0:00:04 > 0:00:07These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:10 > 0:00:11Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:11 > 0:00:15arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19Question 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 > 0:00:33They are the Eggheads.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36And taking on the awesome might of our quiz Goliaths today
0:00:36 > 0:00:38are Agatha Quizteam.
0:00:38 > 0:00:39This team of friends all met
0:00:39 > 0:00:43while studying at Warwick University over ten years ago, and gradually
0:00:43 > 0:00:47they've all migrated to London, and now regularly quiz together
0:00:47 > 0:00:49at the Elm Park in Brixton.
0:00:49 > 0:00:50Let's meet them.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54Hi, I'm Hywel, I'm 31, and I'm a postgraduate journalism student.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58Hi, I'm Ralph, I'm 31, and I'm business analyst.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02Hi, I'm Kaajal, I'm 31, and I'm a gallery assistant.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04Hi, I'm Tom, I'm 31, and I'm a teacher.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08Hi, I'm James, I'm 31, and I'm a head of client services.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11Well, welcome to you, Agatha Quizteam.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13Er, yeah, I mean, just about getting it.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16- It nearly works, but perhaps not quite.- Yeah.
0:01:16 > 0:01:17How did you come with that?
0:01:17 > 0:01:21Well, it's just... We just can't resist a bad pun really, I think.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24There's no actual relation to the much-famed author.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26Tell us about the quizzing at the Elm Park.
0:01:26 > 0:01:27How do you do in that quiz?
0:01:27 > 0:01:31Well, we generally do pretty well. There's a few regulars
0:01:31 > 0:01:34who tend to share the top prizes amongst themselves,
0:01:34 > 0:01:35but we're there or thereabouts.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38There or thereabouts isn't good enough in Eggheads.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40- No...- You have to be top of the pile to win the money, I tell you.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43And how much money is at stake today?
0:01:43 > 0:01:46Because every day there's £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs
0:01:46 > 0:01:48for our Challengers. But, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:01:48 > 0:01:51as you know, the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54So, Agatha Quizteam, the Eggheads have won the last eight games,
0:01:54 > 0:01:57and that means £9,000
0:01:57 > 0:01:59says you can't beat the Eggheads today.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02Well, let's set about that task, shall we?
0:02:02 > 0:02:05And play our first head-to-head. It's Arts and Books.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07And who wants to take this one on? Who's it going to be?
0:02:07 > 0:02:10- I think that's me. - It's Kaajal, yeah.
0:02:10 > 0:02:12- Yeah, OK, sure.- Good luck.
0:02:12 > 0:02:16Saw that look on your face. Now choose an Egghead to play.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18- Who do we think?- Ah.- Arts and Books.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22- Um, Dave.- Dave.- Dave.- OK.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25- Kaajal against Dave.- OK. That's who it's going to be then.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28Let's have Kaajal and Dave into the Question Room, please,
0:02:28 > 0:02:30just to make sure you can't confer.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35Kaajal, do you want to go first or second in this Arts and Books round?
0:02:35 > 0:02:38Er, I'd like to go first, please.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43Good look, Kaajal. Here's your first question then.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46The Merchant's Tale, The Nun's Priest's Tale
0:02:46 > 0:02:51and The Squire's Tale are all parts of which work of literature?
0:02:55 > 0:02:57Er, I know this one.
0:02:57 > 0:02:59We actually studied it in school way back when.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Um, it's The Canterbury tales.
0:03:01 > 0:03:02It is The Canterbury tales.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04Well done. Good start. One to you.
0:03:05 > 0:03:06And so to Dave.
0:03:06 > 0:03:11Which of these writers did not win the Nobel prize for literature?
0:03:16 > 0:03:17Right, I believe...
0:03:17 > 0:03:19I'm trying to think of the dates here.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22Rudyard Kipling's 1907, I think.
0:03:22 > 0:03:29I'm going to guess that George Bernard Shaw was 1925.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33I think it's George Orwell who was the one who hasn't won it.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35Well worked out, Dave, that's the right answer.
0:03:35 > 0:03:39George Orwell didn't win the Nobel prize for literature.
0:03:39 > 0:03:40It's one-all.
0:03:40 > 0:03:41Kaajal, second question.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43Which author's works include biographies
0:03:43 > 0:03:45of Charles Dickens and William Blake?
0:03:49 > 0:03:51Um...
0:03:51 > 0:03:52This is a complete guess.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55I'm going to say Iain Sinclair.
0:03:55 > 0:03:56Iain Sinclair...
0:03:56 > 0:03:58No, it's not Iain Sinclair.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00Do you know of the other two there, Dave?
0:04:00 > 0:04:02I'd have guessed Hilary Spurling.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04Oh, well, that's eliminated
0:04:04 > 0:04:05all the wrong answers.
0:04:05 > 0:04:07THEY LAUGH
0:04:07 > 0:04:09And, therefore, Peter Ackroyd.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11So, nothing for you, Kaajal. Dave,
0:04:11 > 0:04:13in Tennyson's poem, The Lady Of Shalott,
0:04:13 > 0:04:17the title character dies after being distracted by whom?
0:04:21 > 0:04:23Don't know, and I should know this poem.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25Right, King Arthur or Sir Lancelot...
0:04:27 > 0:04:31I'll go with Sir Lancelot, but I'm not at all sure.
0:04:31 > 0:04:35OK, Sir Lancelot distracting The Lady Of Shalott.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37- It's the right answer, Dave. - Oh, right.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40All right, well, it means Dave did get that,
0:04:40 > 0:04:43Kaajal, so you need to get this.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45The artist Giorgio Morandi,
0:04:45 > 0:04:50who died in 1964, specialised in which genre of painting?
0:04:54 > 0:04:56I feel like I should know this.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58And I feel like I do know it.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01But... it's not coming to mind right now.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05So, this is, again, going to have to be another guess,
0:05:05 > 0:05:07and I'm going to guess...
0:05:07 > 0:05:09still life.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12- Crucial guess.- Yeah.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17- It's the right answer, yes. Well done.- (Yes!)
0:05:17 > 0:05:19Still life.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21And still life in your challenge.
0:05:21 > 0:05:25But you've got to hope Dave doesn't get this.
0:05:25 > 0:05:30Dave, which Italian author wrote the post-modern 1979 novel
0:05:30 > 0:05:32If On A Winter's Night A Traveller?
0:05:37 > 0:05:39I don't know the answer to this,
0:05:39 > 0:05:41so this is going to be a complete guess.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44I'm going to go Umberto Eco.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46- It is Italo Calvino.- OK.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48So, bad luck, Dave.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51Didn't get it, which is great news for you, Kaajal.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54Means we're going to Sudden Death.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57It's good and bad news, you're still in it but...
0:05:57 > 0:06:00we now play without options, just to sort out a winner.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02State Of Fear and Airframe
0:06:02 > 0:06:06are novels by which American author who died in 2008?
0:06:06 > 0:06:10I'm really bad at contemporary American literature,
0:06:10 > 0:06:14so, that's actually a really good question to direct my way. Um...
0:06:16 > 0:06:17I'm afraid I'll have to pass.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20I know that's a terrible thing to do, but I'm afraid I am.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23I can't call anything to mind.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25American literature not one of your strong points.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27Is it one of your strong points, Dave? Do you know?
0:06:27 > 0:06:29It's not my strong point but I'd guess Michael Crichton.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31It is Michael Crichton.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33Yeah, wrote State Of Fear and Airframe.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36Nothing there for Kaajal. So another chance for Dave.
0:06:36 > 0:06:41The actress Olga Knipper married which Russian playwright?
0:06:41 > 0:06:44Um, I'm going to go Anton Chekhov.
0:06:44 > 0:06:45Anton Chekhov...
0:06:45 > 0:06:47Thought he was in Star Trek!
0:06:47 > 0:06:48THEY LAUGH
0:06:48 > 0:06:50Could've been.
0:06:50 > 0:06:54Olga Knipper, or "Nipper" married Anton Chekhov.
0:06:54 > 0:06:56It's the right answer, Dave.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58Oh, dear. Bad luck, Kaajal.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00Into Sudden Death, some consolation,
0:07:00 > 0:07:02but you won't be in the final round.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Would you both, please, come back and join your teams?
0:07:06 > 0:07:08Well, after the opening exchanges,
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Agatha Quizteam have lost one brain from the final round,
0:07:10 > 0:07:12the Eggheads haven't lost any.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15And our second subject today is Science.
0:07:15 > 0:07:16Who'd like to play this?
0:07:16 > 0:07:19- Well, Science, we... I think... - That's me, is it?- Yeah.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21Either James or Ralph, so...
0:07:21 > 0:07:23- Do it.- Yeah, I'll go for it. - We'll nominate James, please.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27OK, James, choose an Egghead, any of them apart from Dave.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29I don't know, what do you think?
0:07:29 > 0:07:31- CJ.- I think CJ, yeah.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33CJ's very arts focused, we know this about him,
0:07:33 > 0:07:36so maybe he lets his science knowledge slip occasionally.
0:07:36 > 0:07:37- Yeah.- Yeah. CJ, please.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39OK.
0:07:39 > 0:07:42I've lost my last two on Science.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45Right, so, was it a good choice? We'll soon find out.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47James and CJ into the Question Room, please.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51OK, Science. Do you want to go first second?
0:07:51 > 0:07:53I'd like to go first, please.
0:07:56 > 0:07:57OK, first question, James.
0:07:57 > 0:08:01What term is used to refer to the upper boundary of the stratosphere?
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Um, well, I studied physics at university,
0:08:09 > 0:08:12and strangely enough this has come back to me.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14So, I'm going to go with stratopause.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17Well done, no pausing then. It's the right answer. Straight in.
0:08:17 > 0:08:18Stratopause is correct.
0:08:18 > 0:08:23CJ, which of these is the name for a plate designed to restrain
0:08:23 > 0:08:26the emission of flight of the distribution of sound?
0:08:30 > 0:08:32I haven't heard of it in relation to light,
0:08:32 > 0:08:35but something that stops sound is a baffle.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38It is. It's the right answer, CJ. It hasn't baffled to you.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40OK, one each.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42James, the bicuspid,
0:08:42 > 0:08:45or mitral valve, is part of which organ in the human body?
0:08:47 > 0:08:52Hm. Well, valves are usually in the heart.
0:08:52 > 0:08:53So I'm group to go with heart, Dermot.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56OK, going on the valve part of it, and you've got it.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58Yes, heart is correct. Well done.
0:08:58 > 0:09:03And, CJ, what is produced when an electron and a positron interact?
0:09:08 > 0:09:11I'm... I don't know but...
0:09:11 > 0:09:15I would've thought when subatomic particles interact it can't be
0:09:15 > 0:09:18anything substantive, so it couldn't be water or hydrogen cyanide.
0:09:19 > 0:09:20Um...
0:09:20 > 0:09:23I don't know it, but I'll have to go for gamma radiation.
0:09:23 > 0:09:24Gamma radiation.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26Clearly, you know a thing or two about it as well.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28That's the right answer, CJ.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31It's two each.
0:09:31 > 0:09:35James, which of these is most likely to contain phloem.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Phloem, hm.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44A fish's swim bladder, is what allow them
0:09:44 > 0:09:46to rise and fall in the sea,
0:09:46 > 0:09:50but I think again, this is calling on me from back in...way back when.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53Phloem, xylem and phloem... I would say plant stem.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55Oh-ho-ho, yes!
0:09:55 > 0:09:57That's the right answer.
0:09:57 > 0:09:58- ALL:- Yeah.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01You know your stuff but you're being matched by CJ so far.
0:10:01 > 0:10:02Third question, CJ.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05In 1859, the amateur astronomers
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson
0:10:07 > 0:10:11independently made observations of what phenomenon?
0:10:15 > 0:10:17I think I'm going to have to do this on the date. It's far too late
0:10:17 > 0:10:20for transit of Venus, that's much, much earlier.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23You can't make observations of black holes.
0:10:23 > 0:10:27Um...I'm surprised it hadn't been done earlier
0:10:27 > 0:10:30but I think the only one of those that fits is solar flare.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32Solar flare is correct, CJ.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34Wow, CJ, you're on form,
0:10:34 > 0:10:36demonstrating all the different techniques
0:10:36 > 0:10:39of working the options out to get the right answer.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42That's twice, and in different ways, you've done it.
0:10:42 > 0:10:43But, guess what,
0:10:43 > 0:10:45we're going to remove those options now, CJ.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47- THEY LAUGH - Have to do that, CJ.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49It's going to be a lot harder. But, James,
0:10:49 > 0:10:52you know the form in Sudden Death, no options appearing.
0:10:52 > 0:10:58On 19th July, 2013, the Cassini probe in orbit around Saturn
0:10:58 > 0:11:02took a much-publicised photo of which planet?
0:11:02 > 0:11:06I think this is the famous
0:11:06 > 0:11:09Tiny Blue Dot photograph of planet Earth,
0:11:09 > 0:11:10so I'm going to go with Earth.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14Clever old you. It's the right answer, yes.
0:11:16 > 0:11:17Planet Earth.
0:11:17 > 0:11:22CJ, which botanical term for the male reproductive part of a flower
0:11:22 > 0:11:25comes from the Latin for "thread"?
0:11:25 > 0:11:26Oh, dear.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28I don't know, I...
0:11:28 > 0:11:31Again, I may be wrong here, I always thought pistil was male
0:11:31 > 0:11:33and stamen was female...
0:11:34 > 0:11:37I'm not at all sure here but I'll go for pistil.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39Pistil.
0:11:39 > 0:11:41Bad luck, CJ.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43- It's stamen.- It's stamen.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46I mean, you were right there.
0:11:46 > 0:11:47You were right there.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50You weren't looking for anything else but you just mixed the two up.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52That's really bad luck. Well, listen, James,
0:11:52 > 0:11:55we already got the cheers from your team-mates there.
0:11:55 > 0:12:00What a performance by you, because CJ was firing on all cylinders
0:12:00 > 0:12:04there, I thought, but you really outran him. Well done.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06You're in the final round, playing for the money today.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09Would you both, please, come back and join your teams?
0:12:10 > 0:12:13I must say, I really enjoyed that round. I'm sure you did, James.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16CJ, less so. But it was a treat for all Eggheads viewers out there.
0:12:16 > 0:12:17Just really high quality,
0:12:17 > 0:12:20high calibre quizzing on a very difficult category there.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22And I'm keeping up my 100% record in Science.
0:12:22 > 0:12:23THEY LAUGH
0:12:23 > 0:12:26That's why you mixed up pistil and stamen, you really knew it.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28But you thought, right, you'd only mess up that record.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30So, as it stands, both teams then
0:12:30 > 0:12:32have lost one brain from the final round.
0:12:32 > 0:12:37Let's get on. Looking forward to this, round three, it's Music.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39And who'd like to play this?
0:12:39 > 0:12:41I think that's me, actually, Dermot.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Saw you puffing out your cheeks there.
0:12:43 > 0:12:44THEY LAUGH
0:12:44 > 0:12:45So, Hywel, you're going to play Music.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48Who would you like to play from the Eggheads?
0:12:48 > 0:12:51CJ and Dave have played, so you can play Kevin, Barry or Chris.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54- Chris.- I think Chris might be a good shout.- We'll take on Chris, please.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57OK, let's have you both into the Question Room, please,
0:12:57 > 0:12:58Chris and Hywel.
0:13:00 > 0:13:04Well, Hywel, a diverse knowledge of music always helps in this round.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07Chris has one or two blind spots in music,
0:13:07 > 0:13:10as has been exhibited on occasion in the past.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12Let's see if you can find his.
0:13:12 > 0:13:14Do you want to go first or second, Hywel?
0:13:14 > 0:13:16I'll go first, please, Dermot.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21OK, first set of questions, and this is the first of them.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24Hywel, by what name was the country and western singer,
0:13:24 > 0:13:27Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr commonly known?
0:13:31 > 0:13:36Well, Slinky Whitman would be an odd name for a lead singer, really.
0:13:36 > 0:13:41Um, Slender Whitman, I've not heard of. I'm going to go for Slim Whitman.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44OK, yes, it's the right answer.
0:13:46 > 0:13:47One to you.
0:13:47 > 0:13:52Chris, the CBSO Centre is the home of which city symphony orchestra?
0:13:54 > 0:13:57I think the only one that's got a symphony orchestra is Birmingham,
0:13:57 > 0:13:59so that's got to be the answer.
0:13:59 > 0:14:03OK, well worked out. It's the right answer, yes, Birmingham.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08Hywel, who went to number one in the UK in March 2013
0:14:08 > 0:14:12with a song of theirs that had reached number nine in 1994?
0:14:16 > 0:14:18Well, I don't think Black Eyed Peas were around in 1994
0:14:18 > 0:14:21in any commercial sense.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24I don't remember George Michael getting to number one
0:14:24 > 0:14:27any time in the recent past, and I think...
0:14:27 > 0:14:30I do remember Let's Get Ready To Rhumble - with an "h" -
0:14:30 > 0:14:32getting to number one recently for PJ and Duncan,
0:14:32 > 0:14:34so that's what I'm going to say.
0:14:35 > 0:14:39Very good. I like the correct spelling of Rhumble, with an "h".
0:14:39 > 0:14:41PJ and Duncan is the right answer. Well done.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46And, Chris, Strangelove and Never Let Me Down Again
0:14:46 > 0:14:50were hit singles in the late 1980s for which group?
0:14:54 > 0:14:58Well, I know nothing about that era at all. It just passed me by.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00I had other things on my mind. Um...
0:15:04 > 0:15:07Sounds pretentious enough for Depeche Mode,
0:15:07 > 0:15:08so that what I'm going to go for.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10And you, after those long silences,
0:15:10 > 0:15:14kind of stunned into silence with almost disgust.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17Chris, "Sounds pretentious enough."
0:15:17 > 0:15:19It is the right answer, yes, indeed.
0:15:19 > 0:15:20Depeche Mode.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22We'll pass on your comments about their style.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25Thank you very much, Chris.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28It's two-all. Hywel, third question.
0:15:28 > 0:15:33The image on the front cover of the 1976 UK release of Abba's album
0:15:33 > 0:15:37Arrival shows the group sitting inside what type of vehicle?
0:15:42 > 0:15:46Pff, well, not a massive ABBA fan.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48Arrival...possibly
0:15:48 > 0:15:50an airport theme there.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52I suppose you can arrive in any forms of transport though.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55Probably Arrivals, and maybe airport arrivals.
0:15:55 > 0:15:56I'll go for an airliner.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58OK, airliner.
0:15:58 > 0:15:59No, it's not an airliner.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01It is by air,
0:16:01 > 0:16:03but by helicopter.
0:16:03 > 0:16:04Helicopter.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07So, well, Chris, chance for victory.
0:16:07 > 0:16:11By what name is Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major
0:16:11 > 0:16:13popularly known?
0:16:17 > 0:16:18That the Emperor Concerto.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20Beethoven pretentious?
0:16:20 > 0:16:22I prefer Wagner.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24- THEY LAUGH - OK.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26Emperor Concerto is the right answer, Chris.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29Right up your street there. Straight in with it.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31Bad luck there, Hywel.
0:16:31 > 0:16:32You were going really strongly
0:16:32 > 0:16:35until you got your wrong mode of air transport there for ABBA.
0:16:35 > 0:16:37You won't be in the final round.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39Would you both come back and join your teams?
0:16:41 > 0:16:43Another good performance from Agatha Quizteam
0:16:43 > 0:16:45in the form of Hywel there, but just lost out.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48It means Agatha Quizteam have lost two brains,
0:16:48 > 0:16:49the Eggheads have lost one.
0:16:49 > 0:16:53Our next subject is Politics.
0:16:53 > 0:16:54Well, pretty clear-cut, this one.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56We're going to go for Tom, please.
0:16:56 > 0:16:57- Tom.- OK, Tom. Now, choose an Egghead.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00Two of them remaining, Kevin or Barry?
0:17:00 > 0:17:02- What do you reckon? - What do we think?
0:17:02 > 0:17:05- I think Kevin.- OK.- Do you want try to take on Kevin?- OK.
0:17:05 > 0:17:06We'll take Kevin, please.
0:17:06 > 0:17:10OK, let's have Tom and Kevin into the Question Room, please.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13Tom, do you want to go first or second?
0:17:13 > 0:17:15I think I'd like to go first, please.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20OK, Politics, first question to you, Tom.
0:17:20 > 0:17:25Walter Thomson, who died in 1978, was best known as the long-term
0:17:25 > 0:17:29bodyguard of which 20th-century British prime minister?
0:17:32 > 0:17:34Well, I'm not absolutely certain here
0:17:34 > 0:17:38but I think if he died in '78 and Thatcher became prime minister
0:17:38 > 0:17:43in '79 then he'd be pretty unlikely to have been her bodyguard.
0:17:43 > 0:17:47Lloyd George was prime minister in 1910, so he would have been
0:17:47 > 0:17:50pretty old, and maybe a time when prime ministers didn't need
0:17:50 > 0:17:53bodyguards, so I'd imagine it would be Winston Churchill.
0:17:53 > 0:17:55You worked that out very nicely. It is the right answer of course.
0:17:55 > 0:17:57Yes, Winston Churchill.
0:17:59 > 0:18:04Well, Kevin, how many female Labour MPs dubbed Blair's Babes
0:18:04 > 0:18:07were elected to the Commons at the 1997 general election?
0:18:11 > 0:18:14It was quite a jump at the time, I seem to remember,
0:18:14 > 0:18:16so 11 would be too low.
0:18:18 > 0:18:22I don't...I don't think there were as many as 101.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25- No, 51.- OK, 51.
0:18:26 > 0:18:27- 101, Kevin.- Was it?
0:18:27 > 0:18:28Oh, right. OK.
0:18:28 > 0:18:32Well, I was keeping this little statistic in the background here,
0:18:32 > 0:18:35Tom, but after that with you in the lead
0:18:35 > 0:18:37and maybe a chance for 2-0.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40Kevin is a formidable player in all categories, as you know.
0:18:40 > 0:18:44This is one of his favourites. He's got a 90% winning record.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47He's played 30 and only lost three.
0:18:47 > 0:18:48Is he going to make it four?
0:18:48 > 0:18:50Let's see as this pans out.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52It's important to get this one.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55Which should major US city filed for bankruptcy
0:18:55 > 0:18:59with estimated debts of 18 billion in July 2013?
0:19:03 > 0:19:05Well, I've seen quite a lot written about this,
0:19:05 > 0:19:10and also some quite interesting photos of some abandoned buildings
0:19:10 > 0:19:14and abandoned factories so I'm pretty certain it's Detroit.
0:19:14 > 0:19:15Detroit.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17It's the right answer, yes.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21Well...
0:19:21 > 0:19:25- Just a slim possibility here that Kevin's round could be over...- Yep.
0:19:25 > 0:19:27..on this question.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30Strawberry Hill, in Twickenham, was the home
0:19:30 > 0:19:32of which author and politician?
0:19:34 > 0:19:36That was Horace Walpole.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38OK.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40- Steadied the ship.- Hm.- Got it there.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43It's the right answer. Yes, got the tick.
0:19:43 > 0:19:47But, your destiny, your fate not under your own control.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49This ejects him if you get this, Tom.
0:19:49 > 0:19:54Jack Straw served as which cabinet member's special adviser
0:19:54 > 0:19:57from 1974 to 1976?
0:20:01 > 0:20:02I'm not...
0:20:03 > 0:20:06..absolutely certain, but I have...
0:20:06 > 0:20:09Just dredging something up from the back of my mind...
0:20:09 > 0:20:11If I had to guess, I'd think it's Barbara Castle.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14- That's that your answer? - Yes, it's Barbara Castle.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17"I'd guess at Barbara Castle."
0:20:17 > 0:20:18Kevin's out. It's the right answer.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20- THEY CHEER - Well done.
0:20:20 > 0:20:23We've got to look at those scores again.
0:20:23 > 0:20:243-1.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26No point putting another question to him.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29As I say, he had a 90% winning record,
0:20:29 > 0:20:32that ever so slightly lessened after that loss.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Well done, Tom.
0:20:34 > 0:20:35Big scalp there.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37Would you both please come back and join your teams?
0:20:38 > 0:20:40OK, so this is what we've been playing towards.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42It's time for the final round,
0:20:42 > 0:20:44which, as always, is General Knowledge.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads
0:20:46 > 0:20:48won't be able to take part in this round.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50So, Hywel, and Kaajal from Agatha Quizteam,
0:20:50 > 0:20:53and Kevin and CJ from the Eggheads
0:20:53 > 0:20:54would you all leave the studio, please?
0:20:56 > 0:20:57So, Ralph, Tom and James,
0:20:57 > 0:21:01you're playing to win Agatha Quizteam £9,000.
0:21:01 > 0:21:02Dave, Barry and Chris,
0:21:02 > 0:21:04you're playing for something which money can't buy -
0:21:04 > 0:21:06the Eggheads' reputation.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09As usual, I'll ask the each team three questions in turn.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11This time, the questions are all General Knowledge
0:21:11 > 0:21:12so anything can come up.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15And, of course, the big difference, you are allowed to confer.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17So, Agatha Quizteam, the question is,
0:21:17 > 0:21:21are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three?
0:21:21 > 0:21:24And, Ralph, Tom and James, would you like to go first second?
0:21:24 > 0:21:26I think we're going to go first, if that's OK.
0:21:29 > 0:21:32First question then for Agatha Quizteam.
0:21:32 > 0:21:37Which of these can be referred to as a fear of public places?
0:21:40 > 0:21:42Arachnophobia's spiders.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44- Yeah.- Yep, arachnophobia's spiders.
0:21:44 > 0:21:48- Androphobia...men? - Men or humans.- Yeah.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50I think it's agoraphobia.
0:21:52 > 0:21:53That's what we going to go for.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55OK. Agoraphobia is the right answer.
0:21:55 > 0:21:56Yes, well done.
0:21:58 > 0:21:59Eggheads, which of these women
0:21:59 > 0:22:04came to the attention of the public as the girlfriend of Andy Murray?
0:22:07 > 0:22:10I'm just trying to picture Andy Murray and Kim Kardashian
0:22:10 > 0:22:13together, and it's an image I don't want to see too often.
0:22:13 > 0:22:14I think we'll go for Kim Sears.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16OK, Kim Sears.
0:22:16 > 0:22:17Right answer, Eggheads.
0:22:17 > 0:22:18One apiece.
0:22:18 > 0:22:23And, Agatha Quizteam, the game of Pesapallo is often referred to
0:22:23 > 0:22:26as a Finnish version of which sport?
0:22:29 > 0:22:32My memory's saying lacrosse but I don't know why.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Yeah, I think golf is probably...I don't know.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38- It just seems maybe not enough space. - Yeah.- Yeah.
0:22:38 > 0:22:39Baseball seems...
0:22:39 > 0:22:42Well, no, it could be like a stick ball kind of...
0:22:42 > 0:22:45Yeah. Well, they're all kind of stick ball games really, aren't they?
0:22:45 > 0:22:48- What do you reckon? - My first thought was lacrosse.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50Lacrosse seems the kind of thing that different countries
0:22:50 > 0:22:52- would have a national version of. - Yeah.
0:22:52 > 0:22:53I kind of think that as well.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56I think we're going to go with lacrosse but we're not 100%.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58OK, lacrosse on pesapallo,
0:22:58 > 0:23:02referred to as the Finnish version of...
0:23:03 > 0:23:04I'm afraid that's incorrect.
0:23:04 > 0:23:05It's not lacrosse.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07Do you know, Eggheads?
0:23:07 > 0:23:09- Baseball?- Baseball.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11- It's the Finnish version of baseball.- Ah.
0:23:11 > 0:23:15But not the right answer. Let's see how the Eggheads do
0:23:15 > 0:23:16with their second question.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19Where is the Humboldt Glacier located?
0:23:22 > 0:23:24- Antarctica.- Antarctica.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26I would have thought it's Antarctica.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29- Yeah. Are we happy with that?- Yeah, it feeds into the Humboldt Current,
0:23:29 > 0:23:32goes up the west coast of South America.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35Well, Humboldt rejoices in the fact that there are more
0:23:35 > 0:23:38geographical features named after him than any other person
0:23:38 > 0:23:39who's ever lived.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41We think the Humboldt Glacier
0:23:41 > 0:23:42is in Antarctica.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46So, there are more features, geographical features,
0:23:46 > 0:23:48named after Humboldt than anybody else?
0:23:48 > 0:23:51- Well, that's why you got confused then, cos it's Greenland.- Oh.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53THEY LAUGH
0:23:53 > 0:23:54Good news.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57I thought it was Antarctica.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59Good news for Agatha Quizteam. It's all square. Here we go.
0:23:59 > 0:24:00Third question.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03The TV drama series Top Of The Lake
0:24:03 > 0:24:07was co-written and co-created by which film director?
0:24:11 > 0:24:14- Top Of The Lake.- I don't think it is Kathryn Bigelow.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17She does Hollywood stuff. She did like, Hurt Locker, was it?
0:24:17 > 0:24:19Yeah, Hurt Locker.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22- I haven't seen Top Of The Lake. - No, I haven't.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24- I have a feeling it's Jane Campion but...- I...
0:24:26 > 0:24:27- Go for it.- Go for it.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30I think we're going to go with Jane Campion.
0:24:30 > 0:24:31OK. You had a feeling.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34- Well, you had a feeling about lacrosse last time.- We did, yeah.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37You've got it this time. It's the right answer.
0:24:39 > 0:24:40Well, back in it.
0:24:40 > 0:24:44And will win the money if the Eggheads don't get this.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47Which singer well known as part of a duo
0:24:47 > 0:24:49wrote the 2013 autobiography
0:24:49 > 0:24:51Bedsit Disco Queen?
0:24:55 > 0:24:59Right. All I can go off is Keren Woodward is in Bananarama.
0:24:59 > 0:25:00Which isn't a duo.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02- Mary Wilson...- Mary Wilson...
0:25:02 > 0:25:05- Now, Tracey Thorn was in Everything But The Girl...- Yeah.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07- ..which is a duo.- Ah-ha.
0:25:07 > 0:25:08- With Ben Watt.- Yeah.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10Bedsit Disco Queen. I mean, it...
0:25:10 > 0:25:14- It sounds like Tracey Thorn, doesn't it?- Her sense of humour.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17Yeah, Mary Wilson was The Supremes, Keren Woodward was Bananarama.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19We've got to go Tracey Thorn.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22I mean, if it's Mary Wilson in some other duo, I don't know.
0:25:22 > 0:25:23Or some other Mary Wilson.
0:25:23 > 0:25:24Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27We've got to go Tracey Thorn on the percentage.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30Well, on the principle that we think only one of those ladies
0:25:30 > 0:25:33is in a duo, we shall go for Tracey Thorn.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35Tracey Thorn...
0:25:35 > 0:25:37OK.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39It is the right answer, Tracey Thorn.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42Well, what a tight round.
0:25:42 > 0:25:46It's all square. We go to Sudden Death again. So, here we go.
0:25:46 > 0:25:50Ha is the symbol for which metric unit of area?
0:25:50 > 0:25:53- Unless it's a trick it must be... - No, no, it's a hectare.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56I think we're pretty sure it's a hectare.
0:25:56 > 0:25:57OK, hectare.
0:25:57 > 0:25:58It's the right answer, yes.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00Ha stands for hectare.
0:26:00 > 0:26:04So, Eggheads, which bicycle race was first organised in 1909
0:26:04 > 0:26:06in an attempt to increase sales of
0:26:06 > 0:26:09the newspaper La Gazzetta Dello Sport?
0:26:09 > 0:26:11THEY TALK OVER EACH OTHER
0:26:11 > 0:26:14- ..in Italy.- Giro d'Italia, yeah.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17We think the one in 1909 was the Giro d'Italia.
0:26:17 > 0:26:18Giro d'Italia...
0:26:19 > 0:26:23..is the right answer, Eggheads, yes. All square again.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25Right, on with the Sudden Death round.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27And, Agatha Quizteam,
0:26:27 > 0:26:29which member of The Goons was awarded
0:26:29 > 0:26:33the Peruvian Order of Merit due to his fundraising work
0:26:33 > 0:26:35following an earthquake there?
0:26:35 > 0:26:36- Who were The Goons? - Member of The Goons.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39- Spike Milligan? - I think that was Spike Milligan.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41And...
0:26:41 > 0:26:42I'm getting confused with The Goodies.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Yeah, that was in my head.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47- Graham...- Yes, Graeme Garden. - Graeme Garden, yeah.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50- Is it Graeme Garden? - But he was famous in Peru...
0:26:50 > 0:26:51for fundraising, I guess.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53- Maybe.- Yeah.
0:26:55 > 0:26:56I really have no idea.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59- We can go for Graeme Garden. - Shall we go for him?- Yeah, yeah.
0:26:59 > 0:27:00We're going to go with Graeme Garden.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02OK, Graeme Garden, you're saying.
0:27:02 > 0:27:06Member of The Goons awarded the Peruvian Order of Merit.
0:27:06 > 0:27:07You were saying you were getting confused
0:27:07 > 0:27:09between The Goodies and The Goons.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11Well, you did get confused.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14Graeme Garden, a Goodie not a Goon.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17Goons well before The Goodies.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19So perhaps a generational thing.
0:27:19 > 0:27:20This lot'll know.
0:27:20 > 0:27:21- Michael Bentine.- Michael Bentine.
0:27:21 > 0:27:24- Michael Bentine. - Whose father was Peruvian.
0:27:24 > 0:27:25His father was Peruvian.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27Right, well, that's one to store away.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29That's for another quiz.
0:27:29 > 0:27:30Eggheads, another chance to win.
0:27:30 > 0:27:35Which supermodel played Sheela in the 1993 film Sirens,
0:27:35 > 0:27:36starring Hugh Grant?
0:27:36 > 0:27:39- THEY TALK OVER EACH OTHER - I think it's Elle Macpherson.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41- Definitely Elle Macpherson. - That's the first thing I thought.
0:27:41 > 0:27:45Yeah, so, amazingly, we're on safer ground here with supermodels.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47All three of us believe it was Elle Macpherson.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50Elle Macpherson
0:27:50 > 0:27:54playing Sheela in Sirens along with Hugh Grant back in '93...
0:27:54 > 0:27:55It's the right answer.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57Eggheads, you've won.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05That was very, very close, as I don't need to tell you.
0:28:05 > 0:28:09In the final round, and indeed in many of those head-to-heads.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11One or two chances there to beat the Eggheads.
0:28:11 > 0:28:15It's not often they get one wrong, so really nothing much in it
0:28:15 > 0:28:17apart from the fact you didn't win the money.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19We're sorry about that, but thank you very much indeed
0:28:19 > 0:28:21for making such a great game of Eggheads
0:28:21 > 0:28:22and giving them a real contest.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24The Eggheads did what comes naturally to them,
0:28:24 > 0:28:26and their winning streak continues.
0:28:26 > 0:28:28I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £9,000.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31That means the money rolls over to our next show.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33Eggheads, congratulations.
0:28:33 > 0:28:34Who will beat you?
0:28:34 > 0:28:36Join us next time to see
0:28:36 > 0:28:39if a new team of Challengers have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:39 > 0:28:42We're up to £10,000 that says they don't.
0:28:42 > 0:28:43Until then, goodbye.