0:00:05 > 0:00:09These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:11 > 0:00:12Together they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:12 > 0:00:16arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:18 > 0:00:20The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:24 > 0:00:28Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers
0:00:28 > 0:00:31pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33Here they are, the Eggheads.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35Was that a good enough build-up?
0:00:35 > 0:00:37DAVE: Yeah, it's good. Like that. PAT: It's a start.
0:00:37 > 0:00:38Have to work on toning it down, I think.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40Taking on our quiz Goliaths today
0:00:40 > 0:00:44are The Pioneers from Rochdale.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47This team all take part in league quizzes once a week so they're pretty handy.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49They're at the Spotland Social Club
0:00:49 > 0:00:52and they take their name from the famous Rochdale Pioneers,
0:00:52 > 0:00:55known for forming the original co-operative movement.
0:00:55 > 0:00:56Let's meet them.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Hi. I'm Steve, I'm a retired postal worker.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03Hiya. I'm Mick, I'm a retired health and safety consultant.
0:01:03 > 0:01:07Hi. I'm Janice, I'm a retired primary school teacher.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10Hi, I'm Pete, and I'm a caretaker.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13Hi. I'm Paul, I'm a cladder.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16So Steve, team, welcome. Good to see you. Hi, Jeremy.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19So proper quizzing goes on here, right?
0:01:19 > 0:01:20Proper...
0:01:20 > 0:01:23I don't know whether you'd call it proper. We try.
0:01:23 > 0:01:24We endeavour.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27And just before we start, the original co-operative movement,
0:01:27 > 0:01:32the Rochdale Pioneers, it's an interesting back reference. What should we know about them?
0:01:32 > 0:01:35They were formed in 1844,
0:01:35 > 0:01:37as a challenge to what was going on
0:01:37 > 0:01:40with a lot of shopkeepers at the time who were
0:01:40 > 0:01:45polluting the flour, putting stones in sacks of potatoes and all the rest of it,
0:01:45 > 0:01:50so that the people who owned the co-operative ran the co-operative,
0:01:50 > 0:01:53and made sure that all the customers got a good deal. OK.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55And any profits that were made went back to the customers.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58OK... And it's an idea that's spread worldwide.
0:01:58 > 0:02:02Lovely. And any profits made tonight...stay with you. Yes, please.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06Every day there is ?1,000 worth of cash up for grabs for our Challengers.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:02:08 > 0:02:10the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:02:10 > 0:02:15So, Pioneers, the Eggheads are on a roll. They've won the last 11 games.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18There's ?12,000 to win today.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20So this is fun, isn't it, already?
0:02:20 > 0:02:23The first head-to-head battle is on History.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25Who would like this? Who wants to...
0:02:25 > 0:02:28Might we suggest... You looking at me?
0:02:28 > 0:02:29..you, Michael?
0:02:29 > 0:02:32Yeah, but who should I take on?
0:02:32 > 0:02:34Try Dave for History.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36Tremendous Knowledge.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38I'll, er...I'll take on Dave.
0:02:38 > 0:02:42OK, so it's going to be Mick from The Pioneers against
0:02:42 > 0:02:46Tremendous Knowledge Dave on History. A quizzy team we've got here.
0:02:46 > 0:02:50To ensure there's no conferring would you both please take your positions in our Question Room?
0:02:51 > 0:02:54So, Mick, it's History. Would you like to go first or second?
0:02:54 > 0:02:56Er, I'd like to go first, please.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Good luck, Mick, and here we go.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04Which region is widely thought to be the birthplace
0:03:04 > 0:03:07of the infamous ruler Vlad the Impaler?
0:03:12 > 0:03:16Well, I think that's in present-day Romania,
0:03:16 > 0:03:18which is Transylvania.
0:03:20 > 0:03:21You're right, Transylvania it is.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23OK - Dave, your question.
0:03:23 > 0:03:27For approximately how long was Richard I King of England?
0:03:31 > 0:03:33Erm...
0:03:34 > 0:03:38Well, he was the one with the Crusades, Richard the Lionheart.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42Erm... I don't think it's a year... I think it's 10 years.
0:03:42 > 0:03:45Bang on, 10 years. That's right. He was away a lot, wasn't he?
0:03:45 > 0:03:46Yes, he was.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48OK. Mick...
0:03:48 > 0:03:50Which of these is a term
0:03:50 > 0:03:52for a type of bodyguard
0:03:52 > 0:03:55typically used around the time of the Norman invasion of England?
0:03:59 > 0:04:01Ooh, I don't know this. Erm...
0:04:01 > 0:04:03I don't think it's Serf.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06So that leaves the other two.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08Erm...
0:04:08 > 0:04:10I don't think it's Thane, I'll go for Housecarl.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15Yeah, Housecarl is spot on, well done. All right. Yeah.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17So - over to you, Dave.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19In which royal borough in southwest London
0:04:19 > 0:04:23were seven Anglo-Saxon kings crowned?
0:04:26 > 0:04:28Not heard this at all.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32Right, I'm going to rule out Richmond and Kew.
0:04:32 > 0:04:34And the only thing I'm going on is "King's town"...
0:04:35 > 0:04:38Which could be Kingston in Anglo-Saxon times,
0:04:38 > 0:04:41and it's the Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames
0:04:41 > 0:04:43so I'm going to go Kingston.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46Brilliant logic. Yeah,
0:04:46 > 0:04:49the answer was almost in the names there.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51Kingston is right. Well done. "King's town."
0:04:51 > 0:04:53OK, back to you, Mick.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56The Battle of Actium,
0:04:56 > 0:04:59at which Mark Antony was defeated by the forces of Octavian,
0:04:59 > 0:05:01took place off the coast of which country?
0:05:05 > 0:05:07Er, again I'm not quite sure of this. Erm...
0:05:08 > 0:05:11I don't know if it was...
0:05:11 > 0:05:14The only one I can really go for I think
0:05:14 > 0:05:17is Greece. But that's no...
0:05:17 > 0:05:19No surety there.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21Well, you're playing very well, cos you got it right.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Three out of three as well.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25Good play by our Pioneers,
0:05:25 > 0:05:28let us see what happens to Dave now, third question.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31What was the name of the Welsh adventurer, Dave,
0:05:31 > 0:05:35who's believed to have been the second husband of Catherine of Valois,
0:05:35 > 0:05:40and who did much to establish the Tudor family as a dynastic power?
0:05:44 > 0:05:47The only one of those I've heard of is Owen Tudor, so that's my answer.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49Owen Tudor.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51Good play from you as well, Dave.
0:05:51 > 0:05:52Owen Tudor is correct,
0:05:52 > 0:05:55so three out of three for both of you.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57The scores are level and we go to Sudden Death, Mick,
0:05:57 > 0:06:01which is a bit harder because I don't give you alternative answers. Yeah.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03To the nearest year,
0:06:03 > 0:06:07how long was Franklin D Roosevelt President of the USA?
0:06:07 > 0:06:09I would say...
0:06:10 > 0:06:12..15.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15No, 12. Oh!
0:06:15 > 0:06:17Dave, you can book your place in the final
0:06:17 > 0:06:18if you get this right.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20Who was the last Emperor of Ethiopia?
0:06:20 > 0:06:24Let me get that in my head.
0:06:24 > 0:06:25Haile Selassie.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28Haile Selassie is the right answer, Dave, he was indeed
0:06:28 > 0:06:30the last Emperor of Ethiopia
0:06:30 > 0:06:32and you will be an emperor in the final round.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35Mick, I'm sorry, you've been knocked out.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37Come back to us, both of you. We will play on.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41So, as it stands The Pioneers have lost a brain
0:06:41 > 0:06:43although Mick played very well there.
0:06:43 > 0:06:47The Eggheads have not lost a brain yet, so let's see what happens next.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49Music is the subject for you, Pioneers.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52Steve wanted this, but...
0:06:52 > 0:06:54Yeah. I fancy it.
0:06:54 > 0:06:56Let Steve have it, he wants it.
0:06:56 > 0:07:00Now, who are we going to try and take out?
0:07:00 > 0:07:03Lisa? Try Lisa. I'll challenge Lisa, please.
0:07:03 > 0:07:07Okey-dokey. So Steve from The Pioneers, Lisa from the Eggheads.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09We might even get you to burst into song at one point.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12Let's just see what comes up, I'm not promising. Let's see.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18Well, you're up against Lisa on Music,
0:07:18 > 0:07:20and would you like to go first or second?
0:07:20 > 0:07:21I'd like to go first, please.
0:07:25 > 0:07:27Here we go with your first question.
0:07:27 > 0:07:31All Day And All Of The Night was a UK hit single for which band in 1964?
0:07:34 > 0:07:39It was certainly prior to the first Pink Floyd release
0:07:39 > 0:07:41which I think was 1967...
0:07:43 > 0:07:46..but I believe the answer is The Kinks.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48The Kinks is correct. Well done.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52OK, Lisa...
0:07:52 > 0:07:56The stage musical Kiss Me, Kate is based on which Shakespeare play?
0:08:02 > 0:08:04Directed a production of this once, actually,
0:08:04 > 0:08:06when I was still at university, it's The Taming Of The Shrew.
0:08:06 > 0:08:08The Taming Of The Shrew is correct.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10Is it politically incorrect now?
0:08:10 > 0:08:14Erm...yeah, quite probably but it's still ever such good fun. Mm.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16OK, Steve, your question.
0:08:16 > 0:08:20What is the literal meaning of the title of the Mascagni opera
0:08:20 > 0:08:24Cavalleria rusticana, when translated from the Italian?
0:08:29 > 0:08:33Er, the "rustica" bit, that gives it...
0:08:33 > 0:08:36So the other bit is Cavalleria.
0:08:36 > 0:08:37Cavalleria?
0:08:37 > 0:08:40Yes, C-A-V-A-L-L-E-R-I-A.
0:08:40 > 0:08:45That sounds sort of military as in "cavalry".
0:08:45 > 0:08:48But it also sounds a little bit like "chivalry". So...
0:08:48 > 0:08:52have an absolute guess at rustic chivalry.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55You're absolute guess is absolutely right, well done. Rustic chivalry.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57Lisa...
0:08:57 > 0:08:59El Camino and Turn Blue
0:08:59 > 0:09:01are albums by which band?
0:09:05 > 0:09:09Right... I might have to do this by elimination.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13Fairly certain it's not Coldplay...
0:09:14 > 0:09:17..and I'm semi-certain it's not The Killers.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22They don't sound like Killers albums...
0:09:22 > 0:09:24I'll go for The Black Keys.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27Yeah, you're right. And it's funny, I would have done it the same way -
0:09:27 > 0:09:29I don't know what The Black Keys do or what they're about
0:09:29 > 0:09:31but they're the right answer.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33Steve...
0:09:33 > 0:09:36The rock bassist Michael Balzary,
0:09:36 > 0:09:38a founder member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers,
0:09:38 > 0:09:41became famous under which one-word name?
0:09:44 > 0:09:49Fish, I believe, was the lead singer of Marillion
0:09:49 > 0:09:52before setting out on his own career.
0:09:52 > 0:09:55Fawn doesn't sound quite as rock-ish and aggressive
0:09:55 > 0:10:00as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, so I will go with Flea.
0:10:00 > 0:10:04Yeah, you've got three out of three, it is Flea.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06OK, Lisa, over to you.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08If you get this right we go to Sudden Death.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11The jazz pianist Oscar Peterson was born in which country?
0:10:14 > 0:10:17Do you get many jazz pianists from New Zealand,
0:10:17 > 0:10:19can I rule him out solely on that?
0:10:20 > 0:10:24Canada and I as we know are not friends. Erm...
0:10:25 > 0:10:28But I can't rule it out. Let we just have a little think.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30I mean, I've certainly heard of him.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35I sort of want to say Ireland.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39Well, I sort of want to say Canada too.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41I think we best hope somebody
0:10:41 > 0:10:46keeps this seat warm for me for later, and I will go for...
0:10:46 > 0:10:47Canada.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50Ha-ha-ha-ha! Oh, the struggle.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53But you've got it right. Wow! Canada it is.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Three points each. Sorry, Steve.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58We go to Sudden Death.
0:10:58 > 0:10:59Steve, your question.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01Which Stephen Sondheim musical
0:11:01 > 0:11:06features the numbers No Place Like London and God, That's Good!?
0:11:07 > 0:11:10I have absolutely no idea.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Stab in the dark - Guys And Dolls.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16No, it is Sweeney Todd.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19So Lisa, if you get this right you are in the final round.
0:11:19 > 0:11:20Here is your question.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22The piece of music by Beethoven
0:11:22 > 0:11:26known as the Ode To Joy features in which of his symphonies?
0:11:27 > 0:11:31I think it's comes somewhere at the end of the Ninth Symphony.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34Yes, No.9 in D minor. Or the Choral Symphony,
0:11:34 > 0:11:38but I can accept Ninth Symphony - you're right, Lisa, you've won on Sudden Death on Music.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41But it is one of her favourite subjects, Steve.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43Sorry you've been knocked out there.
0:11:43 > 0:11:47Return to your teams, please, both of you, and we'll see what happens next.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50So as it stands, The Pioneers
0:11:50 > 0:11:52have now lost a second brain from the final round.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55The Eggheads haven't lost any so far so they are playing well.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58And the next object is Arts Books.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00So who would like this?
0:12:00 > 0:12:04I think we're going to nominate Janice, we pretty much decided that.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06Unless anybody else wants to have a go? No.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10All right. I'll take that one. Janice? OK.
0:12:10 > 0:12:11Retired school teacher, against...?
0:12:11 > 0:12:15PETE: I'd take CJ. Personally!
0:12:15 > 0:12:17OK. Can I challenge CJ, please?
0:12:17 > 0:12:19Course you can.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21That seems to have made you happy.
0:12:21 > 0:12:22I'm thrilled!
0:12:22 > 0:12:27Because of the subject or just cos you're getting a run now? I'm... just thrilled at being me, frankly.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29THEY LAUGH
0:12:29 > 0:12:33So, Janice from The Pioneers versus CJ from the Eggheads,
0:12:33 > 0:12:36and to ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40OK. Janice, would you like to go first or second?
0:12:40 > 0:12:42I think I'd like to go first, please.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48So here is your first Arts Books question, Janice.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50The artist Claude Monet
0:12:50 > 0:12:53is most closely associated with which artistic movement?
0:12:58 > 0:13:00Well, he's definitely not Pop Art.
0:13:00 > 0:13:04And...I don't think he's Surrealism.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06I'm fairly sure he is
0:13:06 > 0:13:09into Impressionism.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11Impressionism is quite right, yeah.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13OK. Well done,
0:13:13 > 0:13:15first one to you.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18CJ - which of these is a children's book by Dodie Smith?
0:13:25 > 0:13:28Watership Down is Richard Adams, Black Beauty's Anna Sewell
0:13:28 > 0:13:30so it's A Hundred and One Dalmatians.
0:13:30 > 0:13:34It is indeed The One Hundred and One Dalmatians, well done.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36OK, your question, Janice.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38Newland Archer and Ellen Olenska
0:13:38 > 0:13:41are central characters in which novel
0:13:41 > 0:13:44set in New York in the late 19th century?
0:13:49 > 0:13:54A Room with a View I think is EM Forster.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56I don't think it's that one.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Wings of a Dove I don't know.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01I'm going to plump for The Age of Innocence.
0:14:01 > 0:14:02And you've plumped correctly.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05Well done. The Age of Innocence it is.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07OK, CJ, you are lagging behind.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09This one to catch up.
0:14:09 > 0:14:13In which year did the Dutch painter Vermeer die?
0:14:18 > 0:14:20Well, I didn't KNOW this,
0:14:20 > 0:14:24but he's 17th century so I am assuming it's 1675.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27There we are - you're right, CJ.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29So, two each.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32Third question, could be crucial. Hold focus.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35Which American playwright, who died in 1963,
0:14:35 > 0:14:37wrote the plays Awake And Sing!,
0:14:37 > 0:14:40Waiting For Lefty and Golden Boy?
0:14:45 > 0:14:48Hmm... Not sure about this one.
0:14:48 > 0:14:51Clifford Odets I have not heard of.
0:14:51 > 0:14:56I've heard of Eugene O'Neill but those titles don't ring any bells...
0:14:58 > 0:15:01I'm going to go for Neil Simon.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03It's not Neil Simon. Now, let's just check -
0:15:03 > 0:15:05Eggheads, what did Neil Simon write?
0:15:05 > 0:15:07The Odd Couple. PAT: Biloxi Blues.
0:15:07 > 0:15:10DAVE: Biloxi Blues. KEVIN: Sunshine Boys. California Suite.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13OK. It's Clifford Odets. Oh. OK.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15So CJ,
0:15:15 > 0:15:17you have a chance to take the round.
0:15:17 > 0:15:18Which Jane Austen novel
0:15:18 > 0:15:23begins with a line that says of the central female character,
0:15:23 > 0:15:27"No-one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy
0:15:27 > 0:15:29"would have supposed her born to be a heroine"?
0:15:34 > 0:15:37I don't know Jane Austen very well. Erm...
0:15:39 > 0:15:42I'm not aware of that character in Pride and Prejudice,
0:15:42 > 0:15:45that's er... Catherine Bennet, I think.
0:15:45 > 0:15:49Northanger Abbey, I vaguely know
0:15:49 > 0:15:51the lead character in that -
0:15:51 > 0:15:54I'm assuming Catherine Morland is
0:15:54 > 0:15:57the lead character if she's mentioned in the first sentence.
0:15:57 > 0:16:01The heroine of Northanger Abbey I can't quite remember
0:16:01 > 0:16:02but that name doesn't ring a bell.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05So simply because I haven't heard of it, I'm going to go for Persuasion.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07Persuasion is wrong, CJ.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09Oh... It's Northanger Abbey.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12Janice, a slight let-off there,
0:16:12 > 0:16:14we go to Sudden Death. Yes.
0:16:14 > 0:16:19The Richelieu Wing, Sully Wing and Denon Wing
0:16:19 > 0:16:21are sections of which art museum?
0:16:22 > 0:16:24I'm not sure about this one, it's going to be a guess.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27I'm going to go for the Uffizi Gallery...?
0:16:27 > 0:16:28It's the Louvre.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30Oh.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32Over to you, CJ,
0:16:32 > 0:16:34Sudden Death.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38The Cricket On The Hearth, published in 1845,
0:16:38 > 0:16:43is the third in a series of Christmas books by which author, born in 1812?
0:16:43 > 0:16:46Well, assuming he died...
0:16:47 > 0:16:49..in 1880 I think,
0:16:49 > 0:16:53writing a lot of Christmas books, would be Charles Dickens.
0:16:53 > 0:16:56The correct answer is Charles Dickens, you have taken that round -
0:16:56 > 0:16:58sorry, Janice. OK.
0:16:58 > 0:17:02CJ's in and you're out, but hope is not gone, not at all.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04Please come back, and we'll play the next round.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08So the last round before the final now.
0:17:08 > 0:17:13The Pioneers have lost three brains, and the Eggheads haven't lost any - let's see if you can just
0:17:13 > 0:17:15maybe winkle one out in this final round.
0:17:15 > 0:17:16It's going to be Sport.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19Is that any good for you?
0:17:19 > 0:17:21Oh... Head in hands. I don't do sport.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24You can't do Sport? No.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26Well, I'm going to have to do it, aren't I?
0:17:26 > 0:17:28Paul, sport? You're good at sport.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32You'll be better than me. Depends what the sport is! Well... You don't know, do you? No.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35If it's trampolining I'm knackered. THEY LAUGH
0:17:35 > 0:17:37We had a question on trampolining I think a couple of days ago,
0:17:37 > 0:17:39didn't we? "What is a Rudolph"?
0:17:39 > 0:17:42What is a Rudolph? I'd imagine that's some kind of jump. Yeah, it is.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45That's where you land on your nose! I'll have that one.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Don't go yet - you've got to choose one of them.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50I'll take Pat.
0:17:50 > 0:17:54All right, so Paul from The Pioneers and Pat from the Eggheads,
0:17:54 > 0:17:56please go to the Question Room now.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00Sport. And would you like to go first or second, Paul?
0:18:00 > 0:18:02I'll go...first, please.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07Your first question.
0:18:07 > 0:18:11In which position does the Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi usually play?
0:18:15 > 0:18:16HE CHUCKLES
0:18:16 > 0:18:18One of my favourite players.
0:18:18 > 0:18:20Got to be a forward.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23He's a forward, Paul, well done.
0:18:25 > 0:18:26What shape ball, Pat,
0:18:26 > 0:18:28is used in the sport of Gaelic football?
0:18:32 > 0:18:35Er... I played a little bit when I was a lad.
0:18:35 > 0:18:36I wasn't very good at it.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41It's a spherical ball, so I suppose you'd describe it as round.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43A round ball is correct.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45Bigger than a cricket ball but smaller than a football, right?
0:18:45 > 0:18:48It's about the same size as a soccer ball.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50OK, back to you, Paul.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52Who won the world snooker title
0:18:52 > 0:18:56in 1972 and 1982?
0:19:00 > 0:19:03Did Higgins only win it once...?
0:19:04 > 0:19:06I think I'm going to go with...
0:19:07 > 0:19:09..Alex Higgins.
0:19:09 > 0:19:10CJ will know this. CJ?
0:19:10 > 0:19:12Ray Reardon won it six times,
0:19:12 > 0:19:15John Virgo never won it - Alex Higgins won it in '72 and '82.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17Yeah. See, you're absolutely right, Paul.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19Pat, your question.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21The English rugby player Chris Robshaw
0:19:21 > 0:19:24typically plays in which position?
0:19:27 > 0:19:29Well, he's a big guy...
0:19:29 > 0:19:33Physically I think he's probably too big to be playing at fly half.
0:19:34 > 0:19:39I really don't know. It's pretty much 50-50 - I'll say Flanker.
0:19:39 > 0:19:40Flanker is the right answer.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44So back to Paul, see if you can get three in a row.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46In which year did the boxer
0:19:46 > 0:19:49Sugar Ray Robinson first win a world title?
0:19:55 > 0:19:58Sugar Ray Robinson... Sugar Ray Robinson.
0:19:58 > 0:20:00It's not '26.
0:20:00 > 0:20:01I'll say...
0:20:02 > 0:20:05..'66.
0:20:05 > 0:20:06Eggheads, is he right?
0:20:06 > 0:20:08KEVIN: '46. '46 is the answer.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10'46. I thought it were '50s. Yeah.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12So Pat, you have a chance on your third question
0:20:12 > 0:20:15to go through to the final.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17Who was the first British driver
0:20:17 > 0:20:19to win two Formula 1 World Championships?
0:20:25 > 0:20:26Hmm.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28Jackie Stewart won three,
0:20:29 > 0:20:32round about the end of the '60s, start of the '70s.
0:20:34 > 0:20:40Graham Hill and Jim Clark each hold all sorts of motor racing records.
0:20:42 > 0:20:46I think Tim Clark is fractionally earlier than Graham Hill,
0:20:46 > 0:20:49and I think Jim Clark was absolutely sensational
0:20:49 > 0:20:53while he was driving so I'll go for Jim Clark. But it's a bit dodgy.
0:20:53 > 0:20:57Jim Clark is the right answer - three out of three again, well done.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59So you are through to the final, and Paul,
0:20:59 > 0:21:02you've been knocked out. So it's been a pretty torrid time for our Challengers.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05Let's see what happens next, we're going to play the final round.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08So this is what we have been playing towards,
0:21:08 > 0:21:13it is time for the final round which as always is General Knowledge.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads
0:21:15 > 0:21:18won't be allowed to take part in this round.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21So we say goodbye to Steve, Mick, Janice
0:21:21 > 0:21:24and Paul from The Pioneers - please leave the studio.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29Well, sorry, Pete, you've been left alone here at the end.
0:21:29 > 0:21:33You're playing to win The Pioneers ?12,000. Good jackpot today.
0:21:33 > 0:21:37CJ, Pat, Lisa, Dave, Kevin, you're playing for something that's
0:21:37 > 0:21:42almost impossible to put a price on, which is the Eggheads' reputation.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44As usual I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47This time the questions are all General Knowledge,
0:21:47 > 0:21:49you are allowed to confer - but Pete, I'm sorry,
0:21:49 > 0:21:53that doesn't really help you with the four team-mates behind you. Not much.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56So Pete, the question is can you with your ONE brain
0:21:56 > 0:21:58destroy these five?
0:21:58 > 0:21:59Will you go first or second?
0:21:59 > 0:22:02Erm... I may as well continue going first
0:22:02 > 0:22:04as the rest of us have I think, please.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10Good luck. Here is your question, Pete.
0:22:10 > 0:22:14What name is given to a type of barn without walls,
0:22:14 > 0:22:16typically used for storing hay?
0:22:21 > 0:22:27Well, I'm pretty sure that's a Dutch barn so I won't beat about the bush.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30Dutch barn is the right answer, well done. Yeah.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32OK. Over to the Eggheads.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Where was Wild Bill Hickok
0:22:34 > 0:22:37fatally shot in 1876?
0:22:41 > 0:22:43KEVIN: OK... DAVE: Deadwood.
0:22:43 > 0:22:44Yeah.
0:22:44 > 0:22:48Er, he was shot while playing cards in Deadwood.
0:22:48 > 0:22:51Yeah, Deadwood is the right answer.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53OK. Pete, on to you.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55Which of these is closest
0:22:55 > 0:22:58to the meaning of the word "obfuscate"?
0:23:02 > 0:23:05Erm... Obfuscate.
0:23:05 > 0:23:09I think my questions are a bit obfuscating sometimes.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11So I'm going to go... Just give them again, Jeremy, if you would.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14Swear, Destroy or Confuse.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17I think Confuse would be the answer there.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19Confuse is the right answer, well done. Two out of two.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22OK, Eggheads, your second question.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24The acronym "Nolita",
0:23:24 > 0:23:27usually said to derive from "North of Little Italy",
0:23:27 > 0:23:30refers to a district of which city?
0:23:35 > 0:23:38CJ: Well, Little Italy's in New York... DAVE: Yeah.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41There is an area of London that became known as Little Italy
0:23:41 > 0:23:45but they don't tend to use those kind of acronyms. LISA: Not really.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47Er, that's New York, Jeremy.
0:23:47 > 0:23:48New York is correct.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51Back to you, Pete.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53Third question, very important, take your time.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57Who played the title role of a shoe shop owner
0:23:57 > 0:24:00in the David Lean film Hobson's Choice?
0:24:05 > 0:24:08Right, definitely wasn't Jack Hawkins.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11I'm just going to have to take a...
0:24:11 > 0:24:13a bit of a stab at that.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16I think I'd go for Charles Laughton.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18Charles Laughton is your answer?
0:24:18 > 0:24:22Let's check with the Eggheads, do you know? KEVIN AND DAVE: Yeah.
0:24:22 > 0:24:23Yeah, you've got three out of three. Oh!
0:24:23 > 0:24:25What a great performance. OK...
0:24:25 > 0:24:27And we are in this very interesting situation
0:24:27 > 0:24:32where the Eggheads have played an absolute storming game,
0:24:32 > 0:24:35but could go down here on one wrong question.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Here's your question.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40As what was Robert Trent Jones
0:24:40 > 0:24:43a leading name in the 20th century?
0:24:48 > 0:24:50PAT: Great golf course designer.
0:24:50 > 0:24:52KEVIN: Yeah, cos it's Bobby Jones.
0:24:52 > 0:24:53DAVE: Yeah. Bobby Jones.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56CJ: Oh, is it...? Sorry, what was his name?
0:24:56 > 0:25:00As what was Robert Trent Jones a leading name in the 20th century?
0:25:00 > 0:25:02CJ: If it's Bobby Jones, then yes.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04KEVIN: Pat, you said golf course designer...
0:25:04 > 0:25:07PAT: Well, we've got Robert TYRE Jones and Robert Trent...
0:25:07 > 0:25:09Sorry, you're right, Robert Tyre Jones is Bobby Jones.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12Yeah. But Robert Trent Jones is also a great golf course designer.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15LISA: Not confusing at all, then, excellent. KEVIN: OK.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Yeah. OK?
0:25:17 > 0:25:19Er, we think he was a golf course designer.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21Very good knowledge from the Eggheads, very good play -
0:25:21 > 0:25:23he was indeed a golf course designer.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25So three-three.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27The ?12,000 is still un-won...
0:25:27 > 0:25:29but it CAN be won.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31We go to Sudden Death, Pete.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34Gets a bit more tricky here cos I don't give you alternatives.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36Which English city was the original home
0:25:36 > 0:25:38of the confectionery business
0:25:38 > 0:25:41run by Henry and Joseph Rowntree?
0:25:41 > 0:25:44Er... Well, that's where I went to uni
0:25:44 > 0:25:47so that's definitely York, I think. Yeah.
0:25:47 > 0:25:49York is the answer.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51Back on Sudden Death to the Eggheads.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54Which West Indian umpire
0:25:54 > 0:25:58retired from test cricket in March 2009,
0:25:58 > 0:26:01after standing in his 128th match?
0:26:01 > 0:26:04DAVE: Steve Bucknor. KEVIN: Steve Bucknell?
0:26:04 > 0:26:07Buck-NOR. He's Bucknall, isn't he?
0:26:07 > 0:26:09With an A-L-L. There's no other umpire
0:26:09 > 0:26:12who stood as much. Yeah, it's got to be. It's got to be him.
0:26:12 > 0:26:16Steve Bucknall. Steve Bucknor. Buck-NOR? A-L-L. LISA: Bucknall?
0:26:16 > 0:26:17Bucknor. Bucknor.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20Well, N-O-R. OK, it's definitely N-O-R? Yeah.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23I don't know why I was thinking Bucknall then. OK. Bucknor.
0:26:23 > 0:26:26Er, Steve Bucknor.
0:26:26 > 0:26:28Steve Bucknor is correct! JEREMY CHUCKLES
0:26:28 > 0:26:31OK, Pete. Your question.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33Which novel by Jonathan Franzen,
0:26:33 > 0:26:36which focuses on a family of five whose members endure
0:26:36 > 0:26:40unsuccessful marriages, strained familial relationships
0:26:40 > 0:26:44and failed careers, won a National Book Award in 2001?
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Oh...
0:26:48 > 0:26:51Right, this is where I go to the dogs, and I have actually read it.
0:26:51 > 0:26:55And I can't just bring the title to mind.
0:26:56 > 0:27:00Fairly sure it's a two-word title, isn't it? "The something or other."
0:27:04 > 0:27:05No, it's not er...? No.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07The Enlightened.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11The Enlightened? Mm.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13That's the wrong answer. Mm-hm.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16I've read it too, and it's a funny old title, this,
0:27:16 > 0:27:19it's quite easy to forget it. So I see what's happened here.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22The Corrections. The Corrections, yeah.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25It's the one where somebody falls past the window of a ship,
0:27:25 > 0:27:27in a very dramatic moment, upside down. Yeah.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Pete has got an answer wrong.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31He's been playing brilliantly so far.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34If you get this right the contest is over. ?12,000 on the table.
0:27:34 > 0:27:38Discovery, Laxton's Superb
0:27:38 > 0:27:41and Ellison's Orange
0:27:41 > 0:27:42of writers of which fruit?
0:27:42 > 0:27:45DAVE: Apples. CJ: Sounds like apples.
0:27:45 > 0:27:50Laxton's Superb is apple. KEVIN: So is Discovery. LISA: And a band. But apple. Yeah.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53Erm, I think were fairly happy that those are apples.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55The correct answer is apple -
0:27:55 > 0:27:58we say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01Well played, Pete.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07Brilliant quizzing by you, Pete,
0:28:07 > 0:28:10you salvaged it to the point where I thought you were going to win for a second.
0:28:10 > 0:28:15Well, it's not all that long since I read the book, to be truthful!
0:28:15 > 0:28:18Well, that's annoying. It is annoying, yeah.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21But commiserations to The Pioneers, real commiserations, Challengers,
0:28:21 > 0:28:23the Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26This winning streak continues, gets ever more exciting.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29It means the Challengers don't go home with the ?12,000 -
0:28:29 > 0:28:32we take the money and we roll it over on the next show.
0:28:32 > 0:28:36Eggheads, very well done. Who will beat you?
0:28:36 > 0:28:39Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers have the brains to defeat them.
0:28:39 > 0:28:42?13,000 says they don't.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44Till then, goodbye.
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