0:00:04 > 0:00:07These people are among the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:10 > 0:00:11Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:11 > 0:00:15arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:18The question is -
0:00:18 > 0:00:20can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:27Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers
0:00:27 > 0:00:31pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain -
0:00:31 > 0:00:33they are the Eggheads.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36And, taking part on the might of our quiz Goliaths today
0:00:36 > 0:00:38are the High Flyers.
0:00:38 > 0:00:39This team of friends all work
0:00:39 > 0:00:42for the Higher Education Funding Council in Bristol
0:00:42 > 0:00:45and, throughout the year, have various work quizzes
0:00:45 > 0:00:48chaired by team captain Mark. Let's meet them.
0:00:48 > 0:00:52Hi, my name's Mark, I'm 37 and I'm a statistician.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55Hi, I'm Richard, I'm 31, I'm a civil servant.
0:00:55 > 0:00:59Hello, my name's Vanessa. I'm 41 and I'm an HR consultant.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02Hi, I'm Shawn, I'm 43 and I'm a website manager.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06Hi, I'm Jess, I'm 31 and I'm a senior policy adviser.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08- So, Mark and team, welcome to you. - ALL: Hello.
0:01:08 > 0:01:12And it's university funding stuff that you do, basically?
0:01:12 > 0:01:13Yeah, that's right.
0:01:13 > 0:01:18The Government give us around £5 billion a year and we distribute
0:01:18 > 0:01:21that to universities and other higher education institutions.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24- But you quiz as well? - We do quiz as well.
0:01:24 > 0:01:28Normally, I set the quizzes. I'm normally in your position.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30And this lot have to deal with the questions.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32But it's the other way round today, I suppose.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35Does setting the quizzes make you cleverer?
0:01:35 > 0:01:37Because I ask these questions all the time.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41They still know more than me and it drives me crazy!
0:01:41 > 0:01:43I know a lot of random facts, the problem is
0:01:43 > 0:01:47I don't know a broad range of facts, that's the gist of it.
0:01:47 > 0:01:51That might help in this game. We wish you well.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54Every day, there is £1,000 in cash up for grabs for our challengers.
0:01:54 > 0:01:56However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:01:56 > 0:01:59the prize-money rolls over to the next show.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02So, High Flyers, the Eggheads have won the last nine games,
0:02:02 > 0:02:06which means £10,000 says you can't beat them today.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09- Shall we give it a go? - ALL: Yes!
0:02:09 > 0:02:12The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Film & Television.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Who would like this?
0:02:14 > 0:02:17- I think we're looking at Richard, aren't we?- Yeah, I'll take this one.
0:02:17 > 0:02:21OK, Richard, Film & TV against any of those faces smiling at you winningly.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24Chris or Judith?
0:02:24 > 0:02:26I'd say Chris.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29- Chris.- Let's take Chris.
0:02:29 > 0:02:33Richard from the High Flyers versus one of our own high-flyers here, Chris.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35To ensure there is no conferring,
0:02:35 > 0:02:38would you please take your positions in the question room.
0:02:39 > 0:02:43Film & TV, Richard. They seemed to pick you immediately for that.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45I think there was either Sport or Film & TV,
0:02:45 > 0:02:48they are the only two subjects I have minimal modern knowledge of
0:02:48 > 0:02:50and no knowledge of the other subjects, so...
0:02:50 > 0:02:52Chris, favourite film you've seen?
0:02:52 > 0:02:57As a piece of theatre, to sit down for four hours and enjoy,
0:02:57 > 0:02:59- I like Lawrence Of Arabia. - What about TV, Chris?
0:02:59 > 0:03:03Oh... I don't actually watch a lot of TV, Jeremy.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06- Richard, this sounds promising. - Yeah. Hopefully.- Film & Television.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10- Fingers crossed.- You can choose the first or second set of questions. - Can I go first, please?
0:03:12 > 0:03:16Here we go with your first question. What is the name of the character played by Hugh Grant
0:03:16 > 0:03:19in the 1999 film Notting Hill?
0:03:24 > 0:03:31OK. I've seen the film. Mark Darcy is from Bridget Jones.
0:03:31 > 0:03:35So it's either Daniel Cleaver or William Thacker.
0:03:35 > 0:03:41And I'm going to go for Daniel Cleaver.
0:03:41 > 0:03:45- Let me check with your team-mates. - No!- William Thacker.
0:03:45 > 0:03:48- We think it's William Thacker. - It is Thacker.
0:03:49 > 0:03:50Chris, your question.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53Which literary character has been played on film
0:03:53 > 0:03:55by Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp?
0:04:00 > 0:04:02Er, yeah, Gene Wilder in the original
0:04:02 > 0:04:04Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory
0:04:04 > 0:04:07and Johnny Depp in the remake, so it's Willy Wonka.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10Willy Wonka is the right answer. Back to you, Richard.
0:04:10 > 0:04:11Who was the female presenter
0:04:11 > 0:04:14of the British version of the game show Total Wipeout?
0:04:18 > 0:04:20Um...
0:04:20 > 0:04:23Not sure on this one, either.
0:04:23 > 0:04:30Um, Suzi Perry, she tends to present car programmes, I think,
0:04:30 > 0:04:31and motorbikes.
0:04:31 > 0:04:37Zoe Salmon, I think, is Blue Peter, possibly. Um...
0:04:38 > 0:04:42I'm not sure. I'm going to go for Suzi Perry.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44- Any Eggheads know this? - Amanda Byram.
0:04:44 > 0:04:48Amanda Byram is the answer, Richard. Sorry.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50Gosh, Chris, you could get the round if you get this one right.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52Gilly Coman
0:04:52 > 0:04:56and then Melanie Hill played Aveline Boswell in which TV sitcom?
0:04:59 > 0:05:04- It was Carla Lane's thing set in Liverpool. It's Bread.- Is right.
0:05:04 > 0:05:05Chris, you've got it.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08Bread is the answer, so no way back for you Richard. I'm sorry.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11- Oh, well.- A difficult start for our High Flyers.
0:05:11 > 0:05:15Please come back to us and rejoin your teams.
0:05:15 > 0:05:19OK, Mark, that was a slightly shaky start, if you don't mind me saying so.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22- Any thoughts on tactics? - We have got a tactic.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25- Is it going to be deployed later? - It's going to be deployed...
0:05:25 > 0:05:29- The tactic was to lose the first round(!) - OK, it's working. All right.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33As it stands, the High Flyers have lost a brain from the final round.
0:05:33 > 0:05:34The Eggheads have not lost any brains,
0:05:34 > 0:05:37so they are sitting there rather over-confidently.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40The next subject is Music, so have another go.
0:05:40 > 0:05:41Who wants this?
0:05:41 > 0:05:44I think we've had this discussion. We knew it was going to be
0:05:44 > 0:05:49- the nightmare round for her.- I'm the sacrificial lamb.- OK, Vanessa.
0:05:49 > 0:05:54- Against anyone but Chris. - What about Tremendous Knowledge?
0:05:54 > 0:05:58- Tremendous knowledge Dave? - Dave.- Yeah, Dave.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01OK, we'll go for Tremendous Knowledge Dave.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03Vanessa from the High Flyers against Dave from the Eggheads.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07Please take your positions in the question room.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10Vanessa, you think you are the sacrificial lamb here?
0:06:10 > 0:06:12- None of us wanted Music. - Is that right?
0:06:12 > 0:06:16What, because of the classical-opera dimension, or...?
0:06:16 > 0:06:19- Just not our forte, I think.- It is a very wide category, Dave, isn't it?
0:06:19 > 0:06:23It is a broad category. Anything could come up, anything could happen.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25Good luck with this. First or second set of questions?
0:06:25 > 0:06:26I'll go first, please.
0:06:30 > 0:06:31Here we go, Vanessa, all the best.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33The U2 number-one singles Vertigo
0:06:33 > 0:06:36and Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
0:06:36 > 0:06:41come from the 2004 album How To...what?
0:06:47 > 0:06:50Oh, none of them sound familiar, I'm afraid.
0:06:51 > 0:06:57Um...quite a political band. I'm tempted to go for the atomic bomb.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02Yeah, I'll go for Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb is the right answer.
0:07:05 > 0:07:06Well done, Vanessa.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11Dave, which creature lived in a windmill according to
0:07:11 > 0:07:13a children's song that features the line
0:07:13 > 0:07:17"going clip-clippety-clop on the stair, oh, yeah"?
0:07:20 > 0:07:23It's Old Amsterdam, isn't it? I think it's
0:07:23 > 0:07:26# I saw a mouse, there. # Yeah, mouse.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29Well done. Not a frog, not an ant. Mouse is the answer.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31Vanessa.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33Who wrote the song Mr Tambourine Man,
0:07:33 > 0:07:36a UK number-one single for The Byrds, in 1965?
0:07:40 > 0:07:44My husband's favourite. I know it well. It's Bob Dylan.
0:07:44 > 0:07:50That's very handy, it is indeed. Bob Dylan. Dave.
0:07:50 > 0:07:55Joe Washbourn and Dan Hipgrave found fame as members of which group?
0:08:00 > 0:08:03When I start getting a bit excited and dancing,
0:08:03 > 0:08:06I tend to dance in the moonlight to their most favourite track.
0:08:06 > 0:08:11- It's Toploader.- Toploader is the right answer. Well done.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13Third question, Vanessa, you're going well.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16In the musical Seven Brides For Seven Brothers,
0:08:16 > 0:08:22the song Bless Your Beautiful Hide is a solo from which brother?
0:08:25 > 0:08:27Oh! I know the film well,
0:08:27 > 0:08:32but I'm not sure I'm going to get this. Um...
0:08:32 > 0:08:35All the brothers are named from A-B-C, aren't they?
0:08:35 > 0:08:39So I'm guessing it will start with Adam.
0:08:39 > 0:08:44- OK. They're named A-B-C as in...? - As they go down the seven brothers.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47Out of interest, how do you get to Adam rather than, say, Archie?
0:08:47 > 0:08:50First man, er, that's just a guess.
0:08:50 > 0:08:54- I think it's Howard Keel, but I'm guessing on Adam.- Is she right?
0:08:54 > 0:08:55Yeah, they're biblical names.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58They're biblical names, you're absolutely right, Vanessa.
0:08:58 > 0:08:59Well done.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02I was impressed with your reasoning. OK.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05Dave, if you get this wrong, you will be knocked out.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Beethoven's work known as the Moonlight Sonata,
0:09:07 > 0:09:09was written in which key?
0:09:13 > 0:09:15No idea. I will go for...
0:09:18 > 0:09:20A minor.
0:09:20 > 0:09:21No, it's C sharp minor.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23I wouldn't have got that. Well done, Vanessa.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26Well done, Vanessa, you've won on Music. That's great.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28You are in the final round.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Please both of you come back, rejoin your team-mates.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35It looked as if the High Flyers might crash land,
0:09:35 > 0:09:37but they've actually taken off here.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40They lost a brain from the final round, but they have also
0:09:40 > 0:09:43taken out an Egghead, too, so it's looking lively.
0:09:43 > 0:09:44The next subject is History.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Which of you would like this?
0:09:46 > 0:09:50I think the person holding a masters in history is up.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53- Aren't you, Jess?- Yes.
0:09:53 > 0:09:54Doesn't make me a specialist.
0:09:54 > 0:09:58A masters in history is not going to help you escape this one.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01Who would you like to play? It can't be Chris or Dave.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03- Take Kevin.- I think we've got to take Kevin or Daphne.
0:10:03 > 0:10:04Kevin!
0:10:04 > 0:10:07Kevin is not weak at anything, so we might as well take him
0:10:07 > 0:10:11- on the strongest round.- I think I'm being sacrificed here.
0:10:11 > 0:10:12I'll take on Kevin, please.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15We did have a team the other day who had the rather interesting
0:10:15 > 0:10:21and unusual tactic of playing every Egghead at their strongest subjects.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23Their first player went in against Kevin on History,
0:10:23 > 0:10:27who had never, up until that point, even got a question wrong
0:10:27 > 0:10:31- in history in ten years. Knocked him out, didn't he?- Yeah.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34So Jess from the High Flyers versus Kevin from the Eggheads.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37- People taking you on on your strongest subject, Kevin. - That's all right.
0:10:37 > 0:10:42Probably will enjoy that. To ensure there is no conferring, please take your positions.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45Good luck on History, Jess. Would you like to go first or second?
0:10:45 > 0:10:47I'll go first, please, Jeremy.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52See what you can do here, Jess.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54In British history, who was the father of Charles II?
0:10:59 > 0:11:01Erm, right.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04I did try and revise my Kings and Queens of Britain,
0:11:04 > 0:11:08but I'm not completely sure on this one.
0:11:08 > 0:11:13I think I'm going to go for Charles I.
0:11:13 > 0:11:18Charles I is right, Jess, well done. That's a good one to get, well done.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21OK, Kevin, in the early third century
0:11:21 > 0:11:23when the Romans divided Britain in two,
0:11:23 > 0:11:27what name was given to the southern province, whose capital was Londinium?
0:11:33 > 0:11:34That was...
0:11:34 > 0:11:37And the one that was further north, which was based on York,
0:11:37 > 0:11:41was Britannia Inferior, so this was Britannia Superior.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43Yes. Britannia Superior is correct.
0:11:45 > 0:11:46Jess, your question.
0:11:46 > 0:11:50In 1958, the National Health Service introduced schemes
0:11:50 > 0:11:56for vaccinations to under-15s for polio and which other disease?
0:11:59 > 0:12:05Um... I'm not sure if there is a vaccination for rickets.
0:12:08 > 0:12:12- I think it's probably diphtheria. - Diphtheria is the right answer.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14- Well done.- Ah, thank you.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16My pleasure. Kevin, your question.
0:12:16 > 0:12:21In 1558, Elizabeth I learned she'd become Queen of England while
0:12:21 > 0:12:26apparently sitting under a tree in the grounds of which stately home?
0:12:31 > 0:12:36Yes, she was under the guardianship of the owner of Hatfield House.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38Hatfield House is correct.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40What age was she when this incident happened?
0:12:40 > 0:12:45She would have been about 25. She was born 1533.
0:12:45 > 0:12:49- JEREMY CHUCKLES - He knows a lot, doesn't he?
0:12:49 > 0:12:54OK, Jess, which banking heiress and philanthropist erected the statue
0:12:54 > 0:12:57of Greyfriars Bobby in Edinburgh and was described by Edward VII
0:12:57 > 0:13:01as, "After my mother, the most remarkable woman in the kingdom."
0:13:07 > 0:13:10Oh. Absolutely no idea.
0:13:10 > 0:13:16Um... I think I'll discount Harriet Taylor.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18Probably that will be the answer!
0:13:20 > 0:13:25I'm going to go for Angela Burdett-Coutts, Jeremy.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28- Is she right, Kevin?- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33OK, Kevin, if you get this one wrong, you are out.
0:13:33 > 0:13:38Isidor Straus, who died in 1912 as a passenger on board
0:13:38 > 0:13:41the Titanic, was a co-owner of which business?
0:13:46 > 0:13:49I know he was a business magnate, but...
0:13:51 > 0:13:52Oh, dear.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57You know my record. Unfortunately, I'm not a good guesser,
0:13:57 > 0:14:01so whichever one I go for, it's going to be...
0:14:01 > 0:14:03It's going to be wrong.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08I'll go for Bloomingdale's. I don't know.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11There's been a reaction among your colleagues here.
0:14:11 > 0:14:15The co-founder, with R H Macy, of Macy's store. Isidor Straus.
0:14:15 > 0:14:19The old couple you see lying on the bed as the ship goes down.
0:14:19 > 0:14:23Kevin, ten years unbeaten and now two within a short space of time.
0:14:23 > 0:14:27My goodness! You've lost on History again. The answer is Macy's.
0:14:27 > 0:14:32- Well done, Jess.- Thank you. - Oh, Kevin, I feel your pain.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34Please come back, rejoin your teams.
0:14:36 > 0:14:40- Well done, Jess.- Thank you.- Believe me, we do not see that very often.
0:14:40 > 0:14:44As it stands, the High Flyers are starting to soar.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47You lost the one brain - Richard, but you've taken two of them out,
0:14:47 > 0:14:51including Kevin. The next subject before the final is Arts & Books.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53Who would like this?
0:14:53 > 0:14:56- Shawn, you'd better.- It's me, is it?- Shawn, yes, I think Shawn.- OK.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59- Shawn, against which Egghead? - What do you reckon?
0:14:59 > 0:15:03- Given Jeremy's advice, to take them on their strongest... - I'm not advising.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06- I'm honestly not advising. - Why don't we go for Judith?!
0:15:06 > 0:15:10- I think that's a dangerous tactic. - It is certainly unusual.
0:15:10 > 0:15:11Captain, final word?
0:15:11 > 0:15:16Shawn, you're taking the person on, so take a pick.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18We'll go with the first choice. Judith, please.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21OK, Shawn from the High Flyers versus Judith from the Eggheads on Arts & Books.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23Please go to the question room now.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28Shawn, your team is continuing what we're calling the frontal assault on the Eggheads,
0:15:28 > 0:15:33- because Judith is very good on Arts & Books, aren't you, Judith? - Well, I haven't done it for ages.
0:15:33 > 0:15:37Of the last 32 rounds you've played on Arts & Books, you've won 30.
0:15:37 > 0:15:42- Oh, have I?- Yes.- Well, that's put the kibosh on it!- That's torn it.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46OK, Shawn, good luck to you. I'm doing all I can here.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48Arts & Books, and would you like to go first or second?
0:15:48 > 0:15:50Can I go first, please?
0:15:53 > 0:15:56Here we go. Which duo made their first appearance together
0:15:56 > 0:16:00in the 1915 story Extricating Young Gussie?
0:16:05 > 0:16:08OK, well it wouldn't be Holmes and Watson.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11I think that's Study In Scarlet. Um...
0:16:11 > 0:16:14Tarzan and Jane, I don't think...
0:16:14 > 0:16:16It sounds like a Jeeves and Wooster type of story,
0:16:16 > 0:16:19so I'll go for Jeeves and Wooster, please.
0:16:19 > 0:16:23It is indeed Jeeves and Wooster, yes. Judith, your question.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27Golconda, which depicts nearly identical men
0:16:27 > 0:16:31in dark overcoats and bowler hats falling through the sky
0:16:31 > 0:16:35towards a street lined with houses, is a work by which artist?
0:16:38 > 0:16:41- You're saying Golconda?- Golconda.
0:16:41 > 0:16:43It sounds like a Magritte.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45Magritte is the right answer.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48- He was completely surreal, wasn't he?- Hm.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51Shawn, who painted the first official portrait
0:16:51 > 0:16:55of the Duchess of Cambridge, unveiled in January 2013?
0:17:00 > 0:17:03Um...
0:17:05 > 0:17:07I don't really remember the name.
0:17:07 > 0:17:12I just remember that people didn't really like the picture.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Um...
0:17:14 > 0:17:15No, it's really got to be a guess.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19Could I have Wolfgang Tillmans, please?
0:17:19 > 0:17:23- OK. You are drawing on nothing there, are you?- Yeah.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25I really can't remember at all.
0:17:25 > 0:17:26Do you know, Judith?
0:17:26 > 0:17:29- Is it Wolfgang... - I think it's Paul Emsley.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31Paul Emsley is the right answer.
0:17:31 > 0:17:32Shawn, I'm sorry, you got that wrong.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35Judith has a chance to pull ahead.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38Which of these literary characters marries Edward Ferrars?
0:17:44 > 0:17:45I don't know who Flora Poste is.
0:17:45 > 0:17:48Maggie Tulliver is out of Mill On The Floss.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52I think it's Elinor Dashwood.
0:17:52 > 0:17:56- Where is she out of? - She is out of Sense And Sensibility.
0:17:56 > 0:17:59She is indeed, and you are correct, Judith.
0:17:59 > 0:18:03Elinor Dashwood is. So, Shawn, don't get this wrong, or you're out.
0:18:03 > 0:18:07In books by Enid Blyton, what do Molly and Peter find
0:18:07 > 0:18:11in an antiques shop, which ends up taking them to magical lands?
0:18:17 > 0:18:18HE EXHALES HEAVILY
0:18:18 > 0:18:24I have never read any Enid Blyton, so, um...
0:18:26 > 0:18:31I don't think it would be a lucky bedstead. Um...
0:18:32 > 0:18:36That sounds like a Bedknobs And Broomsticks type of thing.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38Singing bath or the wishing chair.
0:18:40 > 0:18:44I think I'll go for the strange one, the singing bath.
0:18:44 > 0:18:50I think wishing chair sounds too obvious.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52I think I'll go for the singing bath, please.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56- I really don't know.- Yeah, Vanessa, what's your thinking on this?
0:18:56 > 0:19:01- Go for the obvious! - A wishing chair in an antiques shop.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03I don't know whether they sing in the bath or the bath
0:19:03 > 0:19:06sings at them, but I think that was beyond Enid Blyton,
0:19:06 > 0:19:09- because she went for a wishing chair.- Oh!- You got it wrong
0:19:09 > 0:19:12and Judith is in the final round. You've been knocked out.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15So that leaves us interestingly poised for the final
0:19:15 > 0:19:17and, if you both come back to us, we will play it.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21So this is what we have been playing towards.
0:19:21 > 0:19:25It is time for the final round, which, as always, is General Knowledge.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28I'm afraid those who lost your head-to-heads
0:19:28 > 0:19:30won't be allowed to take part in this round.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33So, Richard and Shawn from the High Flyers
0:19:33 > 0:19:37and Kevin and Dave from the Eggheads, would you please now leave the studio.
0:19:39 > 0:19:43Mark, Vanessa and Jess, you're playing to win the High Flyers £10,000.
0:19:43 > 0:19:47Judith, Daphne and Chris, you are playing for something money can't buy,
0:19:47 > 0:19:49which is the Eggheads' reputation.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54This time, the questions are all General Knowledge.
0:19:54 > 0:19:55You are allowed to confer.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57So, High Flyers, the question is -
0:19:57 > 0:19:59are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three?
0:19:59 > 0:20:01And would you like to go first or second?
0:20:01 > 0:20:02We'll go first.
0:20:05 > 0:20:07Good luck. You played a really good game.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09What type of creature is a curlew?
0:20:13 > 0:20:15- Oh, I think I know.- What?- I think it's a bird.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17I think it's a bird as well.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20- I've got no idea, so I'll trust you two.- I thought it might be a bird.
0:20:20 > 0:20:21That's my first instinct.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Go with the first instinct.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25We are going to say bird.
0:20:25 > 0:20:26Bird is correct.
0:20:26 > 0:20:30- Help us, Eggs, where do you find a curlew?- Moorland.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33- It's got a funny long beak, has it? - A beak that goes that way.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36It's a characteristic sound you hear on a moorland,
0:20:36 > 0:20:40- or moors.- OK. Eggheads, Steve McManaman played football
0:20:40 > 0:20:44for which club between 1990 and 1999?
0:20:49 > 0:20:52None of us can do that!
0:20:52 > 0:20:55We said we hoped sport doesn't come up.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00McManaman, what sort of name is that?
0:21:00 > 0:21:03- It sounds Liverpudlian. - I thought Liverpool.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05- I thought Liverpool.- Did you? - Yes, but...
0:21:05 > 0:21:07I thought McManaman might be an Irish name,
0:21:07 > 0:21:10in which case it might be Liverpool.
0:21:10 > 0:21:15I was thinking it does sound vaguely Liverpudlian, doesn't it?
0:21:15 > 0:21:18- Shall we just go for it? - I don't think it's Arsenal.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21Some of us remember what used to be there at Ashburton Grove!
0:21:23 > 0:21:28I think, on balance, we've got to go for Liverpool, haven't we?
0:21:28 > 0:21:29If you're sure.
0:21:29 > 0:21:32In the absence of anything else.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35We're going to guess at Liverpool.
0:21:35 > 0:21:38Steve McManaman played for Liverpool.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41Daphne's little inkle there.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43OK.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45You've knocked out two of their strong players
0:21:45 > 0:21:47and they are going to struggle a bit here.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50Which name is given to the theory that in organisations,
0:21:50 > 0:21:54people are promoted to the level of their incompetence?
0:21:59 > 0:22:03- I think it might be Peter Principle.- You work in HR.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06- Don't put it on my back! - You think it's the Peter Principle?
0:22:06 > 0:22:09- I think it's Peter Principle. - I've never heard of the other two.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11- Yeah, OK. - Let's go for Peter Principle.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Peter Principle.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15- Vanessa, you are in HR.- Oh, don't!
0:22:18 > 0:22:22You have got it right. Well done. You know what Parkinson's Law is?
0:22:22 > 0:22:23No.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26Parkinson's Law, it says work expands to fill the time provided.
0:22:26 > 0:22:30OK, you got it right. Peter Principle it is.
0:22:30 > 0:22:31All right, Eggheads,
0:22:31 > 0:22:33in the ancient Olympic Games,
0:22:33 > 0:22:38the pentathlon consisted of running, long jump, discus,
0:22:38 > 0:22:39javelin and what else?
0:22:42 > 0:22:47- It might be wrestling. - I thought wrestling.- Wrestling.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50It's classical Greek, isn't it?
0:22:50 > 0:22:53- Greco-Roman wrestling.- Wrestling, Jeremy.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56Wrestling is correct.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58That's two sports questions. Not fair!
0:22:58 > 0:23:00Two sports questions.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03You had less trouble with that one than with your famous McManaman.
0:23:03 > 0:23:07Goodness me. All right, they are there for the taking, I can feel it.
0:23:07 > 0:23:11High Flyers, your question. Get this right, put the pressure on.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13What was the first name of the wife of Abraham Lincoln?
0:23:17 > 0:23:21- Anyone seen the film?- No, I haven't seen it yet.
0:23:21 > 0:23:22I think it is Mary.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27- I don't know.- Do you?
0:23:27 > 0:23:29Who plays her in the film?
0:23:29 > 0:23:30Sally Field.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32Oh, she does, yeah.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35Millicent...
0:23:35 > 0:23:40- It sounds very modern. - Maud. Maud. Could be Maud.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45I think we should go for our first instinct, which is Mary.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47- Try Mary.- Yeah?- Yeah.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49Mary.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51- You've not seen the film?- ALL: No.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54Jess, you got that from somewhere.
0:23:54 > 0:23:59- Was that a memory, or...?- Probably. Probably an Oscars memory.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02Because it was Sally Field who played her. Mary is right.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05Three out of three.
0:24:05 > 0:24:07Doing really well. Three out of three in the final round.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09Excellent play by the High Flyers.
0:24:09 > 0:24:13- This is why our universities are in such a good state.- That's right.
0:24:13 > 0:24:17Eggheads, if you get this wrong, they've won £10,000.
0:24:17 > 0:24:21The architect W G R Sprague, who died in 1933,
0:24:21 > 0:24:24designed several of which type of building in London?
0:24:28 > 0:24:31- Chris?- It's not underground stations.- Right, OK.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33That's Leslie Green and then Charles Holden.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35And theatres.
0:24:35 > 0:24:40- Theatre design is a specialist sort of...- Frank somebody, wasn't it?
0:24:40 > 0:24:42There must be more than one, though.
0:24:42 > 0:24:46- Yeah.- Libraries, OK.
0:24:46 > 0:24:50Was the '30s... He died in 19...?
0:24:50 > 0:24:52He died in 1933.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56Was it a great era of building libraries?
0:24:56 > 0:24:57Well, the Carnegie libraries, but...
0:25:00 > 0:25:04But it was probably 1910s...
0:25:04 > 0:25:06Given the specialist nature of theatre design,
0:25:06 > 0:25:08I would say he was a theatre architect.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10- Would you?- Yes, I would.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12They are all sort of Edwardian-looking, aren't they?
0:25:12 > 0:25:15If he died in '33, obviously, he was active around the turn
0:25:15 > 0:25:18of the century, which was the golden age of theatre building.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21It was. So...
0:25:21 > 0:25:26- What do you think?- Yeah. - Likelihood.- Well...
0:25:26 > 0:25:28It's not underground stations, I promise you.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31That was Leslie Green and, later, Charles Holden.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34We don't know about libraries, they're not specialised enough,
0:25:34 > 0:25:37but theatres are a specialised field of architecture.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40- And it was a golden age of theatre buildings, so there we go.- Yes.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42- Likelihood.- Yes.
0:25:42 > 0:25:47We think the likelihood is that it's theatres.
0:25:47 > 0:25:50Theatres? You struggled with that one as well, didn't you?
0:25:50 > 0:25:52It is fair to say that.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54And if you've got it wrong, if,
0:25:54 > 0:25:57the jackpot goes to our very good challengers.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00Your logic was impeccable. Chris, particularly.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02- Theatres is the right answer. - Oh, well done.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05Very good play by Chris on the end there. OK.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07So we go to sudden death.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10We haven't been in sudden death yet in this contest.
0:26:10 > 0:26:14Gets a bit harder, because I don't give you alternative answers.
0:26:14 > 0:26:15Good luck, High Flyers.
0:26:15 > 0:26:20Which English comedian embarked on his Out Out stand-up tour in 2010?
0:26:22 > 0:26:23- Out Out.- Out Out.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27- So, English comedians, what have we got?- 2010.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30Not Ricky Gervais.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32- Um...- Russell Brand?
0:26:32 > 0:26:37- Alan Carr?- Oh, Alan Carr is a good...- It could be Alan Carr.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39Out Out.
0:26:39 > 0:26:40Tim Vine?
0:26:40 > 0:26:42Tim Vine?!
0:26:42 > 0:26:43I've see them all!
0:26:43 > 0:26:45Jeremy's smiling. It may not be that!
0:26:45 > 0:26:49I don't think it is that. I think Alan Carr would be a good...
0:26:49 > 0:26:52- Mark Watson?- Out Out.
0:26:52 > 0:26:53Kind of...
0:26:54 > 0:26:58- Yeah, Alan Carr? Are we happy with that?- We'll try it.
0:26:58 > 0:27:00Alan Carr.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02Leaving my brother aside, I think the answer to this
0:27:02 > 0:27:05is my favourite comedian at the moment.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08It's not Alan Carr. It's a guy called Micky Flanagan.
0:27:08 > 0:27:12And he has a particular sketch where he talks about, "We're going out.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14- "We're going out, we're going out out."- Oh, out out.
0:27:14 > 0:27:19And that means, Eggheads, it could be your moment.
0:27:19 > 0:27:23In January 2012, which banker was stripped of the knighthood
0:27:23 > 0:27:26he received in 2004?
0:27:26 > 0:27:27Sir Fred.
0:27:27 > 0:27:32- Fred the Shred. Fred Goodwin, yeah.- Fred Goodwin.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35Plain mister. Fred Goodwin is the right answer.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38We say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45Well, you did all you could there.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48You really did. That theatre question
0:27:48 > 0:27:50was more than a guess, wasn't it?
0:27:50 > 0:27:55They did remorselessly apply logic there. You played well, Eggheads,
0:27:55 > 0:27:58- but you've been shot to pieces here, haven't you? - LAUGHTER
0:27:58 > 0:28:02By some very good High Flyers, who came in out of the sun. Well done.
0:28:02 > 0:28:06Commiserations to you. The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them,
0:28:06 > 0:28:08and their winning streak continues.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £10,000,
0:28:11 > 0:28:13so the money rolls over to our next show.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?
0:28:16 > 0:28:17Join us next time to see
0:28:17 > 0:28:20if a new team of challengers have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:20 > 0:28:24£11,000 says they don't. Until then. Goodbye.