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 > 0:00:29their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31They are the Eggheads.
0:00:31 > 0:00:32Are you feeling fantastic?
0:00:32 > 0:00:35- Absolutely.- Yes.- Yes. - All right, good.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37If you'd like to work on a question from the Eggheads while you
0:00:37 > 0:00:39watch at home, Lisa, you've got one.
0:00:39 > 0:00:41- Yes, I have. Are you ready?- Uh-huh.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44Another football trivia question for you here. Here we go.
0:00:44 > 0:00:49Holland didn't qualify for the 2002 World Cup but still scored
0:00:49 > 0:00:51a goal in the finals.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54- How did that happen? - OK, we'll think about that.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56We'll find out the answer from Lisa at the end of the show.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00Taking on our awesome quiz champions today are Starbase 24 -
0:01:00 > 0:01:02talking of fantastic teams.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06This one share a passion for sci-fi and they met through an online
0:01:06 > 0:01:08community for Star Trek fans.
0:01:08 > 0:01:12- Let's meet them.- Hello, my name's Susan and I am an administrator.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Hi, I'm Colin and I'm an HR administrator.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18Hi, I'm Julie and I'm a senior accounts assistant.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21Hello, I'm Alex and I'm an administrative officer.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24Hi, I'm Dan and I'm a quality administrator.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26So, Susan and team, hello.
0:01:26 > 0:01:27- ALL:- Hello!- Welcome.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30This is exciting. So you didn't know each other in the real world but you
0:01:30 > 0:01:32met online, is that right, Susan?
0:01:32 > 0:01:33Yeah. Yeah, that's correct.
0:01:33 > 0:01:38- Online is great!- And it was through your shared love of Star Trek or
0:01:38 > 0:01:39science fiction in general?
0:01:39 > 0:01:42Primarily Star Trek but science fiction in general.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45Right. And what is it that you love, Susan, about Star Trek?
0:01:45 > 0:01:46I love the space ships,
0:01:46 > 0:01:49the possibilities and the narratives that it explores.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52Yeah. Favourite actor in there, anyone?
0:01:52 > 0:01:55It's got to be Patrick Stewart.
0:01:55 > 0:01:56Who plays...?
0:01:56 > 0:01:57Jean-Luc Picard.
0:01:57 > 0:02:01OK. And, then, I suppose, Spock?
0:02:01 > 0:02:02- Leonard Nimoy.- Leonard Nimoy.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05- Fantastic.- Bless him.- Fantastic.- So when you get together, all of you,
0:02:05 > 0:02:08do you discuss Star Trek or do you range wider than that?
0:02:08 > 0:02:10We range wider than that.
0:02:10 > 0:02:12There's a lot of fandoms involved.
0:02:12 > 0:02:16Yeah. So you talk a lot about fantasy and different novels and movies and
0:02:16 > 0:02:19- all kinds of things?- It's very all-encompassing.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22In actual fact, with science fiction and fantasy,
0:02:22 > 0:02:25there's such a broad range and it's far more interesting than reading,
0:02:25 > 0:02:28for example, the newspapers where everything's doom and gloom.
0:02:28 > 0:02:29Yes, well, you're right about that.
0:02:29 > 0:02:34So, I hope you're feeling like you're in the real world here.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37Sometimes with these Eggheads we do feel like we're on another planet,
0:02:37 > 0:02:41- I must say! Susan, are you ready to play?- I am, indeed.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43Very good. Good luck, Challengers.
0:02:43 > 0:02:47Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs to win.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49But if the Challengers fail to defeat the Eggheads, that prize money,
0:02:49 > 0:02:52as you know, rolls over to our next show.
0:02:52 > 0:02:53Starbase 24,
0:02:53 > 0:02:55I can tell you that the Eggheads have won the last five so they are
0:02:55 > 0:02:57getting into their stride.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00And it means there's £6,000 to play for.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02- Are you ready?- How exciting.- Yep. - Oh, yeah!- It is exciting.
0:03:02 > 0:03:06And the first head-to-head battle is on the subject of History.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10So, one of you, please, against either Lisa, Beth, Barry, Pat or Chris.
0:03:10 > 0:03:14- Susan, what do you think? - I'm thinking that...
0:03:14 > 0:03:15Yes, Julie,
0:03:15 > 0:03:19I think you'd be really good with this one because you know loads and
0:03:19 > 0:03:23loads about history and you've even got the kings and queens aspect down
0:03:23 > 0:03:25- as well.- Yeah...
0:03:25 > 0:03:29OK, it is the opposite of science fiction, I suppose, history, but,
0:03:29 > 0:03:30Julie against which Egghead?
0:03:30 > 0:03:31You can have any one of them.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34- Who do you reckon?- Chris because he's got the breadth of knowledge...
0:03:34 > 0:03:37- Yes.- And maybe get him first.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40- OK.- Yes, I think that's a very good idea.
0:03:40 > 0:03:41- OK, Chris, then.- Good.
0:03:41 > 0:03:45A good strategy to aim to knock out the Eggheads who look like their
0:03:45 > 0:03:49brains are on fire. Julie from Starbase 24 to take on Chris,
0:03:49 > 0:03:51known as the Steamroller.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53To ensure there's no conferring,
0:03:53 > 0:03:55please take your positions in our legendary Question Room.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00Now, I always assume with science-fiction people, Julie,
0:04:00 > 0:04:02that you are always thinking about the future,
0:04:02 > 0:04:03but you've thought about the past, as well.
0:04:03 > 0:04:07Yeah, I used to do the English Civil War re-enactments,
0:04:07 > 0:04:11so I class myself as a historian that covers 800 years from
0:04:11 > 0:04:13the 17th century.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17OK! So 400 back and 400 forward?!
0:04:17 > 0:04:20- Yep.- How brilliant. And when you did your...?
0:04:20 > 0:04:22What was it, your Civil War re-creation...?
0:04:22 > 0:04:23- Yeah.- What were you dressed as?
0:04:23 > 0:04:26I was a musketeer.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29- OK, so you weren't a Klingon or anything like that?- No!- No?
0:04:29 > 0:04:32- That was before the Klingons. - OK. History, Julie.
0:04:32 > 0:04:34Would you like to go first or second?
0:04:34 > 0:04:39- I'll go first.- And good luck to you.
0:04:39 > 0:04:44Which of these famous historical sites was built in approximately 3000 BC?
0:04:44 > 0:04:48This goes back a bit further than the time you were describing!
0:04:48 > 0:04:50- Well, yeah, a little bit. - All right...
0:04:53 > 0:04:54Hmm...
0:04:55 > 0:04:59I'm not thinking Taj Mahal...
0:04:59 > 0:05:03I know the Chinese did an awful lot.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06Stonehenge, that was very old as well.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09I think it's between Stonehenge and the Great Wall of China.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14Um, I think I'm going to go for the Great Wall of China.
0:05:14 > 0:05:15Let's see. Eggheads?
0:05:15 > 0:05:17Stonehenge is the earliest one by far.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19It's Stonehenge, Julie.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21- Is it?- OK, Chris, your question.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24Which country's armed forces blockaded all road,
0:05:24 > 0:05:28rail and water links between Berlin and the West in 1948?
0:05:31 > 0:05:34That brought about the Berlin Airlift,
0:05:34 > 0:05:36the only time coal has ever been air freighted.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38It was the Soviet Union, Jeremy.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40It was, indeed, the Soviet Union.
0:05:40 > 0:05:43That's right. OK, back to you, Julie.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46In 1801, the British ambassador Lord Elgin
0:05:46 > 0:05:48purchased a series of Greek sculptures
0:05:48 > 0:05:51from the occupying forces of which country?
0:05:54 > 0:05:58Oh. Now, that would be the Elgin Marbles but...
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Egypt or Turkey, I'm thinking.
0:06:05 > 0:06:06Turkey.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10Turkey's the right answer. Well done, Julie. Chris, over to you.
0:06:10 > 0:06:11The Battle of Spion Kop,
0:06:11 > 0:06:14after which several football stands are informally named,
0:06:14 > 0:06:16was an engagement in which war?
0:06:20 > 0:06:21That was the Boer War, Jeremy.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23It was the Boer War.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25OK, Julie, you need to get this one right.
0:06:25 > 0:06:29At which battle in 1568 was Mary, Queen of Scots
0:06:29 > 0:06:33defeated and forced to seek exile in England?
0:06:39 > 0:06:43Oh... I'm not really sure on this one.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47It could be any of them.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50But I'm drawn to the Battle of Solway Moss.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53The answer is the Battle of Langside, Julie.
0:06:53 > 0:06:57So, Chris has taken the round and you've been beaten by our Egghead, sadly.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59So, you won't be in the final, Chris will.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01Please return to us, both of you, and we'll play on.
0:07:03 > 0:07:07All right, Starbase 24 have lost a brain from the final round.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10So we've got Klingons on the starboard side here a little bit.
0:07:10 > 0:07:12But the Eggheads have not lost any so far.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15And the next subject is Music.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17Who would like this?
0:07:17 > 0:07:20I think I will cope with Music, I think.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22- OK, fantastic.- I will take one for the team.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26- I'll go forward and do that. - OK. That would be fantastic.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29- I'll go for Lisa.- Lisa.- OK.
0:07:29 > 0:07:34Good stuff. So, Alex from Starbase 24 versus Lisa from the Eggheads.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36Please take your positions in the Question Room.
0:07:38 > 0:07:43So, Alex, I made a reference to Klingons on the starboard bow just now.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46Was that a line from Star Trek, do you know?
0:07:46 > 0:07:47It may well have been.
0:07:47 > 0:07:52I think it's more popular from the song by The Firm, Star Trekkin'.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55Yeah, Lisa, I think it is from a song, isn't it?
0:07:55 > 0:07:58He's quite right, it's by The Firm, yeah.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01And so it's possible that something like, "Beam me up, Scotty,"
0:08:01 > 0:08:03was never said in Star Trek, Alex?
0:08:03 > 0:08:08I believe it may have been in one of the later films or maybe in the
0:08:08 > 0:08:11reboot series, just for the sake of having it in.
0:08:11 > 0:08:12How interesting. OK, well,
0:08:12 > 0:08:15I wish we could ask you a whole round on Star Trek but then, Lisa,
0:08:15 > 0:08:17you might be in trouble with that.
0:08:17 > 0:08:18It would depend. I mean,
0:08:18 > 0:08:21I wasn't really a fan of the whole universe,
0:08:21 > 0:08:25but I am an enormous TNG fan and particularly a Patrick Stewart fan, so...
0:08:25 > 0:08:28Good. So, Music, Alex, is the topic.
0:08:28 > 0:08:29Would you like to go first or second?
0:08:29 > 0:08:31I think I will go second.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38And here is your first question, Lisa.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41The modern version of which of these musical instruments typically has
0:08:41 > 0:08:42four strings?
0:08:46 > 0:08:49I've never really thought about how many strings a sitar has until now,
0:08:49 > 0:08:54but certainly a double bass has four strings, so we'll go for that.
0:08:54 > 0:08:55A double bass is correct.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57Well done. Alex, back to you with your question.
0:08:57 > 0:09:01With which type of music is BB King most closely associated?
0:09:03 > 0:09:05That's quite simplistic.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07- That's blues.- Blues...
0:09:07 > 0:09:09Is the right answer. Well done.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12Lisa, Aftermath and
0:09:12 > 0:09:16It's Only Rock 'N' Roll are albums by which band?
0:09:19 > 0:09:21As in, "It's only rock and roll but I like it?"
0:09:21 > 0:09:24Um, I think...
0:09:24 > 0:09:25I think that is The Stones.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29Yeah, Rolling Stones.
0:09:29 > 0:09:30Rolling Stones is right.
0:09:30 > 0:09:34Well done. All right, your question, Alex.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38Billericay Dickie and Clevor Trevor are songs by which recording artist?
0:09:42 > 0:09:43Hmm, good one.
0:09:44 > 0:09:49It doesn't sound like Billy Bragg's naming conventions for his songs.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53I'm going to go with Ian Dury.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55Yes, you're absolutely right.
0:09:55 > 0:09:56So, well done.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00And let's see what Lisa can do here with her third question.
0:10:00 > 0:10:04With which instrument is the jazz musician Pee Wee Russell mainly
0:10:04 > 0:10:06associated? Lisa...
0:10:08 > 0:10:10SHE LAUGHS
0:10:10 > 0:10:12It's a bit like when you say "cricket" in a Sport round, Jeremy,
0:10:12 > 0:10:16as soon as you say "jazz", my brain just starts to flash all the lights
0:10:16 > 0:10:20and all the sirens are going, "Does not compute!"
0:10:20 > 0:10:21Um, right...
0:10:21 > 0:10:24Now, the rule with these, if there is a rule, is -
0:10:24 > 0:10:26if in doubt, say piano.
0:10:28 > 0:10:32No, I don't think I can narrow it down to anything particular
0:10:32 > 0:10:34just from the name.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37So, I shall say piano and get it over with.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39Let's see, Eggheads, do we know?
0:10:39 > 0:10:41- I don't know.- I don't know. I don't think he's a piano player.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43- Maybe clarinettist. - No, not a piano...
0:10:43 > 0:10:44Pat thinks maybe clarinet.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46Clarinet is the right answer, Lisa.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49So, Alex, big moment now for the Challengers.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52You can get yourself into the final if you get this question right.
0:10:52 > 0:10:57I'm The One was a UK number one hit single in 2017 for DJ Khaled, Quavo,
0:10:57 > 0:11:00Chance The Rapper and which pop star?
0:11:03 > 0:11:05Oh.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07That is a difficult one.
0:11:09 > 0:11:13I'm tempted to say Lorde.
0:11:13 > 0:11:15It's between Lorde and Justin Bieber.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19I'll go my first answer. I'll go with Lorde.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Justin Bieber is the answer.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25- Oh!- So we are level after three questions.
0:11:25 > 0:11:26Lisa, we go to Sudden Death.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28It gets a bit harder, as you know.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30I do not give you alternatives.
0:11:30 > 0:11:36Beneath Your Beautiful was a 2012 UK hit single for Labrinth and which
0:11:36 > 0:11:37- female singer?- Oh,
0:11:37 > 0:11:39I'm so glad you did it that way round because I was going,
0:11:39 > 0:11:41"It's Emeli Sande and who?
0:11:41 > 0:11:42"It's Emeli Sande and who?"
0:11:42 > 0:11:44Anyway, it's Emeli Sande.
0:11:44 > 0:11:45It is Emeli Sande and Labrinth.
0:11:45 > 0:11:49Well done. OK, Alex, again, to stay in -
0:11:49 > 0:11:55Terry Hall, Lynval Golding and Horace Panter are best known for their association
0:11:55 > 0:12:00with which band formed in Coventry in the 1970s?
0:12:00 > 0:12:02Well, that's a popular song, Ghost Town,
0:12:02 > 0:12:04and they were The Specials.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06They were The Specials.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09Playing well here. Lisa...
0:12:09 > 0:12:16The musician and singer born Barry Alan Pincus in June 1943
0:12:16 > 0:12:18is better known by which name?
0:12:18 > 0:12:20Oh, well, that will escape me.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23The dates would sort of fit for Manilow, wouldn't they?
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Let me have a think about that.
0:12:25 > 0:12:30Yeah, I never really thought about Manilow not being Barry Manilow's real name.
0:12:31 > 0:12:35And in the absence of a better thought, I will go for Barry Manilow.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38- Is she right, Eggs?- She is.- Yes. - Yes, Barry Manilow.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41This is a good round, isn't it, Alex?
0:12:41 > 0:12:43- Indeed, it is.- Keep your concentration here.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45You're playing really well.
0:12:45 > 0:12:49The songs Hells Bells and You Shook Me All Night Long
0:12:49 > 0:12:53feature on which 1980 AC/DC album?
0:12:53 > 0:12:57Oh, now, I knew the band but the name of the album...
0:12:58 > 0:13:00I'm tempted to say Back In Black.
0:13:03 > 0:13:04I will go for that one.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06I will go for Back In Black.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09Back In Black is correct.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11- Phew!- OK, Lisa, your question.
0:13:11 > 0:13:16The soprano Anna Netrebko was born in 1971 in which country?
0:13:19 > 0:13:21Yeah, I can't narrow it down so I will just say Russia.
0:13:23 > 0:13:24Russia is correct.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28Yeah, correct.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30- You didn't even celebrate. - Luck than judgment, Jeremy.
0:13:30 > 0:13:31HE LAUGHS
0:13:31 > 0:13:35You're very modest. OK, Alex, to stay in -
0:13:35 > 0:13:38what was the title of the Fugees first UK number one single
0:13:38 > 0:13:41which topped the charts in June 1966?
0:13:43 > 0:13:46I know they released a single Ready Or Not
0:13:46 > 0:13:49which was quite high up.
0:13:49 > 0:13:53But I don't know if that was the first song or the second one.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55I'm going to go for Ready Or Not.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57No, it's Killing Me Softly.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00- Oh!- It's that cover version they did that was really good.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02Killing Me Softly is the answer.
0:14:02 > 0:14:03Well done, Lisa. In the final.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Good round, that.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07Well done, Alex, as well. You played really well on Music.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09Sorry it wasn't quite enough and you've been knocked out.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11Return to us, please, and we will play round three.
0:14:13 > 0:14:17As it stands, Starbase 24 have lost two brains from the final round and
0:14:17 > 0:14:18the Eggheads, all sitting there still.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21The next subject for you is Arts & Books.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23So who from Starbase 24 would like this?
0:14:23 > 0:14:27- I'll give it a try.- OK, Dan. - Brilliant.- Very good.
0:14:27 > 0:14:31A member of Starfleet International against which Egghead?
0:14:31 > 0:14:34Um, I'll go for Barry, please.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37All right, two science-focused people, it's fair to say.
0:14:37 > 0:14:39I think it's a battle of the shirts, myself!
0:14:39 > 0:14:40LAUGHTER
0:14:40 > 0:14:44So Dan from Starbase 24 versus Barry from the Eggheads,
0:14:44 > 0:14:46meeting on Planet Earth.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48Please take your positions in our Question Room.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53So, Dan, you are a member of Starfleet International?
0:14:53 > 0:14:55- Yes, that's right, Jeremy. - And what does that do?
0:14:55 > 0:15:00We're a large organisation but there are a little chapters all over the world.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03And would they meet and discuss spaceships or...?
0:15:03 > 0:15:04Yeah, there's a little bit of that.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06There's also quite a lot of charity work.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09All of us from Starbase 24, for example, raise money for Macmillan.
0:15:09 > 0:15:13Starfleet International chapters have their own little charities.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17So, we sort of do a wide range of community work and support.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20But what brings you together is the same is what's brought this team
0:15:20 > 0:15:22together, which is just the love of science fiction?
0:15:22 > 0:15:24- Yep, that's right.- Good stuff.
0:15:24 > 0:15:25All right, Arts & Books we're on, Dan.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27Hopefully a bit of science fiction here.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30- Would you like to go first or second?- I'll go first, please.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36OK, here we go.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38In which year was the author Harper Lee born?
0:15:44 > 0:15:45I want to say...
0:15:47 > 0:15:50..1866 because I believe he wrote
0:15:50 > 0:15:54To Kill A Mockingbird quite early on, so I'll say 1866.
0:15:56 > 0:15:591886 is your answer but it wasn't that early, I'm afraid.
0:15:59 > 0:16:00It was 1926.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02And Harper Lee is a woman.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04OK, Barry, your question.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07J R R Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings
0:16:07 > 0:16:09are set in which fictional world?
0:16:13 > 0:16:16Well, I like all those fictional worlds,
0:16:16 > 0:16:17some more than others,
0:16:17 > 0:16:20but I believe The Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings
0:16:20 > 0:16:23were definitely set in Middle Earth.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25- Dan, is he right?- Yeah, he's right.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28And, so, Dan, Westeros, where was that?
0:16:28 > 0:16:29That was Game Of Thrones.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32- And Narnia?- The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34Yeah, that was your question, really, wasn't it, Dan?
0:16:34 > 0:16:38- Yeah!- OK, So, Barry, you're right, it's Middle Earth.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40And, Dan, your second question...
0:16:40 > 0:16:44"He is the very pineapple of politeness" is a famous line by
0:16:44 > 0:16:47which of these stage play characters?
0:16:54 > 0:16:58I'm not particularly familiar with any of those
0:16:58 > 0:17:01so I will take a guess at...
0:17:01 > 0:17:04- Mrs Malaprop from The Rivals. - Barry, is he right?
0:17:04 > 0:17:06- Absolutely! - Well done, you're right, Dan.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08Mrs Malaprop from The Rivals.
0:17:08 > 0:17:09Yeah!
0:17:09 > 0:17:12Good, we've got a cheer starting up on the Challengers' side as well.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14OK. And a Mexican wave?
0:17:14 > 0:17:15No, maybe not.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17That's for the next one. Barry,
0:17:17 > 0:17:24"The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft a-gley" is a line by which writer?
0:17:28 > 0:17:32Well, if I got this wrong, I could never come back to Glasgow, could I?!
0:17:32 > 0:17:34That's Rabbie Burns.
0:17:34 > 0:17:35Robert Burns is quite right.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37Well done. Dan, we go back to you.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39You've got to get this right, Dan,
0:17:39 > 0:17:42otherwise we're going to have to turn the lasers on.
0:17:42 > 0:17:47Which artistic term describes a painting or sculpture of the Virgin Mary,
0:17:47 > 0:17:51an example being Michelangelo's work in Saint Peter's Basilica?
0:17:56 > 0:17:58I sort of think of the religious term pious,
0:17:58 > 0:18:02so I'm going to go for the middle and say pieta.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04Yes, pieta's right.
0:18:04 > 0:18:06Really good. Well done.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08Now, Barry, you can take the round with this.
0:18:08 > 0:18:13Self Portrait With Seven Fingers and The Dead Man are works by which
0:18:13 > 0:18:15artist born in 1887?
0:18:19 > 0:18:21Well, Jackson Pollock
0:18:21 > 0:18:24wasn't renowned for representational art, even with seven fingers,
0:18:24 > 0:18:25so I'll discount him.
0:18:25 > 0:18:30Wassily Kandinsky, again, was basically non-representational,
0:18:30 > 0:18:32especially in his later career.
0:18:32 > 0:18:35But Marc Chagall was quite renowned for doing all sorts of strange
0:18:35 > 0:18:38figures and floating people and whatever,
0:18:38 > 0:18:40so that sounds absolutely like Marc Chagall.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43- So I'll go for him.- Your logic is brilliant, Barry, as ever.
0:18:43 > 0:18:44Marc Chagall is correct.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46You've taken it with three questions right.
0:18:46 > 0:18:51So, sorry there, Dan, knocked out and not in the final.
0:18:51 > 0:18:52If you return to us, gentlemen,
0:18:52 > 0:18:55we'll play one more round before the final.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01Right, Starbase 24 have now lost three from the final round and the
0:19:01 > 0:19:03Eggheads have not lost any.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05So, let's do it this time.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07This is the round before the final.
0:19:07 > 0:19:08It's Sport.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11So it's Colin or Susan on Sport.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Is this good?
0:19:14 > 0:19:16Susan's less bad at Sport than I am.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19I wouldn't say I'm brilliant at sports but...
0:19:19 > 0:19:21Well, why not give it a go?
0:19:21 > 0:19:22- I think so.- OK!
0:19:22 > 0:19:26And against with Egghead? You've got a choice here of Beth and Pat.
0:19:26 > 0:19:30- Oh. I'm thinking Beth. Yeah.- Good stuff.
0:19:30 > 0:19:34Susan from Starbase 24 taking on Beth on Sport from the Eggheads.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36And, for the last time, please take your positions.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40OK, Susan, let's start on Sport.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42And you're against Beth. Would you like to go first or second?
0:19:42 > 0:19:43I'll go second.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50Beth, your question. Which of these football clubs was relegated from
0:19:50 > 0:19:52the Premiership in 2017?
0:19:55 > 0:19:57Everton finished...
0:19:57 > 0:20:00sort of high-ish, mid-table.
0:20:00 > 0:20:02Southampton I think escaped the drop.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04But I'm pretty sure Middlesbrough went down.
0:20:04 > 0:20:05Middlesbrough's right.
0:20:07 > 0:20:11Susan, which of these Formula 1 drivers was born in Brazil?
0:20:16 > 0:20:18Well, let me have a think about this one.
0:20:18 > 0:20:22Sport's not my strongest subject but I'm sure can get some brain cells to
0:20:22 > 0:20:27work on this. Going by the sounding of the names...
0:20:27 > 0:20:31I will go for Alberto Ascari.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33Alberto Ascari is your answer.
0:20:33 > 0:20:34- Let's see.- Eggheads, do you know?
0:20:34 > 0:20:35- Italian, he was.- He was Italian.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38- OK. Prost?- French.- French.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40- And Senna is Brazil. - Oh, dear.- Ayrton Senna.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42Not to worry. Beth,
0:20:42 > 0:20:45what was the first city outside Europe to host
0:20:45 > 0:20:46the summer Olympic Games?
0:20:49 > 0:20:52So Melbourne had it in '56
0:20:52 > 0:20:56but St Louis held it well before either of the two.
0:20:56 > 0:20:57So, St Louis.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59St Louis, Missouri, is the right answer.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02So, Beth has got two.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04You need to get this one right, Susan.
0:21:04 > 0:21:09In 2015, the British boxer James DeGale became a world champion
0:21:09 > 0:21:10in which weight division?
0:21:15 > 0:21:17This is outside my sphere of knowledge,
0:21:17 > 0:21:20but once again let's just see whether
0:21:20 > 0:21:23I can bring to bear some brainpower on this one.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28I'm going to go for welterweights.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30Let's see. Beth will know this. You love your boxing.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32I do. I thought he was a middleweight.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35Super middleweight is the answer, Susan.
0:21:35 > 0:21:39- Sorry.- What a shame.- So, Beth has taken the round and will be in the final. Well done, Beth.
0:21:39 > 0:21:45Come back to us, both of you, and we'll play the final for £6,000.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47And this is what we've been playing towards.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49It's time for our all-important final round.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51As always, General Knowledge.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads won't be allowed
0:21:54 > 0:21:55to take part in this round.
0:21:55 > 0:21:59So, Susan, Julie, Alex and Dan, all from Starbase 24,
0:21:59 > 0:22:01would you please now leave the studio?
0:22:03 > 0:22:08Here we are, Colin. You are playing solo to win Starbase 24 £6,000.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11And you've got a Star Trek quote which will help you on your way.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14I do, indeed. This is definitely a case of the needs of the one outweigh the
0:22:14 > 0:22:16- needs of the many.- Yeah.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18Was that when Leonard Nimoy died?
0:22:18 > 0:22:22Yeah, that's when Leonard Nimoy's character Spock died
0:22:22 > 0:22:27in the denouement scene of the second Star Trek movie.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30- Of course.- Which is quite a big favourite for a lot of fans.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33- And for your wife as well? - Very much so.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36In fact, she will probably sit there and be in tears of joy that I have
0:22:36 > 0:22:38actually managed to get the quote in.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40And you met her through a bulletin board?
0:22:40 > 0:22:44Yes, there was a Star Trek bulletin board at the start of the internet
0:22:44 > 0:22:45called Outpost 10 Forward,
0:22:45 > 0:22:49which was one that allowed me to be fortunate enough to meet her.
0:22:49 > 0:22:53How wonderful. OK, well, I hope we can add to your joy today.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55Lisa, Beth, Barry, Pat and Chris,
0:22:55 > 0:22:57you're paying for something that money can't buy,
0:22:57 > 0:23:02which is to ensure that the Eggheads' reputation continues to grow both on this planet and others.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05As usual I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07This time they're all General Knowledge.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10And, Colin, usually I'd say you can confer but it's difficult with your
0:23:10 > 0:23:11team-mates back there.
0:23:11 > 0:23:15But, anyway, the question is can your one brain, the needs of the one,
0:23:15 > 0:23:18outweigh these five over here, the many?
0:23:18 > 0:23:20And would you like to go first or second?
0:23:20 > 0:23:24Well, considering how well Alex did, I will take second.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30OK, Eggheads, great challenging team today but reduced to one.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33Can you win? Here is your first question.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37The famous three-wheeled car known as the Reliant Robin was first
0:23:37 > 0:23:38produced in which decade?
0:23:42 > 0:23:45- It's got to be the '50s.- '50s. - It's earlier than the '30s, isn't
0:23:45 > 0:23:46- it?- It's got to be the '50s, hasn't it?
0:23:46 > 0:23:49It must be the '50s.
0:23:49 > 0:23:53People happy with '50s? We're going to go for the 1950s.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55Game on. It's the 1970s.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58- Oh! - I don't know what happened there.
0:23:58 > 0:23:591973.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02So, you're a good two decades out.
0:24:02 > 0:24:07That is what we call the wisdom of crowds working in reverse.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10Colin, fire up the generator.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13Here we go. Who played the role of the troubled journalist
0:24:13 > 0:24:17Christine Chubbuck in the 2017 film Christine?
0:24:21 > 0:24:26This is not a movie I've heard of so I'm going to go by actresses that I
0:24:26 > 0:24:31know who play, what I would assume, are characters with gravitas.
0:24:31 > 0:24:36I believe Keira Knightley and Rebecca Hall would not play this
0:24:36 > 0:24:39sort of character, so I'm hoping that it's Kate Winslet.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41No, it's not, it's Rebecca Hall.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44So, Eggheads, you've just got a little bit of daylight there.
0:24:44 > 0:24:49Which Bronze Age empire had its capital at Hattusa in modern Turkey?
0:24:52 > 0:24:54Hittite. Definitely.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57- 100%.- I don't go against Barry on this stuff.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59- No, no.- The Hittite empire.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01Hittite is correct.
0:25:01 > 0:25:02Back on track.
0:25:02 > 0:25:06OK, Colin, which of these prestigious American races took
0:25:06 > 0:25:08place for the 100th time in 2016?
0:25:13 > 0:25:17Indy 500 has been going quite some time but that came to
0:25:17 > 0:25:19prominence after World War II.
0:25:19 > 0:25:24Plus, motorcar racing I don't think's been going well enough to be
0:25:24 > 0:25:26going since 1917.
0:25:26 > 0:25:30The New York Marathon is a road race.
0:25:30 > 0:25:35I know marathons took off in the '60s and '70s.
0:25:35 > 0:25:40But most likely the most prestigious event on there and the most likely
0:25:40 > 0:25:42to be the answer is the Kentucky Derby.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45Kentucky Derby, let's just check to see if you're right. Eggheads?
0:25:45 > 0:25:47- Not sure about that.- I would've gone for the Indy 500 myself.
0:25:47 > 0:25:48Would you really?
0:25:48 > 0:25:51I think the Kentucky Derby might even be older than that.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53But the Indy 500, as Colin was saying,
0:25:53 > 0:25:56if it's 100 years old you'd be racing around in 1917.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58I think it only just had its 50th anniversary, the Indy 500.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00I don't think it's been going as long as that.
0:26:00 > 0:26:01So we rule out the New York Marathon.
0:26:01 > 0:26:05- Yeah.- We're between the Derby and the Indy 500.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07The correct answer is the Indy 500.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09Wow.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11Can't fault your logic, it just took you the wrong way.
0:26:12 > 0:26:17So, the Eggheads can take it with this question.
0:26:17 > 0:26:22Which American Nobel Prize winner sold their Nobel medal in 2014 at
0:26:22 > 0:26:25auction for 4 million?
0:26:25 > 0:26:26Who was this?
0:26:30 > 0:26:31I think it was James Watson.
0:26:31 > 0:26:37- James Watson.- I think he sold it and Alisher Usmanov purchased it and
0:26:37 > 0:26:39- gave it back to him.- That was nice of him, wasn't it?
0:26:39 > 0:26:42- Very nice.- I think it was that. I think it was James Watson.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45- Pretty certain it's Watson. - Yeah, I remember it being Watson.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47He established the helical structure of DNA.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49It's James Watson.
0:26:49 > 0:26:54If you're right, your two out of three is enough to win the contest.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56The correct answer is James Watson.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59We say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.
0:27:03 > 0:27:05It's a shame it was on a kind of a science question at the end there.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07I know you would have known that, Colin.
0:27:07 > 0:27:08But it's difficult playing on your own.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10I tried, that's all I can do.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13Yeah, when you said Kentucky Derby, I was right with you.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15I thought that must be the answer, but it wasn't, interestingly.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17I'd love to know when that started, actually.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19You think it might be older, Eggheads?
0:27:19 > 0:27:22Yeah, 19th-century sometime, the Kentucky Derby.
0:27:22 > 0:27:241875.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27- I thought it was earlier. - Commiserations, Starbase 24.
0:27:27 > 0:27:30The Eggheads are properly into their stride now and this winning streak
0:27:30 > 0:27:34continues. It does mean you don't go home with the £6,000.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37So, we roll the money over to our next show.
0:27:37 > 0:27:38Eggheads, well done.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41All five of you here playing strongly.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44Who will beat them? Oh, before we go, Lisa, that question?
0:27:44 > 0:27:45Oh, yeah! So,
0:27:45 > 0:27:50Holland didn't qualify for the 2002 World Cup but still scored a goal in
0:27:50 > 0:27:52the finals. And I said, "How did that happen?"
0:27:52 > 0:27:54I will tell you how that happened.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56It is not Holland the country to whom I am referring,
0:27:56 > 0:28:00it is in fact an Irish player called Matt Holland who scored against
0:28:00 > 0:28:03Cameroon in Ireland's opening game in 2002,
0:28:03 > 0:28:06which is probably doubly galling to the Dutch on the basis that it was
0:28:06 > 0:28:09Ireland's defeat of them that knocked them out of the
0:28:09 > 0:28:11- 2002 World Cup finals in the first place.- OK,
0:28:11 > 0:28:14brilliant question and I'm realising footballers' surnames is the way to
0:28:14 > 0:28:15- answer your questions.- Oh, yes.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18Definitely. Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers have
0:28:18 > 0:28:20the brains to defeat these Eggheads over here.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22£7,000 will be on the table.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24So, the jackpot is getting bigger!
0:28:24 > 0:28:26Until then, goodbye.