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 > 0:00:14arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:24 > 0:00:27Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers
0:00:27 > 0:00:31pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:31 > 0:00:35You might recognise them as they are goliaths in the world of TV quiz shows.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37They are the Eggheads.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40And taking on the might of our quiz goliaths today
0:00:40 > 0:00:44are the Oxford Imps, formed in 2003.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46The team are an improv comedy troupe
0:00:46 > 0:00:50made up of former Oxford and Cambridge University students.
0:00:50 > 0:00:51Let's meet them.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54Hi. I'm John, I'm 23 and I'm a tutor.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57Hi. I'm Tom, I'm 26 and I'm a political analyst.
0:00:57 > 0:01:01Hi. I'm Jim, I'm 28 and I'm a student in philosophy.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04Hi. I'm Rachel, I'm 24 and I'm a musician.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07Hi. I'm Alex, I'm 25 and I'm a charity analyst.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09Hello there, Oxford Imps -
0:01:09 > 0:01:12and one Cambridge Imp as well, is there?
0:01:12 > 0:01:15- At the end, yeah.- I see, that's why you put him at the end.- Yeah.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18So, how does it work, improv comedy?
0:01:18 > 0:01:22- Do you interact with the audience, pick up a word and off you go? - Exactly that.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25You get a suggestion for a scene
0:01:25 > 0:01:29and then you make it up as you go along, which is great fun.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32- Has it ever gone horribly wrong? - Oh, yeah. It's supposed to...
0:01:32 > 0:01:34occasionally, not all the time.
0:01:34 > 0:01:38But sometimes it goes to strange places, places you wouldn't expect.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41But that's good. We're pushing ourselves.
0:01:41 > 0:01:45But does it ever dry up? Do you ever think, "Er... Can't do it"?
0:01:45 > 0:01:49No. No, no. We're a font of creativity,
0:01:49 > 0:01:50forever flowing.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52Let's play the game then, guys.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55See if you can improvise being Eggheads for today
0:01:55 > 0:01:58and improve on the Eggheads, take their money away.
0:01:58 > 0:02:02Every day there's £1,000 cash up for grabs for our challengers.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06If they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10So, Oxford Imps, the Eggheads have won the last two games,
0:02:10 > 0:02:14which means £3,000 says YOU can't beat the Eggheads.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16And our first head-to-head battle
0:02:16 > 0:02:19will be on the subject of one that may suit you:
0:02:20 > 0:02:23Any one of you can play. Which Egghead would you like to play?
0:02:23 > 0:02:27- Rach? - Yeah, I think you should do it.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30You look like you should be in films and television.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33- You will be a star.- Thanks. - You will be a star, Rachel.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37Who would you like to be your understudy in this particular drama?
0:02:37 > 0:02:39Any of these Eggheads?
0:02:39 > 0:02:42- Could I choose Daphne, please? - Of course you can.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44- JOHN: That's brave.- Oh, God!
0:02:44 > 0:02:47She always improvises the answers. Sometimes gets them right as well.
0:02:47 > 0:02:51OK, Rachel and Daphne into the question room, please,
0:02:51 > 0:02:53to make sure there's no conferring.
0:02:53 > 0:02:57- OK, now, do you want to go first or second, Rachel?- First, please.
0:02:58 > 0:02:59Off we go, then.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Best of luck, Rachel. Here's your question.
0:03:02 > 0:03:07What costume did the drum-bashing score keeper George Dawes usually wear
0:03:07 > 0:03:09on the TV comedy quiz show Shooting Stars?
0:03:13 > 0:03:17We should think about adopting this for one of our scenes.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21- On that show he wore a romper suit. - A romper suit?
0:03:21 > 0:03:23Big baby, wasn't he?
0:03:23 > 0:03:25And the name of the man concerned,
0:03:25 > 0:03:28George Dawes, AKA Matt Lucas,
0:03:28 > 0:03:31who went on to greater things. OK.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35That is correct, of course. Romper suit. I can confirm that.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37And first question for you, Daphne.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40What was the name of the boy, played by Henry Thomas,
0:03:40 > 0:03:45who befriended ET in the 1982 film ET: The Extra-Terrestrial?
0:03:47 > 0:03:50I think he was Elliott, wasn't he?
0:03:50 > 0:03:53Elliott. ET VOICE: Elliott...
0:03:53 > 0:03:55That was quite good, wasn't it?
0:03:55 > 0:03:59I remember that. It used to scare the living daylights out of me.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02Wasn't scared of anything else - just ET.
0:04:02 > 0:04:05ET the Extraterrestrial's friend was Elliott. Correct.
0:04:05 > 0:04:07Rachel, second question.
0:04:07 > 0:04:12In which country was the film actress Charlize Theron born?
0:04:16 > 0:04:18Mmm...
0:04:18 > 0:04:20Er...
0:04:20 > 0:04:26I know the likes of Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman are Australian.
0:04:26 > 0:04:27Er...
0:04:27 > 0:04:31I... I don't think it's Australia.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36I think I'm gonna go for South Africa.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38Charlize Theron?
0:04:39 > 0:04:41John's agreeing.
0:04:41 > 0:04:46It is the right answer. Yes, South Africa. Correct. OK.
0:04:46 > 0:04:49Pressure on you then, Daphne. Second question.
0:04:49 > 0:04:54Which town was the setting of the 1990s TV series Hamish Macbeth?
0:04:58 > 0:05:01Oh, dear. Never saw it. Erm...
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Er... Lochdubh.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10Lochdubh. Did that just jump into your mind,
0:05:10 > 0:05:13having never seen it, you said?
0:05:13 > 0:05:16- Yeah. I haven't seen it. - It starred, of course, Eggheads...?
0:05:16 > 0:05:18- Robert Carlyle.- Robert Carlyle,
0:05:18 > 0:05:21before he went into, let's say, slightly meatier roles.
0:05:21 > 0:05:25It is the right answer! Yes, Daphne, Lochdubh.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28OK, third question apiece. Rachel's.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32Which actor played young adventurer Christopher McCandless
0:05:32 > 0:05:34in the film Into The Wild?
0:05:39 > 0:05:43It's lucky I saw this recently, if I'm thinking of the right thing.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46Erm... I think it was Emile Hirsch.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48Emile Hirsch?
0:05:48 > 0:05:52This is the film where the chap goes off with not many supplies
0:05:52 > 0:05:54and lives in the wild.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57- Isn't it the Sean Penn-directed one?- Yeah.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59And comes to a rather grisly end.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03Emile Hirsch is the right answer. No grisly end for you.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06OK, Daphne.
0:06:06 > 0:06:11- You look like you're staring down the gun barrel.- I know!
0:06:11 > 0:06:15- And you're pointing it. - Well, when you hear the question, it's rather appropriate.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18What is the name of the secret group of assassins
0:06:18 > 0:06:24in the 2008 film Wanted, starring James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie?
0:06:27 > 0:06:30I have absolutely no idea.
0:06:30 > 0:06:35I think it's "Bye-bye, Daphne", cos it's...
0:06:35 > 0:06:38- That'd be a good film.- Yeah. - LAUGHTER
0:06:38 > 0:06:44Oh, Angelina Jolie is in it, so hopefully it's not the Fraternity,
0:06:44 > 0:06:48but... I really don't know.
0:06:48 > 0:06:49Erm...
0:06:49 > 0:06:52Gosh.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54All right. Erm...
0:06:54 > 0:06:58I'll say the Fraternity. I don't know.
0:06:58 > 0:07:03- Bye-bye.- But you said because Angelina Jolie was in it,
0:07:03 > 0:07:06it wouldn't be the Fraternity - and probably not the Brotherhood.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09Then I thought it won't be the Brotherhood either.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12- So that leaves the Band. - Yeah. It's right, is it?
0:07:12 > 0:07:14No, it's the Fraternity.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19You're just making me very upset, getting it right.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22I'm so sorry, Dermot.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25Something went on that you didn't vocalise there.
0:07:25 > 0:07:29You thought Fraternity, then you went Brotherhood...
0:07:29 > 0:07:32It's all square at three-all. A good round, both going strongly.
0:07:32 > 0:07:35It means, Rachel, we go to sudden death.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38Let's see if you can get this with no choices to look at.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41Which actor plays an extortionist sniper
0:07:41 > 0:07:46in the 2002 film Phone Booth, starring Colin Farrell?
0:07:46 > 0:07:50Which actor plays an extortionist sniper
0:07:50 > 0:07:54in the 2002 film Phone Booth, starring Colin Farrell?
0:07:54 > 0:07:57I'm gonna have to... I know it's not right,
0:07:57 > 0:08:00but I'm gonna have to go for, erm...
0:08:00 > 0:08:02Wesley Snipes.
0:08:02 > 0:08:06It would be appropriate, wouldn't it, the name - Snipes the sniper.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09It's not the right answer, Rachel. Oxford Imps?
0:08:09 > 0:08:14- Kiefer Sutherland?- Kiefer Sutherland, yes! A biscuit for Tom.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17Kiefer Sutherland plays the sniper in Phone Booth.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20Which means a chance for you, Daphne.
0:08:20 > 0:08:24What's the name of the pool shark played by Jackie Gleason
0:08:24 > 0:08:27in the 1961 film The Hustler?
0:08:28 > 0:08:31Minnesota Fats.
0:08:31 > 0:08:32Please?
0:08:32 > 0:08:33Yes?
0:08:34 > 0:08:37Come on, don't do this!
0:08:37 > 0:08:41It's the right answer, yes, Daphne. Well done.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44The smile's back on your face. It had disappeared earlier.
0:08:44 > 0:08:48Bad luck, Rachel. Somehow that turned against you.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51It looked, for most of that round, that you'd take it, but no.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54Minnesota Fats is correct. Rachel, you won't be in the final round.
0:08:54 > 0:08:58Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:08:58 > 0:09:01The Oxford Imps have lost one brain, the Eggheads haven't lost any.
0:09:01 > 0:09:05We'll play our second round. This one is Science.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08Who'd like to play this? You get to choose, Oxford Imps.
0:09:08 > 0:09:12- Does anybody know about science? - No.- I was hoping YOU did, Jim. - I do not.
0:09:12 > 0:09:16- You know nothing about science? - Who took science most recently?
0:09:16 > 0:09:19- Me?- I think you should go, John. - You're the youngest.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22- I'll do it. But who will I face? - Have you been talked into it
0:09:22 > 0:09:27- on the basis that you're closest to having studied science at school? - Yes.
0:09:27 > 0:09:31That's a good qualification. Who would you like to play? It can't be Daphne.
0:09:31 > 0:09:38- Erm... Barry? - OK, let's have John and Barry into the question room, please.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41- John, first set or second set? - I'll go first, please, Dermot.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Good luck, John. Here we go. It's Science.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47What name is given to an organism
0:09:47 > 0:09:51exploited by a parasite living on or inside it?
0:09:54 > 0:09:58Unless a pub can be counted as an organism, it won't be a landlord.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01I don't think it's a keeper.
0:10:01 > 0:10:05- It's a host. - A host? It certainly is.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07- Correct. One to you. - Well done, John.
0:10:08 > 0:10:09Barry, the common test
0:10:09 > 0:10:13whereby a patient is tapped just below the kneecap
0:10:13 > 0:10:16is used by doctors to test the patient's what?
0:10:19 > 0:10:21That tests the reflexes.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25Reflexes is correct, yes. Barry, one to you.
0:10:25 > 0:10:27John, second question.
0:10:27 > 0:10:33The Earth's axis is tilted at an angle of how many degrees?
0:10:40 > 0:10:44I don't know. I don't think it's particularly...
0:10:44 > 0:10:49I know it's not a lot, so I'm gonna rule out 32.5.
0:10:50 > 0:10:55Let's see. What do... what does 17.5 degrees look like?
0:10:55 > 0:10:59I can't think of any way to figure that out off the top of my head.
0:11:00 > 0:11:03That's 90... so that'd be 45...
0:11:03 > 0:11:06so that's 12½ - that doesn't look that much.
0:11:06 > 0:11:0923.5? 23.5?
0:11:09 > 0:11:12I think 23.5 seems about right.
0:11:12 > 0:11:16I did like the improv, actually, with the angles there. Very good.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18- It's the right answer. - Yes!- Well done, John.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20- Get in!- Yeah.
0:11:23 > 0:11:2523.5. OK, Barry.
0:11:25 > 0:11:30Litmus, used to determine acidity, is obtained from what natural source?
0:11:33 > 0:11:35It's obtained from lichen.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37Litmus, used to determine acidity,
0:11:37 > 0:11:40is obtained from what natural source?
0:11:40 > 0:11:44Barry straight in there with lichen, and correct. Two-all.
0:11:44 > 0:11:45John.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48In the human body, the frontalis muscle
0:11:48 > 0:11:50is involved in which activity?
0:11:55 > 0:11:59- The frontalis muscle is involved in which activity?- Frontalis.
0:11:59 > 0:12:04The only thing I can cling onto is "talis", which is...
0:12:04 > 0:12:06I'm thinking talon.
0:12:06 > 0:12:11Talon is the only thing I can cling onto. It might be completely wrong.
0:12:11 > 0:12:15- I'm gonna with wriggling the toes. - OK.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19Talons. I see, yes. A kind of linguistic link there.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21Wriggling the toes.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23- Barry?- I think he might be right.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25I think the talis is a bone in the foot,
0:12:25 > 0:12:28so I would have gone for wriggling the toes as well.
0:12:28 > 0:12:33- It's not the right answer. - Eyebrows.- Interesting. What is it?
0:12:33 > 0:12:36- Eyebrows.- It's eyebrows, from Judith down there.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38It is the eyebrows - the old Roger Moore.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41A crucial point at which to get a question wrong.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44Barry can wrap the round up if he gets this.
0:12:44 > 0:12:50Barry, what type of heavenly body is 6137 John Fletcher,
0:12:50 > 0:12:53named after an amateur astronomer in Gloucester?
0:12:55 > 0:12:57It's unlikely to be a moon,
0:12:57 > 0:13:02because there are quite specific conventions on naming moons,
0:13:02 > 0:13:06and most recent ones tend to be named after mythological objects.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08I don't think it's a comet.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11Comets, although named after their founders,
0:13:11 > 0:13:13tend not to have numerical appendages.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16But asteroids do have numerical appendages,
0:13:16 > 0:13:18so on that basis I will go for asteroid.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21OK. It's the right answer. Asteroid.
0:13:21 > 0:13:256137 John Fletcher is an asteroid discovered by John Fletcher,
0:13:25 > 0:13:28presumably an amateur astronomer in Gloucester.
0:13:28 > 0:13:32Bad luck, John. Just slipped up on that third question.
0:13:32 > 0:13:34You're not playing in the final round. Barry, you are.
0:13:34 > 0:13:38Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:13:38 > 0:13:41Oxford Imps, if you had a game plan when you came in,
0:13:41 > 0:13:44I think you'll have to improvise a plan B, or maybe even C.
0:13:44 > 0:13:48You've lost two brains from the final round, the Eggheads are all there so far.
0:13:48 > 0:13:54We'll play our third head-to-head, and this subject is Arts & Books.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57Who wants to play this? Tom, Jim or Alex?
0:13:57 > 0:14:00- It's gonna have to be Alex. - Alex?- Alex.- Alex.
0:14:00 > 0:14:04Alex going for Arts & Books. Who would you like to play? It can't be Daphne or Barry.
0:14:04 > 0:14:08- Chris, please. - You had a choice of Chris, Judith or CJ and have gone for Chris.
0:14:08 > 0:14:13Let's help Alex and Chris into the question room, please.
0:14:13 > 0:14:19I know why you've decided to play this category. You worked on the OED, the Oxford English Dictionary.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21- That's right, I did. - So what do you do there?
0:14:21 > 0:14:24Erm... Well, I was a dictionary editor,
0:14:24 > 0:14:27and dictionary editors, as you might imagine, are responsible
0:14:27 > 0:14:32for making new dictionary entries for words that haven't been in the dictionary yet
0:14:32 > 0:14:34or making sure existing entries are up to date
0:14:34 > 0:14:39and reflect the things people know about in the history of the English language.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41Any that you were personally responsible for?
0:14:41 > 0:14:44Dictionary writing is very much a team game.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47I remember one I wrote the entry for there was "dartitis",
0:14:47 > 0:14:50a performance anxiety that affects darts players
0:14:50 > 0:14:53so they can't throw the dart at the right moment.
0:14:53 > 0:14:58- And that's in the OED?- It is. - Dartitis!- Goes back to about 1981.
0:14:58 > 0:15:03- When it became really popular on television.- Yeah.- Dartitis - I like that. Very good.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06Should be playing the Sport round. Would you like to go first or second?
0:15:06 > 0:15:08I will go first, please.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13Good luck, Alex. Here we go.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17The English artist JMW Turner was best known for painting what?
0:15:20 > 0:15:24Turner famously painted a picture of Parliament when it was burning,
0:15:24 > 0:15:29so on that basis I'm gonna go for landscapes.
0:15:29 > 0:15:30Landscapes,
0:15:30 > 0:15:33and, of course, ships and... lots of stuff.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35The Fighting Temeraire.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39It's the right answer. Yes, landscapes. Well done. Good start.
0:15:39 > 0:15:40- Well done, Alex.- Chris.
0:15:40 > 0:15:46What 20th-century term was coined to describe inexpensive fiction magazines or paperbacks?
0:15:50 > 0:15:54Cos they were made on cheap paper that was made from wood pulp,
0:15:54 > 0:15:56it was called pulp fiction.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58That would have suited Alex -
0:15:58 > 0:16:02not the pulp fiction bit of it, but the 20th-century terms.
0:16:02 > 0:16:07It's the right answer. Yes, pulp fiction. Correct.
0:16:07 > 0:16:11Alex, second question. Who wrote the award-winning non-fiction book Stalingrad?
0:16:16 > 0:16:22OK. Hugh Sebag-Montefiore... I know his brother wrote a book on Stalin,
0:16:22 > 0:16:26but it was Antony Beevor, I think, who wrote Stalingrad.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Antony Beevor, you think?
0:16:28 > 0:16:31You think right. Well done. Two to you.
0:16:33 > 0:16:37Chris, what type of artistic form is a clerihew,
0:16:37 > 0:16:39named after Edmund Clerihew Bentley?
0:16:43 > 0:16:45It's a short, pithy comic verse.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49Which, of course, this lot would know all about.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52A clerihew is a comic verse. That's correct. Two to you.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55All square as we go on to the third question.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58It's where John slipped up. Let's hope you don't, Alex.
0:16:58 > 0:17:03Marriage A-la-Mode is a series of six engravings by which artist?
0:17:08 > 0:17:12I'm not sure I would have got it if the names hadn't come up,
0:17:12 > 0:17:14but I think it's William Hogarth.
0:17:14 > 0:17:15OK.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19Glad to have choices there.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22But got it, yeah. Well done, Alex.
0:17:22 > 0:17:25Three out of three, then.
0:17:25 > 0:17:26Chris is facing ejection.
0:17:26 > 0:17:32Chris, which US novelist created the quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme?
0:17:36 > 0:17:42I don't know much about American fiction. Dean Koontz writes...
0:17:42 > 0:17:44horror stuff in the same genre as Stephen King,
0:17:44 > 0:17:47so I don't think it's Dean Koontz.
0:17:47 > 0:17:51I've not heard of Jeffery Deaver at all, but...
0:17:52 > 0:17:54Michael Connelly, I think, does write detective fiction,
0:17:54 > 0:17:57so as a pure guess, I'll go with him.
0:17:57 > 0:18:03OK. Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic detective character created by...
0:18:03 > 0:18:06- Jeffery Deaver. - Oh.- Jeffery Deaver.
0:18:06 > 0:18:10Which means the International Mastermind exits the game.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14OK. Well done, Alex. You're through to the final round.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:18:17 > 0:18:20I actually think you're still on your plan A.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23That went very well indeed for you, Alex.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26Played on what you thought was your strong subject and succeeded.
0:18:26 > 0:18:32As it stands now, the Oxford Imps have lost two brains from the final round, the Eggheads one - Chris.
0:18:32 > 0:18:37And we play our last head-to-head before the final round: Politics.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39Tom or Jim, you face this one.
0:18:39 > 0:18:43Gosh, It's difficult, Tom being a political analyst and all(!)
0:18:43 > 0:18:44LAUGHTER
0:18:44 > 0:18:48I'm a philosopher who knows lots of facts about the world...
0:18:48 > 0:18:51- So that'll be you then, Jim.- No, no.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53- I say Tom.- RACHEL: I say Tom.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56- So say all of us.- OK.
0:18:56 > 0:19:00- And you've got CJ or Judith awaiting you.- Hm...
0:19:00 > 0:19:04I reckon they're both probably pretty good at politics, actually.
0:19:04 > 0:19:08- Shall we go with CJ? - Yeah.- Yeah, let's go with CJ.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11- However... - I'll go with the decision.
0:19:11 > 0:19:15- You didn't have a lot to say, Tom. - I was volunteered by friends. - No voting rights.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17- ALEX:- We answered for you, Tom.
0:19:17 > 0:19:23More to say in the question room. Tom and CJ, head for that question room.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26- Do you want to go first or second, Tom?- I'll go first, Dermot.
0:19:28 > 0:19:32Good luck. See if you can knock CJ out and level up that final round.
0:19:32 > 0:19:37First question, Tom. In which year was Nelson Mandela born?
0:19:41 > 0:19:46I... think he's looking a bit slow on his feet these days,
0:19:46 > 0:19:49so I'm gonna count out 1948 straightaway.
0:19:49 > 0:19:54I have a feeling that he's had a few big birthdays come and go,
0:19:54 > 0:19:58so I think I'm gonna go with 1918, though I'm not completely sure.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01A few big birthdays come and go.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04He had the 90th one in July 2008.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06That's correct.
0:20:06 > 0:20:081918. Well worked out, Tom.
0:20:08 > 0:20:12CJ, the Bundesbank is the central bank of which European country?
0:20:15 > 0:20:18If you keep them all that level, I'll be happy. It's Germany.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20HE LAUGHS
0:20:20 > 0:20:22It's the right answer, yes. One each.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25I will, I'll try, CJ.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28Tom, in which US state was Barack Obama born?
0:20:32 > 0:20:37Again, I'm not completely sure, but I think he was born in Hawaii.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40Hawaii is right. Well done, Tom.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42Two to you. CJ knew that.
0:20:42 > 0:20:46That's the American politics he knows about.
0:20:46 > 0:20:47Our domestic politics next.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50What does a constituent need to complete
0:20:50 > 0:20:53to lobby their MP at the House of Commons?
0:20:56 > 0:21:01I don't know this. I've never even been to the Houses of Parliament.
0:21:01 > 0:21:05OK, you have white papers and green papers, so it's a blue card.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07OK, the blue card?
0:21:07 > 0:21:09- It's green!- DAPHNE: Is it?
0:21:09 > 0:21:10It's a green card.
0:21:10 > 0:21:15Which means, Tom, you'll be through to the final round - if you get it.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18That makes it all square there for the money.
0:21:18 > 0:21:22Tom, Omar Bongo became president of which West African country
0:21:22 > 0:21:24in 1967 at the age of 31?
0:21:27 > 0:21:29My friend's an Africa analyst -
0:21:29 > 0:21:33he'll kill me if I get this wrong, but I think it's Gabon.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36You often discuss Omar Bongo with your friend?
0:21:36 > 0:21:38Now and again, at the pub.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40Seldom off your lips.
0:21:41 > 0:21:45It's the right answer! Well done, Tom.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Well, look at that. CJ doesn't get to face another question.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52You are through to the final round, Tom, playing for the money.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:21:55 > 0:22:00This is what we've been playing towards. It could be a very interesting final round,
0:22:00 > 0:22:02which, as always, is General Knowledge.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05Those of you who lost your head-to-heads
0:22:05 > 0:22:07won't be allowed to take part in this round.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10So, John and Rachel from the Oxford Imps
0:22:10 > 0:22:13and CJ and Chris from the Eggheads,
0:22:13 > 0:22:16would you leave the studio now, please?
0:22:16 > 0:22:21Tom, Jim and Alex, you're playing to win the Oxford Imps £3,000.
0:22:21 > 0:22:22Daphne, Barry and Judith,
0:22:22 > 0:22:26you're playing for something money can't buy: the Eggheads' reputation.
0:22:26 > 0:22:29As usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.
0:22:29 > 0:22:34The questions are all General Knowledge and you are allowed to confer.
0:22:34 > 0:22:39Oxford Imps, the question is, are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three?
0:22:39 > 0:22:42Would you like to go first or second?
0:22:42 > 0:22:45- I think we should go first. - Yeah.- Oxford favours the bold.
0:22:48 > 0:22:55In which city were thousands of cheap bicycles for hire, known as Velibs, introduced in 2007?
0:22:58 > 0:23:01In which city were thousands of cheap bicycles for hire,
0:23:01 > 0:23:04known as Velibs,
0:23:04 > 0:23:07introduced in 2007?
0:23:07 > 0:23:08- Paris?- I think it's Paris.
0:23:08 > 0:23:12- I wrote about this. It's Paris. - You wrote about this?
0:23:12 > 0:23:15- It's a long story.- When?- For work.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17- Political dimension...? - A limited one, yeah.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19Can you give us a link to it?
0:23:19 > 0:23:23It was the mayor of Paris looking to boost his reputation.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26- There we are. It's quite boring. - But you're going for Paris.
0:23:26 > 0:23:32It's the right answer. Yes, Velibs, introduced in Paris in 2007.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35OK, it's one to you - Paris and the Velibs.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38Eggheads, what was the nickname of the infamous peer Lord Lucan
0:23:38 > 0:23:40who disappeared in 1974?
0:23:43 > 0:23:46What was the nickname of the infamous peer Lord Lucan
0:23:46 > 0:23:48who disappeared in 1974?
0:23:48 > 0:23:51He was a great gambler, so he was called Lucky.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53And it also went with his name.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56Lord Lucan is Lucky Lucan is the right answer.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59Well done. One each. Second question each.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01Imps, in 2008
0:24:01 > 0:24:05approximately how many days did it take Thomas Coville
0:24:05 > 0:24:09to become the fastest man to cross the Atlantic in a multi-hull boat?
0:24:12 > 0:24:16In 2008 approximately how many days did it take Thomas Coville
0:24:16 > 0:24:22to become the fastest man to cross the Atlantic in a multi-hull boat?
0:24:22 > 0:24:26- Days.- I would think you could walk it in six.
0:24:26 > 0:24:30Unless it's incredibly slow. I don't know.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33If you think that, I'm willing to trust you.
0:24:33 > 0:24:37- Old ocean liners crossed it in six. - Let's go with that.- We think six.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39Six?
0:24:39 > 0:24:42It's the right answer. Well done.
0:24:42 > 0:24:46Ooh, I think you could be up against it here, Eggheads.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48Let's see. Second question for you.
0:24:48 > 0:24:52Who directed the 2008 film Somers Town?
0:24:55 > 0:24:59Who directed the 2008 film Somers Town?
0:24:59 > 0:25:02Shane Meadows. Trust me.
0:25:02 > 0:25:06Cos like... the little boy, Thomas Turgoose...
0:25:06 > 0:25:09he was in another Shane Meadows...
0:25:09 > 0:25:12I'm sure he'd got the same little boy in the film.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14I think it's Shane Meadows.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17- Daphne knows.- Daphne knows.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19Daphne, I don't want you saying "Trust me."
0:25:19 > 0:25:21The last person to say that to me
0:25:21 > 0:25:24was doing the three-card trick outside a store in Oxford Street.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27- I...- I do trust Daphne.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30- I THINK I know who it is. - It was Shane Meadows.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32Ho! Standing up, eh?
0:25:32 > 0:25:34Solidarity.
0:25:34 > 0:25:38- CJ there as well.- Is he nodding? - He is. It's the right answer, yes.
0:25:38 > 0:25:43Shane Meadows is correct. Directed Somers Town. Well done.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45OK, two each. Good quizzing from both teams.
0:25:45 > 0:25:50Imps, third question. As you know, important not to get this wrong.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54The term "bellwether" is usually applied to which animal?
0:25:56 > 0:26:00The term "bellwether" is usually applied to which animal?
0:26:03 > 0:26:06All one word, as you probably know. Alex, you certainly will.
0:26:06 > 0:26:12But just to explain, all one word. "Bellwether", B-E-L-L-W-E-T-H-E-R.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14A cat's bell? Erm...
0:26:14 > 0:26:17- They wouldn't put a bell on a cat. - Not during weather, no.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20- Let's go with sheep. - Sheep.- That's your answer?
0:26:20 > 0:26:23- Yeah.- Sheep?
0:26:24 > 0:26:27It's correct. Well done. Three out of three.
0:26:27 > 0:26:31There we go. So, Eggheads, you need to get this question right.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34What is the diameter of the individual clock faces
0:26:34 > 0:26:36on London's Big Ben?
0:26:38 > 0:26:41- Don't ask me.- What is the diameter
0:26:41 > 0:26:44of the individual clock faces on London's Big Ben?
0:26:44 > 0:26:47THEY CONFER
0:26:47 > 0:26:50- Let's measure. - Three metres is nine feet.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52This is about three metres here.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55This desk is roughly three metres.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57We had John doing his angles of the Earth,
0:26:57 > 0:27:00now we've got you measuring out the clock faces of Big Ben.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03I'm picturing Harold Lloyd hanging on to the minute hand.
0:27:03 > 0:27:04I think it's three.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07- I'm staying out of this cos I've got no...- 11 metres, 33 feet.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10- That sounds too high. - 11 metres...
0:27:10 > 0:27:14Seven metres would be twice this, plus some.
0:27:14 > 0:27:15So from there to there to...
0:27:15 > 0:27:18- Yeah, I think it's three. - I think it's three, yes.
0:27:18 > 0:27:22- I remember the picture - is it Harold Lloyd who hangs on?- Yeah.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25If you transposed his body 180 degrees,
0:27:25 > 0:27:29it looks to be about the length of a body. I think it's three metres.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32I mean, we, on the whole... Daphne's ducked out.
0:27:33 > 0:27:38- Barry and I think...- Blank area, the old mathematics, is it?
0:27:38 > 0:27:42..seven metres would be absurdly big and 11 metres even more absurd.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45- So it's three metres.- Three metres?
0:27:45 > 0:27:48- About the length of this desk. - It's obviously diameter.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50OK.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52Three metres?
0:27:53 > 0:27:58It's seven metres. Which means, Oxford Imps, you have won!
0:28:02 > 0:28:06Well! Confounded the Eggheads there, that really did.
0:28:06 > 0:28:10You'd have to squint to see it if it was only three metres.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13You'd have to get the binoculars out.
0:28:13 > 0:28:17I apologise for what I said to you after the first two rounds.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20Rachel and John did well in their head-to-heads,
0:28:20 > 0:28:22but they'd gone, you were two-nil down,
0:28:22 > 0:28:24and I thought this could go against you.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27You turned it round, won the next three and won the money.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30- We accept your apology. - I'm a humble man.
0:28:30 > 0:28:35Well done. Great to see you here on Eggheads and doing so well.
0:28:35 > 0:28:36Bad luck, Eggheads.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38Join us next time to see
0:28:38 > 0:28:41if a new team of challengers will be just as successful.
0:28:41 > 0:28:43Until then, from all of us here, goodbye.
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