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These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.

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Together, they make up the Eggheads,

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arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.

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The question is, can they be beaten?

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

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

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They are the Eggheads.

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Taking on the awesome might of our quiz Goliaths today are...

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This team of friends are all former employees of Royal Mail in Chesterfield

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and take their name from the famous crooked spire which adorns the town's parish church.

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Let's meet them.

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I'm Trevor. I'm 46 and I'm a release manager.

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I'm John. I'm 56 and I'm a payroll developer for an IT company.

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Hi. I'm Bob. I'm 47 and I'm a finance business partner.

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I'm Steve. I'm 50 and I'm a post office customer advisor.

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I'm Chris. I'm 41 and I'm a service administrator and buyer.

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-Trevor and team, welcome. Good to see you.

-Thank you.

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That's a big part of Chesterfield, that spire.

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Apart from the football team, it's the main thing that everybody knows about Chesterfield.

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The spire is not deliberately crooked, I'm assuming.

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It's not deliberate. When they built it, they used untreated timbers.

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With the weight of the lead on top, it twisted. It's been like that ever since.

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-That's hundreds of years.

-Yeah.

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-So, quizzing together?

-We quiz now and again together at the local pub.

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So nothing major.

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I know that you are also a keen archer,

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so I'm hoping that if anything goes wrong, a single arrow should do it! Good luck!

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Every day, there is £1,000-worth 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, Crooked Spires, the Eggheads have won the last four games.

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Which means £5,000 says you can't beat them today.

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

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-Who would like this?

-What do you reckon?

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ALL TALK AT ONCE

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John, I think you can do it, mate.

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-It's John, is it?

-Yes, John.

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OK. Against which Egghead?

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Who do we think?

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Pat.

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So John from the Crooked Spires versus Pat from the Eggheads on Film & TV.

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To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions in the question room.

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On Film & TV, then, John.

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First or second set of questions?

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Can I go first, Jeremy, please?

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Your first question. In 2001,

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Tina Hobley took on the role of Chrissie Williams in which TV drama?

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I don't think it's Doctor Who.

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I watch Merlin a lot, so it doesn't ring a bell there.

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So I'm going to go for Holby City.

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Holby City is the right answer. Well done.

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Pat, here is your first question.

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Which comedy team perform a recurring sketch

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featuring two World War II RAF pilots

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who speak like modern teenagers?

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I know these chaps. It's a marvellous series of sketches.

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And it's Armstrong and Miller.

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It is indeed Armstrong and Miller.

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OK. We go back to you, John.

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In the film I'm No Angel,

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which fruit does Mae West famously ask her maid to peel for her?

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I'm not sure of the answer at all

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but I'm not sure it would be papaya.

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And certainly not a grape, I would have thought.

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Banana?

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"Peel me a banana." What is the quote? Eggheads, do you know this?

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"Peel me a grape, Beulah."

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"Peel me a grape, Beulah."

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What was that great line? "I used to be Snow White and then I..."

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-"But I drifted."

-I drifted!

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The great Mae West line is, "Come up and see me some time."

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Yes. And when you deliver it, Chris, it just...

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It brings it right back!

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Pat, your question.

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In which of her films does Marilyn Monroe play a character known only as "the girl".

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Don't know this.

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The most famous of those three films is The Seven Year Itch.

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With the famous...

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..ventilation grid scene.

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But it's not the correct answer.

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I'm at sea here. I'll go for The Seven Year Itch

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but it's not much of a guess, really.

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Seven Year Itch is the right answer.

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Well done.

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OK. John,

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who played the title role in the 1962 film Taras Bulba,

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based on a short novel by Gogol?

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Again, I've not heard of this one.

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I don't remember Yul Brynner being in anything like that.

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Omar Sharif, possibly.

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I'm going to go for Anthony Quinn.

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I'm not sure what this film is about. It's Yul Brynner.

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Eggheads, have you seen it?

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It's about the Cossacks' uprising against the Poles.

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So Taras Bulba is what?

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-It's the name of the leading character, as played by...

-Mr Brynner. OK.

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Bad luck, John. The round goes to Pat, I'm afraid.

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He has taken this round. He'll be in the final. You're knocked out.

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Please both come back and rejoin your teams.

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As it stands, the Crooked Spires have lost one brain from the final,

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whilst the Eggheads have not lost any. But it's early days, Spires.

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The next subject is Geography. Who would like this?

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What do you reckon?

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Shall I step up to the plate for this one?

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-Go for it, Steve.

-Go for it.

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I'll give that one a go.

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Steve, against which Egghead? It can't be Pat.

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-I don't think...

-I think we'll leave Chris for a bit.

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-I'll go for Judith.

-Go for Judith. Are you OK, with Keith taking Judith?

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Yeah.

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Judith will be lovely, thank you.

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A lot of people say that! Steve from Crooked Spires versus Judith from the Eggheads.

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To ensure no conferring, please go to the question room.

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You've been as far afield as Australia, Steve?

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I was lucky enough. A couple of times I've been back-packing round the world.

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A bit younger then, and picked up work along the way to fund the trip.

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Geography is the subject. I hope Australia comes up from your point of view.

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-Would you like to go first or second?

-I'll go first, please.

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Here we go. Good luck, Steve.

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Because of its grain production, which of these countries is known as the bread basket of Europe?

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I've certainly not thought of Norway related to grain,

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and I wouldn't really go for... I don't think it would be Switzerland.

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So I'll go for the Ukraine.

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Ukraine is the right answer. Well done.

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Judith, your question.

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The county of Cumbria is mostly comprised of the former counties of Cumberland

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and which other?

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That would be Westmorland.

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Westmorland is the right answer.

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OK. Your question, Steve.

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The Castello Sforzesco

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and the 13th-century Palazzo de la Ragione

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are both famous buildings in which of these Italian cities?

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Sadly, I have never been to Italy.

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I'm now regretting that.

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Because of the Palazzo, I think I will have a guess at Florence.

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Yeah, it's not, actually. It's Milan.

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OK.

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Your question, Judith.

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Nagaland and Mizoram

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are states in which Asian country?

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I think that's India.

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I think it is India, as well.

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Well done. So Judith is ahead.

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She's got two to your one. You have to get this one right, OK?

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-OK.

-Otherwise you're knocked out.

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The Solomon Islands are in which division of the Pacific Ocean?

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The Solomons.

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Um, I shall rule out Melanesia.

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Purely because I've never heard of it!

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I'll have to take a guess and I'll go with Micronesia.

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The answer is Melanesia, Steve.

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So Judith has taken that round, I'm afraid, and knocked you out.

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Please both return to us and we'll play on.

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Trevor, a bit of a trend developing here

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-with first question right, the next two wrong.

-Yes.

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That could be a problem, which we'll put right in the next round.

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But our category selections are going well, so far.

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-All going to plan!

-It's just the questions!

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The questions are difficult!

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-Did you have a whole grid mapped out?

-Yes, we did.

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So far, we've been fortunate enough to pick the people who wanted those subjects.

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-That was good work.

-That part has worked.

-Yes.

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-Sadly...

-It's getting the answers is the problem!

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Once we've left here, that's the problem!

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As it stands, the Crooked Spires have lost two brains from the final.

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The Eggheads have not lost any.

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Might be time for the bow and arrow in a second!

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The next subject is Politics.

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THEY GROAN

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-Oh, dear! A groan!

-That's not good on the grid, that!

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I'm afraid that was going to be me.

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What are you looking at me for?

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-I'm just looking you're one of those two ways.

-Are we going for the fall guy?

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-Do you want to do it, Trev?

-Not really, no.

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-You don't, Bob?

-I don't want to do Politics, no.

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-Right. It's me!

-Chris. OK. Chris from the Crooked Spires against Chris, Barry or Kevin?

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Shall we have a Chris versus Chris double?

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Chris versus Chris.

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-A Chris double.

-Chris on Chris on Politics.

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-Good, Chris? You like meeting Chrisses, don't you?

-Excellent.

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Please go to the question room now.

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You were a bit reluctant to take Politics, Chris?

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Yeah, I feel I took one for the team, here, Jeremy!

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-Yes.

-So you've got a bit of political memory going back the last few years

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but maybe not that much further?

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Only a bit in the last few years as well!

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But you never know. Could be some luck in the questions.

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So we will see. We will see.

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Chris versus Chris on Politics. Chris, would you like to go first or second?

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First, please.

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Here's your question. What title was bestowed on Larry the cat

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who moved into Downing Street in 2011?

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I believe it's not Head Purrer.

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Hopefully, if my memory's right, they did have a mouse problem in Downing Street,

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so I'll go for Chief Mouser.

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Chief Mouser is the right answer. Well done.

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Chris, your question.

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At the 2010 general election,

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Lord Toby Jug, Monkey the Drummer

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And R.U. Serious

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stood as candidates for which party?

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Well, UKIP are a semi-sensible party,

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but those sound like candidates for the Official Monster Raving Loony party.

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Official Monster Raving Loony is the right answer.

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OK, Chris. Your question.

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For what does the letter W stand in SWP, a far left UK political party?

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I don't think it's wages.

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I'm presuming the S and P stand for socialist party.

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I suppose you can have socialist women and socialist workers.

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But I will go for the Socialist Workers Party.

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You've got the whole thing. Well done.

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Workers is right. Well done.

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Chris, over to you.

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Helle Thorning-Schmidt, who became prime minister of Denmark in 2011

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married the son of which British politician?

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Did Shirley Williams have a son?

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Did the Kinnocks have children?

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The Kinnocks have tried to found a political dynasty, haven't they?

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Glenys and Neil.

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They're more involved with Europe.

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So...

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Must be young Kinnock. Neil Kinnock's son.

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It is indeed Neil Kinnock's son. Right. Chris has got that point.

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Other Chris, see if you can get three.

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You've already done better than your team-mates in the round so far.

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You've broken the worrying pattern.

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Here's your third question, Chris.

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Who was the first prime minister of Israel to later become the country's president?

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I have actually heard of all three.

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But I can't remember in what context I've heard of them

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as a prime minister or president.

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I'll go Shimon Peres.

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You've got three out of three. Well done. Shimon Peres.

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OK.

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Chris, your question. Get this wrong, you're out.

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In US political history,

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what name was given to the Republican party faction

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that opposed Rutherford B. Hayes

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and so supported a third presidential term for Ulysses S. Grant.

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Hmm. They were the Die-hards, Jeremy.

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I'm going to go to Barry on this. He's shown extreme pain in the brain when you said that.

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-What is it?

-I'm afraid they were The Stalwarts.

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Stalwarts, Chris. You've been knocked out by the other Chris.

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Well done!

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I don't know if the tactics changed

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or what changed, but you've done it, Chris. You're in the final.

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Sorry, Chris Egghead, you are not in the final round. Please rejoin your teams.

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-Chris, nice one.

-Thank you.

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-How does that feel?

-Gobsmacked, to be honest. I don't know what to say.

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You're in the final. The Crooked Spires have lost two, but the Eggheads have also lost a brain.

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Let's see what happens next. It's Music. Who would like this?

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It's me or you, Bob.

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-What do we think?

-You're both OK in the final round. It's just who knows more on music now.

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-It can go either way.

-What do we think?

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-Do you think I should go?

-I think you possibly should go.

-Go for it.

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I'll take this one, reluctantly.

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OK. Against? You can have here Kevin or Barry.

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What do we think? Which one do you want me to get rid of?

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-Kevin.

-You want me to get rid of Kevin?

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OK. I'll take on Kevin, please.

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Trevor from the Crooked Spires taking on Kevin the Egghead on Music.

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How will this go? Please take your positions now.

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On Music, Trevor, would you like to go first or second?

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I think I'd like to go first, Jeremy, please.

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Good luck getting in that final round, Trevor.

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What surname is shared by Scott, the composer of the piece of music known as The Entertainer,

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and Janis, the American singer who had a US number one single with Me and Bobby McGee?

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The only Philbin I can think of is Maggie Philbin.

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I'm not aware that she's composed anything.

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Maplin, I'm not sure,

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but I do think that I have heard of Janis Joplin and Scott Joplin.

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It rings a distant bell. So I'm going to go for Joplin, please.

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Joplin it is, Trevor. Well done. First one to you. OK.

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Kevin, your question.

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"Got motion, restrained in motion

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"I've been driving, Detroit leaning"

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are lyrics from which number one single of the 1980s?

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I'll try Brass in Pocket.

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-You've got to sing it to me now.

-No, that wasn't part of the deal.

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OK. Brass in Pocket is right. Well done.

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Back to Trevor.

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The Dutch jazz singer born Caroline Esmeralda van der Leeuw found fame under what name?

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I have no idea, Jeremy.

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I've never heard of this person.

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The one that I think closely resembles the original name

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is Caro Emerald.

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So I think I will go for Caro Emerald, please, Jeremy.

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It is Caro Emerald. Well done.

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Kevin, your question.

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The traditional song The Saucy Arethusa

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is mostly associated with which group of people?

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Well, it's a sea shanty,

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-so that would be sailors.

-It is, indeed. Sailors is correct.

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So two-two. He's a hard man to shake off, Trevor, as you know.

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-Yes.

-Here's your next question.

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Which actor created the role of Jean Valjean in Les Miserables

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in the West End and on Broadway

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as well as representing Ireland in the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest?

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I'm sure both my wife and mother-in-law

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will be screaming at the TV now.

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Because they are both musical fans.

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I've got absolutely nothing to go on here.

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Except complete guesswork.

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As my last guess was down the right,

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I'm going to go down the left for Colm Wilkinson.

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Colm Wilkinson is the right answer. Well done.

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Very good. OK. Kevin.

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If you get this question wrong, you've lost the head-to-head.

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Who is the subject of Philip Glass's opera The Perfect American?

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This I don't know.

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You could make a case for any of those.

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I'm trying to think if I've ever heard of that one at all.

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Nothing's coming.

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-If you get this wrong, you're out.

-Looks like it may happen.

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It's going to be a one-in-three guess.

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I'm not historically very good with straight guesses.

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I'm tempted by...

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..Walt Disney, but...

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I honestly don't know. I'm going to try Babe Ruth.

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I'm afraid you've got shaking heads on this side. Eggs, do you know?

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-Is it Walt Disney?

-Pat confirms Walt Disney is the one.

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Trevor, how about that?

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You've taken on... You did exactly... Fantastic tactic.

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You took on the strongest Egghead and knocked him out.

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So that makes your team in a better position in the final round

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which you will be in. Kevin won't.

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Come back to us and we will play that final.

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You didn't even need the bow and arrow!

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-How about that? Fantastic result.

-We're riding our luck at the moment!

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Hope it continues into the final.

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Good luck. This is what we've been playing towards. It's time for the final round

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which, as always, is general knowledge.

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Those of you who lost your head-to-head won't take part in this round.

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So John and Steve from the Crooked Spires, and Chris and Kevin from the Eggheads,

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would you please now leave the studio?

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Trevor, Bob and Chris, you're playing to win the Crooked Spires £5,000.

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Barry, Pat and Judith, you're playing for something that 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, all general knowledge,

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and you are allowed to confer.

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So, Crooked Spires, the question is, are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three.

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-Do you want to go first or second?

-We'd like to go first, Jeremy.

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Bob, and team, good luck. Here's your first question.

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£5,000 to play for.

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Which of these phrases is used to describe someone with no money?

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It's not cock-a-hoop.

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Short shrift is when you refuse...

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It's got to be stony broke.

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-Yeah.

-Stony broke, yeah.

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OK. We're pretty confident on this.

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We think it's stony broke.

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-Stony broke is the right answer, guys. Well done.

-Thank you.

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Eggheads,

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which athletics event involves running a total of seven-and-a-half laps of the track?

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3,000 metre steeplechase.

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-The track is about 400 metres.

-How long is the track?

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-Four sevens.

-2,800.

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-That's about right.

-Yes.

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That's the 3,000 metre steeplechase.

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Just working it out in my head.

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Seven-and-a-half times 400

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is 3,000, I think, yeah.

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That's the right answer. 3,000 metre steeplechase.

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Back to you for your second question, Crooked Spires.

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Where was the Cunard ocean liner the Queen Mary built, in the 1930s?

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Lots of shipbuilding was on Clydebank, wasn't it?

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-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Grimsby's fishing.

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I don't associate Grimsby with anything...

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Barrow-in-Furness. Do you know it from Clydebank?

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-I think it's Clydebank.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

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-I think it is.

-OK.

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OK. We're going to go for Clydebank, please, Jeremy.

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You've got it right.

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Clydebank. Two out of two. Well done.

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Eggheads, your second question.

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The Canterville Ghost, first published in 1887,

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is a short story by which writer?

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-It's Oscar Wilde.

-I think it's Oscar Wilde.

-It's Oscar Wilde.

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-Yeah.

-Henry James' ghost story was The Turn of the Screw.

-Yes.

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-I don't think Conrad ever wrote any ghost stories.

-No.

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-I thought Oscar Wilde before it came up.

-Yeah.

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I think The Canterville Ghost was a story by Oscar Wilde. That's our answer.

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When did Oscar Wilde die?

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-I don't know.

-Just checking he was still alive!

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Was it early 1900s?

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I'm just trying to throw you!

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Oscar Wilde is the right answer.

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1900, he died. Bang on. 1900.

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Looks at the wallpaper and says, "One of us has to go."

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Your third question, challengers. Here we go.

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In the United States, the Reuben Awards are given out annually

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for outstanding contributions in which field?

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Obviously, if it was written as a sentence,

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-the word Reuben would be capital R, obviously.

-Yeah.

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Would you have an award for shoe designing?

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Is he an author, this Reuben?

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Cos lexicography is to do with words.

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-Cartoons?

-Cartoons, it could be.

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-I can't think of anybody...

-It was in the '20s, wasn't it, cartoons.

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It could be cartoon films or it could be strip cartoons.

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-Yeah.

-They've been around for years.

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I think I'm edging towards cartoons,

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but I'm not 100% certain.

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-Shall we guess that?

-I can't see them having anything for shoes.

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-I think shoes is out.

-Write that one out.

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Write that one off. What's lexicography?

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It's to do with words. There used to be a game called Lexicon.

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It's words.

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So that doesn't sound like... If you were going to have awards,

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-you wouldn't have many awards.

-No.

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So with cartoons, there's various things you can do.

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-Shall we go for cartoons?

-Cartoons.

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OK. We don't really know the answer,

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but we're really going to go for cartoons.

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Cartoons.

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I like your logic, and you're absolutely right. It is cartoons.

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-Superb!

-That's good.

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Three out of three. You've raised your game at the right moment!

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Crooked Spires, let's see whether you can straighten out the Eggheads.

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Eggheads, if you get this wrong, the contest is over and they take the jackpot.

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Here we go.

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Greater, lesser, James's and Andean

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are four species of which wading birds?

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There's an Andean flamingo.

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There's an Andean flamingo?

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-There's an Andean flamingo.

-It's greater, lesser, James' and...

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Greater, lesser, James's and Andean.

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I have nothing to add on this one.

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I think that as in went flamingo...

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I can't imagine it's plover.

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It could be stork. There's a few species of stork.

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Storks are northern, aren't they?

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Hmm. But they go south of the Equator as well.

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-Do they?

-Adjutant stork and Marabou stork.

-Oh, yes, they do.

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I've never heard of a greater or lesser stork.

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-If you thought of an Andean flamingo...

-I saw it once and thought, "That's very odd."

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-We'll go with it.

-It stuck in your mind. Go with it.

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-You think of flamingos as being Central African.

-We'll go with it.

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-OK.

-Pat has a recollection that he saw once about an Andean flamingo.

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And on that basis, we're happy to go with flamingo.

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Shaky, aren't they?

0:25:270:25:29

But you got there. Flamingo is the right answer.

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Well done. Well done.

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OK. Three each. It's a tight contest!

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So we go to sudden death.

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Crooked Spires, we wish you well. It gets harder because I don't give you alternative answers.

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Here is your first sudden death question. £5,000 we're playing for.

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The Black Sea port of Trabzon is in which country?

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It's T-R-A-B-Z-O-N.

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It's Turkey, because there's a Turkish football team called Trabzonspor.

0:25:530:25:57

-Yeah.

-So Turkey.

-Right.

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And it's in the Black Sea, isn't it?

0:25:590:26:01

Is Turkey the Black Sea? With your geography knowledge.

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-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Turkey.

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OK. Going by our knowledge on football teams,

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we're going to go for Turkey, please.

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It's always great the way a team of blokes will turn anything into a football question!

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Absolutely right. Turkey's the right answer. Well done.

0:26:210:26:24

This is interesting. They're giving you a really good chase, Eggheads.

0:26:240:26:27

If you get this one wrong, the contest is over.

0:26:270:26:30

In which decade of the 20th century

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were the authors Philip K. Dick and Gabriel Garcia Marquez born?

0:26:330:26:39

We had a question about Dick the other day. Do you remember?

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-And you thought he'd died...

-He died around 1980.

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-1980.

-Around there.

-He wasn't that old.

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-Probably 40, 50.

-And Marquez just died.

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-Marquez is alive, I think.

-He's still alive.

-He's 70-something.

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So he's into his seventies.

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I think he must be. So he could be born late '30s to be in his seventies.

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What would that make Philip Dick, how old would he be when he died?

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He died in about 1980.

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That would make him about 50-ish.

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If he died aged 50, he would have been born in 1930.

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So I think it's '30s versus '40s.

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-Perhaps slightly inclined towards the '30s.

-Yep.

-Right.

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We probably have an Egghead behind us who knows for certain the dates of both those people.

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But without Kevin, we're a little adrift. We're going to go for 1930s.

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Your answer is 1930s. And you were choosing between...

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'30s and '40s.

0:27:360:27:37

Kevin?

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-Twenties.

-Oh, no!

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-1920s is the answer.

-I wouldn't have gone that early.

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So we say congratulations, challengers, you have won!

0:27:440:27:47

Great stuff! The joy of knocking out Kevin. That was a crucial moment.

0:27:530:27:59

Because he knows his dates.

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-What do you think?

-Amazed!

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Oh, Eggheads. Oh, dear.

0:28:030:28:06

We say congratulations to the Crooked Spires.

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What a great game you played.

0:28:080:28:10

You had the grid in your minds and it paid off well. You've won £5,000.

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You are officially cleverer than the Eggheads

0:28:140:28:16

and you've proved that they can be beaten.

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

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will be just as successful.

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Until then, goodbye!

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