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?
0:00:22 > 0:00:24Welcome to Eggheads,
0:00:24 > 0:00:27the show where a team of five quiz Challengers pit their wits against
0:00:27 > 0:00:30possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:31Here they are, the Eggheads.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33Can you be beaten?
0:00:33 > 0:00:35- No.- We try not to be. - We're invincible.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37Yeah, they really do try not to be.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39Taking on our awesome quiz champions today are
0:00:39 > 0:00:42The Percies from Berkshire.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45This team quiz together regularly at The Perseverance in Wraysbury,
0:00:45 > 0:00:47where team member Nick is the landlord.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49Let's meet them.
0:00:49 > 0:00:53- Hello.- I'm Len and I'm a retired managing director.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56Hi, I'm Rob and I'm a chartered accountant.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Hello, I'm Alan and I'm a senior credit officer.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02Hello, I'm Stewart and I'm a company director.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04Hi, I'm Nick and I'm a publican.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07- So, Len and team, hello. ALL:- Hello.- Great to see you.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10It all centres on The Perseverance pub, then, Len?
0:01:10 > 0:01:13Yes, it does, it's the very best pub in Wraysbury,
0:01:13 > 0:01:16and we go there every Thursday where Nick, the landlord,
0:01:16 > 0:01:18he's also the quizmaster.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20Oh, I see, so Nick, you fix the questions, do you?
0:01:20 > 0:01:23- I do.- Fix is the wrong word, sorry.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25No, it's the right word!
0:01:25 > 0:01:28You have to give them a challenge. It would be no fun if it was easy.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30No, you're right. So it's a tough one, is it, then?
0:01:30 > 0:01:32- It can be.- Yeah.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34And do you play against each other normally, or together?
0:01:34 > 0:01:37No, four of us are in one team.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41Myself, Robert - he's my son - and the other two chaps,
0:01:41 > 0:01:43we've known each other for the best part of 30 years now.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46- Brilliant, and it's a classic village pub, is it?- Yeah.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49How wonderful. Good luck, Challengers.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51Every day, there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs
0:01:51 > 0:01:54but if the Challengers fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:01:54 > 0:01:56that prize money, as you know, rolls over.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59Now, Percies, it's quite interesting here.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01the Eggheads have won a dozen games in a row,
0:02:01 > 0:02:04and someone's got to come along and stop them,
0:02:04 > 0:02:05and we think it should be you.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07If you do, you'll win £13,000.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09- Wow.- So, would you like to try?
0:02:09 > 0:02:11- Absolutely.- Brilliant.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Arts & Books.
0:02:14 > 0:02:18So, it's one of you, please, against either Dave, Beth, Barry,
0:02:18 > 0:02:19Pat or Judith.
0:02:19 > 0:02:20Me. Stewart.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23OK, Stewart, I sense a strategy here.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27Who would you like to take on, whose e-reader is out of charge?
0:02:27 > 0:02:31I'll take on my fellow Mancunian, Dave.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Very good. So, Stewart from the Percies is taking on,
0:02:33 > 0:02:36as we call him, Tremendous Knowledge Dave from the Eggheads, who's been
0:02:36 > 0:02:39banned from pubs in Manchester for breaking their quiz machines.
0:02:39 > 0:02:40To ensure there's no conferring,
0:02:40 > 0:02:43would you please take your positions in our legendary Question Room.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47OK, so you're on Arts & Books, Stewart,
0:02:47 > 0:02:50and would you like to go first or second against our Dave?
0:02:50 > 0:02:51I'll go first, please.
0:02:55 > 0:02:56Here we go with your first question.
0:02:56 > 0:03:01The writers Jules Verne and HG Wells are famous for their works
0:03:01 > 0:03:03in which genre of literature?
0:03:07 > 0:03:09That'll be science fiction.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11Yes, indeed, science fiction.
0:03:11 > 0:03:13Dave, what type of animals
0:03:13 > 0:03:16are featured prominently in the Roald Dahl book
0:03:16 > 0:03:17Esio Trot.
0:03:20 > 0:03:24- Esio Trot?- Yes, two words, E-S-I-O and then T-R-O-T.
0:03:24 > 0:03:27Like tortoise backwards, you mean?
0:03:27 > 0:03:29I wouldn't be able to comment.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32I can't help you with a question.
0:03:32 > 0:03:33I'll go tortoises, please.
0:03:33 > 0:03:34Tortoises is right.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37I was about to say tortoises and then I stopped myself.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39OK, here we go. Stewart,
0:03:39 > 0:03:41which famous poem begins with these lines -
0:03:41 > 0:03:43"Once upon a midnight dreary
0:03:43 > 0:03:45"while I pondered weak and weary
0:03:45 > 0:03:49"over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore"?
0:03:57 > 0:04:00I've heard the lines, but...
0:04:00 > 0:04:02I can eliminate If.
0:04:03 > 0:04:04I'm going to go with The Raven.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is correct.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11I think Allen Ginsberg is a much more modernist writer.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13- Modern writer.- Yeah.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15OK, Dave, your question, to catch up.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17Which of these is a book by Jack London?
0:04:21 > 0:04:23I thought Walden was Thoreau.
0:04:23 > 0:04:27Moby-Dick was Herman Melville.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29So I'll have to go Call Of The Wild, please.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31Call Of The Wild is quite right.
0:04:31 > 0:04:342-2.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36Stewart, your third question, can be crucial.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39In which year did the artist Francis Bacon die?
0:04:46 > 0:04:48I don't think it was that long ago
0:04:48 > 0:04:50so I'm going to go with 1992.
0:04:50 > 0:04:55I've got a memory of it in the not-very-distant past as well.
0:04:55 > 0:04:571992 is correct.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59Three out of three, well played, Challengers,
0:04:59 > 0:05:01nothing wrong yet.
0:05:01 > 0:05:06Dave, to stay in. Letters From Iceland is a 1937 travel book
0:05:06 > 0:05:10in prose and verse by Louis MacNeice and which other poet?
0:05:15 > 0:05:18- Letters From Iceland? - Letters From Iceland, Dave.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21Right, I'm going to rule out Dylan Thomas.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23It's either Eliot or Auden.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26Louis MacNeice.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31Right, I'm just trying to think of Louis MacNeice and his,
0:05:31 > 0:05:33um...
0:05:33 > 0:05:35It's either Auden or Eliot.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39Right. Phew.
0:05:40 > 0:05:43With no certainty at all, I'm going to go with TS Eliot.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45No, no, no, it's WH Auden.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48- OK.- So, you're out, Dave, well done, Challengers.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Stewart, you're in the final round.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53Confident play, you took on an Egghead, you emerged triumphant
0:05:53 > 0:05:55and you will be in the final and Dave won't.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58So, come back to us, please, and we'll see what the next round holds.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02As it stands, the Percies haven't lost any brains
0:06:02 > 0:06:05from the final round. The Eggheads have lost one.
0:06:05 > 0:06:06Good start, Challengers.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08- Yippee!- And your next subject is Geography.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11So, who wants Geography?
0:06:11 > 0:06:13I think that's going to be me, Jeremy, I think.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16OK, gosh, you're organised, you guys.
0:06:16 > 0:06:17Alan, then, against who?
0:06:17 > 0:06:19And it obviously can't be Dave.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21I think it's going to be Judith.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24Brilliant. Alan from the Percies to take on Judith, on Geography.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32So, Geography, Alan, any favourite places you travel?
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Oh, whenever I can get away, Jeremy,
0:06:36 > 0:06:38I like Egypt, in particular.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41I'm a bit of a history buff so I love Egypt,
0:06:41 > 0:06:44it's the biggest open-air museum in the world.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46And you've been inside one of the pyramids?
0:06:46 > 0:06:48Yes, indeed. Not a very, um...
0:06:50 > 0:06:53Not a very pleasant experience because you have to bend down
0:06:53 > 0:06:56very low to get in, and if you're claustrophobic, which I am,
0:06:56 > 0:06:58it's a bit tricky.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01But amazing, the history of those monuments.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04Absolutely, and you just can't appreciate the scale of it
0:07:04 > 0:07:06on television.
0:07:06 > 0:07:10You've got to be right up in front of it to actually see the scale.
0:07:10 > 0:07:11Judith, have you been to Egypt?
0:07:11 > 0:07:14Yes, I had my first honeymoon in Egypt.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17- Did you?- Yep. Got the most ghastly food poisoning.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20Oh, dear, was that an omen?
0:07:20 > 0:07:22And it was unbelievably hot.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25We got up to the Aswan Dam and beyond
0:07:25 > 0:07:27and it was more than 120 degrees.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29We went slightly too late in April.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31- Yeah.- And we slept on the deck.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34- I mean, not a very romantic honeymoon, really. - JEREMY CHUCKLES
0:07:34 > 0:07:37So, Geography. Alan, would you like to go first, or second?
0:07:37 > 0:07:39I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.
0:07:42 > 0:07:43And here we go.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46Which of the world's oceans is sometimes referred to
0:07:46 > 0:07:47as the Antarctic Ocean?
0:07:53 > 0:07:56I would say that would be the Southern Ocean.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58Southern Ocean is quite right, yes.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00Judith, your first question.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03What name is given to places such as Letchworth
0:08:03 > 0:08:07that were built to specific plans in the 20th century?
0:08:11 > 0:08:14I think that they were Garden Cities.
0:08:14 > 0:08:15Yes, they were Garden Cities.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18We go back to you, Alan, for your second.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21The Ionian Islands are part of which country?
0:08:23 > 0:08:24For sure they're Greece.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27For sure they are, Greece is right.
0:08:27 > 0:08:28Judith.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31Camden is a borough in which part of London?
0:08:34 > 0:08:36Um, that is North London.
0:08:36 > 0:08:40North London is right.
0:08:40 > 0:08:41OK, third question.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44Alan, the Camargue is a marshy region
0:08:44 > 0:08:47in the delta of which French river?
0:08:51 > 0:08:54I'm pretty sure it's not the Seine or the Loire,
0:08:54 > 0:08:55so I'll go with the Rhone.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57Good for you, the Rhone is right.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59Confident play. Goodness me,
0:08:59 > 0:09:02our Challengers have not got a question wrong yet.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04OK, Judith, to stay in,
0:09:04 > 0:09:07let's see if the same thing that befell Dave befalls you.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10Kenya is named after what?
0:09:14 > 0:09:17Well, I don't think it's a desert because it isn't IN a desert.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21Um...
0:09:21 > 0:09:24What's the mountain? There is a Mount Kenya, I think.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29I think I'm going to say a mountain.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32A mountain because of Mount Ken-ya, or Mount Keen-ya.
0:09:32 > 0:09:33Is there a River Kenya?
0:09:33 > 0:09:35I'm sure there are rivers.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37I don't think so.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39We like that, actually at this end, a mountain is right,
0:09:39 > 0:09:42- Judith, well done.- Oh, that's lucky because that was a guess.
0:09:42 > 0:09:43Three each, the scores are level.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Alan, we go to Sudden Death.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48It gets a bit harder, I don't give you alternative options.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50Camps Bay Beach is a tourist attraction
0:09:50 > 0:09:53in which Southern African city?
0:09:55 > 0:09:56Camps Bay Beach.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01Well, it's a pure guess because I just don't know the answer
0:10:01 > 0:10:03so I'm going to go with Cape Town.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05Yeah, Cape Town's right, the most southern.
0:10:06 > 0:10:10Egghead, the Armorican Massif
0:10:10 > 0:10:13is a flattened erosional upland occupying
0:10:13 > 0:10:16some of the west of which European country?
0:10:17 > 0:10:18So, Armorican is
0:10:18 > 0:10:21A-R-M-O-R-I-C-A-N.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23I really don't know.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25Um...
0:10:25 > 0:10:27I can't get anything from the word.
0:10:27 > 0:10:29Armorican.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33I really don't know, I'm going to say Hungary.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35It's funny because I was looking at it thinking the same as you -
0:10:35 > 0:10:37Armorican, what can I get from the word?
0:10:37 > 0:10:40Then I realised the keyword is massif. Every time we say massif,
0:10:40 > 0:10:42we seem to have to go to France.
0:10:42 > 0:10:43So the answer is France.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46Oh, no, because I thought of Massif Central,
0:10:46 > 0:10:49but I mean massif is a sort of international word.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52- Yes.- Not necessarily French.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55I'm sorry, Judith, you've been knocked out by a massif!
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Alan, you've taken on an Egghead and you've won through.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59This is looking good for the Challengers
0:10:59 > 0:11:01with £13,000 to play for.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03I don't know who's done the strategy on this side but it's working.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05Come back, please, we'll play round three.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09And it's going very well for the Percies here,
0:11:09 > 0:11:12they've not lost any brains from the final round.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14the Eggheads have lost two.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17And a big jackpot. The next subject is Film & TV.
0:11:17 > 0:11:18Who would like this?
0:11:18 > 0:11:20Yes, I'll take that.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22OK, the publican himself going in.
0:11:22 > 0:11:26Nick. And it's against one of the three in the middle.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28I think I'll pit my wits against Barry.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31Nick from the Percies taking on Barry from the Eggheads,
0:11:31 > 0:11:33please go to the Question Room.
0:11:34 > 0:11:38Nick, have you ever had a moment in the pub where someone famous has
0:11:38 > 0:11:40walked in and you've just clocked them?
0:11:40 > 0:11:42It's happened a few times, actually, Jeremy.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44We've been quite lucky in that respect.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46We had Tilda Swinton walked in one time.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49And she was down in the area with her family visiting,
0:11:49 > 0:11:51I think they were going out for Windsor Great Park
0:11:51 > 0:11:54and popped in for something to eat. And she was very complimentary.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57Very good. And she just ordered food and sat down, did she?
0:11:57 > 0:12:01Yeah, yeah. Thankfully they reserved a table cos there was a few of them
0:12:01 > 0:12:03but, yeah, they came in and they had their meal.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06I can't remember what it was that she ate, but she was very,
0:12:06 > 0:12:08very complimentary and everybody said that she was lovely.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Brilliant. OK, well, against Barry, Film & TV.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13I've no idea if Miss Swinton will come up,
0:12:13 > 0:12:15but it would be amazing if she did.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18- Would you like to go first or second, Nick?- I think I'll go first.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24Now, if you can knock Barry out, you really will be in a good position.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27Here's your question. Who plays the role of Nick Morton
0:12:27 > 0:12:29in the 2017 film The Mummy?
0:12:33 > 0:12:36Ah, I don't think it's Michael Fassbender.
0:12:36 > 0:12:40Um, I'm aware that Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt have been
0:12:40 > 0:12:43in a few films together but I think it's Tom Cruise.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45It is Tom Cruise, well done, first one to you.
0:12:47 > 0:12:48Barry, Harold and Albert are
0:12:48 > 0:12:52the names of the two principal characters in which TV sitcom?
0:12:56 > 0:12:58Well, it was Harold Steptoe and Albert Steptoe,
0:12:58 > 0:13:02so it was Steptoe And Son, a much-loved series.
0:13:02 > 0:13:03Indeed, Steptoe And Son.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05OK, one each.
0:13:05 > 0:13:09Nick, back to you. Which of these BBC Breakfast presenters took part
0:13:09 > 0:13:11in Strictly Come Dancing in 2016?
0:13:17 > 0:13:21Um, being a publican, I rarely get a chance to watch Breakfast television
0:13:21 > 0:13:24so this will be a bit of a guess
0:13:24 > 0:13:27and I shall go for...
0:13:28 > 0:13:30..Steph McGovern.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35Steph McGovern is actually a very good Irish dancer
0:13:35 > 0:13:38because I've seen her do that, but it's not her.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40Naga Munchetty is the answer.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42OK, Barry, your question.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45The 1978 comedy film Animal House
0:13:45 > 0:13:47is set in which sort of institution?
0:13:50 > 0:13:53Well, I've seen this film and I believe Animal House
0:13:53 > 0:13:54was a fraternity, and fraternities
0:13:54 > 0:13:56are found in colleges.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58College is right.
0:13:59 > 0:14:00So he's pulled ahead.
0:14:00 > 0:14:05First maybe kink in the armour of our Challengers.
0:14:05 > 0:14:09Let's see, if you get this one wrong, the Eggheads are coming back.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11Nick, your question.
0:14:11 > 0:14:15In 1955 who became the first person to be seen in vision
0:14:15 > 0:14:17reading the news on BBC television?
0:14:23 > 0:14:26I don't know. Um...
0:14:26 > 0:14:28The name Kenneth Kendall is jumping out at me.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30Um...
0:14:32 > 0:14:34We'll go with Kenneth Kendall.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36Difficult, isn't it? Kenneth Kendall
0:14:36 > 0:14:38is the right answer.
0:14:39 > 0:14:40Played really well there, Nick.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43So, Barry, you can take the round with this question.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46Which of these films was directed by Fritz Lang?
0:14:50 > 0:14:52Ah, this is one of the all-time great films.
0:14:52 > 0:14:55I've watched it twice now and thoroughly enjoyed it.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58I do believe Fritz Lang directed Metropolis.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00That's right, Metropolis is the right answer.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03You've got it right and you've knocked out Nick.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05Sorry, Nick, you've been knocked out by our Egghead.
0:15:05 > 0:15:09Are they storming back here? Let's find out. One more round to play before the final.
0:15:10 > 0:15:14So, as it stands, the Percies have lost a brain from the final round.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16The Eggheads, though, have lost two.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19And the last subject before the final is Politics.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21Who would like the Politics round?
0:15:21 > 0:15:23- That's Robert.- I think that's me. - Robert, OK.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25Our chartered accountant.
0:15:25 > 0:15:29And you can have, let's see, it's going to be Beth or Pat.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32I think we'll go for Beth.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35Rob from the Percies versus Beth from the Eggheads, on Politics.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38Just this round before the final. Please go to the Question Room.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42Beth, do you follow Politics much?
0:15:42 > 0:15:43A little bit, yes.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45Yeah. Watch elections and all that?
0:15:45 > 0:15:49Oh, I try to do, but they're on a bit late for me!
0:15:49 > 0:15:51Yes, as a young mum.
0:15:51 > 0:15:52Yeah, I fall asleep by midnight.
0:15:52 > 0:15:56Oh, I'm not a young mum, I'm a mum of young people.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59- I wouldn't say I was terribly young. - We're having more and more elections
0:15:59 > 0:16:02- at the moment, so it's hard to keep up with them.- Yeah, definitely.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04All right, Rob, on Politics, against our Beth.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06Would you like to go first or second?
0:16:06 > 0:16:07I would like to go first, Jeremy.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13So, here we go with your first question.
0:16:13 > 0:16:19In 2016, Paolo Gentiloni became the Prime Minister of which country?
0:16:22 > 0:16:24I'm not sure, hm...
0:16:24 > 0:16:28I know that Italy and Spain had elections.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31Gentiloni.
0:16:31 > 0:16:33Paolo.
0:16:35 > 0:16:37Sounds Spanish to me, but I'm not entirely sure,
0:16:37 > 0:16:38I'm going to go for Spain.
0:16:39 > 0:16:41Ah, no, it's Italy.
0:16:41 > 0:16:42Paolo Gentiloni.
0:16:42 > 0:16:46OK. The title, Beth,
0:16:46 > 0:16:52Aelodau'r Cynulliad is given to members of which political assembly?
0:16:57 > 0:16:59Aelod y Cynulliad.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02- I can spell it if you want.- I'm going to need some spelling, please.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04A-E-L-O-D
0:17:04 > 0:17:06and then a lower case Y,
0:17:06 > 0:17:11and then a capital C-Y-N-U-L-L-I-A-D.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15Oh. Well, from that...
0:17:16 > 0:17:19..it would point me towards the Welsh Assembly.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21Welsh Assembly is correct.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24We go back to you, Rob.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27Who, in 2016, described Nigeria and Afghanistan
0:17:27 > 0:17:31as possibly two of the most corrupt countries in the world
0:17:31 > 0:17:33whilst talking to the Queen?
0:17:38 > 0:17:40I think that was David Cameron.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42David Cameron, yeah.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44Did someone read his lips or something? I'm trying to remember.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46I think so, it might have been picked up on a mic.
0:17:46 > 0:17:49Yeah, I think it was on a mic, or off the record.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52Well done, you got that right, David Cameron.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55Beth, who served three terms as Prime Minister of Ireland
0:17:55 > 0:17:58between 1979 and 1992?
0:18:04 > 0:18:061992.
0:18:06 > 0:18:10I think Bertie Ahern may have come after this person.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14Hm, so it's between Albert Reynolds and Charles Haughey.
0:18:19 > 0:18:20Not something that I know...
0:18:22 > 0:18:25..immediately, but I think
0:18:25 > 0:18:29Albert Reynolds was around at the time, so, Albert Reynolds.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32- No, he was, I believe, later. - Oh, was he? OK.
0:18:32 > 0:18:33Eggheads, is that right?
0:18:33 > 0:18:35- Later.- That could be why I can remember it.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38Charles Haughey is the answer.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40OK. So, level, that's handy for you, Rob.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43- Yeah.- Get this right, put some pressure on.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47In which year were live televised debates with the main party leaders
0:18:47 > 0:18:50first broadcast in the build-up to a UK general election?
0:18:56 > 0:18:58I'm pretty certain that was 2010.
0:19:00 > 0:19:022010 is right, very, very recent.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05OK, Beth, to stay in.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09Which of these is a term used to denote a political trendsetter,
0:19:09 > 0:19:12or an electoral area with a record of indicating
0:19:12 > 0:19:15how the country will vote as a whole?
0:19:19 > 0:19:20They are bellwether.
0:19:20 > 0:19:23Bellwether is right, as in bellwether constituencies.
0:19:23 > 0:19:24So, level after three.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27Rob, you go first now with Sudden Death questions.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29It gets a bit harder, I don't give you alternatives.
0:19:29 > 0:19:33Which politician was once described by the novelist Malcolm Bradbury
0:19:33 > 0:19:37as the Bertie Wooster of Marxism?
0:19:39 > 0:19:41Ah. Tony Benn.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43- Tony Benn is right.- Ah, OK.- Hurray!
0:19:43 > 0:19:45Tony Benn is right.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48That is a very good answer, well done, well done.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51So, Beth, on the edge, here.
0:19:51 > 0:19:55Which man, born in 1948 in Washington DC,
0:19:55 > 0:19:57said in a TV interview in 1999,
0:19:57 > 0:20:00"During my service in the United States Congress
0:20:00 > 0:20:03"I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
0:20:05 > 0:20:06Oh...
0:20:08 > 0:20:11I'm trying think of people who were born in 1948.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13Somebody in Congress.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18Born in Washington.
0:20:20 > 0:20:26My brain has suddenly lost all its American politicians out of it.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32I'm going to have to go with Bill Clinton.
0:20:32 > 0:20:33- Ooh.- No, no, no.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36- No. Eggheads?- Al Gore. - Al Gore.- Oh, yeah.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39Because he was famously ridiculed for saying that and I think
0:20:39 > 0:20:43he was ridiculed for saying he inspired Love Story as well.
0:20:43 > 0:20:44He made a series of claims.
0:20:44 > 0:20:48Because this was the run-up to 2000, when he was against George Bush.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51Couldn't think of any other politician other than presidents,
0:20:51 > 0:20:54so I was completely floundering with that one.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56OK, so, Beth, you're out.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59And well done, Rob, this is really good for the Challengers.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02Very well played because you had a difficulty in the first question,
0:21:02 > 0:21:05I thought that might have done for you. It didn't, you held on there.
0:21:05 > 0:21:06Tony Benn was a brilliant answer.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09So, Rob and Beth, please come back, rejoin your teams,
0:21:09 > 0:21:12we'll play the final round for £13,000.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15So, this is what we have been playing towards,
0:21:15 > 0:21:17it is time for the final round which, as always,
0:21:17 > 0:21:18is General Knowledge.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads won't be allowed
0:21:21 > 0:21:24to take part in this round. So, that's Nick from the Percies.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27But it's also Dave, Beth and Judith from the Eggheads.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30Would you now please leave the studio.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33Well, what a final today.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36Len, Rob, Alan and Stewart, you've played brilliantly so far.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39You're now playing to win the Percies £13,000.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42On this side, we have two phenomenal quizzers,
0:21:42 > 0:21:47we've got a Brain Of Britain, Pat, you're a Mastermind champion,
0:21:47 > 0:21:49you're somebody who's won £1 million on Millionaire.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51You're a British quiz champion,
0:21:51 > 0:21:54there's all kinds of medals on that side but they don't matter now.
0:21:54 > 0:21:58- No pressure!- These two know they need to win to save the jackpot
0:21:58 > 0:22:00and you have to beat them. So, good luck.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02Would you like to go first or second?
0:22:02 > 0:22:05I think we'll... We're on a roll so we'll stick with first.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11OK. Len and team, here we go.
0:22:11 > 0:22:15Which breed of dog takes its name from a Chinese phrase
0:22:15 > 0:22:18which roughly translates as lion sun dog?
0:22:24 > 0:22:27I'm pretty sure Akita is Japanese.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30- Corgi is Welsh.- Corgi's Welsh.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32- Yeah.- Ah, who wrote that...
0:22:32 > 0:22:34- Shih Tzu is a Chinese word. - Sun Tzu was the Chinese historian.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36It was...yeah.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39- So, Tzu is probably...- Chinese. - Yeah, yeah.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41Shall we go with that?
0:22:41 > 0:22:42Yeah. Shih Tzu, yeah.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45- We'll go with Shih Tzu. - Shih Tzu is correct.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48Well done. It's easy to go wrong on the first one.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50And you haven't.
0:22:50 > 0:22:54Eggheads, in which year was the TV personality Simon Cowell born?
0:23:00 > 0:23:04Well, he's not as old as me, so that would rule out at 1949.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06How old do we think he is?
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Mid-40s maybe?
0:23:09 > 0:23:11Mid to late 40s.
0:23:11 > 0:23:12Mid to late 40s.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14Maybe...
0:23:14 > 0:23:16'69 would seem to fall there.
0:23:19 > 0:23:21- '59?- It's a tricky one.
0:23:21 > 0:23:2341, 58?
0:23:23 > 0:23:25No, he's not as old as that.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28I think it's got to be 1969.
0:23:28 > 0:23:3148 or 58, we've got two choices.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35What do you think?
0:23:35 > 0:23:38It's difficult, it's difficult to age some of these people
0:23:38 > 0:23:39because of the way they dress
0:23:39 > 0:23:41and present themselves and they're all made up,
0:23:41 > 0:23:43it can be a bit difficult.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48I think I'd prefer 48 to 58.
0:23:48 > 0:23:49So would I, yeah, definitely.
0:23:51 > 0:23:52- And that would be...- '69.
0:23:52 > 0:23:541969.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58Yeah. That's 40...
0:23:59 > 0:24:04OK, we're not entirely sure about this but we're going to go for 1969.
0:24:04 > 0:24:081969 is your answer, so not quite 50 yet.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11The key question here, Eggheads,
0:24:11 > 0:24:13is Simon Cowell older or younger than me?
0:24:13 > 0:24:17The answer is that he's older than me so you've got it wrong,
0:24:17 > 0:24:18it's 1959.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20Here's your second question.
0:24:20 > 0:24:26Mons Calpe is an obsolete name for which British overseas territory?
0:24:31 > 0:24:36Well, mons is Latiny-French for mountain.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39If mons is a Latin word for mountain...
0:24:39 > 0:24:40Yeah, or French.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43The Romans were probably in Gibraltar but they would not
0:24:43 > 0:24:45- have been in the other two. - Absolutely.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47I thought it was Gibraltar.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49I would go with Gibraltar.
0:24:49 > 0:24:54It's a guess, but some perverted logic says Gibraltar.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57It's more than a guess, it's correct, Gibraltar is right,
0:24:57 > 0:24:58and for the right reasons as well.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00You're playing well. Two out of two.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05Eggheads, if you get this wrong, you've crashed.
0:25:05 > 0:25:09Give Me Some Lovin' was a UK top ten hit single in 1966
0:25:09 > 0:25:10for which group?
0:25:15 > 0:25:17I think that was The Spencer Davis Group.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20It doesn't sound like The Animals.
0:25:20 > 0:25:23The Lovin' Spoonful,
0:25:23 > 0:25:24What A Day For A Daydream.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27The Animals, House Of The Rising Sun.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29We've Got To Get Out Of This Place.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32No, I'm reasonably certain that's The Spencer Davis Group.
0:25:32 > 0:25:33Yeah, I think it might be.
0:25:36 > 0:25:37- OK.- Yeah.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39We're going for The Spencer Davis Group.
0:25:39 > 0:25:43The Spencer Davis Group is your answer, and it's correct.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46So you're still in it, Eggheads,
0:25:46 > 0:25:48you've got a point.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50If you get this one right, you've won £13,000,
0:25:50 > 0:25:53it's that simple because there's no way back for them.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56Nick has got his fingers crossed, the publican is watching you there.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58It's drinks at the bar if they win, isn't it, Nick?
0:25:58 > 0:26:00Absolutely.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03Here's your question.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06Which actor, who went on to win two Oscars,
0:26:06 > 0:26:11played Dr Philip Chandler in the US TV drama series St Elsewhere?
0:26:17 > 0:26:18- Has anyone seen that?- No.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20I don't know what it is.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23Tom Hanks has won Oscars and Denzel Washington has won Oscars.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25I'm sure Tom Hanks has won more than two Oscars.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28- Yeah, I think Denzel Washington... - I don't recall Tom Hanks in a...
0:26:28 > 0:26:29I would rule Tom Hanks out.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31Well, Denzel Washington won an Oscar in Glory.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34Kevin Spacey has won Oscars as well, hasn't he?
0:26:34 > 0:26:37I'm not sure if Kevin Spacey has actually won Oscars.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40We discount Tom Hanks because I'm sure he's won more than two Oscars.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42I would be inclined to go with Denzel Washington.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Has he been in a hospital drama?
0:26:44 > 0:26:46- We don't know.- I think he has.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49Kevin Spacey's done a lot of his work on the stage, as well.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51- Yes.- So he hasn't won that many Oscars.
0:26:51 > 0:26:55Well, we've sort of discounted Tom Hanks because we think he's won
0:26:55 > 0:26:57more than two Oscars.
0:26:57 > 0:27:01Kevin Spacey perhaps hasn't won that many.
0:27:01 > 0:27:06And that just leaves us, because we don't watch American dramas,
0:27:06 > 0:27:08so we're going to go with Denzel Washington.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Denzel Washington is your answer.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14If you've got it right, if you have got it right,
0:27:14 > 0:27:17it's three in a row and there's no way back for the Eggheads,
0:27:17 > 0:27:19the contest is over and you've won £13,000.
0:27:19 > 0:27:21If you've got it wrong, I go back to them.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23Let me just have a look at these faces over here.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26They don't look too happy. It's not good.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28The correct answer is Denzel Washington!
0:27:28 > 0:27:32We say congratulations, Challengers, you have won.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40Actually, here's the interesting thing,
0:27:40 > 0:27:44- all three of them have won two Oscars.- Really! Wow.
0:27:44 > 0:27:48So, in putting that fact in, it was not an eliminating factor.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52- We were lucky.- Isn't that great?
0:27:52 > 0:27:55I had a vague recollection that Denzel Washington was in
0:27:55 > 0:27:58something medical and I knew he'd won at least one Oscar.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00- I know Tom Hanks, I thought he'd won more.- Yeah.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03- But I couldn't remember what for. - All right, Percies, well done.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06- You've played really well.- Thank you.- It's not a fluke, you've just
0:28:06 > 0:28:09outquizzed them and you were strong in the rounds leading up.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11I thought you'd gone, Rob, when you had your Italian,
0:28:11 > 0:28:14but you came back with Tony Benn. Well played, Percies.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16- Thank you.- Really well done. You've just won £13,000.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19You are officially cleverer than the Eggheads.
0:28:19 > 0:28:20How do you feel about that, Nick?
0:28:20 > 0:28:22Hurray!
0:28:22 > 0:28:24He's going to be setting a really tough quiz next time.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26Some serious boozing at The Percy.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29Yeah. We all want to get down that pub.
0:28:29 > 0:28:32Join us next time on Eggheads to see if they can start to rebuild
0:28:32 > 0:28:34and whether a new team of Challengers can stop them.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36Till then, goodbye.