0:00:04 > 0:00:08These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:12Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:12 > 0:00:14arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:24Welcome to Eggheads,
0:00:24 > 0:00:28the show where a team of five quiz challengers pit their wits against
0:00:28 > 0:00:30possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32They are the Eggheads!
0:00:32 > 0:00:35And what is this, the 1,500th show?
0:00:35 > 0:00:37- Yes.- Brilliant.- That's right.- It is.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40And so if we go back 1,500, were any of you there at the very start?
0:00:40 > 0:00:42- Yes.- Yes.- The three on the left.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46- The three on the end.- Well, from the others, a round of applause.
0:00:46 > 0:00:47Guys!
0:00:48 > 0:00:51One of the longest-running quiz shows in British TV history.
0:00:51 > 0:00:53Hoping to get one over on our quiz champions today
0:00:53 > 0:00:56on this historic show - you've chosen a good moment...
0:00:58 > 0:01:01Now, this team are all fourth-year students
0:01:01 > 0:01:03at St Catharine's College in Cambridge. Let's meet them.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06Hi, I'm Jonny, and I'm a law student.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09Hi, I'm Will and I'm an engineering student.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12Hi, I'm Alice and I'm a modern and medieval languages students.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14Hi, I'm Robbie and I'm a law student.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17Hi, I'm Stewart and I'm a natural sciences student.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19So, Jonny and team, welcome, good to see you.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21- Thank you.- Jonny, tell us about the college.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24Well, we're all members of St Catharine's College in Cambridge,
0:01:24 > 0:01:29which is a nice, medium-sized old college in Cambridge.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32It's well known for being a social college, good at sports,
0:01:32 > 0:01:35so we hope we reflect that.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37And "for the wheel" is the motto, is it?
0:01:37 > 0:01:40It is, yeah. Well, St Catharine,
0:01:40 > 0:01:43after whom the college is named, the symbol is a Catherine Wheel,
0:01:43 > 0:01:47so whenever we play any sport or do anything for the college,
0:01:47 > 0:01:50it's just the informal thing that we say before we go in to do it.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53- Oh, you say, "For the wheel"? - For the wheel. - As in, for the college?
0:01:53 > 0:01:56- Yes.- Good stuff.- Exactly.- Wonderful. OK, good luck, team.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59Every day, there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs for our challengers.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02That's not been subject to inflation, that figure, has it?
0:02:02 > 0:02:04THEY LAUGH Over the years?
0:02:04 > 0:02:06If they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:02:06 > 0:02:08the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11So, For The Wheel, the Eggheads have won the last seven games,
0:02:11 > 0:02:14so they're doing pretty well, they're getting into their stride.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17And that means £8,000 says you can't beat them.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19- Would you like to try? - We'll have a go.
0:02:19 > 0:02:20- I think so.- Brilliant stuff.
0:02:20 > 0:02:26Well, the first round is on Film & TV, so who is the square eyes?
0:02:26 > 0:02:29- I think that's me.- Will.- Will.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31- Will, please.- Yes.- OK, Will, against which Egghead, Will?
0:02:31 > 0:02:35You can have anyone, you can have one of the classic Eggs, if you want.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38Yeah, I think I'll go for Kevin, please.
0:02:38 > 0:02:39OK. Start at the top.
0:02:39 > 0:02:44Very good. Will from For The Wheel, versus Kevin from the Eggheads.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47Please go to the special question room.
0:02:48 > 0:02:52OK, Will, Film & TV, and would you like to go first or second?
0:02:52 > 0:02:54I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02Good luck. The title of the long-running BBC antiques show
0:03:02 > 0:03:04is Cash In The...what?
0:03:07 > 0:03:10I'm pretty sure my mum watches every now and again,
0:03:10 > 0:03:11I believe that's attic, Jeremy.
0:03:11 > 0:03:12Cash In The Attic, well done.
0:03:14 > 0:03:18Kevin. The novelist Alex Garland both directed and wrote
0:03:18 > 0:03:21the screenplay for which 2015 film?
0:03:26 > 0:03:32Well, The Martian was Ridley Scott, and Slow West was John...
0:03:32 > 0:03:34Whose surname escapes me just at the moment.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37But Alex Garland did Ex Machina.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40Ex Machina is quite right. Well done.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42Will, in which 1990s film did
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Al Pacino and Robert De Niro appear
0:03:44 > 0:03:48on screen together for the first time?
0:03:51 > 0:03:53I have heard this before.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56I don't believe it's Meet The Parents.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59Um, I think they were both in Heat,
0:03:59 > 0:04:01but I can't remember if it was the first,
0:04:01 > 0:04:03but as I think they were both in it, I'll go with Heat.
0:04:03 > 0:04:07Yeah, I think Cape Fear was just Robert De Niro.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10Heat is the right answer, well done, Will.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12Two points to you, playing well.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15Kevin. Who is the director of The Force Awakens,
0:04:15 > 0:04:18the seventh film in the Star Wars series?
0:04:24 > 0:04:27He seems to be the go-to man for rebooting franchises.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29It's a JJ Abrams.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31JJ Abrams is right.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33Back to you, Will. 2-2.
0:04:33 > 0:04:38Who played the title role in the 1990 TV film Goodnight, Mr Tom?
0:04:43 > 0:04:45Um, I remember reading the book about this,
0:04:45 > 0:04:48but I've not seen the TV or film.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51This will have to be a guess, so I think I'll go with Denis Lawson.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53- Is he right, Kevin?- John Thaw.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55John Thaw is the answer.
0:04:55 > 0:04:59Two out of three. See if Kevin can book his seat in the final.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02Here we go. In which 2014 film did Jude Law play
0:05:02 > 0:05:06a submarine captain looking for Nazi gold?
0:05:09 > 0:05:11It's where it was...
0:05:11 > 0:05:14The title of the film comes from where it's actually set,
0:05:14 > 0:05:15it's Black Sea.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18Black Sea is the right answer, Kevin, three out of three.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20Sorry, Will, it is very hard to beat him.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22You had a good go at it, though.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25You've been knocked out, Kevin's in the final.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27Early days. Rejoin your teams, please.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33So, as it stands, For The Wheel have lost a brain from the final round,
0:05:33 > 0:05:35the Eggheads are still sitting pretty.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37The next subject is Arts & Books.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39This is good, isn't it, students?
0:05:39 > 0:05:40THEY LAUGH
0:05:40 > 0:05:42- Planned for this one. - You read a lot of books!
0:05:42 > 0:05:44- I think that's Alice, isn't it?- OK.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47Alice? OK. Modern and medieval languages.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49Against what, or who?
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Against "what"?!
0:05:52 > 0:05:53I don't know.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55- Take Dave.- OK.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57Against Dave, please.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01All right. Alice from For The Wheel versus Dave with the tremendous
0:06:01 > 0:06:03knowledge, from the Eggheads.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Arts & Books. Alice, would you like to go first or second?
0:06:10 > 0:06:12I'd like to go first, please.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18And here is your first question.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21Which mythical creatures feature significantly
0:06:21 > 0:06:26in the popular Game Of Thrones series of books by George RR Martin?
0:06:29 > 0:06:32I do know this one, and that's dragons.
0:06:32 > 0:06:33Dragons is right.
0:06:35 > 0:06:36Over to you, Dave.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39Which English landscape artist became known
0:06:39 > 0:06:43as the "painter of light", due to his use of brilliant colours?
0:06:49 > 0:06:51- Landscape painter?- Yeah.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54HE EXHALES SHARPLY
0:06:54 > 0:06:58Use of colours? I'm not too sure,
0:06:58 > 0:07:03but, I'm going to go JMW Turner.
0:07:03 > 0:07:04Yeah, Turner is correct.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06I suppose Stubbs, we think of the horse, don't we?
0:07:06 > 0:07:08Yeah, but Gainsborough was throwing me a little bit,
0:07:08 > 0:07:10but, yeah.
0:07:10 > 0:07:12Alice, back to you.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15Which character in A Midsummer Night's Dream utters
0:07:15 > 0:07:20the line, "Lord, what fools these mortals be"?
0:07:24 > 0:07:30I'm going to go with the logic that Oberon is not mortal.
0:07:30 > 0:07:31I'm not entirely sure.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33So I'll go with Oberon.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35OK, Oberon is your answer.
0:07:35 > 0:07:36- Is she right, Eggheads? - It's Puck, I think.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39- Puck.- Yeah, we think it's Puck at this end.
0:07:40 > 0:07:45Dave, your question. Which author won the 2015 Man Booker prize?
0:07:50 > 0:07:54I think he's the first Jamaican to win that award.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56It's Marlon James.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58Marlon James is correct.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01So you need to get this one right to stay in, Alice.
0:08:01 > 0:08:06What was the first name of the 18th-century Italian painter Tiepolo?
0:08:12 > 0:08:14Er, I have no idea.
0:08:16 > 0:08:17So...
0:08:17 > 0:08:22And I don't think I can work it out particularly easily,
0:08:22 > 0:08:24so I'll go for Giorgio.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Giorgio's wrong. I'm sorry.
0:08:26 > 0:08:27It's Giovanni.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29- Difficult one.- Yeah.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32So you have been knocked out by Tremendous Knowledge Dave,
0:08:32 > 0:08:35cos there's no way back from that position and, Dave,
0:08:35 > 0:08:36you will be in the final. Well done.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Return to us, please, and rejoin your teams.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42So, as it stands, For The Wheel have lost
0:08:42 > 0:08:44a couple of brains from the final round.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47The Eggheads haven't lost any. I'm just wondering if your run
0:08:47 > 0:08:49is going to really power-up now, Eggheads,
0:08:49 > 0:08:51or will you be stopped in your tracks?
0:08:51 > 0:08:54Let's see. The next subject is Politics.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58- Who would like this? - Yeah, go on, Rob.
0:08:58 > 0:08:59OK, Rob.
0:08:59 > 0:09:00THEY CONFER
0:09:05 > 0:09:06I think we'll take Lisa, please.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09So it's going to be Robbie from From The Wheel against Lisa
0:09:09 > 0:09:12from the Eggheads. Please go to the question room.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16Robbie, on Politics, would you like to first or second?
0:09:16 > 0:09:18I think I'll go first, please, Jeremy.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Here is your question, Robbie. Good luck to you. Which word
0:09:24 > 0:09:27often appears in the national press referring
0:09:27 > 0:09:30to Britain's possible departure from the European Union?
0:09:34 > 0:09:36That'll be Brexit, Jeremy.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38It is Brexit, yes.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40Lisa, of which country
0:09:40 > 0:09:45was Justin Trudeau elected prime minister in 2015?
0:09:48 > 0:09:49I think that's Canada.
0:09:49 > 0:09:53Canada is right. Oh, we are screaming along here.
0:09:53 > 0:09:57Robbie, who was elected deputy leader of the Labour Party in 2015?
0:10:02 > 0:10:05Deputy leader. Um, probably should know this, Jeremy,
0:10:05 > 0:10:08but I've got to say I don't know it off the top of my head.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14From gut instinct I'm going to go with Andy Burnham.
0:10:14 > 0:10:15Team, what do you think?
0:10:15 > 0:10:19- Tom Watson.- Yeah, it's Tom Watson, Robbie.
0:10:19 > 0:10:20Lisa's chance to take the lead.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22Which of these British Prime Ministers
0:10:22 > 0:10:28was elected to office with over 14 million votes - the most in history?
0:10:32 > 0:10:37What a question. 14 million. It's what you base that on.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40I think turnout has probably gone down slightly
0:10:40 > 0:10:43from Thatcher to Cameron, but population's gone up.
0:10:43 > 0:10:48So the number in and of itself doesn't help very much.
0:10:50 > 0:10:54That said, if you're looking at margins of victory,
0:10:54 > 0:11:00then Thatcher's... were probably the biggest.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Let's not prolong the agony.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04I'll go for Margaret Thatcher.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06It's a funny one. It's not the one you expect.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08- It's John Major.- Interesting.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10- Oh!- In 1992...
0:11:10 > 0:11:13So that's a turnout thing, when everyone came out to make sure it
0:11:13 > 0:11:15- wasn't Kinnock? - You're absolutely right.
0:11:15 > 0:11:16That is exactly the answer, yeah.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19- Bother.- So, there we go. John Major is the answer.
0:11:19 > 0:11:20OK, Robbie.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24Which Conservative MP was appointed
0:11:24 > 0:11:27Chief Whip to the House of Commons in May 2015?
0:11:31 > 0:11:35Again this isn't one I know off the top of my head, I'm afraid, Jeremy.
0:11:35 > 0:11:39Just thinking if there's any bells ringing.
0:11:39 > 0:11:43One that sticks out the most is Jeremy Wright,
0:11:43 > 0:11:46so I'm just going to have to go with my gut there.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48No, it's not. It's actually Mark Harper.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51Tough question. Lisa - one point each -
0:11:51 > 0:11:53get this right, you're in the final.
0:11:53 > 0:11:58Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was elected mayor
0:11:58 > 0:12:02of which city in 2011 and again in 2015?
0:12:06 > 0:12:09Oh, I couldn't remember whether it was New York or Chicago,
0:12:09 > 0:12:10and they're both there!
0:12:10 > 0:12:13So, well, I suppose at least then we can assume it's not Baltimore.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17I can't remember. I'm just going to have to jump and
0:12:17 > 0:12:19hope sudden death is kind.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24I'll go for New York. I can't remember.
0:12:24 > 0:12:28I think maybe the way to get to this is the Obama connection.
0:12:28 > 0:12:29Oh, great, so it's Chicago.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31- Yeah, fantastic. - Chicago is the answer.
0:12:31 > 0:12:35I think he pulled some levers for him, so that's good for you, Robbie.
0:12:35 > 0:12:36Equal after three questions.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38You've been let off the hook twice there.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40Need to press the advantage now.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42We go to sudden death, Robbie, OK?
0:12:42 > 0:12:44Gets a bit harder. I don't give you alternatives.
0:12:44 > 0:12:48In which country was Terry Waite kidnapped in 1987?
0:12:51 > 0:12:53Got to say...
0:12:53 > 0:12:55I don't really have a clue here, Jeremy.
0:12:56 > 0:13:00Purely on the basis that there's quite a lot of piracy in Somalia,
0:13:00 > 0:13:01I'll go Somalia.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04Yeah, it was actually more of a Middle East thing.
0:13:04 > 0:13:05- It was Lebanon.- OK.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08Beirut, Lebanon is the answer.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11Lisa Thiel, in the closely fought primaries,
0:13:11 > 0:13:16who was Barack Obama's main rival, whom he beat in June 2008
0:13:16 > 0:13:19to win the Democratic nomination?
0:13:19 > 0:13:24There was this really annoying clip they played on Radio 4 of a woman
0:13:24 > 0:13:26who was campaigning for her singing...
0:13:26 > 0:13:31# H-I-L-L-A-R-Y-C-L-I-N-T-O-N, let's hear it again. #
0:13:31 > 0:13:32Isn't that irritating?
0:13:32 > 0:13:35I've now inflicted it on you. I think that must be Hillary Clinton.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38It is Hillary Clinton. Well done. You're in the final.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40Sorry, Robbie, you got knocked out there by our Egghead.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43Ran her pretty close in sudden death, but she has triumphed.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46Both of you return to your teams, and we'll see what happens next.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51So, as it stands, For The Wheel have lost three brains,
0:13:51 > 0:13:55the Eggheads are just there, bit of confidence, really annoying,
0:13:55 > 0:13:57but maybe you can do something about this.
0:13:57 > 0:13:58The next subject is Music.
0:14:00 > 0:14:01Is that good?
0:14:01 > 0:14:03No, not so good, Jeremy.
0:14:03 > 0:14:07- I think it's going to have to be... - Yeah?- Good luck.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11- Who shall I take on?- Stuart, OK.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14- I think Chris. - No, I reckon I'll go Judith.
0:14:15 > 0:14:17I'll take on Judith, please, Jeremy.
0:14:17 > 0:14:21OK, Stuart from For The Wheel, versus Judith from the Eggheads.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24To ensure there's no conferring, please go to the question room.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27Well, Judith, 1,500 shows.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30- Yes!- And you've been here since the start.
0:14:30 > 0:14:3213 years, whatever it is.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35Any favourite questions, any favourite moments?
0:14:35 > 0:14:37Well, it was quite fun, I did Science -
0:14:37 > 0:14:39and science is not my strongest -
0:14:39 > 0:14:44but I played Science against a rocket scientist, and I beat him.
0:14:44 > 0:14:50That was very good, and then I also had a triumph when I played
0:14:50 > 0:14:54Edwina Currie on Politics, and beat her.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56- That was good.- Wonderful.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58OK, we'll start with you, Stuart. Would you like to go first
0:14:58 > 0:15:00- or second?- I'll go first, Jeremy.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06OK, so Stuart up against Judith.
0:15:06 > 0:15:11Stuart, which of these instruments is most likely to be played using wire brushes?
0:15:15 > 0:15:18Well, I think, although I wouldn't say music is my strong point,
0:15:18 > 0:15:21I'd like to think that's reasonably straightforward,
0:15:21 > 0:15:23- and that's the drums, Jeremy. - Yes, it is the drums.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26In fact, if you played electric guitar with wire brushes,
0:15:26 > 0:15:28you might have a very nasty shock!
0:15:28 > 0:15:29Judith, what was the title
0:15:29 > 0:15:33of Guns N' Roses' debut studio album?
0:15:40 > 0:15:43I'm not at all sure, but
0:15:43 > 0:15:46um...I think it's Like A Virgin.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49Well, no, actually it's not.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52- That's Madonna. - Yes, I thought it was.
0:15:54 > 0:15:56You thought it was Madonna, and you went for it.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58OK, doesn't matter.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00It's Appetite For Destruction.
0:16:00 > 0:16:01- Right.- Stuart, back to you.
0:16:02 > 0:16:06Judith is obviously doing her kamikaze number today.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09In which UK city was the band Supergrass formed?
0:16:12 > 0:16:14Well, I don't know this off the top of my head, and the only thing
0:16:14 > 0:16:17I'll have to go on is that I know a lot of musical talent has come
0:16:17 > 0:16:19out of Liverpool in the past,
0:16:19 > 0:16:21so I'll go down the left and go for Liverpool, Jeremy.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23OK. No, Oxford is the answer.
0:16:23 > 0:16:26Oxford. Judith, your question.
0:16:26 > 0:16:31Sowing The Seeds Of Love was a top five UK hit for which group in 1989?
0:16:35 > 0:16:38I'm afraid I don't know that, either.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42What about Haircut 100?
0:16:42 > 0:16:45- I think Dave will know this. - It's Tears For Fears.
0:16:45 > 0:16:46Yeah, Tears For Fears, Judith.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48- Oh.- Tears For Fears.
0:16:48 > 0:16:52So, look, the situation has turned to your advantage, Stuart.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55Get this one right, you're in the final.
0:16:55 > 0:16:59Which Richard Strauss opera features a character called Zerbinetta?
0:17:07 > 0:17:11Well, similarly to last time, I have absolutely no idea.
0:17:12 > 0:17:13It will be a complete guess.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16I wouldn't have been able to name any one of his operas.
0:17:17 > 0:17:21So I will take a punt and go straight down the middle.
0:17:21 > 0:17:23Der Rosenkavalier.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25No, it's not.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28It is Ariadne Auf Naxos.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30So, Judith, you're still in with a chance here.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33See if we can get on the board.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36Krist Novoselic was the bass guitarist
0:17:36 > 0:17:38for which of these '90s bands?
0:17:42 > 0:17:45Well, again, I have absolutely no idea,
0:17:45 > 0:17:49so I'll keep on going down the right and save Pearl Jam.
0:17:49 > 0:17:50Is she right, Eggs?
0:17:50 > 0:17:53- Nirvana.- Nirvana.- Nirvana is the answer, but the good news is, guys,
0:17:53 > 0:17:55you've got an extra player in the final.
0:17:55 > 0:17:59- Well done, Stuart.- What a hero! - Perhaps a bit lucky there. - Judith knocked out.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01Sorry, Nirvana was the answer, Judith.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04- That's all right.- Come back to us. We'll play the final round.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08So this is what we have been playing towards.
0:18:08 > 0:18:09It is time for the final round
0:18:09 > 0:18:11which, as always, is General Knowledge.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads
0:18:14 > 0:18:15won't be allowed to take part,
0:18:15 > 0:18:18so will Alice and Robbie from For The Wheel
0:18:18 > 0:18:21and also Judith from the Eggheads,
0:18:21 > 0:18:23would you please now leave the studio?
0:18:25 > 0:18:30So, Johnny and Stuart, you're playing to win For The Wheel £8,000.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32Chris, Kevin, Dave, Lisa,
0:18:32 > 0:18:35you're playing for something that money can't really buy, as we know,
0:18:35 > 0:18:37which is the Eggheads' precious reputation.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:18:40 > 0:18:44This time they're all General Knowledge. You are allowed to confer.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46So, For The Wheel, the question is,
0:18:46 > 0:18:48can your two brains overwhelm these four?
0:18:48 > 0:18:51And would you like to go first or second?
0:18:51 > 0:18:54- Go first?- Yeah, go first, please, Jeremy.
0:18:57 > 0:18:59OK, Jonny and Stuart. Good luck.
0:18:59 > 0:19:04And here is your first question. Which car manufacturer made headlines by admitting
0:19:04 > 0:19:07the manipulation of emissions tests in 2015?
0:19:10 > 0:19:12- VW.- Volkswagen.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15- Yeah.- Yeah, we're pretty confident on this one.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17We're looking forward to the film,
0:19:17 > 0:19:19and we think that's Volkswagen, Jeremy.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21Volkswagen is quite right. Well done, guys.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23OK, Eggheads, over to you.
0:19:23 > 0:19:28Which word refers to fragments of cocoa or coffee beans?
0:19:32 > 0:19:33Nibs. Cocoa nibs.
0:19:33 > 0:19:35Cocoa nibs.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38- Yes.- Cocoa nibs, yeah.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42That's nibs, Jeremy.
0:19:42 > 0:19:43Cocoa nibs is right.
0:19:43 > 0:19:46OK, challengers, for what does the V stand
0:19:46 > 0:19:49in the computing term "vlogger"?
0:19:54 > 0:19:56- Video?- Yes.
0:19:56 > 0:19:57Yeah, we think that's video,
0:19:57 > 0:19:59- Jeremy.- As in video logger.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01Yes, you're right. Very good.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04OK, Eggheads, your second question.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08Halfway To Hollywood is the second volume of diaries by which member of
0:20:08 > 0:20:10the Monty Python team?
0:20:15 > 0:20:18I had a feeling that Cleese was...
0:20:20 > 0:20:22..doing something, but Terry Jones is...
0:20:22 > 0:20:24I don't know.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26I wouldn't have thought it was Palin.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29- No, no, no, it's not Palin. - Palin jumped out at me.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31- Why Palin?- I'm not sure.
0:20:31 > 0:20:35I thought that they'd started releasing...
0:20:35 > 0:20:38I thought Palin had done a little bit of promotional work.
0:20:38 > 0:20:41- On stuff like this.- OK. - But don't take that as a given.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43It could have been about something else.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48Did you say a SECOND volume of memoirs, Jeremy?
0:20:48 > 0:20:49Let me read it again.
0:20:49 > 0:20:53Halfway To Hollywood is the second volume of diaries
0:20:53 > 0:20:55by which member of the Monty Python team?
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Diaries suggests Palin, then.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00- Yeah. - Because he's travelling around.
0:21:00 > 0:21:06- Yeah.- But you can make a case for all three, to be perfectly honest,
0:21:06 > 0:21:07but go for a vote.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10- What are you saying, Palin? - I'll vote Palin, but...
0:21:10 > 0:21:13- What are you saying? - I think Palin, on the whole.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15I think Palin, as well.
0:21:15 > 0:21:19The team is going Palin, aren't we?
0:21:19 > 0:21:21The team's going Michael Palin, Jeremy.
0:21:21 > 0:21:24They came within a whisker of getting it wrong,
0:21:24 > 0:21:27- but Palin is the answer. - Well done, Lisa.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29Also, Cleese has been on a publicity tour
0:21:29 > 0:21:32and, of course, Terry Jones has a big Hollywood connection,
0:21:32 > 0:21:35so that's a very hard question, but well done, Eggheads.
0:21:35 > 0:21:38Michael Palin. Impressive performance
0:21:38 > 0:21:40by the newest member of the team.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43All right, but sorry for you guys, because you were within...
0:21:43 > 0:21:45I could smell the money there.
0:21:45 > 0:21:46Gosh, it was wafting.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48Third question. Get this one right just to see,
0:21:48 > 0:21:50they might be a bit shellshocked now.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53Which rhetorical term means
0:21:53 > 0:21:58an inversion of the usual word order in a sentence?
0:22:04 > 0:22:09My teacher will be absolutely killing me - Latin teacher.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14I'm just thinking through all the terms we did.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Doing Latin.
0:22:16 > 0:22:17I mean,
0:22:17 > 0:22:19"anti-" is obviously..
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Yeah.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27Anaphora is the one that...
0:22:27 > 0:22:34The most prevalent one I've seen used in classic literature,
0:22:34 > 0:22:38but something just tells me it means something else.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41Nothing is jumping out for me.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44So I'm happy to go with your gut.
0:22:44 > 0:22:48If there's something deep inside that's shouting, "Go for it."
0:22:48 > 0:22:51When I saw them, that was the first one that came up.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53I would've said chiasmus, personally!
0:22:55 > 0:22:57Yeah. And I can't think of any other way of working it out.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00There's nothing else, so I'm happy to go with...
0:23:00 > 0:23:03I might regret this, but have a go.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05We're not sure, Jeremy.
0:23:05 > 0:23:10I actually did Latin at A level and we spoke a lot about these terms.
0:23:10 > 0:23:14My knowledge of Greek prefixes and suffixes is not strong enough
0:23:14 > 0:23:18to be able to work it out fantastically.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20We're going to go with anaphora.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22OK.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25Now, does anyone know, first of all, what antistrophe is?
0:23:25 > 0:23:29Yes, it's used in Greek, classical Greek poetry,
0:23:29 > 0:23:33so it relates to verse forms, different types of verse forms.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37- So it's not that.- OK, and anaphora?
0:23:37 > 0:23:39- That's it.- You think that's it?
0:23:39 > 0:23:41- I think that's right, yeah. - Oh, that it was.
0:23:41 > 0:23:42- Oh, am I wrong?- No, you were wrong.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44- Oh!- Everyone is wrong.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46Anastrophe is the answer,
0:23:46 > 0:23:50and an example would be the way Yoda speaks in Star Wars.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53"I will not into the kitchen go."
0:23:53 > 0:23:56- Wrong we were!- Wrong you were!
0:23:56 > 0:23:59Wrong you were. So anastrophe was the right answer,
0:23:59 > 0:24:03which gives the Eggs a chance to take the contest on this question.
0:24:03 > 0:24:08Old Providence, formerly an English Puritan colony,
0:24:08 > 0:24:13is a Caribbean island belonging to which country?
0:24:17 > 0:24:20If it's Caribbean, it's not going to be Colombia, is it?
0:24:20 > 0:24:26Yeah, I mean... I don't know. My reasoning would be that
0:24:26 > 0:24:32Colombia and Nicaragua are a bit far over, basically.
0:24:33 > 0:24:38Because obviously you've got the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.
0:24:38 > 0:24:42It's surprising... Colombia... I'm not so sure about Nicaragua,
0:24:42 > 0:24:45but Colombia has got some islands
0:24:45 > 0:24:49that are quite far out into the Gulf of Mexico, let's say,
0:24:49 > 0:24:52but would it actually go into the Caribbean?
0:24:52 > 0:24:54I mean, the logical thing, because of where it is,
0:24:54 > 0:24:56is the Dominican Republic.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58Dominican Republic, yeah.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01That's half of Hispaniola.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07Without actually knowing it, the percentage guess is
0:25:07 > 0:25:10Dominican Republic, but simply because of where it is
0:25:10 > 0:25:13in relation to what you normally think of as the Caribbean.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15I'm prepared to go with you two.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17It could be. There are all these little islands.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20But the thing is, we're not going to make a logical case
0:25:20 > 0:25:24for the other islands, so we've got to go with...
0:25:24 > 0:25:26Is that OK?
0:25:26 > 0:25:28- Go with Dominican?- Yes, I think so.
0:25:28 > 0:25:32Dominican Republic is half of Hispaniola.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34The other half being Haiti.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36And that is more...
0:25:36 > 0:25:41shall we say, pirate waters in the 17th century and therefore open to
0:25:41 > 0:25:43English settlement.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46Nicaragua and Colombia, of course, was Spanish at that time, so...
0:25:48 > 0:25:52..our percentage guess would be Dominican Republic.
0:25:52 > 0:25:53It is the wrong answer.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55Colombia is the answer.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57So off the hook.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00- We're back in.- This is a tight game.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02All right, we go to sudden death.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04Gets a bit harder. I don't give you alternatives.
0:26:04 > 0:26:08Here's your first question. On 18th April 2013,
0:26:08 > 0:26:11a plaque was unveiled at Epsom Racecourse
0:26:11 > 0:26:14to mark the anniversary of whose death?
0:26:14 > 0:26:16The first thought I've got was...
0:26:18 > 0:26:20- ..Sir Henry Cecil.- Yeah.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22The Frankel trainer.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25But I'm just thinking back to when Frankel won.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28I'm wondering whether that might be a bit early.
0:26:28 > 0:26:32April 2013.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35I can't really think of anyone else, and he was so loved.
0:26:35 > 0:26:36Flat-racing legend.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39Yeah, happy to go with that.
0:26:39 > 0:26:40- Nothing else to go on.- Yeah.
0:26:42 > 0:26:46Our best guess, Jeremy, is a guy who was a trainer.
0:26:46 > 0:26:50We think he died not too long before that time.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53The trainer of horses, including Frankel,
0:26:53 > 0:26:56so we're going to say Sir Henry Cecil.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59I think when I throw it over to the side, they will say something else.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02- Emily Davison.- Emily Davison, the suffragette.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04Emily Davidson.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07Eggheads, this for the round.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10The title of which 2015 film starring Emily Blunt
0:27:10 > 0:27:13is Spanish for assassin or hit man?
0:27:13 > 0:27:15- Sicario.- Sicario.
0:27:15 > 0:27:16- Sicario.- Sicario.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19- S-I-C-A-R-I-O.- Yeah, yeah.
0:27:21 > 0:27:22That is Sicario,
0:27:22 > 0:27:24- Jeremy.- You seem pretty certain about that.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27Well, Kevin does. What he doesn't know about film...
0:27:27 > 0:27:29- Good film.- Good film.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32£8,000 on the table for our challengers.
0:27:32 > 0:27:33Is the contest over?
0:27:33 > 0:27:37The 2015 film has the title Sicario.
0:27:37 > 0:27:40We say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.
0:27:40 > 0:27:41Well played.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48It was that wretched anastrophe, wasn't it?
0:27:48 > 0:27:50- Yeah.- Because that would have...
0:27:50 > 0:27:53My old Latin teacher will have kittens when he sees that.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55It was obscure.
0:27:55 > 0:27:56We would have gone the wrong way.
0:27:56 > 0:28:00Also, you didn't get it, either, so, yeah, commiserations.
0:28:00 > 0:28:01I can see you are great quizzers,
0:28:01 > 0:28:03and I'm sure you will go on to great things.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08Their winning streak continues.
0:28:08 > 0:28:09A bit of wind in their sails now.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12It does mean you're not going home with the £8,000,
0:28:12 > 0:28:15so the money rolls over to our next show. Eggheads, very well done.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17Who is ever going to beat you?
0:28:17 > 0:28:20Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers have the brains
0:28:20 > 0:28:24to defeat them. See if I can will it to happen.
0:28:24 > 0:28:25£9,000 says they don't.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28They're going to get up to 10,000 soon, let's see.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30Until next time, goodbye.