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These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:08 | |
Together they make up the Eggheads, | 0:00:08 | 0:00:11 | |
arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:16 | |
The question is, can they be beaten? | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
Hello there and welcome to a special celebrity edition of Eggheads - | 0:00:22 | 0:00:27 | |
the show where a team of five quiz challengers | 0:00:27 | 0:00:29 | |
pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:33 | |
They are the Eggheads. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:35 | |
And challenging our legendary quiz Goliaths are Sporting Allsorts. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:39 | |
We've had sports teams in the past who've tried to tackle | 0:00:39 | 0:00:43 | |
the Eggheads but sadly they didn't get out of the blocks. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:47 | |
Perhaps they've been missing the proverbial "safe pair of hands". | 0:00:47 | 0:00:52 | |
So, in the case of this team we found five people whose hands | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
have literally defined their careers. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:58 | |
However, if things don't go according to plan, | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
at least we can say we gave the Eggheads the "Willies". | 0:01:01 | 0:01:04 | |
Let's meet them! | 0:01:04 | 0:01:05 | |
I'm Willie Thorne, a former professional snooker player | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
and now spend my time commentating on the sport. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:10 | |
Hi, I'm Peter Shilton, I played football for England | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
over 20 years, gaining a record 125 caps. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:17 | |
Hello, my name is Joe Egan, I was a heavyweight boxer | 0:01:17 | 0:01:20 | |
and now I'm an actor. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:22 | |
Hi, I'm Paul Nixon, ex-Leicester, Kent and England cricketer. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:25 | |
Hi, I'm Geoff Capes, former Olympian and World's Strongest Man. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:29 | |
Welcome to you. Did you like that introduction, Willie? | 0:01:29 | 0:01:32 | |
It was perfect. I liked it very much | 0:01:32 | 0:01:34 | |
and if we don't beat them, we'll sit on them. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:36 | |
Yeah, you might win that contest. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:38 | |
I've got to talk to you individually about your sports | 0:01:38 | 0:01:41 | |
and your achievements when we do the questioning, | 0:01:41 | 0:01:45 | |
but what about quizzing? What about you, Willie? | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
Are you interested, have you taken part in many? | 0:01:48 | 0:01:50 | |
I'm very interested but I even lost to CJ when he came to the Crucible. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:53 | |
So that was a very sad day. My quizzing days were over after that. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:57 | |
I remember that. What was the format of that? Obviously on snooker. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:02 | |
Well, in fairness, CJ answered all his questions on snooker | 0:02:02 | 0:02:05 | |
and we did other things. He knew more about snooker than we did! | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
-Probably knows more about you than you do! -Probably does, yeah! | 0:02:08 | 0:02:12 | |
Well, let's play the game and see if you can give it to the Eggheads. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:17 | |
Every day there's £1,000 up for grabs for our challengers' chosen charity. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:21 | |
However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over to the next celebrity show. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:26 | |
So, Sporting Allsorts, this is the first of our celebrity | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
specials, £1,000 says you cannot beat the Eggheads today. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:34 | |
And we'll start the ball rolling straight away with our first | 0:02:34 | 0:02:38 | |
head-to-head battle and it's on the subject of, | 0:02:38 | 0:02:42 | |
well, stap me! It's sport. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:44 | |
Who'd like to play? Pick a player to take on the Eggheads. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
-I think Willie, don't you? -Get me out of the way early. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:52 | |
The captain's going first. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:55 | |
OK, captain's innings first. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
Willie...do you want to | 0:02:57 | 0:02:58 | |
engage again with CJ or any of the Eggheads you could play. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:01 | |
I wouldn't think of anything better than playing CJ at this moment. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:05 | |
-CJ. -Oh, rematch! That's what we wanted. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
-LAUGHTER -Willie and CJ. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:10 | |
Could I ask you to go to the Question Room so that you can't confer with your team? | 0:03:10 | 0:03:14 | |
Willie, as the challenger, you get to choose, do you | 0:03:15 | 0:03:18 | |
want the first or second set of questions? | 0:03:18 | 0:03:20 | |
I'll go first, please, thank you. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:21 | |
Best of luck to you, sir. Your first question on sport is this... | 0:03:25 | 0:03:29 | |
Linford Christie's best time for the 100 metres was how many seconds? | 0:03:29 | 0:03:34 | |
I'm not going to go for the lowest one. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:40 | |
I'm either going for 9.87 or 10.17. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:43 | |
-9.87. -9.87. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:47 | |
Thumbs up from Geoff, he should know, | 0:03:47 | 0:03:49 | |
-you were probably there! -I was. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:52 | |
It's the right answer. Well done, Willie. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:55 | |
Tough one to negotiate for the first question, | 0:03:55 | 0:03:58 | |
and, CJ, which rugby union team won the 2011 Six Nations Tournament? | 0:03:58 | 0:04:03 | |
Like a good little Egghead I did my list of all the 2011 sporting | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
winners - England. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:10 | |
It is the right answer, well done. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:13 | |
OK, Willie, here's your second question. | 0:04:15 | 0:04:17 | |
Which swimmer won a gold medal in the men's 400m Freestyle | 0:04:17 | 0:04:22 | |
at both the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games? | 0:04:22 | 0:04:24 | |
I know Ian Thorpe is probably the best of those three at swimming, | 0:04:30 | 0:04:33 | |
but I'm not too sure if he was that early. | 0:04:33 | 0:04:36 | |
Erm... Thorpe. | 0:04:36 | 0:04:38 | |
I'm still going to go for Ian Thorpe. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
Thank goodness you did, it is right. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:44 | |
I was worried about the years. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:46 | |
Well, was that... | 0:04:46 | 0:04:48 | |
We'll ask the Eggheads, was the 2000 victory on his home turf - | 0:04:48 | 0:04:52 | |
was that a young Ian Thorpe coming good? | 0:04:52 | 0:04:55 | |
Showing his potential. Did he win other medals in the 2000 Olympics? | 0:04:55 | 0:04:59 | |
I think he did, he didn't just have a single. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:01 | |
Not the handful that he got later. | 0:05:01 | 0:05:03 | |
OK, Ian Thorpe identified there by Willie. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
CJ, in total how many goals did Gary Lineker | 0:05:06 | 0:05:10 | |
score at the FIFA World Cup Finals of 1986 and 1990? | 0:05:10 | 0:05:14 | |
Well, he scored six in '86, | 0:05:17 | 0:05:19 | |
cos he won the Golden Boot that year. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:21 | |
In 1990, that was Italy, wasn't it? | 0:05:21 | 0:05:24 | |
That was the one where Paul Gascoigne got sent off. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:28 | |
So they must've progressed quite a way in the tournament. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:32 | |
So I think it's more likely he scored four rather than zero. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:35 | |
I'll try ten. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:39 | |
Gascoigne got booked which meant | 0:05:39 | 0:05:41 | |
he would've been banned for the final. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:43 | |
And Lineker did that to Bobby Robson. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:45 | |
It's the right answer, well worked out. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:47 | |
Ten goals. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:48 | |
Number three for you, Willie, going strongly here. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:51 | |
It's 2-2. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:52 | |
Serena Williams completed a career grand slam in 2003 | 0:05:52 | 0:05:57 | |
when she first won which of tennis' four grand slam tournaments? | 0:05:57 | 0:06:01 | |
It's going to have to be a guess. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:06 | |
Honestly, I think she would've won the US Open before the other two. | 0:06:06 | 0:06:10 | |
I think...because she was obviously world number one for many years. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:14 | |
I'm going to go for the French. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:16 | |
Oh! Unlucky! | 0:06:16 | 0:06:17 | |
Australian! | 0:06:17 | 0:06:18 | |
-It's Australian. -My luck! | 0:06:18 | 0:06:21 | |
-Oh, no! -You did so well there. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:23 | |
CJ, cricket, which Pakistani cricketer scored a 557 minute | 0:06:25 | 0:06:30 | |
Test Match century against England in 1977? | 0:06:30 | 0:06:34 | |
I don't know this but one of the names is ringing. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:44 | |
So let's hope it's this one, cos I've nothing else to go on. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:49 | |
Javed Miandad. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:51 | |
Javed Miandad, great player but not he. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:53 | |
It's not, do you know? | 0:06:53 | 0:06:55 | |
I didn't actually know it but I would've gone for Javed myself. | 0:06:55 | 0:07:00 | |
But Zaheer probably. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:01 | |
No, it's not, it's Nazar. | 0:07:01 | 0:07:03 | |
-So, great stuff, Willie, you're still alive. -I'm pleased. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:10 | |
You might not be pleased to hear we're taking away all the choices. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
-It's Sudden Death. -OK. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:14 | |
You don't get anything to look at, we've just got to hear it from you. | 0:07:14 | 0:07:20 | |
Willie, before Lewis Hamilton's victory in 2008, who was the | 0:07:20 | 0:07:23 | |
last Englishman to win the British Grand Prix - the British Grand Prix? | 0:07:23 | 0:07:27 | |
I should know this. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:30 | |
I'm going to go for Mansell. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:32 | |
It's not. It was Johnny Herbert. | 0:07:32 | 0:07:35 | |
Wow! | 0:07:35 | 0:07:37 | |
-Johnny Herbert in 1995. -Gee whiz. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:39 | |
OK, a chance for you again, CJ. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:41 | |
In 1954 Roger Bannister's sub four minute mile record was broken | 0:07:41 | 0:07:45 | |
only six weeks later by which Australian runner? | 0:07:45 | 0:07:48 | |
-John Landy? -It's the right answer! | 0:07:48 | 0:07:50 | |
CJ, next time you turn up at the Crucible something very | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
heavy's going to drop, they'll just be winching the slate in there. | 0:07:55 | 0:08:00 | |
Willie's there at the controls, there's CJ! | 0:08:00 | 0:08:03 | |
How hard were those question?! Goodness me. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:06 | |
Bad luck. It means Captain Willie will not be in the final round. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:10 | |
Would you both come back and join your teams? | 0:08:10 | 0:08:13 | |
As it stands, the Sporting Allsorts are one brain down for the final, | 0:08:13 | 0:08:17 | |
and our next one is History. Who'd like to play this? | 0:08:17 | 0:08:21 | |
This is one we didn't talk about, isn't it? | 0:08:21 | 0:08:24 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:08:24 | 0:08:25 | |
I'll be the sacrificial lamb for this. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:27 | |
The best wicket keeper in the world! | 0:08:27 | 0:08:30 | |
Tethered goat, sacrificial lamb. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:32 | |
Paul, choose an Egghead - it can't be CJ. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:35 | |
Erm, I think I'll go Pat. | 0:08:35 | 0:08:36 | |
It's going to be Paul and Pat playing this round. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:39 | |
The Question Room for you both. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:40 | |
OK, let's play this History round. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:45 | |
Do you want to go first or second, Paul? | 0:08:45 | 0:08:48 | |
Er, I'll go first, please. | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
Best of luck, here you go. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
Approximately how old was the outlaw Billy the Kid | 0:08:54 | 0:08:57 | |
at the time of his death? | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
Well, being an outlaw he needs to be experienced, a ducker and a diver. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:06 | |
Erm, they didn't live very long in those days. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:08 | |
Erm, can't imagine 21. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:11 | |
I think I'll go 31. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:16 | |
OK, 31. There's some discussion among your team-mates. | 0:09:16 | 0:09:19 | |
We all think 21. He was very young. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:21 | |
21 is the answer we're looking for, Paul. | 0:09:21 | 0:09:23 | |
21, hence "the Kid". He really was not much more than a kid. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:27 | |
Let's continue with the quiz. Pat's itching to face his first question. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:32 | |
Pat, which French historical figure was buried | 0:09:32 | 0:09:35 | |
in the Rupert Valley in a grave that bore no name, only the words - | 0:09:35 | 0:09:40 | |
"Ci-git" or "here lies". | 0:09:40 | 0:09:42 | |
Um... | 0:09:48 | 0:09:50 | |
Bonaparte's remains are now in Les Invalides in Paris, | 0:09:50 | 0:09:54 | |
but they could've had a burial somewhere else. | 0:09:54 | 0:09:58 | |
It could've been re-interred. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:01 | |
Louis - you would fancy such a heavy-hitting | 0:10:01 | 0:10:04 | |
king of France would be in some sort of royal tomb or, | 0:10:04 | 0:10:09 | |
mausoleum. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:11 | |
Whereas Robespierre is a more quirky figure, so I'll go for | 0:10:11 | 0:10:16 | |
Robespierre but I really don't know. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:18 | |
OK, Robespierre, ci-git. Buried in the Rupert Valley. | 0:10:18 | 0:10:22 | |
Other Eggheads, do you think...? | 0:10:22 | 0:10:24 | |
We agree with that one, yes. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:25 | |
Unless it's where Napoleon was originally buried. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:29 | |
-Oh, what valley? -The Rupert Valley. | 0:10:29 | 0:10:31 | |
Rupert as in R-U-P-E-R-T? | 0:10:31 | 0:10:33 | |
Yeah, unless it was Napoleon buried in St Helena. | 0:10:33 | 0:10:37 | |
-That's Saint Helena. -It is Napoleon! The Rupert Valley. | 0:10:37 | 0:10:40 | |
OK, nothing there for Pat. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:44 | |
Let's see if you can forge into the lead with this one, Paul. | 0:10:44 | 0:10:47 | |
The mounted infantry soldiers known as Dragoons, | 0:10:47 | 0:10:51 | |
took their name from a 16th French type of which weapon? | 0:10:51 | 0:10:54 | |
Dragoons. | 0:10:58 | 0:10:59 | |
I've got absolutely no idea. Team, sorry about that. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:01 | |
I'll go a guess at musket. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:06 | |
Musket. It's the right answer! | 0:11:06 | 0:11:08 | |
-Hey! -Good guess. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:10 | |
Anyone give us the origin? | 0:11:10 | 0:11:11 | |
What's the French musket? | 0:11:11 | 0:11:14 | |
-A dragon. -A dragon. OK. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:17 | |
Pat, to catch up, how were the English kings, | 0:11:19 | 0:11:21 | |
Richard I and John related? | 0:11:21 | 0:11:24 | |
I think they were both the offspring | 0:11:27 | 0:11:32 | |
of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:35 | |
Which would make them brothers. | 0:11:35 | 0:11:37 | |
Richard I and John. | 0:11:37 | 0:11:39 | |
Richard I spent his time in foreign fields | 0:11:39 | 0:11:42 | |
and in the Robin Hood legend John prospered in his absence. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:45 | |
I think they were brothers. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:48 | |
Yeah. Robin Hood there. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:50 | |
Richard and John there, so, it's all square. | 0:11:50 | 0:11:55 | |
One apiece, third question apiece. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:57 | |
Paul, what name was given to President Eisenhower's 1955 | 0:11:57 | 0:12:01 | |
proposal that the United States and the USSR should be allowed to | 0:12:01 | 0:12:05 | |
conduct aerial surveillance on each other? | 0:12:05 | 0:12:08 | |
Friendly Skies, Open Skies or Parade Skies? | 0:12:12 | 0:12:15 | |
Bit pompous. Erm... | 0:12:17 | 0:12:20 | |
Whoo. Let's go...Open Skies. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:25 | |
Open Skies...is the right answer! | 0:12:25 | 0:12:28 | |
Well done, Paul, really hitting form now. | 0:12:29 | 0:12:32 | |
OK, you're in the lead, if Pat gets this wrong, | 0:12:32 | 0:12:35 | |
you're also in the final round. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:38 | |
Pat, the 142 books which comprised Livy's History Of Rome, | 0:12:38 | 0:12:42 | |
covered a period stretching from the city's founding until what date? | 0:12:42 | 0:12:46 | |
I think Livy was sort of a contemporary of Augustus. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:56 | |
I think, I'm not certain. | 0:12:59 | 0:13:00 | |
Let's see, Caesar is assassinated in 44BC. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:05 | |
Christ was born. Was the census in the reign of Tiberius? | 0:13:07 | 0:13:13 | |
Hm... Is there anything significant about the dates? | 0:13:13 | 0:13:17 | |
59 BC. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:20 | |
15 years before Caesar's death. | 0:13:20 | 0:13:23 | |
I'll have to go for 9BC, but I'm not confident. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:27 | |
You've never lost at History, have you? | 0:13:27 | 0:13:30 | |
I don't think so. | 0:13:30 | 0:13:31 | |
DERMOT LAUGHS | 0:13:31 | 0:13:33 | |
Wondering what I'll say. You still haven't, it's the right answer. | 0:13:33 | 0:13:37 | |
You did work that out but you were sorely tempted by 59, weren't you? | 0:13:37 | 0:13:42 | |
Sorely tempted. It's all square. | 0:13:42 | 0:13:44 | |
We go to Sudden Death again. We know that, having seen Willie's attempts. | 0:13:44 | 0:13:48 | |
And very good attempts they were. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:51 | |
Erm, let's see if you can go one further and knock Pat out. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:54 | |
Paul, Durovernum Cantiacorum was the Roman name for which English city? | 0:13:54 | 0:14:00 | |
York comes straight to me. | 0:14:00 | 0:14:02 | |
Erm... | 0:14:02 | 0:14:04 | |
Canterbury, possibly. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:08 | |
Erm... | 0:14:08 | 0:14:10 | |
I'm going to go with York. York came straight into my mind. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:14 | |
OK, York. It's the other one. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:15 | |
Canterbury - Cantiacorum in Latin. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:18 | |
OK, well, will that let Pat in? | 0:14:20 | 0:14:22 | |
The Hay-Herran Treaty of 1903 | 0:14:22 | 0:14:26 | |
between the USA and Colombia was a milestone in the history of what | 0:14:26 | 0:14:30 | |
major civil engineering feat? | 0:14:30 | 0:14:31 | |
My first thought is that back then | 0:14:33 | 0:14:36 | |
Colombia owned a good chunk of what is now present-day Panama. | 0:14:36 | 0:14:41 | |
I'm not sure what other major engineering activities | 0:14:41 | 0:14:44 | |
would've taken place down near Colombia. | 0:14:44 | 0:14:49 | |
I think I have to go for the Panama Canal. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:51 | |
Panama Canal - between USA and Colombia - it's the right answer. | 0:14:51 | 0:14:55 | |
You're in the final round. Bad luck, Paul, but for Billy the Kid, | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
you'd've been in there. | 0:14:58 | 0:15:00 | |
-Yeah. -And indeed Caesar as well, he was a problem, | 0:15:00 | 0:15:02 | |
Pat finally managing to work out that question. | 0:15:02 | 0:15:06 | |
Anyway that's all water under the bridge, you're not | 0:15:06 | 0:15:10 | |
in the final round, Paul, would you both come back and join your teams. | 0:15:10 | 0:15:14 | |
As it stands, the Sporting Allsorts have lost two brains, | 0:15:14 | 0:15:17 | |
the Eggheads are all still there but we have two more head-to-heads | 0:15:17 | 0:15:22 | |
to play and the next one is Geography. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
Who'd like to play this? We have Peter, Joe or Geoff. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:28 | |
You've travelled the world, eh? | 0:15:28 | 0:15:31 | |
Yeah, I've travelled. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:33 | |
You have travelled all over. Who are you going to take with you, | 0:15:33 | 0:15:36 | |
which one will it be? Remember that CJ and Pat have played, | 0:15:36 | 0:15:39 | |
so Kevin, Judith or Barry. | 0:15:39 | 0:15:42 | |
Tough choice, but I think I'll go with Barry. | 0:15:42 | 0:15:44 | |
Just because I like his shirt. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:46 | |
That's a Notts Forest shirt. | 0:15:49 | 0:15:50 | |
You see a bit of Notts Forest in there with the red. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:53 | |
Peter and Barry into the Question Room, please. | 0:15:53 | 0:15:56 | |
Peter, good to have you here. | 0:15:57 | 0:15:58 | |
Not a bad choice for this Geography round with all the travelling | 0:15:58 | 0:16:02 | |
you did during the course of that magnificent career, | 0:16:02 | 0:16:05 | |
all those England Internationals and | 0:16:05 | 0:16:08 | |
all those European games you played with your clubs. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:11 | |
Let's try and test your knowledge of Geography. | 0:16:11 | 0:16:14 | |
You get to choose, first or second? | 0:16:14 | 0:16:16 | |
Being number one, I think I'll go first, Dermot. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:19 | |
Why did I ask?! | 0:16:22 | 0:16:24 | |
Let's hope you finish in number one position against Barry. | 0:16:24 | 0:16:27 | |
Yeah, I hope so as well. | 0:16:27 | 0:16:29 | |
Here's your fist question. | 0:16:29 | 0:16:30 | |
Faisalabad is a city in which country? | 0:16:30 | 0:16:33 | |
Turkey sort of comes to me. I think it's either Pakistan or Turkey. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:43 | |
I think I'm going to take a little bit of a guess, | 0:16:43 | 0:16:47 | |
on... | 0:16:47 | 0:16:49 | |
Pakistan. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:52 | |
Yes, indeed, it's the right answer. | 0:16:52 | 0:16:53 | |
Whoa, we were holding our breath, weren't we? | 0:16:53 | 0:16:56 | |
-He was heading towards Turkey! -There was no-one breathing here. | 0:16:56 | 0:17:00 | |
Faisalabad in Pakistan. Good. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:03 | |
You're off the mark. | 0:17:03 | 0:17:06 | |
And, Barry, what's the official language of Liechtenstein? | 0:17:06 | 0:17:10 | |
Liechtenstein is between Austria and Switzerland. | 0:17:11 | 0:17:16 | |
They speak almost exclusively German there | 0:17:16 | 0:17:18 | |
so I guess the official language is German. | 0:17:18 | 0:17:21 | |
It is, yes. The official language is German so, back to you, Peter. | 0:17:21 | 0:17:27 | |
What is the capital of the US State of Maryland? | 0:17:27 | 0:17:31 | |
I've got to take a wild guess. | 0:17:34 | 0:17:36 | |
I've got absolutely no idea but I'll go for Persepolis? | 0:17:36 | 0:17:42 | |
The capital is not Persepolis. Barry? | 0:17:44 | 0:17:47 | |
-It's Annapolis. -Big naval base, isn't it? | 0:17:47 | 0:17:49 | |
A very big naval base indeed. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:51 | |
OK, nothing there for Peter. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:53 | |
Let's see how Barry goes with his second one. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:55 | |
To what height does Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales, rise? | 0:17:55 | 0:18:00 | |
Snowdon I know is higher than Scafell Pike which is | 0:18:13 | 0:18:16 | |
the highest mountain in England. | 0:18:16 | 0:18:18 | |
Er, which would I think rule out 1,085 metres. | 0:18:18 | 0:18:23 | |
1,685...? | 0:18:23 | 0:18:26 | |
That would put it higher than Ben Nevis so I shall go for 1,355. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:32 | |
1,385! Going down the middle anyway. | 0:18:32 | 0:18:37 | |
-Um, it's wrong. It's not. -Oh! | 0:18:37 | 0:18:40 | |
-CJ? -I think it's 1,085. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:43 | |
It is, it's 1,085. | 0:18:43 | 0:18:45 | |
Good, good, good, for you, Peter. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:48 | |
All square and your third question. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:50 | |
Cabinda is a northern exclave of which African country? | 0:18:50 | 0:18:54 | |
Really...for some reason I don't think it's Cameroon. | 0:18:56 | 0:18:59 | |
I don't know why, just the feeling I get. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:02 | |
The one that springs to me, a pure gut feeling - | 0:19:02 | 0:19:08 | |
hopefully I'm right and I guessed right for a change - is Angola. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:16 | |
It's the right answer, you guessed right. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:20 | |
OK. Angola. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:23 | |
Well, Barry. | 0:19:23 | 0:19:25 | |
If Annapolis had gone in for Peter, you'd be out already, | 0:19:25 | 0:19:30 | |
this to save yourself. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:32 | |
In which sea are the islands of Salina and Lipari located? | 0:19:32 | 0:19:35 | |
I believe these are just off the toe of Italy. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:44 | |
So, if they're at the toe, they would be in the Tyrrhenian Sea. | 0:19:45 | 0:19:50 | |
-Tyrrhenian. -Yeah. | 0:19:51 | 0:19:54 | |
You've got the right answer. Well done. | 0:19:54 | 0:19:56 | |
You worked it out there. | 0:19:56 | 0:19:58 | |
So, it's Sudden Death again, Peter. | 0:19:58 | 0:20:01 | |
You know all about that with penalties. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:04 | |
-Like a penalty shoot out, this is! -Absolutely. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:08 | |
Except it might just be one shot here. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:10 | |
If you get this and Barry doesn't, you're through. | 0:20:10 | 0:20:13 | |
A controversial bridge linking which Hebridean island to | 0:20:13 | 0:20:16 | |
the Scottish mainland was opened in 1995. | 0:20:16 | 0:20:19 | |
I've got to say nothing springs to mind. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:23 | |
I think I'm struggling on this one, Dermot. | 0:20:23 | 0:20:26 | |
Er... Hebridean bridge? | 0:20:26 | 0:20:30 | |
-Not the Orkney Islands? No, is that Hebridean? -Barry, do you know? | 0:20:30 | 0:20:35 | |
Being born in Scotland and lived all my life in Yorkshire, | 0:20:35 | 0:20:38 | |
I can understand that locals wouldn't want to pay the toll | 0:20:38 | 0:20:41 | |
over the bridge to Skye. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:43 | |
That's right, Skye and it was a toll bridge. | 0:20:43 | 0:20:45 | |
-That's why it was controversial. Free now, though? -Yes, it is. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:48 | |
They've changed all that. OK, well, nothing there for Peter. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:52 | |
Let's see how Barry does. | 0:20:52 | 0:20:54 | |
Barry, Thunder Bay - created in 1970 by the Union of Port Arthur | 0:20:54 | 0:20:59 | |
and its twin city Fort William is located on which of the Great Lakes? | 0:20:59 | 0:21:03 | |
I don't think it is the smaller ones. | 0:21:03 | 0:21:05 | |
I don't think it is Ontario, | 0:21:05 | 0:21:06 | |
which leaves us with Michigan, Hudson, or Superior. | 0:21:06 | 0:21:09 | |
Well, Michigan is totally in the US | 0:21:09 | 0:21:12 | |
and those two cities sound Canadian. | 0:21:12 | 0:21:15 | |
So on that basis alone, I will go for Superior. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:18 | |
Mmm, OK. | 0:21:18 | 0:21:19 | |
Superior because they sound Canadian. You have got it, Barry! | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
Well worked out. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:23 | |
The Egghead there and his finest work. | 0:21:23 | 0:21:26 | |
It means you will be in the final round, Barry. Just squeaked through. | 0:21:26 | 0:21:30 | |
Bad luck, Peter. Got a hand on the ball but it crept over the line! | 0:21:30 | 0:21:33 | |
-Again! -Would you both please come back and join your teams. | 0:21:33 | 0:21:38 | |
Well, Sporting Allsorts, 3-0 down, but you won't take it lying down. | 0:21:39 | 0:21:44 | |
Last chance to knock out an Egghead and this category, | 0:21:44 | 0:21:47 | |
our last head-to-head, is on Food & Drink. | 0:21:47 | 0:21:50 | |
-Joe or Geoff, one of you to play. Food & Drink. -Get ready, Kevin. | 0:21:50 | 0:21:54 | |
-Joe does not drink. -He wants to play tactically here. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:59 | |
I think we have to take a chance. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:00 | |
-I'll have a go. -Trust me, Kevin is nearly as bad as you think you are! | 0:22:00 | 0:22:04 | |
Very few teams, I don't think any other team have done that, | 0:22:06 | 0:22:09 | |
where you pick the opponent before you decide who is going to play! | 0:22:09 | 0:22:13 | |
OK. Joe and Kevin into the question room, please. | 0:22:13 | 0:22:16 | |
-All right. You get to choose, first or second, Joe? -I will go first. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:22 | |
OK, Joe. First question on Food & Drink. | 0:22:25 | 0:22:27 | |
A shallot resembles which vegetable: | 0:22:27 | 0:22:30 | |
This is only going to be a guess. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:36 | |
-I'll go for the middle one, I will go for onion. -It is an onion. | 0:22:37 | 0:22:40 | |
It is the right answer, yes. A little onion, really. Well done. | 0:22:40 | 0:22:45 | |
So you are off the mark. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:46 | |
Kevin, Frascati is a wine from which country? | 0:22:46 | 0:22:49 | |
That is an Italian wine. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:54 | |
-My goodness. -What? -It's right! | 0:22:54 | 0:22:57 | |
-I'm sorry if I shocked you. -Yes, you have. | 0:22:57 | 0:22:59 | |
OK, back to you, Joe. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:01 | |
Yorkshire squares are traditionally used in the north of England | 0:23:01 | 0:23:05 | |
in the production of which beverage? | 0:23:05 | 0:23:06 | |
It's a guess again. Um... | 0:23:09 | 0:23:12 | |
-I'll go beer. -Beer? -Yes. | 0:23:12 | 0:23:14 | |
Is the right answer! | 0:23:14 | 0:23:15 | |
How did you work that out, Joe? Do you want to share that? | 0:23:15 | 0:23:18 | |
-Was it a pure guess? -When you said "production". | 0:23:18 | 0:23:21 | |
-There's not really much to produce in water, it produces itself. -Yeah. | 0:23:21 | 0:23:25 | |
-Just a guess. -That's it. | 0:23:25 | 0:23:28 | |
Brilliant working out by Joe. | 0:23:28 | 0:23:30 | |
Taking the lead. And Kevin, | 0:23:30 | 0:23:32 | |
Lucques and Manzanilla are popular types of what? | 0:23:32 | 0:23:36 | |
Lucques, I've never heard of Lucques... | 0:23:38 | 0:23:40 | |
and Manzanilla I've only heard of in relation to Sherry. | 0:23:40 | 0:23:45 | |
Popular... I don't recognise those as being popular types of cheese. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:51 | |
So I'm going to go for olive. | 0:23:51 | 0:23:52 | |
OK, they are. They are olives. Well done, Kevin. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:55 | |
Working it out there again | 0:23:55 | 0:23:57 | |
with one of the words in the question, like Joe. | 0:23:57 | 0:23:59 | |
Taught him a thing or two there, Joe. | 0:23:59 | 0:24:01 | |
Ahem! | 0:24:01 | 0:24:03 | |
Now, Joe. Your third question. It is all square. | 0:24:03 | 0:24:07 | |
The avocado is native to which region of the world? | 0:24:07 | 0:24:10 | |
I think it is a pear, an avocado is a pear. Is it? | 0:24:14 | 0:24:18 | |
Um... It's just a guess again. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:20 | |
Australasia. | 0:24:20 | 0:24:22 | |
-OK. Kevin? -They come from the Americas originally. -The Americas | 0:24:22 | 0:24:26 | |
is the answer we were looking for. | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
But it's not over, because Kevin has to face his third question. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:33 | |
Kevin, which herb is an essential ingredient of maitre d'hotel butter? | 0:24:33 | 0:24:39 | |
Right, there is a maitre d'hotel sauce... | 0:24:42 | 0:24:45 | |
neither mint nor rosemary rings any bells with me | 0:24:45 | 0:24:48 | |
in relation to maitre d'hotel at all. | 0:24:48 | 0:24:51 | |
-I will have to go for parsley. -OK. | 0:24:51 | 0:24:53 | |
Maitre d'hotel sauce you think has parsley butter. | 0:24:53 | 0:24:56 | |
It's the right answer, Kevin. Yes, it is parsley. | 0:24:56 | 0:25:00 | |
It means you're through to the final round. | 0:25:00 | 0:25:02 | |
No place for you, Joe, which is a terrible pity | 0:25:02 | 0:25:04 | |
cos the Eggheads were very impressed by that Yorkshire squares answer | 0:25:04 | 0:25:09 | |
but you are not playing in that final. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:11 | |
Would you both please come back and join your teams. | 0:25:11 | 0:25:14 | |
This is what we've been playing towards. | 0:25:15 | 0:25:17 | |
Time for the final round, which as always, is General Knowledge. | 0:25:17 | 0:25:21 | |
But those of you who lost your head-to-heads | 0:25:22 | 0:25:24 | |
won't be allowed to take part in this round. | 0:25:24 | 0:25:26 | |
So, Willie, Peter, Joe and Paul from the Sporting Allsorts, | 0:25:26 | 0:25:30 | |
would you leave the studio, please. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:32 | |
So, Geoff. You're playing to win the Sporting Allsorts £1,000. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:36 | |
Barry, Pat, Judith, Kevin and CJ, you are playing for something | 0:25:36 | 0:25:40 | |
which money can't buy, it is the Eggheads' reputation. | 0:25:40 | 0:25:43 | |
I ask each team three questions in turn. | 0:25:43 | 0:25:46 | |
This time, the questions are all General Knowledge, as you know, | 0:25:46 | 0:25:49 | |
Geoff, and you are allowed to confer. | 0:25:49 | 0:25:51 | |
Geoff, is your one brain better than the Eggheads' five? | 0:25:51 | 0:25:55 | |
Geoff, would you like to go first or second? | 0:25:55 | 0:25:58 | |
I think the whole team has gone first every time. I'll have a crack at it | 0:25:58 | 0:26:01 | |
and see if I can get the first points on the board. | 0:26:01 | 0:26:04 | |
OK. Here is your first question. | 0:26:06 | 0:26:08 | |
General Knowledge, anything can come up. | 0:26:08 | 0:26:10 | |
21 was a UK number one album in 2011 for which singer? | 0:26:10 | 0:26:15 | |
Now, this is something... I will get killed back home. | 0:26:17 | 0:26:21 | |
I was wondering about that. | 0:26:21 | 0:26:23 | |
-Um... I think I'm going to go for Rihanna. -OK. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:28 | |
Rihanna, 21. A UK number one album in 2011 for, CJ...? | 0:26:28 | 0:26:32 | |
-Adele, I'm afraid. -Adele, Adele. OK, nothing there for Geoff. | 0:26:32 | 0:26:37 | |
Let's see how the Eggheads go | 0:26:37 | 0:26:39 | |
in their first question. | 0:26:39 | 0:26:40 | |
In a standard game of Scrabble, | 0:26:40 | 0:26:42 | |
how many points are the letters F and Y worth? | 0:26:42 | 0:26:47 | |
-Four? -Four? -Yes. | 0:26:47 | 0:26:49 | |
-We think it is four. -Four is the right answer, Eggheads. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:53 | |
So, Geoff, let's get you on the board here. | 0:26:53 | 0:26:56 | |
What is the meaning of the word avarice? | 0:26:56 | 0:26:58 | |
Again, this is going to be a guess. | 0:27:01 | 0:27:04 | |
It's...a word I'm not au fait with. | 0:27:04 | 0:27:08 | |
Pride. | 0:27:10 | 0:27:12 | |
Avarice means...greed. | 0:27:12 | 0:27:15 | |
Not pride. | 0:27:15 | 0:27:17 | |
So a chance for the Eggheads to wrap it up. | 0:27:17 | 0:27:21 | |
Eggheads, in 1980, the Californian businessman Dennis Hope | 0:27:21 | 0:27:26 | |
laid claim to, and began to sell, title deeds to what? | 0:27:26 | 0:27:29 | |
This is he one who tried to sell the Moon, isn't it? | 0:27:33 | 0:27:36 | |
-I'd fancy the Moon. -OK, Moon? -Yes. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:37 | |
-We think it's the Moon. -The Moon. -Yes. | 0:27:37 | 0:27:41 | |
Dennis Hope laid claim to and began to sell title deeds to... | 0:27:41 | 0:27:45 | |
The Moon is the right answer, Eggheads! You have won! | 0:27:45 | 0:27:48 | |
-Well, Geoff. -I did actually know that! -You did know that one? | 0:27:54 | 0:27:57 | |
Oh, dear! Well, it's the way the questions fall, as we always say. | 0:27:57 | 0:28:00 | |
We had a question there about Hope, all hope began to go | 0:28:00 | 0:28:04 | |
when member after member of your team lost those head-to-heads, | 0:28:04 | 0:28:08 | |
-so many of them in Sudden Death, as well. -Absolutely. | 0:28:08 | 0:28:11 | |
-They all did very well. -It's just... | 0:28:11 | 0:28:13 | |
-It's a shame I have let them down! -You haven't! | 0:28:13 | 0:28:16 | |
It's been great. The point is the taking part and having so much fun. | 0:28:16 | 0:28:19 | |
-We have had a ball today, haven't we, Eggheads? -Absolutely, yes. | 0:28:19 | 0:28:22 | |
Thank you once again, Sporting Allsorts. | 0:28:22 | 0:28:25 | |
But the Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them, | 0:28:25 | 0:28:28 | |
I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £1,000. | 0:28:28 | 0:28:31 | |
That means the money rolls over to the next show. | 0:28:31 | 0:28:35 | |
Until then, goodbye. | 0:28:35 | 0:28:37 |