0:00:04 > 0:00:08These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:11 > 0:00:15arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19Question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:24 > 0:00:27Hello, welcome to Eggheads, where a team of challengers
0:00:27 > 0:00:32pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:32 > 0:00:36You might recognise them - they've won the country's toughest quiz shows.
0:00:36 > 0:00:37They are the Eggheads.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42And challenging the awesome might of our quiz champions -
0:00:42 > 0:00:43the Tripboaters.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45The team all know one another through
0:00:45 > 0:00:47an interest in canal boats,
0:00:47 > 0:00:51and regularly meet at the Ham Manor Basin marina in Newbury.
0:00:51 > 0:00:52Let's meet them.
0:00:52 > 0:00:53Hello. I'm Laurie.
0:00:53 > 0:00:57I'm 68, and I'm a retired guesthouse owner.
0:00:57 > 0:01:01Hello. I'm Olive. I'm 64, and I'm a marina caretaker.
0:01:01 > 0:01:05Hi. I'm Dave. I'm 61, and I'm a retired pub landlord.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09Hi. I'm Hazel. I'm 64, and I'm a credit manager.
0:01:09 > 0:01:14Hello. I'm Tony. I'm 62, and I'm a retired accountant.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16Well, welcome to you Tripboaters.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19Nice to have you here. Shouldn't it be Boat Trippers, though?
0:01:19 > 0:01:22- Why have you turned it round, Laurie?- It's not like that.
0:01:22 > 0:01:26Many years ago, when we were using the marina a lot, the electrics...
0:01:26 > 0:01:29seem to keep fusing out and trip.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32So, after a bit of desperation, we'd go to the pub,
0:01:32 > 0:01:36join the quiz - when we wanted a name, we called ourselves the Tripboaters.
0:01:36 > 0:01:37These canal boats.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41You take these for trips or are they moored up there permanently?
0:01:41 > 0:01:44Most go out on trips,
0:01:44 > 0:01:45right around the country.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49We've got 2,500 miles of canals in this country,
0:01:49 > 0:01:52- so there's a lot of touring to go at. - OK.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54Let me tell you, Tripboaters,
0:01:54 > 0:01:57every day there's £1,000 up for grabs for our challengers.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59If they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:01:59 > 0:02:02the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:02:02 > 0:02:03So, Tripboaters,
0:02:03 > 0:02:06the Eggheads have won just the last game,
0:02:06 > 0:02:10which means £2,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.
0:02:10 > 0:02:14Our first head-to-head battle today is on Geography,
0:02:14 > 0:02:17which might suit you, having travelled the country
0:02:17 > 0:02:19on those narrow boats. Who'd like to play,
0:02:19 > 0:02:21who will you take on? Any Egghead you like.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24- THEY CONFER - Yes.- Hazel do it?
0:02:24 > 0:02:27Who shall I play against if that's the case?
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Erm...I should go for CJ.
0:02:29 > 0:02:33- OK?- Yeah.- Oh, OK. Right. - It's going to be Hazel against CJ.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35Hazel against CJ. Right.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38- As long as it's not British geography.- Yes, then I'm fine.
0:02:38 > 0:02:39LAUGHTER
0:02:39 > 0:02:42Hazel and CJ, into the question room, please,
0:02:42 > 0:02:45just to make sure there's no conferring.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Hazel, would you like to go first or second in this round?
0:02:47 > 0:02:50I think I'd prefer to go first, please, Dermot.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56OK. Good luck, Hazel. Paignton and Torquay
0:02:56 > 0:02:58are seaside resorts in which county?
0:03:02 > 0:03:06I would have answered immediately. I suddenly thought, oh, my goodness,
0:03:06 > 0:03:09am I absolutely sure whether it's Cornwall or Devon?
0:03:09 > 0:03:10I know it's not Dorset.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12Um...
0:03:12 > 0:03:15Torquay and Paignton are in Devon, I think, so I shall say Devon.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18- Just had to say them again to yourself...- Yes.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20Absolutely, well done. Good start, Hazel.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22And CJ glad he avoided that,
0:03:22 > 0:03:24concerning the United Kingdom.
0:03:24 > 0:03:27Ah, so does this one, CJ.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29Here's your first question.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31What is the largest lake in the Lake District?
0:03:34 > 0:03:37I'm assuming you mean by surface area, then?
0:03:37 > 0:03:38Yeah.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42Uh, now, it's not Coniston. Um...Ullswater does hold some record,
0:03:42 > 0:03:44but I think it's Windermere.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46- So I'll go for Windermere.- OK.
0:03:46 > 0:03:47Yep, that's right.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49Well done, CJ.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51One to you. OK, back to you,
0:03:51 > 0:03:53Hazel, for your second question.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56The Kerch Strait
0:03:56 > 0:03:59connects the Sea of Azov with which other body of water?
0:04:03 > 0:04:05Um...
0:04:06 > 0:04:08It's going to be a guess,
0:04:08 > 0:04:11and I will say...
0:04:12 > 0:04:14- ..the Black Sea.- OK.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18It is the right answer. Well done.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21OK, CJ.
0:04:21 > 0:04:22To catch up,
0:04:22 > 0:04:24what is the approximate total area,
0:04:24 > 0:04:27in square miles, of the island of Guernsey?
0:04:30 > 0:04:32Well, I'll have to go on my instinct.
0:04:32 > 0:04:36I thought Jersey was 6, so I'll go for 5 for Guernsey.
0:04:36 > 0:04:37OK.
0:04:37 > 0:04:38Eggheads?
0:04:38 > 0:04:42It's bigger than you think, Dermot. I reckon it's more like 50.
0:04:42 > 0:04:46This would have been a good final-round question. It's 30.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48It's 30, not 5 or 50.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51Down the middle. A real opportunity, Hazel.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54Give me this answer - you're playing in the final round.
0:04:54 > 0:04:59The Alborz mountain range is located in the north of which country?
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Again, it's one I'm not entirely sure of.
0:05:04 > 0:05:05Um...
0:05:07 > 0:05:10I think I will go for Syria.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14- So, Syria is my answer. - Syria's your answer.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16And it's incorrect.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19Alborz's in the north of Iran.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21CJ has to get this to take us to sudden death.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24If he doesn't, you are through anyway, Hazel.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27CJ - the city of Frankfurt in the German state of Hesse
0:05:27 > 0:05:29is located on which river?
0:05:31 > 0:05:34Uh...well, it has two names, doesn't it?
0:05:34 > 0:05:38The Frankfurt am Main is one of them.
0:05:38 > 0:05:42So the Main certainly runs through Frankfurt - that's what I'll go for.
0:05:42 > 0:05:43Frankfurt am Main...
0:05:43 > 0:05:46is correct. Yes, well done, CJ.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49He's coming back, Hazel.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51- I know.- I thought you had it...
0:05:51 > 0:05:55Two of the opportunities to win the round gone, but we go to sudden death.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58You get no choices now, Hazel - you've just got to give me the answer
0:05:58 > 0:06:02straight out, and hopefully a correct one.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04Bridalveil Fall,
0:06:04 > 0:06:10fed by Ostrander Lake, is a feature of which US National Park?
0:06:10 > 0:06:13Um, I have heard of Bridalveil Falls,
0:06:13 > 0:06:17but I'm not absolutely certain where it is, unfortunately.
0:06:17 > 0:06:19Um...
0:06:20 > 0:06:23But I will say, um...
0:06:26 > 0:06:28Yellowstone.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32So close, Hazel, but it's not right.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Yes, it's right with a Y,
0:06:34 > 0:06:37- but it's the other one with the Y... - ALL: Yosemite.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39- Yosemite.- Oh, right.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41CJ, chance to win it, then.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44What name is given to the cable-stayed road-bridge
0:06:44 > 0:06:47that spans the valley of the River Tarn in France,
0:06:47 > 0:06:50the tallest viaduct in the world?
0:06:52 > 0:06:56When you started reading the question, I thought you meant the Millau Road-bridge,
0:06:56 > 0:06:57but obviously not.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59Um...
0:06:59 > 0:07:04I have heard the name of the world's highest viaduct,
0:07:04 > 0:07:06but I don't think I'm going to remember it.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10No, I'll just try the Millau Bridge.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13I see you, Barry,
0:07:13 > 0:07:17holding his head there, as you were talking yourself out of Millau.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19It is, to put Hazel out of her misery, the right answer.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22Really good round there, though, Hazel.
0:07:22 > 0:07:27I thought, especially after the first two or three questions, it was going to be you in the final round.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29Instead, it's CJ. Bad luck, Hazel,
0:07:29 > 0:07:31you won't be in the final round.
0:07:31 > 0:07:32Come and join your teams.
0:07:34 > 0:07:39The challengers have lost one brain from the final round. That's Hazel.
0:07:39 > 0:07:40The Eggheads haven't lost any.
0:07:40 > 0:07:45But only one round gone, so we'll play our second round now, and this is Sport.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47Who will play Sport? It can't be Hazel...
0:07:47 > 0:07:48THEY CONFER
0:07:48 > 0:07:52- Who do we play against, then? - Who did we say?- Barry.
0:07:52 > 0:07:56- Go for the new one.- Yeah.- Barry. - Yeah, go for Barry.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58So, it'll be Tony against Barry, please.
0:07:58 > 0:08:03OK then, let's have Tony and Barry into the question room, please.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06OK then, Tony. Let's see if you can knock an Egghead out,
0:08:06 > 0:08:07that Egghead being Barry.
0:08:07 > 0:08:11Would you like to go first or second in this Sport round?
0:08:11 > 0:08:13I think I'd like to go first, Dermot.
0:08:13 > 0:08:17Best of luck, Tony.
0:08:17 > 0:08:18Here's your first question.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20Jenny Pitman became famous
0:08:20 > 0:08:24in 1983 as the first woman to have trained a winner
0:08:24 > 0:08:25in which horse race?
0:08:28 > 0:08:32Well, I don't think it's either the Derby,
0:08:32 > 0:08:35or I'm not sure about the Oaks,
0:08:35 > 0:08:37but my instinct says...
0:08:37 > 0:08:38it's the Grand National.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41- I'll go for the Grand National. - Instinct for the Grand National.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44It is the right answer. Correct.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46Any Egghead tell me the horse?
0:08:46 > 0:08:48- ALL: Corbiere. - Corbiere. OK, Barry,
0:08:48 > 0:08:50your first question.
0:08:50 > 0:08:54Prenton Park is the home ground of which football team?
0:08:57 > 0:09:01It's certainly not Southampton, who moved recently from St Mary's,
0:09:01 > 0:09:04and it's not Norwich City, so it must be Tranmere Rovers.
0:09:04 > 0:09:09Tranmere Rovers is the right answer. Yeah, well done, Barry.
0:09:09 > 0:09:12Prenton Park - Tranmere Rovers. OK.
0:09:12 > 0:09:13Tony, second question.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15The badge of which US basketball team
0:09:15 > 0:09:20features a leprechaun spinning a basketball on his finger?
0:09:25 > 0:09:29This is one sport I know absolutely nothing about.
0:09:29 > 0:09:33Um...so it is a complete and absolute wild guess.
0:09:33 > 0:09:39I fancy... I think, the Boston Celtics.
0:09:39 > 0:09:43The answer is, yes, the Celtics. That's correct. So, two to you.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Barry, second question.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48Virginia Wade won the women's doubles title
0:09:48 > 0:09:51at the Australian, French and US Open tennis tournaments
0:09:51 > 0:09:52in collaboration with which player?
0:09:56 > 0:10:00I really should know this, and I can imagine CJ
0:10:00 > 0:10:03is pulling all sorts of faces while I think about this one.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05I'm pretty certain it wasn't Margaret Court.
0:10:05 > 0:10:09Something at the back of my mind is saying she partnered Betty Stove,
0:10:09 > 0:10:11so I shall have to go with that.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13Check with your colleagues. CJ?
0:10:13 > 0:10:16- Certainly the one I would have gone for.- Aha.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19Well, then, you'd both have got it wrong.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22It's the one you eliminated first. It's Margaret Court.
0:10:22 > 0:10:23Court and Wade
0:10:23 > 0:10:26at the Australian, French and US Open together.
0:10:26 > 0:10:30So, Tony, get this, and you're through.
0:10:30 > 0:10:35In January 2006, who became the youngest ever BDO World Darts Champion,
0:10:35 > 0:10:38when he defeated fellow Dutchman Raymond van Barneveld,
0:10:38 > 0:10:42at the age of 21 years and 90 days?
0:10:47 > 0:10:49Um...
0:10:49 > 0:10:52I'm going to make a wild guess again...
0:10:52 > 0:10:56and Dick van...
0:10:56 > 0:11:00Dijk? Dike? Whatever his name is...
0:11:00 > 0:11:02- The first... - That one. Dick van Dijk.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05LAUGHTER
0:11:05 > 0:11:08I'm not sure if there is a darts player called that name,
0:11:08 > 0:11:10but it's not Dijk.
0:11:10 > 0:11:14Jelle Klaasen beat barny Barneveld which means
0:11:14 > 0:11:17you have repeated what happened to Hazel.
0:11:17 > 0:11:18You got the third one wrong.
0:11:18 > 0:11:22But still a chance to go through, if Barry doesn't get this.
0:11:22 > 0:11:26The sport of bocce is closely related to which other?
0:11:30 > 0:11:33Well, the other name for pelota is jai alai.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36I've never heard of a third name for that, so I'll discount that.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38Bocce...
0:11:38 > 0:11:42billiards - doesn't sound like it's billiards.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46I know there's various forms of petanque. Boules is one of them.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49I suspect bocce might be another form of petanque,
0:11:49 > 0:11:50- so I shall go for petanque.- OK.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52The answer is petanque.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55It is correct, Barry. You have saved yourself.
0:11:55 > 0:11:59So, there we are, exactly the same pattern
0:11:59 > 0:12:03as that first round. Let's hope it doesn't continue that way.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06Tony, sudden death, then.
0:12:07 > 0:12:11In 2008, Rafael Nadal became the first Spaniard
0:12:11 > 0:12:14to win the men's singles at Wimbledon since which player
0:12:14 > 0:12:17in 1966?
0:12:17 > 0:12:22Oh, I'm struggling to recall a Spanish player going back that far.
0:12:22 > 0:12:23Um...
0:12:26 > 0:12:28No, it's not going to come to me, Dermot.
0:12:28 > 0:12:32- Can't even give a wild guess on that one.- OK, Tony. Blank there.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Barry, you've got any idea?
0:12:34 > 0:12:37- I think it was Manuel Santana. - Yeah. Manuel Santana, yes.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39So a chance for you, then, Barry.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42In cricket, what is signalled when the umpire touches
0:12:42 > 0:12:44their raised knee with their hand?
0:12:44 > 0:12:47Um... Is that a leg bye?
0:12:47 > 0:12:48Is that your answer?
0:12:48 > 0:12:50- Yes. - HE CHUCKLES
0:12:51 > 0:12:53- DERMOT SIGHS - It's a leg bye.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55It's correct, Barry,
0:12:55 > 0:12:58and you've sneaked through. Bad luck, Tony.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00You won't be playing in the final.
0:13:00 > 0:13:01Come join your teams.
0:13:03 > 0:13:08So, as it stands, two of the Tripboaters have sunk without trace. Well, not without trace,
0:13:08 > 0:13:09good performances,
0:13:09 > 0:13:11but won't play the final. Eggheads haven't lost any.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13We move on to our third subject today,
0:13:13 > 0:13:17and this one is Film and Television, and who'd like to play?
0:13:17 > 0:13:19It's Laurie, Olive or Dave.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21I think it's me for the short straw.
0:13:21 > 0:13:22THEY CONFER
0:13:22 > 0:13:24- I thought it might be... - Film and TV.
0:13:24 > 0:13:28- ALL MURMUR - Chris?- I think so.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30- I think so...Chris, yes. - Olive against Chris.
0:13:30 > 0:13:34Olive against Chris on Film and Television.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37It's that sense of inevitability.
0:13:37 > 0:13:38- LAUGHTER - OK, then.
0:13:38 > 0:13:42To ensure no conferring, Olive and Chris into the question room.
0:13:43 > 0:13:47Best of luck, Olive. See if we can get you through to the final.
0:13:47 > 0:13:51- First or second set of questions? - I'd like to go first, please, Dermot.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55Good luck with them, Olive. Here you go.
0:13:55 > 0:13:56Which snooker player
0:13:56 > 0:14:00co-presented the TV game show Big Break with Jim Davidson?
0:14:04 > 0:14:08Um, I've never seen Dennis Taylor co-hosting anything,
0:14:08 > 0:14:12and John Parrott did Question Of Sport,
0:14:12 > 0:14:13so I'll go with John Virgo.
0:14:13 > 0:14:18John Virgo on Big Break with Jim Davidson. That is correct.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20OK, Chris...
0:14:20 > 0:14:23Dictionary Corner is a feature of which TV show?
0:14:27 > 0:14:29Yeah, well,
0:14:29 > 0:14:31I've got reasons of my own for watching this show,
0:14:31 > 0:14:34and it's Countdown.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37And, dare I ask, what are your reasons?
0:14:37 > 0:14:40I absolutely adore Carol Vorderman.
0:14:40 > 0:14:41CHUCKLING
0:14:41 > 0:14:42But she's gone!
0:14:42 > 0:14:45- Yeah.- Well, maybe she'll have a bit more time on her hands.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48Put a team together, Carol, and have a go.
0:14:48 > 0:14:51Yeah. Dictionary Corner, of course, appears on Countdown.
0:14:51 > 0:14:52It's the right answer.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54One each. Back to you, Olive.
0:14:54 > 0:14:59For which film did Carol Reed win an Academy Award for best director?
0:15:04 > 0:15:07Er...I'm not sure about Oliver!
0:15:07 > 0:15:10It's a musical, and I think that was Lionel Bart.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13The Agony And The Ecstasy -
0:15:13 > 0:15:18could be - but I think my instinct will take me to The Third Man.
0:15:18 > 0:15:19The Third Man, Carol Reed.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21Eggheads...
0:15:21 > 0:15:23ALL: Oliver!
0:15:23 > 0:15:26It's Oliver! It is Oliver!
0:15:26 > 0:15:28There we go. Means a chance for Chris to take the lead.
0:15:28 > 0:15:34Chris, what material was used to make Oscar statuettes during World War Two
0:15:34 > 0:15:36due to metal shortages?
0:15:39 > 0:15:43Well, they wouldn't have been carved from wood, I don't think.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47And I don't think they'd have been made from clay,
0:15:47 > 0:15:50unless they were fired. I think they were cast in plaster.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52Sort of gesso stuff.
0:15:52 > 0:15:56- Plaster.- Sort of what stuff?- Gesso.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59- What's that, then? - It's very fine plaster that you...
0:15:59 > 0:16:01- sort of you make surfaces good with. - OK.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04That is the correct answer. OK.
0:16:04 > 0:16:08It has given you the lead, and means you've got to get this, Olive.
0:16:08 > 0:16:10Lieutenant Starbuck,
0:16:10 > 0:16:16and Commander Adama were characters in which classic TV sci-fi series?
0:16:22 > 0:16:25I don't think it was Buck Rogers...
0:16:25 > 0:16:28Um...
0:16:28 > 0:16:30- SHE EXHALES - I didn't see a lot of Lost In Space.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33I'll go for Battlestar Galactica.
0:16:33 > 0:16:37Well done, Olive. It's the right answer.
0:16:37 > 0:16:38Battlestar Galactica.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41Still in it. Chris, you win if you get this correct,
0:16:41 > 0:16:43if not, we go to sudden death.
0:16:43 > 0:16:44Which British actor
0:16:44 > 0:16:49was nominated for an Oscar for his lead role in the 2001 film
0:16:49 > 0:16:50In The Bedroom?
0:16:54 > 0:16:57Hmm.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59Well, I know Bernard Hill and I know Bob Hoskins,
0:16:59 > 0:17:02and I can't visualise either of them in In The Bedroom.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04I don't know Tom Wilkinson,
0:17:04 > 0:17:07so as a total guess, I'll say Tom Wilkinson.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10They're all nodding, the Eggheads. It's correct.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12It's the right answer.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Chris admitting it's a guess, which means
0:17:14 > 0:17:17you're in the final, Chris. Olive, you won't be there.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19Please come and join your teams.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25So, as it stands, the challengers have lost three brains from the final round -
0:17:25 > 0:17:26the Eggheads are all there.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29Last chance to knock one out, Tripboaters. See if you can.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31The subject is Music.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34Who'd you like to play? It's got to be Laurie or Dave.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37- It's got to be me.- I think so. - Yeah, yeah.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40It's my worst subject, Dermot, but it's got to be me.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43I don't think it's Kevin or Daphne's worst subject.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46It's one of them you've got to play. Who do you want to play along?
0:17:46 > 0:17:48I'll go for Kevin, please.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51OK. Let's have Laurie and Kevin into the question room, please.
0:17:53 > 0:17:55Flying the flag for the Tripboaters,
0:17:55 > 0:17:57Laurie, first or second?
0:17:57 > 0:17:59I think I'd like to go first, Dermot, please.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04It's Music. Good luck. First question.
0:18:04 > 0:18:08What type of birds are mentioned in the popular song Over The Rainbow?
0:18:12 > 0:18:17Well, um... I'm not sure I remember lovebirds
0:18:17 > 0:18:19and there's a long of songbirds about.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21I think I'll have a stab at bluebirds.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23Is the song going through your head...?
0:18:23 > 0:18:28They'll be bluebirds over the mountains, or something?
0:18:28 > 0:18:31That'll do. It's the right answer. Well done, Laurie.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34OK, Kevin, your first question.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37Which song was a UK number two for the Mindbenders
0:18:37 > 0:18:41in 1966, and a number one hit single for Phil Collins in 1988?
0:18:48 > 0:18:49Ah, going on the...
0:18:49 > 0:18:52going on the Phil Collins there, I think he had a number one...
0:18:52 > 0:18:56It's not Sussudio. The others have got similar titles there.
0:18:56 > 0:19:00But...I think his number one was...
0:19:00 > 0:19:03You Can't Hurry Love. Yeah, You Can't Hurry Love.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05OK. You Can't Hurry Love. Eggheads?
0:19:05 > 0:19:09- ALL: A Groovy Kind Of Love. - A Groovy Kind Of Love, Kevin.
0:19:09 > 0:19:14- Sorry.- Well, A Groovy Kind Of Love we wanted to hear.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16You didn't want to hear it, Laurie - you didn't.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18So, real chance.
0:19:18 > 0:19:22Two questions away from the final round, potentially. Here you go.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25Faith and Older are albums by which singer?
0:19:29 > 0:19:35Well... I don't recall Cliff Richard having albums of that name.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37Um...
0:19:37 > 0:19:40and I don't recall Elton John.
0:19:40 > 0:19:45I'm tempted to take a stab at George Michael, please.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48That is the right answer. Well done. Yeah.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50So, two-nil.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53It ends here if Kevin gets it wrong.
0:19:53 > 0:19:54Blueberry Hill,
0:19:54 > 0:19:57and Ain't That A Shame were UK hit singles for which artist
0:19:57 > 0:19:59in the 1950s?
0:20:03 > 0:20:05That was Fats Domino.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08Fats Domino, Laurie nodding - it's correct. Yes, Fats Domino.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11So...well...
0:20:11 > 0:20:14I'm not going to say how important this question is, Laurie.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17In which city was the rock group Judas Priest formed?
0:20:20 > 0:20:25Well...um...this is...
0:20:25 > 0:20:27this is going to have to be a stab.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29Judas Priest.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33I'm gonna try Manchester, please.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36OK. Judas Priest.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38Chris, you're a bit of a...
0:20:38 > 0:20:41- bit of a rocker.- Yeah, I think they're a Manchester group.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44Could be Liverpool. Certainly not Birmingham.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46- I'd go for Manchester.- OK.
0:20:46 > 0:20:47Answer's Birmingham.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49- ALL: Oh. - Birmingham.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52Would have got the Eggheads too. Birmingham -
0:20:52 > 0:20:56which means Kevin's got a chance to take us to sudden death.
0:20:56 > 0:21:01Kevin, what was the first name of the German composer Pachelbel,
0:21:01 > 0:21:04famous for his Magnificat Fugue for Saint Sebaldus?
0:21:07 > 0:21:09He was Johann.
0:21:09 > 0:21:10Johann Pachelbel.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13Yeah, that's right.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15Oh...
0:21:15 > 0:21:19got that slippery-slidey feeling again for you, Tripboaters.
0:21:19 > 0:21:24We are now in sudden death, as you know, Laurie. Here's your question.
0:21:24 > 0:21:29What name is popularly given to Haydn's Symphony Number 45 in F-sharp minor,
0:21:29 > 0:21:32in which, during the final adagio, each musician in turn
0:21:32 > 0:21:37stops playing, snuffs out a candle and leaves, until there are just two violins left?
0:21:37 > 0:21:40HE SIGHS
0:21:40 > 0:21:44Sounds a bit of a fire hazard,
0:21:44 > 0:21:48but I would have to guess totally at...um...Goodnight.
0:21:48 > 0:21:52It's a good idea, but it's not the right answer. No, but a good guess.
0:21:52 > 0:21:54Kevin?
0:21:54 > 0:21:57- Farewell.- Farewell Symphony. Farewell -
0:21:57 > 0:21:59which we might be saying to Laurie,
0:21:59 > 0:22:01if you get this right.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03Kevin. John Cale,
0:22:03 > 0:22:08and Sterling Morrison were members of which influential band
0:22:08 > 0:22:11- of the 1960s and '70s?- I'm not too familiar with Sterling Morrison.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14I hope I've got the right John Cale here, if there's more than one.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16But I'll say Velvet Underground.
0:22:18 > 0:22:22It's the right answer. The Velvet Underground. John Cale,
0:22:22 > 0:22:24and Sterling Morrison is correct, Kevin.
0:22:24 > 0:22:28Ah, you've done it again, you Eggheads. Confound you!
0:22:28 > 0:22:31I say that on Laurie's behalf. He's polite.
0:22:31 > 0:22:34Means you won't be playing in the final round, Laurie.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36Please come back and join your teams.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38This is what we've been playing for.
0:22:38 > 0:22:42It's time for the final round, which, as always, is general knowledge.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44Those of you who lost your head-to-head
0:22:44 > 0:22:46won't be allowed to take part.
0:22:46 > 0:22:47So Laurie, Olive, Hazel,
0:22:47 > 0:22:49and Tony from the Tripboaters,
0:22:49 > 0:22:51would you leave the studio now, please?
0:22:53 > 0:22:57So, Dave, that leaves you playing to win the Tripboaters £2,000.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59Kevin, CJ, Daphne, Chris, Barry -
0:22:59 > 0:23:01you're playing for something money can't buy -
0:23:01 > 0:23:03the Eggheads' reputation.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06As usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.
0:23:06 > 0:23:10This time the questions are all general knowledge,
0:23:10 > 0:23:12and you are allowed to confer.
0:23:12 > 0:23:16Dave, the question is, is your one brain better than the Eggheads' five?
0:23:16 > 0:23:19Dave, would you like to go first or second?
0:23:19 > 0:23:22Well, we nearly got it on going first three times,
0:23:22 > 0:23:25so I'll stick with it, and I'll go first. We'll go first.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28So, I like the way you say,
0:23:28 > 0:23:31"We'll go first," cos you're still playing as a team -
0:23:31 > 0:23:33I know the guys behind you are rooting for you,
0:23:33 > 0:23:36unable to help though, stranded in the question room.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38Let's see if you can do it. Best of luck.
0:23:38 > 0:23:42You decided to go first, and here's your first question, Dave.
0:23:42 > 0:23:47The Leaning Tower Of Pisa was designed primarily as what?
0:23:51 > 0:23:53I'm not sure about a lighthouse...
0:23:53 > 0:23:55and I don't think an observation platform.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57I've got a feeling it was a bell tower.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00So I'll go for bell tower.
0:24:00 > 0:24:01Bell tower.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04Yeah, bit far from the sea, really, weren't it,
0:24:04 > 0:24:06- for the lighthouse?- Yeah.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09Bell tower is absolutely right. Good start, Dave.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13Right, Eggheads.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16What does the comic book character
0:24:16 > 0:24:20Billy Batson have to say to turn into the superhero Captain Marvel?
0:24:23 > 0:24:26What does the comic book character Billy Batson have to say
0:24:26 > 0:24:28to turn into the superhero Captain Marvel?
0:24:28 > 0:24:30Shazam.
0:24:30 > 0:24:31It's not working!
0:24:31 > 0:24:33LAUGHTER
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Shazam is right - Billy Batson had to say that
0:24:35 > 0:24:37and he'd turn into Captain Marvel.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40So, all square. Dave, second question.
0:24:40 > 0:24:45In which year did Cuba gain its independence from Spain?
0:24:51 > 0:24:53This will have to be an absolute guess.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56I think 1698 sounds a bit early...
0:24:58 > 0:25:02..but as for 1798 or 1898...
0:25:02 > 0:25:09- I'm going to have to make a guess on this and I'll say 1798.- OK. 1798.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12You think 1698 is too early.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14So is 1798.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17It is 1898.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19OK then, Eggheads,
0:25:19 > 0:25:22chance for the lead, second question for you.
0:25:22 > 0:25:23Buckwheat,
0:25:23 > 0:25:26used to make pancakes and blini, is not a type of wheat,
0:25:26 > 0:25:30but a plant belonging to the same family as which other foodstuff?
0:25:34 > 0:25:37THEY MUTTER UNCERTAINLY
0:25:37 > 0:25:39Good question, eh?
0:25:39 > 0:25:42- My instinct would have been rhubarb, but...- Dunno.
0:25:42 > 0:25:44- No idea? - I thought it was a type of rusk,
0:25:44 > 0:25:47- but my instinct would be rhubarb... - Yeah.- Mmm.
0:25:47 > 0:25:51- Really don't know for sure.- Dave, they're relying on instinct here.
0:25:51 > 0:25:55- Are we agreed it's not orange?- Yeah, it comes from a tree.- And garlic...
0:25:55 > 0:25:59- Garlic is lilies.- Lilies. - Yeah.- So...
0:25:59 > 0:26:00Answer, Eggheads?
0:26:00 > 0:26:04- Well, good question. - Good question, yes.
0:26:04 > 0:26:05We're hoping it's rhubarb.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07- You're hoping?- Yes.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10Dave, do you feel like you'd have done well with this?
0:26:10 > 0:26:11I wish I'd gone second.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13I think it's rhubarb.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16- It is rhubarb.- Oh! - It's correct.- Phew.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18It is rhubarb. OK. Well...
0:26:18 > 0:26:21it's the way the questions have fallen,
0:26:21 > 0:26:23but the Eggheads would have been OK with Cuba, I suspect,
0:26:23 > 0:26:27in terms of what might have been. Let's concentrate on the present -
0:26:27 > 0:26:29Dave, you've got to get this.
0:26:29 > 0:26:33Which prize is awarded at the French Open tennis tournament
0:26:33 > 0:26:35to the player with the strongest personality?
0:26:42 > 0:26:44- HE CHUCKLES - I've never heard of this.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Well...
0:26:46 > 0:26:48there clearly is one. Strongest personality...
0:26:48 > 0:26:52The lemon prize, the sausage prize, or the onion prize.
0:26:53 > 0:26:54Well...
0:26:55 > 0:26:57HE LAUGHS
0:26:57 > 0:27:01I suppose, looking at those, the...
0:27:01 > 0:27:04the onion has the strongest personality in some respects,
0:27:04 > 0:27:07- so I'll go for Prix Oignon.- Oignon.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10OK. Tennis correspondent,
0:27:10 > 0:27:14CJ, have you heard of the Strongest Personality Award
0:27:14 > 0:27:17- at the French Open?- I've never heard of the Prix Saucisson.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20I've heard of a Prix Citron... For French Open,
0:27:20 > 0:27:22- the one I'd go for is Prix Oignon.- OK.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25Well, that's interesting. It's not.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27It is the Prix Citron.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29It's rather strong and astringent, I suppose.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32The Prix Citron, awarded to the player
0:27:32 > 0:27:35with the strongest personality in the French Open.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37Maybe we should have a Prix Citron here.
0:27:37 > 0:27:41We've had plenty of strong personalities here over the years.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44It does mean you have failed to defeat the Eggheads.
0:27:44 > 0:27:45Eggheads, you've won!
0:27:51 > 0:27:55Well done. Playing on your own is never, never easy,
0:27:55 > 0:27:57but you were very unlucky
0:27:57 > 0:28:01not to be accompanied by many of the gallant players sitting behind you,
0:28:01 > 0:28:03some of those head-to-heads slipped away from them.
0:28:03 > 0:28:07It wasn't to be. Thank you very much for playing Eggheads today,
0:28:07 > 0:28:10Tripboaters, and best of luck to you in the future.
0:28:10 > 0:28:15The Eggheads have done what comes naturally. They still reign supreme over quiz land.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £2,000,
0:28:18 > 0:28:21which means the money rolls over to the next show. Eggheads,
0:28:21 > 0:28:24congratulations. Who will beat you?
0:28:24 > 0:28:27Join us next time to see if the new challengers can defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30£3,000 says they don't.
0:28:30 > 0:28:32Until then, goodbye.
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