0:00:04 > 0:00:08These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:11 > 0:00:15arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:24 > 0:00:25Welcome to Eggheads,
0:00:25 > 0:00:27the show where a team of five quiz challengers pit their wits
0:00:27 > 0:00:30against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain -
0:00:30 > 0:00:31they are the Eggheads.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34And challenging our resident quiz champions
0:00:34 > 0:00:36today are the Diggers Writers.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39Now, this team are all part of the same writing group,
0:00:39 > 0:00:40based in Edinburgh.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42Let's meet them.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46Hi, I'm John. I'm 54 and I'm a reminiscence worker.
0:00:46 > 0:00:50Hi, I'm Louise. I'm 31 and I'm a library assistant.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54Hi, I'm Paul. I'm 54 and I'm a business skills trainer.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58Hello, I'm Nancy. I'm 59 and I'm a community education worker.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02Hi, I'm Mike. I'm 63 and I'm a part-time tutor.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04Welcome to you, Diggers Writers.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08Now, Diggers is the nickname of the pub you meet in, right?
0:01:08 > 0:01:11Yes, Dermot. The pub's actually called The Athletic Arms,
0:01:11 > 0:01:13but everybody knows it as The Diggers,
0:01:13 > 0:01:16because it's situated between two graveyards.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19And the grave diggers used to go there for a pint after it.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22Course, that was many years ago - Mike told me that.
0:01:22 > 0:01:23THEY LAUGH
0:01:23 > 0:01:26Thirsty work, of course, the old grave digging.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28But writing, you're a member of a writers' group
0:01:28 > 0:01:30and you meet unofficially there?
0:01:30 > 0:01:33Or do you meet officially there and critique each others' work
0:01:33 > 0:01:34and things like that?
0:01:34 > 0:01:36Yeah, we meet on a regular basis, every week,
0:01:36 > 0:01:38and share and discuss our work.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41And we do wee performances in the back room in The Diggers,
0:01:41 > 0:01:44do wee readings and some music.
0:01:44 > 0:01:48Can that be, rather, toe-curling?
0:01:48 > 0:01:50You've written something...
0:01:50 > 0:01:51Only Mike's stuff!
0:01:51 > 0:01:56As long as you've got enough drink in you, you don't care.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59But you sit there and somebody else criticises it.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02Yeah, but you've got to be willing to accept that.
0:02:02 > 0:02:03It's better...
0:02:03 > 0:02:05I'd rather have honest criticism of the work,
0:02:05 > 0:02:07that's the only way you're going to get better.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10Well, you're going to get that here in the quiz as well -
0:02:10 > 0:02:12I'm just going to tell you "right" or "wrong".
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Every day there's £1,000 worth of cash
0:02:14 > 0:02:17up of grabs for our Challengers, however, if they fail to
0:02:17 > 0:02:19defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22Digger Writers, the Eggheads have won the last two games,
0:02:22 > 0:02:26which means £3,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads today.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29First head-to-head battle, then. Let's kick off with Music.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31Who wants to take this one on?
0:02:31 > 0:02:34That would be Paul.
0:02:35 > 0:02:39Don't go yet, Paul, you choose an Egghead.
0:02:39 > 0:02:44- We'll go Barry.- I'd like to play Barry, please.- Barry, Dermot.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47OK, well, ballads will be written and songs will be sung,
0:02:47 > 0:02:49should you beat Barry.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52Only if you're unlucky!
0:02:52 > 0:02:56Let's have Paul and Barry into the question room for the opening round.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01Paul, do you want to go first or second?
0:03:01 > 0:03:03I think I'd like to go first, please, Dermot.
0:03:06 > 0:03:07Best of luck, Paul.
0:03:07 > 0:03:08First question, then.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12In 2012, whose greatest hits album was revealed to be the UK's
0:03:12 > 0:03:16best-selling compact disc ever, with over four million sold?
0:03:19 > 0:03:23Well, I've never heard this statistic, but...
0:03:23 > 0:03:25I can't believe it would be David Gray.
0:03:25 > 0:03:26And...
0:03:26 > 0:03:28Madness have done very, very well,
0:03:28 > 0:03:31but I think the obvious candidate to me would be Abba.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34So, I'm going to go with Abba.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37The obvious and correct one. Yes, Abba. Well done.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42Barry, what form of vocal performance became
0:03:42 > 0:03:44a hallmark of the country singer Slim Whitman?
0:03:47 > 0:03:51And when you make your choice, we want it in the style you choose.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53I'm just trying to think of Slim Whitman as a rapper.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57Scat singing is really jazz, sort of singing -
0:03:57 > 0:04:00Ella Fitzgerald is the most famous exponent of that.
0:04:00 > 0:04:04But I think the answer to this is Yodell-odel-ing!
0:04:05 > 0:04:07I'm going to take you down The Diggers...
0:04:07 > 0:04:09You asked for that one.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12..get that one deconstructed by the audience.
0:04:12 > 0:04:16Deconstructed? You'll be thrown out the back door.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Yes, yodelling, of course, it is.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21What was that famous song?
0:04:21 > 0:04:22I Remember You.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24I Remember You-ooh-oh...
0:04:24 > 0:04:26CHRIS: That was Frank Ifield.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28That was Frank Ifield? He yodelled too?
0:04:28 > 0:04:30Well, what did Slim Whitman yodel, then?
0:04:30 > 0:04:32Indian Love Car, or something...
0:04:32 > 0:04:35He had the song which is used in the film Mars Attacks,
0:04:35 > 0:04:36to destroy the Martians.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38It was a Slim Whitman track.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41See what happens, when you throw something out to the Eggheads.
0:04:41 > 0:04:45It just gets knocked around, it's completely free association.
0:04:45 > 0:04:49Well, it's all square as we get back to this quiz,
0:04:49 > 0:04:51and we get back to Paul for your second question.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54Which of these composers was taught by Joseph Haydn?
0:04:57 > 0:04:59It certainly wasn't Shostakovich,
0:04:59 > 0:05:01erm...
0:05:01 > 0:05:05which leaves Liszt and Beethoven.
0:05:06 > 0:05:07Erm...
0:05:07 > 0:05:11Haydn, I think, would probably...
0:05:11 > 0:05:14I'm fairly confident that Beethoven might be too late.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16I'm going to go for Liszt.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19OK, Liszt taught by Haydn.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21No. It was Beethoven.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Yes. That was an idiotic answer.
0:05:23 > 0:05:24- Was it?- Yes.
0:05:24 > 0:05:25On the dates?
0:05:25 > 0:05:27Yeah. HE LAUGHS
0:05:27 > 0:05:30OK. You've just remembered it, have you?
0:05:30 > 0:05:32- Yeah.- Oh, crikey.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35Well, I'm afraid you're stuck with the outcome.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37Barry, your second question.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40What was the name of the group founded by Norman Cook
0:05:40 > 0:05:41and Ashley Slater,
0:05:41 > 0:05:47that had a UK top ten single in 1995 with Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out?
0:05:50 > 0:05:53It definitely wasn't The Housemartins.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out. I think that was Beats International.
0:05:56 > 0:06:00Wasn't The Housemartins, but it was Freak Power.
0:06:00 > 0:06:04All right. Well, no harm done with that slip-up there, Paul.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06See if you can get one on the board here.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08The American musician Charlie Christian was a key
0:06:08 > 0:06:12figure of raising the profile of which instrument in jazz?
0:06:16 > 0:06:17OK. Erm...
0:06:17 > 0:06:19I've got no idea.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22Jazz is one area that I'm very weak on.
0:06:24 > 0:06:28I would not have though the Hammond organ would need much profile
0:06:28 > 0:06:31raising in jazz, since it's used a lot.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Vibraphone or electric guitar?
0:06:37 > 0:06:39Actually, I'm going to reverse my logic,
0:06:39 > 0:06:42and because the Hammond organ does appear quite a bit in jazz,
0:06:42 > 0:06:44I think I'll go for Hammond organ.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47It's not the right answer. You were on the right track originally.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50Seems to have happened again to you.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52Um, it's the electric guitar.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54You know that, Eggheads?
0:06:54 > 0:06:56Electric guitar,
0:06:56 > 0:06:59which means that Barry has a chance to win the round here.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01Barry, Music Of Changes,
0:07:01 > 0:07:06composed in 1951 is a piano piece by which composer?
0:07:08 > 0:07:11Hmm.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14I don't think Benjamin Britten wrote much for the piano,
0:07:14 > 0:07:18he tended to write operas, so I shall discount him.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20Samuel Barber, of course,
0:07:20 > 0:07:23was well-known for his Adagio For Strings.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25John Cage wrote a lot of piano pieces.
0:07:25 > 0:07:29He used what he called a "prepared piano" which was a piano with
0:07:29 > 0:07:34various paraphernalia attached to the strings inside the machine.
0:07:34 > 0:07:361951. Well, the date is right for John Cage,
0:07:36 > 0:07:39but it might also be right for Samuel Barber.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41I'm going to go for John Cage because I know
0:07:41 > 0:07:43he did compose music for piano.
0:07:43 > 0:07:47Well, Barry, you've given that question a thorough examination.
0:07:47 > 0:07:51And your diagnosis is John Cage.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54It's correct. You're through to the final round.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Bad luck there, Paul.
0:07:56 > 0:08:00Just messed up the second question, that was the crucial one for you.
0:08:00 > 0:08:01Bad luck for that.
0:08:01 > 0:08:05Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:08:05 > 0:08:08The Eggheads have written the opening chapter to this quiz
0:08:08 > 0:08:11so far, one member of the Diggers Writers, at least, will be
0:08:11 > 0:08:13missing from the final round.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16And our next subject today is Geography.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18Who fancies this?
0:08:18 > 0:08:20- That would be Mike. - That would be me, I think.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23OK. Again, stay with us, Mike, pick your Egghead.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26Would it be Daphne? Michael, would it?
0:08:26 > 0:08:29What do you think? What's your choice, you're the captain?
0:08:29 > 0:08:32I think that you would like to pick Daphne.
0:08:32 > 0:08:33THEY LAUGH
0:08:33 > 0:08:35Mike's just being bashful, Daphne.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37Well, Daphne's my mother's favourite.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41If she beats me, you know, you're going
0:08:41 > 0:08:44to make an old woman very unhappy.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48Daphne, yeah.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51OK. Mike and Daphne, into the question room, please.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56Mike, are you more poetry and lyrics and that kind of thing?
0:08:56 > 0:08:59Yeah, I do poetry and I do songs as well.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01OK, and perform them yourself?
0:09:01 > 0:09:05Uh-huh. Play guitar and make up the songs and...
0:09:05 > 0:09:07- OK.- ..busk.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09Busk. So not just in The Diggers?
0:09:09 > 0:09:11I'm wondering if you've travelled a bit.
0:09:11 > 0:09:15Yeah, I've done stuff in Germany and Holland and New York.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17- Fantastic.- Places like that.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19Travelled to Edinburgh originally from Ireland.
0:09:19 > 0:09:20That's right.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23Got a bit of travelling in there, then, for the Geography round.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26- Do you want to go first or second? - I think I'll go first.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Good luck.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33What term is used to refer to a high point of land that juts
0:09:33 > 0:09:36out into the sea or other expanse of water?
0:09:40 > 0:09:43I've never heard or prebendary.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Peremptory is something...
0:09:45 > 0:09:47It must be promontory.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49Yeah, a promontory is the right answer.
0:09:51 > 0:09:56Daphne, Blackburn forms part of a unitary authority situated
0:09:56 > 0:09:57within which county?
0:10:00 > 0:10:06My husband was once offered a job in Blackburn, so it's Lancashire.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09- He didn't take it. - Well, thank you for that.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12He didn't need to have been offered a job there for you to know
0:10:12 > 0:10:15that Blackburn is in Lancashire, I'm sure.
0:10:15 > 0:10:16It's the right answer.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19Mike, in Venice,
0:10:19 > 0:10:24the Rialto Bridge connects the area of San Polo to which other?
0:10:28 > 0:10:30Er...
0:10:30 > 0:10:37To be honest, I don't recognise the middle one...or the one on the left.
0:10:37 > 0:10:42But I know there's a St Marks in Venice,
0:10:42 > 0:10:44so I'll have to go for San Marco, I think.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47Just as well that's the one you recognised. That's the right answer.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49Thank God for that.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54Two to you, and Daphne's attempt to level it up.
0:10:54 > 0:10:58Smog produced by a volcano is sometimes known by what term,
0:10:58 > 0:10:59particularly in Hawaii?
0:11:03 > 0:11:05Oh!
0:11:07 > 0:11:09Oh, could be any of them.
0:11:09 > 0:11:14None of them sound particularly Hawaiian, so...
0:11:16 > 0:11:21I'm just hoping it's a portmanteau word and it's vog.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23- Vog?- Mm-hm.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26- Volcanic vog kind of feeling? - Yes.
0:11:26 > 0:11:27Vulfur-sulphur.
0:11:27 > 0:11:28The acid and vacid.
0:11:28 > 0:11:29Yeah, I see.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31- Erm...- No?
0:11:31 > 0:11:33It is the right answer, yes, you worked it out.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38Right, it's all square again and back to you, Mike.
0:11:38 > 0:11:43Which European capital stands at the mouth of the River Daugava,
0:11:43 > 0:11:45also known as the Western Dvina?
0:11:47 > 0:11:50Tirana's, I think, Albania.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55And it sounds like one of the ones that goes into the Baltic.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Er...
0:11:58 > 0:11:59Given that...
0:12:00 > 0:12:03- You say it's at the mouth?- Yes.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06Which European capital stands at the mouth of the River Daugava?
0:12:06 > 0:12:09Warsaw's inland, so I guess it's...
0:12:09 > 0:12:10My guess would be Riga.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12Good guess, it's the right answer.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14Well worked out, Mike.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17Fantastic stuff. OK. Daphne, under pressure.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19Daphne, on the Paris rail network,
0:12:19 > 0:12:23Champ de Mar Station, on the southern bank of the Seine,
0:12:23 > 0:12:26is one of the recommended stops to which attraction?
0:12:30 > 0:12:33Well...
0:12:33 > 0:12:36The Eiffel Tower's on the Champ de Mar,
0:12:36 > 0:12:39so I assume it's the Eiffel Tower.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42It is the right answer. Have you been up it?
0:12:42 > 0:12:45- No.- OK.- Never been to Paris.- Really?
0:12:45 > 0:12:47- No.- So you just know that from reading about it?
0:12:47 > 0:12:49- Yes.- OK.- Sorry.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51Sounded like you'd been there.
0:12:51 > 0:12:52Well, it's all square
0:12:52 > 0:12:55and we go to Sudden Death for the first time in this game.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57And that means, Mike, we remove the options,
0:12:57 > 0:12:59you're both playing way too well here.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01We're loving the way you're playing,
0:13:01 > 0:13:02but we're going to make it harder.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04So no options.
0:13:04 > 0:13:08The US state of Montana borders which other country?
0:13:09 > 0:13:12Montana sits...
0:13:12 > 0:13:16It's up with The Rockies and the Blackfoot Indians and all those,
0:13:16 > 0:13:18so it must be Canada.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21Indeed. Canada, of course. Well done.
0:13:23 > 0:13:27Daphne, Queen Street and Central are the two main city centre
0:13:27 > 0:13:30railway stations in which Welsh city?
0:13:30 > 0:13:32Cardiff.
0:13:32 > 0:13:34Is correct.
0:13:34 > 0:13:35OK.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38Mike, Fisherman's Bastion is a tourist attraction in which
0:13:38 > 0:13:39European city?
0:13:39 > 0:13:41Fisherman's Bastion.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43Erm...
0:13:43 > 0:13:45I haven't heard of it.
0:13:45 > 0:13:46So...
0:13:47 > 0:13:50Think of a fish town, I suppose.
0:13:52 > 0:13:53Um...
0:13:56 > 0:13:57I'll go Oslo.
0:13:57 > 0:13:58Oslo.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00OK. Fisherman's Bastion.
0:14:00 > 0:14:05See your thinking there, but, no, and it's quite far out.
0:14:05 > 0:14:06Do you know, Daphne?
0:14:07 > 0:14:09Stockholm?
0:14:09 > 0:14:11No, that's way out.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13Way out in geographical terms.
0:14:13 > 0:14:15Any of the Eggheads know this?
0:14:15 > 0:14:18I think you could guess all day if you don't know it.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20- CHRIS:- Cadiz? - No, not Cadiz.
0:14:20 > 0:14:21It's Budapest.
0:14:21 > 0:14:25So, there's something we didn't know - none of us - before.
0:14:25 > 0:14:26OK.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28Chance for Daphne here, then.
0:14:28 > 0:14:32Chimborazo is a stratovolcano in which South American country?
0:14:32 > 0:14:35C-H-I-M-B-O-R-A-Z-O.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40Ecuador.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42Well, you've had two volcanic questions
0:14:42 > 0:14:45and you have erupted in to the final round!
0:14:45 > 0:14:47It's the right answer.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49Ecuador.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51That's a classic Daphne guess there -
0:14:51 > 0:14:53usually have a few options to look at.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56Which means, you're in the final round, Daphne, and no
0:14:56 > 0:14:59place for Mike in spite of being very good quizzer as we saw there.
0:14:59 > 0:15:03Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:15:03 > 0:15:05Well, the Eggheads driving the narrative at the moment.
0:15:05 > 0:15:09We need the Diggers Writers to take control of the plot.
0:15:09 > 0:15:10As it stands, Diggers Writers have
0:15:10 > 0:15:12lost two brains from the final round,
0:15:12 > 0:15:13the Eggheads haven't lost any.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17And our third subject today is Film & Television.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20- Yes.- Straightaway Louise jumps in there.
0:15:20 > 0:15:23And which Egghead would you like to play?
0:15:23 > 0:15:25Barry and Daphne have played, so it can be Chris, Pat or Judith.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28I'd like to go for Judith, please, Dermot.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30Righty-ho. Let's have Louise and Judith
0:15:30 > 0:15:32into the question room, please.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35Louise, I know you like your films, which is
0:15:35 > 0:15:37why you're doing the category.
0:15:37 > 0:15:38What sort, though?
0:15:38 > 0:15:42Um, I guess my favourites are old, sort of, black and white movies -
0:15:42 > 0:15:45all the old Hollywood ones.
0:15:45 > 0:15:49But I also have a fondness for horror films as well.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52OK. Well, let's hope you find some in these questions.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54Would you like to go first or second?
0:15:54 > 0:15:55First, please.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02OK, Louise, first question is about film.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04King Louie,
0:16:04 > 0:16:08voiced by singer Louis Prima is a character in which Disney animation?
0:16:12 > 0:16:16Yeah, I remember the song, I think it's The King Of The Swingers,
0:16:16 > 0:16:18it's The Jungle Book.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20Jungle Book. Yes, well done. Good start.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25Judith, which TV game show required the contestants,
0:16:25 > 0:16:28usually joined in with by the studio audience,
0:16:28 > 0:16:29to shout "higher" or "lower"?
0:16:33 > 0:16:36I thought that was that bull's-eye one.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39Um...I don't know.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42I didn't watch... I'm afraid I...
0:16:42 > 0:16:44Most Saturday night ones I didn't watch...
0:16:47 > 0:16:50When did they have a thing they had to aim?
0:16:50 > 0:16:52I don't know. Family Fortunes.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57Family Fortunes. I'm going to say "lower"!
0:16:57 > 0:17:01Go across the board a long way - Play Your Cards Right.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Play Your Cards Right. Brucie!
0:17:03 > 0:17:07OK. But that's a great start, Louise, from your point of view.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09And let's see...
0:17:09 > 0:17:12Well, another film question - see how you do.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15What is the nickname of John Malkovich's character
0:17:15 > 0:17:20Cyrus Grissom in the 1997 film Con Air?
0:17:22 > 0:17:27I remember the film. I remember John Malkovich - he stole the show.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30And he was Cyrus The Virus.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33Very good. Yeah, you got the rhyme, of course, as well.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37Well, these have fallen very nicely for you.
0:17:37 > 0:17:38And, er...
0:17:38 > 0:17:41You might not have to answer another question - let's see.
0:17:41 > 0:17:44Judith, what is the first name of The Countess of Grantham,
0:17:44 > 0:17:47played by Elizabeth McGovern in the TV series Downton Abbey?
0:17:50 > 0:17:51She's called Cora.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53Right up your street there, wasn't it?
0:17:53 > 0:17:54I love Downton Abbey.
0:17:54 > 0:17:55Well, exactly.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58You didn't watch Play Your Cards Right.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01If you didn't watch Downton Abbey, well, I'd be shocked.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04OK. But, Louise,
0:18:04 > 0:18:07a place in the final round still awaits if you get this.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10What did Wolfie Smith, played by Robert Lindsay,
0:18:10 > 0:18:14shout during the opening titles of the sitcom Citizen Smith?
0:18:17 > 0:18:21Um... I didn't really watch this very much -
0:18:21 > 0:18:24I think I've seen a few repeats on the television.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26But I think his catch phrase is quite famous.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29I think it's "Power to the People".
0:18:29 > 0:18:33That was well before your time, but you've seen the repeats, you think.
0:18:33 > 0:18:34Chris...
0:18:34 > 0:18:35Power to the People!
0:18:36 > 0:18:38It's the right answer.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44OK. You're into the final round.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47A very, very good performance there, Louise.
0:18:47 > 0:18:48It means no place for Judith.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:18:52 > 0:18:55Plenty of twists in this tale of Eggheads.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57The Diggers Writers have now knocked an Egghead out,
0:18:57 > 0:18:59but two of their members have gone.
0:18:59 > 0:19:03And our last subject, before the final round, is Politics.
0:19:03 > 0:19:06So, two of you remain who can play this - it's John or Nancy.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08I think that's going to be me, Dermot.
0:19:08 > 0:19:09I'm going to take on Politics.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12And choose an Egghead, who can be Chris or Pat.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Erm, what do you think, folks?
0:19:14 > 0:19:16What do you think? Chris? Yeah.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18We'll go Chris, please.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20All right, then.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22John and Chris heading for the question room.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25So, John, does your interest in politics
0:19:25 > 0:19:28and current affairs inform any of your writing?
0:19:28 > 0:19:30No, I wouldn't actually say that.
0:19:30 > 0:19:34Well, social realism I write, so I suppose it is influenced in that way.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36Yeah. I think I got a bit of the short straw with the Politics,
0:19:36 > 0:19:39that was my initial hesitation there.
0:19:39 > 0:19:40Oh, I see. OK.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42Now, do you want to go first or second?
0:19:42 > 0:19:44I'll go first, please, Dermot.
0:19:48 > 0:19:49OK, best of luck. Here you go.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52In his speech to the Labour Party Conference in 2012,
0:19:52 > 0:19:55what phrase did Ed Miliband use repeatedly to
0:19:55 > 0:19:59outline his vision of Britain under a Labour government?
0:20:02 > 0:20:03I think I know it.
0:20:03 > 0:20:07It's not One Man or One Love, I'm pretty sure it's One Nation.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09One Nation. Yes, it's the right answer.
0:20:10 > 0:20:14Chris, for what does the CW stand in the name of
0:20:14 > 0:20:17the UK trade union the CWU?
0:20:21 > 0:20:24They're the Post Office people, they're communication workers.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26They are.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29John, former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown was
0:20:29 > 0:20:31a member of which elite military unit?
0:20:37 > 0:20:42I knew he'd been in the forces, Paddy Ashdown, but I don't know the one.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44I'm trying to think.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47Erm, I'll just have to plump for one.
0:20:47 > 0:20:48Erm, I'll go...
0:20:50 > 0:20:52Special...
0:20:52 > 0:20:53Oh, wait, I'll have a wee think.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59I don't think the wee think's helping me much!
0:20:59 > 0:21:02I think I'll just go for, I don't know, Special Boat Service.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05That's marvellous.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08The wee think didn't help, so you'll just have a good old guess!
0:21:08 > 0:21:09And you've got it right!
0:21:09 > 0:21:10Hey!
0:21:12 > 0:21:14Lovely! All right.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17Chris, under whose prime ministership was
0:21:17 > 0:21:20the Northern Rock bank nationalised?
0:21:25 > 0:21:28Er, that was some years ago now.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31Er...
0:21:31 > 0:21:33has to be Gordon Brown.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36Yeah, one of the early casualties of the credit crunch,
0:21:36 > 0:21:38it's Gordon Brown. That's right. Well done.
0:21:41 > 0:21:42And back to you, John.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45What is the name of the upper house of Russia's parliament?
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Right. The upper house.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56Well, nothing's leaping out at me there,
0:21:56 > 0:22:00so, again, I think I'm going to have to have a wee guess.
0:22:00 > 0:22:01Erm...
0:22:01 > 0:22:03I would... I tend to go for the middle.
0:22:03 > 0:22:08The National Assembly Of Provinces, I sort of fancy that one.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10OK. The National Assembly Of Provinces.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13I hasn't worked this time, your guessing.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16- It is... Do you know, Chris? - Well, it's the Russian Federation
0:22:16 > 0:22:18so presumably it's the Federation Council.
0:22:18 > 0:22:19It is the Federation Council.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22Doesn't count for you, though, but just interesting.
0:22:22 > 0:22:23And this is your question, Chris.
0:22:23 > 0:22:27The Parliamentary properties known as Norman Shaw Buildings,
0:22:27 > 0:22:28were previously the home of what?
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Ah, we remember Raymond Francis as Superintendant Lockhart.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38It was New Scotland Yard.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41For those of us that don't remember Raymond Francis as
0:22:41 > 0:22:44Chief Superintendant Lockhart, is that a TV programme?
0:22:44 > 0:22:47- Well, yeah. It's No Hiding Place. - Oh, OK.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50A squad car comes screeching out the old Norman Shaw Building
0:22:50 > 0:22:53- on The Embankment on the opening credit sequence.- OK.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56And it is New Scotland Yard, it is the right answer
0:22:56 > 0:22:59and you've claimed a place in the final round at John's expense.
0:22:59 > 0:23:03Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:23:03 > 0:23:05And so this is what we've been playing towards,
0:23:05 > 0:23:07it's time for the final round, which,
0:23:07 > 0:23:08as always, is General Knowledge.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11But those of you who lost your head-to-heads won't
0:23:11 > 0:23:12be allowed to take part in this round.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15John, Paul and Mike from Diggers Writers
0:23:15 > 0:23:19and Judith from the Eggheads, would you leave the studio, please?
0:23:20 > 0:23:25So, Louise and Nancy, you're playing to win the Diggers Writers £3,000.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27Daphne, Chris, Barry and Pat, you're playing for something which
0:23:27 > 0:23:31money can't buy - the Eggheads' reputation.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33As usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35The questions are all General Knowledge,
0:23:35 > 0:23:37and you are allowed to confer.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39Louise and Nancy, the question is,
0:23:39 > 0:23:42are your two brains better than the Eggheads four?
0:23:42 > 0:23:43Fingers crossed!
0:23:43 > 0:23:45We'll find out very soon.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47Would you like to first or second?
0:23:47 > 0:23:49We'll go second for a change, Dermot.
0:23:52 > 0:23:53Right, putting the Eggheads in, then.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57Eggheads, what term is used to refer to a boat with one main hull
0:23:57 > 0:23:59and two smaller outer hulls?
0:24:03 > 0:24:06THEY MUMBLE
0:24:06 > 0:24:08That's a trimaran.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10Trimaran.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12It's the right answer, Eggheads. Yes.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14Louise and Nancy, your first question, then.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17Which British golfer won the European Order Of Merit
0:24:17 > 0:24:20for seven consecutive years during the 1990s?
0:24:24 > 0:24:27I think we were dreading it being a sports question...
0:24:27 > 0:24:29There we go. Erm...
0:24:29 > 0:24:31Colin Montgomerie.
0:24:31 > 0:24:35- He won quite a lot in the '90s, didn't he?- Right.
0:24:35 > 0:24:39I'm thinking Nick Faldo, possibly, as well.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41I'm ruling out Sandy Lyle.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43- No offence.- Why is that?
0:24:43 > 0:24:47Em, I'm just not so aware of his name coming up so often.
0:24:47 > 0:24:52- OK.- I think it's either Colin Montgomerie or Nick Faldo.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54Shall we go for Nick Faldo?
0:24:55 > 0:24:57If you're OK with that.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59- OK. Yeah?- Yes.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01We'll go for Nick Faldo.
0:25:01 > 0:25:06Going for Nick Faldo, Order Of Merit, seven consecutive years...
0:25:06 > 0:25:08- It was Colin Montgomerie. - Oh, sorry, Louise.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11The other one you were considering. Well, you weren't to know.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14How would you have been on trimaran?
0:25:14 > 0:25:16I suspect you would have worked that out.
0:25:16 > 0:25:17- Yep. - THEY LAUGH
0:25:17 > 0:25:20Right. Well, listen, it's fairly early.
0:25:20 > 0:25:25Eggheads, in a zoo, a herpetarium is most typically used to
0:25:25 > 0:25:27house which types of creatures?
0:25:33 > 0:25:36THEY TALK OVER EACH OTHER
0:25:37 > 0:25:41Yes, that's reptiles and amphibians.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43OK. It is the right answer.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45What's the linguistic hook there?
0:25:45 > 0:25:47A herpetarium. H-E-R-P-E-T...
0:25:47 > 0:25:49Is it Greek, or something?
0:25:49 > 0:25:51Herpes is Greek or Latin for snake, I think.
0:25:51 > 0:25:52OK.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55Herpetiles are creeping things.
0:25:55 > 0:25:56I think.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58Your linguistic facilities, of course.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01- Should have taken the first questions.- Oh, dear. OK.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04Listen, get this and you're still in it.
0:26:04 > 0:26:08Carpal tunnel syndrome is caused by pressure on which
0:26:08 > 0:26:09nerve in the human body?
0:26:14 > 0:26:15- Is that the eye? - It's something...
0:26:15 > 0:26:19It's something to do with the eyes, I think.
0:26:19 > 0:26:24So it's not the sciatic nerve, cos I think that's spinal.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27- Um...- Peroneal vision is...
0:26:27 > 0:26:30Are you thinking of peripheral, or...?
0:26:30 > 0:26:33Oh, I'm thinking of peripheral vision. Oh, no!
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Maybe that's a red herring.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37Peroneal. Pero...
0:26:37 > 0:26:39What's...?
0:26:40 > 0:26:45Peroneal, is that to do with the stomach, am I thinking now?
0:26:46 > 0:26:49Median's in the brain, isn't it, so...
0:26:49 > 0:26:51I think it's probably that one.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53Right. OK.
0:26:53 > 0:26:55Is it median nerve?
0:26:55 > 0:26:59- Is that's what you're going for? - Yep.- Median nerve.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02Crucial question for you, of course, you need to get it...
0:27:02 > 0:27:05And you have! It's correct. Well done.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07And you need to survive this
0:27:07 > 0:27:09from the Eggheads, then, their third question.
0:27:09 > 0:27:13Eggheads, the Nobel prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa
0:27:13 > 0:27:15was born in which country?
0:27:18 > 0:27:20- He's Peruvian, I think. - He Peruvian, definitely.
0:27:20 > 0:27:24Yeah. Marquez is from Colombia, and Llosa is from Peru.
0:27:24 > 0:27:25Has to be Peru.
0:27:27 > 0:27:28He's from Peru.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30Peru...
0:27:30 > 0:27:32is the right answer, Eggheads.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35You've won.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39Well, what can I say, Diggers Writers?
0:27:39 > 0:27:41That's just the cruellest blow,
0:27:41 > 0:27:44being put out by a question about a writer.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47I mean, you'd have gobbled that one up.
0:27:47 > 0:27:51I mean, it's just down to the way the questions fall, as Kevin,
0:27:51 > 0:27:53who's not with us, always says.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55Those three Eggheads' questions,
0:27:55 > 0:27:57I don't think they would have troubled you at all.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00But you got the other set, it started with the dreaded sport question.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02Really got you off on the wrong track.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04But thank you very much for playing the Eggheads today.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06And best of luck down at The Diggers.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08I think the Eggheads and me would love to join...
0:28:08 > 0:28:10- You're all invited.- We'd love to come down for a pint or two,
0:28:10 > 0:28:14and a critique of the intros that I use every now and again.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17I'm not sure they'd really pass muster there.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20But the Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them
0:28:20 > 0:28:22and they still reign supreme over quizland.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24I'm afraid, you won't be going home with the £3,000.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26That means the money rolls over to the next show.
0:28:26 > 0:28:28Eggheads, congratulations.
0:28:28 > 0:28:29Who will beat you?
0:28:29 > 0:28:31And join us next time to see
0:28:31 > 0:28:34if a new team of Challengers have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36£4,000 says they don't.
0:28:36 > 0:28:37Until then, goodbye.
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