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 > 0:00:20Question 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 > 0:00:30pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:35They've won some of the country's toughest quiz shows.
0:00:35 > 0:00:36They are the Eggheads.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39Challenging our resident quiz champions today are Slightly Foxed.
0:00:39 > 0:00:43They all work for the National Library of Scotland,
0:00:43 > 0:00:47One of Europe's major research libraries,
0:00:47 > 0:00:50with over 14 million printed items.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52- Let's meet them.- Hello, I'm David.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55I'm 51 and I'm a strategy manager.
0:00:55 > 0:01:00Hello, I'm Carolyn. I'm 43 and I'm a cataloguing assistant.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04Hello, I'm Annette. I'm 41 and I'm a rare books curator.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08Hi, I'm Rachel. I'm 26 and I'm an assistant curator.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11Hi, I'm John. I'm 46 and I'm a librarian.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13I hope you've read 14 million items,
0:01:13 > 0:01:16you might need them to beat the Eggheads, Slightly Foxed!
0:01:16 > 0:01:19Tell me about the team name.
0:01:19 > 0:01:25It's a pun on foxing, which is a sort of a paper degradation problem
0:01:25 > 0:01:29that we preserve books. It also means we're a little bit confused.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32Yeah, got that bit. Right, a little bit stained, then, as well?
0:01:32 > 0:01:34You all look well turned out!
0:01:34 > 0:01:37No dribbles down their front or anything like that.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39Where do you store all this stuff?
0:01:39 > 0:01:43It just keeps coming in on a daily basis, doesn't it?
0:01:43 > 0:01:47That's right. There's about 6,000 items arrive every week.
0:01:47 > 0:01:49So, storing, cataloguing,
0:01:49 > 0:01:53processing these things is one of the major tasks. Yeah.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55Best of luck today on Eggheads.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58I'll tell you right now how much is up for grabs.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00Every day, there's £1,000 up for grabs
0:02:00 > 0:02:04for our challengers. However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:02:04 > 0:02:07the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10So, the Eggheads have won the last 21 games,
0:02:10 > 0:02:14which means £22,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17Here we go, then. The first head to head battle
0:02:17 > 0:02:19will be on the subject of Film and Television.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22So, who wants to play this one? It can be anyone you like, of course.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25Film and Television.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27- You're all looking at me! - We'll go with Rachel, yeah?
0:02:27 > 0:02:30- Rachel?- Yup. Yes. I think we'll go for Rachel.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33And who do we want to challenge?
0:02:33 > 0:02:36- Will we give... - Shall we give Barry a go?
0:02:36 > 0:02:40- Will we try Barry?- Try Barry. - I like the way CJ's always waving!
0:02:40 > 0:02:43"Pick me!" I'll get someone to pick you one day and see how you do.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46Be careful what you wish for! Let's have Rachel and Barry
0:02:46 > 0:02:50into the question room, just to make sure you can't confer, Rachel.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53OK, Rachel, do you want to go first or second?
0:02:53 > 0:02:56- It's always the challenger's choice. - I'll go first, please.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01Good luck. OK, Rachel.
0:03:01 > 0:03:06In 2000, Aled Jones became a presenter on which TV show?
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Well, I don't really think he'd really be on for Top Gear.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14I don't think that's his cup of tea.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16Fairly confident that one's Songs of Praise.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19- I think he still does it, in fact. - Songs of Praise, yeah.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22He's been on Top Gear. I've seen him in that, what...
0:03:22 > 0:03:24- Star in a...- The Stig! - Maybe he is the Stig!
0:03:24 > 0:03:26Maybe he is. You're right.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28Songs of Praise, yes, is the right answer.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31Aled Jones started appearing on that in 2000.
0:03:31 > 0:03:32Barry, first question for you.
0:03:32 > 0:03:37Julia Roberts won a Best Actress Oscar for her role
0:03:37 > 0:03:39in which film of 2000?
0:03:43 > 0:03:44It was Erin Brockovich.
0:03:44 > 0:03:49And I think Erin Brokovich actually had a bit role in the same film.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52It is Erin Brockovich. That's the right answer, Barry.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55One apiece. Rachel, second question.
0:03:55 > 0:04:00The Shane Meadows film This Is England
0:04:00 > 0:04:02is about which youth counter-culture?
0:04:04 > 0:04:10I'm afraid I don't really know this one off the top of my head.
0:04:10 > 0:04:14Well, as I don't know, the Skinheads is the one
0:04:14 > 0:04:17that's kind of standing out. The Mods and the Rockers
0:04:17 > 0:04:20kind of go well together. Skinheads seems to be the odd one out,
0:04:20 > 0:04:22- so I'll go for that one. - OK. And correctly so.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25Right answer, well done.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27This Is England, about Skinheads. So, Barry,
0:04:27 > 0:04:33in 1986, which fashion designer became the co-presenter
0:04:33 > 0:04:36with Selina Scott of the TV programme The Clothes Show?
0:04:40 > 0:04:43I'm not sure on this one.
0:04:43 > 0:04:47I know Jean-Paul Gaultier has been involved in some television shows.
0:04:47 > 0:04:51But I'm sure it wasn't The Clothes Show that he was involved in.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53I think it was Jeff Banks.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55But I'm not 100% certain.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57The Clothes Show.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00It's Jeff Banks. It's the right answer.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02OK, two each.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Rachel, who played Guy Perron
0:05:04 > 0:05:07in the 1980s TV drama The Jewel In The Crown?
0:05:12 > 0:05:16Again, unfortunately, I don't really have any idea.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19The only person that I know from those lists of names
0:05:19 > 0:05:22is Nigel Havers. So, I will give him a shot.
0:05:22 > 0:05:26Give Nigel Havers a shot in The Jewel In The Crown.
0:05:26 > 0:05:27It's Charles Dance.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30Before your time, wasn't it?
0:05:30 > 0:05:32- Only slightly. - With The Jewel In The Crown.
0:05:32 > 0:05:36Right. Well, a chance for Barry to win the round.
0:05:36 > 0:05:42Barry, in which 1949 comedy film did Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn
0:05:42 > 0:05:46play a married couple who work as opposing lawyers in a case?
0:05:50 > 0:05:53I really should know this, because I know most of the films
0:05:53 > 0:05:56that those two made together.
0:05:56 > 0:06:00But Adam's Rib is coming out to me because of the obvious connection
0:06:00 > 0:06:02between Adam and Eve.
0:06:02 > 0:06:06If they were opposing, it seems to be logical to choose that name.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09- So, I shall go for Adam's Rib. - OK. Not knowing it outright.
0:06:09 > 0:06:13So, using a degree of logic. Getting the right the answer, Barry.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16Adam's Rib is correct. Tracy and Hepburn in that.
0:06:16 > 0:06:20Married couple working as opposing lawyers. Bad luck, Rachel.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23Do you like that pairing, Tracy and Hepburn?
0:06:23 > 0:06:26I've seen a couple, but I'm not sure I'd have got that.
0:06:26 > 0:06:30- Yes, you would!- Of course I would have.- We'll never know.
0:06:30 > 0:06:34You won't be playing in the final round, Rachel. Barry will be.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:06:37 > 0:06:41Well, as it stands, Slightly Foxed have lost the one brain, Rachel,
0:06:41 > 0:06:43from the final round. The Eggheads are all there.
0:06:43 > 0:06:47We move on to our second category today. This one is Science.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50And who'd like to play this? It can't be Rachel.
0:06:50 > 0:06:51Any of the rest of you?
0:06:51 > 0:06:54- Science.- Is that you, David?
0:06:54 > 0:06:56I think it was you, David, wasn't it, really?
0:06:56 > 0:07:00- OK. I'll give it a go if no-one else wants to.- OK, David, you go.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02- OK, I'll go for Science.- For Science.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Which Egghead would you like to go for?
0:07:04 > 0:07:06It can't, of course, be Barry.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08- Any of the rest of them? - I'll try Judith.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Judith.
0:07:10 > 0:07:12Looking very happy about that, Judith.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15- Or is that just a fixed grin? - I'm a very good actress.- You are.
0:07:15 > 0:07:20OK, let's have David and Judith into the question room, please.
0:07:20 > 0:07:25OK, then, David, do you want to go first or second?
0:07:25 > 0:07:30- I'll go first.- It's Science.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33David's facing the first question. And here it is.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36The plant euphorbia pulcherrima,
0:07:36 > 0:07:39particularly associated with Christmas,
0:07:39 > 0:07:41is better known by what name?
0:07:46 > 0:07:48Well, I don't know the answer to that.
0:07:48 > 0:07:54So, I'll have to try and bring my chances up
0:07:54 > 0:07:57by eliminating one or two.
0:07:57 > 0:08:01I can't really see what lupins have got to do with Christmas.
0:08:01 > 0:08:05So, I'll say it's not a lupin.
0:08:05 > 0:08:09I don't associate chrysanthemums with Christmas, either.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12- So, I'll go for poinsettia. - Maybe Judith can enlighten us.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15It's the right answer. Well done, well worked out.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18David eliminated the other two, thought it must be poinsettia.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Judith, I know you like your garden.
0:08:21 > 0:08:23What do poinsettias look like?
0:08:23 > 0:08:28Well, they're very bright red plants...actually, leaves.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31The leaves go bright red. You can get pink ones and cream ones
0:08:31 > 0:08:34as well. They're all over the place at Christmas.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36Ah, OK. So, your question, Judith.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39What name is given to an electrical circuit
0:08:39 > 0:08:42in which a path of very low resistance is opened,
0:08:42 > 0:08:46usually accidentally, resulting in a flow of excess current?
0:08:49 > 0:08:51I think I'm on the wrong programme!
0:08:51 > 0:08:55- This is University Challenge territory.- This is far harder.
0:08:55 > 0:08:59Well, I don't think there are long circuits or wide circuits.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02The only sort of one I recognise is a short circuit.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04So, I imagine it must be that one.
0:09:04 > 0:09:08Hence the accidental bit there as well. Yeah, short circuit.
0:09:08 > 0:09:14No short circuit there in the Kepple brain! OK, back to you, David.
0:09:14 > 0:09:20In statistics, which term refers to the measure of the extent or degree
0:09:20 > 0:09:22of the sample being spread out?
0:09:26 > 0:09:29OK. Well, my daughter's been doing her practice
0:09:29 > 0:09:31for her Standard Grades in Scotland.
0:09:31 > 0:09:35I'm pretty sure that standard variance is the measure
0:09:35 > 0:09:37for how spread out things are.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40- So, I'll go for variants. - Useful, that.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Normally, it's children who remember Dad saying that.
0:09:42 > 0:09:46Now it's the other way round! You got it, variance.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49Right answer. OK, Judith.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51Which element, discovered in 1807,
0:09:51 > 0:09:55reacts violently when introduced to water,
0:09:55 > 0:09:58sometimes causing an explosion?
0:10:01 > 0:10:04Oh, Lordy!
0:10:04 > 0:10:07Krypton's a gas, isn't it? It's a...
0:10:09 > 0:10:14Titanium is a metal. Potassium...
0:10:17 > 0:10:21I can't think why it should be titanium.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24Because people's hips and things like that are made of titanium.
0:10:24 > 0:10:30Krypton's a gas and potassium is... goodness, I don't know what, really.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32And you put it in the garden.
0:10:34 > 0:10:39I don't know why, but my instinct says potassium. Probably wrongly.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42Potassium is correct there, Judith. Two out of two.
0:10:42 > 0:10:43David, third question.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45It's two-all, of course.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48Herpetotheres cachinnans is the scientific name
0:10:48 > 0:10:53for which noisy falcon of Central and South America,
0:10:53 > 0:10:55whose diet is mainly comprised of snakes?
0:11:01 > 0:11:05Well, this is not a bird that I'm familiar with.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09I've never heard of it.
0:11:09 > 0:11:14- Herpetoferia... - Herpetotheres cachinnans.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17I'm trying to see if there's a clue in the name.
0:11:17 > 0:11:18If there is one, I don't see it.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21They all seem a bit unlikely, to be honest.
0:11:21 > 0:11:25But I think I'll go for the laughing falcon.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29Laughing falcon is correct. Well done, David.
0:11:29 > 0:11:35Where's the laughing bit, then, in that, herpetotheres cachinnans?
0:11:35 > 0:11:40It must be cachinnans. The "herpe" bit is to do with snakes.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43David in the lead. Judith, you've got to get this.
0:11:43 > 0:11:49Fraunhofer lines, first noted in 1802, are an aspect of what?
0:11:53 > 0:11:58I should think it's rock formations. I just don't see how...
0:11:58 > 0:12:01I was thinking, they couldn't see inside a brain.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04But they can see inside a dead brain.
0:12:04 > 0:12:09Solar spectrum...could they have telescopes seeing these lines?
0:12:09 > 0:12:13I don't know. I just think it might be rock formations.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16Rock formations, to take us into sudden death.
0:12:16 > 0:12:18It's not the right answer.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21- Other Eggheads?- They're absorption lines in the solar spectrum.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23It's the solar spectrum, Judith.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25But you played well there.
0:12:25 > 0:12:29Some tough questions for you both, and David negotiated his
0:12:29 > 0:12:31more successfully. Well played, David.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33You're in the final round, playing for 22 grand.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36Would you please come back and join your teams?
0:12:37 > 0:12:39As it stands, it's all square.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42Both teams have knocked out one of their opponents.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45So, we move on to our third round today. This one is Music.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47Who will play this from Slightly Foxed?
0:12:47 > 0:12:51- Let's have you, Carolyn. - OK, Carolyn. Who would you like
0:12:51 > 0:12:54to play from the Eggheads? Those two at the end have played.
0:12:54 > 0:12:58- So, it leaves Kevin, CJ or Daphne. - I will play Daphne, please.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02Let's have Carolyn and Daphne into the question room, please.
0:13:02 > 0:13:06Now, Carolyn, always the challenger's decision.
0:13:06 > 0:13:07Do you want to go first,
0:13:07 > 0:13:10have the first set of questions, or let Daphne kick off?
0:13:10 > 0:13:13I think I'd like to go first, please, Dermot.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Good luck, Carolyn. Here you go.
0:13:16 > 0:13:205-4-3-2-1, released in 1964,
0:13:20 > 0:13:24was the first UK Top Ten hit single for which group?
0:13:28 > 0:13:32When you read out the title, I wasn't awfully sure.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35I had a couple of answers in my head.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38But the great thing about multiple choice is, there's only one of them
0:13:38 > 0:13:41there in the three that I've been given to choose from.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43I think I'll go for Manfred Mann on that one.
0:13:43 > 0:13:47Manfred Mann, 5-4-3-2-1. It's the right answer.
0:13:47 > 0:13:48Well, done, Carolyn.
0:13:48 > 0:13:52Solid start. Is she going to follow David into the final round?
0:13:52 > 0:13:56Daphne, doing her best to prevent it.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00In which of his songs does Elvis Presley sing about residing
0:14:00 > 0:14:02down at the end of lonely street?
0:14:05 > 0:14:09Poor old Elvis. Heartbreak Hotel.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12As if. Yeah, it's the right answer. Heartbreak Hotel.
0:14:12 > 0:14:15OK, back to you, Carolyn. Second question.
0:14:15 > 0:14:20Glen Matlock and Paul Cook were the bass player and drummer respectively
0:14:20 > 0:14:21in which punk band?
0:14:25 > 0:14:29Well, I know that they're the... they're the two musicians
0:14:29 > 0:14:33from that band that... that are less remembered.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36- It was The Sex Pistols.- Sex Pistols. Glen Matlock and Paul Cook, yes...
0:14:36 > 0:14:40perhaps the lesser known members of the band...is the right answer.
0:14:40 > 0:14:45Sex Pistols. Correct. So, Daphne, the theme to The Man From Uncle
0:14:45 > 0:14:48earned which composer his first Grammy Award nomination?
0:14:52 > 0:14:54No idea.
0:14:54 > 0:14:59I think Hans Zimmer is a bit later.
0:14:59 > 0:15:03I know he did the theme for Going For Gold.
0:15:08 > 0:15:12I really don't know. Lalo Schifrin?
0:15:12 > 0:15:13Lalo Schifrin?
0:15:13 > 0:15:17It's not, it's Jerry Goldsmith. Theme from The Man From Uncle.
0:15:17 > 0:15:21There you are. So, you are wrong and not definite at all. Just bluffing.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23You go through to the final round like David
0:15:23 > 0:15:27if you give me a correct answer here, Carolyn. Big chance.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30The Wedding March, which often accompanies bridal processions,
0:15:30 > 0:15:34is taken from which work by the German composer Felix Mendelssohn?
0:15:40 > 0:15:43I'm not so sure about this one.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46I'm pretty sure it's not Fingal's Cave.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50I've never even heard of Hymn Of Praise.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53So, I think it must be A Midsummer Night's Dream.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56Midsummer Night's Dream. You've got it.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58It's the right answer. Midsummer Night's Dream.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00Carolyn, congratulations to you.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03Playing for the money today. Well, what a turnaround!
0:16:03 > 0:16:07Lost first head to head, but have won the next two now. Carolyn,
0:16:07 > 0:16:09Daphne, would you please come back and join your teams?
0:16:11 > 0:16:14So, as it stands, Slightly Foxed have only been slightly foxed.
0:16:14 > 0:16:18Lost one brain from the final round. The Eggheads have been more foxed.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20They've lost two brains.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23Let's play our last head to head before that final round.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25And this one is Politics.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27And remaining players are Annette or John.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29Who'd like to take on Politics?
0:16:29 > 0:16:32- I think that's John. - You're the Politics guy.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34John, you like your Politics, do you?
0:16:34 > 0:16:37- Yes.- Might not enjoy it if you get in there.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39Who would you like to play?
0:16:39 > 0:16:43You've got Judith, Daphne and Barry have played. So, it is Kevin or CJ.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46- CJ we'll go for, yeah. - Go for CJ on Politics.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48As long as it's American presidents.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50If it's US presidents, I'm fine.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53Yeah. Rather narrowing down you options there, CJ.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55Let's have John and CJ into the question room.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00So, John, I hear you're an amateur astronomer.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02I am indeed. That's right.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05So, did you know about your Fraunhofer lines?
0:17:05 > 0:17:08I'm not sure if I would have got that one.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11Now, well, this...this isn't Science or anything related to it.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14It's Politics. Would you like to go first or second?
0:17:14 > 0:17:19- First, please, Dermot. - OK, good luck, John.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21Going first, here's your question.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24What name is given to a diplomat sent by a state
0:17:24 > 0:17:28as the main permanent representative in a foreign country?
0:17:31 > 0:17:36Not sure of this one. I tend to think High Commissioner
0:17:36 > 0:17:40with representing the UK. I don't think it's High Commissioner.
0:17:40 > 0:17:44The obvious answer seems to me Ambassador. Attache...
0:17:44 > 0:17:49I'm not sure, either, if it's the right one.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52- I'm going to go for Ambassador. - Ambassador is the right answer.
0:17:52 > 0:17:56Yes...with a year's supply of Ferrero Rocher!
0:17:56 > 0:17:59OK, CJ, first one for you.
0:17:59 > 0:18:03In June 2007, who succeeded Ruth Kelly
0:18:03 > 0:18:07as the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government?
0:18:09 > 0:18:12I think Jacqui Smith is the Home Secretary.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15And I think David Miliband is the Foreign Secretary.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17Which leaves Hazel Blears.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20Hazel Blears is the right answer. It's one each.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23John, second question.
0:18:23 > 0:18:28The Social Democratic and Labour Party, or SDLP, formed in 1970,
0:18:28 > 0:18:31is one of the two main nationalist political parties
0:18:31 > 0:18:33in which part of the UK?
0:18:36 > 0:18:38I can say with some confidence it's not Scotland,
0:18:38 > 0:18:41obviously, coming from Scotland.
0:18:41 > 0:18:44I also know it's not Wales. It is, in fact, Northern Ireland.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46I think John Hume is certainly one
0:18:46 > 0:18:49of the key political representers of the SDLP.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52- So, I'll go with Northern Ireland. - Is the right answer.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55So, CJ, second question.
0:18:55 > 0:18:59Who infamously remarked in a 1987 interview,
0:18:59 > 0:19:01"There is no such thing as society,
0:19:01 > 0:19:04"there are individual men and women, and there are families"?
0:19:09 > 0:19:11I'm afraid I haven't heard the quotation.
0:19:13 > 0:19:17I'm going to go for Margaret Thatcher.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19Going for Margaret Thatcher.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21Correct. So, it's two each.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23John, third question.
0:19:23 > 0:19:27In the oath of office of the President of the United States,
0:19:27 > 0:19:29the President swears or affirms
0:19:29 > 0:19:33that he or she will preserve, protect and defend what?
0:19:38 > 0:19:40I'm sure that I've listened
0:19:40 > 0:19:42to at least one swearing-in of a US president.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45So, I should really remember this.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48I don't think it's the nation's security. At least,
0:19:48 > 0:19:51it doesn't sound familiar. I mean, the obvious answer, yet again,
0:19:51 > 0:19:54says to me the US Constitution.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57That's my gut instinct. I'm going to go with that.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59I'm going to say the US Constitution.
0:19:59 > 0:20:04Preserve, protect and defend the US Constitution. It's the right answer.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07Well, done, John. Yup.
0:20:07 > 0:20:10Could have been American people. CJ, you've got to get this, then.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13The Inkatha Freedom Party has been an important force
0:20:13 > 0:20:16since the 1970s in the politics of which country?
0:20:20 > 0:20:22Founded by Chief Buthelezi in South Africa.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28Yeah, just because you got one! It's the right answer.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31Correct. So, it's three-all. We go to sudden death, John,
0:20:31 > 0:20:34and remove those choices you've been working with
0:20:34 > 0:20:35very successfully there.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38I've just got to hear an answer from you.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40This is your question, John.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43The Primrose League, dedicated to spreading the message
0:20:43 > 0:20:45of Conservatism throughout the country,
0:20:45 > 0:20:51was established in the 19th century in honour of which politician?
0:20:51 > 0:20:55It's not one I'm familiar with, I must confess. 19th century...
0:20:55 > 0:21:00The obvious name that springs to mind is Disraeli,
0:21:00 > 0:21:02but I'm not sure if it is Disraeli.
0:21:02 > 0:21:07I can't think of an obvious person who would promote Conservatism.
0:21:07 > 0:21:11- So, I'll go with Benjamin Disraeli. - OK, Benjamin Disraeli.
0:21:11 > 0:21:15It's the right answer, John. Well done.
0:21:15 > 0:21:19Primrose League. OK, CJ, your question to save the round.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21What two-word name is given to the short period
0:21:21 > 0:21:25of American political history from 1919,
0:21:25 > 0:21:29in which the country was effectively run by Edith Wilson
0:21:29 > 0:21:32following her husband Woodrow's debilitating stroke?
0:21:32 > 0:21:35Oh, dear, this is...oh, I was waiting for the options to come up.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37- Oh, Lord.- Ah-ha, no options.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39It's sudden death.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41Oh, oh, come on.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44It was Edith Galt Wilson, wasn't it?
0:21:44 > 0:21:47He only married her quite recently and she...
0:21:47 > 0:21:50she effectively took over.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52Oh, come on!
0:21:54 > 0:21:58We said before you went in there, you like your American presidents!
0:21:58 > 0:22:00I know. I know this perfectly well. Yeah.
0:22:00 > 0:22:04I know about Edith Galt and I know about Wilson.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08I have no idea. I cannot drag it out.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11I know this perfectly well and I don't know. Sorry.
0:22:11 > 0:22:12- I can't give an answer.- OK.
0:22:12 > 0:22:16Well, game is yours, John. Do you know the answer?
0:22:16 > 0:22:19- I don't, I'm afraid, no. - Doesn't matter. Other Eggheads?
0:22:19 > 0:22:21- We don't, either. - Petticoat Government?
0:22:21 > 0:22:23Daphne does. What is it?
0:22:23 > 0:22:25- Petticoat Government? - Petticoat Government.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28I thought of petticoats and I thought that was...
0:22:28 > 0:22:32because there was the Battle of the Petticoats, which came earlier.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34- Grrr!- The Petticoat Government.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37Well, you can come back and kick yourself quietly under the table.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40You've got plenty of time,
0:22:40 > 0:22:42you're not in the final round. John, you're there.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45Would you both come back and join your teams?
0:22:46 > 0:22:48So, this is what we've been playing towards.
0:22:48 > 0:22:51The final round, which, as always, is General Knowledge.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54But those of you who lost your head to heads
0:22:54 > 0:22:57won't be allowed to take part. So, Rachel from Slightly Foxed
0:22:57 > 0:23:01and Judith, CJ and Daphne from the Eggheads,
0:23:01 > 0:23:04would you all leave the studio, please?
0:23:04 > 0:23:07Well, David, Carolyn, Annette and John,
0:23:07 > 0:23:10you're playing to win Slightly Foxed £22,000.
0:23:10 > 0:23:14Barry and Kevin, you're playing for something which money can't buy -
0:23:14 > 0:23:15the Eggheads' reputation.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18I'll ask each team three questions in turn.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20The questions are all General Knowledge,
0:23:20 > 0:23:22and you are allowed to confer -
0:23:22 > 0:23:24the differences there from those head to heads.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Slightly Foxed, the question is,
0:23:26 > 0:23:29are your four brains better than the Eggheads' two?
0:23:29 > 0:23:32And Slightly Foxed, how do you want to play it?
0:23:32 > 0:23:36- First or second?- We've been lucky going first so far, I think.
0:23:36 > 0:23:37We'll stick with first, I think so.
0:23:40 > 0:23:41OK. First question to you.
0:23:41 > 0:23:45Could lead to £22,000. Here you go.
0:23:45 > 0:23:49"Up and down the City Road, in and out of The Eagle"
0:23:49 > 0:23:51are lines from which nursery rhyme?
0:23:55 > 0:23:57I'm pretty sure it's Pop Goes The Weasel, isn't it?
0:23:57 > 0:24:01I have no idea, because I wasn't brought up in this country, so...
0:24:01 > 0:24:03I agree with you, John. Yes.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06- I would think it's Pop Goes The Weasel.- Right.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09- Pop Goes The Weasel. - And Annette, you saying there
0:24:09 > 0:24:12you don't know much about these.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15- No.- British nursery rhymes.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17It is the right answer. Pop Goes The Weasel.
0:24:17 > 0:24:20Up and down the City Road, in and out of The Eagle.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22And Eggheads, first question to you, then.
0:24:22 > 0:24:26The first-stage rocket of a space launch vehicle
0:24:26 > 0:24:28is commonly known as what?
0:24:30 > 0:24:33- Booster.- Be a booster there, yeah? The booster rocket, Dermot.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36And this is the booster question for you both.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38It's the right answer. Booster.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40OK, Slightly Foxed, second question.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43Which ancient Roman religious officials were charged with
0:24:43 > 0:24:47the task of interpreting the will of the gods from signs,
0:24:47 > 0:24:49such as the flight of birds
0:24:49 > 0:24:54and the conditions of the entrails of sacrificed animals?
0:24:58 > 0:25:02- Augurs.- It's a difficult one. I'm not sure about augurs.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05I think they are more like monsters, aren't they?
0:25:05 > 0:25:07I've never heard of the other two.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10I've never heard of the other two. I would have gone for...
0:25:10 > 0:25:13my instinct would have been augurs.
0:25:13 > 0:25:16Pontifices sounds like someone that's pontificating.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18I don't know if that's...
0:25:18 > 0:25:21I've never heard of them in Ancient Rome.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24I haven't heard of the other two. The only connection I can make
0:25:24 > 0:25:27- is with...between augur and augury. - It augurs well.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30- Oh, that's true. - It augurs well, doesn't it?
0:25:30 > 0:25:32It augurs well for us to choose it!
0:25:32 > 0:25:35- OK.- Yes. We'll go for augurs, please.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38Augurs. It's the right answer.
0:25:38 > 0:25:39Augurs is correct.
0:25:40 > 0:25:45And it augurs well so far for Slightly Foxed. Two out of two.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47Eggheads, which New York landmark
0:25:47 > 0:25:50did the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer design
0:25:50 > 0:25:53in collaboration with Le Corbusier in 1947?
0:26:00 > 0:26:04They were responsible for the UN Headquarters. United Nations.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06United Nations. It's the right answer, Eggheads.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08Two to you.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10Third question each.
0:26:10 > 0:26:15Slightly Foxed, the Elo system was originally invented as a method
0:26:15 > 0:26:18for calculating the relative skill levels of whom?
0:26:22 > 0:26:24E-L-O.
0:26:24 > 0:26:28E-L-O. Right, anyone got any ideas on that? I don't.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30Well, I don't know how you can...
0:26:30 > 0:26:34how you can judge anybody's chess levels.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37So, typists or airline.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40I would lean towards pilots. But, you know, as a guess.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43I would lean towards typists myself.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46- Right.- But...- What would you lean towards, Carolyn?
0:26:48 > 0:26:51I'm sort of swithering in the middle, I'm afraid.
0:26:51 > 0:26:56I don't think you could calculate the skill of an airline pilot.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59No, no. I think we should go for typists.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06Maybe there was... Yeah, OK, I think that's...shall we go with that?
0:27:06 > 0:27:09- I'm not sure at all, but... - Typists, shall we?
0:27:09 > 0:27:11OK, we'll go for typists.
0:27:11 > 0:27:17Typists. The Elo system calculates the skill levels of...not typists.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19- Not typists.- Incorrect.
0:27:19 > 0:27:23And CJ knows because he plays a bit of it. It's chess.
0:27:23 > 0:27:29Well, first wrong answer in that final round from Slightly Foxed.
0:27:29 > 0:27:33But crucial point - one question will win it for the Eggheads.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35And this is it.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38In Greek mythology, by solving the riddle of the Sphinx,
0:27:38 > 0:27:40Oedipus became ruler of which city?
0:27:43 > 0:27:47In Greek mythology, by solving the riddle of the Sphinx,
0:27:47 > 0:27:49Oedipus became the ruler of which city?
0:27:49 > 0:27:51He became ruler of Thebes.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54It's the right answer, Eggheads, you've won.
0:27:59 > 0:28:03Well played, Slightly Foxed. Lost out there in the final round.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06I think a moral victory. Beat you three-two in terms of rounds,
0:28:06 > 0:28:08but didn't beat you in the round that matters.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10The round where the cash is won or not won.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13And that was £22,000 today.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15Bad luck. Thank you very much for playing,
0:28:15 > 0:28:18and telling us all about the National Library of Scotland.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20The Eggheads have done what comes naturally
0:28:20 > 0:28:22and their winning streak continues.
0:28:22 > 0:28:25You won't be going home with the £22,000,
0:28:25 > 0:28:27but with heads held very high.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30It means he money rolls over to the next show.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?
0:28:33 > 0:28:36Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers have the brains
0:28:36 > 0:28:41to defeat the Eggheads. £23,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.
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