0:00:04 > 0:00:07These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:11 > 0:00:14arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz Challengers
0:00:26 > 0:00:30pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32They are the Eggheads.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34Taking on the awesome might of our quiz Goliaths today
0:00:34 > 0:00:36are the West Berks Wordsmiths.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39This team are all members of the same Scrabble club
0:00:39 > 0:00:43which is run by team captain Ian. Let's meet them.
0:00:43 > 0:00:48Hi, I'm Ian, I'm 61 and I'm a retired software engineer.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51Hello, I'm Elizabeth. I'm 63 and I'm a housewife.
0:00:51 > 0:00:56Hello, I'm Colin, I'm 69 and I'm a church bell ringer.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Hello, I'm Sue, I'm 52 and I run my own marketing business.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03Hi, I'm Len, I'm 75 and a retired accountant.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06Welcome to you, West Berks Wordsmiths.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08Ian, Scrabbling, we'll talk about that in a moment.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10But have you done any quizzing?
0:01:10 > 0:01:13Do you think the two are in some way related?
0:01:13 > 0:01:15We've never done any quizzing together.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19A lot of us have actually done quizzes individually,
0:01:19 > 0:01:23but this is our first trip out as a team.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25Good to hear it. Now, tell me,
0:01:25 > 0:01:29on the Scrabble side of things, "Egghead" is seven letters.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32Could you make up a good Scrabble word out of that?
0:01:32 > 0:01:36You couldn't refashion it to a seven-letter score,
0:01:36 > 0:01:39or come in across a triple, anything like that?
0:01:39 > 0:01:42I can actually find a seven-letter word there
0:01:42 > 0:01:45but given that it's before the watershed...
0:01:45 > 0:01:48- THEY LAUGH - OK, enough said!
0:01:48 > 0:01:52We'll leave that to the imagination. All right, let's move on swiftly.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54Now, every day,
0:01:54 > 0:01:56there's £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs for our Challengers.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:01:59 > 0:02:02the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:02:02 > 0:02:03So, West Berks Wordsmiths,
0:02:03 > 0:02:06the Eggheads have won the last three games.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10That means £4,000 says you can't beat them today.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13Let's start with our first head-to-head battle.
0:02:13 > 0:02:14This is Music.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17Who'd like to play this from the Wordsmiths?
0:02:17 > 0:02:21- Who's into music?- That's one of two I said I didn't want to do.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23- I've a feeling it was me.- Yes.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25- OK, it's me. - OK, it's going to be Elizabeth.
0:02:25 > 0:02:29Now, choose any Egghead you like. There's five of them there.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31I'll try CJ, please.
0:02:31 > 0:02:35OK, let's have Elizabeth and CJ into the Question Room, please.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40So, Elizabeth, how often do you play Scrabble?
0:02:40 > 0:02:42Well, I play once a week at a club,
0:02:42 > 0:02:45and I play a lot of times a day on the internet.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Ha-ha, OK! CJ, are you interested in Scrabble,
0:02:47 > 0:02:49do you find it keeps the mind sharp?
0:02:49 > 0:02:52I played Scrabble to county level, one of the things I did
0:02:52 > 0:02:54alongside playing chess.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56I absolutely loved it.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58My highest scoring ever word was "zingier",
0:02:58 > 0:03:00across a triple word score,
0:03:00 > 0:03:02scoring 167 points.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05Whoa, that's good. Elizabeth, can you match that?
0:03:05 > 0:03:09Not on an individual word, but my highest game score is 685.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11Right!
0:03:11 > 0:03:14I might get that if I played for a week.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17OK. Right, let's play this round, it's Music and, as the Challenger,
0:03:17 > 0:03:20Elizabeth, you get to choose, do you want to go first or second?
0:03:20 > 0:03:21I'd like to go first, please.
0:03:24 > 0:03:27Best of luck, Elizabeth. First Music question.
0:03:27 > 0:03:31The UOGB, founded in 1985,
0:03:31 > 0:03:34is a musical ensemble famous for playing which instrument?
0:03:39 > 0:03:40Hm. I haven't actually heard of this.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42I'm trying to think
0:03:42 > 0:03:45which instruments you'd play as an ensemble.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Glockenspiel's a little bit impractical
0:03:47 > 0:03:49because they take up a lot of space.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51I think I'll try the ukulele.
0:03:51 > 0:03:57OK, ukulele. So you think the U in UOGB is ukulele, clearly.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00- Eggheads, what does it stand for? - Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.
0:04:00 > 0:04:01That's the one.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain,
0:04:03 > 0:04:05so you have the right answer, well done.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10CJ, in the 1960s, The Mindbenders were the backing group
0:04:10 > 0:04:12of which British singer?
0:04:16 > 0:04:19Er, hm... I've heard of them.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21I don't think it's Adam Faith.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23I'm not sure he had any backing singers.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25Billy J Kramer and The Mindbenders.
0:04:25 > 0:04:29Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders?
0:04:29 > 0:04:30I don't know.
0:04:30 > 0:04:33Er... I don't know. I was hoping
0:04:33 > 0:04:36saying them out aloud would ring a few bells, but it hasn't done.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39There may be a few dropped heads in a moment on my team
0:04:39 > 0:04:41but I'll try Wayne Fontana.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44No dropped heads, right answer, well done, CJ,
0:04:44 > 0:04:47it worked saying it out loud.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49OK, second question, Elizabeth.
0:04:49 > 0:04:54Which rock group topped the UK album chart in 2013 with Mechanical Bull?
0:04:58 > 0:05:01I know I said I do music, but pop music is really not my thing.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05I've only ever heard of Kings of Leon out of those three.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07Erm, it seems a bit feeble to pick them
0:05:07 > 0:05:09just because I've heard of them,
0:05:09 > 0:05:12- so I'll go down the middle with Green Day.- Oh, no. Oh, dear.
0:05:12 > 0:05:16- Oh, no, it is Kings of Leon.- It is?!
0:05:16 > 0:05:17Oh, Elizabeth.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20When you said that, I thought, "Just pick them this time."
0:05:20 > 0:05:22Bad luck. OK, CJ.
0:05:22 > 0:05:26In sheet music, what is meant by the instruction fortissimo?
0:05:29 > 0:05:32This is a little better, as, being a musical theatre actor,
0:05:32 > 0:05:33I can read sheet music.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36And I think fortissimo means very loud.
0:05:36 > 0:05:37Yes. I'm sure Elizabeth would have been
0:05:37 > 0:05:40happier with that as well, yes.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44OK, it means you need to get this, Elizabeth, your third question.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47Which hit single by The Sweet was inspired by a gig
0:05:47 > 0:05:50in Kilmarnock in 1973
0:05:50 > 0:05:52at which they were forced off the stage
0:05:52 > 0:05:54when the audience began throwing bottles at them?
0:05:59 > 0:06:01Couldn't we have had some classical music questions?
0:06:01 > 0:06:04I'd have been much better at that. Erm...
0:06:06 > 0:06:07It has to be a stab in the dark, I'm afraid.
0:06:07 > 0:06:09Blockbuster!
0:06:09 > 0:06:11OK, Blockbuster!.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14It is a bit more literal, given what happened to them there,
0:06:14 > 0:06:16it is The Ballroom Blitz.
0:06:16 > 0:06:20So it's The Ballroom Blitz, which means CJ doesn't need to face
0:06:20 > 0:06:23another question, he's done enough to get through to the final round.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25Bad luck with the way those questions fell, Elizabeth.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28Would you both come back and join your teams?
0:06:30 > 0:06:31After the first round,
0:06:31 > 0:06:34the Berks Wordsmiths have lost one brain from the final round.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37The Eggheads are all there. A long way to go.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39Our second round today is Science.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41Who'd like to play this from the Wordsmiths?
0:06:41 > 0:06:44- That was going to be Elizabeth, so...- I think it's down to me.
0:06:44 > 0:06:48- Yes, it is.- OK.- It's me, Dermot.- All right, Ian.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51And choose your Egghead - any of them apart from CJ.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54- I think Judith, please.- All right.
0:06:54 > 0:06:56Ian and Judith, into the Question Room now, please.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02So, Ian, what are the rules at your level of Scrabble about using
0:07:02 > 0:07:04dictionaries and Scrabble guides, things like that?
0:07:04 > 0:07:07How do you play it, what are the rules?
0:07:07 > 0:07:12Essentially, we play without any reference work on the table.
0:07:12 > 0:07:17But, obviously, somebody will play a word and you may say,
0:07:17 > 0:07:19"I don't believe that word is a word."
0:07:19 > 0:07:23So there is a reference work that you can actually look up the word in,
0:07:23 > 0:07:27and actually find out whether it's there, or whether it's not.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30In those circumstances, if there's a challenge, you check it.
0:07:30 > 0:07:34In your head, you've got all these two-letter words,
0:07:34 > 0:07:38using Q without a U, X without a vowel, things like that,
0:07:38 > 0:07:39you've got them all in your head?
0:07:39 > 0:07:41That would be the theory!
0:07:41 > 0:07:42DERMOT LAUGHS
0:07:42 > 0:07:46Sometimes they don't actually stay in the head quite long enough.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48OK. I hope plenty of science is in your head
0:07:48 > 0:07:49because you're about to play the round.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51Would you like to go first or second?
0:07:51 > 0:07:53I'd like to go first, please.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58Good luck, Ian, here's your first question.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01What is the botanical name for the female reproductive part
0:08:01 > 0:08:05of a flower that consists of the stigma, the style and the ovary?
0:08:09 > 0:08:13I don't think it's the petal. I don't think it's the albumen.
0:08:13 > 0:08:17So I'm actually going to go for carpel.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20It's the right answer. Good start, well done, Ian. Off the mark.
0:08:21 > 0:08:26Judith, on the pH scale of acidity and alkalinity,
0:08:26 > 0:08:30which of these household substances has the lowest pH value?
0:08:33 > 0:08:35So that's the one that's most acidic, isn't it?
0:08:35 > 0:08:38I think it will probably be vinegar.
0:08:38 > 0:08:42Yeah, once you've worked that out, which way the scale goes,
0:08:42 > 0:08:45absolutely right, well done, Judith, vinegar is correct.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47We go back to you, Ian. Second question.
0:08:47 > 0:08:51Which component of a car engine is part of the exhaust system
0:08:51 > 0:08:56and carries waste gases from the cylinders to the exhaust pipe?
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Again, I don't think it's the crankshaft.
0:09:02 > 0:09:06I don't think it's the piston. I think it's the manifold.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Of course it is, it's the right answer, well done.
0:09:11 > 0:09:12Judith, in the human body,
0:09:12 > 0:09:17a dendrite is a thread-like extension of which type of cell?
0:09:21 > 0:09:24Dendrite, D-E-N-D-R-I-T-E.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26Erm...
0:09:26 > 0:09:30I'm not sure, but I don't think it's a red blood cell or male sex cell.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33It sounds more like a nerve cell.
0:09:33 > 0:09:35So, a nerve cell.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38Well done, that is correct, yes, nerve cell. OK.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40Ian, third question.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43The contradiction between the high probability of the existence
0:09:43 > 0:09:45of extraterrestrial civilisations
0:09:45 > 0:09:49and the lack of contact with them is known by what name?
0:09:55 > 0:10:00I'd have to say it's a question that I don't know the answer to.
0:10:00 > 0:10:06So, I'm looking at...the answers, to see if there are any clues at all.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09There's nothing leaping out.
0:10:09 > 0:10:13I'm going to go straight down the middle with Sagan.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15OK. Eggheads?
0:10:15 > 0:10:20- It's the Fermi paradox.- It is the Fermi paradox, I'm afraid.
0:10:20 > 0:10:24So, bad luck, Ian. But wasn't there some scientist who said,
0:10:24 > 0:10:27"Well, look, you know, you just have no idea what's out there"?
0:10:27 > 0:10:30Yes, accepting the probability that there is extraterrestrial
0:10:30 > 0:10:33civilisation but saying we ought to keep quiet about it.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36- Let's not draw attention to ourselves.- Oh, that's been said.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39It was said some decades after the first radio broadcasts.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41So, it was bit too late, really.
0:10:41 > 0:10:45- They're out there.- Early Laurel and Hardy episodes are.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48- Flying through space as we speak. - Eggheads is up there now.
0:10:48 > 0:10:49Yes, Eggheads.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Extraterrestrials are forming their judgments
0:10:51 > 0:10:54about human civilisation from you lot.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56We're doomed.
0:10:56 > 0:11:00Heaven help us. OK. Right, well, Ian didn't get that.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02So a chance for Judith. Judith, your third question.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05In 2008, after a recovery in its numbers,
0:11:05 > 0:11:07the status of which whale
0:11:07 > 0:11:12was updated on the IUCN Red List of endangered species
0:11:12 > 0:11:15from vulnerable to least concern? Is it...
0:11:18 > 0:11:22I was watching a programme about whales last night - killer whales.
0:11:22 > 0:11:26And I was hoping you were going to say minke whale, cos there was
0:11:26 > 0:11:31great controversy about fishing or whaling for minke whales
0:11:31 > 0:11:34some time ago. I thought maybe they had come back.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37But anyway, they're not on the list, so...
0:11:37 > 0:11:39What am I to do now? Um...
0:11:39 > 0:11:41JUDITH CHUCKLES
0:11:41 > 0:11:43I don't know. Um...
0:11:43 > 0:11:48I think they fish, or they whale - whatever the verb is -
0:11:48 > 0:11:49for beluga whales.
0:11:49 > 0:11:53So maybe they've managed to bring them back up.
0:11:53 > 0:11:57- So I'm going to say beluga whale. - OK, beluga whales. It is...
0:11:57 > 0:11:59- the humpback whale.- Oh.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01The humpback whale, not the beluga whale.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04OK, right, well, it stays all square and, Ian,
0:12:04 > 0:12:08because it is all square after three questions, we are
0:12:08 > 0:12:10going to go to the Sudden Death phase and remove the options.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12So, can you tell me
0:12:12 > 0:12:15which metallic element with the atomic number 21 was discovered
0:12:15 > 0:12:20by Lars Nilson and named after a region of northwest Europe?
0:12:21 > 0:12:24Rapidly going through the periodic table.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28No, I'm not sure on this one at all.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32I'll go sodium but I don't think it's the answer.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35OK, sodium is not the answer
0:12:35 > 0:12:38and there are a lot of clues in that question.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41A region, not a country, of northwest Europe
0:12:41 > 0:12:44and the man's name - Lars Nilson. Do you know, Judith?
0:12:44 > 0:12:48Well, it's somewhere in Sweden, I suppose, or Scandinavia.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50- It's not scandium, is it?- It is scandium.
0:12:50 > 0:12:53Yeah, you worked it out from those clues. Scandium.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55OK, your question, Judith.
0:12:55 > 0:12:59Which constellation, named after a mythological queen,
0:12:59 > 0:13:04contains five bright stars forming a distinctive W shape?
0:13:04 > 0:13:08I wonder if the queen's name is a W.
0:13:08 > 0:13:13Um, I can't think of a mythological queen with a name W.
0:13:13 > 0:13:14Um...
0:13:14 > 0:13:16I'm no good on stars.
0:13:18 > 0:13:22My mind's gone blank. I can't think of any mythological queens.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24Mythological queens...
0:13:24 > 0:13:28- Titania, queen of the fairies. - Titania?- Yes.- OK.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31- So, you're not going for one with a W?- I can't think of one.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34Well, you didn't have to. I only said distinctive W shape.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36It didn't mean anything about W in the name.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39- Well, it might've done.- Yeah, but not Titania.- It was a clue.
0:13:39 > 0:13:43- Not Titania and I'm not surprised. - Other Eggheads?
0:13:43 > 0:13:46- Cassiopeia.- Cassiopeia.- Cassiopeia. - Ah!- The W shape.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49It could just have been, what constellation is W-shaped?
0:13:49 > 0:13:50It's Cassiopeia. OK, Ian,
0:13:50 > 0:13:53another question.
0:13:53 > 0:13:57Which group of bats from the family Rhinolophidae
0:13:57 > 0:14:02are named for the shape of the fleshy growth around their nose?
0:14:04 > 0:14:06I'm going to go for the horseshoe bat.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08Right answer. Well done.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11- Yes!- Yeah!- Back in motion.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13All right, Judith,
0:14:13 > 0:14:19for what does the letter "I" stand in the abbreviation BIS -
0:14:19 > 0:14:23the think thank on space development founded in 1933?
0:14:24 > 0:14:25Um...
0:14:28 > 0:14:29British...
0:14:30 > 0:14:33Um, it could be Interstellar.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36- OK, Interstellar. - I'm sure it's not but it could be.
0:14:37 > 0:14:40It's Inter...planetary.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42Oh, Interplanetary. Well...
0:14:42 > 0:14:45- Interplanetary.- ..same neck of the woods.- Yeah. Good guess
0:14:45 > 0:14:47but not the right answer. Ian, you're in the final round.
0:14:47 > 0:14:51- Good man.- Would you both come back and join your teams, please?
0:14:51 > 0:14:52Hail to the chief.
0:14:54 > 0:14:55Much better for the Wordsmiths.
0:14:55 > 0:14:59Both teams have now lost one brain from the final round.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01Next subject, it's Arts & Books.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04Who'd like to play Arts & Books?
0:15:04 > 0:15:06I'm guessing that's going to be me, is it?
0:15:06 > 0:15:10- We've got every confidence in you.- Which one?- I don't know.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12- You tell me. - There's three of them left.
0:15:12 > 0:15:14- Who do you want me to take? - Kevin, Dave or Pat?
0:15:14 > 0:15:16Your choice.
0:15:16 > 0:15:20- Let's try Dave.- Sue and Dave playing the Arts & Books round.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22Into the Question Room, please.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26OK, Sue, what's your interest in Arts & Books, apart from Scrabble?
0:15:28 > 0:15:29And reading a lot.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32Yes, I'm not really looking forward to the art part of it,
0:15:32 > 0:15:33I must be honest.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36OK, well, let's hope you avoid those questions.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38Would you like the first set or the second set?
0:15:38 > 0:15:40I'd like to go first, please.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45Right, Sue, here you go. First question.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47The name of which royal house appears in the title
0:15:47 > 0:15:49of a Shakespeare play?
0:15:52 > 0:15:54Well, I'd love to see The Merry Wives Of Stuart
0:15:54 > 0:15:56but I think I'll go for Windsor.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58You've got it. Yeah. Right answer. Of course.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04Dave, the title of a stage farce written by Ray Galton
0:16:04 > 0:16:08and John Antrobus is When Did You Last See Your what?
0:16:11 > 0:16:12I don't think it's turtleneck.
0:16:12 > 0:16:16I don't think it's toupee. I like the look of trousers.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19When Did You Last See Your Trousers?
0:16:19 > 0:16:23Is the right answer. OK. Your second question, Sue.
0:16:23 > 0:16:28The 1996 novel The Butterfly Lion was written by which author
0:16:28 > 0:16:30who went on to be Children's Laureate?
0:16:35 > 0:16:38I don't know the book at all.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43Er, I don't like the look of Malorie Blackman
0:16:43 > 0:16:44but I'm not really sure why.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47I believe Michael Morpurgo was Children's Laureate
0:16:47 > 0:16:49so I'm going to go for Michael Morpurgo.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52OK, working on that part of the question and got the right answer.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54Well done, Sue, you have two.
0:16:56 > 0:16:57And Dave,
0:16:57 > 0:16:59which actress was commissioned by the publisher
0:16:59 > 0:17:01of the Beatrix Potter stories
0:17:01 > 0:17:05to write a 2012 sequel entitled The Further Tale Of Peter Rabbit?
0:17:09 > 0:17:12Mm, not heard of this at all.
0:17:13 > 0:17:14I'll go Emma Thompson, but...
0:17:14 > 0:17:17it could well be Helen McCrory but I'll go Emma Thompson.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20Emma Thompson is the right answer, Dave. Well done.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22Two-all. And Sue,
0:17:22 > 0:17:25in 1991, which author was shortlisted for the
0:17:25 > 0:17:29Booker Prize for the third time, for his novel The Redundancy Of Courage?
0:17:34 > 0:17:38I have absolutely no idea at all.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43This one's going to be pot luck I'm afraid, team.
0:17:43 > 0:17:47Let's try Judith's rule and go down the right. Ben Okri.
0:17:47 > 0:17:48OK.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50I'm afraid it hasn't worked.
0:17:52 > 0:17:53Um, do you know, Dave?
0:17:53 > 0:17:55I'd have gone Rohinton Mistry.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58- No, it's Timothy Mo. - Oh, right, well, see...
0:17:58 > 0:18:00At least you knew Dave wouldn't have got it
0:18:00 > 0:18:02but it wasn't his question, Dave, this is.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05Which British artist painted the worked entitled
0:18:05 > 0:18:08The Architect's Home In The Ravine
0:18:08 > 0:18:11which sold for over £7.6 million in 2013?
0:18:15 > 0:18:16I missed this.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19Should've seen this in the paper but I haven't got an idea.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21I'll go Sexton Ming.
0:18:21 > 0:18:25OK, right again. I mean, down the right again, but wrong.
0:18:25 > 0:18:26I'd better be clear about that.
0:18:26 > 0:18:30All these different sides. It's incorrect. Other Eggheads?
0:18:30 > 0:18:34- Try Peter Doig.- Peter Doig is the answer you were looking for.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36So into Sudden Death again. You know what that means.
0:18:36 > 0:18:40You saw Ian battling away there. And, Sue,
0:18:40 > 0:18:43in George Orwell's novel 1984,
0:18:43 > 0:18:46the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind
0:18:46 > 0:18:52simultaneously and accepting both of them is known by what name?
0:18:52 > 0:18:56I should know this - and I'm going to kick myself when you tell me -
0:18:56 > 0:18:58but I don't.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01No, I've got nothing.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03I'm thinking of Room 101 and Newspeak
0:19:03 > 0:19:06but I just can't call it to mind, I'm sorry.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08Can't come up with this.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11This is why the Sudden Death phase is so difficult.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14You would pick this straight out of any list we gave you,
0:19:14 > 0:19:15I'm absolutely certain.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18- But you can't just conjure it out of your head.- No.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21- So, is that a pass?- Yes.- OK. - Sorry.- Dave, do you know?
0:19:21 > 0:19:25- Doublespeak?- Oh, it's not. I wouldn't have accepted that.
0:19:25 > 0:19:26Other Eggheads?
0:19:26 > 0:19:29- Doublethink.- Doublethink.- Oh. OK.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32Dave was on the right track. Doublethink.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34Dave, to win the round, potentially,
0:19:34 > 0:19:39on arriving in New York in 1882, Oscar Wilde is believed to
0:19:39 > 0:19:42have said he had nothing to declare but his what?
0:19:42 > 0:19:45Um, genius.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47It's the right answer.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49Well done, Dave, you've got it right.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52It's genius, which I'm sure you would've got as well, Sue,
0:19:52 > 0:19:53but it wasn't your question.
0:19:53 > 0:19:55It means you won't be in the final round.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58Would you both come back and join your teams?
0:20:00 > 0:20:01So the Eggheads back in the lead.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04The Wordsmiths have lost two brains from the final round,
0:20:04 > 0:20:06the Eggheads have lost one.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09And our last head to head before the final round is Sport.
0:20:09 > 0:20:11You've got two players, Colin or Len, who can play,
0:20:11 > 0:20:12Wordsmiths.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15- I'll take that.- OK, and which Egghead would you like to play,
0:20:15 > 0:20:18Len? You've got Kevin or Pat there.
0:20:18 > 0:20:19I think I'll take Pat, please.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22Right, let's have Len and Pat into the Question Room.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27OK, Len, about to display your sporting knowledge, I hope.
0:20:27 > 0:20:31- First set of questions or the second set?- I'll go second, please.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38Puts Pat in there. And your first question, Pat In September
0:20:38 > 0:20:422013, Paolo Di Canio was sacked as manager of which football club?
0:20:45 > 0:20:49He had a fairly short reign at Sunderland.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52He's quite an opinionated man, with his own way of doing things,
0:20:52 > 0:20:54but he had to leave Sunderland.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57He did. It's the right answer - Sunderland.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59OK, Len.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02Participants in which sport wear a so-called HANS device
0:21:02 > 0:21:05around the neck to prevent serious injury?
0:21:08 > 0:21:11HANS device. It's H-A-N-S.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15I have never heard of the expression but, er,
0:21:15 > 0:21:17just let me give this a little bit of thought.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23I would have thought motor racing.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26Motor racing? Yes. Absolutely right. Well done.
0:21:31 > 0:21:32Pat, second question.
0:21:32 > 0:21:36Hodori, who was the official mascot of the 1988 Summer Olympics
0:21:36 > 0:21:40in Seoul, was a representation of which creature?
0:21:46 > 0:21:47I'll have to cast my mind back.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51I was getting married on the opening day of the Seoul Olympics.
0:21:52 > 0:21:54I was distracted.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58Well, a hamster sounds pretty...
0:21:58 > 0:22:00It's not terribly inspiring. I suppose it could be funny.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05Of the three of those creatures...
0:22:05 > 0:22:06the most glamorous...
0:22:08 > 0:22:09is the tiger.
0:22:09 > 0:22:13The Siberian tiger... not that far away from Korea.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16I'm not entirely sure. I think I'll go for tiger.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18Hodori
0:22:18 > 0:22:20was a tiger. It's correct.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22OK.
0:22:22 > 0:22:23Second question to Len.
0:22:23 > 0:22:28Since it moved from White City to Wimbledon in 1985,
0:22:28 > 0:22:32the English Greyhound Derby final has been run over what distance?
0:22:38 > 0:22:40I'm not really certain about this one.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42I haven't been greyhound racing for years.
0:22:42 > 0:22:43Um...
0:22:45 > 0:22:49..I would've thought...
0:22:49 > 0:22:51480 metres.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54480 metres is correct. Well done, Len.
0:22:58 > 0:23:02Pat, which darts player won the 2013 BDO World Championship
0:23:02 > 0:23:05at the Lakeside Country Club in Surrey?
0:23:09 > 0:23:12I should know this but I'm not sure I do.
0:23:12 > 0:23:17I've a feeling that Scott Waites had a big win sometime around that time.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22I think I'll have to go for Scott Waites.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Scotty "2 Hotty" Waites -
0:23:24 > 0:23:26that's his nickname.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28It is the right answer. Well done.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31All right. Well, er,
0:23:31 > 0:23:34Pat sorted that out under a bit of pressure there
0:23:34 > 0:23:37but has now transferred that pressure onto you, Len.
0:23:37 > 0:23:38You need to get this.
0:23:38 > 0:23:42After 32 straight victories, which boxer suffered his first
0:23:42 > 0:23:46professional defeat in a 1981 fight dubbed "The Showdown"
0:23:46 > 0:23:48against Sugar Ray Leonard?
0:23:53 > 0:23:57I'm not a great boxing fan, unfortunately.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00Um, I wouldn't have thought it was Thomas Hearns.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03And I'm torn between the other two. Mm.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06That's a bit difficult. Let me just...
0:24:08 > 0:24:09Well, the one I know best
0:24:09 > 0:24:12and I suppose I've got to go for that one, is Marvin Hagler.
0:24:13 > 0:24:18OK, Marvin Hagler against Sugar Ray Leonard in The Showdown in 1981.
0:24:18 > 0:24:23I'm afraid it's incorrect. Pat, do you know?
0:24:23 > 0:24:25I'd have gone for Tommy Hearns.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28Yeah, it is Thomas Hearns, which means,
0:24:28 > 0:24:30he's delivered the knockout blow to you.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32You won't be in the final round, Len.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Would you both come back and join your teams?
0:24:36 > 0:24:38Well, this is what we've been playing towards.
0:24:38 > 0:24:39It's the final round which,
0:24:39 > 0:24:41as always, is General Knowledge. But I'm afraid
0:24:41 > 0:24:44those of you who lost your head to heads
0:24:44 > 0:24:45won't take part in this round.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48So, Elizabeth, Sue and Len from the Wordsmiths,
0:24:48 > 0:24:52and Judith from the Eggheads, would you leave the studio, please?
0:24:54 > 0:24:55So Ian and Colin,
0:24:55 > 0:24:58you are playing to win the West Berks Wordsmiths £4,000.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00Pat, Dave, Kevin and CJ,
0:25:00 > 0:25:03you are playing for something which money cannot buy -
0:25:03 > 0:25:05the Eggheads' reputation.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08So, as usual, I'm going to ask each team three questions in turn.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10The questions are all general knowledge
0:25:10 > 0:25:12and you are allowed to confer.
0:25:12 > 0:25:13So West Berks Wordsmiths,
0:25:13 > 0:25:17the question is, are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?
0:25:17 > 0:25:19And Ian and Colin, how do you want to play this round?
0:25:19 > 0:25:21Do you want to go first or second?
0:25:21 > 0:25:22We'll take the first.
0:25:26 > 0:25:29OK, best of luck, guys. First question coming your way.
0:25:29 > 0:25:30Here you go.
0:25:30 > 0:25:34Irish-born Orla Kiely is best known for her career as a what?
0:25:40 > 0:25:42- Ah. - I don't know the answer to this.
0:25:42 > 0:25:46My misspent youth isn't contemporary.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48Well, we've got to have a crack, haven't we?
0:25:48 > 0:25:49I know we've got to have a crack, yeah.
0:25:49 > 0:25:54Restaurant critic is slightly unlikely, I think.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56It's fashion or stand-up comedian.
0:25:56 > 0:26:00- I'm tempted towards stand-up comedian.- I am tempted too.
0:26:00 > 0:26:03- Yeah.- We think she's a funny girl.
0:26:03 > 0:26:07- Stand-up comedian. - Stand-up comedian for Orla Kiely.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10- Eggheads?- She's a fashion designer.
0:26:10 > 0:26:11She is a fashion designer, I'm afraid.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13So nothing there. Didn't know that
0:26:13 > 0:26:15but had a guess. Let's see
0:26:15 > 0:26:17if the Eggheads get this, then.
0:26:17 > 0:26:18Eggheads, first question,
0:26:18 > 0:26:22what is the name of the virtual currency introduced in 2009,
0:26:22 > 0:26:26to allow online transactions without the need for a central bank?
0:26:30 > 0:26:31- Bitcoin.- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:26:31 > 0:26:35The subject of much controversy later on - Bitcoins.
0:26:35 > 0:26:40Bitcoin is correct from the Eggheads. So, Wordsmiths,
0:26:40 > 0:26:41second question.
0:26:41 > 0:26:46GBZ is the international vehicle registration code for where?
0:26:50 > 0:26:51It's not Jersey.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53I don't think it's the Isle of Man.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56But I'm not 100% certain.
0:26:56 > 0:27:01I suspect the Isle of Man. But Gibraltar, do you know what it is?
0:27:03 > 0:27:05- It's one of those two. - Do you want to go for Isle of Man?
0:27:05 > 0:27:07Yeah. All right.
0:27:07 > 0:27:08- Isle of Man.- OK.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10Isle of Man.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12I don't know if you can make a Scrabble word out of GBZ.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14Knowing you lot, you probably could.
0:27:14 > 0:27:18Um, GBZ is the international vehicle registration code for...
0:27:19 > 0:27:21- Gibraltar.- Oh.
0:27:21 > 0:27:25Gibraltar, which means we're at the point already where
0:27:25 > 0:27:27the Eggheads can win the game.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Got to hope they don't get this.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31Lieutenant-commander is an officer rank
0:27:31 > 0:27:34in which of the British Armed Forces?
0:27:37 > 0:27:40- Royal Navy, yeah.- Yeah?- Yeah.
0:27:40 > 0:27:43That is the Royal Navy.
0:27:43 > 0:27:44Royal Navy?
0:27:44 > 0:27:46You've just sunk the Wordsmiths.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48It's the right answer, Eggheads, you've won.
0:27:53 > 0:27:57Well, bad luck, guys. You never really got going there, did you?
0:27:57 > 0:28:00Well, if we'd had their questions it would have been more reasonable.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03It is just the way those questions fall.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05You try going second, you try... It just...
0:28:05 > 0:28:07Frankly, anything can turn up, as you well know.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10But well played today and really nice meeting you, Wordsmiths.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12Good luck with the Scrabbling in the future.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14- Thank you for taking on the Eggheads.- Thank you.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them
0:28:16 > 0:28:18and they still reign supreme over quiz land.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £4,000,
0:28:21 > 0:28:23which means the money rolls over to our next show.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25So, join us next time to see
0:28:25 > 0:28:28if a new team of Challengers have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:28 > 0:28:32£5,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.