0:00:04 > 0:00:07These 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 > 0:00:19The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers
0:00:26 > 0:00:30pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32They are the Eggheads.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35And taking on our awesome quiz champions today are Average @ Best
0:00:35 > 0:00:39from Yorkshire. This team are friends and colleagues,
0:00:39 > 0:00:42quiz regularly at local pubs, and claim as individuals, they're pretty average,
0:00:42 > 0:00:45but when they come together, they're at their best.
0:00:45 > 0:00:50- Let's meet them.- Hi, I'm Oli, I'm 27 and I'm a technical analyst.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53Hi, I'm Laura, I'm 25 and I'm a sales advisor.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56Hi, I'm Chris, I'm 28, I'm a customer-service representative.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00Hi, I'm Kunal, I'm 28 and I'm a technical analyst.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03Hi, I'm Brett, I'm 32 and I'm a technical analyst.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06Welcome to you, Average @ Best. I was thinking
0:01:06 > 0:01:11when I saw the team name you were just putting yourselves down, but of course, now I understand -
0:01:11 > 0:01:13average individually, but collectively the best.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15Are you really the best, Oli?
0:01:15 > 0:01:19Well... THEY LAUGH
0:01:19 > 0:01:21We try our best, we can go that far!
0:01:23 > 0:01:25Collectively, we do work very well.
0:01:25 > 0:01:29We'll see how we get on, obviously, against the best. We try.
0:01:29 > 0:01:30Let's play the game.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33Every day, there's £1,000 worth of cash
0:01:33 > 0:01:34up for grabs for our challengers.
0:01:34 > 0:01:38However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:01:38 > 0:01:42So, Average @ Best, the Eggheads have won the last 13 games.
0:01:42 > 0:01:46That means £14,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49So, then, our first head-to-head battle is going to be
0:01:49 > 0:01:51on the subject of Food & Drink.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55Which one of you has been marked out to play this, Food & Drink?
0:01:55 > 0:01:56Kunal, that's you, yeah?
0:01:56 > 0:01:59- Kunal!- Kunal.- OK, Kunal, and who would you like to play?
0:01:59 > 0:02:02You can choose any Egghead you like, of course.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04I would like to request Pat to play with me.
0:02:04 > 0:02:08OK, let's have Kunal and Pat to play together.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11Into the Question Room, please, just to make sure you can't confer.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16- Kunal, would you like to go first or second?- I'll go second.
0:02:19 > 0:02:23Puts Pat in first, and Pat, your first question, then, is this.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25Which spirit is mixed with coffee liqueur
0:02:25 > 0:02:28to make a Black Russian cocktail?
0:02:31 > 0:02:35Of the three, vodka is the strongly Russian drink,
0:02:35 > 0:02:37- so I'll go with vodka. - Yeah, it's an obvious link,
0:02:37 > 0:02:39and the right answer as well.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41Vodka is correct, Pat, you're off the mark.
0:02:41 > 0:02:45In France, what type of foodstuff is cervelas?
0:02:49 > 0:02:54It doesn't really strike the mind if it might be sausage.
0:02:56 > 0:02:57I'll go with soup.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Judith, you know one or two things about France.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03- Have you heard of cervelas? - I think it's sausage.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07You're right. It's sausage, Kunal. The one you ruled out.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09OK, a tough one there, Kunal.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Pat's in the lead, and a chance to extend that lead.
0:03:12 > 0:03:16Pat, what name is given to the thin cake made from flour or oatmeal
0:03:16 > 0:03:19that's traditionally cut into quarters
0:03:19 > 0:03:21and has a name meaning a fourth part?
0:03:26 > 0:03:29Bridie is a Scottish meat pasty.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Oggy...
0:03:31 > 0:03:34I think I've seen farls, I think they're soda breads,
0:03:34 > 0:03:37and I think they're sold in quarters, so I'll go for farl.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39It is the correct answer.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42It's from your part of the world, isn't it, Pat?
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Soda bread, yeah, is popular in Ireland.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46OK, well, you're right, as I said,
0:03:46 > 0:03:49the soda farl means a fourth part, a farl.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51OK, well, it means you've got to get this, Kunal.
0:03:52 > 0:03:57What name is given to rhubarb that's forced in special sheds
0:03:57 > 0:04:00to be less fibrous, lighter in colour, sweeter and more delicate?
0:04:06 > 0:04:09If you talk of delicacies,
0:04:09 > 0:04:12I would think the word caviar comes to mind first.
0:04:13 > 0:04:18But if you say it's supposed to be sweeter, I would say...
0:04:18 > 0:04:21I would make a correlation with a spirit.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23I would go with Champagne rhubarb.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27OK, working that question there, listening very carefully to it
0:04:27 > 0:04:30and getting the right answer. Champagne rhubarb is correct.
0:04:30 > 0:04:34OK, Kunal, you've kept yourself in it, well done there,
0:04:34 > 0:04:35but Pat still has the upper hand,
0:04:35 > 0:04:37and can win the round if he gets this correct.
0:04:37 > 0:04:41What type of South African dish is koeksister?
0:04:46 > 0:04:50The generic name for the air-dried meats is biltong,
0:04:50 > 0:04:53so I don't know if dried wildebeest would have
0:04:53 > 0:04:54a special name of its own.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57So I'll abandon that.
0:04:58 > 0:05:02Deep-fried doughnut. Could be that - koeksister, deep-fried doughnut.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07No, I'm afraid that I'm reduced, I think, to a guess.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10I'm not sure I can extract anything from the word itself.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13I'll go for custard tart, but it's just a guess.
0:05:13 > 0:05:18OK, custard tart. That's wrong. Deep-fried doughnut, koeksister.
0:05:18 > 0:05:22So, Kunal, this could be quite a comeback if you get this.
0:05:22 > 0:05:27Metheglin is a spiced version of which alcoholic drink?
0:05:30 > 0:05:32I associate...
0:05:32 > 0:05:35Right off the bat, I would associate sherry with cooking,
0:05:35 > 0:05:39although I can't really make the correlation.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41I would want to go with...
0:05:42 > 0:05:45I think I would definitely go with mead.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48OK, gone for mead.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50A spiced version of mead is known as a metheglin,
0:05:50 > 0:05:53it's the right answer, you're back in it.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57What a revival. OK, taking this to Sudden Death.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00Kunal, we're taking away those options you've been looking at.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02Just need to hear the answer when I ask you the question,
0:06:02 > 0:06:06but you're not hearing your question yet, because this goes to Pat.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Pat, which standard item of kitchen implement has types
0:06:08 > 0:06:12called balloon, French and ball?
0:06:13 > 0:06:16I think there's such a thing as a balloon whisk.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18I can't really make sense of the other two elements,
0:06:18 > 0:06:20but I'll go with whisk.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23OK, and whisk is the right answer.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26That's how they do it. OK, Kunal, you've got to match it now.
0:06:26 > 0:06:28To stay in the game,
0:06:28 > 0:06:29how many stigmas are produced by
0:06:29 > 0:06:32each crocus flower used to make saffron?
0:06:33 > 0:06:39Well, saffron is a pentameric flower, which means it has five petals.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42And with each petal is attached one stigma, so I would say five.
0:06:42 > 0:06:47The number of stigmas that are produced by each crocus flower...
0:06:47 > 0:06:49is three. Three.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Bad luck. You sounded so certain there.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54You would have convinced me if I hadn't got the answer in front of me.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57It's the wrong answer, Kunal, bad luck,
0:06:57 > 0:07:00but well played to get back in it and get into Sudden Death,
0:07:00 > 0:07:03but it means you won't be in the final round.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05Pat will be there for the Eggheads.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08Would you both, please, come back and join your teams?
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Well, then, Kunal, you battled manfully
0:07:10 > 0:07:13with our Food & Drink round, but not to be in the end.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16Pat's knocked you out, which means one brain is missing
0:07:16 > 0:07:17from Average @ Best.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20All the Eggheads are still there. Next round.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22This one might suit you a little better, I suspect,
0:07:22 > 0:07:23Average @ Best. It's Music.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25- Who'd like to play that? - Are we happy, Brett?
0:07:25 > 0:07:28I think that'll be me, then!
0:07:28 > 0:07:31OK, stay with us, Brett, because you have to choose an Egghead.
0:07:31 > 0:07:32Remember, anyone apart from Pat.
0:07:32 > 0:07:35I think Chris. I think Chris is your best choice.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37OK, yeah. I'd like to play Chris, please.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39Look how delighted he is about it(!)
0:07:39 > 0:07:42The joy breaking out all over his face(!)
0:07:42 > 0:07:44Brett, you're such a kind man(!)
0:07:44 > 0:07:45To make sure you can't confer,
0:07:45 > 0:07:48could you both please go to the Question Room?
0:07:48 > 0:07:51Well, Brett, I know you love music. Are you in a band at the moment?
0:07:53 > 0:07:55I am, yeah. I'm playing drums at the moment for a band.
0:07:55 > 0:07:59- We're called By Proxy. - What kind of music do you play?
0:07:59 > 0:08:00We actually describe it as dirty blues.
0:08:00 > 0:08:04Ah, sounds good! Chris, that sounds all right, doesn't it?
0:08:04 > 0:08:06- Sounds all right to me, yeah!- OK!
0:08:06 > 0:08:08Let's play the round, then,
0:08:08 > 0:08:10and Brett, you get to choose, as the challenger.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12First or second?
0:08:12 > 0:08:13I'd like to go first, please.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19Let's have your first question, then. What name did Gary Daly
0:08:19 > 0:08:24and Eddie Lundon give to the group that they formed in 1979?
0:08:28 > 0:08:30Right, I'd have to think...
0:08:30 > 0:08:33Soft Cell is obviously most famous for Marc Almond.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36China Crisis, I've not heard of, so just from elimination,
0:08:36 > 0:08:38I'm going to go for Bronski Beat.
0:08:38 > 0:08:42OK, Bronski Beat for Gary Daly and Eddie Lundon...
0:08:42 > 0:08:45It's not Soft Cell, but it is China Crisis.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48Before your time,
0:08:48 > 0:08:51and means Chris has got a chance to go into the lead on Music.
0:08:51 > 0:08:52You never know with Chris.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55What is the title of the 2011 UK number-one single by Jessie J
0:08:55 > 0:08:57featuring BoB?
0:09:01 > 0:09:05Why would it be Price List? Why would it be Price Tag?
0:09:06 > 0:09:07So, we'll go with Price Cut.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10OK, Price Cut for Jessie J.
0:09:10 > 0:09:11I'll give this one to you, Brett,
0:09:11 > 0:09:14because it's the wrong answer, Chris.
0:09:14 > 0:09:15- Do you know, Brett?- Price Tag.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17Price Tag, yeah, course. The one you ruled out.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19It's OK, no harm done for either of you.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22It's as if we're just having two questions each, really.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25Your second question, then, Brett.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28In which genre of music did Reba McEntire become
0:09:28 > 0:09:31one of the top-selling female performers?
0:09:33 > 0:09:35Well, I don't think she'd suit rap or heavy metal.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38I'm pretty sure that's country.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41I'll confirm that for you, it is the right answer. Yes, country.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44You are on the board. Off the mark.
0:09:44 > 0:09:48Chris, the jazz standard Blue Rondo A La Turk,
0:09:48 > 0:09:52first recorded in 1959, was written by which musician?
0:09:55 > 0:09:58Oscar Peterson played the piano.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00Miles Davis played the trumpet.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03They both tend to improvise, rather than write.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08But to set down a variation on the theme of Rondo A La Turk,
0:10:08 > 0:10:11I would say it must have been Dave Brubeck.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15Mr Brubeck. They're shaking with delight on the Eggheads team,
0:10:15 > 0:10:17it's the right answer, yes. It's all square.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19OK, Brett, third question.
0:10:19 > 0:10:23Which instrument did Cozy Powell play in bands such as Rainbow,
0:10:23 > 0:10:25Whitesnake and Black Sabbath?
0:10:28 > 0:10:31I can't really talk too much about this, because it is obvious,
0:10:31 > 0:10:34having done it, and you've asked a drummer, as well - it is the drums.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39A bit of an inspiration, or not really your sort of music?
0:10:39 > 0:10:42If I'm honest, not really. More John Bonham for me.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45OK, right, we asked a drummer that, you're right.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48You have the lead, and a potential place in the final round.
0:10:49 > 0:10:53Chris, which opera by the US composer William Bolcom
0:10:53 > 0:10:57and based on a play by Arthur Miller was first performed in 1999?
0:11:03 > 0:11:09Given that it's more Greek tragedy than mere tragedy,
0:11:09 > 0:11:11like Death Of A Salesman, I'd say A View From The Bridge.
0:11:11 > 0:11:15A View From The Bridge. Yeah, that's the right answer.
0:11:15 > 0:11:16Yeah, A View From The Bridge.
0:11:16 > 0:11:22Well worked out, Chris. So, it's all square, and Sudden Death arrives.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25Yet again. All too soon. OK, Brett, you know what you've got to do.
0:11:25 > 0:11:26Can you tell me this?
0:11:26 > 0:11:31Tangled Up In Blue is an acclaimed song by which American singer-songwriter?
0:11:34 > 0:11:36I don't know. It sounds...
0:11:36 > 0:11:38Maybe it's just the colour,
0:11:38 > 0:11:41but it sounds something blues-ish, so, erm...
0:11:41 > 0:11:43I don't know, maybe Stevie Ray Vaughan, I don't know.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45I'm not sure, to be honest.
0:11:45 > 0:11:49OK, Stevie Ray Vaughan is not the right answer. Chris, do you know?
0:11:49 > 0:11:52- I know the title, but don't know who wrote it.- My goodness me.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Other Eggheads?
0:11:54 > 0:11:55- Bob Dylan?- Bob Dylan.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Bob Dylan, Tangled Up In Blue.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59OK, well, Chris, you take the round if you get it right here.
0:12:01 > 0:12:06Whose first UK top-ten single was A Boy Named Sue in 1969?
0:12:06 > 0:12:09Whose first UK top-ten single was
0:12:09 > 0:12:13A Boy Named Sue in 1969?
0:12:13 > 0:12:16That must be Johnny Cash, cos it was a Johnny Cash number.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20The answer is Johnny Cash, it's the right answer, Chris.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22Means you've won the round.
0:12:22 > 0:12:26Bad luck, Brett. Went blank for you there, didn't it, in Sudden Death?
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Means you won't be playing in the final round.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:12:31 > 0:12:36Average @ Best have lost two brains from the final round, the Eggheads haven't lost any.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39Our third head-to-head today is History.
0:12:39 > 0:12:41Who wants to play this?
0:12:45 > 0:12:48- I'll take it, but I'm rubbish! - We'll go with that, then!
0:12:50 > 0:12:55That's a good idea(!) I'd get straight in there if I could!
0:12:55 > 0:12:57So, take on one of the rubbish ones from the Eggheads!
0:12:57 > 0:13:01Chris and Pat have played, of course, so you have Barry, Judith or Daphne.
0:13:02 > 0:13:03Who do you think? I think Judith.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06- I agree.- I'll let Judith beat me!
0:13:07 > 0:13:08- Judith.- Judith, OK.
0:13:08 > 0:13:13So, Chris full of confidence there, "I'll let Judith beat me," he says.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16OK, let's have you both into the Question Room, please.
0:13:16 > 0:13:20So, Chris, you get to choose - do you want to go first or second?
0:13:20 > 0:13:21I think I'm going to go second.
0:13:24 > 0:13:25Judith, your first question.
0:13:25 > 0:13:29Where did Napoleon Bonaparte command an army in battle
0:13:29 > 0:13:30for the final time?
0:13:33 > 0:13:35I think that must be Waterloo.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37Pretty obvious, isn't it, taken from the phrasing,
0:13:37 > 0:13:39meeting your Waterloo. It's the right answer, yes.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42So, OK, Chris, you're settled in there now,
0:13:42 > 0:13:45and I'm sure you're going to get this. In the 17th century,
0:13:45 > 0:13:50John Bunyan was imprisoned for more than ten years for unlicensed what?
0:13:56 > 0:13:59It's going to have to be a little bit of a guess there.
0:13:59 > 0:14:00Which one do I like the best?
0:14:00 > 0:14:02I'm going to go for dancing.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05Wrong answer. It's not unlicensed dancing.
0:14:06 > 0:14:07It is preaching.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10OK, well, nothing there for Chris. Judith, your second question.
0:14:10 > 0:14:15In the 18th century, Robert Bakewell of Leicestershire became famous
0:14:15 > 0:14:18for the advances he made in which field?
0:14:23 > 0:14:26Well, 18th century was the beginning of the Industrial Revolution,
0:14:26 > 0:14:29so it could be coal mining.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31There's mines in Leicestershire, isn't there?
0:14:31 > 0:14:34I think I'm going to guess at coal mining. Cos I really don't know.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39Mines in Leicestershire - also some pretty nice, fat cattle.
0:14:39 > 0:14:40Oh, livestock?
0:14:40 > 0:14:42- Livestock breeding.- Oh, right.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45OK, livestock breeding was the answer we were looking for.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47So, Chris, chance to get back in it.
0:14:47 > 0:14:52Where was the controversy between the Celtic and Roman Churches
0:14:52 > 0:14:56over the date of Easter settled in the year 664?
0:15:00 > 0:15:04We're from Yorkshire, so I'm tending to go towards Whitby,
0:15:04 > 0:15:06just cos it's close to us.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08Yeah, I'll go for Whitby.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11Whitby? And it's the right answer.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14Hey! Hot diggity dog, you're back in!
0:15:14 > 0:15:18All square. Another question apiece, and this is yours, Judith.
0:15:18 > 0:15:22What was the name of the rebel emperor who seized power
0:15:22 > 0:15:26in Roman Britain and northern Gaul in about AD 290?
0:15:31 > 0:15:33I have no idea.
0:15:33 > 0:15:39I really don't know. I'm just tending towards Cassivellaunus. I don't know.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41- Cassivellaunus?- Mmm.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44Not he. No, it's the wrong answer.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47Other Eggheads, do we know, of those two?
0:15:47 > 0:15:49- Prasutagus.- Prasutagus, no, not him.
0:15:49 > 0:15:54No, so anyone else got any idea?! I'll throw it over to you, then!
0:15:54 > 0:15:56Yes, you're right, it's Carausius!
0:15:56 > 0:15:57See, they're better than you!
0:15:57 > 0:16:02Which means, Chris, you win it, you get into the final round
0:16:02 > 0:16:05if you give me a correct answer here. In 946,
0:16:05 > 0:16:08which Anglo-Saxon king is believed to have been killed
0:16:08 > 0:16:13by an outlaw called Leof in Pucklechurch in Gloucestershire?
0:16:17 > 0:16:20It's going to have to be another guess.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23Which one I hopefully get lucky and pick the right one?
0:16:23 > 0:16:26I quite like the name of Edgar The Peaceful, but it seems a bit harsh.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29I might go with him anyway. I'm going to go with Edgar The Peaceful.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31OK. It's not the right answer.
0:16:33 > 0:16:34Judith, of the other two?
0:16:34 > 0:16:38- Athelstan?- No. This is good, isn't it(!)
0:16:38 > 0:16:40Edmund I. It's all square still.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42Well, we go to Sudden Death.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44As you know, Chris, it means we have
0:16:44 > 0:16:48no more choices for you now to guess at, should you need to do so.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50Judith, the independent state of Belgium was established
0:16:50 > 0:16:52in which century?
0:16:52 > 0:16:56I think it might have been the 19th century.
0:16:56 > 0:16:57It's the right answer, correct.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00OK, she's got that, which means you need to get this, Chris.
0:17:02 > 0:17:06President Sadi Carnot, who was assassinated by an anarchist
0:17:06 > 0:17:10called Sante Geronimo Caserio in 1894, was the leader
0:17:10 > 0:17:12of which country's government?
0:17:14 > 0:17:17I'm going to go for an Asian country. I'll go for...
0:17:17 > 0:17:18I'll say something stupid here.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20I'll go for Saudi Arabia.
0:17:20 > 0:17:21OK, Saudi Arabia?
0:17:22 > 0:17:23Leader of France.
0:17:23 > 0:17:27- Nowhere near!- Not Saudi. Bad luck, didn't know it.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30It means, Chris, you won't be in the final round.
0:17:30 > 0:17:32Judith, you made it. You'll play for the Eggheads.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:17:35 > 0:17:36Well, as it stands,
0:17:36 > 0:17:40Average @ Best have lost three brains from the final round.
0:17:40 > 0:17:41The Eggheads haven't lost any.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43Our last head-to-head is Arts & Books,
0:17:43 > 0:17:46and Oli or Laura, it falls on one of you to play it.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48- I think that's you, Laura, don't you?- Yeah, that's me.
0:17:48 > 0:17:49Good on you, Laura.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52And the remaining Eggheads you can play are Daphne or Barry.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54Would you like to play Daphne?
0:17:54 > 0:17:56- Daphne.- Yeah.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58I think I'll play Daphne, please.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01All right. Laura and Daphne, then, playing Arts & Books.
0:18:01 > 0:18:03Into the Question Room, please.
0:18:03 > 0:18:07Laura, would you like the first set of questions or the second set?
0:18:07 > 0:18:09I would like the first set, please.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14Good luck, Laura, here it comes.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17Which fictional character famously swears
0:18:17 > 0:18:19she will never be hungry again?
0:18:23 > 0:18:28Erm... I think that Moll Flanders struggled a lot
0:18:28 > 0:18:34with being poor and having no money and things like that,
0:18:34 > 0:18:37so I will go with Moll Flanders.
0:18:37 > 0:18:41It's not, but poverty, yes, certainly there.
0:18:41 > 0:18:42It is Scarlett O'Hara.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45OK, Daphne, your first question.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49Whose painting entitled Eight Elvises reportedly changed hands
0:18:49 > 0:18:52in a private sale for more than 100 million in 2009?
0:18:57 > 0:19:00Sounds like Andy Warhol.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04Andy Warhol, Eight Elvises, yeah, it is Andy Warhol.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06So, gives you the lead.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09OK, Laura, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin was the original name
0:19:09 > 0:19:11of which leading French writer?
0:19:14 > 0:19:17That does not sound familiar to me at all,
0:19:17 > 0:19:18so it will have to be a guess.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23I think I'll go with Moliere.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26Good for you, it's the right answer. Yes, total guess, or...?
0:19:26 > 0:19:29Total guess.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31OK, doesn't matter. Daphne, your second question.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34The Dutch-born artist Kees van Dongen is best known
0:19:34 > 0:19:36for which type of work?
0:19:41 > 0:19:43I've not heard of him.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45Erm...
0:19:46 > 0:19:48Abstract sculpture.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51OK, abstract sculpture. No, it's not. Other Eggheads?
0:19:51 > 0:19:52Portrait painting.
0:19:52 > 0:19:54Portrait painting.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56- Oh, right.- Thank you, Eggheads.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58It's wrong. That's great news for you, Laura.
0:19:58 > 0:20:00You are right back in it,
0:20:00 > 0:20:03and a chance for a place in the final round if you give me a correct answer here.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06Whose 30 metre-tall sculpture Quantum Cloud,
0:20:06 > 0:20:10depicting a human figure within a lattice cloud of metal sections,
0:20:10 > 0:20:14was installed beside the Millennium Dome in 1999?
0:20:20 > 0:20:21Again, not too sure at all.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24Antony Gormley sounds familiar to me for some reason,
0:20:24 > 0:20:26from something that's come up recently,
0:20:26 > 0:20:29so I think I will go with that one.
0:20:29 > 0:20:33- Antony Gormley.- Antony Gormley, and it's the right answer.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35Well, I never!
0:20:36 > 0:20:39Now you're in the lead.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42Well, Daphne, which artist's painting
0:20:42 > 0:20:46of his friends Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz was
0:20:46 > 0:20:48one of very few double portraits he ever completed?
0:20:55 > 0:20:56Oh!
0:20:59 > 0:21:01Oh, dear! I don't know.
0:21:03 > 0:21:08I'm going to guess at Modigliani.
0:21:08 > 0:21:12Modigliani, a guess there. It is the right answer.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16So, we go to Sudden Death.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19Laura, I'm afraid you're going to have no choices to look at.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21Try this for size.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23What was the second novel to be published
0:21:23 > 0:21:25in the bestselling Harry Potter series of books?
0:21:28 > 0:21:29I'm stuck between two.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34Erm, I think I'm going to go with...
0:21:35 > 0:21:37..The Chamber Of Secrets.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40It's Chamber Of Secrets, it's the right answer, well done.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46So, potentially, in the final round.
0:21:47 > 0:21:51Daphne, if you get this wrong, you're out of the game.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53An early work Banksy was made
0:21:53 > 0:21:56when he climbed into the penguin enclosure at London Zoo
0:21:56 > 0:22:01and painted in six foot-high letters, "We're bored of" what?
0:22:03 > 0:22:04No idea!
0:22:06 > 0:22:10We are bored of...life.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12They're penguins, he's a witty guy.
0:22:12 > 0:22:14- We are bored of fish.- Oh!
0:22:14 > 0:22:16We're not bored of you, Daphne,
0:22:16 > 0:22:18but we're not going to be hearing any more from you
0:22:18 > 0:22:20in this game of Eggheads.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23Laura, well, well, well, well! Did you ever think you'd do that?
0:22:23 > 0:22:28- Especially after your first question?- Absolutely not!- You've defied the odds, taken out Daphne,
0:22:28 > 0:22:30one of her strong subjects, as well.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33You're in the final round, Oli's not going to be on his own.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36Would you both, please, come back and join your teams?
0:22:36 > 0:22:38So, then, this is what we've been playing towards.
0:22:38 > 0:22:39It's time for the final round,
0:22:39 > 0:22:41which, as always, is General Knowledge.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44But those of you that lost your head-to-heads
0:22:44 > 0:22:46won't be allowed to take part in this round,
0:22:46 > 0:22:49so Chris, Kunal and Brett from Average @ Best
0:22:49 > 0:22:53and Daphne from the Eggheads, leave the studio now. Be gone, Daphne!
0:22:54 > 0:22:56So, then, Oli and Laura,
0:22:56 > 0:23:00you're playing to win Average @ Best £14,000.
0:23:00 > 0:23:01Chris, Barry, Pat and Judith,
0:23:01 > 0:23:05you're playing to win something money cannot buy, no amount of it.
0:23:05 > 0:23:06It is your very own reputation.
0:23:06 > 0:23:10As usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13This time, the questions are all General Knowledge,
0:23:13 > 0:23:15and you are allowed to confer in this final round, of course.
0:23:15 > 0:23:20So, Average @ Best, the question is, are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?
0:23:20 > 0:23:23Average @ Best, would you like to go first or second?
0:23:23 > 0:23:25First, yeah? First, please, Dermot.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31OK, well, serious stuff, there's £14,000 at stake,
0:23:31 > 0:23:34and your first question, General Knowledge. Here it comes.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37In which year did the Philippines cease to be
0:23:37 > 0:23:40a Commonwealth of the United States of America?
0:23:45 > 0:23:49I've genuinely no honest idea, but what do you think?
0:23:49 > 0:23:51From the USA, how long ago?
0:23:52 > 0:23:55- I wouldn't have thought it was 17.- No.
0:23:55 > 0:23:56I think that's too far.
0:23:56 > 0:24:00I think it's 18. I think we should go 18. What do you think?
0:24:00 > 0:24:04I'm happy to go with you if you think 1846! No pressure!
0:24:04 > 0:24:05We'll say 1846, Dermot.
0:24:05 > 0:24:09OK, 1846. 1746, we're ruling out. Of course, long before
0:24:09 > 0:24:12the foundation of the United States of America,
0:24:12 > 0:24:13so good shout on that.
0:24:13 > 0:24:17But it's 1946. Yeah, Oli!
0:24:17 > 0:24:18You knew where it was going there. 1946.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20So, Eggheads, can you take the lead?
0:24:20 > 0:24:24The type of computer files that are marked with
0:24:24 > 0:24:29the filename extension .exe are referred to by which term?
0:24:34 > 0:24:36These are executable files.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39Executable is the right answer, Eggheads, yes.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42It means there's work to be done here, Average @ Best.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45Oli and Laura, turn your mind to this one.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48The French actress Catherine Deneuve became the muse
0:24:48 > 0:24:50for which fashion designer
0:24:50 > 0:24:54after working with him on the 1967 film Belle De Jour?
0:24:57 > 0:24:59Again, genuinely, I am struggling.
0:24:59 > 0:25:02That's more your field, if anything, than mine.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05- Do you have any inkling? - I'm trying to think, from the '60s,
0:25:05 > 0:25:09what would be more likely from that sort of time.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12YSL, would you say he...?
0:25:12 > 0:25:16That is the one that I was thinking of, but I couldn't say why.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18It's going to be a punt anyway, so what do you think?
0:25:18 > 0:25:20Yeah, Yves Saint Laurent.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22- Yeah?- Yeah.
0:25:22 > 0:25:23We'll go Yves Saint Laurent.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25Yves Saint Laurent, again on Laura's instinct.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28It took her through a very tough round against Daphne.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30You've done it again!
0:25:30 > 0:25:33You've taken over from Daphne for this guessing business.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36Yves Saint Laurent is the right answer.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39Well, there we go, you're all square,
0:25:39 > 0:25:42but it might not stay that way if the Eggheads get this,
0:25:42 > 0:25:46their second question. To what was Albert Einstein referring
0:25:46 > 0:25:48when he described it as "an infantile disease,
0:25:48 > 0:25:50"it is the measles of mankind"?
0:25:54 > 0:25:55I think it's religion.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57I would have thought nationalism.
0:25:57 > 0:25:58I would have fancied nationalism.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00He wasn't anti-religious as such.
0:26:00 > 0:26:03And he certainly wasn't anti-capitalist.
0:26:03 > 0:26:07- Are we all happy with that?- It's a guess for me, it's just a guess.
0:26:07 > 0:26:08We don't truly know,
0:26:08 > 0:26:11but the consensus of opinion is that it's probably nationalism.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13Nationalism, you think.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16It is the right answer, Eggheads. Yeah, nationalism.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18Well, that means you've got to get this, then,
0:26:18 > 0:26:20Oli and Laura, good luck.
0:26:20 > 0:26:24In 2005, a memorial to the horse Persian Punch was unveiled
0:26:24 > 0:26:26at which racecourse?
0:26:30 > 0:26:31- What do you think?- Honestly,
0:26:31 > 0:26:34I couldn't even hazard a guess.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36I'm ruling out Ascot in my head.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39I've no idea, I can't back that up in any way, but that's what I'm doing.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41So, we'll see how that goes!
0:26:41 > 0:26:43What would you think between those two?
0:26:43 > 0:26:45Newmarket.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48- Do you think Newmarket? - That's what I would have said.
0:26:48 > 0:26:55Sadly again, Dermot, it's yet another guess, and it's going to be...
0:26:55 > 0:26:56- Are you sure?- Yeah.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58- We're going to go for Newmarket.- Newmarket.
0:27:00 > 0:27:01It's the right answer as well!
0:27:01 > 0:27:05Newmarket, it's correct.
0:27:05 > 0:27:10You kept your hopes alive, but the Eggheads have a chance here.
0:27:10 > 0:27:14Eggheads, to win the game, which one of the Big Four venomous snakes
0:27:14 > 0:27:18of South Asia has the scientific name Naja naja?
0:27:23 > 0:27:24It's the Indian cobra.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26I think it's the Indian cobra as well.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29In Indian mythology, Nagas are snakes.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32Yeah, but that's snakes.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34And they're always shown by cobras?
0:27:34 > 0:27:36They're shown by cobras,
0:27:36 > 0:27:38and they're called Nagas.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40- Indian cobra. - I think that makes sense.
0:27:40 > 0:27:41- OK, we're all agreed?- Yep.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43Right, we believe
0:27:43 > 0:27:44it's the Indian cobra.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46Indian cobra.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48Are you going to deliver that poisonous bite
0:27:48 > 0:27:50to Average @ Best? Yes, you are.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53It's the right answer, Eggheads, you've won.
0:27:58 > 0:28:02Well, in spite of some remarkable and informed guessing,
0:28:02 > 0:28:06there was something, I think, going on there that led you so unerringly
0:28:06 > 0:28:09in so many cases, especially you, Laura, to the right answer,
0:28:09 > 0:28:13but not to be against the combined might of those four Eggheads,
0:28:13 > 0:28:17just too much for you in that final round. But nice to see you, Average @ Best, thank you very much.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19Indeed for playing the Eggheads today
0:28:19 > 0:28:21and giving them a run for that money.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24But the Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them,
0:28:24 > 0:28:25and their winning streak goes on.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28I'm afraid you won't be going home with that £14,000,
0:28:28 > 0:28:31and that means, of course, the money rolls over to the next show.
0:28:31 > 0:28:34Eggheads, congratulations, who will beat you?
0:28:34 > 0:28:35Join us next time to see
0:28:35 > 0:28:39if a new team of challengers have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:39 > 0:28:43£15,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.
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