Episode 22 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 pits their wits against

possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.

They are the Eggheads.

Are you ready for a fight today?

-Absolutely!

-We have to be.

-Yeah.

Going head-to-head against the Eggheads today

are Steve Collins and the Knockouts.

This all-star team has been brought together by a former world

champion boxer but can they land the knockout blow?

Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Steve Collins, former world boxing champion.

And I've got a great team here backing me up today.

Hello, I'm Lewis MacLeod.

I'm an actor and a mimic.

-AS DONALD TRUMP:

-And I am going to channel some of the greatest

intellects in the world

to get these answers right, and if it doesn't work, I'm going to cheat.

It's going to be great.

Hello, I'm Nazaneen Ghaffar, weather presenter at Sky News,

on their breakfast programme, Sunrise.

Hello, I'm Alex Riley,

I'm a regular presenter on The One Show and I also present

The Classic Car Show on Channel Five

but I'm probably best known for my BBC Three

documentaries, Britain's Really Disgusting Foods

and Secrets Of The Superbrands.

Hi, my name is Barney Harwood.

I'm a composer and TV presenter.

I interview lots of celebrities on Blue Peter but I'm starstruck today

because Dave is my favourite Egghead.

And he's a legend.

So Steve and team, hello.

-Hello.

-Welcome to the Eggheads studio.

Steve, have you got a battle plan here?

Absolutely, yes. Answer all the questions correct.

And don't ask me any of them.

Have you worked out who's going in on what subject?

-Or anything like that?

-Um, we're still debating that.

There's quite a few experts on different subjects here, yes.

-Really?

-We're just going to have to...

Don't big us up too much, please, Steve.

-Steve, I'm guessing you'd be sport, probably, would you?

-No.

-No?

No. I've studied the oppositions and I've decided to go

for Irish nursery rhymes between 1964 and 1970.

If that's available to me.

If that comes up, we'll put it your way for sure.

Lewis, have you done this show before?

-I haven't, no.

-And what do you think, facing this terrible quintet here?

They make a formidable bunch, Jeremy.

-Terrifying.

-Yeah.

They have terrified many but you can take them down, I'm sure.

Have you got any strengths or weaknesses?

I'm not really looking forward to science.

I'm not mathematically that great.

So you're more of an arts...

Yeah, probably. In that department, I think.

OK. So a bit of sport maybe, a bit of literature.

Nazaneen.

-Hello.

-I think weather, and then I think maybe that goes to science.

Yes, I would prefer it to be science.

I'm not saying that I'm going to get, you know,

everything right but science would be preferable, please.

And so, so, anyone good on politics because sometimes that's the one...

Oh, Alex, maybe you?

Well, I, I've been on the show before, I'm sure you remember.

And I did do politics. But I got two out of three.

But it wasn't enough to beat the Egghead.

It's often a problem, that.

OK. Barney, your strategy here on the end?

Er, definitely not joggy... geography.

I can't even say it, let alone do it.

Right. Music for you?

-Yeah, music would be good.

-You write songs, you play the piano.

Yeah, I'd be OK with that, maybe TV & Film...

I saw you doing a thing on Beethoven.

I mean, you go back a long way.

The ten pieces thing, yeah. Me and Beethoven were like that.

That would be good.

Are you overall competitive? Nazaneen, what are you feeling?

That this is a serious team here?

Yeah. It's a serious team, I think we're quietly confident here.

We're, we're just going to see what comes our way.

All right. Good luck, team.

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

for our challengers' chosen charity.

However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,

the prize money rolls over to the next show.

Now, Steve Collins and the Knockouts,

the Eggheads have taken on 21 celebrity teams so far.

They've beaten 20 of them.

So they only lost one, which was a couple of games ago,

which means there's £2,000 for you to play for now.

Would you like to try and win it?

-Absolutely.

-Of course.

-Very good.

The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Film & TV.

So one of you against either Beth,

Kevin, Steve, Barry, or Dave.

So Film & TV, I mean I've watched films and watched television.

But you reckon politics could be your...

No, no, I never said that!

-Steve...

-I thought, Barney, this was one of your subjects.

-I do like film and TV, yeah.

-Am I the captain?

-You're the captain, yeah.

-Now that we're here making a decision,

-I know...

-I think "like" is different from knowing the answers.

I'm confident in Barney.

Yeah, I think... He's steeped in popular culture.

I'm steeped, Jeremy. I think we're good to go.

OK. Now just tell me who.

So we've got Dave and Barry, Steve is in the middle, then it's Kevin,

known as the Grand Master and then it's Beth at the end,

-the newest Egghead.

-It's got to be Dave.

-Has to be.

-Oh, because he's your hero?

Yeah. I want to be on telly with Dave as much as possible.

Let's do it.

Barney from Steve Collins and the Knockouts to play Dave,

Tremendous Knowledge Dave, as he's known, from the Eggheads.

And just to ensure there is no conferring,

would you please take your positions in the famous question room?

So, Barney, you're part of the presenting team on Blue Peter.

-I am, yes.

-Do you love it?

Yes. Every day is different, you never know what's going to happen.

I'm just trying to think of all the things you've done,

what's the most fun stunt, plane flying?

Yeah, I wanted to be a Red Arrow originally,

that's what I wanted to be when I was a kid.

And on careers day, at 16 years old, I went to the RAF to sign up with my

glasses on and the guy said, "Do you need to wear those glasses?"

I said, yeah. He said, "Sorry, mate, not today."

And that was the first and the last I ever heard about being a pilot.

And it's kind of stuck with me ever since, really.

So on Blue Peter, they gave me the chance to fly an Extra 360 aircraft

at the Bournemouth airshow. So I looped it, I barrel rolled it,

and still, to this day, apart from sitting with Dave here,

one of the best moments of my life.

So we mentioned Beethoven.

What was the Beethoven thing I saw you doing?

It was as part of Ten Pieces.

So introducing children to classical music, basically.

Because when you hear classical music,

especially if you're going to learn an instrument,

it puts people off. And they don't realise that classical music

makes up such a huge part of our culture.

It's in our games, it's in our TV shows, it's in our theme tunes,

it's in movies. So it was part of my job

to encourage children to get into it

and really enjoy what they hear every day anyway.

And you play the piano and other instruments as well?

Piano, guitar and a little bit of saxophone

and I'm a frustrated drummer. I wish I was a drummer.

But I can't get any further past breadsticks on a pillow

at the moment.

All right, Film & TV, Barney, your choice.

Would you like to go first or second?

See, I've played the app, and every time I go second,

I get the worst questions. So I'm going to go first.

Please.

There's no logic to it but here we go.

What is the name of the title character in the 1989 Disney film

the Little Mermaid? Barney...

It's Ariel.

Ariel's right, well done.

Yes. We're off the mark.

-On your way.

-The pressure's on now.

Dave, the song We Have All The Time In The World is used

throughout which James Bond film?

Right, I don't think it's Skyfall.

I think that was just Skyfall by Adele.

I thought Goldeneye was Tina Turner.

I've got to go, I think it's the Louis Armstrong one, isn't it,

On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Well done, Dave. On Her Majesty's Secret Service it is.

-Back to you, Barney.

-He's good.

-Who plays the role... He is good!

But you knew that, didn't you Barney?

That's why he's here. I want to see him in action.

Here's your question.

Who plays the role of Rachel Watson in the 2016 film adaptation of

The Girl On The Train?

See, now that I'm under pressure, I'm doubting myself.

And I know the answer's Emily Blunt.

But for some reason, I've gone to Rosamund Pike and I don't know why.

I'm going to go Emily Blunt with my first instinct.

-Have you seen the film?

-I have seen the film, yeah.

-It's brilliant.

-So Rosamund Pike, I think, is in Gone Girl.

Emily Blunt is the right answer, well done.

OK, Dave, your question.

He's playing well.

The former Coronation Street actress

Michelle Keegan married which reality TV star in 2015?

Now, before Beth joined the Eggheads team, I would not have known this

but what she said was, you've got to start watching telly, Dave.

And make sure that you get hold of the characters.

Now by the time I watched TOWIE, this person, I think, had left.

It's Mark Wright.

OK, let's check with Beth. Beth?

Yeah, he's right but I don't actually watch TOWIE.

We don't believe you. Mark Wright is the answer.

Little connection with our last celeb edition because he danced

-with Karen in Strictly.

-Yeah.

-OK.

Barney. Because Of You,

performed by Dexy's Midnight Runners,

was the theme song to which sitcom

of the late 1980s and early 1990s?

I can see him on the ladder with his paint pot and his brush

and this is well before my time but I think I might have caught the end

of this when I was a kid. I think it's Brush Strokes.

Brush Strokes is right. Three out of three, well done.

-Good quizzing.

-Well done, Barney.

-Well done, Barney.

-Thanks, Dave.

OK, Dave. In 2016, Caitlyn Jenner

had a cameo role in which award-winning drama series

created by Jill Soloway?

Right. Not happy with this.

At all.

Can you just repeat the question again, please?

In 2016, Caitlyn Jenner had a cameo role in which award-winning

drama series created by Jill Soloway?

Now, I wouldn't have called it a drama series.

Right, I've not got a real idea on this

but when you said Caitlyn Jenner, Transparent sprung out at me.

But I didn't think it was a drama, I thought it was a comedy.

Er, but...

lets go for it because it's not going to...

You know, I'm probably...

Could be the others but I'm going to go with Transparent, please.

And Transparent is quite right.

-Go on, Dave.

-Three out of three for you both.

Scores level.

It was never going to be easy, Barney, was it?

Not against Dave, no, the man's a legend.

-But I'm, I'm happy with that.

-All right. So it's Sudden Death now.

I don't give you alternative options.

Here's your question. Who played Frasier Crane

in the US TV series Frasier?

See, he was in Cheers, as well.

Wasn't he called Frasier in Cheers,

or did he play a different character in Cheers?

Again, these are, I'm literally nine years old when these were on.

Oh, Jeremy, I've seen him in so many other things as well.

He's always been Frasier.

He's always been Frasier.

Has he? Has he not?

He has. Has he, though?

Yes.

Um...how long's the show today, Jeremy?

Go on, give me an answer.

It's not his real name. But I can't think of it.

I'm going to say that that's his real name.

And he plays himself.

OK, that's wrong.

Challengers, do you know?

-Yes, Kelsey Grammer.

-Kelsey Grammer.

Oh, of course it's Kelsey Grammer!

Can I change my answer?

Dave has a chance to take the round on Sudden Death.

Danny John-Jules played a representation of which creature

in the comedy series Red Dwarf?

Um, I was never a Red Dwarf fan so I've got Chris Barrie,

I've got Craig Charles, I've got Norman...Jarrett, is it?

The one creature that I can think of is a cat.

So I'm going to go cat.

Great quizzing, Dave, you're right. Cat it is on Sudden Death.

Sorry, Barney, you've been

knocked out by Dave but you quizzed very well there.

It's all good. Kelsey Grammer!

Please return to us and we'll play the next round.

So as it stands, Steve Collins and the Knockouts have lost a brain

from the final round, the Eggheads are all still upright over there,

and the next subject for you is Music.

So who would like this?

Oh, that was supposed to be Barney.

Barney was supposed to be doing music, weren't you?

Yeah, and I should have taken Television.

So why don't you do Music instead?

-Right.

-OK, Lewis.

-OK.

-Against which Egghead, and obviously it can't be Dave,

so it's Barry, Steve, Kevin or Beth.

-Beth.

-Very good.

Lewis from Steve Collins and the Knockouts

versus Beth from the Eggheads.

He'll probably be doing an impression of you by the end of it.

-Probably.

-Be warned.

-AS JEREMY: No, just you, Jeremy.

-Please...

I can't wait. Please take your positions.

Well, Lewis, we describe you as a voice actor.

-Yes.

-And it was somebody who said to me, "Oh, you've got to put on

"Dead Ringers on Radio 4 because

"they've got the most perfect impression of you,"

and I put it on and it was you doing me.

And it was off the back of the election or something, wasn't it?

That's right. It's more, it's your worried voice, Jeremy.

It's that voice you do, and here I am, standing,

on David Cameron's chin.

What's going to happen here? Anything could happen.

And it's funny, I know feel very conscious of it when I'm on Radio 2,

it's the sort of barking out! one! word! sometimes!

That's right. And then...it gets very intense.

Very intense but then very calm and quiet.

Anything could happen at any moment.

Well, if I ever fall ill before the graphics, I will call on you.

And how is your Trump coming on

because that must be challenging for everyone?

-AS TRUMP:

-Well, I gotta say, what's happened, you know,

it's bigly, bigly, we are doing so well.

Poor Barney. But you know, everybody needs a second chance.

And I am going to challenge the president to get these questions

as right as I can.

We shall see.

APPLAUSE

Brilliant. Love it.

We love it. And when you use,

well, it's not your voice but when you use just a narration voice,

you've been doing Postman Pat, for example.

That's right. Yes. Since 2008.

For quite a while. So that's taking over from the legend, Ken Barrie.

Ken Barrie, yeah, the late great, wonderful.

Yeah. Must be amazing to know that you're in so many households

with that.

I know. It's, it's a wonderful wee show.

-Yeah.

-And it's so beautifully animated as well.

The work that goes into it.

Are there voices that you just think, I can't do,

leaving aside female voices, are the ones that you think, that's not me?

Um, yes, certain actors, Tom Cruise,

is quite a difficult actor to copy for some reason, I don't know why.

David Cameron was very difficult.

But we have Boris, hah.

Playing Pokemon Gove, hah.

Someone easier. The bigger voices seem to suit me.

You were also in Star Wars Episode I, weren't you?

Yes, I was. I was Sebulba in The Phantom Menace back in 1999,

in a galaxy far far away, Jeremy.

Yeah, it was a character that spoke

the same sort of language as Jabba the Hutt so it was a much more,

"Ho, ho, ho, chawa!" That sort of sound, big guttural.

Yeah, gosh, the vocal range you've got is amazing, isn't it, Beth?

-The depth of that voice.

-It's absolutely amazing.

I'm quite grateful he can't do an impression of me.

You may have spoken too soon.

OK, so Lewis, are you ready to roll?

-AS JEREMY:

-I'm ready, Jeremy, thank you so much.

I'm going to read it in your voice doing me doing myself.

Doing me doing you.

So, Music, Lewis, would you like to go first or second?

Um, I'll go first, why not?

OK. Here we go. Good luck.

"Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong

"under the shade of the coolibah tree"

are the opening lines of which song?

It's Waltzing Matilda.

It is Waltzing Matilda. Although probably

the other two were quite tempting, were they, just for sheer hilarity?

-AS DONALD TRUMP:

-Well, I don't know about that.

The Star Spangled Banner, great, great lyrics, great words.

You do any impressions, Beth?

No.

LAUGHTER

I do... I do a terrible Jeremy Clarkson.

Oh!

-Right, come on, then.

-Let's hear it.

OK, I can't...

Er...

-AS JEREMY CLARKSON:

-And on that bombshell...

-See, I told you it was terrible.

-No, that's good, though. That's good.

Is that one of yours, Lewis?

-AS JEREMY CLARKSON:

-Prime video?

OK, we're having too much fun.

Here's your question, Beth.

Kurt Cobain was the lead singer of which band?

Oh, the soundtrack to my teenage years.

He was the lead singer of Nirvana.

Nirvana is correct.

Back to you, Lewis.

With which song did Petula Clark become the first British woman

to have a number one single in the US Billboard pop charts?

I want to say Downtown.

But Don't Sleep in the Subway... Yeah, Downtown.

-Downtown is correct.

-Aye!

Quite right, well done.

OK, Beth.

In 2013, which artist set a world record for the highest grossing

solo tour of all time with his show The Wall Live?

I've got to put these people in the right groups.

Oh, I bet Dave's sitting there, head in his hands...

Screaming. It's...

Dave Gilmour.

He's not screaming that.

Dave Gilmour is your answer.

Yeah, well, Dave Gilmour was in Pink Floyd.

Is he the right answer, Eggheads?

-I think it's Waters.

-Roger Waters.

It's Roger Waters, who was also in Pink Floyd.

-Pete Townshend was in The Who.

-Yeah.

So this is promising now, Lewis - get this right,

you're in the final round.

Cornell Haynes is the real name of which American rapper

whose hits include Hot in Herre and Dilemma?

Here is spelt H-E-R-R-E, OK?

Hot in Herre and Dilemma.

I think it's R Kelly. But...

Yeah, I'm going to go with R Kelly, I think it's...

OK, R Kelly is your answer.

Little bit of a perplexed expression here on Barney's face.

Barney, who is it?

-Nelly.

-Nelly. Nelly is the answer, Lewis.

Beth has a way back in. Your question, Beth.

Which singer, born in Iowa in the 1920s, used Moon River as his signature song

and sang it at the 1962 Oscars ceremony?

Are we talking about...

I don't think it's Tony Bennett.

I think Tony Bennett's still going and that would make him nearly 100.

Andy Williams or Dean Martin...

One name is springing out to me more than the others

but I'm going to go with it, and...

I've had a fantastic time, Jeremy, I've had a lovely day...

Andy Williams.

Andy Williams is the right answer.

Well done.

So, level after three questions.

We go back to you with Sudden Death, Lewis.

I don't give you options.

Which American band recorded the classic rock track More Than a Feeling in 1976?

Was it REO Speedwagon?

No, you're in the right zone but it's Boston.

Oh.

-AS DONALD TRUMP:

-Not great, not great, very disappointing.

-Well, let's see what happens...

-It's a fake result. That's a fake result!

-That's not great, Jeremy.

-Fake news.

I also had REO Speedwagon in my head. How funny is that?

-Of all the bands, we both thought of the same one.

-Yeah.

Your question, Beth.

Which song by Dire Straits includes the lines,

"That's the way you do it, you play the guitar on the MTV".

I think that's... Is that Money For Nothing?

-What's your answer?

-Money For Nothing.

Money For Nothing is the right answer.

Well done, Beth. Sorry, Lewis.

Been knocked out there. You were on the verge as well.

But you've been beaten by our Egghead in a fascinating round.

Please, both of you, rejoin your team-mates

and we'll play round three.

So, as it stands, Steve Collins and the Knockouts have lost two brains

from the final round. The Eggheads have not lost any so far

and your next subject is Science.

-Oh.

-This is you.

-Looks like it's me.

-It has to be the scientist in the team.

Yeah, I'll take the science one.

Nazaneen, OK, against which Egghead?

The three in the middle are Barry, Steve and Kevin.

Eeny meeny miny... Steve, please.

All right.

So, Nazaneen from Steve Collins and the Knockouts

versus Steve from the Eggheads.

Please take your positions.

Well, Nazaneen, you've done a lot of weather reporting, haven't you,

-because it goes back even before your time on Sky?

-Yes, indeed,

I used to work for the BBC and for ITV presenting the weather

so it's almost been, I'd say,

nearly ten years' worth of telling the nation what their weather is.

-So it was ITV West and then it was BBC South-East...

-Yes.

So do you think to yourself, "I want to be in a place where the weather's really bad,"

or is that not how a weather reporter thinks?

Not quite. Actually, I first started at ITV West, that was in Bristol,

and just before that

I used to work as a runner on another well-known game show,

Deal Or No Deal. And so,

when I knew that within my vicinity there was ITV West nearby,

and I always wanted to work in weather,

I made a beeline for there and, after a few months,

they gave in to my persistent nagging

and allowed me to start presenting the weather there.

And BBC South-East was just a job that was advertised

and it happened to be in my hometown of Tunbridge Wells, so I applied

and got there and eventually

Sky News asked me to come over to work with them.

Very cool.

Well, I was wondering if we've boxed you in as the scientist and actually

weather people are artists more than scientists, I don't know.

Well, technically,

we're meteorologists but science was one of my favourite subjects at

school, so I'd like to think with a lot of sciencey people in my

family as well, who are medics,

that maybe it will be one of my strongest subjects.

OK, this is promising.

And I also saw an interview that you gave where you said you love

-pub quizzes. Was that accurate?

-Uh...

I mean, I love going to the pub

and taking part in quizzes with my friends.

Usually, I nominate myself to be the person who writes down the answers.

That doesn't mean I'm very good at answering, though.

-But we'll see how I get on.

-OK, good luck here, Nazaneen.

You're up against Steve

-and would you like to go first or second on Science?

-First, please.

All right, your first question...

Which of these substances is an antibiotic?

Uh...

I think the answer is penicillin.

Penicillin is correct.

Steve, in the human body,

what type of joint is the elbow?

I think that's a hinge, Jeremy.

Yeah, I could have been confused with ball and socket there

but hinge is right. I don't know.

Yeah, what do you think, Nazaneen?

No, well, he is right.

He is right. He's definitely right.

OK, your question.

In which country is the hi-tech industrial area

known as Silicon Taiga?

And Taiga is T-A-I-G-A.

I feel like...

I feel like the answer's Japan.

So it's a complete guess, I'm going to go with Japan.

I'm afraid you're wrong.

Russia is the answer, Nazaneen.

So is this place actually in the taiga area?

Taiga is not an actual place.

It's a type of environment.

So it's kind of subarctic.

There's the tundra, the taiga, which is more forested

and then you get the proper forests further south.

-I see.

-So it's a type of geographical biome or environment.

So it's like calling it the Silicon Jungle?

Yeah. Effectively.

-That kind of thing, exactly.

-I see.

-Yeah.

-All right.

Russia's the answer there.

Steve has a chance to go ahead.

Who won the Royal Society's Young People's Book Prize

for the third time in 2015 for his book Utterly Amazing Science?

I don't know. I really don't know.

I mean, they're all well-respected scientists and they all write.

Uh...

I...

I don't know how child-friendly Richard Dawkins is.

I don't mean that in a disparaging way.

Stephen Hawking might find it hard to come down to that level.

So it looks like I'm talking mysen into saying Robert Winston.

I don't know but I'll try Robert Winston.

OK, Robert Winston.

Nazaneen, is this the answer?

If I'm honest I don't know either

but I would have guessed at Richard Dawkins.

Eggheads, do you know?

-I think it's Robert Winston.

-Robert Winston is correct.

So, Nazaneen, you need to get this one right to stay in.

Considered a sign of good luck when spotted in their native Central and South America,

what type of creatures are callicore?

This is C-A-L-L-I-C-O-R-E. Callicore.

Again, this is going to be a complete guess.

Hamsters?

-They're cute, so...

-I really hope it is.

-Please be hamsters.

Hamsters...

Do you know, challengers?

-I would have went...

-Butterflies, I'm going for.

-They think butterflies. Butterflies is the answer here, Nazaneen.

-OK.

Butterflies is the answer. No way back in this round.

Steve is in the final round but you're not out yet.

One more round to go.

Please return to us and we'll play it.

OK, Steve, if this were a boxing match, you'd still be standing.

Absolutely, on the ropes but still punching.

Yeah, would you try and lean back a bit and then lash out or...?

No, we like to tire our opponents out and then

close to the final bell, just go for the big knockout, you know?

-Yeah, yeah.

-Give them a false sense of security and confidence.

-Got it.

-Works every time.

So you're backpedalling a bit and then suddenly go forwards.

-I can't tell you everything but...

-No, OK, I understand.

-I don't want to ask!

-We're getting close.

Steve Collins and the Knockouts have been bashed about a little bit here.

They've lost three brains from the final round,

three good brains as well. The Eggheads have not lost any so far.

Let's level it up. It's Sport.

Who would like Sport?

Well, I...

My captain is going to do the General Knowledge round

-so I will do Sport.

-OK.

It's not my specialist subject, I'll be honest with you.

Alex on Sport, TV presenter, against which Egghead?

There's only Barry and Kevin left there.

Well, I'm going to try and protect my team captain

who may be going it alone in the final round

but I'm going to take Kevin

because I think he's going to be the strongest General Knowledge person,

so if I can knock him out that will be great.

If I don't, there'll be no shame to being crushed into the dirt by Kevin.

You can leave me Kevin. Kevin doesn't scare me.

Barry scares me!

Because of the shirt he's wearing, actually.

-He's scaring us all.

-Anyone who wears a shirt like that is brave

and definitely scares me.

-Are we going Kevin?

-Yeah, yeah.

-Kevin.

Alex from Steve Collins and the Knockouts taking on

Kevin from the Eggheads, despite the shirt issue.

To ensure there's no conferring,

would you please take your positions in the Question Room?

So you have been in this studio before, Alex?

Yes, I have, I still have nightmares about it.

But it was Politics then, right?

It was Politics but there was a question about furniture

and a question about David Cameron's children.

And the other one was about politics and I got that one right.

So you're still replaying the questions here?

I am, I am, but I'm trying to put it behind me and focus on sport,

which is a subject I know very little about.

But Kevin may become complacent and that's my chance to beat him.

Is it true you started working in TV after you saw somebody on Top Gear

say they needed people?

Yes, they said, "Would you like to come and live in leafy Birmingham and come and work on Top Gear?"

And I said yes - I hated my job, so I packed it in.

Well, I got the job first before I packed the job in.

That would have been foolish. But I sent off a CV and some ideas

and started working in television on Top Gear, my favourite programme.

That's amazing because that's a bit of TV history, isn't it?

So what did you learn from that?

Oh, dear. We haven't got time to talk about that.

I learnt a lot.

I'd come from European funding

and then gone into the world of television.

I knew absolutely nothing about how television was put together

and nobody told me, so it was...

It was a quite difficult few months, actually, to start off with.

And you'd been since then presenting children's TV shows like Junior Vets

and All Over the Workplace before you went to The One Show,

so you had a lot of on-screen exposure.

Yes, I actually...

The first thing I ever presented on television was on Top Gear,

funnily enough, if someone wants to dig that out the archive and see me

with some very bizarre glasses on,

they can look at that. I did three items.

Nobody ever talks about it, nobody ever mentions it.

They've never phoned me since but, hey, I am available.

And you did also, Alex, win an episode of Celebrity Mastermind.

I want to mention this so we go on a high here into this round.

My specialist subject was Triumph TR sports cars

and I did particularly well on general knowledge, but Steve decided

he wanted to do General Knowledge

today and leave me to sink or swim in Sport.

JEREMY LAUGHS

-It seems fair.

-Yes.

Do you want to go first or second?

First, please.

Here we go. Good luck against Kevin, known as the Grand Master.

Which of these rugby union players is best known for playing on the wing?

OK, I'm thinking the wing

is something to do with the sides of the pitch,

of a rugby pitch. You can tell I don't know a great deal about rugby.

-This is rugby union, isn't it, we're talking about here?

-Rugby union.

Which is different to rugby league, as we know.

They have scrums, rugby union.

George North, I've never heard of him.

Paul O'Connell, I've never heard of him.

But I have heard of Martin Johnson.

But that could be dangerous...

..because it's not who you've heard of, it's who's the right answer.

So I'll go for Martin Johnson.

OK, let's check with Steve. Do you know this one, Steve?

I would have went for George North.

He would have gone for George North, he says.

George North is the right answer.

-George North, Alex, this is painful now.

-Yeah.

-Steve knows it.

-Cheers, Steve.

-What's happened here?

It's a clerical error of some kind.

Sorry, did I say Martin Johnson?

I meant George North.

JEREMY LAUGHS

Kevin, Diego Costa has played international football for Brazil

and which other team?

Well, I mean...

Before moving to play in the Premier League,

he made his name in Spain and took, well, qualified to play for Spain.

Spanish nationality. So, Spain.

Spain is correct.

No cause for panic just yet, Alex.

Really?

Here is your question.

The cricketer Fred Trueman

played for which county side for the majority of his career?

Well, I am a Yorkshireman.

So, Fred was also a Yorkshireman.

Yorkshire!

-Yorkshire's right.

-Yes!

-Well done!

-I got a sport one right!

-Steve, would you have agreed on that?

I would've said Yorkshire too, yeah.

Would it be better for you to say you would have got this one wrong?

-No, I would have got it right, I said Yorkshire.

-No, OK.

I'm just trying to help Alex feel better about the world.

Kevin...

The mixed martial arts fighter Ronda Rousey won an Olympic medal

in which sport in 1998?

So Rousey is R-O-U-S-E-Y.

Well, the...

Sorry, the synchronised swimming conjures up a nice picture,

but sorry. It's...

I believe she was a medallist in judo.

Judo is correct. Ronda Rousey.

Alex, you need to get this one right.

We don't want to have a repeat of the nightmares from last time.

So here is your question.

In 2008, which English darts player, nicknamed the Martial Dartist,

became the youngest man to reach a PDC World Championships final?

You must get this right to stay in.

OK, so, I will be leaving the game after this question.

I will be...

So, Kirk Shepherd...

..Andy Fordham...

..and Ronnie Baxter. Are they all the names of darts players?

I'm not allowed to say.

So... Who was the youngest...

..dart player to...

..win a PDC tournament?

Let me just read it again.

In 2008, which English darts player, nicknamed the Martial Dartist,

became the youngest man to reach a PDC World Championship final?

It's definitely not Phil "The Power" Taylor.

I know that for a fact.

He is one of the darts players I've heard of.

OK. Kirk Shepherd, Andy Fordham. Who sounds young?

Ronnie Baxter, Andy Fordham...

Ronnie Baxter, let's go for Ronnie.

-Ronnie Baxter...

-Ronnie "The Rocket" Baxter.

No, I've got similar knowledge of darts to you, I think.

Andy Fordham, I think he's known as The Viking, isn't he?

Is he, Eggheads?

The Viking. Let's just see,

how do we get from the name "The Martial Dartist" to the right answer

here, or is there no obvious way, Eggs?

I don't think there is an obvious way.

So who's right?

-It's Kirk Shepherd.

-Kirk Shepherd is the right answer here, Alex.

Sorry, one out of three not enough to overwhelm Kevin.

He's already scored two.

So you've been knocked out.

Kevin will be in the final.

In fact, all five Eggheads will be in the final round.

Please return to us and we'll play it.

OK, bad luck, Alex.

What was going on there, Steve?

You were the sportsperson and you send him in on Sport?

Yeah. Erm...

LAUGHTER

We knew from the start there's only going to be one man standing at the

end, and they just hadn't got it.

-OK!

-So I decided...

-It's got to be you.

-It's got to be me.

If there's one person... OK. I understand. So, Alex...

Well, he was going to do Sport, and then he decided...

For him, being a sportsman,

he felt it was more at stake if he got it wrong.

For me, you know, there's no shame in me knowing none of the answers.

I do understand that, because

sometimes being the historian who goes in on history,

or we know the stress, the geographer on geography...

Yeah, OK. Here we go.

This is what we've been playing towards - it's time for the final round,

which, as always, is General Knowledge.

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

to take part in this round. So all from the challengers' side,

I'm afraid that's Lewis, Nazaneen, Alex and Barney,

from Steve Collins and the Knockouts,

would you now please leave the studio?

Steve, how does this feel, to face the Eggheads?

After the bouts we've seen you - Chris Eubank, Nigel Benn -

what's this like?

This is intimidating in a different way.

I think the pain I'm going to receive here today

will be more mental than physical.

I'm also glad to get rid of my team, they were weighing me down.

LAUGHTER

Lovely people, very handsome, very nice bunch.

But, there's an old saying, light feet...

Light feet travel fast.

Basically, he's saying, "I'm glad to get rid of the team, they're weighing me down."

So we're thinking, OK...

Whatever he says goes.

So, your nickname was the Celtic Warrior?

-Mmm.

-When you were boxing, not when you were quizzing.

No, because I was quite successful as a boxer, so, therefore,

the Celtic Warrior was my handle.

Quizzing, I haven't shown what I'm worth yet,

so I don't know what my nickname's going to be after today!

Your success in the ring was incredible.

Former middle and super middleweight boxing champion.

Dave is our boxing man.

This man is a legend, here?

He is a legend. A great career.

And some great fights, great nights.

I just remember back from the '90s and onwards. Brilliant.

Yeah, I was very lucky to be around at the time I was around

because what makes people talk about my career, not because of me,

but there were great fights in my era,

and I was just so lucky to be part of it.

Greater fighters have come before and since then,

but because there wasn't the mix there,

they couldn't show their true worth and couldn't perform against

great opponents. And I was lucky to have...

The other thing there, you didn't hide away from anybody.

You took on everyone, all comers,

who were coming for...

I needed the money!

I had plans.

On which subject, Steve, you're now playing to win

Steve Collins and the Knockouts £2,000 for charity.

Dave, Barry, Steve, Kevin and Beth,

you're playing for something that money can't buy,

which is the Eggheads' reputation.

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

They're all General Knowledge.

Steve, normally, I say you can confer, but you're obviously alone there.

The question is, can your one brain defeat these five

that you're facing? OK, here we go.

Steve, would you like to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please.

Here is your first question, Steve, good luck.

Who won his third Tour de France in 2016?

I'm going to go with Bradley Wiggins.

Bradley Wiggins is your answer.

Let's see with the Eggheads. Eggheads?

-Chris Froome.

-Chris Froome.

Yeah, Bradley Wiggins is wrong.

It's Chris Froome.

OK. Eggs, your question.

Which of these famous novels takes its name from a location in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress?

-Vanity Fair, everybody? Everyone happy with that?

-Yeah.

OK, we're all agreed on that, and it's Vanity Fair.

Vanity Fair is quite right.

So they've gone ahead.

And, Steve, it's your question.

Which classic movie was remade in 2016 with Jack Houston in the lead role?

I'm going to go with Ben-Hur.

Ben-Hur is your answer?

Quite right, well done.

Ben-Hur's right.

Got one, drawn level. That's good.

Eggheads, Timperley, through which the Bridgewater Canal runs,

is a village situated around seven miles from which city?

Near me.

So I think... It's not Sheffield, it's not Liverpool.

It's heading towards, well, just past Sale on the Metrolink.

It's Manchester.

My Mancunian correspondent assures me it's Manchester.

So, we'll all go for that.

Manchester is right.

Got two out of two, Eggheads.

Back to our challenger, back to Steve.

Steve, your third question - you've got to get this right to stay in.

Which is the only wife of Henry VIII to be buried in Westminster Abbey?

I've been there.

On a tour.

I'm going to go with Jane Seymour.

Jane Seymour is your answer.

Let's just see with the backstage team-mates?

Who do you think it is?

-We think it's Catherine Howard.

-Catherine Howard, Catherine Howard!

Catherine Howard. Eggheads?

It's Jane Seymour.

Jane Seymour...

-I thought she was buried in Windsor, Jane Seymour.

-Oh.

Everyone's wrong, it's Anne of Cleves.

Oh, my...!

Anne of Cleves is the only wife of Henry VIII to be buried

in Westminster Abbey.

So, one out of three means there's no way back,

and we say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.

It's hard against all five, Steve.

History is... I like history.

And I was convinced it was Seymour.

But I was flipping back and forth.

I don't know why, but when the answer was given, I went...

I'm wrong.

Your team-mates got it wrong. Eggs got it...

-Everyone got it wrong.

-No, Beth.

-Oh, Beth got it right?

-Well, I knew Jane Seymour was buried in Windsor,

she's the only one of his wives to be buried with him,

-and he's buried in Windsor.

-Right.

We all immediately wrote our own question there.

Because she's the one who's buried with him.

And that's at Windsor, and you can see, strangely enough,

we all thought that. But Beth actually listened to the question,

which said Westminster Abbey, which is Anne of Cleves.

Yes, there we go.

All right, commiserations to Steve Collins and the Knockouts.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.

Their winning streak continues.

They've lost only one of these celebrity games.

Quite amazing. It means our challengers today don't win the £2,000,

so the money's going to head to Children In Need

to add to this year's appeal.

Eggheads, congratulations.

That was quite a streak against the celebrity teams.

Steve, thanks for being right on the end of it

and giving it all you've got.

Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers have the brains

to defeat the Eggheads in one of our more regular bouts.

Until then, goodbye.