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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 in
00:49this series but they came closest in their last game against Merton College Oxford. Both teams
00:54struggled to find their rhythm in that match and incurred eight five-point penalties between them
00:58but 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 Master's of Sustainable Lands and Cities. Hi I'm Johnny Richards. I'm from
01:25Los Angeles, California and I'm doing a PhD on ancient DNA. And their captain. Hi I'm Alice Leonard.
01:31I'm from Portsmouth and I'm studying for a Master's in Environment, Culture and Society.
01:35Hi I'm Rehan Amjad. I'm from Dublin and Glasgow and I'm studying for a PhD in Computer Science.
01:41APPLAUSE
01:43The team from Darwin College Cambridge are also coming into this match off the back of a victory
01:48over Merton College Oxford, albeit a slightly more comfortable one. They've also beaten Green Templeton
01:52College Oxford, Morden College Oxford and Warwick on their way to this point but they have lost once
01:57to Sheffield in their first quarter final. They've consistently answered well on literature, fine art,
02:02biochemistry and mathematics but have occasionally shown a tendency to talk themselves out of right answers
02:07and their average score is just under 160. Let's meet the team from Darwin for the sixth time.
02:14Hi I'm Lewis Strachan. I'm from North Lanarkshire and I'm doing a PhD in Parasite Biology.
02:19Hello I'm Ruth Nivera-Hertig. I'm from Cork in Ireland and I study Education.
02:23And their captain. Hello I'm Louis Cameron. I'm from London and I'm doing a PhD in English.
02:29Hi my name's Jonathan White. I'm from Buckinghamshire. I'm studying for a PhD in Geography.
02:34APPLAUSE
02:38Welcome back. Just two wins from glory. Here we go then. Here's your 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 contains the two bars of the dynasty's parent house, the House of Oldenburg, while the shield is
02:58divided...
02:58Darwin White. Denmark.
02:59It 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.
03:14David Davis.
03:15In 2005, he lost his party's leadership contest to David Cameron.
03:18David 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?
03:39Yes.
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?
03:51Er, Oliver Cromwell?
03:52It is indeed, yeah. Nice right question.
03:54In which city is the open-air architectural museum, Poblé Espanol, or Spanish Town,
03:59an artificially constructed 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,
04:16including the Magic Fountain of Montjuic and a pavilion...
04:20Edinburgh Richards.
04:21Barcelona.
04:21It is Barcelona, yes.
04:22Your 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?
04:37Also known as Hand Talk, it has been the subject of numerous revival efforts in recent decades.
04:44It doesn't make sense.
04:45Is it Pacific something, then?
04:48Is it...
04:49Pigeon...
04:49Is it Paraguayan indigenous?
04:51I think there's a...
04:52Sure, sure, let's go with that.
04:53Paraguayan indigenous.
04:54No, it's Plains Indian.
04:56In their studies of P-I-S-L, linguists including Lamont West and Brenda Farnell have used what word by
05:03analogy with phoneme to describe, quote,
05:06a unit of movement or a shape of the hand, for example, that provides a constituent part of a sign.
05:12OK, so what's the...
05:13Moni?
05:15Moni?
05:15Moni?
05:15Oh, for hand.
05:16Moni?
05:16Moni?
05:17Moni?
05:17Sorry, that's Latin.
05:19Moni, movement, yeah.
05:20It could be moni.
05:21I mean, everybody else.
05:22What's...
05:23I don't know, Greek for hand and stuff.
05:24Let's keep it moving.
05:25Moni.
05:26No, that's a kainim.
05:27Oh.
05:28George Drillard, a part Shawnee man from Missouri, served as a translator of several languages, including P-I-S-L,
05:34for which two men 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...
05:51John 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 south-east to north-west, draining into the Curonian, or Courland, lagoon.
06:09I don't know.
06:11This I don't know.
06:12OK.
06:13So you could try, I don't know, like, Hungry Slovenia or Hungary maybe?
06:20Something real German name?
06:21Yeah, German.
06:21Slovenia.
06:22No, it's Lithuania.
06:23Located on the river Nehrman, north-west of Vilnius, what city was the capital of independent Lithuania from 1920 to
06:301940, when 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.
06:52There'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 eve
06:59of the Thirty Years' War.
07:00For ten points, name the polity in black.
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, okay, so this is in, like, Western.
07:32You could try Palatinate, maybe.
07:36Palatinate.
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 Western.
07:44So is this Mainz or...
07:47Yeah, 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 Bav...
08:00Yeah, 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.
08:26Darwin Afraid you lose five points.
08:27And whose headquarters are in...
08:29Edinburgh Ishwa.
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.
08:42Instead, what four-letter word describes a function or property which does not change under a parity transformation?
08:48Is it an identity?
08:50Or 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, 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 governs beta decay?
09:16Oh...
09:17Beta decay...
09:18The weak was strong.
09:19Yeah.
09:19Let's go with...
09:20I feel like...
09:21Which one do you feel more comfortable about?
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?
09:41Yeah, let's go with that.
09:42Is that a complementary?
09:43What did you think of that?
09:44It's a type of complementary.
09:45I mean, I'm just going to...
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.
09:54Another starter question.
09:55In what present-day landlocked country is the town of Kodok, known historically as Fashoda?
10:01In 1898, an expedition led by Jean-Baptiste Marchand provoked an international crisis
10:06when it 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.
10:14Opening a corridor between Egypt and southern Africa.
10:17The crisis was resolved by demarcating British and French spheres of influence along the watersheds of the Congo and Nile
10:23rivers.
10:26Darwin White.
10:27Central African Republic.
10:28Bad luck.
10:28It's South Sudan.
10:30Another starter 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, the 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.
10:50Edinburgh Amjad.
10:50Shadow.
10:51Yes, those two games were Shadow Man and Shadow of the Colossus.
10:54Your bonus is Edinburgh, three 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.
11:09General Electric.
11:10Is it one of the sci-fi guys like Kurt? Did it say the year?
11:1452.
11:1452.
11:15It's maybe a bit too late to be the first novel by Vonnegut.
11:20Um...
11:20Bradbury?
11:21Maybe.
11:22I think it might be one of the two of them, but I don't know what it is.
11:24Go 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 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?
11:42Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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.
11:55OK.
11:56Nominate Amjad.
11:57Just we.
11:58Yes.
11:59Let's start with 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.
12:13I'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.
12:21In most cases, either to Franz Hals or to her husband, Jan Minzer Molinar.
12:27Edinburgh Leonard.
12:28Gentileski.
12:29No, it's Judith Leyster.
12:30Let's start the question.
12:32In IUPAC notation, what two letters are used to classify stereoisomals...
12:37Darwin Strachan.
12:38R and S.
12:39I'm afraid you lose five points.
12:41Stereoisomals of alkenes, according to whether the higher priority substituent groups at each end of the double bond are on
12:47opposite sides of the bond or on the same side of the bond.
12:51The 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 is the recipient of an epistle by Paul sent on
13:08behalf of his slave Onesimus and the figure in Greek mythology who unwittingly hosted the gods Zeus and Hermes in
13:14disguise?
13:15And as a reward...
13:16Edinburgh and Chad.
13:18Philemon.
13:18It is indeed, yeah.
13:19Your bonuses, Edinburgh, are on works by Maurice Ravel that name other composers in their titles.
13:25A suite for solo piano by Ravel, completed in 1917, has the title Le Tombeau de... Which French Baroque composer?
13:33It has the form of a Baroque suite with its six movements dedicated to friends who died in World War
13:38I.
13:38Nominate Richards.
13:39Bernard.
13:40Yes.
13:41In 1909, Ravel composed a minuet on the name of which composer to mark the centenary of his death.
13:46It uses a five note motif to represent his name, the first note of which is B natural, designated by
13:52the relevant letter in German notation.
13:54What was the year?
13:55The five letter A.
13:57I think B natural.
13:58Is that H?
13:59It's H, yeah.
14:00And a five letter A.
14:01Haydn.
14:02Yep, Haydn.
14:02Well worked out, yeah.
14:04In 1922, Ravel wrote a basseuse on the name of which French composer, who had been his teacher at the
14:09Paris Conservatoire.
14:11This composer wrote two well-known basseuses of his own, one of which forms part of his Dolly suite.
14:17Debussy?
14:18I don't know.
14:19I don't recognise that as being Debussy.
14:20I don't know, I'm just guessing.
14:21He wrote a basseuse, but I don't think he wrote a basseuse.
14:23They wanted a French composer as well.
14:25I think Debussy.
14:26Go with Debussy.
14:26Sanson.
14:27Oh, Sanson.
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.
14:3410 points if you can name the artist.
14:56Edinburgh Richards.
14:57Marvin Gaye.
14:58No, you can hear a bit more, Darwin, but not much.
15:06I'll tell you.
15:06It was George McRae.
15:08We'll take your music bonuses when we get the next starter right.
15:11Francois Villon'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.
15:27No, you may not confer Edinburgh, you 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, 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.
15:54Oh.
15:56Oh.
15:57Oh.
15:58Oh.
15:58I need to put up a guess or we should keep moving.
16:03Come on.
16:03Yeah.
16:04Pass.
16:05Suicide.
16:05The song was Dream Baby Dream.
16:07Secondly, this band.
16:10Oh.
16:11Oh.
16:12Oh.
16:13Oh.
16:13Oh.
16:13Yeah.
16:15It's talking hats.
16:17It's got some, isn't it?
16:18Talking hats. Can with spoon.
16:21And lastly...
16:26It's Blondie. It's Blondie, yes.
16:28It is Blondie in heart class, yes.
16:31Let's start the question.
16:32In physiology, what is the main ion that moves into cells
16:36through GABA-A receptors, which are opened in response
16:39to the binding of gamma-aminobutyric acid?
16:41The same ion can exit the cell through the CFTR channel.
16:46Functional de...
16:47Don't want to strike him.
16:47Chlorine.
16:48I'm afraid you lose five points.
16:50Functional defects of which result in cystic fibrosis.
16:54Edible Richards. Calcium.
16:56No, it's chloride. Bad luck, Lewis.
16:58I asked the ion which is chloride,
17:00as you clearly know from the way you're shaking your head.
17:03Let's start the question.
17:04What given name is shared by the directors
17:06of all of the following films?
17:08The 2024 film, Time Stalker.
17:10The 2022 film, Saint-Omer.
17:12The 2023 film, La Chimera.
17:15And the director of the 1900 film, La Fée au Chou,
17:18or The Cabbage Fairy.
17:19One of the earliest known narrative films.
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 Blachet.
17:35Anyone?
17:37No, I'll tell you. It's Alice.
17:39Let's start the question.
17:40Alberto Caillero, a bucolic poet.
17:43Ricardo Reyes, a doctor and classicist.
17:45And Alvaro de Campos, a naval engineer.
17:48Are among authorial personas created by which Portuguese writer?
17:52Who called them his heteronyms.
17:54His major works include the poetry collection Mensagem, or Message,
17:57and the fragmentary Book of Disquiet.
18:00Edinburgh Amtrak.
18:01Pessoa.
18:01It is Pessoa. Well done.
18:03Your bonus is Edinburgh.
18:04Three questions on a cycle.
18:06Which two German scientists give their names to a cycle
18:09used to visually represent the total lattice enthalpy of an ionic compound?
18:14Have we got anything?
18:15No, nothing.
18:15Pass.
18:16Bourne and Harbour.
18:17The Bourne Harbour cycle is sometimes also named for which Polish scientist
18:21who developed his own version of it contemporaneously to Bourne and Harbour?
18:25Alongside Otto Göring, he also first identified protactinium in 1913.
18:30Oh.
18:31Who would a Polish chemist be?
18:34Proactinium.
18:35Curie?
18:36Anthropology?
18:37Could it be...
18:38Yeah.
18:39Curie.
18:40No, that was Casimir Fayanz.
18:42The cycle is an adaptation of which 19th century scientist's namesake law,
18:46stating that the total enthalpy change during a chemical reaction
18:49is independent of the order of steps taken?
18:52Gibbs.
18:53Yeah, that makes sense.
18:54Gibbs.
18:55No, that was Jermaine Hess.
18:56Oh.
18:57Let'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.
19:12And in...
19:13Edinburgh Amjet.
19:15Superstructure.
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.
19:32Yes, 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
19:43interfere with many medications.
19:45Grapefruit.
19:46Yes.
19:46A hybrid of a pomelo and a mandarin orange, citrus ex arantium, or the bitter orange, is
19:51also commonly known by the name of which European city?
19:54Oh.
19:55Oh.
19:55Oh.
19:56Oh, my God.
19:57Oh.
19:57It's not Jaffa.
19:59Is it Seville?
19:59Seville.
20:00Seville, yeah.
20:01Seville.
20:02Yes, 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.
20:11Darwin Cameron.
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 the
20:19artist created for Philip II of Spain.
20:21For your picture bonuses, three more works of art made for rulers of countries that are
20:25not the 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.
20:36Cellini.
20:36Yes.
20:37Secondly, the Italian-born painter of this portrait of the Chanlong Emperor.
20:41Pass.
20:42That's Castiglione.
20:43Lastly, the artist behind this portrait of Anne of Cleves.
20:46Holbein.
20:47Yes, specifically Holbein Miranda.
20:49Don't start the question.
20:50From the Latin for to turn.
20:52What words original usage in English denotes a rendering of some text from one language
20:57into another and is represented in the abbreviations N-I-V and K-J-V?
21:02Darwin Cameron.
21:03Version.
21:04It is indeed.
21:04Your bonuses are on French road bicycle racing terms.
21:08All three answers begin with the letter P.
21:09What term is used to describe a powerful rider who can accelerate quickly and who specialises in short, sharp climbs?
21:16Examples of this type of rider include Peter Sagan and Philippe Gilbert.
21:20Pass.
21:20I'll tell you, that's Pun Cher.
21:22What term is used to refer to a professional cyclist's racing achievements denoting both overall 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.
21:34Finally, what term is used to describe a type of uneven terrain associated with a Paris-Roubaix and Tour of
21:39Flanders races?
21:40I don't even know if there's a lot of theories.
21:43Pass.
21:44I'll tell you, it's Parve.
21:45Fingers on passes.
21:46In graph theory, which Swiss mathematician gives his name to a path that visits every edge exactly once?
21:54Darwin Niva Hurtick.
21:55Oh, in there?
21:55Yes, it is.
21:56Your focus is on a few questions on pairs of names of places and people where one can be made
22:01by doubling a letter found in the other.
22:04Name and spell both from the descriptions.
22:06First, a national park in North Rhine-Westphalia named after the plateau region that extends into eastern Belgium and northern
22:13Luxembourg
22:13and the surname of a French engineer born in 1832 who specialised in metal structures.
22:19So is that Eiffel?
22:22Eiffel and Eiffel with WF.
22:25Eiffel and Eiffel.
22:27E-I-F-F-E-L and E-I-F-E-L.
22:31Correct. Well done.
22:31Second, an influential New York rapper who released his debut album Illmatic in 1994 and the county town of Kildare
22:38in Ireland.
22:40Nominate Niva Hurtick.
22:41Naz Anais, N-A-A-S.
22:44N-A-S for the first one.
22:45Correct.
22:45Finally, the surname of an English cardinal and the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, a position he held during
22:51the reign of Mary I and a coastal town in Dorset adjoining Bournemouth to its east.
22:55Is it Poole?
22:56Poole and Poole with double O.
22:58OK.
22:58P-O-L-E and P-O-O-L-E.
23:01Well done. Fantastic.
23:03Let's start the question.
23:03A vegetation-covered sandy ridge known as the Great Barrier separates which body of water into its northern and southern
23:10portions, the latter of which receives the vast majority of its water from the Komodugu 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 start of the question.
23:25In mechanics, what effect, represented by the Greek letter tau, is calculated by multiplying the applied force by its distance
23:33from a fulcrum?
23:34One of its names is taken from a Latin word meaning to twist or turn.
23:38No, it needs a headache.
23:40Twition.
23:41No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
23:42And gives its name to a type of wrench.
23:44Edinburgh Leonard.
23:45Torque.
23:46It is torque.
23:47Bad luck, Darwin.
23:48Bad luck.
23:48Three questions for you, Edinburgh, on physical geography.
23:50In hydrology, what seven letter term of Latin origin is used to denote a layer of underground permeable rock that
23:56stores 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 Iran, and found across
24:07the Middle East,
24:08that involves digging a deep well to an aquifer in elevated land, and channeling the water downhill through a series
24:13of sloping tunnels?
24:15Nominate Ishaar.
24:16Cannat.
24:16Correct.
24:16Well done.
24:17After a historical area of northern France, what word describes a well into which water flows from the aquifer without
24:24pumping?
24:24That is, by natural pressure.
24:25I know this.
24:26I know this.
24:27It'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.
24:34The Decemberist revolt of 1825 was a failed uprising in St. Petersburg by liberal dissidents against which new Tsar, who
24:43was to ascend to the throne following the death of his brother, Alexander I?
24:48Alexander II.
24:49No.
24:49Anyone from Darwin?
24:51Nicholas I?
24:53Nicholas I.
24:53Is correct.
24:54Your three bonuses are on people who are the subjects of essays in the 2023 Adam Schatz book, Writers and
24:59Missionaries, 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 the 1940 novel Native Son
25:11and the 1950...
25:11Richard Wright.
25:12Yes.
25:12Secondly, an Algerian writer and journalist born 1970, his 2013 novel The Merceau Investigation is a continuation of Camus' L
25:19'Etranger that gives a name and identity to the man murdered in that novel.
25:23Pass.
25:24That's Carmel Daoud.
25:25And finally, a Palestinian American academic and literary critic born 1935 whose works include The World, The Text and The
25:30Critic, Culture and Imperialism...
25:32Edward Said.
25:32Yes, Edward Said.
25:33Let's start with a 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.
25:45And the twice...
25:46Darwin Cameron.
25:47Moore.
25:47Yes.
25:48Your bonuses are on fashion houses name checked in the 1979 Sister Sledge song, He'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 Jacqueline Kennedy's pillbox hat and
26:13his use of the material ultra suede.
26:15What?
26:16OK.
26:17Pass.
26:17Alston.
26:18Lastly, the fashion house founded in Florence in 1921 whose notable designs include the 1947 bamboo handbag.
26:24Anything?
26:24Givenchy or something?
26:25Givenchy.
26:26It's Gucci.
26:26Another starter question.
26:27With examples including the Sandmeyer, the Hel-Wolhard-Zielinski and the Hunsdike reactions, what name is given to the category
26:34of substitution reactions in which fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine is introduced...
26:40Edinburgh M chat.
26:41Halogenation.
26:41It is halogenation.
26:42Your bonus is Edinburgh.
26:44Three questions on UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Mexico.
26:47Bordering Guatemala, Veracruz and Oaxaca, what southern state is the location of the Mayan city Palenque, which flourished between 500
26:53and 700 CE?
26:54What were the three states?
26:56What were the three states?
26:57What were the three states?
26:58Yeah, that's Chiapas.
26:59Nominate Richards.
26:59Chiapas.
27:00A UNESCO site southeast of Mexico City comprises a number of 16th century monasteries on the slopes of which volcano,
27:06the second highest peak in the country?
27:07I don't know the name.
27:09No, Chiapas.
27:10Pass.
27:10It's Popocatepatel.
27:11A biosphere reserve northwest of Mexico City is named after what large species of the order 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, another 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 at the call, Darwin have 110, another 155.
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 because 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.
28:00But you were beaten by a fantastic team, playing brilliant well, which I know is not much consolation.
28:04But 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 of that calibre.
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.
28:32Goodbye.
28:33APPLAUSE
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