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 > 0:00:14arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz Challengers pit
0:00:26 > 0:00:30their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32They are the Eggheads.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34Hoping to beat the might of the Eggheads today
0:00:34 > 0:00:36are the Laxadaisicals from West Sussex.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40This team all play for the East Grinstead Lacrosse Club.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43- Let's meet them.- Hi, I'm Gemma and a criminal paralegal.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46Hi, I'm Andy and I am a physiotherapist.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Hi, I'm Sophie and I'm a marketing executive.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52Hi, I'm John, I run a foreign exchange business.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54Hi, I'm David and I'm a restaurant owner.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56So, Gemma and team, hello there.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58- Welcome.- Hi.- Hi.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00Great to see you. And lacrosse is at the centre of this, Gemma,
0:01:00 > 0:01:02- is that right? - Yes, yeah, definitely.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04We all play at the same club,
0:01:04 > 0:01:06we train, play matches, have socials.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08Has it brought you together as quizzers as well,
0:01:08 > 0:01:09or have the Eggheads done that?
0:01:09 > 0:01:12We've never quizzed as a team before, really.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Andy's done more quizzing than most of us and we sort of have
0:01:15 > 0:01:19fundraisers and, sort of, in our socials we have quizzes sometimes.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22Great, well, I know that you were travelling by train
0:01:22 > 0:01:24and you started to do some rehearsing of quizzing
0:01:24 > 0:01:27in the train carriage and the whole carriage joined in, is that right?
0:01:27 > 0:01:29Yeah, we had people sort of piping up occasionally
0:01:29 > 0:01:31with the answer. "Oh, cheers!"
0:01:31 > 0:01:33"What are you doing tomorrow? Fancy coming on?"
0:01:33 > 0:01:37Did they work out what you were doing on the train, that you were coming up here?
0:01:37 > 0:01:39Yeah, it sort of became apparent when we said.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41All right. That's quite a good way of practising.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43Good luck, Laxadaisicals.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs
0:01:45 > 0:01:47for our Challengers.
0:01:47 > 0:01:49If they fail to defeat the Eggheads, as you know,
0:01:49 > 0:01:51the prize-money rolls over to the next show.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55Now, Laxadaisicals, the Eggheads have won the last six in a row,
0:01:55 > 0:01:59so that's quite good for you in that it means that the jackpot
0:01:59 > 0:02:01is £7,000. Do you want to start playing?
0:02:01 > 0:02:02- Yes.- Great.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Music.
0:02:05 > 0:02:09You can choose between Chris, Dave, Kevin, Barry or Lisa.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11I could try, but I don't know if I'd be any good.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15- Do you want...?- Go on, Gemma.- OK. - Start with our team captain.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17OK, high-stakes, the team captain goes in, Gemma.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20Against which Egghead? Any one of the five.
0:02:20 > 0:02:25- Barry?- Barry?- Yeah? Yeah, fine. Barry.- Go for Barry.- Er, Barry.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28Gemma from the Laxadaisicals is going to play Barry on Music.
0:02:28 > 0:02:29And to ensure there's no conferring,
0:02:29 > 0:02:32please go to our legendary Question Room.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35So, Music is the subject, Gemma.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37Would you like to go first or second?
0:02:37 > 0:02:38Can I go first, please?
0:02:41 > 0:02:42OK, we're away.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44Your first question, Gemma, good luck.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47In which year did Madonna's Vogue reach the top
0:02:47 > 0:02:49of the UK singles chart?
0:02:53 > 0:02:57Now, Madonna... Vogue's very '80s.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00I don't think it... It's definitely not 2000.
0:03:00 > 0:03:04I don't think it's 1990, unless it was the end of the '80s.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06I think I'm going to say...
0:03:06 > 0:03:09Oh, I think I'm going to go down the middle with 1990.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12- Oh, I'm so glad you did, you're right.- Ah!
0:03:12 > 0:03:15Because, yes, it is very '80s but funnily enough,
0:03:15 > 0:03:18very '80s kind of puts it in 1990.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21- Yeah.- If you see what I mean? OK, Barry, your question.
0:03:21 > 0:03:25What musical term is defined as a composition free in form
0:03:25 > 0:03:28and inspiration, usually for an instrumental soloist?
0:03:32 > 0:03:34Oh, I think that must be Fantasia.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36Fantasia is right.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38They may get harder.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40Here we are, Gemma, your second question.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42The Americans Adam Yauch,
0:03:42 > 0:03:47Michael Diamond and Adam Horowitz came to fame in the 1980s
0:03:47 > 0:03:50under what collective name? Is this...?
0:03:53 > 0:03:56Erm... Well, I don't think it was the Backstreet Boys.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58Erm...
0:03:58 > 0:04:00I think...
0:04:01 > 0:04:04I think I'm going to have to go Beastie Boys.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06What year were you born in?
0:04:06 > 0:04:09- '92.- OK, so the '80s is before you were born.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12- Yes.- But you're right, well done.
0:04:12 > 0:04:13APPLAUSE Beastie Boys it is.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15OK, Barry, your question to catch up.
0:04:15 > 0:04:19Which band released in 1991 album Screamadellica?
0:04:23 > 0:04:25That certainly doesn't sound like a Britpop
0:04:25 > 0:04:27so I think I'll discount Pulp.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29I think my son had this album
0:04:29 > 0:04:33and I think I had the indignity of having to listen to it
0:04:33 > 0:04:36at one time, so I think it was Primal Scream.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39Yes, in a funny way it's the obvious ones.
0:04:39 > 0:04:40It was Primal Scream.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42Often the obvious one is not the right one.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44We go to your third question.
0:04:44 > 0:04:46Gemma, in the late '70s,
0:04:46 > 0:04:50who released the albums Death Of A Ladies' Man
0:04:50 > 0:04:51and Recent Songs?
0:04:55 > 0:04:59Oh, I have... I really don't know. Erm...
0:05:01 > 0:05:06For some reason, I don't know why, I'm being drawn to Neil Young,
0:05:06 > 0:05:10erm, so I think I'm going to go with Neil Young. Just for my gut.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12It's not, I'm afraid.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14It's easy to rule out Bowie, but Neil Young has got...
0:05:14 > 0:05:16It might be him, but it's not.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18- Leonard Cohen, it was.- Oh, OK.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20Don't worry, you're not out yet.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22Barry, your question to take the round.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25What was the first name of the composer Borodin?
0:05:28 > 0:05:31Well, I've come to grief on first names of composers in the past,
0:05:31 > 0:05:35but I'm pretty certain that Demetrius Shostakovich and Peter is
0:05:35 > 0:05:39Tchaikovsky, or Pietr, and Borodin was Alexander Borodin.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42Alexander Borodin is indeed his name,
0:05:42 > 0:05:44so you've got the right answer, Barry.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46And well done, you've taken the round.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48Sorry, Gemma. One wrong answer can be,
0:05:48 > 0:05:51can be a bit lethal with the Eggheads in the form they're in,
0:05:51 > 0:05:53and you've been knocked out. Please come back to us, both of you,
0:05:53 > 0:05:56rejoin your teams and we'll play on.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59So, as it stands the Laxadaisicals have lost a brain,
0:05:59 > 0:06:00not just any old brain,
0:06:00 > 0:06:02they've lost the skipper from the final round.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04The Eggheads are still all sitting there,
0:06:04 > 0:06:07so someone needs to knock an Egghead out.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10Here's your chance. Sport is the subject.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Go on, then.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14- Take that?- Go on. - Go for it.- Go on, Andy.
0:06:14 > 0:06:15OK. I'll take that.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18OK, Andy, our physiotherapist, against which Egghead?
0:06:18 > 0:06:20Well, we think it's got to be Chris.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22We know Chris isn't very strong on Sport, don't we?
0:06:22 > 0:06:25- Yeah? Yeah.- Happy with that. - Chris, please.- OK.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28Andy from the Laxadaisicals is taking on Chris from the Eggheads.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30- That's made your day. - Has made my day!
0:06:30 > 0:06:32LAUGHTER
0:06:32 > 0:06:35To ensure there's no conferring, please go to the Question Room.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40Sport, Andy. Do you want to go first or second?
0:06:40 > 0:06:41I'll go first, please.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47And here we go. In the Olympic heptathlon competition,
0:06:47 > 0:06:51the hurdles event is run over what distance?
0:06:55 > 0:06:56OK, um...
0:06:56 > 0:07:02The 400 metres hurdles is definitely an event, but not in the heptathlon.
0:07:02 > 0:07:06I don't even know there is a 200 metres hurdles, maybe there is,
0:07:06 > 0:07:08but for me I think it's the 100 metres.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11I remember that from the Olympics.
0:07:11 > 0:07:12100 metres is the right answer.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14GENTLE APPLAUSE
0:07:15 > 0:07:19Chris, which of these pool events at the 2016 Olympic Games
0:07:19 > 0:07:21did male competitors not take part in?
0:07:25 > 0:07:28That would've been synchronised swimming, Jeremy.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31Synchronised swimming is the right answer.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35OK. Equal after one question, and we go back to you, Andy.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37The cricket commentator Jonathan Agnew
0:07:37 > 0:07:42had a successful career as a fast bowler for which county cricket side
0:07:42 > 0:07:44from 1978 to 1992?
0:07:48 > 0:07:51Cricket not my forte, unfortunately.
0:07:51 > 0:07:52Um...
0:07:52 > 0:07:54To go into commentary,
0:07:54 > 0:07:56I think he would've had to know what he was talking about,
0:07:56 > 0:08:00been quite good, and I'd associate,
0:08:00 > 0:08:05of those three Yorkshire is probably the strongest cricketing team,
0:08:05 > 0:08:08so I'm going to plump for Yorkshire, I think.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10Let's see if Chris knows this one. Chris, would you have done the same?
0:08:10 > 0:08:12He doesn't sound like a Yorkshireman to me.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14I think he played for Warwickshire.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17No, OK, both of those are wrong. Anyone else?
0:08:17 > 0:08:19- Leicestershire. - LAUGHTER
0:08:19 > 0:08:21Leicestershire, Andy.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24OK, so Chris has a little gap in the wall here.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26See if you can go through it, Chris.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28The footballer Christian Benteke
0:08:28 > 0:08:31has played international football for which team?
0:08:34 > 0:08:37- I think he plays for the Netherlands.- Nope.
0:08:37 > 0:08:38- Dave?- Belgium.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40Belgium is the answer.
0:08:40 > 0:08:41Ah, next door.
0:08:41 > 0:08:42Andy, a let off.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45Press the advantage. Here we go. Your question...
0:08:45 > 0:08:49Which of these races was won four times during the 1960s
0:08:49 > 0:08:54and 1970s by the American AJ Foyt?
0:08:59 > 0:09:02To win it four times,
0:09:02 > 0:09:07you'd have to be quite dominant in a certain car.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10I think the Paris-Dakar rally would...
0:09:10 > 0:09:13So many things that could go wrong,
0:09:13 > 0:09:16I'm going to rule that out, because I think you'd have to be
0:09:16 > 0:09:20more than just a good driver, you'd have to not have bad luck.
0:09:20 > 0:09:25Indianapolis 500, to win that four times might be difficult.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28I'm going to go for the 24 hours Of Le Monde.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31'60s and '70s by AJ Foyt. Who's AJ Foyt, Eggs?
0:09:31 > 0:09:33A top American racing driver from the time.
0:09:33 > 0:09:35It's the Indy, the Indy 500.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38Yeah, the Indianapolis 500 is the answer, Andy, sorry.
0:09:38 > 0:09:42So Chris has a chance here to take the round with this question.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45Chris, the Irish Grand National
0:09:45 > 0:09:48is normally scheduled to take place on which day of the year?
0:09:53 > 0:09:54Well, it's not Boxing Day.
0:09:54 > 0:09:58And given that Ireland is still a fairly religious country
0:09:58 > 0:10:02and they do make quite a big thing of Easter,
0:10:02 > 0:10:04they probably let their hair down and run the Grand National
0:10:04 > 0:10:06on Easter Monday.
0:10:06 > 0:10:07I like your logic.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10You haven't charged off in the wrong direction.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12Easter Monday is the right answer, Chris.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14Well done, you've taken the round against Andy.
0:10:14 > 0:10:15Andy beaten by our Egghead.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18Please both of you rejoin your teams and we'll play on.
0:10:18 > 0:10:22So the Laxadaisicals have lost two brains from the final round.
0:10:22 > 0:10:24The Eggheads haven't lost any.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26And the next subject is Science.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29Now, who's the scientist?
0:10:29 > 0:10:31- I would've been. - Might have been me.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33- Oh!- Er... You want to go for it?- OK.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35I don't mind jumping on it if you want.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37You'd throw yourself on the sword.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39But it is throwing yourself on the sword, isn't it?
0:10:39 > 0:10:41- OK, Dave it is?- Yeah?- Sure.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43- Well volunteered. - Yeah, Dave's going.
0:10:43 > 0:10:44We understand the situation.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47- You've got Lisa, Kevin or Dave to choose from.- Lisa...
0:10:47 > 0:10:48- I think we'll take Lisa.- OK.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52Dave from the Laxadaisicals versus Lisa from the Eggheads.
0:10:52 > 0:10:56To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00David, would you like to go first or second against Lisa?
0:11:00 > 0:11:02I think I would go first, please.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09And here is your question on Science...
0:11:09 > 0:11:12Danish Jersey is a breed of which animal?
0:11:14 > 0:11:18So, yeah, it's not something that springs to mind, but Jersey...
0:11:18 > 0:11:21is definitely associated with a cow,
0:11:21 > 0:11:25but then Danish are famous for their bacon, aren't they?
0:11:25 > 0:11:28I think I will go for pig.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32Ah!
0:11:32 > 0:11:34Is my reaction.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36Cow is the answer.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38All right, Lisa, your question.
0:11:38 > 0:11:42How many ribs are there in a typical human ribcage?
0:11:45 > 0:11:48Well, if you had 24, then you'd have 12 on each side.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53I think that seems like too many, we'll go with ten.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Let me go to our physiotherapist, Andy, on this.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00- Andy?- Er, it's 12 on each side, so it's 24.
0:12:00 > 0:12:0212 on each side, so it's 24.
0:12:02 > 0:12:04How about that? David,
0:12:04 > 0:12:06I'm wondering if this could be the turning point for your team.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08- Let's hope so.- On a rib,
0:12:08 > 0:12:11how appropriate for a restaurant owner. Here's your question.
0:12:11 > 0:12:16The cosmetic surgery procedure called a rhytidectomy
0:12:16 > 0:12:18is more commonly known by what name?
0:12:21 > 0:12:23Let me just spell it for you,
0:12:23 > 0:12:27R-H-Y-T-I-D-E-C-T-O-M-Y.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29So, rhytidectomy.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33I think the ending means to remove something.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36I guess the only thing you're really removing is the tummy tuck,
0:12:36 > 0:12:38you're removing fat.
0:12:38 > 0:12:42So I guess I'll go for the tummy tuck.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44It's not the tummy tuck, I'm sorry.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46Face-lift is the answer.
0:12:46 > 0:12:49David... OK, Lisa, to take the lead.
0:12:49 > 0:12:53Since the reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet,
0:12:53 > 0:12:58which is the furthest planet from the sun in our solar system?
0:13:02 > 0:13:05Yeah, well, when Pluto was in it, it was my very easy method,
0:13:05 > 0:13:07just sums up naming planets.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09So, yeah, Neptune.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11Neptune is right.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15All right, she's pulled out an acronym on us, or whatever.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17It's a mnemonic, I should say.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19And that's always a sign, I think, David,
0:13:19 > 0:13:21that they're getting frightened.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24So, your question. You've got to get this one right.
0:13:24 > 0:13:25Absolutely.
0:13:25 > 0:13:29In the world of computing, what is JavaScript an example of?
0:13:33 > 0:13:37Well, they're constantly asking you to update it,
0:13:37 > 0:13:40so, yeah, I'm going to go with computer language.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43Yes, computer language is the right answer.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45OK. So, Lisa, you've got an edge here,
0:13:45 > 0:13:47if you get this right you're in the final.
0:13:47 > 0:13:52What does a leaf described as "glabrous" specifically lack?
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Now, which bit's the glabella?
0:13:58 > 0:14:02I have an idea that might be a sort of smooth part
0:14:02 > 0:14:03of one's body.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08I don't think a leaf without veins is going to get all that far,
0:14:08 > 0:14:10cos that's sort of how they stay alive
0:14:10 > 0:14:12and I would've thought if it was glabrous,
0:14:12 > 0:14:14it would be more likely to be waxy.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17Well, that's about as far as my logic's going to go, I think,
0:14:17 > 0:14:18- so I'll go for hairs.- Yeah...
0:14:18 > 0:14:20BARRY LAUGHS QUIETLY
0:14:20 > 0:14:23Your logic is very, very good, Lisa Teal. Hairs is the right answer.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25Well done, you've taken the round.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27Sorry, David. She is good, isn't she?
0:14:27 > 0:14:29- Absolutely.- Beaten by our Egghead.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32OK, so return to us, please - and we'll play the last round
0:14:32 > 0:14:33before the final.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38As it stands, the Laxadaisicals have lost three brains
0:14:38 > 0:14:39from the final round.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41If this was lacrosse,
0:14:41 > 0:14:44would you switch positions or switch your sticks?
0:14:44 > 0:14:46No, I think we just have a pretty good team talk,
0:14:46 > 0:14:49- see what happens. - Yeah. Some orange quarters?
0:14:49 > 0:14:51- Yeah. Yeah, they always help. - JEREMY LAUGHS
0:14:51 > 0:14:53The Eggheads have not lost any.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56Lots of hope though, still. I promise, you can do it from here.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58The next subject for you is Politics.
0:14:58 > 0:15:02- So who would like this? - That's going to have to be John...
0:15:02 > 0:15:03OK, John. Good stuff.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05Against which Egghead?
0:15:05 > 0:15:07You've got either Kevin or Dave.
0:15:07 > 0:15:10- Try Kevin?- Try and take him out. - I'd like to take on Kevin, please.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13OK. John, from the Laxadaisicals,
0:15:13 > 0:15:15taking on the great Kevin from the Eggheads,
0:15:15 > 0:15:16trying to knock him out on Politics.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18Good, good tactic, I think, at this stage.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21To ensure there's no conferring, please, for the last time,
0:15:21 > 0:15:22go to our Question Room.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26We're on Politics. John, is Politics your thing?
0:15:26 > 0:15:28Er, it's the one I'm going for.
0:15:28 > 0:15:33That's very diplomatic! OK, would you like to go first or second?
0:15:33 > 0:15:35I'd like to go first, please.
0:15:38 > 0:15:42And here we go. In which year did Neil Kinnock become an MP?
0:15:46 > 0:15:49OK, well, he was the leader of the Labour Party,
0:15:49 > 0:15:54at the same time standing and losing against Margaret Thatcher,
0:15:54 > 0:15:58so... Maybe in the early '80s,
0:15:58 > 0:16:00so I'm going to say 1970.
0:16:00 > 0:16:031970 is quite right, well done.
0:16:03 > 0:16:04He was actually... GENTLE APPLAUSE
0:16:04 > 0:16:07He became Labour leader after Michael Foot lost the '83 election,
0:16:07 > 0:16:11so he then fought in '87 and '92 - and lost.
0:16:11 > 0:16:12Kevin, your question.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15The members of the London Assembly are known by what acronym?
0:16:15 > 0:16:17The London Assembly. Are they...?
0:16:20 > 0:16:22I should know that, really.
0:16:22 > 0:16:27I'm pretty sure I've seen AMs for Welsh Assembly members.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29It doesn't mean it couldn't be used
0:16:29 > 0:16:31in more than one location, though.
0:16:31 > 0:16:35If there is a doubling up, it could be what's confusing me.
0:16:37 > 0:16:41I'll have to say, I'll have to say L for London members, LMs.
0:16:41 > 0:16:43Yeah, I think you made it too complicated,
0:16:43 > 0:16:46cos it's Welsh Assembly AMs and it's London Assembly AMs.
0:16:46 > 0:16:50- They're Assembly Members, simple as that.- Oh, OK, yeah.- AMs.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53OK, John. That's handy.
0:16:53 > 0:16:54Not many chinks in their armour,
0:16:54 > 0:16:58but suddenly Kevin gives you a way through here.
0:16:58 > 0:17:02The person who tables an Early Day Motion in the Commons
0:17:02 > 0:17:05is known as its what?
0:17:08 > 0:17:11I am leaning towards...sponsor.
0:17:13 > 0:17:17I'm going to stick with my initial instinct, which is sponsor.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19- Is he right, Kevin?- I think so, yes.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21Yes, sponsor it is.
0:17:21 > 0:17:23APPLAUSE Two out of two for our Challenger.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25All right, Kevin. If you get this wrong, you're out.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28What nickname was given to those Conservative MPs during
0:17:28 > 0:17:30the early Thatcher years
0:17:30 > 0:17:33who supported the Prime Minister's economic philosophy?
0:17:37 > 0:17:40Yeah, well, the ones who...
0:17:40 > 0:17:43were a bit more socially inclusive, shall we say, were the Wets,
0:17:43 > 0:17:47but these, the ones who supported that would've been the Dries.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49Yeah, you're absolutely right, the Dries.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52OK, so, let's just take stock here, John.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54It's not looking bad.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56Get this right and you're in the final round,
0:17:56 > 0:17:59and then Sophie will be grateful for a very long time.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01Cos she won't have to play alone.
0:18:01 > 0:18:05Get it wrong, you let Kevin back in and he could cause
0:18:05 > 0:18:08all kinds of trouble. Here's your question.
0:18:08 > 0:18:14The 1981 Limehouse Declaration, which effectively launched the SDP,
0:18:14 > 0:18:17was so called because it was issued from whose home
0:18:17 > 0:18:19in that part of London?
0:18:23 > 0:18:25The... The name that I associate,
0:18:25 > 0:18:28well, they're probably all associated with them,
0:18:28 > 0:18:31but the name I associate with the SDP is David Owen.
0:18:31 > 0:18:35Somewhere I think I've heard that it was his house used before,
0:18:35 > 0:18:37I can't think where,
0:18:37 > 0:18:39but it's the name that's jumping out at me,
0:18:39 > 0:18:40so I'm going to say David Owen.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42David Owen is your answer.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45Well, they were a gang of four, so-called, with William Rogers.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47You're right, he was the most high-profile.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49Was he living in that part of London?
0:18:49 > 0:18:51Was his house used? What do you think, team-mates?
0:18:51 > 0:18:54- I wouldn't...- We would've gone for David Owen, too.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56John, you're playing very well, you're right.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58David Owen it is, you're the final round, well done.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00And you've knocked out Kevin, as well.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02So, very, very good play.
0:19:02 > 0:19:06Well done, John. You've taken on an Egghead and you've emerged
0:19:06 > 0:19:09triumphant, and if you both return to us we will now play
0:19:09 > 0:19:12that all-important final round for £7,000.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17Well, although the Eggheads are sort of doing their thing,
0:19:17 > 0:19:19some odd things have happened in this game,
0:19:19 > 0:19:21which I wonder might be omens.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23There was the Lisa rib question,
0:19:23 > 0:19:27and then Kevin, of 39 Politics head-to-heads
0:19:27 > 0:19:30that you've played in the history of Eggheads,
0:19:30 > 0:19:32that was only the fourth he's lost.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34So those orange quarters did the job.
0:19:34 > 0:19:39- Yeah, definitely.- The team talk and whatever it was you did there
0:19:39 > 0:19:42sharpened up the formation, Gemma, and it worked.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44And this is now what we have been playing towards.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46It is time for our final round.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49As always, it's General Knowledge. But I'm afraid those of you who lost
0:19:49 > 0:19:52your head-to-heads won't be allowed to take part in this round.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55So, Gemma, Andy and David from the Laxadaisicals,
0:19:55 > 0:19:58and also Kevin from the Eggheads,
0:19:58 > 0:20:00would you please now leave the studio?
0:20:02 > 0:20:04All right, Sophie and John, good luck,
0:20:04 > 0:20:08you are playing to win the Laxadaisicals £7,000.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10Lisa, Barry, Dave and Chris,
0:20:10 > 0:20:12you're playing for something that money can't buy,
0:20:12 > 0:20:14the Eggheads reputation.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19This time they're all General Knowledge.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22You may confer, so Sophie and John, the question is,
0:20:22 > 0:20:28are your two brains able to defeat these four super-sized ones?
0:20:28 > 0:20:30And would you like to go first or second?
0:20:30 > 0:20:32I think we're happy to go first.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38OK, good luck. General Knowledge, and here we go.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40In banking in the United Kingdom,
0:20:40 > 0:20:43how many digits are there in a sort code?
0:20:45 > 0:20:47- Six.- Definitely six. It's two...
0:20:47 > 0:20:49- Then...- ..dash two...- Two, yeah.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52- That's quite often how it's inputted into the computer.- Yeah.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55- I think. - Yeah, so we're going to say six.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Six is the answer.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59And John, I guess it helps that you work in the banking industry.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02Yeah, if I got that wrong, money would be going everywhere.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04- You wouldn't actually be able to return to the office.- No.
0:21:04 > 0:21:05JEREMY LAUGHS
0:21:05 > 0:21:06OK.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10Eggheads, which of these British Olympians
0:21:10 > 0:21:14has appeared on the West End stage as Billy Flynn
0:21:14 > 0:21:16in the musical Chicago?
0:21:19 > 0:21:21It's got to be Cousins, hasn't it?
0:21:21 > 0:21:23Robin Cousins has been in things like Grease and stuff...
0:21:23 > 0:21:26I couldn't imagine it would be Mark Foster at all.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28- No. It's got to be Cousins. - Billy Flynn's a dancer.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30Mark Foster, from what I saw on Strictly, not so much.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33- Cousins, yeah?- Yeah... - We're going for Robin Cousins?- Yeah.
0:21:33 > 0:21:37We're going to go for Robin Cousins, please, Jeremy.
0:21:37 > 0:21:38Robin Cousins is correct.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42We are back with you, Challengers.
0:21:42 > 0:21:46Which star sign falls after Gemini and before Leo in the calendar?
0:21:49 > 0:21:51- Leo...- What star sign are you? - Aquarius.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55I'm February. Leo is July.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57July, so, June...
0:21:57 > 0:22:00I'm leaning towards Cancer.
0:22:01 > 0:22:02I don't know why.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05- But I've got nothing else. - Shall we go Cancer?
0:22:05 > 0:22:07I'm trying to rack my brains
0:22:07 > 0:22:10and I've got nothing else to offer up, other than...
0:22:10 > 0:22:13- Let's go straight down the middle. - Yeah.- Yeah?- Let's go.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15OK, yeah, we're not 100% sure on this,
0:22:15 > 0:22:18but we're going to say Cancer.
0:22:18 > 0:22:19Backstage, do you three know?
0:22:19 > 0:22:23Yeah, I'm only just Leo by two days, so...
0:22:23 > 0:22:26If you had not been a Leo, what would you be?
0:22:26 > 0:22:27I would've been a Cancer.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29OK, so Cancer's right. Well done.
0:22:29 > 0:22:30THEY LAUGH NERVOUSLY
0:22:30 > 0:22:32Eggheads...
0:22:34 > 0:22:37How many justices sit on America's Supreme Court?
0:22:41 > 0:22:43- Nine.- Nine, isn't it?
0:22:43 > 0:22:44Nine. Nine's the answer, isn't it?
0:22:44 > 0:22:47We're giving the answer as nine, please, Jeremy.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49Nine is correct.
0:22:49 > 0:22:512-2. Playing for £7,000.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54It can often be the third question that just decides it,
0:22:54 > 0:22:59so if you get this right, you can sit, watch and hope.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02The Outsider, My Life In Intrigue,
0:23:02 > 0:23:04is a 2015 autobiography
0:23:04 > 0:23:07by which British journalist turned thriller writer?
0:23:12 > 0:23:13I mean...
0:23:13 > 0:23:16John Le Carre and Frederick Forsyth
0:23:16 > 0:23:19are the two that I'm more familiar with.
0:23:19 > 0:23:20- Mm.- Erm...
0:23:22 > 0:23:24I wanted to rule out Frederick Forsyth,
0:23:24 > 0:23:26and by that same logic, it's almost...
0:23:26 > 0:23:28Whenever I've done that in the past, it's been...
0:23:28 > 0:23:31- It's opposite, yeah.- It's been the one that it was.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33Erm...
0:23:33 > 0:23:35And that is all I have at the moment.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37Frederick Forsyth is the one that I was like, oh...
0:23:37 > 0:23:39- it doesn't sound like him.- OK.
0:23:39 > 0:23:44So on a couple of times on the train journey up I did that,
0:23:44 > 0:23:48that was the one you went, it was the one you ruled out.
0:23:48 > 0:23:49Yeah.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51Shall we go with Forsyth?
0:23:51 > 0:23:53It's all I have to offer.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55- Yeah?- I have nothing more than that.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57OK, it's a tricky one,
0:23:57 > 0:23:59but we're going to stick with Frederick Forsyth.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01Frederick Forsyth is the correct answer.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04JEREMY LAUGHS
0:24:04 > 0:24:08I don't think we've ever seen that strategy before!
0:24:08 > 0:24:10That's brilliant, that beats Judith's rule
0:24:10 > 0:24:12of going down the right hands down!
0:24:12 > 0:24:15OK, £7,000 on the table.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17It's yours if they get this one wrong.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19Eggheads, your question.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22Ed Straker, played by Ed Bishop,
0:24:22 > 0:24:27was a main character in which Jerry Anderson television series?
0:24:31 > 0:24:33- It's UFO.- UFO...- It's definitely...
0:24:33 > 0:24:36- Mm-hm.- Ed Straker, Ed Bishop there. - I'm happy with that.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38- Terrorhawks was the one with Zelda, wasn't it?- Yeah...
0:24:38 > 0:24:44Yeah, and Space 1999 was Martin Landau and all that.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47If it's Straker, Ed Straker...
0:24:47 > 0:24:49- Yeah.- ..Ed Bishop, that's UFO.- Yeah.
0:24:49 > 0:24:54- Yeah? All happy?- Very happy that you know so much about it!
0:24:54 > 0:24:57I believe that is UFO, please, Jeremy.
0:24:57 > 0:25:01UFO. Well, the omens have been awkward for you.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03The rib question, Kevin knocked out,
0:25:03 > 0:25:06it's almost set up for you to get this wrong,
0:25:06 > 0:25:08but UFO is the right answer, Eggheads, well done.
0:25:08 > 0:25:103-3, scores level in the final round.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12We go to Sudden Death, Challengers.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14You've played an immaculate final so far,
0:25:14 > 0:25:17but it gets now a tiny bit harder
0:25:17 > 0:25:20as you chase the £7,000, because I don't give you options.
0:25:20 > 0:25:26OK? What is the full name of the New York gallery that is often known
0:25:26 > 0:25:28by the acronym MOMA?
0:25:28 > 0:25:30Which is M-O-M-A.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33- So, M-O-M-A...- Mm.
0:25:33 > 0:25:37I would say M for museum.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42- Museum.- Of...- Modern art? - Modern arts?
0:25:42 > 0:25:44- Pretty reasonable.- I think we should...- Yeah?- ..go with that.
0:25:44 > 0:25:48Yeah. So we're going to go with the Museum of Modern Art.
0:25:48 > 0:25:52That's right, MOMA is the Museum Of Modern Art, spot-on.
0:25:52 > 0:25:56Eggheads, again, get this wrong, it's over.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58Kimball O'Hara
0:25:58 > 0:26:02is the central character in which book by Rudyard Kipling,
0:26:02 > 0:26:03published in 1901?
0:26:03 > 0:26:06- Kim.- It was Kim.- Kim.- Yeah. - Happy with Kim?- Yeah, definitely.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08- I think so!- Yeah? Kim?
0:26:08 > 0:26:11We're going for Kim, please, Jeremy.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13Kim is correct.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15Back to you, Challengers.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17You're doing great in this final round.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19Keep at it. John, Sophie, here's your question.
0:26:19 > 0:26:21Published in 2016,
0:26:21 > 0:26:25the book Moranifesto is a compilation of articles
0:26:25 > 0:26:28by which female newspaper columnist?
0:26:30 > 0:26:32We had, um,
0:26:32 > 0:26:36a couple of questions that came up and someone who writes,
0:26:36 > 0:26:40an ex-politician, was Edwina Currie.
0:26:40 > 0:26:46- Yes.- I can't think the link between her and Moranifesto.
0:26:46 > 0:26:50- Can we think of any other...? - Female columnists?- Columnists...
0:26:50 > 0:26:51No.
0:26:51 > 0:26:54- No, this one's stumped me. - OK. Just try that.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57- Let's try that.- Fingers crossed. - Mm-hm.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59Yeah, we're not sure on this one,
0:26:59 > 0:27:02so we're just going to go with Edwina Currie.
0:27:02 > 0:27:05Obviously you need first name, last name with this.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08Strangely the last name is contained in the title of the book,
0:27:08 > 0:27:12Moranifesto, so her last name is Moran.
0:27:12 > 0:27:16- Caitlin Moran.- Oh... - Caitlin is C-A-I-T-L-I-N.
0:27:16 > 0:27:17OK.
0:27:17 > 0:27:21So, Eggheads, you can take the contest now.
0:27:21 > 0:27:24What type of raffle takes its name
0:27:24 > 0:27:27from the Italian word for somersault?
0:27:27 > 0:27:30- Tombola?- Tombola, yeah.- Tombola. - Are we all happy?
0:27:30 > 0:27:32- Definitely.- Tombola.- I think so.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35We're going to go for tombola, please, Jeremy.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38The answer is, and you do seem pretty certain,
0:27:38 > 0:27:40and you're right to be certain, because you're correct.
0:27:40 > 0:27:41The answer is tombola.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43We say, congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45GENTLE APPLAUSE
0:27:48 > 0:27:51Oh, I'm just worried Catlin Moran's going to be watching,
0:27:51 > 0:27:54throwing her slippers at the TV there and egging you on.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56I'm sorry, that was just one of those ones
0:27:56 > 0:27:58that fell between the cracks.
0:27:58 > 0:27:59- Yes.- Yeah.- Yes.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02Did any...? Team-mates, did you know Catlin's name?
0:28:02 > 0:28:05- Yes.- Yeah, we did, yeah. - It rang a few bells.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07Well, bad luck. I thought it was going to be yours,
0:28:07 > 0:28:10I really thought the omens were pointing your way, but bad luck,
0:28:10 > 0:28:14the Eggheads held on there and have won in the end and done what comes
0:28:14 > 0:28:17naturally and this winning streak of theirs continues, so it means our
0:28:17 > 0:28:19Challengers don't go home with the £7,000.
0:28:19 > 0:28:20We will take that money
0:28:20 > 0:28:23and we will roll it over to our next show.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?
0:28:26 > 0:28:29Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers have the brains
0:28:29 > 0:28:33to defeat them - and win, what? £8,000?
0:28:33 > 0:28:35Till we quiz again, goodbye.