0:00:04 > 0:00:08These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11Together they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:11 > 0:00:14arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:27Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz Challengers pit
0:00:27 > 0:00:30their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32Here they are, the Eggheads.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35- And are you on fleek? - Always.- Absolutely.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37You gave me that word, Lisa.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39- What does it mean?- I think it's a down-with-the-kids term for being
0:00:39 > 0:00:44- trendy.- OK, well, yes, you are quite on fleek at the moment.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47Taking on the might of our quiz Goliaths today
0:00:47 > 0:00:50are The Spiders from Lancashire.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53Now, this team of friends regularly quiz together at the Wheatsheaf
0:00:53 > 0:00:55pub in Woodplumpton. Let's meet them.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58Hello, I'm Laurence, and I'm a retired builder.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01Hello, I'm Nicola I'm a nursery manager.
0:01:01 > 0:01:05Hello, I'm Matt, I'm an IT consultant.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08Hello, I'm Jane and I'm a policy consultant.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10Hello, I'm Peter and I'm a lengthsman.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12So, Laurence and team, welcome.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Good to see you. You quiz together, Laurence, yeah?
0:01:15 > 0:01:18- Yes.- So how does it go when you quiz together?
0:01:18 > 0:01:20Quite well, usually.
0:01:20 > 0:01:25We're a varied subject team, so we all have a speciality.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27Oh, well, that's very useful for Eggheads.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29And you're called The Spiders
0:01:29 > 0:01:31because of a David Bowie connection.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33So help us here.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36Well, the first time we went to the Wheatsheaf at Woodplumpton,
0:01:36 > 0:01:37Bowie had just died.
0:01:37 > 0:01:42And normally we used a topical name so we thought we would be the
0:01:42 > 0:01:44- Spiders from Preston. - Because his famous...
0:01:44 > 0:01:46Well, you'll know this. We haven't got Dave here,
0:01:46 > 0:01:48- who can tell us the famous...- Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders from Mars.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders from Mars.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52Anyway, have you had some rehearsals?
0:01:52 > 0:01:54Have you had some planning, some strategy sessions?
0:01:54 > 0:01:56We have, yes.
0:01:56 > 0:01:57Don't say any more!
0:01:59 > 0:02:01We had a team once who brought out a whole sheet of paper with arrows on
0:02:01 > 0:02:04it and everything. That did worry them, actually.
0:02:04 > 0:02:08Good luck. Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs for our Challengers.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads the prize money
0:02:11 > 0:02:13rolls over to the next show.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16So, Spiders, the Eggheads have won just the last game.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19They had a great run and they just suddenly were derailed.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21£2,000 for you to win today.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23- Would you like to get cracking? - Oh, yes.- OK.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Sport.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29You've got Beth, Chris, Pat, Barry and Lisa to choose from.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33- This is mine, then? - I think that's yours, Matt.
0:02:33 > 0:02:34- OK.- Matt will be taking it.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37Matt, our IT consultant, against which Egghead?
0:02:37 > 0:02:40- Shall we take Chris? - Yes, I think so.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42Yeah, that's fine with me.
0:02:42 > 0:02:43I'm sensing the strategy already.
0:02:45 > 0:02:49So, Matt from The Spiders versus Chris from Mars, some of the time.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52Well, Mars confectionery, Slough, maybe.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56Definitely with us at the moment, though.
0:02:56 > 0:02:57To ensure there is no conferring,
0:02:57 > 0:03:01please take your positions in our legendary Question Room.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04So, Matt, you love Leicester City?
0:03:04 > 0:03:07Yes, I do. Born and bred, brought up with the family,
0:03:07 > 0:03:09it was forced upon me when I was a kid.
0:03:09 > 0:03:10But now it's a lot better.
0:03:10 > 0:03:14Well, what was it like when you won?
0:03:14 > 0:03:16It's still actually surreal, it doesn't feel it's sunk in yet.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19Did you follow this, Chris? Do you know what we're talking about?
0:03:19 > 0:03:21- Which sport?- Well, it's football.
0:03:21 > 0:03:22Yeah, well done.
0:03:22 > 0:03:26I once hung out at Filbert Street in Leicester, but other than that,
0:03:26 > 0:03:27I couldn't care less.
0:03:27 > 0:03:28Well, it was a lovely moment.
0:03:28 > 0:03:32Leicester won the Premiership, which is a great thing, because it was an anti-money thing.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34So I thought you would have been behind them.
0:03:34 > 0:03:38Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, I'm anti-money, yeah.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41Not antimony, which is a metallic element - anti-money.
0:03:42 > 0:03:45Oh, dear, we've got into a very strange part of the quiz maze here,
0:03:45 > 0:03:48haven't we? Let's get back to Sport.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50Your choice. Would you like to go first or second?
0:03:50 > 0:03:52I'll go first, please.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57Here we go, Matt.
0:03:57 > 0:04:01A giant sculpture of which Olympic swimmer was unveiled in the
0:04:01 > 0:04:04Serpentine lake in London in the summer of 2016?
0:04:10 > 0:04:13So, they're all famous swimmers, they've done well.
0:04:13 > 0:04:14As it's in the Serpentine
0:04:14 > 0:04:17I'm assuming it's actually going to be Rebecca Adlington
0:04:17 > 0:04:20as she's the British one of the three.
0:04:20 > 0:04:21It is Rebecca Adlington.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24I have missed this totally. Is it a permanent sculpture or...?
0:04:24 > 0:04:28Anyone know? I'm not sure whether it's permanent.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30- You mean it's a blow-up one? - It was massive.
0:04:30 > 0:04:32It was really big.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35- I didn't see it but I saw pictures. - But made out of something solid?
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Yeah.
0:04:37 > 0:04:38OK.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41Who knew? Chris, your question.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44Which course hosted golf's Open Championship
0:04:44 > 0:04:46for the ninth time in 2016?
0:04:51 > 0:04:56Carnoustie is at the other side of Dundee, a bit far out.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58Turnberry is an Ayrshire, and so is Royal Troon.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02Ninth time, it's somewhere with a bit of history,
0:05:02 > 0:05:03so I'll say Royal Troon.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06- Eggs, is he right?- Yes, he's right.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09Yes, you're right. OK. Back to you, Matt.
0:05:09 > 0:05:14In which of these sports is a player most likely to call an audible?
0:05:18 > 0:05:22Audible. American sports aren't my favourite here,
0:05:22 > 0:05:27so it's going to be a total guess, this one.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31Let's go... Audible. I'll go for American football
0:05:31 > 0:05:33but it's a total guess.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36That's good because Laurence is pumping the air here.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38- Laurence, you think he's right? - Yes, definitely.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40And what is an audible?
0:05:40 > 0:05:44It's when they change the game that they play from what they originally
0:05:44 > 0:05:48decided on and the quarterback tells the other players it's a different
0:05:48 > 0:05:51- play.- OK, but it's audible because everybody hears it?
0:05:51 > 0:05:53- On his team.- I see.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55American football's right.
0:05:55 > 0:05:56Well done, Matt.
0:05:56 > 0:05:57Well done.
0:05:57 > 0:05:58OK, Chris, you're still with us?
0:05:58 > 0:06:00Yeah, still here.
0:06:00 > 0:06:04In 2016, Pakistan cricket captain Misbah-ul-Haq
0:06:04 > 0:06:09celebrated a century at Lord's by doing what on the field of play?
0:06:13 > 0:06:16The conga, he'd have to get the rest of the team in to do the conga,
0:06:16 > 0:06:19so it's unlikely to be the conga.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22Press-ups would be a bit ostentatious but I can imagine
0:06:22 > 0:06:25him turning cartwheels in celebration, so I'll say cartwheels.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28Yeah, that's the guessable one, but it's not that, actually.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31And, of course, the conga, you would require others, wouldn't you?
0:06:31 > 0:06:33Press-ups, Chris.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35This is looking a little bit tasty now,
0:06:35 > 0:06:37as sports commentators say, Matt.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39Get this right, you're in the final.
0:06:39 > 0:06:44What was the prize-money for the winner of the Tour de France in 2016?
0:06:49 > 0:06:54So it is lot of effort... to win the Tour de France,
0:06:54 > 0:06:56so I'm assuming it's going to be large numbers here.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01If you think Wimbledon winners win millions,
0:07:01 > 0:07:04so I'm going to have to go for 500,000 euros.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07Yeah, the right idea completely.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09It is 500,000. Well done.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12Matt, you've taken the round. First round to our Challengers.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14Looking very pleased there.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16- Sorry, Chris.- All right, no problem.
0:07:16 > 0:07:17And Sport, as well.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20The only thing worse than that is for you to go out on rap music.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22Chris is not in the final match, you are.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25Well done. Come back and rejoin your teams. We'll play on.
0:07:25 > 0:07:29So, as it stands, The Spiders have not lost any brains from the final
0:07:29 > 0:07:31round. The Eggheads have lost one.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35The next subject is Food & Drink. So who would like this?
0:07:35 > 0:07:38I think that's going to be me, isn't it?
0:07:38 > 0:07:40I think that's going to be you, Jane.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43OK, Jane, against which Egghead? Obviously, it can't be Chris.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45- Who do you think?- Beth?
0:07:45 > 0:07:47Beth. Yes, we'll have Beth, please.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50OK. Jane from The Spiders versus Beth from the Eggheads on Food & Drink.
0:07:50 > 0:07:55To ensure there is no conferring, please go to the Question Room.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57I think this might be your first Food & Drink, Beth.
0:07:57 > 0:07:58I think it is, yeah.
0:07:58 > 0:07:59Looking forward to this.
0:07:59 > 0:08:04- And any particular Food & Drink areas that you love?- Cocktails.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Right. Will they come up?
0:08:06 > 0:08:08I hope so.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10I just like cooking, as well, so...
0:08:10 > 0:08:11Well, let's see. Food & Drink.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13Jane, would you like to go first or second?
0:08:13 > 0:08:15I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20OK, let's see if you can keep it going for your side.
0:08:20 > 0:08:26Here's your question. What is the translation of the French winemaking term blanc de blanc?
0:08:32 > 0:08:35Well, I think the word blanc in French means white
0:08:35 > 0:08:38so I assume the answer is white from whites.
0:08:38 > 0:08:42White from whites is quite right.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44Beth, your question.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46What name is traditionally given to a seating area
0:08:46 > 0:08:52near the kitchen of a restaurant where diners can observe their food being cooked?
0:08:57 > 0:08:59This is a chef's table.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01You are so right. Chef's table it is.
0:09:02 > 0:09:07Jane, your question. The dried berry known as allspice is particularly
0:09:07 > 0:09:11associated with cuisine from which of these?
0:09:15 > 0:09:18Oh, my goodness.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20I don't think it's Scandinavia.
0:09:22 > 0:09:23I don't think it's Australia,
0:09:23 > 0:09:26so I'll go right down the middle and say the Caribbean.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30Well done. Caribbean it is. Two out of two.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32Beth, the Italian Zuppa Inglese
0:09:32 > 0:09:35is commonly said to resemble which typically British dish?
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Zuppa Inglese. Well, that would translate
0:09:42 > 0:09:44as English soup, doesn't it?
0:09:44 > 0:09:50So the only thing there that looks like it could be
0:09:50 > 0:09:53soup-y-esque would be a trifle.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57Trifle is right. 2-2.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Table for two. OK, Jane.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01The English chef Nathan Outlaw
0:10:01 > 0:10:04is particularly well-known for cooking what?
0:10:08 > 0:10:11Now, I don't know the answer to this.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14I don't know, is somebody well-known for cooking lamb?
0:10:14 > 0:10:15That doesn't seem right.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20I'm going to take a guess and I'm going to say fish.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23And you have a phobia of something, don't you?
0:10:23 > 0:10:24- I do.- And what is that?
0:10:24 > 0:10:27It's the thing in the middle, the fish.
0:10:27 > 0:10:29I'm really sorry. I saw that and I thought,
0:10:29 > 0:10:31"Oh, I hope fish doesn't come up."
0:10:32 > 0:10:33And then, of course, it does.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35Not deliberate, I promise.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38So does the phobia just mean you can't look at them or think
0:10:38 > 0:10:40- about them or...?- Yes, I can eat them quite happily,
0:10:40 > 0:10:42as long as they don't look fishlike.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46I find trips to aquariums or trips to the fish counter
0:10:46 > 0:10:48at the supermarket quite difficult.
0:10:48 > 0:10:49Could this, in a way,
0:10:49 > 0:10:51getting the answer right here, be part of therapy?
0:10:51 > 0:10:53- Maybe.- Yes, it is fish.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Well done. Well done.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58On the other hand, I'm scared of eating the fish.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01- Oh, are you?- Yeah.- Because they're slippery or something?
0:11:01 > 0:11:02No, fish-bone phobia.
0:11:02 > 0:11:06Oh, really? We've got a lot of phobias today.
0:11:06 > 0:11:09All right. Beth.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11Apart from rice, which of these
0:11:11 > 0:11:16are the central ingredient of the Italian dish risotto primavera?
0:11:21 > 0:11:25Well, primavera is the Italian for spring, so spring vegetables.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28Well done. Spring vegetable it is. Three out of three for you both.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31We go to Sudden Death.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33So, Jane, it gets a bit harder, I don't give you different choices.
0:11:33 > 0:11:38What spirit is the principal ingredient of a white lady cocktail?
0:11:39 > 0:11:43Goodness. It's not a cocktail I'm familiar with.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47But I guess, being as it's white,
0:11:47 > 0:11:50I'm imagining it should be clear-coloured
0:11:50 > 0:11:55so it's whether it's vodka or gin.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57I'm going to go with gin, Jeremy.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59Jane is right.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02There we are. There's always a cocktail in this round somewhere.
0:12:02 > 0:12:04That's why it's so popular.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06OK, we go back to you, Beth.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10Beauty of Bath is a variety of which fruit?
0:12:10 > 0:12:12Sounds like...
0:12:12 > 0:12:16Being where Bath is and Somerset being very well-known for
0:12:16 > 0:12:21apples and Bath being close to there. I will...
0:12:21 > 0:12:24Apples seems a reasonable guess.
0:12:24 > 0:12:25Apple is right.
0:12:26 > 0:12:27So, Sudden Death.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30Well done. You're both playing really well.
0:12:30 > 0:12:34Jane, back to you. The raw fish dish called ahi poke
0:12:34 > 0:12:38is a feature of the cuisine of which US state?
0:12:40 > 0:12:42I'm trying to think of somewhere that's known for its fish.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45I presume it would be somewhere on the coast.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47I'll maybe go for...
0:12:49 > 0:12:52- ..Louisiana.- No, it is Hawaii.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55It's a kind of marinated raw tuna.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57OK, Beth, your chance to take the round.
0:12:57 > 0:13:02Rocoto peppers are most associated with cuisine from which continent?
0:13:02 > 0:13:06It's not something I know, but let's go with...
0:13:08 > 0:13:11- ..South America?- If you've got it right, you're in the final, Beth.
0:13:11 > 0:13:12And it is right. Well done.
0:13:12 > 0:13:14South America. Sorry, Jane.
0:13:14 > 0:13:17You've been knocked out by our Egghead, who's levelled things up.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19Good play by Beth, good play by you both.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22Please come back to us and we'll see what happens next.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26OK, the Eggheads fighting back. Well done, Beth. As it stands,
0:13:26 > 0:13:30The Spiders have lost a brain from the final round.
0:13:30 > 0:13:31The Eggheads have lost a brain, as well.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34The next subject for you is Science.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36Which Spider wants this?
0:13:37 > 0:13:39I think I'm going to have to take it, aren't I?
0:13:39 > 0:13:40Do you want to have a go, Pete?
0:13:40 > 0:13:41Do you want to go?
0:13:42 > 0:13:45- Go on, then. I'll... - Yeah, you're going to take it.
0:13:45 > 0:13:46Peter, down the end.
0:13:46 > 0:13:50Our lengthsman. We'll investigate that in a moment.
0:13:50 > 0:13:51Against which Egghead?
0:13:52 > 0:13:56- Pat.- Pat, all right. - Go for Pat?- Yeah.- Pat, please.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58It's quite a good little democracy you've got going on.
0:13:59 > 0:14:03Peter from The Spiders versus Pat from the Eggheads.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06And, of course, since you were last here doing the rolling shoulders,
0:14:06 > 0:14:07- Pat...- I was a younger man then.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10Well, you were, and the money went missing
0:14:10 > 0:14:11so you can't do it for a while.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14He only does it if it goes over £10,000.
0:14:14 > 0:14:18And to ensure there's no conferring, please go to our Question Room.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21So, Peter, tell us what the lengthsman is, if you can.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24Right, Jeremy. A lengthsman.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27Basically, I work in my local parish -
0:14:27 > 0:14:32it's a job for a local person, keeping the area looking tidy and neat.
0:14:32 > 0:14:36It's all grass cutting, planting, spring, summer, autumn.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39Traditionally, it's a person who lives in the actual parish
0:14:39 > 0:14:42does the job - they like it to be a local person.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44I'm thinking that must be quite good for the mind.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46It must be rather enjoyable.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49I love it. I love being outdoors and listening to the radio while I'm
0:14:49 > 0:14:51doing my job and it's great, yeah.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53Well, I'm hoping you're on the right station.
0:14:53 > 0:14:54I am, Jeremy.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57I hope we don't make you too cross.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00Have you ever called in while you've been mowing?
0:15:00 > 0:15:03I haven't, no. I've been on the show before you - PopMaster.
0:15:03 > 0:15:07- Oh, PopMaster, really? How did you do?- I won.- Oh, good.
0:15:07 > 0:15:10But this is Science. That's no good, is it?
0:15:10 > 0:15:11I'm here for the team here, Jeremy.
0:15:11 > 0:15:12OK, understood.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15Science, Peter. Would you like to go first or second?
0:15:15 > 0:15:16First, please, Jeremy.
0:15:20 > 0:15:24Peter, your first question. Argentum is the Latin name for which element?
0:15:25 > 0:15:28A-R-G-E-N-T-U-M.
0:15:32 > 0:15:36Well, I don't know this, Jeremy, so it's going to have to be a guess.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40I'm going to go with copper, Jeremy.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44Now, let's just think how we get to the words here.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47Pat, where would you go with argentum?
0:15:47 > 0:15:50I think it's the Latin for silver.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52Yeah, but are there any kind of silvery things
0:15:52 > 0:15:53that have the word arg?
0:15:53 > 0:15:58Well, Argentina was named after exploitation of silver deposits,
0:15:58 > 0:16:00- I think. - The answer is silver, Peter.
0:16:02 > 0:16:03Pat, your question.
0:16:03 > 0:16:07Ichtheology is the branch of zoology that deals with
0:16:07 > 0:16:09what creatures?
0:16:13 > 0:16:16I think ichthus is the Greek for fish,
0:16:16 > 0:16:20so I'm fairly confident it's the study of fish.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Jane, I promise this isn't deliberate.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24I don't know what's happening.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26I don't know what's happening here.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Obviously the deciding question
0:16:28 > 0:16:29at the end of the final is going to be...
0:16:29 > 0:16:31The answer is going to be fish to that, as well.
0:16:31 > 0:16:33Fish is the right answer.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35We've got a fish-phobic in among our Challengers
0:16:35 > 0:16:37and the fish are coming up all the time.
0:16:39 > 0:16:40OK. Back to you, Peter.
0:16:40 > 0:16:45What type of creature is Bouvier's red colobus,
0:16:45 > 0:16:50rediscovered in Africa in 2015 after previously been thought extinct?
0:16:54 > 0:16:58I'm not sure, but I'm leaning towards butterfly.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00It seems the kind of name.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02So I'll go with butterfly, Jeremy.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05I would have done the same. Let's see. Challengers, do you know?
0:17:05 > 0:17:09- It's a monkey.- They're right, it's a monkey, Peter.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12Bad luck. I know this is not your subject.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Pat, your question for the round.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16How many moons does Mars have?
0:17:20 > 0:17:23I think they are a pair, aren't they?
0:17:23 > 0:17:24Phobos and Deimos,
0:17:24 > 0:17:27which translate as fear and terror or something like that.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32So there is definitely at least two, I don't think they've got five -
0:17:32 > 0:17:34there are five Martian moons.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36I think it's two.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38The correct answer is two.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41Pat, well done. Peter, sorry, no way back in this round,
0:17:41 > 0:17:43but I know it was not your chosen subject at all.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46You took one for the team very bravely there.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48Our Egghead has knocked you out, sadly.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50Come back and we'll see what happens in the next round.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54So a bit of a fightback now by the Eggheads.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57The Spiders have lost two brains from the final round,
0:17:57 > 0:18:00the Eggheads have lost one. Let's see what happens next.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02Politics is the subject.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04CHUCKLING Is that good?
0:18:04 > 0:18:05Nicola or Laurence.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07I think I'm taking one for the team.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09OK. The captain goes in.
0:18:09 > 0:18:13Who would you like? You can have either Barry, known as the Brain,
0:18:13 > 0:18:14or Lisa.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17I'll go with Lisa, please.
0:18:17 > 0:18:21Very good. Laurence from The Spiders versus Lisa from the Eggheads on
0:18:21 > 0:18:23Politics, which I think you get quite a lot.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25It doesn't matter what subject it is.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28I have reduced sympathy for Jane because I'm petrified of Spiders
0:18:28 > 0:18:29and they've brought five!
0:18:32 > 0:18:33Well, that's a very good tactic.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36OK. So, please, both of you, go to the Question Room.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40So, Politics, Laurence. Do you want to go first or second?
0:18:40 > 0:18:42I'll go second, please.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48I heard a slight gasp on the Eggheads' desk.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50I think it was Barry going, "Oh!"
0:18:50 > 0:18:53You've taken them aback. Well done. OK, Lisa.
0:18:53 > 0:18:57During his successful campaign to become London mayor in 2016,
0:18:57 > 0:19:01Sadiq Khan stated several times that his father had had what job?
0:19:05 > 0:19:08I'm fairly certain he was a bus driver.
0:19:08 > 0:19:09Bus driver is right.
0:19:10 > 0:19:11Laurence. In 2006,
0:19:11 > 0:19:14which of these went on a so-called hug-a-husky trip
0:19:14 > 0:19:17to the Arctic Circle in order to establish
0:19:17 > 0:19:20his environmental credentials?
0:19:24 > 0:19:28I have a feeling that it wasn't David Blunkett.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30I think it was David Cameron.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32David Cameron is the right answer.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34Of course, that was the start of it all, wasn't it?
0:19:34 > 0:19:36- Yeah.- OK, Lisa.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39The Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819
0:19:39 > 0:19:44was an agreement between the United States
0:19:44 > 0:19:45and which country?
0:19:45 > 0:19:48So, Adams-Onis, O-N-I-S.
0:19:52 > 0:19:541819.
0:19:54 > 0:19:5719th century has never been my favourite period of history.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59The problem with the 19th century is they'd started writing stuff down
0:19:59 > 0:20:02by then and there's far too much to read.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05OK, let's have a think.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08Onis sounds slightly more western Mediterranean.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15I would have thought the percentage guess here was France,
0:20:15 > 0:20:17unless I can think of another reason for it to be Spain.
0:20:19 > 0:20:23Yeah, this is just a straight guess because I haven't really got a clue.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25- I'll try France.- France.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27Let's see. Barry looks a bit upset by that.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29I think it was about the purchase of Florida,
0:20:29 > 0:20:31so I would have gone for Spain.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33It is Spain. And I'm not sure whether Barry is right,
0:20:33 > 0:20:37but he's saying the purchase of Florida.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40Ah, that would make sense.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43- There we go. - So, Laurence, your chance.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45You've done a brilliant thing by turning the tables
0:20:45 > 0:20:47and letting Lisa go first, but now you need to capitalise.
0:20:47 > 0:20:53Who did Theresa May appoint as Home Secretary in July 2016?
0:20:57 > 0:21:01I don't think it was Stephen Crabb.
0:21:01 > 0:21:02I think it was Amber Rudd.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Amber Rudd is right. So you're ahead.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08Lisa, you need this to stay in.
0:21:08 > 0:21:14In 2016, which government department did Iain Duncan Smith call the worst thing in Britain?
0:21:17 > 0:21:20I don't know, there's an argument for all of those.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25I don't know. I'm just thinking about Iain Duncan Smith's...
0:21:27 > 0:21:29..pre-Work and Pensions career.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33Go on. Put me out of my misery.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35- Education. - Do you know, Laurence?
0:21:35 > 0:21:37No, I haven't a clue.
0:21:37 > 0:21:38I'm trying to place this remark.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41I'm not sure when it was. I wonder if it was just before he resigned.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44- Treasury is the answer. - Oh, well, that makes more sense,
0:21:44 > 0:21:46if you're going to line it up with Work and Pensions.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48There's vague logic behind it.
0:21:48 > 0:21:49There was a bit of stress and tension,
0:21:49 > 0:21:52as indeed there is on the Eggheads' side as a result of that win.
0:21:52 > 0:21:53Well done, Laurence.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56- Thank you.- No way back for Lisa, so she's knocked out,
0:21:56 > 0:21:58and you will be in the final round.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00And if you come back to us, we'll play it.
0:22:01 > 0:22:05This is what we have been playing towards and you've been playing so well, Challengers, today.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07It is time for the final round.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09As always, it's going to be General Knowledge, but, I'm afraid,
0:22:09 > 0:22:13those who lost the head-to-heads are not allowed to take part in this
0:22:13 > 0:22:17round. So that's Jane and Peter for The Spiders and also Lisa and Chris
0:22:17 > 0:22:22from the Eggheads - would you please now leave the studio?
0:22:22 > 0:22:25OK. So, here we are. Laurence, Nicola and Matt,
0:22:25 > 0:22:27you're playing to win The Spiders £2,000.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29Barry, Pat and Beth,
0:22:29 > 0:22:31you're playing for something that money really can't buy,
0:22:31 > 0:22:34which is the Eggheads' reputation and trying to get a bit of a run
0:22:34 > 0:22:38together. As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn -
0:22:38 > 0:22:41this time they're all General Knowledge. You can confer.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43So, Spiders, the question is,
0:22:43 > 0:22:48can your three brains - what's that, 24 legs? -
0:22:48 > 0:22:51overwhelm the three Eggs over here?
0:22:51 > 0:22:54- Would you like to go first or second?- I think we'll go second.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00OK. So, second.
0:23:00 > 0:23:01General Knowledge, here we go.
0:23:01 > 0:23:08Eggheads. Which group released the 2016 album The Lexicon Of Love II
0:23:08 > 0:23:1134 years after the original album was released?
0:23:15 > 0:23:20- That's ABC - most definitely. - Martin Fry.- Yeah.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23I'm reliably informed by both my partners on the left
0:23:23 > 0:23:24that it's ABC.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Would you have struggled with this, Barry?
0:23:26 > 0:23:28Absolutely. OK.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30Wouldn't have had a clue.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32ABC is right.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34OK, Nicola and team.
0:23:34 > 0:23:38Philistines were a group of people from which part of the world?
0:23:42 > 0:23:45They appear in the Bible a lot, so I think it's the Middle East.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48I would have said the Middle East. I think we can discount the others.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51Yes, I think we'll go for the Middle East.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53The Middle East is right.
0:23:53 > 0:23:54One each. Eggheads.
0:23:56 > 0:23:57The TV series Heimat,
0:23:57 > 0:24:01which chronicled people's lives during the 20th century,
0:24:01 > 0:24:02was made in which country?
0:24:06 > 0:24:09- It was Germany.- Heimat is German for homeland.- OK.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11THEY CONFER
0:24:14 > 0:24:17We're all sure on that - I think Heimat means homeland in German,
0:24:17 > 0:24:19so we'll go for Germany.
0:24:19 > 0:24:20Yes, Germany it is.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23Back to you, Challengers.
0:24:23 > 0:24:27Bercy is a neighbourhood of which European capital?
0:24:27 > 0:24:30Bercy is spelt BE-R-C-Y.
0:24:38 > 0:24:42- Bercy.- I don't think it's Dublin. - It sounds...
0:24:42 > 0:24:44Could it sound French?
0:24:44 > 0:24:47Do you think? Or are we going for...?
0:24:47 > 0:24:49I don't know.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51- Go for Paris.- Yeah, on the basis of?
0:24:51 > 0:24:53On the basis of we don't know.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56No, we don't know. Down the middle, we're going to go for Paris, please,
0:24:56 > 0:24:59- Jeremy.- Not Dublin, not Copenhagen, Paris is right.
0:24:59 > 0:25:00Well done.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03OK, 2-2. It's tense!
0:25:04 > 0:25:11Eggheads. Lionel Barber was appointed editor of which newspaper in 2005?
0:25:17 > 0:25:19Oh, dear, another newspaper editor.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21I think I've read these, but I...
0:25:21 > 0:25:23Sometimes they don't stick.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25Paul Dacre is surely still at the Daily Mail.
0:25:25 > 0:25:30- Has the Guardian changed recently? - So I'd discount the Daily Mail.
0:25:30 > 0:25:34Where did Katharine Viner go? Was she the Guardian?
0:25:34 > 0:25:36Katharine Vine or Katharine Viner?
0:25:36 > 0:25:38Oh, I should know these. I think I...
0:25:39 > 0:25:43I have known them at one point but this has slipped away.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45My feeling that the Guardian is Katharine Viner
0:25:45 > 0:25:47and you think Paul Dacre may be the Daily Mail.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50ALL: So that leaves us with the Financial Times.
0:25:50 > 0:25:52A rather forlorn punt.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54Yeah?
0:25:54 > 0:25:57Well, Jeremy, you have discovered our Achilles heel.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00We always seem to fall down on editors of national newspapers.
0:26:01 > 0:26:06But I think the Daily Mail might still be Paul Dacre,
0:26:06 > 0:26:07and Pat thinks Katharine Viner
0:26:07 > 0:26:09might be at the Guardian so, on that basis,
0:26:09 > 0:26:12we're going to go - not with a great deal of certainty -
0:26:12 > 0:26:13for the Financial Times.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17OK, you do struggle with these newspaper questions.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20Of course, the Daily Mail has some sort of hierarchy where someone's an
0:26:20 > 0:26:25executive and not - maybe Dacre's not doing it day-to-day.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27But you're pretty much there. Financial Times is right.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29- Phew!- Oh.
0:26:30 > 0:26:31Would you have known that, guys?
0:26:31 > 0:26:32No, no.
0:26:34 > 0:26:35So you need this one.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38The Arctic Circle is approximately how many degrees
0:26:38 > 0:26:40north of the equator?
0:26:47 > 0:26:49- OK.- Have we anything to go on?
0:26:49 > 0:26:52The whole thing's going to be 90 degrees.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54The whole thing will be 90 degrees.
0:26:54 > 0:26:5886 is high, but is it too high?
0:26:58 > 0:27:00Cos it comes down quite a way to us.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02It's not...
0:27:02 > 0:27:04- Do we think...? - I don't know where we are.
0:27:05 > 0:27:09- I can't see us...- Shall we go down the middle?- Again.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13Well, it's... I agree with you, I think 86 is too far.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15- Do you think?- Yeah.
0:27:15 > 0:27:19- And 66 may be too low.- Mm.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22Again, with not much degree of certainty at all,
0:27:22 > 0:27:24we're going to go for 76.
0:27:24 > 0:27:25OK, a lot riding on this.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27If you get it right we go to Sudden Death,
0:27:27 > 0:27:29if it's wrong we end the contest.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33It's that idea that you're sort of... There's the equator,
0:27:33 > 0:27:35and if it's 90 it's there.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37Help us, Barry or Pat or Beth?
0:27:37 > 0:27:41- Who knows this?- Well, the Arctic Circle is at 23 degrees.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45Take 23 away from 90, you get 66.
0:27:45 > 0:27:49So it's 23 degrees from the North Pole.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52I see. 66 is the answer.
0:27:52 > 0:27:53I'm so sorry.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56We have to say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.
0:28:01 > 0:28:05Particularly annoying when Barry comes up with a load of angles
0:28:05 > 0:28:06in the very last question.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09But, on the upside, we didn't have any fish in the final round.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11- That's good. So, Jane, you were spared that.- Great!
0:28:11 > 0:28:13Thanks for playing. I hope you've enjoyed it.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15- We have.- Yes.- Good.
0:28:15 > 0:28:16Commiserations to our Spiders -
0:28:16 > 0:28:19lovely to have a David Bowie-related name, as well.
0:28:19 > 0:28:22The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them and you're back in
0:28:22 > 0:28:24charge of quiz land, no doubt about it.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27So it does mean you're not going home with the £2,000,
0:28:27 > 0:28:28so we roll the money over to the next show.
0:28:28 > 0:28:32Maybe we'll get to 10,000, maybe Pat will do the shoulders again.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34Eggheads, congratulations.
0:28:34 > 0:28:37Who will beat you? Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers
0:28:37 > 0:28:39have the brains to defeat that lot.
0:28:39 > 0:28:41£3,000 says they don't.
0:28:41 > 0:28:42Until then, goodbye.