0:00:04 > 0:00:09These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:11 > 0:00:17arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:22 > 0:00:26Welcome to Eggheads, the show where each team of five quiz challengers
0:00:26 > 0:00:30pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:31They are the Eggheads.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34Taking on the awesome might of our quiz Goliaths today are...
0:00:36 > 0:00:39Now, this family team confessed to being a very competitive bunch.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42No biting, gouging or hair-pulling for the next half an hour, please.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44Let's meet them.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47Hello, I'm Peter, I'm 49, and I'm a retired police officer.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51Hi, I'm Paula, I'm 46, and I'm a taxi driver.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55Hi, I'm Frank, I'm 52, and I'm also a taxi driver.
0:00:55 > 0:01:00Hello, I'm Liz, I'm 62, and I'm a retired literary agent.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04Hello, I'm Julie, I'm 56, and I'm a medical secretary.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06Well, welcome to you, Mersey Magic.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09Let's untangle the family links here for the audience.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13Peter, you're Paula's brother, and down the end there we've got
0:01:13 > 0:01:18Liz and Julie who are sisters, and you are cousins.
0:01:18 > 0:01:22- You four are cousins, and Frank, you're married to Paula. - That's right.- Ha-ha! Got it there.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25Now, let's play the quiz, then. Best of luck, Mersey Magic.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28Every day there's £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs for our challengers.
0:01:28 > 0:01:32However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36So, Mersey Magic, the Eggheads have won the last 18 games.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39That means £19,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41- No pressure, then. - No pressure at all!
0:01:41 > 0:01:43Let's play the first round, then.
0:01:43 > 0:01:47First try to knock an Egghead out on the subject of Arts & Books.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50Who would like to take this one on? Arts & Books.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52THEY CONFER We'll send Liz in for this one.
0:01:52 > 0:01:56OK, Liz, and you can choose any of those wonderful Eggheads.
0:01:56 > 0:02:00- I choose Chris.- Chris? I said the wonderful Eggheads.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05OK, let's have Liz and Chris into the Question Room
0:02:05 > 0:02:08just to make sure you can't confer.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10Right, Liz, do you want to go first or second?
0:02:10 > 0:02:12I'll go first, please.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17Best of luck, Liz. Here's your first question, then.
0:02:17 > 0:02:22The Dastard's Guide To Fame And Fortune is the subtitle of Shepherd Mead's 1952 book
0:02:22 > 0:02:27How To Succeed In Business Without Really...what?
0:02:29 > 0:02:32I think it's Trying.
0:02:32 > 0:02:37How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying is correct, yes.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39And, first question, Chris.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41In a 2011 production at the National Theatre,
0:02:41 > 0:02:44Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch
0:02:44 > 0:02:49alternated the lead roles in which play adapted by Nick Dear from a classic novel?
0:02:53 > 0:02:58Well, I don't think they could adapt Brave New World into a stage play.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01It's Huxley's dystopian future.
0:03:01 > 0:03:05Dombey and Son, being Dickens, would be a sprawling, great thing.
0:03:05 > 0:03:06I don't think it was that either.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09But I can quite see Benedict Cumberbatch, in particular,
0:03:09 > 0:03:11as Frankenstein. So, it'll be Frankenstein.
0:03:11 > 0:03:13Frankenstein. Other Eggheads?
0:03:13 > 0:03:15- It is.- It is the right answer.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18Yes, rotated between Jonny Lee Miller, the lead role,
0:03:18 > 0:03:20and Benedict Cumberbatch.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22OK, 1-1, and back to Liz.
0:03:22 > 0:03:26In which of Shakespeare's plays is the title character
0:03:26 > 0:03:27poisoned by a monk?
0:03:33 > 0:03:36I don't really know, but I'll guess...
0:03:36 > 0:03:38King John.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41Good guess! It's the right answer, yes.
0:03:42 > 0:03:46Chris, which occupation is mentioned in the title
0:03:46 > 0:03:49of the Christopher Marlowe poem that begins with the line,
0:03:49 > 0:03:52"Come live with me and be my love?"
0:03:54 > 0:03:58Ah, that's a pastoral sort of thing, isn't it? So, it'll be a shepherd.
0:03:58 > 0:04:03Ah, very good, Chris! Yes, some excellent quizzing here. All square.
0:04:03 > 0:04:09Liz, the large bronze sculpture entitled Nuclear Energy
0:04:09 > 0:04:13unveiled in 1967 in the grounds of the University of Chicago
0:04:13 > 0:04:18to mark the 25th anniversary of the first nuclear chain reaction there,
0:04:18 > 0:04:21is a work by which British artist?
0:04:26 > 0:04:30- I think it's Henry Moore, by the year.- OK.
0:04:30 > 0:04:32Nice short answer to a very long question.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35It's the right answer. Well done, Liz.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39Well, Chris, work to do!
0:04:39 > 0:04:44Alvin Langdon Coburn was a pioneer in which artistic field?
0:04:46 > 0:04:48(Coburn.)
0:04:50 > 0:04:52- Ooh.- Alvin Langdon Coburn.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54Well, he sounds like an American.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56Eh...
0:04:58 > 0:05:01I've not heard of him in connection with architecture.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04And pottery, there's been no real innovation
0:05:04 > 0:05:09since the times of Josiah Wedgwood and co, so since he sounds American
0:05:09 > 0:05:13and since it's a relatively new art form, I'll go with photography.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16And you've worked it out. It's the right answer, Chris. All square.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19So, we go to Sudden Death, Liz, and that means we take away those
0:05:19 > 0:05:22choices that you've been working so well with up to now.
0:05:22 > 0:05:23OK, here you go.
0:05:23 > 0:05:29In the late 1940s, which prolific modern artist moved to Valaurie
0:05:29 > 0:05:35in the south of France where he produced numerous works in ceramics?
0:05:35 > 0:05:38Dali. Salvador Dali.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41It's not Salvador Dali. It is... Eggheads?
0:05:41 > 0:05:46- Picasso.- Picasso, Pablo Picasso.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48OK, well, a chance for you, Chris.
0:05:48 > 0:05:55Which decade of the 20th century did WH Auden described as a "low, dishonest decade."
0:05:55 > 0:05:56It must have been the '30s.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02- What are you looking at me like that for, Daphne?- No.
0:06:02 > 0:06:06- Waiting for you to agree. - It is the right answer, yes.
0:06:08 > 0:06:09It is correct, Chris.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12Well, Liz, bad luck there, but not to be on the day.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15It means you won't be helping your teammates in Mersey Magic
0:06:15 > 0:06:16in the final round.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:06:20 > 0:06:23Well, Liz came so close there, and that means then that you're
0:06:23 > 0:06:26going to be missing from the final round.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29The Eggheads, of course, all still there after one round.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31Second-round coming up now is Science.
0:06:31 > 0:06:34Who would like to play this one?
0:06:34 > 0:06:36- Julie? Julie will do it.- Julie, OK.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39This is a well oiled plan swinging into operation!
0:06:39 > 0:06:42- Choose a Egghead, anyone apart from Chris.- Leave Daphne alone.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44I think I'll play Daphne, please.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49I have someone there saying, "Leave Daphne alone,"
0:06:49 > 0:06:50and Julie said, "No, no, no!
0:06:50 > 0:06:51"We'll play Daphne."
0:06:51 > 0:06:54- Leave you alone! - I knew that was coming.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59Well, Daphne is playing this against Julie.
0:06:59 > 0:07:03Into the Question Room, both of you, please.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05Well, Julie, how do you want to play this?
0:07:05 > 0:07:09Do you want to start let Daphne take the first set of questions?
0:07:09 > 0:07:10I think I'll go first, please.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15Off we go, then.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17Science is the category, and this is your question, Julie.
0:07:17 > 0:07:22The American engineer Simon Lake gave the name Argonaut to
0:07:22 > 0:07:27his attempt in the 1890s to create a prototype of what type of vehicle?
0:07:29 > 0:07:30Erm...
0:07:30 > 0:07:34Well, on the basis that it's a seagoing vehicle
0:07:34 > 0:07:38and so was the Argo, I would say submarine.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40And you'd be right to. Yes, correct. Submarine.
0:07:41 > 0:07:46Daphne, swallowed by some animals to aid digestion, what are gastroliths?
0:07:50 > 0:07:52- They are stones. - Oh, and how do they help?
0:07:54 > 0:07:58I haven't actually done it myself, so I don't know!
0:07:58 > 0:08:00It's the right answer, yes, gastroliths.
0:08:00 > 0:08:04Stones swallowed by some animals to aid digestion.
0:08:04 > 0:08:09OK, and your second question, Julie.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12Cordefan, Massai and Rothschild are subspecies of what mammal?
0:08:15 > 0:08:19I think it's a giraffe.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21It is, that's the right answer.
0:08:21 > 0:08:23OK, second question, Daphne.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26What is the more common term for the plants known
0:08:26 > 0:08:28collectively as potamogeton?
0:08:35 > 0:08:40Well, pota... I suppose it's something to do with rivers.
0:08:40 > 0:08:44Rivers, hogweed, bulrushes...
0:08:44 > 0:08:46SHE MUMBLES
0:08:46 > 0:08:53..live in swamps. Oh, dear! What an awful question! Erm...
0:08:55 > 0:08:56Mangrove.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59Mangrove. Awful question. Julie's thinking, "Good!"
0:08:59 > 0:09:02- Yeah, the whatever it didn't really narrow it down, did it?- No.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05All involved there and you got the wrong answer. It is...
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Other Eggheads, do you know?
0:09:07 > 0:09:10- Pondweed?- Bulrushes?- Pondweed.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13So, two goes and you wouldn't have got it! Pondweed. Right.
0:09:13 > 0:09:17Well, Julie, you're straight into the final round if you give me
0:09:17 > 0:09:19a correct answer here.
0:09:19 > 0:09:24The Solvay process is used to produce large quantities
0:09:24 > 0:09:25of which compound?
0:09:29 > 0:09:34S-O-L-V-A-Y. The Solvay process.
0:09:34 > 0:09:39I have to guess this cos I really don't know.
0:09:39 > 0:09:43And I'm going to say copper sulphate.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Copper sulphate for the Solvay process
0:09:45 > 0:09:47and a place in the final round.
0:09:47 > 0:09:54Well, no! It's the wrong answer. It is sodium carbonate.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57Well, can you solve this one, Daphne?
0:09:57 > 0:10:02In mathematics, what name is given to the decimal part of a logarithm?
0:10:06 > 0:10:07Mantissa.
0:10:09 > 0:10:14Is, I'm pained to say, correct. It's the right answer, yes.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17OK. Well, a chance there for Julie,
0:10:17 > 0:10:20but into Sudden Death like her sister, Liz.
0:10:20 > 0:10:24And this is your first Sudden Death question, Julie.
0:10:24 > 0:10:28In computing and the analysis of computer performance,
0:10:28 > 0:10:33what is the term for a trillion or ten to the power of 12,
0:10:33 > 0:10:37floating-point operations per second?
0:10:38 > 0:10:40Is a tetrabyte?
0:10:40 > 0:10:42- Tetrabyte?- Yeah.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45No. Daphne, any idea?
0:10:45 > 0:10:47Is it something like a permaFLOP?
0:10:47 > 0:10:50Oooh, you're close. It's not that.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53Barry, we'll single you out here. You're trying to hide there.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56Normally, when we get these kinds of questions, you're, "Me, me, me."
0:10:56 > 0:11:00- I wasn't sure. The flop bit's right. - The flop bit is right. It's only
0:11:00 > 0:11:03- out of interest because it wasn't identified by Julie.- PetraFLOP?
0:11:03 > 0:11:07It's not. It's a teraFLOP. A teraFLOP or a TFLOP.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10OK. Your question is this, Daphne.
0:11:10 > 0:11:14A gyrus is a fold or ridge in which organ of the human body?
0:11:14 > 0:11:17A gyrus. G-Y-R-U-S.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20Hmmm.
0:11:20 > 0:11:21The brain?
0:11:23 > 0:11:24No?
0:11:24 > 0:11:28Yes. The brain is correct.
0:11:28 > 0:11:34Yes. Your gyrus is working very well there, Daphne, as always.
0:11:34 > 0:11:38One point, Julie. Very close to getting through there
0:11:38 > 0:11:39on the Solvay process.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42A chance there, didn't happen for you,
0:11:42 > 0:11:44means you won't be in the final round.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:11:47 > 0:11:49Just so unlucky. Getting so close,
0:11:49 > 0:11:52both Liz and Julie, the sisters there.
0:11:52 > 0:11:53But not in the final round.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56It means Mersey Magic have lost two brains from the final round.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58The Eggheads are all still there. Round three
0:11:58 > 0:12:01in the head-to-heads. This one is Music.
0:12:01 > 0:12:06So who'd like to play this? It's Peter, Paula or Frank? Music.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09- You do it.- Me? Are you sure? - Yeah.- That would be me, Dermot.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11OK, Frank. Who would you like to play?
0:12:11 > 0:12:15Chris and Daphne have already played so it's Barry, CJ or Kevin.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18- Barry.- Yeah, do Barry.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20- Go Barry.- Barry, please.- OK.
0:12:20 > 0:12:25Barry, let's have Frank and Barry into the Question Room now then.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29Well, let's hope the magic works for you, Frank.
0:12:29 > 0:12:33- Do you want to go first or second? - I'll go first, please.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38Music it is then. Frank's first question.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40"They told him don't you ever come around here,
0:12:40 > 0:12:42"Don't want to see your face, you'd better disappear"
0:12:42 > 0:12:47are the first lines of which Michael Jackson hit?
0:12:50 > 0:12:53It's definitely not Thriller or Bad
0:12:53 > 0:12:56and it's definitely Beat It.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59It's the right answer, Beat It. Yep, correct.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02Barry, who had a UK top-ten hit in 1976
0:13:02 > 0:13:05with a version of The Who's Pinball Wizard?
0:13:08 > 0:13:11Well, I can't imagine Elvis Presley or Engelbert Humperdinck
0:13:11 > 0:13:13singing a version of Pinball Wizard
0:13:13 > 0:13:15so I'll go for Elton John.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17Right round your era, wasn't it?
0:13:17 > 0:13:19Were you able to see out of the hair at that stage?
0:13:19 > 0:13:22- Something like that.- It's correct. Yes, Elton John.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24One-all. And Frank...
0:13:24 > 0:13:26which Rogers and Hammerstein musical
0:13:26 > 0:13:29features the song, Hello, Young Lovers?
0:13:35 > 0:13:37I don't think it's Carousel.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39The King and I...
0:13:40 > 0:13:42I think I'll go with South Pacific.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44South Pacific for Hello, Young Lovers...
0:13:44 > 0:13:47I don't think the others agree
0:13:47 > 0:13:50and they're right to not agree, to disagree with you.
0:13:50 > 0:13:52It is the King and I. It's the King and I.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54But a chance for the lead for Barry then.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57Neil Peart, Alex Lifeson
0:13:57 > 0:14:02and Geddy Lee are long-standing members of which Canadian rock band
0:14:02 > 0:14:04formed in 1968?
0:14:08 > 0:14:10I don't know the answer to this one
0:14:10 > 0:14:13and the only one of those groups that I'm afraid to say I've heard of
0:14:13 > 0:14:15is Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18So on no other basis than that, I shall go for
0:14:18 > 0:14:20Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22It's not the right answer though. It's Rush.
0:14:22 > 0:14:25Members of Rush. OK, well, no damage done then, Frank,
0:14:25 > 0:14:28apart from the fact you would have had the lead.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31But here's your third question. On which instrument
0:14:31 > 0:14:34would one normally execute a pataflafla?
0:14:37 > 0:14:39Pataflafla?!
0:14:39 > 0:14:43Yeah! P-A-T-A-F-L-A-F-L-A, all one word.
0:14:45 > 0:14:49It's going to be definitely a guess
0:14:49 > 0:14:51and I would guess drum.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54Guess at drum. It's the right answer, Frank.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58It means you've got to get this, Barry.
0:14:58 > 0:15:02Which classical composer spent the final years of his life
0:15:02 > 0:15:04composing a series of short works
0:15:04 > 0:15:07which he collectively entitled Sins Of Old Age?
0:15:11 > 0:15:14Well, Schubert and Chopin both died relatively young,
0:15:14 > 0:15:17so the only one that it's likely to be is Rossini.
0:15:17 > 0:15:22I know Rossini didn't really compose very much after the age of 39.
0:15:22 > 0:15:25I think he spent most of his remaining years eating fine food,
0:15:25 > 0:15:28but I've got a sneaking suspicion that this was Rossini.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32Eating fine food and composing Sins Of Old Age is the right answer.
0:15:32 > 0:15:34Yes, well worked out, Barry.
0:15:34 > 0:15:38And once again, three rounds out of three so far.
0:15:38 > 0:15:39We go to Sudden Death, Frank.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel
0:15:41 > 0:15:44is one of the people credited with the invention
0:15:44 > 0:15:47of which aid to musical tempo?
0:15:47 > 0:15:52So clearly that surname is W-I-N-K-E-L.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54Would that be the metronome?
0:15:54 > 0:15:56It would be. That's the right answer, yes.
0:15:56 > 0:16:00Barry, founded in 1950 and featuring such acts
0:16:00 > 0:16:02as Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon,
0:16:02 > 0:16:06Chess Records was based in which US city?
0:16:07 > 0:16:10Muddy Waters suggests the blues,
0:16:10 > 0:16:14so we're looking at possibly Memphis, Nashville or New Orleans.
0:16:17 > 0:16:21It must be one of those three but which one?
0:16:23 > 0:16:25Try New Orleans.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27- Didn't matter what you went for, all wrong.- Oh!
0:16:27 > 0:16:30- It's Chicago.- Gosh. Way off.
0:16:30 > 0:16:35Chicago. Which means, well, Frank, you're through to the final round.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38Even you'd accept you were pretty lucky there.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41You were facing the quiz version of the hangman's noose there...
0:16:41 > 0:16:44- Definitely.- ..and the last-minute reprieve came in...
0:16:44 > 0:16:45Pataflafla flew in.
0:16:45 > 0:16:49..just as you were standing on the trapdoor. You are in the final round.
0:16:49 > 0:16:53Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:16:53 > 0:16:56The clouds are beginning to part for Mersey Magic.
0:16:56 > 0:17:00They have now ejected an Egghead in the form of Barry.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02It means the Eggheads have lost one brain,
0:17:02 > 0:17:04Mersey Magic have lost two
0:17:04 > 0:17:06as we approach our last head-to-head.
0:17:06 > 0:17:12This subject is Politics. And it's Peter or Paula to play. Politics.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14INAUDIBLE MUMBLING
0:17:14 > 0:17:19- Go on. I'll play, Dermot.- OK. And you've got CJ or Kevin to face.
0:17:19 > 0:17:20- I'll take CJ on, please.- OK.
0:17:20 > 0:17:24CJ and Peter, could I ask you both please to go to the Question Room?
0:17:25 > 0:17:29Well, Peter, do you want to go first or second in this Politics round?
0:17:29 > 0:17:31I'll go first please, Dermot.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35Good luck, Peter. First question.
0:17:35 > 0:17:39What term did the US politician Sarah Palin famously coin
0:17:39 > 0:17:40to describe both herself
0:17:40 > 0:17:44and the female Republican politicians she approves of?
0:17:48 > 0:17:51Well, I'm not really sure of this one, Dermot. But I can't...
0:17:51 > 0:17:54see that they'd call themselves Mama Grizzlies...
0:17:55 > 0:17:57..so I'm going to go for...
0:17:58 > 0:18:01- ..Super Cougars.- Super Cougars.
0:18:01 > 0:18:02No, it's not Super Cougars.
0:18:02 > 0:18:08CJ's a big fan of Sarah Palin, I know, and her politics. So he knows.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10Unfortunately, I do. It is Mama Grizzlies.
0:18:10 > 0:18:14Mama Grizzlies along with Hockey Moms as well. That's another one.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16CJ, which Liberal Democrat MP
0:18:16 > 0:18:20became Chief Secretary to the Treasury in May, 2010?
0:18:23 > 0:18:26I think that's Danny Alexander.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28Danny Alexander is correct.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30Yes, made Chief Secretary on the early resignation,
0:18:30 > 0:18:34- very early on in the government, of... Can you tell me?- David Laws.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36David Laws. OK.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38And Peter, second question.
0:18:38 > 0:18:39"Who governs Britain?"
0:18:39 > 0:18:42was the slogan used by which party
0:18:42 > 0:18:45in the general election of February, 1974?
0:18:48 > 0:18:50Well, I'm not really sure of this one either, Dermot.
0:18:50 > 0:18:53But I'm going to go for Labour.
0:18:53 > 0:18:57Labour, who governs Britain? February, 1974.
0:18:57 > 0:18:59It's not the right answer.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01CJ?
0:19:01 > 0:19:03No, I don't know this one either.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05It is the Conservatives.
0:19:05 > 0:19:08It was Ted Heath beset by industrial problems.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11Is it the unions or is it the government?
0:19:11 > 0:19:14With the lights going out and minors' strikes and things.
0:19:14 > 0:19:18It was the Conservatives who ended up with a minority
0:19:18 > 0:19:22Labour administration in February and a second election in 1974
0:19:22 > 0:19:25which Howard Wilson actually got a small majority.
0:19:25 > 0:19:29OK. Well, nothing there for Peter so a chance then
0:19:29 > 0:19:31for CJ to take the round.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34What is the present name of the organisation
0:19:34 > 0:19:37set up in 1978 as Helsinki Watch?
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Well, I'm a member of Human Rights Watch so...
0:19:46 > 0:19:50I don't know it but I will go for Human Rights Watch.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53Human Rights Watch of which you are a member
0:19:53 > 0:19:54is the right answer, CJ.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57You're in the final round. So for the first time in the game,
0:19:57 > 0:20:01no Sudden Death means, Peter, you won't be playing with Mersey Magic.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:20:05 > 0:20:07So, this is what we've been playing towards.
0:20:07 > 0:20:10It's time for the final round which as always is General Knowledge.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads won't be
0:20:13 > 0:20:15allowed to take part in this round.
0:20:15 > 0:20:19So Peter, Liz and Julie from Mersey Magic and Barry from the Eggheads,
0:20:19 > 0:20:22would you leave the studio now, please?
0:20:22 > 0:20:27So, Paula and Frank, you're playing to win Mersey Magic £19,000.
0:20:27 > 0:20:31Kevin, CJ, Daphne and Chris, you're playing for something
0:20:31 > 0:20:34which money can't buy, it's the Eggheads' reputation.
0:20:34 > 0:20:37As usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40The questions are all General Knowledge and you are allowed to confer.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42So, Paula and Frank, the question is,
0:20:42 > 0:20:45are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four brains?
0:20:45 > 0:20:48Paula and Frank, do you want to go first or second?
0:20:48 > 0:20:50We'd like to go first, please, Dermot.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55The first question then and best of luck with it.
0:20:55 > 0:21:00Who received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for the 1992 film
0:21:00 > 0:21:01The Crying Game?
0:21:05 > 0:21:07It definitely wasn't Stephen Fry.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10Stephen Rea or Stephen Baldwin?
0:21:10 > 0:21:14- Stephen Rea.- Stephen Rea? - Go with Stephen Rea.
0:21:14 > 0:21:18We think, we're not too sure, but we think it's Stephen Rea.
0:21:18 > 0:21:20Stephen Rae in The Crying Game.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22Yes, you're right. Well remembered.
0:21:22 > 0:21:26Eggheads, mass production of the Volkswagen Beetle
0:21:26 > 0:21:27began in which year?
0:21:31 > 0:21:33It was pre-war, wasn't it?
0:21:33 > 0:21:36- KdF-Wagen as it was originally. - Yeah, yeah.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39It was the people's car under the Third Reich
0:21:39 > 0:21:42so it was pre-Second World War, 1935.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45So you can do that on the dates? A Hitler project.
0:21:45 > 0:21:49It's the wrong answer, Eggheads. It's 1945.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51It's a real chance for you, Mersey Magic.
0:21:51 > 0:21:55What is the name of the farm in Somerset that is the venue
0:21:55 > 0:21:56for the Glastonbury Festival?
0:22:03 > 0:22:06I think Wincroft Farm is...
0:22:06 > 0:22:08Wincroft...
0:22:08 > 0:22:10- It's not Worthy Farm, is it?- No.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13Shall we go for Wincroft?
0:22:13 > 0:22:14Yeah, OK.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17We're not too sure again unfortunately.
0:22:17 > 0:22:22Um, we don't think it's Welham Farm and it's between the other two.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24- Shall we go for Wincroft?- Wincroft.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27- We'd like to go for Wincroft Farm, please.- OK, Wincroft Farm
0:22:27 > 0:22:29for the Glastonbury Festival.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31It is...
0:22:31 > 0:22:33Worthy Farm.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36So, chance for the Eggheads to get back in but they're still 1-0 down.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39Eggheads, the heart of which Scottish national hero
0:22:39 > 0:22:42is alleged to be buried at Melrose Abbey?
0:22:45 > 0:22:47That's Robert the Bruce.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49Robert the Bruce...
0:22:49 > 0:22:50is the correct answer.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53Barry's jumping around there. He's loving that.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55You're back in it but it's all square.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57Mersey Magic, third question.
0:22:57 > 0:23:02What was the name of the greyhound that in 1973 became the first dog
0:23:02 > 0:23:06since Mick the Miller in 1930 to win the English Greyhound Derby
0:23:06 > 0:23:08in two consecutive years?
0:23:15 > 0:23:17You've not heard of... You've got no inkling at all?
0:23:17 > 0:23:19I haven't heard... Erm, no...
0:23:19 > 0:23:21I don't know. Beef Cutlet sounds like...
0:23:21 > 0:23:23Yeah, I thought that.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Patricia's Hope? Erm...
0:23:26 > 0:23:28I don't know.
0:23:28 > 0:23:34- For some reason, I don't think Sonic Flight.- Between the first two.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37Shall we go for the Beef Cutlet?
0:23:37 > 0:23:41Again, Dermot, it is a guess cos we don't know.
0:23:41 > 0:23:45- We'd like to go for Beef Cutlet, please.- OK, Beef Cutlet.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48It's Patricia's Hope, though.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51And what a turnaround, potentially,
0:23:51 > 0:23:54for the Eggheads. If they get this, they've won the game.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59During the Cold War, the Spadeadam facility
0:23:59 > 0:24:02in Cumbria was used as a testing site for what?
0:24:07 > 0:24:09Any thoughts, Chris?
0:24:09 > 0:24:13It's marked on the Ordinance survey map as a danger area.
0:24:13 > 0:24:14Yeah, I don't...
0:24:14 > 0:24:18I don't think it's listening devices.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22It's... I definitely...
0:24:22 > 0:24:25Poison gas would be...
0:24:27 > 0:24:30- It is an artillery range so... - All I know is up there somewhere
0:24:30 > 0:24:34there's that place with the big, concrete dishes
0:24:34 > 0:24:36that they were using and a huge...
0:24:36 > 0:24:39- Can we have an answer, please? - My vote would be listening devices
0:24:39 > 0:24:42- but I don't know. It's just a guess. - I would say listening devices.
0:24:42 > 0:24:43You think rocket engines?
0:24:43 > 0:24:47- I think rocket engines, yeah.- What do you think?- We're split on this.
0:24:47 > 0:24:51Well, if you think rocket engines, if it's two-two, we'll go with you.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54Spadeadam...
0:24:54 > 0:24:55Rocket engines...
0:24:57 > 0:25:00OK, we'll go for listening devices.
0:25:00 > 0:25:04- We're going to go for listening devices.- Listening devices, OK.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06In spite of you thinking rocket engines.
0:25:06 > 0:25:08It is...
0:25:10 > 0:25:11..rocket engines.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Sorry, Chris.
0:25:13 > 0:25:17Well, well, well. I think you've got a charmed existence, Frank.
0:25:17 > 0:25:21- Something like that. - We go to Sudden Death.
0:25:21 > 0:25:25Still in it. Could be one question leads to the money.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28You know what happens in Sudden Death, I'll just remind you.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31No more choices until we find out who wins this game.
0:25:31 > 0:25:36Published in 1960, Sing As We Go
0:25:36 > 0:25:40is the autobiography of which British singer?
0:25:40 > 0:25:42THEY WHISPER
0:25:42 > 0:25:44- Do you want to go with that?- Yeah.
0:25:44 > 0:25:49We're not 100% sure but we're going to plump for Gracie Fields.
0:25:49 > 0:25:54Gracie Fields is the right answer. Hey, hey, hey!
0:25:54 > 0:25:56Don't hope yet. Let's see what the Eggheads do with this.
0:25:56 > 0:25:59Which sex symbol and film actress was born
0:25:59 > 0:26:04in 1956 with the name Mary Kathleen Collins?
0:26:04 > 0:26:06That's Bo Derek.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08Bo Derek is correct, Eggheads.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10Thought you might struggle with that
0:26:10 > 0:26:12but they know those kind of things.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14OK, Mersey Magic.
0:26:14 > 0:26:19What term was introduced by the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot
0:26:19 > 0:26:24in 1975 to describe an irregular shape
0:26:24 > 0:26:28produced by successive subdivisions of a similar figure?
0:26:28 > 0:26:30Irregular shape? Erm...
0:26:30 > 0:26:33I really don't know.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36Irregular shape, something...
0:26:38 > 0:26:40- Don't know.- I'm afraid we don't know. I'm sorry.
0:26:40 > 0:26:45- Nothing there? Not even a guess. - No.- Just not there.
0:26:45 > 0:26:49- Mathematics not your strong suit? - Or irregular shapes.
0:26:49 > 0:26:53All right, passing on that one. Do you know, Eggheads, out of interest?
0:26:53 > 0:26:56- Fractal.- Fractal. OK.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58But a chance again for the Eggheads.
0:26:58 > 0:27:02The leading US university called Johns Hopkins
0:27:02 > 0:27:05is based in which city?
0:27:05 > 0:27:07It's in Baltimore.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09Johns Hopkins...
0:27:09 > 0:27:11is in Baltimore. Eggheads, you have won.
0:27:18 > 0:27:19Well, I never.
0:27:19 > 0:27:23I think I've realised why we got the Volkswagen Beetle question wrong
0:27:23 > 0:27:27because it started... It was developed in the mid-30s
0:27:27 > 0:27:29and people's money was taken
0:27:29 > 0:27:31but they never took delivery of any cars.
0:27:31 > 0:27:33They only started to be produced and delivered
0:27:33 > 0:27:35after the war had finished.
0:27:35 > 0:27:39Presumably most of the industrial output aimed at war production.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42OK, right, well, that led to a very interesting game, anyway.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44We got deep into Sudden Death
0:27:44 > 0:27:47but just caught out by Benoit Mandelbrot.
0:27:47 > 0:27:51I think no shame in that! Thank you very much indeed for playing today.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54Frank, if you ever want to do the lottery,
0:27:54 > 0:27:55would you come round cos you're very lucky?
0:27:55 > 0:27:58- I'll give you a few numbers.- Give me a few numbers, you never know.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01Thank you very much, Mersey Magic. Great to see you all.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04The Eggheads have done what comes naturally and their winning streak continues.
0:28:04 > 0:28:08I'm afraid, you won't be going home with the £19,000.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11That means the money rolls over to the next show.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?
0:28:14 > 0:28:17Join us next time to see it if a new team of challengers
0:28:17 > 0:28:19have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:19 > 0:28:23£20,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.
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