0:00:04 > 0:00:07These 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 > 0:00:25Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers
0:00:25 > 0:00:30pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33They are the Eggheads, and they are looking ferocious.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35- Well, not really.- Sort of...
0:00:35 > 0:00:38- You're looking friendly, really. - Pussycats.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41They're friendly until the quizzing starts, that's the thing.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43Challenging our resident quiz champions today
0:00:43 > 0:00:45are the Mental Blocks.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47Now, this team of friends have been quizzing together
0:00:47 > 0:00:50in and around South London for over 20 years.
0:00:50 > 0:00:51Let's meet them.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55Hello, I'm Nigel. I'm an economist who works for the Government.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58Hello, I'm Kevin, and I'm a chartered surveyor.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01Hi, I'm Sheila, and I'm a coach and mediator.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04Hello, I'm James, and I am a retired company director.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07Hello, I'm Steve, and I'm a retired civil servant.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09So, Nigel and team, welcome.
0:01:09 > 0:01:10- ALL:- Hello. - Hi.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13So you're quizzers, basically, Nigel?
0:01:13 > 0:01:16Yeah, a few times a year we go out to charity quizzes.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18We're just a bunch of old friends who -
0:01:18 > 0:01:20shall I say long-standing friends - who quiz together.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22So do you have particular skills going on
0:01:22 > 0:01:24and a strategy and all that?
0:01:24 > 0:01:26And have you worked out who's got the strengths
0:01:26 > 0:01:29- and who's got the weaknesses? - We've done a bit of that.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31Normally, the bit of the quiz that we really like
0:01:31 > 0:01:33is when, between us, we know the answer.
0:01:33 > 0:01:37And each of us don't quite, but between us we manage it.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40Now, Mental Blocks, the Eggheads have won the last nine games.
0:01:40 > 0:01:41They are doing very well.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44You've got to stop them. There's ten grand if you win today.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46- Would you like to try?- Yeah, sure.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49Brilliant. The first head-to-head battle is on the subject
0:01:49 > 0:01:50of Film and Television.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52Who would like this?
0:01:52 > 0:01:53Well, Kevin, I think.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56- It's got to be our Kevin. - Yeah, you happy for me to go first?
0:01:56 > 0:01:59OK, Kevin? Against which Egghead?
0:02:01 > 0:02:02Possibly Lisa, do you think?
0:02:02 > 0:02:05- Lisa?- Yeah.- Or Judith? Or...?
0:02:05 > 0:02:07- Why don't we go for Lisa? - Go with Lisa?- Lisa.
0:02:07 > 0:02:08There is no right and wrong there.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12There's no obvious weak spot, I don't think, on...
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Well, maybe there is.
0:02:15 > 0:02:19Kevin from Mental Blocks versus our own Lisa from the Eggheads.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22First Round, here we go, please go to the question room now.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26Kevin up against Lisa.
0:02:26 > 0:02:27Film and TV.
0:02:27 > 0:02:28Here comes the round.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30Would you like to go first or second?
0:02:30 > 0:02:31I'd like to go first, Jeremy.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37Good luck. Which role in Coronation Street
0:02:37 > 0:02:41was played for over 40 years by Anne Kirkbride?
0:02:41 > 0:02:43Was she...?
0:02:46 > 0:02:47I don't watch Coronation Street any more,
0:02:47 > 0:02:50although I used to watch it a lot when I was younger.
0:02:50 > 0:02:51Definitely not Hilda Ogden.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55Bet Lynch was the barmaid.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58I'm pretty sure it's Deirdre Barlow.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Deirdre Barlow is correct.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03OK, Lisa, your first question.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Angela Rippon is famously the first woman
0:03:05 > 0:03:10to be a permanent BBC presenter of which genre of TV?
0:03:12 > 0:03:15I believe she was the BBC's first female newsreader,
0:03:15 > 0:03:16so it's news.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18News is the right answer.
0:03:19 > 0:03:20Back to you, Kevin.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23The 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You,
0:03:23 > 0:03:27starring Heath Ledger, is based on which Shakespeare play?
0:03:32 > 0:03:35I don't know this one. Ten things?
0:03:35 > 0:03:3710 Things I Hate About You.
0:03:37 > 0:03:38It's not Romeo And Juliet.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40I don't believe it's Hamlet.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44Taming Of The Shrew is all about husband and wife
0:03:44 > 0:03:46hating each other and stuff,
0:03:46 > 0:03:48so I'm going to guess at Taming Of The Shrew.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51Yes, you're right. Taming Of The Shrew.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53OK, your question, Lisa.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55The children's TV presenter Johnny Ball
0:03:55 > 0:03:59specialised in programmes on which subject? Was it...?
0:04:03 > 0:04:07Yeah, I'm getting flashbacks from childhood, it's maths and science.
0:04:07 > 0:04:08Yeah, and the father of...?
0:04:08 > 0:04:10- Zoe Ball.- Zoe Ball.
0:04:10 > 0:04:11Maths and science is quite right.
0:04:12 > 0:04:17Kevin, which man, the writer of the TV drama series Broadchurch,
0:04:17 > 0:04:22was announced as the new producer of Dr Who in January 2016?
0:04:26 > 0:04:28Now, I don't know this one at all.
0:04:28 > 0:04:33Steven Moffat, well, he used to be involved in writing Dr Who.
0:04:33 > 0:04:37So I think it's probably Chris Chibnall or Toby Whithouse.
0:04:37 > 0:04:38I really don't know this one.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41I'm going to go for Toby Whithouse.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43It's Chris Chibnall.
0:04:43 > 0:04:47Kevin, sorry about that. But two out of three ain't bad.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49Lisa, we go with your third question,
0:04:49 > 0:04:50see if you can take the round.
0:04:50 > 0:04:56The 1973 film Badlands starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek
0:04:56 > 0:04:59was the debut work by which director?
0:05:05 > 0:05:06Oh.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08I may struggle to do this on the date,
0:05:08 > 0:05:11because I think all of them have been around
0:05:11 > 0:05:16for roughly the same length of time in one way or the other.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18Not sure I can draw any of them out in kind of...
0:05:20 > 0:05:22..genre terms either.
0:05:22 > 0:05:23Maybe not Terrence Malick.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27I have a vague feeling Martin Scorsese.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29So I'll try Martin Scorsese.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32- Dave?- Terrence Malick.
0:05:32 > 0:05:33Terrence Malick is the answer.
0:05:33 > 0:05:37Oh, well, if you're going to be wrong, be really wrong.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39After three questions each, the scores are level.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41We go to Sudden Death.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44Gets a bit harder, these are not multiple-choice questions.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46So here we go with yours, Kevin.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49Which British actor played the character known as Pumpkin
0:05:49 > 0:05:53in Quentin Tarantino's film Pulp Fiction.
0:05:53 > 0:05:54Pumpkin in Pulp Fiction?
0:05:58 > 0:06:00I should know this one.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03Who is that now? British actor in Pulp Fiction?
0:06:03 > 0:06:04I know the film well.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09I think he's the guy who plays in Lie To Me.
0:06:09 > 0:06:13He was in Reservoir Dogs - I think it's him.
0:06:13 > 0:06:14Can't think of his name.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16Definitely got a mental block.
0:06:19 > 0:06:20No, I can't get it.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24Take a stab at it or pass?
0:06:24 > 0:06:26- I'll pass.- Lisa, do you know?
0:06:26 > 0:06:28- Tim Roth.- Tim Roth is the answer.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31And he was in...? Was he in Reservoir Dogs, then, Kevin?
0:06:31 > 0:06:33- Yes, he was, wasn't he?- Yes, he was. Definitely.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36He's obviously a favourite of Quentin Tarantino's?
0:06:36 > 0:06:38Tim Roth. OK, Lisa, for the round.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41Albert Brooks provides the voice of Marlin
0:06:41 > 0:06:45in which 2016 animated film?
0:06:45 > 0:06:48OK. Marlin? M-A-R-L-I-N?
0:06:48 > 0:06:51- Correct.- Cool, he's a fish.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53He's the father of Nemo.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56Was in Finding Nemo. But the 2016 bit kind of gives it away -
0:06:56 > 0:06:57it must be Finding Dory.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59Finding Dory is the right answer.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01Well done, Lisa, you're in the final.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04Sorry, Kevin. They do that a bit, don't they, these Eggheads?
0:07:04 > 0:07:06So you won't be in the final.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09Please come back to us, both of you, and rejoin your teams.
0:07:11 > 0:07:15So, on Angela Rippon - not the first female journalist,
0:07:15 > 0:07:18- but the first woman to basically... - Anchor?
0:07:18 > 0:07:20..permanently anchor BBC News, yeah.
0:07:20 > 0:07:24As it stands, the Mental Blocks have lost one brain from the final round.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26You can turn this around, Blocks.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28The Eggheads are still all sitting there,
0:07:28 > 0:07:30looking a little bit too satisfied.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33And the next subject is Music.
0:07:33 > 0:07:34So who would like this?
0:07:34 > 0:07:36- Oh.- Oh, dear.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38Everybody volunteering not to do that.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Either Steve or Sheena or James.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42Oh, no, I decline.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45I think it's Steve. He's the man.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47Take one for the team, as they say.
0:07:47 > 0:07:48Take one for the team, Steven.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50- OK.- All right.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53Steve, OK. But you like your music, I know you do.
0:07:53 > 0:07:54We'll find out more in a second.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Who would you like to take on?
0:07:56 > 0:07:57- Can't be Lisa?- Right.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00- Chris.- Can't be Lisa. Chris.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02Steve from Mental Blocks on Music,
0:08:02 > 0:08:06which is not always the happiest subject for Chris of the Eggheads.
0:08:06 > 0:08:08Please, both of you go to the question room now.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12So, Steve, I thought you would want to take music
0:08:12 > 0:08:14because of your musical background.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16Yeah, but it's a specific genre.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19I'm into rock and heavy metal and things like that.
0:08:19 > 0:08:23My knowledge of rappers and other kinds of music
0:08:23 > 0:08:24is not as strong as it could be.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Well, they say don't worry,
0:08:26 > 0:08:29because you've described Chris there, so that's fine.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32So you're in a band called the Xylophone Yacht Zombies.
0:08:32 > 0:08:36Exactly. We were X, Y, Z, so that we'd be last in the record store,
0:08:36 > 0:08:39because we're not looking to be famous
0:08:39 > 0:08:41or to have incredibly large egos.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44So we're on Music, I think you're going to be good on Music.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46Steve, do you want to go first or second?
0:08:46 > 0:08:47I would always rather go first.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53Here we go with your first question.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56What was the original surname of Madonna?
0:09:00 > 0:09:03Well, it's an East Coast lady there and...
0:09:03 > 0:09:07She's not Irish and Bullock is probably too English.
0:09:07 > 0:09:11I'm pretty sure she's got an Italian background, so Ciccone,
0:09:11 > 0:09:13if I'm pronouncing it correctly.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16- I think we go Si-coni. EXAGGERATED ACCENT:- Si-coni.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19Who is good with their Italian here? Anybody?
0:09:19 > 0:09:20Judith?
0:09:20 > 0:09:21I think it's Chi-ccone.
0:09:21 > 0:09:25Chic-cone. So the first C is "ch"' and the double-C is "c".
0:09:25 > 0:09:27C followed by an I becomes a "ch".
0:09:27 > 0:09:29Ciccone. All right, you're right, anyway.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32Well done, Steve. Brilliant. Chris, back to you.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35In which year was the singer Billie Holiday born?
0:09:40 > 0:09:45Well, Lady Day, I think she died in tragic circumstances in the '60s,
0:09:45 > 0:09:47and she had quite a long career.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50She was certainly active in '35,
0:09:50 > 0:09:52so she must have been born in '15, 1915.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54Yes, 1915 is right.
0:09:54 > 0:09:55Steven, back to you.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58"You need cooling, baby, I'm not foolin',
0:09:58 > 0:10:02"I'm going to send you back to schoolin'" are the opening lines
0:10:02 > 0:10:03of which classic rock track?
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Well, I love all of those tracks
0:10:11 > 0:10:14and I'm a deep, deep Led Zep fan,
0:10:14 > 0:10:17and I have to say it's got to be Whole Lotta Love.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19- So this is the perfect question for you.- Absolutely.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21Whole Lotta Love, not at all, it's a pleasure.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24So, Bohemian Rhapsody is "Is this the real life?"
0:10:24 > 0:10:27But Bat Out Of Hell, I'm trying to think, what was the...?
0:10:27 > 0:10:29What is the opening line of that, Steven?
0:10:29 > 0:10:30# Sirens are screaming in the fires of hell
0:10:30 > 0:10:33# Way down in the valley tonight
0:10:33 > 0:10:35# There's a man in the shadows with a gun in his eye...
0:10:35 > 0:10:37BOTH: # And a blade shining oh so bright. #
0:10:37 > 0:10:39Hey!
0:10:40 > 0:10:44You stopped just as I was going to do the motorbike revving sounds.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46Yeah, well, I can't go on forever.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48OK, well done, Whole Lotta Love, Steve.
0:10:48 > 0:10:50Now, you're enjoying this music round now, aren't you?
0:10:50 > 0:10:51I am now.
0:10:51 > 0:10:56OK, Chris... On My One...
0:10:56 > 0:10:59is the title of a 2016 album by which British singer?
0:11:04 > 0:11:06Don't think it's Jake Bugg.
0:11:06 > 0:11:10I don't think Robbie Williams has an album out at the moment, so...
0:11:10 > 0:11:13I'll have a go at Tom Odell.
0:11:13 > 0:11:14You just missed it, it's Jake Bugg...
0:11:14 > 0:11:16- Ah.- ..Chris.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Steve, your question.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20If you get this right, you've gone through to the final
0:11:20 > 0:11:22and levelled things up.
0:11:22 > 0:11:24Quite a lot riding on it, £10,000, we're playing for.
0:11:24 > 0:11:28Which of these composers was a conscientious objector
0:11:28 > 0:11:30during World War II?
0:11:34 > 0:11:40Well, Edward Elgar, I suspect, was of a different era,
0:11:40 > 0:11:44and it would've been out of that timeframe.
0:11:44 > 0:11:51Holst, I've got a feeling is also from a earlier timeframe,
0:11:51 > 0:11:54and so I'm probably going to plump for Benjamin Britten,
0:11:54 > 0:11:55right in the middle.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Benjamin Britten, I like your logic.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59Is it the correct answer? Chris, you know.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01- Yes, it is, actually. - Yeah, Benjamin Britten's right.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04Well done, Steve. No way back for Chris in this round.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06Chris has been knocked out.
0:12:06 > 0:12:07What can I say?
0:12:07 > 0:12:09Three out of three.
0:12:09 > 0:12:10And you will be in the final.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13Please rejoin your team-mates and we'll play the next round.
0:12:15 > 0:12:16Well, this is getting a bit interesting -
0:12:16 > 0:12:18the Mental Blocks have levelled things up.
0:12:18 > 0:12:22They have lost a brain but the Eggheads have also now lost a brain.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25The next subject is History.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28So who from Mental Blocks would like this classic quiz area?
0:12:28 > 0:12:30Right, James, you or me?
0:12:30 > 0:12:33- I think it's probably you, isn't it? - I think... Want me to do it?
0:12:33 > 0:12:34- I don't mind.- I think it's James.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36OK. It will be me.
0:12:36 > 0:12:37All right, James.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40Retired company director, against which Egghead?
0:12:40 > 0:12:41Can't be Lisa or Chris.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45What's Judith like at history?
0:12:45 > 0:12:47Judith's good on history. Can I have Dave?
0:12:47 > 0:12:48- Dave.- Dave is good, but...
0:12:48 > 0:12:51Tremendous Knowledge Dave? Tremendous Knowledge Dave.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53Tottenham versus Manchester United.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56OK. That could be lively.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59James from Mental Blocks takes on Dave from the Eggheads,
0:12:59 > 0:13:01Tremendous Knowledge Dave. The subject, History.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03Please go to the question room.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07History it is, and would you like to go first, or second?
0:13:07 > 0:13:09I'll go first, please.
0:13:12 > 0:13:16OK. So, James from the Mental Blocks...
0:13:16 > 0:13:19In medieval Britain, what was a freelance?
0:13:23 > 0:13:28Well, I like horse racing and a freelance jockey
0:13:28 > 0:13:31is one who sort of spread himself about the bit for money,
0:13:31 > 0:13:34so I'm guessing it's a mercenary soldier.
0:13:34 > 0:13:35You're quite right.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38- I guess that's where we get the whole freelance thing from now.- Yes.
0:13:38 > 0:13:42Dave...what type of weapon was the historical howitzer?
0:13:45 > 0:13:47Not a broadsword or a longbow, it's a gun.
0:13:47 > 0:13:51It's a gun. You're right. OK, your question, James.
0:13:51 > 0:13:55Which of these historical figures was born first?
0:14:00 > 0:14:04Well, Emmeline Pankhurst was the beginning of the last century,
0:14:04 > 0:14:07Elizabeth I was the end of the Tudor era,
0:14:07 > 0:14:09so Joan of Arc was Middle Ages,
0:14:09 > 0:14:11so I'm going with her.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13You're right, James.
0:14:13 > 0:14:15Well done, Joan of Arc.
0:14:15 > 0:14:17Dave, your question.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19Franz Joseph, born in 1830,
0:14:19 > 0:14:23was the king of Hungary and the Emperor of which other country?
0:14:26 > 0:14:30I have the Austrian Hungarian Empire in my head.
0:14:30 > 0:14:31I don't know why.
0:14:31 > 0:14:34The others are confusing me a bit, but I'm going to go Austria.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37Austria's the right answer.
0:14:37 > 0:14:39James, back to you.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42"You may go to hell and I will go to Texas"
0:14:42 > 0:14:44is a famous quote attributed to which American?
0:14:50 > 0:14:54Davy Crockett, the Alamo, all about Texas, wasn't it?
0:14:54 > 0:14:58Don't think it's George Washington. I'm going to guess Davy Crockett.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00Yeah, you've got three out of three, well done.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03Good play by James from the Mental Blocks.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06Tremendous Knowledge Dave, you need to get this one right.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08When people make a toast to the little gentleman
0:15:08 > 0:15:10in the black velvet waistcoat,
0:15:10 > 0:15:13they are referencing the death of which king?
0:15:17 > 0:15:19Don't know.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23Richard III...
0:15:23 > 0:15:28The little gentleman, because he had a hunchback, didn't he?
0:15:28 > 0:15:31I'm not sure about William III,
0:15:31 > 0:15:33who was William of Orange.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36I've got no real basis for this, but...
0:15:37 > 0:15:39Toast to the...
0:15:39 > 0:15:45the king, because Henry III was long-lived, 1216-1272.
0:15:45 > 0:15:50I've got no basis for this apart from just go for Henry III.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52Henry III is your answer.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55OK. Let's just see if James knows this one.
0:15:55 > 0:15:59I think it's William III, it's the mole that his horse tripped over,
0:15:59 > 0:16:00which threw him of his horse,
0:16:00 > 0:16:03because he tripped over a mole, a molehill, and he died.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05So it's William III.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08But where does his shortness and his waistcoat come in?
0:16:08 > 0:16:12No, the mole, the gentleman in a black velvet was a mole.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14Oh, I see!
0:16:14 > 0:16:16So they are referencing the death of William III.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19Dave, you've been knocked out there on that answer.
0:16:19 > 0:16:20William III was the correct answer.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Well done, James. You've taken on an Egghead.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24Your team is powering through a bit here.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27This is getting interesting.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29Come back and we'll play the next round.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34Well, I'm wondering if the Eggheads run, or roll,
0:16:34 > 0:16:38or whatever it is, is coming to an end this afternoon.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41The Mental Blocks have lost one brain from the final round,
0:16:41 > 0:16:46you have now lost two and I sense panic setting in over there.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48The next subject is Arts and Books.
0:16:48 > 0:16:49Who would like this?
0:16:49 > 0:16:51- Oh... Arts and books. - That's got to be good, right?
0:16:51 > 0:16:52You're all quizzers.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55Yeah, this is one that James said he would do under sufferance,
0:16:55 > 0:16:57so it looks like it's me.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59- OK.- OK, Nigel.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01- Yep.- Against which Egghead?
0:17:01 > 0:17:03You can have either Judith or Kevin.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06Judith, I think... No, Judith's very strong on art.
0:17:06 > 0:17:07- She's good on...- Yes, very strong.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09Try, try and take out Kevin.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11Kevin, why not? Kevin.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13- OK.- Why not? - In for a penny, in for a pound.
0:17:13 > 0:17:14You've got to meet him at some point.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16Try and get him out before the final - good tactic.
0:17:16 > 0:17:20Nigel from the Mental Blocks versus Kevin from the Eggheads
0:17:20 > 0:17:21on Arts and Books.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24Please head off, for the last time, to the question room.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28So, Arts and Books, Nigel, from the Mental Blocks.
0:17:28 > 0:17:29Would you like to go first or second?
0:17:29 > 0:17:31I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36Here we go, good luck.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39"Not a creature was staring, not even a mouse"
0:17:39 > 0:17:42is the second line of which famous poem?
0:17:42 > 0:17:43Is it...?
0:17:47 > 0:17:51I think this is about Christmas Eve and the excitement that people have
0:17:51 > 0:17:55before Santa Claus arrives and delivers presents,
0:17:55 > 0:17:57so I think it's A Visit From Saint Nicholas.
0:17:59 > 0:18:00Yes, it is A Visit From Saint Nicholas.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03- Well done.- Phew. - Kevin, your question.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05What name is given to art
0:18:05 > 0:18:08that does not attempt to represent observable reality,
0:18:08 > 0:18:11but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes,
0:18:11 > 0:18:14forms, colours and textures?
0:18:18 > 0:18:22Well, ancient art is what it says on the tin, it's ancient.
0:18:22 > 0:18:27Applied art is using objects and various designs,
0:18:27 > 0:18:30but the one that's non-representational
0:18:30 > 0:18:31is abstract art.
0:18:31 > 0:18:32Abstract art is of course correct.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34One each. Back to you, Nigel.
0:18:34 > 0:18:38In the book The Strange Case Of Doctor Jekyll And Mr Hyde,
0:18:38 > 0:18:40what is Jekyll's first name?
0:18:43 > 0:18:47Right, I think it's definitely not Clive.
0:18:47 > 0:18:52Henry Jekyll is what's in my head, so I'm going to go for Henry Jekyll.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54- Kevin?- Yes, yes, that's right.
0:18:54 > 0:18:55Henry Jekyll, Edward Hyde.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58Henry Jekyll, Edward Hyde. Well done, Nigel.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Kevin, Empire Of The Sun
0:19:02 > 0:19:03is a book by which author?
0:19:07 > 0:19:11Based on his own childhood in China
0:19:11 > 0:19:16during the period of the Second World War, it's JG Ballard.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18JG Ballard is quite right.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21OK, third question, you're cracking on here, Nigel.
0:19:21 > 0:19:25The sculptor Donatello was born and died in which city?
0:19:28 > 0:19:31I think this is Renaissance and it's Italian Renaissance,
0:19:31 > 0:19:33so that suggests not Paris.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36And I think it's Florence rather than Venice,
0:19:36 > 0:19:37so I'm going to go for Florence.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40Good answer. You're right, Florence is correct, well done.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43Three out of three. Kevin now has to get this right to stay in.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45The 1994 novel Closing Time
0:19:45 > 0:19:49is the sequel to which other work of fiction?
0:19:53 > 0:19:56I'm struggling to think of any particular sequels
0:19:56 > 0:19:58to either The Great Gatsby or To Kill A Mockingbird,
0:19:58 > 0:20:01but I think Closing Time was by Joseph Heller
0:20:01 > 0:20:04and was a sequel to Catch-22.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06Catch-22 is the right answer.
0:20:06 > 0:20:093-3, nothing to choose between these two quizzers.
0:20:09 > 0:20:10We go to sudden death, Nigel.
0:20:10 > 0:20:14Gets a bit harder. I don't give you different options.
0:20:14 > 0:20:19It was announced in mid-2016 that which snooker world champion
0:20:19 > 0:20:22would soon be releasing a novel called Framed,
0:20:22 > 0:20:27a thriller loosely inspired by his early experiences?
0:20:28 > 0:20:30Framed.
0:20:30 > 0:20:34So I'm wondering about Ronnie O'Sullivan, Stephen Hendry,
0:20:34 > 0:20:36Steve Davis.
0:20:36 > 0:20:41I don't think it's going to be Steve Davis or Stephen Hendry.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44So I'm going to guess Ronnie O'Sullivan.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46Ronnie O'Sullivan is the right answer.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50It's really good!
0:20:50 > 0:20:54Kevin, to stay, the 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge
0:20:54 > 0:20:57is particularly remembered for his pioneering photographs
0:20:57 > 0:21:00of which four-legged animal in motion?
0:21:00 > 0:21:03Yes, his photographs were used
0:21:03 > 0:21:06in trying to finally settle the argument
0:21:06 > 0:21:09about when a horse was running if all four of its legs
0:21:09 > 0:21:13left the ground simultaneously, and so it's horses.
0:21:13 > 0:21:14Horses is right.
0:21:14 > 0:21:15Nigel, back to you.
0:21:15 > 0:21:19Which French painter also created sculptures,
0:21:19 > 0:21:25including a nearly life-sized work entitled Little dancer aged 14,
0:21:25 > 0:21:28first exhibited in 1881?
0:21:28 > 0:21:32I'm thinking it's not Rodin, but I can't think who else it would be.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34So I'm going to go with...
0:21:35 > 0:21:40Oh, Francois Moreau or Auguste Rodin.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42I'm going to go for Francois Moreau.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45OK, I almost wonder if you've made this harder than it needs to be,
0:21:45 > 0:21:47because a French painter...
0:21:47 > 0:21:50- Oh.- ..also created sculptures.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52And you go, you know, these guys here, dancer,
0:21:52 > 0:21:54and they go straight for Degas every time.
0:21:54 > 0:21:58- Edgar Degas...- Oh.- ..is the answer.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01OK, Kevin. This for the round.
0:22:01 > 0:22:05Which 1934 novel by James M Cain
0:22:05 > 0:22:10features the characters Frank Cora and Nick Papadakis?
0:22:10 > 0:22:12It's The Postman Always Rings Twice.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16If you've got this right, the round is over.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19The Postman Always Rings Twice is the right answer, Kevin.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21Well done. Sorry, bad luck, Nigel.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24Any daylight you give this man, he's liable to take advantage,
0:22:24 > 0:22:26so you have been knocked out.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28He is good, yes.
0:22:28 > 0:22:29That's almost an understatement.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31So Kevin will play in the final.
0:22:31 > 0:22:34If you come back to last now, we'll play the final round.
0:22:36 > 0:22:37This is what we've been playing towards,
0:22:37 > 0:22:39it is time for the final round.
0:22:39 > 0:22:40As always, general knowledge.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43But I'm afraid those of you lost your head-to-heads
0:22:43 > 0:22:46won't be allowed to take part in this round,
0:22:46 > 0:22:49so that is Nigel and Kevin from the Mental Blocks,
0:22:49 > 0:22:51and also Chris and Dave from the Eggheads,
0:22:51 > 0:22:53would you now please leave the studio?
0:22:55 > 0:22:57Sheila, take a bow.
0:22:57 > 0:23:01- Thank you.- You, alongside James and Steve are now playing
0:23:01 > 0:23:04to win the Mental Blocks' £10,000.
0:23:04 > 0:23:05Judith, Kevin and Lisa,
0:23:05 > 0:23:07you're fighting a rearguard action
0:23:07 > 0:23:10to try to defend the Eggheads' reputation.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13A number of teams have failed to take you down.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16This one looks like they've got a sense of purpose about them.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19As usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.
0:23:19 > 0:23:20This time they're all general knowledge.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22You are allowed to confer.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24So, the Mental Blocks, the question is,
0:23:24 > 0:23:27are your three brains better than these three over here?
0:23:27 > 0:23:29And would you like to go first or second?
0:23:29 > 0:23:30I think we'd like to go first.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33Yes, we'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:23:35 > 0:23:36Right, good luck, team.
0:23:36 > 0:23:39Which of these mythological creatures is most associated
0:23:39 > 0:23:41with the county of Somerset?
0:23:47 > 0:23:51Right. Wyvern is more Herefordshire, I think.
0:23:51 > 0:23:55They have Wyvern Radio, BBC Wyvern, I think they used to have.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57So that's Herefordshire.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59Hippogriff is straight out of Harry Potter,
0:23:59 > 0:24:00so I think that's just a red herring.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02Manticore has got a Somerset...
0:24:02 > 0:24:05Manticore is the one that I would go for, personally.
0:24:05 > 0:24:07- Manticore, yes.- OK.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09I think would like to go for Manticore, please, Jeremy.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11Manticore is your answer.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13Now, funnily enough, I was reading about King Alfred the other day,
0:24:13 > 0:24:18just for sheer interest, and I wondered if I came across Wyvern.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20- Did I?- Yes.- Kevin, what was the reference there?
0:24:20 > 0:24:21Well, it goes...
0:24:21 > 0:24:26It's a creature that is associated with Wessex in general,
0:24:26 > 0:24:29so it would cover an area from where Steve was talking about
0:24:29 > 0:24:31up in the Herefordshire area
0:24:31 > 0:24:34all the way down through Wiltshire to Somerset and that...
0:24:34 > 0:24:36Yet there is an association with Somerset.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39- Oh, well, I didn't know. - Wyvern is the answer.
0:24:40 > 0:24:45Eggheads... In Italian cuisine, what are amaretti?
0:24:49 > 0:24:51Biscuits, biscuits, biscuits, biscuits!
0:24:51 > 0:24:52They're, um, biscuits.
0:24:53 > 0:24:54Biscuits is correct.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56OK.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58Challengers, don't give up here.
0:24:58 > 0:25:02Keep focused. In film-making, what is a squib?
0:25:02 > 0:25:03Is it...?
0:25:07 > 0:25:08Squib. S-Q-U-I-B.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11As in damp squib...
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Damp squib. Yes, so it's explosive.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15- Yeah, exactly.- I think so. - I would go with that.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18- Yeah.- Props buyer? No.- No.- Wind machine?
0:25:18 > 0:25:20- It's the damp squib...- Damp squib.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22- Yes.- Let's go for that.- Yes, we're going to say a small explosive.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25Sheila, small explosive is quite right.
0:25:26 > 0:25:30Back to you, Eggheads. Which is the oldest hospital in London?
0:25:34 > 0:25:36- Well, of those, yes.- Bart's.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39Yes, Bart's dates back to about the 12th century.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42- Does it?- Wow.- I think, in its original incarnation.
0:25:42 > 0:25:43Yeah. I think definitely Bart's.
0:25:43 > 0:25:47- Yes.- Um, we think it's Bart's.
0:25:47 > 0:25:50The correct answer is Bart's.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53So you need to get this one right, challengers.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55The TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson
0:25:55 > 0:25:58was expelled from which of these schools?
0:26:05 > 0:26:06Crikey. Any idea at all?
0:26:06 > 0:26:07No idea whatsoever.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10- No.- I haven't got a clue.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12- Eton is...- I don't think he's an old Etonian, is he?
0:26:12 > 0:26:14I wouldn't be surprised if he was.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16I would've thought that if he was an old Etonian,
0:26:16 > 0:26:20it would have emerged with the sort of era of Cameron and Johnson
0:26:20 > 0:26:23and maybe that would have been thrown up in his face?
0:26:23 > 0:26:25- But...- Repton?- I would go...
0:26:25 > 0:26:26I'd go Repton first.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31Repton. We're not 100% certain on this.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33Bit of a mixed view, but I think we're going to go for Repton.
0:26:35 > 0:26:40Repton is the correct answer.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42OK, well done. You've got two out of three.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Not bad going in the final round,
0:26:44 > 0:26:46but the Eggheads can make it three out of three
0:26:46 > 0:26:48and win the contest with this question.
0:26:48 > 0:26:54What was the first name of the notorious gangster Bugsy Siegel?
0:26:58 > 0:26:59It's Benjamin.
0:26:59 > 0:27:03- It's Benjamin, is it? - Yeah, Benjamin Bugsy Siegel, yeah.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06- Benjamin Bugsy Siegel.- Well, he wasn't a Brian or a Bradley.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08Yes, he's Benjamin.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10If you've got this right, the contest is over.
0:27:10 > 0:27:11Very hard-fought contest, as well.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13Otherwise you'd go to sudden death.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16There aren't that many gangsters called Brian.
0:27:16 > 0:27:17- No.- I don't think. - Well, not that you know of.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20- You know...- They could be lying low. - Yes.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22Nor Bradley. The correct answer is Benjamin.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25We say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28Thank you.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32Oh, what was it, the Manticore...?
0:27:34 > 0:27:36What is the Manticore, Eggheads, anyway?
0:27:36 > 0:27:40- Is there such a thing?- Yes, it's another mythological creature.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42Commiserations to the Mental Blocks.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44You played a great game,
0:27:44 > 0:27:46but that expensive answer in the last round
0:27:46 > 0:27:47has done for other teams
0:27:47 > 0:27:51and actually done for you on occasions, as well, Eggheads.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53The Eggheads are really, really on the prowl now.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55They have done brilliantly.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57This winning streak continues.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00It means the challengers don't go home with £10,000,
0:28:00 > 0:28:03it means we take that money and roll it over to our next exciting show,
0:28:03 > 0:28:05and it means I have to say congratulations, Eggheads.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07To me, you now look unbeatable.
0:28:07 > 0:28:09I don't think it's going to happen.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers
0:28:12 > 0:28:15have any chance of defeating that lot.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17£11,000 says they can't.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19Until then, goodbye.