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These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.

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Together, they make up the Eggheads,

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arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.

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The question is, can they be beaten?

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Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers

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pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.

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They are the Eggheads.

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And challenging our resident quiz champions today are Seal Of Approval

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from West Sussex.

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This team of friends all meet regularly to quiz

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at the Seal Inn in Selsey.

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Let's meet them.

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Hello, I'm Malc, I'm 53 and I'm a production engineer.

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Hi, I'm Kevin, I'm 56 and I'm a volunteer.

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Hi, I'm Sue, I'm 58 and I'm a payroll manager.

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Hello, I'm Christine, I'm 65 and I'm a retired office manager.

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Hello. I'm Des. I'm 57 and I'm a driving instructor.

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Welcome to you, Seal of Approval.

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Are you top dogs at the Seal in the quiz?

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You could say that, yeah.

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And you've also won a radio quiz, I hear.

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Yeah, we've won a local radio quiz this year.

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We won it previously two years ago.

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Last year's winners, I believe, were on Eggheads as well.

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OK. How did they do? Do you know?

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I believe they beat the Eggheads. DERMOT LAUGHS

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Oh, is that an omen?

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And I see you've got a Kevin and we've got a Kevin

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and you two have met.

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You've quizzed against each other or were you the quiz master?

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I was the quiz master, yes, in a pub near Brighton

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and Kevin came along with a mutual friend

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and took part in the quiz and did very well, of course.

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-But they didn't actually win it - they won it on a tie-break.

-DERMOT CHUCKLES

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-Do you remember it, Kevin?

-It was a few years ago but I have a hazy memory.

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I do lots of quizzes, of course, but I do remember going there, yes.

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You do lots of quizzes - just a few.

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OK, it would be interesting if you two meet in the question room.

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Let's play the game.

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Every day, there's £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs for our challengers.

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However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over

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to the next show.

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So, Seal Of Approval, the Eggheads have won the last nine games,

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which means £10,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

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And our first head to head battle is going to be on Music.

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Who would like to take this one on? Music.

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I think we said you, didn't we, Malcolm? Or are we saving you for Geography?

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-Yeah, I'll do Music, please.

-Malc, who would you like to play from the Eggheads?

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I think we'll play Judith, please.

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All right, it's going to be Malc and Judith contesting the opening round.

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Could you both please go to the question room?

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So, Malc, you write a lot of quiz questions as well?

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Yeah, I've been a regular quiz master for 20 years or more.

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That must mean thousands of questions.

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Absolutely, yeah.

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And what about music, then? Is that a particular passion of yours?

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Erm, I'm quite good on music, generally.

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I know a bit of classical, a bit of...

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Not so good on the modern stuff but we'll take a chance.

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-Indeed. OK. Do you want to go first or second?

-First, please, Dermot.

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Good luck, Malc.

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What is the first name of the One Direction band member

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with the surname Payne - PAY-NE?

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-Right, this is the modern stuff.

-Indeed, yeah.

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Er... Lenny and Larry I would suggest are

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probably not quite modern-ish names,

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so I think I'm going to have to plump for Liam, please, Dermot.

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Well done. Yeah, Liam Payne is the right answer.

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As you know, Chris.

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Judith, who had a UK hit in 1980 with the single 9 To 5?

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I have absolutely no idea.

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First question - obvious. 9 To 5.

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It doesn't sound like Kate Bush.

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I don't know. Oh!

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Sheena Easton.

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-Yes, it is. Yes, it's Sheena Easton.

-Gosh, that's lucky.

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Working 9 To 5. All right, then, Malc.

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The American singer Judy Collins found fame in the 1960s with what type of music?

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Erm, I believe she had a hit with Send In The Clowns.

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Er, folk music.

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That's right. Well done.

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And, Judith, the pop group The La's,

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who had a hit in 1990 with There She Goes,

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were formed in which city?

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Well, since we're sitting in Glasgow let's credit them to Glasgow.

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OK, The La's. Glasgow, you think.

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It's incorrect.

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-Can any Egghead tell me?

-Liverpool.

-It's Liverpool.

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That means, well, a great opportunity, Malc, here

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to go into the final round with a correct answer.

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The Scottish singer Elizabeth Fraser is best-known as the vocalist for which alternative rock group?

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I'm thinking the Sugarcubes was the original band that Bjork was in

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and I haven't heard of Dead Can Dance.

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There's a fair chance it could be the Cocteau Twins.

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A fair chance it's the Cocteau Twins.

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Well, it's a dead certainty that you're going into the final round.

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That is correct. Well done, Malc.

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You've booked your place playing for £10,000 today.

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Judith won't be there. Would you both please join your teams?

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Well, lots of approval for that performance from Malc.

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It means they haven't lost any brains yet from the final round.

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The Eggheads have lost one.

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And our second head to head comes up as Science.

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Who'd like to play this one?

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-The game plan was Des.

-Des, wasn't it?

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-Des will be playing Science, please.

-All right, then, Des.

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And which Egghead would you like to choose? It can't be Judith. Any of the others.

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-Barry?

-Barry?

-If you wish. Yeah?

-Yeah.

-Barry, please.

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All right, it's going to be Des and Barry heading for the question room, please.

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Well, Des, which set of questions would you like to face, the first or the second?

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I'd like to go first, please, Dermot.

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And here you go, then, Des.

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What technical name is given to the apparent rapid changes

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in the brightness, colour or position of stars

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due to conditions in the lower atmosphere?

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What technical name is given to the apparent rapid changes

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in the brightness, colour or position of stars

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due to conditions in the lower atmosphere?

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Well, I can't say that that answer springs to mind immediately

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but substantiation doesn't really sound like it fits the bill.

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Sequestration, not sure about that,

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but scintillation sounds exciting, so I will choose scintillation.

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And it's the right answer. Well done.

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Your team-mates are getting very excited. Scintillation.

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OK, Barry. What stimulus is a primary cause for the human body to secrete the hormone gastrin?

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What stimulus is a primary cause

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for the human body to secrete the hormone gastrin?

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Gastrin sounds like gastro, gastro relates to the stomach,

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so I shall go for food in the stomach.

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And that is the right answer, Barry.

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Des, what was the name of the first American satellite to orbit the earth,

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launched on 31st January 1958?

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Well, this is one that I probably should know straight away

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but again I'm not positive

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but I think I'll select Apollo 1.

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OK, Apollo 1. It's incorrect, Des. No, not Apollo.

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It's too early for the Apollos, isn't it?

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-Barry, do you know of the other two?

-Yes, it was Explorer 1.

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-Explorer 1.

-I believe it was a weather satellite.

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OK. Well, a chance for a lead, then, Barry.

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Folic acid is part of which vitamin group?

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Er, vitamin A has only one member in its group, vitamin A, obviously,

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and the same for vitamin D.

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But vitamin B has a whole range of different members

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and I just think, folic acid, if I'm not mistaken,

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I think it might be vitamin B9, but it's vitamin B.

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It is. That is the right answer.

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So you have that lead and Des needs this.

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Des, in geology, what is compacted to make the substance known as firn - F-IRN?

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-And that's spelt F-I...?

-FIRN.

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Soil... No.

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Er, my guess on this one, and it would be a pure guess,

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would be that it would be sand.

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OK. You're going for sand. Firn.

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It's not. No, that is incorrect. Barry, do you know?

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I think you find firn in the Arctic and Antarctic regions.

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-I think it's compacted snow.

-It is. It's snow,

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which means Barry doesn't need to face another question.

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Des, you're not going to be in the final round. Barry's there.

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Would you both please come back and join your teams?

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Well, that's levelled it up.

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Both Seal Of Approval and the Eggheads have lost one brain from the final round.

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And our next subject, it's Politics.

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Who from Seal Of Approval wants to play this? Politics.

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-Shall I do that one?

-Yeah.

-I'm not very good but...

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But you'll take it. Chris will be doing Politics.

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I'll be the sacrificial lamb.

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So you can choose from Kevin, Pat or Chris.

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-I'll take Chris, then, please.

-It's the two Chrisses, then.

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Christine and Chris, into the question room, please.

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Christine, I thought you were the literature expert - there's an Arts and Books round, potentially.

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-Yes, I would have liked that.

-OK, but you don't know whether it's going to come up.

-That's right.

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-Do you want to go first or second?

-I'll go first, please.

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Good luck. Here's your first question.

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What phrase did George Osborne famously use

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at the 2009 Conservative Party conference

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when proposing a public sector pay freeze?

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Erm, I don't know. I've heard them all.

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I'm going to guess at, "We're all in this together."

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Yes, the more modern one of those famous phrases

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from different prime ministers.

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"We're all in this together." Correct.

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Different prime ministers for the first two and a chancellor for the third.

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And, Chris, which European politician is nicknamed Il Cavaliere?

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Well, I don't think a flamboyant name like that would apply to Gordon Brown,

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or Vladimir Putin, come to that.

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It's Silvio Berlusconi.

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Silvio Berlusconi is correct.

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I won't comment on that.

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All square. Good start, Christine. Second question.

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7 Race Course Road is the official residence of the prime minister of which country?

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Well, I've never heard that.

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Erm...

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I'm going to guess at Japan.

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All right. Japan.

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The Japanese prime minister in number 7 Race Course Road.

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It's not. Chris, do you know?

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Yes, 7 Race Course Road, New Delhi. It's India.

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Yes, it's India. Is there actually a race course still there?

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Probably, actually.

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There's been surprisingly little erasure of the relics of the Raj in India.

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All right, and your second question. A chance for the lead, Chris.

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What name is given to the process via which Parliament grants the government's requests for resources?

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Well, it's not subpoena procedure because that's a legal term.

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And I don't think it's support procedure.

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It must be supply procedure.

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Supply. That is the correct answer.

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And Christine needing this one, then.

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Christine, which former Israeli prime minister became

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the country's defence minister in 2007?

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Erm, I think that was Benjamin Netanyahu.

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The middle one!

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Benjamin Netanyahu.

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No, it's not. Chris?

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-It's Ehud Barak, isn't it?

-It's Ehud Barak, yes.

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Which means that round is over.

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I think almost exactly the same pattern as Des's outing.

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No place for you in the final round, Christine.

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Would you both please come back and join your teams?

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Well, the Eggheads took an early knock but have fought back

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and now Seal Of Approval have lost two brains from the final round, the Eggheads have lost one.

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What will the balance be in the final round?

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Well, this last head to head will decide

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and it's Sport and you've got Kevin or Sue available to play.

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-Sport.

-I'll do that one.

-OK, Sue.

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And who would you like to play? Kevin or Pat from the Eggheads?

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-Erm, Pat.

-All right.

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Let's have Sue and Pat into the question room now, please.

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-Sue, would you like to go first or second?

-I'd like to go first.

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OK, Sport, and our first question, Sue.

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Which of these tennis players was prevented from taking part in the 2012 Olympic Games

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by a knee injury?

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Well, tennis is something that I really am interested in

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and Rafa Nadal has had knee problems for ages

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-and I think it's Rafa Nadal.

-It is Rafa Nadal. Well done.

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And, Pat, in 2007 the twins Fabio and Rafael da Silva were signed up

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to which Premier League football club?

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I think... They're from Brazil, I think,

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and I think they both joined Manchester United.

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That is the correct answer.

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And, Sue, second question.

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Which American became the first athlete to leap further than 8m in the long jump?

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Well, Bob Beamon held that record for a long time

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but I've got a feeling that Carl Lewis did beat it,

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so I'm going to go with Carl Lewis.

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OK.

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We weren't asking for the furthest.

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-We were asking for the first athlete to leap further than 8m.

-Oh, sorry.

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-And it's Jesse Owens.

-Oh, right, I was completely wrong.

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Way back when. All right.

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Second question to Pat.

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In which city in Florida are the headquarters of NASCAR?

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Well, I think its sort of spiritual homeland

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is in the north of South Carolina.

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But they have obviously put their headquarters in Florida.

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I'm not entirely sure but the name there which has big motorsport links

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is Daytona Beach, so I think I'll have to go with Daytona Beach.

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Daytona Beach for the headquarters of NASCAR. It's the right answer.

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OK, well, you need this, Sue.

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Who was the first man to win two Olympic marathon gold medals back to back?

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Well, I'm not sure, so it will have to be a guess.

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And I'm going to go with Frank Shorter.

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OK, Frank Shorter.

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Two Olympic marathon gold medals back to back.

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-What do you think, Pat?

-I think it's Bikila.

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-Rome and Tokyo.

-It is Abebe Bikila.

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-So, bad luck, Sue.

-It's history repeating itself.

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The last three rounds have been like this.

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No place in the final round.

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Would you both please come back and join your teams?

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Right, well, this is what we've been playing towards.

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It's time for the final round, which as always is General Knowledge.

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But those of you lost your head to heads won't be allowed to take part,

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so Sue, Christine and Des from Seal Of Approval

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and Judith from the Eggheads

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would you leave the studio now, please?

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Malc and Kevin, you're playing to win Seal Of Approval £10,000.

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Chris, Barry, Pat and Kevin, you're playing for something which money can't buy,

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the Eggheads' reputation.

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And as usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.

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The questions are all General Knowledge and you are allowed to confer.

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So, Seal Of Approval, the question is, are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

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And, Malc and Kevin, would you like to go first or second?

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We'll stick with our plan of going first, please, Dermot.

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OK, the first question is this.

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The device used to record data during the operation of an aircraft

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is commonly referred to as what?

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I think we're on safe ground here.

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It's named after Dr Black or a Mr Black.

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It's actually orange in colour but it is the black box.

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OK, the black box is correct. Yes, well done.

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And, Eggheads, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991,

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which country took up the USSR seat on the United Nations Security Council?

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-Must be Russia.

-Russia, yeah.

-Russia, yeah.

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Well, Russia was, of course, always the dominant power

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in the Soviet Union, so it has to be Russia.

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It is correct, yes.

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I think we've eased both teams into this final round

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with that pair of questions.

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I would suspect they're going to get harder than that as we go on.

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Seal Of Approval, second question.

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Prior to becoming Archbishop of Canterbury,

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Rowan Williams had been archbishop of where?

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Rowan. Well, Rowan's a very Welsh name, isn't it?

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Yeah. Williams is, also.

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Yes. Yes.

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I don't think it was York. Wasn't that David Sheppard?

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Probably not Armagh, being Irish.

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-Shall we go with that, then?

-We'll go with that.

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Well, we don't know but we think, as it's a Welsh name, it was Wales.

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That's our answer.

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Your answer is Wales and it's a correct answer. Well done.

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Eggheads, the Tom Waits song Way Down In The Hole

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was used as the theme tune for which American TV series?

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There were five series

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and for each series a different artist covered the song. The Wire.

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-We can eliminate Frasier.

-And it certainly wasn't Ugly Betty, either.

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-So it's The Wire.

-The Wire, yeah.

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It's The Wire.

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It is The Wire. Well done, Eggheads.

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Two-two. And back to Seal Of Approval.

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Tales Of The Grotesque And Arabesque is the title of a 19th century collection of short stories

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by which writer?

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Grotesque And Arabesque.

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Well, it doesn't sound like Mark Twain, does it?

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-Who wrote about the Mississippi and...

-Time could be wrong, as well.

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-No?

-No.

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-Erm...

-Edgar Allan Poe is famous for his horror stories.

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That's right, yeah, yeah.

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Washington Irving wrote some very, almost nursery rhyme, fantasy fiction.

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Grotesque and Arabesque, it's... Take out Mark Twain.

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So between Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe. What do you think?

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Well, playing the percentages...

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Didn't he write a lot of his stuff after he got absolutely drunk

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and badly hung over and then wrote his stories from what he dreamt about?

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I remember reading that.

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-So on that basis, we'll go for Edgar Allan Poe, yeah?

-Yeah.

-All right.

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So that's our answer then, Dermot.

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We're not sure. We think it could be Edgar Allan Poe.

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OK. Edgar Allan Poe.

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-It's the right answer.

-Yes!

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OK, well, the Eggheads need to get this or you've won the money.

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Eggheads, which war of the 19th century was known as Auckland's folly?

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Mm. Well, I don't...

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Well, a Carlist war... I mean, Auckland as in A-U-C-K...?

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AUCKLAND-'S. Auckland's Folly.

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Well, the Carlist Wars were in Spain, so...

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-It's unlikely to be that.

-I can't see... I can't see how that... Mm.

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-Anglo-Zulu was Chelmsford, wasn't it?

-Yeah.

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I don't associate Auckland with the Zulu wars.

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-That name doesn't ring a bell at all.

-We're looking at the Anglo-Afghan War.

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I'm trying to think...

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-Hang on, wasn't Auckland...

-Ah, he was...

-..Viceroy of India?

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-Well, Governor-General.

-Yeah.

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-He was Governor-General.

-Governor-General, yeah.

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-So it must be the Anglo-Afghan.

-1842?

-Yeah, yeah.

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OK. Yeah, OK. I think we've got there.

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Auckland was at the time, we think, the Governor-General of India

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and the 1st Anglo-Afghan War involved us basically trying to place

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somebody pliable on the Afghan throne,

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so that we could control affairs in that area

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and it led to complete and utter disaster.

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So you can imagine it's the 1st Anglo-Afghan War.

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OK and the utter disaster with the folly, there - I see.

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It is the right answer and a full one from you.

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The 1st Anglo-Afghan War.

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It's all square. We go to Sudden Death

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and Sudden Death, as we haven't played it in the head to heads,

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just to reiterate the rules,

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it's quite simple, we remove the options.

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We've just got to hear an answer from you.

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And Seal Of Approval, you've done fantastically up to now

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with those first three.

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Your next question.

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In which US national park is the complex of hot springs

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known as Mammoth Hot Springs located?

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In which US national park is the complex of hot springs

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known as Mammoth Hot Springs located?

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Right, Yellowstone is Old Glory, isn't it?

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There's a lot of hot springs in Yellowstone.

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-Mm.

-That's just my thought.

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It's not Yosemite. That's in California, isn't it?

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Obviously that is near the tectonic plate

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but er...

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-Just on the basis of Old Glory in Yellowstone.

-Yeah, OK.

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-We'll have to go with that.

-Yeah.

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Right, we don't know, Dermot, but we think it may be Yellowstone Park.

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OK. Yellowstone is the right answer. Well done.

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Eggheads, in which magazine was a column called Nooks and Corners

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once written by John Betjeman?

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In which magazine was a column called Nooks and Corners

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once written by John Betjeman?

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-Private Eye.

-Mm? Yeah? It was Private Eye. Yeah?

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-Yeah?

-Mm.

-OK?

-Drawing attention to architectural follies...

-Yeah.

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-..and civic corruption and stuff.

-Yes, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

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Well, we think it was a column that he had, as Chris said,

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drawing attention to various things that he had a particular interest in,

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architecture and various... Well, how do we call them?

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Things going wrong in government terms.

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In Private Eye.

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-So your answer's?

-Private Eye.

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It's correct, Eggheads, yes.

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On we go. Another pair of questions.

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Are you guys enjoying this?

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You like a good quiz and you've certainly got one here.

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OK. Good luck and another Sudden Death question.

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Britain's V-bomber force that came into service in the 1950s

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consisted of the Valiant, the Victor and which other aircraft?

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Britain's V-bomber force that came into service in the 1950s

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consisted of the Valiant, the Victor and which other aircraft?

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-And the Vulcan.

-Yeah. The Vulcan.

-And a Mr Spock - the Vulcan.

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It's the right answer. Yes, well done.

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And, Eggheads, in his famous diary, Samuel Pepys mentions

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that his wife is making which drink, that - this is the quote -

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"Mr Pelling the potecarie tells her is good for her cold and defluxions"?

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In his famous diary, Samuel Pepys mentions

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that his wife is making which drink,

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that, "Mr Pelling the potecarie tells her is good for her cold and defluxions"?

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-It's about the time tea started to come in.

-It is, yes.

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That's what I was thinking. Coffee was a bit earlier, wasn't it?

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-Yeah.

-So we're looking at 1660s, aren't we?

-Mm.

-Yeah.

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-Coffee must've been a bit earlier.

-Mm.

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Tea came over with Henry...

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Tea came over with... Was it Catherine of Braganza who brought tea over?

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So the time would be right for that.

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Well, if it's his diary, it would be the 1660s, so...

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I'm sure Catharine of Braganza brought tea over,

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-was the first person to introduce tea.

-It was a great novelty.

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-"Good for her cold and fluxions."

-Defluxions. The word is defluxions.

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D-E-FLU-X-I-O-N-S

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-Well, we don't know.

-I'm happy with that.

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-Can you think of anything else?

-Yeah.

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We don't know but it's around the time that tea came in -

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a bit later than coffee - so we'll try tea.

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Tea is the correct answer.

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OK and on we go. Another pair of questions.

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And Seal Of Approval, to which name did St Petersburg's Kirov Theatre revert in 1991?

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Right, so this is after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991,

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so it went back to the original name,

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so Kirov was the Soviet name.

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-St Petersburg was Petrograd, wasn't it?

-Yeah.

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Kirov Ballet...

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Erm...

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Because what they did, they took any religion out of names, didn't they?

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That was the whole point of...

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So it could have been Saint something?

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Nothing to do with Catherine the Great, was it?

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It could've been. Shall we try that?

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No, sorry, Dermot, we're keeping you waiting.

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Again, we don't know. We'll...

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We know that it went back to its original name after the dissolution of the Soviet Union

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and so it would probably be a name like Karel or...

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But you reckon it might... Catherine. St Catherine.

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-Yeah.

-We don't know. St Catherine's. That's a pure guess.

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OK. St Catherine's is not the right answer.

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-Do the Eggheads know?

-It's the Mariinsky.

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It's the Mariinsky Theatre. The Mariinsky Theatre.

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Previously the Kirov.

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OK, Eggheads, the term spat - S-P-A-T -

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the term spat, meaning a cloth or leather gaiter

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worn to cover the shoe and ankle, is an abbreviation of which word?

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-Spatterdash.

-Spatterdash.

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Yes, it must be, mustn't it, because of mud coming up.

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-Yes. Are you happy with that?

-Yeah.

-Spatterdash. OK?

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-Yeah.

-Yeah.

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Yeah, because spats were a form of protection against the splashing of mud

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and that sort of thing, we think it was originally a word, "spatterdash".

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Spatterdash...

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..is the correct answer, Eggheads. You've won.

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Well, that really set alight the quiz, that final round, didn't it?

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Well played, guys. You took the Eggheads right to the edge.

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You nearly used up my whole pile of questions. Fantastic quizzing.

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Bad luck about the money

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but I think you've had a good day's quizzing today, haven't you?

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-That's the important thing.

-That is the important thing.

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So nice to see you all. Seal Of Approval, there.

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The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them and their winning streak continues.

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You won't be going home with the £10,000,

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which means the money rolls over to the next show.

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And so, Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?

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And join us next time to see if a new team of challengers have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

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£11,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.

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