0:00:04 > 0:00:08These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:11 > 0:00:14arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:27Welcome 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 > 0:00:33They are the Eggheads.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36And taking on our awesome quiz champions today
0:00:36 > 0:00:38are Sword Sandwich from Kent.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40Now, this team are all members of the same fencing club,
0:00:40 > 0:00:44based in the historic Cinque Port of Sandwich.
0:00:44 > 0:00:45Let's meet them.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48Hi, my name's Kate. I'm 46 and I'm a fencing coach.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51Hello, my name's Patrick.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55I'm 74 and I'm a company director, retired.
0:00:55 > 0:00:59Hello, my name's Amber, I'm 19, and I work in an animal park.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02Hello, my name's John, I'm 61 and I'm a retired anaesthetist.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06Hello, my name's Nick, I'm 42 and I'm a solicitor.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08Well, welcome to you, Sword Sandwich.
0:01:08 > 0:01:09I like that team name.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13Of course, fitting it together with where you're from and what you do.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15- Keen fencer, are you, Kate? - Absolutely.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17Yes, absolutely, I've fenced since I was 10, so, yeah.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19My absolute love.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22OK, and are you all involved in the fencing club, or..?
0:01:22 > 0:01:24We are in various forms, yes.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26I've been watching her since I've been...
0:01:26 > 0:01:29since she's been doing it, aged ten. DERMOT LAUGHS
0:01:29 > 0:01:32Gets a bit boring, sometimes, but it's pretty good most of the time.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34And I hear she's pretty good at it.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37- What about the quizzing side of it, Kate?- Um...
0:01:37 > 0:01:40- Remains to be seen, really.- OK. - KATE LAUGHS
0:01:40 > 0:01:43Well, let's put it to the test now, shall we?
0:01:43 > 0:01:46Every day, there's £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs
0:01:46 > 0:01:48for our challengers.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:01:50 > 0:01:52the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55So, Sword Sandwich, the Eggheads have won the last ten games,
0:01:55 > 0:02:00and that means £11,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads today.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03OK, well, let's give it a go, shall we?
0:02:03 > 0:02:06The first head-to-head battle is going to be on Film & Television.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09So who'd like to take this one on to start us off?
0:02:09 > 0:02:11Not me.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13- Not me.- Mm...
0:02:14 > 0:02:16- You were doing best on the train. - You did best with Oscars...
0:02:16 > 0:02:18I don't mind doing it.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21- ..except you might be nice to have at the end.- Up to you, your call.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23I think your Mr and Mrs, and, you know, who's married to who
0:02:23 > 0:02:25and, yeah, no, it's all good.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27- Oh, you want me to do it?- Yeah. - OK, fine.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29- NICK LAUGHS - You didn't get one wrong.
0:02:29 > 0:02:33- On the train.- On the train. - On the train. Yes, well,
0:02:33 > 0:02:35this is in the studio and in the Question Room.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37- Is it going to be you, Nick?- It is. - All right, choose an Egghead,
0:02:37 > 0:02:40any of those five are available.
0:02:40 > 0:02:41- Yeah, I don't know.- I think...
0:02:41 > 0:02:44Which would be good to... Dave. Dave, we'll take Dave.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47All right, let's have Nick and Dave to play
0:02:47 > 0:02:49this opening clash, Film & Television.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51Into the Question Room, both of you, please.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56So, Nick, you've got to carry through your 100% record
0:02:56 > 0:03:00from the train on the way up on this right into the Question Room.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03This is where it counts. Do you want to go first or second?
0:03:03 > 0:03:04I'll go first.
0:03:07 > 0:03:11Best of luck, Nick, Film & TV, first question is this -
0:03:11 > 0:03:13the historian Neil Oliver
0:03:13 > 0:03:16became the presenter of which television series in 2005?
0:03:20 > 0:03:23I don't know either Bargain Hunt or Tribe.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25Um... HE LAUGHS NERVOUSLY
0:03:25 > 0:03:27Historian. I've seen Coast a few times.
0:03:27 > 0:03:31And it's a generally historical programme, so I'll go with Coast.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34Coast, yes, Neil Oliver's been around that Coast
0:03:34 > 0:03:39- and many others a few times now, it's the right answer.- Thank you.
0:03:39 > 0:03:40OK, Dave.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43The 2003 film Cold Mountain,
0:03:43 > 0:03:46starring Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger,
0:03:46 > 0:03:48is set during which war?
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Right, I know of the film.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57It's got Jude Law in as well. Um...
0:03:57 > 0:04:00My instinct is towards the American Civil War,
0:04:00 > 0:04:03but I haven't really got a clue about this film at all,
0:04:03 > 0:04:05but I'll go for the American Civil War.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08- Yes, it is.- Yeah.- Now you know, American Civil War.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11OK, second question for you, Nick.
0:04:11 > 0:04:16Which actress joined the cast of New Tricks in 2013
0:04:16 > 0:04:21as the new head of the Unsolved Crimes Unit, DCI Sasha Miller?
0:04:25 > 0:04:27Er, Tamzin Outhwaite.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29Is the right answer, yes.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31Are you a viewer of New Tricks? You just know that?
0:04:31 > 0:04:34No, I read an article on it, that's how I clocked it, I was lucky.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36Yep, well done.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39And, Dave, the sitcom The Vicar of Dibley
0:04:39 > 0:04:42was created and co-written by which screenwriter?
0:04:46 > 0:04:48I believe Andy Hamilton...
0:04:48 > 0:04:50No, it's not him.
0:04:50 > 0:04:53It's Andy Hamilton, Guy Jenkin for Drop The Dead Donkey, I think.
0:04:53 > 0:04:57John Sullivan wrote Citizen Smith and Only Fools And Horses.
0:04:57 > 0:05:02But I'm fairly certain that Richard Curtis wrote The Vicar Of Dibley.
0:05:02 > 0:05:05He did. That is the right answer.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07You two are good.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09Who's going to win this? Nick.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12What was the title of the 1976 film
0:05:12 > 0:05:14for which Arnold Schwarzenegger
0:05:14 > 0:05:18won a Golden Globe in the New Star Of The Year category?
0:05:23 > 0:05:25I don't know the answer.
0:05:25 > 0:05:26Um...
0:05:27 > 0:05:31I certainly haven't seen a film with any of them.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33I don't think it's Stay Lucky.
0:05:33 > 0:05:34Stay Hungry, Stay Sharp?
0:05:34 > 0:05:37I'll say Stay Sharp. I don't know, but that's a guess.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40OK, a guess at Stay Sharp.
0:05:40 > 0:05:41Well, it's not Stay Lucky,
0:05:41 > 0:05:43but not Stay Sharp, it's Stay Hungry.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46Stay Hungry for Arnold Schwarzenegger.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49OK, well, didn't get that, so a chance for Dave.
0:05:49 > 0:05:53Which character was played in the James Bond film by Britt Ekland?
0:05:58 > 0:06:00Right. Um...
0:06:00 > 0:06:02I think I know which film it is,
0:06:02 > 0:06:04I think it's The Man With The Golden Gun.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09Mary Goodnight is the only one that I've heard of in connection
0:06:09 > 0:06:12with a James Bond film so I'll go Mary Goodnight.
0:06:12 > 0:06:16Mary Goodnight for Britt Ekland in, you think,
0:06:16 > 0:06:17The Man With The Golden Gun?
0:06:18 > 0:06:22It's the right answer. Yes, Dave. Well done.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25So, just getting into the final round, it's 3-2, the score,
0:06:25 > 0:06:28which means no place for you in the final round, Nick.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30Would you both come back and join your teams.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33Very close there for Nick,
0:06:33 > 0:06:35but just didn't quite make it into the final round.
0:06:35 > 0:06:36So let's tell you the scores.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39You're missing one brain from the final round, Sword Sandwich,
0:06:39 > 0:06:42the Eggheads are all there. Only played one, let's play another one.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45And our next subject is Politics.
0:06:45 > 0:06:46- So who'd like to play this?- Oh, no!
0:06:46 > 0:06:50- Patrick, you've got to do that. - I think John.- I haven't got a clue.
0:06:50 > 0:06:54- No, Patrick, you do it.- If we lose him in the final, we're...
0:06:54 > 0:06:58- No, he's pretty strong.- He is pretty strong.- Yes, I'll do it.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00- We'll keep John back. - What if science comes up next?
0:07:00 > 0:07:02Take it, Patrick. Take it.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Patrick, yes.
0:07:04 > 0:07:09OK, Patrick, choose your Egghead, any of the four after Dave.
0:07:09 > 0:07:10- CJ?- CJ?- Yeah.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13- We all say CJ?- Yeah.- CJ.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15OK, Patrick and CJ, playing Politics,
0:07:15 > 0:07:18both of you go to the Question Room now, please.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23So, Patrick, Politics. Would you like to go first or second?
0:07:23 > 0:07:24I think first.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29Right, Patrick. Good luck.
0:07:29 > 0:07:33In March 2013, which politician resigned as an MP
0:07:33 > 0:07:35to take up a post in New York
0:07:35 > 0:07:38as CEO of the International Rescue Committee?
0:07:43 > 0:07:44Well...
0:07:44 > 0:07:47I don't, it wouldn't be Andrew Mitchell.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49He was the chief whip, I think.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52Louise Mensch, I don't think it's her.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54So I think it's David Miliband.
0:07:54 > 0:07:58It is David Miliband, that is the correct answer, good start.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03CJ, which term is normally used to describe an economy
0:08:03 > 0:08:05that functions with the involvement
0:08:05 > 0:08:07of both the state and private sector?
0:08:11 > 0:08:15Oh! Um... I was expecting to know this immediately
0:08:15 > 0:08:17when the options came up and I don't.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20Er... Not intertwined, surely.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23Combined economy, mixed economy?
0:08:23 > 0:08:25Must be combined economy, surely.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28It's going to be one of those phrases I've heard hundreds of times
0:08:28 > 0:08:30and for some reason I can't actually place that I've heard it.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35- HE LAUGHS - It must be combined, surely.
0:08:35 > 0:08:36- Combined.- No! No!
0:08:39 > 0:08:43You should hear the Eggheads here, and see them! It's not, CJ! No, no.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46- It is, other Eggheads? - Mixed economy.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48Mixed economy, a mixed economy.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Now that makes sense, yes, I've heard that.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53- Now I'm saying it! - LAUGHTER
0:08:53 > 0:08:54Bad luck, CJ.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57It shows even the Eggheads can have one of those moments
0:08:57 > 0:08:59in the Question Room.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01But it's potentially good news, Patrick.
0:09:01 > 0:09:06A lead after those first questions, here's your second one.
0:09:06 > 0:09:11Stephen Harper was elected as Prime Minister of Canada in 2006,
0:09:11 > 0:09:13representing which party?
0:09:19 > 0:09:23Well, we did discuss coming up on the train the situation
0:09:23 > 0:09:25with regard to the Canadian Prime Minister,
0:09:25 > 0:09:28but we didn't discuss which party he represented.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31- Which is rather a pity.- It is.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35I don't think it's the Conservative Party.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37I'll go for the Liberal Party.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40OK, Liberal Party, with Stephen Harper.
0:09:40 > 0:09:41No, it's wrong.
0:09:41 > 0:09:46- It's not the Liberal Party, it is the Conservative Party.- OK.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48So, CJ, chance to get back in.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50Which of these Asian countries
0:09:50 > 0:09:53is a member of the G20 group of leading economies?
0:09:58 > 0:10:03Hm. I don't know it, but surely out of those three the only, um....
0:10:04 > 0:10:05..real...
0:10:07 > 0:10:11..candidate is Indonesia, in terms of what it produces,
0:10:11 > 0:10:13it's the only major exporter or powerhouse. Um...
0:10:15 > 0:10:19Can't be Pakistan, not for the G20, not for economies.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22And I wouldn't have thought it was Vietnam.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25So, it's got a massive industry, it's got a massive population
0:10:25 > 0:10:27- so I'll try Indonesia.- Indonesia.
0:10:27 > 0:10:29I wonder if it has a combined economy?
0:10:29 > 0:10:31No, it hasn't got one of those, Dermot,
0:10:31 > 0:10:34you really should check up on your politics!
0:10:35 > 0:10:37It is, yes, Indonesia, that is correct.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41So it's all square. Patrick.
0:10:41 > 0:10:47In 1979, Michael Heseltine was appointed to his first Cabinet post
0:10:47 > 0:10:49as Secretary of State for which department?
0:10:53 > 0:10:57Well, there was a problem, wasn't there, over the helicopters
0:10:57 > 0:11:01and that sort of thing down at Yeovil.
0:11:02 > 0:11:06- I think it was defence.- No! - OK, defence.
0:11:06 > 0:11:07It is a tricky one, this.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10It's not defence. Do you know, CJ?
0:11:10 > 0:11:13I knew defence was his last one when he resigned over Westland.
0:11:13 > 0:11:14That's what Patrick was alluding to.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17But I don't know between the other two.
0:11:17 > 0:11:22That was later, '79, his first Cabinet post is environment.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25Environment. So, well, CJ, this will be a turnaround.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28You get through if you give me a correct answer here.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30At the 2010 UK general election,
0:11:30 > 0:11:35which high-profile MP was re-elected with a majority of just 42 votes?
0:11:40 > 0:11:41Glenda Jackson.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46Is the right answer, CJ. You have got it.
0:11:46 > 0:11:50Glenda Jackson and there, you turned it round after a bad start,
0:11:50 > 0:11:52and it means you will be in the final round, CJ.
0:11:52 > 0:11:56No place you, Patrick. Would you both come back and join your teams.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00Sword Sandwich have lost two brains now from the final round,
0:12:00 > 0:12:05the Eggheads haven't lost any yet. And round three is Arts & Books.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09- Who'd like to play this? - Arts & Books.- Amber, you do it.- Yes.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12- Yes?- Yes. - Amber, very keen for it, I see.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14Who would you like to play from the Eggheads?
0:12:14 > 0:12:18CJ and Dave have played so you can play Barry, Kevin or Pat.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20Pat?
0:12:20 > 0:12:23You'd go for Pat? You think Pat's the strongest.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26Well, in the little Eggheads book that we bought...
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Which one would you say, Neil?
0:12:28 > 0:12:30- They're all strong.- Ip dip?
0:12:30 > 0:12:34- Eeny meeny miney mo, Pat. Pat, please.- Pat.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36OK, it's going to be Amber and Pat playing Arts & Books.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38Into the Question Room, both of you, please.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43So, Amber, how often do you get to fence?
0:12:43 > 0:12:46I fence once a week on a Wednesday, for...
0:12:46 > 0:12:49- Two till about ten o'clock at night. - Wow.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51That's a long stint.
0:12:51 > 0:12:55- What's your weapon of choice, what's your favourite discipline?- Sabre.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57- Really?- Yeah.- Oh, my goodness me!
0:12:57 > 0:13:00- It's definitely the better one out of all three.- Sounds a bit fierce.
0:13:00 > 0:13:05- All right. Do you want to go first or second, Amber?- First, please.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10Good luck, Amber, here's your question.
0:13:10 > 0:13:14In 2004, Edvard Munch's painting, The Scream,
0:13:14 > 0:13:17was stolen from a museum in which city
0:13:17 > 0:13:20before being recovered two years later?
0:13:23 > 0:13:26The only name that sounds like it should go with
0:13:26 > 0:13:29a painting like The Scream is Oslo.
0:13:29 > 0:13:33But then again, Copenhagen's in quite a creepy country.
0:13:33 > 0:13:36Um...
0:13:36 > 0:13:39Go from gut instinct. Oslo, please.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42So you think the Norwegians are a bit more creepy than the Danes?
0:13:42 > 0:13:43Yeah! DERMOT LAUGHS
0:13:43 > 0:13:46It's the right answer, well done.
0:13:49 > 0:13:50Right, Pat.
0:13:50 > 0:13:54The works of which British artist were once described
0:13:54 > 0:13:57by Victoria Wood as "Rubens with jokes"?
0:14:00 > 0:14:05Well, the abstracts of Bridget Riley and the bronzes of Hepworth
0:14:05 > 0:14:07would be very hard to square with that quote.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11But Beryl Cook, based in Plymouth,
0:14:11 > 0:14:16produced loads of paintings of larger-than-life townspeople
0:14:16 > 0:14:20getting...enjoying themselves and relaxing. So it's Beryl Cook.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22It is Beryl Cook, that's correct.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24OK, Amber. Second question.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27"A little learning is a dangerous thing"
0:14:27 > 0:14:30is a line from a poem by which writer?
0:14:33 > 0:14:37John Keats is the only person that I ever had to look at at A level,
0:14:37 > 0:14:39so I'll go for John Keats.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42OK, "A little learning is a dangerous thing"
0:14:42 > 0:14:44is a line from a poem by...
0:14:44 > 0:14:46not John Keats. No, Pat?
0:14:46 > 0:14:49- Alexander Pope. - Pope. Alexander Pope.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53OK. Well, Pat, your second question.
0:14:53 > 0:14:57The 2012 book Superworm was written by which children's author?
0:15:01 > 0:15:06- Spell the title, please?- Superworm. S-U-P-E-R-W-O-R-M.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08- Superworm.- Well, um...
0:15:08 > 0:15:13I think Lauren Child is best known for Charlie and Lola.
0:15:14 > 0:15:18Francesca Simon writes the Horrid Henry books, very successful books.
0:15:18 > 0:15:23Julia Donaldson wrote The Gruffalo, which is a hugely successful book.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26I haven't heard of Superworm.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29But at first glance, the writer of The Gruffalo might be
0:15:29 > 0:15:32more likely to write a book called Superworm.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37Yes, I've got nothing else to go on. I'll go for Julia Donaldson.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39Julia Donaldson.
0:15:39 > 0:15:43It's correct, Pat. Yes, worked that one out.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45OK, means you must get this, Amber.
0:15:45 > 0:15:49In which city is Michelangelo thought to have witnessed
0:15:49 > 0:15:53the famous classical statue known as the Laocoon
0:15:53 > 0:15:56being excavated in 1506?
0:15:59 > 0:16:02- Can you spell it, please? - Yeah, good idea.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04It's not pronounced like it's spelt.
0:16:04 > 0:16:09It's L-A-O-C-O-O-N.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11Well, I think Florence is in France
0:16:11 > 0:16:13and that doesn't really sound very French.
0:16:13 > 0:16:17Or look very French. Um, Venice...
0:16:18 > 0:16:19Don't really know.
0:16:21 > 0:16:25Um, change of plan, I think I'm going to go for Florence, please.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29OK, Florence. No, it's not Florence.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33- Whoops.- Pat?- I'd have gone for Rome.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35It is in Rome, yes. Rome.
0:16:35 > 0:16:39And it means, Amber, sorry, the round is over.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42Pat's got those two on the board already
0:16:42 > 0:16:45which you can't match or beat, which means no place in the final round.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48Would you both please come back and join your teams.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52So, Eggheads, can you tell me anything more about the Laocoon
0:16:52 > 0:16:54that caught Amber out there?
0:16:54 > 0:16:58I think it's a sculpture of a man wrestling with a giant snake.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00And it's Greek. Ancient Greek.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03So, I don't know why it was buried in the ground,
0:17:03 > 0:17:05but they obviously had to excavate it.
0:17:05 > 0:17:09- He was a priest of Apollo at Troy. - Laocoon was?
0:17:09 > 0:17:12Yeah, he warned against bringing the Trojan Horse in,
0:17:12 > 0:17:13he didn't trust it.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16This supposed parting gift from the Greeks.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19So snakes were sent to kill him.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22He was down by the waterside, they came out of the water
0:17:22 > 0:17:25and killed by strangling himself and his two sons.
0:17:25 > 0:17:30Right, well, we've got all the background there to the Laocoon.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33And as it stands now, Sword Sandwich have lost three brains
0:17:33 > 0:17:36from the final round, the Eggheads haven't lost any.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38But a chance still to knock an Egghead out,
0:17:38 > 0:17:41coming up now on the Sport category. Our last head-to-head.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43That'll be your question!
0:17:43 > 0:17:45- Kate.- OK, thought it might.
0:17:45 > 0:17:49And, Kate, you've got Kevin or Barry to choose from.
0:17:49 > 0:17:50Well, I think possibly...
0:17:50 > 0:17:52- (Kevin?)- Mm.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55Kevin, cos he's got thinner-rimmed glasses.
0:17:55 > 0:17:57Right, good reason!
0:17:57 > 0:17:58Good reason, yeah!
0:17:58 > 0:18:01Kate and Kevin, then, playing the Sport round,
0:18:01 > 0:18:03into the Question Room, both of you, please.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07So, Kate, let's tap in a little bit
0:18:07 > 0:18:09to your extensive knowledge of fencing.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12Just how many swords are used, different sorts?
0:18:12 > 0:18:15- All three. Three, epee, foil and a sabre.- OK.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18And is the scoring system the same in all the contests,
0:18:18 > 0:18:20or how does that differ?
0:18:20 > 0:18:22The scoring is the same but the target is different.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24For epee, you can hit anywhere from head to foot
0:18:24 > 0:18:26with the end of the weapon.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29With sabre, you hit from the waist upwards, excluding the hands.
0:18:29 > 0:18:31With the side of the blade as well as the point.
0:18:31 > 0:18:37- And the foil, you hit just the torso. - OK. And how does the scoring go?
0:18:37 > 0:18:39First, best of nine.
0:18:39 > 0:18:41So, first to five in your first rounds,
0:18:41 > 0:18:45- and then as the condition progresses, it goes up to 15.- OK.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47Thank you for talking us through that.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49I'm sure the Eggheads, if they didn't know that,
0:18:49 > 0:18:52- have stored that away to use at a later date.- I'm sure they did.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54Right, we'll play the Sport round now.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56Kate, would you like to go first or second?
0:18:56 > 0:18:59I think since my colleagues have all gone first, I'll go second.
0:19:03 > 0:19:06And so I turn the Eggheads' way to put the first question to Kevin.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08Kevin, in which Winter Olympic sport
0:19:08 > 0:19:12do participants wear hooded, skintight Lycra suits?
0:19:15 > 0:19:19Trying to cut down the wind resistance, it's speed skating.
0:19:19 > 0:19:23Speed skating, hooded, skintight Lycra suits, yes.
0:19:23 > 0:19:27Speed skating, well done. OK, Kate, your first question.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29To the nearest 1,000,
0:19:29 > 0:19:34what was the attendance for the 2013 FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium?
0:19:38 > 0:19:42Well, I think 46 would be too little,
0:19:42 > 0:19:47I have a feeling that the old Wembley may have held something like that.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51And I would think since they've, if I think I've got it right,
0:19:51 > 0:19:56rebuilt it, I want to go with 86 but I think maybe it's 126.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59But think I might stick with my gut.
0:20:01 > 0:20:0286.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05Oh, thank goodness! It's the right answer.
0:20:05 > 0:20:10I was holding my breath there. Yes, 86,000.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12Right, Kevin.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14Your second question.
0:20:14 > 0:20:18Which driver won the British Grand Prix at Silverstone in June 2013?
0:20:22 > 0:20:25Ah, yes, how soon we forget.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28They all go by in a bit of a... They come along about twice a month
0:20:28 > 0:20:31and just go by in a bit of a blur, don't they, literally.
0:20:34 > 0:20:37I don't think it was Vettel. I'm really not sure.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40As I say, I don't think it was Vettel, it could turn out to be.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43He won a lot of races in the 2013 season.
0:20:43 > 0:20:44Um...
0:20:46 > 0:20:49I've got an idea that Lewis Hamilton won his home Grand Prix
0:20:49 > 0:20:50so I'll say Lewis Hamilton.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52Ai!
0:20:52 > 0:20:53Lewis Hamilton.
0:20:53 > 0:20:57A squeak coming from the Eggheads there.
0:20:57 > 0:21:02It's not. It is, other Eggheads, you now know it is Nico Rosberg.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06- OK, yeah.- You were right about Sebastian Vettel not winning it. OK.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Well, this is good news, Kate.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10A chance here.
0:21:10 > 0:21:14Which team finished runner-up in the ICC Cricket World Cup
0:21:14 > 0:21:17in both 2007 and 2011?
0:21:21 > 0:21:24Wouldn't say that cricket is one of my strong points.
0:21:24 > 0:21:25Ah.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28But I really don't think it's Sri Lanka.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30So I'm kind of...
0:21:30 > 0:21:32Yeah, definitely not Sri Lanka.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34Now.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37West Indies or South Africa? The question is, who won it.
0:21:37 > 0:21:41Er, I want to say the West Indies.
0:21:41 > 0:21:42Yes, West Indies.
0:21:42 > 0:21:46- OK, West Indies, what do you think, Kevin?- I think that might be right.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48- No, other Eggheads?- Sri Lanka.
0:21:48 > 0:21:52- It is Sri Lanka.- It is Sri Lanka!
0:21:52 > 0:21:53So ruled out there.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57- Dear, dear, dear.- Not going to get that. But it's level pegging.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Still very much in the race.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01And that's what my next question is about.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04Which of these Grand National winning horses won the race
0:22:04 > 0:22:06at the longest odds, Kevin?
0:22:10 > 0:22:13Again, not sure at all. Well, I'm not sure at all.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17I think, oh, I think the...
0:22:19 > 0:22:25..2013 winner, Auroras Encore, was a bit of a long shot.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28- So I'll say Auroras Encore. - Auroras Encore.
0:22:28 > 0:22:31- What do you think, Eggheads? - I think he might be right.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33Cos it was Ryan Mania.
0:22:33 > 0:22:38I think it was 60s, 66 to 1. Around those odds.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40Cos Silver Birch was quite long as well.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43OK, well, they're all long odds,
0:22:43 > 0:22:45two of the horses were 33 to 1, one was 66 to 1.
0:22:45 > 0:22:49And Dave identified it as did you, Kevin, it's the right answer,
0:22:49 > 0:22:53Auroras Encore. At 66 to 1.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55Well, Kate,
0:22:55 > 0:22:59it means you need to get this right to keep the round alive.
0:22:59 > 0:23:00- No pressure.- Not at all.
0:23:00 > 0:23:04In South Korea, in 2012, which Australian tennis player
0:23:04 > 0:23:10set a record for the fastest recorded serve at 163.4 mph?
0:23:15 > 0:23:18Well, I thought I was up on tennis
0:23:18 > 0:23:23but I actually obviously am not because I don't know any of these.
0:23:23 > 0:23:29Tomic and Bernard doesn't sound Australian, but I may well be wrong.
0:23:29 > 0:23:31Neither does Groth. But...
0:23:33 > 0:23:35It's really a guess. And hopefully an educated one.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39Um...
0:23:39 > 0:23:42My gut wants to go with Matthew Ebdon.
0:23:44 > 0:23:48And I think, something is telling me it's Samuel Groth.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53I'm going to go with Matthew Ebdon.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57OK, Matthew Ebdon. Going with your gut.
0:23:57 > 0:23:58Your feeling.
0:23:58 > 0:24:02- Do you know it, Kevin, is it Matthew Ebdon?- I thought it was Tomic.
0:24:02 > 0:24:03No! Don't tell me this!
0:24:03 > 0:24:05- Bernard Tomic.- No!
0:24:06 > 0:24:09It's actually Samuel Groth.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11Oh, no!
0:24:11 > 0:24:12Which is interesting.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15But, of course, Kate's question and it means
0:24:15 > 0:24:17in a very, very tough round - that really was tough -
0:24:17 > 0:24:19Kevin has just squeezed through.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22So no place for you in the final round, Kate.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24Would you both come back and join your teams.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28Now we've reached the point we've been playing towards,
0:24:28 > 0:24:29it's time for the final round.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31Which, as always, is General Knowledge.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads
0:24:33 > 0:24:36won't be allowed to take part in this round,
0:24:36 > 0:24:38so Kate, Patrick, Amber and Nick from Sword Sandwich,
0:24:38 > 0:24:41would you leave the studio, please.
0:24:42 > 0:24:47And so, John, you're playing to win Sword Sandwich £11,000.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50Pat, Dave, Kevin, CJ and Barry, you are all playing for something
0:24:50 > 0:24:53which money cannot buy, the Eggheads' reputation.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56And, as usual, I'm going to ask each team three questions in turn,
0:24:56 > 0:24:58this time the questions are all General Knowledge.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01And you are allowed to confer. So, John, the question is,
0:25:01 > 0:25:04is your one brain better than the Eggheads' five?
0:25:04 > 0:25:07- John, would you like to go first or second?- Second, please.
0:25:10 > 0:25:15OK, that means the Eggheads start. The first question is to you.
0:25:15 > 0:25:20Which of these capital cities is on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea?
0:25:23 > 0:25:24- ALL:- Beirut. - Yeah.
0:25:24 > 0:25:28The capital city that's on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea
0:25:28 > 0:25:30is Beirut. In Lebanon.
0:25:30 > 0:25:34It is indeed, that's the right answer, Eggheads. So, John.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36The events of the first Boer War
0:25:36 > 0:25:40took place in what is now which country?
0:25:44 > 0:25:46Presumably South Africa.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49It is South Africa, yes. Good start for you.
0:25:49 > 0:25:50Eggheads.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54In 2012, which comedian embarked on a world tour
0:25:54 > 0:25:56entitled Qualmpeddler?
0:26:00 > 0:26:03- I think that's Bill Bailey. - I think it's Bill Bailey.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05- Bill Bailey, I think so.- OK.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07We're all agreed, we're going for Bill Bailey.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09Bill Bailey, Qualmpeddling.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12It's the right answer, yes. You got it, Eggheads.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14So, John, second question.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17Which commercially important crop
0:26:17 > 0:26:21is a member of the plant genus Gossypium?
0:26:23 > 0:26:29Gossypium. G-O-S-S-Y-P-I-U-M.
0:26:29 > 0:26:33G-O-S-S-Y-P-I-U-M, Gossypium.
0:26:35 > 0:26:36I don't think it's cotton.
0:26:38 > 0:26:40And I don't think it's barley.
0:26:40 > 0:26:44There is a condition, a medical condition you can get
0:26:44 > 0:26:48from sugarcane which I think is called bagassosis.
0:26:48 > 0:26:52Which is not that closely related to the question, but...
0:26:55 > 0:26:57If I thought about it for a long time,
0:26:57 > 0:27:00- I wouldn't get any nearer the answer so I'm going to guess sugarcane.- OK.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02Sugarcane, and of course,
0:27:02 > 0:27:05no-one to discuss it with from the other members of the team.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08Sugarcane for Gossypium. Eggheads, is it?
0:27:08 > 0:27:09- Cotton.- Cotton, I think.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12It's cotton, John. It is cotton.
0:27:12 > 0:27:16So it means the Eggheads have a chance to win the game.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18Eggheads, the death of Johann Sebastian Bach
0:27:18 > 0:27:22occurred in the same year as the birth of which other composer?
0:27:28 > 0:27:31- It's Salieri.- Salieri?- 1750.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34- 1715?- 50, 5-0.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37All right, well, I'm very fortunate on this team to have a man
0:27:37 > 0:27:39who knows every single date that's worth knowing.
0:27:39 > 0:27:43And he assures me that Salieri was born in 1750,
0:27:43 > 0:27:47which was the year that Bach died. So it's Salieri.
0:27:47 > 0:27:50And the answer is Salieri. Eggheads, you've won.
0:27:55 > 0:27:58Well, John, great effort there but not to be.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01Always so tricky on your own against those five Eggheads
0:28:01 > 0:28:04and they're building up this head of steam as the money goes up.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07The head-to-heads didn't work out for your other players.
0:28:07 > 0:28:08Thank you very much for coming along
0:28:08 > 0:28:10and telling us all about the world of fencing,
0:28:10 > 0:28:13we've learnt a lot more about that, and had a good old day's quizzing.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them
0:28:16 > 0:28:17and their winning streak continues.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £11,000,
0:28:20 > 0:28:23that means the money rolls over to our next show.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26So, Eggheads, congratulations, who will beat you?
0:28:26 > 0:28:28Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers
0:28:28 > 0:28:31have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:31 > 0:28:34£12,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.