0:00:04 > 0:00:09These five people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:15Together, they make up the Eggheads, arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers
0:00:26 > 0:00:30pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:35You might recognise them as they won some of the country's toughest quiz shows. They are the Eggheads.
0:00:35 > 0:00:40And challenging our resident quiz champions today are...
0:00:43 > 0:00:46The team are all writers who meet up at social events
0:00:46 > 0:00:49and award ceremonies, organised by the association.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52- Let's meet them.- Hi. I'm Melanie.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54I'm 57 and I'm a romantic novelist.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58Hello. I'm Katherine. I'm 52 and I am a romantic novelist.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02Hi. I'm Julie. I'm 38 and I'm a romantic novelist.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06Hi. I'm Judy. I'm 56 and I'm a romantic novelist.
0:01:06 > 0:01:11Hello. I'm Philippa. I'm 44 and I'm also a romantic novelist.
0:01:11 > 0:01:17Welcome to our Romantic Novelists. Great to see you. Melanie, define the romantic novel.
0:01:17 > 0:01:21It's a novel where the relationship between two people
0:01:21 > 0:01:26is at the core of the story, but once you've got that in place,
0:01:26 > 0:01:28then there's an enormous range.
0:01:28 > 0:01:35Everything from romantic thrillers to chicklet to historicals. Huge range.
0:01:35 > 0:01:40Does a romantic novelist, Julie, have to believe in love?
0:01:40 > 0:01:45- Yes. Yes. I think so, very much. - So, love is at the centre of this thing, is it?- Yes.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48Love gone wrong, quite often, but you have to believe in love.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51I hope you still believe in love after meeting this lot.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55Every day, there's £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs for our challengers.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,
0:01:58 > 0:02:02the prize money rolls over to the next show and builds up and up.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05So, Romantic Novelists Association,
0:02:05 > 0:02:07the Eggheads have won just the last game,
0:02:07 > 0:02:11which means £2,000 says you can't beat them.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13First head to head battle will be on the subject of music.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16Challengers, you can choose which of you goes on Music.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18Which romantic novelist?
0:02:19 > 0:02:21Is it me?
0:02:21 > 0:02:26My husband will kill me if I get these wrong.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29Julie, it's you, but who looks weak?
0:02:29 > 0:02:33Which person looks like they ought to be written out in chapter four?
0:02:33 > 0:02:36- Shall we pick on Judith?- Absolutely.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38- Judith.- Judith, please.
0:02:38 > 0:02:43Do I really look weak, written out in chapter four? So sad.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45- They'll say no.- Such a sad fate.
0:02:45 > 0:02:46Let's see how you do.
0:02:46 > 0:02:53So, it is Julie, our romantic novelist, against Judith, our Egghead. How does that sound?
0:02:53 > 0:02:55Please go to the question rooms.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58No conferring, remember!
0:02:58 > 0:03:02All right. Now, I'm going to ask each of you three multiple choice questions in turn.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05Julie, you can choose whether you take the first or the second set.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08I'll take the second set, please.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14So, Judith, Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad
0:03:14 > 0:03:18is the title of a 1978 UK hit single, by which singer?
0:03:23 > 0:03:26Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad. I've absolutely no idea.
0:03:26 > 0:03:30What about Sting?
0:03:31 > 0:03:33What about Sting?
0:03:33 > 0:03:36- What about Sting?- It's not Sting.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39Chris, you're the Meat Loaf fan. Shall we sing it together?
0:03:39 > 0:03:42# Baby, we can talk all night... #
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Right. Do it on your own.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46# But that ain't getting us nowhere. #
0:03:46 > 0:03:49It's Meat Loaf, Judith.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53HE HUMS THE TUNE
0:03:53 > 0:03:55OK. Anyway, there we are.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57Julie, it's not usually this mad, by the way.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59Your first question.
0:03:59 > 0:04:03The Canadian Joni Mitchell is most associated with which type of music?
0:04:06 > 0:04:07Folk.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10- Correct.- Sorry.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13Think about it.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16It's not house music.
0:04:16 > 0:04:17All right, Judith.
0:04:17 > 0:04:24Pepsi and Shirlie were the regular backing singers of which '80s band?
0:04:27 > 0:04:30I don't know. Culture Club.
0:04:30 > 0:04:32CJ, do you know the answer?
0:04:32 > 0:04:35- Wham.- It's Wham, Judith, sorry.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Don't know why I'm saying sorry.
0:04:39 > 0:04:43Julie, which stage musical features a botched robbery
0:04:43 > 0:04:47and a man who returns from the grave to make up for the wrongs
0:04:47 > 0:04:48he committed in his lifetime?
0:04:56 > 0:04:59I'll take a guess and say Pippin.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03Your guess is wrong. It's Carousel.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06Judith... La Mer,
0:05:06 > 0:05:13or the sea, is a famous 1905 piece by which classical composer?
0:05:19 > 0:05:23- That's Debussy.- Spot on. Well, done.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25You've got one right.
0:05:25 > 0:05:29But, Julie, you get this right, you knock Judith out.
0:05:29 > 0:05:32Philip Bailey who dueted with Phil Collins
0:05:32 > 0:05:36on the 1985 single Easy Lover, was the lead singer with which group?
0:05:40 > 0:05:43So brilliant cos they are one of my favourite groups ever.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45It's Earth Wind and Fire. I love them.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47Well, that helps.
0:05:47 > 0:05:51The romantic novelist loves Earth Wind and Fire. You are quite right.
0:05:51 > 0:05:53That is the correct answer.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56Well done to our romantic novelist. Poor old Judith.
0:05:56 > 0:06:01A bad start for the Eggheads today, so Judith will not join the Eggheads in the final round.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04Good news for the challengers, though.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07Do, both of you, come back to the studio.
0:06:07 > 0:06:11Judith, Chris and I are going to buy you a copy of Bat Out Of Hell...
0:06:11 > 0:06:13- Thank you very much.- ..by Meat Loaf.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16- By Meat Loaf. - Yeah, because that will be a start.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19- All three albums. Bat Out Of Hell One, Two and Three.- Yes.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22The three Bat Out Of Hell albums and you will listen to them, won't you?
0:06:22 > 0:06:24I might.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26You're lying.
0:06:26 > 0:06:28As it stands, the Eggheads have lost one brain.
0:06:28 > 0:06:33The challengers have lost no brains. Our Romantic Novelists are doing very well. They're on fire.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36Next subject, Film And Television.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38Which of you wants to take this on?
0:06:40 > 0:06:42THEY WHISPER
0:06:44 > 0:06:45- Philippa.- I'll have a go. Yes.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47Go on, then. Well, done.
0:06:47 > 0:06:51- OK.- Philippa against whom?
0:06:51 > 0:06:53What do you think?
0:06:53 > 0:06:55Yes. OK. Kevin.
0:06:55 > 0:07:01Kevin. So, it is Philippa, from the Romantic Novelists, against Kevin, from the Eggheads.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04Please go to the question room.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07I will ask each of you three questions on Film And Television in turn.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10Philippa, you can choose first or second.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13I'd like to go first, please.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19In which year was the comedian Ronnie Corbett born?
0:07:26 > 0:07:29I'm just trying to work out, obviously, how old I think he is.
0:07:29 > 0:07:33I was wondering if you wanted more question there, for a second.
0:07:33 > 0:07:37No. I definitely don't think it's 1950...
0:07:37 > 0:07:42but I'm kind of torn between 1940 and 1930.
0:07:45 > 0:07:49I think I'm going to go for 1930.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54Really good. Well, done. You're right.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56First to the Romantic Novelists.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58Kevin,
0:07:58 > 0:08:03which actress starred in the films The Railway Children and Logan's Run?
0:08:09 > 0:08:10That was Jenny Agutter.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Kevin, you're right.
0:08:12 > 0:08:16It was. One point each. Back to you, Philippa.
0:08:16 > 0:08:21The sports comedy movies Blades of Glory, Semi Pro
0:08:21 > 0:08:27and Talladega Nights - The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, all star which actor?
0:08:32 > 0:08:37Before I saw the choice, I was thinking that it was Will Ferrell
0:08:37 > 0:08:40because I think he was in Blades Of Glory,
0:08:40 > 0:08:45but now there's a kind of choice of a rat pack of actors, there.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50I'm really not sure,
0:08:50 > 0:08:54so I'm going to go with my original instinct
0:08:54 > 0:08:57and that was Will Ferrell.
0:08:57 > 0:09:01- Your team mates are nodding. Kevin, is she right?- Yes. Yeah.
0:09:01 > 0:09:02Yeah. You are. Well, done.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05Instinct had the day.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Kevin, your second question.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10What was the name of Granada TV's flagship
0:09:10 > 0:09:15prime-time current affairs programme first broadcast in 1963
0:09:15 > 0:09:18and renowned for its investigative journalism?
0:09:22 > 0:09:26Yes, to the point where they've actually started to issue
0:09:26 > 0:09:30some of the best past episodes on DVD now. It's World In Action.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33Is quite right.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36If you'd answered Panorama, I would have been very cross with you.
0:09:37 > 0:09:42Philippa, your third question. It's locked at two points each.
0:09:42 > 0:09:48The Tooting Popular Front led by a character named Wolfie appeared in which TV sitcom?
0:09:53 > 0:09:56I think I actually remember this
0:09:56 > 0:09:59and I think it's Citizen Smith.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03Yes. You are correct.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05Well, done.
0:10:05 > 0:10:06Kevin, to stay in,
0:10:06 > 0:10:07if you get this wrong,
0:10:07 > 0:10:10you aren't in the final round and, my goodness,
0:10:10 > 0:10:13we do see you in the final round a lot.
0:10:13 > 0:10:19Here's your question. Scanners, Dead Ringers and Eastern Promises, are films by which director?
0:10:25 > 0:10:28Sometimes rather odd Canadian director David Cronenberg.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Quite right. It was David Cronenberg,
0:10:31 > 0:10:35- who wouldn't qualify as a romantic novelist, would he, really?- Oh, no.
0:10:35 > 0:10:41No. Shall we go to sudden death? You've got three points each after your multiple choice questions.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44Now, I will not give you a choice of answers.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46You have to give me an answer.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48Philippa, you go first.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52Which Oscar winning actress played a woman
0:10:52 > 0:10:58- with 13 different personalities in the 1976 film Sybil?- Gosh.
0:10:58 > 0:11:04I'm tempted to say Meryl Streep, but I don't think she won an Oscar
0:11:04 > 0:11:07for that film.
0:11:10 > 0:11:14Well, as my mind's gone blank on who that actress is
0:11:14 > 0:11:18and the first person I thought of was Meryl Streep,
0:11:18 > 0:11:20I'm going to say Meryl Streep.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Meryl Streep is wrong.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25I'm sorry. It was Sally Field.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29Kevin, what is the name of the animated TV character
0:11:29 > 0:11:33who lives in a pineapple under the sea in Bikini Bottom?
0:11:33 > 0:11:37Well, not my territory, as you can imagine,
0:11:37 > 0:11:40but I hope it's Spongebob Squarepants.
0:11:40 > 0:11:44It is Spongebob Squarepants.
0:11:44 > 0:11:49Well, done to Kevin, who has just squeaked past you there, Philippa,
0:11:49 > 0:11:51after a very, very hard fought round.
0:11:51 > 0:11:56Well, done. Commiserations, though, you won't be joining your team mates in the final round.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59Do come back to us here in the studio.
0:11:59 > 0:12:03As it stands, challengers and the Eggheads have lost one brain each from the final round.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06Our next subject is Sport.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09How are we feeling on Sport, Romantic Novelists?
0:12:11 > 0:12:13- Who would like to do this one? - Shall I try it?
0:12:13 > 0:12:16WHISPERING
0:12:16 > 0:12:19We're just pathetically grateful for the volunteer, darling.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22- Yes. Go for it.- Judy.
0:12:22 > 0:12:23- Judy.- Yes.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26- On your 15th novel, now.- Yes.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28- And on Sport.- Yes. I'll do my best.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30Not writing about sport. OK.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32Which one of these looks the least sporty...
0:12:32 > 0:12:36- Chris.- ..in the intellectual sense?
0:12:36 > 0:12:40- Chris.- Chris on Sport. Yeah.
0:12:40 > 0:12:45We see the logic there. OK. Judy, our romantic novelist, and Chris,
0:12:45 > 0:12:50our Egghead, and just to ensure there's no conferring, please take your places in the question room.
0:12:50 > 0:12:54OK. Three questions each on Sport. Multiple choice.
0:12:54 > 0:12:58And, of course, you choose whether you want to go first or second.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00I'd like to go first, I think.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04Judy, apart from the discus
0:13:04 > 0:13:10in which athletics event do competitors stand in a C-shaped cage?
0:13:17 > 0:13:20I think... the C-shaped cage...
0:13:20 > 0:13:26I'd say, probably, a hammer, cos they're pretty dangerous things.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28Hammer.
0:13:28 > 0:13:29Great logic. You're right. Yeah.
0:13:29 > 0:13:33One of those goes backwards you're in trouble.
0:13:33 > 0:13:34Chris, which annual marathon
0:13:34 > 0:13:39is the only one in the world run in both the East and West Hemispheres?
0:13:40 > 0:13:44Well, since it crosses the Greenwich Meridian, several times,
0:13:44 > 0:13:45it's the London Marathon.
0:13:45 > 0:13:50You're right. It does cross the Prime Meridian at Greenwich.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53Well, done. One point each.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56Judy, which country does the heptathlete
0:13:56 > 0:13:59Carolina Kluft represent in international competition?
0:14:03 > 0:14:10Oh, gosh. I've never actually heard of her, but her name sounds...
0:14:10 > 0:14:13It actually sounds like it could be from anywhere.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16I think I'll go with Netherlands...
0:14:16 > 0:14:18and hope.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20You think she sounds a bit...?
0:14:20 > 0:14:22- Dutch. Yes. - She's a bit Swedish, actually.
0:14:22 > 0:14:25- Oh, no.- So, you're wrong, I'm sorry.
0:14:25 > 0:14:29Chris, you can take the edge now with the second question.
0:14:29 > 0:14:35The WPBSA is one of the governing bodies of which sport?
0:14:38 > 0:14:40I don't think it's archery
0:14:40 > 0:14:43and I've not heard of any connection with snooker
0:14:43 > 0:14:46and I do watch a bit of snooker on the telly,
0:14:46 > 0:14:48so it sounds as if it might be bowls.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50Your answer is bowls cos it's got a B in there.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52Is that what you're thinking?
0:14:52 > 0:14:55- Yep.- Got an S as well, Chris. - Snooker. Yeah.- Yeah. It is snooker.
0:14:55 > 0:14:59The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01- B for billiards. - The World Professional...
0:15:01 > 0:15:04Billiards and Snooker Association.
0:15:04 > 0:15:08That comes from CJ, just to make it worse.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10So, you're equal.
0:15:10 > 0:15:14So, Judy, you've got a chance here, of beating Chris on Sport.
0:15:14 > 0:15:18Question three. How old was Britain's Tom Daley
0:15:18 > 0:15:19when, in March 2008,
0:15:19 > 0:15:24he became the youngest ever European men's diving champion?
0:15:28 > 0:15:32Gosh. I did see him on something...
0:15:32 > 0:15:38probably on the news, I should think. I think he was 13.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40- That's your answer?- Yes.
0:15:40 > 0:15:41You know, I looked at this
0:15:41 > 0:15:45and I thought I reckon he was 15, but that was in my mind.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48It's very difficult knowing something and taking a stab at it
0:15:48 > 0:15:50but you're right. Well, done.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53So you've really put the pressure on Chris over here, now.
0:15:53 > 0:15:58You get this wrong, Chris, you will be sitting out the final round with Judith.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01And maybe not just Judith.
0:16:01 > 0:16:08Eric Ashton, who died in 2008, was the first player in which sport to be awarded an MBE?
0:16:13 > 0:16:15Well, several cricketers have been awarded MBEs
0:16:15 > 0:16:19and show jumping, being equestrian,
0:16:19 > 0:16:21is sort of under quasi-royal patronage,
0:16:21 > 0:16:25so the gongs would fall like wallpaper in show jumping.
0:16:25 > 0:16:30Probably, since it's a working class sport, I'd say rugby league.
0:16:30 > 0:16:34Your answer is right. Well done. So you're equal.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37That's the end of our multiple choice section.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39Now it gets a bit harder. I don't supply the answers.
0:16:39 > 0:16:43I want you to give me the correct answer and it's sudden death.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45Judy, which sport took its name
0:16:45 > 0:16:50from the Gloucestershire seat of the Dukes of Beaufort?
0:16:52 > 0:16:54Badminton?
0:16:54 > 0:16:56Correct.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59Chris, which winter Olympic event
0:16:59 > 0:17:04takes place on a long track and a short track,
0:17:04 > 0:17:10the long track being 400 metres and the short track, 111 metres?
0:17:10 > 0:17:12Just visualising that as lengths.
0:17:17 > 0:17:18Ski jumping.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21Ski jumping.
0:17:21 > 0:17:22OK.
0:17:22 > 0:17:26That's your answer. Can you describe how someone would jump
0:17:26 > 0:17:28on two separate tracks?
0:17:28 > 0:17:31Well, you come down a ramp of 110 metres,
0:17:31 > 0:17:34launch yourself into the air and land somewhere
0:17:34 > 0:17:36on a track that's 440 metres long.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38Gotcha. OK. Yeah. I understand that completely.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41It's wrong. It's speed skating.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46So, Judy, you did it.
0:17:46 > 0:17:51You did it. The Romantic Novelists have beaten the Eggheads on Sport.
0:17:51 > 0:17:57There we are. Chris, look at how disgruntled he looks over there.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59Well, done, Judy. Commiserations, Chris.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02Please come back and rejoin your teams.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05The challengers have lost one brain for the final round.
0:18:05 > 0:18:10The Eggheads have lost two brains now and we move to Food And Drink.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13So which of the challengers would like to play this?
0:18:13 > 0:18:14You can't take Kevin on this,
0:18:14 > 0:18:16which is a shame because it's his only weak subject.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19Is Melanie going to do Food And Drink?
0:18:21 > 0:18:25I think Daphne doesn't like it as a subject, although she's good at it.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32- Melanie.- It's up to you.- Sorry.
0:18:32 > 0:18:35- Do change your mind.- No. CJ.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38- You're doing last minute revision. - CJ.- OK. That's fine.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40She said it. She said it.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42You can change your mind in this moment.
0:18:42 > 0:18:43All right. So, final decision?
0:18:43 > 0:18:47- Yes.- Melanie versus CJ, on Food And Drink.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49The Romantic Novelists against the Eggheads.
0:18:49 > 0:18:53Please go to the question room.
0:18:53 > 0:18:57OK. I'm going to ask you three questions, multiple choice.
0:18:57 > 0:19:02- And you get to choose the first or second set. Which would you like, Melanie?- I'll go first.
0:19:05 > 0:19:08Which herb is traditionally used with onions
0:19:08 > 0:19:10to make the stuffing that accompanies a roast turkey?
0:19:13 > 0:19:16It's sage.
0:19:16 > 0:19:21You're right. It is. First point to you.
0:19:21 > 0:19:22CJ, food and drink.
0:19:22 > 0:19:27- What on earth am I doing playing this category?- Here's your question.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30What is normally sold at a patisserie?
0:19:32 > 0:19:35I think that's pastries.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37You've been in one, have you?
0:19:37 > 0:19:39- Not recently, no.- But you're right. Well, done.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41Melanie, your second question.
0:19:41 > 0:19:45Commis is a variety of which fruit?
0:19:49 > 0:19:52It's a particularly lovely old type of pear.
0:19:52 > 0:19:54I don't know if it's particularly lovely
0:19:54 > 0:19:57but it certainly is a type of pear. Yes.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00CJ, pressure on you. This is your second question.
0:20:00 > 0:20:04In a professional kitchen, what name is given to a chef in charge
0:20:04 > 0:20:07of a particular area of production?
0:20:13 > 0:20:15I have never heard of aboyeur.
0:20:15 > 0:20:19A sous chef is just a junior member in the kitchen,
0:20:19 > 0:20:22but I think a chef de partie is someone
0:20:22 > 0:20:26who concentrates on a particular station, I hope,
0:20:26 > 0:20:28so I'll try chef de partie.
0:20:28 > 0:20:32Yes. That's exactly what a chef de partie does. Well, done.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Back to you, Melanie. Third question.
0:20:34 > 0:20:39The Pismo clam, an increasingly rare delicacy,
0:20:39 > 0:20:43is predominantly caught off the coast of which US state?
0:20:47 > 0:20:49I've never heard of it
0:20:49 > 0:20:54and I think clams are caught off all three coasts.
0:20:57 > 0:21:01I'm going to guess...
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Florida.
0:21:05 > 0:21:09Pismo clam is predominantly caught off the coast of California.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11I'm sorry.
0:21:11 > 0:21:16So, CJ, if you take this, you take out Melanie.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18What type of food is a kneidle,
0:21:18 > 0:21:22eaten especially in Jewish households during Passover.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31Well, there's the Jewish dish, a knish,
0:21:31 > 0:21:32and I think that's a dumpling.
0:21:32 > 0:21:37But that, of course, doesn't mean to say a kneidle isn't a dumpling.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42All right. I don't think it's a bread roll.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44A knish is a dumpling
0:21:44 > 0:21:47so a kneidle is without a shadow of a doubt, a biscuit.
0:21:47 > 0:21:51- This knish is a dumpling, is it? - I think so.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Well, then a kneidle must be a knish,
0:21:53 > 0:21:56cos a kneidle is a dumpling, too.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59So you got it wrong with your knishes.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02That means, Melanie, you live to fight in sudden death,
0:22:02 > 0:22:04so no more multiple choices.
0:22:04 > 0:22:05This is when it gets harder.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08I'm going to not give you three potential answers.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10I'm going to ask you for the answer.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13In Japanese cookery, katsuobushi,
0:22:13 > 0:22:18a main ingredient in the soup base dashi,
0:22:18 > 0:22:23consists of which fish dried into a hard block?
0:22:23 > 0:22:29The only fish I can think of, in terms of Japanese cookery is tuna.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31And I've got no idea.
0:22:31 > 0:22:34I don't eat Japanese food.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37I think I'll have to say tuna.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40Tuna is right. Well, done.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45- You do look very relieved.- Stunned.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47Get this wrong, you're out.
0:22:47 > 0:22:52The Willamette Valley is a wine producing region in which country?
0:22:52 > 0:22:57That's W-i-l-l-a-m-e-t-t-e.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59I have absolutely no idea.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04It sounds vaguely as if it could have come...
0:23:04 > 0:23:09Could be a corruption of Dutch, so I'll try South Africa.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11Do you know, Kevin, out of interest?
0:23:11 > 0:23:14Well, the Willamette, geographically,
0:23:14 > 0:23:15rather than wine-growing,
0:23:15 > 0:23:18the Willamette Valley is mainly in Oregon, so USA.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20Yes. It is Oregon. It is the USA.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23CJ, you're gone.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25I'm sorry. And well done, Melanie.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28You took on an Egghead and you survived.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31Good news for the challengers cos it means, Melanie,
0:23:31 > 0:23:32you can play in the final round.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35Please come back and rejoin your teams.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38So, this is what we've been playing towards.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41It's time for the final round which, is General Knowledge,
0:23:41 > 0:23:43but those of you who lost your head to heads
0:23:43 > 0:23:44will not be allowed to take part.
0:23:44 > 0:23:50So, it's Philippa, from the Romantic Novelists Association and quite a lot of you, actually...
0:23:50 > 0:23:54Judith, CJ and Chris, from the Eggheads,
0:23:54 > 0:23:58you need to leave the studio and let us get on with it.
0:23:58 > 0:24:04Melanie, Katherine, Julie and Judy, you are playing to win the Romantic Novelists Association £2,000.
0:24:04 > 0:24:09Kevin and Daphne, you are playing for something which money can't buy -
0:24:09 > 0:24:11the Eggheads' reputation.
0:24:11 > 0:24:14As usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17This time the questions are all General Knowledge.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19You are allowed to confer.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21So, Romantic Novelists Association,
0:24:21 > 0:24:24the question is, are your four brains better than the Eggheads' two?
0:24:24 > 0:24:27We know the pens are better on this side, are the brains better?
0:24:27 > 0:24:32You can tell me whether you want to take the first or the second set of questions.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34- Second?- I don't mind.
0:24:34 > 0:24:35- I really don't.- Go second.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38- Second?- Second.- We'll go second.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44OK, Eggheads. Gird yourselves.
0:24:44 > 0:24:50A kibbutz is a communal farm or settlement
0:24:50 > 0:24:53in which country?
0:24:53 > 0:24:54Israel.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57A kibbutz is a communal farm or settlement in which country?
0:24:57 > 0:25:00- Israel.- Israel is quite right.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04Your first question, Romantic Novelists.
0:25:04 > 0:25:09After the Andes, what is the world's longest mountain range?
0:25:13 > 0:25:15Sadly, I haven't a clue.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18- Can't be the Alps, I don't think. - They're too clustered.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21So it's Rockies or Caucasus.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24The Rockies is virtually the length of North America.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26- Is it?- But then the Caucasus,
0:25:26 > 0:25:28trying to imagine it, there's so much room.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30Yes. It's the divide, isn't it,
0:25:30 > 0:25:33between European Russia and Asian Russia, isn't it?
0:25:33 > 0:25:38- Yes. Rockies are long, but I don't know, trying to get the scale.- Yeah.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41Is Russia bigger than North America and Canada,
0:25:41 > 0:25:44and they don't go up beyond sort of Alaska way, do they,
0:25:44 > 0:25:47- the Rockies, they sort of stop, don't they?- Don't think so.
0:25:47 > 0:25:50- Shall we go for Caucasus? - OK. Go for it.- Sure?
0:25:50 > 0:25:52- No shame no blame.- Caucasus.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54- You're guessing Caucasus.- Yes.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57Wrong, Romantic Novelists.
0:25:57 > 0:26:01It's the Rockies. You're right to rule out the Alps early.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05So, Eggheads,
0:26:05 > 0:26:08in the Gerry Anderson puppet series Thunderbirds,
0:26:08 > 0:26:10what type of vehicle was Thunderbird Four?
0:26:13 > 0:26:17I don't think either of the others were Thunderbird crafts.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20I was thinking it was the underwater one, anyway.
0:26:20 > 0:26:24- Yeah.- Yeah. I don't think that any of the other Thunderbird craft
0:26:24 > 0:26:29could be described as either car or helicopter
0:26:29 > 0:26:33and there was one that was an underwater craft,
0:26:33 > 0:26:34a type of submarine.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37And I was thinking that that was number four, possibly,
0:26:37 > 0:26:40before the choices came up, so submarine will be the one.
0:26:40 > 0:26:44- Daphne?- Oh, yes.- Oh, yes.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47He's right. You're right. You're both right.
0:26:47 > 0:26:54Two points to the Eggheads. Come on, Romantic Novelists.
0:26:54 > 0:27:00In June 1979, Pope John Paul II became the first serving Roman Catholic pontiff
0:27:00 > 0:27:04to visit a Communist ruled country when he visited where?
0:27:09 > 0:27:11Wasn't he the Polish one?
0:27:11 > 0:27:13- He was Polish.- Did he go home?
0:27:13 > 0:27:15- I think he went home.- Yes.
0:27:15 > 0:27:16I think it must be,
0:27:16 > 0:27:19cos he wasn't the one that died very quickly, was he,
0:27:19 > 0:27:20we had one straight after...
0:27:20 > 0:27:23and that was '79, though, wasn't it?
0:27:23 > 0:27:25- Yes.- No. It's the one I... It's the second one.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28- Poland?- Poland.- Poland.
0:27:30 > 0:27:35- You're right.- Thank God for that. - Eggheads, if you get this right,
0:27:35 > 0:27:42you have won the contest because it's impossible for the Romantic Novelists
0:27:42 > 0:27:45to get three points at this stage.
0:27:45 > 0:27:46Here is your question.
0:27:46 > 0:27:53The jazz musician Winton Marsalis is best known for his virtuosity on which instrument?
0:27:57 > 0:28:00- This for the contest.- Yes.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02It's the trumpet.
0:28:02 > 0:28:06It is the trumpet. Congratulations, Eggheads. You've won.
0:28:11 > 0:28:15Commiserations, challengers. You didn't quite lift off there in the last round.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18Getting the first question wrong was devastating.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.
0:28:20 > 0:28:23They still reign supreme over quiz land.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25You won't be going home with the £2,000,
0:28:25 > 0:28:27which means the money rolls over
0:28:27 > 0:28:30and goes into the next show. Eggheads, well done.
0:28:30 > 0:28:32Congratulations. Who will beat you?
0:28:32 > 0:28:37Join us next time to see if the new challengers have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.
0:28:37 > 0:28:39£3,000 says they don't.
0:28:39 > 0:28:41'Till then, goodbye.
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