0:00:03 > 0:00:08These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:10 > 0:00:12Together, they make up the Eggheads -
0:00:12 > 0:00:15arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19Question is - can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:24Welcome to Eggheads,
0:00:24 > 0:00:28the show where a team of five quiz challengers pit their wits against
0:00:28 > 0:00:32possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain - they are the Eggheads!
0:00:32 > 0:00:35Taking on the awesome might of our quiz Goliaths today
0:00:35 > 0:00:38are the Mammoth Quizzers from Northamptonshire.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40They all devote a great deal of time
0:00:40 > 0:00:43to supporting the Macmillan Mammoth Quiz for Cancer Research,
0:00:43 > 0:00:47and are this year hoping that they will help to break a world record.
0:00:47 > 0:00:50- Let's meet them.- Hello. I'm Anna, I'm 53 years of age,
0:00:50 > 0:00:53and I'm a volunteer charity fund-raiser.
0:00:53 > 0:00:57Hello. I'm David. I'm 57, and I'm a solicitor.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00Hello. I'm Ann, I'm 57 and I'm a solicitor.
0:01:00 > 0:01:05Hello. My name is Jeff. I'm 67 and I'm a company director.
0:01:05 > 0:01:07Hello. I'm Wendy. I'm 68 years of age,
0:01:07 > 0:01:09and I'm a retired dance teacher.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13Welcome to you, Mammoth Quizzers - tell me all about this Mammoth Quiz.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17Well, the idea started three years ago, and since then,
0:01:17 > 0:01:20we've raised 35...just over 35,000.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23I set the quiz, then we put together the quiz pack,
0:01:23 > 0:01:27we sell that to various groups all round the country,
0:01:27 > 0:01:31and internationally if we can - we had one in Thailand last year...
0:01:31 > 0:01:35- Really?- We charge for the quiz pack, then people hold their own quizzes,
0:01:35 > 0:01:39as they want to, with the same questions. So, it's same questions,
0:01:39 > 0:01:41same day, and then they just donate back
0:01:41 > 0:01:43whatever money they would like to Macmillan.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46- You provide the questions and they can get on with it!- Exactly.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48It's always the questions, as we know, that make a quiz.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51Any of you lot interested, then, Eggheads?
0:01:51 > 0:01:54Erm, I think I saw the pack a few...
0:01:54 > 0:01:57I think it was last year - but I didn't actually take part myself.
0:01:57 > 0:02:01But it's a wonderful thing - if I can do anything to help next year,
0:02:01 > 0:02:03- tie me in. - And so say all of us!- Thank you!
0:02:03 > 0:02:06- We're all signed up now, aren't we, Eggheads?!- Yeah.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09Well, there's a few more. A quiz amongst the Eggheads,
0:02:09 > 0:02:11that would be a good one to watch.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13Can you do them an extra-special hard pack?!
0:02:13 > 0:02:15We'll do our best!
0:02:15 > 0:02:17OK, then. Well, as I say,
0:02:17 > 0:02:21it's questions that make quizzes, and we've got plenty coming up today.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24Let me tell you what's been happening.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26There's been a lot of drama recently.
0:02:26 > 0:02:30Every day, £1,000 of cash is up for grabs for our challengers. However,
0:02:30 > 0:02:34if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37So, Mammoth Quizzers, the challengers won the last game,
0:02:37 > 0:02:40the Eggheads lost - it proves they can be beaten,
0:02:40 > 0:02:44and that means £1,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47Let's ask some of those questions right now,
0:02:47 > 0:02:50with our first head-to-head battle, Arts & Books.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53- Who'd like to play this one? - Shall I take this one?
0:02:53 > 0:02:56- Who's going to play this one? - I'll take this one, yeah?
0:02:56 > 0:03:01- Ann volunteering - and which Egghead would you like to play?- Ooh,
0:03:01 > 0:03:05- I'll play Chris. - Chris, then, on Arts & Books.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08- Pretty good subject for you, Chris? - It's been...
0:03:08 > 0:03:09I've been known to win it, yeah.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11- LAUGHTER - Modest!
0:03:11 > 0:03:15- Ominous!- And to make sure you can't confer, Ann,
0:03:15 > 0:03:19could you please go to the Question Room, accompanied by Chris?
0:03:19 > 0:03:21OK, then, and now,
0:03:21 > 0:03:25what's the Arts & Books knowledge like from your point of view, Ann?
0:03:25 > 0:03:29- Probably no better than average, but we'll give it a go.- Give it a go,
0:03:29 > 0:03:31by going first or second - what do you want to do, Ann?
0:03:31 > 0:03:33I'll go first, please.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39Good luck. Here's your first question -
0:03:39 > 0:03:41in 2010, which British artist
0:03:41 > 0:03:43created a controversial new title sequence
0:03:43 > 0:03:46for the animated sitcom The Simpsons?
0:03:49 > 0:03:51Ooh, dear. My son likes The Simpsons
0:03:51 > 0:03:53but I'm afraid I don't really watch it.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57So it's going to have to be a complete guess!
0:03:57 > 0:04:00I will go for...
0:04:00 > 0:04:02Tracey Emin.
0:04:02 > 0:04:06- Tracey Emin, a complete guess. - Yes.- Well, we're honoured to have
0:04:06 > 0:04:08a Simpsons expert...
0:04:08 > 0:04:12- Oh, dear.- ..in our midst. I like the way you say your son watches it,
0:04:12 > 0:04:15well, erm, yeah! CJ, you're keen on it - it's not just for children...
0:04:15 > 0:04:16- It was by Banksy.- It's Banksy.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19- Oh.- Banksy there, Ann, but
0:04:19 > 0:04:21well off the radar for you. Chris...
0:04:21 > 0:04:24- Mmm.- Which former First Lady of the United States
0:04:24 > 0:04:28wrote the foreword to Michael Jackson's 1988 book Moonwalk?
0:04:32 > 0:04:35Well, I think Jackie Kennedy, or Jackie Onassis,
0:04:35 > 0:04:38as she would have been by then, was too busy.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41I don't think Lady Bird Johnson would have.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44But Jimmy Carter's wife, Rosalynn Carter, probably did,
0:04:44 > 0:04:47- so I'll go with Rosalynn Carter. - Rosalynn Carter
0:04:47 > 0:04:49is incorrect!
0:04:49 > 0:04:52- Other Eggheads?- It's probably Jackie Kennedy, she worked in publishing.
0:04:52 > 0:04:56She worked in publishing, as Pat is pointing out there.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00So, well, after the first exchanges, both firing blanks!
0:05:00 > 0:05:04Ann - which actress won the first of her seven Olivier Awards
0:05:04 > 0:05:07in 1977 for her role
0:05:07 > 0:05:10in the RSC production of Macbeth?
0:05:13 > 0:05:17If it's the production I'm thinking of, I actually think I saw it,
0:05:17 > 0:05:22- and so I think I'm right, in that it was Judi Dench.- Think you saw it -
0:05:22 > 0:05:26I think you did, it's the right answer! Judi Dench!
0:05:26 > 0:05:28Well done. Chris - which author
0:05:28 > 0:05:33created the character of the fictional spy Alec Leamas?
0:05:37 > 0:05:40Ah, yeah, he's the spy who came in from the cold, isn't he?
0:05:40 > 0:05:42That's by John le Carre.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44It is, yes. John le Carre is correct.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46After both failing with your first,
0:05:46 > 0:05:50you've matched each other with the second, so it stays all square.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Ann - which painter was killed when
0:05:52 > 0:05:58a gunpowder store in Delft exploded in 1654?
0:06:02 > 0:06:08Erm, I think that might be a bit late for Vermeer.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11I don't think I've heard of Carel Fabritius, I'm afraid.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14I'm going to try Pieter de Hooch.
0:06:14 > 0:06:18- It's incorrect. Other Eggheads, do you know?- It's Carel Fabritius.
0:06:18 > 0:06:22- He was Rembrandt's student.- Yep, that's right, Carel Fabritius.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24Nothing there, and a chance, then, for Chris
0:06:24 > 0:06:29to steal in - The Crows Of Pearblossom
0:06:29 > 0:06:32is a posthumously published children's book by which author?
0:06:37 > 0:06:40Who would write children's literature?
0:06:43 > 0:06:46I haven't actually got a clue, Dermot,
0:06:46 > 0:06:49but it sounds like a piece of whimsy that might have come from HG Wells,
0:06:49 > 0:06:51so that's who I'll go with.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53The answer is Aldous Huxley.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55- Oh!- Well!
0:06:55 > 0:06:58Every chance for both of you to clinch it,
0:06:58 > 0:07:01- but neither of you have, so it's Sudden Death.- OK.
0:07:01 > 0:07:05Let's make it harder - that means you don't see any more choices.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09The 1923 novel entitled Jigsaw was the first by which
0:07:09 > 0:07:12- prolific author?- Erm...
0:07:12 > 0:07:16The only prolific author I can think of that might be from that period
0:07:16 > 0:07:20- might be Agatha Christie? - Agatha Christie...- Yep.
0:07:20 > 0:07:24It's not. I think Chris has read every one of her books -
0:07:24 > 0:07:28- what is it, Chris?- I haven't a clue, Dermot.- Oh, really?- Yeah.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31I know you've got bookshelves full of them! Other Eggheads?
0:07:31 > 0:07:34- Barbara Cartland!- Barbara Cartland! - Of course!
0:07:34 > 0:07:37Chris, your question - another chance for you...
0:07:37 > 0:07:41Who wrote the 1970 espionage novel Passenger To Frankfurt?
0:07:41 > 0:07:44Er, whoa...
0:07:44 > 0:07:47Not le Carre. Len Deighton?
0:07:47 > 0:07:49No. I refer you to the previous answer,
0:07:49 > 0:07:53as they say in Prime Minister's Questions, it is Agatha Christie!
0:07:53 > 0:07:56LAUGHTER
0:07:56 > 0:07:59It's like that Two Ronnies sketch about Mastermind,
0:07:59 > 0:08:03- where it was the previous answer. - Answering the question before last!
0:08:03 > 0:08:05Yeah! It is Agatha Christie -
0:08:05 > 0:08:08the largest first-edition print of any of her books.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10Well, this is... I mean, not very high scoring,
0:08:10 > 0:08:12but a fascinating round.
0:08:12 > 0:08:16And your question, Ann - Sue Bridehead is a character
0:08:16 > 0:08:19in which Thomas Hardy novel?
0:08:19 > 0:08:21Erm...
0:08:21 > 0:08:24It's possib... I've only read a couple of them,
0:08:24 > 0:08:26and I don't remember the name.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29So I'm going to pick one I haven't read!
0:08:29 > 0:08:32- The Woodlanders. - The Woodlanders you haven't read,
0:08:32 > 0:08:34so it might be in that - which ones have you read?
0:08:34 > 0:08:36I've read Far From The Madding Crowd.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38It might be in that, but I don't remember.
0:08:38 > 0:08:42- It is, Eggheads?- Jude The Obscure. - Jude The Obscure.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45I'm sure you were thinking, the answer was obscure to you.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48"The intelligent and unstable cousin of Jude Fawley,
0:08:48 > 0:08:52"to whom Jude is attracted." Sue Bridehead. Chris -
0:08:52 > 0:08:57what is the title of the 2006 fictional novel by Sara Gruen
0:08:57 > 0:09:02about the circus life memories of an elderly man called Jacob Jankowski?
0:09:07 > 0:09:09That's a film. Erm...
0:09:09 > 0:09:12Water For Elephants?
0:09:12 > 0:09:15Water For Elephants... is correct, Chris!
0:09:16 > 0:09:19Water For Elephants has clinched
0:09:19 > 0:09:22- a very, very tight round there - bad luck, Ann.- Thank you.
0:09:22 > 0:09:26Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:09:26 > 0:09:29Ann there just failing to dislodge Chris, so, as it stands,
0:09:29 > 0:09:32the Mammoth Quizzers have lost one brain from the final round.
0:09:32 > 0:09:36Second head-to-head coming up right now is Geography.
0:09:36 > 0:09:37Who'd like to play this one?
0:09:37 > 0:09:40- It can't be you, Ann, you've just played.- Yep.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43- It's Jeff.- I'll take Geography. - OK, Jeff, good man.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45And which Egghead would you like to play?
0:09:45 > 0:09:48- It can't be Chris, but any of the others...- (CJ!)
0:09:48 > 0:09:52- CJ, if I may, please.- That's a very loud stage whisper there! CJ!
0:09:52 > 0:09:55We all know his vulnerabilities in this.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58Could I ask you both please to go to the Question Room?
0:09:58 > 0:10:02Jeff, how do you want to play this? First or second for you?
0:10:02 > 0:10:05I think I'll take the second questions.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11OK, decided to put Egghead CJ in first, then,
0:10:11 > 0:10:15and this is your question, then, CJ - the French city of Lille
0:10:15 > 0:10:17is located near the border of which country?
0:10:19 > 0:10:22That's just far enough away from Britain
0:10:22 > 0:10:25for me to have a chance of getting it.
0:10:25 > 0:10:27- I think it's Belgium. - It is the right answer!
0:10:27 > 0:10:31Yes, Belgium. OK, your first question, then, Jeff -
0:10:31 > 0:10:34Nantucket is an island off the coast of which American state?
0:10:37 > 0:10:41Mmm. Nantucket is a famous whaling station,
0:10:41 > 0:10:43and it's certainly not Florida.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46So it's a choice between Maryland and Massachusetts.
0:10:46 > 0:10:50Now, where is...? Massachutiss... I can't even say it!
0:10:50 > 0:10:53Not Maryland! Massachusetts!
0:10:53 > 0:10:57- When you look at it, it's hard to read out! It's Massachusetts...- Yes.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00..is your answer, and it is the correct answer!
0:11:00 > 0:11:03All square after the first
0:11:03 > 0:11:05pair of questions, and CJ -
0:11:05 > 0:11:09the Negev is a desert area in which part of the world?
0:11:11 > 0:11:15I think, I think it's in the Middle East.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18Yes! Any Eggheads be more specific?
0:11:18 > 0:11:22- It's in Israel.- Israel.- Yes. Middle East will do, from CJ.
0:11:22 > 0:11:24And over to you, Jeff.
0:11:24 > 0:11:27Mount Logan, the highest point in Canada,
0:11:27 > 0:11:30is approximately how many metres high?
0:11:33 > 0:11:36Mmm, now, that's a difficult question. Erm...
0:11:36 > 0:11:42Mount Logan - 2,000, four or six...
0:11:42 > 0:11:45I have a feeling it's 4,000 metres.
0:11:45 > 0:11:484,000 metres for Mount Logan.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50- It's 6,000.- Ooh. - It's even higher.- Yeah.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52- 6,000 metres.- Surprising.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55Right, well, nothing there for Jeff,
0:11:55 > 0:11:58which means CJ has a chance to win the round, but...
0:11:58 > 0:12:00- Oh, no.- Domestic, UK!- Oh, no!
0:12:00 > 0:12:04Manston airport is in which English county?
0:12:06 > 0:12:09Well, you'll be shocked to know I've never heard of it.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11The good thing is,
0:12:11 > 0:12:13I do actually recognise those three as English counties.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15CHUCKLING
0:12:15 > 0:12:20Ah... I've just never heard of this place. Erm...
0:12:22 > 0:12:24Kent.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27- Kent.- I don't know! - Well, that's what you've gone for.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29Well, one-in-three guess...
0:12:29 > 0:12:33It is the right answer. Yes, Manston airport in Kent.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36Which means, Jeff,
0:12:36 > 0:12:39you don't get to face another question - CJ has
0:12:39 > 0:12:41done enough to see you off.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:12:44 > 0:12:47Well, Eggheads striking some form here.
0:12:47 > 0:12:51Two members of the Mammoth Quizzers have now been ejected from the game.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53We have two more head-to-heads to play,
0:12:53 > 0:12:56and our next subject today is Film & Television.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59So, who fancies this from the remaining players - Anna,
0:12:59 > 0:13:01- David or Wendy?- I think you, Anna?!
0:13:01 > 0:13:04I think I've drawn the short straw on this one.
0:13:04 > 0:13:08Who would you like to play from the Eggheads - Daphne, Pat or Barry?
0:13:08 > 0:13:12- Daphne, go Daphne. - Yes, I'll play Daphne, please.
0:13:12 > 0:13:16OK, Daphne and Anna, attempting Film & Television -
0:13:16 > 0:13:19would you both please go to the Question Room?
0:13:19 > 0:13:22Right, Anna, do you want to go first or second?
0:13:22 > 0:13:24I'd like to go first, please.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30Here you go - to what does the term Black Hawk refer
0:13:30 > 0:13:33in the title of the 2001 film Black Hawk Down?
0:13:35 > 0:13:38Very oddly, I saw this with my son,
0:13:38 > 0:13:41and I felt as if I'd been shot when I came home from it.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44- I believe it may be helicopter. - Yeah!
0:13:44 > 0:13:50Exceptionally violent - is the right answer. Black Hawk is a helicopter.
0:13:50 > 0:13:52And your first question, Daphne -
0:13:52 > 0:13:56which EastEnders character was played by Gretchen Franklin?
0:13:57 > 0:14:01Oh, this was in the days when I did watch it,
0:14:01 > 0:14:04and she was Ethel.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06- Ethel.- Yes.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09Ethel is the right answer. OK, Anna...
0:14:09 > 0:14:10Good start. Which actress
0:14:10 > 0:14:15took on the role of Stevie the shop assistant to Miranda
0:14:15 > 0:14:18when the TV series Miranda started in 2009?
0:14:23 > 0:14:27I have to say, I think Miranda is hysterically funny,
0:14:27 > 0:14:28- and I do watch this.- Good!
0:14:28 > 0:14:32I'm just trying to remember which one it was,
0:14:32 > 0:14:36- and Sarah Hadland springs to mind. - Sarah Hadland...
0:14:36 > 0:14:38is the right answer. Yes, well done!
0:14:38 > 0:14:41It was one of those almost a word-of-mouth hit, wasn't it,
0:14:41 > 0:14:44after that first series? Fantastic stuff,
0:14:44 > 0:14:47lots of fans building for that, and you got the right answer.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50Daphne, your question -
0:14:50 > 0:14:54the actress Stefanie Powers had a nine-year relationship
0:14:54 > 0:14:58with which Oscar-winning actor until his death in 1981?
0:15:01 > 0:15:03That was William Holden.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06William Holden is the correct answer.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09That relationship until 1981. You've got it. So,
0:15:09 > 0:15:122-2. And Anna,
0:15:12 > 0:15:14can you put a bid of pressure on Daphne here?
0:15:14 > 0:15:16John Hawkes and Jennifer Lawrence
0:15:16 > 0:15:19received acting nominations
0:15:19 > 0:15:22for which film at the 2011 Academy Awards?
0:15:26 > 0:15:29Unfortunately, I don't know this at all,
0:15:29 > 0:15:32so it's going to have to be a pure guess.
0:15:32 > 0:15:36- Erm, I think I'll go for The Social Network.- OK, The Social Network.
0:15:36 > 0:15:41Lots of nominations in various categories for those films.
0:15:41 > 0:15:45It is not The Social Network. Do you know, Daphne, of the other two?
0:15:45 > 0:15:48- Obviously easier for you, with just two...- But it's Winter's Bone.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51Yes, with John Hawkes and Jennifer Lawrence.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53So, will that prove decisive?
0:15:53 > 0:15:56Let's find out. Daphne -
0:15:56 > 0:15:59which Italian film director and actor
0:15:59 > 0:16:03received the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2001
0:16:03 > 0:16:05for his film The Son's Room?
0:16:10 > 0:16:14SHE SIGHS Oh, dear.
0:16:14 > 0:16:16I think the only one
0:16:16 > 0:16:21that I know is an actor is Roberto Benigni.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24- So, that's my answer.- OK,
0:16:24 > 0:16:27down the middle, with Roberto Benigni. It's not,
0:16:27 > 0:16:30it's incorrect. It is Nanni Moretti.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32So, you're familiar with Sudden Death, Anna,
0:16:32 > 0:16:34you've made it there,
0:16:34 > 0:16:37but can you go the whole hog and get rid of Daphne?
0:16:37 > 0:16:41Here's your question - who played John Prentice
0:16:41 > 0:16:45in the 1967 film Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?
0:16:45 > 0:16:49Er, it might be a bit late, but I'm going to go Gregory Peck.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52It's not Gregory Peck. Do you know, Daphne, out of interest?
0:16:52 > 0:16:54Is it Sidney Poitier?
0:16:54 > 0:16:56It's Sidney Poitier.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58So, Daphne, your question -
0:16:58 > 0:17:01which film actress, born in 1907,
0:17:01 > 0:17:06published an autobiography entitled Me: Stories Of My Life
0:17:06 > 0:17:11in 1991, and died in 2003 at the age of 96?
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Erm...
0:17:15 > 0:17:18Lillian Gish?
0:17:18 > 0:17:21No, it's not Lillian Gish - Katharine Hepburn.
0:17:21 > 0:17:22- Oh, God!- Katharine Hepburn!
0:17:22 > 0:17:25OK, it's still all-square,
0:17:25 > 0:17:26and Anna -
0:17:26 > 0:17:29who hosted the 1970s and 1980s
0:17:29 > 0:17:32nostalgia-based quiz show Looks Familiar?
0:17:32 > 0:17:34Erm...
0:17:34 > 0:17:38I'm going to go for Nicholas Parsons.
0:17:38 > 0:17:39Nicholas Parsons.
0:17:39 > 0:17:42Not Nicholas Parsons. Anyone know?
0:17:42 > 0:17:45- Denis Norden. - Denis Norden, in Looks Familiar.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47And another chance for Daphne -
0:17:47 > 0:17:49which Oscar-nominated English actress
0:17:49 > 0:17:52was married to the playwright Robert Bolt twice,
0:17:52 > 0:17:58from 1967 until 1975, and again from 1988 until his death in 1995?
0:17:58 > 0:18:01At last! One I know!
0:18:01 > 0:18:03Sarah...Miles.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05I thought you were going to get it wrong, the way you paused there!
0:18:05 > 0:18:08Sarah Miles is correct, Daphne.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11You are through to the final round,
0:18:11 > 0:18:13you are limping over the line!
0:18:13 > 0:18:17Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:18:17 > 0:18:20Well, tremendous efforts here by the Mammoth Quizzers,
0:18:20 > 0:18:23but they've still not managed to dislodge an Egghead!
0:18:23 > 0:18:26Three brains gone for the final round, I don't really know how!
0:18:26 > 0:18:29But you've reached the last chance to eject an Egghead,
0:18:29 > 0:18:32and this is Politics. And you've got two players left, David and Wendy.
0:18:32 > 0:18:36- Go on. Go, Wendy?- What shall we do, guys?- Are you going to do it, Wendy?
0:18:36 > 0:18:38- Go for Wendy.- Go on, go for it, Wendy!- Yes, we'll go for Wendy.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42OK, Wendy, and who would you like to play from the Eggheads,
0:18:42 > 0:18:43Barry or Pat?
0:18:43 > 0:18:45I think I'll go with Barry.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49OK, it's going to be Wendy and Barry, playing politics.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51Could I ask you both pleased to go to the Question Room?
0:18:51 > 0:18:56Wendy, hoping you can make it - do you want to go first or second?
0:18:56 > 0:18:58Erm, I'll go first, please.
0:19:00 > 0:19:01Off we go, then,
0:19:01 > 0:19:08with Politics - who became president of the Russian Federation in 1991?
0:19:12 > 0:19:16Erm, I think it was Boris Yeltsin.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20It was Boris Yeltsin, yes. Well done, well identified.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22And Barry -
0:19:22 > 0:19:25which politician was involved in a plane crash
0:19:25 > 0:19:27on the day of the 2010 general election?
0:19:30 > 0:19:34Ah, yes, I remember this. I believe it was Nigel Farage.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37It was, yes. Nigel Farage.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39And your second question, Wendy -
0:19:39 > 0:19:43what is the maiden name of Michelle Obama?
0:19:46 > 0:19:49Erm, I can remember reading this.
0:19:49 > 0:19:53I think it's Robinson.
0:19:53 > 0:19:55Well done, yes!
0:19:55 > 0:19:59Like an Egghead there, reading about it AND remembering it!
0:19:59 > 0:20:01And Barry -
0:20:01 > 0:20:04what was the first name of Harold Macmillan's son,
0:20:04 > 0:20:07who served as Paymaster General in the 1970s?
0:20:10 > 0:20:13That's a good question! I'm not sure on this,
0:20:13 > 0:20:16but Maurice Macmillan is ringing a sort of bell!
0:20:16 > 0:20:20- And as that's all I've got to go on, I'll go for Maurice.- OK.
0:20:20 > 0:20:23Maurice is the right answer. Same as Wendy, I guess,
0:20:23 > 0:20:26you've read about it somewhere, and you've recalled it,
0:20:26 > 0:20:29as we would expect of an Egghead! OK, Wendy -
0:20:29 > 0:20:33which leader was the reported author of a number of novels, among them
0:20:33 > 0:20:36epic romances entitled Zabibah And The King
0:20:36 > 0:20:39and The Fortified Castle?
0:20:42 > 0:20:45Oh, I don't know this one.
0:20:45 > 0:20:49Erm, I'm just trying to think who would have time to write.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51Erm...
0:20:51 > 0:20:53I'll go for Saddam Hussein.
0:20:53 > 0:20:57Erm, it is Saddam Hussein! Well done!
0:20:57 > 0:20:59OK, pressure's all on Barry now.
0:21:00 > 0:21:06In 1953, Muhammad Naguib became the first president of which country?
0:21:09 > 0:21:11I believe he was the leader of the Colonel's Revolt
0:21:11 > 0:21:14that saw the exit of King Farouk.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17And the country is Egypt.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19It is, yes.
0:21:19 > 0:21:23Muhammad Naguib of Egypt so, yet again, we go to sudden death.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26We're all very familiar with the rules of this part of head-to-head.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28No choices.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31Which member of the Beatles faced deportation hearings
0:21:31 > 0:21:34in the United States in the early 1970s?
0:21:35 > 0:21:39Um, I think I'll go with John Lennon.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42You'd be right to, yes, John Lennon... obviously...
0:21:42 > 0:21:46A long-time resident of the United States before his assassination.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49And, Barry, it means you need to get this. Who directly succeeded
0:21:49 > 0:21:51Sir Alec Douglas-Home as British Prime Minister?
0:21:52 > 0:21:56Oh, goodness me. Let me think. Alec Douglas-Home?
0:21:56 > 0:22:00I seem to remember Harold Wilson talking about Alec Douglas-Home
0:22:00 > 0:22:05and his method of working out economic strategy with matchsticks.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07- I'll go with Harold Wilson.- Harold Wilson, well done, you've got it.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09OK, Wendy.
0:22:09 > 0:22:13In which city did Enoch Powell make what became known as his
0:22:13 > 0:22:15Rivers of Blood speech in 1968?
0:22:17 > 0:22:22It's either Bristol, Birmingham or Manchester, I think.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24I'll go for Birmingham.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27Birmingham for Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech? You're right!
0:22:27 > 0:22:28Birmingham is correct.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30OK, well, will that be enough?
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Barry, Brian Mulroney was Prime Minister of
0:22:34 > 0:22:37which country from 1984 until 1993?
0:22:39 > 0:22:42Perversely, I have two countries in my mind.
0:22:42 > 0:22:46One of them sounds daft and I can't seem to get it out of my mind.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48I was thinking is it Northern Ireland or New Zealand?
0:22:48 > 0:22:50I'm pretty certain it's one of those two.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54New Zealand.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56It's comforting to know, Barry,
0:22:56 > 0:22:59from your point of view that neither of them were correct.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01Oh!
0:23:01 > 0:23:04- What got into you there, Barry? It is, other Eggheads?- ALL: Canada.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06- Canada.- Oh, of course!- Mulroney.
0:23:06 > 0:23:10Well, great news, great news. So obvious now, Barry.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12But not when you were asked! Wendy, you're in the final round.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14Fantastic! APPLAUSE
0:23:14 > 0:23:16At least one of us is.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:23:19 > 0:23:23so, this is what we've been playing towards.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26It's time for the final round, which as always is General Knowledge.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29But I'm afraid those who lost head-to-heads won't be
0:23:29 > 0:23:32allowed to take part in this round so, Anna, Ann
0:23:32 > 0:23:35and Jeff from The Mammoth Quizzers and Barry from the Eggheads,
0:23:35 > 0:23:37would you leave the studio, please?
0:23:38 > 0:23:40So, then, David and Wendy,
0:23:40 > 0:23:43you're playing to win The Mammoth Quizzers £1,000.
0:23:43 > 0:23:47CJ, Daphne, Chris and Pat, you're playing for something which money can't buy.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50The Eggheads' reputation.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52As usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55This time the questions are all General Knowledge
0:23:55 > 0:23:56and you are allowed to confer.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59So, David and Wendy, the question is,
0:23:59 > 0:24:02are you two brains better than the Eggheads' four?
0:24:02 > 0:24:05How do you want to play, David and Wendy? Want to go first or second?
0:24:05 > 0:24:06We'll go first.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11And good luck to you both.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13And for the team, here's your first question.
0:24:13 > 0:24:18Men Very Easily Make Jugs Serve Useful Needs
0:24:18 > 0:24:20is an mnemonic for remembering what?
0:24:26 > 0:24:28It's got to be the planets.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31- Got to be the planets.- Has it? - Men, Mercury.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33Very, Venus.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36Easily, Earth.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38- It's got to be the planets.- OK.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41You got it easily. It is the right answer.
0:24:41 > 0:24:42It is an mnemonic for remembering planets.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44Eggheads, your question.
0:24:44 > 0:24:49In which decade did the Church of England ordain its first female priests?
0:24:54 > 0:24:58- It's the '90s.- I imagine it's the '90s. Certainly not the '70s.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01- I don't think it was even the late '80s.- I think it's the '90s.
0:25:01 > 0:25:04- Are you happy with that? - I don't really know.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07- We're going for the '90s. - '90s? OK.
0:25:07 > 0:25:09That's when The Vicar Of Dibley started.
0:25:09 > 0:25:10There is that, yes.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13That's how we can date it. It's the right answer. 1990s.
0:25:13 > 0:25:17One each and back to The Mammoth Quizzers.
0:25:17 > 0:25:21A police chief called Baron Scarpia is a character in which
0:25:21 > 0:25:22Puccini opera?
0:25:26 > 0:25:31- I can't say opera's my favourite pastime.- No.- Wendy?- Em...
0:25:33 > 0:25:37C, I'll be lucky. Let's go for a lucky one, shall we? La Boheme.
0:25:37 > 0:25:41- If you don't know.- I have no idea. - Well, let's go for that, then.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44Well, Wendy's on a roll, so, we're going for what she says.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46- La Boheme.- OK, La Boheme.
0:25:46 > 0:25:51Well, not opera fans, I heard you saying there. It's not La Boheme.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54- The luck's run out. Eggheads? - Tosca.- It's Tosca.
0:25:55 > 0:25:59With the Police Chief Baron Scarpia, so, chance for the lead, Eggheads.
0:25:59 > 0:26:03What was the name of the ship in which Roald Amundsen sailed
0:26:03 > 0:26:06on his journey to become the first person to reach the South Pole?
0:26:09 > 0:26:12- It's one of his ships.- We're both saying Fram is Amundsen's ship?
0:26:12 > 0:26:13One of his ships, yeah.
0:26:13 > 0:26:17- Are we definite that that's the Antarctic one?- Definite.- OK.
0:26:17 > 0:26:18It was crushed in the ice.
0:26:18 > 0:26:19Fram, Dermot.
0:26:19 > 0:26:23Fram is the ship in question, it is, it is the right answer. The Fram.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27So, you need to get this then and good luck with it, David and Wendy.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30The 19th-century German scholar Bernhard Reimann
0:26:30 > 0:26:33was a specialist in which field?
0:26:37 > 0:26:39- If I had to go for... - I really don't know.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41If I had to go for one, I'd go for chemistry, what would you go for?
0:26:41 > 0:26:45I was going to say mathematics but I don't know.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47I guessed last time, you go this time.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50Well, on the basis that Wendy's guess last time was wrong,
0:26:50 > 0:26:54we'll have my guess this time and see if we can get it wrong twice.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56- Mathematics.- OK, so you've gone for mathematics.
0:26:56 > 0:27:00It's the right answer, yes. Mathematics, well done.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03OK, well you are, you're still in it
0:27:03 > 0:27:06and hoping that the Eggheads don't get this one, then.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08Eggheads, what name is given to the global event
0:27:08 > 0:27:13approximately 65.5 million years ago which wiped out the dinosaurs?
0:27:19 > 0:27:27- K-T.- K-T.- K-T Extinction. K-T from the German for Cretaceous Triassic.
0:27:27 > 0:27:31I think you know that means the Eggheads are correct,
0:27:31 > 0:27:34which means you've won.
0:27:40 > 0:27:43Well, talking about the dinosaurs being made extinct, well,
0:27:43 > 0:27:45Mammoths certainly know they've gone too
0:27:45 > 0:27:48but you put up a great performance there, Mammoth Quizzers.
0:27:48 > 0:27:52Each of those head-to-heads, so many of them went against you
0:27:52 > 0:27:54in the end but so many of them going to the sudden death.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57A real struggle there and showed what good quizzers you are
0:27:57 > 0:27:59but not to be on the day
0:27:59 > 0:28:03but what we want to send you away with is our very best wishes
0:28:03 > 0:28:07for the Mammoth Quiz and all the fantastic work you do for charity.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10It's really great to see you here today, Mammoth Quizzers.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13But unfortunately not to be against the Eggheads.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15And the Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them
0:28:15 > 0:28:18and they reign supreme over quizland once again.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21I'm afraid you won't be going home with £1,000, which means
0:28:21 > 0:28:23the money rolls over to the next show.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26Eggheads, congratulations. Join us next time to see
0:28:26 > 0:28:29if a new team of challengers have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:29 > 0:28:32£2,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.
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