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 > 0:00:20The 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 > 0:00:31pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:31 > 0:00:32Here they are, the Eggheads.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34You ready to quiz with some bells on?
0:00:34 > 0:00:36- Absolutely.- Very good.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38Cos taking on the might of our quiz Goliaths today
0:00:38 > 0:00:42are The Vandals Of Bathampton, from North Somerset.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46Now, this team are all members of the Bathampton Morris Men.
0:00:46 > 0:00:48- Let's meet them. - Hello, my name's Richard,
0:00:48 > 0:00:51and I'm a retired chartered surveyor.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54Hi, I'm Steve and I'm a university technician.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57Hello, my name's Thom and I'm a university lecturer.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00Hello, my name's Paul and I'm a retired accountant.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02Good day, my name is Stephen
0:01:02 > 0:01:05and I'm an international education consultant.
0:01:05 > 0:01:07Richard and team, hello.
0:01:07 > 0:01:11- Hello.- Great to see you, Richard, and fantastic outfits today.
0:01:11 > 0:01:15Yeah, well, we're all members of Bathampton Morris Men.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19We were founded in 1934 in Bathampton by Mrs Oakey.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21She was a teacher at the primary school.
0:01:21 > 0:01:25She kept the young boys, taught them to dance, and they kept doing it,
0:01:25 > 0:01:28- so we've been dancing for over 80 years now, as a side.- Wonderful.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31And any of you been in it all the time?
0:01:31 > 0:01:32No, obviously not. LAUGHTER
0:01:32 > 0:01:35You've got the word "vandals" in your team title, though.
0:01:35 > 0:01:39That's... One of the dances we do is called The Vandals Of Hammerwich.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42And we thought we'd do this as a tribute.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45- Homage?- Homage to that particular dance, yes.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47- The Homage to the Vandals.- Yes.
0:01:47 > 0:01:49So, you're hoping to set about this lot with,
0:01:49 > 0:01:52- well, you've bought your sticks along?- We have.
0:01:52 > 0:01:56OK. That might be handy in the science and geography rounds.
0:01:56 > 0:02:00OK. I'm feeling like we need to see some dancing, but the desk prevents.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03So maybe you can dance through the medium of quiz.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05- Let's hope so. - Good luck, Challengers.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Every day, there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11However, if the Challengers fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:02:11 > 0:02:13that prize money rolls over to our next show.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16Vandals Of Bathampton, here is the thing,
0:02:16 > 0:02:19the Eggheads are on a proper roll.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21They've won the last ten games.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23Well, it's good, isn't it?
0:02:23 > 0:02:26- Cos it means there's £11,000 for you to win.- Wow.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29- Would you like to try? - Yes, please.- We would.- Excellent.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Film & TV.
0:02:32 > 0:02:36And it's one of you against either Judith, Kevin, Pat, Beth, or Dave.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Film & TV, chaps. I think that rules me out.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40That was me, wasn't it? Unfortunately.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43Captains, don't you think I should challenge?
0:02:43 > 0:02:45I'd pick Judith, I think.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48- You think?- Or Kevin.- Oh...
0:02:48 > 0:02:50Up to you, eventually, you're in charge.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52THEY LAUGH
0:02:52 > 0:02:55- What do you think, Richard? - I will challenge Judith.
0:02:55 > 0:02:56OK. Fine.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59So, Richard from The Vandals Of Bathampton
0:02:59 > 0:03:02- is taking on Judith right away. - That is good.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04- Good with you, Judith?- Yes. - Excellent.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06To ensure there's no conferring, would you both please now
0:03:06 > 0:03:09take your positions in our legendary Question Room.
0:03:11 > 0:03:12Film & TV, Richard.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14Would you like to go first or second against Judith?
0:03:14 > 0:03:16I will go first, please, Jeremy.
0:03:19 > 0:03:20And here is your first question.
0:03:20 > 0:03:25Which of these channels was first to be broadcast on British televisions?
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Well, I think Channel 4 and Channel 5
0:03:31 > 0:03:35are fairly late incomers, commercial stations.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38So I will go with BBC Two.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40BBC Two is quite right, well done.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42Judith...
0:03:42 > 0:03:46On receiving an Oscar for best director in 1998,
0:03:46 > 0:03:49which film director shouted, "I'm the king of the world"?
0:03:53 > 0:03:54- 1998?- Yes.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57I don't know. Erm...
0:03:57 > 0:04:00I'm missing something, obviously. I'm missing an allusion, obviously.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02Erm...
0:04:02 > 0:04:03Steven Spielberg.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07Oh, Judith.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10The allusion, I think, is it may have been a line in Titanic.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12- Oh, Titanic, so James Cameron? - James Cameron.
0:04:12 > 0:04:16- Oh, dear. Yeah. - Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18We've got water in the engine room again, Judith.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21Yes, I have, and I've seen... I saw Titanic.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24Of course you have. Well, this is going well for your team, Richard.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26So far, so good, yes!
0:04:26 > 0:04:28Here's your second question.
0:04:28 > 0:04:33Who plays the title character in the 2011 action film The Mechanic
0:04:33 > 0:04:36and its sequel, The Mechanic: Resurrection?
0:04:40 > 0:04:44I don't think it's Sylvester Stallone, he's, erm...
0:04:44 > 0:04:47No, he would be too old by then.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49I'm not sure about Jeremy Renner,
0:04:49 > 0:04:53but Jason Statham is a big star so I'm going to go for him.
0:04:53 > 0:04:54Jason Statham.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57Jason Statham is quite right, well done, two out of two.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59OK. You need to get this right, Judith...
0:04:59 > 0:05:02- I know.- ..otherwise it's going to be a very rapid dispatch.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04- It is.- Here we go.
0:05:04 > 0:05:08In 2015, Louis Theroux made a feature length documentary film
0:05:08 > 0:05:10about which religious group?
0:05:15 > 0:05:20Oh, yes. I think that was the Scientologists.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23It was the Scientologists, well done. You're off the mark.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26But, Richard, you can take the round with this question.
0:05:26 > 0:05:30In The Simpsons, Marge's sisters, Patty and Selma,
0:05:30 > 0:05:35are revealed to be huge fans of which 1980s action-adventure series?
0:05:38 > 0:05:43I don't really know this one, but knowing The Simpsons a little bit...
0:05:44 > 0:05:47..I can't imagine that they'd be great fans of MacGyver and Automan,
0:05:47 > 0:05:50so I'm going to go for Knight Rider.
0:05:50 > 0:05:51MacGyver is the answer.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55This gives Judith a way back in.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57You need to get this right, Judith.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00The US TV series Boardwalk Empire
0:06:00 > 0:06:03is loosely based on a book by which author?
0:06:06 > 0:06:10I've heard of... I've never seen it, but I've heard of it. Erm...
0:06:11 > 0:06:13Oh, dear me. I don't know the author.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18- John Grisham.- No, not John Grisham. Eggheads?
0:06:18 > 0:06:21- Nelson Johnson.- Nelson Johnson, says Kevin.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24Nelson Johnson is the answer. Judith, you've been knocked out.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27Well done, Richard! Hey!
0:06:27 > 0:06:29The bells are working here.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31You've taken on an Egghead and you've emerged triumphant,
0:06:31 > 0:06:34so that's a first scalp to The Vandals.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36Please return to us. We'll play on.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39Good start for our Morris dancers.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41The Vandals of Bathampton have not lost a brain.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43They've knocked out Judith. The Eggheads are quaking now.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46£11,000 we're playing for.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48- Stakes are high, guys.- Yeah!
0:06:48 > 0:06:50Well done, team captain.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52So the next subject is Music.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54Who wants this?
0:06:54 > 0:06:55Ooh, Music...
0:06:55 > 0:06:57Who did we discuss for this?
0:06:57 > 0:07:00- Was that me?- I think it was Steve first...
0:07:00 > 0:07:01INDISTINCT CONFERRING
0:07:04 > 0:07:06Steve? OK.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10- Play us a tune, Steve. - What do you think?
0:07:10 > 0:07:12Well, you're the great tactician.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15LAUGHTER
0:07:15 > 0:07:16Pat or Dave, I think.
0:07:16 > 0:07:20- Pat.- Pat?- Yeah.- Definitely. - Going for Pat.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23Going for Pat, said with a great sense of purpose here.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25Steve from the Vandals of Bathampton
0:07:25 > 0:07:27to take on the great Pat from the Eggheads.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29Please take your positions now.
0:07:31 > 0:07:32Steve, you've quizzed before.
0:07:32 > 0:07:36Yes, yes, working for a local pub.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38Any notable moments?
0:07:38 > 0:07:41Well, quite a few years ago now, I won a beach towel.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43I can't say that it was for first prize,
0:07:43 > 0:07:47- but I'm still using that towel today.- You've never done that, Pat!
0:07:47 > 0:07:50- You've never won a beach towel. - No. No, I haven't.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53It rankles, but...that's the way it's gone!
0:07:53 > 0:07:56LAUGHTER
0:07:56 > 0:07:58We won't mention his £1 million.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01OK, Steve, would you like to go first or second on music?
0:08:01 > 0:08:03I'll go first, please.
0:08:06 > 0:08:08Here we go with your first question.
0:08:08 > 0:08:12Lance Bass and Joey Fatone were original members of which boyband
0:08:12 > 0:08:14formed in the 1990s?
0:08:17 > 0:08:20Well, I can rule out Take That straightaway,
0:08:20 > 0:08:23but then I think it's going to have to be 50-50
0:08:23 > 0:08:26between *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29I've got a leaning towards Backstreet Boys.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31Let's see if Pat knows. Pat?
0:08:31 > 0:08:35- I think it's *NSYNC. - *NSYNC is the answer. Sorry, Steve.
0:08:36 > 0:08:37Pat, over to you.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39What is the occupation of Lovely Rita
0:08:39 > 0:08:41in The Beatles song of the same name
0:08:41 > 0:08:45that appears on Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Is Rita a...
0:08:49 > 0:08:53I think it's Lovely Rita meter maid.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55- Meter maid.- Yeah. Nothing can come between us.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58Meter maid is right.
0:08:58 > 0:09:00Steve, at the 2015 Glastonbury Festival,
0:09:00 > 0:09:03which artist memorably told the crowd,
0:09:03 > 0:09:07"You are now watching the greatest living rock star on the planet"?
0:09:10 > 0:09:15I don't think any of them are noted for being particularly shy,
0:09:15 > 0:09:19but I think of those it was Kanye West.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21Kanye West is right. Well done.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25Pat, which of these composers was still alive
0:09:25 > 0:09:28at the beginning of the 21st century?
0:09:32 > 0:09:35- So the beginning of the 21st century.- 21st century. Erm...
0:09:37 > 0:09:39That's Philip Glass.
0:09:39 > 0:09:40Yes, Philip Glass.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43What sort of age was he, going into the millennium?
0:09:43 > 0:09:45- Going into the millennium?- Yeah. - Er...
0:09:47 > 0:09:49He'd have been about 60-65 then.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52Philip Glass is right. That means, Steve,
0:09:52 > 0:09:54cos he's played a perfect round so far,
0:09:54 > 0:09:56you need to get this right to stay in.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59Which of these musical notes lasts the longest?
0:10:02 > 0:10:05Of course, if I saw them written down on music paper
0:10:05 > 0:10:08that would be easy. Erm...
0:10:09 > 0:10:12Depends how many little bars they have
0:10:12 > 0:10:17attached to their up or down stroke. Erm...
0:10:17 > 0:10:22Minim, crotchet, semibreve... Semibreve, I think, is quite small.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25Crotchet, minim...
0:10:25 > 0:10:26I'm going to go for minim.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28No! Or is it?
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Let's check with the Morris men here. Do you know?
0:10:31 > 0:10:33Bit of a difference of an opinion here.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36- Yeah?- We're talking about semibreves here, Jeremy.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38Yeah, you're thinking semibreve.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40The answer is semibreve...
0:10:40 > 0:10:43actually, Steve, sorry. I know, if you'd seen it on the page,
0:10:43 > 0:10:45you would have got it, I'm sure.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47So we say well done, Pat.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49Pat's in the final round,
0:10:49 > 0:10:52although he has never won a beach towel in a quiz.
0:10:52 > 0:10:53You'll always have that, Steve.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Come back to us.
0:10:55 > 0:10:56We're going to play round three.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01So, as it stands, The Vandals of Bathampton have lost a brain
0:11:01 > 0:11:04from the final round now. The Eggheads have lost one, too.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07It's perfectly level as we go into our third round
0:11:07 > 0:11:09and the subject is History.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12Richard, who's doing this? History.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14- Who are we going to? - It's Stephen, isn't it?
0:11:14 > 0:11:16It was Steve.
0:11:18 > 0:11:19I'll take it if you like.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22- Yeah.- I'll take it.- Yeah, go for it. - I'll take it, Jeremy.
0:11:22 > 0:11:26Stephen, our international education consultant, against...
0:11:26 > 0:11:28It could be either Dave or Beth or Kevin.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30- Beth, I think.- OK.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32Yeah, I'm going to go with Beth, if I may.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34OK. The newest of the Eggheads, there.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37Stephen from The Vandals of Bathampton to play Beth, on History,
0:11:37 > 0:11:40from the Eggheads. Please take your positions.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44History, Stephen. Would you like to go first or second against Beth?
0:11:44 > 0:11:46I'm going to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:11:50 > 0:11:51OK. Good luck. Here we go.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54Which of these was built in the 1st century AD?
0:11:59 > 0:12:02I can't say with any certainty on those three.
0:12:02 > 0:12:06The Colosseum at Rome I've been to, the others I haven't.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10Babylon sort of sounds to me as though it's been around
0:12:10 > 0:12:12a bit longer than most things.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15I'm going to go for the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
0:12:15 > 0:12:20I think maybe Giza and Babylon were back in prehistory,
0:12:20 > 0:12:21what do you think, Beth?
0:12:21 > 0:12:24Yeah, the Pyramids of Giza are about 4,000 years old,
0:12:24 > 0:12:27- something like that.- Right. And anyone, Eggheads, here,
0:12:27 > 0:12:29know the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, history of those?
0:12:29 > 0:12:32Well, there's a lot of mythology to do with those,
0:12:32 > 0:12:38but we're going back to about the 6th, 7th century BC.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40It is the Colosseum at Rome, Stephen.
0:12:40 > 0:12:41OK, thank you.
0:12:43 > 0:12:44Beth, your question.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46In which modern-day country is the city
0:12:46 > 0:12:49where the October Revolution of 1917 took place?
0:12:51 > 0:12:54In 1917 there was a revolution in Russia.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56Russia is quite right.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58Stephen, in British history,
0:12:58 > 0:13:02what was the name of the monarch who ruled jointly with her husband
0:13:02 > 0:13:06from 1689 until her death in 1694?
0:13:09 > 0:13:12I'm reckoning it wasn't Elizabeth so I'm going to...
0:13:12 > 0:13:17toss a coin between Mary and Anne and I'm going to go for Mary.
0:13:19 > 0:13:20Let's check with the Challengers.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22- Challengers?- Yes.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24The king in question was...?
0:13:24 > 0:13:26- William and Mary.- William, so it was William and Mary.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28Mary's right. Still in there.
0:13:29 > 0:13:34Beth, your question. Which palace in Istanbul served as the residence of
0:13:34 > 0:13:39the Ottoman sultans from the 15th until the 19th centuries?
0:13:44 > 0:13:47The Palace of Knossos is in Crete
0:13:47 > 0:13:51and the Winter Palace is in Saint Petersburg, I think,
0:13:51 > 0:13:54but the Topkapi Palace is in Istanbul.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56Topkapi Palace is quite right, Beth, well done.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00Good quizzing. OK, so two to Beth and one to you.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02Stephen, you must get this one right to stay in.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05Which Dutch explorer is remembered for his discovery
0:14:05 > 0:14:08of large parts of Australasia?
0:14:15 > 0:14:18Well, I probably should know the answer to this,
0:14:18 > 0:14:22having lived in Australasia for just the 16 years...
0:14:22 > 0:14:25and I'm going to go for Abel Tasman.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28Yeah, you're right. Abel Tasman it is.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31You were in Australia, were you, or...?
0:14:31 > 0:14:33New Zealand, largely, but Australia, Melbourne,
0:14:33 > 0:14:38for a couple of years, within 15 of New Zealand, yeah.
0:14:38 > 0:14:42Wonderful. Abel Tasman, from whom we get Tasmania, I'm guessing.
0:14:42 > 0:14:46- Indeed.- OK, so level, but, Beth, have a chance here
0:14:46 > 0:14:48to take the round on your third question.
0:14:48 > 0:14:51In which year is Queen Victoria reputed to have said,
0:14:51 > 0:14:55"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."?
0:15:00 > 0:15:03I'm trying to think of what this possibly might be related to.
0:15:03 > 0:15:07I wonder whether it's something to do with the Boer Wars.
0:15:07 > 0:15:12Erm, it's not a quote I'm familiar with...
0:15:12 > 0:15:14but I'm...I'm drawn to one.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17Going to go with 1879.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19- 1879 is your answer.- Mm-hm.
0:15:19 > 0:15:23But you were thinking Boer War in '99 and you drifted off?
0:15:23 > 0:15:26Hmm, uh, yeah.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29- You should've stayed with 1899. - I should've stayed with it!
0:15:29 > 0:15:31- For all the reasons you said! - Yeah, yeah!
0:15:31 > 0:15:33- 1899, it was to do with the Boer War.- Got me wars muddled up.
0:15:33 > 0:15:37Yeah, so it's not 1879, and it means we go to Sudden Death,
0:15:37 > 0:15:39cos we're level after three questions.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42- How about that, Stephen?- Yes, I'm happy with that at the moment,
0:15:42 > 0:15:44probably above all expectation.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46All right, let's see how you do here.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49We're on History, we're on Sudden Death, and it's a bit harder,
0:15:49 > 0:15:50cos it's not multiple choice.
0:15:50 > 0:15:54Stephen, your question. In which century did John Blenkinsop
0:15:54 > 0:15:56design what has been described as
0:15:56 > 0:15:59the first practical steam railway locomotive?
0:16:00 > 0:16:03I'm going to go with the 19th century, Jeremy.
0:16:03 > 0:16:0419th is quite right.
0:16:06 > 0:16:07Beth, to stay in -
0:16:07 > 0:16:11which flower was the emblem of the royal houses of Lancaster and York?
0:16:11 > 0:16:14Oh, them together was a Tudor rose.
0:16:14 > 0:16:16Rose is right.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19Stephen, Sudden Death. Your question.
0:16:19 > 0:16:23Which country, a potential bridgehead for military expansion
0:16:23 > 0:16:29into the Balkans, did Italy invade and occupy in 1939?
0:16:29 > 0:16:30Er, I'm not...
0:16:31 > 0:16:34..convinced this answer's correct necessarily,
0:16:34 > 0:16:37but I'm going to go for Greece.
0:16:37 > 0:16:38- No, Albania.- Argh!
0:16:38 > 0:16:43Beth, between 1867 and the end of World War I,
0:16:43 > 0:16:47the so-called Jewel Monarchy was a constitutional arrangement whereby
0:16:47 > 0:16:52which two countries, one an empire and one a kingdom, shared a ruler?
0:16:53 > 0:16:54Hmm...
0:16:55 > 0:16:59One that would fit... Let's go, um, with Austria and Hungary.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01Austria and Hungary is the right answer, Beth, well done,
0:17:01 > 0:17:03you're through to the final.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05Stephen, you've been knocked out by our Egghead,
0:17:05 > 0:17:08and if you return to us, we'll play one more round before the final.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12So, the Vandals of Bathampton have lost two brains now
0:17:12 > 0:17:15from the final round. The Eggheads have lost just the one.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19And the next subject, the last before the final, is Arts & Books.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21- Who would like this?- Arts & Books... - Shall I take that one?
0:17:21 > 0:17:24- I think you're...- I think if you could...- ..a very good choice.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27- Well done, Thom.- I'll take that one. - OK, Thom, university lecturer.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30Against which Egghead? And you can have either Kevin or Dave.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33- Dave?- Dave?- Yeah, Dave, we're going to go with you.
0:17:33 > 0:17:37Very good. Thom from the Vandals versus Dave from the Eggheads.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40Please, for the last time, go to our Question Room.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45Thom, I gather Prince Charles pours milk on your cereal.
0:17:45 > 0:17:48Well, he did once when we were at naval college.
0:17:48 > 0:17:52He'd come and sat right opposite me when we were having breakfast.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55It was amazing, the breakfast cereal selection trebled
0:17:55 > 0:17:59- when he was in the college, and... - LAUGHTER
0:17:59 > 0:18:02He's not been doing this regularly, it was just a one-off occasion.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05No, no, we're not the best of chums, but, uh, we...
0:18:05 > 0:18:08I'm sure he remembers it with the same fondness that I do.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10Yeah, it's a very good story.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13So Arts & Books and, Thom, would you like to go first or second?
0:18:13 > 0:18:15I think I'm going to differ from my colleagues
0:18:15 > 0:18:17and I'm going to go second, please, Jeremy.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22So the first question to Dave.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24In the 1001 Nights,
0:18:24 > 0:18:27the cave hiding the loot of the 40 thieves
0:18:27 > 0:18:31can only be accessed with which verbal command?
0:18:35 > 0:18:37I think that's "Open Sesame".
0:18:37 > 0:18:39"Open Sesame" is correct.
0:18:39 > 0:18:40Over to you, Thom.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43Which of these major art movements came first?
0:18:46 > 0:18:51Well, pop art, of course, was the 1960s and thereabouts.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54Cubism was espoused amongst others by Picasso
0:18:54 > 0:18:57at the beginning of the 20th century
0:18:57 > 0:19:02and Impressionism became part of the scene
0:19:02 > 0:19:06from the late 19th century onwards, so it's Impressionism, Jeremy.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09I love your answer. Impressionism's quite right.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12- I think we might have a quizzer here, Dave.- Yes, we do.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15A 1983 novel by Dick King-Smith telling the story of a girl
0:19:15 > 0:19:20who can make wishes using a magic coin is titled the Queen's what?
0:19:23 > 0:19:27A magic coin? I've not heard of this novel at all.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30The one that sounds best is The Queen's Eyes,
0:19:30 > 0:19:33but it could be any of them. Queen's Eyes, please.
0:19:33 > 0:19:35No, it's The Queen's Nose.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37- Never heard of it. - So, back to you, Thom.
0:19:37 > 0:19:38Did you know that, Thom?
0:19:38 > 0:19:40Perhaps I'm not going to confess!
0:19:40 > 0:19:42All right, then - I didn't.
0:19:42 > 0:19:43LAUGHTER
0:19:43 > 0:19:45Keep him guessing. Here's your question to take the lead.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47Which of these Shakespeare plays
0:19:47 > 0:19:50is based on accounts of real historical figures?
0:19:54 > 0:19:57Well, Romeo and Juliet,
0:19:57 > 0:20:01we know they had full names, we know where they were based.
0:20:01 > 0:20:06Macbeth - "Where the place? Upon the heath. There to meet with Macbeth."
0:20:08 > 0:20:10I think there's a lot of fiction there,
0:20:10 > 0:20:13so I'm going to go for Measure For Measure.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16Oh, how interesting - you veered away from the right answer.
0:20:16 > 0:20:17Macbeth is the answer.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20- Oh, on the heath? - Yeah, real kings, real people
0:20:20 > 0:20:23it was based on. Macbeth.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26Dave, you can take the lead with this.
0:20:26 > 0:20:32Laurent Binet's 2010 debut novel, HHhH,
0:20:32 > 0:20:37tells the story of the assassination of which Nazi leader?
0:20:37 > 0:20:39And the aitches, let me just tell you,
0:20:39 > 0:20:43it's capital H, capital H, small h, capital H. Is it...
0:20:48 > 0:20:52Erm, my Nazi history is gone. Erm...
0:20:52 > 0:20:54No, this is bad for me.
0:20:54 > 0:20:58I'm going to eliminate Hess.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00I'm trying to remember which one was assassinated.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03It could be Heydrich. I'm going to go Himmler, Heinrich Himmler,
0:21:03 > 0:21:07but, again, I just couldn't get a handle on who was assassinated
0:21:07 > 0:21:08- at the time.- Heinrich Himmler.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11Well, the aitches suggest him because there's four aitches
0:21:11 > 0:21:13in the title and he is Heinrich Himmler,
0:21:13 > 0:21:14but it's not the right answer.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17- It's Reinhard Heydrich. - Yes, I thought it would be, yes.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20- You thought it would be?- Yeah, well, just tried to see who was assass...
0:21:20 > 0:21:23- It's my bad.- OK.- No problem.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29So, Thom, get this right, you're in the final round,
0:21:29 > 0:21:31otherwise we go to Sudden Death.
0:21:31 > 0:21:35Which fictional road is featured in the title of a 1751 painting
0:21:35 > 0:21:37by William Hogarth?
0:21:41 > 0:21:45Well, Hogarth did a number of paintings and engravings
0:21:45 > 0:21:47which had a moralistic message,
0:21:47 > 0:21:51and I think one of the main messages he wanted to give was
0:21:51 > 0:21:55to fight against the use, the excessive use, of gin,
0:21:55 > 0:21:56so I think it was Gin Lane.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58Brilliant answer. Gin Lane is quite right.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01- You've taken the round from Dave. Sorry, Dave.- No problem!
0:22:01 > 0:22:04There we go. Dave is knocked out, Thom is in the final.
0:22:04 > 0:22:07Come back to us, both of you, and we will play that final round
0:22:07 > 0:22:08for £11,000.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12This is what we have been playing towards.
0:22:12 > 0:22:16It is time for the final round. As always, it's General Knowledge,
0:22:16 > 0:22:18but I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads
0:22:18 > 0:22:20won't be allowed to take part in this round,
0:22:20 > 0:22:23so Steve and Stephen from the Vandals of Bathampton,
0:22:23 > 0:22:25and also Dave and Judith from the Eggheads,
0:22:25 > 0:22:27would you please now leave the studio?
0:22:29 > 0:22:31Richard, Thom and Paul, you're playing to win
0:22:31 > 0:22:35the Vandals of Bathampton £11,000. Big jackpot today.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39Beth, Pat and Kevin, you're playing for something that money can't buy -
0:22:39 > 0:22:42the Eggheads' reputation, and to keep this run going.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47This time, they're all General Knowledge.
0:22:47 > 0:22:48You are allowed to confer.
0:22:48 > 0:22:51So, Vandals of Bathampton, the question is,
0:22:51 > 0:22:54can your three brains defeat these three?
0:22:54 > 0:22:57Simple as that. You've done really well to get it to 3-3.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59Would you like to go first or second now?
0:22:59 > 0:23:02- I think first.- Yes.- We'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:23:06 > 0:23:10OK, here we go. General Knowledge, your first question, Challengers.
0:23:10 > 0:23:15Which major visitor attraction was opened in 2001 in Leicester?
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Oh, I think it's the National Space Centre, isn't it?
0:23:24 > 0:23:27- Yes, I think so.- The Eden Project is in Cornwall.- Yep.
0:23:29 > 0:23:33The Museum of Science and Industry, I don't think so, not Leicester.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35- I think it's the National Space Centre.- Yes.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37It's the National Space Centre, Jeremy.
0:23:37 > 0:23:41National Space Centre is the right answer. Well done.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43Eggheads, your question.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46Which of these materials is produced using a man-made fibre?
0:23:49 > 0:23:53- Polyester.- Polyester.- Polyester?- OK.
0:23:53 > 0:23:54We think that's polyester.
0:23:54 > 0:23:56Polyester is correct.
0:23:57 > 0:23:58Back to the Challengers.
0:23:58 > 0:24:02What word is used to describe a word or phrase that reads the same
0:24:02 > 0:24:04backwards as forwards?
0:24:04 > 0:24:06Is that "onomatopoeic"?
0:24:10 > 0:24:13Same backwards as forwards is a palindrome, isn't it?
0:24:13 > 0:24:15- Palindrome.- Yeah, yeah.
0:24:15 > 0:24:19I'm not sure we even know what a lipogram is...
0:24:19 > 0:24:22but we're pretty sure we know what a palindrome is,
0:24:22 > 0:24:25and I think palindrome is the right answer.
0:24:25 > 0:24:26Palindrome is right.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29Yeah, like, "Rats live on no evil star,"
0:24:29 > 0:24:30my dad always used to tell me.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33Let's just check with the Eggheads. Lipogram?
0:24:33 > 0:24:36It's a sentence or a sequence of words
0:24:36 > 0:24:39- in which a particular letter is omitted, I think.- Omitted.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41- I think so. I think that's what it is.- OK, there we go.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44Palindrome is right, that's all that matters.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46Two out of two so far, well done.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48£11,000 we're playing for.
0:24:48 > 0:24:51This can go wrong very quickly, as the Eggheads know.
0:24:51 > 0:24:56Here is your question - who was King of England from 1272 to 1307?
0:25:00 > 0:25:02Edward I.
0:25:02 > 0:25:03- Yeah.- OK?
0:25:03 > 0:25:05- 1272-1307?- Correct.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08- That was Edward I.- Edward I.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13I'm afraid Kevin can do those ones in his sleep, slightly.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17All right, 2-2.
0:25:17 > 0:25:21Get this right and your work today may be done.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24Get this right, they get theirs wrong, you've won £11,000.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26You're playing well.
0:25:26 > 0:25:30Which hormone is produced by the pineal gland,
0:25:30 > 0:25:33mainly in the hours of darkness?
0:25:33 > 0:25:35Pineal is P-I-N-E-A-L.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42- Oh, God. I really don't know. - It's not insulin, is it?
0:25:42 > 0:25:44We know it's not insulin.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47OK. Melatonin is something you get from sunshine, isn't it?
0:25:47 > 0:25:49- Yes.- So it may not be melatonin.
0:25:49 > 0:25:53- You don't...- But it might be that it's sensitive to light,
0:25:53 > 0:25:56or lack of light, and, sort of, that points us towards...
0:25:56 > 0:25:59Gastrin, with pointings?
0:25:59 > 0:26:01So you think it might be...?
0:26:01 > 0:26:04Gastrin, gastrin is in your gastric juices.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07Our thinking is that melatonin is something that happens
0:26:07 > 0:26:09when you're out in the sunshine, you get more of that.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11Insulin, we're pretty sure it can't be,
0:26:11 > 0:26:13so we're going to go for gastrin.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16- Ah...- It's melatonin.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18Your logic was working really well there,
0:26:18 > 0:26:21because melatonin and sunlight,
0:26:21 > 0:26:23it's that relationship with light is the key thing here,
0:26:23 > 0:26:26and it is... Well, Beth will know this. Is melatonin sleep-related?
0:26:26 > 0:26:31It is sleep-related, and I think you may be confused with melanin,
0:26:31 > 0:26:32which is the one that's produced,
0:26:32 > 0:26:34which is what you've got in your skin.
0:26:34 > 0:26:35Ah, that's what makes you brown.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38Makes you brown, yeah. Melatonin's to do with sleep regulation.
0:26:38 > 0:26:42If you want the other two, insulin is to do with sugar,
0:26:42 > 0:26:45produced by the pancreas, and gastrin is a gut hormone,
0:26:45 > 0:26:48so it's to do with gut regulation.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50Melatonin is the answer.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53Sleep regulation is what it does.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56So you've left the Eggheads with a way of winning the contest
0:26:56 > 0:27:01on this one question - what is the first name of the Mr Davis
0:27:01 > 0:27:04after whom tennis's Davis Cup is named?
0:27:07 > 0:27:08Dwight.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11- Oh, is that it, Dwight? - Dwight rings a bell.- Dwight Davis.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14Cos it's Samuel Ryder and Godfrey something else,
0:27:14 > 0:27:17- but I'm pretty sure it's Dwight. - OK, yeah.- OK?
0:27:17 > 0:27:20He was Dwight Davis.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22He was Dwight Davis, you say.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25If you are right, the contest is over.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27Challengers today are playing for £11,000.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29They've done well to get three in the final.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32Mr Davis's first name was Dwight.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35We say congratulations, Eggheads. You have won.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44I'm sorry, Vandals of Bathampton, you give them a little way in...
0:27:44 > 0:27:46- Yeah.- ..they take it.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49I thought you were heading for melatonin, there, I must say.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51Yes, should have stuck with that.
0:27:51 > 0:27:55You sort of stopped on melatonin and then went to gastrin suddenly.
0:27:55 > 0:27:58- Gastrin, and there we are.- There we go.- But it's been great fun.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00Thank you, well, thanks for, also, the outfits.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03There aren't enough colourful outfits from our Challengers
0:28:03 > 0:28:05and you did it today, that's for sure.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08Commiserations, Vandals of Bathampton,
0:28:08 > 0:28:11but the Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them
0:28:11 > 0:28:13and your winning streak continues.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16It does mean you're not going home with the £11,000,
0:28:16 > 0:28:19so we'll take that money and we'll roll it over to our next show.
0:28:19 > 0:28:22Eggheads, very well done. Can you be beaten?
0:28:22 > 0:28:25Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers
0:28:25 > 0:28:29have the brains to do it. There'll be £12,000 waiting for them here.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31Until then, goodbye.