 Maen nhw Pawebly yn y cychwyn cyllid, yn gweithio fflaesio'r ffinig ar y ffynol o'r ffaith ym Mhwyllwrs Siaras. Dyna'r peth ynglyn â'r ffaith? Roedd yn gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio, ac mae'n amser yn ymwyllteb iawn o'r bwysig o'r ffaith siaras. Rwy'n gweithio bwysig o'r ffaith ym mhwyllwr, ynglynig ar y cyfnod o'r geithas ar gyfer am y ymddun gynnig. Felly eich cyfnod ymwyaf er mwyn bwrdd yn fnodi. Mae gufrifunsiaeth Cysylltwyr Celfnol Cysyllt yma gム. Gaw relate yn eu cymryd addysg ar ôl na'r progrwm am i'r cifnol, cwrs rydyn ni'n dda'r cwlsiaethau gwybodaeth cymryd. A rwy'n fawr i'n cael ei gydill ysmyl ar hyn? Rydyn ni'n eu lle i gynnwch i ni o gymryd ar wgwybod! Rwy'n cael ei gynnwch ar gydill! We'll only find out later this summer when the series is aired on the BBC. But I want to congratulate the team for making it through to the final stages of the programme. That's the only third time that SOAS team has made it through to the final broadcast stages. I know for one thing that my mother will be so pleased. I don't think my mother's that interested in SOAS. I'm not actually interested in me actually, but she's a great fan of the university challenge. On the two previous occasions when there's been a SOAS team, she's phoned me up every Monday and then fused about it and so on. So it's going to be great. It's going to put me up in my mother's estimation, so well done team. And I want to say a special thank you to Erlenwys Clarence James Bing-G Tan, who's instrumental in putting this all together. He described himself as an extra. I thought that was an extra, but I think actually the person, the kind of impresario. And just to add a kind of special SOAS twist to this, we have our own Professor Stephen Chan in the role of Jeremy Paxman. Here he is. He's been rehearsing carefully for weeks. Academic lectures have been put to one side. Books have not been written as he's entered into the soul of Paxman. And I'm looking forward to that. Stephen is a man of many talents. He's looking worried now. He's Professor of International Relations here. He's one of our most distinguished academics. He's widely credited to contributing and understanding of international politics in Asia and Africa. But as well as being an academic who's written, I forget how many, but 28 books. 29 now. No, is it 29 now? No, you're just boasting five volumes of poetry, two novels. As well as doing all of those things, he finds time. He also is heavily involved in diplomacy of one kind or another. He's been active, remains active in diplomatic work and active in several back channel. I think that's the right word, diplomatic manoeuvres. He's also been dean of the faculty, when he hasn't had anything else to do. He's been dean of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences twice on the grounds that doing it once wasn't enough, so he had to come back and do it again. Also a former Savile Row model. Those of you who want to see the pictures, we can circulate them afterwards. He is a man of great personal style and charisma. So thank you very much, Stephen. So congratulations again to the South University Challenge Team. I'm looking forward to the show this summer, to the alumni, team members, to Stephen, and my thanks to all of you, our alumni and friends, for being here this evening and for being here during the evening. As a director of science, it's a great source of pride to me that we get such great support from our former students. It's your support that feeds on to the ongoing life of the school, whether you're mentors, advisors, volunteers, donors or whatever. All of that makes a difference to us. It's wonderful when I go and meet former students because although they often come and tell me off about things, they're also incredibly positive about science. And that's, as I said, it's a great personal pride. So, enough for me. I'm just going to enjoy the evening. I'm sure you will now cue music. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's my very great pleasure to be with you this evening and in the company of our present and former contestants. When I was asked to do this, I had to plead two critical disadvantages which I think I should share with you for the sake of honesty, clarity and transparency. The first disadvantage was that I had never before watched University Challenge. I've since been on YouTube like a demon, so I've got a rough idea of what it's like. And the second and far more critical disadvantage was that I cannot stand Jeremy Paxman. However, I've very much enjoyed and I've always enjoyed the way that he's able to extend a simple vow so that it's interrogative just by saying, yes. So tonight I'll try my best to inject yes into the proceedings every now and again. But in watching YouTube and in the occasional channel surfing when it was impossible to escape coming across University Challenge, I was fascinated by two things. The first was I really liked the way they stacked the teams one on top of the other and was very, very disappointed to learn that that's a post-production studio or... ...artifice and that they really do sit just like this. I think this is very unfair. I was looking forward to a stacked rivalry this evening and that is not going to happen. The other thing that I thought I am a pedant among the many other talents that Paul forgot to mention and I was very, very much struck by how badly phrased some of the questions were. They could not, particularly in the case of classical questions, that has to do with antiquity, could not in my opinion have led to a proper answer. It was very, very much to the credit of the student contestants from many universities that they got the correct answer. So it's very much out of respect for the contestants from SOAS and from other universities that I was very happy to take on the duties of Chairman this evening. I think we begin by asking each of the teams to introduce themselves very briefly. I think the student team has to say what it is that they are studying here to prove that they are actually students and they actually are studying something. And I've got no idea what the graduate alumni team is doing right now, whether or not we've made them fit and proper specimens for the world at large or whether the world at large has yet to really appreciate their manifold talents, which of course we hoped to develop. But please, can we start with a brief introduction from our contestants this evening? My name's Maeve Weaver. I'm from Neverson, Hertfordshire, and I'm reading a BA in Ancient Near East Studies. I'm Filippo Lavageta from Milan, Italy, studying for a BA in Politics in Arabic. I'm Peter McKean from Wellington in South London, and I'm studying for an MA in African History. I'm James Figuero from Surrey, and I've just completed a BA in African Studies and Development Studies. My name is Clarence Stan. I studied Middle Eastern Studies, and I'm now actually setting up an opera agency. I'm Graham Rustin. I read History 2008 and appeared in the 2005-2006 University Challenge team. I'm Charlotte Perry. I studied History and graduated in 2008, and I'm a qualified teacher in work for an education charity. I'm Ben White. I study Development Economics. I graduated in 2009, and I'm now an accountant. I think the man on the end is someone that so I might have great need of in the near future as we enter the brave new world. Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to get underway immediately, and I think that I'm meant to say a particular phrase, which is your starter for ten. So, your starter for ten, named after an ancient Indo-European people, which historic region of southeastern Europe is bounded by the Black Sea, the Aegean Sea, and the Balkan Mountains, and includes parts of Bulgaria, Greece, and the whole of the European part of Turkey. Is that Thrace? Damn good. It's Thrace. Which means you get the full whack of ten points for that, and you also get bonus questions. So, the first bonus question, which is meant to be answered, I think, by the chairman or the captain of your particular team. Who is the captain, by the way? Say, man, okay. First bonus question. The story of the fellowship of outlaws during the War of the Roses, the Black Arrow, is an 1888 work by which novelist? It's Robert Lewis Stevenson. This man's on the wall. That's five points that he's accumulated. Second bonus question. In the Aeneid, who fires the poisoned arrows from the Wars of Troy, which, guided by Apollo, fatally wounds Achilles in the heel? Paris. He's on a roll here. That's another five points in the bank. And then the last bonus question. Times Arrow, in which a German doctor during the Holocaust experiences time in reverse, is a booker shortlisted work by which author? Martin Ames. If you hear good luck, or there are a phenomenal snow wall roll, and that's clean sweep. So, we'll go on to the next question before the alumni team has even been able to say a single word. But again, your starter for ten. Designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, which class A3? Mallard. Yes, you are. You know the duck points if you're wrong. You want me to complete the question? No, no. Is it Mallard, the locomotive Mallard? It's in the train. Well, actually, the answer is not the Mallard. I will therefore have to default to the other team to have a crack at this question, which I now have to finish reading. So, it was designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, and designed by him which class A3 Pacific steam locomotive bore the British Railways number 60103 after 1948, and the London North Eastern region number 4472 prior to 1948. Flying Scotsman. I'm right. You see, you have to listen to the fine print and to all the numbers, and of course they've got the account in their team. So, they get three bonus questions. And simply because they are so clever, these bonus questions are all on the post-Soviet states about which none of us know anything. So, the first bonus question. In each case, name the country in which the following revolutions took place. Carrying long stemmed roses as a sign of peace, Mikal Shaskavili and his supporters entered the parliament building and demanded the resignation of President Edward Sheffernadze in the Rose Revolution of 2003. Absolutely right. So, that's five bonus points. Next bonus question. Which country saw the Orange Revolution of 2004 in which protesters succeeded? Ukraine. They're getting there. And then the final bonus question. This concerns countries that I can't pronounce properly. Which country saw the Tulip Revolution of 2005 after which President Asghar Askayev fled by helicopter to the neighbouring Kazakhstan? Kyrgystan. Downright. Very good. So, we're on level pegging between both the current student team and the alumni team. So, again, your starter for ten. Use since the 14th century to mean the purchase of the liberty of a slave. What word is now more commonly understood to mean deliverance from sin? Who was that? Who was you? Manumission. It may be right, but in fact it's not the right answer in this case. Shall I finish the question or shall I just default as it is to the other side? I'll finish the question. Use since the 14th century to mean the purchase of the liberty of a slave. What word is now more commonly understood to mean deliverance from sin and its consequences by the atonement of Jesus? Redemption. Absolutely right. So, let's take that as a hesitant but lucky guess. Give them a chance at the bonus questions. The first bonus question is to do with plants. There's a bunch of green things that grow. In dirt. On plants. It's named derived from a Tongan word meaning bitter. What non-archoholic but intoxicating drink is made from the pepper plant peepamestikicum native to Polynesia? Teary. Moo. The correct answer is carver and the question is in fact wrongly phrased because I've drunk a lot of carver and it's very alcoholic. But I do believe that by getting the wrong answer you had deducted five points. There are not? Times have changed since I first channel surfed. The second bonus question therefore falls into disarray or do I keep asking bonus questions? What name is given to the evergreen shrub, Cata Edulis of Arabia and Africa, whose leaves are used as a narcotic when chewed or made into a drink? Again, based on extensive experience in those parts of the world, it is very narcotic. Then the last bonus question, which nut is commonly chewed in much of West Africa? Betel. I'm afraid not. Does the other side get a chance at the bonus questions? I'll finish the question and give you the answer. Which nut is commonly chewed in much of West Africa and is the source of the name of a carbonated soft drink? The answer is cola. I think we've got the present student team slightly ahead or have we not? Do they get a chance to make up now? Let's see what they do. Your starter for ten. What two given names link the Dutch physicist who gave her surname to the CGS unit of magnetic induction and his close friend, a writer noted for his poetry and stories for children? Hans Christian. That's right. The surnames were Østet and Anderson, which means that you get bonus questions. The first bonus question on terms from a website. The English moot is a website that proposes words coined from Germanic roots to replace those of Romance or Greek origin. For example, Orkenbuk is encyclopedia and Lernhol is university. So the English term bootminship represents what social science subject on the Lernplot or curriculum at many universities? The bootminship wasn't it? The answer is politics. The second bonus question is, possibly after the Mark I of 1948 Manchester craft along with Wreckernaught craft is an English version of what subject? Physics. Wrong again. It's computer science. So you get one more chance at a bonus question. If your law is history, what is wealth law? Economics. You got one of them right. That's great. So we'll move seamlessly on and your starter for ten. An example being the creature made by the Maral of Prague to defend the ghetto from antisemitic. A golem. Absolutely right. And therefore, bonus questions. These bonus questions are on poets of the Spanish Civil War. Having been given diplomatic posting in Barcelona, which Chilean poet, communist and supporter of the Republican forces was the author of the collection Espana on the Carousel or Spain in My Heart? La Ruda. Absolutely right. Second bonus question. Shortly before he left for Spain to join at the International Brigade, which poet was told by the British communist leader Harry Pollot to go and get killed? We need a Byron in the movement. Laurie Lee. He wasn't a poet. Robert Greaves. I have to get you to get an answer. Laurie Lee. No. Steven Spender. And the final bonus question. The poet, Julian Bell, killed while driving an ambulance at the Battle of Brunet in 1937, was the nephew of which literary figure who died in 1941? Virginia Woolf. Absolutely correct. So let's move on and your starter for ten. What term indicates literary works such as the 1669 French novel, disparision by Georges Perrec, which are written without using one particular letter of the alphabet? In this case, the letter E. Blank silence on all sides. It's a completely stupid question. No one writes novels like this anymore, nor should they. But the answer is a lipogram, which means that I guess no one gets to answer any bonus questions. Which means that we carry on to our next question. Another starter for ten. The curing in various fruits and vegetables. The plant pigment carotene is converted by the liver into which vitamin? Absolutely right, vitamin A. You see many of us have never seen a vitamin for quite some time because of our academics, so having answered the question correctly, three bonus questions on variations of English. In which Scottish city is Kelvin's side, which is given its name to an imitation of received pronunciation? Glasgow. Absolutely correct. Taken from a type of stew, which name is given to a variety spoken on Merseyside? Scouse, isn't it? Absolutely correct. And the English spoken in which university city, as opposed to that spoken by the townspeople, was formally considered the best of English usage? Oxford. Yes, absolutely. Well done. You can tell who are the veterans who have had much practice at this. So we'll move on, and your starter for ten. Listed in a work by Alan Dawson, and thought to be inspired by the forename of the 1950s actress, what name is given to British hills of any height... Maryland. Now you're a mind reader. It's true. Which means that you are entitled to some bonus questions. So the first bonus question, which 13th century document included clause number 39, no freeman shall be seized or imprisoned except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land? Magna Carta. Absolutely correct. Second bonus question, in 1995, the controversially rewritten clause 4 of the Labour Party constitution was approved, having formally affirmed the party's commitment to what? Socialism. Socialism? What do you think? I think it's... I thought it was a commitment to socialism. What's a commitment to revolution? Oh, maybe. You go for it. Revolution. Now I'm afraid now some of us are at this party conference, it's a very bitter battle. It affirmed the party's commitment to common ownership or the state control of industries and services, which gives us our last bonus question. Which act of 1701 still regulated the succession to the British throne and it includes a clause stating that anyone who shall profess the popish religion or shall marry a papist cannot be a monarch? Is it the act of succession? Well, you must be surely. Act of succession? You're almost right. Your alliteration was right, but it's actually the act of settlement. Close but not close enough. So we move on. And your start of a 10. According to its manufacturers and distributors, which traditional commodity cost seven pence in 1960? It's a point of bear. What kind of bear? Ale. OK, we give you that. But only poor Webley is old enough to know what... No, I am. It's a specialist subject. Absolutely. Well, we provide a student bath for something, so I'm very pleased it's working, which means that there are bonus questions that you're entitled to. These bonus questions are to do with flags. Which country's flag adopted in 1949 features one large yellow star for smaller ones said to represent the proletariat, the peasants, the petty bourgeoisie, and the patriotic capitalists? China. Absolutely correct. I'm a patriotic capitalist myself. Definitely get a star. The five points of the white star on which African countries flag represents its people today. Somalia. Yep. And it's actually the only African flag with a white star, so that's well known by you. Which gives you a last bonus question. Which Asian country became fully independent in 1965 and has a crescent and five stars on its flags and these stars representing democracy, peace, progress, justice, and equality? Singapore. Absolutely correct. Although whether these stars represent policies in practice in Singapore is another matter entirely. So we go on to the next question. You're a starter for ten. What term denotes the scientific description of nations or races of people, including their customs and points of difference and has formed of Greek derived components, meaning people and writing? Asynography. Absolutely correct. So you get three bonus questions on medieval universities. We had so as a not a medieval university, although some of our practices very closely resemble those of medieval universities. This rehearses a very old argument between myself and the director who is sitting here, and this evening is not allowed to talk back. Medieval universities. Which city in southern Italy is the site of a medical school dating back to the 9th century and regarded by some as the first university in Europe? Leche? No, answer is Salerno. It's a school of medical Salernetana. And the oldest university in Europe is more generally considered to be the University of Bologna. And that was founded in 1088. It received its charter nearly 150 years later from which Holy Roman Emperor? Frederick Barbarossa? Absolutely correct. And the final bonus question. Which university in northeast Italy founded in 1222 by students and protesters who left the University of Bologna in search of greater academic freedom? Padua. Absolutely correct. And so we move on to the next question with a start of a 10. According to the international weather-observing codes, what is defined as a cloud of small water droplets near ground level? It is fog. Thank you. That would be fog. That would be fog. So you get three bonus questions on taxation. There's something perverse about the way these things are over. Since you've got the accountant in your team, your bonus questions are taxation. Number one, what was the name of the tax to support the navy levied by the English Crown on coastal districts until it was abolished by Parliament in 1641? It's ship money, isn't it? Ship money. That's very good. Ship money it is. Income tax was first introduced in Britain during the administration of which Prime Minister? I don't know. The war against the Napoleons. OK. Do you think it's war? No. No, I don't. Lord Liverpool? No, I'm afraid not. It was William Pitt the younger. Final bonus question, during which decade was value added tax introduced in the UK in the 19th century? 1979. 1979. 1970. Absolutely correct. So we move on. And another starter for 10. From an Arabic term, meaning dry land, what name is given to the arid fertile plateau about 2,000 feet above sea level lying to the south of Madrid between the region of La Arcaria and the Sierra Modena. In Chavante's novel, it's the home of Don Quixote. La Mancha? You're right. Man of La Mancha, so it had to be La Mancha. Very good. Which means that you've earned three bonus questions. I don't believe this question. The first bonus question concerns a fictional pig. So which fictional pig was credited as the author on the cover of an encyclopedia of food published in 1932? The actual author being Hugh Lofting who had featured the animal on several Doctor Doolittle stories. None of us is old enough to know this one. So I'm not portly pig? No, it's... I'm going to know what it is, but I can't remember. No, we can't remember. We can't remember. Venezuela. If we are completely used to this information you'll never need this information again for the rest of your lives. I think who's a celebrated author and chef is gubgub. So we therefore move seamlessly on to another pig question. In the novels of PG Wodehouse Lord Emsworth's prize-winning Sal, the Empress of Blandling, Blandings, is a remarkably plump specimen of which breed of pig? I don't know if it goes to us, but... I think it is. You don't think it is? I'm going to go with Gloster Oldspot. Well, it's ingenious. It's a good guess. It's a very intelligible guess. It's a reasonably close guess, but it's a completely wrong guess. And the correct answer is Barksha. I didn't even know that. Never mind. Which prize bore, bore, a male pig, which prize bore described an animal farm as a pure-bread and middle-white is exhibited by the Joneses under the show name Willington Beauty. Can you repeat the question? What? What's the question? No, that's Barksha. The pig is Napoleon. No, they're old major. Snowballs one, isn't it? What's the question? We're going to go with Old Major. But you see they were so close that they needed some compassionate time to come to the correct answer, which is Old Major. Now, I do have to speed you up, as the director says. I've always been known for doing exactly what the director tells me to do. And as we're almost halfway through, I really have to chastise the alumni team who are being left behind. By the current students, which only is evidence of what constant state-of-the-art teaching on a daily basis does for you. So the minute you leave it all behind, you fall into disrepair and you're about to fall into disrepute. So your start of a 10, try harder, guys, is had he been known by his initials, as were JFK and LBJ, which post-war America is the most important and most important thing in the United States which post-war American president would have been JEC? Jimmy Carter. Carter is the great answer. Jimmy Carter. My distinction in terms of Jimmy Carter was almost being run down by his car at one point in time, and ever since then I've had very bad things to say about Jimmy Carter. So three bonus questions on Tolstoy. What did Tolstoy describe as a human activity having for its purpose transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have arisen? Writing. No. Art. So we lose that one, but we move on to another Tolstoyan question. In war and peace General Kutusof says, the strongest of all warriors are these two. Time and... Sorry? I think it might be something more philosophical. Weather? Weather? No. Time and patience. But since no one reads the Tolstoy novels these days because they're so huge and long, I can tell you that Joseph Wright who made Anna Karenina is about to do a remake of war and peace. So we'll be able to get all of these things in glorious cinematic abbreviation. So the final Tolstoy question in a letter of 1871 what general category of writing did Tolstoy describe as an intellectual brothel from which there is no retreat? I'll go with that or satire. Academic writing. It's true, but it's not a great answer. It's journalism. We'll move on to the next question. A starter for 10. In the 1948 paper A Mathematical Theory of Communication Who Defined A Mathematical Theory of Communication Who Defined Who Defined I'm ensuring. I'll finish the question so it can default to your competing team. In the 1948 paper A Mathematical Theory of Communication Who Defined The Bit as Quantity of Information Bit? I think his name was Kennedy. Oh, it's Shannon. I've got no idea what the question is anyway. It doesn't make sense to me. But that means there are no bonus questions which means that we can escape the only three interesting questions in the whole set on Hollywood stars. This is unfair. They've got all kinds of time to prepare themselves for... We'll move on to a start of a 10. Which fiber comprising tough, flexible protein rich in residues of the amino acid serine that's secreted by spiders for webs and some insects. Gorsama? No. Finish the sentence. By spiders for webs and some insects for cocoons and egg cases. Silk? Absolutely right. So, since you're right and since you're well behind and since you need all kinds of pastoral care which you haven't received since moving to university not having personal tutors who are conscientious and make sure they see you once every single term and forget your names you can have a choice. Do you want the bonus questions on nicknames or do you want the bonus questions on Hollywood stars? We want the ones on Hollywood stars. You're going to regret this. Okay. Which actor had a top 10 hit with respect yourself after achieving fame in the TV series Moonlighting with Sybil Shepard? Bruce Willis. Absolutely correct. Paul and I only remember Sybil Shepard, of course. So which Hollywood actor has been a member of the band Dark Star with Robert Malhouse and Brett Domrose? Keanu Reeves. Absolutely correct. And which actor played lead guitar with the kids before his first feature role as a short lived character in Nightmare on Elm Street? Should we think of a ridiculous answer? Should I press you for an answer? Sir Christopher Lee. No, this is Johnny Depp, I'm afraid. Okay, let's move on. Start of a 10. What short adjective links riot, rabbit and chris? Yes. And that's clear of warrant, ladies and gentlemen. Just so you understand the question and there are some of us old enough to understand this question. The short adjective that links riot, rabbit and chrismus and songs recorded by The Clash, Jefferson Airplane and Bing Crosley. So I remember Jefferson Airplane and Paul remembers Bing Crosley. Which means you get bonus questions. The bonus questions are to do with acronyms. What short adjective is also an acronym for the diameter of a person's waist? The CIA's special operation force and a mood disorder with depressive symptoms in the winter. S.A.D. Sad, S.A.D. That's right. Sad. And it stands for Shaktur abdominal diameter, special activities division and of course seasonal affective disorder which we now also suffer in summer in this country. What name is that of a 13th century theologian nicknamed the subtle doctor and is also an acronym for the highest U.S. judiciary? Scotus. Scotus. That's correct. Yes, Don Scottus and of course Supreme Court of the United States. So final bonus question. What abbreviation for a semi-conducting material is also the regional code for an Italian island? An acronym for the venue of the Malaysian round of Formula One and is a Latin word meaning thus. So I think so. Sick. Sick, S.I.C. That's right. And we'll move on. Start of a 10. In the periodic classification of elements what is the name of the group of elements also called the rare earth metals which include element number 58, chemical symbol CE and element number 71, chemical symbol YB. Lanthanoids. Absolutely correct. And we don't even teach chemistry here so absolutely fantastic. So your three bonus questions are to do with food. So accredited with introducing regional, Italian and French cooking to Britain in the post war last erity years which cookery writer's first volume was Mediterranean food? Elizabeth David. Absolutely correct. Having published a successful volume of poetry in 1826 who produced her modern cookery in 1845 specifying cooking times and serving as a model for the later works of Mrs Beaton. Oh. No idea, sorry. There is no idea about someone called a Lisa Acton. So final bonus question what ubiquitous food stuff did the writer Nigel Slater use for the title of his autobiographical book of 2004 subtitled The Story of a Boy's Hunger. Toast. Absolutely correct. So we started fresh with another starter for 10. Which tradition inaugurated in Plymouth colony in 1621? Thanksgiving. Very good. So you get three bonus questions on British history. On which 17th century event did the spectators say the blow I saw given and I remember well there was such a groan by the thousands then present as I never heard before. Execution of Charles I. Correct. Charles was a mild and gracious prince who knew how to be or how to be made great in the words of which Archbishop of Canterbury who support for the king let him to be beheaded in 1645. Archbishop Lord? That's right. And the final question although he later became Cromwell's unofficial laureate which English poet wrote of Charles first on the scaffold in common did or mean upon that memorable scene. Marle? Again, your alliteration brings you close but Zandru Marvell. Marle. So we move on. Start of a 10. What two word French derived term indicates a complete and annotated list of the works of a particular artist. It's a catalogue. That's half of it. And since the other half can't be completed by the team I'm afraid that one falls away. So what we're going to do I think because these are a nice bunch of bonus questions we'll ask these bonus questions anyway because they're to do with intelligence agencies. These are bonus questions. They're going to be buzzer questions in the sense that I see I'm not allowed to ask bonus questions because they're really nice questions about spy agencies. Time. Start of a 10 then. In 1910 Who made up the rules for the silly game? Your start of a 10. In 1910 the Austrian born violinist Fritz Kreisler gave the first performance of a violin concerto and B minor dedicated to him by its composer. Who was that composer? Elgar. Elgar it is. So do you want to answer bonus questions that are country specific or spy agency specific? Different spy ones. Let's give you the country specific ones. We'll save the spy ones for a more critical time. So these are country specific questions. The etymology of the name of which East African state is sometimes given as the Greek word for burnt and face. This here is West Africa. West Africa. West Africa. West Africa. Ethiopia. Ethiopia? That's right. It's very well used. So because you answered correctly Ethiopia feeds seamlessly into the next question which is about Ethiopia which country invaded Ethiopia on 3 October 1935? Italy. Absolutely correct. Of course we maintain the Ethiopian theme. It's an opera question but it goes to the side that does not have the opera in Prasari, I'm afraid. Which operatic heroine is the daughter of Amon Arso the king of Ethiopia? Queen of Sheba isn't it? No? Aida. That's correct. You started for 10. What name is given to a positive whose factors excluding itself sum to a number greater than it? For example 12 whose factors 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 sum to 16. What name is given to this? Is it superior number? I'm afraid not. Defaults to the other side for a crack? No mathematicians here. No mathematicians in so as nobody in so as capable of mathematics. No, I'm afraid not. No so as person Well it shows why we've got so much trouble with our budgeting procedures. But the word is abundant. So we'll move on to another starter for 10. Which word derived from the Latin to fly was originally applied to a simultaneous discharge of firearms or artillery? Voliators. So your three bonus questions concern the colour yellow. The scene of a Russia-Japanese naval battle in 1904 Incheon on the yellow sea is a major port for which city? So I mean so. You have to hurry you up on this one. Is that right? I'm dungeon. No I'm afraid the Algerists so you're close. You should have stuck with your convictions. Second question to do with yellow. Half of the Yellow Sun by Jim Amanda and Gorsi Adici won the orange prize for fiction in 2007. It is said amidst the upheaval of the civil war in which country in the 1960s. Nigeria? Absolutely correct. And in Shakespeare in Shakespeare which conscientious but humorous steward tricked into wearing yellow cross-guarded stockings in order to return to his mistress Sylvia's supposed love for him. Malvolio. Very good. Another starter for ten. What links Malaya Egypt Holland, Italy Burma and Poland? All of them acronyms associated particularly with the Second World War. Those sort of messages sent back to loved ones about when I get home sort of... Burma is... Be upstairs ready, my angel. You are totally correct. Just to indicate that before telephones are sending text messages with acronyms like LOL and things like that I think I should elucidate to you exactly what these meant. So if you sent home the word Malaya that meant my anxious lips await your arrival if you sent home the word Egypt then you had a peculiar fetishistic desire because you were eager to grab your pretty toes. Holland obviously you're on the straight and narrow and very vanilla but hope our love lasts and never dies. Italy means I trust and love you. Burma is a rather risqué one. Be undressed and ready, my angel. And Poland means please open lovingly and never destroy it. Can I just add another one there which was Norwich. Nick is off ready when I come home. That's what I was thinking of. Such a question in a so asked question time as we're a fully respectable institution. But there are one or two others which I think we better not go into tonight. But it does mean you get bonus questions. So your bonus questions concern cities and they can be either ancient or modern cities. Founded during the Macedonian campaign against the satrap of Bactria how is the ancient city of Arakosia known today the second city of Arakosia in its country. Its modern name derives from a local version of the name Alexander. How are you up on this one? Alexanderia. Bactria of course is the ancient word for Afghanistan and the ancient equivalent of Alexander the name was Kandahar. So we'll move on with cities. Alexandria Escate or furthest located in the Pergana valley is today the city of Cushard the second city of which Central Asian Republic. Turkmenistan Again thought waves are getting through. You're getting the illiterative beginnings of words correctly but it's Tajikistan. And your final bonus question Founded near the site of Alexander's victory at the battle of Isis the modern city of Iskenderim is in which modern country? Turkey. Absolutely correct. So we'll move on. Start of the 10 Adiposis is the presence of abnormally large accumulations of wheat which substance in the body fat. Yep fat. So you get bonus questions. The breaking of the Watergate scandal the Munich Olympics the release of the first Godfather film and the world champion chess match between Spassky and Fischer in Reykjavik or took place in which leap year? 72. Very good. Absolutely correct. And in the same year which Japanese prefecture was returned to Japan after 27 years of American military occupation? Okinawa? Absolutely correct. Although I should say I am a paid up member of the Okinawa Nationalist Independence Cultural Front and they would rather not be occupied by either Japan or the United States. And we have an Okinawa Music Orchestra here and so on as a subversive device and contribution to international relations. But also in this year, 72, the Atari Company released one of the first generation of video games with a version of which game roughly simulating table tennis. It's a poem. Yes, a poem. Yes, that's correct. So your start of the 10. Which building has on the second floor rooms called the Queens Bedroom? The Cosmetology Room? The White House? The White House it is. Although if you are going to be very pedantic about it as we tend to be here at SOAS this is the first class pass. This is the high 2-1. You would probably only get the high 2-1 because the first class pass would say specifically the executive residence or the central building in the White House complex. But close enough and you get the point. So three bonus questions. And your bonus questions are in ancient European languages. Oskyn and Umbrian are among extinct languages formally spoken in which present day European country? Italy. Italy? That's correct. The longest single text in which ancient Italian language is housed in the National Museum at Zagreb and was written on a linen book parts of which were subsequently used as wrapping for an Egyptian mummy. Itruskin? That's correct. What name is given to the main literary dialect of classical Greek circord because it was written and spoken in and around the city of Athens? Demotic? I'm afraid it's Attic. Now ladies and gentlemen we started this with an academic art it started at five minutes after the art and what we have done is we have kept it a SOAS academic art because have you ever known a SOAS academic lecturer to be able to keep the time and actually bring in his or her lecture in 50 minutes of course they never do we never can and so we've gone five minutes over the actual hour and I'm going to declare this the cut off point and ask whoever is keeping the score to declare which side is the winner and by how much. So ladies and gentlemen I think we should congratulate the current generation of sparkling SOAS students and we should encourage our alumni to come back for the re-honing of their schools as graduate students so thank you very much