0:00:04 > 0:00:07These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:10 > 0:00:12Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:12 > 0:00:15arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19The question is - can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:27Welcome 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 > 0:00:32Their quiz pedigree is well-known
0:00:32 > 0:00:36as they've won some of the country's toughest quiz shows. They are the Eggheads.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39And taking on the awesome might of the Eggheads today
0:00:39 > 0:00:42are the Irregulars. This team all know each other
0:00:42 > 0:00:46through the Sherlock Holmes Society of London
0:00:46 > 0:00:50and take their name from the gang of young street urchins who helped Holmes
0:00:50 > 0:00:52solve many of his cases. Let's meet them.
0:00:52 > 0:00:57Hello. I'm Roger, I'm 61, and I'm a retired librarian.
0:00:57 > 0:01:02Hello. I'm Guy, I'm also 61, and I'm a retired solicitor.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05Hello. I'm Catherine, I'm 52, and I'm a librarian.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09Hello. I'm Nick, I'm 57, and I'm a freelance journalist.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12Hello. I'm Antony, I'm 46.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14I'm a crystallographer and publisher.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18- Welcome, Irregulars.- ALL: Thank you. - Good to have you with us.
0:01:18 > 0:01:22- Sherlock Holmes is the connection here?- Absolutely. - And a love of those stories?
0:01:22 > 0:01:26The stories...and general friendship.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29Which story were the street urchins most significant in?
0:01:29 > 0:01:33They first come up in the very first story, which is A Study In Scarlet,
0:01:33 > 0:01:35where they help track down a murderer.
0:01:35 > 0:01:40And then in the next one, which is called The Sign Of Four - and I think that's the one
0:01:40 > 0:01:44in which the phrase "the Baker Street irregulars" is first used -
0:01:44 > 0:01:46again, they help track down a murderer,
0:01:46 > 0:01:50- and then there is mention of them later on in the series.- Great.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53A great team name. Good luck to you, tracking down the answers here.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash
0:01:56 > 0:02:00up for grabs for our challengers. However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:02:00 > 0:02:03the prize money rolls over to the next show. So, Irregulars,
0:02:03 > 0:02:06the Eggheads have won the last two games,
0:02:06 > 0:02:10which means £3,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13- Are you ready to try?- ALL: Yes. - Magnifying glasses out.
0:02:13 > 0:02:17The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Music,
0:02:17 > 0:02:19so who would like Music?
0:02:19 > 0:02:21ROGER SIGHS
0:02:21 > 0:02:25- Catherine?- I think we said that perhaps Catherine was...
0:02:25 > 0:02:27- our best at music.- OK.- I think so.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30That's not saying much! All right, that's down to me.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33Catherine, which one of these looks vulnerable?
0:02:33 > 0:02:35They all look pretty good on Music, don't they?
0:02:35 > 0:02:38Yes, unfortunately.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40Shall we go for Barry on this one?
0:02:40 > 0:02:42Yeah, OK.
0:02:42 > 0:02:48OK, so Catherine from the Irregulars against Barry from the Eggheads, and to ensure there's no conferring,
0:02:48 > 0:02:51please take your positions in the Question Room.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54I'll ask each of you three multiple-choice questions on Music in turn.
0:02:54 > 0:02:58Whoever answers the most questions correctly is the winner.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02Catherine, you can chose whether you want the first or the second set.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04I think I'll go first, please.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09Here we go and good luck to you.
0:03:09 > 0:03:13Catherine, the song Radio Ga Ga features in which stage musical?
0:03:19 > 0:03:23Well, I have to admit, I've never seen any of them!
0:03:25 > 0:03:30But Wicked is based on The Wizard Of Oz, so...
0:03:30 > 0:03:35Radio doesn't really sound as if it's going to be for that.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37"Mamma Mia!" is ABBA
0:03:37 > 0:03:41and that doesn't sound like an ABBA track to me,
0:03:41 > 0:03:44so I'll go with We Will Rock You.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46We Will Rock You is correct.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48APPLAUSE
0:03:48 > 0:03:53The band in question, Queen, of course. Well done.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56OK, Barry. Baby One More Time
0:03:56 > 0:04:02was a UK 1999 number one hit single for which singer?
0:04:07 > 0:04:11Well, Hit Me Baby One More Time was by Britney Spears.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13Britney Spears, it was. The words "hit me"
0:04:13 > 0:04:15were missed out. Were they in brackets?
0:04:15 > 0:04:19- It's not part of the actual title. - It's not part of the title?
0:04:19 > 0:04:21It's like that song by Tina Turner.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24People think it's called Simply The Best. It's not.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27It's called The Best. "Simply" is part of the chorus.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30- How do you know that? - Because I'm a sad, lonely man.
0:04:30 > 0:04:35Good. We like that confirmed early on in every show.
0:04:35 > 0:04:39Catherine, your question. In the so-called Battle of the Bands
0:04:39 > 0:04:43in 1995 which Blur single went up against the Oasis song Roll With It?
0:04:47 > 0:04:51Again, this isn't exactly my area,
0:04:51 > 0:04:54and I can't think of any way to work this one out, so...
0:04:54 > 0:04:58I think I'll just go for Charmless Man.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00It was not. Eggheads, do you know?
0:05:00 > 0:05:03- Country House.- Country House. - Yeah.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05You got that wrong, Catherine.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08It was Country House. Barry, your chance to pull clear.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Who wrote the opera The Tales Of Hoffmann
0:05:10 > 0:05:14in which the hero is tricked into falling in love
0:05:14 > 0:05:16with a mechanical doll called Olympia?
0:05:21 > 0:05:23It was Offenbach.
0:05:23 > 0:05:27- You said that with great certainty. - Yes. I enjoy the opera very much.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30Offenbach is the correct answer.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32So, that means, Catherine,
0:05:32 > 0:05:37you need this. What are your strongest areas of Music, Catherine?
0:05:37 > 0:05:41- It would be classical music. - You'll enjoy this question, then.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44The bands My Chemical Romance...
0:05:44 > 0:05:48- LAUGHTER - ..and "Panic! At The Disco"
0:05:48 > 0:05:51are associated with which genre of music?
0:05:57 > 0:06:00JEREMY LAUGHS You're enjoying this!
0:06:00 > 0:06:02I'm going to go for grime.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05- Grime music... - JEREMY LAUGHS
0:06:05 > 0:06:09- Is there such a thing as grime music?- Oh, yes.- Absolutely.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11- Well done on that!- I think it's emo. - Judith's right.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14Emo is the right answer, Catherine.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17That means it is well done to our Egghead
0:06:17 > 0:06:20cos there's no way back for you, Catherine.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22You won't be joining your team in the final.
0:06:22 > 0:06:27Barry, you will. Please, both of you come back and rejoin us here in the studio.
0:06:27 > 0:06:31As it stands, the challengers have lost one brain from the final round
0:06:31 > 0:06:33while the Eggheads have lost no brains...so far!
0:06:33 > 0:06:36Our next subject is Science.
0:06:36 > 0:06:37I feel you'll be good on Science,
0:06:37 > 0:06:42- you Holmesians.- Well, I think we know who it's going to be.
0:06:42 > 0:06:46- There's no doubt about who it's going to be.- The one person who knows about Science.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49- I will volunteer for that one. - OK, Antony against...?
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Who shall we take out? Sorry. Not "take out"!
0:06:51 > 0:06:53"Take out" is good! Not Barry.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56Judith's smiling rather nicely at us.
0:06:56 > 0:06:57I would suggest Judith.
0:06:57 > 0:07:01I would love to contest against Judith, then.
0:07:01 > 0:07:05I wasn't smiling cos I wanted to do it! I was trying to put you off!
0:07:05 > 0:07:09She's smiling because she got the emo answer right, that's it!
0:07:09 > 0:07:13- She's smiling because she has a beautiful smile!- That won't help when you get her in the booth!
0:07:13 > 0:07:15It's Antony from the Irregulars
0:07:15 > 0:07:22versus Judith from the Eggheads, and to ensure there's no conferring, please go to the Question Room now.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24Antony, you were the obvious choice for Science, I know.
0:07:24 > 0:07:28Well, apparently, yes. I do have a little knowledge of Science,
0:07:28 > 0:07:32- but not that much.- Because you are a crystallographer?- That's right.
0:07:32 > 0:07:35- What's a crystallographer, Judith? - It's a person who studies crystals,
0:07:35 > 0:07:40- or the structure of crystals. - Brilliant(!) Brilliant logic. Sherlock Holmes-level logic!
0:07:40 > 0:07:42- Is she right? - She's absolutely right.
0:07:42 > 0:07:47- It is in fact the elucidation of structures, of things like drug design.- OK.
0:07:47 > 0:07:52I'll ask each of you three questions on Science. Antony, choose the first or second set.
0:07:52 > 0:07:53The first set.
0:07:56 > 0:07:57OK.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00What is the chemical symbol for sulphur?
0:08:03 > 0:08:06Well, this one I will hopefully get right
0:08:06 > 0:08:11because Na is sodium, Ag is silver,
0:08:11 > 0:08:14so S must stand for sulphur.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17Yes, you're right. Well done.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Judith, your question.
0:08:19 > 0:08:25In physics, what term is used to describe the rate at which velocity changes with time?
0:08:28 > 0:08:30I don't know what the question means!
0:08:30 > 0:08:32Um...
0:08:32 > 0:08:34I don't think it's gravity.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37I don't know what vector is, so I think it's acceleration.
0:08:39 > 0:08:44- Acceleration is your answer? - Yes! Is it not?- It's not that!
0:08:44 > 0:08:47I was laughing that you got the answer without knowing
0:08:47 > 0:08:50what the question meant! You're right. Well done.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52One point each. Antony, back to you.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55How many inches are there in eight feet?
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Well, this one's more of a Mathematics question!
0:09:02 > 0:09:04There are 12 inches to a foot
0:09:04 > 0:09:09and if I multiply 12 by eight I should get 96.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11If I've done it right! LAUGHTER
0:09:11 > 0:09:14There is always that moment of doubt.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17- 96 is correct. - ANTONY SIGHS
0:09:17 > 0:09:19Back to you, Judith.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22See if you can understand this question.
0:09:22 > 0:09:28Which creatures collect a resinous substance called propolis
0:09:28 > 0:09:31and use it to repair their habitat?
0:09:34 > 0:09:36- Propolis?!- Propolis.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39- Oh, that's all right. - It's P-R-O-P-O-L-I-S.
0:09:39 > 0:09:42Yeah. What I heard was "cropolis" and I couldn't think what...
0:09:42 > 0:09:43That's bees.
0:09:43 > 0:09:47Very good. It is bees. Well done.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50OK. So 2-2.
0:09:50 > 0:09:54Antony, you get this right, you put Judith under pressure.
0:09:54 > 0:09:58What was the surname of the two crystallographers...
0:09:58 > 0:10:03- LAUGHTER - It's not fair! It's not fair!
0:10:03 > 0:10:05- ..who, in 1915... - Got the Nobel Prize?
0:10:05 > 0:10:09..became the first father and son to be awarded a Nobel Prize?
0:10:13 > 0:10:14Over to you.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17Well, I don't know of the other two,
0:10:17 > 0:10:19but I do know of William and Lawrence Bragg
0:10:19 > 0:10:21who partly did their work at the Royal Institution in London
0:10:21 > 0:10:25on the structural elucidation of common salt. Sodium chloride
0:10:25 > 0:10:27is what they did it on.
0:10:27 > 0:10:31It was completed in 1914 and they got the Nobel Prize in 1915.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34So it's William and Lawrence Bragg.
0:10:35 > 0:10:36For that, you get eight points!
0:10:36 > 0:10:37LAUGHTER
0:10:37 > 0:10:40Well done. Bragg is correct.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43That is extraordinary.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45Judith, if you recover from this, that'll be something.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48Here's your question. Good luck.
0:10:48 > 0:10:53In 1884, which Danish bacteriologist
0:10:53 > 0:10:58devised one of the most important staining techniques in microbiology?
0:11:06 > 0:11:08I have absolutely no idea.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11Erm...
0:11:11 > 0:11:15What about Carsten Olsen?
0:11:15 > 0:11:16Eggheads? Right answer?
0:11:16 > 0:11:18No, it's Hans Gram.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21Hans Gram is the right answer there, Judith.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24Antony played very well.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26Well done. You will be in the final
0:11:26 > 0:11:28with the Irregulars.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30Judith, you'll be in the Sin Bin.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32Please rejoin your teams.
0:11:34 > 0:11:39- Well done, Antony. The fates were with you.- They certainly were!
0:11:39 > 0:11:41The Eggheads and the Challengers have lost one brain each
0:11:41 > 0:11:43from the final round.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46Next subject, Film & Television. Which one of you would like this?
0:11:46 > 0:11:48It can't be Catherine or Antony.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52- Who do we say for this? - You or me, I think.
0:11:52 > 0:11:57- I don't know much about this. I think you watch more.- Yeah.
0:11:57 > 0:12:02- OK, I'll take this one.- All right, Roger. Against?- Ah...
0:12:02 > 0:12:04They're all so blasted clever!
0:12:04 > 0:12:08I will try my hand against CJ.
0:12:08 > 0:12:12OK. Roger from the Irregulars against CJ from the Eggheads.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15To ensure there's no conferring, please go to the Question Room.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20In this round, three questions. Film & Television.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24- Roger, you can choose the first or second set.- I'll go first, please.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30Good luck.
0:12:30 > 0:12:34Who won the Best Director Oscar for the 1992 film Unforgiven?
0:12:39 > 0:12:42They were all three in the film.
0:12:42 > 0:12:47I'm probably wrong but I don't think Gene Hackman or Morgan Freeman
0:12:47 > 0:12:51have directed much in the way of movies.
0:12:51 > 0:12:57But Clint Eastwood has and he did direct Unforgiven.
0:12:57 > 0:12:58It's Clint Eastwood.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02Clint Eastwood is the right answer.
0:13:02 > 0:13:06He's still directing to this day. An amazing career he's had.
0:13:06 > 0:13:14CJ. "In a world of ones and zeros, are you a zero or the one?"
0:13:14 > 0:13:18is the tagline for which 1999 Keanu Reeves film?
0:13:25 > 0:13:28I haven't heard the tagline but neither Speed nor Point Break
0:13:28 > 0:13:32have anything to do with computers and I have to assume that tagline
0:13:32 > 0:13:36is associated with the computers so that would be The Matrix.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39The Matrix is the right answer. Groundbreaking film.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42OK, Roger. Back to you.
0:13:42 > 0:13:46The world's oldest film festival has been held since 1932
0:13:46 > 0:13:47in which Italian city?
0:13:51 > 0:13:55I...don't know the answer to this one. I do know
0:13:55 > 0:13:59that every year, one hears of the Venice Film Festival,
0:13:59 > 0:14:05rather than Rome or Milan so I will go with Venice.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08Venice is right.
0:14:10 > 0:14:11CJ.
0:14:11 > 0:14:17Paul Bradley, who joined the cast of the TV drama Holby City,
0:14:17 > 0:14:21as Elliot Hope in 2005, previously played which role in EastEnders?
0:14:26 > 0:14:28I don't know him. I've never watched Holby City
0:14:28 > 0:14:29and I've never watched EastEnders.
0:14:31 > 0:14:34I'd be much better on this subject if it was just film.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36Erm...
0:14:36 > 0:14:38I sort of recognise the surname Wicks.
0:14:38 > 0:14:43I think there were some Wicks in EastEnders but I don't know
0:14:43 > 0:14:45how long ago that was.
0:14:45 > 0:14:49I don't recognise the other names. I'll pick one at random. Steve Owen.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55- Judith, are you a big EastEnders fan?- Not in those days.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58Can you take a stab at it? He's right. Wicks is an EastEnders name.
0:14:58 > 0:14:59I'd have gone for Wicks.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01That's wrong, too.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06- Nigel Bates.- It's Nigel Bates. - Nigel Bates is the answer.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09Irregulars, you're pulling clear here.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12Get this right, Roger, you'll be in the final, CJ won't.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15And he'll probably cry.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17Here's your question.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19How many of the four Indiana Jones movies,
0:15:19 > 0:15:23starring Harrison Ford, were directed by Steven Spielberg?
0:15:27 > 0:15:31I'm trying to remember whether Spielberg directed
0:15:31 > 0:15:34the most recent one,
0:15:34 > 0:15:37The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skulls.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40I think he did so I think it's four.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44- So you think he directed all of them?- Yes.
0:15:44 > 0:15:48- He didn't sub-contract any of them? - As far as I know he didn't.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52In a way, it's the least obvious answer
0:15:52 > 0:15:56but it is the correct answer. Well done. Four is right.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59Your team are going crazy.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01LAUGHTER
0:16:01 > 0:16:04I think I heard an applaud!
0:16:04 > 0:16:06CJ, you will not be in the final.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09You have been beaten by our irregular, Roger.
0:16:09 > 0:16:13Great news for the Challengers. Roger, you will be in the final
0:16:13 > 0:16:15Please rejoin your teams.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19Things are hotting up here.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21The Challengers have lost one brain from the final round.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23The Eggheads have lost two brains.
0:16:23 > 0:16:27There is still a round to go before the final. This time it's Geography.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29Where is the Geographer?
0:16:29 > 0:16:31It's got to be Nick or Guy.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36THEY CONFER
0:16:36 > 0:16:37OK, Guy.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40You can take Chris or Kevin.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43Kevin is looking confident. Chris is looking anxious.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45We'll try Chris.
0:16:45 > 0:16:50It's Guy from the Irregulars against Chris from the Eggheads
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Would you please leave the studio.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57Three questions on Geography.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59Guy, you can choose the first or second set of questions.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01I'd like to go first, please.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09Burma is an alternative name for which country?
0:17:15 > 0:17:17I think I know the answer to this one.
0:17:17 > 0:17:21Iran was previously known as Persia.
0:17:21 > 0:17:23Sri Lanka was previously Ceylon.
0:17:23 > 0:17:28It's the one in the middle. Myanmar is the currently-preferred name
0:17:28 > 0:17:29for Burma.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31Myanmar is correct.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35Well done. Your question, Chris.
0:17:35 > 0:17:40After Jersey, which is the largest of the Channel Islands by area?
0:17:44 > 0:17:47Sark is tiny and Alderney is not much bigger but Guernsey
0:17:47 > 0:17:49is almost as big as Jersey so it's Guernsey.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52Guernsey is correct as well. Whipping through these.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55Back to you, Guy. The Aran Islands
0:17:55 > 0:17:58are situated at the mouth of which bay?
0:18:01 > 0:18:05Well, the Aran Islands are...Irish.
0:18:05 > 0:18:09Of the three bays that you've got there, Galway is the only Irish bay.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11So, it's Galway.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14It is Galway. Well done.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17Very convincing so far.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19Let's see how Chris does with this.
0:18:19 > 0:18:24Victoria, Chris, is the capital of which Canadian province?
0:18:32 > 0:18:33Like a lot of American states,
0:18:33 > 0:18:36it's in a rather out of the way little place
0:18:36 > 0:18:38but it's the capital of British Columbia
0:18:38 > 0:18:40which you think is Vancouver but it isn't.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43British Columbia is the right answer.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46OK. Not a hair out of place so far. Let's go back to Guy.
0:18:46 > 0:18:49In which Indian city would you find the neighbourhoods
0:18:49 > 0:18:52of Malabar Hill and Breach Candy.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00Ah. I know India a bit.
0:19:00 > 0:19:06But I've not been to either Chennai or Lucknow.
0:19:06 > 0:19:10I don't think the two neighbourhoods are in Mumbai.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12So I'll have to guess.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Erm...I think I'll go
0:19:14 > 0:19:16for Chennai.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20- You've been to Mumbai, have you? - Yes.
0:19:20 > 0:19:23But you missed Malabar Hill and Breach Candy
0:19:23 > 0:19:27in Mumbai which is where they are. Not Chennai.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29I wasn't looking carefully enough.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31Now, Chris has a chance to go through on Geography.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34Chris, in terms of area,
0:19:34 > 0:19:36what is the largest of the six states
0:19:36 > 0:19:40that comprise the region of the USA known as New England?
0:19:46 > 0:19:51Well, Connecticut's relatively small, jammed up there under Massachusetts.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53New Hampshire's really quite small,
0:19:53 > 0:19:56you can drive end to end in half a day,
0:19:56 > 0:19:58but Maine is actually quite big
0:19:58 > 0:20:00cos it wanders all the way up to the Saint Lawrence
0:20:00 > 0:20:03north of the 49th parallel, so it's Maine.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06It's the right answer. Well done, Chris.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09You've taken the round, so, Chris,
0:20:09 > 0:20:12you'll be in the final. Guy, I'm sorry, you won't.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15Both played well, though. Please come back and re-join your teams.
0:20:18 > 0:20:22This is what we've been playing towards, our final round, which is General Knowledge.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads
0:20:25 > 0:20:28won't be allowed to take part in this round, so,
0:20:28 > 0:20:30Guy and Catherine from the Irregulars
0:20:30 > 0:20:31and also Judith and CJ
0:20:31 > 0:20:34from the Eggheads, could you please now leave the studio?
0:20:37 > 0:20:42Roger, Nick and Anthony, you are playing to win the Irregulars £3,000.
0:20:42 > 0:20:46Barry and Kevin, you're playing for something money can't buy, the Eggheads' reputation.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48As usual, I'll ask each team
0:20:48 > 0:20:50three questions in turn.
0:20:50 > 0:20:54This time, the questions are all General Knowledge and you can confer.
0:20:54 > 0:20:58Irregulars, the question is are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three?
0:20:58 > 0:21:02It's elementary. CHUCKLING
0:21:02 > 0:21:05- It had to be mentioned.- It did! We don't have a Watson on set, sadly.
0:21:05 > 0:21:10- Do you want to go first or second? - I think we'll go first. Keep the tradition going.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15Your first question, Irregulars.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Who was the mother of Cupid, the Roman god of love?
0:21:23 > 0:21:28Diana was the virgin huntress. Minerva was the goddess of wisdom.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30Venus the goddess of love.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32And Cupid was her son.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35Er, we're fairly sure. My friend here
0:21:35 > 0:21:38is fairly sure that it is Venus.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41Venus is correct. Well done.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44It's always a blow if you get the first one wrong.
0:21:44 > 0:21:45So, good stuff.
0:21:45 > 0:21:48In 2008, Eggheads,
0:21:48 > 0:21:50who won the Ballon d'Or
0:21:50 > 0:21:53and the title of European Footballer Of The Year?
0:21:58 > 0:22:01- Something's telling me it was Ronaldo.- Yeah...
0:22:01 > 0:22:06- He had a fantastic year.- I'm a bit torn between him and Torres.
0:22:06 > 0:22:11I don't think it's Messi... I don't think it's his...
0:22:11 > 0:22:12I don't think it's Messi.
0:22:12 > 0:22:17Torres got the winner in the Euro 2008 final.
0:22:18 > 0:22:22He had a great season at Liverpool 2007, 2008.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26I'd say they'd been trying to go for Ronaldo.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28OK. Shall we go for that one?
0:22:29 > 0:22:31We're not certain on this one, we should be but we're not.
0:22:31 > 0:22:35Erm...we don't think it's Messi.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38We're a bit torn between Ronaldo and Torres,
0:22:38 > 0:22:40but we'll go for Ronaldo.
0:22:40 > 0:22:41Ronaldo is correct.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Just squeaked it. Frustrating.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49Your question, Irregulars,
0:22:49 > 0:22:52the 1979 film The China Syndrome
0:22:52 > 0:22:56starring Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon
0:22:56 > 0:22:58is based around the disaster caused by what?
0:23:04 > 0:23:08It was the nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10- No, that came after. - Oh, that came later.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13Yes, you're quite right. Nuclear reactor.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16China Syndrome, definitely, nuclear reactor.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20Nuclear reactor is correct. Well done.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23Eggheads...
0:23:23 > 0:23:25We're on your tail.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27In which month of the year is Trafalgar Day celebrated?
0:23:30 > 0:23:32October 21st.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35It's October 21st.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38October's the right answer.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40OK, your third question, get this one right,
0:23:40 > 0:23:42you put the Eggheads under pressure
0:23:42 > 0:23:45and under pressure they can crack. The name of the bank
0:23:45 > 0:23:50HSBC is derived from that of which banking corporation?
0:23:58 > 0:24:01It's the bank that PG Wodehouse worked for for a while
0:24:01 > 0:24:04before he became a professional author,
0:24:04 > 0:24:07it's the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09That's your answer?
0:24:11 > 0:24:15Hong Kong and Shanghai is correct. Well done. Three out of three.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17Three out of three.
0:24:17 > 0:24:21Eggheads, if you get this one wrong, they walk away with the money.
0:24:21 > 0:24:25And you have to repair your reputation another day.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30Pillar to post...is an expression
0:24:30 > 0:24:32derived from which sport?
0:24:39 > 0:24:41THEY CONFER
0:24:49 > 0:24:50..Hit the post with the ball...
0:24:57 > 0:25:00My instinct is saying real tennis but I couldn't tell you why.
0:25:00 > 0:25:05There's that sort of shed thing, which is on pillars.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08I suppose I'm only thinking in the sense that real tennis
0:25:08 > 0:25:11you use the whole court including all the features of the court.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15The sloping roof, everything, but I don't know.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17The more I think about it, the more polo seems unlikely.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20There's nothing like pillars or posts...
0:25:20 > 0:25:22There are posts. There are goalposts.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24Where's the pillar?
0:25:26 > 0:25:29Polo only came over here in the 19th century from India.
0:25:29 > 0:25:33I mean, real tennis courts have pillars...
0:25:33 > 0:25:36- because of...like the one at Hampton Court...- Yeah.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38We'll have to go for real tennis.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42We don't know, as you may possibly have guessed
0:25:42 > 0:25:48by this stage and you can make a case for either of the others in some way.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51We haven't heard the origin of this phrase,
0:25:51 > 0:25:55but in the sense that real tennis uses all the features of the courts
0:25:55 > 0:25:59including things like pillars...
0:25:59 > 0:26:01I don't know where the post bit comes in, but...
0:26:01 > 0:26:04Pillars and all the features of the architectural features,
0:26:04 > 0:26:06we'll go for real tennis.
0:26:06 > 0:26:09If you've got this wrong...
0:26:09 > 0:26:12then they win and they are the 50th team of challengers
0:26:12 > 0:26:14to win if you have got it wrong.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16But you haven't got it wrong, it is real tennis, well done.
0:26:16 > 0:26:20Good logic by our Eggheads. Three out of three for both teams.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22After three questions each, the scores are level.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24We now go to Sudden Death.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26To make it that bit harder, these questions are not
0:26:26 > 0:26:27multiple choice.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30So, Irregulars, here we go.
0:26:31 > 0:26:36What nationality was the UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold
0:26:36 > 0:26:38who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1961?
0:26:41 > 0:26:44- I think he was Danish...- Danish. - THEY CONFER
0:26:44 > 0:26:50All three of us feel that he was almost certainly, but not totally definitely...
0:26:50 > 0:26:52Danish.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55- Dag Hammarskjold was actually Swedish.- Ah.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00Did we fly at that too quickly?
0:27:00 > 0:27:02- No.- We all thought the same.
0:27:02 > 0:27:06You would not have changed your minds even if you'd thought about it for longer? OK.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09Sudden Death it is. Eggheads on the verge now of winning
0:27:09 > 0:27:11if they get this right.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13In ancient Egypt,
0:27:13 > 0:27:18what were the large structures known as mastabahs
0:27:18 > 0:27:20primarily used as?
0:27:20 > 0:27:24THEY CONFER
0:27:24 > 0:27:28They were essentially the precursors of the pyramids, tombs.
0:27:28 > 0:27:32They were flat, a rectangular flat structure.
0:27:34 > 0:27:40They were very early structures that subsequently in some senses, evolved into the pyramids.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44- What is your answer?- Tombs. - Tombs is your answer.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48If you've got this right, you've won. IF you've got it right.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50The word I have here is...
0:27:51 > 0:27:52..tombs.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55Eggheads, congratulations,
0:27:55 > 0:27:56you've won.
0:28:01 > 0:28:06Commiserations to our challengers. Dag was Swedish, not Danish.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09So, the Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11They still reign supreme over quizland.
0:28:11 > 0:28:16I'm afraid you won't be going home with £3,000, Irregulars, which means
0:28:16 > 0:28:18that the money rolls over to our next show.
0:28:18 > 0:28:22Eggheads, congratulations, who will beat you?
0:28:22 > 0:28:26Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29£4,000 says they don't. Till then, goodbye.
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