0:00:04 > 0:00:08These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:11 > 0:00:15arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:27Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz Challengers
0:00:27 > 0:00:31pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34They are the Eggheads, and here they are, looking lively, I think.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37- Raring to go.- Thank you. - Chris, haircut, I'm reckoning.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39Yeah, well, it was getting past a joke, you know.
0:00:39 > 0:00:41JEREMY LAUGHS All right. Well,
0:00:41 > 0:00:43let's see if you can give them a haircut over here.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45Hoping to get one over on our quiz champions
0:00:45 > 0:00:48are the Rotary Rustics from Kent.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51Now, this team are all members of the Beckenham Rotary Club,
0:00:51 > 0:00:55and every year they take part in the club's annual charity quiz.
0:00:55 > 0:00:56Let's meet them.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Hello, I'm Richard. I'm a retired head teacher.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02Hi, I'm Tony. I'm a retired banker.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06Hi, I'm Nick. I'm a retired sales and general manager.
0:01:06 > 0:01:10Hi, I'm Richard, I'm a retired civil-engineering project manager.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13Hello, I'm Ted. I'm a retired teacher.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16- So, Richard and team, welcome, good to see you.- Thank you very much.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19- Thank you.- And tell us about the Rotary Club, Richard.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21We've got 40 members.
0:01:21 > 0:01:26Our primary function is fundraising for good causes.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29We raise about £50,000 a year.
0:01:29 > 0:01:34We particularly focus on children's charities in Bromley,
0:01:34 > 0:01:38but we also help to organise the Poppy Appeal in Beckenham,
0:01:38 > 0:01:43and we also contribute to national and international causes, as well.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46For example, Rotary has been responsible for
0:01:46 > 0:01:50the virtual eradication of polio across the world,
0:01:50 > 0:01:55due to the very generous donations of match-funding by Bill Gates.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58Right, Rotary Clubs are what, exactly,
0:01:58 > 0:02:00for those of us who are not, sadly, members?
0:02:00 > 0:02:05They originated in America, and they were for businessmen,
0:02:05 > 0:02:07and it was entirely a male province.
0:02:07 > 0:02:12Most of the Rotary Clubs in the UK, now, are mixed gender.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15- I think my wife is in one.- Right. - Yeah, I think she's been...
0:02:15 > 0:02:18- I think she's... Anyone here a member?- No, I'm not.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21OK, you've got to lure in Eggheads, into your branch.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23Go on, sell it to them.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27And most of us are from some form of business.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Right, they're only going to be lured by the offer of food,
0:02:29 > 0:02:31I have to warn you. It's got to be...
0:02:31 > 0:02:34We meet every week and we have a lunch meeting...
0:02:34 > 0:02:37- Ah.- ..and that is very, very popular.
0:02:37 > 0:02:38OK, well, let's begin.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash
0:02:41 > 0:02:42up for grabs for our Challengers,
0:02:42 > 0:02:45however, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:02:45 > 0:02:48the prize-money, as you know, rolls over to our next show.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51So, Rotary Rustics, the Eggheads have won the last nine games,
0:02:51 > 0:02:53which means there's £10,000 on the table.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56- Would you like to try and win it? - Yes, we certainly would.
0:02:56 > 0:02:57OK, we'll crack on.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Geography,
0:03:00 > 0:03:04so which Rotary Rustic would like this?
0:03:04 > 0:03:06- Have I been?- Richard.- You've been... - I've been volunteered.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09- Is it you, Richard? - I'm Richard, yes.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12OK, choose an Egghead, if you can. Any one of them.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14They're all grinning in a silly way.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17- Who's got the sweetest smile? - Weakest on Geography.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19- Go for Lisa.- Lisa?- Go for Lisa?- Yes. - We'll nominate Lisa.- Lisa.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21- Lisa.- Definitely Lisa,
0:03:21 > 0:03:23if you're looking for the sweetest smile. That's true.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26OK, so, Richard from Rotary Rustics, versus Lisa from the Eggheads,
0:03:26 > 0:03:29on Geography. I think... Mm, yes. Nervous?
0:03:29 > 0:03:31There is a wonderful line from one of Stephen Fry's novels,
0:03:31 > 0:03:34which was written just for a moment such as this -
0:03:34 > 0:03:37"Un-yippee and un-hurrah."
0:03:37 > 0:03:38Yeah, exactly, so, "un-hurrah".
0:03:38 > 0:03:41Let's see if it is a hurrah for the Rustics.
0:03:41 > 0:03:42To ensure there's no conferring,
0:03:42 > 0:03:45would you please take your positions in our Question Room?
0:03:46 > 0:03:50Richard, it says here you used to do fencing when you were younger.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52- Yes, I did. - Meaning what? Garden fences or...?
0:03:52 > 0:03:56- No, epee, sabre...- Oh.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58..and, you know, fighting fencing.
0:03:58 > 0:04:02- Ah, well, have you brought your weapon along?- I forgot it.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04- Oh, dear.- It was in the same case as my brains.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06JEREMY LAUGHS All right, so it's going to have to
0:04:06 > 0:04:08be geographical knowledge, Richard,
0:04:08 > 0:04:11that you fight her with, so would you like to go first or second?
0:04:11 > 0:04:13I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19Good luck. Here is your first question.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23Which motorway has a service area called Leicester Forest East?
0:04:28 > 0:04:32Leicester Forest East, so it's...
0:04:32 > 0:04:34somewhere near Leicester,
0:04:34 > 0:04:37and it's either the M1 or the M62.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39I've never been there
0:04:39 > 0:04:41and I'm going to cross my fingers
0:04:41 > 0:04:43and say the M62.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45Ah, you were lead astray by something,
0:04:45 > 0:04:49because the M1 is the answer, but what took you to the M62?
0:04:49 > 0:04:53Because, Leicester, don't you find Leicester on the way to the M1, yeah?
0:04:53 > 0:04:55Whereas, the M62 is around Manchester, is it?
0:04:55 > 0:04:57- Yes, but it's...- Liverpool to Hull.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59- Liverpool.- Liverpool to Hull.
0:04:59 > 0:05:01Liverpool to Hull, says Chris.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04Sorry, Richard, it's the M1.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Right.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09By area, Lisa, what is the second largest country in South America?
0:05:14 > 0:05:17This is one of those questions where I automatically panic,
0:05:17 > 0:05:20because it involves numbers, to some degree,
0:05:20 > 0:05:22but I think it's Argentina.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24It is Argentina. Well done.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26OK, back to you, Richard.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29What is the name of the international airport that serves Chicago?
0:05:33 > 0:05:35Well, it's not LaGuardia.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38I've never heard of McCarran.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40I will go for O'Hare.
0:05:40 > 0:05:43Chicago O'Hare is quite right. Well done. Point to you.
0:05:43 > 0:05:44OK, back to Lisa.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46Let's see if she can stay in the lead.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49Dating from the 16th century,
0:05:49 > 0:05:53Pendennis Castle is located in which English county?
0:05:56 > 0:05:59I tend to use the "Tre, Pol and Pen" rule,
0:05:59 > 0:06:01when it comes to these things.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03I'll go for Cornwall.
0:06:03 > 0:06:04What's the "Tre, Pol and Pen"?
0:06:04 > 0:06:07"By Tre, Pol and Pen, you may know the Cornishmen."
0:06:07 > 0:06:09Cornwall is the right answer, so you've got two points.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12Richard, you need to get this one right.
0:06:12 > 0:06:16Port Klang, formerly known as Port Swettenham,
0:06:16 > 0:06:18is a major seaport in which country?
0:06:23 > 0:06:24Well, they're all...
0:06:24 > 0:06:27All those countries are in the same sort of area.
0:06:27 > 0:06:31I'm going to go for Indonesia.
0:06:31 > 0:06:32Indonesia. Is he...?
0:06:32 > 0:06:35I know this isn't your best area of the world, Lisa, but is he right?
0:06:35 > 0:06:37- Do you know?- Linguistically, I'd have gone for Thailand,
0:06:37 > 0:06:39but I haven't got a clue.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41Both wrong. Malaysia is the right answer.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43Richard, but no way back for you,
0:06:43 > 0:06:46so Lisa has taken that round and will be in the final.
0:06:46 > 0:06:51Please, both of you, return to your team-mates and we'll play on.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54As it stands, Rotary Rustics have lost one brain from the final.
0:06:54 > 0:06:56The Eggheads are still intact,
0:06:56 > 0:06:59so if three of you can just put a crack in their lining now.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01It's Film & TV, for you.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03Who would like this?
0:07:03 > 0:07:06- It's me, isn't it?- It's you. - Yes.- OK.- It will be Nick.- OK, Nick.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09And against which Egghead? Can't be Lisa.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12- Chris?- Chris?- Yeah, Chris.- Chris.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14- Yes, Chris.- Chris, the word goes up.
0:07:14 > 0:07:15- Yeah.- Yeah. All right?- Yeah.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18- Yeah, you like that, don't you? - I don't mind it.- Ealing comedies?
0:07:18 > 0:07:21- Oh, now, that is my speciality. - I know, I know.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24So, Nick from Rotary rustics versus Chris from the Eggheads
0:07:24 > 0:07:27on Film & TV and, just to ensure there's no conferring, please,
0:07:27 > 0:07:29gentlemen, go to the Question Room.
0:07:30 > 0:07:34All right, Film & TV. Nick, would you like to go first or second?
0:07:34 > 0:07:36I'll go first, please, Jeremy.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40So, here we go with your first question.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42Which broadcaster launched
0:07:42 > 0:07:46the current affairs programme Panorama in 1953?
0:07:50 > 0:07:53Well, that's one I do watch from time to time,
0:07:53 > 0:07:56so I'm going to plump for BBC.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58BBC is the right answer. Well done.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00Of course.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02OK, Chris, your question.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05Which of these TV comedy panel shows has featured
0:08:05 > 0:08:08Sean Lock and Jon Richardson as team captains?
0:08:14 > 0:08:17Erm, well, it's not Celebrity Juice,
0:08:17 > 0:08:21cos that's Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton.
0:08:21 > 0:08:23QI doesn't have team captains, as such,
0:08:23 > 0:08:25so it's got to be 8 Out Of 10 Cats.
0:08:26 > 0:08:288 Out Of 10 Cats is the right answer.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30Nick, over to you.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32The 2011 film My Week With Marilyn
0:08:32 > 0:08:37depicts the making of which of Marilyn Monroe's movies?
0:08:43 > 0:08:47- Great question.- Now, I've got to think about that one. I can...
0:08:47 > 0:08:49I've seen the film
0:08:49 > 0:08:54and I'm pretty sure it was made in the UK...
0:08:56 > 0:08:58..but which of those?
0:08:59 > 0:09:03I'm going to plump for, though I'm not certain,
0:09:03 > 0:09:05The Prince And The Showgirl.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08Bang on. Well done. The Prince And The Showgirl.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12OK, Chris, your question.
0:09:12 > 0:09:16Which of these came to prominence as a child star
0:09:16 > 0:09:19in the 2002 film comedy About A Boy?
0:09:24 > 0:09:29Well, it's not Jamie Bell, cos he was Billy Elliot.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32I think Dexter Fletcher was one of the Double Deckers, years ago,
0:09:32 > 0:09:34on kids' television, so it's not him, either,
0:09:34 > 0:09:35so it's Nicholas Hoult.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37Nicholas Hoult is the right answer.
0:09:37 > 0:09:38Playing well, Chris.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41- Yeah. What do you expect? - JEREMY LAUGHS
0:09:41 > 0:09:44"Yeah," he says, in that insouciant way.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46OK, over to you, Nick.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49In the TV sitcom "Are You Being Served?",
0:09:49 > 0:09:52what is Mr Humphries' first name?
0:09:57 > 0:10:00Oh, gosh, this is going back a bit.
0:10:00 > 0:10:04The first name that came to mind, erm,
0:10:04 > 0:10:05I'm going to have to go for,
0:10:05 > 0:10:07because it really is a guess.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09I'll say Wilberforce.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Chris will know this.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13- IN SQUEAKY VOICE:- I'm free! Yes, it's Wilberforce.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16All right, so missed out... This is played by John Inman, right?
0:10:16 > 0:10:19- That's right, yeah. - "I'm free!" Wilberforce is right.
0:10:19 > 0:10:20Three out of three.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22OK, what a round we've got here.
0:10:22 > 0:10:24Chris, now you're on the edge.
0:10:24 > 0:10:29The children's animated TV series Roary The Racing Car features
0:10:29 > 0:10:33an opening and closing narration by which Grand Prix racing driver?
0:10:37 > 0:10:39That was done by Stirling Moss.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41It was indeed done by Stirling Moss, you're right.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44You've both got three out of three
0:10:44 > 0:10:46and so it gets a tiny bit harder now, Nick.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48We go to Sudden Death
0:10:48 > 0:10:51and I don't give you alternative answers, OK?
0:10:51 > 0:10:53Here we go.
0:10:53 > 0:10:59In which country is the 2009 science-fiction film District 9 set?
0:10:59 > 0:11:03Erm, this is one I haven't got a clue about, because I...
0:11:03 > 0:11:06It doesn't come to me at all.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08I'll say Canada.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11No, it was South Africa, unusually.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14Chris, your question now.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17For the round, which film,
0:11:17 > 0:11:20for which Susan Sarandon won an Oscar,
0:11:20 > 0:11:23is based on a book by Sister Helen Prejean?
0:11:24 > 0:11:26Thelma and Louise.
0:11:26 > 0:11:31Oh, these Eggs have just all fallen in the toast here.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33- Dead Man Walking.- Oh.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36Nick,
0:11:36 > 0:11:40in 2008, which actress was the first since Sophia Loren
0:11:40 > 0:11:45to win a Best Actress Oscar for a performance not given in English?
0:11:47 > 0:11:49Again, I can't think.
0:11:49 > 0:11:50It might be...
0:11:52 > 0:11:54..Kristen...
0:11:54 > 0:11:56I can't remember the rest of her name.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00I'll say Meryl Streep. It's wrong, but I'll...
0:12:00 > 0:12:02I'll say Meryl Streep.
0:12:02 > 0:12:04OK, no, it was the performance not given in English.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06- It was Marion Cotillard...- Oh.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09..for La Vie En Rose, where she played Edith Piaf.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11- Oh, right, yes.- OK.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13Chris, for the round.
0:12:13 > 0:12:18The Cleveland Show is a spin-off from which other animated series?
0:12:18 > 0:12:20You're joking, aren't you?
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Erm, it's Family Guy.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Why...Why did you say, "You're joking"?
0:12:25 > 0:12:28Well, it's... It's just so my area.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33Many wouldn't have got it but you got it right.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35Well done. Family Guy, it is. You've won on Sudden Death, Chris,
0:12:35 > 0:12:37and knocked Nick out. Sorry, Nick.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40- OK.- You're gone from the contest. Chris will be in the final.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42Please, return to your teams.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45So, bad luck, Nick.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48As it stands, Rotary Rustics have lost two brains from the final round.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50The Eggheads are looking a little bit confident.
0:12:50 > 0:12:53Got a bit of a swagger, here. See if you can stop them on the next round.
0:12:53 > 0:12:54Science, it is.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58How's that? Who wants that?
0:12:58 > 0:13:00- It's going to have to be me, Jeremy. - OK, Richard, the team captain,
0:13:00 > 0:13:03against which Egghead?
0:13:03 > 0:13:05- CJ.- CJ.- CJ.- I heard a whisper of CJ.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08- CJ.- CJ on Science, yeah.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11- It's not my favourite, but it's not my worst.- Oh, OK.
0:13:11 > 0:13:12So, it's in the middle there.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15So Richard is going to try and turn the ship around here,
0:13:15 > 0:13:19against CJ on Science and, just to ensure there's no conferring,
0:13:19 > 0:13:21please take your positions.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24OK, Richard, on Science, do you want to go first or second?
0:13:24 > 0:13:26I'll go first, please.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31And here we go with your first question.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34The house martin is most similar to which of these birds?
0:13:39 > 0:13:41In terms of its size
0:13:41 > 0:13:44and its shape,
0:13:44 > 0:13:47I would say it was closest to a swallow.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49I'm so glad you said that. You're right. Well done.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51Swallow, it is.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54CJ, the Geordie lamp,
0:13:54 > 0:13:55invented by George Stephenson,
0:13:55 > 0:13:58was designed for which environment?
0:14:01 > 0:14:05I've never heard of the Geordie lamp,
0:14:05 > 0:14:09but I can't imagine you've got room to take
0:14:09 > 0:14:11a lamp up a domestic chimney
0:14:11 > 0:14:16and, although submarines were around at the time,
0:14:16 > 0:14:17I can't imagine it was that,
0:14:17 > 0:14:20so I'll assume it's a relation of the Davy lamp
0:14:20 > 0:14:22and it's to do with coal mines.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24Coal mines is correct.
0:14:24 > 0:14:26OK, Richard,
0:14:26 > 0:14:31the chemical formula for sulphuric acid is H2SO what?
0:14:33 > 0:14:36As a chemistry teacher, I know this one.
0:14:36 > 0:14:37It's four.
0:14:37 > 0:14:41H2S04 is correct. Well done.
0:14:41 > 0:14:42CJ, to keep up,
0:14:42 > 0:14:46by what one word name is the Australasian mammal,
0:14:46 > 0:14:50sometimes called the spiny anteater, better known?
0:14:53 > 0:14:56First of all, only one of those is from Australia,
0:14:56 > 0:14:58but I think this is the monotreme,
0:14:58 > 0:15:01along with the duck-billed platypus, and it's an echidna.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03It is an echidna. Well done.
0:15:05 > 0:15:08OK, Richard, I'm sorry we couldn't shake him off there.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11All questions right so far. Third question now.
0:15:11 > 0:15:16Ada Lovelace, born in 1815, is now sometimes regarded as the first what?
0:15:21 > 0:15:25Well, I think it's too soon, too early to be a computer programmer.
0:15:27 > 0:15:33I likewise think it's possibly a bit premature to be
0:15:33 > 0:15:37a brain surgeon so I'm going to go for rocket scientist.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40OK. I can see exactly how you got there.
0:15:40 > 0:15:41Let's try Barry the Brain on this.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44- You love your science.- I'm afraid she was a computer programmer.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46But in the days before computers?
0:15:46 > 0:15:49Yes. She programmed, I think, for Babbage,
0:15:49 > 0:15:51for his differential machines.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53- So, like an advanced abacus? - I think, hmm.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55OK, something to do with...
0:15:55 > 0:15:56She was Byron's stepdaughter.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59Byron... OK, we've got a bit of detail here, Richard.
0:15:59 > 0:16:00Byron's stepdaughter,
0:16:00 > 0:16:04- who programmed something to do with Babbage's machine.- Oh, right.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07So, the word "computer",
0:16:07 > 0:16:09in some strange way, was relevant.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12And they even named a computer language after her - Ada.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15OK, the computer language Ada is named after Miss Lovelace.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17We'll get a comeback. Yeah.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19And it was Byron's real daughter.
0:16:19 > 0:16:20- Was it? Oh.- Not stepdaughter.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23That's the only kink in your information.
0:16:23 > 0:16:26So, CJ, get this right, you're in the final round.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29Which element in the periodic table has the symbol "I"?
0:16:34 > 0:16:37Oh, let me just make sure I get this right.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39I think iridium is just "Ir"
0:16:39 > 0:16:42and indium is "In".
0:16:42 > 0:16:45I'm fairly sure there's no "Io",
0:16:45 > 0:16:46there's no "Id",
0:16:46 > 0:16:49so I think "I" is iodine.
0:16:49 > 0:16:51- Is he right, Richard, as the science teacher?- He is.
0:16:51 > 0:16:52Yes, he is, definitely.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55Yeah, you are right. Iodine, it is.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57CJ, you've taken the round.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59Richard, you've been knocked out.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02- Not quite a crisis for your team yet, but it's getting near it.- No.
0:17:02 > 0:17:06- It certainly is.- Come back to us and we'll see what happens next.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10- Oh, that's painful, Richard.- It was.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13OK, well, let's see if you can win this one before the final
0:17:13 > 0:17:16and turn things around. You've lost three brains from the final.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19The Eggheads have not lost any so far.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21The next subject is History.
0:17:21 > 0:17:23Who's our History guy?
0:17:23 > 0:17:26- Nobody.- I'll have to do History, I think.- Yeah?
0:17:26 > 0:17:28- I'll go.- Ted?- Yeah.
0:17:28 > 0:17:29- Ted?- Yeah, I'll go.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31I'll try.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34- All right, against... - That just leaves me.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36- Which of the two? - I'd like Barry, please.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38OK, very decisive.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40Ted from Rotary Rustics, and you're a teacher, Ted.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42- Were you teaching history?- No.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44Were you teaching chemistry, as well?
0:17:44 > 0:17:46On those lines, yes.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48Yeah, OK, right. Well, what were you teaching?
0:17:48 > 0:17:50- Economics.- Economics, OK.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53So, Ted from Rotary Rustics versus Barry from the Eggheads.
0:17:53 > 0:17:54To ensure there's no conferring,
0:17:54 > 0:17:57please take your positions in the Question Room.
0:17:58 > 0:17:59So, it's History, Ted.
0:17:59 > 0:18:03I'm sorry it's not economics, which you used to teach.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06- Would you like to go first or second? - First, please.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11Here is your first question.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14What name is given to the forced eviction of tenant farmers
0:18:14 > 0:18:18from certain areas of Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries?
0:18:25 > 0:18:28It's the Highland Clearances.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31Brilliant, Ted, well done. Bang on the money.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34OK, Barry the Brain.
0:18:34 > 0:18:39Which of Henry VIII's children had the longest reign as English monarch?
0:18:44 > 0:18:47I think that's indisputably Elizabeth I.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49And regarded as a great queen.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51Absolutely, and she was.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54Elizabeth I is quite right.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56OK, back to you, Ted.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58On the 10th of April, 1848,
0:18:58 > 0:19:03Feargus O'Connor organised a mass meeting on Kennington Common
0:19:03 > 0:19:06to raise support for which political movement?
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Chartism, I think.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16You don't hang around.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18Chartism is right.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21OK, let's see what happens now.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23Let's see if Barry can be shaken.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26Maybe his glasses will fall off.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29The incident of the Black Hole of Calcutta, Barry,
0:19:29 > 0:19:33in which many Europeans died after being incarcerated
0:19:33 > 0:19:35by the Nawab of Bengal,
0:19:35 > 0:19:37occurred during which century?
0:19:41 > 0:19:42Erm, let me think.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47I think it was before the Indian Mutiny,
0:19:47 > 0:19:49I think, which was 1857.
0:19:51 > 0:19:56The 18th, I think, is a little too early,
0:19:56 > 0:19:58but is the 19th too late?
0:19:58 > 0:20:01I'm disregarding the 17th straightaway.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04The 18th, 1797...
0:20:05 > 0:20:08Well, it's at the end of the 18th or the beginning of the 19th.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12Ah, this is way before the Indian Mutiny,
0:20:12 > 0:20:16because the Nawab of Bengal was fighting Clive,
0:20:16 > 0:20:18so I'm going to take a stab and go for the 18th.
0:20:19 > 0:20:2118th is right.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24You've only lost twice on History before, Barry.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26I thought you were teetering, there.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28Yes, I thought I was, as well.
0:20:28 > 0:20:34Ted, get this right and let's see if we can dislodge the great Barry.
0:20:34 > 0:20:40The last shogun of Japan, Tokugawa Yoshinobo,
0:20:40 > 0:20:41died in which year?
0:20:47 > 0:20:49Ah, this is an educated...
0:20:49 > 0:20:51or is an uneducated guess.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54I think it's 1823.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56Well, I know Barry will know this. Barry?
0:20:56 > 0:21:00Well, I think he was defeated just before the Meiji Revolution,
0:21:00 > 0:21:02which was about the 1850s,
0:21:02 > 0:21:04so I would say 1913.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06Yeah, 1913 is the right answer.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09Japan is your favourite country, isn't it?
0:21:09 > 0:21:10It is very much so.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13Barry, your question, third question, to get into the final.
0:21:13 > 0:21:18Which ancient soldiers used a 4m-long spear or pike
0:21:18 > 0:21:20called a sarissa?
0:21:23 > 0:21:27Well, this was the invention of Philip II of Macedon,
0:21:27 > 0:21:29which made the Macedonians such fearsome warriors
0:21:29 > 0:21:32and enabled them to conquer all of Greece, because you couldn't...
0:21:32 > 0:21:35When they had a phalanx of soldiers with sarissas,
0:21:35 > 0:21:37you couldn't get anywhere near them,
0:21:37 > 0:21:39and they could kill the enemy at a distance,
0:21:39 > 0:21:41so it was the Greeks.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43The Greeks is quite right.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45You've taken it on three correct questions, Barry.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47Well done, you're in the final. Ted, sorry.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49He bounced you out, there, but he is very good at history.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52There was just a flicker there on the Black Hole of Calcutta,
0:21:52 > 0:21:55where Barry paused, but no more than that.
0:21:55 > 0:21:59So, you're also out, and it is a bit of a crisis for the Challengers.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02Come back to us, both of you, and we'll play the final.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04So, this is what we have been playing towards,
0:22:04 > 0:22:08it is time for our final round, which as always is General Knowledge.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads won't be
0:22:11 > 0:22:13allowed to take part in this round
0:22:13 > 0:22:17and I'm afraid we are evicting everyone from this side, bar one.
0:22:17 > 0:22:20Richard, Nick, Richard and Ted, from Rotary Rustics,
0:22:20 > 0:22:23would you please now leave the studio?
0:22:23 > 0:22:28- OK, Tony. I know this was not the plan.- Definitely not.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30- And you're a retired banker?- Indeed.
0:22:30 > 0:22:34- But you retired before all the nonsense happened, so...- Way before.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36Absolutely nothing to do with me.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39So you have a complete rock solid alibi.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42- Completely clear conscience. - OK, good luck.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44I know that if you win, you are planning to give it to a charity.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46Yes, indeed.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48We'll give half to the National Osteoporosis Society
0:22:48 > 0:22:53and the other half to children's charities in Bromley and Beckenham.
0:22:53 > 0:22:57- So it's all charitable money.- OK. Tremendous. Well, good luck.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00I know that you have to play hard to win here and you never get
0:23:00 > 0:23:02any quarter from these five, especially when they're together.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05But good luck. You can do it, there's no question.
0:23:05 > 0:23:09Others have done it before you. Tony, would you like to go first or second?
0:23:09 > 0:23:11Playing for £10,000.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13Well, our tactics has been to go first.
0:23:13 > 0:23:17That's been totally unsuccessful, but I'm still going to go first.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23Here's your first question, Tony. Good luck.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26Which country has an intelligence service called Mossad?
0:23:29 > 0:23:32I'm pretty certain that's Israel.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35Israel is correct.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37Eggheads, all five of you,
0:23:37 > 0:23:42who did the model Yasmin Parvaneh marry in 1985?
0:23:46 > 0:23:49Simon Le Bon.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51- Definitely.- Yep.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53OK, that was Simon Le Bon
0:23:53 > 0:23:54of Duran Duran.
0:23:54 > 0:23:55Indeed.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57Became Yasmin Le Bon.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59Correct. One each. Back to you.
0:23:59 > 0:24:04Tony, what was the turnout at the 2015 UK General Election?
0:24:11 > 0:24:13Was that the 2015 General Election?
0:24:13 > 0:24:15- Yes, indeed.- 66%.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17- No hesitation at all.- No hesitation.
0:24:17 > 0:24:20Two-thirds of voters turned out. You're quite right.
0:24:20 > 0:24:2266%, it was. Two out of two.
0:24:24 > 0:24:28I've just got the feeling that you could just fall apart here, Eggheads.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31The middle and long distance runner, Ron Clarke,
0:24:31 > 0:24:36who set many world records in the 1960s, was born in which country?
0:24:40 > 0:24:43- Australia?- He was Australian, as far as I knew.
0:24:43 > 0:24:44- Yeah?- Yeah.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46He was from Australia.
0:24:46 > 0:24:50He set loads of world records, but never won Olympic gold.
0:24:50 > 0:24:51Are you sure about that?
0:24:51 > 0:24:53He's from Melbourne, I think.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55Australia is correct.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57Well done.
0:24:57 > 0:24:58OK, Tony.
0:24:58 > 0:25:02Get this right and, honestly, I've seen it happen, they just...
0:25:02 > 0:25:04The pressure. They go.
0:25:06 > 0:25:11The comedienne Shappi Khorsandi was born in which country?
0:25:16 > 0:25:18I'm afraid I've not the faintest idea.
0:25:18 > 0:25:23So I'm going to obviously take a free shot and I'll go for Iran.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25Is he right?
0:25:25 > 0:25:26- Yes.- Yes.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28Three out of three.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30OK, Tony got three out of three.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33Eggheads, if you get this one wrong, the contest is over.
0:25:33 > 0:25:37We don't often see a single player win, but it has happened.
0:25:37 > 0:25:41For what does the letter P stand in the name of the computer file
0:25:41 > 0:25:42format PDF?
0:25:46 > 0:25:49- It's portable, isn't it? - Portable.- Portable format?
0:25:49 > 0:25:51Yeah?
0:25:51 > 0:25:53That's portable.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56As in Portable Document Format.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58Portable.
0:25:58 > 0:25:59If you're wrong, the contest is over.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02It's a good job we're not, then, isn't it?
0:26:02 > 0:26:05It is a good job you're not wrong. Portable is the answer.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07- So, three each.- Unfortunately.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10Unfortunately, I completely agree with you.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13We now go to sudden death.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16So, I don't give you alternative answers here, Tony.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18It gets a little bit tougher.
0:26:18 > 0:26:21Are you ready? £10,000 on the table.
0:26:21 > 0:26:24In terms of Cold War nuclear attack,
0:26:24 > 0:26:29what do the three letters of the acronym MAD stand?
0:26:31 > 0:26:34Multi Attack Device?
0:26:34 > 0:26:35No, no.
0:26:35 > 0:26:39- Mutually Assured Destruction. - Mutually Assured Destruction.
0:26:39 > 0:26:43Meaning if you hit them, they hit you and everybody's dead.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45OK, so that gives the Eggheads a way back in.
0:26:45 > 0:26:49Sudden death. Get this right, the contest is over, Eggs.
0:26:49 > 0:26:54In December 2003, some 37 years after his death, which stand up
0:26:54 > 0:27:00comedian was granted a pardon for an obscenity conviction from 1964?
0:27:01 > 0:27:06- Well, Bill... Bill...- It's got to be Lenny Bruce. Who else could it be?
0:27:06 > 0:27:11Bill Hicks is more recent. Lenny Bruce died in the '60s.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14And certainly obscene.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17- Anybody else? - That's the name I've got in my head.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20I can't think of anyone else other than him.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22- Max Miller? No. - No, no.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25He didn't have any obscenity convictions.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27He sailed pretty close to the wind.
0:27:27 > 0:27:31- He fell foul of a few, but he was never convicted.- America...
0:27:31 > 0:27:33- It's got to be Lenny Bruce. - It's got to be.
0:27:33 > 0:27:37OK, we'll go with him. We're going to go with Lenny Bruce.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39If you have it right, the contest is over.
0:27:39 > 0:27:43It's always difficult playing these five together.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45The answer is Lenny Bruce.
0:27:45 > 0:27:49We say congratulations, Eggheads. You have won.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57I thought they might get that wrong and then you'd be thinking...
0:27:57 > 0:28:00- Oh, MAD would have got you the money. - Yeah. Yes.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02You did actually chase them very close there
0:28:02 > 0:28:05- and it's difficult on your own. No-one to confer with.- No.
0:28:05 > 0:28:06- No help.- No help.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09But you did well. Thank you very much for playing, Tony.
0:28:09 > 0:28:10Thank you very much. Well done.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13Commiserations to our challengers, Rotary Rustics.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.
0:28:15 > 0:28:16your winning streak continues.
0:28:16 > 0:28:20When it gets in to five figures, we're thinking, the swagger is back.
0:28:20 > 0:28:23It does mean you won't be going home with the £10,000
0:28:23 > 0:28:27so our money rolls over to the next show. Eggheads, very well done.
0:28:27 > 0:28:31Who, I wonder, will ever beat you? Well, let's find out.
0:28:31 > 0:28:34Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers
0:28:34 > 0:28:35have the brains to do it.
0:28:35 > 0:28:38£11,000 says they can't. Till then, goodbye.