0:00:04 > 0:00:09These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 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
0:00:26 > 0:00:29pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31They are the Eggheads.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34Taking on our quiz champions today
0:00:34 > 0:00:37are The Sadberge Saxons from County Durham.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39This team often quiz together on a Sunday night
0:00:39 > 0:00:43at the Springfield pub in Darlington. Let's meet them.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46Hi, my name's Michael and I run my own cleaning company.
0:00:46 > 0:00:50Hi, I'm Derek and I am an ironmongery sales advisor.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53Hi, I'm Anthony and I run my own window cleaning business.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56Hi, I'm Owen and I am a company director.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Hi, I'm James and I'm a town clerk.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02- So, Michael and team, welcome. - Hello.- Hello.- Good to see you.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04You get together to quiz, Michael, do you?
0:01:04 > 0:01:07Yes, we get together at the Springfield pub in Darlington
0:01:07 > 0:01:09- on a Sunday evening.- Brilliant.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12Tell us about the Sadberge bit of your name. What is that all about?
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Sadberge is a small village just outside of Darlington.
0:01:15 > 0:01:20The Saxons part is that it was an Anglo-Saxon village.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23It was known as a "wapentake", was it?
0:01:23 > 0:01:27- Tell us about that. - What I know is that a wapentake
0:01:27 > 0:01:31is the centre point, like the capital of that area,
0:01:31 > 0:01:36where the Vikings would come together to meet... And the Saxons.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38Now, you do a lot of sport together, don't you?
0:01:38 > 0:01:45Yes, we... A few of us are in a group of 14 called a "provocare",
0:01:45 > 0:01:49which is kind of Latin for "challenge".
0:01:49 > 0:01:53We get together once a month and we play a different sport each month.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56We have a competition, a league table, which culminates
0:01:56 > 0:02:00at Christmas with the presentation of the trophy to the winner.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04And just to lower the tone, you've also worked as a cowboy, Michael?
0:02:04 > 0:02:09Yes, I went over, when I was a young boy, to Wyoming,
0:02:09 > 0:02:12to Medicine Bow Lodge in Wyoming,
0:02:12 > 0:02:15and I was a cowboy for about six months.
0:02:15 > 0:02:19How fantastic! Well, I hope you can rope in the steers over here.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21It's all very exciting on Eggheads at the moment.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24There is, as you know, £1,000 worth of cash
0:02:24 > 0:02:25up for grabs for our Challengers
0:02:25 > 0:02:27and if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:02:27 > 0:02:30we basically keep the money and roll it over to our next show.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33And, Sadberge Saxons, the Eggheads have won the last...
0:02:33 > 0:02:35How many is it, Eggs? Come on, tell me.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38- 19.- 19 games on the trot.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41The key thing here is there is £20,000 to play for.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43So we've got a serious quiz on here.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45First head-to-head battle is on the subject of Film & TV.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47So, Film & TV, Challengers,
0:02:47 > 0:02:50you can choose between Judith, Beth, Pat, Steve and Chris.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52Who shall we go for?
0:02:52 > 0:02:54- I think that's you. - Yeah, definitely you.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57Yeah. Then who should we...?
0:02:57 > 0:02:58Oh, it's the skipper going in?
0:02:58 > 0:03:00- Yes. It's me.- All right. With the provocare.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Which Egghead would you like?
0:03:02 > 0:03:05We'd like to take on Chris, please, Jeremy.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08Very good. So, it is Michael from The Sadberge Saxons
0:03:08 > 0:03:10taking on Chris on Film & TV.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12Been a while since we've been in the cinema together.
0:03:12 > 0:03:13Been a while, been a while.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15Last time there was a bloke at the front playing organ!
0:03:19 > 0:03:20To ensure there is no conferring,
0:03:20 > 0:03:23would you please take your positions in our famous Question Room?
0:03:25 > 0:03:27OK, Film & TV, Michael.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29Your choice, would you like to go first or second?
0:03:29 > 0:03:30I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35OK. Playing for £20,000.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38Let's see if you can knock Chris out as a start. Here we go.
0:03:38 > 0:03:39Lou Carpenter is a character
0:03:39 > 0:03:42in which long-running Australian soap opera?
0:03:48 > 0:03:51Erm... I've never heard of A Country Practice.
0:03:51 > 0:03:55I think Neighbours is the oldest of the series.
0:03:55 > 0:03:59But for some reason I'm going to go for Home And Away, please, Jeremy.
0:03:59 > 0:04:04I could see why Neighbours is almost too obvious, but that is the answer.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06It's Neighbours.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08OK, Chris, your question.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11The well-known car chase in the 1960s film Bullet,
0:04:11 > 0:04:14starring Steve McQueen, is set in which city?
0:04:18 > 0:04:19Well, it's dodging the cable cars
0:04:19 > 0:04:21up and down all the hills in San Francisco,
0:04:21 > 0:04:23doing his suspension no good at all in the process.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25San Francisco is the right answer.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28OK, Michael. Which British actor
0:04:28 > 0:04:33was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2016?
0:04:38 > 0:04:44I think Martin Freeman and Jamie Bell are fairly new over in America,
0:04:44 > 0:04:47so I'm going to go for Hugh Laurie.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50Yeah, very good, it is Hugh Laurie, who is...
0:04:50 > 0:04:53What is his big thing over there, Michael? What is his big show?
0:04:53 > 0:04:56- House, I think.- Yeah, House, it's so popular.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59Chris, to take the lead, your question.
0:04:59 > 0:05:03Who played the intelligence officer Angela Burr
0:05:03 > 0:05:06in the 2016 TV series The Night Manager?
0:05:11 > 0:05:14Ah! Never watched that either.
0:05:14 > 0:05:18The Night Manager, I think that was Rachel Weisz.
0:05:18 > 0:05:19Do you now?
0:05:19 > 0:05:21Beth, do you know?
0:05:21 > 0:05:24In the original book The Night Manager,
0:05:24 > 0:05:26this character was written as a man
0:05:26 > 0:05:30and the screenwriter wanted Olivia Colman to play this role,
0:05:30 > 0:05:32so changed it to a woman.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Olivia Colman, Chris.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37She's almost typecast now as this sort of slightly harried,
0:05:37 > 0:05:41under-pressure, middle-aged character.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43You've got a bit of a way back in here, Michael.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45He's not steaming along as he always does.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48If you get this right, you could put Chris under some pressure,
0:05:48 > 0:05:50maybe he'll topple off the edge.
0:05:50 > 0:05:54Who directed the 2016 film Nocturnal Animals?
0:06:00 > 0:06:03I only know Christopher Nolan, of the three.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06I'm not sure if it's one of his type of films.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08I don't know Tom Ford at all.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12I'm going to go for Dennis Villeneuve.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14Tom Ford is the answer.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17So, Chris has a chance to take the round.
0:06:17 > 0:06:19Which of these 1980s sci-fi films
0:06:19 > 0:06:23is set largely on a planet called LV-426?
0:06:27 > 0:06:32Set largely on a planet with an alphanumeric designation,
0:06:32 > 0:06:38so it's a fairly dehumanised sort of place...
0:06:38 > 0:06:41So, is it the prison planet in Aliens?
0:06:41 > 0:06:44Aliens is the right answer, Chris, and the logic is good there.
0:06:44 > 0:06:45Well done, you're in the final.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48Sorry, Michael. Team captain knocked out.
0:06:48 > 0:06:52What does that augur for our Sadberge Saxons? Let's see.
0:06:52 > 0:06:56Return to us, please, both of you, we'll play the next round.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58- Well done, Chris. - Thank you.- Have you seen Aliens?
0:06:58 > 0:07:00I have, actually, yeah.
0:07:00 > 0:07:05Right! Excuse the correction, LV-426 was not a prison planet,
0:07:05 > 0:07:06- it was just a...- Well, yeah.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09And I think Alien 3 had a prison planet.
0:07:09 > 0:07:13- Ah, yeah.- OK. As it stands, The Sadberge Saxons
0:07:13 > 0:07:15have lost a brain from the final round.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18The Eggheads are all still sitting there with this big jackpot,
0:07:18 > 0:07:20guarding the money. You've got to take it, guys.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22The next subject for you is Science.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24Who would like Science?
0:07:24 > 0:07:27- Worrying silence.- I think that was yours, wasn't it, Jamie?
0:07:27 > 0:07:29I was second choice for that.
0:07:29 > 0:07:30Well... Do you want to go for it?
0:07:32 > 0:07:34- I can do it...- Yeah, go on.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37If Politics comes up, we'll need you two.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39- Science?- I'll have to, then.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41- Yep, OK.- James?
0:07:41 > 0:07:44OK, before you go, choose an Egghead. It can't be Chris.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47- Should we go for Judith? - Judith, yeah.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49OK, we're going for Judith, please.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51All right. James to take on Judith,
0:07:51 > 0:07:54who once knocked out a rocket scientist in Science.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Yes, and we mustn't ever forget that!
0:07:56 > 0:08:00To ensure there is no conferring, please take your positions.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04So, is science your thing, James?
0:08:04 > 0:08:06It wasn't my first-choice subject, but I'll do my best.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09You were once mistaken for the chef James Martin?
0:08:09 > 0:08:11- That's right, yes. - What, at a village fete?
0:08:11 > 0:08:14Yes, it was a village garden open day
0:08:14 > 0:08:17and two elderly ladies who let me in the garden
0:08:17 > 0:08:19were convinced I was James Martin.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21And they wouldn't let me leave their house
0:08:21 > 0:08:24until I had signed a couple of books that they had.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Oh, so you thought it's easier to go along with it?
0:08:26 > 0:08:28Yeah. I just had to play along with it, yeah.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30So, science we're on, James.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33- Would you like to go first or second?- I'll go first, please.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38OK, and here we go.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40What general name is commonly given
0:08:40 > 0:08:45to organic plant or animal matter that is converted into power?
0:08:51 > 0:08:54Erm... It's obviously not nuclear fuel. Erm...
0:08:54 > 0:08:58Florafuel, that's something you spread on your bread!
0:08:58 > 0:09:01No, I'll definitely go for biofuel.
0:09:01 > 0:09:05Biofuel is right. Judith, your first question.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08What name is given to the five vertebrae of the lower back
0:09:08 > 0:09:10between the ribcage and the pelvis?
0:09:14 > 0:09:16Oh, dear. I'm very bad at these.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20The five at the bottom?
0:09:20 > 0:09:24The five vertebrae of the lower back between the ribcage and the pelvis.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27Well, I think it must be cervical.
0:09:27 > 0:09:28- The cervical vertebrae?- Yeah.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31I don't know if there are any cervical vertebrae...
0:09:31 > 0:09:33Let's just check with Beth.
0:09:33 > 0:09:35Cervical vertebrae are up round your neck.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38Thoracic is between your neck and the lumbar.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41- Is it lumbar?- Yes, it is. It is lumbar.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43So, well, that's handy.
0:09:43 > 0:09:48- James, just keep steady here. - Trying my best.- Playing for £20,000.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50What is the practice of using a domain name
0:09:50 > 0:09:55whose traffic relies on misspellings by internet users called?
0:09:59 > 0:10:00Wow.
0:10:01 > 0:10:05I'm just going to have to use logic here because I've not heard of that.
0:10:05 > 0:10:10Typo-jacking... Jacking sounds more like you are taking it off somebody.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13So I think I'll go for typo-jacking.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15It's typo-squatting.
0:10:15 > 0:10:17Ah! That was perhaps my second choice.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20- I didn't even know that was a thing. - No, neither did I.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22Here's your next question.
0:10:22 > 0:10:27Which dinosaur, Judith, whose name means "wounding tooth",
0:10:27 > 0:10:30is often said to be the most intelligent of all dinosaurs?
0:10:35 > 0:10:38Triceratops, that's something to do with three.
0:10:38 > 0:10:42I'm drawn to troodon, or "tro-odon", or whatever...
0:10:42 > 0:10:46because I think that might have something to do with teeth.
0:10:46 > 0:10:47Troodon is right!
0:10:47 > 0:10:49Oh! Magic right again!
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Yeah, the magic right.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53So she's on the scoreboard,
0:10:53 > 0:10:55but you can take the lead with this one, James.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59What is the common name of Halichoerus grypus,
0:10:59 > 0:11:03the larger of the two seal species found in the UK?
0:11:09 > 0:11:11Let me just spell them. I think it's worth me spelling them.
0:11:11 > 0:11:16Two words. H-A-L-I-C-H-O-E-R-U-S, Halichoerus.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19And grypus is G-R-Y-P-U-S.
0:11:19 > 0:11:23Grey seals are not particularly large,
0:11:23 > 0:11:24so I don't think it's that.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29I've never heard of a leopard seal being in our seas,
0:11:29 > 0:11:32so I think I'm going to go for a Ross seal.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34Ross seal is your answer. I can see that...
0:11:34 > 0:11:36I think Derek knows this, Derek?
0:11:36 > 0:11:40- Grey seal.- Grey seal is the answer.
0:11:40 > 0:11:44So, Judith can take the round now, with your third question.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46By what name are the elements making up
0:11:46 > 0:11:50group 16 of the periodic table often known?
0:11:57 > 0:12:00Well, group 18 is the...
0:12:00 > 0:12:03What are they called? Inert gases...
0:12:03 > 0:12:07I thought halogens are the one next door.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09On the other hand, I've never heard of the other two.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11So...
0:12:12 > 0:12:14I think I'm going to say halogens.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16Chalcogens is the answer.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19Ooh! That's a hard old round, that, wasn't it, James?
0:12:19 > 0:12:20You're not out yet,
0:12:20 > 0:12:23not by any manner of means. We go to Sudden Death.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26Gets a bit harder, I don't give you alternatives.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Which shark of the genus Alopias,
0:12:28 > 0:12:31is noted for its long, scythe-like tail
0:12:31 > 0:12:35that may constitute almost one half its total length?
0:12:35 > 0:12:40It's very difficult to picture one that's got a long tail, so...
0:12:40 > 0:12:41I think I'll have to go for...
0:12:43 > 0:12:46- ..great white.- Great white.
0:12:46 > 0:12:47Let's see, Derek, do you know?
0:12:47 > 0:12:49- We think the thresher? - Thresher, yeah.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51Why aren't you playing the science round, Derek?
0:12:51 > 0:12:53- What are you being saved up for here?- I don't know!
0:12:53 > 0:12:55Goodness me, OK.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57Thresher is the answer.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59So, Judith, for the round...
0:12:59 > 0:13:03Which probe, built by the European Space Agency,
0:13:03 > 0:13:09crash landed on Comet 67P in September 2016?
0:13:10 > 0:13:14Erm...the thing that comes into my mind is Rosetta.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19- Yeah, Rosetta. - Rosetta is the right answer.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21Well done to you. You've taken the round on Sudden Death,
0:13:21 > 0:13:23James knocked out by our Egghead there,
0:13:23 > 0:13:26so Judith will be in the final round.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28If you come back to us, we'll see what happens next.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32So, as it stands, The Sadberge Saxons have lost two brains
0:13:32 > 0:13:35from the final round despite some valiant efforts.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38The Eggheads are still all there.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40This could be the moment for the comeback, Michael,
0:13:40 > 0:13:42- just a suggestion!- Yes!
0:13:42 > 0:13:44The next subject is Arts & Books.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46THE SADBERGE SAXONS CHUCKLE Who wants this?
0:13:47 > 0:13:49- Which one of you?- I'll take it.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51- You sure?- Yeah.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54- Are we still going to leave... - Anthony...- I'll take it.- OK.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56- ..runs a window cleaning business. - Anthony.
0:13:56 > 0:13:57Who would you like to clean out here?
0:13:57 > 0:14:00- Who do you think? - We'll go with Steve.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02All right, Anthony from The Sadberge Saxons
0:14:02 > 0:14:04is going to take on Steve from the Eggheads.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07Please go to the Question Room.
0:14:07 > 0:14:11So, Anthony, you're playing Steve, known as "10,000 Books" Cook!
0:14:11 > 0:14:15Yeah. That's the last count, isn't it, Steve?
0:14:15 > 0:14:18Yeah, yeah, there's been a few added since I've been filming.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21Which are the ones you absolutely will never get rid of, ever?
0:14:21 > 0:14:22- None of them!- Really?
0:14:22 > 0:14:25Yeah, well, I haven't read half of them so I've got to...
0:14:25 > 0:14:27I'm just stockpiling them for a rainy day.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29Well, good luck getting through them.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32And also good luck to you, Anthony, more to the point, on Arts & Books.
0:14:32 > 0:14:33Do you want to go first or second?
0:14:33 > 0:14:36I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy, thank you.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41OK, third round. Good luck, Anthony.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43By whose ghost is Hamlet visited
0:14:43 > 0:14:47in the Shakespeare play of the same name?
0:14:51 > 0:14:53I'm not 100% sure on this one.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56I think I'll go for his uncle, please, Jeremy.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59I think his main motivation was the death of his father.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02So it's his father that makes him think he's got to take revenge
0:15:02 > 0:15:07and all else then follows. Steve,
0:15:07 > 0:15:10the artwork called the Lobster Telephone
0:15:10 > 0:15:13is a creation of which Spanish surrealist?
0:15:17 > 0:15:19Well, when you say "Spanish surrealist", Jeremy,
0:15:19 > 0:15:21you go to answer Salvador Dali.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23- That's it?- That's it.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25Salvador Dali is quite right.
0:15:25 > 0:15:29Back to you, Anthony. Which of these poets wrote To The Cuckoo?
0:15:34 > 0:15:35Again, I'm not sure about this one.
0:15:35 > 0:15:40I'm going to go down the middle and say William Wordsworth.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43Yes, bang on, well done, William Wordsworth it is.
0:15:44 > 0:15:48OK, your question, Steve, to take the lead,
0:15:48 > 0:15:51who is the author of the 2016 novel Swing Time?
0:15:55 > 0:15:58I've not heard of it and they are all current writers,
0:15:58 > 0:16:01so it's a bit of a one-in-three, this, I'm afraid.
0:16:01 > 0:16:02I really don't know.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04Can't work it out.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06Monica Ali.
0:16:06 > 0:16:10- No, no, no, Steve. It's Zadie Smith. - No, never heard of it.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12So, that's rather handy there, Anthony.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14Get this right, put him under some pressure,
0:16:14 > 0:16:16get your place in the final.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19The Odes, the Epodes and the Epistles
0:16:19 > 0:16:23are all works of which 1st-century BC Roman author?
0:16:27 > 0:16:30Again, one I'm going to have to guess at, I think.
0:16:30 > 0:16:35But somewhere in the back of my mind I've got Horace.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38So I'm going to go for Horace.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40- Steve, is he right?- He is right.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42Steve's right, you're right, everyone is right.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44Horace it is.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46OK, Steve, to stay in, you need to get this right.
0:16:46 > 0:16:50The Kitchen, staged by the National Theatre in 2011,
0:16:50 > 0:16:53was the first work of which British dramatist?
0:16:59 > 0:17:04Well, David Storey, I don't know if he's renowned for his plays as such.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07Willy Russell, I'm not fancying that.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12I'm going to say Arnold Wesker, but I really don't know.
0:17:12 > 0:17:13Eggheads, do you know?
0:17:13 > 0:17:15- Arnold Wesker.- They like that.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17At least I think they do. Judith, do you?
0:17:17 > 0:17:20- Yes, I like that.- Yeah. - Is it wrong?
0:17:20 > 0:17:24No, it's the right answer! Arnold Wesker it is.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26Oh, you were nearly there, Anthony.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28- Nearly, nearly. - Needs a bit more work now.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30Sudden Death we go to. Steve is very good on Arts & Books.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33- It gets a bit harder, I don't give you alternatives, Anthony.- OK.
0:17:33 > 0:17:37Which 1990 Booker Prize-winning novel
0:17:37 > 0:17:42centres around a love affair between two fictional Victorian poets
0:17:42 > 0:17:46called Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte?
0:17:49 > 0:17:53I don't know the answer to this. Romeo And Juliet!
0:17:53 > 0:17:55No, it's... This is 1990 we're talking about,
0:17:55 > 0:17:58this is Possession by AS Byatt.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00Steve, for the round, what is the title
0:18:00 > 0:18:06of the controversial 2008 Christos Tsiolkas novel
0:18:06 > 0:18:10about the aftermath of a child being disciplined at a barbecue?
0:18:10 > 0:18:13I've actually read this book and it's a brilliant book.
0:18:13 > 0:18:14It's called The Slap.
0:18:14 > 0:18:18Now, I saw what I think was the Australian TV series of this,
0:18:18 > 0:18:21so I can tell you you're absolutely right, Steve, well done.
0:18:21 > 0:18:22It is The Slap.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25And with that, Anthony, you've been knocked out.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28From a slap to a knockout, I'm afraid,
0:18:28 > 0:18:30you won't be in the final, Steve will.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32It's looking difficult but not impossible for our Challengers.
0:18:32 > 0:18:36Please return to us and we will play the last round before the final.
0:18:38 > 0:18:39So, as it stands,
0:18:39 > 0:18:42Sadberge Saxons have lost three brains from the final round.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44The Eggheads have not lost any yet.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46Another chance now to get an Egghead out.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48Come on, guys, it's Politics.
0:18:48 > 0:18:49- LAUGHING:- Oh, no!
0:18:49 > 0:18:52No? What's happened?
0:18:52 > 0:18:54You used your political player, did you?
0:18:54 > 0:18:56- We're scuppered now. - He's already gone!
0:18:56 > 0:18:59- You going?- I've got to do it.
0:18:59 > 0:19:00- Owen.- It's going to be Owen.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03OK. Our company director from Darlington.
0:19:03 > 0:19:04And who would you like to take on?
0:19:04 > 0:19:06You can have either Pat or Beth.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08I'll take Beth, please.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11Good stuff. So it's going to be Owen from The Sadberge Saxons...
0:19:11 > 0:19:13- In fact you live in Sadberge, is that right?- Indeed, yes.
0:19:13 > 0:19:17OK, the very place. ..versus Beth from the Eggheads on Politics.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20For the last time, please go to our Question Room.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24Owen, Politics. Would you like to go first or second against Beth?
0:19:24 > 0:19:26I'll go second, please, Jeremy.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31Here is your first question, Beth.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33What is the common term for a document
0:19:33 > 0:19:37containing proposals for legislation by the UK's government?
0:19:38 > 0:19:42For part of my Health and Safety diploma,
0:19:42 > 0:19:44we had to learn about how laws were made
0:19:44 > 0:19:48and Black Paper and Blue Paper, I don't believe, came up,
0:19:48 > 0:19:49so I think it is a White Paper.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51It is indeed a White Paper.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53There are Green Papers, but that is another thing.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56Owen, your question. Which UK party
0:19:56 > 0:20:00commissioned a large stone tablet with its policy pledges
0:20:00 > 0:20:03during the 2015 General Election?
0:20:07 > 0:20:12I...don't think it was Ukip.
0:20:12 > 0:20:17I think it would have been Labour.
0:20:17 > 0:20:21Yeah, one of the all-time great election disasters in this country.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23- Yeah.- Labour is the right answer.
0:20:23 > 0:20:27- Known as the EdStone, I believe. - The EdStone cos it was Ed Miliband.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29I remember because, the joy of Twitter,
0:20:29 > 0:20:31you can see conversations as they go on,
0:20:31 > 0:20:32and the Conservative press office
0:20:32 > 0:20:34was messaging the Labour press office,
0:20:34 > 0:20:37saying, "We can't even pay for this stuff!"
0:20:40 > 0:20:42OK. Beth, your question.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44Kenneth Clarke was caught on camera in 2016
0:20:44 > 0:20:47saying that which Tory leadership hopeful
0:20:47 > 0:20:50would go to war with three countries at once?
0:20:54 > 0:20:57Boris Johnson didn't stand for the leadership contest.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01Mrs May was victorious,
0:21:01 > 0:21:07but I'm possibly thinking that Michael Gove was this person.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09Yeah, I think you could include Boris as a potential here,
0:21:09 > 0:21:11he would have been a hopeful at some point.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13He is not the answer and, funnily enough,
0:21:13 > 0:21:16Kenneth Clarke said some slightly indiscreet things about Theresa May,
0:21:16 > 0:21:18so she would have been tempting, too.
0:21:18 > 0:21:20But you have got it absolutely right, Michael Gove is the answer.
0:21:20 > 0:21:26OK, Owen. The Partido Popular, or People's Party,
0:21:26 > 0:21:30is a mainstream conservative political party in which country?
0:21:34 > 0:21:36It's only a guess.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39I will go down the middle and say Spain.
0:21:39 > 0:21:40Spain is correct.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43- Playing well.- Well done again, Owen.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46So, level after two. The third question could be crucial.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48And here is Beth's. In July 2016,
0:21:48 > 0:21:52who was appointed the EU's lead negotiator for the Brexit talks?
0:21:59 > 0:22:02Oh. I don't know, this fact seems to have passed me by.
0:22:02 > 0:22:06How... How... How odd. I think the only name I've seen
0:22:06 > 0:22:08written down in print is Martin Schulz,
0:22:08 > 0:22:10so I'm going with that.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12Let's see, Eggheads. Martin Schulz?
0:22:12 > 0:22:14Well, the correct answer is Michel Barnier.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Michel Barnier is the correct answer.
0:22:16 > 0:22:17One I wouldn't have picked anyway.
0:22:17 > 0:22:21Owen, you can take the round just by getting this question right.
0:22:21 > 0:22:23This may be the turning point for our Challengers.
0:22:23 > 0:22:27Who delivered the withering put-down,
0:22:27 > 0:22:33"Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy," in a 1988 vice presidential debate?
0:22:38 > 0:22:41I've never heard of Lloyd Bentsen.
0:22:41 > 0:22:45So, again, I am torn between the other two.
0:22:45 > 0:22:49I only know Al Gore, so I will go for Al Gore.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51No, it was Lloyd Bentsen.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53He was the running mate of Michael Dukakis.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56- OK.- And he was up against a guy called Dan Quayle.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58Dan Quayle made some kind of comparison
0:22:58 > 0:22:59that he was as young as Kennedy was
0:22:59 > 0:23:01when he entered the Senate or whatever.
0:23:01 > 0:23:03And Lloyd Bentsen said, "Senator, I've served with Jack Kennedy,
0:23:03 > 0:23:06"I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine.
0:23:06 > 0:23:09"Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy."
0:23:09 > 0:23:11And as one commentator said,
0:23:11 > 0:23:14"It was as close to devastation as you could get on a stage that size."
0:23:14 > 0:23:16OK, so we go to Sudden Death.
0:23:16 > 0:23:20Beth, your question. I don't give you alternatives. You're level.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23The FCO is the name of one of the major departments
0:23:23 > 0:23:29of the UK Government. For what do the letters F, C and O stand?
0:23:31 > 0:23:34The university I work for has quite a lot of dealings with this,
0:23:34 > 0:23:36because we have a lot of people overseas
0:23:36 > 0:23:38and it stands for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41Absolutely, it does. Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
0:23:41 > 0:23:42Owen, back to you.
0:23:42 > 0:23:47Daniel Hannan, a senior member of the Vote Leave campaign
0:23:47 > 0:23:50during the UK referendum on EU membership,
0:23:50 > 0:23:55has served as an MEP for which political party?
0:23:55 > 0:23:57H-A-N-N-A-N.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01I will just go Liberals.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04He was Conservative, Owen, so, sorry, you've been knocked out.
0:24:04 > 0:24:05So Beth is in the final.
0:24:05 > 0:24:07That's a clean sweep for the Eggheads.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10Can the Challengers still win? Absolutely, they can.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13Please return to us. We will play the final round for £20,000.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17So this is what we have been playing towards.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19It is time for our final round.
0:24:19 > 0:24:20As always, it is General Knowledge.
0:24:20 > 0:24:23But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads
0:24:23 > 0:24:25won't be allowed to take part in this round.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27So, all from the Challengers' side, I'm afraid,
0:24:27 > 0:24:31Michael, Anthony, Owen and James from The Sadberge Saxons,
0:24:31 > 0:24:33would you please now leave the studio?
0:24:35 > 0:24:39Good luck, Derek. You're playing to win The Sadberge Saxons £20,000.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42Playing alone, which I know is not quite how you planned it.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44Chris, Steve, Pat, Beth and Judith,
0:24:44 > 0:24:47you're playing for something that money really can't buy,
0:24:47 > 0:24:51which is the Eggheads' reputation, and to keep this run going.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56They are all General Knowledge.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59Normally, I say you can confer, but you're in a bit of a pickle there.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01So, Derek, the question is,
0:25:01 > 0:25:07can your one Sadberge Saxons brain defeat the Eggheads' five over here?
0:25:07 > 0:25:09I'll bet you can. Would you like to go first or second?
0:25:09 > 0:25:11I'll go first, please.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16Good luck, Derek. Here we go.
0:25:16 > 0:25:21According to the saying, what does a rising tide lift?
0:25:25 > 0:25:28Not heard this one before.
0:25:28 > 0:25:29I would say...
0:25:30 > 0:25:34- ..all hopes, I think.- All hopes?
0:25:34 > 0:25:38- No, no, rising tide lifts all boats. - Yeah.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40It's the idea, like in banking or shares or something,
0:25:40 > 0:25:43when things are good, everything goes up.
0:25:43 > 0:25:48Eggheads, which city's airport has the international code PEK?
0:25:52 > 0:25:56- Beijing?- Sounds like it's a throwback to the use of Peking.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00- Everybody happy with that?- Judith?
0:26:00 > 0:26:03I don't know. Could be Beijing or Bangkok, couldn't it?
0:26:03 > 0:26:06- I think it's a reference to the old Peking name.- Yes, I thought that.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08I think the answer to this is Beijing.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10We think that's Beijing.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13Beijing is right. Well done.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15OK, Challenger, your question.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18Which astrological sign covers the approximate period
0:26:18 > 0:26:22between the 20th of April and the 20th of May?
0:26:26 > 0:26:29I was born on the 11th of May, so I'm going to go Taurus.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32I was born on the 17th of May, so I know you're right.
0:26:32 > 0:26:34- We're both Taureans.- Yeah.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37Doesn't that mean we are obstinate and we keep pushing on, Derek?
0:26:37 > 0:26:39- We do.- Hint, hint.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Eggheads, your question.
0:26:41 > 0:26:46Satchel Paige was a famous figure in which US sport?
0:26:50 > 0:26:52- Baseball.- It's baseball.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54Sounds right.
0:26:54 > 0:26:55OK?
0:26:55 > 0:26:58I think we're happy with that.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01We think that's baseball.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03Baseball is the right answer. All right, let's see.
0:27:03 > 0:27:05They've got two, you've got one.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07You're playing for £20,000.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10Jackpot is big, it means you need to get this one right.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13Derek, get this wrong and the contest is over.
0:27:13 > 0:27:18By what name is the British musician and singer
0:27:18 > 0:27:22Tahliah Debrett Barnett better known?
0:27:28 > 0:27:31Never heard of her. Erm...
0:27:31 > 0:27:34Twigs? Bat for Lashes?
0:27:34 > 0:27:37I'm going to go down the middle, Bat for Lashes.
0:27:37 > 0:27:41Bat for Lashes, OK, I've heard a lot of Bat for Lashes' work
0:27:41 > 0:27:44and I like her a lot. I'm not sure what her real name is.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46Do we know the real name of Bat for Lashes?
0:27:46 > 0:27:48- Natasha Khan?- Something like that.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51- Natasha Khan?- Natasha Khan? OK.
0:27:51 > 0:27:52The correct answer here
0:27:52 > 0:27:54is FKA Twigs.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57We have to say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04Don't worry, Derek. I know you are a great quizzer.
0:28:04 > 0:28:08I know that those two wrong answers are not representative...
0:28:08 > 0:28:09- No.- ..of your quizziness.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11I'm sensing your team saved you for the final as well.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13Commiserations, Challengers.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17What's worrying me is the number of times
0:28:17 > 0:28:19they don't even have any Eggs knocked out.
0:28:19 > 0:28:22It really is frustratingly impressive, isn't it?
0:28:22 > 0:28:25- It does mean that you won't be going on with the £20,000.- No.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28So we will roll that money over to our next show.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30Eggheads, congratulations.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33Who, if anyone, will ever beat you?
0:28:33 > 0:28:35Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers
0:28:35 > 0:28:37have the brains to defeat them.
0:28:37 > 0:28:40£21,000 is here to be played for.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42Until then, goodbye.