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00:27Hello and welcome to
00:29University Challenge. Tonight is the final match
00:32in the second round of this year's competition
00:34and the stakes are straightforward.
00:36The winner will be joining teams from Darwin College
00:38Cambridge, Sheffield, Imperial,
00:40Warwick, Manchester, Edinburgh
00:42and UCL in the quarterfinals
00:44while the loser will become the 20th
00:46team to be eliminated from the
00:48series. Churchill College Cambridge
00:50got off to a slow start in their round one
00:52match against Imperial College London.
00:53Back with around 10 minutes to go, a quick buzz on
00:55the Dreamtime kickstarted a 55
00:58point run. That saw them come out of the
01:00second picture round with a narrow lead.
01:02They then stretched that lead with some very good answers
01:04on phonology, 14th century history
01:06and the endocrine system and that
01:08proved just about enough to hold off a last
01:10minute comeback from their opponents.
01:12Let's meet the team from Churchill College once
01:14again. Hello, my name's
01:16Ella McGovern. I'm from London and I'm studying
01:18medicine. Hi, my name's
01:20Matt Hasler. I'm from Cambridge
01:22and I'm studying a PhD in law.
01:24And their captain. Hi, I'm
01:25Sam Webber. I'm from Birmingham and I'm studying
01:27chemistry. Hey, I'm
01:30Shiv Seishan. I'm from Detroit, Michigan
01:32and I study mathematics.
01:37The team from Merton College, Oxford
01:39enjoyed a much more straightforward victory
01:41in their first round match against Durham University.
01:44A full house on their first set
01:46of bonuses about the namesakes of major
01:48tennis courts gave them a lead that
01:49then just grew and grew and they finished the game
01:51with 235 points to Durham's
01:54120. History,
01:55inorganic chemistry and thinkers from
01:57the Frankfurt School were also among Merton's
02:00strong suits in that match, but they looked much
02:02less comfortable when they were forced to listen
02:03to some popular music. Let's meet
02:05the team from Merton College for the second time.
02:08Hi, I'm Kieran
02:10Duncan. I'm from High Wycombe and I'm doing
02:11a PhD in English literature.
02:14Hi, I'm Evelyn Ong.
02:16I'm from Singapore and I'm studying for an undergraduate
02:18degree in mathematics and philosophy.
02:19And their captain. Hi, I'm Elliot
02:21Colesnet. I'm from Hatton, Warwickshire
02:23and I'm studying for an undergraduate degree in
02:25history. Hi, I'm
02:27Verity Fleetwood Law. I'm from Amersham
02:29in Buckinghamshire and I'm studying English and
02:31French.
02:35Welcome back. Very nice to see you all.
02:37No second chances, I'm afraid. If you lose, you're
02:39out. Good luck. Fingers on buzzers.
02:41Here's your first starter for ten.
02:44Taken from an essay
02:45of 1948, the following
02:47words of Jean-Paul Sartre refer to
02:49which sculptor? Quote,
02:51His works are always mediating between
02:53nothingness and being. To give
02:55perceptible expression to pure presence,
02:57to surrender of self, he has
02:59recourse to elongation.
03:02Merton Colesnet.
03:03Rodan.
03:03No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
03:05The original movement of creation, beautifully
03:07epitomised by long, gracile legs,
03:09shoots through his El Greco-like bodies.
03:11Born in 1901 in Borgonovo,
03:13Switzerland, his sculptures include
03:15man-pointing and several titled
03:17Walking Man.
03:19Churchill, Hansler.
03:20Boccioni.
03:21No, it's Alberto Giacometti.
03:22Take another starter question.
03:24What four letters spell the name of the town
03:27in Normandy in which the Scottish
03:29clan Bruce originates?
03:30The same four letters begin the names of the
03:33coastal town in Devon that was the site
03:35in 1688 of William of Orange's
03:37landing in England, precipitating
03:39the Glorious Revolution, and the neighbourhood
03:41in the London borough of Lambeth
03:42that is home to Electric Avenue, Windrush
03:45Square, and a namesake 19th
03:47Century windmill?
03:49Churchill McGovern.
03:51B-R-I-X.
03:52It is, of course, B-R-I-X.
03:53As in Breeze, Brixton, and Brixton.
03:55Your bonuses, Churchill, are three questions
03:57on early electronic music scores
03:59in cinema.
04:01Composed by husband and wife team
04:02Bibi and Louis Baron,
04:04the score to which 1956
04:06science fiction film, whose plot
04:09is a loose adaptation of The Tempest,
04:10was the first fully electronic score
04:12to accompany a feature?
04:14So, maybe something by Hitchcock?
04:17Science fiction.
04:18Um, Vertigo, I don't know.
04:20That's not in the science fiction genre.
04:21I can't think of anything, though.
04:22We can just go with Vertigo.
04:24Do you have anything?
04:24I don't think so.
04:25Vertigo?
04:26No, it's Forbidden Planet.
04:27Performed by German music collective
04:29Popol Vuh,
04:30the score to which 1972
04:32Werner Herzog film
04:33features significant use
04:35of the Moog synthesizer?
04:36The film stars Klaus Kinski
04:38as a Spanish conquistador.
04:40Could be titulars.
04:42Could be something like Cortez
04:43or non-Cortez or something.
04:44Or Pizarro.
04:45Which one do you think
04:46is more likely?
04:47I like Cortez.
04:49Cortez.
04:49No, that was Aguirre,
04:51The Wrath of God.
04:52Wendy Carlos composed
04:53a pair of synth-heavy scores
04:54to the films of which director,
04:56including one in which
04:57she adapted Purcell's music
04:58for The Funeral of Queen Mary
04:59for an early scene set
05:01at the Korova Milk Bar.
05:03I believe Kubrick.
05:05Kubrick?
05:06Are you sure?
05:07Yeah.
05:07Nominate McGovern.
05:08Kubrick?
05:09Yes, it is Stanley Kubrick.
05:10Let's start the question.
05:12Described by J.R.R. Tolkien
05:14as portraying, quote,
05:15man at war with a hostile world
05:17and his inevitable overthrow in time,
05:19what narrative poem
05:21is the subject of...
05:23Beowulf.
05:24It is, of course, Beowulf.
05:25Throw down.
05:27Three bonus a few, Merton,
05:28about a philosopher
05:29and mathematician.
05:30The Twin Earth thought experiment
05:32was devised in the 1970s
05:34by which American philosopher
05:35to illustrate his argument
05:36that the meaning of words...
05:38Putnam.
05:39Yes.
05:40The indispensability argument,
05:41which, among other things,
05:42justifies an ontological commitment
05:44to mathematical entities,
05:45is named for Putnam
05:46and which other American analytic philosopher?
05:50Any analytics?
05:53Lewis.
05:54Lewis?
05:55No, it's Quine.
05:56Putnam was one of the people
05:57whose results collectively showed
05:59that it is not possible
06:00to provide a general algorithm
06:01which can decide
06:02if any given diaphrantine equation
06:04has integer solutions.
06:06This was the 10th of 23 problems
06:08proposed in 1900
06:10by which German mathematician?
06:12Nominate Ong.
06:13David Hilbert.
06:14It is indeed.
06:15Let's start the question.
06:17In the 200 years
06:18from the start
06:19of the American Revolution,
06:20what papal name
06:21was born by more popes
06:23than any other?
06:24The seven pontiffs
06:25of this period
06:25with this name
06:26included the pope
06:27who drew up
06:27the Concordat of 1801
06:29with Napoleon,
06:30the proclaimer
06:31of papal infallibility
06:32and the pope
06:33during World War II.
06:35Merton Cosmet?
06:36Pious.
06:37It is pious.
06:37Well done.
06:38Three questions for you, Merton,
06:39on a play
06:40that premiered
06:41400 years ago.
06:42First performed in 1624,
06:44A Game at Chess
06:45is a satirical comedy
06:46by which English playwright?
06:48Middleton.
06:49It is Middleton.
06:49Well done.
06:50In the play,
06:50English figures
06:51are represented
06:52as the white pieces
06:53with James VI
06:54and first
06:54as the white king.
06:55Which favourite
06:56of the king
06:56is understood
06:57to be represented
06:58by the white duke?
06:59He was played
06:59in a 2024 miniseries
07:01by Nicolas Galitzin
07:02with Julianne Moore
07:03as his mother Mary.
07:04The Duke of Buckingham?
07:05Yes, George Viliers.
07:06Which earlier
07:07Spanish religious figure
07:09appears in a brief...
07:10Ignatius de Loyola.
07:11Well done.
07:12Let's start the question.
07:13It's a picture round now
07:14and for your picture starter
07:15you're going to see a poem.
07:16For ten points
07:17give me its author.
07:20Martin Duncan.
07:21George Herbert.
07:22Well done.
07:23It is indeed George Herbert.
07:24For your picture starter
07:25you saw George Herbert's
07:26The Altar,
07:27an early example
07:28of what is now called
07:29concrete poetry,
07:30poetry whose visual form
07:32is related to its subject.
07:34For your bonuses,
07:34three more visual poems,
07:36five points for each poet
07:37you can name.
07:38First.
07:40Okay, this is interesting.
07:42So it's in French.
07:43And this would be
07:44the Eiffel Tower
07:44so it's one more recent.
07:46I don't know.
07:47Is it like Baudelaire?
07:48No, not Baudelaire.
07:49More recent than that, I'd say.
07:51Who was in like
07:51the Oolipo movement?
07:54Valerie.
07:54There's Apollinaire.
07:55Secondly.
07:56Oh my goodness.
07:57Oh.
07:59German poets.
08:00Oh my God.
08:01Modernists.
08:03Um, who's the Dardan?
08:04Who's the one who wrote
08:05about the animals?
08:06Not Wilker or someone?
08:07Wilker.
08:07Oh, I don't know.
08:09That's too...
08:10Bon?
08:11Just try Wilker.
08:12Wilker?
08:12No, it's Goethe.
08:13Lastly.
08:14If you reset to a man, I see.
08:18It could be like Lear.
08:19Yeah.
08:20Give it a go.
08:21I don't know.
08:22Edwin Bedder?
08:24Or...
08:24Yeah, I'll give it a go.
08:25Lear?
08:26No, it's Lewis Carroll.
08:27Let's start with a question.
08:28Both the 2001 film No Man's Land
08:30and the 2020 film Quo Vadis Aida
08:33are set during which 20th century conflict?
08:36It is also the subject of
08:37In the Land of Blood and Honey.
08:39Churchill Station.
08:40Korean War.
08:41No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
08:42Angelina Jolie's directorial debut
08:44as well as a film by Michael Winterbottom
08:46that fictionalises journalist
08:48Michael Nicholson's account
08:49of covering this war
08:50entitled Welcome to Sarajevo.
08:53Martin Kuznet.
08:54The Bosnia-Herzegovina War.
08:56Yes, I'll accept that.
08:57It's usually known as the Bosnia-Herzegovina War.
08:59Three questions for you, Merton,
09:00on locations in the computer game
09:02Red Dead Redemption
09:03and its prequel.
09:05Oh, it's been so long.
09:05The fictional state resembling Texas
09:07and the US Southwest,
09:08where much of the first game takes place,
09:10is named new what?
09:11The name in question
09:12is the surname of the American
09:14who led the settlement
09:15of US citizens in Texas
09:16from the 1820s
09:18and was its first secretary of state
09:19upon independence from Mexico.
09:22I think it's from the guy with the cane.
09:24It's not Monro.
09:25No, it could have played Houston.
09:28Houston.
09:29No, better.
09:29It's Austin, as in Stephen Austin.
09:31What word precedes Ridge
09:33in the name of one of the regions
09:34of the state of New Hanover,
09:36location of the town of Annarsburg?
09:38It is the same as that of an island
09:40in modern-day North Carolina
09:41on which England's first colony
09:43in North America was located,
09:45the settlers of which
09:46mysteriously disappeared around 1590.
09:48So, where's Roanoke?
09:51Oh, I'm just going to say Roanoke and gas.
09:54Roanoke.
09:55Correct.
09:55Oh, nice.
09:56And finally,
09:56what is the name of the settlement
09:58in the state of Lemoyne
09:59that is analogous to New Orleans?
10:01It shares its name
10:02with a third-century bishop
10:03of Paris and Marta
10:04who is said to have been beheaded
10:06at Montmartre,
10:07according to Christian legend.
10:08Oh, gosh.
10:10I've played this bit for ages.
10:11I should probably have a saint.
10:13Um, Gregory?
10:14I don't know.
10:14Gregory.
10:15No, that was Saint Denis.
10:17Another starting question.
10:18Which two animals
10:19are mentioned in the title
10:20of a book by Stephen J. Gould,
10:23published posthumously in 2003,
10:25which uses them to compare
10:26different styles of scholarship
10:27in the sciences?
10:28Merton Cosmet.
10:29The Hedgehog and the Fox.
10:30It is, of course, yes.
10:32A reference to Oziah Berlin's
10:34great essay.
10:34Your bonuses, then,
10:35are on Owen Jones,
10:37the 19th-century architect,
10:38and designer.
10:39Jones first came to prominence
10:41for an exhaustive survey
10:42of which structure in Spain,
10:44whose Palace of the Lions
10:45was commissioned by the
10:46Nasrid ruler,
10:47Mohammed V?
10:48The Alhambra.
10:48The Alhambra.
10:49Correct.
10:49Jones was the author
10:50of an influential design manual
10:52of 1856,
10:53a compendium of different
10:54design elements,
10:55which was innovative
10:56in its juxtaposition
10:57of examples from around the world.
10:59It was titled
11:00The Grammar of what?
11:02Uh, space.
11:03That's a good one.
11:04Yeah.
11:05Space.
11:06It's ornament.
11:07Jones's decoration
11:08of which 1851 building
11:10designed by Joseph Paxton
11:11was controversial
11:12due to his use
11:13of polychromy.
11:14Jones continued
11:15to be involved
11:16in the design
11:16of this building
11:17after it was relocated
11:18to Sydenham Hill
11:19in 1852.
11:20Could it be Crystal Palace?
11:21That feels...
11:22The right time
11:23because of the exhibition?
11:24Crystal Palace?
11:25It is the right time, yes.
11:27Let's start the question.
11:29Answer as soon
11:30as your name is called,
11:31giving the names
11:32of either of the two
11:33third century saints
11:34commemorated as Soissons
11:36in France
11:36who were executed
11:37during the reign
11:38of Diocletian.
11:39Now venerated
11:40as the patron saints
11:41of Cobblers,
11:42their feast day
11:43of the 25th of October
11:44lends its name
11:45to a speech given
11:46by a titular...
11:48Crispin.
11:49Yes, the other one
11:50was Crispinian.
11:51The bonuses then,
11:52Churchill,
11:53are on the American
11:54photographer and activist
11:55Nan Goldin.
11:56Goldin has cited
11:57which film
11:58by Michelangelo Antonioni
11:59as the reason
12:00she became a photographer?
12:01She said,
12:02I have scenes
12:02from that movie
12:03embedded in my brain
12:04forever,
12:04especially the one
12:05with David Hemmings
12:06and Verushka.
12:07I think this is
12:07Blow Up, maybe?
12:08Go with that.
12:09Blow Up?
12:10Yes.
12:10Goldin lived for a time
12:11with and took
12:12multiple photographs
12:13of which trans artist?
12:15A key figure
12:16in the East Village
12:17art scene
12:17of the 1980s
12:18known for crafting
12:19detailed,
12:20often life-sized dolls
12:21that she would arrange
12:22in elaborate dioramas.
12:24Could this be
12:24like a drag artist?
12:26Do you know
12:26any drag performers?
12:28Um,
12:29I think it was
12:29Leigh Bowery
12:30but that's not right.
12:31Okay, go with Divine, maybe?
12:32Yeah, a nominization?
12:34Divine?
12:34No, it's Greer Langton.
12:36Goldin's major works
12:37include a slideshow
12:38of around 700
12:39candid photographs
12:40of herself and her friends
12:42called
12:42The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,
12:44a title taken
12:45from which 1928
12:47musical drama
12:48by Bertolt Brecht
12:48and Kurt Weill?
12:50Mac the Knife?
12:52Is that it?
12:53Three Penny Opera.
12:53Three Penny Opera is.
12:55Three Penny Opera.
12:56Yes, well done.
12:57Let's start with the question.
12:58The international prototype
13:00of the kilogram
13:01used until 2019
13:02to define the SI unit
13:04is an alloy
13:05of which two
13:06transition metals?
13:07Both mine primarily
13:09in South Africa.
13:10They form an adjacent pair
13:12on the periodic table
13:13between osmium and gold.
13:14George Alsatian.
13:16Platinum and iridium.
13:18Yes, correct.
13:19Well done.
13:19Your bonuses are
13:21on the names
13:21of pasta dishes.
13:23All three answers
13:23are Italian words
13:24that begin and end
13:26with the same letter.
13:27After the small town
13:28in Lazio
13:29where it originated,
13:30what name is given
13:31to a tomato-based sauce
13:32that contains guanciale
13:34or cured pork gel
13:35and pecorino romano cheese
13:37traditionally served
13:38with bucatini pasta?
13:40So I thought it was
13:41I thought that was
13:42al-grechia
13:42but no.
13:44Grechia doesn't start
13:45with the same.
13:46Al-brigatoni or something?
13:48I don't know.
13:48No, it has to start
13:49and end with the same.
13:50Oh.
13:51Al-a something.
13:52Al-grechia.
13:54Al-grechia.
13:54Yeah.
13:55Nominate McGovern.
13:55Al-grechia.
13:56No, that's Amatriciana.
13:57What name is given
13:58to a way of cooking spaghetti
14:00said to have been invented
14:01by Enzo Francavilla
14:02in the 1960s
14:03which involves cooking
14:04the spaghetti directly
14:05in a spicy tomato sauce
14:07and allowing it
14:08to catch and crisp
14:09in places?
14:10It's al-a something maybe
14:13because that means
14:14in the manner of an Italian.
14:16So al-a carta
14:17I know it's not that good.
14:19I'll pass.
14:19It's al-assassina.
14:21It's absolutely delicious.
14:21From the Italian
14:22for angry
14:23what name is given
14:24to a sauce
14:24made from tomatoes,
14:25garlic and red chilli peppers
14:27typically served
14:28with penne?
14:28That's al-biata.
14:30Yeah.
14:30Al-biata.
14:31Well done.
14:31It is indeed.
14:32Music round now.
14:33For your music starter
14:34is that you'll hear
14:34a piece of classical music.
14:36For ten points
14:36name its composer.
15:02BELL RINGS
15:04Rachel Webber Rachmaninoff. No, you can hear a bit more Merton, but not too much
15:13Merton on for me. No, it was list. We'll take your music bonuses in a second
15:19Now start a question what given name links all of the following the American film critic whose early writings were
15:25collected in the book
15:26I lost it at the movies
15:28Martin Duncan Pauline done
15:32For your music starter you heard Lala go break gondola 2 by Franz Liszt
15:37Which is seen as a memorial to Richard Wagner his son-in-law your music bonuses will be three more
15:41classical works written in memory of cultural figures
15:44Five points for each composer you can name first the Russian composer of this work in memory of Dylan Thomas
15:59Shostakovich now Stravinsky in memoriam Dylan Thomas secondly this piece formed part of a collection title the Tombo de Claude
16:05Debussy
16:17Poulenk
16:18Poulenk
16:19Paul Ducca and finally written to commemorate the loss of Italian writer Alessandro Manzoni
16:24Verdi that is Verdi's requiem mass
16:28Give either of the two types of animal that the god Hermes killed in order to produce
16:36The first
16:37Merton Cosmic
16:38Tortoise
16:39Yes the other one was cow
16:40And he used them to produce the first lion
16:42Well done
16:42Three questions on a moon of the outer solar system
16:46The surface of which large moon is distinctively crossed by long dark streaks known as lineae
16:51With names including cadmus and harmonia
16:54They are believed to have been created through eruptions of water from a liquid ocean beneath the moon's icy crust
16:59Europa is the icy one right
17:00I thought it was Titan
17:04Titan
17:04That's Europa
17:05Europa is one of only two moons in our solar system on which plumes of water have been observed erupting
17:11from the surface
17:12The other is which small moon of Saturn also understood to have a saltwater ocean beneath its icy surface
17:18I think this is Enceladus
17:19Nominate Ong
17:21Enceladus
17:22Yes I'll accept that it's Enceladus
17:24Finally in October 2024 NASA launched a space probe to study Europa known as the Europa what
17:31The word I'm looking for refers to a type of fast sailing ship from the mid 19th century
17:36Like a schooner?
17:38Are you going to that one?
17:39Frigate
17:40Clipper
17:42Clipper
17:42Clipper
17:42It is Clipper yes well done
17:45Now let's start the question
17:46What given name links the 20th century American author of novels such as God's Little Acre and Tobacco Road
17:53With a London-born Irish nationalist executed by the Irish Free State in 1922 best known for his 1903 spy
18:00novel The Riddle of the Sands
18:02Merton Cosnett
18:05Erskine
18:05Yes correct well done
18:06Right your bonuses Merton are three questions on the German noble house of Turn und Taxis
18:12The Turn und Taxis family is best known for providing what service across the Holy Roman
18:17Postal service
18:17Yes the Turn und Taxis family own which coastal castle near Trieste?
18:22Its name is used for a set of 10 elegiac poems written by Rainer Maria Rilke
18:26Whilst under the patronage of the family
18:28Do we know?
18:29Yes an imagined feud between the Turn und Taxis and Tristero postal companies is a plot device in the crying
18:35of Lot 49
18:36A 1966 novel by which reclusive postmodern?
18:39Yes correct it is Thomas Pingen
18:40Let's start the question
18:41In astrophysics the abbreviation A-G-N
18:46Active galactic nucleus
18:48It is indeed well done
18:49Your bonus of Church are three questions on the Chinese Buddhist monk and traveller Far Shan
18:54In 399 CE Far Shan journeyed to India to bring back Buddhist texts
18:59He visited cities such as Peshawar and what ancient city located close to present day Raul Pindi?
19:05It is now a UNESCO world heritage site
19:07Oh ancient city
19:08I was thinking Pethaliputra
19:10Raul Pindi is in Bangladesh
19:11So do Pethaliputra
19:12Nominations?
19:13Pethaliputra
19:14No it's Taxila
19:14Taxila
19:15Later Far Shan studied and transcribed Buddhist texts at Pethaliputra on the site of present day Patna
19:21Capital of which Indian state?
19:23This is Bihar
19:24Bihar?
19:25Yes
19:25After several years in India Far Shan returned to China by sea
19:28His account describes an elaborate ceremony to venerate the Buddha's tooth in what present day country?
19:33Buddhist tooth could be Sri Lanka
19:35They have a lot of Buddhists
19:36Sri Lanka?
19:37Yes
19:37Let's start with questions
19:38Winning in 2003 and 2007 under team Alinghi
19:42The yacht club of which city is the only one from a landlocked country to have ever held the America's
19:47Cup?
19:48Locally known as La Nautique
19:50The club is situated near the southern tip of the Petit Lac
19:53Portion of the lake which takes its English name from this city
19:58Geneva
19:58It is Geneva yes
19:59Your bonuses are on fossils discovered by the paleontologist Mary Anning
20:03At the age of 12 Mary and her brother Joseph together discovered the first complete skeleton of an animal belonging
20:08to which extinct?
20:09Icthyosaur
20:09Yes
20:10By comparing Jurassic fossils that she found to dissections of extant cephalopods
20:14Anning was the first to propose that belemnites possessed what particular anatomical feature used by cephalopods for defence?
20:22Is this like a shield?
20:24It's like an ink thing
20:25Is it a guard?
20:26Like the ink
20:26Inks
20:27What's it?
20:28Ink sacks or
20:29Beak?
20:30No
20:30Ink sacks
20:32Ink sacks
20:33Correct
20:33Yes
20:33Well done
20:34Anning's discovery of belemnite ink sacks and her identification of coprolite as fossilised faeces
20:39Were published by which other paleontologist with whom she corresponded frequently?
20:43His other discoveries include that of an ancient hyena den in Yorkshire for which he was awarded the Copley Medal
20:48in 1822
20:49Sedgwick was around that time right?
20:51Sedgwick
20:51No it's William Buckland
20:52Picture round now
20:53For your picture starter you will see a painting for 10 points
20:56Name the artist
21:02For your picture starter you saw Hans Holbein the Younger's portrait of Sir William Butts physician to Henry VIII
21:09For your picture bonuses you will see three more portraits of doctors named the artist in each case
21:14First this painting from 1909
21:16And Moore
21:18Monk
21:19Monk
21:19Yes, I agree
21:21Monk
21:21Monk
21:22Yeah, Monk
21:22Monk
21:23Monk
21:28Knock시
21:29He's an American Gothic man.
21:31I don't think it's Freud.
21:34I don't think it would be Freud.
21:36I think it's Graham.
21:37Grant Wood. No, it's Lieberman.
21:39Finally, from 1890.
21:41Bangor. Bangor. Yes.
21:43Let's start the question.
21:45Having attempted to raise money by forced loans
21:47early in his reign, which British monarch
21:49assented to the Statement of Liberties known as
21:51the Petition of Right?
21:53The following year, he dissolved Parliament
21:55and began a period...
21:56Martin Cosmit. Charles I.
21:58It is Charles I, yes.
22:00Three questions on usage of the Hangul alphabet
22:02for languages other than Korean.
22:04In the 1980s, linguist Xu Sao Tei
22:07developed a variant of the Hangul script
22:09compatible with which Chinese dialect
22:11that first emerged in Fujian province
22:13and is today one of the national languages of Taiwan?
22:16Is it...
22:18I think it would be Hokkien.
22:20Nominate Ong. Hokkien.
22:21Yes. In what country is the Austronesian
22:24language, sometimes known as Bhutanese spoken?
22:28Since 2009, it has been taught to children
22:30using the Hangul script, part of a program
22:32encouraging the adoption of the script
22:34for languages that lack one.
22:35I remember reading about this, but if it's Austronesian
22:38it would be in like Cambodia around there, right?
22:40Sure, Cambodia. Cambodia?
22:42Cambodia? No, it's Indonesia.
22:43Designated as Endangered by UNESCO,
22:46the language of what island has historically been only spoken,
22:49but is today written primarily with the Hangul script.
22:52Despite the island being the largest of South Korea,
22:54its language is mutually unintelligible with modern Korean.
22:58Jeju. Nominate Ong. Jeju.
23:00Yes, correct. Let's start the question.
23:03Born around 350 BCE, whom did the US political theorist
23:07Roger Bersha describe as the first great political realist.
23:11He is traditionally credited with the Sanskrit treaties...
23:14Oh, a few said it is.
23:17No, I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
23:18Arthur Shastra.
23:20Churchill Sation.
23:21I can't accept that, I'm afraid.
23:23The answer I was looking for was Chanakya,
23:25who is alternatively known as Kautilya, not Kautilya.
23:29Bad luck.
23:29Right, now let's start the question.
23:31Once described as the most deserving scientist
23:33not to receive the Nobel Prize,
23:36which Canadian-American biologist,
23:38along with his colleagues Colin McLeod and Macklin McCarty,
23:41first showed in 1944 that DNA, not proteins,
23:44contains the genetic material?
23:46Martin Ong.
23:47McKinnon.
23:48No.
23:50Churchill Sation.
23:52Venting.
23:52No, it's Oswald Theodore Avery.
23:54Let's start the question.
23:55What poem by John Keats promises its title subject
23:58a sanctuary with a casement open at night...
24:01Martin Ong.
24:02Kublai Khan.
24:03I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
24:05To Let The Warm Love In,
24:06one of his odes written in 1819,
24:08it addresses its subject as
24:17Ode to a Nightingale.
24:19No, that was Keats' Ode to Psyche.
24:21Let's start the question.
24:22I need a specific word here.
24:24In the 2017 book The Best Laid Plans,
24:26Jeanette Sloniewski argues that the 1950 film The Asphalt Jungle
24:30is the first American film in which genre?
24:34Other examples...
24:35Martin Duncan.
24:36The heist film.
24:37Yes, it is the heist film.
24:38Yes, hold on.
24:39The more bonuses, Merton, are on Yom Tov,
24:42the six major festival dates in the Jewish calendar.
24:45In each case, I want the Hebrew names of these festivals.
24:48The first full day of what seven-day festival is classified as Yom Tov?
24:52It commemorates the 40 years spent en route to the Promised Land
24:55and portions of this festival are spent in its namesake booths.
24:59I don't know.
25:02It's not Yom Kippur because that's a day, but...
25:04I don't know.
25:06Hanagazadi, right?
25:08Yom Kippur.
25:09No, Sukkot.
25:10The first day of what holiday in the month of Shivan
25:12is also classified as Yom Tov?
25:14The holiday celebrates both the harvest
25:16and the revelation of the Ten Commandments to Moses.
25:20It's not Passover.
25:21It's not a Hebrew name, is it?
25:23No.
25:23That's what you're saying.
25:24Passover.
25:25Are we going with Yom Kippur again?
25:26Sure.
25:27Yom Kippur.
25:27No, it's Shavuot.
25:29Both days of which holiday,
25:31the celebration of the New Year on the Hebrew calendar,
25:33are designated as Yom Tov?
25:35No.
25:36Is that Yom Kippur?
25:37Yom Kippur.
25:38Yom Kippur.
25:39No, it's Rosh Hashanah.
25:40Let's start a question.
25:41Answer as soon as your name is called.
25:44On a standard analogue clock,
25:46how many degrees does the second hand pass through every second?
25:52Churchill's sanction.
25:53Six.
25:53Yes, of course.
25:54It's 360 divided by 60.
25:55Your bonuses are on the Roman politician Marcus Tullius Cicero.
25:59Cicero's period as consul saw the suppression of a conspiracy
26:02led by which person after whom the conspiracy is usually known?
26:06Cicero's execution of Roman citizens in...
26:08Catiline.
26:15Catilus.
26:16Southern Anatolia.
26:17So it would be Asia Minor, maybe?
26:20Syria, Syria.
26:21Syria?
26:22No, it's Cilicia.
26:23After the assassination of Julius Caesar,
26:25Cicero denounced the actions of which man in the Philippics?
26:28This man's later defeat at Actium was announced to the Senate
26:31by Cicero's son.
26:32Ptolemy?
26:33No, it's Mark Antony.
26:34Let's start a question.
26:35What regnal name links two successive rulers of Scotland
26:38from 1214 to 1286
26:41and of Russia from 1855 to 1894?
26:47Alexander.
26:49Yes, well done.
26:50Your bonuses are on the actor Sarah Siddons.
26:53Born in Brecon in 1755,
26:55Siddons first appeared on the London stage at the age of 20
26:58when she was employed by which actor-manager
27:00to appear at his Drury Lane theatre?
27:02Gielgud, maybe?
27:03Nomnet Hasler.
27:04Gielgud?
27:05Gielgud in the 18th century?
27:07No, it's Garrick.
27:07Garrick reportedly offered Siddons that first engagement
27:09after sending a representative to watch her play which role
27:12in Shakespeare's As You Like It
27:14in a barn in Worcestershire?
27:16Rosalind?
27:17Apropos.
27:18Rosalind?
27:19Yes, it is Rosalind.
27:20Which 1950 film opens with an awards ceremony
27:22held by the fictional Sarah Siddons Society?
27:24It stars Bette Davis as ageing actress Margot Channing.
27:31Nomnet Hasler.
27:31Sunset Boulevard.
27:32No, it's all about Eve.
27:33Let's start the question.
27:34Which French ballet term denotes a movement
27:36in which the leg moves away from the body in a straight...
27:39And at the gong, Churchill have 115,
27:42Merton have 180.
27:47APPLAUSE
27:48The answer to the last one was Ronde de Jombe.
27:52Churchill, you were so good when you had the chance
27:54to answer the questions.
27:55It's just they answered some of the starters before you.
27:57It's such brutal bad luck.
27:58Whenever you had those bonus rounds,
27:59you were so fantastically impressive.
28:01Well played.
28:02It's been wonderful getting to know you
28:03and meeting your very strange mascot,
28:05which is a cat...
28:06I think I'm right in saying, Ella,
28:07that you painted during a supervision.
28:09Is that right?
28:10Yeah.
28:11Sorry, Christian.
28:12It must have been a very boring supervision,
28:13but we're very glad to have benefited from it.
28:15Merton, well done.
28:16That was a terrific performance.
28:17Wonderful all-round staff across a huge range of subjects.
28:20Looking good for the next round.
28:21We'll see you in the quarter-finals.
28:22Look forward to that.
28:23I hope you can join us next time
28:24for the start of this year's quarter-final stage.
28:27But until then, it is goodbye from Churchill College, Cambridge.
28:29Goodbye.
28:30Bye, everyone.
28:30It's goodbye for now from Merton College, Oxford.
28:32Goodbye.
28:33Goodbye.
28:33And it's goodbye from me.
28:34Goodbye.
28:36APPLAUSE
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