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 > 0:00:30possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32They are the Eggheads.
0:00:32 > 0:00:33And bouncing back, Eggs, yeah?
0:00:33 > 0:00:35Very determined indeed.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38All right. Now, if you'd like to work on a question from the Eggheads
0:00:38 > 0:00:41while you watch at home, Steve, you've got one for us?
0:00:41 > 0:00:43I have, Jeremy. Nice and straightforward today.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46Which is the only country in the world to be named after a female?
0:00:46 > 0:00:50The only country in the world to be named after a female?
0:00:50 > 0:00:52We'll find out the answer at the end of the show.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54Hoping to get one over on our quiz champions today
0:00:54 > 0:00:56are The Old Boars from Lancashire.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Now, this team regularly quiz together
0:00:59 > 0:01:01at The Boar's Head pub in Blackpool.
0:01:01 > 0:01:02Let's meet them.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06Hi, I'm Mick and I'm a self-employed data analyst.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09Hi, I'm Jenna, and I'm a head of customer engagement.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12Hello, I'm Marc, and I'm an engineer.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14Hi, I'm Howard, and I'm a taxi driver.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17Hi, I'm Adrian, and I'm a civil servant.
0:01:17 > 0:01:18So, Mick and team, hello.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20- Hi.- Great to see you.
0:01:20 > 0:01:21From Blackpool, no less, Mick?
0:01:21 > 0:01:25- Yes, indeed.- As soon as I visualise Blackpool I think of the seafront
0:01:25 > 0:01:26and the trams and all that.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30- Is that where you are? - Yeah, we all live very close to
0:01:30 > 0:01:31the coast so, yeah.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34I go walking quite often down from Blackpool
0:01:34 > 0:01:35all the way down to Lytham.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38And The Boar's Head, is that within view of the sea?
0:01:38 > 0:01:41No, it's just about a mile in, a mile in from the sea.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43OK. But the quiz is the key thing there?
0:01:43 > 0:01:44The quiz is the key thing there.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46Right, so tell us about the quiz.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48- How competitive is it? - It's pretty competitive.
0:01:48 > 0:01:52There's about... Sort of ten teams, five vying for the top.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Run by a friend of ours called Anthony Parr.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57He's a great quizmaster.
0:01:57 > 0:01:58Really challenges us.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00- So...- Wonderful.- Hoping to get some easy questions now.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04Anyone here a Blackpool fan?
0:02:04 > 0:02:06- Anyone been there?- I like Blackpool. - I like Blackpool.- Mmm.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08Brilliant. All the best to you.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash
0:02:10 > 0:02:12up for grabs for our Challengers.
0:02:12 > 0:02:13If they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:02:13 > 0:02:15the prize money rolls over to the next show.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18So, Old Boars, if the Eggs are looking a bit bedraggled,
0:02:18 > 0:02:21it's because they've been knocked around the last couple of games.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23They've lost two on the trot.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26So it's a perfect time to meet them, in some ways.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28There's £1,000 if you beat them.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30- Would you like to try?- Yes, we will.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33I thought so. The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of
0:02:33 > 0:02:35Arts & Books. One of you, please.
0:02:35 > 0:02:40And then either Lisa, Steve, Barry, Pat or Chris to play against.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43I think we should go with you, Adey?
0:02:43 > 0:02:44OK.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46Who shall I... Shall I take on?
0:02:46 > 0:02:48So, who do you think we should go for?
0:02:48 > 0:02:50Chris?
0:02:50 > 0:02:51- Chris...- OK, yeah?
0:02:52 > 0:02:54OK. Well, Adey's going to go up for us,
0:02:54 > 0:02:56he's our resident arts and books expert.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58And we'd like him to go up against Chris.
0:02:58 > 0:03:00Good stuff. So it's Adrian from The Old Boars
0:03:00 > 0:03:03versus Chris from the Eggheads. And to ensure there's no conferring,
0:03:03 > 0:03:06please take your positions in our legendary Question Room.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10OK, Adrian, Arts & Books.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12And would you like to go first or second against Chris?
0:03:12 > 0:03:13Can I go first, please, Jeremy?
0:03:18 > 0:03:20Here we go. Notre Dame de Paris,
0:03:20 > 0:03:24usually referred to in English as The Hunchback Of Notre Dame,
0:03:24 > 0:03:25is a book by which author?
0:03:31 > 0:03:35Erm... Well, it's a French book, so...
0:03:35 > 0:03:38I don't think it's Dickens or Evelyn Waugh.
0:03:40 > 0:03:45And, luckily, I've seen the cartoon version, so it's Victor Hugo.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Victor Hugo is right.
0:03:47 > 0:03:48Well done.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53Chris, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a novel by which author?
0:03:58 > 0:04:01That's the first of the Smiley books, isn't it, by John le Carre?
0:04:01 > 0:04:02John le Carre is right.
0:04:02 > 0:04:05Is that right, there's a Smiley series, is there?
0:04:05 > 0:04:06- Oh, yeah.- OK.
0:04:07 > 0:04:08Adrian, your question.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10Which of Dan Brown's novels
0:04:10 > 0:04:12is largely set in and around the Vatican?
0:04:16 > 0:04:18Erm...
0:04:19 > 0:04:24I can only vaguely remember The Da Vinci Code. Mind you,
0:04:24 > 0:04:26I've not read any of them, unfortunately.
0:04:29 > 0:04:30I'll have to go with...
0:04:32 > 0:04:34..Angels and Demons.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36Yes, you're right, Angels and Demons it is.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39It would be easier to go for The Da Vinci Code because there's a lot of
0:04:39 > 0:04:40spiritual goings on in that.
0:04:42 > 0:04:43OK, Chris, to catch up.
0:04:43 > 0:04:48Bright Star is a work by which British poet born in 1795?
0:04:52 > 0:04:54That is by Keats.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56It is John Keats.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59John Keats is right, so we go to you, Adrian.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02Your third question. Who wrote the award-winning play
0:05:02 > 0:05:04The Pitmen Painters?
0:05:08 > 0:05:11I've never heard of it, unfortunately.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14Tom Stoppard, I might rule him out.
0:05:14 > 0:05:19Because I might have heard of it if it had been one of his.
0:05:22 > 0:05:23I haven't heard of Lee Hall.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28I know Martin McDonagh, I think he makes films now.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34I might swerve back to Tom Stoppard, actually.
0:05:38 > 0:05:42- Yeah, Tom Stoppard. - OK, Tom Stoppard is your answer.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44Don't know much about this play, anybody help us?
0:05:44 > 0:05:46Anybody seen it, anyone know it on the Eggheads' side?
0:05:46 > 0:05:48I think I've heard of it.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50I think it's by Lee Hall.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53It is Lee Hall, Adrian.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55So, Chris, your question for the round.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58Which artist created the three-minute piece
0:05:58 > 0:05:59called All The Bells,
0:05:59 > 0:06:03which consisted of a countrywide mass bell-ringing exercise
0:06:03 > 0:06:07which was used to mark the start of the Olympic Games in 2012?
0:06:11 > 0:06:16Tracey Emin, she's an...artist artist.
0:06:16 > 0:06:17She produces works of art,
0:06:17 > 0:06:19she doesn't produce stuff like that.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23Sam Taylor-Wood? No.
0:06:26 > 0:06:27I'll go with Martin Creed.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31The countrywide mass bell-ringing exercise
0:06:31 > 0:06:33that started the Olympic Games in 2012.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36Martin Creed is the right answer.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39Well done, Chris. Three out of three for our Eggheads.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42Sorry, Adrian. That beastly third question has knocked you out
0:06:42 > 0:06:44and as a result you won't be in the final round.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47Return to us, gentlemen, please, and we'll see what happens next.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51As it stands, The Old Boars have lost one brain from the final round,
0:06:51 > 0:06:54the Eggheads have not lost any so far,
0:06:54 > 0:06:56and now your subject is Science.
0:06:57 > 0:07:01- Science.- I think, Howard, do you want to do science or...
0:07:02 > 0:07:04I thought Jenna was doing science.
0:07:04 > 0:07:05OK, yeah, Jenna.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09Happy for science? OK. We'll go for Jenna for science.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12- Me for science, then! - Jenna, brilliant.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14And against which Egghead?
0:07:14 > 0:07:16Anyone have a preference? Jenna, do you have a preference?
0:07:16 > 0:07:19- I don't know.- What about Lisa? - Yeah, go on.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21You are my favourite!
0:07:21 > 0:07:24How nice! Your fan has arrived.
0:07:24 > 0:07:25I knew there was one somewhere.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28- Yes!- Be gentle on her.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31Jenna from The Old Boars to play Lisa on Science from the Eggheads.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33Please take your positions, ladies.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38So, you are planning your wedding to Marc, Jenna.
0:07:38 > 0:07:39I certainly am.
0:07:39 > 0:07:43I gather you've asked for certain type of animal to be bridesmaid?
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Yes.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48Go on, tell us about that, I don't want to take your story from you.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50I've two cats, Sooty and Sweep,
0:07:50 > 0:07:52and I asked if we could have them be bridesmaids in the wedding.
0:07:52 > 0:07:56But it was an absolute firm no from Marc, unfortunately.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59I'm just looking, he's still shaking his head.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01We'll try and persuade him when he goes into the Question Room.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03I know, if you wouldn't mind.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05This will be my moment, yeah.
0:08:05 > 0:08:06When is it planed for, your wedding?
0:08:06 > 0:08:08Later on in the year.
0:08:08 > 0:08:09Lovely. And honeymoon somewhere?
0:08:09 > 0:08:12Yeah, little trip to the Lake District and then somewhere a little
0:08:12 > 0:08:14bit more exotic shortly thereafter.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16How fantastic. Well, all the best to you.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19- Thank you.- Science is the subject here, Jenna.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21And would you like to go first or second against our Lisa?
0:08:21 > 0:08:23I will go first, please.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29OK, good luck. Your first question, Jenna.
0:08:29 > 0:08:33How many humps does the camel known as the dromedary typically have?
0:08:37 > 0:08:38To be honest, I'm not sure.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41It will be a complete guess.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43I'm going to say two.
0:08:43 > 0:08:47Do you know, I think I would have gone two as well, but it's one.
0:08:47 > 0:08:48It's that annoying...
0:08:48 > 0:08:50That is a bit of a stinker.
0:08:50 > 0:08:51There's a little mnemonic.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53I think it's Dave of us that has problems with this
0:08:53 > 0:08:55one, there's a little mnemonic you can remember because it a dromedary,
0:08:55 > 0:08:57when you've got a capital D, one hump,
0:08:57 > 0:08:59but a Bactrian camel, that has two,
0:08:59 > 0:09:02a B has got two humps. Cunning little way of remembering that.
0:09:02 > 0:09:03It's a Bactrian that has two.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05That's the one.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08When I was picturing a camel in my mind it had two humps, Lisa.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10Well, clearly some of them don't, Jeremy.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13You're doing a whole bunch of the camel population a disservice.
0:09:13 > 0:09:14I'm on your side here, Jenna,
0:09:14 > 0:09:16but sadly you did not get that one right.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18OK. Lisa, which of
0:09:18 > 0:09:20these types of bird is typically the largest?
0:09:25 > 0:09:27This is actually a food and drink question,
0:09:27 > 0:09:30it just depends how many of all of the above you have eaten.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33Quail, pretty tiny, guinea fowl, a little bit bigger.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36I think that would be the common turkey.
0:09:36 > 0:09:40Common turkey is right. And back to you we go, Jenna.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42The chemical element krypton
0:09:42 > 0:09:46takes its name from a Greek word meaning what?
0:09:48 > 0:09:53Again, science wouldn't have been my first choice as subject.
0:09:55 > 0:10:00No rationale behind it other than I will go down the right and say new.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03It's... Let's just see if the Challengers know, what do you think?
0:10:03 > 0:10:06It means hidden. Cryptography.
0:10:06 > 0:10:10Yeah. Hidden, that's right, because cryptos is code, isn't it?
0:10:10 > 0:10:12Or cryptography. Hidden is the answer.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14OK, Lisa, you can take the round with this question.
0:10:14 > 0:10:18How much of the mass in our solar system is made up by the sun?
0:10:23 > 0:10:27It's an awful lot. Is it as much as 99%?
0:10:28 > 0:10:31See, when I say things like that I picture Barry's head
0:10:31 > 0:10:32going like this.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37OK, so, I think 55
0:10:37 > 0:10:38is probably out.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43The sun is massive, the sun is massive.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46It's not a scientific term, but it's a fact.
0:10:49 > 0:10:53I don't know, I think I'll have to go for 99 because I think even
0:10:53 > 0:10:54a quarter of that...
0:10:55 > 0:10:59If you add them all together I don't think you're going to get
0:10:59 > 0:11:00that close.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06Go on, first instinct, 99.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08Shall I check it with the Barry or is that too painful?
0:11:08 > 0:11:09Please don't check it with Barry.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11It's not painful at all.
0:11:11 > 0:11:14- It's not painful, Barry, go on. - It's 99.9%.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16It's 99.9%, he says, Lisa.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Well, there you go.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21Sorry, Jenna. I know it's not your subject, science.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24And I think Marc is going to have Sooty and Sweep as bridesmaids now,
0:11:24 > 0:11:27to make it up to you. Well done, Lisa, you're in the final round.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30Return to us, please, we'll see what happens in round three.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33As it stands, The Old Boars have
0:11:33 > 0:11:34lost two brains from the final round.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37The Eggheads are all still sitting there and they need to get their
0:11:37 > 0:11:40confidence back because they've had some terrible games lately.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42The next subject is Music.
0:11:42 > 0:11:43Let's see if you can take one down.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45So who is going to go for the music round?
0:11:45 > 0:11:49Do you want me to go? I don't know anything about music, but...
0:11:49 > 0:11:53Yeah, me, I'd rather do your subject.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55Yeah, no, it's fair. It looks like it's me, Jeremy.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58OK, Marc, our engineer and fiance.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01Against which Egghead, Pat or Barry or Steve?
0:12:01 > 0:12:03So one of the three gents in the middle.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06I don't know. Maybe Steve.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08Go for the older one.
0:12:08 > 0:12:13- Older one? I don't want to offend them.- Impossible to tell.
0:12:13 > 0:12:14Barry? Barry.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16- Barry.- OK.
0:12:16 > 0:12:18So we're hoping he might be caught out on something new.
0:12:18 > 0:12:22Marc from The Old Boars versus Barry from the Eggheads on Music.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24Please go to the special room.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29So, Marc, congratulations on your forthcoming nuptials.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31- Cheers.- Marrying Jenna.
0:12:31 > 0:12:32So, Music is the subject.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Marc, would you like to go first or second?
0:12:34 > 0:12:36I'll go first, please, Jeremy.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42And here we go. Which alternative term is
0:12:42 > 0:12:44commonly used for the classical guitar?
0:12:51 > 0:12:53I think it's Spanish guitar, Jeremy.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56Spanish guitar is quite right, Marc. Well done.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58Over to you, Barry.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02The band Steps are most associated with which genre of music?
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Steps are a pop band, definitely.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10Yes, pop is right. And we go back to you, Marc.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12Which of these albums was released first?
0:13:20 > 0:13:21Wow.
0:13:23 > 0:13:24It could be any of them.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29I think I'll do a Judith and go down the right.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31Graceland by Paul Simon.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33Let me just check with your team-mates here.
0:13:33 > 0:13:34Team-mates, do we know?
0:13:34 > 0:13:36We're guessing on Pet Sounds.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38- Yeah.- '60s, '70s and '80s.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40I think that's right. I think '60s, '70s and '80s.
0:13:40 > 0:13:44So the Beach Boys was the '60s, Floyd '70s and Graceland was, what,
0:13:44 > 0:13:47- early '80s, wasn't it?- I think it was about '85, I think.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49- When was it?- '86?
0:13:49 > 0:13:51Yeah, '85, '86.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53Pet Sounds is the answer.
0:13:53 > 0:13:54By the Beach Boys.
0:13:54 > 0:13:55What we were looking for.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57OK, Barry,
0:13:57 > 0:13:59who co-created the pop band Gorillaz
0:13:59 > 0:14:01with the artist Jamie Hewlett?
0:14:06 > 0:14:07Ah.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12I think Gorillaz was created by Noel Gallagher after Oasis.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14So I'll go for Noel Gallagher.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18- No, no.- No?
0:14:18 > 0:14:21Lisa's done the Barry now.
0:14:21 > 0:14:22He does it to me so often.
0:14:22 > 0:14:25So often. I just have to get my own back occasionally.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27No, it's Damon Albarn.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29So, level after two.
0:14:29 > 0:14:30And your third question, Marc.
0:14:30 > 0:14:34Which composer born in 1908 was particularly interested
0:14:34 > 0:14:38in birdsong and spent much of his later life roaming the countryside
0:14:38 > 0:14:39and transposing what he heard?
0:14:45 > 0:14:48I wish my cousin was sat here answering this question,
0:14:48 > 0:14:49she's a musician.
0:14:51 > 0:14:54Would it be too ironic to be John Cage? Birds.
0:14:56 > 0:14:57I'll go for John Cage, Jeremy.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00It's a hard old question.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03- Barry, do you know this one? - Yes, it's Olivier Messiaen.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06Olivier Messiaen is the right answer.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08It's a difficult one to guess.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11John Cage was somebody who was very futuristic, Barry, wasn't he?
0:15:11 > 0:15:13He was. He made all sorts of interesting music
0:15:13 > 0:15:16and made music out of radios and typewriters
0:15:16 > 0:15:17and all that sort of thing.
0:15:17 > 0:15:21So it's not inconceivable that he could have used birdsong as well.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23So it's Olivier Messiaen,
0:15:23 > 0:15:26and that gives Barry a chance to wipe the slate clean, Barry,
0:15:26 > 0:15:28after a series of games we would rather forget.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30We don't talk about.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32We don't talk about.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35Here we go. Which jazz musician was given the nickname
0:15:35 > 0:15:38Maharajah of the Keyboard by Duke Ellington?
0:15:43 > 0:15:46Right. You've given me all pianists, which is wonderful.
0:15:48 > 0:15:50I was hoping there would be somebody there who wasn't a pianist.
0:15:52 > 0:15:53I really don't know this.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56I'm sure it's not Dave Brubeck.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58So is it Sun Ra or Oscar Peterson?
0:15:59 > 0:16:03I mean, I was thinking Sun Ra but it just doesn't sound like him.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06I'm going to go for Oscar Peterson.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09If you've got this right, you're in the final round.
0:16:09 > 0:16:10- Eggheads, is he right?- He is.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12Yes, it is Oscar Peterson.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14Sorry, Marc. Beaten by our Egghead.
0:16:14 > 0:16:15Barry goes through to the final.
0:16:15 > 0:16:18- How about that, Barry? We've turned it round.- At last!
0:16:18 > 0:16:19You've won a round.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21Come back, rejoin your teams.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23One more round to play before the final.
0:16:25 > 0:16:26So, as it stands, The Old Boars
0:16:26 > 0:16:29have lost three brains from the final round
0:16:29 > 0:16:32and the Eggheads appear to be back on form, they haven't lost any.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34The next subject is Politics.
0:16:34 > 0:16:36- Yes!- Is this good?
0:16:36 > 0:16:39Well, this worked out well because that's what's Howard was going to go
0:16:39 > 0:16:40- for anyway.- OK, Howard.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42I don't feel so bad about the science one now.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44Food & Drink didn't come up.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46So, Howard, you're going to go for that.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48Well, there's only two left.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50Yeah, it's got to be Pat or Steve on Politics.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52I'll go for Steve, I think.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55Howard from The Old Boars taking on Steve on Politics from the Eggheads.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57To ensure there's no conferring, for the last time,
0:16:57 > 0:16:59please go to our Question Room.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03So, Howard, you're a taxi driver in Blackpool?
0:17:03 > 0:17:05- Yeah.- So who have you had in the back of your cab?
0:17:07 > 0:17:09We used to have the big party conferences,
0:17:09 > 0:17:12so I've had Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson,
0:17:12 > 0:17:15but we haven't had them for a few years.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18And shows, people like Sheila Ferguson,
0:17:18 > 0:17:21- Kid Creole, Barbara Windsor, in the past.- Great.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24That's quite a consignment.
0:17:24 > 0:17:25- Yeah.- Not all together, though?
0:17:25 > 0:17:27- No. No.- All right.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30So we're on politics, and I hope that all those conferences serve you
0:17:30 > 0:17:33well against Steve. Would you like to go first or second, Howard?
0:17:33 > 0:17:34I'll go first, please.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39So your first question, Howard, is this.
0:17:39 > 0:17:43How many seats did the Conservative Party win
0:17:43 > 0:17:45in the 2017 general election?
0:17:48 > 0:17:52It's 318, just short of a majority.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54Yes, it is. Now, if I'd said, 318,
0:17:54 > 0:17:57319, 317, would you still have got it?
0:17:57 > 0:17:59Maybe, maybe not.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01I don't know.
0:18:01 > 0:18:02318 is the right number.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04Well done.
0:18:04 > 0:18:05All right, Steve,
0:18:05 > 0:18:07which of these politicians was born first?
0:18:13 > 0:18:15I can't do it on dates, but visually,
0:18:15 > 0:18:18if that's not too insulting,
0:18:18 > 0:18:20I would say Angela Merkel.
0:18:20 > 0:18:21Angela Merkel is right.
0:18:23 > 0:18:251954.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28Le Pen was '68 and Sarah Palin was '64.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32Howard, here's your question. Which of these men served as
0:18:32 > 0:18:35Prime Minister of the UK for the longest time?
0:18:41 > 0:18:44Well, Clement Attlee did a full term.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48Neville Chamberlain, I'm not certain.
0:18:48 > 0:18:49Anthony Eden, it's not,
0:18:49 > 0:18:52because he had to resign after Suez after a couple of years.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55So I'll go for Clement Attlee.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58Clement Attlee is the right answer.
0:18:58 > 0:18:59Yes, well done.
0:19:01 > 0:19:06Steve, of which then US President did Patricia Schroeder say,
0:19:06 > 0:19:07"He's attempting a great
0:19:07 > 0:19:09breakthrough in political technology.
0:19:09 > 0:19:13"He's been perfecting the Teflon-coated presidency.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15"He sees to it that nothing sticks to him."
0:19:20 > 0:19:25Well, I think the man they famously associated with Teflon...
0:19:26 > 0:19:27..was Ronald Reagan.
0:19:29 > 0:19:33Now, whether this is somebody else that you're talking about
0:19:33 > 0:19:36I don't really know. But because I know they...
0:19:36 > 0:19:39Well, somebody called Reagan the Teflon Kid,
0:19:39 > 0:19:40I'll say Ronald Reagan.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44Ronald Reagan is correct.
0:19:44 > 0:19:452-2, playing well, Howard.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48Get this one right, put some pressure on.
0:19:48 > 0:19:52The Aso Rock presidential villa is the office and residence
0:19:52 > 0:19:54of the president of which country?
0:19:57 > 0:19:58Aso Rock...
0:20:01 > 0:20:03I haven't really got a clue on this.
0:20:05 > 0:20:09Maybe I'm more likely to have heard of it if it was Australia, so...
0:20:10 > 0:20:11Aso Rock...
0:20:14 > 0:20:15I'll go for Nigeria.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18Nigeria is correct.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20Playing well. Three out of three.
0:20:20 > 0:20:22Well done. OK, Steve.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25You're knocked out if you get this wrong.
0:20:25 > 0:20:26In the late 1960s,
0:20:26 > 0:20:30the Markovic Affair was a political scandal in which country?
0:20:34 > 0:20:36Never heard of it. How are you spelling Markovic, Jeremy?
0:20:36 > 0:20:39M-A-R-K-O-V-I-C.
0:20:39 > 0:20:40I've not heard the name.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45So...
0:20:45 > 0:20:48It's obviously not a native. Not a native name, anyway.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51I'm trying to think if anything was happening in the countries
0:20:51 > 0:20:53at the time. In France there was a lot of civil unrest
0:20:53 > 0:20:54with the students.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58Really not sure. I'm going to rule out Spain.
0:21:00 > 0:21:01It's a straight 50-50 guess.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06I'll try Italy but I really don't know.
0:21:06 > 0:21:10- Eggheads, do we know?- I sort of have a feeling it might be France
0:21:10 > 0:21:12- but I can't remember the details. - Not much here.
0:21:13 > 0:21:14France is the answer, Steve.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16You've been knocked out. Well done, Howard.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19You're in the final round. Three out of three was enough.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21So you've taken on an Egghead and emerged triumphant.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23It's good news. Because it levels it up a little bit.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25So come back to us, we'll play the final round.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30So the Markovic affair, Eggheads, I know you love this stuff.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32Anyone here know about it, by the way?
0:21:32 > 0:21:33Just to check? No.
0:21:33 > 0:21:39Steve Markovic was a bodyguard of a film star called Alain Delon.
0:21:39 > 0:21:43Markovic was killed and then there was an issue over
0:21:43 > 0:21:46whether or not there was some connection with Pompidou,
0:21:46 > 0:21:48the President.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50OK, and it involved some photos as well.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53OK, here we are, this is what we've been playing towards.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56The all-important moment, the time the final round begins.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58As always, its General Knowledge.
0:21:58 > 0:22:02But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads are not allowed
0:22:02 > 0:22:03to take part in this round.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06So, Jenna, Marc and Adrian from The Old Boars,
0:22:06 > 0:22:08and also Steve from the Eggheads,
0:22:08 > 0:22:10would you please now leave the studio?
0:22:12 > 0:22:15Mick and Howard, you're playing to win The Old Boars £1,000.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17Lisa, Barry, Pat, Chris,
0:22:17 > 0:22:19you're playing for something that money can't put a price on,
0:22:19 > 0:22:21which is the Eggheads' reputation
0:22:21 > 0:22:23and to just try to get motoring again.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:22:26 > 0:22:30This time, they're all General Knowledge, and you may confer.
0:22:30 > 0:22:34So, Old Boars, the question is can your two brains defeat these four?
0:22:34 > 0:22:37Mick and Howard, would you like to go first or second?
0:22:37 > 0:22:38We've decided to go first.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44So here we go with your first question.
0:22:44 > 0:22:48What name is given to the style of architecture that flourished from
0:22:48 > 0:22:52the '50s to the '70s that's become synonymous with people such as
0:22:52 > 0:22:55Le Corbusier and Erno Goldfinger?
0:23:00 > 0:23:05Right, well, Art Deco is from the 1910s up to the 1930s, I think.
0:23:05 > 0:23:09- Palladian is back centuries ago. - Yeah, that's...- So it's going to be
0:23:09 > 0:23:11- brutalist.- Yeah, brutalist.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13Yeah, like the Trellick Tower, brutalist.
0:23:13 > 0:23:15Brutalist is right. Well done.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21Eggheads, who won his third World Snooker title in 2017?
0:23:24 > 0:23:28- Selby.- Mark Selby.- Yeah, Higgins has won three, maybe four now.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30- Four.- And Ebdon has only won the one, hasn't he?
0:23:30 > 0:23:32Everyone happy with that?
0:23:32 > 0:23:34That's Mark Selby.
0:23:34 > 0:23:35Mark Selby is right.
0:23:36 > 0:23:37OK, back to you, Challengers.
0:23:37 > 0:23:41Who was the editor of the Manchester Guardian when it changed its name to
0:23:41 > 0:23:44the Guardian in 1959?
0:23:49 > 0:23:52It's not going to be Rusbridger, he's too soon.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55CP Scott, he was, like, kind of, I think, the founding....
0:23:55 > 0:23:57So you think CP Scott was a founding...
0:23:57 > 0:24:01Yeah, I think maybe he's too early, and Rusbridger was too late.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04Well, it's definitely not Rusbridger.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06So Rusbridger is around about the '70s, '80s, '90s, is it?
0:24:06 > 0:24:07Well, Rusbridger is only just retired.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09OK. OK,
0:24:09 > 0:24:12so on that logic we think CP Scott would probably be around about the
0:24:12 > 0:24:15time of founding the Manchester Guardian,
0:24:15 > 0:24:19Alan Rusbridger might be one of the editors of the Guardian later on,
0:24:19 > 0:24:23so we're going to go down the middle with Alastair Hetherington.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26- Are they right, Eggheads?- I would have been drawn to CP Scott.
0:24:26 > 0:24:30- So would I.- I would have been, but you are famously,
0:24:30 > 0:24:34I hate to say it, but you're terrible on newspapers.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37- We are.- You have a history of erring on newspapers.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39Alastair Hetherington is correct.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41- Great.- It's a shame you didn't give them that question.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43- I know, I know.- The number of newspaper questions
0:24:43 > 0:24:47you've got wrong is just startling. OK, Eggheads.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50The Kayapo people are indigenous to which country?
0:24:50 > 0:24:52K-A-Y-A-P-O.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58The O has a little accent on it.
0:24:58 > 0:25:03I think they're the Brazilian rainforest people with the plates
0:25:03 > 0:25:08in their lower lip, that Sting used to support and visit.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11It sounds Amazonian to me, it doesn't sound Indonesian,
0:25:11 > 0:25:13it's definitely not South African.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15- Are we happy with that? - Happy with South American.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18I think they're from the rainforest. South America.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21We think that's Brazil, Jeremy.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23Brazil is the right answer.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26OK, 2-2. Third question can be crucial, Challengers.
0:25:26 > 0:25:30And here it is. Which of these is the name of a system
0:25:30 > 0:25:33for ageing sherry and other fortified wines
0:25:33 > 0:25:37in which younger wines are used to top up casks of older wines?
0:25:43 > 0:25:44Well, boca means mouth.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46Concha means shell.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48And solera is sun? Sun?
0:25:50 > 0:25:54So maybe, boca being mouth. Why would that relate to the mouth?
0:25:54 > 0:25:57The young wines being topped up,
0:25:57 > 0:26:00so, old wines being topped up with the young wines.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02Conchas means shell, did you say?
0:26:02 > 0:26:04Possibly. Possibly not.
0:26:05 > 0:26:06I think so, yeah.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10So why would that relate to...
0:26:11 > 0:26:12..something being topped up?
0:26:12 > 0:26:15- I don't know.- Solera, is that sun?
0:26:15 > 0:26:18I fancy boca, for some reason.
0:26:18 > 0:26:19You fancy boca?
0:26:21 > 0:26:25Well, maybe because when you top it up it's the mouth of the barrel or
0:26:25 > 0:26:28something like that. Maybe that's what it could come from.
0:26:28 > 0:26:29Possibly.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33- Yes.- OK, shall we...
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Do you want to take a punt on that one?
0:26:35 > 0:26:37I've no idea, really.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39OK, so our logic might be that when
0:26:39 > 0:26:41you're topping up you're tipping young wine
0:26:41 > 0:26:45into the mouth of the older wine, so boca, meaning mouth...
0:26:45 > 0:26:48- Maybe when you feed, birds feed each other.- Exactly.- Something like that.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50- Yeah.- So we're going to go for the boca method.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52Eggheads, do we know?
0:26:52 > 0:26:53I think it's the solera method.
0:26:53 > 0:26:55What do the words mean?
0:26:55 > 0:26:57I don't know, but I'm pretty certain it's solera.
0:26:57 > 0:26:58It is the solera method.
0:26:59 > 0:27:03Solera method is the way they do that with the wines in the casks.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06And that answer gives the Eggheads a way
0:27:06 > 0:27:10to win the contest on this one question. Your third question, Eggs.
0:27:10 > 0:27:16Which commercial product is obtained from the plant Glycine max?
0:27:20 > 0:27:22It's not quinoa, I'm sure.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25- I'm pretty sure it's the soya bean. - So, am I.- Happy to go with that.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27Happy with that?
0:27:27 > 0:27:29We think that's soya beans.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31You didn't mess around here, did you?
0:27:31 > 0:27:34The correct answer is soya beans.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37We say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43It's that close in the final.
0:27:43 > 0:27:44I bet you knew that one as well.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46We had a guess.
0:27:46 > 0:27:473-2 in the final.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49Commiserations, Old Boars.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51They got back on track a little bit here, these Eggheads,
0:27:51 > 0:27:54after a tough old time.
0:27:54 > 0:27:55They reign supreme again.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57But you gave them a good chase there.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59It does mean you're not going home with the £1,000,
0:27:59 > 0:28:02so we roll the money over to our next show.
0:28:02 > 0:28:03Eggheads, well done.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06Can you feel the confidence coming back again?
0:28:06 > 0:28:07- A little.- A little bit.
0:28:07 > 0:28:11Good. Oh, Steve, we mustn't leave before you've told us that question.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14Yes, the question was what is the only country in the world to be
0:28:14 > 0:28:17named after a female? Before I give you the answer, Jeremy,
0:28:17 > 0:28:18if I tell you it was named for
0:28:18 > 0:28:21a woman called Saint Lucy of Syracuse,
0:28:21 > 0:28:24who was martyred under Diocletian and in the early fourth century,
0:28:24 > 0:28:27that will hopefully lead you to Saint Lucia.
0:28:27 > 0:28:28Saint Lucia. Yeah.
0:28:28 > 0:28:32Small country but the only one named after a woman.
0:28:32 > 0:28:35Thank you, Steve. I hope you got that at home.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers have the brains
0:28:37 > 0:28:40to defeat the Eggheads. They've been shaky, they're back on track.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42There'll be £2,000 to play for.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44Until then, goodbye.