0:00:04 > 0:00:10These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:10 > 0:00:11Together they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:11 > 0:00:16arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:22 > 0:00:26Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers
0:00:26 > 0:00:30attempt to beat possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33Their pedigree is well-known as they've won some of the country's
0:00:33 > 0:00:35toughest quiz shows. They are the Eggheads.
0:00:35 > 0:00:40And taking on our awesome quiz champions today are the Ex-Bats.
0:00:40 > 0:00:44Now this team are all members of Ward End Unity Cricket Club
0:00:44 > 0:00:46in Birmingham, and despite their playing days being,
0:00:46 > 0:00:49let's say, a few years behind them now,
0:00:49 > 0:00:51they do still enjoy the social side of the club.
0:00:51 > 0:00:53Let's meet them.
0:00:53 > 0:00:58Hello, I'm Ken, I'm 69, I'm a primary supply teacher.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02Hi, I'm Jeff, I'm 71 and a retired sales representative.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05Hi, I'm Dennis, I'm 66 and I'm managing director.
0:01:05 > 0:01:10Hello, I'm Charles, I'm 81,
0:01:10 > 0:01:12I'm a management consultant and still working.
0:01:12 > 0:01:17Hello, I'm Ray, I'm 77
0:01:17 > 0:01:20and I'm a retired estates and wayleaves officer.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22- So, Ken and colleagues, welcome. - Thank you.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25And you go to the cricket club still, but maybe not to play?
0:01:25 > 0:01:28- We do, we do, we're still involved. - It's a good place?
0:01:28 > 0:01:31Excellent. Good social side, good little club.
0:01:31 > 0:01:35OK, and you have a drink there, and maybe discuss life?
0:01:35 > 0:01:40- Days past.- Discuss days past? Is that what you do?- We do!
0:01:40 > 0:01:43Erm, but you're all pretty active, I mean, still working a lot of you.
0:01:43 > 0:01:49- Enjoying it! My wife won't let me stop!- OK, now, are you quizzers?
0:01:49 > 0:01:53Have you taken on anything like what you're looking at now before?
0:01:53 > 0:01:55Nothing like that!
0:01:55 > 0:01:57We used to have a quiz team down at the club, you see,
0:01:57 > 0:02:01- so we got together again specially for this.- Terrific!
0:02:01 > 0:02:03And how's the quizzing at the club?
0:02:03 > 0:02:05- Non-existent now.- Is it?
0:02:05 > 0:02:06Since we left, yeah.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09But we've got the crack-quizzers of the cricket club here?
0:02:09 > 0:02:13- That's our story! - Without a doubt!- OK, good.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs
0:02:16 > 0:02:18for our challengers. However,
0:02:18 > 0:02:19if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:02:19 > 0:02:21the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:02:21 > 0:02:26So, the Ex-Bats, the Eggheads have won the last eight games.
0:02:26 > 0:02:27How about that?
0:02:27 > 0:02:31So £9,000 says you can't beat them today.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Would you like to try?
0:02:33 > 0:02:36- Definitely.- All right, we'll get straight down to it.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39The first head-to-head is on the subject of Music.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41Which one of you wants this?
0:02:41 > 0:02:44- THEY DEBATE - Ray, you going to do Music?
0:02:44 > 0:02:48- Yeah, you fancy it, Ray? - Yeah.- Ray. All right, OK.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51Against which Egghead? Who is striking a bum note?
0:02:51 > 0:02:55I'll take Barry, I think, Jeremy.
0:02:55 > 0:02:59- Very good. Decisive. I sense you've watched the programme.- A few times.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02Right, Ray from the Ex-Bats against Barry from the Eggheads.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05And just to ensure there's no conferring,
0:03:05 > 0:03:07would you take your positions in the Question Room?
0:03:07 > 0:03:11- Ray, I know you love your music. - Yes, I do.
0:03:11 > 0:03:16And you play keyboards, but not from reading notes, just from ear.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19That's right. Keyboards and the guitar, in fact.
0:03:19 > 0:03:23And your record collection goes from Beethoven up to where?
0:03:23 > 0:03:29Ah, my range is 1920 to 1960, really, Jeremy,
0:03:29 > 0:03:32but, erm, up to about 1980.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36- Oh, really? Right.- The '20s to the '80s!- Oh, good for you!
0:03:36 > 0:03:38OK, so you've got a bit of bop in there, have you?
0:03:38 > 0:03:40Well, latterly, yes.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43Yeah, and some Visage and Motorhead and all that?
0:03:43 > 0:03:46- Well, yes, yes. - I won't probe too closely!
0:03:46 > 0:03:49Good luck in this round, Ray. It's Music, OK?
0:03:49 > 0:03:51It's multiple choice to start off with and you can choose
0:03:51 > 0:03:54- the first or second set. - I'll go first, please, Jeremy.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01Here's your question, Ray. Good luck.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04Who came to fame as the lead singer with the band Roxy Music?
0:04:08 > 0:04:11Ah. Elvis Costello...
0:04:12 > 0:04:14Roxy Music.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19I think Elvis Costello, Jeremy.
0:04:19 > 0:04:24No, it was actually Bryan Ferry who came to fame with Roxy Music.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27Barry, your question. What is the usual English title
0:04:27 > 0:04:29of the German carol, O Tannenbaum?
0:04:35 > 0:04:37I remember singing this carol in primary school,
0:04:37 > 0:04:41so that's a while back, and I believe it is O Christmas Tree.
0:04:41 > 0:04:45O Christmas Tree is correct, you're in the lead. Back to you, Ray.
0:04:45 > 0:04:50Which band were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2010
0:04:50 > 0:04:52for their album Sigh No More?
0:04:58 > 0:05:01I have no idea, Jeremy, I'm afraid.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04It must be a guess, I'm afraid.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Stereophonics.
0:05:06 > 0:05:10Not the Stereophonics, I'm afraid, it's Mumford & Sons. Tough question.
0:05:10 > 0:05:15- I've never heard of them either, if that's any consolation!- Ooh, oooh!
0:05:15 > 0:05:20- Should I say that?- Yeah, it's all right. It's OK. New folk, new folk.
0:05:20 > 0:05:24New folk? Lovely. Barry, your question.
0:05:24 > 0:05:28The American recording artist, Richard Melville Hall,
0:05:28 > 0:05:30became famous under which single-word name?
0:05:34 > 0:05:37I believe he's a direct descendant of Herman Melville,
0:05:37 > 0:05:40so his name would be Moby, as in Moby Dick.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42Moby is the right answer. Is that true? Amazing!
0:05:42 > 0:05:46- Yeah, it's true.- I never knew that! I've seen him live! Incredible!
0:05:46 > 0:05:49Barry, you've taken the round. Sorry, Ray.
0:05:49 > 0:05:53You can't come back from there. He's got two and you got your two wrong,
0:05:53 > 0:05:57but still hope for this team, it's very early days.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00Please, both of you, come back and rejoin your team-mates.
0:06:01 > 0:06:05Ray, bad luck, bad luck there. Just didn't get the right questions on...
0:06:05 > 0:06:10- No, too modern, Jeremy.- Yeah.- I was hoping for a 1920s or '30s question!
0:06:10 > 0:06:14Well, or Beethoven, who I know is also one of your favourites,
0:06:14 > 0:06:16so, er, there we go. And do we know,
0:06:16 > 0:06:19what's the cricket analogy we use here? One wicket's gone.
0:06:19 > 0:06:23- Er, yeah, Four to bat.- Four to bat.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25As it stands, the challengers have lost one brain,
0:06:25 > 0:06:27the Eggheads have lost no brains.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30Let's play the next round, and it's on Politics. Who wants this?
0:06:30 > 0:06:33THEY DEBATE
0:06:35 > 0:06:37What other subjects have we got to come?
0:06:37 > 0:06:41We don't know, Charles, so you've got to decide if...
0:06:41 > 0:06:45You do Politics, and I'll take anything else. Go on.
0:06:45 > 0:06:46It looks like I'm going for it.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49Charles, you look slightly reluctant there!
0:06:49 > 0:06:50Not reluctant, no,
0:06:50 > 0:06:54just wanted to stay to make sure I got something for the team.
0:06:54 > 0:06:59Sure, understood. Now, which Egghead would you like to pulverise?
0:06:59 > 0:07:03- Ken, you've done the studies, which one do we go for?- CJ, possibly.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06They're all good, though, aren't they?
0:07:07 > 0:07:09- CJ.- CJ.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12OK, good, Charles from the Ex-Bats against CJ from the Eggheads,
0:07:12 > 0:07:15on Politics. I think you like your politics, don't you?
0:07:15 > 0:07:19- I prefer US to British, but I don't mind Politics.- Yeah, OK.
0:07:19 > 0:07:23To ensure there's no conferring, please go to the Question Room now.
0:07:24 > 0:07:29- So, Charles, you're still working? - In employment law.- Employment law?
0:07:29 > 0:07:32- And you keep abreast of politics, do you?- I try to.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34It's a somewhat strange business.
0:07:34 > 0:07:38It alters all the time, methinks, but I do my best.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41CJ, your interest, as you say, mainly American?
0:07:41 > 0:07:44Yeah, I've always found the history of American politics,
0:07:44 > 0:07:47the fact that so much power and authority is concentrated
0:07:47 > 0:07:49in one particular person,
0:07:49 > 0:07:51slightly more fascinating than the English model.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54OK, I'll ask three questions on Politics, in turn,
0:07:54 > 0:07:56multiple choice, and Charles,
0:07:56 > 0:08:00- you can choose to go first or second.- I'll go second.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07Here's your question, CJ.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09In the 1970s, Betty Williams
0:08:09 > 0:08:14and Mairead Corrigan were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
0:08:14 > 0:08:18for their attempts to bring peace to which part of the world?
0:08:21 > 0:08:23Apologies to the two ladies,
0:08:23 > 0:08:25but I haven't actually heard of their names.
0:08:25 > 0:08:30But the second lady certainly sounds Irish,
0:08:30 > 0:08:33so I'll have to assume it's Northern Ireland.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36Northern Ireland is the right answer.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Over to you, Charles.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41Which problem experienced in the House of Lords led to a debate
0:08:41 > 0:08:44in the chamber on the subject in March 2010?
0:08:50 > 0:08:54I'm looking at all three of them and I've got...
0:08:54 > 0:09:00a suspicion which one it is, but woodworm doesn't seem right,
0:09:00 > 0:09:04although where they are, it's been there a long time.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09Mouse infestation would seem to be something that might upset
0:09:09 > 0:09:14the Lordships, and a leaking roof would definitely do that.
0:09:15 > 0:09:20So I'll go for mouse infestation on the basis it's the most likely one.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24Terrific, you're right, Charles. It is mouse infestation.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29CJ, what name did David Cameron
0:09:29 > 0:09:33and the Conservatives give to their 2010 plan to enable
0:09:33 > 0:09:35members of the public to have a greater say
0:09:35 > 0:09:38in how communities should be run?
0:09:43 > 0:09:47They called it big society.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50Big society is right.
0:09:50 > 0:09:54Charles, which former Conservative Defence Secretary appeared
0:09:54 > 0:09:59in a TV advertisement for a blackcurrant cordial drink
0:09:59 > 0:10:00as a child?
0:10:05 > 0:10:08Going to have to be a guess.
0:10:08 > 0:10:12I would suspect that Malcolm Rifkind wouldn't want to be telling people
0:10:12 > 0:10:14things about his childhood.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18Michael Heseltine probably would.
0:10:20 > 0:10:24Michael Portillo, I think, always likes the publicity.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26Michael Heseltine.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31- Do your team know?- Portillo? - Portillo is the answer!
0:10:31 > 0:10:34- Ah!- Michael Portillo did. - I was close to picking him.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37You were. I thought you were going to, actually, for a second.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40Can I go back to where we were then?
0:10:41 > 0:10:43OK, so, CJ, it's your third question.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46If you get this right, you're in the final round.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48Sebastian Pinera became president
0:10:48 > 0:10:50of which South American country in 2010?
0:10:54 > 0:10:58- Chile.- Chile is correct, CJ. Well done, you're in the final.
0:10:58 > 0:11:02Charles, sorry, the wicket has fallen, I'm afraid.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04- These things happen. - These things do happen.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07Do, both of you, please, come back to your teams.
0:11:08 > 0:11:13- OK, well, now's the moment.- We're one for two wickets, Jeremy, we are.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16As it stands, the challengers have lost two brains
0:11:16 > 0:11:20from the final round, whilst the Eggheads have so far lost no brains.
0:11:20 > 0:11:24The next subject, Ex-Bats, is Sport, and I'm thinking this is good.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26Who would like this? Definitely, Dennis!
0:11:26 > 0:11:30- Dennis, do you fancy it? Dennis is going to take Sport.- OK, against?
0:11:30 > 0:11:33- Chris.- Against Chris.- Sorry, Chris!
0:11:33 > 0:11:36Wow, straight to it! Dennis from the Ex-Bats versus Chris
0:11:36 > 0:11:40from the Eggheads, and please go to the Question Rooms now.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43Dennis, how about your cricket, then?
0:11:43 > 0:11:45Eh, how about it, Jeremy?
0:11:45 > 0:11:48I gather you scored a century at the club?
0:11:48 > 0:11:51- Well, a century that wasn't recorded. - How so?
0:11:51 > 0:11:55I was playing against one team on the other side of Birmingham,
0:11:55 > 0:11:58and they told me I needed one run, and unfortunately,
0:11:58 > 0:12:02a gentleman came in and hit a six, so I finished on 99.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05When we got to the club, our colleague, who is actually
0:12:05 > 0:12:08an accountant, added it up, and he said, "Oh, blimey, Dennis!
0:12:08 > 0:12:09"You got 110!"
0:12:09 > 0:12:14So I'd got 110, but only 99, so I missed me club tie on that!
0:12:14 > 0:12:17- You get a club tie if you get a century?- Yes, yes.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20And the club tie when you get a duck, and I got one or two of those.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Well, hopefully, you'll have a cricket question in here.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26- Er, and other sports you like, or not?- Yes.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28I like me soccer, I follow West Bromwich Albion,
0:12:28 > 0:12:31- and I enjoy my rugby as well. - Great stuff.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34So three questions on Sport, and you can choose, Dennis,
0:12:34 > 0:12:36- the first or the second set. - I'll go first.
0:12:39 > 0:12:41Here we go then.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44At the 2008 Olympic games,
0:12:44 > 0:12:49Wendy Houvenaghel won a silver medal for Team GB in which sport?
0:12:55 > 0:12:59I'm not too conversant with this one,
0:12:59 > 0:13:07but cycling is not a sport I'd associated with that.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11Obviously, you get into judo.
0:13:12 > 0:13:16And shooting would be another, but shooting's more of an alpine one.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18Erm, I'll go for judo.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21It's not judo, it's cycling.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25Chris, the snooker player, Alex Higgins, came to England
0:13:25 > 0:13:29from Belfast as a teenager in an attempt to launch a career
0:13:29 > 0:13:30as which type of sportsman?
0:13:35 > 0:13:39I can't see Alex Higgins playing tennis or cricket,
0:13:39 > 0:13:43but being an Irishman, they tend to have a talent for horses,
0:13:43 > 0:13:45so probably, he tried to start a career as a jockey.
0:13:45 > 0:13:50Jockey is the right answer, Chris, so you're in the lead.
0:13:51 > 0:13:55Heavy going here, for our Ex-Bats. Dennis, your question.
0:13:55 > 0:13:58At the 2010 Wimbledon tennis tournament, how many players
0:13:58 > 0:14:02were drawn in the first round of the men's singles competition?
0:14:09 > 0:14:13If I looked at that and I thought of the size of Wimbledon
0:14:13 > 0:14:16and look at how long the length of the tournament is,
0:14:16 > 0:14:19how many courts they'd have...
0:14:21 > 0:14:24..I would think 128.
0:14:25 > 0:14:29128 is the right answer. Well done. Dennis, good stuff.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32Chris, over to you. Which former England football captain
0:14:32 > 0:14:36became the manager of the Thai national football team in 2009?
0:14:41 > 0:14:45Didn't think Thailand had a football team!
0:14:45 > 0:14:48Well, it's got to be a pure guess, Jeremy.
0:14:48 > 0:14:51Er, how about David Platt?
0:14:51 > 0:14:55- Not David Platt, no. Do you know, Ex-Bats?- I think Tony Adams, no?
0:14:55 > 0:14:58No, it wasn't actually, it was Bryan Robson. Bryan Robson it was.
0:14:58 > 0:15:02OK, Dennis, your question, to put a bit of pressure on him.
0:15:02 > 0:15:06Which racehorse, nicknamed Big Red
0:15:06 > 0:15:08and often voted one of the greatest of all-time,
0:15:08 > 0:15:14lost only one race in his career to a horse named Upset in 1919?
0:15:21 > 0:15:25I don't think it was Seabiscuit, cos Seabiscuit, erm...
0:15:25 > 0:15:28Tammany. Man o' War.
0:15:28 > 0:15:33Man o' War is associated to boats.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36Red Flag? Erm...
0:15:39 > 0:15:41This would be a bit of a guess.
0:15:41 > 0:15:45Trying to evaluate it, I'll go for Tammany.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48No, it's not Tammany, it's Man o' War.
0:15:48 > 0:15:52Man o' War. Chris, you get this one right, you're in the final round.
0:15:52 > 0:15:57In North America, shinny is an informal version of which sport?
0:16:03 > 0:16:07I doubt you could have an informal version of American football.
0:16:07 > 0:16:14And baseball, like cricket, is very, sort of, rule-bound,
0:16:14 > 0:16:19but hockey is very like the Irish, well, Scottish game of shinty,
0:16:19 > 0:16:23which could have been metamorphosed into shinny in America.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25So I'll go with hockey.
0:16:25 > 0:16:29Chris, you're right. It is hockey, and you are in the final.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33Dennis, I'm sorry, you've been knocked out by an Egghead there.
0:16:33 > 0:16:37Do, please, both of you, come back and rejoin your teams.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40So as it stands, the challengers have lost three brains
0:16:40 > 0:16:45from the final round, the Eggheads have lost no brains.
0:16:45 > 0:16:47- We're getting worried now. - We are a little bit.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50- Maybe we've lost our brains! - We're into the tail now.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52We're into the tail, unfortunately.
0:16:52 > 0:16:57The last subject is Geography. Who's the geographer?
0:16:57 > 0:16:59- Jeff or Ken?- I've got no idea on Geography.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02Well, look, Ken, we've got to get the General Knowledge one.
0:17:02 > 0:17:06I'll have to bite the bullet, I know nothing about it. Can you change it?
0:17:06 > 0:17:09We're keeping the general knowledge, and Ken's separate.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11I'll bite the bullet.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13Jeff, a reluctant geographer, against which Egghead?
0:17:13 > 0:17:17Either, let's see, Daphne or Kevin, you've got left.
0:17:17 > 0:17:21I am to world geography what CJ is to British geography.
0:17:21 > 0:17:23Oh, yeah, sorry, does it matter?
0:17:23 > 0:17:26Daphne, at least I'll see a nice smile, won't I?
0:17:26 > 0:17:30- You don't get that from Kevin! - Are you saying Kevin doesn't smile?
0:17:30 > 0:17:34Now you've said this, I think you're a secret geographer! I think you'll win the round.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37Jeff versus Daphne from the Eggheads.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40And please go to the Question Room now.
0:17:40 > 0:17:41So, Jeff, come on,
0:17:41 > 0:17:45why is your global geography as bad as CJ's British geography?
0:17:45 > 0:17:49Cos I love travelling, but I never seem to take anything in.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52I can tell you specific places that I've been and seen things,
0:17:52 > 0:17:55but the overall picture, I can never remember
0:17:55 > 0:17:59and I've never been that interested in geography for geography's sake.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01Just like to travel and see different things.
0:18:01 > 0:18:0430 years as a sales rep though, didn't you? Did you go outside...?
0:18:04 > 0:18:06- No.- All in Britain, was it?
0:18:06 > 0:18:09It was all round the West Midlands, occasionally down to Wales
0:18:09 > 0:18:11but no, not abroad, I'm afraid.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13OK, how about you, Daphne?
0:18:13 > 0:18:15Did your career as a banker take you abroad?
0:18:15 > 0:18:19No, I was a secretary to a bank manager.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21So he didn't take you abroad at all?
0:18:21 > 0:18:25No, no, not at all. Only quizzes.
0:18:25 > 0:18:26Right, OK.
0:18:26 > 0:18:31Good luck to you both. Geography is the subject, and three questions,
0:18:31 > 0:18:33and Jeff can choose the first or second set.
0:18:33 > 0:18:34I'll go first, please.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42Here we go. Which French city is located around 20 miles
0:18:42 > 0:18:43from Germany's Black Forest?
0:18:48 > 0:18:51Dunkirk's on the coast as far as I recall.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54Dijon's further.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57It is a bit of a guess, but I think I'd rule Dunkirk out.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00As I say, I believe that's on the coast, really.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02I'm not sure, so I'll go Strasbourg.
0:19:02 > 0:19:03Strasbourg is the right answer.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05How about that?
0:19:07 > 0:19:09OK, Daphne.
0:19:09 > 0:19:15De Pijp, literally meaning "the pipe," is a Bohemian district
0:19:15 > 0:19:17in which European city?
0:19:20 > 0:19:23It's spelt, by the way, D-E and then, new word, P-I-J-P.
0:19:24 > 0:19:28Well, I've never heard of it,
0:19:28 > 0:19:32but from the spelling I would assume it's Dutch.
0:19:32 > 0:19:37- Amsterdam?- Amsterdam is the right answer.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39Hang on in there, Jeff.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41- We're willing you on here.- Come on!
0:19:41 > 0:19:45The Mandinka are a large ethnic group found in which
0:19:45 > 0:19:46part of the world?
0:19:50 > 0:19:55I have heard of them and I'm fairly sure it's not Canada,
0:19:55 > 0:19:57and I don't think it's Asia. I think they're African,
0:19:57 > 0:19:59so I'll go for West Africa.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01West Africa is correct.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05You're knocking the ball over the boundary here! Well done!
0:20:05 > 0:20:09Daphne, your chance to draw level.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13Aguas Calientes is the closest town and access point
0:20:13 > 0:20:17to which South American tourist attraction?
0:20:23 > 0:20:25I don't know. Machu Picchu.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28You're guessing!
0:20:28 > 0:20:30I'm afraid Daphne is an inspired guesser.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33We don't really understand it, but always just smack on.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36Machu Picchu is correct. Barry, you've been there?
0:20:36 > 0:20:39- I've been there, yes.- So did you recognise the town's name?
0:20:39 > 0:20:41I did, indeed. It's a bit of a dump.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44It's not really a town, it's a railway line with some shops
0:20:44 > 0:20:46and some hotels on either side of it,
0:20:46 > 0:20:49but it's the base camp for Machu Picchu.
0:20:49 > 0:20:53OK, your question now, Jeff, and if you get this right,
0:20:53 > 0:20:56you're putting a bit of pressure on Daphne.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59The Indian tourist trail that comprises Delhi, Agra and Jaipur,
0:20:59 > 0:21:02is usually referred to by what name?
0:21:07 > 0:21:10I wouldn't have thought Eternal Triangle.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13I've been involved in one of those and I don't miss that! Joking!
0:21:13 > 0:21:17I would go for the Golden Triangle.
0:21:17 > 0:21:21Golden Triangle is right! Three out of three.
0:21:21 > 0:21:25See? You're playing like a demon after saying you know no geography!
0:21:25 > 0:21:29Daphne, if you get this wrong, you're out.
0:21:29 > 0:21:35San Polo, Santa Croce, Cannaregio and Castello
0:21:35 > 0:21:39are four of the six historic districts of which Italian city?
0:21:43 > 0:21:47I don't think my guessing's going to help this time.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49Milan?
0:21:49 > 0:21:51Milan...
0:21:51 > 0:21:54Hang on, we've got a big reaction from CJ here.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56Is that shocking, CJ?
0:21:56 > 0:21:58Er, yes, Santa Croce is definitely in Venice.
0:21:58 > 0:22:02Venice is the answer, Daphne. Well done, Jeff, you've done it!
0:22:02 > 0:22:06What about that? I don't want to get carried away here, but listen,
0:22:06 > 0:22:09after all the protests that he knew nothing about geography,
0:22:09 > 0:22:11Jeff, well done, you're in the final round.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14And, Daphne, you're not. You've been knocked out, I'm afraid.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17Please, both of you, come back to us here.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21How about that? I thought something was going to happen.
0:22:21 > 0:22:23Well done, Jeff. How does it feel?
0:22:23 > 0:22:27- Great!- You beat an Egghead! So this is what we've been playing towards.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30It is time for the final round which, as always,
0:22:30 > 0:22:31is General Knowledge.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33Those who lost your head-to-heads
0:22:33 > 0:22:35can't take part in this round,
0:22:35 > 0:22:38so Dennis, Charles and Ray from the Ex-Bats,
0:22:38 > 0:22:41and also our own Daphne from the Eggheads,
0:22:41 > 0:22:43would you please now leave the studio?
0:22:43 > 0:22:47So here you are, Ken and Jeff. Good luck to you.
0:22:47 > 0:22:51- You're still playing cricket, Jeff, aren't you?- Yes.- How about you, Ken?
0:22:51 > 0:22:54Occasionally, not as often as Jeff. Jeff's a regular for the club.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57But have we got... The lesson of this is that the two people
0:22:57 > 0:23:00who are playing the cricket have wound up in the final
0:23:00 > 0:23:03- and the three who've stopped... - Obviously kept the brain active!
0:23:03 > 0:23:08Good luck. You're playing to win the Ex-Bats £9,000.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11Kevin, CJ, Chris and Barry, you're playing for something
0:23:11 > 0:23:14that money can't buy, the Eggheads' reputation.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17Now, as usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20This time the questions are all general knowledge,
0:23:20 > 0:23:23and you are allowed to confer. So Ken and Jeff, the question is,
0:23:23 > 0:23:27are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?
0:23:27 > 0:23:29- Don't have to answer that. - We shall find out.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32Just tell us whether you want to go first or second.
0:23:32 > 0:23:37- First, got to be first.- We're going to go first. Get it over with.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40Good luck. Here we go.
0:23:40 > 0:23:45What normally powers the mode of transport known as a landau?
0:23:48 > 0:23:50It's horses, definitely.
0:23:50 > 0:23:54You get them in Blackpool and my wife's been on one.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57- So I'm sure...- Pulling it, or...? - Not pulling it, in it!
0:23:57 > 0:24:02We're pretty sure, thankfully, it's horse.
0:24:02 > 0:24:07Horses is your answer and it's right. Well done! The landau.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09OK.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12Rosemary Shrager is a well-known name in which field?
0:24:17 > 0:24:21Cookery, yes? Cookery? She with the irritating voice?
0:24:21 > 0:24:25- Oh, that's her, is it? Yeah, it's cookery.- Oh!
0:24:25 > 0:24:27That would be cookery, Jeremy.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30She's just been filleted by your discussion!
0:24:30 > 0:24:33Cookery is the right answer. Well done.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Right, over to you.
0:24:35 > 0:24:39Which Oscar-winning actor was one of the original producers
0:24:39 > 0:24:42of the stage musical We Will Rock You?
0:24:46 > 0:24:47We Will Rock You?
0:24:47 > 0:24:50Which Oscar-winning actor was one of the original producers
0:24:50 > 0:24:54of the stage musical We Will Rock You?
0:24:54 > 0:24:58- I can't see it being Sean Penn. - I don't think it's Russell Crowe.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01I suppose Penn's into... He sounds, for...
0:25:01 > 0:25:03I think it's more likely him, than...
0:25:03 > 0:25:07- If it's a rock idiom, yeah. - Yeah, cos it's rock. It's rock.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10Erm, shall we go for it?
0:25:10 > 0:25:13Yeah, I haven't got a definitive answer, so why not?
0:25:15 > 0:25:20We're not falling out, but we feel, as it's rock, the only person
0:25:20 > 0:25:25who might fit the bill more than the others would be Sean Penn.
0:25:25 > 0:25:29Sean Penn is your answer. Let's see if the Eggheads know this.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32- I would have gone for Russell Crowe. - Really?- Yeah.- Anyone else?
0:25:32 > 0:25:35It's tricky! I don't think I've ever been told this.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37You're all wrong, it's Robert De Niro.
0:25:37 > 0:25:41- CJ:- Oh, dear!- And that's kind of unguessable.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43OK, here we go, guys.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46Your question, Eggheads, to take the lead.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49Which French writer disappeared in a plane crash
0:25:49 > 0:25:51in the Mediterranean in 1944?
0:25:57 > 0:25:59THEY CONFER
0:26:00 > 0:26:03Yeah, it's Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08- Famous for writing what?- The Little Prince.- The Little Prince, yep.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11Antoine de Saint-Exupery is the right answer.
0:26:11 > 0:26:15So they're ahead of you now.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18- That means...- We have to get it.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20..you've got to get this one right or you've lost,
0:26:20 > 0:26:23and there's no way of sugar coating it.
0:26:23 > 0:26:26What type of plant is the Joshua tree?
0:26:30 > 0:26:31I know Joshuas.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34I've been to America and I've seen Joshua trees all over the place.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37Isn't the yucca an inside plant? A house plant, yucca?
0:26:37 > 0:26:39- No, it's an outside plant.- Is it?
0:26:39 > 0:26:42I can see a Joshua. I know the shape of them, but what does it class as?
0:26:42 > 0:26:46It wouldn't be cactus, then, would it?
0:26:46 > 0:26:48It grows where cacti grow.
0:26:48 > 0:26:52Joshua tree. Where's that... That was in the Bible, wasn't it?
0:26:52 > 0:26:56It could be a palm, cos it was... Do you think palm, then, because...
0:26:56 > 0:26:59Do you think palm, because...
0:26:59 > 0:27:02It wasn't a Joshua tree that went up in smoke, was it? In the desert?
0:27:02 > 0:27:06They grow in a warm place too. So does cactus.
0:27:09 > 0:27:15- Erm...- I wouldn't say yucca, I wouldn't say yucca.- A cactus.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21- I think it's a palm. - Yeah, I mean, cactus isn't...
0:27:21 > 0:27:24I've seen plenty of them, Jeremy, but even in spite of that,
0:27:24 > 0:27:28we're not sure. If anything, a palm is our answer.
0:27:28 > 0:27:31Gentlemen, it is yucca, I'm afraid,
0:27:31 > 0:27:34so you got that answer wrong and there's no way back.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37Congratulations, Eggheads. You've won.
0:27:42 > 0:27:46What do we do now? We have orange segments or something?
0:27:46 > 0:27:49A pint of bitter, I think, is the answer.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52- You have a nice big tea. - A nice big tea, that's a good idea!
0:27:52 > 0:27:54Thanks for coming and commiserations.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them
0:27:57 > 0:27:59and they reign supreme over quizland.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £9,000.
0:28:02 > 0:28:06The money now rolls over to our next show. Eggheads, congratulations!
0:28:06 > 0:28:09Who will beat you? I wonder. Join us next time to see
0:28:09 > 0:28:13if a new team of challengers have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:13 > 0:28:17£10,000 says they don't. Till then, goodbye.
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