0:00:04 > 0:00:07These people are 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.
0:00:16 > 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 > 0:00:31pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:31 > 0:00:32They are the Eggheads.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35Taking on the might of our quiz Goliaths today
0:00:35 > 0:00:37are The British Flag, from Macclesfield.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40This team of friends regularly socialise together
0:00:40 > 0:00:41at their local,
0:00:41 > 0:00:43called The British Flag,
0:00:43 > 0:00:47and are self-confessed competitive quizzers. Good. Let's meet them.
0:00:47 > 0:00:52Hi, I'm Ian. I'm 66. I'm a retired purchasing manager.
0:00:52 > 0:00:57Hi, I'm Tony. I'm 56, and I'm a retired IT manager.
0:00:57 > 0:01:02Hi, I'm John. I'm 58-years-old, and I'm a retired research scientist.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06Hi, I'm John. I'm 58 years of age, and I'm an IT manager.
0:01:06 > 0:01:11Hi, I'm Terry. I'm 66, and I'm a self-employed stock taker.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14Welcome to you guys. Tell me about the pub, The British Flag.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17Decent drop of beer there, and a good quiz?
0:01:17 > 0:01:21It's a very nice backstreet pub in Macclesfield,
0:01:21 > 0:01:23known to discerning drinkers.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26Wonderful landlord, landlady,
0:01:26 > 0:01:28- and wonderful clientele.- Fantastic.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30And what about the quiz there?
0:01:30 > 0:01:33We don't really quiz there, Dermot.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35We've quizzed at various schools around,
0:01:35 > 0:01:37and various pubs,
0:01:37 > 0:01:39but not on a formal basis.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41There's a group of us of about ten,
0:01:41 > 0:01:43maybe 12.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45So, when we quiz,
0:01:45 > 0:01:47four or five of us quiz together.
0:01:47 > 0:01:51I think this five has never quizzed together before.
0:01:51 > 0:01:52OK. Well, this five have!
0:01:52 > 0:01:54As you may have spotted,
0:01:54 > 0:01:57they've been together for many a year now on Eggheads.
0:01:57 > 0:02:01So, let's see if you can put them to the sword.
0:02:01 > 0:02:03Every day, there's £1,000-worth of cash up for grabs
0:02:03 > 0:02:05for our challengers.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:02:07 > 0:02:10the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:02:10 > 0:02:14So, The British Flag, the Eggheads have won just the last game,
0:02:14 > 0:02:16so £2,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18Our first head-to-head.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20This one is music. Who'd like to play this?
0:02:20 > 0:02:22- Hello!- OK, Ian!
0:02:22 > 0:02:24That's me, Dermot.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26- This is a plan, obviously.- Oh, yes.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28You don't need to consult with the other guys.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31Have you got in the plan who you will play from the Eggheads?
0:02:31 > 0:02:33I think I'll play Daphne.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35All right.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37- Decided to go for Daphne.- If I may.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39Of course, you may.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41Ian, as you know, we put you in the Question Room,
0:02:41 > 0:02:45to make sure you can't confer with your team-mates.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Would you both make your way there, please?
0:02:47 > 0:02:49Right, Ian. Music.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51Do you want to go first or second?
0:02:51 > 0:02:54I'd like to go first, please, Dermot.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59All right. Off you go then, Ian.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02The instruction "con forza" on a musical score
0:03:02 > 0:03:05indicates the piece should be played how?
0:03:10 > 0:03:16Given the word "forza", I would think it's unlikely to be "friends".
0:03:16 > 0:03:19It's Italian. I'm not familiar with the term,
0:03:19 > 0:03:24- but I would guess it's probably "with force".- It is, yes.
0:03:24 > 0:03:25It's that simple.
0:03:25 > 0:03:28Well done, and a good start.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31And over to you, Daphne.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34Wilkommen is the first song in which musical?
0:03:37 > 0:03:39And Daphne loves her musicals.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42And I love Cabaret, as well.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44- Is that your way of telling us that's Wilkommen?- Yes.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Of course it is. That's the right answer.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48I think we eased both of you in there,
0:03:48 > 0:03:50with those questions.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52Your second one then, Ian.
0:03:52 > 0:03:56By what nickname was the alto saxophonist Julian Adderley
0:03:56 > 0:03:59better known?
0:03:59 > 0:04:04I don't know any jazz musicians called Bullet or Arrowhead,
0:04:04 > 0:04:07but I do remember someone called Cannonball,
0:04:07 > 0:04:09and he was called Adderley.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11So, it's Cannonball.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13That would fit, wouldn't it?
0:04:13 > 0:04:15It's the right answer. Yes, Cannonball.
0:04:15 > 0:04:20Daphne. Skying is a 2011 album by which group?
0:04:27 > 0:04:31I have heard of this.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33The Horrors.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37The Horrors...
0:04:37 > 0:04:38is the right answer.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40SHE LAUGHS
0:04:40 > 0:04:43- Are you all right, Daphne?- Yes!
0:04:43 > 0:04:46Yes, well you got it. OK, Ian,
0:04:46 > 0:04:47your third question.
0:04:47 > 0:04:52What is the title of David Bowie's 1973 album of cover versions?
0:04:55 > 0:04:58I know the answer to this, because my eldest son
0:04:58 > 0:05:01is a massive David Bowie fan.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04The answer is the middle one, Pin Ups.
0:05:04 > 0:05:08Pin Ups! OK. Massive fan, then. You've got it.
0:05:08 > 0:05:09Pin Ups is correct.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Over to you, Daphne.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14Which vocalist sang on the single
0:05:14 > 0:05:15The Girl From Ipanema,
0:05:15 > 0:05:19that reached the top ten in the US in 1964?
0:05:24 > 0:05:27Astrud Gilberto.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29Is the right answer. Yes.
0:05:29 > 0:05:31It's three-all.
0:05:31 > 0:05:35Well, both cruising through those opening questions.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38Obviously far too easy for both of you. Let's take the choices away.
0:05:38 > 0:05:43Ian, this is your first sudden death question.
0:05:43 > 0:05:44Which Merseybeat band
0:05:44 > 0:05:47was the first act to top the UK charts
0:05:47 > 0:05:50with their first three singles?
0:05:50 > 0:05:53I know this, Dermot. It's Gerry & The Pacemakers.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56It is. Gerry & The Pacemakers. Well done!
0:05:56 > 0:05:59Pressure on Daphne again.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03What was the name of the 1980s and 1990s Manchester techno group
0:06:03 > 0:06:08whose hits included Cubik, Olympic and In Yer Face?
0:06:08 > 0:06:10SHE LAUGHS
0:06:10 > 0:06:12No idea.
0:06:12 > 0:06:13I know you're a big fan of techno(!)
0:06:13 > 0:06:18- SHE LAUGHS - I don't even know what that means.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21I don't know!
0:06:23 > 0:06:26I don't even know any Manchester groups.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29I have no idea. I'm going to pass,
0:06:29 > 0:06:33because any guess I'd make would be ridiculous.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36OK, you have no idea. For Daphne to say that, she really doesn't.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38Ian, do you know?
0:06:38 > 0:06:41I'm pleased to say I've no idea.
0:06:41 > 0:06:42That's fine. You've won anyway.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45- Other Eggheads? I'll just check your knowledge.- Sorry.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47808 State.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50ALL: I've heard of them.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52Well, now you have, and now Ian has,
0:06:52 > 0:06:54and I think he'll remember them,
0:06:54 > 0:06:57as it means he's claimed your scalp, Daphne. You're out of the game.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59Ian, you're playing in the final round.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:07:01 > 0:07:04The Eggheads will be Daphne-less
0:07:04 > 0:07:05in the final round.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08Not knowing the simplest of questions, Daphne(!)
0:07:08 > 0:07:12- What was the name again? - You've forgotten already.
0:07:12 > 0:07:16The Eggheads missing one brain from the final round, so far.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18The British Flag all still there, of course.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21Our second head-to-head today is Film & Television.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24Who'd like to play this, and hopes to be as successful as Ian?
0:07:24 > 0:07:26Film & TV.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28- You have that as a first? - Second choice...
0:07:28 > 0:07:29- Me.- You're second choice.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31- John.- This is me.
0:07:31 > 0:07:32OK, John. Choose an Egghead.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34Anyone apart from Daphne.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36Oh, dear.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38Chris, please.
0:07:38 > 0:07:39Chris. OK.
0:07:39 > 0:07:42Let's have Chris and John into the Question Room,
0:07:42 > 0:07:44to contest this one.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47John, can you follow Ian into the final round?
0:07:47 > 0:07:51- Would you like to go first or second?- First please, Dermot.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56Film & Television is your chosen category,
0:07:56 > 0:07:58and this is the first question.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00Which children's television characters
0:08:00 > 0:08:03regularly ate blue string pudding?
0:08:06 > 0:08:12I would think it's unlikely to be Bill and Ben,
0:08:12 > 0:08:17because they certainly never ate that when I watched them.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20I think this would be
0:08:20 > 0:08:23The Clangers.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26The Clangers. Yes, those strange beings from another planet,
0:08:26 > 0:08:29is the right answer.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32Yes, The Clangers, on the blue string pudding.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35OK. Well identified, John.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38Chris, what was the name of the astrologer who appeared regularly
0:08:38 > 0:08:42on National Lottery draw programmes in the 1990s?
0:08:45 > 0:08:50She had a rather interesting past. She was Mystic Meg.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52It is the right answer.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54Back to you, John. Second question.
0:08:54 > 0:08:58The 1954 film The Glenn Miller Story starred which actor
0:08:58 > 0:09:00as the eponymous bandleader?
0:09:04 > 0:09:06Oh. Erm,
0:09:08 > 0:09:10I'm not really sure about this.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12I'm pretty sure it wasn't Henry Fonda.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15I've a sneaking suspicion
0:09:15 > 0:09:17that it was James Stewart,
0:09:18 > 0:09:21OK, you've gone for James Stewart,
0:09:21 > 0:09:23playing Glenn Miller in The Glenn Miller Story.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25It's the right answer. Well done.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Chris, your question.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29After Valerie Singleton moved away
0:09:29 > 0:09:33from being a regular studio presenter of Blue Peter,
0:09:33 > 0:09:35she joined which programme?
0:09:38 > 0:09:42Horizon's a science programme, which I don't think she'd have joined.
0:09:42 > 0:09:46Nationwide's a news magazine,
0:09:46 > 0:09:49That's Life, a sort of consumer thing with Esther Rantzen.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52I don't think she'd have worked particularly well
0:09:52 > 0:09:53with Esther Rantzen.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55Bit of a clash of personalities there.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58So I think she went to Manchester, working on Nationwide.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00Nationwide
0:10:00 > 0:10:02is the right answer, Chris.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04Well worked out. OK, John.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06Third question for you.
0:10:06 > 0:10:10Barney Collier, Rollin Hand, and Cinnamon Carter
0:10:10 > 0:10:13were regular characters in which television series?
0:10:18 > 0:10:23I've got absolutely no idea with this,
0:10:23 > 0:10:26so it's going to be a complete guess.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29Mission: Impossible.
0:10:29 > 0:10:34OK. Sums up your feelings in trying to get the answer.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36"Hmm, impossible." It's the right answer.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39Mission: Impossible is correct. You have three.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Chris, in Tim Burton's film
0:10:41 > 0:10:43Edward Scissorhands,
0:10:43 > 0:10:46who played the title character's creator?
0:10:50 > 0:10:51HE SIGHS
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Well, it's an American film.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57I don't think it was Christopher Lee.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00It wouldn't have been Peter Cushing.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02I think it was one of the last appearances of Vincent Price.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05Vincent Price in Edward Scissorhands is correct.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08Chris, once again, sudden death.
0:11:08 > 0:11:13You guys have been doing very, very well do far.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16But, as you know, John, it gets a lot harder now.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Here's your sudden death question.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21Which British actor directed and starred
0:11:21 > 0:11:24in the 1991 thriller Dead Again?
0:11:28 > 0:11:33I really... I'm struggling now.
0:11:33 > 0:11:38I really have no idea. I'm just having to take a wild guess at this.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40Richard Attenborough.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43Richard Attenborough. It's always better to have a guess.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46- It's not right. Do you know, Chris? - Not a clue, Dermot.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49It's Sir Kenneth Branagh.
0:11:49 > 0:11:53Always a lot harder with nothing to choose from there.
0:11:53 > 0:11:57But a chance for Chris. The first chance in the game.
0:11:57 > 0:12:03Which actress, born in 1917, played Governess Faye Boswell
0:12:03 > 0:12:06in the TV drama series Within These Walls,
0:12:06 > 0:12:09and made her last screen appearance as the Australian novelist
0:12:09 > 0:12:11Katherine Susannah Pritchard
0:12:11 > 0:12:13in the 1996 film Shine?
0:12:13 > 0:12:16That was Googie Withers.
0:12:16 > 0:12:17It is Googie Withers!
0:12:17 > 0:12:20It is the correct answer.
0:12:20 > 0:12:21Chris has struck back.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23You won't be in the final round, John.
0:12:23 > 0:12:27Would you both come back and join your teams?
0:12:27 > 0:12:29I have a feeling it will be like this all the way.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31This game is going to be very tight.
0:12:31 > 0:12:35It's all square. Both teams have lost one brain from the final round.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37We move on to our third head-to-head.
0:12:37 > 0:12:38This one's Science.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41Who'd like to play this? We have Tony,
0:12:41 > 0:12:43or the other John, or Terry.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45ALL: It's Tony.
0:12:45 > 0:12:50Choose an Egghead. Daphne and Chris have played, so CJ, Kevin or Judith?
0:12:50 > 0:12:52Judith, please.
0:12:52 > 0:12:53OK, Judith.
0:12:53 > 0:12:57Let's have Tony and Judith into the Question Room, please.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01Tony, always your choice as the challenger.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04- Do you want to go first or second? - I'll go first, please, Dermot.
0:13:06 > 0:13:10Your first question is nice and short.
0:13:10 > 0:13:14Can you tell me what is 60% of 200?
0:13:18 > 0:13:2160% of 100 is 60. Double it. 120.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23That's the one in the middle, Dermot, please.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26It's the right answer. Yes, of course. 120.
0:13:26 > 0:13:27Judith, the dandy-horse
0:13:27 > 0:13:31was an early 19th century precursor
0:13:31 > 0:13:32of what invention?
0:13:35 > 0:13:38Well, horses used to mow lawns.
0:13:38 > 0:13:43With special shoes on, and things.
0:13:43 > 0:13:48So it could possibly be a lawnmower. The "dandy-horse"...
0:13:48 > 0:13:52I don't think it was a bicycle.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54I think I'll go for lawnmower, cos that was my instinct.
0:13:54 > 0:13:58- Lawnmower. All right.- No?
0:13:58 > 0:13:59No.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01SHE LAUGHS
0:14:01 > 0:14:02It was a thought.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05Ha-ha-ha. It's a bicycle.
0:14:05 > 0:14:06Oh, no.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08Eggheads, it wasn't like a bike, was it?
0:14:08 > 0:14:09It didn't have pedals or a chain.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12You just sat on it, and did it with your feet.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14Push with your feet, yeah.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17A dandy-horse. I don't know, the name kind of says it.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19but not a lawnmower, a bicycle.
0:14:19 > 0:14:23So, Tony, this is the best start you could possibly wish for.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25You get yours right, and she gets hers wrong.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27This will give you a mighty lead if you get this.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30What term is used to refer to the study of the origin
0:14:30 > 0:14:32and evolution of the universe?
0:14:38 > 0:14:42I don't know any of these words, Dermot,
0:14:42 > 0:14:43but "cosmos" to me seems like
0:14:46 > 0:14:49the most likely derivation.
0:14:49 > 0:14:52I'm going to go for cosmol... cosmogr...
0:14:52 > 0:14:54'cosmog-ony'.
0:14:54 > 0:14:55H-ha. Yes. Cosmogony.
0:14:55 > 0:15:00Well, we have "astro-" and "galact-" in the other ones,
0:15:00 > 0:15:02but you've got the right one there. Cosmogony is correct.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05Judith,
0:15:05 > 0:15:06- in the periodic table...- Oh!...
0:15:06 > 0:15:10..Do you know, I chuckled before I asked the question.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13I thought, "Where will the groan come,
0:15:13 > 0:15:15"before I get the whole question out?"
0:15:15 > 0:15:16In the periodic table,
0:15:16 > 0:15:18which element has the atomic number, 50?
0:15:20 > 0:15:24I just think the periodic table is just like the game of bridge.
0:15:24 > 0:15:28You have to learn it while you're a child, or you'll never master it.
0:15:28 > 0:15:29Yeah.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31Well, I really don't know, frankly.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33So...
0:15:33 > 0:15:35I'm taking zinc at the moment against colds.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38I'm going to say zinc.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40Zinc? Against colds...
0:15:40 > 0:15:41No? Tin?
0:15:41 > 0:15:43No, it's tin. It's tin.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46Judith, you're out. It's all over.
0:15:46 > 0:15:47It's a very difficult question, that.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49I'm not ashamed of myself.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51Tony, well done. You've beaten Judith.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53You're through to the final round.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55Would you both come back and join your teams?
0:15:57 > 0:16:00As it stands now, the Eggheads have lost two brains
0:16:00 > 0:16:03from the final round,
0:16:03 > 0:16:05while The British Flag have just lost one.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07Will things turn worse for the Eggheads,
0:16:07 > 0:16:09or will they improve their position
0:16:09 > 0:16:12in our last subject before the final round?
0:16:12 > 0:16:15This is History, and we have John or Terry to play it,
0:16:15 > 0:16:17from The British Flag.
0:16:17 > 0:16:21I thought you were going to do this, John.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24I thought you were. I don't mind.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27- Really? You don't mind? - No, it's John, I think.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29OK.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31I'll do the History one, then, Dermot.
0:16:31 > 0:16:33OK, and choose from CJ or Kevin.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35CJ or Kevin?
0:16:35 > 0:16:36THEY DISCUSS
0:16:36 > 0:16:40CJ, that's the word I'm getting in my ear. CJ?
0:16:40 > 0:16:43Let's have John and CJ into the Question Room right now, please.
0:16:45 > 0:16:47John, your choice, as you know.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49Do you want to go first or second?
0:16:49 > 0:16:50I'll go first.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53History,
0:16:53 > 0:16:56and first question to you, John.
0:16:56 > 0:16:57By what name was the area
0:16:57 > 0:17:01between opposing trenches in World War I commonly known?
0:17:06 > 0:17:09Right. I must admit I've never heard of Winner's Land,
0:17:09 > 0:17:11but Van Diemen's Land
0:17:11 > 0:17:15is down in the south of our earth,
0:17:15 > 0:17:19so I would expect the answer to be No Man's Land.
0:17:19 > 0:17:20No Man's Land, of course. Yes.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22You're off the mark. And CJ,
0:17:22 > 0:17:26how many kings of England have been called Stephen?
0:17:28 > 0:17:32As far as I know, it's just one. I don't know of a Stephen II.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35Married to Matilda,
0:17:35 > 0:17:36so I'd assume it's just one.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38One king of England called Stephen is correct.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40John, in which year
0:17:40 > 0:17:43did the Post Office Tower in London open?
0:17:47 > 0:17:52Again, I'm not sure of the answer,
0:17:52 > 0:17:54but I think '55 would be too early.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57And if I remember rightly, I remember Harold Wilson talking about
0:17:57 > 0:17:59"the white heat of technology".
0:17:59 > 0:18:02And he came into power in '64,
0:18:02 > 0:18:04so I'll go with 1965.
0:18:04 > 0:18:09'65? Fitting in with that kind of period, you think. You're right!
0:18:09 > 0:18:11Yep, 1965.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13Two for you. CJ,
0:18:13 > 0:18:16the Athenian statesman Demosthenes
0:18:16 > 0:18:20spent the early part of his career as a logographer.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23The ancient Greek equivalent of which modern position?
0:18:28 > 0:18:31This is one of those where the options don't help.
0:18:31 > 0:18:36In my opinion, certainly not a military planner.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39I'm wondering if mathematics is there to try to confuse me
0:18:39 > 0:18:41with logarithms or something.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45I've always known him as a writer, so I'll try speech writer.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49It's the right answer. Well done, CJ.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51Two-all, and back to you, John.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54The Jagiellon dynasty -
0:18:54 > 0:18:59that's spelled JAGIELLON -
0:18:59 > 0:19:04The Jagiellon dynasty ruled large parts of which continent
0:19:04 > 0:19:06in the 15th and 16th centuries?
0:19:09 > 0:19:12Difficult one. I've never heard of that name before.
0:19:12 > 0:19:1715th and 16th centuries? I don't suspect it would be Europe.
0:19:17 > 0:19:21Most of that was probably the Borgias who did their stuff then.
0:19:21 > 0:19:25So it's Asia or Africa.
0:19:25 > 0:19:27Mm, "Jagiellon".
0:19:28 > 0:19:31It could be an Indian word.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34Or round about that area.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36I'm going to go for Asia.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39OK. For the Jagiellon dynasty, Asia.
0:19:39 > 0:19:43No, it's not. It is Europe, which you ruled out.
0:19:43 > 0:19:46- Eggheads?- Poland.
0:19:46 > 0:19:48And Lithuania, as well.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51- And bits of the Baltic. - The Polish-Lithuanian Empire,
0:19:51 > 0:19:54which great swathes of Eastern Europe came under.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57Well, a chance for CJ.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00In the early third century, when the Romans divided Britain in two,
0:20:00 > 0:20:04which city became the capital of Britannia Inferior?
0:20:07 > 0:20:09Ah.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16The division of Britain, I think,
0:20:16 > 0:20:19was a sort of diagonal line.
0:20:19 > 0:20:23from the Northeast coast down to the Southwest.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26I think, if we assume
0:20:26 > 0:20:31"Inferior" means "southern",
0:20:31 > 0:20:33rather than "less worthy"...
0:20:35 > 0:20:37I haven't heard this.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40I mean, Bath is possible...
0:20:43 > 0:20:45I haven't heard it as being Norwich, but it could be
0:20:45 > 0:20:50And also, geographically, Norwich makes more sense, I suppose.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53I haven't heard this, but I'll try on geography,
0:20:53 > 0:20:55and guess at Norwich.
0:20:55 > 0:20:59Norwich. Turning that into a geography question,
0:20:59 > 0:21:02and being the UK, for you, it's a nightmare, isn't it?
0:21:02 > 0:21:04It's the wrong answer, CJ.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06- Other Eggheads?- York.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09- Eburacum.- Which you weren't really thinking of.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12York is the capital of Britannia Inferior.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14You're still in it, John.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16And we're in sudden death, again.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19The Battle of the Golden Spurs
0:21:19 > 0:21:23saw the people of Flanders inflict defeat on which country's forces?
0:21:23 > 0:21:25Flanders?
0:21:25 > 0:21:27Mm.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30I don't think they travelled very far, did they?
0:21:30 > 0:21:33So it would have to be a country very close to them.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36Erm, would it be the Dutch that they defeated?
0:21:36 > 0:21:38- Is that your answer?- Yes.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41No, they didn't travel very far, but it wasn't the Dutch.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44If you had another answer, I bet you'd say it is the...
0:21:44 > 0:21:46- French.- The French.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49I thought they were too small to do that.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52France. The culmination of an uprising against French rule
0:21:52 > 0:21:54in Flanders. So, didn't really travel at all.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56It was the French came to them.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59Right. Well, another chance for CJ.
0:21:59 > 0:22:03Which English king was born in the town of Wantage, in Oxfordshire,
0:22:03 > 0:22:05in 849 AD?
0:22:05 > 0:22:07I'm hoping Kevin's shown me a statue of this,
0:22:07 > 0:22:10and it said "849 - 899" on it. I'm hoping,
0:22:10 > 0:22:12Alfred the Great?
0:22:12 > 0:22:14He's got a picture of it?
0:22:14 > 0:22:17There's a statue in Winchester with a famous plinth
0:22:17 > 0:22:19that's the wrong way up.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22And Kevin's taken me on a tour of Winchester.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25OK. During which, you took in the statue of Alfred the Great.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28It's the right answer. Well done.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30Worth that trip, just to win through
0:22:30 > 0:22:32to the final round. Bad luck, John.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34It means you won't be there
0:22:34 > 0:22:36with the other members of The British Flag.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38Will you both come back and join your teams?
0:22:40 > 0:22:43This is what we've been playing towards.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Time for the final round, which, as always, is General Knowledge.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48But, I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads
0:22:48 > 0:22:51won't be allowed to take part in this round.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53So, the two Johns from The British Flag,
0:22:53 > 0:22:56and Judith and Daphne from the Eggheads,
0:22:56 > 0:22:59would you all leave the studio, please?
0:22:59 > 0:23:02So, Ian, Tony and Terry,
0:23:02 > 0:23:05you're playing to win The British Flag £2,000.
0:23:05 > 0:23:09Kevin, CJ and Chris, you're playing for something money can't buy -
0:23:09 > 0:23:11the Eggheads' reputation.
0:23:11 > 0:23:15As usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17This time, the questions are all General Knowledge,
0:23:17 > 0:23:18and you are allowed to confer.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20So, Ian, Tony and Terry,
0:23:20 > 0:23:24are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three brains?
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Guys, do you want to go first or second?
0:23:26 > 0:23:27- First.- First please, Dermot.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33First question for you, British Flag, and good luck.
0:23:33 > 0:23:38Keratitis is an inflammation of which part of the eye?
0:23:42 > 0:23:44THEY DISCUSS
0:23:51 > 0:23:55I don't think the optic nerve.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58It's got to be something that actually...
0:23:58 > 0:24:01- My inclination's the retina. - Is it?- I don't know why.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04Mine is, too. I was leaning towards that.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06Go for retina, then.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08We're going to try retina, Dermot.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10Retina, for this inflammation, keratitis...
0:24:10 > 0:24:13is an inflammation of the... Is it the retina, Eggheads?
0:24:13 > 0:24:17I was more inclined towards cornea, myself.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19- It's the cornea.- Oh!
0:24:19 > 0:24:21Not the retina.
0:24:21 > 0:24:22Daphne definitely knew that.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25But it wasn't the Eggheads' question. See how they do with this.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28Pico Bolivar
0:24:28 > 0:24:31is the highest mountain in which South American country?
0:24:33 > 0:24:35It's not Argentina.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37That's Aconcagua. Should be, anyway.
0:24:37 > 0:24:41Simon Bolivar is known as the liberator of Venezuela.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44And he didn't have any particular connection with Chile.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47And there are higher mountains in Chile.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50So, logically, it should be
0:24:50 > 0:24:51Venezuela.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54We're not certain, Dermot, but we think it's Venezuela.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57Not certain, but pretty certain, I think.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59It's the right answer, yes.
0:24:59 > 0:25:02So, you have a lead, and The British Flag
0:25:02 > 0:25:04needing a point here.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07In the acronym of the regulatory authority Ofgem,
0:25:07 > 0:25:11for what does the letter M stand?
0:25:15 > 0:25:20Does anybody have an obvious answer, or will we work this one out?
0:25:20 > 0:25:25You'd think it would be monitoring, wouldn't you?
0:25:25 > 0:25:27Ofgem, or Ofgas?
0:25:27 > 0:25:29It manages bodies.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31I don't think it's manufacture.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34Can we rule it out?
0:25:34 > 0:25:36You can rule out manufacture.
0:25:36 > 0:25:40So is it not likely to be markets?
0:25:40 > 0:25:42It could well be, as a competitive...
0:25:42 > 0:25:45Is it not likely to be markets, rather than monitoring?
0:25:45 > 0:25:50Isn't that what they're doing - monitoring?
0:25:50 > 0:25:53- Yes.- So the answer is going to be markets.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57If you two are happy with that...
0:25:57 > 0:26:00Do you know what we mean? Yeah?
0:26:00 > 0:26:01We'll try markets, please, Dermot.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04Markets. OK, interesting discussion there.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06Nearly went for monitoring, first instinct,
0:26:06 > 0:26:09but a discussion, and have gone for markets.
0:26:09 > 0:26:14It is, as you were saying, the Office of the Gas and Electricity
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Markets. Correct. Well done.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18Eggheads,
0:26:18 > 0:26:22Cyrillic became the third official alphabet of the European Union,
0:26:22 > 0:26:26after which country joined in January, 2007?
0:26:28 > 0:26:30It's Bulgaria, the one that used the Cyrillic alphabet.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33Both Bulgaria and Romania joined then, didn't they?
0:26:33 > 0:26:34We're going to use the Cyrillic.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36That was when Bulgaria and Romania joined.
0:26:36 > 0:26:40Bulgaria uses the Cyrillic alphabet, so it's Bulgaria.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42OK, Bulgaria. Not too hard for Eggheads there.
0:26:42 > 0:26:46They know their languages and alphabets. It's the right answer.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48OK, well,
0:26:48 > 0:26:50British Flag. Third question.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53Maria Stuart, first performed in 1800,
0:26:53 > 0:26:56is a play by which German writer?
0:27:01 > 0:27:04Silence from within the ranks.
0:27:04 > 0:27:08The only one I know is Goethe.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11Yeah, but they're all German writers.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13My instinct is for Goethe.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16What do you think, boys?
0:27:16 > 0:27:18Goethe? That's the one you favour, isn't it?
0:27:18 > 0:27:21That's the one I favour, but it doesn't mean it's going to be right.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23But we'll have a go.
0:27:23 > 0:27:27Democratic discussion. We're going for Goethe.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Goethe. You've got to get it, as well.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32Maria Stuart, first performed in 1800, is a play by...
0:27:32 > 0:27:34- Schiller.- Ah!
0:27:34 > 0:27:37Which means, Eggheads, you've won.
0:27:45 > 0:27:49Bad luck, guys. Good quizzing, though, in those head-to-heads.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51Just didn't go your way in this final round.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54But thank you very much for playing the Eggheads.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57Are we still welcome at The British Flag if we're in Macclesfield?
0:27:57 > 0:27:59- Certainly.- Definitely.- Absolutely.
0:27:59 > 0:28:00As long as you pay.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03We'll all drop in for a pint. Who's buying? CJ.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05He doesn't drink.
0:28:05 > 0:28:06Heh-heh. OK.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09- Thank you once again for playing the Eggheads.- Thank you.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11Those Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them,
0:28:11 > 0:28:13and they still reign supreme over Quizland.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £2,000,
0:28:16 > 0:28:19and that means the money rolls over to our next show.
0:28:19 > 0:28:22Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?
0:28:22 > 0:28:25Join us next time, to see if a new team of challengers
0:28:25 > 0:28:28have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31£3,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.
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