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 > 0:00:24Welcome to Eggheads,
0:00:24 > 0:00:27the show where a team of five quiz Challengers pit their wits against
0:00:27 > 0:00:30possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32Here they are, the Eggheads.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34- Ready to roll? EGGS:- Yes.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37Very much so. Hoping to beat the might of the Eggheads today are
0:00:37 > 0:00:39the Old Dorks from Surrey.
0:00:39 > 0:00:41Now, the majority of this team
0:00:41 > 0:00:45of friends met through setting up their own book club in Dorking.
0:00:45 > 0:00:49- Let's meet them.- Hi, I'm Kevin, and I am a communications director.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51Hello, I'm John. I'm a business journalist.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54Hi, I'm Hugh, and I'm a physics PhD student.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58Hi, I'm Mas, and I'm an IT consultant.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01Hello, I'm Mark, and I'm a lawyer.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04- Kevin and team, hello. ALL:- Hello.- Good to see you.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07And Dorking is the centre of the world, Kevin, is it, for all of you?
0:01:07 > 0:01:10Absolutely. Most of us got to know each other through our sons playing
0:01:10 > 0:01:13football, initially, and the book club is kind of an offshoot.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15And because the football team was called Old Dorkinions,
0:01:15 > 0:01:17we kind of abbreviated that to Old Dorks.
0:01:17 > 0:01:21To Old Dorks. And combination of football and books
0:01:21 > 0:01:23can be very powerful in the quizzing world.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25You've got sport covered, you've got literature.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27Yes. Quite a good range amongst the team.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29- Hopefully.- Do you like to quiz?
0:01:29 > 0:01:30We do enjoy the odd pub quiz.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32Sometimes we win, sometimes we don't.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35- But it's good fun.- And do you watch these five doing their thing?
0:01:35 > 0:01:38We do, and they look even more scary now.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Well, actually facing them is more terrifying...
0:01:40 > 0:01:42Yes, I can believe that. Yeah.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45Well, they are on quite good form, at the moment.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47Good luck. Every day, there is £1,000 worth of cash
0:01:47 > 0:01:49up for grabs for our Challengers.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:01:51 > 0:01:54that prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:01:54 > 0:01:59So, Old Dorks, the Eggheads have won the last 25 games.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03That means there is a jackpot of £26,000 for you to win today.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05Oh, I just sensed the temperature rise.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Food & Drink.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12Now one of you needs to play either Beth, Chris, Pat, Dave, or Lisa.
0:02:12 > 0:02:13- OK, so...- Gosh, I think that's...
0:02:13 > 0:02:15Food & Drink. An interesting choice.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17- Mark, do you feel up for it? - I'm prepared to do it.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20- It's not my primary subject, but I'm prepared to do it.- Good.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22Thanks, Mark. So, it'll be Mark.
0:02:22 > 0:02:23Mark, OK. A lawyer.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25Against which Egghead?
0:02:25 > 0:02:27Any one of the five.
0:02:27 > 0:02:28I would take on Dave, I would suggest.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30I'm happy to go with your decision.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32OK. We'll take on Dave, please, Jeremy.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35All right. So, Mark from the Old Dorks takes on Dave,
0:02:35 > 0:02:37Tremendous Knowledge as we call him, from the Eggheads,
0:02:37 > 0:02:39on Food & Drink. To ensure there is no conferring,
0:02:39 > 0:02:41would you please both take your positions
0:02:41 > 0:02:42in our famous Question Room?
0:02:45 > 0:02:46OK, good luck in this round, Mark.
0:02:46 > 0:02:50It sounds like it wasn't particularly your choice to do this?
0:02:50 > 0:02:53I'm fairly comfortable with it, so I'm very happy to go with it.
0:02:53 > 0:02:57And I gather your mum saved your childhood teeth
0:02:57 > 0:03:00when they came out and gave them to the Natural History Museum?
0:03:00 > 0:03:03Yes, that's right. My mother had a rather off-the-wall sense of humour.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05She heard someone on the radio saying that
0:03:05 > 0:03:06the Natural History Museum
0:03:06 > 0:03:08didn't have a complete set of children's teeth.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10So, as mine came out,
0:03:10 > 0:03:12she saved them up carefully, and the great day came when we went
0:03:12 > 0:03:15to South Kensington and presented them to the museum.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17And they were put on display, or they laughed?
0:03:17 > 0:03:20No, I think they are in a drawer somewhere
0:03:20 > 0:03:22- in the dusty bowels of the museum. - Brilliant.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25Good old mum. OK, well, Food & Drink against Dave,
0:03:25 > 0:03:27and would you like to go first or second?
0:03:27 > 0:03:29I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36Here we go. Beer served from a barrel,
0:03:36 > 0:03:38rather than a bottle or a can,
0:03:38 > 0:03:39is commonly known by what name?
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Well, I'm not a great beer drinker,
0:03:46 > 0:03:50but I've got some friends who are fairly serious beer enthusiasts.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53I suppose hopped beer, hops are in pretty much all beer.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57Widget, I think that's one of those things that puts the fizz into beer.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01I think it's draught beer.
0:04:01 > 0:04:02It is draught beer. Mark, well done.
0:04:02 > 0:04:05Yes, a point to you. OK, Dave, over to you.
0:04:05 > 0:04:07Your first question, Dave.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10Which of these delicacies is sometimes referred to
0:04:10 > 0:04:11as black diamonds?
0:04:14 > 0:04:17- It's black diamonds, yeah? - Black diamonds.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19I've got to go truffles there, please.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Truffles is correct.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23Back to you, Mark, our lawyer.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25What name is given to the ball-shaped sweet
0:04:25 > 0:04:30made principally of flour and sugar that is popular in Indian cuisine?
0:04:34 > 0:04:35I should know this,
0:04:35 > 0:04:39cos my father grew up in India and is very fond of sweets.
0:04:39 > 0:04:42I don't think it's aloo.
0:04:42 > 0:04:46I was confusing it with jalebis, which are these spiral ones.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50I'm not sure, but I think it's pakora.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52- Eggheads, is he right?- It's ladoo.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55Yeah, ladoo. Pakora is a savoury snack.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58Yeah, pakora, says Beth, is a savoury snack,
0:04:58 > 0:05:00so it's ladoo, Mark.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03And Dave has the chance to take the lead.
0:05:03 > 0:05:08Which of these is a German dish consisting of potato pancakes?
0:05:08 > 0:05:09Dave, is it...?
0:05:14 > 0:05:18The only jager I associate is...
0:05:18 > 0:05:21Landjager is with more alcohol.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24Blutwurst sounds like a blood sausage.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26I'm going to go Kartoffelpuffer, please.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28Lisa, you'll know this with your German background.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30Kartoffel is potato?
0:05:30 > 0:05:33- Correct. Yes. - Kartoffelpuffer is the right word.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35OK, back to you, Mark, and you need
0:05:35 > 0:05:37to get this one right.
0:05:37 > 0:05:41Alpine Valleys is one of the most visited wine regions
0:05:41 > 0:05:42in which country?
0:05:46 > 0:05:49I'm thinking of which of those countries might reproduce...
0:05:51 > 0:05:54..the quality of climate you'd find in the Alpine valleys.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56I'd be inclined to rule out America.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58I haven't heard of it.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00Australia I associate more with...
0:06:01 > 0:06:03..New World wines and I'm wondering if the name
0:06:03 > 0:06:06has a new world colour to it.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10Well, my processes are leading me to South Africa.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15I'm not going to get beyond that, so I'm going to say South Africa.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17The answer is Australia.
0:06:17 > 0:06:19So, there's no way back for you.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22I'm sorry, Mark, you're knocked out.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24Dave is in the final and it means the Eggheads are still going to be
0:06:24 > 0:06:26sitting there all five of them.
0:06:26 > 0:06:28You've got to knock one out. Please come back,
0:06:28 > 0:06:29rejoin your teams, we'll play on.
0:06:31 > 0:06:34So, as it stands, the Old Dorks have lost one brain from the final round.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36The Eggheads are still all there.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38Just checking. A lot of money that we are playing for, as well.
0:06:38 > 0:06:40The next subject is Music.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42Who wants this?
0:06:43 > 0:06:45- OK.- Team captain? - Well, as always happens,
0:06:45 > 0:06:46our music expert has just gone out.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48Well, I know, Mark. You love your music, Mark.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51- What happened there?- I know, but I thought I knew my food and drink.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55- That's painful.- But I think we have someone else who is going to have a
0:06:55 > 0:06:58- stab at it. Hugh. - Yeah, I'll give music a go.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00OK. Hugh, you are a student.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02- Are you studying music? - I'm studying physics.
0:07:02 > 0:07:03You're studying physics. OK.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05Who would you like to take on? It can't be Dave.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07- What do you think?- Take on Beth.- OK.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09- We'll take on Beth. - We'll take on Beth, please.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12Good stuff. So it's going to be Hugh from the Old Dorks versus Beth,
0:07:12 > 0:07:14the newer of the Eggheads.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17To ensure there is no conferring, please take your positions.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22So your subject, Hugh, is climate physics, is that right?
0:07:22 > 0:07:26Yes, that's right. So I'm looking at the jet stream for my PhD,
0:07:26 > 0:07:28which is this current of air that brings the weather
0:07:28 > 0:07:29over the North Atlantic.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32I'm looking, basically, at how global warming is affecting
0:07:32 > 0:07:35the jet stream and how that will affect the weather
0:07:35 > 0:07:36over the UK and Europe.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38All right. And is it good news or bad?
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Well, so I'm just starting my second year,
0:07:40 > 0:07:43- so I don't have a whole load of... - Oh, they haven't told you yet?
0:07:43 > 0:07:45No, I haven't got any results as such.
0:07:45 > 0:07:49And although the jet stream hasn't got much to do with music, Hugh,
0:07:49 > 0:07:52I know you do play the trumpet and you love music yourself.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54Yes. So I've played trumpet for,
0:07:54 > 0:07:57well, since the beginning of high school, really.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00I play in a band - blues and soul and things like that.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02Yeah. Brilliant stuff. Well, good luck in this round against Beth.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04Would you like to go first or second?
0:08:04 > 0:08:06I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11So, Hugh, here is your first question.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14What is a small extract of music from one recording
0:08:14 > 0:08:17that is taken and used in another song called?
0:08:22 > 0:08:26I'm fairly confident here that a specimen is a more scientific thing.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29Again, cross-section, as well.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31So I think I'm going to go for sample.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34- A sample of music.- Sample. I'm going to check with your dad here.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36- John?- Yeah, I think that's right.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Yeah, he says it's right, and it is right.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40Sample. Well done. A point to you.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42Beth, over to you for your question.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45In which city was the pop group Duran Duran formed?
0:08:48 > 0:08:51Oh, from those three, it's got to be Birmingham.
0:08:51 > 0:08:52It is indeed Birmingham.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54Well done. Simon Le Bon and co.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57All right. Hugh.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00Which musical instrument has the nickname liquorice stick?
0:09:04 > 0:09:07I haven't heard the nickname liquorice stick.
0:09:09 > 0:09:10I'm going to rule out French horn,
0:09:10 > 0:09:14because a French horn is more circular shaped.
0:09:14 > 0:09:15I think based on...
0:09:15 > 0:09:18Liquorice is a black sweet, I think.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20I think, based on that, I'm going to go for clarinet,
0:09:20 > 0:09:23which is a straight, black instrument.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25Yeah, it is what I was forced to play in school, as well.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Clarinet is the right answer.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29Beth, over to you for your question.
0:09:29 > 0:09:33"We ain't no delinquents, we're misunderstood.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36"Deep down inside us there is good"
0:09:36 > 0:09:39are lyrics from which song in West Side Story?
0:09:44 > 0:09:46It's certainly not America,
0:09:46 > 0:09:50cos I sang that when I was at school and I don't remember those lyrics.
0:09:50 > 0:09:54Thinking about how the lines would fit, that possibly goes into
0:09:54 > 0:09:56Gee, Officer Krupke!
0:09:56 > 0:09:59Gee, Officer Krupke! is the right answer.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02- Phew!- Well done, you. All right.
0:10:02 > 0:10:03Back to you, Hugh.
0:10:03 > 0:10:07The 2016 single Rock-a-bye was the second UK number one
0:10:07 > 0:10:08for which group?
0:10:13 > 0:10:16Oh. These are all bands I know.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18I'm fairly confident Mumford and Sons
0:10:18 > 0:10:22probably have had more than one number one.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25And likewise Florence And The Machine.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28So, by process of elimination, I think I'm going to go Clean Bandit.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Yeah, you've done well. Clean Bandit it is.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34You've got three out of three. Well done. That trumpet is working.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37Beth, your question, to stay in the contest.
0:10:37 > 0:10:41Opus 74, entitled Four Psalms,
0:10:41 > 0:10:45was the final work of which composer born in 1843?
0:10:51 > 0:10:52Opus 74.
0:10:52 > 0:10:53Opus 74.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Four Psalms.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59Certainly in the time of Elgar.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01This is a guess, really.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03I'm going to go with Edward Elgar.
0:11:03 > 0:11:04- The answer is Edvard Grieg.- Oh.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06Sorry, Beth, you're knocked out.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08Well done, Hugh, you are in the final round,
0:11:08 > 0:11:10so you've levelled it up there.
0:11:10 > 0:11:14OK, good performance with the climate physics coming in handy.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16Yeah, I'm very pleased, very happy.
0:11:16 > 0:11:17That worked wonders in the Music round.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20Do rejoin your teams and we'll play on.
0:11:22 > 0:11:24So, the Old Dorks have levelled it up.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26They've lost a brain from the final round.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28The Eggheads have also lost a brain.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31We play on, and it's History.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33I'm reckoning the Old Dorks are going to be good on this.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35- Oh.- Who's the history person?
0:11:35 > 0:11:39I think that's John. I think John would like to play History, please.
0:11:39 > 0:11:41John, OK. Our business journalist.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44Against which Egghead? And it's Pat, Chris, or Lisa.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46I think we'd like to play Chris, please, Jeremy.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48- How do you fancy that, Chris? - Yeah, well,
0:11:48 > 0:11:51I've been around a lot longer than most people here, so, yeah,
0:11:51 > 0:11:54I've seen more history, so, yeah, it's my thing.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56So, John, from the Old Dorks, is going to play Chris.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58And, yeah, it is his thing.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00Please take your positions in the Question Room.
0:12:02 > 0:12:04John, are you a history fan?
0:12:04 > 0:12:06Yes, no, I enjoy reading about history
0:12:06 > 0:12:10- and watching television programmes about it.- Any sorts of periods?
0:12:10 > 0:12:13Oh, I think everyone's interested in sort of Tudor era,
0:12:13 > 0:12:18but also I think I like Russia and China in the 20th century.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21And if I had to pin you down on that, Chris, what would you say?
0:12:21 > 0:12:23Oh, favourite period of history?
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Probably the later Industrial Revolution.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28The time of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and people of that sort.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31- All the engineers. - All the real engineers, yes.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34Brilliant. OK. So, this could be a clash of titans.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36It is History. John, would you like to go first or second?
0:12:36 > 0:12:38I'll go first, please.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44Here is your first question, John. Good luck.
0:12:44 > 0:12:48What was the Soviet military force created after the 1917 Revolution
0:12:48 > 0:12:50by the Communist government called?
0:12:54 > 0:12:56That's a good question.
0:12:56 > 0:13:00I think the communist colour is always,
0:13:00 > 0:13:01of course, referred to as red.
0:13:03 > 0:13:07The White Army, I think, was the Cossacks, the anti-revolutionaries.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10I think... I'm fairly certain that's the Red Army.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13Red Army is the right answer.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16Well done. OK, Chris, your question.
0:13:16 > 0:13:20Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk was the birthplace
0:13:20 > 0:13:22of which British historical figure?
0:13:27 > 0:13:29Yeah, his father was the vicar at Burnham Thorpe,
0:13:29 > 0:13:30and it was Horatio Nelson.
0:13:30 > 0:13:34It was indeed. Back to you, John.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36Between 1954 and 1962,
0:13:36 > 0:13:41which African country fought a war of independence against France?
0:13:45 > 0:13:47I think I'll rule out South Africa straightaway
0:13:47 > 0:13:50because that was Dutch-colonised, the Boers.
0:13:50 > 0:13:54Ethiopia was, I think, more colonised by the Italians...
0:13:57 > 0:14:01..in the area of the Mediterranean, so I think Algeria.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03Algeria is correct.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Chris, the event known
0:14:05 > 0:14:08as the Boston Tea Party took place in which year?
0:14:13 > 0:14:17That was in the lead up to the American Revolution, it was 1773.
0:14:17 > 0:14:201773 is the right answer.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23OK, you're steaming along rather nicely, both of you.
0:14:23 > 0:14:24They may get harder.
0:14:24 > 0:14:26Your question now, John.
0:14:26 > 0:14:29Which British soldier and administrator was described
0:14:29 > 0:14:33as a heaven-born general by Pitt the Elder?
0:14:36 > 0:14:41Well, Wolfe was a general - fought in Canada, but he was killed.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44I'm thinking that's probably Clive of India.
0:14:44 > 0:14:48Although I'm not fully certain, but I'd go Robert Clive.
0:14:48 > 0:14:49Let's see if Chris knows. Chris?
0:14:49 > 0:14:51Yeah, Clive of India, Plassey.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55Robert Clive is right. Three out of three. Well done, Challenger.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57Now let's see if you've dislodged
0:14:57 > 0:15:00Mr Hughes, which takes some doing.
0:15:00 > 0:15:05What type of weapon was the medieval petrary?
0:15:09 > 0:15:10Can you spell that, Jeremy?
0:15:10 > 0:15:14Petrary. P-E-T-R-A-R-Y.
0:15:14 > 0:15:15Ah, petra.
0:15:17 > 0:15:18Latin for rock.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22A machine for throwing rocks, so it's a catapult.
0:15:22 > 0:15:26Yes, very assured. Catapult is the right answer, well done.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28So three out of three, scores are level.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30Both know your history, I can tell.
0:15:30 > 0:15:31It gets a bit harder now, John, though,
0:15:31 > 0:15:35because we don't give you different options. Are you ready?
0:15:35 > 0:15:37- I am.- Sudden Death, here we go.
0:15:37 > 0:15:42Amy Robsart, who supposedly died from falling down the stairs
0:15:42 > 0:15:44at her home, was the first wife of
0:15:44 > 0:15:48which of Elizabeth I's favourites?
0:15:48 > 0:15:49Well, I was going to say...
0:15:51 > 0:15:57..Essex, Lord Essex, but that's not a first name for you.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59I'm trying to dredge back some Tudor names.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03Robert Dudley.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05Robert Dudley is your answer.
0:16:05 > 0:16:06It's correct.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09JOHN SIGHS, JEREMY LAUGHS
0:16:09 > 0:16:12Well, I didn't think you were at the races there at all.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15I wasn't, that literally popped into my head at the last moment.
0:16:15 > 0:16:20That was remarkable. Well done. Your recall, that's extraordinary.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Let's see if you're knocking out Chris now.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24Chris, you've got to get this right to stay in.
0:16:24 > 0:16:29Which US military leader was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953
0:16:29 > 0:16:34for his contribution to the economic rehabilitation of Europe?
0:16:34 > 0:16:38Well, that was the Marshall Plan, so it'll be General Marshall.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40I need a first name and a last name.
0:16:40 > 0:16:41Herbert Marshall.
0:16:41 > 0:16:43- Herbert Marshall?- Hm.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46George C Marshall or George Marshall is the answer.
0:16:46 > 0:16:47Chris, you've been knocked out by John.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49Well played, John.
0:16:49 > 0:16:51Thank you.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53So Robert Dudley is now your patron saint?
0:16:53 > 0:16:56- Yes.- That was brilliant, congratulations to you.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58Bad luck, Chris, you're out of the game.
0:16:58 > 0:17:02Come back, rejoin your teams. One more round to play before the final.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06So the Old Dorks are doing well,
0:17:06 > 0:17:08they've lost one brain from the final round,
0:17:08 > 0:17:10but the Eggheads have now lost two brains.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12And the next subject for you is Arts & Books.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15So last subject before the final, who wants this?
0:17:15 > 0:17:17OK, Mas, you fancy taking that?
0:17:17 > 0:17:18Mas will take that, please, Jeremy.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21OK, Mas, our semi-retired IT consultant.
0:17:21 > 0:17:23You've got Lisa or... I think
0:17:23 > 0:17:25I would call you an IT consultant, Pat.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28- I've been called worse. - I think that's his kind of thing.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31So you could decide whether you have a soul mate or...
0:17:31 > 0:17:33- Lisa?- Lisa, please, Jeremy.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35That's the way my husband played it,
0:17:35 > 0:17:37"Shall I go for a soul mate or Lisa?"
0:17:37 > 0:17:39THEY LAUGH
0:17:39 > 0:17:43Mas from the Old Dorks versus Lisa from the Eggheads.
0:17:43 > 0:17:44To ensure there's no conferring,
0:17:44 > 0:17:47please, for the last time, go to our Question Room.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51All right, Mas, Arts & Books against Lisa,
0:17:51 > 0:17:52and would you like to go first or second?
0:17:52 > 0:17:54I would like to go first.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59So here is your first question, Mas.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02Who is the captain of the submarine Nautilus in the book
0:18:02 > 0:18:0520,000 Leagues Under The Sea?
0:18:09 > 0:18:11It's not Nemo.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17I'd like to go with Captain Flint.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20Captain Flint is the wrong answer.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22Lisa help me with Captain Flint, where is he from?
0:18:22 > 0:18:25He's not actually human - he's Treasure Island, he's a parrot.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27He's a parrot.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30So the submarine would have been in a lot of trouble.
0:18:30 > 0:18:31Nemo it was, Mas.
0:18:31 > 0:18:33And, Lisa, your question.
0:18:33 > 0:18:34Which John Betjeman poem
0:18:34 > 0:18:36features the lines,
0:18:36 > 0:18:38"Come, bombs, and blow to smithereens,
0:18:38 > 0:18:41"those air-conditioned bright canteens,
0:18:41 > 0:18:43"tinned fruits, tinned meat,
0:18:43 > 0:18:44"tinned milk, tinned beans?"
0:18:50 > 0:18:51It seems to fit in with
0:18:51 > 0:18:54"Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough."
0:18:54 > 0:18:58Unless he wrote a lot of poems like that, I better go with Slough.
0:18:58 > 0:18:59Anyone else know here?
0:18:59 > 0:19:02Eggheads? Slough is the answer.
0:19:02 > 0:19:03Yeah.
0:19:03 > 0:19:04OK, Mas.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09Bruce Bogtrotter is a character in which Roald Dahl book?
0:19:13 > 0:19:16I'd like to go with The Witches.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19Anyone here on the Challengers' side know their Roald Dahl?
0:19:19 > 0:19:21- No.- It sounds like a Roald Dahl character, that's for sure.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24I would say not to Matilda, but I'm not sure between the other two.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26Now, interestingly, it is Matilda.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29- Oh, right.- It is Matilda. - Matilda is the answer, Mas.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31We've got to hope now Lisa gets this one wrong,
0:19:31 > 0:19:32or she's through to the final.
0:19:32 > 0:19:36The historical region of Kafiristan
0:19:36 > 0:19:40is the setting for which 1888 work by Rudyard Kipling?
0:19:46 > 0:19:48Don't know enough about The Man Who Would Be King
0:19:48 > 0:19:50or Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. That's hard.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52I suppose it could be either.
0:19:53 > 0:19:57Let's hedge my bets and go for The Man Who Would Be King.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00The Man Who Would Be King is the correct answer, Lisa.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03Well done, a bit of handy elimination there, worked for you.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05I'm sorry, Mas.
0:20:05 > 0:20:07It didn't quite break for you there, did it?
0:20:07 > 0:20:09- But...- My weakest subject, that was.
0:20:09 > 0:20:11Still hope for your team.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13Please return to us. We will play the final round.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17So this is what we have been playing towards.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19It is time for the final round,
0:20:19 > 0:20:21which, as always, is General Knowledge.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads won't be allowed
0:20:24 > 0:20:25to take part in this round.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27So that's Mas and Mark from the Old Dorks,
0:20:27 > 0:20:29and also Chris and Beth from the Eggheads.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32Would you please now leave the studio?
0:20:34 > 0:20:35All right, Kevin, John, Hugh,
0:20:35 > 0:20:38you're playing to win the Old Dorks £26,000.
0:20:38 > 0:20:41We don't often get the jackpot this high.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44Lisa, Dave and Pat, you're playing to stop them.
0:20:44 > 0:20:48You're playing to add to the jackpot and your incredible reputation.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51As usual, I'm going to ask each team three questions in turn.
0:20:51 > 0:20:55Gentlemen, they are all general knowledge and you can confer.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57So, Old Dorks, the question is,
0:20:57 > 0:21:01are your three brains able to defeat these three in a famous victory?
0:21:01 > 0:21:04Kevin, John, Hugh, do you want to go first or second?
0:21:04 > 0:21:05We'll go first, please, Jeremy.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11Good luck. Playing for £26,000, here.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14Which British slang word for a prison
0:21:14 > 0:21:18comes from the Hindi for a shed or a lock-up?
0:21:22 > 0:21:24So, what's the thoughts, boys?
0:21:24 > 0:21:25On the three alternatives.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28It's coming from an Indian slang word.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31I think nick is a UK version for...
0:21:31 > 0:21:34- Just being pinched.- Yes, stolen.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37Slammer sounds like an American word to do with the door,
0:21:37 > 0:21:39- the prison door slamming.- Yes.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42So I'm leaning towards chokey, which sounds kind of Indian, but...
0:21:42 > 0:21:45- Any thoughts?- Yeah, I think that would be my option.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48- Yes.- We're not 100% sure, Jeremy,
0:21:48 > 0:21:50but we'll go with chokey.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52Chokey is quite right, well done.
0:21:52 > 0:21:54A Hindi word.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56Eggheads, which actor plays the role
0:21:56 > 0:22:00of Steve Wozniak in the Danny Boyle film Steve Jobs?
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Of the three, Seth Rogen
0:22:06 > 0:22:08looks most like Steve Wozniak.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10- OK.- I'm fairly certain he was in it.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12- Oh, right, so.- Just trying to narrow it down for the other two,
0:22:12 > 0:22:15just in case it is Jonah Hill, but I don't think it is.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17- No.- I don't think Franco was anywhere near it.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19Steve Wozniak is kind of a bear of a man.
0:22:19 > 0:22:20- Yeah.- I mean, obviously,
0:22:20 > 0:22:24with make-up, they can turn anybody into anybody, but without make-up,
0:22:24 > 0:22:27Seth Rogen is the most...
0:22:27 > 0:22:29the most similar in appearance.
0:22:29 > 0:22:32You, you'd be unlikely to cast Franco and you might think twice
0:22:32 > 0:22:34about casting Jonah Hill, if you couldn't get Seth Rogen.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37So maybe... I'm for that if you can see a physical resemblance.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40- OK.- And you're happy?- And I've got an inkling on the casting.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42Yeah. So you're happy that Rogen's in the film?
0:22:42 > 0:22:44- I think so, yeah.- OK. - OK, we'll go with that?
0:22:44 > 0:22:46- Yeah, do that.- Try that.- That's all.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48- Yeah.- We're going to go with Seth Rogen.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50Seth Rogen is correct.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52- Well done. - Well done, Pat, especially, there.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Good quizzing by these Eggheads, then.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57They are in great form at the moment, but the upside is,
0:22:57 > 0:22:58the jackpot is high.
0:22:58 > 0:23:0026,000.
0:23:00 > 0:23:01Your second question.
0:23:01 > 0:23:03Which of these Caribbean states
0:23:03 > 0:23:08celebrated the 50th anniversary of its independence
0:23:08 > 0:23:10from the UK in 2016?
0:23:13 > 0:23:15- OK, thoughts, chaps? - Well...- Haiti.
0:23:15 > 0:23:19- Rule out Haiti.- Haiti wasn't a British colony, I don't think.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22So it would be like, 1966?
0:23:22 > 0:23:241966, independence?
0:23:24 > 0:23:26I'm leaning towards Jamaica, but I don't know.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28- You think Barbados?- I think...
0:23:28 > 0:23:30Barbados. Cos they are smaller, maybe.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33Your instinct is Barbados?
0:23:33 > 0:23:36- I don't have a strong view either way.- Yeah, I'd go Barbados.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38I think,
0:23:38 > 0:23:41in the absence of any clarity, we'll go for Barbados.
0:23:41 > 0:23:44So Barbados was 1966, absolutely right, well done.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47The 50th anniversary in 2016.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49Two out of two for our Challengers.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52They are ahead. Playing for 26,000.
0:23:52 > 0:23:53Here is your question, Eggheads.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56What English name is given to the character
0:23:56 > 0:23:58written beneath the letter C in French
0:23:58 > 0:24:03to signify that it should be pronounced softly, as an S,
0:24:03 > 0:24:06rather than as a hard K?
0:24:11 > 0:24:13Cedilla. Isn't it?
0:24:13 > 0:24:15- We're happy with cedilla? - Yeah, like where you have garcon.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17And I think both circumflex and grave are above...
0:24:17 > 0:24:20- Circumflex is like that.- One of those.- And then grave is that way.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22And we were told... He said beneath, didn't he?
0:24:22 > 0:24:24- Yeah, he did say beneath. - Quite right.
0:24:24 > 0:24:25But it is definitely a cedilla.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27- Cedilla?- Cedilla, yeah.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29We're going with cedilla.
0:24:29 > 0:24:30Cedilla is right.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32Ooh, it's hotting up in here!
0:24:32 > 0:24:34- Are you feeling it?- We are.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36£26,000, we're playing for.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38You may just be one question away.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40Here is your third.
0:24:40 > 0:24:44What name is given to the microscopic openings in the
0:24:44 > 0:24:47epidermis of leaves or young stems?
0:24:53 > 0:24:56- Any thoughts, gentlemen? - Gut instinct is stomata.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58- Yeah.- But I couldn't tell you why.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00I think xylem is the stem.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02Yeah, the tube.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04I don't know why, when the answers first came up,
0:25:04 > 0:25:07I was thinking stomata as well, but I could be totally just...
0:25:07 > 0:25:09- Yeah, that would be my... - We'll go with that.
0:25:09 > 0:25:13Yeah, I think on the basis of a gut instinct more than science,
0:25:13 > 0:25:16we'll go for stomata, Jeremy.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18Stomata is the right answer.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20Three out of three, playing really well.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22You may not need to do any more work today.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24- That'd be nice.- Let us see.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27And if you get this wrong, Eggheads,
0:25:27 > 0:25:32the jackpot is theirs and we go all the way back down to £1,000.
0:25:32 > 0:25:36Eggs, what nickname was given to the World War II bomber
0:25:36 > 0:25:38the Handley Page Hampton?
0:25:43 > 0:25:46Here's where Chris would come in useful.
0:25:46 > 0:25:47I've heard of the Flying Bedstead,
0:25:47 > 0:25:49but I'm slightly concerned it was one of
0:25:49 > 0:25:50those experimental...
0:25:50 > 0:25:53- Yeah.- ..hovering gizmos.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55I mean, obviously,
0:25:55 > 0:25:57the name could have been used twice.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00- Yes.- You know, the early, sort of, jet pack.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02Yeah. I'm not rushing in,
0:26:02 > 0:26:07but I'm going to really look at the other two.
0:26:07 > 0:26:08I would have gone the Bedstead.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10It's just, I mean, the contraption
0:26:10 > 0:26:12was an extraordinary-looking thing.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14It didn't look like an aeroplane. That's why they called it...
0:26:14 > 0:26:17It looked like an old, brass bed with rockets.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20- Yeah.- So it's, it's not the most obvious name for a bomber.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22Bombers are big, heavy, lumbering things.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24Suitcase? Because it's full of bombs?
0:26:24 > 0:26:28No? They just pack it full of bombs, it takes off and drops them?
0:26:28 > 0:26:30Bath Tub would be just its general fuselage shape.
0:26:30 > 0:26:35If it was a seaplane, then Bath Tub might make a bit more sense.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37I don't know. Well, we are at sea, here.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39Cos, I mean, if we're going the other two...
0:26:39 > 0:26:41- We are on...- ..we're on a wing and a prayer, aren't we?
0:26:41 > 0:26:43Wing and a prayer, sorry!
0:26:43 > 0:26:46We are struggling to find any sort of aircraft at all that was named
0:26:46 > 0:26:48after those things, but both of you could think of an aircraft
0:26:48 > 0:26:50with a bedstead attached to it.
0:26:50 > 0:26:51- Bedstead.- Yeah.- So I'm...
0:26:51 > 0:26:52And a suitcase full of bombs, no?
0:26:52 > 0:26:56- No. It could be, but... I've never heard of it.- Logistically, if you
0:26:56 > 0:26:58haven't got a plane idea to attach to it,
0:26:58 > 0:27:00I think you're going to have to go with Bedstead,
0:27:00 > 0:27:03- because you have got an idea. - Yeah, we have, that's the best one.
0:27:03 > 0:27:04Well, it does exist as a phrase.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06Whether it existed twice,
0:27:06 > 0:27:08for the experimental gizmo and for a proper bomber...
0:27:08 > 0:27:09It's entirely possible...
0:27:09 > 0:27:12- It could have done. - ..that it is a different plane,
0:27:12 > 0:27:14- but I don't think we've got anything better to gone.- No.- OK.
0:27:14 > 0:27:15All right. Sorry about that, Pat.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17- So we're going for Bedstead? - Yeah, Bedstead, yes.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20- Go on.- Sorry, mate. - OK, we're in serious trouble, here.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22There was an experimental contraption, definitely,
0:27:22 > 0:27:23called the Flying Bedstead,
0:27:23 > 0:27:25which looked nothing like an aeroplane at all,
0:27:25 > 0:27:29but nonetheless, Flying Bedstead is a phrase that we have heard.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33- Erm, so, we are in trouble. We're going for Bedstead?- Yeah.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36We're going for Flying Bedstead, and with great trepidation.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38I'm wondering if we should take this to Chris.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40- We're going to have to. - OK, Chris, you've got it,
0:27:40 > 0:27:42just don't say it too quickly, there's a lot at stake.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44This is over to you.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46In one word, is it the Flying Bedstead?
0:27:46 > 0:27:48- No.- What is it?
0:27:48 > 0:27:50It's the Flying Suitcase!
0:27:50 > 0:27:52We say congratulations, Challengers.
0:27:52 > 0:27:53You have won!
0:27:53 > 0:27:56Thank you. Thanks very much. Thank you.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59JEREMY LAUGHS
0:27:59 > 0:28:00And I know, dear Chris,
0:28:00 > 0:28:03that in your sleep, you would have got that right.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05- Yeah.- It was called the Suitcase, by the way,
0:28:05 > 0:28:07cos it had very cramped crew conditions,
0:28:07 > 0:28:10so it was quite a bog-standard reason for a nickname, you know?
0:28:10 > 0:28:12There we are. You knock out Chris,
0:28:12 > 0:28:13it doesn't seem significant at the time.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15Chris knows the answer.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17Therefore, the Eggheads are stopped in their tracks.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19And we say congratulations, Challengers.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21You've done really well. You've won £26,000.
0:28:21 > 0:28:23We haven't had a jackpot that big for a long time!
0:28:23 > 0:28:25And you can say you are officially cleverer
0:28:25 > 0:28:27than the Eggheads over here.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29You've proved, certainly, that they can be beaten.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31Eggheads, you played well at the end, there.
0:28:31 > 0:28:32I mean, you were really truffling,
0:28:32 > 0:28:35you just got to the wrong answer and it's ended your run
0:28:35 > 0:28:37in the most dramatic way.
0:28:37 > 0:28:39Well, join us next time on Eggheads
0:28:39 > 0:28:42to see if a new team of Challengers will be just as successful.
0:28:42 > 0:28:43Till then, goodbye.