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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 five quiz challengers

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pit their wits against possibly - no, probably - the greatest quiz team in Britain.

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

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Taking on the might of our quiz Goliaths today

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are the Carebears from Birmingham.

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The team all work in the care industry and they take their name

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from the nickname given to social workers by the police.

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Hi, I'm Steve, I'm 51 and a social worker.

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Hi, I'm Jenny, I'm 37 and I'm a senior social work assistant.

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Hi, I'm Pete, I'm 38 and I'm a referrals officer.

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Hello, I'm Sarah, I'm 36 and I'm a social worker.

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Hello, I'm Rick, I'm 41 and I'm a student nurse.

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So welcome, Carebears. Steve, that's the nickname?

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Yes, that's the nickname the police give us sometimes,

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because they feel we're sometimes a bit pink and fluffy.

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Are you all in the same pink and fluffy work?

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-It's not pink and fluffy actually, is it?

-It isn't, no.

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There's four of us who work in social work in inner city Birmingham,

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mainly in child protection. One of the team, Rick,

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is a trainee nurse at the moment, which, again, is a fairly tough job.

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And you're the Scrabble player here?

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-I play tournament Scrabble.

-That will immediately

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ring alarm bells over there, because they'll know you've got

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an Eggy kind of brain.

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Good luck. Every day there's £1,000

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worth of cash up for grabs for our challengers. However, if they fail

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to defeat the Eggheads the prize money rolls over to the next show.

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So, Carebears, the Eggheads have won the last ten games,

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which means that £11,000 says you can't beat them.

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The first round, head to head battle is on the subject of history.

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So, challengers, which of you is the historian?

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Team Captain?

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Who did we agree was History?

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-Definitely Pete.

-I think Pete.

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So Pete, referrals officer, which one of these

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-would you like to refer to?

-I'm going to take advice from my team

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Captain here, cos I always do what he says, he's senior management

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and pretends to work for a living. Steve, what do you think?

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Pete take on CJ.

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So it's Pete from the Carebears against CJ from the Eggheads.

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To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions

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in the question room.

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I'm going to ask each of you three multiple choice

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questions on history in turn.

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Whoever answers the most correctly, funnily enough, is the winner.

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Pete, you get a chance to choose the first or second set of questions.

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Let's try and crank the pressure on myself and go first.

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The Act of Supremacy made which monarch

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the head of the English Church?

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I reckon that was when old Henry VIII was having a bit of trouble

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trying to get a divorce and the Pope didn't want to let him have one,

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so he decided to set up the Church of England instead,

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get rid of the wife, get a new one. I believe it was a lot

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cheaper in those days as well, it just cost you half a country.

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So I'm going to say Henry VIII.

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Great, you know the lot and you're right as well. One point to you.

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CJ, what type of the vehicle was the World War II after Avro Lancaster?

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It's the Avro bit that's throwing me. The Lancaster was an aeroplane,

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but I assumed the Avro is just a bit plonked on the front of that.

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So I hope it's an aeroplane.

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-You think it's an aeroplane with an Avro on the front?

-Yes.

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Avro is just AV Rowe - the AV being the initials and Rowe the surname,

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the original manufacturer.

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It's the name of the company, CJ, and you were right any way,

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so you don't even have to know it.

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Second question, Pete. Which Italian city state gave its name

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to a late medieval gold coin

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that later became standard across Europe?

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This is a bit tricky because it's a bit before I was born.

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But I'm thinking towards Florence, because Florence, florin, I've heard

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the florin, but part of me says

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florin's more northern European, possibly British. It's tricky.

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I don't think it was Rome.

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I don't know why I don't think it was Rome,

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but it's not singing to me.

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I think a process of elimination, and not really knowing

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what I'm talking about, means I'm going to go for Venice.

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OK...

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You were getting so warm and then you got the wrong answer.

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-It's the florin from Florence.

-I talked myself out of it.

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Yeah.

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CJ, which US President created the Federal Reserve Banking system?

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Strangely I don't know this straight off.

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-Presidents being my specialty.

-You read a book about them last week?

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It wasn't last week, it was about four years ago.

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I would hope, I mean, that Wilson and Truman

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are well into the 20th century

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and I'd hope the Federal Reserve predates that.

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I'm wondering if it was set up

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to help fund the civil war, so I'll go for Lincoln.

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-When you read this book four years ago, was this mentioned?

-No.

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I thought so, because it was Woodrow Wilson.

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Pete, that's good news for you.

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According to the Anglo-Saxon chronicle

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what did the inhabitants of Northumbria see in the sky

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before the Viking invasion of AD793?

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Gosh!

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There's some question. I'm trying to work out Halley's Comet

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but maths isn't my strong point backwards.

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But that wouldn't help, because would it be any of the three?

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Dragons, maybe...

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More Eastern Europe and east.

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Chariots, the Romans I suppose would've been in there earlier

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and they would've known what chariots were.

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But would Halley's Comet stay there?

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I think, I will probably regret this,

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I will have to go with two moons...that's my answer.

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Two moons is your answer.

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I would have said that as a guess, but it's wrong.

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Fiery dragons.

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Was that a comet then, Eggs?

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I don't think it was Halley's Comet. It could have been something

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like a meteor shower that was particularly bright.

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Of course, people see what they want to see and they interpret it

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as an omen because what comes to mind is a flying dragon.

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CJ your last question in multiple choice.

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If you get it right, you've beaten Pete.

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What name is given to the ancient man-made island dwellings

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found on Scottish lochs and inland waters?

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I've never heard of brocks.

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I thought crannogs were dwellings but that could be wrong as well.

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Cairns? What are cairns?

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My instinct was crannogs, so I'm going with cairns.

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Your instinct was crannogs so you've gone with cairns?

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-Yes, my instincts are always wrong.

-They're always wrong?

-Yes.

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They weren't this time, crannogs was the correct answer.

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After three questions it's one point each. We now go to sudden death.

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Pete, your first question, these aren't multiple choice.

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The peasants' revolt took place

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under the reign of which young English King?

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"The peasants are revolting." I can't think of his name...

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There's a question.

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This is probably me goodbye, I'm going to say...

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or am I?

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No idea why, I've plucked out of the ether,

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Edward II, if we even had one of them.

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It was Richard II.

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Sorry.

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The next question for you, CJ, the Battle of Totem

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of 1461 was the largest and bloodiest of which conflict?

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I knew all that because

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various estimates given between 15,000 and 32,000 people killed.

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Now, I think it's that but I'm just going to think about this.

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OK, I'm just going to go for the Wars of the Roses.

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You're right. The Wars of the Roses.

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Pete, I'm afraid you're out of the final round.

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Please both of you come back and rejoin your teams.

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So the challengers have lost one brain from the final round.

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The Eggheads have lost no brains.

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Next subject Arts & Books.

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-Which of you wants to play that round?

-It's got to be Sarah.

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-It's got to be me.

-Sarah for Arts and Books.

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Arts & Books specialist. This will be even longer.

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Sarah, the social worker, against which Egghead?

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I'm drawn to Chris.

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-Everyone's drawn to Chris in this round.

-Are they?

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So Sarah from the Carebears against Chris from the Eggheads, please take your position in the question room.

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So I'll ask each of you three questions on Arts & Books in turn.

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-Sarah, they're multiple choice, do you want the first or second set?

-I'll go first, please.

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What does an actor do when he or she improvises to fill up time?

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I think corpse and dry mean pretty much the same thing,

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so I'm going to go for ad-lib.

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That's right, well done.

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Chris, what term is often applied to prominent Western European painters

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who worked between 1400 and 1900?

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They'd be old masters.

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They do indeed be old masters, well done. One all, back to you Sarah.

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The author Simon Scarrow is best known for his work in which genre?

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I've never heard of him so it's going to have

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to be a guess. Simon Scarrow...

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I'm drawn to historical fiction, I think I'll plump for that.

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Nice one, you're right. The ability to guess correctly

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is very important in this game.

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Chris, for what does the letter G stand

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in the name of the author, GK Chesterton?

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He's Gilbert Keith Chesterton, so it's Gilbert.

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You're right too, well done. 2-all.

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Sprinting along here.

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Sarah, which decorative arts technique using enamel paste takes

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its name from a French word meaning compartments or partitions?

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The only one of those I recognise is Cloisonne.

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And that kind of rings a bell. I think maybe they use it

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in those Faberge egg-type designs, so I'm going for that.

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You social workers are playing well. You're quite right.

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This is one sharp team, the Carebears.

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The cuddly title is completely misleading.

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Chris, if you don't get this right you're gone.

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Who wrote the 2008 novel The Enchantress Of Florence?

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I don't think Salman Rushdie has got anything out at the moment.

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It's some time since Captain Corelli's Mandolin,

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he's had time to write another novel and he does tend to set his stuff

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sort of south Europe, so I'll say Louis de Bernieres.

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Louis de Bernieres is the wrong answer.

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It's Salman Rushdie.

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-You knew that, Judith, I could see you nodding?

-Yes.

-Have you read it?

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No, I was wondering whether to.

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Well done, Sarah. Brilliant play.

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You took on the Egghead, Chris, and you won.

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So Chris doesn't play in the final round and you do.

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Great stuff, Challengers.

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Do please come back and rejoin us in the studio.

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The Challengers and the Eggheads have each lost one brain from the final round.

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-Our next subject is Sport. Have you got a plan on Sport?

-Oh, yes.

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-Myself on Sport.

-Steve on Sport. Who looks vulnerable?

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I'm not going to fall for the trap of going for Daphne,

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so it's going to have to be Judith.

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So it's Steve from the Carebears against Judith from the Eggheads.

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To ensure there's no conferring please take your position in the question room.

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I said the word "Sport" and it was you straight away?

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I think I was nominated, on some sports I'm quite good at.

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There's one or two others I'm weak on, but hopefully they won't come up.

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You've chosen Judith, her knees are knocking.

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Do you want the first or second set of questions?

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I'll take the first, please.

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Steve, in which sport are you most likely

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to incur a ban for excessive use of the whip?

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I think you've seen a few things in the boxing ring

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but not anyone using a whip.

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Again, I'm a big horse racing fan, so I think luckily that's come up.

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It's horse racing.

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Yes, it is horse racing. Correct.

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Judith, your question.

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Which cricketer announced his retirement

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from the England team in March 2008?

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I don't think it's Michael Vaughan. I think he's still going strong,

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and Andrew Flintoff, so I suppose it's Marcus Trescothick.

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Good stuff, Judith. Well done, first point to you.

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Do you feel good about that?

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-I do, I feel very good.

-Steve, which offence is signalled in rugby league

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by the referee raising his arm to indicate a penalty and tapping his mouth with the other hand?

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I would've thought with tapping the mouth it would probably be dissent.

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Something they probably should use in football as well.

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I wouldn't have thought it was offside.

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I wouldn't have thought it was obstruction, so I'll go be dissent.

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Good logic and you're quite right. It is dissent. Well done.

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You're ahead. So, Judith, you need this to keep up.

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Which snooker player became the first number one when the world

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rankings were introduced in 1976?

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I don't know why but Dennis Taylor is twanging something in my mind.

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-Dennis Taylor.

-What was he twanging exactly?

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I hope a memory.

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It's Ray Reardon, Judith.

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Oh, no. That was the one I thought definitely wasn't.

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Wrong kind of twang. So this for the round.

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To put your team ahead of the Eggheads, Steve.

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What is the nickname

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of Scottish former darts world champion Les Wallace?

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I'm afraid I am not a darts fan,

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but with the surname Wallace, probably Bravedart?

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-Eggheads, do you know this one?

-Yes, in the usual

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creative way that they have with nicknames it's McDanger.

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It is McDanger. You're wrong, Steve.

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If you were just guessing with no knowledge, as I would have been, I would have said Bravedart.

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Judith, the footballer Michael Essien represents which country

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in international football?

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Essien...

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I'm just trying to think whether it's Nigerian, Moroccan or Ghanaian.

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Essien. I think it might be Moroccan, I don't know why.

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Try Morocco.

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-You're obviously not a Chelsea fan?

-No.

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The team he plays for. It's Ghana.

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-Oh, is it?

-Michael Essien, Chelsea player, represents Ghana.

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So that means at the end of our multiple choice question

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Steve, you've got more points. Well done, you will join your team in the final round.

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Both of you come back here and rejoin your team-mates.

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

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while the Eggheads have lost two.

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The last subject is Music.

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Which challenger wants Music?

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We can't have Pete or Sarah or Steve.

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I think Jenny.

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-Jenny on Music?

-Yes, I'll try.

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OK, who do you want to go against, Jenny.

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-What do you think, guys?

-No Chris, CJ or Judith.

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It's tricky. It is.

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I think you should choose Kevin.

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-I like the colour of his shirt.

-Really nice shirt.

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Kevin can stumble. It happened, I think, a few years ago!

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Good luck. Jenny from our Carebears against Kevin from the Eggheads.

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To ensure there's no conferring, please go to the question rooms now.

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-Good luck, Jenny.

-Thank you.

-Are you feeling OK?

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-Your team's doing well.

-They're doing brilliantly.

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Three multiple choice questions, Jenny, you can choose first or second set.

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I'd like to go first please, Jeremy.

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Jenny, what name is given to the area of a theatre

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where the orchestra is located?

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Classical music, not being my forte.

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This is going to be -

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it has to be - pit.

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Good for you, you've got it right. The orchestra pit.

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Kevin, the Yorkshireman John Barry is particularly well known

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for composing what kind of music?

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One of my favourites actually, I've got quite a few of his collections.

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Film scores.

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Yes, John Barry was film scores. Back to you, Jenny.

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Which band had a 1979 UK hit single with the song My Sharona?

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Again this has to be...

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..a random guess.

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I am going to go...

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..for...

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I'm going to go The Art.

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Let's see if your fellow Carebears know?

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-Who was it?

-It's The Knack.

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Yeah, The Knack. They only really had that one record, didn't they?

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-Not that I'm old enough to...

-I remember it!

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It was The Knack, My Sharona. Kevin, which British classical singer was

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discovered while singing arias to his colleagues on the factory floor

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when he was a trainee mechanic?

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I don't think...

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Bryn Terfel is a classically trained singer in that sense.

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Paul Potts I think worked in some kind of office environment,

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or something to do with computer sales, or telesales.

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But I think I associate

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a manual occupation with Alfie Boe. So Alfie Boe.

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..is the correct answer, Kevin, well done.

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Jenny, you need this to stay in the game.

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A bronze statue of which British composer was unveiled

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in his birthplace of Cheltenham in April 2008?

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Again...mmm

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I will have to go...

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for a guess.

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Sorry, guys.

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I'm going to go for Ralph Vaughan Williams.

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You have been unlucky with your guessing. That was the wrong answer.

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It's Gustav Holst, Eggheads. He's British was he?

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I was in the Gustav Holst museum

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less than a couple of weeks ago, in Cheltenham.

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Kevin, you take the round. There's no way back for Jenny

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from this position.

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Sorry, Jenny ,you can't be in the final round. Kevin will be.

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You were beaten by our Egghead.

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Do please rejoin your team-mates.

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Bad luck Jenny, it's tough against this lot.

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To make it worse CJ is gonna give us his fact on Holst.

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One of the few trivial things I know about Holst was when he was

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already established in the 1920s he was doing a tour of the country

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conducting different orchestras.

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He went to a girls school and one of the violinists in the girls school

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was Celia Johnson, who went on to star in Brief Encounter.

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This is what we've been playing towards,

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not the fact that CJ just gave us but the final round.

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Final round time, which as always is General Knowledge.

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Those who lost your head-to-heads won't take part in this round,

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so that's Jenny and Pete from the Carebears,

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and Judith and Chris from the Eggheads.

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Please can you leave the studio.

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So here we all are, Steve, Sarah and Rick

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you're playing to win the Carebears £11,000.

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Kevin, CJ and Daphne, you're playing for something

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which money can't buy, the Eggheads' reputation.

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I will ask each team three questions in turn. This time the questions are

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all General Knowledge and you are allowed to confer.

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Carebears, are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three?

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Steve, Sarah and Rick, would you like the first

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or second set of questions?

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-Good luck, by the way.

-Thank you.

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I think we'll carry on going first.

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Here we go with the final round. Your first question:

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At which UK airport did Terminal 5 open in 2008?

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-Is this the one where all the delays...

-Yeah.

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It's been in the news a lot recently.

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-Heathrow, wasn't it?

-Heathrow?

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It was Heathrow Terminal 5. Well done.

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Eggheads, what is usually missing on true Manx cats?

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That's the tail, Jeremy.

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The tail is missing on a true Manx cat. Yeah.

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Your question, Carebears.

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Who was appointed to the newly created position

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of Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, in 2007?

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We should know this, shouldn't we?

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We should know this in the job we do.

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-Is this your area?

-We work in children, families and schools,

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so...

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It's not Ed Balls, is it?

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Because he's something else.

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I haven't heard of John Denham but I've heard of the other two.

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I've never heard anything about the Minister for Children...

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Schools and whatever it was. That's my instinct, to go for John Denham.

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I think so.

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I think this is going to be a major embarrassment if we get it wrong,

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in the job we do...

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but I think we're agreed on... We'll try John Denham.

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OK, the despair behind you on the screen here!

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It's not right. It's Ed Balls.

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Oh, dear.

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Is he responsible for social workers or not?

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He is, isn't he?

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-Kind of.

-He would do, yes.

-Don't have much to do with...

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Maybe he's not doing enough work.

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-Perhaps he should come and visit.

-It must be his fault, not yours.

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Oh, dear, that could be very expensive for you. Let's see.

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Eggheads, members of which tribal group were granted permission

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to run without numbers in the 2008 London Marathon?

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Members of which tribal group were granted permission

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to run without numbers in the 2008 London Marathon?

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It's the lovely Masai and they ran in flip-flops didn't they?

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Yes, it was great.

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-Is that your answer, Masai?

-Yes.

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It's right. Well done. If you get this question

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wrong, Carebears, then the contest will be over.

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The first astronaut from which country

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made her journey into space in April 2008?

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Anyone got any ideas on astronauts?

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There was definitely... At some point this year

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there's definitely been the first South Korean in space.

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Let's go for that then.

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But I don't know whether it was a woman, a man or what.

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I wouldn't know about the other countries either. So...

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That's the only way we're going to get to an answer.

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That's the biggest hints we've got towards an answer.

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-We should go with that.

-Well, we'll go for South Korea.

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-You're right.

-Phew!

0:26:420:26:44

You're right. Great answer.

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Well done, Rick. The South Korean connection was in your mind?

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Yes, I... Something in there, I'd heard South Korea

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had their first astronaut in space.

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OK. Eggheads, let's see if you can get this.

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If you do get it, the contest is yours,

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the money rolls over, our Carebears become a little bit care worn.

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What was a gallowglass in ancient Ireland?

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It was a mercenary. Foot soldier.

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It's a foot soldier.

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What was a gallowglass in ancient Ireland?

0:27:240:27:26

You know with that last remark you made us sound really...

0:27:300:27:34

you know... But unfortunately, we know it's a foot soldier.

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So you mean, if you got this right

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-you'll feel bad that they get nothing?

-Yes.

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You have got it right and they do get nothing.

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Congratulations, Eggheads, you've won.

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Gallowglass, guys, would you have got that? Foot soldier?

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No. It would have been a guess.

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Some hard questions today and you played really well.

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Commiserations to our Carebears. The Eggheads have

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done what comes naturally to them. Their winning streak continues.

0:28:060:28:10

Daphne even claiming to feel guilty today.

0:28:100:28:13

I'm not claiming - it's true!

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Well, just to rub it in, they won't be going home with their £11,000,

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so that money rolls over to our next show.

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Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?

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A very strong performance today.

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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. £12,000 says they don't.

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Until then, goodbye.

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