0:00:04 > 0:00:08These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:12Together they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:12 > 0:00:15arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:24 > 0:00:27Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers
0:00:27 > 0:00:31pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34They are the Eggheads.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37Taking on the awesome might of our quiz Goliaths today
0:00:37 > 0:00:39are the Soroptimists.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42This friends and family team devote their time to projects
0:00:42 > 0:00:45that enhance the position of women in society,
0:00:45 > 0:00:47both nationally and internationally.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49Let's meet them.
0:00:49 > 0:00:53Hello, I'm Barbara, I'm 73, and I'm a retired librarian.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56Hello, my name is Susan, I'm 63 years old,
0:00:56 > 0:00:59and I'm a retired tour manager.
0:00:59 > 0:01:05Hello, I'm Ann, I'm 63 years old, and I am a retired head teacher.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09Hello, I'm Sharon, I'm 41, and I'm an IT manager.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13Hello, I'm Anne, I'm 71, and I'm a county councillor.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15Welcome to you, Soroptimists.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19What a great name Soroptimists is, and what a great aspiration as well.
0:01:19 > 0:01:23Yes, it comes from Latin, of course - soro for sisters,
0:01:23 > 0:01:26- and optimists, the best of. - It speaks for itself.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29- So we're the best of sisters. - Yeah, and do you meet formally?
0:01:29 > 0:01:30Oh, yes.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33We're a worldwide organisation.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36Our local club is in Ramsbottom, in Lancashire,
0:01:36 > 0:01:38and we meet twice a month.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40- OK.- And other times for social events.- OK.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43I was quick to say, you have a bit of fun as well, don't you?
0:01:43 > 0:01:46Definitely. Full of food. Important part.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48- Maybe a glass of wine or two as well?- Oh, just a few.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50- Every now and again. - Every now and then.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52What about a little bit of quizzing, does any of that go on?
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Occasionally. Occasionally.
0:01:55 > 0:02:00We're not... We go to quizzes as a team, but not a lot.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02- Well, you've come to the big one now.- Yes.- Taking on the Eggheads.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05- Yes.- You're not having second thoughts, are you?
0:02:05 > 0:02:07- Yes.- Too late now. Too late.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10You just might beat them. Let me tell you what's been going on.
0:02:10 > 0:02:12Every day there's £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs
0:02:12 > 0:02:14for our Challengers.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:02:16 > 0:02:18the prize money, of course, rolls over to the next show.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21So, Soroptimists, the Eggheads have won the last eight games
0:02:21 > 0:02:26and that means £9,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads today.
0:02:26 > 0:02:30Well, let's find out how you do. Round one coming right up.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33Head-to-head, an attempt to knock an Egghead out of the game.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35And it's Sport.
0:02:35 > 0:02:36Who'd like to play this?
0:02:37 > 0:02:42- Oh, hand up.- I think it's me. - Hand up from Ann.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45- Who would you like to play from the Eggheads, Ann?- Judith, please.
0:02:45 > 0:02:49- Judith.- Not very sister friendly, if I have a right to say.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52OK, then. The opening round is going to be Ann and Judith playing Sport.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55Could ask you both, please, to go to the Question Room?
0:02:55 > 0:02:57That's just to make sure you can't confer with your team-mates.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02OK, Ann, choose whether you want to go first or second for me.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04I'll go first please, Dermot.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09Good luck, Ann. Here's your first question, then.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Who was the world's number one-ranked men's tennis player
0:03:12 > 0:03:19for 160 consecutive weeks from July 1974 to August 1977?
0:03:23 > 0:03:24Um...
0:03:27 > 0:03:29I don't think it's Boris Becker.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34I know Pete Sampras has won an awful lot.
0:03:35 > 0:03:40Um... Not sure about Jimmy Connors. I'll go for Pete Sampras.
0:03:40 > 0:03:44OK, Pete Sampras for 160 consecutive weeks.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46I'm sure he spent that amount of time and longer
0:03:46 > 0:03:50given how good he was, but it's really on the dates there.
0:03:50 > 0:03:54It's not Pete Sampras. The only one that fits is... Eggheads?
0:03:54 > 0:03:57- Jimmy Connors.- Jimmy Connors. OK.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02Judith, in the exercise class known as spinning,
0:04:02 > 0:04:04which of the following is commonly used?
0:04:08 > 0:04:10Well, I don't think it would be a javelin because...
0:04:10 > 0:04:14I don't know what spinning is but the things that spin are wheels
0:04:14 > 0:04:18and so, I hope it's a bicycle.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21Bicycle is correct. You got it, Judith. Well identified.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24All right, let's get you off the mark, Ann.
0:04:24 > 0:04:29By what score did England defeat Australia and the 2013 Ashes?
0:04:31 > 0:04:32It's...
0:04:34 > 0:04:36I know there was a draw. Was there a draw at Old Trafford?
0:04:36 > 0:04:38Cos it always rains at Old Trafford.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41It's either 3-0 or 4-0, so I'll go for...
0:04:44 > 0:04:45Three.
0:04:45 > 0:04:46OK.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48And you got it, 3-0 is correct.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52Well done. Well remembered.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55OK, Judith, your second question.
0:04:55 > 0:04:59What was the reported transfer fee for footballer Gareth Bale
0:04:59 > 0:05:03when he moved from Tottenham Hotspur to Real Madrid in September 2013?
0:05:10 > 0:05:15Well, I think 105 might...be...
0:05:15 > 0:05:17slightly excessive, even for football.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22I can't remember if it was 65 or 85.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26I think I'm going to say 85.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29Well, Gareth Bale moving to Spain and Real Madrid.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33It's the right answer, Judith. Yep, £85.3 million.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Which means you need to get this, Ann.
0:05:36 > 0:05:39Adrian Broner, born in 1989,
0:05:39 > 0:05:42found fame as a leading name in which sport?
0:05:45 > 0:05:49None of these are my sports at all.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52Particularly table tennis. Um...
0:05:54 > 0:05:56I'll go down the middle. Boxing.
0:05:56 > 0:06:00OK. Well done. You got it. It is boxing.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04Well, really revived your challenge there.
0:06:04 > 0:06:08It stands at two all, but of course Judith faces her third question,
0:06:08 > 0:06:10so could win the round here.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Judith, the athlete, LaShawn Merritt,
0:06:12 > 0:06:18won gold medals at the 2009 and 2013 world championships
0:06:18 > 0:06:19in which of these events?
0:06:23 > 0:06:25I think it was the 400 meters
0:06:25 > 0:06:28and his second one was the 400-meter relay.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32Very good, Judith. It's the right answer.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Bad luck, Ann. As I say, revived the challenge,
0:06:34 > 0:06:36but that slip-up on the first question
0:06:36 > 0:06:38has cost you a place in the final round.
0:06:38 > 0:06:40Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Well, Ann just missing out there means as it stands
0:06:44 > 0:06:46after the first round,
0:06:46 > 0:06:48the Soroptimists have lost that brain from the final round.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50The Eggheads are all there, of course.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52And our second subject, let's play.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54Film & Television for this head-to-head.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57Who'd like to play Film & Television?
0:06:57 > 0:06:59- You?- Me?- You?
0:06:59 > 0:07:03THEY MUMBLE
0:07:03 > 0:07:05- Sue.- OK, stay with us, Susan.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09Do stay with us because we want an opponent for you.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12- Pat or Barry?- Um, Pat.- Pat?- Pat.
0:07:14 > 0:07:19- Pat.- All agreed? OK, decided upon Pat for Film & Television.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21Could I ask you both to go to the Question Room, please?
0:07:23 > 0:07:27So, Susan, I hear you spent a year in Beijing not too long ago.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29Yes, I went just after the Olympic games.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31I spent a year teaching English in Beijing.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34Fantastic experience. What did you make of it?
0:07:34 > 0:07:36I loved it. I'd go back tomorrow if I could.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38OK, well, let's hope this round is interesting for you.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41You know all the answers. Would you like to go first or second?
0:07:41 > 0:07:42I think I'll go first, please.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48OK, best of luck, Susan. Here's your first question.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50What is the name of Monica Geller's brother
0:07:50 > 0:07:52in the TV comedy series Friends?
0:07:56 > 0:08:00Well, it was a great series and his name is Ross.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03Indeed. No more to say, really, is there? Monica and Ross.
0:08:03 > 0:08:04Right answer.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09Pat, which long-running television series
0:08:09 > 0:08:12featured celebrities reading children's stories?
0:08:16 > 0:08:20Chigley was one of the variants on Trumpton.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23Saturday Superstore was just a regular
0:08:23 > 0:08:26Saturday kids companion programme.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29And the answer you want is Jackanory.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32It is, yes. It is the right answer, Jackanory.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34OK, Susan.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37Jonathan Nolan, brother of director Christopher Nolan,
0:08:37 > 0:08:40is best known for his work in which field?
0:08:44 > 0:08:46I don't know the answer to this
0:08:46 > 0:08:48so it's going to have to be a wild guess, but...
0:08:50 > 0:08:53I hope it's screenwriting.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55Talented Nolan brothers.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58And it is, yes, Jonathan Nolan known as a screenwriter.
0:08:58 > 0:09:00Well done, Susan.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02That's two for you. Pat, your second question.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05Who played the US president in the 2013 blockbuster
0:09:05 > 0:09:06White House Down?
0:09:11 > 0:09:15Oh, there's been a rash of...
0:09:15 > 0:09:17White House calamity films -
0:09:17 > 0:09:19Olympus Has Fallen, White House Down.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24I think I'll go for Jamie Foxx but this could easily go wrong.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26OK, Jamie Foxx.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30No, it hasn't gone wrong. It is correct. Yes, you got it.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33So, OK, all square. Going well here, Susan.
0:09:33 > 0:09:34Third question.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38How many times was John Gielgud nominated for an Oscar?
0:09:41 > 0:09:44Um, I'm afraid I'm not sure about this but...
0:09:46 > 0:09:49..six and ten seem a bit extreme so...
0:09:50 > 0:09:57- I'll go for the conservative estimate and try two, please.- OK. Two.
0:09:57 > 0:09:58And you're right again, Susan.
0:10:02 > 0:10:06Great stuff. Well, Pat, you need to get this.
0:10:06 > 0:10:11The 2,000th episode of which TV soap was broadcast in 2011?
0:10:14 > 0:10:16Crikey, 2,000 episodes.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19Three episodes a week, 50 weeks a year,
0:10:19 > 0:10:23150 into 2,000, you need about...
0:10:24 > 0:10:26You need about...
0:10:28 > 0:10:29150 a year, 2,000...
0:10:31 > 0:10:3412 years at three a week would get you there.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37That doesn't actually seem that long, really.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42I have a memory, I think, of an EastEnders live episode.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45I hope it was in recent times and was for this purpose,
0:10:45 > 0:10:46so I'll go EastEnders.
0:10:46 > 0:10:50OK, EastEnders for 2,000 episodes in 2011.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53Judith, you watch a lot of EastEnders? What do you think?
0:10:53 > 0:10:56- I do, but I must say I don't count the episodes.- That's true.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58That is a fair point. OK.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03It's not the right answer, Pat.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05Any other Eggheads tell me?
0:11:05 > 0:11:07On the numbers, I would've gone for Doctors.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09Yeah, Pat, you were doing the numbers.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11I was a bit concerned about the numbers even as I did the sums.
0:11:11 > 0:11:12- Doctors.- I was a bit uneasy.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15Yeah, well, EastEnders has been around since what, '85?
0:11:15 > 0:11:16So, been around an awful long time.
0:11:16 > 0:11:20Just saying, not broadcast every day but a lot more episodes.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23Which means, let's look at the scoreboard.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26Susan marching into the final round for the Soroptimists.
0:11:26 > 0:11:27You've knocked...
0:11:30 > 0:11:33The reigning world quiz champion has been knocked out there by Susan.
0:11:33 > 0:11:34Well done, you.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:11:38 > 0:11:41OK, so that means it's all square.
0:11:41 > 0:11:42Both the Soroptimists and the Eggheads
0:11:42 > 0:11:44have lost one brain from the final round.
0:11:44 > 0:11:48Everything to play for. Our third subject is Politics.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50Who from the Soroptimists will play this?
0:11:50 > 0:11:53Sharon, Anne or Barbara?
0:11:53 > 0:11:54I think it's me.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59That hand wasn't quite as positively put up as Ann's.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03- Do you want to play?- Oh, golly, yes.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10- We'll have CJ.- OK, just stay with us until we see if CJ doesn't mind.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12But he has to play, anyway.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14CJ, Politics. You're quite strong on that, right?
0:12:14 > 0:12:16I don't mind politics, especially if it's US politics.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19US politics and presidents and things like that.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21OK, Anne and CJ into the Question Room, please.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Well, Anne, I know you're well travelled.
0:12:25 > 0:12:30Have you met any senior politicians or world leaders on those travels?
0:12:30 > 0:12:34Well, I have, actually. But I'm sad to say some of them are now dead.
0:12:34 > 0:12:38- Well, name some names for us. - Ronald Reagan.- Wow.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40- Which I think is quite good, really. - Yes.
0:12:40 > 0:12:46- I did meet Mrs Margaret Thatcher. I did meet Harold Wilson.- Wow.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48So I've met a few leaders.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51How did you meet Reagan? Was that while he was president?
0:12:51 > 0:12:55It was...I went over for his inauguration...
0:12:55 > 0:12:59- in 1980.- Yeah, wow.- It was quite something.- What a moment.
0:12:59 > 0:13:03OK, well, well qualified to play this round, I would guess.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06- Do you want to go first or second, Anne?- Oh, first.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11OK, well, I think we can bear in mind the conversation
0:13:11 > 0:13:13we just had with this question. Have a listen.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15Which of these nicknames
0:13:15 > 0:13:17was Margaret Thatcher given in the 1970s?
0:13:21 > 0:13:25Well, this is quite easy for me
0:13:25 > 0:13:29because I'm only sorry she wasn't the minister when I was at school.
0:13:29 > 0:13:33Because I hated milk and she was the Milk Snatcher.
0:13:34 > 0:13:39As education secretary, yes. In Ted Heath's administration.
0:13:39 > 0:13:40That's the right answer, yes.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43Milk Snatcher, Maggie Thatcher, Milk Snatcher.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45The rhyme there.
0:13:45 > 0:13:50OK, CJ, which building is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.?
0:13:55 > 0:13:57That's the White House, Dermot.
0:13:57 > 0:13:58It is, CJ.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01Yes, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.,
0:14:01 > 0:14:05an alternative name or number for the White House.
0:14:05 > 0:14:09OK, Anne, what was the first name of Winston Churchill's wife?
0:14:13 > 0:14:19Well, again, he took great interest in Violet who was a girlfriend,
0:14:19 > 0:14:24but they did have very different approach to government.
0:14:25 > 0:14:29I have to say, I don't think Margot entered into the equation.
0:14:29 > 0:14:34But of course, the sweetest delight, of course, was Clementine.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37OK...which is the right answer, of course. Well explained.
0:14:37 > 0:14:39Thank you, Anne.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41Two for you.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43CJ, which of these political figures was born first?
0:14:47 > 0:14:52I mean, you automatically think it's Merkel. Not Palin.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56Theresa May, I don't think is as old as Merkel.
0:14:58 > 0:15:01- So I will go for Angela Merkel. - Angela Merkel.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04A roundabout way of asking which is the oldest of these.
0:15:04 > 0:15:08And it is Angela Merkel. Yes, indeed. German Chancellor.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13OK, back to you, Anne, for a third question.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16The lower chamber of the Parliament of Canada,
0:15:16 > 0:15:20which has 308 elected MPs is known as the House of what?
0:15:24 > 0:15:25Mm...
0:15:25 > 0:15:29Ah, now this is a bit of a conundrum, I have to say.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32Well, we certainly know it's not the Commons.
0:15:32 > 0:15:37My gut, and I have a horrible feeling this is going to be wrong...
0:15:37 > 0:15:39I'm going for Collectives.
0:15:39 > 0:15:44OK, Collectives. The House of Collectives for Canada.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47It's incorrect, Anne. It's not the right answer. Do you know, CJ?
0:15:47 > 0:15:50- It's the House of Commons.- It is the House of Commons.- Oh, sorry.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52OK, see how CJ does. It might not be over.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55CJ, in which year did Ireland become a member
0:15:55 > 0:15:57of the European Economic Community?
0:16:03 > 0:16:05I don't know.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09'73 is the year that the UK joined.
0:16:12 > 0:16:16I don't think it's as early as '63.
0:16:18 > 0:16:22I don't know so I will guess at '73.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25Going to guess at '73, as CJ identified.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27Turn that into question.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30Knew that the UK joined the Common Market
0:16:30 > 0:16:33as it was termed then in 1973.
0:16:33 > 0:16:34Pat, you can tell me?
0:16:34 > 0:16:37- I think it's '73, yes. - Think or know?
0:16:37 > 0:16:41- I think it was Denmark, Ireland and Britain went in.- That's it.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44You do know it. Yes, it's the right answer, CJ.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46Yeah, Denmark, Ireland, and Britain, they do like to do that.
0:16:46 > 0:16:49We've seen in subsequent years, haven't we?
0:16:49 > 0:16:51Not just one country joins.
0:16:51 > 0:16:55Several accede to the now European Union together.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58So that means CJ got it and bad luck, Anne.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00Some good quizzing there but just sorted out a winner
0:17:00 > 0:17:03on the third question means you won't be in the final round.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:17:07 > 0:17:09Well, ebb and flow in the game so far as it stands now.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12The Soroptimists have lost two brains from the final round.
0:17:12 > 0:17:13The Eggheads have lost one.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16Now, if we continue with the pattern, an Egghead should go here.
0:17:16 > 0:17:20It's Geography, this round. Who would like to play it?
0:17:20 > 0:17:21It's Barbara or Sharon.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24Yes, I will play Geography.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27OK, now stay with us, Barbara, and choose your Egghead carefully.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29Well, there aren't that many to choose from left
0:17:29 > 0:17:33given it's the last head-to-head, so you can play Barry or Chris.
0:17:33 > 0:17:37THEY MUMBLE
0:17:38 > 0:17:41- It doesn't make any difference. - No, it doesn't.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43We'll play Chris, please.
0:17:43 > 0:17:44OK.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47Let's have Barbara and Chris into the Question Room, please.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52Let's play the round, shall we? Geography. And you get to choose.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54Do you want to go first or second, Barbara?
0:17:54 > 0:17:56I'll go first please, Dermot.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02All right, here's your first question and best of luck with it,
0:18:02 > 0:18:03and indeed all of them. Here you go.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06Ecuador is bordered by which ocean?
0:18:09 > 0:18:13Well, Ecuador is in South America.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16So it's obviously not the Indian Ocean
0:18:16 > 0:18:19or the Arctic Ocean, so I will go for the Pacific.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21Right to do so. Of course, yes.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25Well done. Good start.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Chris, on the national flag of the USA,
0:18:27 > 0:18:30what colour is the rectangle in the top left-hand corner
0:18:30 > 0:18:32on which the 50 stars sit?
0:18:34 > 0:18:37It's blue, Dermot.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40- It is, yes. Do you visualise them in your head, all these flags?- Yeah.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43I mean, I actually thought it's kind of a simple question,
0:18:43 > 0:18:46but I think other people just think kind of...
0:18:46 > 0:18:50OK, good start. Barbara, second question.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54What is the approximate population of Monaco?
0:19:00 > 0:19:05What is the approximate population of Monaco? Have you ever been there?
0:19:05 > 0:19:08- No.- OK.- I know where it is.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11I know it's one of the smallest countries in the world.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14I don't think it's 3 million.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19I think 350,000.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22It is very, very small, and so it's not 350,000.
0:19:22 > 0:19:26I think you know what I'm going to tell you. It's 35,000.
0:19:26 > 0:19:3035,000. All right, second question for you, Chris.
0:19:30 > 0:19:34Which of these cities is located on New Zealand's North Island?
0:19:38 > 0:19:40Well, Christchurch had their catastrophic earthquake
0:19:40 > 0:19:42a few years back and that's on South Island.
0:19:43 > 0:19:48As is Invercargill, so on North Island it's got to be Napier.
0:19:48 > 0:19:49Yes, it's the right answer.
0:19:49 > 0:19:53Chris displaying his extensive knowledge of geography there
0:19:53 > 0:19:58means you must get this, Barbara, to stay in the round.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01Which Hawaiian island is nicknamed the Big Island?
0:20:06 > 0:20:09I don't know this, so it's going to be a guess.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13Hawaii is somewhere I've never visited, or that area, so...
0:20:16 > 0:20:17..I think...
0:20:18 > 0:20:23..I will go on my right of 'Ohahu'.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27- Is that pronounced correctly? - Oahu.- O...Oahu.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30OK. What do you think, Chris?
0:20:30 > 0:20:33Well, that's where Honolulu is, so that's what I'd go along with.
0:20:33 > 0:20:34Interesting.
0:20:34 > 0:20:35It is actually Hawaii.
0:20:37 > 0:20:42Hawaii is nicknamed the Big Island. Bad luck, Barbara.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45I'm sorry, it means we have to close the round down right there.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48Chris has already done enough to get into the final round.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:20:52 > 0:20:54And this is what we've been playing towards.
0:20:54 > 0:20:58Time for the final round which, as always, is General Knowledge.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads
0:21:00 > 0:21:02won't be allowed to take part in this round.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06So, Barbara and the two Anns from the Soroptimists
0:21:06 > 0:21:08and Pat from the Eggheads,
0:21:08 > 0:21:10would you leave the studio now, please?
0:21:11 > 0:21:16So, Susan and Sharon, you're playing to win the Soroptimists £9,000.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19CJ, Barry, Chris, and Judith, you are playing for something
0:21:19 > 0:21:22which money can't buy - the Eggheads' reputation.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25And as usual, I'm going to ask each team three questions in turn.
0:21:25 > 0:21:27So that stays the same as the head-to-heads.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29Here are the differences - the questions can be anything.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31It's General Knowledge,
0:21:31 > 0:21:33and you are allowed to confer, which Sharon is quite...
0:21:33 > 0:21:36- Relieved about.- Very pleased to see Susan get through there
0:21:36 > 0:21:37knocking Pat out.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39So, Soroptimists, the question is,
0:21:39 > 0:21:43are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?
0:21:43 > 0:21:46And, Susan and Sharon, what do you want to do? You get to choose again.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48Do you want to go first or second?
0:21:48 > 0:21:49We'll go first.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57OK. Final round. Can you win the money, Sharon and Susan?
0:21:57 > 0:21:59First question.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01Which of these cocktails originated in Cuba?
0:22:06 > 0:22:09Which of these cocktails originated in Cuba?
0:22:09 > 0:22:11OK, so Mai Tai is...it's the coconut one, isn't it?
0:22:11 > 0:22:13I think that's sort of Hawaii type.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16You have a more interesting life than I have. I don't know any of these.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18I've drunk them all.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21Cosmopolitan... Don't think that would be Cuba.
0:22:21 > 0:22:26- Mojito is a Spanish word.- My instinct was something like...- Mojito.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28Mojito. Should we go for mojito?
0:22:28 > 0:22:30Mojito, please, Dermot.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33Mojito... I like the way you say that. Mojito.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36It is the right answer. There, that'll calm you down.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38So, you've sampled them along your travels?
0:22:38 > 0:22:41I have been known to enjoy the occasional mojito.
0:22:41 > 0:22:42You've also eaten some interesting food,
0:22:42 > 0:22:44like kangaroo, crocodile, that kind of thing?
0:22:44 > 0:22:47Yeah, kangaroo and crocodile were quite tasty.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49The jellyfish wasn't so great.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52No, I wouldn't say so. OK, but that mojito goes down well.
0:22:52 > 0:22:56Steadied you there. Easing you into the final round.
0:22:56 > 0:23:03Eggheads, Burn was a 2013 UK number one single for which British singer?
0:23:06 > 0:23:11Burn was a 2013 UK number one single for which British singer?
0:23:11 > 0:23:13Burn was in The Hit Parade for quite some time
0:23:13 > 0:23:16and it was by Ellie Goulding.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18Oh, The Hit Parade. Aw.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20Is it a hit or a miss?
0:23:21 > 0:23:24Jukebox Jury. Ellie Goulding, anyway, is the right answer.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Well done, Barry.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29All right, it's all square and back to the Soroptimists.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32What are the names of the main characters
0:23:32 > 0:23:35in John Steinbeck's novella, Of Mice And Men?
0:23:40 > 0:23:43I have very un-fond memories of studying this at school.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45It's George and Lennie.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47Well, you may not have enjoyed it at the time.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49I bet you're enjoying it now. It's the right answer.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51George and Lennie in Of Mice And Men.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53Well done. You've got two.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56Eggheads, in September 2013, which space probe
0:23:56 > 0:24:00became the first man-made object to leave the solar system?
0:24:03 > 0:24:07In September 2013, which space probe became the first man-made object
0:24:07 > 0:24:09to leave the solar system?
0:24:09 > 0:24:11THEY MUMBLE
0:24:11 > 0:24:13I think the only one of those
0:24:13 > 0:24:15that has reached the end of the solar system,
0:24:15 > 0:24:17which I believe is called the heliopause,
0:24:17 > 0:24:18is Voyager 1.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20Can you say that in English?
0:24:20 > 0:24:23The bit where the sun's influence stops.
0:24:23 > 0:24:25Ah, thank you, Barry. Thanks for translating.
0:24:25 > 0:24:29You've got the right answer. Voyager 1 is correct.
0:24:29 > 0:24:33Well, we're on quite a voyage here. You got two out of two.
0:24:33 > 0:24:37This, as Susan knows, can be crucial. Third question.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40It just potentially could win you the money.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43Christian X was king of which of these countries
0:24:43 > 0:24:46during World Wars I and II?
0:24:49 > 0:24:54Do you know? Cos my thoughts before the answers came up was Denmark.
0:24:55 > 0:25:00Well, frankly I don't know, but I think...
0:25:00 > 0:25:01It sounds like a Danish name.
0:25:04 > 0:25:09- OK, yes, we'll go for Denmark. - If it's wrong, I apologise.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11Well, I don't know it, I'm afraid, so...
0:25:11 > 0:25:13We'll go for Denmark, please, Dermot.
0:25:13 > 0:25:16On the basis of what? Christian sounding...
0:25:16 > 0:25:18Yeah, sounds like a Danish name.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20Christian X was king of...
0:25:21 > 0:25:22..Denmark for a long time.
0:25:23 > 0:25:29Right answer. A step closer to the £9,000. Eggheads...
0:25:29 > 0:25:30Crucial question.
0:25:30 > 0:25:34The Canadian, Jessica Stam, born in 1986,
0:25:34 > 0:25:36has found fame in which field?
0:25:41 > 0:25:43I haven't heard of her.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45- Born in '86 is surely too young for architecture.- 27 is too...
0:25:45 > 0:25:49Yes, I was thinking that - far too young. It's cookery or fashion.
0:25:49 > 0:25:53It could be cookery or fashion, but more likely to be...
0:25:54 > 0:25:56..fashion.
0:25:56 > 0:26:00Fashion. She could be a designer or she could be a model.
0:26:00 > 0:26:05- There's not much cookery that comes out of Canada.- No, that's true.
0:26:05 > 0:26:06Well, it's true, actually.
0:26:06 > 0:26:09I can't think of any famous Canadian cooks or chefs.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11Fashion is much more likely for somebody of that age.
0:26:11 > 0:26:15- Yes, there was The Galloping Gourmet.- He was a New Zealander.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18- No, the... What's his name? - Graham Kerr.- Graham Kerr.
0:26:18 > 0:26:19- He was Canadian.- No.
0:26:19 > 0:26:23Well, then again, fashion might be the obvious one to go for,
0:26:23 > 0:26:25so she might be a cook.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27- Yeah, at that age.- Yeah.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31My vote is for cookery because I think fashion is too obvious.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33Well, I don't think it matters.
0:26:36 > 0:26:37The law of averages.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39She could be the exception that proves the rule
0:26:39 > 0:26:41about Canadian cooking.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43I've got nothing to go on and all I'll say is
0:26:43 > 0:26:45that if was me in there, I would go for cookery.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48Well, fashion, it is a bit obvious, isn't it?
0:26:48 > 0:26:50The age is right for fashion,
0:26:50 > 0:26:55but what fashion comes out of Canada, all things considered?
0:26:55 > 0:26:57There again, what cookery comes out?
0:26:57 > 0:27:01But, at that age, she could've made a name for herself as a cook.
0:27:01 > 0:27:04So, I'll change my vote. Cookery.
0:27:04 > 0:27:09Well, as you've gathered, Dermot, we haven't the first idea on this one.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12- But we've come to a consensus... - Not a consensus.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15Well, an almost... A three-to-one majority
0:27:15 > 0:27:16that we're going for cookery,
0:27:16 > 0:27:19and will never hear the end of it if it's fashion.
0:27:19 > 0:27:23OK, well, start scolding them now, Judith, because it is fashion.
0:27:23 > 0:27:24She's a model.
0:27:24 > 0:27:25Which means you've won the money!
0:27:28 > 0:27:29I can't believe it!
0:27:33 > 0:27:35- I can't believe it! - We are a little bit surprised.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38Well done, Soroptimists. And for you, Susan, winning twice.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40I mean, you've won two rounds now. You won your head-to-head and...
0:27:40 > 0:27:43Well, it's a lot of guesswork. It feels good. Thank you.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45Well played. Congratulations to you.
0:27:45 > 0:27:49One up for the sisterhood as well. One up for the Soroptimists.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52You should see behind you. Go on, you can turn around and have a look.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55Look at them. Wonderful stuff.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57Well, listen, it's been so good meeting you,
0:27:57 > 0:27:59hearing about the work of the Soroptimists,
0:27:59 > 0:28:02and hearing about all the other wonderful things you've done.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05You can go home with £9,000. Any ideas what...
0:28:05 > 0:28:09Well, it'll all go to charities, so that's what we're doing it for
0:28:09 > 0:28:12and also to highlight...
0:28:12 > 0:28:15to raise the profile of Soroptimists, obviously, so...
0:28:15 > 0:28:18Yes, it will be rather nice to be able to hand out a few checks.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21- It will be very nice. Thank you very much.- Well, congratulations to you.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24You are officially cleverer than the Eggheads.
0:28:24 > 0:28:25You've proved they can be beaten.
0:28:25 > 0:28:27So join us next time on Eggheads
0:28:27 > 0:28:30to see if a new team of Challengers will be just as successful.
0:28:30 > 0:28:32Until then, goodbye.