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These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:08 | |
Together, they make up the Eggheads, | 0:00:09 | 0:00:11 | |
arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:15 | |
The question is, can they be beaten? | 0:00:17 | 0:00:19 | |
Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers | 0:00:23 | 0:00:27 | |
pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:31 | |
They are the Eggheads. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:32 | |
Taking on the might of our quiz Goliaths today are Chemical Waste. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:36 | |
Four of this team met while studying chemistry at Leicester University | 0:00:36 | 0:00:40 | |
and, to complete the team, Georgie has recruited her boyfriend, Robin. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:45 | |
So let's meet them. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:46 | |
Hi, I'm Georgie, I'm 22 and I'm a chemistry student. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:49 | |
Hi, I'm Robin, I'm 23 and I'm a junior software engineer. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:52 | |
Hi, I'm Phil, I'm 23 and I'm a chemistry student. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:56 | |
Hi, I'm Jacob, I'm 22 and I'm a trainee teacher. | 0:00:56 | 0:00:59 | |
Hi, I'm Becci, I'm 21 and I'm a carer. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:01 | |
So, Georgie and team, welcome. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:03 | |
Were you all studying the same thing at Leicester? | 0:01:03 | 0:01:07 | |
No, we had slightly different chemistry degrees. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:09 | |
I had pharmaceutical chemistry. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
I had forensic chemistry. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:13 | |
-Forensic, pharmaceutical... -And we are just straight. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:17 | |
OK, but they were still chemistry. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
All chemistry, yeah, just other bits, as well. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:21 | |
Yeah, sure. But Robin is from a different place. | 0:01:21 | 0:01:25 | |
The same place, but I was studying photography. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:27 | |
-At De Montfort University. -We've got a bit of breadth there. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:31 | |
Photography and chemistry. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:33 | |
A lot of chemistry. I'm going to be so upset if science doesn't come up. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:37 | |
-LAUGHTER -We will, too. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:40 | |
Do you still quiz? | 0:01:40 | 0:01:41 | |
We don't quiz all together, because we live in... Well, three of us | 0:01:41 | 0:01:45 | |
live in Leicester, still, | 0:01:45 | 0:01:46 | |
but Jacob lives in York and Becci is in Wakefield now. | 0:01:46 | 0:01:52 | |
We haven't quizzed together as a team in a long time. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:54 | |
It's the first time in a while. | 0:01:54 | 0:01:56 | |
I don't think we've had a team called Chemical Waste before. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
Am I to take from that you don't feel you are yet | 0:01:59 | 0:02:02 | |
in the jobs that you should be with your chemistry degrees? | 0:02:02 | 0:02:05 | |
When we started quizzing, we didn't intend to continue with science, | 0:02:05 | 0:02:10 | |
really, but it turns out most of us have. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
So it's not the most appropriate name any more. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:15 | |
But we're sticking with it. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:17 | |
Good luck to Chemical Waste. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:18 | |
Every day there is £1,000 of cash up for grabs for our Challengers. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
the prize money rolls over to the next show. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:26 | |
So, Chemical Waste, the Eggheads have won just the last game, | 0:02:26 | 0:02:30 | |
which means £2,000 says you can't beat them today. | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of History. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:37 | |
-Not chemistry. -I think that's you. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:40 | |
-Yes, that's me. -Phil on history. OK. Phil against which Egghead? | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
I'll take History | 0:02:43 | 0:02:45 | |
-and I'll go against Tremendous Knowledge Dave, I think. -OK. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:47 | |
Phil from Chemical Waste against Tremendous Knowledge Dave on History. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:50 | |
Just to ensure there's no conferring, | 0:02:50 | 0:02:53 | |
would you please take your positions in our question room. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
Have you got a history background, Phil, or are you another chemist? | 0:02:57 | 0:03:01 | |
No, I'm a chemist. It's more of an interest than anything else. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
-And you are a drummer, as well? -Yes. Whenever I get the chance. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:06 | |
Not so much in Leicester, because it would annoy the neighbours. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:09 | |
But back at home, yeah, when I get the chance. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:12 | |
It annoys your parents then, does it? | 0:03:12 | 0:03:13 | |
Probably a little bit, but they let me get away with it. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:17 | |
OK, well, get the drums out if you get into trouble in this round. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:19 | |
History is the subject, and would you like to go first or second? | 0:03:19 | 0:03:23 | |
I'll go first, please. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:24 | |
Here we go. How many times did Queen Mary I of England marry? | 0:03:27 | 0:03:31 | |
Mary I was married to Philip II of Spain. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:41 | |
So I think I'm going to go for probably just once. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:46 | |
-Is he right about Philip II? -Great answer. -Well done. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
You got it right, Philip. OK. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:52 | |
We are dealing with an historian disguised as a chemist. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:55 | |
This guy knows his history. Taken us by surprise. | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
Tremendous Knowledge Dave, who was king of Great Britain and Ireland | 0:03:59 | 0:04:03 | |
for nearly 60 years, until his death in 1820? | 0:04:03 | 0:04:06 | |
-That's George III. -George III is quite right. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:14 | |
OK, Phil, back to you. | 0:04:15 | 0:04:16 | |
Samarkand, a major city in modern-day Uzbekistan, | 0:04:16 | 0:04:21 | |
had a central position on which historic trade route? | 0:04:21 | 0:04:25 | |
OK, I don't know this one. The Silk Road ended up in China. | 0:04:30 | 0:04:36 | |
So I guess it's a bit out of the way. | 0:04:37 | 0:04:40 | |
Um... I think am going to have to go for the Appian Way. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:44 | |
Now, let's have a think. Appian Way, Eggheads, is that Rome? | 0:04:46 | 0:04:49 | |
-Brindisi in Italy. -So, in Italy. It's the Silk Road. | 0:04:49 | 0:04:53 | |
-Oh, it is. -Phil, sorry. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:55 | |
I was sure you were going to get that right, | 0:04:55 | 0:04:57 | |
you were playing with such confidence. | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
OK, Tremendous Knowledge Dave, to take the lead. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:01 | |
In ancient Rome, a hypocaust was a type of what? | 0:05:01 | 0:05:05 | |
It's a central heating system. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:12 | |
Well done, Dave, you got it right. A central heating system. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:14 | |
So Dave is in the lead. It means you need to get this right, Phil. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
Don't want to see you pitched out of the contest this early. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:21 | |
In 1802, the Saint-Cyr Academy was founded in France | 0:05:21 | 0:05:25 | |
for the training of which group of people? | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
Saint-Cyr is S-A-I-N-T hyphen C-Y-R. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:37 | |
1802. Um... | 0:05:37 | 0:05:40 | |
I guess around then there was a lot going on with the French Empire. | 0:05:40 | 0:05:44 | |
Napoleon was not far off. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:46 | |
I don't know, but, logically, I'm probably going to go for soldiers. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:51 | |
Soldiers is the right answer. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:53 | |
Have you put your wizard player into the first round here? | 0:05:56 | 0:05:59 | |
-Yeah! -LAUGHTER | 0:05:59 | 0:06:01 | |
That's a high-risk strategy. | 0:06:01 | 0:06:03 | |
Because if Dave gets this one right, Phil is out. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:06 | |
Where in London was the proclamation | 0:06:06 | 0:06:09 | |
of the accession of Elizabeth II first read out | 0:06:09 | 0:06:12 | |
on 6th February 1952? | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
I don't know the answer to this. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:22 | |
The temptation was to go for Buckingham Palace. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:26 | |
But, you know, um... | 0:06:26 | 0:06:28 | |
I am just going to veer away from it. I'll go St James's Palace. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:34 | |
You've got it right. St James's Palace it is. Sorry, Phil. | 0:06:35 | 0:06:39 | |
Been knocked out there. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:40 | |
The wretched old Silk Road. That's so annoying. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
Dave, well done, you're in the final round. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:45 | |
Please come back to us and we'll play on. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:47 | |
Phil, I'm sorry to see you go, | 0:06:49 | 0:06:50 | |
because I can tell history is your thing. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:52 | |
Yeah, I quite like it. It's definitely an interest. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
I read up about it when I can, but I guess it didn't fall right this time. | 0:06:55 | 0:07:01 | |
Georgie, I realise, tactically, you had to put him in for History, | 0:07:01 | 0:07:04 | |
because there was a good chance of him getting the round. | 0:07:04 | 0:07:06 | |
-He's a big loss. -He's definitely a big loss. | 0:07:06 | 0:07:09 | |
Let's see where Chemical Waste goes from here. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:12 | |
Loving the team name, I must say. | 0:07:12 | 0:07:14 | |
They've lost a brain, the Eggheads have not lost a brain so far. | 0:07:14 | 0:07:17 | |
The next subject is Arts & Books. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:19 | |
-Who would like this? -Robin's our arty man. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:22 | |
-Yeah. -The non-chemist against... anyone but Dave. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:27 | |
I think I'll go against Barry, please. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:29 | |
OK, Robin from Chemical Waste versus Barry, | 0:07:29 | 0:07:31 | |
-who, by the way, is a chemistry graduate. -Yes. | 0:07:31 | 0:07:35 | |
So this is a weird one. | 0:07:35 | 0:07:37 | |
The one non-chemist takes the one chemist on Arts & Books. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:40 | |
I can't work it out. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:42 | |
But to ensure there's no conferring, | 0:07:42 | 0:07:44 | |
please take your positions. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:46 | |
Robin, over to you. It's Arts & Books. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:48 | |
Do you want to go first or second? | 0:07:48 | 0:07:50 | |
I'll go first, please. | 0:07:50 | 0:07:51 | |
Here we go, good luck. Which pronoun is used | 0:07:54 | 0:07:56 | |
as the title of an 1887 H Rider Haggard novel | 0:07:56 | 0:08:00 | |
featuring the African Queen Ayesha? | 0:08:00 | 0:08:02 | |
Well, straightaway, I don't know this one, | 0:08:05 | 0:08:07 | |
so it's going to have to be a guess. | 0:08:07 | 0:08:10 | |
I'm going to rule out Me and She and opt for the royal We. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:17 | |
-Eggheads, do you know? -ALL: She. -She is the answer. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:21 | |
She is the original "she who must be obeyed". | 0:08:21 | 0:08:24 | |
-Is that right? -That's where the phrase comes from, yes. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:26 | |
OK, your chance to take the lead, Barry. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:28 | |
The work known in English as The Three Musketeers | 0:08:28 | 0:08:31 | |
was originally written in which language? | 0:08:31 | 0:08:34 | |
-It was written in French. -French is the right answer. Well done. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:40 | |
Back to you, Robin. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:42 | |
Which French phrase meaning "living picture" | 0:08:42 | 0:08:45 | |
refers to a group of motionless people | 0:08:45 | 0:08:48 | |
striking a dramatic pose? | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
Again, not so sure on this one, so it's going to be another punt. | 0:08:55 | 0:08:59 | |
I think I'm going to go with facade passant. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
They're cleverly made up, these ones. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:05 | |
Judith, you're the French person here. | 0:09:05 | 0:09:08 | |
I think it's tableau vivant. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:09 | |
It's tableau vivant. Barry, your question. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
Who wrote the novel The Soldier's Wife, first published in 2012? | 0:09:12 | 0:09:16 | |
I don't know this one. | 0:09:21 | 0:09:23 | |
Joanna Trollope is more commonly associated with Aga sagas. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:27 | |
The Soldier's Wife doesn't sound that way. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:30 | |
I shall go for Helen Dunmore, but I really don't know. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:34 | |
-Judith knows. -Joanna Trollope. -Joanna Trollope is correct. | 0:09:34 | 0:09:37 | |
I think she did The Rector's Wife, | 0:09:37 | 0:09:39 | |
so maybe she had a series of wives. | 0:09:39 | 0:09:41 | |
Barry got it wrong. Not Helen Dunmore. Joanna Trollope. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:44 | |
How about that, Robin? | 0:09:44 | 0:09:46 | |
Back in with a chance, but you need to get this one right. | 0:09:46 | 0:09:49 | |
Chapter 1 of Book 1 of which novel begins, | 0:09:49 | 0:09:51 | |
"'I have been here before,' I said?" | 0:09:51 | 0:09:53 | |
I think the clue might be in the title with this one, | 0:09:59 | 0:10:02 | |
I'm going to go Brideshead Revisited. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:06 | |
Yeah, that is good quizzing, because you're right. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:08 | |
Well done. | 0:10:08 | 0:10:10 | |
It's one each. Barry, | 0:10:12 | 0:10:14 | |
if you get this right, you're in the final round. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:16 | |
Which actress appeared in a reference manual for illustrators | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
early in her career, | 0:10:19 | 0:10:20 | |
and so was inadvertently the model for Jack Vettriano's work | 0:10:20 | 0:10:24 | |
The Singing Butler? | 0:10:24 | 0:10:26 | |
What an excellent question. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:33 | |
I know this picture very well, | 0:10:33 | 0:10:34 | |
but I didn't realise it was an actress who appeared as a model. | 0:10:34 | 0:10:39 | |
And I really don't know. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:40 | |
It could be Sarah Parish, but the woman in the picture | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
doesn't strike me as looking like Sarah Parish, | 0:10:43 | 0:10:45 | |
so I will discount her. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:47 | |
I think I'll go for Orla Brady, but I really don't know this one. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:50 | |
Orla Brady is the right answer, Barry. Well done. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:53 | |
Sorry, Robin, you started to motor there, | 0:10:53 | 0:10:56 | |
but I'm afraid he has beaten you in the round, | 0:10:56 | 0:10:58 | |
so you're not in the final and Barry is. | 0:10:58 | 0:11:00 | |
If you both come back to us, we'll play on. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:03 | |
As it stands, Chemical Waste have lost two brains | 0:11:03 | 0:11:05 | |
from the final round, | 0:11:05 | 0:11:06 | |
the Eggheads have not lost a brain. The next subject is Sport. | 0:11:06 | 0:11:09 | |
This, I think, is going to be good, isn't it? | 0:11:09 | 0:11:11 | |
ALL DISCUSS CONTENDER | 0:11:11 | 0:11:14 | |
Stereotype and throw in the boy! | 0:11:14 | 0:11:17 | |
-Jacob, I think. -OK, I'll take Sport. | 0:11:17 | 0:11:19 | |
OK, Jacob on Sport against... | 0:11:19 | 0:11:21 | |
obviously it can't be Dave or Barry. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:24 | |
-Pat or Judith. -Judith, I guess. OK, I'll take Judith, please. | 0:11:24 | 0:11:28 | |
-Oh, dear. -I'm amazed. | 0:11:28 | 0:11:30 | |
She's not amazed at all. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:32 | |
Jacob from Chemical Waste versus Judith from the Eggheads on Sport. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:36 | |
To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:39 | |
Jacob on Sport, would you like to go first or second? | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
I will go first, please. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:46 | |
-Good luck to you. -Thank you. | 0:11:49 | 0:11:50 | |
Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, | 0:11:50 | 0:11:52 | |
and which other tennis star were the only players | 0:11:52 | 0:11:56 | |
to win the ladies' singles title at Wimbledon between 1981 and 1993? | 0:11:56 | 0:12:01 | |
I have no idea, to be honest. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:07 | |
Sport is, well, not an interest, | 0:12:07 | 0:12:10 | |
to say the least, to be honest! | 0:12:10 | 0:12:12 | |
I couldn't even begin to start to eliminate any of them, | 0:12:14 | 0:12:17 | |
if I'm completely honest. I've never heard of any of them. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:21 | |
When in doubt, I'm pretty sure everyone says go down the middle, | 0:12:23 | 0:12:26 | |
so I'll do the same, I'll say Lindsay Davenport, please. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:30 | |
Lindsay Davenport. | 0:12:30 | 0:12:31 | |
Funnily enough, this is stronger territory for you, | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
-because you love tennis. Who do you think it is? -Chris Evert. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
It is Chris Evert, Jacob. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:39 | |
-Did Lindsay Davenport win? -She did once, in 2001, or something. | 0:12:39 | 0:12:44 | |
-Virginia Wade was the Jubilee year. -1977, yes. -'77, yes. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:49 | |
I remember it. My mum went crazy. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:50 | |
Here's your question, Judith. | 0:12:50 | 0:12:52 | |
At the 2012 Olympics, Perri Shakes-Drayton | 0:12:52 | 0:12:55 | |
represented Team GB in which sport? | 0:12:55 | 0:12:58 | |
She won a gold, but not at the Olympics, | 0:13:01 | 0:13:03 | |
but she represented GB in athletics. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:07 | |
Athletics is the correct answer. OK, Jacob. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:10 | |
More than 20 African countries boycotted the 1976 summer Olympics | 0:13:11 | 0:13:17 | |
in protest at which country's sporting links with South Africa? | 0:13:17 | 0:13:20 | |
Again, I'm not really sure. | 0:13:25 | 0:13:27 | |
I'm trying to think which countries | 0:13:27 | 0:13:29 | |
would have sporting links with South Africa. | 0:13:29 | 0:13:32 | |
I know New Zealand does a few things with South Africa, such as cricket, | 0:13:33 | 0:13:37 | |
rugby and stuff like that, so, | 0:13:37 | 0:13:40 | |
I will go with New Zealand. | 0:13:40 | 0:13:42 | |
But not sure why they'd be annoyed. | 0:13:42 | 0:13:45 | |
New Zealand is the right answer. Well done. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:47 | |
Judith, your question to take the lead. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:49 | |
Who was the first footballer | 0:13:49 | 0:13:51 | |
to win the PFA Young Player Of The Year Award twice? | 0:13:51 | 0:13:55 | |
Don't like football! Um... | 0:13:59 | 0:14:03 | |
How can you win it twice? | 0:14:03 | 0:14:05 | |
Because you're older the second time you win it, | 0:14:05 | 0:14:07 | |
you don't count, as it were. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:09 | |
Michael Owen was a kind of boy wonder, wasn't he? | 0:14:09 | 0:14:12 | |
I'm going to say Michael Owen. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:14 | |
Might have guessed that, but it's not right. Ryan Giggs is the answer. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:18 | |
Jacob, this is tricky now. | 0:14:18 | 0:14:19 | |
You've got one point, this is your third question. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:22 | |
Get this one right and put some pressure on Judith. | 0:14:22 | 0:14:24 | |
Your team needs you. Take your time here, Jacob. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:26 | |
The Kovacs and the Cassina are moves performed in which sport? | 0:14:26 | 0:14:32 | |
Again, I'm not really sure. Um... | 0:14:36 | 0:14:39 | |
For some reason, I find myself being drawn to dressage. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:45 | |
But, really, I've no idea why. Um... | 0:14:45 | 0:14:49 | |
Really don't think it is gymnastics or figure skating, | 0:14:49 | 0:14:52 | |
so I think I'll go with dressage. | 0:14:52 | 0:14:54 | |
Dressage. Judith, you might know, | 0:14:54 | 0:14:55 | |
because you like dressage. Is it dressage? | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
-It's either that or figure skating. -Anyone on the team? | 0:14:58 | 0:15:01 | |
Figure skating, I think, but I don't know. | 0:15:01 | 0:15:05 | |
Everyone is wrong. It's gymnastics. | 0:15:05 | 0:15:09 | |
-Sorry, Jacob. -Never mind. | 0:15:09 | 0:15:11 | |
Judith, your question. | 0:15:11 | 0:15:12 | |
What colour are the racing silks of the Godolphin horse-racing team? | 0:15:12 | 0:15:18 | |
If you get this right, Judith, you're in the final round. | 0:15:20 | 0:15:22 | |
They are blue. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
-You've won on sport again. -Well, it pays to read the papers. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:28 | |
There we are, you've done it. Well done, on sport. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:31 | |
And she's taken her place in the final round, | 0:15:31 | 0:15:33 | |
so maybe that whole jinx is now history. | 0:15:33 | 0:15:36 | |
-Sorry, Jacob, you've been knocked out by Judith. -That's OK. | 0:15:36 | 0:15:39 | |
The upside is it will improve her mood for several days! | 0:15:39 | 0:15:42 | |
Please, both of you, come back and rejoin your teams. | 0:15:42 | 0:15:45 | |
As it stands, Chemical Waste have lost three brains | 0:15:46 | 0:15:49 | |
from the final round. | 0:15:49 | 0:15:50 | |
What do we do now, Georgie? Do we switch tactics, | 0:15:50 | 0:15:54 | |
-bring on another chemist? -We're going to have to do! | 0:15:54 | 0:15:58 | |
Yeah. I think we'll just go for... | 0:15:58 | 0:16:01 | |
Have to see what comes up and work it out from there. | 0:16:01 | 0:16:03 | |
Desperate for science to come up. It has to come up. | 0:16:03 | 0:16:06 | |
But I have to tell you, the next subject chosen at random is Music. | 0:16:06 | 0:16:09 | |
-That's Becci. -We've not had a chemistry question. Becci, it's you. | 0:16:10 | 0:16:13 | |
-Yeah. -OK. Before you go... -Oh, sorry! -Tell us which Egghead. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:19 | |
-There they all are. Pat or Kevin? -Kevin. -Who's better? | 0:16:19 | 0:16:23 | |
Literally up to you. | 0:16:24 | 0:16:26 | |
Um, I'll go Kevin. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:29 | |
OK, some people just get a thrill | 0:16:29 | 0:16:30 | |
from being in the question room with Kevin. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:33 | |
That's because of his legendary status. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:35 | |
So it is Becci from Chemical Waste | 0:16:35 | 0:16:37 | |
versus Kevin from the Eggheads on Music. | 0:16:37 | 0:16:39 | |
Please go to the question room now. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:41 | |
Becci, although you are a chemist, you love your music, I know. | 0:16:43 | 0:16:46 | |
-Yes, you could say that. -Because you do musical theatre. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:50 | |
I do. I direct at a youth theatre, so that's good. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:56 | |
We're doing Alice In Wonderland at the moment. A musical version. | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
Isn't that wonderful? | 0:16:59 | 0:17:01 | |
-So, music, Becci, would you like to go first or second? -I'll go first. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:05 | |
Here is your question, Becci. Good luck against the maestro. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:12 | |
Which song, a UK number one in 2011, contains the lines, | 0:17:12 | 0:17:16 | |
"It's not about the money, money, money, | 0:17:16 | 0:17:18 | |
"we don't need your money, money, money?" | 0:17:18 | 0:17:20 | |
Um, I believe that song | 0:17:24 | 0:17:27 | |
is sung by Jessie J. | 0:17:27 | 0:17:30 | |
If it's not, I've just made a fool of myself, | 0:17:30 | 0:17:33 | |
but I'm going to say that it is Price Tag. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:36 | |
Price Tag is right. Well done. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:37 | |
Kevin, your question. | 0:17:39 | 0:17:40 | |
"Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:44 | |
"Like the first dewfall on the first grass," | 0:17:44 | 0:17:47 | |
are lines from which popular song? | 0:17:47 | 0:17:49 | |
-Yeah, it's Morning Has Broken. -It is, indeed, Morning Has Broken. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:59 | |
Becci, which of these singers | 0:17:59 | 0:18:01 | |
was born in Bay City, Michigan, in 1958? | 0:18:01 | 0:18:04 | |
1958, which would make, um... | 0:18:08 | 0:18:11 | |
This is where I'm going to get my maths wrong. Um... | 0:18:11 | 0:18:15 | |
55, will it make them? | 0:18:15 | 0:18:19 | |
Um... | 0:18:19 | 0:18:22 | |
I have... | 0:18:22 | 0:18:25 | |
no idea, really. | 0:18:25 | 0:18:26 | |
I'm going to say that... Could be really insulting here, | 0:18:28 | 0:18:31 | |
but I'm going to say Madonna's probably in her mid-50s, | 0:18:31 | 0:18:36 | |
so I'm going for Madonna. | 0:18:36 | 0:18:38 | |
That's excellent play, Becci, you're quite right. It's Madonna. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:42 | |
And I think Debbie Harry is over 60 now, is that right? | 0:18:42 | 0:18:45 | |
-She is, yeah. -And Cher, as well, probably. -Yes. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:48 | |
OK. Kevin, your question. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:51 | |
The songs I Hope I Get It and I Can Do That | 0:18:51 | 0:18:54 | |
feature in which musical? | 0:18:54 | 0:18:56 | |
I think... Well, I hope the clue is in the song title, | 0:18:59 | 0:19:03 | |
because A Chorus Line is about a group of hopefuls | 0:19:03 | 0:19:07 | |
trying to get parts in a big Broadway musical. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:11 | |
So I think it is A Chorus Line. | 0:19:11 | 0:19:13 | |
It is A Chorus Line. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:14 | |
Right up Daphne's street, that question, but she's not here. | 0:19:14 | 0:19:17 | |
So 2-2, Becci, you're playing well. | 0:19:17 | 0:19:19 | |
See if we can get you into the final and pitch Kevin overboard, | 0:19:19 | 0:19:22 | |
which would help. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:23 | |
Who composed the music for the pantomime ballet | 0:19:23 | 0:19:26 | |
The Miraculous Mandarin? | 0:19:26 | 0:19:28 | |
I've spent a lot of time, recently, looking over classical composers | 0:19:32 | 0:19:38 | |
and these three have not been included in my research. | 0:19:38 | 0:19:45 | |
So, I wouldn't even know where to start to narrow down. | 0:19:45 | 0:19:50 | |
So I'm going straight down the middle, I think, and say Bruckner. | 0:19:50 | 0:19:54 | |
It's Bartok. It is Bartok, I'm afraid.. | 0:19:54 | 0:19:58 | |
OK, Kevin, your question for the round. | 0:19:58 | 0:20:00 | |
In which category did Gotye's album Making Mirrors | 0:20:00 | 0:20:04 | |
win a Grammy in 2013? | 0:20:04 | 0:20:07 | |
Hm. Hm. | 0:20:11 | 0:20:13 | |
I'll eliminate New Age, but... | 0:20:14 | 0:20:16 | |
He had a No 1 from it with Somebody That I Used To Know. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:22 | |
I mean, how would it be described? | 0:20:25 | 0:20:27 | |
Could it be described as alternative music? | 0:20:27 | 0:20:30 | |
I, um... | 0:20:31 | 0:20:34 | |
I think I would have to go for urban contemporary. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:40 | |
What do you think, team? | 0:20:40 | 0:20:42 | |
I think it's alternative. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:44 | |
Yeah. You're wrong, Kevin. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:46 | |
It's alternative, is it? Hm. OK. | 0:20:46 | 0:20:48 | |
Could maybe have been either, | 0:20:48 | 0:20:50 | |
but you got it wrong. So, alternative music. | 0:20:50 | 0:20:52 | |
Well done to you, Becci, | 0:20:52 | 0:20:53 | |
because you have taken the strongest Egghead to Sudden Death. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:56 | |
A tiny bit harder now for you. | 0:20:56 | 0:20:58 | |
I don't give you alternative answers, OK? | 0:20:58 | 0:21:01 | |
Which band released the album The First Of A Million Kisses in 1988? | 0:21:01 | 0:21:05 | |
Take your time. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:06 | |
I am just going to have to take a guess at it, | 0:21:08 | 0:21:12 | |
and I know I'm going to kick myself, but I will say... | 0:21:12 | 0:21:16 | |
I'm worried I'm going to get one that isn't even in the '80s now. Er, U2? | 0:21:18 | 0:21:22 | |
-It's not U2. When were you born? -'91. -'91! Wow. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:26 | |
Not having been there, physically existed, | 0:21:26 | 0:21:28 | |
at a time when this record came out is quite a good alibi. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:31 | |
It's Fairground Attraction. | 0:21:31 | 0:21:33 | |
Sorry, Becci, but let's see what happens here to Kevin. | 0:21:33 | 0:21:36 | |
For the round, Kevin. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:37 | |
Which progressive rock band, formed in 1966 in Lancashire, | 0:21:37 | 0:21:42 | |
became known by the initials BJH? | 0:21:42 | 0:21:44 | |
I think I'm in the same situation. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:48 | |
I'm sure I'm going to kick myself with this. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:50 | |
Nothing's coming to mind. | 0:21:50 | 0:21:51 | |
Formed in Lancashire in '66. | 0:21:51 | 0:21:55 | |
I can't think of anything, Jeremy, I'm afraid. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:57 | |
My mind has gone completely blank. | 0:21:57 | 0:21:59 | |
-That doesn't happen very often. -No, it does occasionally. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:02 | |
It's something that I know I should know | 0:22:02 | 0:22:04 | |
and so I know I'm going to know the answer. | 0:22:04 | 0:22:07 | |
Oh, you're going to know the answer. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:09 | |
I'll take that as a pass. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:11 | |
If I say the word "Barclay", you'll get it straightaway. | 0:22:11 | 0:22:13 | |
-James Harvest, yes. -Barclay James Harvest. | 0:22:13 | 0:22:16 | |
Oh, so you're still in it, Becci, come on. Good luck to you. | 0:22:16 | 0:22:19 | |
Book your place in the final. | 0:22:19 | 0:22:21 | |
Which venue was the home of the New York Philharmonic | 0:22:21 | 0:22:24 | |
until 1962, when it moved to the Lincoln Center? | 0:22:24 | 0:22:30 | |
I have absolutely no idea. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:33 | |
And it should be something... | 0:22:34 | 0:22:37 | |
..that I should know. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:40 | |
I have absolutely no idea. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:45 | |
So I am going to make something up. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:48 | |
SHE LAUGHS And, um, I will say the New York Opera House. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:53 | |
-Do you know this, Kevin? -Carnegie Hall? | 0:22:53 | 0:22:56 | |
Carnegie Hall is the answer. | 0:22:56 | 0:22:58 | |
So Kevin has a chance for the round here on Sudden Death. | 0:22:58 | 0:23:00 | |
The musician Anoushka Shankar | 0:23:00 | 0:23:02 | |
is best known for playing which stringed instrument? | 0:23:02 | 0:23:06 | |
I think she has followed in her father Ravi's footsteps | 0:23:06 | 0:23:10 | |
-and I think she's a sitar player. -Sitar is the right answer. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:13 | |
You've taken the round, Kevin. Bad luck, Becci. | 0:23:13 | 0:23:15 | |
You held him off for a while, | 0:23:15 | 0:23:17 | |
but it wasn't to be. | 0:23:17 | 0:23:19 | |
So tricky times for Chemical Waste in the final. | 0:23:19 | 0:23:21 | |
Come back to us, both of you, and we will play that final round. | 0:23:21 | 0:23:25 | |
So this is what we have been playing towards. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:28 | |
It's time for the final round, | 0:23:28 | 0:23:30 | |
which, as always, is General Knowledge. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:32 | |
But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads | 0:23:32 | 0:23:34 | |
won't be allowed to take part in this round. So that's Robin, Phil, | 0:23:34 | 0:23:38 | |
Jacob and Becci, from Chemical Waste. | 0:23:38 | 0:23:40 | |
Would you please leave the studio. | 0:23:40 | 0:23:42 | |
-Georgie, I know this wasn't the plan, quite. -No, it wasn't. | 0:23:44 | 0:23:47 | |
But you can definitely still win. | 0:23:47 | 0:23:49 | |
You're playing to win Chemical Waste £2,000. | 0:23:49 | 0:23:51 | |
Barry, Pat, Judith, Kevin and Dave, you are playing for something | 0:23:51 | 0:23:55 | |
that money can't buy - the Eggheads' reputation. | 0:23:55 | 0:23:58 | |
As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn. This time, | 0:23:58 | 0:24:02 | |
the questions are all General Knowledge | 0:24:02 | 0:24:04 | |
and you are allowed to confer. | 0:24:04 | 0:24:06 | |
What's to do? | 0:24:06 | 0:24:08 | |
So, Georgie, the question is, | 0:24:08 | 0:24:09 | |
is your one brain better than the Eggheads' five? | 0:24:09 | 0:24:13 | |
-And would you like to go first or second? -I'll go first, please. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:16 | |
All right, good luck to you, Georgie, here we go. | 0:24:19 | 0:24:21 | |
Which of these is a French word for "bird"? | 0:24:21 | 0:24:24 | |
I'm very pleased this came up | 0:24:28 | 0:24:30 | |
because I actually know a bit of French. | 0:24:30 | 0:24:32 | |
I did French S-level. | 0:24:32 | 0:24:34 | |
"Grenouille" is frog. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:37 | |
"Lapin" is rabbit | 0:24:37 | 0:24:39 | |
and "oiseau" is bird. | 0:24:39 | 0:24:41 | |
I wish I could give you three points for that. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:43 | |
I feel we should give three points for that. | 0:24:43 | 0:24:45 | |
It's just one, but you've got it right. Well done. Oiseau. | 0:24:45 | 0:24:49 | |
OK, Eggheads. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:50 | |
Ethel Skakel married | 0:24:50 | 0:24:53 | |
which member of the Kennedy family in 1950? | 0:24:53 | 0:24:55 | |
-Who's the spokesman, Pat? -It's Pat. | 0:24:59 | 0:25:02 | |
-It's Robert. -Ethel was Robert's wife. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:04 | |
Had lots of children. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:06 | |
That's Robert F Kennedy. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:09 | |
Robert F Kennedy is correct. OK. They're chasing you. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:14 | |
Here we go, Georgie, Lendal Bridge | 0:25:14 | 0:25:17 | |
and Skeldergate Bridge are in which city? | 0:25:17 | 0:25:20 | |
"Lendal" is L-E-N-D-A-L. | 0:25:20 | 0:25:21 | |
I don't know this one. | 0:25:24 | 0:25:28 | |
Trying to think. I'm just going to have to guess randomly. | 0:25:28 | 0:25:31 | |
I can't think. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:32 | |
I'm going to go for Preston. | 0:25:34 | 0:25:36 | |
-I don't know the answer. -Eggheads? | 0:25:36 | 0:25:38 | |
-I suspect it's York. -It's York. It's York. | 0:25:38 | 0:25:42 | |
Your chance to pull ahead, Eggheads. | 0:25:43 | 0:25:45 | |
What type of creature is a Bluefaced Leicester? | 0:25:45 | 0:25:48 | |
-KEVIN: -Leicester are sheep. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:52 | |
A Bluefaced Leicester. | 0:25:52 | 0:25:54 | |
I don't think it'll be a duck. There are Leicester sheep. | 0:26:00 | 0:26:02 | |
There are certainly Leicester sheep, so that's the logical.... | 0:26:02 | 0:26:06 | |
-Red Leicesters! -That's a cheese! | 0:26:06 | 0:26:08 | |
-Yeah! -LAUGHTER | 0:26:08 | 0:26:11 | |
Don't be distracting! | 0:26:11 | 0:26:15 | |
Yeah, I mean, I can't... | 0:26:15 | 0:26:17 | |
-It would be tricky to go for anything else. -We go for sheep? | 0:26:17 | 0:26:21 | |
Yeah. | 0:26:21 | 0:26:23 | |
Er, we're not sure at all. We're going to go for sheep. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:26 | |
It is sheep. Well done, Eggheads. | 0:26:26 | 0:26:28 | |
Bluefaced Leicester are sheep. | 0:26:28 | 0:26:30 | |
That means, Georgie, | 0:26:30 | 0:26:31 | |
you've got to get this one right to stay in the game. | 0:26:31 | 0:26:33 | |
Take your time. Here we go. Third question. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:36 | |
In which film did Lauren Bacall play a character called Vivian Rutledge? | 0:26:36 | 0:26:40 | |
Again, I don't know this one. | 0:26:47 | 0:26:49 | |
Trying to think. I'm not very good on older films. | 0:26:51 | 0:26:55 | |
Something's drawing me to The Big Sleep, | 0:26:56 | 0:26:58 | |
but there's not really any basis behind it. | 0:26:58 | 0:27:01 | |
-Um, so... -SHE SIGHS | 0:27:01 | 0:27:04 | |
I'm just going to go for The Big Sleep, I think. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:08 | |
-You've got it right. Well done. -Thanks. | 0:27:08 | 0:27:11 | |
Here's your question, Eggheads. | 0:27:12 | 0:27:14 | |
If you get this one right, the contest is over. | 0:27:14 | 0:27:15 | |
In the card game contract bridge, | 0:27:15 | 0:27:17 | |
how many tricks must the team win to make a small slam? | 0:27:17 | 0:27:21 | |
Sometimes known as a "little slam". | 0:27:21 | 0:27:23 | |
ALL AGREE ON 12 | 0:27:26 | 0:27:27 | |
Because 13 is a grand slam. | 0:27:27 | 0:27:30 | |
It should be 12, it's just one below the maximum. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:33 | |
That should be 12. | 0:27:33 | 0:27:36 | |
-I fear we have some bridge players here. -Yeah. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:39 | |
The correct answer is 12. | 0:27:39 | 0:27:41 | |
We say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:44 | |
Commiserations to the team known as Chemical Waste. | 0:27:49 | 0:27:52 | |
Still a great name! | 0:27:52 | 0:27:53 | |
The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them | 0:27:53 | 0:27:56 | |
and they reign supreme over Quiz Land, still. | 0:27:56 | 0:27:58 | |
I'm afraid it means you won't be going home with the £2,000, | 0:27:58 | 0:28:01 | |
so the money rolls over to our next show. Eggheads, congratulations. | 0:28:01 | 0:28:05 | |
Who will beat you? Join us next time | 0:28:05 | 0:28:07 | |
to see if a new team of Challengers | 0:28:07 | 0:28:09 | |
have the brains to defeat the Eggheads. | 0:28:09 | 0:28:11 | |
£3,000 says they don't. Till then, goodbye. | 0:28:11 | 0:28:14 |