0:00:04 > 0:00:08These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:15Together they make up the Eggheads, arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19The question is - can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:27Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers
0:00:27 > 0:00:32pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain. They are the Eggheads.
0:00:32 > 0:00:36And taking on our quiz champions today are The Sou'Westers,
0:00:36 > 0:00:38all members of the same cricket club
0:00:38 > 0:00:43who each summer tour the south-west of England looking for some competitive action. Let's meet them.
0:00:43 > 0:00:49Hello, I'm Martin. I'm 65 years old, a retired bank treasury manager.
0:00:49 > 0:00:53Hello, I'm Tony. I'm aged 65 and I'm a retired solicitor.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56Hi, my name's Sam, I'm 25 and I'm a music teacher.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00Hi, I'm Philip, I'm 60 years old and I'm a solicitor.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04Hello, I'm John, I'm 63 and I'm a tax adviser.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08- Martin and team, welcome.- Thank you. - So you tour as a cricket team?
0:01:08 > 0:01:13Yes. The only cricket we play together is one fortnight a year in the West Country.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16We have an overseas tour every four or five years.
0:01:16 > 0:01:21In fact, this year we've got one planned for Cape Town as well.
0:01:21 > 0:01:28- Very nice. Will you schedule matches before you go?- Yes, we have seven matches during our fortnight's stay.
0:01:28 > 0:01:32- That'll be good. This is a different kind of fixture.- Very different.
0:01:32 > 0:01:38- Some hard bowling maybe.- That's right. Mind you, most of us are past the best of our cricket careers.
0:01:38 > 0:01:43- You mean they are as well? - I wasn't implying that.- What we lack in energy, we've got in experience.
0:01:43 > 0:01:50- They do know a lot. Do you quiz together?- Not really because we don't live very close to each other.
0:01:50 > 0:01:55We're all within the Essex, Hertfordshire, Suffolk area, but we don't quiz together.
0:01:55 > 0:02:01Good luck. If this is your first moment not doing cricket, but doing quizzing, you may need it.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05Every day, there is £1,000 of cash up for grabs for our challengers.
0:02:05 > 0:02:09If they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12So, Sou'Westers, the Eggheads won the last game,
0:02:12 > 0:02:16which means £2,000 says you can't beat them today.
0:02:16 > 0:02:21- Shall we get cracking?- Yeah. - The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of History.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24Who's the History buff?
0:02:24 > 0:02:27- That'll be you, Philip, I think. - Is that me?- Yeah.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30- I'm happy to do that.- Philip, OK.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32Choose any Egghead on History.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35- What do you think?- Have a go at Pat.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38- Pat, do you think?- Yes, Pat.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40I'd like to go for Pat, please.
0:02:40 > 0:02:45OK, Philip from The Sou'Westers versus Pat from the Eggheads on History.
0:02:45 > 0:02:49To ensure no conferring, please take your positions in the question room.
0:02:49 > 0:02:56- So, Philip, you are a quizzer, I understand?- A bit of an amateur one, but I thoroughly enjoy quizzing.
0:02:56 > 0:03:02- You've been a solicitor for a long time?- Afraid so. 38 years, I think, so it's man and boy, a little bit.
0:03:02 > 0:03:08- You're a very young-looking 60 if you don't mind me saying.- You're very kind.- Where did you last quiz?
0:03:08 > 0:03:14I last quizzed in Dubai because Sam, as you may know, is my son.
0:03:14 > 0:03:20There are two other boys, one of whom lives in Dubai, and we quizzed with him a little while ago.
0:03:20 > 0:03:25This is History. Three multiple choice questions. You can choose the first or second set.
0:03:25 > 0:03:27I'll go first, please, Jeremy.
0:03:31 > 0:03:36Here is your question. Guy Fawkes was sentenced to death for which crime?
0:03:38 > 0:03:44Guy Fawkes was probably guilty of all of those things at various times.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47I'm sure he was a liar,
0:03:47 > 0:03:52but I think that he was guilty of high treason,
0:03:52 > 0:03:54so that's my answer, Jeremy.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56And high treason is right. Well done.
0:03:56 > 0:04:01First answer to the challengers. OK, Pat, your question.
0:04:01 > 0:04:07What name was given to the church officials whose job was to distribute money to the poor?
0:04:11 > 0:04:15Echoes of Canterbury Tales there - the Pardoner and the Summoner.
0:04:15 > 0:04:21A pardoner would concern himself with the pardoning of sins, presumably.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24I'm not entirely sure what a summoner would do,
0:04:24 > 0:04:27but "almoner" sounds like "alms", alms for the poor.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29I'll go for "almoner".
0:04:29 > 0:04:33Almoner is the right answer. One each. Back to you, Philip.
0:04:33 > 0:04:39The noblemen with lands on the England-Wales border, appointed by the King to keep order,
0:04:39 > 0:04:41were known by what title?
0:04:45 > 0:04:49It's not one I know, this one, Jeremy.
0:04:49 > 0:04:53I don't think it's Remembrancer, so I'm going to discount that.
0:04:53 > 0:04:57I'm hoping that it may be something to do with the Marches,
0:04:57 > 0:04:59so I'll go with Marcher Lord.
0:04:59 > 0:05:01You're right. It is Marcher Lord.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05Something to do with the Marches, help us understand that.
0:05:05 > 0:05:11The hills are sometimes called Marches, so I think that's why I went for that one.
0:05:11 > 0:05:15I don't know if it's the right explanation, but it's mine anyway.
0:05:15 > 0:05:20OK, Pat, what was the name of the Emperor who came to the throne of Germany in 1888
0:05:20 > 0:05:23and reigned for less than a year?
0:05:26 > 0:05:30Oh, man! That's not much time at the top - one year.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33Ernst, Sigismund or Friedrich.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35I'm afraid I don't know this.
0:05:35 > 0:05:401888, so he could have been between Wilhelms
0:05:40 > 0:05:42and various others.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45He would be known as Emperor Ernst,
0:05:45 > 0:05:48Emperor Sigismund, Emperor Friedrich...
0:05:48 > 0:05:52No, none of them really ring any bells.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54No, I'm reduced to a complete guess.
0:05:56 > 0:06:00I'll guess Friedrich with absolutely no confidence.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03- You've guessed right...- Oh!
0:06:03 > 0:06:06..which I guess is a bit annoying for the challengers.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10Friedrich is right. Did you just like the sound of it, Pat?
0:06:10 > 0:06:14I was a desperate man. I could have gone anywhere.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16Philip, your third question.
0:06:16 > 0:06:20Who led the Roman army that defeated Boudica and the Britons?
0:06:24 > 0:06:28I really ought to know this one as I live in Colchester,
0:06:28 > 0:06:32a Roman town, but I'm not sure of the answer.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35I'm going to discount Posthumus
0:06:35 > 0:06:39and I'm pretty sure that the answer is Paulinus.
0:06:39 > 0:06:44I'm not absolutely sure, but Paulinus is my answer.
0:06:44 > 0:06:48You really are a quizzer. You're quite right. It is Paulinus.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51OK, Pat, let's see if he's knocked you out.
0:06:51 > 0:06:56Which Belgian city was the capital of the Merovingian Dynasty
0:06:56 > 0:07:00and birthplace of the Frankish king Clovis I?
0:07:05 > 0:07:10Hmm... Charleroi has got "roi" on the end, meaning "king",
0:07:10 > 0:07:13which is perhaps relevant. I don't know.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15I don't know where Clovis was born.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21I'm reduced to guessing again. My luck will eventually run out.
0:07:21 > 0:07:26I'll go for Tournai this time. This is a dangerous way to carry on.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30- That's another guess?- Yes. - Do you think he's right, Philip?
0:07:30 > 0:07:33Yes, it's what I would have gone for.
0:07:33 > 0:07:37It seems very unfair, but you are right, Pat. It's Tournai.
0:07:37 > 0:07:41Guessing your way to Sudden Death here, so three each...
0:07:41 > 0:07:45Hang on in there, Philip. Your team would like to have you in the final.
0:07:45 > 0:07:51- It's Sudden Death now. It's a bit harder. I don't give you alternatives. OK?- Yeah.
0:07:51 > 0:07:55In 1842, Mary Todd married which future US President?
0:07:55 > 0:07:58American history is not my strength. Um...
0:07:58 > 0:08:02I'm going to go for George Washington.
0:08:02 > 0:08:07- Anyone on your team know? - Abraham Lincoln? - Abraham Lincoln is the right answer.
0:08:09 > 0:08:13It's going to be painful if we lose you.
0:08:13 > 0:08:18Pat, which major historical figure convened the hand-picked legislative group
0:08:18 > 0:08:21known as Barebones Parliament in 1653?
0:08:21 > 0:08:241653, um...
0:08:24 > 0:08:26That's post-Civil War.
0:08:26 > 0:08:31Who would it be? Is it in the middle of the Protectorate?
0:08:31 > 0:08:35The Civil War sort of petered out towards the end of the 1640s
0:08:35 > 0:08:41and the Protectorate ran for quite some time, maybe a decade, maybe 15 years afterwards.
0:08:41 > 0:08:46So my first thought is Oliver Cromwell, he being very much the top dog of that time.
0:08:46 > 0:08:50'53, I don't think that Charles II...
0:08:50 > 0:08:54He was back in '66, but I don't think he would have been back in '53.
0:08:54 > 0:08:58I think I'm going to have to go for Oliver Cromwell.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01If you've got this right, you will be in the final.
0:09:01 > 0:09:05- Will you feel slightly guilty? - I won't sleep tonight, Jeremy.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08The correct answer is Oliver Cromwell.
0:09:08 > 0:09:14Philip, sorry, you've been knocked out by our Egghead who did a couple of amazing guesses,
0:09:14 > 0:09:16but also some knowledge there too.
0:09:16 > 0:09:21That was a real clash of titans on History. Philip, you won't be in the final. Pat, you will.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24Please, both of you, come back to us here.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27Philip, bad luck. You played really well there.
0:09:27 > 0:09:33Thank you. I think he was toying with me. I think he knew the answers. He was just playing he didn't.
0:09:33 > 0:09:37I don't think you've ever lost a History round, Pat, have you?
0:09:37 > 0:09:41- I've never come as close as that to losing one.- That is certainly true.
0:09:41 > 0:09:46Kevin, who's not here today, has never got a question wrong in History
0:09:46 > 0:09:51in over 1,000 shows of Eggheads, so that would have been one to see.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54Sorry about that. You're not in the final, Philip.
0:09:54 > 0:09:59The challengers have lost that one brain. The Eggheads haven't lost any so far.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02Next, it's Music. Who would like to do Music?
0:10:02 > 0:10:05- I think we have a music teacher. - It's going to be me.
0:10:05 > 0:10:12- Sam, OK. Sam against whom? - Who do you think? Chris?- Yeah, have a go at Chris.- I'll take Chris.
0:10:12 > 0:10:18Sam, from Sou'Westers versus Chris from the Eggheads on Music, please go to the question room now.
0:10:18 > 0:10:22Sam, you mentioned you were a music teacher.
0:10:22 > 0:10:27That's correct, yes. I teach in a secondary school at the moment in Ipswich.
0:10:27 > 0:10:33- Do you have to be able to play music to teach music? - I think it helps, yeah, certainly.
0:10:33 > 0:10:39- I play a number of instruments. Five was the last official count, so I'm fairly musical.- Wow!
0:10:39 > 0:10:42Amazing. You learnt them from a very young age?
0:10:42 > 0:10:47Yeah, my dad and mum started me off on the violin when I was four,
0:10:47 > 0:10:50then I picked up the clarinet when I was nine,
0:10:50 > 0:10:55and then got into noisy instruments, guitars and drums and things in my teens,
0:10:55 > 0:10:59and studied Popular Music at Leeds University as my degree.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02OK, Chris, that's quite intimidating.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05It takes more than him to intimidate me.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08I'll ask you three questions on Music in turn.
0:11:08 > 0:11:12Whoever answers the most questions correctly is the winner.
0:11:12 > 0:11:16- Sam, you can choose the first or second set.- I'll go first, please.
0:11:19 > 0:11:25Here we go. Good luck. The Franz Liszt Academy of Music is situated in which city?
0:11:28 > 0:11:32The Franz Liszt, um...
0:11:32 > 0:11:36I have to say it's not something that I've heard of.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41In terms of its musical reputation,
0:11:41 > 0:11:44I don't think much spectacular has come out of Athens,
0:11:44 > 0:11:47so I'm going to discount that.
0:11:49 > 0:11:55I think my hunch lies with Budapest probably,
0:11:55 > 0:12:00although I don't know why, but I'm going to go with Budapest.
0:12:00 > 0:12:04You've got it absolutely right. Well done. Budapest it is.
0:12:04 > 0:12:10Chris, which British artist had the best-selling single and album of 2011 in both the UK and the USA?
0:12:12 > 0:12:16Oh, yeah, she's been very big everywhere. That's Adele.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19Adele is the right answer.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21Back to you, Sam.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24The Trolley Song features in which musical?
0:12:30 > 0:12:35Again, I'm not particularly familiar with any of these musicals.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38I've just done We Will Rock You at school
0:12:38 > 0:12:41and that's far removed from any of them.
0:12:41 > 0:12:46The Trolley Song... I don't know where I want to go with this.
0:12:46 > 0:12:47Um...
0:12:47 > 0:12:53I think, on a hunch because I have no basis to inform my decision,
0:12:53 > 0:12:55I'm going to go with...
0:12:55 > 0:12:58Meet Me In St Louis.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02OK... I always ask Daphne the musical questions. Is he right?
0:13:02 > 0:13:06Yes, it was a very good Judy Garland film.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09A Judy Garland film. Well done, Sam. You're right. OK, Chris...
0:13:09 > 0:13:13The pianist Richard Clayderman was born in which country?
0:13:17 > 0:13:20He's French, so it's France.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23France is correct.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25OK, Sam...
0:13:25 > 0:13:31In 1967, the Beatles double-A side single featuring Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane
0:13:31 > 0:13:34was kept off the UK number one spot by which artist?
0:13:41 > 0:13:421967...
0:13:44 > 0:13:48I would probably go Tom Jones.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51Tom Jones... Anyone know, anyone know?
0:13:51 > 0:13:55- Engelbert Humperdinck. - Engelbert Humperdinck is the answer.
0:13:55 > 0:13:58You've given Chris a way in here to take the round.
0:13:58 > 0:14:05Which composer's only song cycle is An Die Ferne Geliebte completed in 1816?
0:14:10 > 0:14:131816's a bit early for Brahms.
0:14:13 > 0:14:17And I think it's a bit early for Bruckner,
0:14:17 > 0:14:19so I have to go with Beethoven.
0:14:19 > 0:14:23- Has he got it right, Sam? - I think he probably has, yes.
0:14:23 > 0:14:28Chris, you're right. You've taken the round. Sam, sorry - I know that's painful!
0:14:28 > 0:14:34I sense it. I feel your pain. Come back to us and we'll play the next round.
0:14:35 > 0:14:42As it stands, the challengers have lost two brains. You're playing a good game, but it's not happening.
0:14:42 > 0:14:47The Eggheads have lost none. Let's see if you can turn it around. Arts and Books.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49Whose is this?
0:14:49 > 0:14:56- I think that's me. - OK, Tony. Against which Egghead? It can't be Chris or Pat.
0:14:56 > 0:15:01- I think Daphne, perhaps, if she'd be willing.- Thank you.
0:15:01 > 0:15:06- Even if she's not willing. - It's compulsory? I thought it was negotiable.- No, no.
0:15:06 > 0:15:10Tony from the Sou'Westers versus Daphne on Arts and Books.
0:15:10 > 0:15:15To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions in the Question Room.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18OK, let's see how we go here.
0:15:18 > 0:15:24- Three questions in turn. Tony, the first or second set? - I think I'll go second, please.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30Maybe this will turn the tide.
0:15:30 > 0:15:37Daphne, who wrote and illustrated the children's books Where The Wild Things Are and In The Night Kitchen?
0:15:41 > 0:15:45An advantage to being a gran and a great gran.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Yep, Maurice Sendak.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49Maurice Sendak is the right answer.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53- Does that mean he wrote it as well? - Yes.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56It's almost just an illustration. It is wonderful.
0:15:56 > 0:16:04OK, Tony. What name is given to the series of horror fiction novels by the US writer RL Stine?
0:16:10 > 0:16:14I've been caught out at the first attempt here.
0:16:14 > 0:16:19I have not read any of these. I'm not familiar with them.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23So I'm picking...
0:16:23 > 0:16:28Putting myself in the mind of an editor or editorial team,
0:16:28 > 0:16:33I think out of those options I would go for Nail Biters.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36Let's see if your team know.
0:16:36 > 0:16:38- It's Goosebumps.- Goosebumps.
0:16:38 > 0:16:42- Oh...!- The horror fiction novels by RL Stine.
0:16:42 > 0:16:47OK, Daphne, which Noel Coward play is about a divorced couple
0:16:47 > 0:16:53who discover they're both on honeymoon with their new spouses in the same hotel?
0:16:56 > 0:17:01Well, I think Plaza Suite is Neil Simon.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Separate Tables is Rattigan.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06So it's Private Lives.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08Private Lives is the right answer.
0:17:08 > 0:17:12So you need to get this one right, Tony.
0:17:12 > 0:17:17Which detective features in the story A Scandal In Bohemia?
0:17:22 > 0:17:27Yes, again I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that particular novel.
0:17:28 > 0:17:35I...have read a number of Hercule Poirot novels by Agatha Christie,
0:17:35 > 0:17:41but sadly I don't recognise that title. I have no real knowledge about Albert Campion,
0:17:41 > 0:17:47so although I don't recognise it as a Sherlock Holmes title, I'll plump for Sherlock Holmes.
0:17:47 > 0:17:51It is Sherlock Holmes. Yes, well done.
0:17:51 > 0:17:55- Has it been put on TV with the latest...?- The new series did it.
0:17:55 > 0:17:59Did it? OK, Daphne. Your question.
0:17:59 > 0:18:06Which event was painted several times by Canaletto during his time in London?
0:18:10 > 0:18:12Oh, crumbs.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16Now this one I do not know.
0:18:20 > 0:18:24Well, it wouldn't be Trooping the Colour.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27That's much later.
0:18:29 > 0:18:31Lord Mayor's Show...
0:18:31 > 0:18:35Chelsea Flower Show... Lord Mayor's Show.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38If you've got this right, you're in the final.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42It is the Lord Mayor's Show. Well done, Daphne. Sorry, Tony.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44Knocked out by our Egghead.
0:18:44 > 0:18:49Both of you please rejoin us here in the studio.
0:18:49 > 0:18:55- Well, what do we do now - get out the cricket bats? - Change the batting order, I think!
0:18:55 > 0:18:59It's not lost, for sure. It's not lost, I promise.
0:18:59 > 0:19:02- Numbers 10 and 11 are at the crease. - Absolutely!
0:19:02 > 0:19:08The challengers have lost three brains, the Eggheads haven't lost any to this very strong team.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11The last subject is Sport. Is this good for you?
0:19:11 > 0:19:15It ought to be, but we won't promise anything!
0:19:15 > 0:19:21- It's you, is it?- Yes. - You can choose Barry or Judith. - I'll have a go at Judith, please.
0:19:21 > 0:19:25So Martin from Sou'Westers versus Judith on Sport.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28Please go to the Question Room now.
0:19:28 > 0:19:33- Martin, you spent 22 years as a banker.- That's right, I did.
0:19:33 > 0:19:37- You've chosen Judith on sport. - Yes.- Tell us why that was.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40I don't think she's too keen on it!
0:19:40 > 0:19:47- I did suspect that. Are you giving off the impression of not being keen on sport, Judith?- Clearly!
0:19:47 > 0:19:50I used the word "keen", not "good".
0:19:50 > 0:19:54That's tactful of you, but "good" might be the word.
0:19:54 > 0:19:59OK, let's see how we do and we'll comfort Judith if she's knocked out.
0:19:59 > 0:20:05- Three questions on sport in turn. Martin, the first or second set? - I'll have a go at first, please.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09Here we go.
0:20:09 > 0:20:14Which sport is featured in the BBC programme known as TMS?
0:20:17 > 0:20:22Em, well, as a cricketer I ought to know that one.
0:20:22 > 0:20:26It stands for Test Match Special. Therefore the answer is cricket.
0:20:26 > 0:20:30Absolutely. Well done. Cricket is the answer.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32Judith, stick check
0:20:32 > 0:20:36and sweep check are terms used in which sport?
0:20:38 > 0:20:41I don't think it would be netball.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43I think that's ice hockey.
0:20:44 > 0:20:48Ice hockey is the correct answer. Well done.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50Over to you, Martin.
0:20:50 > 0:20:56In July, 2011, who was announced as the first British athlete to qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games?
0:21:00 > 0:21:03I know they're all swimmers,
0:21:03 > 0:21:10but I believe it's the long-distance swimmer Keri-Anne Payne, who was the first one to qualify.
0:21:11 > 0:21:16Yeah, very good indeed. Keri-Anne Payne was the right answer.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Maybe it's going to happen now.
0:21:18 > 0:21:24Who knows? See whether Judith suddenly brings out her sporting knowledge.
0:21:24 > 0:21:29In which county is the Thruxton motor racing circuit, Judith?
0:21:31 > 0:21:36Thruxton. I think I've driven past it. I think it's also a little airport.
0:21:36 > 0:21:40I have a feeling it's in Hampshire.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43Hampshire is right. Two out of two.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45That's not so bad, is it?
0:21:45 > 0:21:52- So far.- OK, third question. The Arkle Challenge Trophy is a horse race run annually
0:21:52 > 0:21:54at which course?
0:21:57 > 0:22:01This is another favourite sport of mine. I know this quite well
0:22:01 > 0:22:06because I have attended Cheltenham on more than one occasion.
0:22:06 > 0:22:10- It's Cheltenham.- Yes, indeed. Cheltenham is correct.
0:22:10 > 0:22:14Very sure-footed with your three questions.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17Total knowledge on all three.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19Let's see what happens now.
0:22:19 > 0:22:25Which boxer, who fought for the world heavyweight title in 1975, is said to have inspired
0:22:25 > 0:22:27the character Rocky Balboa?
0:22:32 > 0:22:35I haven't heard of any of them!
0:22:35 > 0:22:40So... it's a matter of...guessing.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42I have absolutely no idea.
0:22:42 > 0:22:48I think I'm going down the right. Cleveland Williams.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50It's Chuck Wepner, Judith.
0:22:50 > 0:22:54So you've got that wrong and you're out of the contest.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56Martin, well done.
0:22:56 > 0:23:01You will be in the final. A bit of a breakthrough for the challengers here!
0:23:01 > 0:23:05If you come back to us, we'll play it.
0:23:05 > 0:23:11So this is what we have been playing towards. It's the final round, which is general knowledge.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13But those of you who lost
0:23:13 > 0:23:18won't be allowed to take part. So Tony, Sam and Philip from the Sou'Westers
0:23:18 > 0:23:22and Judith from the Eggheads, all please leave the studio.
0:23:24 > 0:23:29- Martin and John, welcome to the final. Glad you made it?- Yes!
0:23:29 > 0:23:31You're playing to win £2,000.
0:23:31 > 0:23:37Daphne, Chris, Barry and Pat are playing for something money can't buy - the Eggheads' reputation.
0:23:37 > 0:23:43I will ask each team three questions in turn. They're all general knowledge and you can confer.
0:23:43 > 0:23:49So, Sou'Westers, the question is are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?
0:23:49 > 0:23:54- You don't need to answer that. First or second?- First, please.
0:23:58 > 0:24:05Good luck. First question. How many knaves are there in a standard pack of playing cards?
0:24:07 > 0:24:11Well, the knaves are also known as the jacks and there are four suits,
0:24:11 > 0:24:14so I think we'll go for four.
0:24:14 > 0:24:19Very good. Four is the right answer. Four knaves, four jacks.
0:24:19 > 0:24:24Eggheads, the word pram is a shortened version of which word?
0:24:28 > 0:24:30Perambulator?
0:24:30 > 0:24:32We're all happy with perambulator,
0:24:32 > 0:24:35- so that's our answer.- It's right.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Second question.
0:24:37 > 0:24:45The Roderick Thorp book Nothing Lasts Forever was the basis for which film of the 1980s?
0:24:49 > 0:24:52- I have no idea. Do you?- No.- Right.
0:24:53 > 0:24:57- Nothing Lasts Forever. - I don't think it's Black Rain.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00I think that's more recent.
0:25:00 > 0:25:04- So Lethal Weapon or Die Hard. - It sounds like Die Hard.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07- Nothing Lasts Forever. - OK, shall we go for that?
0:25:07 > 0:25:10We're going to go for Die Hard.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13Die Hard is your answer. It's right!
0:25:13 > 0:25:15Very good.
0:25:15 > 0:25:23Eggheads, by convention, the holder of which other Cabinet position is also Minister for the Civil Service?
0:25:26 > 0:25:28- Prime Minister, everybody?- Yep.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31All happy with Prime Minister?
0:25:31 > 0:25:35We all believe the Minister for the Civil Service is the Prime Minister.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38And it is. Well done. Two each.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40Now put the frighteners on them.
0:25:40 > 0:25:47Get the third one right. Take the initiative. Here we go. It'll make up for those contests
0:25:47 > 0:25:51we were saddened by earlier when your colleagues were knocked out.
0:25:51 > 0:25:58The plays of which German dramatist provided the basis for four operas by the Italian composer Verdi?
0:26:02 > 0:26:06- No idea. - Well, I think Goethe was a poet.
0:26:06 > 0:26:10He did Faust, didn't he? The other two I haven't heard of!
0:26:10 > 0:26:15Schiller certainly wrote plays and they were the basis for operas,
0:26:15 > 0:26:18perhaps by Mozart or Beethoven.
0:26:18 > 0:26:23Wedekind I don't know. So I think it's Schiller or Goethe.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27- I'm not sure.- No. Well, you have a go. You make the decision.
0:26:27 > 0:26:34- I've made three decisions today! - We'll go for Goethe or Schiller. What do you think?
0:26:34 > 0:26:38If Goethe inspired one opera, he's likely to have inspired others.
0:26:38 > 0:26:42- Let's go for Goethe, then. - Goethe?- Yeah.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44We'll go for Goethe, Jeremy.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47Let me check with the Eggheads.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49- Schiller.- Schiller.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51Ah, see.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53If you get this one right,
0:26:53 > 0:27:00you've taken the contest. Maeshowe is a Neolithic site on which island group?
0:27:02 > 0:27:06That's Orkney. Definitely. I've been there.
0:27:06 > 0:27:10We're fortunate in that Chris has actually been there.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13He assures me that's the Orkneys.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16Maeshowe is indeed on Orkney.
0:27:16 > 0:27:20Eggheads, congratulations. You have won!
0:27:24 > 0:27:30- It's that third question. - John was veering that way as well, but he wasn't adamant enough
0:27:30 > 0:27:35- so there we are.- We made a decision. - Yeah, I was listening carefully
0:27:35 > 0:27:43- and for a moment you favoured Schiller.- We knew that there was one with Verdi and Faust.
0:27:43 > 0:27:47But John said Schiller did write a lot of plays that became operas.
0:27:47 > 0:27:53It's been great to have you. The three back there doesn't really tell the story.
0:27:53 > 0:27:57- It's been a fun day. Fantastic. - Great stuff. Commiserations.
0:27:57 > 0:28:01The Eggheads still reign supreme over quizland.
0:28:01 > 0:28:06You won't be going home with the £2,000, so the money rolls over.
0:28:06 > 0:28:11Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?
0:28:11 > 0:28:15Join us next time to see if a new team can defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:15 > 0:28:19£3,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.
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