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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 taking on the awesome might of our quiz Goliaths today

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are the Steelmen.

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This team of old school

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and university friends

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all grew up in the town of Corby, famous for its historic steelworks. So let's meet them.

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Hi, I'm Phil, I'm 24, and I'm a mechanical engineering student.

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H, I'm Matt, I'm 26 and I'm an IT business analyst.

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Hi, I'm Petey, 24, and I'm an IT technician.

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Hi, I'm Stephen, I'm 25 and I'm an automotive refinisher.

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Hi, I'm Craig, I'm 24 and I'm an information performance analyst.

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So, Phil and team, welcome.

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Hi.

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And it's Corby and Corby has steel...?

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Yeah, well, we had. There's a lot of steelwork history with Corby

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and the local football team is also called the Steelmen,

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and we just thought, seeing as we all have roots in Corby, it's a fitting name for our team.

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And is the steel industry still alive in Corby?

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It is, but not as much as it was... OK. ..As it used to be. In the '60s...

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A lot of people got made redundant back in the '80s from the steelworks.

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So are you quizzers?

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We are, not regularly together, because, obviously, we live quite far apart from each other.

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A few years ago we were quite a regular quiz team together.

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The Eggheads are... ignore them if they try and stare you down or anything...

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just ignore them, don't be fazed, don't be put off, don't be intimidated, they can be beaten...

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Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs as you know.

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If you fail to defeat the Eggheads, we roll the prize money over to the next show.

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Now, quite a few teams have failed to defeat them recently, which is good from your point of view.

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They've actually won the last 22 games

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which means £23,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads today.

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How's that? Good, great! That's the first bit of good news.

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Now all you've got to do is take them apart! Yeah. That's the hard part!

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The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Geography.

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Who would like this? OK.

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What about Stephen? Stephen? Are you happy to do geography?

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I think you're the strongest for Geography. Happy with it?

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Yeah, I'll give it a go. Yeah.

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OK, Stephen, against which Egghead?

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Er...I was thinking Dave.

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Dave? Yeah, go on, then. Go for it, then.

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Yeah, Tremendous Knowledge Dave.

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Stephen from the Steelmen versus Tremendous Knowledge Dave from the Eggheads.

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The subject is Geography,

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and to ensure there's no conferring, would you please take your positions in the Question Room?

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So, Stephen, you're on Geography here. Yeah, yeah, certainly am.

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And have you done much travelling? Yeah, I've done quite a bit.

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I've done Australia, America, a lot of Europe.

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Yeah, I've done quite a bit.

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Can I ask you first whether you want the first or second set of questions?

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I'll go first, please.

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Stephen, which of these words is another name for a coastline?

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Mmm... Well, I'm sure is isn't surfboard.

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Seaboard...?

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I'm going towards seaboard, I think.

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It's between sandboard and seaboard.

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I'm going to go seaboard.

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Seaboard is the right answer. Well done.

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OK, Dave, your question.

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Exeter is an one extreme end of which motorway?

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Exeter is at the extreme end of the M5.

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Straight there, you're right. M5.

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Great city, too.

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A little bit of a way from Corby, isn't it, Stephen? Yeah, quite a bit, yeah.

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Here's your question.

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Oystermouth Castle is located in which village on the Gower Peninsula?

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I haven't heard of that.

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I don't think it's Mutterings.

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I'm going to go for Mumbles.

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And Mumbles is the right answer.

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Difficult one to guess. Well done!

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Glad you didn't fall over there.

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OK, Dave, the Joshua Tree National Park is in which state of the US?

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Er, right...

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I'm not going to go for Alabama or Idaho,

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I'm going to go for California.

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And California is correct.

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I guess that's where U2 got their album title.

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It must have been, I would have thought so.

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Back to you, Stephen.

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Which country's former name, given to it by the Portuguese

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came from the word meaning "beautiful island"?

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Er...

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Definitely not Taiwan, well, I think it isn't anyway.

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Sri Lanka...

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I think it sounds like Malta myself.

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I'll go with Malta.

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It's actually not Malta.

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Dave, do you know? I thought it was Sri Lanka.

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No, it's Taiwan. Oh, right? Didn't know. Taiwan.

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Taiwan is its Chinese name.

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The Portuguese called it Formosa.

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Oh, I see, OK.

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So Taiwan is not the word we're talking about here? No.

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OK, Formosa... Right, fine.

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Dave, your question to win the round.

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Which of these African capitals lies closest to the Prime Meridian?

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Prime Meridian?

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So it's not the Equator...

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Er...I'd have thought Nairobi was the nearest to the Equator.

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I'm going to go Accra.

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In Ghana? Yeah.

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It's the right answer!

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Is it the same as the Equator?

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No, no, I don't think it is.

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Barry, tell us. It's 0 degrees longitude. It's the line that goes through the Greenwich Meridian.

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It goes through Algeria, Mali and then into Ghana.

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It's the up-down line, it's the vertical equivalent of the Equator? OK.

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All right. A non-technical definition.

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All right. So, Dave, well done, you've got 3 out of 3,

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and I'm sorry, Stephen, you got 2 but it wasn't quite enough

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and you've been knocked out and you won't be in the final. No easy way to say it. OK, yeah.

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But do come back to us and rejoin your teams, gentlemen.

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As it stands, the Steelmen have lost the one brain,

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the Eggheads are still intact.

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The next subject is Sport.

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Is this a good one for you?

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THEY CONFER

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I'm happy, if you want to wait for TV & Film, I'm happy taking Sport on. You want to take Sport?

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Yeah. I'll take Sport.

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OK, Phil the skipper is taking Sport. And which Egghead?

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Who looks the least sporty?

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Chris, take Chris. Chris?

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I'll play Chris, please.

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OK, not suggesting for a second you look the least sporty, Chris.

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You feeling good about that? Yeah, I don't mind playing lads from Corby.

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Used to be a decent enough place in the old days.

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So Phil from the Steelmen versus Chris from the Eggheads.

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And to make sure there's no conferring please go to the Question Room.

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Phil, you are sporty? Yeah, ish.

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I can see this is a sporty team. What do you play, mainly?

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Football, mainly. That's it, really.

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And local team for you in Corby?

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No, I play for a team at university, just a group of friends, really.

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All right, here we go on Sport, and, Phil, you can choose the first or second set of questions.

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I think I'll go second.

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Chris, your question, then. The Brian Johnston Memorial Theatre

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can be found at which famous sporting venue?

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Well, Brian Johnston used to commentate on cricket,

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so it would logically be at Lord's.

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Lord's is the right answer.

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Over to you, Phil.

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At which university, famous for its sporting facilities,

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were Sebastian Coe and Paula Radcliffe students?

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I know Loughborough's really well known for its sporting facilities,

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as my brother Matt on the team went there.

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So I'm just going to have to go for Loughborough.

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Loughborough is correct.

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1 each. Let's see if you can beat this Egghead on Sport.

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He's by his own account less sporty than you, Phil,

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but the knowledge in those crania is substantial!

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The first professional cycling team of which Bradley Wiggins was a member was named after whom?

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Your question, Chris. Is it...

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Ooh...

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Why would anybody name a professional cycling team after Yoko Ono?

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Likewise Linda McCartney...

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Oh!

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I've never heard of Olivia Harrison, so...

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presumably she was some lady cyclist back in the day,

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so I'll have to go with Olivia Harrison.

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OK, you've given them the best laugh they've had so far today,

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these Eggheads. And who is it, Eggs?

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Linda McCartney. Linda McCartney is the answer.

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Maybe the Eggheads can tell us why. What's going on here? It's strange.

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Her vegetarian food products, the company,

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sponsored a cycling team... They sponsored a cycling team.

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..For a very short time. I think Bradley was signed to the team,

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but I'm not sure he ever actually turned a wheel in anger.

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It was only in existence for a short time.

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OK, Phil, your question.

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The American Missy Franklin became famous as a leading name in which sport?

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I'm really not sure.

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I'm going to just go with athletics.

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No real reason...just fancy it.

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Athletics is your answer, but it is wrong.

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Anyone on your team know this?

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I'd guess swimming. Swimming? Why do you say that?

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Well, I watch quite a lot of athletics and its history,

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and I've never heard that name. I'd have punted at swimming, really.

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So a leading name in swimming, Phil. You got it wrong. Yeah.

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OK, you're equal. Chris...

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third question. Which major horse race of 2012 was won by Green Moon,

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ridden by Brett Prebble?

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Unlikely to be the Melbourne Cup.

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St Leger's an English race.

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Would that be too obvious?

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Knowing the way the question-setters' minds work,

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I'll go with the Kentucky Derby.

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The Kentucky Derby is your answer.

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The answer is the Melbourne Cup. Oh, well.

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OK, you've got 1 out of 3 right. Let's see, Phil,

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if you can take advantage of this, get yourself a place in the final, knock Chris out, all in one go.

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Here's your question. Good luck.

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The Dutch football club known as Vitesse is based in which city?

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Er...

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I'm not sure. I've heard of the team

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but where they're based, I'm not 100%.

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Something's shouting out to me to say Rotterdam.

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So I think I'm going to go with that.

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Rotterdam is wrong, it's Arnhem, Phil. Oh.

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We go to Sudden Death. Chris goes first because he started.

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It's a bit harder as you know, Chris, you know this well enough, I don't give you alternatives.

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Nasty was the nickname of which Romanian tennis player?

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Ilie Nastase.

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Ilie Nastase is correct.

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Sudden Death, over to you, Phil.

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Which boxer came second in the election for the Mayor of Kiev in 2006?

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I'm guessing it was one of the Klitschko brothers maybe.

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The only I can think it might possibly be. Of boxers, I have no knowledge.

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I can't even think of their first names. Is it Vladimir Klitschko?

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Is that your answer? Yeah.

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Is Vladimir one of the Klitschko brothers? Yes.

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Yeah, but you got the wrong one! Oh!

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How annoying! It's Vitali Klitschko!

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You're so close but not there.

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Can't take it, I'm afraid. You got the wrong brother, so you've been knocked out as well, Phil.

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Chris will be in the final.

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Let's see if the Steelmen can turn it around.

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Please, both come back to us and we'll play on.

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So you have now lost two brains from the final round. How are the Steelmen feeling?

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The steel has not turned to rubber, has it? Not yet, no. Not too deflated. It's getting there!

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Still reinforced, solid...girder!

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Yes. Yeah. OK.

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That's the way. Lots of money to play for.

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The next subject is Arts & Books.

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Arts & Books. Is that a good one? Not one we wanted.

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It has to be. I think it's probably Matt that'll do it.

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I'll do it. Matt? I'll do it. Yeah. Matt? OK. On Arts & Books, against which Egghead?

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You can have Daphne, Barry or Pat.

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I'll take Barry. OK.

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Sure about that? Yeah, Barry, please.

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Matt from the Steelmen versus Barry from the Eggheads.

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He looks very studious today, Barry, he's got the special extra-thick glasses on.

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To ensure there's no conferring, would you please take your positions in the Question Room?

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Matt, would you like to go first or second?

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I'll go first, please.

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Here's your first question, Matt. Good luck.

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How old is Holden Caulfield when he's narrating the novel The Catcher In The Rye?

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I'm pretty sure it's 17.

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It's a book about a teenage boy going through New York City,

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so I'll go with 17.

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Bang on! You're absolutely right. Well done. 17.

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OK, Barry...

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Canaletto's painting, The Stonemason's Yard depicts a scene in which city?

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Well, it's not a city that you'd associate with stonemasons,

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but Canaletto was Venetian and I believe the answer is Venice.

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Venice is quite right. Amazing painter as well.

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OK, Matt...

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daughters called Kay, Hazel, Madge and Carol, and sons called Alan and Robin

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are characters in the JB Priestley play Time And The...what?

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I've not heard of that play before...

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I'm not really into plays, to be honest.

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Just based on the names alone, I'm going to go with Cartwrights.

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No, it's Conways. Time And The Conways.

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So, Barry, your chance to pull into the lead.

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What is the title of Will Self's novel that was nominated for the 2012 Man Booker Prize?

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Oh, this one passed me by.

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I don't know this one.

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Because it's Will Self I will go for Passport.

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Eggheads? Umbrella.

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Umbrella... Oh! ..Is the answer.

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Still level, Matt, that's good. Here's your question.

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The Renoir painting which is a companion piece to his Dancing Girl With Castanets

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is known as Dancing Girl With...what?

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Yeah...er... I've not heard of this one either,

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but I'm guessing if it's castanets,

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tambourine sounds more appropriate. So I'll go with tambourine, please.

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Excellent logic, Matt, and you're correct.

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Tambourine is right. So you've got 2 out of 3.

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Let's see if Barry can follow you,

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and if he can't, he's out.

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Barry, the Nobel Literature Prize winner born Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto

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was better know by what name?

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Right...that sounds Spanish to me.

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Octavio Paz, I believe, is Mexican.

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Pablo Neruda is Chilean.

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I think Mario Vargas Llosa... is he Peruvian? Or Colombian?

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It doesn't really help.

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I don't think Pablo Neruda was a real name,

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so I'm going to go for Pablo Neruda.

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Pablo Neruda is...

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correct. Was that for poetry that he won or... Yes. ..novels?

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Mm-hm. Twenty Poems Of Despair, I think, was one of his major works.

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Yeah, actually, funnily enough, I've got that at home.

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Pablo Neruda is the right answer. Well done. You're still in there.

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Sorry, Matt, you almost had him there.

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You were like Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty at the top of the cliff,

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but you didn't quite push him over.

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So we go to Sudden Death. OK. And it's a touch harder because I don't give you alternatives.

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What is the title of Kingsley Amis's first published novel?

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I only know one book by that author and it's Lucky Jim, so I'll go with that.

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Brilliant. You're right! Lucky Jim.

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Well done. Published in 1954.

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OK, Barry...you're on the edge.

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The Russian detective Arkady Renko first appeared in which 1981 novel?

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Arkady Renko...?

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I believe he may have appeared in Gorky Park.

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Gorky Park is the right answer, by Martin Cruz Smith.

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Back to you, Matt.

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The first of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, Casino Royale,

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was originally published in which decade of the 20th century?

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I was looking at this yesterday, funnily enough...

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I'm a big fan of the Bond books, read them all now...

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Er...

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I'm pretty sure it's either late '50s or early '60s, but you're going to want one of those rather than both!

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So I'm going to go with the '50s.

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I'm so glad you did. You got it right.

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OK, Barry, pressure on you now.

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The Group of Seven which included the landscape painters

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JEH MacDonald, AY Jackson and Franklin Carmichael was founded in which country in 1920?

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The Group of Seven...

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I'm not 100% certain on this, but I will go for Australia.

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You've been knocked out, Barry, it's Canada!

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Ah! My other choice! Well done!

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Very well played, Matt, in that round.

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Excellent play, you're in the final! Great. You held him off and you overcame him.

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So come back to us and we'll play on.

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So as it stands the Steelmen have lost two brains from the final round

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whilst the Eggheads have lost one.

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The next subject for you is Music.

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Is that good for someone? I heard a sigh.

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Petey? I think I'll go for it, so as to keep Craig back for the final round. Yeah.

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Yeah, definitely. I think that would be Matt if he hadn't just gone. So we'll have Petey.

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Petey, OK. Against which Egghead? You can have Daphne or Pat.

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What are we thinking? I think Daphne loves music, to be honest. Do you think?

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Daphne knows her modern music, remember. Yeah.

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Group decision. We'll try and take Pat on, please.

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You veered away from Daphne very wisely. OK.

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Petey from the Steelmen versus Pat from the Eggheads.

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To ensure there's no conferring, please go to the Question Room?

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OK, so Music, Petey. Would you like to go first or second?

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I would like to go second, please.

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Pat, here is your question.

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In the lyrics of Big Spender, the singer says she doesn't what... for every guy she sees?

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It's playing in my head, Shirley Bassey singing.

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I think it's "pop my cork".

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Yes, it is "pop my cork".

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Petey, your question.

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Which song, a UK number one in 1996, features the line "Strumming my pain with his fingers"?

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This is quite ironic, actually, cos I was on about this earlier.

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I think it's by the Fugees, it's Killing Me Softly.

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Yeah, it is.

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It is, although you only confused me,

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because I was thinking of... It's Roberta Flack who did it?

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Yeah, Roberta Flack did it.

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And the Fugees, you're right. The version in '96, absolutely.

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Which is a brilliant cover version, you're right.

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Unusually brilliant cover version.

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OK, Pat, your question.

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The Motown classic I'm Gonna Make You Love Me was a 1969 hit single for Diana Ross and the Supremes

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and which male group?

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I know the song...

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The Osmonds isn't very tempting. I don't see them...

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I don't see them singing that.

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It could be either of the other two.

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I'm reduced to a guess. I'm going to go for the Foundations.

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Your guess is wrong, it's the Temptations.

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How about that?

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See if you can take the lead,

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here, Petey.

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Artie Shaw, a leading bandleader of the 1930s and 1940s, was a soloist on which instrument?

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I don't know this, so it's a stab in the dark.

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So I'm going to go for...

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What's sticking out for me?

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I don't know, it's a guess, double bass.

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Pat, do you know?

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He was a great clarinettist.

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Yes, he was, clarinet is the right answer.

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So you're still level after two questions.

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1 point each.

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Two wrong answers.

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Pat, the singer Miranda Lambert is most associated with which genre of music?

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I don't know anything about her.

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Miranda Lambert...

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I haven't heard of her as an opera singer, so I'll discount opera.

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So it's jazz versus country.

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I'll go for jazz, but it's another guess.

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Eggs, do you know? No, they don't. Go on...

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I would have guessed country, but it's just a guess.

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You would have been right, Dave. Country is the right answer. Oh.

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Which means you've got a chance here

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to book your place in the final. You're turning it around, this team! Just get this one right.

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Come on, Petey!

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Jussi Bjorling, one of the 20th century's leading operatic tenors,

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was born in which country?

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I don't know this. I'm just trying to memorise names

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and what they look like and associate them to countries.

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I don't know, but I'm going to take a guess at this,

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Sweden.

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If you've got this right, you are in the final

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and you've knocked out our Egghead. Otherwise we go to Sudden Death.

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Let me try your team-mates. Do you think he's got it right or not?

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We haven't got a clue. We've got a Jussi we know.

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We thought maybe Finland, cos that's where he's from.

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Oh, cos he's got a J? Oh, I see, he's Jussi as well. Good point.

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Sweden is the right answer.

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So you're in the final. Well done.

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Pat, you're out of the game.

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Out of the game. And we've got a bit of a comeback going on here with the Steelmen.

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They stayed strong in their darkest hour.

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Let us see what they can do to the Eggheads in the final round.

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So this is what we've been playing towards. It's time for the final round,

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which as always is General Knowledge,

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but I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads

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won't be allowed to take part in this round.

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So, that's Phil and Stephen from the Steelmen,

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and Barry and Pat from the Eggheads.

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Would you all please leave the studio?

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So, Matt, Petey and Craig, you are playing to win the Steelmen £23,000.

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You can do it with three questions.

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Dave, Daphne and Chris, you are playing for something which money can't buy,

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the Eggheads' reputation.

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As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.

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This time, the questions are all General Knowledge,

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and you are allowed to confer.

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So, Steelmen, the question is, are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three?

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I want to wish you all the best. You've played really well so far.

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So, Steelmen, do you want to go first or second?

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We'll go second, please, Jeremy.

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OK, here we go. Eggheads, your first question.

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What is the nickname of the freefall display team of the Parachute Regiment?

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Red Devils. Red Devils, yeah. Red Devils.

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They are the Red Devils.

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Red Devils is correct

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and they have been on Eggheads before, haven't they?

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Did they drop in through the sky when they...? No!

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..When they arrived in the studio? No? No. That was disappointing.

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OK, your question, Steelmen.

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Take the fight to them.

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What is the name of the charity movement dating back to 2003

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that encourages men to grow facial hair for a month?

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We know this, because I'm sure Matthew had us pay one year.

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I tried it one time and failed quite badly last year.

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We're going to go for Movember.

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Movember is right. It's the most brilliant charity idea, isn't it?

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It's caught on so completely. Yeah, so simple as well. Yeah.

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I'm glad you didn't go for Beardober!

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OK, your second question. They may get harder.

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The word vermiform refers to objects shaped like what?

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Eggheads, is it...

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Worm. Worm.

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Yeah, that is a worm.

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It is a worm. You've got it right.

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Your second question.

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The constellation Aquila is traditionally said to represent which bird?

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Take your time.

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I've got a feeling it's dove, but I'm not sure why.

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I was going to say eagle... I don't know.

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Eagle comes up in symbolism quite a lot, doesn't it? Yeah.

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What do you think? I don't have any idea whatsoever.

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I'd guess dove, but you've just kind of given a good statement

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for the eagle.

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There used to be a programme on the BBC called Aquila

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which might be something that was, like, about a spaceship,

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but I don't know if it was about any other animals.

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I'm not too confident with dove, so... Yeah.

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I'm actually thinking, leaning towards owl now as well.

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It sounds like quite a soft word,

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so if it was a translation for something

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it sounds like a softer bird. I think maybe go for owl.

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What do you think? I don't know why I'm leaning towards dove, but I am.

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I don't know why.

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I want to go with it. You want to go with dove? Yeah.

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We'll go for dove, please, Jeremy.

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Your answer is dove.

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Eggheads, what do you think? Eagle.

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Aquiline, aquila.

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Aquiline nose, I was thinking aquiline.

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What does aquiline mean? Well, a beak of a nose.

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It's that beaky nose idea.

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So the word does lead us, or led them anyway,

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to eagle, I'm afraid. Eagle is the correct answer.

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Dove is wrong. So you've let them in.

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And if they get this one right, they've won the contest.

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Which future king was tutored in mathematics by the philosopher Thomas Hobbes?

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It's not William III. No.

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It was Charles II, wasn't it?

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Charles II. Yeah, Hobbes was about the right time.

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It was when he was in exile.

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James I was James VI of Scotland, he was tutored in Scotland.

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So it's got to be Charles II. Yeah. So Charles II? Yeah. OK.

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That was Charles II while he was in exile.

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While he was in exile? Yeah.

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OK, didn't need that detail.

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If you've got it right, the contest is over.

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The answer is Charles II,

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so we say, congratulations, Eggheads, you have won!

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Oh! And also because you went second, then, if they do three in a row,

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then if you've got one wrong, there's no way back. Yeah.

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And it's aquiline, eagle, and I know you know that now.

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All right, commiserations to the Steelmen.

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The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them,

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their winning streak continues. Really impressive now.

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It does mean you won't be going home with the £23,000.

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So the money rolls over to our next show.

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Eggheads, congratulations!

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Who will beat you? Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers

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have the brains to defeat the Eggheads. £24,000 says they don't.

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Until then, goodbye.

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