University Challenge S45e12 - Clare college, cambridge, vs university of warwick

APPLAUSE Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman. Hello. There's a place in the second round for whichever team can make the most of the questions we are about to throw at them. There's also a place in the play-offs if tonight's losers can muster enough points to put themselves there. Clare College Cambridge is the second oldest in the city. It was founded as University Hall in 1326 and renamed Clare Hall a few years later, after an endowment from Edward I's granddaughter, Lady Elizabeth de Clare, one of the richest heiresses in England. It took its present name in 1856. Its impressive architecture includes the Old Court and the much photographed Clare Bridge, decorated with 14 stone balls, one of which famously has a wedge missing, about which there are many fanciful legends, although perhaps the likeliest explanation is that it just fell off. LAUGHTER Alumni include the ill-fated cleric Hugh Latimer, the poet Siegfried Sassoon and Sir David Attenborough. The college has a bronze bust of him, which students rub for luck before their exams. Tonight's team have an average age of 22 and described themselves as "united in their diversity", being a soldier, an actor, a philologist and a sci-fi geek. But let's hear their more customary introductions. Hi, I'm David Tremain, I'm from Chelmsford in Essex and I'm reading English literature. Hi, I'm Sarah Binney, I'm from London and I study physics. And this is their captain. Good evening, I'm Olivier Grouille from Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire and I'm reading for a PhD in strategy and counterterrorism. Hi, I'm Ellie Warner, I'm originally from Pulborough in West Sussex and I'm reading Chinese Studies. APPLAUSE This year the University of Warwick is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its Royal Charter. It's notably not in Warwick, but on the outskirts of Coventry, with outposts at Wellesbourne and at the Shard in London. It's known for its strong links with industry and business. Alumni include the comedians Stephen Merchant, Ruth Jones and Frank Skinner and the writers Anne Fine and AL Kennedy. The team have coined a motto for their appearance - "It is better to have buzzed and lost, "than never to have buzzed at all." We'll see how that plays out over the next half hour. With an average age of 21, representing over 23,000 students, let's now meet the Warwick team. Hi, Hugh Osborn, I'm from Norwich and I'm studying for a PhD in astronomy. Hello, my name is Emily Stevenson and I'm from Oxford and I'm studying English literature. And this is their captain. Hi, I'm Ashley Page, I'm from Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire and I'm studying for a PhD in chemistry. Hi, I'm James Leahy, I'm from Shrewsbury in Shropshire and I'm studying for a degree in French and history. APPLAUSE Let's not waste any time reciting the rules which everybody knows. So, fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten. In one version of events, which location is said to have taken its name from that of a Dutchman who operated a ferry to Orkney during the reign of James IV? Although the northernmost point of Great Britain is at nearby Dunnet Head, it's often cited... BUZZER John O'Groats. Correct. APPLAUSE You get a set of bonuses, Clare, on a London museum. Which museum in London includes works of art collected by the Seymour Conway family during the 18th and 19th centuries? It's held in Hertford House, the former family residence. - (It's the... - Wallace Collection. (I think.) The Wallace collection. Correct. Exemplifying the Rococo style, which painting of around 1767, now in the Wallace Collection, is perhaps the best-known work by the French artist Jean-Honore Fragonard? (Is it the Laughing Cavalier?) The Laughing Cavalier. No, it's the Swing. And finally, the Wallace collection includes a gouache miniature of which 16-century German painter noted for his double portrait, the Ambassadors? ALL: (Holbein.) Holbein. Hans Holbein the Younger is correct. APPLAUSE Ten points for this. Published in 1759, An Enquiry Into The Present State Of Polite Learning was a treatise by which Irish-born writer? His later works include the poem The Deserted Village and the play... BUZZER Oliver Goldsmith. Correct. APPLAUSE Your bonuses, Clare College, are on poetry this time. In each case, name the bird described in the following lines. Firstly from a poem by Tennyson - "He clasps the crag with crooked hands "Close to the sun in lonely lands "Ringed with the azure world, he stands." Eagle. Correct. From a poem by W B Yeats - "I saw before I had well finished "All suddenly mountain scatter "Wheeling in great broken rings "Upon their clamorous wings." THEY WHISPER QUIETLY (Clamorous, yes...) - (Noise, seagulls?) - Seagulls. No, they're swans in The Wild Swans at Coole. And finally, by Milton - "Sweet bird that shun'st the noise of folly "Most musical, most melancholy! "Thee, chauntress of the woods among, "I woo to hear thy even song." - (Nightingales?) - Yeah. A nightingale. Correct, yes. APPLAUSE Ten points for this. The bulbourethral or Cowperian glands are found directly beneath which larger gland in the human male? BUZZER The prostate. Correct. APPLAUSE You get three bonuses on fungal diseases of trees, Warwick. First scientifically described in 2006 and confirmed in Britain in 2012, what common name is given to the disease affecting trees of the genus Fraxinus? (Ash dieback?) - It could be Ash dieback or Dutch Elm. - Dutch Elm is older. Ash dieback? Ash dieback. Correct. Secondly, Phytophthora ramorum is responsible for mortality in many types of tree. What is the common name of this disease in Quercus species? - Shall we go for Dutch Elm? - Yes... - Dutch Elm. No, it's sudden oak death. And, finally, what is the common name of the disease caused by related species of the genus Ophiostoma? The fungus is spread by bark beetles and in Britain has devastated the population of susceptible trees. That's probably Dutch Elm... We're going to go for it again, aren't we. Dutch Elm. Correct. Ten points for this. Which present-day capital was the birthplace in 1783 of the revolutionary Simon Bolivar? BUZZER Lima? No. Anyone like to buzz from Clare? - Lisbon? - No, it's Caracas. Ten points for this. Which US physicist's contract as adviser to the Atomic Energy Commission was terminated in 1953, when he was accused of having Communist sympathies? BUZZER Feynman. No, you lose five points. He had earlier opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, having served as scientific director of the Manhattan Project. BUZZER - Oppenheimer. - Oppenheimer is right, yes. APPLAUSE Your bonuses, Clare, are on the 11th century. Who was declared King of England by the Danes on the death of his father, Sweyn Forkbeard, in 1014, but did not manage to take the throne until two years later? THEY WHISPER QUIETLY (It's not. That's too early...) - Alfred the Great. - Alfred the Great. No, it was Canute. Which Anglo-Saxon king returned from exile in 1014 to claim the throne from Canute at the invitation of leading English noblemen? (Edward the Confessor?) (He must have been on the throne for quite a long time, then.) Edward the Confessor. No, it's Ethelred the Second, Ethelred the Unready. What was the name of the Irish High King who defeated the Vikings at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, but died in the battle? (Cuchulain?) Cuchulain. No, it was Brian Boru. Right, we're going to take a picture round now. For your picture starter, you'll see the flag of an English county as recorded on the Flag Institute's UK flag registry. Ten points if you can give me which county's flag is being shown. BUZZER Cornwall. Cornwall is right, yes. APPLAUSE That is the cross of St Piran, a sixth-century Cornish abbot. Your bonuses are three more English county flags of varying vintages. Five points for each you can identify. Firstly... - Hertfordshire? - I was thinking Hertfordshire. I'm from Hertfordshire, but I don't recognise it. But Hertfordshire, yeah? Yeah? Hertfordshire. It is Hertfordshire. The hart is the clue, of course. Secondly, this flag. Somerset, maybe? - Makes sense... - Shall we go for that? Somerset. No, it's Worcestershire. And finally... Oh, God... No idea. Somewhere...naval? Um... - Hampshire? - Do you want to go for Hampshire? I really recognise it. (Hampshire?) Hampshire. No, it's Essex. They're Saxon daggers. Ten points for this. What's being described? In 1986, Hamilton, Ohio voted to add one to its name, while the Quebec town of St-Louis-du-Ha!-Ha! claims to be world's only place that has two. The Devon seaside village of Westward Ho!... BUZZER Exclamation mark. Exclamation mark is correct, yes. APPLAUSE Right, these bonuses are on World Heritage Sites in North Africa, Warwick. In each case, name the country in which the following are located. Firstly, the ruins of Tipaza and the former Roman colony of Timgad. - Perhaps Libya. - Yeah? - Yeah. Libya. No, they're Algeria. Secondly, the historic city of Meknes and the Medina of Tetouan. (Somewhere Arabic...) (Could be Libya...) - Morocco. - Could be Morocco. I don't think it sounds... - Tunisia? - What do you want to go for? Try Tunisia. - Tunisia? - Yeah. - Tunisia. - No, it's Morocco. - Oh. And, finally, the old town of Ghadames and the archaeological sites of Cyrene and Leptis Magna. Which haven't we been with? - Libya or Tunisia. - One could be Tunisia... Shall we go Tunisia? Tunisia. No, it's Libya. GENTLE LAUGHTER Ten points for this. Also described as plutonic, what term describes igneous rock that's forced while molten into cracks and fissures in other rock formations. In everyday speech, the same word means "appearing without invitation or..." BUZZER Intrusion. OK, I'll accept that. It's intru-SIVE, but I'll accept that. You've got the general idea. APPLAUSE Right, you get a set of bonuses on composers, Warwick. The opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle and the ballets The Wooden Prince and The Miraculous Mandarin are works by which Hungarian composer who died in New York in 1945? Bartok. Correct. Which composer worked with Bartok on collections of Hungarian folk songs and wrote Psalmus Hungaricus in 1923 to mark the 50th anniversary of the union of Buda and Pest? - What was the year? - 1823? - Liszt perhaps... - Could be Liszt. Isn't that a bit...? - I don't know. - Nor me. Liszt. No, it's Kodaly. And, finally, which Hungarian pianist and composer introduced the idea of the symphonic poem for orchestra and wrote 12 such works at Weimar in the mid-19th century? Liszt? No, it could have been Brahms. Cos he wrote Hungarian dances. - He wrote Hungarian dances, yes. - Go Brahms. - Definitely? - Yes. Brahms. - No, it was Liszt. - Oh! - Bad luck. Ten points for this. "Death cancels all engagements" is a line from which a novel of 1911? It bears the subtitle "An Oxford Love Story" and depicts the devastating effect the title character has... BUZZER Maurice. No, I'm afraid you lose five points. ..the devastating effect the title character has on Oxford's undergraduates. BUZZER Porter Blues? No, it's Zuleika Dobson. Ten points for this. Short, Clark and Harris are linked with what five letter name to denote a Latin dictionary, an expedition begun in 1804...? BUZZER Lewis. Lewis is correct, yes. APPLAUSE Your bonuses are on a US state, Warwick. The boundaries of which of the original 13 colonies include 65km of the shoreline of Lake Erie and a stretch of the Delaware River? - New York? - It could be. - Yeah. - It makes sense. Go for it? New York. No, it's Pennsylvania. Pennsylvanian and Mississippian are North American divisions of which geological period? In Britain it comprises the limestone, the millstone grit and the coal measures. - Carboniferous. - Correct. Which region of Pennsylvania is a plateau named after the mountain range of the Appalachians in which it terminates to the east? - Don't know. - Adirondacks, but they are in New York. - Blue Ridge? I don't know. - Could be Blue Ridge. Adirondacks, I think, are in New York, not Pennsylvania, but I'll go for that. Adirondacks. No, they're in New York State. It's the Allegheny Plateau. Right, we're going to take a music round. For your music starter, you're going to hear an excerpt from an opera. Ten points, name the composer. # Ecco ridente... # BUZZER Oh, no, um... Il Trovatore. No, I'm looking for the composer. You can hear little more, Warwick. Verdi. No, it's Rossini. It was from The Barber Of Seville. Music bonuses in a moment or two. Fingers on the buzzers, another starter question now. Reputedly inspired by a restaurant on New York's Greenwich Avenue, where two streets meet, which 1942 painting by Edward Hopper...? BUZZER Nighthawks. Nighthawks is correct, yes. APPLAUSE OK, you heard for the music starter an excerpt from The Barber Of Seville sung by Count Almaviva, while in disguise as a penniless student. For your bonuses, three more excerpts from operas in which the character singing is in disguise. In each case, I'd like the composer to get five points. Firstly this piece. # Una pur avvene sola, divina... # Is that Italian? Verdi? # E amor che agl'angeli piu ne avvicina! # Go with Verdi? - Or Puccini? - Go Verdi? You prefer Puccini? Puccini. No, that's Verdi. It's the Duke of Mantua pretending to be another impoverished student in Rigoletto. Secondly, this piece, please. GENTLE SWELLING MUSIC GERMAN SOPRANO ARIA MUSIC DROWNS OUT WORDS Britten? No, that's Beethoven. It's Leonore pretending to be Fidelio in the opera of the same name. And, finally, this piece. # Non siate ritrosi, occhietti vezzosi... # MUSIC DROWNS OUT WORDS # Due lampi amorosi vibrate un po qua... # Bizet. No, that's Mozart. That was from Cosi Fan Tutte. It was Guglielmo in disguise as an Albanian. Right, ten points for this. The son-in-law of the late film director Ingmar Bergman, which Swedish left-wing activist and crime writer created a detective who's been...? BUZZER Henning Mankell. Correct. APPLAUSE Three questions on the solar system, Warwick, for your bonuses. How many moons in total orbit the four planets of the inner solar system? - Three. - Yes, two for Mars and one of... Yeah. Three. Three is correct. How many moons of the solar system are larger than Earth's moon? I think it's only one or two. I think it might be Ganymede and Titan. I'm not 100% sure. - Titan is pretty big... - Shall we go for it? Try two? Two. No, it's four. What is the smallest planet of the solar system that is larger than any moon? Mars? Mars is the second smallest. - Yeah, probably. - Yeah? Mars. It is Mars, yes. Ten points for this. Also known as bistable, what two-word hyphenated term denotes a type of electronic circuit that can be in either of two stable states, reversed by an electrical pulse? BUZZER Series? No. Anyone want to buzz from Clare? BUZZER - DRAMATICALLY: - Electronic-binary. No, it's a flip-flop. LAUGHTER You seemed to be in pain a moment ago! Right, let's have another starter question. The birth of the experimental branch of which social science is said to have occurred in 1879 at the University of Leipzig when Wilhelm Wundt established the first laboratory dedicated to this field of study? BUZZER Psychology? Correct! APPLAUSE Right, Clare, these bonuses are on an ecumenical council. Which lakeside city in south-west Germany gives its name to an ecumenical council called in 1414 to end the Papal Schism and to examine allegations of heresy? - Did he say "lakeside"? - Yeah. - Well, what's by a lake? Lindau? Friedrichshafen's a city? Friedrichshafen? Friedrichshafen. No, it's Constance. Which Bohemian religious reformer was tried and burned at the stake at the Council of Constance? Em... - Well, it wasn't Latimer. - No. - Burnt... - I don't know. - No, we don't know, Jeremy. Jan Hus. And finally, which English theologian and translator of the Bible was condemned as a heretic at the Council of Constance? He died in Leicestershire around 30 years earlier. It's 1414. I want to say Hugh Latimer. It's not, but we... Yeah. I can't think who else it would be. OK, Hugh Latimer. No, it was Wycliffe. Right, we are going to take a second picture round. For your picture starter, you are going to see a still from a film. For ten points, I want the English title under which the film was released in the UK. BUZZER Spirited Away. Correct, yes! APPLAUSE Spirited Away won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2003 and was produced by the Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli. Your picture bonuses are three more stills from Studio Ghibli productions. Again, in each case, I want the English title under which the film was released in the UK. Firstly, for five... - That's Princess Mononoke. - Princess...? - Mononoke. Princess Mononoke. Correct. Secondly... - That's Ponyo. - Ponyo? - Yes, it's like... - Ponyo? - Correct. And finally... - That's Howl's Moving Castle. - Howl's Moving Castle. Well done. APPLAUSE Right, ten point at stake for this. Who comes next in this sequence? Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Queen Victoria, Alexandra of Denmark and...? BUZZER Mary of Teck? Correct, yes. APPLAUSE Mothers of British monarchs. So, a set of bonuses for you on chemical elements, Warwick. Which chemical element was, in 1945, the last of the rare earth metals to be discovered? It has the atomic number 61 and is named after a titan of Greek mythology. I think it's promethium? Promethium? Correct. With the atomic number 51, which element was formerly used in the production of bells and metal type? It occurs chiefly as the grey sulphide mineral stibnite. - That's antimony. - Yes. - Antimony? Correct. With the atomic number 41, which element is similar to tantalum and was named after the daughter of Tantalus in Greek myth, described by Hamlet as "all tears"? Niobium? Correct. Ten points for this starter question. In graph theory, how many bridges feature in the Bridges of Konigsberg? BUZZER Seven? Seven is correct, yes. APPLAUSE These bonuses are on Central Asia, Warwick. Created in the 1890s as a buffer between empires, the Wakhan Corridor is more than 200 kilometres long and is an eastward protrusion of which landlocked country? That's Kazakhstan? Could be Afghanistan, makes sense, between... - Is Afghanistan landlocked to the south? Yeah, it is. - Yeah. Afghanistan? Correct. To the east, the Wakhan Corridor shares a short border with which large autonomous region of China? - Xinjiang. - Huh? - Xinjiang. - Nominate Leahy. Xinjiang. Xinjiang is correct. And finally, the Wakhan Corridor also borders Pakistan to the south and which former Soviet republic to the north? - I think it might be Uzbekistan? Uzbekistan? - No, Uzbekistan is... That's to the west, isn't it? But I think it might be Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan? - No, it's Tajikistan. - Sorry. - There's less than five minutes to go and ten points at stake for this. The sweet dessert wine commandaria is said to be the oldest named wine still in production and is made in the Troodos Mountains on which Mediterranean island? BUZZER Cyprus? Correct. APPLAUSE Your bonuses are on the later Roman Republic, Warwick. Which Gallic chieftain defeated Julius Caesar at the Battle of Gergovia? He was later captured and executed in Rome in 46 BC. Vercingetorix. Correct. Which King of Pontus contested Roman hegemony in Asia Minor in three wars before his final defeat by Pompey? I simply need his regnal name. Yeah. Mithras. No, it's Mithridates. And finally, the former gladiator Spartacus defeated several Roman armies before being defeated himself near the River Silarus in 71 BC by which Roman general? Crassus. I think it's Crassus. Shall we go for...? Crassus. Crassus is correct. Ten points for this. Variants of what given name link the authors of The Magician Of Lublin, Foundation and Empire...? BUZZER Isaac. Isaac is correct, yes. APPLAUSE Clare, your bonuses are on political figures and literary works. In each case, I want the decade that links the following, please. Firstly, the birth of Winston Churchill and Herbert Hoover and the publication of Trollope's The Prime Minister and Henry James's The Europeans. THEY CONFER 1880s. No, it's the 1870s. Secondly, the birth of Harold Wilson and Richard Nixon and the publication of Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes and HG Wells' Mr Britling Sees It Through. - The 1910s. - Yeah. - The 1910s. Correct. And finally, the birth of John Major and Bill Clinton and the publication of Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and Orwell's Animal Farm? '20s? Or it might be '30s. It's got to be post-Stalin, so...'20s? - Or - '30s? I would say '30s. The 1930s. No, it's the 1940s. Ten points for this. In the 1960s, RA Butler, Patrick Gordon Walker, Michael Stewart, George Brown and Sir Alec Douglas-Home were among those who held which Cabinet office? BUZZER Chancellor? Anyone like to buzz from Clare? BUZZER - Home Secretary. - No, they were Foreign Secretary. Ten points for this. What six-letter French word refers to the prominence of a film director as a creative force and describes...? BUZZER Auteur. Auteur is correct, yes. APPLAUSE Your bonuses are on a Greek prefix, Warwick. In anthropology, what Greek-derived term denotes the later part of the Stone Age, characterised by sophisticated stone tools? Palaeolithic? Yeah? - It's the prefix, though. - They're looking for the whole thing, not the prefix. Palaeolithic? Palaeolithic? No, it's Neolithic. The Neogene period comprises the Miocene and Pliocene Epochs and is the second period of which geological era? Yeah, isn't that later on? - That's the era. - Yes. Yeah? Cenozoic? Correct. The part of the brain known as the neocortex is a principal characteristic of which class of the Phylum Chordata? THEY CONFER QUIETLY Yeah, could be. Mammals? Mammals is correct. Ten points at stake for this. The Willow Tearooms on Sauchiehall Street and the Glasgow School of Art are among the noted works of which Scottish architect? BUZZER - Charles Mackintosh? - Charles Rennie Mackintosh is correct, yes. APPLAUSE Your bonuses are on airports this time, Warwick. In 2006, the international airport of which European capital city was renamed after the inventor Nikola Tesla? He's Serbian, so presumably Belgrade? - Yeah. - Is it the city we're looking for? Belgrade? Correct. The intercontinental airport in Houston, Texas is named after which political figure? - It's not Bush, is it? - Is it? - I don't know. - An airport... - Political figure from Texas. It's not going to be someone from... It might be like Davy Crockett, I don't know. Davy Crockett? - No, it's George HW Bush. - I'm sorry! And finally, the international airport for which European capital is named after Mother Teresa? Oh, where's she from? - Come on, let's have it, please. - Warsaw. GONG No, it's Tirana. And at the gong, Clare College Cambridge have 100, Warwick have 195. APPLAUSE Well, we shall miss you, Clare, with your encyclopaedic knowledge of cartoons. Thank you very much for joining us, though. Warwick, 195 is a terrific score. We shall look forward to seeing you in the second stage of the competition. Thank you very much for joining us. I hope you can join us next time for another of these matches. - Until then, though, it's goodbye from Clare College Cambridge... - Goodbye. - It's goodbye from Warwick University... - Goodbye. And it's goodbye from me, goodbye. APPLAUSE