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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,

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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

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five quiz challengers pit their wits against possibly

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the greatest quiz team in Britain.

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You might recognise them, as they are goliaths in the world of TV quiz shows. They are the Eggheads.

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And taking on the awesome might of our quiz goliaths today are Duet.

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The team's name stands for Durham University Eggheads Team,

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so quake in your boots!

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And they've got a 100% quizzing record played, played one, won one.

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Let's meet them.

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Hi. My name's Tom, I'm 21 and I'm studying Geophysics.

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Hi. I'm Simon.

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I'm 21 and I'm an English student.

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Hi. I'm Richard. I'm 20 and I'm a Geology student.

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Hi. I'm Henry. I'm 23 and I study Anthropology and Geography.

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Hi. I'm Tris.

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I'm 20 and I'm a History student.

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-So Tom, you're all students at Durham University?

-We are indeed.

-Beautiful city.

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It is. It's quiet at times and yeah,

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but mainly based around the university which is very nice.

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It's almost the whole city is the campus.

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Do you all study different things or the same things?

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Well, I know Richard from our course and I'm a geophysicist as I said...

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-Geophysicist, yeah.

-But we know each other just from Durham.

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It's not very big, it's easy to meet people, I suppose,

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yeah, and also college.

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And you're all impossibly young...

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20, 21, 23. I mean how can you know anything at the age of 21?

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-Well, we'll find out, won't we!

-Yes, we will. Let's leave it there.

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

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However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the money rolls over

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to the next show. It would be great money to pay off your student loans with. So, Duet, the Eggheads

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have won the last four games which means £5,000 says you

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can't beat the Eggheads.

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The first head to head battle will be on the subject of Science.

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Challengers, we've got a geophysicist, and we've got

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a geology, geography... we've got serious firepower here. Who wants to play?

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-I think that will be me, I think.

-Richard?

-We'll play Richard.

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And which Egghead would you like to knock some sense into?

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I think I'll go for Judith, please.

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Judith, you blinked in a really weary way there!

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SHE LAUGHS

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All right. Richard from Duet, now that's encouraging for you. Richard

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from Duet versus Judith from the Eggheads, to ensure there's no

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conferring, would you please take your positions in the question room.

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So Richard, are you ready?

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-I am, yeah.

-Are you about to get into the outside world or are you still studying?

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I've just finished my finals, actually, so I'll be looking for jobs quite shortly.

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I've not nailed one yet but a few application forms have gone out.

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This could be like a job interview. You take Judith apart...

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-I hope so. Some talent scouts may see me.

-They may see you.

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Everyone will want to employ you if you beat the Eggheads. It's looking good! I say that,

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but you haven't started yet! I'll ask each of you three multiple choice questions on Science.

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Whoever answers the most questions correctly is the winner

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so we're operating a pretty simple system here and you can choose,

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Richard, the first or the second set of questions.

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I'd like to go first, please.

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Richard, which hormone is normally released during stressful situations

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and prepares an animal for fight or flight?

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Right. Well, I can rule out insulin, because that is something to do with

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regulating blood sugar, I think.

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I'm pretty sure it's adrenaline,

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so yeah, adrenaline.

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That's your answer, and it's right, Richard. Well, done.

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APPLAUSE

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Durham students off to a flying start. Judith, which

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word describes the act of cutting into or operating on a live animal?

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How horrible!

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What a beastly question.

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Viticulture is to do with growing vines and vilification is what

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I might do to the question setter if I get this wrong,

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so I think it's vivisection.

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Yes. Horrible question for the other kind of reason, you're right.

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Vivisection.

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Richard, typically a Barchan sand dune takes the form of which shape?

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-Could you spell that, please?

-Barchan is spelt B-A-R-C-H-A-N.

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Barchan...

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Erm...mmm...

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I don't know.

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Has it come up in geology?

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Not memorably. Hopefully not.

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It might have come up but you were not in the lecture!

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I've only missed one lecture ever, so I doubt it!

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Well, maybe it was that one!

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I don't think it could be sphere.

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I'll try crescent. That sounds most likely to me, I think.

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Well, done, Durham University.

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You got it right.

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APPLAUSE

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Judith, in which field of science is computerised

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axial tomography normally used?

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Well, that's a CAT scan, so it's used in medicine.

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You're absolutely right. It is a CAT scan and it is used in medicine.

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So neck and neck as we go to our third multiple-choice question.

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Good luck, Richard. In organic chemistry, what is

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the simplest aromatic compound?

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-HE SIGHS

-Chemistry isn't my strong point.

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I'll rule out acetic acid and...

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I think I'll go for benzene. I think that's...

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-Did you say it was aromatic?

-I'll read the question again.

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In organic chemistry, what is the simplest aromatic compound?

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Yeah. I think I'll go for benzene.

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Is that a guess or is that a sort of geology knowledge style thing?

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It's an educated guess, I think.

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It's a good one. Benzene is right.

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-Well, done.

-APPLAUSE

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Pressure on you, Judith, from our student.

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Which is the only big cat that cannot fully retract its claws?

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I wonder. I mean I'm sort of thinking

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about a leopard and the reason I'm thinking

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about a leopard is it climbs trees a lot and they're forever hanging

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along, I mean lying along, branches, so maybe it keeps its claws

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out in order to be able to climb the tree at any time, as it were,

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so I think I would say leopard.

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That's the reasoning behind it.

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Judith, cheetah is the answer. Leopard is wrong.

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I'm sorry, you won't be playing in the final round.

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Our student, Richard, took on one of the Eggheads

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and was a bigger Egghead.

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He's emerged triumphant. Good news for the challengers. Do come back to the studio.

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As it stands, the Eggheads have lost one brain from the final round

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while the challengers have lost no brains. Our Durham students Duet doing really well.

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Next subject is Film and Televisions, guys.

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Which of you wants to take that on? Film and TV?

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-What do you think? Henry or Simon?

-Old stuff and new stuff.

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-Shall I take it?

-I think yes. Simon, yes.

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-OK. I'll take it.

-OK. Simon, who would you like to play against?

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-Who do you reckon it should be?

-I don't know.

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-I think Chris is looking pretty good on the end there.

-OK.

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Unanimous decision, I'll take Chris on, please.

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Simon from Duet against Chris from the Eggheads.

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Do go to the question room now.

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So I'm gonna ask each of you three questions on Film and TV in turn.

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Simon, would you like the first set of questions or the second?

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I'll take the first please, Jeremy.

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Which 2008 Hollywood film directed

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by Roland Emerick tells the tale of a prehistoric tribe?

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Well, I saw this at the cinema fairly soon after it came out.

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I believe that's 10,000 BC.

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Yup. If you've seen it you will know.

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-You're right. Well, done.

-APPLAUSE

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Chris, your first question. Which actor who appeared in

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the film "Three Men And A Baby"

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was originally cast to play the

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part of Indiana Jones in Raiders Of The Lost Ark?

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Well, I can't see Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones

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because he'd already got the image as sort of Magnum PI

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with the moustache.

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Er...I don't think Steve Guttenberg is

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right physically for Indiana, so it's probably Ted Danson,

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so I'll say Ted Danson.

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Daphne, do you know the answer?

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-Tom Selleck.

-Tom Selleck is the answer to that!

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Was it the moustache that was getting in your way there?

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Yeah. He'd already made a career as Magnum PI.

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Sorry, Chris.

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Next question to you, Simon. Who won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress

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In a Leading Role for her performance in the 2004 film Vera Drake?

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Well, I don't think it was Pauline Quirke.

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I don't seem to remember her being connected with that film at all.

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Julie Walters, another great sort

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of British actress but no, I think it's Imelda Staunton.

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Good work.

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You are right.

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Chris, let's see if you can get lift-off here.

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In which 1996 film does Nicholas

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Cage play chemical weapons expert Stanley Goodspeed?

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-Aye.

-HE SIGHS

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It's not The Rock,

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and I think Face/Off was later, so I'll have

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a go at Con Air.

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If you can hear mumbling and

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harrumphing, it's your team mates, notably CJ who started when you said

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"it's definitely not The Rock", because it is The Rock!

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-Con Air is wrong!

-I thought The Rock was set on Alcatraz?

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It is!

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It is. It's still wrong. So we don't see this very much.

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Chris hasn't even got a first. It might be a first, actually.

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-We don't see a situation where Chris fails to score! Simon, well done.

-Thank you.

-Two right.

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He hasn't got any comeback. We won't ask the third question.

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You took on one of the Eggheads, emerged triumphant.

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Great news for our challengers who are playing really, really well. The Durham Eggheads, Duets.

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Do come back to the studio.

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So, Eggheads have lost two brains from the final round.

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It doesn't happen very often.

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The challengers have lost no brains.

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Next subject is Food and Drink.

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-Ooh!

-I thought that might provoke an intake of breath!

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-I dunno. Shall we go for Henry?

-I'll field it, I think.

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-That's Henry, I think.

-Yep.

-Henry, on Food and Drink, against which Egghead?

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-I think I'll go for Kevin.

-OK. So it's Henry from Duet versus Kevin from the Eggheads.

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Please take your positions in the question room now.

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I'll ask each of you three questions on Food and Drink.

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Henry, you choose the first or second set.

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I'm not one to buck the trend, so I'll go first, please.

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What type of foodstuff is Chervil...

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C-H-E-R-V-I-L?

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I've come across this before.

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I'm not sure what it's used for but

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I'm fairly certain it's a herb.

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Correct. Well done.

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APPLAUSE

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Kevin, the term "Jerky" is used to describe a type of dried what?

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-It's a type of dried meat, Jeremy.

-Yes, it is, indeed.

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Your question, Henry.

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In Spanish-speaking countries, what is traditionally stored in a bodega?

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Bodega... I'm not entirely sure.

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I don't think it's bread,

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but I'll venture a guess at olives.

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You don't sound certain.

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I'm not at all.

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-You're right not to be. It's wine.

-Aah.

-Is that the first question

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you lot have got wrong?

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I think so, yes.

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That's how good they are!

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Kevin, what is often used as the main ingredient

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of the Asian dish, Dahl?

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That's lentils, Jeremy.

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-You're right.

-Dahl is a lentil dish.

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Third question.

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-Henry, you need to get this right.

-Yep.

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By what alternative name is the kiwano fruit known?

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If you don't get this right you will not play in the final round.

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I've not heard of it before.

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I don't think it's the jelly melon.

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I'm gonna guess again and hope I get lucky with yoghurt apple.

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Yoghurt apple is wrong.

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Sorry, Henry. It's jelly melon is the correct answer.

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Henry, you were beaten by

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our Egghead so as a result, you can't help your team in

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the final round, the first of our Durham University Eggheads to lose.

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Please both of you come back to the studio.

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As it stands, the challengers have lost one brain from the final round

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whilst he Eggheads have lost two. Our last subject is...

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Have a guess.

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-Sport.

-I knew it, I knew it!

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-And you haven't got a sports person there, is that right?

-We don't.

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-No we don't.

-Hill-walking, big on hill-walking! Well, yeah, basically...

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Well, it might come up. So who wants to play and against whom?

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I'm not terribly strong on sport.

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-I'm feeling fluky.

-You know about Formula 1.

-I'm feeling fluky.

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My family will be just laughing so much now, but I'll give it a shot.

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OK, Tom. It's you versus which Egghead?

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-It's gotta be CJ or Daphne?

-We'll go for Daphne, I think.

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Daphne from the Eggheads, against

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Tom from Duet, please take your positions.

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-Are you ready, Tom?

-I'm as ready as I'll ever be.

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-Three questions on Sport, multiple choice. First or second set for you. Which do you want?

-I will...

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I'll go second. Buck the trend.

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Daphne, which shot would you execute in tennis in order

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to make the ball stop abruptly, usually just after clearing the net?

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Aah. I think...

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I'm not absolutely sure.

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I think that's a drop shot.

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Are you pretending to be uncertain?

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No. I'm... I thought it was drop shot and then you put lob in and I thought

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aah, is it?

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No, and I'm trying to remember because I used to play doubles and

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-you stand at the net and you go like that, don't you?

-You do...

-Don't you?

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A bit of back spin. Yes, I think so.

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-Drop shot is right. Well done.

-SHE LAUGHS

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I thought we had her for a second there, Tom.

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In which sport do players compete for four so-called majors over the course of the year?

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Well, I'm hoping that's golf.

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It is golf. You're right.

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Thank goodness.

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Daphne, your second question.

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A suicide squeeze play is a high risk, high-reward play in which US sport?

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SHE SIGHS High risk?

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Jeremy, I can't even imagine what it looks like or...

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SHE SIGHS

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-I...

-Suicide squeeze play.

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My apologies to the team.

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I've never heard of it.

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I'm going to go for American Football,

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because I have no idea.

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Any of you Eggheads know?

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-Oh, it's wrong!

-It is wrong, actually, yeah.

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I know that me saying that gives it away but Eggheads?

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-I'd say baseball.

-Baseball?

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My first thought was ice hockey, so...

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I'm looking at it thinking 'suicide

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squeeze' sounds like two players, three players in motion together.

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Why would it happen in baseball? But it is baseball.

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Well, Paradise By the Dashboard Light, the Meatloaf song,

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in the middle of that, there's about 90 seconds of baseball commentary

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-and that mentions the squeeze play.

-Really! Are you serious?

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-Serious.

-Incredible!

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Baseball is the correct answer, so, initiative

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passes to our students here.

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Tom, mufflers invented by Jack Broughton were a precursor to which piece of sporting equipment?

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I mean perhaps Broughton is a clue.

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I wouldn't say studded football boots because, well,

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it doesn't seem like that, does it.

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It could be... Broughton is a brand of shin pads is it...?

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but I think I'm gonna go for boxing gloves, just because

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it sounds right, you know, having mufflers

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just to kind of, so you don't

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hurt your hand or whatever.

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-Boxing gloves.

-You surprise me there.

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You said it's a brand of shin pads and then you moved to boxing gloves?

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-Well, is it?

-I've taken boxing gloves as your answer.

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I don't wanna persuade you that it's not because you're absolutely right.

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APPLAUSE

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-Daphne...

-I know.

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If you don't get this right, you will also join your team

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-in the sin bin.

-SHE LAUGHS

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Which famous goalkeeper

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made his last appearance for his country against Brazil in

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the 1986 World Cup at the age of 41?

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SHE SIGHS

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1986... SHE SIGHS

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1986...erm...

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Oh, dear.

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I'm absolutely hopeless.

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SHE SIGHS Peter Shilton.

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-Is wrong.

-I knew! Pat Jennings?

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There is some justice. Pat Jennings, if you'd guessed that right,

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it would have been amazing...

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-Yeah.

-Mind you, your guesses are very good most of the time so,

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great news for the challengers because it means your captain will be with you in the final round,

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so both of you, Tom and Daphne, please come back to the studio.

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We have now reached the final round,

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which as always is General Knowledge. Those of you who lost

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your head to heads won't take part in this round.

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Who was that? Remind me. It's Henry from Duet

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and Judith, Daphne and Chris from the Eggheads, would you please now

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leave the studio.

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OK. Tom, Simon, Richard and Tris you are playing to win Duet £5,000.

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Kevin and CJ you are playing for something that money can't buy...

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the Eggheads' reputation.

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I'll ask each team three questions in turn. This time the questions are all general knowledge and you are

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allowed to confer with each other, so Duet, the question is,

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are your four brains better than the Eggheads' two?

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And you can also tell me whether you wanna go first or second?

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We'll go first please, Jeremy.

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The first set of questions for you, Duet. Good luck. Which car company

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is famous for producing the Phantom and Silver Shadow models?

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Well, it's definitely...

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-Rolls Royce.

-Yeah. It's Rolls Royce.

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-No doubt?

-No doubt.

-You're right... it's Rolls Royce. Well, done.

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Eggheads, who made his film debut as Clinton Reno in Love Me Tender in 1956?

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-Presley.

-It was Elvis.

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-Oh, it's me, isn't it?

-It's you.

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-Elvis Presley, yes?

-I think so.

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-We think that's Elvis Presley, Jeremy.

-It is Elvis Presley,

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named after one of his songs, or was the song named after the film?

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-I think the song came first. I stand to be corrected on that.

-Song first, film second. One all.

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Duet, Touchstone, The Jester is a character in which Shakespeare play?

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Touchstone, the Jester?

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You're the expert, Simon. What do you think?

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Thanks, Richard.

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-Was it Touchstone you said, Jeremy?

-Touchstone the Jester.

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And Simon, you're an English literature student.

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-THEY LAUGH

-No pressure at all then.

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-You don't want reminding of that!

-OK.

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Well, I'm pretty sure it's not Macbeth.

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-It's not Macbeth.

-And I don't think it's Othello, either. I'm...

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fairly positive it's As You Like It.

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Which of course you've ready many times!

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THEY LAUGH

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He's in there, yeah, As You Like It.

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OK, Eggheads.

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Which US city was ravaged in 1871

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by a great fire that burned for days and left thousands homeless?

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-I kept forgetting it's me.

-Chicago.

-That's Chicago.

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Yes, it is. Chicago was ravaged by the great fire in 1871.

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Two points each. Now here's an idea. You get this one right, they get

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their one wrong and you go home with the money, right?

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-Hopefully.

-That's the really simple way of doing it.

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Matelot is an old-fashioned slang word for which kind of serviceman?

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Matelot, M-A-T-E-L-O-T, is an old-fashioned slang

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word for which kind of serviceman?

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I have no idea.

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I've got no idea where to start.

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My only... Matelot.

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Matelot is French, isn't it.

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I mean maybe in that respect you could have sailor.

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Well, the other thing is, my limited English literature knowledge,

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what is that

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Matelot Sailor, is that a poem, quite a famous poem?

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Yeah, but was it...

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-Was there a sailor in that poem?

-He doesn't have a name.

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-He doesn't. No, no.

-It's a difficult one.

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I'm gonna say sailor, but that's just a complete guess.

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Well, it's not...

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We've got some logic for sailor, haven't we, but hmmm...

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-We don't think it's pilot.

-We don't.

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Shall we go with our initial gut feelings? I can't remember which

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Egghead said that was always a good idea, but one of them did.

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-I think, go for sailor?

-I think we'll have to.

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I think we'll have to go for sailor, but we're not at all sure,

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-as you can tell.

-You're joking!

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-Sailor is right.

-Excellent!

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Well, done. Comes from a Dutch word meaning to share hammocks.

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-Share hammocks? Oh, dear.

-Not French at all.

-Oh well.

-Never mind.

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So, if the Eggheads get this wrong, you've got £5,000. If not, we go to sudden death.

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OK, CJ and Kevin. Which Roman Emperor is said to have boasted

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that he found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble?

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-Augustus.

-Sure?

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Sure. Let me think for a second.

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Erm... Nero had more to do with burning it down.

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-I'm sure it's Augustus, yeah.

-Yeah?

-Augustus.

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Erm...Augustus, Jeremy.

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You said that with some conviction. That's what you like, isn't it?

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It was there straightaway. No doubt. You're right. It's correct.

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OK, very good on the multiple choice. After three questions,

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the scores are level. We now go to sudden death.

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To make it that bit harder, these questions are not multiple choice.

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Durham University Eggheads Team,

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the name of which maligned London Borough is often said to be derived

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from the Anglo-Saxon for wild saffron or crocus valley?

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-Erm...

-I have no clue.

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-The malign borough. I mean...

-Yeah...

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Hackney?

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Tower Hamlets. Peckham?

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-Possibly.

-Derived?

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Derived from the Anglo-Saxon for wild saffron or crocus valley?

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Well, could 'ham' mean that?

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Ham... Peckham, that's how

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-it's spelt.

-Ham' I think means...

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-I think it means farm, actually.

-OK.

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-I have a feeling it does.

-Can we think of any more maligned London boroughs?

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Maligned London Boroughs...

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-Well, I think I would rule out Tower Hamlets.

-I doubt that.

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-It sounds quite recent anyway.

-Yeah.

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We're gonna have to take a plunge.

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Hackney, Brixton, Peckham.

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I'd say probably not Hackney but that's not based on anything.

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-I just don't think it sounds round.

-OK. Shall we go for?

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-Peckham?

-Peckham. Go on, we're gonna have to take a plunge with Peckham.

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Peckham? Are we all happy with that?

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-Yeah.

-Peckham.

-It's wrong.

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-Eggheads?

-We don't really know it.

-We've come up with a few possibilities.

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The most maligned one we can think of is Hackney.

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-There's also Walthamstow.

-Think a bit further outside

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-sort of Greater London, still a London Borough but...

-Hounslow?

0:26:520:26:55

Croydon?

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-Croydon.

-Croydon! Well, oh, well! The Eggheads didn't get it...

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Wish you'd chosen the second question now!

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'Cro' is wild saffron and 'denu' is valley.

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Sorry, Duet. But it's not over. They can get this wrong.

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Fingers crossed.

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Eggheads, for the contest now, in 2003, the son of which world leader signed a two

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year contract to play for the Italian football team Perugia?

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He plays football, doesn't he.

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-It's Gaddafi son.

-Do we know his name?

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-No, because they said the son of which world leader, so.

-The leader is Colonel Gaddafi.

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You're right. I asked for the leader, you've given me the leader.

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His son happened to be called Al-Saadi Gaddafi.

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Eggheads, you've won.

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Commiserations, Duet.

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-You're not feeling too deflated, are you?

-We put up a good fight.

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-We put up a good fight.

-We did. We can hold our heads high.

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You certainly can. You've been brilliant, and I was at Durham University

0:28:050:28:08

and I would loved you to have won today. The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.

0:28:080:28:12

They still reign supreme over Quizland.

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I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £5,000 which means that

0:28:150:28:19

money then rolls over to the next show. Eggheads, congratulations.

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Who will beat you? Did you know the Gaddafi question, by the way?

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-No.

-No, no idea.

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So maybe second/first didn't make too much of a difference?

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-Well... although we'd have had another chance.

-You would have!

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Anyway, you're young, you've got loads of other chances.

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

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to defeat the Eggheads.

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£6,000 says they don't.

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Until then, goodbye.

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