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These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:07 | |
Together, they make up the Eggheads, | 0:00:09 | 0:00:11 | |
arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:14 | |
The question is, can they be beaten? | 0:00:16 | 0:00:19 | |
Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers | 0:00:23 | 0:00:27 | |
pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
They are the Eggheads! | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
And taking on the awesome might of our quiz Goliaths today | 0:00:32 | 0:00:36 | |
are the Steelmen. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:37 | |
This team of old school | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
and university friends | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
all grew up in the town of Corby, famous for its historic steelworks. So let's meet them. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:47 | |
Hi, I'm Phil, I'm 24, and I'm a mechanical engineering student. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
H, I'm Matt, I'm 26 and I'm an IT business analyst. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:54 | |
Hi, I'm Petey, 24, and I'm an IT technician. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:58 | |
Hi, I'm Stephen, I'm 25 and I'm an automotive refinisher. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:02 | |
Hi, I'm Craig, I'm 24 and I'm an information performance analyst. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:06 | |
So, Phil and team, welcome. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:08 | |
Hi. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:09 | |
And it's Corby and Corby has steel...? | 0:01:09 | 0:01:13 | |
Yeah, well, we had. There's a lot of steelwork history with Corby | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
and the local football team is also called the Steelmen, | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
and we just thought, seeing as we all have roots in Corby, it's a fitting name for our team. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:23 | |
And is the steel industry still alive in Corby? | 0:01:23 | 0:01:26 | |
It is, but not as much as it was... OK. ..As it used to be. In the '60s... | 0:01:26 | 0:01:31 | |
A lot of people got made redundant back in the '80s from the steelworks. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:35 | |
So are you quizzers? | 0:01:35 | 0:01:36 | |
We are, not regularly together, because, obviously, we live quite far apart from each other. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:41 | |
A few years ago we were quite a regular quiz team together. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:44 | |
The Eggheads are... ignore them if they try and stare you down or anything... | 0:01:44 | 0:01:48 | |
just ignore them, don't be fazed, don't be put off, don't be intimidated, they can be beaten... | 0:01:48 | 0:01:53 | |
Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs as you know. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:58 | |
If you fail to defeat the Eggheads, we roll the prize money over to the next show. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:02 | |
Now, quite a few teams have failed to defeat them recently, which is good from your point of view. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:06 | |
They've actually won the last 22 games | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
which means £23,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads today. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:14 | |
How's that? Good, great! That's the first bit of good news. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:16 | |
Now all you've got to do is take them apart! Yeah. That's the hard part! | 0:02:16 | 0:02:20 | |
The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Geography. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
Who would like this? OK. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
What about Stephen? Stephen? Are you happy to do geography? | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
I think you're the strongest for Geography. Happy with it? | 0:02:29 | 0:02:33 | |
Yeah, I'll give it a go. Yeah. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:35 | |
OK, Stephen, against which Egghead? | 0:02:35 | 0:02:37 | |
Er...I was thinking Dave. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:40 | |
Dave? Yeah, go on, then. Go for it, then. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
Yeah, Tremendous Knowledge Dave. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:45 | |
Stephen from the Steelmen versus Tremendous Knowledge Dave from the Eggheads. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:48 | |
The subject is Geography, | 0:02:48 | 0:02:50 | |
and to ensure there's no conferring, would you please take your positions in the Question Room? | 0:02:50 | 0:02:54 | |
So, Stephen, you're on Geography here. Yeah, yeah, certainly am. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
And have you done much travelling? Yeah, I've done quite a bit. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:03 | |
I've done Australia, America, a lot of Europe. | 0:03:03 | 0:03:08 | |
Yeah, I've done quite a bit. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:10 | |
Can I ask you first whether you want the first or second set of questions? | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
I'll go first, please. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:15 | |
Stephen, which of these words is another name for a coastline? | 0:03:18 | 0:03:22 | |
Mmm... Well, I'm sure is isn't surfboard. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:32 | |
Seaboard...? | 0:03:32 | 0:03:34 | |
I'm going towards seaboard, I think. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:38 | |
It's between sandboard and seaboard. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:40 | |
I'm going to go seaboard. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:43 | |
Seaboard is the right answer. Well done. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:45 | |
OK, Dave, your question. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:49 | |
Exeter is an one extreme end of which motorway? | 0:03:49 | 0:03:53 | |
Exeter is at the extreme end of the M5. | 0:03:56 | 0:04:00 | |
Straight there, you're right. M5. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:02 | |
Great city, too. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:04 | |
A little bit of a way from Corby, isn't it, Stephen? Yeah, quite a bit, yeah. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:09 | |
Here's your question. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:10 | |
Oystermouth Castle is located in which village on the Gower Peninsula? | 0:04:10 | 0:04:15 | |
I haven't heard of that. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:21 | |
I don't think it's Mutterings. | 0:04:23 | 0:04:25 | |
I'm going to go for Mumbles. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:28 | |
And Mumbles is the right answer. | 0:04:30 | 0:04:31 | |
Difficult one to guess. Well done! | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
Glad you didn't fall over there. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:36 | |
OK, Dave, the Joshua Tree National Park is in which state of the US? | 0:04:36 | 0:04:39 | |
Er, right... | 0:04:43 | 0:04:45 | |
I'm not going to go for Alabama or Idaho, | 0:04:46 | 0:04:48 | |
I'm going to go for California. | 0:04:48 | 0:04:49 | |
And California is correct. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:53 | |
I guess that's where U2 got their album title. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:56 | |
It must have been, I would have thought so. | 0:04:56 | 0:04:58 | |
Back to you, Stephen. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:00 | |
Which country's former name, given to it by the Portuguese | 0:05:00 | 0:05:03 | |
came from the word meaning "beautiful island"? | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
Er... | 0:05:10 | 0:05:11 | |
Definitely not Taiwan, well, I think it isn't anyway. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:16 | |
Sri Lanka... | 0:05:17 | 0:05:19 | |
I think it sounds like Malta myself. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:21 | |
I'll go with Malta. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:22 | |
It's actually not Malta. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:25 | |
Dave, do you know? I thought it was Sri Lanka. | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
No, it's Taiwan. Oh, right? Didn't know. Taiwan. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:31 | |
Taiwan is its Chinese name. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:33 | |
The Portuguese called it Formosa. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:35 | |
Oh, I see, OK. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:37 | |
So Taiwan is not the word we're talking about here? No. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:39 | |
OK, Formosa... Right, fine. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:42 | |
Dave, your question to win the round. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:44 | |
Which of these African capitals lies closest to the Prime Meridian? | 0:05:44 | 0:05:49 | |
Prime Meridian? | 0:05:53 | 0:05:54 | |
So it's not the Equator... | 0:05:54 | 0:05:56 | |
Er...I'd have thought Nairobi was the nearest to the Equator. | 0:05:56 | 0:06:00 | |
I'm going to go Accra. | 0:06:00 | 0:06:02 | |
In Ghana? Yeah. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:05 | |
It's the right answer! | 0:06:05 | 0:06:07 | |
Is it the same as the Equator? | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
No, no, I don't think it is. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:12 | |
Barry, tell us. It's 0 degrees longitude. It's the line that goes through the Greenwich Meridian. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:16 | |
It goes through Algeria, Mali and then into Ghana. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:19 | |
It's the up-down line, it's the vertical equivalent of the Equator? OK. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:23 | |
All right. A non-technical definition. | 0:06:23 | 0:06:25 | |
All right. So, Dave, well done, you've got 3 out of 3, | 0:06:25 | 0:06:27 | |
and I'm sorry, Stephen, you got 2 but it wasn't quite enough | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
and you've been knocked out and you won't be in the final. No easy way to say it. OK, yeah. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:34 | |
But do come back to us and rejoin your teams, gentlemen. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:37 | |
As it stands, the Steelmen have lost the one brain, | 0:06:39 | 0:06:41 | |
the Eggheads are still intact. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:43 | |
The next subject is Sport. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:45 | |
Is this a good one for you? | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:06:48 | 0:06:51 | |
I'm happy, if you want to wait for TV & Film, I'm happy taking Sport on. You want to take Sport? | 0:06:51 | 0:06:57 | |
Yeah. I'll take Sport. | 0:06:57 | 0:07:00 | |
OK, Phil the skipper is taking Sport. And which Egghead? | 0:07:00 | 0:07:04 | |
Who looks the least sporty? | 0:07:04 | 0:07:06 | |
Chris, take Chris. Chris? | 0:07:06 | 0:07:07 | |
I'll play Chris, please. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:09 | |
OK, not suggesting for a second you look the least sporty, Chris. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:12 | |
You feeling good about that? Yeah, I don't mind playing lads from Corby. | 0:07:12 | 0:07:15 | |
Used to be a decent enough place in the old days. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:17 | |
So Phil from the Steelmen versus Chris from the Eggheads. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:22 | |
And to make sure there's no conferring please go to the Question Room. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:25 | |
Phil, you are sporty? Yeah, ish. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:30 | |
I can see this is a sporty team. What do you play, mainly? | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
Football, mainly. That's it, really. | 0:07:33 | 0:07:36 | |
And local team for you in Corby? | 0:07:36 | 0:07:38 | |
No, I play for a team at university, just a group of friends, really. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:44 | |
All right, here we go on Sport, and, Phil, you can choose the first or second set of questions. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:48 | |
I think I'll go second. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:50 | |
Chris, your question, then. The Brian Johnston Memorial Theatre | 0:07:54 | 0:07:57 | |
can be found at which famous sporting venue? | 0:07:57 | 0:08:00 | |
Well, Brian Johnston used to commentate on cricket, | 0:08:03 | 0:08:06 | |
so it would logically be at Lord's. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:09 | |
Lord's is the right answer. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:11 | |
Over to you, Phil. | 0:08:11 | 0:08:14 | |
At which university, famous for its sporting facilities, | 0:08:14 | 0:08:16 | |
were Sebastian Coe and Paula Radcliffe students? | 0:08:16 | 0:08:18 | |
I know Loughborough's really well known for its sporting facilities, | 0:08:23 | 0:08:26 | |
as my brother Matt on the team went there. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:28 | |
So I'm just going to have to go for Loughborough. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:30 | |
Loughborough is correct. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:33 | |
1 each. Let's see if you can beat this Egghead on Sport. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:37 | |
He's by his own account less sporty than you, Phil, | 0:08:37 | 0:08:41 | |
but the knowledge in those crania is substantial! | 0:08:41 | 0:08:45 | |
The first professional cycling team of which Bradley Wiggins was a member was named after whom? | 0:08:45 | 0:08:52 | |
Your question, Chris. Is it... | 0:08:52 | 0:08:53 | |
Ooh... | 0:08:57 | 0:08:58 | |
Why would anybody name a professional cycling team after Yoko Ono? | 0:09:00 | 0:09:04 | |
Likewise Linda McCartney... | 0:09:06 | 0:09:08 | |
Oh! | 0:09:08 | 0:09:09 | |
I've never heard of Olivia Harrison, so... | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
presumably she was some lady cyclist back in the day, | 0:09:12 | 0:09:15 | |
so I'll have to go with Olivia Harrison. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:16 | |
OK, you've given them the best laugh they've had so far today, | 0:09:16 | 0:09:19 | |
these Eggheads. And who is it, Eggs? | 0:09:19 | 0:09:22 | |
Linda McCartney. Linda McCartney is the answer. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:25 | |
Maybe the Eggheads can tell us why. What's going on here? It's strange. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:28 | |
Her vegetarian food products, the company, | 0:09:28 | 0:09:31 | |
sponsored a cycling team... They sponsored a cycling team. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:34 | |
..For a very short time. I think Bradley was signed to the team, | 0:09:34 | 0:09:37 | |
but I'm not sure he ever actually turned a wheel in anger. | 0:09:37 | 0:09:40 | |
It was only in existence for a short time. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:42 | |
OK, Phil, your question. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:44 | |
The American Missy Franklin became famous as a leading name in which sport? | 0:09:44 | 0:09:48 | |
I'm really not sure. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:53 | |
I'm going to just go with athletics. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
No real reason...just fancy it. | 0:09:59 | 0:10:01 | |
Athletics is your answer, but it is wrong. | 0:10:01 | 0:10:05 | |
Anyone on your team know this? | 0:10:05 | 0:10:07 | |
I'd guess swimming. Swimming? Why do you say that? | 0:10:07 | 0:10:10 | |
Well, I watch quite a lot of athletics and its history, | 0:10:10 | 0:10:13 | |
and I've never heard that name. I'd have punted at swimming, really. | 0:10:13 | 0:10:16 | |
So a leading name in swimming, Phil. You got it wrong. Yeah. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:21 | |
OK, you're equal. Chris... | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
third question. Which major horse race of 2012 was won by Green Moon, | 0:10:24 | 0:10:29 | |
ridden by Brett Prebble? | 0:10:29 | 0:10:32 | |
Unlikely to be the Melbourne Cup. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:39 | |
St Leger's an English race. | 0:10:41 | 0:10:43 | |
Would that be too obvious? | 0:10:43 | 0:10:45 | |
Knowing the way the question-setters' minds work, | 0:10:45 | 0:10:49 | |
I'll go with the Kentucky Derby. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:51 | |
The Kentucky Derby is your answer. | 0:10:51 | 0:10:54 | |
The answer is the Melbourne Cup. Oh, well. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:56 | |
OK, you've got 1 out of 3 right. Let's see, Phil, | 0:10:56 | 0:11:00 | |
if you can take advantage of this, get yourself a place in the final, knock Chris out, all in one go. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:03 | |
Here's your question. Good luck. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:05 | |
The Dutch football club known as Vitesse is based in which city? | 0:11:05 | 0:11:10 | |
Er... | 0:11:15 | 0:11:17 | |
I'm not sure. I've heard of the team | 0:11:17 | 0:11:19 | |
but where they're based, I'm not 100%. | 0:11:19 | 0:11:21 | |
Something's shouting out to me to say Rotterdam. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:24 | |
So I think I'm going to go with that. | 0:11:24 | 0:11:27 | |
Rotterdam is wrong, it's Arnhem, Phil. Oh. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:31 | |
We go to Sudden Death. Chris goes first because he started. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:34 | |
It's a bit harder as you know, Chris, you know this well enough, I don't give you alternatives. | 0:11:34 | 0:11:38 | |
Nasty was the nickname of which Romanian tennis player? | 0:11:38 | 0:11:44 | |
Ilie Nastase. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:47 | |
Ilie Nastase is correct. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:48 | |
Sudden Death, over to you, Phil. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:50 | |
Which boxer came second in the election for the Mayor of Kiev in 2006? | 0:11:50 | 0:11:57 | |
I'm guessing it was one of the Klitschko brothers maybe. | 0:11:57 | 0:12:00 | |
The only I can think it might possibly be. Of boxers, I have no knowledge. | 0:12:00 | 0:12:03 | |
I can't even think of their first names. Is it Vladimir Klitschko? | 0:12:07 | 0:12:10 | |
Is that your answer? Yeah. | 0:12:10 | 0:12:12 | |
Is Vladimir one of the Klitschko brothers? Yes. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:15 | |
Yeah, but you got the wrong one! Oh! | 0:12:15 | 0:12:18 | |
How annoying! It's Vitali Klitschko! | 0:12:18 | 0:12:20 | |
You're so close but not there. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:22 | |
Can't take it, I'm afraid. You got the wrong brother, so you've been knocked out as well, Phil. | 0:12:22 | 0:12:26 | |
Chris will be in the final. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:28 | |
Let's see if the Steelmen can turn it around. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:31 | |
Please, both come back to us and we'll play on. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
So you have now lost two brains from the final round. How are the Steelmen feeling? | 0:12:35 | 0:12:39 | |
The steel has not turned to rubber, has it? Not yet, no. Not too deflated. It's getting there! | 0:12:39 | 0:12:44 | |
Still reinforced, solid...girder! | 0:12:44 | 0:12:48 | |
Yes. Yeah. OK. | 0:12:48 | 0:12:49 | |
That's the way. Lots of money to play for. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:52 | |
The next subject is Arts & Books. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:54 | |
Arts & Books. Is that a good one? Not one we wanted. | 0:12:54 | 0:12:57 | |
It has to be. I think it's probably Matt that'll do it. | 0:12:57 | 0:13:01 | |
I'll do it. Matt? I'll do it. Yeah. Matt? OK. On Arts & Books, against which Egghead? | 0:13:01 | 0:13:06 | |
You can have Daphne, Barry or Pat. | 0:13:06 | 0:13:08 | |
I'll take Barry. OK. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:11 | |
Sure about that? Yeah, Barry, please. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:14 | |
Matt from the Steelmen versus Barry from the Eggheads. | 0:13:14 | 0:13:17 | |
He looks very studious today, Barry, he's got the special extra-thick glasses on. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:21 | |
To ensure there's no conferring, would you please take your positions in the Question Room? | 0:13:21 | 0:13:25 | |
Matt, would you like to go first or second? | 0:13:26 | 0:13:29 | |
I'll go first, please. | 0:13:29 | 0:13:30 | |
Here's your first question, Matt. Good luck. | 0:13:34 | 0:13:36 | |
How old is Holden Caulfield when he's narrating the novel The Catcher In The Rye? | 0:13:36 | 0:13:40 | |
I'm pretty sure it's 17. | 0:13:43 | 0:13:46 | |
It's a book about a teenage boy going through New York City, | 0:13:46 | 0:13:49 | |
so I'll go with 17. | 0:13:49 | 0:13:50 | |
Bang on! You're absolutely right. Well done. 17. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:53 | |
OK, Barry... | 0:13:54 | 0:13:55 | |
Canaletto's painting, The Stonemason's Yard depicts a scene in which city? | 0:13:55 | 0:14:00 | |
Well, it's not a city that you'd associate with stonemasons, | 0:14:03 | 0:14:07 | |
but Canaletto was Venetian and I believe the answer is Venice. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:10 | |
Venice is quite right. Amazing painter as well. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:13 | |
OK, Matt... | 0:14:13 | 0:14:15 | |
daughters called Kay, Hazel, Madge and Carol, and sons called Alan and Robin | 0:14:15 | 0:14:21 | |
are characters in the JB Priestley play Time And The...what? | 0:14:21 | 0:14:26 | |
I've not heard of that play before... | 0:14:30 | 0:14:34 | |
I'm not really into plays, to be honest. | 0:14:34 | 0:14:36 | |
Just based on the names alone, I'm going to go with Cartwrights. | 0:14:37 | 0:14:40 | |
No, it's Conways. Time And The Conways. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:44 | |
So, Barry, your chance to pull into the lead. | 0:14:44 | 0:14:47 | |
What is the title of Will Self's novel that was nominated for the 2012 Man Booker Prize? | 0:14:47 | 0:14:53 | |
Oh, this one passed me by. | 0:14:57 | 0:14:59 | |
I don't know this one. | 0:14:59 | 0:15:01 | |
Because it's Will Self I will go for Passport. | 0:15:01 | 0:15:04 | |
Eggheads? Umbrella. | 0:15:04 | 0:15:06 | |
Umbrella... Oh! ..Is the answer. | 0:15:06 | 0:15:09 | |
Still level, Matt, that's good. Here's your question. | 0:15:09 | 0:15:11 | |
The Renoir painting which is a companion piece to his Dancing Girl With Castanets | 0:15:11 | 0:15:17 | |
is known as Dancing Girl With...what? | 0:15:17 | 0:15:20 | |
Yeah...er... I've not heard of this one either, | 0:15:23 | 0:15:26 | |
but I'm guessing if it's castanets, | 0:15:26 | 0:15:28 | |
tambourine sounds more appropriate. So I'll go with tambourine, please. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:32 | |
Excellent logic, Matt, and you're correct. | 0:15:32 | 0:15:35 | |
Tambourine is right. So you've got 2 out of 3. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:37 | |
Let's see if Barry can follow you, | 0:15:37 | 0:15:38 | |
and if he can't, he's out. | 0:15:38 | 0:15:40 | |
Barry, the Nobel Literature Prize winner born Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto | 0:15:40 | 0:15:47 | |
was better know by what name? | 0:15:47 | 0:15:49 | |
Right...that sounds Spanish to me. | 0:15:57 | 0:16:00 | |
Octavio Paz, I believe, is Mexican. | 0:16:01 | 0:16:04 | |
Pablo Neruda is Chilean. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:06 | |
I think Mario Vargas Llosa... is he Peruvian? Or Colombian? | 0:16:06 | 0:16:12 | |
It doesn't really help. | 0:16:12 | 0:16:13 | |
I don't think Pablo Neruda was a real name, | 0:16:14 | 0:16:17 | |
so I'm going to go for Pablo Neruda. | 0:16:17 | 0:16:19 | |
Pablo Neruda is... | 0:16:19 | 0:16:21 | |
correct. Was that for poetry that he won or... Yes. ..novels? | 0:16:21 | 0:16:25 | |
Mm-hm. Twenty Poems Of Despair, I think, was one of his major works. | 0:16:25 | 0:16:30 | |
Yeah, actually, funnily enough, I've got that at home. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:32 | |
Pablo Neruda is the right answer. Well done. You're still in there. | 0:16:32 | 0:16:34 | |
Sorry, Matt, you almost had him there. | 0:16:34 | 0:16:36 | |
You were like Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty at the top of the cliff, | 0:16:36 | 0:16:39 | |
but you didn't quite push him over. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:41 | |
So we go to Sudden Death. OK. And it's a touch harder because I don't give you alternatives. | 0:16:41 | 0:16:47 | |
What is the title of Kingsley Amis's first published novel? | 0:16:47 | 0:16:51 | |
I only know one book by that author and it's Lucky Jim, so I'll go with that. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:57 | |
Brilliant. You're right! Lucky Jim. | 0:16:57 | 0:16:59 | |
Well done. Published in 1954. | 0:17:00 | 0:17:02 | |
OK, Barry...you're on the edge. | 0:17:02 | 0:17:05 | |
The Russian detective Arkady Renko first appeared in which 1981 novel? | 0:17:05 | 0:17:11 | |
Arkady Renko...? | 0:17:11 | 0:17:14 | |
I believe he may have appeared in Gorky Park. | 0:17:14 | 0:17:17 | |
Gorky Park is the right answer, by Martin Cruz Smith. | 0:17:18 | 0:17:20 | |
Back to you, Matt. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:22 | |
The first of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, Casino Royale, | 0:17:22 | 0:17:26 | |
was originally published in which decade of the 20th century? | 0:17:26 | 0:17:31 | |
I was looking at this yesterday, funnily enough... | 0:17:31 | 0:17:33 | |
I'm a big fan of the Bond books, read them all now... | 0:17:33 | 0:17:36 | |
Er... | 0:17:36 | 0:17:38 | |
I'm pretty sure it's either late '50s or early '60s, but you're going to want one of those rather than both! | 0:17:38 | 0:17:43 | |
So I'm going to go with the '50s. | 0:17:43 | 0:17:47 | |
I'm so glad you did. You got it right. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:50 | |
OK, Barry, pressure on you now. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:53 | |
The Group of Seven which included the landscape painters | 0:17:53 | 0:17:57 | |
JEH MacDonald, AY Jackson and Franklin Carmichael was founded in which country in 1920? | 0:17:57 | 0:18:04 | |
The Group of Seven... | 0:18:04 | 0:18:07 | |
I'm not 100% certain on this, but I will go for Australia. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:11 | |
You've been knocked out, Barry, it's Canada! | 0:18:11 | 0:18:13 | |
Ah! My other choice! Well done! | 0:18:13 | 0:18:16 | |
Very well played, Matt, in that round. | 0:18:16 | 0:18:18 | |
Excellent play, you're in the final! Great. You held him off and you overcame him. | 0:18:18 | 0:18:22 | |
So come back to us and we'll play on. | 0:18:22 | 0:18:24 | |
So as it stands the Steelmen have lost two brains from the final round | 0:18:26 | 0:18:29 | |
whilst the Eggheads have lost one. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:31 | |
The next subject for you is Music. | 0:18:31 | 0:18:33 | |
Is that good for someone? I heard a sigh. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:36 | |
Petey? I think I'll go for it, so as to keep Craig back for the final round. Yeah. | 0:18:36 | 0:18:41 | |
Yeah, definitely. I think that would be Matt if he hadn't just gone. So we'll have Petey. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:46 | |
Petey, OK. Against which Egghead? You can have Daphne or Pat. | 0:18:46 | 0:18:49 | |
What are we thinking? I think Daphne loves music, to be honest. Do you think? | 0:18:49 | 0:18:54 | |
Daphne knows her modern music, remember. Yeah. | 0:18:54 | 0:18:58 | |
Group decision. We'll try and take Pat on, please. | 0:18:58 | 0:19:01 | |
You veered away from Daphne very wisely. OK. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:04 | |
Petey from the Steelmen versus Pat from the Eggheads. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:07 | |
To ensure there's no conferring, please go to the Question Room? | 0:19:07 | 0:19:10 | |
OK, so Music, Petey. Would you like to go first or second? | 0:19:11 | 0:19:15 | |
I would like to go second, please. | 0:19:15 | 0:19:17 | |
Pat, here is your question. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
In the lyrics of Big Spender, the singer says she doesn't what... for every guy she sees? | 0:19:22 | 0:19:29 | |
It's playing in my head, Shirley Bassey singing. | 0:19:36 | 0:19:39 | |
I think it's "pop my cork". | 0:19:41 | 0:19:43 | |
Yes, it is "pop my cork". | 0:19:43 | 0:19:46 | |
Petey, your question. | 0:19:46 | 0:19:47 | |
Which song, a UK number one in 1996, features the line "Strumming my pain with his fingers"? | 0:19:47 | 0:19:54 | |
This is quite ironic, actually, cos I was on about this earlier. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:03 | |
I think it's by the Fugees, it's Killing Me Softly. | 0:20:03 | 0:20:07 | |
Yeah, it is. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:10 | |
It is, although you only confused me, | 0:20:10 | 0:20:13 | |
because I was thinking of... It's Roberta Flack who did it? | 0:20:13 | 0:20:15 | |
Yeah, Roberta Flack did it. | 0:20:15 | 0:20:17 | |
And the Fugees, you're right. The version in '96, absolutely. | 0:20:17 | 0:20:20 | |
Which is a brilliant cover version, you're right. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:22 | |
Unusually brilliant cover version. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:24 | |
OK, Pat, your question. | 0:20:24 | 0:20:27 | |
The Motown classic I'm Gonna Make You Love Me was a 1969 hit single for Diana Ross and the Supremes | 0:20:27 | 0:20:34 | |
and which male group? | 0:20:34 | 0:20:36 | |
I know the song... | 0:20:40 | 0:20:42 | |
The Osmonds isn't very tempting. I don't see them... | 0:20:42 | 0:20:47 | |
I don't see them singing that. | 0:20:49 | 0:20:51 | |
It could be either of the other two. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:53 | |
I'm reduced to a guess. I'm going to go for the Foundations. | 0:20:54 | 0:20:57 | |
Your guess is wrong, it's the Temptations. | 0:20:57 | 0:21:00 | |
How about that? | 0:21:01 | 0:21:02 | |
See if you can take the lead, | 0:21:03 | 0:21:05 | |
here, Petey. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:06 | |
Artie Shaw, a leading bandleader of the 1930s and 1940s, was a soloist on which instrument? | 0:21:06 | 0:21:13 | |
I don't know this, so it's a stab in the dark. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:20 | |
So I'm going to go for... | 0:21:20 | 0:21:22 | |
What's sticking out for me? | 0:21:22 | 0:21:24 | |
I don't know, it's a guess, double bass. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:26 | |
Pat, do you know? | 0:21:27 | 0:21:29 | |
He was a great clarinettist. | 0:21:29 | 0:21:30 | |
Yes, he was, clarinet is the right answer. | 0:21:30 | 0:21:32 | |
So you're still level after two questions. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:34 | |
1 point each. | 0:21:34 | 0:21:36 | |
Two wrong answers. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:39 | |
Pat, the singer Miranda Lambert is most associated with which genre of music? | 0:21:39 | 0:21:44 | |
I don't know anything about her. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:50 | |
Miranda Lambert... | 0:21:51 | 0:21:52 | |
I haven't heard of her as an opera singer, so I'll discount opera. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:59 | |
So it's jazz versus country. | 0:22:00 | 0:22:02 | |
I'll go for jazz, but it's another guess. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:06 | |
Eggs, do you know? No, they don't. Go on... | 0:22:07 | 0:22:10 | |
I would have guessed country, but it's just a guess. | 0:22:10 | 0:22:14 | |
You would have been right, Dave. Country is the right answer. Oh. | 0:22:14 | 0:22:16 | |
Which means you've got a chance here | 0:22:18 | 0:22:20 | |
to book your place in the final. You're turning it around, this team! Just get this one right. | 0:22:20 | 0:22:24 | |
Come on, Petey! | 0:22:24 | 0:22:26 | |
Jussi Bjorling, one of the 20th century's leading operatic tenors, | 0:22:26 | 0:22:31 | |
was born in which country? | 0:22:31 | 0:22:34 | |
I don't know this. I'm just trying to memorise names | 0:22:38 | 0:22:41 | |
and what they look like and associate them to countries. | 0:22:41 | 0:22:44 | |
I don't know, but I'm going to take a guess at this, | 0:22:44 | 0:22:50 | |
Sweden. | 0:22:50 | 0:22:51 | |
If you've got this right, you are in the final | 0:22:51 | 0:22:52 | |
and you've knocked out our Egghead. Otherwise we go to Sudden Death. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:57 | |
Let me try your team-mates. Do you think he's got it right or not? | 0:22:57 | 0:22:59 | |
We haven't got a clue. We've got a Jussi we know. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:02 | |
We thought maybe Finland, cos that's where he's from. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:05 | |
Oh, cos he's got a J? Oh, I see, he's Jussi as well. Good point. | 0:23:05 | 0:23:07 | |
Sweden is the right answer. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:09 | |
So you're in the final. Well done. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:11 | |
Pat, you're out of the game. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:14 | |
Out of the game. And we've got a bit of a comeback going on here with the Steelmen. | 0:23:14 | 0:23:18 | |
They stayed strong in their darkest hour. | 0:23:18 | 0:23:20 | |
Let us see what they can do to the Eggheads in the final round. | 0:23:20 | 0:23:23 | |
So this is what we've been playing towards. It's time for the final round, | 0:23:25 | 0:23:29 | |
which as always is General Knowledge, | 0:23:29 | 0:23:31 | |
but I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads | 0:23:31 | 0:23:33 | |
won't be allowed to take part in this round. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:35 | |
So, that's Phil and Stephen from the Steelmen, | 0:23:35 | 0:23:39 | |
and Barry and Pat from the Eggheads. | 0:23:39 | 0:23:41 | |
Would you all please leave the studio? | 0:23:41 | 0:23:44 | |
So, Matt, Petey and Craig, you are playing to win the Steelmen £23,000. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:52 | |
You can do it with three questions. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:54 | |
Dave, Daphne and Chris, you are playing for something which money can't buy, | 0:23:54 | 0:23:57 | |
the Eggheads' reputation. | 0:23:57 | 0:23:59 | |
As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn. | 0:23:59 | 0:24:02 | |
This time, the questions are all General Knowledge, | 0:24:02 | 0:24:04 | |
and you are allowed to confer. | 0:24:04 | 0:24:06 | |
So, Steelmen, the question is, are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three? | 0:24:06 | 0:24:11 | |
I want to wish you all the best. You've played really well so far. | 0:24:11 | 0:24:14 | |
So, Steelmen, do you want to go first or second? | 0:24:14 | 0:24:15 | |
We'll go second, please, Jeremy. | 0:24:15 | 0:24:17 | |
OK, here we go. Eggheads, your first question. | 0:24:20 | 0:24:22 | |
What is the nickname of the freefall display team of the Parachute Regiment? | 0:24:22 | 0:24:28 | |
Red Devils. Red Devils, yeah. Red Devils. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:33 | |
They are the Red Devils. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:36 | |
Red Devils is correct | 0:24:37 | 0:24:38 | |
and they have been on Eggheads before, haven't they? | 0:24:38 | 0:24:41 | |
Did they drop in through the sky when they...? No! | 0:24:41 | 0:24:44 | |
..When they arrived in the studio? No? No. That was disappointing. | 0:24:44 | 0:24:48 | |
OK, your question, Steelmen. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:51 | |
Take the fight to them. | 0:24:51 | 0:24:53 | |
What is the name of the charity movement dating back to 2003 | 0:24:53 | 0:24:57 | |
that encourages men to grow facial hair for a month? | 0:24:57 | 0:25:01 | |
We know this, because I'm sure Matthew had us pay one year. | 0:25:05 | 0:25:10 | |
I tried it one time and failed quite badly last year. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:13 | |
We're going to go for Movember. | 0:25:13 | 0:25:15 | |
Movember is right. It's the most brilliant charity idea, isn't it? | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
It's caught on so completely. Yeah, so simple as well. Yeah. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:22 | |
I'm glad you didn't go for Beardober! | 0:25:22 | 0:25:25 | |
OK, your second question. They may get harder. | 0:25:28 | 0:25:30 | |
The word vermiform refers to objects shaped like what? | 0:25:31 | 0:25:38 | |
Eggheads, is it... | 0:25:38 | 0:25:39 | |
Worm. Worm. | 0:25:41 | 0:25:42 | |
Yeah, that is a worm. | 0:25:42 | 0:25:44 | |
It is a worm. You've got it right. | 0:25:44 | 0:25:47 | |
Your second question. | 0:25:47 | 0:25:49 | |
The constellation Aquila is traditionally said to represent which bird? | 0:25:49 | 0:25:54 | |
Take your time. | 0:25:58 | 0:26:00 | |
I've got a feeling it's dove, but I'm not sure why. | 0:26:00 | 0:26:02 | |
I was going to say eagle... I don't know. | 0:26:02 | 0:26:05 | |
Eagle comes up in symbolism quite a lot, doesn't it? Yeah. | 0:26:05 | 0:26:10 | |
What do you think? I don't have any idea whatsoever. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:14 | |
I'd guess dove, but you've just kind of given a good statement | 0:26:15 | 0:26:18 | |
for the eagle. | 0:26:18 | 0:26:19 | |
There used to be a programme on the BBC called Aquila | 0:26:19 | 0:26:22 | |
which might be something that was, like, about a spaceship, | 0:26:22 | 0:26:25 | |
but I don't know if it was about any other animals. | 0:26:25 | 0:26:27 | |
I'm not too confident with dove, so... Yeah. | 0:26:27 | 0:26:29 | |
I'm actually thinking, leaning towards owl now as well. | 0:26:29 | 0:26:32 | |
It sounds like quite a soft word, | 0:26:32 | 0:26:34 | |
so if it was a translation for something | 0:26:34 | 0:26:36 | |
it sounds like a softer bird. I think maybe go for owl. | 0:26:36 | 0:26:39 | |
What do you think? I don't know why I'm leaning towards dove, but I am. | 0:26:40 | 0:26:43 | |
I don't know why. | 0:26:43 | 0:26:45 | |
I want to go with it. You want to go with dove? Yeah. | 0:26:46 | 0:26:49 | |
We'll go for dove, please, Jeremy. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:50 | |
Your answer is dove. | 0:26:50 | 0:26:52 | |
Eggheads, what do you think? Eagle. | 0:26:53 | 0:26:55 | |
Aquiline, aquila. | 0:26:55 | 0:26:57 | |
Aquiline nose, I was thinking aquiline. | 0:26:57 | 0:26:59 | |
What does aquiline mean? Well, a beak of a nose. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:02 | |
It's that beaky nose idea. | 0:27:02 | 0:27:04 | |
So the word does lead us, or led them anyway, | 0:27:04 | 0:27:08 | |
to eagle, I'm afraid. Eagle is the correct answer. | 0:27:08 | 0:27:11 | |
Dove is wrong. So you've let them in. | 0:27:11 | 0:27:13 | |
And if they get this one right, they've won the contest. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:15 | |
Which future king was tutored in mathematics by the philosopher Thomas Hobbes? | 0:27:15 | 0:27:20 | |
It's not William III. No. | 0:27:25 | 0:27:27 | |
It was Charles II, wasn't it? | 0:27:27 | 0:27:29 | |
Charles II. Yeah, Hobbes was about the right time. | 0:27:29 | 0:27:32 | |
It was when he was in exile. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:34 | |
James I was James VI of Scotland, he was tutored in Scotland. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:36 | |
So it's got to be Charles II. Yeah. So Charles II? Yeah. OK. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:40 | |
That was Charles II while he was in exile. | 0:27:40 | 0:27:45 | |
While he was in exile? Yeah. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:46 | |
OK, didn't need that detail. | 0:27:46 | 0:27:49 | |
If you've got it right, the contest is over. | 0:27:51 | 0:27:53 | |
The answer is Charles II, | 0:27:53 | 0:27:55 | |
so we say, congratulations, Eggheads, you have won! | 0:27:55 | 0:27:58 | |
Oh! And also because you went second, then, if they do three in a row, | 0:28:03 | 0:28:08 | |
then if you've got one wrong, there's no way back. Yeah. | 0:28:08 | 0:28:10 | |
And it's aquiline, eagle, and I know you know that now. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:13 | |
All right, commiserations to the Steelmen. | 0:28:13 | 0:28:15 | |
The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them, | 0:28:15 | 0:28:18 | |
their winning streak continues. Really impressive now. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:21 | |
It does mean you won't be going home with the £23,000. | 0:28:21 | 0:28:23 | |
So the money rolls over to our next show. | 0:28:23 | 0:28:26 | |
Eggheads, congratulations! | 0:28:26 | 0:28:27 | |
Who will beat you? Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers | 0:28:27 | 0:28:31 | |
have the brains to defeat the Eggheads. £24,000 says they don't. | 0:28:31 | 0:28:36 | |
Until then, goodbye. | 0:28:36 | 0:28:38 | |
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