0:00:04 > 0:00:08These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11Together they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:11 > 0:00:15arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19The question is, can they be beaten?
0:00:23 > 0:00:27Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers
0:00:27 > 0:00:30pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:36You might recognise them, as they are Goliaths in the world of TV quiz shows. They are the Eggheads.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40And taking on our quiz champions today are the Trite Young Things.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42The team became friends after
0:00:42 > 0:00:44attending Trinity Hall, Cambridge, together.
0:00:44 > 0:00:48They are keen quizzers and in 2005 they came third
0:00:48 > 0:00:52in the Campaign For Real Ale Convention Pub Quiz at Earl's Court.
0:00:52 > 0:00:56- So let's meet them.- Hi, I'm Tom.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58I'm 26 and I'm a politics student.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02Hi, I'm Jay. I'm 26 and I'm a barrister.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05Hi, I'm Ross. I'm 29 and I'm a diplomat.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09- Hi, I'm Dan. I'm 29 and I'm an actor.- Hi, I'm Mark.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13- I'm 28 and I work for the UN. - So welcome, Trite Young Things.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15- Thank you very much. - You're all, I think,
0:01:15 > 0:01:17quite brainy and quite high calibre.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20That's what it says, but we'll see at the end.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22We've got what? A chess champion. We've got somebody,
0:01:22 > 0:01:24Ross, who speaks fluent Arabic.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27- That's true, yeah.- And a barrister.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29And you met at Cambridge.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32Did you all sit around talking about very intelligent things?
0:01:32 > 0:01:35That's absolutely right. Very, very, very high-brow.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38- No, I think the answer to that's "no".- OK. But you met at college
0:01:38 > 0:01:40and then you went your separate ways and you still stay in touch?
0:01:40 > 0:01:44- Er, yeah. Absolutely. - And you do some quizzing together?
0:01:44 > 0:01:49We've done a few. We're demi-regulars in one in Shad Thames, another one
0:01:49 > 0:01:52in Vauxhall and one in Islington.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54We don't win every time, but we have occasionally come second.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57Well, high-calibre team you're facing here, Eggheads.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59Very, very high calibre.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02See how you do. Good luck, guys. Great to have you. Every day,
0:02:02 > 0:02:05there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs for our challengers.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money
0:02:08 > 0:02:10rolls over to the next show.
0:02:10 > 0:02:15So, Trite Young Things, the Eggheads have won the last 18 games,
0:02:15 > 0:02:19which means £19,000 says you can't beat them.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21- That'll do, gents. - Yeah, it's not bad.
0:02:21 > 0:02:25The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Arts and Books.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28So who wants that?
0:02:28 > 0:02:29It follows the script, doesn't it?
0:02:29 > 0:02:32- Got to follow the script. - Oh, no. Is it really going to be me?
0:02:32 > 0:02:37- Yes.- Four on one. - Yeah, go on, then. That'll do. - We agreed it with you earlier.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40If I lose, I'm going straight home.
0:02:40 > 0:02:41So, Tom against which Egghead?
0:02:43 > 0:02:44Take Kevin on.
0:02:44 > 0:02:48Let's go for it. Give me "A" for Ashman. I'm going to have him.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50- Kevin.- OK. They're starting with a high-stakes gamble.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52Tom from the Trite Young Things
0:02:52 > 0:02:56against Kevin from the Eggheads on Arts and Books.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions.
0:02:59 > 0:03:03Stand by. I will ask each of you three multiple-choice questions on Arts and Books in turn.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06Whoever answers the most questions correctly is the winner.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10- And, Tom, you can choose the first or second set.- Um, I will go first, please, Jeremy.
0:03:13 > 0:03:17Your question. The sprite Ariel appears in which Shakespeare play?
0:03:20 > 0:03:22Um...
0:03:22 > 0:03:25Ariel is in The Tempest.
0:03:25 > 0:03:30One of the only Shakespeare plays where there's songs in it.
0:03:30 > 0:03:35She sings, "it" sings, Full Fathom Five, which IS The Tempest.
0:03:35 > 0:03:36Great answer.
0:03:36 > 0:03:41Complete with additional information. One point to you.
0:03:43 > 0:03:48Kevin - Kiss, Kiss and the Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar And Six More
0:03:48 > 0:03:52are collections of short stories by which children's author?
0:03:55 > 0:03:58Certainly doesn't sound like Lewis Carroll,
0:03:58 > 0:04:04and I've not seen those in relation to JK Rowling.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06It sounds as though they could be...
0:04:06 > 0:04:09They sound Roald Dahl-ish titles.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12So not actually knowing it...
0:04:12 > 0:04:15Although faintly, Kiss, Kiss from somewhere.
0:04:15 > 0:04:16Anyway, I'll say Roald Dahl.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19Daphne, is he right?
0:04:19 > 0:04:22Well, I hope so, cos that's what I'd have gone for.
0:04:22 > 0:04:26Yeah, you're right, Kevin. Well done. Your question then, Tom.
0:04:26 > 0:04:31Who wrote the 1938 autobiographical poem Autumn Journal?
0:04:37 > 0:04:40I do not have a clue, Jeremy.
0:04:40 > 0:04:45I'm not sure at all, but I'm going to have a go at WH Auden.
0:04:45 > 0:04:50It wasn't WH Auden. It was Louis MacNeice, as a matter of fact.
0:04:50 > 0:04:53So Kevin has a chance to pull clear.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56Which artist created the controversial sculpture
0:04:56 > 0:04:58the Aldeburgh Scallop,
0:04:58 > 0:05:02a 12ft high, steel artwork in honour of Benjamin Britten?
0:05:07 > 0:05:10It's been very controversial, this one,
0:05:10 > 0:05:13because people thought it was just outsize.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16I've been there, seen it, stood next to it. It's Maggi Hambling.
0:05:16 > 0:05:20Very controversial on the beach there at Aldeburgh because of its size.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23People thought it was out of scale, not in keeping with area.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26I thought it was OK myself, but there we are.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29Maggi Hambling is the correct answer. Well done, Kevin.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33Do you go and investigate all the answers to quiz questions in person?
0:05:33 > 0:05:36Ah, no, is the simple answer. I just happened to be there.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38- Oh, yeah!- Yeah, yeah.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41OK, Tom, your question. If you get this wrong, you have been beaten
0:05:41 > 0:05:45by Kevin and you will not be in the final round. So the high-stakes gamble won't have paid off.
0:05:45 > 0:05:51Here's your question. Which Victorian author wrote The Nether World and New Grub Street?
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Er, again, I don't know.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00If it's Dickens, I'd have heard of it.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02Mrs Gaskell wrote more...
0:06:02 > 0:06:05The books of hers that I've heard of have been more tedious-sounding
0:06:05 > 0:06:08than that, like North And South.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10I don't remember her writing anything called The Nether World.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13So even though I've never heard of the bloke, I'm going to go
0:06:13 > 0:06:16- for George Gissing.- Brilliant! You got it right. Well done.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18That's the way.
0:06:18 > 0:06:23Kevin, what is the name of the Roman vase discovered by Sir Gavin Hamilton in the 18th century
0:06:23 > 0:06:29that is credited as one of the main inspirations for Keats' Ode On A Grecian Urn?
0:06:35 > 0:06:38I'm not at all sure about this,
0:06:38 > 0:06:42but the only one there that's ringing any bells is the Townley Vase,
0:06:42 > 0:06:46so I shall have to go with that, I think.
0:06:46 > 0:06:50I may well be wrong, but I'll go for the Townley Vase.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53Townley Vase is correct, Kevin.
0:06:53 > 0:06:57Tom, a brave plan. Didn't quite come off. You were beaten by our Egghead,
0:06:57 > 0:06:59so you won't join your team
0:06:59 > 0:07:04in the final round. Please, both of you, come back to the studio.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06So as it stands, the challengers have lost
0:07:06 > 0:07:12one brain from the final round. The Eggheads have lost none. Early days, though. Next subject is Geography.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15Which of you well-travelled challengers wants this?
0:07:15 > 0:07:17I could do that less badly than some of the other rounds.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20There's gonna be sport, history or politics.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22There will be sport, history or politics, something like that,
0:07:22 > 0:07:24- so let's save... Do it, yeah! Ross, go on.- I'll do Geography.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26Yeah, Ross.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28Oh, who are we gonna play?
0:07:28 > 0:07:32I'd like to play against Daphne, cos then I won't feel so bad
0:07:32 > 0:07:34when I lose, cos she's so nice.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37She does deliver it with certain compassion
0:07:37 > 0:07:39when she destroys people, yeah.
0:07:39 > 0:07:43Ross from the Trite Young Things against Daphne from the Eggheads...
0:07:43 > 0:07:48To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions in the question room.
0:07:48 > 0:07:53- So, Ross, you're well-travelled, right?- Pretty well-travelled. I've lived and worked abroad.
0:07:53 > 0:07:57- Working for the Foreign Office now? - Yes. I was in Jerusalem before,
0:07:57 > 0:08:01for three years, and I'm probably going to the States later in the year to work in the US.
0:08:01 > 0:08:05And being a diplomat, do you have to be diplomatic the whole time or just when you're working?
0:08:05 > 0:08:07If you ask my teammates that, they'll tell you I'm probably
0:08:07 > 0:08:09one of the least diplomatic people
0:08:09 > 0:08:12that they know, so I have to concentrate when I'm at work.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14All right. Good luck.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16I'm going to ask each of you three questions on geography in turn.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19Ross, you can choose the first or second set.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21I'm getting quite nervous about this, cos I think people at work
0:08:21 > 0:08:23will be a bit disappointed if I don't do it very well.
0:08:23 > 0:08:28So I think I'll choose the first set and try and have a good start.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33And good luck to you. The Swan Hunter shipyard
0:08:33 > 0:08:35was situated on which river?
0:08:41 > 0:08:43Er, before you read the answers out,
0:08:43 > 0:08:47or possible answers, I was thinking Tyne.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50I'm pretty sure it's not the Mersey,
0:08:50 > 0:08:53but when Clyde came up, that made me think again.
0:08:55 > 0:08:59I'm going to go for Tyne on the basis
0:08:59 > 0:09:02that that was what I thought of first. So I'll stick with Tyne.
0:09:02 > 0:09:06- You had a bit of a Clyde moment, but you've...- I did.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10- You've come back to the Tyne?- Yeah. - That's a good thing. It's right.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13- Good.- Well done, Ross. Next question for you, Daphne.
0:09:13 > 0:09:19What is the only country to share a border with Monaco?
0:09:22 > 0:09:27That's France.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29France is quite right.
0:09:29 > 0:09:30Well done. One each.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32Back to you, Ross.
0:09:32 > 0:09:38Raritan Bay lies between New York and which US state?
0:09:42 > 0:09:45The spelling, Ross, is R-A-R-I-T-A-N.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47OK.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51Um... In terms of those answers, I'm pretty sure it's not Vermont,
0:09:51 > 0:09:56cos I'm pretty sure that's further north and not in that sort of area.
0:09:56 > 0:10:01Um... I think of the three, if I have to plump for one of them,
0:10:01 > 0:10:04it will be New Jersey.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06- So I'll go with New Jersey.- OK.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08That's right. Well done, Ross.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10Good.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12Daphne, your question.
0:10:12 > 0:10:17The Skagerrak Strait lies to the north of which country?
0:10:23 > 0:10:25This is...
0:10:25 > 0:10:29Did you ever see that lovely film with Danny Kaye called
0:10:29 > 0:10:31Hans Christian Andersen?
0:10:31 > 0:10:32There's a wonderful song in it
0:10:32 > 0:10:35in which he says, "I've sailed up the Skagerrak."
0:10:35 > 0:10:38And anyhow, it must be Denmark.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40Denmark is right. Well done.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42Third question.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45See if you can keep the pressure on her, Ross. Here we go.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49Heligoland Bight, the scene of a famous First World War naval battle,
0:10:49 > 0:10:52lies off the coast of which country?
0:10:55 > 0:11:01My first thought is that it's Germany. I've got a feeling
0:11:01 > 0:11:04that Heligoland at one point belonged to Germany,
0:11:04 > 0:11:08or still does, and was part of it. It's off Germany's Baltic coast.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10If it turned out it wasn't Germany,
0:11:10 > 0:11:12my relatives will absolutely kill me...
0:11:12 > 0:11:16If it turned out it was Germany. So I'm going to go Germany.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19- So just for your own personal safety?- Yes.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21- Please let it be Germany. - It is Germany.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24Well done.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26OK, Daphne,
0:11:26 > 0:11:28- you're under pressure now.- I know. - Cos he's got three out of three.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31You get this wrong, you're not in the final round.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34What is the most westerly, mainland
0:11:34 > 0:11:37African nation through which the equator passes?
0:11:41 > 0:11:46Oh! Which way is west? I can't tell my left from my right,
0:11:46 > 0:11:49or my west from my east.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52I'm trying to work it out. West is...?
0:11:52 > 0:11:55That's...? So Uganda's east.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58I don't know.
0:11:58 > 0:12:02Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, Gabon.
0:12:02 > 0:12:06- I don't know, Jeremy. - Gabon, I don't know.- Yeah.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08Is it goodbye?
0:12:08 > 0:12:10It's hello, cos Gabon is right.
0:12:14 > 0:12:18OK, we go to sudden death. These questions are not multiple choice.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21Which sea, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean,
0:12:21 > 0:12:26separates the Korean peninsula from the east coast of China?
0:12:26 > 0:12:30Jeremy, I'm just trying to think of any names of seas round there.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33I can only think of the South China Sea, but that doesn't sound
0:12:33 > 0:12:37like a good answer, cos you said it was the east coast of China.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39Erm...
0:12:42 > 0:12:46I can't think of any alternative, so... I'm not at all confident...
0:12:46 > 0:12:48I'm going to go South China Sea.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50It's the Yellow Sea.
0:12:50 > 0:12:54Daphne, if you get this right, you've taken the round.
0:12:54 > 0:12:58The Bay of Fundy and Ungava Bay,
0:12:58 > 0:13:03which have the highest tidal ranges in the world, are in which country?
0:13:03 > 0:13:06Oh! Canada.
0:13:06 > 0:13:07Canada is right, so, Daphne,
0:13:07 > 0:13:12you have taken the round against your young competitor.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15That means, Ross, you won't play in the final, I'm sorry to say.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17And I know your team wanted you to.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20Do, both of you, come back to the studio.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23The challengers have lost two brains from the final round,
0:13:23 > 0:13:28while the Eggheads have lost none. Next subject is Film and Television.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30Now this is, I suspect, another strong subject for you.
0:13:30 > 0:13:34- None of us have a TV.- This is our weakness.- You haven't got a TV?
0:13:34 > 0:13:36It's Jay or Mark, isn't it?
0:13:36 > 0:13:40- I will be...- You haven't even seen a film, have you?
0:13:40 > 0:13:42- I don't even know what they are. - You're going to have to do it.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44Jay, you're out there.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47- Against?- Who's left?
0:13:47 > 0:13:52- I reckon, let's have a go at Bazza. - Take Barry.- OK. Barry.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55Barry, or as they call him, Bazza.
0:13:55 > 0:14:00Trite Young Things against the Eggheads, round three. Here we go.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03Multiple-choice questions, film and television.
0:14:03 > 0:14:04Jay, you can choose first or second set.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06I think I'll go first.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12Jay, Kevin McCloud is best known for presenting
0:14:12 > 0:14:14what type of TV programme?
0:14:19 > 0:14:24Kevin McCloud is the chap who presents Grand Designs, I think.
0:14:24 > 0:14:28I think he did fine art or something as a degree.
0:14:28 > 0:14:33So given that Grand Designs is not to do with nature or cookery,
0:14:33 > 0:14:36- I think I'lll go with property. - You're being very careful.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39Classic lawyer, just treading carefully there.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41But you're right.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44It is property. Not cookery.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47Barry, which actor starred alongside
0:14:47 > 0:14:51Bob Hope in the 1942 Road To Morocco?
0:14:56 > 0:14:59I absolutely adore the Road films and I've watched all of them, so I know
0:14:59 > 0:15:02for certain this was Bing Crosby.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05Quite right. 66 years ago. Have they aged well?
0:15:05 > 0:15:08They have indeed. I think the humour, in some parts, is still as relevant
0:15:08 > 0:15:11today as it was then.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14OK, Jay, your question. At which landmark
0:15:14 > 0:15:17do the central characters in the film Sleepless In Seattle meet?
0:15:24 > 0:15:27Well, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan...
0:15:28 > 0:15:31Um, well, it's Sleepless In Seattle, so I'm assuming
0:15:31 > 0:15:34it's not the Empire State Building.
0:15:34 > 0:15:41I'm going to go with the Space Needle for no apparent reason
0:15:41 > 0:15:44- other than that I think it's in Seattle.- That's wrong.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47It was the Empire State Building.
0:15:47 > 0:15:51Here we go, Barry, your question.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb played a married couple called
0:15:54 > 0:15:56Pam and Mick in which TV sitcom?
0:16:00 > 0:16:03Not sure on this one.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05I've seen a lot of Men Behaving Badly
0:16:05 > 0:16:07and I don't remember them appearing in there.
0:16:10 > 0:16:14I don't think they would have appeared in Gavin & Stacey.
0:16:14 > 0:16:18Which only leaves one. So I'll have to go for Peep Show.
0:16:18 > 0:16:22Why don't you think they would have appeared in Gavin & Stacey?
0:16:22 > 0:16:24On principle, or what?
0:16:24 > 0:16:27It sounded American and they were English act...
0:16:27 > 0:16:30Alison's an English actress, so I just thought she might not have
0:16:30 > 0:16:33appeared in an American soap.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36Yeah, funnily enough, it's a rare moment of me knowing slightly more
0:16:36 > 0:16:38than you about one thing.
0:16:38 > 0:16:42Gavin & Stacey is just about the best British sitcom at the moment.
0:16:42 > 0:16:46- It's really worth catching up on and it is the answer.- Oh!
0:16:46 > 0:16:49They are in it. Pam and Mick, Alison Steadman, Larry Lamb.
0:16:49 > 0:16:54Jay, what was the name of the Alan Bleasdale TV drama in which
0:16:54 > 0:16:57Robert Lindsay played the politician Michael Murray?
0:17:01 > 0:17:06No, I don't think it's GBH, cos I don't think I've heard of that.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08Which leaves the other two.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11Erm...
0:17:11 > 0:17:13I remember there being something called A Very British Coup...
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Sounds more likely.
0:17:20 > 0:17:27So I think on that very slim basis I'll go for A Very British Coup.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30- And it's the wrong answer. - Ah!- It's GBH, Jay.
0:17:30 > 0:17:34Your question, Barry! Get this right, you take the round.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37Dennis Hopper plays the terrifying Frank Booth
0:17:37 > 0:17:39in which David Lynch film?
0:17:44 > 0:17:48I really should get out more and watch more films.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51Cos although I like Dennis Hopper as an actor, none of these particularly
0:17:51 > 0:17:55ring any bells with me.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58Erm, go for Blue Velvet.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00You're right. It is Blue Velvet.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03- Very lucky.- So well done, Barry.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05Newest Egghead takes the round there. Jay, you were beaten by him.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08As a result, you won't be able to join your team in the final round.
0:18:08 > 0:18:12Please, both of you, come back to the studio.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15As it stands, the challengers have lost three from the final round.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18Don't mean to rub it in. Eggheads still haven't lost any.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21Our last subject is History... History...
0:18:21 > 0:18:24- Oh, you were banking on this? - That'll do. One of 'em.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26- Shall I take it?- Yours.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29We're keeping Dan back, so we think...
0:18:29 > 0:18:31Because I don't know anything about history.
0:18:31 > 0:18:33- Have to be Mark. - Have a go at Judith, I reckon.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35We'll take Judith.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38Mark from the Trite Young Things against Judith from the Eggheads.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40You don't like history, you're saying?
0:18:40 > 0:18:43- Well, it's so big, isn't it? - It is big, yes.
0:18:43 > 0:18:48- It happens all the time.- It's big and it happens all the time. That's right.
0:18:48 > 0:18:53To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56Three questions on history in turn.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58Mark, would you like the first or second set?
0:18:58 > 0:19:00Absolutely first.
0:19:02 > 0:19:07And absolutely, here we go. According to the Second World War propaganda poster,
0:19:07 > 0:19:09what did careless talk do?
0:19:13 > 0:19:19I'm 100% certain, well, 99% certain, that it is the middle one.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22Careless talk costs lives.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24And you are completely right. Well done.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26Judith, what was the name given to the much criticised,
0:19:26 > 0:19:32specially recruited auxiliary force sent to Ireland by the British
0:19:32 > 0:19:38government in 1920 to supplement the Royal Irish Constabulary?
0:19:41 > 0:19:45Erm, that was... What on earth are the Cherubims?
0:19:45 > 0:19:49I've never heard of them, beyond being in the sky.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51It's the Black and Tans.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53Correct.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56OK, next question to you, Mark.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59Which European ruling dynasty was notorious
0:19:59 > 0:20:04for centuries of inbreeding and has given its name to a projecting,
0:20:04 > 0:20:06over-developed lower lip?
0:20:11 > 0:20:13Right, well, I know all of those
0:20:13 > 0:20:18were ruling dynasties, but that is obviously why they're there.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20Erm...
0:20:20 > 0:20:25I'm going to plump for no particular reason for Habsburg.
0:20:25 > 0:20:30- OK, and obviously cause major offence if it's wrong.- Absolutely.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32It's right, though! Got it.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Nice work.
0:20:34 > 0:20:38Judith, back to you. What was the name of the Rhodesian
0:20:38 > 0:20:43Prime Minister who declared independence from Britain in 1965?
0:20:50 > 0:20:52That was Ian Smith.
0:20:52 > 0:20:56Ian Smith, you're right.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59Over to you, Mark. Which king issued an edict
0:20:59 > 0:21:02expelling all Jews from England?
0:21:09 > 0:21:11Right.
0:21:13 > 0:21:17I, er... I don't know, but I am from York
0:21:17 > 0:21:19and we did burn the Jews in York
0:21:19 > 0:21:21and that was around the 1100s or 1200s.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23So I think this is early.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26Er, and I'm going to say Edward I.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28I love your guesswork.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30You're just spot on again with it.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32Edward I is right.
0:21:35 > 0:21:38Judith, your question. You get this wrong, you have been soundly beaten.
0:21:38 > 0:21:45In Ancient Rome, Lares and Penates were groups of what?
0:21:50 > 0:21:52I think they were the household gods.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55- Is that your answer?- Yep.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57You're right. Three points each.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Good, strong round on history.
0:21:59 > 0:22:03So we go to sudden death and just to make it that bit harder, it's not multiple choice.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06Mark, your first question.
0:22:06 > 0:22:10David Rizzio, who was brutally murdered in 1566 on the orders
0:22:10 > 0:22:15of Lord Darnley was the secretary of which historical figure?
0:22:15 > 0:22:20So 1566 is Elizabeth I, I believe.
0:22:22 > 0:22:28I would say it's a Spanish connection. Philip II of Spain.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30No.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32You just went astray there.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35It was Mary, Queen of Scots.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37Judith, you get this right, you get the round.
0:22:37 > 0:22:41In 1664, which Dutch colonial governor was forced to hand
0:22:41 > 0:22:47the east coast colony of New Netherland to the British?
0:22:47 > 0:22:49Is it... Ah?
0:22:49 > 0:22:51Peter Stuyvesant.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56Well done, Judith, you got the right answer. Peter Stuyvesant it is.
0:22:56 > 0:23:01Brilliant play by our millionaire. Mark was beaten by our Egghead,
0:23:01 > 0:23:07so you can't join your team in the final round. It's going to be lonely for the last remaining player.
0:23:07 > 0:23:11He's going to be kept company with his copious knowledge.
0:23:11 > 0:23:15Please come back, both of you, and rejoin your teammates.
0:23:15 > 0:23:19This is what we've played towards, it's time for our final round - General Knowledge.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22I'm afraid though, those of you who lost your head-to-heads
0:23:22 > 0:23:25won't be allowed to take part in this round.
0:23:25 > 0:23:26Serious attrition on this side.
0:23:26 > 0:23:30Tom, Jay, Ross and Mark from the Trite Young Things,
0:23:30 > 0:23:33that means you must now leave the studio.
0:23:33 > 0:23:38Dan, you're playing to win your team £19,000.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40Daphne, Chris, Barry, Judith and Kevin, you're playing for something
0:23:40 > 0:23:42that money can't buy, the Eggheads' reputation.
0:23:42 > 0:23:46As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.
0:23:46 > 0:23:50This time the questions are all general knowledge and you are allowed to confer.
0:23:50 > 0:23:55So, Dan, the question is, is your one brain better than the Eggheads' five?
0:23:55 > 0:23:59- Do you want to go first or second? - I'll go first, I think.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04Your first question. Sweet Child O' Mine was the title
0:24:04 > 0:24:08of a UK hit single for which band in 1988?
0:24:12 > 0:24:17A friend of mine who runs a...what he calls, a power ballads night,
0:24:17 > 0:24:20which, effectively, is one of the cheesiest things on in London ever,
0:24:20 > 0:24:22would kill me if I got this wrong.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24The answer is Guns 'n' Roses.
0:24:24 > 0:24:26Guns 'n' Roses is right.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29Bon Jovi could have been confusing there, but you were on it.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32OK, first point to you. Well done.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35Which former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Eggheads, published
0:24:35 > 0:24:38a diet book after losing five stone?
0:24:42 > 0:24:45- Nigel Lawson.- Nigel Lawson.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48Yeah, it was Nigel Lawson, Jeremy.
0:24:48 > 0:24:51- Nigel Lawson is quite right. The father of?- Nigella.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53And?
0:24:53 > 0:24:55- And Dominic.- Dominic. That's right.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57Famous family.
0:24:57 > 0:25:01Your second question, Dan. The British actor Timothy West
0:25:01 > 0:25:03married which actress in 1963?
0:25:11 > 0:25:15Probably should know this one, given what I do. Unfortunately, I don't.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18Erm, Timothy West, Patricia Routledge.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23They're all reasonable guesses, unfortunately.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25Erm...
0:25:25 > 0:25:33I think as a guess, and it is a real shot in the dark, erm...
0:25:33 > 0:25:36I keep changing my mind internally. That's not helping.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38- Erm...- You don't have anyone to talk to either, which doesn't help.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41- No, exactly. - Talk to yourself.- No back-up. Yeah.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44Erm, I'm going to guess Prunella Scales.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49- I'm really glad you did. You got it right.- Thank you.
0:25:49 > 0:25:53They're really glad as well. Do you know her most famous part?
0:25:53 > 0:25:55- Sybil Fawlty, yeah. - OK, Eggheads, your question.
0:25:55 > 0:26:00Which Premiership football team does Prince William support?
0:26:05 > 0:26:08- I think it's Aston Villa. - It is Aston Villa.
0:26:08 > 0:26:12- Aston Villa.- Bizarrely, it's Aston Villa.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15It is. I never knew that. Why? Do you know?
0:26:15 > 0:26:19- I think he just liked the colours or something.- Liked the colours!
0:26:19 > 0:26:21You'd be amused by that.
0:26:21 > 0:26:24So it's two points each.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26This is where it gets sweaty.
0:26:26 > 0:26:30Dan, in 2002, a blue plaque was
0:26:30 > 0:26:33placed at Mornington Crescent Tube station to honour which entertainer?
0:26:38 > 0:26:43Again, a stab in the dark, backed up by less than I would like.
0:26:43 > 0:26:47Erm, I'm going to say Peter Ustinov.
0:26:48 > 0:26:53- It was actually Willie Rushton. - Ah, I thought... Yeah.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56I don't know why it was Willie Rushton. Did he have a connection?
0:26:56 > 0:26:58- Was he making jokes about it? - Mornington Crescent, the game.
0:26:58 > 0:27:03- Obscure panel game on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.- Yes.
0:27:03 > 0:27:04- That he pioneered?- Yeah.
0:27:04 > 0:27:09No, he was always on once a week on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
0:27:09 > 0:27:11and he died and he was very much missed.
0:27:11 > 0:27:15But they played this ridiculous game called Mornington Crescent.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17Dan, it's not over.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20If they get this wrong,
0:27:20 > 0:27:22then we go to sudden death.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24If you get it right, Eggheads,
0:27:24 > 0:27:28you are victorious again and the competitors lose the money.
0:27:28 > 0:27:32Giles Darby, David Bermingham and Gary Mulgrew, whose extradition
0:27:32 > 0:27:38to America to face trial over their role in the Enron scandal sparked
0:27:38 > 0:27:42a row in the UK over US powers,
0:27:42 > 0:27:45are collectively known by what name?
0:27:50 > 0:27:54- Natwest Three.- Yeah, they're the Natwest Three.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56And you are all certain about that?
0:27:56 > 0:28:00- Yes.- Having worked for Natwest, yes.
0:28:00 > 0:28:01Unforgettable case.
0:28:01 > 0:28:05Eggheads, you're right and congratulations, you've won.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13It's tough doing it on your own, Dan.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15Especially when you get subjects you should know stuff about
0:28:15 > 0:28:17because you're in the entertainment business. Awful!
0:28:17 > 0:28:19Yeah, but then they're so wide. Don't worry about that.
0:28:19 > 0:28:22Anyway, well done. Great to see the team coming in.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24Commiserations, challengers.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them. Their winning streak continues.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30It means you won't be going home with the £19,000.
0:28:30 > 0:28:34So that money rolls over to the next show and will become 20,000.
0:28:34 > 0:28:38Eggheads, congratulations. Who's going to beat you?
0:28:38 > 0:28:41Join us next time to see if the new challengers
0:28:41 > 0:28:45have the brains to defeat the Eggheads. 20,000 says they don't.
0:28:45 > 0:28:48Till then, goodbye.