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 > 0:00:20The 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 > 0:00:30pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:35You might recognise them as they are goliaths in the world of TV quiz shows.
0:00:35 > 0:00:36They are the Eggheads.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41And challenging our quiz goliaths today are the Mighty Minions.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44They came together after team captain Clive ran a quiz
0:00:44 > 0:00:48to find the best brains at his company to take on the Eggheads.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50The Mighty Minions are the result.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52Let's meet them.
0:00:52 > 0:00:56Hi, my name's Clive, I'm 40 years old and I'm a managing director.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00Hi, I'm Ali, I'm 26, and I'm a display coordinator.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04Hello, I'm Simon, I'm 45, and I'm a membership recruiter.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08Hi, I'm Mike, I'm 47 and I'm a membership recruiter.
0:01:08 > 0:01:13Hello, I'm Alistair, I'm 33 and I'm also a membership recruiter.
0:01:13 > 0:01:18So, you're Mighty Clive and the rest are the minions. Or is it the other way around?
0:01:18 > 0:01:23- I consider myself to be a minion so these are my mighties. - They're mighties, OK, I get you.
0:01:23 > 0:01:28How did you get together? You put out a call for top quizzers and here's the result.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31Did you then hold auditions or have a quiz? What did you do?
0:01:31 > 0:01:36Well, I do a newsletter a few times during the year and I put the word out
0:01:36 > 0:01:38that we were hoping to go on Eggheads.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41I had about a dozen or more replies.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43Beating the doors down!
0:01:43 > 0:01:45So popular is the show.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49I just ran a quiz and these are the guys that fought their way through.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52OK, now did you just go for the best overall score in the quiz
0:01:52 > 0:01:56or have you looked for... Because you know the different categories.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58I picked the categories from the show,
0:01:58 > 0:02:01asked them to identify their two strongest.
0:02:01 > 0:02:06I ran a general knowledge as well, so it was a combined score of their two subjects and general knowledge.
0:02:06 > 0:02:13Sounds like some quite meticulous preparation gone on there, Eggheads. I would fasten your seatbelts.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16Every day there's £1,000 up for grabs for our challengers.
0:02:16 > 0:02:20However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:02:20 > 0:02:24So, Mighty Minions, the Eggheads have won the last 27 games
0:02:24 > 0:02:28which means £28,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31The first head to head, have you covered this subject?
0:02:31 > 0:02:34Music, I bet you have. Who would like to play this? Any one of you.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37We want to get Mike in early, music was his subject.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39Want to go up against Kevin?
0:02:39 > 0:02:40OK.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43We're gonna put Mike forward, he'll go up against Kevin.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46I saw that, Clive, as you were telling Mike he was playing Kevin.
0:02:46 > 0:02:51It's easy for you to say! And Mike's going, "Yeah, well..."
0:02:51 > 0:02:54- I'm just a loyal servant. - Mike's got a target on his back.
0:02:54 > 0:02:59Three-time world quiz champion Kevin against Mike. Could I ask you both to take your positions
0:02:59 > 0:03:02in the question room just to make sure there's no conferring?
0:03:03 > 0:03:07So, Mike playing music, what type of music do you most enjoy?
0:03:07 > 0:03:10Well, Dermot, I'm really into my heavy metal.
0:03:10 > 0:03:14- I'd never have guessed.- Really?
0:03:14 > 0:03:17- Yeah.- Old rock, preferably.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19Let's hope some old rock type questions come up.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22Now, do you want the first set or the second set?
0:03:22 > 0:03:25I'll go for the second, please.
0:03:30 > 0:03:31Kevin in first.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35"Whoa, whoa, I never realised what a kiss could be"
0:03:35 > 0:03:37is a line from which Beatles song?
0:03:44 > 0:03:46I don't...
0:03:46 > 0:03:49It's probably my... It's a kind of sound,
0:03:49 > 0:03:55the first two words aren't words, it's "Whoa, whoa."
0:03:55 > 0:03:58I hate these questions, "I never realised what a kiss could be."
0:03:58 > 0:04:01Even if I know the tune, if I do it in the form of the tune,
0:04:01 > 0:04:04I feel that's an extra clue so I'm trying to read it out straight.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07"Whoa, whoa, I never realised what a kiss could be"
0:04:07 > 0:04:09is a line from which Beatles song?
0:04:09 > 0:04:12Day Tripper. It's a long time since I've heard Day Tripper
0:04:12 > 0:04:14and I don't know I Should Have Known Better.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17I'm going to have to go for I Should Have Known Better
0:04:17 > 0:04:20on the basis that that's the one I don't know.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22So, erm...
0:04:22 > 0:04:23OK.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26I really just don't know this so I will have to go for that.
0:04:26 > 0:04:30So the riskier route of trying to half eliminate the other two
0:04:30 > 0:04:34and therefore ending up with what must be the right answer, you think.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37It is the right answer, I Should Have Known Better.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40Tricky one there for Kevin, That tactic nearly worked, Mike,
0:04:40 > 0:04:46of putting him in first. Nearly stumbled on it but used his emergency option to get it.
0:04:46 > 0:04:51You can do that with multiple choices, clearly if you don't know the answer outright,
0:04:51 > 0:04:56look at the plausibility factor and end up with the most plausible one, which is what Kevin just did there.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58OK, Mike, your first question.
0:04:58 > 0:05:05Who had a UK number one hit single in 1980 with Woman in Love which was written by the Bee Gees?
0:05:10 > 0:05:14Well, I'm a big Kate Bush fan so I know it's definitely not Kate Bush.
0:05:15 > 0:05:20It doesn't seem like a Diana Ross style.
0:05:20 > 0:05:24I'm pretty sure it's Barbra Streisand.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27Good start, Mike, it's right.
0:05:27 > 0:05:33One each. Kevin, who kills Carmen in Bizet's opera of the same name?
0:05:37 > 0:05:41Don Juan isn't in Carmen, he wandered in from various other operas.
0:05:43 > 0:05:47Escamillo is the bullfighter with whom she's gone off
0:05:47 > 0:05:51but her previous lover, Don Jose, in a fit of jealously, kills her.
0:05:51 > 0:05:52Don Jose.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54Don Jose is correct, Kevin.
0:05:54 > 0:05:55OK, Mike,
0:05:55 > 0:05:58what is the first name of the famous daughter
0:05:58 > 0:06:00of singer Billy Ray Cyrus?
0:06:04 > 0:06:07That's an easy one, if you know the answer.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10As Kevin will confirm, that's one of his favourite phrases.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14Lindsay doesn't sound right for some reason.
0:06:14 > 0:06:18I'm not 100% but I think I'll go with Miley.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20Miley.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23You worked it out, it's the right answer, well done.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26OK, it's two-all, it's all square.
0:06:26 > 0:06:31Kevin, which band released the album Forth in 2008?
0:06:35 > 0:06:37I think that's a comeback for The Verve.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41Do you follow The Verve then, Kevin?
0:06:41 > 0:06:43Finger on the pulse!
0:06:43 > 0:06:45You certainly do.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47Ear to the ground, that sort of thing.
0:06:47 > 0:06:48The throbbing pulse.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51- Popular beat combos, my lad. - Yes, exactly.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54It's the right answer! Well done, The Verve.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57- It means you've got to get this, Mike.- OK.
0:06:57 > 0:07:03The Art of the Fugue, possibly left deliberately unfinished, is a masterpiece by which composer?
0:07:07 > 0:07:11It's before the 1970s so it's going to be...
0:07:11 > 0:07:15It is just a tad, I don't think I'm giving anything away to say that.
0:07:15 > 0:07:20Right, I'm going to have a stab at...
0:07:20 > 0:07:24Mozart, Why, I don't know. It jumped out at me.
0:07:25 > 0:07:29Art of the Fugue, Mozart jumping out at you.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32Eggheads, unfinished?
0:07:32 > 0:07:33- I think it's Bach.- Yeah, it's Bach.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36It is Bach, it's Bach not Mozart.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39And that one of the dangers of going second
0:07:39 > 0:07:42being no chance of a reprieve.
0:07:42 > 0:07:49Kevin has already got three out of three correct and you just slipping up on the last one there.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52No place for you in the final round, sorry to tell you.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55Would you please both come back and join your teams?
0:07:56 > 0:07:58Well, first strike for the Eggheads,
0:07:58 > 0:08:01Mighty Minions missing one brain from the final round at this point.
0:08:01 > 0:08:05We'll play our second category today and this one's Sport.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08Who'd like to play this? Can't be Mike.
0:08:08 > 0:08:13- I'll take Sport, I'm OK with it. - Are you OK with Sport? I'll do it if you don't want to.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15You cover a couple more options than me.
0:08:15 > 0:08:20THEY CONFER
0:08:23 > 0:08:25OK, I am going to take Sport, Dermot.
0:08:25 > 0:08:30And I am going to go up against somebody with the same initials as me - CJ.
0:08:30 > 0:08:34CJ and CJ again into the question room, Clive and CJ, please.
0:08:36 > 0:08:41Just tell us a bit about the company involved in the charity sphere.
0:08:41 > 0:08:48Yeah, we fund raise by recruiting members and we work mainly for wildlife and environmental charities.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50If ever you go to a show and you see a display stand
0:08:50 > 0:08:55with people telling you about local nature reserves or something, that's our guys.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58Are you involved in a specific charity?
0:08:58 > 0:09:02No, we work within the wildlife and environmental.
0:09:02 > 0:09:07We do a few that aren't. Our method works for most charities, really.
0:09:07 > 0:09:11OK, Clive, would you like to go first or second in this Sport round?
0:09:11 > 0:09:15Well, watching the show, it seems like the team that normally goes first loses.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18I know Mike lost but I am going to go second as well, I think.
0:09:22 > 0:09:27Yeah, it all depends on the questions and the ability of the player.
0:09:27 > 0:09:33Boxing then. Which boxer, born in 1958, won world titles at all weights,
0:09:33 > 0:09:37from welterweight up to light heavyweight during his career?
0:09:42 > 0:09:44Well, the year of birth doesn't help me
0:09:44 > 0:09:47although I think it's a bit too far back for Benn.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51But isn't Hearns the one who's won titles at lots of different weights?
0:09:51 > 0:09:53I don't know about Larry Holmes
0:09:53 > 0:09:55but simply because I've got that rattling around,
0:09:55 > 0:09:57I will try Thomas Hearns.
0:09:57 > 0:10:01- Thomas Hearns.- Yeah. - The Hitman.- Yeah.
0:10:01 > 0:10:02It's the right answer, yes.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05Well worked out, CJ.
0:10:05 > 0:10:11OK, Clive the last stage of the Tour de France traditionally ends at which Parisian landmark?
0:10:16 > 0:10:18OK...
0:10:21 > 0:10:24I know that Alistair's sitting there knowing this.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28The Tour de France is one of his real key interests.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30- Yes.- Are you a cyclist?
0:10:30 > 0:10:34He's a keen watcher of cycling. I think cycling's too energetic.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36I don't think it's the Louvre.
0:10:36 > 0:10:41For some reason, it doesn't seem apt to be finishing at the Louvre.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44It seems sensible to have a sprint finish on the Champs Elysees,
0:10:44 > 0:10:47so for that basis, I will go for that one.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50Top competition for that, it's the right answer, well done.
0:10:51 > 0:10:58OK, CJ, Lasith Malinga, known as Malinga the Slinger,
0:10:58 > 0:11:01has represented his country at which sport?
0:11:04 > 0:11:06He's a cricketist.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08Cricketist. Yes.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11Lasith Malinga, known as Malinga the Slinger,
0:11:11 > 0:11:14has represented his country at which sport?
0:11:14 > 0:11:16Cricket is correct.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20OK, Clive, second question for you.
0:11:20 > 0:11:24Hong Kong was the venue for which sport in the 2008 Olympic Summer Games?
0:11:27 > 0:11:32OK, I don't think it's equestrian.
0:11:32 > 0:11:38Hong Kong does have Hong Kong Harbour so sailing could be a possibility.
0:11:40 > 0:11:44Beach volleyball. I think beach volleyball was made
0:11:44 > 0:11:48on an arena where they just bunged a load of sand on.
0:11:48 > 0:11:52I'm not sure about this, I think I am going to go for sailing.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54OK, certainly by the sea,
0:11:54 > 0:11:58Hong Kong Harbour is not the right answer.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01No. It was... You are shaking your head there, CJ.
0:12:01 > 0:12:05- Equestrianism.- Equestrianism was the answer we were looking for.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09So, a slip there by Clive and a chance for CJ.
0:12:10 > 0:12:16CJ, bed and breakfast is a term used in darts to describe which score?
0:12:20 > 0:12:24Bed and breakfast is a term used in darts to describe which score?
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Now one of those immediately stands out
0:12:28 > 0:12:31and I'm trying to think why it does.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35It's not 106, it's one of the others.
0:12:35 > 0:12:3826 was the first thing that appealed to me,
0:12:38 > 0:12:41but why would that mean bed and breakfast?
0:12:42 > 0:12:45Is it some, erm...
0:12:45 > 0:12:48I am trying to dig it out here.
0:12:48 > 0:12:52Is it some old reference to 2/6d?
0:12:52 > 0:12:58That was the cost of bed and breakfast
0:12:58 > 0:13:00even when Daphne was young.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04I'm going with my first instinct and go for 26.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07- 26.- Yeah.
0:13:07 > 0:13:12Cost of a B&B when they coined the phrase, yeah, it's the right answer!
0:13:12 > 0:13:14Well done. It's because you are aiming at the treble 20,
0:13:14 > 0:13:17you get one in the 20, and one either side in the five and the one.
0:13:17 > 0:13:2126 is correct which means you are through to the final round, CJ.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23No place for you there, Clive.
0:13:23 > 0:13:27It hasn't worked, the tactic of going second for either you or Mike.
0:13:27 > 0:13:29Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:13:30 > 0:13:32Not going too well, Mighty Minions.
0:13:32 > 0:13:37Two rounds gone, two of you gone, all the Eggheads still there but a chance still.
0:13:37 > 0:13:41Two more head-to-heads coming up, a chance to level it up in the final round
0:13:41 > 0:13:45Let's see if you can start the fightback with this category. This one is Science.
0:13:47 > 0:13:52Not too keen on it. Well, Ali, Simon or Alistair to play it.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55Can I have another crack at this one?
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Alastair, how do you feel about Science?
0:13:58 > 0:14:02I'm not good on Science, but I'll do it because there's nobody else.
0:14:02 > 0:14:04I'm happy to take one for the team.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07OK, should we put you up against Daphne then?
0:14:07 > 0:14:09Oh, it's me and you, Daphne.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11Is she your idol, Ali?
0:14:11 > 0:14:13Yes, next to you of course.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16Oh, the buttering up!
0:14:17 > 0:14:19Get some special questions for Ali.
0:14:19 > 0:14:24Could I ask Ali and Daphne to take their positions in the question room?
0:14:25 > 0:14:28So, Ali, what are team orders here? Do you go first or second?
0:14:28 > 0:14:34I always thought I'd go first to get it over and done with but I've got a gut feeling about second.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36I'm going second.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41And that wasn't team orders, that's just the gut feeling.
0:14:41 > 0:14:46Yes, definitely, I don't think it's going to make too much difference to be honest though.
0:14:46 > 0:14:51We'll soon find out. Here's Daphne's question that would have been yours if you'd gone first.
0:14:51 > 0:14:54So, listen to see if you would have known it.
0:14:54 > 0:14:58Daphne, ochre - a mineral form of iron oxide - is commonly used as what?
0:15:02 > 0:15:03It's a pigment, Dermot.
0:15:05 > 0:15:06Pigment, so used in painting.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09- Yes.- What kind of colour, iron oxide - reddish, brown?
0:15:09 > 0:15:11Yes, reddish brown, isn't it?
0:15:11 > 0:15:16There are various kinds of ochre, red and yellow ochre.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19- Different shades of it.- You can have a yellow one as well.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21Anyway, you've got it, it's a pigment.
0:15:21 > 0:15:24Good start, Daphne. Let's have a good start for you, Ali,
0:15:24 > 0:15:25good luck with this.
0:15:25 > 0:15:30The medical practice of acupuncture was first developed in which country?
0:15:35 > 0:15:39Japan and China are very known for their alternative therapies.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42Should have gone first.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45I think I am going to just going to go for India.
0:15:47 > 0:15:48India it is.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51OK, Indian acupuncture,
0:15:51 > 0:15:55I'm sure it's practised but Chinese.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58Genuinely believed to have started it all.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01China and you would have been OK with ochre as you say.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03Let's see how Daphne does with her second.
0:16:03 > 0:16:08In which part of the body would you find the limbic system?
0:16:10 > 0:16:14Well, I think it controls the emotions
0:16:14 > 0:16:18which is probably why I cry a lot. It's in the brain.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20It is the brain. It's the right answer, Daphne.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22So, two to you.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26Right, maximum concentration, Ali, and best of luck.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29- No pressure(!)- None at all.
0:16:29 > 0:16:30Here's the question.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33Which scientist, born in 1822,
0:16:33 > 0:16:38took the name Gregor on becoming an Augustinian monk?
0:16:42 > 0:16:47I didn't think I had a clue but I've got a funny kind of inkling
0:16:47 > 0:16:51that it could be Pasteur and I am just going to go with it
0:16:51 > 0:16:52because it feels right.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57Gregor, Gregor Pasteur.
0:16:57 > 0:17:01Oh, now Mendel seems right. Oh, I've gone Pasteur now anyway.
0:17:02 > 0:17:06- Ali, and it is Mendel. - It is! Oh gosh!
0:17:06 > 0:17:11Oh, that's awful! It's just one of those appearances
0:17:11 > 0:17:15in the head-to-heads, Ali, where it just all went so horribly wrong.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17It did. At least it's over now!
0:17:17 > 0:17:21I just feel awful. How were you with limbic system?
0:17:21 > 0:17:24I wouldn't have got that one, I have to admit, yeah.
0:17:24 > 0:17:28And we don't get to look at any more questions now because it is over.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32There's Daphne smiling - a bit of empathy I can see there, Daphne,
0:17:32 > 0:17:34the limbic system welling up there, is it?
0:17:36 > 0:17:41Bad luck, Ali, you won't be in the final round. Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:17:41 > 0:17:45As it stands, the Mighty Minions have lost three brains from the final round.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47The Eggheads haven't lost any.
0:17:47 > 0:17:51This subject, and our last subject before the final round, is Politics.
0:17:51 > 0:17:55Alistair or Simon which one of you fancies this, Politics?
0:17:55 > 0:17:58THEY CONFER
0:18:00 > 0:18:04- Would you like to announce it? - Sorry? What, announce taking on Judith?
0:18:04 > 0:18:07Dermot, I'm going to do Politics and I'll take on Judith.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10Let's have Alistair and Judith into the question room, please.
0:18:12 > 0:18:17So, Alistair, when you're not following the Tour de France, are you keen on politics?
0:18:17 > 0:18:20I think I have an OK knowledge of politics
0:18:20 > 0:18:26but it's a bit of a lottery, really, because it's such a long period of time.
0:18:26 > 0:18:31- A bit of history in there and of course different countries.- Yeah. - Do you want to go first or second?
0:18:31 > 0:18:37- I am going to put the marker down and go first please, Dermot.- OK.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42Let's hope it works for you, Alistair, best of luck.
0:18:42 > 0:18:47For what does the letter L stand for in the name of the union ASLEF?
0:18:51 > 0:18:56Oh, God, I think... I'm pretty sure it's not legal.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59I am going to go for locomotive.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01I have a feeling that might be the one.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04OK, gone for locomotive in ASLEF, L,
0:19:04 > 0:19:07and Chris Hughes, what does it stand for?
0:19:07 > 0:19:11Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen.
0:19:11 > 0:19:13There we are, it's the right answer.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16The game starts here.
0:19:16 > 0:19:17It does, the fightback starts here.
0:19:17 > 0:19:22OK that's good to see, nice early score on the board.
0:19:22 > 0:19:26Judith, what name is given to the tax levied on excessive profits?
0:19:30 > 0:19:32I think that might be a windfall tax.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34- Windfall tax?- Yes.
0:19:34 > 0:19:39Windfall tax is the right answer, Judith, well done.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42Back to you, Alistair, second question.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45How old was Tony Blair when he was first elected Prime Minister?
0:19:48 > 0:19:51I know he was young
0:19:51 > 0:19:55but 33 is too young and 53 is definitely too old, so I am going
0:19:55 > 0:20:00to plump for 43 please, Dermot.
0:20:00 > 0:20:02Right answer, well done.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06Judith, in September 2008,
0:20:06 > 0:20:12Condoleezza Rice became the first US Secretary of State to visit which country for over 50 years?
0:20:18 > 0:20:23I should think that's probably Vietnam. I'm trying to think.
0:20:24 > 0:20:28I think it might be Vietnam.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31- Going for Vietnam?- Yes.
0:20:31 > 0:20:35Well, obvious reasons why there should be a long gap,
0:20:35 > 0:20:37but it's the wrong answer.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40- Oh, is it? - It's not Vietnam, it's Libya.- Libya.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43Libya is the first country visited by a US Secretary of State
0:20:43 > 0:20:44for 50 years.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47A chance for Alistair to go through to the final round.
0:20:47 > 0:20:51Judith is ejected without answering another question if you get this correct.
0:20:51 > 0:20:59Which Chancellor's budget plans were famously leaked in full to the Daily Mirror the day before his speech?
0:21:02 > 0:21:05Well, I don't think it's Kenneth Clarke
0:21:05 > 0:21:08because he's too suave and calculated
0:21:08 > 0:21:11to lose or let them out of his sight.
0:21:11 > 0:21:16I think Nigel Lawson resigned on a different issue altogether.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18So, I'm going to say...
0:21:18 > 0:21:21Norman Lamont please, Dermot.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26It's the wrong answer.
0:21:26 > 0:21:31Oh, close! It's the man who took over from him, Kenneth Clarke,
0:21:31 > 0:21:35the suave, Hush Puppy wearing, jazz loving,
0:21:35 > 0:21:38cigar smoking Kenneth Clarke.
0:21:38 > 0:21:42Well, you get another chance to get through if Judith gets this wrong
0:21:42 > 0:21:45you still go through, but if not, we go to Sudden Death.
0:21:45 > 0:21:48Judith, in the British parliament, how many minutes do MPs have
0:21:48 > 0:21:52to get to the chamber to vote once the division bell sounds?
0:21:55 > 0:21:58Well, there's a whole area of London, isn't there,
0:21:58 > 0:22:01where people live within the division bell
0:22:01 > 0:22:05and given the state of the traffic, I think it is probably ten.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09- OK, ten.- Yes.
0:22:09 > 0:22:10- It's only eight.- Oh.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13Eight minutes.
0:22:13 > 0:22:18So, there we are! You are through, Alistair. Great news for the Mighty Minions.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:22:21 > 0:22:26This is what we've been playing towards. It's time for the final round which is general knowledge.
0:22:26 > 0:22:29But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head to heads
0:22:29 > 0:22:32won't be able to take part in this round,
0:22:32 > 0:22:35so Clive, Ali and Mike from the Mighty Minions
0:22:35 > 0:22:39and Judith from the Eggheads, would you leave the studio, please?
0:22:39 > 0:22:43Simon and Alistair, you are playing to win the Mighty Minions £28,000.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45Kevin, CJ, Daphne and Chris,
0:22:45 > 0:22:50you're playing for something which money can't buy - the Eggheads' reputation.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53As usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.
0:22:53 > 0:22:57This time, the questions are all general knowledge and you are allowed to confer,
0:22:57 > 0:23:01which is why that victory by you, Alistair, at the last time of asking was so, so important.
0:23:01 > 0:23:06And Simon and Alistair, the question is...are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?
0:23:06 > 0:23:09Simon and Alistair, do you want to go first or second?
0:23:09 > 0:23:13Well, I think the tactic worked for first so...
0:23:13 > 0:23:15I think we are going to go first.
0:23:18 > 0:23:22Best of luck to you, Simon and Alistair, £28,000.
0:23:22 > 0:23:28Which phrase is used to describe something unconventional or out of the mainstream?
0:23:32 > 0:23:34- Are we going to go for that?- Yeah?- Yeah.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37Left field, it's gotta be. I like to think of myself as a bit...
0:23:37 > 0:23:39- Bit of a left fielder?- That's it.
0:23:39 > 0:23:43It's a term that I often use for my taste in music,
0:23:43 > 0:23:46maybe shirts sometimes.
0:23:46 > 0:23:47I think it's left field.
0:23:47 > 0:23:51OK, it's the right answer. Well done, Mighty Minions. Good start.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53It's an American football term, isn't it?
0:23:53 > 0:23:55Baseball.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00Eggheads - first question.
0:24:00 > 0:24:01Who played the Allied goalkeeper
0:24:01 > 0:24:04in the 1981 film Escape to Victory?
0:24:07 > 0:24:10I don't think either Willis or Schwarzenegger
0:24:10 > 0:24:12were in it, so it was Sylvester Stallone.
0:24:12 > 0:24:16Sylvester Stallone, what a fine role it was.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19What a cast! Pele was in it, wasn't he?
0:24:19 > 0:24:21- Yes.- Bobby Moore.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23Ardiles.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26And Sylvester Stallone in goal is the right answer, Eggheads.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28The Minions would have easily got that as well
0:24:28 > 0:24:30if they had gone second.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33But on the first set and this is your next question then.
0:24:33 > 0:24:37Captain Matthew Webb, the first man to swim the English Channel,
0:24:37 > 0:24:42died in 1883 during an attempt to swim across which body of water?
0:24:46 > 0:24:49- Any idea of this. - Body of water so that could be...
0:24:49 > 0:24:53The Bay of Biscay, there's probably quite a swell there,
0:24:53 > 0:24:57it's pretty hard to swim across it, I would have thought.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59He didn't swim across Niagara Falls.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01Niagara Falls is going to be even harder, yeah.
0:25:01 > 0:25:06But that could be why he was taken to his untimely demise.
0:25:06 > 0:25:08What did you think it was?
0:25:08 > 0:25:11I'm looking at the most bizarre one being possibly the one.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13I'm leaning towards the Bay of Biscay.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15You thought that as well, didn't you?
0:25:18 > 0:25:20Bay of Biscay, I think.
0:25:20 > 0:25:24We both thought it but we are gonna go for the Bay of Biscay.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26OK, Bay of Biscay.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28Matthew Webb died in 1883
0:25:28 > 0:25:32attempting to swim across Niagara Falls.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37I think Captain Webb was trying to swim below the falls
0:25:37 > 0:25:40rather than above because he would just have been swept over
0:25:40 > 0:25:42if he was swimming above. Still pretty turbulent.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45The current was coming in at right angles to what he was trying do.
0:25:47 > 0:25:49So, he wasn't going over in a barrel?
0:25:49 > 0:25:51It was a woman who did it first, the first one to do it
0:25:51 > 0:25:53was a 63 year-old woman.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56- And survived.- And survived.- Yes - Many others failed.- Yes.
0:25:56 > 0:25:57Lots of Niagara Falls facts there
0:25:57 > 0:26:02but didn't get that, Mighty Minions. Chance for the lead for the Eggheads.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04Second question for you.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07Leatherneck is a US nickname for a member of what?
0:26:13 > 0:26:15It dates back to the day when the uniform used to include
0:26:15 > 0:26:18a very uncomfortable leather stock. It's the Marine Corps.
0:26:19 > 0:26:23The Marine Corps. And why was that collar leather?
0:26:23 > 0:26:25It just was.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28Well, the idea of a stock is to keep your head up of course.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31All right, Marine Corps is correct, Eggheads, leathernecks.
0:26:31 > 0:26:37So, you've got to get this. Time to dig in, mentioning the Marine Corps.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39Now, do you know this?
0:26:39 > 0:26:43The naira is the monetary unit of which African country?
0:26:48 > 0:26:50Do you have any idea about that?
0:26:50 > 0:26:52I thought he was going to mention...
0:26:52 > 0:26:55There's a project of that name planned for an outdoor aquarium.
0:26:55 > 0:26:56- Is there?- Yes.
0:26:56 > 0:27:02I think that possibly the ex-colony ones
0:27:02 > 0:27:05would be sounding a bit more like a shilling or a bit of a...
0:27:05 > 0:27:09so the strange country that we wouldn't expect
0:27:09 > 0:27:11might be it, possibly.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18- Niger.- Niger. I don't know, what do you want to go for?
0:27:18 > 0:27:20Stab in the dark, I'm not too sure.
0:27:21 > 0:27:25Shall we say one, two three and say it? One, two, three...
0:27:26 > 0:27:28OK, let's go with Namibia.
0:27:28 > 0:27:31OK, the naira is the monetary unit...
0:27:33 > 0:27:36..of Nigeria.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39Third on your list, Nigeria.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41Which means, Eggheads, you've won.
0:27:47 > 0:27:50Well, it just didn't seem to work out for you today.
0:27:50 > 0:27:54It was just one of those days - you went first, you went second, the questions didn't suit you.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56We wouldn't have got the Marine Corps one.
0:27:56 > 0:28:00Well, you never know until you are forced to guess at it.
0:28:00 > 0:28:05Those were some tricky questions all round but of course the Eggheads have done it.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08Congratulations to you for playing so well and being such fun.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11Thank you for joining us here to play Eggheads,
0:28:11 > 0:28:12we've enjoyed having you.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them,
0:28:15 > 0:28:17their winning streak continues.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19I'm afraid you won't be going home with £28,000
0:28:19 > 0:28:22which means the money rolls over to the next show.
0:28:22 > 0:28:27Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?
0:28:27 > 0:28:31Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33£29,000 says they don't.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35Until then, goodbye.
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