Series 50, Episode 27

Strathclyde v Durham

1. Stonehenge features elements called the Aubrey holes, the bluestone horseshoe and the sarsen trilithons

Bonus questions: on English words taken from French. All three answers begin with the same two letters

1.i. What short word means an unfounded story, often one that is purposely misleading? In French it means a kind of waterfowl.

Canard

1.ii.

Cadre

1.iii. In French it common

Cahier

2. The opening scene of which of Shakespeare's plays comprises just 61 words, the longest of those being 'lightning', 'hurlyburly' and...?

Macbeth

Bonus questions: on the politician Ellen Wilkinson

2.i. Palmers shipyard

Jarrow March

2.ii.

Minister of Education

2.iii. As Minister for Education, Wilkinson's tasks 1944 Educated Act introduced by which Conservative minister?

R. A. B. 'Rab' Butler

3. Quote: 'I found. It was like trying to explain the differential calculus to a man who did not know his 12 times table.'

(Trofím Denísovich) Lysénko

Bonus questions: on Renaissance artists. All three answers begin with the same letter.

3.1. and the frescoes of the Sassetti Chapel in Florence.

(Domenico) Ghirlandaio

3.2. Which German artist of the Northern Renaissance on display at Colmar in Alsace?

(Matthias) Grünewald

3.3. In about 1505, which Venetian artist painted the early landscape work known as the Tempest?

Giorgione

4. the Heiligenstadt Testament

Beethoven

Bonus: on material science

4.1. 'Linked to compressibility, which two-word term refers to the ratio of the applied pressure on a material to the magnitude of the fractional volume change produced?'

Bulk modulus or hydrostatic modulus or volume elasticity

4.2. Stretching materials makes them thinner at right angles to the stretch. named after which French scientist, born in 1781?'

(Siméon Denis) Poisson

4.3. Young's modulus is given by the ratio of tensile stress and is measured in what SI units?

Pascals or Newtons per square metre

P1. PICTURE ROUND ONE

The Utah Jazz, Salt Lake City

Bonus: home to only one major league sports team

P1.i. San Antonio Spurs

P1.ii. San Diego Padres

P1.iii. Green Bay Packers

6. Starter: Who is the only Nobel Laureate to date who has played first-class cricket?

Samuel Beckett

Bonus

5.i.

(Dick) White and (Alfred North) Whitehead

5.ii.

(George) Green and (Kate) Greenaway

5.iii. 'The Austrian-born physicist who proposed the link between pulsars and neutrons stars, and the mathematician who gives his name to the statement that every even number greater than 2 is the sum of two primes.'

(Thomas) Gold and (Christian) Goldbach

Born in Massachusetts which author described. Her knowledge of animal behaviour

Temple Grandin

Bonus questions: British birds of the genus corvus or crow

.1. Jackdaw

.2. Rook

.3. Raven

Radioactive isotope 'x'. If after one day there

A third of a day.

Bonus questions: on the French Third Republic

.1 General Boulanger

Revanchism ('Général Revanche')

.2.

Panama Canal

.3.

Emile Zola

MUSIC ROUND

Schumann, Piano Quitet in E Flat Major Opus 44, first movement

Extra starter Prince Rupert glass bead

.1.

.2.

Elgar

.3. Dvorak, Piano Quintet

.

Swing

Bonus questions: on DNA stains

.1. Hoescht and of what primary

Blue

.2.

.3.

Gram staining

Ward Hill

Orkneys

Bonus questions: on an English city

.1.

Ripon

.2. Except ye Lord keep

Book of Psalms

.3.

Alfred

spherical triangle. Mythical king of Sparta

Menelaus

Bonuses: on novels with alliterative titles

.1.

Tobias Smollett

.2.

Black Beauty

.3.

Nicholas Nickleby

PICTURE ROUND II

P.2. Cezanne

P.2.1. Caravaggio, The Cardsharps

P.2.2.

P.2.3. Otto Dix,

In 1907 Charles Collier and Harry 'Rem' Fowler were the first winners in their classes at which

Isle of Man TT

Bonus questions: on scientific terms

.1.

Isopentane

.2. ILE

.3.

Termites

Turin/Torino

Bonus questions: on major events of 1969

.1. Ussuri river

China and USSR

.2.

Somalia

.3.

Willy Brandt

Synchotron

Bonus questions: On the topography of Pluto:

1.1.

Cthulu

Lovecraft

Sputnik

The occupation of which...