0:00:04 > 0:00:08These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:15Together they make up the Eggheads, arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19The question is - can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Welcome to Eggheads 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 > 0:00:35They have won some of the country's toughest quiz shows. They are the Eggheads.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39And challenging our resident quiz champions today
0:00:39 > 0:00:42are The Merchants of Banter. This friends and family team
0:00:42 > 0:00:47share three simple passions - five-a-side football, pub quizzes and propping up the bar.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51They won't say which they are best at. Let's meet them.
0:00:51 > 0:00:56Hi, I'm Kenny, I'm 25 and an Economic and Social History graduate.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00Hi, I'm Eddie, I'm 28 and I'm an engineering project manager.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04Hi, I'm Stephen, I'm 29 and I'm an electrical engineer.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07Hi, I'm Paul, I'm 27 and I'm a trainee solicitor.
0:01:07 > 0:01:11Hi, I'm Stephen, I'm 31 and I'm a solicitor.
0:01:11 > 0:01:17Kenny and team, great to see you. You're round the country now, but you all were together as students?
0:01:17 > 0:01:21Sure. We all went to various universities in Glasgow
0:01:21 > 0:01:24and kept a social life around that.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27Can you explain the team name, Merchants of Banter?
0:01:27 > 0:01:33Yeah, most weekends, we like to congregate in a pub or two around Glasgow and have a laugh.
0:01:33 > 0:01:38- Have some banter. There's a Shakespeare connection with Merchant Of Venice?- Not so much.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41Less Shakespeare, more banter, definitely.
0:01:41 > 0:01:45It's probably got them worried, which is an advantage to it.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49Do you have quiz areas you're good at, any weaknesses?
0:01:49 > 0:01:56- Arts & Books is probably a weakness, but I don't know if we should say that.- If it comes up, it comes up.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59Every day, there is £1,000 up for grabs for our challengers.
0:01:59 > 0:02:04If they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over.
0:02:04 > 0:02:08Merchants of Banter, the Eggheads have won the last two games
0:02:08 > 0:02:11which means £3,000 says you can't beat them today.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13- Would you like to try?- Definitely.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16The first head-to-head battle is on Arts & Books.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19I didn't know!
0:02:19 > 0:02:22- How did that happen? - It's a hammer blow.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25It was already decided. Who would like this?
0:02:25 > 0:02:31I believe because my old flatmate was an English teacher that I'm going to take this one on.
0:02:31 > 0:02:38- Stephen, OK, down the end. And which Egghead would you like, Stephen, on Arts & Books?- I will choose Pat.
0:02:38 > 0:02:44Stephen from The Merchants of Banter and Pat who, in the last game, claimed history was a blur to him,
0:02:44 > 0:02:47then got all the questions right. Arts & Books is a blur?
0:02:47 > 0:02:50Books, we've all read one.
0:02:50 > 0:02:54He keeps his light under a bushel, old Pat.
0:02:54 > 0:02:58To ensure no conferring, please take your positions in the question room.
0:02:59 > 0:03:04- Stephen, you're a solicitor.- Yes. - How did you get volunteered for Arts & Books?
0:03:04 > 0:03:08I had an old flatmate who was an English teacher
0:03:08 > 0:03:14and the thinking seems to be that something will have rubbed off on me from living with him for three years.
0:03:14 > 0:03:18- It's that tenuous? You once met someone who read a book?- Basically.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22- Good luck in this round.- Thank you. - Three multiple choice questions.
0:03:22 > 0:03:29If you lose the round, you're not in the final and the winner goes through to the final round.
0:03:29 > 0:03:33- You can choose the first or second set of questions.- I will go second.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38OK, over to you, Pat.
0:03:38 > 0:03:44The Frans Hals Museum, which moved to its current location in 1913, is in which country?
0:03:48 > 0:03:54Frans Hals is a distinguished Flemish or Dutch painter.
0:03:56 > 0:04:02Mostly known or, in fact, almost completely known for his portrait
0:04:02 > 0:04:04of a young man, The Laughing Cavalier.
0:04:04 > 0:04:08And I think his museum is in the Netherlands.
0:04:08 > 0:04:12The Netherlands is the right answer. He didn't do the wedding?
0:04:12 > 0:04:16- Arnolfini and all that? - That's Jan van Eyck.- Van Eyck?
0:04:16 > 0:04:21Only an art buff could come up with many more Frans Hals paintings.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23Stephen, your question.
0:04:23 > 0:04:27Which fictional detective was in The Adventure Of The Speckled Band?
0:04:30 > 0:04:35The theory seems to be paying off so far. I think I know this one.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37I think it is Sherlock Holmes.
0:04:37 > 0:04:42Sherlock Holmes is the right answer. Well done. Pat, back to you.
0:04:42 > 0:04:49What was the pen name of the French writer, Marie-Henri Beyle, who was born in 1783?
0:04:56 > 0:04:59This chap, I think, wrote
0:04:59 > 0:05:03The Charterhouse Of Parma and The Red And The Black.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06I think it's Stendhal.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09Yes, indeed. It's a bloke or a woman or what?
0:05:09 > 0:05:12- A man.- Marie-Henri Beyle is a man?
0:05:12 > 0:05:16It's a man. And there's a thing called Stendhal Syndrome.
0:05:16 > 0:05:20He went to Venice and I think he was overwhelmed by the beauty of it.
0:05:20 > 0:05:24People who are overwhelmed by beauty, it's called Stendhal Syndrome.
0:05:24 > 0:05:28Stendhal Syndrome? I haven't ever suffered that.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30Certainly not in this studio!
0:05:30 > 0:05:35Stephen, an installation by Louise Bourgeois,
0:05:35 > 0:05:38exhibited in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall in 2000,
0:05:38 > 0:05:42consisted of three steel towers individually named what?
0:05:49 > 0:05:53I really don't have too much of an idea on this one.
0:05:53 > 0:05:57Art, as I've said, is not a strong point for me.
0:05:57 > 0:06:02But I Came, I Saw, I Conquered rings a bell somewhere in my head,
0:06:02 > 0:06:04so I will go for that.
0:06:04 > 0:06:08It's a famous phrase, but the bell isn't from the Turbine Hall.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11What is it, Eggheads? Do you know?
0:06:11 > 0:06:14I'd go for the middle one.
0:06:14 > 0:06:20You're wrong. I Do, I Undo, I Redo, it is. Three steel towers.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23That didn't come up in conversation with your flatmate?
0:06:23 > 0:06:29- No, unfortunately not.- Pat's in the lead. If he gets this one right, he's taken the round.
0:06:29 > 0:06:34Which TV reviewer wrote the books Dawn Of The Dumb and The Hell Of It All?
0:06:37 > 0:06:42After "which TV reviewer", I was hoping it would be Clive James,
0:06:42 > 0:06:45but he's nowhere to be seen,
0:06:45 > 0:06:49so I'll have to make do with these three gentlemen.
0:06:49 > 0:06:53Charlie Brooker in recent times has been very prominent
0:06:53 > 0:06:56as a fairly caustic TV reviewer and surveyor.
0:06:56 > 0:07:01Garry Bushell, I think, is part newspaper, perhaps part TV.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04I don't know much about Jim Shelley.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08Charlie Brooker takes a fairly caustic view of rubbish telly
0:07:08 > 0:07:11and how you waste your life watching it,
0:07:11 > 0:07:14so I'll go for Charlie Brooker, but it's a guess.
0:07:14 > 0:07:20Charlie Brooker is the right answer, Pat. Stephen, he's taken the round.
0:07:20 > 0:07:24You won't be in the final. Please come back and we'll play on.
0:07:24 > 0:07:29The challengers have lost one brain from the final round. The Eggheads have lost no brains.
0:07:29 > 0:07:33The next subject for you is Science. Who would like this?
0:07:33 > 0:07:35That'll be myself.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38OK, Eddie. Against which Egghead?
0:07:40 > 0:07:42I'll go against Judith, please.
0:07:42 > 0:07:46- Are you sure you won't get Stendhal Syndrome?- You never know.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49- You could be overwhelmed by beauty there.- Thank you.
0:07:49 > 0:07:54Eddie from The Merchants of Banter against Judith from the Eggheads.
0:07:54 > 0:07:58To ensure no conferring, please take your positions in the question room.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01Science now, three questions.
0:08:01 > 0:08:05- Eddie, you can choose the first or second set.- I'll go first, please.
0:08:08 > 0:08:13Here we go, Eddie. Good luck. What is the chemical symbol of arsenic?
0:08:20 > 0:08:22I'm not 100% sure on this one,
0:08:22 > 0:08:27but my first instinct would be to go with "As".
0:08:27 > 0:08:31- I'll go with "As".- "As" is the right answer, Eddie. Well done.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Judith, your question.
0:08:33 > 0:08:37Which muscles enable some people to wiggle their ears?
0:08:41 > 0:08:44I think intercostal is between ribs.
0:08:44 > 0:08:49And deltoid is a sort of beefy muscle somewhere else.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52I think it must be auricular.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54Auricular is the right answer.
0:08:54 > 0:08:58- Is the deltoid the chest or the back?- Shoulders.- Where?- Shoulders.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01- The shoulders, the deltoids.- Yes.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03OK, your question, Eddie.
0:09:03 > 0:09:07What nickname is given to the HQ of the internet company Google?
0:09:11 > 0:09:15OK, I think it's based in Silicon Valley.
0:09:18 > 0:09:22None of the three of them I'm familiar with.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24I'll go with Googlelab.
0:09:25 > 0:09:31Googlelab is wrong, Eddie. Sorry. It's Googleplex we were looking for.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33Which is a number, Barry, isn't it?
0:09:33 > 0:09:37A googolplex is ten to a googol and a googol is 10 to the 100.
0:09:37 > 0:09:41- 10 to the power of 100. - That's 10 with 100 zeroes after it.
0:09:41 > 0:09:47- If you put 10 to that power, that's a googolplex.- My dad loved maths and always talked about googolplexes.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51Isn't that amazing? Judith, what type of creature is an indri?
0:09:55 > 0:09:59- Can you spell it, please?- I-N-D-R-I.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02What type of creature, Judith, is an indri?
0:10:02 > 0:10:06I've been watching... No, sorry, that's something else.
0:10:07 > 0:10:11I-N-D-R-I, indri. What could it be?
0:10:12 > 0:10:15It doesn't sound toad-like.
0:10:15 > 0:10:17An indri. I don't know.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19I think it might be a lemur.
0:10:19 > 0:10:23I think it might well be a lemur. Lemur is correct.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26Eddie, you've got to get this right.
0:10:26 > 0:10:33The spice cinnamon is obtained from a tree that belongs to which family?
0:10:36 > 0:10:41OK, biology ones and the living world are not what I was looking for.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44More physics I was after.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49I'm going to go with beech.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52Your answer is beech.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54Judith, do you know?
0:10:54 > 0:10:58I was trying to think of the Latin names for all those things.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01Dogwood is famous for bark.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05No, it's not dogwood. It's laurel.
0:11:05 > 0:11:09Eddie, you've been overwhelmed by beauty. Judith has taken the round.
0:11:09 > 0:11:13She will be in the final. Eddie, you won't be.
0:11:13 > 0:11:17Come back to the studio and we will see if the challengers can turn it around.
0:11:18 > 0:11:24So the challengers have lost two brains from the final round and the Eggheads have lost no brains.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26The next subject is Sport.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29- Is this looking better?- Yeah.
0:11:29 > 0:11:33- Who wants this?- I'm going to go for this one.- Paul.- Paul.
0:11:33 > 0:11:38- Against which Egghead? It can't be Pat or Judith. - I think we agreed on Chris.- Yeah.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41We're going to take Chris on.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44Paul from The Merchants of Banter... Sport again, Chris!
0:11:44 > 0:11:47No mas! Por favor, no mas!
0:11:47 > 0:11:51- Against Chris from the Eggheads who's not happy.- Lo siento.
0:11:51 > 0:11:55To ensure there's no conferring, please go to the question room now.
0:11:55 > 0:12:01- Paul, tell us what you're up to in life.- I'm a trainee solicitor at the moment. I work with Stephen.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04We both work at a firm in Glasgow.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07About nine months into that I am now.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09You're sporting as well, are you?
0:12:09 > 0:12:12Yes, I've played football since I was about nine.
0:12:12 > 0:12:16I like golf. I like a bet on the horses as well.
0:12:16 > 0:12:18Those are my three main sports.
0:12:18 > 0:12:23- You like a bet on the horses?- Yeah. - Is that a science or an addiction?
0:12:23 > 0:12:28It's somewhere in between. It's been passed down through the generations of my family.
0:12:28 > 0:12:32My grandfather, particularly, liked a wee flutter.
0:12:32 > 0:12:38I'll ask each of you three questions on Sport. I hope the odds are good. Do you want to go first or second?
0:12:38 > 0:12:42I'll go against my father's advice and go first, please.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47Here is your question, Paul.
0:12:47 > 0:12:53What is the name of the form of motor sport in which the cars have to be slowed down by a parachute?
0:12:57 > 0:13:01I'm reasonably confident on this one, I think.
0:13:01 > 0:13:05I don't think it's pull racing. I'm pretty sure it's not tug racing.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11I'm reasonably confident it's drag racing.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14Drag racing is the right answer. Chris, on to you.
0:13:14 > 0:13:19Chris Tomlinson and Larry Achike represented England at which sport?
0:13:23 > 0:13:26They don't ring any bells as cricketers.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28Tomlinson, Tomlinson, Tomlinson...
0:13:30 > 0:13:35They sound like a pair of athletes to me, so I'll say athletics.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38Why do they sound like athletics?
0:13:38 > 0:13:42Achike, in particular, because it sounds like an African name
0:13:42 > 0:13:46and Africa tends to produce very good athletes,
0:13:46 > 0:13:48so there we go.
0:13:48 > 0:13:52- Quod erat demonstrandum. - The logic's good. Athletics, it is.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55One point each. Back to you, Paul.
0:13:55 > 0:14:00In 2008, Simon Grayson became manager of which football club?
0:14:07 > 0:14:08I'm pretty sure he was never the manager of Palace.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13Norwich is ringing a bell as well.
0:14:18 > 0:14:23I have a feeling he had a short spell at Norwich, then moved to Leeds.
0:14:23 > 0:14:27But my first instinct was Leeds United, so I think I'll go with that.
0:14:27 > 0:14:31- Leeds United is the right answer. - Yes!- Well done.
0:14:31 > 0:14:37You had all the information and you thought we were tricking you.
0:14:37 > 0:14:41Chris, which country won the Davis Cup for the first time in 2010?
0:14:45 > 0:14:49The Davis Cup, that's, um...tennis.
0:14:51 > 0:14:56Well, Slovakia is part of the old Czechoslovakia
0:14:56 > 0:15:00and Czechoslovakia produced quite a few good tennis players,
0:15:00 > 0:15:03Martina Navratilova being the prime example,
0:15:03 > 0:15:08so given the tennis history in that neck of the woods, I'll say Slovakia.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11Slovakia is your answer.
0:15:11 > 0:15:15If CJ were here, he would say Serbia is the correct answer.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17I assume, as he knows his tennis.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19Paul, you're in the lead now.
0:15:19 > 0:15:24Henley Regatta first added the word Royal to its name
0:15:24 > 0:15:28when which member of the Royal Family became its patron?
0:15:34 > 0:15:36Henley Regatta...
0:15:36 > 0:15:39I've never heard of the Duke of Clarence.
0:15:39 > 0:15:44Not that he doesn't exist or she... Not that HE doesn't exist.
0:15:44 > 0:15:48So I think I'll rule out the Duke of Clarence.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51I think I'm going to plump for Queen Victoria.
0:15:53 > 0:15:57- Let me see if the Eggheads know. Who would you say?- Prince Albert.
0:15:57 > 0:16:01Prince Albert is the right answer, so Chris can draw level now.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04If he does, we go to Sudden Death.
0:16:04 > 0:16:09Who was the trainer of the three-times Cheltenham Gold Cup-winning horse Best Mate?
0:16:16 > 0:16:18Well, a horse in my book has two uses -
0:16:18 > 0:16:22pulling carts and feeding Frenchmen, so I don't know.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24I've got to make an intelligent guess.
0:16:27 > 0:16:31None of the names are ringing any bells,
0:16:31 > 0:16:34so I'll go down the middle - Jane Chapple-Hyam.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38- Paul, do you know the answer?- Yes, it's Henrietta Knight.- That's right.
0:16:38 > 0:16:43You've been knocked out, Chris. Paul, you've taken out an Egghead
0:16:43 > 0:16:45and you will be in the final round.
0:16:45 > 0:16:49Please, both of you, rejoin your team-mates.
0:16:49 > 0:16:55The challengers have lost two brains from the final round. The Eggheads have lost one brain now.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58The last subject is Film & Television.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00Is that good?
0:17:00 > 0:17:04- Yeah.- Who's our expert on Film and TV?- Got to be Kenny or Stephen.
0:17:04 > 0:17:09- Stephen?- Yeah, I'll go. - Against which Egghead, Stephen?
0:17:09 > 0:17:11I'll take Kevin.
0:17:11 > 0:17:17So, Stephen from Merchants of Banter is going to try and knock out Kevin from the Eggheads.
0:17:17 > 0:17:21To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25I'll ask each of you three questions on Film & Television in turn.
0:17:25 > 0:17:30- Stephen, you can choose the first or second set.- I'll go first, please.
0:17:33 > 0:17:37What was the name of Del Boy's local pub in Only Fools And Horses?
0:17:42 > 0:17:44I'm not entirely sure,
0:17:44 > 0:17:51but my gut instinct seems to lead me towards The Coach And Horses.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53So...
0:17:53 > 0:17:57Yeah, I'll go with that - Coach And Horses.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59There's pain on the table next to me.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02- Do you know, guys?- Nag's Head.
0:18:02 > 0:18:06Nag's Head. Difficult one to guess if you don't know it.
0:18:06 > 0:18:11Kevin, which historical character was played on film by Vivien Leigh in 1945
0:18:11 > 0:18:14and Elizabeth Taylor in 1963?
0:18:19 > 0:18:24The Elizabeth Taylor one was the big Cleopatra mega-epic
0:18:24 > 0:18:26that was done in 1963.
0:18:26 > 0:18:32I think Vivien Leigh was in Caesar And Cleopatra in '45.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34So it's Cleopatra.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37Cleopatra is the right answer.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39OK, back to you, Stephen.
0:18:39 > 0:18:43Bill Cutting, the character played by Daniel Day-Lewis
0:18:43 > 0:18:46in the 2002 film Gangs Of New York, had what nickname?
0:18:50 > 0:18:55I'm pretty certain it's The Butcher.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57He's the kind of British guy.
0:18:57 > 0:19:02British flags and stuff. I'm pretty sure it's that. I'll go with that.
0:19:02 > 0:19:06Butcher is your answer and it's correct, Stephen.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09Let's see if Kevin keeps the lead.
0:19:09 > 0:19:14Kevin, what was the subject of the long-running TV series Going For A Song?
0:19:17 > 0:19:19Yeah, it was a kind of...
0:19:19 > 0:19:23These days, it would be seen as a predecessor of Antiques Roadshow,
0:19:23 > 0:19:25but it wasn't quite like that.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28It had a panel game element to it. It was antiques, anyway.
0:19:28 > 0:19:33Arthur Negus and a bird singing in a cage and all that sort of thing.
0:19:33 > 0:19:37Antiques is the right answer. OK, over to you, Stephen.
0:19:37 > 0:19:41You need to get this one right or you have been knocked out.
0:19:41 > 0:19:48Which Australian-born actress played Brenda Chenowith in the TV drama series Six Feet Under?
0:19:55 > 0:20:00I think Portia de Rossi is American. I'm pretty sure.
0:20:00 > 0:20:02She was in Arrested Development.
0:20:02 > 0:20:06I know Toni Collette is Australian. I'm pretty sure she is.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09I don't know about Rachel Griffiths.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12I have to go with a guess here.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14I've not watched Six Feet Under before.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17I'll go with Rachel Griffiths.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20LAUGHTER
0:20:20 > 0:20:23I thought you were going for Toni Collette there.
0:20:23 > 0:20:27- Your team members know Six Feet Under?- Yeah.- You're right, Stephen.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29Well done. It's Rachel Griffiths.
0:20:29 > 0:20:33I watched it all, but I couldn't have answered that question.
0:20:33 > 0:20:37Kevin, here's your question. If you get this right, you're in the final.
0:20:37 > 0:20:42"Fair and balanced" is a slogan used by which American TV channel?
0:20:46 > 0:20:48"Fair and balanced..."
0:20:48 > 0:20:50Is it ironic?
0:20:50 > 0:20:52That's the point.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54So would...
0:20:54 > 0:21:00Bloomberg deals in financial news, the markets, all that kind of thing.
0:21:00 > 0:21:06I don't really see why they would use that slogan.
0:21:08 > 0:21:12It's got to... I'll have to go for the irony here.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14I'll say it's Fox News.
0:21:14 > 0:21:18You are right. Fox News is the right answer.
0:21:18 > 0:21:20Stephen, you've been knocked out
0:21:20 > 0:21:24because of that first question on the blooming Nag's Head!
0:21:24 > 0:21:28That's so annoying. Kevin, you're in the final. Stephen, you're not.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31Please, both of you, come back to us now.
0:21:31 > 0:21:37This is what we have been playing towards - the final round which, as always, is General Knowledge.
0:21:37 > 0:21:42But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads can't take part,
0:21:42 > 0:21:47so Eddie and the two Stephens from The Merchants of Banter and Chris from the Eggheads,
0:21:47 > 0:21:49would you please now leave the studio?
0:21:50 > 0:21:55Kenny and Paul, you're playing to win The Merchants of Banter £3,000.
0:21:55 > 0:22:01Barry, Pat, Judith and Kevin, you're playing for something money can't buy - the Eggheads' reputation.
0:22:01 > 0:22:08I will ask each team three questions in turn, all General Knowledge, and you are allowed to confer.
0:22:08 > 0:22:14Merchants of Banter, the question is, are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?
0:22:14 > 0:22:17- Would you like to go first or second?- We'll go first.
0:22:20 > 0:22:24Here we go. Good luck to you. Tawny is a type of which drink?
0:22:26 > 0:22:28What's your first instinct?
0:22:28 > 0:22:32I know what my instinct is. I'm pretty sure I know the answer.
0:22:32 > 0:22:38- We've both worked in bars.- Yeah. We've both drunk in bars.- Yeah.
0:22:38 > 0:22:42And if we win, we'll be drinking in bars tonight!
0:22:42 > 0:22:46- It's not whisky or brandy. It's port.- That was my first reaction.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49A type of port, please.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52Port is the right answer. Good bit of teamwork there.
0:22:55 > 0:23:01You only were in bars professionally. You were never there for leisure purposes at all(!)
0:23:01 > 0:23:03OK, Eggheads, your question.
0:23:03 > 0:23:07Telugu is a language primarily spoken in which country?
0:23:10 > 0:23:12- India.- That's India.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15- T-E-L-U-G-U?- Yeah.
0:23:15 > 0:23:20- Yeah, India.- It's actually got about 65 million speakers.- Yeah.
0:23:20 > 0:23:25Telugu has about 65 million speakers and it's spoken primarily in India.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28India is the correct answer, Eggheads.
0:23:28 > 0:23:33So, your second question, Merchants of Banter.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37Who became the first Emperor of a united Germany in 1871?
0:23:41 > 0:23:45Right, I would say... I don't know, actually.
0:23:45 > 0:23:50Wilhelm jumps out at me as a Dutch name.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53I thought Karl at first.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57- You're thinking Karl?- That's what I thought when the answers came up.
0:23:57 > 0:24:01- Will we go for Karl? - I don't have a clue, though.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03To be honest.
0:24:04 > 0:24:08I don't know why, but Wilhelm is popping out at me.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12- And we're totally neglecting Heinrich I.- I know.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Which could be a mistake.
0:24:15 > 0:24:20- We're going to tie ourselves in knots here.- We're going round in circles.
0:24:20 > 0:24:25- Karl?- Will we go for Karl?- Yeah. - Karl I.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28Karl I. You said Wilhelm was popping out at you?
0:24:28 > 0:24:32- Yeah.- Let's see what the Eggheads say.- Wilhelm.- Wilhelm.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Wilhelm is the right answer, guys.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37Kaiser Wilhelm II was the famous one?
0:24:37 > 0:24:41- The First World War, yeah. - He was deposed by Hitler?
0:24:41 > 0:24:43He wasn't deposed by Hitler.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46He abdicated at the end of the First World War.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48- He was the grandson of this one.- OK.
0:24:48 > 0:24:52So the famous Kaiser Wilhelm is not this one?
0:24:52 > 0:24:56No, this one was quite an elderly man when he became German Emperor.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59So the Eggheads can take the lead.
0:24:59 > 0:25:04A bequest by the actor Robert Baddeley means that a cake is provided for cast members
0:25:04 > 0:25:09at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on what day of the year?
0:25:12 > 0:25:16- I think there's a Shakespeare connection.- Twelfth Night.
0:25:16 > 0:25:20- Yes, but there are two Shakespeare connections there.- Yeah.
0:25:20 > 0:25:23- I would think it's Twelfth Night. - I read this...
0:25:23 > 0:25:27- There's a tradition of cakes on Twelfth Night.- That's true.
0:25:27 > 0:25:31- In France and whatnot.- It is a traditional time for cakes as well.
0:25:31 > 0:25:36- And that's the most direct Shakespeare connection there.- Yeah.
0:25:36 > 0:25:40OK, A Midsummer Night's Dream, midsummer, but...
0:25:40 > 0:25:44Isn't the line, "Shall we have cakes and ale," from Twelfth Night?
0:25:44 > 0:25:46- Yes, that's true. Yeah.- Ah!
0:25:46 > 0:25:50- All the indicators would lead... - That's three indicators.
0:25:50 > 0:25:52- Are we all agreed?- Yeah.- Yes.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54There's a line in Twelfth Night,
0:25:54 > 0:25:57"Shall we have no more cakes and ale?"
0:25:57 > 0:25:59On that basis, we think it's Twelfth Night.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02It's traditional to eat cakes on Twelfth Night.
0:26:02 > 0:26:06Twelfth Night is right. What night of the year is it?
0:26:06 > 0:26:09- Epiphany.- January the 6th, is it?
0:26:09 > 0:26:13- When you take the decorations down? - It's the night of January 5th/6th.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16- So, 12 days after Christmas?- Mm-hm.
0:26:17 > 0:26:23Merchants of Banter, a bit of Shakespeare there and your name is based on Shakespeare.
0:26:23 > 0:26:26But we can't disguise the position that you're in.
0:26:26 > 0:26:30You need to get this one right, otherwise the contest is over.
0:26:30 > 0:26:35Llaima is an active volcano in which country?
0:26:39 > 0:26:42Spelt L-L-A-I-M-A.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44L-L...?
0:26:44 > 0:26:47L-L-A-I-M-A.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49It's pronounced "Yaima".
0:26:49 > 0:26:54That's a Spanish pronunciation, the double-L pronounced as a Y,
0:26:54 > 0:26:58- but they're all Spanish-speaking countries, so that doesn't help.- No.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01What's your gut feeling?
0:27:01 > 0:27:04- Chile is my gut feeling. - That was mine too.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06We'll go for Chile, please.
0:27:06 > 0:27:11Well done. You got it right. It is Chile. Good play. Well done.
0:27:12 > 0:27:16You've done as much as they could expect of you backstage.
0:27:16 > 0:27:21Let's see if the Eggheads slip up. If you get this right, the contest is over.
0:27:21 > 0:27:27In Arthurian legend, which knight is usually said to have returned Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake?
0:27:31 > 0:27:34- Bedivere?- Yeah, Bedivere.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37It was without a shadow of doubt Sir Bedivere.
0:27:38 > 0:27:42Is that from years studying these fables
0:27:42 > 0:27:46or is it Monty Python or what? What brings you to Bedivere?
0:27:46 > 0:27:49I think we all enjoy the Arthurian legends
0:27:49 > 0:27:51and we've all read them extensively.
0:27:51 > 0:27:55Classic quizzers' territory. The answer is Bedivere.
0:27:55 > 0:27:58Congratulations, Eggheads. You have won.
0:28:02 > 0:28:06You played well there. You played well and bad luck.
0:28:06 > 0:28:11- They took you right at the end, the final bend.- A bit disappointing. - Yeah.- Well done.
0:28:11 > 0:28:17The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them and they reign supreme over quizland.
0:28:17 > 0:28:23You won't be going home with the £3,000, so the money rolls over to the next show.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?
0:28:26 > 0:28:32Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:32 > 0:28:36£4,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.
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