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These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:08 | |
Together, they make up the Eggheads, | 0:00:09 | 0:00:11 | |
arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:14 | |
The question is, can they be beaten? | 0:00:17 | 0:00:19 | |
Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers | 0:00:23 | 0:00:27 | |
pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:31 | |
They are the Eggheads. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:32 | |
And taking on our resident quiz champions today | 0:00:32 | 0:00:35 | |
are the Seer Greeners. This team of friends all have an association | 0:00:35 | 0:00:39 | |
with the village of Seer Green in Buckinghamshire. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:42 | |
Their children all attended the same school | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
and they take part in the school's yearly fundraising quiz. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:49 | |
Let's meet them. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:50 | |
Hi. I'm Rob, I'm 44 and I'm a sports marketing consultant. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:54 | |
Hi. I'm Terry, I'm 49 and I'm a software account manager. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:58 | |
Hi. I'm Simon, I'm 49, I buy and sell wine. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:02 | |
Hi. I'm Philip, I'm 43 and I'm a film composer. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:06 | |
Hello. I'm Andy, I'm 46 and I'm a client manager. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
-So, Rob and team, welcome. -Thank you. -Good to see you. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
Tell us about Seer Green. Is it a rather sweet little village? | 0:01:12 | 0:01:16 | |
It's a wonderful little village. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:17 | |
It's just outside Beaconsfield in South Bucks. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:20 | |
A beautiful, picturesque village with everything a village should have. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:23 | |
A couple of decent pubs, a lovely little school, | 0:01:23 | 0:01:26 | |
-a couple of churches, a great community. -OK. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
And you quiz together at the school quiz | 0:01:29 | 0:01:31 | |
and I know from these school quizzes, | 0:01:31 | 0:01:33 | |
-because we have one at my school, they can be tough. -Absolutely. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:37 | |
-Nobody uses Google. Nobody uses their phone. -There's no coverage. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:41 | |
There's no coverage! | 0:01:41 | 0:01:43 | |
Funnily enough, there's no coverage in this studio either so... | 0:01:43 | 0:01:46 | |
they can't and you can't. | 0:01:46 | 0:01:48 | |
Good luck, by the way, playing the Eggheads here. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:50 | |
Every day, there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs | 0:01:50 | 0:01:53 | |
for our challengers. However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, | 0:01:53 | 0:01:56 | |
the prize-money rolls over to the next show. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
So, Seer Greeners, the challengers actually won the last game, | 0:01:59 | 0:02:03 | |
so £1,000 says you can't beat them again. Are you ready to start? | 0:02:03 | 0:02:07 | |
-We are. -The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of History. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:10 | |
Who would like this? | 0:02:10 | 0:02:12 | |
On the basis of that, | 0:02:12 | 0:02:13 | |
-that was me, guys, wasn't it? -Team captain. -Team captain, I think. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:17 | |
-That must be you. -Straight in. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:18 | |
We had a bit of a confer before we came | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
-and History was going to be my subject. -OK. -I'll take History. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
Rob against which Egghead? Who would you like to take on? | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
-Go straight in for Kevin? -Yeah, why not? -He's looking nervous. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:31 | |
-We'll go for Kevin, please, Jeremy. -OK. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
Well, we'll have a little look at your History record | 0:02:35 | 0:02:38 | |
in a moment, Kevin. But it's Rob from the Seer Greeners | 0:02:38 | 0:02:41 | |
versus Kevin from the Eggheads. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:42 | |
Rob going for the big scalp here. To ensure there's no conferring, | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
would you please take your positions in the Question Room? | 0:02:45 | 0:02:48 | |
-So, good strategy to have a go at Kevin, Rob? -Absolutely. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:53 | |
Looking forward to it. Going to give it my best shot. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
I think that's partly how the last team won the jackpot, | 0:02:55 | 0:02:58 | |
-by getting Kevin out. But that was on Music, Kevin, wasn't it? -Yep. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:01 | |
This is History. How many rounds have you lost on History | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
-since the beginning of Eggheads ten years ago? -Well, none, but... | 0:03:04 | 0:03:08 | |
-How many questions have you got wrong, Kevin, on History? -Same. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:12 | |
-None? In ten years? -It'll happen. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
That may make it more likely, Rob, that it happens today. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:19 | |
-Anyway, it's brave. But good luck. -Thank you. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:23 | |
-Do you want to go first or second, Rob? -I'll go first, please, Jeremy. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:26 | |
Here is your question. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:30 | |
The last king to rule over France ended his reign in which century? | 0:03:30 | 0:03:34 | |
The last king to rule over France... | 0:03:37 | 0:03:41 | |
Um, I don't think it's the 20th century. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:44 | |
I think it's the 19th century, Jeremy. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:47 | |
19th is the right answer. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:50 | |
Kevin, which monarch was the great-uncle of Lady Jane Grey? | 0:03:52 | 0:03:55 | |
Well, Charles II was a lot later | 0:04:00 | 0:04:02 | |
and Richard III was earlier. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:04 | |
It's Henry VIII. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:06 | |
Henry VIII is the right answer. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
With some certainty, Rob, but of course, that was the first question. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:12 | |
-He may weaken. -Absolutely. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:15 | |
Which city was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire? | 0:04:15 | 0:04:18 | |
Carthage doesn't come to mind. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:24 | |
There were plenty of Romans in Cairo. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:26 | |
But most eastern, I would say, would be Constantinople, | 0:04:26 | 0:04:30 | |
so I'll go for Constantinople. | 0:04:30 | 0:04:32 | |
Constantinople is the right answer. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:34 | |
Good for Seer Green. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:37 | |
OK. Kevin, which of Queen Victoria's children | 0:04:37 | 0:04:41 | |
gave up his position in the House of Lords | 0:04:41 | 0:04:43 | |
and on the Privy Council in order to become | 0:04:43 | 0:04:47 | |
the Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha? | 0:04:47 | 0:04:50 | |
So, Queen Victoria's children. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:56 | |
I don't believe she had sons called either Edmund or Harold, | 0:04:56 | 0:04:59 | |
but she did have an Alfred. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:02 | |
So I think it's Alfred. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:04 | |
Alfred is correct. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:06 | |
Rob, your question. Which old English term refers to rulers | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
who took control of several kingdoms within Anglo-Saxon England? | 0:05:09 | 0:05:13 | |
I don't think it's scop. Scop sounds like the wrong word for the era. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:22 | |
So I'm selecting between wergild and Bretwalda. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:26 | |
-I'll go with Bretwalda, please, Jeremy. -Is he right, Eggheads? -Yes. | 0:05:27 | 0:05:31 | |
-Yes, you're right. -Wow. -Well done, Rob! | 0:05:31 | 0:05:34 | |
Three out of three. Well, will lightning strike here? | 0:05:36 | 0:05:39 | |
Historically, Kevin, what item of clothing was a mandilion? | 0:05:40 | 0:05:45 | |
Ah. No, this is one of those things that I don't really tend to regard | 0:05:48 | 0:05:52 | |
very much as History. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:54 | |
I'll rule out cap. | 0:05:54 | 0:05:56 | |
Mandilion... Jacket? | 0:05:57 | 0:05:59 | |
Is it something that could be a ceremonial...? I'll try shoe. | 0:06:00 | 0:06:04 | |
-I really don't know. -In ten years, you've never been knocked out | 0:06:04 | 0:06:07 | |
on History. You've never got a single question wrong | 0:06:07 | 0:06:11 | |
on History. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:13 | |
You have now. It's jacket, Kevin. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:15 | |
Well done, Rob. A bit of Eggheads | 0:06:18 | 0:06:20 | |
-history there. -Thank you very much. | 0:06:20 | 0:06:22 | |
So, Rob, well done. You've knocked out Kevin. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:24 | |
That does not happen very often. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:26 | |
Well, it's only happened once on History in ten years. | 0:06:26 | 0:06:28 | |
Do come back to us, both of you, and we'll play on. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:30 | |
As it stands, the Seer Greeners have not lost any brains | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
and they have knocked out Kevin on History. | 0:06:35 | 0:06:37 | |
What about that for a start? The next subject is Sport. | 0:06:37 | 0:06:40 | |
So, who wants this? | 0:06:40 | 0:06:41 | |
-Well... -We all want sport. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:43 | |
-I don't. -I don't want it. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:44 | |
We're going to go with route one on this so... | 0:06:44 | 0:06:46 | |
So, that's going to be Terry. | 0:06:46 | 0:06:49 | |
Terry on Sport. Against which Egghead, Terry? | 0:06:49 | 0:06:52 | |
-Dave? -Go for it. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:54 | |
Dave, please. | 0:06:54 | 0:06:56 | |
Terry from the Seer Greeners versus Dave from the Eggheads on Sport. | 0:06:56 | 0:06:59 | |
And to ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:03 | |
Terry, would you like to go first or second? | 0:07:04 | 0:07:06 | |
Jeremy, I'd like to go first, please. | 0:07:06 | 0:07:08 | |
Here's your question, Terry. | 0:07:11 | 0:07:12 | |
Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and which other golfer | 0:07:12 | 0:07:15 | |
were known as the Big Three | 0:07:15 | 0:07:16 | |
when they dominated the sport in the 1960s? | 0:07:16 | 0:07:19 | |
I think I know this one. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:25 | |
Ben Hogan, I think, was a little bit before that time | 0:07:25 | 0:07:29 | |
and Peter Alliss, whilst a very, very good commentator, | 0:07:29 | 0:07:33 | |
probably didn't have the golfing career he would liked to have had. | 0:07:33 | 0:07:37 | |
So, on the basis of that and all the majors that he won, | 0:07:37 | 0:07:41 | |
-I'll go further Jack Nicklaus, please. -Jack Nicklaus is correct. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:45 | |
That's your question, isn't it? You love your golf, I know. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:49 | |
Yeah, very limited talent at it, but it's not for the want of trying. | 0:07:49 | 0:07:53 | |
OK, Dave. Your question. The pavilion | 0:07:53 | 0:07:55 | |
at Lord's Cricket Ground was completed in which year? | 0:07:55 | 0:07:58 | |
I would go 1890, but with no certainty at all. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:04 | |
1890 is correct. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:08 | |
Terry, in January, 2013, | 0:08:08 | 0:08:10 | |
Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara | 0:08:10 | 0:08:13 | |
claimed a new world record by surfing a wave | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
reportedly 100ft high off which country's coast? | 0:08:16 | 0:08:21 | |
Wow. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:26 | |
I really can only... | 0:08:26 | 0:08:29 | |
think that... | 0:08:29 | 0:08:31 | |
the country which would have the biggest tide of those three... | 0:08:31 | 0:08:37 | |
..would be Portugal, so I'll have to go for Portugal, Jeremy. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
Is he right, team-mates? Yeah, they say you're right. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:44 | |
Yeah, it's correct. Portugal is right. Well done. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:47 | |
Playing really well. | 0:08:48 | 0:08:49 | |
You've not got a question wrong so far, team. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:51 | |
Dave, Nottingham Forest and Arsenal footballer Tony Woodcock | 0:08:51 | 0:08:55 | |
spent several years abroad playing in which competition? | 0:08:55 | 0:08:59 | |
I believe he played for Cologne in the Bundesliga. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:07 | |
We're never going to catch you out on football, are we? | 0:09:07 | 0:09:09 | |
-You will do at one stage. -Not happening yet though. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
Bundesliga is correct. So, two each. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:15 | |
Terry, Mark Webber... | 0:09:15 | 0:09:17 | |
made his Formula One debut in 2002 | 0:09:17 | 0:09:20 | |
when driving for which team? | 0:09:20 | 0:09:22 | |
I don't really have any basis to rule any of those teams out so... | 0:09:27 | 0:09:31 | |
..I'm going to have to go down the middle and say Williams, Jeremy. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:35 | |
Yes, it's interesting. Formula One is a big quizzy area. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:38 | |
-I wonder if you know, Eggs? -I'd have gone Minardi. | 0:09:38 | 0:09:41 | |
You would have gone Minardi. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:43 | |
Yeah, Minardi's the right answer. | 0:09:43 | 0:09:45 | |
So, chance for Dave to take the round. | 0:09:46 | 0:09:48 | |
In 2013, which British sailor became the fastest | 0:09:48 | 0:09:51 | |
British competitor to complete the Vendee Globe race? | 0:09:51 | 0:09:55 | |
It's not Iain Percy. It's either Golding or Thomson. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
Er... I'll go Alex Thomson. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:07 | |
If you've got this right, you're in the final round. | 0:10:07 | 0:10:09 | |
-Eggheads, do you know the answer? -Yeah, it's right. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:12 | |
Kevin confirms it is Alex Thomson. Dave, you got three out of three. | 0:10:12 | 0:10:15 | |
-You're in the final. Sorry, Terry. -No problem. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:17 | |
A tough strategy to make work against these guys | 0:10:17 | 0:10:20 | |
and you've been knocked out. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:21 | |
Please, both of you, rejoin your team-mates. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:25 | |
Sadly, Terry, you're gone. You've gone from the final. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:28 | |
But so has Kevin. Let's play on. The next subject is Music. | 0:10:28 | 0:10:31 | |
-Who would like this? -Me, me. No! | 0:10:31 | 0:10:34 | |
-Right. OK. On the basis that we have a musician in our midst... -OK. | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
..it's Philip. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:39 | |
Philip against which Egghead? Obviously not Kevin or Dave. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:43 | |
I'm a great admirer of Judith and I know Judith likes music, | 0:10:43 | 0:10:47 | |
but doesn't necessarily spend a lot of time reading up on it. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:50 | |
-You're right. -I'm hoping, if I could possibly challenge Judith, | 0:10:50 | 0:10:53 | |
-that would be great. -OK. | 0:10:53 | 0:10:55 | |
One of the politest call-outs of an Egghead I've seen for a long time. | 0:10:55 | 0:10:59 | |
Philip from the Seer Greeners versus Judith from the Eggheads on Music. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:03 | |
Please go to the Question Room. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:04 | |
Well, this is definitely your subject, Philip, | 0:11:06 | 0:11:08 | |
-cos you are really a musician. -I am. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
But I'm one of those people who... | 0:11:11 | 0:11:13 | |
I spend my whole life doing music, but I didn't spend as long | 0:11:13 | 0:11:16 | |
studying it, so I hope that's my way out here. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:19 | |
I've been a professor at the Royal Academy of Music for a while. | 0:11:19 | 0:11:21 | |
But, again, I'm more of a cellist than a professor so... | 0:11:21 | 0:11:25 | |
When you said that, Judith just looked totally shocked. | 0:11:26 | 0:11:30 | |
-She shouldn't. -Isn't that interesting, Judith? | 0:11:30 | 0:11:33 | |
It's very interesting. I want to go home right now. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:37 | |
But what is even more interesting, | 0:11:37 | 0:11:39 | |
Philip, is what you did for the 2012 Olympics because you had to, | 0:11:39 | 0:11:43 | |
basically, rescore every single national anthem, is that correct? | 0:11:43 | 0:11:46 | |
Yes, I did. It's quite strange. | 0:11:46 | 0:11:47 | |
For copyright reasons, every single Olympics - | 0:11:47 | 0:11:50 | |
and, in fact, also the Winter Olympics - the whole pack | 0:11:50 | 0:11:53 | |
of world anthems need to be rearranged and then re-recorded. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:57 | |
So, you can't play the Stars and Stripes just as is, | 0:11:57 | 0:11:59 | |
it has to be filliped in some way? | 0:11:59 | 0:12:01 | |
Yes, I wanted to do it in the style of Jimi Hendrix, | 0:12:01 | 0:12:03 | |
-but even that's copyrighted these days. -Of course it is. | 0:12:03 | 0:12:06 | |
So, would you like to go... Back to mundaner matters here, | 0:12:06 | 0:12:09 | |
would you like to go first or second? | 0:12:09 | 0:12:11 | |
I think I would like to go first, yeah. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:12 | |
Philip, here we go. The singer Jerry Lee Lewis became famous | 0:12:15 | 0:12:18 | |
for playing which instrument during his performances? | 0:12:18 | 0:12:21 | |
Well, he certainly wasn't a famous guitar player | 0:12:24 | 0:12:27 | |
and he certainly had a very percussive style, | 0:12:27 | 0:12:30 | |
but it tended to be, I believe, more on the piano. | 0:12:30 | 0:12:33 | |
He'd sometimes play it with his feet as well. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:36 | |
I'm fairly confident that it's piano. | 0:12:36 | 0:12:38 | |
Piano is the right answer. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:40 | |
Judith, who described herself as Mrs Carter for a world tour in 2013? | 0:12:42 | 0:12:48 | |
Why on earth would they do that? To be incognito while travelling? | 0:12:50 | 0:12:55 | |
I should think it's probably Adele. | 0:12:55 | 0:12:57 | |
Barry knows this, I can tell. No? | 0:12:57 | 0:13:00 | |
-No. -It's Beyonce because Jay-Z is Shawn Carter. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:05 | |
Judith, you're wrong. It's not Adele. It's Beyonce. | 0:13:05 | 0:13:09 | |
So, in the lead, Philip. | 0:13:09 | 0:13:11 | |
What was the second UK number-one single for Duran Duran? | 0:13:11 | 0:13:15 | |
Are you remembering it? Is that why you're in pain? | 0:13:15 | 0:13:17 | |
No, I didn't listen to pop music when I was young. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:20 | |
OK. I'm going to... I'm thinking about this. | 0:13:22 | 0:13:25 | |
Rio, I'm going to have to think of the videos. | 0:13:25 | 0:13:27 | |
Rio, that's going to be the one with the boat and one of them's | 0:13:27 | 0:13:30 | |
famous for sinking Drum, I think it was, wasn't it, the boat? | 0:13:30 | 0:13:34 | |
That's sort of in my mind quite strongly | 0:13:34 | 0:13:36 | |
because that was a big hit for them. | 0:13:36 | 0:13:38 | |
I suspect I'm wrong. I suspect I'm wrong here, | 0:13:38 | 0:13:41 | |
but I'm going to go for Rio. | 0:13:41 | 0:13:43 | |
I WAS listening when I was 15 and I would have said Rio, but it's wrong. | 0:13:43 | 0:13:46 | |
The Reflex. | 0:13:46 | 0:13:48 | |
I guess one of them wasn't a number one and we thought it was, probably. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:52 | |
Yep. | 0:13:52 | 0:13:53 | |
So, The Reflex is the answer. So, Judith, back to you. | 0:13:53 | 0:13:56 | |
The band Queensryche became a leading name | 0:13:56 | 0:14:01 | |
in which genre of music during the 1980s? | 0:14:01 | 0:14:03 | |
How do you spell that? | 0:14:06 | 0:14:08 | |
It's Queen and then S-R-Y-C-H-E. | 0:14:08 | 0:14:12 | |
Queensryche, all one word. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
I don't know. God. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:17 | |
Heavy metal. | 0:14:17 | 0:14:19 | |
Of course. Yes. Heavy metal is the answer. | 0:14:20 | 0:14:22 | |
So, it's one-each after two questions, Philip. | 0:14:22 | 0:14:24 | |
-Get this one right, put some pressure on Miss Keppel. -OK. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:27 | |
Which TV personality played the role of Albin in the West End production | 0:14:27 | 0:14:32 | |
of the musical La Cage aux Folles in early 2009? | 0:14:32 | 0:14:37 | |
I'm struggling for an answer here cos I'm not very good on musicals. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:44 | |
Now, I remember the film of La Cage aux Folles | 0:14:44 | 0:14:46 | |
That's not going to help me here because obviously what you've | 0:14:46 | 0:14:49 | |
got there is three very famous Irish comedians. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:53 | |
Which reminds me of something. I think I remember Graham Norton | 0:14:53 | 0:14:56 | |
talking about having some coaching | 0:14:56 | 0:14:59 | |
and having to prepare for a role. | 0:14:59 | 0:15:03 | |
Listen, I'm going to say Graham Norton, but I'm happy if I'm wrong. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:06 | |
I'm going to say Graham Norton. | 0:15:06 | 0:15:08 | |
My Radio 2 colleague Graham Norton will be pleased with your answer | 0:15:08 | 0:15:11 | |
cos it's right. Well done. Two out of three. | 0:15:11 | 0:15:14 | |
OK, Judith. If you get this one wrong, you'll be knocked out. | 0:15:14 | 0:15:17 | |
Which composer was appointed music director for Hamburg in 1721 | 0:15:17 | 0:15:22 | |
and stayed there until his death in 1767? | 0:15:22 | 0:15:25 | |
Well, I think Handel was in England, so I don't think it was him. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:35 | |
I have a feeling that Telemann was earlier than that. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:40 | |
So I'm going to go JC Bach. | 0:15:40 | 0:15:44 | |
Bach is your answer. Do you know, Philip, this one? | 0:15:44 | 0:15:46 | |
Mine would honestly be a guess as well. I'd have said Telemann | 0:15:46 | 0:15:49 | |
-but I'm probably completely wrong. -Telemann is the right answer. | 0:15:49 | 0:15:52 | |
I thought he was earlier. | 0:15:52 | 0:15:54 | |
Judith, one point out of three. | 0:15:54 | 0:15:56 | |
You've been knocked out by Philip. | 0:15:56 | 0:15:57 | |
Well, I'm not surprised. | 0:15:57 | 0:15:59 | |
Well done to you. You're in the final round and Judith is not. | 0:16:01 | 0:16:04 | |
Please, both of you, rejoin your teams and we'll play on. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:07 | |
We're heading for our last round before the final now. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:11 | |
As it stands, the Seer Greeners have lost one brain, | 0:16:11 | 0:16:13 | |
the Eggheads have lost two brains. You're playing well. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:16 | |
The next subject is Science. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:18 | |
-Who would like this? -OK. -I'm not sure | 0:16:18 | 0:16:20 | |
-anyone would like it! -No-one wants it! | 0:16:20 | 0:16:23 | |
I think I'm going to take it, Jeremy. | 0:16:23 | 0:16:24 | |
-OK. Andy against which Egghead? -We're going to get Barry working. | 0:16:24 | 0:16:29 | |
OK. Good choice, I'm sure. | 0:16:29 | 0:16:31 | |
Andy on Science from the Seer Greeners | 0:16:31 | 0:16:33 | |
versus Barry from the Eggheads. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:35 | |
Please go to the Question Room. We'll see who wins. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:39 | |
-Good luck, Andy. -Thank you very much. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:41 | |
Would you like to go first or second? | 0:16:41 | 0:16:42 | |
I would love to go first, please, Jeremy. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:45 | |
Here we go with your first question. What term is usually given | 0:16:47 | 0:16:50 | |
to the unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour? | 0:16:50 | 0:16:54 | |
OK. So, my brain says nautical equals water | 0:16:57 | 0:17:02 | |
so I'm drawn towards a particular answer. | 0:17:02 | 0:17:06 | |
I'm going to go for knot. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:09 | |
Knot is the right answer. Well done. OK. Over to the Brain. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:14 | |
What type of graph shows the values of variables | 0:17:14 | 0:17:17 | |
by the height of rectangles of equal width? | 0:17:17 | 0:17:20 | |
Well, it's not a scatter diagram. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:29 | |
And believe it or not, would you know the person who was reputedly | 0:17:29 | 0:17:32 | |
the person who invented pie charts? That was Florence Nightingale. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:36 | |
-Really? -Yes, she was a famous statistician. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:39 | |
That's sadly not the answer to this question. The answer is bar chart. | 0:17:39 | 0:17:44 | |
Barry, you're quite right. Bar chart it is. | 0:17:44 | 0:17:47 | |
OK. Over to you, Andy. | 0:17:47 | 0:17:49 | |
Which part of a horse contains a cannon bone? | 0:17:49 | 0:17:52 | |
Wow. | 0:17:55 | 0:17:57 | |
Horses are not... | 0:17:57 | 0:17:59 | |
a strong part of my knowledge. | 0:17:59 | 0:18:01 | |
I think the more obvious answer is leg but... | 0:18:02 | 0:18:05 | |
..do I go for leg or neck? | 0:18:08 | 0:18:09 | |
Cannon bone... | 0:18:11 | 0:18:13 | |
Er... | 0:18:13 | 0:18:14 | |
Neck. | 0:18:16 | 0:18:18 | |
-It is leg, Andy. Sorry. -OK. | 0:18:18 | 0:18:21 | |
Barry. | 0:18:21 | 0:18:23 | |
Piloerection refers to which part of the body becoming raised? | 0:18:23 | 0:18:28 | |
Piloerection occurs when you receive a very severe fright | 0:18:32 | 0:18:36 | |
and it's your hair standing on end. | 0:18:36 | 0:18:39 | |
The hair stands on end, that is correct. Piloerection | 0:18:39 | 0:18:42 | |
is what it is. OK. Andy, your question. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:44 | |
In the double helix structure of DNA, | 0:18:44 | 0:18:47 | |
which nucleotide always bonds as a pair with adenine? | 0:18:47 | 0:18:53 | |
-And you need to get this one right to stay in. -I do indeed. | 0:18:58 | 0:19:01 | |
And if you'd asked me this the best part of 30 years ago, | 0:19:01 | 0:19:05 | |
I would have jumped straight to the right answer | 0:19:05 | 0:19:07 | |
so I do know, obviously, those are the four constituent elements. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:11 | |
Not elements, but you know what I mean. | 0:19:11 | 0:19:16 | |
I think it's guanine. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:17 | |
-Let's see if Barry knows. Is it right, Barry? -It's thymine. | 0:19:19 | 0:19:23 | |
Thymine is the right answer, Andy, sorry. | 0:19:23 | 0:19:26 | |
-Brain of Britain's knocked you out... -Indeed. | 0:19:26 | 0:19:28 | |
..and he does love his science. Pat's good on science too. | 0:19:28 | 0:19:31 | |
But there's something about Barry and science, he actually loves it. | 0:19:31 | 0:19:34 | |
-Never mind. -So, there we go. You're not in the final and Barry is. | 0:19:34 | 0:19:37 | |
Come back to us and we will play that final round. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:39 | |
So, this is what we have been playing towards. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:43 | |
It is time for the final round, which, as always, | 0:19:43 | 0:19:46 | |
is General Knowledge. | 0:19:46 | 0:19:47 | |
But those of you who lost your head-to-heads | 0:19:47 | 0:19:49 | |
won't be allowed to take part in this round. | 0:19:49 | 0:19:51 | |
So, Terry and Andy from the Seer Greeners | 0:19:51 | 0:19:54 | |
and also Judith and Kevin from the Eggheads, | 0:19:54 | 0:19:56 | |
would you please now leave the studio? | 0:19:56 | 0:19:59 | |
So, Rob, Simon and Philip, you are playing to win | 0:20:00 | 0:20:03 | |
the Seer Greeners £1,000. | 0:20:03 | 0:20:05 | |
Barry, Pat and Dave, you're playing for something that money can't buy, | 0:20:05 | 0:20:09 | |
the Eggheads' reputation. | 0:20:09 | 0:20:11 | |
As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn. | 0:20:11 | 0:20:14 | |
This time, the questions are all General Knowledge | 0:20:14 | 0:20:16 | |
and you are allowed to confer. | 0:20:16 | 0:20:18 | |
So, Seer Greeners the question is, | 0:20:18 | 0:20:20 | |
are your three brains able to overcome the Eggheads three? | 0:20:20 | 0:20:24 | |
And would you like to go first or second? | 0:20:24 | 0:20:26 | |
We'd like to go first, please, Jeremy. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:28 | |
OK. Here we go. Final round. Good luck. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:33 | |
Podgy Pig, Ming the dragon | 0:20:33 | 0:20:34 | |
and a woodland creature named Raggety are friends | 0:20:34 | 0:20:39 | |
of the title character of which comic strip | 0:20:39 | 0:20:41 | |
dating back to the 1920s? | 0:20:41 | 0:20:44 | |
It's Rupert Bear. I'm sure of it. It's definitely not Fred Bassett. | 0:20:47 | 0:20:53 | |
-It's not Andy Capp. -Fred Bassett came later. -Yeah, yeah. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:56 | |
-I would definitely go for Rupert Bear. -Rupert Bear. | 0:20:56 | 0:21:00 | |
We're going to go with Rupert the Bear. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:03 | |
Rupert Bear is the right answer. Well done. One to you. | 0:21:03 | 0:21:06 | |
First question for the Eggheads. | 0:21:06 | 0:21:08 | |
The popular reading books for young children launched in 1949 were based | 0:21:08 | 0:21:13 | |
on the characters Janet and who? | 0:21:13 | 0:21:16 | |
-John. -Janet and John, aren't they? -Yep? -Yep. | 0:21:19 | 0:21:23 | |
We think that's John. | 0:21:23 | 0:21:25 | |
John is the right answer. | 0:21:26 | 0:21:28 | |
They may get harder. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:29 | |
Your second question. | 0:21:29 | 0:21:31 | |
Seer Greeners, in which borough of New York City | 0:21:31 | 0:21:34 | |
is the Museum of Modern Art located? | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
-I'm drawn to... -Let's think about it. In Manhattan, you've got | 0:21:41 | 0:21:44 | |
the Guggenheim, haven't you? | 0:21:44 | 0:21:46 | |
-You've definitely got the Guggenheim. -There's the Brooklyn Museum of Art. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:50 | |
-Can we rule out Queens? -Yeah. | 0:21:50 | 0:21:53 | |
I'm pretty sure it's not Queens. | 0:21:53 | 0:21:55 | |
I'm drawn to Brooklyn because of its association with art generally. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:58 | |
-Yeah. -But Manhattan is the centre. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:02 | |
Would you have a big museum in New York outside of Manhattan? | 0:22:02 | 0:22:05 | |
Like you say, Brooklyn is sort of the... It's more left-field. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:09 | |
-A bit more bohemian, isn't it? -Yeah, yeah, yeah. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:11 | |
-It's probably going to be Manhattan... -It probably will be. | 0:22:11 | 0:22:14 | |
..where you get the vast majority of the tourists and the visitors. | 0:22:14 | 0:22:18 | |
Shall we go with Manhattan? | 0:22:18 | 0:22:19 | |
-I don't want to push you to it? -I'm happy to go with Manhattan. | 0:22:19 | 0:22:22 | |
Manhattan? | 0:22:22 | 0:22:23 | |
Personally, I don't know, but my colleagues here... | 0:22:25 | 0:22:28 | |
We think it's Manhattan. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:30 | |
-That's see about these Eggs. Barry? Pat? -Manhattan. -Manhattan. | 0:22:30 | 0:22:33 | |
-Manhattan is the right answer. Well done. -Thank goodness. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:35 | |
We got there, boys. | 0:22:35 | 0:22:37 | |
Slowly but surely. | 0:22:37 | 0:22:38 | |
Eggheads, your question. What is the name of the teacher | 0:22:38 | 0:22:41 | |
played by Greg Davis in the TV sitcom The Inbetweeners? | 0:22:41 | 0:22:45 | |
-Have you seen it? -Never. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:50 | |
I've seen a small fraction of one episode and he didn't appear. | 0:22:50 | 0:22:54 | |
All I would say... | 0:22:54 | 0:22:56 | |
Mr Robert sounds more... | 0:22:56 | 0:22:58 | |
contrived than Gilbert and Herbert as a surname. | 0:22:58 | 0:23:01 | |
So, Gilbert or Herbert. If you were going to take the mickey | 0:23:03 | 0:23:06 | |
out of somebody who's a teacher, it would be Herbert. | 0:23:06 | 0:23:09 | |
A right Herbert, that sort of thing. | 0:23:09 | 0:23:11 | |
-I like the idea of taking the mickey out of somebody. -That's a guess. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:14 | |
I've no idea. | 0:23:14 | 0:23:16 | |
We're completely at sea, Jeremy, | 0:23:16 | 0:23:18 | |
and we're going to go for Mr Herbert with great confidence. | 0:23:18 | 0:23:21 | |
-Do you watch it, guys? -Yeah, we do. -Ah, what's the answer? | 0:23:21 | 0:23:24 | |
-My instinct's Mr Gilbert. -Mr Gilbert, yeah. | 0:23:24 | 0:23:26 | |
Mr Gilbert is the answer, Eggheads. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:28 | |
Your chance to win on this question. Beat the Eggheads. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:34 | |
Almazbek Atambayev was elected president of which country in 2011? | 0:23:34 | 0:23:41 | |
Personally, I'm drawn between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. | 0:23:44 | 0:23:49 | |
Any recollection of any elections in either of those two countries? | 0:23:49 | 0:23:52 | |
I agree we should rule out Mongolia. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:56 | |
Um... Kyrgyzstan... | 0:23:56 | 0:23:59 | |
"Bek." | 0:23:59 | 0:24:01 | |
I hadn't heard of that until... | 0:24:01 | 0:24:03 | |
-Could we hear the name again, please, Jeremy? -Yeah. | 0:24:03 | 0:24:05 | |
Almazbek Atambayev was elected president of which country in 2011? | 0:24:05 | 0:24:10 | |
Ah. I tell you what, "E-V", so it's more Russian, isn't it? | 0:24:10 | 0:24:15 | |
So, are we veering more towards... | 0:24:15 | 0:24:18 | |
MUTTERING | 0:24:18 | 0:24:20 | |
-Shall we go Uzbekistan? -Yeah. Uzbekistan. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:25 | |
It's a slightly educated guess, but we are going with Uzbekistan. | 0:24:26 | 0:24:31 | |
Are they right? | 0:24:31 | 0:24:33 | |
Don't know. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:35 | |
-Kyrgyzstan. -Never mind. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:38 | |
I could see how the "bek" was the shred of a clue. Drew you in there. | 0:24:38 | 0:24:44 | |
Kyrgyzstan. Tough question that. OK. Eggheads, if you get this one wrong, | 0:24:45 | 0:24:48 | |
the contest is over. Chinese Girl, or Green Lady, | 0:24:48 | 0:24:53 | |
which became one of the world's most reproduced prints, | 0:24:53 | 0:24:57 | |
is a 1952 work by which artist? | 0:24:57 | 0:25:00 | |
-It's Tretchikoff. -OK. Yep, that's fine. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:09 | |
That's Vladimir Tretchikoff. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:13 | |
We had it on the wall of my lounge for about 20 years. | 0:25:13 | 0:25:16 | |
OK. All right. Well, yes, you're right. Vladimir Tretchikoff | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
is the right answer. I won't tease you, if you really are sure. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:22 | |
Tretchikoff is right. So, two points. | 0:25:22 | 0:25:24 | |
After three questions for you both, we go to Sudden Death, | 0:25:24 | 0:25:26 | |
Seer Greeners, which means it becomes a bit harder. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:29 | |
-I don't give you alternative answers. -Right. | 0:25:29 | 0:25:32 | |
Which London restaurant opened in 1967 is named after | 0:25:32 | 0:25:36 | |
a character from Les Miserables? | 0:25:36 | 0:25:38 | |
Right. You know Les Miserables. | 0:25:38 | 0:25:40 | |
Quaglino's? | 0:25:40 | 0:25:42 | |
Is Quaglino in Les Miserables? | 0:25:42 | 0:25:46 | |
Is it in the book or the musical, that's the question? | 0:25:46 | 0:25:49 | |
You need a French restaurant as well. Gavroche! | 0:25:49 | 0:25:53 | |
Must be La Gavroche cos Gavroche, I think, | 0:25:53 | 0:25:56 | |
-is the arresting officer. Try it. -Absolutely. | 0:25:56 | 0:25:59 | |
My learned friend here on the left suggested it might be La Gavroche. | 0:25:59 | 0:26:04 | |
-Le Gavroche is correct. -Fantastic. Well done, Phil. | 0:26:04 | 0:26:07 | |
Well done. Well played. Gavroche. | 0:26:07 | 0:26:09 | |
OK. So... | 0:26:09 | 0:26:10 | |
you're on the back foot again, Eggheads. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:13 | |
In Greek mythology, who rescued Andromeda | 0:26:13 | 0:26:17 | |
after she'd been chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster? | 0:26:17 | 0:26:22 | |
-Perseus. -Perseus, yeah. It is Perseus, isn't it? -That was Perseus. | 0:26:22 | 0:26:27 | |
Perseus is the right answer. | 0:26:27 | 0:26:28 | |
Sorry! | 0:26:28 | 0:26:30 | |
They are hard to throw off. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:34 | |
Hadrian's Villa or the Villa Adriana | 0:26:34 | 0:26:37 | |
is in which town roughly 30km north-east of Rome? | 0:26:37 | 0:26:42 | |
OK. We need all the help we can get. So, let's think about it. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:45 | |
Think of wines, football teams. | 0:26:45 | 0:26:47 | |
We've got Lazio... You've got... | 0:26:47 | 0:26:49 | |
-How far out of Rome is that? -That's close. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:52 | |
-Too near? -Not far enough. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:54 | |
Hadrian's Villa or Villa Adriana... | 0:26:55 | 0:26:58 | |
It's obviously... | 0:26:58 | 0:27:01 | |
-He's an emperor so... -I don't know. | 0:27:02 | 0:27:05 | |
I'm drawn to... | 0:27:05 | 0:27:07 | |
..Pisa but that's probably too far north. | 0:27:08 | 0:27:11 | |
No, Pisa's not that close to Rome. Can't be. | 0:27:11 | 0:27:14 | |
Castel Gandolfo. Is Gandolfo a town? | 0:27:14 | 0:27:17 | |
-Try it. -Try Gandolfo. | 0:27:17 | 0:27:19 | |
I don't know if it's a town. Sorry. | 0:27:19 | 0:27:21 | |
Wild stab in the dark. Gandolfo. | 0:27:21 | 0:27:24 | |
-Eggheads, do you know? -Tivoli. -Tivoli. | 0:27:25 | 0:27:28 | |
All right. So, Eggheads, | 0:27:28 | 0:27:30 | |
your chance to take the contest. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:31 | |
Here's your question. In which year did the so-called | 0:27:31 | 0:27:34 | |
Zinoviev Letter create a scandal when it was published | 0:27:34 | 0:27:37 | |
by the Daily Mail four days before a British general election? | 0:27:37 | 0:27:41 | |
-1924. -I think '24. -1924. The date came into both of our heads. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:45 | |
Before Ramsay MacDonald. Tried to discredit him, didn't he? | 0:27:45 | 0:27:48 | |
-Well, it's come into my mind. -'24 came straight into my head. | 0:27:48 | 0:27:52 | |
We'll go with that. We're going with 1924. | 0:27:52 | 0:27:55 | |
1924 is the... | 0:27:55 | 0:27:57 | |
right answer. We say congratulations, Eggheads. | 0:27:57 | 0:27:59 | |
You have won. | 0:27:59 | 0:28:01 | |
Well, I must say, you played a brilliant game. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:08 | |
-It was just so entertaining to watch the way you did it. -It was close. | 0:28:08 | 0:28:11 | |
Yes, it was close. No question. | 0:28:11 | 0:28:13 | |
You got Kevin out, the three of them... | 0:28:13 | 0:28:14 | |
-You wobbled a bit, didn't you, Eggs? -Just a little. | 0:28:14 | 0:28:17 | |
Commiserations, Seer Greeners. The Eggheads have done what comes, | 0:28:17 | 0:28:20 | |
I'll say, naturally, to them. | 0:28:20 | 0:28:22 | |
Doesn't feel that way at the moment. | 0:28:22 | 0:28:24 | |
They do reign supreme over quizland once again. | 0:28:24 | 0:28:27 | |
I'm afraid it means you won't be going home with your £1,000, | 0:28:27 | 0:28:30 | |
so the money rolls over to our next show. Eggheads, congratulations. | 0:28:30 | 0:28:33 | |
I wonder when you will be beaten? | 0:28:33 | 0:28:35 | |
Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers | 0:28:35 | 0:28:38 | |
have the brains to defeat the Eggheads. | 0:28:38 | 0:28:40 | |
£2,000 says they don't. Till then, goodbye. | 0:28:40 | 0:28:44 |