0:00:04 > 0:00:08These 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.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:22 > 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 > 0:00:29possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31Here they are, the Eggheads.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34Feeling a little bit battered and bruised, are we?
0:00:34 > 0:00:35- Mm.- A little.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38All right, ready to play again, as they always are.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40Taking on the might of our quiz Goliaths today are
0:00:40 > 0:00:42the Racquet Scientists from Manchester.
0:00:42 > 0:00:47The team are members of the Northern Lawn Tennis Club in Didsbury.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51- So let's meet them.- Hi, I'm Rambali, I'm an engineering consultant.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54Hello, my name is Kai, I'm a surgeon.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57Hi, I'm Karen, and I'm a property manager.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00Hi, I'm Damian, and I'm a writer and critic.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03Hi, I'm Yussef, and I'm a doctor.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05- So, Rambali and team, hello. ALL:- Hello!
0:01:05 > 0:01:08Nice to see you. Thank you for coming in.
0:01:08 > 0:01:09Do you have actual scientists, Rambali?
0:01:09 > 0:01:12Yes, we do. I'm a scientist and there are two doctors in the team.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14- So that is Kai and Yussef down the end?- Yes.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17We've got quite a lot of international dimension, haven't we?
0:01:17 > 0:01:20- Because you're originally from India.- Yes, I am.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23- And then Kai originally from Malaysia.- That's right.
0:01:23 > 0:01:24Karen, Australia.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27Damian and Yussef, UK.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29So you've got all angles covered here, I'm thinking.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31Pretty much, I think, yeah!
0:01:31 > 0:01:32LAUGHTER
0:01:32 > 0:01:33You quiz, that's the key thing.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36We do, yeah. We quiz together at the Northern
0:01:36 > 0:01:39and a place called the Cornerhouse in Manchester
0:01:39 > 0:01:41which has closed down now, five years ago.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44The tennis connection is stronger than the quizzing connection,
0:01:44 > 0:01:46but I think we've got enough here.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49OK, very good. You could always quiz while you're playing tennis,
0:01:49 > 0:01:52- but that could be... That can be difficult, actually!- Yeah.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55- What's it like to face these five? - It's a bit daunting.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58Because we've seen them for years. They're really good.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01And we've seen worse odds in tennis, as well.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04- Have you got a secret plan? - We've got it all worked out.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07- We'll see how it pans out.- OK. Good luck to you.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09Every day, there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs
0:02:09 > 0:02:13for our challengers. However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:02:13 > 0:02:15the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Now, Racquet Scientists, my reference to them
0:02:17 > 0:02:20being a little bit battered is that they lost the last game.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23The challengers won, so the jackpot today is £1,000.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25And would you like to try and win it?
0:02:25 > 0:02:26- Absolutely.- Good stuff.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Science.
0:02:29 > 0:02:33And you can choose between Beth, Kevin, Chris, Steve and Lisa.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36- Who's going to take it? - I think Yussef.- Yussef, yeah?
0:02:36 > 0:02:40- Are you ready to go on science? - I'll do it.- Come on, you can do it!
0:02:40 > 0:02:43- OK. - We'll go Yussef on Science, please.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46OK, against which Egghead? Any one of them.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48Who looks unscientific?
0:02:48 > 0:02:51Did we say Steve? Do you want to take Steve on, on Science?
0:02:51 > 0:02:53Hm.
0:02:53 > 0:02:54Steve's looking away, so I think...
0:02:54 > 0:02:56LAUGHTER
0:02:56 > 0:02:58- I'm nervous!- We'll go for Steve.
0:02:58 > 0:03:00Yeah, he does that when he's nervous.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02He glances for the exit, yeah.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05That was a good bit of reading of body language there.
0:03:05 > 0:03:09Yussef from the Racquet Scientists is playing Steve from the Eggheads.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Please, to ensure there's no conferring,
0:03:12 > 0:03:14take your positions in our legendary Question Room.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19So, Yussef, you are definitely one of the scientists, you are a doctor?
0:03:19 > 0:03:20Yes.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23But you've also danced on the ceiling?
0:03:23 > 0:03:27Yes. That was one of our apres-ski moments.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29We all go skiing every year
0:03:29 > 0:03:32and the group picked me up to the ceiling one time
0:03:32 > 0:03:34at a bar, apres-skiing,
0:03:34 > 0:03:38and so I danced on the ceiling to Dancing On The Ceiling.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41Oh, they were playing the Lionel Richie song Dancing On The Ceiling
0:03:41 > 0:03:44and, at that point, your friends all turned you upside down?
0:03:44 > 0:03:45I believe they were.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Listen, if you win this round, we're doing it again.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50Right! As long as you join me.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52Yeah. It's actually quite a high ceiling in here.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Science is the subject. You're playing Steve.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56Would you like to go first or second?
0:03:56 > 0:03:57I think I'll go first, Jeremy.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02OK, here we go. Your first question.
0:04:02 > 0:04:07Britain's only venomous snake, the adder, is a member of which family?
0:04:10 > 0:04:12I think I'm going to go for...
0:04:14 > 0:04:17- ..python.- Python is your answer.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20OK, let us see with your team-mates, do they know?
0:04:20 > 0:04:23Because I'm thinking, Karen, with your Australian background,
0:04:23 > 0:04:24you will know all about snakes.
0:04:24 > 0:04:25LAUGHTER
0:04:25 > 0:04:28- We have more than one! - Yeah.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30We only have one. I've never even seen one here.
0:04:30 > 0:04:33I didn't even know there was a poisonous snake in England.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35No. There is literally only one, you know.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38- One, literally.- I think we were thinking viper.- Yeah.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40Yeah, they're saying viper.
0:04:40 > 0:04:41Viper is the answer, Yussef.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43- Ah. - Viper.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45OK, Steve, your question, to take the lead.
0:04:45 > 0:04:50What name is given to the complex of ganglia and radiating nerves
0:04:50 > 0:04:55of the sympathetic system located near the pit of the human stomach?
0:04:59 > 0:05:03The only one that seems to work is solar plexus, so I'll say that.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06Solar plexus is correct. You would have known that, Yussef, I know.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08That's your thing as a doctor.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Let's hope you get some more medical questions here.
0:05:10 > 0:05:15In a piston engine, which of these parts is said to have a big end?
0:05:20 > 0:05:22Could you repeat the question, please?
0:05:22 > 0:05:26Yes. Yussef, in a piston engine,
0:05:26 > 0:05:29which of these parts is said to have a big end?
0:05:29 > 0:05:31Connecting rod.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33It's the right answer. Well done.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36- Well done.- Good man!
0:05:36 > 0:05:37So, you've had snakes and motors.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39We've got to get you on to medicine soon.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41Steve, your question.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44Under normal circumstances, which of these measures
0:05:44 > 0:05:48most closely approximates the terminal velocity
0:05:48 > 0:05:52of a skydiver in a free-fall position?
0:05:57 > 0:05:59I have absolutely no idea.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03Um. 700 seems very fast.
0:06:05 > 0:06:06HE EXHALES
0:06:06 > 0:06:10I've got to say something. I'll say...120.
0:06:10 > 0:06:11Eggheads, do you know this?
0:06:11 > 0:06:14Well, 120mph is right if we're talking about in the atmosphere.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17Baumgartner came down from outside the atmosphere,
0:06:17 > 0:06:20and reached a higher speed because of no atmospheric resistance.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24But, ordinary jump-out-of-a-plane type skydiving, yeah,
0:06:24 > 0:06:26terminal velocity's 120mph-ish.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29Hence why that question started with "under normal circumstances".
0:06:29 > 0:06:32120mph is correct, Steve, well done.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34OK, Yussef, pressure's on here.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36You've got to get this right to stay in.
0:06:36 > 0:06:40In which year were canaries finally phased out of British coal mines
0:06:40 > 0:06:44as an early warning protection against poisonous gases?
0:06:49 > 0:06:52I'm going to go for 1986.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54Right, the later of the three?
0:06:54 > 0:06:58You're absolutely right! '86 is right.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00Brilliant play. What made you...
0:07:00 > 0:07:02Because I would have thought that sounds so retro.
0:07:02 > 0:07:06Things always happen, in my experience of occupational issues,
0:07:06 > 0:07:07is they happen late on,
0:07:07 > 0:07:11- so the other years seemed far too early to me.- Yeah, fascinating.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13OK, you're right.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16So, level with Steve, but he has this question in hand.
0:07:16 > 0:07:17Steve, this for the round.
0:07:17 > 0:07:22What type of bird is the garganey, an occasional visitor to the UK?
0:07:22 > 0:07:26It's G-A-R-G-A-N-E-Y, Steve.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31I think it's a duck, Jeremy, so that's my answer.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33Duck is the right answer, Steve, well done.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36Sorry, Yussef. It's that wretched adder that knocked you out.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38And you won't be in the final, Steve will.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41Please return to your teams, we'll play the second round.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44So, we had a bit of free fall going on there.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47120mph if you're a normal free-faller.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50If you're Felix Baumgartner, who went into space,
0:07:50 > 0:07:56it's more like 833mph, his top speed as he fell.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58As Chris says, without the atmosphere.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00OK, so, as it stands,
0:08:00 > 0:08:02the Racquet Scientists have lost a brain from the final round.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05The Eggheads are all sitting there, just trying to recover their poise
0:08:05 > 0:08:08after the thing we can't mention, the last contest.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10The next subject for you is Sport.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Who would like this?
0:08:12 > 0:08:14- Um. I'll take on Sport, yeah. - OK, Rambali.
0:08:14 > 0:08:18And you can take anyone on, except Steve.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20I think we've discussed this beforehand,
0:08:20 > 0:08:21and I'd like to take on Chris, please.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24I'm sensing that the plan is in action here.
0:08:24 > 0:08:29It's rolling out. Rambali takes his racquet on to court against Chris.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32On Sport. Please go to the Question Room now.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35Rambali, I saw you jump at Sport there,
0:08:35 > 0:08:37so I'm thinking it's your thing?
0:08:37 > 0:08:38Sports and science, actually.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41I probably should have taken them on for the team in the last round,
0:08:41 > 0:08:43but I was hoping sports would come up.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45Oh, did you know about the adder?
0:08:45 > 0:08:48I think the adder was probably the easier one.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50I think Yussef got the difficult ones right, actually.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52That's true enough. What are your favourite sports?
0:08:52 > 0:08:56Er, tennis, obviously. I follow cricket, football,
0:08:56 > 0:08:59Olympics, mostly the athletics in the Olympics.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01All right, so, Rambali, Sport we're on,
0:09:01 > 0:09:03would you like to go first or second?
0:09:03 > 0:09:05I'd like to go second, please, Jeremy.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10OK, he's taking you by surprise there, Chris,
0:09:10 > 0:09:12you've got the first question. Here it is.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15Which of these South African golfers was born first?
0:09:19 > 0:09:25Well... Gary Player goes back a long way.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28Ernie Els is more recent, so is Retief Goosen.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30So it's Gary Player.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32It is Gary Player, you're quite right.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34Is golf your thing, Rambali?
0:09:34 > 0:09:35Absolutely not.
0:09:37 > 0:09:38Here's your question.
0:09:38 > 0:09:43In Rugby Union, which of these is a score worth three points?
0:09:43 > 0:09:44In Rugby Union.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50I've heard of a try and a drop goal, but I'm not sure.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53Is a try worth three points?
0:09:53 > 0:09:56I think the drop goal is a bit like the penalty, isn't it?
0:09:56 > 0:09:59I'm going to say try, but I'm not sure.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01Let's see. Team-mates? Damian, do you know this?
0:10:01 > 0:10:03I think it's conversion.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05It's a drop goal.
0:10:05 > 0:10:06Who says drop goal?
0:10:06 > 0:10:10Kai. Yeah, Kai is right. Drop goal is the answer.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13Chris has a chance to go two ahead here.
0:10:13 > 0:10:17In football, what name is given to the technique of kicking the ball
0:10:17 > 0:10:21with the kicking foot wrapped behind the standing foot?
0:10:24 > 0:10:28Yeah, nutmeg is kicking the ball through the legs of an opponent,
0:10:28 > 0:10:30so it's not nutmeg.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32Rabona means nothing to me.
0:10:32 > 0:10:36Is Catenaccio an Italian footballer who perfected the technique?
0:10:36 > 0:10:39Possible. I'll go Catenaccio.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Catenaccio. Steve knows this. Steve?
0:10:41 > 0:10:43It's Rabona.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45I think I've seen a clip of a footballer called David Dunn
0:10:45 > 0:10:49who tried a Rabona and fell over. All very embarrassing.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52- Yeah.- The famous... Do you remember that moment?- Yeah.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55Rabona is the answer, Chris.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Get this right to catch up, Rambali.
0:10:57 > 0:11:01The ball used in which sport is held together
0:11:01 > 0:11:05by 108 double stitches in waxed red thread?
0:11:08 > 0:11:09(Waxed thread?)
0:11:09 > 0:11:11Could you repeat the question, Jeremy, please?
0:11:11 > 0:11:16The ball used in which sport is held together by 108 double stitches
0:11:16 > 0:11:19in waxed red thread?
0:11:19 > 0:11:24Obviously cricket and baseball have threads on them.
0:11:24 > 0:11:28I'm just a little bit confused between cricket and baseball now
0:11:28 > 0:11:31because you put me off with the red thread.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33I'm going to say cricket.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35Cricket is your answer?
0:11:35 > 0:11:37Funnily enough, I've got one of these, given to me
0:11:37 > 0:11:39by an American friend. It's on my bedside table.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42It is baseball. Because the baseball is white and the thread is red.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44- Ah!- I'm thinking in cricket, maybe the thread is...
0:11:44 > 0:11:47Probably black or white, and it's a red ball.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49The ball is red, yeah, that's right.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52So, baseball is the answer.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54So we go back to Chris.
0:11:54 > 0:11:55Chris, for the round.
0:11:55 > 0:12:00Which NBA basketball player set a record in November 2016
0:12:00 > 0:12:04with 13 three-point baskets in a single match?
0:12:08 > 0:12:13Never heard of Stephen Curry in connection with basketball.
0:12:13 > 0:12:17But there's a vague inkling for LeBron James.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19So that's my answer, LeBron James.
0:12:19 > 0:12:23- No, the answer is Stephen Curry. - Is it? Mm-hm.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25OK, Rambali, you've got a chance to pull back.
0:12:25 > 0:12:29You need to get this one right, now, and take him to Sudden Death.
0:12:29 > 0:12:35Which boxer, born in 1883 and nicknamed the Boston Terror,
0:12:35 > 0:12:40earned a reputation as the greatest boxer never to win a world title?
0:12:44 > 0:12:46The Boston Terror? Er...
0:12:46 > 0:12:48Born in 1883.
0:12:48 > 0:12:52Boxing's not really my thing, to be honest,
0:12:52 > 0:12:56and I haven't heard of the Boston Terror.
0:12:56 > 0:13:01I'm going to say Joe Walcott, but it's a complete guess, I'm afraid.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03- Chris, do you know? - Sam Langford.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05Sam Langford is the answer, Rambali.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08So, Chris has taken the round with his single correct answer
0:13:08 > 0:13:10and will be in the final.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13Please return to us. We'll see what Round Three brings.
0:13:15 > 0:13:19So the Racquet Scientists have lost another brain from the final round.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22They've lost two now. The Eggheads are still sitting there.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24The next subject is Geography. Who would like this?
0:13:24 > 0:13:26Which Racquet Scientist wants this?
0:13:26 > 0:13:28- Er, Geography. - I'm afraid that's you, Kai.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31Yeah. I think it's going to be Kai that will take the Eggheads on.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34OK. Kai, our surgeon, against whom?
0:13:34 > 0:13:36And it can be either Kevin or Beth or Lisa?
0:13:36 > 0:13:40Do you want to take Lisa on? I think Beth's quite good at Geography.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43- They're all good. - I'll fancy my chances.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46- It is?- Lisa. - All right, great stuff.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48- How do you feel about that, Lisa? - I would fancy his chances, too!
0:13:48 > 0:13:49LAUGHTER
0:13:49 > 0:13:51Have we got through our Australian thing?
0:13:51 > 0:13:53I suppose at least it's not Karen.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55That makes it slightly less embarrassing.
0:13:55 > 0:13:58You've had a number of issues with Australia, Karen, but hopefully,
0:13:58 > 0:14:00they're behind us now.
0:14:00 > 0:14:01Kai from the Racquet Scientists
0:14:01 > 0:14:04playing Lisa from the Eggs on Geography.
0:14:04 > 0:14:05Please take your positions.
0:14:07 > 0:14:08Kai, you're a surgeon.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11- Yes.- Any particular speciality?
0:14:11 > 0:14:16I do urology, so that covers things like kidney cancers,
0:14:16 > 0:14:20kidney stones, that's my subspecialty.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23I also do erection issues, prostates.
0:14:23 > 0:14:24OK, glad we brought that up!
0:14:24 > 0:14:25LAUGHTER
0:14:25 > 0:14:27You can have my card later, if you need it!
0:14:27 > 0:14:28LAUGHTER
0:14:28 > 0:14:31You're originally from Malaysia, Kai?
0:14:31 > 0:14:34Yes, yes. Originally. My parents are all in Malaysia.
0:14:34 > 0:14:38Yeah. I make my ritual visit every year.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41Lisa, that's dangerously close to the part of the world
0:14:41 > 0:14:43which has caused us a bit of trouble in Geography, shall we say?
0:14:43 > 0:14:45You'd think I'd be slightly better on Malaysia,
0:14:45 > 0:14:47given that it's actually where my grandmother's from.
0:14:47 > 0:14:51She's not lived out there for a very long time
0:14:51 > 0:14:52but that's where she was born.
0:14:52 > 0:14:56- She still very much regards Malaysia as her country.- Right.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58I thought you had some Chinese heritage?
0:14:58 > 0:15:00She is of Chinese parentage,
0:15:00 > 0:15:02- but she was actually born and raised in Malaysia.- Fascinating.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05Well, how about that for a tangential connection.
0:15:05 > 0:15:08Kai, we're on Geography, do you want to go first or second?
0:15:08 > 0:15:10I'll go first, Jeremy.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17All right. Which French city is the administrative centre
0:15:17 > 0:15:19of the department called Nord?
0:15:19 > 0:15:20Nord is N-O-R-D.
0:15:25 > 0:15:26Nord. Now...
0:15:28 > 0:15:31..I've been to Cannes. I don't think that's it.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34I'm trying to think. Nord.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36Sounds northern.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39I'm going to say Lille.
0:15:39 > 0:15:40Yes, well done, it is Lille.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42Good man.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44Lisa, your question.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47What is the English translation of Zhujiang
0:15:47 > 0:15:51in the local name of a major Chinese river?
0:15:55 > 0:15:59I think the one you hear the most is probably the Pearl River.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01Yeah, Pearl.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03OK. You're right. Pearl it is.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06You can see where this is going, can't you, these questions?
0:16:06 > 0:16:10We see the drift inexorably to that part of the world.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12OK, your question, Kai.
0:16:12 > 0:16:16What is the straight-line distance from Manchester to Berlin?
0:16:16 > 0:16:18In a straight line.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25To Berlin.
0:16:26 > 0:16:30I think 138 seems a bit short.
0:16:30 > 0:16:34908 seems too much.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37In fact, 654 seems too much.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39GENTLE LAUGHTER
0:16:39 > 0:16:43I'm going to say...138.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45Pretty close, you think?
0:16:45 > 0:16:48Anyone here know? Been? Done it? Flown?
0:16:48 > 0:16:52- I'd have thought 654. - Yeah.- Yeah.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54- Eggs? - 654.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57654 is the answer.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59138, where would that get you to? Manchester...
0:16:59 > 0:17:01That would get you into France, basically?
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Well, if you go in a straight line to Berlin,
0:17:03 > 0:17:06that'd dump you in the middle of the North Sea.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09Yeah, we think you'd be in the sea with that, Kai.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11OK. Lisa.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13Which South African city is the home
0:17:13 > 0:17:15of the country's Houses of Parliament?
0:17:19 > 0:17:24Now, South Africa has three different capitals
0:17:24 > 0:17:26because they have different administrative centres, I think,
0:17:26 > 0:17:28stashed away in all three.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30I think the three they split it between is actually
0:17:30 > 0:17:32Pretoria, Cape Town and Bloemfontein.
0:17:33 > 0:17:37And as only one of those is there, maybe that's the one to go for.
0:17:37 > 0:17:41On the basis of that logic, I think I might have to go for Cape Town.
0:17:41 > 0:17:45No, I'll do my best with the logical path I've got and say Cape Town.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Cape Town is the right answer. Well done.
0:17:47 > 0:17:48I suppose the simple way is to think
0:17:48 > 0:17:50where would they rather spend their time?
0:17:50 > 0:17:53Well, you know South Africa much better than I do, Jeremy.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56I think if Pretoria was in there, that would have been a stinker
0:17:56 > 0:17:58because that's, I think, like Whitehall,
0:17:58 > 0:18:01- that's where their administration is.- OK.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04So, that means, Kai, you need to get this one right to stay in.
0:18:04 > 0:18:06Maybe if you get this right,
0:18:06 > 0:18:10it's the sign of the tide turning for our Racquet Scientists.
0:18:10 > 0:18:15What is the name, Kai, of the official currency of Sudan?
0:18:18 > 0:18:20Well, it's not the pound.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23It's not the franc. I'm going to have to go rial.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26- It's the pound, Kai.- Tsk, oh. - It really is the pound.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29I'm sorry, that means you've been knocked out by Lisa.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32Well done, Lisa, through to the final again.
0:18:32 > 0:18:35Please return to us. We've got one more round to play.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39So it's looking awkward for the Racquet Scientists,
0:18:39 > 0:18:42- but by no means impossible, is it, Eggheads?- Not at all.- Not at all.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44You've lost three brains from the final round.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46The Eggheads are still all there, they haven't lost any.
0:18:46 > 0:18:49And the last subject before the final is Music.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52Who would like Music? It can be either Karen or Damian.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54- Yeah, that's me! - Oh, it's you, Karen, is it?
0:18:54 > 0:18:57- Super-enthusiastic, yes. - OK. Good.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00You've got two Eggheads left to choose between, Kevin and Beth.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02- Um.- Shall we go Beth or Kevin?
0:19:02 > 0:19:04It's up to you.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07- I'd say take on Beth. - All right. OK, Beth.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09- Beth, run-out for you? - Yep.- Very good.
0:19:09 > 0:19:13Karen from the Racquet Scientists, Beth from the Eggheads to do battle.
0:19:13 > 0:19:14Please go to our Question Room.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18OK, Karen, Music. And would you like to go first or second?
0:19:18 > 0:19:20First, please.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25Good luck, Karen, here we go.
0:19:25 > 0:19:29Elton John is famous for performing on which musical instrument?
0:19:31 > 0:19:35Right, um, I do know this one. It's piano.
0:19:35 > 0:19:39Unmistakably so, yeah. It's the piano.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41Beth, your question.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43"I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath,
0:19:43 > 0:19:46"scared to rock the boat and make a mess,"
0:19:46 > 0:19:48are the opening lines to which hit single?
0:19:55 > 0:19:57I'm going to need the line again, please?
0:19:57 > 0:20:00"I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath,
0:20:00 > 0:20:02"scared to rock the boat and make a mess." Opening line.
0:20:02 > 0:20:07I'm pretty sure that's not Poker Face.
0:20:07 > 0:20:11I've got the chorus running around my head, not the opening lines.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13Um...
0:20:13 > 0:20:17That sounds like it could be Roar by Katy Perry.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20The sentiment's correct and the answer's correct, too.
0:20:20 > 0:20:22Roar is right. Well done, Beth. OK, Karen.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25Adele's hit song Chasing Pavements was included
0:20:25 > 0:20:27on which of her albums?
0:20:30 > 0:20:33Could you repeat the name of the song?
0:20:33 > 0:20:38Adele's hit song Chasing Pavements, which of her albums was it on?
0:20:38 > 0:20:42I've got a 33% chance with this one!
0:20:42 > 0:20:4525, I think that's the latest one.
0:20:45 > 0:20:49And she's got the other two, 19 and 21.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54Chasing Pavements, I'm afraid I haven't heard of it.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57So I'm going to go for the earlier album.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59I'll go for 19, please.
0:20:59 > 0:21:0219 her age when she recorded it.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04Yes, it's one of her oldest songs, it is 19!
0:21:04 > 0:21:06- Whoo.- Well done.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09OK, Beth, to catch up.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12Bruno Mars was born and raised in which US state?
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Bruno Mars.
0:21:17 > 0:21:21Ah. A Bruno Mars song was at number one when my son was born.
0:21:22 > 0:21:28I think he was raised in...Hawaii.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30You're absolutely right. Hawaii it is.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33- Was that a guess or did you know that?- I vaguely knew.
0:21:33 > 0:21:34But it's...
0:21:34 > 0:21:37There's not many from Hawaii. There's Jack Johnson, I guess.
0:21:37 > 0:21:41- Yeah.- My theory is you only get music where it rains.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43Liverpool, Manchester...
0:21:43 > 0:21:46I suppose that's a bit insulting for Australia, Karen, I am sorry.
0:21:46 > 0:21:50OK, here's your question.
0:21:50 > 0:21:54Nuages, Fetes and Sirenes are the three movements
0:21:54 > 0:21:58of an orchestral composition called Nocturnes
0:21:58 > 0:22:02by which French composer born in 1862?
0:22:08 > 0:22:10Erm, Nocturnes?
0:22:12 > 0:22:15The one who comes to mind is Frederic Chopin.
0:22:17 > 0:22:18It is actually Claude Debussy.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20Bother.
0:22:20 > 0:22:24So a chance for Beth to take the round with this third question.
0:22:24 > 0:22:30Which artist married Canadian-born jazz singer Diana Krall in 2003?
0:22:34 > 0:22:36This is the very marvellous Elvis Costello.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39He's very marvellous, and the right answer. Elvis Costello is correct.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41Well done, Beth. You're in the final round.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Sorry, Karen. Beaten on Music there.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46If you both return to your teams, we're going to play that final.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50So this is what we have been playing towards,
0:22:50 > 0:22:52it is time for the final round
0:22:52 > 0:22:53which, as always, is General Knowledge.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56But I'm afraid those of you who lost head-to-heads
0:22:56 > 0:22:58won't be allowed to take part in this round.
0:22:58 > 0:23:02So Rambali, Kai, Karen and Yussef from the Racquet Scientists,
0:23:02 > 0:23:04would you please now leave the studio?
0:23:05 > 0:23:10Damian, you are playing to win the Racquet Scientists £1,000.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12Lisa, Steve, Chris, Kevin and Beth,
0:23:12 > 0:23:14you're playing for something that money can't buy,
0:23:14 > 0:23:17the Eggheads' reputation, and to get this show back on the road.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20As usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22This time they're all General Knowledge.
0:23:22 > 0:23:23I usually say you can confer
0:23:23 > 0:23:26but, obviously, that's difficult on your own.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28Damian, the question is,
0:23:28 > 0:23:31can your one brain defeat these five in a famous victory?
0:23:31 > 0:23:33Would you like to go first or second?
0:23:33 > 0:23:35I think I'll go second, Jeremy.
0:23:38 > 0:23:42OK, Damian going second, so this is your question, Eggs.
0:23:42 > 0:23:46What colour are the six stars on the national flag of Australia?
0:23:48 > 0:23:52- Go with white?- White.- Yeah. - White.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55- They are white. - They are indeed white.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58That was Karen's question, of course. I put that in for you.
0:23:58 > 0:23:59LAUGHTER
0:23:59 > 0:24:03Damian, which of these terms refers to a style of upwards-opening door
0:24:03 > 0:24:06used in the design of some motorcars?
0:24:11 > 0:24:13Oh, I don't know. Um.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16I don't think it will be goose-wing.
0:24:16 > 0:24:21So I'm thinking it will either be bat-wing or gull-wing.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25I'm going to go for gull-wing.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27I'm glad you did. It is gull-wing, well done.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30Well done. Bat-wing would be tempting.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33Eggheads, the 16th century poem called The Lusiads
0:24:33 > 0:24:37has become a national epic of which European country?
0:24:40 > 0:24:42- Portugal.- Portugal?- Yeah.
0:24:43 > 0:24:47Yeah, the Lusiads refers to the classic, or the Roman name
0:24:47 > 0:24:52for Portugal which was Lusitania, that area. It's Portugal.
0:24:52 > 0:24:56Is there nothing you don't know, Eggheads? Portugal's right.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58They're playing well but had a bad game last time
0:24:58 > 0:25:01and they might still be in a panic.
0:25:01 > 0:25:02Keep pressing here, Damian.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05Which British Prime Minister's term in office
0:25:05 > 0:25:07was the briefest of the 20th-century?
0:25:13 > 0:25:17Again, I don't really know, um...
0:25:17 > 0:25:22I...I don't think it was Andrew Bonar Law.
0:25:22 > 0:25:27I don't actually know about Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
0:25:27 > 0:25:32But I do know that Alec Douglas-Home was Prime Minister
0:25:32 > 0:25:37for a short period of time, so I'm going to go for him.
0:25:37 > 0:25:41- Alec Douglas-Home.- OK, Alec Douglas-Home is your answer.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44Let's just go through the dates, this is quite an interesting one.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47Firstly, on Douglas-Home, he was Prime Minister after Macmillan.
0:25:47 > 0:25:49- Is that right?- Yeah. - And for how long?
0:25:49 > 0:25:52For a bit under a year. He came to power in '63,
0:25:52 > 0:25:56and then Labour won the '64 general election under Harold Wilson,
0:25:56 > 0:25:58and took power.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00So it's not a bad answer but is it the correct answer?
0:26:00 > 0:26:03- I think it's Bonar Law. - What were his dates?
0:26:03 > 0:26:07Well, '22 through into '23, it was only a few...
0:26:07 > 0:26:09Over the end of the year, just a few months.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11Campbell-Bannerman, about three years
0:26:11 > 0:26:14in the first decade of the 20th century.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16- The answer is Andrew Bonar Law.- Oh.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18OK.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20This gives the Eggheads, because they went first,
0:26:20 > 0:26:23the chance to take the contest on this question.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27Andre Courreges, who died in 2016,
0:26:27 > 0:26:30was best known as a designer of which items?
0:26:34 > 0:26:36Clothes? Clothes.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38- Fashion designer.- I think he's a fashion designer.- Yeah.
0:26:38 > 0:26:41Although he did also design toilets.
0:26:41 > 0:26:42Fair enough.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45- Yeah, OK?- Yep.
0:26:45 > 0:26:50We think he was best-known as a fashion designer, so it's clothes.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52OK. Lisa threw in toilets at the and there,
0:26:52 > 0:26:54that wasn't going to put you off. Was that a serious...?
0:26:54 > 0:26:58It's genuine. It comes from Peter Mayle's book, A Year In Provence.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01So, trying to buy a Pierre Cardin loo and couldn't,
0:27:01 > 0:27:03because they found they'd been discontinued.
0:27:03 > 0:27:05But they found out that Courreges also made toilets.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08Pierre Cardin also obviously better known as a clothes designer.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11It's why you're an Egghead, you read the book and remember that fact.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13I read that book and I've forgotten it.
0:27:13 > 0:27:18The answer, Eggheads, is clothes. We say congratulations, you have won.
0:27:23 > 0:27:24When they're all five there, it is tricky.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26- They're formidable. - They are formidable.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29I thought the toilet reference at the end
0:27:29 > 0:27:31might throw them into confusion, but no.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34They knew it was clothes. They knew it all, actually, today.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37- Very well done.- They had a bad game in the last game,
0:27:37 > 0:27:39so they're back on track. But commiserations, Damian.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42I know the plan wasn't quite to end up alone.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44- A pleasure, anyway. - Played well.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46Commiserations to all the Racquet Scientists,
0:27:46 > 0:27:48thanks so much for joining us.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them,
0:27:50 > 0:27:53and they are back in control of quiz land.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55It does mean you're not going home with the £1,000,
0:27:55 > 0:27:57so we start to build up the jackpot once again.
0:27:57 > 0:27:58The money rolls over to our next show.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00Eggheads, well done.
0:28:00 > 0:28:04Are you now the formidable force, unbeatable even? Let's see.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers
0:28:06 > 0:28:10have the brains to take them down. £2,000 says they don't.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12Till then, goodbye.