0:00:04 > 0:00:08These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:10 > 0:00:12Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:12 > 0:00:15arguably 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 > 0:00:32They are the Eggheads.
0:00:32 > 0:00:33And here you are, resplendent.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35- Yes.- You're very kind.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39Good. Taking on the might of our quiz Goliaths today are...
0:00:39 > 0:00:41This team are all
0:00:41 > 0:00:43involved in quizzing at Shenley Leisure Centre
0:00:43 > 0:00:47in Milton Keynes. Dave and Sid have been hosting quizzes
0:00:47 > 0:00:50there for 24 years. And the rest of the team
0:00:50 > 0:00:53are regular attendees. Let's meet them.
0:00:53 > 0:00:57Hi, I'm Dave. I'm a retired leisure centre manager.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00Hi, I'm Sid. I'm a retired commercial manager.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03Hi, I'm Sue. I'm an HR manager.
0:01:03 > 0:01:07Hello, I'm John. I'm a retired stores supervisor.
0:01:07 > 0:01:12Hello, I'm Alan. I'm a retired local government officer.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15So, Dave and team, welcome.
0:01:15 > 0:01:16Great to see you.
0:01:16 > 0:01:1924 years of setting questions, Dave, is that right?
0:01:19 > 0:01:24We started it 24 years ago...only really to fill the bar
0:01:24 > 0:01:26on a Monday night, would you believe?
0:01:26 > 0:01:28And it caught on.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30And now it's become a bit of a cult.
0:01:30 > 0:01:34That's fantastic. So people turn up and you raise money for charity.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37We think we're somewhere over £150,000,
0:01:37 > 0:01:40somewhere between that and 200,000.
0:01:40 > 0:01:42Wow. Now, the key question is,
0:01:42 > 0:01:45do you, in setting the questions, remember the answers?
0:01:45 > 0:01:46No.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49Right, OK. That might be a slight problem here.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52I always think question setters are actually very good at quizzing.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54We shall see. Good luck.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57Every day, there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs for our
0:01:57 > 0:02:00Challengers, however, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:02:00 > 0:02:03the prize money rolls over to our next show.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06So, Shenley 24, I can tell you the Eggheads had a bit of
0:02:06 > 0:02:10a blustery time. Got knocked off their feet.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13Got back on their horses. Won the last two games.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16So that means there's £3,000 to play for today.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19- Would you like to try? - We certainly will.- Good stuff.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of History.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23Who would like History?
0:02:23 > 0:02:26- Who's going to do that? - I'll do that.- Alan?
0:02:26 > 0:02:27- Yeah.- OK, then.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30Alan on History, against which Egghead?
0:02:30 > 0:02:34Tremendous Knowledge Dave? If that's all right with him?
0:02:34 > 0:02:37It doesn't matter whether it's all right with him or not.
0:02:37 > 0:02:38He's got to do it.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40Alan from Shenley 24
0:02:40 > 0:02:43playing Tremendous Knowledge Dave on History.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45To ensure there's no conferring,
0:02:45 > 0:02:48please take your positions in our famous Question Room.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52So, Alan, before we play History,
0:02:52 > 0:02:55I must mention your meeting with Ozzy Osbourne.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58Oh, yes. That was when I was living in Germany.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02I think he was rather pleased to discover that there was one
0:03:02 > 0:03:05English-speaking person in the whole of the place.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07It was in Hannover.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09And you'd been to see Black Sabbath, had you?
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Yeah, it was at the same place, they were playing there.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14- Oh, right. Wonderful.- Yeah.
0:03:14 > 0:03:15Dave, where are we on Black Sabbath?
0:03:15 > 0:03:17Black Sabbath, great band.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20OK, Alan. Good luck to you. History we're playing.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23Black Sabbath may or may not come up.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25Would you like to go first or second?
0:03:25 > 0:03:26I'd like to go first please.
0:03:30 > 0:03:31Here we go.
0:03:31 > 0:03:35In which European country is the UNESCO World Heritage Site of
0:03:35 > 0:03:41Herculaneum, which was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in AD79?
0:03:45 > 0:03:48Didn't think there was any volcanoes in Portugal.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51Anyway... Oh, it's in Italy.
0:03:51 > 0:03:52Italy is quite right.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57Dave, your question, my friend.
0:03:57 > 0:04:03In August 1588, King Philip II of Spain sent an armada
0:04:03 > 0:04:08to attempt the invasion of which country that he hoped to restore
0:04:08 > 0:04:09to Catholicism?
0:04:12 > 0:04:16If it's 1588 it's the Spanish Armada...
0:04:16 > 0:04:17coming to England.
0:04:17 > 0:04:18England is right.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Here's your second question.
0:04:21 > 0:04:25The Battle of Jutland took place during which war?
0:04:30 > 0:04:33I don't think we had any naval actions in
0:04:33 > 0:04:36the North Sea during the Boer War.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38So it was World War I.
0:04:38 > 0:04:39It was indeed World War I.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41And we've just had, relatively recently,
0:04:41 > 0:04:43the 100th year anniversary, haven't we?
0:04:43 > 0:04:45It was May 1916.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48OK, Dave, back to you.
0:04:48 > 0:04:54Vestal virgins were priestesses in the state religion of which empire?
0:04:58 > 0:05:01I'm just getting it right in my head.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03It's Roman. Roman.
0:05:03 > 0:05:04Yeah, very good. Roman.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06OK, Alan.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09Harold Adrian Russell
0:05:09 > 0:05:13were the real first names of which British intelligence officer
0:05:13 > 0:05:18born in 1912, who proved to be Soviet double agent?
0:05:24 > 0:05:28You've got me here cos I don't know the answer to that.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32I think I'm going to go down the left and say Donald Maclean.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35It is hard, cos they're all in the famous Cambridge Spy Ring,
0:05:35 > 0:05:37I think, aren't they? I suppose the only...
0:05:37 > 0:05:39Looking at the Eggheads every day, as I do,
0:05:39 > 0:05:41the quizzer way might be to say,
0:05:41 > 0:05:44"Which looks like the first name you weren't born with?"
0:05:44 > 0:05:47And I'm wondering whether that would take you to Kim.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50- Oh, yes.- The answer is Kim Philby.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53So, third question to Dave. This for the round.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55The Borgia family,
0:05:55 > 0:05:58which was prominent in Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries,
0:05:58 > 0:06:02originated in what is now which other European country?
0:06:06 > 0:06:07I'm torn between two here.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12It could conceivably be Belgium.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14I'm leaning towards Spain. But...
0:06:15 > 0:06:16It could conceivably be Belgium,
0:06:16 > 0:06:18but I'm going to go Spain.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20Do you think he's got it right, Alan?
0:06:20 > 0:06:22Yes, he's definitely got it right.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24Yeah, it is Spain. Dave, well done. Three out of three.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27Sorry, Alan. You've been knocked out by an Egghead.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29Please return to us and we'll play on.
0:06:30 > 0:06:35So, as it stands, Shenley 24 have lost a brain from the final round.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38The Eggheads have not lost any so far. Dave played well.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41The next subject for you is Arts & Books.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43Now, which of you would like this?
0:06:43 > 0:06:45- Do you want me to take it? - Is that you, Sue?
0:06:45 > 0:06:46- Sue?- Yeah, I'll do it.
0:06:46 > 0:06:50OK. Our HR manager. Against which Egghead? Can't be Dave.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53I'll go with Lisa, if that's all right.
0:06:53 > 0:06:57Sue from Shenley 24 versus Lisa from the Eggheads.
0:06:57 > 0:07:01To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions.
0:07:01 > 0:07:05OK. Well, Sue, you can choose whether you go first or second.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08I'd like to go first please, Jeremy.
0:07:12 > 0:07:13Here is your question.
0:07:13 > 0:07:18"Fair is foul and foul is fair" is a line from Shakespeare play?
0:07:22 > 0:07:23I don't think it's Macbeth,
0:07:23 > 0:07:27but I'm probably ruling out the wrong answer.
0:07:27 > 0:07:28I'm not sure it's Othello.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30I'm going to go for Hamlet.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32It's not Hamlet, actually.
0:07:32 > 0:07:35One of the great joys of this show is being allowed to read out
0:07:35 > 0:07:37Shakespeare in a kind of Shakespeare-y voice,
0:07:37 > 0:07:38which I always do.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41When I did it, I thought I was channelling the witches slightly.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43- Was I, Lisa? - Fair is foul and foul is fair
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Hover through the fog and filthy air.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48That's right. That line's from the opening scene of Macbeth.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50- Macbeth, Sue.- OK.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53OK, Lisa.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56Which cast member of the TV sitcom Friends wrote and starred
0:07:56 > 0:07:58in the play The End Of Longing,
0:07:58 > 0:08:00which opened in the West End in 2016?
0:08:06 > 0:08:11Annoyingly, as a huge Friends buff, I cannot be 100% certain about this.
0:08:11 > 0:08:16But I'm fairly certain Matthew Perry was in the West End in 2016.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18So I will say Matthew Perry.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20Matthew Perry is the right answer.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23OK, back to you, Sue. Going Off Alarming
0:08:23 > 0:08:26is the name of a 2014 memoir
0:08:26 > 0:08:28by which broadcaster and DJ?
0:08:33 > 0:08:36I'm trying to think if there's a clue anywhere in the question.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42I'll probably rule out Danny Baker.
0:08:46 > 0:08:47It is Danny Baker...
0:08:48 > 0:08:51I'm going to change my mind completely and go for Danny Baker.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54I'm glad you did. It is Danny Baker. Well done.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57OK, over to you, Lisa.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00"A few miles south of Soledad,
0:09:00 > 0:09:04"the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs
0:09:04 > 0:09:07"deep and green" is the opening line of which novel?
0:09:14 > 0:09:16Yeah, now that sounds geographical.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19It would probably help if I knew where Soledad and the
0:09:19 > 0:09:21Salinas River was, wouldn't it?
0:09:21 > 0:09:24Which, needless to say, I don't.
0:09:24 > 0:09:29Now, I have attempted to read Catch-22. Fairly sure it's not that.
0:09:29 > 0:09:31So it sort of depends whether...
0:09:32 > 0:09:36..it's in America or not.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39I may be doing Of Mice And Men a disservice, but I think it's
0:09:39 > 0:09:41The Sound And The Fury.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44Yeah, now I've gone a sudden blank on The Sound And The Fury.
0:09:44 > 0:09:48- It wasn't Normal Mailer, was it? - William Faulkner.- William Faulkner.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50William Faulkner. OK. It's not that, actually.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53Catch-22 is...It's something like the first time he saw...
0:09:53 > 0:09:55He fell in love with him at first sight.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57He fell in love with him or something, yeah.
0:09:57 > 0:09:58It's Of Mice And Men.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00I'm so sorry, Mr Steinbeck.
0:10:02 > 0:10:03So, that's all right for you, Sue.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06- You got off lightly there. - Yeah. I did.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08Get this right and put some pressure on.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11Blasted and Cleansed are controversial works
0:10:11 > 0:10:13by which writer?
0:10:17 > 0:10:20Again, I've not heard of any of these writers.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24I'm going to plump down the middle, Jez Butterworth.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26- Anyone know here?- Sarah Kane.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29Sarah Kane. And controversial why?
0:10:29 > 0:10:32- They're just very graphic and disturbing plays.- Right.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34- Sarah Kane.- OK.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37So, Lisa, your chance to take the round.
0:10:37 > 0:10:41First published in the 1920s, Apsley Cherry-Garrard's memoir
0:10:41 > 0:10:44The Worst Journey In The World is an account of an expedition
0:10:44 > 0:10:45to reach where?
0:10:50 > 0:10:54What is all this geography doing in my Arts & Books round?!
0:10:54 > 0:10:56OK. So...
0:10:56 > 0:11:00the dates would be sort of commensurate with the South Pole.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02You're not giving me much to work with here.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04It could literally be any of them.
0:11:06 > 0:11:10I suppose there's no guarantee that he was the guy who did the...
0:11:10 > 0:11:14There's no guarantee he was part of the South Pole expedition, but...
0:11:14 > 0:11:18Let's maybe go with the incredibly tenuous logic
0:11:18 > 0:11:22that he was writing about the disasters going on around then
0:11:22 > 0:11:25with the South Pole and say the South Pole.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27The South Pole is correct.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29Hey-hey-hey!
0:11:29 > 0:11:31OK, well, you got it right. Well done.
0:11:31 > 0:11:35And you are in the final, Lisa. Sue, sorry, beaten by our Egghead there.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37Please return and rejoin your team-mates.
0:11:39 > 0:11:43OK, so little bit of a problem on this side, Shenley 24.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45Change of strategy now or...?
0:11:45 > 0:11:47- No, we'll stick to our game plan. - OK.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49The tactics are working so far, they say.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51They've lost a couple of brains,
0:11:51 > 0:11:54but they may be trying to just confuse the Eggheads.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57They've, so far, not lost any at all. The next subject is Sport.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00Is this good for someone here?
0:12:00 > 0:12:01Yes, I think I'll go for Sport.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04OK, Dave. Retired leisure centre manager.
0:12:04 > 0:12:05Against which Egghead?
0:12:05 > 0:12:08And it can be any of the three nearest to me.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12Can we try Beth, please?
0:12:12 > 0:12:13Yeah, by all means.
0:12:13 > 0:12:18Dave from Shenley 24 on Sport, against our new Egghead, Beth.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20To ensure there's no conferring,
0:12:20 > 0:12:23please go to the famous Question Room.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26It's interesting, Beth, you're a scientist who loves sport.
0:12:26 > 0:12:27There are not many of them.
0:12:27 > 0:12:31There must be some, I'm sure there are. Yes. I do like sport.
0:12:31 > 0:12:32Lots of different sports.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Often your more obscure ones.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37I'm well known in my local quiz team and
0:12:37 > 0:12:39my quiz league team for knowing boxing weights.
0:12:39 > 0:12:41How about you, Dave?
0:12:41 > 0:12:44I like any sport at all.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47Really? Dave on Sport. Do you want to go first or second?
0:12:47 > 0:12:49Can I go first, please?
0:12:53 > 0:12:54And here is your first question.
0:12:54 > 0:12:58Who returned to Andy Murray's coaching team in 2016,
0:12:58 > 0:13:02having previously worked with him between 2011 and 2014?
0:13:07 > 0:13:11I think I'll jump straight in and say Ivan Lendl.
0:13:13 > 0:13:14Yes, Ivan Lendl is right.
0:13:14 > 0:13:17Famous for showing too much emotion, they said,
0:13:17 > 0:13:19when Murray won Wimbledon.
0:13:19 > 0:13:23His face remained completely impassive throughout the game. Yeah.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25OK, so You got it right. Well done.
0:13:25 > 0:13:29Beth, the broadcaster and commentator Alan Green is
0:13:29 > 0:13:31chiefly associated with which sport?
0:13:34 > 0:13:36Alan Green...
0:13:36 > 0:13:43I'm pretty sure that's...darts. I'm sounding pretty hesitant.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45No. Darts. Darts.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47- No. No, no.- No!
0:13:47 > 0:13:49I think the darts is... What do you say, Dave?
0:13:49 > 0:13:52Do you think there's a darts player who... Darts commentator.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54- That's Tony Green.- Tony Green!
0:13:54 > 0:13:56- He led you astray.- Yeah.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Steve, Alan Green, you know him?
0:13:58 > 0:14:01Not personally, but he commentates on Radio 5.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03- He does have his opinions... - Big football man.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05- He is very opinionated.- Yeah.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08- So, football, Beth.- Oh, darn.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10I listen to Radio 5 as well.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13OK, Dave, you're ahead. Here's your question.
0:14:13 > 0:14:17Which American golfer won his first major championship
0:14:17 > 0:14:19at the 2016 US Open?
0:14:24 > 0:14:26Um...
0:14:27 > 0:14:30Jordan Spieth won it in 2015.
0:14:30 > 0:14:34So I'm going to go for Dustin Johnson.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37Dustin Johnson is the right answer. Well done. Good quizzing.
0:14:37 > 0:14:38Your question, Beth.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41The Prefontaine Classic, which takes place in Oregon,
0:14:41 > 0:14:43is an annual event in which sport?
0:14:47 > 0:14:49And you need to get this right.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51- Prefontaine Classic?- Yeah.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55Classic... Lots of horse races are called classics.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59Oregon...
0:14:59 > 0:15:00Pretty sure...
0:15:02 > 0:15:05It really doesn't sound like an athletics meet.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09Sailing...
0:15:11 > 0:15:14Nope. I... I don't know for sure the answer.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17But let's go for horse racing.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20Horse racing, OK. Dave, do you know this one?
0:15:20 > 0:15:22- It's athletics.- Distance running.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24- Distance running. Athletics.- Oh!
0:15:24 > 0:15:26It's named after Steve Prefontaine,
0:15:26 > 0:15:29who died unfortunately, prematurely.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31- He was a runner, was he? - Yeah, American runner.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33- Steve Prefontaine was a runner, Beth.- Oh.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36Athletics is the answer. Well done, Dave.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39You've taken that round. Pulling it back for your team a bit.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43Good play. You'll be in the final. Please return to us here.
0:15:45 > 0:15:49So, Shenley 24 have pulled one back now, having lost two brains
0:15:49 > 0:15:52from the final round, they've now managed to take out an Egghead.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54The next subject for you is Music.
0:15:54 > 0:15:56Last subject before the final.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59Who would like this? It could be either Sid or John.
0:15:59 > 0:16:00- It's got to be Sid.- Got to be me.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02OK, against which Egghead?
0:16:02 > 0:16:05You can have either Steve, who's new, or Pat, who's not.
0:16:05 > 0:16:06I'll try Steve.
0:16:06 > 0:16:12OK, so Sid from Shenley 24 versus Steve from the Eggheads.
0:16:12 > 0:16:13Please go to our Question Room now.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19OK, Sid. Would you like to go first or second?
0:16:19 > 0:16:21I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26Good luck to you. Here we go.
0:16:26 > 0:16:30In the musical term prog rock, what is the prog short for?
0:16:34 > 0:16:37Not really sure, but the one I'll go for is progressive.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40Yeah, that's right. Progressive is correct.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42So, Steve.
0:16:42 > 0:16:47Marilyn Monroe famously sang Happy Birthday to which US President
0:16:47 > 0:16:49in May 1962?
0:16:55 > 0:16:58Well, I think Reagan's a bit too... Well, talking presidents,
0:16:58 > 0:17:01Reagan's too late.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03I don't think it was Eisenhower.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06She famously had a bit of an on-off affair with JFK.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08So I'll say John F Kennedy.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10John F Kennedy is quite right.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12When did she die, Marilyn?
0:17:12 > 0:17:14- '62.- That year?- Yeah.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16She was dead later that year?
0:17:16 > 0:17:17Oh, my goodness.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19OK, Sid, onto you.
0:17:19 > 0:17:23The American musician and singer Blind Lemon Jefferson
0:17:23 > 0:17:25was particularly associated with which type of music?
0:17:29 > 0:17:34I've never heard of him so this will be a complete and utter guess.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37I don't think it's salsa.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40I'll go for blues.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Blues is correct.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44Well done.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46OK, Steve, onto you.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48Alex Turner has found fame as the singer, songwriter and
0:17:48 > 0:17:50instrumentalist with which band?
0:17:55 > 0:17:57That's a band from my neck of the woods.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59And he sings like that. And it's Arctic Monkeys.
0:18:01 > 0:18:03- Sheffield band, yeah?- Yeah.
0:18:03 > 0:18:04Arctic Monkeys is right.
0:18:04 > 0:18:08OK. Sid, your third question. This can be crucial.
0:18:08 > 0:18:14In 1996, which European country issued a 200 franc banknote
0:18:14 > 0:18:18featuring Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone?
0:18:22 > 0:18:26I don't think it would be Luxembourg.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28I think it would be France.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30Yeah, it sort of points to France, doesn't it?
0:18:30 > 0:18:32Anyone on your side know about this?
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Belgium.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37It is Belgium. What are they doing issuing francs in Belgium?
0:18:37 > 0:18:39Cos the Belgians had francs.
0:18:39 > 0:18:40Oh, of course, this is pre-euro.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43It is Belgium, Sid. Cos it's before the euro.
0:18:44 > 0:18:48We go to Steve, with your chance to take the round.
0:18:48 > 0:18:52In 1931, which Italian conductor was attacked by a crowd
0:18:52 > 0:18:56when he refused to play the Fascists' national anthem?
0:19:00 > 0:19:01That's easy for you to say.
0:19:01 > 0:19:07Right, um, well, the obviously stand-out name there is Toscanini.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09Guarnieri, I can't even say it either...
0:19:09 > 0:19:12I think he was a violin maker back in the day.
0:19:12 > 0:19:18So I'm veering away from him. Capuana I've never heard of.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21My first thought was actually Toscanini so, on the basis of that,
0:19:21 > 0:19:24I will stick with Toscanini.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26The answer is Toscanini.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28Well done, Steve. You got three out of three.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30Sorry, the Eggs are playing rather well today.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32I don't know what they've had for lunch.
0:19:32 > 0:19:33That means, Sid, you're not in the final.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36Doesn't matter. Cos you can still win, Challengers.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39Rejoin your teams. We'll play the all-important final.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43So this is what we have been playing towards.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45It is time for the final round, which, as always,
0:19:45 > 0:19:46is General Knowledge.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-head won't be
0:19:49 > 0:19:51allowed to take part in this.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54Sid, Sue and Alan from Shenley 24,
0:19:54 > 0:19:56and also Beth from the Eggheads,
0:19:56 > 0:19:58would you please now leave the studio?
0:19:59 > 0:20:01Well, here we are, Dave and John.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04You played well. You've got here to the final.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07And you're playing to win £3,000.
0:20:07 > 0:20:10Lisa, Dave, Pat and Steve, you're playing for something that is
0:20:10 > 0:20:14almost more precious, and that is the Eggheads' reputation.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19This time they're all General Knowledge.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22You can confer with each other, guys. OK.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25Shenley 24, the question is, can you, with your two brains,
0:20:25 > 0:20:27eviscerate these four?
0:20:27 > 0:20:30Dave and John, do you want to go first or second?
0:20:30 > 0:20:32- We'll go first, Jeremy. - We'll go first.
0:20:35 > 0:20:36OK, guys.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38Good luck. Here's your first question.
0:20:38 > 0:20:43Which British actor co-wrote the screenplay for the 2016 film
0:20:43 > 0:20:45Star Trek Beyond?
0:20:50 > 0:20:53- I think it's Simon Pegg. - I thought it was Simon Pegg.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55- First thought, Simon Pegg.- Yeah.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Shall we go with that? First thought?
0:20:57 > 0:20:59We'll go with Simon Pegg, Jeremy.
0:20:59 > 0:21:00Simon Pegg is right.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03Well done. Nice one. OK...
0:21:03 > 0:21:04Eggheads.
0:21:04 > 0:21:10In June 2016, Virginia Raggi became the first female mayor
0:21:10 > 0:21:13of which European capital city?
0:21:17 > 0:21:20- Sounds Roman, doesn't it? - She's mayor of Rome.
0:21:20 > 0:21:24- OK, you know it but... - I think she's Five Star party.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27OK, fine. Yeah, go for that.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29I think she's a member of the Five Star party
0:21:29 > 0:21:31and she's become the mayor of Rome.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33Rome is correct. Well done, Eggheads.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36It's hard when there's four of them, isn't it?
0:21:36 > 0:21:38OK, your question, Challengers.
0:21:38 > 0:21:42Who founded the internet retail company Amazon in the mid-1990s?
0:21:49 > 0:21:51Amazon.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Hmm.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55- I don't know for sure.- No.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57- Any first thoughts?- But...
0:21:59 > 0:22:00- ..Bezos seems to ring a bell.- Mm.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04- Yeah.- Go for it.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06We'll go for Jeff Bezos.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Jeff Bezos is your answer.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12You've got it right, Jeff Bezos is the answer. Well done.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15- Well done, John. - Great entrepreneur of the internet.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17OK.
0:22:17 > 0:22:21Which English actor returned to the West End stage in 2016
0:22:21 > 0:22:25to play the role of Leo Colston in the musical, The Go-Between?
0:22:30 > 0:22:32Hmm.
0:22:32 > 0:22:36Right, now I may have to fall back on the old standby of
0:22:36 > 0:22:38"I probably heard it on Radio 2."
0:22:38 > 0:22:41I have an idea, you know, it's Michael Crawford.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Yeah, that makes sense to me.
0:22:43 > 0:22:48Because he was on Steve Wright's show talking about it,
0:22:48 > 0:22:50as a sort of passion project.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53I am now panicking in case it's Michael Ball.
0:22:53 > 0:22:54No, I think it is Crawford.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57He was chatting away, and obviously he's getting on a bit now.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59Michael Ball's got his own show on Radio 2.
0:22:59 > 0:23:03This is true, yeah. He would just promote it himself, wouldn't he?
0:23:03 > 0:23:05- We can rule out Michael Caine, can't we?- I think so, yeah.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08- It's a musical... - I'll take that one.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10- I'm happy with that, yeah. - Michael Crawford?- Yeah.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13We're going to go for Michael Crawford.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16- Michael Crawford is correct. - Well done, Lisa.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19All right, so... I'd love to say they're making heavy weather,
0:23:19 > 0:23:21but they're just being a little bit painstaking.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23They've had some terrible times recently, the Eggheads.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25OK, here's your third question.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27Get this right, put them under some pressure.
0:23:27 > 0:23:33The American Bill Cunningham, who died in 2016, was a leading name
0:23:33 > 0:23:34in which field?
0:23:38 > 0:23:39Pfff.
0:23:41 > 0:23:46- I've got no idea.- Cunningham doesn't ring a bell with me in poetry.
0:23:46 > 0:23:50- OK, what about sculpture? - Cunningham...
0:23:51 > 0:23:54- I would go for either photography or sculpture.- Yeah.
0:23:54 > 0:23:56- Fair enough.- Have you any...?
0:23:56 > 0:23:57Any leanings?
0:23:57 > 0:24:03I've got no... If it's sculpture, I might have heard of him.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05- Photography...- Mmm.- Yeah.
0:24:05 > 0:24:07- Shall we go photography? - We'll go photography, yeah.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09We'll go photography, Jeremy.
0:24:09 > 0:24:13He had nearly 40 years at the New York Times so you're quite right.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Photography it is.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19- Guesses count! - Oh, they certainly do.
0:24:19 > 0:24:233-2, Eggheads. Here we are again.
0:24:23 > 0:24:28Which broadcaster and presenter married the dancer and actress
0:24:28 > 0:24:30Moira Shearer in 1950?
0:24:34 > 0:24:37Ludovic Kennedy. Definitely. No question.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39- Everybody's happy with that? - Yeah, definitely.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41We think that's Ludovic Kennedy.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43The answer is Ludovic Kennedy.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45You didn't have any doubt at all, did you?
0:24:45 > 0:24:47OK. 3-3. Sorry, they
0:24:47 > 0:24:50made light work of that third question there.
0:24:50 > 0:24:51We knew that as well.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54Well, that's good. We go to Sudden Death.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57It gets a bit harder. I don't give you different options.
0:24:57 > 0:25:03The DJ, Tom Ravenscroft, is the son of which broadcaster and DJ
0:25:03 > 0:25:06who died in 2004?
0:25:06 > 0:25:08I know who it is but I can't get his name to my head.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14- He was...- Give me a clue.
0:25:14 > 0:25:19He did a lot of progressive, you know, people like...
0:25:21 > 0:25:23John Peel?
0:25:23 > 0:25:24John Peel.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26Is that your answer?
0:25:26 > 0:25:27- Yes.- OK.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31- John Peel is right.- Yes!
0:25:33 > 0:25:36Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant DJ.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38OK, Eggheads, to stay in the contest...
0:25:38 > 0:25:41Which female Canadian author
0:25:41 > 0:25:45was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013?
0:25:45 > 0:25:46It's Alice Munro, isn't it?
0:25:46 > 0:25:48It's not Atwood. It's Alice Munro.
0:25:48 > 0:25:52- Because Atwood got the Booker...- Way before.
0:25:52 > 0:25:56And I think Alice Munro is the Canadian...
0:25:56 > 0:25:58I think it is Alice Munro.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00THEY TALK OVER EACH OTHER
0:26:00 > 0:26:04Just calm... I think it's Alice Munro is the person who's had...
0:26:04 > 0:26:07- The short story writer, yeah. - ..the Nobel Prize.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09Are there any other obvious candidates?
0:26:09 > 0:26:12Not Atwood.
0:26:12 > 0:26:13- Good?- Yeah.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15We're going to go with Alice Munro.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17Alice Munro is correct.
0:26:18 > 0:26:19Challengers...
0:26:19 > 0:26:23In June 2016, Microsoft announced that it was acquiring
0:26:23 > 0:26:27which professional networking website for over 26 billion?
0:26:33 > 0:26:36Wasn't it Facebook? Didn't they take over Facebook?
0:26:37 > 0:26:40I have no idea. But it sounds reasonable.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44Let's try Facebook. I'm not good on the IT.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47We don't know, Jeremy, but we'll say Facebook.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50No, it's not that. Eggheads, do you know?
0:26:50 > 0:26:51LinkedIn?
0:26:51 > 0:26:55LinkedIn is the website where everyone has their business details.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58- I'm on that as well.- Are you? HE CHUCKLES
0:26:58 > 0:26:59All right, now listen.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02What we've got to hope now is that something,
0:27:02 > 0:27:05something takes them down, confuses them.
0:27:05 > 0:27:06Otherwise the contest is over.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09Who was elected as the new president of the
0:27:09 > 0:27:12International Association of Athletics Federations
0:27:12 > 0:27:14in August 2015?
0:27:14 > 0:27:16- Sebastian Coe.- Seb Coe. - Seb Coe.- Yes.
0:27:16 > 0:27:20- Who was it before? Lamine Diack. - Lamine Diack. It's Coe.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23It was a fight between him and Sergey Bubka. It was Coe that won.
0:27:23 > 0:27:27- Coe won. And yeah, he's been... - Yeah.- Yeah.
0:27:27 > 0:27:31- Is Sebastian Coe IAAF or is he Olympic?- No, I'm fairly sure...
0:27:31 > 0:27:34- Athletics. - Olympics is Thomas Bach, isn't it?
0:27:34 > 0:27:38Yeah, it's the one who was the fencing man, isn't it?
0:27:38 > 0:27:41- Yeah.- It's athletics and it's Coe.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43We think that's Sebastian Coe.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45If you've got this right, the contest is over.
0:27:47 > 0:27:50- And we can blame LinkedIn for that, can't we?- Mm.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52Do you know the answer, guys?
0:27:52 > 0:27:55- We think it's Seb Coe. - Lord Coe.
0:27:55 > 0:27:56The correct answer is...
0:27:56 > 0:27:58Sebastian Coe.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00We say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03- Well done. - APPLAUSE
0:28:05 > 0:28:08Well, you took them to Sudden Death in the final round.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10And many don't. So, well done.
0:28:10 > 0:28:11Enjoyed it.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13Commiserations, Challengers.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them
0:28:16 > 0:28:20and they are beginning to put on the style a bit here now.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22It does mean you won't be going home with the £3,000,
0:28:22 > 0:28:25so the money rolls over to our next show.
0:28:25 > 0:28:27Eggheads, well done.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29Looking a little bit hard to beat now.
0:28:29 > 0:28:32Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers
0:28:32 > 0:28:34have the brains to take them down.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36£4,000 says they can't and they won't.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38Till then, goodbye.