
11:13Did it say the year?
11:1452.
11:1452.
11:15It's maybe a bit too late to be the first novel by Vonnegut.
11:20Bradbury?
11:21Maybe.
11:22I think it might be one of the two.
11:23Yeah.
11:23I don't know.
11:24Go Bradbury.
11:25Bad luck it is Kurt Vonnegut.
11:26Sorry.
11:27Bad luck.
11:27Player Piano is partially set in Ilium, a fictional town that also features in some of
11:32Vonnegut's other novels such as Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five and can be found
11:36in which US state?
11:38It is thought to be based on the real-life city of Schenectady.
11:41That's New York, isn't it?
11:42Yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:43New York.
11:43Yes.
11:44In a 1973 interview, Vonnegut claimed that Player Piano, quote, cheerfully ripped off the
11:49plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from what novel by
11:53Evgeny Zamyatin.
11:54Oh, we.
11:55Okay.
11:56Nominate Amjad.
11:57Just we.
11:58Yes, it is indeed.
11:59Let's start with the question.
12:01In his book, The Embarrassment of Riches, historian Simon Sharma describes the depiction of a
12:05woman in a work by witch painter as, quote, The Embodiment of Domestic Virtues Approach...
12:11Darwin Cameron.
12:12Vim Brunt.
12:12I'm afraid you lose five points.
12:14By Worldly Vice.
12:15Born in Harlem in 1609, the entirety of the artist's work was misattributed for over 200 years,
12:20in most cases either to Franz Hals or to her husband, Jan Minzer Molinar.
12:27Edinburgh Leonard.
12:28Gentileski.
12:29No, it's Judith Leicester.
12:30Let's start the question.
12:31In IUPAC notation, what two letters are used to classify stereoisomers...
12:37Darwin Strachan.
12:38R and S.
12:39I'm afraid you lose five points.
12:41...stereoisomers of alkenes, according to whether the higher priority substituent groups at each
12:45end of the double bond are on opposite sides of the bond or on the same side of the bond.
12:50The letters in question stand for the German words for opposite and together.
12:57Edinburgh Richards.
12:58A, M.
12:59No, it's E and Z.
13:00Fingers on buzzers.
13:01Here's another starter question.
13:03What name is shared by the early Christian leader, who is the recipient of an epistle
13:06by Paul sent on behalf of his slave Onesimus, and the figure in Greek mythology who unwittingly
13:12hosted the gods Zeus and Hermes in disguise, and as a reward...
13:16Edinburgh, Amjet.
13:18Philemon.
13:18It is indeed.
13:19Yeah.
13:19Your bonuses, Edinburgh, are on works by Maurice Ravel that name other composers in their titles.
13:24A suite for solo piano by Ravel, completed in 1917, has the title Le Tombeau de...
13:31Which French Baroque composer?
13:32It has the form of a Baroque suite, with its six movements dedicated to friends who died
13:37in World War I.
13:38Nominate Richards.
13:39Bernard.
13:40Yes.
13:40In 1909, Ravel composed a minuet on the name of...
13:44Which composer?
13:45To mark the centenary of his death, it uses a five-note motif to represent his name,
13:49the first note of which is B natural, designated by the relevant letter in German notation.
13:54What was the year?
13:55Five-letter A.
13:56But I think B natural.
13:58Is that H?
13:59Is H.
14:00And a five-letter A.
14:01Hayden.
14:02Yep.
14:02Hayden.
14:03Well worked out.
14:03Yeah.
14:04In 1922, Ravel wrote a basseuse on the name of which French composer, who had been his teacher
14:09at the Paris Conservatoire?
14:10This composer wrote two well-known basseuses of his own, one of which forms part of his Dolly
14:16suite.
14:17Debussy?
14:18I don't know.
14:19I don't recognise that as being Debussy.
14:20Stravinsky wrote a basseuse, but I don't think he wrote a basseuse.
14:23They wanted a French composer as well.
14:25I think Debussy.
14:25B'sang.
14:26B'sang.
14:26B'sang.
14:28No, it's 4A.
14:29Let's start the question.
14:30Music round now.
14:31For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of popular music.
14:34Ten points if you can name the artist.
14:54MUSIC PLAYS
14:56Edinburgh Richards.
14:57No, you can hear a bit more, Darwin, but not much.
15:03MUSIC PLAYS
15:05No, I'll tell you, it was George McRae.
15:07We'll take your music bonuses when we get the next star to write.
15:11Francois Vian's 15th century Ballad of the Ladies of Bygone Times
15:14is an example of a poem described by what two-word Latin literary term?
15:19This term takes the form of a question lamenting the transitory nature of life
15:22and means, where are they?
15:25Darwin Cameron.
15:26Uh, Quo Vardis.
15:28No, you may not confer Edinburgh.
15:30You can have a guess if you want to.
15:31Edinburgh, M check.
15:32Ubisunt.
15:33It is Ubisunt, yes.
15:34For your music starter, you heard George McRae's 1974 single,
15:38Rock Your Baby, one of the early hits to make use of the drum machine.
15:41For your bonus, three more tracks that featured the drum machine in the 1970s.
15:44In each case, I need you to name the band performing.
15:48Firstly, this group.
16:00The voice feels ready for me.
16:01Put up a guess or we should keep moving.
16:03Come on.
16:04Yeah.
16:04Pass.
16:05Suicide.
16:05The song was Dream Baby Dream.
16:07Secondly, this band.
16:10Oh.
16:15Talking heads.
16:17Talking heads.
16:20Can with spoon.
16:21And lastly.
16:26It's Blondie.
16:28It's Blondie, yes.
16:40Blondie.
16:47Chlorine.
16:48I'm afraid you lose five points.
16:50Functional defects of which result in cystic fibrosis.
16:56No, it's chloride.
16:57Bad luck.
16:58Lewis, I asked the ion, which is chloride, as you clearly know from the way you're shaking
17:02your head.
17:03Let's start the question.
17:04What given name is shared by the directors of all of the following films?
17:08The 2024 film, Time Stalker, the 2022 film, Saint-Omer, the 2023 film, La Chimera, and the director
17:15of the 1900 film, La Fée au Chou, or The Cabbage Fairy.
17:19One of the earliest known narrative films.
17:21Don't we need a her take?
17:23Isabella?
17:24No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
17:25And the first film credited as directed by a woman.
17:28The surnames of the directors in question are Lo, Diop, Rewakka, and Guy Blaché.
17:35Anyone?
17:37No, I'll tell you.
17:38It's Alice.
17:39Another start of the question.
17:54Edinburgh, I'm Jack.
18:01Pessoa.
18:01It is Pessoa.
18:02Well done.
18:03Your bonus is Edinburgh.
18:04Three questions on a cycle.
18:05Which two German scientists give their names to a cycle used to visually represent the total
18:10lattice enthalpy of an ionic compound?
18:14Have we got anything?
18:15No, nothing.
18:15Nope, pass.
18:16Bourne and Harbour.
18:17The Bourne-Harbour cycle is sometimes also named for which Polish scientist who developed
18:22his own version of it contemporaneously to Bourne and Harbour?
18:25Alongside Otto Göring, he also first identified protactinium in 1913.
18:30Oh, who would a Polish chemist be?
18:34Proactinium.
18:35Well, Curie, I think it was.
18:36Could it be?
18:37It's not like Curie or something, isn't it?
18:38Yeah.
18:39Curie.
18:40Nope, that was Casimir Fayanz.
18:42The cycle is an adaptation of which 19th century scientist's namesake law stating that the
18:47total enthalpy change during a chemical reaction is independent of the order of steps taken?
18:52Yeah, that makes sense.
18:54Gibbs.
18:55No, that was Jermaine Hess.
18:56Let's start the question.
18:57What 14-letter word is used to indicate all of the following?
19:02In engineering, the component of a bridge that bears the live weight of a load.
19:06In sociology and philosophy, the cultural, religious and political institutions contrasted
19:11with the economic base.
19:13And in...
19:13Edinburgh Amjet.
19:14Superstructure.
19:15It is indeed.
19:16Well done.
19:17Your bonuses, Edinburgh, are three questions on a citrus fruit and its descendants.
19:21Of uncertain origin, what is the common name of Citrus Maxima, a large citrus fruit
19:26native to Southeast Asia that is roughly pear-shaped with a thick, loose, yellow or greenish rind?
19:31Pomelo.
19:32Yes, correct.
19:33Which other large citrus fruit is believed to have originated in the West Indies through
19:37crossing a pomelo with a sweet orange?
19:39The juice of this fruit can block the action of some intestinal enzymes, meaning it can interfere
19:44with many medications.
19:45Grapefruit.
19:46Yes.
19:46A hybrid of a pomelo and a mandarin orange, Citrus X orantium, or the bitter orange, is also
19:52commonly known by the name of which European city?
19:54Oh.
19:55Oh.
19:55Oh.
19:56Oh.
19:56Oh, my God.
19:57Oh.
19:57It's not Jaffa.
19:59Is it Seville?
19:59Seville, I think.
20:00Seville, yeah.
20:01Seville.
20:01Yes, it is.
20:02Well done.
20:03Picture round now.
20:04And for your picture starter, you're going to see a painting.
20:07For 10 points, I need you to name its artist.
20:13Titian.
20:13It is Titian.
20:14Well done.
20:15For your picture starter, you saw Titian's Diana and Action, one of a series of works
20:19the artist created for Philip II of Spain.
20:22For your picture bonuses, three more works of art made for rulers of countries that are not
20:25the country the artist was originally from.
20:28In each case, I need you to name the artist.
20:31First, the sculptor of this piece intended for Francis I of France.
20:35Cellini.
20:36Yes.
20:37Secondly, the Italian-born painter of this portrait of the Chanlong Emperor.
20:41Pass.
20:41That's Castiglione.
20:42Lastly, the artist behind this portrait of Anne of Cleves.
20:46Holbein.
20:47Yes.
20:47Specifically Holbein Miranda.
20:49Let's start the question.
20:50From the Latin for to turn, what words original usage in English denotes a rendering of some
20:55text from one language into another and is represented in the abbreviations NIV and KJV?
21:02Darwin Cameron.
21:03Version.
21:03It is indeed.
21:04Your bonuses are on French road bicycle racing terms.
21:07All three answers begin with the letter P.
21:10What term is used to describe a powerful rider who can accelerate quickly and who specialises
21:14in short, sharp climbs?
21:15Examples of this type of rider include Peter Sagan and Philippe Gilbert.
21:20Pass.
21:21I'll tell you, that's Pun Cher.
21:22What term is used to refer to a professional cyclist's racing achievements, denoting both
21:26overall race and stage wins?
21:29Collective or something like that.
21:30It begins with P.
21:32Pass.
21:32I'll tell you, it's Palmares.
21:33Finally, what term is used to describe a type of uneven terrain associated with the Paris-Roubaix
21:38and Tour of Flanders races?
21:40I don't even know this one.
21:41I've got theories.
21:43Pass.
21:44I'll tell you, it's Parve.
21:45Fingers on puzzles.
21:47In graph theory, which Swiss mathematician gives his name to a path that visits every edge
21:52exactly once?
21:53Darwin needs a hair take.
21:55Oh, in there?
21:55Yes, it is.
21:56Your bonuses are the three questions on pairs of names of places and people where one can
22:01be made by doubling a letter found in the other.
22:03Name and spell both from the descriptions.
22:07First, a national park in North Rhine, Westphalia, named after the plateau region that extends
22:11into eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg, and the surname of a French engineer born
22:16in 1832 who specialised in metal structures.
22:19So, is that Eiffel or is...
22:22Eiffel and Eiffel with W2F.
22:25Eiffel and Eiffel.
22:27E-I-F-F-E-L and E-I-F-E-L.
22:30Correct.
22:31Well done.
22:32Second, an influential New York rapper who released his debut album Illmatic in 1994 and
22:37the county town of Kildare in Ireland.
22:40Nominate Niva Hurtig.
22:41Naz Anase.
22:42N-A-A-S.
22:43N-A-S for the first one.
22:45Correct.
22:46Finally, the surname of an English cardinal and the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of
22:49Canterbury, a position he held during the reign of Mary I, and a coastal town in Dorset
22:54adjoining Bournemouth to its east.
22:55Is it Poole?
22:56Poole and Poole with double O.
22:58P-O-L-E and P-O-O-L-E.
23:01Well done.
23:01Fantastic.
23:02Let's start with the question.
23:03A vegetation-covered sandy ridge known as the Great Barrier separates which body of water
23:09into its northern and southern portions, the latter of which receives the vast majority
23:13of its water from the Komadugu-Yobe and Shari rivers.
23:18Edinburgh Richards.
23:19The Yokovingo Delta.
23:20No.
23:22Darwin White.
23:23The Gulf of Thailand.
23:24No, it's Lake Chad.
23:25Another starter question.
23:26In mechanics, what effect, represented by the Greek letter tau, is calculated by multiplying
23:31the applied force by its distance from a fulcrum?
23:34One of its names is taken from a Latin word meaning to twist or turn.
23:38Darwin Niva Hurtig.
23:39Twition.
23:40No, I'm afraid you lose five points and gives its name to a type of range.
23:44Edinburgh Leonard.
23:45Torque.
23:46It is torque.
23:46Bad luck, Darwin.
23:47Bad luck.
23:48Three questions for you, Edinburgh, on physical geography.
23:51In hydrology, what seven-letter term of Latin origin is used to denote a layer of underground
23:55permeable rock that stores a significant amount of groundwater?
23:59Yes.
23:59Aquifer.
24:00Yeah.
24:01Aquifer.
24:01Yes.
24:02What short name is given specifically to a type of water supply system developed in
24:05ancient Iran and found across the Middle East that involves digging a deep well to an
24:09aquifer in elevated land and channeling the water downhill through a series of sloping
24:14tunnels?
24:15Nominate each one.
24:16Cannot.
24:16Correct.
24:16Well done.
24:17After a historical area of northern France, what word describes a well into which water flows
24:22from the aquifer without pumping, that is, by natural pressure?
24:25I know this.
24:26I know this.
24:26It's not like Normandy or Brittany or anything like that, is it?
24:29Oh, my God.
24:30I know this.
24:30Come on.
24:32Brittany.
24:32No, it's artesian.
24:33Another start of the question.
24:35The Decembrist revolt of 1825 was a failed uprising in St. Petersburg by liberal dissidents
24:41against which new czar who was to ascend to the throne following the death of his brother,
24:46Alexander I?
24:47Edinburgh, each one.
24:48Alexander II.
24:49No, anyone from Darwin?
24:51Nicholas I.
24:52Nicholas I.
24:53He's correct.
24:54Your three bonuses are on people who are the subjects of essays in the 2023 Adam Schatz
24:58book, Writers and Missionaries, Essays on the Radical Imagination.
25:02Five points for each person that you can identify.
25:04First, an American writer born 1908 whose works exploring race relations in the USA include
25:09the 1940 novel, Native Son, and the 1950...
25:11Richard Wright?
25:12Yes.
25:12Secondly, an Algerian writer and journalist born 1970, his 2013 novel, The Merceau Investigation,
25:17is a continuation of Camus' L'Etranger that gives a name and identity to the man murdered
25:22in that novel.
25:23Pass.
25:24That's Carmel Dawood.
25:25And finally, a Palestinian-American academic and literary critic born 1935 whose works include
25:29The World, The Text, and The Critic, Culture and Imperialism...
25:32Sayid.
25:32Yes, Edward Sayid.
25:33Now let's start with the question.
25:34What surname is shared by the following literary characters?
25:36Kathleen, the runaway former mistress of a king in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon,
25:41Robert, a Yorkshire mill owner in Charlotte Bronte's Shirley, and the twice...
25:46Darwin Cameron.
25:46Moore?
25:47Yes.
25:47Your bonuses are on Fashion House's name-checked in the 1979 Sister Sledge song, He's the Greatest
25:53Dancer.
25:53In each case, I need you to name the house from a description.
25:56First, the Italian maker of jeans and casual wear, who is said to have, quote, made me hardcore,
26:00according to the title of a 1999 work of video art by Mark Leckie.
26:04Its founder and namesake died in 2015.
26:06Versace.
26:07No, it's Fiorucci.
26:08Secondly, the house founded by a name for the mononymous American designer known for creating
26:11Jacqueline Kennedy's pillbox hat and his use of the material ultra suede.
26:15What?
26:16Okay.
26:17Pass.
26:17Alston.
26:18Lastly, the fashion house founded in Florence in 1921, whose notable designs include the
26:211947 bamboo handbag?
26:24Anything?
26:24Shiboshi.
26:25Isshiboshi?
26:25It's Gucci.
26:26Another starter question.
26:27With examples including the Sandmeyer, the Hel-Wolhard-Zalinski and the Hunsdike reactions,
26:32what name is given to the category of substitution reactions in which fluorine, chlorine, bromine
26:38and iodine is introduced...
26:40Edinburgh, M-chat.
26:41Halogenation.
26:41It is halogenation.
26:42Your bonus is Edinburgh.
26:44For our three questions on UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Mexico.
26:47Bordering Guatemala, Veracruz and Oaxaca, what southern state is the location of the
26:50Mayan city Palenque, which flourished between 500 and 700 CE?
26:54What were the three states?
26:56What were the three states?
26:57I would say.
26:58Yeah, that's Chiapas.
26:58Nominate Richards.
26:59Chiapas.
27:00A UNESCO site southeast of Mexico City comprises a number of 16th century monasteries on the
27:04slopes of which volcano, the second highest peak in the country?
27:07I don't know the name.
27:09No.
27:09I don't think.
27:09Pass.
27:10It's Popocatepetel.
27:11A biosphere reserve northwest of Mexico City is named after what large species of the
27:15order Lepidoptera?
27:16The insects spend winter and is reserved before migrating to eastern Canada.
27:19It's monarch butterfly.
27:20Definitely monarch.
27:21Yes.
27:21Monarch butterfly.
27:22Great.
27:22Another starter question.
27:23Consider the regnal names of French monarchs between 1500 and 1790.
27:28In total during this period, how many kings named Louis occupy the throne?
27:32And out of the ball, Darwin have 110 and Edinburgh have 155.
27:40Well, the answer, I'm afraid, sorry, Louis, was five.
27:44Oh, Darwin, what a run you've had.
27:46Just a couple of starters where I totally understand why you went for the interruptions
27:51because you were behind.
27:53And chlorine chloride.
27:54So you knew that.
27:55And there were a couple of others that you had to have a punt on.
27:57But you were brave to do it and you were right to do it.
27:59But you were beaten by a fantastic team, playing brilliant well, which I know is not much consolation.
28:03But have you vaguely enjoyed the experience?
28:06Very much.
28:07It's been great.
28:07Fantastic.
28:08Well, we've loved getting to know you.
28:09Thank you so much for being such great players.
28:11Edinburgh, congratulations.
28:12I mean, 155 at this stage of the competition with such a strong performance against a team
28:16of that caliber.
28:17It's brilliant.
28:17You've made it through to the final.
28:19Congratulations.
28:19We shall see you again.
28:21I hope you can join us next time for the second of this year's semifinals.
28:24But until then, it is goodbye from Darwin College, Cambridge.
28:27Goodbye.
28:28It's goodbye for now from Edinburgh.
28:29Goodbye.
28:30And it's goodbye from me.
28:31Goodbye.
28:33Goodbye.
28:34Goodbye.
28:43Goodbye.
28:46Goodbye.
28:49Goodbye.
28:49Goodbye.
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