0:00:04 > 0:00:08These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:15Together they make up the Eggheads, arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20The question is: can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:28Welcome to Eggheads, where five quiz challengers pit their wits
0:00:28 > 0:00:33against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain - they are the Eggheads.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36Challenging our quiz champions today
0:00:36 > 0:00:40are The Micro-knowlogists from Leicester.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43They take their name from three having science backgrounds,
0:00:43 > 0:00:49whilst the other two admit to very little knowledge! Surely not! Let's meet them.
0:00:49 > 0:00:55Hello, I'm Vin, I'm 29, and I'm a development worker for a charity.
0:00:55 > 0:01:00Hi, I'm Janet, I'm 60 years old and I'm an education adviser.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04Hi, I'm Ted, I'm 61 years old and a university academic.
0:01:04 > 0:01:09Hi, I'm Judith, I'm 64 years old and a retired university administrator.
0:01:09 > 0:01:14Hello, I'm Ben, I'm 28 and an administrator for a major retailer.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17OK, welcome, Micro-knowlogists.
0:01:17 > 0:01:23Who are the brainy three and the self-professed not so brainy two?
0:01:23 > 0:01:29The brains would be the middle three. And Ben and I make up the micro side of our knowledge base.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33- We're going to do our best! - Let's find out what does happen.
0:01:33 > 0:01:37Every day there's £1,000 up for grabs for our challengers,
0:01:37 > 0:01:41but if they fail, the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44The Eggheads have won the last 19 games,
0:01:44 > 0:01:49so we cross the threshold to £20,000 that says you can't beat them.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52That'll do!
0:01:52 > 0:01:57That certainly would do, but 19 teams before you have said that.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00They're on some form so let's see how you do.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04Our first Head to Head battle is History.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06Who would like to play this?
0:02:06 > 0:02:08- That's me, isn't it?- Yes.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12I'd rather have that than politics!
0:02:12 > 0:02:18- Yes. So that'll be Judy. And who would you like to...? - Any one of them at this point.
0:02:18 > 0:02:23- Who did we decide for History? - I think Dave.- Try Dave, the new one.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27- We'll have a stab at Dave. - OK, Tremendous Knowledge Dave.
0:02:27 > 0:02:34Relatively new to us all. Let's have Judith and Dave into the Question Room, please.
0:02:34 > 0:02:38OK, Judith, would you like to go first or second?
0:02:38 > 0:02:41I'd like to go first, please.
0:02:45 > 0:02:50Good luck, Judith. Between the 8th and the 19th centuries,
0:02:50 > 0:02:54the Papal States were territories in which modern-day country?
0:02:56 > 0:03:00Em, I don't think it's Egypt.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03Or Mexico.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06- I'm going to go for Italy. - Probably the right choice!
0:03:06 > 0:03:10It's the right answer, well done.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12Dave,
0:03:12 > 0:03:18in 1940, the Dutch Government evacuated to which city after the German invasion of the Netherlands?
0:03:20 > 0:03:24I'm not that sure, but I will go...
0:03:24 > 0:03:29I'll go for London, but not with total conviction.
0:03:29 > 0:03:34- What's your other thought? Paris wouldn't be much good.- Nor Madrid!
0:03:34 > 0:03:42Sometimes you look at questions and think, "Hold on. There's one with my name on it."
0:03:42 > 0:03:48Exactly. A lesson for all challengers - don't dive in. You didn't and you got it right.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52OK, Judith, the Adam Style,
0:03:52 > 0:03:59a style of interior design named after the Scottish Adam brothers first appeared in which century?
0:04:03 > 0:04:04Hm.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09I'm not sure,
0:04:09 > 0:04:12but I don't think it was the 14th.
0:04:12 > 0:04:16So that gives me the 16th or the 18th.
0:04:17 > 0:04:21I'm going to go with...the 18th.
0:04:21 > 0:04:26The 18th century for the Adam brothers. It's right, well done.
0:04:27 > 0:04:28Dave,
0:04:28 > 0:04:34what name from slogans used on the strikers' banners was given to the 1912 strike
0:04:34 > 0:04:39by textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts?
0:04:44 > 0:04:50Textiles is all I can go on because I've not heard of this strike, so I'll go Rugs and Rubies.
0:04:50 > 0:04:56Rugs and Rubies. Textiles, obviously a link there with the rugs. Other Eggheads?
0:04:56 > 0:05:01- I'd have gone for Sugar and Salt. - I'd have gone for Bread and Roses!
0:05:01 > 0:05:03We've got all three, then.
0:05:03 > 0:05:07This would have been an interesting final round question,
0:05:07 > 0:05:11when they're all sitting there and arguing.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14- It is Bread and Roses. - Wouldn't have got it.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17From slogans on the banners.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19OK, nothing there for Dave,
0:05:19 > 0:05:27which is great news potentially, Judith. It gives you a chance here to clinch the round.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31A correct answer here takes you into the final round.
0:05:31 > 0:05:36The Despard Plot was a failed attempt to assassinate which British monarch?
0:05:40 > 0:05:42I haven't heard of this,
0:05:42 > 0:05:46so it's going to be a bit of a guess.
0:05:46 > 0:05:52I don't think it was Anne or...George III.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54- I think I'll go for Charles II.- OK.
0:05:54 > 0:05:58The Despard Plot - a failed attempt to assassinate...
0:05:58 > 0:06:01- George III!- Oh!
0:06:01 > 0:06:03Oh ho ho. Off the bar!
0:06:05 > 0:06:09Right, well, will Dave revive his challenge?
0:06:09 > 0:06:12Or will he falter anyway? After WWI,
0:06:12 > 0:06:18the Foch Line was a temporary demarcation line between Poland and which other country?
0:06:21 > 0:06:25Foch Line. I would go for Russia...
0:06:25 > 0:06:30Lithuania and Ukraine? No, I'll go Russia.
0:06:30 > 0:06:36OK, Russia for the Foch Line. A temporary demarcation line between Poland and...
0:06:36 > 0:06:39- Lithuania.- I didn't know that!
0:06:39 > 0:06:41It's not Russia.
0:06:41 > 0:06:46It means that slip up on number three didn't matter, Judith.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49You've beaten him 2-1. That takes you through.
0:06:49 > 0:06:53Both please come back and join your teams.
0:06:53 > 0:06:59That's what we call a flying start. Micro-knowlogists unscathed, Eggheads have lost one brain.
0:06:59 > 0:07:00Our next subject is Music.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03Who'd like to play this?
0:07:03 > 0:07:05Anyone apart from Judith.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07- I think it's either Ben or you.- OK.
0:07:07 > 0:07:12- I'm really bad at music! - OK, I'll give it a go.
0:07:12 > 0:07:18- OK.- It's going to be you, Vin. You can't play on your own. Choose an Egghead.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21- Chris?- Yeah, let's go with Chris.
0:07:21 > 0:07:26- Chris, please.- Chris on Music. You have a plan, I can see.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29- Yeah.- We have so many plans!
0:07:29 > 0:07:33- Too many plans! - A, B, C, D... All the way down.
0:07:33 > 0:07:37OK, it's going to be Vin and Chris playing the Music round.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40Please go to the Question Room.
0:07:40 > 0:07:44Vin, let's see if you can follow that trail blazed by Judith.
0:07:44 > 0:07:48- Would you like first or second? - I think I'd like to go first, please.
0:07:53 > 0:07:58Best of luck, Vin. First question. The ska and reggae group Toots and the Maytals
0:07:58 > 0:08:02was formed in which country in the 1960s?
0:08:05 > 0:08:12Well, neither ska nor reggae are types of music that I'm massively fond of,
0:08:12 > 0:08:17but the reggae connection sends me to Jamaica
0:08:17 > 0:08:21so for that reason alone, Jamaica.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24It's the right answer. Well done.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Chris,
0:08:26 > 0:08:32"Dirty old river, must you keep rolling, flowing into the night," are the first words of which song,
0:08:32 > 0:08:34a hit for The Kinks in 1967?
0:08:38 > 0:08:44That came out at just the right time to have another meaning for some of us. It was Waterloo Sunset.
0:08:44 > 0:08:48Right, OK. Yes, it's the right answer.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Dare I ask the other meaning?
0:08:50 > 0:08:55Bournemouth electrification. The end of steam out of Waterloo. July, 1967.
0:08:57 > 0:09:01I am so relieved! I was thinking 1967, Summer of Love,
0:09:01 > 0:09:06psychedelic stuff... So it was Bournemouth electrification?
0:09:06 > 0:09:08That's fantastic.
0:09:08 > 0:09:12I threw that out there with a degree of trepidation
0:09:12 > 0:09:18and what did I get back? Of course, it would be with Chris. OK, it's all square.
0:09:18 > 0:09:19All right, Vin.
0:09:19 > 0:09:27In 1979, the band Fiddler's Dram had a UK top three hit with Day Trip To where?
0:09:30 > 0:09:33Again, definitely don't know the answer immediately.
0:09:33 > 0:09:37I think I'm going to rule out Birmingham.
0:09:37 > 0:09:41I don't know why you'd take a day trip there.
0:09:42 > 0:09:46And then I'm leaning more towards Broadstairs than Bangor,
0:09:46 > 0:09:49so let's go with Broadstairs.
0:09:49 > 0:09:54OK. A lot of day trips have gone to Broadstairs in their time, but it's Bangor.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58So...a chance for Chris to take the lead.
0:09:58 > 0:10:04How old was Buddy Holly when he was killed in a plane crash at the end of the 1950s?
0:10:07 > 0:10:09He was very young.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12I think he was only 22.
0:10:12 > 0:10:1522. You're right!
0:10:15 > 0:10:17And you have that lead. OK.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19A good start, Vin.
0:10:19 > 0:10:26Let's get you back on track. Which famous piece of music was composed by Grieg for Peer Gynt?
0:10:31 > 0:10:37Well, em, unfortunately it's a hat-trick of not really being certain
0:10:37 > 0:10:39on any of the questions.
0:10:39 > 0:10:45It really is a little bit of a stab in the dark or perhaps an entire stab in the dark, actually.
0:10:45 > 0:10:52So, on that premise, I will just go down the middle with In The Hall of The Mountain King.
0:10:52 > 0:10:57- Barry chuckling here! - He's right, absolutely.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59You're right, Vin!
0:11:01 > 0:11:08Kept your hopes alive. The title character in the English traditional song D'Ye Ken John Peel
0:11:08 > 0:11:10was well-known for which activity?
0:11:12 > 0:11:16He used to hunt with hounds up and down the Cumbrian fells.
0:11:16 > 0:11:21You would know that. It's right. You're through to the final round.
0:11:21 > 0:11:26Good effort, Vin. Both please come back and join your teams.
0:11:26 > 0:11:31Well, they never stay down for long. It's now all square.
0:11:31 > 0:11:37Both teams have lost one brain from the final round. Let's move on to our next subject.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39Arts and Books.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Which of the three players left would like this?
0:11:42 > 0:11:45You've got Janet, Ted or Ben.
0:11:45 > 0:11:50- I think it's going to be me. - It will.- Let's go for it.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52- Who...?- Who would I like?
0:11:52 > 0:11:57- Can I have Daphne?- OK. - Cos she's lovely.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00- She'll be kind to me. - I don't know about that!
0:12:00 > 0:12:04You can think that. I couldn't possibly comment.
0:12:04 > 0:12:09Let's have Janet and Daphne into the Question Room, please.
0:12:09 > 0:12:13We've got two visions in purple in the Question Room.
0:12:13 > 0:12:17- Janet, first or second? - I'd like to go first, please.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23Here's your first question.
0:12:23 > 0:12:28Who wrote the autobiography I Am Not Spock in the 1970s
0:12:28 > 0:12:32and the 1995 follow-up I Am Spock?
0:12:35 > 0:12:41Em, well, I think this must be a reference to
0:12:41 > 0:12:46Spock from the series, so I don't think it's William Shatner,
0:12:46 > 0:12:52I don't think it's George Takei. I'm hopeful that it's Leonard Nimoy.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54Yes, indeed!
0:12:56 > 0:13:01Or "Le-onard", as I think they call him in the United States.
0:13:01 > 0:13:05Daphne, in the Harry Potter books, what is the home of the Weasleys?
0:13:08 > 0:13:11- I have never read them.- Wow!
0:13:11 > 0:13:14- What a gap!- Oh, gosh.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18Where would the Weasleys live?
0:13:21 > 0:13:23The Burrow.
0:13:24 > 0:13:29There's almost an inevitability about this. It's the right answer.
0:13:29 > 0:13:34Well done, Daphne. See what you're up against, Janet?
0:13:34 > 0:13:38You just answer your questions, as with the first one,
0:13:38 > 0:13:42and you'll do fine. What genre of novel
0:13:42 > 0:13:48is the influential 1985 book Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card?
0:13:52 > 0:13:56OK, I don't think it's romance.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58It doesn't sound at all...soppy.
0:13:58 > 0:14:04I don't think it's historical. I think it's science fiction. That would be my answer.
0:14:04 > 0:14:08And it's the correct answer. Very well done.
0:14:10 > 0:14:16What name was given to the group of British poets based in North Africa in World War Two who included
0:14:16 > 0:14:19Bernard Spencer and Lawrence Durrell?
0:14:22 > 0:14:23Oh...
0:14:23 > 0:14:26No, I haven't heard this one, either.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33Cairo Poets?
0:14:33 > 0:14:35- Is that a guess?- Yes.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38Lovely. It's right.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41It just sounded more plausible.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44Day in, day out.
0:14:44 > 0:14:48Guess after guess after guess. Well, Janet,
0:14:48 > 0:14:51you're doing what I told you - as if I have any influence!
0:14:51 > 0:14:57Third question. I just hope one of those guesses from Daphne doesn't land.
0:14:57 > 0:15:04Which town in southern Brittany gives its name to the school of artists led by Paul Gauguin
0:15:04 > 0:15:07who worked there in the 1880s and 1890s?
0:15:11 > 0:15:15- Well, southern Brittany... - Southern Brittany.
0:15:15 > 0:15:20I'll try to go for that... I don't think it's Le Treport.
0:15:20 > 0:15:25It could be either of the other two. I'm going for Epernay.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28OK, Epernay for Paul Gauguin.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30It's Pont-Aven.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32A slip-up there, Janet.
0:15:32 > 0:15:37Let's see what the Guesser does. Which German politician is the central subject
0:15:37 > 0:15:40of Michael Frayn's award-winning play Democracy?
0:15:43 > 0:15:46I think that is Willy Brandt.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49- Ah!- Not a guess.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53Oh, I wound her up there, didn't I? "Not a guess!"
0:15:53 > 0:15:58And therefore you know it's right. It is the right answer, yes.
0:15:58 > 0:16:02Willy Brandt. Michael Frayn's award-winning play.
0:16:02 > 0:16:08Bad luck, Janet. You played really well, but won't be in the final. Both please join your teams.
0:16:09 > 0:16:14The Eggheads have managed to shift the balance in their favour now.
0:16:14 > 0:16:18Micro-knowlogists have lost two brains, the Eggheads one.
0:16:18 > 0:16:22And our next subject, the last one before the final round, is Sport.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25Who wants to play this?
0:16:25 > 0:16:31- Well, you've got one Knowlogist and one Micro left. Ted and Ben.- The Micro.
0:16:31 > 0:16:33- Yeah, the Micro.- Use the Micro!
0:16:34 > 0:16:36We hope he'll go macro!
0:16:36 > 0:16:41- Who shall we go for? - I think probably Barry.
0:16:41 > 0:16:46- Take on Barry.- OK, you Ben from the Micro-knowlogists playing Barry from the Eggheads.
0:16:46 > 0:16:49Both please go to the Question Room.
0:16:49 > 0:16:54Ben, let's see if you can make it level in the final round by knocking Barry out.
0:16:54 > 0:16:58- Ben, do you want to go first or second?- Second, please.
0:17:02 > 0:17:07Barry, who became the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France in July, 2012?
0:17:10 > 0:17:13It's the remarkable Bradley Wiggins.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15Bradley Wiggins is right.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17And, Ben,
0:17:17 > 0:17:21what is the length in metres of a short-course swimming pool?
0:17:24 > 0:17:25OK.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30I'm going to rule out 10 metres.
0:17:30 > 0:17:35Kind of wishing I'd gone first as I'd have known Bradley Wiggins,
0:17:35 > 0:17:37but I'll say 25 metres.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40Short-course swimming pool - 25 metres. Correct.
0:17:43 > 0:17:49Barry, Jack Karnehm, who died in 2002, was well-known as a commentator for which sport?
0:17:52 > 0:17:56The name doesn't immediately have any resonance.
0:17:56 > 0:18:00I know most snooker commentators and I've never heard of him,
0:18:00 > 0:18:02so I shall rule out snooker.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05Boxing and rugby union...?
0:18:05 > 0:18:08- I'm going to go for rugby union. - OK, rugby union.
0:18:08 > 0:18:13- It's wrong.- It's boxing?- No! - It's snooker! Oh, dearie me.
0:18:13 > 0:18:17- At least we know it was your third choice.- It was indeed.
0:18:17 > 0:18:23- Ben, are you glad you went second now?- We'll see what comes next!
0:18:23 > 0:18:26That's what you hope for - the Egghead slip-up -
0:18:26 > 0:18:30but it depends on this. Which member of the Royal Family
0:18:30 > 0:18:35became President of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in 1969?
0:18:37 > 0:18:39OK.
0:18:39 > 0:18:43I've got a family member that's very much into tennis.
0:18:43 > 0:18:50I think I'm going to shoot straight down the middle with this one. Prince of Wales.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54Prince of Wales as President of the All England Club.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56No, it's the Duke of Kent.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58Well, it's all square.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01At the 1982 football World Cup,
0:19:01 > 0:19:07West Germany and which team played a controversial match so they both qualified for the knockout stages?
0:19:10 > 0:19:15I've never seen Albania in the knockout stages ever, so I'll discount them.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20Controversial always tends to suggest Argentina,
0:19:20 > 0:19:25but West Germany and Austria would want to help the other get through.
0:19:25 > 0:19:31So I'm going to go for Austria on the basis of familial relationships.
0:19:31 > 0:19:35OK, Austria. Dave, you're nodding along there.
0:19:35 > 0:19:39Yeah, it's Austria. I think Algeria lost out
0:19:39 > 0:19:44because of that. I think West Germany won 1-0.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47And they were just passing the ball around.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50- It was a farce of a game.- Yeah.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53It is definitely Austria.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56So you need to get this, Ben.
0:19:56 > 0:20:01The American sportsman Dan Gurney was a leading figure in which sport?
0:20:05 > 0:20:07Em, OK.
0:20:07 > 0:20:11I don't really have an idea on this one.
0:20:11 > 0:20:15I'm going to rule out ice skating as I know nothing about it.
0:20:15 > 0:20:21I know very little about basketball AND motor racing.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23So it is a complete guess.
0:20:24 > 0:20:28- I'm going to go for motor racing.- OK.
0:20:28 > 0:20:33I love the way you worked that out. "I don't know about ice skating..."
0:20:33 > 0:20:37- You got the right answer, Ben. Well done!- Thanks.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41We go, then, to sudden death.
0:20:41 > 0:20:45First time in the game so far, which is strange.
0:20:45 > 0:20:51All square. To sort out a winner, I'm not telling Barry, but just telling you, Ben,
0:20:51 > 0:20:54you'll not see any choices.
0:20:54 > 0:20:59Barry, this is your question. The thoroughbred racehorse Black Caviar,
0:20:59 > 0:21:06- one of the best sprinters in the world, was born in which country? - Black Caviar. A wonderful name.
0:21:06 > 0:21:11It suggests Russia, but they don't breed many racehorses, so I'll discount Russia.
0:21:11 > 0:21:16I think the Americans are very capable of raising good sprinters,
0:21:16 > 0:21:20- so I'll go for the USA. - The USA for Black Caviar.
0:21:20 > 0:21:26- I'll go back to Dave or Pat... or Daphne.- Australia. - It's Australian, Barry.
0:21:26 > 0:21:31- Ah!- It's even got its own website. - It's a very clever horse, then.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34How does it type with those hooves?
0:21:34 > 0:21:36Australia. Oh, well.
0:21:36 > 0:21:42Well, well, Ben. I won't underline the importance of this question.
0:21:42 > 0:21:48The Alexander Stadium, often used for international athletic events, is in which English city?
0:21:48 > 0:21:50I'm going to say Sheffield.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54OK. Sheffield.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57It's incorrect. Do you know, Barry?
0:21:57 > 0:21:59- I'm afraid I don't.- Interesting.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02The other Eggheads are aghast.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05- It is...?- Birmingham.- Birmingham.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08Birmingham, to enlighten you.
0:22:08 > 0:22:12OK, a chance gone begging for Ben. Back to Barry.
0:22:12 > 0:22:17With which Major League Baseball team did Alex Rodriguez sign a 10-year deal
0:22:17 > 0:22:21estimated to be worth 275 million in 2007?
0:22:21 > 0:22:26Was he with the New York Yankees? That's my answer.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28OK, you're not asking me.
0:22:28 > 0:22:31It is the right answer, yes.
0:22:31 > 0:22:34New York Yankees, Alex Rodriguez.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37Different kind of pressure, Ben.
0:22:37 > 0:22:43Which rugby league team was defeated by Leeds Rhinos in three consecutive Super League finals
0:22:43 > 0:22:45from 2007-2009?
0:22:46 > 0:22:51Em, I don't follow rugby league, so this could be my exit out.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54I'm going to say...
0:22:54 > 0:22:57St Helens?
0:22:57 > 0:23:00It's the right answer, Ben.
0:23:01 > 0:23:06- If only you'd landed a guess before! - It wasn't a guess, Dermot!
0:23:06 > 0:23:10- It wasn't?- Pure knowledge. - Of course it was, Ben(!)
0:23:10 > 0:23:14And you said you didn't know anything about rugby league.
0:23:14 > 0:23:18Barry, at the 1988 Summer Olympics, which American diver
0:23:18 > 0:23:24needed stitches after hitting his head on the springboard, but still won two gold medals?
0:23:24 > 0:23:29I remember this. Very fortunate he was. It was Greg Louganis.
0:23:29 > 0:23:31Yes, it was!
0:23:31 > 0:23:32Ben,
0:23:32 > 0:23:38which British middleweight boxing world champion, born in 1936, was nicknamed The Paddington Express?
0:23:40 > 0:23:45I think this is a bit before my time. This might be where I'm bowing out.
0:23:47 > 0:23:51As the name's Paddington, I'll go for Roy Paddington.
0:23:51 > 0:23:57Ah. Roy Paddington. Sorry, Ben, it is not. It is Terry Downes.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59Barry, you're through to the final.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02Both please join your teams.
0:24:02 > 0:24:08This is what we've been playing towards - the final round on General Knowledge.
0:24:08 > 0:24:14Those of you who lost can't take part, so Vin, Janet and Ben from the Micro-knowlogists
0:24:14 > 0:24:19and Dave from the Eggheads, would you leave the studio, please?
0:24:19 > 0:24:25Ted and Judith, you're playing to win the Micro-knowlogists £20,000.
0:24:25 > 0:24:32Daphne, Chris, Barry and Pat, you're playing for something money cannot buy - the Eggheads' reputation.
0:24:32 > 0:24:38I'll ask each team three questions. They're all general knowledge and you're allowed to confer.
0:24:38 > 0:24:43So are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?
0:24:43 > 0:24:46Ted and Judith, first or second?
0:24:46 > 0:24:49- Do you think we ought to go first? - Yes, first, please.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56OK, first question for you.
0:24:56 > 0:25:01What type of clothing is commonly referred to as Daisy Dukes
0:25:01 > 0:25:04after a character in a US TV show?
0:25:08 > 0:25:11- Do you know this?- I think so. - What do you think?
0:25:11 > 0:25:17- I think it's the Dukes of Hazzard.- Is it?- I think she wore short shorts.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19- I think that's shorts.- Shorts.
0:25:19 > 0:25:23What's an academic like you watching the Dukes of Hazzard for?
0:25:23 > 0:25:28- It's just a guess! - Ol' Luke and Daisy Duke!
0:25:28 > 0:25:31It's the right answer - shorts.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33I used to love that.
0:25:33 > 0:25:41Eggheads, in the traditional children's song, the Muffin Man lives in which street?
0:25:43 > 0:25:46Drury Lane, yes.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49He lives in Drury Lane.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52He does. It's right. OK, Micro-knowlogists,
0:25:52 > 0:25:56the city of Asmara is capital of which African country?
0:25:59 > 0:26:03- I've no idea. Have you? - I've no idea as well.
0:26:03 > 0:26:08- Do you know any of the others? - It's not Angola, I don't think.
0:26:08 > 0:26:13- So it's a toss-up between Eritrea and Cameroon.- Eritrea, perhaps?
0:26:13 > 0:26:16- It's one I know nothing about. - Try that.
0:26:16 > 0:26:22- We'll go for Eritrea.- Eritrea. It's the right answer, yes!
0:26:22 > 0:26:23You have two points.
0:26:23 > 0:26:30Which of these authors took part in the Monmouth Rebellion against James II?
0:26:34 > 0:26:38- - Daniel Defoe?- Yeah. - - Milton was earlier.
0:26:38 > 0:26:40We're going for Daniel Defoe.
0:26:40 > 0:26:44It's the right answer, Eggheads. It goes back to all square.
0:26:44 > 0:26:48What was the codename of the first British nuclear test,
0:26:48 > 0:26:52off the coast of Australia, in 1952?
0:26:56 > 0:27:00- Well, I don't know. Have you heard of it?- No.
0:27:00 > 0:27:04- I've heard Mockingbird in relation to something.- That could be it.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07- But...- I've got no...
0:27:07 > 0:27:12- I don't think they'd call it Hurricane or Big Ben.- No.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14- Well...- Try it?
0:27:14 > 0:27:16We'll go for Mockingbird.
0:27:16 > 0:27:20OK. You had a good guess last time. Mockingbird, you feel,
0:27:20 > 0:27:24for the codename of the first British nuclear test.
0:27:24 > 0:27:29It's Hurricane. Hurricane. Bad luck.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31Hurricane. We didn't hear it,
0:27:31 > 0:27:34so the Eggheads can win the game.
0:27:34 > 0:27:40Which day of the year is known as Sylvester in many European countries in reference to the fact
0:27:40 > 0:27:43that it is the feast day of Pope Sylvester I?
0:27:48 > 0:27:51We think that's New Year's Eve.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54- New Year's Eve?- New Year's Eve.
0:27:54 > 0:27:58It's the correct answer, Eggheads! You've won!
0:28:03 > 0:28:07Well, we had some great quizzing. We had some huge struggles.
0:28:07 > 0:28:14We particularly remember Ben, so unlucky to be consigned to the Question Room
0:28:14 > 0:28:16against Barry. Nearly got through.
0:28:16 > 0:28:23Great Head to Heads, great final round, but not to be on the day. Thank you very much for playing.
0:28:23 > 0:28:27Those Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.
0:28:27 > 0:28:32You won't be going home with £20,000, which means it rolls over.
0:28:32 > 0:28:35Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?
0:28:35 > 0:28:41Join us next time to see if a new team can defeat the Eggheads. £21,000 says they don't.
0:28:41 > 0:28:43Until then, goodbye.
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