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These 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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Hello, and welcome to the 500th edition of Eggheads, the show where

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a team of five quiz challengers pit their wits against possibly

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the greatest quiz team in Britain.

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They are goliaths in the world of TV quiz shows.

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They've certainly proved that over the last 500 editions.

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They are the Eggheads.

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

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the Cottenham Beach Frisbee Club.

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The club was an idea hatched by the team in their local pub as a way of

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allowing them weekend passes away from their wives. Let's meet them.

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Hello. I'm Andy, I'm 41, and I'm a company director.

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Hello. I'm Chris, I'm a 45-year-old marketing consultant.

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Hi. I'm Gavin, I'm 41, and I'm an HR consultant.

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Hi, I'm Jay, I'm 45, and I'm a managing director.

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Hi, I'm Keith, I'm 48, a graphic designer and a retained firefighter.

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So, Cottenham Beach Frisbee Club, welcome to you.

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Of course, when I describe the weekend pass concept,

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mums across country throw crockery at the TV!

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They know what you're up to!

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I think they've rumbled us, yes, Jeremy.

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But, officially, what does the club actually do?

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It's primary function is to help facilitate the gaining of passes from wives and partners

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to give us an excuse to go away to far-flung reaches of Europe,

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and, hopefully, one day, to the Copacabana, to play beach Frisbee.

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So you go onto beaches and you play Frisbee, and the shirts are designed to make it all look highly official?

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Yeah. Having said that, the Frisbee playing hasn't even happened.

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It tends to peter out at the first step.

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It's a special show for us - 500. We've had 2,000 head-to-heads,

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and you might be interested to know that 35 challenging teams have won in that time.

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Does that sound like good odds to you?

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-Yeah, we'll take them.

-OK, good luck.

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It's great to have you here on what is a special day for us.

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There is £1,000 up for grabs for our challengers.

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However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,

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the prize money rolls over to the next show.

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So, Cottenham Beach Frisbee Club,

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the challengers won the last game, proving it can be done.

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That means £1,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

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First head-to-head battle is on music.

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Who wants this?

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-I'll go for it, shall I?

-El capitano?

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-Jeremy, I'll go for that one, thank you.

-OK, Andy. Against which Egghead?

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-Now...

-This is the original line-up,

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of course, the one that went through nearly all the programmes.

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-Shall we take Kevin?

-OK.

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Um, I'll take Kevin, please.

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OK, Andy from the Cottenham Beach Frisbee Club, versus Kevin from the Eggheads.

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

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So, 500th show, Kevin. What do you think is the reason for

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the success of this show, without meaning to seem immodest about it?!

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I think the main thing about it is it's pitched at a level that

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will appeal to many different groups. We find that all ages watch this,

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and because of the range of different categories that we've got,

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there's something there for everybody, hopefully.

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And we love quizzing in this country. Andy, do you quiz together, you CBFCers?

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We quiz together very occasionally, and I mean once or twice a year,

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PTA quizzes and the like.

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We're not serious quizzers, but we're always up for a challenge and that's why we're here.

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Let's see how you do against Kevin.

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I'll ask each of you three questions on music in turn.

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Whoever answers the most questions correctly is the winner.

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So, Andy, you can chose the first or second set of questions.

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First, please, Jeremy.

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Andy, here's your first question.

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High Fidelity, Starmaker and Friday Night were hits in the 1980s

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for the cast members of which TV drama series?

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Well, I know Ant and Dec came from Byker Grove, and they had

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a few minor hits. Grange Hill had the very strong anti-drugs song.

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And being a teenager of the '80s, I'm embarrassed to say I did own

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-a pair of burgundy leg warmers, and it was Fame.

-Fame is right.

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Fame is the right answer, well done. So your question now, Kevin -

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The composer Joseph Haydn was born and died in which country?

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He was from Austria.

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You're quite right, he was. Back to you, Andy.

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Silk And Steel was the title of a best-selling album

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by which group made up of members of the same family?

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Mmm...

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I don't think it was Sister Sledge,

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I've got an awful lot of Sister Sledge vinyl.

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Something's telling me, again from the '80s, I think it's Five Star.

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I've got one Corrs CD. I don't really listen to it, to be honest with you.

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Yes, Jeremy, I'm going to go with Five Star.

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Well done, you've got it right, Five Star.

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Kevin, your question.

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Which group did Carl Barat form after he left the Libertines?

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Don't know.

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Hmm.

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Pete Doherty went on to Baby Shambles.

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I'm trying to think how long the others might have been around.

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Now, when would he have left the Libertines?

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For some reason I'm drawn to Dirty Pretty Things,

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but I'm just thinking they might have been around before the break up

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of the Libertines.

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Because the Pigeon Detectives are the most recent of those,

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I'm going to go for them.

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Oh. Unhappiness on your team.

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Daphne, you know your pop music.

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Yeah. It's Dirty Pretty Things.

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Kevin, it's Dirty Pretty Things. It's been confirmed by Daphne.

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-My first instinct was right then.

-Yeah.

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So, challengers, if you get this right,

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you've got the round.

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Which character appears in repeated lines in the traditional folk song

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Widecombe Fair?

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Get this right, you get Kevin out early on,

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which is always an amazing feat.

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That's the target.

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I'll be honest with you, I don't know.

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So I'm going to try and work through these with some kind of logic.

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A fair? Who would go to a fair?

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A waggoner would.

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A poacher would because being on the wrong side of the law,

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he'd be looking for an angle, I suppose.

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Having said that, I'm going to go for Uncle Tom Cobley.

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Uncle Tom Cobley is your answer.

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-It is.

-Kevin has won his last 52 entertainment rounds.

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If you know him out, you'd be making

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a little bit of history on this historic edition of Eggheads.

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Is your answer right?

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Old Uncle Tom Cobley...

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does appear in Widecombe Fair. Well done, Andy.

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And, Kevin,

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I don't say this very often, you will not be in the final.

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Please, both of you, come back and rejoin us here.

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Well, Andy, you made it look easy there, but it's not, we know that.

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If I got Kevin's questions, I wouldn't have stood a chance.

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But I didn't, and I won.

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And you'll go back home and you'll listen to your Five Star album now.

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-Maybe not.

-OK, as it stands, the challengers have lost no brains from the final round.

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The Eggheads have lost one. The next subject is science.

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Which of the challengers wants science, and against which Egghead?

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Well...

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It was going to be me or Jay, wasn't it?

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-Go for it.

-You'll be all right.

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It's between you two, then.

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-I'll do science?

-Are you sure?!

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-Are you sure? Only if you're sure.

-OK.

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-Yeah, I'll do it.

-Jay, please.

-Against?

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Anyone but Kevin.

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-It's got to be Judith.

-Judith, please.

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Right, Jay from the Cottenham Beach Frisbee Club

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against Judith from the Eggheads.

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And to ensure there's no conferring, please, take your positions.

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-Judith, science has been hit and miss for you, hasn't it?

-It is.

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I think it's been win one, lose one, win one, in that sort of order.

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You've been worrying about science and you've been

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reading the periodic table. Have you got to the end of it yet?

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Well, it sort of sits in front of you,

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rather like an atlas, a map would do.

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And I try and remember.

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It's all pretty colours.

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Pink and green and yellow and things.

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And this being our 500th show, Judith,

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just take something like the periodic table, comes up a lot?

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-Yes.

-If you know that, you can answer a lot in science?

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Yeah, it's the basis of chemistry, really, it's the table which tells you all about chemistry.

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Let's see how you both do. Jay,

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I can ask whether you want the first or second set of questions now.

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I will go first.

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Here we go. Reverend John Russell was responsible for developing

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a now popular new breed of which animal in the 19th century?

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Well, erm...

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I have one of each of these, actually,

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not that that helps me at all.

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Cat... Whilst I have one,

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I don't know anything about them.

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Goldfish, ditto.

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Russell, I can only assume...

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that his first name was Jack, and it was the Jack Russell dog.

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So I will go for dog.

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The clue was in the question, you're quite right. Jack Russell, dog.

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Judith, your question.

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In geometry, how many degrees are there

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in each internal angle of an equilateral triangle?

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60.

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You're right. 60.

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Over to you, Jay.

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The Italian-born French astronomer Giovanni Cassini

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gave his name to the division he discovered

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between sets of what around the planet Saturn?

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Moons, asteroids, rings...

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The only thing I know about Saturn... relate to rings.

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So that is my only point of reference on this one.

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I will go for rings.

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And rings is right.

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Well done.

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Judith, your question.

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Galvanised steel is steel coated

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with which other element to prevent corrosion?

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I think that is zinc.

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-Your answer is zinc?

-Mm.

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And you're right. Playing a good round here, both of you.

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Third question now.

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Jay, which number is represented in international Morse code

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by five dashes?

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Five dashes?

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I think Morse code...

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Obviously, one of the things that was required of it was that it was

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quick...quick to send.

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I would have thought the number ten...would have a shorter code

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for that because that's going to be used quite often.

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Would 100 be used less, generally?

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I could be completely off on this, but...

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..I'm going to go for 100.

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I follow the logic completely, I see where you were going,

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but you haven't got the right answer, I'm afraid, it's zero.

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Which means, Judith, if you get this question right,

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then you've won the head to head.

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The Saros cycle,

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with a period of about 18 years, 11 days and eight hours,

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is used to predict what?

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I think earthquakes are unpredictable.

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And so are typhoons, aren't they?

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I would imagine it must be eclipses,

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-which are predictable.

-Eclipses?

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-Yeah.

-That's the correct answer.

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Bad luck to you, Jay, you were beaten by our Egghead.

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As a result, you won't be able to help your team in the final round.

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Please, both of you, come back and rejoin your team-mates.

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

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the final round, and the Eggheads have lost one brain.

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The next subject is film and television. Who wants this?

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-Big fella?

-Who is stepping into the breach?

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-That will be me, Jeremy, please.

-Gavin, OK. Against?

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-Who do we fancy?

-What do we think?

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Who do we think?

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Go for Chris?

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-Chris?

-No, he's quite good at that.

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Daphne. Daphne.

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Daphne, please, Jeremy.

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Gavin from the Cottenham Beach Frisbee Club

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against Daphne from the Eggheads. Please, go to the question room.

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All right, I'm going to ask each of you three questions on film and television in turn.

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You've done a few of these over our 500, haven't you, Daphne?

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I certainly have.

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Do you look back and think the show

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has really developed and it's changed your life in some way?

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Oh, it's certainly changed my life.

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-And you get e-mails from around the world, I gather?

-Oh, I do.

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Australia, New Zealand, Czech Republic,

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-USA, Canada. Everywhere!

-Gavin, you lived in Australia, yeah?

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-Yeah, a few years ago.

-And can you understand why Eggheads would be big Down Under?

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I think they have a similar quiz culture to us in the UK.

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

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First, please, Jeremy.

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Here's your question.

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Good luck. In Only Fools And Horses,

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what was the name of the car salesman married to Marlene?

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Right. Well, I don't think it was Baxie.

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Or Biggsie. And, in fact, I do know it was Boycie.

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Boycie it was. Well done.

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Daphne, here's your question.

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The film Cat Ballou, starring Jane Fonda,

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was originally released in which decade?

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You know I hate dates!

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I have no idea.

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I just can't...

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I know the film, I know who was in it.

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But I've no idea when it came out.

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70s.

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Usually, Daphne, you do your "I've got no idea" routine

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and you guess, unerringly, the right answer,

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and I'm shocked to tell you that you're wrong.

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-Oh, bother.

-I rarely see your guessing misfiring.

-Was it 60s?

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60s is the right answer!

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Not 1970s.

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The 500th edition has thrown you.

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Your second question, Gavin - Which actress played the character

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Joey Potter in the TV series Dawson's Creek?

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Right. Oops.

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I have to admit, Jeremy, that I've never seen Dawson's Creek,

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but, hopefully, can make an educated guess.

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Sarah Michelle Geller, I think, was Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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Shannon Doherty, I think,

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was in Beverly Hills nine something or other.

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So I'm going to go for Katie Holmes, but it is a guess.

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You're a quizzer at heart, you've got it right.

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Fantastic.

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Daphne, you need to get this question correct to stay in.

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Here we go. Clint Eastwood played the role of Frankie Dunn in which 2004 film?

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Oh, God, I don't know this either!

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You see, I haven't seen any of these, and I've no idea of the year.

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So it makes it pretty much an eenie, meenie, minie mo answer.

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Oh, dear.

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I shall go for...

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SHE SIGHS DEEPLY ..Space Cowboys.

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Space Cowboys is your answer.

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Daphne, sorry, it's wrong, it's Million Dollar Baby.

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So, Gavin, well done! Very efficient work.

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How about that? The Frisbee Club is showing what it's made of here.

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You took on an Egghead, you beat Daphne, she won't be in the final, you will be.

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Please, come back to us now.

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So, the challengers have lost one brain from the final round. The Eggheads have lost two brains.

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There are £1,000 to play for. Last subject is geography.

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Who, from the challengers,

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will be playing in this round,

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and who would you like to take on?

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Keithy boy is going to fall on his sword.

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Keith, please, Jeremy.

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Keith, our graphic designer.

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You've got CJ or Chris.

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Who looks lost? Who looks disorientated?

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Who looks like they're mapless?

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It's CJ, isn't it?

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Yeah. OK, it's CJ. So it's Keith from the Cottenham Beach Frisbee Club against CJ from the Eggheads.

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And to ensure there's no conferring, please, take your positions.

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CJ, the 500th show, and you've loved every minute.

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Most of the minutes. I haven't loved those ones where I've lost, so I've enjoyed about a quarter of the show.

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But you've met great people and you are a very good loser.

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When you lose, and it all goes wrong, you take it in good heart,

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you don't get depressed.

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Well, I've had enough practice, so hopefully by now.

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OK. Good luck to you both.

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I'll ask each of you three questions on geography in turn.

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

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Can I have the first set, please?

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Here we go. Which part of New York City is

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most famous for its amusement park?

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I think...it's not Yonkers.

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I believe I saw a film with this on.

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I believe it's Coney Island.

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Coney Island is correct. Well done.

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Over to you, CJ.

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500th show.

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Try to look happy.

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-JEREMY LAUGHS

-After which character

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is the main airport serving Doncaster and Sheffield named?

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Oh.

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I'm just having a moment of doubt.

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Yeah, it would make more sense if it was Nottingham.

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But I think Doncaster's Robin Hood.

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That's right, it is Robin Hood.

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Well done.

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OK, Keith.

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Which civilisation built Fosse Way, a road running from near Exeter

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through Bath to Lincoln?

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Obviously, the Romans are very famous for their roads.

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Also, we have Roman baths.

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So I'm going to go for the Romans, Jeremy.

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Great answer, you're right.

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CJ, your question. Willapa Bay is a feature of which county

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of the US state of Washington?

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So, counties within a state now we are going to? Wonderful.

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-The Eggheads are laughing.

-I'm not.

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Oh, of course.

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How are we spelling Willapa?

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W-I-L-L-A-P-A.

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I'm not going to go for Cheese County.

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Pacific County just seems a little too obvious to me.

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I don't know this, but I am going to employ that old quizzing axiom -

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if you don't know, it's an antelope.

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So, I'm going to go for Antelope County.

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-JEREMY LAUGHS

-OK. Antelope County is your answer.

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The correct answer is Pacific County.

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All right, question three.

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Get this right, Keith, you're in the final and CJ isn't.

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And he might be a bit glum.

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The Kingdom of Kandy, K-A-N-D-Y, is a former name

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for a region of which modern-day country?

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Now...

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I don't really know this, I'm afraid.

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I don't think it's New Zealand.

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I don't think it's Indonesia.

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I think it's Sri Lanka, Jeremy.

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Just from instinct?

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Pure instinct.

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CJ, why have you started waving?

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Cos Sri Lanka is, unfortunately, the right answer.

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It is, fortunately for our Frisbee Club, the right answer.

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Well done to you, Keith.

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You are in the final. You took on one of our Eggheads,

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you emerged triumphant. Bad luck, CJ. It was the old antelope rule.

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Never use that again. Congratulations, Keith.

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Both of you, please come back and rejoin your teams.

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So, it's time for the final round which, as always, is general knowledge.

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But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads

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won't be joining your teams in the final round.

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Jay, from the Cottenham Beach Frisbee Club and Kevin,

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CJ and Daphne from the Eggheads, would you please leave the studio.

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So, we've had 2,000 head-to-heads in the history of Eggheads.

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Our 500th edition and here we have a challenging team

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that's doing very well indeed. Andy, Chris, Gavin and Keith,

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you are playing to win the Cottenham Beach Frisbee Club £1,000.

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Judith and Chris, you are playing for something money can't buy - the Eggheads' reputation.

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Slightly depleted crew today.

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

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The questions are general knowledge, you are allowed to confer.

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So, Cottenham Beach Frisbee Club, the question is

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are your four brains better than the Eggheads' two?

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So Andy, Chris, Gavin and Keith,

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would you like to go first or second?

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First please, Jeremy.

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Here we go.

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Established in 1939, Little League is an international organisation

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for children and teenagers playing which sport?

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-It's baseball.

-It is baseball, isn't it?

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It's baseball, Jeremy.

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Baseball is the right answer.

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Eggheads, your question.

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In traditional Punch and Judy shows, what is the name of the dog?

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-It's Toby, Jeremy.

-Toby is correct.

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"Oh, poor Toby's dead!"

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Toby's right, well done.

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Second question to you guys.

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In England, the Queen's Proctor is an official who performs

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certain activities commensurate with those of what profession?

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-Surgeon?

-Surgeon, do we think?

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Surgeon, Jeremy.

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Your answer is surgeon?

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The correct answer is solicitor.

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The Queen's Proctor is solicitor.

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OK, Eggheads. Your chance to pull ahead.

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Lorelei, famous for its echo and its association with a water nymph

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who lured sailors to destruction,

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is a large rock on the bank at the narrows of which river?

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It's on the Rhine, Jeremy.

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Near Bingham, if memory serves.

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The answer is Rhine and you are correct, Eggheads. So...

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here's the deal, guys - you need to get this question right.

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Which American singer was dubbed the first lady of song?

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My first thought is Ella Fitzgerald. But now Billie Holiday has come in...

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It's definitely not Washington, is it?

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-Don't you think?

-Do you think it is?

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Have you got a fix on the ages and the periods?

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Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday are the same period.

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Billie Holiday first and then Ella Fitzgerald.

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No, it's got to be Billie Holiday.

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She is first.

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-Yeah, but she wasn't known as the First Lady.

-Who was, then?

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Billie Holiday was known as, erm...

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She had a different handle.

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So, who do we think?

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-I think it's Washington.

-OK.

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I haven't a clue.

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Only because I think the other two have got different...

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Handles.

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You call them.

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OK.

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We're not sure, Jeremy, as you can probably tell. Um...

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We don't think it's Billie Holiday, she has another name.

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For the life of us, we can't remember it.

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We think it's Dinah Washington.

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But we're really not sure.

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The answer, I'm sorry to tell you this,

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is Ella Fitzgerald.

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So, the last couple of questions

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have not been kind to you

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and that means Eggheads, congratulations, you've won.

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Commiserations to our challengers. The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.

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They reign supreme over Quizland once again.

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You won't be taking the £1,000, so the money rolls over to our next show. Eggheads, congratulations.

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Who will beat you?

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

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£2,000 says they don't.

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Till then, goodbye.

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