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These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:07 | |
Together they make up the Eggheads, | 0:00:09 | 0:00:11 | |
arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:14 | |
The question is, can they be beaten? | 0:00:17 | 0:00:19 | |
Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz Challengers | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:29 | |
They are the Eggheads. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:32 | |
Looking impressive today, Eggs. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:34 | |
-Feeling ready? -Yeah. -Yes. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:36 | |
Very good. Taking on the might of our quiz Goliaths today are... | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
This team all have an association | 0:00:41 | 0:00:43 | |
with the British Egyptian Society. Let's meet them. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:47 | |
Hello, I'm Simon. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:49 | |
I'm a retired banker and head-hunter. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:51 | |
I'm Marwan, I'm a university lecturer in computer science. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:55 | |
Hello, I'm Sonia and I'm a retired civil servant. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:58 | |
Hello there, I'm Alastair and I'm a retired diplomat and head-hunter. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:02 | |
Hello, I'm Adel and I'm a PR consultant. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:06 | |
Simon, huge Egypt connection, is that right? | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
Yes. Some of us have Egyptian parentage, | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
some of us have lived and worked in Egypt | 0:01:12 | 0:01:14 | |
and others just have a fascination with Egypt and Egyptology, | 0:01:14 | 0:01:18 | |
and through the British Egyptian Society, | 0:01:18 | 0:01:20 | |
we came together earlier this year. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:23 | |
And you've spent some of your life in Egypt, is that right? | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
Yes. I lived and worked there in the early '80s. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:28 | |
OK, and fell in love with it? | 0:01:28 | 0:01:29 | |
I was then married to an Egyptologist, | 0:01:29 | 0:01:31 | |
so it was like a busman's holiday for her | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
and I was then working for a bank - | 0:01:34 | 0:01:36 | |
and, also, my parents met in Cairo during the war, | 0:01:36 | 0:01:39 | |
so it just seems to have been a big part of my life. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:42 | |
OK, brilliant. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:43 | |
Well, I'm going to be so embarrassed if there's no mention of Egypt | 0:01:43 | 0:01:46 | |
in this contest - but we hope... | 0:01:46 | 0:01:48 | |
we ask you questions on your given subject, | 0:01:48 | 0:01:50 | |
but there'll be others as well. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:52 | |
-Good luck, team. -Thank you. -Thank you. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:54 | |
Nice to see you. Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
up for grabs for our Challengers. | 0:01:57 | 0:01:58 | |
However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, | 0:01:58 | 0:02:00 | |
the prize money rolls over to the next show. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
Now, Ramses Squares, I can tell you the Eggheads are doing really well. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:07 | |
They're on storming form. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:08 | |
They've won the last 12, | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
so that means there is £13,000 for you to win. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:14 | |
A nice old jackpot. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:15 | |
Would you like to have a go at it? | 0:02:15 | 0:02:17 | |
-You bet. -Of course. -All right, | 0:02:17 | 0:02:18 | |
the first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Music. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:20 | |
You can choose between Judith, Beth, Kevin, Pat and Steve. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:24 | |
-Music! -Adel, are you good to go? | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
-Yeah, I think that's me. -Are you good to go? | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
Who would you like to take on? | 0:02:29 | 0:02:30 | |
Adel against...? | 0:02:30 | 0:02:32 | |
-Um... -Why don't you try Beth? | 0:02:32 | 0:02:34 | |
-I'll try Beth. Yeah? Beth is good. -Beth. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:37 | |
OK, our public relations consultant, Adel, | 0:02:37 | 0:02:40 | |
versus Beth from the Eggheads on Music. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:44 | |
Please, for the first time, go to our legendary Question Room. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
So, Adel, do you also have an intense interest in Egypt? | 0:02:49 | 0:02:52 | |
I do, yes. My parents are Egyptian - or at least one of them is, | 0:02:52 | 0:02:56 | |
and I visit there regularly. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:58 | |
It's up and down there, isn't it, at the moment? | 0:02:58 | 0:03:01 | |
It is, unfortunately, but I'm hoping for the best. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
OK, well that's always a good outlook. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
So, we're on Music against Beth. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:09 | |
Would you like to go first or second? | 0:03:09 | 0:03:10 | |
I'd love to go first, please. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:12 | |
And here is your first question, Adel. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
Which of these pop stars was born first? | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
Some of the most famous singers ever. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:31 | |
Um... | 0:03:31 | 0:03:32 | |
I would say Janet Jackson. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:36 | |
It's actually Madonna. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:39 | |
Oh. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:40 | |
I'm not sure quite by how much. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:42 | |
It might be close, actually. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:44 | |
Anyone got any birth years here? | 0:03:44 | 0:03:45 | |
Is Madonna about '58? | 0:03:45 | 0:03:46 | |
Madonna's '58, yeah. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:48 | |
Janet Jackson is about '67, something like that? | 0:03:48 | 0:03:52 | |
-I'm not sure. Not sure. -Janet Jackson, I think was born in 1966. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:57 | |
'66? OK. OK. | 0:03:57 | 0:03:59 | |
-'69 was Lopez... -She's the youngest. -..and Madonna, 1958, as you say. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:04 | |
-1958?! -Yeah. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:05 | |
Yeah, Madonna was a child of the '50s. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:08 | |
OK, Beth, your question. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:10 | |
Who was the lead singer of the band Led Zeppelin? | 0:04:10 | 0:04:13 | |
Oh... | 0:04:18 | 0:04:19 | |
I do know a little bit about this genre, but not a heck of a lot... | 0:04:22 | 0:04:26 | |
but from what I remember... | 0:04:26 | 0:04:31 | |
it's Robert Plant. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:33 | |
Yes, you're right, it's Robert Plant. | 0:04:33 | 0:04:35 | |
-Roger Waters was Pink Floyd. -Mm. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:37 | |
Was Gillan Rainbow? | 0:04:37 | 0:04:39 | |
-Deep Purple. -Deep Purple was Ian Gillan. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:41 | |
OK. Adel, back to you. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:44 | |
Grow For Me and Dentist are songs from which musical? | 0:04:44 | 0:04:50 | |
Well, I've seen The Rocky Horror Show and I can't... | 0:04:56 | 0:04:59 | |
It doesn't ring a bell. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:01 | |
Hair, I've never seen, and Little Shop Of Horrors... | 0:05:01 | 0:05:04 | |
..neither. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:07 | |
Grow for Me could be about hair but Dentist doesn't really fit. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:11 | |
I'm going to say Little Shop Of Horrors. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
Little Shop Of Horrors is right, actually. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:19 | |
Yeah, getting lured by Hair | 0:05:19 | 0:05:21 | |
would have been very easy there, well done. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:24 | |
OK, so, level, and back to you, Beth. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:27 | |
A young mod named Jimmy is the central character | 0:05:27 | 0:05:30 | |
in which rock opera by The Who? | 0:05:30 | 0:05:32 | |
Well, you'd think that Tommy would be the main character of Tommy. | 0:05:38 | 0:05:42 | |
A Quick One, I'm not aware of, | 0:05:42 | 0:05:44 | |
but Quadrophenia is about a mod, so Quadrophenia. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
Quadrophenia is correct, Beth, well done. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:50 | |
Adel, back to you. Beth in the lead. | 0:05:50 | 0:05:52 | |
You need to get this one right. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:54 | |
Which composer wrote the music for the opera | 0:05:54 | 0:05:56 | |
Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, | 0:05:56 | 0:05:59 | |
which translates as "the abduction from the Seraglio"? | 0:05:59 | 0:06:03 | |
Hm... | 0:06:10 | 0:06:11 | |
Classical music is definitely not my forte, if we're honest. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:16 | |
Um... However, I feel if it was a Mozart one, I may have heard of it. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:20 | |
A Wagner one... | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
maybe. Richard Strauss... | 0:06:24 | 0:06:26 | |
I'm going to say Richard Wagner. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:30 | |
-It is Mozart. -No! | 0:06:32 | 0:06:34 | |
So, it's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and that means, Adel, | 0:06:34 | 0:06:38 | |
-you've been beaten by our Egghead. -Aww. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:40 | |
-I'm sorry. -Well done, Beth. -Beth is through to the final. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:42 | |
-Thank you. -And you've been knocked out - but it's early days, | 0:06:42 | 0:06:44 | |
so please rejoin your teams and we'll play the second round. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
So, as it stands, the Ramses Squares have lost a brain | 0:06:48 | 0:06:50 | |
from the final round. Beth won through. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:52 | |
The Eggheads are still all there. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:54 | |
The next subject for our Challengers is History. | 0:06:54 | 0:06:57 | |
-This is good, isn't it? -Oh-ho! -This is your thing. | 0:06:57 | 0:07:01 | |
So? | 0:07:01 | 0:07:02 | |
-Sonia? -Sonia, against which Egghead? | 0:07:03 | 0:07:06 | |
-It can't be Beth. -I think I'll play Judith, please. | 0:07:06 | 0:07:09 | |
Very good. So, Sonia from the Ramses Squares. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:13 | |
-I think she's an historian. -Playing Judith. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:14 | |
You are a historian? | 0:07:14 | 0:07:16 | |
Yes, but perhaps the questions won't be my period! | 0:07:16 | 0:07:18 | |
That's fine, I understand that. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:20 | |
OK, so Sonia against Judith, please go to the Question Room now. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:23 | |
Well, Sonia, you were modestly saying you weren't a historian, | 0:07:25 | 0:07:28 | |
but you are a member of the - or a fellow - | 0:07:28 | 0:07:30 | |
of the Royal Historical Society. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:31 | |
-Is that right? -That's right, yes. | 0:07:31 | 0:07:33 | |
And a member, or fellow, of the Society of Antiquaries. | 0:07:33 | 0:07:36 | |
-Yes. -Wow, and you've been on Mastermind? | 0:07:36 | 0:07:39 | |
Well, only one round, yes. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:41 | |
Well, I'm sure that doesn't presage anything here. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:44 | |
All right, Sonia, this could be fun. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:46 | |
Would you like to go first or second? | 0:07:46 | 0:07:47 | |
I think I'll go first, please, Jeremy. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:49 | |
Good luck. Which of these British monarchs was born first? | 0:07:53 | 0:07:58 | |
Sonia, was it... | 0:07:58 | 0:07:59 | |
That would be George I. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:05 | |
Yes, George I is quite right. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:06 | |
Judith, your question. | 0:08:08 | 0:08:10 | |
In which part of the world was the ancient city of Babylon? | 0:08:10 | 0:08:14 | |
It was in the Middle East. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:20 | |
It was indeed in the Middle East, | 0:08:20 | 0:08:22 | |
and that's, of course, right up the Challengers' street, isn't it? | 0:08:22 | 0:08:25 | |
OK, over we go to you, Sonia. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:27 | |
The word, "Reconquista" refers to the wars | 0:08:28 | 0:08:31 | |
in which Christian armies took back control of which part of Europe | 0:08:31 | 0:08:37 | |
between the 8th century and the 15th century AD? | 0:08:37 | 0:08:41 | |
That refers, I hope, to the Spaniards taking back Spain | 0:08:47 | 0:08:52 | |
from the Moors. The Iberian Peninsula is the answer. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:56 | |
Iberian Peninsula is the answer. | 0:08:56 | 0:08:58 | |
Very sure-footed here in this round, Sonia, I can tell. | 0:08:58 | 0:09:01 | |
OK, your second question, Judith. | 0:09:01 | 0:09:05 | |
In which year was the American outlaw Jesse James shot and killed | 0:09:05 | 0:09:09 | |
by Robert Ford? Judith, was it... | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
The American what? Outlaw? | 0:09:18 | 0:09:20 | |
The American outlaw Jesse James, shot and killed by Robert Ford. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:24 | |
Well, he's a Wild Westerner, isn't he? | 0:09:25 | 0:09:28 | |
So, I would think it's probably 1882. | 0:09:28 | 0:09:31 | |
1882 is correct. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:35 | |
Nicely done. OK. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:37 | |
Sonia, what is the nickname of the Roman emperor | 0:09:38 | 0:09:42 | |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus II, | 0:09:42 | 0:09:45 | |
whose bloody reign was ended in 222 AD, | 0:09:45 | 0:09:49 | |
in a plot thought to be instigated by his own grandmother? | 0:09:49 | 0:09:54 | |
And you say the year was 222 AD? | 0:10:01 | 0:10:04 | |
222 AD his bloody reign was ended. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:06 | |
Well, it wasn't Claudius, who was much earlier, | 0:10:06 | 0:10:09 | |
but I don't think either of the other two were very nice characters. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:13 | |
Um... | 0:10:13 | 0:10:14 | |
So, it's 50/50, as far as I'm concerned. Um... | 0:10:14 | 0:10:17 | |
The Baths of Caracalla were in Rome, I remember about that, | 0:10:17 | 0:10:21 | |
but very little about Elagabalus. Er... | 0:10:21 | 0:10:25 | |
I think I should go for Elagabalus but it's 50/50, I'm afraid. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:30 | |
Elagabalus is the right answer. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:33 | |
Oh, hooray! | 0:10:33 | 0:10:35 | |
That's a hard question, good stuff. | 0:10:35 | 0:10:37 | |
Three out of three for our Challenger. | 0:10:37 | 0:10:39 | |
Judith, to stay in, in Victorian Britain, | 0:10:39 | 0:10:42 | |
what term referred to the anchored ships | 0:10:42 | 0:10:45 | |
that held prisoners before they were transported to Australia? | 0:10:45 | 0:10:49 | |
Was it... | 0:10:49 | 0:10:50 | |
Well, Peelers were policemen. | 0:10:53 | 0:10:55 | |
It was Hulks. | 0:10:55 | 0:10:57 | |
It was indeed Hulks, you're right. | 0:10:57 | 0:10:59 | |
Three out of three for you both. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:00 | |
So, Sonia, keep it up. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:03 | |
We go to Sudden Death. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:04 | |
It gets a little bit harder, | 0:11:04 | 0:11:06 | |
because I don't give you alternative answers. | 0:11:06 | 0:11:08 | |
-Are you ready? -Yes. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:10 | |
Which Portuguese explorer is the first-known European | 0:11:10 | 0:11:14 | |
to cross the Pacific? | 0:11:14 | 0:11:16 | |
I need a first name and last name. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:17 | |
I know that the name Vasco da Gama is a Portuguese name | 0:11:19 | 0:11:23 | |
and therefore that is one possibility, but... | 0:11:23 | 0:11:27 | |
..I don't think Magellan was Portuguese. Er... | 0:11:28 | 0:11:33 | |
and I think the other Portuguese explorers I can think of | 0:11:33 | 0:11:35 | |
were a little bit too late, | 0:11:35 | 0:11:36 | |
so I think I will go with Vasco da Gama, | 0:11:36 | 0:11:39 | |
if Vasco counts as a first name. | 0:11:39 | 0:11:42 | |
Let me see what your team think of that. Vasco da Gama? | 0:11:42 | 0:11:45 | |
-Yes. -Do you like it? | 0:11:45 | 0:11:47 | |
-Yes. -Eggheads? | 0:11:47 | 0:11:48 | |
I think this is quite tricky. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:50 | |
You'd like Magellan, but he got killed in the Philippines | 0:11:51 | 0:11:55 | |
so that might rule him out. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:56 | |
Elcano is normally credited with being the first | 0:11:56 | 0:11:59 | |
to circumnavigate the world, so maybe it's Sebastian Elcano. | 0:11:59 | 0:12:02 | |
The answer is Ferdinand Magellan. | 0:12:02 | 0:12:05 | |
Oh! | 0:12:05 | 0:12:07 | |
The first-known European to cross the Pacific was Ferdinand Magellan. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:11 | |
Which gives Judith an opening here. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:13 | |
Judith, your question. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:15 | |
Which US President gave the order for atomic bombs | 0:12:15 | 0:12:19 | |
to be dropped on Japan during World War II? | 0:12:19 | 0:12:23 | |
I think that would be Truman. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:24 | |
-I need a first name and last name. -Oh... | 0:12:25 | 0:12:27 | |
I'm having a fearful moment. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:29 | |
What was his name? Harry Truman. | 0:12:30 | 0:12:34 | |
-Your answer is...? -Harry Truman. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:36 | |
Harry Truman is the correct answer, Judith... | 0:12:36 | 0:12:38 | |
-Oh, golly! -..on Sudden Death, you've taken the round, well done. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:41 | |
Sorry, Sonia. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:42 | |
-There we go. -Well done. -It was Magellan what done it. | 0:12:42 | 0:12:45 | |
You've been beaten by our Egghead - Judith will be in the final. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:48 | |
Please come back to us, and we'll see what happens next. | 0:12:48 | 0:12:51 | |
So, the Ramses Squares have lost a second brain from the final round. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:56 | |
The Eggheads have been fighting hard, | 0:12:56 | 0:12:58 | |
and they're still all there | 0:12:58 | 0:12:59 | |
and it's a good idea to knock one of them out now - | 0:12:59 | 0:13:02 | |
so, it's Arts & Books. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:03 | |
-Arts & Books, who would like this? -Oh... | 0:13:03 | 0:13:05 | |
-So, it's you three. -Alastair, literature... | 0:13:07 | 0:13:09 | |
-I will go. -I think you should probably go. | 0:13:09 | 0:13:11 | |
-I will do it. -We have faith in you. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:13 | |
-You guys are...for later. -Good luck. -It's going to be myself. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:15 | |
OK, Simon, great stuff. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:17 | |
Against which Egghead? | 0:13:17 | 0:13:18 | |
It has to be one of the three gentlemen. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:20 | |
-Steve? -Maybe Steve. | 0:13:20 | 0:13:22 | |
Right, so, Simon from the Ramses Squares | 0:13:22 | 0:13:24 | |
takes on Steve from the Eggheads. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:26 | |
They're a learned team, aren't they? We can tell. | 0:13:26 | 0:13:28 | |
Yeah, they're playing well. They've been unlucky so far. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:30 | |
To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions. | 0:13:30 | 0:13:33 | |
Simon, you used to do a weekly quiz at a particular pub in Twickenham? | 0:13:35 | 0:13:39 | |
Yes, that's correct, Jeremy. | 0:13:39 | 0:13:41 | |
It's a great place called The Turk's Head, | 0:13:41 | 0:13:43 | |
and it's a rugby pub, so each week, if there's an international, | 0:13:43 | 0:13:47 | |
they clear the pub of all furniture and it's eight deep to the bar. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:51 | |
Now, it's got - let me ask the Eggheads, here, | 0:13:51 | 0:13:53 | |
it's got a Beatles connection, | 0:13:53 | 0:13:55 | |
do you Eggheads know what that would be? | 0:13:55 | 0:13:57 | |
-No! -The Turk's Head in Twickenham? | 0:13:57 | 0:13:59 | |
-No. -No? Steve, do you know? | 0:13:59 | 0:14:01 | |
No, I don't know this one, Jeremy. | 0:14:01 | 0:14:03 | |
-Tell us, Simon. -It featured briefly in the very first Beatles movie, | 0:14:03 | 0:14:07 | |
A Hard Day's Night, which was black and white. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:10 | |
That is a tremendous quiz question. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:12 | |
That will come up one day, I guarantee it. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
So, Arts & Books, we're on. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:16 | |
Simon, would you like to go first or second? | 0:14:16 | 0:14:18 | |
I'll go first. | 0:14:18 | 0:14:20 | |
And here we go, good luck. | 0:14:23 | 0:14:24 | |
Which of these bestselling books was written by Mario Puzo? | 0:14:24 | 0:14:28 | |
I'm pretty sure it was The Godfather. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:34 | |
The Godfather is correct. | 0:14:34 | 0:14:37 | |
Amazing book to read, as well. | 0:14:37 | 0:14:38 | |
-Are you ready, Steve? -Yeah. | 0:14:38 | 0:14:40 | |
-I think it is one of the best books I've ever read. -It's incredible. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:43 | |
OK, your question, my friend. | 0:14:43 | 0:14:45 | |
Which of these artists was born first? | 0:14:45 | 0:14:48 | |
Yeah. | 0:14:52 | 0:14:54 | |
I think Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst | 0:14:54 | 0:14:55 | |
are relatively new "Young British Artists", as they call them, | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
so it must be Lucian Freud. | 0:14:58 | 0:15:00 | |
Lucian Freud is the right answer. | 0:15:00 | 0:15:02 | |
Back to you, Simon. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:05 | |
In 2016, which American writer | 0:15:05 | 0:15:07 | |
was named the most-borrowed author in UK libraries | 0:15:07 | 0:15:12 | |
for the ninth year running? | 0:15:12 | 0:15:14 | |
American writer. | 0:15:14 | 0:15:15 | |
I'm pretty sure it was James Patterson. | 0:15:20 | 0:15:23 | |
Indeed, he comes up a lot, because he writes an awful lot. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:25 | |
James Patterson is the right answer. | 0:15:25 | 0:15:27 | |
Steve, A Room With A View is a novel by which author? | 0:15:29 | 0:15:34 | |
It's one I've read, it's EM Forster. | 0:15:38 | 0:15:41 | |
EM Forster is right. We're whipping through this, aren't we? | 0:15:41 | 0:15:44 | |
You don't hang about, you two. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:46 | |
My goodness! | 0:15:46 | 0:15:48 | |
OK, third question to you, Simon, with the scores level. | 0:15:48 | 0:15:50 | |
Which author won the Booker Prize for his novel Vernon God Little? | 0:15:50 | 0:15:56 | |
I'm pretty sure I've read it - it's a while ago, | 0:16:03 | 0:16:05 | |
but it was DBC Pierre. | 0:16:05 | 0:16:07 | |
It was indeed DBC Pierre. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:11 | |
I think that's the quickest way to three points we've ever had. | 0:16:11 | 0:16:14 | |
So, Steve, can you match him? | 0:16:14 | 0:16:16 | |
Which work by Alfred Lord Tennyson features the lines, | 0:16:16 | 0:16:21 | |
"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"? | 0:16:21 | 0:16:25 | |
Yeah, I think it's one he dedicated to a friend who died, Arthur Hallam, | 0:16:31 | 0:16:34 | |
it's In Memoriam. | 0:16:34 | 0:16:35 | |
In Memoriam is quite right. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
Three points each. I'm not sure we've stretched either of you yet. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:42 | |
We go to Sudden Death. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:43 | |
It does get harder now, Simon, OK? | 0:16:43 | 0:16:45 | |
I don't give you different options. | 0:16:45 | 0:16:47 | |
What is Marcel Duchamp's famous "readymade" art piece | 0:16:47 | 0:16:52 | |
entitled Fountain? | 0:16:52 | 0:16:54 | |
I'm guessing it's some piece of sculpture... | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
..but that's about as much as I can give you. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:01 | |
Could you just read the question | 0:17:03 | 0:17:04 | |
before I go firm on that please, Jeremy? | 0:17:04 | 0:17:06 | |
What is Marcel Duchamp's famous "readymade" art piece | 0:17:06 | 0:17:11 | |
entitled Fountain? | 0:17:11 | 0:17:13 | |
"Readymade"? | 0:17:14 | 0:17:15 | |
I'm struggling to understand "readymade", but... | 0:17:17 | 0:17:20 | |
"Readymade" is in inverted commas in the question, by the way, | 0:17:20 | 0:17:22 | |
in the sense of it being a technical term. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:25 | |
Yeah, which I don't think I particularly understand. | 0:17:25 | 0:17:28 | |
I'm going to go with some form of sculpture. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:31 | |
I've accepted a piece of sculpture. Let's just see on your side. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:33 | |
Challengers, do you know what we're talking about here? | 0:17:33 | 0:17:36 | |
-I believe it was a urinal. -It's a urinal, that's right. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:38 | |
It's "readymade", as in "objet trouve", | 0:17:38 | 0:17:42 | |
as in a thing that exists already and is then exhibited as art. | 0:17:42 | 0:17:46 | |
Eggheads, give us some information on that. | 0:17:47 | 0:17:50 | |
-When you think Marcel Duchamp, you think urinal, do you? -Yeah. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:53 | |
-That's the one? -You do. -Yeah. -I'm afraid you do. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:55 | |
Probably his most notorious. | 0:17:55 | 0:17:56 | |
-That is the most notorious piece he did? -Yeah. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
He did a number of these. There's a bicycle wheel, various things, | 0:17:58 | 0:18:01 | |
but that one is probably the most notorious, | 0:18:01 | 0:18:04 | |
because it got into trouble with the New York Customs authorities... | 0:18:04 | 0:18:07 | |
-Oh, right! -..when it was sent to an exhibition. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:09 | |
They thought, "That's not art!" So... | 0:18:09 | 0:18:12 | |
-Quite right. -Oh, I see, that's the story? | 0:18:12 | 0:18:14 | |
OK, that's interesting. | 0:18:14 | 0:18:15 | |
What year are we talking about, roughly, there? | 0:18:15 | 0:18:17 | |
-Well, round about the... -'30s, '40s? | 0:18:17 | 0:18:19 | |
Oh, no, no, this was back towards the end of the second decade, | 0:18:19 | 0:18:22 | |
-so, 1917, 1918. -Right. -So... | 0:18:22 | 0:18:27 | |
Steve, you can go through to the final with this question. | 0:18:27 | 0:18:30 | |
What is the name of the pig who is a central character | 0:18:30 | 0:18:33 | |
in the EB White book Charlotte's Web? | 0:18:33 | 0:18:36 | |
-Wilbur. -Wilbur is the right answer. | 0:18:37 | 0:18:40 | |
You've won through on Sudden Death. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:41 | |
Sorry, Simon. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:42 | |
That Duchamp object has done for you there, and Steve is through. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:46 | |
Come back to us and we'll play on. | 0:18:46 | 0:18:48 | |
So, the Ramses Squares have lost three brains, now, | 0:18:50 | 0:18:53 | |
from the final round. | 0:18:53 | 0:18:54 | |
The Eggheads have not lost any so far. | 0:18:54 | 0:18:57 | |
Time for the fightback. This is the moment. | 0:18:57 | 0:18:59 | |
So, it's Geography. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:01 | |
I'm sure we've got some Egypt in there somewhere. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:04 | |
-I'll go for geography. -Yeah? Alastair! -OK. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:07 | |
-I can't... -Good luck, Alastair. -Good luck. -Alastair, OK. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:10 | |
-Choose an Egghead. -I think it's a flip of a coin. -Pat or Kevin. | 0:19:10 | 0:19:13 | |
-Flip a coin. -Pat, if I may, please. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:15 | |
Fine. So, Alastair from the Ramses Squares | 0:19:15 | 0:19:18 | |
versus Britain's Pat from the Eggheads on Geography | 0:19:18 | 0:19:20 | |
and just for the last time, please would you go to the Question Room? | 0:19:20 | 0:19:23 | |
Alastair, what was your connection with Egypt? | 0:19:25 | 0:19:28 | |
I served as a diplomat in our embassy out there in the 1980s. | 0:19:28 | 0:19:32 | |
-It must have been amazing! -It was a fantastic time. | 0:19:32 | 0:19:34 | |
Very exciting, very interesting, politically, as well. | 0:19:34 | 0:19:37 | |
And you came back, again, with a love of the country? | 0:19:37 | 0:19:40 | |
I did - and a wife! | 0:19:40 | 0:19:41 | |
JEREMY LAUGHS | 0:19:41 | 0:19:42 | |
So, tell us about the team name. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:45 | |
I must ask, Ramses Squares, | 0:19:45 | 0:19:47 | |
is that about a square in the centre of Cairo? | 0:19:47 | 0:19:50 | |
Yes, the main railway station in Cairo is Ramses Square, | 0:19:50 | 0:19:55 | |
and so we've all passed through it in our time, I suspect. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:59 | |
We know about the other one because that's where the crowds gather. | 0:19:59 | 0:20:02 | |
Tahrir Square, that's correct, yes. | 0:20:02 | 0:20:03 | |
-So, Ramses Square, OK, fine. -Yeah. -Well, good luck on this. | 0:20:03 | 0:20:06 | |
-Thank you. -The last Ramses Square to do battle in a head-to-head. | 0:20:06 | 0:20:09 | |
It's on Geography, Alastair, | 0:20:09 | 0:20:10 | |
would you like to go first or second against Pat? | 0:20:10 | 0:20:12 | |
First, if I may, please. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:13 | |
And here we go. Good luck. | 0:20:17 | 0:20:19 | |
Your question. Finland shares land borders | 0:20:19 | 0:20:22 | |
with Norway, Sweden and which other country? | 0:20:22 | 0:20:25 | |
I know that Russia tried to invade Finland | 0:20:30 | 0:20:33 | |
at the start, I think, of the Second World War, | 0:20:33 | 0:20:36 | |
so I'll go with Russia. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:37 | |
Russia's the right answer. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:39 | |
-I think they got driven out, didn't they? -They did. | 0:20:39 | 0:20:41 | |
It was harder than they thought it was going to be. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:43 | |
All right, so Russia is right, and we come to you, Pat. | 0:20:43 | 0:20:46 | |
The Cote d'Azur is located on which French coast? | 0:20:46 | 0:20:50 | |
I think the Cote d'Azur | 0:20:53 | 0:20:55 | |
is down near the French Riviera | 0:20:55 | 0:20:58 | |
so that would be the Mediterranean, | 0:20:58 | 0:21:01 | |
and I think that would best be described as south. | 0:21:01 | 0:21:03 | |
South is correct. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:06 | |
Alastair, back to you. The cities of Cardiff and Swansea | 0:21:07 | 0:21:11 | |
are ports on which body of water? | 0:21:11 | 0:21:13 | |
Well, they're on the southern coast of Wales, | 0:21:20 | 0:21:24 | |
and that is hugged by the Bristol Channel. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:29 | |
I'm not quite certain how far the Bristol Channel goes out, though. | 0:21:29 | 0:21:33 | |
Um... | 0:21:33 | 0:21:34 | |
..but I will go with the Bristol Channel. | 0:21:35 | 0:21:38 | |
Yes, you're right, it is the Bristol Channel. Well done. | 0:21:38 | 0:21:41 | |
Easy to go wrong on those kinds of questions. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:43 | |
Pat... | 0:21:43 | 0:21:44 | |
which of these islands is the largest by area? | 0:21:44 | 0:21:47 | |
Well, the smallest is easy - that's Jersey. | 0:21:51 | 0:21:54 | |
Sardinia is a pretty substantial island, | 0:21:56 | 0:21:58 | |
but I think Madagascar is one of the world's largest islands, | 0:21:58 | 0:22:02 | |
it might be the seventh or eighth largest island in the world. | 0:22:02 | 0:22:05 | |
Could Sardinia be bigger than Madagascar? | 0:22:05 | 0:22:07 | |
I don't think it could. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:09 | |
So, the answer, I think, is Madagascar. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:11 | |
Madagascar is the right answer. | 0:22:11 | 0:22:14 | |
Pat plays very well in almost every game, and he's a hard one to beat, | 0:22:14 | 0:22:17 | |
Alastair. Keep plugging away here. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:20 | |
Here's your question. | 0:22:20 | 0:22:21 | |
After Mont Blanc, which is the highest mountain in the Alps? | 0:22:21 | 0:22:25 | |
I haven't heard of Dufourspitze so I'm going to rule that out. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:35 | |
The other two... | 0:22:36 | 0:22:38 | |
it's a toss-up between them, so I'll go for the Eiger. | 0:22:38 | 0:22:42 | |
Let's see if the Eggheads know. Eggs? | 0:22:42 | 0:22:44 | |
I think it's the Dufourspitze. | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
Kevin says it's the Dufourspitze. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:48 | |
Anybody else here? | 0:22:48 | 0:22:49 | |
I would have thought Eiger. | 0:22:49 | 0:22:51 | |
-You would have thought Eiger. Yeah. -Matterhorn. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:53 | |
-It is the Dufourspitze. -Is it? | 0:22:53 | 0:22:54 | |
Ah. Mm. | 0:22:54 | 0:22:56 | |
OK, so, Pat, you have a chance to take the round. | 0:22:56 | 0:23:00 | |
The Gulf of Taranto lies off the coast of which country? | 0:23:00 | 0:23:03 | |
I think it lies between, effectively, | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
the heel and the toe of Italy. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:12 | |
-Italy. -If you've got this right, you're through. | 0:23:12 | 0:23:15 | |
The answer is Italy. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:17 | |
So, we say, well done, Pat. | 0:23:17 | 0:23:18 | |
Alastair, you were beaten by our Eggheads. | 0:23:18 | 0:23:20 | |
You've lost four players from the final - | 0:23:20 | 0:23:22 | |
but they can still win. | 0:23:22 | 0:23:23 | |
Come back to us, Pat and Alastair, | 0:23:23 | 0:23:26 | |
and we will see what happens when the Challengers play for £13,000. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:30 | |
So, this is what we have been playing towards. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:33 | |
It is final-round time. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:35 | |
As always, it's General Knowledge, | 0:23:35 | 0:23:37 | |
but those of you who lost your head-to-heads | 0:23:37 | 0:23:39 | |
won't be allowed to take part in this round - | 0:23:39 | 0:23:41 | |
so that's Simon, Sonia, Alastair and Adel from the Ramses Squares. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:46 | |
Would you please now leave the studio? | 0:23:46 | 0:23:48 | |
Well, good luck, Marwan - | 0:23:50 | 0:23:51 | |
you are playing to win the Ramses Squares £13,000. | 0:23:51 | 0:23:54 | |
Steve, Pat, Kevin, Beth, Judith, | 0:23:54 | 0:23:57 | |
you're playing for something that money can't buy - | 0:23:57 | 0:23:59 | |
the Eggheads' reputation. | 0:23:59 | 0:24:01 | |
As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:04 | |
This time they're all General Knowledge. | 0:24:04 | 0:24:05 | |
You can confer. I'm sorry that doesn't help you, Marwan. | 0:24:05 | 0:24:08 | |
The question is, can you, with your one brain, defeat these five? | 0:24:08 | 0:24:12 | |
Don't say no, because we've seen it happen on several occasions. | 0:24:12 | 0:24:16 | |
-I'm going to do it. -Exactly, that's the attitude. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:19 | |
You're going to do it. Would you like to go first or second? | 0:24:19 | 0:24:21 | |
Do you know what? I've been watching the show, | 0:24:21 | 0:24:23 | |
taking the measurements, and I feel like I should go second, | 0:24:23 | 0:24:26 | |
but the sample size just isn't large enough | 0:24:26 | 0:24:28 | |
so I'm going to do what everybody else does and go first. | 0:24:28 | 0:24:31 | |
OK, the first set of questions for you, then. | 0:24:34 | 0:24:37 | |
General Knowledge - and here is your first. | 0:24:37 | 0:24:40 | |
The Colorado River flows through which major US tourist attraction? | 0:24:40 | 0:24:46 | |
Well, it's clearly not Niagara Falls. | 0:24:51 | 0:24:54 | |
The question is, Yellowstone Park and Grand Canyon. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:57 | |
-You said the Colorado River? -The Colorado River. | 0:24:57 | 0:24:59 | |
So, Yellowstone is rather north. | 0:24:59 | 0:25:01 | |
I'm going to say Grand Canyon. | 0:25:01 | 0:25:03 | |
Grand Canyon is quite right, well done. | 0:25:03 | 0:25:05 | |
OK, Eggheads, over to you. | 0:25:05 | 0:25:07 | |
In the fable by Aesop, what was the job of the boy who cried wolf? | 0:25:07 | 0:25:13 | |
-Probably a shepherd. -I think - happy with shepherd? -Yeah. | 0:25:17 | 0:25:20 | |
-He must've been a shepherd. -Yeah. | 0:25:20 | 0:25:22 | |
Yeah. He was basically supposed to keep any wolves away from the sheep | 0:25:22 | 0:25:27 | |
and he was a shepherd. | 0:25:27 | 0:25:29 | |
Shepherd is the right answer. One each. | 0:25:29 | 0:25:32 | |
So far, so good, Marwan. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:34 | |
You're on track. | 0:25:34 | 0:25:35 | |
Which cyclist won his sixth Olympic gold medal in 2016? | 0:25:35 | 0:25:40 | |
So, this is...when I play Trivial Pursuit, | 0:25:46 | 0:25:49 | |
I sit at the centre, | 0:25:49 | 0:25:51 | |
waiting for anything but Sport. | 0:25:51 | 0:25:52 | |
Purely based on recognition, I'm going with Bradley Wiggins. | 0:25:55 | 0:25:59 | |
OK, Bradley Wiggins. | 0:25:59 | 0:26:01 | |
I'm looking for a reaction among your team-mates. | 0:26:01 | 0:26:04 | |
Wrong answer or you don't know? | 0:26:04 | 0:26:06 | |
-Jason Kenny. -Yeah, Jason Kenny is the right answer, Marwan, sorry. | 0:26:06 | 0:26:10 | |
Jason Kenny. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:11 | |
OK, over to you, Eggheads, see if you can take the lead now. | 0:26:14 | 0:26:16 | |
The akita breed of dog originated in which country? | 0:26:16 | 0:26:21 | |
-Japan. -Happy with Japan? -It's a Japanese dog. | 0:26:24 | 0:26:27 | |
Very happy. | 0:26:27 | 0:26:28 | |
That is Japan. | 0:26:28 | 0:26:29 | |
Japan is right. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:31 | |
Right, Marwan, you need to get this one right. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:35 | |
In which year was the Prime Minister Theresa May born? | 0:26:35 | 0:26:38 | |
1956... I don't remember hearing anything about a big milestone | 0:26:48 | 0:26:52 | |
that recently, | 0:26:52 | 0:26:54 | |
so I'm going to go right down the middle. | 0:26:54 | 0:26:57 | |
Er, 1952. | 0:26:57 | 0:27:00 | |
1952 is your answer? | 0:27:00 | 0:27:03 | |
Let's just see. Eggheads, do we know? | 0:27:04 | 0:27:06 | |
I think it's '56. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:07 | |
She turned 60 in 2016, it's 1956. | 0:27:07 | 0:27:12 | |
Do you know what date she was born, Kevin? | 0:27:12 | 0:27:15 | |
No - October sometime is ringing a bell, | 0:27:15 | 0:27:17 | |
but I may be entirely off beam, there. | 0:27:17 | 0:27:19 | |
October the 1st, 1956 is the answer. | 0:27:19 | 0:27:23 | |
Marwan, I'm sorry, you're wrong. | 0:27:23 | 0:27:25 | |
We have to say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won! | 0:27:25 | 0:27:29 | |
Bad luck. That birthday thing is very difficult. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:36 | |
Obviously, she had a busy year, so maybe her... | 0:27:36 | 0:27:39 | |
if we were thinking, do we remember her 60th in 2016... | 0:27:39 | 0:27:42 | |
-It was lost. -..it might have been lost | 0:27:42 | 0:27:45 | |
because there was so much going on in 2016. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:47 | |
Oh, commiserations - I hope you enjoyed it? | 0:27:47 | 0:27:49 | |
-Very much, very much. -Brilliant contestants. | 0:27:49 | 0:27:52 | |
Bad luck. The Eggheads are on great form, | 0:27:52 | 0:27:54 | |
there's no question about that. | 0:27:54 | 0:27:56 | |
They're knocking sixes all over the park at the moment, | 0:27:56 | 0:27:58 | |
and this winning streak continues, | 0:27:58 | 0:28:00 | |
so I'm afraid it means you won't be going home with the £13,000. | 0:28:00 | 0:28:03 | |
We take the money, we roll it over to the next show. | 0:28:03 | 0:28:06 | |
Eggheads, congratulations. | 0:28:06 | 0:28:08 | |
Look at you, all five of you, there! | 0:28:08 | 0:28:10 | |
You're playing so well. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:11 | |
Who will beat you? | 0:28:11 | 0:28:13 | |
Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers | 0:28:13 | 0:28:16 | |
have the brains to defeat them. | 0:28:16 | 0:28:18 | |
£14,000 says they don't. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:19 | |
Till then, goodbye. | 0:28:19 | 0:28:21 |