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 > 0:00:27Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers pit
0:00:27 > 0:00:30their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32They are the Eggheads.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35Taking on the might of our quiz Goliaths today
0:00:35 > 0:00:37are Gli Italiani from London.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41Now this team of friends share a passion for all things Italian.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43- Let's meet them.- Hello, I'm John,
0:00:43 > 0:00:46I'm an accountancy and business teacher.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Hello, I'm Sylvia, I'm an accounts administrator.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52Hello, I'm Ian, a retired teacher.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55Hi, I'm Gela, I'm a property developer.
0:00:55 > 0:00:59Hi, I'm Alex and I'm a quiz master and a microbrewer.
0:00:59 > 0:01:00So, John and team, hello.
0:01:00 > 0:01:01Hello, Jeremy.
0:01:01 > 0:01:05And ciao, ciao, it's all Italian today, John, that's brilliant.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09- Very much so.- So you've all got an Italian connection or background?
0:01:09 > 0:01:12Yes, either through birth or loving spaghetti.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15And Italian speakers here, I'm assuming, as well?
0:01:15 > 0:01:17Yes, three of us at least.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20Very good. And Gli Italiani, gli just means, what, 'the'?
0:01:20 > 0:01:22Yeah, the plural of the.
0:01:22 > 0:01:26So, yeah, a bit like Les Francais, the Italian version.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28So you're The Italians, effectively.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30- That's it.- I know you've got a bit of the quizzing pedigree as well.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32Some of us have been on Mastermind.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35- Not me, I'm not that good. - Don't say who cos it'll keep
0:01:35 > 0:01:36- them guessing, that's good.- Ah.
0:01:36 > 0:01:37You can keep it mysterious.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40Mastermind, a bit of league quizzing?
0:01:40 > 0:01:43A lot of that, yes, in London and Grimsby.
0:01:43 > 0:01:47I'm also a regular on the quiz, the National Quiz Circuit.
0:01:47 > 0:01:49OK. This sounds good, team.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52- Are we up for this?- Yes, let's go for it.- Absolutely, yes.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54Good stuff. All the best to you.
0:01:54 > 0:01:56Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs
0:01:56 > 0:01:57for our Challengers.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over
0:02:00 > 0:02:03to the next show. So, Gli Italiani,
0:02:03 > 0:02:06the Challengers actually won the last game.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09So the Eggs were storming along, getting a bit overconfident,
0:02:09 > 0:02:10and they got stopped.
0:02:10 > 0:02:14So there is £1,000 for you to win today.
0:02:14 > 0:02:15- Would you like to try?- Absolutely.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18- Yes.- OK. The first head-to-head battle is on the subject
0:02:18 > 0:02:20of film and TV. So it's one of you,
0:02:20 > 0:02:23please, against either Lisa, Beth, Barry, Pat
0:02:23 > 0:02:26- or Chris.- Er, that'll be me.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28And what do you reckon, Ian?
0:02:29 > 0:02:31Do you reckon we should take on Beth?
0:02:31 > 0:02:33- Or even Barry, actually.- Barry? OK.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37All right. I would like to try my hand against Barry, please.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40OK, John from Gli Italiani versus Barry.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42You speak Italian, Barry, or not?
0:02:42 > 0:02:43Unfortunately not.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46Well, you can speak Italian but you've got to use your hands a lot,
0:02:46 > 0:02:47- haven't you?- Very true.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49To ensure there's no conferring, would you please
0:02:49 > 0:02:52take your positions in our legendary Question Room?
0:02:53 > 0:02:56Barry, is there any really big film you've never seen?
0:02:56 > 0:03:00Which you think you should, like, you know, Star Wars or something.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03Oh, that's a good question. I can't think of anything.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05I've seen an awful lot of films over the last few years
0:03:05 > 0:03:08and I think I've caught up with most of the things that were on the wish
0:03:08 > 0:03:11- list.- Citizen Kane, ET, Jaws?
0:03:11 > 0:03:13Nope, seen all of those.
0:03:13 > 0:03:17Some of the great films that I have seen and I wished I hadn't seen!
0:03:17 > 0:03:19What, just two hours of your life you'll never get back?
0:03:19 > 0:03:23- Absolutely.- OK, John, on film and TV, your choice.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25- Would you like to go first or second?- Oh! First, please, Jeremy.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Here we go with your first question.
0:03:31 > 0:03:36John, in 2017 Pearl Mackie joined the cast of which TV drama series,
0:03:36 > 0:03:38playing the role of Bill Potts?
0:03:42 > 0:03:43Well, I don't believe my luck.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46I was trying to think what sort of questions I might be asked and this
0:03:46 > 0:03:48is one I rehearsed.
0:03:48 > 0:03:52So I won't waste time, I'll say Doctor Who and go one up.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Doctor Who is right, well done.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58OK, Barry, the film sequel T2 Trainspotting
0:03:58 > 0:04:00was released how many years after
0:04:00 > 0:04:01the original?
0:04:03 > 0:04:05Oh, my goodness me.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08I can't think it's as far back as 40 years.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10And even 30 seems too many.
0:04:12 > 0:04:13Let's think.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16I'm going to say 20 years.
0:04:18 > 0:04:19- Chris?- Yep, 20 years.
0:04:19 > 0:04:2120 years is the right answer.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24- Oof.- OK, one each. Back to you, John.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27"Oh, no, missus," and, "Titter ye not," were catchphrases
0:04:27 > 0:04:29of which comedian and actor?
0:04:33 > 0:04:37Mm. Well, Larry Grayson was famous with, "Shut that door."
0:04:38 > 0:04:42Dick Emery, "Ooh, you are awful," so that just leaves Frankie Howerd,
0:04:42 > 0:04:44that's my answer.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47Brilliant. Frankie Howerd is quite right.
0:04:47 > 0:04:52All funny men. Barry, which of these TV sitcoms was shown first on UK TV?
0:04:56 > 0:04:59Ooh, that's a good question.
0:04:59 > 0:05:01Gosh. I don't know.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03I have a feeling, though I'm not sure on this,
0:05:03 > 0:05:06I've a feeling it's Men Behaving Badly, so I'll go for that.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Can we do some dates here, Eggheads?
0:05:10 > 0:05:14- Er...- The Office is 2001, so you can fairly easily rule that out.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17Men Behaving Badly was the early '90s, '90...
0:05:17 > 0:05:18'92, yeah.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20And Blackadder was in the '80s.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22Blackadder was '83.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24Barry, some way out there, my friend.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26So Blackadder is the right answer.
0:05:26 > 0:05:27This is good, John.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30Get this right and you're in the final.
0:05:30 > 0:05:34Who's the creator of the TV drama series Peaky Blinders?
0:05:38 > 0:05:41Peaky Blinders, a friend of mine is a big fan...
0:05:42 > 0:05:45..and told me I should watch and so what did I do, I failed to watch it.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48So if I get this wrong, it's my own fault.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52Um. The name Poliakoff sounds very familiar but...
0:05:53 > 0:05:56..I don't know, I associate that name more with film
0:05:56 > 0:05:58rather than television.
0:05:58 > 0:05:59Russell T Davies?
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Yeah, he's been involved in Doctor Who.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04So I'm going to go with the one that I've never heard of,
0:06:04 > 0:06:06Steven Knight.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08- Do you know this, Barry? - I think it is Steven Knight.
0:06:08 > 0:06:12- And do you know what that means? - It means out!
0:06:12 > 0:06:14- Sin bin, again!- Yes.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16So, John, you've taken on an Egghead and you've won through.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18Steven Knight is the correct answer.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21That means you'll be in the final. Barry won't be.
0:06:21 > 0:06:26Good start for our Challengers, please return and rejoin your teams.
0:06:26 > 0:06:28Well, this is good.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30Gli Italiani, what do we say?
0:06:30 > 0:06:32What's the Italian word for a celebration that's restrained
0:06:32 > 0:06:35- at this point? - Oh, not that restrained.
0:06:35 > 0:06:36- I would say evviva.- Evviva!
0:06:36 > 0:06:39Italian equivalent of hurray.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41Hurray! A quiet hurray for the Italians.
0:06:41 > 0:06:42They've not lost any brains.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45Barry's having a nightmare, he's in the sin bin.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48The next subject is music.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50Who would like this, Gli Italiani?
0:06:50 > 0:06:52Alex at the end, please.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54Our quizmaster and microbrewer.
0:06:54 > 0:06:55Alex, against which Egghead?
0:06:55 > 0:06:56And it can't be Barry.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58Need some advice on this, really.
0:06:58 > 0:06:59Who do you think?
0:06:59 > 0:07:02Could possibly go Beth, but I don't know.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04- Do you all agree with that? - Yeah, OK.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06- Go on.- OK, we'll go with Beth, please.- Sure.
0:07:06 > 0:07:10Alex from Gli Italiani versus Beth from the Eggheads.
0:07:10 > 0:07:14Please go to our famous Question Room now.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16Well, you've had a great career, if I may say so, Alex,
0:07:16 > 0:07:19and I shall ask you about your quiz setting.
0:07:19 > 0:07:20- Where do you do that?- Personally,
0:07:20 > 0:07:24I do The Regent in Balham on a Sunday night, every Sunday.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27So, you, what, do 50 questions per quiz roughly?
0:07:27 > 0:07:3020 questions in two rounds.
0:07:30 > 0:07:3120 questions each.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33A music round in the middle.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36Big wipe-out round at the end.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38So, yeah, lots going on. Big picture round as well.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Brilliant. It can take a while to put those quizzes together,
0:07:40 > 0:07:42- can't they?- It takes me all week. - Oh does it, really?
0:07:42 > 0:07:45But it goes out then to 50 different venues across the country.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47All right, well, good luck with all of this now.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49Quizzing on music, Alex.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51- Would you like to go first or second?- First, please.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57Here we go with your first question.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Which song, made famous by Dusty Springfield
0:07:59 > 0:08:03contains the words "the only boy who could ever teach me"?
0:08:07 > 0:08:10- I know that one. It's Son Of A Preacher Man.- It is!
0:08:10 > 0:08:12"Was the son of a preacher man," you're quite right.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14You're first question, Beth.
0:08:14 > 0:08:18What is the full name of the musical instrument usually referred to as
0:08:18 > 0:08:19the piano?
0:08:23 > 0:08:27Well, I think it's due to the fact you can play quiet, piano,
0:08:27 > 0:08:28and loud, forte.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30So, pianoforte.
0:08:30 > 0:08:31Pianoforte is correct.
0:08:33 > 0:08:34Back to you, Alex.
0:08:34 > 0:08:38Your second question. Which Oscar-winning film composer produced
0:08:38 > 0:08:42the main theme for the BBC natural history series, Planet Earth II?
0:08:47 > 0:08:49I've got a feeling it was Hans Zimmer.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52Hans Zimmer is the right answer.
0:08:52 > 0:08:53Well done!
0:08:54 > 0:08:55And we go back to you, Beth.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58Which pop music pioneer was the producer of
0:08:58 > 0:09:02the 1962 hit single, Telstar for The Tornados,
0:09:02 > 0:09:07one of the first British singles to top the US chart?
0:09:10 > 0:09:13I thought Berry Gordy was Motown.
0:09:17 > 0:09:18George Martin...
0:09:19 > 0:09:24..is primarily associated with...
0:09:25 > 0:09:26..The Beatles,
0:09:26 > 0:09:31but that doesn't necessarily mean he wasn't associated with other artists
0:09:31 > 0:09:34before the Beatles.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38And he would know how to get what would work well in America.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41Yeah, I'm going to stick with George Martin,
0:09:41 > 0:09:46because of his being the impresario of the Beatles.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49OK, Barry, do one of his expressions. Barry?
0:09:49 > 0:09:51Oh! Sorry Beth, I didn't mean that!
0:09:51 > 0:09:54- It was Joe Meek. - Joe Meek is the answer.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56And is this... HE HUMS MELODY
0:09:56 > 0:09:58- That's what it is, yeah! - That's the one, yeah. Instrumental.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00And it's an instrumental, yeah.
0:10:00 > 0:10:02So Joe Meek is the answer. This is good for you, Alex.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04You can knock Beth out with this answer.
0:10:04 > 0:10:08Which song begins with the lines, "Poor old grandad,
0:10:08 > 0:10:11"I laughed at all his words, I thought he was a bitter man,
0:10:11 > 0:10:13"he spoke of women's ways."
0:10:21 > 0:10:23Get It On is...
0:10:24 > 0:10:27I can't remember now, but it's definitely not that.
0:10:27 > 0:10:29Heart of Glass.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32Again, I can't bring it to mind, but I know the song,
0:10:32 > 0:10:34and I don't think it's that.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37I think, by process of elimination, I'm going to go Ooh La La
0:10:37 > 0:10:39by The Faces.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Now, I cannot place the song at all, but like you,
0:10:41 > 0:10:43I would have taken the other two out.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46And you're quite right - Ooh La La by The Faces it is.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49Alex, you've taken on an Egghead, and you've knocked her out!
0:10:49 > 0:10:51So Beth is not in the final round. Come back to us.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54This is going rather well for our Challengers, isn't it?
0:10:56 > 0:10:58Exciting play by our Challengers today.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01Gli Italiani, not lost any brains from the final round.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03You brilliant Italians.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06The Eggheads have lost two, battered and broken over there!
0:11:06 > 0:11:09So, the next subject for you is Arts & Books.
0:11:09 > 0:11:10Who wants Arts & Books?
0:11:10 > 0:11:12I think that's me.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15- Is that you?- Yeah. Who would you suggest I take on?
0:11:15 > 0:11:18Gela. OK. Property developer against...
0:11:18 > 0:11:21- Should we take Lisa? - I'd would think so.
0:11:21 > 0:11:25We need to leave Chris if there's Sport, don't we?
0:11:25 > 0:11:28- Can we have Lisa, Jeremy? - By all means.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31So Gela from Gli Italiani versus Lisa from the Eggheads
0:11:31 > 0:11:34on Arts & Books. Is this the moment the Eggheads strike back?
0:11:34 > 0:11:36Let's see. Please go to the Question Room now.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41- Gela, you are a property developer? - That's right, Jeremy.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43Meaning what? You buy things and you do them up and you sell them?
0:11:43 > 0:11:47Yeah, I'm very low end of the market. I just buy little flats,
0:11:47 > 0:11:49quite ugly flats, try and make them a bit nicer.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51Oh, how nice. How many have you done?
0:11:52 > 0:11:53About eight.
0:11:53 > 0:11:57- Really?- Yeah.- And what is the key thing to remember about that?
0:11:57 > 0:11:59To get a nice bath, or...?
0:11:59 > 0:12:02Just remember, anything can be improved on,
0:12:02 > 0:12:05and it is the price you buy at that makes the profit.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08Interesting. OK, well, these are good tips for us, Lisa, aren't they?
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Absolutely. Well, they'd be even better if my husband hadn't insisted
0:12:11 > 0:12:13we are now not moving until my children graduate from university.
0:12:13 > 0:12:14JEREMY LAUGHS
0:12:14 > 0:12:16OK, well, Gela, good luck here.
0:12:16 > 0:12:20I know you do quizzes. You've done a quiz run by Hardeep Singh Kohli,
0:12:20 > 0:12:22- is that right? - That's how I got into it.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25It wasn't the quizzing, he used to cook amazing
0:12:25 > 0:12:28Punjabi food afterwards, and that's what got me going.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31All right, I wish we could lay that on for you, but...
0:12:31 > 0:12:33He's got a restaurant in Edinburgh, I think.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35- Oh, OK.- Take us there, if you want. - All right, if you win,
0:12:35 > 0:12:37Chris will take you there. Yeah, Chris?
0:12:37 > 0:12:39In your dreams.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42Arts & Books, Gela - would you like to go first or second?
0:12:42 > 0:12:44I will also go first, please.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50Going very, very well for our Challengers. Let's see if
0:12:50 > 0:12:52you can keep it going against Lisa. Here we go with your question.
0:12:52 > 0:12:56Jimmy Porter is the central character in which play, Gela?
0:13:00 > 0:13:03I had to study this for my A-level,
0:13:03 > 0:13:06so I know it is Look Back in Anger.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09Look Back in Anger is quite right.
0:13:09 > 0:13:10Who wrote that, Eggheads?
0:13:10 > 0:13:13- John Osborne. - John Osborne.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16Your question, Lisa. Shakespeare's The Taming Of The Shrew
0:13:16 > 0:13:19is usually classified as which sort of play?
0:13:21 > 0:13:25Depending on how amusing you find blatant misogyny, it's a comedy.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27JEREMY LAUGHS Comedy is right.
0:13:28 > 0:13:32Gela, The Grifters, The Getaway and The Killer Inside Me
0:13:32 > 0:13:35are stories written by which American writer
0:13:35 > 0:13:39once described as the dime store Dostoyevsky?
0:13:43 > 0:13:46I know it's not Truman Capote.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49I haven't head of Jim Thompson, And the name that came up
0:13:49 > 0:13:52when you said the book titles was James Ellroy,
0:13:52 > 0:13:54so I'm going to go with James Ellroy.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57- I understand that, but it's wrong. It's Jim Thompson.- Oh!
0:13:57 > 0:14:00I think that might be your first wrong answer of the whole contest,
0:14:00 > 0:14:02- Challengers.- It is. - Jim Thompson.
0:14:02 > 0:14:06All right, Lisa, which writer announced in 2017 that they would
0:14:06 > 0:14:09be writing a fantasy trilogy known as The Book Of Dust?
0:14:13 > 0:14:15I think it is a sort of prequel...
0:14:17 > 0:14:23..in a loose sense, to the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman.
0:14:23 > 0:14:24Philip Pullman is correct.
0:14:24 > 0:14:28Well done. So you need this to stay in now, Gela.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31The Winter Palace, containing the following lines,
0:14:31 > 0:14:34"Most people know more as they get older,
0:14:34 > 0:14:38"I give all that the cold shoulder," is a work by which poet?
0:14:44 > 0:14:47I'm going to rule out Ted Hughes because...
0:14:49 > 0:14:53..in my mind, I associate him more with poems about nature...
0:14:55 > 0:14:57..animals and so on.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00Is it John Betjeman, or is it Philip Larkin?
0:15:02 > 0:15:05I will go with...
0:15:10 > 0:15:11Oh, I can't decide!
0:15:14 > 0:15:17There's a certain element of...
0:15:19 > 0:15:23It sounds a little bit sardonic, so I'll go with Philip Larkin.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26- Yeah, Philip Larkin is right. - Oh!
0:15:27 > 0:15:31- I mean, I love Philip Larkin. I've never heard this poem.- No.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33It doesn't sound like him at all - it sounds like John Betjeman -
0:15:33 > 0:15:35so it's an absolute stinker, that.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38But you got it right. You don't think so, Lisa?
0:15:38 > 0:15:39I think it sounds like Larkin.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41I mean, that's where I would have gone, just basic...
0:15:41 > 0:15:44He doesn't go for that horrible rhyming "Older, shoulder," thing.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47- He doesn't do that.- No, no, he does, he does. I mean, he's not...
0:15:47 > 0:15:50He's a more structured poet in terms of rhyme than
0:15:50 > 0:15:52someone like Ted Hughes, so you could rule him out on that basis,
0:15:52 > 0:15:55but certainly, yes, Betjeman was a bit more sort of dogrel rhyming.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58But, no, Larkin's rhymes are very structured things.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00All right, so your third question, you can take the round.
0:16:00 > 0:16:04Who wrote the 1952 baseball novel The Natural,
0:16:04 > 0:16:07later made into a film starring Robert Redford?
0:16:12 > 0:16:15Yeah. Knew the film. Erm...
0:16:19 > 0:16:22I think we might be knocking on a little bit for Hemingway.
0:16:22 > 0:16:23It's possible, I suppose.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27Seems a random one to throw in if it ISN'T Hemingway.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31Yeah, American literature, always fun. Erm...
0:16:35 > 0:16:38I don't know. I'm very much reduced to a guess here,
0:16:38 > 0:16:44cos I don't know enough about any of them, really, to narrow it down.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46As I say, instinct would tell me to rule out Hemingway, but...
0:16:48 > 0:16:51..it's only the vaguest of instincts.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53I don't know. Down the middle, Bernard Malamud.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59This author was the subject of my dissertation at university.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02This is making me feel so much better, Jeremy. Carry on.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05He wrote books like The Fixer, The Assistant.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08Bernard Malamud is the right answer, Lisa.
0:17:08 > 0:17:09- Oh, wow. - Well done, you've taken the round.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12Gela, beaten by a very good performance by Lisa there,
0:17:12 > 0:17:15who got all her questions right, and not in the final, therefore.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17So it is getting a little bit more even here.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19Please return to us. One more round to play before the final.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25As it stands, Gli Italiani have lost a brain from the final round.
0:17:25 > 0:17:26The Eggheads have lost two, though.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28And we play on with History.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31So this round before the final. Who wants this?
0:17:31 > 0:17:35- That will be me, please. - Sylvia. Against which Egghead?
0:17:35 > 0:17:38- I will go for Chris, please. - Very good. Quick decision.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40Chris loves his history. Bit of World War II?
0:17:40 > 0:17:43- Well, not just World War II. - Some tanks in there?
0:17:43 > 0:17:46- Well, yeah, tanks, submarines. - Yeah.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48So Sylvia from Gli Italiani
0:17:48 > 0:17:50to play Chris from the Eggheads on History.
0:17:50 > 0:17:55And let's see what happens in our last round before the final.
0:17:55 > 0:17:57So here we go with history.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59Sylvia, would you like to go first or second?
0:17:59 > 0:18:00I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07And your first question is this, Sylvia.
0:18:07 > 0:18:11Which of these peoples traditionally inhabited the northern hinterlands
0:18:11 > 0:18:13of the Black and Caspian seas?
0:18:17 > 0:18:18I... Oh.
0:18:20 > 0:18:24Tuareg are more in Africa. The Moors are in North Africa.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26I'm going to go for the Cossacks, please.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29- Well done, Sylvia, yes. Cossacks is right.- Thank you.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32Chris, which leader commanded the victorious army at the
0:18:32 > 0:18:35Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC?
0:18:40 > 0:18:42- 48 BC, you say? - 48 BC.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45The only one who was alive in 48 BC was Julius Caesar.
0:18:46 > 0:18:49Julius Caesar is correct. When was Attila, then, Chris?
0:18:49 > 0:18:53Oh, 400 and some odd AD, and of course, Charlemagne was much later,
0:18:53 > 0:18:56- 800 AD.- So they're hundreds of years apart?- Mm.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59Jeremy, the interesting thing about the Battle of Pharsalus was
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Julius Caesar's famous quote, "Veni, vidi, vici".
0:19:01 > 0:19:03"I came, I saw, I conquered."
0:19:03 > 0:19:06OK, I didn't realise that. "Veni, vidi, vici," comes from that battle.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08Or, as they say in the Carry On films,
0:19:08 > 0:19:10"I came, I saw, I conked out".
0:19:10 > 0:19:11OK, Sylvia,
0:19:11 > 0:19:14which future Prime Minister and president of an African nation
0:19:14 > 0:19:18was sentenced to seven years' hard labour in 1953
0:19:18 > 0:19:21for being part of the Mau Mau movement?
0:19:27 > 0:19:30I thought the Mau Mau were in Kenya,
0:19:30 > 0:19:33so I'm going to go for Jomo Kenyatta, please.
0:19:33 > 0:19:35Jomo Kenyatta is the right answer.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37He became their president.
0:19:39 > 0:19:43All right, Chris. Which general prior to a famous battle is quoted
0:19:43 > 0:19:48as saying that his opponent was, "a bad general, the English are
0:19:48 > 0:19:52"bad troops, and this affair is nothing more than eating breakfast"?
0:19:58 > 0:19:59Hmm.
0:20:07 > 0:20:10Don't connect it with... It's certainly not William the Conqueror.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17Is it Napoleon? Is it Rommel?
0:20:17 > 0:20:20It could be before Montgomery was appointed to lead the eighth army
0:20:20 > 0:20:23in North Africa, and was sent by Rommel.
0:20:23 > 0:20:24Erwin Rommel.
0:20:26 > 0:20:30No, it was by Napoleon Bonaparte, just before Waterloo.
0:20:30 > 0:20:31JEREMY AND CHRIS LAUGH
0:20:31 > 0:20:33So this is looking lively now, Sylvia.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35- Get this one right, you're in the final.- Gosh!
0:20:35 > 0:20:38And they will be severely outnumbered in the final.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42What name was given to the mercenary soldiers who formed the
0:20:42 > 0:20:46Imperial Guard of the Byzantine Emperors from roughly
0:20:46 > 0:20:50the 11th to the 13th centuries AD?
0:20:57 > 0:21:00I am afraid I will have to go straight down the middle.
0:21:01 > 0:21:05Be a guess - is it Varangian Guard?
0:21:05 > 0:21:08Varangian Guard is your answer.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11Let's see, quizzers on this side. Challengers, do you know?
0:21:11 > 0:21:13It's not the Praetorians, we know that.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15So it's a question of which of the others.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Do we know who the Immortals were, Eggheads?
0:21:17 > 0:21:19The Immortals were the Persian Guard.
0:21:19 > 0:21:23They numbered 10,000 and guarded the Persian kings Darius and Xerxes.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25- You've got it right, Sylvia, well done.- Oh, my goodness!
0:21:25 > 0:21:27It is the Varangian Guard. Chris, you've been knocked out on
0:21:27 > 0:21:29- I guess, your favourite subject. - Yeah.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31This is going very well for our Challengers.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33Come back to us, both of you, and we will play the final round.
0:21:35 > 0:21:38We had a little chat about the Battle of Pharsalus there,
0:21:38 > 0:21:40didn't we? And Veni, vidi, vici?
0:21:41 > 0:21:44- The Battle of Zela, isn't it? - Zela!- Oh, gosh!
0:21:44 > 0:21:46- Yes. - Oh, I got it wrong. Dearie me.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48This is what we have been playing towards.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51It is time for our final round. It's been very exciting today.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54It's obviously General Knowledge, as you know, but I'm afraid
0:21:54 > 0:21:57those of you who lost your head to heads won't be allowed
0:21:57 > 0:21:59to take part in this round.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01So it is Gela from Gli Italiani,
0:22:01 > 0:22:05but it is also Beth and Barry and Chris from the Eggheads.
0:22:05 > 0:22:06Please leave the studio.
0:22:08 > 0:22:13John, Sylvia, Ian and, Alex, you're playing to win Gli Italiani £1,000.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15You've done brilliantly so far, team.
0:22:15 > 0:22:18Lisa and Pat, well, what can I say?
0:22:18 > 0:22:21After a horrible defeat in the last game,
0:22:21 > 0:22:25you're just trying, somehow, to get the Eggheads back on track.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30This time, they are all General Knowledge.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32You may confer, so use all your brains together.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Gli Italiani, the really big question here is,
0:22:34 > 0:22:37can your four brains finish off these two,
0:22:37 > 0:22:39and would you like to go first or second?
0:22:39 > 0:22:41- Oh, definitely first. - What do we think, chaps?
0:22:41 > 0:22:43- First, don't we?- Yes. - First, please, Jeremy.
0:22:47 > 0:22:51All right. Ian and team, here we go. Good luck, Gli Italiani.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54Who found fame as the drummer of the group McFly?
0:22:58 > 0:23:00Do you have any idea?
0:23:00 > 0:23:03I can't offer anything. I've only ever heard of the first one,
0:23:03 > 0:23:04but that doesn't mean anything.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06Harry Judd is the only one I've heard of.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Don't think it's Harry Judd, is it?
0:23:08 > 0:23:11- I couldn't tell you.- He's the only one I have heard of.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14- Should I try him? - Let's try what you think it is.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17The only one I've heard of?
0:23:17 > 0:23:19Well, we're not experts on this topic,
0:23:19 > 0:23:23so we've decided we're going to plump for Harry Judd.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25Harry Judd is the right answer.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28- Phew! - He is known because he won Strictly.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30So that is why you have heard the name.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33OK, first question for the Eggheads.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37In the late 1890s, Joshua Slocum, who was born in Nova Scotia,
0:23:37 > 0:23:41became the first person to sail solo where?
0:23:41 > 0:23:42Joshua Slocum.
0:23:46 > 0:23:50I think his boat was called Spray. I think he went around the world.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55Let's think about this. Francis Chichester - did he stop on his way?
0:23:57 > 0:24:00There's various categories, aren't there? There's going around,
0:24:00 > 0:24:04there's going around with stops, there's going around solo.
0:24:04 > 0:24:05- 1890s.- Mm. It's a hell of an achievement,
0:24:05 > 0:24:08but he could've taken his time, obviously.
0:24:10 > 0:24:14The point being all the main circumnavigations were ships
0:24:14 > 0:24:18with crews, Drake and Magellan, and all those sort of people.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21So maybe he set off in his boat and took his time and went all the way
0:24:21 > 0:24:23- around. - That would be where you would go?
0:24:23 > 0:24:26- I'd opt for around the world. - Let's go with that.- OK.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29We think that might be around the world.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31- Around the world is correct. - Good man.
0:24:31 > 0:24:36Challengers, the Piolets d'Or are globally prestigious awards
0:24:36 > 0:24:38in which field?
0:24:40 > 0:24:42- Can you spell the first word? - Of course.
0:24:42 > 0:24:46Piolets. Capital P, I-O-L-E-T-S.
0:24:46 > 0:24:47Right. I think it's mountaineering.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49I think it's the things they use when they...
0:24:49 > 0:24:51Like crampons or something.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53I'm fairly certain I've heard this before.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56- Pitons?- Is that right? Is that what they are?
0:24:56 > 0:25:02- Pitons is the metal things.- I'm 99.9% certain it's mountaineering.
0:25:02 > 0:25:03I haven't a clue, so...
0:25:05 > 0:25:07It's certainly not cooking.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10That's the Bocuse d'Or for cooking.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13- Sailing would be, like... - So...
0:25:13 > 0:25:16So mountaineering is the only one that makes sense, isn't it?
0:25:16 > 0:25:19Yeah. John thinks it is and he has an idea, and we don't,
0:25:19 > 0:25:23so shall we try it? We're going for mountaineering, rightly or wrongly.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26Piolets are actually the ice picks but, you're completely right.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28- Mountaineering. Well done. - Nice.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31- Mountaineering. All right. They're good, aren't they?- Oh, yes.- Yes.
0:25:31 > 0:25:36Eggheads, in June 2016, which Six Nations rugby union team
0:25:36 > 0:25:40beat South Africa IN South Africa for the first time?
0:25:43 > 0:25:45I know Scotland had a huge result,
0:25:45 > 0:25:47but I thought that was a little later.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50My first thought was Scotland.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53I was a bit worried in case I was mixing it up with the victory over
0:25:53 > 0:25:55- Australia.- I thought they had had an enormous win,
0:25:55 > 0:25:58but I thought it was later than June 2016.
0:26:01 > 0:26:02Now I'm at sea here, really.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06I thought Scotland had had a big, big win,
0:26:06 > 0:26:09but I thought it was later than June 2016, but you also had a faint...
0:26:09 > 0:26:12My straight inclination was for Scotland.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17But again, I'm not basing that particularly on dates,
0:26:17 > 0:26:19I'm just remembering the big result.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22Back then, Ireland had a huge when in Chicago over the All Blacks.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25- Right.- OK? Are we going to go with Scotland?
0:26:25 > 0:26:27Go with Scotland.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29I think we're in some danger here.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32With many reservations, we're going to say Scotland.
0:26:34 > 0:26:35Scotland is your answer.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38- Do you know this? - I thought it was Scotland as well.
0:26:38 > 0:26:39- It's Ireland. - Oh!
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Good!
0:26:41 > 0:26:44So you have a line of sight to the money now.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47You get this right, you've won £1,000.
0:26:47 > 0:26:51In 1974, what became the first retail item
0:26:51 > 0:26:54to have its bar code scanned?
0:26:54 > 0:26:55Oh, I've heard this.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01- It's chewing gum, 100%. - Go for it.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03We think that's chewing gum, Jeremy.
0:27:05 > 0:27:09- And you're certain?- Certain as one can ever be on these questions.
0:27:09 > 0:27:13You're playing for £1,000 here. You've got everything right so far.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16If you've got this right, their wrong answer will cost them.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19The correct answer is packet of chewing gum.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22We say congratulations, Challengers, you have won!
0:27:27 > 0:27:30Oh! Oh, dear, oh, dear. So, Eggheads, two games in a row.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33What's happening here? On a bit of a spin.
0:27:33 > 0:27:34Well done, Gli Italiani.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37- Thank you very much.- I won't say you made that easy cos, respect to the
0:27:37 > 0:27:41Eggheads, they played their game, but you had some good answers there.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43You're quizzers, right, John?
0:27:43 > 0:27:46- Sometimes.- Yeah. - I think today was a good day.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48And Ian, I know you are.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50We didn't even see you at full stretch.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53Perhaps as well!
0:27:53 > 0:27:55- How does it feel? - We're very pleased.
0:27:55 > 0:27:59We came along to try to do our best. We know what we're up against,
0:27:59 > 0:28:04which is a lot stronger than we are overall, but that's how it goes.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06Depends on the luck of the questions.
0:28:06 > 0:28:07We all know this, quizzers.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10You have your good days, your bad days.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13You're being far too modest. We say well done, Gli Italiani.
0:28:13 > 0:28:14You've won £1,000.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16You are officially cleverer than the Eggheads.
0:28:16 > 0:28:20You've beaten them in battle, and proved again they can be beaten.
0:28:20 > 0:28:24So, poor old Eggheads, feeling a little bit battered here.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers will be
0:28:27 > 0:28:29just as successful, catch them at their weakest.
0:28:29 > 0:28:30Until then, goodbye.