0:00:04 > 0:00:07These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11Together they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:11 > 0:00:14arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz Challengers pit
0:00:26 > 0:00:30their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32They are the Eggheads.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34Hoping to beat the might of the Eggheads today
0:00:34 > 0:00:37are the Drowning Fish from Glasgow.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39Now, this team of friends quiz together
0:00:39 > 0:00:42at various pubs in the Southside of the city
0:00:42 > 0:00:45and take their name from the city's coat of arms.
0:00:45 > 0:00:46Let's meet them.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Hi, I'm Nick. I'm a university lecturer in law.
0:00:49 > 0:00:53Hi, I'm Richard and I'm a social justice manager.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56Hi, I'm Ciaran and I'm a history student.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Hi, I'm Graham and I'm a journalist.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03Hi, I'm Andy and I'm an English and Scots teacher.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06- So, Nick and team, hello. ALL:- Hi, Jeremy.- Great to see you.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08Well, tell us first of all about the name The Drowning Fish.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11Well, it's from the motto of Glasgow, the coat of arms,
0:01:11 > 0:01:12the fish that never swam.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14So, if it doesn't swim, it drowns.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16So, The Drowning Fish are from Glasgow.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18So, on the Glasgow... Can you picture this, Eggheads?
0:01:18 > 0:01:21On the Glasgow coat of arms is, what, just a fish in mid air?
0:01:21 > 0:01:24Well, there's a tree that never grew and the fish is above it.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27So it's the fish that never swam over the tree that never grew.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29Got it. And you quiz together?
0:01:29 > 0:01:31Yeah, some of us have quizzed together over a few years.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34But we've known each other for a longer time than that.
0:01:34 > 0:01:36We've played football together, quizzed as well.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38So do you have different skills ready for the quiz?
0:01:38 > 0:01:40- Have you worked out a strategy here? - I don't think...
0:01:40 > 0:01:43We have a strategy that'll probably fall apart in the first two minutes.
0:01:43 > 0:01:44But we've got some ideas.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46OK, let's give it a go. Good luck, Challengers.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash
0:01:48 > 0:01:51up for grabs for our challenging team.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:01:53 > 0:01:55the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58So, Drowning Fish, the Eggheads have won just the last two games,
0:01:58 > 0:02:02which means there's £3,000 on the table for you to win.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04- Do you want to try and get it? - Indeed we do.- Excellent.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07The first head-to-head battle is on History.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10Now...
0:02:10 > 0:02:12- Ciaran...- ..we've got a history student here.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15- Yeah, Ciaran. - Yeah, Ciaran's going to do it.- OK.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18- Choose the Egghead.- And you can choose between Lisa, Steve, Chris,
0:02:18 > 0:02:20- Kevin and Judith. - Yeah, we'll go with Judith.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23All right. So Ciaran from Drowning Fish
0:02:23 > 0:02:27versus Judith, who won £1 million on a history question.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30To ensure there's no conferring, would you please take your positions
0:02:30 > 0:02:32in our legendary Question Room?
0:02:33 > 0:02:36So, Ciaran, thank you for choosing our Judith.
0:02:36 > 0:02:37Would you like to go first or second?
0:02:37 > 0:02:39I'd like to go first.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44Ciaran, here's your first question.
0:02:44 > 0:02:49Pol Pot presided over a totalitarian regime in which country?
0:02:49 > 0:02:50Is it...
0:02:52 > 0:02:57Well, I know it's definitely not Iraq or Argentina.
0:02:57 > 0:03:01I know he had a particularly genocidal regime in Cambodia.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03That's my answer.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Cambodia's right. Well done.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08Year Zero they called it, yeah.
0:03:08 > 0:03:09Judith.
0:03:09 > 0:03:14Anne ruled as Queen of Great Britain in the early part of which century?
0:03:17 > 0:03:18- Queen Anne?- Queen Anne.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22It was the early part of the 18th century.
0:03:22 > 0:03:2418th century's correct.
0:03:24 > 0:03:27OK, Ciaran. Which of these politicians resigned
0:03:27 > 0:03:31as British Prime Minister when he was 84 years old?
0:03:35 > 0:03:37Well, I know Churchill...
0:03:37 > 0:03:40I don't think he resigned. I think he was...
0:03:41 > 0:03:44I think in 1945 or 1946,
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Atlee was elected instead of him.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50I think I will go for Gladstone.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53Gladstone is correct.
0:03:53 > 0:03:54Yeah, well done.
0:03:57 > 0:03:58OK, Judith.
0:03:58 > 0:04:02The Condor Legion, which operated in the late 1930s,
0:04:02 > 0:04:05was a special unit of which country's Air Force?
0:04:07 > 0:04:10The Condor... I think that was Germany.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13That's the correct answer. Germany, indeed.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18OK, Ciaran, your question. You're level, two points each.
0:04:18 > 0:04:22The 19th century Pony Express mail delivery service
0:04:22 > 0:04:25ran between California and which other US state?
0:04:29 > 0:04:31Well...
0:04:31 > 0:04:35I know Maryland is very, very far from California.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37It's pretty much the opposite side of the country.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40Michigan is right in the middle.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42I suppose...
0:04:42 > 0:04:46And Missouri is sort of...west.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Not west but middle, sort of the central
0:04:48 > 0:04:51part of America.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53I think I'm... I'm going to go with Maryland.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55A significant railway line,
0:04:55 > 0:04:57but I'm going to go with Maryland.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00Yeah, it's wrong. I'm just thinking...
0:05:00 > 0:05:02I'm just wondering how you would work this out.
0:05:02 > 0:05:05- Chris, you'll know.- Well, yeah. It's Kansas City, Missouri,
0:05:05 > 0:05:08because westward expansion had got as far as about the Missouri River.
0:05:08 > 0:05:14And from there on for, well, literally, about 13, 14 months
0:05:14 > 0:05:18they had this relay service of young lads riding horses hell for leather
0:05:18 > 0:05:21right across country into California carrying the mail.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24- Oh, I see. From which part of Missouri?- Kansas City, I think.
0:05:24 > 0:05:25- St Joseph.- Yeah. Oh, Saint Joe.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28- Yeah. St Joseph, Missouri. - Which is right on the...
0:05:28 > 0:05:31- Yeah.- ..sort of western border of Missouri.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33At the start of the Great Plains, effectively. Right.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36Ciaran, but it was Missouri.
0:05:36 > 0:05:39So, Judith has a chance to take the History round.
0:05:39 > 0:05:43Which of these infamous historical figures was born first, Judith?
0:05:48 > 0:05:51Well, John Wilkes Booth is the one who assassinated Lincoln.
0:05:52 > 0:05:56So he was probably born in about 1830-ish.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00I think it was... It's probably John Wilkes Booth.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05If you've got this right, you're in the final round.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07Three out of three, Judith. Well done. John Wilkes Booth is correct.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10Sorry, Ciaran. I can see you're a very good quizzer as well.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Just missed one on the Pony Express.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14And you've been knocked out, beaten by our Egghead.
0:06:14 > 0:06:18So please return to us, both of you, and we'll play the second round.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21So, as it stands, the Drowning Fish have lost a brain
0:06:21 > 0:06:25from the final round. The Eggheads haven't lost one yet.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27The next subject for you is Arts & Books.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29- So, for this learned team...- Andy.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31- Andy.- No problem.- Yeah. - I think this is good.- Yeah.
0:06:31 > 0:06:35OK, Andy, our English and Scots teacher against which Egghead?
0:06:35 > 0:06:37- It can't be Judith. - What do you think?
0:06:37 > 0:06:40- Well, you decide.- What do you think? Aye, go for Chris.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42- Sounds good... - OK, Chris, please, Jeremy.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45Very good. So, Andy from the Drowning Fish to take on Chris
0:06:45 > 0:06:46on Arts & Books.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48To ensure there's no conferring,
0:06:48 > 0:06:52would you please both take your positions in our Question Room?
0:06:52 > 0:06:53All right, Arts & Books.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56And, Andy, would you like to go first or second?
0:06:56 > 0:06:57I think I'd like to go first, Jeremy.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03OK, good luck against Chris, and here we go.
0:07:03 > 0:07:07What is the surname of Anastasia, the main female character
0:07:07 > 0:07:10in the 50 Shades trilogy of books?
0:07:14 > 0:07:18I'm not embarrassed to say that I've never read the books
0:07:18 > 0:07:20and I know nothing about them.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23And it's going to be a guess based on what I think the character
0:07:23 > 0:07:26would be like, so I think I'll go for...
0:07:29 > 0:07:30..Steele.
0:07:30 > 0:07:31OK, Steele is your answer.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33Now, you've got it right. Well done.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35It is Steele. Yeah.
0:07:37 > 0:07:44OK. Chris, what is the English title of Rodin's sculpture Le Penseur?
0:07:47 > 0:07:49It's The Thinker, Jeremy.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51- Just like you. - Yeah, literal translation.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54- Yeah. - Yeah, The Thinker. You're right.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57Andy, Falstaff is the central character
0:07:57 > 0:07:59of which of these Shakespeare plays?
0:08:05 > 0:08:08Again, this is one that's going to be very embarrassing
0:08:08 > 0:08:09if I get it wrong.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12A Midsummer Night's Dream, that's set in the forest.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15Fairies, it's a fantasy.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19It's not that. I'm ruling that out.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21I don't actually know the plays that well,
0:08:21 > 0:08:24but when I think of a Falstaffian character,
0:08:24 > 0:08:29I don't imagine Venice, so I'm going to rule that out, too.
0:08:29 > 0:08:33And, therefore, I'll go for the Merry Wives Of Windsor.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36The Merry Wives Of Windsor is the right answer.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Brilliant elimination. Well done, Andy.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40So, you're leaving Chris trailing here.
0:08:40 > 0:08:44Chris, can you catch up? What is the name of the golden spaniel
0:08:44 > 0:08:48that features in The Secret Seven series of books by Enid Blyton?
0:08:52 > 0:08:56Well, Bull's-Eye is Bill Sikes's dog in Oliver Twist.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59Snowy's Tintin's dog. So it's Scamper.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01Scamper's right.
0:09:01 > 0:09:042-2. Back to you, Andy. Playing well.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07"And fare thee weel, my only Luve!
0:09:07 > 0:09:09"And fare thee weel, a while!
0:09:09 > 0:09:14"And I will come again, my Luve, Tho' it were ten thousand mile!"
0:09:14 > 0:09:16You'd read that better than me.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18But they're the last lines of which Robert Burns poem?
0:09:23 > 0:09:26These questions have been meant to embarrass me!
0:09:28 > 0:09:30I'll... It's not A Vision.
0:09:30 > 0:09:34And I actually know that more from the song... The song lyrics.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37I can... I'm trying to imagine.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40Of course, A Red, Red Rose and Ae Fond Kiss
0:09:40 > 0:09:43are two of the most popular Burns songs.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45But I'll think I'll go for...
0:09:47 > 0:09:49A Red, Red Rose.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52A Red, Red Rose is the right answer.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54There was a lot riding on that!
0:09:54 > 0:09:57- My reputation.- Oh, my goodness. I felt the tension there.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Oh, my goodness me!
0:09:59 > 0:10:01OK, so, Chris, your question to stay in.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04What nationality is Svetlana Alexievich,
0:10:04 > 0:10:09who was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in literature for her polyphonic
0:10:09 > 0:10:11writings, which were described as
0:10:11 > 0:10:14"a monument to suffering and courage in our time"?
0:10:18 > 0:10:20Well, the name itself is actually Russian.
0:10:20 > 0:10:26So she must be from a country that alone is not now part of Russia.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29Still speaks Russian, so she's Belarussian.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31She is indeed Belarussian. You're right.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33Level after three questions.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35Perfect round for you both. We go to Sudden Death.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38Andy, it gets a bit harder. I don't give you different options.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40Here we go.
0:10:40 > 0:10:44What is the overall title of George Meredith's sequence
0:10:44 > 0:10:48of 50 poems published in 1862, inspired by the failure
0:10:48 > 0:10:51of his first marriage?
0:10:51 > 0:10:56I will say a total guess - To Despair.
0:10:56 > 0:11:01No, it's called Modern Love. George Meredith, 1862.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04OK, Chris. You can get it with this.
0:11:04 > 0:11:09Tracy Tupman is a travelling companion of which title character
0:11:09 > 0:11:11of a Charles Dickens novel?
0:11:11 > 0:11:15He's a member of the Pickwick Club, travels with Mr Pickwick.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17I need a first name and a last name.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20- Samuel Pickwick. - Samuel Pickwick is the right answer.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Well done, Chris. You've taken the round.
0:11:22 > 0:11:24Sorry, Andy. Knocked out.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26But good play all the way through until the end.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29So, not in the final. Chris will be. Please return to us.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31And we're going to play the next round.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36All right, Drowning Fish have lost two brains from the final round.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38The Eggheads are still all there,
0:11:38 > 0:11:41getting maybe a little bit of a run together, who knows?
0:11:41 > 0:11:44You can stop them, though. The subject is Sport.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46- Who wants this?- Richard?- Yeah.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48- I'll go for that one.- Richard? - Richard.- Yes.
0:11:48 > 0:11:52Our social justice manager. Against which Egghead?
0:11:52 > 0:11:56- I think I should take on Lisa. - Yep.- Yep, we'll take Lisa.
0:11:56 > 0:12:00Very good. Richard from the Drowning Fish versus Lisa from the Eggheads.
0:12:00 > 0:12:01Please go to the Question Room.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05- OK, Richard. Are you ready for this? - I am.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08Well, Richard, would you like to go first or second?
0:12:08 > 0:12:09I think I'll go first, Jeremy.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15OK, all the best turning this around, Richard.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18The British and Irish Lions rugby union squad
0:12:18 > 0:12:21toured which country in 2017?
0:12:25 > 0:12:26Well...
0:12:26 > 0:12:31Having watched highlights of one or two games,
0:12:31 > 0:12:34I would have to go for New Zealand.
0:12:34 > 0:12:35New Zealand is correct.
0:12:36 > 0:12:40Lisa. Which of these Formula 1 world champions was born first?
0:12:45 > 0:12:48So, Jenson Button is more or less my age.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50He was born January 1980.
0:12:50 > 0:12:55James Hunt was born in '46.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58'46? I think it's '46. Died '93.
0:12:58 > 0:13:01Damon Hill somewhere in the '60s.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04So, you did say born first, didn't you, Jeremy?
0:13:04 > 0:13:05Yes, born first.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07James Hunt.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09James Hunt is the right answer. Well done.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11Over to you, Richard.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13In which year did Wayne Rooney make his debut
0:13:13 > 0:13:14for the England football team?
0:13:18 > 0:13:212006 is a bit late
0:13:21 > 0:13:27because I remember him being well established by that time
0:13:27 > 0:13:30and playing in the European Championship, if memory is correct.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35So, I think I'll go for 2003, Jeremy.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38- Do your team like that? - Yeah.- Yeah, you're right.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40Well done, Richard. 2003.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42Two out of two.
0:13:42 > 0:13:46Lisa, how many men have taken 300 or more wickets
0:13:46 > 0:13:49for the England Test cricket team?
0:13:52 > 0:13:54I think it's quite a hard thing to do.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57So, I'm inclined to go the bottom end rather than the top end, really.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02I don't know. On that basis, and you know how much I know about cricket,
0:14:02 > 0:14:04I'll try five.
0:14:04 > 0:14:05Yes, five is right.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08It's 2-2.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11Richard, in 2017, Fergal O'Brien and David Gilbert
0:14:11 > 0:14:15contested the longest frame in professional snooker history.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18How long did it last?
0:14:23 > 0:14:27Two hours three minutes actually seems inordinately long.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31So, six hours and three minutes seems
0:14:31 > 0:14:35extremely long as well.
0:14:35 > 0:14:40I suppose as a one-off and...
0:14:40 > 0:14:45It must be four, given the amount of professional snooker frames
0:14:45 > 0:14:46that take place.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49It must be very long indeed.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53I think I'll have to go down the middle here
0:14:53 > 0:14:55and go for four hours and three minutes.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57- Eggheads?- Thought it was two.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00Two hours and three minutes is the right answer.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03OK, Lisa. You have a chance to book your place in the final now.
0:15:03 > 0:15:08Which of these basketball stars spent his entire playing career
0:15:08 > 0:15:11at the Boston Celtics?
0:15:16 > 0:15:18I have a weird feeling that Larry Bird
0:15:18 > 0:15:20played with Magic Johnson
0:15:20 > 0:15:23and I think Magic Johnson played other places.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26That might be a spurious association.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29So, perhaps I'll take him out of the equation.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32So, it's a straight fight between the other two.
0:15:32 > 0:15:33I like Scottie Pippen's name better.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35Let's go with Scottie Pippen.
0:15:35 > 0:15:37Yeah, I like Larry Bird's name better.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40- That's a terrible shame. - Yep, Larry Bird is the answer there.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42So, Sudden Death.
0:15:42 > 0:15:43Here we go again, Richard.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46It gets a bit harder. I don't give you alternatives.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49In which year did the British team win only one Olympic gold medal
0:15:49 > 0:15:52through Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent in the rowing?
0:15:52 > 0:15:54As a child, I used to watch quite a lot of the Olympics.
0:15:54 > 0:16:01So, '72, '76, '80, '84.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03They were very familiar.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07But I think it was maybe...
0:16:08 > 0:16:10..slightly later than that.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12And I'll go for...
0:16:14 > 0:16:171996 in Atlanta.
0:16:17 > 0:16:211996 is quite right. Nicely done!
0:16:21 > 0:16:24OK, so pressure on you, Lisa. Here we go.
0:16:24 > 0:16:25You need to get this right.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28Which French tennis player, known for her flamboyant nature
0:16:28 > 0:16:32and original dress sense, won the women's singles title
0:16:32 > 0:16:37at Wimbledon six times between 1919 and 1925?
0:16:37 > 0:16:39Is that Suzanne Lenglen?
0:16:39 > 0:16:42Yes, it is.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44Died aged 39. Died young.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46Suzanne Lenglen. Over to you, Richard.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48What is the nickname of the Australian
0:16:48 > 0:16:50men's association football team?
0:16:52 > 0:16:53The Socceroos.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55The Socceroos is the right answer. Well done.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57OK, Lisa, to stay in -
0:16:57 > 0:17:00in which decade did the West Indies fast bowler Andy Roberts
0:17:00 > 0:17:02make his test debut?
0:17:02 > 0:17:04Needless to say, I've never heard of him.
0:17:04 > 0:17:08I don't know. Well done, Richard. 1980s.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10No, 1970s. You're out, Lisa, I'm afraid.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13Richard, you're in the final round. Well done.
0:17:13 > 0:17:17Maybe the tide is turning on our not Drowning Fish.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19Come back to us. One more round to play before the final.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24Bad luck, Lisa. And on James Hunt, you were only one year out.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27- He was 1947. - Yes, my bad.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30As it stands, the Drowning Fish have lost two brains
0:17:30 > 0:17:31from the final round.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34But they are staging a comeback here and they've taken out an Egghead.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37And it's getting exciting. The next subject is Film and TV.
0:17:38 > 0:17:42- Who wants this?- I'll do this one. - Yeah.- Graham will take it.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44Graham, OK. Which Egghead, Graham?
0:17:44 > 0:17:47- Kevin?- Kevin.- Kevin. - Let's try and take Kevin on.- Yeah.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49And we'll take on Kevin.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52Very good. So, Graham from the Drowning Fish versus Kevin.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54To ensure there's no conferring,
0:17:54 > 0:17:57please, for the last time, go to the Question Room.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59So, you're up against Kevin. He's very good, as you know.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01Would you like to go first or second, Graham?
0:18:01 > 0:18:03I will go first, Jeremy.
0:18:06 > 0:18:07Here we go.
0:18:07 > 0:18:11The TV show Loose Women, Graham, is usually broadcast
0:18:11 > 0:18:12at what time of day?
0:18:15 > 0:18:17Loose Women, I have seen it before.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20It's not tea-time. It's not on at breakfast.
0:18:20 > 0:18:24I'm pretty certain that Loose Women is on at lunchtime.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Lunch is right. Well done.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29Just seen it out of the corner of your eye...
0:18:29 > 0:18:31- Yeah, yeah. - ..as you walk past the set.
0:18:31 > 0:18:35Kevin, who plays the title role in the 2016 film Doctor Strange?
0:18:40 > 0:18:45They've all starred in superhero films fairly recently.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47But this particular one is Benedict Cumberbatch.
0:18:47 > 0:18:50It is indeed Benedict Cumberbatch. Well done.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54Back to you, Graham. The pop star Lee Ryan joined the cast of which
0:18:54 > 0:18:56TV soap in 2017 as Woody Woodward?
0:19:01 > 0:19:04Now, I was hoping that...
0:19:05 > 0:19:07..soaps wouldn't come up.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10The one soap whose name came up
0:19:10 > 0:19:11when you are mentioning them
0:19:11 > 0:19:14was Coronation Street, so...
0:19:15 > 0:19:19Lee Ryan... I think I'm going to say Coronation Street.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21EastEnders is the answer, Graham. I'm sorry.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24JEREMY SIGHS
0:19:24 > 0:19:27Kevin, what is the profession of Tom Hanks's character
0:19:27 > 0:19:29in the 1993 film Philadelphia?
0:19:34 > 0:19:37He... No, he's not a policeman or a surgeon.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39No, his character in that is a lawyer.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42Yeah, with the brilliant Bruce Springsteen song.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44- You're right, lawyer is correct. - Streets Of Philadelphia.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47A moving film. So Kevin is ahead, Graham,
0:19:47 > 0:19:49and you need to get this one right to stay in.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51What type of animal is Rocket,
0:19:51 > 0:19:54the character voiced by Bradley Cooper
0:19:54 > 0:19:58in the Guardians Of The Galaxy films?
0:20:01 > 0:20:04OK, I've seen both of the Guardians Of The Galaxy films
0:20:04 > 0:20:10and my kids would never let me live it down if I said panda.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13And they'd never let me live it down if I said hyena.
0:20:13 > 0:20:14Rocket is a raccoon.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17You're absolutely right. Well done, raccoon is the answer.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20No way to guess that if you haven't seen them.
0:20:20 > 0:20:21All right, level,
0:20:21 > 0:20:23but, Kevin, you have this question in hand.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25So to get you into the final,
0:20:25 > 0:20:28which of these Sandra Bullock films took the most money at the
0:20:28 > 0:20:30worldwide box office using, by the way,
0:20:30 > 0:20:33figures unadjusted for ticket price inflation?
0:20:38 > 0:20:40Hate this sort of question.
0:20:40 > 0:20:44A certain logic in terms of...
0:20:45 > 0:20:50..its profile, its prominence says Speed.
0:20:50 > 0:20:54But this... The worldwide box office thing can really throw things out
0:20:54 > 0:20:58because different countries have different interests.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00Anyway, I'm going to say Speed.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02Yes, I was thinking like you.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04But we're both wrong. It's Gravity.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06- Is it Gravity?- Yeah.- Really?
0:21:06 > 0:21:07It's... They're horrible, those.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09It's almost not a fact.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11- Yeah.- All right, so it's level.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14Graham, a slight let off there.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17And we now go to Sudden Death again.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20In 2004, which American talk show host gave every member
0:21:20 > 0:21:25of her studio audience a car to mark the opening episode
0:21:25 > 0:21:28of her 19th series?
0:21:28 > 0:21:30I do know this, thankfully.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33But I'll feel very silly if I say I know it and I don't know it.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35But I'm pretty certain that's Oprah Winfrey.
0:21:35 > 0:21:38It is Oprah Winfrey, well done.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40Kevin, who starred as Brian O'Connor
0:21:40 > 0:21:43in many of the Fast And Furious films?
0:21:43 > 0:21:46Well, I believe it was the...
0:21:46 > 0:21:53..the actor who tragically died in a car accident, Paul Walker.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55Paul Walker is correct.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58Graham, who played Melanie Hamilton
0:21:58 > 0:22:01in the 1939 film Gone With The Wind?
0:22:01 > 0:22:03OK...
0:22:03 > 0:22:05Gone With The Wind, I have seen this.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08Was it Vivien Leigh?
0:22:08 > 0:22:11- No, it's Olivia de Havilland. - Oh!
0:22:11 > 0:22:13So, Kevin can take the round.
0:22:13 > 0:22:18Gary Busey was nominated for a best actor Oscar for his role as which
0:22:18 > 0:22:20singer, Kevin, in a 1978 film?
0:22:22 > 0:22:26Well, he played Buddy Holly in a biopic about Buddy Holly.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28So, Buddy Holly.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30Buddy Holly is the correct answer, Kevin.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32You've taken the round. Sorry, Graham.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34You were so close there.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37Oh, so, so close. And you played really, really well.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40Appreciation of that. And I'm afraid you're out.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42Kevin's in the final. Come back to us.
0:22:42 > 0:22:46We will play that final round for £3,000.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48So, this is what we have been playing towards.
0:22:48 > 0:22:49It is time for the final round,
0:22:49 > 0:22:52which, as always, is General Knowledge.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads won't be allowed
0:22:55 > 0:22:56to take part in this round.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59So, Ciaran, Graham and Andy from the Drowning Fish
0:22:59 > 0:23:03and also Lisa from the Eggheads, would you please leave the studio?
0:23:05 > 0:23:08Nick and Richard, you're playing to win the Drowning Fish £3,000.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10Steve, Chris, Kevin and Judith,
0:23:10 > 0:23:12you're playing for something that money can't buy,
0:23:12 > 0:23:14the Eggheads' reputation.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20They're all General Knowledge, gentlemen, and you can confer.
0:23:20 > 0:23:24So, Drowning Fish, the question is, can your two brains
0:23:24 > 0:23:27defeat these four and stop them getting into a roll
0:23:27 > 0:23:29or a streak, or whatever they want to call it?
0:23:29 > 0:23:33- Do you want to go first or second? - We'll go first, please, Jeremy.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38OK, Nick and Richard, good luck to you. General Knowledge.
0:23:38 > 0:23:42What is the meaning of the word truculent?
0:23:46 > 0:23:48- It's aggressively defiant.- Aye.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50It's definitely aggressively defiant.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53I think we can rule out quietly happy and cheerfully optimistic.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55- So, I'm with you on that one. - Yeah.- OK.
0:23:55 > 0:23:59We're going to go with aggressively defiant, please, Jeremy.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01Aggressively defiant is correct.
0:24:01 > 0:24:02Well done.
0:24:02 > 0:24:06Eggheads, what shape is cannelloni pasta?
0:24:08 > 0:24:11- Tube.- Tube, isn't it?- Yeah.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13I think we all agreed that's tube, Jeremy.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Tube is correct. Well done.
0:24:15 > 0:24:18Challengers, in geometry, which of these angles
0:24:18 > 0:24:21would be described as reflex?
0:24:26 > 0:24:2960 degrees is acute.
0:24:29 > 0:24:34150 is obtuse because it's between 180 and zero.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37So reflex is around it, so it's 210.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40- There's no way I can argue with you on this one.- Right.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43I think... I think 60 is acute,
0:24:43 > 0:24:45150 is obtuse,
0:24:45 > 0:24:46and 210 is the answer.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49It's a reflex angle, 210 degrees.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51- Because it goes past 180? - Yeah.- OK.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53210 degrees is quite right.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58Eggheads, Jack McConnell, First Minister of Scotland
0:24:58 > 0:25:03from 2001 to 2007, is a member of which political party?
0:25:06 > 0:25:08- Labour.- Labour.- Yeah.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10I'm reliably informed, Jeremy, that's Labour.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13Labour is correct.
0:25:13 > 0:25:16So 2-2, and we go back to the Challengers, the Drowning Fish.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18What is the capital of Kyrgyzstan?
0:25:22 > 0:25:25- I can spell it for you if you want. - Yes, please. Can you spell it?
0:25:25 > 0:25:29K-Y-R-G-Y-Z-S-T-A-N.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32- It's not Tashkent.- Are you sure? - It's definitely not Tashkent.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35That's somewhere else.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37This is, what's it called?
0:25:37 > 0:25:39- Kyrgyzstan.- Kyrgyzstan.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41Bishkek looks like it.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44But I think it might be Dushanbe just because of the name.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47Dushanbe, it's unusual for Kyrgyzstan.
0:25:47 > 0:25:50You know what I mean? I think Bishkek.
0:25:51 > 0:25:57I suppose, on how it sounds, my natural instinct would
0:25:57 > 0:25:59be to go for Bishkek.
0:25:59 > 0:26:05- But...- But I think it may be the last one.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07What do you think? Bishkek, Dushanbe?
0:26:07 > 0:26:09I think I'll go along with you, then.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11Right, we don't know this.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13We are ruling out Tashkent.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16That's some other country near there.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19Bishkek sounds attractive. I think...
0:26:20 > 0:26:22There's just something in the back of my mind says
0:26:22 > 0:26:25it's an unusual capital, Kyrgyzstan.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27So, we're going to go with Dushanbe.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29All right, let's just go through these.
0:26:29 > 0:26:30Tashkent, first of all, Eggheads?
0:26:30 > 0:26:32- Uzbekistan.- Uzbekistan.
0:26:32 > 0:26:36- Dushanbe?- Tajikistan.- Tajikistan.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38Bishkek is Kyrgyzstan.
0:26:38 > 0:26:40They're all the so-called "stans",
0:26:40 > 0:26:42but Bishkek was the one we were looking for.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45It's very difficult to choose between them.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47Eggheads, you have a chance to take the contest now on this third
0:26:47 > 0:26:51question. In Greek mythology, who is the mother of Heracles?
0:26:55 > 0:26:57- Yeah, it's not Danae, is it?- Yeah.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59- No, it's...- Isn't Leto...
0:26:59 > 0:27:04Gemini, the twins, isn't she that one? Or have I got that wrong?
0:27:04 > 0:27:06Let me think, because I... I thought...
0:27:06 > 0:27:07I might be getting them mixed up.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09I can never remember.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11I'm sure it's Alcmene.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14I thought we knew before the choices came up.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17- Let's just have a...- Well, if you thought it before the choices...
0:27:17 > 0:27:20- Danae's Perseus, isn't she? - Yeah.
0:27:20 > 0:27:21- Leto...- Who's Leto?
0:27:21 > 0:27:24That's what's... That's what's bothering me.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27The thing is, I'm sure they're both associated
0:27:27 > 0:27:29in one way or another with Heracles.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32Well, the only one with a serious connection with Heracles is Alcmene.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35- Yeah.- I'd bet my bottom dollar on that.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37Well, yeah, I'm torn.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39- OK.- Well, we've got...
0:27:39 > 0:27:40Yeah, OK.
0:27:40 > 0:27:43Reservations, Jeremy, but personally, I think it is Alcmene.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46No, fair enough.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48- That's what we're going to say. - Yeah.
0:27:48 > 0:27:52- Leto is the mother of Apollo and Artemis.- OK...
0:27:52 > 0:27:54Alcmene was the mother of Heracles.
0:27:54 > 0:27:55You got it absolutely right.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57We say congratulations, Eggheads,
0:27:57 > 0:27:58you have won.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06Well done. Commiserations, but well done.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08You played well in the final round there.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11And, yeah, the mythology is never-ending, is it...
0:28:11 > 0:28:14- Yeah.- ..as far as quiz answers is concerned?- It goes on and on.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17Goes on and on. The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them
0:28:17 > 0:28:21most of the time. And here you are back reigning over quiz land again.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24So it does mean you won't be going home with the £3,000, Challengers,
0:28:24 > 0:28:26so we roll the money over to our next show.
0:28:26 > 0:28:28Eggheads, well done.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30It's starting to look as if you are pretty unbeatable.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers have the brains
0:28:33 > 0:28:36to take them down. £4,000 says they don't.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38Till then, goodbye.