0:00:04 > 0:00:09These 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.
0:00:15 > 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 > 0:00:31attempt to beat possible the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34Their quiz pedigree is well known as they've won some of the country's
0:00:34 > 0:00:36toughest quiz shows. They are the Eggheads.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40And taking on the awesome might of our quiz goliaths today
0:00:40 > 0:00:43are the Kevin Appreciation Society from Chester.
0:00:43 > 0:00:47This team of old school friends share one passion in life
0:00:47 > 0:00:50and he's sitting over there. Let's meet them.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54Hi, I'm Ben, I'm 19 and I'm a medical student from Chester.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58Hi, I'm Dan, I'm 19 and I'm a sixth-form student from Chester.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01Hi, My name's Luke. I'm 18 and I'm a drama student from Chester.
0:01:01 > 0:01:05Hi, I'm Jack, I'm 18 and I'm also a drama student from Chester.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08Hi, I'm Andy, I'm 19 and I'm a maths student from Chester.
0:01:08 > 0:01:12- Ben and team, welcome.- Hi.- Hi.- Hiya. - The Kevin Appreciation Society.
0:01:12 > 0:01:17So not only do you watch Eggheads, but you watch this man here.
0:01:17 > 0:01:21We feel it's apt to appreciate - no offence to you or the rest of the Eggheads -
0:01:21 > 0:01:25the star of the show. His intelligence shines through.
0:01:25 > 0:01:30Did you all get together and think, "OK, we need to have a team name and it's just obviously this one?"
0:01:30 > 0:01:35Yeah, at the pub quiz we always appreciate something else apt.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38- We thought it would be apt to appreciate Kevin. - So you quiz together?
0:01:38 > 0:01:42- Every week.- Where do you quiz? - At a pub, with very limited success.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45If you're called the Kevin Appreciation Society,
0:01:45 > 0:01:48what's your tactic going to be? You could try
0:01:48 > 0:01:51and get him out of the game early,
0:01:51 > 0:01:55but then there's nothing left to appreciate, but if he plays well
0:01:55 > 0:01:57and you lose, that's backfired.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59That's certainly a tough decision.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03- I don't think any tactics work with Kevin. You just look.- I thought you were ingratiating yourself
0:02:03 > 0:02:08- with him.- Maybe if we flatter him so much, he'll be put off and fail.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12It's not worked yet, but give it a go. Every day there's
0:02:12 > 0:02:15£1,000 worth of cash up for grabs for our challengers.
0:02:15 > 0:02:19But if they fail to beat the Eggheads, the prize rolls over to the next show.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21So, the Kevin Appreciation Society,
0:02:21 > 0:02:24the challengers actually won the last game,
0:02:24 > 0:02:29so £1,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads. First head-to-head battle
0:02:29 > 0:02:31is on the subject of history.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Is there a history student here?
0:02:33 > 0:02:36No, there's not at all.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39ALL TALK AT ONCE
0:02:39 > 0:02:43- With major reluctance, I think I'll have to take this one.- OK.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45Sure thing. Against which Egghead?
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Not Chris or Kevin.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49Definitely not Kevin.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51- I reckon Barry.- Is it going to make a difference?
0:02:51 > 0:02:54Yeah, it's just inevitable.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56- I'll go Barry, I think.- So, Ben,
0:02:56 > 0:02:58from... This is going to get complicated.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01Ben from the Kevin Appreciation Society is not taking Kevin,
0:03:01 > 0:03:03he's taking Barry from the Eggheads.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06Please go to the question rooms now.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10- Good luck here, Ben.- Cheers. - I have to tell you that Barry
0:03:10 > 0:03:15has won 19 out of 19 of his History rounds.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18You could have told me that before, I'd have appreciated that.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21Now you've said that Kevin is the star,
0:03:21 > 0:03:25- he's also mean and angry. - No, no, that's not Barry.
0:03:25 > 0:03:27- That's never me.- That is not Barry. I'll ask each of you
0:03:27 > 0:03:30three multiple choice questions on history.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33Whoever answers the most questions correctly is the winner.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36Ben, what do you want - the first or second set of questions?
0:03:36 > 0:03:38I think I'll go second.
0:03:41 > 0:03:47Barry, here we go. Which suburb was built by the Cadbury brothers to house their factory workers?
0:03:52 > 0:03:55My niece is a great chocolate lover and every time she goes here,
0:03:55 > 0:03:58she buys me some chocolate from Bournville.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00Bourneville is correct.
0:04:00 > 0:04:01Ben, over to you.
0:04:01 > 0:04:05In Anglo-Saxon England, which city was the capital of Wessex?
0:04:09 > 0:04:12I have no idea on this one and I knew the last one,
0:04:12 > 0:04:14so I wish I'd chosen first.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17Um, Wessex, I don't know where that is, where it was,
0:04:17 > 0:04:21but cos it begins with W, I'll go with Winchester.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24Winchester is the right answer. Well done.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27Kevin's home town. OK.
0:04:27 > 0:04:33Barry, which Roman emperor is said to have had a horse named Incitatus?
0:04:36 > 0:04:39There's a famous story that he wanted to make him a consul,
0:04:39 > 0:04:42which was the highest position in ancient Rome.
0:04:42 > 0:04:48Incitatus, by the way, means galloper, and the emperor with a horse called Incitatus was Caligula.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50Caligula is the right answer.
0:04:50 > 0:04:54They are worryingly good, Ben, aren't they?
0:04:54 > 0:04:59Here we go. What was the name of the ship commanded by Lord Effingham
0:04:59 > 0:05:03when he led the attack against the Spanish Armada?
0:05:06 > 0:05:11Well, again, this doesn't come up in GCSE history, unfortunately.
0:05:11 > 0:05:16Victory and Triumph would be very apt, what with winning, and all.
0:05:16 > 0:05:21But... In fact, I'm going to go for Triumph.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24You were veering away and you went back to Triumph.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27- Barry would know this, what was it? - It's the Ark Royal.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30Ark Royal, I'm afraid, Ben. Bad luck.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33Barry, if you get this right, you've taken the round.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35Henry Yevele is regarded as
0:05:35 > 0:05:39the most prominent member of which profession in 14th-century England?
0:05:45 > 0:05:49- I've not heard the name. - Spelt Y-E-V-E-L-E.
0:05:49 > 0:05:54A lot of masons were very prominent at that time.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57It was a great time for cathedral building.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00I don't think there were that many mercenaries in England at that time.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03Mercenaries tended to be foreign soldiers then
0:06:03 > 0:06:07and I can't think of any alchemists who'd be well thought of at all,
0:06:07 > 0:06:10so I will go for Master Mason.
0:06:10 > 0:06:1420 out of 20. Well done, Master Mason is correct.
0:06:14 > 0:06:18You've got an unblemished record in History. Sorry, Ben.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21- There's no way back from there. - Yeah, well, I saw it coming.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24You're knocked out, Barry will be in the final.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27Please, both of you come back and join your teams.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31As it stands, the Challengers have lost one brain
0:06:31 > 0:06:34and the Eggheads have not lost anything yet.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36The next subject is Music.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38Which of you wants to take Music?
0:06:38 > 0:06:41- I'll go with Music.- Jack? OK.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44- Against which Egghead?- I'll take...
0:06:44 > 0:06:47Yeah, I'll go with Daphne.
0:06:47 > 0:06:51OK, Jack from the Kevin Appreciation Society
0:06:51 > 0:06:55against Daphne from the Eggheads. I feel you're building up
0:06:55 > 0:06:59to inviting Kevin into the booth. Someone is going to do it.
0:06:59 > 0:07:03To be sure there's no conferring, please go to the question rooms.
0:07:03 > 0:07:07- You've got good taste in music, Jack?- Well, I like to think so.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09Give us some bands you like.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12A favourite would probably be Oasis, The Beatles,
0:07:12 > 0:07:16and a bit of Bruce Springsteen as well. Just reasonably mixed.
0:07:16 > 0:07:20- And yet you were born in what year? - 1992.
0:07:20 > 0:07:21Goodness. That's even...
0:07:21 > 0:07:26I'm thinking Oasis' first album was out before you were born?
0:07:26 > 0:07:28It was similar time, yes.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31My dad's always liked that sort of music and my brothers
0:07:31 > 0:07:36and it just came down. I just like a bit of Oasis really.
0:07:36 > 0:07:41- Have you seen Springsteen live?- No. I wanted to see him on his last tour,
0:07:41 > 0:07:44but I couldn't get tickets. Fingers crossed he comes back again.
0:07:44 > 0:07:49- Have you ever seen Springsteen live, Daphne?- No.- Would you like to?- No.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54I mean, our taste in music at home,
0:07:54 > 0:07:58we're buying quite a lot of Andrew Rieu DVDs and CDs.
0:07:58 > 0:08:02- Andrew Rieu?- Yes.
0:08:02 > 0:08:06Jack, I'm thinking Andrew Rieu isn't big in the student halls just now?
0:08:06 > 0:08:10Not particularly. I can't say I've heard too much of him.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13That was very, very tactfully put.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16I'll ask each of you three questions on music in turn.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19Let's see who comes out on top.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22Jack, you can choose the first or the second set of questions.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24I think I'll go first.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29Good luck.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32What is the smallest instrument in the string section of an orchestra?
0:08:37 > 0:08:40To be honest, I'm having a bit of a blank picturing them now.
0:08:40 > 0:08:44Obviously, I know a violin isn't particularly large.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47I can't quite place a viola.
0:08:47 > 0:08:51Just through the process of elimination,
0:08:51 > 0:08:54I'm going to have to go with violin.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57It's actually a very tricky question this.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00- Any Eggheads? Is he right? - He is.
0:09:00 > 0:09:01Oh, well.
0:09:01 > 0:09:06Can anyone describe a viola?
0:09:06 > 0:09:11- It's about half as big again as a violin.- The same but just bigger.
0:09:11 > 0:09:16Now we know. Daphne, according to a song in the musical My Fair Lady,
0:09:16 > 0:09:19the rain in Spain stays mainly in the what?
0:09:23 > 0:09:26I'm tempted to sing, but I would clear the studio.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29It's Spain...plain!
0:09:32 > 0:09:37- The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain.- OK. Plain is correct.
0:09:37 > 0:09:41I thought the quote was "on the", but it says "in the".
0:09:41 > 0:09:44Obviously, one of those often misquoted things.
0:09:44 > 0:09:45You got plain right.
0:09:45 > 0:09:49Here's your question, Jack. Benjamin Britten's War Requiem
0:09:49 > 0:09:52had its premiere at the consecration of which cathedral?
0:09:58 > 0:10:02Not even the faintest idea to be honest.
0:10:02 > 0:10:07It's going to have to be a stab in the dark.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Let's go with...
0:10:11 > 0:10:13Coventry.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16It's a very good stab because you're absolutely right.
0:10:17 > 0:10:21OK, Daphne, here's your question. Here Comes The Sun
0:10:21 > 0:10:24is a track featured on which Beatles album?
0:10:30 > 0:10:35I bet Jack wishes he'd got this. Would you like it, Jack?
0:10:35 > 0:10:37I wouldn't mind...
0:10:42 > 0:10:44A Hard Day's Night.
0:10:46 > 0:10:47Jack, is she right or not?
0:10:47 > 0:10:51I think you're leafing through your dad's record collection now.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54I really am. I don't think it's Abbey Road.
0:10:54 > 0:11:00I could be mistaken, I'm rubbish on album tracks. I'd say, maybe, yes.
0:11:00 > 0:11:04No, it's maybe no, it is Abbey Road.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06OK, she's given you a chance here.
0:11:06 > 0:11:07You can knock out an Egghead
0:11:07 > 0:11:11and maybe someone will have the courage to challenge Kevin.
0:11:11 > 0:11:14You third question. If you get it right, you've won it.
0:11:14 > 0:11:18Which band was the winner of the first Mercury Prize in 1992?
0:11:22 > 0:11:26I can't say I'm particularly familiar with Saint Etienne.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29I know Primal Scream were big, they still are big now.
0:11:29 > 0:11:34Just trying to think around '92 who was big at the time.
0:11:34 > 0:11:38I'm going to go with, um... I'm going to avoid Primal Scream
0:11:38 > 0:11:40and go with Simply Red.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Simply Red is not right.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45- Ben knows the answer. - I'd go with Primal Scream.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48Primal Scream is the answer.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51You had a chance there. But you may still have a chance.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53Let's see how Daphne does here.
0:11:53 > 0:11:57Which composer spent most of his career as musical director
0:11:57 > 0:12:00at the court of the aristocratic Esterhazy family?
0:12:04 > 0:12:06Haydn.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09Daphne, Haydn is correct. We are now on Sudden Death on Music.
0:12:09 > 0:12:14Jack, it gets a bit harder. I'm not going to give you the alternatives.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16You've got to give me the answer. Here we go.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19"Ever since I was a young boy, I've played the silver ball,
0:12:19 > 0:12:22"from Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all,"
0:12:22 > 0:12:26are the opening lines from which song by The Who?
0:12:26 > 0:12:27Pinball Wizard by The Who.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30Brilliant. Pinball Wizard.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33Not many 18-year-olds know that
0:12:33 > 0:12:37as quickly as you know it. You can thank your dad's record collection.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40- Yeah. I will do.- If you get this wrong, Daphne, you're out.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43Greatest Love Of All, How Will I Know and I'm Every Woman
0:12:43 > 0:12:49were UK top 10 singles for which singer born in 1963?
0:12:53 > 0:12:55Oh, I ought to know this!
0:12:58 > 0:13:00Oh, dear!
0:13:00 > 0:13:07I'm stuck on a name, which I'm quite sure is wrong.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10But I can't get it out of my head.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15No, I can't remember. Sorry.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18Barbra Streisand. I know it's wrong.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21When you do this and you come out with the name,
0:13:21 > 0:13:22it's always the right name.
0:13:22 > 0:13:27- In this case, it's not. It's Whitney Houston.- Oh!
0:13:27 > 0:13:29So it is bye-bye, Daphne. You're not in the final.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32But well done, Jack! How about that!
0:13:32 > 0:13:34- I'm made up with that. - Starting to roll -
0:13:34 > 0:13:37the Kevin Appreciation Society have two people in the final.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40Please come back and rejoin your teammates.
0:13:41 > 0:13:45Will the Kevin Appreciation Society pick Kevin?
0:13:45 > 0:13:49The Challengers have lost one brain from the final round.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51The Eggheads have also lost one brain.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53The next subject is Food & Drink.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55Is it meant to be?
0:13:55 > 0:13:58- Who wants this? - ALL TALK AT ONCE
0:13:58 > 0:14:02If sports, Andy... So I will take food and drink.
0:14:02 > 0:14:06- You get Kevin.- You lucky man.- Yes.
0:14:06 > 0:14:10- Is it you, Luke?- Yes. - Against?- Kevin.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12This is the moment.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14I'm the lucky one.
0:14:14 > 0:14:18OK, Luke from the Kevin Appreciation Society versus Kevin from the...
0:14:18 > 0:14:23- Luke Appreciation Society.- Yes, you beat me to it!- I anticipated.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25See you in the Question Room.
0:14:26 > 0:14:31This is the big moment - the Kevin Appreciation Society takes on Kevin.
0:14:31 > 0:14:35I don't want to be the one to knock him out, but I will if I have to.
0:14:35 > 0:14:40Is Food & Drink your ideal terrain for this battle?
0:14:40 > 0:14:44No, even though I do eat a lot, it's not my speciality.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46Kevin, it's interesting this.
0:14:46 > 0:14:50You've actually got a fan club, or maybe more than one, we don't know.
0:14:50 > 0:14:54Well, it's very nice of people to be that supportive, shall we say.
0:14:54 > 0:14:58Do you get stopped in the street and fawned on?
0:14:58 > 0:15:02I get stopped in the street, but the degree of fawning can vary.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05OK, there we are. Good luck in this round.
0:15:05 > 0:15:09I'll ask each of you three questions on Food & Drink in turn.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12Luke, you can choose the first or second set.
0:15:12 > 0:15:14I'd like to go first, please.
0:15:16 > 0:15:20Your first question. What type of meat is usually served
0:15:20 > 0:15:23at a traditional Thanksgiving dinner?
0:15:25 > 0:15:26This is a good question
0:15:26 > 0:15:30because even I know what's served at a Thanksgiving dinner. Turkey.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33Turkey is the right answer, well done.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39Kevin, which cocktail was invented at the famous Raffles Hotel?
0:15:43 > 0:15:46The Raffles Hotel is in Singapore
0:15:46 > 0:15:49and I believe this is the Singapore Sling.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52It is the Singapore Sling. One each.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55Luke, your second question. Marfona and Russet Burbank
0:15:55 > 0:15:57are varieties of which food?
0:16:00 > 0:16:05Um...I'm well aware that there's quite a few types of potato.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07And being a student,
0:16:07 > 0:16:11I'm not familiar with many types of cabbage, obviously.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13So I think I'll go with potato.
0:16:13 > 0:16:18That's a good decision, it is potato, you're right. Well done.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20It's a bit like that famous Eggheads' rule -
0:16:20 > 0:16:22if in doubt, choose cheese.
0:16:22 > 0:16:27The same goes a bit for potato. I've noticed potato varieties come up.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29There are an awful lot.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33In 1987, Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers opened which London restaurant?
0:16:39 > 0:16:42Well, I hope they didn't have any involvement with the other two,
0:16:42 > 0:16:46but they famously established and ran the River Cafe together.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50River Cafe is the right answer.
0:16:50 > 0:16:51Luke, third question.
0:16:51 > 0:16:55You're doing well and if you take Kevin out here,
0:16:55 > 0:16:58you will be a legend. In Chester and beyond.
0:16:58 > 0:17:03- That'll end the Appreciation Society. - Well, that's true.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05What name is given to the Scottish beverage
0:17:05 > 0:17:09that is typically made from oatmeal, honey, whisky and sometimes cream?
0:17:18 > 0:17:22Well, not familiar with the drink at all.
0:17:22 > 0:17:25If I was going to make something like that, though,
0:17:25 > 0:17:28I'd probably call it the Edinburgh Fog.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31Edinburgh Fog is the wrong answer. It's Atholl Brose.
0:17:31 > 0:17:36Atholl Brose. If you don't know it, it's impossible to guess that one.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39Kevin, your question for the round.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41To be even more appreciated.
0:17:41 > 0:17:45In Indian cookery, haldi is another name for which spice?
0:17:50 > 0:17:55Amazingly, I think I've heard this one. I think it's turmeric.
0:17:55 > 0:17:59That is amazing and you're quite right. It is turmeric, Kevin,
0:17:59 > 0:18:01and you have won the round.
0:18:01 > 0:18:06Luke, you are going to have to continue appreciating him,
0:18:06 > 0:18:08but you're also not in the final.
0:18:08 > 0:18:12Well done, come back and rejoin your teammates.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16Bad luck, Luke. Feeling all right?
0:18:16 > 0:18:20Yeah, I was unlucky. That question came up and I had no idea.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23- But Kevin did very well to get them all right.- As it stands,
0:18:23 > 0:18:27the Challengers have lost two brains now from the final round.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29The Eggheads have lost just one brain.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32Our last subject before the final is Arts & Books.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34That was going to be your one, Ben, wasn't it?
0:18:34 > 0:18:37Yeah, I'd have taken it.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40Who do you take, then?
0:18:40 > 0:18:42- Andy or Dan? - ALL TALK AT ONCE
0:18:42 > 0:18:45You're better at general knowledge...
0:18:45 > 0:18:48Andy's not an arts and... We're going to have to go with Andy.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51- OK, but I can't promise anything. - Just guesswork.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53Because we haven't done that so far.
0:18:53 > 0:18:57Andy against which Egghead? CJ or Chris?
0:18:59 > 0:19:04- I think CJ reads a lot of books. - You think?
0:19:04 > 0:19:07- Yeah, go on, it's up to you.- Chris.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09I'm going to pick Chris, please.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12OK, Andy from the Kevin Appreciation Society versus
0:19:12 > 0:19:15Chris from the Eggheads. Please go to the question rooms now.
0:19:17 > 0:19:21- So Andy, your subject at university is...?- Maths.
0:19:21 > 0:19:25- And you've been chosen for Arts & Books?- Yeah.- How has that happened?
0:19:25 > 0:19:27Er, well, we sort of agreed beforehand
0:19:27 > 0:19:29that Dan will go on General Knowledge, so...
0:19:29 > 0:19:31I was hoping for a sport round, really.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33But I've just been left with this.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36Shall we see how you do against Chris? You like your maths, Chris?
0:19:36 > 0:19:40I got Maths O-level, back in the good old days.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43I can put two and two together and come up with about 19, yeah.
0:19:43 > 0:19:46This being Arts & Books, it may not be useful. Let's see.
0:19:46 > 0:19:51I will ask each of you three questions on Arts & Books in turn.
0:19:51 > 0:19:52Andy, would you like the first set of questions, or the second?
0:19:52 > 0:19:54I'll go first, please, Jeremy.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59Good luck. Here's your question.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02What type of creature is Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
0:20:02 > 0:20:04in the story by Rudyard Kipling?
0:20:08 > 0:20:10Well, not a good start. I've no idea.
0:20:10 > 0:20:14I haven't read a lot of Kipling's things. Um...
0:20:16 > 0:20:21Well, it's a long word, so I'll go for a long animal. Snake.
0:20:21 > 0:20:26We were thinking you would go for the longest word, which is mongoose.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29- Mongoose is the right answer.- Ah! - Snake is wrong, I'm sorry.
0:20:29 > 0:20:30Chris, your question.
0:20:30 > 0:20:31In the Harry Potter books,
0:20:31 > 0:20:35what is the surname of Harry's schoolmate Neville. Is it:
0:20:38 > 0:20:44Ah. Well, Dumbledore and Malfoy are all the...seniors at Hogwarts,
0:20:44 > 0:20:47so it's got to be Neville Longbottom.
0:20:47 > 0:20:52It is indeed Neville Longbottom. But you're not a big fan of them?
0:20:52 > 0:20:54I've never read one in me life! Nor have I seen any of the films.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57So you just happened to know the other stuff.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59That's why they're extraordinary.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02Knowing things that you're not interested in is a great skill.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04Not many of us have it. I don't.
0:21:04 > 0:21:05Andy, your question.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07Whose memoir, published in 2010,
0:21:07 > 0:21:10was called The Third Man: Life At The Heart Of New Labour?
0:21:14 > 0:21:18Er...not very good at politics either, so...
0:21:18 > 0:21:22I know that David Miliband is to do with Labour,
0:21:22 > 0:21:24so I'm going to go for David Miliband.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26It wasn't David Miliband.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29He's probably not at the heart of new Labour now anyway,
0:21:29 > 0:21:31cos he's exiled slightly.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34Peter Mandelson is the answer.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36Peter Mandelson
0:21:36 > 0:21:39describes himself as The Third Man.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42OK, Chris. "Barkis is willing"
0:21:42 > 0:21:45is an often repeated phrase in which Charles Dickens novel?
0:21:50 > 0:21:55That's in answer to an offer of marriage in David Copperfield.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58David Copperfield is correct. Chris. Sorry, Andy.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00There's no way back for you from there.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02Chris, you're in the final,
0:22:02 > 0:22:06Andy, you're not. If you both come back, we'll play the final round.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09This is what we've been playing towards.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11It is time for the final round,
0:22:11 > 0:22:13which, as always, is General Knowledge.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15But I'm afraid those who lost your head-to-heads
0:22:15 > 0:22:17won't take part in this round.
0:22:17 > 0:22:21So Ben, Luke and Andy from the Kevin Appreciation Society
0:22:21 > 0:22:25and Daphne from the Eggheads, would you please now leave the studio.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28Dan and Jack,
0:22:28 > 0:22:32you are playing to win £1,000 for the Kevin Appreciation Society.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34CJ, Kevin, Chris and Barry,
0:22:34 > 0:22:37you are playing for something money can't buy -
0:22:37 > 0:22:39the Eggheads' precious reputation.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44The questions are all general knowledge
0:22:44 > 0:22:47and you are allowed to confer with each other.
0:22:47 > 0:22:48So Dan and Jack, the question is,
0:22:48 > 0:22:52are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?
0:22:52 > 0:22:55Kevin Appreciation Society, do you want to go first or second?
0:22:55 > 0:22:58We need to put the pressure on. We'll go first.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03Dan and Jack, all the best. Hope this goes well.
0:23:03 > 0:23:07Who became manager of Aston Villa FC in September 2010?
0:23:12 > 0:23:19Um, well, thankfully, this is one we know. Gerard Houllier is our answer.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22Gerard Houllier is correct. Eggheads,
0:23:22 > 0:23:26which London Underground line serves the terminals of Heathrow Airport?
0:23:29 > 0:23:32Stamping ground, the Piccadilly.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34On the west end of the line,
0:23:34 > 0:23:36it goes into a little loop on the Piccadilly line.
0:23:36 > 0:23:42Piccadilly is the right answer. Well done. OK, Dan and Jack.
0:23:42 > 0:23:46In 2003, a college at Durham University
0:23:46 > 0:23:48was renamed in honour of which actor?
0:23:53 > 0:23:58- All three are very famous actors. - Yeah. Um...a Durham college.
0:23:58 > 0:24:02- I assume they'd rename it as they went to the college.- Yeah.
0:24:02 > 0:24:09I haven't particularly... I haven't heard of Peter Ustinov as a college.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12Um...slight shot in the dark,
0:24:12 > 0:24:16but I'd be tempted to go with John Mills.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20- What do you think?- I'd go for Peter Ustinov. Mainly because...
0:24:20 > 0:24:22I bow to your superior wisdom. Go for it.
0:24:23 > 0:24:27- You can't blame me.- No, I won't. - We're going to say Peter Ustinov.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30It's a very good answer. You're right. Well done.
0:24:30 > 0:24:34Peter Ustinov it is. OK, Eggheads. Running to catch up now.
0:24:34 > 0:24:38What was the middle name of the Greek shipping magnate
0:24:38 > 0:24:40Aristotle Onassis?
0:24:45 > 0:24:49- Do you think it was Socrates? - That was my first thought.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51If you both thought Socrates...
0:24:51 > 0:24:56- Plato and Diogenes aren't ringing any bells.- I think it was.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59- Socrates Onassis.- Yes.- You happy with that?- Yes, I'm happy with that.
0:24:59 > 0:25:04Not 100% sure, but we think it's Socrates.
0:25:04 > 0:25:09Socrates is 100% the right answer. Well done. So the third question.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12Get this one right and there's just a chance.
0:25:12 > 0:25:18The Yenisei river empties into which ocean? It's spelled Y-E-N-I-S-E-I.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24As soon as the question was read, I thought Indian.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26I don't know what is telling me that,
0:25:26 > 0:25:28but it sounds like an Indian-ish word.
0:25:28 > 0:25:32- Is that the logic we're going with? - What else have you got?
0:25:32 > 0:25:34Absolutely nothing. Um...
0:25:34 > 0:25:37It's sprung to Dan's mind, so...
0:25:37 > 0:25:40And the Arctic - would there be many rivers flowing?
0:25:40 > 0:25:42It would be ice and it wouldn't flow.
0:25:43 > 0:25:47- I get... Go with it.- OK. We're going to guess Indian.
0:25:47 > 0:25:52You do make your minds up swiftly, I must say. And you're wrong.
0:25:52 > 0:25:57- It's not, it's the Arctic. The Arctic Ocean.- There are three major
0:25:57 > 0:25:59river systems of Russia - the Ob,
0:25:59 > 0:26:04the Yenisei and the Lena - and they all flow north into the Arctic.
0:26:04 > 0:26:08We don't hear much about the Arctic Ocean.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10Siberia is a huge, wide land mass,
0:26:10 > 0:26:12and these are the major rivers draining...
0:26:12 > 0:26:18If you see a list of top ten rivers of the world in terms of length,
0:26:18 > 0:26:21- they're there.- Could you do the top ten for us, Kevin?- Not now.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23- And be appreciated a bit more?- No.
0:26:25 > 0:26:29- Is your appreciation waning? - Um...no comment.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32They may be about to switch allegiance.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35You haven't lost yet. If they get this one wrong, we go to
0:26:35 > 0:26:38sudden death. If they get it right, the contest is over.
0:26:38 > 0:26:39Eggheads, your question.
0:26:39 > 0:26:43With only 21 verses, which is the shortest book of the Old Testament?
0:26:48 > 0:26:52- I think it's Obadiah. - I think it's Obadiah.
0:26:52 > 0:26:56- That's the first one that occurred to me.- Yeah.
0:26:56 > 0:27:01Nothing rings a bell distinctly in that sense. Isaiah is quite long.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04And I think I've seen that Obadiah is
0:27:04 > 0:27:07the shortest in the Old Testament.
0:27:07 > 0:27:13- Isaiah's actually the longest after Psalms.- Yeah?- Yeah.- Obadiah.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15We think that's Obadiah.
0:27:15 > 0:27:20If you're right - IF you're right, the contest is over.
0:27:20 > 0:27:24- Do you think they're right? - I'd hazard a guess at yes!
0:27:24 > 0:27:28They do sound right, they are right. Congratulations, Eggheads.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30It's Obadiah and you've won the contest!
0:27:37 > 0:27:39Well, you came here to appreciate Kevin
0:27:39 > 0:27:43and the team have done what we feared they might.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46He's definitely lived up to his reputation.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49It would have been disappointing to win, if Kevin had crumbled?
0:27:49 > 0:27:51- Not really.- No.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54- I don't think it would be. - Great to see you
0:27:54 > 0:27:57and good luck with your studies and all that follows.
0:27:57 > 0:27:58Commiserations to our challengers.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03They do reign supreme over quizland once again.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05I'm afraid that means you won't be going home with
0:28:05 > 0:28:10the £1,000 which means that the money rolls over to our next show.
0:28:10 > 0:28:14Eggheads, well done. Who will beat you?
0:28:14 > 0:28:16Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers
0:28:16 > 0:28:18have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:18 > 0:28:22£2,000 says they don't. Till then, goodbye.
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