Series 50, Episode 28

Broadcast 01-Feb-21

Imperial vs Warwick

I.
'Quarter' follows 'French', 'Jewellery' and 'Armenian' in the names of areas of New Orleans, Birmingham... [Interrupted] [Interpolated: 'and the Old City of Jerusalem']

I. Bonuses: on a geographical region (Illyria)

I.i. Twelfth Night is the Shakespeare play set in Illyria, as Viola is told in Act I scene ii when she asks, 'What country, friends, is this?'

I.ii. Dalmatia was the southern region which together with Pannonia in the north formed the Roman province of Illyricum

I.iii. (The Republic of) Venice was the Italian polity which controlled much of the Dalmatian coast from 1420-1797, with the small exception of the Kingdom of Ragusa

II.
Kevlar is the six-letter trademark name for the nylon-like polymer developed by Stephanie Kwolek at DuPont, first marketed in 1971

II. Bonuses: on a mathematician ((Paul) Erdős)

II.i. (Paul) Erdős was the mathematician, born in 1913 in Budapest, who was the subject of the 1998 biography The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman

II.ii. a simple proof the prime number theorem that states that tends to n over log n

II.iii. Erdős claimed that mathematicians are machines for turning coffee into theorems

III. The three letters 'gim-' begin words which mean, a device for keeping a compass horizontal in a moving vessel (gimbal), and a colloquial expression for something that is easy to perform or obtain (gimme)



IV. Stanley Spencer's version of the Resurrection, depicted as taking place in his hometown in Berkshire, was described by one critic following a 1927 exhibition: 'It is as if a Pre-Raphaelite had shaken hands with a Cubist.'

III. Bonus questions: on the aviator Harriet Quimby

III.i. The English Channel

III.ii. D. W. Griffith

III.iii. Boston (Massachusetts) is the city on the Charles River near which is Dorchester Bay where Harriet Quimby died falling from her plane in 1912

V. in silico as a computer simulation? It refers to a chemical element commonly used

V. Bonuses: on

V.i. (Marcello) Malpighi and the tubules of the insect excretory system?

V.ii. Santiago Ramon y Cajal

V.iii. (Camillo) Golgi was the Italian biologist who shared the 1906 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Cajal and who gives his name to the cellular organelle that packages proteins into vesicles for transport

Picture round one: Tripoints
P1:

P1.i. Afghanistan, Iran and Turkmenistan

P1.ii. Algeria, Mali and Niger

P1.iii. Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia

VI. Herbert Hoover was the President served as Secretary of State by Henry L. Stimson and whose presidency the London Naval Conference, the Japanese occupation [interrupted] [Interpolated: of Manchuria]

VI. Bonuses: on heraldry

VI.i. Gold/'or' and silver/'argent' are the two metals in heraldry

VI.ii. South Africa

VI.iii. The flag of Trinidad and Tobago (adopted on independence in 1962) has blazon gules bend sable, fimriated argent

VII. Mononoke is the name in Japanese mythology given to or yokai

Bonuses: on a French city (Nancy)

VII.i. Nancy

VII.ii. Place Stanislas in Nancy, which forms part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is named after the deposed King of Poland Stanislaus I who was the father-in-law of Louis XV

VII.iii. (Edmond de) Goncourt was born in Nancy and his bequest the Prix Goncourt, the literary prize which was first awarded in 1903

VIII. W and Z are the two letters of the alphabet which

Bonuses: on inaugural recipients of the Kennedy Center [sic] Annual Awards, established in 1978

VIII.i. Marian Anderson

VIII.ii. (Arthur) Rubinstein

VIII.iii. (George) Balanchine

MUSIC ROUND

M. Wagner, Tannhäuser opening bacchanale

Music bonuses: classical pieces by French composers depicting baccanalia

M.i. Saint-Saens, Samson et Delilah

M.ii. Ravel, Daphnis et Chloe

M.iii. Berlioz (from a programmatic work)

IX. (John) Keats is the Romantic poet who wrote the lines: 'When old age shall this generation waste, / Thou shalt remain in midst of other woe...' [Interrupted]

IX. Bonuses: on a shape

IX.i. An Archimedean spiral

IX.ii. Fresnel diffraction

IX.iii. The Ionic order of classical architecture

X. The fennec fox (Vulpes zerda) is native to the Sahara and is the world's smallest species... [Interrupted] [Interpolated: 'of fox']

X. Bonuses: on a religious term

X.i. Buddhism

X.ii. Monkey

X.iii. The Tang Dynasty

XI. Roald Amundsen's small team of Hanssen, Hassel, Biaaland and Wisting were in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole

XI. Bonuses: linked by the word 'frolic'

XI.i. Frolic and detour

XI.ii. Robert Pinsky

XI.iii. Curb Your Enthusiasm

XII. Seven watts of power are dissipated in a resistor of seven ohms with a potential difference of seven volts between its ends

XII. Bonuses: on London fog

XII.i. (Claude) Monet, born in Paris in 1840, produced a number of paintings of foggy views of Westminster and the Thames, some painted from a window of the Savoy Hotel

XII.ii. Whistler's Nocturne in Grey and Gold - Piccadilly (about 1882) was described by one writer as 'the boldest stroke of nineteenth-century fog art'

XII.iii. Oscar Wilde wrote in his 1891 mock-Socratic dialogue 'The Decay of Living' that 'London fogs did not exist until art had invented them.'

PICTURE ROUND TWO

P2. Frank Lloyd Wright

Bonuses: photographic portraits by Berenice Abbott

P2.i. Lead Belly/Huddie Ledbetter

P2.ii. Edna St Vincent Millay

P2.iii. Coco Chanel

XIII. Anarchy

XIII. Bonuses: on medical terms

XIII.i. The myelin sheath

XIII.ii. The maxilla

XIII.iii. Measles is the contagious disease also known as morbilli or rubeola

XIV. The composers Hummel and Haydn wrote concertos trumpet

XIV. Bonuses: on twentieth-century China

XIV.i. Jung Chang wrote the 2019 book Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

XIV.ii. Sun Yat-sen married the 'Red Sister' of the title, Soong Ching-ling, in 1915

XIV.iii. Chiang Kai-shek married the 'Little Sister' of the title, Soong Mei-ling, in 1927, after which she became known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek

XV. Neutrino was the subatomic particle that triggered event 170922A at the Ice Cube Observatory at the South Pole in... [Interrupted]

XV Bonuses: on post-war literature

XV.i. Group 47 was an informal association of writers in the German language founded in 1947

XV.ii. Heinrich Böll received the Group 47 literary prize for his work The Black Sheep

XV.iii. 'The Tin Drum' is the English translation of the title of Gunter Grass's Die Blechtrommel

XVI. County Tipperary is an inland Irish county bordering both Galway and Cork, which since the early twentieth century has been associated with a popular song

XVI Bonuses: on Norway

XVI.i. Stavanger is a port in southwest Norway which has been the centre for Norwegian North Sea oil and gas exploration since the early 1970s

XVI.ii. Tromsø is an Arctic port between Narvik and Hammerfest in which the Auroral Observatory was founded in 1928 to study the Northern Lights

XVI.iii. Bergen is on Norway's western coast and was the city in which Edvard Grieg was born in 1843

XVII. 'The Triumph of the Innocents', 'The Scapegoat'... [gong] [Interpolated: are titles of paintings by William Holman Hunt]