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These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.

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Together they make up the Eggheads,

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arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.

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The question is, can they be beaten?

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

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pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.

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They are the Eggheads.

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Looking impressive today, Eggs.

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-Feeling ready?

-Yeah.

-Yes.

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Very good. Taking on the might of our quiz Goliaths today are...

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This team all have an association

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with the British Egyptian Society. Let's meet them.

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Hello, I'm Simon.

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I'm a retired banker and head-hunter.

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I'm Marwan, I'm a university lecturer in computer science.

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Hello, I'm Sonia and I'm a retired civil servant.

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Hello there, I'm Alastair and I'm a retired diplomat and head-hunter.

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Hello, I'm Adel and I'm a PR consultant.

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Simon, huge Egypt connection, is that right?

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Yes. Some of us have Egyptian parentage,

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some of us have lived and worked in Egypt

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and others just have a fascination with Egypt and Egyptology,

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and through the British Egyptian Society,

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we came together earlier this year.

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And you've spent some of your life in Egypt, is that right?

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Yes. I lived and worked there in the early '80s.

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OK, and fell in love with it?

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I was then married to an Egyptologist,

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so it was like a busman's holiday for her

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and I was then working for a bank -

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and, also, my parents met in Cairo during the war,

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so it just seems to have been a big part of my life.

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OK, brilliant.

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Well, I'm going to be so embarrassed if there's no mention of Egypt

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in this contest - but we hope...

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we ask you questions on your given subject,

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but there'll be others as well.

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-Good luck, team.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

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Nice to see you. Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash

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up for grabs for our Challengers.

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However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,

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the prize money rolls over to the next show.

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Now, Ramses Squares, I can tell you the Eggheads are doing really well.

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They're on storming form.

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They've won the last 12,

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so that means there is £13,000 for you to win.

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A nice old jackpot.

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Would you like to have a go at it?

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-You bet.

-Of course.

-All right,

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the first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Music.

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You can choose between Judith, Beth, Kevin, Pat and Steve.

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-Music!

-Adel, are you good to go?

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-Yeah, I think that's me.

-Are you good to go?

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Who would you like to take on?

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Adel against...?

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-Um...

-Why don't you try Beth?

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-I'll try Beth. Yeah? Beth is good.

-Beth.

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OK, our public relations consultant, Adel,

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versus Beth from the Eggheads on Music.

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Please, for the first time, go to our legendary Question Room.

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So, Adel, do you also have an intense interest in Egypt?

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I do, yes. My parents are Egyptian - or at least one of them is,

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and I visit there regularly.

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It's up and down there, isn't it, at the moment?

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It is, unfortunately, but I'm hoping for the best.

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OK, well that's always a good outlook.

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So, we're on Music against Beth.

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Would you like to go first or second?

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I'd love to go first, please.

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And here is your first question, Adel.

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Which of these pop stars was born first?

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Some of the most famous singers ever.

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Um...

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I would say Janet Jackson.

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It's actually Madonna.

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Oh.

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I'm not sure quite by how much.

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It might be close, actually.

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Anyone got any birth years here?

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Is Madonna about '58?

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Madonna's '58, yeah.

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Janet Jackson is about '67, something like that?

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-I'm not sure. Not sure.

-Janet Jackson, I think was born in 1966.

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'66? OK. OK.

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-'69 was Lopez...

-She's the youngest.

-..and Madonna, 1958, as you say.

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-1958?!

-Yeah.

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Yeah, Madonna was a child of the '50s.

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OK, Beth, your question.

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Who was the lead singer of the band Led Zeppelin?

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Oh...

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I do know a little bit about this genre, but not a heck of a lot...

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but from what I remember...

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it's Robert Plant.

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Yes, you're right, it's Robert Plant.

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-Roger Waters was Pink Floyd.

-Mm.

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Was Gillan Rainbow?

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-Deep Purple.

-Deep Purple was Ian Gillan.

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OK. Adel, back to you.

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Grow For Me and Dentist are songs from which musical?

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Well, I've seen The Rocky Horror Show and I can't...

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It doesn't ring a bell.

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Hair, I've never seen, and Little Shop Of Horrors...

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..neither.

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Grow for Me could be about hair but Dentist doesn't really fit.

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I'm going to say Little Shop Of Horrors.

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Little Shop Of Horrors is right, actually.

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Yeah, getting lured by Hair

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would have been very easy there, well done.

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OK, so, level, and back to you, Beth.

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A young mod named Jimmy is the central character

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in which rock opera by The Who?

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Well, you'd think that Tommy would be the main character of Tommy.

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A Quick One, I'm not aware of,

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but Quadrophenia is about a mod, so Quadrophenia.

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Quadrophenia is correct, Beth, well done.

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Adel, back to you. Beth in the lead.

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You need to get this one right.

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Which composer wrote the music for the opera

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Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail,

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which translates as "the abduction from the Seraglio"?

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Hm...

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Classical music is definitely not my forte, if we're honest.

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Um... However, I feel if it was a Mozart one, I may have heard of it.

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A Wagner one...

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maybe. Richard Strauss...

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I'm going to say Richard Wagner.

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-It is Mozart.

-No!

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So, it's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and that means, Adel,

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-you've been beaten by our Egghead.

-Aww.

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-I'm sorry.

-Well done, Beth.

-Beth is through to the final.

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-Thank you.

-And you've been knocked out - but it's early days,

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so please rejoin your teams and we'll play the second round.

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So, as it stands, the Ramses Squares have lost a brain

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from the final round. Beth won through.

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The Eggheads are still all there.

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The next subject for our Challengers is History.

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-This is good, isn't it?

-Oh-ho!

-This is your thing.

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So?

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-Sonia?

-Sonia, against which Egghead?

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-It can't be Beth.

-I think I'll play Judith, please.

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Very good. So, Sonia from the Ramses Squares.

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-I think she's an historian.

-Playing Judith.

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You are a historian?

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Yes, but perhaps the questions won't be my period!

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That's fine, I understand that.

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OK, so Sonia against Judith, please go to the Question Room now.

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Well, Sonia, you were modestly saying you weren't a historian,

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but you are a member of the - or a fellow -

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of the Royal Historical Society.

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-Is that right?

-That's right, yes.

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And a member, or fellow, of the Society of Antiquaries.

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-Yes.

-Wow, and you've been on Mastermind?

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Well, only one round, yes.

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Well, I'm sure that doesn't presage anything here.

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All right, Sonia, this could be fun.

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Would you like to go first or second?

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I think I'll go first, please, Jeremy.

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Good luck. Which of these British monarchs was born first?

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Sonia, was it...

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That would be George I.

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Yes, George I is quite right.

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Judith, your question.

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In which part of the world was the ancient city of Babylon?

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It was in the Middle East.

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It was indeed in the Middle East,

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and that's, of course, right up the Challengers' street, isn't it?

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OK, over we go to you, Sonia.

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The word, "Reconquista" refers to the wars

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in which Christian armies took back control of which part of Europe

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between the 8th century and the 15th century AD?

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That refers, I hope, to the Spaniards taking back Spain

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from the Moors. The Iberian Peninsula is the answer.

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Iberian Peninsula is the answer.

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Very sure-footed here in this round, Sonia, I can tell.

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OK, your second question, Judith.

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In which year was the American outlaw Jesse James shot and killed

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by Robert Ford? Judith, was it...

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The American what? Outlaw?

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The American outlaw Jesse James, shot and killed by Robert Ford.

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Well, he's a Wild Westerner, isn't he?

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So, I would think it's probably 1882.

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1882 is correct.

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Nicely done. OK.

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Sonia, what is the nickname of the Roman emperor

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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus II,

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whose bloody reign was ended in 222 AD,

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in a plot thought to be instigated by his own grandmother?

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And you say the year was 222 AD?

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222 AD his bloody reign was ended.

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Well, it wasn't Claudius, who was much earlier,

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but I don't think either of the other two were very nice characters.

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Um...

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So, it's 50/50, as far as I'm concerned. Um...

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The Baths of Caracalla were in Rome, I remember about that,

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but very little about Elagabalus. Er...

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I think I should go for Elagabalus but it's 50/50, I'm afraid.

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Elagabalus is the right answer.

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Oh, hooray!

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That's a hard question, good stuff.

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Three out of three for our Challenger.

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Judith, to stay in, in Victorian Britain,

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what term referred to the anchored ships

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that held prisoners before they were transported to Australia?

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Was it...

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Well, Peelers were policemen.

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It was Hulks.

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It was indeed Hulks, you're right.

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Three out of three for you both.

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So, Sonia, keep it up.

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We go to Sudden Death.

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It gets a little bit harder,

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because I don't give you alternative answers.

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-Are you ready?

-Yes.

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Which Portuguese explorer is the first-known European

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to cross the Pacific?

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I need a first name and last name.

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I know that the name Vasco da Gama is a Portuguese name

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and therefore that is one possibility, but...

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..I don't think Magellan was Portuguese. Er...

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and I think the other Portuguese explorers I can think of

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were a little bit too late,

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so I think I will go with Vasco da Gama,

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if Vasco counts as a first name.

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Let me see what your team think of that. Vasco da Gama?

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-Yes.

-Do you like it?

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-Yes.

-Eggheads?

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I think this is quite tricky.

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You'd like Magellan, but he got killed in the Philippines

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so that might rule him out.

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Elcano is normally credited with being the first

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to circumnavigate the world, so maybe it's Sebastian Elcano.

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The answer is Ferdinand Magellan.

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Oh!

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The first-known European to cross the Pacific was Ferdinand Magellan.

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Which gives Judith an opening here.

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Judith, your question.

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Which US President gave the order for atomic bombs

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to be dropped on Japan during World War II?

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I think that would be Truman.

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-I need a first name and last name.

-Oh...

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I'm having a fearful moment.

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What was his name? Harry Truman.

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-Your answer is...?

-Harry Truman.

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Harry Truman is the correct answer, Judith...

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-Oh, golly!

-..on Sudden Death, you've taken the round, well done.

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Sorry, Sonia.

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-There we go.

-Well done.

-It was Magellan what done it.

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You've been beaten by our Egghead - Judith will be in the final.

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Please come back to us, and we'll see what happens next.

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So, the Ramses Squares have lost a second brain from the final round.

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The Eggheads have been fighting hard,

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and they're still all there

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and it's a good idea to knock one of them out now -

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so, it's Arts & Books.

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-Arts & Books, who would like this?

-Oh...

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-So, it's you three.

-Alastair, literature...

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-I will go.

-I think you should probably go.

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-I will do it.

-We have faith in you.

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-You guys are...for later.

-Good luck.

-It's going to be myself.

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OK, Simon, great stuff.

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Against which Egghead?

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It has to be one of the three gentlemen.

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-Steve?

-Maybe Steve.

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Right, so, Simon from the Ramses Squares

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takes on Steve from the Eggheads.

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They're a learned team, aren't they? We can tell.

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Yeah, they're playing well. They've been unlucky so far.

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To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions.

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Simon, you used to do a weekly quiz at a particular pub in Twickenham?

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Yes, that's correct, Jeremy.

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It's a great place called The Turk's Head,

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and it's a rugby pub, so each week, if there's an international,

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they clear the pub of all furniture and it's eight deep to the bar.

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Now, it's got - let me ask the Eggheads, here,

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it's got a Beatles connection,

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do you Eggheads know what that would be?

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-No!

-The Turk's Head in Twickenham?

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-No.

-No? Steve, do you know?

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No, I don't know this one, Jeremy.

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-Tell us, Simon.

-It featured briefly in the very first Beatles movie,

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A Hard Day's Night, which was black and white.

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That is a tremendous quiz question.

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That will come up one day, I guarantee it.

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So, Arts & Books, we're on.

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Simon, would you like to go first or second?

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I'll go first.

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And here we go, good luck.

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Which of these bestselling books was written by Mario Puzo?

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I'm pretty sure it was The Godfather.

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The Godfather is correct.

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Amazing book to read, as well.

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-Are you ready, Steve?

-Yeah.

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-I think it is one of the best books I've ever read.

-It's incredible.

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OK, your question, my friend.

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Which of these artists was born first?

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Yeah.

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I think Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst

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are relatively new "Young British Artists", as they call them,

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so it must be Lucian Freud.

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Lucian Freud is the right answer.

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Back to you, Simon.

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In 2016, which American writer

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was named the most-borrowed author in UK libraries

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for the ninth year running?

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American writer.

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I'm pretty sure it was James Patterson.

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Indeed, he comes up a lot, because he writes an awful lot.

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James Patterson is the right answer.

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Steve, A Room With A View is a novel by which author?

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It's one I've read, it's EM Forster.

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EM Forster is right. We're whipping through this, aren't we?

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You don't hang about, you two.

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My goodness!

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OK, third question to you, Simon, with the scores level.

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Which author won the Booker Prize for his novel Vernon God Little?

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I'm pretty sure I've read it - it's a while ago,

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but it was DBC Pierre.

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It was indeed DBC Pierre.

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I think that's the quickest way to three points we've ever had.

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So, Steve, can you match him?

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Which work by Alfred Lord Tennyson features the lines,

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"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"?

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Yeah, I think it's one he dedicated to a friend who died, Arthur Hallam,

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it's In Memoriam.

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In Memoriam is quite right.

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Three points each. I'm not sure we've stretched either of you yet.

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We go to Sudden Death.

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It does get harder now, Simon, OK?

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I don't give you different options.

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What is Marcel Duchamp's famous "readymade" art piece

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entitled Fountain?

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I'm guessing it's some piece of sculpture...

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..but that's about as much as I can give you.

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Could you just read the question

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before I go firm on that please, Jeremy?

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What is Marcel Duchamp's famous "readymade" art piece

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entitled Fountain?

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"Readymade"?

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I'm struggling to understand "readymade", but...

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"Readymade" is in inverted commas in the question, by the way,

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in the sense of it being a technical term.

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Yeah, which I don't think I particularly understand.

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I'm going to go with some form of sculpture.

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I've accepted a piece of sculpture. Let's just see on your side.

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Challengers, do you know what we're talking about here?

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-I believe it was a urinal.

-It's a urinal, that's right.

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It's "readymade", as in "objet trouve",

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as in a thing that exists already and is then exhibited as art.

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Eggheads, give us some information on that.

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-When you think Marcel Duchamp, you think urinal, do you?

-Yeah.

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-That's the one?

-You do.

-Yeah.

-I'm afraid you do.

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Probably his most notorious.

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-That is the most notorious piece he did?

-Yeah.

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He did a number of these. There's a bicycle wheel, various things,

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but that one is probably the most notorious,

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because it got into trouble with the New York Customs authorities...

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-Oh, right!

-..when it was sent to an exhibition.

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They thought, "That's not art!" So...

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-Quite right.

-Oh, I see, that's the story?

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OK, that's interesting.

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What year are we talking about, roughly, there?

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-Well, round about the...

-'30s, '40s?

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Oh, no, no, this was back towards the end of the second decade,

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-so, 1917, 1918.

-Right.

-So...

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Steve, you can go through to the final with this question.

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What is the name of the pig who is a central character

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in the EB White book Charlotte's Web?

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-Wilbur.

-Wilbur is the right answer.

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You've won through on Sudden Death.

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Sorry, Simon.

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That Duchamp object has done for you there, and Steve is through.

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Come back to us and we'll play on.

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So, the Ramses Squares have lost three brains, now,

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from the final round.

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The Eggheads have not lost any so far.

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Time for the fightback. This is the moment.

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So, it's Geography.

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I'm sure we've got some Egypt in there somewhere.

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-I'll go for geography.

-Yeah? Alastair!

-OK.

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-I can't...

-Good luck, Alastair.

-Good luck.

-Alastair, OK.

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-Choose an Egghead.

-I think it's a flip of a coin.

-Pat or Kevin.

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-Flip a coin.

-Pat, if I may, please.

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Fine. So, Alastair from the Ramses Squares

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versus Britain's Pat from the Eggheads on Geography

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and just for the last time, please would you go to the Question Room?

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Alastair, what was your connection with Egypt?

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I served as a diplomat in our embassy out there in the 1980s.

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-It must have been amazing!

-It was a fantastic time.

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Very exciting, very interesting, politically, as well.

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And you came back, again, with a love of the country?

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I did - and a wife!

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JEREMY LAUGHS

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So, tell us about the team name.

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I must ask, Ramses Squares,

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is that about a square in the centre of Cairo?

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Yes, the main railway station in Cairo is Ramses Square,

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and so we've all passed through it in our time, I suspect.

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We know about the other one because that's where the crowds gather.

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Tahrir Square, that's correct, yes.

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-So, Ramses Square, OK, fine.

-Yeah.

-Well, good luck on this.

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-Thank you.

-The last Ramses Square to do battle in a head-to-head.

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It's on Geography, Alastair,

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would you like to go first or second against Pat?

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First, if I may, please.

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And here we go. Good luck.

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Your question. Finland shares land borders

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with Norway, Sweden and which other country?

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I know that Russia tried to invade Finland

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at the start, I think, of the Second World War,

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so I'll go with Russia.

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Russia's the right answer.

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-I think they got driven out, didn't they?

-They did.

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It was harder than they thought it was going to be.

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All right, so Russia is right, and we come to you, Pat.

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The Cote d'Azur is located on which French coast?

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I think the Cote d'Azur

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is down near the French Riviera

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so that would be the Mediterranean,

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and I think that would best be described as south.

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South is correct.

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Alastair, back to you. The cities of Cardiff and Swansea

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are ports on which body of water?

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Well, they're on the southern coast of Wales,

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and that is hugged by the Bristol Channel.

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I'm not quite certain how far the Bristol Channel goes out, though.

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Um...

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..but I will go with the Bristol Channel.

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Yes, you're right, it is the Bristol Channel. Well done.

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Easy to go wrong on those kinds of questions.

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Pat...

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which of these islands is the largest by area?

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Well, the smallest is easy - that's Jersey.

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Sardinia is a pretty substantial island,

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but I think Madagascar is one of the world's largest islands,

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it might be the seventh or eighth largest island in the world.

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Could Sardinia be bigger than Madagascar?

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I don't think it could.

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So, the answer, I think, is Madagascar.

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Madagascar is the right answer.

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Pat plays very well in almost every game, and he's a hard one to beat,

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Alastair. Keep plugging away here.

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Here's your question.

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After Mont Blanc, which is the highest mountain in the Alps?

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I haven't heard of Dufourspitze so I'm going to rule that out.

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The other two...

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it's a toss-up between them, so I'll go for the Eiger.

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Let's see if the Eggheads know. Eggs?

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I think it's the Dufourspitze.

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Kevin says it's the Dufourspitze.

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Anybody else here?

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I would have thought Eiger.

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-You would have thought Eiger. Yeah.

-Matterhorn.

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-It is the Dufourspitze.

-Is it?

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Ah. Mm.

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OK, so, Pat, you have a chance to take the round.

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The Gulf of Taranto lies off the coast of which country?

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I think it lies between, effectively,

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the heel and the toe of Italy.

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-Italy.

-If you've got this right, you're through.

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The answer is Italy.

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So, we say, well done, Pat.

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Alastair, you were beaten by our Eggheads.

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You've lost four players from the final -

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but they can still win.

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Come back to us, Pat and Alastair,

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and we will see what happens when the Challengers play for £13,000.

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So, this is what we have been playing towards.

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It is final-round time.

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As always, it's General Knowledge,

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but those of you who lost your head-to-heads

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won't be allowed to take part in this round -

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so that's Simon, Sonia, Alastair and Adel from the Ramses Squares.

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Would you please now leave the studio?

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Well, good luck, Marwan -

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you are playing to win the Ramses Squares £13,000.

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Steve, Pat, Kevin, Beth, Judith,

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you're playing for something that money can't buy -

0:23:570:23:59

the Eggheads' reputation.

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

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This time they're all General Knowledge.

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You can confer. I'm sorry that doesn't help you, Marwan.

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The question is, can you, with your one brain, defeat these five?

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Don't say no, because we've seen it happen on several occasions.

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-I'm going to do it.

-Exactly, that's the attitude.

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You're going to do it. Would you like to go first or second?

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Do you know what? I've been watching the show,

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taking the measurements, and I feel like I should go second,

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but the sample size just isn't large enough

0:24:260:24:28

so I'm going to do what everybody else does and go first.

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OK, the first set of questions for you, then.

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General Knowledge - and here is your first.

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The Colorado River flows through which major US tourist attraction?

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Well, it's clearly not Niagara Falls.

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The question is, Yellowstone Park and Grand Canyon.

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-You said the Colorado River?

-The Colorado River.

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So, Yellowstone is rather north.

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I'm going to say Grand Canyon.

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Grand Canyon is quite right, well done.

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OK, Eggheads, over to you.

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In the fable by Aesop, what was the job of the boy who cried wolf?

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-Probably a shepherd.

-I think - happy with shepherd?

-Yeah.

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-He must've been a shepherd.

-Yeah.

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Yeah. He was basically supposed to keep any wolves away from the sheep

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and he was a shepherd.

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Shepherd is the right answer. One each.

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So far, so good, Marwan.

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You're on track.

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Which cyclist won his sixth Olympic gold medal in 2016?

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So, this is...when I play Trivial Pursuit,

0:25:460:25:49

I sit at the centre,

0:25:490:25:51

waiting for anything but Sport.

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Purely based on recognition, I'm going with Bradley Wiggins.

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OK, Bradley Wiggins.

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I'm looking for a reaction among your team-mates.

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Wrong answer or you don't know?

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-Jason Kenny.

-Yeah, Jason Kenny is the right answer, Marwan, sorry.

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Jason Kenny.

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OK, over to you, Eggheads, see if you can take the lead now.

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The akita breed of dog originated in which country?

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-Japan.

-Happy with Japan?

-It's a Japanese dog.

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Very happy.

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That is Japan.

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Japan is right.

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Right, Marwan, you need to get this one right.

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In which year was the Prime Minister Theresa May born?

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1956... I don't remember hearing anything about a big milestone

0:26:480:26:52

that recently,

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so I'm going to go right down the middle.

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Er, 1952.

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1952 is your answer?

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Let's just see. Eggheads, do we know?

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I think it's '56.

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She turned 60 in 2016, it's 1956.

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Do you know what date she was born, Kevin?

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No - October sometime is ringing a bell,

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but I may be entirely off beam, there.

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October the 1st, 1956 is the answer.

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Marwan, I'm sorry, you're wrong.

0:27:230:27:25

We have to say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won!

0:27:250:27:29

Bad luck. That birthday thing is very difficult.

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Obviously, she had a busy year, so maybe her...

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if we were thinking, do we remember her 60th in 2016...

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-It was lost.

-..it might have been lost

0:27:420:27:45

because there was so much going on in 2016.

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Oh, commiserations - I hope you enjoyed it?

0:27:470:27:49

-Very much, very much.

-Brilliant contestants.

0:27:490:27:52

Bad luck. The Eggheads are on great form,

0:27:520:27:54

there's no question about that.

0:27:540:27:56

They're knocking sixes all over the park at the moment,

0:27:560:27:58

and this winning streak continues,

0:27:580:28:00

so I'm afraid it means you won't be going home with the £13,000.

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We take the money, we roll it over to the next show.

0:28:030:28:06

Eggheads, congratulations.

0:28:060:28:08

Look at you, all five of you, there!

0:28:080:28:10

You're playing so well.

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Who will beat you?

0:28:110:28:13

Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers

0:28:130:28:16

have the brains to defeat them.

0:28:160:28:18

£14,000 says they don't.

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Till then, goodbye.

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