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 > 0:00:15arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers
0:00:26 > 0:00:30pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33They are the Eggheads. What kind of form are we in today?
0:00:34 > 0:00:36- Stunning.- Stunning.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38Long pause, and then the word stunning.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40It's not very convincing, is it?
0:00:40 > 0:00:41LAUGHTER
0:00:41 > 0:00:45Challenging the might of our quiz Goliaths today are 5 No Trumps.
0:00:45 > 0:00:46This team of friends
0:00:46 > 0:00:49are all members of the same bridge club based in Langham.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51Let's meet them.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54Hello, I'm Jill, and I'm a voluntary worker.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Hello, I'm Roy.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58I'm a retired IT worker.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02Hello, I'm David, and I'm a retired IT director.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05Hello, I'm Maggie, and I'm a retired haematologist.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09Hello, I'm David, I'm a retired managing director.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12- So, Jill and team, welcome. ALL:- Hello, Jeremy.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14- And you're Essex-based?- Yes.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17- And you love bridge? - Yes, we love bridge.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19So you play together, and you play other people.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22We play in a club, we play in a club on Monday nights
0:01:22 > 0:01:25and then we also play with each other at fours at home,
0:01:25 > 0:01:27so, yes.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29I know I have friends who love bridge, so...
0:01:29 > 0:01:32I don't play myself, but I understand it can be a passion.
0:01:32 > 0:01:33It's quite competitive, yes.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35Very good. OK, well, good luck.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs
0:01:38 > 0:01:39for our Challengers.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads
0:01:41 > 0:01:43the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:01:43 > 0:01:44Now, 5 No Trumps,
0:01:44 > 0:01:47I can tell you that the Eggheads are on a roll.
0:01:47 > 0:01:49They've won the last 13 games.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51Pat, after ten games,
0:01:51 > 0:01:53- do that thing with your shoulders. - Oh, no, Jeremy.- Come on!
0:01:55 > 0:01:56LAUGHTER
0:01:56 > 0:01:59I didn't thank my colleagues. We'll have to do that next time.
0:01:59 > 0:02:00That's what they do.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02That's what they do when they go above ten.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04Thank you, Pat.
0:02:04 > 0:02:05So, it's good news and bad,
0:02:05 > 0:02:07they're on great form,
0:02:07 > 0:02:09- but there's a big jackpot, £14,000 for you to win.- Excellent.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12So you've got to hurl yourselves at them here,
0:02:12 > 0:02:15whatever cards you need to deal, use them.
0:02:15 > 0:02:16- Shall we start?- Yes.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18OK, the first head-to-head battle is
0:02:18 > 0:02:19on the subject of History.
0:02:19 > 0:02:20Now, who would like this?
0:02:20 > 0:02:21David.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24- I'm apparently deputed to do this.- OK.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28David, our retired managing director,
0:02:28 > 0:02:29against which Egghead?
0:02:29 > 0:02:31Can be any one of the five.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33- Let's go with Beth, shall we?- OK.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36So, Dave from 5 No Trumps is going to play
0:02:36 > 0:02:38our newest Egghead,
0:02:38 > 0:02:39Beth from the Eggheads, on History,
0:02:39 > 0:02:41and to ensure there's no conferring,
0:02:41 > 0:02:43please take your positions in the Question Room.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46So, David, you've chosen our newest Egghead, Beth,
0:02:46 > 0:02:48winner of Make Me An Egghead.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50Would you like to go first or second on History?
0:02:50 > 0:02:51I'll go first, please, Jeremy.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57So, here we go. David, good luck.
0:02:57 > 0:02:59Which of these historical figures was born first?
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Which would I think...? I...
0:03:08 > 0:03:11William the Conqueror seems to be
0:03:11 > 0:03:16about sort of tens...1000,
0:03:16 > 0:03:17so I would have thought
0:03:17 > 0:03:19he's not the first one.
0:03:19 > 0:03:20Let's try Alfred the Great.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23Alfred the Great is quite right.
0:03:23 > 0:03:24Oh, good.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26OK, Beth.
0:03:26 > 0:03:30Which man was murdered on 29th December 1170
0:03:30 > 0:03:32in Canterbury Cathedral?
0:03:35 > 0:03:37I went to university
0:03:37 > 0:03:38at the University of Kent
0:03:38 > 0:03:39and we graduated
0:03:39 > 0:03:41from Canterbury Cathedral
0:03:41 > 0:03:42so it would be highly embarrassing
0:03:42 > 0:03:44if I get this one wrong.
0:03:44 > 0:03:45Thomas Becket.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48Thomas Becket is correct, Beth.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50One each, and, David, back to you.
0:03:50 > 0:03:55The Black Death pandemic that ravaged Britain in the 14th century
0:03:55 > 0:03:58originated in which part of the world?
0:04:02 > 0:04:03Oh, a difficult one.
0:04:03 > 0:04:0514th century.
0:04:07 > 0:04:08I don't think it was India.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12It's between China and Japan.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14Um...
0:04:14 > 0:04:16Let's go for China.
0:04:16 > 0:04:17Yes, China is correct.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20Not as easy as it sounds.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23And you'll know, Beth, cos you do tropical diseases,
0:04:23 > 0:04:25what is a pandemic as opposed to an epidemic?
0:04:25 > 0:04:27Well, pandemic means it's gone worldwide,
0:04:27 > 0:04:30and epidemic could mean just a small area.
0:04:30 > 0:04:31Right.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33OK, here's your second question.
0:04:33 > 0:04:37In which century did Brazil gain its independence from Portugal?
0:04:40 > 0:04:42OK.
0:04:42 > 0:04:43I think 15th is far too early,
0:04:43 > 0:04:46so it would be between 17th and 19th.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49- 19th century.- 19th is... Well, let's see with Barry.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51Barry, is 19th right or wrong?
0:04:51 > 0:04:52Yes, nearly all the South American countries
0:04:52 > 0:04:55gained their independence from either Spain or Portugal
0:04:55 > 0:04:56in the 19th century.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58- OK, the 1800s. Yeah. You're right, Beth.- (Phew.)
0:04:58 > 0:04:59Well done, 19th is correct.
0:05:01 > 0:05:02OK, nothing to choose between you
0:05:02 > 0:05:04at the moment. David, your third question.
0:05:04 > 0:05:08In February 1943, a team of Allied saboteurs
0:05:08 > 0:05:12known as The Swallows famously sabotaged
0:05:12 > 0:05:16a Nazi heavy-water factory in which part of Norway?
0:05:20 > 0:05:21HE CHUCKLES
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Sounds almost like a Wagnerian opera.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28Telemark sort of sounds a possibility, but...
0:05:28 > 0:05:29Oh...
0:05:30 > 0:05:32I'll go for Telemark.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35Let's see, who will know this? Pat, do you know this one?
0:05:35 > 0:05:36He's right, yes,
0:05:36 > 0:05:37famous film about them,
0:05:37 > 0:05:39about the escapade.
0:05:39 > 0:05:40Heroes Of Telemark.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42Heroes Of Telemark was the film, Telemark is the answer.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44- Well done, three out of three.- Wow.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46OK, Beth, your question to stay in.
0:05:46 > 0:05:51Approximately how long ago did the Mayan civilisation
0:05:51 > 0:05:52mysteriously die out?
0:05:59 > 0:06:01Ooh.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04Maya, certainly not 120 years ago, it's WELL before that.
0:06:04 > 0:06:0612,000 seems a heck of a long time ago.
0:06:08 > 0:06:091,200 years ago.
0:06:09 > 0:06:111,200 is the right answer.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13Well done. 3-3.
0:06:13 > 0:06:14David, we go to Sudden Death.
0:06:14 > 0:06:18It gets a bit harder, I don't give you alternative options.
0:06:18 > 0:06:19Towards the end of World War II,
0:06:19 > 0:06:24which country developed the Nakajima Kika fighter plane?
0:06:26 > 0:06:29From the way you say it, it sounds very Japanese,
0:06:29 > 0:06:30so I'll go for Japan.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32Japan is correct.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Beth, Sudden Death.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37Which European leader's remains were returned to France in 1840
0:06:37 > 0:06:40aboard a ship named Belle Poule?
0:06:41 > 0:06:44It's... Well, it's got to be Napoleon.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46Napoleon is right, Beth, well done.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48David, she's playing well, but so are you.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50Here's your question.
0:06:50 > 0:06:57Bombed in 1937 during a civil war, Guernica is in which country?
0:06:57 > 0:07:00Well, 1937, was that...?
0:07:00 > 0:07:03I can think of the Spanish Civil War, or something like that.
0:07:03 > 0:07:04Was it Spain?
0:07:04 > 0:07:06Spain is correct.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09OK, Beth, to stay in.
0:07:09 > 0:07:14The possibly mythical kingdom of Van Lang is often regarded as
0:07:14 > 0:07:19a forerunner of which modern-day South-East Asian country?
0:07:19 > 0:07:22It's not...a place I've heard of,
0:07:22 > 0:07:25being real or mythical,
0:07:25 > 0:07:26possibly mythical.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30I can't...
0:07:30 > 0:07:34I can't get Cambodia out of my head, so I'll go with Cambodia.
0:07:34 > 0:07:38Cambodia is your answer. This to stay in. Eggheads, do you know?
0:07:38 > 0:07:41Well, Van is often used as part of Vietnamese names,
0:07:41 > 0:07:44so on that basis I'd be tempted to go for Vietnam.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46Barry makes the point that Van is often...
0:07:47 > 0:07:49- ..Vietnam or Vietnam-related. - Oh, Vietnam, again.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51- Not Vietnam again! No! - I think you've had three questions
0:07:51 > 0:07:54where the answer's been something to do with Vietnam.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Vietnam is the answer, Beth,
0:07:56 > 0:07:58and you've been knocked out by David.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00Well played, David, you didn't get a single question wrong.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02Do come back to us and we will play the next round.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Well, good start to our bridge players here.
0:08:06 > 0:08:085 No Trumps have not lost a brain
0:08:08 > 0:08:11and Beth has been knocked out on the Eggheads side.
0:08:11 > 0:08:12The next subject is Music.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14Who would like Music?
0:08:14 > 0:08:15- You want me to do it?- No.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18- Are you happy with it?- You go for music.- I'll take it.- You happy?
0:08:18 > 0:08:20Yeah. It looks as though it's going to be me.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22Jill, voluntary worker, against which Egghead?
0:08:22 > 0:08:24Who would you like? Can't be Beth.
0:08:24 > 0:08:25Try the other new one!
0:08:25 > 0:08:27I'm going to go for Steve.
0:08:27 > 0:08:30- The other new one! OK.- Bridge face.
0:08:30 > 0:08:31See what you're doing here, yeah.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Steve's got his bridge face on.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36Jill from 5 No Trumps against Steve
0:08:36 > 0:08:38from the Eggheads.
0:08:38 > 0:08:39Please go to our famous Question Room now.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43Jill, would you like to go first or second on Music?
0:08:43 > 0:08:45I'll go first, please.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51Jill against one of our newest Eggheads.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54Firestarter was a UK number one hit single
0:08:54 > 0:08:57in 1996 for which band?
0:09:02 > 0:09:03I haven't a clue,
0:09:03 > 0:09:07so I've just got to go through a process of elimination.
0:09:07 > 0:09:08Firestarter.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13Well, due to the fact that they're probably a very fiery group
0:09:13 > 0:09:14I will go for Oasis.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17OK. It's not them, actually.
0:09:17 > 0:09:18Now, we know this, Eggheads,
0:09:18 > 0:09:20don't we, for the craziest reasons?
0:09:20 > 0:09:23We recorded the parts of Firestarter, all of us.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25Yeah, we did, it's quite...
0:09:25 > 0:09:27it is quite...
0:09:27 > 0:09:29I suppose, an edgy song, Jill,
0:09:29 > 0:09:31and we decided to try and do our own video of it
0:09:31 > 0:09:35in which Barry, Judith, Pat... played extraordinary parts.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37I think Pat did the shoulder roll in that, actually.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39- No, I did not. - LAUGHTER
0:09:39 > 0:09:40You did something!
0:09:40 > 0:09:42And it was, unfortunately, for whatever reason,
0:09:42 > 0:09:44taken down from the internet by somebody.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46LAUGHTER
0:09:46 > 0:09:48I think we had too much fun doing it!
0:09:48 > 0:09:51- The correct answer is The Prodigy.- OK.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53OK. Steve, in which year
0:09:53 > 0:09:56was the jazz musician Miles Davis born?
0:10:02 > 0:10:04Well, I don't know.
0:10:05 > 0:10:06But, just thinking
0:10:06 > 0:10:08when he was popular and active,
0:10:08 > 0:10:10I know late '60s
0:10:10 > 0:10:11he was doing some of his best work...
0:10:13 > 0:10:17..so that leads me to suspect it's probably 1926.
0:10:17 > 0:10:191926 is the right answer.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21So Steve goes into the lead,
0:10:21 > 0:10:22and back to you, Jill.
0:10:22 > 0:10:27The stage musical Fiddler On The Roof is set in which country?
0:10:31 > 0:10:33I do believe that's Russia.
0:10:34 > 0:10:35Yes, Russia is right.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37If I Were A Rich Man!
0:10:37 > 0:10:38Steve.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Who was the lead singer of The Small Faces?
0:10:46 > 0:10:49Yeah. Sadly no longer with us, it's Steve Marriott.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51It is. Now I, in my innocence,
0:10:51 > 0:10:54was expecting to see Rod Stewart's name there,
0:10:54 > 0:10:56- but I've...- The Faces, The Faces. - He's The Faces.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58Steve Marriott is right.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00So our Steve takes the lead here,
0:11:00 > 0:11:04and...you sort of need to get this one right, Jill.
0:11:04 > 0:11:08I Cry When I Laugh is a 2015 album by which singer?
0:11:13 > 0:11:17They're all favourites of mine, but, as to which one...
0:11:18 > 0:11:21I'm going to go straight down the middle
0:11:21 > 0:11:22with Ellie Goulding.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25See if Steve knows this one. Is Ellie Goulding right?
0:11:25 > 0:11:28- It's Jess Glynne, unfortunately. - It is Jess Glynne.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32Sorry, Jill. She's worth catching up on, actually, she's very good.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34You've been knocked out by our Egghead there.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36Steve will be in the final round.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38Please, both of you return, rejoin your teams,
0:11:38 > 0:11:40and we'll see what happens next.
0:11:41 > 0:11:42OK, as it stands,
0:11:42 > 0:11:455 No Trumps have lost a brain from the final round,
0:11:45 > 0:11:46lost the skipper, actually.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48The Eggheads have lost a brain as well. We play on.
0:11:48 > 0:11:49Arts & Books, next.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51Who would like this?
0:11:51 > 0:11:52Who's the reader?
0:11:52 > 0:11:55- I think Maggie'll have to do it just in case.- OK.- Thank you.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Me, apparently.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59OK, so that's Maggie, our retired haematologist,
0:11:59 > 0:12:02against which Egghead, Maggie? Who do you like the look of?
0:12:02 > 0:12:04You've got Pat and Barry and Judith to choose from.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06- Barry.- Yes.- Definitely.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08- Barry, please.- OK.
0:12:08 > 0:12:10So, Maggie from 5 No Trumps
0:12:10 > 0:12:13versus Barry, known as The Brain, from the Eggheads.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19OK, Maggie, I know this wasn't your choice...
0:12:19 > 0:12:22- Ha! Correct.- Has the strategy gone to pot, slightly?
0:12:22 > 0:12:25Well, just slightly, I was supposed to be doing Science.
0:12:25 > 0:12:26THEY CHUCKLE Oh, OK!
0:12:26 > 0:12:29And that hasn't come up. Well, we know what will happen next.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31- I know, I know, obviously, yeah. - OK, well, good luck here.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33Arts & Books against our own dear Barry,
0:12:33 > 0:12:36- and would you like to go first or second?- First, please, Jeremy.
0:12:39 > 0:12:40Here we go, first question.
0:12:40 > 0:12:46What type of work of art is the famous Mannequin Pis in Brussels,
0:12:46 > 0:12:50which depicts a small boy relieving himself?
0:12:53 > 0:12:55That's a sculpture.
0:12:56 > 0:12:57Sculpture is the right answer.
0:12:58 > 0:12:59Well done, Maggie.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01Barry, back to you.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03Tom Kitten is a fictional character
0:13:03 > 0:13:05created by which writer?
0:13:11 > 0:13:13Well, it doesn't sound like Roald Dahl,
0:13:13 > 0:13:15and it certainly doesn't sound like Tolkien,
0:13:15 > 0:13:16but Beatrix Potter was very fond of
0:13:16 > 0:13:17having animal characters,
0:13:17 > 0:13:19so I shall go for Beatrix Potter.
0:13:19 > 0:13:20Beatrix Potter is right, well done.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23Tom Kitten. OK.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25So far so good, Maggie.
0:13:25 > 0:13:26Hold focus here.
0:13:26 > 0:13:32Who was the UK's poet laureate when Elizabeth II came to the throne?
0:13:38 > 0:13:40Um...
0:13:40 > 0:13:45It certainly wouldn't be Andrew Motion, he's much too recent.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48Ted Hughes, I think that would be...
0:13:48 > 0:13:49No, wait a minute.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53No, that would be Ted Hughes.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57Ted Hughes is your answer? Oh, OK.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59Because you were going to rule him out, weren't you?
0:13:59 > 0:14:01No, I think John Masefield would be too early
0:14:01 > 0:14:03and Andrew Motion would be too late.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05It is John Masefield, actually.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07John Masefield is the answer. Let's go to you, Barry.
0:14:07 > 0:14:11Which of these is depicted in Claude Monet's painting Nimphee...
0:14:13 > 0:14:15..which is N-I-M-P-H-E-E?
0:14:20 > 0:14:22It sounds a bit like
0:14:22 > 0:14:24a French version of nymphet,
0:14:24 > 0:14:25and on that very tenuous link,
0:14:25 > 0:14:27I shall go for a ballet dancer.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31Yes, cos it sounds like a physical form of some kind, doesn't it?
0:14:31 > 0:14:32- It does.- But...
0:14:32 > 0:14:33Anyone know this, Eggheads?
0:14:33 > 0:14:34I think what he's trying
0:14:34 > 0:14:36to say is water lilies,
0:14:36 > 0:14:37and so it would be a bridge?
0:14:37 > 0:14:39- A bridge.- A bridge is the answer
0:14:39 > 0:14:40cos it's The Water Lilies.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42Oh, from his garden at Giverny?
0:14:42 > 0:14:45- Nimphee. Yeah, you see, you can picture it now.- Yes.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47So, that's a little bit of a let-off, there.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50Oh, Maggie, I wish you'd got that John Masefield right.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52- I do, too. - LAUGHTER
0:14:52 > 0:14:54Cos then you'd be in a commanding position.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56Get this right, and rattle Barry.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59Switch House, opened in 2016,
0:14:59 > 0:15:03is the name of an extension to which famous art gallery?
0:15:08 > 0:15:12Well, it's there, I was there on Wednesday, it's the Tate Modern.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15Oh, and you were saying you
0:15:15 > 0:15:16didn't want to play Arts & Books!
0:15:16 > 0:15:18I was meeting a friend for lunch.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21OK! What's it like?
0:15:21 > 0:15:25- It's stunning.- Really? And it's the...ancillary power room,
0:15:25 > 0:15:27or something, is it, or what? What is the extra bit?
0:15:27 > 0:15:32- No, it's just an enormous extension to the gallery area.- OK.
0:15:32 > 0:15:34Tate Modern is the right answer.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36Beautifully done.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38Two out of three. Will it be enough? Let's see.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40Barry, if you get this wrong, you're out.
0:15:40 > 0:15:45In 2011 Hilary Mantel announced that the third part of
0:15:45 > 0:15:49her Thomas Cromwell trilogy of books would have which title?
0:15:55 > 0:15:58Oh, I absolutely love these, the Hilary Mantel trilogy,
0:15:58 > 0:16:05they so capture the...excitement and the terror of Tudor England,
0:16:05 > 0:16:09and I believe her third novel is called The Mirror And The Light.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11The Mirror And The Light is the right answer.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13You're equal after three questions.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16Well done, Maggie! You held him to a draw in multiple choice.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19Now we go to Sudden Death. I don't give you options.
0:16:20 > 0:16:25Which Liverpool-born model and TV personality put her name to
0:16:25 > 0:16:29a 2016 debut novel entitled Remember My Name?
0:16:32 > 0:16:33I've got absolutely no idea.
0:16:34 > 0:16:35Do you want to take a stab at one?
0:16:37 > 0:16:38Elle Macpherson?
0:16:39 > 0:16:44No... She's younger. Abbey Clancy, who's married to Peter Crouch.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46Oh, yes, I know who you mean now. Yes.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48Barry, your question, for the round.
0:16:48 > 0:16:52Written in 1890, The Light That Failed was the first novel
0:16:52 > 0:16:55written by which author newly returned from India?
0:16:56 > 0:16:581890.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01Well, I think the clue there is newly returned from India,
0:17:01 > 0:17:03because I'm pretty sure that Kipling
0:17:03 > 0:17:05returned from India in 1890, so I shall say...
0:17:06 > 0:17:08What's his first name...?
0:17:08 > 0:17:11Oh, gosh, ha-ha-ha! I'm having a moment now!
0:17:11 > 0:17:12HE CHUCKLES
0:17:12 > 0:17:14This always happens,
0:17:14 > 0:17:17this always happens at this stage in a run.
0:17:17 > 0:17:18Rudyard Kipling!
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Rudyard Kipling is right, Barry.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23Oh, you had us in suspense, there! Maggie, sorry, he's knocked you out,
0:17:23 > 0:17:25but I can see you know your arts and your books.
0:17:25 > 0:17:26Well done to you both.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29Barry, you'll be in the final. Maggie, you won't.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31Please come back and rejoin your teams.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36OK, so, 5 No Trumps have lost Maggie, now.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38They've lost two from the final round.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40The Eggheads have lost one.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43And the next subject is Film & Television.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45- Who'd like this? - Do you want to take it?
0:17:45 > 0:17:46Roy's going to take it.
0:17:46 > 0:17:47OK, it's going to be Roy.
0:17:47 > 0:17:48Retired IT worker.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51And you can have either Pat or Judith.
0:17:51 > 0:17:55- Judith?- We'll go for Judith. - All right. All right.
0:17:55 > 0:17:56Roy from 5 No Trumps
0:17:56 > 0:17:59versus I think our only bridge player on this side.
0:17:59 > 0:18:00Yes. That's not going to help.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02Please go to the Question Room now.
0:18:03 > 0:18:04Roy, Film & Television,
0:18:04 > 0:18:07would you like to go first or second against Judith?
0:18:07 > 0:18:08I'll go first, please.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14And here is your first question.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17In which year was the TV presenter Jeremy Paxman born?
0:18:22 > 0:18:29Well, he looks as if he is about 55 years old.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32Um...
0:18:32 > 0:18:37So...I will go for 1960.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40He's going to love you so much
0:18:40 > 0:18:41cos he's ten years older than that.
0:18:41 > 0:18:42- Oh!- Oh.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44JEREMY LAUGHS
0:18:44 > 0:18:46He was born in 1950.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48Judith, your question.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50Which of these comedy characters is an alter ego
0:18:50 > 0:18:52of the comedian Lee Francis?
0:18:57 > 0:18:58Well, I don't think it's Loadsamoney
0:18:58 > 0:19:02cos that was, um...someone else.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04LAUGHTER
0:19:05 > 0:19:06Er...
0:19:06 > 0:19:08Keith Lemon.
0:19:08 > 0:19:09Keith Lemon is quite right.
0:19:09 > 0:19:10You know the show? It's very funny.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12- No, I don't.- He's really good. Yeah.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15OK, back to you, Roy.
0:19:15 > 0:19:19Which of these film-makers famously made spaghetti Westerns?
0:19:25 > 0:19:29I certainly don't immediately know the answer.
0:19:29 > 0:19:33I don't think it was Coppola.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36I think I would go for Sergio Leone.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39Sergio Leone is the correct answer.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41Judith, back to you.
0:19:41 > 0:19:45The British actor Mark Rylance won an Oscar for his role
0:19:45 > 0:19:47in which 2015 film?
0:19:51 > 0:19:53That was Bridge Of Spies.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56Bridge Of Spies is correct.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58So Judith is ahead
0:19:58 > 0:20:02and it means, Roy, you do need to get this one right.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05Who plays the role of Lex Luthor in the 2016 film
0:20:05 > 0:20:08Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice?
0:20:14 > 0:20:17Yes, I'm very out of my comfort zone on this one.
0:20:20 > 0:20:25Very arbitrarily, I would say Michael Shannon.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27- Any Eggheads know? - Yeah, it's Jesse Eisenberg.
0:20:27 > 0:20:28Jesse Eisenberg, says Beth.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31Jesse Eisenberg is the right answer, Roy, sorry.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33You've been knocked out by Judith,
0:20:33 > 0:20:35playing powerfully at the moment, and, as a result,
0:20:35 > 0:20:36will not be in the final round.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39If you both come back to us, we will play the final.
0:20:41 > 0:20:42This is what we have been playing towards,
0:20:42 > 0:20:44it is time for the final round,
0:20:44 > 0:20:46which, as always, is General Knowledge,
0:20:46 > 0:20:48but I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads
0:20:48 > 0:20:50won't be allowed to take part in this round,
0:20:50 > 0:20:54so that's Jill, Roy and Maggie from 5 No Trumps,
0:20:54 > 0:20:56but also Beth from the Eggheads.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59Would you please now leave the studio?
0:20:59 > 0:21:01So good luck to you, Davids,
0:21:01 > 0:21:04you are playing to win 5 No Trumps £14,000.
0:21:04 > 0:21:09Pat, Steve, Barry, Judith, this is now serious.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11You are playing for something that money can't buy,
0:21:11 > 0:21:13not just the Eggheads' reputation,
0:21:13 > 0:21:16but to maintain this really impressive run.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22This time, the questions are all General Knowledge.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24David and David, you may confer.
0:21:24 > 0:21:28So, the question is, can your two brains defeat these four?
0:21:28 > 0:21:30And would you like to go first or second?
0:21:30 > 0:21:32- First, I think.- Yeah, we'll go first, Jeremy, please.
0:21:35 > 0:21:39OK. So, we start here, your first question.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42Which of these words is the term for a woman who gives support,
0:21:42 > 0:21:45help and advice to another woman
0:21:45 > 0:21:47during pregnancy and childbirth?
0:21:51 > 0:21:54Blimey. Um...
0:21:54 > 0:21:55I don't think I've even heard of those words.
0:21:55 > 0:21:59I've not heard of the three words.
0:21:59 > 0:22:00Yes.
0:22:00 > 0:22:04The only thing I'm thinking is doula sounds a bit like an Indian word,
0:22:04 > 0:22:08um...and they have mothers and grandmothers...
0:22:08 > 0:22:09- Any idea?- Go for that.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11No, I'd go for doula.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13For reasons we can't adequately explain,
0:22:13 > 0:22:14we're going to go for doula.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Doula's correct.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19Eggheads, which prophet
0:22:19 > 0:22:24from Greek mythology was turned from a man into a woman and back again?
0:22:28 > 0:22:31- Tiresias.- Happy with that, Judith? - Mm-hm.
0:22:31 > 0:22:34We think that's Tiresias.
0:22:34 > 0:22:35The answer is Tiresias.
0:22:35 > 0:22:40Your second question, Challengers. Playing for £14,000.
0:22:40 > 0:22:44In 2015, Philip Green sold which chain of shops
0:22:44 > 0:22:47to the City investor Retail Acquisitions for £1?
0:22:51 > 0:22:55- I think it's clearly BHS, isn't it? - British Home Stores.
0:22:55 > 0:22:56- Philip Green.- Yes.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59We're pretty certain it's BHS, Jeremy.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02- BHS is the right answer.- Thank you.
0:23:02 > 0:23:03Eggheads, over to you.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06Anaglypta is a type of what?
0:23:10 > 0:23:12- Wallpaper. - It's generally wallpaper, but...
0:23:12 > 0:23:13It's 3D wallpaper.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16Could conceivably be a roof tile that was patterned,
0:23:16 > 0:23:17but generally, it is wallpaper.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19Texture, isn't it? I'd have thought.
0:23:19 > 0:23:20We think that's wallpaper, Jeremy.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23Anaglypta is, indeed, wallpaper. Well done.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25So, they have two out of two,
0:23:25 > 0:23:27you have two out of two, it's very tight.
0:23:27 > 0:23:31Your third question can sometimes be crucial, Davids.
0:23:31 > 0:23:36Lalibela in Ethiopia is famous for what type of buildings,
0:23:36 > 0:23:37carved from rock?
0:23:40 > 0:23:43You've been there, haven't you?
0:23:43 > 0:23:44- Isn't it...?- It's churches. - Churches.
0:23:44 > 0:23:49Jeremy, I was fortunate enough to, with my wife and some other people,
0:23:49 > 0:23:53visit Ethiopia three years, two or three years ago,
0:23:53 > 0:23:55and Lalibela was one of the places we went to,
0:23:55 > 0:23:56and it is churches.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58Churches is the right answer.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01Your visit served you well.
0:24:01 > 0:24:02OK, Eggheads,
0:24:02 > 0:24:07get this wrong and you know that your run is at an end.
0:24:07 > 0:24:11Brian Braddock is the real name of which Marvel Comics superhero?
0:24:14 > 0:24:17- It's Captain Britain.- Yeah?
0:24:17 > 0:24:22Mr Fantastic is Reed Richards, Falcon, I can't quite be sure,
0:24:22 > 0:24:24but I know Brian Braddock is Captain Britain.
0:24:24 > 0:24:27- Well, good stuff.- I used to read it. Back in my youth.
0:24:27 > 0:24:33I am advised, with vigour, that it's Captain Britain.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Captain Britain is the right answer.
0:24:35 > 0:24:36Well done.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38That was good. That was good play
0:24:38 > 0:24:39from our new Egghead there.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41Takes them to three correct answers, just like you.
0:24:41 > 0:24:45We go to Sudden Death. So, David and David, here we go.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48Which country's national female football team
0:24:48 > 0:24:50is known as the Matildas?
0:24:50 > 0:24:52Something like the Waltzing Matildas?
0:24:52 > 0:24:54It's got to be Australia, it's got to be...
0:24:54 > 0:24:56The clue is Matildas, isn't it?
0:24:56 > 0:24:58I mean, they could be called the Golden...
0:24:58 > 0:25:00No, that's Jamaica.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03- Um...I think we're happy...? - Happy with Australia.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06We believe the clue is in the name the Matildas,
0:25:06 > 0:25:10and with the Waltzing Matilda song, we're going to go with Australia.
0:25:10 > 0:25:14The correct answer is Australia. Well done.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16So, pressure on the Eggheads again.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19Which city is the birthplace
0:25:19 > 0:25:22of the English screenwriter Jimmy McGovern?
0:25:22 > 0:25:26- I always thought he was a Scouser. - Yes, I did too.
0:25:26 > 0:25:29- Liverpool.- Liverpool is the thing I thought of.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31- OK.- Yeah. If you're happy, yeah.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33We're not certain about this, Jeremy,
0:25:33 > 0:25:35but we think he's from Liverpool.
0:25:35 > 0:25:36Liverpool is your answer?
0:25:36 > 0:25:40If you've got this wrong, £14,000 is yours.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42If, if, if, if, if...
0:25:42 > 0:25:44The correct answer, Eggheads,
0:25:44 > 0:25:46is Liverpool.
0:25:46 > 0:25:47Oh, thank you, Jeremy.
0:25:47 > 0:25:49So here's your question,
0:25:49 > 0:25:52David and David - get this right, keep the pressure up.
0:25:52 > 0:25:56In 2015, which species of whale set a new record
0:25:56 > 0:26:00for the longest mammal migration recorded,
0:26:00 > 0:26:03swimming from Russia to Mexico and back,
0:26:03 > 0:26:07a total of almost 14,000 miles in six months?
0:26:07 > 0:26:10Right, what whales do we know?
0:26:10 > 0:26:11I don't think it's a blue whale.
0:26:11 > 0:26:16I don't think you get blue whales coming this far north.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19- So what other whales are there? - What other whales...?
0:26:19 > 0:26:21Oh, dear. Um...
0:26:21 > 0:26:23I have to say, this is not my strongest.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25I would've gone for a blue whale on the basis that, well,
0:26:25 > 0:26:27it is an extremely large...
0:26:27 > 0:26:29It is a big whale, isn't it?
0:26:29 > 0:26:31Can you think of any other whales?
0:26:31 > 0:26:32Sperm whales.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37There are... I am sure there are lots of others,
0:26:37 > 0:26:40which have totally gone out of my mind, so...
0:26:40 > 0:26:44I don't think it's a sperm whale. Maybe prefer blue whale, but...
0:26:46 > 0:26:48Oh, let's go with blue whale.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51Yeah, Jeremy, we are really struggling with this one.
0:26:51 > 0:26:55I don't think natural history is either of our strongest subjects
0:26:55 > 0:26:58so, for no other reason than it was the first one we both thought of,
0:26:58 > 0:27:00we are going to say blue whale.
0:27:00 > 0:27:01Let's try the Eggheads.
0:27:01 > 0:27:05I don't know this, but the whale that's generally noted
0:27:05 > 0:27:06for giant migrations is the grey whale
0:27:06 > 0:27:09so I think it would have to have a chance.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11Pat's usually right, he's right this time as well.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13- It's the grey whale.- Grey whale. - Never heard of it.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15Could have accepted western grey whale.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17Eggheads, your chance to take the contest.
0:27:17 > 0:27:21How many basic positions of the feet
0:27:21 > 0:27:25are there generally considered to be in classical ballet?
0:27:25 > 0:27:27- I think it's five. - I think it's five.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29- You think it's five? - Five positions.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32- Definitely.- Yeah, five is what came to mind.- OK?- Yeah.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35We think that's five, Jeremy.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38In classical ballet, basic positions of the feet,
0:27:38 > 0:27:42there are generally considered to be,
0:27:42 > 0:27:44as you all say, five.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46We say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53Well, I must say, you did brilliantly
0:27:53 > 0:27:56and you didn't get much wrong there, until we hit the grey whale.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59- Grey whale.- I've never actually heard of a grey whale.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01There was one good thing which is that sometimes,
0:28:01 > 0:28:03you'll say grey whale, rule it out and go elsewhere,
0:28:03 > 0:28:06and you didn't do that, so you don't need to worry about that.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09Commiserations, David and David, commiserations to 5 No Trumps,
0:28:09 > 0:28:12the Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.
0:28:12 > 0:28:16This shoulder-rolling winning streak continues, I'm afraid.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19He'll only do it once a show, Pat, you won't do it again for us.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21You won't be going home with the £14,000,
0:28:21 > 0:28:24so the money rolls over to our next exciting show.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26Eggheads, you are doing well, you really, really are,
0:28:26 > 0:28:30and I'm starting to wonder if you can ever be beaten.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers
0:28:33 > 0:28:35can finally take them down.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37There's going to be £15,000 on the table.
0:28:37 > 0:28:39Until we play again, goodbye.