Series 50, Episode 26

BALLIOL - OXFORD vs KING'S - LONDON


 * 1) What is the first word of all the following poems? Edward Thomas's Lights Out, Browning's Two in the Campania, W. B. Yeats's, Wordsworth's Daffodils.

Bonuses: on world cultures

1.i. ritual of the scapegoat.

Yom Kippur / Day of Atonement)

1.ii. it advocates non-violence

Jainism

1.iii. What practice of Roman Catholicism

Indulgences

2. One of the Sea Peoples that invaded Egypt in 1190 BC, what people, possibly of Cretan origin, settled in the Eastern Mediterranean, developing a confederation of

Philistines

2.i. Born in 1823, what churchman played a leading role in both the

(Archbishop) Croke

2.ii. The ma

Sir Roger Casement (Casement Park)

2.iii. the Earl of Shelburne.

Lansdowne Road

3. Meaning 'fail in a duty' or 'offend'

Delinquent

on Kathleen Lonsdale, one of the

3.i.

William Henry Bragg

3.ii. Noted for her own work on 'appearing to own the whole of crystallography in her time'?

Dorothy Hodgkin

3.iii. In 1929, Lonsdale used in what hydrocarbon?

Benzene

PICTURE ROUND ONE

Chile-Argentina border 5,300km

PR1.i. China and Mongolia 4,700km

PR1.ii. Brazil and Bolivia 3,400km

PR.iii. Russia and Kazakhstan 6,800km

4. In astronomy, what two-word term denotes a

Planetary nebula

Bonus questions: on the lesser-known works of Charles Darwin

4.i.q. what type of ecosystem?

4.i.a. Coral reefs

4.ii. Uniformitarian theories of which of Darwin's

Charles Lyell

4.iii.a. Darwin's next major work after the Origin of Species

Orchids

5. In US history what was the all

Continental Congress

Bonus questions: on Shakespeare's Henry VIII

5.i.q. the historical figure on whom he is based died in 1530.

5.i.a. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey

5.ii.q. That's somewhat sudden

5.ii.a. Sir Thomas More

5.iii.q.

5.iii.a. Anne Boleyn / Bullen

MUSIC ROUND: Popular music

The Everly Brothers 'Wake Up Little Susie'

6.q.

6.a. Argon

MUSIC BONUSES

i. Dolly Parton

ii. Roy Orbison, 'Bye Bye Love'

iii. Buddy Holly

7.

7.a. Joseph Schumpeter

Bonuses: on

7.i.q. Two poets born in the 1590s

7.i.a. Robert Herrick and George Herbert

7.ii.q. and the Nobel laureate who wrote

7.ii.a. Heine and Hesse

7.iii.q. Which two twentieth-century

7.iii.a. Heller and (Lilian) Hellman

8.q.

8.a. Esther

Bonuses: on mathematics in the 1830s