Series 50, Episode 13

First broadcast: 08-Oct-2020

Edinburgh vs Manchester

I. Jane Eyre

Bonuses on: statues of composers

I.i. Chopin

I.ii. Handel

I.iii. Mozart

II. Torque spanner torque screwdriver measure force

Bonuses: on television series created or co-created by Jesse Armstrong

II.i. Succession

II.ii. Fresh Meat

II.iii. Peep Show

III. Evelyn Waugh's 1964 autobiography was titled *A Little Learning*, a phrase taken from Alexander *[Interrupted] [Interpolated: Pope's* An Essay on Criticism*]*

Bonuses on: planetary transits

III.i. (Johannes) Kepler

III.ii. Arc second

III.iii. 2004

PICTURE ROUND ONE

P1. Worthing

Picture bonuses: locations of recipients of Pier of the Year award by the National Piers Society

P1.i. Southend on Sea

P1.ii.

P1.iii. Weston super Mare

IV. Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Cannock Chase, south Staffordshire, Cranborne Chase, mostly in Wiltshire

V. Cantor

Bonuses: on the first monarchs of European royal houses

V.i. Henry IV and Bourbon

V.ii. Victor Emmanuel II and Savoy

V.iii. George I and Hanover

VI. Woman with ermine

Bonuses: on British seabirds

VI.i. Fulmar

VI.ii. Kitty wake

VI.iii. Razorbill

VII. Kevin Phillips

Bonuses: on books in US states

VII.i.

VII.ii.

VII.iii. Maine

VIII. Red panda

Bonuses: on art in the nineteenth century

VIII.i.

VIII.ii. William Morris

VIII.iii. Kelmscott

MUSIC ROUND

M. Fred Astaire

Music bonuses: songs with lyrics by Dorothy Fields

M.i. Willie Nelson

M.ii.

M.iii.

IX. Jacob Buckhardt and Jeremy Bentham

Bonuses: on physics and mathematics

IX.i.

IX.ii. Jan Burgers

IX.iiii. David Hilbert

X. Thomas Lanier

Bonuses: on the singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading

X.i.

X.ii.

X.iii.

XI. Newton, Paolozzi British Library

Bonuses: on a shared title

XI.i. Metamorphoses

XI.ii.

XI.iii.

XII. Sikhism

Bonuses: on medical terms in anatomy

XII.i. Ganglion

XII.ii. Plexus

XII.iii. The basal ganglia are found in the human brain

XIII. Rebecca: vicious damnable rotten through and through

Bonuses: on UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Mediterranean countries

XIII.i. The Phoenician cities of Byblos and Balbek and the Forests of the Cedars of God

XIII.ii. Megalithic temples including those of Tahagrat and Skoba - Malta

XIII.iii. The archaeological sites of Sabratha, Cyrene and Leptis Magna Libya

PICTURE ROUND TWO

P2. Degas

Bonuses: three more paintings inspired by the Cirque Fernando in Montmartre between 1880 and 1910

P2.i. Toulouse-Lautrec

P2.ii. Picasso

P2.iii.

XIV. Words being 'oo-': oolong, Oort (cloud), oology

Bonuses: on geometry in three dimensions

XIV.i. A cross product or vector product is the operation that takes two vectors as its inputs and outputs another vector which is perpendicular to them

XIV.ii. Seven is the only dimension higher then three in which a similarly defined vector product exists

XIV.iii.

XV. The Feast of the Annunciation or Lady Day is 25th March, marking the day when the angel Gabriel is supposed to have visited the Virgin Mary and when Jesus was conceived

XVI. *Quercus robur* is the scientific name of the oak

Bonuses: on science fiction and nineteenth-century literature

XVI.i.

XVI.ii.

XVI.iii.

XVII. The *vexillum* was an early, Ancient Roman form of flag

1. ↑ Published 1711. The full couplet is 'A *little* Learning is a dangerous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the *Pierian* Spring:' (lines 215-6)
2. ↑ The word 'vexillology' (the study of flags) derives from the Latin word *vexillum*