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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
01:19States 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 for
01:32a Masters in Environment, Culture and Society. Hi I'm Rehan Amjad. I'm from Dublin and Glasgow and I'm
01:38studying for a PhD in computer science. The team from Darwin College Cambridge are also coming into
01:46this match off the back of a victory over Merton College Oxford albeit a slightly more comfortable one.
01:51They've also beaten Green Templeton College Oxford, Morden College Oxford and Warwick on their way to this
01:55point but they have lost once to Sheffield in their first quarter final. They've consistently answered
02:00well on literature, fine art, biochemistry and mathematics but have occasionally shown a tendency to talk
02:06themselves out of right answers and their average score is just under 160. Let's meet the team from Darwin for
02:12the sixth time. Hi I'm Lewis Strachan. I'm from North Lanarkshire and I'm doing a PhD in Parasite
02:18Virology. Hello I'm Ruth Newver-Hurtig. I'm from Cork in Ireland and I study Education. And their captain. Hello I'm
02:24Louis Cameron. I'm from London and I'm doing a PhD in English. Hi my name is Jonathan White. I'm from
02:31Buckinghamshire. I'm studying for a PhD in Geography. Welcome back. Just two wins from glory. Here we go then. Here's
02:41your first start for ten. Good luck.
02:43By a resolution of the 20th of December 2024 the royal house of which country officially changed its coat of
02:51arms?
02:52The inner scutcheon it contains the two bars of the dynasty's parent house the house of Oldenburg while the shield
02:57is divided
02:58Darwin White. Denmark. It is Denmark yes. Your bonuses then are on a phrase used in the UK Parliament. In
03:04January 2022 which
03:06conservative former Secretary of State for exiting the European Union implored the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign by
03:12telling him
03:12in the name of God go. David Davis. 2005 he lost his party's leadership contest to David Cameron. David Davis.
03:18David Davis. David Davis. Yes. The MP
03:21Leo Amory finished an attack on Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with the words in the name of God go during
03:26a parliamentary
03:27debate of May 1940 discussing the military campaign in which country that had been invaded by Nazi Germany on the
03:339th of April. Norway. The debate is most
03:35commonly known by the name of this country. Norway. Norway. Yes.
03:39Norway. Yes. Davis and Amory were both quoting which politician and military leader who is supposed to have
03:44dissolved the rump parliament with the same words in 1653 the year which would also see the founding of the
03:50protectorate.
03:50Oliver Cromwell. It is indeed. Yeah. Let's start with the question.
03:54In which city is the open air architectural museum Pobla Espanol or Spanish town an artificially
04:00constructed village containing 117 full scale recreations of characteristic buildings from different
04:06parts of Spain. The Pobla was created for the international exposition of 1929 held in this city and is located
04:13near other notable attractions built for that expo including the magic fountain of Montjuic
04:18and a pavilion.
04:20Edinburgh Richards. Barcelona. It is Barcelona. Yes.
04:23Your bonuses are three questions on a sign language. For what do the letters PI stand in the abbreviation
04:28P-I-S-L used to designate a sign language commonly used as a lingua franca between indigenous peoples in
04:35large
04:35parts of pre-Columbian North America. Also known as hand talk it has been the subject of numerous revival
04:42efforts in recent decades. Is it Pacific something then? Is it Paraguayan indigenous?
04:51Sure. Let's go with that. Paraguayan indigenous? No it's Plains Indian. Sorry.
04:56In their studies of P-I-S-L linguists including Lamont West and Brenda Farnell have used what word by
05:03analogy
05:04with phoneme to describe quote a unit of movement or a shape of the hand for example that provides a
05:10constituent
05:10part of a sign.
05:12So what's that?
05:14Moni?
05:14For hand.
05:16Movement.
05:17Gesture.
05:18That's the Latin.
05:19Yeah.
05:20It could be mani.
05:21I don't know.
05:23Greek for hand.
05:24Let's keep it moving.
05:25Manim.
05:26No that's a kainim.
05:27George Drillard a part Shawnee man from Missouri served as a translator of several languages including
05:33P-I-S-L for which two men during their early 19th century expedition across the newly acquired
05:39Louisiana 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.
05:51John Cameron.
05:52Webster.
05:53It is John Webster.
05:53Well done.
05:54John.
05:54Your bonuses are on a European river.
05:58Sometimes referred to historically by the German name Memel.
06:01The Nehrman is the longest river of what European country?
06:04It flows roughly south-east to north-west draining into the Curonian or Courland Lagoon.
06:10Oh this I don't know.
06:12Um.
06:12So you could try.
06:14Um.
06:16I don't know.
06:17Like.
06:17Hungry Slovenia or Hungary maybe.
06:19Something real German name.
06:21Yeah.
06:21Slovenia.
06:22No it's Lithuania.
06:23Located on the river Nehrman north-west of Vilnius, what city was the capital of independent
06:28Lithuania from 1920 to 1940 when Vilnius was under Polish occupation?
06:33Try Kanaus.
06:34Kanaus is another city in Lithuania.
06:36Kanaus.
06:37No.
06:37Bad luck.
06:38The city is Kaunas.
06:39So I can't accept that.
06:41Oh.
06:41A western stretch of the Nehrman forms the border between Lithuania and what Russian
06:45oblast?
06:46Uh.
06:46Kaliningrad.
06:48Nominate White.
06:49Kaliningrad.
06:50It is indeed yes.
06:50Let's start with a question.
06:52There'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
06:58eve of the Thirty Years War.
07:00For ten points name the polity in black.
07:06End of British War.
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
07:20from the same time on which electorates of the Empire have been highlighted.
07:24Five points for each you can name.
07:26First in blue.
07:27Um.
07:29Okay.
07:29So 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 what's German so 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.
07:56I'm not sure.
07:58Um.
07:59Yeah to try Bavaria.
08:00Yeah to try Bavaria.
08:01Bavaria.
08:01No that's Bohemia.
08:02Okay.
08:03Another starter 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 lose five points.
08:27And whose headquarters are in Leverkusen.
08:29Edinburgh.
08:30Ishwa.
08:30Bayer.
08:31Bayer is correct yes.
08:32Your three questions Edinburgh are on physics.
08:34In 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.
08:51Four letter word.
08:52So something that doesn't change.
08:54Like.
08:54Fix.
08:56Zero.
08:58Yeah we should keep moving.
09:00It's even.
09:01In 1956.
09:02Qian 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 governs beta decay?
09:16It's B.
09:17The weak or strong.
09:18It's one of the.
09:19Yeah.
09:19Let's go with.
09:20I feel like.
09:21Which one do you feel more comfortable?
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.
09:38C or T.
09:40I like complementary.
09:41Charge.
09:41Let's go with that.
09:42Is that a charge?
09:43What did you think?
09:44It's a type of transfer complementary.
09:45I mean I'm just going.
09:46Just as I can describe it.
09:46I think it would be charge.
09:48Charge.
09:49No I can't accept that I'm afraid.
09:50It's charge conjugation.
09:51Oh okay.
09:52Sorry.
09:54But another starter question.
09:55In what present day landlocked country is the town of Kodok.
09:59Known historically as Fashoda.
10:01In 1898 an expedition led by Jean-Baptiste Marchand.
10:04Provoked an international crisis when it raised the French flag there.
10:08Attempting to forestall a British force from opening a.
10:11And a British what?
10:12India.
10:12No I'm afraid to lose five points.
10:14Opening a corridor between Egypt and southern Africa.
10:17The crisis was resolved by demarcating British and French spheres of influence.
10:21Along the watersheds of the Congo and Nile rivers.
10:26Darwin White.
10:27Central African Republic.
10:28Bad luck.
10:28It's South Sudan.
10:30Let's start the question.
10:31What noun in either the singular or plural appears in the titles of all of the following video games?
10:36A 1999 game developed by Acclaim Studios.
10:39The title of which is the alter ego of player character Michael Leroy.
10:43A 2005 game created by Fumito Ueda and developed by his studio Team Ico.
10:49Shadow.
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 by this author's time working for General Electric.
11:09Is it one of the sci-fi guys like Kurt?
11:13No.
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 of them but I don't know what it is.
11:24Well it's called Bradbury.
11:25Bradbury.
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 Vonnegut's other novels such
11:33as Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five and can be found in which US state?
11:38It is thought to be based on the real life city of Schenectady.
11:41That's in New York isn't it?
11:43New York.
11:43Yes.
11:44In a 1973 interview Vonnegut claimed that Player Piano, quote, cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose
11:50plot had been cheerfully ripped off from what novel by Evgeny Zamyatin?
11:54Oh, We.
11:55Okay.
11:56Nominate Amjad.
11:57Just We.
11:58Yes.
11:59Now start the question.
12:01In his book The Embarrassment of Riches, historian Simon Sharma describes the depiction of a woman in a work by
12:06witch painter as, quote,
12:08The Embodiment of Domestic Virtues Approach...
12:11Darwin Cameron.
12:12Cameron.
12:12No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
12:14By Worldly Weiss.
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.
12:28Gentilescu.
12:29No, it's Judith Leicester.
12:30Let's start the question.
12:32In IUPAC notation, what two letters are used to classify stereo isomals...
12:37Darwin Strachan.
12:38R and S.
12:39I'm afraid you lose five points.
12:40Stereo isomals 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.
13:02What name is shared by the early Christian leader, who was 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...
13:17Edinburgh Amjet.
13:18Philemon.
13:18It is indeed.
13:19Your bonuses of Edinburgh are on works by Maurice Ravel that name other composers in their
13:24titles.
13:25A suite for solo piano by Ravel, completed in 1917, has the title Le Tombeau de Which French
13:32Baroque 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.
13:39Yes.
13:41In 1909, Ravel composed a minuet on the name of Which Composer to mark the centenary of
13:46his death.
13:46It uses a five note motif to represent his name, the first note of which is B natural, designated
13:52by the relevant letter in German notation.
13:54What was the year?
13:55A five letter A.
13:57I think B natural.
13:58Is that H?
13:59It's H.
14:00And a five letter A.
14:01Haydn.
14:02Yep, Haydn.
14:03Well worked out, yep.
14:04In 1922, Ravel wrote a Besseurs on the name of Which French Composer, who had been his
14:09teacher at the Paris Conservatoire.
14:11This composer wrote two well-known Besseurses of his own, one of which forms part of his
14:15Dolly suite.
14:17Debussy?
14:18I don't know.
14:19I don't recognise that as being Debussy.
14:20I don't know.
14:20I'm just guessing.
14:21He wrote a Besseurs but I don't think he wrote a French composer as well.
14:25I think Debussy.
14:25Go with Debussy.
14:26Sanson.
14:27Sanson.
14:28No, it's 4A.
14:29Let's start a 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.
14:56Enderborough Richards.
14:57Marvin Gaye.
14:58No, you can hear a bit more, Darwin, but not much.
15:06No, I'll tell you.
15:06It was George McRae.
15:08We'll take your music bonuses when we get the next starter right.
15:10Francois Vion's 15th century Ballad of the Ladies of Bygone Times is an example of a poem
15:15described by what two-word Latin literary term?
15:19This term takes the form of a question lamenting the transitory nature of life and means, where
15:23are they?
15:25Darwin Cameron.
15:26Quo Vadis.
15:27No.
15:28You may not confer, Edinburgh.
15:30You can have a guess if you want to.
15:31Edinburgh, M check.
15:32Ubisoft.
15:33It is Ubisoft, yes.
15:34For your music starter, you heard George McRae's 1974 single, Rock Your Baby, one of the
15:39early hits to make use of the drum machine.
15:41For your bonus, three more tracks that featured the drum machine in the 1970s.
15:45In each case, I need you to name the band performing.
15:48Firstly, this group.
15:53Dreaming of a dream.
15:54Oh, oh.
15:56Dreaming of a dream.
15:58Oh.
16:00Oh.
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.
16:11Oh.
16:12Oh.
16:12Oh.
16:13Oh.
16:13Oh.
16:15Oh.
16:16Oh.
16:19Talking heads.
16:19Can with spoon.
16:21And lastly.
16:22Oh.
16:24No.
16:24Blondie.
16:26It's Blondie.
16:27That's Blondie, yes.
16:28Blondie.
16:29It is Blondie in hard class, yes.
16:30Let's start the question.
16:32In physiology, what is the main ion that moves into cells through GABA-A receptors,
16:37which are opened in response to the binding of gamma-aminobutyric acid?
16:41The same ion can exit the cell through the CFTR channel functionally...
16:46Go on, Stricker.
16:47Chlorine.
16:48I'm afraid you lose five points.
16:50Functional defects of which result in cystic fibrosis.
16:54Edipur Richards.
16:55Calcium.
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.
17:10The 2022 film, Saint-Omer.
17:12The 2023 film, La Chimera.
17:14And the director of the 1900 film, La Fée au Chou, or The Cabbage Fairy.
17:19One of the earliest known narrative films.
17:23Isabella.
17:24No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
17:26And the first film credited as directed by a woman.
17:28The surnames of the directors in question are Lo, Diop, Rewaka and Guy Blachet.
17:35Anyone?
17:37No, I'll tell you.
17:38It's Alice.
17:39Let's start the question.
17:40Alberto Cairo, a bucolic poet, Ricardo Reyes, a doctor and classicist, and Alvaro de Campos,
17:46a naval engineer, are among authorial personas created by which Portuguese writer, who called
17:52them his heteronyms.
17:54His major works include the poetry collection Mensagem, or Message, and the fragmentary
17:58Book of Disquiet.
18:00Edinburgh, I'm Jack.
18:01Pessoa.
18:01It is Pessoa.
18:02Well done.
18:03Your bonuses, Edinburgh, are three questions on a cycle.
18:06Which two German scientists give their names to a cycle used to visually represent the
18:10total lattice 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?
18:34Protactinium.
18:39Cury.
18:40No, 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?
18:52I think so.
18:53Gibbs.
18:53Yeah, 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.
19:13Edinburgh Amjet.
19:14Super structure.
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 native
19:26to Southeast Asia that is roughly pear-shaped with a thick, loose yellow or greenish rind?
19:31Pomelo.
19:31Yes, 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 ex arantium, or the bitter orange, is also
19:52commonly known by the name of which European city?
19:54Oh, oh, oh, oh my god.
19:57Oh, it's not Jaffa.
19:58Is it Seville?
19:59Seville, I don't know.
20:00Seville, yeah, 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 ten points, I need you to name its artist.
20:11Uh, Titian.
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 the
20:19artist created for Philip II of Spain.
20:22For your picture bonuses, three more works of art made for rulers of countries that are not
20:26the country the artist was originally from.
20:28In each case, I need you to name the artist.
20:30First, the sculptor of this piece intended for Francis I of France.
20:35Uh, Cellini.
20:36Yes.
20:37Secondly, the Italian-born painter of this portrait of the Chanlong Emperor.
20:40Um, pass.
20:42That's Castiglione.
20:43Lastly, the artist behind this portrait of Anne of Cleves.
20:45Uh, Holbein.
20:47Yes, specifically Holbein Miranda.
20:48Let'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 N-I-V and K-J-V.
21:02Darwin Cameron.
21:03Version.
21:03It is indeed.
21:04Your bonuses are on French road bicycle racing terms.
21:08All 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.
21:20I'll tell you, that's Punscher.
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.
21:31Uh, pass.
21:32I'll tell you, it's Palmares.
21:34Finally, what term is used to describe a type of uneven terrain associated with the
21:37Paris-Roubaix and Tour of Flanders races?
21:40I don't think we know this one.
21:42Theories?
21:42Uh, pass.
21:44I'll tell you, it's Parve.
21:45Fingers on buzzers.
21:46In graph theory, which Swiss mathematician gives his name to a path that visits every
21:51edge exactly once?
21:53Darwin, leave a heartache.
21:55Oh, in there?
21:55Yes, it is.
21:57Your focus is on a few questions on pairs of names of places and people where one can
22:01be made by doubling a letter found in the other.
22:04Name 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.
22:13And the surname of a French engineer born in 1832 who specialised in metal structures.
22:19So is that, is that Eiffel or is...
22:22Eiffel and...
22:23Eiffel and Eiffel with W2F.
22:25Yeah.
22:26Uh, Eiffel and Eiffel.
22:27Uh, E-I-F-F-E-L and E-I-F-E-L.
22:31Correct.
22:31Well done.
22:32Second, an influential New York rapper who released his debut album Ilmatic in 1994 and
22:37the county town of Kildare in Ireland.
22:39Um, go.
22:40Uh, nominate Niva Hertig.
22:41Naz Anais, N-A-A-S.
22:44N-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 Pole?
22:56Pole and Pole with double O.
22:58Uh, P-O-L-E and P-O-O-L-E.
23:01Well done.
23:01Fantastic.
23:02Let's start 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?
23:20No.
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.
23:39Torsion.
23:41No, I'm afraid you lose five points and gives its name to a type of range.
23:45Torque.
23:46It is torque.
23:47Bad luck, darling.
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 ancient
24:06Iran and found across the Middle East that involves digging a deep well to an aquifer
24:10in elevated land and channeling the water downhill through a series of sloping tunnels?
24:15Nominate each one.
24:16Kanat.
24:16Correct.
24:16Well done.
24:17After a historical area of northern France, what word describes a well into which water
24:22flows from the aquifer without pumping, that is, by natural pressure?
24:25Oh, I know this.
24:26I know this.
24:26It's not like Normandy or Brittany or anything like that, is it?
24:29Oh my God, I know this.
24:30Come on.
24:32Brittany.
24:32No, it's artesian.
24:33Another starter question.
24:34The Decembrist revolt of 1825 was a failed uprising in St. Petersburg by liberal dissidents
24:41against which new Tsar, who was to ascend to the throne following the death of his brother,
24:46Alexander I?
24:47Alexander II.
24:49No.
24:49Anyone from Darwin?
24:51Nicholas I.
24:53Nicholas I.
24:53That's correct.
24:54Your three bonuses are on people who are the subjects of essays in the 2023 Adam Schatz book,
24:59Writers 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 in that novel.
25:23Pass.
25:23That'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...
25:32Edward Said.
25:32Yes, Edward Said.
25:33Another starter question.
25:34What surname is shared by the following literary characters?
25:37Kathleen, the runaway former mistress of a king in F. Scott's 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 houses name checked in the 1979 Sister Sledge song,
25:52He's the Greatest Dancer.
25:54In 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,
25:59made me hardcore according to the title of a 1999 work of video art by Mark Lecky.
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.
26:17I'll pass.
26:17Halston.
26:18Lastly, the fashion house founded in Florence in 1921, whose notable designs include the
26:211947 bamboo handbag.
26:24Anything...
26:24It's Gucci.
26:25It's Gucci.
26:26Another starter question.
26:27With examples including the Sandmeyer, the Hel-Wolhard-Zielinski 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 bonuses, Edinburgh.
26:44Three questions on UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Mexico.
26:46Bordering 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?
26:57Yeah, that's Chiapas.
26:58Nominate Richards.
26:59Chiapas.
27:00Yes, a UNESCO site south-eastern Mexico City comprises a number of 16th century monasteries
27:04on the slopes of which volcano, the second highest peak in the country?
27:08I don't know the name.
27:09No, Chiapas.
27:10I don't know.
27:10It's Papa Catepatel.
27:11A biosphere reserve north-west of Mexico City is named after what large species of the
27:15order Lepidoptera?
27:16The insects spend winter in this reserve before migrating to eastern Canada.
27:19It's monarch butterfly.
27:20Definitely monarch.
27:21Yes.
27:21Monarch butterfly.
27:22Another starter question.
27:23Consider the regnal names of French monarchs between 1500 and 1790.
27:27In total during this period, how many kings named Louis occupied the throne?
27:32And out of the ball, we have a hundred and ten.
27:35We have a hundred and fifty-five.
27:40Well, the answer, I'm afraid, sorry, Louis, was five.
27:44Oh, Darwin, what a run you've had.
27:47Just a couple of starters where I totally understand why you went for the interruptions
27:51because you were behind.
27:53And chlorine chloride, so 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, yeah.
28:08Fantastic.
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 of that calibre.
28:16But it'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.
28:32Goodbye.
28:32APPLAUSE
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