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 > 0:00:15arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19The 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 > 0:00:31Their quiz pedigree is well-known,
0:00:31 > 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 > 0:00:39Challenging our resident quiz champions today
0:00:39 > 0:00:43are the Blackpool Rockers. Everyone on this team
0:00:43 > 0:00:46works for the same family-run confectionary business,
0:00:46 > 0:00:50which, for 67 years, has been specialising in the production of...
0:00:50 > 0:00:53you guessed it, Blackpool rock. Let's meet them.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56Hello. I'm Geoff. I'm 66 years of age, and I'm the managing director
0:00:56 > 0:00:59of a confectionary company.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01Hi, I'm Margaret.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04I'm 63, and I'm a company director.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07Hi, I'm Bob. I'm 58, and I'm also a company director.
0:01:07 > 0:01:12Hi, I'm Heather. I'm 40, and I'm a managing director.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Hi, I'm John. I'm 45, and I'm a Blackpool rock maker.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18So, Geoff and team, welcome to you.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20- Thank you.- Hello.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22So, Blackpool rock, Geoff?
0:01:22 > 0:01:24How is demand for Blackpool rock?
0:01:24 > 0:01:27There's still a big demand for it,
0:01:27 > 0:01:28but it's a seasonal business,
0:01:28 > 0:01:32and we tend to sell more in the summer,
0:01:32 > 0:01:34and produce stock during the winter.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37You've brought some in for us, which is very good of you.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39- Let's have a little look at this. - This is one we made earlier.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41It's a bit special. Show us.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44We've made it especially for the occasion.
0:01:44 > 0:01:48It's got the Eggheads logo on it.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50What's it got running through it?
0:01:50 > 0:01:55We've got, in the middle of it, "The Eggheads".
0:01:55 > 0:01:57How do you actually put the word through, like that?
0:01:57 > 0:01:59It's a handmade process.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03In effect, we produce one giant stick, which weighs about 50 kilos.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05The letters are all handmade,
0:02:05 > 0:02:08and assembled inside the giant stick of rock,
0:02:08 > 0:02:10which is quite soft.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13It's gone into a machine, which keeps it going round and round.
0:02:13 > 0:02:17It's pulled out to whatever length of rock we want it to be,
0:02:17 > 0:02:19onto a long slab, where it's rolled by hand,
0:02:19 > 0:02:21until it goes brittle.
0:02:21 > 0:02:22And then they can cut it up.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24If they win, shall we give them the rock?
0:02:24 > 0:02:26We've got some more at the back.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28Fantastic. Maybe I'll get some.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31Every day, there's £1,000 worth of cash
0:02:31 > 0:02:32up for grabs for our challengers.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34If they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:02:34 > 0:02:36the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:02:36 > 0:02:40So, Blackpool Rockers, the Eggheads have won the last 16 games.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43ALL: Whoa! Wow!
0:02:43 > 0:02:45So it's worth playing hard for.
0:02:45 > 0:02:49£17,000 says you can't beat them today. Would you like to try?
0:02:49 > 0:02:51ALL: Certainly!
0:02:51 > 0:02:54First head-to-head battle is on the subject of Films & Television.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57Which one of you would like this?
0:02:57 > 0:03:00- Is it you?- Are you sure it's not you?
0:03:00 > 0:03:02- No, I think it's you.- Heather.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04- Heather?- Good luck.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06OK. Films & TV.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09Which Egghead would you like to take on, Heather?
0:03:09 > 0:03:11- I think Chris. Margaret, what do you think?- Yeah.- I think Chris.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14- Chris, please.- OK.
0:03:14 > 0:03:18I sense you're familiar with the programme. I can tell.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20Heather, from the Blackpool Rockers,
0:03:20 > 0:03:23and Chris, from the Eggheads. We are doing Film & Television.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25To ensure there's no conferring,
0:03:25 > 0:03:28please take your positions in the Question Room.
0:03:28 > 0:03:30Film & Television is the subject.
0:03:30 > 0:03:32Three multiple choice questions you get, Heather.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35If you win the round, you go through to the final. If you don't,
0:03:35 > 0:03:36you get knocked out.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39Would you like the first or second set of questions?
0:03:39 > 0:03:40I'll go second, please.
0:03:43 > 0:03:45Here we go with Film & Television.
0:03:45 > 0:03:48Which former England Rugby Union international
0:03:48 > 0:03:51became a regular team captain on the TV show A Question Of Sport
0:03:51 > 0:03:53in 2004?
0:03:57 > 0:03:59Mm.
0:03:59 > 0:04:03I thought you were going to come up with Bill Beaumont, there,
0:04:03 > 0:04:04but it's later than that.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07It's not Lawrence Dallaglio, I don't think.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10And Austin Healey's a sports car,
0:04:10 > 0:04:12so I think it's got to be Matt Dawson.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14JEREMY LAUGHS
0:04:14 > 0:04:16I think Austin Healey is probably a human being, as well.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19But it IS Matt Dawson. Well done.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22Heather, over to you.
0:04:22 > 0:04:26Mavis Wilton was a long-running character in which TV soap?
0:04:31 > 0:04:35I've not watched it for some time, but I think it was Coronation Street.
0:04:35 > 0:04:39Coronation Street is right.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41Over to you, Chris.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44In which film from the early 1960s
0:04:44 > 0:04:46did David Niven play a character called
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Sir Charles Lytton?
0:04:54 > 0:04:58He is the international jewel thief in The Pink Panther.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01He is, indeed, in The Pink Panther. Well done.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03So, back to you.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06He's proving a little bit tricky here, Chris. He's not cracking yet.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09Heather, who plays Pinky, the lead character,
0:05:09 > 0:05:13in the 2011 film version of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock?
0:05:13 > 0:05:16What a question for you!
0:05:20 > 0:05:22I'm drawn to Sam Riley, and I don't know why.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25I did read about this the other week.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28I actually haven't heard of any of those.
0:05:28 > 0:05:33So, I'm going to have to go for Sam Riley.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36Blackpool rock on Brighton Rock. Have you got it right?
0:05:36 > 0:05:37Sam Riley is correct.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40ALL: Yes!
0:05:40 > 0:05:42That question was meant to be, wasn't it?
0:05:42 > 0:05:44That's amazing.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46OK.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49Chris, your third question. You're both playing really well.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52What was the title of the US TV series,
0:05:52 > 0:05:54in which Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver
0:05:54 > 0:05:56starred as a pair of crooks
0:05:56 > 0:05:59trying to blend in with a community in the Deep South?
0:06:03 > 0:06:04Ah!
0:06:05 > 0:06:10Now, Weeds was about a suburban housewife growing cannabis.
0:06:10 > 0:06:18Was the name of the couple played by Izzard and Driver the Riches?
0:06:18 > 0:06:20If they were the Riches, that's the right answer.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24I don't think it would be Breaking Bad. I'll go with The Riches.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27Three out of three, Chris. Well done. The Riches is correct.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29OK, Heather.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31As you went second, the pressure is on.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33You have to get this right or you're not in the final.
0:06:33 > 0:06:37Which celebrity traced their family tree in the very first episode
0:06:37 > 0:06:38of Who Do You Think You Are?,
0:06:38 > 0:06:42broadcast on the 12th October 2004?
0:06:49 > 0:06:51I never saw that, so I don't know.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53I don't think it was Bill Oddie.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56And I don't think Jeremy Clarkson's ever done it.
0:06:56 > 0:07:00I'm going to go with Moira Stuart.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02Let's see what your team-mates think.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04- Do you know? - We would have gone for that.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06I thought it might have been Bill Oddie.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09Bill Oddie is the right answer.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11So, bad luck. You've been knocked out by Chris.
0:07:11 > 0:07:15It was tight, though. You won't be in the final round, and he will.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17Please come back and rejoin your teams.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21So, the challengers have lost one brain
0:07:21 > 0:07:23from the final round.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25The Eggheads have lost no brains so far.
0:07:25 > 0:07:29The next subject for you is Music. Who would like this?
0:07:29 > 0:07:31- I'm up for that one.- You are the music fan, John?
0:07:31 > 0:07:33- I'm the music man.- OK, John. Who do you want to take on?
0:07:33 > 0:07:36What do you think? Barry?
0:07:36 > 0:07:38- Barry, perhaps.- Barry, please.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40OK, John, from the Blackpool Rockers.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42You been practising your music, Barry?
0:07:42 > 0:07:45I've been listening to a lot more.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47- The stuff you don't like, as well as the stuff you do?- Yes, indeed.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49Versus Barry, from the Eggheads.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52So there's no conferring, please take your positions.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56John, we're the same age, you and me.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58- Is that right, Jeremy?- 45.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00Were you born in '65, yeah?
0:08:00 > 0:08:02'66. January.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04OK. So you're a bit younger.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Do we like the same kind of music?
0:08:06 > 0:08:10I like punk, indie, grunge, trance,
0:08:10 > 0:08:12dance, hip hop, techno.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14You name it, I like it.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16Blimey, you've got out a bit more than I have!
0:08:16 > 0:08:19I've got about 1,000 LPs all together.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21Really?! So, you really love your music?
0:08:21 > 0:08:24Various formats. The old cassettes, LPs, CDs. I like lots.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29Don't you think the music that was going on between 1977 and 1982
0:08:29 > 0:08:31was the best music EVER made?
0:08:31 > 0:08:33I'd have to agree with you there, Jeremy, I must say.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36- No one else seems to agree with us. - Absolutely loved it.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39Good luck in this round. I hope you get lots of Angelic Upstarts
0:08:39 > 0:08:42and Buzzcocks and all that.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45Oh, aye. The Damned, The Clash, and all them.
0:08:45 > 0:08:46- That's right.- Nice one.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49Barry against John, on Music.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51Three questions. You can choose the first or the second set, John.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53I'll go first, please.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00Good luck. Der Guten Tag Hop-Clop
0:09:00 > 0:09:03is a number from which musical?
0:09:08 > 0:09:11I don't think it's The Sound of Music.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14I don't think it's The Producers.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17I'll have to guess and say Cabaret, Jeremy.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19I wish it was right. It's The Producers.
0:09:19 > 0:09:23Oh! What a bad question for a punk rocker, eh?
0:09:23 > 0:09:25- I know.- Just terrible, isn't it?
0:09:25 > 0:09:28- It's not the punk question. - No good, is it?
0:09:28 > 0:09:30OK, Barry.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33You're going to get the punk question now.
0:09:33 > 0:09:35"We've come so far and we've reached so high
0:09:35 > 0:09:37"and we've looked each day and night in the eye"
0:09:37 > 0:09:39are lyrics from which Take That song?
0:09:43 > 0:09:44Oh, gosh.
0:09:44 > 0:09:48The thing about Take That songs, to me, is that they all sound the same!
0:09:48 > 0:09:51They all sound wonderful, I must admit,
0:09:51 > 0:09:53but I never really listened to the lyrics.
0:09:53 > 0:09:57It talks about "sky", so I shall go for Pray.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59No, you're wrong. It's Never Forget.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01I did, though, didn't I?
0:10:01 > 0:10:03John, here's your question.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05Ian Gillan joined which band
0:10:05 > 0:10:07as lead vocalist in 1969?
0:10:10 > 0:10:12I don't think it's Iron Maiden.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14Not sure who the lead singer is,
0:10:14 > 0:10:18but I think the lead singer of Def Leppard's Joe Elliott.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20I seem to remember it's Deep Purple,
0:10:20 > 0:10:23so I'll go with Deep Purple, Jeremy.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26- Well done, John. Deep Purple is the correct answer.- Yes!
0:10:26 > 0:10:27Well done!
0:10:27 > 0:10:29OK, Barry, your question.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32What is the title of Susan Boyle's second album,
0:10:32 > 0:10:34released in November 2010?
0:10:38 > 0:10:42I think The Promise was Cheryl Cole. I think it's The Gift.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46Brought out in time for Christmas, it is indeed The Gift.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49And, for the second year running, it sold 3.7 million copies,
0:10:49 > 0:10:52and, for the second year running, Susan Boyle was the most successful
0:10:52 > 0:10:54British artist selling overseas.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56OK, John. We're rooting for you here.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58I am, anyway.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00His'N'Hers and We Love Life
0:11:00 > 0:11:02are albums by which pop group?
0:11:08 > 0:11:11I don't know this one, so I'm going to have to guess.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13Not really my type of music.
0:11:13 > 0:11:18I'll just take a stab in the dark, and say Pulp.
0:11:19 > 0:11:23- You've got it absolutely right. - Yes! Come on down!- Pulp, it is.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25We need this level of passion from you, Barry, now.
0:11:25 > 0:11:30The singer Mercedes Sosa, who died in 2009,
0:11:30 > 0:11:31was born in which country?
0:11:31 > 0:11:34Get this wrong and you're out, Barry.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39I'm sorry to say I've never heard of her.
0:11:39 > 0:11:41Mercedes Sosa
0:11:41 > 0:11:45does have a kind of Spanish ring to it, so I shall go for Argentina.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48And you've got it right. It IS Argentina.
0:11:48 > 0:11:52Two points each. John, you've taken him to sudden death.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55It gets harder now. I don't give you alternatives, OK?
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Oh, aye. I know.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00In 1989, John,
0:12:00 > 0:12:02with whom did Marc Almond have a UK single,
0:12:02 > 0:12:05with Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart?
0:12:05 > 0:12:07Um...
0:12:07 > 0:12:11I think it was Gene Pitney, wasn't it? I think.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13Gene Pitney?
0:12:13 > 0:12:17- Gene Pitney is the right answer! - Yes! Come on!- OK!
0:12:17 > 0:12:19Barry,
0:12:19 > 0:12:21you're on the edge, here.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23"The Old Groaner"
0:12:23 > 0:12:25was an affectionate nickname of which singer,
0:12:25 > 0:12:27who died in 1977?
0:12:29 > 0:12:31I think "The Old Groaner" was Frank Sinatra.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34- Oh, no!- Oh, Barry!
0:12:35 > 0:12:36Died in 1977.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39We've taken your answer, but the Eggheads can tell us?
0:12:39 > 0:12:41ALL: Bing Crosby!
0:12:41 > 0:12:43- Bing Crosby.- Oh!
0:12:43 > 0:12:45When did Sinatra die?
0:12:45 > 0:12:46'98.
0:12:46 > 0:12:49Sinatra lived for another two decades after that.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51Yes! Come on, Johnny Boy!
0:12:51 > 0:12:53You've crushed him, John. Well done!
0:12:53 > 0:12:55Yes!
0:12:55 > 0:12:59- So, you are through to the final, John.- YES!
0:12:59 > 0:13:01And, Barry, you've been knocked out.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04Both of you please come back and rejoin your team-mates.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06As it stands, the challengers have lost one brain
0:13:06 > 0:13:08from the final round.
0:13:08 > 0:13:12- The Eggheads have lost a brain, too. Well done, John.- Cheers, mate!
0:13:12 > 0:13:15- A bit of progress for your team now?- ALL: Yes!
0:13:15 > 0:13:16The next subject is History.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19Which of you would like this?
0:13:19 > 0:13:21Margaret, straightaway.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23- That's me.- Straightaway.
0:13:23 > 0:13:27- Who do you want to take on, Margaret?- Kevin, please.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30OK, So, Margaret, from the Blackpool Rockers,
0:13:30 > 0:13:33taking on Kevin, on History.
0:13:33 > 0:13:36To ensure there's no conferring, please go to the Question Room now.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38OK, Margaret.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41So, three multiple choice questions on History, in turn,
0:13:41 > 0:13:45- and you can choose the first or the second set.- I'll go first.
0:13:48 > 0:13:49Good luck to you.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51During World War II, the term "wolf pack"
0:13:51 > 0:13:54was used to describe what type of German vessels,
0:13:54 > 0:13:56travelling in a group?
0:14:00 > 0:14:05I think the most sensible answer
0:14:05 > 0:14:07would be submarines.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10Submarines is correct. Well done.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12Kevin, in 1963,
0:14:12 > 0:14:15Kenya achieved its independence from which country?
0:14:19 > 0:14:23Well, it had been a British colony previously, so United Kingdom.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26United Kingdom is the right answer. Well done.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28Back to you, Margaret.
0:14:28 > 0:14:33The act of defiance known as the Tennis Court Oath
0:14:33 > 0:14:37took place at the beginning of which historical episode?
0:14:45 > 0:14:49Well, I may be completely wrong, but if it's the game of tennis,
0:14:49 > 0:14:52I'm going to guess the American Civil War,
0:14:52 > 0:14:55because that's the most recent.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57We have a tennis specialist with us. Let's see. CJ?
0:14:57 > 0:14:58French Revolution.
0:14:58 > 0:15:01French Revolution is the answer, Margaret.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03CJ, what's the significance?
0:15:03 > 0:15:05It's just where the revolutionaries met
0:15:05 > 0:15:09and declared what they were going to do to start off their defiance.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11Kevin, here's your question.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14From 1923-1934,
0:15:14 > 0:15:18what type of state entity was the Soviet Union's OGPU?
0:15:18 > 0:15:19That's O-G-P-U.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27Yeah, it was one of the predecessors of the KGB.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29It was secret police.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32Secret police is correct. So Kevin has taken the lead.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35Margaret, back to you. You've got to get this one right.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38Between the years 1795-1806,
0:15:38 > 0:15:42which country was known as the Batavian Republic?
0:15:46 > 0:15:47Erm...
0:15:48 > 0:15:53I don't know, but I'm going to take a guess at Poland.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55Let's see if Kevin knows. Kevin?
0:15:55 > 0:15:59No, Batavia was one of the ancient names in Roman times,
0:15:59 > 0:16:01thereabouts, for the area that's now the Netherlands.
0:16:01 > 0:16:05So when... As a result of the French coming in and taking over,
0:16:05 > 0:16:07they set up a puppet regime there.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09They decided to go back to this ancient title.
0:16:09 > 0:16:10So it's the Netherlands.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13It is the Netherlands. Margaret, sorry.
0:16:13 > 0:16:15You've been knocked out by Kevin there.
0:16:15 > 0:16:19He is formidable, particularly on History. Kevin, you're in the final.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21Please, both of you, rejoin us here.
0:16:21 > 0:16:25So, as it stands, the challengers have lost two brains
0:16:25 > 0:16:29from the final round and the Eggheads have lost one brain.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31Our last subject before the final is Arts and Books.
0:16:31 > 0:16:33THEY DISCUSS
0:16:33 > 0:16:36It's got to be Bob. Bob or Geoff?
0:16:36 > 0:16:40- It'll be me.- OK, Bob against which Egghead?
0:16:40 > 0:16:44I'd like to take on Daphne, please.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47Bob from the Blackpool Rockers against our Daphne
0:16:47 > 0:16:48from the Eggheads on Arts and Books.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51Please go to the Question Room now.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53Bob, you're another rock maker?
0:16:53 > 0:16:56I am indeed, Jeremy, yes. Done it all my life.
0:16:56 > 0:16:57But other stuff as well?
0:16:57 > 0:17:01Yeah, we have quite a wide range of products,
0:17:01 > 0:17:05but I do make, allegedly, the world's largest edible cowpats.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08- Oh, really, do you?- Yes.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10Are they sold in wrappers or just posted?
0:17:10 > 0:17:14They're actually sold in like a pizza box, with artificial grass around.
0:17:14 > 0:17:18- Very, very popular!- Really? Made out of chocolate?- Toffee.
0:17:18 > 0:17:19- Toffee?!- Yeah.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21Good luck with Arts and Books.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24Three questions, Bob, you can choose the first or the second set.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26I'll have first, please, Jeremy.
0:17:29 > 0:17:30Here we go, good luck.
0:17:30 > 0:17:32Which fictional gang went to Finniston Farm,
0:17:32 > 0:17:35Billycock Hill and Kirrin Island during their adventures?
0:17:41 > 0:17:46I would think, the only one I can really remember from my childhood
0:17:46 > 0:17:50that sounds familiar is the Famous Five, please, Jeremy.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53- Well done, the Famous Five is the right answer.- Yes!
0:17:53 > 0:17:55Very competitive these Blackpool Rockers.
0:17:55 > 0:17:57This is good! Daphne, your question.
0:17:57 > 0:18:03Memoirs Of A Fruitcake is a volume of which celebrity's autobiography?
0:18:06 > 0:18:10Hmm, yes. He knows how to choose his titles.
0:18:10 > 0:18:11Chris Evans.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14Chris Evans is the right answer.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16My Radio 2 colleague.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19Bob, in the novel Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis,
0:18:19 > 0:18:22Jim Dixon is a lecturer on what subject?
0:18:26 > 0:18:31Right, I'm trying to think that perhaps computer science is...
0:18:31 > 0:18:34If it's a book that's just recently been written, obviously,
0:18:34 > 0:18:36computers might come into it.
0:18:36 > 0:18:41But I'm drawn to Russian politics,
0:18:41 > 0:18:43so I'd like you to take that as my answer, please.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45Let's see if the Eggheads know. Eggs?
0:18:45 > 0:18:47- EGGHEADS:- Medieval history.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49Medieval history is the answer.
0:18:49 > 0:18:53Daphne, your question to take the lead.
0:18:53 > 0:18:54The poet Les Murray,
0:18:54 > 0:18:58recipient of the 1998 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry,
0:18:58 > 0:19:01and winner of the 1996 TS Eliot prize,
0:19:01 > 0:19:02was born in which country?
0:19:05 > 0:19:08Nope.
0:19:08 > 0:19:09Doesn't ring a bell.
0:19:11 > 0:19:12Les.
0:19:13 > 0:19:17Sounds Australian to me, so, Australia?
0:19:17 > 0:19:20Australia is the right answer.
0:19:20 > 0:19:24Bob, sorry about that! That was just Daphne being Daphne.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26- So you need to get this question right.- Right.
0:19:26 > 0:19:31Which actor had a hit with his 1956 play Romanoff and Juliet?
0:19:36 > 0:19:39Right, well, Peter Ustinov is quite humorous.
0:19:39 > 0:19:43Erm... Anthony Quayle, I don't really recognise
0:19:43 > 0:19:45and Dirk Bogarde, I've heard of.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51I'm going to go for Peter Ustinov.
0:19:51 > 0:19:55- You've got it absolutely right. Peter Ustinov.- Come on!
0:19:55 > 0:19:58A good two out of three there, you've done well.
0:19:58 > 0:20:00Let's see if Daphne is going to win the round.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03If you get this right, you will win it and be in the final.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05Who's Afraid Of Red, Yellow and Blue?
0:20:05 > 0:20:07is a series of paintings
0:20:07 > 0:20:09from the late 1960s by which abstract painter?
0:20:18 > 0:20:21I'm trying to see if anything, erm...
0:20:21 > 0:20:23SHE SIGHS
0:20:23 > 0:20:25Barnett Newman.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27Where did you get that from?
0:20:27 > 0:20:31- An inkle?- An inkle, so it was one less than an inkling?- Yes.
0:20:31 > 0:20:35Barnett Newman is the right answer. Your inkle served you well, Daphne.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37- You are in the final round. Sorry, Bob.- No problem.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40You've been beaten by an Egghead, but it does happen.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42If you both come back, we'll play the final round.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47This is what we've been playing towards, it's the final round,
0:20:47 > 0:20:49which, as always, is General Knowledge.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52Those of you who lost your head-to-heads
0:20:52 > 0:20:54won't be allowed to take part in this round.
0:20:54 > 0:20:58So, Margaret, Bob and Heather from the Blackpool Rockers
0:20:58 > 0:21:02and Barry, from the Eggheads, would you please leave the studio.
0:21:04 > 0:21:08Geoff and John, you're playing to win the Blackpool Rockers £17,000.
0:21:08 > 0:21:14Kevin, CJ, Daphne and Chris, you're playing for something money can't buy, the Eggheads' reputation.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20This time the questions are all general knowledge
0:21:20 > 0:21:22and you are allowed to confer.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24So, Blackpool Rockers, the question is,
0:21:24 > 0:21:27are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?
0:21:27 > 0:21:29Do you want to go first or second?
0:21:29 > 0:21:32- First?- First, yeah.- First, please.
0:21:34 > 0:21:38Here we go... Best of luck, Geoff and John.
0:21:38 > 0:21:42What term is used to refer to the support allowance
0:21:42 > 0:21:46that an individual pays to his or her former spouse
0:21:46 > 0:21:47as part of a divorce settlement?
0:21:51 > 0:21:53- Right...- Er...
0:21:53 > 0:21:55- Alimony?- I think we've got it.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58We'll say alimony.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00- Your answer is alimony?- Mm-hm.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02- Quite right.- Yes, come on. - Well done.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04Got the first one right. OK, Eggheads.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09Which UK Eurovision Song Contest winning group
0:22:09 > 0:22:10was fronted by an American?
0:22:15 > 0:22:16- Katrina And The Waves?- Mm-hm.
0:22:16 > 0:22:21That was '97, I think it was, Katrina And The Waves.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24- Do you know the song? - Sunshine, something.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26Sunshine In My Heart, or something.
0:22:26 > 0:22:30Walking On Sunshine was the famous pop hit, but that wasn't it.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33- Love Shine A Light.- Oh... - Love Shine A Light.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37So they've got theirs right, but don't panic yet.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39Here's your question.
0:22:39 > 0:22:43What is the literal translation of "Dies Irae,"
0:22:43 > 0:22:47the name of part of the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass?
0:22:53 > 0:22:57I'll spell it for you, OK.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59Dies is D-I-E-S and Irae is I-RA-E.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04- Dies Irae?- Day Of Wrath? - Day Of Wrath.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06Dies is day.
0:23:06 > 0:23:10- Your thought is Day Of Wrath? - I would guess.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12We'll go for Day Of Wrath.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15- Day Of Wrath is the right answer. - Yes! Come on!
0:23:15 > 0:23:17Two out of two.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19£17,000 to play for.
0:23:19 > 0:23:21Let's see what happens with these Eggheads.
0:23:21 > 0:23:26The Australian kelpie is a breed of which domestic creature?
0:23:29 > 0:23:32- Dog?- It's like a sheepdog. It's a sheepdog.
0:23:34 > 0:23:35It's a dog.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37Dog is the right answer.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41They are not mucking around, the Eggheads.
0:23:41 > 0:23:45Get this one right and they can panic, I've been it happen.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48In 2010 Thierry Henry left Barcelona
0:23:48 > 0:23:50to join which Major League soccer team?
0:23:56 > 0:23:59- I think I know this one. - Who was it? Who was it?
0:23:59 > 0:24:03- Thierry Henry left Barcelona. I think I know it.- Go on.
0:24:03 > 0:24:07I don't think it's Chicago Fire.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09I don't think it's Houston Dynamo.
0:24:09 > 0:24:13Straightaway I thought it was New York Red Bulls.
0:24:13 > 0:24:14- Straightaway.- OK.- We'll say that.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17We'll go for New York Red Bulls, please.
0:24:17 > 0:24:21- The last one, you were certain, Geoff.- But not about this one.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23Well, Dies Irae, but the last one, you were.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26John, this time you're certain. You're playing well.
0:24:26 > 0:24:31- New York Red Bulls is correct. - Yes!- Well done.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33- You've got three out of three. - Come on.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35You've left it perched in a very interesting place here,
0:24:35 > 0:24:38because, this third question if they get it wrong, you've won £17,000.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40You don't need to do another stroke of work today.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43That sounds all right to me.
0:24:43 > 0:24:44Here is your question, Eggheads.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46- Norrin Radd...- Yes!
0:24:49 > 0:24:53- ..is the alter ego, you don't know what I'm going to ask yet.- Sorry.
0:24:53 > 0:24:59Norrin Radd is the alter ego of which comic book super hero?
0:25:02 > 0:25:04- Silver Surfer. - Silver Surfer, isn't it?
0:25:04 > 0:25:05THEY LAUGH
0:25:05 > 0:25:07How do you know it's the Silver Surfer?
0:25:07 > 0:25:10CJ, how do you know it with such conviction?
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Because I've wasted my life with comic books.
0:25:12 > 0:25:13You read them a lot, do you?
0:25:13 > 0:25:16I like them and I watch the films, as well.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19This is not learning lists, this is you reading something for enjoyment?
0:25:19 > 0:25:21- For enjoyment, yeah.- This is you as a real person, CJ?
0:25:21 > 0:25:24I wouldn't go that far!
0:25:24 > 0:25:26The correct answer is Silver Surfer.
0:25:26 > 0:25:27So, they got three out of three.
0:25:27 > 0:25:32You're foiled slightly, but you're not out, not by any means.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35£17,000 we're playing for and we go to Sudden Death.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38It's not multiple choice now. I need the answer from you.
0:25:38 > 0:25:45In the lyrics of a famous song, by Eric Maschwitz and Manning Sherwin,
0:25:45 > 0:25:47that became popular during World War II,
0:25:47 > 0:25:50in which London square did a nightingale sing?
0:25:52 > 0:25:54- Berkeley Square?- Berkeley, yeah.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57- Are you happy?- Yeah. - Berkeley Square.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00- Berkeley Square is the right answer. - Yes, come on, come on.
0:26:02 > 0:26:06Eggheads, you get this wrong and they've won £17,000
0:26:06 > 0:26:10and your winning streak is over. In 2009,
0:26:10 > 0:26:17Sir John Sawers was appointed head of which intelligence organisation?
0:26:17 > 0:26:19I think he's the one whose wife put the pictures on the internet.
0:26:19 > 0:26:21Yes it was, and I think that's...
0:26:23 > 0:26:25Can you just spell Sawers for us, please.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27S-A-W-ERS.
0:26:27 > 0:26:31I can't remember which one it is.
0:26:31 > 0:26:32No, is it MI5 or MI6?
0:26:32 > 0:26:37CHRIS: Well, MI5's internal, and MI6 is abroad, isn't it?
0:26:37 > 0:26:39MI5 is the one, if it's not,
0:26:39 > 0:26:42can we think of an alternative name of who is head of MI5?
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Not at the moment, no.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51- If I have an inkling it's towards six.- Mmm.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53But, erm...
0:26:54 > 0:26:58That maybe, well...
0:26:58 > 0:27:01I'm inclined to go for... I don't know.
0:27:01 > 0:27:04- I'd go for five.- You'd go for five? - CHRIS: Yeah, I'd go for five, yeah.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08CHRIS: It's higher profile than six.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10Don't do it on the basis of what I think.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12- Do you want to go for five? - CHRIS: I'll go for five.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15- Do you want to go for five?- Yeah.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17We don't know, MI5, we'll try.
0:27:17 > 0:27:22OK, your answer is MI5. If you've got it wrong, you don't have to do any more.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24Do you know the answer, by the way?
0:27:24 > 0:27:26- MI6.- You think it's MI6?- Oh, yes.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29That was a brilliantly shared session, there, CJ,
0:27:29 > 0:27:34where you gave more weight to the opinions of people who didn't know the answer.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38You should have listened to Kevin's inkling, but he's too modest.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40It's MI6.
0:27:40 > 0:27:44Congratulations, Challengers, you have won!
0:27:46 > 0:27:49Yes! Come on!
0:27:49 > 0:27:52How about that, I'm so pleased for you. Congratulations.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55Jeremy, my flat burnt down a couple of months ago
0:27:55 > 0:27:59and I've been homeless for a while, so that is going to help me.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02I've just moved into a new house, so, brilliant.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04I'm so chuffed for you.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07The fact that you knew the last answer as well
0:28:07 > 0:28:09is particularly heartening.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11I would have been with you guys, MI5 or MI6, which is it?
0:28:11 > 0:28:14It's very difficult.
0:28:14 > 0:28:18Congratulations, Challengers, you've ended their winning streak.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21You've won £17,000 on Eggheads and you are officially
0:28:21 > 0:28:23cleverer than the Eggheads here.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26You've proved that they certainly can be beaten.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers
0:28:29 > 0:28:31will be just as successful.
0:28:31 > 0:28:34Until then, after a brilliant game, goodbye.
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