0:00:04 > 0:00:08These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:11 > 0:00:14arguably 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 against
0:00:27 > 0:00:30possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32They are the Eggheads.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34We feeling bolshie or benign today?
0:00:34 > 0:00:36- Bolshie.- Bolshie, says Judith.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38- Very bolshie.- Oh, very bolshie, OK.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41Hoping to beat the might of the Eggheads today
0:00:41 > 0:00:42are Generation Game from Surrey.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46Now, this friends and family team are regular quizzers
0:00:46 > 0:00:49and have 90 years of quizzing experience between them.
0:00:49 > 0:00:50Let's meet them.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54Hello, I'm David and I'm a PhD researcher in history.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Hello, I'm Dan, I'm a business owner.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00Hello, I'm Anthony, I'm a retired chartered engineer.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03Hello, my name's Simon and I am a molecular virologist.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05Hello, I'm Alex
0:01:05 > 0:01:08and I'm a postdoctoral research fellow in English.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10So, David and team, welcome.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13- Thank you.- It seems we've got a quizzing team here, David,
0:01:13 > 0:01:15- is that right? - Pretty strong, we hope.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18Good, excellent. You quiz together or separately?
0:01:18 > 0:01:21We've quizzed in different permutations amongst the five of us,
0:01:21 > 0:01:23so different couples, different pairs, yes.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25And at the heart of this are two families
0:01:25 > 0:01:26who are friends with each other.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29Two fathers and sons who are friends with each other at both levels.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31The Zell and Spiro families.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33- Correct. - What about these Eggheads, then?
0:01:33 > 0:01:34Are they famous in quiz land?
0:01:34 > 0:01:36I think they are pretty notorious, yes.
0:01:38 > 0:01:39- Good luck to you. - Notoriously clever.
0:01:39 > 0:01:43Yeah, although like all good machines, they can sometimes break.
0:01:43 > 0:01:47Every day there is £1,000 of cash up for grabs for our Challengers.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over
0:01:50 > 0:01:52to the next show. I know you know that,
0:01:52 > 0:01:53so let me tell you, Generation Game,
0:01:53 > 0:01:56the Eggheads are just getting into their stride.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58They've won the last six,
0:01:58 > 0:02:01so that means £7,000 is here for you to win today.
0:02:01 > 0:02:03- Would you like to try? - We'll have a go.
0:02:03 > 0:02:07Good stuff. The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of History.
0:02:07 > 0:02:08I reckon this is right up your street.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10- Who's going to do it? - That must be you.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13I think that's me, isn't it? I'm going to do that.
0:02:13 > 0:02:17OK, Anthony, retired chartered engineer, against which Egghead?
0:02:17 > 0:02:19Anthony, pick any one of them.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21I think we'll go for Dave, won't we?
0:02:21 > 0:02:23- Dave?- Is that the agreement, Dave?
0:02:23 > 0:02:25- Dave.- We'll go for Dave.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28So, it's going to be Anthony from Generation Game versus Dave from
0:02:28 > 0:02:31the Eggheads on History and just to ensure there's no conferring,
0:02:31 > 0:02:34please take the short walk to our famous Question Room.
0:02:36 > 0:02:37So, Anthony Spiro,
0:02:37 > 0:02:40and what gives you your interest in history, Anthony?
0:02:40 > 0:02:42Well, I like reading about it,
0:02:42 > 0:02:47I'm of an age that I can look back over quite a long period
0:02:47 > 0:02:49and it's a subject I enjoy.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51Whether I know anything about it, we'll soon find out.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54We will see. History against Tremendous Knowledge Dave
0:02:54 > 0:02:56- and would you like to go first or second?- First, please.
0:03:00 > 0:03:01Here's your question.
0:03:01 > 0:03:05The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, signed by nearly all
0:03:05 > 0:03:08the nations of the world, aimed to eliminate
0:03:08 > 0:03:11what as an instrument of national policy?
0:03:15 > 0:03:17That's an interesting question.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20Whether it was sport,
0:03:20 > 0:03:23I doubt that because the Olympic Games had been going
0:03:23 > 0:03:25for about 30 years by then.
0:03:26 > 0:03:30I would have thought that some sort of pre-runner,
0:03:30 > 0:03:31precursor to the United Nations.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33I'll go for war.
0:03:33 > 0:03:34War is correct.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36Well done. Dave, your question.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41King of England Richard the Lionheart spent a large part
0:03:41 > 0:03:43of his adult life in which country?
0:03:46 > 0:03:47I've got to go France.
0:03:47 > 0:03:48France is correct.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52Anthony. Until the Reformation,
0:03:52 > 0:03:57the Emperor Elect of the Holy Roman Empire was required to be crowned
0:03:57 > 0:03:58by which of the following?
0:04:02 > 0:04:06Unlikely to be the Tsar of Russia because I don't think there were
0:04:06 > 0:04:10any Tsars of Russia about that time.
0:04:10 > 0:04:14Charlemagne I doubt because he only lived for a finite period.
0:04:14 > 0:04:15I'll go for the Pope.
0:04:15 > 0:04:16The Pope is right.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18Brilliantly logical, sir.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20Well done.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23Dave. I can see you're up against a good quizzer here.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25Yeah, very definitely.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28During World War II, who served as Taoiseach,
0:04:28 > 0:04:30the Irish equivalent of Prime Minister?
0:04:35 > 0:04:37This is tough.
0:04:39 > 0:04:42I'm not happy with this at all because I thought
0:04:42 > 0:04:43Eamon de Valera was Irish president.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47I'm going to rule out Jack Lynch
0:04:47 > 0:04:50because I think it's too early for him.
0:04:50 > 0:04:53I'm not happy with this at all because, as I said, I thought
0:04:53 > 0:04:57Eamon de Valera was President rather than Prime Minister.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59So I'm going to go for Sean Lemass.
0:05:00 > 0:05:01Eggheads, is he right?
0:05:01 > 0:05:03- No.- No.- No, no.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05- De Valera.- It's de Valera.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07- Well, fine. - De Valera did become President.
0:05:07 > 0:05:11He was Prime Minister for a long time but then eventually, in 1959,
0:05:11 > 0:05:13I think, he became President and was there
0:05:13 > 0:05:15for a considerable time longer.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19He became President, Dave, you're right about that,
0:05:19 > 0:05:21as Kevin's confirming, but not at the time.
0:05:21 > 0:05:22Right, fine.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24OK, Anthony, get this right, you're in the final.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26The first Sino-Japanese War,
0:05:26 > 0:05:32which took place between 1894 and 1895, grew out of a conflict between
0:05:32 > 0:05:36Japan and China for supremacy in which country?
0:05:40 > 0:05:44I think I can discount Tibet because that's too far away.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48Mongolia, I doubt.
0:05:48 > 0:05:49I'm going for Korea.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51Yes! Yes!
0:05:51 > 0:05:52Challengers, is he right?
0:05:52 > 0:05:54- I think so.- Think so. - Yeah, they like that answer.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57Korea is right. Well done, Anthony, you're in the final round.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00You took on an Egghead and you defeated him
0:06:00 > 0:06:01and Dave has been knocked out.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04Early days. Come back to us, we'll play the next round.
0:06:06 > 0:06:07So, as it stands,
0:06:07 > 0:06:10the Generation Game have not lost any brains from the final round.
0:06:10 > 0:06:11They're playing well.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13The Eggheads have lost a brain.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16Looks a bit dodgy for the Eggheads today.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18The next subject is Music.
0:06:18 > 0:06:19- Who would like Music?- That's...
0:06:19 > 0:06:22- That's mine. That would be me. - It's you, Dan.
0:06:22 > 0:06:23- That's me, Dan.- OK, Dan.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25Dan Zell against...
0:06:25 > 0:06:27- We're doing Judith, right? - Judith, yeah.
0:06:27 > 0:06:28Judith.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31Yeah, she loves a bit of opera, but not rap.
0:06:32 > 0:06:37Dan from Generation Game challenges Judith from the Eggheads on Music.
0:06:37 > 0:06:38Please go to the special room.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42All right, so, you're on music, Dan.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Would you like to go first or second?
0:06:44 > 0:06:46I'll go first, please.
0:06:49 > 0:06:50And here we go.
0:06:50 > 0:06:54What is the title of the Chuck Berry song that begins with the line,
0:06:54 > 0:06:56"Riding along in my automobile"?
0:07:02 > 0:07:06Good question. I know the song, I don't know what it's called.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09HE HUMS THE TUNE
0:07:16 > 0:07:18I don't think it's Sweet Little Sixteen,
0:07:18 > 0:07:20I don't think it's Reelin' And Rockin'.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22I suspect it's No Particular Place To Go
0:07:22 > 0:07:25because it's about the joy of motoring.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28No Particular Place To Go is the right answer, well done.
0:07:28 > 0:07:29Well done. Your father approves.
0:07:31 > 0:07:36Judith. Which musical term is also the Italian word for slow?
0:07:41 > 0:07:43I think that is Lento.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Lento is quite right.
0:07:45 > 0:07:50Dan, who is the lead singer of the Irish band The Cranberries?
0:07:54 > 0:07:57I've actually got a bit of a thing for The Cranberries but I don't know
0:07:57 > 0:07:59the answer to this off the top of my head.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01I don't think it's Mary Black.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05Something's telling me that it's not Roisin Murphy
0:08:05 > 0:08:07because I think she's someone else.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10I think it's Dolores O'Riordan.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Dolores O'Riordan is quite right.
0:08:13 > 0:08:14OK. Two out of two.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16Back to Judith.
0:08:16 > 0:08:21All About Tonight and Boys And Girls are UK number one singles
0:08:21 > 0:08:26by which female singer born in 1991?
0:08:29 > 0:08:30Oh, glory be.
0:08:31 > 0:08:32Search me.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35Pixie Lott.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37Pixie Lott is the right answer.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40- How do you do that?- I don't know.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42Spirit of Daphne.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44OK. Dan.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47Get this right, a little bit of pressure on Judith.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50Because of the pizzicato sections in the first movement,
0:08:50 > 0:08:54whose String Quartet Number Ten In E Flat Major,
0:08:54 > 0:08:56published in 1809,
0:08:56 > 0:08:58is nicknamed The Harp?
0:09:01 > 0:09:03- 1809?- 1809.
0:09:03 > 0:09:04OK.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07It's too late for Beethoven, I think.
0:09:10 > 0:09:14If it's a string quartet it's kind of chamber music,
0:09:14 > 0:09:20which makes me think it's more likely to be Schubert than Rossini,
0:09:20 > 0:09:23so I'll go for Schubert.
0:09:23 > 0:09:24Schubert is your answer.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27This always comes back to the dates, these questions.
0:09:27 > 0:09:291809 it was published. Can I get some dates from Kevin?
0:09:29 > 0:09:30Kevin, Beethoven.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33- What, his birth and death dates? - Yeah.
0:09:33 > 0:09:351770 to 1827.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38- OK, so he's 1770 to 1827, Kevin says...- Ah.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40..so he would have fitted the bill.
0:09:40 > 0:09:44- Rossini?- 1792 to 1868.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46All right. Would have been a bit young.
0:09:46 > 0:09:47And Schubert?
0:09:47 > 0:09:501797 to 1828.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53Even younger. The answer is Beethoven.
0:09:53 > 0:09:54Ah.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56Yeah, OK.
0:09:56 > 0:10:02So, Judith now has a chance to square things up here.
0:10:02 > 0:10:06Maceo Parker, celebrated for his work with James Brown
0:10:06 > 0:10:11in the 1960s, is best known for playing which instrument?
0:10:14 > 0:10:17I'm not... I don't know, so...
0:10:18 > 0:10:19I don't think it's drums.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23So either saxophone or guitar.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25I think it's saxophone.
0:10:25 > 0:10:27- Eggheads?- I think so.- Yeah, yeah.
0:10:27 > 0:10:29They like it. Saxophone is the right answer.
0:10:29 > 0:10:30Three out of three, Judith,
0:10:30 > 0:10:32you're in the final round. Sorry, Dan,
0:10:32 > 0:10:34you're out, I'm afraid. Come back to us,
0:10:34 > 0:10:36rejoin your teams, and we'll see what happens next.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41So, as it stands, Generation Game have lost a brain now
0:10:41 > 0:10:45from the final round. The Eggheads have also lost one.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47Looking very competitive, this game today,
0:10:47 > 0:10:49and the next subject is Sport.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51So, who wants to take this?
0:10:52 > 0:10:54That's you, David. You're going to go.
0:10:54 > 0:10:57- Gosh, fall on my sword. - David, don't go, don't go.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59David, before you go, tell us which Egghead.
0:10:59 > 0:11:00It obviously can't be Dave or Judith.
0:11:00 > 0:11:04- I think it's Lisa.- I think we're going for Lisa, aren't we?
0:11:04 > 0:11:05Take on Lisa.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08Good stuff. So, David from the Generation Game
0:11:08 > 0:11:09versus Lisa on Sport.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11- That'll work for me.- Good.
0:11:11 > 0:11:14Very positive. Not the normal response I get from old Chris,
0:11:14 > 0:11:16- is it? - Trying to set a good example.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Excellent. To ensure there's no conferring,
0:11:18 > 0:11:20please take your positions.
0:11:22 > 0:11:23So, good luck, David, on Sport.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25Would you like to go first or second against Lisa?
0:11:25 > 0:11:26I'll go first.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32And here is your first question.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35Brian Moore, who died in 2001,
0:11:35 > 0:11:38was best known as a commentator on which sport?
0:11:41 > 0:11:43Well, I can't remember him doing horse racing
0:11:43 > 0:11:45and I never watched much darts
0:11:45 > 0:11:48but he was certainly very big on football.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50He was. Football's right, well done.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53OK, Lisa.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55What nationality is the former
0:11:55 > 0:11:58Formula One racing driver Jarno Trulli?
0:12:01 > 0:12:05In the best tradition, Jarno Trulli is an Italian.
0:12:05 > 0:12:06Yes, you're right.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10ITALIAN ACCENT: Jarno Trulli. OK, David.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12Which of these cyclists was nominated
0:12:12 > 0:12:15for the BBC's Sports Personality Of The Year award in 2015?
0:12:19 > 0:12:21I know this one. It was Chris Froome.
0:12:23 > 0:12:24Chris Froome is the right answer.
0:12:26 > 0:12:27Lisa.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29In which year did the swimmer Michael Phelps
0:12:29 > 0:12:31win his first Olympic gold medal?
0:12:36 > 0:12:38Now, this is going to be a question of me trying to work out
0:12:38 > 0:12:40how old he is and when he started.
0:12:41 > 0:12:47I think he might have been born sort of late '80s, early '90s.
0:12:49 > 0:12:54I think, for all that, 2004 would be optimistic for a first gold.
0:12:57 > 0:12:58Erm...
0:13:00 > 0:13:03I think he was an established hit of the pool by 2012...
0:13:05 > 0:13:07..so I will say 2008.
0:13:09 > 0:13:112004 is the answer, Lisa.
0:13:12 > 0:13:16So, chance for you now to take the round, David, on this question.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19In which sport did Katharine Merry win an Olympic medal
0:13:19 > 0:13:23for Great Britain at the 2000 Olympics?
0:13:27 > 0:13:292000 Olympics was in Sydney.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31Katharine Merry.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35I don't think it was gymnastics.
0:13:36 > 0:13:40Athletics doesn't really ring a bell.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42I think I'm going to have to go for rowing.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46- So I'll say rowing. - Let's see if your team-mates know.
0:13:46 > 0:13:47Team-mates, is he right?
0:13:47 > 0:13:50- No, it's athletics. - No, they all like athletics.- Ah.
0:13:50 > 0:13:52Athletics it is. 400 metres, to be precise.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55So your chance to come back in here, Lisa.
0:13:55 > 0:13:58The rugby union players Phil Bennett,
0:13:58 > 0:14:03Naas Botha and Barry John usually played in which position?
0:14:05 > 0:14:08You don't even need to read the options, Jeremy.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10I'm just going down the pub now, I haven't got a clue.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14We haven't worked out a rule for these questions.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17There's usually a rule that when you're in doubt
0:14:17 > 0:14:20about a certain type of question you say a certain answer.
0:14:22 > 0:14:25But we don't really have, like, when in doubt say flanker or
0:14:25 > 0:14:27when in doubt say fly half for rugby union.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30I am going to have to institute this rule.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35Yeah, no, I think David deserves this one,
0:14:35 > 0:14:37so it'll be terrible if I guess it.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41Hooker.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43OK, that is not the rule.
0:14:43 > 0:14:44Fly half.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48Actually, the general rule is you don't say fly half,
0:14:48 > 0:14:49so it doesn't really matter.
0:14:49 > 0:14:52- That's fine.- But Judith thinks she might have a rule on this.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54- Judith, what would you say? - My rule would have been a fly half.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57Why would you go fly half in this question if you had no knowledge?
0:14:57 > 0:14:59It's the most glamorous position.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01He's the one who wins in the final minute, kind of thing,
0:15:01 > 0:15:04by kicking a penalty or something.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07Judith says you go fly half because it's the most glamorous position.
0:15:07 > 0:15:10Well, to be fair, the kickers are normally the most famous so, yeah.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13But I thought on that basis I might have heard of at least one of them.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15That's true. Works the other way as well.
0:15:15 > 0:15:16- Yeah.- So you're...
0:15:16 > 0:15:19- I'm out. Yeah. No more of this rubbish!- So you're out, Lisa.
0:15:19 > 0:15:20Gone! Two wrong out of three.
0:15:20 > 0:15:24David, you're in the final round, and that's good news for your team.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26Come back to us, we'll play on.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30So, as it stands, Generation Game have lost a brain
0:15:30 > 0:15:32from the final round. The Eggheads have lost two now
0:15:32 > 0:15:36and the last subject before the final is Arts & Books.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38Well, that's me, chaps.
0:15:38 > 0:15:39Good luck, Alex.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42OK, against whom?
0:15:42 > 0:15:45I will, with trepidation, take on Pat, Jeremy.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47So you're leaving Kev until the final.
0:15:47 > 0:15:51OK, Alex from Generation Game versus Pat from the Eggheads.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53- Good for you, Pat?- It's all right.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55I read a book every now and again.
0:15:55 > 0:15:56To ensure there's no conferring,
0:15:56 > 0:15:59would you please take your positions in our Question Room?
0:16:01 > 0:16:03Alex, I know you're doing research at university.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06- Yes, that's right, Jeremy. - Tell us what it's in.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08Victorian poetry.
0:16:08 > 0:16:09Oh, well, perfect, so Arts & Books is not...
0:16:09 > 0:16:13Because I thought you might be about to say chemistry or something,
0:16:13 > 0:16:15which wouldn't come in handy for this round.
0:16:15 > 0:16:19No, advantageously, or maybe regrettably, it is my job.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22And you've written a book on the great WB Yeats,
0:16:22 > 0:16:25who's my hero, my poetic hero.
0:16:25 > 0:16:26Oh, glad to hear it.
0:16:26 > 0:16:30Yes, the book is about Yeats and Rudyard Kipling in the early part
0:16:30 > 0:16:33of their lives when they were living in London at the same time.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36OK, and they met each other or not?
0:16:36 > 0:16:40No, the title of the book is Meeting Without Knowing It because they
0:16:40 > 0:16:43intersect thematically but they never directly cross paths.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45They shadow one another.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48How fascinating. All right, good luck in this round.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51I know it might not all be Victorian poetry, so you have that defence.
0:16:51 > 0:16:54Would you like to go first or second against Pat, or as he's known,
0:16:54 > 0:16:56the Silent Destroyer?
0:16:56 > 0:16:57I shall go first, Jeremy.
0:17:00 > 0:17:01Good luck, Alex.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04A theatre that has no performance currently running
0:17:04 > 0:17:06is commonly said to be what?
0:17:09 > 0:17:11I'm a little baffled by this, really.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16My suspicion is that it's dark - that would make sense.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19The lights are off, the theatre is disused.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21I think that's the best that I can manage.
0:17:21 > 0:17:23I'll say a dark theatre.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25Dark is right. Well done.
0:17:27 > 0:17:28Over to you, Pat.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30Which man wrote the poem that begins
0:17:30 > 0:17:32"On the Ning Nang Nong
0:17:32 > 0:17:34"Where the cows go bong
0:17:34 > 0:17:36"And the monkeys all say boo"?
0:17:39 > 0:17:45I think this was featured in The Goon Show, I think.
0:17:45 > 0:17:48I have a slight concern that Peter Sellers may have had some
0:17:48 > 0:17:50connections to The Goon Show
0:17:50 > 0:17:53but I think I'll have to go for Spike Milligan.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56Yeah, well done, Pat. Spike Milligan is right.
0:17:57 > 0:17:58Alex.
0:17:58 > 0:18:03How were faces usually painted in ancient Egyptian art?
0:18:07 > 0:18:10Well, these are the paintings that one would see on the walls
0:18:10 > 0:18:13of Egyptian tombs and they are all in profile.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16In profile is quite right.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18Well done.
0:18:18 > 0:18:19Pat, your question.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21Which novel by Thomas Hardy is subtitled
0:18:21 > 0:18:24The Life And Death Of A Man Of Character?
0:18:29 > 0:18:30Hmm.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33Well, I don't think it's Tess Of The D'Urbervilles,
0:18:33 > 0:18:36seeing as the book is centred on a female character,
0:18:36 > 0:18:39so she wouldn't be a man of character.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42So, it's Far From The Madding Crowd versus The Mayor Of Casterbridge.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45I think Far From The Madding Crowd,
0:18:45 > 0:18:48Bathsheba Everdene is sort of the central character
0:18:48 > 0:18:51and there are two or three husbands.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54The Mayor Of Casterbridge, that's Henchard,
0:18:54 > 0:18:57who sells his wife and child or something.
0:18:57 > 0:18:58That's the most tempting of the three,
0:18:58 > 0:19:00so I'll go for The Mayor Of Casterbridge.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02The Mayor Of Casterbridge is right.
0:19:02 > 0:19:03So, two each.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07Alex, the third question could be crucial.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10Here's your question. I'm just praying for some Victorian poetry.
0:19:10 > 0:19:14Who created the artwork Balloon Dog Orange,
0:19:14 > 0:19:20which in 2013 achieved the highest price for a living artist's work
0:19:20 > 0:19:24sold at auction when it went for 58.4 million?
0:19:31 > 0:19:34Well, yeah, we see variations of this outside of large
0:19:34 > 0:19:37and gullible public art galleries around the world.
0:19:38 > 0:19:42This, I'm pretty sure, is the extremely rich Jeff Koons.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44It is Jeff Koons, well done.
0:19:44 > 0:19:45Well done indeed.
0:19:47 > 0:19:48OK, Pat, to stay in.
0:19:48 > 0:19:49Alex is playing well.
0:19:50 > 0:19:54Although Ariel Dorfman was born in Argentina, his works, such as
0:19:54 > 0:19:58the play Death And The Maiden, have been particularly concerned
0:19:58 > 0:20:02with the turbulent and violent history of which country?
0:20:05 > 0:20:07My first reaction is Chile.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11The Pinochet years and all those...
0:20:13 > 0:20:14..human rights issues.
0:20:16 > 0:20:17Nicaragua and Bolivia...
0:20:20 > 0:20:23I think I'll have to go for Chile.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25Chile is correct. So we go to Sudden Death.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29Gets a little bit tighter, Alex.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31I don't give you alternatives.
0:20:31 > 0:20:35Dan Brown's character Robert Langdon first appeared in print
0:20:35 > 0:20:36in which novel?
0:20:38 > 0:20:43I'm not a fan of Dan Brown but I think this is the art professor
0:20:43 > 0:20:44in The Da Vinci Code.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50I think you're probably right but also wrong,
0:20:50 > 0:20:53because he appeared in Angels And Demons.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55Is that the story before Da Vinci Code?
0:20:55 > 0:20:58Yeah, it's set in Rome and it's concerned fairly heftily
0:20:58 > 0:21:00with the Catholic Church.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02And he then goes on to Da Vinci Code?
0:21:02 > 0:21:04I think the second one is The Da Vinci Code, yes.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07There are very brief references to Angels And Demons
0:21:07 > 0:21:08in The Da Vinci Code.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10Alex, sorry about that, you got it wrong,
0:21:10 > 0:21:13so Pat has a chance to take the round.
0:21:13 > 0:21:18Idefix is the French name for which four-legged character
0:21:18 > 0:21:20in the Asterix series of comic books?
0:21:21 > 0:21:23Oh...
0:21:26 > 0:21:27Four-legged character.
0:21:27 > 0:21:28I think it's the dog.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33So, what did they call the dog in the West?
0:21:35 > 0:21:36I have a name in my head.
0:21:38 > 0:21:39I'm not sure it's right.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43Could I just listen to the question one more time?
0:21:43 > 0:21:47Yeah. I-D-E-accent-F-I-X is what we're looking at.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50Idefix is the French name for which four-legged character
0:21:50 > 0:21:53in the Asterix series of comic books?
0:21:53 > 0:21:56The four-legged character has got to be the dog, sheep, goat, cow...
0:21:56 > 0:21:58I think it's dog. There's a dog.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03I'm not sure I'm right but I'm going to go with Dogmatix.
0:22:04 > 0:22:05The answer is Dogmatix.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07Well done, Pat, you've taken the round.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Sorry, Alex, beaten by our Egghead.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12Levels it up, though. Makes for an interesting final.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15Please, both of you, return and we will play that final round.
0:22:17 > 0:22:18So, bad luck, Alex, there.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21And just for clarity, Da Vinci Code was obviously
0:22:21 > 0:22:24the big explosion publicity-wise,
0:22:24 > 0:22:26but Angels And Demons was published before, in 2000.
0:22:26 > 0:22:29So, Da Vinci was 2003, but after Da Vinci Code,
0:22:29 > 0:22:30everyone bought Angels And Demons,
0:22:30 > 0:22:33so there's a bit of confusion about which came first.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36Anyway, bad luck to you, but full of hope for your team here.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38This is what we've been playing towards.
0:22:38 > 0:22:39It is time for the final round.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42As always, it is General Knowledge, but I'm afraid those of you who lost
0:22:42 > 0:22:45your head-to-heads won't be allowed to take part in this round.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48So, Dan and Alex from Generation Game
0:22:48 > 0:22:50and Dave and Lisa from the Eggheads,
0:22:50 > 0:22:52would you please now leave the studio?
0:22:54 > 0:22:56So, David, Anthony and Simon,
0:22:56 > 0:23:00you are playing to win Generation Game £7,000.
0:23:00 > 0:23:01Judith, Kevin, Pat,
0:23:01 > 0:23:04you're playing for something which I don't think money can buy,
0:23:04 > 0:23:06which is your reputation.
0:23:06 > 0:23:09As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11This time, they're all General Knowledge.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13Gents, you are allowed to confer.
0:23:13 > 0:23:15OK, so, Generation Game, the question is,
0:23:15 > 0:23:16can you with your three brilliant brains
0:23:16 > 0:23:19overwhelm these three over here?
0:23:19 > 0:23:22- We'll try.- We'll have a go. - You don't need to say.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25- No pressure.- Just tell me if you want to go first or second.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27We'll go first, please.
0:23:30 > 0:23:31So, your first question is this.
0:23:31 > 0:23:36Gold Coast Airport, previously known as Coolangatta Airport,
0:23:36 > 0:23:38is located in which country?
0:23:41 > 0:23:43- Gold Coast is Australia. - It's Australia.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46We're just going to go straight for it, Australia.
0:23:46 > 0:23:47Australia is correct.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50Back to you, Eggheads.
0:23:50 > 0:23:54Under what moniker did the TV chef Graham Kerr
0:23:54 > 0:23:57become famous in the 1960s and '70s?
0:24:01 > 0:24:03Well, I think Galloping Gourmet.
0:24:03 > 0:24:04Galloping Gourmet. Yes.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06A favourite of my mother's.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08He was one of the first of the celeb chefs.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10- I can remember seeing him. OK?- Yep.
0:24:10 > 0:24:14That is, or Graham Kerr was, The Galloping Gourmet.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16The Galloping Gourmet is quite right.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18Well done.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20OK, your question.
0:24:20 > 0:24:25In the UK, the Girobank was created in 1968 as a clearing bank
0:24:25 > 0:24:28that was part of which organisation?
0:24:31 > 0:24:32- Post Office.- Post Office.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34- Post Office, definitely. - I don't remember it,
0:24:34 > 0:24:36but these two certainly remember the Post Office.
0:24:38 > 0:24:39Post Office is correct.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42Two out of two. Well done. Eggheads.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45What is the name of the award given for the best feature film
0:24:45 > 0:24:48at the annual Berlin Film Festival?
0:24:53 > 0:24:56- Golden Bear.- Golden Bear. - Golden Bear, I think, yeah.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58That is the Golden Bear.
0:25:00 > 0:25:01Golden Bear is correct.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03You been to that, Kevin?
0:25:03 > 0:25:06No, my film festivals tend to be in the UK.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09- In the UK.- I have once been to the Reykjavik Film Festival, though.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12Oh, right, OK.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15Third question could be crucial. You're speeding along here.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18If you get this right, you put some pressure on them.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20£7,000, we're playing for.
0:25:20 > 0:25:23In which decade was Erica Jong's novel
0:25:23 > 0:25:25Fear Of Flying first published?
0:25:30 > 0:25:32It was on the cusp of '60s and '70s.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35- It definitely wasn't the '80s. - It wasn't the '80s.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37It was somewhere between the '60s and '70s.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40- Gosh.- I think it was the very late '60s.
0:25:40 > 0:25:43I think it was. I'd be more comfortable with the '60s.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46- I think it's a higher probability in the '60s.- '68, '69.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49- I think it was.- Yeah, or '70s. - I don't think it was the '70s.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51Do you remember anything in the novel
0:25:51 > 0:25:52that would give a clue to the...?
0:25:52 > 0:25:56No. I was still at university until I started work in '69.
0:25:56 > 0:25:59Well, if you started the book in '69, it's '60s.
0:25:59 > 0:26:00- Started work.- Oh, started work.
0:26:00 > 0:26:04No, no, I started work, and I'm just trying to remember when it...
0:26:05 > 0:26:07Because it could just have been the early '70s.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09It could have been the early '70s, yeah.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12I'm tempted, I'm getting more tempted to '70s.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14Me too, me too. The more we think about it.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Your first thought was the '60s.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18- I'm talking myself into the '70s. - What do you think?
0:26:18 > 0:26:21Do you think your second thoughts beat your first thoughts?
0:26:21 > 0:26:23There's an old saying you should always go with your first reaction
0:26:23 > 0:26:27but the '60s was not Fear Of Flying.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31Let's take a think here.
0:26:32 > 0:26:36I think we should go with our first choice, which was the '60s.
0:26:36 > 0:26:37OK. OK.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39All right, so after much deliberation,
0:26:39 > 0:26:42we're erring towards the 1960s. We're going to say the '60s.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46OK. Oh, I listened to that so carefully
0:26:46 > 0:26:48and you were going '70s.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51- Do you know, Eggheads? - I think it's '73.
0:26:51 > 0:26:541973 is the year.
0:26:54 > 0:26:55'70s is the answer.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00So you've got two out of three. Third question to the Eggheads.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03Capitol Hill in Washington, DC
0:27:03 > 0:27:05is the location of which of the following?
0:27:08 > 0:27:11You get this right, the contest is over.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13- The Pentagon... - White House is Pennsylvania Avenue.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16- Pentagon's in Virginia. - Pentagon's out in Virginia.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19- So it's got to be Congress. - Congress is on Capitol Hill.
0:27:19 > 0:27:21Well, Congress sits in the Capitol, so...
0:27:23 > 0:27:24- Yeah.- I mean, it's, yeah.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27OK? Seems straightforward enough - hope there's not a twist to it.
0:27:28 > 0:27:31Well, the White House is 1,600 Pennsylvania Avenue,
0:27:31 > 0:27:36the Pentagon sits out in Virginia on the other side of the Potomac,
0:27:36 > 0:27:40but Congress sits in the Capitol building and that would be on...
0:27:40 > 0:27:45Which is on rising ground, so that would be Capitol Hill,
0:27:45 > 0:27:47so it's Congress.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49The correct answer is Congress.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51We say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58And I know you know that one.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00But then they'd know the Fear Of Flying so if you'd gone second,
0:28:00 > 0:28:02maybe you'd be in Sudden Death.
0:28:02 > 0:28:03Who knows? Who knows?
0:28:03 > 0:28:06- Who knows?- Very close. - Commiserations, Generation Game.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08You played a great game. I can see you're good quizzers.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11You lost a couple of good quizzers round the back as well.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15This winning streak continues.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18It means that you won't be going home with the £7,000
0:28:18 > 0:28:20so we roll the money over to our next show.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22Eggheads, congratulations.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24Who will beat you?
0:28:24 > 0:28:27Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers
0:28:27 > 0:28:29have the brains to defeat them.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31£8,000 will be up for grabs.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33And until then, goodbye.