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These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.

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Together, they make up the Eggheads,

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arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.

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The question is - can they be beaten?

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Welcome to Eggheads,

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the show where a team of five challengers pit their wits

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against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.

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They've won some of the country's toughest quiz shows.

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They are the Eggheads.

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And challenging our resident quiz champions today are the Bowes Lions.

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This team all work at the Bowes Museum in County Durham,

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home to a collection of over 40,000 pieces of fine and decorative art.

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Let's meet them.

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I'm Kevin, I'm 58 and I'm a museum attendant.

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Hello, I'm Judith, I'm 61 and I'm an archivist.

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Hi, I'm Jon, I'm 51 and I'm the conservation manager.

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Hello, I'm Sheila, I'm 56 and I'm the museum's press officer.

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Hello. I'm Ros, I'm 58 and I'm a customer services assistant.

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Welcome to you, Bowes Lions.

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I'm very much enjoying that team name.

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Of course, that was the Queen Mother's maiden names, Bowes-Lyon,

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without the "Lions".

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She never visited there? It's not gone that far has it?

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-The Queen Mother's been in umpteen times.

-Has she?

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-The last time was in 1992.

-So that's why you went for the team name?

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-Lions - quizzing lions, as well.

-No, no. The family name was Strathmore.

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John Bowes, who founded the museum,

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was the illegitimate son of the 10th Earl of Strathmore

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and the Queen Mother's father was the 14th Earl of Strathmore,

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hence the name Bowes Lions.

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OK. Tell me about the 40,000 pieces of decorative art.

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We have two very large Canalettos, two Goyas,

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-an Italian artist called Sasseta, Joshua Reynolds...

-Wow.

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-..El Greco...

-Yeah?

-..and various bits and bobs.

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The most important bits and bob is a silver swan,

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which is an 18th-century automaton.

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-What is an 18th-century automaton?

-It's in pure silver. It's musical.

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It was a joint effort by a Flemish inventor

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and an English silversmith in the 18th century.

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So that alone is worth hundreds of thousands?

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-I've asked the curators. All they will say is it's priceless.

-Yeah.

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Well, fantastic stuff. We'll talk more as the quiz goes on.

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You're taking on the Eggheads, the quizzing automatons, there.

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Every day there's £1,000 of cash up for grabs for our challengers.

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If they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over.

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So, Bowes Lions, the Eggheads have won the last 16 games.

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That means £17,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

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And our first head-to-head battle will be on the subject of sport.

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-Who'd like to play this?

-That should be me, I think.

-It has to be, Jon.

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-Who are you going to take on, though?

-I don't know. Who?

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-Who will I take on?

-Judith.

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-Right, I'll take on Judith.

-OK, Judith, that's the decision.

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There's a plan, I think, running here. It's Jon playing Judith.

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The subject is sport. Could I ask you both to take your positions

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in the question room?

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Jon, right, do you want to go first or second?

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I'll go first, please, Dermot.

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OK, first question, Jon.

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Which footballer won the PFA Player of the Year Award

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in April 2010?

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I don't think it's Michael Owen because he was injured for a lot of the season.

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I don't think it was Paul Scholes, so I'm going with Wayne Rooney.

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Wayne Rooney is correct. Well done. Good start.

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Judith.

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In which year did Andre Agassi win the men's singles title at Wimbledon?

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Well, I think it's '92 or '96.

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I'm trying to think how old he is.

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I think it might be '96.

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What are you doing there, CJ? Serving?

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'96 was Richard Krajicek. It's '92.

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-1992, Judith.

-Oh.

-'92.

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So, a good start, then, Jon, and a chance for a big lead, here.

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The opening batsmen Geoff Marsh and Graeme Wood played

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test match cricket for which country?

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Right, this is interesting. They didn't play for England,

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so it's between New Zealand and Australia

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and I think Jeff Marsh may have been the brother

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of the Australian wicket keeper Rodney,

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so I'm going to go with Australia.

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Australia is right. Well done.

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CHEERING

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You'll go through if Judith gets this wrong.

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Robert Allenby and Ross Fisher are famous names in which sport?

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I don't think they're darts.

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I think it's golf.

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OK, you don't think darts.

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You went through the mental process of not athletics either.

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Golf is right. Well done, Judith.

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You've maybe saved yourself or maybe not.

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You'll go out if Jon gets this, as you know.

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Jon, how old was the swimmer Sharron Davies

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when she was first selected to swim for the Great Britain national team?

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Right. Er...

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That's a toughie. I know she was very good at a young age

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but how young, of course, is the question.

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Erm... I don't think it was 11.

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I think 14's probably a bit too young, as well.

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I don't think there are many swimmers who have represented their country at 14,

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so I'm going to go with 17.

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17 for Sharron Davies first breaking into the Great Britain national team.

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No, she'd been there a very long time by the time she was 17.

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11. It's 11.

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And, well, Judith, can you mount a comeback here? You need to get this.

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What is the nationality of the runner Tsegaye Kebede,

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the winner of the men's race at the 2010 London marathon?

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Er, I think he's Moroccan.

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-Moroccan?

-Yes.

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Tsegaye Kebede won the 2010 London marathon,

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what, a couple of seconds ahead of you, CJ?

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-Did he take it on the line?

-Only just but I think I was shocked

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when I learned his nationality

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because he was only the third ever to win it from this country

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-and I think he's Ethiopian.

-Ethiopian is the answer.

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Which means, well, you've won this particular race, Jon.

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You are in the final round.

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Would you both please come back and join your teams?

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The Eggheads have lost one brain from the final round,

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the Bowes Lions are all there.

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Our next subject is film and television.

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Who'd like to play this one? It can't be Jon.

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Any of the other four of you, there.

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-I can go but I'm not terribly good.

-Are you going to go with it?

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How do you feel about it?

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Well, I don't feel very well about it but I'll have a go.

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-Go on, have a go.

-We'll be rooting for you.

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-Who am I likely to take on?

-Who can you take on?

-Oh, good heavens.

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-CJ's quite good at television.

-Yes.

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-I'd like to play Pat, please.

-Pat. OK, let's have Sheila and Pat into the question room, please,

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just to make sure you can't confer.

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Sheila, do you get much time to put your feet up and watch the telly?

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Er, not really, which is why I'm in the wrong category here.

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-Taking one for the team, as they say.

-Yes.

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There's one particular bit of this category you don't want to come up and that's Pixar films

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because your challenger is very good at it.

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How many Pixar films are there altogether, these animated films?

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Well, the Toy Story 3D is the eleventh main feature,

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so I studied the first ten for my Mastermind quite intensively.

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-They're marvellous films.

-OK, so we hope to avoid those

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from Sheila's point of view.

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Sheila, you get to choose as always -

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would you like to go first or second?

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I think I'll probably go first and get it over with.

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Best of luck, Sheila. First question.

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The actor Antonio Banderas was born in which country?

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Well, I have heard of him and he's rather dishy.

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I don't think he's Italian.

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Spain seems to be the obvious one.

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Erm... I think I shall say that he is Spanish.

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Yes, he is. Yes. Antonio Banderas is from Spain.

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Pat, in which year was the TV panel show Have I Got News For You

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first broadcast?

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It's been going a long, long time.

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Erm... I think 1970 is definitely too early.

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1980 I think is probably a little bit too early as well.

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I think I'll have to go for 1990.

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1990. Yes, it is 1990 for the first edition

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of Have I Got News For You.

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Now, Sheila, what type of creature is Diego,

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the character voiced by Denis Leary in the Ice Age series of films?

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Erm... My grandchildren will be shouting this at the television

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but I'm afraid I haven't any idea.

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Erm... So I think I'm going to go for sloth.

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OK, Diego, a sloth.

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After our conversation earlier on, we'll have to ask Pat.

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I haven't seen the Ice Age films.

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I'd guess at sabre-toothed tiger but I haven't seen the film.

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OK, you don't extend it beyond Pixar to these...?

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I had enough on my plate with my ten Pixar films, I can assure you.

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-You'd go for sabre-toothed tiger.

-Yes.

-OK.

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Diego is a sabre-toothed tiger in the Ice Age films,

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so nothing there for you, Sheila.

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Let's see what Pat gets with his second one.

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Tina Fey stars as Liz Lemon in which TV comedy series?

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They're all very popular with the critics, these programmes.

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I think Tina Fey stars with Alec Baldwin in 30 Rock.

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30 Rock for Tina Fey.

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It's right, Pat. Well done.

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And she became even more famous, Pat...?

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-For impersonating Sarah Palin.

-Yeah.

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And there we are. Tina Fey is in 30 Rock.

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So you have a lead. That means you've got to get this, Sheila.

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Dhruv Baker found fame on which TV show in 2010?

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Erm, again, I don't really watch any of them

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because they're not really my generation,

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so it'll have to be a guess

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and I'll go for The Apprentice.

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The Apprentice for Dhruv Baker.

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It is MasterChef, Sheila.

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So you missed those MasterChefs

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and you're missing a place in the final round.

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Would you both please come back and join your teams?

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Well, two rounds gone and it's all square.

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Both teams have lost one brain from the final round.

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And our next subject is science. Who'd like to play this one?

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-It can be Kevin, Judith or Ros.

-LAUGHTER

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Oh, dear, dear, dear. Well, what are we going to do?

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What are we going to do? I think we're going to go home now.

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-Oh, I'll give it a go. I'll give it a go.

-Who are you going to play?

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It's going to be Ros. Who would you like to play - Kevin, CJ or Daphne?

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Well, CJ's giving me a lovely smile, so...

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LAUGHTER

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Good enough reason. CJ, then?

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OK, CJ is it. Lovely smile. You've got a lovely smile, too, Ros.

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Let's have the two grinners, then, into the question room, please.

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And, Ros, do you want to go first or second?

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Oh, I think it'll have to be first, please.

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-Is that first, Ros, to get it over with?

-Absolutely.

-Three out of three might do it.

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The first one is here.

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What name is given to the branch of chemistry concerned with measuring and studying the rates of reactions?

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Well, I think phonetics has to do with language and letters

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and aesthetics is studying beautiful... It's about beauty,

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so I guess it's kinetics.

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Yeah, has to be, hasn't it? It's the right answer, yes.

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Aesthetics is what you lot do.

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OK, CJ, during what type of eclipse does the moon appear darkened

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as it passes into the earth's shadow?

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-Lunar.

-Yes.

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It's the right answer.

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OK, Ros. The bongo is an animal native to which continent?

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Well, I think it's a large kind of antelope

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and I think it lives in the southern part of Africa,

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so I'll say Africa.

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It does. It's the right answer.

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-Have you ever seen one?

-No.

-I mean, apart from zoos.

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-I haven't been to the south of Africa.

-OK.

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But bongos are from Africa.

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And, CJ, the malleus is the Latin name

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for which bone in the human ear?

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I believe it's literally Latin for hammer.

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It is. It's the right answer.

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You have two and Ros has two.

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Well, Ros, if you get this, you might get into the final round.

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Mariner 4 was the first space probe

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to obtain and transmit close-range images of which planet?

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Well, I can't remember the answer, so I'll have to guess this one.

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Erm...

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I think I'll say Venus.

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-What do you think, CJ? Do you think it's Venus?

-I think it is.

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-No, it's not.

-Is it not?

-It's not, so you would both have been wrong.

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Interesting that, in terms of Ros choosing to go first.

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-But other Eggheads, of the other two...?

-Mars.

-Mars.

-Mars.

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Mariner 4. When it did it go? How long did it take? Any other details?

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-It was in the early '60s, I think.

-Oh, right, that long ago?

-Oh, yeah.

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-I think so.

-Early '60s, Kevin thinks, Mariner 4.

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OK, well, it was taking close-range images of Mars.

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And CJ would have got it wrong but he's on the second set of questions,

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and therefore can book a place in the final round with this.

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What type of bird is a bittern?

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Well, I know what it looks like and I know the noise it makes.

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Erm... Surely it's too small to be a buzzard?

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Er, it's a wading bird,

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which automatically makes you think of a heron.

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Erm, I don't know this

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but because it lives in the same environment, I'll go for heron.

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Heron it is, CJ. Yeah, you got that.

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So bad luck, Ros. You did really well there

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but just failed on that Mars question,

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which means CJ's over the moon because he's playing in the final round.

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Would you both please come back and join your teams?

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The Eggheads have crept into the lead.

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Two members of the Bowes Lions gone, one Egghead out

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and our last head to head before the final round is arts and books.

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Who'd like to play this? There are two remaining players.

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-You go for it.

-Right, OK. It'll be me.

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OK, Judith. And the remaining Eggheads are Kevin, over there, and Daphne.

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-Right, go on. Which one do I go for?

-Daphne.

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-Daphne? Try Daphne.

-OK, Daphne, it looks as though it's you and me.

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Shall we dance? Let's have Judith and Daphne into the question room, then.

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All right, Judith. Let's see if you can even it up in the final round.

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If you get through, of course, it will be three all.

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-Would you like to go first or second?

-I'll go first, please.

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Arts and books. First question to Judith.

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Who is the main male character in the 2005 book,

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo?

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Well, I'm really pleased that that one's come up.

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-Have you read it?

-I have indeed. It's Mikael Blomkvist.

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Yeah. You're having the same problems as me, there.

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Very good at the Swedish, aren't we?

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Mikael Blomkvist is the right answer.

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, that hugely successful trilogy.

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And first question, then, for you, Daphne.

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How old was the poet Wilfred Owen at the time of his death?

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I think he died at the very end of World War I,

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so I think he would be 25.

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25, of course, yes. It couldn't have been any of the other two.

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So one each and, Judith, your second question.

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Fanny Brawne had a much-publicised romance with which poet,

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born in 1795?

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I know it's not Robert Browning.

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I'm almost... I'm sure it's not William Wordsworth.

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I'm pretty sure it's John Keats.

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Pretty sure it's Keats. Born in 1795.

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Now you can be 100% sure. It's the right answer. Well done.

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Daphne, the Edgar Allan Poe short story

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that describes the tortures suffered by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition

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is called The Pit And The... what?

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The Pit And The Pendulum.

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It's the right answer, yes. The Pit And The Pendulum.

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Straight back to you, Judith.

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Antony Gormley's Event Horizon installation

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saw 31 sculptures of himself, cast in iron and fibreglass,

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placed on pavements, roof tops and ledges around which city in March 2010?

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Oh, dear.

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Erm, I'm better on the books than I am on the art, I'm afraid.

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Erm... I will have to guess

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and I will guess at...

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Tokyo.

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-Tokyo. Of course, Antony Gormley, very familiar to those from the North-east.

-Yes.

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It's not Tokyo, no.

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-Do you know, Daphne?

-It's New York.

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Apparently, people complained because it looked like suicide jumpers.

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-People on the rooftops, yes.

-Yes.

-It caused emergency calls.

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It's New York for Event Horizon. So, a chance for Daphne.

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Which film director co-authored The Strain,

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a vampire novel first published in 2009?

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I think this is a bit of a guess

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but I will go for Guillermo del Toro.

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OK. Why are you going for that?

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An inkle.

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An inkle. A wickle inkle.

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-Yes. Is it?

-It is the right answer, yes. Guillermo del Toro.

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Bad luck, Judith. It means you're not in the final round.

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Just losing out on the third question

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after two very good answers.

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It means that, Daphne, you are playing.

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Would you both please come back and join your teams?

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This is what we've been playing towards.

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The final round is, as always, general knowledge.

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But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head to heads can't take part,

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so Judith, Sheila and Ros from the Bowes Lions

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and Judith from the Eggheads, would you leave the studio, please?

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Kevin and Jon, you're playing to win the Bowes Lions £17,000.

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Pat, Kevin, CJ and Daphne,

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you're playing for something money can't buy, the Eggheads' reputation.

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As usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.

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The questions are general knowledge and you may confer.

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So, Kevin and Jon, the question is

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are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

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Would you like to go first or second?

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-What do you think? First?

-We'll go first, yeah.

-First, please, Dermot.

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OK, Bowes Lions, kicking off and this is your first question.

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Mauritania has a coastline on which ocean?

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-Oh, this is...

-This is one for Ros, this one.

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She'd have been all right on this.

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Isn't it on the east coast of Africa?

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So you're saying... You're saying the Indian?

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-No, I'm saying the Atlantic, I think.

-East coast?

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You could be right, actually. Yeah, you could be right.

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I'm trying to visualise it. It could be on the right-hand side.

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-It's not Pacific.

-No, it's not Pacific.

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-Which one do you want to go for, Kevin?

-Atlantic, I think, Jon.

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All right, then. We'll go for the Atlantic.

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Ros would have been the best one for this, Dermot,

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-but we'll go for Atlantic.

-Atlantic.

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Yeah, I think your female colleagues do know this one

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and, yes, they do, they're signalling from the question room.

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You, of course, can't see them.

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It is Atlantic. You've got it. You've made them very happy.

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A tricky opening question, there,

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getting it on the right side, the correct side of Africa.

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Just whereabouts, how high up, low down...?

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It's just south of Morocco. It's the second country down.

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-Well, there's Western Sahara.

-Well, that's still Morocco.

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All right, up there. Mauritania on the Atlantic.

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So, Eggheads, your first question.

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The epic poem called the Mahabharata

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forms part of the scripture of which religion?

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-Hindu.

-Hindu.

-Yeah.

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-That's Hinduism, Dermot.

-Hindu?

-Yeah.

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It's the right answer, Eggheads, yes. OK. Back to Kevin and Jon.

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The actor Shane Richie married which Nolan sister in 1990?

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It's the one on the afternoon programme.

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-The afternoon programme. It's not Bernie, then.

-No. It's not Maureen.

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-Shane Richie...

-It's the one on Loose Women.

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-It's... It's housewives, isn't it? It's Coleen.

-Coleen. OK.

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It's Coleen, Dermot.

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Coleen. Heard you there talking through the programmes you'd seen her on.

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These first three questions,

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it's general knowledge, it's certainly proven that,

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the range of questions.

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You've got it, yeah. Coleen. From geography to TV.

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Popular entertainment, anyway, and two for you.

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Eggheads, in Greek mythology, who was the father of Perseus?

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-Happy with Zeus?

-Mm.

-Yeah?

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-That was Zeus, Dermot.

-Zeus.

-Zeus, yes.

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"Zooss", as the Americans would say.

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-"Zooss" as the Americans would say but it's "Ze-oos".

-Zeus.

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Perseus. OK, the father is Zeus

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and gives you two out of two as well.

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Our third question, then, going to Jon and Kevin now.

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Which leader of the Gallic revolt of 52BC

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was defeated and captured, paraded through Rome as a trophy

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in Caesar's triumph

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and finally executed in 46BC?

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-I've seen a programme about this a while back.

-Have you?

-Yes.

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-Right. Good.

-Erm...

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I think, Jon, it's Vercingetorix.

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Right. We'll go with that, then.

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We'll go for Vercingetorix, Dermot.

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OK. Vercingetorix the Gall, as he appeared in the Asterix cartoons.

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It's the right answer. Well done.

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Why did they wait six years to finish him off?

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That was a bit cruel. Mind you, they were.

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Well, you had to wait for your moment for these things,

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if there was going to be a big triumph or series of games.

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It was all part of a great festival celebration to show Rome's power.

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-It went on a few years.

-Mm.

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OK, there we are. Three out of three. Serious stuff here.

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Yes, looking at the £17,000 very closely, here.

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You get it if the Eggheads don't get this.

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In which year were the businessman Philip Green,

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the author Douglas Adams

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and the fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier born?

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-'52?

-Douglas Adams, I think, is '52.

-Yeah.

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-I think Gaultier is, as well.

-Fine.

-I don't know about Philip Green.

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I don't know Green or Gaultier but I think Adams is '52.

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I think he was 49 when he died, Douglas Adams.

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He died in 2001. I'm sure I've seen '52 for him and for Gaultier.

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-Fine.

-OK? 1952, Dermot.

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1952 for those three. It's the right answer, yes.

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It's all square. We're going to Sudden Death.

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No choices to look at. I've just got to hear an answer from you, Jon and Kevin.

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Which race course annually hosts the Scottish Grand National?

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Which race course annually hosts the Scottish Grand National?

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I used to be a big punter on the horses. It's Ayr.

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-Ayr it is! Well done.

-Well done.

-Stood you in good stead, then.

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You may have lost a few quid on it but you may win a few quid back now.

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Ayr. OK, well, Eggheads, got to get this.

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The traditional form of theatre known as Noh

0:25:500:25:54

has its origins in which country?

0:25:540:25:56

-Japan.

-Japan.

-Yeah. It's Japan.

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Japan. Can you tell me a bit more about Noh? Is that the puppet stuff?

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-No.

-No, no.

-This is very...

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It's not to all tastes but it's a very stylised, very traditionalised form.

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-People shrieking?

-A couple of actors, that sort of thing.

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It dates back to the 14th century, originally.

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OK, well, that's right. Japan is correct.

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So, back to you two. Going well, there, Jon and Kevin,

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and another Sudden Death question.

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Who directed the films Rain Man, Diner and Good Morning, Vietnam?

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-I haven't a clue at all.

-No, sorry.

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-Sorry. Films isn't my forte.

-It's not my forte either.

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I sort of know it but I can't actually drag it up.

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I think the second bit of his name ends with "man", I think.

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-And erm...

-Man, you think?

-Mm.

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-Just give the first name.

-I can't...

-If you can't think.

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-I can't think what it is, no.

-I don't know any directors.

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-Films isn't my forte.

-I sort of know it but I can't think of it.

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-No. We couldn't even hazard a guess, Dermot, sorry.

-OK, it's a pass.

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You still might be in it. The Eggheads have got to get theirs right.

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-Eggheads, do you know?

-Barry Levinson.

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Barry Levinson. Barry Levinson, director of those films,

0:27:070:27:11

Rain Man, Diner and Good Morning, Vietnam.

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A chance for victory, Eggheads.

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What did Oscar Wilde once describe as "the best thing the English have done in fiction"?

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Was it Burke's Peerage or Debrett's? It's one or the other.

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I've never... Well, OK... No, I won't say any more.

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I think maybe Burke's Peerage sounds...

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Debrett's. It's one or the other, I'm sure.

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Debrett's seems to flow more but Burke's Peerage is more famous.

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-I think it goes back further. It's older.

-It's older.

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-Shall I try it?

-Burke's?

-Go for Burke's Peerage.

-Yeah.

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It's one or the other of either Burke's Peerage or Debrett's.

0:27:450:27:50

On balance, we'll go for Burke's Peerage.

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Burke's Peerage is your answer.

0:27:520:27:55

"The best thing the English have done in fiction" as described by Oscar Wilde is...

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Burke's Peerage. Eggheads, you've won.

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Well done, Bowes Lions. Really good quizzing today.

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Thank you for playing and telling us all about the Bowes Museum.

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We will head there as soon as we possibly can

0:28:130:28:15

and come and see you all and all those wonderful works of art.

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Thank you for taking on the Eggheads.

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They've done what comes naturally and their winning streak continues.

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You won't be going home with the £17,000.

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That means the money rolls over to the next show.

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Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?

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Join us next time to see if a new team have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

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£18,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.

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