0:00:04 > 0:00:08These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:11 > 0:00:14arguably 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 > 0:00:36and taking on the might of our quiz Goliaths today are Minerva.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39This team all work in departments at the University of Lincoln.
0:00:39 > 0:00:43They take their name from the Roman goddess of wisdom,
0:00:43 > 0:00:46whose head is also the emblem of the University.
0:00:46 > 0:00:47So let's meet them.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51Hi. I'm Zoe. I'm 29 and I'm a senior faculty officer.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55Hi. I'm Pam. I'm 48, and I'm a campus librarian.
0:00:55 > 0:00:56Hi. I'm Charles.
0:00:56 > 0:01:01I'm...over 55, and I'm a professor of marketing and retailing.
0:01:01 > 0:01:05Hi. I'm Deborah. I'm 46 and I'm a chief finance officer.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08Hi, I'm Carol. I'm 46, and I'm a library officer.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10Zoe and team - welcome.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13- Thank you.- Do you meet and quiz at University, or what?
0:01:13 > 0:01:16We met for the first time as the group of five of us a week ago.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19Did you? OK. So the library should help.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22- You open the books from time to time, do you, or not? - Every now and again.
0:01:22 > 0:01:24My excuse is we don't do fiction.
0:01:24 > 0:01:28We only do textbooks, so arts and books, you know...
0:01:28 > 0:01:31Maybe. That may work as an excuse.
0:01:31 > 0:01:35We did have, I think, a professor of philosophy from Oxford -
0:01:35 > 0:01:38one of the cleverest people in the country - come in,
0:01:38 > 0:01:40and the first question was, "What colour was Noddy's hat?"
0:01:40 > 0:01:43And his eyes completely glazed over, so there is the test.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46If you're too academic, you don't know.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48OK, every day there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs
0:01:48 > 0:01:51for our challengers, however if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:01:51 > 0:01:55the prize money rolls over to the next show. I'm sure you know that.
0:01:55 > 0:01:56Now, I can tell you, Minerva,
0:01:56 > 0:01:59that the Eggheads have won the last 20 games,
0:01:59 > 0:02:03so £21,000 is on the table today saying you can't beat them.
0:02:03 > 0:02:04Would you like to start?
0:02:04 > 0:02:05Give it a go.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08First head-to-head battle is on the subject of history.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12Who's been looking at the history books?
0:02:12 > 0:02:15- That's Carol, isn't it?- And who did you want to take on, Carol?
0:02:15 > 0:02:18- Carol against... - I'll take on Judith, please.
0:02:18 > 0:02:19Right, she loves her history.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22So, Carol from Minerva versus Judith from the Eggheads on history,
0:02:22 > 0:02:24and just to ensure there's no conferring,
0:02:24 > 0:02:28would you please take your positions in the question room?
0:02:28 > 0:02:31So, Carol, being a librarian is a technical thing, isn't it?
0:02:31 > 0:02:35Well, I'm actually a library officer. I'm not a qualified librarian yet.
0:02:35 > 0:02:40Oh, I see. So you can be working in a library, touching books
0:02:40 > 0:02:42and climbing on ladders but not be a librarian?
0:02:42 > 0:02:45You have to have your professional qualification
0:02:45 > 0:02:47to call yourself a librarian.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50And what kind of thing do you have to study to get it?
0:02:50 > 0:02:53It's a master's degree in Library and Information Science.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56Which is what letters you put on the end of books and all that?
0:02:56 > 0:02:59Well, that is part of it, yes. The good old Dewey decimal system.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Is it a lovely job, when you work in a library?
0:03:01 > 0:03:03It can be really good.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05I bet. OK, good luck. You're in the history round.
0:03:05 > 0:03:09So we have no cataloguing problems here, against Judith.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12I'll ask each of you three questions on history in turn,
0:03:12 > 0:03:15and whoever answers the most questions correctly is the winner.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17Carol, would you like the first or second set?
0:03:17 > 0:03:18I'll go first, please.
0:03:21 > 0:03:22Good luck, Carol. Here we go.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25What name was given to the secret chambers built as hiding places
0:03:25 > 0:03:28for Roman Catholic priests? Were they...?
0:03:32 > 0:03:34Right, I do think I know that one.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37I've certainly not heard of priest-gulfs, or priest-bays,
0:03:37 > 0:03:39so I do believe they're priest-holes.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42They are indeed priest-holes, Carol. Well done.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Judith, back to you.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47Who was the first Vice President of the United States?
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Abraham Lincoln was much, much later.
0:03:54 > 0:03:59I think it was John Adams, who was then President a bit later.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01John Adams is your answer. A-ha!
0:04:01 > 0:04:05Ooh! It's right.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08- I just wanted to worry you for a second.- You did.
0:04:08 > 0:04:12Carol, Mary Frith - better known as Moll Cutpurse -
0:04:12 > 0:04:15was famous in the 16th and 17th centuries as what?
0:04:20 > 0:04:22Right. I haven't actually heard of her
0:04:22 > 0:04:24but if she's cutting purses,
0:04:24 > 0:04:28I think she would most likely be a pickpocket.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32Logical and quite right. She's a pickpocket. Well done. Well done!
0:04:32 > 0:04:34OK, Judith. To catch up -
0:04:34 > 0:04:36in the Middle Ages, what name was given to a person
0:04:36 > 0:04:40who made small metal objects, particularly for horse's bridles?
0:04:44 > 0:04:48Oh... Well, it's not a scrivener, because that's someone who writes.
0:04:48 > 0:04:53I don't know what the other two are. I don't know.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55I'm going to say loriner.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00That's the correct answer. Why is it loriner? What if you met a loriner?
0:05:00 > 0:05:01What would he be doing?
0:05:01 > 0:05:05I think he makes small metal objects, just as the question said.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07- OK.- Nothing more to add!
0:05:07 > 0:05:10Thanks, Barry. Thanks a lot!
0:05:10 > 0:05:13That took us forward. OK, Carol.
0:05:13 > 0:05:17At which British university was Ludwig Wittgenstein appointed
0:05:17 > 0:05:21Professor of Philosophy from 1939 to 1947?
0:05:25 > 0:05:28This is one that I'm a little bit stumped on.
0:05:30 > 0:05:34I will go straight down the middle and go for Cambridge.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37You've got three out of three. Well done, Carol.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39OK, Judith. It's your third question.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42If you get this one wrong, you've been bounced out on history.
0:05:42 > 0:05:47The surname Ataturk, given to Mustapha Kemal in the 1930s,
0:05:47 > 0:05:49had what meaning?
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Ah, well, he was a liberator of the Turks,
0:05:58 > 0:06:03but I'm not necessarily...it's going to be that. Father of the Turks.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07Does 'ata' mean father in Turkish, or something?
0:06:07 > 0:06:10I think I'm going to say father of the Turks.
0:06:10 > 0:06:14That's exactly what it does mean. Father of the Turks is right.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17Tough question - they're all similar there. And you've both got three.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20Carol, I'm sorry you couldn't shake her off with three correct answers.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23The perfect round for you both. Gets a bit harder now, Carol.
0:06:23 > 0:06:27Not multiple choice. So I don't give you alternatives.
0:06:27 > 0:06:33Which ship took part in a famous race from China to Britain in 1872 against the clipper Thermopylae?
0:06:35 > 0:06:38Oh, yachting. That's not a strong subject of mine.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41I can't even think of any famous boats from that era,
0:06:41 > 0:06:44I don't think.
0:06:44 > 0:06:461800s?
0:06:46 > 0:06:49The Victory? It's too late for the Victory.
0:06:49 > 0:06:50Or the Golden Hind.
0:06:53 > 0:06:57No, I'm sorry. I'm going to have to pass. Nothing is coming at all.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00Cutty Sark is the answer. Cutty Sark.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02So...
0:07:02 > 0:07:05Judith, if you get this one right, you're in the final round.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08Which 19th-century monarch was, in his own words,
0:07:08 > 0:07:12"Rather too fond of women and wine" as a teenager?
0:07:14 > 0:07:17Well, George IV was fond of women and wine more or less all his life
0:07:17 > 0:07:20but he might have just said as a teenager.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23I should have thought it was George IV.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25George IV is the right answer. Well done, Carol.
0:07:25 > 0:07:27Sorry, you played well.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29You've been knocked out by our Egghead, though.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32But there's plenty more time for your team to fight back,
0:07:32 > 0:07:35so please both of you come back to the studio.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37So, as it stands, the challengers have lost one brain, Carol,
0:07:37 > 0:07:40who played very well, and the Eggheads have kept Judith.
0:07:40 > 0:07:44Let's see what happens next. It's going to be arts and books.
0:07:44 > 0:07:48We heard your mitigation earlier on this, but...
0:07:48 > 0:07:49That's me, I think, Jeremy.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52OK. Against which Egghead - not Judith, obviously?
0:07:52 > 0:07:54No. Can I take on Barry?
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Sure. And you love your arts and books, Barry.
0:07:56 > 0:07:57Absolutely.
0:07:57 > 0:07:58Don't be threatened by that.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01There's a look of pleasure whenever Barry does this subject.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04So Pam from Minerva versus Barry from the Eggheads on arts and books.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Please go to the question room now.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11- So it's somebody else from the library.- Yes. I am, yes.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13And do I call you a librarian?
0:08:13 > 0:08:14I am a chartered librarian, yes.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17- So you've got all the qualifications?- Yes.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20OK. Three questions for you, Pam. Multiple choice.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23Would you like the first or second set?
0:08:23 > 0:08:25I think I'll go first, please.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28Here we go. In the Harry Potter books, what is used to determine
0:08:28 > 0:08:32which of the four houses at Hogwarts a pupil will enter?
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Well, I'm not really into children's fiction
0:08:38 > 0:08:42but Harry Potter is a bit of an odd one because I have read them all
0:08:42 > 0:08:46and seen all the films, and I know they put the Sorting Hat to the task.
0:08:46 > 0:08:47It's the Sorting Hat.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50Yes, very good. The Sorting Hat it is.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52Here we go with your question, Barry.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56What is the occupation of Arthur Kipps,
0:08:56 > 0:08:59the central character of Susan Hill's book, The Woman In Black?
0:09:03 > 0:09:06Goodness me! I've not actually read this.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10Clergymen wear black, so it could be that.
0:09:11 > 0:09:16And solicitors I suppose wear dark suits, but I'm going to...
0:09:16 > 0:09:18I was thinking schoolmaster...
0:09:18 > 0:09:21I'm going to change my mind. I'm going to go for clergyman.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23Oh, well, you're weaving around everywhere there,
0:09:23 > 0:09:28and avoiding the right answer, because it's solicitor.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31So, Pam, you're in the lead. Hang onto that lead.
0:09:31 > 0:09:35Which name, now used to refer to a rigidly conventional person,
0:09:35 > 0:09:38first appeared in the 1798 play, Speed The Plough?
0:09:42 > 0:09:46Well, I think Mrs Malaprop is known for malapropisms which is
0:09:46 > 0:09:49saying things wrong, getting things the wrong way round.
0:09:49 > 0:09:53So conventional... Lady Luck or Mrs Grundy?
0:09:53 > 0:09:57I don't know, because I haven't read the play and I haven't heard...
0:09:57 > 0:10:00but I'm going to have to go for Mrs Grundy.
0:10:00 > 0:10:05Mrs Grundy is correct. Barry, your question.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08Which poet, born in 1809, is best known for his translation
0:10:08 > 0:10:11of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam?
0:10:17 > 0:10:19"Awake! For Morning in the Bowl of Night
0:10:19 > 0:10:22"Has flung the Stone that sets the Stars to Flight..."
0:10:22 > 0:10:23Absolutely wonderful poem
0:10:23 > 0:10:26and it was first translated by Edward Fitzgerald.
0:10:26 > 0:10:30Edward Fitzgerald is correct, Barry. Well done. Thanks for the quote.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33OK, it still means, Pam, if you get this one right,
0:10:33 > 0:10:35three out of three, you've knocked him out.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37Which artist painted a portrait of himself
0:10:37 > 0:10:41and his first wife Isabella Brant sitting in a honeysuckle bower?
0:10:46 > 0:10:50I know the round is arts and books, but I'm more books than art,
0:10:50 > 0:10:52I'm afraid.
0:10:52 > 0:10:57I'll discount Rossetti, I think, and...I don't know why,
0:10:57 > 0:11:00but I've got a feeling about Rubens.
0:11:00 > 0:11:01I'll go for Rubens.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04- I'll ask Barry.- It's Rembrandt.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07- You think it's Rembrandt? No, it's not.- Oh!
0:11:07 > 0:11:08Rubens is correct.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10Oh, dearie me!
0:11:10 > 0:11:12Rubens is correct. So three out of three, Pam.
0:11:12 > 0:11:17You've knocked Barry out. Sorry, Barry. You won't be in the final round. No way back for you.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20Pam, Barry, come back to us here in the studio.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Good stuff, Minerva.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25That's more like it and we've just been looking up Minerva
0:11:25 > 0:11:29the goddess, who is wisdom but other things as well.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31Quite a long list.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34Commerce, which is your subject... She's the god, in fact,
0:11:34 > 0:11:37of everything except sport which is the next round.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39So who would like this?
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Not "like", I think - that's probably the worst explanation,
0:11:42 > 0:11:44but I volunteer to do sport.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47So which person would you like to take on?
0:11:47 > 0:11:49I think, judging what we wanted to leave,
0:11:49 > 0:11:52I think I'll take Pat on and probably regret it!
0:11:52 > 0:11:55OK, so Zoe from Minerva versus Pat from the Eggheads.
0:11:55 > 0:12:00And to ensure there's no conferring, please go to the question room.
0:12:00 > 0:12:04Zoe, you could have taken sport with confidence because I know you've done a lot of refereeing.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07I have, yes, when I was about 22-23.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09Amateur refereeing of football?
0:12:09 > 0:12:12Yes, amateur refereeing at lower-league under-sevens,
0:12:12 > 0:12:14because they were the only ones that would take me on!
0:12:14 > 0:12:17OK. And did you think to yourself, maybe it's time to go and do
0:12:17 > 0:12:20some refereeing at professional games and all that?
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Yes. Unfortunately nobody would take me on as a professional
0:12:23 > 0:12:25because the men don't like to be refereed by a female
0:12:25 > 0:12:28and the females actually don't like being refereed by a female.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31- Is that right? So you found there was a glass ceiling?- Yes.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33It was really tough because all the guys who
0:12:33 > 0:12:35I kind of left the courses with,
0:12:35 > 0:12:38they all went and did quite a bit and there was just me left on my own.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40Gosh, that's...a salutary tale.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43- It is.- Good luck in this round. Three questions on sport.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45You can show those blokes who's boss!
0:12:45 > 0:12:48Hopefully, either that or make a complete idiot of myself!
0:12:48 > 0:12:52- Would you like the first or second set of questions? - I'll go with the flow - the first.
0:12:54 > 0:12:58Here we go. Which British Olympic gold medallist became
0:12:58 > 0:13:01Lord-Lieutenant of the city of Belfast in 2009?
0:13:06 > 0:13:10I was kind of dreading anything Olympic coming up
0:13:10 > 0:13:13because it's not one of my stronger areas.
0:13:13 > 0:13:17The rule of thumb, I think, tends to be go down the middle.
0:13:17 > 0:13:22So my assumption could be Mary Peters. And I'll go for that.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25Mary Peters - a little suppressed laughter from the Eggheads,
0:13:25 > 0:13:28- because they know you've got it right.- Ha ha!- Well done.
0:13:28 > 0:13:29Pat, your question.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32In tennis, what call does an umpire often give
0:13:32 > 0:13:35when the ball has bounced twice before a player reaches it?
0:13:40 > 0:13:43I presume he must shout "Not up".
0:13:43 > 0:13:46I don't see why he'd use either of the other two terms.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48He must say, "Not up".
0:13:48 > 0:13:53Not Up is correct. I just always heard "Up!" like that,
0:13:53 > 0:13:56but I think "not up" is what he was shouting. We now know.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00OK, Zoe. Will Carling played for which club throughout his career?
0:14:04 > 0:14:06I definitely should know this
0:14:06 > 0:14:09because I had a poster of Will Carling up on my bedroom wall
0:14:09 > 0:14:11when I was a young teenage girl.
0:14:11 > 0:14:15My instinct isn't Wasps
0:14:15 > 0:14:20and something is telling me it's Harlequins, so I'll go with that one.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23And you're playing very well because it is Harlequins. Well done.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25Two out of two. OK, Pat.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27The members of the USA women's gymnastics team
0:14:27 > 0:14:30at the Atlanta Olympics were known by what name?
0:14:38 > 0:14:42Atlanta. That might have been the era of Kerri Strug or Mary Lou Retton -
0:14:42 > 0:14:46those sort of people. What would they have called them?
0:14:46 > 0:14:48It's a team as well as an individual event, it's a team event.
0:14:48 > 0:14:52Who would have seven in their team?
0:14:52 > 0:14:54I'll go for Magnificent Seven, but it's a guess.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57Magnificent Seven is the correct answer.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59Well, that's annoying, Zoe.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01You need to get this one right.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04- You don't need to but it would be good if you did.- Yes.
0:15:04 > 0:15:09In 2010, Britain's Euan Burton won World and European Championship medals in which sport?
0:15:12 > 0:15:16I don't think it's table tennis.
0:15:16 > 0:15:20I think you can do that as a double game.
0:15:20 > 0:15:23I would be more inclined towards cycling or judo.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26I think I'll go for judo, please.
0:15:26 > 0:15:27See if the Eggheads know.
0:15:27 > 0:15:33- It is judo. - Judo is the right answer.- Fabulous!
0:15:33 > 0:15:34This team is playing well.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37You have three out of three in every round so far.
0:15:37 > 0:15:41So, Pat, if you get this wrong, you're out.
0:15:41 > 0:15:45In 2011, which boxer defeated Carl Froch in the final
0:15:45 > 0:15:48of the Super Six Super-middleweight tournament?
0:15:54 > 0:15:58I don't think it's Bernard Hopkins because he's a really big name
0:15:58 > 0:16:03who just pops out occasionally for a big-money world-title fight.
0:16:03 > 0:16:08I don't think he gets involved in any sort of mini tournament.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13I'll guess at Andre Ward.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16Miraculous guessing from you because you're right again.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19Andre Ward it is, well done.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21OK, to sudden death. A bit harder.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24I don't give you alternatives.
0:16:24 > 0:16:25- Are you ready?- Yes.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28In 2006, a rowing lake at Caversham was opened
0:16:28 > 0:16:33and named after Steve Redgrave and which other rower?
0:16:33 > 0:16:37Em, I'd go for his rowing buddy, Matthew Pinsent.
0:16:37 > 0:16:41Matthew Pinsent is the right answer.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44Called, wonderfully, the Redgrave Pinsent rowing lake.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47Pat, if you get this wrong, you are out of the competition.
0:16:47 > 0:16:52In 2012 which Tour de France winner was stripped of his 2010 title?
0:16:52 > 0:16:54I have to be a little bit careful here.
0:16:54 > 0:17:00Floyd Landis has had... he was stripped of his title.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03Alberto Contador has been stripped of his title.
0:17:04 > 0:17:10I think Landis is before 2010. His drugs saga ran and ran and ran,
0:17:10 > 0:17:12so I will go for Alberto Contador.
0:17:12 > 0:17:16Alberto Contador is the right answer. Still on sudden death.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20You picked a very good Egghead here, Zoe.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23The football manager Herbert Chapman, who died in 1934,
0:17:23 > 0:17:26is credited with making which team
0:17:26 > 0:17:30the dominant force in English football in the 1930s?
0:17:30 > 0:17:34OK, I should know because football is one of my main interests.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37The 1930s is a bit far back.
0:17:39 > 0:17:43Something, maybe more of an obscure football team,
0:17:43 > 0:17:47maybe somebody like Preston North End would be possibly my shout,
0:17:47 > 0:17:50- so Preston North End. - No, it's Arsenal.
0:17:50 > 0:17:51Oh, I don't like them!
0:17:53 > 0:17:55They won five league titles in the '30s
0:17:55 > 0:17:58and poor old Chapman died in 1934 at the age of 55.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01OK, Pat, you get this right, you're in the final.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04Italian brothers Eduardo and Francesco Molinari
0:18:04 > 0:18:08and the Japanese brothers Jumbo and Joe Ozaki
0:18:08 > 0:18:12have all been ranked in the world top 50 in which sport?
0:18:14 > 0:18:18Jumbo Ozaki, for 15 years, was a regular sight at the Masters
0:18:18 > 0:18:20and at big golf events
0:18:20 > 0:18:23and the Molinaris have played in the Ryder Cup, so it's golf.
0:18:23 > 0:18:27- Do you think he's right, Zoe?- Yes. - You're right, Pat.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30A hard-fought round but you have taken it
0:18:30 > 0:18:33- and you will be in the final. Sorry, Zoe.- It's OK, one of those things.
0:18:33 > 0:18:38You got your sporting background and everything but he plays a hard game.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40Both of you, please return to us in the studio.
0:18:40 > 0:18:44As it stands, the challengers have lost two brains now
0:18:44 > 0:18:46and the Eggheads have lost one brain from the final round
0:18:46 > 0:18:50and the last subject before that final is music.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52Who would like this?
0:18:52 > 0:18:54Charles, why do you say, "Oh, no!"?
0:18:54 > 0:18:58- Have we avoided your key subject, is that it?- You have, that's right.
0:18:58 > 0:19:03- Science was my first choice. - Deborah on music. Against?
0:19:05 > 0:19:08I think I'll go for Kevin.
0:19:08 > 0:19:10So, Deborah versus Kevin on music.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12Please go to the question room.
0:19:12 > 0:19:16- Deborah, you are Deborah Harry? - That's right.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20Born in 1965, something you coincided with Blondie?
0:19:20 > 0:19:22Yes, she was around when I was growing up.
0:19:22 > 0:19:26- You don't do any of the songs? - Unfortunately not.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28- We can't request one? - Lots of people do.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31Music and three questions, multiple choice.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34Deborah, would you like the first or second set?
0:19:34 > 0:19:36I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40Good luck, if you get through to the final,
0:19:40 > 0:19:43you've evened it up and there's a lot of money to play for.
0:19:43 > 0:19:47What was the name of the band that won the UK version of the X Factor in 2011?
0:19:51 > 0:19:53I think I know this one.
0:19:53 > 0:19:55I have three daughters and they're all big X Factor fans.
0:19:55 > 0:20:00- I'm going to go straight for Little Mix.- Little Mix is correct.
0:20:00 > 0:20:06Kevin, in which year was A Whiter Shade Of Pale a UK number-one single?
0:20:11 > 0:20:15I think very much part of the late '60s so it was 1967.
0:20:15 > 0:20:171967 is correct.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21Your question, Deborah.
0:20:22 > 0:20:26Rex Harrison's son, Noel, a former Olympic skier,
0:20:26 > 0:20:28had a hit with which Oscar-winning song?
0:20:32 > 0:20:35I think I should know who Windmills of Your Mind is by
0:20:35 > 0:20:37and I don't think it was Noel Harrison,
0:20:37 > 0:20:38so I'll eliminate that one.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43Moon River was American.
0:20:43 > 0:20:47I think I'd have to go for Born Free.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50I'm trying to remember who did Born Free, who did that?
0:20:50 > 0:20:54- Matt Munro did that.- It's actually Windmills of Your Mind.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57Kevin, you have a chance to take the lead here.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00The operatic roles of Pinkerton in Madam Butterfly
0:21:00 > 0:21:05and Rodolfo in La Boheme are written for singers of what vocal range?
0:21:10 > 0:21:15I always have trouble with this sort of thing. I see enough operas.
0:21:15 > 0:21:20Rodolfo is the lead, he is the male lead in La Boheme.
0:21:20 > 0:21:24Pinkerton is the male lead in Madam Butterfly for that matter.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26A smaller part, though.
0:21:28 > 0:21:34Logic says they should be tenors in the way leading roles usually are.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36I will say tenor.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38Tenor is correct.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40OK, Deborah, you need to get this one right.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43Who composed the 1907 opera Tom Jones,
0:21:43 > 0:21:46based on the novel by Henry Fielding?
0:21:51 > 0:21:56I know the novel. I don't know the opera.
0:21:57 > 0:22:01I'm trying to think who was around at that time.
0:22:01 > 0:22:06Of these three, I think Gustav Holst may have been around at that time.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11I'm not familiar with the work of the other two,
0:22:11 > 0:22:13so I'll go for Gustav Holst.
0:22:13 > 0:22:18The 1907 opera Tom Jones was composed by Edward German.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20Sorry, Deborah.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22No way back. You're knocked out, I'm afraid.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24We'll miss you in the final.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26Kevin will play with the Eggheads in the final
0:22:26 > 0:22:31and if you both return to the studio, we will play the last round.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33So, this is what we have been playing towards.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36It's time for the final round which is general knowledge.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38Those of you who lost your head-to-heads
0:22:38 > 0:22:41won't be allowed to take part in this round.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44So Zoe, Deborah and Carol from Minerva,
0:22:44 > 0:22:46and also Barry from the Eggheads,
0:22:46 > 0:22:49would you now please leave the studio?
0:22:49 > 0:22:53Pam and Charles, you are playing to win Minerva £21,000.
0:22:53 > 0:22:54Pat, Judith, Kevin and Dave,
0:22:54 > 0:22:57you're playing for something that money can't buy,
0:22:57 > 0:22:59which is the Eggheads' reputation.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02As usual I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05This time they're all general knowledge and you can confer.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07So Pam and Charles, the question is,
0:23:07 > 0:23:11are your two brains able to take down the Eggheads' four?
0:23:11 > 0:23:15- Would you like to go first or second?- We'll go first, please.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20Good luck, Minerva, here we go.
0:23:20 > 0:23:24What is someone described as gimlet-eyed said to be?
0:23:29 > 0:23:33- Definitely not to do with hearing. - Eyes?
0:23:33 > 0:23:35Do you know what a gimlet is?
0:23:35 > 0:23:39- It is a sharp instrument. - Sharp-sighted.
0:23:39 > 0:23:44- Doesn't seem to be anything to do with drunk.- Sharp-sighted, I think.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46- Do you think?- Sharp-sighted, Jeremy.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49Sharp-sighted is the right answer, well done.
0:23:49 > 0:23:54Eggheads, your question. Poplin is a type of what?
0:23:54 > 0:23:56Cloth.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58It's cloth.
0:23:58 > 0:24:02We all agreed?
0:24:02 > 0:24:06- Jeremy, we believe that is a type of cloth.- Cloth is the right answer.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08It may get harder.
0:24:08 > 0:24:13Which Latin phrase, literally meaning for the sake of example,
0:24:13 > 0:24:15is abbreviated to e.g.?
0:24:22 > 0:24:28- Do you know?- No, I don't know it. - Gravitas, that sounds like heavy.
0:24:30 > 0:24:34Gratia is thank you. Galea, I've no idea.
0:24:34 > 0:24:38Gravitas could mean serious.
0:24:39 > 0:24:43- Serious or heavy.- I don't know.
0:24:43 > 0:24:47OK, we'll go for the Gratia one.
0:24:48 > 0:24:51Exempli Gratia is the right answer.
0:24:51 > 0:24:55Well done. Two out of two.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58OK, Eggheads, this is going to be quite interesting.
0:24:58 > 0:25:02I've got a feeling. Let's see how you're looking. I can see the fear.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05Jeremy Heywood replaced Gus O'Donnell
0:25:05 > 0:25:07in which Civil Service post?
0:25:07 > 0:25:09Was it...
0:25:13 > 0:25:15Yeah, he wasn't either of the others.
0:25:15 > 0:25:19Gus O'Donnell was the head of the Civil Service. Cabinet Secretary.
0:25:19 > 0:25:20Cabinet Secretary.
0:25:20 > 0:25:24- Cabinet Secretary out of them three. We are all agreed.- Yeah.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26Our answer, Jeremy, is Cabinet Secretary.
0:25:26 > 0:25:29Tremendous knowledge, Dave. You're quite right.
0:25:29 > 0:25:30Cabinet Secretary it is.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32OK, two out of two for you both.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34It doesn't get any easier, does it?
0:25:35 > 0:25:41What type of creatures belong to the Cichlids family?
0:25:44 > 0:25:47Cichlids is C-I-C-H-L-I-D-S.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53I've got a feeling they would be insects but I don't know why.
0:25:53 > 0:25:59- I think so.- I don't think it is fish.- My first thought was that.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02- It doesn't seem to be fish, does it? - No. Birds either.
0:26:02 > 0:26:08- It doesn't seem to be birds.- Shall we go for insects, do you think?
0:26:08 > 0:26:09Yeah, I think I know words for fish
0:26:09 > 0:26:13and words for birds that are not like it. But not for insects.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16- What do you think? Shall we go insects?- Yeah, we'll go insects.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18Insects, Jeremy.
0:26:18 > 0:26:19Insects. What brought you to insects?
0:26:19 > 0:26:22Well, just that we didn't think it was fish
0:26:22 > 0:26:23and we didn't think it was birds.
0:26:23 > 0:26:24I suppose "-ids".
0:26:24 > 0:26:26Why does "-ids" make me think of insects?
0:26:26 > 0:26:29It sounds a bit as well like cicadas and that sort of thing...
0:26:29 > 0:26:31Yeah, cicadas.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33- ..but it's not.- It's wrong.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36- It's wrong. It's fish.- Oh, dear.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38If you get this right, Eggheads,
0:26:38 > 0:26:40you've taken the contest.
0:26:40 > 0:26:45Who played the title role in the 1928 silent film Sadie Thompson
0:26:45 > 0:26:50which was remade in the 1950s with Rita Hayworth in the title role?
0:26:50 > 0:26:51Was it...?
0:26:54 > 0:26:56I'm pretty sure it's not Louise Brooks.
0:26:56 > 0:27:00Greta Garbo was in Hollywood by that time
0:27:00 > 0:27:03but I don't her associate with that.
0:27:03 > 0:27:04It's not to say...
0:27:04 > 0:27:08Oh, there's a possibility actually that it might be.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11But I thought Gloria Swanson before the choices came up.
0:27:11 > 0:27:15So it could have been Greta Garbo.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18- I can't rule that out.- But you thought before the thing came up.
0:27:18 > 0:27:22I thought Gloria Swanson before it came up, so I think...
0:27:22 > 0:27:25- We'll go Gloria Swanson. - Happy with that?- Yes.- OK.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27We are going off Kevin's instincts
0:27:27 > 0:27:31and saying Gloria Swanson is the answer.
0:27:31 > 0:27:33Do you think they are right?
0:27:33 > 0:27:37- I don't know.- I think I would have gone for that but I don't know.
0:27:37 > 0:27:38Gloria Swanson is the correct answer
0:27:38 > 0:27:41so we say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.
0:27:46 > 0:27:50- Oh, those rotten Cichlids. - Cichlids.- It does...
0:27:50 > 0:27:54I looked at it just quickly and it said insects to me.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57There must be something subconscious going on there with that word.
0:27:57 > 0:27:58Well, anyway, there we go.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01They did play well and they do play well and that's what they do.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03They are quizzers through and through, so they have won
0:28:03 > 0:28:05and commiserations to you, challengers.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07The Eggheads did what comes naturally to them
0:28:07 > 0:28:10and their winning streak, which is impressive, continues.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13I'm afraid that means you won't be going home with the £21,000,
0:28:13 > 0:28:17so the money rolls over to our next show. How exciting!
0:28:17 > 0:28:19So we say congratulations, Eggheads,
0:28:19 > 0:28:22and we wonder again who will beat you.
0:28:22 > 0:28:23Join us next time to see
0:28:23 > 0:28:27if a new team of challengers have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30£22,000 says they don't. Till then, goodbye.
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