0:00:04 > 0:00:09These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:11 > 0:00:14arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19The question is... can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:24Welcome to Eggheads,
0:00:24 > 0:00:26the show where a team of five quiz challengers
0:00:26 > 0:00:29pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31They are the Eggheads.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34Or maybe the greatest in the world?
0:00:34 > 0:00:37- Or the universe. - Never modest, are they?
0:00:37 > 0:00:39Hoping to get one over on our quiz champions
0:00:39 > 0:00:43today are Plastered Cast from West Lothian.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45Now, this team are all members of
0:00:45 > 0:00:47the Livingston Players amateur dramatics society.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49So, let's meet them.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52Hi, I'm Roger and I am a retired planning manager.
0:00:52 > 0:00:56Hi, I'm Alex and I'm a retired civil servant.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Hi, I'm Janet and I'm an office manager.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02Hi, I'm David and I'm a tax adviser.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05Hi, I'm John and I'm a retired IT programme manager.
0:01:05 > 0:01:07So, Roger and team, welcome.
0:01:07 > 0:01:11- Hello.- Hi, Jeremy. - Tell us about the dramatic society.
0:01:11 > 0:01:15Well, we've been established since about 1970
0:01:15 > 0:01:21and we do three productions a year, two plays and one musical.
0:01:21 > 0:01:22So, there's continuous working
0:01:22 > 0:01:25right through the year with rehearsals.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28- It's nonstop, basically.- And what are you working on at the moment?
0:01:28 > 0:01:30We're working on Sister Act, which is a...
0:01:30 > 0:01:33- What, the Whoopi Goldberg? - That's the one, yeah.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35- The musical production. - And are you all actors
0:01:35 > 0:01:38or do we have other people who are doing other things?
0:01:38 > 0:01:41We're all actors apart from David,
0:01:41 > 0:01:45who is a partner to a very fine actress.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48But the rest of us here are actors, yes.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51All right. And you do the set, as well, David, is that right?
0:01:51 > 0:01:53I do a bit of breaking sets but usually I'm better off
0:01:53 > 0:01:55just ferrying people around.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57JEREMY LAUGHS
0:01:57 > 0:01:59Well, good luck. We've got, well, at least one actor in there.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02CJ, you've trod the boards a few times.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06- Yes.- And I think possibly set for quite a big film career.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10There's vacancies at the old Kodak plant.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13- Let's hope so. - LAUGHTER
0:02:13 > 0:02:15Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash
0:02:15 > 0:02:16up for grabs for our challengers.
0:02:16 > 0:02:20However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:02:20 > 0:02:22the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24Now, Plastered Cast,
0:02:24 > 0:02:26the Eggheads have just won the last game.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29£2,000, therefore, is on the table to win.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31- Want to give it a go? - Yes, please.- Yes.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Fantastic. The first head-to-head battle is on
0:02:33 > 0:02:37the subject of Arts and Books. That's good for you thespians.
0:02:37 > 0:02:38- It should be.- Should be.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41- It is.- David? - And it looks like it's me.
0:02:41 > 0:02:45- The non-thespian.- I can't... I'm trying to work that out.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47David, OK. Against which Egghead?
0:02:47 > 0:02:50Oh, I think I'll take Barry, please.
0:02:50 > 0:02:54All right, so, David from Plastered Cast versus Barry from Eggheads.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56To ensure there's no conferring,
0:02:56 > 0:02:59would you please go to the legendary Question Room.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02OK, arts and books, David.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04And would you like to go first or second?
0:03:04 > 0:03:06I'll go first, thank you, Jeremy.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Here we go. Which of these artists was well-known
0:03:12 > 0:03:14for sporting a trademark moustache?
0:03:19 > 0:03:21Well, I don't think it's Joan Miro.
0:03:23 > 0:03:27And I had to go as Salvador Dali to a fancy dress one time,
0:03:27 > 0:03:29and I had this terrible moustache
0:03:29 > 0:03:32that's even worse than the one I've got at the moment.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34So, Salvador Dali.
0:03:34 > 0:03:35Salvador Dali is right, well done.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37Barry, over to you.
0:03:37 > 0:03:41The book SPQR by the academic Mary Beard
0:03:41 > 0:03:44is a history of which ancient power?
0:03:47 > 0:03:50SPQR stands for "Senatus Populusque Romanus",
0:03:50 > 0:03:53the Senate and the people of Rome.
0:03:53 > 0:03:54So, Rome is the answer.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57Rome is right. Back to you, David.
0:03:57 > 0:04:02In which US city is the Getty Villa museum located?
0:04:07 > 0:04:10Well, I don't think it's Los Angeles.
0:04:10 > 0:04:15And I know that Chicago has virtually every building
0:04:15 > 0:04:19that's ever designed in America in it.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22Washington DC...
0:04:22 > 0:04:23I'll go for Chicago.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28OK, I was expecting New York to be on here, but no New York.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30It's not Chicago.
0:04:30 > 0:04:32And I was thinking, "Which way would I go?"
0:04:32 > 0:04:35I mean, maybe Villa suggests a bit of sea view or something,
0:04:35 > 0:04:37I don't know. Los Angeles is the right answer.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40It's in Malibu, Los Angeles.
0:04:40 > 0:04:41So, it's overlooking the sea?
0:04:41 > 0:04:45Yes, it's in the shape of a Roman villa.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48So, it's basically where Getty used to live?
0:04:48 > 0:04:49I don't know if he lived here.
0:04:49 > 0:04:53I can't remember that, but it's a really nice museum.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55OK. And he was a very rich bloke?
0:04:55 > 0:05:00He was, indeed. But he famously installed payphones in his house
0:05:00 > 0:05:02because he didn't want his guests to have free phone calls.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05That's funny. OK, Barry.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09Your question - which British artist painted the 19th-century work
0:05:09 > 0:05:11The Ghost of a Flea?
0:05:16 > 0:05:19Do you know, I really don't know this.
0:05:19 > 0:05:2019th century...
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Well, that will rule William Blake out.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26Because I think he was earlier than that.
0:05:26 > 0:05:30And although Turner did come into the 19th century...
0:05:30 > 0:05:34I don't know. It sounds more like a Pre-Raphaelite, I'll go for Millais.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36The answer is William Blake.
0:05:36 > 0:05:39- Oh!- It's a very odd subject for a painting.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41Anyone help us with this?
0:05:41 > 0:05:43- Ghost of a Flea?- No.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46To me, that sounds like going to be quite a small ghost, you know?
0:05:46 > 0:05:48I'm sure it will come to you later, Jeremy.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50OK, yeah. I will have a think about that.
0:05:50 > 0:05:51Have a think, yeah, see if it...
0:05:51 > 0:05:53See if I can just rack my brains on that.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56All right. So, this is handy.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59- David...- Mm-hmm. - ..if you get this right,
0:05:59 > 0:06:02put a bit of pressure on Barry the Brain.
0:06:02 > 0:06:03Who was the recipient
0:06:03 > 0:06:07of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award in 2015?
0:06:14 > 0:06:17Ooh. Now, that's an awkward one.
0:06:18 > 0:06:24Erm...I'm not sure on this one, but I'll go for Michael Robotham.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26Michael Robotham is the right answer.
0:06:26 > 0:06:28- Well done.- Well done!
0:06:28 > 0:06:31Good stuff. OK, Barry, over to you.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33You've got to get this right to stay in.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35What is the title of the sixth book
0:06:35 > 0:06:40in the Shardlake series by CJ Sansom published in 2015?
0:06:45 > 0:06:47I've not heard of this series.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49The sixth book...
0:06:49 > 0:06:53Well, because it's well into a into a series, I'll go for Revelation.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55So, you think it's kind of at the end of a series?
0:06:55 > 0:06:56I'm hoping it is.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58Yeah, no, it's Lamentation.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02- Ah.- Barry, two wrong answers have knocked you out there.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05- David, well done.- Thank you. - You're in the final round.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07There we go. That's how you do it.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10Just get one more than the Eggheads and you're through.
0:07:10 > 0:07:12So, Barry is knocked out, David is in the final.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14Let's see what happens next.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18We got a bit caught up on our paintings there
0:07:18 > 0:07:20and I've had a long think, so I can help you.
0:07:20 > 0:07:24It's a very small painting by Blake, this Ghost of a Flea.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27It's basically a sort of rather scary-looking
0:07:27 > 0:07:30insecty thing gorging itself on a bowl of blood.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32So, there's a bit of a horror film element there,
0:07:32 > 0:07:34- which you expect, I suppose. - Yes, with Blake.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37And...1827. Now, you were right, Barry,
0:07:37 > 0:07:411700s for Blake normally, but this was a late work.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43- Right.- So, it seems he was a bit exhausted,
0:07:43 > 0:07:44he was a bit old, gets up,
0:07:44 > 0:07:46thinks, "Oh, what can I paint?" No ideas.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49Ghost of a Flea, tiny canvas - bang, that's your lot.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52And all that is left of you in this contest is the ghost of a flea,
0:07:52 > 0:07:54now, I'm afraid. You've been knocked out, Barry.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56As it stands, Plastered Cast have not lost a brain.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58Good start. Well done.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01And that's how you act excitement, isn't it?
0:08:01 > 0:08:03- It was amazing, that.- Ecstatic!
0:08:03 > 0:08:05Erm...the Eggheads have lost that one brain.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07And the next subject is Science.
0:08:07 > 0:08:08MAN GROANS
0:08:08 > 0:08:10Not good for actors, science.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13Janet, I think, is...
0:08:13 > 0:08:14Janet?
0:08:14 > 0:08:16I don't mind. Sacrificial lamb, yes.
0:08:16 > 0:08:20Do it, do it. OK. Against which Egghead?
0:08:20 > 0:08:22- You'll be great.- CJ.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24OK. On Science.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26I don't mind Science.
0:08:27 > 0:08:30He's been the subject of many scientific experiments.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32- Yeah!- Yeah, they've all gone wrong.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35Yeah, they have all gone wrong, you're right!
0:08:35 > 0:08:39So, Janet from Plastered Cast versus CJ from the Eggheads on Science.
0:08:39 > 0:08:40Please go to our Question Room.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46So, Janet, Science is the subject against the great CJ.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48Would you like to go first or second?
0:08:48 > 0:08:49I'd like to go first, please.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54Here is your first question.
0:08:54 > 0:08:58Which of these is a popular data compression format
0:08:58 > 0:08:59used in computing?
0:09:02 > 0:09:04I'm not 100% sure.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06I don't think it's zoom.
0:09:06 > 0:09:07I think it will be zip.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10Zip is your answer.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12- Yes.- And it is correct.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16OK, CJ.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18What are young hedgehogs commonly called?
0:09:22 > 0:09:25Well, I'm a patron of the British Hedgehog Preservation Society,
0:09:25 > 0:09:28so I should know this. I think it's hoglets.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Hoglets is the right answer.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35All right, Janet, which native British tree
0:09:35 > 0:09:38is sometimes called "the Venus of the woods"?
0:09:40 > 0:09:42I don't think it's Holly.
0:09:42 > 0:09:46And out of the other two I'd probably say it was the ash.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48You are quite right.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50I like the way you're playing.
0:09:50 > 0:09:51Really good.
0:09:52 > 0:09:55CJ, the name of which chemical element
0:09:55 > 0:09:57is derived from the Latin for "sky blue"?
0:10:01 > 0:10:04Well, chromium just comes from the word "colour", I think.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09And I think caesium is blue.
0:10:09 > 0:10:13Erm...I'm not entirely sure, but I will go for caesium.
0:10:13 > 0:10:14Caesium is the right answer, CJ.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16Well done. So, two points each.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19Janet, back to you. See if you can get your third one right.
0:10:19 > 0:10:24The Great Man-Made River is the name given to a water supply project
0:10:24 > 0:10:26in which African country?
0:10:29 > 0:10:31I don't think it will be Libya.
0:10:32 > 0:10:37Egypt has the Nile, so I would imagine that's a great waterfront.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39Algeria...
0:10:39 > 0:10:42I'm not 100% sure.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45Erm...I'll say Egypt.
0:10:45 > 0:10:46CJ, do you know this?
0:10:46 > 0:10:50I don't. I probably would have gone for Libya, but I don't know it.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53Libya is the right answer, Janet, sorry. So, two out of three.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56Let's see if CJ can book his place in the final with this question.
0:10:56 > 0:11:02Which of these is a crustacean that stuns its prey by firing a bubble
0:11:02 > 0:11:05of air at high velocity?
0:11:08 > 0:11:11Well, I hope I'm not making things up here,
0:11:11 > 0:11:14but I think I have heard of a pistol shrimp. Erm...
0:11:14 > 0:11:16never heard of a cannon crab.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19Shotgun prawn sounds a bit improbable.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22But I'm fairly sure I've heard of a pistol shrimp,
0:11:22 > 0:11:24so that will be my answer.
0:11:24 > 0:11:27Pistol shrimp is the right answer, CJ, well done.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29Sorry, Janet. He's knocked you out there.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31On the Science...
0:11:31 > 0:11:34The pistol shrimp, he just fires a little bubble of air, don't you, CJ?
0:11:34 > 0:11:37- Always.- That's what he does. So, he will be in the final round.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40Please come back to us, rejoin your teams and we'll play on.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46So, Plastered Cast have now lost a brain from the final round.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49The Eggheads lost one earlier. Where do we go from here?
0:11:49 > 0:11:51The answer is Film and TV.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53Who would like this?
0:11:53 > 0:11:56- That was David.- Not me.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59- "Not me"!- Right, it's either you or John.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02- I don't think John wants to do it. - Not me.- John - "Not me."
0:12:02 > 0:12:04OK, you're going to have to do it, then.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07OK, I'll go the... the sacrificial lamb.
0:12:07 > 0:12:11- Yes, I'll do it.- Yes, OK. Against which Egghead?
0:12:11 > 0:12:14You can have Pat, or Lisa, or Dave. So, all on the left.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16- Try Lisa.- Lisa.
0:12:16 > 0:12:18- I'll go with Lisa, please. - Sounds good to me.- Good choice.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21Yeah, Alex from Plastered Cast versus Lisa from the Eggheads.
0:12:21 > 0:12:25And to ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29Alex, you are a volunteer puppy walker for guide dogs.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32- That's correct, yes. - What a lovely thing to do.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35Oh, it's been a wonderful year for us.
0:12:35 > 0:12:39And still, guide dogs for the blind are hugely important.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42Absolutely. We just have to concentrate on
0:12:42 > 0:12:44what that puppy hopefully is
0:12:44 > 0:12:47going to go on and change somebody's life.
0:12:47 > 0:12:49Wonderful. So, we're Film and TV here, Alex.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51Would you like to go first or second?
0:12:51 > 0:12:53I'd like to go first, please.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58And your first question is...
0:12:59 > 0:13:02Which of these does Marty McFly
0:13:02 > 0:13:04use as a form of transport
0:13:04 > 0:13:07in the Back to the Future series of films?
0:13:12 > 0:13:15I don't think it's a hovercraft or a hover mower.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19I seem to remember a hoverboard.
0:13:19 > 0:13:20I'll go for hoverboard.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22Hoverboard is right. Good stuff.
0:13:25 > 0:13:29OK, Lisa, which 1980s heart-throb played the title role
0:13:29 > 0:13:33in the first series of the TV drama Robin of Sherwood?
0:13:38 > 0:13:39I think it might be a stretch
0:13:39 > 0:13:41to describe all of them as eighties heart-throbs.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43I'm pretty sure Robin of Sherwood was Michael Praed.
0:13:43 > 0:13:44It was indeed, Lisa.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46Well done, and you were not even born then.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48I was born in 1980, Jeremy, I was there
0:13:48 > 0:13:50all the way through the decade.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53And how do you know? From looking at books and stuff?
0:13:53 > 0:13:56Well, you know, Michael Praed, the pictures stayed with you.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59Yeah, that's true. OK, Alex, your question.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02Which British playwright and actor played the role
0:14:02 > 0:14:04of Private Charles Godfrey
0:14:04 > 0:14:06in the classic TV series Dad's Army?
0:14:12 > 0:14:17Well, Arthur Lowe played the captain,
0:14:17 > 0:14:23John Le Mesurier played his second in command...
0:14:23 > 0:14:25so I'll go for Arnold Ridley.
0:14:25 > 0:14:26Yes, absolutely right.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28By elimination, it is Arnold Ridley.
0:14:30 > 0:14:31And his grand-niece, I think it is,
0:14:31 > 0:14:34is probably the biggest film star in the world at the moment.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37Daisy Ridley, who plays the lead in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
0:14:37 > 0:14:38- Ah! BARRY:- Oh, I never realised.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40I didn't know there was a relationship.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42Runs in families, doesn't it, this acting thing?
0:14:42 > 0:14:45There is a gene, for sure.
0:14:45 > 0:14:49Lisa, who plays the role of the Bounty Hunter Dr King Schultz
0:14:49 > 0:14:52in the 2012 film Django Unchained?
0:14:57 > 0:15:00Idris Elba wasn't in it and the other two both were,
0:15:00 > 0:15:03but King Schultz was played... Hang on, hang on.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07No, no, no, I'm sure King Schultz was Christoph Waltz.
0:15:07 > 0:15:10Yeah, Christoph Waltz is right.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12OK, 2-2.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15Alex, over to you, get this right and maybe a bit of pressure -
0:15:15 > 0:15:17maybe Lisa will topple.
0:15:17 > 0:15:21Which 2014 Tom Cruise film was renamed
0:15:21 > 0:15:25Live. Die. Repeat. for its DVD release?
0:15:30 > 0:15:32I really have no idea.
0:15:35 > 0:15:40I really don't know, so I'm going to go for...
0:15:40 > 0:15:41Rock of Ages.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44Ah, it's Edge of Tomorrow.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47- Ah.- OK, Lisa, if you get this right, you're in the final.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50Who plays the author Bill Bryson
0:15:50 > 0:15:54in the 2015 adaptation of his book A Walk in the Woods?
0:15:57 > 0:15:59Ooph.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01Now, it's one of the few Brysons I've read.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05And I have read about the casting of this.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09Of the three of those...
0:16:09 > 0:16:11I'd be inclined to go for Robert Redford.
0:16:14 > 0:16:15- Is that your answer?- Yes.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17Robert Redford is correct.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20Lisa, you're in the final. Sorry, Alex. Give these...
0:16:20 > 0:16:23these people - as I will describe them -
0:16:23 > 0:16:26even just a little line of daylight and they take it.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28- Yes.- They are very good at what they do.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31Lisa, in the final. Alex, knocked out.
0:16:31 > 0:16:33Do, please, come back and rejoin your teams.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38So, Plastered Cast have lost two brains from the final round,
0:16:38 > 0:16:40the Eggheads have lost just the one.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43The last subject before the final is Sport.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45Who would like this?
0:16:45 > 0:16:47- John.- John?- John.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50Good, good, good. Against which Egghead, John?
0:16:50 > 0:16:53- Pat, please.- OK.
0:16:53 > 0:16:56John from Plastered Cast gives Pat from the Eggheads
0:16:56 > 0:16:58a run out on Sport.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01Please go to the Question Room for the last time.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05So, John, would you like to go first or second on Sport, then?
0:17:05 > 0:17:08I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12Right. Here is your first question.
0:17:12 > 0:17:17Which of these terms is often used to describe a sporting contest
0:17:17 > 0:17:20between two teams from the same district?
0:17:23 > 0:17:25I think that'll be derby, Jeremy.
0:17:25 > 0:17:26Derby is quite right.
0:17:29 > 0:17:30Pat, your question.
0:17:30 > 0:17:34Which south-coast football club was promoted to the Premier League
0:17:34 > 0:17:36for the first time in 2015?
0:17:40 > 0:17:43I think that must be Bournemouth.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45Bournemouth is the right answer.
0:17:45 > 0:17:46You're right.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48Back to you, John.
0:17:48 > 0:17:53Cricketer Misbah-ul-Haq has captained which country in
0:17:53 > 0:17:54test match cricket?
0:17:57 > 0:18:00Misbah-ul-Haq. Could you spell that for me, please, Jeremy?
0:18:00 > 0:18:06Of course. M-I-S-B-A-H hyphen U-L hyphen H-A-Q, Misbah-ul-Haq.
0:18:06 > 0:18:10Asking a Scotsman a cricket question is, er...
0:18:10 > 0:18:12Makes it difficult. I'm going to have to guess.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15I'm going to go straight down the middle for Sri Lanka.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17Anybody know on the Eggheads?
0:18:17 > 0:18:20- Pakistan.- Pakistan.- Pakistan, they all say.
0:18:20 > 0:18:24OK. Pat to take the lead.
0:18:24 > 0:18:29A full-court press is a term often used to describe
0:18:29 > 0:18:31a tactic in which sport?
0:18:35 > 0:18:37Well, it's a... It's a team thing, a full-court press,
0:18:37 > 0:18:40so, it doesn't really apply in tennis.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43You just don't have the scope to get stuck into each other.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47And, in fact, in volleyball, the teams are separated by a net.
0:18:47 > 0:18:51It's just an upping of intensity and, I think, of marking.
0:18:51 > 0:18:52I think it's basketball.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54Basketball is the right answer.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56Well done. All right. He's playing well, John, that's the bad news.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58- Hmm.- Good news is that you can rescue it,
0:18:58 > 0:19:00but you do need to get this question right.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03Which of these nations has been a losing finalist three times
0:19:03 > 0:19:06in Rugby Union's World Cup?
0:19:09 > 0:19:11Losing finalist three times.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15That doesn't hang right with Australia -
0:19:15 > 0:19:17they don't do that kind of thing.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22Again, it's going to have to be 50-50.
0:19:23 > 0:19:24France.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28Is correct. Well done, John.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32Well done. On the edge, there.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34So, Pat, if you get this right,
0:19:34 > 0:19:37you are in the final, because John missed one earlier.
0:19:37 > 0:19:42In which year did James Cracknell win his first Olympic gold medal?
0:19:46 > 0:19:48Let's see, where can I place him?
0:19:48 > 0:19:51The great era of rowing sort of, I think,
0:19:51 > 0:19:54kicked off in Los Angeles '84,
0:19:54 > 0:19:58people like Redgrave and then it went on for many Olympics.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01Was it in Beijing in 2008?
0:20:01 > 0:20:02Sydney 2000?
0:20:03 > 0:20:05I'm not sure.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08His first... Well, I think we can dismiss 2008.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10That's too recent.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12Well, if Redgrave had had two pair medals
0:20:12 > 0:20:16under his belt when he moved up to a four-man boat in '92,
0:20:16 > 0:20:18Cracknell could've been part of that.
0:20:20 > 0:20:21I'll go for 1992.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25Oh, interesting. You went the wrong way.
0:20:25 > 0:20:30Coxless four in 2000, won it again four years later.
0:20:30 > 0:20:31- Oh, well.- Cracknell was 2000.
0:20:31 > 0:20:35So, John, you're getting the rub of the green here.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39This is good. Not punished for your error. Pat's made one, too.
0:20:39 > 0:20:40We go to Sudden Death, OK?
0:20:40 > 0:20:43- Gets a bit harder, I don't give you alternatives.- Yep.
0:20:43 > 0:20:46Between 2007 and 2014,
0:20:46 > 0:20:50on which European city's marathon course was the world record for the
0:20:50 > 0:20:52men's race broken five times?
0:21:00 > 0:21:01I'll try London.
0:21:03 > 0:21:04No, it was Berlin.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09OK, Pat, this for the round.
0:21:09 > 0:21:13Which Rugby League team play their home games
0:21:13 > 0:21:15at the Stade Gilbert Brutus?
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Hmm.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19Well, that certainly sounds French.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21One's immediately drawn to Catalans Dragons.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26Montpellier... I don't think Montpellier play Rugby League.
0:21:26 > 0:21:27They play Rugby Union.
0:21:27 > 0:21:31Toulouse, they're Rugby Union.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33Well, Rugby League - I think I'll have to dismiss the various other
0:21:33 > 0:21:37candidates as being Rugby Union teams and go for Catalan Dragons
0:21:37 > 0:21:40or Catalans Dragons as they're called.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43Catalans Dragons...is the correct answer, Pat.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45Well truffled out there by you.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47I thought that might be difficult. So, you're in the final.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49You're playing a very good player here, John,
0:21:49 > 0:21:51- as you can tell.- Afraid so.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54So, come back to us and we will play the final round.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58So, this is what we have been playing towards.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00It is time for the final round or should I say final act?
0:22:00 > 0:22:03Given that we are with thespians, actors here.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05As always, it's General Knowledge,
0:22:05 > 0:22:08but I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads
0:22:08 > 0:22:09are not allowed to take part.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12So, we look mainly on this side at Alex,
0:22:12 > 0:22:16Janet and John from Plastered Cast, but also Barry from the Eggheads.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18Would you, please, now leave the studio?
0:22:21 > 0:22:24Roger and David, you're playing to win Plastered Cast £2,000.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26Dave, Lisa, Pat and CJ,
0:22:26 > 0:22:29you're playing for something that money can't buy -
0:22:29 > 0:22:33the Eggheads' reputation and just to get this show back on the road.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39This time they're all general knowledge and you are allowed to confer.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41So, Plastered Cast, the question is
0:22:41 > 0:22:44can your two brains defeat these four?
0:22:44 > 0:22:46And would you like to go first or second?
0:22:46 > 0:22:48I think we'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54Here we go, then. Good luck, guys.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57What term is often used to describe the process by which an urban area
0:22:57 > 0:22:59is rendered middle-class?
0:22:59 > 0:23:01Is it...
0:23:04 > 0:23:07- Gentrification.- Gentrification. - I think that's gentrification.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09Gentrification is correct.
0:23:11 > 0:23:12OK.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14Which of these institutions, Eggheads,
0:23:14 > 0:23:18is nearest to St Pancras railway station in London?
0:23:18 > 0:23:19Is it...
0:23:21 > 0:23:24- British Library is on top of it, yeah.- It's next door to it.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26- British library is our answer, is it?- Yes.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29We're going for the British Library, please, Jeremy.
0:23:29 > 0:23:31British Library is quite right.
0:23:31 > 0:23:32One each. Final round.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34£2,000 we're playing for.
0:23:34 > 0:23:40Challengers, the year 2015 was the 600th anniversary of which battle?
0:23:44 > 0:23:46Well, it wasn't Bannockburn.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49So, it's Edgehill or Agincourt.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52- 600?- 600, so 1415.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55I think that would be, er...
0:23:55 > 0:23:56- Agincourt.- Agincourt.
0:23:56 > 0:23:57- Agincourt?- I think so.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59Agincourt.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02Well...educated guess, Jeremy.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04We think it's Agincourt.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06Agincourt is correct.
0:24:06 > 0:24:07So, Agincourt is correct.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10600th anniversary in 2015.
0:24:10 > 0:24:11Eggheads, to catch up.
0:24:11 > 0:24:16For what does the H stand in the name of the novelist HG Wells?
0:24:19 > 0:24:21Herbert George. Are we happy with Herbert George, yeah?
0:24:21 > 0:24:25Er, we believe that to be Herbert.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27Herbert is right. 2-2.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31Third question can be crucial.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34In a story from ancient Greek mythology,
0:24:34 > 0:24:38which beautiful youth was supposed to spend part of his year with
0:24:38 > 0:24:41Aphrodite and part with Persephone?
0:24:44 > 0:24:47Narcissus is the one that kept looking in the water.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49- Yeah.- Adonis is supposed to be godlike.
0:24:51 > 0:24:52And I don't know Ganymede.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55- I, out of the three...- Uh-huh.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58Yeah, I would dismiss Narcissus, certainly.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00Erm, I would go for Adonis.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02Yeah, I agree. Go.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04Our answer is Adonis, Jeremy.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06Yeah. Brilliant.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09You just were so brisk through these three questions,
0:25:09 > 0:25:12like a knife through butter. Adonis is correct.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15So, well, they put the frighteners
0:25:15 > 0:25:17on you, that's for sure.
0:25:17 > 0:25:22Ada Lovelace and which other prominent British woman
0:25:22 > 0:25:28feature on the design of the new UK passport unveiled in 2015?
0:25:32 > 0:25:35- I think it's Elisabeth Scott. - It is, it's Elisabeth Scott.
0:25:35 > 0:25:39She's the architect who designed the big Royal Shakespeare headquarters
0:25:39 > 0:25:41- in Stratford.- OK.- Elisabeth Scott.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44Reliably informed by two gentlemen to my left,
0:25:44 > 0:25:46the answer is Elisabeth Scott.
0:25:47 > 0:25:49Elisabeth Scott is correct.
0:25:49 > 0:25:50- Well done.- Ah...
0:25:52 > 0:25:55My, my pained expression is only because it's never
0:25:55 > 0:25:57that easy with this lot.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59OK, we go to Sudden Death.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01It gets a bit harder - I don't give you alternatives.
0:26:01 > 0:26:06Here's your first. In which country did the AKP regain a parliamentary
0:26:06 > 0:26:12majority in the national elections held on November 1, 2015?
0:26:12 > 0:26:13- Oh...- Greece?
0:26:13 > 0:26:18- AKP.- AKP. I think...
0:26:19 > 0:26:22- I think that was Portugal. - Do you think so?- I think so.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24- OK. Well, I...- I don't think it's Gree...
0:26:24 > 0:26:27- Oh.- My first thought was Greece. - Cos they both had elections.
0:26:27 > 0:26:28That's right, yeah.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32Go on, go for Greece. Go for Greece.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35Portugal, it was just because they happen to be a...
0:26:35 > 0:26:37Ahem. Well...
0:26:37 > 0:26:40obviously we are not totally sure,
0:26:40 > 0:26:43but we're going to give our answer as Greece.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Let's see if either of you is right.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48You've given your answer as Greece.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50I think it's Turkey.
0:26:50 > 0:26:51- Oh.- Is it?
0:26:51 > 0:26:53- You're both wrong.- Ah.- Turkey.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58All right. Turkey was the answer. Eggheads have a chance
0:26:58 > 0:26:59to take the contest.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02Which writer and noted hedonist
0:27:02 > 0:27:08had his ashes fired out of a cannon after his death in 2005?
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Yeah, I'm going the same way.
0:27:12 > 0:27:13Erm...
0:27:14 > 0:27:16Hunter S Thomson. What did he do?
0:27:16 > 0:27:18Yeah, he did Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21- He was a writer - was he a hedonist? - His dates are right.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23Writer and hedonist, I think he qualifies.
0:27:23 > 0:27:25Yeah, he's a very good...
0:27:25 > 0:27:26- Very good answer.- Mmm.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29I'm not coming up with any alternatives to this.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32The more I think about it, the more I like Hunter S Thompson.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35- OK. We'll go with it.- Right, I think we've got to go with that.
0:27:35 > 0:27:39- Go with it.- Thanks to Pat, we're not sure...
0:27:39 > 0:27:42but we're going to go with Hunter S Thompson.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46Well, the explosives were paid for by Johnny Depp.
0:27:46 > 0:27:52- Yes, that sounds right.- Johnny Depp was bezzy mates with the writer and
0:27:52 > 0:27:54noted hedonist Hunter S Thompson.
0:27:54 > 0:27:58We say congratulations, Eggheads. You have won.
0:28:02 > 0:28:06You got there in that circuitous way that you do, but it was very good,
0:28:06 > 0:28:09- Eggheads, wasn't that?- It was, yeah. - Did you know that at all?
0:28:09 > 0:28:12- No.- No, but now they've said it, of course it make sense, yeah.
0:28:12 > 0:28:16And Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, and it seems like the kind of thing
0:28:16 > 0:28:19he'd do, but he's not the best-known person, so...well done, Eggs.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21Commiserations, Plastered Cast.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24The Eggheads have maybe got back into the winning habit now
0:28:24 > 0:28:27and they reign supreme over quizland once again.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29It does mean you won't be going home with the £2,000,
0:28:29 > 0:28:31so the money rolls over to our next show.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33And we say congratulations, Eggheads.
0:28:33 > 0:28:37Who will beat you? Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers
0:28:37 > 0:28:40have the brains to defeat that lot.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42£3,000 says they don't.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44Till then, goodbye.