0:00:04 > 0:00:08These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:10 > 0:00:15Together, they make up the Eggheads, arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:27Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz Challengers
0:00:27 > 0:00:30attempt to beat possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:35Their quiz pedigree is very well-known, as they've won some of the country's toughest quiz shows.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39They are the Eggheads. And tackling the Eggheads today
0:00:39 > 0:00:41are the Crotchety Ladies from Kent.
0:00:41 > 0:00:45Now, this team all sing in the Rainham Ladies Choir,
0:00:45 > 0:00:47which has been active for 50 years.
0:00:47 > 0:00:53They put on large performances each year for charity, and have so far raised £50,000. Let's meet them.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55Hello. I'm Pam.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58I'm 62 and I'm a part-time lecturer.
0:00:58 > 0:01:05Hi. I'm Sheila. I'm 72 and I'm a youth football administrator.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09Hi. I'm Angela. I'm 60 and I'm a retired bank official.
0:01:09 > 0:01:10Hi. I'm Wendy.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13I'm 55 and a civil servant.
0:01:13 > 0:01:14Hi. I'm Brenda.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16I'm 57 and I'm a secretary.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19- Pam and the ladies.- Hello.
0:01:19 > 0:01:20Welcome.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22- Thank you. - And tell us about the choir -
0:01:22 > 0:01:25where and how and who you sing for.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27We meet together in Rainham.
0:01:27 > 0:01:31And we've got about 30 to 40 members.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34And we've been going for about 50 years.
0:01:34 > 0:01:38Sheila is probably one of our oldest members, having been there for over 40 years.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41And I'm the newest member. I've been there for two years.
0:01:41 > 0:01:47And we sing at lots of different festivals and concerts.
0:01:47 > 0:01:52The group have sung once at the Albert Hall and we're going to sing again at the Albert Hall this year.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55I gather you've got something special for us?
0:01:55 > 0:01:57Yes.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00Go ahead.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04# Come on, babe, why don't we paint the town?
0:02:05 > 0:02:07# And all that jazz
0:02:07 > 0:02:11# I'm going to rouge my knees and roll my stockings down
0:02:13 > 0:02:15# And all that jazz
0:02:15 > 0:02:18# Start the car I know a whoopie spot
0:02:18 > 0:02:22# Where the ice is cold but the piano's hot
0:02:22 > 0:02:25# It's just a noisy hall where there's a nightly brawl
0:02:25 > 0:02:28# And all
0:02:28 > 0:02:29# That
0:02:29 > 0:02:32# Jazz. #
0:02:32 > 0:02:33Great.
0:02:34 > 0:02:39You're not Crotchety Ladies at all, are you? That was fantastic.
0:02:39 > 0:02:40Good luck in the game today.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42- Thank you.- The contest, I should say.
0:02:42 > 0:02:46Every day, there's a £1,000 of cash up for grabs for our Challengers.
0:02:46 > 0:02:50However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:02:50 > 0:02:54So, Crotchety Ladies, the Eggheads have won just the last game,
0:02:54 > 0:02:57which means £2,000 says you can't beat them.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00First head-to-head battle is on the subject of Arts & Books.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02I'm thinking you'll like this.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05- Well, yes.- Who wants to take it?
0:03:05 > 0:03:07It's either Wendy or me.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10Wendy, d'you fancy it?
0:03:10 > 0:03:12- I'll give it a go.- Yes? OK.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14Wendy against which Egghead?
0:03:14 > 0:03:17I think Chris would be a good option.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21- OK, go for it. - Wendy against Chris then, please.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23Hallelujah!
0:03:23 > 0:03:25You're not Sport.
0:03:25 > 0:03:31So, Wendy from the Crotchety Ladies relieving Chris of the worry about having to do Sport
0:03:31 > 0:03:36after three slightly tragic ones in a row. Please go to the Question Room.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41I will ask each of you three questions on Arts & Books in turn.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44Whoever answers the most correctly is the winner.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46It's that simple. Wendy, your choice.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49Would you like the first or second set of questions?
0:03:49 > 0:03:50I think I'll go second, please.
0:03:52 > 0:03:56Here we go, Chris. Which fictional character in American literature
0:03:56 > 0:03:59lives with his Aunt Polly, and has a sweetheart called Becky Thatcher?
0:04:04 > 0:04:09It's...well, it's not Nattie Bumppo, because he's a sort of frontiersman,
0:04:09 > 0:04:10Last Of The Mohicans.
0:04:10 > 0:04:14That's actually the real name of Hawkeye, now I come to think of it.
0:04:14 > 0:04:18But the person who had a girlfriend called Becky whatever her name is,
0:04:18 > 0:04:19was Tom Sawyer.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Tom Sawyer is right. Yes.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23Wendy, your question.
0:04:23 > 0:04:30In which decade of the 20th century was the Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 first published?
0:04:36 > 0:04:38Right.
0:04:38 > 0:04:42When I first applied to be a civil servant, that was in the '70s.
0:04:42 > 0:04:48And I remember them asking me about the fact that Adrian Mole
0:04:48 > 0:04:53had been set as a book in exams recently.
0:04:53 > 0:04:54So I think it's the '70s.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59How strange. Because the answer is the '80s.
0:04:59 > 0:05:01Oh!
0:05:01 > 0:05:03So you must have had a false memory, there.
0:05:03 > 0:05:07- Must have been. Must have been. - Or was it Molesworth or something?
0:05:07 > 0:05:09- I don't know what it was. - Molesworth, who was that?
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Do you remember that?
0:05:11 > 0:05:13- Ronald Searle, yeah.- Yes.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15- Down With Skool.- Down With Skool!
0:05:15 > 0:05:19The Curse Of St Custard's, Revolt Of The Prunes etc.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21- Maybe that's who it was.- Maybe.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24Chris, your question. Which artist had a son called Titus,
0:05:24 > 0:05:28born in 1641, who was the subject of many portraits?
0:05:31 > 0:05:34Ah. Now, he's come up before, hasn't he?
0:05:34 > 0:05:37He had a son called Titus and he was Rembrandt.
0:05:37 > 0:05:41Rembrandt is the right answer, Chris.
0:05:41 > 0:05:45Wendy, Feste is the name of the clown
0:05:45 > 0:05:48in which of Shakespeare's plays?
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Spelt F-E-S-T-E.
0:05:54 > 0:05:55Feste?
0:05:58 > 0:06:02None of those Shakespeare plays are ones that I know particularly well.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08Does King Lear have a clown?
0:06:08 > 0:06:10It's one of the tragedies.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13I'll eliminate that one.
0:06:15 > 0:06:19I have an idea that As You Like It is not set in England,
0:06:19 > 0:06:22it sounds like a foreign name.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24I'll go for As You Like It.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26It's not As You Like It.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29- Twelfth Night.- Goodness.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32King Lear has a fool, doesn't he?
0:06:32 > 0:06:33Yes.
0:06:33 > 0:06:37- Not a clown.- The clown in As You Like It is Touchstone.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39There we are. We've got the complete set.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41So, sorry, it was Twelfth Night.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44And that means no way back for you in this round.
0:06:44 > 0:06:48Chris has won through. He will be in the final. And, Wendy, you won't.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51Please, both of you, rejoin us here in the studio.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56So, the Challengers have lost one brain from the final round.
0:06:56 > 0:07:01The Eggheads have lost no brains yet. Next subject is Politics.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04Looks like me, doesn't it?
0:07:04 > 0:07:07- You've got the short straw, Pam. - You're political? OK.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10- OK. Right.- Anyone but Chris.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13- I think Judith, actually.- Yes, maybe.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18- OK. Yes, Politics it is.- OK.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21Pam from the Crotchety Ladies versus Judith from the Eggheads.
0:07:21 > 0:07:22Please go to the Question Rooms.
0:07:24 > 0:07:28Pam, I think you'd have liked that last question on Shakespeare?
0:07:28 > 0:07:29Oh, yes.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31- Because you teach it?- I do. I do.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33Who do you teach it to?
0:07:33 > 0:07:35To students at the Open University.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38- So you're on Politics now?- Yes.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40- Not quite as strong, I sense. - Mmm-hmm.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42Three questions, multiple choice.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45- You can choose the first or second set, Pam.- I'll go first.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50Here we go, good luck.
0:07:50 > 0:07:54What term is often used for the Vice President of the United States?
0:07:58 > 0:08:01Gosh.
0:08:01 > 0:08:06Well, I actually don't know this at all.
0:08:06 > 0:08:10Half-Pres doesn't sound right.
0:08:10 > 0:08:16Veep, I can't even imagine what that might mean at all.
0:08:16 > 0:08:21Standby-Joe, for some reason, makes some sort of sense. So, I think,
0:08:21 > 0:08:28I think that I'm going to stick with Standby-Joe. Go with that one.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31OK. That's the wrong answer.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34The reason it's Veep,
0:08:34 > 0:08:39- is because it's what happens when you just go "VP".- Ah.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42So, the answer is Veep.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45I know you've realised that now.
0:08:45 > 0:08:49Judith, to you. The former Liberal Democrat MP whose given names were
0:08:49 > 0:08:55Jeremy John Durham, was always known by what other first name?
0:08:58 > 0:09:02Oh yes. It's Paddy Ashdown, isn't it?
0:09:02 > 0:09:05So, it's Paddy Ashdown. Paddy.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Paddy is right, well done.
0:09:07 > 0:09:12Pam. The Matrix-Churchill affair, which broke in November 1992,
0:09:12 > 0:09:15arose from the prosecution of three businessmen
0:09:15 > 0:09:18for illegal arms trading with which country?
0:09:22 > 0:09:26If it was 1992, I don't think it would be Cuba.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31I'm thinking as well it's possibly not North Korea.
0:09:31 > 0:09:35So I think I'm going to choose Iraq.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37Iraq is right.
0:09:37 > 0:09:38Well done.
0:09:40 > 0:09:45Judith. From 1985 to 1995,
0:09:45 > 0:09:49Jacques Delors was President of what?
0:09:53 > 0:09:56He was President of the European Commission.
0:09:56 > 0:09:57He was indeed.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00The European Commission is right.
0:10:00 > 0:10:02So, you really need this one now, Pam.
0:10:02 > 0:10:06Because you got the first one wrong.
0:10:06 > 0:10:07Your question.
0:10:07 > 0:10:11The political figure Boris Johnson was born in which city?
0:10:17 > 0:10:23Well, I know he has origins I think,
0:10:23 > 0:10:25certainly not English.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30So I don't think it's New York.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34I'm actually thinking Munich.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37But I keep wanting to go back to Istanbul as well.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42No, I think I'm going to stick with Munich.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46It wasn't Munich. It was New York.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49Difficult to guess that one, with no background knowledge.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51I must say, I didn't know that.
0:10:51 > 0:10:55So, sorry, Pam. Judith, your spirits are...
0:10:55 > 0:10:58- ..soaring.- Yet again soaring.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00Again! You've had some good rounds lately.
0:11:00 > 0:11:03Judith, you'll be in the final.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06Pam, you were beaten by our Egghead, so you won't be. Please, come back to us.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11The plot thickens. Pam and Wendy have gone.
0:11:11 > 0:11:14The Challengers have lost those two brains from the final round.
0:11:14 > 0:11:19The Eggheads are still intact. The next subject is Sport.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22Who from the Challengers wants to play on this?
0:11:22 > 0:11:25You had better go Sport then, Sheila.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27I got the short straw.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29- Sheila, please.- Sheila against who?
0:11:29 > 0:11:32We don't want Daphne, Daphne is good at sport.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35Yes. I think they all are.
0:11:35 > 0:11:39- Do we know what Barry's like on sport?- He's good at everything. - Yes, he is rather.
0:11:39 > 0:11:41- We'll have Barry.- Barry, I think.
0:11:41 > 0:11:47Sheila from the Crotchety Ladies versus Barry from the Eggheads on Sport. Please, leave us now.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53Sheila, I understand you're a youth football administrator?
0:11:53 > 0:11:56- Yes.- So, you're busy with that?
0:11:56 > 0:11:58I guess... Are you spotting the young stars?
0:11:58 > 0:12:01It's not my job to spot the young stars.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03I just do the administration and computer work.
0:12:03 > 0:12:08I was imagining you with binoculars there, trying to see the next David Beckham. Good luck in this round.
0:12:08 > 0:12:12Three questions on Sport. So now we know your sporting background.
0:12:12 > 0:12:16- And, Sheila, you can choose the first or second set. - I'll go first, please.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22Here we go, good luck. The first Summer Olympic Games
0:12:22 > 0:12:25in the southern hemisphere were staged in which city, Sheila?
0:12:31 > 0:12:33Summer Games.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36In the southern hemisphere.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40I would think Melbourne.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43Melbourne...
0:12:43 > 0:12:44is correct.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50Barry, is your T-shirt a sign
0:12:50 > 0:12:54of a desperate bid to join Rainham Ladies Choir?
0:12:54 > 0:12:58- I'd love to join a choir. I love singing.- Would you take him?
0:12:58 > 0:13:00There's a problem, there, isn't there?
0:13:00 > 0:13:03We don't have many men, to be honest, in a Ladies' Choir.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06He'd cause trouble, I think.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08Here's your question.
0:13:08 > 0:13:14Who was the first English cricketer to do the double of 100 wickets and 1,000 runs in a season?
0:13:18 > 0:13:21Oh, gosh. Well, it certainly would be before Ian Botham.
0:13:21 > 0:13:26I don't think Jack Hobbs was a bowler, so I shall say WG Grace.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28WG Grace is your answer.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31And it's correct.
0:13:31 > 0:13:38Sheila. A reported 199,854 spectators,
0:13:38 > 0:13:44the largest-ever attendance at a football match, was for a game in 1950 between which two teams?
0:13:51 > 0:13:54I'll say Uruguay and Brazil.
0:13:54 > 0:13:55How did you get to that?
0:13:55 > 0:14:00Well, I don't think the others have such a large capacity.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02You're absolutely right, Sheila. Well done.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07Barry. On the back foot!
0:14:09 > 0:14:13In which sport is a team's main attacking player known as a hole set or a two-metre man?
0:14:18 > 0:14:20Well, water polo comes to mind.
0:14:20 > 0:14:25Because the pool is shallow by the goals and deeper further out.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27And a two-metre man sounds to be about the depth of the pool.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30So, I'll go for water polo.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32Water polo is quite right.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34Well done.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36Over to you, Sheila.
0:14:36 > 0:14:42Which jockey won the Grand National in 1992 and 1998?
0:14:48 > 0:14:50I really don't know this.
0:14:52 > 0:14:55I don't know an awful lot about horse racing.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58I'm going to say Jimmy Frost.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00It's wrong I'm afraid.
0:15:00 > 0:15:04Carl Llewellyn is the answer we were looking for.
0:15:05 > 0:15:06Barry.
0:15:06 > 0:15:12Rugby Union's governing body, the International Rugby Board, has its headquarters in which city?
0:15:15 > 0:15:18Rugby union?
0:15:18 > 0:15:20I don't know this.
0:15:22 > 0:15:26But, the All Blacks are such a famous rugby union side,
0:15:26 > 0:15:29that I think maybe they've got the headquarters in New Zealand.
0:15:29 > 0:15:30So I shall plump for Wellington.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32Actually, it's Dublin.
0:15:32 > 0:15:34Dublin is the answer.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37So, Sheila, you're back in it.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39We've had multiple-choice questions.
0:15:39 > 0:15:40We go to Sudden Death now.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42Not as painful as it sounds!
0:15:42 > 0:15:48But if you get one wrong and he gets one right, you'll be out of the final round. Not multiple-choice.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51The identical twins, Diane and Rosalind Rowe,
0:15:51 > 0:15:56were world doubles champions in 1951 and 1954 in which sport?
0:15:56 > 0:15:57Table tennis.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59Brilliant.
0:16:02 > 0:16:03Hey, fantastic.
0:16:03 > 0:16:07What was special about them, out of interest, do you know?
0:16:07 > 0:16:12- They were twins(!)- As well as that. One was left-handed...
0:16:12 > 0:16:14- ..one was right handed. - That's right.
0:16:14 > 0:16:18So, they had either the whole table covered or none of it.
0:16:18 > 0:16:22Barry. If you don't get this right, they'll be cheering.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24And I will probably join in!
0:16:24 > 0:16:26But I might be able to join the choir.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29That's true. Good thinking.
0:16:29 > 0:16:35Which boxer, who later beat Marcel Cerdan to become the world middleweight champion,
0:16:35 > 0:16:39was the first man to inflict defeat on Sugar Ray Robinson?
0:16:39 > 0:16:45Oh, gosh. The only thing I know about Marcel Cerdan was that he had a famous affair with Edith Piaf.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48But who beat him?
0:16:48 > 0:16:51The first man to defeat Sugar Ray Robinson.
0:16:51 > 0:16:54We're talking the '50s now.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01Sugar Ray Robinson. I think he was a welterweight.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04Would it have been somebody like Brian,
0:17:04 > 0:17:08like Randolph Turpin, maybe?
0:17:10 > 0:17:13I'll try Randolph Turpin.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15Randolph Turpin
0:17:15 > 0:17:20is the wrong answer. It was Jake LaMotta. Well done, Sheila.
0:17:21 > 0:17:26- We might even let him join the choir.- You'll be in the choir.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29Sheila, take a bow. Well done.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31You'll be in the final round.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33Barry, you won't. Do, both of you, come back to us.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38Things are turning around, thanks to Sheila.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41The Challengers have lost two brains The Eggheads have lost one.
0:17:41 > 0:17:45The last subject is Film & Television.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47- That's mine, I think.- Brenda.
0:17:49 > 0:17:54- Against which Egghead? - Well, as Daphne is my favourite, I'll have Daphne, please.
0:17:54 > 0:17:58Brenda from the Crotchety Ladies versus Daphne from the Eggheads.
0:17:58 > 0:18:02To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions in the Question Room now.
0:18:04 > 0:18:06Is the choir a big part of your life?
0:18:06 > 0:18:10Yes. I've been a member for 22 years. And I'm the Social Secretary.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13I do a lot of organising and running around but I love it.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16All right, Brenda. Good luck in this round.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19Three questions on Film & Television in turn.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21And would you like the first or second set of questions?
0:18:21 > 0:18:23I'll have the first set, please.
0:18:26 > 0:18:31Here we go. The final round of which TV game show, first broadcast in 1971, featured the contestants
0:18:31 > 0:18:35remembering prizes that passed by them on a conveyor belt?
0:18:40 > 0:18:43I know it's not Mr and Mrs.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45And I don't think it's Family Fortunes.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47I think it's The Generation Game.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49It is The Generation Game.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52Well done.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54With Bruce, wasn't it, really?
0:18:54 > 0:18:56Yes. There were others, too. But mainly him.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58Larry Grayson had a go at it.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01- Jim Davidson.- Jim Davidson.
0:19:01 > 0:19:02Daphne, your question.
0:19:02 > 0:19:07A Day At The Races, and A Night At The Opera, were films starring which comedy act?
0:19:14 > 0:19:18They were films from the Marx Brothers.
0:19:18 > 0:19:22The Marx Brothers is absolutely right, Daphne, well done.
0:19:24 > 0:19:31Brenda. In which 1985 film, directed by Sidney Pollack, did Robert Redford play Denys Finch Hatton?
0:19:38 > 0:19:42He definitely wasn't in A Bridge Too Far.
0:19:42 > 0:19:46I've not seen Legal Eagles, but he was definitely in Out Of Africa,
0:19:46 > 0:19:48so I'll go for Out Of Africa.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50Out Of Africa is correct.
0:19:53 > 0:19:57The great Sydney Pollack. Daphne, your question.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00In the 1980s TV comedy series The Young Ones,
0:20:00 > 0:20:02what is the name of the character played by Christopher Ryan?
0:20:05 > 0:20:07I never saw it.
0:20:11 > 0:20:15I think he might be called Mike.
0:20:17 > 0:20:18Mike it is.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21Brenda, if you get this right,
0:20:21 > 0:20:26you're within a few inches of the final round.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28Which of his former Not The Nine O'Clock News colleagues
0:20:28 > 0:20:32directed Rowan Atkinson in the 1997 film Bean?
0:20:39 > 0:20:42I don't really know this one.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45I don't think it's Pamela Stephenson.
0:20:47 > 0:20:51I'm drawn towards Mel Smith, but I don't know if it's right.
0:20:51 > 0:20:55You are being correctly drawn.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Mel Smith is right.
0:20:57 > 0:21:02So, you're in the lead and just this crunch question now for Daphne.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06Who played Jerry Lee Lewis in the 1989 film Great Balls Of Fire?
0:21:12 > 0:21:16I, um...
0:21:16 > 0:21:24That little light bulb has gone off, and I think it's Dennis Quaid.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28Dennis Quaid is the...
0:21:28 > 0:21:31rrrrr-rrrrright answer.
0:21:31 > 0:21:32You rotten thing!
0:21:36 > 0:21:40So, you're level after multiple choice.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43It goes to Sudden Death. You can't escape, Daphne, I'm afraid.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45The studio doors are locked.
0:21:45 > 0:21:49And that means, I won't give you alternatives, you have to give me the answer.
0:21:49 > 0:21:56OK, Brenda? George Costanza and Elaine Benes are characters in which long-running US sitcom?
0:21:58 > 0:22:01I don't know many US sitcoms.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05The only one I can think of is Cheers.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07I'll go for Cheers.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10- Daphne, not Cheers, what is it? - I think it's Seinfeld.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12It is Seinfeld.
0:22:12 > 0:22:16Is George the really tall, crazy one with the sideburns?
0:22:16 > 0:22:19- A bit like Chris! - That was Kramer, wasn't it?
0:22:19 > 0:22:23That was Kramer, yes. Is George the short, bald, worried one?
0:22:23 > 0:22:26- We don't know. - I think he is actually, yes.
0:22:26 > 0:22:29- We're not sure.- It's so long since I've seen Seinfeld.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31Brenda, sorry, Cheers is wrong.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33Seinfeld is the answer.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35So, Daphne, you have a chance now.
0:22:35 > 0:22:40Who played the role of Bob Ferris in the TV sitcom The Likely Lads?
0:22:40 > 0:22:43Oh, gosh, which one was he?
0:22:45 > 0:22:48Right. James Bolam.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52- No.- The other one? The other one.
0:22:52 > 0:22:56- Who was?- Rodney Bewes.- Rodney Bewes.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58Still alive, Brenda, well done.
0:22:58 > 0:23:03Which Neil Simon stage play was turned into an Oscar-nominated 1968
0:23:03 > 0:23:07comedy film starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau?
0:23:08 > 0:23:11There's a couple of films they've been in together.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18I've got three whizzing round my head and I can't choose which one.
0:23:19 > 0:23:23Grumpy Old Men, I'm going to go for.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27- The Odd Couple is the answer - That's it.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29- Sorry.- That's OK.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32Over to you, Daphne, you can take the round with this.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35Who played the role of Beverley
0:23:35 > 0:23:41in the 1977 TV play Abigail's Party?
0:23:41 > 0:23:42Um.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44Alison Steadman?
0:23:44 > 0:23:47Alison Steadman in a brilliant performance.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49You're absolutely right, Daphne.
0:23:49 > 0:23:53Your round. Close though, well done, Brenda.
0:23:53 > 0:23:58You were beaten by our Egghead, though, so you won't be in the final round. And Daphne will.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00Please, both of you, come back to us.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03So, this is what we've been playing towards.
0:24:03 > 0:24:07It's time for our final round which, as always, is General Knowledge.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09Those of you who lost your head-to-heads
0:24:09 > 0:24:14won't be allowed to take part in this round. So Pam, Wendy and Brenda
0:24:14 > 0:24:19from the Crotchety Ladies, and Barry from the Eggheads, would you please leave the studio.
0:24:21 > 0:24:25So, the two of you are playing to win the Crotchety Ladies £2,000.
0:24:25 > 0:24:30Daphne, Chris, Judith and Kevin, you're playing for something that money can't buy -
0:24:30 > 0:24:34the Eggheads' reputation. As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:24:34 > 0:24:38This time the questions are all General Knowledge. You are allowed to confer.
0:24:38 > 0:24:44So, Crotchety Ladies, the question is, are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?
0:24:44 > 0:24:48And would you like the first or second set of questions?
0:24:48 > 0:24:51- I think first, do you? - Yes.- We'll go first, please.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57Sheila, Angela. Best of luck to you.
0:24:57 > 0:25:01In the catering industry, what colour plaster is traditionally used
0:25:01 > 0:25:05to dress any cuts or other skin injuries suffered in the kitchen?
0:25:07 > 0:25:10I know it's a bright colour, so that they can see it.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12It's got to be a bright colour.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15If it was skin-coloured or white they may not see it.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Yes. What do you think? Red?
0:25:17 > 0:25:20- Red would show up, wouldn't it? - Yes, go for red?
0:25:20 > 0:25:21You happy with that?
0:25:21 > 0:25:24- Yep.- I'll say red.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27It's blue.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30Sorry. Eggheads.
0:25:30 > 0:25:35There aren't that many blue foods. If it comes off in the salad, you can see it.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37My reasoning was right, but the answer wrong.
0:25:37 > 0:25:42Eggheads, the French phrase "rien ne va plus"
0:25:42 > 0:25:46is traditionally called out on frequent occasions during which game?
0:25:49 > 0:25:52- Roulette.- It's roulette.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54What does it mean?
0:25:54 > 0:25:56No more, basically.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58Don't throw any more balls on.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00No more bets.
0:26:00 > 0:26:03Roulette is correct.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06Well done, Eggheads. OK, Crotchety Ladies.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08The fight back starts now.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10In the Chinese calendar,
0:26:10 > 0:26:16January 26th 2009 was the beginning of a year named after which animal?
0:26:20 > 0:26:22- I do know this one.- Yes, I do, too.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25- It's the ox. - Yes. We're both agreed. It's the ox.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28- How are you so sure about that? - Heard it on the radio.
0:26:28 > 0:26:32OK. And you're living in the Chinese year in some strange way?
0:26:32 > 0:26:37- No.- You were just so certain, it was amazing. Ox is correct.
0:26:37 > 0:26:41Now we need them to get one wrong.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44Eggheads, which machine gun, designed in the 1930s, has a name
0:26:44 > 0:26:48inspired by both a Czechoslovakian city and a suburb of London?
0:26:52 > 0:26:54That's the Bren gun.
0:26:54 > 0:26:58It's Brno, which is the, well, Moravia, Czech Republic.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01And Enfield. So it's Bren.
0:27:01 > 0:27:06Bren is correct. Brno is the city, is it? Where it was designed?
0:27:06 > 0:27:09And Enfield where it was manufactured?
0:27:09 > 0:27:11The Bren gun is right.
0:27:13 > 0:27:17Now, you need to get this one right because otherwise they'll have won.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19We're rooting for you.
0:27:19 > 0:27:25In which year was the first commercial oilfield discovered in Saudi Arabia?
0:27:32 > 0:27:34Have you got any ideas?
0:27:34 > 0:27:35No, I haven't. Saudi Arabia.
0:27:39 > 0:27:43I wouldn't have thought it was as early as 1838, would you?
0:27:44 > 0:27:46No. Shall we go for the middle one?
0:27:49 > 0:27:51- No hunches at all?- No.- No, nor me.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54- We'll go for the middle one, then, shall we?- 1888.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56Yes, 1888, please.
0:27:56 > 0:28:00It wasn't. It was 1938.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03So, even later than you thought.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05And that means that there's no way back in this round.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07Commiserations, Challengers.
0:28:07 > 0:28:09The Eggheads have won.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16They have done what comes naturally to them.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19They still reign supreme over quizland.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £2,000.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24- It's been lovely having you. - Thank you.
0:28:24 > 0:28:25We don't get many teams who sing to us!
0:28:25 > 0:28:28Well, congratulations to the Eggheads.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31Who will beat you, I wonder?
0:28:31 > 0:28:35Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37£3,000 says they don't.
0:28:37 > 0:28:39Till then, goodbye.
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