0:00:04 > 0:00:08These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:10 > 0:00:12Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:12 > 0:00:15arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:24 > 0:00:26Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of
0:00:26 > 0:00:29five quiz Challengers pit their wits against
0:00:29 > 0:00:32possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:32 > 0:00:36They are the Eggheads and taking on our general knowledge geniuses today
0:00:36 > 0:00:40are Lord Of The Ping. Now, this team of friends all played table tennis
0:00:40 > 0:00:43on the Grand Prix circuit and also compete in
0:00:43 > 0:00:46the British University Championships. Let's meet them.
0:00:46 > 0:00:50Hi, I'm Kieran, I'm 22, and I'm a journalism and French student.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54Hi, I'm Carrie, I'm 22, and I'm a support worker.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58Hi, I'm Emma, I'm 22, and I'm a psychology and sports science student.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01Hi, I'm Tristan, I'm 22, and I'm a mathematics student.
0:01:01 > 0:01:05Hi, I'm Matt, I'm 22, and I'm a civil and structural engineering student.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08So, Kieran and team, welcome. Good to see you.
0:01:08 > 0:01:09ALL: Hi, how are you?
0:01:09 > 0:01:12- You all have table tennis in common? - We do, that's right.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15And, Kieran, just tell me the attraction of that great sport,
0:01:15 > 0:01:18which, by the way, I love. So, you just tell everyone else.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20I think it's the fact that it can be played by anyone of any age,
0:01:20 > 0:01:23you know? When you go down to a local league at 12 or 13, you can
0:01:23 > 0:01:26play against someone who's 80 and be soundly beaten by them.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29I feel like it doesn't really get the credit it deserves, it's not
0:01:29 > 0:01:32a well-liked or generally popular sport, but we really enjoy it.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35We've got two brilliant players in Carrie and Emma
0:01:35 > 0:01:38- who represented England for, I think, ten years.- OK.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41And then Tristan and myself, we play.
0:01:41 > 0:01:42We haven't quite hit those heights,
0:01:42 > 0:01:46but we've had a fantastic year with the University of Sheffield's team.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49OK, well, I hope you can smash this lot out of sight here.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52Good luck against the Eggheads. Every day, there's £1,000 worth
0:01:52 > 0:01:54of 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, Lord Of The Ping, the Eggheads have won the last six games,
0:02:02 > 0:02:05which means £7,000 says you can't beat them today.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07Would you like to try?
0:02:07 > 0:02:10- Yes.- Yes.- The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of...
0:02:11 > 0:02:13Now, who would like this?
0:02:13 > 0:02:17- I think...is that going to be Emma? - Are you happy with that?- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20Emma against any one of them. Who would you like?
0:02:20 > 0:02:22I remember hearing that Daphne
0:02:22 > 0:02:24wasn't very good with her easts and wests.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26Oh, I've heard that before, yeah.
0:02:26 > 0:02:27Um, I think we'll go Daphne.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30OK, so Emma from Lord Of The Ping versus...I'm thinking
0:02:30 > 0:02:33non-table tennis playing Daphne, is that right?
0:02:33 > 0:02:36Well, actually, when I used to work in the bank,
0:02:36 > 0:02:41we had a table tennis table upstairs in the room,
0:02:41 > 0:02:44- so, we always used to play every lunch time.- Right.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46To ensure there's no conferring,
0:02:46 > 0:02:50would you please both take your positions in the question room.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55Well, Emma, I won't talk non-stop about table tennis,
0:02:55 > 0:02:58but I do notice you've got 12 National Table Tennis Titles.
0:02:58 > 0:02:59Yeah, that's right, yeah.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02At the tender age of 22, you must have started so young.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05Yeah, I started playing when I was seven, both my parents
0:03:05 > 0:03:08played for County, so, they got me into it and I've never looked back.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11Great, well, it's been a great career so far.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14Is that what you're planning to do professionally or maybe that's not possible?
0:03:14 > 0:03:18Well, I did it for a year, played in Sweden and Belgium, um,
0:03:18 > 0:03:21but at the moment I'm just concentrating on my studies as well.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24- And you're studying where? - At Nottingham Trent University.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26Where I know you also carried the Olympic Torch.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28Yeah, I was lucky enough to be chosen.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31I was one of three people to be a torch bearer because of my
0:03:31 > 0:03:35- achievements for university, so that was a great honour.- Tremendous.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37Well, good luck in this round against our Daphne.
0:03:37 > 0:03:38Would you like to go first or second?
0:03:38 > 0:03:40Um, I'd like to go first, please.
0:03:43 > 0:03:45OK, good luck to you.
0:03:45 > 0:03:48Which of these countries does not share a border with Luxembourg?
0:03:51 > 0:03:54Um, well, I've been to Luxembourg a few times.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56I'm not entirely sure.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59But I think I'm going to guess Switzerland.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01Switzerland is the right answer.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04- Well done, Emma. Good stuff. - APPLAUSE
0:04:04 > 0:04:08Daphne, St Mawes and St Blazey are settlements in which county?
0:04:13 > 0:04:14Oh, they're in Cornwall.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19- Yes.- They are indeed in Cornwall. One each.
0:04:19 > 0:04:20OK, Emma, your question.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23The Caribbean islands of Turks and Caicos
0:04:23 > 0:04:25are an overseas territory of which country?
0:04:28 > 0:04:31Uh, well, I've never actually heard of these islands before,
0:04:31 > 0:04:35so this is going to be a bit of an educated guess.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38I think I'm going to go Portugal.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40Anyone here know on your side?
0:04:40 > 0:04:42- No idea to be honest. - No, not at all.- Eggheads?
0:04:42 > 0:04:44- UK.- Yeah, they all say the UK.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47- It's not obvious at all, Turks and Caicos...- No.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49..are overseas territories of the UK.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54OK, Daphne. The Tower of David Museum
0:04:54 > 0:04:57and the Kidron Valley are popular attractions in which city?
0:05:00 > 0:05:02That's Jerusalem.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Jerusalem is the right answer.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08We go back to you, Emma.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Got to get this one right, OK?
0:05:10 > 0:05:15Queenstown, a resort town in New Zealand's South Island
0:05:15 > 0:05:17sits on the edge of which lake?
0:05:17 > 0:05:18Is it...?
0:05:23 > 0:05:27Eh, well, my knowledge of New Zealand isn't that great, to be honest.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31Um, I'm not...I've only heard of...
0:05:31 > 0:05:34Tarawera before. I've not heard of the other two.
0:05:34 > 0:05:38But I think I'm going to have to guess Tarawera.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40Daphne, do you know this one?
0:05:40 > 0:05:44No. Um, I've gone for Rotorua because I didn't know.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47- Anyone here?- Rotorua is in the North Island, isn't it?
0:05:47 > 0:05:51- It's where the geysers and things are.- I think it's Wakatipu.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54Kevin says, "Wakatipu." It's Wakatipu, Emma.
0:05:55 > 0:05:56Very hard one to guess that, actually.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59Sorry, you've been knocked out by Daphne.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01Please both of you come back and rejoin your team-mates.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05So, as it stands, Lord Of The Ping have lost
0:06:05 > 0:06:09a brain from the final round, whilst the Eggheads have not lost any.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11The next subject for you is Science.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13- This any good?- Science!
0:06:13 > 0:06:15- Well, that was Emma's! - Yeah, that was your...
0:06:15 > 0:06:18- I'd be happy to take this instead. - I'll take it, yeah?
0:06:18 > 0:06:22- Tristan, OK, cos your studying...is it maths?- Yes, maths, yes.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25- Well, that's in the zone. - It's sort of in the zone, yeah.
0:06:25 > 0:06:26Who would you like? Can't be Daphne?
0:06:26 > 0:06:30- I don't mind.- You go for it, I'll leave it down to you.- Chris.
0:06:30 > 0:06:33- I'll take Chris, please.- All right, so, Tristan from Lord Of The Ping.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36Chris, how are we on Science today?
0:06:36 > 0:06:39O level Physics and Chemistry in University of London, 1963.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42- Apart from that, it's all common sense.- OK, Tristan against Chris.
0:06:42 > 0:06:43Please go to the question room now.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47So, Tristan, you're a table tennis player as well?
0:06:47 > 0:06:48I am indeed, yes, yep.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50And just let me ask you about your bat cos
0:06:50 > 0:06:51I know the bat is very important.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54Do you have one bat that you use the whole time that
0:06:54 > 0:06:57- you're very attached to? - I do have one bat, yes, and I just change the rubbers every
0:06:57 > 0:07:00six months or so, when they need changing, when they go a bit dead.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03How much stick can you get on a table tennis bat?
0:07:03 > 0:07:06I mean, how grippy can you get it to spin that ball?
0:07:06 > 0:07:09Well, some bats are known that, if you put a table tennis ball on
0:07:09 > 0:07:11top of the bat and then you turn it upside down,
0:07:11 > 0:07:12then it will stay stuck to it.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14- Really?- Yeah, some of the bats are like that, yeah.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16We're almost on science territory with this,
0:07:16 > 0:07:18the science of the table tennis bat.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20- Yes, almost.- Would you like to go first or second here, Tristan?
0:07:20 > 0:07:22I'll go second.
0:07:25 > 0:07:27So, Chris, the first question goes to you.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30Grasshoppers are most closely related to which of these insects?
0:07:34 > 0:07:37Well, they're...like a cricket.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40They're a... They strigilate, rub their back legs together,
0:07:40 > 0:07:42and make the noise.
0:07:42 > 0:07:43Cricket is the answer.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47Is that how you hear the noise at night, is it?
0:07:47 > 0:07:50- As a bit of strigilating?- Yeah.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52- Can't beat a good strigilate!- OK.
0:07:52 > 0:07:57Tristan, the Halley Research Station at which work was done that
0:07:57 > 0:08:02led to the discovery of the hole in the ozone layer, is situated where?
0:08:08 > 0:08:12- Um...- And Halley is H-A-L-L-E-Y. - H-A-L-L-E-Y.
0:08:12 > 0:08:16Um, it's going to have to be a bit of an educated guess, um...
0:08:16 > 0:08:18I mean, to look at a hole in the ozone layer,
0:08:18 > 0:08:21you'd have to be quite high up, so I'd guess Mount Kilimanjaro.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24- Eggheads?- But the hole was over the Antarctic, wasn't it?
0:08:24 > 0:08:26The answer is Antarctica, I'm afraid, Tristan.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29As Judith's pointed out, that's where the hole is, so...
0:08:29 > 0:08:32- Oh, right, yeah. - Chris, your question.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35What of these phrases is usually used to refer to the
0:08:35 > 0:08:40difference in appearance between the male and female of the same species?
0:08:47 > 0:08:50That is sexual dimorphism.
0:08:50 > 0:08:54Sexual dimorphism is the right answer.
0:08:54 > 0:08:55OK...
0:08:55 > 0:08:57Tristan.
0:08:57 > 0:09:01Montan wax, used in the manufacture of various polishes can be
0:09:01 > 0:09:04obtained from certain types of what?
0:09:08 > 0:09:12Um, once again, not really sure of this one,
0:09:12 > 0:09:15but I will guess at palm tree, please.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19- It's coal.- All right.
0:09:19 > 0:09:20Coal is the answer,
0:09:20 > 0:09:23so, actually, Chris has two and there's no way back for you
0:09:23 > 0:09:26with the third question so, Tristan, we have to say goodbye, I'm afraid.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28You won't be in the final round.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Chris has gone through to the final on Science
0:09:30 > 0:09:34- and there wasn't really enough maths in there.- No, not at all!
0:09:34 > 0:09:37I apologise for that. Please, both of you, rejoin your team-mates.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43So, as it stands, Lord Of The Ping have lost two brains from the
0:09:43 > 0:09:46final round, whilst the Eggheads have still not lost a brain.
0:09:46 > 0:09:50The next subject is Film & TV. Who would like this?
0:09:50 > 0:09:52THEY ALL SPEAK AT ONCE
0:09:52 > 0:09:54- OK.- I'll take it. - Carrie, against...?
0:09:54 > 0:09:57Um, I'll take on Dave.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59- Tremendous Knowledge Dave. - LAUGHTER
0:09:59 > 0:10:03- Everybody laughed when I said that. - Yeah, quite rightly.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05Carrie from Lord Of The Ping versus Dave from
0:10:05 > 0:10:07the Eggheads on Film & Television.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09Please, both of you, go to the Question Room now.
0:10:12 > 0:10:13- Good luck here, Carrie.- Thank you.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16Are you going to compete at the next Olympics or is it too
0:10:16 > 0:10:18early for me to be asking that?
0:10:18 > 0:10:21It's a little bit early. At the moment, I'm working full-time,
0:10:21 > 0:10:25so it's difficult to get the amount of training that you need in to play
0:10:25 > 0:10:29at Olympic standard, but we'll see how it goes over the next year or so.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31And what are you doing in your main job?
0:10:31 > 0:10:35I'm a support worker at a school for children with special
0:10:35 > 0:10:36educational needs.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39- Well, good luck with that and with the sport as well.- Thank you.
0:10:39 > 0:10:40And here we are with Film & TV,
0:10:40 > 0:10:43which I guess is something that you find a bit of time to watch.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46Oh, I love films and I love TV. Yep.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48Well, would you like to go first or second.
0:10:48 > 0:10:51Em, I'll get it out the way and go first, please.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59Good luck. Which character played by Martin Shaw in a TV drama serial
0:10:59 > 0:11:00is a judge?
0:11:06 > 0:11:08OK.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10I haven't heard of this...
0:11:10 > 0:11:12at all.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16I'm going to guess John Deed.
0:11:17 > 0:11:22- John Deed is correct.- Oh! - Judge John Deed.
0:11:22 > 0:11:23OK, Dave, your question.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25In which Robert Altman film do
0:11:25 > 0:11:30Christian Lacroix, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and Issey Miyake appear?
0:11:35 > 0:11:37It's Pret-a-Porter.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40Straight there, no thinking out loud, nothing.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43Well, it's about...it's his take on the fashion, um, industry.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45Pret-a-Porter is the right answer.
0:11:47 > 0:11:51Your question, Carrie. The police officer Laure Berthaud and
0:11:51 > 0:11:56the judge Francois Roban are characters in which TV drama?
0:12:02 > 0:12:03Again, it's...
0:12:04 > 0:12:06I've not watched any of those, so...
0:12:09 > 0:12:13..I can't even string you a reason together, but I'm going to go Borgen.
0:12:14 > 0:12:18Borgen is the wrong answer, it's Spiral, which is a French...
0:12:18 > 0:12:21TV cop murder thing.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25So, it's one point each and it's back to Dave.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28In the film Royal Wedding, Fred Astaire performs
0:12:28 > 0:12:32the Sunday Jumps dance routine with which household object?
0:12:36 > 0:12:39The Sunday Jumps routine?
0:12:40 > 0:12:42Never heard of this at all.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47I've got no idea.
0:12:49 > 0:12:50Uhh...
0:12:50 > 0:12:53SHE MOUTHS SILENTLY
0:12:53 > 0:12:57Oh, I've got no idea. Em, I'll go dining chair, but...
0:12:57 > 0:12:59I don't think that's right.
0:12:59 > 0:13:00Can anyone visualise this, Daphne?
0:13:02 > 0:13:04I can see him dancing with a hatstand.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07If he was jumping,
0:13:07 > 0:13:10I'd have thought it would be easier to jump round a dining room chair.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13I thought he'd be jumping over a chair, I must say. Yeah.
0:13:13 > 0:13:17- Or round it.- Yeah, round it. But it's not that, it is hatstand, Dave.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20- Fair play.- He must have done some amazing jumps there.
0:13:22 > 0:13:26- OK, well, that's helpful, Carrie, isn't it?- Yep, yep, that'll do.
0:13:26 > 0:13:30So, one point each. What is table tennis? Up to 21 or 11 these days?
0:13:31 > 0:13:35- No, 21's back in the day. It's 11 now.- 11.- Yeah.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39Who starred as Lisa in the classic 1948 film
0:13:39 > 0:13:41"Letter From An Unknown Woman"?
0:13:46 > 0:13:47SHE SIGHS
0:13:47 > 0:13:50It's a bad run of questions for me. Um...
0:13:52 > 0:13:54I'm not sure, I've not seen the film.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59And I'm not too familiar with the actresses, so...
0:14:00 > 0:14:02..Ingrid Bergman.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07- It's actually Joan Fontaine. - Oh!- Bad luck.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09OK.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11Let's go to Dave. See if you can get this one right, Dave.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14- Mm-hm.- If you do, you're in the final round.
0:14:14 > 0:14:18Jay Pritchett and Manny Delgado are characters in which US TV sitcom?
0:14:24 > 0:14:27I'll go for Modern Family, but, again, no certainty at all.
0:14:29 > 0:14:30But you've got it right, Dave.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33- All right. - Do you watch it or not?
0:14:33 > 0:14:34I've watched it in the past,
0:14:34 > 0:14:39I was just thinking with Curb Your Enthusiasm and 30 Rock I watch most
0:14:39 > 0:14:44out of those three sitcoms and I'm not...I couldn't remember the names.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46Curb Your Enthusiasm were about Larry David.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49Again, I couldn't see a Manny in there, but Modern Family's got
0:14:49 > 0:14:53quite a lot of different dysfunctional characters, so...
0:14:53 > 0:14:55- Well played. You're in the final round, Dave.- Thank you.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58Sorry, Carrie, you were beaten by our Egghead and, as a result,
0:14:58 > 0:15:01you will not be able to help your team in the final.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04Carrie and Dave, please come back and join your teams.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09So, Kieran, any thoughts? I'm doing a table tennis action
0:15:09 > 0:15:12as I ask the question! Any thoughts on where we go from here?
0:15:12 > 0:15:14Well, as the team captain, I can definitely say it's
0:15:14 > 0:15:17not as we planned, but table tennis is a game of swings and roundabouts.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20Table tennis, more than any other sport, you need mental strength and
0:15:20 > 0:15:22a lot of bottle. And a lot of times in table tennis,
0:15:22 > 0:15:24you can find yourself a couple of games down
0:15:24 > 0:15:28and come back to win 3-2, so that's what we need to do in this.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30Brilliant. That's a rousing speech.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33That's one of the greatest speeches we've ever heard.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35LAUGHTER Hopefully, it'll pay off.
0:15:35 > 0:15:37Fantastic, OK, brilliant.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39As it stands, the Lord Of The Ping have lost three brains,
0:15:39 > 0:15:41so it's looking a bit difficult.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44The Eggheads have been serving with some spin
0:15:44 > 0:15:47and some savagery over the net and they have not lost a brain so far.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50Let's see what happens now. The subject is Music.
0:15:52 > 0:15:56I'll probably say... I'll take these.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58- I'll take music. - OK, Kieran on Music.
0:15:58 > 0:16:02Team skipper against either...it's got to be Kevin or Judith.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04Who do you think we should take?
0:16:04 > 0:16:08Try and maybe take Kevin out so he's not in the final round.
0:16:08 > 0:16:12- What do you think?- Yeah.- OK. Yeah, I'll face Kevin, please.
0:16:12 > 0:16:16Very brave, but it has to be done. It can't be avoided.
0:16:16 > 0:16:17Everyone has to face Kevin.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21- I'll get the T-shirt made up.- Yeah.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26So, Kieran from Lord Of The Ping versus Kevin from the Eggheads,
0:16:26 > 0:16:28and, just to ensure there's no conferring,
0:16:28 > 0:16:29please go to the Question Room.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34So, Kieran on Music, would you like to go first or second?
0:16:34 > 0:16:35I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:16:39 > 0:16:41Up against Kevin, good luck to you.
0:16:41 > 0:16:45Which track by the DJ Baauer went viral in February 2013
0:16:45 > 0:16:51when a video of people dancing to it became a much copied internet trend?
0:16:56 > 0:16:59Well, being a student, we spend a lot of time watching YouTube videos, so
0:16:59 > 0:17:02I've seen a fair few Harlem Shakes, so the answer is Harlem Shake.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04Harlem Shake is quite right.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06You ever done the Harlem Shake, Kevin?
0:17:06 > 0:17:09I'm doing it now, isn't it obvious?
0:17:09 > 0:17:11LAUGHTER
0:17:11 > 0:17:15Good answer. Ragga, a style of music that achieved
0:17:15 > 0:17:19prominence in the 1980s had its roots in which country.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25I think the spelling is going to be important here.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27- R-A-G-G-A.- Ah, double G.
0:17:29 > 0:17:34Cos with the single G, ragas are part of India music,
0:17:34 > 0:17:36Indian traditional music.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38But I think Ragga would have come from Jamaica.
0:17:40 > 0:17:41Ragga is indeed from Jamaica.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45Question to you, Kieran.
0:17:45 > 0:17:49The Bayreuth Tuba is also known by what name?
0:17:55 > 0:17:57Oh, I'm going to be in trouble if I get this wrong,
0:17:57 > 0:17:59cos one of my good friends plays the tuba.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04I'll go with Wagner Tuba.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07Yeah, Wagner Tuba, quite right.
0:18:08 > 0:18:12Very good. Can you give us a bit of insight into how you did that?
0:18:12 > 0:18:15- A total guess to be honest. - OK, that's a very good insight.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19A lot of good guessing going on the last few days.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22Kevin, The Next Day is a 2013 album by which musician?
0:18:26 > 0:18:29The first one in a little while, I think, by David Bowie.
0:18:31 > 0:18:33David Bowie is the right answer.
0:18:33 > 0:18:37Kieran, which musician was the second husband of Cher?
0:18:44 > 0:18:47I have to be honest here and say I have absolutely no idea, but...
0:18:48 > 0:18:53for some reason, the name Carlos Santana is standing out to me,
0:18:53 > 0:18:54so I'll go with Carlos Santana.
0:18:56 > 0:18:57Is it Carlos Santana?
0:18:57 > 0:18:59It was Allman.
0:18:59 > 0:19:00Greg Allman is the answer.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04Who was Greg Allman, apart from being a husband of Cher?
0:19:04 > 0:19:07- He was in a pop group called The Allman Brothers.- Was he?- Yeah.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09- The Allman Brothers. - I think it was that.
0:19:11 > 0:19:12Over to you, Kevin.
0:19:13 > 0:19:17Who composed the Russian Easter Festival Overture first
0:19:17 > 0:19:20performed in St Petersburg in 1888?
0:19:25 > 0:19:28I should know this. I know this is certainly something
0:19:28 > 0:19:31I'm familiar with, so I should just, um...
0:19:31 > 0:19:35..know this, but, for some reason, it's gone a bit wonky.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37Um...
0:19:37 > 0:19:39Borodin actually died the year before that,
0:19:39 > 0:19:40but that wouldn't, um...
0:19:42 > 0:19:45..sometimes things get delayed and are posthumous.
0:19:45 > 0:19:49"The Easter Festival Overture"...I don't think it's Borodin anyway.
0:19:49 > 0:19:50It's one of the other two.
0:19:54 > 0:19:58I...if I had a first thought before the choices came up it was
0:19:58 > 0:20:01Rimsky-Korsakov, so I'm going to have to stick with him.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03Is he right, Eggs?
0:20:03 > 0:20:04Yeah.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07You're right, Kevin. Rimsky-Korsakov is the answer.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09You've taken the round. Sorry, Kieran.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12Music is a tough round, some tough questions in there,
0:20:12 > 0:20:14so you have been knocked out.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Please, both of you come back. Rejoin your teams.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21So, this is what we have been playing towards.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23It is time for the final round, which, as always,
0:20:23 > 0:20:25is General Knowledge, but, I'm afraid those of you who lost your
0:20:25 > 0:20:28head-to-heads won't be allowed to take part in this round,
0:20:28 > 0:20:33so, Kieran, Carrie, Emma and Tristan from Lord Of The Ping,
0:20:33 > 0:20:35would you please leave the studio.
0:20:38 > 0:20:41- OK, Matt, are you ready for this? - As ready as I can be.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43- Are you a table tennis player as well then?- I am, yes.
0:20:43 > 0:20:47I'm the club captain of the Sheffield University Table Tennis Team, so...
0:20:47 > 0:20:49- Right.- We've had a good season. We're unbeaten so far.
0:20:49 > 0:20:53- And you're also about to be a bridge engineer.- I am, yes.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56I've got a job already lined up for when I start.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59OK, well, hopefully all the positive energy comes together in this
0:20:59 > 0:21:01round against the Eggheads.
0:21:01 > 0:21:04You're playing to win Lord Of The Ping £7,000.
0:21:04 > 0:21:08A bit different for you, Judith, Kevin, Dave, Daphne and Chris,
0:21:08 > 0:21:09you're playing for something
0:21:09 > 0:21:12money can't buy...the Eggheads' reputation.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15Now, as usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18This time the questions are all general knowledge
0:21:18 > 0:21:21and you are allowed to confer. I know that doesn't help.
0:21:21 > 0:21:22So, Matt, the question is,
0:21:22 > 0:21:25is your one brain better than the Eggheads' five?
0:21:25 > 0:21:27Would you like to go first or second?
0:21:27 > 0:21:29I'll go first, please, Jeremy.
0:21:33 > 0:21:39Here we go. First used militarily in the 1950s, what was the B52?
0:21:43 > 0:21:46Um, I believe it's called the B-52 Bomber, so,
0:21:46 > 0:21:48I will go aircraft there, please.
0:21:50 > 0:21:54Also a great rock group, but, yes, you're right, aircraft is correct.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58Your question, Eggheads.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge graduated from which
0:22:01 > 0:22:03university in 2005?
0:22:06 > 0:22:08I'd say that's where they met, weren't it?
0:22:08 > 0:22:11- St Andrews.- St Andrews.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13St Andrews is the right answer.
0:22:14 > 0:22:19Back to you. Matt, in grammar, conjugation means
0:22:19 > 0:22:22listing the various forms of which part of speech?
0:22:28 > 0:22:32Well, grammar isn't my strong point being an engineer. Um...
0:22:33 > 0:22:34..conjugation?
0:22:36 > 0:22:40I've heard of the conjugate of certain words. Um...
0:22:42 > 0:22:47..I'm going to say noun, straight down the middle, educated guess.
0:22:48 > 0:22:51No, it's verb, it's not noun.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55Eggheads, to take the lead, in which field of the arts is
0:22:55 > 0:23:00the Romanian Alina Cojocaru a famous name?
0:23:04 > 0:23:08- Ballet.- Is she?- Ballet.- Ballet? - Yes, she's a ballerina.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10She is a ballerina, so it's ballet.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12She is a ballerina. Ballet is the right answer.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15So, they've taken the lead. Take your time here, Matt.
0:23:16 > 0:23:21The God of Hell and Fool For Love are works by which playwright?
0:23:27 > 0:23:32Playwrighting, I've not really studied a lot. Um...
0:23:33 > 0:23:36..I've not actually heard of them either, so...
0:23:39 > 0:23:41I think I'm going to take the Eggheads' rule
0:23:41 > 0:23:44and go down the right-hand side, so I'm going to go Sam Shepard.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46I think you've actually got the Judith rule there.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48I go down the right like that.
0:23:48 > 0:23:52- And has that been a good policy for Matt?- It has.- It has? Oh, right.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55- You've got it right. Sam Shepard it is.- Good, good.
0:23:55 > 0:24:01Your team are going crazy. That's excellent. All right, Eggheads.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03There's two points each if you get this one right.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06The contest is over, if you don't we go to Sudden Death.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09The Anthony Roll created in the 1540s contains
0:24:09 > 0:24:12illustrated information about what?
0:24:18 > 0:24:21- Did you say 1540s?- Ships, is it ships?- Is it ships?
0:24:21 > 0:24:25- Or dissolved monasteries?- 1540s? - Well, do you think it's ships?
0:24:25 > 0:24:29- I don't think so, no. - I think it's monasteries.
0:24:29 > 0:24:30I think it's monasteries, 1540s.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32It fits in terms of the dates, doesn't it?
0:24:32 > 0:24:36- I thought I just heard Chris say ships.- No, I...
0:24:36 > 0:24:37Monasteries.
0:24:38 > 0:24:43Well, obviously, the great wave of the Dissolution...
0:24:43 > 0:24:49- Yeah.- ..was from about 1536 to 1540.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51Well, then you'd have a roll, maybe.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53Yeah, it makes sense chronologically.
0:24:53 > 0:24:54Dissolved monasteries, yeah.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57It might not be, cos there's also, you know,
0:24:57 > 0:25:01the Mary Rose was 1545, you know, so...
0:25:01 > 0:25:06On balance, because of the dates.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09We don't know, because it could actually be any of the three,
0:25:09 > 0:25:11- couldn't it?- Yeah, OK.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14- Monasteries?- Yeah. - I'm happy with that.
0:25:14 > 0:25:19- It is the period of the Dissolution. - Yeah, I'm happy with that.- Well...
0:25:19 > 0:25:20we're not entirely sure,
0:25:20 > 0:25:23but the dates seems to fit best of all
0:25:23 > 0:25:25for dissolved monasteries.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27I listened to your discussion carefully.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30If you got this right, the contest is over.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32As soon as I asked the question, someone shouted "ships".
0:25:32 > 0:25:35- That was Chris.- That was me. - I thought it was Dave.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38- It was me, I shouted ships, but... - Why were you calling for...?
0:25:38 > 0:25:41- No, cos what I was... - What was going on there?
0:25:41 > 0:25:43You suddenly had just went, "Ships", like that.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45Well, I was thinking aloud...
0:25:45 > 0:25:48Um...ships, ships, ships, but, having said that,
0:25:48 > 0:25:50having listened to the other arguments,
0:25:50 > 0:25:55the timing...is right with the dissolved monasteries.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57- Ships was the right answer. - Oh, ho, ho!
0:25:57 > 0:26:00That's two points each after three questions. Matt, how about that?
0:26:00 > 0:26:02Wow! Very lucky.
0:26:02 > 0:26:06We go to sudden death in the final round, with £7,000 to play for.
0:26:06 > 0:26:10- And it gets a bit harder, I don't give you alternative answers.- Mm-hm.
0:26:10 > 0:26:15The Bell Common Tunnel is a section of which UK motorway?
0:26:15 > 0:26:19Now, this is something I probably should know, being a civil engineer.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22Um...but I haven't actually heard of the tunnel.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27There are a lot of tunnels...
0:26:27 > 0:26:30going underneath the M25 to get into Central London.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33The Bell Common Tunnel that's actually a part of the motorway.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38So, in that case, I don't think it would be the M25. Um...
0:26:40 > 0:26:44..it implies going through hills, so...
0:26:44 > 0:26:47possibly the Peak District might be an answer.
0:26:49 > 0:26:52I'm going to go roughly on location,
0:26:52 > 0:26:55and I'm going to say the M62, yes.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57M62...
0:26:57 > 0:26:59on Sudden Death.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02You said M62. Funnily enough...
0:27:03 > 0:27:06you mentioned the answer more than any other motorway,
0:27:06 > 0:27:10- but then you ruled it out. It was the M25.- Oh!
0:27:10 > 0:27:15- And it's built to get past or under the Epping Forrest...- Oh, right, OK.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17..without destroying it, yeah.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20Eggheads, if you get this right, the contest is over.
0:27:20 > 0:27:24In 2010, the tennis player Janko Tipsarevic was in the winning
0:27:24 > 0:27:27Davis Cup team of which country?
0:27:27 > 0:27:29- Serbia.- Serbia.- Serbia.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31Serbia?
0:27:31 > 0:27:32Yes, he's the, um,
0:27:32 > 0:27:35he's the sort of Serbian number two after Novak Djokovic.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38- So, it's Serbia.- Serbia, OK. Um, that's Serbia.
0:27:40 > 0:27:41You don't seem very doubtful.
0:27:41 > 0:27:42No.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45Janko Tipsarevic...
0:27:45 > 0:27:48played for Serbia.
0:27:48 > 0:27:52Eggheads, we say congratulations. You have won.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01If only, I hate to say it, if only you had said verb!
0:28:01 > 0:28:05- Hmm.- Commiserations to Lord Of The Ping, the Eggheads have done what
0:28:05 > 0:28:08comes naturally to them, and their winning streak continues.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11It's been great to see you all and brilliant to hear about table tennis.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13I don't think we've had a table tennis team in before,
0:28:13 > 0:28:17so, thank you. It does mean you won't be going home with the £7,000,
0:28:17 > 0:28:21so the money rolls over to our next show. Eggheads, congratulations.
0:28:21 > 0:28:23Who will beat you?
0:28:23 > 0:28:25Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers
0:28:25 > 0:28:27have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:27 > 0:28:31£8,000 says they don't. Till then, goodbye.