0:00:04 > 0:00:07These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:11 > 0:00:14arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Welcome to a special celebrity edition of Eggheads,
0:00:26 > 0:00:30the show where a team of five quiz Challengers pit their wits against
0:00:30 > 0:00:33possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:33 > 0:00:34They are the Eggheads.
0:00:34 > 0:00:38And hoping to rewrite the rule book against our quiz Goliaths today are
0:00:38 > 0:00:43Page Turners. Now, having a team of writers on has got me thinking about
0:00:43 > 0:00:45where authors get their inspiration from.
0:00:45 > 0:00:50Do tales of, say, I don't know, four lovable rogues, slightly greying
0:00:50 > 0:00:52and a little rough around the edges,
0:00:52 > 0:00:55all vying for the attention of a striking femme fatale
0:00:55 > 0:01:00who is possibly a millionairess just come to them in a flash?
0:01:00 > 0:01:02- What do you think, Judith? - I don't know!
0:01:02 > 0:01:04Judith is wearing leopard skin.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07And wearing leopard skin as well, you're right.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09That's the start of the book, right there.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11OK, let's meet our Challengers.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13I'm Kate Williams, and I'm a historian and novelist.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15And I wrote my first novel when I was seven
0:01:15 > 0:01:18about a little girl called Maria who is taken on adventures by an
0:01:18 > 0:01:21- albatross.- Hello, I'm Wendy Holden.
0:01:21 > 0:01:25I'm a number-one bestselling author and I write comic novels.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27I'm Noreena Hertz. I write books on politics and economics
0:01:27 > 0:01:31which have been translated into 22 languages,
0:01:31 > 0:01:34and I'm ITV News's economics editor.
0:01:34 > 0:01:35I'm Dreda Say Mitchell.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37I'm a crime novelist,
0:01:37 > 0:01:40and I love writing about the East London Badlands.
0:01:40 > 0:01:45Hi, I'm Jenny Colgan. I've written over 30 novels, mostly for adults,
0:01:45 > 0:01:47some for children, and some for Doctor Who fans
0:01:47 > 0:01:50who incorporate the best features of both of those types.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53- So Kate and team, hello. TEAM:- Hello!
0:01:53 > 0:01:56I can tell the Eggs are really on their mettle here.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59Believe me, they've heard who you all are, they know who you all are.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01I think they are a little bit scared, Kate.
0:02:01 > 0:02:03I can see the fear in their faces.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05- The whites of their eyes!- They were
0:02:05 > 0:02:08quaking before, I just think we're obviously the quiz fighters.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10- Wipe the floor with them. - Oh, yes. That's it.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13Exactly. That's the thing. Do you quiz at all, Kate?
0:02:13 > 0:02:14I'm just thinking, as a historian,
0:02:14 > 0:02:16you've got the kings and queens taped.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19I've done a few quizzes, a few history quizzes on TV,
0:02:19 > 0:02:20the Great Tudor Quiz,
0:02:20 > 0:02:23The Quizeum and I did Mastermind and Pointless,
0:02:23 > 0:02:26so I've done a few, but never Eggheads.
0:02:26 > 0:02:27I think you won Celebrity Mastermind.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29- I did, I did.- Look at the Eggs.
0:02:29 > 0:02:33- TEAM:- Oooh! - They are getting so excited!
0:02:33 > 0:02:35Wendy, are you a quizzer as well?
0:02:35 > 0:02:36I love quizzes.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39I've never done Eggheads before, so it's going to be thrilling.
0:02:39 > 0:02:40And I'm thinking, Wendy, for you,
0:02:40 > 0:02:43Arts & Books, probably the best subject, cos you write and you
0:02:43 > 0:02:46- love to read.- Yeah, I hope so, but the pressure's on, Jeremy.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48I mean, what if I get in there and I don't know the answer?
0:02:48 > 0:02:52I'll get pummelled to death by my team-mates.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54Wendy's good on science.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56- Is that right? - Great on science, yeah(!)
0:02:56 > 0:02:58Now, I think of you, Noreena, as maybe being the scientist.
0:02:58 > 0:03:00But that's economics, and that's different.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Yes, oh, it's definitely different.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05I didn't even do biology O-level, so...
0:03:05 > 0:03:08Although I think I could just about do that, I could do the science.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10- I could do the science. - Economics is a science, isn't it?
0:03:10 > 0:03:12And maths questions. I can do maths.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14You can do, like, long division if...
0:03:14 > 0:03:15I could definitely do algebra,
0:03:15 > 0:03:18long divisions, if you throw some of those at me.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20Basically, we've got it covered.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22Beware, there can be low culture in here as well.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25There can be Coronation Street, there can be EastEnders.
0:03:25 > 0:03:26I love EastEnders. I love EastEnders.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29- Dreda, what about you? WENDY:- Any Archers questions?
0:03:29 > 0:03:31- I'm really good on that. - Archers, yes.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34I've only come on cos I was told there was a crime category.
0:03:34 > 0:03:35There isn't one, is there?
0:03:35 > 0:03:37Well, now, crime books come up a lot.
0:03:37 > 0:03:41- We have a lot of Agatha Christie come up.- Ah!- Seriously.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43So we've got Literature, we've got a bit of History with Kate,
0:03:43 > 0:03:45this is good. What about you, Jenny?
0:03:45 > 0:03:48I am, I'm very good at Scrabble if that helps.
0:03:48 > 0:03:52Otherwise, I'm living in perpetual terror of Geography.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55It just takes me right back to oxbow lakes.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58That's literally the last thing I remember about geography.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00If there is an oxbow lake question,
0:04:00 > 0:04:02I still wouldn't be able to answer it!
0:04:02 > 0:04:04Have we done oxbow lake, Eggheads?
0:04:04 > 0:04:07- Is it that?- It's like that.
0:04:07 > 0:04:08Yeah, with water in between.
0:04:08 > 0:04:12It's got water in it, yes, brilliant. That's brilliant, yeah.
0:04:12 > 0:04:13I'm feeling slightly reassured now.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15Yes, me too!
0:04:15 > 0:04:16Honestly, they've got gaps as well.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18So good luck, Challengers.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs
0:04:21 > 0:04:23for our celebrities' chosen charity.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:04:25 > 0:04:28the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32Now, Page Turners, they've won the last 18 games on the trot
0:04:32 > 0:04:33against the celebrities.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35They've been knocking them out of the park.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38It does mean there's £19,000 if you win.
0:04:38 > 0:04:39Wow! That's incredible.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41- Would you like to try?- Yes.
0:04:41 > 0:04:45OK. The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of History!
0:04:45 > 0:04:47- Oh, my gosh!- It's you! - It's History!- OK.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49If I don't get this one...
0:04:49 > 0:04:51I'm assuming it's you, Kate.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53- I don't know, you say. - Anyone else like to do it?
0:04:53 > 0:04:56- No.- OK.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59A historian on History, this is already exciting.
0:04:59 > 0:05:01Which Egghead do you want to take on?
0:05:01 > 0:05:04You can have Judith, Chris, Pat in the middle, Barry or Steve.
0:05:04 > 0:05:05Yes!
0:05:05 > 0:05:08Pat? Cos you've got, yeah, you've got the same colour.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10- It's destiny.- Absolutely.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12- It is.- All right.- All right.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14We're talking here a man who won £1 million on
0:05:14 > 0:05:16Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
0:05:16 > 0:05:18and Mastermind champion, Brain of Britain 2006...
0:05:18 > 0:05:20Just to make you feel better!
0:05:20 > 0:05:23..four times British quiz champion. You've picked out,
0:05:23 > 0:05:25I think, the strongest quizzer in the team straightaway.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27- So the stakes are high. - We go for the big guns.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31Kate from the Page Turners to take on Pat on History.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34I really want to see this. Please go to the Question Room now.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38Pat, I was just looking at your record on History.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41You've done the History round 46 times.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43- Know how many you've lost?- A couple?
0:05:43 > 0:05:44One.
0:05:44 > 0:05:45I don't like this, Jeremy.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48When you come out with these stats...
0:05:48 > 0:05:50All right, well, let's see.
0:05:50 > 0:05:54Kate, your love of history is there for all of us to see, isn't it?
0:05:54 > 0:05:55I do love history.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58I haven't done 46 rounds on Eggheads on it, but I do love it.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01Would you like to go first or second, Kate?
0:06:01 > 0:06:03I'll go first, please.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08First question to you.
0:06:08 > 0:06:12What name was given to the period at the start of World War II before
0:06:12 > 0:06:14hostilities commenced in earnest?
0:06:18 > 0:06:21I think it was number two, the Phoney War.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23Phoney War is quite right.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25OK, Pat. Yeah, you like this?
0:06:25 > 0:06:27You've got a Challengers' union there.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30- I've got one! - INDISTINCT
0:06:30 > 0:06:32Pat, in which decade
0:06:32 > 0:06:35of the 20th century is the Cold War typically said to
0:06:35 > 0:06:36have begun?
0:06:39 > 0:06:43When World War II ended with Allied victory,
0:06:43 > 0:06:47the Americans and the Russians suddenly realised that they were
0:06:47 > 0:06:50adversaries, and it kicked in fairly quickly
0:06:50 > 0:06:51after the end of World War II.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55So I'll have to go for the 1940s.
0:06:55 > 0:06:561940s is right.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59Back to you, Kate. Which of these criminal double acts
0:06:59 > 0:07:03are believed to have been killed in Bolivia in 1908?
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Well, Burke and Hare, I think, are the body snatchers
0:07:10 > 0:07:13who never got anywhere near Bolivia.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16I think Bonnie and Clyde were a bit later.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
0:07:19 > 0:07:22Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is the right answer.
0:07:22 > 0:07:23Oh, thank goodness!
0:07:23 > 0:07:26Heavens, I can't cope with this any more, Jeremy!
0:07:26 > 0:07:27Too much tension!
0:07:27 > 0:07:29I know that's not exactly your area. You got it right,
0:07:29 > 0:07:31that's all that matters. OK, back to Pat.
0:07:31 > 0:07:36Pat, which 1485 battle was decided by the forces of the Stanley family
0:07:36 > 0:07:39when they intervened to fight against the ruling monarch?
0:07:43 > 0:07:45As far as I know, this was a bit of a dirty deed.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47I think they switched allegiances at a key moment.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50It's quite a famous date because it's sometimes offered
0:07:50 > 0:07:53as marking the end of the Middle Ages.
0:07:53 > 0:07:54It's Bosworth Field.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57Bosworth Field is right.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59OK. Kate, back to you.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01What was the occupation of the early British historian
0:08:01 > 0:08:03the Venerable Bede?
0:08:06 > 0:08:07He was a monk.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09- They didn't have printers or bankers, so...- He was a monk,
0:08:09 > 0:08:10you're right.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13And Jenny pointing out they didn't have many printers then.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15KATE LAUGHS
0:08:15 > 0:08:17He was an IT consultant.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20LAUGHTER
0:08:20 > 0:08:23OK. Pat, you need this to stay in.
0:08:23 > 0:08:24In the 18th century,
0:08:24 > 0:08:27Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk,
0:08:27 > 0:08:28was mistress to which king?
0:08:33 > 0:08:36So, 1700s. I'm dismissing Edward V.
0:08:36 > 0:08:41George II is comfortably within the 1700s.
0:08:41 > 0:08:46And William III, he can't have been around for much of the 1700s.
0:08:46 > 0:08:50I'm not certain of this. I think I'll have to go for George II.
0:08:50 > 0:08:51Let's check with Kate. Kate?
0:08:51 > 0:08:53It's definitely George II.
0:08:53 > 0:08:54I was feeling hopeful then,
0:08:54 > 0:08:57but definitely George II. Yeah, very well done.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59All right. So here we go, we've got three each.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01Can I have a king and queen question?
0:09:01 > 0:09:03I really want you to.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06- Thank you, Jeremy.- We go to Sudden Death now, Kate.
0:09:06 > 0:09:07I don't give you alternative options.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09We are enjoying watching this.
0:09:09 > 0:09:12- SHE LAUGHS - I'm loving it(!)
0:09:12 > 0:09:13Here's your next question, Kate.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16Which 20th-century British king
0:09:16 > 0:09:20reportedly said that after he himself died,
0:09:20 > 0:09:24his eldest son would ruin himself within 12 months?
0:09:24 > 0:09:28Well, it can't be George VI, because he only had daughters,
0:09:28 > 0:09:30of course, Elizabeth and Margaret.
0:09:30 > 0:09:34George V, he was father to Edward VIII,
0:09:34 > 0:09:35who perhaps wasn't our best king,
0:09:35 > 0:09:39didn't even last a year, abdicated to marry Mrs Simpson.
0:09:39 > 0:09:43So I think I'll go for George V.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45George V is quite right.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47- Yay!- Brilliant. I love it.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50Pat.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52Which Roman emperor died in 54 AD,
0:09:52 > 0:09:56thought to have been poisoned by his wife, Agrippina?
0:09:56 > 0:10:00The chap that springs to mind, uh, poisoned by his wife...
0:10:01 > 0:10:03..is Claudius.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05Claudius is correct.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Kate.
0:10:07 > 0:10:12What name is popularly given to the events of February 7th, 1497,
0:10:12 > 0:10:17when Girolamo Savonarola called on Florentines to burn all books,
0:10:17 > 0:10:19paintings and any other luxuries
0:10:19 > 0:10:23that drew their hearts away from God?
0:10:23 > 0:10:25Oh, dear, I'm having a blank.
0:10:27 > 0:10:28Uh...
0:10:28 > 0:10:33I'm definitely... Oh, I've got a picture of Savonarola in my head...
0:10:36 > 0:10:37- Bonfire of the Vanities.- Yes!
0:10:37 > 0:10:40I can't think, I don't know. I don't know.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43- Bonfire of the Vanities. - Bonfire of the Vanities is right.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45Oh! Good.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47Pat.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50Adventure Galley, also known simply as Adventure,
0:10:50 > 0:10:52was an English sailing ship
0:10:52 > 0:10:56captained by which notorious Scots privateer?
0:10:56 > 0:10:57Need a first name and surname.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59Oh. Yeah,
0:10:59 > 0:11:02I think this man is frequently described in two different ways,
0:11:02 > 0:11:05but if you require a first name and a surname...
0:11:07 > 0:11:09..I think it's William Bonney.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11- THEY GASP - Pat...
0:11:11 > 0:11:13Gasp of breath from the Eggheads.
0:11:13 > 0:11:15- Eggheads?- William Kidd.- Kidd.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17William Kidd is the answer.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20- Oh, Kate!- Oh, Captain Kidd.
0:11:20 > 0:11:24- You've done it, Kate, you're through.- Oh! Oh, my gosh!
0:11:24 > 0:11:26- Oh, dear.- Oh, Pat.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28- Oh, dear. Well played, Pat.- Clumsy.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32- Oh, Pat... Was that just a slip by you, Pat?- Yep.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35I thought Captain Kidd, and I thought... He's William,
0:11:35 > 0:11:39and then somehow instead of sticking with Kidd I switched to Bonney,
0:11:39 > 0:11:41- which is...- Oh, so you're thinking of the same guy.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44I was thinking Captain Kidd, but you said you wanted forename
0:11:44 > 0:11:47and surname, so captain goes out the window, so then I worked on...
0:11:47 > 0:11:48I just dropped the ball.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51- Oh, well.- Oh, well. Beaten by a historian, no shame in that.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54- Well done, Kate, you're in the final round.- Crumbs!
0:11:54 > 0:11:57You've taken on one of the strongest Eggheads and knocked him out.
0:11:57 > 0:11:58This is very exciting now.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00Please return to us and we'll play on.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05Well, we don't see Pat lose many History rounds.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07Oh, my goodness, and it's only just the end of Round One.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10Page Turners have not lost any brains from the final round,
0:12:10 > 0:12:15the Eggheads have lost a brain, and we play on with Science.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17- Who wants Science?- Ah, Science.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19- Wendy, want to do it?- No, no.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21- OK, I'll do it.- You'll do it?
0:12:21 > 0:12:22- Yeah, go on.- Jenny?
0:12:22 > 0:12:25- OK!- Jenny, who would you like to play?
0:12:25 > 0:12:27- Anyone but Pat.- Ooh.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30I'd like to play Barry, please, cos I like his shirt.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32No better reason, good, and he loves his science.
0:12:32 > 0:12:36OK. So it is Jenny from the Page Turners
0:12:36 > 0:12:37playing Barry from the Eggheads.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39Please, both of you, take your positions.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44Well, I normally think of you as writing romantic comedies,
0:12:44 > 0:12:47but today I guess it's got to be sci-fi, Jenny, hasn't it, really?
0:12:47 > 0:12:49As we're in the Science round.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51We are in the Science round.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53Science fiction and science...
0:12:53 > 0:12:55Well, there's something called hard science fiction
0:12:55 > 0:12:58which is for people that are, you know, who like to write
0:12:58 > 0:13:00about scientific concepts and progress them.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03That's really not what I do!
0:13:04 > 0:13:07I like to write about kissing spacemen.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10So if you've got any kissing spacemen questions, that would be top.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12We'll have a look for some. And you've written or contributed
0:13:12 > 0:13:14to five Doctor Who fiction books,
0:13:14 > 0:13:16which spin off from the series, basically.
0:13:16 > 0:13:20That's right, but it means I get to write for lots of Doctors who come
0:13:20 > 0:13:21back and do it. So like last year,
0:13:21 > 0:13:24David Tennant came back to a recording studio,
0:13:24 > 0:13:27and I wrote an episode for him and for Catherine Tate,
0:13:27 > 0:13:28and that was brilliant.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30So it's lovely.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33I love going back and picking up all the old companions.
0:13:33 > 0:13:36Brilliant. All right, Jenny, Science, here we go.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41We'll look for the kissing spacemen, see if we can find them.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43Do you want to go first or second against our Barry?
0:13:43 > 0:13:47First, please, let's get this horrible process out of the way.
0:13:50 > 0:13:52So Science, Jenny, and your first question.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55Which of these creatures can be found in the wild in Africa?
0:13:59 > 0:14:01OK. Right.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03Pandas, China.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06And a grizzly bear is what I would associate with Canada.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09Or somewhere in the wilds of North America.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11So aardvark.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14- Yes, yes!- Aardvark is your answer.
0:14:14 > 0:14:15Noreena likes that. Noreena?
0:14:15 > 0:14:17- I like it.- Yes, aardvark is right.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19Well done.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21OK. Barry,
0:14:21 > 0:14:24in nature, what word is used to describe the interaction
0:14:24 > 0:14:28between creatures that live together in co-dependent harmony?
0:14:33 > 0:14:36Oh, this is easy because I don't know what antibiosis
0:14:36 > 0:14:38and panobiosis is,
0:14:38 > 0:14:40but there are many terms for creatures that live together
0:14:40 > 0:14:44in harmony, and I think commensalism is one of them,
0:14:44 > 0:14:46but the more familiar one is certainly symbiosis,
0:14:46 > 0:14:47so that's my answer.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50Symbiosis is the right answer.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52OK, Jenny. Following
0:14:52 > 0:14:54the inclusion of four new chemical elements in the
0:14:54 > 0:15:00periodic table, the six elements in the group known as halogens are
0:15:00 > 0:15:06fluorine, astatine, bromine, iodine, tennessine, and which other?
0:15:10 > 0:15:13Neon is a gas, I guess you put it in lights.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15Argon is a gas, chlorine is a gas.
0:15:17 > 0:15:18Oh, gosh, I am so sorry,
0:15:18 > 0:15:20I'm literally going to say this one
0:15:20 > 0:15:22because it rhymes with the other one,
0:15:22 > 0:15:24and I'm going to say chlorine.
0:15:24 > 0:15:25Chlorine is your answer.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28- Barry?- Chlorine is absolutely the correct answer.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30All right, chlorine is right, Jenny, well done.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32I knew poetry was the best!
0:15:34 > 0:15:36I guess poetry is the best way to get them, yes.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38Barry, here's your second question.
0:15:38 > 0:15:42Plate tectonics is a scientific theory concerned with what?
0:15:48 > 0:15:51Yes, it was the movement of the Earth's crust.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55Correct. The movement of the Earth's crust is right.
0:15:55 > 0:15:56Jenny, for three in a row.
0:15:56 > 0:16:00In early Western physiological theory,
0:16:00 > 0:16:04which word follows black and yellow to make two of the four cardinal
0:16:04 > 0:16:08humours thought to determine a person's temperament?
0:16:10 > 0:16:12That is so annoying cos I thought the answer
0:16:12 > 0:16:14was going to be humours and I was going to pull this off.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17Right, it's yellow and black...
0:16:17 > 0:16:20Yeah, it's got to be bile, hasn't it?
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Bile is correct. Yes, three out of three.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25OK, Barry slips up here and you're in the final round.
0:16:25 > 0:16:29In 1753, who was awarded the Royal Society's Copley medal
0:16:29 > 0:16:33on account of his curious experiments and observations
0:16:33 > 0:16:34on electricity?
0:16:38 > 0:16:42Nikola Tesla is much later and he had many tussles
0:16:42 > 0:16:45with Thomas Edison, who was from the same time.
0:16:45 > 0:16:49So I think Benjamin Franklin must've been awarded the Copley medal.
0:16:49 > 0:16:50Benjamin Franklin is correct.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Again, three out of three for you both.
0:16:52 > 0:16:53Playing well, Jenny.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55Outside your comfort zone, I know.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57We go to Sudden Death, and it gets a bit harder -
0:16:57 > 0:16:59I don't give you alternatives.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02Here's your question. What is the name of the famous British medical
0:17:02 > 0:17:06journal, still published today, that was established in 1823
0:17:06 > 0:17:09under the editorship of Thomas Wakley?
0:17:09 > 0:17:10Is it The Lancet?
0:17:10 > 0:17:12The Lancet is right.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Barry. What imperial unit
0:17:14 > 0:17:19of measurement is equal to 224 ounces?
0:17:19 > 0:17:21There's 16oz in a pound...
0:17:22 > 0:17:26It's probably a stone, but let me think, is that 14 times 16?
0:17:27 > 0:17:28I think it must be a stone.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33But my mind is seized on the maths.
0:17:33 > 0:17:3716 ounces is one pound, 14 pounds is one stone.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39Yes, one stone.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41One stone is right. BARRY LAUGHS
0:17:41 > 0:17:44Oh, I thought you were going to suddenly say a pound.
0:17:44 > 0:17:45I thought I was, for a moment.
0:17:45 > 0:17:48You were never going to forgive yourself.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51Let the record show that we had them on the run.
0:17:51 > 0:17:52Yes, this is a good moment.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55OK, Jenny. The brown howler is a monkey species
0:17:55 > 0:17:58that is native to which continent?
0:17:58 > 0:18:01- South America. - South America's correct.
0:18:01 > 0:18:03Like it. Barry.
0:18:03 > 0:18:08The tensor tympani is a muscle within which organ of the body?
0:18:08 > 0:18:10Well, tympani makes me immediately think of the ear,
0:18:10 > 0:18:12so that's my answer. The ear.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14Ear is right. It dampens sounds
0:18:14 > 0:18:17such as when you make sounds through chewing.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19OK, Jenny.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22Copra, which is mainly used to make livestock feed,
0:18:22 > 0:18:25is a dried product of what fruit?
0:18:25 > 0:18:27C-O-P-R-A.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29Oh! Do you know what's in my head right now?
0:18:29 > 0:18:33A picture of a cartoon horse eating a big crunchy apple.
0:18:35 > 0:18:36Erm...
0:18:36 > 0:18:38I have not the faintest,
0:18:38 > 0:18:40so my swansong is a big horse,
0:18:40 > 0:18:43wearing a hat, eating a nice crunchy apple,
0:18:43 > 0:18:45and I will say apples.
0:18:45 > 0:18:46It's not apple, it's coconut.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48- Ah, there we go.- All right.
0:18:48 > 0:18:49You're not out yet, Jenny.
0:18:50 > 0:18:51Barry.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55Which period in the Palaeozoic geological era
0:18:55 > 0:18:58is named after an English county?
0:18:58 > 0:19:00I think it's time for my famous mnemonic
0:19:00 > 0:19:02- on all the periods, isn't it? - Go on, then.
0:19:02 > 0:19:06Camels often sit down carefully, perhaps their joints creak.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09So let's see. Cambrian might be Wales.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12Ordovician, that's a tribe.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Silurian, that's a tribe.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17Devonian... Ah, that's an English county.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic...
0:19:21 > 0:19:23No, I will say Devonian.
0:19:23 > 0:19:24Devon.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26Devonian is your answer.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29You've got it right, you've taken the round.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32The correct answer is Devonian. Well done, Barry. Sorry, Jenny.
0:19:32 > 0:19:33You fought well there, my goodness.
0:19:33 > 0:19:34- BARRY:- Very well indeed.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36You fought well.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38Barry is in the final, Jenny is knocked out. Come back to us,
0:19:38 > 0:19:39we'll play on.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42Well, this is a great contest.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44The Page Turners have now lost a brain themselves
0:19:44 > 0:19:45from the final round.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47The Eggheads have also lost one.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50Remember, no celebrity team has yet beaten the Eggheads,
0:19:50 > 0:19:53so they are really trying to fight them off here.
0:19:53 > 0:19:54And the next subject is Arts & Books.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56Hey!
0:19:56 > 0:19:58Who wants this?
0:19:58 > 0:20:01- Do you want to do it, Wen? - Shall I do it?- Yeah!- I'll do it.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04- Go, Wendy! - I've drawn the short straw.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07Wendy, our novelist, against which Egghead?
0:20:07 > 0:20:10And it can be Steve on the far end or Chris or Judith.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12Why don't I take on the brain of Derbyshire?
0:20:12 > 0:20:14- Did we not do that already?- No! - Yes, then you must.
0:20:14 > 0:20:18- In your heart, you want...- You must. - The brain of Derbyshire.
0:20:18 > 0:20:19The brain of Derbyshire, who else?
0:20:19 > 0:20:22- It's destiny. - You were the two-time winner.
0:20:22 > 0:20:23- Yeah, yeah.- OK.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26- Cos you've got Derbyshire connections too, Wendy.- Exactly.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Good. Wendy from the Page Turners is going to try and knock out
0:20:29 > 0:20:33Steve from the Eggheads. Another doughty player.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36Arts & Books is the subject, please take your positions.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40Wendy, you started as a journalist.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42- That's right. - And on the Sunday Times, you worked.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44Yes, absolutely, on the style section.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46You've got a bit of literature in your background.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48You studied English at Cambridge as well.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50Yes, I did, English literature at Girton.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52That's right, yeah, absolutely.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54So I really feel slightly under pressure now.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56I must admit, it was a long time ago.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58I just put that in and Steve immediately rolls his eyes.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00Steve, you've got a quizzer here.
0:21:00 > 0:21:01Definitely. I think
0:21:01 > 0:21:04my number might be up today, but we'll see.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06A Derbyshire connection, Steve. Whereabouts are you?
0:21:06 > 0:21:07Bolsover. Near Chesterfield.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09And, Wendy, where's your base?
0:21:09 > 0:21:10You know, he's not very far.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13He's only the other side of the M1 from me.
0:21:13 > 0:21:14Bolsover is fantastic,
0:21:14 > 0:21:16it's got the most beautiful castle and I go there quite a lot to have a
0:21:16 > 0:21:18look at it. It's great.
0:21:18 > 0:21:19That's really fun that he's so close.
0:21:19 > 0:21:23It's a real local head-to-head. It's a real local derby, as it were.
0:21:23 > 0:21:24This is like a pub quiz now.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27- Definitely!- All right, well, good luck.- Thank you.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29I hope you're both still talking after this.
0:21:29 > 0:21:30Arts & Books, Wendy, and you can choose
0:21:30 > 0:21:32whether you go first or second against Steve.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34I'll go first, please.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39All right, good luck, Wendy. Here we go.
0:21:39 > 0:21:40See if you can get into the final.
0:21:40 > 0:21:45What is the usual term for a work of art such as a fresco that is painted
0:21:45 > 0:21:47directly onto a wall?
0:21:50 > 0:21:53- A mural.- Mural is quite right.
0:21:53 > 0:21:54Well done.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57Everyone agrees.
0:21:57 > 0:22:01Steve. Which of these poets laureate was born first?
0:22:05 > 0:22:06That's William Wordsworth, Jeremy.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09William Wordsworth is right.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11They may get harder.
0:22:11 > 0:22:16Wendy. Gilbert and George are a duo who chiefly work in which area
0:22:16 > 0:22:17of the arts?
0:22:20 > 0:22:22- I have a Gilbert and George story, actually.- Go on.
0:22:22 > 0:22:26I was once on a bus and Gilbert and George were sitting behind me.
0:22:26 > 0:22:27It was so exciting.
0:22:27 > 0:22:31They're not poets and they are not theatre people,
0:22:31 > 0:22:34they are modern artists.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36Modern art is right. I thought your story was going to be
0:22:36 > 0:22:39- the bus crashed or something.- Oh, no!- They were just sitting there.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42If it was one of your books, it wouldn't go off a cliff, it would
0:22:42 > 0:22:44plough into the local council offices or something like that.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47Absolutely. You should be doing my job, Jeremy.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49- No, no, no.- Yeah!
0:22:49 > 0:22:52OK, Steve. The Maltese Falcon is
0:22:52 > 0:22:54a detective novel by which author?
0:22:58 > 0:23:00It's Dashiell Hammett, Jeremy.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02Dashiell Hammett is correct.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06All right, your third question now.
0:23:06 > 0:23:07Wendy, here we go.
0:23:07 > 0:23:12Jerusalem, subtitled The Emanation Of The Giant Albion,
0:23:12 > 0:23:16is a book completed in 1820 by which English author and artist?
0:23:21 > 0:23:23Well, I know it's not Turner
0:23:23 > 0:23:26because I don't think he wrote novels.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28Aubrey Beardsley obviously was famous
0:23:28 > 0:23:32for his extremely rude cartoons and illustrations
0:23:32 > 0:23:37so I am going to go for William Blake.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40- William Blake is correct.- Whoo! - Three out of three.
0:23:40 > 0:23:41OK, Steve, to stay in...
0:23:41 > 0:23:46which of her characters does Jane Austen described in a novel
0:23:46 > 0:23:48as "everything but prudent?"
0:23:51 > 0:23:57I don't know. I was expecting something else coming up there.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59I don't know much about Mr Wickham.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02I don't know. I'm about to be corrected, I'm sure,
0:24:02 > 0:24:03by the lady on my left.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05I will say Marianne Dashwood.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08Wendy, do you know the answer?
0:24:08 > 0:24:10It's definitely not Mr Darcy.
0:24:10 > 0:24:15I think it is probably Mr Wickham, because he runs off...
0:24:15 > 0:24:18Lydia runs off with him and he's a sort of no-good soldier
0:24:18 > 0:24:21and it all goes horribly wrong so I'm guessing it was him,
0:24:21 > 0:24:24but Marianne Dashwood obviously wasn't very prudent either,
0:24:24 > 0:24:26with going running around and getting wet
0:24:26 > 0:24:28and becoming terribly ill.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31Although obviously, it all worked out really well in the end.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34Right, gosh. Your team-mates, what do you all think?
0:24:34 > 0:24:37- Debatable.- Do you think he's got it right?- I think Dashwood.
0:24:37 > 0:24:38And I think Wickham.
0:24:38 > 0:24:42Yeah. They did sort of sigh when you said it.
0:24:42 > 0:24:46Steve, Marianne Dashwood is the correct answer.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48There we go. Three each again.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52You're already ahead of all our other celebrity teams.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54OK, third Sudden Death.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56Come on, Wendy, here we go.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58I don't give you alternative answers here. OK?
0:24:58 > 0:25:01Who wrote the novel The Beach which became a hit film
0:25:01 > 0:25:03starring Leonardo DiCaprio?
0:25:03 > 0:25:04It was Alex Garland.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07It was Alex Garland, well done.
0:25:07 > 0:25:08Steve, to stay in,
0:25:08 > 0:25:11which French painter's home in Giverny
0:25:11 > 0:25:16was bequeathed to the Academie des Beaux-Arts in 1966?
0:25:16 > 0:25:20I'm hoping Giverny puts me onto Claude Monet.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22Claude Monet is quite right.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24Wendy, which English actor,
0:25:24 > 0:25:27comedian and occasional blues musician
0:25:27 > 0:25:30wrote the novel The Gun Seller?
0:25:30 > 0:25:32Oh, this is Hugh Laurie.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34- Yay!- Hugh Laurie, well done. - Woohoo!
0:25:34 > 0:25:36OK. Steve,
0:25:36 > 0:25:39to stay in, still.
0:25:39 > 0:25:40Wendy's pressing, here.
0:25:40 > 0:25:45Which institution in London was opened in 1759 with free entry
0:25:45 > 0:25:49to all studious and curious persons?
0:25:49 > 0:25:51Well, I can't do it from the dates,
0:25:51 > 0:25:53but just based on what you said about
0:25:53 > 0:25:57people being curious and studious,
0:25:57 > 0:25:58I'll try the British Museum.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00British Museum is the right answer.
0:26:00 > 0:26:03- They're good, aren't they, Wendy? - They're very good.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05OK.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07Here's your question.
0:26:07 > 0:26:13Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's 1975 novel Heat And Dust,
0:26:13 > 0:26:15is primarily set in which country?
0:26:16 > 0:26:20Erm... I'm guessing India.
0:26:20 > 0:26:21India's right.
0:26:23 > 0:26:24Steve, what was the nationality
0:26:24 > 0:26:26of the 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson?
0:26:26 > 0:26:29- American.- American's right.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31Sudden Death, back to you, Wendy.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34In the works of Mervyn Peake,
0:26:34 > 0:26:38what is the name of the 77th Earl of Gormenghast?
0:26:39 > 0:26:40Erm...
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Titus Groan.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Titus Groan is the right answer.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48- Hey!- Oh, wow.
0:26:49 > 0:26:52Well done. That's amazing.
0:26:52 > 0:26:56That is brilliant. you deserve to be in the final just for that answer!
0:26:56 > 0:26:58OK, Steve, The Osterman Weekend,
0:26:58 > 0:27:01The Scarlatti Inheritance and The Matlock Paper
0:27:01 > 0:27:04are early novels by which American author?
0:27:05 > 0:27:07Is it Robert Ludlum?
0:27:07 > 0:27:09Robert Ludlum is correct.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11Wendy, back to you.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14Which British playwright, director and film actor wrote
0:27:14 > 0:27:16the theatrical works Kvetch,
0:27:16 > 0:27:19Decadence and East,
0:27:19 > 0:27:23the last being a blank verse play about his East End boyhood?
0:27:24 > 0:27:26Is it Harold Pinter?
0:27:26 > 0:27:28- No.- Oh!
0:27:28 > 0:27:31- Challengers?- Stephen Berkoff, it's Stephen Berkoff.- Stephen Berkoff.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34Stephen Berkoff is the answer.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37That's the first incorrect answer we've had.
0:27:37 > 0:27:41All right, so this gives Steve a chance to take the round.
0:27:41 > 0:27:46With whom did David Hare write the 1985 play Pravda?
0:27:47 > 0:27:49I've got a couple of people I want to say,
0:27:49 > 0:27:51but the names won't come into my head.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54Erm... I'm a bit torn between two.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57Who both may be equally wrong,
0:27:57 > 0:28:00but I'm going to say Tom Stoppard?
0:28:02 > 0:28:05- Who was the other name? - It was the... Vaclav Havel.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07- No, neither of them.- Oh.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10- Howard Brenton.- No. Nowhere near it.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12Oh, we're still in! We're still in!
0:28:12 > 0:28:14You're still in!
0:28:14 > 0:28:16Here we go, Wendy - Sudden Death.
0:28:16 > 0:28:17Go on, Wendy! We're with you.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20Endless Column is the name of a key work
0:28:20 > 0:28:25by which sculptor born in Romania in 1876?
0:28:25 > 0:28:28I need a first name and a surname.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30Romanian sculptor?
0:28:30 > 0:28:33I can't think of a single sculptor, full stop.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36Sculptors have gone out of my head,
0:28:36 > 0:28:42I'm thinking of Rodin and I'm thinking of... Jacob Epstein.
0:28:43 > 0:28:45Neither of whom are Romanian.
0:28:45 > 0:28:49But he must be really famous for him to be or HER to be
0:28:49 > 0:28:52the answer to this.
0:28:52 > 0:28:54Endless Column, that does sound quite Modernist.
0:28:54 > 0:28:58It does sound quite possibly very conceptual.
0:28:58 > 0:29:00Erm...
0:29:00 > 0:29:04It's going to be somebody famous, a famous Modernist sculptor.
0:29:04 > 0:29:07I can't think, sorry. Is it Jacob Epstein?
0:29:07 > 0:29:09It's not. Let's just see if Steve knows.
0:29:09 > 0:29:11- Is it Constantin Brancusi? - Yes, it is.
0:29:11 > 0:29:15- Ah.- Constantin Brancusi. - Never heard of him.
0:29:15 > 0:29:17- OK, I bow.- OK.
0:29:17 > 0:29:19This is top-level quizzing here.
0:29:19 > 0:29:21You can take the round with this, Steve.
0:29:21 > 0:29:23Which British painter's work,
0:29:23 > 0:29:28The Menin Road betrays the scene of devastation in World War I?
0:29:30 > 0:29:32Paul Nash?
0:29:32 > 0:29:35- Paul Nash is the correct answer. You've taken the round.- Oh!
0:29:35 > 0:29:36That's an amazing round.
0:29:36 > 0:29:38Honestly. Wendy, bad luck there.
0:29:38 > 0:29:39And sculpture is not...
0:29:39 > 0:29:41I know it's not your central thing,
0:29:41 > 0:29:44so we took you out of the comfort zone there.
0:29:44 > 0:29:46Well done, Wendy, well played,
0:29:46 > 0:29:48but Steve, in the end, has beaten you on Arts & Books
0:29:48 > 0:29:50- and will be in the final. - He is the brain of Derbyshire!
0:29:50 > 0:29:53Not any more. Not any more.
0:29:53 > 0:29:55You're the brain of Derbyshire now.
0:29:55 > 0:29:57OK, please come back. Rejoin your teams.
0:29:58 > 0:30:02OK, the Page Turners have now lost two brains from the final round.
0:30:02 > 0:30:03The Eggheads have lost one.
0:30:03 > 0:30:06One more subject before the final and it's Music.
0:30:06 > 0:30:08- Yay!- Who wants Music?
0:30:09 > 0:30:11Yes, I'm being told it's me, yes.
0:30:11 > 0:30:14- OK, Dreda.- Go, Dreda. Go, go! - Whoo!
0:30:14 > 0:30:17So who am I going to do it against? Who do you think?
0:30:17 > 0:30:21You've got the choice here, Chris and Judith, so the two on the right?
0:30:21 > 0:30:22Let's have a woman. We're a female team.
0:30:22 > 0:30:24Yeah, let's have a female head-to-head.
0:30:24 > 0:30:27- We're going for Judith.- OK, so Dreda from the Page Turners
0:30:27 > 0:30:30plays Judith from the Eggheads on Music and for the last time,
0:30:30 > 0:30:32please take your positions in the Question Room.
0:30:34 > 0:30:36So your first crime novel was Running Hot, Dreda?
0:30:36 > 0:30:41It was, it was Running Hot and it ran straight into the CWA,
0:30:41 > 0:30:44the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey Award,
0:30:44 > 0:30:47which I was just ecstatic about
0:30:47 > 0:30:51and I love particularly writing crime books about
0:30:51 > 0:30:53people sometimes who are involved in crime,
0:30:53 > 0:30:58particularly East London crime, but also I have a passion about reading,
0:30:58 > 0:31:01so I'm an ambassador for The Reading Agency.
0:31:01 > 0:31:04And this year I was really lucky to be honoured to be chosen
0:31:04 > 0:31:07to write a Quick Read. I don't know if you know Quick Read,
0:31:07 > 0:31:09but they're to help with adult literacy,
0:31:09 > 0:31:12so I wrote another fast-paced crime book
0:31:12 > 0:31:16set on my Devil's Estate in east London called One False Move.
0:31:16 > 0:31:20I have a passion for reading and I learned to read by going...
0:31:20 > 0:31:22My mum used to send me to Whitechapel library,
0:31:22 > 0:31:24so I have a passion for libraries as well.
0:31:24 > 0:31:26Brilliant. Well, all the best with all your writing,
0:31:26 > 0:31:29I know you're a former primary school head teacher as well,
0:31:29 > 0:31:30with a degree in African history,
0:31:30 > 0:31:33so I hope something here works in the Music round
0:31:33 > 0:31:36for you against Judith. Dreda, would you like to go first or second?
0:31:36 > 0:31:38I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:31:41 > 0:31:44OK, good luck to you against Judith. Here is your question.
0:31:44 > 0:31:48Which of these acts has had the most number one singles
0:31:48 > 0:31:49in the UK singles chart?
0:31:52 > 0:31:55Oh... Good grief.
0:31:55 > 0:32:00Number ones. Well, I'm going to say the Beatles.
0:32:00 > 0:32:01Beatles is correct.
0:32:01 > 0:32:04- Yay!- Judith, here's your first question.
0:32:04 > 0:32:08With which type of music is Jose Carreras most commonly associated?
0:32:12 > 0:32:14I think that's Opera.
0:32:14 > 0:32:17Opera's right. Dreda,
0:32:17 > 0:32:21what is the title of the show that is based on the songs of Queen
0:32:21 > 0:32:25that has played in London's West End for over ten years?
0:32:31 > 0:32:34I think because I keep remembering where this is
0:32:34 > 0:32:37at the Dominion Theatre, I think it's We Will Rock You.
0:32:37 > 0:32:39It is We Will Rock You. Well done.
0:32:40 > 0:32:42Judith, in which year
0:32:42 > 0:32:45was the chart-topping singer Sam Smith born?
0:32:52 > 0:32:55It's got to be '92 I think.
0:32:55 > 0:32:57- 1992 is right.- Yeah.- Two each.
0:32:57 > 0:33:00Dreda, we're waiting for Judith to make a mistake.
0:33:00 > 0:33:03She hasn't yet. Here's your third question.
0:33:03 > 0:33:06Which of these is a work by the composer George Gershwin?
0:33:06 > 0:33:07Oh, goodness.
0:33:11 > 0:33:13Oh...
0:33:13 > 0:33:16I love this. It is a truly amazing piece.
0:33:16 > 0:33:18I think it is Rhapsody In Blue.
0:33:18 > 0:33:21It is Rhapsody In Blue. You're playing so well, three out of three.
0:33:21 > 0:33:23Judith,
0:33:23 > 0:33:27Nina Persson is the lead singer with which Swedish pop band
0:33:27 > 0:33:31whose song Lovefool features on the soundtrack
0:33:31 > 0:33:34of the 1996 film Romeo + Juliet?
0:33:38 > 0:33:40I'm trying to think which sounds Swedish.
0:33:40 > 0:33:42The Cardigans don't sound very Swedish.
0:33:43 > 0:33:47And Roxette doesn't sound terribly Swedish.
0:33:47 > 0:33:51But on the other hand, Icona Pop conceivably could be Swedish,
0:33:51 > 0:33:53so I'm going to go Icona Pop.
0:33:53 > 0:33:55- Yes! - JEREMY LAUGHS
0:33:55 > 0:33:56The Cardigans is the answer.
0:33:56 > 0:33:59- Oh, no!- You've been knocked out.
0:33:59 > 0:34:01- Hey!- Whoo!
0:34:01 > 0:34:04Dreda, you made short work of that. OK, you're in the final.
0:34:05 > 0:34:08- How amazing. - So many twists and turns.
0:34:08 > 0:34:11- So much better, so much less painful than mine.- So, Dreda,
0:34:11 > 0:34:13return to us. Judith, come back.
0:34:13 > 0:34:15We'll play that final round for £19,000.
0:34:17 > 0:34:19So, this is what we've been playing towards.
0:34:19 > 0:34:22It is time for the final round which, as always,
0:34:22 > 0:34:23is General Knowledge.
0:34:23 > 0:34:26But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads won't be allowed
0:34:26 > 0:34:27to take part in this round,
0:34:27 > 0:34:31so that's Wendy and Jenny from the Page Turners
0:34:31 > 0:34:33and Pat and Judith from the Eggheads.
0:34:33 > 0:34:35Would you please now leave the studio?
0:34:36 > 0:34:38Well, this has been a brilliant contest.
0:34:38 > 0:34:40Noreena, we're going to see you playing
0:34:40 > 0:34:41and your thing is General Knowledge?
0:34:41 > 0:34:43Yes. I was waiting for General Knowledge.
0:34:43 > 0:34:45We were saving me for this round.
0:34:45 > 0:34:47She's our secret weapon.
0:34:47 > 0:34:50All right, well, playing the final of Eggheads
0:34:50 > 0:34:52after a stupendous contest so far.
0:34:52 > 0:34:55You've got it absolutely level, Kate, Noreena and Dreda,
0:34:55 > 0:34:58you're playing to win the Page Turners £19,000
0:34:58 > 0:35:00for your charities.
0:35:00 > 0:35:02Steve, Barry and Chris, you're playing to just hold them off,
0:35:02 > 0:35:06basically, after nearly being overwhelmed in the opening rounds.
0:35:06 > 0:35:08As usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.
0:35:08 > 0:35:10This time, they're all General Knowledge.
0:35:10 > 0:35:12You are allowed to confer.
0:35:12 > 0:35:14So, Page Turners, the question is,
0:35:14 > 0:35:18can your three brilliant brains defeat these three over here?
0:35:18 > 0:35:21And Kate, Noreena, Dreda, would you like to go first or second?
0:35:21 > 0:35:22We'd like to go first.
0:35:26 > 0:35:29Here we go with your first question.
0:35:29 > 0:35:30Approximately how far is it
0:35:30 > 0:35:34from John O'Groats to Land's End in a straight line?
0:35:39 > 0:35:42- Geography is my worst subject. - Land's End to John O'Groats
0:35:42 > 0:35:44in a straight line. It's not going to be 100.
0:35:44 > 0:35:46- That's too short.- Yes.- OK.
0:35:46 > 0:35:47600? Six?
0:35:49 > 0:35:51- Yeah.- Yeah?- OK.
0:35:51 > 0:35:52600.
0:35:52 > 0:35:53600 miles is correct.
0:35:53 > 0:35:55Oh!
0:35:55 > 0:35:57Right, Eggheads.
0:35:57 > 0:36:00James Earl Jones provides the voice to which character
0:36:00 > 0:36:01in the Star Wars films?
0:36:04 > 0:36:07- It's Darth Vader, isn't it?- Yes. Definitely.
0:36:07 > 0:36:09That is Darth Vader, Jeremy.
0:36:09 > 0:36:10Darth Vader's correct.
0:36:12 > 0:36:13Challengers,
0:36:13 > 0:36:17which former pro wrestler became the governor of Minnesota in 1999?
0:36:25 > 0:36:27It's Jesse Ventura.
0:36:27 > 0:36:28It is Jesse "The Body" Ventura.
0:36:28 > 0:36:29Jesse "The Body" Ventura!
0:36:29 > 0:36:30Well done.
0:36:32 > 0:36:33Eggheads,
0:36:33 > 0:36:37Canada's Vancouver Island is located in which body of water?
0:36:40 > 0:36:42- It's the Pacific Ocean. Yeah. - Yeah. Definite.
0:36:42 > 0:36:44It's not as far up as Arctic, is it?
0:36:44 > 0:36:47Well, it is where Vancouver is, isn't it? Yeah, so it's...
0:36:47 > 0:36:49Pacific Ocean, Jeremy.
0:36:49 > 0:36:51Pacific Ocean is correct.
0:36:51 > 0:36:52OK, your third question.
0:36:52 > 0:36:55What is the name of the street in Liverpool
0:36:55 > 0:36:57which has a cathedral at either end?
0:37:00 > 0:37:03I was in Liverpool the other day and I was in Hope Street.
0:37:03 > 0:37:06- Lime Street is where the station is.- But my memory...
0:37:06 > 0:37:08Is the Cathedral next to the station?
0:37:09 > 0:37:12It's not. Isn't it Hope Street?
0:37:12 > 0:37:14- I think it's Hope Street.- Yeah, OK.
0:37:14 > 0:37:15- OK.- Hope Street?
0:37:16 > 0:37:18Hope Street is correct.
0:37:18 > 0:37:20- Oh!- Yes!
0:37:20 > 0:37:23My family are from Liverpool as well...
0:37:23 > 0:37:24You haven't got a single question wrong
0:37:24 > 0:37:27in the multiple-choice sections all through this game.
0:37:27 > 0:37:30They are a hard team to play, Eggheads.
0:37:30 > 0:37:32Now, if you get this wrong, Eggheads, you've lost.
0:37:32 > 0:37:35Until independence in 1961,
0:37:35 > 0:37:37which country was a British protectorate
0:37:37 > 0:37:40with an administrative centre called Bo?
0:37:44 > 0:37:47- How are we spelling Bo, Jeremy?- B-O.
0:37:47 > 0:37:50Liberia was founded by freed American slaves
0:37:50 > 0:37:53- so I don't think that was ever a British protectorate.- No.
0:37:53 > 0:37:55- And Cape Verde...- It's Portuguese.
0:37:55 > 0:37:56So I think it's Sierra Leone.
0:37:56 > 0:37:59I think that's the only one that has a British connection there.
0:37:59 > 0:38:02I think the Portuguese colonies became independent after...
0:38:02 > 0:38:04How long are we saying Liberia's been independent?
0:38:04 > 0:38:07Liberia was independent, so it's got to be Sierra Leone.
0:38:07 > 0:38:09- Yeah.- Yeah, I think it must be Sierra Leone.
0:38:09 > 0:38:12That's got to be Sierra Leone, Jeremy.
0:38:12 > 0:38:13Sierra Leone is correct.
0:38:13 > 0:38:16Three out of three. For you both.
0:38:16 > 0:38:19Final round, we go to Sudden Death. It gets a bit harder.
0:38:19 > 0:38:20I don't give you multiple choice.
0:38:20 > 0:38:23You know that, because you'd been in Sudden Death in almost every round.
0:38:23 > 0:38:25Here we go. In 2016,
0:38:25 > 0:38:29Christian Benteke joined which football club in a deal
0:38:29 > 0:38:32worth a reported £27 million?
0:38:32 > 0:38:35Oh, Jeremy!
0:38:35 > 0:38:40- Oh, my gosh.- Christian Benteke... - 2016, 27 million.
0:38:40 > 0:38:4327 million, so it's a club that can afford a lot of money.
0:38:43 > 0:38:45Probably not Wolverhampton Wanderers.
0:38:45 > 0:38:48So it's going to be someone like Manchester City or Chelsea...
0:38:48 > 0:38:52Although I've got this awful fear that it's Liverpool and my husband
0:38:52 > 0:38:55will never forgive me if it is Liverpool and I get it wrong.
0:38:55 > 0:39:01- Haven't Man City got a new person, Mohammed Masou?- A new shopper?
0:39:01 > 0:39:04Yeah, and he's been buying lots of players for Man City?
0:39:04 > 0:39:06- Got a lot of money. - Let's do it, girls.
0:39:06 > 0:39:08- Yeah?- Yeah.
0:39:08 > 0:39:09Man City?
0:39:09 > 0:39:11Man City is your answer.
0:39:11 > 0:39:13Well, the good thing here, Noreena,
0:39:13 > 0:39:16is it is not your husband Danny's favourite team.
0:39:16 > 0:39:17It's not Liverpool.
0:39:18 > 0:39:21Unfortunately, it's not Man City.
0:39:21 > 0:39:2527 million, these days is not a top price for a footballer,
0:39:25 > 0:39:27so it doesn't necessarily take you to the richest clubs.
0:39:27 > 0:39:30- Crystal Palace.- Oh, my gosh!
0:39:30 > 0:39:31I would never have got that.
0:39:31 > 0:39:34- Crystal Palace. - Where was he before that?
0:39:34 > 0:39:36- He was at Liverpool. - He was at Liverpool before that.
0:39:36 > 0:39:38That's why I thought I knew the name!
0:39:38 > 0:39:40I did think I knew the name.
0:39:40 > 0:39:42Oh, dear, we might be in trouble.
0:39:42 > 0:39:44- You did, you did.- OK.
0:39:44 > 0:39:46So you have got one wrong on Sudden Death.
0:39:46 > 0:39:50This can end quickly, but the Eggheads have to get this right.
0:39:50 > 0:39:51In The Archers,
0:39:51 > 0:39:55what was the first name of the woman who was found not guilty
0:39:55 > 0:39:57of attempted murder in September 2016?
0:39:57 > 0:39:59The times I read about this...
0:39:59 > 0:40:01Oh, gosh, I even listened to some of these episodes
0:40:01 > 0:40:02and I can't remember.
0:40:02 > 0:40:04It's all anybody was talking about.
0:40:04 > 0:40:10- Ann? Elizabeth, I've got a vague synapse firing on Elizabeth.- Yeah?
0:40:10 > 0:40:13- Not sure.- Barry's answer's probably the best...
0:40:13 > 0:40:16I'm sure I heard Elizabeth, but I can't recall anything else.
0:40:16 > 0:40:18We've got nothing else.
0:40:18 > 0:40:21I've not listened to The Archers for 30 years.
0:40:21 > 0:40:24The best we can come up with is Elizabeth, Jeremy.
0:40:24 > 0:40:26- Is it right?- It can't be, because they're...
0:40:26 > 0:40:29- Is it Ruth? Is it Ruth?- Don't know.
0:40:29 > 0:40:32Nobody knows it. Elizabeth's wrong. It's Helen.
0:40:32 > 0:40:33Oh! I remember that.
0:40:33 > 0:40:36- We've still got a chance.- We're back!- We've still got a chance.
0:40:36 > 0:40:39Hit us with another football question, Jeremy!
0:40:40 > 0:40:42Here's your question.
0:40:42 > 0:40:46For what does the letter J stand in the name of the author JG Ballard?
0:40:46 > 0:40:48- John, James...- Do you think if he had a really cool name,
0:40:48 > 0:40:52- he would just use his name?- Yeah. - So it's a boring name.
0:40:52 > 0:40:53Like James. James Ballard?
0:40:53 > 0:40:56- John?- John or James?
0:40:56 > 0:40:59- Shall we John or James? John? - Let's go for John.
0:40:59 > 0:41:01Or did you think...?
0:41:01 > 0:41:04Is there a James for some reason in the back of your mind?
0:41:04 > 0:41:07- There is, but it...- Is there? - But it might...
0:41:07 > 0:41:09I think let's go for John.
0:41:09 > 0:41:11No, because sometimes it's that one...
0:41:11 > 0:41:14- No, it could be John too. - Go for James.
0:41:14 > 0:41:17- James?- James. You seem like you really want...
0:41:17 > 0:41:19- I don't know.- I have no idea.
0:41:19 > 0:41:20OK, all right, John.
0:41:20 > 0:41:23- Which should we go?- John? - I'm happy with John.
0:41:23 > 0:41:25- John.- John is your answer?
0:41:25 > 0:41:27- What's the right answer?- James.
0:41:27 > 0:41:29You're joking!
0:41:29 > 0:41:34- It's James.- Oops. - I bet Wendy knew that.
0:41:34 > 0:41:36Nearly there though.
0:41:36 > 0:41:37- Did you know that, Wendy?- Yes!
0:41:37 > 0:41:41You know, it's often, it is often the one that is your first thought.
0:41:41 > 0:41:44Don't worry. Don't worry, it's not over yet.
0:41:44 > 0:41:46You're always right, Noreena.
0:41:46 > 0:41:48Eggheads, this for the contest.
0:41:48 > 0:41:52Who was named the world's highest-paid model
0:41:52 > 0:41:55by Forbes magazine in 2016?
0:41:55 > 0:41:57- Not Kate Moss, I wouldn't have thought.- No.
0:41:58 > 0:42:02Oh, who's that Brazilian...?
0:42:02 > 0:42:07- Oh?- Gina Bundchen?- Gisele Bundchen? - Possible.
0:42:07 > 0:42:10From Archers to models, it's all going bad.
0:42:11 > 0:42:15- Try Gisele Bundchen. We haven't got something better.- OK.
0:42:15 > 0:42:18The best we can come up with is Gisele Bundchen, Jeremy.
0:42:18 > 0:42:21Gisele Bundchen is your answer?
0:42:21 > 0:42:25She earned a reported 30 million in 2015,
0:42:25 > 0:42:27it was indeed Gisele.
0:42:27 > 0:42:31- Oh!- We say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.- Oh, no!
0:42:35 > 0:42:38I want to give you a standing ovation. You were so good.
0:42:38 > 0:42:39That was amazing.
0:42:39 > 0:42:43Eggheads, well done, because, Barry, your brain just flipped out Gisele,
0:42:43 > 0:42:45I don't know how. I would have accepted just Gisele, actually.
0:42:45 > 0:42:50- Yeah.- So, did you know that? - Yes.- Yes.- Not me.- Yes, yes.
0:42:50 > 0:42:51Well, what a contest.
0:42:51 > 0:42:53- Thank you so much.- Yes.
0:42:53 > 0:42:55That's one of the best... I think it is the best I've ever seen.
0:42:55 > 0:42:58- Best ever.- The best ever seen on Eggheads.
0:42:58 > 0:43:00Commiserations, Page Turners.
0:43:00 > 0:43:02Many have answered far fewer correct questions and won,
0:43:02 > 0:43:04so you've come upon them when
0:43:04 > 0:43:05they've been in very good form today.
0:43:05 > 0:43:08They've done what comes naturally. The winning streak continues.
0:43:08 > 0:43:11It does mean that you haven't won the £19,000.
0:43:11 > 0:43:13There is no more deserving team, though.
0:43:13 > 0:43:17The money rolls over to our next show. Eggheads, congratulations.
0:43:17 > 0:43:21Well, if you can do it against this team, maybe you can never be beaten.
0:43:21 > 0:43:23Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers
0:43:23 > 0:43:27have the brains to defeat the Eggheads. £20,000 says they don't.
0:43:27 > 0:43:29Until then, phew, goodbye.