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2019 British Student Quints Championships Final Notes

I guess a welcome everybody to the final of the 2019 British student quints championships which is the ninth iteration in the modern era of this competition and as in many iterations previously we have a final which is going to be played between Cambridge and Oxford my name is Anne Dickinson I look after editing the set from any qts SCT tournament for this competition let's start by meeting the teams and I will begin with the challenges to the title Oxford's so if you can introduce yourselves please so that the University Challenge style let us know who you are where you're from what do you do hi I'm Jacob Robison I'm from New Malden and I'm reading physics hi I'm Isaac Brown I'm from Sheffield and I'm studying French in linguistics I'm Jewish Elston of them Hull from studying economics I'm Holly Clark I'm from Birmingham and I'm doing a deformation history and the defending champion soul of British a Christian bishops let's meet Cambridge I'm Richard Freeland like from Oakland my doing PhD in algebra i'm samuel cook from rugby and i'm doing a PhD in sociology I'm just a prompt I'm from being in my future and I'm doing maths I'm young again I live in Birmingham and I'm doing physics potato skins already will make the start services be SDC 2019 final 24 toss-ups and this is the first of them fingers on buzzers it's not grease but one poet from this country wrote the memoir the presence after his wife died in a car accident and referenced his work as a doctor in his title white coat purple coat an Anglican priest from his country declared chamois dreamed it in song three years turning Danny Apps was a poet from this country where another paper called a 30th birthday in October walking a seashore in the collection destined entrances for ten points made his birthplace of our essence Dylan told whales today Sunday March the 10th 2019 is the final day of British Pie week for this lesson see how produces a type of High River distinctive cross that is hand formed rather than being baked in a tin LT might remember doesn't eyebrows correct a pie of this fish mains and islands in the tens of Twix enough that was home to the influential 1960s jazz club and they come from stirring this fish is that it - parsley and serve with playing math in the East End it's my deal is correct these traditional methods for Stuart crust dumplings are sometimes divided into two to the savory filling in one end that's quite a bit particularly different the better cheek Langa this material along with plastic imitations is used to decorate the key touches on most modern saxophones and valve buttons on trumpets because metal contains the taste of caviar caviar spoons are usually made from this not repelled that's great - is Oxford this and that is freedom as well - the freedom of his brothers in a crooked game of dice the ten points each make this Prince the eldest of the Pandava brothers you disappear you disappear as a central figure in this Hindu epic that contains the bhagavad-gita after Mahabharata is correct after ascending mountain arrow Yudhisthira refused to abandon one of these animals which was his part of Dharma in disguise I think it's gonna be Tiger something that some of these structures but contain rat-free are anchored to island channels by the RI m and our MVP scaffolding proteins these structures are grouped into readily releasable recycling and reserve pools VA NP and synaptic brevin are embedded into the membranes of these structures high cytoplasmic calcium levels drive snare complexes to mediate vesicles physicals in the 1920s Congress saw a resurgence in Revival style associated with this country for ten planes each named this country whose stylistic influence in Art Deco is exemplified by statues of black cats of the colonnade were painted for Paris flower the disease asthma Carreras cigarette factory and mornings and present Egypt Egypt Egypt is corrected an earlier Egyptian revival followed from the poliana invasion of Egypt that architectural translates to an Egyptian Avenue being built for this London location whose other features include the circle of Lebanon possible hi pop that's Highgate Cemetery Alex are the Tulsa design this cities Egyptian holes on Union Street and combine bereavement Egyptian motifs for its and Vincent Street Church this cities Riverside museum designed by Zuffa the hadeeth with a zigzag roof opened in 2011 as part of the urban renewal of its docks noting that Wes is Glasgow clusters so that's good Dominique fat and false once a v8 woods were renowned as craftsman of these objects part of which is often made from Pernambuco woods these devices are allowed to naturally bounce as part of a sortie a stroke and a thin tool V placed over a note indicator suppose [Applause] c18 and columns are commonly used for this specific form of high-performance liquid chromatography or HPLC the 10 points each name is form of HPLC which uses a non polar stationary phase thereby allowing more polar compounds to elute first form to form a bouncy bloody hell until a really high class reverse phase many normal phase HPLC columns are packed with a variant of this columns material which is the main component of San silica it's at Seneca great HPLC columns light with cyclodextrins are used to purify molecules based on this property the resulting purity in terms of this property is often measured by a parameter abbreviated EE and that's an antiemetic successor this is like my commodity ok balance a car a terrific B names devout friar and small nun designates the peaks of an extinct volcano in this country known as the altar in this country swat tailors reflect an architect's arithmetic mistake on the new cathedral of cuenca this country's capital lies on the slopes of the inactive volcano pachinko capital Ecuador for turns industry [Applause] [Music] the last reporter even featuring both this musician and Charlie Parker was 1950 freeze jazz at Massey Hall the ten points each names trumpeter who played a trumpet whose Bell was bent upwards Oh dizzy probably Gillespie feel that Dizzy Gillespie is correct Gillespie and Parker appeared as part of a quintet with also featured this ill-tempered bassist who orchestrated the album the black Saints into the simulator evenings charts maintenance is correct Massey Hall is a concert venue in Miss North American city but also hosts the beaches International Jazz Festival and no business it said North Americans that's probably hinting at the other day let's say it's some thank you but uh Toronto how there you go we do the same Martin Heidegger illustrates these concepts using a silver chalice in the question concerning technology Nikolaas Tinbergen puts forth a set of questions that corresponds to these concepts like behaviour they lose their own self previous treatments of these concepts like bonus and pluralists are criticized in book alpha of a work by that formulator these concepts which in Greek are called I ETA appear in the physics for ten points Aristotle positive what's a core four concepts including material formal efficient and final causes those are four pauses or ten points each Oxford Ultima Fire Mountain notions of consensus in various fields the false consensus effect is one of these systemic deviations from rationality another one overestimates certainty in hindsight sighs buzzer mice yes buzzer biases a type of consensus called Byzantine thoughts tolerance is desirable in these computer systems which pass information between networked devices decentralized systems are a subtype of them only you have intentservice and it relates also plays episodes there's a distributed systems make sense this historian stressed the role of consensus in US history in such books as the genius of American politics this historians free funny work all of the Americans included for Democratic experience oh yeah obviously Daniel Boston one person that this profession used skills from the milliner's apprenticeship to popularize an elaborate mobcap the chief beneficiary of the estate of Prince Rupert of the Rhine at this profession which first gave public fame to the person who supposedly dog the duchess of portsmouth squinter bela that person continued in this profession in spite of being the Protestant of charles ii like yes actress [Applause] this almost trilogy to the ends of the earth takes the form of the Journal of the 19th century aristocrats on a series of long voyages the ten points each make this off of who in the novel close-quarters describes my Paris to Pratt falling in love with Miss Marian Chumley when the frigate alcian meets his stricken ship Charleston sir please comment that's William Golding I love the book a priceless first novel of to the ends of the earth in which Edmund Talbot recounts his first voyage to Australia in this novel at the CUNY Reverend Colley dies after an obscure beastliness with the ship's men and I think if I have to the rites of passage yes it is risk a passage Goulding's work on human savagery on the high seas includes this novel in which Ralph and Jack by two people neither a group of boys who stranded on an island for lord over the place this offer of 1932 mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics proved that the matrix and wave formulations of quantum mechanics are equivalent hypothetical self-replicating space probes unnamed for this man whose studies are self-replicating systems on women from [Applause] when this work premiered in fact we have to Constantine Stanislavsky originated the role of Saturn for 10 points each name displayed that centers on the inhabitants of a lodging house in the Volga at the end of the death there's a lot of dancers correctly offer the lower depth Maxim Gorky pioneers is no longer extant country's literary movement of socialist realism diversity yes the time yes it's ours correct Corky's early works include this short story which is also set in a cellar in it the title pretzel makers are visited daily by a woman named Tanya 26 men in ago 26 men are I'll get you perfect that's it really okay so the one that was started this is one further point Oxford leading language 150 to 95 start a nine Geoffrey Blaney emphasize the importance of this country's geographical isolation from its colonizer and the tyranny of distance Henry Reynolds's attempts to reform this country's historiography were criticized by the conservative Keith winshuttle in the history Wars at Australia the 10-point Z transfer falling about Hainan Province China plans The pieman includes the disputed Paracel Islands and Spratly Islands those islands are found in this city between China the Philippines and the mainland Southeast Asia and South China Sea South China Sea is correct the jungles Strait separates Hainan from its most populous Chinese government on these famous cities includes depend genders grand on corrected this capital and most populous city of Hainan river is home to chilo snacks for all with the cold but it's high court yes man a 2014 annotation of this play by Wallace Sean opens with five nurses attending to a man in a hospital bed a woman in sister the title character of this play costs to give her a Kingdom named after the color orange when they have met ten years earlier the masked villain [Applause] this concept is illustrated with the example the man who was genuinely incapable of uttering a single sentence that was not a cliche for 10 points each name is free word concept quite in a 1963 book which states the cool actions may be motivated by stupidity and unreflective obedience to orders banality of evil the lousy of evil is correct this philosopher who wrote in the origins of totalitarianism discussed the banality of evil in the world Eichmann in Jerusalem and art is correct this scholar of Kabbalah of major trends in Jewish mysticism was highly critical of our informality of evil thesis I can't remember this peasants condone very accord but it's good fun materials for these devices are studied in an intermittent titration technique abbreviated G ITT touraine Celgard produced polyolefin based separators for these devices for use with solvents like ENC layers batteries caught lithium-ion batteries fifteen for lithium ion batteries gives you these bonuses the product of this quantity with the moment of inertia tensor yields the angular momentum for ten points each name this quantity measured in radians per second which expresses an object's rate of rotation linked in the velocity angular velocity is correct the cross product of angular velocity with linear velocity in a fixed frame defines this contribution to be apparent rate of change of a body's momentum in a rotating frame since a linear motion appears curved by Coriolis metacommunity net Coriolis force is correct the overall rotation of a rigid body can be decomposed or fagioli in terms of mutation intrinsic rotation at this quantity they change with the first Euler angle in which the axis of rotation is itself rotated edge recession precession is correct that's all ticket it snaps it's not Brussels but this city is home to a sculpture of a pink man kissing the bad bad boy this city whose nickname is stuffy is also home of a bright red spark of pub tram a monument of hundreds of steel plates on us Vista T's most famous composer this city's neoclassical Senate square showcases the architecture of Karlovic angle including a White's Lutheran Cathedral with five green domes the tank points what capital city s Walsall loose behind it's vital to be sibelius monument vally sensation Alamos re-thinking Helsinki is [Music] 20% of this country's population has been displaced by a civil war since 2013 for 10 points each name is country where president kattiline samba Hamza demanded with all cabinet members prove independence from both the anti-balaka militia and it supposed attract American Republic Central African Republic the Civil War pitted the government from anti-balaka against this rebel coalition whose leader Michel djotodia to a presidency by force in 2013 while the antiparticles called Celica yeah this international organization whose peacekeepers are known as the loom there is also a Salvation that maintains the menus commissioned in the Central African Republic that's the only one but is the UN 20 who knows the 2008 Olympics introduced an open water swim of this distance in which Natalie du Toit became the first amputee to compete at the Olympics listen van Culkin became 1991 Sports Personality of the year after a World Championships win at this distance and Rio 2016 Alma's il approached memories 5,000 meters record for this distance by 14 seconds on Super Saturday 2012 O'Farrell won gold in his distance which holds the runway for an Olympic distance triathlon I see tons of the following about video game developer telltale games in sheep's clothing is the title of a chapter in this episodic adventure game by Telltale in which big P investigates the murder of faith in Fabletown people tell where what its descendants before I heard of it but a puzzle is an openness but is the wolf among us telltale games producers a game in this franchise based on a post-apocalyptic comic series by Robert Kirkman Tony Moore in the first season of that game of the ever it protects Clementine from the same things The Walking Dead Walking Dead is correct telltale Games's first release was a simulator of this real-life game doyle brunson the right super system about this gambling game whose other computer shovel way includes fact with daniel negreanu they're probably very polluting I don't even know kinda plays poker poker again because he must be from 2006 to 2017 this country pursued a nationalistic policy called Antiqua zation in 2018 this country trained for roadways made new friendship highway as minion [Applause] your bonuses Cambridge Mississippi did not ratify this constitutional amendments until 1984 for ten points each names provision which extended the franchise to women in the USA and United States xx ons of Led Zeppelin 50 that's the 19th amendment the inviting ferment with his nickname for this successor to Elizabeth Cady Stanton as lately does the National American Woman Suffrage Association she demanded such an amendment from Congress every year from 1869 yeah Anthony Susan the Anthony is correct this States became the crucial 36th state to ratify the 19th amendment after intense campaigning over several months by suffragists like Kerry captain and Dudley that's that all we're guessing this isn't one it's not that Mississippi nice place wasn't a butyl buzz Tennessee this quantity is enhance on the strong side of a Halbach array a configuration commonly used in wigglers devices in the Helmholtz configuration produce homogeneous magnetic fields so yeah that's it [Applause] the tailpipe see transfer following about the foolish store method of numerical integration it can be used on this type of equation linear second order examples of these equations of a subjective still Nouvel various difference with the difference between ease so the only years correct is the methods uses this technique of combining approximations with different step sizes to cancel the lowest order error term also latest adaptive this is Richardson extrapolation the methods uses this type of fitting function to extrapolate to a step size of zero this is like the function which equals a polynomial P over a polynomial Q is named by analogy with numbers equal to an integer hand over majors right hand it makes an impression what office office title characters rather this is about volcanoes in an Elizabeth Bishop poem set in England [Applause] you can hate Agustina the so-called Spanish and Joan of Arc was known as the maid of this city for ten points each name Spanish city was defended by frustated Palafox in the second of two extended seizures during a credential of war two sieges la coruna perhaps attract black arena the safar Gotha for three centuries after its capture by Alfonso the first in 1118 Gothel was capital of this kingdom it was united with US Steel when 39 for secondary isabella the first don't hurry music everything correct yeah be taifa of power gospel is established following the collapse of this Caliphate ruled by the pinata to the speeds 10th century it's just the man said I don't know it's not Amara good I mean it's Caliphate of Cordoba yeah yeah I like this one ok this artists two sets of works on The Passion of Christ are commonly known as large and small passion this artist practice of 15 picture series with some John's vision of the Virgin on Patmos and collaborator who sir loose five collaborated with mathematician yo Alice Tobias on 195 walk print of a triumphal arch this artist of the Apocalypse series depicted a frowning winged woman in an allegorical work also showing a Magic Square for 10 points famous artist whose wood cuts include melancholia one of the depiction of a rhinoceros Tara Albrecht Durer is correct and your bonus is Cambridge this poets in a station of the Metro cover has the apparition of faces it's just two petals are waiting back bar for 10 points each name is expectorate American poet whose Kantos will publish over a period 50 years from 1917 as the plan is correct in the station of the metros written as part of this literary movement through which consort luminous detail in poetic visualization of an object HD was another writer in this movement imagism is correct this British poets opposition to romantic optimism contributed to the founding principles of the imagist movement one short poem by this writer opens a touch of cold in the autumn night this actress might protective actress a simple full Dyke in my week with marylin this actress start alongside her husband Michael Williams in a fine romance and appeared alongside Ian McKellen in Trevor Nunn's Macbeth in 2017 this actress star alongside Larry Judi Dench October 2018 Philip Hammond announced these final cancellation of the latest successor to this policy The Times legs each made this off-balance-sheet policy used extensively by the Blair governments to contract with holding and management of new schools and hospitals to companies like her ilium and catalyser Finance Initiative is neutrality try the finance minister pf5 appropriate initiative is correct in a 2004 special report for private eye an investigative journalist with the surname publicized behind long term costs of PFI back journalists uncle also with the surname wrote a guilty man with Franco in a visa Hallett 30 members by okay answer please Butler that was Paul to the Michael Persky sorry Paul Fox report for this Treasury policy maker from the major government the intellectual thrust of PFI this creator of civic conservatism back to David Davis's unsuccessful 2005 Tory leadership bid just a case like you know a stripe michael fabric and that is David Willetts okay this is nineteen six ago this organization lost over thirty percent of its members in December 2018 following a unification Council that created a new star Peggy on Miss organizations called celebration with a former self of the Russian Orthodox Church the captain and for dr. he have a title character drowning as he attempts to dispose of the bloody dagger that he uses to murder Mary the ten points each name is Austrian composer who shot shot audiences with the a tonality of this offer of God's and his third album though is correct but dedicated false active alum of a widow of this other Austrian composer who adapted funds bankers translations of Chinese poetry in the song of the earth mark Muller is correct in his second opera album back represented the character of Lulu with the flute alto sax and this percussion instrument but while common in Jasmine was at the time of novelty in a classical Orchestra Danny may be based around what are they plans and they just play house blues and a bass drum that's a vibraphone by [Music] Margaret elephant salts to defend this finger from Watsonville biography of him by this disciple James fruit this finger reviewed the leadership of Samson of tottington in a work that coined the term captain of industry and analyzed the condition of England question after the only manuscript was accidentally burned while held by J's mill Collins's favorite in this work the young rape child surface sells his family portraits to the moneylender mr. premium not realising the premium it is his own consolidating disguise the ten points each made this comedy of intrigue in which ladies smell while attempts to lure these other characters into socially compromising situations smelling school for scandal maybe good+ schools can correct a scandal Richard Brinsley Sheridan to school the scandal was first performed at this London theatre where Charles I succeeded David Garrick was only the manager as this is the oldest London theater still in use yeah you know Jamie named Jerry Lane is directed Sheridan was also a politician in my role he was portrayed by this caricaturist as an old bottle of sherry being uncorked might be younger custom form of a spray of kids stolen gas and stay all right gents Gilroy John Galsworthy story late to nine-nine focuses on a man who went to prison for performing this action Nina used this action as a scientific solution after learning with insanity runs in Sam's family it's strange interlude will the large when Homer wells are both secretly willing to undertake the service while make abortions abortion for this biologists dissected with misogynistic scientific work of Paul Broca in the essay women's grains for ten points each names biologists who criticized the theory intelligence is biologically determined in his board for this measure of man that's by miss measurement semantics no pen Stein Stephen gold gold co-developed punctuated equilibrium with crates of this process does not occur gradually opened in years but rather in spurts over thousands of years resolution mathematician evolution is correct in a 1979 type of gold uses this architectural term to describe features of an organism that horizon free starters were writing a fragment hmm this city was the base of an ultra-nationalist occultist political movement known as the fuel society you know [Applause] once each of the following about an African Empire this Hedgehog was repelled on the Sunni Ali four months of useless deference would collapse of the body Empire pretty sure something yeah sometimes some grammar is correct be careful of the song I am others this city on the night early entertains with to ask you O Muhammad yeah yeah get garrus correct Moroccan armies led by salt on al-mansour focus we saw the Empire this 1591 battles fought near present city of so here yet I see five miles upriver from the GAO on what they call the no I can't isolate come on okay cameras infrared mapping of blood these bodies in 2010 revealed a pacman shaped heat distribution including a warm spot caused by the five kilometer high walls of the Herschel crater the South Pole of one of these bodies has for practice called type moons of Saturn [Music] [Applause] little something else you these bonuses this man was buried by the Sun Acastus after most of his daughter's trapped in two pieces and threw him into a boiling pot for 10-20 tremendous Kingdom by August 30th and the ugh lot its Oh God he's sensitive possibly pay us else is great perhaps ultimately hero to retrieve this occupied by the ietf coming us the golden please tell the place is correct Talia's his mother Tara was a daughter of this King he was struck down while riding at high speed in a chariot over a bridge of grass to imitate thunder oh no Stan it's lieutenant zoo skills but to be honest he always 40 gained 40 point games oxford and this is the final starter this economists early reserve in Nairobi encouraged him to develop an equilibrium theory of wage determination with Andrew Weiss miss economist investigated while endless rationed credit after leading the World Bank at the end of the roaring 90s this economists became a critic of the Washington Consensus George Akerlof and they're sticklers Stiglitz [Applause] clearly people bonuses and that we can celebrate in full magnetic equator Emmanuel needs a level winning gender miss battle was described as a single point which reaches out of football and masters it for ten points each may this battle his winner was called a world soul by a philosopher at the Germany University discount in the hour that where it took place handsome Jenny yes will be gayness Hegel yeah I know mr. X mr. la SOPA was working on his bonobo ecology of spirits in fact with Ganga raged outside pega haga was correct the hero of the ensuing battle alphabet was Miss French marshal who was given to the honorific Duke of Alex back to winning at least important victory I think [Applause] so after a spectacular contact really well placed to the egg people in front of me the score with 452 335 gives me great pleasure to declare Oxford's Bieber student Chris champions 2019 [Applause] you