0:00:04 > 0:00:08These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:08 > 0:00:11Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:11 > 0:00:15arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:24 > 0:00:27Welcome to a special celebrity edition of Eggheads,
0:00:27 > 0:00:29where five quiz challengers pit their wits
0:00:29 > 0:00:32against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:32 > 0:00:36You might recognise them. They've won some of the toughest quiz shows.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38They are the Eggheads.
0:00:38 > 0:00:43Taking on the awesome challenge of the Eggheads today are Rent-a-Gob.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46Everyone on this team has many strings to their individual bows,
0:00:46 > 0:00:50but what brings them together are their voices.
0:00:50 > 0:00:51Each one is an eloquent orator
0:00:51 > 0:00:56who's lent their recognisably dulcet tones in the form of narration and voiceover
0:00:56 > 0:01:01to some very familiar TV programmes, radio shows, movie trailers, things like that.
0:01:01 > 0:01:02To perfect their art,
0:01:02 > 0:01:07they spend many hours locked away in darkened rooms, talking to themselves.
0:01:07 > 0:01:11Sounds like a perfect job for CJ. Let's meet the team.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14I'm Jon Briggs, voiceover artist and journalist.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18You know me from the Weakest Link, your satnav and probably your mobile.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21Hi, I'm Redd Pepper. I'm a movie trailer voice artist,
0:01:21 > 0:01:25and you've probably heard me a few times saying, "Coming soon".
0:01:25 > 0:01:27I'm Steve Punt. I'm a writer and performer.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30You'll hear my voice on radio a lot.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32I can, in fact, speak in both FM and medium wave.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36Hello, I'm Charles Nove, radio broadcaster, voiceover,
0:01:36 > 0:01:37and occasionally, bus driver.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39And hello, my name's Mitch Johnson.
0:01:39 > 0:01:43I'm a radio presenter, and the voiceover of countless TV shows.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45Welcome to you, Rent-a-Gob.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49Each and every one of you, your voice is familiar to millions around the country,
0:01:49 > 0:01:53and I want to talk to you individually about that as you play,
0:01:53 > 0:01:57but any particular interests, Jon, that relate to the Eggheads?
0:01:57 > 0:02:00We have discussed who would take which subject,
0:02:00 > 0:02:04and, as you can imagine, voiceover is a very singular profession,
0:02:04 > 0:02:07so the five of us together can't agree on anything.
0:02:07 > 0:02:11So it's been impossible to devise who will take which subject.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13We'll uncover them as the game goes on.
0:02:13 > 0:02:14Let's start the game.
0:02:14 > 0:02:19Every day there's £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs for our challengers' chosen charity.
0:02:19 > 0:02:23If they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the money rolls over to the next show.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26So, the Eggheads have won the last nine games,
0:02:26 > 0:02:30which means ten grand says you can't beat the Eggheads.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32Let's see what the first head-to-head is.
0:02:32 > 0:02:36This is where you try and knock an Egghead out. And it is on History.
0:02:36 > 0:02:40You choose a player, anyone you like, as it's the opening round,
0:02:40 > 0:02:42to try and knock an Egghead out.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44I don't mind doing history if you want.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47- Ooh, Jon's volunteering. - I wasn't volunteering.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50Just hoping somebody else might take the lead.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53- Jon forgets the golden rule. Never volunteer.- Damn.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56You didn't tell me that beforehand.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58OK. I now have to choose somebody, don't I?
0:02:58 > 0:03:01Yes, if you have decided to go for it,
0:03:01 > 0:03:04choose any one of those fine five Eggheads.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07Yes. Well, I've always fancied Judith,
0:03:07 > 0:03:09so I'm going to take on Judith in that case.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11Who-ho! All right.
0:03:11 > 0:03:13Let the quizzing commence.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15Jon and Judith are taking this one.
0:03:15 > 0:03:19Can I ask you both to go to the question room where you can't confer?
0:03:19 > 0:03:21Jon, great to have you here.
0:03:21 > 0:03:25Aren't you on the wrong show? It's normally the Weakest Link for you.
0:03:25 > 0:03:27It is, and Dermot, I hasten to add,
0:03:27 > 0:03:31simply because I am the voice of a programme about general knowledge
0:03:31 > 0:03:33does not imply that I have any.
0:03:33 > 0:03:37Right, well, let's play this round. What about history?
0:03:37 > 0:03:38Is it one of your interests?
0:03:38 > 0:03:41No, I sadly managed to put my hand up at the wrong time.
0:03:41 > 0:03:46But somebody had to do it, and I know they're really grateful that I'm here.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48You're very game, taking it on.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50You choose, do you want to go first or second?
0:03:50 > 0:03:53Every single edition of Eggheads I've ever seen,
0:03:53 > 0:03:56the contestant has gone first, so I shall follow suit.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01OK, and first question, then, Jon.
0:04:01 > 0:04:06The world's first iron bridge, which spans the River Severn in Shropshire
0:04:06 > 0:04:11was built in which century, 17th, 18th or 19th?
0:04:11 > 0:04:13I've got to do this the right way round.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16If it's the 17th century, it's 16-something
0:04:16 > 0:04:18and I don't think it was that early.
0:04:18 > 0:04:2219th will be 18-something and I think that's too late.
0:04:22 > 0:04:26And I have a feeling those wonderful engineers with stove-pipe hats
0:04:26 > 0:04:29were largely around in the 1700s,
0:04:29 > 0:04:32so I'm going to plump for the 18th century.
0:04:32 > 0:04:34Great analysis and the right answer.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37The 18th century. Chris, when, precisely?
0:04:37 > 0:04:401757, was it, at Coalbrookdale?
0:04:40 > 0:04:42No. '79.
0:04:42 > 0:04:451779. By whom?
0:04:45 > 0:04:47- Darby. Abraham Darby. - Abraham Darby.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49OK, Judith, your first question.
0:04:49 > 0:04:53The George Cross was created by and named after which monarch,
0:04:53 > 0:04:56George IV, George V or George VI?
0:04:57 > 0:04:59Oh, well, that's interesting.
0:04:59 > 0:05:01I don't think it's George IV.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05Um, the George Cross I always think of is Malta,
0:05:05 > 0:05:10which collectively had a George Cross awarded in World War II.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13I have a feeling it's George VI.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15Yeah, King of the time, George VI.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18Well done. Got there in the end.
0:05:18 > 0:05:22Jon, the remains of the Roman fort of Vindolanda
0:05:22 > 0:05:26are in which English county, Dorset, Cheshire or Northumberland?
0:05:26 > 0:05:28Dorset, Cheshire or Northumberland.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32Well, I'm going to go on the idea of where I think the Romans patrolled.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35I don't think they did a lot in Dorset.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37I don't think they got that far down.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40I think most Roman roads get there but don't go any further.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42Vindolanda.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45I think, therefore, it's Cheshire or Northumberland,
0:05:45 > 0:05:47and I'm going to plump for Cheshire,
0:05:47 > 0:05:51where I think they did more building than others, but it is a guess.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54OK, Cheshire for Vindolanda.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57It's not, Jon. It's keep going and on the other side.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01It's Northumberland. It's part of Hadrian's Wall, isn't it?
0:06:01 > 0:06:05- Hadrian's Wall, yeah.- The famous find were the Vindolanda tablets,
0:06:05 > 0:06:08hundreds of things which contained shopping lists,
0:06:08 > 0:06:12letters backwards and forwards, a whole host of great insights into Roman history.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14Yeah, OK, Judith.
0:06:14 > 0:06:19In the 1960s, the twin temples at Abu Simbel in Egypt
0:06:19 > 0:06:22were relocated in their entirety a short distance away,
0:06:22 > 0:06:25to avoid being destroyed by the creation of what?
0:06:25 > 0:06:29The Suez Canal, the Trans-African Highway, or Lake Nasser?
0:06:29 > 0:06:31I went there on my honeymoon.
0:06:31 > 0:06:37And we went for three days in a kind of paddle steamer up from Aswan,
0:06:37 > 0:06:40and when we got there to see Abu Simbel,
0:06:40 > 0:06:42the whole thing was covered in scaffolding,
0:06:42 > 0:06:45and they were just about to remove it
0:06:45 > 0:06:50because Lake Nasser was being created by the Aswan Dam.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53Yes, well, can't deny that kind of knowledge.
0:06:53 > 0:06:54Seen it happening.
0:06:54 > 0:06:59Talk about being there. You really have. You've got the T-shirt.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02You've got the point. Lake Nasser, OK, is correct.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05Right, well, Jon, you need to get this, then.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08The Duke of Cumberland, the third son of George II,
0:07:08 > 0:07:12was given what nickname as a result of his brutal treatment of the Jacobites
0:07:12 > 0:07:14after the Battle of Culloden in 1746?
0:07:14 > 0:07:18Was it Butcher Cumberland, Bloodsucker Cumberland
0:07:18 > 0:07:19or Bonebreaker Cumberland?
0:07:19 > 0:07:22Um, this is just a total guess.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26I can't claim to have been anywhere near it on honeymoon either.
0:07:26 > 0:07:32Let's...Bloodsucker just doesn't sound...We're talking historical,
0:07:32 > 0:07:36so Butcher or Bonebreaker are the two I think I'd go for.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39I'm going to go for Bonebreaker Cumberland
0:07:39 > 0:07:41cos I think it's the sort of thing
0:07:41 > 0:07:46- they would have come up with in those days.- OK, Bonebreaker Cumberland.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49Um, yeah. Pretty gruesome, but it's Butcher.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51Ach.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53Butcher Cumberland there, Jon.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55So no more questions for Judith
0:07:55 > 0:07:57after her honeymoon on Lake Nasser.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00Jon won't be in the final round. Judith, you will be.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:08:03 > 0:08:06Well, first round, one member of Rent-a-Gob gone.
0:08:06 > 0:08:08All the Eggheads are still there,
0:08:08 > 0:08:11and we move on to our second head-to-head today.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14This subject is Music. Choose a player, please, guys.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16Music. Can't be Jon.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19- Looks like you, man. - Me? I'll do it.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22- Yeah, I'll do it. - You up for it, Mitch? OK.
0:08:22 > 0:08:26And choose an Egghead. It can't be Judith. Any of the other four.
0:08:26 > 0:08:30I think I will choose Daphne.
0:08:30 > 0:08:35Daphne, OK, it's Mitch and Daphne playing this one, from the question room, please.
0:08:37 > 0:08:41Well, Mitch, you get to choose. It's music. First or second?
0:08:41 > 0:08:43Um, I'll go first, please.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50Best of luck, Mitch. First question coming your way.
0:08:50 > 0:08:54Born To Hand Jive and Beauty School Dropout are songs in which musical?
0:08:54 > 0:08:57Guys and Dolls, West Side Story, or Grease?
0:08:57 > 0:09:01Um, do you know, those two songs don't pop into my mind as songs.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04Hand Jive, er, Beauty School Dropout.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07It wouldn't be Guys and Dolls.
0:09:07 > 0:09:11I don't think it would be We... I think it's Grease, actually.
0:09:11 > 0:09:12Yeah, it is Grease, yes.
0:09:12 > 0:09:16Two of the, let's say, not front-line songs out of Grease.
0:09:16 > 0:09:20And your first question, Daphne. Your favourite subject.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23- 1980s pop bands.- Oh, no!
0:09:23 > 0:09:25Hee, hee, hee. Try this for size.
0:09:25 > 0:09:30The 1980s pop bands ABC and Heaven 17 hail from which British city?
0:09:30 > 0:09:32Sheffield, Birmingham, or Liverpool?
0:09:32 > 0:09:34I've got no idea.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37Um, eighties pop band.
0:09:39 > 0:09:42Well, I'll try the most famous one. Liverpool?
0:09:42 > 0:09:44Oh dear, you REALLY don't know, do you?
0:09:44 > 0:09:47- I don't know. - I'll let Mitch tell you.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50- I know the answer. They both come from Sheffield.- Yep, Sheffield.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53- Told you.- Well, great start, Mitch.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56See if you can get two-nil in the lead with this one.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58The Pursuit, released in 2009,
0:09:58 > 0:10:01is an album by which British male vocalist?
0:10:01 > 0:10:04Jamie Cullum, Will Young, or Paolo Nutini?
0:10:04 > 0:10:08I was going to say I felt really cruel choosing Daphne,
0:10:08 > 0:10:12- with these difficult questions, and now- I- don't know. The Pursuit.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15Er, Jamie Cullum's a bit jazzy. So's Will Young, a little bit.
0:10:15 > 0:10:19Paolo's Scottish. I never understand any of his lyrics.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21Who did The Pursuit? It's going to be a guess.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24It's not Jamie Cullum, that's too jazzy.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26Actually, it's not Paolo. Oh, blimey.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29No, let's take a wild guess. Jamie Cullum.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31Well, that was the one you ruled out first.
0:10:31 > 0:10:35Swung round all of them, were about to go for Will Young, were you?
0:10:35 > 0:10:38I gave away Paolo's new album the other day
0:10:38 > 0:10:40and I can't remember what it's called.
0:10:40 > 0:10:44And I've listened to Will Young's new album, so it's a process of elimination.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47- Well, you've got it.- Yeah? - Well done, Mitch.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49Ha, swinging around there,
0:10:49 > 0:10:52but two-nil in the lead, and go through if Daphne gets this wrong.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55Which musician was injured in the same car accident
0:10:55 > 0:10:57that killed Eddie Cochran in 1960?
0:10:57 > 0:11:00Duane Eddy, Pat Boone or Gene Vincent?
0:11:00 > 0:11:01Gosh.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05Um, well, it's not Pat Boone.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10I think I'm going out straight away.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Um, Gene Vincent.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16Is the right answer, yes.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Sweet Gene Vincent.
0:11:18 > 0:11:22OK, well, Daphne's still clinging to this round,
0:11:22 > 0:11:27but you put her out of her misery, Mitch, if you give me a right answer here.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30Often played by military bands on occasions of departure,
0:11:30 > 0:11:33the tune of the song The Girl I Left Behind Me
0:11:33 > 0:11:35is also known by what name?
0:11:35 > 0:11:39Is it the Torquay Trot, the Blackpool Rock, or Brighton Camp?
0:11:40 > 0:11:44Hmm. Not my specialist subject, military marching band music.
0:11:44 > 0:11:49Um, again, could be one of three. 33 per cent chance.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51Let's say a trot or a rock.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54The Girl I Left Behind. Where's Torquay?
0:11:54 > 0:11:56Blackpool Rock.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59Blackpool Rock, The Girl I Left Behind Me.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01You haven't left Daphne behind, unfortunately.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04- Daphne, it's not Blackpool Rock. - Brighton Camp.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06It is Brighton Camp.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08OK, well, it's news to me. Well done.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Yeah, I wonder who thought that one up.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13The Girl I Left Behind Me. Brighton Camp.
0:12:13 > 0:12:17You can get back in the game, Daphne, if you get this.
0:12:17 > 0:12:18No more eighties pop.
0:12:18 > 0:12:23I'm searching for it, but unfortunately I have to ask the question in front of me.
0:12:23 > 0:12:28Here you go. Who wrote the music for the 1902 operetta Merrie England?
0:12:28 > 0:12:30Edward German, John Ireland or Benjamin Britten.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35I think it's Edward German.
0:12:37 > 0:12:41You've got it right. Edward German wrote the music for Merrie England.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Which means she's somehow back in it.
0:12:43 > 0:12:47- She's crawled and fought and climbed back in.- Not for long.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50Mitch, we go to sudden death if it's all square after three questions,
0:12:50 > 0:12:54and we remove the choices, just got to hear an answer from you.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56- OK.- Here you go.
0:12:56 > 0:13:00Come On You Reds was a 1994 UK number-one single
0:13:00 > 0:13:02for which football club?
0:13:02 > 0:13:03Liverpool City.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06No, Manchester United, what am I talking about?
0:13:06 > 0:13:08- So what's your answer? - Manchester United.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Is the right answer, yes.
0:13:11 > 0:13:15You got that one, saved that just in time, yes.
0:13:15 > 0:13:16I had not spoken so...
0:13:16 > 0:13:21Right, Daphne, who had chart hits in the 1980s in Britain
0:13:21 > 0:13:26with the singles Good Tradition and Twist In My Sobriety?
0:13:26 > 0:13:27Weird titles.
0:13:27 > 0:13:29Um...
0:13:32 > 0:13:36Gosh, I'm trying to think of someone who sang in the eighties
0:13:36 > 0:13:38and my mind's gone blank.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42Michael Jackson.
0:13:42 > 0:13:43I know it's wrong.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47No, it's not Michael Jackson. Who is it, CJ?
0:13:47 > 0:13:50- Tanita Tikaram.- Tanita Tikaram.
0:13:50 > 0:13:52Who?
0:13:52 > 0:13:55Listen, we'll just leave you in ignorance there.
0:13:55 > 0:13:58The 1980s is clearly something people can exploit with you
0:13:58 > 0:14:00when it comes to the music round.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02A real blank spot there for Daphne,
0:14:02 > 0:14:05which means great news for Rent-a-Gob.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08Mitch, you're in the final round, playing for the money.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11Would you both please come back and join your teams.
0:14:11 > 0:14:15That means that both teams have lost one brain from the final round.
0:14:15 > 0:14:19And our next subject today is Food And Drink.
0:14:19 > 0:14:20Who'd like to play this one?
0:14:20 > 0:14:23We've got Redd, Steve or Charles.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25- Do you fancy it?- I'll give it a go.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28- Yeah, sure.- Charles.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30Charles.
0:14:30 > 0:14:35All right, well, two women have played, so you can play one of the chaps there.
0:14:35 > 0:14:36Chris, CJ or Kevin.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41- Kevin.- Let's have Charles and Kevin into the question room, please.
0:14:43 > 0:14:47Charles, well it's Food And Drink. What's your interest in that?
0:14:47 > 0:14:49Eating it and drinking it.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51OK, good, as I might have imagined.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55- Right, do you want to go first or second?- Oh, we'll go first.
0:14:58 > 0:15:02Here you go. What type of foodstuff is the Australian damper?
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Is it porridge, bread, or cheese?
0:15:04 > 0:15:07What type of foodstuff is the Australian damper?
0:15:07 > 0:15:09D-A-M-P-E-R.
0:15:09 > 0:15:10Damper.
0:15:10 > 0:15:14Well, I'm going to dismiss cheese, which is probably a mistake,
0:15:14 > 0:15:15but I'll do it anyway.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18I don't know, so I'm going to go for bread
0:15:18 > 0:15:21on the grounds that you might use it to mop up damp things.
0:15:21 > 0:15:24Probably the reason why it's called that, not.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26It's the right answer, though. Damper.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32And, er, Kevin, what name is commonly given to the solid form
0:15:32 > 0:15:35into which inferior-quality tea is sometimes compressed?
0:15:35 > 0:15:37Is it bales, boulders or bricks?
0:15:37 > 0:15:40I believe they're called bricks.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42They are, yes. Bricks of tea.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45And Charles.
0:15:45 > 0:15:49Sercial, Verdelho, Bual and Malmsey
0:15:49 > 0:15:51are all types of which fortified wine?
0:15:51 > 0:15:54Madeira, Marsala, or Vermouth?
0:15:54 > 0:15:56Right, well, several of them sound like illnesses,
0:15:56 > 0:15:59but you can probably get an ointment for them.
0:15:59 > 0:16:03Um, Vermouth doesn't figure, I don't think.
0:16:03 > 0:16:07Well, from a narrowing field of ignorance,
0:16:07 > 0:16:10I'm going to go for Marsala.
0:16:11 > 0:16:15Marsala. It's not. And it's not Vermouth. It is Madeira.
0:16:15 > 0:16:18Madeira. The only one I recognise there is Malmsey.
0:16:18 > 0:16:21That's a kind of Falstaffian drink, isn't it?
0:16:21 > 0:16:24Drowned in a pot of Malmsey.
0:16:24 > 0:16:28OK, well, a chance for Kevin, believe it or not, to take the lead.
0:16:28 > 0:16:32Bigoli all anatra is an Italian pasta dish
0:16:32 > 0:16:34with a sauce made from which meat?
0:16:34 > 0:16:36Duck, beef or lamb?
0:16:36 > 0:16:38This is spelling time.
0:16:38 > 0:16:42OK. Bigoli, B-I-G-O-L-I
0:16:42 > 0:16:44all, A-L-L,
0:16:44 > 0:16:47anatra, A-N-A-T-R-A.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49Bigoli all anatra.
0:16:49 > 0:16:51I think I'll go for duck.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53Duck is the right answer, yeah.
0:16:53 > 0:16:56- Why did you go for that? Was there a linguistic...- Yeah, anatra.
0:16:56 > 0:17:02- Anatra is duck? - Well, it's a genus of duck.
0:17:02 > 0:17:03That's why you're an Egghead.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06OK, it means you need to get this, Charles.
0:17:06 > 0:17:12Pastinaca sativa is the botanical name for which root vegetable?
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Beetroot, parsnip or turnip.
0:17:14 > 0:17:19Well, it sounds a bit like parsnip so it probably isn't that.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22And no good saying,
0:17:22 > 0:17:25that's a British vegetable and that dismisses it
0:17:25 > 0:17:27because that's nothing to do with it
0:17:27 > 0:17:31and wouldn't deter an improbable botanical name.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35In for a penny, in for a turnip.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37- In for a turnip?- Mm.
0:17:37 > 0:17:41OK. The Pastinaca sativa is a parsnip.
0:17:41 > 0:17:42Aargh!
0:17:42 > 0:17:45It's what you first thought. First instincts.
0:17:45 > 0:17:49That's what Kevin's stuck with, and he's won a Food And Drink round.
0:17:49 > 0:17:54No place for you in the final round, Charles. Please come back and join your teams.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56Those Eggheads have crept into the lead.
0:17:56 > 0:18:00Rent-a-Gob have lost two brains from the final round,
0:18:00 > 0:18:01the Eggheads have lost one.
0:18:01 > 0:18:05And we reach our last head-to-head before that final round.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08This one's Geography, and Redd or Steve to play it.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10- Ooh.- Geography.
0:18:10 > 0:18:11Oo-hoo.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14- Take a shot.- You'll take a shot? - I'll take a shot.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16- Redd's going.- Redd's doing it. Yay.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19Oh, man!
0:18:19 > 0:18:22Now, choose an Egghead. It's either Chris or CJ.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24CJ.
0:18:24 > 0:18:29- Oh, I love the way he says that. It sounds ominous, doesn't it?- CJ.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32Let's have Redd and CJ into the question room, please.
0:18:32 > 0:18:36Red, there's a bit of a London Transport sub-plot
0:18:36 > 0:18:38to this edition of Eggheads.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41- You worked on the tube, didn't you? - Yeah, that's right.
0:18:41 > 0:18:45I used to be a train driver many years ago, 17 years ago.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49And it was doing that job that led to the job you have now.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51Yeah, pretty much.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55Because I was such a great train driver and I did my job meticulously,
0:18:55 > 0:18:58I also made the public address announcements.
0:18:58 > 0:19:02And one lucky day a television executive was on my train
0:19:02 > 0:19:06when I made an announcement telling people of problems up ahead.
0:19:06 > 0:19:11He was impressed with the voice and we exchanged numbers,
0:19:11 > 0:19:15and 17 years later, I'm still doing what I'm doing and very happy about it.
0:19:15 > 0:19:19Could you do us a trailer for this edition of Eggheads
0:19:19 > 0:19:22in the scary movie kind of mode?
0:19:22 > 0:19:23Five men,
0:19:23 > 0:19:25one presenter,
0:19:25 > 0:19:26five Eggheads.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28They thought they'd win.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30They thought wrong.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33That's absolutely fantastic.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36Something like that, you know, that's what we do.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38That'll do very nicely.
0:19:38 > 0:19:41Did you live in the United States for a while? The accent is...
0:19:41 > 0:19:46Yeah, I lived in New York, Manhattan for the early part of my youth.
0:19:46 > 0:19:48And I came here when I was 15 years old.
0:19:48 > 0:19:52And now I'm a little bit older than that. Let's leave it at that.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55- Yeah, we will.- OK, Redd, let's play the round, then.
0:19:55 > 0:19:59It's Geography, and you get to choose. Do you want to go first or second?
0:19:59 > 0:20:01I'm going first.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06First question is this.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08Stoke-on-Trent and the surrounding area
0:20:08 > 0:20:10is sometimes referred to by what name?
0:20:10 > 0:20:14The Potteries, The Factories, or The Cotton Mills?
0:20:14 > 0:20:17Well, I know for sure it's not The Cotton Mills.
0:20:17 > 0:20:18That's for sure.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21The Factories is just not a cool name.
0:20:21 > 0:20:27And The Potteries, I know it. It definitely is The Potteries.
0:20:27 > 0:20:31Because I have a buddy who supports Stoke City
0:20:31 > 0:20:33and he told me, hah!
0:20:33 > 0:20:35So I know this. The Potteries.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38Don't stop, Redd. We could listen to that all day, couldn't we?
0:20:38 > 0:20:42- It's the right answer, yes. The Potteries.- Cool.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46And CJ, your first question is this.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49The leisure and residential resort of Coney Island
0:20:49 > 0:20:51lies on which ocean?
0:20:51 > 0:20:53Atlantic, Pacific or Antarctic?
0:20:53 > 0:20:56I don't care. I just want to hear Redd talk again.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59Um, I think that's on the Atlantic.
0:20:59 > 0:21:03And that's the right answer, yes. The Atlantic. Coney Island.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05OK, Redd, second question.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08What is the main unit of currency of Costa Rica?
0:21:08 > 0:21:11Is it the Colon, the Peso or the Bolivar?
0:21:12 > 0:21:13Costa Rica.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15Oh, man.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17This is going to be a guess.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22I'm going for Colon.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25It's the right answer, yes.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28Who could disagree with a selection like that?
0:21:28 > 0:21:31I'm scared to say...I'm glad you haven't got one wrong yet.
0:21:31 > 0:21:35CJ, Adam's Bridge is the name given to a chain of sandbanks
0:21:35 > 0:21:38lying between which two countries?
0:21:38 > 0:21:42Yemen and Djibouti, India and Sri Lanka, or Mexico and Cuba?
0:21:43 > 0:21:45I haven't heard this,
0:21:45 > 0:21:49but the highest mountain on Sri Lanka is called Adam's Peak.
0:21:49 > 0:21:53So that would be a logical choice, I suppose.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55Um...
0:21:56 > 0:21:59Because Adam's Peak is on Sri Lanka, I'll try India and Sri Lanka.
0:21:59 > 0:22:03That's enough to get it. India and Sri Lanka is correct.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05So back to you, Redd.
0:22:05 > 0:22:09In which Australian state is Flinders Ranges National Park located?
0:22:09 > 0:22:13Is it New South Wales, Queensland, or South Australia?
0:22:13 > 0:22:15Well,
0:22:15 > 0:22:17I'm trying to be logical about this.
0:22:17 > 0:22:21But if you looked at my logic book, it's about so big.
0:22:21 > 0:22:23Um...
0:22:23 > 0:22:25Pure guess.
0:22:26 > 0:22:29South Australia.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31Wow! Is the right answer.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35Fantastic!
0:22:35 > 0:22:38South Australia is correct so CJ needs to get this.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41The old fortress of Icheri Sheher
0:22:41 > 0:22:43is at the centre of which modern-day city?
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Baghdad, Baku or Beirut?
0:22:46 > 0:22:49Um, it doesn't sound Lebanese.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51It sounds further east than that.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56And certainly Baghdad would have needed
0:22:56 > 0:23:01a well-known fortress over the centuries, Baku less so.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06I really don't know, I'm going to guess at Baghdad.
0:23:06 > 0:23:09Baghdad. Eggheads, have you heard of it?
0:23:09 > 0:23:11- Baku.- It's Baku.
0:23:11 > 0:23:16Which means, Redd, you're in the final round. Great round.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20Look at that, unblemished. Three out of three.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Fantastic round there by Redd,
0:23:26 > 0:23:28and Redd, Judith's got a question for you.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31Yeah, I want to know if you sing as well?
0:23:31 > 0:23:34I can sing for you, baby, I've just won that round.
0:23:34 > 0:23:35I can sing for anybody.
0:23:38 > 0:23:44This is what we've been playing towards. It's time for the final round, as always, General Knowledge.
0:23:44 > 0:23:48But I'm afraid those of you who lost those head-to-heads can't take part.
0:23:48 > 0:23:52So Jon and Charles from Rent-a-Gob and CJ and Daphne from the Eggheads,
0:23:52 > 0:23:54would you leave the studio, please?
0:23:55 > 0:24:00So Redd, Steve and Mitch, you're playing to win Rent-a-Gob £10,000 for your chosen charity.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02Judith, Kevin and Chris,
0:24:02 > 0:24:07you're playing for something money can't buy, the Eggheads' reputation.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09I'll ask each team three questions in turn.
0:24:09 > 0:24:13It's General Knowledge, so anything can come up. You can confer.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16So Redd, Steve and Mitch, the question is,
0:24:16 > 0:24:19are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three brains?
0:24:19 > 0:24:21Would you like to go first or second?
0:24:21 > 0:24:24- First.- Well, by tradition, we should go first.
0:24:24 > 0:24:26- First.- We'll go first.
0:24:28 > 0:24:32It's a long time since a celebrity team won. Let's see what you can do.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34£10,000 here, and your first question.
0:24:34 > 0:24:39What is the name of the yodelling cowgirl voiced by Joan Cusack
0:24:39 > 0:24:42in the 1999 animated film Toy Story 2?
0:24:42 > 0:24:45Is it Lucy, Stacey, or Jessie?
0:24:45 > 0:24:48- I haven't seen it. - Um, well, he hasn't seen it.
0:24:48 > 0:24:54- Redd?- I think my 11-year-old would kill me if I didn't say Jessie.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56- Oh.- The cowgirl.
0:24:57 > 0:25:02Did you do the trailer for that, Redd? You can't remember.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04No, I didn't do that one. No.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06Jessie.
0:25:06 > 0:25:07It's the right answer, yes.
0:25:07 > 0:25:09Jessie, yodelling cowgirl.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13OK, Eggheads. Which computer game character
0:25:13 > 0:25:16often has to rescue Princess Peach
0:25:16 > 0:25:19from the clutches of the evil Bowser?
0:25:19 > 0:25:21Is it Mario, Sonic or Lara Croft?
0:25:21 > 0:25:23- It's Mario.- It's Mario, isn't it?
0:25:23 > 0:25:26Yeah, Super Mario. Agreed on Mario?
0:25:26 > 0:25:27I don't know.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30Well, that's the Italian plumber Mario.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33Super Mario is correct, yes.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35One each, back to Rent-a-Gob.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37What type of creature was Apis,
0:25:37 > 0:25:40an animal deity worshipped by the Ancient Egyptians?
0:25:40 > 0:25:43A bull, a cobra or a hawk?
0:25:43 > 0:25:45I'd say snake.
0:25:45 > 0:25:46I...What do you think?
0:25:46 > 0:25:51- I think cobra.- I think cobra. It feels right, snakey things, yeah.
0:25:51 > 0:25:52Ancient Egypt, yeah.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54Unless a hawk?
0:25:54 > 0:25:58- No, cobra.- If it's cobra or a hawk, we know that much.
0:25:58 > 0:25:59That much we know.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01The majority opinion
0:26:01 > 0:26:02seems to be cobra.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04OK. Snakey. Eggheads?
0:26:04 > 0:26:06- Bull.- Ah, it's a bull.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08- Oh, no.- It's a bull.
0:26:08 > 0:26:12Which was third, I think, on your list. Some comfort, perhaps.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14Eggheads' chance for the lead, then.
0:26:14 > 0:26:18American athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee won three Olympic gold medals.
0:26:18 > 0:26:21Two for the heptathlon, one for which other event?
0:26:21 > 0:26:24400m hurdles, 200m or long jump?
0:26:24 > 0:26:26Yeah, I'm just making sure,
0:26:26 > 0:26:28cos obviously being a heptathlete,
0:26:28 > 0:26:33she was pretty versatile, but yeah, she was a long jumper as well.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35- Go for long jump?- Yeah.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37That's the long jump, Dermot.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40Long jump? It's part of the heptathlon, isn't it?
0:26:40 > 0:26:42Is the right answer, Eggheads, yes.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45So you've got to get this, Rent-a-Gob.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47In the 19th and 20th centuries,
0:26:47 > 0:26:49five generations of the Martineau family
0:26:49 > 0:26:53served as Mayor or Lord Mayor of which English city?
0:26:53 > 0:26:55London, Birmingham or Liverpool?
0:26:55 > 0:26:57Yeah, is there anywhere...
0:26:57 > 0:27:01Anywhere in either Birmingham or Liverpool
0:27:01 > 0:27:03called Martineau something?
0:27:03 > 0:27:04Not that I know of.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06Martineau Road, Martineau Gallery,
0:27:06 > 0:27:08Martineau Multi-storey Car Park?
0:27:08 > 0:27:10Isn't there a road in London?
0:27:10 > 0:27:13I really haven't... Nothing's jumping out at me, Steve.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15They sound French, don't they?
0:27:15 > 0:27:18Which of those is the most French sort of city?
0:27:18 > 0:27:20- London, I suppose.- Is that a clue?
0:27:20 > 0:27:23Yeah, well, we're going to have to take a guess.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26- What shall we guess? - Well, if I get it wrong...
0:27:26 > 0:27:30- Just say, because we don't know. - Liverpool.- We'll say Liverpool.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32The Martineaus,
0:27:32 > 0:27:34Mayor or Lord Mayor of Liverpool.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37It's not the right answer. Do you know, Eggheads?
0:27:37 > 0:27:39- Birmingham.- It's not London so...
0:27:39 > 0:27:40It's Birmingham.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43Any Martineau Squares or Places?
0:27:43 > 0:27:46I don't know Birmingham, I'm afraid.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49I'm sure the people of Birmingham will be telling us soon.
0:27:49 > 0:27:50The answer is Birmingham,
0:27:50 > 0:27:53which means, Eggheads, you've won.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01Well, the Eggheads have taken the quizzing honours,
0:28:01 > 0:28:04but you've taken the entertainment honours by a long shot.
0:28:04 > 0:28:08Thank you so much for sparing time in your busy schedules
0:28:08 > 0:28:10to come and entertain us so royally today.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13And quiz so well, you in particular there, Redd.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15Fantastic head-to-head there.
0:28:15 > 0:28:19And wasn't it great to put faces to those voices
0:28:19 > 0:28:22that are part of the fabric of our everyday lives?
0:28:22 > 0:28:26It's been absolutely wonderful having you here. We have been privileged.
0:28:26 > 0:28:30But those Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33I'm afraid you haven't won the £10,000,
0:28:33 > 0:28:37so that money will go to Children In Need to add to this year's appeal.
0:28:37 > 0:28:40Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?
0:28:40 > 0:28:43Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers
0:28:43 > 0:28:45can defeat our Eggheads. Until then, goodbye.
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