University Challenge S44e13 Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Vs University of York

University Challenge. Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman. APPLAUSE Hello. The lights are on, we're about to find out if anyone's home, as two more teams play for a place in the second round. Winners go through automatically, the losers could get a chance to redeem themselves in the play-offs if they do well enough. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge was founded in 1352 by members of the Guild of Corpus Christi, and the Guild of the Blessed *** Mary, with the principal aim of training members of the priesthood, whose numbers had been drastically reduced by the Black Death. The 16th century saw the introduction of a rule which required Latin to be spoken at all times during full term, with the speaking of English criminalised. A more recent innovation is the Corpus Clock, a gold-plated device nearly five feet in diameter, topped by a demonic grasshopper which appears to be devouring the passing seconds. Past students include the dramatist Christopher Marlowe and the actor Hugh Bonneville. Skullion, the head porter in Tom Sharpe's Porterhouse Blue, is said to be based on Albert Jaggard, who was Corpus Christi's head porter in the 1960s. With an average age of 19 and representing around 470 students, let's meet the Corpus Christi, Cambridge team. Hello, I'm Ram Sarujan Rajkumar. I'm from London and I'm studying Mathematics and Management. Hello, I'm Jessica Stewart, I'm from Cambridge, and I'm studying Arabic and Russian. This is their captain. Hello, I'm Sam Sharma, I'm from Gloucestershire, and I'm studying Classics. Hello, I'm Caroline Purvis. I'm from Southend-on-Sea in Essex, and I'm studying Physical Natural Sciences. APPLAUSE Now, the idea that there should be a university at York was originally suggested to King James I in the early 17th century, and with the monarchy's fabled speed, in 1963, the first students enrolled, making it one of the "plate glass universities" that followed the Robbins Report. The centre of university life is a 200-acre campus famous for its artificial lake, and even more so for its wildfowl. The York ducks have their own Facebook page with nearly 38,000 likes, and viewers will want to know that today's Page Three Duck of the Day is actually a moorhen. Alumni include the comedian Harry Enfield, the politician Harriet Harman, and the writers Anthony Horowitz, Helen Dunmore and Graham Swift. With an average age of 19, let's meet the York team. Hi, I'm Jack Alexander, I'm from Hertford in Hertfordshire, and I'm studying Mathematics. Hi, I'm Adam Koper, I'm from Pwllheli in North Wales, and I'm studying Politics. And this is their captain. Hi, I'm Alistair Middleton, I'm originally from Penrith in Cumbria, and I'm studying Mathematics. Hello, I'm Joe Crowther, I'm originally from Churchdown in Gloucestershire, and I'm studying Maths and Philosophy. APPLAUSE OK, you all know the rules, so fingers on buzzers, here's your first starter for ten. What single word links individuals whose closest common ancestor is a great grandparent, the music soundtrack of the film Brief Encounter, wars that began in South Africa in 1899 and China in 1937, and that part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects the right to keep and bear arms? BUZZER Second. Second is correct, yes. APPLAUSE Right, these bonuses are on a shared name, York. Born in Connecticut, 1741, which general's name became a by-word for treachery when he went over to the British side during the War of Independence, having conspired unsuccessfully to hand over West Point? Er, Benedict Arnold? Correct. Arnold Hagenbach and Sam Chippendale formed a company that developed which commercial complexes from the early 1960s? Before redevelopment, that of Manchester was compared to a public lavatory. Oh, it's not the Arndale Centres or something like that, is it? - That's the only thing I can think of. - Arndale Centres? Correct. In a work of 1909, the French ethnographer Arnold van Gennep coined what three-word term to describe the transition from one phase of life to another? - I've no idea. - Erm... Er, sorry, we don't know. It's a rite of passage. Ten points for this. Following his mother's abdication in 2013, the new monarch of which country became...? - BUZZER - Netherlands? The Netherlands is correct. APPLAUSE These bonuses are on popular music, York. The name of which genre of popular music may be expressed as "the joint of the body that includes the acetabulum," plus "the flower of Humulus lupulus, an agricultural crop?" (Hip-hop?) Erm, er, hip-hop? Correct. Of uncertain etymology, the name of which genre of popular music shares its final two letters with inflections indicating the Latin first declension genitive singular and nominative plural? - I have absolutely no idea. - Rap? - No, erm... Er, jazz? No, it's reggae. And finally, the name of which music genre rhymes with the common name of a North American mammal of the genus Mephitis, noted for its chemical defences? - Skunk... - Er, punk. Punk rhymes with skunk, of course. Ten points for this. It may be illustrated with Feigenbaum diagrams and enumerated by Lyapunov exponents. Examples are found in population statistics, the motion of a compound pendulum, and the behaviour of the weather. What five-letter word describes this type of dynamical behaviour generally involving high sensitivity to initial conditions...? BELL Chaos. Chaos. Chaos is correct, yes, well done. APPLAUSE Your first set of bonuses, Corpus Christi, are on a play by Shakespeare. Froth, a foolish gentleman, Barnadine, a dissolute prisoner, and Mistress Overdone, a bawd, are characters in which play by Shakespeare? It could be, well, I mean, the history plays... I know there's a ***, erm, innkeeper in Henry V, but were they female? I don't know. Just go for it. Henry V. No, it's Measure For Measure. In Measure For Measure, the pregnancy of which character is the catalyst for much of the drama? She shares her name with the title character of another of Shakespeare's plays? Title character, erm... - Ophelia? - No, there's no... There's an Isabella in Measure For Measure who's a nun. Is there a title character...? - Cressida? - Is Isabella in anything, erm, else? - Was it Cressida? - I'm going with... - There won't be another. - Try Juliet? - Oh, yes, maybe. - There's definitely an Isabella in it. - OK. - What are we going for? - I don't know, so... What are we going for, guys? Juliet. Correct. Measure For Measure is Shakespeare's only play to be set in which European city? Could be Venice. It could be Venice. - It could also be... Oh, no, no. - No, Merchant Of Venice. - London? - It could be... - Rome? - No, no, it's not London. It could be somewhere, erm, not in Italy. They're all in Italy! Erm, so... - Paris? - No, it could be, like... - Rome? Come along! Milan. No, it's Vienna. Right, we're going to take a picture round. For your picture starter you'll see a map of southern Europe with a series of locations marked. For ten points, tell me the sporting significance of these locations in 2013-14. BELL Football teams in Serie A? Correct, yes. APPLAUSE So, following on from the locations of those Italian football teams, your bonuses are three cities marked, each of which plays home to two top flight teams in the 2013-14 season. In each case, I want the name of both teams. Firstly for five, A. THEY CONFER QUIETLY - Isn't that Rome? - Lazio and Roma. - Lazio and Roma? Er, Lazio and Roma. Correct. Secondly, B. That's... Is that Genoa? THEY CONFER QUIETLY What city, it's not Milan. What other cities have two...? Turin and Torino, oh, no, Juventus and Torino? OK, Juventus and Torino. No, it's Genoa and Sampdoria. And finally, C. - That's Milan, isn't it? - Er, Juventus and Torino. Is that Turin? I thought that was Milan. - Oh, is that Milan? - Is it? I don't know any more. If it's Milan, it's Inter and AC. But I don't think that's Milan, it's too... OK, no, I think you're right. I think that's going to be too near the Alps, yeah. Juventus and Torino. Juventus and Torino. Correct. Ten points for this. "His dynasty was rejected, his republic cast aside, "but the spirit that culminated in him never sank again, "never ceased to be a potent, though often a latent and volcanic force." These words of Walter Bagehot refer to which English political figure born 1599? BUZZ Er, Oliver Cromwell? Correct. APPLAUSE These bonuses, York, are on geology. What form of hydrated calcium sulphate occurs in varieties including selenite and satin spar? I have no idea. Erm, chalk? No, it's gypsum. Which fine grained massive variety of gypsum has been extensively used in church statuary? A traditional belief that it had curative properties led to many attempts to chip pieces off these statues by those with leg infirmities. - I don't know, sorry. - We have no idea. It's alabaster. In the 18th and 19th centuries, gypsum was extensively mined in which area of Paris, now in the 18th arrondissement, and noted for a prominent basilica built in travertine limestone? Er, Montmartre? Correct. Ten points for this. Listen to the quotation, answer the question that follows. "It may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we're "talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true." To what is Bertrand Russell referring? BUZZ Quantum theory? Nope. BELL Philosophy. No, it's Mathematics, and you lose five points, of course, for an interruption during the question. Ten points for this. What name links a friend of Antipholus of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors, a singer who performs for Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing, Portia's servant in The Merchant Of Venice, whose name she uses when she impersonates a man, and Romeo's servant who informs him that Juliet is dead? BELL Balthazar? Correct. APPLAUSE These bonuses are on Canadian provinces, Corpus Christi. Which Canadian province borders the US state of Montana and was named after the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria? - Is that Manitoba? - Alice... Alice, oh, hang on, what was the youngest, Beatrice? - There was a Beatrice. - Did she have any other daughters? - Erm, how many children did she have? - Nine. - Do you think it might be...? - Alberta, it could be. - No, erm... It's not Alberta, is it? Manitoba? - I'll go for Alberta. - Yeah. Alberta. Alberta's correct. Alberta is the westernmost of Canada's three prairie provinces. Manitoba is the easternmost. Which is the other lying between them? - Saskatchewan? - Saskatchewan? Correct. The 120th meridian and the crest of the Canadian Rockies form Alberta's western border with which other province? BC. British Columbia. British Columbia? Correct. That's given you the lead. APPLAUSE Ten points for this starter question. Listen carefully. During the 20th century, nine Chancellors of the Exchequer went on to become Prime Minister. Three of these had also held the post of Foreign Secretary. James Callaghan was one. Can you name either of the other two? BUZZ John Major? Correct. The other one was Harold Macmillan. Your bonuses are on astronomy. What class of stars have radii between 10-20 kilometres, masses between 1.4 and 3 solar masses, and densities of around 10 to the 14 grams per centimetre cubed? THEY CONFER QUIETLY - I'm thinking white dwarves. - Could be, yeah. - Erm, white dwarves? No, they're neutron stars. In a neutron star, what phenomenon prevents gravitational collapse? No, sorry, can't think. Er, no, sorry, we don't know. It's degeneracy or neutron degeneracy pressure. What term denotes spinning neutron stars that emit electromagnetic radiation from their poles? - Is that pulsars? - Yeah. - Er, pulsars? Pulsars is correct. We're going to take a music round. For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of popular music. Ten points if you can give me the name of the artist. # And we all know everything # That he stood for time will bring # For in peace our hearts will sing # Thanks to Martin Luther King # Happy birthday to you... # BELL Stevie Wonder? It is Stevie Wonder, yes. APPLAUSE Stevie Wonder wrote Happy Birthday in honour of Dr Martin Luther King. For your bonuses, three more songs associated with the Civil Rights Movement. Each case, I would like the name of the artist or group performing, please. Firstly for five, who's singing here? The song became an anthem during the city riots of 1967. # Calling out around the world # Are you ready for a brand-new beat? # Martha And The Vandellas, Martha Reeves And The Vandellas. - Martha Reeves? - Martha Reeves And The Vandellas. Martha Reeves And The Vandellas. Correct, she was just called Martha And The Vandellas, I think, at that point. Yes, very good. Secondly, who is this? The song plays tribute to various political figures synonymous with the Civil Rights Movement. # Has anybody here # Seen my old friend, Martin? # Can you tell me # Where he's gone? # Could be Al Green. Al Green. Al Green? Doesn't sound like him but it could be. Al Green. No, it's Marvin Gaye. And, finally, who's this? The song established her as a central figure of the Civil Rights Movement. # What you want # Baby, I got... # Aretha Franklin. # What you need... # - Sorry? - Aretha Franklin. # You know I got it... # Aretha Franklin. - It is Aretha Franklin. - APPLAUSE Ten points for this. The first line of Philip Larkin's poem This Be The Verse is a strongly-worded reflection on parents in... BELL Sorry. I didn't mean to buzz. Oh, well, I'm afraid you did. So you get the whole thing, York. ..is a strongly-worded... And you lose five points. ..a strongly-worded reflection on parents in general. What advice does he give the reader in its final line? You may not confer! BUZZER "Teach your children well? No, it's "And don't have any kids yourself." - LAUGHTER - Right, another starter question. The Ecclesiastical History, a record of events in Britain from the time of Julius Caesar to the arrival in 597 of Saint Augustine, is the best-known work of which Northumbrian...? BUZZER The Venerable Bede? - Correct. - APPLAUSE These bonuses could give you the lead again, York. They're on people born in the Latvian city of Riga. First, born in Riga in 1909, which British philosopher's works include The Hedgehog And The Fox and Four Essays On Liberty? I think that's Berlin. Er, Berlin? Isaiah Berlin is right. Secondly, noted for his work on catalysis and chemical affinity, the Nobel laureate Wilhelm Ostwald is often described as the father of which specific branch of chemistry? Spectroscopy. Er, spectroscopy. No, it's physical chemistry. Born in Riga in 1898, which director's films include The Battleship Potemkin and Alexander Nevsky? Sergei Eisenstein. - Correct. - APPLAUSE Ten points for this starter question. In zoology, which phylum contains animals that possess, at some stage of the life cycle, a spine or stiffening rod of...? BUZZER Chordata. Chordata is correct, yes. APPLAUSE This set of bonuses are on a European river. Mainz is the capital of which German state, named in part after a major river? You can give me the German or the English name. Rhineland? I would think it's something to do with the Rhine. Er, Rhineland? No, it's the Rhineland-Palatinate. Rhineland-Pfalz. Secondly, the Confederation of the Rhine was a loose union of client states established as a counterweight to Prussia and Austria by which ruler? - Napoleon. - Er, Napoleon? Correct. Its capital, Strasbourg - which present-day region of France has the River Rhine as its eastern boundary? Alsace. Alsace is correct. Ten points for this. Of the world's 12 largest islands, after Greenland, five are partly or wholly within the territory of which country? BUZZER Indonesia. - Correct. - APPLAUSE These bonuses are on the King James Bible, York. In each case, identify the book of the Old Testament from verses taken from its opening chapter. Firstly, for five. "And they said, everyone to his fellow, 'Come and let us cast lots "'that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us.'" I don't know. Sorry. Exodus? No, that's Jonah. "How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people? "How is she become as a widow, she that was great among the nations?" It might be the Queen of Sheba but I don't remember which book she's in. Song of Solomon? No, that is the Lamentations. And, finally, "'Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher. "'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'" I've heard of it. Is it Exodus? Exodus? No, it's Ecclesiastes. We're going to take a second picture round. For your picture starter, you'll see a statue of a horse and rider. I want the name of the rider, please. BELL Er, um... Caesar Augustus. Nope. York, one of you buzz. BUZZER Genghis Khan? Genghis Khan is correct, yes. APPLAUSE An enormous statue in Mongolia. For your bonus questions, name the historic figure featured in the following equestrian statues. Firstly, this one. - Isn't that Richard I? - Could be, yeah. - Richard I. Richard I? It is Richard I, in Westminster. Secondly, this equestrian statue. - Julius Caesar. - Julius Caesar? Could it be Alexander The Great? - Yeah, could be. - What? - I'm going with that. - OK. Alexander The Great? No, that's Charlemagne in St Peter's. And, finally, this statue. - Peter the Great? - No, it looks like France. - Louis XIV? Could be Louis XIV, yeah. - Louis XIV? - Yeah. Louis XIV. It is, at Versailles. - APPLAUSE - Ten points for this. For what do the letters CTS stand when describing a painful condition of the hand and fingers, - caused by pressure on...? - BELL - Carpal tunnel syndrome. - Correct. APPLAUSE Right, these bonuses, Corpus Christi, are on the works of Thomas Hardy. In each case, I want the novel in which the following characters appear. Firstly, Damon Wildeve, Diggory Venn and Eustacia Vye. - I don't know. - Far From The Madding Crowd? It's not Far From The Madding Crowd. - Anyone got another...? - The Mayor Of Casterbridge? Tess Of The d'Urbervilles, Jude The Obscure... - It's not Tess Of The d'Urbervilles, - Jude The Obscure. - The Mayor Of Casterbridge. - The Mayor Of Casterbridge? - The Mayor Of Casterbridge. - No, it's The Return Of The Native. Secondly, Fancy Day, *** Dewy and Frederic Shiner. - Choose one again! - Yeah. Give me another one. Um...um...um... The Mayor Of Casterbridge! The Mayor Of Casterbridge. No, it's Under The Greenwood Tree. And, finally, Parson Tringham, Angel Clare and Sorrow. OK. - Tess Of The d'Urbervilles. - Indeed. So you've done that at school. Ten points for this. Which element of the periodic table has a symbol which consists of the same two letters as an abbreviated unit of distance, equal to approximately 150 billion metres. BELL Gold. Correct. APPLAUSE Bonuses on words that begin with the same combination of initial consonants. In each case, listen to the definition and SPELL the word. Firstly, from the Italian for a knot in wood, a dish of small dumplings made with semolina or potato. G-N-O-C-C-H-I. G-N-O-C-C-H-I? Um, G-N-O-C-C-H-I. Correct. Secondly, from the German for spark, a metamorphic rock with distinct banding consisting of quartz, mica and feldspar. G-N-E-I-S-S. G-N-E-I-S-S. G-N-E-I-S-S. Correct. And, finally, from the Greek for thought or opinion, an adjective meaning expressed in brief, pithy maxims or aphorism. - Do you know? - I would say gnomic. - Gnomic. - G-N-O-M-I-C. G-N-O-M-I-C. Correct. Well done. APPLAUSE Ten points for this. The Port of Crotone, on the Gulf Of Taranto and the cities of Cosenza and Catanzaro are in which region of Italy, separated from Sicily by the Strait of Messina? BUZZER Naples? No. - BELL - Calibria? No, it's Calabria and York lost five points for an incorrect interruption. Another starter question now. Brontolo in Italian and Grincheux in French are the names of which of Disney's Seven Dwarfs? His name in Latin is often rendered as Severus. BELL Sneezy? No. BUZZER - Grumpy? - Grumpy is correct, yes. APPLAUSE Right, these bonuses, York, are on fauna whose names are reduplicative - for example, the dodo. In each case, name the animal from the description. Firstly, a nocturnal squirrel-like primate native to Madagascar. - Aye-aye? - Yeah, must be. - Aye-aye. - Correct. Secondly, an Australasian marsupial monkey of the genus Phalanger. Marsupial monkey? - Sorry. - Sorry, we don't know. That's a cuscus. And, finally, from Setswana word, flies of the genus Glossinidae that are vectors of human sleeping sickness. Er, tsetse. Correct. Ten points for this. Listen carefully. In the standard UK version of the board game Monopoly, the hotel rent on the highest value property, Mayfair, is how many times that of Old Kent Road, the lowest value? BELL Ten. No. BUZZER Eight? Eight is correct, yes. APPLAUSE You get a set of bonuses, York, on African countries. How was the Republic of Botswana known before it achieved independence in 1966? Um, Szechwanaland? No, it is Bechuanaland. What is the present-day name of the country known until 1975 as Dahomey? - Benin. - Er, Benin. Correct. How was the Democratic Republic of the Congo known between 1971 and '97? Zaire. Correct. Ten points for this. The Verdi operas Joan of Arc, Luisa Miller and Don Carlos are all adaptations of works by which German dramatist, born 1759? BUZZER Goethe? No. Anyone like to buzz from Corpus Christi? BELL Schiller? Schiller is correct, you get a set of bonuses, this time on physical constants named after scientists. In each case, listen to the value and units of the constant and give the forename and surname of the eponymous scientist. First, who is 96,485 coulombs per mole? Quickly! - I can't say. - Faraday? Michael Faraday. Correct. Secondly, who is 9.27x10 to the -24 joules per tesla? Quickly. - Thomas Edison? - I don't know his first name. Somebody Weber. Maybe. Let's have it, please. Max Weber? No, it is Niels Bohr. Finally, who is 6.63x10 to the -34 joule-seconds? Max Planck? - Max Planck. - Correct. Ten points for this. Typically consisting of three layers in seed-bearing plants, what name is given to the wall of a ripened fruit that's derived from the ovary wall? BELL Carpal? - GONG - No. And, at the gong, Corpus Christi have 135, York have 170. APPLAUSE The answer was pericarp, of course. Right, well, bad luck, Corpus Christi. Um... You started well, you seemed to fade a bit in the middle but I think we're going to be saying goodbye to you. Congratulations to you, York. 170's a pretty impressive score. So we shall look forward to seeing you in Round Two. I hope you can join us next time but, until then, it's goodbye from Corpus Christi, Cambridge. ALL: Goodbye. It's goodbye from York University. - ALL: - Goodbye. And it's goodbye from me, goodbye. APPLAUSE