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These five people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.

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Together, they make up the Eggheads, arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.

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The question is, can they be beaten?

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Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers

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pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.

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You might recognise them as they won some of the country's toughest quiz shows. They are the Eggheads.

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And challenging our resident quiz champions today are...

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The team are all writers who meet up at social events

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and award ceremonies, organised by the association.

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-Let's meet them.

-Hi. I'm Melanie.

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I'm 57 and I'm a romantic novelist.

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Hello. I'm Katherine. I'm 52 and I am a romantic novelist.

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Hi. I'm Julie. I'm 38 and I'm a romantic novelist.

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Hi. I'm Judy. I'm 56 and I'm a romantic novelist.

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Hello. I'm Philippa. I'm 44 and I'm also a romantic novelist.

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Welcome to our Romantic Novelists. Great to see you. Melanie, define the romantic novel.

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It's a novel where the relationship between two people

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is at the core of the story, but once you've got that in place,

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then there's an enormous range.

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Everything from romantic thrillers to chicklet to historicals. Huge range.

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Does a romantic novelist, Julie, have to believe in love?

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-Yes. Yes. I think so, very much.

-So, love is at the centre of this thing, is it?

-Yes.

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Love gone wrong, quite often, but you have to believe in love.

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I hope you still believe in love after meeting this lot.

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Every day, there's £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs for our challengers.

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However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,

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the prize money rolls over to the next show and builds up and up.

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So, Romantic Novelists Association,

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the Eggheads have won just the last game,

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which means £2,000 says you can't beat them.

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First head to head battle will be on the subject of music.

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Challengers, you can choose which of you goes on Music.

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Which romantic novelist?

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Is it me?

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My husband will kill me if I get these wrong.

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Julie, it's you, but who looks weak?

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Which person looks like they ought to be written out in chapter four?

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-Shall we pick on Judith?

-Absolutely.

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-Judith.

-Judith, please.

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Do I really look weak, written out in chapter four? So sad.

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-They'll say no.

-Such a sad fate.

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Let's see how you do.

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So, it is Julie, our romantic novelist, against Judith, our Egghead. How does that sound?

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Please go to the question rooms.

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No conferring, remember!

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All right. Now, I'm going to ask each of you three multiple choice questions in turn.

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Julie, you can choose whether you take the first or the second set.

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I'll take the second set, please.

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So, Judith, Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad

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is the title of a 1978 UK hit single, by which singer?

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Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad. I've absolutely no idea.

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What about Sting?

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What about Sting?

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-What about Sting?

-It's not Sting.

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Chris, you're the Meat Loaf fan. Shall we sing it together?

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# Baby, we can talk all night... #

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Right. Do it on your own.

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# But that ain't getting us nowhere. #

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It's Meat Loaf, Judith.

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HE HUMS THE TUNE

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OK. Anyway, there we are.

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Julie, it's not usually this mad, by the way.

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Your first question.

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The Canadian Joni Mitchell is most associated with which type of music?

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Folk.

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-Correct.

-Sorry.

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Think about it.

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It's not house music.

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All right, Judith.

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Pepsi and Shirlie were the regular backing singers of which '80s band?

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I don't know. Culture Club.

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CJ, do you know the answer?

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-Wham.

-It's Wham, Judith, sorry.

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Don't know why I'm saying sorry.

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Julie, which stage musical features a botched robbery

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and a man who returns from the grave to make up for the wrongs

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he committed in his lifetime?

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I'll take a guess and say Pippin.

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Your guess is wrong. It's Carousel.

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Judith... La Mer,

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or the sea, is a famous 1905 piece by which classical composer?

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-That's Debussy.

-Spot on. Well, done.

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You've got one right.

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But, Julie, you get this right, you knock Judith out.

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Philip Bailey who dueted with Phil Collins

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on the 1985 single Easy Lover, was the lead singer with which group?

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So brilliant cos they are one of my favourite groups ever.

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It's Earth Wind and Fire. I love them.

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Well, that helps.

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The romantic novelist loves Earth Wind and Fire. You are quite right.

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That is the correct answer.

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Well done to our romantic novelist. Poor old Judith.

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A bad start for the Eggheads today, so Judith will not join the Eggheads in the final round.

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Good news for the challengers, though.

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Do, both of you, come back to the studio.

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Judith, Chris and I are going to buy you a copy of Bat Out Of Hell...

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-Thank you very much.

-..by Meat Loaf.

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-By Meat Loaf.

-Yeah, because that will be a start.

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-All three albums. Bat Out Of Hell One, Two and Three.

-Yes.

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The three Bat Out Of Hell albums and you will listen to them, won't you?

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I might.

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You're lying.

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As it stands, the Eggheads have lost one brain.

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The challengers have lost no brains. Our Romantic Novelists are doing very well. They're on fire.

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Next subject, Film And Television.

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Which of you wants to take this on?

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THEY WHISPER

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-Philippa.

-I'll have a go. Yes.

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Go on, then. Well, done.

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-OK.

-Philippa against whom?

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What do you think?

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Yes. OK. Kevin.

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Kevin. So, it is Philippa, from the Romantic Novelists, against Kevin, from the Eggheads.

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Please go to the question room.

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I will ask each of you three questions on Film And Television in turn.

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Philippa, you can choose first or second.

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I'd like to go first, please.

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In which year was the comedian Ronnie Corbett born?

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I'm just trying to work out, obviously, how old I think he is.

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I was wondering if you wanted more question there, for a second.

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No. I definitely don't think it's 1950...

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but I'm kind of torn between 1940 and 1930.

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I think I'm going to go for 1930.

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Really good. Well, done. You're right.

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First to the Romantic Novelists.

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Kevin,

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which actress starred in the films The Railway Children and Logan's Run?

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That was Jenny Agutter.

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Kevin, you're right.

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It was. One point each. Back to you, Philippa.

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The sports comedy movies Blades of Glory, Semi Pro

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and Talladega Nights - The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, all star which actor?

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Before I saw the choice, I was thinking that it was Will Ferrell

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because I think he was in Blades Of Glory,

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but now there's a kind of choice of a rat pack of actors, there.

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I'm really not sure,

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so I'm going to go with my original instinct

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and that was Will Ferrell.

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-Your team mates are nodding. Kevin, is she right?

-Yes. Yeah.

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Yeah. You are. Well, done.

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Instinct had the day.

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Kevin, your second question.

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What was the name of Granada TV's flagship

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prime-time current affairs programme first broadcast in 1963

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and renowned for its investigative journalism?

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Yes, to the point where they've actually started to issue

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some of the best past episodes on DVD now. It's World In Action.

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Is quite right.

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If you'd answered Panorama, I would have been very cross with you.

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Philippa, your third question. It's locked at two points each.

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The Tooting Popular Front led by a character named Wolfie appeared in which TV sitcom?

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I think I actually remember this

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and I think it's Citizen Smith.

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Yes. You are correct.

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Well, done.

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Kevin, to stay in,

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if you get this wrong,

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you aren't in the final round and, my goodness,

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we do see you in the final round a lot.

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Here's your question. Scanners, Dead Ringers and Eastern Promises, are films by which director?

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Sometimes rather odd Canadian director David Cronenberg.

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Quite right. It was David Cronenberg,

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-who wouldn't qualify as a romantic novelist, would he, really?

-Oh, no.

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No. Shall we go to sudden death? You've got three points each after your multiple choice questions.

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Now, I will not give you a choice of answers.

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You have to give me an answer.

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Philippa, you go first.

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Which Oscar winning actress played a woman

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-with 13 different personalities in the 1976 film Sybil?

-Gosh.

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I'm tempted to say Meryl Streep, but I don't think she won an Oscar

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for that film.

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Well, as my mind's gone blank on who that actress is

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and the first person I thought of was Meryl Streep,

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I'm going to say Meryl Streep.

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Meryl Streep is wrong.

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I'm sorry. It was Sally Field.

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Kevin, what is the name of the animated TV character

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who lives in a pineapple under the sea in Bikini Bottom?

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Well, not my territory, as you can imagine,

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but I hope it's Spongebob Squarepants.

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It is Spongebob Squarepants.

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Well, done to Kevin, who has just squeaked past you there, Philippa,

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after a very, very hard fought round.

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Well, done. Commiserations, though, you won't be joining your team mates in the final round.

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Do come back to us here in the studio.

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As it stands, challengers and the Eggheads have lost one brain each from the final round.

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Our next subject is Sport.

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How are we feeling on Sport, Romantic Novelists?

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-Who would like to do this one?

-Shall I try it?

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WHISPERING

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We're just pathetically grateful for the volunteer, darling.

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-Yes. Go for it.

-Judy.

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-Judy.

-Yes.

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-On your 15th novel, now.

-Yes.

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-And on Sport.

-Yes. I'll do my best.

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Not writing about sport. OK.

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Which one of these looks the least sporty...

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-Chris.

-..in the intellectual sense?

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-Chris.

-Chris on Sport. Yeah.

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We see the logic there. OK. Judy, our romantic novelist, and Chris,

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our Egghead, and just to ensure there's no conferring, please take your places in the question room.

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OK. Three questions each on Sport. Multiple choice.

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And, of course, you choose whether you want to go first or second.

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I'd like to go first, I think.

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Judy, apart from the discus

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in which athletics event do competitors stand in a C-shaped cage?

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I think... the C-shaped cage...

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I'd say, probably, a hammer, cos they're pretty dangerous things.

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Hammer.

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Great logic. You're right. Yeah.

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One of those goes backwards you're in trouble.

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Chris, which annual marathon

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is the only one in the world run in both the East and West Hemispheres?

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Well, since it crosses the Greenwich Meridian, several times,

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it's the London Marathon.

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You're right. It does cross the Prime Meridian at Greenwich.

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Well, done. One point each.

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Judy, which country does the heptathlete

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Carolina Kluft represent in international competition?

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Oh, gosh. I've never actually heard of her, but her name sounds...

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It actually sounds like it could be from anywhere.

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I think I'll go with Netherlands...

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and hope.

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You think she sounds a bit...?

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-Dutch. Yes.

-She's a bit Swedish, actually.

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-Oh, no.

-So, you're wrong, I'm sorry.

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Chris, you can take the edge now with the second question.

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The WPBSA is one of the governing bodies of which sport?

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I don't think it's archery

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and I've not heard of any connection with snooker

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and I do watch a bit of snooker on the telly,

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so it sounds as if it might be bowls.

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Your answer is bowls cos it's got a B in there.

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Is that what you're thinking?

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-Yep.

-Got an S as well, Chris.

-Snooker. Yeah.

-Yeah. It is snooker.

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The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association.

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-B for billiards.

-The World Professional...

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Billiards and Snooker Association.

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That comes from CJ, just to make it worse.

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So, you're equal.

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So, Judy, you've got a chance here, of beating Chris on Sport.

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Question three. How old was Britain's Tom Daley

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when, in March 2008,

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he became the youngest ever European men's diving champion?

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Gosh. I did see him on something...

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probably on the news, I should think. I think he was 13.

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-That's your answer?

-Yes.

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You know, I looked at this

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and I thought I reckon he was 15, but that was in my mind.

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It's very difficult knowing something and taking a stab at it

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but you're right. Well, done.

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So you've really put the pressure on Chris over here, now.

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You get this wrong, Chris, you will be sitting out the final round with Judith.

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And maybe not just Judith.

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Eric Ashton, who died in 2008, was the first player in which sport to be awarded an MBE?

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Well, several cricketers have been awarded MBEs

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and show jumping, being equestrian,

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is sort of under quasi-royal patronage,

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so the gongs would fall like wallpaper in show jumping.

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Probably, since it's a working class sport, I'd say rugby league.

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Your answer is right. Well done. So you're equal.

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That's the end of our multiple choice section.

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Now it gets a bit harder. I don't supply the answers.

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I want you to give me the correct answer and it's sudden death.

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Judy, which sport took its name

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from the Gloucestershire seat of the Dukes of Beaufort?

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Badminton?

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Correct.

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Chris, which winter Olympic event

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takes place on a long track and a short track,

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the long track being 400 metres and the short track, 111 metres?

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Just visualising that as lengths.

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Ski jumping.

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Ski jumping.

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OK.

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That's your answer. Can you describe how someone would jump

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on two separate tracks?

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Well, you come down a ramp of 110 metres,

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launch yourself into the air and land somewhere

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on a track that's 440 metres long.

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Gotcha. OK. Yeah. I understand that completely.

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It's wrong. It's speed skating.

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So, Judy, you did it.

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You did it. The Romantic Novelists have beaten the Eggheads on Sport.

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There we are. Chris, look at how disgruntled he looks over there.

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Well, done, Judy. Commiserations, Chris.

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Please come back and rejoin your teams.

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The challengers have lost one brain for the final round.

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The Eggheads have lost two brains now and we move to Food And Drink.

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So which of the challengers would like to play this?

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You can't take Kevin on this,

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which is a shame because it's his only weak subject.

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Is Melanie going to do Food And Drink?

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I think Daphne doesn't like it as a subject, although she's good at it.

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-Melanie.

-It's up to you.

-Sorry.

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-Do change your mind.

-No. CJ.

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-You're doing last minute revision.

-CJ.

-OK. That's fine.

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She said it. She said it.

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You can change your mind in this moment.

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All right. So, final decision?

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-Yes.

-Melanie versus CJ, on Food And Drink.

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The Romantic Novelists against the Eggheads.

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Please go to the question room.

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OK. I'm going to ask you three questions, multiple choice.

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-And you get to choose the first or second set. Which would you like, Melanie?

-I'll go first.

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Which herb is traditionally used with onions

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to make the stuffing that accompanies a roast turkey?

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It's sage.

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You're right. It is. First point to you.

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CJ, food and drink.

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-What on earth am I doing playing this category?

-Here's your question.

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What is normally sold at a patisserie?

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I think that's pastries.

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You've been in one, have you?

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-Not recently, no.

-But you're right. Well, done.

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Melanie, your second question.

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Commis is a variety of which fruit?

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It's a particularly lovely old type of pear.

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I don't know if it's particularly lovely

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but it certainly is a type of pear. Yes.

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CJ, pressure on you. This is your second question.

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In a professional kitchen, what name is given to a chef in charge

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of a particular area of production?

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I have never heard of aboyeur.

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A sous chef is just a junior member in the kitchen,

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but I think a chef de partie is someone

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who concentrates on a particular station, I hope,

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so I'll try chef de partie.

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Yes. That's exactly what a chef de partie does. Well, done.

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Back to you, Melanie. Third question.

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The Pismo clam, an increasingly rare delicacy,

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is predominantly caught off the coast of which US state?

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I've never heard of it

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and I think clams are caught off all three coasts.

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I'm going to guess...

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Florida.

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Pismo clam is predominantly caught off the coast of California.

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I'm sorry.

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So, CJ, if you take this, you take out Melanie.

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What type of food is a kneidle,

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eaten especially in Jewish households during Passover.

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Well, there's the Jewish dish, a knish,

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and I think that's a dumpling.

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But that, of course, doesn't mean to say a kneidle isn't a dumpling.

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All right. I don't think it's a bread roll.

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A knish is a dumpling

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so a kneidle is without a shadow of a doubt, a biscuit.

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-This knish is a dumpling, is it?

-I think so.

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Well, then a kneidle must be a knish,

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cos a kneidle is a dumpling, too.

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So you got it wrong with your knishes.

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That means, Melanie, you live to fight in sudden death,

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so no more multiple choices.

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This is when it gets harder.

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I'm going to not give you three potential answers.

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I'm going to ask you for the answer.

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In Japanese cookery, katsuobushi,

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a main ingredient in the soup base dashi,

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consists of which fish dried into a hard block?

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The only fish I can think of, in terms of Japanese cookery is tuna.

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And I've got no idea.

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I don't eat Japanese food.

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I think I'll have to say tuna.

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Tuna is right. Well, done.

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-You do look very relieved.

-Stunned.

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Get this wrong, you're out.

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The Willamette Valley is a wine producing region in which country?

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That's W-i-l-l-a-m-e-t-t-e.

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I have absolutely no idea.

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It sounds vaguely as if it could have come...

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Could be a corruption of Dutch, so I'll try South Africa.

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Do you know, Kevin, out of interest?

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Well, the Willamette, geographically,

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rather than wine-growing,

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the Willamette Valley is mainly in Oregon, so USA.

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Yes. It is Oregon. It is the USA.

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CJ, you're gone.

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I'm sorry. And well done, Melanie.

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You took on an Egghead and you survived.

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Good news for the challengers cos it means, Melanie,

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you can play in the final round.

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Please come back and rejoin your teams.

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So, this is what we've been playing towards.

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It's time for the final round which, is General Knowledge,

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but those of you who lost your head to heads

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will not be allowed to take part.

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So, it's Philippa, from the Romantic Novelists Association and quite a lot of you, actually...

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Judith, CJ and Chris, from the Eggheads,

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you need to leave the studio and let us get on with it.

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Melanie, Katherine, Julie and Judy, you are playing to win the Romantic Novelists Association £2,000.

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Kevin and Daphne, you are playing for something which money can't buy -

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the Eggheads' reputation.

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As usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.

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This time the questions are all General Knowledge.

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You are allowed to confer.

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So, Romantic Novelists Association,

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the question is, are your four brains better than the Eggheads' two?

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We know the pens are better on this side, are the brains better?

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You can tell me whether you want to take the first or the second set of questions.

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-Second?

-I don't mind.

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-I really don't.

-Go second.

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-Second?

-Second.

-We'll go second.

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OK, Eggheads. Gird yourselves.

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A kibbutz is a communal farm or settlement

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in which country?

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Israel.

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A kibbutz is a communal farm or settlement in which country?

0:24:540:24:57

-Israel.

-Israel is quite right.

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Your first question, Romantic Novelists.

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After the Andes, what is the world's longest mountain range?

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Sadly, I haven't a clue.

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-Can't be the Alps, I don't think.

-They're too clustered.

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So it's Rockies or Caucasus.

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The Rockies is virtually the length of North America.

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-Is it?

-But then the Caucasus,

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trying to imagine it, there's so much room.

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Yes. It's the divide, isn't it,

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between European Russia and Asian Russia, isn't it?

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-Yes. Rockies are long, but I don't know, trying to get the scale.

-Yeah.

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Is Russia bigger than North America and Canada,

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and they don't go up beyond sort of Alaska way, do they,

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-the Rockies, they sort of stop, don't they?

-Don't think so.

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-Shall we go for Caucasus?

-OK. Go for it.

-Sure?

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-No shame no blame.

-Caucasus.

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-You're guessing Caucasus.

-Yes.

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Wrong, Romantic Novelists.

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It's the Rockies. You're right to rule out the Alps early.

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So, Eggheads,

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in the Gerry Anderson puppet series Thunderbirds,

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what type of vehicle was Thunderbird Four?

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I don't think either of the others were Thunderbird crafts.

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I was thinking it was the underwater one, anyway.

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-Yeah.

-Yeah. I don't think that any of the other Thunderbird craft

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could be described as either car or helicopter

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and there was one that was an underwater craft,

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a type of submarine.

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And I was thinking that that was number four, possibly,

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before the choices came up, so submarine will be the one.

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-Daphne?

-Oh, yes.

-Oh, yes.

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He's right. You're right. You're both right.

0:26:440:26:47

Two points to the Eggheads. Come on, Romantic Novelists.

0:26:470:26:54

In June 1979, Pope John Paul II became the first serving Roman Catholic pontiff

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to visit a Communist ruled country when he visited where?

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Wasn't he the Polish one?

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-He was Polish.

-Did he go home?

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-I think he went home.

-Yes.

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I think it must be,

0:27:150:27:16

cos he wasn't the one that died very quickly, was he,

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we had one straight after...

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and that was '79, though, wasn't it?

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-Yes.

-No. It's the one I... It's the second one.

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-Poland?

-Poland.

-Poland.

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-You're right.

-Thank God for that.

-Eggheads, if you get this right,

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you have won the contest because it's impossible for the Romantic Novelists

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to get three points at this stage.

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Here is your question.

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The jazz musician Winton Marsalis is best known for his virtuosity on which instrument?

0:27:460:27:53

-This for the contest.

-Yes.

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It's the trumpet.

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It is the trumpet. Congratulations, Eggheads. You've won.

0:28:020:28:06

Commiserations, challengers. You didn't quite lift off there in the last round.

0:28:110:28:15

Getting the first question wrong was devastating.

0:28:150:28:18

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.

0:28:180:28:20

They still reign supreme over quiz land.

0:28:200:28:23

You won't be going home with the £2,000,

0:28:230:28:25

which means the money rolls over

0:28:250:28:27

and goes into the next show. Eggheads, well done.

0:28:270:28:30

Congratulations. Who will beat you?

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Join us next time to see if the new challengers have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

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£3,000 says they don't.

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'Till then, goodbye.

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