0:00:04 > 0:00:08These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:10 > 0:00:11Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:11 > 0:00:15arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:24Welcome to Eggheads,
0:00:24 > 0:00:27the show where a team of five quiz Challengers pit their wits
0:00:27 > 0:00:30against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32They are the Eggheads.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35- And dominant at the moment, I think, Eggheads.- Yes, well fired up.- Mm!
0:00:35 > 0:00:38Good stuff. Taking on our quiz champions today are the...
0:00:40 > 0:00:41Now, this team all met
0:00:41 > 0:00:45at the University of Exeter and share a passion for politics.
0:00:45 > 0:00:46Let's meet them.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Hi, I'm John and I'm a politics teacher.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52Hi, I'm Alex and I'm a Masters student in international relations.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55Hi, I'm David. I'm a Masters student in international relations
0:00:55 > 0:00:56of the Americas.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00Hi, I'm Tom and I am a history and Cornish studies PhD student.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03Hi, I'm Max. I'm a health IT consultant.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06- So, John, team, welcome. Good to see you.- Hi, Jeremy.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08Often when we have the Politics round come up,
0:01:08 > 0:01:11we get Challengers say, "Oh, no! That's the one we were dreading."
0:01:11 > 0:01:13I'm thinking that will be the best round for you.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16- No, we're definitely dreading it as well.- What, because...?
0:01:16 > 0:01:19- We should know about it. - Yes, your core area.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21So tell us about the shared interest in politics
0:01:21 > 0:01:22and what brought you together.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25I lectured most of them in politics,
0:01:25 > 0:01:27and they have carried on their interest after university,
0:01:27 > 0:01:28but you should ask them.
0:01:28 > 0:01:32Well, in 2016, were you guys focused on the American election?
0:01:32 > 0:01:34- We were.- Stayed up to watch it, yep.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37John, were you all in the USA when the 2016 election happened?
0:01:37 > 0:01:38Not all of us, three of us were.
0:01:38 > 0:01:42We were out in Massachusetts, then New York, then DC,
0:01:42 > 0:01:44then Virginia for the election itself.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47So it was obviously an important swing state, in Virginia,
0:01:47 > 0:01:48and unfortunately, it was a state
0:01:48 > 0:01:50that wasn't a swing state in the end.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52You know, places like Minnesota were.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54So it all went a bit wrong, didn't it, for Mrs Clinton?
0:01:54 > 0:01:56It did. But it gave us, I think,
0:01:56 > 0:02:00- probably about 100,000 quiz questions, that election.- Yeah!
0:02:00 > 0:02:02We'll be answering questions about it for years to come.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05Anyway, all the best. Good luck.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs
0:02:07 > 0:02:08for our Challengers.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:02:11 > 0:02:13the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15Formalities out of the way, Exeter Exiles, let me tell you,
0:02:15 > 0:02:18the Eggheads are on storming form at the moment.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22They are going great guns. They've won the last ten games.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24That means there's £11,000 for you to win today.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27- Would you like to try?- Oh, yes! - THEY CHUCKLE
0:02:27 > 0:02:28Since you're here!
0:02:28 > 0:02:30The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Music.
0:02:30 > 0:02:34You can choose between Beth, Chris, Pat, Steve and Barry.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37- Tom, do you reckon?- Yeah, so, I'll take it.- Who do you want to take?
0:02:37 > 0:02:40- Chris?- I don't know. I think Chris is looking nervous.
0:02:40 > 0:02:41- I think this is the time. - Yeah, go for Chris.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43- Yeah.- He's squirming, go for it.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46Tom from Exeter Exiles on Music against Chris from the Eggheads.
0:02:46 > 0:02:50- Round One.- Round One.- Are you ready, Chris?- Yeah, seconds out.
0:02:50 > 0:02:51Seconds out.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54Please go to the legendary Eggheads Question Room now.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57Well, I feel bad about this, Tom.
0:02:57 > 0:02:59You love your politics, we got you on Music.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Yeah, well, fortunately, I'd probably say other than...
0:03:01 > 0:03:03Well, probably even better than politics,
0:03:03 > 0:03:04it's probably my strongest subject,
0:03:04 > 0:03:07but that could come back to bite me in the bum.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09Any kind of particular music that you love?
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Yeah, absolutely, indie music and rock music is something I go
0:03:12 > 0:03:14and listen to regularly, so I kind of hope that
0:03:14 > 0:03:16if we can get three questions on that, that would be great.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18We can sail right the way through then.
0:03:18 > 0:03:19JEREMY LAUGHS
0:03:19 > 0:03:22- Well, there may be opera.- We'll try and avoid those.- All right.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25Good luck. Against the great Chris Hughes.
0:03:25 > 0:03:27And would you like to go first or second, Tom?
0:03:27 > 0:03:28I'll go first, then, please.
0:03:32 > 0:03:33Here we go.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36Which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical opened at the Apollo Victoria
0:03:36 > 0:03:38in London in 1984
0:03:38 > 0:03:41and ran for over 7,000 performances
0:03:41 > 0:03:44before closing in 2002?
0:03:49 > 0:03:51I feel like, of all of them, I don't think I've seen
0:03:51 > 0:03:55Jesus Christ Superstar on the West End too recently.
0:03:55 > 0:03:59And I feel like Starlight Express has been touring for a while.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02So for that reason alone, I'm going to try Evita.
0:04:02 > 0:04:05OK, Evita. Let me check in with Beth here. What do you think?
0:04:05 > 0:04:07Um, I actually saw it when it was at the Apollo Victoria,
0:04:07 > 0:04:09and it's Starlight Express.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Yeah, it's Starlight Express.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13Starlight Express is the answer.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15Tom, over to Chris.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18Eric Coates' theme tune for the radio show Desert Island Disks
0:04:18 > 0:04:20is "By the sleepy..." What?
0:04:23 > 0:04:26It's called By The Sleepy Lagoon, Jeremy.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28LAUGHS: Lagoon is the right answer.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30I'm only laughing cos I'm thinking that's
0:04:30 > 0:04:31a classic quiz question, isn't it?
0:04:31 > 0:04:34- It is rather.- Yeah. I thought you'd enjoy it. OK, back to you, Tom.
0:04:34 > 0:04:39Which 2013 UK number one single begins with the line
0:04:39 > 0:04:41"Like the legend of the Phoenix"?
0:04:45 > 0:04:47I'm so glad to finally be able to get us off the mark.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49I feel confident with this one.
0:04:49 > 0:04:53So, Gangnam Style doesn't have too many English lyrics,
0:04:53 > 0:04:54so I know it is certainly not that.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57It's the band that I haven't yet seen that I definitely want
0:04:57 > 0:04:58to see that perform the song.
0:04:58 > 0:05:02It's the French duo Daft Punk and the song is Get Lucky.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Yeah, and that... You got it right.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09Tricky that, because I'm getting Happy and Get Lucky
0:05:09 > 0:05:10completely transposed in my mind.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13Well, Pharrell did sing on Get Lucky, but...
0:05:13 > 0:05:16- So Pharrell sang on Get Lucky and he sang Happy?- Yeah.
0:05:16 > 0:05:20That's his song, Happy, but he was like a guest vocalist on Get Lucky.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22You haven't, got it straight on, well done, you got a point there.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25So it's level. Chris, it's your question.
0:05:25 > 0:05:29Made In The A.M. is a 2015 album by which group?
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Made In The A.M. HE SIGHS
0:05:36 > 0:05:40I haven't got a clue, Jeremy.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44Long after my era. Um...
0:05:44 > 0:05:47Oh, straight down the middle, One Direction.
0:05:47 > 0:05:51Ah, you're right. One Direction it is.
0:05:51 > 0:05:52That's cruel, Tom, isn't it?
0:05:52 > 0:05:55I know. I thought I finally might have him on that one, but...
0:05:55 > 0:05:57- I'll get him next time. - You might do, you might do.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59Just get this one right and you stay in.
0:05:59 > 0:06:00At least for the moment.
0:06:00 > 0:06:05Which American group topped the UK charts in 1979
0:06:05 > 0:06:08with the song When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman?
0:06:12 > 0:06:14- HE SIGHS - Would have been nice if it was
0:06:14 > 0:06:17a slightly easier question for the last one, in the multiple choices.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20I feel inclined to say it's not Toto.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22I think I would have known if it was Toto.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25I tend to have heard a lot more of their stuff.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28The Doobie Brothers, I don't really know a lot about.
0:06:28 > 0:06:33And I don't really know too many tunes by Dr Hook either.
0:06:33 > 0:06:37However, I do like Chris' technique of going down the middle,
0:06:37 > 0:06:39so I think I'm going to try and do the same, and I'm going to go
0:06:39 > 0:06:42- for the Doobie Brothers.- OK.
0:06:42 > 0:06:43What is the answer here, Chris?
0:06:43 > 0:06:46- Dr Hook.- Dr Hook did When You Are In Love With A Beautiful Woman.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48I'm sorry, Tom,
0:06:48 > 0:06:50we have to say well done to Chris. He's in the final round.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52You've been beaten by our Egghead and been knocked out,
0:06:52 > 0:06:54so you won't be in the final.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57Come back to us, both of you, and we will see what happens next.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01Starlight Express, Beth, you've seen it.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04- I did, yes. Saw it.- Age of? - About ten.- Ten?- Yep.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07- Chris, you've been?- Yes, I was there at the first public performance.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09- Oh, really?- Yeah.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11Well, the actual premiere was invitation-only.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13Then the following night was the first public performance,
0:07:13 > 0:07:15and I managed to get two tickets.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17- How nice. So it was 1984, and you were...?- 1984, yeah.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19That wasn't when you went?
0:07:19 > 0:07:21- No, I went about 1989.- OK. Gosh, we've all got a...
0:07:21 > 0:07:25- Anyone here seen Starlight Express? - I did, I think, way back,
0:07:25 > 0:07:28probably in the last year, cos I'm young for that one.
0:07:28 > 0:07:29Yeah!
0:07:29 > 0:07:31As it stands, the Exeter Exiles have lost a brain
0:07:31 > 0:07:34from the final round. The Eggheads are still sitting there.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37So, see if you can take one down. The next subject is Science.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39Who would like this?
0:07:39 > 0:07:40- That's me, isn't it?- Go on, Max.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43- Who am I facing, do you reckon? - We think Max will go for that.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Max, OK. A health IT consultant.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47Any Egghead except Chris.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50- Barry?- Barry?- Barry? - OK, we'll go with Barry.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53Barry, who famously blew up his lab at school.
0:07:53 > 0:07:54THEY LAUGH
0:07:54 > 0:07:56University.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58- At university, was it?- Yes.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01- Both of them or just the one? - Just the one.- Oh, OK.
0:08:01 > 0:08:05Max from Exeter Exiles playing Barry from the Eggheads on Science.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07Please go to the Question Room now.
0:08:09 > 0:08:10So, Science, Max.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Would you like to go first or second?
0:08:12 > 0:08:13I'd like to go first, please.
0:08:17 > 0:08:18Here we go.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Which of these is the term for the study of the production
0:08:21 > 0:08:24and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures?
0:08:28 > 0:08:31Definitely not eugenics.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34I don't think it's dysgenics.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36I'm fairly sure that it is cryogenics.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38It is indeed cryogenics, you're right.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40Barry.
0:08:40 > 0:08:44Which planet in the solar system, an ice giant,
0:08:44 > 0:08:48was named after the Greek god who personified the sky?
0:08:52 > 0:08:55Well, the Greek god who personified the sky was Uranus.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57You say Ur-AN-us, I say U-ranus.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00I don't know which... Do we know which is the right way to say it?
0:09:00 > 0:09:02I don't know, I think it's personal choice myself.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05OK. Uranus is the right answer, well done. OK.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Back to you, Max.
0:09:07 > 0:09:11How many humours were central to the teachings of the Greek
0:09:11 > 0:09:14physician Hippocrates?
0:09:17 > 0:09:19I'm pretty sure it is four.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21Phlegmatic...
0:09:21 > 0:09:23Something else, something else and something else.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25But I am definitely... I am pretty sure it is only four.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27- I will go with four. - All right, four is right.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29Well done. Let's see if we can work these out.
0:09:29 > 0:09:31John here was nodding when you said phlegmatic.
0:09:31 > 0:09:32Barry, can you help us?
0:09:32 > 0:09:33Sanguine,
0:09:33 > 0:09:37choleric and the last one might be bile, but I'm not sure.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39- Ask the other Eggs.- Eggs?
0:09:39 > 0:09:41Yeah, bile was one of them.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43- Bile, sanguine... - Choleric.- ..choleric, phlegmatic.
0:09:43 > 0:09:44Phlegmatic, yeah.
0:09:44 > 0:09:48We'll have a little check on that, but thank you. All right.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51So, Max in the lead.
0:09:51 > 0:09:52Barry with his second question to come.
0:09:52 > 0:09:56Barry, the computing abbreviation URL stands for
0:09:56 > 0:09:58uniform resource what?
0:10:02 > 0:10:05Well, I can assure you, Jeremy, there is absolutely no levity at all
0:10:05 > 0:10:06in computer science.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09But the answer to this is locator.
0:10:09 > 0:10:10Uniform resource locator.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12It is locator.
0:10:12 > 0:10:13I get confused when I see URL,
0:10:13 > 0:10:16Barry. Is that just mean the sort of web address of something?
0:10:16 > 0:10:18- Yes, it's part of it.- OK.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20You're level. Max, get this right,
0:10:20 > 0:10:22put some pressure on an Egghead.
0:10:22 > 0:10:24They've been playing far too well recently. They need a shock.
0:10:24 > 0:10:27- I'll try.- No pressure.
0:10:27 > 0:10:33What did NASA call the space probe they launched in September 2007
0:10:33 > 0:10:37with the mission of the exploring Vesta and Ceres,
0:10:37 > 0:10:40two bodies in the asteroid belt?
0:10:43 > 0:10:46I don't know this, I don't think. Let me think.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49I'm pretty sure it's not Twilight.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Sunset can make sense cos you're going very,
0:10:51 > 0:10:53very far away from the sun.
0:10:53 > 0:10:58Dawn, not so much. I'll try Sunset.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00Barry, you're shaking your head.
0:11:00 > 0:11:03No, I was pretty certain it was Dawn.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05It is Dawn. Max, never mind, you got two out of three.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08But Barry can knock you out now with his third question.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10The American engineer Willis Carrier
0:11:10 > 0:11:13is best known for inventing which of these?
0:11:17 > 0:11:20Oh, I have sent many a grateful prayer to Willis Carrier in
0:11:20 > 0:11:23the past, because he invented air-conditioning.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26Air-conditioning is the right answer, Barry, well done.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28You've got a place in the final there.
0:11:28 > 0:11:29- Sorry, Max.- Oh, well.- Knocked out.
0:11:29 > 0:11:33Just like Tom. So you've been beaten by our Egghead, you are out
0:11:33 > 0:11:36of the contest, he's in the final. Let's see how we go from here.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38Please return, rejoin your teams.
0:11:39 > 0:11:43Bad luck, Max. Got a bit of information on the humours.
0:11:43 > 0:11:48So it's blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm,
0:11:48 > 0:11:49so you are absolutely right.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51Phlegmatic. They all have
0:11:51 > 0:11:53a particular associated characteristic.
0:11:53 > 0:11:58So blood is sanguine and I think black bile is melancholic and so on.
0:11:58 > 0:11:59OK, as it stands,
0:11:59 > 0:12:01the Exeter Exiles have lost a couple of brains
0:12:01 > 0:12:03from the final round. This is like your...
0:12:03 > 0:12:05the Electoral College, isn't it, where you've...?
0:12:05 > 0:12:07Not doing very well.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10You've lost Ohio, but you might get Pennsylvania.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12The Eggheads have not lost anything so far.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15They have taken California. The next subject is Politics.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17Ah!
0:12:18 > 0:12:20This is going to work.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24- You could do someone like Steve. I think you can...- Steve, I think.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26- You're doing it? - I'll do it.- OK, go on.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29I was going to say, you have to do it, you are a Politics teacher.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32- Right, against which Egghead? Steve, Pat or Beth?- Steve, I think.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Right, John from Exeter Exiles,
0:12:34 > 0:12:36he's going to play Steve from the Eggheads.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38To ensure there is no conferring,
0:12:38 > 0:12:41please take your positions in the Question Room.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45So where did your actual interest in politics come from originally,
0:12:45 > 0:12:49- John?- Well, I got involved in politics in the 1990s.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52So a very long time ago when I was also, like Max, a parish counsellor.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54And then I worked for a political party for
0:12:54 > 0:12:58a long time, then I got involved in American and elections abroad,
0:12:58 > 0:13:01and now I go around the world observing elections,
0:13:01 > 0:13:04so that's what I do and that's why I lecture in it.
0:13:04 > 0:13:05And some work and some don't,
0:13:05 > 0:13:08and the overall theme seems to be that the polls are always wrong.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10The polls aren't always wrong,
0:13:10 > 0:13:13it's just that I think there is too much reliance on polls,
0:13:13 > 0:13:16so people believe what they want to see,
0:13:16 > 0:13:19and politicians are very unwise to believe polls, I think.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22OK. So, good luck here. Can't wait to see the outcome.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25Steve, you're playing well since you joined Eggheads.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28You've had 26 head-to-heads. How many have you lost?
0:13:28 > 0:13:30Well, there is about to be one more.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33- I don't know. I think I've lost a couple.- A couple, yeah.
0:13:33 > 0:13:36You have won 24. You're playing very well indeed.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38You don't see the sin bin very much.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41So, John, would you like to go first or second on Politics?
0:13:41 > 0:13:43I'll go first, Jeremy.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47OK. Here we go.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50Which American president was assassinated by the anarchist
0:13:50 > 0:13:54Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo, New York, in 1901?
0:13:59 > 0:14:01Well, Theodore Roosevelt replaced him.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04Abraham Lincoln was obviously killed by John Wilkes Booth,
0:14:04 > 0:14:06so it's William McKinley.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09It is indeed William McKinley, you're right.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11Steve, your question.
0:14:11 > 0:14:15In September 2016, which former prime minister announced that
0:14:15 > 0:14:17he was standing down as an MP?
0:14:20 > 0:14:21That's David Cameron.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24David Cameron is the right answer.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28John. St Andrew's House, which serves as the headquarters
0:14:28 > 0:14:32of the Scottish Government, is in which city?
0:14:36 > 0:14:37I'm not actually sure.
0:14:37 > 0:14:40But it can't be Aberdeen.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42So it's got to be where the First Minister has their office,
0:14:42 > 0:14:44surely, so Edinburgh.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47Edinburgh is right, where the Scottish Parliament is, yes.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49So, back to you Steve.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51Tight round.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53The so-called Carnation Revolution
0:14:53 > 0:14:57took place in which European country in 1974?
0:14:59 > 0:15:01Yeah, I think that's Portugal, Jeremy.
0:15:02 > 0:15:07Portugal's right. No messing about. Straight there.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09They might get harder. You're level,
0:15:09 > 0:15:10and we go back to you, John.
0:15:10 > 0:15:16Enrique Nieto was the elected president of which country in 2012?
0:15:20 > 0:15:23- Did you say President? - President, yeah.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25OK, I'm pretty sure it's not Spain.
0:15:25 > 0:15:26Um...
0:15:26 > 0:15:29And Argentina, is that Kirchner?
0:15:29 > 0:15:31I'll say Mexico.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33Mexico is correct.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36Making light work of these questions, I must say.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39Steve, to stay in, your third question.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42David Howell, who served as a Secretary of State
0:15:42 > 0:15:45under Margaret Thatcher, became the father-in-law
0:15:45 > 0:15:50of which future Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1998?
0:15:54 > 0:15:56I think that one's seen me off.
0:15:58 > 0:15:59I don't know.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02Um...
0:16:02 > 0:16:06I'm not even sure George Osborne is married, to be fair.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09Um... So I'm going to dismiss him, rightly or wrongly.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11I'm torn between the other two.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13Probably going to go the wrong way
0:16:13 > 0:16:17but I'm going to say Alistair Darling.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19Alistair Darling? OK.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22- You're wrong.- Yeah. - You're out, Steve.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24- George Osborne is the answer. - There we are.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27- Knocked out by George Osborne, how about that?- Yeah.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29And you've added a rare loss to that catalogue I mentioned.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32So, well done, John, you won, you will be in the final round.
0:16:32 > 0:16:36Please return to us and we'll play the last round before the final.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39So, as it stands, the Exeter Exiles have lost two brains
0:16:39 > 0:16:42from the final round but they're hitting back now
0:16:42 > 0:16:43through John, the skipper.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45The Eggheads have lost one, they've lost Steve.
0:16:45 > 0:16:47And the next subject is Arts & Books.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50So, last time before the final, who wants this?
0:16:50 > 0:16:52- I think it's Alex.- I'll do it.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55- OK, Alex, against which Egghead? - Who have got left to choose from?
0:16:55 > 0:16:57It can be Beth or Pat.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00- I think we go for Pat.- Yeah. - Pat.- Very good.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03So Alex from the Exeter Exiles is playing Pat from the Eggheads
0:17:03 > 0:17:05on Arts & Books.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07Please, for the last time, go to the question room.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11Arts & Books against Pat.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14And Alex, would you like to go first or second?
0:17:14 > 0:17:15I would like to go first, please.
0:17:18 > 0:17:22And here is your first question on Arts & Books, Alex, good luck.
0:17:22 > 0:17:23In literature and the arts,
0:17:23 > 0:17:28a pentalogy is a work divided into how many parts?
0:17:30 > 0:17:33Well, by the logic that a pentagon has five sides,
0:17:33 > 0:17:35I'm going to go for five.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37And five is quite right, well done.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39Pat, on to you.
0:17:39 > 0:17:45In which country was the art journal De Stijl first published in 1917?
0:17:49 > 0:17:53I think Piet Mondrian was one of the leading lights here.
0:17:53 > 0:17:55And it was in the Netherlands.
0:17:55 > 0:18:00The Netherlands is quite right, Pat, well done. Back to you, Alex.
0:18:00 > 0:18:04Nutshell is a 2016 novel by which author?
0:18:09 > 0:18:11Um, I...
0:18:11 > 0:18:13I'm not entirely sure about this one.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15I'm pretty sure it's not JK Rowling.
0:18:17 > 0:18:18I think
0:18:18 > 0:18:21I'm going to try Will Self.
0:18:22 > 0:18:26Sounds like one of his, in a way. Any of your team-mates know?
0:18:26 > 0:18:29- We'll pass on that one. - Anyone here know?
0:18:29 > 0:18:32I tend to read Ian McEwan stuff, so unless I've missed it,
0:18:32 > 0:18:34but I would have gone Will Self myself.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36Yeah, we all agree with you but it's wrong.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38Ian McEwan is the right answer.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42It sounds like a Will Self-y title, doesn't it?
0:18:42 > 0:18:43Pat, your question.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45In Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice,
0:18:45 > 0:18:49what is the name of the Bennet sister who marries George Wickham?
0:18:52 > 0:18:56Unless on this I'm confusing things, Elizabeth...
0:18:56 > 0:19:00Bennet is the central character, so she ends up with Fitzwilliam Darcy.
0:19:00 > 0:19:05George Wickham, is he the slightly racy military man?
0:19:07 > 0:19:10That Lydia sort of half elopes with?
0:19:10 > 0:19:11Um...
0:19:11 > 0:19:14I should know this, it's such an important book.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17But I think George Wickham is the cavalry officer type
0:19:17 > 0:19:20and I think I can remember a TV dramatisation
0:19:20 > 0:19:22where Julia Sawalha played Lydia
0:19:22 > 0:19:24and disappeared off, giggling,
0:19:24 > 0:19:27with the cavalry officer so I'll go for Lydia.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29Good memory, Lydia is right.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32All right, so he does pull into the lead there.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34Alex, that means you need to get this one right.
0:19:34 > 0:19:39Which American artist, who died in 1986 aged 98,
0:19:39 > 0:19:43was married to the photographer Alfred Stieglitz?
0:19:49 > 0:19:50Well, um...
0:19:50 > 0:19:56I...have no idea on this one. So...
0:19:56 > 0:20:01I think I'm going to go utterly randomly,
0:20:01 > 0:20:05and pick Georgia O'Keeffe.
0:20:05 > 0:20:09- Eggheads?- Absolutely correct.- You're right, Georgia O'Keeffe it is.
0:20:11 > 0:20:12So, level, but Pat can take the round
0:20:12 > 0:20:14with this question.
0:20:14 > 0:20:18The Pigeon Tunnel is a 2016 memoir by which writer?
0:20:23 > 0:20:25I do have a preference.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27I think John le Carre.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29I think he was the subject of a biography,
0:20:29 > 0:20:33and then six months later, an autobiography.
0:20:33 > 0:20:38And I think it's a very elusive, he's...not a slippery man,
0:20:38 > 0:20:41but he's, he's quite teasing with the facts about his life.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43His rather extraordinary life.
0:20:43 > 0:20:46Frederick Forsyth, I think, in recent times,
0:20:46 > 0:20:50has brought out a memoir.
0:20:50 > 0:20:54It's also quite extraordinary, the things he got up to.
0:20:54 > 0:20:58Pigeon Tunnel, I think The Pigeon Tunnel was a John le Carre book,
0:20:58 > 0:21:01so I'll go for John le Carre.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03The Pigeon Tunnel, is it John le Carre?
0:21:03 > 0:21:06If it is, you've won the round and you're in the final.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08You played well there, Pat, it is John le Carre, well done.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11Sorry, Alex. Always costly, one wrong answer against Pat.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13Can be fatal.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16So you're out, I'm afraid, and Pat is in, and if you come back to us,
0:21:16 > 0:21:17we will play that final round.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21So, this is what we have been playing towards.
0:21:21 > 0:21:24It is time for our final round. As always, it's General Knowledge.
0:21:24 > 0:21:28But, I'm afraid, those of you who lost your head-to-heads will not
0:21:28 > 0:21:31be allowed to take part so that's Alex, Tom and Max
0:21:31 > 0:21:35from the Exeter Exiles, and Steve from the Eggheads.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37Would you please now leave our studio?
0:21:39 > 0:21:43John and David, you're playing to win the Exeter Exiles £11,000.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46Barry, Pat, Chris and Beth,
0:21:46 > 0:21:48you're playing for something that money can't buy,
0:21:48 > 0:21:50the Eggheads' reputation.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn,
0:21:53 > 0:21:55this time the questions are all general knowledge.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57You are allowed to confer.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59So, Exeter Exiles, the question is,
0:21:59 > 0:22:03can your two brains defeat these four in a famous victory?
0:22:03 > 0:22:05And would you like to go first or second?
0:22:05 > 0:22:07We'll go first, please, Jeremy.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13OK, David and John, here we go. Your first question.
0:22:13 > 0:22:18In 1978, who played the role of Eva Peron
0:22:18 > 0:22:21in the West End premiere of Evita?
0:22:25 > 0:22:28Well, Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson were pretty much
0:22:28 > 0:22:31at the same time because they were always on The Two Ronnies together.
0:22:31 > 0:22:36Um, my instinct is Elaine Paige, but I don't know.
0:22:36 > 0:22:37I don't know either.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39So, we can eliminate... It's definitely one...
0:22:39 > 0:22:41I've never even heard of Ruthie Henshall.
0:22:41 > 0:22:45- But that doesn't mean it's wrong. - That's true. OK.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48But you're edging towards Elaine Paige? Why?
0:22:48 > 0:22:51- She's a woman and she sings. - That's a good point.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54I just don't know the answer. I think I'd probably go Elaine Paige.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57We're going to go with Elaine Paige, please, Jeremy.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59Sometimes you sort of know and there's no reason.
0:22:59 > 0:23:03Elaine Paige is the right answer, well done. First point to you.
0:23:03 > 0:23:04Over to the Eggheads.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06Let's see if you can catch up here.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08According to the character played by Michael Douglas
0:23:08 > 0:23:13in the 1987 film Wall Street, which meal is for wimps?
0:23:14 > 0:23:16- Lunch.- Lunch is for wimps.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19- Lunch is for wimps. - Yeah, lunch is for wimps.
0:23:19 > 0:23:23I don't think that we would say that this meal was for wimps,
0:23:23 > 0:23:25we think lunch is for wimps.
0:23:25 > 0:23:26HE LAUGHS
0:23:26 > 0:23:28Lunch is for wimps.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31You're right. OK, second question, Challengers.
0:23:31 > 0:23:35Who carried the flag for Team GB
0:23:35 > 0:23:39at the opening of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio?
0:23:45 > 0:23:49I instinctively thought it might be Andy Murray. But...
0:23:49 > 0:23:51I think you're right, because he got the flag in
0:23:51 > 0:23:54- with Princess Anne's...her face, in the photographs.- I think so.
0:23:54 > 0:23:56I think you're right, I think it's Andy Murray.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58I don't really know who Katherine Grainger is.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01- She's the rower, the Scottish rower. - Ah, OK.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04- Justin Rose is the golfer.- Yeah.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07- So it's Andy Murray.- We're going to go with Andy Murray, please, Jeremy.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09Andy Murray is right.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11Two out of two, well done.
0:24:12 > 0:24:13Eggheads, are you under pressure?
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Let's see.
0:24:15 > 0:24:19In Greek mythology, who was the founder and first King of Thebes?
0:24:23 > 0:24:24- Cadmus.- Cadmus?
0:24:24 > 0:24:26- Yes.- Of Thebes?
0:24:26 > 0:24:28Of Thebes, yeah.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31Oedipus was Corinth,
0:24:31 > 0:24:34and Orpheus isn't really a city founder, is he?
0:24:34 > 0:24:36- No.- Absolutely sure? - Yeah, it's Cadmus.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41I'm reliably informed by my colleagues that it is Cadmus.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43Of Thebes.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45I thought this was going to be a tricky one for you,
0:24:45 > 0:24:48but of course I forgot you were Eggheads. Cadmus is right.
0:24:48 > 0:24:51So, the third question could be crucial.
0:24:51 > 0:24:55Get this right and then you're just one wrong answer by them
0:24:55 > 0:24:58away from £11,000. Here it is.
0:24:58 > 0:25:02Which English actor's roles have included Al Capone
0:25:02 > 0:25:07in the TV series Boardwalk Empire and Combo in This Is England?
0:25:12 > 0:25:15- I never watched Boardwalk Empire, did you?- I have, yeah.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17As part of Chris' course?
0:25:17 > 0:25:19- A little bit of the crime in the USA course.- And what's the answer?
0:25:19 > 0:25:24- I haven't seen much of it. Um... - Who was in it?
0:25:24 > 0:25:27Any of those? Dominic West seems quite upper-class.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30- Have you seen This Is England? - No.- I haven't seen it either.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34Ian Hart's sort of quite versatile.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37Dominic West strikes me as being a bit too Cambridge Spies-y.
0:25:37 > 0:25:42- For Al Capone.- For Al Capone.- What is, who's in the middle? Stephen...
0:25:42 > 0:25:45- I don't know who Stephen Graham is. - And Ian Hart?
0:25:45 > 0:25:48Ian Hart, wasn't he in Harry Potter
0:25:48 > 0:25:51as Quiddic... What's the name? Quirrell, is that right?
0:25:53 > 0:25:55- That rings a bell. Ian something. - I don't know the answer.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00- You don't think it's Dominic West? - I don't know.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02I mean, it could be Dominic West.
0:26:02 > 0:26:06It could be one of those three answers there. I don't know.
0:26:06 > 0:26:07OK.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09Have you watched Boardwalk Empire?
0:26:09 > 0:26:14A long time ago, and I didn't watch that much of it, so... Um...
0:26:14 > 0:26:18- I would say Ian Hart as a guess. - OK, I'll go with that.
0:26:18 > 0:26:21- Ian Hart, please, Jeremy.- Ian Hart.
0:26:21 > 0:26:24You were right to rule out Dominic West
0:26:24 > 0:26:28who I think might have been busy with The Wire at the time.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30And he doesn't always play posh people,
0:26:30 > 0:26:33he played an American in that. But it's not Dominic West.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36It's also not Ian Hart. It's Stephen Graham.
0:26:38 > 0:26:40Eggheads, this question to take the contest.
0:26:40 > 0:26:44Potters Bar is a town in which English county?
0:26:47 > 0:26:50- That's Hertfordshire.- My old stomping ground.- You must know that!
0:26:50 > 0:26:53About 10 miles where I live! Yeah, yeah.
0:26:53 > 0:26:55About five miles from where I used to live.
0:26:55 > 0:26:56Definitely Hertfordshire.
0:26:56 > 0:27:00Yeah, so, I live near there now, Chris used to live near there,
0:27:00 > 0:27:04- and it's in Hertfordshire. - Your answer is Hertfordshire.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07- Did you know the Stephen Graham question, by the way?- I did.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09- You did.- I watched Boardwalk Empire.
0:27:09 > 0:27:13You knew all the answers to everything, basically, didn't you?
0:27:13 > 0:27:16- Why wouldn't we?- You are Eggheads!
0:27:16 > 0:27:18The answer is Hertfordshire.
0:27:18 > 0:27:20We say, congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29- Stephen Graham, bah! Commiserations.- I'll watch it now.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31Yeah, I had seen Boardwalk Empire
0:27:31 > 0:27:34but I wouldn't have been able to answer that question.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36Just like you, David, sometimes you see it but the actors don't
0:27:36 > 0:27:40- necessarily, the names don't jump out.- Yeah, that's true, sure.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42Commiserations.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45Well played on Politics, John, that was a great moment,
0:27:45 > 0:27:46Steve doesn't lose very often.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49But overall, the Eggheads have done what comes naturally
0:27:49 > 0:27:51and this impressive winning streak continues.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54Barry, we may have to ask you to do a special jazz hands move
0:27:54 > 0:27:59if it gets to 12 or 13,000, OK?
0:27:59 > 0:28:00We'll save that for the next show.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03It does mean you're not going home with the £11,000,
0:28:03 > 0:28:04the money rolls over to our next show.
0:28:04 > 0:28:08Eggheads, I say again well done and I wonder, who will beat you?
0:28:08 > 0:28:10Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers
0:28:10 > 0:28:13have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15There will be £12,000 to play for.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17Until then, goodbye.