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