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These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.

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Together, they make up the Eggheads,

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arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.

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The question is, can they be beaten?

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Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz Challengers pit

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their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.

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Here they are, the Eggheads.

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Taking on our awesome quiz champions today are School of Steel.

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Now, the majority of this team work together at the same secondary

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school in Sheffield. In the near future,

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they're planning to organise an event similar to Eggheads,

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where pupils take on teachers in general knowledge rounds,

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hoping to breed a new generation of quizzers.

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Let's meet them.

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Hi, I'm John, and I'm a cover supervisor.

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Hi, I'm Paul, and I'm a geography teacher.

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Hi, I'm Jonathan, and I'm a cover supervisor.

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Hi, I'm Ailsa, and I'm a personal assistant.

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Hi, I'm Ian, and I'm an NHS administrator.

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-So, John, team, welcome, great to see you. ALL:

-Hi!

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-Are you looking forward to this?

-Yes.

-Absolutely.

-And fascinating,

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this idea of trying to breed a new generation of quizzers?

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-Yeah.

-Tell us about that, John.

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Well, basically, we'd like to do the same set-up

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as you have here at Eggheads.

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And the students will actually take on us as a team, but we will be

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-the Eggheads.

-OK.

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Students will choose who they take on, in what categories,

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depending on the categories that come up.

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And it's to earn points for their houses,

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as sports day and literature competitions

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all add points to their houses.

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The winning house will get the most points, etc, you know.

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So you've all got different duties at the school.

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So I'm guessing you've got different topics covered today, have you?

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Yeah, yeah, generally speaking,

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we're all sort of different topics.

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I, you know, cover supervisor, and so is Jonathan,

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we tend to cover every subject, but we do have our stronger ones,

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-obviously.

-OK, you don't have to say,

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because they'll be on to it like a shot.

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-OK, right.

-Oh, they're sniffing around the whole time,

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trying to work out what their strategy should be.

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So, keep it close to your chest, if I was you.

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Will the pupils be watching?

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I'd imagine so. I'm sure...

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-Cheering you on?

-I'm sure they'll be watching.

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Good luck to you. Every day,

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there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs for our Challengers.

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However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,

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the prize money rolls over to the next show.

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Now, School of Steel, the Eggheads have won the last 15 games.

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So they are playing really, really well.

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Pat, you're doing the shoulder roll.

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Watch the Gibson.

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OK! LAUGHTER

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That's the swagger, that's what we're seeing them play with at the moment.

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And in many ways it's good because it means there's a lot of money

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on the table. £16,000.

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However, as I say, they are playing well.

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And look at Pat's shoulders, that gives you the clue.

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There's a real sense of purpose about the Eggheads.

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-So shall we go for it?

-Yeah.

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-Let's go for it.

-Good luck, team.

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The first head-to-head battle will be on the subject of Sport.

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Who would like this? Where's the sport teacher?

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-Who should we go for?

-Ian.

-Do you want it?

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-Do you want to go for Sport?

-Yeah.

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Ian.

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And which Egghead, Ian, would you like to take on?

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You can have any one of the five.

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You've got the two newest ones nearest me.

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-Up to you.

-I'll take Beth, please, Jeremy.

-OK, good stuff.

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So it's going to be Ian from School of Steel.

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Beth, into action early on.

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-Yep.

-That's good.

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To ensure there's no conferring,

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would you please take your positions in our Question Room?

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So, Ian, you like your sport, do you?

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Absolutely love it, yes.

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All right, so what in particular?

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-Big football fan.

-Right.

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Massive fan of Doncaster Rovers, if I can plug there!

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Rugby league, cricket and anything else, really.

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You're Ailsa's partner, do you support the same team?

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-Unfortunately not!

-Oh, dear, should I not have mentioned that?

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She supports a little team from up north called Sunderland.

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-I don't know if you've heard of them.

-JEREMY LAUGHS

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I sense I'm on thin ice, so we'll crack on!

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OK, Sport, Ian.

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-Would you like to go first or second against Beth?

-I'll go first, please.

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And here is your first question.

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The first-ever Twenty20 cricket international

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took place in which year?

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It's been going quite a bit, so I think I can rule out 2015.

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I'll go for 2005.

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2005 is correct. Well done. It's easy to come

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unstuck on that first question, isn't it?

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-It is.

-OK, Beth, over to you.

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And I know you like your sport.

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Roy Hodgson left his post as the manager of which football club when

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he was appointed England manager in 2012?

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Oh.

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Roy Hodgson left which football club when he became manager of England?

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I've got a feeling it was West Bromwich Albion.

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OK, West Bromwich Albion is the right answer.

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Oh, phew!

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And back to you, Ian.

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Which of these countries has hosted

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the summer Olympic Games on the most occasions?

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I think...

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Netherlands have had it once, I think it was in Amsterdam.

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Canada, I think, Montreal in '76.

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I don't think they've had it more than that.

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Australia have had it Sydney and Canberra,

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so I'll go for Australia.

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Australia is the right answer.

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Back to you, Beth, your second question.

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In April 2016, which boxer defeated Charles Martin

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to become the IBF world heavyweight champion?

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Well, this chap is local to me, he's a Watford boy,

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which is where I live.

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Olympic gold medallist in 2012, Anthony Joshua.

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You're right, you're brilliant.

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Anthony Joshua's correct, Beth, well done.

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2-2. Tight round. Ian.

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Between 1927 and 1946,

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Joe Davis won the World Championships in which sport

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on 15 occasions?

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I think it's the sport from close to where I live, and it's snooker.

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Snooker is the right answer, well done.

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Question to you, Beth.

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Your third question to stay in.

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Who has captained the Scotland rugby union team on more occasions than

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any other player?

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Oh! I assume these were all captains,

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and I think Greig Laidlaw is the current Scotland captain.

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Gavin Hastings was from when I first started watching rugby union.

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My dad's a big fan.

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Andy Irvine...

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I don't think Greig Laidlaw has been captain long enough to have done as

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many as Gavin Hastings.

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Gavin Hastings.

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Gavin Hastings is your answer.

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Let's see if it's right.

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Who knows this on the Eggheads side? Not an easy question.

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I'm inclined to go Greig Laidlaw, simply because...

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the captain in the 2010s,

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because I think he has been around a reasonable time.

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I think with both Andy Irvine and Gavin Hastings,

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but there have been other people who have captained Scotland, such as

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Finlay Calder and David Sole in those days.

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I'd be inclined to go Greig Laidlaw.

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So, third question. You've gone for Gavin Hastings.

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-The correct answer is Greig Laidlaw.

-Oh!

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Beth, sorry, knocked out on that.

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The one you'd heard of there!

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I'd heard of him and Gavin Hastings.

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I just didn't think he'd been in the captaincy long enough.

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Ian, well done, you're through to the final round,

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an advantage to our Challengers on a big day.

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Playing for £16,000.

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Please rejoin your teams.

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-Well done, Ian.

-Thank you.

-Good win for the Challengers.

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By the way, the Australian Olympics, you said Canberra and Sydney.

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-Melbourne.

-Yeah, you're right. Melbourne...

-'56.

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Yeah, '56, bang on.

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'56 and then 2000 in Sydney.

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As it stands, School of Steel have

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not lost any brains from the final round.

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The Eggheads have lost Beth, and we play on,

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and the next subject for you is Film & TV.

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So, whose street is this up?

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Who feels confident?

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-Do you want me to do it?

-Do you want to do it?

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-Are you confident?

-Go on, then, Ailsa.

-Ailsa.

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I'll try it, yeah, I'll take it.

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OK, good stuff, Ailsa. Choose any Egghead here.

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-I can't really advise you. They're all good.

-Steve or Dave.

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-Steve or Dave?

-Steve or Dave, I'd imagine.

-You choose.

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I'll take on Steve, please, Jeremy.

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All right, so you are going for the new ones here.

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Ailsa from School of Steel will play Steve.

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To ensure there is no conferring, would you please take your positions?

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So, Ailsa, good luck here.

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Film & TV. Would you like to go first or second?

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Can I go first, please, Jeremy?

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Here we go with your first question.

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Which long-running TV soap opera was created by Kevin Laffan?

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I don't think it's EastEnders.

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I don't think it's Coronation Street.

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That leaves Emmerdale. I'll go for Emmerdale.

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That's a very good use of elimination, because

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-you're absolutely right.

-Yes!

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Steve, over to you.

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Who played the role of Randle P McMurphy in the 1975

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film One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest?

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Yeah, great film, got the Oscar for it. It's Jack Nicholson.

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Jack Nicholson is correct, you're right.

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Back to you, Ailsa.

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In which TV drama series does Emilia Clarke play the

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role of Daenerys Targaryen?

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Can you spell her name, please, Jeremy?

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Yeah. It's a bit odd.

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D-A-E-N-E-R-Y-S.

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And then T-A-R-G-A-R-Y-E-N.

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The name is a very unusual one.

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I can't imagine it being in Homeland or The Bridge.

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The Bridge sounds more Scandinavian, in fact it is more Scandinavian.

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I'd go for Game Of Thrones.

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Yeah, again, good play. Game Of Thrones it is.

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OK, Steve.

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The 1950 film Sunset Boulevard is set in which city?

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Well, I've seen the film, but it was some time ago,

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and I'm struggling to remember, to be fair.

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But simply because, and it could be completely skewed logic,

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it's all to do with the film industry...

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..I would go Los Angeles.

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You're right. Los Angeles.

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So you're level. Third question to you, Ailsa.

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Which of these films won the most Oscars?

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I have only seen one of those films.

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Absolutely brilliant, it is.

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It's between two.

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I would say either Star Wars: A New Hope or The Shawshank Redemption.

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Um... Admittedly, Tarantino directed Pulp Fiction.

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I would go for...

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-..Star Wars.

-You're a really good quizzer.

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Star Wars: A New Hope is the right answer.

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Yes! Excellent.

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-Thank you.

-And now you're on the edge of the precipice, Steve.

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Your fingernails digging into the earth.

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Who provides the voice for Baloo in the 2016 film version of

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The Jungle Book?

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-Bill Murray.

-You know that?

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-Yeah, I've seen it.

-You didn't even have to think?

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-No.

-You just said the name.

-Yeah.

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Bill Murray is right.

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Three questions each, the scores are level.

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So, he's a bit harder to shake off, Ailsa, here.

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-Isn't he just?

-Isn't he just?

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He's very good. And we go to Sudden Death.

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I don't give you alternative options. Here's your question.

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Which BBC TV drama series about a police department

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set up to solve old crimes

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and consisting of three retired detectives

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under a female superintendent was first seen as a pilot in 2003?

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That would be an excellent TV show.

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It's New Tricks.

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New Tricks is right.

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-Yes.

-Steve, your question.

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To stay in. Sudden Death we're on.

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Who composed the TV theme tunes for Crossroads,

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Sports Night and Emmerdale among others?

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Right. The only one I've got anything to go on is Crossroads,

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bizarrely enough.

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And I think it was Tony Hatch.

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Ailsa, you think he's right?

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-I think he might well be.

-Tony Hatch is correct.

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We're on Sudden Death. £16,000 to win today, and we're back to you,

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Ailsa. I'm just sensing this is a really big moment

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in the contest here.

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If you can dislodge an Egghead, who knows?

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Which children's TV programme is set under the ocean and features the

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characters Kwazii, Captain Barnacles and Peso?

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Oh, this is a tough one.

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I don't have children.

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Under The Sea. I really don't know.

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-I'm sorry.

-Do you know this, Steve?

-Is it The Octonauts?

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Octonauts is the answer.

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-I've never heard of it.

-Steve has the chance to take the round here

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with this question. Which British actor was cast as

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Sherlock Holmes in the New York-based drama Elementary?

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Oh, what's his name?

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Jonny Lee Miller.

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-Is he right, Eggheads?

-Spot on.

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Spot on, Jonny Lee Miller it is.

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You've won on Sudden Death. Sorry, Ailsa.

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You let him in there, and so Steve has evened it up.

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Do return to us, and rejoin your teams.

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We'll see what happens next.

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OK, so the Eggheads have pulled one back here.

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School of Steel have lost a brain from the final round.

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The Eggheads have lost one as well.

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Completely level, very exciting.

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The next subject is Politics.

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-Who would like this?

-Paul, do you want to go Politics?

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-Shall I go for it?

-I think you should go for it.

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-OK, Paul?

-Yes, I'll go for it.

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Geography teacher. Paul against whom?

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You're saying I should take Dave?

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It looks like I'm going for Dave, thank you.

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OK. That sounds a bit reluctant.

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THEY LAUGH

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Paul from School of Steel versus the steel man from the Eggheads,

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Tremendous Knowledge Dave.

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To ensure there is no conferring, please go to our Question Room.

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So, here we are. Paul against Dave.

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Paul, would you like to go first or second?

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I'll go first, thanks.

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Paul, good luck to you.

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Which country, with over 850 million potential voters,

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is the world's largest democracy?

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Well, Russia's population has actually decreased over the past...

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since 1991. The USA has got 350 million people.

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India has got 1.2 billion,

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of which 850 million, I guess, are voting age.

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So it's India.

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It's almost a geography question, isn't it?

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-It is.

-India is the right answer.

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Dave, your question. From 1988 to 1999,

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who was the leader of the Liberal Democrats?

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I think it's...

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too early for Charles Kennedy, too late for Roy Jenkins.

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I think it was Paddy Ashdown.

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Paddy Ashdown, now Lord Ashdown, is right.

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Well done. OK, back to you on Politics, Paul.

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Which political figure has been married to women named Jane Chapman,

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Claudia Bracchitta and Laura Alvarez?

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Well, I'm pretty sure it's not Jeremy Corbyn.

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I'll go for Boris Johnson.

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It's not Boris Johnson. It is actually Jeremy Corbyn.

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-Oh, wow.

-So, there we are.

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Dave, your question to take the lead.

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In which year was Hillary Clinton born?

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Right. I believe she's 69, so let me work that out!

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Let me do my maths.

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Yeah. I think her husband was born in 1946.

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I think she was born in 1947.

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1947 is right, Dave, well done.

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OK, Paul, back to you.

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You need to get this right to stay in.

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Which 20th-century British Prime Minister was known by the nickname

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Pretty Fanny?

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Well, I'm afraid to say I don't really have a clue on this one.

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Um... Pretty Fanny...

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..doesn't seem to go with Winston Churchill's gruff...

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exterior.

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-I'll go for Stanley Baldwin.

-Stanley Baldwin.

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-Any Eggheads know this?

-It's such a bizarre name,

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you might be well advised to go as far back in time as you could.

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I was wondering whether you would...

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-So, who is the oldest Prime Minister there?

-Balfour.

-Balfour.

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It's obviously not a name that would be used these days,

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and I guess you could rule out Winston Churchill because we must

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know surely all of his nicknames quite well.

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So if you're left with Baldwin and Balfour,

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the only bit of logic the Eggs are applying here, Paul,

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is that it's a nickname from a different time,

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so you go a long way back,

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and you do go to Arthur Balfour, that is the right answer.

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Sorry, Dave has taken the round.

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Well done, Dave. The Eggheads starting to assert themselves,

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but they are playing well generally at the moment.

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Come back to us, rejoin your teams,

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and we'll play the last round before the final.

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So, as it stands, School of Steel have lost two brains from the final

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round, the Eggheads have lost one.

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You can hear them revving the engines now.

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You've got to stop it, pull out the...

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What, the cylinder? What would it be, Steve?

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I'd just put my foot on the brake!

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Put your foot on the brakes.

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There we are. The next subject... Oh, here we go.

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-The next subject is Geography.

-Oh!

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How does that always happen?

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We have used our Geography player in the last round.

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-So, who wants this?

-Got to be you.

-You've got to take it.

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That'll be me, please, Jeremy.

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OK, John, on Geography, against which Egghead?

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You can either have Pat or Lisa.

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I'll go up against Lisa, please.

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If you go like that, you will be chosen.

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-It will happen.

-I literally have nightmares that start like this.

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We'll see. She may just be saying that as a cover.

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John from School of Steel, Lisa from the Eggheads,

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please go to the Question Room now.

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Well, John, Lisa has showed her hand very slightly on Geography.

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It's not her favourite subject.

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Would you like to go first or second?

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I'll go first, please, Jeremy.

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Here we go. What type of environment are the Florida Everglades?

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Well, thinking of Florida, you think of a swampland,

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so it might be the obvious one, but I'll go for it anyway.

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-Swamp, please.

-Swamp is quite right, yes.

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Lisa...

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What is the capital city of Belarus?

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Let's show off all the geography I know.

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Zagreb's Croatia, Belgrade is Serbia, but Belarus is Minsk.

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-Those are your three geography facts, are they?

-That was it!

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JEREMY LAUGHS You've run out now.

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-Afraid so.

-Minsk is right.

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Back to you, John, team captain.

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Which of these rivers is the longest?

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Oh, that's a good one.

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Oh! It could be any of them.

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I was hoping the obvious one would come up. But it's not.

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I'll go for the Rhine, please, Jeremy.

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Let's see if your team-mates know. Is this right?

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Ah, Paul, the geography teacher?

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Well, the Ganges drains from upwards of northern India,

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it's an extremely long river.

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The Ganges is, and this is the technical term,

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an extremely long river? LAUGHTER

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Ganges is the right answer, actually, John.

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-Sorry.

-That's OK.

-So, Lisa...

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The town of Winchelsea is located near the coast

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of which English county?

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-Winchelsea?

-Yes.

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See, I had an idea it was sort of south, south-east.

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My first thought was Hampshire, it is probably good that hasn't

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come up. I don't think it's Cornwall.

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I think it's East Sussex.

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East Sussex is right. Woohoo!

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So, she has taken the lead there, John.

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-OK.

-And this thing of Lisa not knowing geography,

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sometimes she can surprise.

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At many levels, but also on that one.

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John, you need to get this right.

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What is the name of the rocky outpost in the Shetland Isles

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that is the northernmost point in the UK?

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Well, to give my excuses, I'm from Galashiels originally,

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one of the most southern towns in Scotland.

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So, this would have to be,

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again, just sort of a guess, I'm afraid, Jeremy.

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But I'll go for Rockall, please.

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Rockall. Your team? What do your team think?

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They like this? Yeah, they all like it.

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-It is wrong.

-Oh!

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The answer... Let's just see.

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Eggheads, do you know this?

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-Beth, you used to live up there.

-I used to live in Orkney.

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In Orkney. So, help us out.

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We all think it's Out Stack.

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Out Stack is the answer, John.

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And therefore, Lisa, you have won on Geography.

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-No, you're not dreaming!

-That's good.

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I don't have to look down and check I'm not in my pants.

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JEREMY LAUGHS

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So, you will be in the final round.

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In fact, Lisa and John, if you come back to us now,

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we will play that final.

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So, this is what we have been playing towards.

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It is time for our final round.

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As always, General Knowledge.

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But, I'm afraid, those of you who lost your head-to-heads

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can't take part in this round. So, John,

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Paul and Ailsa from School of Steel, and Beth from the Eggheads,

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would you please now leave the studio?

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Jonathan and Ian, you are now playing to win School of Steel £16,000.

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Lisa, Dave, Pat, Steve,

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you're playing for something that money cannot buy,

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the Eggheads' reputation.

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As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.

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They're all General Knowledge.

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Gentlemen, you can confer.

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So, School of Steel, the question is,

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can your two brains now defeat these four and win £16,000?

0:23:050:23:10

You may be just three questions away.

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Wish you all the best, Jonathan and Ian.

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Keep it focused. And would you like to go first or second?

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We'd like to go first, please.

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All right. So your first question is this.

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Who played the role of Frank Spencer in the TV comedy series

0:23:230:23:28

-Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em?

-(Crawford.)

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Michael Crawford?

0:23:350:23:37

Ian seems pretty sure it's Michael Crawford,

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so we'll go for Michael Crawford, please.

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I think Ian and I are roughly the same generation,

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so we watched a lot of this, didn't we?

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Michael Crawford is correct.

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First question to you, Eggheads.

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In which year was the astronaut Tim Peake born?

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I'd go '72.

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I had an idea he was early to mid 40s so, yeah,

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that would sort of put is in the right sort of place.

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-Let's have a think.

-He went up in 2016.

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-Yeah.

-So how old was he...?

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I think he was early mid 40s at that point.

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-His kids are very young.

-All other things being equal,

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they don't tend to put older astronauts into space, do they?

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-Yeah, but there's no...

-John Glenn was an exception.

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There is no... But the thing is there,

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obviously he'd served his time.

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He was training about, what, six, seven years, weren't he,

0:24:250:24:27

-before he went up?

-I think 30s and 40s are the key years.

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-Yeah.

-And he doesn't look, you know...

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You'd have to push him out to mid 50s, wouldn't you?

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-He didn't look like that.

-I'm swung by the fact, I think his

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kids are both under ten.

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Right, so that's a good bit of information, isn't it?

0:24:420:24:45

I think we can start talking ourselves out of

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a right bit of logic here.

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We think he was 44 when he went up?

0:24:500:24:52

-Yeah.

-And that's 1972?

-'72.

0:24:520:24:55

-He looks...

-Yeah.

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-Yeah, definitely.

-We're not certain of this,

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but we suspect it should be 1972.

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1972 is the right answer, Eggheads.

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Well done. It's easy to go...

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Come unstuck on the simple ones like that.

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All right. School of Steel,

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which darts player won his second PDC world title in 2016?

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It's not Deller, because he was 1980s.

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It's either Anderson or Part.

0:25:260:25:29

I think...

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-I don't know.

-If it's down to me, I would say John Part.

0:25:320:25:36

John Part?

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We'd like to go... Fingers crossed. ..John Part, please.

0:25:370:25:40

I think Dave will know this.

0:25:400:25:43

It's Gary Anderson.

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Gary Anderson is the answer.

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So, the Eggheads can take advantage of that with this question.

0:25:480:25:51

In the US education system,

0:25:510:25:52

what name is usually given to the guarantee of permanent employment

0:25:520:25:56

that valued lecturers can be granted by a university or college?

0:25:560:26:00

-Tenure.

-Tenure, I think.

-Tenure. I've heard tenure.

-Yeah.

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-Tenure.

-Incumbency is a more general term.

0:26:080:26:10

-Yeah, that's more a...

-And tenancy is just to do with a property.

0:26:100:26:14

-I think it's tenure.

-We think that's tenure.

0:26:140:26:17

Tenure is correct.

0:26:180:26:20

2-1. You must get this one right.

0:26:200:26:23

Your third question. Get it right, keep the contest going.

0:26:230:26:26

Get it wrong, it's over.

0:26:260:26:28

In which year was the Automobile Association founded in the UK?

0:26:280:26:32

I think it was the first one of the recovery services so, on that basis,

0:26:400:26:45

it would be 1905, I think.

0:26:450:26:48

OK, 1905, please, Jeremy.

0:26:480:26:50

1905 is the right answer.

0:26:500:26:53

Well played, Ian.

0:26:530:26:55

Well played. OK.

0:26:550:26:56

So, two out of three.

0:26:560:26:58

We've got to hope now they get this one wrong, OK?

0:26:580:27:01

And then we go to Sudden Death.

0:27:010:27:04

Eggheads, what was the profession of the former Tory MP Norman Tebbit

0:27:040:27:10

before he entered politics?

0:27:100:27:12

-Airline pilot.

-Airline pilot?

-Definitely.

0:27:150:27:17

-Airline pilot.

-A trade unionist as well.

0:27:170:27:19

Yeah, he was, yeah. That was ironic, wasn't it?

0:27:190:27:21

Any room for mistakes?

0:27:210:27:23

No. It's airline pilot, without a shadow of a doubt.

0:27:230:27:26

We think that Norman Tebbit was an airline pilot.

0:27:260:27:29

I do remember he wrote an autobiography

0:27:290:27:32

called Upwardly Mobile, which is probably a clue.

0:27:320:27:36

The answer is airline pilot.

0:27:360:27:38

-We say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.

-Well played.

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Well played, lads.

0:27:410:27:43

It was the darts! And actually, Ian, you're the sports guy.

0:27:460:27:49

-That's my weakest sport, I'm afraid.

-Is it really? Yeah.

0:27:490:27:51

-Had to pick that one.

-It's one where you're either completely focused on

0:27:510:27:55

it or know very little, I find, because I'm in the latter category.

0:27:550:27:58

Yeah. You had a good pop at them, though.

0:27:580:28:01

You really did. And they are on very good form at the moment.

0:28:010:28:03

Many have passed this way at the moment.

0:28:030:28:06

And it's hard to beat them, very hard.

0:28:060:28:09

Commiserations to School of Steel.

0:28:090:28:12

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally, we can really say that

0:28:120:28:15

now, this winning streak continues. It is truly impressive.

0:28:150:28:18

It means that you are not going home with the £16,000.

0:28:180:28:21

We'll take the money, we'll roll it over to our next show,

0:28:210:28:23

and it will be even more dramatic, Eggheads.

0:28:230:28:26

Who is going to take you down?

0:28:260:28:28

I don't know if it's going to happen.

0:28:280:28:30

Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers can take them on

0:28:300:28:33

and defeat them. £17,000 right here for them to win.

0:28:330:28:38

Until we play again, goodbye.

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