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00:00MUSIC
00:15APPLAUSE
00:18University Challenge.
00:20Asking the questions...
00:22..amal Rajan.
00:24APPLAUSE
00:27Hello and welcome to University Challenge,
00:30where we're about to find out which of our two remaining semi-finalists
00:33will be joining Edinburgh in this year's grand final.
00:37One could become the fourth team from their university
00:39to reach our series final in the last seven years.
00:41The other would be the first from their institution
00:43to get that far since 2013.
00:46This year's team from Imperial lost their first match
00:48in the competition against Churchill College Cambridge,
00:51but since then are unbeaten.
00:53They've defeated Soas, Southampton, Warwick and,
00:55perhaps most impressively, Sheffield in their second quarter-final.
00:58In that match, they were very quick to recognise
01:00the poetry of Seamus Heaney, the films of Satyajit Ray
01:02and the uses of the metal palladium,
01:04but they did struggle with questions on social science,
01:08set theory and modern art.
01:09Chasing a sixth series title for their university
01:12and with an average score of 190.
01:14Let's meet the team from Imperial once again.
01:17Hi, I'm Raheem Dina.
01:19I'm originally from Seychelles by Levin-Pisabur
01:21and I'm doing a PhD in Ecology and Evolution.
01:23Hi, I'm Eugenia Tong.
01:25I'm from Hong Kong and I study chemistry.
01:27And their captain.
01:28Hello, I'm Oscar O. Flanagan.
01:30I'm from London and I'm doing a PhD in atmospheric physics.
01:33Hi, I'm Justin Keung.
01:35I'm from Hong Kong and I study computing.
01:40This year's team from Manchester also qualified for the semifinals
01:43by beating Sheffield in what was similarly one of their strongest performances so far.
01:47They gave some great answers in that match on geometry, Chinese myth and DNA
01:51and have been consistently strong on geography, history and biochemistry,
01:54which has helped them defeat teams from New College Oxford, LSE and UCL
01:58in addition to Sheffield.
01:59Like Imperial, however, they have lost one game so far to Edinburgh.
02:04With a fifth series title in their sights and an average score of 150,
02:08let's meet the Manchester team once again.
02:11Hi, I'm Rae Power.
02:12I'm from Bangkok, Thailand and I'm studying film studies and English literature.
02:16Hi, my name's Kirsta Dixon.
02:18I'm from Morley Green in Cheshire and I'm studying medicine.
02:21And their captain.
02:21Hi, I'm Kai Madrick.
02:23I'm from Foy in Cornwall and I'm studying for a PhD in AI and astrophysics.
02:27Hi, I'm Rob Faulkner.
02:28I'm from Norwich and I'm studying physics with astrophysics.
02:34Welcome back.
02:35Very, very nice to see you.
02:37High stakes.
02:37Let's get going, shall we?
02:38Fingers on buzzers.
02:39Here's your first starter for ten.
02:40Good luck.
02:41The national flag of what sovereign state, which became independent in 1966,
02:46was designed by American vexillologist Whitney Smith,
02:49who, in his own words, wrote to independence leader Chedi Jagan,
02:52as I always do to leaders of newly independent countries,
02:55and sent in a design.
02:57The design in question, which was adopted with some modifications,
03:00comprised a long golden triangle based at the hoist side
03:03with a smaller red triangle overlapping it at its base on a green field.
03:08Manchester metric.
03:09Guyana.
03:10It is Guyana.
03:11Well done.
03:11Your bonus is then, Manchester.
03:13Three questions on the languages of Ethiopia.
03:16While not the official working language of the country,
03:18what Cushitic language is the most common of Ethiopia,
03:21spoken by approximately 34% of the population?
03:24In 2018, Abiy Ahmed became the first person of this ethnicity
03:27to become Prime Minister of Ethiopia.
03:31I don't know.
03:32Is it Amharic, maybe?
03:33I think it's a popular speaking language.
03:35Amharic?
03:35No, it's Oromo.
03:36What other Cushitic language is spoken by approximately 1.7%
03:40of Ethiopia's population,
03:42but is the dominant language of the northern region,
03:44named after the ethnic group who speak it?
03:46In neighbouring Djibouti, it is spoken by 35% of the population.
03:50This could be Tigrinya,
03:51because, like, Tigray and all that.
03:53Yeah.
03:53That's really good.
03:54Tigrinya?
03:54No, it's Afar.
03:56What Semitic language does the constitution of Ethiopia establish
03:59as the working language of the federal government?
04:01It is spoken by approximately 29% of the country's population.
04:04I believe this is Amharic.
04:05Yeah. Amharic.
04:06Yes, it is, yeah.
04:07Can I start a question?
04:09Most common in the French-speaking world, where it is gender-neutral,
04:12what given name is shared by all of the following?
04:15The French revolutionary politician,
04:17whose speech before the Palais Royale
04:18helped incite the storming of the Bastille?
04:20A sculptor whose works include The Mature Age and The Wolves?
04:24Manchester Manchewaic.
04:25Camille.
04:25Yes, the first was Camille de Moulin,
04:27and the second Camille Cordell.
04:29Your bonuses there in Manchester,
04:31three questions on sporting achievements,
04:32referred to as a triple crown.
04:34The triple crown of motorsport, as most commonly defined,
04:38involves winning the Indianapolis 500,
04:40the 24 Hours of Le Mans,
04:42and the Monaco Grand Prix.
04:43The only person to achieve this feat as of 2025
04:46is which British driver?
04:47He won at Monaco five times in the 1960s,
04:50won the Indy 500 in 1966,
04:52and at Le Mans in 1972.
04:54Graham Hill.
04:55Yes, absolutely.
04:56The last winner of the English triple crown
04:58of thoroughbred horse racing,
05:00that is the 2000 Guineas,
05:01the Derby and the St. Ledger Stakes,
05:02and the only such winner since the Second World War,
05:05was Nijinsky in 1970,
05:07ridden by which jockey?
05:09I mean, I'll just guess Leicester Pickett,
05:11because I've got no idea.
05:12Leicester Pickett?
05:13You have got an idea actually,
05:14that's right, well done.
05:15The triple crown events of snooker,
05:17the World Championship,
05:18UK Championship and the Masters,
05:19have been won in the same season
05:21by only three players.
05:22Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry,
05:24and who in the 2002-03 season?
05:27His victory meant that the season triple crown
05:29has been won by an Englishman,
05:30a Scotsman and a Welshman.
05:31A Welshman...
05:33There's a...
05:34There's a Williams,
05:36I can't remember who's first.
05:37Mark Williams?
05:37I'll just say Williams.
05:38Williams?
05:39It is Mark Williams.
05:40Well done.
05:41Let's start the question.
05:42Which city of antique heritage
05:44had declined after the Arab conquests
05:46and all but disappeared
05:47by the late Middle Ages,
05:49but was resettled and rebuilt
05:50from 1878
05:52by Circassian refugees
05:53fleeing the expansion of the Russian Empire?
05:56Imperial O'Flanagan.
05:57Colchis?
05:58No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
05:59And offered sanctuary by the Ottomans.
06:01It grew with the construction
06:02of the Hejaz Railway
06:04between Medina and Damascus
06:05and after World War I,
06:07growth continued
06:07as it was made capital
06:09of an emirate
06:09established as a British protectorate,
06:11which achieved independence
06:12as a kingdom in 1946.
06:15Manchester Manchowicz.
06:16Aman?
06:17It is Aman, yes.
06:18Your bonus is then
06:19the three questions on an artist.
06:20All completed during the 1880s.
06:23Religious procession
06:24in Kursk province,
06:25They Did Not Expect Him
06:27and a depiction of Ivan the Terrible
06:29cradling his dying son
06:30are among works
06:31by which Russian realist artist?
06:34Ilya Repin.
06:35Yes.
06:35Repin was part of a group
06:37of Russian painters
06:38known as the Piera Divizhniki.
06:40What English word
06:41is usually used
06:42to translate
06:43Piera Divizhniki?
06:44The term refers
06:45to the group's attempts
06:46to bring art
06:46to a wider audience
06:47by touring the country
06:48with mobile exhibitions.
06:50Oh, yeah.
06:51Like...
06:51I feel travelling.
06:53Just feel stupid.
06:53Ex-traveling, right?
06:54Or...
06:55Expositionists?
06:56No.
06:56Or just...
06:58Not like popular.
07:00Is it in English?
07:01It's in English.
07:01It's in English.
07:02I like travelling.
07:04Just go for it.
07:04What about travelling?
07:05The Wanderers or Itinerants.
07:07Seen by many
07:07as a critique
07:08of labour exploitation,
07:10a major work by Repin
07:11completed in 1873
07:12depicts 11 exhausted barge haulers
07:15on which major river?
07:17Erm...
07:17What's, like, the big one?
07:18The Vulgar?
07:19The Vulgar.
07:20It is the Vulgar.
07:21Well done.
07:22Picture round now.
07:23And for your picture starter,
07:24you're going to see a description
07:25of a neurological condition
07:27written in a foreign language.
07:29For ten points,
07:30I need you to name the condition.
07:35Imperial O'Flanagan.
07:38I'm afraid if you buzz,
07:39you must answer straight away.
07:40You can have a bit more time,
07:41Manchester,
07:41but not much.
07:42Manchester Dixon.
07:43Erm, Tourette's.
07:44It is Tourette's syndrome, yes.
07:45For your picture starter,
07:47you saw a description
07:47of Tourette's syndrome
07:48which was named by
07:49French physician,
07:50Jean-Martin Charcot
07:51after his intern,
07:52Georges Gilles de la Tourette.
07:54For your bonuses,
07:55you're going to see
07:55three more descriptions
07:56of illnesses
07:57that were identified by
07:59and named after
08:00French people.
08:01In each case,
08:01all I need to hear
08:02is the surname
08:03of the namesake person.
08:05First.
08:07So it's about a genetic condition
08:08that affects
08:08conjunctive tissue,
08:11different...
08:13And visual problems.
08:14A visual, yeah.
08:15A French...
08:16So it's going to be
08:16a French surname, isn't it?
08:17It's going to be a French surname.
08:18Can you name any, like,
08:19French genetic diseases?
08:20No, sorry.
08:21Oh, whatever.
08:21Cataracts.
08:22No, that's Marfan syndrome,
08:23named after Antoine Marfan.
08:25Secondly.
08:27The internal ear,
08:28liquid,
08:29um,
08:31vertigo.
08:32Oh, Meniere syndrome.
08:33Normandy Dixon.
08:34Meniere syndrome.
08:35Yeah, we'll take that.
08:36Named after Prosper Meniere.
08:37And lastly.
08:39Uh, illness which,
08:42like, limits blood flow
08:43in different parts of the body.
08:45Oh, what do you call it?
08:46Like, Raynaud's in the finger,
08:47maybe?
08:47Um, vasospasm.
08:49Is that named after a person?
08:49Um, yeah.
08:51Yeah, Raynaud's, yeah.
08:51Raynaud's.
08:52Normandy Dixon.
08:52Raynaud's.
08:53Yes, that is Raynaud's syndrome.
08:55Let's start the question.
08:56What two-word phrase
08:57links all of the following?
08:59In physiology,
09:00the total volume
09:01of ventilated air
09:02that does not take part
09:03in gas exchange.
09:05In warfare,
09:06an area within
09:06the maximum range
09:07of a weapon,
09:08but that is unreachable
09:10because of obstacles
09:10or other limitations.
09:12Manchester Dixon.
09:14Visitor.
09:14I'm afraid you lose five points.
09:16And a 2008
09:17survival horror video game
09:19in which players take control
09:20of systems engineer Isaac Clarke
09:22as he navigates
09:23the mining ship Ishimura,
09:24which has been taken over
09:25by undead creatures
09:26known as necromorphs.
09:29Anyone have a guess?
09:32No, I'll tell you,
09:33it's dead space.
09:34Let's start the question.
09:35Which mythical figure
09:36is the subject of a poem
09:37by Alice Oswald
09:38subtitled 46 Minutes
09:39in the Life of the Dawn
09:40and the narrator
09:41of a dramatic monologue
09:42by Tennyson that contains
09:44the line,
09:44the gods themselves
09:45cannot recall their gifts.
09:47The lover of Eos
09:48owing to a flawed...
09:50Tithonus.
09:51Well done.
09:51It is indeed.
09:51Your bonuses are on amino acids
09:54that are not incorporated
09:56into proteins.
09:57In each case,
09:58name the compound
09:58from the description.
10:00First, the chief inhibitory
10:01neurotransmitter
10:02in the mammalian nervous system.
10:04It is synthesized
10:05by the decarboxylation
10:06of glutamate
10:07and is usually known
10:08by a four-letter acronym.
10:10Yeah, GABA.
10:11GABA.
10:11Yes.
10:12Secondly, a precursor
10:13to many important neurotransmitters
10:15including dopamine
10:16and adrenaline,
10:16the 1973 book
10:18Awakenings
10:18by Oliver Sacks
10:19describes its revolutionary use
10:21as a treatment
10:21for encephalitis lethargica
10:23or sleeping sickness.
10:24So it's a precursor
10:25to dopamine?
10:26Yeah.
10:26It's not like...
10:27Oh.
10:28It's like...
10:29It doesn't begin with A, does it?
10:31Oh, I just...
10:32This is how hateful
10:33I need to do this.
10:34Erm...
10:34It doesn't matter.
10:35Precursor to dopamine.
10:36Any guesses?
10:37Or like...
10:39Come on.
10:40It doesn't matter.
10:41Don't worry.
10:41It must.
10:42It's L-Dopa.
10:43Finally,
10:43a thyroid hormone
10:45with wide-ranging effects
10:46on physiology
10:46which is mainly produced
10:47by deiodination
10:49of thyroxine.
10:50It has an alphanumeric
10:52abbreviation consisting
10:53of one letter
10:53and one digit.
10:54T-3.
10:55T-3.
10:56T-3.
10:57T-3.
10:58Yes, well done.
10:59Let's start with the question.
11:01What given name
11:02is the title
11:02of Barbara Loden's
11:0419th...
11:04Manchester Powerhouse.
11:05Wanda.
11:06It is Wanda, well done.
11:07Three questions for you,
11:09Manchester,
11:09on stuffed breads.
11:10Derived from a Turkish word
11:12meaning embers
11:13or live coals.
11:14What name is given
11:14to a traditional Turkish
11:15flatbread typically made
11:17using unleavened dough
11:18which is rolled thin,
11:19filled and sealed
11:20before being cooked
11:21on a griddle?
11:22Is it arayas?
11:23Or is that...
11:24I just have no idea.
11:26Sorry, I don't know.
11:28And...
11:29Where was it?
11:30No, you filled them.
11:31Go for it, yeah.
11:31Arayas.
11:32No, it's gursleme.
11:33In Afghan cuisine,
11:34what name is given
11:35to a pan-fried flatbread
11:36made using unleavened dough
11:38and typically stuffed
11:39with potato and spinach,
11:40spring onions or pumpkin
11:41and served with yoghurt,
11:42chutney and herb dips?
11:43I've not been to any
11:44Afghan restaurants.
11:45Yeah.
11:46It's kind of like a...
11:47I don't know.
11:48Like similar to...
11:48No, I'm not going to say that.
11:50I guess it's wrong.
11:50Sorry.
11:52What were you going to say?
11:53Come on.
11:53That doesn't matter.
11:54That's balani or periki.
11:57What Hindi word is used
11:57for a type of flaky,
11:58unleavened flatbread
11:59common across the Indian
12:00subcontinent made by
12:01brushing rolled dough
12:03with oil or ghee
12:03and folding it
12:04to create layers
12:05that is often stuffed
12:06with fillings such as
12:07spiced potato or mincemeat?
12:08Dosa.
12:09I thought it was paratha.
12:10Paratha, yeah, yeah, yeah.
12:11Are you sure paratha?
12:12I think so,
12:12because I think a dosa isn't folded.
12:13Paratha?
12:14Yes.
12:15Right, fingers on buzzers.
12:17Pierre de Fermat
12:18wrote the then-unproven conjecture,
12:20today known as his
12:21last theorem,
12:22in the margins of his copy
12:23of Arithmetica,
12:24a book by which
12:25Greek mathematician?
12:27Manchester Faulkner.
12:28Diophantus.
12:28It is Diophantus
12:29Alexandria.
12:30The bonus is the three questions
12:31on Arthurian myth.
12:33What two-word phrase denotes
12:34the name which was popularised
12:36by Chrétien de Troyes
12:37for a mysterious figure
12:38who is said to guard
12:39the Holy Grail?
12:40The name references
12:41a favoured pastime
12:42and he is described
12:43as wounded or maimed
12:44with his lameness connected
12:45with the infertility
12:46of his realm.
12:47Fisher King.
12:48Yes.
12:48What two-word term is used
12:50of the vacant seat
12:51at the round table
12:51that awaited the knight
12:52who obtained the Grail?
12:54It was so named
12:54because it was dangerous
12:55for an unqualified person
12:56to occupy it.
12:59The treacherous seat.
13:01Big seat.
13:02Give it a go.
13:03The treacherous seat.
13:04It's a siege perilous.
13:06First appearing in the same tale
13:07by Chrétien de Troyes,
13:08which of King Arthur's knights
13:09succeeds in reaching
13:10the Grail castle
13:11but initially fails the test
13:12given him by the Fisher King?
13:14In its German form,
13:15his name is the title
13:16of Richard Wagner's
13:17final opera.
13:18Passivelle.
13:18Yeah?
13:19Passivelle.
13:20Yes.
13:20Let's start the question.
13:21Music round now.
13:22For your music starter,
13:23you're going to hear
13:23a piece of classical music.
13:25For ten points,
13:26I need you to name the composer.
13:42Imperial Kang.
13:43Tchaikovsky.
13:44No, you can hear a bit more,
13:45Manchester.
13:47Manchester Dixon.
13:48Prokofiev.
13:49No, it's Beethoven.
13:50We'll take your music bonuses
13:51in a moment.
13:52I need the name of a city here.
13:54A set of ten principles,
13:56including the abolition
13:57of trade barriers,
13:58the reduction of national
13:59budget deficits
14:00and the privatisation
14:01of state-owned enterprises,
14:03comprise the late 20th century
14:04so-called consensus
14:05named for which city?
14:07These criteria were often
14:08among the conditions
14:09set for countries
14:10seeking to borrow from lenders
14:11such as the International
14:12Monetary Fund
14:13and the World Bank,
14:14both based in this city.
14:17New York.
14:18No.
14:19Anyone from Manchester?
14:20You may not confer.
14:21Anyone would have a guess?
14:23Manchester.
14:24Hague.
14:25No, it's Washington.
14:26Washington, D.C.
14:26for the Washington Consensus.
14:28Bad luck.
14:28Another starter question.
14:29I need the title of a work here.
14:31Kwame Kweama's 2013 play
14:33Beneath His Place
14:34and Bruce Norris' 2010 play
14:36Clybourne Park
14:37are both responses
14:38to which 1959 play
14:40by Lorraine Hansberry?
14:42Imperial Lou Flanagan.
14:43Originally in the sun?
14:44Yes, it is.
14:45Your bonus is Imperial.
14:46For your music starter,
14:47you heard Beethoven's piece
14:48Wellington's Victory,
14:49which features God Save the King
14:50as one of its themes.
14:51For your bonuses,
14:52three more pieces of classical music
14:54that feature variations
14:55on God Save the King
14:56or indeed God Save the Queen.
14:58Five points for each composer
14:59you can name.
15:00First, this Italian composer.
15:03Paganini.
15:04Yes.
15:05Secondly, this composer,
15:06active in the 18th and 19th centuries.
15:08He wrote this work
15:08partially in celebration
15:09of his adopted homeland.
15:14No.
15:15Adopted homeland.
15:1618th and 19th century.
15:17So...
15:18No.
15:19No.
15:20Too early.
15:21Haydn moved...
15:25Haydn.
15:26Yes, Clementi.
15:26Lastly, this composer.
15:34List.
15:36Yeah.
15:37List.
15:38Yes.
15:38Let's start the question.
15:39Which widely used medicine
15:41was first synthesised
15:42in the 1870s
15:43by Harman Northrup Morse
15:45by reacting P-nitrophenol
15:47with tin
15:47in glacial acetic acid?
15:50Its exact mechanism of action
15:51has still not been fully determined,
15:53but there is evident...
15:54Manchester Dixon.
15:55Paracetumol.
15:55It is indeed, yeah.
15:57Three questions on a politician
15:59for you, Manchester.
16:00Following a period of imprisonment
16:01in the early 1950s,
16:02Habib Bourguiba
16:03went on to become the first
16:05post-independence leader
16:06of which country in 1957
16:07after the withdrawal
16:09of French troops
16:10and the abolition of its monarchy?
16:11Oh.
16:12What was the year?
16:1350, 70, 70.
16:14Is there something
16:15slightly social?
16:15Abolition of monarchy,
16:16withdrawal of French troops.
16:17It could be Cambodia.
16:19Yeah.
16:19I kind of...
16:20Cambodia?
16:22No, it's Tunisia.
16:23Bourguiba had earlier been associated
16:24with what political party,
16:26typically referred to by a one-word name,
16:28meaning constitutional,
16:30from which he would later split
16:31in order to co-found
16:32what he considered
16:33to be its successor.
16:35I don't know.
16:35I have no idea.
16:36A bath.
16:37It's Destor.
16:39Who succeeded Bourguiba
16:40as president of Tunisia,
16:41ruling from 1987 until 2011
16:44when he fled to Saudi Arabia
16:46amidst the ongoing Jasmine revolution?
16:48Yeah, it's that guy.
16:49Um...
16:49Whose name is...?
16:51I don't know.
16:52Uh...
16:53Sorry.
16:54Just...
16:54If you don't know, just pass.
16:55Pass.
16:56It's Ben Ali.
16:56Let's start the question.
16:58A 2017 book by graphic designer Douglas Thomas
17:01is titled Never Use Witch Font,
17:04first created by Paul Renner in 1920...
17:07Imperial Dina.
17:08Comic Sans.
17:09I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
17:10In 1927, on the book's cover,
17:13Thomas lists a number of organisations
17:14and artists associated with the font,
17:16including Air de Ruscha, Vanity Fair
17:18and Vogue magazines,
17:19the UK Conservative Party,
17:21Barbara Kruger,
17:22Vampire Weekend
17:23and Wes Anderson.
17:24And it was used on the plaque
17:26that was left on the moon
17:27by the Apollo 11 mission.
17:32It's Futura.
17:34Let's start the question.
17:35Products of the medieval golden age
17:37of which country include the epic poem
17:39sometimes known as
17:40The Knight in the Panther's Skin
17:42and the UNESCO-inscribed
17:43Gilati Monastery,
17:44begun during the reign of
17:46David the Builder.
17:47Manchester.
17:48Manchwick.
17:48Georgia.
17:49It is Georgia, yes.
17:50Your bonuses are
17:51on the Harvard system
17:52of stellar classification.
17:54In the initial form of this system,
17:56stars were classified
17:56according to the strength
17:57of the Balmer lines
17:58in their spectra,
17:59that is, absorption lines
18:00caused by what elements?
18:02Badge-chan.
18:03Badge-chan.
18:03Yes.
18:04The modern form of the Harvard system,
18:06which orders stars
18:06by surface temperature,
18:08is credited to which
18:09US astronomer,
18:10one of the so-called
18:10Harvard computers,
18:11women initially hired
18:13by the university
18:13as data processors?
18:14Oh, gosh.
18:16I mean, like,
18:16Swan Leavitt was a computer.
18:18Was it too...
18:19I don't think
18:19it's going to be Katherine Johnson.
18:20It's going to be probably...
18:21I don't think so.
18:22I kind of fancy going Swan Leavitt
18:23because she was a computer.
18:24Go for it.
18:25I don't need to go for it.
18:26Henry had to Swan Leavitt.
18:27No, it's Annie Jump Cannon.
18:28In Cannon's form of the system,
18:30what letter is used
18:31to designate
18:31the hottest category of stars
18:33with surface temperatures
18:34exceeding 28,000 Kelvin?
18:36Is it O?
18:37I'm fairly sure it's O.
18:38It's O.
18:38I don't think K.
18:39No, it's O, B, A.
18:41Oh, no, hang on.
18:41Yeah.
18:42Yes.
18:43I think O.
18:44Hurry up.
18:45O.
18:45Yes, it is O.
18:46Another type of question.
18:47In chemistry,
18:48what term is used to denote
18:49both the ion CNO minus
18:51and salts containing it,
18:53which are typically
18:53highly unstable compounds
18:55that explode when subjected
18:56to percussion, friction or heat?
19:00Azide.
19:01No, I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
19:02Oh, I can't do that.
19:02Silver and mercury salts
19:03of this kind being
19:04particularly notable examples.
19:06The term in question
19:07derives ultimately
19:07from Latin meaning
19:08to strike with
19:09or like lightning.
19:13No, I'll tell you.
19:14It's fulminate.
19:15Let's start the question.
19:16In Norse myth,
19:17as attested by both
19:18the poetic Edda
19:19and the prose Edda,
19:20what type of rodent
19:21is ratatops or...
19:23Squirrel.
19:24Yes, your bonus is from Imperial.
19:26Three questions
19:26on the short stories
19:27of Katherine Mansfield.
19:28What is the title
19:29of Mansfield's 1921 short story
19:31about William,
19:32a man who does not like
19:33how his wife Isabel
19:33is changing under the influence
19:35of a new circle
19:35of both marriage a la mode?
19:37A 1920 story by Mansfield
19:39narrates the thoughts and feelings
19:40of an English teacher
19:41sitting in a park
19:41on a bright...
19:42Miss Brill.
19:43Yes.
19:44In which of Mansfield's stories
19:45does Laura visit the family
19:46of a dead man?
19:47The garden party.
19:48Yes.
19:49Picture round.
19:50For your picture starter,
19:51you're going to see a painting
19:52of a mythological scene.
19:54For ten points,
19:54I need you to name
19:55both of the figures represented.
19:59Manchester Manchwick.
20:00Cupid and Psyche.
20:01No.
20:01You can have a bit more time,
20:02Imperial.
20:05Cupid and Venus.
20:06No, it's Apollo and Daphne.
20:08We'll take your picture bonuses
20:09in just a minute.
20:10Here we go.
20:10Fingers on buzzers.
20:11With an elevation of 992 metres,
20:14Skr Alastair is the highest mountain
20:16of which British island?
20:17Manchester Manchwick.
20:18Sky.
20:19It is sky, yes.
20:19Well done.
20:20So you get the picture bonuses,
20:22Manchester.
20:22For your picture starter,
20:23you saw Rubens's depiction of Daphne
20:25being turned into a tree
20:26in order to avoid Apollo's advances.
20:28For your bonuses,
20:29three more representations
20:30of Apollo's pursuit of Daphne
20:31in the visual arts.
20:32I need the name of the artist
20:34in each case.
20:35First, this sculptor.
20:39Could be...
20:40I don't know, really.
20:41I'm not that good at sculptures.
20:42Could be...
20:43It's not Benini.
20:44Probably not.
20:44It could be, I suppose.
20:46Come on.
20:47Benini?
20:48Yes.
20:48Second, this painter.
20:50This looks old.
20:51Could be Guido Reni maybe
20:52or something.
20:53Yeah, I just...
20:55Sure.
20:56Guido Reni?
20:56No, it's Tipolo.
20:57And finally, this illustrator.
20:59Oh, um...
21:00Who's Aubrey Beardsley?
21:02Yes.
21:02It looks like him, doesn't it?
21:03I think it's...
21:04Yeah.
21:04Aubrey Beardsley?
21:05It is indeed Aubrey Beardsley.
21:06Yeah.
21:08Another starter question.
21:09Mansa Musa founded the University of Sankore
21:12and built the Great Mosque in which West Africa...
21:14Manchester Manchwick.
21:15Timbuktu.
21:16It is Timbuktu.
21:17Well done.
21:17Three questions for you, Manchester,
21:18on supergroups.
21:20Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty
21:23formed what supergroup in 1988?
21:26Their singles include Handle With Care and End Of The Line.
21:29Travelling Wilburys.
21:30Yes.
21:30What supergroup comprising John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin,
21:33Josh Hom of Queens Of The Stone Age and Dave Grohl
21:36of The Foo Fighters and Nirvana released an eponymous album in 2009?
21:40Them Crooked Vultures.
21:41Yes.
21:41The record, featuring the single Not Strong Enough,
21:44was a 2023 debut album of what supergroup...
21:46Yes, it is Boy Genius.
21:47Let's start with questions.
21:49The Maiden, Maiden No More and The Woman Pays
21:52are among the subdivisions of what novel, first published in 1891?
21:57Subtitled A Pure Woman...
21:59Manchester Manchwick.
22:00It is indeed, yeah.
22:02Your bonuses are on terms that appear in more than one citation
22:05for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
22:07The citations for both the 1930 Prize won by Hans Fischer
22:11and the 1915 Prize won by Richard Willstetter
22:14note the researchers' work on what class of naturally occurring pigments?
22:19Erm...
22:20What do I like to...
22:22I feel like dyes is...
22:23It's probably not that.
22:25Just...
22:26Oh, whatever. Dyes.
22:26It's chlorophyll.
22:27The citations for both the 1912 Prize won by Paul Sabatier
22:30and the 2001 Prize won by William Knowles and Ryoji Noyori
22:34mention what type of chemical reaction
22:36in which a specific element is added to a chemical compound.
22:39In the former case,
22:40special note was made of Sabatier's method for employing this reaction,
22:44quote,
22:44in the presence of finely disintegrated metals.
22:46So a specific element.
22:48So it could be like hydrogenation maybe?
22:50Yeah.
22:51Hydrogenation?
22:51Yes.
22:52The citations for both the 1937 Prize won by Norman Hayworth
22:56and the 1970 Prize won by Luis Lellois
22:58reference which group of biomolecules,
23:01with Lellois's citation specifically noting
23:02his discovery of sugar nucleotides
23:04and their role in the biosynthesis of these molecules.
23:07Nucleic acids?
23:08Nucleic acids.
23:09No, it's carbohydrates.
23:10Let's start the question.
23:11A pioneer of pop art born in Edinburgh to Italian parents in 1924,
23:15which artists' works include a collage entitled
23:18I Was A Rich Man's Play Thing?
23:21Manchester Power.
23:22Hannah Hock.
23:22I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
23:24A number of mosaics at Tottenham Court Road tube station
23:26and a statue of Isaac Newton inspired by a print by William Blake
23:30located outside the British Library.
23:35Pagolano?
23:36No, it's Eduardo Paolozzi.
23:39Let's start a question.
23:41Named after a sanctuary city in the Cyclades,
23:44said to be the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis,
23:46what confederacy of Ionian city-states,
23:49founded in 478 BC,
23:51was ultimately disbanded by Sparta following the...
23:54Manchester Matchwork.
23:54Delian League.
23:55It is the Delian League, yes.
23:57There were three questions from Manchester on a Roman road.
23:59What Roman road runs in a largely straight line
24:02from Rimini in the south-east to Piacenza in the north-west,
24:05running approximately parallel with the northern slopes
24:07of the Apennine Mountains?
24:08It is named after the Roman consul who oversaw its construction
24:11and itself gives its name to the region it crosses.
24:14What, Apien Way?
24:15No, it's the Via Emilia,
24:16Emilia Romana being the name of the region.
24:19The construction of the road began the colonisation
24:21and eventual annexation of the Celtic-occupied region
24:24of what is now northern Italy,
24:26known to the Romans by what two-word name?
24:29More than Italy.
24:30It's been a long time since I've listened to this year.
24:33I don't know.
24:35Cisalpine Gaul?
24:36Yes, it is Cisalpine Gaul.
24:37Well done.
24:38Which of the Roman colonial stations along the road
24:40is now the capital of the region of Emilia Romana?
24:43That's Bologna.
24:45I think, yeah.
24:46Bologna.
24:46Yes, it is.
24:47Well done.
24:47Let's start with a question.
24:48In what country were the Pritzker prize-winning architects
24:51Kevin Roche, Yvonne Farrell...
24:54Ireland.
24:55Well done.
24:55Your bonuses are on Iranian film directors.
24:58In each case, name the person from the description.
25:00First, in 2010, the Iranian government banned this director
25:02from making films for 20 years.
25:04Since then, he has made This Is Not A Film and the 2015...
25:07Nominate Dina.
25:08Rafa Panahi.
25:09Yes.
25:09Secondly, a playwright who in 1982 adapted his own work,
25:11Death of Yazghird, for the screen.
25:13He later made Bashu, The Little Stranger,
25:15about a lost boy during the Iran-Iraq war.
25:17I forgot his name.
25:19It's like...
25:22Orbe's.
25:23Bad luck is Byron Bayzai.
25:25Finally, a director who won The Palm Door in 1997
25:27for Taste of Cherry.
25:28His other works include a sequence of films
25:30known as the Coca Trilogy and the docu-fiction drama Close Up.
25:34Nominate Dina.
25:36Chiarastami.
25:36Yes.
25:37Another start of the question.
25:38Past than 445 BC, the Lex Canulea was a Roman law
25:41that removed earlier restrictions on patricians and plebeians
25:44engaging in which specific social practice with each other?
25:49Baiting.
25:50No.
25:51Manchester Matchwick.
25:52Going to the theatre.
25:54No, marrying each other.
25:55Another start of the question.
25:56Quote, I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you.
25:59Imperial Tongue.
26:00It certainly is.
26:01Your bonuses are on Latin expressions taken from the Vulgate,
26:04the most commonly recognised Latin version of the Bible.
26:07In each case,
26:07give the two-word expression from the description.
26:10First, the title of a novel by the Polish Nobel laureate,
26:12Henrik Sienkiewicz.
26:13This two-word expression means,
26:14Where are you going?
26:15And is said by...
26:16Quo Vadis.
26:17Yes.
26:17Secondly, a title given to artistic representations
26:19of Jesus wearing a crown of thorns
26:21when presented to the people by Pontius Pilate.
26:24Ece Homo.
26:25Yes.
26:25Finally meaning out of the depths.
26:27This phrase appears in Psalm 129 in the Vulgate.
26:29It is the title of an 1897 letter by Oscar Wilde.
26:32Oh, De Profundis.
26:33Yes.
26:33Another start of the question.
26:34The Cordillera Huayhuash is found in which South American country?
26:38Its highest peaks include Yerupaha,
26:40and the range takes its name from a Quechua word meaning weasel.
26:44Imperial at Flanagan.
26:45Chile.
26:45No.
26:47Manchester, Manchwick.
26:48Peru.
26:48It is Peru, yes.
26:49Your bonus is your three questions on algorithms in quantum computing.
26:52Which Indian American computer scientist, born in 1961,
26:55gives his name to an algorithm used for unstructured search problems,
26:58for example, searching an unsorted database?
27:01Sorry, pass.
27:01That's Love Grover.
27:02Along with Richard Yoja,
27:04which British physicist gives his name to one of the earliest quantum algorithms
27:07that was designed to solve a black box problem,
27:10contrived specifically to be difficult for a classical algorithm to solve,
27:13but easy for a quantum algorithm?
27:15I'll just say Shaw.
27:16Shaw.
27:16David Deutsch.
27:17Developed in 1994, Shaw's algorithm is a quantum computing procedure
27:21for performing what mathematical tasks?
27:23Prime factorisation.
27:24Sorry?
27:24Prime factorisation.
27:26In music theory, what term describes the dissonance that occurs
27:28when part of a consonant chord is held
27:30while the rest of the chord moves to a new harmony?
27:33This dissonance...
27:34And at the bottom of the period I've saved you,
27:35it might just add 215.
27:41Well, the answer to that last one was suspension.
27:44Imperial, that scoreline in no way reflects your magnificent performance
27:47in this series.
27:47And the thing is, what happens, because you got off to a bad start,
27:50I could see that you were trying to make up ground by interrupting starters,
27:53which didn't go your way.
27:54And on several occasions, Oscar, you knew the answer,
27:56the word didn't come out of your mouth,
27:58which must have been incredibly painful.
28:00But you have been absolutely magnificent in this series.
28:02And I hope, though it hurts now, you'll look back on your performances
28:05and do so with enormous pride, because you've been wonderful.
28:08After nearly going out in the first round,
28:10every game is a gift after that.
28:12Fantastic.
28:12And you know what else?
28:13You've got the most famous jar of kimchi in the universe right now.
28:16But it's been wonderful getting to know it and you.
28:19Thank you so much.
28:19Manchester, I try very hard not to single out individuals,
28:22but my goodness, Kai Magic, that was one hell of a performance.
28:24I mean, you really were on fire.
28:26And 250 at this stage of the competition against a team that is that strong is fantastic.
28:31Well done.
28:31I hope you could join us next time for the final of this year's competition.
28:35But until then, it is goodbye from Imperial.
28:37Goodbye.
28:38It's goodbye from Manchester.
28:40Goodbye.
28:40And it's goodbye from me.
28:42Goodbye.
28:43APPLAUSE
28:59suits attention.
29:01soup of man who is a mixture of people's hearts.
29:03You won't all stay here,
29:06aren't you sorry?
29:09Goodbye.
29:13beim
29:14tan görd
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