0:00:04 > 0:00:07These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:11 > 0:00:14arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers
0:00:26 > 0:00:30pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32They are the Eggheads.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35Taking on the awesome might of our quiz Goliaths today are...
0:00:37 > 0:00:42This team of friends are all former employees of Royal Mail in Chesterfield
0:00:42 > 0:00:47and take their name from the famous crooked spire which adorns the town's parish church.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49Let's meet them.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51I'm Trevor. I'm 46 and I'm a release manager.
0:00:51 > 0:00:56I'm John. I'm 56 and I'm a payroll developer for an IT company.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Hi. I'm Bob. I'm 47 and I'm a finance business partner.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02I'm Steve. I'm 50 and I'm a post office customer advisor.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06I'm Chris. I'm 41 and I'm a service administrator and buyer.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09- Trevor and team, welcome. Good to see you.- Thank you.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12That's a big part of Chesterfield, that spire.
0:01:12 > 0:01:16Apart from the football team, it's the main thing that everybody knows about Chesterfield.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18The spire is not deliberately crooked, I'm assuming.
0:01:18 > 0:01:22It's not deliberate. When they built it, they used untreated timbers.
0:01:22 > 0:01:27With the weight of the lead on top, it twisted. It's been like that ever since.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29- That's hundreds of years.- Yeah.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33- So, quizzing together?- We quiz now and again together at the local pub.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35So nothing major.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38I know that you are also a keen archer,
0:01:38 > 0:01:43so I'm hoping that if anything goes wrong, a single arrow should do it! Good luck!
0:01:43 > 0:01:47Every day, there is £1,000-worth of cash up for grabs for our challengers.
0:01:47 > 0:01:51However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55So, Crooked Spires, the Eggheads have won the last four games.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58Which means £5,000 says you can't beat them today.
0:01:58 > 0:02:02The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Film & Television.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05- Who would like this? - What do you reckon?
0:02:05 > 0:02:09ALL TALK AT ONCE
0:02:10 > 0:02:12John, I think you can do it, mate.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14- It's John, is it?- Yes, John.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16OK. Against which Egghead?
0:02:16 > 0:02:19Who do we think?
0:02:19 > 0:02:20Pat.
0:02:20 > 0:02:25So John from the Crooked Spires versus Pat from the Eggheads on Film & TV.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions in the question room.
0:02:30 > 0:02:31On Film & TV, then, John.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34First or second set of questions?
0:02:34 > 0:02:35Can I go first, Jeremy, please?
0:02:38 > 0:02:41Your first question. In 2001,
0:02:41 > 0:02:45Tina Hobley took on the role of Chrissie Williams in which TV drama?
0:02:47 > 0:02:50I don't think it's Doctor Who.
0:02:50 > 0:02:54I watch Merlin a lot, so it doesn't ring a bell there.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56So I'm going to go for Holby City.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59Holby City is the right answer. Well done.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Pat, here is your first question.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04Which comedy team perform a recurring sketch
0:03:04 > 0:03:07featuring two World War II RAF pilots
0:03:07 > 0:03:09who speak like modern teenagers?
0:03:13 > 0:03:17I know these chaps. It's a marvellous series of sketches.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19And it's Armstrong and Miller.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22It is indeed Armstrong and Miller.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24OK. We go back to you, John.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26In the film I'm No Angel,
0:03:26 > 0:03:31which fruit does Mae West famously ask her maid to peel for her?
0:03:34 > 0:03:37I'm not sure of the answer at all
0:03:37 > 0:03:41but I'm not sure it would be papaya.
0:03:41 > 0:03:45And certainly not a grape, I would have thought.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Banana?
0:03:47 > 0:03:51"Peel me a banana." What is the quote? Eggheads, do you know this?
0:03:51 > 0:03:52"Peel me a grape, Beulah."
0:03:52 > 0:03:55"Peel me a grape, Beulah."
0:03:55 > 0:03:58What was that great line? "I used to be Snow White and then I..."
0:03:58 > 0:03:59- "But I drifted."- I drifted!
0:03:59 > 0:04:03The great Mae West line is, "Come up and see me some time."
0:04:03 > 0:04:07Yes. And when you deliver it, Chris, it just...
0:04:07 > 0:04:09It brings it right back!
0:04:11 > 0:04:12Pat, your question.
0:04:12 > 0:04:16In which of her films does Marilyn Monroe play a character known only as "the girl".
0:04:21 > 0:04:22Don't know this.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26The most famous of those three films is The Seven Year Itch.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28With the famous...
0:04:30 > 0:04:32..ventilation grid scene.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36But it's not the correct answer.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40I'm at sea here. I'll go for The Seven Year Itch
0:04:40 > 0:04:43but it's not much of a guess, really.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45Seven Year Itch is the right answer.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47Well done.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49OK. John,
0:04:49 > 0:04:54who played the title role in the 1962 film Taras Bulba,
0:04:54 > 0:04:56based on a short novel by Gogol?
0:05:01 > 0:05:03Again, I've not heard of this one.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07I don't remember Yul Brynner being in anything like that.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Omar Sharif, possibly.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14I'm going to go for Anthony Quinn.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17I'm not sure what this film is about. It's Yul Brynner.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19Eggheads, have you seen it?
0:05:19 > 0:05:22It's about the Cossacks' uprising against the Poles.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24So Taras Bulba is what?
0:05:24 > 0:05:29- It's the name of the leading character, as played by... - Mr Brynner. OK.
0:05:29 > 0:05:31Bad luck, John. The round goes to Pat, I'm afraid.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34He has taken this round. He'll be in the final. You're knocked out.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Please both come back and rejoin your teams.
0:05:38 > 0:05:42As it stands, the Crooked Spires have lost one brain from the final,
0:05:42 > 0:05:46whilst the Eggheads have not lost any. But it's early days, Spires.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49The next subject is Geography. Who would like this?
0:05:49 > 0:05:51What do you reckon?
0:05:51 > 0:05:54Shall I step up to the plate for this one?
0:05:54 > 0:05:55- Go for it, Steve.- Go for it.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57I'll give that one a go.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00Steve, against which Egghead? It can't be Pat.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04- I don't think...- I think we'll leave Chris for a bit.
0:06:04 > 0:06:10- I'll go for Judith.- Go for Judith. Are you OK, with Keith taking Judith?
0:06:10 > 0:06:11Yeah.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13Judith will be lovely, thank you.
0:06:13 > 0:06:18A lot of people say that! Steve from Crooked Spires versus Judith from the Eggheads.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21To ensure no conferring, please go to the question room.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26You've been as far afield as Australia, Steve?
0:06:26 > 0:06:30I was lucky enough. A couple of times I've been back-packing round the world.
0:06:30 > 0:06:35A bit younger then, and picked up work along the way to fund the trip.
0:06:35 > 0:06:39Geography is the subject. I hope Australia comes up from your point of view.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41- Would you like to go first or second?- I'll go first, please.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45Here we go. Good luck, Steve.
0:06:45 > 0:06:51Because of its grain production, which of these countries is known as the bread basket of Europe?
0:06:54 > 0:06:58I've certainly not thought of Norway related to grain,
0:06:58 > 0:07:02and I wouldn't really go for... I don't think it would be Switzerland.
0:07:02 > 0:07:03So I'll go for the Ukraine.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06Ukraine is the right answer. Well done.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Judith, your question.
0:07:10 > 0:07:15The county of Cumbria is mostly comprised of the former counties of Cumberland
0:07:15 > 0:07:16and which other?
0:07:20 > 0:07:22That would be Westmorland.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25Westmorland is the right answer.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28OK. Your question, Steve.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30The Castello Sforzesco
0:07:30 > 0:07:34and the 13th-century Palazzo de la Ragione
0:07:34 > 0:07:37are both famous buildings in which of these Italian cities?
0:07:40 > 0:07:42Sadly, I have never been to Italy.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44I'm now regretting that.
0:07:44 > 0:07:49Because of the Palazzo, I think I will have a guess at Florence.
0:07:49 > 0:07:53Yeah, it's not, actually. It's Milan.
0:07:54 > 0:07:55OK.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57Your question, Judith.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Nagaland and Mizoram
0:07:59 > 0:08:02are states in which Asian country?
0:08:04 > 0:08:06I think that's India.
0:08:06 > 0:08:08I think it is India, as well.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11Well done. So Judith is ahead.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13She's got two to your one. You have to get this one right, OK?
0:08:13 > 0:08:15- OK.- Otherwise you're knocked out.
0:08:15 > 0:08:19The Solomon Islands are in which division of the Pacific Ocean?
0:08:23 > 0:08:25The Solomons.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28Um, I shall rule out Melanesia.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30Purely because I've never heard of it!
0:08:30 > 0:08:34I'll have to take a guess and I'll go with Micronesia.
0:08:34 > 0:08:38The answer is Melanesia, Steve.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41So Judith has taken that round, I'm afraid, and knocked you out.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44Please both return to us and we'll play on.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48Trevor, a bit of a trend developing here
0:08:48 > 0:08:52- with first question right, the next two wrong.- Yes.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56That could be a problem, which we'll put right in the next round.
0:08:56 > 0:09:00But our category selections are going well, so far.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02- All going to plan! - It's just the questions!
0:09:02 > 0:09:04The questions are difficult!
0:09:04 > 0:09:07- Did you have a whole grid mapped out?- Yes, we did.
0:09:07 > 0:09:12So far, we've been fortunate enough to pick the people who wanted those subjects.
0:09:12 > 0:09:16- That was good work.- That part has worked.- Yes.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18- Sadly...- It's getting the answers is the problem!
0:09:18 > 0:09:20Once we've left here, that's the problem!
0:09:20 > 0:09:24As it stands, the Crooked Spires have lost two brains from the final.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26The Eggheads have not lost any.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28Might be time for the bow and arrow in a second!
0:09:28 > 0:09:30The next subject is Politics.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32THEY GROAN
0:09:32 > 0:09:35- Oh, dear! A groan!- That's not good on the grid, that!
0:09:35 > 0:09:37I'm afraid that was going to be me.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39What are you looking at me for?
0:09:39 > 0:09:42- I'm just looking you're one of those two ways.- Are we going for the fall guy?
0:09:42 > 0:09:44- Do you want to do it, Trev? - Not really, no.
0:09:44 > 0:09:48- You don't, Bob?- I don't want to do Politics, no.
0:09:48 > 0:09:55- Right. It's me!- Chris. OK. Chris from the Crooked Spires against Chris, Barry or Kevin?
0:09:55 > 0:09:57Shall we have a Chris versus Chris double?
0:09:57 > 0:09:58Chris versus Chris.
0:09:58 > 0:10:02- A Chris double. - Chris on Chris on Politics.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05- Good, Chris? You like meeting Chrisses, don't you?- Excellent.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Please go to the question room now.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11You were a bit reluctant to take Politics, Chris?
0:10:11 > 0:10:15Yeah, I feel I took one for the team, here, Jeremy!
0:10:15 > 0:10:18- Yes.- So you've got a bit of political memory going back the last few years
0:10:18 > 0:10:20but maybe not that much further?
0:10:20 > 0:10:22Only a bit in the last few years as well!
0:10:22 > 0:10:26But you never know. Could be some luck in the questions.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29So we will see. We will see.
0:10:29 > 0:10:33Chris versus Chris on Politics. Chris, would you like to go first or second?
0:10:33 > 0:10:35First, please.
0:10:37 > 0:10:41Here's your question. What title was bestowed on Larry the cat
0:10:41 > 0:10:44who moved into Downing Street in 2011?
0:10:48 > 0:10:52I believe it's not Head Purrer.
0:10:52 > 0:10:58Hopefully, if my memory's right, they did have a mouse problem in Downing Street,
0:10:58 > 0:11:00so I'll go for Chief Mouser.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Chief Mouser is the right answer. Well done.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06Chris, your question.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08At the 2010 general election,
0:11:08 > 0:11:11Lord Toby Jug, Monkey the Drummer
0:11:11 > 0:11:13And R.U. Serious
0:11:13 > 0:11:16stood as candidates for which party?
0:11:21 > 0:11:25Well, UKIP are a semi-sensible party,
0:11:25 > 0:11:29but those sound like candidates for the Official Monster Raving Loony party.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33Official Monster Raving Loony is the right answer.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36OK, Chris. Your question.
0:11:36 > 0:11:42For what does the letter W stand in SWP, a far left UK political party?
0:11:46 > 0:11:47I don't think it's wages.
0:11:47 > 0:11:52I'm presuming the S and P stand for socialist party.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55I suppose you can have socialist women and socialist workers.
0:11:55 > 0:11:59But I will go for the Socialist Workers Party.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01You've got the whole thing. Well done.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Workers is right. Well done.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05Chris, over to you.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09Helle Thorning-Schmidt, who became prime minister of Denmark in 2011
0:12:09 > 0:12:11married the son of which British politician?
0:12:14 > 0:12:17Did Shirley Williams have a son?
0:12:17 > 0:12:20Did the Kinnocks have children?
0:12:22 > 0:12:26The Kinnocks have tried to found a political dynasty, haven't they?
0:12:27 > 0:12:29Glenys and Neil.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32They're more involved with Europe.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34So...
0:12:34 > 0:12:37Must be young Kinnock. Neil Kinnock's son.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40It is indeed Neil Kinnock's son. Right. Chris has got that point.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42Other Chris, see if you can get three.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45You've already done better than your team-mates in the round so far.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48You've broken the worrying pattern.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50Here's your third question, Chris.
0:12:50 > 0:12:55Who was the first prime minister of Israel to later become the country's president?
0:13:02 > 0:13:05I have actually heard of all three.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08But I can't remember in what context I've heard of them
0:13:08 > 0:13:10as a prime minister or president.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13I'll go Shimon Peres.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16You've got three out of three. Well done. Shimon Peres.
0:13:17 > 0:13:18OK.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21Chris, your question. Get this wrong, you're out.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23In US political history,
0:13:23 > 0:13:26what name was given to the Republican party faction
0:13:26 > 0:13:28that opposed Rutherford B. Hayes
0:13:28 > 0:13:34and so supported a third presidential term for Ulysses S. Grant.
0:13:38 > 0:13:42Hmm. They were the Die-hards, Jeremy.
0:13:43 > 0:13:48I'm going to go to Barry on this. He's shown extreme pain in the brain when you said that.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50- What is it?- I'm afraid they were The Stalwarts.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53Stalwarts, Chris. You've been knocked out by the other Chris.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55Well done!
0:13:55 > 0:13:57I don't know if the tactics changed
0:13:57 > 0:14:00or what changed, but you've done it, Chris. You're in the final.
0:14:00 > 0:14:04Sorry, Chris Egghead, you are not in the final round. Please rejoin your teams.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08- Chris, nice one.- Thank you.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11- How does that feel?- Gobsmacked, to be honest. I don't know what to say.
0:14:11 > 0:14:17You're in the final. The Crooked Spires have lost two, but the Eggheads have also lost a brain.
0:14:17 > 0:14:20Let's see what happens next. It's Music. Who would like this?
0:14:20 > 0:14:22It's me or you, Bob.
0:14:22 > 0:14:27- What do we think?- You're both OK in the final round. It's just who knows more on music now.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29- It can go either way. - What do we think?
0:14:29 > 0:14:34- Do you think I should go?- I think you possibly should go.- Go for it.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36I'll take this one, reluctantly.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39OK. Against? You can have here Kevin or Barry.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42What do we think? Which one do you want me to get rid of?
0:14:44 > 0:14:46- Kevin.- You want me to get rid of Kevin?
0:14:46 > 0:14:49OK. I'll take on Kevin, please.
0:14:49 > 0:14:54Trevor from the Crooked Spires taking on Kevin the Egghead on Music.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57How will this go? Please take your positions now.
0:14:58 > 0:15:02On Music, Trevor, would you like to go first or second?
0:15:02 > 0:15:04I think I'd like to go first, Jeremy, please.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09Good luck getting in that final round, Trevor.
0:15:09 > 0:15:15What surname is shared by Scott, the composer of the piece of music known as The Entertainer,
0:15:15 > 0:15:23and Janis, the American singer who had a US number one single with Me and Bobby McGee?
0:15:26 > 0:15:30The only Philbin I can think of is Maggie Philbin.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33I'm not aware that she's composed anything.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36Maplin, I'm not sure,
0:15:36 > 0:15:41but I do think that I have heard of Janis Joplin and Scott Joplin.
0:15:41 > 0:15:45It rings a distant bell. So I'm going to go for Joplin, please.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48Joplin it is, Trevor. Well done. First one to you. OK.
0:15:48 > 0:15:50Kevin, your question.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52"Got motion, restrained in motion
0:15:52 > 0:15:55"I've been driving, Detroit leaning"
0:15:55 > 0:15:59are lyrics from which number one single of the 1980s?
0:16:03 > 0:16:05I'll try Brass in Pocket.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08- You've got to sing it to me now. - No, that wasn't part of the deal.
0:16:08 > 0:16:10OK. Brass in Pocket is right. Well done.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12Back to Trevor.
0:16:12 > 0:16:20The Dutch jazz singer born Caroline Esmeralda van der Leeuw found fame under what name?
0:16:25 > 0:16:27I have no idea, Jeremy.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30I've never heard of this person.
0:16:30 > 0:16:35The one that I think closely resembles the original name
0:16:35 > 0:16:38is Caro Emerald.
0:16:38 > 0:16:42So I think I will go for Caro Emerald, please, Jeremy.
0:16:42 > 0:16:45It is Caro Emerald. Well done.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48Kevin, your question.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51The traditional song The Saucy Arethusa
0:16:51 > 0:16:54is mostly associated with which group of people?
0:16:57 > 0:17:00Well, it's a sea shanty,
0:17:00 > 0:17:03- so that would be sailors.- It is, indeed. Sailors is correct.
0:17:03 > 0:17:07So two-two. He's a hard man to shake off, Trevor, as you know.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09- Yes.- Here's your next question.
0:17:09 > 0:17:13Which actor created the role of Jean Valjean in Les Miserables
0:17:13 > 0:17:16in the West End and on Broadway
0:17:16 > 0:17:21as well as representing Ireland in the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest?
0:17:25 > 0:17:28I'm sure both my wife and mother-in-law
0:17:28 > 0:17:31will be screaming at the TV now.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34Because they are both musical fans.
0:17:34 > 0:17:39I've got absolutely nothing to go on here.
0:17:39 > 0:17:42Except complete guesswork.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46As my last guess was down the right,
0:17:46 > 0:17:52I'm going to go down the left for Colm Wilkinson.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55Colm Wilkinson is the right answer. Well done.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01Very good. OK. Kevin.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05If you get this question wrong, you've lost the head-to-head.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08Who is the subject of Philip Glass's opera The Perfect American?
0:18:13 > 0:18:15This I don't know.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17You could make a case for any of those.
0:18:17 > 0:18:21I'm trying to think if I've ever heard of that one at all.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23Nothing's coming.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28- If you get this wrong, you're out. - Looks like it may happen.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30It's going to be a one-in-three guess.
0:18:30 > 0:18:34I'm not historically very good with straight guesses.
0:18:35 > 0:18:37I'm tempted by...
0:18:38 > 0:18:40..Walt Disney, but...
0:18:42 > 0:18:45I honestly don't know. I'm going to try Babe Ruth.
0:18:47 > 0:18:50I'm afraid you've got shaking heads on this side. Eggs, do you know?
0:18:50 > 0:18:54- Is it Walt Disney? - Pat confirms Walt Disney is the one.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56Trevor, how about that?
0:18:56 > 0:18:59You've taken on... You did exactly... Fantastic tactic.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01You took on the strongest Egghead and knocked him out.
0:19:01 > 0:19:05So that makes your team in a better position in the final round
0:19:05 > 0:19:06which you will be in. Kevin won't.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09Come back to us and we will play that final.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12You didn't even need the bow and arrow!
0:19:12 > 0:19:17- How about that? Fantastic result. - We're riding our luck at the moment!
0:19:17 > 0:19:19Hope it continues into the final.
0:19:19 > 0:19:23Good luck. This is what we've been playing towards. It's time for the final round
0:19:23 > 0:19:26which, as always, is general knowledge.
0:19:26 > 0:19:30Those of you who lost your head-to-head won't take part in this round.
0:19:30 > 0:19:34So John and Steve from the Crooked Spires, and Chris and Kevin from the Eggheads,
0:19:34 > 0:19:36would you please now leave the studio?
0:19:38 > 0:19:43Trevor, Bob and Chris, you're playing to win the Crooked Spires £5,000.
0:19:43 > 0:19:47Barry, Pat and Judith, you're playing for something that money can't buy,
0:19:47 > 0:19:49the Eggheads' reputation.
0:19:49 > 0:19:54As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn, all general knowledge,
0:19:54 > 0:19:56and you are allowed to confer.
0:19:56 > 0:20:02So, Crooked Spires, the question is, are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05- Do you want to go first or second? - We'd like to go first, Jeremy.
0:20:09 > 0:20:11Bob, and team, good luck. Here's your first question.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13£5,000 to play for.
0:20:13 > 0:20:17Which of these phrases is used to describe someone with no money?
0:20:21 > 0:20:24It's not cock-a-hoop.
0:20:24 > 0:20:29Short shrift is when you refuse...
0:20:29 > 0:20:31It's got to be stony broke.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33- Yeah.- Stony broke, yeah.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36OK. We're pretty confident on this.
0:20:36 > 0:20:37We think it's stony broke.
0:20:37 > 0:20:41- Stony broke is the right answer, guys. Well done.- Thank you.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43Eggheads,
0:20:43 > 0:20:48which athletics event involves running a total of seven-and-a-half laps of the track?
0:20:54 > 0:20:563,000 metre steeplechase.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58- The track is about 400 metres. - How long is the track?
0:20:58 > 0:21:01- Four sevens.- 2,800.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03- That's about right.- Yes.
0:21:03 > 0:21:06That's the 3,000 metre steeplechase.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Just working it out in my head.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10Seven-and-a-half times 400
0:21:10 > 0:21:11is 3,000, I think, yeah.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14That's the right answer. 3,000 metre steeplechase.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17Back to you for your second question, Crooked Spires.
0:21:17 > 0:21:24Where was the Cunard ocean liner the Queen Mary built, in the 1930s?
0:21:27 > 0:21:30Lots of shipbuilding was on Clydebank, wasn't it?
0:21:30 > 0:21:34- Yeah.- Yeah.- Grimsby's fishing.
0:21:34 > 0:21:38I don't associate Grimsby with anything...
0:21:38 > 0:21:42Barrow-in-Furness. Do you know it from Clydebank?
0:21:42 > 0:21:45- I think it's Clydebank.- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47- I think it is.- OK.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50OK. We're going to go for Clydebank, please, Jeremy.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53You've got it right.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55Clydebank. Two out of two. Well done.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57Eggheads, your second question.
0:21:57 > 0:22:01The Canterville Ghost, first published in 1887,
0:22:01 > 0:22:04is a short story by which writer?
0:22:07 > 0:22:11- It's Oscar Wilde.- I think it's Oscar Wilde.- It's Oscar Wilde.
0:22:11 > 0:22:15- Yeah.- Henry James' ghost story was The Turn of the Screw.- Yes.
0:22:15 > 0:22:18- I don't think Conrad ever wrote any ghost stories.- No.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21- I thought Oscar Wilde before it came up.- Yeah.
0:22:21 > 0:22:25I think The Canterville Ghost was a story by Oscar Wilde. That's our answer.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27When did Oscar Wilde die?
0:22:27 > 0:22:30- I don't know.- Just checking he was still alive!
0:22:30 > 0:22:32Was it early 1900s?
0:22:32 > 0:22:34I'm just trying to throw you!
0:22:34 > 0:22:37Oscar Wilde is the right answer.
0:22:37 > 0:22:401900, he died. Bang on. 1900.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42Looks at the wallpaper and says, "One of us has to go."
0:22:44 > 0:22:46Your third question, challengers. Here we go.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49In the United States, the Reuben Awards are given out annually
0:22:49 > 0:22:52for outstanding contributions in which field?
0:22:55 > 0:22:57Obviously, if it was written as a sentence,
0:22:57 > 0:23:01- the word Reuben would be capital R, obviously.- Yeah.
0:23:01 > 0:23:03Would you have an award for shoe designing?
0:23:03 > 0:23:06Is he an author, this Reuben?
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Cos lexicography is to do with words.
0:23:10 > 0:23:14- Cartoons?- Cartoons, it could be.
0:23:14 > 0:23:18- I can't think of anybody...- It was in the '20s, wasn't it, cartoons.
0:23:18 > 0:23:22It could be cartoon films or it could be strip cartoons.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24- Yeah.- They've been around for years.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27I think I'm edging towards cartoons,
0:23:27 > 0:23:29but I'm not 100% certain.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32- Shall we guess that?- I can't see them having anything for shoes.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35- I think shoes is out. - Write that one out.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37Write that one off. What's lexicography?
0:23:37 > 0:23:41It's to do with words. There used to be a game called Lexicon.
0:23:41 > 0:23:42It's words.
0:23:42 > 0:23:47So that doesn't sound like... If you were going to have awards,
0:23:47 > 0:23:48- you wouldn't have many awards.- No.
0:23:48 > 0:23:53So with cartoons, there's various things you can do.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55- Shall we go for cartoons?- Cartoons.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58OK. We don't really know the answer,
0:23:58 > 0:24:02but we're really going to go for cartoons.
0:24:02 > 0:24:03Cartoons.
0:24:03 > 0:24:07I like your logic, and you're absolutely right. It is cartoons.
0:24:09 > 0:24:10- Superb!- That's good.
0:24:10 > 0:24:14Three out of three. You've raised your game at the right moment!
0:24:14 > 0:24:19Crooked Spires, let's see whether you can straighten out the Eggheads.
0:24:19 > 0:24:23Eggheads, if you get this wrong, the contest is over and they take the jackpot.
0:24:23 > 0:24:25Here we go.
0:24:25 > 0:24:29Greater, lesser, James's and Andean
0:24:29 > 0:24:31are four species of which wading birds?
0:24:34 > 0:24:36There's an Andean flamingo.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38There's an Andean flamingo?
0:24:38 > 0:24:42- There's an Andean flamingo.- It's greater, lesser, James' and...
0:24:42 > 0:24:44Greater, lesser, James's and Andean.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47I have nothing to add on this one.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49I think that as in went flamingo...
0:24:49 > 0:24:50I can't imagine it's plover.
0:24:50 > 0:24:55It could be stork. There's a few species of stork.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57Storks are northern, aren't they?
0:24:57 > 0:25:01Hmm. But they go south of the Equator as well.
0:25:01 > 0:25:05- Do they?- Adjutant stork and Marabou stork.- Oh, yes, they do.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07I've never heard of a greater or lesser stork.
0:25:07 > 0:25:12- If you thought of an Andean flamingo...- I saw it once and thought, "That's very odd."
0:25:12 > 0:25:15- We'll go with it.- It stuck in your mind. Go with it.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18- You think of flamingos as being Central African.- We'll go with it.
0:25:18 > 0:25:23- OK.- Pat has a recollection that he saw once about an Andean flamingo.
0:25:23 > 0:25:27And on that basis, we're happy to go with flamingo.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29Shaky, aren't they?
0:25:29 > 0:25:32But you got there. Flamingo is the right answer.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34Well done. Well done.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36OK. Three each. It's a tight contest!
0:25:36 > 0:25:39So we go to sudden death.
0:25:39 > 0:25:43Crooked Spires, we wish you well. It gets harder because I don't give you alternative answers.
0:25:43 > 0:25:47Here is your first sudden death question. £5,000 we're playing for.
0:25:47 > 0:25:51The Black Sea port of Trabzon is in which country?
0:25:51 > 0:25:53It's T-R-A-B-Z-O-N.
0:25:53 > 0:25:57It's Turkey, because there's a Turkish football team called Trabzonspor.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59- Yeah.- So Turkey.- Right.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01And it's in the Black Sea, isn't it?
0:26:01 > 0:26:05Is Turkey the Black Sea? With your geography knowledge.
0:26:05 > 0:26:06- Yeah.- Yeah.- Turkey.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11OK. Going by our knowledge on football teams,
0:26:11 > 0:26:13we're going to go for Turkey, please.
0:26:16 > 0:26:20It's always great the way a team of blokes will turn anything into a football question!
0:26:21 > 0:26:24Absolutely right. Turkey's the right answer. Well done.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27This is interesting. They're giving you a really good chase, Eggheads.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30If you get this one wrong, the contest is over.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33In which decade of the 20th century
0:26:33 > 0:26:39were the authors Philip K. Dick and Gabriel Garcia Marquez born?
0:26:39 > 0:26:41We had a question about Dick the other day. Do you remember?
0:26:41 > 0:26:44- And you thought he'd died... - He died around 1980.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47- 1980.- Around there. - He wasn't that old.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50- Probably 40, 50. - And Marquez just died.
0:26:50 > 0:26:54- Marquez is alive, I think.- He's still alive.- He's 70-something.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57So he's into his seventies.
0:26:57 > 0:27:02I think he must be. So he could be born late '30s to be in his seventies.
0:27:02 > 0:27:07What would that make Philip Dick, how old would he be when he died?
0:27:07 > 0:27:09He died in about 1980.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11That would make him about 50-ish.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14If he died aged 50, he would have been born in 1930.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16So I think it's '30s versus '40s.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21- Perhaps slightly inclined towards the '30s.- Yep.- Right.
0:27:21 > 0:27:27We probably have an Egghead behind us who knows for certain the dates of both those people.
0:27:27 > 0:27:32But without Kevin, we're a little adrift. We're going to go for 1930s.
0:27:32 > 0:27:36Your answer is 1930s. And you were choosing between...
0:27:36 > 0:27:37'30s and '40s.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39Kevin?
0:27:39 > 0:27:41- Twenties.- Oh, no!
0:27:41 > 0:27:44- 1920s is the answer.- I wouldn't have gone that early.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47So we say congratulations, challengers, you have won!
0:27:53 > 0:27:59Great stuff! The joy of knocking out Kevin. That was a crucial moment.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01Because he knows his dates.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03- What do you think?- Amazed!
0:28:03 > 0:28:06Oh, Eggheads. Oh, dear.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08We say congratulations to the Crooked Spires.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10What a great game you played.
0:28:10 > 0:28:14You had the grid in your minds and it paid off well. You've won £5,000.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16You are officially cleverer than the Eggheads
0:28:16 > 0:28:18and you've proved that they can be beaten.
0:28:18 > 0:28:22Join us next time on Eggheads to see if a new team of challengers
0:28:22 > 0:28:24will be just as successful.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26Until then, goodbye!
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