Episode 19 Celebrity Eggheads

These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.

Together, they make up the Eggheads,

arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.

The question is, can they be beaten?

Welcome to a special celebrity edition of Eggheads,

the show where a team of five quiz Challengers pit their wits against

possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.

They are the Eggheads.

And hoping to rewrite the rule book against our quiz Goliaths today are

Page Turners. Now, having a team of writers on has got me thinking about

where authors get their inspiration from.

Do tales of, say, I don't know, four lovable rogues, slightly greying

and a little rough around the edges,

all vying for the attention of a striking femme fatale

who is possibly a millionairess just come to them in a flash?

-What do you think, Judith?

-I don't know!

Judith is wearing leopard skin.

And wearing leopard skin as well, you're right.

That's the start of the book, right there.

OK, let's meet our Challengers.

I'm Kate Williams, and I'm a historian and novelist.

And I wrote my first novel when I was seven

about a little girl called Maria who is taken on adventures by an

-albatross.

-Hello, I'm Wendy Holden.

I'm a number-one bestselling author and I write comic novels.

I'm Noreena Hertz. I write books on politics and economics

which have been translated into 22 languages,

and I'm ITV News's economics editor.

I'm Dreda Say Mitchell.

I'm a crime novelist,

and I love writing about the East London Badlands.

Hi, I'm Jenny Colgan. I've written over 30 novels, mostly for adults,

some for children, and some for Doctor Who fans

who incorporate the best features of both of those types.

-So Kate and team, hello. TEAM:

-Hello!

I can tell the Eggs are really on their mettle here.

Believe me, they've heard who you all are, they know who you all are.

I think they are a little bit scared, Kate.

I can see the fear in their faces.

-The whites of their eyes!

-They were

quaking before, I just think we're obviously the quiz fighters.

-Wipe the floor with them.

-Oh, yes. That's it.

Exactly. That's the thing. Do you quiz at all, Kate?

I'm just thinking, as a historian,

you've got the kings and queens taped.

I've done a few quizzes, a few history quizzes on TV,

the Great Tudor Quiz,

The Quizeum and I did Mastermind and Pointless,

so I've done a few, but never Eggheads.

I think you won Celebrity Mastermind.

-I did, I did.

-Look at the Eggs.

-TEAM:

-Oooh!

-They are getting so excited!

Wendy, are you a quizzer as well?

I love quizzes.

I've never done Eggheads before, so it's going to be thrilling.

And I'm thinking, Wendy, for you,

Arts & Books, probably the best subject, cos you write and you

-love to read.

-Yeah, I hope so, but the pressure's on, Jeremy.

I mean, what if I get in there and I don't know the answer?

I'll get pummelled to death by my team-mates.

Wendy's good on science.

-Is that right?

-Great on science, yeah(!)

Now, I think of you, Noreena, as maybe being the scientist.

But that's economics, and that's different.

Yes, oh, it's definitely different.

I didn't even do biology O-level, so...

Although I think I could just about do that, I could do the science.

-I could do the science.

-Economics is a science, isn't it?

And maths questions. I can do maths.

You can do, like, long division if...

I could definitely do algebra,

long divisions, if you throw some of those at me.

Basically, we've got it covered.

Beware, there can be low culture in here as well.

There can be Coronation Street, there can be EastEnders.

I love EastEnders. I love EastEnders.

-Dreda, what about you? WENDY:

-Any Archers questions?

-I'm really good on that.

-Archers, yes.

I've only come on cos I was told there was a crime category.

There isn't one, is there?

Well, now, crime books come up a lot.

-We have a lot of Agatha Christie come up.

-Ah!

-Seriously.

So we've got Literature, we've got a bit of History with Kate,

this is good. What about you, Jenny?

I am, I'm very good at Scrabble if that helps.

Otherwise, I'm living in perpetual terror of Geography.

It just takes me right back to oxbow lakes.

That's literally the last thing I remember about geography.

If there is an oxbow lake question,

I still wouldn't be able to answer it!

Have we done oxbow lake, Eggheads?

-Is it that?

-It's like that.

Yeah, with water in between.

It's got water in it, yes, brilliant. That's brilliant, yeah.

I'm feeling slightly reassured now.

Yes, me too!

Honestly, they've got gaps as well.

So good luck, Challengers.

Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs

for our celebrities' chosen charity.

However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,

the prize money rolls over to the next show.

Now, Page Turners, they've won the last 18 games on the trot

against the celebrities.

They've been knocking them out of the park.

It does mean there's £19,000 if you win.

Wow! That's incredible.

-Would you like to try?

-Yes.

OK. The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of History!

-Oh, my gosh!

-It's you!

-It's History!

-OK.

If I don't get this one...

I'm assuming it's you, Kate.

-I don't know, you say.

-Anyone else like to do it?

-No.

-OK.

A historian on History, this is already exciting.

Which Egghead do you want to take on?

You can have Judith, Chris, Pat in the middle, Barry or Steve.

Yes!

Pat? Cos you've got, yeah, you've got the same colour.

-It's destiny.

-Absolutely.

-It is.

-All right.

-All right.

We're talking here a man who won £1 million on

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

and Mastermind champion, Brain of Britain 2006...

Just to make you feel better!

..four times British quiz champion. You've picked out,

I think, the strongest quizzer in the team straightaway.

-So the stakes are high.

-We go for the big guns.

Kate from the Page Turners to take on Pat on History.

I really want to see this. Please go to the Question Room now.

Pat, I was just looking at your record on History.

You've done the History round 46 times.

-Know how many you've lost?

-A couple?

One.

I don't like this, Jeremy.

When you come out with these stats...

All right, well, let's see.

Kate, your love of history is there for all of us to see, isn't it?

I do love history.

I haven't done 46 rounds on Eggheads on it, but I do love it.

Would you like to go first or second, Kate?

I'll go first, please.

First question to you.

What name was given to the period at the start of World War II before

hostilities commenced in earnest?

I think it was number two, the Phoney War.

Phoney War is quite right.

OK, Pat. Yeah, you like this?

You've got a Challengers' union there.

-I've got one!

-INDISTINCT

Pat, in which decade

of the 20th century is the Cold War typically said to

have begun?

When World War II ended with Allied victory,

the Americans and the Russians suddenly realised that they were

adversaries, and it kicked in fairly quickly

after the end of World War II.

So I'll have to go for the 1940s.

1940s is right.

Back to you, Kate. Which of these criminal double acts

are believed to have been killed in Bolivia in 1908?

Well, Burke and Hare, I think, are the body snatchers

who never got anywhere near Bolivia.

I think Bonnie and Clyde were a bit later.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is the right answer.

Oh, thank goodness!

Heavens, I can't cope with this any more, Jeremy!

Too much tension!

I know that's not exactly your area. You got it right,

that's all that matters. OK, back to Pat.

Pat, which 1485 battle was decided by the forces of the Stanley family

when they intervened to fight against the ruling monarch?

As far as I know, this was a bit of a dirty deed.

I think they switched allegiances at a key moment.

It's quite a famous date because it's sometimes offered

as marking the end of the Middle Ages.

It's Bosworth Field.

Bosworth Field is right.

OK. Kate, back to you.

What was the occupation of the early British historian

the Venerable Bede?

He was a monk.

-They didn't have printers or bankers, so...

-He was a monk,

you're right.

And Jenny pointing out they didn't have many printers then.

KATE LAUGHS

He was an IT consultant.

LAUGHTER

OK. Pat, you need this to stay in.

In the 18th century,

Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk,

was mistress to which king?

So, 1700s. I'm dismissing Edward V.

George II is comfortably within the 1700s.

And William III, he can't have been around for much of the 1700s.

I'm not certain of this. I think I'll have to go for George II.

Let's check with Kate. Kate?

It's definitely George II.

I was feeling hopeful then,

but definitely George II. Yeah, very well done.

All right. So here we go, we've got three each.

Can I have a king and queen question?

I really want you to.

-Thank you, Jeremy.

-We go to Sudden Death now, Kate.

I don't give you alternative options.

We are enjoying watching this.

-SHE LAUGHS

-I'm loving it(!)

Here's your next question, Kate.

Which 20th-century British king

reportedly said that after he himself died,

his eldest son would ruin himself within 12 months?

Well, it can't be George VI, because he only had daughters,

of course, Elizabeth and Margaret.

George V, he was father to Edward VIII,

who perhaps wasn't our best king,

didn't even last a year, abdicated to marry Mrs Simpson.

So I think I'll go for George V.

George V is quite right.

-Yay!

-Brilliant. I love it.

Pat.

Which Roman emperor died in 54 AD,

thought to have been poisoned by his wife, Agrippina?

The chap that springs to mind, uh, poisoned by his wife...

..is Claudius.

Claudius is correct.

Kate.

What name is popularly given to the events of February 7th, 1497,

when Girolamo Savonarola called on Florentines to burn all books,

paintings and any other luxuries

that drew their hearts away from God?

Oh, dear, I'm having a blank.

Uh...

I'm definitely... Oh, I've got a picture of Savonarola in my head...

-Bonfire of the Vanities.

-Yes!

I can't think, I don't know. I don't know.

-Bonfire of the Vanities.

-Bonfire of the Vanities is right.

Oh! Good.

Pat.

Adventure Galley, also known simply as Adventure,

was an English sailing ship

captained by which notorious Scots privateer?

Need a first name and surname.

Oh. Yeah,

I think this man is frequently described in two different ways,

but if you require a first name and a surname...

..I think it's William Bonney.

-THEY GASP

-Pat...

Gasp of breath from the Eggheads.

-Eggheads?

-William Kidd.

-Kidd.

William Kidd is the answer.

-Oh, Kate!

-Oh, Captain Kidd.

-You've done it, Kate, you're through.

-Oh! Oh, my gosh!

-Oh, dear.

-Oh, Pat.

-Oh, dear. Well played, Pat.

-Clumsy.

-Oh, Pat... Was that just a slip by you, Pat?

-Yep.

I thought Captain Kidd, and I thought... He's William,

and then somehow instead of sticking with Kidd I switched to Bonney,

-which is...

-Oh, so you're thinking of the same guy.

I was thinking Captain Kidd, but you said you wanted forename

and surname, so captain goes out the window, so then I worked on...

I just dropped the ball.

-Oh, well.

-Oh, well. Beaten by a historian, no shame in that.

-Well done, Kate, you're in the final round.

-Crumbs!

You've taken on one of the strongest Eggheads and knocked him out.

This is very exciting now.

Please return to us and we'll play on.

Well, we don't see Pat lose many History rounds.

Oh, my goodness, and it's only just the end of Round One.

Page Turners have not lost any brains from the final round,

the Eggheads have lost a brain, and we play on with Science.

-Who wants Science?

-Ah, Science.

-Wendy, want to do it?

-No, no.

-OK, I'll do it.

-You'll do it?

-Yeah, go on.

-Jenny?

-OK!

-Jenny, who would you like to play?

-Anyone but Pat.

-Ooh.

I'd like to play Barry, please, cos I like his shirt.

No better reason, good, and he loves his science.

OK. So it is Jenny from the Page Turners

playing Barry from the Eggheads.

Please, both of you, take your positions.

Well, I normally think of you as writing romantic comedies,

but today I guess it's got to be sci-fi, Jenny, hasn't it, really?

As we're in the Science round.

We are in the Science round.

Science fiction and science...

Well, there's something called hard science fiction

which is for people that are, you know, who like to write

about scientific concepts and progress them.

That's really not what I do!

I like to write about kissing spacemen.

So if you've got any kissing spacemen questions, that would be top.

We'll have a look for some. And you've written or contributed

to five Doctor Who fiction books,

which spin off from the series, basically.

That's right, but it means I get to write for lots of Doctors who come

back and do it. So like last year,

David Tennant came back to a recording studio,

and I wrote an episode for him and for Catherine Tate,

and that was brilliant.

So it's lovely.

I love going back and picking up all the old companions.

Brilliant. All right, Jenny, Science, here we go.

We'll look for the kissing spacemen, see if we can find them.

Do you want to go first or second against our Barry?

First, please, let's get this horrible process out of the way.

So Science, Jenny, and your first question.

Which of these creatures can be found in the wild in Africa?

OK. Right.

Pandas, China.

And a grizzly bear is what I would associate with Canada.

Or somewhere in the wilds of North America.

So aardvark.

-Yes, yes!

-Aardvark is your answer.

Noreena likes that. Noreena?

-I like it.

-Yes, aardvark is right.

Well done.

OK. Barry,

in nature, what word is used to describe the interaction

between creatures that live together in co-dependent harmony?

Oh, this is easy because I don't know what antibiosis

and panobiosis is,

but there are many terms for creatures that live together

in harmony, and I think commensalism is one of them,

but the more familiar one is certainly symbiosis,

so that's my answer.

Symbiosis is the right answer.

OK, Jenny. Following

the inclusion of four new chemical elements in the

periodic table, the six elements in the group known as halogens are

fluorine, astatine, bromine, iodine, tennessine, and which other?

Neon is a gas, I guess you put it in lights.

Argon is a gas, chlorine is a gas.

Oh, gosh, I am so sorry,

I'm literally going to say this one

because it rhymes with the other one,

and I'm going to say chlorine.

Chlorine is your answer.

-Barry?

-Chlorine is absolutely the correct answer.

All right, chlorine is right, Jenny, well done.

I knew poetry was the best!

I guess poetry is the best way to get them, yes.

Barry, here's your second question.

Plate tectonics is a scientific theory concerned with what?

Yes, it was the movement of the Earth's crust.

Correct. The movement of the Earth's crust is right.

Jenny, for three in a row.

In early Western physiological theory,

which word follows black and yellow to make two of the four cardinal

humours thought to determine a person's temperament?

That is so annoying cos I thought the answer

was going to be humours and I was going to pull this off.

Right, it's yellow and black...

Yeah, it's got to be bile, hasn't it?

Bile is correct. Yes, three out of three.

OK, Barry slips up here and you're in the final round.

In 1753, who was awarded the Royal Society's Copley medal

on account of his curious experiments and observations

on electricity?

Nikola Tesla is much later and he had many tussles

with Thomas Edison, who was from the same time.

So I think Benjamin Franklin must've been awarded the Copley medal.

Benjamin Franklin is correct.

Again, three out of three for you both.

Playing well, Jenny.

Outside your comfort zone, I know.

We go to Sudden Death, and it gets a bit harder -

I don't give you alternatives.

Here's your question. What is the name of the famous British medical

journal, still published today, that was established in 1823

under the editorship of Thomas Wakley?

Is it The Lancet?

The Lancet is right.

Barry. What imperial unit

of measurement is equal to 224 ounces?

There's 16oz in a pound...

It's probably a stone, but let me think, is that 14 times 16?

I think it must be a stone.

But my mind is seized on the maths.

16 ounces is one pound, 14 pounds is one stone.

Yes, one stone.

One stone is right. BARRY LAUGHS

Oh, I thought you were going to suddenly say a pound.

I thought I was, for a moment.

You were never going to forgive yourself.

Let the record show that we had them on the run.

Yes, this is a good moment.

OK, Jenny. The brown howler is a monkey species

that is native to which continent?

-South America.

-South America's correct.

Like it. Barry.

The tensor tympani is a muscle within which organ of the body?

Well, tympani makes me immediately think of the ear,

so that's my answer. The ear.

Ear is right. It dampens sounds

such as when you make sounds through chewing.

OK, Jenny.

Copra, which is mainly used to make livestock feed,

is a dried product of what fruit?

C-O-P-R-A.

Oh! Do you know what's in my head right now?

A picture of a cartoon horse eating a big crunchy apple.

Erm...

I have not the faintest,

so my swansong is a big horse,

wearing a hat, eating a nice crunchy apple,

and I will say apples.

It's not apple, it's coconut.

-Ah, there we go.

-All right.

You're not out yet, Jenny.

Barry.

Which period in the Palaeozoic geological era

is named after an English county?

I think it's time for my famous mnemonic

-on all the periods, isn't it?

-Go on, then.

Camels often sit down carefully, perhaps their joints creak.

So let's see. Cambrian might be Wales.

Ordovician, that's a tribe.

Silurian, that's a tribe.

Devonian... Ah, that's an English county.

Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic...

No, I will say Devonian.

Devon.

Devonian is your answer.

You've got it right, you've taken the round.

The correct answer is Devonian. Well done, Barry. Sorry, Jenny.

You fought well there, my goodness.

-BARRY:

-Very well indeed.

You fought well.

Barry is in the final, Jenny is knocked out. Come back to us,

we'll play on.

Well, this is a great contest.

The Page Turners have now lost a brain themselves

from the final round.

The Eggheads have also lost one.

Remember, no celebrity team has yet beaten the Eggheads,

so they are really trying to fight them off here.

And the next subject is Arts & Books.

Hey!

Who wants this?

-Do you want to do it, Wen?

-Shall I do it?

-Yeah!

-I'll do it.

-Go, Wendy!

-I've drawn the short straw.

Wendy, our novelist, against which Egghead?

And it can be Steve on the far end or Chris or Judith.

Why don't I take on the brain of Derbyshire?

-Did we not do that already?

-No!

-Yes, then you must.

-In your heart, you want...

-You must.

-The brain of Derbyshire.

The brain of Derbyshire, who else?

-It's destiny.

-You were the two-time winner.

-Yeah, yeah.

-OK.

-Cos you've got Derbyshire connections too, Wendy.

-Exactly.

Good. Wendy from the Page Turners is going to try and knock out

Steve from the Eggheads. Another doughty player.

Arts & Books is the subject, please take your positions.

Wendy, you started as a journalist.

-That's right.

-And on the Sunday Times, you worked.

Yes, absolutely, on the style section.

You've got a bit of literature in your background.

You studied English at Cambridge as well.

Yes, I did, English literature at Girton.

That's right, yeah, absolutely.

So I really feel slightly under pressure now.

I must admit, it was a long time ago.

I just put that in and Steve immediately rolls his eyes.

Steve, you've got a quizzer here.

Definitely. I think

my number might be up today, but we'll see.

A Derbyshire connection, Steve. Whereabouts are you?

Bolsover. Near Chesterfield.

And, Wendy, where's your base?

You know, he's not very far.

He's only the other side of the M1 from me.

Bolsover is fantastic,

it's got the most beautiful castle and I go there quite a lot to have a

look at it. It's great.

That's really fun that he's so close.

It's a real local head-to-head. It's a real local derby, as it were.

This is like a pub quiz now.

-Definitely!

-All right, well, good luck.

-Thank you.

I hope you're both still talking after this.

Arts & Books, Wendy, and you can choose

whether you go first or second against Steve.

I'll go first, please.

All right, good luck, Wendy. Here we go.

See if you can get into the final.

What is the usual term for a work of art such as a fresco that is painted

directly onto a wall?

-A mural.

-Mural is quite right.

Well done.

Everyone agrees.

Steve. Which of these poets laureate was born first?

That's William Wordsworth, Jeremy.

William Wordsworth is right.

They may get harder.

Wendy. Gilbert and George are a duo who chiefly work in which area

of the arts?

-I have a Gilbert and George story, actually.

-Go on.

I was once on a bus and Gilbert and George were sitting behind me.

It was so exciting.

They're not poets and they are not theatre people,

they are modern artists.

Modern art is right. I thought your story was going to be

-the bus crashed or something.

-Oh, no!

-They were just sitting there.

If it was one of your books, it wouldn't go off a cliff, it would

plough into the local council offices or something like that.

Absolutely. You should be doing my job, Jeremy.

-No, no, no.

-Yeah!

OK, Steve. The Maltese Falcon is

a detective novel by which author?

It's Dashiell Hammett, Jeremy.

Dashiell Hammett is correct.

All right, your third question now.

Wendy, here we go.

Jerusalem, subtitled The Emanation Of The Giant Albion,

is a book completed in 1820 by which English author and artist?

Well, I know it's not Turner

because I don't think he wrote novels.

Aubrey Beardsley obviously was famous

for his extremely rude cartoons and illustrations

so I am going to go for William Blake.

-William Blake is correct.

-Whoo!

-Three out of three.

OK, Steve, to stay in...

which of her characters does Jane Austen described in a novel

as "everything but prudent?"

I don't know. I was expecting something else coming up there.

I don't know much about Mr Wickham.

I don't know. I'm about to be corrected, I'm sure,

by the lady on my left.

I will say Marianne Dashwood.

Wendy, do you know the answer?

It's definitely not Mr Darcy.

I think it is probably Mr Wickham, because he runs off...

Lydia runs off with him and he's a sort of no-good soldier

and it all goes horribly wrong so I'm guessing it was him,

but Marianne Dashwood obviously wasn't very prudent either,

with going running around and getting wet

and becoming terribly ill.

Although obviously, it all worked out really well in the end.

Right, gosh. Your team-mates, what do you all think?

-Debatable.

-Do you think he's got it right?

-I think Dashwood.

And I think Wickham.

Yeah. They did sort of sigh when you said it.

Steve, Marianne Dashwood is the correct answer.

There we go. Three each again.

You're already ahead of all our other celebrity teams.

OK, third Sudden Death.

Come on, Wendy, here we go.

I don't give you alternative answers here. OK?

Who wrote the novel The Beach which became a hit film

starring Leonardo DiCaprio?

It was Alex Garland.

It was Alex Garland, well done.

Steve, to stay in,

which French painter's home in Giverny

was bequeathed to the Academie des Beaux-Arts in 1966?

I'm hoping Giverny puts me onto Claude Monet.

Claude Monet is quite right.

Wendy, which English actor,

comedian and occasional blues musician

wrote the novel The Gun Seller?

Oh, this is Hugh Laurie.

-Yay!

-Hugh Laurie, well done.

-Woohoo!

OK. Steve,

to stay in, still.

Wendy's pressing, here.

Which institution in London was opened in 1759 with free entry

to all studious and curious persons?

Well, I can't do it from the dates,

but just based on what you said about

people being curious and studious,

I'll try the British Museum.

British Museum is the right answer.

-They're good, aren't they, Wendy?

-They're very good.

OK.

Here's your question.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's 1975 novel Heat And Dust,

is primarily set in which country?

Erm... I'm guessing India.

India's right.

Steve, what was the nationality

of the 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson?

-American.

-American's right.

Sudden Death, back to you, Wendy.

In the works of Mervyn Peake,

what is the name of the 77th Earl of Gormenghast?

Erm...

Titus Groan.

Titus Groan is the right answer.

-Hey!

-Oh, wow.

Well done. That's amazing.

That is brilliant. you deserve to be in the final just for that answer!

OK, Steve, The Osterman Weekend,

The Scarlatti Inheritance and The Matlock Paper

are early novels by which American author?

Is it Robert Ludlum?

Robert Ludlum is correct.

Wendy, back to you.

Which British playwright, director and film actor wrote

the theatrical works Kvetch,

Decadence and East,

the last being a blank verse play about his East End boyhood?

Is it Harold Pinter?

-No.

-Oh!

-Challengers?

-Stephen Berkoff, it's Stephen Berkoff.

-Stephen Berkoff.

Stephen Berkoff is the answer.

That's the first incorrect answer we've had.

All right, so this gives Steve a chance to take the round.

With whom did David Hare write the 1985 play Pravda?

I've got a couple of people I want to say,

but the names won't come into my head.

Erm... I'm a bit torn between two.

Who both may be equally wrong,

but I'm going to say Tom Stoppard?

-Who was the other name?

-It was the... Vaclav Havel.

-No, neither of them.

-Oh.

-Howard Brenton.

-No. Nowhere near it.

Oh, we're still in! We're still in!

You're still in!

Here we go, Wendy - Sudden Death.

Go on, Wendy! We're with you.

Endless Column is the name of a key work

by which sculptor born in Romania in 1876?

I need a first name and a surname.

Romanian sculptor?

I can't think of a single sculptor, full stop.

Sculptors have gone out of my head,

I'm thinking of Rodin and I'm thinking of... Jacob Epstein.

Neither of whom are Romanian.

But he must be really famous for him to be or HER to be

the answer to this.

Endless Column, that does sound quite Modernist.

It does sound quite possibly very conceptual.

Erm...

It's going to be somebody famous, a famous Modernist sculptor.

I can't think, sorry. Is it Jacob Epstein?

It's not. Let's just see if Steve knows.

-Is it Constantin Brancusi?

-Yes, it is.

-Ah.

-Constantin Brancusi.

-Never heard of him.

-OK, I bow.

-OK.

This is top-level quizzing here.

You can take the round with this, Steve.

Which British painter's work,

The Menin Road betrays the scene of devastation in World War I?

Paul Nash?

-Paul Nash is the correct answer. You've taken the round.

-Oh!

That's an amazing round.

Honestly. Wendy, bad luck there.

And sculpture is not...

I know it's not your central thing,

so we took you out of the comfort zone there.

Well done, Wendy, well played,

but Steve, in the end, has beaten you on Arts & Books

-and will be in the final.

-He is the brain of Derbyshire!

Not any more. Not any more.

You're the brain of Derbyshire now.

OK, please come back. Rejoin your teams.

OK, the Page Turners have now lost two brains from the final round.

The Eggheads have lost one.

One more subject before the final and it's Music.

-Yay!

-Who wants Music?

Yes, I'm being told it's me, yes.

-OK, Dreda.

-Go, Dreda. Go, go!

-Whoo!

So who am I going to do it against? Who do you think?

You've got the choice here, Chris and Judith, so the two on the right?

Let's have a woman. We're a female team.

Yeah, let's have a female head-to-head.

-We're going for Judith.

-OK, so Dreda from the Page Turners

plays Judith from the Eggheads on Music and for the last time,

please take your positions in the Question Room.

So your first crime novel was Running Hot, Dreda?

It was, it was Running Hot and it ran straight into the CWA,

the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey Award,

which I was just ecstatic about

and I love particularly writing crime books about

people sometimes who are involved in crime,

particularly East London crime, but also I have a passion about reading,

so I'm an ambassador for The Reading Agency.

And this year I was really lucky to be honoured to be chosen

to write a Quick Read. I don't know if you know Quick Read,

but they're to help with adult literacy,

so I wrote another fast-paced crime book

set on my Devil's Estate in east London called One False Move.

I have a passion for reading and I learned to read by going...

My mum used to send me to Whitechapel library,

so I have a passion for libraries as well.

Brilliant. Well, all the best with all your writing,

I know you're a former primary school head teacher as well,

with a degree in African history,

so I hope something here works in the Music round

for you against Judith. Dreda, would you like to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.

OK, good luck to you against Judith. Here is your question.

Which of these acts has had the most number one singles

in the UK singles chart?

Oh... Good grief.

Number ones. Well, I'm going to say the Beatles.

Beatles is correct.

-Yay!

-Judith, here's your first question.

With which type of music is Jose Carreras most commonly associated?

I think that's Opera.

Opera's right. Dreda,

what is the title of the show that is based on the songs of Queen

that has played in London's West End for over ten years?

I think because I keep remembering where this is

at the Dominion Theatre, I think it's We Will Rock You.

It is We Will Rock You. Well done.

Judith, in which year

was the chart-topping singer Sam Smith born?

It's got to be '92 I think.

-1992 is right.

-Yeah.

-Two each.

Dreda, we're waiting for Judith to make a mistake.

She hasn't yet. Here's your third question.

Which of these is a work by the composer George Gershwin?

Oh, goodness.

Oh...

I love this. It is a truly amazing piece.

I think it is Rhapsody In Blue.

It is Rhapsody In Blue. You're playing so well, three out of three.

Judith,

Nina Persson is the lead singer with which Swedish pop band

whose song Lovefool features on the soundtrack

of the 1996 film Romeo + Juliet?

I'm trying to think which sounds Swedish.

The Cardigans don't sound very Swedish.

And Roxette doesn't sound terribly Swedish.

But on the other hand, Icona Pop conceivably could be Swedish,

so I'm going to go Icona Pop.

-Yes!

-JEREMY LAUGHS

The Cardigans is the answer.

-Oh, no!

-You've been knocked out.

-Hey!

-Whoo!

Dreda, you made short work of that. OK, you're in the final.

-How amazing.

-So many twists and turns.

-So much better, so much less painful than mine.

-So, Dreda,

return to us. Judith, come back.

We'll play that final round for £19,000.

So, this is what we've been playing towards.

It is time for the final round which, as always,

is General Knowledge.

But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads won't be allowed

to take part in this round,

so that's Wendy and Jenny from the Page Turners

and Pat and Judith from the Eggheads.

Would you please now leave the studio?

Well, this has been a brilliant contest.

Noreena, we're going to see you playing

and your thing is General Knowledge?

Yes. I was waiting for General Knowledge.

We were saving me for this round.

She's our secret weapon.

All right, well, playing the final of Eggheads

after a stupendous contest so far.

You've got it absolutely level, Kate, Noreena and Dreda,

you're playing to win the Page Turners £19,000

for your charities.

Steve, Barry and Chris, you're playing to just hold them off,

basically, after nearly being overwhelmed in the opening rounds.

As usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.

This time, they're all General Knowledge.

You are allowed to confer.

So, Page Turners, the question is,

can your three brilliant brains defeat these three over here?

And Kate, Noreena, Dreda, would you like to go first or second?

We'd like to go first.

Here we go with your first question.

Approximately how far is it

from John O'Groats to Land's End in a straight line?

-Geography is my worst subject.

-Land's End to John O'Groats

in a straight line. It's not going to be 100.

-That's too short.

-Yes.

-OK.

600? Six?

-Yeah.

-Yeah?

-OK.

600.

600 miles is correct.

Oh!

Right, Eggheads.

James Earl Jones provides the voice to which character

in the Star Wars films?

-It's Darth Vader, isn't it?

-Yes. Definitely.

That is Darth Vader, Jeremy.

Darth Vader's correct.

Challengers,

which former pro wrestler became the governor of Minnesota in 1999?

It's Jesse Ventura.

It is Jesse "The Body" Ventura.

Jesse "The Body" Ventura!

Well done.

Eggheads,

Canada's Vancouver Island is located in which body of water?

-It's the Pacific Ocean. Yeah.

-Yeah. Definite.

It's not as far up as Arctic, is it?

Well, it is where Vancouver is, isn't it? Yeah, so it's...

Pacific Ocean, Jeremy.

Pacific Ocean is correct.

OK, your third question.

What is the name of the street in Liverpool

which has a cathedral at either end?

I was in Liverpool the other day and I was in Hope Street.

-Lime Street is where the station is.

-But my memory...

Is the Cathedral next to the station?

It's not. Isn't it Hope Street?

-I think it's Hope Street.

-Yeah, OK.

-OK.

-Hope Street?

Hope Street is correct.

-Oh!

-Yes!

My family are from Liverpool as well...

You haven't got a single question wrong

in the multiple-choice sections all through this game.

They are a hard team to play, Eggheads.

Now, if you get this wrong, Eggheads, you've lost.

Until independence in 1961,

which country was a British protectorate

with an administrative centre called Bo?

-How are we spelling Bo, Jeremy?

-B-O.

Liberia was founded by freed American slaves

-so I don't think that was ever a British protectorate.

-No.

-And Cape Verde...

-It's Portuguese.

So I think it's Sierra Leone.

I think that's the only one that has a British connection there.

I think the Portuguese colonies became independent after...

How long are we saying Liberia's been independent?

Liberia was independent, so it's got to be Sierra Leone.

-Yeah.

-Yeah, I think it must be Sierra Leone.

That's got to be Sierra Leone, Jeremy.

Sierra Leone is correct.

Three out of three. For you both.

Final round, we go to Sudden Death. It gets a bit harder.

I don't give you multiple choice.

You know that, because you'd been in Sudden Death in almost every round.

Here we go. In 2016,

Christian Benteke joined which football club in a deal

worth a reported £27 million?

Oh, Jeremy!

-Oh, my gosh.

-Christian Benteke...

-2016, 27 million.

27 million, so it's a club that can afford a lot of money.

Probably not Wolverhampton Wanderers.

So it's going to be someone like Manchester City or Chelsea...

Although I've got this awful fear that it's Liverpool and my husband

will never forgive me if it is Liverpool and I get it wrong.

-Haven't Man City got a new person, Mohammed Masou?

-A new shopper?

Yeah, and he's been buying lots of players for Man City?

-Got a lot of money.

-Let's do it, girls.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

Man City?

Man City is your answer.

Well, the good thing here, Noreena,

is it is not your husband Danny's favourite team.

It's not Liverpool.

Unfortunately, it's not Man City.

27 million, these days is not a top price for a footballer,

so it doesn't necessarily take you to the richest clubs.

-Crystal Palace.

-Oh, my gosh!

I would never have got that.

-Crystal Palace.

-Where was he before that?

-He was at Liverpool.

-He was at Liverpool before that.

That's why I thought I knew the name!

I did think I knew the name.

Oh, dear, we might be in trouble.

-You did, you did.

-OK.

So you have got one wrong on Sudden Death.

This can end quickly, but the Eggheads have to get this right.

In The Archers,

what was the first name of the woman who was found not guilty

of attempted murder in September 2016?

The times I read about this...

Oh, gosh, I even listened to some of these episodes

and I can't remember.

It's all anybody was talking about.

-Ann? Elizabeth, I've got a vague synapse firing on Elizabeth.

-Yeah?

-Not sure.

-Barry's answer's probably the best...

I'm sure I heard Elizabeth, but I can't recall anything else.

We've got nothing else.

I've not listened to The Archers for 30 years.

The best we can come up with is Elizabeth, Jeremy.

-Is it right?

-It can't be, because they're...

-Is it Ruth? Is it Ruth?

-Don't know.

Nobody knows it. Elizabeth's wrong. It's Helen.

Oh! I remember that.

-We've still got a chance.

-We're back!

-We've still got a chance.

Hit us with another football question, Jeremy!

Here's your question.

For what does the letter J stand in the name of the author JG Ballard?

-John, James...

-Do you think if he had a really cool name,

-he would just use his name?

-Yeah.

-So it's a boring name.

Like James. James Ballard?

-John?

-John or James?

-Shall we John or James? John?

-Let's go for John.

Or did you think...?

Is there a James for some reason in the back of your mind?

-There is, but it...

-Is there?

-But it might...

I think let's go for John.

No, because sometimes it's that one...

-No, it could be John too.

-Go for James.

-James?

-James. You seem like you really want...

-I don't know.

-I have no idea.

OK, all right, John.

-Which should we go?

-John?

-I'm happy with John.

-John.

-John is your answer?

-What's the right answer?

-James.

You're joking!

-It's James.

-Oops.

-I bet Wendy knew that.

Nearly there though.

-Did you know that, Wendy?

-Yes!

You know, it's often, it is often the one that is your first thought.

Don't worry. Don't worry, it's not over yet.

You're always right, Noreena.

Eggheads, this for the contest.

Who was named the world's highest-paid model

by Forbes magazine in 2016?

-Not Kate Moss, I wouldn't have thought.

-No.

Oh, who's that Brazilian...?

-Oh?

-Gina Bundchen?

-Gisele Bundchen?

-Possible.

From Archers to models, it's all going bad.

-Try Gisele Bundchen. We haven't got something better.

-OK.

The best we can come up with is Gisele Bundchen, Jeremy.

Gisele Bundchen is your answer?

She earned a reported 30 million in 2015,

it was indeed Gisele.

-Oh!

-We say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.

-Oh, no!

I want to give you a standing ovation. You were so good.

That was amazing.

Eggheads, well done, because, Barry, your brain just flipped out Gisele,

I don't know how. I would have accepted just Gisele, actually.

-Yeah.

-So, did you know that?

-Yes.

-Yes.

-Not me.

-Yes, yes.

Well, what a contest.

-Thank you so much.

-Yes.

That's one of the best... I think it is the best I've ever seen.

-Best ever.

-The best ever seen on Eggheads.

Commiserations, Page Turners.

Many have answered far fewer correct questions and won,

so you've come upon them when

they've been in very good form today.

They've done what comes naturally. The winning streak continues.

It does mean that you haven't won the £19,000.

There is no more deserving team, though.

The money rolls over to our next show. Eggheads, congratulations.

Well, if you can do it against this team, maybe you can never be beaten.

Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers

have the brains to defeat the Eggheads. £20,000 says they don't.

Until then, phew, goodbye.