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These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.

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Together they make up the Eggheads,

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arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.

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The question is, can they be beaten?

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Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers

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pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain,

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they are the Eggheads. Are you all warmed up?

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-Yes.

-Yes, thank you.

-Yes.

-Ready to go. Fine.

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Well, hoping to get one over on our quiz champions today

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are the Industrial I.T. Crowd

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from Stockport.

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Now, this team of challengers all work at the same IT company

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in the industrial market.

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So, let's meet them.

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Hi, I'm Phil and I'm an account manager.

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Hi, I'm Lesley and I'm a quality and environmental leader.

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Hi, I'm Maz and I'm a regional manager.

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Hi, I'm Rebecca and I'm an account manager.

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Hi, I'm James and I'm a technical support engineer.

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-So, Phil and team, great to see you.

-Hi.

-Hello, Jeremy.

-Hello.

-Hi.

-Hi.

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-Are you happy to be here?

-We are, yeah.

-Yes.

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Good. And you're all in IT?

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-Yeah, we all work for the same company.

-In Manchester?

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-In Manchester, yes.

-Right.

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And I know the IT Crowd, or the 'It' Crowd,

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is one of your favourite shows.

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Well, it's because the specialist sector

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that we work in is industrial IT,

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it was just a play on words really with the IT Crowd.

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And what is it you like about coding?

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It's not so much coding, it's...

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We provide IT systems for the industrial market,

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so the manufacturing and infrastructure companies.

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-So, the things that run production lines really.

-Oh, I see.

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-So hardware, as they call it.

-Yes.

-Yeah.

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Well, Pat, this is right up your street, Pat, isn't it?

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Cos you carry a computer with you everywhere.

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And it's down here, by my chair.

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He's a big computer man, our Pat.

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He's... Well, your whole life was code and programmes.

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Not my entire life. I need sleep and recreation like any man.

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-OK. Well, good luck. Let's see how you quiz.

-Thank you.

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-Are you ready for this?

-Oh, yes.

-Yes.

-Yes.

-Yeah.

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Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs

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for our challengers, however if they fail to defeat the Eggheads

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that prize-money rolls over to the next show.

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Now, there has been quite a lot of rolling recently

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cos the Eggheads have been playing well. They've won the last 13,

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but I think that means this one is unlucky for them.

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It does certainly mean there's £14,000 to play for today.

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A good Eggheads jackpot.

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Would you like to try?

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-Yes, please.

-We would.

-Yes.

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The first head-to-head battle is on science.

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Now, that's going to be good, isn't it?

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Yes. Yeah. I think...

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-Are you taking that on, Maz?

-Yeah, that will be me.

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-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-That's Maz.

-Maz, OK.

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Regional manager against which Egg?

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-They're all dressed in very sombre shades today.

-Who do you fancy?

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-Well, maybe tremendous knowledge Dave.

-What about Lisa? Oh.

-OK.

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-Yeah, is that all right?

-Yeah, yeah, fine.

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-Yeah, Dave.

-Good stuff.

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So, Maz from the Industrial I.T. Crowd versus Dave from the Eggheads.

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Please go to the famous Question Room.

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So Science, Maz, and would you like to go first or second?

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I think I'll go first, Jeremy, thank you.

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Good luck. The process of breathing in humans

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turns the oxygen we inhale into which other compound?

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Right.

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Erm...

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I think I'm going to rule out silicon dioxide.

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I think the answer is carbon dioxide.

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-Carbon dioxide is the right answer, of course. Well done.

-Yay!

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Dave, what name is given to the young of a dolphin?

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Right.

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Let's have a think about this. I'm...

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Right, I don't like dolphin cub.

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I don't like the sound of dolphin cub.

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Er, Dolphin foal.

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No. I think whales are calves so I'm going to go calf, please.

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Yes, well done, Dave. Calf it is.

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Maz, Argentine, leafcutter and fire are all varieties of which insect?

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Yes.

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I...I think I knew the answer to that before the choices came up

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and I was hoping that ant would be on there

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and it is, so the answer is ant.

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Yeah, fire ant et cetera.

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Your team are applauding.

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For the first question you got one person clapping,

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the second question got two.

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OK, Dave, which of these gases is non-flammable in its pure form?

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Well, I don't even understand the question to be honest. Erm...

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-HE CHUCKLES

-Let's have a think about this.

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Cos hydrogen would go up and methane would go up,

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so I'm going to have to go oxygen.

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But I don't really understand the question.

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-Oxygen is right.

-OK.

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I must be having a bit of a brain freeze. I'm sorry but I didn't...

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I thought that... Eggheads, help me here,

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because I thought that oxygen would go up

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because I remember there was a story of a guy

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-who was on an oxygen...in an oxygen tent in hospital...

-Mmm.

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..and, against doctors orders, lit up a cigarette.

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-And he went up.

-He went up like a ball of fire.

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-Yeah, there was nothing left of him.

-It doesn't mean that

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what goes into an oxygen tent is necessarily pure oxygen, does it?

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-Just mostly oxygen.

-I suppose not.

-I think pure was the key word there.

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Really pure. Not even oxygen tent pure but beyond that. OK.

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OK, Maz, your question. You're equal at the moment.

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What nationality was Frederick Banting

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who jointly won a Nobel Prize

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for his role in the discovery of insulin?

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Jeremy, could you spell his surname?

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B-A-N-T-I-N-G.

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HE SIGHS

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Erm, so, I don't know the answer to that.

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Erm, so let's try and see if I can rule some of those out.

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It doesn't sound like a Greek name.

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I'll go with Canadian. It's just a guess.

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I'll go with Canadian.

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Yeah, just going from the name is hard but you got it right.

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Well done. Canadian is right.

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And now they're all clapping.

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Three out of three, Maz.

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-Dave, to stay in.

-Yeah.

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Which of these scientists was best known for their work with gorillas?

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I think there was a film called Gorillas In The Mist

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and I believe Sigourney Weaver played Dian Fossey

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so that's my answer, Dian Fossey.

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Dian Fossey is right, Dave. Well done.

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Three out of three for you both. So, tight round on Science.

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We go to Sudden Death now, Maz.

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It gets a bit harder, I don't give you alternatives.

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I hope computers come up at some point.

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J is the symbol for which SI derived unit?

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Joules.

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Joule is correct.

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Dave, Raphus cucullatus is the scientific name

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for which now extinct bird?

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Can you just repeat the bird, please?

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Raphus - R-A-P-H-U-S

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cucullatus - C-U-C-U-L-L-A-T-U-S.

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Well, there's only one I can think now extinct that I can go for.

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I didn't know that was the name.

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-No, I'm not going to hang about, I'll go dodo.

-Dodo is right.

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Poor old dodo. Back to you, Maz.

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The steam engine pioneer Thomas Newcomen

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was born in Dartmouth in Devon in which century?

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So, if he was a steam engine pioneer,

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I mean, steam engines were pretty big in the 1800s, right?

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So, my guess is that

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he was probably born in the 1700s.

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OK, 1700s meaning the 18th century?

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Correct. 18th century.

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You got the answer wrong

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cos he was born, actually, 100 years earlier, 1663.

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1663 or 1664.

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17th is the answer.

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So he was working early.

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Dave, for the round, in computing...

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THEY LAUGH

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How does that happen?

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Dave, a nibble is a group of how many bits?

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Right. Cos there's eight bits in a byte.

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So, nibble, are we going two or four?

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It could be two, it could be four. I'm going to go four.

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Maz, is he right?

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I think the answer is four.

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A nibble is four bits. Dave, you're right.

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Maz, you've been knocked out, sorry, on Sudden Death.

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So, Dave will be in the final round. Well played to our Egghead.

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Please come back, rejoin your teams. We'll play on.

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OK, so, a little bit of a wobbly start

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for the Industrial I.T. Crowd

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who have lost a brain from the final round.

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The Eggheads have still not lost any.

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All of their megabytes are functioning.

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Let's go to Sport now.

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-Who would like Sport, Phil?

-Shall I do this one?

-Yeah, Phil.

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-Phil, team captain.

-Yeah, that sounds like you.

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-I'll do this one.

-OK, Phil, the captain himself

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stepped into the breach against who?

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-Judith.

-Oh, no.

-Judith.

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-She looks so happy about it.

-She does, yeah.

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She's been reading the back pages recently.

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-Can I do Judith?

-It's just a tradition.

-You can. You can.

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Phil, from the Industrial I.T. Crowd versus Judith from the Eggheads

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on the dreaded Sport.

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To ensure there is no conferring,

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please, both of you, go to the Question Room.

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-Phil, you're a sports fan?

-Yeah.

-What do you like?

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I like watching pretty much every sport

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-but I play football quite a lot.

-Uh-huh.

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And, yeah, generally just everything that's on telly

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is generally sport related.

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That's amazing cos that's the opposite of you, Judith.

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Absolute dead opposite.

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If anything, you'll be happily watching a programme

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and then someone will suddenly kick a football

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-and you'll turn the programme off.

-Absolutely. Dead right.

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Anything that becomes sporty or is sport.

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-Well, I quite like tennis, funnily enough.

-Yeah.

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I do like tennis but I can't wade through the whole of Wimbledon,

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I have to say. I start watching it in the second week

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-cos it's a bit long otherwise.

-Right.

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So, that's what you're up against, Phil.

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-OK.

-She's done a lot of work on it though and has become

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a doughty player on sport.

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And recently won, how many head-to-heads was it, Judith?

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-I don't know, I don't count.

-600.

-Oh, yes, those head-to-heads. Yes.

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-Yes.

-But they weren't all on sport.

-No, they weren't.

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I think only three were.

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-SHE LAUGHS

-Probably.

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So, Phil, would you like to go first or second?

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I'll go first, please, Jeremy.

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Here we go with Sport. Good luck.

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In 2005, Paula Radcliffe won the gold medal

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at the World Athletics Championships in which event?

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I don't think she does multi-events so I can't see it being heptathlon

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and I think she runs a longer distance than 800 metres

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so I'll go with marathon, please.

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Marathon is quite right, Phil. Well done.

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So, the captain is still in.

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You've won 121 Sport head-to-heads, by the way, Judith.

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-Really?

-Yeah.

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So, it's actually not to be sniffed at at all.

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-I've done probably about 1,200 of them.

-No, you haven't.

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Don't run yourself down

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and there were some famous victories in there, as we know.

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Here's the statistic you'll love.

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You've won more sport rounds than any other Egghead.

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Cos I've played more.

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-No, don't do yourself down, Judith.

-It's my fate.

-Just bank it.

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That is a great statistic.

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-Actually, it's not bad, is it?

-It is not bad.

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It's not bad.

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All right, so, let's see you put on the style now, Miss Keppel.

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Which footballer was the man of the match

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in the 2005 Champions League final?

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-In 2005?

-Yeah.

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Gosh, that's a big ask to remember that.

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Steven Gerrard.

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Which team, do you know?

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-Chelsea?

-No.

-No. Liverpool?

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Sorry, it doesn't matter.

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-Manchester United?

-No, but you're right. It is Steven Gerrard.

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-Oh, good.

-You got the answer right. Well done.

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Phil, see what you're up against there?

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-Yeah.

-She's merciless.

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Which of these is a term for a cricket pitch that has been prepared

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to take a lot of spin?

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Erm...

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Before, I said that I watch a lot of sport on TV

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and I can't stand cricket.

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-JUDITH LAUGHS

-Erm...

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I'm going to go straight down the middle and say Bosie

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-but it's a bit of a guess.

-See if Judith knows.

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I think it's a Bosie.

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-No, it's Bunsen.

-Jeremy.

-Yes.

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-I presume it's rhyming slang.

-A Bunsen?

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-Bunsen burner - turner.

-Oh, I see, yes.

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We think it must be Bunsen burner means turner, Pat suggests. OK.

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Judith, your question to go ahead on Sport.

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Which golfer won the Open Championship

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three years in a row from 1954 to 1956?

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The only hat-trick of titles achieved in the 20th century.

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19 what?

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54, 55, 56.

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Well, I think, although Jack Nicklaus is now quite old,

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I don't think he was old enough to be doing that in 1954.

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And I don't think Tom Watson was either.

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I've never heard of Peter Thomson, that's the trouble,

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but I think it was him.

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-You think it was Peter Thomson?

-Yes.

-Eggheads, do you know?

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-Yes.

-Yes, it is, definitely.

-She's got it right.

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Playing well.

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Phil, which snooker player won the 2015 UK Championships

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scoring a maximum 147 break in the final?

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There was a Chinese player that missed a 147 -

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he missed the black -

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that I watched recently - for a 147.

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Erm...

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I'm going to say Ronnie O'Sullivan.

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OK. If you have got it wrong, you are out.

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He got a lot of publicity for sure in snooker. Did he do this though?

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-No.

-No.

-No.

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-Who was it?

-Neil Robertson.

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Neil Robertson was the answer here.

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Sorry, Phil, you've been knocked out by Judith.

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She can be ferocious on sport, as we know, when angered.

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Judith, let's just milk the moment here.

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More victories than any other Egghead in the sporting round.

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You've got another one there.

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You're in the final. Please return to us.

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So, a little stat for you, Judith,

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cos you're always complaining about Sport. You'll enjoy this.

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You now have 122 victories in Sport.

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Yes, it's the most of any Egghead

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but if you combine the victories of Kevin and Dave and Lisa and Pat,

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it comes to 121.

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So, you're ahead of all of them combined!

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So, what about that?

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You are the sporting terminator - The sport-inator.

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Well, I'm amazed, is all I can say.

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You are the serving machine.

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Perhaps you'll stop asking me to do it then now.

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People are going to be increasingly worried about taking you on.

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There we are, Phil, how does it feel?

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You just ran into a wall there.

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-Yeah.

-A wall of sporting knowledge.

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THEY LAUGH

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-She did really well. I'm just a bit gutted.

-She did.

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So, as it stands, the Industrial I.T. Crowd have lost two brains

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from the final round.

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The Eggheads have not lost any and we play on with Geography.

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Who would like this?

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-Lesley?

-Lesley?

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-Lesley?

-I'm not very good. I'll go though.

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-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Lesley, OK.

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Which Egghead, Lesley, would you like?

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You can have anyone but Dave or Judith.

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Erm, Lisa.

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So, Lesley from Industrial I.T. Crowd

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versus Lisa from the Eggheads on Geography.

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Please go to the Question Room now.

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So, most weekends, Lesley, we find you travelling, I guess.

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-That's correct, yes.

-In which vehicle?

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A lovely orange Volkswagen campervan.

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Oh, what, from the '70s?

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-77.

-And you've had to restore that, I guess.

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We actually bought it, it was fully restored

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but I've done lots of interior design.

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-Does it go well?

-Oh, it's amazing, yeah.

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And you and your hubby stay overnight?

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Yeah, we've stayed over.

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We've travelled up to Scotland and down to Kent,

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so we've seen a lot of the country.

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-Never broken down?

-Oh, a lot of times.

-Oh, really?

-Yeah.

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Great stuff. That's a nice, old vehicle, isn't it, Lisa?

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-They're absolutely beautiful machines, yeah.

-They still are, yes.

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So, Geography, Lesley. And would you like to go first or second?

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Could I go first, please?

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Here is your first question.

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What colour is the top band of the flag of Germany?

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Erm...

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Could be any of them, couldn't it?

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-Erm... I probably would go for...red.

-OK.

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-Those are the three colours of the flag, right, Eggs?

-Yes.

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So, Lesley is absolutely right when she says it could be any.

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Is she right with red?

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No. That's the actual order from the top.

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-Yeah, so it goes black, red, yellow, actually.

-Black.

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Sorry, Lesley, black is the answer.

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Is there another country with black, red, yellow in a different order?

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-Which is it, Lisa?

-Belgium.

-Belgium, yeah.

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But they're vertical bands.

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-So, it might be the same order just vertically.

-Understood.

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Question for you, Lisa.

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Ben Macdui is the highest peak in which British national park?

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Ben Macdui?

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Surely that can't be any but a Scottish national park

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so it must be the Cairngorms.

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It is the Cairngorms.

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Back to you, Lesley.

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Which of these is a nickname of the city of Venice?

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Erm... I'm not 100% sure but I think it may be The Eternal City.

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-It's actually La Serenissima.

-Oh, no.

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-Which must mean the very serene one, does it?

-Yes, the serenest.

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The serene city.

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OK, Lisa, your question.

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If you get this right, you've taken the round.

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Which US state lies at the north-western corner

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of the 48 contiguous US states?

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Could you just repeat the question for me, please, Jeremy?

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Which US state lies at the north-western corner

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of the 48 contiguous US states.

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OK, just checking, so, when you say contiguous,

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that means not Alaska, and not Hawaii.

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Now, North Dakota is a fair bit further over to the east,

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so it's not the north-western corner,

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and Oregon is north-western but it's not in the corner.

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I think that's Washington.

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I get these two mixed up cos I always think Seattle...

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-Well, Seattle is Washington, isn't it?

-That's right.

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-And Portland is Oregon.

-That's right.

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And working out which one of them is top left always befuddles me.

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But it hasn't befuddled you, Washington is right.

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So you have won on Geography. Sorry, Lesley.

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Never mind.

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-I know you probably knew her answers as well, so don't you worry.

-I did.

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Come back to us and we'll see what happens next.

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As we stand now, the Industrial I.T. Crowd have lost three brains

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from the final round.

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This is probably the moment, Phil, to start foot on the gas

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or the computer equivalent - to plug in a hard drive.

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Or a bit of extra... What do we do? A turbo...

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-A bit of extra RAM, maybe.

-A bit of RAM.

-Yeah.

-Some extra RAM.

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The next subject is Music.

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Which of you would like this?

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-Am I...? Do you want...?

-Yeah, you can take it.

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The look of fear says that I'm taking Music, is that right?

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Yeah, you can take... No, the look of fear

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was being alone on the General Knowledge round, but, yeah.

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-Well, you never know.

-I think you'll be fine.

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-I'll have a crack at Music.

-You can take it. You'll be back.

-Yeah.

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-James on Music, good stuff.

-Yes.

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And you can have either Kevin or Pat.

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Ooh, I'm spoilt, aren't I?

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-Both very good.

-Go Kevin.

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Exactly. It's a nightmare or a horror. I'll go with Pat, I think.

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OK. So, James from the Industrial I.T. Crowd

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versus a fellow computer geek, Pat, from the Eggheads.

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Please go to the Question Room and we'll see what happens.

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James, leaving aside the IT job, I gather you're also big on rowing.

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Rowing, yes. Member of a rowing club in Salford Quays.

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-And you do a bit of work refurbing.

-That's right, yeah.

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My role is fixing the boats, painting the oars,

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that sort of stuff - I do all the maintenance.

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-Just as a hobby.

-And is painting oars just endless work?

-It is.

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Sisyphus is a lightweight, it's an endless task.

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So, what do they call the end of the oar,

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the bit that goes in the water?

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It's the spoon that goes on the end of the loom.

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Oh, OK. Well, these are all parts,

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something that the Eggs would be very interest in.

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Yeah, any rowing questions, I'm...

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And do you then have to paint something special

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on the end of a spoon?

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That's right. Each club has got its own design

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so I have to put on our club's design

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so you can see each boat coming down the river and identify the crew.

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Brilliant. So, there we are. Eggs, that's helpful.

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-Oars have a spoon and a loom.

-Mm-hm.

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Pat, that will come up one day, won't it?

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It will. It's been filed away under rowing.

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Yeah. JEREMY LAUGHS

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It goes onto your big computer system.

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-If there's room.

-All right. Well, good luck to you both.

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James, would you like to go first or second?

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I'll go first, please.

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Not sure rowing will come up in the Music round but let's give it a go.

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Do You Hear The People Sing is a song

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from which musical of stage and screen?

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Hmm.

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Do You Hear The People Sing?

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Well, I've seen Grease on telly so I'll discount that, I think.

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I think I'm going to go... A guess, I don't really know.

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I'm going to go for The Sound Of Music.

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Let's check with your team-mates here.

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-No, it's not. Les Mis.

-Les Mis.

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-Les Mis.

-Les Mis. It's the kind of revolutionary thing.

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You know, they're all getting together

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and overthrowing the royals.

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OK, Pat, the composer Johann Strauss the Elder was born in which city?

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I think both Strauss the Elder and Strauss the Younger

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are quintessentially Viennese so it's Vienna.

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Vienna is correct.

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James, Wasn't Expecting That was a UK top 10 single

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for which singer in 2015?

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Wasn't expecting this either.

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A little too recent for me maybe.

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I'm drawn to Ed Sheeran, not on a personal level,

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but I will choose that as my answer.

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There is a kind of connection

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cos I think the two of them are buddied up

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but it's not Ed, it's Jamie.

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Jamie Lawson.

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OK, well, that's awkward for our challengers,

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cos, Pat, if you get this right, you'll be in the final.

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My Generation was the 1965 debut album by which English band?

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Well, the song My Generation,

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I would immediately associate with The Who.

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The Beatles, no. It's not the Beatles.

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It's not the Hollies. It's The Who.

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The Who is the right answer. Sorry, James.

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Knocked out there but not out of hope

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because if you come back to us we'll play the final

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and, as we know, one player in the final can still win.

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So, this is what we have been playing towards,

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it is time for the final round

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which, as always, is General knowledge.

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But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads

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are not allowed to take part.

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So, I'm afraid, Phil, Lesley, Maz and James

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from the Industrial I.T. Crowd,

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I have to ask you, please, to leave the studio.

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OK, Rebecca, I know this is not how it was supposed to pan out

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but you are playing to win the Industrial I.T. Crowd £14,000

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and you can do it.

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Judith, Kevin, Dave, Lisa and Pat,

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you're playing for something that money can't buy,

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the Eggheads' reputation and to keep this role of yours going.

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As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.

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This time they're all general knowledge.

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You are allowed to confer.

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Sorry that doesn't help you, Rebecca.

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So, the question is, can you - with your one brain - defeat these five?

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And would you like to go first or second?

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I'll go first.

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Good luck. Take your time.

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The Trucial States is an obsolete name for which part of the world?

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Trucial is like crucial but with a T. T-R-U-C-I-A-L.

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The Trucial States.

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Erm...

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Don't know the answer to this question.

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Erm...

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I don't think it's Central America, I could be completely wrong.

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I think I'm going to go with United Arab Emirates.

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OK. Let's just see if you're right. United Arab Emirates?

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-Yes, she's right.

-Yeah.

-You're right.

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-Ooh.

-And why Trucial?

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They had a truce?

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Yeah. Well, it's an adjective

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that comes from the word treaty.

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The treaty was signed between

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Britain and the seven states that made up the UA, or became the UAE,

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for protection effectively,

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and so they just became known as the Trucial States.

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OK. There we are. Well done.

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First question to the Eggheads.

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Which mythological character is killed by Modred?

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-It was King Arthur.

-Arthur.

-Arthur.

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-Are you OK with it?

-Yeah.

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That's part of the Arthurian legends

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and Modred killed King Arthur.

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King Arthur is correct.

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A lot of mythology recently, my goodness.

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King Arthur is right.

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OK, over to you, Rebecca.

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What name is given to birds such as the grey partridge

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that do not migrate and often live their whole lives

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no more than a few kilometres from the place of their birth?

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I should know this question

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because I used to work for a well-known bird charity.

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So, I don't think it's transient

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cos that sounds as though they're going to be moving somewhere.

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I know I should know this but I'm going to go with sedentary.

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Sedentary, yeah.

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Nomadic means kind of moving around listlessly a bit.

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-So you've gone for the right word.

-Yes!

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You've got two out of two. Sedentary is right.

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The birds that don't travel.

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Eggheads, The Loved One,

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set in the Whispering Glades Funeral Home,

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is a comedic book by which author?

0:25:510:25:53

-Evelyn Waugh.

-Evelyn Waugh.

0:25:570:25:58

-Evelyn Waugh, yeah.

-Evelyn Waugh, yeah.

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That is Evelyn Waugh.

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You all seem to know it and you're all right.

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Evelyn Waugh.

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Two each. Third question can be crucial.

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Here's your question, Rebecca.

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£14,000 up for grabs here.

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You're absolutely in step with them at the moment.

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You haven't put a foot wrong.

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Which of these institutions was set up in 1829?

0:26:180:26:23

I don't think it's the bank

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cos I would've thought that would be quite a bit older than that.

0:26:290:26:32

Er...

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I think I'm going to go with the Old Bailey.

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Old Bailey is your answer. So, the court in London.

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You're right to rule out the Bank of England.

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Where you right to rule out the Met. Eggheads?

0:26:440:26:47

-No.

-It's the Met.

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-Metropolitan Police.

-It is the Met.

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Metropolitan Police is the answer.

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Two out of three.

0:26:520:26:53

Now, the Eggheads can finish the contest

0:26:530:26:55

with this answer.

0:26:550:26:56

Otherwise, we go to Sudden Death.

0:26:560:26:58

Who was King of England from 946 to 955?

0:26:580:27:03

-From 946 to 955?

-Yes.

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-It's Edred.

-Yeah.

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-It's definitely post Alfred.

-Yep.

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-Oh, yeah, yeah.

-It's Edred.

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-Are you happy, Pat? Edred?

-I'm sure you know.

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-Yeah.

-Yeah.

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Alfred and Ethelwulf were earlier.

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This is Edred.

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You sound pretty certain about that.

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So, Alfred was the cakes, right?

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Amongst other things, yes.

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I'm sorry, I always go to the cakes straightaway.

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When was Alfred?

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Well, he was 871 to '99.

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There is not a shred of doubt in Kevin's mind, I can tell.

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It's usually a bad sign.

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The correct answer is Edred.

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We say congratulations, Eggheads,

0:27:440:27:45

you have won.

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-Well played.

-Well played.

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-You played really well, Rebecca.

-Thank you.

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And actually, a small mercy. Had they had got Edred wrong,

0:27:540:27:56

-you would've been thinking, "Oh, if I'd got the Mets..."

-Yeah.

0:27:560:27:59

-"..we would have won it."

-Yeah, that's true.

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So, we didn't see them make a mistake today, the Eggheads.

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-Well played in the final.

-Thank you. They played really well.

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-They're good, aren't they?

-Yeah.

-Oh, it was a good game.

0:28:080:28:10

In computer terms, they've got a few gigabytes work in there.

0:28:100:28:13

Commiserations to the Industrial I.T. Crowd.

0:28:130:28:16

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.

0:28:160:28:19

This winning streak, this role continues.

0:28:190:28:21

It does mean that you won't be going home with the £14,000,

0:28:210:28:24

so the money rolls over to our next show.

0:28:240:28:25

Eggheads, genuine congratulations, you are playing really well.

0:28:250:28:29

Who will beat you?

0:28:290:28:31

Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers

0:28:310:28:33

have the brains to finally take them down.

0:28:330:28:36

£15,000 to play for, surely someone has to.

0:28:360:28:39

Until then, goodbye.

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