Episode 128

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0:00:04 > 0:00:09These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.

0:00:09 > 0:00:11Together they make up the Eggheads,

0:00:11 > 0:00:16arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.

0:00:17 > 0:00:20The question 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 > 0:00:30attempt to beat possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.

0:00:30 > 0:00:32Their quiz pedigree is well-known

0:00:32 > 0:00:35as they've won some of the country's toughest quiz shows.

0:00:35 > 0:00:36They are the Eggheads.

0:00:36 > 0:00:41And hoping to beat our quiz Goliaths today are the DJs.

0:00:41 > 0:00:43This team of friends all know one another through

0:00:43 > 0:00:45working for the civil service.

0:00:45 > 0:00:46Let's meet them.

0:00:46 > 0:00:51I'm Diane, I'm 56, and I'm a retired civil servant.

0:00:51 > 0:00:54I'm John, I'm 50, and I'm a civil servant.

0:00:54 > 0:00:56Hi, I'm John, I'm 35, and I'm a civil servant.

0:00:56 > 0:00:59I'm John, I'm 39, and I'm a civil servant.

0:00:59 > 0:01:04Hello, I'm also John, I'm 54, and I'm also a civil servant.

0:01:04 > 0:01:07Diane, welcome. And the interesting thing about your team

0:01:07 > 0:01:09is that everyone else is called John.

0:01:09 > 0:01:12- That's right, yes.- So you could have been Diane and the Johns?

0:01:12 > 0:01:15We could've been, but we were entering a music quiz,

0:01:15 > 0:01:19so the DJs seemed appropriate and the name just stuck.

0:01:19 > 0:01:22Cos you were thinking maybe Diana Ross and the Supremes, Diane and...

0:01:22 > 0:01:25It would've been nice to be Diana Ross and the Supremes,

0:01:25 > 0:01:27but I'm not sure they really fit the bill!

0:01:27 > 0:01:29All right.

0:01:29 > 0:01:34Well, let's wish you well in this quiz. Every day there's £1,000 worth of cash up-for-grabs

0:01:34 > 0:01:37for our challengers, however, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads

0:01:37 > 0:01:40the prize money rolls over to the next show.

0:01:40 > 0:01:44So, the DJs, the Eggheads have won the last three games,

0:01:44 > 0:01:47which means £4,000 says you can't beat them today.

0:01:47 > 0:01:50- Shall we go for the first set of questions now? - THEY AGREE

0:01:50 > 0:01:53OK, it's going to be on the subject of Arts and Books.

0:01:53 > 0:01:55- Oh, well...- Arts and Books.

0:01:55 > 0:01:58We already know that's me.

0:01:58 > 0:01:59That's Diane.

0:01:59 > 0:02:02You're saving the Johns. You can choose any Egghead.

0:02:04 > 0:02:06- I don't know!- Chris?

0:02:06 > 0:02:08If you want to, let's go Chris.

0:02:08 > 0:02:10Let's go for Chris.

0:02:10 > 0:02:14- Right, Diane from the DJs, Chris, looking scholarly there.- Yeah.

0:02:14 > 0:02:16Rodin lives, yeah.

0:02:16 > 0:02:17OK. Chris from the Eggheads.

0:02:17 > 0:02:19And to ensure there's no conferring,

0:02:19 > 0:02:23would you please take your positions in the Question Room?

0:02:23 > 0:02:27Chris, Arts and Books, any particular favourite areas for you?

0:02:27 > 0:02:28Well, no, not really.

0:02:28 > 0:02:31I know what I know and if that ain't good enough, tough!

0:02:31 > 0:02:34OK! I'll ask each of you three multiple choice questions

0:02:34 > 0:02:35on Arts and Books in turn.

0:02:35 > 0:02:39Whoever gets the most right goes through to the final, the other person is knocked out.

0:02:39 > 0:02:43And Diane for the DJs, would you like to go first or second?

0:02:43 > 0:02:45I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.

0:02:47 > 0:02:50OK, here we go. Good luck to you.

0:02:50 > 0:02:56No Dress Rehearsal and Nothing Bad Ever Happens in Tiffany's are books

0:02:56 > 0:02:57by which writer?

0:03:02 > 0:03:06Oh, gosh! This isn't the sort of thing I read!

0:03:07 > 0:03:08Erm...

0:03:08 > 0:03:12I don't think it's Marian Keyes,

0:03:12 > 0:03:17but of the other two I'm going to plump for...

0:03:19 > 0:03:22Jacqueline Wilson.

0:03:22 > 0:03:27Jacqueline Wilson is your answer. Let's see if Chris knows. Chris?

0:03:27 > 0:03:30I think it's Jackie Collins, Joan's sister.

0:03:30 > 0:03:31No, it's not, actually.

0:03:31 > 0:03:33It's Marian Keyes.

0:03:33 > 0:03:36Marian Keyes is the answer, Diane. OK, Chris, over to you.

0:03:36 > 0:03:39Subtitled My Story, what is the title

0:03:39 > 0:03:43of comedian Michael McIntyre's autobiography, published in 2010?

0:03:50 > 0:03:51Woah!

0:03:52 > 0:03:56Life and Laughing's a bit prosaic, isn't it?

0:03:56 > 0:04:00I don't think he can say he'd title it Experience and Excellence,

0:04:00 > 0:04:02but Fun and Fatherhood seems like a snappy title,

0:04:02 > 0:04:04so that's what I've got to go with.

0:04:04 > 0:04:06Eggheads?

0:04:06 > 0:04:08- EGGHEADS:- Life and Laughing.

0:04:08 > 0:04:09Life and Laughing, Chris.

0:04:09 > 0:04:11Ah, well, there you go!

0:04:11 > 0:04:12OK. Diane,

0:04:12 > 0:04:15which creatures appear in the famous classical sculpture

0:04:15 > 0:04:19Laocoon and His Sons in the Vatican Museum?

0:04:23 > 0:04:27Erm, I have been to the Vatican Museum but it was ages ago,

0:04:27 > 0:04:29so I can't remember.

0:04:32 > 0:04:34I don't think it's wolves.

0:04:34 > 0:04:37I'm just going to have to guess, actually, cos I really don't know.

0:04:37 > 0:04:41I'm going to go for sea serpents.

0:04:41 > 0:04:42Sea serpents is the right answer.

0:04:42 > 0:04:44- Oh!- Well done!

0:04:44 > 0:04:46OK, Chris, over to you.

0:04:46 > 0:04:51Tom Paulin, who appeared regularly on BBC Two's Late Review

0:04:51 > 0:04:55found fame as a practitioner in which of the arts?

0:05:00 > 0:05:03Ah, I honestly don't know, Jeremy. I don't think he's a poet.

0:05:03 > 0:05:06And I don't think he'd get very far in fashion design.

0:05:06 > 0:05:08I think he was a painter. Painting.

0:05:08 > 0:05:11- No, he's actually a poet. - Is he?- Yeah, very much so.

0:05:11 > 0:05:14OK, this is a high-scoring round!

0:05:14 > 0:05:18Diane, you get this one right, you've knocked him out, OK?

0:05:18 > 0:05:20Just get this one right.

0:05:20 > 0:05:23Which of the pilgrims in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

0:05:23 > 0:05:27tells the story of a cock being captured by a fox?

0:05:32 > 0:05:36OK, I don't think it's the Man of Law.

0:05:36 > 0:05:38Oh!

0:05:38 > 0:05:44I'm really not sure, but I'll go for the Nun's Priest.

0:05:44 > 0:05:47Let me check with an Egghead. Anyone know? Chris?

0:05:47 > 0:05:48I think she's right.

0:05:48 > 0:05:50- You are right, Diane!- Oh, wow!

0:05:50 > 0:05:52Well done! The Nun's Priest it is!

0:05:52 > 0:05:55Very inspired work there in the...

0:05:55 > 0:05:58I won't say guessing. Quizzing, we call it! Quizzing.

0:05:58 > 0:06:03Knowledge and guesswork, and you did brilliantly. You're in the final, Chris, you've been knocked out.

0:06:03 > 0:06:06Do, please, both of you, rejoin your teams.

0:06:06 > 0:06:10As it stands, the challengers have lost no brains from the final round.

0:06:10 > 0:06:12The Eggheads have lost a brain.

0:06:12 > 0:06:14The next subject is Food and Drink,

0:06:14 > 0:06:17so who wants this? It has to be a John!

0:06:17 > 0:06:20- Diane!- Yes, it does have to be a John.

0:06:20 > 0:06:21Do you want me to take it?

0:06:21 > 0:06:23- Yes, I think John C.- John C.

0:06:23 > 0:06:27- I'm going to take it, Jeremy. - John, can you find an Egghead there

0:06:27 > 0:06:30who looks as if they've never been fed?

0:06:30 > 0:06:33- Who do you think we should take on? - CJ or...?

0:06:33 > 0:06:35Who do you reckon?

0:06:35 > 0:06:36I really don't know.

0:06:36 > 0:06:39- It's eenie-meenie-miney-mo. - You choose, John.

0:06:39 > 0:06:41We'll try CJ, please.

0:06:41 > 0:06:45OK, so John C from the DJs versus CJ...

0:06:45 > 0:06:48This is going to be fun! ..from the Eggheads.

0:06:48 > 0:06:50Please go to the Question Room now.

0:06:51 > 0:06:54CJ, it's been ages since you did Food and Drink.

0:06:54 > 0:06:57I can honestly say I'd actually prefer to play Sport.

0:06:57 > 0:07:01It's been 128 games, I'm told, since you last did this category.

0:07:01 > 0:07:03That's cos Kevin's usually here!

0:07:03 > 0:07:07That's probably true! All right, so I'll ask each of you three questions

0:07:07 > 0:07:09on Food and Drink in turn.

0:07:09 > 0:07:12Whoever answers the most questions correctly is the winner,

0:07:12 > 0:07:18- and John, you can choose the first or the second set of questions. - I'll go first, please, Jeremy.

0:07:18 > 0:07:19Here we go John, good luck to you.

0:07:19 > 0:07:23What is the term for increasing the nutritional value of food

0:07:23 > 0:07:24by adding vitamins?

0:07:30 > 0:07:32I don't think it's solidifying.

0:07:32 > 0:07:37Um, and out of the other two, um, it's more likely to be fortifying.

0:07:37 > 0:07:39So I'll go with that one, please. Fortifying.

0:07:39 > 0:07:42Fortifying is the right answer, John. Well done.

0:07:42 > 0:07:44Good start! OK, CJ.

0:07:44 > 0:07:47The process called deveining, CJ,

0:07:47 > 0:07:52is used to refer to the removing of the intestinal tract,

0:07:52 > 0:07:56a thin black line, from the back of which seafood creatures?

0:08:00 > 0:08:04I do actually watch a couple of cookery shows

0:08:04 > 0:08:08and I think it was on Masterchef that Michel Roux Jr

0:08:08 > 0:08:11was really laying into some of the contestants

0:08:11 > 0:08:14for not removing the vein from the prawns.

0:08:14 > 0:08:16Prawns is the right answer.

0:08:16 > 0:08:17Well done.

0:08:17 > 0:08:19Second question to you, John.

0:08:19 > 0:08:22On an Italian restaurant menu,

0:08:22 > 0:08:26an item listed as impanato will be coated in what?

0:08:29 > 0:08:31Impanato.

0:08:32 > 0:08:34Don't think it's cherries.

0:08:37 > 0:08:41I'm not sure syrup features too much on an Italian menu.

0:08:41 > 0:08:43I'll go with breadcrumbs, Jeremy.

0:08:43 > 0:08:45Yeah, the pan bit of the word is the clue.

0:08:45 > 0:08:48Breadcrumbs is right. Well done, you got it!

0:08:48 > 0:08:49Two points to you.

0:08:49 > 0:08:51Over to CJ.

0:08:51 > 0:08:56The 17th-century French writer, Madame de Savigne,

0:08:56 > 0:08:58is popularly credited with starting the custom in Europe

0:08:58 > 0:09:02of drinking tea with what, CJ?

0:09:04 > 0:09:06I have heard of her.

0:09:06 > 0:09:10Um, I don't think it's biscuits.

0:09:11 > 0:09:16I mean, tea wherever it's grown and, I think, originally here,

0:09:16 > 0:09:18was always drunk black.

0:09:18 > 0:09:20Um...

0:09:20 > 0:09:24And I think that's about the right time.

0:09:26 > 0:09:29Yes, I think it's milk.

0:09:29 > 0:09:31Milk is the correct answer. So he's on your tail, John.

0:09:31 > 0:09:33Throw him off! Get this one right.

0:09:33 > 0:09:37The early career of which TV cook included a stint

0:09:37 > 0:09:41as the deputy literary editor of the Sunday Times?

0:09:46 > 0:09:48Hmm, not sure on that one.

0:09:48 > 0:09:51I think...

0:09:51 > 0:09:55It's going to be a complete guess, so I'm going with Sophie Grigson.

0:09:55 > 0:09:57No. Anybody?

0:09:57 > 0:09:59I'd have gone for Nigella Lawson.

0:09:59 > 0:10:02Nigella Lawson is the right answer, John.

0:10:02 > 0:10:05OK, CJ, if you get this right, you've got the round,

0:10:05 > 0:10:08otherwise we go to Sudden Death on Food. What a thought!

0:10:08 > 0:10:11Tatsoi is a Chinese variety of which vegetable?

0:10:15 > 0:10:19Potato and carrot have a lot of different varieties, but...

0:10:20 > 0:10:23I thought those varieties were, essentially, grown everywhere,

0:10:23 > 0:10:28whereas there are variations of cabbage

0:10:28 > 0:10:33which are most closely associated with China.

0:10:33 > 0:10:35I've got nothing else to go on, so on that basis

0:10:35 > 0:10:38and the fact it ends with the same two letters as bok choy,

0:10:38 > 0:10:39I'll try cabbage.

0:10:39 > 0:10:41Cabbage is the correct answer.

0:10:41 > 0:10:44You have won a place in the final. Sorry, John!

0:10:44 > 0:10:47More Johns to come, I know that, but you won't be in the final.

0:10:47 > 0:10:52Please, do come back to the studio and rejoin your teams.

0:10:52 > 0:10:53Well, bad luck John C.

0:10:53 > 0:10:57And CJ, that's good going for you, isn't it?

0:10:57 > 0:11:00Well, I was petrified when Food and Drink came up cos I thought,

0:11:00 > 0:11:03"I'm not going to win this," cos I knew if I won that, then,

0:11:03 > 0:11:06for the series so far, my percentage is now 75%.

0:11:06 > 0:11:10So I think I've played 32 head-to-heads and won 24 of them.

0:11:10 > 0:11:16- Do you measure yours or everybody's? - Oh, I don't care about that lot!

0:11:16 > 0:11:19The challengers have lost one brain from the final round

0:11:19 > 0:11:21and the Eggheads have also lost a brain.

0:11:21 > 0:11:24It's interestingly poised. The next subject is History.

0:11:24 > 0:11:27Who would like this? Which John?

0:11:27 > 0:11:29It's John, John or John.

0:11:29 > 0:11:31Are you going to take one for the team or not?

0:11:31 > 0:11:33- I'll do one for the team, shall I? - Are you sure?

0:11:33 > 0:11:36- It's got to be you or you.- Yeah.

0:11:36 > 0:11:39- One or the other. - Do you want to go with me?

0:11:39 > 0:11:42I'll go whatever. Kings and queens, but I'll give it a go.

0:11:42 > 0:11:44- Yeah, give it a go.- John M.

0:11:44 > 0:11:48- Now, choose an Egghead if you can. - Who have you got a feeling for?

0:11:48 > 0:11:50Met him on the way down, so Pat.

0:11:50 > 0:11:52Nice reason!

0:11:52 > 0:11:55Met you on the way down the stairs.

0:11:55 > 0:11:58OK, so John M from the DJs against Pat from the Eggheads.

0:11:58 > 0:12:03And to make sure there's no conferring, please go to the Question Room now.

0:12:03 > 0:12:07John, I'll ask each of you three questions on History in turn,

0:12:07 > 0:12:12- and you may choose the first or the second set.- I'll take the first set.

0:12:12 > 0:12:14Here we go, all the best to you.

0:12:14 > 0:12:18Where was the famous Kohinoor diamond put on display

0:12:18 > 0:12:20for several weeks in 1851?

0:12:26 > 0:12:28Ooh, the Kohinoor diamond.

0:12:28 > 0:12:32I've never associated that with the House of Lords, I must admit.

0:12:32 > 0:12:331851.

0:12:33 > 0:12:37I think that was around about the time of the Great Exhibition,

0:12:37 > 0:12:39so I'll go for the Great Exhibition.

0:12:39 > 0:12:43Great Exhibition is the right answer, well done.

0:12:43 > 0:12:45Over to you, Pat.

0:12:45 > 0:12:48In which year after World War II did Allied-occupied Austria

0:12:48 > 0:12:50regain its sovereignty?

0:12:55 > 0:12:58It was...

0:12:58 > 0:13:01Yes, obviously occupied with the fall of Germany

0:13:01 > 0:13:03and The Third Man and all that.

0:13:03 > 0:13:06'75 seems very, very late

0:13:06 > 0:13:08and, in fact, so does '65.

0:13:08 > 0:13:11I can't imagine there were still Allied troops

0:13:11 > 0:13:13occupying Austria in 1965.

0:13:13 > 0:13:16I think I'll have to go for 1955.

0:13:16 > 0:13:181955 is correct.

0:13:18 > 0:13:20OK, over to you.

0:13:20 > 0:13:22John M.

0:13:22 > 0:13:25In 1830, France invaded which African country?

0:13:30 > 0:13:33Algeria used to be a French colony.

0:13:33 > 0:13:37I've never associated France with Egypt.

0:13:37 > 0:13:38Um, Libya...

0:13:38 > 0:13:42I'm not certain that there are French connections with Libya.

0:13:42 > 0:13:45So I will go for Algeria.

0:13:46 > 0:13:50You've got it 100% right. Well done. Algeria it was.

0:13:50 > 0:13:52Pat, your question.

0:13:52 > 0:13:56Which figure from British naval history was the first Englishman

0:13:56 > 0:13:59to navigate the Straits of Magellan?

0:14:04 > 0:14:08I think Horatio Nelson confined himself mostly to standard

0:14:08 > 0:14:10Royal Navy military operations.

0:14:10 > 0:14:12The Atlantic and the Med.

0:14:12 > 0:14:15And a part of the Straits of Magellan is called

0:14:15 > 0:14:18the Drake's passage, so I'll have to go for Francis Drake.

0:14:18 > 0:14:21Francis Drake is the right answer.

0:14:21 > 0:14:24So you both have two points. Third question now for you, John.

0:14:24 > 0:14:28What was required for an individual to gain a divorce in England

0:14:28 > 0:14:31prior to the setting up of divorce courts

0:14:31 > 0:14:35under the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857?

0:14:42 > 0:14:46I can't see them going through all the hassle of going

0:14:46 > 0:14:51for an Act of Parliament for a divorce before then.

0:14:52 > 0:14:56I'll go for the Mayoral Decree.

0:14:56 > 0:14:59Well, you won't believe this, but it's the one you ruled out -

0:14:59 > 0:15:01it's an Act of Parliament.

0:15:01 > 0:15:02That is the answer.

0:15:02 > 0:15:08So it was that rare and unusual to get one before 1857.

0:15:08 > 0:15:11Act of Parliament is the right answer, which means, Pat,

0:15:11 > 0:15:14you have a chance to take the round with this question.

0:15:14 > 0:15:18Until 1949, what was the name of the region

0:15:18 > 0:15:21east of the river Jordan that now forms the main part

0:15:21 > 0:15:23of the Kingdom of Jordan?

0:15:28 > 0:15:31Jordan-Turkey doesn't ring any sort of Bell.

0:15:31 > 0:15:34British Jordan has some plausibility,

0:15:34 > 0:15:39the British were present right across the Levant.

0:15:39 > 0:15:41But Transjordan...

0:15:41 > 0:15:44I'm pretty sure I've read about Transjordan in the past,

0:15:44 > 0:15:45and it just means "across the Jordan,"

0:15:45 > 0:15:49so the other side of the river from Israel, so I'll go for Transjordan.

0:15:49 > 0:15:51Is he right, Eggheads?

0:15:51 > 0:15:54- ALL: Yes.- They say you are, Transjordan is the answer,

0:15:54 > 0:15:57you've taken that round, sorry, John, you've been knocked out.

0:15:57 > 0:16:01If you come back to us, we will play the next round.

0:16:02 > 0:16:06OK, so now the Challengers have lost two brains from the final round,

0:16:06 > 0:16:09the Eggheads have lost one brain, and we have our last subject

0:16:09 > 0:16:12before the final, and it is Sport.

0:16:12 > 0:16:15- Is this good?- That's easy. - That's a given, isn't it?

0:16:15 > 0:16:17- It's this John. - It's John L, OK.

0:16:17 > 0:16:21- Daphne, do you reckon? - I think, yeah, Daphne, please.

0:16:21 > 0:16:24So, John L from the DJs against Daphne from the Eggheads.

0:16:24 > 0:16:28Do both of you please go to the Question Room now.

0:16:29 > 0:16:31- So, John, you're a taxman? - Yes, I am.

0:16:31 > 0:16:34OK, I dare you to beat him, Daphne.

0:16:34 > 0:16:37- You know there'll be trouble. - Get my revenge!

0:16:37 > 0:16:38HE LAUGHS

0:16:38 > 0:16:40OK, good luck to you both.

0:16:40 > 0:16:43I'll ask each of you three questions on sport in turn,

0:16:43 > 0:16:46and, John, you can choose the first or the second set.

0:16:46 > 0:16:48I'll go first, please, Jeremy.

0:16:50 > 0:16:53Good luck to you, John and the DJs, here we go.

0:16:53 > 0:16:57Which football player made his first team debut for Liverpool

0:16:57 > 0:17:01against Blackburn Rovers on 29 November, 1998?

0:17:06 > 0:17:081998...

0:17:08 > 0:17:12I'm pretty sure that's far too late for Robbie Fowler.

0:17:12 > 0:17:16I'm pretty sure it's too late for Jamie Redknapp.

0:17:16 > 0:17:19Looking at where Steven Gerrard is now in his career,

0:17:19 > 0:17:22I'll go for Steven Gerrard, please.

0:17:22 > 0:17:26Steven Gerrard is the right answer, well done.

0:17:26 > 0:17:28An easy one to get wrong, actually.

0:17:28 > 0:17:31Daphne, what is the maximum

0:17:31 > 0:17:34permissible circumference of a cricket ball?

0:17:39 > 0:17:41You saw my jaw drop!

0:17:41 > 0:17:45It's... I have no spatial awareness, um...

0:17:47 > 0:17:49I don't know.

0:17:52 > 0:17:53Nine inches.

0:17:55 > 0:17:58Yeah, nine inches is correct, nice one.

0:17:58 > 0:18:01John, who was the first British tennis player

0:18:01 > 0:18:04to win the men's singles competition at the French Open?

0:18:09 > 0:18:12I know Fred Perry was the last one to win Wimbledon,

0:18:12 > 0:18:16I know Bunny Austin, I'm pretty sure he got to the final

0:18:16 > 0:18:18after Fred Perry at Wimbledon.

0:18:18 > 0:18:20I'm going to dismiss Lawrence Docherty,

0:18:20 > 0:18:24and I'm just going to plump for Bunny Austin, I think.

0:18:24 > 0:18:26That's the wrong answer.

0:18:26 > 0:18:29Fred Perry is the correct answer, John.

0:18:29 > 0:18:30Bad luck.

0:18:30 > 0:18:33All right, Daphne, get this right, you pull ahead.

0:18:33 > 0:18:39In 2006, Sandy Park became the home ground of which Rugby Union team?

0:18:47 > 0:18:51I think that's the Exeter Chiefs.

0:18:53 > 0:18:54Right?

0:18:54 > 0:18:56How do you know that?

0:18:56 > 0:18:58I'm sure I read it recently.

0:18:58 > 0:19:00Exeter Chiefs is correct, Daphne, you're in the lead.

0:19:00 > 0:19:04So, John, you really need to get this one right.

0:19:04 > 0:19:07The annual Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race traditionally starts

0:19:07 > 0:19:09on which day of the year?

0:19:14 > 0:19:16Sydney to Hobart race...

0:19:16 > 0:19:18Sailing isn't a strong topic for me.

0:19:20 > 0:19:24Boxing Day, I'm sure they start a Test match on that day.

0:19:24 > 0:19:28Good Friday doesn't seem to be the sort of day you would start

0:19:28 > 0:19:32that sort of thing, so I'm going to plump for Australia day.

0:19:32 > 0:19:36It's not Australia Day, it's actually Boxing Day.

0:19:36 > 0:19:39Which means we don't need to ask Daphne a third question,

0:19:39 > 0:19:41because she has taken the round.

0:19:41 > 0:19:43Daphne, you'll be in the final, John, sorry, you won't,

0:19:43 > 0:19:47and if you both rejoin your teams we can play that final round.

0:19:49 > 0:19:51So, this is what we've been playing towards,

0:19:51 > 0:19:54it's time for the final round, which is General Knowledge.

0:19:54 > 0:19:57But I'm afraid those who lost your Head To Heads

0:19:57 > 0:19:59won't be allowed to take part in this round,

0:19:59 > 0:20:03so that's John, John, and John from the DJs,

0:20:03 > 0:20:05and Chris from the Eggheads -

0:20:05 > 0:20:08would you please now leave the studio.

0:20:08 > 0:20:13Good luck, Diane and John, you're playing to win the DJs £4,000.

0:20:13 > 0:20:16CJ, Daphne, Barry and Pat,

0:20:16 > 0:20:18you're playing for something money can't buy -

0:20:18 > 0:20:20the Eggheads' reputation.

0:20:20 > 0:20:23As usual, I will ask each team three questions,

0:20:23 > 0:20:25the questions are all general knowledge,

0:20:25 > 0:20:27you are allowed to confer.

0:20:27 > 0:20:29So, DJs, the question is,

0:20:29 > 0:20:31are your two brains better than the Eggheads four?

0:20:31 > 0:20:34Diane and John, do you want to go first or second?

0:20:34 > 0:20:36We're going to go first, Jeremy.

0:20:39 > 0:20:41Here we go.

0:20:41 > 0:20:43In Shakespeare's play, Hamlet,

0:20:43 > 0:20:46what is the name of the father of Laertes?

0:20:50 > 0:20:52Laertes...

0:20:52 > 0:20:54It's, um, Polonius, I'm sure it's Polonius.

0:20:54 > 0:20:59Well, we'll just doublecheck - Rosencrantz is a friend...

0:20:59 > 0:21:02I would have ruled out Rosencrantz for starters, anyway.

0:21:02 > 0:21:04I'm sure it's Polonius.

0:21:04 > 0:21:05Polonius, OK.

0:21:05 > 0:21:07We're going to go with Polonius, Jeremy.

0:21:07 > 0:21:10Absolutely right, well done.

0:21:10 > 0:21:11Who died in a horrible way.

0:21:11 > 0:21:15- Stabbed behind the arras. - He was stabbed behind the arras.

0:21:15 > 0:21:16OK, Eggheads...

0:21:16 > 0:21:20Which Hollywood actress has also pursued a career as a rock singer,

0:21:20 > 0:21:26fronting the band's The Licks and The New Romantiques -

0:21:26 > 0:21:28spelt R-O-M-A-N-T-I-Q-U-E-S?

0:21:33 > 0:21:35I think The Licks is Juliette Lewis.

0:21:35 > 0:21:39It's not a bad band, at all, actually, and it's Juliette Lewis.

0:21:39 > 0:21:41Juliette Lewis is correct.

0:21:41 > 0:21:43OK, over to you.

0:21:43 > 0:21:48The French colonial governor Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac

0:21:48 > 0:21:51was the founder of which American city?

0:21:55 > 0:21:58Right, I think I'd immediately rule out Pittsburgh, because

0:21:58 > 0:22:02I don't think there's any French connection with that at all.

0:22:02 > 0:22:05Do you think it might be Detroit, with 'Cadillac' and cars?

0:22:05 > 0:22:08- We'd anglicise it as 'Cadillac'. - Detroit being Motor Town.

0:22:08 > 0:22:12The Cadillac's made in Detroit, so that would be...

0:22:12 > 0:22:17And I've been to Chicago - well, I think I've been to all three,

0:22:17 > 0:22:20but I don't remember it coming up, so...

0:22:20 > 0:22:22I don't think it's Pittsburgh, anyway.

0:22:22 > 0:22:25Yeah, Detroit looks like the more right answer.

0:22:25 > 0:22:29We are going to go with Detroit, Jeremy.

0:22:29 > 0:22:30Detroit is the right answer.

0:22:30 > 0:22:33- Two out of two, you're playing well.- Logic.

0:22:33 > 0:22:35Eggheads, back to you.

0:22:35 > 0:22:38What were issued by the British Post Office

0:22:38 > 0:22:41for the first time on 1st October, 1870?

0:22:45 > 0:22:49- Postcards.- Postage stamps were 1840...- It's postcards.

0:22:49 > 0:22:53- You think it's postcards? - Yes, I've just got this memory.

0:22:54 > 0:22:58You know, they had those prepainted postcards with the stamp on.

0:22:58 > 0:23:03- Do you remember sending one? - Look, you're getting as bad as CJ.

0:23:03 > 0:23:04I think it's postcards.

0:23:04 > 0:23:06Daphne believes it is postcard,

0:23:06 > 0:23:11and I wouldn't dream of arguing with Daphne, so postcards is our answer.

0:23:11 > 0:23:14OK, I asked "What were issued by the British Post Office

0:23:14 > 0:23:17"for the first time on 1st October, 1870?"

0:23:17 > 0:23:19The answer is postcards.

0:23:19 > 0:23:22- Well done.- Well done to Daphne with her inklings.

0:23:23 > 0:23:29Diane and John, who made her film debut as Emily Monroe Norton,

0:23:29 > 0:23:32the first wife of Charles Foster Kane,

0:23:32 > 0:23:34in the 1941 film Citizen Kane?

0:23:41 > 0:23:43Films isn't really my thing.

0:23:43 > 0:23:45Um, Citizen Kane...

0:23:45 > 0:23:47The only one I've heard of is Jeanne Moreau,

0:23:47 > 0:23:50but I don't know if that helps at all.

0:23:50 > 0:23:51I don't know.

0:23:51 > 0:23:55I was thinking of Dolores Costello, but I don't know why.

0:23:55 > 0:24:00I have seen the film, but...

0:24:02 > 0:24:07..I'm just not sure why it would be a French person.

0:24:07 > 0:24:09OK, we'll go with your inkling, then.

0:24:09 > 0:24:11Shall we go with your inkling?

0:24:11 > 0:24:13Ooooh!

0:24:15 > 0:24:17OK.

0:24:17 > 0:24:19We're not too sure on this one, Jeremy, it's a bit

0:24:19 > 0:24:23of a stab in the dark, but we'll have a go at Dolores Costello.

0:24:23 > 0:24:27If it's any consolation, you were knocking it

0:24:27 > 0:24:31between the two wrong ones, actually - it's Ruth Warrick,

0:24:31 > 0:24:33is the answer, Ruth Warwick.

0:24:33 > 0:24:36Now you have to hope they get theirs wrong.

0:24:36 > 0:24:39If you get it wrong, Eggheads, we go to Sudden Death.

0:24:39 > 0:24:44Bitis is the scientific name for a genus of what type of creature?

0:24:48 > 0:24:51- Barry?- Oh, I've not heard of that one.

0:24:53 > 0:24:54Do ants have many genus?

0:24:54 > 0:24:58Yes, Hymenoptera and lots of different ants.

0:24:58 > 0:25:01Lots of different snakes, lots of different birds.

0:25:01 > 0:25:05There are hundreds, if not thousands, of each of those.

0:25:05 > 0:25:07Are we going to do rock-paper-scissors?

0:25:07 > 0:25:10I read a lot about snakes, several years ago,

0:25:10 > 0:25:14it doesn't ring a bell, but that could mean I didn't read enough.

0:25:14 > 0:25:17Well, for what it's worth, my first instinct,

0:25:17 > 0:25:20my first two-penneth worth would be for ants, but I don't know.

0:25:20 > 0:25:24Ants caught my eye, but with no real evidence to back it up.

0:25:24 > 0:25:27It's just that it doesn't strike me for snakes,

0:25:27 > 0:25:30and not really for birds, although there are thousands.

0:25:30 > 0:25:32Yes, snakes and birds might be more familiar,

0:25:32 > 0:25:34so I'm happy for ants.

0:25:34 > 0:25:36All right, well we don't know,

0:25:36 > 0:25:39and we've all decided we're going to go for ants.

0:25:39 > 0:25:43Bitis is the scientific name for a genus of snake.

0:25:43 > 0:25:46How about that?

0:25:46 > 0:25:49So, you're equal after three questions.

0:25:49 > 0:25:51We go to Sudden Death.

0:25:51 > 0:25:55Sudden Death means I don't give you alternatives, OK?

0:25:55 > 0:25:58Shula Hebden Lloyd, Jack Woolley and Linda Snell

0:25:58 > 0:26:01are characters in which long-running drama?

0:26:01 > 0:26:05It's my favourite radio programme!

0:26:05 > 0:26:07It's The Archers.

0:26:07 > 0:26:10Good, The Archers is right.

0:26:10 > 0:26:12They may get harder.

0:26:12 > 0:26:17OK, Eggheads, in 1913, the French physicist Charles Fabry

0:26:17 > 0:26:21discovered what form of oxygen in the atmosphere?

0:26:21 > 0:26:23- It was ozone.- Ozone, isn't it?- Yeah.

0:26:23 > 0:26:27Charles Fabry discovered ozone.

0:26:27 > 0:26:29Ozone is correct.

0:26:29 > 0:26:31Sudden Death we're on, £4,000 you're playing for.

0:26:31 > 0:26:36Who was named Minister for Sport and Olympics in May, 2010?

0:26:36 > 0:26:382010?

0:26:39 > 0:26:42The Conservative administration.

0:26:42 > 0:26:44Sport and Olympics...

0:26:44 > 0:26:47- So it's in the coalition government? - Yeah.

0:26:47 > 0:26:49What does Andrew Lansley do?

0:26:49 > 0:26:52I think it might... Or is he culture?

0:26:52 > 0:26:54- No, Jeremy Hunt's culture. - Of course he is.

0:26:54 > 0:26:57It might be Andrew Lansley, then.

0:26:58 > 0:27:01- I can't think of anyone else. - Shall we go with Andrew Lansley?

0:27:01 > 0:27:02Yeah.

0:27:02 > 0:27:04A bit of a stab in the dark, again, Jeremy,

0:27:04 > 0:27:06we're going for Andrew Lansley.

0:27:06 > 0:27:09I'm afraid you're wrong, the answer is Hugh Robertson.

0:27:09 > 0:27:11I'd never have got that.

0:27:11 > 0:27:12OK.

0:27:12 > 0:27:14This is your question, Eggheads,

0:27:14 > 0:27:17if you get this right you've taken the contest.

0:27:17 > 0:27:21Which veteran film star won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar

0:27:21 > 0:27:26for his part in the 1976 drama All The President's Men?

0:27:28 > 0:27:32- Jason Robards?- I think he won two best supporting actors.

0:27:32 > 0:27:34- Well, he's in it. - He's definitely on it.

0:27:34 > 0:27:37And he's won more than one, as well.

0:27:37 > 0:27:39- We'll happy with that?- Yeah.

0:27:39 > 0:27:43We're reasonably certain on this, we believe it is Jason Robards.

0:27:43 > 0:27:47Playing the Washington Post editor, Ben Bradlee, Eggheads,

0:27:47 > 0:27:51it was Jason Robards - congratulations, you've won.

0:27:56 > 0:27:59And they can fold before that,

0:27:59 > 0:28:02so you take them into Sudden Death, but commiserations to you.

0:28:02 > 0:28:05- Thank you.- Thank you. - I hope it was fun.- It was.

0:28:05 > 0:28:08We haven't had four Johns in one team before.

0:28:08 > 0:28:10That's a bit of history.

0:28:10 > 0:28:13- And CJ on Food and Drink, an unusual contest today.- Yes, strange one.

0:28:13 > 0:28:15Thank you very much for coming in.

0:28:15 > 0:28:18Commiserations to you, the Eggheads have done what comes naturally

0:28:18 > 0:28:21and they reign supreme over quizland still.

0:28:21 > 0:28:25I'm afraid that means your team won't go home with the £4,000,

0:28:25 > 0:28:27so the money rolls over to our next show.

0:28:27 > 0:28:30Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?

0:28:30 > 0:28:33Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers

0:28:33 > 0:28:36have the brains to defeat the Eggheads - £5,000 says they don't.

0:28:36 > 0:28:38Until then, goodbye.

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