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 > 0:00:19The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Welcome to Eggheads, where a team of five challengers
0:00:26 > 0:00:29attempt to beat possibly the top quiz team in Britain.
0:00:29 > 0:00:35Their quiz pedigree is well known. They've won some of the toughest quiz shows. They are the Eggheads.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39Tackling the Eggheads today are Life's Too Short.
0:00:39 > 0:00:41This team are somewhat of a quizzing dream team,
0:00:41 > 0:00:47having been brought together by Steve from rival quizzers within the Bristol quiz league.
0:00:47 > 0:00:48Let's meet them.
0:00:48 > 0:00:52Hello, I'm Steve. I'm 58 and a pensions manager.
0:00:52 > 0:00:56Hello. I'm Tom. I'm 48 and I'm a licensee.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Hi. I'm Martin. I'm 52 and I'm an accountant.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03Hello. I'm Chris. I'm 58 and I'm a health and safety advisor.
0:01:03 > 0:01:07Hello. I'm Paul. I'm 31 and I'm a paralegal.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09Welcome, Life's Too Short and Steve.
0:01:09 > 0:01:14You've taken team members from other quizzing teams in the area.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16Yes. There is a Bristol quiz league.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20We've all played within the quiz league. One or two I play with,
0:01:20 > 0:01:24but generally play against. It's the best of the teams in that league.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27- I think you might be quite good. - Oh, I don't know.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29- It remains to be seen.- It does.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32Life is long enough to find out, luckily.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36Every day there's £1,000-worth of cash up for grabs for our challengers.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39If they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over
0:01:39 > 0:01:43to the next show. So, Life's Too Short,
0:01:43 > 0:01:48the Eggheads have won the last 17 games, which means £18,000 says you can't beat them.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50Looking pleased about that.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53The first head-to-head battle is on Arts & Books.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56Which one of you wants this?
0:01:56 > 0:01:59We hoped that wouldn't come up, certainly not first.
0:01:59 > 0:02:04- What do we think?- What do you reckon? I'm useless. I haven't read since A-level literature.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07- Unfortunately.- Looks like me, then.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09It'll have to be me.
0:02:09 > 0:02:15- Steve from Life's Too Short against who?- We thought Barry might have a gap there.
0:02:15 > 0:02:20- Yeah, we'll try Barry, please.- Steve versus Barry from the Eggheads.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23Please take your positions in the question room.
0:02:24 > 0:02:30Steve, three multiple choice questions on Arts & Books, in turn.
0:02:30 > 0:02:34Whoever answers the most goes to the final. First or second set?
0:02:34 > 0:02:35I'd like to go first, please.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42Who wrote the best-selling novel, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha?
0:02:48 > 0:02:52Right. I think I've got an inkling on this one.
0:02:52 > 0:02:57It certainly won a prize, possibly the Booker Prize.
0:02:57 > 0:03:01I don't think it's AS Byatt nor Kingsley Amis.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03I will go for Roddy Doyle.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Roddy Doyle is right. Well done.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10Always good to get the first one right. Well done.
0:03:10 > 0:03:15Barry, your question. In George Orwell's novel 1984,
0:03:15 > 0:03:20what is the name of the woman with whom Winston Smith has an illicit affair?
0:03:24 > 0:03:27It's been quite some time since I read 1984.
0:03:27 > 0:03:31But Julia rings a bell so I'm pretty certain it was Julia.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34Julia is right. One each.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36Over to you, Steve.
0:03:36 > 0:03:43Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal are central characters of which novel by Zadie Smith?
0:03:47 > 0:03:49Right.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51I must admit I don't know the characters.
0:03:51 > 0:03:56But I do know that at least one of those books is by Zadie Smith.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58I just hope the other two are not.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01But I will go for White Teeth.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04Yes. White Teeth is the right answer.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08What's that, Daphne?
0:04:08 > 0:04:11- They're all by Zadie Smith. - They're all by Zadie Smith.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14- That was a bit of luck! - Lucky you didn't know that!
0:04:14 > 0:04:17It would have thrown you! Barry,
0:04:17 > 0:04:21which Chekov play tells the story of an aristocratic family
0:04:21 > 0:04:24who return to their estate just before it is auctioned
0:04:24 > 0:04:27to pay the mortgage?
0:04:31 > 0:04:33Ah. It wasn't Uncle Vanya.
0:04:33 > 0:04:40The Cherry Orchard, I'm sure, was a family who were sad it had to be sold.
0:04:40 > 0:04:45So I think it was that. Not Three Sisters. No, The Cherry Orchard.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47The Cherry Orchard is, Eggheads?
0:04:47 > 0:04:50- Right.- ..the right answer.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55Your third question, Steve. Playing well.
0:04:55 > 0:05:00The 1995 work The Maybe was a collaboration between Cornelia Parker and which actress
0:05:00 > 0:05:03who lay seemingly asleep in a glass box
0:05:03 > 0:05:07while visitors to the exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery looked on?
0:05:13 > 0:05:15Goodness!
0:05:16 > 0:05:20I've got to say this is one I'm not really sure of at all.
0:05:20 > 0:05:24Charlotte Rampling is actually one of my favourites.
0:05:24 > 0:05:25So...
0:05:25 > 0:05:29I'll go for Tilda Swinton.
0:05:29 > 0:05:32Cos you like Charlotte, you don't want her in a glass box.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Absolutely.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37You got the right answer. Well done. Tilda Swinton.
0:05:38 > 0:05:42Great elimination. That's the sign of a great quizzer.
0:05:42 > 0:05:49Barry, for what type of literature is the Canadian writer Alice Munro most acclaimed?
0:05:52 > 0:05:55Ooh, dear.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59This name doesn't ring any recollection or bells whatsoever.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02So I'm afraid this is going to be a complete punt.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05And I will go for...
0:06:07 > 0:06:08..crime.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13- Daphne, what did you want him to say?- Short stories.
0:06:13 > 0:06:17Short stories was the answer. Barry is knocked out. Well done, Steve.
0:06:17 > 0:06:19You'll be in the final.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22Took on an Egghead, emerged triumphant. That's the way to do it.
0:06:22 > 0:06:26Good news for the challengers. Both of you please come and rejoin us.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30Well done, Steve. Did that feel easy? No?
0:06:30 > 0:06:33- Not at all.- Never easy.
0:06:33 > 0:06:37- Luck was on my side.- Challengers have lost no brains from the final.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40Eggheads have lost one brain so far, Barry.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43The next subject is Geography. Who wants this?
0:06:43 > 0:06:44Anyone fancy that one?
0:06:44 > 0:06:49It's gonna be me or possibly you.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52- OK.- Have a go?- By a process of elimination, that's me, then!
0:06:52 > 0:06:55Paul or Paul against?
0:06:55 > 0:06:57- CJ?- Shall we go for CJ, then?
0:06:57 > 0:06:59I'll take on CJ, then, please.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02Paul from Life's Too Short versus CJ from the Eggheads.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05Please go to the question room now.
0:07:06 > 0:07:10Paul, you'd heard about CJ's problems with geography, had you?
0:07:10 > 0:07:15Yes, we had a chat about what the Eggheads we think they like and don't like.
0:07:15 > 0:07:19They don't have any obvious gaps in their knowledge but we're hoping
0:07:19 > 0:07:24the apparent gap CJ has with UK geography might help me today.
0:07:24 > 0:07:28It's a small gap, but it's a big one, CJ, isn't it?
0:07:30 > 0:07:33A wizened old man with a white stick helped me find my way here!
0:07:33 > 0:07:38So, three questions on geography in turn. Paul,
0:07:38 > 0:07:39first or second set?
0:07:39 > 0:07:42I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:07:44 > 0:07:49Here we go. What is the only South American country to share a border with Panama?
0:07:52 > 0:07:56Well, obviously Panama is Central America.
0:07:56 > 0:08:01So I'm looking for a northern country in South America.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04I'm torn between two at the moment.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06I don't think it's Chile.
0:08:06 > 0:08:10I think Ecuador's a bit too far down
0:08:10 > 0:08:12so my answer is Colombia.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14Right. Colombia is correct.
0:08:17 > 0:08:18CJ,
0:08:18 > 0:08:20what is the UK's longest motorway?
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Oh, dear!
0:08:28 > 0:08:30I've no idea!
0:08:31 > 0:08:36Now, the M4 runs from London to Swansea.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41The M5 runs from Exeter to...
0:08:43 > 0:08:44..somewhere else.
0:08:45 > 0:08:49And the M6 runs from somewhere
0:08:49 > 0:08:51to somewhere up north.
0:08:52 > 0:08:53Yep.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56Maybe, maybe not. What's the answer?
0:08:56 > 0:09:01I'm not sure. I'm not gonna go for the M4. I'll go for the M6.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03You got it right. Well done.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06Paul.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10Sharm el-Sheikh is a popular holiday resort in which country?
0:09:14 > 0:09:17Right. I think I know this one.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21I'm going to go for Egypt.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24Egypt is the right answer. Well done.
0:09:27 > 0:09:32CJ, the city of Acapulco is located on which body of water?
0:09:35 > 0:09:39Having been in Mexico not too long ago,
0:09:39 > 0:09:42and Acapulco is one of the places I was thinking of going...
0:09:45 > 0:09:49It's on the southern part of Mexico on the Pacific coast. Pacific Ocean.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53Pacific Ocean is right.
0:09:56 > 0:10:00Paul, Raglan Castle is in which part of the UK?
0:10:04 > 0:10:08I never thought I would be drawing on my school days
0:10:08 > 0:10:13to provide me with an answer on a quiz show later on in my life.
0:10:13 > 0:10:17I had the pleasure of spending a few days at Raglan Castle
0:10:17 > 0:10:22for which I ended up doing a history project when I was about 13.
0:10:22 > 0:10:28And because of that I know that Raglan is near Usk in Wales.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Wales is right. How useful!
0:10:33 > 0:10:34CJ,
0:10:34 > 0:10:39the Bonin Islands belong to which country? B-O-N-I-N.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44The Bonin Islands. Where are they?
0:10:44 > 0:10:47I have never heard of them
0:10:47 > 0:10:49but the word sounds Japanese.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53I'll just have to do this on the language.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56Doesn't sound Indian, doesn't sound New Zealand,
0:10:56 > 0:10:58so it sounds Japanese. Japan.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01Japan is right.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04Three each after three questions. Scores are level.
0:11:04 > 0:11:08This is a good team you're playing, Eggheads. We go to sudden death.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10Paul, your question.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Fraser Island, the largest sand island in the world,
0:11:13 > 0:11:16lies off the coast of which Australian state?
0:11:18 > 0:11:22Really trying to dig this one from a very deep hole.
0:11:22 > 0:11:26I'm going to say Queensland.
0:11:26 > 0:11:27Queensland is correct.
0:11:29 > 0:11:33So, the onus on you, CJ. Get this right or you're gone.
0:11:33 > 0:11:38The ancient city of Syracuse is on which Mediterranean island?
0:11:38 > 0:11:40Oh, dear!
0:11:40 > 0:11:43- Is "Oh, dear" your answer? - Probably is going to be.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45Let's have a punt anyway.
0:11:45 > 0:11:49The ancient city of Syracuse is on which Mediterranean island?
0:11:49 > 0:11:53Oh, dear. I should know this straight away, but I don't.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55- You need this or you're out.- Crete.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Crete?
0:11:57 > 0:11:58Sicily.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00Sicily.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03So, well done, Paul.
0:12:07 > 0:12:11You beat him on sudden death. Took on an Egghead and emerged triumphant.
0:12:11 > 0:12:15You'll join your team in the final. Both of you rejoin your team mates.
0:12:16 > 0:12:20As it stands, the challengers have lost no brains from the final round.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24The Eggheads have lost two brains. Our next subject is film and TV.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27Who would like this?
0:12:27 > 0:12:29THEY CONFER
0:12:29 > 0:12:31- I think it's unanimous!- Chris.
0:12:31 > 0:12:35- Chris against who? - Daphne, do we think?
0:12:35 > 0:12:37Yeah, Daphne.
0:12:37 > 0:12:38Daphne.
0:12:38 > 0:12:42Chris from Life's Too Short versus Daphne from the Eggheads
0:12:42 > 0:12:45on Film & TV. Please go to the question rooms now.
0:12:46 > 0:12:49- Chris, you do health and safety? - That's right.
0:12:49 > 0:12:54- What's the biggest problem you meet? - The main thing we suffer from
0:12:54 > 0:12:58is non-compliance with the Working At Height regs that came in in '05.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00People struggle with that.
0:13:00 > 0:13:04- So you need a ladder for most things!- It's not as straightforward as that!
0:13:04 > 0:13:09You have to carry out a risk assessment to see if a ladder's right for that job.
0:13:09 > 0:13:13- It's all we ask for, but it seems beyond some people.- Interesting.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16There were days, Daphne, when that didn't happen.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18In my day!
0:13:18 > 0:13:21Three questions on Film & TV, in turn.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24Chris, you choose whether you want the first or second set.
0:13:24 > 0:13:28I'll go with the first, Jeremy, if I may.
0:13:29 > 0:13:30Here we go.
0:13:30 > 0:13:35Who played Jareth the goblin king in Jim Henson's 1986 film Labyrinth?
0:13:39 > 0:13:43I know Jagger was in Performance.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45Sting was in Dune.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48So that only leaves David Bowie.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51Bowie is correct. David Bowie.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54Bowie/Bowie, we never worked it out.
0:13:54 > 0:14:00Daphne, the film Days of Thunder features Tom Cruise as what type of sportsman?
0:14:05 > 0:14:08I think he's a stock-car driver.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10And I think you're right.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12He is. One each.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14Back to you, Chris.
0:14:14 > 0:14:18Who directed the 2008 film Milk?
0:14:22 > 0:14:25I've read all the reviews of it as well.
0:14:25 > 0:14:29Sean Penn's brilliant in that. I haven't seen it yet.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32I've got a gut feeling for Gus Van Sant.
0:14:32 > 0:14:37- So that's my answer.- The correct answer is Gus Van Sant.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42Daphne, your question. Who played the gamekeeper
0:14:42 > 0:14:48Oliver Mellors in the 1993 TV adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover?
0:14:53 > 0:14:55Oh, dear. Didn't see it.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57Um...
0:14:58 > 0:15:00Here we go again, blind guess.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04Linus Roache.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06Oh, dear!
0:15:06 > 0:15:08- Oh, dear!- No, no, no.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11You're usually amazing at guessing.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14- When you say "guess", I think, "She's got it."- Sean Bean?
0:15:14 > 0:15:17- Linus Roache is wrong. Yeah, Sean Bean.- The other one.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19That was the other one.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22- Oh, well.- You're in the lead, here, Chris.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24You could take it now.
0:15:24 > 0:15:28Which Coronation Street character has a nephew called Spider,
0:15:28 > 0:15:31who came to live with her in 1997?
0:15:36 > 0:15:38Sad enough knowing this, isn't it, really?
0:15:38 > 0:15:42Being a soap fan. But I do watch Coronation Street.
0:15:42 > 0:15:43It's Emily Bishop.
0:15:43 > 0:15:47Well done. It is Emily Bishop. How about that, Daphne?
0:15:47 > 0:15:52You've been beaten. Slipped up once and he was in there. Chris, Well done.
0:15:52 > 0:15:56You took on an Egghead and won, so you're in the final as well.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59Daphne won't be. Eggheads got some problems here.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01Both of you rejoin your teams.
0:16:04 > 0:16:08As it stands, the challengers haven't lost any brains from the final.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11The Eggheads have lost three. We're not at the final yet.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13The last subject is History.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16Which challenger wants this?
0:16:16 > 0:16:18Tom.
0:16:18 > 0:16:21- Tom it is. - Against either Kevin or Chris.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24- We know he's got a phenomenal record, don't we?- We do.
0:16:24 > 0:16:29- Kevin, we want him gone.- We want to try and take him out, I think.
0:16:29 > 0:16:34OK, Tom from Life's Too Short versus Kevin from the Eggheads.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37Please go to the question room. Fascinating!
0:16:38 > 0:16:42- Tom, you're the quiz master for the Bristol quiz league?- Yes.
0:16:42 > 0:16:46You are, in a way, a quiz question yourself. Your great-great-grandfather was who?
0:16:46 > 0:16:52It was my great-great-uncle. He was the last white man to be buried in the cathedral in Barbados.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54He was Bishop of Barbados.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57- Bishop of Barbados.- At the end of the Second World War.
0:16:57 > 0:17:01That's the kind of question that Kevin gets right!
0:17:02 > 0:17:05- No, I didn't know that!- By repute,
0:17:05 > 0:17:08you've never had a wrong answer in the history round.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11I'm not sure, but that's what they tell me.
0:17:11 > 0:17:15- It is, but it's...- Embarrassing you. - Like we said about statistics.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18It's more likely that something will happen.
0:17:18 > 0:17:22Three questions on history. Our challengers doing very well.
0:17:22 > 0:17:26See if you can take out the main man. Will you go first or second?
0:17:26 > 0:17:30Everybody's been winning going first. Why break a winning streak?
0:17:32 > 0:17:33OK.
0:17:33 > 0:17:37What is the name given to underground burial chambers
0:17:37 > 0:17:41such as those built by the early Christians in and near Rome?
0:17:45 > 0:17:47I don't think it's a chancel.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50And I don't think it's a basilica,
0:17:50 > 0:17:55but I remember reading a crime story which was set in catacombs in Rome,
0:17:55 > 0:17:57so I'll go for catacombs.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00Catacombs is the right answer. Well done.
0:18:01 > 0:18:02Kevin,
0:18:02 > 0:18:05in the feudal system, what was the name for the person
0:18:05 > 0:18:08who held land from a feudal lord
0:18:08 > 0:18:12and received protection in return for homage and allegiance?
0:18:15 > 0:18:18There were various grades of people,
0:18:18 > 0:18:21but if you had a feudal lord, you were a vassal.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23Vassal is the right answer. Well done.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26Next question to you, Tom.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29Horatio Nelson lost his right arm
0:18:29 > 0:18:33after a disastrous attack on which island?
0:18:35 > 0:18:38I have no idea on this one.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41See if I can work out what it might be. I don't think it's Tenerife.
0:18:41 > 0:18:44Corsica is possible.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49Malta's changed hands a lot in history.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52I think Corsica is the most likely one. I'll go for that.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54No.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57Tenerife is the answer.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00See if that mistake is expensive. Kevin,
0:19:00 > 0:19:04where did the UK's forces fight a bloody insurgency
0:19:04 > 0:19:06between 1963 and 1967,
0:19:06 > 0:19:10often called Britain's final withdrawal from Empire?
0:19:14 > 0:19:18It was a very nasty little war in Cy... Sorry, in Aden.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21I nearly said the wrong word, then.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24- That would have been a good one to get wrong.- It was Aden.
0:19:24 > 0:19:29Would have raised the tension. Aden is your answer. Aden is the correct answer. Well done.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32Tom, you need this one.
0:19:32 > 0:19:36Which city served as Scotland's capital until the mid-15th century?
0:19:40 > 0:19:42I think I know this one.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45I'm pretty sure it's neither Dundee nor Glasgow.
0:19:45 > 0:19:46I'm pretty sure it's Perth.
0:19:46 > 0:19:50Perth is the correct answer.
0:19:52 > 0:19:56Kevin, third question. Get it right, you're in the final.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59Which bridge over the River Thames was built mostly by female labour
0:19:59 > 0:20:01during World War II?
0:20:06 > 0:20:09I'm a bit baffled by that.
0:20:09 > 0:20:11- On the edge of history, here. - I may be.
0:20:11 > 0:20:15London Bridge, the original one, was medieval.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18Various London Bridges, over the centuries.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21It's very odd, this.
0:20:21 > 0:20:27Blackfriars Bridge was 18th century, early 19th century.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29HE MOUTHS
0:20:29 > 0:20:31It's got to be one or two of the others,
0:20:31 > 0:20:36both of which did have new versions in the mid to late 20th century.
0:20:36 > 0:20:37So...
0:20:37 > 0:20:39I've no idea on this at all,
0:20:39 > 0:20:41but by a process of elimination,
0:20:41 > 0:20:45and it may be completely wrong, I'll have to go for Waterloo Bridge.
0:20:46 > 0:20:51Waterloo Bridge. Let me try your colleagues.
0:20:51 > 0:20:55- That's right.- It's the new-looking concrete bridge across the Thames.
0:20:55 > 0:21:00- Built by female labour. Did you know that?- In World War II, there wasn't any spare labour.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02Waterloo Bridge is the right answer.
0:21:02 > 0:21:07Kevin showing uncertainty in a history round. Incredible.
0:21:07 > 0:21:11Kevin, you are in the final. Tom, you won't be in the final.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14Please come back and rejoin your teams.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18- Tom, I thought it was gonna happen. - I was hoping.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21It really would be one to write home about.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23I'd have had the t-shirt made!
0:21:24 > 0:21:26With the picture! Got it!
0:21:26 > 0:21:30This is what we've been playing towards, our final round, general knowledge.
0:21:30 > 0:21:34Those of you who lost your head-to-head can't take part.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36So it's Tom from Life's Too Short
0:21:36 > 0:21:39but also CJ, Daphne and Barry from the Eggheads.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41Please would you leave the studio?
0:21:42 > 0:21:47Steve, Martin, Chris and Paul, you're playing to win Life's Too Short £18,000.
0:21:47 > 0:21:52Kevin and Chris are playing for something money can't buy - the Eggheads' reputation.
0:21:52 > 0:21:57I will ask each team three questions in turn, this time all general knowledge. You can confer.
0:21:57 > 0:22:01- So, how are we feeling?- Good.
0:22:01 > 0:22:06The question is, are your four brains better than the Eggheads' two?
0:22:06 > 0:22:10- First or second set of questions? - First, shall we?- OK.
0:22:10 > 0:22:14Yes, we like destiny in our own hands. We'll go first, please.
0:22:17 > 0:22:21Which place in America is described in a 1973 song
0:22:21 > 0:22:26a having "a church house gin house, a school house outhouse?"
0:22:30 > 0:22:33Mum and Dad have just been to see Tina Turner.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36- It was one of theirs. - It was Nutbush City Limits.- Yes.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39We've got one or two Tina Turner fans.
0:22:39 > 0:22:43We're pretty sure it was City Limits, which was in Nutbush.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Nutbush is correct. Well done. Brilliant.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48A foot-stamping song. Eggheads,
0:22:48 > 0:22:51the common method of rebooting PCs
0:22:51 > 0:22:53invented by IBM engineer David Bradley,
0:22:53 > 0:22:57is to press the Control, Alt and which other key simultaneously?
0:23:03 > 0:23:07- It's Delete.- You think it's Control, Alt, Delete?- Yeah.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10Delete is the right answer. Well done.
0:23:11 > 0:23:12Your question.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15Which fictional detective is the central character
0:23:15 > 0:23:18of the novel The 4.50 From Paddington?
0:23:24 > 0:23:29- I haven't a clue. - I'm sure it's an Agatha Christie, which takes out Sherlock Holmes.
0:23:29 > 0:23:34- That leaves Marple and Poirot. - It's not Poirot.- I don't think so.
0:23:34 > 0:23:36- I think it's Marple. - I think so, too.
0:23:36 > 0:23:40We need Daphne for this one, it's one of her favourite areas.
0:23:40 > 0:23:44But we've all agreed. We think it's Miss Marple.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47Miss Marple is correct.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51Correct. OK, Eggheads.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54Albuquerque, located on the Rio Grande
0:23:54 > 0:23:57is the largest city in which American state?
0:24:04 > 0:24:08- New Mexico.- New Mexico is the right answer. Well done.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10Over to you, Life's Too Short.
0:24:10 > 0:24:15Whose motto is, "Better to die than be a coward."
0:24:20 > 0:24:23THEY CONFER
0:24:28 > 0:24:31- Go for Gurkhas, then? All agree?- OK.
0:24:31 > 0:24:32We're not at all sure.
0:24:32 > 0:24:36But on the basis we don't think it's a British thing,
0:24:36 > 0:24:38we'll go for the Gurkhas.
0:24:38 > 0:24:39You're right.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41You're right.
0:24:41 > 0:24:45So this is good for you. £18,000 is yours if they get this wrong.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48Here is your question, Eggheads.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50Worldwide Adventures In Love,
0:24:50 > 0:24:53published in July 2008,
0:24:53 > 0:24:55was written by which author,
0:24:55 > 0:24:59formerly the lead singer of the 1990s Britpop band, Sleeper?
0:25:05 > 0:25:09- Shirley Manson was Garbage, yeah? - Yeah.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Justine Frischmann, Elastica.
0:25:13 > 0:25:17- Though that wasn't the only band... - ..that she was in.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19Can you repeat it again, Jeremy?
0:25:19 > 0:25:23Worldwide Adventures In Love, published in July 2008,
0:25:23 > 0:25:29was written by which author, formerly the lead singer of 1990s Britpop band, Sleeper.
0:25:29 > 0:25:33- I... I don't know it. - I don't, either.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38Because we can attach band names to the other two...
0:25:38 > 0:25:43It may be that Justine Frischmann was with Sleeper as well.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46- We'll have to go for Louise Wener. - We'll have to. Louise Wener.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49Louise Wener on the basis that?
0:25:49 > 0:25:51Shirley Manson is Garbage,
0:25:51 > 0:25:54- Justine Frischmann I think was Elastica.- I see.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56I don't associate her name with Sleeper.
0:25:56 > 0:26:00But I think she was with more than one band.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02So it may be that it is her.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05Use the one we don't know with the band name we don't know.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08Louise Wener is correct, Eggheads. Well done.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11You've stayed in the game. Sorry, guys.
0:26:11 > 0:26:16So we go now to sudden death, with £18,000 on the table.
0:26:16 > 0:26:20The international rugby league team of which country
0:26:20 > 0:26:23is nicknamed the Kumuls? K-U-M-U-L-S?
0:26:23 > 0:26:25Rugby League.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30- Rugby League, did you say? - Rugby League.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33Not one of the South Pacific countries like Samoa?
0:26:33 > 0:26:37Can't even get it from the spelling, really. K-U-M-U-L-S.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40- Could you spell that, please, Jeremy?- Can you spell it?
0:26:40 > 0:26:43K-U-M-U-L-S.
0:26:43 > 0:26:44It doesn't get any easier.
0:26:44 > 0:26:45Kumuls.
0:26:45 > 0:26:49- Shall we go for one of the South Pacific islands?- Yeah.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51I'm totally in your hands.
0:26:51 > 0:26:52Shall we go for Fiji?
0:26:52 > 0:26:56- Probably gonna be wrong. - Go on, then.- Fiji?- Yep.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58We really don't know.
0:26:58 > 0:27:02It's not our strong point. We'll try Fiji.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04Your answer is Fiji. Eggheads?
0:27:04 > 0:27:08- Papua New Guinea. - Papua New Guinea is the answer.
0:27:08 > 0:27:09Not a million miles away.
0:27:09 > 0:27:13It means bird of paradise. They gave England a scare in the World Cup.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16In 2008.
0:27:16 > 0:27:17Sorry. But you're not out yet.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19They have the chance
0:27:19 > 0:27:22to snatch the money away, the Eggheads,
0:27:22 > 0:27:24with this question.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26The redesigned Bank of England £20 note,
0:27:26 > 0:27:29introduced in March 2007,
0:27:29 > 0:27:33bears on its reverse a portrait of which 18th-century figure?
0:27:37 > 0:27:39It's Adam Smith.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41- Are they right?- Yes. - They are.- Afraid so.
0:27:41 > 0:27:45Eggheads, you have got it right. Adam Smith is the answer.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47What a contest. Eggheads, well done.
0:27:47 > 0:27:48You've won.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57Commiserations. Especially galling cos you knew Adam Smith.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00We should have gone second.
0:28:00 > 0:28:05- They wouldn't know Kumuls. - If it's any consolation, Kevin knew Papua New Guinea.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08- Kevin knows everything.- I know.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.
0:28:11 > 0:28:16You won't be going home with the £18,000. That money rolls over to our next show.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?
0:28:19 > 0:28:23Join us to see if a new team of challengers has the brains to defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26£19,000 says they don't!
0:28:26 > 0:28:28Till then, goodbye!
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