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University Challenge S55E24 Churchill College Cambridge v Merton College Oxford iP H 264
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00:27Hello and welcome to
00:29University Challenge. Tonight is the final match in the second round of this year's competition
00:34and the stakes are straightforward. The winner will be joining teams from Darwin College
00:38Cambridge, Sheffield, Imperial, Warwick, Manchester, Edinburgh and UCL in the quarterfinals while the
00:44loser will become the 20th team to be eliminated from the series. Churchill College Cambridge got
00:50off to a slow start in their round one match against Imperial College London but with around
00:5410 minutes to go a quick buzz on the Dreamtime kick-started a 55-point run that saw them come
00:59out of the second picture round with a narrow lead. They then stretched that lead with some
01:03very good answers on phonology, 14th century history and the endocrine system and that
01:08proved just about enough to hold off a last-minute comeback from their opponents. Let's meet the
01:12team from Churchill College once again. Hello, my name's Ella McGovern, I'm from London and
01:17I'm studying medicine. Hi, my name's Matt Hasler, I'm from Cambridge and I'm studying a PhD in
01:23law. And their captain. Hi, I'm Sam Webber, I'm from Birmingham and I'm studying chemistry. Hey, I'm Shiv
01:30Seyshan, I'm from Detroit, Michigan and I study mathematics.
01:35APPLAUSE
01:37The team from Merton College Oxford enjoyed a much more straightforward victory in their first round
01:42match against Durham University. A full house on their first set of bonuses about the namesakes of
01:47major tennis courts gave them a lead that then just grew and grew and they finished the game with 235
01:53points to Durham's 120. History, inorganic chemistry and thinkers from the Frankfurt School were also
01:59among Merton's strong suits in that match but they looked much less comfortable when they were forced
02:03to listen to some popular music. Let's meet the team from Merton College for the second time.
02:09Hi, I'm Kieran Duncan, I'm from High Wycombe and I'm doing a PhD in English Literature.
02:14Hi, I'm Eveline Ong, I'm from Singapore and I'm studying for an undergraduate degree in mathematics
02:19and philosophy. And their captain. Hi, I'm Elliot Cosnett, I'm from Hatton, Warwickshire and I'm
02:24studying for an undergraduate degree in history. Hi, I'm Verity Fleetwood Law, I'm from Amersham in
02:29Buckinghamshire and I'm studying English and French. APPLAUSE
02:35Welcome back, very nice to see you all. No second chances I'm afraid, if you lose you're out.
02:39Good luck. Fingers on buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
02:44Taken from an essay of 1948, the following words of Jean-Paul Sartre refer to which sculptor?
02:50Quote, his works are always mediating between nothingness and being. To give perceptible
02:55expression to pure presence, to surrender of self, he has recourse to elongation.
03:01The original... Merton Cosnett. Rodan.
03:03No, I'm afraid you lose five points. The original movement of creation, beautifully epitomised by long,
03:08gracile legs, shoots through his El Greco-like bodies. Born in 1901 in Borgonovo, Switzerland,
03:14his sculptures include Man Pointing and several titled Walking Man.
03:19Churchill Hasler. Boccioni.
03:21No, it's Alberto Giacometti. We'll take another starter question.
03:24What four letters spell the name of the town in Normandy in which the Scottish clan Bruce originates?
03:30The same four letters begin the names of the coastal town in Devon that was the site in 1688 of
03:36William of Orange's Landing in England, precipitating the glorious revolution, and the neighbourhood in
03:41the London borough of Lambeth that is home to Electric Avenue, Windrush Square and a namesake 19th century windmill.
03:49Churchill McGovern. B-R-I-X. It is of course B-R-I-X, as in Breeze, Brixton and Brixton.
03:55Your bonuses, Churchill, are three questions on early electronic music scores in cinema.
04:01Composed by husband and wife team B.B. and Louis Barron, the score to which 1956 science fiction film,
04:08whose plot is a loose adaptation of The Tempest, was the first fully electronic score to accompany a feature?
04:14So maybe something by Hitchcock?
04:17Science fiction.
04:18Um, Vertigo. I don't know if that's not in the science fiction genre.
04:21I can't think of anything, though. We can just go with Vertigo.
04:23Do you have anything? I don't think so.
04:25Vertigo?
04:26No, it's Forbidden Planet. Performed by German music collective Popol Vuh,
04:30the score to which 1972 Werner Herzog film features significant use of the Moog synthesizer?
04:37The film stars Klaus Kinski as a Spanish conquistador.
04:40It could be titular. It could be something like Cortez or non-Cortez or something.
04:44Or Pizarro. Which one do you think is more likely?
04:48I like Cortez.
04:49Cortez?
04:49No, that was Aguirre, The Wrath of God.
04:52Wendy Carlos composed a pair of synth-heavy scores to the films of which director,
04:56including one in which she adapted Purcell's Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary,
05:00for an early scene set at the Korova Milk Bar?
05:03I believe Kubrick.
05:05Kubrick? Are you sure?
05:07Yeah.
05:07Nominate McGovern?
05:08Kubrick?
05:09Yes, it is Stanley Kubrick.
05:11Let's start the question.
05:12Described by J.R.R. Tolkien as portraying, quote,
05:15man at war with the hostile world and his inevitable overthrow in time,
05:19what narrative poem is the subject of...
05:23Beowulf.
05:24It is, of course, Beowulf.
05:25Well done.
05:27Three bonus a few, Merton, about a philosopher and mathematician.
05:30The Twin Earth thought experiment was devised in the 1970s by which American philosopher
05:35Putnam.
05:36To illustrate his argument that the meaning of words...
05:38Putnam.
05:39Yes.
05:40The indispensability argument, which among other things justifies an ontological commitment to
05:44mathematical entities, is named for Putnam and which other American analytic philosopher?
05:50Any analytics?
05:53Lewis.
05:54Lewis?
05:55No, it's Quine.
05:56Putnam was one of the people whose results collectively showed that it is not possible to
06:00provide a general algorithm which can decide if any given
06:03diaphantine equation has integer solutions.
06:06This was the 10th of 23 problems proposed in 1900 by which German mathematician?
06:12Nominate Ong.
06:13David Hilbert.
06:14It is indeed.
06:15Let's start the question.
06:17In the 200 years from the start of the American Revolution,
06:20what papal name was born by more popes than any other?
06:24The seven pontiffs of this period with this name included the pope who drew up the Concordat of
06:281801 with Napoleon, the proclaimer of papal infallibility and the pope during World War II.
06:35Merton Cosmet.
06:36Pious.
06:37It is pious.
06:37Well done.
06:38Three questions for you, Merton, on a play that premiered 400 years ago.
06:42First performed in 1624, a game at chess is a satirical comedy by which English playwright?
06:48Middleton.
06:49It is Middleton.
06:49Well done.
06:50In the play, English figures are represented as the white pieces,
06:53with James VI and I as the white king.
06:56Which favourite of the king is understood to be represented by the white duke?
06:59He was played in a 2024 miniseries by Nicholas Galitzin,
07:02with Julianne Moore as his mother Mary.
07:04The Duke of Buckingham?
07:05Yes, George Viliers.
07:07Which earlier Spanish religious figure appears in a brief...
07:10Ignatius de Loyola.
07:11Well done.
07:12Let's start the question.
07:13It's a picture round now, and for your picture starter,
07:15you're going to see a poem.
07:16For 10 points, give me its author.
07:20Merton Duncan.
07:21George Herbert.
07:22Well done.
07:23It is indeed George Herbert.
07:24For your picture starter, you saw George Herbert's The Altar,
07:27an early example of what is now called concrete poetry,
07:30poetry whose visual form is related to its subject.
07:33For your bonuses, three more visual poems,
07:36five points for each poet you can name.
07:39First...
07:40OK, this is interesting.
07:42So, it's in French.
07:43And this would be the Eiffel Tower, so it's one more recent.
07:46I don't know.
07:47Is it a good one Baudelaire?
07:49No, not Baudelaire.
07:49More recent than that, I'd say.
07:51Who was in, like, the Ulipo movement?
07:53Like, all those people.
07:54Valerie?
07:54No, it's Apollinaire.
07:56Secondly...
07:56Oh, my goodness.
07:57Oh, my goodness.
07:59German Poesies.
08:00German...
08:00Oh, my God.
08:01...Mobness.
08:03Um, who's the Dada one?
08:04What's the wrong one you wrote about the animals?
08:06Not Rilke or someone?
08:07Rilke.
08:07Oh, I don't know.
08:08No, it's too...
08:09We didn't avoid this.
08:10Bon?
08:11Just trying Rilke.
08:12Rilke?
08:12No, it's Goethe.
08:14Lastly...
08:44It could be, like, Lear.
08:44Yeah.
08:44A film by Michael Winterbottom that fictionalises journalist Michael Nicholson's account of covering
08:50this war, entitled Welcome to Sarajevo.
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, on locations in the computer game Red Dead Redemption and
09:04its prequel.
09:05Oh, it's been so long.
09:06The fictional state resembling Texas and the US Southwest, where much of the first game
09:09takes place, is named new what?
09:11The name in question is the surname of the American who led the settlement of US citizens
09:16in Texas from the 1820s and was its first Secretary of State upon independence from Mexico.
09:22Oh, I think it's from the guy with the cane.
09:24It's not in Monroir.
09:25No, it could have been like Houston.
09:27I don't know.
09:28Houston?
09:29No, better.
09:29It's Austin.
09:30It's in Stephen Austin.
09:31What word precedes Ridge in the name of one of the regions of the state of New Hanover,
09:36location of the town of Annarsberg?
09:38It is the same as that of an island in modern-day North Carolina, on which England's first colony
09:43in North America was located, the settlers of which mysteriously disappeared around 1590.
09:48So, where's Roanoke?
09:51I'm just going to say Roanoke, I can guess.
09:54Roanoke.
09:55Correct.
09:55Oh, nice.
09:56And finally, what is the name of the settlement in the state of Lemoyne that is analogous to
10:00New Orleans?
10:01It shares its name with a third-century Bishop of Paris and Marta, who is said to have been
10:06beheaded at Montmartre, according to Christian legend.
10:08Oh, gosh.
10:10I've played this, but it's been ages.
10:11I should probably never say it.
10:13Gregory?
10:14Gregory.
10:15Gregory.
10:15No, that was Saint Denis.
10:17Let's start a question.
10:18Which two animals are mentioned in the title of a book by Stephen J. Gould, published posthumously
10:24in 2003, which uses them to compare different styles of scholarship in the sciences?
10:28Merton Cosmit.
10:29The Hedgehog and the Fox.
10:30It is, of course, yes.
10:32In reference to Isaiah Berlin's.
10:34Great essay.
10:34Your bonuses, then, are on Owen Jones, the 19th-century architect and designer.
10:40Jones first came to prominence for an exhaustive survey of which structure in Spain, whose
10:44Palace of the Lions was commissioned by the Nasrid ruler Mohammed V?
10:48The Alhambra.
10:48The Alhambra.
10:49Correct.
10:50Jones was the author of an influential design manual of 1856, a compendium of different design
10:55elements, which was innovative in its juxtaposition of examples from around the world.
10:59It was titled The Grammar of what?
11:02Space.
11:03That's a good one.
11:04Yeah.
11:05Space.
11:06It's ornament.
11:07Jones's decoration of which 1851 building, designed by Joseph Paxton, was controversial
11:12due to his use of polychromy?
11:14Jones continued to be involved in the design of this building after it was relocated to
11:18Sydenham Hill in 1852.
11:20Could it be Crystal Palace?
11:22That feels...
11:22It's the right time because of the exhibition.
11:24Crystal Palace?
11:25It is the right time.
11:26Yes.
11:27Let's start with a question.
11:29Answer as soon as your name is called, giving the names of either of the two 3rd century
11:34saints commemorated at Soissons in France who were executed during the reign of Diocletian.
11:39Now venerated as the patron saints of Cobblers, their feast day of the 25th of October lends
11:45its name to a speech given by a titular...
11:48Crispin.
11:49Yes, the other one was Crispinian.
11:51The bonuses then, Churchill, are on the American photographer and activist Nan Goldin.
11:56Goldin has cited which film by Michelangelo Antonioni as the reason she became a photographer.
12:01She said,
12:02I have scenes from that movie embedded in my brain forever.
12:05Especially the one with David Hemmings and Verushka.
12:07I think this is Blow Up maybe?
12:08Go with that.
12:09Blow Up?
12:10Yes.
12:10Goldin lived for a time with and took multiple photographs of which trans artist?
12:15A key figure in the East Village art scene of the 1980s known for crafting detailed, often
12:20life-sized dolls that she would arrange in elaborate dioramas?
12:23Could this be like a drag artist?
12:26Do you know any drag performers?
12:29I think it was Leigh Bowery, but that's not right.
12:31Okay, go with Divine maybe.
12:33Nomination?
12:34Divine?
12:34No, it's Greer Langton.
12:36Goldin's major works include a slideshow of around 700 candid photographs of herself
12:41and her friends called The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.
12:44A title taken from which 1928 musical drama by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill?
12:50Bertolt?
12:51Mack the Knife?
12:52Is that it?
12:52Three Penny Opera.
12:53Three Penny Opera.
12:55Three Penny Opera.
12:56Yes.
12:56Well done.
12:57I'll start the question.
12:58The international prototype of the kilogram, used until 2019 to define the SI unit,
13:04is an alloy of which two transition metals?
13:07Both mined primarily in South Africa.
13:10They form an adjacent pair on the periodic table between osmium and gold.
13:14Church Alsatian?
13:16Platinum and iridium.
13:18Yes, correct.
13:19Well done.
13:19Your bonuses are on the names of pasta dishes.
13:23All three answers are Italian words that begin and end with the same letter.
13:27After the small town in Lazio where it originated, what name is given to a tomato-based sauce
13:32that contains guanciale, or cured pork gel, and pecorino romano cheese,
13:37traditionally served with bucatini pasta?
13:40So I thought it was al...
13:41I thought that was al grecchia, but no.
13:44Grecchia doesn't start with the same.
13:46Um, rigatoni or something?
13:48I don't know.
13:48No, it has to start them with the same.
13:50Oh.
13:53Al grecchia.
13:54Al grecchia.
13:54Yeah.
13:55Nominate McGovern.
13:55Al grecchia.
13:56No, that's amatriciana.
13:58What name is given to a way of cooking spaghetti said to have been invented by Enzo Frankavilla
14:02in the 1960s, which involves cooking the spaghetti directly in a spicy tomato sauce
14:07and allowing it to catch and crisp in places?
14:10It's al-a-something, maybe.
14:13No.
14:13Because that means in the manner of in Italian.
14:16So al-a-carta, no, it's not that good.
14:18I'll pass.
14:19It's al-assassina.
14:21It's absolutely delicious.
14:21From the Italian for angry, what name is given to a sauce made from tomatoes, garlic,
14:26and red chilli peppers, typically served with penne?
14:28That's arabiata.
14:30Yeah.
14:30Arabiata.
14:31Well done.
14:31It is indeed.
14:32Music round now.
14:33For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music.
14:36For ten points, name its composer.
15:02BELL RINGS
15:04BELL RINGS
15:14For me.
15:16No, it was Liszt.
15:17We'll take your music bonuses in a second.
15:19Another starter question.
15:20What given name links all of the following?
15:23The American film critic whose early writings were collected in the book, I Lost It At The Movies.
15:28Martin Duncan. Pauline. Well done.
15:31Well done indeed.
15:32For your music starter, you heard La Lugubre Gondola 2 by Franz Liszt,
15:37which is seen as a memorial to Richard Wagner, his son-in-law.
15:40Your music bonuses will be three more classical works
15:42written in memory of cultural figures.
15:44Five points for each composer you can name.
15:47First, the Russian composer of this work in memory of Dylan Thomas.
15:52Do not go gentle into that good one.
15:57Yeah? It's just mock me.
15:58Yes.
15:59Shostakovich.
16:00Now Stravinsky, in memoriam of Dylan Thomas.
16:02Secondly, this piece formed part of a collection titled
16:04Le Tombo de Claude Debussy.
16:18Poulenc.
16:18Poulenc.
16:19Yes, Paul Ducat.
16:21And finally, written to commemorate the loss of Italian writer
16:23Alessandro Manzoni.
16:25Verdi.
16:26Verdi.
16:27That is Verdi's requiem mass.
16:29First out of the question.
16:30Give either of the two types of animal that the god Hermes killed
16:35in order to produce the first...
16:37Martin Cosmet.
16:38Tortoise.
16:39Yes, the other one was cow.
16:40And who used them to produce the first lion.
16:42Well done.
16:42Some tortoise shell.
16:43Three 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,
16:52with names including Cadmus and Harmonia.
16:54They are believed to have been created through eruptions of water from a liquid ocean beneath
16:58the moon's icy crust.
16:59That's the icy one, right?
17:00I thought it was Titan.
17:04Titan.
17:05That's Europa.
17:06Europa 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.
17:20Nominate Ong.
17:21Enceladus.
17:22Yes, I'll accept that.
17:23It's Enceladus.
17:25Finally, 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.
17:36A schooner?
17:38I don't know.
17:40Frigate...
17:40A clipper?
17:41Yeah.
17:42Clipper?
17:43It is clipper, yes.
17:43Well 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,
17:58best known for his 1903 spy novel The Riddle of the Sands?
18:03Merton Cosnett.
18:04Erskine?
18:05Yes, correct.
18:06Well done.
18:07Right, your bonuses, Merton, are three questions on the German noble house of
18:11Tourne und Taxis.
18:12The Tourne und Taxis family is best known for providing what service across the whole...
18:17Postal service.
18:18Yes.
18:18The Tourne und Taxis family own which coastal castle near Trieste?
18:22Its name is used for a set of ten elegiac poems written by Rainer Maria Rilke whilst under the patronage
18:27of the family.
18:28Do we know?
18:28Yes.
18:29An imagined feud between the Tourne und Taxis and Tristero postal companies is a plot device in the crying of
18:35Lot 49,
18:36a 1966 novel by which reclusive postpon...
18:39Yes, correct.
18:40It is Thomas Pingen.
18:40Let's start with a question.
18:42In astrophysics, the abbreviation A-G-N.
18:46Change of all sanctions.
18:47Active galactic nucleus.
18:49It is indeed.
18:49Well done.
18:50Your bonuses, Chercho, are three questions on the Chinese Buddhist monk and traveller Farshan.
18:54In 399 CE, Farshan journeyed to India to bring back Buddhist texts.
19:00He 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 Pataliputra.
19:10Raul Pindi is in Bangladesh, so do Pataliputra.
19:12Nominated station?
19:13Pataliputra.
19:14No, it's Taxila.
19:15Taxila.
19:15Later, Farshan studied and transcribed Buddhist texts at Pataliputra on the site of present-day Patna,
19:21capital of which Indian state?
19:23I think this is Bihar.
19:24Bihar?
19:25Yes.
19:26After several years in India, Farshan returned to China by sea.
19:29His account describes an elaborate ceremony to venerate the Buddha's tooth in what present-day country?
19:33Buddhist tooth.
19:34It could be Sri Lanka.
19:35They have a lot of Buddhists.
19:36Sri Lanka?
19:37Yes.
19:37Let's start with a question.
19:38Winning in 2003 and 2007 under Team Alinghi, the yacht club of which city is the only one
19:45from a landlocked country to have ever held the America's Cup?
19:48Locally known as La Nautique, the 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.
19:59It is Geneva, yes.
20:00Your bonuses are on fossils discovered by the paleontologist Mary Anning.
20:04At the age of 12, Mary and her brother Joseph together discovered the first complete skeleton
20:07of an animal belonging to which extinct...
20:09Icthyosaur?
20:10Yes.
20:10By comparing Jurassic fossils that she found to dissections of extant cephalopods,
20:15Anning was the first to propose that bellum knights possessed what particular anatomical feature
20:20used 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...
20:27Inks...
20:27What's it?
20:28Ink sacks or...
20:30Beak?
20:30No.
20:30Ink sacks.
20:31Ink sacks, yeah.
20:32Ink sacks?
20:33Correct, yes, well done.
20:34Anning's discovery of bellum knight ink sacks and her identification of coprolite as fossilised
20:39faeces were 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 she was awarded
20:47the Copley Medal in 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'll see a painting for ten points.
20:56Name the artist.
20:59Merson Fleetwood Law.
21:00Holbein?
21:01Yes, specifically Holbein the Younger.
21:03For your picture starter, you saw Hans Holbein the Younger's portrait of Sir William Butts,
21:07physician to Henry VIII.
21:09For your picture bonuses, you'll see three more portraits of doctors.
21:13Name the artist in each case.
21:15First, this painting from 1909.
21:18Monk?
21:19Yeah, Monk.
21:20Yes, I agree.
21:21Monk.
21:22No, it's Mugdiliani.
21:23Next, from 1932.
21:27John McHopper?
21:29Who's the American Gothic man?
21:32I don't think it would be a person.
21:33Have you seen Freud or something?
21:35I don't think it would be a person.
21:36Would you say it?
21:36I think it's Graham.
21:37Grant Wood?
21:38No, it's Lieberman.
21:39Finally, from 1890.
21:41Bangor.
21:42Bangor.
21:42Bangor.
21:43Yes.
21:44Let's start the question.
21:44Having attempted to raise money by forced loans early in his reign, which British monarch assented
21:50to the Statement of Liberties known as the Petition of Rights?
21:53The following year, he dissolved Parliament and began a period...
21:56Martin Cosmit.
21:57It is Charles I.
21:58It is Charles I, yes.
21:59Three questions on usage of the Hangul alphabet for languages other than Korean.
22:04In the 1980s, linguist Xu Sao Te developed a variant of the Hangul script compatible with
22:10which Chinese dialect that first emerged in Fujian province and is today one of the national
22:15languages of Taiwan?
22:16Oh, no.
22:17Is it...
22:17Is it Cantonese?
22:18I think it would be Halkyan.
22:20Nominate Ong.
22:21Halkyan.
22:22Yes.
22:22In what country is the Austronesian Chia Chia language, sometimes known as Bhutanese, spoken?
22:28Since 2009, it has been taught to children using the Hangul script, part of a programme encouraging
22:33the adoption of the script for languages that lack one.
22:35I remember reading about this, but if it's Austronesian, it would be in Cambodia around
22:39there, right?
22:40Sure.
22:41Cambodia?
22:42Cambodia.
22:42No, it's Indonesia.
22:43Designated as Endangered by UNESCO, the language of what island has historically been only
22:48spoken, but is today written primarily with the Hangul script.
22:52Despite the island being the largest of South Korea, its language is mutually unintelligible
22:56with modern Korean.
22:57Jeju?
22:59Nominate Ong.
23:00Jeju.
23:00Yes, correct.
23:01Let's start the question.
23:02Born around 350 BCE, whom did the US political theorist Roger Bersha describe as the first
23:09great 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.
23:21Chauteya.
23:22I can't accept that, I'm afraid.
23:23The answer I was looking for was Chanakya, who is alternatively known as Kautilya, not
23:28Kauteya.
23:29Bad luck.
23:30Right, another starter question.
23:30Once described as the most deserving scientist not to receive the Nobel Prize, which Canadian-American
23:37biologist, along with his colleagues Colin McLeod and Macklin McCarty, first showed in
23:411944 that DNA, not proteins, contains the genetic material?
23:46Martin Ong.
23:48McKinnon.
23:48No.
23:50Gentile sanction.
23:52Benting.
23:52No, it's Oswald Theodore Avery.
23:54Another starter question.
23:56What poem by John Keats promises its title subject a sanctuary with a casement ope 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,
24:10O latest board and loveliest vision far of all Olympus's faded hierarchy.
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, Jeanette Sloniewski argues that the 1950 film The Asphalt
24:30Jungle is the first American film in which genre?
24:34Other examples...
24:35Martin Duncan.
24:37The heist film.
24:37Yes, it is the heist film.
24:39The more bonuses, Martin, are on Yom Tov, the 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,
24:56and 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.
25:06Hanagazadee, right?
25:08Yom Kippur?
25:09No, Sukkot.
25:10The first day of what holiday in the month of Shivan is also classified as Yom Tov?
25:14The holiday celebrates both the harvest and the revelation of the Ten Commandments to Moses.
25:20It's not Passover.
25:21No, it's not a Hebrew name, is it?
25:23It's not a Hebrew name, is it?
25:23That's what you're saying.
25:24Passover.
25:25Are we going to Yom Kippur again?
25:27Yom Kippur.
25:27No, it's Shavuot.
25:29Both days of which holiday, the celebration of the New Year on the Hebrew calendar, are designated as Yom Tov?
25:35Yom Kippur.
25:36Is that Yom Kippur?
25:38Yom Kippur.
25:38Yom Kippur.
25:39No, it's Rosh Hashanah.
25:40Rosh Hashanah.
25:40Let's start a question.
25:41Answer as soon as your name is called.
25:44On a standard analogue clock, how many degrees does the second hand pass through every second?
25:51Six.
25:53Six.
25:53Yes, of course.
25:54360 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 led by which person after whom the conspiracy is usually
26:06known?
26:07Cicero's execution of Roman citizens in...
26:08Catullus.
26:09Catullus.
26:10Yes.
26:10After his exile, Cicero was appointed as pro-consular governor of which Roman province in southern Anatolia?
26:16Southern Anatolia, so it would be Asia Minor maybe?
26:20Oh, Syria, Syria.
26:21Syria?
26:22No, it's Cilicia.
26:23After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Cicero denounced the actions of which man in the Philippics?
26:28This man's later defeat at Actium was announced to the Senate by Cicero's son.
26:32Conome?
26:33No, it's Mark Antony.
26:34Let's start a question.
26:35What regnal name links two successive rulers of Scotland from 1214 to 1286 and of Russia from 1855 to 1894?
26:47Central Station.
26:48Alexander.
26:49Yes, well done.
26:50Your bonuses are on the actor Sarah Siddons.
26:53Born in Brecon in 1755, Siddons first appeared on the London stage at the age of 20 when she was
26:59employed by which actor manager to appear at his Drury Lane theatre?
27:02Gielgud maybe?
27:04Gielgud.
27:05Gielgud in the 18th century?
27:07No, it's Garrick.
27:07Garrick reportedly offered Siddons that first engagement after sending a representative to watch her play which role in Shakespeare's As
27:14You Like It?
27:14in a barn in Worcestershire?
27:17Rosalind.
27:17Apropos.
27:18Rosalind.
27:19Yes, it is Rosalind.
27:20Which 1950 film opens with an awards ceremony held by the fictional Sarah Siddons Society?
27:24It stars Bette Davis as ageing actress Margot Channing.
27:2947, Sunset Boulevard?
27:31Nominate Hasla.
27:31Sunset Boulevard.
27:32No, it's all about Eve.
27:33Let's start the question.
27:34Which French ballet term denotes a movement in which the leg moves away from the body in a straight...
27:39And at the gong, Churchill have 115, Merton have 180.
27:48The answer to the last one was Ronde de Jombe.
27:52Churchill, you were so good when you had the chance to answer the questions, it's just they answered some of
27:56the starters before you.
27:57It's such brutal bad luck.
27:58Whenever you had those bonus rounds, you were so fantastically impressive.
28:01Well played.
28:02It's been wonderful getting to know you and meeting your very strange mascot, which is a cat.
28:05I think I'm right in saying, Ella, that you painted during a supervision.
28:09Is that right?
28:10Yeah.
28:11Sorry, Christian.
28:12It must have been a very boring supervision, but we're very glad to have benefited from it.
28:15Merton, well done.
28:16That was a terrific performance.
28:17Wonderful all-round stuff across a huge range of subjects.
28:20Looking good for the next round.
28:21We'll see you in the quarterfinals.
28:22Look forward to that.
28:23I hope you can join us next time for the start of this year's quarterfinal stage.
28:27But until then, it is goodbye from Churchill College, Cambridge.
28:29Goodbye.
28:30Goodbye.
28:30It's goodbye for now from Merton College, Oxford.
28:32Goodbye.
28:33And it's goodbye from me.
28:35Goodbye.
28:36APPLAUSE
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