0:00:04 > 0:00:07These 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 > 0:00:27Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers
0:00:27 > 0:00:30pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:31They are the Eggheads.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33Are you feeling brainy?
0:00:33 > 0:00:34ALL: Yes.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37Hoping to get one over on our quiz champions today
0:00:37 > 0:00:39are Always Playtime, from Cheshire.
0:00:39 > 0:00:43This team is made up of retired and semi-retired teachers
0:00:43 > 0:00:46who are thoroughly enjoying their newly-found spare time.
0:00:46 > 0:00:47Let's meet them.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51Hi, I'm Pete, and I'm a semi retired PE teacher.
0:00:51 > 0:00:53Hi, I'm David, and I'm a retired maths teacher.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Hi, I'm Wendy.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58I'm a retired primary school teacher.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03Hi, I'm Tony, I'm a retired maths teacher.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06Hi, I'm Dave, I'm a part-time PE teacher.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08So, Pete and team, hello.
0:01:08 > 0:01:09- ALL:- Hello. - Good to see you.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12And I love this idea, Pete, of a bit of free time.
0:01:12 > 0:01:17Yes, we've got lots of free time now to do what we enjoy doing,
0:01:17 > 0:01:21and one of the nicest parts of the school day was playtime,
0:01:21 > 0:01:24and so for us, now, it's always playtime.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27Right. Is there any quizzing as part of this playtime?
0:01:27 > 0:01:31Yes, we all quiz, sometimes together, sometimes separately,
0:01:31 > 0:01:35but we all enjoy quizzing and that's why we've all arrived today.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38Cos they always say that retirement doesn't really exist any more,
0:01:38 > 0:01:40that people don't really ever properly stop working.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43So I'm assuming, I know some of you still keep your hand in,
0:01:43 > 0:01:45in various ways.
0:01:45 > 0:01:50Yes, I still work, actually, one day a week, and Dave down at the end,
0:01:50 > 0:01:52he works one day a week as well.
0:01:52 > 0:01:53That's just about enough time.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56Yeah. Well, this also counts as a day's work here, I think.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58CHUCKLING
0:01:58 > 0:01:59Every day,
0:01:59 > 0:02:01there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs for our challengers.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:02:04 > 0:02:06the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:02:06 > 0:02:07Now, Always Playtime,
0:02:07 > 0:02:10the Eggheads have won the last four games,
0:02:10 > 0:02:12they've got a spring in their step.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15And you need to knock them off balance and steal the money.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18There's £5,000 to play for.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20- Would you like to try and win? - Yes.- We would.- Yes, please.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22Good. I'm so pleased you said that.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Arts And Books,
0:02:25 > 0:02:27which I reckon for teachers is good.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30One of you needs to go against either Beth, Kevin, Chris,
0:02:30 > 0:02:33- Dave or Lisa. - OK, what do we think?
0:02:33 > 0:02:36What do you think? Do you want me to go first?
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Yes, go on.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40- I'll do it then.- Wendy?
0:02:40 > 0:02:44OK. Our retired primary teacher, against which Egghead, Wendy?
0:02:44 > 0:02:46- Er...- Who looks worried?
0:02:46 > 0:02:47LAUGHTER
0:02:47 > 0:02:50Nobody looks worried, but I'd like to try against Dave, please.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52Good stuff.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54So Wendy from Always Playtime taking on Tremendous Knowledge Dave,
0:02:54 > 0:02:57from the Eggheads. And just to ensure there's no conferring,
0:02:57 > 0:03:00would you please go to our legendary question room?
0:03:02 > 0:03:04I've just noticed what your degree is in, Wendy.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06English and Visual Arts.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09That sounds perfect, Dave, for this round.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Yes, it does. I think she's the strong favourite.
0:03:12 > 0:03:13LAUGHTER
0:03:13 > 0:03:16You're currently taking some dance lessons, I gather?
0:03:16 > 0:03:19My husband and I are absolutely loving learning to dance.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22And any particular dance you particularly love?
0:03:22 > 0:03:24Oh, love the jive. Love the jive.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26The flicks and kicks, yeah.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28Yes. Wonderful, wonderful,
0:03:28 > 0:03:32and I've met so many wonderful people doing it as well.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34That's brilliant. So, Wendy, would you like to go first or second
0:03:34 > 0:03:37- on Arts And Books?- I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43OK, here we go. Up your street, this one.
0:03:43 > 0:03:48The dancer Marie Rambert is particularly associated with
0:03:48 > 0:03:49what form of dance?
0:03:53 > 0:03:57I know it's not tango or tap, it's ballet.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59It is indeed ballet, that's right.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02There's the Rambert school round the corner from my house.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06Dave, your question. In their first appearance,
0:04:06 > 0:04:09which of these Charles Dickens characters is oldest?
0:04:15 > 0:04:16Erm...
0:04:18 > 0:04:19I'm going to go...
0:04:20 > 0:04:22- ..Miss Haversham. - Miss Haversham is right.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26Here's your question, Wendy.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28Night School, published in 2016,
0:04:28 > 0:04:32is the 21st book featuring which fictional hero?
0:04:37 > 0:04:40Not really sure of that answer.
0:04:43 > 0:04:49I know there are several in the James Bond series of books.
0:04:51 > 0:04:55I thought there was only about four with Jason Bourne,
0:04:55 > 0:04:56going on the films.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00And I've seen a Jack Reacher film,
0:05:00 > 0:05:02but I've not read any of the books.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06I think I will go for...
0:05:08 > 0:05:09..James Bond.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13It's not James Bond.
0:05:13 > 0:05:14Let's just check this.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16Eggheads, could it be James Bond in the sense that
0:05:16 > 0:05:19- people are still writing Bond books post-Fleming?- Potentially, yes.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22However, it's not the right answer. Jack Reacher is the answer.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25And it's the Tom Cruise series, isn't it?
0:05:25 > 0:05:27- That's right.- Yeah. Those movies.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32Dave, the artist George Stubbs was born in which century?
0:05:36 > 0:05:3818th.
0:05:38 > 0:05:4018th is correct.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43- What year, Kevin?- Er, 1724.
0:05:43 > 0:05:451724.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47Did he make it into the 19th century?
0:05:47 > 0:05:50- Just.- Just.- 1806.- 1806.
0:05:52 > 0:05:53- How does he do that?- I don't know!
0:05:53 > 0:05:56How does he do that?!
0:05:58 > 0:05:59Human Google.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01Wendy, your third question.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03You need to get this right. In 2005,
0:06:03 > 0:06:05a sculpture of which artist was exhibited
0:06:05 > 0:06:08on Trafalgar Square's Fourth plinth?
0:06:14 > 0:06:16Again, I've not seen it...
0:06:17 > 0:06:19..but I believe it's Grayson Perry.
0:06:21 > 0:06:22It is not, actually.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25Alison Lapper was the answer there, Wendy.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27Sorry, you've been knocked out by Dave.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29- That's all right. - Come back to us, both of you.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32It IS early days, plenty of time for our challengers to turn it around.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34We'll play the next round in a moment.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38OK, so a little bit of a difficult start for Always Playtime.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41They've lost one brain from the final round.
0:06:41 > 0:06:42Sorry, Wendy.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44- That's all right. - The Eggheads have not lost any.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46And the second subject is Music.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49Who would like this?
0:06:49 > 0:06:50- Is that me?- Yes.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52- That's me, Jeremy. - OK, Dave, at the end,
0:06:52 > 0:06:55our part-time PE teacher, against which Egghead?
0:06:55 > 0:06:57Anyone but Dave.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59I think you should go against Chris.
0:06:59 > 0:07:00I think Chris as well.
0:07:01 > 0:07:02Chris, please.
0:07:02 > 0:07:07Dave from Always Playtime going to take on Chris on Music.
0:07:07 > 0:07:08Chris, how's that?
0:07:08 > 0:07:10I have one thing to say to you, sir.
0:07:10 > 0:07:11Scissor Sisters.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13LAUGHTER He's been revising!
0:07:14 > 0:07:16Try and get up to date. To ensure there is no conferring,
0:07:16 > 0:07:19would you please take your positions in our question room?
0:07:21 > 0:07:22Is it good for you, Music, David?
0:07:22 > 0:07:24Yeah, I like music, Jeremy.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26Good. What sort of music do you like?
0:07:26 > 0:07:30I sometimes, I play guitar a little bit, so old classic Beatles,
0:07:30 > 0:07:32Simon and Garfunkel stuff.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34Different eras, '60s, '70s, '80s are best for me, I think.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37Wonderful. You ever tangle with the guitar, Chris?
0:07:37 > 0:07:38No.
0:07:38 > 0:07:42The only instrument I ever played was the recorder in primary school.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45Of course, Simon and Garfunkel, Beatles, that's my era as well,
0:07:45 > 0:07:47so I think we're evenly matched here.
0:07:47 > 0:07:48OK. Well, let's see.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51Dave, Music, would you like to go first or second?
0:07:51 > 0:07:52First, please, Jeremy.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57Here we go. Good luck.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00In the system commonly used to sound out the musical scale,
0:08:00 > 0:08:04which sound follows Do, Re and Mi?
0:08:07 > 0:08:09Do, Re, Mi... Fa.
0:08:10 > 0:08:11Yes, Fa is right.
0:08:11 > 0:08:15It's Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do.
0:08:17 > 0:08:18OK, Chris.
0:08:18 > 0:08:22In which year did Cilla Black have both of her UK Number One singles?
0:08:27 > 0:08:28Ah, yes, this was...
0:08:28 > 0:08:31One of them was You're My World.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33I forget what the other one was. It was 1964.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35Now, let's think.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37- It wasn't Man Who Sold The World, was it?- No.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40- Anyone Who Had A Heart. - Anyone Who Had A Heart says Dave.
0:08:40 > 0:08:41That's the one.
0:08:41 > 0:08:431964 is right.
0:08:44 > 0:08:45Back to you, Dave.
0:08:46 > 0:08:51Which fictional character released the album Life On The Road in 2016?
0:08:55 > 0:08:57I...
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Not sure. I will have a bit of a stab, a bit of a guess at...
0:09:04 > 0:09:05..David Brent.
0:09:05 > 0:09:06Yeah, absolutely right.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08- He goes on tour with his guitar. - Get in!
0:09:08 > 0:09:11Yeah, well done. David Brent. Get in.
0:09:12 > 0:09:13Chris,
0:09:13 > 0:09:17in which state was the country singer Dolly Parton born?
0:09:22 > 0:09:23Tennessee.
0:09:23 > 0:09:24Tennessee's right.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27So, two each.
0:09:27 > 0:09:28Dave, back to you.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31What colour was the title of a celebrated 1971 album
0:09:31 > 0:09:32by Joni Mitchell?
0:09:35 > 0:09:36I like Joni Mitchell,
0:09:36 > 0:09:37I should know this!
0:09:39 > 0:09:41I'm going to go for Blue, please.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43Yeah, very much so.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46That's the title and it's one of the greatest albums ever recorded,
0:09:46 > 0:09:48and I'm ashamed to say, I think I first heard it,
0:09:48 > 0:09:50in full, five years ago.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53Chris, to stay in.
0:09:54 > 0:09:55In musical composition,
0:09:55 > 0:09:59what name is given to a chord whose pitches are sounded successively?
0:10:04 > 0:10:06That is an arpeggio.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08Mostly done on the harp.
0:10:08 > 0:10:09- Yeah, arpeggio's right.- Mm.
0:10:11 > 0:10:12Wow, you're good, you two.
0:10:12 > 0:10:163-3. Nothing to choose between you on Music so far.
0:10:16 > 0:10:17You enjoying this, Dave?
0:10:17 > 0:10:19- Oh, yeah, very much. - And we go to sudden death.
0:10:19 > 0:10:23Gets a bit harder, I don't give you multiple-choice options.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25According to the title of their 1979 single,
0:10:25 > 0:10:29which day of the week do the Boomtown Rats not like?
0:10:30 > 0:10:32They don't like Monday.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34They don't like Monday at all. You're right.
0:10:35 > 0:10:36Chris,
0:10:36 > 0:10:38which long-running BBC radio DJ
0:10:38 > 0:10:41is sometimes known by the nickname Lammo?
0:10:42 > 0:10:44Oh.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46Don't listen to the radio.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49Lammo. Obviously was named Lamb.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Erm...
0:10:51 > 0:10:54I want to say David Lammy, but he's MP for Tottenham.
0:10:56 > 0:10:57Sarah Lamb?
0:10:57 > 0:10:58Sarah Lamb.
0:10:58 > 0:10:59Mm.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01OK, Sarah Lamb.
0:11:02 > 0:11:03Known as Lammo.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06I don't know how I'm going to tell Steve Lamacq about this.
0:11:06 > 0:11:07Oh, that's him, is it?
0:11:07 > 0:11:09It's him! You've been knocked out, Chris.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11Sorry. Steve Lamacq is the answer.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13Well done, Dave!
0:11:13 > 0:11:14You've levelled things up,
0:11:14 > 0:11:16you've taken on an Egghead and emerged triumphant.
0:11:16 > 0:11:17Good news for your team.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19You will be in the final.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21Please rejoin your team-mates!
0:11:23 > 0:11:25So, as it stands, Always Playtime have lost a brain
0:11:25 > 0:11:29from the final round, but the Eggheads have lost one as well, now.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31And the next subject for you is Geography.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33- Who wants this?- Yeah?
0:11:33 > 0:11:36- Yeah.- Shall we...? - Shall we go...?- David.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38- I'm going to go.- David?- Yeah.
0:11:38 > 0:11:39Against which Egghead?
0:11:39 > 0:11:42It can be Lisa on the far end, or Kevin or Beth.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44I'd like to take on Kevin, please, Jeremy, yeah.
0:11:44 > 0:11:48OK, David from Always Playtime to take on Kevin from the Eggheads
0:11:48 > 0:11:50on Geography. Please take your positions.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54So you travel quite a bit, David?
0:11:54 > 0:11:56Yeah, quite a bit. Especially around Europe.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58And any particularly favourite places?
0:11:58 > 0:12:00- Madrid.- Madrid, really? - Oh, it's a lovely place.
0:12:00 > 0:12:02It's a lovely place to go out at night.
0:12:02 > 0:12:04The people are happy people,
0:12:04 > 0:12:07and they like to mix and socialise and chat.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10- It's great.- Did you sort of dream of living there one day, or...?
0:12:10 > 0:12:12- HE CHUCKLES - Maybe! Maybe, yeah.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14All right. So we're on Geography, David.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16Would you like to go first or second?
0:12:16 > 0:12:17I'll go second, thank you, Jeremy.
0:12:20 > 0:12:21And here is your first question.
0:12:21 > 0:12:25Kevin, which of these countries has the longest coastline?
0:12:29 > 0:12:30Well...
0:12:31 > 0:12:35I mean, Germany has got a reasonably...
0:12:36 > 0:12:37..substantial coastline,
0:12:37 > 0:12:41Portugal...probably has the longest coastline for its size,
0:12:41 > 0:12:43but it's a relatively small country.
0:12:44 > 0:12:49But Italy, as largely a peninsula and with lots of islands,
0:12:49 > 0:12:51which would count as coastline as well, I'd say it's Italy.
0:12:52 > 0:12:53Italy is correct.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56David, Niger is a country
0:12:56 > 0:12:58on which continent?
0:12:58 > 0:13:00Spelt N-I-G-E-R.
0:13:03 > 0:13:04It's in Africa, Jeremy.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07It's somewhere on the west side of Africa.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09It is indeed in Africa. Well done.
0:13:10 > 0:13:11Kevin,
0:13:11 > 0:13:14what name is given to the strait that lies between Northern Ireland
0:13:14 > 0:13:16and the south-west of Scotland?
0:13:21 > 0:13:25Well, the Firth of Forth is over on the East coast of Scotland.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28The Minch is further up in the Hebrides.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30But this is the North Channel.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32It is the North Channel.
0:13:33 > 0:13:34David, your question.
0:13:34 > 0:13:38Which of these shipping forecast areas is further south?
0:13:42 > 0:13:43Well...
0:13:43 > 0:13:45I think the Faeroes are up near Iceland
0:13:45 > 0:13:47and the Shannon's off Ireland,
0:13:47 > 0:13:51and Biscay is off the coast of the Basque country in Spain
0:13:51 > 0:13:52so I'm going to go for Biscay.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54Biscay is quite right.
0:13:54 > 0:13:55You travelled near Biscay?
0:13:55 > 0:13:57Yeah, many times. Yeah.
0:13:57 > 0:13:58So you've got two.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02Kevin's got two, let's see what the third question brings.
0:14:02 > 0:14:06The Forint, Kevin, is the national currency unit of which country?
0:14:09 > 0:14:13- Well, F-O-R-I-N-T?- Yeah.
0:14:13 > 0:14:15Forint. That's Hungary.
0:14:15 > 0:14:16That is Hungary.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19He's not breaking a sweat, Kevin, here, yet.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21But we can get some pressure on him, Dave.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23I'll try.
0:14:23 > 0:14:27Val Thorens is a popular ski resort in which country?
0:14:32 > 0:14:34It's not Austria.
0:14:34 > 0:14:38I suspect it's very close to the border of France and Switzerland,
0:14:38 > 0:14:40so...
0:14:40 > 0:14:42I'm going to say it's France.
0:14:42 > 0:14:43France is right.
0:14:43 > 0:14:44Well done!
0:14:44 > 0:14:47Playing in a very sure-footed way.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49After three questions, the scores are level.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51We go to sudden death. No options here.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55Kevin, Cape Byron is the most easterly point
0:14:55 > 0:14:57on the mainland of which country?
0:14:58 > 0:15:02If...I remember correctly, I think that's in Queensland.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05So... The most easterly, you did say?
0:15:05 > 0:15:06Yeah, most easterly point on the mainland.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09Well, I think, for... The country is Australia.
0:15:09 > 0:15:10Australia is right.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12David, Redcar is
0:15:12 > 0:15:15a coastal resort on which sea?
0:15:16 > 0:15:19It's up in the north-east somewhere, so it must be the North Sea.
0:15:19 > 0:15:20North Sea's right.
0:15:21 > 0:15:22Kevin, what name,
0:15:22 > 0:15:25derived in part from the Latin for rain,
0:15:25 > 0:15:28is given to a device used to measure rainfall?
0:15:30 > 0:15:32A pluviometer.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35That's very well done cos you could easily go wrong there.
0:15:35 > 0:15:36You're right. Pluviometer.
0:15:36 > 0:15:37JEREMY CHUCKLES
0:15:37 > 0:15:39This is fun to watch, isn't it?
0:15:39 > 0:15:42- I don't know what it's like in there, David.- Pressure on.
0:15:42 > 0:15:43You need this to stay in.
0:15:43 > 0:15:47The walking and cycle path known as the Monsal Trail
0:15:47 > 0:15:49is in which national park?
0:15:51 > 0:15:54I've never heard of it, Jeremy, so going to have to be a guess.
0:15:54 > 0:15:55I'm going to say the Peak District.
0:15:55 > 0:15:57The Peak District is right.
0:15:57 > 0:15:58Good quizzing!
0:15:58 > 0:15:59Really good quizzing.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01Kevin, in terms of population,
0:16:01 > 0:16:06what is Portugal's second largest city after the capital, Lisbon?
0:16:08 > 0:16:09That would be Oporto.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13Oporto or Porto, yes, is the right answer.
0:16:15 > 0:16:16Over to you, David.
0:16:16 > 0:16:21Hadrian's Wall ran from the north bank of the River Tyne,
0:16:21 > 0:16:23near the North Sea,
0:16:23 > 0:16:25to which Firth on the Irish Sea?
0:16:27 > 0:16:28It's near Carlisle.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33I'm searching through the brain cells, I can't think of the name.
0:16:35 > 0:16:36Maybe it's going to come to me.
0:16:39 > 0:16:40Firth of Dumfries.
0:16:41 > 0:16:43It is the wrong answer.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45- Kevin, do you know this?- Solway.
0:16:45 > 0:16:46Solway Firth, David,
0:16:46 > 0:16:48- is what we looking for. - Solway Firth, of course!
0:16:48 > 0:16:51I'm sorry. Sudden death, you've been knocked out,
0:16:51 > 0:16:53which can happen very quickly. But you played so well.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55Kevin, you're in the final.
0:16:55 > 0:16:56David, you're out. Please return to us.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58- One more round to go.- OK.
0:17:01 > 0:17:02Always Playtime have lost another player.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05They've lost two from the final round.
0:17:05 > 0:17:06The Eggheads have still only lost one.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08Let's see if we can level it up.
0:17:08 > 0:17:09And it's History.
0:17:10 > 0:17:11- There you go.- OK.
0:17:11 > 0:17:12Who wants this?
0:17:12 > 0:17:14That would be me, Jeremy.
0:17:14 > 0:17:15It's going to be you, Pete. OK.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17Choose an Egghead.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19And you can have either Beth or Lisa.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21I'd like to choose Beth, please.
0:17:21 > 0:17:23Fine. So it's going to be Pete from Always Playtime
0:17:23 > 0:17:25versus Beth from the Eggheads on History.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27Please go to the question room.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31So your subject was PE, is that right, Pete?
0:17:31 > 0:17:34- That's right, Jeremy.- And yet you were the choice for History.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36You've obviously got an interest in it.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38I've always enjoyed history.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41Chester, an old Roman town... I've grown up with history.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43Love reading it, love watching it.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45Up against Beth. Good luck, Pete.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47And would you like to go first or second, Pete, on history?
0:17:47 > 0:17:49I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54So here we go.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57Which of these historical figures sought to unify Italy
0:17:57 > 0:17:58in the 19th century?
0:18:05 > 0:18:08Well, it definitely wasn't Che,
0:18:08 > 0:18:11or Otto von Bismarck.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13It was Giuseppe Garibaldi.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15Garibaldi is the right answer.
0:18:15 > 0:18:16Well done.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18- Love his biscuits.- Yeah!
0:18:18 > 0:18:20That's how we know the name,
0:18:20 > 0:18:23isn't it? Do we know any more about what he did in the 19th century?
0:18:23 > 0:18:26Funnily enough, he was born in what's now part of France,
0:18:26 > 0:18:27because he was born in Nice.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30That was always a bit of a sore point later on.
0:18:30 > 0:18:31But he was a great Italian patriot.
0:18:31 > 0:18:33He was exiled,
0:18:33 > 0:18:37so took part in a number of military campaigns in South America.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40Then he took it into his head to come back and set up a legion,
0:18:40 > 0:18:41as he called it,
0:18:41 > 0:18:45to try and liberate parts of Italy.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48The whole thing became very political,
0:18:48 > 0:18:51and so gradually the country was unified,
0:18:51 > 0:18:54with the forces of Piedmont Sardinia coming from the North,
0:18:54 > 0:18:58Garibaldi's forces coming from the South.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00But politics being what it is, when push came to shove,
0:19:00 > 0:19:02he got shoved,
0:19:02 > 0:19:06and had to retire into exile on his little island.
0:19:06 > 0:19:11And Piedmont basically took over the Kingdom of Italy,
0:19:11 > 0:19:13and the king of Piedmont became the king of Italy.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16That's a very potted version.
0:19:16 > 0:19:17Thank you!
0:19:17 > 0:19:19OK, Beth, your question.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21The Explorer Marco Polo is famed for his journeys
0:19:21 > 0:19:23in which part of the world?
0:19:27 > 0:19:29He travelled in Asia.
0:19:29 > 0:19:30Asia is right.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32Back to you, Pete.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34The seventh armoured division of the British Army,
0:19:34 > 0:19:37nicknamed The Desert Rats,
0:19:37 > 0:19:41found fame for their exploits in north Africa during which conflict?
0:19:45 > 0:19:48OK, definitely not the Boer War,
0:19:48 > 0:19:51and not the First World War.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53It was World War II.
0:19:53 > 0:19:55World War II is quite right.
0:19:56 > 0:19:57Beth, your question.
0:19:57 > 0:20:01What was the name of the revolution that deposed James II
0:20:01 > 0:20:05and placed his daughter Mary II and her husband William of Orange
0:20:05 > 0:20:08on the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland?
0:20:13 > 0:20:16The Cultural Revolution was in China.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20This one was the Glorious Revolution.
0:20:20 > 0:20:22This is the Glorious Revolution.
0:20:22 > 0:20:23You're right.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26OK, your question, Pete.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Which English king has been accused of murdering
0:20:29 > 0:20:31his own nephew, Arthur of Brittany?
0:20:36 > 0:20:40Well, I'm not sure whether George I had a nephew called Arthur,
0:20:40 > 0:20:42or indeed Stephen.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45So it was definitely King John.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48It was King John. Well done. Three out of three. Nice play.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50So, pressure on Beth here.
0:20:50 > 0:20:51Beth, you need to get this one right to stay in.
0:20:51 > 0:20:55Which Danish king was defeated by Alfred The Great
0:20:55 > 0:20:57at the Battle of Eddington,
0:20:57 > 0:21:00and subsequently converted to Christianity,
0:21:00 > 0:21:02with Alfred as his sponsor?
0:21:09 > 0:21:12Well, Harald Bluetooth is where we get Bluetooth technology from.
0:21:13 > 0:21:17They are possibly all kings of...
0:21:18 > 0:21:19..Denmark.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22And I have heard of two of them,
0:21:22 > 0:21:24Hardecanute and Harald Bluetooth.
0:21:26 > 0:21:27My first thought was...
0:21:27 > 0:21:31it's not one I know, or could pin something on, really.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33But I'm going to go with the one I know of,
0:21:33 > 0:21:34and that's Harald Bluetooth.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37- Oh, OK, so you swerved the other, the first two, there?- Yeah.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39- Yeah.- Let's see.
0:21:39 > 0:21:40Pete, do you know?
0:21:40 > 0:21:41Yeah, it was Guthrum.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44Oh! Always go with the one you've never heard of!
0:21:44 > 0:21:45JEREMY CHUCKLES
0:21:45 > 0:21:46I ignored my own rule.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Guthrum is the right answer. So, Beth, you've been knocked out.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51Pete, well done. You took on an Egghead,
0:21:51 > 0:21:52and that's quite handy, actually,
0:21:52 > 0:21:54going into the final, you've levelled things up.
0:21:54 > 0:21:55Please return to us,
0:21:55 > 0:21:58and we'll see what happens in the all-important final round.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02Well, Pete, you obviously do love your history.
0:22:02 > 0:22:03That was very impressive.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05And this is what we've been playing towards.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07It is time for the final round.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09As always, just general knowledge.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads
0:22:11 > 0:22:13are not allowed to take part.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16So that's David and Wendy from Always Playtime,
0:22:16 > 0:22:18and also Chris and Beth from the Eggheads.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20Would you please now leave the studio?
0:22:21 > 0:22:26Pete, Tony and Dave, you're playing to win Always Playtime £5,000.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28Lisa, Dave, Kevin, you're playing for something that money can't buy,
0:22:28 > 0:22:31which is to defend the Eggheads' reputation,
0:22:31 > 0:22:33and turn this run into a roll.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38This time, they're all general knowledge.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40You may confer, gentlemen.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42So, Always Playtime, the question is,
0:22:42 > 0:22:44after some very impressive quizzing,
0:22:44 > 0:22:48are your three brains are now able to defeat these three in the final?
0:22:48 > 0:22:50And would you like to go first or second?
0:22:50 > 0:22:52We'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:22:55 > 0:22:56OK, Tony and team, good luck.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59Tony, you were known as the Colonel during your teaching career.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01Er, yeah, so I believe.
0:23:01 > 0:23:03Why was that?
0:23:03 > 0:23:06Something to do with the beard and the moustache.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Could have been the white suit and the Stetson, I don't know.
0:23:08 > 0:23:09I thought I should ask!
0:23:10 > 0:23:14All right. Here's your first question, challengers. Good luck!
0:23:14 > 0:23:18In which month of the year is the summer solstice celebrated
0:23:18 > 0:23:20in the northern hemisphere?
0:23:23 > 0:23:27- It must be June.- It's June, isn't it?- June.- June 21st.- It's June 21st.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29It's definitely June.
0:23:30 > 0:23:31June is quite right. Well done.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33Eggheads, your question.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37No Cunning Plan is a 2016 autobiography
0:23:37 > 0:23:38by which British actor?
0:23:42 > 0:23:45- Tony Robinson.- Tony Robinson. - You've seen the book, haven't you?
0:23:45 > 0:23:47I'm pretty sure it was Tony Robinson.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49Because it makes sense with Baldrick.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51It's not a Fry title, and I've read all of those anyway.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53It's not Atkinson, and you've seen the book.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55- I'm sure I've seen it. - So we'll go with that?
0:23:55 > 0:23:56Tony Robinson it is.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59We have a cunning plan.
0:23:59 > 0:24:00Tony Robinson.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02Tony Robinson is correct.
0:24:02 > 0:24:03Well done.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05OK, back to you, challengers.
0:24:05 > 0:24:09The Channel Tunnel was officially opened in May of which year?
0:24:15 > 0:24:16I think it was '90.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20I was at Harden and I was going to have a quiet walk through it.
0:24:20 > 0:24:23- When did you start and Harden? - I was definitely at Harden.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26Because I was going to try and get sponsorship from the kids,
0:24:26 > 0:24:27and I started Harden in '87.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30- So I think it's '90.- So we'll go for '90?- I think it's '90.
0:24:30 > 0:24:31- Happy with 90?- Happy with that.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33OK, we're not sure, Jeremy.
0:24:33 > 0:24:34But based on Pete's memory of
0:24:34 > 0:24:36when he applied to try and walk through it,
0:24:36 > 0:24:38we're going to go for 1990.
0:24:38 > 0:24:391990 is your answer.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42Yes, I remember some...
0:24:42 > 0:24:45interviews about whether it had got the funding and everything,
0:24:45 > 0:24:46and I wonder whether...
0:24:46 > 0:24:47whether it was '90 or '94.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49- Eggheads, do you know?- '94.- '94.
0:24:49 > 0:24:50GROANING
0:24:50 > 0:24:52'94!
0:24:52 > 0:24:53Hard luck, mate.
0:24:53 > 0:24:54So maybe, Pete,
0:24:54 > 0:24:55you were able to walk through it
0:24:55 > 0:24:57some time before it opened?
0:24:57 > 0:24:58Is that possible?
0:24:58 > 0:25:00Yeah, they opened it up to people,
0:25:00 > 0:25:01if you got sponsorship,
0:25:01 > 0:25:02so I applied,
0:25:02 > 0:25:04and it'd have been the first time
0:25:04 > 0:25:05since prehistoric times
0:25:05 > 0:25:09- that people had crossed, since the ice age.- Yeah.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12When was that, Pete? When did you do that?
0:25:12 > 0:25:15No, I didn't do it. I applied, but I wasn't fortunate enough to get on.
0:25:15 > 0:25:16They had a lot of celebrities
0:25:16 > 0:25:17that did it,
0:25:17 > 0:25:19and all kinds of events,
0:25:19 > 0:25:20to walk through it.
0:25:21 > 0:25:221994...
0:25:22 > 0:25:24is the answer there.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26So, Eggheads, you can take advantage.
0:25:26 > 0:25:31In sailing terminology, what type of equipment is known as a painter?
0:25:35 > 0:25:37- It's a type of rope. - I thought it was a rope.
0:25:37 > 0:25:38I think a painter is rope.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41Yeah, I think it's one of the things one can untie.
0:25:41 > 0:25:42OK.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45- I did think it was a sail, but... - Were you going to say sail?
0:25:45 > 0:25:46But...
0:25:46 > 0:25:47Hoist the painter?
0:25:47 > 0:25:49DAVE CHUCKLING
0:25:51 > 0:25:54I'm not that sure, to be perfectly honest,
0:25:54 > 0:25:56so if you two thought it was a rope...
0:25:58 > 0:26:01- ..I'm more than... - I think it's a rope.- OK.
0:26:01 > 0:26:02More than happy to go with that.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05- It's not a rudder.- No. Definitely not that.- We can rule out rudder.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07- I think it's rope.- OK, go with that.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10- I think it's a rope.- OK. Fine.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12OK. Majority decision, we'll go with rope.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14Rope is your answer.
0:26:14 > 0:26:15Wonder if you're right.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18You're showing a bit of uncertainty. Do you know?
0:26:18 > 0:26:19We thought it was rope as well.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22The correct answer...
0:26:22 > 0:26:23is rope.
0:26:23 > 0:26:24- Well done.- Booyah.
0:26:26 > 0:26:27Right.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30So they're ahead, and that means you must get this right.
0:26:30 > 0:26:36Which vegetable is known in German as kohl, and in Spanish as repollo?
0:26:41 > 0:26:42- Well...- I think...
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Anyone got an idea?
0:26:44 > 0:26:45I think it's cabbage.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47OK.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50I think it's cabbage based on...
0:26:50 > 0:26:53There's a dish that has kohl in it,
0:26:53 > 0:26:55which I'm sure's a cabbage-based dish.
0:26:57 > 0:26:58I don't think it's garlic.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01I think it's cabbage.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03- That's good enough for me. - OK.- Yeah.- OK, yeah.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06- We'll go with that, yeah. - Not 100% sure, Jeremy.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08But we're going to go for cabbage.
0:27:09 > 0:27:10Cabbage is correct.
0:27:10 > 0:27:11Well done.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14Two out of three. Is it enough to go to sudden death?
0:27:14 > 0:27:17Now we need to hope the Eggheads trip up. Let's see.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19Eggheads, if you get this right, you've ended the contest.
0:27:19 > 0:27:24Which Ivy League university has its main campus in New Jersey?
0:27:27 > 0:27:30- Yeah.- Princeton. - Princeton, isn't it?- Yeah.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32Cornell's in New York and Brown's in Rhode Island.
0:27:32 > 0:27:33- So it's Princeton.- Princeton.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35- Princeton, New Jersey. - New Jersey, yeah.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37Yeah. OK.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39That's Princeton, Jeremy.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41You didn't really hesitate, did you?
0:27:41 > 0:27:42Not really.
0:27:42 > 0:27:43Main campus in New Jersey.
0:27:43 > 0:27:44What do you think?
0:27:44 > 0:27:45They're right.
0:27:45 > 0:27:46Yep.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48The answer is Princeton.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50We say congratulations, Eggheads.
0:27:50 > 0:27:51You have won!
0:27:51 > 0:27:57APPLAUSE
0:27:57 > 0:27:58Ah, the beastly Channel Tunnel!
0:27:58 > 0:28:00A Tunnel Too Far.
0:28:00 > 0:28:04A Tunnel Too Far! Maybe even for the challengers today. Who knows?
0:28:04 > 0:28:06But commiserations, Always Playtime.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08You played really well. Great quizzers, I can tell.
0:28:08 > 0:28:12The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them most of the time,
0:28:12 > 0:28:14and they reign supreme over Quizland.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17It does mean you won't be going home with the £5,000,
0:28:17 > 0:28:19so the money rolls over to our next show.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21Eggheads, congratulations.
0:28:21 > 0:28:22Who will beat you?
0:28:22 > 0:28:25Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers
0:28:25 > 0:28:27have the brains to beat them,
0:28:27 > 0:28:28and snatch the money.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30There'll be £6,000 to play for.
0:28:30 > 0:28:32Till we quiz again, goodbye.