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00:00Sous-titrage MFP.
00:30With the first round of the competition now complete,
00:33this game and the next are reperchage matches,
00:35contested by the four high-scoring losing teams of the Heats.
00:38Their average losing score was just over 170,
00:42not far off the average winning score of 205.
00:45So these playoffs are their chance to prove they deserve
00:48to join those winners in the draw for the second round.
00:51St John's College, Cambridge,
00:52faced University College, Oxford in their opening match.
00:54After a close back-and-forth first half,
00:56St John's found themselves shut out for most of the second.
00:59And with around three minutes left on the clock,
01:02we're nearly 100 points behind.
01:03They kept their heads up, though,
01:05and were able to take three more starters
01:06and all the bonuses that went with them,
01:08which meant they finished the match with 170 points to Univ's 200,
01:12the second-highest losing score of the round.
01:15Let's meet the team from St John's College, Cambridge,
01:17for the second time.
01:19Hi, I'm Callum Thomas.
01:21I'm originally from Queensland in Australia
01:23and I'm studying a PhD in Zoology.
01:26Hi, I'm Jonathan Watts.
01:27I'm from London.
01:28I'm studying for a PhD in maths.
01:29And their captain.
01:30Hi, I'm Liam Plymer.
01:32I'm from Dorset and I'm studying for a PhD in English.
01:34Hi, I'm Aurelia Walker.
01:36I'm from London and I study maths.
01:38APPLAUSE
01:42They're facing this year's team from the LSE,
01:44who lost to King's College, Cambridge in their first game
01:46by 160 points to 185.
01:49In that match, LSE actually answered the same number of starters
01:52correctly as King's did.
01:54Their problem was bonus conversion.
01:56They took less than half the points they could have
01:58from the bonus sets they earned,
01:59picking up none at all on rounds about linguistics
02:01and classical music,
02:02though their tutors would have surely been relieved to see
02:04they did score full marks when asked about international relations.
02:08Let's meet the team from the LSE once again.
02:11Hi, I'm David Worley.
02:12I'm from Tunbridge Wells in Kent and I'm studying economics.
02:15Hi, I'm Dia Kutri.
02:17I'm from London and I'm studying politics and philosophy.
02:19And their captain.
02:20Hi, I'm Henry Jameson.
02:22I'm from near Ripon in North Yorkshire
02:23and I study economics and economic history.
02:26Hi, I'm Daniel Yang.
02:28I take a master's in international relations and history
02:31and I'm from Calgary, Canada.
02:33APPLAUSE
02:36Well, it's very nice to see you all back
02:38and it's nice to see you applaud each other as well.
02:40That's a lovely spirit in which to play the game.
02:41Fingers on buzzers, let's get going.
02:43Here's your first starter for ten.
02:44Good luck.
02:45What city lends its name to all the following?
02:48A so-called triangle alliance of nations
02:51intended to help integrate post-communist Poland
02:53into Europe,
02:54a neoclassical literary movement
02:56whose most prominent members included Schiller and Goethe,
02:59and a government...
03:00St John's Plymouth.
03:02Weimar.
03:02It is the Weimar.
03:03Well done.
03:05Your bonuses, St John's, are on representation and democracy.
03:09Quote,
03:13I think it's clear that every man that is to live under a government
03:16ought first by his own consent to put himself under that government.
03:21What area of London gives its name to the series of debates
03:23from which these words are recorded?
03:26I don't know.
03:27Any ideas?
03:28I don't know.
03:29Hyde Park.
03:31No, it's Putney.
03:32Those are the Putney debates of 1647.
03:33That was Colonel Rainsborough.
03:35Quote,
03:35For how long will English constituencies tolerate members from Scotland,
03:39Wales and Northern Ireland exercising an important effect on English politics
03:43while they themselves have no say in the same matters in other areas of the UK?
03:47What parliamentary constituency gives its name to this so-called question of British politics?
03:52Mid-Lothian.
03:54No, I can't accept that.
03:55It's the West Lothian.
03:56Oh.
03:56Tam Dalyell was MP for West Lothian in the 1970s.
03:59Bad luck.
04:00Finally, and it's a quote,
04:01That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom
04:04and that government of the people, by the people, for the people
04:08shall not perish from the earth.
04:09At which specific location were these words first spoken?
04:13It's the US.
04:14Yeah, but where?
04:16Yeah.
04:17Specific location?
04:18Declaration of Independence.
04:20Gettysburg.
04:22Isn't the truth not Gettysburg?
04:24Boston.
04:25Gettysburg.
04:25Of course it's Gettysburg.
04:27My goodness.
04:28Yes, I think in 1863, I don't think I'd have forgiven you.
04:31if you've got that wrong.
04:31Goodness me.
04:32Right, another starting question.
04:33Fingers on buzzers.
04:35According to the historian C.V. Wedgwood,
04:37which king's, quote,
04:39Greatest achievement was the superb collection of works of art
04:42which he had been accumulating since he was Prince of Wales,
04:45including paintings by Titian, Mantegna and Tintoretto?
04:48Contemporary artists who worked for him included
04:50Orazio Gentileschi, Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony Van Dyke.
04:55LSE Jameson.
04:56Charles I.
04:57Yes, well done, it is indeed.
04:58The infirmances, LSE, are on cakes and pastries
05:02in Victorian novels.
05:04Quote,
05:04It was Easter week and Mrs Tulliver's cheesecakes
05:07were more exquisitely light than usual.
05:09Those words begin chapter six.
05:11Of which of George Eliot's novels?
05:13Middlemarch.
05:15Middlemarch.
05:16No, it's the mill on the floss.
05:17In which of Dickens' novels does an unnamed gentleman
05:20try to tempt the young Esther Somerson with, quote,
05:22A piece of the best plum cake that can be got for money.
05:25Sugar on the outside an inch thick, like fat on mutton chops.
05:28Great expectations.
05:30OK.
05:31Great expectations.
05:32Leak House.
05:33Finally, in which 1865 novel does the title figure
05:36see a little glass box in which was, quote,
05:39A very small cake on which the words,
05:41Eat Me, were beautifully marked in currents.
05:43Alice in Wonderland.
05:44What's the last character?
05:45So, Alice.
05:46Alice in Wonderland.
05:47Oh, which novel?
05:48Novel.
05:49OK.
05:49Alice in Wonderland.
05:50Yes, I'll accept that.
05:51It's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
05:53Let's start the question.
05:55What five-letter name links all of the following?
05:58An alias used by the deceased Eva Smith
06:00in Priestley's An Inspector Calls.
06:03The title character of a novella by Henry James
06:05described as an inscrutable combination
06:07of audacity and innocence.
06:09And the main female character of a novel of 1925
06:13whose face is described by the narrator as sad and lovely.
06:17St John's Plimmer.
06:18Daisy.
06:19Well done.
06:20It is Daisy, yes.
06:21Your bonuses, St John's, are on birds with names linked to war.
06:25A large seabird that features on the flag of Kiribati
06:29shares its name with what type of warship?
06:31This name was first adopted during the 18th century
06:33to denote a fast ship that was smaller than a ship of the line.
06:37Frigate.
06:37Yes.
06:38What word for a pennant or flag carried into battle by an army
06:42appears in the common name of Caprimulgus longipennis,
06:46a nightjar so named for long, trailing display feathers
06:49possessed by males of the species?
06:52Standard.
06:54Standard.
06:54Well done.
06:55What is the common name of the wading bird,
06:58Galinago galinago?
06:59It is the origin of a military term originally used
07:01to describe someone who hunts the bird,
07:03which was notoriously difficult to shoot.
07:06Snipe.
07:06It is a snipe, yeah, for the common snipe.
07:09Picture round now.
07:10And for your picture starter,
07:11you're going to see the recipe for a cocktail.
07:14For ten points, I need you to give me the cocktail's
07:16two-word alliterative name.
07:21LAC Jameson.
07:22Singapore Sling.
07:23It is.
07:23It's delicious, yes.
07:24Well done.
07:25Go and let's take the outfits.
07:26For your picture starter, you saw the recipe for a Singapore Sling.
07:30and for your picture bonuses, you're going to see the recipes for three more cocktails,
07:34all officially recognised by the International Bartenders Association
07:38that feature nationalities or countries in their names.
07:42This time, all translated into the official language of the country in question.
07:47In each case, I need the full name of the cocktail.
07:50First.
07:51Something French.
07:53Or it could be a country that speaks French.
07:55Yeah, it could be like Caribbean type thing.
07:56That's true, that's true.
07:57So...
07:57Do we know any French?
07:59It's got a champagne.
08:03A Martinique mule.
08:06That could have taken a long time.
08:08It's a French 75.
08:09Secondly.
08:11A white Russian?
08:12Sure.
08:13White Russian?
08:14No, it's a black Russian.
08:15Bad luck.
08:16And finally.
08:18Cuba Libre, probably.
08:20Go for it.
08:21It's white rum.
08:22Cuba Libre.
08:23Yes, it is.
08:23Well done.
08:24First up, the question.
08:26What dye, originally extracted from plants in the pea and buckwheat families,
08:31was first synthesised by Adolf von Bayer in the 1870s
08:35and later produced on an industrial scale by Heumann and Pfleger?
08:39This made its use in the textile industry commercially viable,
08:42when historically it had been a rare and valuable...
08:45St John's Thomas.
08:46Indigo.
08:47Well done.
08:48It is indeed.
08:49Your bonuses, St John's, are on English towns and cities.
08:53Name each from the description.
08:54All three answers begin with the same letter
08:56and end with the same four-letter place name element.
09:01First, a city, a metropolitan borough on the edge of the Pennines
09:04in northern England,
09:05named after a crossing on a tributary of the River Eyre.
09:08It was formerly a major centre of the wool trade.
09:11Any ideas?
09:13Um, on the River Eyre...
09:14Bradford.
09:15It could be Bradford.
09:16Bradford.
09:17Bradford?
09:18Yes, it was Bradford.
09:19Secondly, a town on the River Torridge in North Devon
09:21in the early modern period.
09:23It was a leading seaport,
09:24linked with Sir Walter Raleigh's import of tobacco.
09:28And it's Ford.
09:29Starts with B.
09:30I don't know.
09:30Starts with B as well.
09:32Yeah.
09:33B, Ford.
09:35Just say something.
09:36Pass.
09:37That's Biddeford.
09:38And finally, a county town on the Great Ouse
09:40in the east of England region.
09:42The surrounding area was once one of Britain's largest producers
09:45of BRICS.
09:48Bedford.
09:49Oh, of course.
09:50Bedford.
09:51Yes, it is.
09:51Well done.
09:52Let's start the question.
09:53In 1933, which country left the League of Nations
09:57following the publication of the Lytton Report?
10:00L.A.C. Yang.
10:01Japan.
10:02Well done.
10:03Your performances then are on notable goals
10:06at the 2025 UEFA Women's European Championship.
10:10In their 4-1 loss to France in the group stage,
10:13which striker scored the first ever goal for Wales
10:15in an international tournament,
10:17also becoming the oldest goalscorer
10:19in the history of the Euros?
10:20Do we know any Welsh players?
10:22Don't know any women.
10:23I'm sorry, we're going to have to pass.
10:25That was Jess Fishlock.
10:27In a group stage victory over Wales,
10:29which Dutch striker,
10:30who has played for Manchester City since 2024,
10:32scored her 100th international goal?
10:35She's also the all-time leading scorer
10:36in the Women's Super League.
10:41Oh, I don't know anyone.
10:42I don't know anybody.
10:43I don't know any footballers.
10:44Van Dijk.
10:47That's Viviane Meadmer.
10:48OK.
10:49Who converted a rebound from her penalty in extra time
10:52to take England through their semi-final against Italy
10:54and scored the decisive penalty in the shootout
10:56against Spain in the final to win the title for England?
11:00Oh, this is abysmal.
11:01What year is this?
11:02This loss.
11:04Chloe Kelly?
11:05Sure.
11:05Chloe Kelly.
11:06Yes, it is.
11:07Well done.
11:08Well done.
11:08Now to start the question.
11:10What given name and surname
11:12are shared by the Nobel Prize-winning economist
11:15who, along with Fisher Black and Myron Scholes,
11:18lends his name to an early model used to value derivatives
11:21and his father,
11:22whose 1949 book Social Theory and Social Structure
11:25helped to...
11:28Paul Merton.
11:29No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
11:30Helped to popularise the concepts of the role model
11:33and the self-fulfilling prophecy in sociology.
11:37St John's Thomas.
11:38John Nash.
11:39No, bad luck.
11:40It was Robert Merton.
11:41Bad luck.
11:42Let's start the question.
11:43Dating from the 12th century,
11:45the Guzgalasa, or Maiden Tower,
11:47is a prominent symbol...
11:48LSE Jameson.
11:50Constantinople.
11:50I'm afraid you lose five points.
11:52You can hear more of the question,
11:53but you may not confer, St John's.
11:54of which city?
11:55The tower is included alongside Shivanshah's palace
11:58in the name of a World Heritage Site
12:00described by UNESCO as showing
12:02Zoroastrian, Sasanian, Arabic, Persian, Shivani, Ottoman
12:06and Russian influence in its walled city
12:09on the shore of the Caspian Sea.
12:12St John's Thomas.
12:14Baku.
12:14It is Baku.
12:15Well done, yes.
12:16Your bonuses, then, St John's,
12:18are on recent recipients of the Charlemagne Prize.
12:21Awarded to those who have made significant contributions
12:23to peace, unity and cooperation in Europe.
12:26The 2022 prize went to three women from what country?
12:29They have variously been persecuted, imprisoned or exiled
12:32for opposing this country's dictator,
12:34Alexander Lukashenko.
12:36Belarus.
12:37Belarus.
12:37Yes.
12:38Awarded the prize in 2021, quote,
12:40as a bridge builder between East and West,
12:43Klaus Johannes was the first person
12:45from what country to win the prize?
12:46A former physics teacher in the city of Sibiu,
12:49he served as his country's president from 2014 to 2025.
12:53Romania.
12:54Yes.
12:54Which former German cabinet minister won the 2025 prize?
12:58In 2019, she became the first woman to be elected
13:00president of the European Commission.
13:02Ursula von der Leyen.
13:03Yes.
13:04Ursula von der Leyen.
13:05It is indeed, yes.
13:06Well done.
13:07Let's start the question.
13:08For what does the letter K stand
13:11in the chemical abbreviation K-I-E,
13:14meaning a change in reaction rate
13:16caused by isotope substitution?
13:18In mechanics, the same word precedes friction
13:21to describe the sliding resistance
13:22to relative motion...
13:24St John's Walker.
13:25Kinetic.
13:26Yes.
13:26Well done.
13:27Your bonuses are three questions
13:29on the 19th century scientist
13:31James Prescott Jewell.
13:33A foundational 1849 paper by Jewell
13:35based on an experiment he conducted
13:37with his self-designed paddle wheel device
13:39is entitled on the mechanical equivalent of...
13:43What?
13:44Any idea of the duration?
13:45No.
13:47Energy.
13:48He's asking for a device.
13:51Energy.
13:51No, it's heat.
13:52Bad luck.
13:53Jewell's findings contrasted
13:55with a then-prevailing theory
13:56that posited heat and combustion
13:57in terms of a hypothetical weightless fluid
14:00known by what name?
14:02Nominate Thomas.
14:03Logiston.
14:04No, that's caloric.
14:06Along with Jewell,
14:07which other British scientist
14:08gives his name
14:09to the effect that takes place
14:10when a gas expands
14:11through a porous plug
14:13into a region of lower pressure?
14:15Any ideas at all?
14:17British.
14:19I don't think of Maxwell.
14:20Maxwell?
14:21No, that was Lord Kelvin.
14:22Another starter question.
14:23Music round now.
14:24For your music starter,
14:25you'll hear a piece of popular music.
14:28For ten points,
14:28name the group performing.
14:31She called back me.
14:33St John's what?
14:34The Beatles?
14:35No, you can hear a bit more LSE.
14:37You may not confer.
14:40LSE Cartree.
14:41The Lars?
14:42Yes, well done.
14:43Well done indeed.
14:44That was, of course,
14:45There She Goes by The Lars,
14:47which features at the start
14:48of the first episode
14:49of Gilmore Girls.
14:50For your music bonuses,
14:51you'll hear three more tracks
14:52that feature in the series,
14:54all played in cameo appearances
14:55by their respective groups.
14:57For five points,
14:58name each band playing.
14:59First.
15:00Bikini hollows,
15:02if you don't shine,
15:03is it easy to feel free?
15:05Oh, like, bikini kills?
15:08I don't know.
15:09Yeah.
15:11Um, nominate.
15:11I don't know.
15:12Nominate Cartree.
15:14Uh, Bikini Kill?
15:15No, that's Sonic Youth.
15:16What a waste.
15:17Next.
15:19And I trust to the golden door
15:21I will show the other strong again
15:25Pulling teeth on the principal
15:27No, no, no.
15:29Pass.
15:30Sorry.
15:30That's The Shins
15:31with So Says I.
15:32And finally...
15:33Close your eyes
15:35Oh, eternal flame.
15:37Yeah, yeah.
15:39Starts with a beat.
15:41Starts with a beat.
15:42Just, it's wrong.
15:43Do you understand?
15:45Do you want something?
15:47Box, box, trot.
15:47Just go with box, trot.
15:48It's wrong, brother.
15:50Box, trot.
15:54It's...
15:55Sorry, I got it too late.
15:56Bad luck, guys.
15:57It was, as you now know for certain,
15:59Daniel, the bangles.
16:01Bad luck.
16:01We enjoyed watching you struggle anyway.
16:04Fingers of buzzers,
16:04here's another starter question.
16:05Smooth surface, pit and fissure,
16:08and root are three main types
16:11of what condition
16:12caused by exposure
16:13to acidic substances
16:14produced by bacteria.
16:16The last of these types
16:17is more common
16:17in older people
16:18because the area exposed
16:20is more vulnerable...
16:22Gingivitis.
16:23No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
16:25Is more vulnerable,
16:26lacking the hard,
16:27protective surface
16:28known as enamel.
16:31St John's, Thomas.
16:32Tooth decay.
16:33It is tooth decay.
16:34Well done, yes.
16:35Well done.
16:36Three questions for you,
16:37St John's,
16:38on Greek mythology.
16:39According to Hesiod's Theogony,
16:41which Greek goddess
16:42was the daughter
16:42of the Titans,
16:43Hyperion and Thea,
16:44and the sister of Helios,
16:46the sun god
16:46and Eos,
16:47goddess of the dawn?
16:49Could this be Selene?
16:52Selene?
16:53Selene?
16:53Yes.
16:54Selene loved
16:55and bore 50 daughters
16:56by which beautiful youth
16:58who nevertheless
16:58spent most of time in sleep?
17:00Here's the title figure
17:01of a poem by John Keats
17:02that begins,
17:02A Thing of Beauty
17:03is a Joy Forever.
17:05No, it's not.
17:07Endymion?
17:08Is that a thing?
17:09Sweet guy.
17:10I actually know this.
17:12It's not endymion, is it?
17:13Come on.
17:14Endymion?
17:15Yes.
17:16According to Robert Graves,
17:17in the second volume
17:18of his Greek myths,
17:19Selene, aided by Hera,
17:21created which monster
17:21from seafoam
17:22enclosed in a large
17:23casket or arc?
17:25Heracles killed this beast
17:26as his first labour
17:27and afterwards wore its skin.
17:29It's the Nemean lion.
17:30The Nemean lion?
17:31Yes.
17:32Well done.
17:33Let's start with a question.
17:35Subjects of portraits
17:36by which artist,
17:37born 1862,
17:39include Elizabeth Lederer,
17:40the daughter of art collectors
17:41Auguste and Serena,
17:43Sonia Nipps,
17:44a note...
17:45St John's Plimmer.
17:46Klimt.
17:47It is Gustav Klimt.
17:48Well done.
17:49Good question to you,
17:49John's,
17:50on a fish
17:50and ways of cooking it.
17:52The common species
17:53of which flatfish
17:54is also known
17:55as the Dover species,
17:57the port having been,
17:58in the past,
17:58a notable source
17:59of supply to London?
18:00Soul.
18:01Soul.
18:01Yes.
18:02In the dish,
18:03sole veronique,
18:03the fish is poached
18:04in white wine or vermouth,
18:06then served with a cream sauce
18:07made with the poaching liquor
18:08and containing what fruit?
18:10Fruit.
18:11Lemon.
18:12Lemon.
18:14Yeah.
18:14Lemon.
18:14No, it's grapes.
18:16A common way of preparing salt,
18:18the method of dredging fish in flour,
18:19shallow frying it in butter
18:20and serving it with a lemony pan sauce,
18:22is known by what French term,
18:24meaning in the style of the miller's wife
18:26or female miller?
18:29Molinier.
18:30Molinier.
18:31No, I'm afraid I can't accept this.
18:32A la mounier.
18:33Bad luck.
18:34Fixed buzzers,
18:35here's another starter question.
18:36In 2023,
18:37India's Sattvic Sairaj Ranki Reddy
18:39was recorded hitting to a speed
18:41of 565 kilometres per hour.
18:44What sort of object
18:45that acts as an asymmetric bluff body
18:48and conventionally consists
18:49of 16 feathers plucked from a goose's left...
18:52St John's Plymouth.
18:53A badminton...
18:55No, I'm afraid you'll lose five points.
18:57I need an immediate answer.
18:58I can't accept that one.
18:59Consists of a...
19:00Let's see country.
19:01Shuttlecock.
19:02Yes, well done.
19:04Your bonuses, LSE, are on a song.
19:06A song first released on the 1963 album,
19:10The Freewheeling Bob Dylan,
19:11whose composition drew upon
19:12the traditional piece Scarborough Fair,
19:14is titled Girl from the...
19:16North Country.
19:17North Country.
19:18Yes, well done.
19:18Who wrote the 2017 musical
19:20The Girl from the North Country,
19:21featuring a number of Dylan's songs
19:23and set in his hometown of Duluth, Minnesota?
19:26This playwright had previously won
19:27an Olivier Award for Best New Play in 1999,
19:30for The Weir.
19:31I don't know.
19:33Where's Stephen Sondheim from?
19:35I'm fine.
19:36It's just...
19:37Stephen Sondheim.
19:38No, it's Conor McPherson.
19:41Dylan later re-recorded
19:42Girl from the North Country
19:43for his album Nashville Skyline
19:45as a duet with which country...
19:47Johnny Cash.
19:48Yes, well done.
19:48Let's start a question.
19:49Picture round now.
19:50For your picture starter,
19:51you're going to see a photograph
19:52of a politician.
19:53For ten points,
19:54I need you to give me his name.
19:57St John's Thomas.
19:59Lula De Silva.
19:59It is Lula De Silva.
20:01Yes, well done.
20:02For your picture starter,
20:03you saw Brazilian President Lula De Silva,
20:05who was honoured with the Grand Collar
20:07of the Order of Camões
20:08in 2023,
20:10awarded to those who render services
20:11to the Portuguese language
20:13and the preservation
20:14of the Portuguese community's ties
20:16with Portugal.
20:17For your bonuses,
20:18three more recipients
20:19of the Grand Collar
20:20of the Order of Camões.
20:22Five points for each you can name.
20:24First, this writer.
20:25Do you need Portuguese writers,
20:28you know?
20:29Saramago.
20:30Brazilian art.
20:31Saramago.
20:32Well done.
20:33Secondly,
20:33this politician
20:34and Nobel Prize winner.
20:36I don't know.
20:38Pass.
20:39That's Jose Ramos Horta,
20:40who's the president
20:41of East Timor.
20:42And finally,
20:43this artist.
20:45Brazilian artist.
20:48Tarsila.ameral.
20:49No, it's Paula Rigo.
20:50Let's start the question.
20:52What colour links
20:53the names of each of the following?
20:55In cyber security,
20:56the practice of performing
20:57simulated cyber attacks
20:59on a computer system
21:00to identify potential weaknesses.
21:02In astronomy,
21:03the increase in the wavelength
21:04of light
21:05due to a light source...
21:07Red.
21:08Yes, well done.
21:11Your bonuses are
21:12on chemical reactions
21:13that add a single carbon atom
21:14to an organic molecule.
21:16Adding hydrogen cyanide
21:18to a carbonyl
21:19to produce a cyanohydrin
21:20causes the formation
21:21of which diatomic functional group
21:23that includes a carbon atom?
21:25I think it's a nitrile.
21:26Does that sound right?
21:28Your guess is blue.
21:30Nominate Walker.
21:31Nitrile?
21:32Yes, correct.
21:33Named after a French chemist,
21:35which reaction involves
21:35the addition of
21:36an organomagnesium halide
21:38to a carbonyl
21:39under anhydrous conditions?
21:41This is a grignard,
21:43I think.
21:44Nominate Walker.
21:45Grignard?
21:45Yes.
21:45Finally,
21:46in the Ant-Eistert reaction,
21:48a carboxylic acid
21:49has its carbon chain
21:50extended by one.
21:51For example,
21:52ethanoic acid
21:53is converted
21:53to propanoic acid.
21:55What is this type
21:56of reaction called?
21:59I'm not sure.
22:00Sorry.
22:00Pass.
22:01I'll tell you,
22:01that's homologation.
22:03Let's start the question.
22:04Quote,
22:04Mark Twain first called it that
22:06he was describing
22:07the United States
22:07as a nation
22:08with a beautiful,
22:09shiny exterior
22:10hiding decadent,
22:11filthy insides.
22:14Gilded Age.
22:15Yes,
22:16well done.
22:16Your balances are
22:17on types of windows
22:19that may be found
22:19in churches.
22:20What name
22:21from the Latin
22:21for eye
22:22is given
22:23to a circular opening
22:24found in a wall
22:25or at the apex
22:26of a dome?
22:26Oculus.
22:27Yes.
22:28What name
22:28is given
22:28to a tall,
22:29narrow window
22:30frequently topped
22:30with an arch?
22:31This word
22:32can also mean
22:32a type
22:33of double-edged
22:34scalpel
22:34used for making
22:35small cuts
22:36during medical
22:37procedures?
22:39I don't...
22:40Just say...
22:44A blade.
22:45Bad luck.
22:46It's a lancet.
22:46Bad luck.
22:47Lastly,
22:47what flower
22:48gives its name
22:48to the generic term
22:49for a...
22:50Rose.
22:50Yes,
22:51well done.
22:51Let's start the question.
22:53Quote,
22:53No description
22:54of this country's
22:55topography
22:55retains its
22:56absolute accuracy
22:57for long.
22:58These words
22:58refer to the
22:59constant changes
23:00of watercourses
23:01such as the
23:01Meghna and Tista
23:03in what
23:03densely populated
23:04country?
23:05Much of its...
23:06Ellison Jameson.
23:07Bangladesh.
23:08Yes,
23:08well done.
23:09Your bonuses
23:10are on things
23:10in the natural
23:11world whose
23:12common names
23:12may be poetically
23:13used as synonyms
23:14for black.
23:15Give each word
23:16from the description.
23:17First,
23:18the bitter-tasting
23:18fruit of the
23:19blackthorn,
23:20Prunus spinosa.
23:21Dylan Thomas
23:22uses its name
23:23in the opening
23:23lines of
23:24Undermilkwood
23:24to describe the
23:25sea.
23:26I was thinking
23:26of the blackberry
23:27stuff.
23:27Just go with that.
23:29It's not going
23:29to be blackberry.
23:30Pepper.
23:31No, it's slow.
23:33Secondly,
23:33Martes zibelina,
23:34a mustarded mammal
23:35native to
23:36northern parts
23:37of Europe
23:37and Asia.
23:38In Hamlet,
23:39Shakespeare uses
23:39this word of
23:40the devil.
23:40It is also
23:41the heraldic term
23:42for the colour
23:43black.
23:43So it's going
23:44to be like a
23:44stoat or something,
23:45like a weasel,
23:46like a...
23:47Ferret,
23:48mossbrat.
23:48Moss...
23:49badger.
23:50Badger.
23:50Sable.
23:51Finally,
23:51a silica-rich
23:52natural glass
23:53formed by the
23:53rapid cooling
23:54of lava.
23:55Obsidian.
23:55Yes, well done.
23:56Let's start with
23:57the question.
23:57Tail-less primates
23:59or apes
23:59are divided into
24:00hominidi and what
24:02other grouping,
24:03known scientifically
24:03as...
24:05Pan.
24:06No, I'm afraid
24:06you'll lose five points,
24:07as
24:08Hylobatidae.
24:09Hulock,
24:10White-handed
24:10and Siamang
24:11are species
24:12of these tree-dwelling
24:13long-armed apes.
24:15St John's what?
24:16Gibbons.
24:17Yes, they are.
24:17Well done.
24:18Bad luck, ISM.
24:19Your bonus,
24:19St John's,
24:20are on works
24:21in philosophy
24:21and social sciences
24:22published in the
24:23first decade
24:23of the 20th century.
24:25In each case,
24:26I need a single word
24:27ending in
24:28ism.
24:28That's I-S-M.
24:30What word
24:30completes the title
24:31of a 1903 work
24:33by the British
24:33realist philosopher
24:34G.E. Moore?
24:35The refutation of
24:36what?
24:37Idealism.
24:37Yes.
24:38Subtitled
24:38A New Name
24:39for Old Ways
24:40of Thinking,
24:41what is the
24:41single word title
24:42of a 1907 work
24:43by the US author
24:44William James?
24:45It is the school
24:46of philosophy
24:47with which he is
24:48chiefly associated.
24:50Rationalism?
24:51Yeah.
24:52Realism?
24:53Yeah, psychology.
24:56Realism?
24:57No, it's pragmatism.
24:58Finally,
24:58what word
24:59completes the title
24:59of this major work
25:00by Max Weber?
25:01The Protestant ethic
25:02and the spirit of...
25:03Capitalism.
25:04It is indeed, yes.
25:05Another second question.
25:06If the Little Women trilogy
25:07is aluminium
25:08and the Hunger Games
25:10series is cobalt,
25:11what element
25:12is the Neapolitan quartet
25:13with regards
25:14to each author's surname?
25:19Iron.
25:20Yes, well done.
25:21The first two letters
25:21of their surnames
25:22are the symbols
25:22of the elements
25:23in each case.
25:23Well done.
25:24Three questions for you
25:25on SI base units.
25:27Since 2019,
25:28the second has been defined
25:30in terms of
25:30of the hyperfine
25:31transition frequency
25:32of the 133 isotope
25:34of what highly reactive metal?
25:36Cesium.
25:37Yes.
25:37Previously determined
25:38experimentally
25:39in terms of the isotope
25:40carbon-12,
25:41the mole has,
25:42since 2019,
25:43been defined
25:44in terms of what
25:45namesake constant?
25:47Avogadro.
25:47Yes.
25:48Also since 2019,
25:49what SI base unit
25:50has been defined
25:51by the fixed value
25:52of the Planck constant?
25:53Kilogram.
25:54The kilogram.
25:55Yes.
25:55Another starter question.
25:57Vincent Auriol
25:58and René Cotty
25:59were successive presidents
26:01of which French polity
26:02formed on the resignation
26:04of the provisional president
26:05Charles de Gaulle
26:05in 1946?
26:08LSE Jameson.
26:09Fifth French Republic.
26:11No.
26:12St John's Plimmer.
26:14The fourth French Republic.
26:15Yes, correct.
26:16Well done.
26:16Your bonuses,
26:17St John's,
26:18are three questions
26:19on events
26:19that took place
26:20in the United States
26:21of America
26:22in 1924.
26:23In 1924,
26:24who was appointed
26:25director of the
26:26Bureau of Investigation,
26:27now the FBI,
26:28a position he would hold
26:29until his death
26:30in 1972?
26:32No idea.
26:32Is there, is it?
26:33It's not my guilty,
26:34is it?
26:35No.
26:36Pass.
26:37It's J. Edgar Hoover.
26:38In November 1924,
26:40Nellie Taylo Ross
26:41became the first woman
26:42to be elected
26:42to the office
26:43of state governor
26:43in US history
26:44when she won
26:45a special gubernatorial
26:46election in which state?
26:48In 1869,
26:49it also became
26:49the first state
26:50in the US
26:51to pass a law
26:52allowing women's suffrage.
26:54It's going to be
26:54north-east.
26:55Oh, I don't know.
26:58Massachusetts.
26:59No, it's Wyoming.
27:00Two future presidents
27:01of the United States
27:02were born in 1924.
27:04Name both.
27:05Any ideas?
27:06Attaway.
27:08Kennedy?
27:09No.
27:10Could be...
27:11Come on.
27:12Kennedy and Nixon.
27:13No, it's Carter
27:14and George Bush, Sr.
27:15Let's start a question.
27:16What ten-letter word
27:17links a 16th-century
27:19East Sussex farmhouse
27:20associated with
27:21the Bloomsbury set
27:22and a lively,
27:23energetic dance
27:24populated in the 1920s
27:26named after a port city...
27:28Charleston.
27:29Yes.
27:30Your bonuses are
27:31on defining minerals
27:32of another long
27:33galaxy of 100
27:34in St George's
27:35of 220.
27:37APPLAUSE
27:40It was so good
27:41of you guys
27:42to applaud
27:43because really
27:43annoyingly
27:44they were really
27:44good, weren't they?
27:45They were really,
27:46really, really strong
27:47and you gave us
27:48such entertainment
27:49in the bonuses
27:50having these wonderful
27:51feverish discussions
27:52and then getting it wrong
27:53and we absolutely
27:54love watching it.
27:55Daniel, I'm afraid
27:56you're going to be
27:56haunted by the bangles
27:57for the rest of your life
27:58but we got the fact
27:59that you knew it
27:59in the end.
28:00It's been a wonderful
28:01experience to get
28:02to know you guys.
28:02How have you found
28:03the journey?
28:04It's been a lot of fun.
28:05Wonderful.
28:05Bengals are my mother's
28:07favourite brands.
28:08They're also your mum's
28:09favourite.
28:09Maybe avoid letting
28:10your mum watch
28:10this particular episode
28:11but it's been wonderful
28:13getting to know you.
28:13Thank you so much
28:14for playing so well.
28:15St John's,
28:15that was a fantastic
28:16performance, guys.
28:16To get 220 against
28:18a team of that calibre
28:19at this stage
28:19in the competition
28:20is brilliant.
28:20It means we're going
28:21to see you
28:21and your wonderful mascot
28:22once again.
28:23I hope you can join us
28:24next time for the second
28:25of this year's
28:26Repoichage matches
28:27but until then
28:28it is goodbye
28:28from the LSE.
28:30Goodbye.
28:31It's goodbye for now
28:31from St John's College,
28:32Cambridge.
28:33Goodbye.
28:34And it's goodbye for now
28:35from me.
28:35Goodbye.