0:00:04 > 0:00:08These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:15Together they make up the Eggheads, arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19The question is: can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:28Welcome to Eggheads, where five quiz challengers pit their wits
0:00:28 > 0:00:33against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain - the Eggheads.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36Taking on our quiz Goliaths today
0:00:36 > 0:00:40are Gentlemen of Castle. These friends are all students
0:00:40 > 0:00:45at Durham's University College, affectionately known as Castle.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48Hi, I'm Ben, I'm 21 and studying Physics.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51Hi, I'm Ben, I'm 21 and I read Modern Languages.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54Hi, I'm Kit, I'm 20 and I study Theoretical Physics.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57I'm Simon, I'm 21 and I study Geography.
0:00:57 > 0:01:01Hi, I'm Alec, I'm 20 and I'm studying Geography.
0:01:01 > 0:01:05Welcome, Gentlemen of Castle. What a team title!
0:01:05 > 0:01:10- Are you all gentlemen, then?- We try! - It depends on the circumstances.
0:01:10 > 0:01:14Tell me. It's about a song, is it?
0:01:14 > 0:01:20Our college is based in Durham Castle and our college song's first line is, "Gentlemen of Castle,"
0:01:20 > 0:01:24set to Land of Hope and Glory. We're not going to sing it now!
0:01:24 > 0:01:27So it's like a Bullingdon Club?
0:01:27 > 0:01:31No! No, we don't want to be compared to that at all.
0:01:31 > 0:01:36- You sing it in the bar, though? - We sing it at sports matches
0:01:36 > 0:01:40and sometimes after that you might sing it in the bar.
0:01:40 > 0:01:46Let's hope you're singing it after you beat the Eggheads today. We'll have it if you win.
0:01:46 > 0:01:50Every day there's £1,000 up for grabs for our challengers,
0:01:50 > 0:01:56but if they fail, that rolls over to the next show. So, the Eggheads have won the last 11 games,
0:01:56 > 0:02:01so £12,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05Let's have a go then, shall we? Worth turning up for, is it?
0:02:05 > 0:02:09First category, first Head to Head, first chance to knock an Egghead out
0:02:09 > 0:02:13is on Arts and Books. Who'd like to play this?
0:02:13 > 0:02:17- Kit, you'll have to dive on this one.- Kit enjoys his Arts and Books.
0:02:17 > 0:02:22- OK, that'll be me, then.- OK, choose any of those five Eggheads.
0:02:22 > 0:02:26- Who do we think? - Who do you want?
0:02:26 > 0:02:31- I'll take Dave.- OK, your choice, Kit. You've decided for Dave.
0:02:31 > 0:02:35Let's have Kit and Dave into the Question Room, please.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38Kit, you're a Physics student?
0:02:38 > 0:02:44Yeah, I do Theoretical Physics. Basically, lots of maths and physics. It's all pretty boring.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47But you have an arts side, then?
0:02:47 > 0:02:51I read a lot as a child. That's what we're basing this on.
0:02:51 > 0:02:55- Do you want to go first or second? - First, please.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58Good luck, Kit.
0:02:58 > 0:03:05What name is commonly given to the literary or artistic style where fantastical elements
0:03:05 > 0:03:08are blended with reality?
0:03:11 > 0:03:13Em, well...
0:03:13 > 0:03:17I know this one. It's Magic Realism.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20OK, Magic Realism. It's the right answer.
0:03:20 > 0:03:25Sometimes I feel that sitting in the Eggheads studio.
0:03:25 > 0:03:32Fantastical elements blended with reality. I don't know which is which. Good start for Kit.
0:03:32 > 0:03:39Which writer read an excerpt from Peter Pan as part of the Opening Ceremony at the 2012 Olympic Games?
0:03:42 > 0:03:48- I switched off when this was on! - Well, there was so much going on, wasn't there?
0:03:48 > 0:03:50Too much going on.
0:03:50 > 0:03:54It's going to have to be a guess. I can't remember.
0:03:54 > 0:03:58I'll go for JK Rowling, but I haven't got a clue, really.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01I wasn't paying attention.
0:04:01 > 0:04:05But you did pick that up. That's the right answer - JK Rowling.
0:04:05 > 0:04:07Kit, back to you.
0:04:07 > 0:04:12What collective name was given to the early 20th century poets
0:04:12 > 0:04:19who were based in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire and included Robert Frost and Rupert Brooke?
0:04:24 > 0:04:28I was really hoping more for the literature side.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32Poetry is a complete blank on my part.
0:04:32 > 0:04:36So, unfortunately, it has to be a complete guess.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39I will go for...
0:04:39 > 0:04:41the Flaxley Poets.
0:04:41 > 0:04:46OK, Flaxley Poets. Among them Robert Frost and Rupert Brooke.
0:04:46 > 0:04:50It's not, Kit, no. Poetry not your strong suit.
0:04:50 > 0:04:55- Do you know, Dave?- I wouldn't know. I would guess the Dymock Poets.
0:04:55 > 0:04:59- Not with any certainty. - Your guess would have been correct.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02This is your question, Dave.
0:05:02 > 0:05:08Marcel Proust's novel Remembrance of Things Past comprises how many volumes?
0:05:11 > 0:05:16I don't know. Everybody, my four other colleagues, will.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21How many volumes?
0:05:21 > 0:05:25I'm going to go seven, down the left, but...
0:05:25 > 0:05:29- OK. Is it seven as Dave thinks? - Yeah.
0:05:29 > 0:05:31- Have you read them all?- No!
0:05:31 > 0:05:34It is correct. Well done, Dave.
0:05:36 > 0:05:41So you do have a lead. It means this is very important for Kit. Here you go.
0:05:41 > 0:05:46Who directed the groundbreaking 1936 New York theatre production
0:05:46 > 0:05:50commonly known as The Voodoo Macbeth?
0:05:53 > 0:05:55Right.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59Laurence Olivier, obviously a very famous actor.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03Not sure if he got into directing until later.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08I've not heard of John Barrymore.
0:06:08 > 0:06:15I do have a funny feeling it might be Orson Welles. He did direct, so Orson Welles. If it's wrong, sorry, guys!
0:06:15 > 0:06:21Getting your apology out in advance. No need. It's the right answer. Well identified, Kit.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24Keeping your flame flickering,
0:06:24 > 0:06:29but it can be snuffed out if Dave gives me a correct answer here.
0:06:29 > 0:06:34Which English actor won a Tony award for Best Actor in 1973 for his performance
0:06:34 > 0:06:41in the play Butley and again in 2002 for the play Fortune's Fool?
0:06:45 > 0:06:50This is going to be embarrassing because if it's one of those answers...
0:06:52 > 0:06:57I'm just trying to think about when Alan Bates died.
0:06:57 > 0:06:592002...
0:06:59 > 0:07:02I'm going to go Tom Conti,
0:07:02 > 0:07:08- but...all three of them are feasible.- Yep, yep, on the dates you're right.
0:07:08 > 0:07:13Tom Conti you're going for. An embarrassment if it's Derek Jacobi
0:07:13 > 0:07:17after his appearance on Celebrity Eggheads. It's neither of those.
0:07:17 > 0:07:22It's the one you were pondering. It's Alan Bates.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26I was trying to think whether he'd died by then. Obviously later.
0:07:26 > 0:07:32That's good news for you, Kit. Your flame is beginning to burn a little brighter.
0:07:32 > 0:07:37Let's get it up to an inferno. Playing in sudden death now to knock Dave out.
0:07:37 > 0:07:45This is your question. Oh, dear. Whose 1803 poem, Auguries of Innocence,
0:07:45 > 0:07:50includes the line, "A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage"?
0:07:50 > 0:07:56Right. Just about the only poets I know are Allen Ginsberg and John Donne and Wordsworth.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59So, and Shakespeare, I suppose.
0:07:59 > 0:08:04So...I'm almost 100% sure it's not any of them.
0:08:05 > 0:08:11There's a name coming to my head. It's probably completely wrong, but Matthew Fowler.
0:08:11 > 0:08:15It's not the right answer, Kit. Do you know, Dave?
0:08:15 > 0:08:20- I'd have gone...- 1803. - ..William Blake.
0:08:20 > 0:08:25You would have been right. There you are. Very modest there.
0:08:25 > 0:08:26William Blake.
0:08:26 > 0:08:33Your question, Dave. Which English author, who died in 2012, won the Booker Prize
0:08:33 > 0:08:37for his 1992 novel Sacred Hunger?
0:08:37 > 0:08:42I'll go Graham Swift, but it isn't. Graham Swift, but I know it isn't.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45It's not Graham Swift. Eggheads?
0:08:45 > 0:08:50- Barry Unsworth.- Barry Unsworth. - Right, fine.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53Locked away for future reference.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55On we go.
0:08:55 > 0:09:01Kit, another question. The late 1970s comedy play Ten Times Table is by which writer?
0:09:01 > 0:09:06Around that period, Mike Leigh was a playwright.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10So he did... I know he did Abigail's Party.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15Mike Leigh.
0:09:15 > 0:09:19- OK, Mike Leigh. Good guess. Not right. Eggheads?- Alan Ayckbourn.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22Ten Times Table by Alan Ayckbourn.
0:09:22 > 0:09:27Dave, Stephen Dedalus is a character who appears in works by which writer?
0:09:28 > 0:09:31Probably way off mark,
0:09:31 > 0:09:36but I'll go for James Joyce. But I don't have a real clue. James Joyce.
0:09:36 > 0:09:41Dave, you almost look like you're not enjoying yourself there.
0:09:41 > 0:09:46James Joyce. It's the right answer!
0:09:46 > 0:09:48Congratulations to Kit,
0:09:48 > 0:09:53you got deep into sudden death, but too many poetry questions.
0:09:53 > 0:09:58- Definitely!- Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:09:58 > 0:10:03Well, one round gone and one gentleman gone,
0:10:03 > 0:10:08but very early days. Our next Head to Head is Science.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11Who'd like to play this? Kit, you'd have been a contender.
0:10:11 > 0:10:17- Who would like to take this on? - I'll take that one.- You're also a Physics student.- Yes.
0:10:17 > 0:10:24So we've got you, Ben. Who would you like to take on from the Eggheads? It can't be Dave.
0:10:24 > 0:10:27- I'd like to play Daphne. - Play Daphne.
0:10:27 > 0:10:31- I'll take Daphne. - Why not? Go for it.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34Ben and Daphne into the Question Room, please.
0:10:35 > 0:10:40Ben eager to take Daphne on. Do you want first or second, Ben?
0:10:40 > 0:10:42I'll follow Kit and go first, please.
0:10:46 > 0:10:54Good luck. Which common household liquid is often used to clean birds affected by oil spills?
0:10:57 > 0:11:00Right. Em... I wouldn't think it was bleach
0:11:00 > 0:11:04because that seems quite cruel to the birds.
0:11:04 > 0:11:08And I can't see a reason that you'd cover a bird in milk.
0:11:08 > 0:11:12But washing up liquid helps dissolve oils and fats.
0:11:12 > 0:11:19So I don't know this one, but based on that I'm going to go down the middle. Washing up liquid.
0:11:19 > 0:11:25OK. Thinks it's the most plausible. Right answer, well done.
0:11:25 > 0:11:26Good start, Ben.
0:11:26 > 0:11:33Daphne, the cosmetic surgery procedure called an abdominoplasty is also known by which name?
0:11:36 > 0:11:42- Well, I assume it's a Tummy Tuck. - Because of the "abdomino" bit.- Yes.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46Right answer. Back to you, Ben.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48What type of object was Echo One,
0:11:48 > 0:11:54the communications satellite, launched to an altitude of 1,000 miles by NASA in 1960?
0:11:57 > 0:12:01Right, I have got absolutely no idea.
0:12:01 > 0:12:07This is maybe a silly way of working it out, but a parachute slows your descent
0:12:07 > 0:12:11as you're falling. Balloons take you up,
0:12:11 > 0:12:15but kites tend to stay where they are. For a satellite, that's good.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17That's all I've got, so kite.
0:12:17 > 0:12:21OK, kite. At a thousand miles.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25It's a balloon.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27Not a parachute, but a balloon.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29OK, Daphne,
0:12:29 > 0:12:34an important cultural item in some Pacific cultures,
0:12:34 > 0:12:37a tabua is a tooth from which creature?
0:12:42 > 0:12:47Well, if it's Pacific, I would think it is probably a whale.
0:12:49 > 0:12:53It's the right answer, Daphne. Ben, you need this.
0:12:53 > 0:12:58Which creatures are most likely to be affected by the affliction scaly leg?
0:13:01 > 0:13:05Um...I don't know this one straight off the bat, either.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08Still reeling from the last one!
0:13:08 > 0:13:12OK, well, put that behind you. This is very important.
0:13:12 > 0:13:16- Scaly leg- Scaly leg. Well, they all have legs.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19We can confirm that.
0:13:19 > 0:13:24Birds... Do birds legs tend to be a bit scaly anyway?
0:13:24 > 0:13:28I don't own dogs, never kept horses.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32Scaly leg...
0:13:34 > 0:13:37I'm going to go down the middle and go for dogs.
0:13:37 > 0:13:41OK, dogs with scaly leg. Not a lot to work on there.
0:13:41 > 0:13:45We didn't expect you to keep a horse in the old digs at university.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48But it's birds.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50Birds.
0:13:50 > 0:13:52And we close the round down there.
0:13:52 > 0:13:57Sorry, Ben. It's all over. Daphne's already got two
0:13:57 > 0:14:02so no place in the final round for you. Both please come back and join your teams.
0:14:03 > 0:14:09Gentlemen of Castle have lost two brains from the final round. The Eggheads haven't lost any.
0:14:09 > 0:14:13We move on to our third Head to Head. Music. Who'd like to play it?
0:14:13 > 0:14:18- It's other Ben or Simon or Alec. - I'll take a crack at Music.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22- It's got to be Simon. - I think I'll have a go.- All right.
0:14:22 > 0:14:27Pick your Egghead. Dave and Daphne have played.
0:14:27 > 0:14:31- I'd really like to play Kevin. - Go for it.- I'll take on Kevin.
0:14:31 > 0:14:35Wow. OK. You're all fired up, you lot.
0:14:35 > 0:14:39Simon and Kevin, into the Question Room, please.
0:14:39 > 0:14:43Right, Simon, let's see if we can get you into that final round.
0:14:43 > 0:14:49- Fingers crossed.- First or second? - I'll follow the previous two and go first, please.
0:14:53 > 0:14:59Good luck, Simon. What was the title of the Maroon 5 single that went to the UK Number One spot
0:14:59 > 0:15:01in June, 2012?
0:15:05 > 0:15:09OK, I'm pretty confident that it's Payphone.
0:15:09 > 0:15:14There's a nightclub in Durham and we've partied away to that.
0:15:14 > 0:15:19- Yeah, Payphone. - At least you remembered it! It's the right answer. Payphone.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21Kevin,
0:15:21 > 0:15:28in 1989, Hand On Your Heart became the second solo UK number one single for which singer?
0:15:31 > 0:15:36Hand On Your Heart. I think that was... I think Kylie.
0:15:36 > 0:15:43- Yeah, Kylie Minogue. - Checking your own mental notes? Kylie is correct, yes.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45Back to you, Simon.
0:15:45 > 0:15:49In cities such as Boston, Cincinnati and Minneapolis,
0:15:49 > 0:15:55what name is given to orchestras that play famous show tunes as well as popular classics?
0:15:59 > 0:16:03Em, to be candid, I don't really know.
0:16:03 > 0:16:08Chambers reminds me of choirs, quartets sounds...I don't know.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11I'm not really sure.
0:16:11 > 0:16:15- I'm going to go down the middle and say Pops.- Pops.
0:16:15 > 0:16:20We said popular classics and Pops is right. Well done.
0:16:20 > 0:16:21You have two.
0:16:21 > 0:16:29Strong so far. Kevin, which 2003 UK hit single included the line, "Shake it like a Polaroid picture"?
0:16:33 > 0:16:36Needless to say...
0:16:36 > 0:16:40I'm going to have to go for the one that I know is from 2003,
0:16:40 > 0:16:43which is Hey Ya! Outkast.
0:16:43 > 0:16:48You sly dog, you've got it. I'm sure you have been shaking it like a Polaroid picture.
0:16:48 > 0:16:52Hey Ya! is correct. Two all. Simon,
0:16:52 > 0:16:58which former NME journalist was co-founder of the ZTT record label in the 1980s,
0:16:58 > 0:17:03which had success with bands such as Frankie Goes To Hollywood?
0:17:07 > 0:17:12I have no idea. None of those names mean anything to me at all. Sorry.
0:17:12 > 0:17:16Julie Burchill... Not one I recognise at all.
0:17:18 > 0:17:24- I'll take a complete punt and say Tony Parsons.- Tony Parsons.
0:17:24 > 0:17:30All a blank to you, so going for the guess. It's not. You don't have it.
0:17:30 > 0:17:34- Kevin?- I think Julie Burchill was with NME so I'd go for her.- Ah!
0:17:34 > 0:17:39- So that's wrong as well, is it? - That's the beauty of the question.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41NME journalists all at some time.
0:17:41 > 0:17:46- It's Paul Morley.- OK. - It wasn't your question. This is.
0:17:46 > 0:17:51In 1963, who recorded the first version of the Hal David/Burt Bacharach song
0:17:51 > 0:17:57They Long To Be Close To You, which later became a Carpenters hit?
0:18:00 > 0:18:05I'm just trying to think about when Dr Kildare was. Richard Chamberlain achieved great TV fame
0:18:05 > 0:18:11with Dr Kildare. Could it have been on the back of that? But they were all active
0:18:11 > 0:18:14around that time, so it's...
0:18:14 > 0:18:20- I really have no idea. I'll go for Richard Chamberlain, but it could be any of them.- OK.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23Because of Dr Kildare?
0:18:23 > 0:18:28He did try a bit of a singing career on the back of his fame.
0:18:28 > 0:18:34- But George Hamilton tried singing and so did Peter Lawford, so...- OK.
0:18:34 > 0:18:39Richard Chamberlain on that slim piece of information is the right answer, Kevin!
0:18:39 > 0:18:45You've won the round. Egghead excellence in action, demonstrated there.
0:18:45 > 0:18:52It's cost you your place in the final round, Simon. Bad luck. Both please rejoin your teams.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56As it stands, Gentlemen of Castle have rather seen the ramparts come down.
0:18:56 > 0:19:02Three members missing from the final round, no Eggheads gone. Your last chance now
0:19:02 > 0:19:08to get rid of one of them or one of you will be there all on his own.
0:19:08 > 0:19:12One of you has to play this. Politics. Our last Head to Head.
0:19:12 > 0:19:17- It's got to be me.- OK. - We've worked it out.- Other Ben.
0:19:17 > 0:19:24Right. And, Ben, from the Eggheads, who would you like to play? You have Chris or Barry.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26Let's go for Barry.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29I think they're all beyond nerves by now.
0:19:29 > 0:19:34Let's have Ben and Barry into the Question Room, please.
0:19:34 > 0:19:39Ben eagerly opting for Politics. Do you see yourself in Parliament?
0:19:39 > 0:19:43Oh, that's a difficult question. I'm going to say no!
0:19:43 > 0:19:47- All right. First or second? - First, please.
0:19:51 > 0:19:57Here you go. In 2007, who or what did Tony Blair refer to as "a feral beast"?
0:20:03 > 0:20:10I'm going to imagine it wasn't the House of Lords or John Prescott, so I'm going to say the Media.
0:20:10 > 0:20:15Isn't that a lovely question? It is the Media. Well identified.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18A reference to his treatment as Prime Minister.
0:20:18 > 0:20:24Barry, until it was superseded in 2010, what was the name of the publication
0:20:24 > 0:20:26that outlined financial allowances for MPs?
0:20:29 > 0:20:34I think my first thought was it should have been the Red Book! But which of those three?
0:20:34 > 0:20:40I really don't know. I'm going to take a punt on the Green Book.
0:20:40 > 0:20:44Because red isn't there! It's the right answer. Well done.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46OK, Ben.
0:20:46 > 0:20:51What is the first name of the husband of the former Conservative MP Virginia Bottomley,
0:20:51 > 0:20:55who himself first became an MP in 1975?
0:20:58 > 0:21:02Em, this is one I'm afraid I just don't know.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06I'm trying to think which name sounds like something I've heard of.
0:21:06 > 0:21:10- I'm going to guess Philip. - OK, Philip Bottomley.
0:21:10 > 0:21:15It's not. It had to be a guess. I'm sure you will know, Barry.
0:21:15 > 0:21:19- Peter.- On the timescale there. Peter Bottomley.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21OK, your second question.
0:21:21 > 0:21:27The Cactus Curtain is a nickname for a political border on which island nation?
0:21:29 > 0:21:35This is an interesting question. I wasn't aware there were borders in any of those three nations.
0:21:35 > 0:21:41Cactus tends to suggest places like Mexico and Cuba's not too far.
0:21:41 > 0:21:46I don't believe there's any cacti in Sri Lanka. That's more rainforest.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48And I don't think they're in Jamaica.
0:21:48 > 0:21:54I think it must be a term distinguishing between Cuba and America. I'll go for Cuba.
0:21:54 > 0:21:58OK, Cuba. It's the right answer. You need to get this, Ben.
0:21:58 > 0:22:04Who was forced to stand down as the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate in 1972
0:22:04 > 0:22:07after revelations that he had previously undergone electro-shock therapy?
0:22:14 > 0:22:20My knowledge of American politics pre this decade is pretty thin on the ground, I'm afraid.
0:22:23 > 0:22:27- I'm going to guess at Edmund Muskie.- OK.
0:22:27 > 0:22:33- Edmund Muskie. Barry, shaking your head.- No, I'm afraid it was Thomas Eagleton.
0:22:33 > 0:22:37Thomas Eagleton. You've lost the round, Ben.
0:22:37 > 0:22:42No place for you in the final round. Both please come back and join your teams.
0:22:42 > 0:22:47This is what we've been playing towards. Time for the final round.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50But those of you who lost
0:22:50 > 0:22:56will not be allowed to take part in this round, as I swivel one way only,
0:22:56 > 0:23:02so it's the two Bens, Kit and Simon from Gentlemen of Castle who all have to leave the studio now.
0:23:02 > 0:23:07Alec, you're playing to win Gentlemen of Castle £12,000.
0:23:07 > 0:23:14Kevin, Dave, Daphne, Chris and Barry play for something money can't buy - the Eggheads' reputation.
0:23:14 > 0:23:19I'll ask each team three questions and they're all General Knowledge.
0:23:19 > 0:23:25You are allowed to confer. Alec, is your brain better than the Eggheads' five?
0:23:25 > 0:23:31- Alec, do you want to go first or second?- It's not been particularly successful so far,
0:23:31 > 0:23:35but I'll stick with it and we'll go first.
0:23:39 > 0:23:43OK, first question. General Knowledge, of course.
0:23:43 > 0:23:50In finance, what informal name is given to a reduction in the value of assets used as collateral?
0:23:53 > 0:23:59I don't particularly know the answer, but I don't think it's Close Shave.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01And Warm Bath doesn't sound right.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04So Haircut, trimming something off.
0:24:04 > 0:24:09Haircut. Much discussed during the Greek euro crisis. It's the right answer, yes.
0:24:09 > 0:24:13OK, Eggheads,
0:24:13 > 0:24:18the phrase, "Down to the wire," meaning until the last possible moment originated in which sport?
0:24:21 > 0:24:23- Horse racing?- Cos it's a wire.
0:24:23 > 0:24:28In America, they still use wire to wire.
0:24:28 > 0:24:33- They had a wire.- Yeah. - That's horse racing, Dermot.
0:24:33 > 0:24:38Horse racing is correct, Eggheads. OK, Alec,
0:24:38 > 0:24:44popular on French television, Les Guignols are characters similar to those from which British programme
0:24:44 > 0:24:47of the 1980s and '90s?
0:24:51 > 0:24:57I don't particularly know the answer, but will take an educated guess
0:24:57 > 0:25:03that a parody-type show like Spitting Image would go down well in France, so I'll go for Spitting Image.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07Spitting Image. You're not wasting any time and getting it right!
0:25:07 > 0:25:10Spitting Image. Well done, Alec.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Two for two. Eggheads,
0:25:12 > 0:25:18where is Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the UK?
0:25:22 > 0:25:25- I think it's over to you. - I've driven past many times.
0:25:25 > 0:25:29You can see it from every part of West Yorkshire.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32That's West Yorkshire, Dermot.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35It's the right answer, yes.
0:25:35 > 0:25:41Alec, a storming start. Just get this and you have a very good chance.
0:25:41 > 0:25:46Well, a chance of winning £12,000. The Ancient Roman drink
0:25:46 > 0:25:51of mulsum was a combination of wine and what?
0:25:52 > 0:25:54I'm not particularly sure.
0:25:54 > 0:25:58I can't imagine wine and salt is appetising.
0:25:58 > 0:26:04Of the other two, I can see Romans enjoying a honey-based drink, so I'll go for honey.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06It's the right answer!
0:26:08 > 0:26:13Three out of three. We'll savour that for a moment.
0:26:13 > 0:26:17If it stays 3-2, you've got twelve grand,
0:26:17 > 0:26:21but it could be some way off. Let's see what the Eggheads do.
0:26:21 > 0:26:26What was the first name of Fred Astaire's elder sister,
0:26:26 > 0:26:31who was his original dancing partner in vaudeville and theatre for over 25 years?
0:26:33 > 0:26:35It's Adele, Dermot.
0:26:35 > 0:26:39You all knew that, didn't you? It's the right answer, Eggheads!
0:26:39 > 0:26:43We go to sudden death. I'll remind you, Alec,
0:26:43 > 0:26:49it gets a lot harder now as we remove the options you've had some educated guesses at.
0:26:49 > 0:26:56Here you are. Chateau Grimaldi in Antibes on France's Mediterranean coast
0:26:56 > 0:26:58is now an important museum
0:26:58 > 0:27:04dedicated to the work of which artist who stayed there in 1946?
0:27:04 > 0:27:12Well, art's not particularly my strongest point, but I'll just put a name to a French painter
0:27:12 > 0:27:15that I'm aware of and say Cezanne.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17OK, Cezanne.
0:27:17 > 0:27:21It's not, no. Do you know, Eggheads?
0:27:21 > 0:27:26- Picasso.- It's Picasso, Alec. Pablo Picasso.
0:27:26 > 0:27:30Stayed in Chateau Grimaldi. Here's your question, Eggheads.
0:27:30 > 0:27:35Which Indian film director who spent the early part of his career as an accountant
0:27:35 > 0:27:39directed Elizabeth and its sequel, Elizabeth - The Golden Age?
0:27:39 > 0:27:42Shekhar Kapur. Shall I...?
0:27:42 > 0:27:46- Yeah. Shekhar Kapur? - Shekhar Kapur, yeah.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48Shekhar Kapur.
0:27:48 > 0:27:52It's the right answer, Eggheads. You've won.
0:27:58 > 0:28:05Well, that was a gallant and a bit more effort to get your hands on the money, Alec.
0:28:05 > 0:28:09Well done with those first three questions. Sailed through those.
0:28:09 > 0:28:14Didn't have any of your team-mates there to help you out.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17- I hope you've had a good day.- Yes. - We've enjoyed having you.
0:28:17 > 0:28:22Those Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.
0:28:22 > 0:28:27You won't be going home with £12,000, so the money rolls over.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?
0:28:30 > 0:28:34Join us next time to see if a new team can defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:34 > 0:28:38£13,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.
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