0:00:04 > 0:00:09These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:11 > 0:00:16arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:27Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers
0:00:27 > 0:00:30pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32They are the Eggheads.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35And taking on our quiz champions today are...
0:00:36 > 0:00:39This team of friends were inspired to apply for Eggheads
0:00:39 > 0:00:43whilst munching on that student favourite - pesto-flavoured pasta.
0:00:43 > 0:00:44Let's meet them.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46Hello, I'm Thomas, I'm 20,
0:00:46 > 0:00:48and I study economics and physics at Edinburgh.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50Hello, I'm Guthrie, I'm 20 years old,
0:00:50 > 0:00:52and I study economics at Edinburgh.
0:00:52 > 0:00:56Hi, I'm Kirsty, I'm 19 years old, and I study medicine at Edinburgh.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Hello, I'm Max, I'm 20, and I study economics at Dundee.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03Hi, I'm Ruairidh, I'm 20 years old, and I study economics at Edinburgh.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05Well, welcome to you, Power To The Pesto.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09We've explained how you got the team name. I just wondered, other student favourite,
0:01:09 > 0:01:12what if it was beans on toast you happened to be eating that night?
0:01:12 > 0:01:14I guess it would be something like that.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18- Power To The Beans.- You are very keen on watching Eggheads, are you?- Yeah.
0:01:18 > 0:01:22We enjoy watching it, maybe to the detriment of my studies a little bit.
0:01:22 > 0:01:26Well, it can only aid your studies, so intellectual a programme it is.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29I mean, do you find that you do well when you're playing at home?
0:01:29 > 0:01:32Of course, it's very different from playing here as you'll find out.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36Sometimes. I guess it depends on the round and just
0:01:36 > 0:01:40- if the questions within the topics are favoured by me.- Yeah.
0:01:40 > 0:01:41OK. Right, then, good luck to you,
0:01:41 > 0:01:46because every day there's £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs for our challengers.
0:01:46 > 0:01:50However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:01:50 > 0:01:54So, Power To The Pesto, the Eggheads have won the last 21 games.
0:01:54 > 0:01:59That means £22,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02- That would buy a bit of pesto.- Yeah. - Maybe some pasta to go with it.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06OK, the first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Film and TV.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08A subject, I'm sure, you know little bit about, all of you.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12- Which one wants to play it? - Right.- I think maybe Kirsty.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14That's either Kirsty or Max. Who wants to do it?
0:02:14 > 0:02:16- I think we'll go with Kirsty. - Kirsty?- Yep, yep.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19OK, Kirsty, and choose any of those Eggheads.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21Right, boys, what do we think?
0:02:21 > 0:02:24- Barry is probably a good one to go with, I think.- Barry?- Barry?
0:02:24 > 0:02:26- I'm happy with that. - We'll try Barry.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28Just why do you think Barry?
0:02:28 > 0:02:31We did a little research before the show...
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Oh, dear!
0:02:33 > 0:02:36- ..and I think Barry might have lost a couple of times. I'm not sure.- Lost?!
0:02:36 > 0:02:40It has been known, but not that often, it must be said.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43It's going to be Kirsty and Barry contesting Film and TV.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45Could I ask you both, please, to go to the question room.
0:02:45 > 0:02:50That, Kirsty, as you know, is so you can't confer with your team-mates.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53Well, Kirsty, here's hoping Barry has one of his off days.
0:02:53 > 0:02:57As I say, pretty infrequent, but could be time just right for you.
0:02:57 > 0:02:59Would you like to go first or second?
0:02:59 > 0:03:01I'd like to go second, please.
0:03:03 > 0:03:04I see.
0:03:04 > 0:03:08Been thinking through the tactics as well, hoping Barry slips up first.
0:03:08 > 0:03:13OK, Barry. The media personality Alvin Hall became famous
0:03:13 > 0:03:16for presenting programmes on which subject?
0:03:18 > 0:03:20This was a good choice by Kirsty,
0:03:20 > 0:03:24because I've never heard of Alvin Hall, I'm afraid to say.
0:03:24 > 0:03:27- Ho-ho!- So I'm struggling a little, here. Alvin Hall.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29Well, I watch a lot of cookery programmes
0:03:29 > 0:03:31and I've never seen his name mentioned in cookery,
0:03:31 > 0:03:36or even in antiques, and I do tend to watch a few antiques shows.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38So, I shall go for finance.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40I love that preamble and giving us false hope.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42You did it, the elimination technique, anyway.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Yes, it is the right answer, finance.
0:03:44 > 0:03:48OK, well, for the tactic not to have backfired totally, Kirsty,
0:03:48 > 0:03:49you need to get this -
0:03:49 > 0:03:53Lynne Frederick was the last wife of which actor?
0:03:56 > 0:04:00I must say, I have absolutely no idea,
0:04:00 > 0:04:04so I think I'm going to have to take a guess.
0:04:04 > 0:04:08- Just off the top of my head, I'll go for Peter Sellers.- OK.
0:04:08 > 0:04:12And Barry laughs because he knew the answer to that,
0:04:12 > 0:04:16and he knows that's correct. Peter Sellers. OK.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18Barry, second question.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21In 2011, which actor won a BAFTA award for his portrayal
0:04:21 > 0:04:24of Eric Morecambe in the TV film Eric And Ernie?
0:04:27 > 0:04:31Well, the good news is I saw this film and it was excellent,
0:04:31 > 0:04:33but I can't remember who played him!
0:04:33 > 0:04:36So I'm really struggling today.
0:04:36 > 0:04:40That's the other way round from Kirsty's view. That's good news.
0:04:40 > 0:04:44- I really don't know on this. Robert Sheehan.- OK.
0:04:44 > 0:04:46It is the wrong answer.
0:04:46 > 0:04:50It's Mr Daniel Rigby playing Eric Morecambe.
0:04:50 > 0:04:54Well, great news, Kirsty, but to capitalise you need to get this.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56Which French director's films
0:04:56 > 0:04:59include Subway, Leon and The Big Blue?
0:05:04 > 0:05:10Well, I'm absolutely rubbish with French films, so absolutely no idea.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12Erm...
0:05:12 > 0:05:17- I think I will go with Claude Chabrol.- Claude Chabrol.
0:05:17 > 0:05:21No, it's the wrong answer. It's Luc Besson.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Well, no damage done, then.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26It stays all square. Both failing with your second questions.
0:05:26 > 0:05:30Third one for you, Barry. Which role was played by Natalie Dormer
0:05:30 > 0:05:32in the historical television drama The Tudors?
0:05:35 > 0:05:39Now, this is one I watched avidly cos I really enjoy that period,
0:05:39 > 0:05:42though I still can't get it into my head that Jonathan Rhys Meyers
0:05:42 > 0:05:44was actually Henry VIII.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47But Natalie Dormer, I'm sure, played Anne Boleyn.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50Right answer, yes, having watched it.
0:05:50 > 0:05:51OK, well, it's turned around a bit, Kirsty.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54You've got to get this to stay in the game.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57Which American actor was Oscar-nominated in 2010
0:05:57 > 0:05:59for his performance in The Hurt Locker,
0:05:59 > 0:06:02and again in 2011 for his role in The Town?
0:06:07 > 0:06:09Well, I have seen The Hurt Locker,
0:06:09 > 0:06:15but at the moment the name of the actor is escaping me.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20- I'm going to go with John Hawkes. - John Hawkes.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24It's not. It's not John Hawkes. Do you know of the other two, Barry?
0:06:24 > 0:06:26I thought it was Mark Ruffalo.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29You're both really good at this, cos it's Jeremy Renner.
0:06:29 > 0:06:33I mean, what it goes to prove is what a tough round this has been.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35These questions, unless you'd seen them as Barry had there
0:06:35 > 0:06:38with Anne Boleyn, which is what's won him the round...
0:06:38 > 0:06:40Very, very tough, I thought, there.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42So, bad luck there, Kirsty,
0:06:42 > 0:06:46but Barry turned it round and has ejected you from the final round.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:06:49 > 0:06:52As it stands, Power To The Pesto lost one brain from the final round.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55The Eggheads, of course, all still there. Only one round gone.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58Our second head-to-head is Science.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01Who would like to take this on from Power To The Pesto?
0:07:01 > 0:07:06- The team captain.- Thomas, OK. Any Egghead apart from Barry.- Pat?
0:07:06 > 0:07:08- Pat?- Pat.- Yeah, go for it. - Right, I think we'll take on Pat.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11OK, it's going to be Pat, then, playing Thomas.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14Both into the question room now, please.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16So, Thomas, do you want to go first or second?
0:07:16 > 0:07:18I'll go first, please, Dermot.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23Best of luck, Thomas, first question.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26What term is used to refer to an indicator on a computer screen
0:07:26 > 0:07:28that can be moved by the user?
0:07:31 > 0:07:34OK, so I recognise all the words,
0:07:34 > 0:07:38but I think the one I'd most associate with a computer is cursor.
0:07:38 > 0:07:42- Or at least moving it around. - Yeah, indeed, it's the right answer.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44Yes, of course, cursor. OK, Pat.
0:07:44 > 0:07:48On a standard UK QWERTY keyboard, the letters Esc, E-S-C,
0:07:48 > 0:07:52often seen on a key at the top-left are short for what?
0:07:54 > 0:07:56They're short for escape.
0:07:56 > 0:07:57They are indeed.
0:07:57 > 0:08:01Both handling those computer-based questions very easily indeed.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03And Thomas...
0:08:03 > 0:08:06Which of the senses is primarily affected
0:08:06 > 0:08:08by the disorder achromatopsia?
0:08:11 > 0:08:14This would've been a good question for Kirsty who just went up before.
0:08:14 > 0:08:18- She's studying medicine, so...- Yeah.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21I think I might have heard of it if it had something to do with
0:08:21 > 0:08:24smell or sight, although they are quite big categories, still.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27- But I think I'm going to go with touch.- OK, achromatopsia.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29Well, let's ask Kirsty.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31I haven't come to achromia-topsia yet...
0:08:31 > 0:08:34- Achromatopsia.- ..but I would've gone for touch as well.- OK.
0:08:34 > 0:08:38Well, still some studying to do, then, cos it's sight.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41Achromatopsia is associated with sight.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43So, nothing there, then, for Thomas.
0:08:43 > 0:08:47Pat, what is the chemical symbol for the element astatine?
0:08:50 > 0:08:53I should be able to just fire off the answer, but...
0:08:53 > 0:08:55Ah, let me just think.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58It's certainly not An, I can eliminate that.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01I don't think there is an element with the name An.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04Wait, no, there are a couple of elements which have got
0:09:04 > 0:09:06rather odd symbols.
0:09:06 > 0:09:11Antimony is Sn, arsenic is... Is arsenic As?
0:09:11 > 0:09:14No, I don't think it is. I think it's As.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17As for this astatine. Um, it's not.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19- It's At.- It's At.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22- That's the other one, obviously, you were thinking of.- Mental block.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Right, well, it stays all square.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26Thomas, that's good, no harm done there,
0:09:26 > 0:09:28and you take the lead if you give me a correct answer here.
0:09:28 > 0:09:32What type of creature is a Royal Gramma?
0:09:34 > 0:09:37Royal Gramma sounds as if it's been named...
0:09:37 > 0:09:42Maybe an expression sponsored by a monarch at some point.
0:09:43 > 0:09:48I think, kind of a glamorous creature, might be a snake,
0:09:48 > 0:09:51so I'm happy to go with a snake, but I don't now.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54OK, you don't know, but I like the reasoning.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56Not sure if it's the right reasoning,
0:09:56 > 0:09:58but it's the wrong answer. It's not a snake.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00Don't know if there was some expedition
0:10:00 > 0:10:03which uncovered the Royal Gramma, which is a... Pat?
0:10:03 > 0:10:05- I think it's a fish.- It is a fish.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07It is a fish.
0:10:07 > 0:10:11Well, Thomas not getting that gives you a chance to win the round, Pat.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13This is your question.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16The Missyplicity Project was an early attempt to clone
0:10:16 > 0:10:18which type of creature?
0:10:20 > 0:10:23Perhaps Missy was the parent,
0:10:23 > 0:10:28and plicity - they formed the word that way. That's possible.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30Missy.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33It'd be a bit strange to be cloning rabbits,
0:10:33 > 0:10:36seeing as they have a legendary ability to reproduce themselves.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38They don't need any help.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40Missy sounds almost like a pet name,
0:10:40 > 0:10:42in which case a parrot or a dog would be...
0:10:42 > 0:10:44People can name their rabbits,
0:10:44 > 0:10:47but a parrot or a dog would seem more plausible.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50Well, I haven't heard of much parrot cloning,
0:10:50 > 0:10:52but there has been a fair amount of dog cloning,
0:10:52 > 0:10:56including the South Korean, Snuppy, who turned out to be a fake.
0:10:56 > 0:10:57So, um...
0:10:57 > 0:11:00- I better go for dog.- OK, dog.
0:11:00 > 0:11:04I love the way on this third question both of you
0:11:04 > 0:11:07have woven a story around the question.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09We had Thomas there with his expedition,
0:11:09 > 0:11:13hacking through the jungle looking for the Royal Gramma,
0:11:13 > 0:11:16and then imagining it to be a noble animal like a snake, and was wrong.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19And Pat's come up with the idea we need a pet here,
0:11:19 > 0:11:22because of the name Missy, perhaps, applied,
0:11:22 > 0:11:25and what kind of thing you would call Missy? You'd call a dog that.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28You've got the right answer, Pat, and for the right reasons!
0:11:28 > 0:11:30The dog was called Missy.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32So, you know, bad luck there, Tom.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34As I say, similar thought processes applied.
0:11:34 > 0:11:38Unfortunately, you got it wrong and you won't be in the final round.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41Would you both please come back to join your teams?
0:11:41 > 0:11:45Power To The Pesto have lost two brains from the final round.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48The Eggheads are all still there. So, our third head-to-head,
0:11:48 > 0:11:50this one is Geography.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52Who would like to play Geography?
0:11:52 > 0:11:55Probably would've been me. I think we're looking at Ruairidh.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58- Ruairidh's our second back up. - It's definitely not going to be me.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00- Ruairidh?- I think we're going to take Ruairidh on.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03OK, Ruairidh, who would you like to play from the Eggheads?
0:12:03 > 0:12:05Can't be Barry or Pat, so you have Kevin, Judith or Chris.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07Who are we going for?
0:12:07 > 0:12:09I think I'm going to go for Judith.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11- Judith?- Judith?- OK.
0:12:11 > 0:12:16Let's have Ruairidh and Judith into the Question Room now, please.
0:12:16 > 0:12:20So, it is Geography, and do you want to go first or second, Ruairidh?
0:12:20 > 0:12:23I'll go second, please.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27Second, putting the Egghead in once again,
0:12:27 > 0:12:29and your question is this, Judith -
0:12:29 > 0:12:32the Chauvet Cave, which is home to some of the world's oldest
0:12:32 > 0:12:35cave paintings, is in which European country?
0:12:37 > 0:12:42- Can you just spell it, just to make sure?- Of course. C-H-A-U-V-E-T.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44I think that is France.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46On the spelling alone?
0:12:46 > 0:12:48It's the right answer, Judith. Yes, of course. OK.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51And first question, then, going to you, Ruairidh.
0:12:51 > 0:12:55Often regarded as the most expensive road ever built in Britain,
0:12:55 > 0:12:59the Limehouse Link opened in which city in the 1990s?
0:13:01 > 0:13:07OK. Well, I'm from Scotland and I've not heard of it around Glasgow.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Erm...
0:13:09 > 0:13:13As a pure guess, I'm going to go with Birmingham.
0:13:13 > 0:13:14London.
0:13:14 > 0:13:17The Limehouse Link is in London. Why so expensive, Eggheads?
0:13:17 > 0:13:19- Mostly in tunnel. - Tunnelling, isn't it?- Yeah.
0:13:19 > 0:13:23It was part of the Docklands redevelopment, wasn't it?
0:13:23 > 0:13:24Leading to Canary Wharf.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26So City boys can get to Canary Wharf five minutes faster.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28DERMOT LAUGHS
0:13:28 > 0:13:32OK, well, Judith, you have a lead, and potentially a bigger one here.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35Once the home of a thriving Norman castle,
0:13:35 > 0:13:38the town of Berkhamsted is in which county?
0:13:40 > 0:13:42I don't not anything about the castle,
0:13:42 > 0:13:47but I think Berkhamsted is in Hertfordshire.
0:13:47 > 0:13:48It's the right answer.
0:13:48 > 0:13:52Judith, you do have that big lead, a commanding lead. 2-0.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54Very threateningly, then, for you, Ruairidh,
0:13:54 > 0:13:56it means you've got to get this.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59Crescent City and The City That Care Forgot
0:13:59 > 0:14:02are some of the many nicknames of which American city?
0:14:05 > 0:14:10Again, I don't really know this one.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12Erm...
0:14:13 > 0:14:17I'm sure Seattle's got a nickname. I can't really remember it.
0:14:17 > 0:14:20I'm just going to have to guess, I think.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27I'm going to go with...
0:14:28 > 0:14:30..Philadelphia.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32Oh, no.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34Was it Seattle?
0:14:34 > 0:14:37It's not Philadelphia and it's not Seattle either. It's New Orleans.
0:14:37 > 0:14:39Judith, you don't need any more questions,
0:14:39 > 0:14:42you've won the round 2-0.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:14:44 > 0:14:47Well, Power To The Pesto,
0:14:47 > 0:14:50three brains gone now from the final round. Eggheads are all still there.
0:14:50 > 0:14:54Last chance coming up to knock one of them out
0:14:54 > 0:14:56and it's on the subject of Sport.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59And we have left Guthrie or Max to play.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01- Think we'll go for Max.- Max.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04All right, Max, and which Egghead would you like to play?
0:15:04 > 0:15:08Pat, Barry and Judith have already competed,
0:15:08 > 0:15:10so you have Kevin or Chris.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13- Just do what you want. - I'll take on Kevin, I think.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15OK, Kevin on Sport.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17So, it's going to be Max taking on Kevin.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20Into the question room, both of you, please.
0:15:20 > 0:15:24OK, Sport, and would you like to go first or second, Max?
0:15:24 > 0:15:25I think I'll go second.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29So, you face the first question, Kevin.
0:15:29 > 0:15:33In 2001, Zlatan Ibrahimovic made his debut
0:15:33 > 0:15:35for which international football team?
0:15:37 > 0:15:40Despite the Balkan-sounding name,
0:15:40 > 0:15:44he's actually a Swedish national, so he plays for Sweden.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46Yeah, could've been tricky, couldn't it?
0:15:46 > 0:15:48Not to you, though, it's the right answer.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51And first question, then, to you, Max.
0:15:51 > 0:15:52Which tennis player was named
0:15:52 > 0:15:57Australia's Davis Cup captain in October 2010?
0:16:00 > 0:16:02Erm...
0:16:02 > 0:16:06Tennis probably should have been one that I would be strong at,
0:16:06 > 0:16:12although, maybe not this question.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14I don't think it's Lleyton Hewitt.
0:16:14 > 0:16:18Pat Cash does a lot of commentary,
0:16:18 > 0:16:24although I think he's maybe their Davis Cup captain as well.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26I'm going to say Pat Cash.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28OK, Pat Cash.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30It isn't Pat, but it's Rafter.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33Patrick Rafter is the answer we're looking for.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35Kevin got his and Max didn't,
0:16:35 > 0:16:39so, chance again then, Kevin, to forge into a bigger lead.
0:16:39 > 0:16:43Hermann Tilke found fame as a leading designer of what?
0:16:47 > 0:16:51Right. It sounds... I must admit, I don't think I've heard of him.
0:16:51 > 0:16:54I wouldn't have thought it would be horse racing courses,
0:16:54 > 0:16:57simply because they tend to grow...
0:16:57 > 0:17:01Well, I say organically, but over centuries, over a long time.
0:17:01 > 0:17:06A lot of the leading golf course designers are American.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10That's not to say that he's not American. He could be.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13He's just got a Germanic-sounding name. Given the...
0:17:15 > 0:17:20Given the prominence of Germans in early motor racing,
0:17:20 > 0:17:25things like the Nurburgring, Hockenheim and various others,
0:17:25 > 0:17:30I would go for motor racing circuits, just on the basis that
0:17:30 > 0:17:33it's more likely with somebody Germanic. Let's put it that way.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36And it is the right answer, Kevin, yeah.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38- You worked it out, those slim percentages.- Yeah.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41OK, well, you need to get this, then, Max.
0:17:41 > 0:17:45Paula Radcliffe won a gold medal in the 2002 Commonwealth Games
0:17:45 > 0:17:47in which event?
0:17:52 > 0:17:53Erm...
0:17:54 > 0:17:59I think going to go for 10,000m.
0:17:59 > 0:18:0110,000m.
0:18:01 > 0:18:03What's the reasoning on that, given that she now seems
0:18:03 > 0:18:07to concentrate on the marathon and that's the closest to that distance?
0:18:07 > 0:18:12- Yeah, basically, that's the furthest of the three options, and so...- Yeah.
0:18:14 > 0:18:19It's not the right answer, though. She's good at the 5,000, too.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22And won the gold in 2002.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25That means you're not going to be trying to win the £22,000 today
0:18:25 > 0:18:29with Guthrie, who's going to be on his own.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:18:32 > 0:18:35Well, now, this is what we've been playing towards -
0:18:35 > 0:18:39it's time for the final round, as always, General Knowledge.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads
0:18:42 > 0:18:44won't be allowed to take part in this round,
0:18:44 > 0:18:47so Thomas, Kirsty, Max and Ruairidh from Power To The Pesto,
0:18:47 > 0:18:50would you leave the studio now, please?
0:18:50 > 0:18:55So, then, Guthrie, you're playing to win Power To The Pesto £22,000.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58Chris, Barry, Pat, Judith, and Kevin, you're playing
0:18:58 > 0:19:01for something which money can't buy - it's the Eggheads' reputation.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04As usual, I ask each team three questions in turn.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06This time the questions are all General Knowledge
0:19:06 > 0:19:08and you are allowed to confer.
0:19:08 > 0:19:10Guthrie, the question is,
0:19:10 > 0:19:13is your one brain better than the Eggheads' five?
0:19:13 > 0:19:15And Guthrie, would you like to go first or second?
0:19:15 > 0:19:18I think I'd like to go first, please.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22OK, good luck, Guthrie. First question is this -
0:19:22 > 0:19:27what did JK Rowling call the Harry Potter website she launched in 2011
0:19:27 > 0:19:29which allowed users to access background material
0:19:29 > 0:19:32as well as engage with the interactive universe?
0:19:36 > 0:19:38Right, well, I've read all the books,
0:19:38 > 0:19:41but I was never aware that there was a website like this.
0:19:41 > 0:19:45I wouldn't have thought Potterschool would be that. No.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48So, I could discount that,
0:19:48 > 0:19:50just cos I don't feel it would be called a school.
0:19:50 > 0:19:54Erm, Pottermore or Potterville?
0:19:54 > 0:19:58Both quite plausible. Pottermore...
0:19:58 > 0:19:59I think I'll go for Pottermore.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02- Pottermore?- Yeah.- More on Potter. It's the right answer.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04Yes, well done, well worked out.
0:20:04 > 0:20:05Pottermore.
0:20:05 > 0:20:09Eggheads, your first question - which actor played the title role
0:20:09 > 0:20:13in an ill-fated Broadway production of Macbeth in 2000 which closed
0:20:13 > 0:20:18after a short run and incurred reported losses of 1.5 million?
0:20:21 > 0:20:25- Do you think it might be Eddie Murphy?- Any thoughts?- No thoughts.
0:20:25 > 0:20:29Kelsey Grammar. Steve Martin.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31Steve Martin does lots of different things, in his favour.
0:20:31 > 0:20:35Yeah, I mean, I have no idea. I have no idea.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37I mean, the only thing that I would...
0:20:37 > 0:20:39- Steve Martin does have... - But he's a comic.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42Yeah, but he does have these sort of intellectual credentials.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44He's written plays.
0:20:44 > 0:20:49- He wrote a play called Picasso At The Lapin Agile, for instance.- Yes.
0:20:49 > 0:20:53I must admit, I had an inkling in the my mind that Steve Martin...
0:20:53 > 0:20:55- You had an inkling? - Do you? Right, OK.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58- I'd be inclined to go along with that as well.- What's the consensus?
0:20:58 > 0:21:01- Are we going for Steve Martin?- Yeah, it's the first question, isn't it?
0:21:01 > 0:21:05- Right, the consensus is Steve Martin, Dermot.- Steve Martin? OK.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08Well, the answer is Kelsey Grammer.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11- Well, Guthrie...- Good start.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14Good start, but don't dare to hope yet.
0:21:14 > 0:21:18Let's get this under your belt, then dare to hope. OK, second question.
0:21:18 > 0:21:22Guy Verhofstadt was the prime minister of which country
0:21:22 > 0:21:25from 1999 to 2008?
0:21:28 > 0:21:32Guy Verhofstadt. Right. Well, not heard of him.
0:21:32 > 0:21:38So I'm trying to think of heads of state for all these countries.
0:21:40 > 0:21:44Can't really think of any from those dates.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47It's going to have to be a guess.
0:21:47 > 0:21:48Erm...
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Belgium, but that's a guess.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57- Belgium, a guess. Guy Verhofstadt. - I'm not confident.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Tell you what, Thomas is confident.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01That's not a good thing, though. THEY LAUGH
0:22:01 > 0:22:03- It is, cos it's the right answer! - Oh, my...
0:22:03 > 0:22:06It's the right answer.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08So, well done. You have a 2-0 lead.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10You might not have to answer another question.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13- Well, that might be too much. - You might not, I'm just saying.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15Well, if the Eggheads get this wrong...
0:22:15 > 0:22:17They were all over the place with their first one.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19If they get this wrong, you've won the money.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21Eggheads, in the 20th century,
0:22:21 > 0:22:25Kenzo Tange from Japan was a leading figure in which field?
0:22:28 > 0:22:30In the 20th century,
0:22:30 > 0:22:33Kenzo Tange from Japan was a leading figure in which field?
0:22:33 > 0:22:35- Definitely an architect. - He was an architect, yeah.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39Yeah, he was definitely an architect, Dermot, so it's architecture.
0:22:39 > 0:22:40OK, so you know this one.
0:22:40 > 0:22:44It is the right answer, Eggheads, so we get down to business.
0:22:44 > 0:22:48No pressure at all, Guthrie, but 22 grand for one question.
0:22:48 > 0:22:51I think it's a bit more than you get from the pub quiz machine.
0:22:51 > 0:22:52Let's see if you can get this.
0:22:52 > 0:22:56Nutmegger is a nickname for people from which US state?
0:22:59 > 0:23:04I've not really travelled the States at all, only been to Florida, so...
0:23:04 > 0:23:07that's not going to help. Nutmegger.
0:23:07 > 0:23:11Trying to think of what that would relate to.
0:23:11 > 0:23:15Nuts, something to do with nuts. No.
0:23:15 > 0:23:20Erm, right, I'm going to discount Arkansas for no reason.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23And Oregon or Connecticut?
0:23:26 > 0:23:28Erm...
0:23:29 > 0:23:31I'm going to go for Oregon.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34OK, Oregon for Nutmeggers.
0:23:34 > 0:23:39Presumably, Eggheads, produce a lot of nutmeg? The spice. And...
0:23:39 > 0:23:42it's Connecticut.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45- Connecticut. You were down to the last two.- Yeah.
0:23:45 > 0:23:4850/50 for £22,000.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50Well, you know, you've still got another chance
0:23:50 > 0:23:53without, perhaps, answering another question.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55Eggheads, you need to get this one right.
0:23:55 > 0:23:59Charles Armitage Brown is best known as being the housemate
0:23:59 > 0:24:01and confidant of which poet?
0:24:03 > 0:24:05Wordsworth lived with his sister, didn't he?
0:24:05 > 0:24:09Well, I've got a strong instinct on this one, but I think it's Keats.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12Yes, my instinct said Keats.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15But when the Keats lived in Hampstead,
0:24:15 > 0:24:17he shared his house with a friend.
0:24:17 > 0:24:21- I think it was actually Brown's house, and he gave Keats...- A room.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24Room. I may... I hope I haven't got the wrong guy, but...
0:24:24 > 0:24:27- It seems very plausible. - My instinct was that too.
0:24:27 > 0:24:31I can't relate that sort of thing to either Shelley or Wordsworth,
0:24:31 > 0:24:34so I think it's Keats, but it might not be.
0:24:34 > 0:24:38OK, well, it's the best we've got.
0:24:38 > 0:24:42We think it was a household in Hampstead,
0:24:42 > 0:24:45and Keats lived there, so we'll go with Keats.
0:24:45 > 0:24:49Keats and Charles Armitage Brown to take us into Sudden Death, or...
0:24:49 > 0:24:51hand the money over to Power To The Pesto.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53It's Sudden Death, it's the right answer.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55Keats is correct.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01- Well, just keep the faith. - Yeah.- Focus on this.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Now, Sudden Death means we've taken away the choices.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07I've just got to hear an answer from you to sort out a winner.
0:25:07 > 0:25:08- Good luck, Guthrie.- Thank you.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11How many characters are In Search Of An Author,
0:25:11 > 0:25:16according to the title of Luigi Pirandello's 1921 play?
0:25:16 > 0:25:21How many characters are In Search Of An Author,
0:25:21 > 0:25:26according to the title of Luigi Pirandello's 1921 play?
0:25:26 > 0:25:29Erm, not familiar with it at all,
0:25:29 > 0:25:31so it's going to have to be a guess again.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36I can't see it being a ridiculously high number,
0:25:36 > 0:25:38so I'm going to go for kind of a lowish number.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44- 13 has just sprung to mind, so I'll go for 13.- 13.
0:25:46 > 0:25:50I can see why you would go for that. It's not 13, though. 13 characters.
0:25:50 > 0:25:52No, it's incorrect. Eggheads, do you know?
0:25:52 > 0:25:54- EGGHEADS:- Six.- Six.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57Six Characters In Search Of An Author
0:25:57 > 0:25:59in Pirandello's 1921 play.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02Well, this would be quite a turnaround if the Eggheads get this.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04Eggheads, who was the first British monarch to send
0:26:04 > 0:26:06a transatlantic telegram?
0:26:06 > 0:26:09THEY CONFER
0:26:11 > 0:26:14When was the first?
0:26:14 > 0:26:17I thought there was a first involving Victoria and Buchanan.
0:26:17 > 0:26:22- Yeah, yeah.- And where's Buchanan? - Well, Buchanan, he was the 1850s.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25It could be, for some reason, that it didn't happen
0:26:25 > 0:26:28until Edward VII or something like that, but Victoria seems likely.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30- Bit late for Edward VII.- Hmm?
0:26:30 > 0:26:33- Bit late for Edward VII. - Yeah, she seems likely
0:26:33 > 0:26:36just because she was there for about three or four decades after the...
0:26:36 > 0:26:39- Yeah, after the cables were laid. - ..after the cables were laid.
0:26:39 > 0:26:45Well, the cables were laid in the 1860s, and Victoria was still around
0:26:45 > 0:26:48until 1901, so it's highly likely that the first transatlantic telegram
0:26:48 > 0:26:51sent by a British monarch was sent by Queen Victoria.
0:26:51 > 0:26:54Queen Victoria. Pat, I had you mention Buchanan.
0:26:54 > 0:26:59I think there is a first linking Victoria and James Buchanan.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02Yeah, that is the right answer, yes.
0:27:02 > 0:27:05And it was between Victoria and James Buchanan.
0:27:05 > 0:27:10The only thing you got wrong was the dates - not the 1860s, 1857,
0:27:10 > 0:27:12so you'll have to get back to the reference books
0:27:12 > 0:27:15and see when those cables were laid. Obviously, during the 1850s.
0:27:15 > 0:27:19The answer is Queen Victoria, which means Eggheads, you've won.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26Forget about Queen Victoria and the cable laying,
0:27:26 > 0:27:30we turn to Guthrie and say what a heroic struggle you put up there
0:27:30 > 0:27:32to try and grab that £22,000.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34And came that close too.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36- Yeah, it was close, wasn't it?- Oh!
0:27:36 > 0:27:41I bet you'll never, ever forget that Connecticut is the nutmeg capital
0:27:41 > 0:27:42of the United States!
0:27:42 > 0:27:45I think you ought to go out there and indulge in some of it,
0:27:45 > 0:27:51but I think a bowl of pesto-covered pasta tonight is on the cards.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53Thank you very much for playing the Eggheads today,
0:27:53 > 0:27:56and in spite of what happened in the head-to-heads,
0:27:56 > 0:27:59coming so close to beating them. Just not there.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01Well done, Guthrie, well done to the rest of you.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04The Eggheads have done what comes naturally and their winning streak continues.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £22,000
0:28:07 > 0:28:10and that means the money rolls over to the next show.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13Eggheads, congratulations, who will beat you?
0:28:13 > 0:28:16Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers
0:28:16 > 0:28:19have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:19 > 0:28:23£23,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.
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