0:00:04 > 0:00:07These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:11 > 0:00:14arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:22 > 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 > 0:00:32They are the Eggheads.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34- Full of facts today? - Yes.- Oh, yeah, definitely.
0:00:34 > 0:00:35Always full of facts.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38Challenging the might of our quiz Goliaths today
0:00:38 > 0:00:40are the Aeolian Harpers.
0:00:40 > 0:00:41Now, this team are all members
0:00:41 > 0:00:45of the Aeolian Male voice choir, based in Kilmarnock.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47Let's meet them.
0:00:47 > 0:00:50Hello, I'm Reg, and I'm a retired dentist.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54Hello, I'm Al, and I'm a retired business director.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58Hello, I'm Alex, and I'm a retired company director.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01Hello, I'm Derek, and I'm a retired doctor.
0:01:01 > 0:01:03Hello, I'm Douglas,
0:01:03 > 0:01:07and I'm a semi-retired criminal defence lawyer.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09So, Reg and team, welcome.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12- ALL:- Hello! - Oh, lively, I'm feeling it.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14And it's music that brings you together Reg, is it?
0:01:14 > 0:01:16It is indeed, yes.
0:01:16 > 0:01:21We're often asked where the term "Aeolian" comes from,
0:01:21 > 0:01:27and it leads back to the Aeolian harp of Ancient Greek times.
0:01:27 > 0:01:31When the wind produced a certain sound through this harp,
0:01:31 > 0:01:36this led to the Aeolian mode of music from olden times,
0:01:36 > 0:01:40and it was picked up as the name of our choir 84 years ago.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43How interesting. Do you quiz at all, Reg?
0:01:43 > 0:01:46No, not together, we don't quiz together,
0:01:46 > 0:01:49but we're all very keen on quizzes over many years.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51And great fans of this show too.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53Well, it sounds like you do quiz in a way -
0:01:53 > 0:01:57even just watching a quiz, I think, is a form of quizzing.
0:01:57 > 0:01:58- Very much so, yes.- OK.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01Cos we want to scare them as much as possible,
0:02:01 > 0:02:02that's the key thing here.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05So - quizzers, singers... You're a golfer as well, I know.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Well, yes... It could be said.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12JEREMY LAUGHS I wish you well. Good luck.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Every day, there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs
0:02:14 > 0:02:15for our challengers -
0:02:15 > 0:02:17if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:02:17 > 0:02:20that prize money rolls over to our next show.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22Now, Aeolian Harpers, the Eggheads have won
0:02:22 > 0:02:25the last eight games, so they're really getting into
0:02:25 > 0:02:28a bit of a canter here and you've got to stop them.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31If you do, you'll win £9,000.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34- Would you like to try? - Oh, yes.- Yes.- I thought so.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Music -
0:02:37 > 0:02:39you can choose between Beth, Dave,
0:02:39 > 0:02:41Chris, Barry and Lisa.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43You and Derek?
0:02:43 > 0:02:47- I think Derek would manage. Go for Derek.- Derek? Aye.
0:02:47 > 0:02:51OK, Derek. Choosing among musicians, of course.
0:02:51 > 0:02:55Against which Egghead? Who looks as if they couldn't sing for toffee?
0:02:55 > 0:02:56Dave?
0:02:56 > 0:02:59- Dave.- OK. Good stuff.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02The word "Dave" goes up on the Challengers' side.
0:03:02 > 0:03:03It sounds ominous.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Derek from the Aeolian Harpers
0:03:05 > 0:03:07versus Dave from the Eggheads.
0:03:07 > 0:03:11First round, Music - please go to our legendary Question Room.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16So Derek, you're on Music against Tremendous Knowledge Dave -
0:03:16 > 0:03:18would you like to go first or second?
0:03:18 > 0:03:19I'd like to go first, please.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24Here we go. Good luck.
0:03:24 > 0:03:27Which Lionel Richie song,
0:03:27 > 0:03:29released as a single in the UK in 1986,
0:03:29 > 0:03:33has a chorus that begins "Oh, what a feeling"?
0:03:38 > 0:03:411986, erm...
0:03:41 > 0:03:44That's bound to be Dancing On The Ceiling.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47And it also rhymes, which could be a help.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50So, Dancing On The Ceiling.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53"Oh what a feeling, when we're dancing on the ceiling",
0:03:53 > 0:03:55that's quite right, well done.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57Dave, your question.
0:03:57 > 0:03:58Published in 2016,
0:03:58 > 0:04:02Born To Run is the autobiography of which American musician?
0:04:06 > 0:04:08It's got to be the Boss, Bruce Springsteen.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10Bruce Springsteen's quite right.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12OK, you're equal, the two of you.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14Your question, Derek.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17The songs There's A Sucker Born Every Minute
0:04:17 > 0:04:20and The Prince Of Humbug
0:04:20 > 0:04:22are from which stage musical?
0:04:26 > 0:04:30Well, it's certainly not Les Miserables,
0:04:30 > 0:04:34that's the only one of them I've seen.
0:04:34 > 0:04:39Barnum was to do with circuses, a circus performer -
0:04:39 > 0:04:42these songs sound a circus-type musical,
0:04:42 > 0:04:44so I'll try for Barnum.
0:04:44 > 0:04:48You've got it, Barnum is right, well done.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50Dave, your question.
0:04:50 > 0:04:54Which member of The Beatles wrote the songs I Need You
0:04:54 > 0:04:59and You Like Me Too Much on their Help! album?
0:05:03 > 0:05:06I'm not sure at all.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08But I'm going to go...
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Just got an instinct about George Harrison,
0:05:10 > 0:05:12so that's my answer, George Harrison.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14Yeah, George Harrison is the right answer.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16So he did My Sweet Lord, and he did...
0:05:16 > 0:05:18I suppose for them, he did Old Brown Shoe
0:05:18 > 0:05:19and While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21I thought he wrote Something as well.
0:05:21 > 0:05:22So he was no mean writer himself.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25No, he wrote plenty. Wrote a lot.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27OK, Derek, your question. You're absolutely level.
0:05:27 > 0:05:32Dreaming Out Loud, released in 2007,
0:05:32 > 0:05:35was which American band's debut album?
0:05:38 > 0:05:43Very little idea. Don't think Kings Of Leon are American.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45I'm afraid I'll have to go straight down the middle
0:05:45 > 0:05:48and try Matchbox Twenty.
0:05:48 > 0:05:52This is OneRepublic, Derek, that we're looking for here.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55OK - your question, Dave,
0:05:55 > 0:05:56you can take the round with this.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59On which album by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
0:05:59 > 0:06:03did the hit song Take Five first appear?
0:06:08 > 0:06:12Right... Not sure about this at all.
0:06:12 > 0:06:16Erm... The one title that erm...
0:06:16 > 0:06:19is begging me to say it is Time Changes
0:06:19 > 0:06:22so that's my answer - Time Changes.
0:06:22 > 0:06:26Time Changes - let's see, with the musical Eggs here. Anybody know?
0:06:26 > 0:06:29- I might have been inclined to go for Time Out.- Time Out.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31That's what Takes Five means, Time Out, so...
0:06:31 > 0:06:33Take Five means Time Out - yes, I suppose that's the clue.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36- Time Out is the answer, Dave. - All right. Right.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38So, level after three, we go to Sudden Death -
0:06:38 > 0:06:40you had a slight let-off there, Derek.
0:06:40 > 0:06:44- Mm!- And now it gets a bit harder, I don't give you alternatives, OK?
0:06:44 > 0:06:45OK.
0:06:45 > 0:06:49The American group No Doubt, who first had hits in the 1990s,
0:06:49 > 0:06:53had which female pop star as their lead singer?
0:06:54 > 0:06:57No, very little idea. Anastacia?
0:06:57 > 0:06:59- Dave, you know this?- Gwen Stefani.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02Gwen Stefani. Gwen Stefani is the answer.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Dave, your question, to take the round.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07Get It On was an 1971 UK number one single
0:07:07 > 0:07:10for which band, fronted by Marc Bolan?
0:07:10 > 0:07:13T. Rex.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15In a million million zillion squillion years
0:07:15 > 0:07:17you would never get that answer wrong.
0:07:17 > 0:07:18Well, you never know.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21JEREMY LAUGHS No, you wouldn't. T. Rex is absolutely right.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23It was Tyrannosaurus Rex and they shortened it.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25- Yeah.- Dave, on Sudden Death, you've taken it -
0:07:25 > 0:07:27Derek, you've been knocked out.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29Please return to us, rejoin your teams, and we'll play on.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35So our Aeolian Harpers have lost a brain from the final round,
0:07:35 > 0:07:37the Eggheads are still just sitting there -
0:07:37 > 0:07:39in fact, you didn't lose any in the last game
0:07:39 > 0:07:41and I'm thinking we need to go back quite a way
0:07:41 > 0:07:43to when you got knocked out, any of you.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46- Ooh, don't say things like that! - That's jinxed that.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48Just doing my best for you guys.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50The next subject is Geography.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52Who would like Geography?
0:07:52 > 0:07:55- I fancy that.- Do you want to do it? - Do you mind?
0:07:55 > 0:07:57- Aye, on you go.- OK.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Alex, Geography?
0:07:59 > 0:08:02Choose an Egghead, Alex. Anyone but Dave.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04Chris, please.
0:08:04 > 0:08:05Very good, Chris has been er...
0:08:05 > 0:08:08Certainly travelled a lot around Crewe.
0:08:08 > 0:08:13So Alex from the Aeolian Harpers, versus Egghead Chris...
0:08:13 > 0:08:16Let's go to the Question Room again.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18Alex, I know you been keeping a diary since the '60s.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21- I have, Jeremy, yes. - Not many people can say that.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24And what is it, your life, or the world around, or...?
0:08:24 > 0:08:27It's a little bit of the weather,
0:08:27 > 0:08:32what happens in the world, and what I do myself, family, etc.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34But do you go back in it and read a previous year's entry?
0:08:34 > 0:08:38I do look back when I find something interesting, yes.
0:08:38 > 0:08:42I draw in it, I put little artefacts in it -
0:08:42 > 0:08:47recently it was the old tax disc that had been discontinued.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50Things like that that are just very interesting.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52What's the most common word in it?
0:08:52 > 0:08:54The most common word?
0:08:54 > 0:08:55"Showery."
0:08:55 > 0:08:58JEREMY LAUGHS Why am I not surprised?
0:08:58 > 0:09:01- West coast of Scotland. - In Kilmarnock, yeah.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04OK, so Geography, Alex - speaking of the coast,
0:09:04 > 0:09:07maybe a coast or two'll come up, do you want to go first or second?
0:09:07 > 0:09:09First please, Jeremy.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15Alex, your question.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17What is the capital of the US state of Hawaii?
0:09:21 > 0:09:26Jeremy, I have by my bedside my little book of reference
0:09:26 > 0:09:31and I've been studying US state capitals for the last while.
0:09:31 > 0:09:35The state capital of Hawaii is Honolulu.
0:09:35 > 0:09:36Superb! Brilliant.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39Is that because you were ready for this round, then,
0:09:39 > 0:09:42- studying your capitals? - Absolutely. I prayed for it.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44Cos Eggs... Well, Chris, you'll know -
0:09:44 > 0:09:47the capital is not always the obvious place, is it?
0:09:47 > 0:09:49No. They tend to have capitals
0:09:49 > 0:09:51in funny little out-the-way places in America.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53OK, your question,
0:09:53 > 0:09:56Chris Hughes - Lord Hughes of Crewe.
0:09:56 > 0:09:57In which country
0:09:57 > 0:10:01does the most northerly point of mainland Africa lie?
0:10:04 > 0:10:08Well, it's Tunisia.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10That's right. Well done.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12Alex, your question. You're equal.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15With an area of about 56 square miles,
0:10:15 > 0:10:20Achill Island is which country's largest island?
0:10:24 > 0:10:25It's not Scotland.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28Anglesey for Wales...
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Jeremy, I'm guessing Ireland.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33You're guessing well,
0:10:33 > 0:10:35Ireland it is. Alex, well done.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37You take the lead,
0:10:37 > 0:10:38let's see if Chris can catch up.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41The demilitarised zone, or DMZ,
0:10:41 > 0:10:44that separates North Korea from South Korea,
0:10:44 > 0:10:48is roughly 160 miles long.
0:10:48 > 0:10:49How wide?
0:10:56 > 0:10:57Ah...
0:10:57 > 0:11:00Well, they can actually watch each other, can't they,
0:11:00 > 0:11:01from their respective halves?
0:11:01 > 0:11:03So it's two-and-a-half miles.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06Yes, it is two-and-a-half miles. And presumably you can't
0:11:06 > 0:11:07wander across it or anything like that?
0:11:07 > 0:11:10You can try it, but you wouldn't make it back.
0:11:10 > 0:11:11JEREMY LAUGHS
0:11:11 > 0:11:13Two-and-a-half miles is the right answer. You're level.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16So this could be crucial, Alex, this third question.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19Completed in 1794,
0:11:19 > 0:11:24the Glamorganshire Canal connected which of these places to Cardiff?
0:11:30 > 0:11:34I would imagine it would be
0:11:34 > 0:11:36probably the biggest of the three places,
0:11:36 > 0:11:40and I hope I'm guessing right when I say,
0:11:40 > 0:11:43carrying coal etc, to -
0:11:43 > 0:11:47hopefully - the port of Swansea.
0:11:47 > 0:11:48Chris, you know this one?
0:11:48 > 0:11:51Well, I think it immediately predates the railway era
0:11:51 > 0:11:54and it was from Merthyr Tydfil down to Cardiff.
0:11:54 > 0:11:55Merthyr Tydfil is right.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Alex, you've got two out of three - back to Chris.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59It's not over yet.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01Chris, this for the round.
0:12:01 > 0:12:02Which of these French cities
0:12:02 > 0:12:09is home to one of the best preserved Roman amphitheatres in existence?
0:12:13 > 0:12:15Er...
0:12:16 > 0:12:19That's down the south, in Nimes.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21Nimes is right, well done - he's taken the round, Alex,
0:12:21 > 0:12:23I'm so sorry.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26- That's a diary entry right there, isn't it?- It sure is!
0:12:26 > 0:12:28JEREMY LAUGHS
0:12:28 > 0:12:31Please come back, rejoin your teams and we'll see what happens next.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36Well, the Eggheads are playing well at the moment -
0:12:36 > 0:12:38not just in this game but preceding games.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41You've lost two brains, Aeolian Harpers,
0:12:41 > 0:12:43and the Eggheads have not lost any yet.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45The next subject is Film & TV,
0:12:45 > 0:12:47which Harper would like this?
0:12:47 > 0:12:52- I'll take that for the team. - Right.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54- Douglas?- Go for it.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57And you can have - let's see - Beth or Barry or Lisa.
0:12:57 > 0:13:01- Lisa.- Fine. Douglas from the Aeolian Harpers,
0:13:01 > 0:13:04versus say probably one of the most musical Eggheads, Lisa.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06Loves to sing, loves to dance...
0:13:06 > 0:13:09I don't do either very well but it doesn't stop me enjoying 'em.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12To ensure there's no conferring, please go to the Question Room.
0:13:14 > 0:13:17So you're from the town that gave birth to Robert Burns, Douglas?
0:13:17 > 0:13:19Yes, that's right.
0:13:19 > 0:13:23I live round the corner from Burns' cottage,
0:13:23 > 0:13:29and not half a mile from Brigadoon and Alloway's old haunted kirk,
0:13:29 > 0:13:34where probably Robert Burns' most famous poem came from,
0:13:34 > 0:13:35Tam O'Shanter.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38Really? I'm feeling like you could be the tour guide,
0:13:38 > 0:13:40you've brought it alive there.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42I'm not so sure about that,
0:13:42 > 0:13:46I don't profess to be a complete Burnsonian.
0:13:46 > 0:13:47But it's Alloway in Ayrshire right?
0:13:47 > 0:13:49- That's correct. - Aren't you feeling, Lisa,
0:13:49 > 0:13:51we need to get down there and have a look?
0:13:51 > 0:13:55- It sounds amazingly atmospheric listening to Douglas talk about it, it really does.- Yeah, it does.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57OK, Film & TV, Douglas -
0:13:57 > 0:13:59would you like to go first or second against great Lisa?
0:13:59 > 0:14:01I'll go in to bat first.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06Here is your first question.
0:14:06 > 0:14:11For what does the first A stand in the abbreviation BAFTA?
0:14:16 > 0:14:19I can't see it being either Associated or American,
0:14:19 > 0:14:21it will be Academy.
0:14:21 > 0:14:25Academy's right. British Academy of Film and Television Arts,
0:14:25 > 0:14:27- Is that right?- Yes.- Yeah. - What, you haven't won one, Jeremy(?)
0:14:27 > 0:14:29HE LAUGHS
0:14:29 > 0:14:32Waiting for this show to suddenly be noticed by them!
0:14:32 > 0:14:34OK, your question, Lisa.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37In which country is the 1980s sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! set?
0:14:40 > 0:14:42That's France.
0:14:42 > 0:14:46That's France. So, you're equal at this stage, Douglas,
0:14:46 > 0:14:48questions may get a little bit harder.
0:14:48 > 0:14:49Here is your question.
0:14:49 > 0:14:52In what year was the comedy series
0:14:52 > 0:14:54"Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?"
0:14:54 > 0:14:56first broadcast?
0:15:00 > 0:15:03Likely Lads was on first...
0:15:03 > 0:15:07I don't think it would be as late as 1983...
0:15:07 > 0:15:10So I think 1973.
0:15:10 > 0:15:14Well done, Douglas, you're right. '73 it is.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16Lisa, back to you.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18Who co-starred as Denys
0:15:18 > 0:15:20alongside Meryl Streep as Karen
0:15:20 > 0:15:24in the 1985 film Out Of Africa?
0:15:28 > 0:15:31Might help if I knew who Denys was, I don't know if he was
0:15:31 > 0:15:36Karen's husband or Karen's stern elderly mentor, or...
0:15:37 > 0:15:39SHE EXHALES
0:15:39 > 0:15:41I'll try Robert Redford.
0:15:41 > 0:15:42Yes, Robert Redford it is.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45- Oh, yay. - Great movie. So where are we here?
0:15:45 > 0:15:49Where are we here? We're equal after two questions.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51Douglas, the third question can be crucial, as you will know.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53And here it is.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56Who plays Dallas, the commander of the spaceship Nostromo
0:15:56 > 0:16:01in Ridley Scott's classic 1979 science fiction film, Alien?
0:16:08 > 0:16:11Do not remember Kris Kristofferson being in it.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14Nor James B Sikking.
0:16:14 > 0:16:16Tom Skerritt?
0:16:16 > 0:16:20Tom Skerritt is the right answer as well, that's good quizzing.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22So three out of three - is this enough,
0:16:22 > 0:16:25or will Lisa be the first Egghead
0:16:25 > 0:16:28to fall out of the contest for quite a while? Let's see.
0:16:28 > 0:16:33Bubba Smith, who played Hightower in the Police Academy films,
0:16:33 > 0:16:37had earlier had a career as a professional in which sport?
0:16:41 > 0:16:44He was a very, very big man, Bubba Smith,
0:16:44 > 0:16:46I think sadly no longer with us, but...
0:16:46 > 0:16:48I thought he was a football player.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51There's this brilliant gag in the first Police Academy movie
0:16:51 > 0:16:54where he sits down next to Steve Guttenberg
0:16:54 > 0:16:56and they're talking about their past lives,
0:16:56 > 0:16:59and Steve Guttenberg asks what he did before he joined the police,
0:16:59 > 0:17:00and he says "I was a florist."
0:17:00 > 0:17:02And there's this sort of...
0:17:02 > 0:17:06enormous seven foot guy, with a vase in front of him...
0:17:06 > 0:17:09All of which is a very long-winded way of saying
0:17:09 > 0:17:11- I'll go for American football. - JEREMY LAUGHS
0:17:11 > 0:17:13From the florist to American football.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15You have got it right, Lisa, well done.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18Well done indeed. So three out of three for you both -
0:17:18 > 0:17:20we go to Sudden Death, Douglas.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22Gets a bit harder, I don't give you alternative choices.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24Published in 1990,
0:17:24 > 0:17:27Little Girl Lost is an autobiography of which Hollywood starlet,
0:17:27 > 0:17:29which tells of her difficulties
0:17:29 > 0:17:33coping with fame at a young age in the 1980s?
0:17:35 > 0:17:371980s...
0:17:39 > 0:17:41Drew Barrymore.
0:17:41 > 0:17:42Drew Barrymore is quite right.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45Cos she was in ET at the age of seven.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Lisa, which Doctor Who actor
0:17:47 > 0:17:50provided the voice of Spotty
0:17:50 > 0:17:55in the 1980s animated children's TV series Super Ted?
0:17:55 > 0:17:57Oh, no, I read this the other day!
0:17:57 > 0:18:00I read this the other day and I can't remember.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03Oh...!
0:18:03 > 0:18:04No, no, no, this is awful.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07My first thought was Peter Davison,
0:18:07 > 0:18:09and then I suddenly thought "Now, hang on..."
0:18:09 > 0:18:11Is it Colin Baker?
0:18:11 > 0:18:15I remember reading it and being really surprised.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17Which would probably lead me slightly more
0:18:17 > 0:18:20towards Peter Davison than Colin Baker.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23After all this it's going to be neither of them, and I'm going to look like a right wally.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25Erm...
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Right, come on -
0:18:27 > 0:18:29- Peter Davison. - JEREMY LAUGHS
0:18:29 > 0:18:31- Neither.- Oh, go on, then.
0:18:31 > 0:18:33- Jon Pertwee.- Oh, right!- Yeah.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36So, well done, Douglas -
0:18:36 > 0:18:38you've knocked out Lisa.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42- And that's the first time we've seen an Egghead knocked out for a little while in this contest.- Yeah.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45So you will be in the final round, Douglas, that's really good news.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48- Good. - Robbie Burns is cheering somewhere.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50Come back to us please, both of you,
0:18:50 > 0:18:52and we will play the last round before the final.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56Is this the turnaround moment?
0:18:56 > 0:18:59The Aeolian Harpers have lost two brains from the final round
0:18:59 > 0:19:01but the Eggheads have lost Lisa.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03The next subject is Politics.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05So one more round before the final - who wants this?
0:19:05 > 0:19:08- Have to be me!- Good man.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11- I'll take that one. - OK, Reg, our retired dentist,
0:19:11 > 0:19:13against either Barry or Beth...
0:19:13 > 0:19:16I think I would like to take on Beth.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19OK. Reg from the Aeolian Harpers
0:19:19 > 0:19:21plays Beth from the Eggheads on Politics.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24Please go to the Question Room for the last time.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28So Politics, Reg, would you like to go first or second?
0:19:28 > 0:19:31Er...I would like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:19:34 > 0:19:35And here we go.
0:19:35 > 0:19:36What was the first name
0:19:36 > 0:19:39of the 19th-century prime minister Disraeli?
0:19:43 > 0:19:48Well, Disraeli was possibly one of the most famous
0:19:48 > 0:19:51of the 19th-century prime ministers,
0:19:51 > 0:19:54so I would be thoroughly ashamed of myself
0:19:54 > 0:19:56if I didn't know his name was Benjamin.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58Benjamin is right.
0:19:58 > 0:20:00OK, Beth, on to you.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03Who did Denis Healey once describe
0:20:03 > 0:20:06as having "the face of a man who clubs baby seals"?
0:20:10 > 0:20:13("The face of a man who clubs baby seals"....)
0:20:13 > 0:20:16He probably said this about John Prescott.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19Well done, John Prescott it was. On his own side!
0:20:19 > 0:20:21OK, over to you, Reg.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23After leaving office, which British prime minister
0:20:23 > 0:20:28took up the post of Distinguished Global Leader In Residence
0:20:28 > 0:20:30at New York University?
0:20:34 > 0:20:37Now...trying to remember,
0:20:37 > 0:20:41it must have been a considerable news item at the time...
0:20:41 > 0:20:44I think that was an activity
0:20:44 > 0:20:48which was a relatively short-term appointment
0:20:48 > 0:20:50for Margaret Thatcher.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52No, you've gone astray. It was Gordon Brown.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55Much more recent, actually.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57OK, Beth, your chance to take the lead.
0:20:57 > 0:21:02From 2008 to 2013, Lee Myung-bak
0:21:02 > 0:21:05served as president of which country?
0:21:08 > 0:21:11And it's M-Y-U-N-G hyphen B-A-K.
0:21:11 > 0:21:15Doesn't sound a Japanese name.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17I'm not sure it's South Korea...
0:21:17 > 0:21:19But I'll go with Thailand.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22- Ooh!- An Egghead made a noise. Barry?
0:21:22 > 0:21:25That sounds very South Korean to me.
0:21:25 > 0:21:26It sounds South Korean to Barry...
0:21:26 > 0:21:29- Ooh...- It is South Korean.- Ah.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31Reg, that was a little bit of a mercy.
0:21:31 > 0:21:35- Certainly was.- You need to take advantage now, your third question.
0:21:35 > 0:21:39In September 2016, who did William Hague describe
0:21:39 > 0:21:41as "a living, breathing advertisement
0:21:41 > 0:21:43"for unrelenting stamina"?
0:21:47 > 0:21:52I don't remember him actually saying this,
0:21:52 > 0:21:55but the date may be a clue
0:21:55 > 0:21:58inasmuch as the lady was expending
0:21:58 > 0:22:01a lot of energy at the time,
0:22:01 > 0:22:04so this may very well be Hillary Clinton.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Yes, it is Hillary Clinton. Well done.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09Well done, you could have gone wrong there.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11OK. Beth, your question.
0:22:11 > 0:22:12You need this to stay in.
0:22:12 > 0:22:14The politician Angela Eagle
0:22:14 > 0:22:19was elected in 1992 as MP for which constituency?
0:22:23 > 0:22:26I'm trying to think of whether I've heard her speak
0:22:26 > 0:22:28and whether her accent
0:22:28 > 0:22:32gives me a clue to where she's from.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35I think she might be for...
0:22:35 > 0:22:37Wolverhampton South West.
0:22:38 > 0:22:39It's not her seat.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42- Wallasey.- Oh...
0:22:42 > 0:22:43That was my second choice.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Wallasey is the answer - well done, Reg,
0:22:46 > 0:22:48you've levelled it up nicely here.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50You've taken on an Egghead and emerged triumphant,
0:22:50 > 0:22:51and you will be in the final round,
0:22:51 > 0:22:53so the skipper goes through to the final.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55If you come back to us, both of you,
0:22:55 > 0:22:58we will play the final round, for £9,000.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01So, this is what we have been playing towards -
0:23:01 > 0:23:03it is time for the final round,
0:23:03 > 0:23:05which, as always, is General Knowledge.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07But those of you who lost your head-to-heads
0:23:07 > 0:23:09won't be allowed to take part in this round.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12So Alex and Derek from the Aeolian Harpers,
0:23:12 > 0:23:15and also Lisa and Beth from the Eggheads,
0:23:15 > 0:23:17would you please now leave the studio?
0:23:18 > 0:23:22Here we are. You've fought hard, gentlemen, and you've done well.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Reg, Alan, Douglas,
0:23:24 > 0:23:28you are now playing to win £9,000 for the Aeolian Harpers.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31Barry, Chris and Dave - we've taken a bit of a hit in this game, haven't we?
0:23:31 > 0:23:33But you're playing for something very precious,
0:23:33 > 0:23:35which is the Eggheads' reputation.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn -
0:23:38 > 0:23:40this time, they are all General Knowledge.
0:23:40 > 0:23:44You may confer. So, Aeolian Harpers, the question is,
0:23:44 > 0:23:47are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three?
0:23:47 > 0:23:50I'm sure you can do this. I wish you all the best.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53- Do you want to go first or second? - We'll go first, Jeremy, please.
0:23:56 > 0:24:00OK, Al and team - here we go, your first question.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03The pharynx is a cone-shaped passageway
0:24:03 > 0:24:06located in what part of the human body?
0:24:09 > 0:24:11- It's the head.- It's the head.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13It's the head, Jeremy.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Head is correct.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17Eggheads...
0:24:17 > 0:24:21What type of military vehicle was the Fairey Firefly?
0:24:24 > 0:24:28- Fighter aircraft. - Fighter aircraft, yeah.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31A Fairey was a famous design of fighter aircraft,
0:24:31 > 0:24:32so that's our answer.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Fighter aircraft is quite right.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36Back to you, Challengers.
0:24:36 > 0:24:40In the books by JRR Tolkien, the city of Minas Tirith
0:24:40 > 0:24:42is the capital of which kingdom?
0:24:46 > 0:24:49The Riders of Rohan...
0:24:49 > 0:24:52And Mordor, definitely not. So...
0:24:52 > 0:24:57- Gondor.- You have great knowledge of this, so we'll go with that.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00It's Gondor, Jeremy.
0:25:00 > 0:25:01Gondor is correct.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Playing well. Cos that could be
0:25:03 > 0:25:05an absolute stinker, that one.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08OK, Eggheads, I sense you
0:25:08 > 0:25:10shaking and quaking a little bit.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13Whole lot of shaking going on over here underneath the desk...
0:25:13 > 0:25:16Yeah, they're shaking, under the desk.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18Who was the Roman equivalent
0:25:18 > 0:25:21of the Greek goddess Athena?
0:25:24 > 0:25:26- Minerva.- Minerva.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28Well, Venus was the goddess of love
0:25:28 > 0:25:29and Juno was the wife of Jupiter,
0:25:29 > 0:25:32but the equivalent of Athena was Minerva.
0:25:32 > 0:25:36- Minerva's right. It's the goddess of the Eggheads, isn't it?- Yeah.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38So, Challengers, this is quite good.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40It would have been nice if they'd got one wrong.
0:25:40 > 0:25:41They're playing with certainty,
0:25:41 > 0:25:44but they can just suddenly fail.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47So keep plugging on here. You're playing for £9,000.
0:25:47 > 0:25:49In 1981,
0:25:49 > 0:25:52Mohammad-Ali Rajai was assassinated
0:25:52 > 0:25:56only a few weeks after becoming president of which country?
0:25:59 > 0:26:02There's something ringing a bell...
0:26:02 > 0:26:07- I don't think he'll be India. - No.- No.
0:26:07 > 0:26:12I don't think he'll be Iranian. I would go for Indonesia.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14- Yeah, it's ringing a bell here as Indonesia.- Yeah.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16- Indonesia, Jeremy. - Indonesia is your answer,
0:26:16 > 0:26:18let's check with the Eggheads...
0:26:18 > 0:26:20I think it's Iran -
0:26:20 > 0:26:22I think a bomb was placed in a Cabinet office
0:26:22 > 0:26:26and Mohammad-Ali and some of the other Cabinet members
0:26:26 > 0:26:27were assassinated.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29We're talking about post-Shah,
0:26:29 > 0:26:30so there was a lot of turbulence -
0:26:30 > 0:26:32I was just wondering whether '81
0:26:32 > 0:26:34was a tricky time in Iran.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37Iran is the answer. Not Indonesia.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39You've let the Eggheads in, let's see
0:26:39 > 0:26:41how much damage they can do with their third question.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43If you get this right, it's over.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46His Bloody Project,
0:26:46 > 0:26:49nominated for the Man Booker Prize in 2016,
0:26:49 > 0:26:51is a novel by which author?
0:26:56 > 0:26:57Well, it's not Paul Beatty cos he won it.
0:26:57 > 0:26:58That's something else.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01I'm not sure about Hilary.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03I don't think it's her, she's won it twice.
0:27:03 > 0:27:08- I'm inclined to go with Graeme. - So would I.
0:27:08 > 0:27:12Well, we think Paul Beatty won the Booker Prize with a different novel
0:27:12 > 0:27:13which we can't recall at the moment,
0:27:13 > 0:27:15and Hilary Mantel's won it twice.
0:27:15 > 0:27:16I don't think she won it again.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18We'll go for Graeme Macrae Burnet.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21If you've got this right, the contest is over.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23His Bloody Project is a novel
0:27:23 > 0:27:25by Graeme Macrae Burnet -
0:27:25 > 0:27:26we say congratulations, Eggheads,
0:27:26 > 0:27:28you have won.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34Well, you've been a little bit more successful
0:27:34 > 0:27:37than other teams recently, but they are on this storming form.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39And well done, Eggheads, you had a moment there
0:27:39 > 0:27:41where I thought you might go down
0:27:41 > 0:27:43but actually you won well,
0:27:43 > 0:27:45and commiserations to the Aeolian Harpers.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47- I hope you enjoyed that.- We did.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49Meeting these great Eggheads over here.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52It's sometimes good to see them in imperious form,
0:27:52 > 0:27:53and they are at the moment.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55Their winning streak continues -
0:27:55 > 0:27:57it does mean you won't be going home with the £9,000,
0:27:57 > 0:28:00so we take that money and we're going to roll it over
0:28:00 > 0:28:01to the next show.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03Jackpot is getting bigger and bigger.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06Congratulations - I don't think anyone will EVER win it.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers
0:28:09 > 0:28:13can have a bash at winning £10,000.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15Maybe Pat will do the shoulder roll.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18Till then... ALL LAUGH
0:28:18 > 0:28:20Until then - goodbye.