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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...

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can they be beaten?

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

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

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they are the Eggheads.

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And challenging our quiz Goliaths today

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are The Safety Fire.

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This team are all members

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of the same band and have been friends since their schooldays.

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Let's meet them.

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Hi. I'm Lori, 26, and I play bass guitar.

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Hi. I'm Calvin. I'm 25 and I'm the drummer.

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Hi. I'm Sean. I'm 25 and the singer in the band.

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Hi. I'm Jo. I'm 26. I play guitar in the band and I'm a tattooist.

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Hi. I'm Des. I'm 25. I'm a guitarist and also a music producer.

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Lori and team, welcome to you.

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And the band is called The Safety Fire

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and you're all in it.

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Yes. We are The Safety Fire. We're a progressive metal band.

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We've known each other for years since the age of 11.

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I've actually known Calvin since I was four.

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And we started band through friendship

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and now we travel around the world, play music

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and it's probably the best thing ever!

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Yeah, it probably is the best thing ever!

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"Progressive metal" is the only thing I'm struggling with.

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Progressive usually means songs are a bit longer...

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-and a bit more instrumental.

-Indeed.

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But the metal bit, I'm thinking AC/DC.

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How do you put those two together?

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Imagine coming from the roots of Yes or King Crimson,

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then adding real solid elements of metal.

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So you mention AC/DC. That's a bit old school. Things have moved on in metal,

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but you're kind of coming from the right angle, at least.

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Judith, is this your kind of music?

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Oh, absolutely. Huge Hammers?

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You're a fan!

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I'm a fan.

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Huge Hammers?! Where did that come from?

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Huge Hammers. It's one of their...things.

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ALL LAUGH

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It was our first single that we released.

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Well, that... You've taken me by surprise, Judith.

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She's obviously a fan with the shirt, as well.

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She's in the front at all of our shows.

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I can imagine that. Needed restraining!

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Every day there is £1,000 of cash up for grabs for our challengers.

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

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So, Safety Fire, the Eggheads have won the last 25 games.

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Which is sort of good news, really.

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So it means £26,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

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First head-to-head battle is on the subject of Film & Television.

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Who would like this?

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-Do you want to go?

-I'll go for it, if you like. Sure.

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OK, Calvin.

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And which Egghead?

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Go straight at it.

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-Kevin.

-Straight at Kevin.

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Charge him down. It's the best way.

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Calvin from Safety Fire versus Kevin from the Eggheads.

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To ensure there is no conferring,

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would you please take your positions in the Question Room.

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OK, Calvin, good luck. Film & Television.

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And you can choose the first or second set of questions.

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I'll go first, I think.

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Here we go with your first question.

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Which TV sitcom featured James Fleet as Hugo Horton?

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Well, I was never a big fan of The Inbetweeners.

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So I'm not sure of any of the characters in that.

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So that doesn't help me.

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I watched a lot of Peep Show

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when it first started, so I'm fairly familiar with that

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and I'm pretty sure there was no-one in that called Hugo.

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-So I'll go for The Vicar Of Dibley.

-Spot-on with that, Calvin.

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Vicar Of Dibley it is.

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First point to you.

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Kevin.

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Who played the title role in four Superman films

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between 1978 and 1987?

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EGGHEADS LAUGH

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I love the other choices there!

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I think there's time for an alternative universe.

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It was Christopher Reeve.

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Christopher Reeve is the right answer.

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Calvin, your question.

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Which film released in the UK

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in January 2013

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was based on the book Team Of Rivals

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by Doris Kearns Goodwin?

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Er...I have not seen

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all of these films,

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so I'm really not sure on any of this.

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It'll have to be a stab in the dark.

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I'll go for Lincoln.

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You play very well.

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Lincoln is the right answer.

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What a guy!

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OK, Kevin. Which character in the US TV series Sex And The City

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married Trey MacDougal?

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Oh, dear.

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Never watched it.

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I'll try Miranda.

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You guys know?

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-Pretty sure it's Charlotte.

-It's Charlotte.

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You've got it wrong, Kevin.

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So we are back with you, Calvin.

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This is looking not bad, because if you get this right, you've knocked out the master.

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-Sure.

-The performer John Barrowman was born

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in which country?

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Er...

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I have no idea on this one.

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I'm going to take a punt at Wales.

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Calvin, sorry, the answer is Scotland.

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-Never mind.

-You're not out yet.

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Another question for Kevin.

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He can mess it up.

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Which actress was the recipient of the first

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United Nations Correspondents Association

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Citizen of the World award in 2003?

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I don't know it, but they all...

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..they all do good works,

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and I suppose the most prominent one, who's been

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doing them for some years, does lots of stuff with the UN

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and various other organisations all over the world...

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..is Angelina Jolie.

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I don't know this, but I assume she's got to be the...

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the percentage guess here,

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just because of the amount she's very prominently done.

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Although I'm sure the others have done their fair share as well.

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So I'll have to go for Angelina Jolie.

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Angelina Jolie is the right answer. You've levelled it up.

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It's two points each, Calvin.

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We go to Sudden Death now.

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-Bit harder, because I don't give you alternatives.

-Yes.

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Amanda Holden played the English teacher Miss Titley

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in which TV series that started in 1999?

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Well, I have no idea about this.

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I was thinking Teachers,

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but I think that that's quite obvious

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and I don't think she was in that,

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so I'm going to take a punt at a different TV show and...

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I'll say Waterloo Road.

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Not The Teachers, not Waterloo Road. The Grimleys.

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I've never even heard of it!

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Kevin, your question. If you get this right, you're in the final.

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"He just landed the gig of his life, fifth grade"

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was a tagline for which 2003 film starring Jack Black?

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It's the one where he's a rock musician

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who goes to teach a bunch of kids

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under false documentation.

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What's it...? School Of Rock.

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School Of Rock.

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School Of Rock. You'll know this. Is he right?

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Yes.

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Kevin, you've got the thumbs-up from your opponents.

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School Of Rock is the right answer,

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so you've taken the round. Sorry, Calvin.

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-Well played, though.

-That's all right.

-You've been knocked out.

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Kevin will be in the final.

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Please, both of you, come back and rejoin your teams.

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So, as it stands, The Safety Fire have lost one brain from the final round,

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whilst the Eggheads have not lost a brain. But it's very early days.

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The next subject for you is Arts & Books.

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Who wants this reading...?

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It's got to be Sean.

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-Sean.

-I did my degree in literature, so...

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OK.

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So which Egghead?

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I'll take on Dave, Tremendous Knowledge.

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OK, Sean from The Safety Fire versus TKD from the Eggheads -

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Tremendous Knowledge Dave.

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To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions.

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OK, Safety Fire and Sean, we are doing Arts & Books

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and you can choose whether you go first or second against Dave.

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I'd like to go first.

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So here we go. What is the first name

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of the title character in the novel Doctor Zhivago?

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Er...

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I haven't read that book, unfortunately.

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Doctor Zhivago...

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I mean, I'm leaning towards Yuri.

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Because that name just sounds more like it'd be Yuri...

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I'm going to go for a wild stab and go for Yuri.

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Not a great reason, but...

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-Yuri is the correct answer.

-Go on, Sean!

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Dave, here's your question.

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The Gracie Fields Theatre is located in which English town?

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It's in her home town. Rochdale.

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Rochdale is the correct answer.

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Back to you, Sean.

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What is the English title of the novel by the French writer

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Stendhal, of which Julien Sorel is the central character?

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Um...

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Not too sure about this.

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It's a French novel.

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So I don't know if The Blue And The White is more to do with

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sort of national colours of France.

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Not sure about the other two.

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I'm going to go for The Blue And The White, based upon that.

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The Blue And The White is wrong. It's The Red And The Black.

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Tremendous Knowledge Dave,

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No-One Here Gets Out Alive

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is the biography of which rock star?

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I've not heard of this.

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Now...

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I'm just thinking about concerts.

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And in the '60s and early '70s...

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..a lot of problems with Doors concerts.

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So solely on that basis, I would go Jim Morrison

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rather than the other two,

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but it's a total guess.

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Let's see if our band know.

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We think it's Jim Morrison.

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It is Jim Morrison. The logic was absolutely spot-on.

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Jim Morrison is the right answer. Of The Doors, of course.

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OK, Sean. Which printing method

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was pioneered by Alois Senefelder in the 18th century,

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using Bavarian limestone?

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I'm not sure. I'm aware of...

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quite familiar with a few lithographs.

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I haven't really heard of intaglio.

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Mimeography - I can only assume that's an exact copy of something.

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I'm going to go with lithography.

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Lithography is your answer. It is correct.

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Well done.

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So you've got two points.

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And you have to hope that Dave doesn't get the next one.

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If he doesn't, we go to sudden death.

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Dave, here's your question.

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Christy Mahon is the central character of which play

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first produced in Dublin in 1907?

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Right. Um...

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First thing that came into my head

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before the options came up

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was The Playboy Of The Western World, for some reason.

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JM Synge play, so I will go The Playboy Of The Western World.

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Christy Mahon was the central character

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in The Playboy Of The Western World.

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You've taken the round, Dave. Well done.

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Sean, sorry, you've been knocked out by our Eggheads.

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Let's see what happens next.

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Both of you, please rejoin your teams.

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So...fire has broken out on this side, slightly!

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-But the building has not yet gone down.

-It's burning, though!

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Well, there's smoke - let's put it like that!

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You've lost two brains from the final round.

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The Eggheads have not lost a brain yet.

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The next subject is History.

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Who from The Safety Fire would like History?

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-Lori.

-I've been nominated!

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Lori on History. OK.

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-Oh, God!

-Against which Egghead?

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Obviously, not Kevin or Dave.

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Pat. I'll lose.

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Go for Pat!

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ALL LAUGH

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I'd like to nominate Pat.

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Lori from The Safety Fire against Pat from the Eggheads on History.

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Do go to the Question Room now.

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So, Lori, you play the bass in the band.

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I do indeed.

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And you've got an interesting ancestor.

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I do, yes. My ancestor wrote,

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I think maybe co-wrote, the first ever opera.

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His name was Jacopo Peri.

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-Oh!

-Eggheads? Look at this - we've got a reaction here.

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Dafne?

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-Dafne.

-Dafne?

-That's the first ever opera.

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-It was called Dafne, we gather?

-It was.

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There we are, Lori. How about that?

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He's an answer to a question to the Eggheads one day. No question about that.

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Just make sure I don't shame my ancestry now!

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So it's History and you can choose the first or second set of questions.

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I'll take the first set of questions, please.

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Here we go on History, Lori. Good luck.

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At the end of World War I, Vittorio Orlando

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was the Prime Minister of which country?

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Vittorio Orlando sounds like an Italian name.

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Certainly not Greek.

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Perhaps he was Corsican. He could have been French.

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But I'm just going to go down the middle with Italy.

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Italy is the right answer.

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Pat...

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The National Trust was founded in which century?

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National Trust. Um...

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I think most of the big charities are relatively modern.

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I think back in the Middle Ages, they just didn't care.

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So I suspect the National Trust

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must have been founded in the 19th century.

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19th century is correct, Pat. Well done.

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Lori.

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The Battle of Malplaquet in 1709

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was one of the main battles of which conflict?

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OK, trying to place...

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-Shall I spell it for you?

-Please.

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M-A-L-P-L-A-Q-U-E-T. All one word.

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Um...Malplaquet with a silent T...

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I'm just going to go straight down the middle.

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Another stab in the dark,

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but maybe some reasoning. Hundred Years' War.

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No, it was the War of Spanish Succession.

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OK.

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OK, Eggheads.

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Which American general accepted the Japanese surrender

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at the end of World War II with the words,

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"These proceedings are closed"?

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It must have been...

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an extraordinary occasion. It was on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

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And it was Douglas MacArthur.

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Douglas MacArthur is the right answer.

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OK, Lori.

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Your question. Third question now.

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You've got one wrong so far, so don't get this one wrong

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or the band is going to be a solo performance, or heading that way!

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Cecily Neville, who died in 1495,

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was the mother of Richard III and which other English king?

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OK.

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It's not Henry III.

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I'm going to go with...

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-50/50 - Charles I.

-TEAMMATE:

-No!

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-Team, do you know?

-I don't think it's Charles I. That's too late.

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There was a "no" that came from the soul there.

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When he said Charles I, there was...

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there was a dying cry. It was the singer - that explains it.

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-Edward IV is the answer.

-Oh!

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Sorry.

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Edward IV.

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OK, there is a bit of smoke now, Safety Fire.

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So I'm afraid, Lori, you've been knocked out by our Egghead.

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Pat, you will be in the final round.

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Come back to us and we'll play on.

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So the Safety Fire have lost three brains from the final round,

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-but their spirits are still high.

-For sure!

-OK, good.

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The Eggheads have lost no brains.

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You'll like the next subject - it's Music.

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I can't guarantee we'll have progressive metal,

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but who would like to go for this?

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Do you want to do it?

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Go for Jo.

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Jo. OK. Against which Egghead, Jo?

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-Judith.

-Our biggest fan, Judith.

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Jo from The Safety Fire versus Judith from the Eggheads.

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And a bit of an Eggheads moment now, because I can tell you this is your 900th head-to-head.

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-Is it really?

-In Eggheads, yeah.

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So to ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions.

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OK, so, good luck, Jo.

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Which question would you like - first or second?

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I've been told I should always go first.

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All right, First question for you, Jo.

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With whom did John Travolta team up

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for the 2012 album release This Christmas?

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Oh, man!

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If I had to guess one, I'd say Olivia Newton-John,

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just because of Grease.

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But he did that dance scene in Pulp Fiction with Uma Thurman.

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He didn't sing with her, so...

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I'd say I'll go for Olivia Newton-John.

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Olivia Newton-John is the correct answer.

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Well done.

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OK, Judith. Which group had a UK Top 10 single

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in 1977 with Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft?

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I don't know.

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The Carpenters.

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Yes, you're right. How did you guess that, though?

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I just was lucky.

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So one point each. Jo, over to you.

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In 2012, which singer embarked on a week-long 777 tour,

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which saw her play seven world cities in seven days,

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travelling via a plane filled with journalists and fans?

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This is funny,

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cos before I came up here,

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Des told me that every answer would be Rihanna!

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And I'm pretty sure it was Rihanna.

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But they'll kill me if this is wrong. I'm going to go with Rihanna anyway.

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Rihanna is the right answer!

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ALL LAUGH

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-That's just one to add to your rule, then, isn't it, Judith?

-Yes.

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Every answer is Rihanna,

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if in Music.

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They're always looking for rules, the Eggheads.

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If in doubt, go Pacific, cheese or antelope.

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And now we have another one - Rihanna.

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Judith, your question.

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According to a recurring line in a song in the musical Kiss Me, Kate,

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"Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all..." What?

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Um...I think it's obey.

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-It's actually kowtow.

-Oh, no!

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Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.

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-Oh!

-Daphne would have known that.

-Yes, she would have.

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She always knows musicals.

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So you have a little chance here.

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She's stuck on one, Jo.

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You can knock out your fan.

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Here we are. Who represented the UK

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at the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest

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with the song Power To All Our Friends,

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finishing third in the competition?

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It sounds like possibly a religious thing.

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Power of God, maybe.

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That would be a Cliff...

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I don't know. I'm going to go with Cliff Richard. I have no idea.

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Anybody over the age of 40?

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Yeah, it's right.

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Cliff Richard is right. You've won the round. Well done.

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I'm sorry your 900th one-to-one

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-was not successful.

-I had a feeling it would be. Against a real musician,

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I couldn't possibly win!

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-You lost on Music to a musician. That's true. OK.

-No disgrace.

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No disgrace at all, Judith, but you are out. Jo, you are in the final.

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If you come back to us, we will play the final round for £26,000.

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So this is what we have been playing towards. It is 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 Lori, Calvin and Sean

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from The Safety Fire and Judith from the Eggheads,

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would you please now leave the studio.

0:21:410:21:44

This is exciting.

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Jo and Des, you're playing to win The Safety Fire £26,000.

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Barry, Pat, Kevin and Dave,

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you are playing for something 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, Safety Fire, the question is,

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are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

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And would you like to go first or second?

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We'll go first.

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Here we go. In 2010, the actor James Nesbitt

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was named Chancellor of which university?

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I have absolutely no idea.

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Me neither.

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Although there was a time travelling through the desert,

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I met a camel who had a telepathic conversation with me,

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which bestowed upon much information.

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-Tremendous Knowledge.

-Unfortunately, none of which

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pertains to this question.

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Um...

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-Glamorgan sounds kind of...

-Sounds good to me.

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-It's a solid choice.

-Like Rihanna.

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Yeah. We'll go for University of Glamorgan.

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Right. OK.

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-Do you know the actor we're talking about?

-No idea.

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Cold Feet and... What other stuff did he do?

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He's Northern Irish - should have been the University of Ulster!

0:23:020:23:05

That's it. He's the University of Ulster.

0:23:050:23:08

-IRISH ACCENT:

-James Nesbitt. He's got that kind of accent.

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OK.

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Eggheads, the presence of alluvial gold in Turkey's Pactolus River

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is attributed to which mythological king

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having bathed in it?

0:23:220:23:24

-Midas, yeah?

-Midas.

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This was the man who was given the gift by the god Dionysus

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that everything he touched turned to gold.

0:23:340:23:36

And the only way he could cure it was bathing in the River Pactolus

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and it was King Midas.

0:23:400:23:42

King Midas is the right answer.

0:23:420:23:44

Well done. Back to you.

0:23:440:23:46

In cooking, the juice of which fruit is added

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to a hollandaise sauce to make a maltaise sauce?

0:23:490:23:55

Maltaise is M-A-L-TA-I-S-E.

0:24:000:24:03

You'd think that after watching so much...

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Cookery programmes, we'd know this.

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I don't think it's ever come up.

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For whatever reason, something draws me towards blood orange.

0:24:120:24:15

I don't know why exactly, but...

0:24:150:24:17

-It's like Rihanna!

-Just like Rihanna!

0:24:170:24:20

-It draws you in by the...

-I'll go with that. I have no idea.

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We'll go for blood orange.

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You're right.

0:24:270:24:29

Well done!

0:24:290:24:30

Blood orange. I'm so glad you're right,

0:24:340:24:35

because that sudden lunge at the answer was making me nervous. OK.

0:24:350:24:39

All right, Eggheads. Lots of money

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to play here, and they got one right,

0:24:410:24:43

so let's see what you do on your second question.

0:24:430:24:46

In the garden,

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Heavenly Blue is a popular cultivar

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of which climbing plant?

0:24:510:24:52

-They're all climbing plants, aren't they?

-Yeah.

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Doesn't help very much.

0:24:580:24:59

Heavenly Blue...

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-Any idea?

-No idea at all.

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Heavenly Blue...

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It doesn't have to mean... It obviously implies that it's blue.

0:25:050:25:09

-Have you got any inclinations?

-Very few.

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I'd guess at wisteria, but I've no particular...

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ALL TALK AT ONCE

0:25:180:25:21

We don't know.

0:25:210:25:23

If there's any kind of inkle...

0:25:230:25:24

It's not an inkle, just....

0:25:240:25:26

We'll go for wisteria, then?

0:25:260:25:29

Our horticulturist is sitting behind us, who probably knows the answer,

0:25:290:25:33

but we don't, so we're going to have a pot at wisteria.

0:25:330:25:36

Wisteria is your answer. I'm sure Judith knows.

0:25:360:25:39

Well, I think it's Morning Glory.

0:25:390:25:41

-Yes, you're right.

-YES!

0:25:410:25:43

You're missing your...Daphnes and your Judiths there, aren't you?

0:25:460:25:51

They'd be straight there.

0:25:510:25:54

Des and Jo, you need to get this question correct.

0:25:540:25:57

In which decade did the first International Silent Games,

0:25:570:26:03

now referred to as the Deaflympics, take place?

0:26:030:26:07

Deaflympics is D-E-A-F, then "lympics".

0:26:110:26:15

THEY CONFER

0:26:150:26:17

I'll let you take the lead.

0:26:170:26:19

I don't remember...

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One of the World Wars, I think...

0:26:210:26:23

-After or before?

-I think it was during.

0:26:230:26:27

It's either the 1920s, after the First World War,

0:26:270:26:30

1950s, after the Second World War.

0:26:300:26:32

I think 1980s is too far.

0:26:320:26:34

Oh, what was it again? I saw this programme.

0:26:340:26:38

-I don't know.

-Have you got any feeling at all?

0:26:380:26:40

Um...

0:26:400:26:41

'50s.

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I was going to say '50s,

0:26:430:26:44

-but I have no idea.

-Me neither.

0:26:440:26:46

-Go '50s?

-Go '50s.

0:26:460:26:49

-If it's wrong...

-We'll go for 1950s.

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OK.

0:26:530:26:54

It was the 1920s.

0:26:540:26:56

Oh!

0:26:560:26:57

So, Eggheads, you've got one wrong as well,

0:26:570:27:00

but if you get this one right, you have won the contest.

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Here is your question.

0:27:040:27:05

Which newspaper was founded in 1835

0:27:050:27:08

by James Gordon Bennett Senior?

0:27:080:27:10

It should be the New York Herald.

0:27:160:27:17

He was a New York...

0:27:170:27:20

newspaper publisher.

0:27:200:27:21

He sponsored several novelty events.

0:27:210:27:25

I think I associate his name with the New York Herald.

0:27:250:27:28

I THINK I do.

0:27:280:27:30

Are we happy with that?

0:27:300:27:32

-Yes.

-I've not got any...

0:27:320:27:35

We're not 100% sure, but both Kevin and I had

0:27:350:27:39

New York Herald come to mind immediately.

0:27:390:27:42

We think it's the Gordon Bennett who sponsored various novelty events

0:27:420:27:46

throughout the 19th century,

0:27:460:27:48

so we're going to go for the New York Herald.

0:27:480:27:51

The right answer is New York Herald.

0:27:510:27:53

Eggheads, congratulations. You have won.

0:27:530:27:56

Well, you're definitely the liveliest team we've had for some time,

0:28:020:28:05

so we've really enjoyed seeing you guys.

0:28:050:28:07

Look at them in the background there!

0:28:070:28:10

Bit of pain there,

0:28:100:28:12

but thank you for playing with such gusto.

0:28:120:28:15

Commiserations to The Safety Fire.

0:28:150:28:17

-All the best with your music.

-Thanks.

0:28:170:28:19

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

0:28:190:28:23

It does mean you won't be going home with the £26,000,

0:28:230:28:25

so the money rolls over to our next show.

0:28:250:28:27

Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?

0:28:270:28:31

Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers

0:28:310:28:34

have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

0:28:340:28:36

£27,000 says they don't.

0:28:360:28:38

Till then, goodbye.

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