0:00:04 > 0:00:07These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:10 > 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 > 0:00:27the show where a team of five quiz Challengers pit their wits
0:00:27 > 0:00:30against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33They are the Eggheads. And here you are assembled, ready for battle.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35- Ready.- Indeed.- Eggheads Assemble. I like the sound of that.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37- Could be a film. - That's what I was thinking.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39Who would play you, Dave, in a film?
0:00:39 > 0:00:41Dave Benson Phillips.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44OK. Sounds like a good quiz answer.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46Taking on our awesome quiz champions today are...
0:00:47 > 0:00:50..from London. Now, this team of friends all know one another
0:00:50 > 0:00:53through Acorn Lawn Tennis Club in Edgware.
0:00:53 > 0:00:54Let's meet them.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58Hi. I'm Matthew and I'm a retired IT specialist.
0:00:58 > 0:01:03Hello. I'm Valentin and I'm a classical concert pianist.
0:01:03 > 0:01:07Hi. I'm Derek. I'm a retired IT professional.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10Hi. I'm Howard and I'm a pension fund advisor.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13Hi. I'm Jeremy. I'm a coach hire operator.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17So, Matthew and team, welcome. Thank you for coming.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20- Thank you. - And no tennis rackets today.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23- No. Just our brains, hopefully. - HE LAUGHS
0:01:23 > 0:01:25So, tell us how you all know each other.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27Well, three of us are members of the club.
0:01:27 > 0:01:32- The other two are neighbours of the chairman of the club.- Right.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35And tell me about the club itself. What sort of a place is it?
0:01:35 > 0:01:39It's a smallish club. We like to think it's friendly.
0:01:39 > 0:01:43It's in Edgware, North West London.
0:01:43 > 0:01:44We've got six courts.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46Artificial grass, actually,
0:01:46 > 0:01:50which means that we can play on it most weathers.
0:01:50 > 0:01:54And you've got an unusual surname, which is R-O-O-U-M.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57- Very unusual.- Now, the Eggheads, they love an unusual surname.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00- Where did the U come from? - Probably just...- It's Rooum?
0:02:00 > 0:02:03- That's right. Well, it's pronounced room...- Yes.
0:02:03 > 0:02:07..but the U slipped in some time many, many moons ago.
0:02:07 > 0:02:11I have traced it back as far as 1790 -
0:02:11 > 0:02:14my great-great-great- great-grandfather -
0:02:14 > 0:02:16because people keep telling me
0:02:16 > 0:02:18perhaps it's Dutch or something like that.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21- Yeah. Any Eggheads heard of a Rooum? - No.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24- Is there a Rooum in our quiz answers anywhere?- No. No.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26It does sound Dutch.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28I mean, it sounds like the most likely, doesn't it, Rooum?
0:02:28 > 0:02:31Well, if the Eggheads haven't heard of one, there isn't one.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33You know, that's the law.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs
0:02:35 > 0:02:36for our Challengers.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:02:38 > 0:02:40the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:02:40 > 0:02:45So, Acorn Antiques, our tennis playing quizzers here,
0:02:45 > 0:02:47the Eggheads have won the last 14,
0:02:47 > 0:02:50so that means there's £15,000 that you're playing for today.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52- Mm.- Wow. Very good. - So, upside, lots of money.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55Downside, they've got a bit of a swagger about them.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57- Would you like to get cracking? - Of course we would.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Food & Drink.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03- Who wants this?- Oh, right.- Whoa.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06- Derek, I think.- Yeah.- It's Derek.
0:03:06 > 0:03:07- You're going to have to do it.- OK.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09It looks like it's going to be me, then.
0:03:09 > 0:03:13OK. Retired IT professional against which Egghead? Any one of the five.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15- Kevin?- Kevin, yep.- I agree.- Yeah.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18- Kevin...- We've got to get him out on this.- ..it's you and me.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20Going to try and take out the grandmaster.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23So, Derek from Acorn Antiques versus Kevin from the Eggheads
0:03:23 > 0:03:26on, I think fair to say, not your favourite subject.
0:03:26 > 0:03:27- No, certainly not.- No.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29OK. Unless it's Food & Drink throughout history.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Well, yeah, I suppose that's it, isn't it?
0:03:31 > 0:03:33Anything with history, you're going to get it.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35Well, it's a way to look at it.
0:03:35 > 0:03:36To ensure there's no conferring,
0:03:36 > 0:03:40would you please take your positions in our legendary Question Room?
0:03:40 > 0:03:43So, Derek, your choice on Food & Drink. First or second?
0:03:43 > 0:03:45Oh, I'll go first, please, Jeremy.
0:03:48 > 0:03:49Good luck.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53Juniper berries are a basic standard ingredient in which drink?
0:03:57 > 0:03:58Juniper berries.
0:04:00 > 0:04:04Now, I don't think they go in tequila.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07I can't imagine they'd go in brandy.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09So it must be gin.
0:04:09 > 0:04:10Let's check with the Eggheads.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13- Eggheads?- Yes.- That's right, yeah. - Yeah. Gin is right.
0:04:15 > 0:04:16Kevin, according to an old adage,
0:04:16 > 0:04:20oysters should only be eaten when there is which letter in the month?
0:04:23 > 0:04:25Yes, it's one of those bizarre sayings
0:04:25 > 0:04:28I've never entirely seen the sense of, but it's R.
0:04:29 > 0:04:34Never heard of this myself, I must say. R is right.
0:04:34 > 0:04:35Your question, Derek.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38What is the usual topping on a Dundee cake?
0:04:42 > 0:04:44Dundee cake. Goodness me.
0:04:44 > 0:04:48Well, it wouldn't be dark chocolate. That'd be too much.
0:04:48 > 0:04:53I'm going to discount royal icing, so it's got to be almonds.
0:04:53 > 0:04:54Almonds is right.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57You reacted with alarm at the question
0:04:57 > 0:04:59and then went straight there on both occasions.
0:04:59 > 0:05:01I quite like that. I think that's how...
0:05:01 > 0:05:03If I'm ever on Eggheads, I'm going to do what you do,
0:05:03 > 0:05:06which is to look appalled by the question and then get it right.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Kevin, which of these is a main ingredient
0:05:10 > 0:05:13of a traditional panna cotta?
0:05:16 > 0:05:18I've got to think about that, actually.
0:05:20 > 0:05:25Trying to... Yeah, it's ridiculous. I've had panna cotta often enough.
0:05:25 > 0:05:29It's not eggs, but I'm struggling between butter and cream.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33I think I'll have to go cream.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36- OK. Is he right, Eggs? - Yes.- Yeah.
0:05:36 > 0:05:37Eggs. Eggs and eggs.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40- It's cream, yeah. You're right.- Yeah, yeah.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42OK, Derek. Ready to react with alarm again?
0:05:42 > 0:05:45William Strickland is believed
0:05:45 > 0:05:48to have introduced turkeys to Britain from America
0:05:48 > 0:05:49in which century?
0:05:52 > 0:05:54Oh, what century? Hmm.
0:05:54 > 0:05:58What time did they come across the sea? That's the question.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00Going to be a stab in the dark, I think.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03I'll go down the middle - 17th.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06- Do you know what? You're too late. It was 16th.- Ow.- Yeah, that early.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10- Before the USA existed. Yeah. - Oh, dear.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12So, you're not out, though.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14Kevin needs to get this right,
0:06:14 > 0:06:16and we know he can misfire on Food & Drink.
0:06:16 > 0:06:20Kevin, the town of Masham in the Yorkshire Dales
0:06:20 > 0:06:24is particularly associated with making which of these products?
0:06:26 > 0:06:29I have been to Masham and it's certainly known
0:06:29 > 0:06:32for its variety of breweries, so beer.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35Beer is the right answer. You've taken the round. Sorry, Derek.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37- Aw!- One false move there, I'm afraid,
0:06:37 > 0:06:39and you've been knocked out.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41But it's early days. Please come back. We'll play on.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45So, a bit of trouble for Acorn Antiques
0:06:45 > 0:06:47who've lost a brain from the final.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49The Eggheads have not lost any.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51We play on with Arts & Books.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54So, who would like this, Matthew and team?
0:06:54 > 0:06:57- Right. I think it fits you, doesn't it?- It might have to be me, yes.
0:06:57 > 0:06:58It'll be me.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01Valentin, tell us who you want to take on here.
0:07:01 > 0:07:02- Which Egghead? - Arts & Books.- Arts & Books.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Um...
0:07:04 > 0:07:07- Judith?- Take Judith. - Take Judith.- All right. Judith.- Yes.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10- All right.- Judith, is that OK? - That's lovely.
0:07:10 > 0:07:11Yes. Well, how polite.
0:07:11 > 0:07:15So, Valentin, our concert pianist, from Acorn Antiques
0:07:15 > 0:07:17versus Judith from the Eggheads.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19Please go to the Question Room now.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24- Valentin, you are a concert pianist. - Yes, I am indeed.
0:07:24 > 0:07:28- So, you've played in public a lot? - Yes, last Saturday.- Oh, really?
0:07:28 > 0:07:30So, tell me about the audiences. How many people?
0:07:30 > 0:07:33Oh, last Saturday it was full,
0:07:33 > 0:07:36but it was a small place in Newport I played.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39But they gave me a standing ovation, so it was great.
0:07:39 > 0:07:40And what did you play?
0:07:40 > 0:07:44I played first Haydn, then some Bach, some Chopin
0:07:44 > 0:07:46and in the end, I played a piece
0:07:46 > 0:07:49called Pictures At An Exhibition by Mussorgsky.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51How brilliant. Judith, this is amazing.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54I know. I'm surprised he's not doing Music, that's all.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57Well, I suppose, but then again, rap would come up or, you know...
0:07:57 > 0:07:59- Yes, it would be all rap and pop. - And we'd all feel a bit embarrassed.
0:07:59 > 0:08:03- Exactly.- Yeah. So, anyway, Arts & Books.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06If you lose on this, Valentin, there's no shame, is there?
0:08:06 > 0:08:07- It's not the piano.- Yes.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10Would you like to go first or second against the great Judith Keppel?
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Oh, I think I will go first.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17All right, here is your question.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Which series of children's books, Valentin,
0:08:19 > 0:08:23was created when the author's son asked,
0:08:23 > 0:08:25"What does a tickle look like?"
0:08:29 > 0:08:32Oh, that's a tough one.
0:08:32 > 0:08:38I remember the little Mr Men books, so I'm tempted to go with those...
0:08:38 > 0:08:40just because I don't really know the other two.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42But you said tickle?
0:08:42 > 0:08:45I don't remember that in the Mr Men books, though,
0:08:45 > 0:08:49so it could be completely wrong.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52I'll just have to go with Mr Men.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54It's probably somewhere in there.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Yeah, absolutely. Mr Tickle was one of them.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59- Oh, was he? Ah!- Yeah. - Oh, got lucky there.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02I was feeling bad cos you're from Germany originally so...
0:09:02 > 0:09:05But I'm guessing the Mr Men were big in Germany, weren't they?
0:09:05 > 0:09:06Perhaps I'm too old for them.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Apparently Mr Tickle in German,
0:09:08 > 0:09:11I've just been told, is Unser Herr Killekille.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14Killekille. Ah, right. OK.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16- Wow.- Now we know everything.
0:09:16 > 0:09:20OK, Judith, which George Bernard Shaw play
0:09:20 > 0:09:24features a professor of phonetics who makes a bet
0:09:24 > 0:09:27that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak like a duchess?
0:09:27 > 0:09:29- WHISPERS:- Pygmalion.
0:09:33 > 0:09:37That is Pygmalion, which was made into My Fair Lady.
0:09:37 > 0:09:38Indeed. Pygmalion is right.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40Judith, why is it called Pygmalion, do you know?
0:09:40 > 0:09:45Well, because in mythology, Pygmalion created Galatea, was it?
0:09:45 > 0:09:47- Let me check with the Eggs here. Eggs?- Yeah, that's right.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51- Yeah, yeah. You're right. - Yeah.- Superb.- Yes.
0:09:51 > 0:09:52OK, back to you, Valentin.
0:09:52 > 0:09:55Which of these novels was written by Stella Gibbons?
0:10:00 > 0:10:04Well, that's very tough. I haven't read any one of them.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06My Family And Other Animals
0:10:06 > 0:10:11is really the only one that I have heard of.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13I think I'll have to go with that.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15I think it's My Family And Other Animals,
0:10:15 > 0:10:18but I could be completely wrong, and I probably am.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20OK. Let's check with the Eggs here. Eggs?
0:10:20 > 0:10:21It's Cold Comfort Farm.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24- Cold Comfort Farm is the answer, Valentin.- Ah, I'm sorry.
0:10:24 > 0:10:27Cold Comfort Farm. Judith, your question.
0:10:27 > 0:10:31The first line of Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
0:10:31 > 0:10:36is "Bent double like old beggars under WHAT?"
0:10:40 > 0:10:43Dulce Et Decorum Est.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46"Bent double under sacks."
0:10:46 > 0:10:48Well, sacks is the one that makes sense.
0:10:48 > 0:10:50Sacks.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52That's right. Have you not heard it before?
0:10:52 > 0:10:55I'm sorry, I forgot it. I had a bit of a brain freeze there.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58Sacks is right. So, Judith goes into the lead and Valentin,
0:10:58 > 0:11:00- you need to get this right. - Oh, yes.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Which playwright was artistic director
0:11:02 > 0:11:08of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough between 1972 and 2009?
0:11:12 > 0:11:15I don't think it was Alan Bennett.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17Um, very tough.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20I haven't heard of Alan Bleasdale,
0:11:20 > 0:11:22but I'm not sure enough about Alan Ayckbourn,
0:11:22 > 0:11:26whether I know that it was definitely him.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29So, I think Alan Bennett is too busy writing other things
0:11:29 > 0:11:30to be running a theatre.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35So, I think I will go for Alan Ayckbourn.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37- Alan Ayckbourn is the right answer. - Well done.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40Nicely done, Valentin.
0:11:40 > 0:11:41Judith for the round.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
0:11:44 > 0:11:47is a sequel to which 1950s work?
0:11:47 > 0:11:49Cider With Rosie. Oh, sorry.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56It's Cider With Rosie.
0:11:56 > 0:11:57Laurie Lee.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00Cider With Rosie is the right answer. Sorry.
0:12:00 > 0:12:02She does do that on Arts & Books, Valentin.
0:12:02 > 0:12:03She's a very good player.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06- Probably not as good a pianist as you, though.- Oh, definitely not.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10Come back to us, both of you, and we will see what happens next.
0:12:11 > 0:12:14So, Acorn Antiques are wobbling a little bit,
0:12:14 > 0:12:16- I think, Matthew.- Yeah.
0:12:16 > 0:12:17Two brains you've lost.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20The Eggheads are still... all five of them there.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23They've got this roll going. There's a lot of money you're playing for.
0:12:23 > 0:12:24The next subject is Sport.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28- Right.- Right. - I think that's me.- That's you, yes.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31- Matthew Rooum, OK.- You're going to win. You're going to win this.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34And you don't have to win this, Matthew, but it would be nice.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37- Who would you like to take on? Obviously not Kevin or Judith.- Lisa.
0:12:37 > 0:12:41- No, take Chris.- Take Chris. - Yeah. Chris.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44Chris, please. Can I take on Chris?
0:12:44 > 0:12:48Matthew from Acorn Antiques versus Chris from the Eggheads.
0:12:48 > 0:12:49Sport - not his favourite subject.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51Let's see if things turn for you now.
0:12:51 > 0:12:56To ensure there's no conferring, please go to the Question Room.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58We think, Matthew, we've found a Rooum.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00- Somebody else, Matthew... - Oh, really?
0:13:00 > 0:13:03- ..with a surname spelled like yours. - Oh, really?
0:13:03 > 0:13:04Cos we love looking up stuff.
0:13:04 > 0:13:09In 1963 - and this may ring a bell with the clever old Eggs over here -
0:13:09 > 0:13:11there was a cartoonist called Donald Rooum.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13- Absolutely, yes. - You know this guy?
0:13:13 > 0:13:15R-O-O-U-M, just like your name.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18He is a second cousin of mine.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21- OK, so we didn't discover anybody new then.- No, no.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24I have met him fairly recently.
0:13:24 > 0:13:25Wow.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28Well, we thought we'd made a breakthrough there.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30- We'll keep trying. - Nice try. Yeah.- Thank you.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33Well, so, we're on Sport, and I guess that's your thing.
0:13:33 > 0:13:36We wish you well. Would you like to go first or second?
0:13:36 > 0:13:37Can I go first, please?
0:13:40 > 0:13:42Here we go.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45Which form of cricket is played in the Indian Premier League, Matthew?
0:13:49 > 0:13:51Oh, this is a good question for me
0:13:51 > 0:13:55because cricket is one of my favourite sports,
0:13:55 > 0:13:58and the answer is Twenty20.
0:13:58 > 0:13:59Twenty20 is correct.
0:14:02 > 0:14:04Chris, the headquarters of
0:14:04 > 0:14:07the International Federation of Association Football,
0:14:07 > 0:14:08commonly known as FIFA,
0:14:08 > 0:14:10is located in which city?
0:14:12 > 0:14:15There's a lot of scandal floating around there lately,
0:14:15 > 0:14:16and it's Zurich.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18Zurich is correct.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21Zurich is the answer. Back to you, Matthew.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23The rugby union fly half Dan Biggar,
0:14:23 > 0:14:26which is B-I-G-G-A-R,
0:14:26 > 0:14:28represents which international team?
0:14:31 > 0:14:34Right.
0:14:34 > 0:14:38Well, I'm pretty sure he's not Irish.
0:14:38 > 0:14:42And the name Biggar sounds Scottish to me,
0:14:42 > 0:14:46although I've got some slight inkling in the back of my mind
0:14:46 > 0:14:48that he might be Welsh.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53- Yeah, I'll go Scotland, please.- OK.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55Yeah, it's a funny old thing with quizzing -
0:14:55 > 0:14:56never ignore your inkling.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59- And Wales is the answer.- Oh.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02Well, basically, you Eggheads are inkle-hunters, aren't you?
0:15:02 > 0:15:03Yes.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05You're looking for your little inklings on everything.
0:15:05 > 0:15:08So, Chris, your chance to take the lead on Sport.
0:15:08 > 0:15:12The Scottish athlete Liz McColgan won an Olympic silver medal
0:15:12 > 0:15:15in 1988 in which event?
0:15:21 > 0:15:24I picture Liz McColgan as a distance runner,
0:15:24 > 0:15:27so it's 10,000 metres.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29Yes, she is, and that's good. Well done. 10,000 metres.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31He takes the lead, and it means
0:15:31 > 0:15:33you need to get this one right, Matthew.
0:15:33 > 0:15:38The American boxer Deontay Wilder has won a world title
0:15:38 > 0:15:41in which boxing weight division?
0:15:44 > 0:15:47Right, I was hoping boxing wouldn't come up.
0:15:50 > 0:15:55I really haven't got much of an idea on this.
0:15:55 > 0:15:59I think I'll rule out heavyweight.
0:15:59 > 0:16:04I think I may well have heard of him if he'd been a heavyweight.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06I'll go middleweight.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09Let's see if Dave knows. Dave loves his boxing. Dave?
0:16:09 > 0:16:10Yeah, he's a heavyweight.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13- Heavyweight is the answer, Matthew. - Oh.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16And I'm sorry. That's the end of your story in the game.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19Matthew, the team captain, has been knocked out here.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21It's not the end for you, Challengers.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23I know it's painful, but come back to us, both of you,
0:16:23 > 0:16:28and we will see what happens in the last round before the final.
0:16:28 > 0:16:29So, as it stands,
0:16:29 > 0:16:32Acorn Antiques have lost three brains from the final round.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35The Eggheads have not lost any. The next subject is Music.
0:16:35 > 0:16:37- Oh!- Oh, Valentin...- No, no!
0:16:37 > 0:16:39..that was it.
0:16:39 > 0:16:41- That's the one we wanted.- Oh.
0:16:41 > 0:16:43Who wants this?
0:16:43 > 0:16:46I think I'm the sacrificial lamb here.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48- Is that Jeremy?- It is.
0:16:48 > 0:16:52OK, Jeremy. Against which Egghead? You can have Dave or Lisa.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54I think I'll go for Lisa.
0:16:54 > 0:16:58So, Jeremy from Acorn Antiques versus Lisa from the Eggheads.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01And to ensure there's no conferring, please, for the last time,
0:17:01 > 0:17:02go to the Question Room.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07So, Jeremy, Music. First or second for you?
0:17:07 > 0:17:09I think I'll get it over with first, please.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14OK. Here's your question.
0:17:14 > 0:17:20Who was replaced by Ringo Starr in The Beatles in the early 1960s?
0:17:23 > 0:17:25Often referred to as the fifth Beatle,
0:17:25 > 0:17:26that was Pete Best.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29Yes, it was. Well done.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31Lisa, your question.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33Which title character of a stage musical
0:17:33 > 0:17:35sings the song A Spoonful Of Sugar?
0:17:38 > 0:17:42Well, for every job that must be done,
0:17:42 > 0:17:43there is an element of fun.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46You find the fun and... the job's a game.
0:17:46 > 0:17:50# And every task you undertake becomes a piece of cake
0:17:50 > 0:17:52# A lark, a spree
0:17:52 > 0:17:56# It's very clear to see that
0:17:56 > 0:18:00# A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
0:18:00 > 0:18:03# The medicine go down, medicine go down... #
0:18:03 > 0:18:04I'll stop now. Sorry.
0:18:04 > 0:18:06No, beautiful. Don't stop.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09- THEY APPLAUD - Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11Your answer is Mary Poppins. It's right.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14OK, so, one each. Back to you.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16And if you want to break into song, Jeremy,
0:18:16 > 0:18:18you do it at any time you want.
0:18:18 > 0:18:22Swear It Again was the first UK number one single for which group?
0:18:25 > 0:18:28This is the wrong era for me.
0:18:28 > 0:18:32If you had my daughters here, they'd know the answer instantly.
0:18:32 > 0:18:36I don't think it was Take That.
0:18:36 > 0:18:40I don't recall Take That having a song called Swear It Again.
0:18:41 > 0:18:45I'm going to just go down the middle and go Boyzone.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49Yeah, I might've done the same as you, actually, but it's Westlife.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52OK, Lisa, your question to take the lead.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55Which of these found fame as a member of Tears for Fears?
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Tears for Fears. OK. Robert Smith's The Cure.
0:19:01 > 0:19:06We'll just take him out of the equation.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08Now, of the other two,
0:19:08 > 0:19:11I have a feeling Martin Fry is a different band,
0:19:11 > 0:19:12but I could be wrong.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15As I have an inkling Martin Fry is a different band,
0:19:15 > 0:19:17I'll try Roland Orzabal.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19Yes, Roland Orzabal is correct.
0:19:19 > 0:19:23And, Dave, who's our '80s man, will tell us who Martin Fry was.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25Martin Fry was from... # Whoa, whoa, whoa... #
0:19:25 > 0:19:26..ABC.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29- Martin Fry was ABC.- Ah, yes. Of course, yes.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31So, she's ahead, Jeremy. You've got to stop her.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33Do whatever you have to.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36Which composer was nicknamed The Italian Mozart?
0:19:40 > 0:19:43Oh. Wish I was Valentin.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47He'd know the answer instantly.
0:19:52 > 0:19:56I think the most prolific writer of the three is Vivaldi,
0:19:56 > 0:19:58so I'm going to go Vivaldi.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01OK, let's just check with Valentin. Who do you think, Valentin?
0:20:01 > 0:20:04- It must be Rossini. - OK.- He lived after Mozart.
0:20:04 > 0:20:09- Ah. Vivaldi was before.- Vivaldi died long before Mozart was born.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12- Ah, so Vivaldi... - And Monteverdi is even earlier.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15- Valentin, would you have got the Westlife question?- No.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18- No. I'm sorry. - LAUGHTER
0:20:18 > 0:20:19So terribly...
0:20:19 > 0:20:22Rossini is the answer, Jeremy.
0:20:22 > 0:20:26So, Lisa has won on Music and given us a song as well.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Let's see what happens in the final. Come back to us, please.
0:20:31 > 0:20:32And here we are.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34This is what we have been playing towards -
0:20:34 > 0:20:37the final round which, as always, is General Knowledge.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40But those of you who lost your head-to-heads are not allowed
0:20:40 > 0:20:44to take part, so, Matthew, Valentin, Derek and Jeremy
0:20:44 > 0:20:48from Acorn Antiques, would you please now leave the studio?
0:20:50 > 0:20:53- So, Howard, I know this wasn't quite the plan.- It wasn't.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56But you are here playing to win this jackpot of £15,000
0:20:56 > 0:20:58for Acorn Antiques, and good luck.
0:20:58 > 0:21:02Chris, Judith, Kevin, Dave, Lisa. All five of you... My goodness.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06..playing to continue this really impressive roll
0:21:06 > 0:21:09and to protect the Eggheads' gilded reputation.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12Now, as usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14This time, they're all General Knowledge.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17You are allowed to confer. I'm sorry that doesn't help.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20Maybe they can transmit brain waves from the back.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22Can I borrow one? No, I can't.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24No, I wish. I wish I could lend you one.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27The question is, Howard, can you, with your one brain,
0:21:27 > 0:21:29take down these five in a famous victory,
0:21:29 > 0:21:31and would you like to go first or second?
0:21:31 > 0:21:33I'd like to go first, please.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38OK, here we are with your first question.
0:21:38 > 0:21:42Which character was played by Nicholas Smith in the TV sitcom
0:21:42 > 0:21:43Are You Being Served?
0:21:48 > 0:21:50- Nicholas Smith.- Nicholas Smith.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52I've seen this programme,
0:21:52 > 0:21:55and Captain Peacock, it wasn't him.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57I don't know who Mr Harman is.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00I would've said that Nicholas Smith was Mr Rumbold.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02Mr Rumbold is the right answer.
0:22:04 > 0:22:07OK, Eggheads, for what does the letter D stand
0:22:07 > 0:22:09in the publishing abbreviation DTP?
0:22:12 > 0:22:14- We're going desktop publishing, aren't we?- I think so. Desk.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17- So, we're happy with desk, everyone? - Yep.- Yes.
0:22:17 > 0:22:20Can we go for desk, please, Jeremy?
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Desk is correct.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24OK, your question, Howard.
0:22:24 > 0:22:28Which fruit is central to the Christingle service,
0:22:28 > 0:22:32made popular in the UK when it was introduced in 1968
0:22:32 > 0:22:36by John Pensom of The Children's Society?
0:22:39 > 0:22:45I can't imagine it's banana. It's apple or orange.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48If he introduced it and it came from abroad...
0:22:51 > 0:22:55Probably going to be wrong here cos I don't know the answer.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58I should go for apple, but I'm going for orange.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00- No, you should go for orange, cos orange is right.- Oh.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03HE LAUGHS You're playing well, Howard.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05- Heart attack there.- Playing well.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08And the Eggs sometimes, you know,
0:23:08 > 0:23:11you have all of this voltage at one table, it can short.
0:23:11 > 0:23:15The wrong cable touches another cable, bang.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18Eggheads. Frank Bough and Michael Aspel
0:23:18 > 0:23:20are two of the TV personalities
0:23:20 > 0:23:23who appear in a 1977 Morecambe and Wise sketch
0:23:23 > 0:23:26performing which song from South Pacific?
0:23:31 > 0:23:32Yeah, it's Nothing Like A Dame, isn't it?
0:23:32 > 0:23:36There was Barry Norman and Eddie Waring.
0:23:36 > 0:23:37All kinds of superstars there.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40But that's There's Nothing Like A Dame.
0:23:40 > 0:23:41Nothing In This World.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43Yes, you're right.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46OK, good stuff. All right, Howard, you're doing well.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49The four are absolutely locked in behind you.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51Let's see if we can get this one right
0:23:51 > 0:23:54- and put them under some serious pressure.- I hope so.
0:23:54 > 0:23:58Which of these birds might be described as grallatorial?
0:24:00 > 0:24:02Can you say that? Grallatorial?
0:24:02 > 0:24:07Grallatorial. So, it's G-R-A-L-L-A-T-O-R-I-A-L.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10Almost as you'd expect. Grallatorial.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12I can't imagine it's a pheasant.
0:24:12 > 0:24:16Doesn't sound it. I don't know this one either.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20I can't also think that the canary is very distinctive.
0:24:20 > 0:24:25A heron has very long legs, wades in water.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27So, my guess is going to be...
0:24:27 > 0:24:30Grallatorial, what would that be?
0:24:31 > 0:24:33I'm going to go for heron.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36OK. And we still don't know what grallatorial is.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38- Do we know?- No.- No.- No? - Nobody knows.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40But you've got the right answer.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42Phew!
0:24:42 > 0:24:46And actually, a grallatorial bird is a long-legged wading bird.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48Is it? Oh. I've learned something.
0:24:48 > 0:24:51I think you should've spent your life working as a detective,
0:24:51 > 0:24:54- you know, cos you would've solved a lot of crimes.- Oh.
0:24:54 > 0:24:58OK, Eggheads, here we are.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00Here we jolly well are.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02£15,000.
0:25:02 > 0:25:03If you get this wrong,
0:25:03 > 0:25:09it goes straight to the Challengers and Howard is the hero of the day.
0:25:09 > 0:25:13What colour is the top stripe on the flag of Yemen?
0:25:16 > 0:25:18- LISA:- They're all in there, aren't they, I think?
0:25:18 > 0:25:22- They're all in there. It's the Pan-Arab colours.- Mm.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24So, a lot of Middle Eastern
0:25:24 > 0:25:27countries have got the combinations
0:25:27 > 0:25:29- of those different stripes... - Mm-hm.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31..of those three colours,
0:25:31 > 0:25:33and it's very easy to get them mixed up.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35- Oh, yes.- Yeah.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38It's very unlikely that white is at the top.
0:25:38 > 0:25:39Yeah, we can rule that out.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42- That would normally be the middle... - Yeah, the middle stripe.
0:25:42 > 0:25:43..the middle band.
0:25:43 > 0:25:47Places like Iran and Iraq have got red, white, black, I'm pretty sure,
0:25:47 > 0:25:49with different things in the middle.
0:25:49 > 0:25:53- Mm-hm.- Maybe not Iraq. That might be different, but...
0:25:53 > 0:25:54I think of the ones that have,
0:25:54 > 0:25:57I think they tend to go red, white, black.
0:25:57 > 0:25:58So, black is at the bottom.
0:25:58 > 0:26:03But I'm not convinced Yemen is the same.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05Any ideas? Nope?
0:26:05 > 0:26:08- JUDITH:- None. Absolutely zero ideas.
0:26:08 > 0:26:12If I have an instinct for one or the other, it's for black.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15- It's for black.- I'm... - Like the German flag.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18- Or like the Egyptians'.- Yeah. - CHRIS:- Yeah, the other way up.- Yeah.
0:26:18 > 0:26:22- Is the team happy with black? - We'll just have to take a chance.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25- The other way up...- Right.
0:26:25 > 0:26:29Jeremy, we don't know,
0:26:29 > 0:26:32but the inkling is saying black,
0:26:32 > 0:26:33so that is our answer.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36- Black.- OK.
0:26:36 > 0:26:40£15,000 we're playing for. I gave you white, red or black.
0:26:40 > 0:26:45There was a distinct lack of anything solid in your discussion,
0:26:45 > 0:26:47so it wasn't like someone was piping up.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49Lisa did say she liked a bit of red at the top.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51Although, you then went to black, Lisa.
0:26:51 > 0:26:54Do you know this one, by any chance, Howard?
0:26:54 > 0:26:57I don't know, but if I had been in their position,
0:26:57 > 0:27:01I wouldn't have said black is at the top of any flag.
0:27:01 > 0:27:02I would've put it further down -
0:27:02 > 0:27:04either in the middle or bottom - but I don't know.
0:27:04 > 0:27:05Right, OK.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08And you've proved to be the most extraordinary guesser so far.
0:27:08 > 0:27:12The answer, Eggheads, is red.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14We say congratulations, Challengers, you have won.
0:27:14 > 0:27:18- Brilliant.- Thank you. Oh.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21That's amazing. Thank you very much.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23- Amazing luck.- Well...- Luck.
0:27:23 > 0:27:25..you played a storming round there.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27That is very hard to do, Howard,
0:27:27 > 0:27:29to do what you did with those three questions,
0:27:29 > 0:27:32- cos you were just groping, really. - I was. I admit it.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34Yeah, but you groped with such conviction.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37The funny thing is, flags are meat and drink to quizzers,
0:27:37 > 0:27:39- so this is an unusual one.- Yes.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41I saw that and thought you'd probably get it.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44- I would say, by the way, Egypt, same colours but with an emblem.- Mm.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46- Yemen, no emblem. - There's a few like that,
0:27:46 > 0:27:48and I just couldn't remember what made it different.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50Red, white, black, Eggheads.
0:27:50 > 0:27:54Well, you've had a great run, a great roll here up to £15,000.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57You've played really well. You played really well in this game.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59And at the end, you just came to a juddering halt.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02You held your nerve at the end there. Well done, Howard.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05Congratulations. Acorn Antiques, well done.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07I'm convinced a concert pianist on the team helps.
0:28:07 > 0:28:09I've got a feeling...
0:28:09 > 0:28:11You've won £15,000.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13You're officially cleverer than the Eggheads.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15And you have beaten all five of them,
0:28:15 > 0:28:17and very few people can say that.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20Join us next time on Eggheads to see if a new team of Challengers
0:28:20 > 0:28:21will be just as successful.
0:28:21 > 0:28:25What a game. It's what it's all about. Till then, goodbye.