0:00:04 > 0:00:08'These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.'
0:00:09 > 0:00:12'Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:12 > 0:00:16arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.'
0:00:17 > 0:00:20'Question is, can they be beaten?'
0:00:24 > 0:00:26Welcome to a special, celebrity edition of Eggheads.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29That's the show where the team of five quiz challengers
0:00:29 > 0:00:33pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain -
0:00:33 > 0:00:35they are the Eggheads.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38Tackling our awesome quiz Titans today are the Songwriters.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42This team of the country's most prestigious songsmiths
0:00:42 > 0:00:44can lay claim to a fine canon of work.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47Great pop songs, show-stopping musical numbers
0:00:47 > 0:00:53and of course, who can forget Mike's involvement with those burrow-dwelling furry creatures,
0:00:53 > 0:00:55who surround themselves with litter?
0:00:55 > 0:00:59Thank you so much for writing that song about the Eggheads!
0:00:59 > 0:01:01Let's meet the team!
0:01:01 > 0:01:04Hello. I'm Mike Batt, and amongst other things, I wrote "Bright Eyes",
0:01:04 > 0:01:07"The Closest Thing To Crazy" and all the Wombles songs.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10Hello. My name's Tim Rice and I write words for musicals,
0:01:10 > 0:01:14such as Evita, Joseph, Superstar, Lion King - things like that.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18Hi. My name's Gary Kemp, guitarist and songwriter with Spandau Ballet.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21Hi. My name's Roger Greenaway and together with Roger Cook,
0:01:21 > 0:01:24I wrote "I'd Like to Teach The World To Sing".
0:01:24 > 0:01:28Hello. I'm Gary Osborne and I co-wrote "Blue Eyes" for Elton John,
0:01:28 > 0:01:32"War Of The Worlds" with Jeff Wayne, "Forever Autumn" with Justin Hayward
0:01:32 > 0:01:34and now Gary Barlow.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37Okay, songwriters, it's fantastic to have you all here.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39We are so excited to see you.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42Mike, did you get this wonderful team together? How did it happen?
0:01:42 > 0:01:45Well, we're all members of the Society Of Distinguished Songwriters
0:01:45 > 0:01:48and you can work out the acronym yourself -
0:01:48 > 0:01:50and I'm this year's "king" songwriter,
0:01:50 > 0:01:57so I decided it would be a good idea if we had a team of, um, the great and the good,
0:01:57 > 0:02:01who could join in and see if we could have a go.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04Let's start playing and see how you do!
0:02:04 > 0:02:09Now, every day there's £1,000 up for grabs for our challengers' chosen charity.
0:02:09 > 0:02:13But if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15So, Songwriters, the Eggheads have won the last nine games,
0:02:15 > 0:02:17which means £10,000 says
0:02:17 > 0:02:21you can't beat the Eggheads today.
0:02:21 > 0:02:26Okay, so nine teams have tried and failed. Let's see if you can do it.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29The first Head-to-Head battle is on the subject of Arts and Books.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32Who'd like to take this on? Arts and Books.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34It's gotta be... What about you, Gary?
0:02:34 > 0:02:37I did say... I did offer that up. Now I'm dreading it.
0:02:37 > 0:02:42- I'll go.- Okay. Choose your Egghead. Kicking off means you can choose anyone you like.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44- I'll go against Dave.- All right.
0:02:44 > 0:02:49Not much discussion there. Let's have Gary and Dave into the Question Room, please.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51That's to make sure you can't confer.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54Well, Gary, great to have you here.
0:02:54 > 0:02:59Now, the Eggheads miss nothing, and they tell me you've been on a quiz before. 1984!
0:02:59 > 0:03:01- Pop Quiz.- Oh, yes, of course.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04- Us v. Duran Duran, yeah. - DERMOT CHUCKLES
0:03:04 > 0:03:07It was a special. Unfortunately, we lost.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10- What?- But I think I'm just as nervous now as I was then.
0:03:10 > 0:03:15Andy Taylor, in his book, said that they got all the questions before, so they cheated.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18But don't let me take that away from them.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22It's Arts and Books. You're the challenger. Do you want to go first or second?
0:03:22 > 0:03:24I'll go first.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29Okay. Best of luck, Gary. First question.
0:03:29 > 0:03:35In 2012, TV personality Gok Wan released a book called Gok Cooks... what?
0:03:37 > 0:03:41Well, I'm really only good at things before I was born, really.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43as far as most books are concerned.
0:03:43 > 0:03:45Um, I don't think it's Polish.
0:03:45 > 0:03:48Um, it's either Indian or Chinese.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50I'm guessing it's Chinese.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53You'd be right to guess that. Correct and a good start.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55It's gone green on the board for you
0:03:56 > 0:03:59- Dave, are you a big fan of Spandau? - Very big fan, yeah.
0:03:59 > 0:04:04I've been to see Gary and the band one time at the Opera House in Manchester,
0:04:04 > 0:04:06er, where we had opera glasses.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09I don't know if he remembers that concert.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12- From way, way back in the day. - Yeah, it would've been early days.
0:04:12 > 0:04:17- The True Tour, I think. '83.- Yes, it was. Yeah, I'm a very big fan.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20You need bigger glasses now, for the arenas, if you're at the back.
0:04:20 > 0:04:24- I'll get you a front-row seat, don't worry.- That's good. All right, then.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28- I wonder if that'll have an effect on his answer here.- It might do.
0:04:28 > 0:04:35Okay, Dave. Which sport is referred to by the title of Nicola Barker's 2012 novel, The Yips?
0:04:37 > 0:04:39- Golf.- Yeah!
0:04:39 > 0:04:41Is the right answer. Hole in one.
0:04:41 > 0:04:45Okay, we've loosened you both up with those first questions.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48Let's see what happens with the next two. This is to you, Gary.
0:04:48 > 0:04:53The character Irene Adler appears in which Sherlock Holmes story?
0:04:59 > 0:05:01Well, I do know it,
0:05:01 > 0:05:04but it's in my distant memory.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07I don't think it's A Case of Identity.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11Study in Scarlet, I believe, was the first one.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15Scandal in Bohemia...
0:05:15 > 0:05:18Irene Adler... Sounds like she should be Bohemian.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21Um, I'm gonna go for Study in Scarlet.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24Okay. Irene Adler appears in...
0:05:25 > 0:05:27..A Scandal in Bohemia.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30- Bad luck.- Yeah.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32Tricky one, though.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35Okay, let's see how Dave does with his second question.
0:05:35 > 0:05:39Which comedy writer adapted the 1955 film The Ladykillers
0:05:39 > 0:05:41for the stage in 2011?
0:05:46 > 0:05:48Not heard of this.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Um,...
0:05:51 > 0:05:53I'm gonna go down the middle with Graham Linehan.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55- I think it's Li-ne-han.- Sorry.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58Of Father Ted fame and others.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00Graham Linehan is the right answer, anyway.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03Whatever you call him, he'll be happy you got that.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06Adapted The Ladykillers for the stage in 2011.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Which means you need this, Gary.
0:06:08 > 0:06:14Which novel by Nevill Shute concerns the world in the aftermath of a nuclear war?
0:06:18 > 0:06:21- A Town Called Alice. - Okay. No deliberation.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23A Town Called Alice...
0:06:23 > 0:06:27- It's not, Gary, no. Dave? - It's On The Beach.- On The Beach.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29I don't know that writer.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32- So you thought you'd go for it.- I went for it.- Down the middle again.
0:06:32 > 0:06:36Gary got that wrong and threw me a lifeline. Sorry, Gary.
0:06:36 > 0:06:41Well, you can discuss that concert way back in the '80s on the way back from the Question Room.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44Dave, you're coming back for the Final Round.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:06:47 > 0:06:52After that victory by Dave, Gary HAS agreed to let him come to the next Spandau Ballet concert,
0:06:52 > 0:06:57but bring your dustpan and brush cos you'll be cleaning up afterwards.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00And maybe a hi-vis jacket as well.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04As it stands, the Songwriters have lost one Brain from the Final Round.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06The Eggheads are all there, but it's very early days.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09Our next Head-to-Head is on History.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12Who from the Songwriters would like to play this? History.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15Tim's the one who had an education.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18- He knows all things.- A lot of money was spent on Tim's education.
0:07:18 > 0:07:22I know nothing about anything, he knows a lot about everything.
0:07:22 > 0:07:27I've now had a terrible build-up and I'll look an even bigger wally when I fail.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29Tim, if it is you, would you choose your Egghead?
0:07:29 > 0:07:32Can't be Dave. Any of the other four.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35Oh. I will go for Judith.
0:07:36 > 0:07:40Okay. Let's have Tim and Judith into the Question Room, please.
0:07:41 > 0:07:45Tim, you must have picked up an awful lot of knowledge,
0:07:45 > 0:07:49just from the writing and researching you've done, including historical knowledge.
0:07:49 > 0:07:53I suppose if you do a show that is based on real events,
0:07:53 > 0:07:57you have to do some research, but a lot of it has to be made up.
0:07:57 > 0:08:01There wasn't a lot of information in the Bible about Judas Iscariot.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03But there was a bit about Eva Peron.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06Not in the Bible! In the library.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09We get you. Now, do you want to go first or second?
0:08:09 > 0:08:11I'll go first.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16Okay, you're kicking off. Here's your first question. Good luck.
0:08:16 > 0:08:21Tonnage was a tax historically imposed on the import of which of these products?
0:08:24 > 0:08:28Well, the obvious one would seem to be wine, but maybe too obvious.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30But I guess, if I say...
0:08:30 > 0:08:34If I don't say wine and it is, I'll look a bigger twit
0:08:34 > 0:08:36than if I say one of the others.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38So I will go for wine.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40Okay. Wine... is the right answer.
0:08:40 > 0:08:45A small tip on the first question - never overlook the obvious.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47That would be my advice.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49Tim didn't and got it. Well done.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51Judith. Thorkell the Tall,
0:08:51 > 0:08:54who invaded England in the early 11th century,
0:08:54 > 0:08:56was from which group of invaders?
0:08:58 > 0:09:00Thorkal? T-H-O-R-K-A-L?
0:09:00 > 0:09:04K-E-L-L. Thor-KELL, if you want to say it that way.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06He sounds like a Viking, to me.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Um, so I'm going to say Viking.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11Yep, be around the time, wouldn't it? It's the right answer.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13Okay, back to you, Tim.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16The American gangster, George Moran,
0:09:16 > 0:09:19was better known by what nickname?
0:09:21 > 0:09:23I don't know. I mean, again, the obvious one would seem Bugs,
0:09:23 > 0:09:25because it's quite like...
0:09:25 > 0:09:29It's quite like Bugsy Malone, but maybe, maybe that's not right!
0:09:30 > 0:09:36Um.... Fingers sounds like a sort of shoplifter or pickpocket,
0:09:36 > 0:09:39rather than a gangster - seems a half-hearted criminal.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41So I think I'll go for Toots.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43I thought you were gonna go for Bugs. It is Bugs!
0:09:43 > 0:09:46- Ah.- Not Toots. Bugs Moran.
0:09:46 > 0:09:52Was Tim onto something there? Bugsy Malone sounds like Bugs Moran.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54Could it have been besed on that?
0:09:54 > 0:09:58Bugs or Bugsy was a kind of generic name for people who were a bit crazy
0:09:58 > 0:10:03Bugs in the head. That was the idea. So yeah, Bugs Moran, Bugsy Siegel.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05- Okay.- It was a not uncommon name.
0:10:05 > 0:10:09Thank you, Eggheads. And Judith, your second question.
0:10:09 > 0:10:13What name was given to the 17th-century North American wars,
0:10:13 > 0:10:17in which the Iroquoi fought the Hurons and their allies?
0:10:20 > 0:10:24I've got a sort of inkle about the Grizzly Wars.
0:10:25 > 0:10:27I have an inkling about the Grizzly Wars
0:10:27 > 0:10:29and also it's the magic rights.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32I'm going to do Grizzly Wars.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34For the uninitiated, Judith, if guessing,
0:10:34 > 0:10:36likes to go for the "magic rights".
0:10:36 > 0:10:40- The right-hand option is NOT the right option in this case.- Oh.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43It is the Beaver Wars.
0:10:43 > 0:10:48And, er, Huron, Iroquoi - Last of the Mohican territory, isn't it?
0:10:48 > 0:10:52Yes, er, wars over the trade in beaver pelts.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55It stays all-square. No damage done.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Both slipped up on your second question.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00Number three for both of you. This is yours, Tim.
0:11:00 > 0:11:05King's Cross in London takes its name from a short-lived monument
0:11:05 > 0:11:08that was erected locally, featuring a statue of which king?
0:11:12 > 0:11:14Well, I doubt if it's Edward VII.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17I don't know when King's Cross got there,
0:11:17 > 0:11:21but presumably in the early days of the railways, so early 19th century,
0:11:21 > 0:11:23which doesn't help much,
0:11:23 > 0:11:27as both George IV and William IV are early 19th-century.
0:11:27 > 0:11:32William IV, 1830-37... When did the railways get going?
0:11:32 > 0:11:34I'll punt for William IV.
0:11:34 > 0:11:38Okay, William IV. Knowing his dates there, on the kings.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40And it is George IV.
0:11:40 > 0:11:44- TIM SIGHS DEEPLY - No. Okay. Judith.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47In the 1600s, the Reverend Devereux Spratt
0:11:47 > 0:11:51was one of thousands of British and Irish people captured and enslaved
0:11:51 > 0:11:53by pirates from where?
0:11:57 > 0:12:02Well, there were famously Corsairs in North Africa.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05I think it must be North Africa with the Corsairs.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08Okay. North Africa.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Pirates enslaving thousands of British and Irish people,
0:12:11 > 0:12:14- including the Reverend Devereux Spratt. It's the right answer!- Oh.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17Judith, well done. You've knocked Tim out.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21Daphne's going to be very cross with you.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:12:26 > 0:12:28So the Songwriters have lost two Brains from the final round,
0:12:28 > 0:12:31the Eggheads haven't lost any.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33Our next subject - it's Music.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37Who'd like to play this? You've got three players left.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39Mike, Roger or Gary O?
0:12:39 > 0:12:41Who's gonna be...?
0:12:41 > 0:12:44- Do you want me to take one for the team?- Do you wanna try?
0:12:44 > 0:12:49Roger, we need someone who'd like the Chairman of ASCAP or something.
0:12:49 > 0:12:53- Okay.- Or a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
0:12:53 > 0:12:57- He is.- It has to be Roger. - Roger Greenaway.- I'll do it.
0:12:57 > 0:13:02- Okay, Rog.- Okay, Roger, choose an Egghead - there are three left.
0:13:02 > 0:13:06Judith and Dave have played. You can play Kevin, Daphne or Chris.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09Daphne. I like a lady, so I'll go with Daphne, if I may.
0:13:09 > 0:13:13You'd like a lady, but you'll take Daphne anyway.
0:13:13 > 0:13:18She doesn't mind. Let's have Roger and Daphne into the Question Room.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22Okay, Roger, I wanna know, I wanna get an insight...
0:13:22 > 0:13:27The number of people you've written for, the songs you've written...
0:13:27 > 0:13:29Where do the ideas come from?
0:13:29 > 0:13:34Do you keep a notebook? Do you force yourself to do it? Does it come through inspiration, or what?
0:13:34 > 0:13:36Mostly it comes from conversation,
0:13:36 > 0:13:40where somebody says something like "You've got your troubles, son"
0:13:40 > 0:13:42and there's a title.
0:13:42 > 0:13:46But... Or reading papers, or sometimes just divine inspiration.
0:13:46 > 0:13:50If we all knew where it came from, we probably wouldn't tell you.
0:13:50 > 0:13:52Exactly. Quite right, too.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54But do you write a song because you think
0:13:54 > 0:14:00"This really works, I love the lyric, I can hear it in my head,"
0:14:00 > 0:14:03or do you actually think "I know who could perform this!"
0:14:03 > 0:14:06Or are you asked to write for specific singers?
0:14:06 > 0:14:10Well, most of my original songs were written for a guy called Roger Cook
0:14:10 > 0:14:14and we were both singers, so we just wrote for ourselves.
0:14:14 > 0:14:19But slowly but surely, we came off the road as singers, and started to write for other people.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22So people would say "Can you write a song for me?"
0:14:22 > 0:14:28So you'd study their style and hopefully write a song they could sing, depending on octaves and...
0:14:28 > 0:14:32You know, most songs have to be within about 10 notes,
0:14:32 > 0:14:34cos lots of people can't sing within two octaves,
0:14:34 > 0:14:37although Roger and I could sing up to two octaves.
0:14:37 > 0:14:41Let's hope you have a hit here. It's Music, a very broad category.
0:14:41 > 0:14:45Let's see how you do. Do you want to go first or second against Daphne?
0:14:45 > 0:14:47I'll stay with first, if I may.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53Very best of luck, Roger. Here's your first question.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56What is the title of the 1980s UK number-one single
0:14:56 > 0:15:01in which "ridicule is nothing to be scared of"? is a repeated line?
0:15:04 > 0:15:07I have not got a clue.
0:15:08 > 0:15:09Um,...
0:15:09 > 0:15:12I know I'm gonna be ridiculed now,
0:15:12 > 0:15:14because I'm supposed to know about music, um...
0:15:14 > 0:15:16I'm gonna guess.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18I'm gonna say "Sleeping Beauty".
0:15:18 > 0:15:22Okay. I have to go to Gary on this one.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26- Gary?- Oh, dear. Adam Ant. Prince Charming.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29Prince Charming. I mean, d'you know Adam well?
0:15:29 > 0:15:33- Did you know him well in those days? - We were very competitive.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35We tried to avoid all the stars during the '80s
0:15:35 > 0:15:38and run our own course.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40"Ridicule is nothing to be scared of."
0:15:40 > 0:15:44Given the clothes you lot were wearing, that was a very apt song.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46- Thank you, Dermot(!) - LAUGHTER
0:15:46 > 0:15:51Okay, it's Prince Charming. So, as you see, Roger, nothing for you.
0:15:51 > 0:15:56So Daphne, what was the first name of the Czech composer called Dvorak?
0:16:00 > 0:16:03Sorry, Roger. It's Antonin.
0:16:04 > 0:16:08It is the right answer. It doesn't soften the blow, you apologising.
0:16:08 > 0:16:09Roger, your second question.
0:16:09 > 0:16:14In which year was "Beautiful Day" a UK number-one single for U2?
0:16:17 > 0:16:20"Beautiful Day", U2. Um,...
0:16:20 > 0:16:24Again, I'm not sure. I don't think it was 2000.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Could be 1980 or 1990.
0:16:28 > 0:16:33Um,... I'm gonna go down the middle and say 1990.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35Okay, 1990. It's tricky,
0:16:35 > 0:16:39with a band as successful over such a long period of time as U2
0:16:39 > 0:16:41to narrow down any of those dates.
0:16:41 > 0:16:441980 just about too early for them.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46But it is 2000.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48And, er, Daphne.
0:16:48 > 0:16:54Which band found fame in the 1980s with Dave Gahan as lead vocalist?
0:16:56 > 0:16:59Which band found fame in the 1980s
0:16:59 > 0:17:02with Dave Gahan as lead vocalist?
0:17:04 > 0:17:06Ooh. Ha.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08The 1980s passed me by.
0:17:09 > 0:17:10Um,...
0:17:11 > 0:17:13Depeche Mode.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16- Is the right answer. - DAPHNE CHUCKLES
0:17:16 > 0:17:18Keep coming back to you, Gary.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21When Daphne said the 1980s passed her by, I thought "Same for Gary."
0:17:21 > 0:17:24- He WAS there but,...- I don't remember much of them.- Exactly.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27Okay, well, two-nil.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29I'm afraid the round's over.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31I wanted to ask some more questions.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34Roger, you're not in the Final Round. Daphne, you are.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:17:37 > 0:17:41Songwriters, I know you can turn it round. You've lost three Brains,
0:17:41 > 0:17:46but I've a good feeling about this category, our last before the Final Round.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48And it's Geography.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51Well-travelled, I know. It's Gary or Mike left, there.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54Shall I take it on the chin?
0:17:54 > 0:17:58You probably know more about stuff than I do, but...
0:17:58 > 0:18:01- I'm very patchy. - I left school at 15.
0:18:01 > 0:18:05Which of you could do General Knowledge? Are you better?
0:18:05 > 0:18:08He's got a David Attenborough box set, haven't you?
0:18:08 > 0:18:10- Up to you, Michael. - I'll do Geography.- Okay.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13Stay with us, Mike, and choose your Egghead.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16The remaining Eggheads are Kevin and Chris.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18Both killers.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22- Kevin.- Kevin? Okay. Why not?
0:18:22 > 0:18:24Mike and Kevin, into the Question Room.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Let's play the Geography round.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30- Do you want to go first or second? - I'll go first.
0:18:34 > 0:18:38Mike, best of luck. Let's see if you can winkle Kevin out of the game.
0:18:38 > 0:18:43Here's your question. Which residence enjoys the largest private garden in central London?
0:18:47 > 0:18:51Well, it certainly isn't 10 Downing Street.
0:18:51 > 0:18:59Um, unless Winfield House is a trick, sort of diversion question,
0:18:59 > 0:19:02I'm going to go for the obvious, which is Buckingham Palace.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04Buckingham Palace - the obvious.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06As I always say, don't ignore it in the first question.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08It's the right answer. Well done.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11All right. This is your question, Kevin.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14Sidmouth is a coastal resort in which English county?
0:19:16 > 0:19:19Sidmouth is a coastal resort in which English county?
0:19:20 > 0:19:23I've been there a few times. It's Devon.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26You would've been(!) It's the right answer.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28Okay, Mike.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31La Guardia airport is located in which US city?
0:19:34 > 0:19:37La Guardia airport is located in which US city?
0:19:37 > 0:19:40It's in New York, Dermot.
0:19:40 > 0:19:44- It is and I bet you've been there many times.- I have, several times.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47Good, right, you've got two. Going well.
0:19:47 > 0:19:53Kevin. Denpasar and Singaraja are cities on which Indonesian island?
0:19:56 > 0:19:58I'll just have a think about that.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01I think I know what it is, but I'm just, er...
0:20:01 > 0:20:05It's D-E-N-P-A-double S-A-R?
0:20:05 > 0:20:09- It's single S.- Single S. What was the other one? Sin...?
0:20:09 > 0:20:13Singaraja. S-I-N-G-A-R-A-J-A.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Yeah. That's Bali.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19I love the way it just suddenly clicks.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22- Well.- Bang! It's the right answer.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25It's going well for both of you.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27Mike, can you really put the pressure on Kevin here?
0:20:27 > 0:20:33The city of Concepcion is the capital of the Bio Bio region in which country?
0:20:36 > 0:20:39I don't think it's Philippines, it just doesn't sound Philippine.
0:20:39 > 0:20:43Er, Concepcion, it's a Spanish ending.
0:20:43 > 0:20:47It's gotta be Chile or Spain. I'm gonna say Spain.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50It's Chile. Oh, no!
0:20:50 > 0:20:54Narrowed it down. Luck really isn't going with you guys today.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56So, Kevin, a chance to get through.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59An unusually large and valuable deposit of which mineral
0:20:59 > 0:21:02was discovered at Grey Knotts in Cumbria,
0:21:02 > 0:21:04probably in the 16th century?
0:21:07 > 0:21:12Well, kaolin I would associate more with china clay, clay industry,
0:21:12 > 0:21:14and I'd associate that more with Cornwall.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Alum, various places.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19But I think in Cumbria,
0:21:20 > 0:21:24that's where you get the graphite for pencils from.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27Great big deposits there. I may be wrong.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30The name Grey Knotts doesn't ring any particular bell,
0:21:30 > 0:21:33but with Cumbria, I would associate graphite.
0:21:33 > 0:21:37Okay, so they could have made a very big pencil. It is the right answer.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40You've won the round. Bad luck, Mike.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:21:43 > 0:21:46So this is what we've been playing towards.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49It's time for the Final Round, which as always is General Knowledge.
0:21:49 > 0:21:53Those who lost your Head-to-Heads won't be allowed to take part.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56So Mike, Tim, Gary and Roger from the Songwriters -
0:21:56 > 0:21:58would you leave the studio, please?
0:22:00 > 0:22:04Gary, before we start, five Elton John albums you've worked on, is it?
0:22:04 > 0:22:09- Yes.- What's he like? He's got a reputation. A bit like the Eggheads.
0:22:09 > 0:22:14- But when you see them up close... - They're lovely, up close and personal.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16They've made us feel very welcome.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18Is Elton a bit like that?
0:22:18 > 0:22:22He's the most wonderful person to work with, because he's so talented.
0:22:22 > 0:22:26When he gives you a job, he just lets you get on with it,
0:22:26 > 0:22:30He would give me a tune, I'd write a lyric, I'd take it back...
0:22:30 > 0:22:34I never got a pat on the back, he would just go in and sing it.
0:22:34 > 0:22:39Most of the people I've written with would take it apart, change things.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42He would just assume that it was right and go and do it.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44Fool, because it was mostly wrong.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46- But it's that level of trust. - It was nice.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49Now, I'm gonna tell you what we're gonna do.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52You're playing to win the Songwriters £10,000.
0:22:52 > 0:22:56Judith, Kevin, Dave, Daphne and Chris, you're playing for something money can't buy -
0:22:56 > 0:22:58the Eggheads' reputation, that's it.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01As usual, I ask each team three questions in turn.
0:23:01 > 0:23:05Gary, they're all General Knowledge and you lot are allowed to confer.
0:23:05 > 0:23:10The question is, Gary, is your one brain better than the Eggheads' five?
0:23:10 > 0:23:12You get to choose. Do you wanna go first or second?
0:23:12 > 0:23:16I'm gonna go second, cos we didn't do very well going first.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22Let's hope it works. A switch in tactics, putting the Eggheads first.
0:23:22 > 0:23:28Which creature's name is used to describe a long, thick, drooping moustache?
0:23:30 > 0:23:32Which creature's name is used
0:23:32 > 0:23:35to describe a long, thick, drooping moustache?
0:23:35 > 0:23:39- (EGGHEADS IN UNISON) Walrus? - Yeah, walrus.- Go with walrus.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41Yeah, that's walrus, Dermot.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43- (DERMOT CHUCKLES) - You are the walrus.
0:23:43 > 0:23:47- Koo-koo-ka-choo.- Yeah. It is the right answer. So, walrus.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50Okay, Gary, your first question.
0:23:50 > 0:23:54Which mechanism uses a valve controlled by a flotation device
0:23:54 > 0:23:57to regulate the flow of water in a toilet cistern?
0:24:01 > 0:24:04Which mechanism uses a valve controlled by a flotation device
0:24:04 > 0:24:06to regulate the flow of water in a toilet cistern?
0:24:07 > 0:24:10You make them all sound so charming.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13I know! Isn't it amazing, the questions we get here?
0:24:13 > 0:24:16I think we're gonna have to go for ballcock.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20It's just great hearing you say that. It is the right answer!
0:24:20 > 0:24:23One each, looking at the scores.
0:24:23 > 0:24:25Good start for both teams.
0:24:25 > 0:24:30Eggheads, which river flows through the site of London's 2012 Olympic Park?
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Which river flows through the site
0:24:35 > 0:24:36of London's 2012 Olympic Park?
0:24:38 > 0:24:41- My old stomping ground. - The river Lea.- Yes.- It's the Lea.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43Flows out the Thames at Bow Creek.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45That's the Lea, Dermot.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47The Lea.
0:24:47 > 0:24:51- You were saying, your old stomping ground?- My old stomping ground.
0:24:51 > 0:24:56Have they built over... Is it exactly on the site?
0:24:56 > 0:24:59The stadium itself is where Bow Midland Goods Depot was.
0:24:59 > 0:25:02A lot of it wiped out Temple Mills Marshalling Yard.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05What they didn't take, the Channel Tunnel rail link did, so...
0:25:05 > 0:25:09That's a scandal. They should never have had the Olympics.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11- They should have left the yard there.- Yeah.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13It is the right answer.
0:25:13 > 0:25:17Well done, Eggheads. And Gary's second question.
0:25:17 > 0:25:22The songs "Steam Heat" and "Hey There, You With The Stars In Your Eyes"
0:25:22 > 0:25:24are from which 1950s musical?
0:25:27 > 0:25:29The songs "Steam Heat"
0:25:29 > 0:25:31and "Hey There, You With The Stars In Your Eyes"
0:25:31 > 0:25:34are from which 1950s musical?
0:25:34 > 0:25:38Well, The Crying Game was written by my friend Geoff Stephens,
0:25:38 > 0:25:40The Beautiful Game was about football...
0:25:40 > 0:25:42- HE SINGS - # Hey there
0:25:42 > 0:25:43# You with the stars in your eyes #
0:25:43 > 0:25:45From The Pajama Game.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48Fantastic, the way that fell. It's the right answer.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51Well done, Gary. Lovely. That's good to see.
0:25:51 > 0:25:55Okay. It's two-all. The Eggheads might start to get worried.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57They'd be very worried if they don't get this.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59What was the nickname
0:25:59 > 0:26:02of the silent-movie actress called Theda Bara?
0:26:05 > 0:26:07What was the nickname of the silent-movie actress
0:26:07 > 0:26:09called Theda Bara?
0:26:09 > 0:26:12- I think Bara was the Vamp. - Yeah, the Vamp.
0:26:12 > 0:26:16The Biograph Girl was Florence Lawrence. The It Girl was Clara Bow.
0:26:16 > 0:26:21- Clara Bow, yeah. The Biograph Girl was...- Florence Lawrence.
0:26:21 > 0:26:24Yeah. Theda Bara was the Vamp, Dermot.
0:26:25 > 0:26:30Theda Bara was the Vamp. It is the right answer, I'll give you that.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33So there were Biograph Girls and It Girls as well? Who were they?
0:26:33 > 0:26:36The Biograph Girl was one of the very earliest stars
0:26:36 > 0:26:40to be identified by name in the very early days of cinema,
0:26:40 > 0:26:42and her name was Florence Lawrence.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Great name, isn't it?
0:26:44 > 0:26:48And the It Girl, like Theda Bara, slightly later in the '20s,
0:26:48 > 0:26:51- was Clara Bow. Mm.- Clara Bow.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56Gary, you need this, but you're doing really well.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58Let's see if you can do it for the team.
0:26:58 > 0:27:06In 1957, which British tennis player won both the Women's Singles and Doubles titles at the French Open?
0:27:10 > 0:27:13In 1957, which British tennis player
0:27:13 > 0:27:17won both the Women's Singles and Doubles titles at the French Open?
0:27:17 > 0:27:19Well,...
0:27:20 > 0:27:22I don't wanna make a bloomer...
0:27:22 > 0:27:25The only one I've actually heard of is Angela Mortimer,
0:27:25 > 0:27:27so I'm gonna go for her.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Okay, Angela Mortimer,
0:27:29 > 0:27:30as the winner of both the Singles and Doubles titles...
0:27:30 > 0:27:33Ooh! Can't change my mind, can I?
0:27:33 > 0:27:36- No.- Sorry, no. It has been selected.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39What would you have changed it to?
0:27:39 > 0:27:42- I would've gone for Kitty Godfree. - That's interesting,
0:27:42 > 0:27:45- because it's Shirley Bloomer!- Ah!
0:27:45 > 0:27:48- The Bloomer you didn't wanna make. - I was never gonna get that right.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50If we'd given you three goes, you would've got it.
0:27:50 > 0:27:54Shirley Bloomer. Which means, Eggheads, you've won.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02You gave it a good crack there, Gary. It's tough being on your own.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05But three-two is no disgrace against five of them.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07- We hope you've enjoyed the Final Round.- Thank you.
0:28:07 > 0:28:12We've enjoyed all the rounds. It has been fantastic having such an array...
0:28:12 > 0:28:17- There they are!- ..of musical talent in the same studio as the Eggheads.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19We, seriously, are not worthy.
0:28:19 > 0:28:23- I'm saying that for you, Eggheads. - It's true, yes.- Just agree with me.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26Thank you once again. The Eggheads have done what comes naturally.
0:28:26 > 0:28:30Their winning streak continues, I'm afraid. You haven't won the £10,000.
0:28:30 > 0:28:34So that money will head to Children In Need, to add to this year's appeal.
0:28:34 > 0:28:38Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?
0:28:38 > 0:28:42Join us next time, to see if a new team of challengers have the brains to defeat our Eggheads.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44Until then, goodbye!
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