0:00:04 > 0:00:08These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:10 > 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 > 0:00:28the show where a team of five quiz challengers pit their wits against
0:00:28 > 0:00:31possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34They are the Eggheads, fizzing with knowledge, I think?
0:00:34 > 0:00:35Hopefully!
0:00:35 > 0:00:37Before we start,
0:00:37 > 0:00:40if you're interested at home in answering a question yourself...
0:00:40 > 0:00:42- Dave, you've got one?- I've got one, I've got a question for you.
0:00:42 > 0:00:47Which American TV soap star's leg features prominently
0:00:47 > 0:00:51in publicity posters for the 1967 film The Graduate?
0:00:51 > 0:00:54- You'll come to us later with the answer.- Yes, I will.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Hoping to beat the might of the Eggheads today
0:00:56 > 0:00:57are The Wembles, from Shropshire.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59This team are all members
0:00:59 > 0:01:02of the Wem And District University Of The Third Age.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06- So let's meet them.- Hello. I'm Paul, I'm a retired project manager.
0:01:06 > 0:01:10Hello. I'm Allan, I'm a retired papermaker.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13Hello. I'm Liz and I'm a retired HR manager.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17Hello. I'm Roger, a retired civil servant.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20Hello. I'm Glyn, I'm a retired accountant.
0:01:20 > 0:01:21So, Paul and team, hello.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23ALL: Hello.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26And, Paul, it's crucially not the Open University,
0:01:26 > 0:01:29that's something else? Right, so the University Of The Third Age is what?
0:01:29 > 0:01:34University Of The Third Age is an organisation, about 20 years old now.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37There are over 1,000 of them in different parts of the UK.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39Wem And District is where we all met, the U3A in Wem.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42As people who are in the University Of The Third Age,
0:01:42 > 0:01:44your interest is learning, isn't it?
0:01:44 > 0:01:46It's not learning specifically,
0:01:46 > 0:01:49it's enjoying things that you do because you want to,
0:01:49 > 0:01:50- not because you have to. - Broadening the mind?
0:01:50 > 0:01:53- Exactly.- And Wem is a village in...?
0:01:53 > 0:01:55It's small market town in North Shropshire.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58And I know it's famous for one person in particular, is it?
0:01:58 > 0:02:01You know this, Eggheads? Have you discussed it already or not?
0:02:01 > 0:02:03OK, give this a go.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06If I say one of England's greatest essayists and critics?
0:02:06 > 0:02:08Hazlitt?
0:02:08 > 0:02:10- Yes.- William Hazlitt? - Kevin says William Hazlitt.
0:02:10 > 0:02:11He's right, again.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14You never get one past him, do you?
0:02:14 > 0:02:16So, have you quizzed together, then, Paul?
0:02:16 > 0:02:18Not as a team. This is our debut as a team.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21Allan and I, and Roger and I have quizzed in different teams,
0:02:21 > 0:02:24but as a group, this is our debut.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26Good luck, Challengers. Every day, there is £1,000 worth
0:02:26 > 0:02:28of cash up for grabs for our Challengers.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, that prize money,
0:02:31 > 0:02:33as you know, rolls over. It all adds up.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35Now, Wembles, the Eggheads are on,
0:02:35 > 0:02:37I don't know if it's a streak or a roll,
0:02:37 > 0:02:41but they're looking a bit impressive - they've won the last five.
0:02:41 > 0:02:45So it means there's £6,000 for you to win today, if you beat them.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48- Do you want to try?- Oh, yes!
0:02:48 > 0:02:50OK, let battle commence.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52First head-to-head is on the subject of Geography.
0:02:52 > 0:02:57So it's one of you against either Dave, Steve, Beth, Kevin or Judith.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00We'll go with Roger on this one.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03OK, so Roger, retired civil servant, which Egghead?
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Any one of the five? Who looks shaky?
0:03:05 > 0:03:07None of them, really! Which one would you like?
0:03:07 > 0:03:10- Steve?- We'll go with Steve, please, Jeremy.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12Very good, let's get cracking,
0:03:12 > 0:03:14Roger from the Wembles versus Steve from the Eggheads.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions.
0:03:19 > 0:03:23Roger, when you were in your early 20s, you did one of the most amazing trips?
0:03:23 > 0:03:28I did. Well, I did a trip, an overland trip, across Europe and Asia,
0:03:28 > 0:03:31ending up in Australia and New Zealand, yes.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34And what happened when you got to New Zealand?
0:03:34 > 0:03:38My wife was also travelling with me, she wasn't my wife then,
0:03:38 > 0:03:41she was a young lady I met up with on the trip, and we got married.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44Wonderful! So, together 49 years, I gather?
0:03:44 > 0:03:48- We've been together ever since, yes. - How lovely. So I think Geography could be your subject,
0:03:48 > 0:03:51Roger, against Steve. Would you like to go first or second?
0:03:51 > 0:03:52I think I'll go first, Jeremy.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59Here we go. What colour is the bottom stripe
0:03:59 > 0:04:01of the national flag of the Netherlands?
0:04:05 > 0:04:08Well, I don't think yellow's in it.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11I can't remember green being in the flag, so it must be blue.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13Blue is the right answer. Steve,
0:04:13 > 0:04:15the famous Edinburgh statue
0:04:15 > 0:04:18of Greyfriars Bobby depicts which animal?
0:04:20 > 0:04:24I think it's some sort of terrier, so it must be a dog.
0:04:24 > 0:04:25Yeah, what's the story there?
0:04:26 > 0:04:29The owner died and the dog famously wouldn't leave his grave,
0:04:29 > 0:04:31and it stayed there for ever.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33- And became a statue.- Ha!
0:04:33 > 0:04:36Dog is the answer. Back to you, Roger.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38Which of these countries is larger
0:04:38 > 0:04:40than the United Kingdom in terms of area?
0:04:44 > 0:04:45That's a difficult one.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49I don't think it's South Korea.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53Thailand's long and narrow.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56I think it would be Bangladesh.
0:04:57 > 0:05:01Bangladesh is your answer. Do your team mates know, anyone?
0:05:01 > 0:05:03Think he's right? Not sure?
0:05:03 > 0:05:05It's actually Thailand.
0:05:05 > 0:05:06- Oh, dear.- Yeah.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09OK, Steve, to take the lead.
0:05:09 > 0:05:13How tall is Japan's highest mountain, Fuji?
0:05:21 > 0:05:23And you've given it in metres as well.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26Oh, dear. Erm...
0:05:26 > 0:05:28So basically I've got to treble it for Fuji.
0:05:29 > 0:05:32It's big, but I don't think it's that big.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37I could be completely off beam here.
0:05:37 > 0:05:41I don't think it's as tall as 7,776, so I'll go for the middle one,
0:05:41 > 0:05:44I'll try 5,776.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46Yeah, you've gone wrong as well.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49- It's 3,776.- Really?! Right.- You wanted to do that in feet,
0:05:49 > 0:05:51so you've got 11,000 feet or something.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54Hmm. I thought it was bigger than that.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57OK, one each after two questions.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00Back to you, Roger. That was handy, wasn't it?
0:06:00 > 0:06:01- It was indeed, yes.- Good old Fuji.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04Santa Catalina Island
0:06:04 > 0:06:08lies approximately 22 miles off the coast of which US state?
0:06:12 > 0:06:14Well, I don't know.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18I don't think it's New York.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21So, Florida or California?
0:06:22 > 0:06:27There are a lot of islands south of Florida.
0:06:27 > 0:06:28I'll go for Florida.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32I think Paul knows this, Paul?
0:06:32 > 0:06:34- It's California.- California.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36Is it near Alcatraz or something?
0:06:36 > 0:06:38No, Santa Catalina's further south.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41Just before you get to Mexico, going south.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45OK, so it's off LA or San Diego or somewhere?
0:06:45 > 0:06:47California is the answer, Roger.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49OK, Steve, you can take the round with this.
0:06:49 > 0:06:53Gaborone is the capital of which Southern African country?
0:06:57 > 0:06:59I'm sure Roger would know this as well.
0:06:59 > 0:07:00It's Botswana, Jeremy.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03Botswana is quite right. Steve, you've taken the round.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05Well done, two out of three.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07Roger, I'm sorry. Knocked out by our Egghead.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10It's just the start for you guys, you can come roaring back.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13Return to us, please, and we'll play round two.
0:07:14 > 0:07:15So, tricky start for the Wembles,
0:07:15 > 0:07:18who've lost a brain from the final round, the Eggheads have not lost any.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21Now is the time to strike back, Challengers.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24The next subject is Film & TV.
0:07:24 > 0:07:25Who would like this?
0:07:25 > 0:07:27- That's me, isn't it? Yeah, yeah.- OK, Liz.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31Retired HR manager against which Egghead?
0:07:31 > 0:07:33- Can't be Steve.- Beth, please.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35- Good news for you?- Yeah, I don't often get these.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37No, I think you're a boxset binger.
0:07:37 > 0:07:38- I am.- Yeah, like me.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41So, Liz from the Wembles takes on Beth from the Eggheads.
0:07:41 > 0:07:45Film and TV the subject, please go to our legendary Question Room.
0:07:45 > 0:07:49So, Beth, what are we bingeing on at the moment?
0:07:49 > 0:07:52Oh, Orange Is The New Black.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54How about you, Liz, what do you enjoy watching?
0:07:54 > 0:07:56I enjoy watching crime series.
0:07:56 > 0:08:01I really enjoyed the Scandinavian crime series - The Bridge, The Killing.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03All right, well, good luck against Beth, Liz.
0:08:03 > 0:08:04Do you want to go first or second?
0:08:04 > 0:08:06I'll go first, please, Jeremy.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Here we go. In 2009,
0:08:12 > 0:08:13Fern Britton stepped down
0:08:13 > 0:08:17as presenter of which TV programme after ten years?
0:08:21 > 0:08:25I don't recall Fern Britton presenting Loose Women.
0:08:27 > 0:08:31Or The One Show, so I would say it's This Morning.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34It is This Morning, you're quite right.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37And went on to do lots of interviews in a great series.
0:08:37 > 0:08:41OK, Beth - what genre is the 1973 film The Exorcist?
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Romantic comedy!
0:08:47 > 0:08:49Oh, how hilarious. I actually went to see this
0:08:49 > 0:08:53when it was rereleased in a cinema in the late '90s.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56- It's a horror film. - It is a horror film.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58Is it scary, I've never seen it?
0:08:58 > 0:09:01It depends on your reference point.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04It would have been scary when it was first released.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06OK. Question two, Liz.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10The main story of the 2017 Film Kong: Skull Island
0:09:10 > 0:09:11is set in which decade?
0:09:16 > 0:09:17Oh, I don't know this one.
0:09:17 > 0:09:21I think it's a sequel, isn't it, to the original King Kong film?
0:09:25 > 0:09:28Trying to think if it was
0:09:28 > 0:09:29set in...
0:09:29 > 0:09:32..as far back as the 1890s.
0:09:32 > 0:09:38I'm not sure, but I'm going to go for the 1930s.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40No, it's the 1970s.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Is it a sequel to King Kong?
0:09:42 > 0:09:44No, it's a reimagining.
0:09:44 > 0:09:48So the original King Kong was in the 1930s, was made in the 1930s,
0:09:48 > 0:09:50and was set contemporarily.
0:09:50 > 0:09:54But this one reimagines the story as happening towards the end
0:09:54 > 0:09:55of the Vietnam War.
0:09:55 > 0:10:00So you get a whole load of American soldiers going in there as well.
0:10:00 > 0:10:02- So, mid 1970s.- OK.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06So, Beth, your question to take the lead.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08In the 1992 film Scent Of A Woman,
0:10:08 > 0:10:11who plays the prep school student tasked
0:10:11 > 0:10:16with baby-sitting Al Pacino's blind, ex-Army colonel?
0:10:20 > 0:10:211992.
0:10:25 > 0:10:27I don't think
0:10:27 > 0:10:31Matt Damon was quite on the scene just then.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34Ethan Hawke, possibly.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37From those,
0:10:37 > 0:10:40probably Chris O'Donnell's the best percentage guess,
0:10:40 > 0:10:42so Chris O'Donnell.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44You're playing well, it is Chris O'Donnell.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47So, Liz, you've got to get this right.
0:10:47 > 0:10:51Alana Spencer found fame on which TV show in 2016?
0:10:56 > 0:10:59Oh, these are not programmes I watch.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04Alana Spencer, the name's not ringing a bell.
0:11:07 > 0:11:08I would...
0:11:09 > 0:11:10I'll go for MasterChef.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15Now, let's see, anyone here know on the Challenging side?
0:11:15 > 0:11:16What do we think?
0:11:16 > 0:11:17I would go for The Apprentice.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20- That's only guesswork. - Yeah, it is The Apprentice.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23Liz, sorry about that.
0:11:23 > 0:11:24So, well done, Beth.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26Liz, you've been beaten by our Egghead
0:11:26 > 0:11:27and won't be in the final round.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30Return to us, please. We'll play round three.
0:11:30 > 0:11:34So, the Wembles have lost two brains from the final round.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37Our "Wombles" over here are all intact.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40Eggheading today rather well.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42And the next subject is Arts & Books.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44So which Wemble would like this?
0:11:44 > 0:11:46I can't take it, can I, so...?
0:11:46 > 0:11:48I don't think I can offer a lot on this.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50I'll take one for the team.
0:11:50 > 0:11:55OK, Allan. Choose an Egghead. You can have either Dave, Kevin or Judith.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Who looks like they haven't read a book?
0:11:57 > 0:11:59- Yeah, go for Dave. - We'll choose Dave, please.
0:11:59 > 0:12:03All right, so Allan from the Wembles takes on Tremendous Knowledge Dave
0:12:03 > 0:12:06from the Eggheads. Art & Books, could be a big moment here,
0:12:06 > 0:12:07seeing if the Challengers can win one back.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10Please go to the Question Room.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12So, you lived in Finland, Allan?
0:12:12 > 0:12:15- Yes.- We've got a very well-travelled Challengers team here.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18And you crossed the border to Russia how many times?
0:12:18 > 0:12:22Around about 3,500 times, going to Russia,
0:12:22 > 0:12:26and another 3,500 times coming home from Russia.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29- And you enjoyed it?- Yes, yes.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31Quite a nice bunch of people to work with.
0:12:31 > 0:12:32Lovely. Well, Arts & Books,
0:12:32 > 0:12:35we're hoping for some Russian literature here.
0:12:35 > 0:12:36Or would that not help?
0:12:36 > 0:12:40- Probably wouldn't help.- First or second, Allan, against Dave?
0:12:40 > 0:12:41I'll go first, please.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47Here we go, Arts & Books, your first question.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50How is Shakespeare's play Hamlet usually classified?
0:12:54 > 0:12:57Well, I have seen a comedy version of Hamlet.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01But I don't think that's the answer you're after.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04History, no.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06Tragedy.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08I know the ending, so, tragedy.
0:13:08 > 0:13:09Yes, yes indeed.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11Tragedy is the right answer.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13Dave, where does the plot
0:13:13 > 0:13:18of Tennessee Williams' play Cat On A Hot Tin Roof take place?
0:13:21 > 0:13:24Out of those, I think it's Mississippi.
0:13:24 > 0:13:25Would have the hottest roofs there.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27Yes! Mississippi's right.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30What's it about, Eggheads?
0:13:30 > 0:13:31It's the Politt family,
0:13:31 > 0:13:33very dysfunctional family in the Deep South,
0:13:33 > 0:13:36but that describes quite a lot of Tennessee Williams.
0:13:36 > 0:13:37So, yeah.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41OK. Back to you, Allan, your question.
0:13:41 > 0:13:45Who wrote the Booker Prize nominated novels The Comfort Of Strangers
0:13:45 > 0:13:46and Black Dogs?
0:13:50 > 0:13:54Well, Comfort Of Strangers
0:13:54 > 0:13:56sounds like something a lady would write.
0:13:57 > 0:14:02I don't really know, but I think I'll have to go with Martin Amis.
0:14:02 > 0:14:03It's Ian McEwan.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07So, over to Dave.
0:14:07 > 0:14:11What is the name of the only novel to be written by Oscar Wilde?
0:14:16 > 0:14:17Erm...
0:14:17 > 0:14:20An Ideal Husband, I thought was a play.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23- Picture Of Dorian Grey. - Yes, absolutely.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25De Profundis is, I think, a letter he wrote.
0:14:25 > 0:14:26Yes.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28All right, back to you, Allan.
0:14:28 > 0:14:32You need this to stay in. Which of these postimpressionist painters
0:14:32 > 0:14:34was only 31 when he died?
0:14:42 > 0:14:46I'm not familiar with the work of Rousseau or Bonnard.
0:14:46 > 0:14:50Seurat was a pointillist, which
0:14:50 > 0:14:52at least makes him postimpressionist.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54I don't know about the others.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57I'll go with Georges Seurat.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59Georges Seurat is the right answer.
0:15:01 > 0:15:05OK, Dave, your question - you can take the round with this.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07According to an announcement made in 2012,
0:15:07 > 0:15:12what was the approximate price paid by the Qatar royal family
0:15:12 > 0:15:15for a version of Cezanne's The Card Players?
0:15:20 > 0:15:23Hmm. I'm going to rule out 50.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29Right, 250 sounds a hell of a lot.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31But it could conceivably be that.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36No, I'm... I'm not sure,
0:15:36 > 0:15:40but I'm going to go down the middle with 150 million, please.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43What is the answer, Eggheads, do you know?
0:15:43 > 0:15:46- Not sure.- I think 150.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48Yeah, no, 150's wrong.
0:15:48 > 0:15:49250 million.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51- Really?- That's a lot. - Yeah, it's a lot.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54OK, Allan.
0:15:54 > 0:15:56It's good this, two points each.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58After three questions, we go to Sudden Death.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01Get's a bit harder, though, Allan. I don't give you alternative options.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04Which of Roger Hargreaves' Mr Men characters,
0:16:04 > 0:16:06who often wears a blue hat,
0:16:06 > 0:16:10is orange with extremely long, bendy arms?
0:16:13 > 0:16:14Can't remember that long ago.
0:16:14 > 0:16:16Long, bendy arms?
0:16:16 > 0:16:18I suppose it could be Mr Bendy.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23Yes, make that the answer.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25- Mr...?- Bendy.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27Bendy. Challengers?
0:16:27 > 0:16:29- Mr Tickle.- Mr Tickle is the answer.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31Oh, well.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34All right, let's see, Dave, your question for the round.
0:16:34 > 0:16:39Kazuo Ishiguro and his family emigrated from Japan to which country in 1960?
0:16:39 > 0:16:43I thought it was Britain.
0:16:43 > 0:16:44Bear with me.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48He's an Anglo-Japanese author.
0:16:49 > 0:16:53Remains Of The Day. I thought it was the United Kingdom,
0:16:53 > 0:16:55so that's my answer. UK.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57UK is correct, he was aged five at the time.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59Yes, and he has written here ever since.
0:16:59 > 0:17:03Well done, Dave, you've taken the round. Sorry, Allan, on Mr Tickle.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06You've been knocked out, that can happen - beaten by our Eggheads.
0:17:06 > 0:17:10- Yep.- Come back to us and we'll play one more round before the final.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15So, as it stands, the Wembles have lost three brains from the final round.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17The Eggheads have not lost any so far.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19And the next subject for you is Sport.
0:17:21 > 0:17:22Yes, I'm happy to take that.
0:17:22 > 0:17:25- Yeah, Glyn?- Yeah?- Glyn, OK.
0:17:26 > 0:17:27Against which Egghead?
0:17:27 > 0:17:29And it's either Kevin or Judith.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31- On Sport.- Would you like to go with Judith?
0:17:31 > 0:17:32Whichever you wish, yeah.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35I think I'll take Judith, please, Jeremy.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37You're not brave enough for Kevin.
0:17:41 > 0:17:45That's gone down well. Glyn from the Wembles is taking on Judith on Sport.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47I think you did Sport in the last programme?
0:17:47 > 0:17:49- I did.- So, a lot riding on this.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52Last round before the final, please take your positions.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57On Sport, Glyn, would you like to go first or second?
0:17:57 > 0:18:00Should be ladies first, Jeremy, but I would like to go first, please.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06So here we go, with your first question, Glyn, good luck.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09In which position did the Manchester United footballer
0:18:09 > 0:18:10Roy Keane usually play?
0:18:14 > 0:18:18I think Roy Keane was quite a feared midfielder in his time.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21- Let's check that with Dave, Dave? - Oh, one of the greats, yeah.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23Midfielder, box-to-box.
0:18:23 > 0:18:24Magnificent footballer.
0:18:24 > 0:18:25Yeah.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28Judith, which men's rugby union team
0:18:28 > 0:18:32won its second successive Six Nations Championship in 2017?
0:18:36 > 0:18:37England.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40- England's right.- Phew.
0:18:40 > 0:18:41So, back to you, Glyn.
0:18:41 > 0:18:45In which year where the World Athletics Championships first held?
0:18:51 > 0:18:54It's not a sport I follow particularly closely.
0:18:54 > 0:18:59I'm just trying to tie them in with the Olympics and so on.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01I don't think they're that old.
0:19:01 > 0:19:05I think World Championships is a more recent event, actually.
0:19:05 > 0:19:08Which rather excludes 1963.
0:19:08 > 0:19:13I think I'd like to go with 1983, please, Jeremy.
0:19:13 > 0:19:141983 is quite right.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18- It's getting harder, Judith, isn't it?- Yes.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21Tony Bellew inflicted a surprise defeat
0:19:21 > 0:19:24on which heavyweight boxer in March 2017?
0:19:29 > 0:19:33I know that Anthony Joshua fought lately.
0:19:33 > 0:19:34Tyson Fury, I don't think, has.
0:19:36 > 0:19:37In March...
0:19:37 > 0:19:39- March?- March 2017.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41Oh, I think that's Anthony Joshua.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44OK. Beth, firstly, Anthony Joshua, what happened with him?
0:19:44 > 0:19:46He beat one of the Klitschko brothers.
0:19:46 > 0:19:47- So it was.- Klitschko.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50- Bother!- Yes, so the answer's David Haye.
0:19:50 > 0:19:51David Haye's the answer.
0:19:51 > 0:19:52Yeah, I know now.
0:19:53 > 0:19:55Eggheads 1, Challenger 2.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58This is looking good at the moment, Glyn, but she can strike back.
0:19:58 > 0:20:02Which English fast bowler was purchased for £1.4 million
0:20:02 > 0:20:07by the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 2017 IPL auction?
0:20:13 > 0:20:16Yes, the one that got all the publicity was the purchase
0:20:16 > 0:20:20of Ben Stokes, wasn't it? Which was for slightly more than that.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25I didn't think Anderson played in India.
0:20:25 > 0:20:26That leaves me with two.
0:20:27 > 0:20:28Is it Jake Ball?
0:20:28 > 0:20:31I'll go with Jake Ball, I think.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33Let me check with Paul here, Paul?
0:20:33 > 0:20:35- Tymal Mills.- It's Tymal Mills.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37Every 50/50, you guys just go the wrong way.
0:20:37 > 0:20:41OK, so, Judith, this is quite exciting now.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43You've got a chance of levelling it up.
0:20:43 > 0:20:46Callum Skinner won a gold medal for Team GB
0:20:46 > 0:20:48in which sport at the 2016 Olympics?
0:20:50 > 0:20:52I don't know. I don't know.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54- Callum Skinner?- Callum Skinner.
0:20:55 > 0:20:56I'm just trying to think.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58Just visualising.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01I think it's swimming.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03You've got a vision of him in the pool?
0:21:03 > 0:21:06- No, not at all. - Breast stroke, is it?
0:21:06 > 0:21:09- Might be.- What colour trunks?
0:21:09 > 0:21:13Black? No, sort of Union Jack ones.
0:21:13 > 0:21:14Yeah. He's a cyclist.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17Oh! Thanks very much.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19Sorry. Cycling.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21So, Glyn, you've just turned it around now
0:21:21 > 0:21:24and Glyn is in the final round and Judith has been knocked out.
0:21:24 > 0:21:30Well done. Please come back and we will play the all-important final round for £6,000.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33So, this is what we've been playing towards.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36It's time for our final round, which, as always, is General Knowledge.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads won't be allowed
0:21:39 > 0:21:40to take part in this round.
0:21:40 > 0:21:44So, that is Allan, Liz and Roger from the brilliant Wembles.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46And also Judith from the Eggheads.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Would you please now leave the studio?
0:21:50 > 0:21:51OK, Paul and Glyn,
0:21:51 > 0:21:56you are playing to win the Wembles this handy jackpot of £6,000.
0:21:56 > 0:21:57Dave, Steve, Beth, Kevin -
0:21:57 > 0:22:00you're playing for something money can't buy, which is to shore up -
0:22:00 > 0:22:04no, to strengthen - the Eggheads' precious and much-vaunted reputation.
0:22:04 > 0:22:07As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10They're all general knowledge and you may confer, gentlemen.
0:22:10 > 0:22:15So, Wembles, the question is, can your two brains defeat these four?
0:22:15 > 0:22:19Something that will be talked about in Wem for the next thousand years.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Would you like to go first or second?
0:22:22 > 0:22:24We'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:22:26 > 0:22:31All right. General Knowledge, the final round, for £6,000, your first question.
0:22:31 > 0:22:36A Moscow Mule cocktail traditionally contains which alcoholic ingredient?
0:22:39 > 0:22:41It's vodka. I think it's vodka.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43You seem pretty certain, so...
0:22:43 > 0:22:44We think that's vodka.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48- Have you had one?- Not recently.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51Well, the Russian connection is the pointer.
0:22:51 > 0:22:52Vodka is right.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55Eggheads, your question.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57S is the chemical symbol of which element?
0:23:02 > 0:23:03- Sulphur.- Happy with sulphur?
0:23:03 > 0:23:05That's sulphur, Jeremy.
0:23:06 > 0:23:10Yes. I suddenly went mad and thought it was sodium, but you're right,
0:23:10 > 0:23:13it is sulphur. SO2 is sulphur dioxide, right?
0:23:13 > 0:23:14Yeah.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16The other two don't begin with S.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19Silver is Ag and sodium is Na.
0:23:19 > 0:23:21OK.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23We love the periodic table here.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Your question. In Greek mythology,
0:23:26 > 0:23:28which of these monsters had the head of a lion?
0:23:32 > 0:23:33Hydra had more heads.
0:23:33 > 0:23:34Minotaur was a bull.
0:23:34 > 0:23:35It was, yeah.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37So we think it's Chimera?
0:23:37 > 0:23:40- I think so.- We'll go with Chimera, please, Jeremy.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42Yes, it is Chimera, well done.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45They're ahead, Eggheads.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48The £6,000 and your reputation on the line.
0:23:48 > 0:23:52Which British group released the album Wonderland in March 2017?
0:23:55 > 0:23:57Is it Take That? Take That.
0:23:57 > 0:23:58One Direction are on a break.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00I think One Direction are still...
0:24:00 > 0:24:02It's not Boyzone.
0:24:02 > 0:24:03One Direction are on a break.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05They aren't recording anything at the moment.
0:24:05 > 0:24:07They're all doing solo things.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09I think it is Take That.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12Take That, yeah.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14We'll go for Take That, Jeremy.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16Take That is correct.
0:24:16 > 0:24:17You've levelled it, 2-2.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19£6,000 to play for.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21Third question can be crucial.
0:24:21 > 0:24:22Challengers, here it is.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25Which publishing company was set up in 1972
0:24:25 > 0:24:30by Carmen Callil primarily to publish books by women writers?
0:24:34 > 0:24:37I was thinking of Virago before it came up.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39Paladin is longer established than that.
0:24:41 > 0:24:42You happy if we go with Virago, then?
0:24:42 > 0:24:46If you've got it in mind already, then, yes, absolutely, yes.
0:24:46 > 0:24:47We think that one's Virago.
0:24:48 > 0:24:49Virago is correct.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51You're steaming through these answers.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54Well done, no uncertainty whatsoever.
0:24:54 > 0:24:58OK. Eggheads, if you get this wrong, the contest is over.
0:24:58 > 0:25:02Which former President of Finland was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
0:25:02 > 0:25:07in 2008 for his important efforts on several continents
0:25:07 > 0:25:11in over three decades to resolve international conflicts?
0:25:16 > 0:25:18- Is it Kekkonen? - It's Ahtisaari.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20- Sorry, OK.- Not arguing with that.
0:25:20 > 0:25:21- I'm not arguing with you.- No.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24That is Martti Ahtisaari.
0:25:25 > 0:25:30Well, I heard an early Kekkonen, but, no, that was withdrawn.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32Martti Ahtisaari is the right answer.
0:25:34 > 0:25:38Without Kevin, that could have gone wrong, who knows, who knows?
0:25:38 > 0:25:39All right, 3-3.
0:25:40 > 0:25:43Sudden Death now. We don't give you alternatives, here we go.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45Gentlemen, keep the focus.
0:25:45 > 0:25:50In medicine, the abbreviation DOA usually means "dead on..." what?
0:25:50 > 0:25:51Arrival.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53Arrival. Definitely arrival.
0:25:53 > 0:25:54We think that's arrival.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56Dead on arrival is quite right.
0:25:56 > 0:25:59Eggheads,
0:25:59 > 0:26:04the July Plot, part of a wider operation known as Valkyrie,
0:26:04 > 0:26:06was a plot to assassinate which world leader?
0:26:06 > 0:26:07- Hitler.- Hitler.- Yeah.
0:26:09 > 0:26:13Well, it was 1944, a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
0:26:13 > 0:26:14Adolf Hitler is the right answer.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Over to you, Challengers.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19The hippocampus is located in which human organ?
0:26:21 > 0:26:23All one word, hippocampus.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26I was thinking the same thing.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29Hippo is horse, is there some connection with...
0:26:29 > 0:26:31..the bone in the ears?
0:26:31 > 0:26:33I think it's the shape of the bone, yeah.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35- Yeah.- We think it's in the ear.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39It's not, it's the brain.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41That's two different places there.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43It's not to do with hearing.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45Where is it, Eggheads, front or back or...?
0:26:46 > 0:26:49- In the middle.- The middle, yeah.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51- Sort of underneath. - Brain was the answer,
0:26:51 > 0:26:54that gives the Eggheads a way in to take the contest.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57Which Billy Joel song starts with the lyrics,
0:26:57 > 0:27:00"Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray"?
0:27:00 > 0:27:02- We Didn't Start The Fire. - We Didn't Start The Fire.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04- We Didn't Start The Fire.- Yeah.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06OK. Just...
0:27:06 > 0:27:10a long litany of people and things, it's We Didn't Start The Fire.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13It is a long litany, and it is We Didn't Start The Fire.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15So we say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.
0:27:19 > 0:27:21And you knew that one, didn't you?
0:27:21 > 0:27:23Should have known hippocampus as well.
0:27:23 > 0:27:27A stray fact about the ear is what did it for the Wembles.
0:27:27 > 0:27:30Commiserations. The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them,
0:27:30 > 0:27:32so now you're powering forwards a little bit, Eggheads.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35You had a few bad games a while back, we've forgotten about them,
0:27:35 > 0:27:37you're back on form, no question.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39It means the Challengers are not going home with £6,000.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42We roll that money over, this jackpot is getting bigger and bigger,
0:27:42 > 0:27:45and I'm starting to wonder if you can ever be beaten.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48Before we go, Dave, that question, what was it?
0:27:48 > 0:27:54Which American TV soap star's leg featured prominently in posters
0:27:54 > 0:27:57for the 1967 film, The Graduate?
0:27:57 > 0:28:00OK, so we can visualise the poster, the leg is...
0:28:00 > 0:28:01..single leg in the foreground.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04Yeah, and everyone assumes it's Anne Bancroft's.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06- Yeah?- When in actual fact, it's Linda Gray's.
0:28:06 > 0:28:10- From Dallas?- From Dallas, the lady who played Sue Ellen.
0:28:10 > 0:28:14Because Anne Bancroft wasn't available that day when they did the shot.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16Brilliant. I hope you enjoyed that question at home.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19- Hope you enjoyed playing the game. - We certainly did.- Always fun.
0:28:19 > 0:28:22So join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers have the brains
0:28:22 > 0:28:25to defeat them. Looking good at the moment, aren't they?
0:28:25 > 0:28:28There's £7,000 to play for. Until then, goodbye.