Starter for 10 Page #7

Brian Jackson from Southend in

Essex and I'm reading English Literature.

And the team captain.

Patrick Watts, Ashton-under-Lyne,

postgraduate in Mechanical Engineering.

And my name is Lucy Chang

from Minneapolis, reading Medicine.

Without further ado, here's your first starter

for ten. Listen carefully before you buzz.

For a straight line graph of Y against X

where the gradient of the line is two

and the Y intercept is five,

what is the value of Y when X is ten?

Salmon, Queens'.

- Twenty five.

- Correct for ten points.

So Queens', three bonus

questions on electron microscopy.

What was identified by Hegel

as the tendency of a concept

to pass over into its own negation

as the result of conflict between its...

Watts, Bristol.

- I'm sorry, I don't know the answer.

- Well, I'm afraid you lose five points.

Salmon, Queens'.

- Is it dialectics?

- Dialectics indeed.

So three more questions for you.

- Chang, Bristol.

- The adrenal gland?

Correct. Puts you back in the game.

Three bonus questions on geography.

Which is the only African country

to have a coastline

on both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean?

Algeria.

I have to hurry you.

Algeria.

No, I'm afraid the answer is Morocco.

Now, look at your monitors.

Watts, Bristol.

- Durham Cathedral.

- No, I'm afraid that's incorrect.

- Sykes, Queens'.

- York Minster?

Is the correct answer.

- De Havilland, Queens'.

- Calcium carbonate.

Incorrect. I'm afraid you lose five points.

- Jackson, Bristol.

- Calcium sulphate.

Calcium sulphate is correct.

It's the Oresteia by Aeschylus.

The Oresteia by Aeschylus.

- Correct.

- The Euclidian Algorithm.

- The Euclidian Algorithm.

- Correct.

Honi soit qui mal y pense.

- Honi soit qui mal y pense?

- Is the correct answer.

- Salmon, Queens'.

- The overture from Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte.

The mucus membrane. Oxidization.

The Siege of Krishnapur.

- Is it an Oxbow lake?

- It is indeed an Oxbow lake.

Oh, let's just go home.

There still may be just time to catch up,

so here's another

starter question for ten points.

Derived from the Greek words

for wing and finger, what is the genus...

Jackson, Bristol.

- Pterodactyl.

- Is correct.

Schlemm's canal,

the ora serrata,

- and is it the fovea centralis?

- It is indeed.

Which American poet

and Fulbright Scholar...

- Harbinson, Bristol.

- Plath! Sylvia Plath.

Sylvia Plath is correct

so three more questions for you

on quotations from Shakespeare.

- Twelfth Night.

- Twelfth Night.

- Correct.

- Much Ado.

- Much Ado About Nothing.

- Correct.

- Henry V.

- The IV.

Which is it?

Come on.

Go with Brian.

- Is the answer King Henry V?

- Is the correct answer.

- Jackson, Bristol.

- The battleship Potemkin.

- Correct.

- Jackson, Bristol.

- The Treaty of Versailles.

- Correct.

Watts, Bristol.

- It's a form of fungal infection.

- Is the correct answer.

- Jackson, Bristol.

- Electroluminescence,

candleluminescence,

luminescence,

phosphorescence...

Come on.

- Incandescence.

- All correct. Amazing recovery.

All to play for now, just five points

behind with one minute on the clock.

For ten points, on a question on astronomy.

- Jackson, Bristol.

- Ursa Major, or The Great Bear.

The Big Dipper?

Rather amazingly, that is the correct answer,

so perhaps we'd better stop recording.

- What just happened?

- I don't know.

Does anyone know what

the hell just happened?

Does anybody know

how he knew the answer

when I didn't even ask

him the bloody question?

Can we just get going, please?

Brian, we'll laugh about this one day.

Hello.

I'll just see if he's here.

No, I'm sorry.

I'll tell him you called. Bye.

I don't know why you won't talk to her.

You know why not.

I made a complete idiot of myself.

No, you didn't.

Mum, you were there, remember?

All right, you made a prat of yourself.

Thanks, Mum.

Look, Brian.

The people who really care about you

don't mind if you make mistakes.

It's what you do next that matters.

And if you can't see that,

then you're not

as smart as I thought you were.

There's someone here to see you.

I can't, Mum.

Brian, you've been moping around for weeks

now and I'm not having it.

There's been far too much of that

already in this house.

It's Spencer. I'm not going

to tell him to go away.

Never thought I'd see the day

you were wearing a suit.

The magistrate liked it.

She only gave me six months' probation.

Hiding in the wardrobe, Spence.

It's not funny.

Well, maybe you weren't

so perfect yourself, mate.

I suppose not.

What're you still doing here, Bri?

- What do you mean?

- Well, why haven't you gone back yet?

I've gone off the idea.

Besides, it's all a waste of time.

How can it be a waste of time?

You've changed your tune.

It was a waste of time for someone like me,

but you, you love it.

Maybe I'm just not

as clever as I thought I was.

Of course you're clever.

It's just every now and then

you do some stupid things, that's all.

I got you this.

Thanks, Spence.

Cheers.

It's only a tape, Brian.

No need to get all gay about it.

I'll see you soon, yeah?

Do you need more towels?

I've got towels, Mum.

Bread? Sugar? Bag of potatoes?

Bye, Mum.

See you, Des.

See you, Bri.

All right.

Brian.

Don't take this the wrong way,

but I'm really glad to see the back of you.

Remember. Fresh fruit.

I admit it. I've made some mistakes.

Okay, some big mistakes.

Loads of them.

But you can't hide in your room

forever feeling sorry for yourself.

It's not practical.

At some point you've got to

get back out there, face up to things,

and confront your demons.

Well, well. Mr Jackson.

Could this possibly mean you're back?

Yes, if...

So, we'll see you tomorrow, then.

Thank you, Doctor.

And yes, I've made some

bad choices, lost my head.

Let people down. People I care for.

But there still might be time

to get something right.

You came back.

Oh, I'm so glad you came.

Now listen, you mustn't worry about

what people are going to say, okay?

So you made a silly mistake.

But the thing is...

Can I just stop you there for a minute, Alice?

I'm sorry, but I'm looking for someone else.

Ever since I can remember,

I've wanted to be clever.

Some people are born clever the same way

some people are born beautiful.

I'm not one of those people.

I'm gonna have to work at it.

Put in the effort.

And if I mess it up, I'll learn from it.

Besides, sometimes it's not about

knowing the right answer.

Sometimes it's about asking

the right question.

We want the money spent on

nuclear weapons to be brought

into our health system.

Our nurseries and schools.

Our universities.

What do we want?

Nukes out.

- When do we want it?

- Now.

- What do we want?

- Nukes out!

- When do we want it?

- Now!

- What do we want?

- Nukes out!

- When do we want it?

- Now!

Hello.

Hello.

Think we could talk?

Somewhere a bit less angry?

All right. Yeah.

You've got a nerve, Brian Jackson,

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