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.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19The question is - can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers
0:00:26 > 0:00:30pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:35You might recognise them. They've won some of the country's toughest quiz shows. They are the Eggheads.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39And taking on the awesome might of our quiz Goliaths today
0:00:39 > 0:00:40are The Merrie Men.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43Everyone on the team hails from the city of Wakefield.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45They've taken their name from the fact
0:00:45 > 0:00:50that Wakefield was dubbed the "Merrie City" in the Middle Ages, due to the number of public houses.
0:00:50 > 0:00:55- Let's meet them.- Hi, I'm Ian. I'm 28 and I'm a solicitor.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58Hi, I'm Simon. I'm 27 and I'm a teacher.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02Hi, I'm Jonnie, I'm 28 and I'm a senior intelligence clerk.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06Hi, I'm Richard, I'm 27 and I'm an education consultant.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09Hi, I'm Tim, I'm 27 and I'm a maths teacher.
0:01:09 > 0:01:14Well, welcome to you, Merrie Men, and Wakefield named because...
0:01:14 > 0:01:16What? The Merrie City, because of so many public houses,
0:01:16 > 0:01:19and you've done your best to visit most of them.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21We've visited most of them, yes.
0:01:21 > 0:01:25Apart from tasting some of their wares, do you quiz in any of them?
0:01:25 > 0:01:29We do, we do. We regularly quiz on Sundays at our local pub.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33- What size are the teams?- Generally, about six teams participate,
0:01:33 > 0:01:34ranging in age.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37- We're generally the youngest ones. - Ah-ha.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39But we seem to fair OK against the older guys.
0:01:39 > 0:01:44- Well, that's what I wanted to hear. - I think it's cos the prize is beer.
0:01:44 > 0:01:45ALL LAUGH
0:01:45 > 0:01:49Slight age difference between the teams today on Eggheads.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51Let's see how you do. Best of luck, Merrie Men.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55Every day, there's £1,000 cash up for grabs for our challengers.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58If they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the money rolls over to the next show.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01So, Merrie Men, the challengers won the last game,
0:02:01 > 0:02:03proving it can be done
0:02:03 > 0:02:06and it means £1,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.
0:02:06 > 0:02:11Let's get on with it. Our first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Film & Television.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14Do we do it on the basis that we hope music comes up?
0:02:14 > 0:02:17- Or do you want to get into... - I might go for it.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20- Yeah.- Tim'll go forward.- OK.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22- So it's going to be you, Tim?- Yep.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25Who would you like to play from the Eggheads? Anyone you like.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28I like the look of Kevin for this one.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32- What are we thinking?- Yeah. I'd like to take on Kevin on this challenge.
0:02:32 > 0:02:33You like the look of Kevin?
0:02:33 > 0:02:37Is this part of the plan? You know what a strong player he is?
0:02:37 > 0:02:40I watch a lot of film and TV so we'll give it a go.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43Well, Kevin likes his films as well. Should be a great round.
0:02:43 > 0:02:47Tim and Kevin, into the question room, please, so there's no conferring.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51OK, then, Tim. Both players, we know, like their films.
0:02:51 > 0:02:53Would you like to go first or second?
0:02:53 > 0:02:56I'll take the first set, please.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01Good stuff and good luck, Tim. Here you go.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03Which actor is famous for saying,
0:03:03 > 0:03:07"Hasta la vista, baby," in a 1991 film?
0:03:11 > 0:03:16Right, well, the film's Terminator 2
0:03:16 > 0:03:18and it's Arnold Schwarzenegger.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21That's the correct answer.
0:03:21 > 0:03:25So, Kevin, a famous scene
0:03:25 > 0:03:29that featured Colin Firth dripping wet after swimming in a lake
0:03:29 > 0:03:33appeared in a 1995 TV adaptation of which famous novel?
0:03:36 > 0:03:40Yes, it seemed to have a rather strange effect on lots of ladies,
0:03:40 > 0:03:41including friends of mine.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43Anyway, it's Pride and Prejudice.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46Pride and Prejudice is the right answer.
0:03:46 > 0:03:50OK, Tim, in which TV drama
0:03:50 > 0:03:55did Daniela Nardini play the role of a junior lawyer called Anna?
0:03:59 > 0:04:04I know they're all about lawyers and solicitors
0:04:04 > 0:04:08but I can remember watching it, and it's This Life.
0:04:08 > 0:04:09This Life. It's the right answer.
0:04:12 > 0:04:16Kevin, Yakety Sax by Boots Randolph and James Rich
0:04:16 > 0:04:21is a piece of music regularly used in which long-running comedy show?
0:04:25 > 0:04:27That was the music for the speeded-up bits
0:04:27 > 0:04:29at the end of The Benny Hill Show.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32Always chases and lots of things going on,
0:04:32 > 0:04:35so that was the saxophone music that played with those.
0:04:35 > 0:04:40Yeah, I can hear it now. It's the right answer. The Benny Hill Show.
0:04:40 > 0:04:43OK, third question each.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46Tim, which British actor plays Sayid Jarrah,
0:04:46 > 0:04:49the former Iraqi Republican Guard officer
0:04:49 > 0:04:52in the cult American TV series Lost?
0:04:57 > 0:05:01Right, that's not one I've watched, actually.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03I know it's not Jimi Mistry.
0:05:03 > 0:05:07Deepak Verma seems like a familiar name to me.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11Um...
0:05:11 > 0:05:15I'm going to go with Deepak Verma, but I'm not very confident.
0:05:15 > 0:05:20That's wrong. And it's the one you haven't heard of - Naveen Andrews.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Naveen Andrews plays Sayid Jarrah in Lost.
0:05:23 > 0:05:28So, Kevin, a chance to clinch the round.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31Who won the Academy Award for Best Actor
0:05:31 > 0:05:35for his role in the 1941 film Sergeant York?
0:05:39 > 0:05:43Yeah, he was playing a real-life hero of the First World War, Alvin York,
0:05:43 > 0:05:48and it was the first of two Best Actor Oscars for Gary Cooper.
0:05:48 > 0:05:53He does know his film and I'm sure you would have known it too, Tim,
0:05:53 > 0:05:55but it went to Kevin. Gary Cooper is correct.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58Tim, you won't be in the final round.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00Would you both please come and join your teams?
0:06:02 > 0:06:07Merrie Men have lost one of their merry men from the final round. The Eggheads are all still there.
0:06:07 > 0:06:11We play our next head-to-head now. This one is Science. Who'd like to play this?
0:06:11 > 0:06:15- It'll have to be Richard. - I'm happy to take Science.
0:06:15 > 0:06:19OK, Richard, who are you going to play from the Eggheads? It can't be Kevin.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21- I'm... I'll take on CJ. - OK.
0:06:21 > 0:06:27Right, let's have Richard, then, and CJ into the question room, just to make sure you can't confer.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31Would you like the first set or the second set of questions, Richard?
0:06:31 > 0:06:34I'll take the second set, please.
0:06:37 > 0:06:38Means this is for you, CJ.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41Which chemical element derives its name
0:06:41 > 0:06:43from the Latin for chalk or lime?
0:06:45 > 0:06:48I can only imagine that's calcium, Dermot.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51It is calcium. Well done, CJ.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55Richard, Lunar 2,
0:06:55 > 0:06:58the first spacecraft to reach the surface of the moon,
0:06:58 > 0:07:00was launched by which country?
0:07:03 > 0:07:07Lunar 2, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of the moon
0:07:07 > 0:07:09was launched by which country?
0:07:09 > 0:07:13I believe China's only been in the space race relatively recently.
0:07:13 > 0:07:18Obviously, the USA were the first country
0:07:18 > 0:07:20to get a man on the moon,
0:07:20 > 0:07:25but I believe that the Soviet Union were the first
0:07:25 > 0:07:27to actually get a craft to the moon.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29So I'll go with the Soviet Union, please.
0:07:29 > 0:07:33OK, yeah, you've avoided the crater. Soviet Union is correct.
0:07:33 > 0:07:37Yes, you're right, and good analysis then. It's one all.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39And, CJ, second question.
0:07:39 > 0:07:43Which creature with the scientific name Sorex minutus
0:07:43 > 0:07:46is thought to be Britain's smallest mammal?
0:07:50 > 0:07:52Well, the name doesn't help me
0:07:52 > 0:07:55but I always thought the pygmy shrew was Britain's smallest.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58Don't think it's the field vole, I don't think it's the harvest...
0:07:58 > 0:08:01I always thought pygmy shrew was Britain's smallest.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03I'll go for pygmy shrew.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06And, yes, confirmed, it is pygmy shrew.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Britain's smallest mammal - Sorex minutus.
0:08:09 > 0:08:10OK, Richard,
0:08:10 > 0:08:14in which part of the body is the quadriceps muscle located?
0:08:17 > 0:08:21Right, well, obviously the biceps and the triceps are your upper arm.
0:08:21 > 0:08:25That's as far as my knowledge goes, unfortunately.
0:08:25 > 0:08:29I don't believe it's in your stomach, cos that's your obliques.
0:08:29 > 0:08:33Um, and I don't believe it's in your shoulder either,
0:08:33 > 0:08:36so I will go for thigh on that one.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Quadriceps...
0:08:39 > 0:08:42..are in the thigh. It's the right answer, Richard. Well done.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45- APPLAUSE - Stays all square.
0:08:45 > 0:08:49CJ, so-called transuranic elements
0:08:49 > 0:08:53are those with an atomic number greater than what?
0:08:58 > 0:09:03Well, I'm not sure but I think uranium's 102.
0:09:03 > 0:09:08Um... 90, I think, is thorium,
0:09:08 > 0:09:11because they go in order, don't they?
0:09:11 > 0:09:16Neptunium, uranium and plutonium. The three are in order.
0:09:16 > 0:09:20I'm going to go for 102.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23It's incorrect, CJ. It's not 102. Eggheads?
0:09:23 > 0:09:26- 92. - It is 92 for a transuranic element.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30Well, Richard, what is the name of the unit
0:09:30 > 0:09:32much used by eye specialists
0:09:32 > 0:09:35for measuring the refractive power of a lens?
0:09:40 > 0:09:44Well, none of them I recognise.
0:09:46 > 0:09:50It's going to have to purely be a guess. I can't even eliminate any.
0:09:52 > 0:09:58Well, the only one which sounds even vaguely...is dioptre.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01Cos it's got "opt" in it... RICHARD LAUGHS ..like optician.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03I will go for dioptre.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06Yeah, you've picked it out and that's the reason.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08It's the right answer. Yes, dioptre.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10APPLAUSE
0:10:10 > 0:10:15Dioptre is correct and a clean sheet there - three ticks, no blemishes -
0:10:15 > 0:10:18puts you through into the final round. Well played, Richard.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20Would you both come back and join your teams?
0:10:22 > 0:10:24The Merrie Men looking a lot merrier after that.
0:10:24 > 0:10:29It's all square, they've evened things up. Both teams have lost one brain from the final round.
0:10:29 > 0:10:33And our next subject, one I suspect you may enjoy, is sport.
0:10:33 > 0:10:38Who'd like to play this? Sport? Ian, Simon or Jonnie?
0:10:38 > 0:10:40- Simon. Take it.- Shall I take it? - Simon.
0:10:40 > 0:10:44Simon, OK. And from the Eggheads, Barry, Chris or Daphne?
0:10:44 > 0:10:46- I'd go for Barry. - I think Barry. Barry.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49- Barry, please. - I like Barry.- OK.
0:10:49 > 0:10:54Well, let's have Barry, then, and Simon into the question room, please.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59Simon, do you want to go first or second?
0:10:59 > 0:11:02Well, Richard went second and it looked out for him
0:11:02 > 0:11:05so I think I'll go second as well, please.
0:11:06 > 0:11:10Barry, this is your first question. In which year
0:11:10 > 0:11:14did Fatima Whitbread win an Olympic silver medal in the javelin?
0:11:17 > 0:11:22Well, Fatima Whitbread's wonderful performance was some time ago
0:11:22 > 0:11:25and it certainly wasn't 1996.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28I think she won the Olympiad after Tessa Sanderson,
0:11:28 > 0:11:30so that would make it 1988.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33- So I'm going to go for 1988. - 1988.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36And, of course, thinking of Tessa Sanderson -
0:11:36 > 0:11:39appeared on a celebrity edition of Eggheads, didn't she?
0:11:40 > 0:11:43Fatima Whitbread, '88, you're right.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45You worked it out. That is correct.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Now, Simon,
0:11:47 > 0:11:49in which sport is one point awarded
0:11:49 > 0:11:52for a successful drop goal in open play?
0:11:55 > 0:11:58Well, one of my friends, one of my close friends,
0:11:58 > 0:12:00used to play this sport.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03I don't think he'd ever forgive me if I got this one wrong.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05It's rugby league.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07I'm just thinking of the drop goal in hockey or polo.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09That would be an interesting one.
0:12:09 > 0:12:13It is rugby league, of course, yes. Good start for you.
0:12:13 > 0:12:18Barry, the former England cricket captain Tony Greig
0:12:18 > 0:12:19was born in which country?
0:12:21 > 0:12:23He was South African.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25No doubt at all.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27That's the correct answer.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29OK, second question for you, Simon.
0:12:29 > 0:12:33Former England manager Steve McClaren
0:12:33 > 0:12:36was appointed coach to which continental football club in 2008?
0:12:42 > 0:12:43Well, having followed
0:12:43 > 0:12:48his unsuccessful reign as England manager quite closely,
0:12:48 > 0:12:51I was relieved when he went to FC Twente
0:12:51 > 0:12:54- and left our country... our national team. - LAUGHTER
0:12:54 > 0:12:58And McClaren, yes, went to FC Twente. It's the right answer.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03OK, Barry,
0:13:03 > 0:13:05which tennis player partnered Jamie Murray
0:13:05 > 0:13:10to reach the final of the 2008 US Open mixed doubles?
0:13:15 > 0:13:18I'm not sure on this so to put CJ out of any further agony,
0:13:18 > 0:13:21something is telling me it's Liezel Huber,
0:13:21 > 0:13:24and I'll go straight in at Liezel Huber.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26- Liezel Huber. CJ? - Happy with that.
0:13:26 > 0:13:30It's the right answer. CJ's happy. It is correct.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33Now, Simon, which champion golfer
0:13:33 > 0:13:38is said to have invented the modern sand wedge in 1932?
0:13:46 > 0:13:49I've got to be honest, I haven't heard of any of them.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52My golfing knowledge is dreadful.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54Um...
0:13:54 > 0:13:57I'm really sorry, I'm gonna have to have a complete guess
0:13:57 > 0:14:01and I'm going to go with Gene Sarazen.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03Complete guess...
0:14:03 > 0:14:06It's the right answer! Gene Sarazen.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09Right, we go to sudden death for the first time.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12Simon, that means we're taking away those choices. So, here we go.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14Barry, which Dutch athlete,
0:14:14 > 0:14:18winner of four gold medals at the 1948 Olympic Games,
0:14:18 > 0:14:20was nicknamed the Flying Housewife?
0:14:20 > 0:14:25Amazingly, I think she'd only given birth a few months earlier before the Olympics,
0:14:25 > 0:14:27or some time fairly recent to it
0:14:27 > 0:14:29and it was Fanny Blankers-Koen.
0:14:29 > 0:14:35Fanny Blankers-Koen or Ko-en is the right answer, Barry. Well done.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38Yes, 30 years old, a mother of two,
0:14:38 > 0:14:41and discovered later she was actually pregnant
0:14:41 > 0:14:43with her third child when she raced.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45Right, well, Simon,
0:14:45 > 0:14:48which Australian cricket captain
0:14:48 > 0:14:52controversially ordered his brother to bowl underarm
0:14:52 > 0:14:55in a 1981 one-day international against New Zealand?
0:15:02 > 0:15:04No, I'm sorry. No.
0:15:04 > 0:15:05No, I'm sorry. I can't think.
0:15:05 > 0:15:09OK, well, this is the classic case of sudden death.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12I'm sure you would pull this out of a list in front of you
0:15:12 > 0:15:15if I gave you three names, but you can't dig it out.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17Do you know, Barry?
0:15:17 > 0:15:20Was it Ian Chappell who ordered Greg to bowl underarm?
0:15:20 > 0:15:22Now, you see, that would have been wrong,
0:15:22 > 0:15:27because it's Greg Chappell who ordered his brother Trevor, who was also in the team,
0:15:27 > 0:15:29to bowl underarm.
0:15:29 > 0:15:33And it was Ian, also a cricketing brother, who then... even he criticised Greg Chappell.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36That was so close. You're not playing in the final round.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39Barry, you're there. Please come and join your teams.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43The Merrie Men have lost two brains from the final round,
0:15:43 > 0:15:45the Eggheads, one.
0:15:45 > 0:15:49And we play our last subject before the final round. It's History today.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53History. And Ian or Jonnie to play it.
0:15:53 > 0:15:54- I haven't got a clue on History. - OK.
0:15:54 > 0:15:58- I'll take it. I'll do History. - You're going to take it, Ian? OK.
0:15:58 > 0:16:03- And who are you going to take with you? It is Daphne or Chris. - LAUGHTER
0:16:03 > 0:16:05Look at that winning smile. How can you resist?
0:16:05 > 0:16:08In that case, I think I'll take Chris.
0:16:08 > 0:16:10LAUGHTER
0:16:10 > 0:16:13You did resist it, although he's got a winning smile too.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16Let's have Ian and Chris into the question room, please.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20Ian, do you want to go first or second?
0:16:20 > 0:16:25Well, Richard had the success with second so I'll go second as well.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29So, Chris, first question to you.
0:16:29 > 0:16:35Who emerged as the leader of the Soviet Union from the power struggle that followed the death of Lenin?
0:16:37 > 0:16:41It was 1924, it was Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili,
0:16:41 > 0:16:43known as Stalin, the man of steel.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46I was just about to say, "That's not on my list."
0:16:46 > 0:16:50Stalin, and full name, as well. Stalin, the man of steel.
0:16:50 > 0:16:51Good start for Chris, then.
0:16:51 > 0:16:56So, Ian, what was the surname of the woman who, in 1966,
0:16:56 > 0:17:00became the first female prime minister of India?
0:17:03 > 0:17:06OK, well, I don't know the answer to this,
0:17:06 > 0:17:11but I recognise the name Gandhi,
0:17:11 > 0:17:13which was obviously a bit of an Indian dynasty
0:17:13 > 0:17:17and, on that basis, I'm going to go with Gandhi.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19Gandhi is correct.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21Yes, well done, Ian.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25- To be precise, Eggheads? - EGGHEADS: Indira Gandhi.
0:17:25 > 0:17:26One each.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29Chris, which English king
0:17:29 > 0:17:34was victorious at the Battle of Brunanburh in 937?
0:17:37 > 0:17:39Well, this is a tricky one, Dermot.
0:17:39 > 0:17:42It wasn't Harold II...
0:17:44 > 0:17:47..and Ethelred was Ethelred The Unready, who was later,
0:17:47 > 0:17:50so it must be Athelstan, the first King of England.
0:17:51 > 0:17:52Athelstan, OK.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55It's the right answer. Yes, Chris.
0:17:55 > 0:17:59He knew that. He said it was tricky. Athelstan is the correct answer.
0:17:59 > 0:18:04So, Ian, who was made a cardinal by Pope Leo X
0:18:04 > 0:18:05in 1515?
0:18:09 > 0:18:13Right, well, again, I don't know the answer to this.
0:18:13 > 0:18:20I don't think it's Wolsey - I don't know why - or Cromwell.
0:18:20 > 0:18:24So I'm going to have a guess and guess at Cranmer.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26Thomas Cranmer.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29Incorrect. I'm sorry, Ian, it's not the right answer.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32- Chris, do you know? - Yeah, Cardinal Wolsey.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Built himself Hampton Court
0:18:34 > 0:18:36and gave it to Henry VIII to keep in with him.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38It's Wolsey, as you can see, Ian.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42So a chance comes to Chris to wrap up the round.
0:18:42 > 0:18:46Chris, which monarch granted the town of Tunbridge Wells
0:18:46 > 0:18:49the right to add "royal" to its name as a prefix?
0:18:53 > 0:18:56Which monarch granted the town of Tunbridge Wells
0:18:56 > 0:18:58the right to add "royal" to its name as a prefix?
0:18:58 > 0:19:01Well, it's not our present Queen, Elizabeth II,
0:19:01 > 0:19:05and I think George VI had better things to do with his time,
0:19:05 > 0:19:07particularly after 1939,
0:19:07 > 0:19:11but, given that he used to like swanning around the country
0:19:11 > 0:19:15indulging in various pleasures, it was probably Edward VII.
0:19:15 > 0:19:20Swanning around the country, indulging in various pleasures?
0:19:20 > 0:19:22- Going for Edward VII? - DERMOT LAUGHS
0:19:22 > 0:19:26Tunbridge Wells is the place to go for that kind of activity.
0:19:26 > 0:19:27- CHRIS LAUGHS - Not half.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29DERMOT CONTINUES CHUCKLING
0:19:29 > 0:19:31Edward VII is the right answer, Chris.
0:19:31 > 0:19:35You're through to the final round. as I think Ian knew.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38Bad luck. Means you won't be in the final round.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40Would you please come back and join your teams?
0:19:42 > 0:19:44This is what we've been playing towards.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47It's time for the final round, which is General Knowledge.
0:19:47 > 0:19:52I'm afraid those who lost your head-to-heads won't be allowed to take part.
0:19:52 > 0:19:56So, Ian, Simon and Tim from The Merrie Men and CJ from the Eggheads,
0:19:56 > 0:19:57would you leave the studio, please?
0:19:59 > 0:20:03Richard made that victory you had in your head-to-head all the more important.
0:20:03 > 0:20:07- Jonnie didn't want to be left there on his own.- I certainly didn't.
0:20:07 > 0:20:08Now he's not.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11Jonnie and Richard, you're playing to win The Merrie Men £1,000.
0:20:11 > 0:20:17Kevin, Daphne, Chris and Barry, you're playing for something money can't buy, the Eggheads' reputation,
0:20:17 > 0:20:19and it needs a bit of buffing up.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22As usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25The questions are all general knowledge. You're allowed to confer.
0:20:25 > 0:20:29Merrie Men, are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?
0:20:29 > 0:20:33Jonnie and Richard, would you like to go first or second?
0:20:33 > 0:20:35Even though Richard did so well on his,
0:20:35 > 0:20:37given the failings of our other team mates,
0:20:37 > 0:20:39we'll go with the first question, please.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43Best of luck, guys.
0:20:43 > 0:20:48The Red Arrows flew over Central London in April 2008
0:20:48 > 0:20:52to mark how many years since the founding of the RAF?
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Have you got any ideas? I wouldn't have said 50.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59I wouldn't have said 50. I thought...
0:20:59 > 0:21:02- It would have been longer than 50. - So, really,
0:21:02 > 0:21:04it's a toss-up between the two, isn't it?
0:21:04 > 0:21:09If we go back 70 years, I don't think they would have founded it in '38.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11- I think before that. - I think 90...
0:21:11 > 0:21:1490 rings a bell but it's probably wrong.
0:21:14 > 0:21:19Right, I think... We're not totally certain on this one
0:21:19 > 0:21:23because we're really not into the RAF or anything along that route,
0:21:23 > 0:21:26but I think the general consensus we're going to go with is 90.
0:21:26 > 0:21:3090 years of the RAF.
0:21:30 > 0:21:3370, what? Takes you to '38?
0:21:33 > 0:21:36No, you're right with 90. It is correct.
0:21:36 > 0:21:40As the guys there doing the maths are saying, that takes you back to 1918,
0:21:40 > 0:21:42which is after the First World War.
0:21:42 > 0:21:46Some people don't know this. Of course, lots of aerial activity in the First World War
0:21:46 > 0:21:48but the RAF wasn't doing it.
0:21:48 > 0:21:52No, it was the Royal Flying Corps, which was part of the Army,
0:21:52 > 0:21:55and the Royal Naval Air Service, which came under the Admiralty.
0:21:55 > 0:21:59And it was amalgamated into the RAF, which was a whole new service
0:21:59 > 0:22:03in, well, April 1918 onwards.
0:22:03 > 0:22:08So, Eggheads, which word from the Latin for "let it stand"
0:22:08 > 0:22:12is used as an instruction on a printed proof
0:22:12 > 0:22:15to indicate that a correction should be ignored?
0:22:16 > 0:22:19- Stet.- Which word from the Latin for "let it stand"
0:22:19 > 0:22:21is used as an instruction on a printed proof
0:22:21 > 0:22:24to indicate that a correction should be ignored?
0:22:24 > 0:22:27That's stet.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30Ignore that. It's the right answer. Stet is correct.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32So, back to the Merrie Men.
0:22:32 > 0:22:36Jonnie, Richard, which black and white coloured bird
0:22:36 > 0:22:39is the emblem of the RSPB?
0:22:44 > 0:22:47- Any thoughts? - RICHARD LAUGHS
0:22:47 > 0:22:50I'm trying to think of the symbol. I don't think it's the magpie.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53Plus, magpies are unlucky. I can't think it would be.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56I think for a symbol, a wagtail would look good.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58I'm happy to go with...
0:22:58 > 0:23:01We used to have a nest of wagtails in the offices where I work.
0:23:01 > 0:23:05Wagtails aren't necessarily black and white.
0:23:06 > 0:23:10The ones we had... I think it were a yellow wagtail nest.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12They're not completely black and white.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15So that has led us back to square one.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18- Thing is, I don't know what an avocet looks like.- No.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21- I don't think it would be a magpie. - We'll go for avocet.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24On the basis that we've no idea what it looks like.
0:23:24 > 0:23:28So we've ruled out the other two, so looks like we've come to avocet.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30OK, well, that's a way of doing it, you know?
0:23:30 > 0:23:34Whittle down the other two if you don't know the answer outright.
0:23:34 > 0:23:36Richard had seen...remembered a nest of wagtails.
0:23:36 > 0:23:41You would have gone with that but Richard remembered they weren't black and white.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43- It's avocet. The right answer. - Well done, Rich.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46Two, one up. Next question, Eggheads.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49Fuggle is a variety of an ingredient
0:23:49 > 0:23:52used in the production of which beverage?
0:23:54 > 0:23:56Fuggle is a variety of an ingredient
0:23:56 > 0:23:59used in the production of which beverage?
0:23:59 > 0:24:04They're actually a type of hop that's used in brewing beer.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07Fuggle. What a great name.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09- Yes.- Beer is right.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12Fuggle is a variety of hop used in the brewing of beer...
0:24:13 > 0:24:16..which brings us appropriately back to the Merrie Men,
0:24:16 > 0:24:18given your team name.
0:24:18 > 0:24:23According to the Dickens character Sam Weller in The Pickwick Papers,
0:24:23 > 0:24:27poverty and what always seem to go together?
0:24:27 > 0:24:29Poverty and:
0:24:31 > 0:24:35- Have you read The Pickwick Papers? - I've not read The Pickwick Papers.
0:24:35 > 0:24:40So I'm not going to be 100% in anything that we say on this one.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42Have you got any ideas whatsoever?
0:24:42 > 0:24:45Not particularly, no.
0:24:45 > 0:24:50The one that sprang out for going with poverty was oysters,
0:24:50 > 0:24:51for some reason,
0:24:51 > 0:24:56but I've got no...nothing to back that up whatsoever.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58- It's just a pure... - Literature's not my subject
0:24:58 > 0:25:01so I'll go with whatever you think.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03JONNIE GASPS, RICHARD LAUGHS
0:25:03 > 0:25:06We're not convinced about this one whatsoever
0:25:06 > 0:25:08but we seem to be bumbling our way
0:25:08 > 0:25:10through these questions successfully.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Rather well so far, yeah.
0:25:12 > 0:25:16So, based upon the fact that we don't know at all,
0:25:16 > 0:25:20we like the sound of oysters with poverty.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22- Oysters is correct.- Get in!
0:25:22 > 0:25:24- So bumblers no more, I think.- Yes.
0:25:24 > 0:25:29OK, Eggheads, got to get this or you lose again.
0:25:29 > 0:25:30OK.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33Eggheads, which band is composed of
0:25:33 > 0:25:36Caleb, Nathan, Jared and Matthew Followill?
0:25:40 > 0:25:45Which band is composed of Caleb, Nathan, Jared and Matthew Followill?
0:25:45 > 0:25:49That would be the Kings Of Leon.
0:25:50 > 0:25:52CJ's relieved.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55I'd love to say it was incorrect. It's not. It is the right answer.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57The Kings of Leon.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00So, we go to sudden death, Merrie Men.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02Here we go.
0:26:02 > 0:26:07Which 2007 film tells the story of Jean-Dominique Bauby
0:26:07 > 0:26:10who wrote a best-selling book about his experiences
0:26:10 > 0:26:12after suffering a stroke?
0:26:12 > 0:26:16- I should know this one. - It's certainly not one I've watched.
0:26:16 > 0:26:20No, I will have read about it, that's...
0:26:20 > 0:26:23Nothing's instantly springing to mind.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27It's something to do with the sea.
0:26:27 > 0:26:31It's something like From The Sea.
0:26:31 > 0:26:36I'm pretty sure it's a French or a Spanish film.
0:26:36 > 0:26:40Um, I think it's the wrong answer
0:26:40 > 0:26:42but all I can conjure up is And From The Sea.
0:26:43 > 0:26:48Well, I have absolutely no guesses even, so go for it.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50I may sound like an idiot when...
0:26:50 > 0:26:52..if the answer's nothing to do with the sea,
0:26:52 > 0:26:54but something in me's ringing.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57So we're going to go with And From the Sea.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59And From The Sea...
0:26:59 > 0:27:04It's incorrect, but you're not an idiot because you're on the right lines.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07There is a link to the sea in the answer.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09Eggheads?
0:27:09 > 0:27:11The Diving Bell And The Butterfly.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13The Diving Bell And The Butterfly.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16It's totally not the one I was thinking of.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19I was giving you the benefit of the doubt with the diving bell.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22The Diving Bell And The Butterfly.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon, in French.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28So nothing there from The Merrie Men,
0:27:28 > 0:27:32but it means the Eggheads win the game if they give me a correct answer here.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35Eggheads, in 1938, which country
0:27:35 > 0:27:38became the first to win the Football World Cup away from home?
0:27:38 > 0:27:41In 1938, which country became the first
0:27:41 > 0:27:44to win the Football World Cup away from home?
0:27:44 > 0:27:46THEY MUTTER INDISTINCTLY
0:27:46 > 0:27:48That's Italy.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52It is right, Eggheads. You've won.
0:27:56 > 0:28:00Thanks very much for trying your luck against the Eggheads, Merrie Men.
0:28:00 > 0:28:04It's been great to see you. Have a safe trip back to Wakefield.
0:28:04 > 0:28:09The Eggheads have done what comes naturally. They reign supreme over quiz land once again.
0:28:09 > 0:28:14I'm afraid you won't be going home with £1,000, which means the money rolls over to our next show.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?
0:28:17 > 0:28:21Join us to see if a new team of challengers have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24£2,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.
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