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 > 0:00:26Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz Challengers
0:00:26 > 0:00:30pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32They are the Eggheads.
0:00:32 > 0:00:36Taking on our quiz champions today are The Blaggards, from London.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40This team originally met in New York whilst on a postgraduate course,
0:00:40 > 0:00:43and have remained friends ever since. Let's meet them.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46Hi, I'm Tom. I'm a sales and marketing officer.
0:00:46 > 0:00:50Hi, I'm Jordan, I'm a business analyst for a Japanese bank.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52Hi, I'm Ben, and I'm a business analyst.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55Hi, I'm Dan, and I'm a marketing executive.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58Hi, I'm Daniel, and I'm an oil analyst.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00- So, Tom and team, hello.- Hello. - Thanks for coming in.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04And interesting and a bit exotic, you met in New York?
0:01:04 > 0:01:07Yeah, we all did a postgraduate year out in New York.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09We worked and studied for a year.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13We all met there in a bar called Blaggards, funnily enough,
0:01:13 > 0:01:15hence the name. We've stayed friends ever since, yeah.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18And working and studying in New York involved going into this bar
0:01:18 > 0:01:21- an awful lot, did it? - Yeah, it did, yeah.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23I don't know if the bosses knew about that,
0:01:23 > 0:01:25but we certainly enjoyed ourselves!
0:01:25 > 0:01:27At no point did any of you think,
0:01:27 > 0:01:29"OK, I'm staying in America, I'm not coming back?"
0:01:29 > 0:01:31It's more the visa side of things.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34After a year, it can get quite tough to get a longer stay.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37- So we all just headed back to London.- Have you quizzed together?
0:01:37 > 0:01:39A couple of times, not really that often.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42But we've quizzed together a few times before.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45- Did you quiz in Blaggards? - I don't think that has a quiz.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47That was mainly just drinking!
0:01:47 > 0:01:49In other places, we have quizzed before.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52- In the US or in this country? - In both, in both.
0:01:52 > 0:01:56- And are American quizzes different from these ones?- The sports section is a lot different.
0:01:56 > 0:02:00- Ooh, yeah, because you've got American football and all sorts. - Yeah, we're not so good at that one.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02But British sport, hopefully, might be a bit better for us.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05Good luck, team. Really hope you do well.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Every day, there's £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs for our Challengers.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize-money, as you know, rolls over.
0:02:12 > 0:02:17Now, Blaggards, the Eggheads are doing really, really well at the moment, and you've got to stop them.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19- They've won the last 24.- Wow. - So there is £25,000 to win.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21I think, rough calculation,
0:02:21 > 0:02:23that's 5,000 each saying you can't beat them.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Film And TV.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30You can choose Beth, Kevin, Chris, Dave or Lisa.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33- I think we're going to go with Daniel, aren't we? - Daniel, you're film and TV?
0:02:33 > 0:02:36- Who do you want to size up? - Who would be the best one? - Shall we say Chris?
0:02:36 > 0:02:38- Who did we agree on for that? - I think, was it Chris?
0:02:38 > 0:02:42- I think it was Chris, wasn't it? - We can go with Chris, yeah.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45- Right, so it's Dan... Oh, no, Daniel.- Daniel, yeah.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47This is going to be great(!)
0:02:47 > 0:02:48You've already foxed me.
0:02:48 > 0:02:53So, Daniel, on the end, our oil analyst, is taking on Chris,
0:02:53 > 0:02:56our train man, on Film And TV. To ensure there's no conferring,
0:02:56 > 0:02:58would you please now take your positions
0:02:58 > 0:02:59in our legendary Question Room.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04Good luck, Daniel. Film And TV is the subject, against our Chris.
0:03:04 > 0:03:08- And would you like to go first or second?- I'll go first, please.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14Here we go with your first question.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17Which of these actresses was born in South Africa?
0:03:22 > 0:03:26I am almost certain that is Charlize Theron.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28Charlize Theron is the right answer.
0:03:28 > 0:03:30Chris, here's your question.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33The characters in which children's television programme had
0:03:33 > 0:03:35their base on Tracy Island?
0:03:39 > 0:03:42"Ooh, crumbs, Chief!" It's not Danger Mouse. It's Thunderbirds.
0:03:42 > 0:03:45Thunderbirds is the right answer. Well done.
0:03:45 > 0:03:46I think, as soon as I said it,
0:03:46 > 0:03:48I thought, "You're a fan, aren't you?"
0:03:48 > 0:03:50Not really.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52LAUGHTER
0:03:52 > 0:03:54- We're a bit less wooden here.- Hmm.
0:03:54 > 0:03:58Daniel, the 2016 TV comedy series, The Agency,
0:03:58 > 0:04:00stars which impressionist?
0:04:05 > 0:04:08I have no idea with this one.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11I didn't know Rory Bremner was still going.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15I'll take a stab at Jon Culshaw.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18Jon Culshaw, you say? Well, he is an impressionist.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21Of course, they all are. It's actually Morgana Robinson.
0:04:21 > 0:04:22Chris, your question.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25In which Tim Burton film did the young actor Freddie Highmore
0:04:25 > 0:04:27have a starring role?
0:04:31 > 0:04:35Well, there's no role for a young actor in Sweeney Todd.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Neither is there a role for a young actor,
0:04:37 > 0:04:39as opposed to a young actress, an Alice In Wonderland.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41So he's got to have played Charlie
0:04:41 > 0:04:43in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46Yes, I see what you mean, I see how you did that.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Charlie And The Chocolate Factory is correct.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51So, Daniel, you've got one, he's got two,
0:04:51 > 0:04:52you need to get this one right.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55Which of these films was based on a short story
0:04:55 > 0:04:57by the American writer Annie Proulx?
0:05:04 > 0:05:07Again, I don't... I wouldn't know this one.
0:05:09 > 0:05:13I'm going to take a stab, based on what I can picture in my head,
0:05:13 > 0:05:14at Brokeback Mountain.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16Brokeback Mountain's absolutely right.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18Ah, yes, Dan!
0:05:18 > 0:05:20Well done, good quizzing there, Daniel.
0:05:20 > 0:05:24So you're level with Chris. And Chris, here is your question.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27What was the name of the character Drew Barrymore played in the
0:05:27 > 0:05:32Steven Spielberg film ET The Extra-terrestrial?
0:05:35 > 0:05:39That was Elliott's little sister, wasn't it? And...
0:05:39 > 0:05:41I think her name was Gertie.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43Gertie is the right answer. Well done.
0:05:43 > 0:05:47Chris, you've done it, you've beaten Daniel. Sorry, Daniel.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50It was that wretched question earlier on that did it for you.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53You're out of the final, Chris is in, but it's very early.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55Plenty of time yet. Please rejoin your teams.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00As it stands, the Blaggards have lost a brain from the final round.
0:06:00 > 0:06:04The Eggheads have not lost any. And the next subject for you is Science.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07- So who would like Science?- I think that's Dan.- That's for Dan, yeah.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10- Dan's the man for Science.- Dan, OK.
0:06:10 > 0:06:11So we've got two Dans in a row.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14And against which Egghead? You can have anyone except Chris.
0:06:14 > 0:06:18- What do we think?- Do you want to go for Dave?- Dave?- Yeah?
0:06:18 > 0:06:20Try that, yeah.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23- Yeah, think we're going to go for Dave.- Known as Tremendous Knowledge.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26Dan, from the Blaggards, takes on Dave on Science.
0:06:26 > 0:06:27Please go to our Question Room now.
0:06:29 > 0:06:33So, Dan, I'm sorry, I don't think there's going to be a question on a ukulele in this round.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Yeah, disappointing.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37I know that's at the centre of your life?
0:06:37 > 0:06:39I was tempted to bring it with me as well!
0:06:39 > 0:06:41How long have you been playing?
0:06:41 > 0:06:43Since uni, so three, four years.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45Why the ukulele and not the guitar?
0:06:45 > 0:06:48Well, I play the guitar as well, but when I first got to uni,
0:06:48 > 0:06:52I was at one of the society days, and I started a load of them.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55And the ukulele was the only one that stuck. So, yeah.
0:06:55 > 0:06:56And you play with other people, or...?
0:06:56 > 0:06:59Yeah, there was about 30 of us total.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01And I was the treasurer of the society as one point as well.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04- Really?- Yeah! - All right, so, Science we're on.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07We're in, I think, a ukelele-free zone, Dan,
0:07:07 > 0:07:08but one can never be sure.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11- Would you like to go first or second?- I'll go first.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16Here we go.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18Dextrose is an example of what substance?
0:07:22 > 0:07:25I don't think it's a sugar or a fat.
0:07:27 > 0:07:28Dextrose, actually...?
0:07:28 > 0:07:31Actually, I'm going to go back on that one, I think...
0:07:31 > 0:07:33(Dextrose...) I think sugar.
0:07:33 > 0:07:34Sugar is your answer.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37Let me see whether your team-mates... Team-mates?
0:07:37 > 0:07:40We originally thought sugar.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42- You did a sudden reverse there. - Yeah.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45You were right to. Sugar's the correct answer.
0:07:45 > 0:07:46Well done.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48I was worried for you for a second.
0:07:49 > 0:07:50OK, Dave.
0:07:50 > 0:07:55The carpus is the scientific name for which part of the body?
0:07:57 > 0:07:59That's carpus, C-A-R-P-U-S?
0:07:59 > 0:08:01- Yes.- Wrist.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04- Yeah, I guess that's where we get carpal tunnel syndrome from.- Yes.
0:08:04 > 0:08:08Wrist is the right answer. Back to you, Dan.
0:08:08 > 0:08:14On the 18th of March 1965, the Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov
0:08:14 > 0:08:18became the first person to perform what feat?
0:08:23 > 0:08:25I think, in 1965...
0:08:25 > 0:08:27I don't think they played golf on the moon.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29I don't think it would have been him.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32I'm going to go for space walk.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34- Let's see if the Eggheads know this. Is he right?- Yeah.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37Yes, you are correct. Space walk it is.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39Golf on the moon, it wouldn't have been, because I think
0:08:39 > 0:08:43- Apollo was '69, wasn't it?- Yes. - So, the first person on the moon.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45Dave, second question now. One second
0:08:45 > 0:08:47is made up of a million what?
0:08:52 > 0:08:57Oh, I should know this straightaway. Let me have a think.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00So, milliseconds is 1,000.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03Yeah, I'm going to have to go microseconds, please.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06Microseconds is right. HE CHUCKLES
0:09:06 > 0:09:09So, Dan, get this right, put Dave under some pressure.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11I don't know, but it looks like he's wobbling.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14Which of the following is a common type of duck?
0:09:17 > 0:09:20I think this one is going to be a difficult one.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23Erm, it's going to be a complete guess here, but in my mind,
0:09:23 > 0:09:25a gadwall and a caracara -
0:09:25 > 0:09:27I'm not sure if those would be ducks.
0:09:27 > 0:09:31A whimbrel sounds more likely, so I'm going to go for a whimbrel.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34OK, the noise of the quacking whimbrel -
0:09:34 > 0:09:37is it the right answer? Any Eggheads here know a whimbrel?
0:09:37 > 0:09:39Got any whimbrel among your personal friends?
0:09:39 > 0:09:42A whimbrel is a little seashore bird.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45- It's a seashore bird. - Yeah. The duck is the gadwall.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48- Yeah, Kevin's right. Duck is the gadwall.- Ah.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50OK. Dave, your question.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53Get this right, you will be the final.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56The Italian scientist Marcello Malpighi
0:09:56 > 0:09:58is credited with being a pioneer,
0:09:58 > 0:10:02Dave, in the use of what scientific instrument?
0:10:06 > 0:10:10Right. I don't know why I'm being drawn to microscope.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13For stethoscope, I've got somebody else in my head.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16Gyroscope, I've got somebody else. I'll go with microscope, please.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19OK, microscope is your answer. This for the round.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22Anyone know who stethoscope was, or was it Mr Malpighi, Eggheads?
0:10:22 > 0:10:24- Laennec for the stethoscope. - Laennec.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26Laennec is the stethoscope. Gyroscope?
0:10:26 > 0:10:28Foucault was involved with that,
0:10:28 > 0:10:31but there was somebody else with a bigger name.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34- Anyway...- OK, well, we might come back to the gyroscope.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36I can tell you microscope is right, though, Dave. Well done.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39You've taken the round. Three out of three. Sorry, Dan.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42Went the same way as the other Dan. Not in the final.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45Not a crisis yet, but getting close for our Challengers.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48Rejoin your teams and we will play the next round.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Gyroscope, we were just conjuring with.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53Kevin, have you got a name for us?
0:10:53 > 0:10:56- Well, a bit late, but I came up with the name Elmer Sperry.- Yeah.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58Elmer Sperry - that's very good.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00- Elmer Sperry is... - He's not the only one.
0:11:00 > 0:11:03Yes, he's associated. It's quite a complicated development.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06- The other one is John Serson. - Oh, right.- The gyroscope.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08So, we're learning stuff all the time here.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11Blaggards, it's not a crisis yet. Any change of tactics?
0:11:11 > 0:11:14We're going to stick to what we think is good,
0:11:14 > 0:11:17- which, at the moment, hasn't proven too good, but...- No.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19Well, sometimes this is the turning point.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21- Just keeping on with the same approach...- Exactly, yeah.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23..does work wonders sometimes.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25You've lost two brains from the final round.
0:11:25 > 0:11:26The Eggheads have not lost any so far
0:11:26 > 0:11:29and they are on this colossal run, so we know they're playing well.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31So, there's no shame in any of this,
0:11:31 > 0:11:33but you can still take them down and win the money.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35There's no question. The next subject is Arts & Books.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38- Who would like this? - I think that's me, isn't it?
0:11:38 > 0:11:40- Ben's going to take that one, I think.- OK.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Ben, our business analyst.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45- And who are you taking on? - Maybe Beth?- Yeah?
0:11:45 > 0:11:49- Yeah.- We're going to go for Beth, I think, if that's OK.- Fine.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52So, we've had Dan and Dan, and Ben and Beth. This is all...
0:11:52 > 0:11:54LAUGHTER ..very alliterative.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57Ben from The Blaggards versus Beth from the Eggheads.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00To ensure there's no conferring, please go to our Question Room.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04So, Beth, any reading you can recommend at the moment?
0:12:04 > 0:12:07I just read a wonderful book - it's not a novel,
0:12:07 > 0:12:10it's factual - called The Joy Of Quiz.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12And did you find, every page, you were finding out stuff,
0:12:12 > 0:12:14or did you know most of it already?
0:12:14 > 0:12:15No, I was finding out stuff during it.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18Yeah, every opportunity for some learning.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21I suppose it's a bit late to pick the book up now, Ben,
0:12:21 > 0:12:23- at this precise moment.- Yeah.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26- No, I'll get it next week, I think. - JEREMY CHUCKLES
0:12:26 > 0:12:27Are you prepped on Arts & Books?
0:12:27 > 0:12:32- I saw you go for that with a bit of alacrity.- Yeah, I think I'm good.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35I think I'll be good, but it depends what questions, obviously.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38Hopefully, I'll know them, but only time will tell now.
0:12:38 > 0:12:39Would you like to go first or second, Ben?
0:12:39 > 0:12:41Could I go first, please, Jeremy?
0:12:45 > 0:12:46And here is your question.
0:12:46 > 0:12:51Which of these is a type of poem consisting of five lines?
0:12:55 > 0:12:57Yeah, before the options came up,
0:12:57 > 0:13:01I feel like limerick and couplet can be a bit longer.
0:13:01 > 0:13:05I feel fairly confident that it might be a haiku, please, Jeremy.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08I see why you've done that. I think a haiku is very, very short.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11- It might almost be a line and a half.- Ah.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13Limerick is the one.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16They would have done some limericks in that Blaggards pub,
0:13:16 > 0:13:19- wouldn't they, Ben? - They might have done.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22The Long Islands were quite strong, though, so...
0:13:22 > 0:13:25- Well, maybe they were doing haikus by the end of the night.- Yeah!
0:13:25 > 0:13:27- Definitely felt like it. - OK, Beth, your question.
0:13:27 > 0:13:29The publisher Mills & Boon
0:13:29 > 0:13:32is most associated with which literary genre?
0:13:35 > 0:13:38Well, it's not a literary genre I read very often,
0:13:38 > 0:13:42but they are publishers of romance novels.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44Some would say horror, but... THEY LAUGH
0:13:44 > 0:13:46..romance is right.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48OK, Ben, to catch up - who would be
0:13:48 > 0:13:52most likely to use gouache in their daily work?
0:13:52 > 0:13:53Gouache.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59I really don't know, Jeremy.
0:14:00 > 0:14:04Gouache feels like a material that would be maybe more connected
0:14:04 > 0:14:09to a painter. It's a stab in the dark.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11I'm going to go for painter, please, Jeremy.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13Painter is correct.
0:14:13 > 0:14:15Well done.
0:14:15 > 0:14:16Beth.
0:14:16 > 0:14:20What term is used in literature to mean an episodic novel
0:14:20 > 0:14:24that follows a rogue or lowborn adventurer
0:14:24 > 0:14:27drifting from place to place in an effort to survive?
0:14:33 > 0:14:38Ooh. This isn't something that I've come across at all.
0:14:38 > 0:14:43Erm, Grand Guignol sounds like it should be a sort of grand adventure.
0:14:43 > 0:14:44I hate to do it,
0:14:44 > 0:14:47but I'm going to have to go down the middle with Grand Guignol
0:14:47 > 0:14:51for no other reason that it could be sort of to do with grand adventures.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53Mm. Chris is shaking his head. Chris, why?
0:14:53 > 0:14:56Well, Grand Guignol is basically sort of blood and thunder.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58What we're talking about here is picaresque.
0:14:58 > 0:14:59Yes, picaresque is the right answer.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01That would have been the one I wouldn't have picked.
0:15:01 > 0:15:05- Grand Guignol is blood and thunder? - Basically, yeah.- Horror.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07- Lovely(!)- Yeah.- OK.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09Interesting question. So, level.
0:15:09 > 0:15:13How about that, Ben? Get this right, you could be in the final round.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16Which character in Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice
0:15:16 > 0:15:18has a daughter named Jessica?
0:15:23 > 0:15:25I actually haven't watched
0:15:25 > 0:15:28The Merchant Of Venice, unfortunately,
0:15:28 > 0:15:30but something's telling me it's Shylock,
0:15:30 > 0:15:34based on almost nothing.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36Just got to go with my gut by this point, I think,
0:15:36 > 0:15:39so I'm going to go with Shylock, please, if that's OK?
0:15:39 > 0:15:41He's certainly the most famous character in the play.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44The question is whether he is the one with the daughter named Jessica.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47Yes, he is. Shylock is right.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49You're in the lead. Let's see if you're in the final.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51Beth, your question to stay in.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53Published in 2016,
0:15:53 > 0:15:58Keeping On Keeping On is a volume of diaries by which writer?
0:16:01 > 0:16:06Now, I don't think it was Bill Bryson.
0:16:06 > 0:16:13That sounds more of an Alan Bennett sort of...
0:16:13 > 0:16:16How he would describe something than Pam Ayers.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19Yeah, let's just stick with my first thought, with Alan Bennett.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22Alan Bennett is correct. You're still in, Beth. Well done.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25So, we go to Sudden Death here, Ben.
0:16:25 > 0:16:29- OK? Gets a bit harder. I don't give you alternatives.- Mm-hm.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32In the traditional fairy story Hansel and Gretel,
0:16:32 > 0:16:37where does the woodcutter abandon the two children?
0:16:37 > 0:16:41Sounds like fairly irresponsible parenting.
0:16:41 > 0:16:45I would imagine it's the woods is what I've got to guess. The woods?
0:16:45 > 0:16:48Yeah, perfect. I was sort of willing you to get that cos I think,
0:16:48 > 0:16:50- not getting it, you'd really kick yourself.- Yeah.
0:16:50 > 0:16:55Beth, to stay in. In the title of the 19th-century story
0:16:55 > 0:16:58The Swiss Family Robinson, the Robinson part
0:16:58 > 0:17:02is a reference to which character from a Daniel Defoe novel?
0:17:02 > 0:17:06- That would be Robinson Crusoe. - Robinson Crusoe is right.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08Back to you, Ben. In which futuristic novel
0:17:08 > 0:17:12by Aldous Huxley are years marked as AF,
0:17:12 > 0:17:15standing for "after Ford"?
0:17:15 > 0:17:18Erm, I believe that's Brave New World.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21It is Brave New World. Well done. Good quizzing.
0:17:21 > 0:17:23Back to you, Beth. Sudden Death, we're on.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26In Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist,
0:17:26 > 0:17:29Nancy is the girlfriend of,
0:17:29 > 0:17:32and is eventually killed by, which character?
0:17:32 > 0:17:34Bill Sykes.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37Bill Sykes is right. You're both playing well.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39Sudden Death. Ben, back to you.
0:17:39 > 0:17:44Michael Dean, Anthea Hamilton, Helen Marten and Josephine Pryde
0:17:44 > 0:17:48were the four contenders for which major arts prize in 2016?
0:17:48 > 0:17:52It's not the Booker, I don't think, cos Paul Beatty won that, I believe.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55I think Helen Marten might be the sculptor
0:17:55 > 0:17:57who won the Turner Prize,
0:17:57 > 0:18:02and they were all willing one of the architectural ideas to win.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05I think I've got to... Helen Marten rings a bell to some degree.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07I'm going to say the Turner Prize.
0:18:07 > 0:18:11Yes, Turner Prize is right. Brilliant play.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13Beth, to stay in.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16Enjambement is a technique used
0:18:16 > 0:18:19specifically in what form of literature?
0:18:19 > 0:18:24So, to spell it, it's E-N-J-A-M-B-E-M-E-N-T.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26It looks like en-jam-bement.
0:18:26 > 0:18:31I haven't a clue, Jeremy. I am REALLY struggling.
0:18:31 > 0:18:35Really, really struggling with this question. Erm...
0:18:35 > 0:18:40So, I'm going to have to hand it to Ben and say comedic literature.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43Erm, no. Lisa, I think you've got it, have you?
0:18:43 > 0:18:46I think it's a poetry thing
0:18:46 > 0:18:49where an enjambement is basically making two lines of your poem
0:18:49 > 0:18:51cover, like, one sentence. Is that sort of close?
0:18:51 > 0:18:54Two lines of your poem, what, almost they curl round the page?
0:18:54 > 0:18:57Well, so that the one idea is not contained in the line.
0:18:57 > 0:18:58So, I don't know...
0:18:58 > 0:19:00There once was a quiz host called Vine
0:19:00 > 0:19:01Who thought his broadcasting was fine.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04- Oh, I see.- It's two lines of a limerick, but one sentence.
0:19:04 > 0:19:05- I think that's what it means.- I see.
0:19:05 > 0:19:08- It's carrying on the sense of one line into the next line...- OK.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11- ..so they're not self-contained units.- OK.
0:19:11 > 0:19:13- It's poetry, Beth.- Oh, OK.
0:19:13 > 0:19:17And we've had a little explanation here of exactly why and what.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19That's great news, Ben!
0:19:19 > 0:19:21- You're in the final round. - Yeah.- You held steady.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24The skipper stayed with the secret plan,
0:19:24 > 0:19:25and it started to work.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28So, Beth has been knocked out. Please, both of you, return.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31Rejoin your teams and we'll play one more round before the final.
0:19:33 > 0:19:35All right, maybe The Blaggards have turned it around now.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38They have lost two brains from the final round,
0:19:38 > 0:19:40but they've taken an Egghead out now.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43And one more subject before the final. It's Politics.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45Who would like this?
0:19:45 > 0:19:47- I think you've got to do this, haven't you, Tom?- Tom.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50- Yeah, I think that's me.- Tom? OK. Our sales and marketing officer.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52And you can have either Kevin or Lisa.
0:19:52 > 0:19:56- I think it's going to have to be Lisa, isn't it?- Yeah, I think so.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59Yeah, we'll go with Lisa, I think. Yeah.
0:19:59 > 0:20:00There's no way of avoiding Kevin.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03He will be there at some point. THEY LAUGH
0:20:03 > 0:20:06All right, Tom from The Blaggards, Lisa from the Eggheads,
0:20:06 > 0:20:08please go to the Question Room.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12So, Tom, Politics - would you like to go first or second?
0:20:12 > 0:20:14I'll go first, please, Jeremy.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19And here we go.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21Which of the following is customarily provided
0:20:21 > 0:20:25in UK polling booths for marking ballot papers?
0:20:28 > 0:20:31Well, I think, obviously, in the past, many years ago,
0:20:31 > 0:20:34they used to have problems with people
0:20:34 > 0:20:37erasing other people's votes and perhaps changing them,
0:20:37 > 0:20:40so I think it's standard to have a ballpoint pen now.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42No, the answer is pencil.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44HE LAUGHS It is just...
0:20:44 > 0:20:47Yeah, and it's a good point you make there.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49How have we stayed with the pencil, Lisa?
0:20:49 > 0:20:50Is it cos it's cheaper or what?
0:20:50 > 0:20:53I think it is actually something to do with
0:20:53 > 0:20:56the erasability of it, quite possibly -
0:20:56 > 0:20:58so that you make sure you put the right thing on it
0:20:58 > 0:21:00because, otherwise, if you scribble on it,
0:21:00 > 0:21:01it looks like a spoiled paper.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03OK, Lisa, to take the lead.
0:21:03 > 0:21:06How long did Diane James
0:21:06 > 0:21:08serve as leader of Ukip?
0:21:11 > 0:21:14It's always very dangerous when the first thing
0:21:14 > 0:21:17that pops into my head comes up,
0:21:17 > 0:21:22but my first thought WAS 18 days, so I better go with 18 days.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24Yeah, famously was.
0:21:24 > 0:21:28It was short of three weeks. 18 days is right.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30Tom, you need this to catch up.
0:21:30 > 0:21:34Which of these politicians served as US Secretary of State
0:21:34 > 0:21:35under Ronald Reagan?
0:21:40 > 0:21:44Erm, I'm not too sure about this.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46I can't remember there being too many female Secretary of States
0:21:46 > 0:21:48across the years, to be quite honest,
0:21:48 > 0:21:51so I'll rule out Madeleine Albright.
0:21:51 > 0:21:55Erm, I'll go down the middle with Lawrence Eagleburger,
0:21:55 > 0:21:56but that's a complete guess.
0:21:56 > 0:22:01He was definitely in an American administration,
0:22:01 > 0:22:04but it was George Shultz, this answer,
0:22:04 > 0:22:06which gives Lisa a chance now to take the round
0:22:06 > 0:22:07with her second question.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10Lisa, which of these politicians worked as a GP
0:22:10 > 0:22:12before being elected to Parliament?
0:22:16 > 0:22:21Now, I had an idea that Liam Fox was actually, like,
0:22:21 > 0:22:26a proper doctor, and he's referred to as Dr Fox.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28I'll try Liam Fox.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30On the basis that Dr Fox is a thing?
0:22:30 > 0:22:33I think he is known as Dr Fox on occasion.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35Liam Fox is the right answer.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39- He was indeed not just a doctor, but a GP doctor.- Hmm.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41So, well done, Lisa. Two out of two.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43- Sorry there, Tom.- Yeah.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45- That didn't go too well, did it? - THEY LAUGH
0:22:45 > 0:22:48It was just maybe the momentum from the last round.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50- That must have been it. - Something happened there.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52- I'll blame Ben for that one. - THEY LAUGH
0:22:52 > 0:22:54So, the Challengers have lost their captain.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56Now what is going to happen? Rejoin us.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59We will play the final for £25,000.
0:23:01 > 0:23:03OK, this is what we have been playing towards.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05It is time for the final round,
0:23:05 > 0:23:07which, as always, is General Knowledge.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads
0:23:10 > 0:23:12won't be allowed to take part in this round.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15So, that's Tom, Dan and Daniel from The Blaggards,
0:23:15 > 0:23:17and also Beth from the Eggheads.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20Would you please leave the studio?
0:23:21 > 0:23:23All right, Jordan and Ben, this is the moment.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26You're playing to win The Blaggards £25,000,
0:23:26 > 0:23:27and they know you can do it
0:23:27 > 0:23:30because we've seen people with only one player left do it.
0:23:30 > 0:23:31Lisa, Dave, Chris, Kevin,
0:23:31 > 0:23:34you're playing for something that money can't really buy.
0:23:34 > 0:23:35Firstly, the Eggheads' reputation,
0:23:35 > 0:23:38and secondly, the joy of keeping this wonderful run
0:23:38 > 0:23:40that you're on going.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43As usual, I'm going to ask each team three questions in turn.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46They're all General Knowledge. You may confer.
0:23:46 > 0:23:50So, Blaggards, the question is can your two brains defeat these four?
0:23:50 > 0:23:53Simple as that. Would you like to go first or second?
0:23:53 > 0:23:55- First?- Yeah, let's go first.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01Jordan and Ben, good luck. Here's your first question.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03In terms of accommodation,
0:24:03 > 0:24:07what term is used to mean a flat that has two floors?
0:24:10 > 0:24:12- Duplex.- Yeah.
0:24:12 > 0:24:13That's duplex.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Duplex is right.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17Eggheads.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19What are normally used to play the game bagatelle?
0:24:24 > 0:24:26- Cues and balls? - Cues and balls, yeah.
0:24:26 > 0:24:31THEY MUMBLE
0:24:31 > 0:24:35- Yeah? OK?- Yeah, try that one. - A table with a round end, isn't it?
0:24:35 > 0:24:37- Yeah.- Bagatelle.- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40It's a game that's played on...
0:24:40 > 0:24:43It's sort of not dissimilar, in some respects,
0:24:43 > 0:24:45in terms of the way the table looks,
0:24:45 > 0:24:48to a kind of a bar billiards set-up, I suppose, in a way.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50But it is played with cues and balls.
0:24:50 > 0:24:52Cues and balls is correct.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55One each. It may get harder.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57Here's your question, Challengers.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59In classical architecture,
0:24:59 > 0:25:03a caryatid was a sculpted female form
0:25:03 > 0:25:05that acted as which of the following?
0:25:07 > 0:25:08- Column.- Happy with that?
0:25:08 > 0:25:11Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's a column on the outside of the buildings.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Yeah, we'll go with column, Jeremy.
0:25:13 > 0:25:14Column is right. You jumped at that,
0:25:14 > 0:25:16Ben. You know your architecture?
0:25:16 > 0:25:18- I did ancient history at university. - Oh, brilliant.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21That was a little bit fortuitous there, I think.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23- Was I pronouncing it right - caryatid?- Sure.- Yeah?
0:25:23 > 0:25:25- Well, could have been. - JEREMY LAUGHS
0:25:25 > 0:25:27OK. So, Eggheads are behind, then.
0:25:27 > 0:25:31We've got £25,000 on the table here. Your question.
0:25:31 > 0:25:35Gomme - G-O-M-M-E - is the French word
0:25:35 > 0:25:38for what item that might be found in a pencil case?
0:25:42 > 0:25:44- Eraser.- Eraser.- Eraser. - Yeah, it's a rubber.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46- Yeah, I thought it was a rubber. - Eraser.- Yeah?- Eraser.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48- OK? Happy with that? - Yeah, I'm happy with that.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51We think that's the eraser.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54Eraser's right, or rubber.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56Third question. We're cracking on here.
0:25:56 > 0:25:57With all of this money here,
0:25:57 > 0:25:59you haven't spent any time thinking yet.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01Don't rush it. Here's your third question.
0:26:01 > 0:26:05Get this right, you may have to do no more work today.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07St Stephen's Green
0:26:07 > 0:26:12is a park located in the centre of which major city?
0:26:16 > 0:26:19- St Stephen? I think... - I don't think it's Cardiff.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22I'm feeling, then, if you don't think it's Cardiff...
0:26:22 > 0:26:25- Well, Cardiff was based on nothing. - HE LAUGHS
0:26:25 > 0:26:29David's Cardiff, Patrick's Ireland. What's Scotland, again?
0:26:29 > 0:26:31- Andrew.- Andrew.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34Well, that was poor logic. Erm...
0:26:35 > 0:26:36St Stephen's Green.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38I think we're going to go for Edinburgh, aren't we,
0:26:38 > 0:26:40- even though we don't know?- Yeah.
0:26:40 > 0:26:41What would you have done on your own?
0:26:41 > 0:26:43You're on your own, the lights aren't on.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45- I'm not on my own, though, am I? - No, you're not.
0:26:45 > 0:26:46You're not, unfortunately.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49- We're going to go with that. - Yeah, I think so. I think we are.
0:26:49 > 0:26:53After a lot of wild deliberation where we don't have a clue,
0:26:53 > 0:26:56- it would be Edinburgh. - Edinburgh. OK.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58And what was the answer to the question Ben put, Jordan?
0:26:58 > 0:27:00What would you have done if you were on your own?
0:27:00 > 0:27:02It was a perfectly sensible question.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04It was, and I baulked giving an answer.
0:27:04 > 0:27:08Erm, I'd maybe have gone Ireland.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10- You would have gone for Dublin? - Yeah, Dublin. Yeah.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Anyone know back there what the answer is?
0:27:12 > 0:27:14Yeah, we think it's Dublin.
0:27:14 > 0:27:15Dublin is the answer.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19Eggheads can take the contest with this.
0:27:19 > 0:27:21£25,000, we're playing for. Here's your question.
0:27:21 > 0:27:25In book design, the right-hand page of an opened book
0:27:25 > 0:27:27is known as the recto,
0:27:27 > 0:27:31and the left-hand page is known as what?
0:27:35 > 0:27:39- Verso.- Verso.- Verso.- Verso. - Verso, yeah.- We'll try verso, yeah.
0:27:39 > 0:27:43- That is verso.- Verso is your answer.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45If you've got it right, it's the end of the contest.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48The correct answer is verso.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51We say congratulations, Eggheads. You have won.
0:27:56 > 0:28:00Well, the team-mates had the Dublin dimension, but...
0:28:00 > 0:28:03- BOTH:- Yeah.- ..that's the trouble with losing them earlier.
0:28:03 > 0:28:04I'm sorry, guys. You played well.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07- Yeah, not good enough, really. - Thank you.- Played well.
0:28:07 > 0:28:08Commiserations, Blaggards.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11The Eggheads have done what comes, well, naturally.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13Doesn't it, Eggheads? JEREMY CHUCKLES
0:28:13 > 0:28:17The winning streak continues. Goodness! Will it ever end?
0:28:17 > 0:28:20It does mean our Challengers don't go home with the £25,000.
0:28:20 > 0:28:23We roll that money over to the next show.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25We're building up quite a jackpot here,
0:28:25 > 0:28:26thanks to your quizzing. Well done.
0:28:26 > 0:28:30Congratulations, Eggs. Who, I wonder, will beat them?
0:28:30 > 0:28:32Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers
0:28:32 > 0:28:35have the brains to do it to win £26,000.
0:28:35 > 0:28:38Till we quiz again, goodbye.