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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, | 0:00:23 | 0:00:25 | |
the show where a team of five quiz Challengers pit their wits against | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:30 | |
They are the Eggheads. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
And are you feeling brainy today? | 0:00:32 | 0:00:34 | |
-Well, yes. -Virtual silence. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:36 | |
Virtual silence! They're so intelligent they can't even answer | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
the question. Challenging our resident quiz champions today | 0:00:39 | 0:00:42 | |
are the Heartbeats. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:43 | |
This team met through a cardiac rehabilitation group in Surrey | 0:00:43 | 0:00:47 | |
and takes part in an annual quiz to raise funds for the cardiac unit at | 0:00:47 | 0:00:51 | |
their local hospital. So let's meet them. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:54 | |
Hello. I'm Bernie and I'm a retired financial forensics consultant. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:58 | |
Hi. I'm Bob. I'm a retired social worker trainer. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
Hi. I'm Rob. I'm a retired HR director. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:04 | |
Hello. I'm Sue. I'm a retired bilingual PA. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:08 | |
Hello. I'm John. I'm a retired police officer. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
So, Bernie and team, hello... | 0:01:11 | 0:01:13 | |
-ALL: -Hello. -..and welcome. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:14 | |
I'm guessing that you've all had a cardiac moment of some kind, Bernie, | 0:01:14 | 0:01:18 | |
-is that right? -That's right, yes. we've all had it and as a result | 0:01:18 | 0:01:21 | |
of our rehabilitation programme, | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
we joined an exercise group at our local leisure centre | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
and from that came a charity which is called Heartbeat | 0:01:27 | 0:01:30 | |
which is where we get our name from. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
Fantastic. And after any kind of heart attack or cardiac situation, | 0:01:32 | 0:01:36 | |
you've got to get exercising and change your diet, is that right? | 0:01:36 | 0:01:39 | |
Well, it's recommended that you do those things, yes. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
And obviously there's medication and certain follow-ups. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:45 | |
The exercise is the most important thing to keeping yourself fit | 0:01:45 | 0:01:49 | |
and able to enjoy life to the full again. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
And do doctors also recommend quizzing? | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
They say avoid stressful situations | 0:01:55 | 0:01:57 | |
so I don't know what we're doing here. | 0:01:57 | 0:01:59 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:01:59 | 0:02:00 | |
I must say, you all look as if you're in your prime to me. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
-Thank you. -Whatever you're doing is working and I wish you well. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:06 | |
Good luck. Good luck to you, team. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:08 | |
Every day there's £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs for our Challengers. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:12 | |
However if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, | 0:02:12 | 0:02:14 | |
the prize money rolls over to the next show. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:17 | |
Now, Heartbeats, the Eggheads are on quite a roll here. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
They've won the last 11 games. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
Judith has been doing the shoulder roll. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
Yes. She's still practising that. THEY LAUGH | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
It means that there's £12,000 to play for. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:33 | |
So, that's quite a jackpot. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:35 | |
Would you like to get cracking? | 0:02:35 | 0:02:36 | |
-Yes, please. -I thought you'd say that. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:38 | |
The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of science | 0:02:38 | 0:02:40 | |
and you can choose between Judith, Beth, Kevin, Pat or Steve. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:45 | |
Well, that's me, Jeremy. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:47 | |
OK. Bernie on science from the Heartbeats versus which Egghead? | 0:02:47 | 0:02:51 | |
-Which one do you think? -Would it be Judith? | 0:02:51 | 0:02:53 | |
You wouldn't choose Beth because she's a scientist. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
-Oh, right, yes. -Not Beth so maybe Judith. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:58 | |
-Or Steve? -Or Steve, yes. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:01 | |
-Keep Judith for Sport or something else? -Yes. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
I'd like to play Steve, please. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:05 | |
So, Bernie from the Heartbeats is going to play Steve | 0:03:05 | 0:03:07 | |
-from the Eggheads on science. All good, Steve? -We'll see. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
-We'll see. Always leave it open-ended, don't you? -Oh, yeah. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
To ensure there's no conferring, | 0:03:13 | 0:03:14 | |
please take your positions in our famous Question Room. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:18 | |
Steve, do you remember your science classes at school? | 0:03:19 | 0:03:21 | |
-Vaguely. -Do you remember the Bunsen burners? | 0:03:21 | 0:03:26 | |
I know what a Bunsen burner is, yes. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:27 | |
-Completely. -Any other practicals? | 0:03:27 | 0:03:30 | |
There was a famous experiment where a teacher burnt a peanut which has | 0:03:30 | 0:03:34 | |
lived long in my memory but other than that... | 0:03:34 | 0:03:36 | |
Why did the teacher set fire to a peanut? | 0:03:36 | 0:03:38 | |
Just to show you how quickly it would ignite. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:41 | |
We were all... Somebody got their eyebrows burnt off, I think. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:44 | |
JEREMY LAUGHS | 0:03:44 | 0:03:45 | |
I don't know whether your science teacher ever set fire to peanuts, | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
Bernie. I've never heard of that before. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:51 | |
Not that I can remember, no. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:53 | |
He was very... | 0:03:53 | 0:03:55 | |
very conservative and looked after and protected us and made sure we | 0:03:55 | 0:03:59 | |
didn't do anything too dangerous. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:01 | |
A lot of goggles in our science class. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:03 | |
There were no goggles in my day, Jeremy. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:05 | |
Right. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:07 | |
Big change from when I went to school in the '60s. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:11 | |
-Good luck in this round, Bernie. -Thank you. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:13 | |
You're on science. Would you like to go first or second against Steve? | 0:04:13 | 0:04:16 | |
I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:18 | |
Here we go. Here's your first question. | 0:04:21 | 0:04:23 | |
After Jupiter, what is the second largest planet in the solar system? | 0:04:23 | 0:04:26 | |
When I was young, Jeremy, I was a very keen astronomer | 0:04:30 | 0:04:33 | |
and I learned a lot about the planets and I know it isn't Mars | 0:04:33 | 0:04:37 | |
because Mars is smaller than the Earth. | 0:04:37 | 0:04:40 | |
Uranus, I believe, is the third or fourth largest, | 0:04:40 | 0:04:44 | |
but the second largest, which is the one after Jupiter, is Saturn. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:48 | |
Brilliant. Saturn it is. | 0:04:48 | 0:04:50 | |
Good quizzing. What do you think, team-mates? | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
-Pretty impressive. -Good start. -They like that. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:55 | |
Steve. In the US and now generally the UK, | 0:04:55 | 0:04:59 | |
a trillion is represented as a one followed by how many zeros? | 0:04:59 | 0:05:04 | |
I think that must be 12, Jeremy. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:11 | |
12 is the right answer. | 0:05:11 | 0:05:13 | |
Back to you, Bernie. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:15 | |
Two of the existing species of rhinoceros are named | 0:05:15 | 0:05:18 | |
after islands in which country? | 0:05:18 | 0:05:20 | |
Rhinoceroses? | 0:05:25 | 0:05:26 | |
I've seen rhinoceroses when I lived in Kenya but I didn't know there | 0:05:27 | 0:05:32 | |
were two varieties and I certainly didn't know they were named after | 0:05:32 | 0:05:36 | |
islands but thinking about this... | 0:05:36 | 0:05:39 | |
..Vietnam, as I'm aware, doesn't have any islands, | 0:05:40 | 0:05:44 | |
but Indonesia has thousands and Japan has... | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
..quite a few. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:50 | |
So it's between Japan and Indonesia. | 0:05:50 | 0:05:52 | |
I don't know whether there are rhinoceroses in Indonesia but... | 0:05:53 | 0:05:57 | |
there's certainly... Well, probably certainly isn't any in Japan, | 0:05:57 | 0:06:01 | |
so I think I'll go for Indonesia. | 0:06:01 | 0:06:03 | |
Indonesia is your answer. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:06 | |
It is right. I'm just wondering if anyone here can name them? | 0:06:06 | 0:06:10 | |
Steve, can you name the two types? | 0:06:10 | 0:06:11 | |
I think it's Javan and Sumatran. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:13 | |
It is Javan and Sumatran. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:15 | |
-Well done. Well done, Bernie. -Thank you. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:18 | |
Back to you, Steve. Which two gases together make up approximately 99% | 0:06:18 | 0:06:22 | |
by volume of the Earth's atmosphere? | 0:06:22 | 0:06:25 | |
Well, hopefully for all our sakes, it's nitrogen and oxygen. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
What, if it's the other ones, we're in trouble, are we? | 0:06:35 | 0:06:37 | |
-We're in trouble, yeah. -Which would be the most dangerous combo? | 0:06:37 | 0:06:40 | |
Well, we'd have to be a fish for the middle one and for the last one, | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
I don't know, some sort of alien. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:46 | |
JEREMY LAUGHS Nitrogen and oxygen is right. | 0:06:46 | 0:06:48 | |
So, level. Playing well, both of you. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:52 | |
Bernie, back to you. Latrodectism is a condition which can be caused by | 0:06:52 | 0:06:57 | |
a bite from which creature? | 0:06:57 | 0:06:59 | |
Latrodectism. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:04 | |
Latro sounds like something to do with milk, from the Latin, | 0:07:05 | 0:07:10 | |
but does that give me any clue? | 0:07:10 | 0:07:12 | |
I'm going to go for snake. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:17 | |
Because they're the more likely biters? | 0:07:18 | 0:07:20 | |
-Well, they probably bite more than the other two. -Yeah. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:24 | |
It's the wrong answer, though. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:25 | |
The answer is spider. | 0:07:25 | 0:07:26 | |
OK, Bernie, you got that wrong. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:29 | |
Let's see if Steve can take the round on this question. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:31 | |
Which name, taken from Greek mythology, | 0:07:31 | 0:07:34 | |
is used for the star cluster also known as the Seven Sisters? | 0:07:34 | 0:07:38 | |
I'm sure my opponent knows this one, being a big astronomer. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:46 | |
It's the Pleiades. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:48 | |
Pleiades is right, Steve. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:49 | |
Very good quizzing. You probably did know that, Bernie, did you? | 0:07:49 | 0:07:52 | |
-Yeah, I did, yes. -Sorry about that. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:54 | |
It's always frustrating. | 0:07:54 | 0:07:55 | |
You've been knocked out there by the Seven Sisters | 0:07:55 | 0:07:58 | |
and Steve will be in the final and if you return to us, | 0:07:58 | 0:08:00 | |
we will play the next round. | 0:08:00 | 0:08:02 | |
So, as it stands, the Heartbeats have lost a brain | 0:08:03 | 0:08:05 | |
from the final round. The Eggheads are still sitting there. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:09 | |
Not lost many brains in the last few games. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:11 | |
Time to put a stop to that with Sport, which is the next subject. | 0:08:11 | 0:08:15 | |
-Who would like this? -I'll take it, shall I? | 0:08:15 | 0:08:17 | |
I think it's got to be you. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:19 | |
-I'll take it. -OK, Bob. | 0:08:19 | 0:08:21 | |
Retired social work trainer. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:22 | |
Against which Egghead and obviously it can't be Steve? | 0:08:22 | 0:08:26 | |
-Judith. -Again. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:28 | |
That's what you were being saved for. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:30 | |
-THEY LAUGH -I thought I might be. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:32 | |
She's had a very good record in recent rounds. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:35 | |
11 out of 12 Sport rounds victorious she's been in so it's changing | 0:08:35 | 0:08:40 | |
around here. Bob from the Heartbeats plays Judith from the Eggheads. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:44 | |
Please go to our Question Room. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:46 | |
Sport. OK, so, first or second against Judith | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
who's playing pretty well these days? | 0:08:50 | 0:08:52 | |
I'd like to go first, please. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
Bob, your first sports question. | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
In American football, the Super Bowl traditionally takes place | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
on which day of the week? | 0:09:02 | 0:09:03 | |
This is a very difficult question for me. | 0:09:07 | 0:09:10 | |
I don't think it's a Wednesday. | 0:09:10 | 0:09:11 | |
And I don't think it's a Friday. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:15 | |
If I remember rightly I used to stay up late on a Sunday night | 0:09:15 | 0:09:20 | |
to watch it so I'll go with Sunday. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:22 | |
Yes, Sunday's correct. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:24 | |
Judith, in 2016 the trophy for the English Open Snooker Tournament | 0:09:25 | 0:09:32 | |
was named after which player? | 0:09:32 | 0:09:34 | |
Oh. | 0:09:38 | 0:09:40 | |
I think it might be St... | 0:09:40 | 0:09:41 | |
I'm not sure. | 0:09:43 | 0:09:44 | |
I'm going to say Steve Davis. | 0:09:46 | 0:09:48 | |
You've got it right actually. Steve Davis it is. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:51 | |
Back to you, Bob. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:54 | |
In what year did Rafael Nadal win his first French Open title? | 0:09:54 | 0:09:58 | |
It wasn't 2000. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:04 | |
I'm going to say 2010. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:08 | |
Judith, would you have said this? | 0:10:09 | 0:10:11 | |
I think he's won it eight times or something, | 0:10:11 | 0:10:13 | |
some record number of times, so I'd have said 2005. | 0:10:13 | 0:10:16 | |
-Yes, 2005 is the answer, Bob. -OK. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
Chance for Judith to go into the lead on Sport. | 0:10:19 | 0:10:22 | |
Here we go with your question. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:23 | |
In 2010 which Dublin-born cricketer became the first batsman | 0:10:23 | 0:10:27 | |
to score one-day hundreds for two different countries? | 0:10:27 | 0:10:30 | |
I can't believe that Eoin Morgan is anything but Welsh. | 0:10:35 | 0:10:39 | |
It's just cos I know Eoin Morgan is a cricketer | 0:10:41 | 0:10:45 | |
that I'm going to go for him. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:47 | |
So, him, Morgan. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:49 | |
Eoin Morgan is the right answer and you're ahead, Judith. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:52 | |
-Bob, you need to get this one to stay in. -Yep. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:55 | |
-Don't want to go the same way as Bernie. -No. | 0:10:55 | 0:10:58 | |
The Dutch footballer Mario Melchiot | 0:10:58 | 0:11:01 | |
played for which Premier League club between 1999 and 2004? | 0:11:01 | 0:11:06 | |
Can you repeat the name again? | 0:11:10 | 0:11:12 | |
Yes. It's Mario and then Melchiot, | 0:11:12 | 0:11:14 | |
which is M-E-L-C-H-I-O-T. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:18 | |
It just came to me, then. I think it was Chelsea. | 0:11:18 | 0:11:21 | |
Chelsea is quite right. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:22 | |
So you're level but Judith has her third question in hand. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:27 | |
You can take the round with this, Judith. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:30 | |
Hill 16 is a famous terrace in which sports ground? | 0:11:30 | 0:11:34 | |
Well... | 0:11:39 | 0:11:40 | |
..Wales and Scotland are both nice and hilly, | 0:11:43 | 0:11:45 | |
so I'm going to concentrate on those two. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:49 | |
I'm going to say Murrayfield. | 0:11:49 | 0:11:51 | |
Judith, the answer is Croke Park. | 0:11:51 | 0:11:53 | |
So we're level after three questions | 0:11:53 | 0:11:56 | |
because of that error by Judith, Bob, and we go to Sudden Death. | 0:11:56 | 0:11:59 | |
It gets a tiny bit harder here cos I don't give you options, OK? | 0:11:59 | 0:12:02 | |
-OK. -Your first Sudden Death question, Bob. | 0:12:02 | 0:12:05 | |
Chris Ashton and Ben Foden have played international rugby union | 0:12:05 | 0:12:10 | |
for which team? | 0:12:10 | 0:12:11 | |
I think that's England. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:12 | |
England is right. | 0:12:12 | 0:12:14 | |
Judith, Sudden Death. Sport. Your question. | 0:12:14 | 0:12:17 | |
In 2009, whom did Forbes magazine name as the world's first | 0:12:17 | 0:12:22 | |
billionaire sportsperson? | 0:12:22 | 0:12:24 | |
Erm... | 0:12:24 | 0:12:25 | |
Let's think. 2009. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:27 | |
That was Tiger Woods' heyday, wasn't it, roughly? | 0:12:27 | 0:12:32 | |
I think I'm going to say Tiger Woods. | 0:12:32 | 0:12:34 | |
Tiger Woods is right. Well done. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
Bob, back to you. Sudden Death. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:39 | |
In 2015, who became the first jockey to win successive Grand Nationals | 0:12:39 | 0:12:43 | |
in over 40 years? | 0:12:43 | 0:12:44 | |
This is a guess, I'm afraid. | 0:12:46 | 0:12:47 | |
I'll go with Pat Eddery. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:49 | |
Any of your team-mates know this? | 0:12:49 | 0:12:51 | |
-Is he right? -AP McCoy? | 0:12:51 | 0:12:52 | |
AP McCoy. No. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:54 | |
Pat Eddery, no. Leighton Aspell is the name. | 0:12:54 | 0:12:57 | |
So you can take the Sport round with this question, Judith. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:02 | |
Britain's Trina Gulliver, nicknamed The Golden Girl, | 0:13:02 | 0:13:07 | |
is a leading competitor and multi-world champion at which sport? | 0:13:07 | 0:13:12 | |
She's a darts champion. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:14 | |
Darts is correct. Well done. You've done it again, Judith. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:18 | |
You've won on Sport. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:19 | |
-Sorry, Bob. -That's OK. | 0:13:19 | 0:13:21 | |
She's known as The Sport Rocket. THEY LAUGH | 0:13:21 | 0:13:24 | |
You've been knocked out and Judith will be in the final. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:26 | |
Please return to us, both of you, and we will play on. | 0:13:26 | 0:13:29 | |
So as it stands, | 0:13:30 | 0:13:32 | |
Heartbeats have lost two brains from the final round. | 0:13:32 | 0:13:34 | |
The Eggheads are still beating away there. | 0:13:34 | 0:13:37 | |
They haven't lost any. The next subject is Geography. | 0:13:37 | 0:13:40 | |
Which of you would like this? | 0:13:40 | 0:13:42 | |
-Shall I take it? -Not me! | 0:13:42 | 0:13:45 | |
-Yes. -Rob? -Yeah, that'll be me, yeah. -OK. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:48 | |
Retired HR director. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:49 | |
Which Egghead would you like to take on? You can have any | 0:13:49 | 0:13:52 | |
-of the three in the middle. -We'll take Beth, please. -All right. | 0:13:52 | 0:13:55 | |
So, Rob from the Heartbeats... | 0:13:55 | 0:13:57 | |
THEY LAUGH This won't be a problem. | 0:13:58 | 0:13:59 | |
-Unless, unless, that area of the world comes up. -Yeah, thanks! | 0:14:00 | 0:14:04 | |
Beth from the Eggheads will compete on Geography. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:06 | |
Please go to the Question Room now. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:10 | |
Beth, I know you're getting qualms on Geography but your record | 0:14:10 | 0:14:12 | |
-is good. -Apparently. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
Your record is something like seven out of eight but it is | 0:14:15 | 0:14:17 | |
-a particular area of the world that we've struggled on. -Yes. | 0:14:17 | 0:14:20 | |
Southeast Asia. I'm going to get a massive map. | 0:14:20 | 0:14:24 | |
And put it all over your house. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:25 | |
-Yes. -THEY LAUGH | 0:14:25 | 0:14:28 | |
OK. And it's also countries that have been attributed to being in | 0:14:28 | 0:14:31 | |
-Southeast Asia but aren't, so it goes beyond that. -Yes. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:34 | |
OK, anyway, anyway, Rob, would you like to go first or second? | 0:14:34 | 0:14:38 | |
I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy. | 0:14:38 | 0:14:40 | |
OK. Good luck, Rob. Here is your first question. | 0:14:43 | 0:14:46 | |
What's the approximate population of the Italian island of Sicily? | 0:14:46 | 0:14:50 | |
Right. | 0:14:54 | 0:14:55 | |
Well, five million possibly. | 0:14:57 | 0:15:00 | |
Possibly one million. | 0:15:00 | 0:15:01 | |
I think I'll go for one million, Jeremy. | 0:15:04 | 0:15:08 | |
It's bigger than that. It's five. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:10 | |
Bad luck. And that's more than I would have expected. | 0:15:11 | 0:15:14 | |
OK, Beth, your question. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:17 | |
What is the official language of the island nation of Cape Verde? | 0:15:17 | 0:15:21 | |
Cape Verde Islands are hovering off the coast of Africa in the Atlantic | 0:15:25 | 0:15:31 | |
but they speak Portuguese. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:33 | |
Portuguese is correct. | 0:15:33 | 0:15:35 | |
Your question, Rob. Topeka is the capital of which US state? | 0:15:37 | 0:15:41 | |
T-O-P-E-K-A. | 0:15:41 | 0:15:43 | |
Topeka. | 0:15:48 | 0:15:49 | |
I don't think it's Florida. | 0:15:52 | 0:15:53 | |
I don't think it's Kansas. | 0:15:56 | 0:15:58 | |
I think I'll go for South Dakota, Jeremy. | 0:15:58 | 0:16:01 | |
Again I might have been tempted to go with you but it's wrong. | 0:16:01 | 0:16:04 | |
It's not Florida. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:06 | |
What's the capital of Florida, Eggheads? | 0:16:06 | 0:16:07 | |
-Tallahassee. -Tallahassee. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:09 | |
Eggheads, South Dakota? | 0:16:09 | 0:16:11 | |
-Pierre. -Pierre? Is it? Oh! | 0:16:11 | 0:16:15 | |
Kansas is the answer. | 0:16:15 | 0:16:17 | |
Topeka, Kansas. | 0:16:17 | 0:16:18 | |
So, Beth, you can actually take the round with this question. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:21 | |
Liberia is bordered by which ocean? | 0:16:21 | 0:16:24 | |
Liberia is... | 0:16:29 | 0:16:31 | |
in West Africa | 0:16:31 | 0:16:34 | |
so it's got to be the Atlantic. | 0:16:34 | 0:16:36 | |
Yes, it is the Atlantic. Well done, Beth. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:38 | |
You're through on Geography again, can I say? | 0:16:38 | 0:16:42 | |
It's not such a bad subject for you. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:44 | |
-Sorry, Rob. -She did very well. | 0:16:44 | 0:16:47 | |
Sorry about that. You won't be able to help your team in the final round. | 0:16:47 | 0:16:50 | |
Return to us and we'll play the last round before the final. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:54 | |
So the Heartbeats are getting quite a lot of exercise here, Bernie, | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
that's for sure. Are you OK on that side? | 0:16:58 | 0:17:01 | |
We're keeping up. Hard to beat them. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:04 | |
You've lost three brains from the final round. | 0:17:04 | 0:17:06 | |
The Eggheads are sitting pretty, you might even say smug. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:09 | |
The next subject is Music. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:11 | |
-Is that me, then? -Yep. | 0:17:13 | 0:17:15 | |
-That's Sue. -Sue, our retired bilingual PA against which Egghead? | 0:17:15 | 0:17:19 | |
You've basically got a choice of two - Pat or Kevin, the Titans? | 0:17:19 | 0:17:22 | |
Pat, please. | 0:17:24 | 0:17:26 | |
OK. Sue from the Heartbeats on Music against Pat. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:29 | |
-Good to get a run out, Pat? -Yes, excellent. -Very good. | 0:17:29 | 0:17:32 | |
Please, to ensure there is no conferring, for the last time, | 0:17:32 | 0:17:35 | |
go to our Question Room. | 0:17:35 | 0:17:36 | |
OK, Sue, have you volunteered for music or is it your thing? | 0:17:37 | 0:17:41 | |
It wasn't supposed to be my thing but this is a strategic move | 0:17:41 | 0:17:44 | |
-so we'll just hope for the best. -Don't give your tactics away. | 0:17:44 | 0:17:48 | |
Would you like to go first or second on Music, Sue? | 0:17:48 | 0:17:50 | |
I'll go first, please, Jeremy. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:52 | |
OK, and here's your question. | 0:17:55 | 0:17:56 | |
In which country was the opera singer Luciano Pavarotti born? | 0:17:56 | 0:18:00 | |
Pavarotti, I think, such a well-known name... | 0:18:03 | 0:18:07 | |
..and a very Italian name, so I imagine it'd have to be Italy. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:13 | |
Italy is correct. Well done. | 0:18:13 | 0:18:15 | |
Pat, who had a UK top five single in 1986 with You Can Call Me Al? | 0:18:15 | 0:18:21 | |
It was a famous video with Chevy Chase | 0:18:25 | 0:18:28 | |
starring alongside Paul Simon. | 0:18:28 | 0:18:30 | |
It was from his Graceland period, so Paul Simon. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:33 | |
You've just reminded me of that video. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:36 | |
Chevy Chase and he was much taller. | 0:18:36 | 0:18:37 | |
-Yes, much bigger man. -Paul Simon is right. | 0:18:37 | 0:18:40 | |
OK, back to you, Sue. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:43 | |
Which song begins with the lyrics "Get your motor running, | 0:18:43 | 0:18:47 | |
"head out on the highway"? | 0:18:47 | 0:18:49 | |
More Than A Feeling | 0:18:58 | 0:18:59 | |
I'm not familiar with. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:00 | |
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet either. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:03 | |
But from the words, I'm hoping that it's Born To Be Wild. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:09 | |
This is right up Dave... Tremendous Knowledge Dave's street. | 0:19:09 | 0:19:12 | |
He would know everything about these songs. | 0:19:12 | 0:19:14 | |
You are right. Well done. | 0:19:14 | 0:19:15 | |
It's right. Born To Be Wild. | 0:19:15 | 0:19:17 | |
OK. Pat. | 0:19:19 | 0:19:21 | |
"You can check out any time you like" | 0:19:21 | 0:19:24 | |
is a line from which famous song? | 0:19:24 | 0:19:26 | |
"You can check out any time you like, | 0:19:33 | 0:19:34 | |
"but you can never leave" - | 0:19:34 | 0:19:36 | |
Hotel California. | 0:19:36 | 0:19:38 | |
Hotel California is correct. | 0:19:38 | 0:19:40 | |
OK, so, let's look at the scores, two each. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:43 | |
Third question to you, Sue. | 0:19:43 | 0:19:45 | |
Which of these famous hit singles was written by the Cleethorpes-born | 0:19:45 | 0:19:48 | |
musician and songwriter Rod Temperton? | 0:19:48 | 0:19:51 | |
His is not a name that I know. | 0:19:56 | 0:19:58 | |
So... | 0:20:00 | 0:20:01 | |
..it's going to be a guess here. | 0:20:02 | 0:20:04 | |
I'm pretty sure it's not Thriller. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:07 | |
I wouldn't think it's Like A Virgin. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:10 | |
I'm going to opt for When Doves Cry. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:15 | |
Now, I believe Rod Temperton died in 2016, | 0:20:17 | 0:20:20 | |
and therefore there was quite a big playback of some of his songs. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:23 | |
Which was the one here, Eggheads? | 0:20:24 | 0:20:26 | |
-It's Thriller. -Thriller is the answer. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:28 | |
Thriller was the one that he really made his songwriting name with. | 0:20:28 | 0:20:32 | |
OK, Pat, you can take the round with this. | 0:20:33 | 0:20:35 | |
Which composer wrote the scores for the films Batman Begins, | 0:20:35 | 0:20:39 | |
The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises? | 0:20:39 | 0:20:42 | |
I don't think it's John Williams so I'll eliminate him. | 0:20:47 | 0:20:50 | |
Jerry Goldsmith is a very productive... | 0:20:50 | 0:20:53 | |
..writer of film scores, but before the options came up, | 0:20:55 | 0:20:59 | |
when I hear Batman, my reflex answer for scores would be Hans Zimmer. | 0:20:59 | 0:21:04 | |
I think I'll go for Hans Zimmer. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:08 | |
Hans Zimmer is the right answer, so, Pat, you've taken the round. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:10 | |
Well done. Sue, sorry, knocked out, like your team-mates, I'm afraid. | 0:21:10 | 0:21:13 | |
What will happen in the final round? | 0:21:13 | 0:21:15 | |
Please, both of you, return to us and we will play it for £12,000. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:21 | |
So, this is what we have been playing towards. | 0:21:21 | 0:21:23 | |
It is time for our final round, which as always, is General Knowledge. | 0:21:23 | 0:21:26 | |
But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads won't be allowed | 0:21:26 | 0:21:30 | |
to take part in this round, so all from this side, I'm afraid. | 0:21:30 | 0:21:33 | |
It's Bernie, Bob, Rob and Sue from the Heartbeats. | 0:21:33 | 0:21:37 | |
Would you please now leave the studio? | 0:21:37 | 0:21:39 | |
All right, John, I'm sorry you lost a few along the way. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:44 | |
-Yes, so am I! -You're playing to win the Heartbeats £12,000, | 0:21:44 | 0:21:48 | |
a big jackpot. Steve, Pat, Kevin, Beth, Judith, | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
you're playing for something that money can't buy, | 0:21:51 | 0:21:54 | |
which is the precious reputation of the Eggheads, | 0:21:54 | 0:21:56 | |
and to see Judith do her famous shoulder roll again. | 0:21:56 | 0:21:59 | |
As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:01 | |
They're all going to be General Knowledge and I was going to say, | 0:22:01 | 0:22:04 | |
John, you can confer, | 0:22:04 | 0:22:06 | |
but obviously you haven't got anyone to confer with. | 0:22:06 | 0:22:08 | |
You can speak out loud, for sure. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:09 | |
The question is, can you with your one brain defeat these five? | 0:22:09 | 0:22:13 | |
So, John, would you like to go first or second? | 0:22:13 | 0:22:15 | |
I'll go first. | 0:22:15 | 0:22:16 | |
Good luck! Frank Spencer was the main character in which sitcom? | 0:22:20 | 0:22:24 | |
I remember many years ago watching this on television and finding it | 0:22:30 | 0:22:34 | |
a very amusing programme. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:36 | |
So it's Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em. | 0:22:36 | 0:22:39 | |
Yes, part of my childhood as well. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:40 | |
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em is the answer. | 0:22:40 | 0:22:43 | |
OK. | 0:22:43 | 0:22:45 | |
Eggheads, who was the US President when the Dayton Accords | 0:22:45 | 0:22:49 | |
ending the war in Bosnia was signed in 1995? | 0:22:49 | 0:22:53 | |
-Clinton? -Clinton. | 0:22:58 | 0:22:59 | |
Yes, Bill Clinton. Right? | 0:22:59 | 0:23:01 | |
-Yes. -That's Bill Clinton. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:03 | |
Bill Clinton is correct. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:05 | |
Back to you, John. | 0:23:06 | 0:23:08 | |
What type of creature is Kumbuka who briefly escaped from its enclosure | 0:23:08 | 0:23:14 | |
into a staff-only area at London Zoo in 2016? | 0:23:14 | 0:23:19 | |
Is Kumbuka...? | 0:23:19 | 0:23:20 | |
Ah, yes, recent, yes. | 0:23:23 | 0:23:25 | |
That was a gorilla. | 0:23:27 | 0:23:29 | |
Gorilla is correct. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:32 | |
OK, back to you. | 0:23:32 | 0:23:34 | |
Eggheads, here we go. | 0:23:34 | 0:23:36 | |
The historian Thucydides wrote in which language? | 0:23:36 | 0:23:40 | |
-Ancient Greek? -Greek, yeah. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:46 | |
OK, he was a Greek, so Ancient Greek. | 0:23:48 | 0:23:52 | |
Ancient Greek is right. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:54 | |
Two each. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:55 | |
The third can be crucial, playing for £12,000. | 0:23:56 | 0:23:58 | |
Get this right, John, and | 0:23:58 | 0:24:01 | |
you may be able to just watch them go into a total batting collapse. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:06 | |
What is the name of the US film studio | 0:24:06 | 0:24:10 | |
co-founded by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz | 0:24:10 | 0:24:14 | |
which became famous for specialising in low-budget releases | 0:24:14 | 0:24:17 | |
such as The Toxic Avenger? | 0:24:17 | 0:24:19 | |
Doesn't sound very much like Asylum. | 0:24:26 | 0:24:28 | |
It sounds a little bit sort of traumatic so... | 0:24:31 | 0:24:34 | |
I'll go for Troma. | 0:24:34 | 0:24:36 | |
Troma, on the grounds that it sounds like trauma. | 0:24:36 | 0:24:39 | |
Let's see, Eggheads, is he right? | 0:24:41 | 0:24:42 | |
-Yeah. -You are right! | 0:24:42 | 0:24:44 | |
Is the Troma to do with the word trauma or something else? | 0:24:44 | 0:24:47 | |
I don't think it's connected as such, it may be, it's possible. | 0:24:47 | 0:24:50 | |
I wonder if it's an amalgamation of their names but you can't see that. | 0:24:51 | 0:24:54 | |
Not with that, no. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:56 | |
It's difficult to say. A taste-free zone, Troma. | 0:24:56 | 0:24:58 | |
Your third question, Eggheads. | 0:24:59 | 0:25:01 | |
Which newspaper columnist and author co-wrote the TV sitcom | 0:25:01 | 0:25:05 | |
Raised By Wolves which won the Golden Rose award for Best Sitcom | 0:25:05 | 0:25:09 | |
in 2016? | 0:25:09 | 0:25:11 | |
Is this...? | 0:25:11 | 0:25:12 | |
-It's Caitlin Moran. -Caitlin Moran, yes. | 0:25:17 | 0:25:19 | |
Yeah, yeah | 0:25:19 | 0:25:21 | |
I think we're reasonably confident, Jeremy, that's Caitlin Moran. | 0:25:21 | 0:25:24 | |
The correct answer... | 0:25:25 | 0:25:27 | |
is Caitlin Moran. | 0:25:27 | 0:25:29 | |
You did look certain, so they've pushed it to a draw | 0:25:29 | 0:25:32 | |
over three questions, John. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:34 | |
I think we suspected they might do that with five of them there. | 0:25:34 | 0:25:36 | |
This is the time to win the money on Sudden Death. | 0:25:36 | 0:25:40 | |
Just keep getting them right, that's all you need to do, | 0:25:40 | 0:25:43 | |
and it gets a tiny bit harder now, cos I don't give you options. | 0:25:43 | 0:25:47 | |
By what name are the United States Navy's sea, air and land teams | 0:25:47 | 0:25:53 | |
commonly known? | 0:25:53 | 0:25:54 | |
Oh, yes. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:56 | |
They are the SEALs. | 0:25:56 | 0:25:57 | |
They are indeed the SEALs, the Navy SEALs. | 0:25:57 | 0:25:59 | |
Eggheads, back to you. Sudden Death. | 0:25:59 | 0:26:03 | |
Which writer famously described | 0:26:03 | 0:26:05 | |
the sight of the English country gentleman galloping after a fox | 0:26:05 | 0:26:09 | |
as the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable? | 0:26:09 | 0:26:12 | |
-Oscar Wilde? -Oscar Wilde. | 0:26:12 | 0:26:14 | |
Oscar Wilde. Yes. | 0:26:14 | 0:26:17 | |
That's one of those quotes by Oscar Wilde. | 0:26:17 | 0:26:20 | |
Yeah, quite a lot of quotes that are attributed to him are actually not | 0:26:20 | 0:26:23 | |
by him. Luckily for you, this one is one of his. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:27 | |
Oscar Wilde. | 0:26:27 | 0:26:28 | |
Back to you, John, playing a perfect round so far. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:33 | |
All of your team-mates looking on. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:35 | |
£12,000 in it. | 0:26:35 | 0:26:38 | |
What is the name of the US holiday created in the 1960s | 0:26:38 | 0:26:42 | |
to honour African-American heritage and celebrated from December 26th | 0:26:42 | 0:26:47 | |
to January 1st? | 0:26:47 | 0:26:49 | |
Well, the thing that comes to mind immediately is Mardi Gras, | 0:26:50 | 0:26:54 | |
but I don't think it's Mardi Gras. | 0:26:54 | 0:26:56 | |
It's a sheer guess but I would have to guess something like Africa Day | 0:26:59 | 0:27:03 | |
or Africa Week. | 0:27:03 | 0:27:05 | |
Africa Week, Africa Day, let's see, Eggheads? | 0:27:05 | 0:27:08 | |
Kwanzaa. | 0:27:08 | 0:27:10 | |
Kwanzaa is the name of the US holiday to honour African-American | 0:27:10 | 0:27:14 | |
heritage over the Christmas period. It's K-W-A-N-Z-A-A. | 0:27:14 | 0:27:18 | |
So, a chance for the Eggheads. | 0:27:19 | 0:27:21 | |
If you get this right, the contest is over. | 0:27:21 | 0:27:23 | |
All five of you, here's your question. | 0:27:23 | 0:27:25 | |
Which chemical element was officially recognised | 0:27:25 | 0:27:29 | |
as the fourth precious metal in 2010, | 0:27:29 | 0:27:32 | |
after gold, silver and platinum? | 0:27:32 | 0:27:35 | |
-Palladium? -Palladium. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:37 | |
That's the only one I can think of, really. | 0:27:37 | 0:27:39 | |
-Yes, Palladium. -Yes. | 0:27:39 | 0:27:42 | |
We think that's Palladium. | 0:27:42 | 0:27:44 | |
If you've got this right, the contest is over. | 0:27:44 | 0:27:47 | |
-Do you know this one, John? -No, I don't! | 0:27:47 | 0:27:49 | |
They do know a lot, don't they? | 0:27:49 | 0:27:50 | |
-They certainly do. -They're also playing very well at the moment. | 0:27:50 | 0:27:53 | |
The answer is Palladium. We say, congratulations, Eggheads. | 0:27:53 | 0:27:56 | |
You have won. | 0:27:56 | 0:27:57 | |
I hope you're not feeling too much tension there. | 0:28:02 | 0:28:04 | |
-Not much! -You concentrated brilliantly, because, | 0:28:04 | 0:28:07 | |
by that stage you might well have seen them give a wrong answer, | 0:28:07 | 0:28:10 | |
but such is the form they're in, it didn't happen. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:13 | |
Good stuff, but commiserations, John and team. | 0:28:13 | 0:28:15 | |
The Eggheads have done | 0:28:15 | 0:28:16 | |
what really does come naturally to them at the moment. | 0:28:16 | 0:28:19 | |
This winning streak continues. Eggheads, well done, | 0:28:19 | 0:28:21 | |
cos yet again you've had a game here | 0:28:21 | 0:28:23 | |
where you haven't lost a single round. | 0:28:23 | 0:28:25 | |
That's what's starting to worry me. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:27 | |
Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers have the brains | 0:28:27 | 0:28:30 | |
to finally wipe the smiles off their very nice faces. | 0:28:30 | 0:28:33 | |
£13,000 says they don't. | 0:28:33 | 0:28:35 | |
Till then...goodbye. | 0:28:35 | 0:28:37 |