First Semi-Final Make Me an Egghead

These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.

Together they make up the Eggheads,

arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.

The question is, do you have the brains to join them?

Hello, and welcome to Make Me An Egghead.

We've launched a nationwide search

to find the greatest quiz brains in Britain.

Over the past few weeks, we've seen contestants battle it out

to win the ultimate prize for quizzing enthusiasts -

a place on the most fearsome quiz team in history, the Eggheads.

There they all are.

Well, we've reached the semifinal stage

and now only a handful of people remain

in the hunt to become an Egghead.

Let's meet today's contestants.

Hi, I'm Gary Grant, I'm a GP and I'm originally from Aberdeen.

Hi, I'm Gerard Mackay, an accounts assistant

from Nesscliffe in Shropshire.

Gary, Gerard, good to see you.

So, going back over what you achieved to get here,

Gerard, you're in third place,

but you got the most points in the quickfire round.

You got 24 right! Well, yeah... Nobody did better.

I just, obviously, got a lucky run of questions

that I happened to know the answer to.

Well...very modest, obviously.

But you've got that thing that quizzers have,

which is speed of access as well as the knowledge.

Yeah, if you do enough quizzes, there is a reflex in your head,

I think, that you hear a certain part of a question,

then you have an idea what the question is going to be asking.

All right, well, you were third on the leaderboard.

Gary, you were second-placed with a stunning 28. Yeah, yeah.

You won all three rounds. I won all three rounds.

It was one of those days when every 50-50 was right,

so somehow I didn't get a question wrong.

So, basically, we're seeing the real hot spot on the leaderboard

here with you two placed second and third.

Are you ready? As I ever will be.

Good luck to you both.

Contestants, this is where you need to prove you could be an Egghead.

You are getting closer and closer.

Just like on Eggheads,

both of you will compete over a series of different rounds

where your knowledge will be tested on the regular Eggheads categories.

So the first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Geography.

I'll ask each of you three multiple-choice questions

on geography in turn.

Whoever answers the most questions correctly wins the round.

The prize for winning a round on Make Me An Egghead

is that you gain an extra brain for the final.

Not just any old brain, one of these brains over this side here.

So, Gary, as our highest-ranked player in the semifinal,

you can tell us whether you now want to go first or second.

It worked well in my heat, so I will go first, please, Jeremy.

And, Gary, here is your first question.

In which English county is the village of Naseby,

site of a famous 1645 battle?

OK. I've driven past Naseby, on my way to a quiz, actually.

And that quiz was held in Northamptonshire.

So unless my GPS sent me very badly the wrong way,

the answer to that is Northamptonshire.

Northamptonshire is right.

And do we know the 1645 battle, what that was?

Do we know anything about it? English Civil War. Anyone?

It was the Battle of Naseby, yes, in the Civil War.

It was one of the climactic battles in the Civil War.

Right.

OK, Gerard, over to you

for your first question.

Which of these countries shares a border with Namibia?

Well, Malawi's too far east, and so is Tanzania,

too far north, really.

It's got to be Botswana.

Botswana is correct.

So, one each. Back to you, Gary.

The ancient region of Cappadocia

occupied an area of which present-day country?

OK. I think there are some impressive rock formations there,

which loads of tourists go to see.

Um, and it's certainly in Turkey.

Turkey is correct.

Your question, Gerard.

Mondello beach is a feature of which Mediterranean island?

Well, I've not heard of Mondello beach, I have to say.

It does sound very Italian, so I...

uh, I think I'll rule out Malta.

Mondello... Mondello beach...

I'm going to play with the odds

and go for the largest one there, Sicily.

Sicily is the right answer. Well done, Gerard.

Now your question, Gary,

your third.

Which country borders the Mexican state of Tabasco?

Hmm. Right.

That one's not quite so easy.

Belize, I think, has a border with...Yucatan Peninsula.

It will have quite a small border with Mexico.

So if I'm playing the percentages,

I'm probably going to rule out Belize.

Could be the USA, to be honest with you,

cos it's got an enormous border with Mexico, but...

I think Tabasco is further south.

So on not very much evidence, and this is quite a weak answer,

I'm going to say Guatemala.

Guatemala is correct.

You've got three out of three, Gary. Well done.

Gerard, to stay in, your third question.

Approximately how many years was St Petersburg known as Leningrad?

Well, it changed back in the '90s.

So...that takes us back to...22.

No, that's...that's far too recent.

I think it's 67, Jeremy.

It is 67. You're right.

You're equal after three. We knew we had

two good quizzers here.

Sudden Death, we go to. Gary, your question.

On which island is the resort of Famagusta?

Famagusta... Now, I need to get this right,

because I might confuse it with Faliraki, which is on Rhodes.

But Famagusta, if I'm not much mistaken,

is on the island of Cyprus.

Cyprus is right.

Janiculum is a hill in which European city, Gerard?

Janiculum is a hill just to the west, I think, of Rome.

Rome is right.

Back to you, Gary. Sudden Death.

The capital of which Southeast Asian country

was formerly called Batavia?

That...is... Well, it's the capital of Indonesia,

because it used to be run by the Dutch and it's, um...Jakarta.

I just want the country. Oh! Indonesia, then.

You've said it. Indonesia is quite right.

Gerard,

the US state of Wisconsin has borders on Lake Superior

and which other Great Lake?

Ah, right.

So, Sergeant Major Hates Eating Oranges.

That's the way I always remember the order of the lakes.

So M is Michigan.

So I think it must be Michigan.

Take us through that...acronym, or whatever you call it.

Yeah, it's Sergeant Majors Hate Eating Oranges -

just reminds me of the order from Superior,

Michigan, "Hates" is Huron, "Eating" is Eerie

and "Oranges" is Ontario.

You heard that one before? Yeah.

If you swap the second and third ones round,

you've got them in decreasing order of size as well, so that helps. Oh!

Listen, they will be tuned into that, I tell you.

Writing it down under the desk.

Michigan is quite right.

Gary, the Genissiat dam,

which, when it opened in 1948, was one of the largest in Europe,

is on which river in France?

Oh, crikey. Would you mind spelling that, please?

Yeah, G-E acute accent -N-I-S-S-I-A-T.

Genissiat.

I'll have to be honest, I don't know this,

so I'm going to guess for a river in France.

Um, so I really ought to pick one of the bigger ones,

which would mean picking the Seine, the Loire or the Rhone.

I don't think it's the Loire, because I've been there,

I've certainly been to the lower reaches of it.

Let's go for the...Seine.

A-ha! You had, what, Seine, Loire and Rhone?

Yeah. And it's the Rhone, is it?

It's the Rhone. Yeah, OK. JEREMY CHUCKLES

Now, because this is such a tight contest, Gerard,

I'm tempted to say you need to take advantage now.

Sudden Death.

Get this right and you've taken the round.

Which African capital is situated on the Bou Regreg river,

opposite the city of Sale?

Sale is S-A-L-E with an acute accent.

Sale. Well, Sale, it sounds...

like a French pronunciation of an African name,

so I'm thinking...French Africa.

I really don't know this.

I'm just going to have to take a bit of a leap in the dark.

I'm going to say Bamako in Mali.

I like your logic, but you're wrong.

It's Rabat, the capital of Morocco.

Sudden Death.

Your question, Gary.

Mato Grosso is the name of both a state and a plateau

in which South American country?

Right, when you said it, um...

before you said South American, I immediately thought Brazil.

So I'm going to have a think, see if I want to change.

And I don't, so I'm going to stick with Brazil.

Brazil is right.

Gerard,

the Ataturk Dam in Turkey stands on which river?

Uh... Ooh, do I know...? I'm trying to think...

No... The Amu Darya? I can't think of rivers in Turkey.

The Amu Darya? Yeah.

The answer is the Euphrates. Oh!

So, on Sudden Death, Gary has edged ahead.

What a round! And just the start, isn't it?

Well done, Gary, you've won the first head-to-head.

So you gain an Egghead for the final round.

You have got the pick of the bunch there. OK.

It won't be a shock, I don't think. I'd like to pick Kevin, please.

So, there we are. Kevin is spoken for now.

Gary has one Egghead to help him in the final.

Gerard doesn't have one yet. We play on.

The next category is Music.

And, Gary, as you won that round,

you can choose whether you want to go first or second in this.

I'll, predictably, again, carry on and go first, please.

Gary, Love Resurrection, released in 1984,

was the first solo single by which artist?

OK. It's too early for Lisa Stansfield,

because she was the late '80s.

Unfortunately, I don't actually know.

I'm just trying to think.

I've got Eurythmics' greatest hits and does that have any

Annie Lennox on it? Um...

My brother will kill me. He loves '80s music. Right, OK.

We'll say Annie Lennox. Let's see.

I was going to look for Dave there, who knows all these things. Lisa?

I probably would have gone the same way actually. Really?

Well, Annie Lennox was in Eurythmics...

What was the date on it?

OK, '84. '84, no, that's too early. OK.

I thought you said '94, which is what had me confused.

I think the thing is that as a 51-year-old bloke,

this was in the charts...

You're old, I'm young. I know, you don't need to know.

You're only 38, Gary, for crying out loud. It is Alison Moyet.

Moyet. OK, Gerard. Advantage to you. Here's your question.

Frederick Loewe, who with Alan Jay Lerner wrote many hit musicals,

including Brigadoon and My Fair Lady, was born in which country?

Ooh. Now, this is tricky.

I mean, I really have not heard of him being born outside the US,

so I have no idea about this,

so I'll just have to go on the surname, Loewe.

It's not Danish.

It sounds more Flemish. I'm going to try Belgium.

Eggheads? German. German.

German. Ah.

So, you're still level. Question two to you, Gary.

In 1953, which singer notched up a total of 18 weeks in the

number one spot on the UK singles chart with his song I Believe?

I Believe... I think it's I Believe In You.

It's not Mario Lanza, is it?

I think it's Perry Como.

Ooh. I heard...

It wasn't a snort of disgust,

it was a little jump of bemusement from the Eggheads.

Who knows this? It's Frankie Laine.

Frankie Laine.

No. And it's around the time of the beginning of the charts and

the birth of rock and roll and all that, isn't it?

OK. So, Gerard, again you have a chance to get a lead.

Destiny Hope were the original first names of which American

singing star?

Destiny Hope.

Hm.

I know Miley Cyrus is a showbiz child,

so she could have been given two unusual first names.

Destiny Hope.

I'm pretty sure it's not Taylor Swift. Can't be Taylor Swift.

Destiny Hope.

I'm going to try Ariana Grande.

No, that's wrong as well.

Miley Cyrus. Really? Ah.

OK, Gary.

The cimbalom, most commonly found in Central Europe,

is an example of what type of instrument?

Well, after the way this round is going,

it'll come as no surprise that I haven't got a clue.

Um... Let's say a cimbalom is a miniature accordion.

It's a hammered dulcimer.

So, Gerard, you have a chance to take the round.

We've been here before, OK.

Formed in 1979, the US record label Sugarhill was best known for its

important role in the development and popularisation of which

of these musical genres?

Sugarhill Gang or something, I've heard...

Yeah, I associate that name, Sugarhill, with hip-hop.

So I'm saying hip-hop.

Yes, hip-hop is the answer. Gerard, you're the winner.

Congratulations, you have won the head-to-head.

And one point was enough to take the music round.

Now, that point earns you an Egghead,

so which one would you like?

Obviously, Gary has already got Kevin.

I shall pick a previous world quiz champion, Pat Gibson.

Very good. So, this is lining up well for the final, isn't it?

As it stands, Gary has one Egghead to help him. Gerrard also has one.

The next category is Arts Books and, Gerard, as the winner of

the last round, you can choose whether you go first or second.

I'll go first, please.

Here's your question.

Which famous novel starts with the words, "It was the best of

"times, it was the worst of times"?

Well, this is a very famous opening from A Tale Of Two Cities.

A Tale Of Two Cities is quite right.

Gary, the artist Frank Auerbach is best known for his work in

which field?

OK. Er...

I wish I'd gone first here. Um...

Photography.

OK.

Judith, what's the famous thing about Auerbach? Impasto.

He layers on enormously thick paint.

All dark brown, as far as I can make out.

Almost sculpture with paint, isn't it?

Because blobbing it so far, it comes out of the frame at you. Yes.

Almost 3D because there's such a lot of it.

Yes, but painting is the answer. OK.

They hang in a frame in art galleries.

So, you have one, Gerard, and, Gary, ever since the geography round...

It's gone wrong. What's happened here?

Gerard, your question.

Which of these American writers was born first?

Ooh.

Harper Lee and JD Salinger both died in recent years.

I'm not sure about John Steinbeck.

In my mind, John Steinbeck goes further back.

Because I'm sure his books are sort of set in the Depression

era of the '30s.

I think he might have been writing not long after that.

I'll try John Steinbeck anyway. John Steinbeck.

Now, on dates, I always go to Kevin.

Yeah, it is John Steinbeck. Can you tell us when they were born?

He was born in 1902.

Salinger, I think, was 1919, and Harper Lee, 1926.

So, John Steinbeck it is.

Which means you've got to get this right, Gary.

Which artist was particularly involved with the design

group called the Omega Workshops,

from its founding in 1913 until its closure in 1919?

Ah. Um...

William Morris was Arts Crafts, which was the 19th century,

so let's exclude him, although again, it could be him.

Um...

Roger Fry could be a little bit after that. I don't know.

We'll say Gwen John. Hope to break this losing streak.

Gerard, do you know? By any chance?

I was thinking Roger Fry,

although Roger Fry did art criticism as well, didn't he?

I'm sure he came up with the name of a major art group,

but otherwise, I'm not really sure.

The answer is Roger Fry. You just took the wrong...

You've been unlucky with the guessing, actually, Gary. Bad luck.

Gerard wins that round. Congratulations, Gerard.

You've triumphed in another head-to-head.

So you can choose a second Egghead. You've already got Pat.

Who else would you like? I'll pick Barry, please.

All right, so Gerard has two Eggheads, Pat and Barry.

Gary has one, so it is a tight contest.

Gary, I'm feeling we need a point. Let's turn it around now.

The next category is Sport.

I don't know which of you is the sport person.

Gerard, you won the previous round.

Is this your subject or not? I won it last time, but it was more...

luck than judgment, I think.

Well, you won the last round, so you can say first or second.

I shall go...second.

OK, so we're on Sport, Gary. Good luck to you both. Here we go.

Your first question - in which US city is the basketball team

called the Nuggets based?

OK, um...

They always say in quizzing if something comes into your head

before you see the options, you should go with it.

Um, so...what came into my mind was Denver, so I'll say Denver.

Denver is right. Well done.

Back with a bounce.

Gerard, which of these were removed from the new game of Rugby League

in 1897?

Hmm...

Substitutions... I'm not sure any sport had substitutions that early.

I'm going to try line-outs, Jeremy.

Barry will know this. Line-outs is right.

Yes, line-outs is right.

Second question, Gary.

Over how many obstacles is an Olympic 110-metre hurdles race

typically run?

Um, 12 would obviously mean they'd have to be spaced very close

to each other, which strikes me as a little bit unlikely.

Um...

I'm just trying to picture it in my head.

I'm trying to count them going over, which...

is relying on a very faulty memory, I think. Um...

They do it in quite quick times as well, so I think the lower one

has to be more likely, so I'm going to say eight.

You've got the logic of that completely, but is it right? Gerard?

I think it's ten for either 110 or 400 metres.

I think they both run over ten hurdles.

Ten is right.

So, Gerard, you have a chance to take the lead.

Which golfer announced that the 2016 US Masters tournament

would be his last as a player?

Which golfer?

I still think Tiger Woods has got something left in him yet.

Phil Mickelson, I don't think he's ready to retire. Tom Watson is...

Been in the game an awful long time,

so I'm going to try Tom Watson.

Anyone know this? Lisa?

It's a toss-up between Watson. I vaguely remember something

about Tiger Woods, but I'd have gone for Watson.

Tom Watson is right.

So you are in the lead, Gary. You need

to get this right to stay in this round.

The opening stage of the inaugural Tour de France

began in Paris and ended in which city?

Um...

That's almost, um...

Yeah, there's no real way I will know that, to be honest.

Nantes is closer to Paris, Lyon is a bigger city,

Toulouse is furthest away.

Um...

Let's try Nantes.

Pat knows. They cycled from Paris to Lyon - it's almost incredible.

It's an enormous distance.

How far is that roughly? About 250 to 300 miles.

It's an enormous distance.

They thought it was a good idea to do this again and again and again?

So the upshot is it's Lyon.

And that means there is no way back in this round,

so we say congratulations, Gerard, you've won another head-to-head.

So, Gerard, you've got Pat and Barry.

You can choose, because Gary's got Kevin,

you can choose either Lisa or Judith.

Because...I don't know her as well, I'm going to try Lisa.

Good with that, Lisa? Always.

So, Gerard has got three Eggheads to help him in the final, Gary has one.

Need to right this disadvantage in the next round, Gary.

And the subject is Film TV.

Because Gerard won the last round, you can choose first or second.

I'll go first, please.

Film TV. Good luck, gentlemen. Last round before we play our final.

In an episode of Friends, which character wanted to change

her name to Princess Consuela Banana Hammock?

Well, that is out there and strange,

I think that can only be Phoebe Buffay.

Phoebe is the correct answer.

OK, Gary, your question.

In various series of Strictly Come Dancing,

Ainsley Harriet, Michael Vaughan and Audley Harrison were

partnered with which professional dancer?

Um...

Unfortunately, those were all series that I did not watch.

Obviously, I watched the series you were on, Jeremy,

with great interest.

Um...

It's, yeah... Um... Audley Harrison...

Ola Jordan is quite small - that would have been quite amusing,

wouldn't it, a big guy with her?

I don't know again. Ola Jordan.

Oh, OK, you've gone for the one... I thought you were ruling her out.

The answer is Natalie Lowe,

who's the very statuesque Australian,

who is probably almost six foot, I should think.

Lisa? She's a good 5'10 and for that reason, she normally ends up with

people like Audley Harrison, who is just enormous.

It's Natalie Lowe, Gary,

so you didn't get that right.

On to Gerard.

Who provided the singing voice for Pat in the 2014 film

Postman Pat - The Movie?

# Postman Pat, Postman Pat... #

Trying to get into the mind-set!

In the film, I think he enters a singing contest, you know,

an X Factor type...

I don't think it's going to be...

I can't see Mick Hucknall getting involved in anything like that.

So it's between Ronan Keating and Gary Barlow.

I'm going to try Ronan Keating here.

Yeah, it's trying to picture somebody who would sing Postman Pat

with great conviction.

I think Ronan Keating is that sort of man.

He is. He would do it. You're right, it is Ronan Keating.

And, Gerard, you did sing when you were auditioning for Eggheads,

is that right? I did indeed. Can you just give us a little burst

of Postman Pat or anything in your repertoire? Yeah, well...

# Postman Pat and his Black and white cat

# Early in the morning Just as day is dawning

# He picks up all the post bags in his van. #

Brilliant!

OK.

All right, serious matters, Gary.

I know this is difficult, because you are two down in the force.

But it's not unrescuable, not by any manner of means.

This is the moment for the comeback. You've got to get this right.

Which musician is played by Tom Hiddleston in the film

I Saw The Light, released in the UK in 2016?

Like most people, I watched him in The Night Manager

and really enjoyed that.

Unfortunately, I've not even heard of this film.

Um... I can see him...

I can see him playing Hank Williams.

Let's just say Hank Williams and leave it at that.

Gerard?

I think there's been a previous film about Hank Williams.

I don't think they'd make another one so soon.

I would have gone for Conway Twitty myself.

No, Hank Williams is correct. Oh! OK!

OK. So you're still in it.

But if Gerald gets this right, he's won the round.

How many Oscars did the 1941 film Citizen Kane win?

I was unaware that Citizen Kane had won ANY Oscars.

So...

bearing that in mind, I'm going to say one.

Interesting, because as a layman,

I just think it's the best film of all time

and, therefore, it would have won three.

So I would have gone the other way. Who can tell us what it won?

No, no, I can't remember.

Um... It didn't do terribly well. Can you remember?

Cinematography for Mankiewicz?

Best Writing, Original Screenplay... OK.

..Mankiewicz, so the name was bang on.

It's Screenplay, not Cinematography.

Yeah. But you're right, given that we now think of it as the best.

But your logic was good, though, Gerard.

No taking anything away from that. One is the right answer,

which means that you've taken this round.

And we say congratulations - the final head-to-head is yours.

And I can almost choose the Egghead for you,

but I think we should go through the motions. There's only one left

and one of the best - Judith, the million-pounder.

Yeah. Strong subjects - botany and rocket science.

Do you remember when you beat the rocket scientist?

I did, and I also beat Edwina Currie on Politics.

Yes, so we've had some standout moments. That was a good one.

So, Gary, you have got Kevin in the final round

and, Gerard, you've managed to amass Pat and Barry and Lisa and Judith.

Let us now play the final round.

So this is what we have been playing towards.

It is time to find out who is one step closer to becoming an Egghead

and who will be eliminated from our search.

I will ask each of you five questions in turn.

This time, the questions are all General Knowledge.

In this final round, you will have the backing

of the Eggheads you've won over the course of the show.

So, Gary, you have got the great Kevin right behind you

and, Gerard, you've actually got Pat and Lisa and Judith and Barry.

You will be able to call on your respective Eggheads for advice

before giving an answer to a question.

You can ask each of them for help only once, though.

You could use more than one for one question,

if you need to, Gerard.

Use them wisely, that's the main thing.

This is it. If you win this round, you're through to the Grand Final.

So, Gerard, you won the last round,

you now get to choose whether you want to play first or second.

I'll go first, please.

Good luck. Here is your first question.

The Seram Sea is part of which ocean?

Seram...

Well, I've not heard of it.

It doesn't...really remind me of any particular place.

It sounds Indian, but I'm not going to say that as an answer.

I'm going to go to Pat on this one, please.

OK, Pat is very, very good on his maps.

You've been called in on the first question, Pat.

The Seram Sea, which can be spelt with an S or a C,

is part of which ocean?

I'm not absolutely definite on this.

Um, I have a feeling that it's in the middle of

the Indonesian Archipelago, there may even be an island called Seram.

As far as I remember, um, most of the contents of Indonesia,

most of the water contents there, I think are normally viewed

as being Pacific rather than Indian.

It's a very intricate archipelago with all sorts of little sub-seas.

I'm pretty sure Seram is an Indonesian island

and there is a Seram Sea.

So, the only question is,

do you call it Indian or do you call it Pacific?

Because the country of Indonesia

is sort of on the border between the two.

I'm not entirely certain, but if I had to answer,

I would answer Pacific.

Right. OK, so, Pat has given you his guidance.

Thanks. Yup. OK.

You can accept or reject or ask another Egghead, or whatever.

I'm going to play the odds,

I'm going to go for Pacific, please, Jeremy.

The answer is correct.

Well done, Pat.

Gary, back to you.

Bright's disease is inflammation of which organ of the human body?

Speaking to a GP.

Fortunately, for my GMC registration,

I do happen to know that

Bright's disease is definitely a disease of the kidney.

Ha-ha! Kidney is correct.

This is interesting - the first question,

Gerard uses an Egghead,

the first question, you don't use an Egghead,

so it gets a little bit more even, just a little.

Gerard, your second question.

On a suit of armour,

which of these body parts was protected by the besague?

Besague, Gerard, is B-E-S-A-G-U-E.

B-E-S-A-G-U-E.

I can't see any linguistic root. I mean, "bese" are arms.

But, um...

Hmm.

Besague...

Well, I think I'm going to have to try Barry on this.

Barry, you've been called in.

Right. Well, I know a few of the various bits that go to make

a suit of armour, but there are just so many of them.

A full suit of armour is actually called a panoply,

but that doesn't help us with this question.

But I just have a glimmer

at the end of my mind that besague has something to do with armpits,

but it's a very, very faintest glimmer

and that's all I can offer, I'm afraid. I really don't know.

OK, so, he is, I won't even say leaning,

he's got a twinkle or a glimmer. I've got a feeling I would have...

I've read a few bits of armour as well,

I get the feeling I would have heard of it if it was a shin guard.

Um...

Chin?

I suppose it would need a special joint.

I'm going to try armpit.

Armpit, you say? OK.

Gary, do you know this one?

I would have said chin, but I don't know it. Chin, right.

Armpit is correct.

You can rest easy now, Barry, back there!

We so want to get these answers right for the contestant.

I know you do, I know you do. OK, Gary, your question.

Arthur, Prince of Wales, the elder brother of Henry VIII

and first husband of Catherine of Aragon,

died aged 15 in 1502,

in which castle?

Oh, this is a very, very tricky one,

because I certainly have a big inkling myself.

Big inkling.

Um, and I've only got Kevin once.

Had my opponent got any wrong so far, I'd probably go for this,

but he hasn't.

Therefore, I'm going to go to Kevin and ask him for confirmation.

Your logic being because he hasn't got any wrong,

you can't afford to get any wrong? Absolutely. I see, OK.

So, Kevin, Arthur, Prince of Wales,

the elder brother of Henry VIII and the first husband of

Catherine of Aragon, died aged 15 in 1502, in which castle?

I believe it's Ludlow.

I think it's Ludlow.

I'm not 100% certain, but I think it's Ludlow. Right, OK.

I know you would indicate much more uncertainty if you felt it.

So, Gary, he says Ludlow. You can, of course, reject that.

Is that what you suspected?

Well, it's obvious to say it now,

but I did think it was Ludlow as well.

So, if Kevin thinks it, then yes, I'm going to go with Ludlow. OK.

In a way, it's a shame,

because you've used your Egghead to confirm what you were thinking

yourself, but I know you don't want to get it wrong, above all.

Ludlow is correct, well done.

Oh, what a tight contest this is! Gary is now all out of Eggheads.

You still have Lisa and Judith there.

And here is your third question, with the scores at 2-2.

No daylight between you yet.

Gerard, which Second World War pilot, who died in 2016,

flew more aircraft types than anyone else

and made a record 2,407 aircraft carrier landings?

There's not a lot... No...

I'm not very good on World War II pilots, I must admit.

I'm going to go to Judith on this.

Judith, you've been called in.

I saw an interview with him on the telly,

if not two interviews with him,

and I'm fairly sure it was Eric Brown.

And that was obviously before 2016, when he died?

Yes, before he died. There was a wonderful...

I mean, it was a very long interview

and he was an extraordinary character. OK.

And I just pray that I've got his name right,

but this is what came to my mind.

Right, so Judith has gone straight there with a measure of certainty.

Does that help you, Gerard?

You know, I think I might have seen a bit of that interview,

but I just didn't take his name in at the time.

So, um...

I'm going to go with Judith's inkling and say Eric Brown.

Eric Brown.

So, it's a very, very tight contest, no-one can afford a wrong answer.

The Second World War pilot who made the record number of landings,

flew more aircraft than anyone,

was Eric Brown. Well done, Gerard. Well done, Judith.

Thank goodness for that! Well done, you.

Decisive intervention!

So, Gerard has only one Egghead left, Lisa,

and, Gary, you are playing alone now.

Five questions. Unusually for Eggheads, we go to five.

You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet was a 1974 UK hit single for which group?

OK.

Um...

Now, this is bearing in mind that we had

a music round earlier where I got every single question wrong.

Um...

And if you had asked me which is my worst musical decade,

I would say the 1970s.

So, that's not a promising start, is it? Um...

Now, I'm just trying to think

if I can picture the name of this song with...

with anything. Um...

I don't know if Bachman-Turner Overdrive...

They've got a very prog name, haven't they?

And the song certainly isn't very prog. Um...

Yeah, um, by a very flimsy process of elimination,

I'm going to have to say Smokie.

Smokie is your answer.

This is right up my street, as it happens,

because this is all stuff that Radio 2 plays!

Er...it is Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

Yeah? Well, OK.

Smokie -

well, their famous one is Living Next Door To Alice,

Stumblin' In and... What else did Smokie do?

I don't know, but Bachman-Turner Overdrive,

I usually associate with Harry Enfield.

When him and Paul Whitehouse are doing Smashie and Nicey,

they always end every sketch with,

"And now it's Bachman-Turner Overdrive

"with You Ain't Seen N-Nothing Yet." That's it. Cut straight to that.

OK! So there is that reference as well.

OK, so, you've got one wrong now, Gary,

and it means that Gerard is somewhat in control,

because he also has another Egghead still to play, Lisa.

Here is your question, Gerard, fourth question to you.

Which comedy actor, born in 1917,

made his film debut as Percy Lamb opposite Margaret Rutherford

and Petula Clark in the 1954 film The Runaway Bus?

1954, so he's 37.

I don't think...

I really don't think Benny Hill or Dick Emery would go in that role,

but I've got a recording of Frankie Howerd

doing some comedy song in the '50s...

I'm going to go with Frankie Howerd.

So, you're not using Lisa for this? No, I'm going to go for it.

Saving her.

Frankie Howerd is correct.

You're a very hard man to beat, that's for sure.

So, Gerard has four points.

We are doing five questions here.

So if you get this wrong, there is no way of overtaking Gerard.

You must get it right.

What is the technical term for a sympathetic pregnancy

where the father of the baby starts to experience

the pregnancy symptoms of the mother?

I want to say you've been lucky with your medical questions,

but I don't know! No, no.

This is not something that you actually come across as a GP,

it's not something that somebody comes in and says,

"I have the pregnancy symptoms of my partner."

Um...

See, there's gravid, which is Latin for pregnant,

and there is that in the Degrivade syndrome.

Um...

However, there is something that is drawing me inextricably and

probably entirely incorrectly to Couvade syndrome, um...

So, um, yeah...

Not been very lucky today at all and I think that will probably

continue, but let's just put it out there and say Couvade syndrome.

Couvade syndrome.

See if Kevin knows. Kevin?

No, I don't know, Jeremy. I can't say I've come across this, so...

Yeah, again, like Gary, I don't like that Degrivade there when it's

so close to gravid, um,

I'd probably tend to regard that as a red herring in there.

So, if Gary has got an inkling, that could well be it,

but I can't say any of those mean anything to me.

And gravid meaning...? It is pregnant, in Latin. I see.

If you get this wrong, the contest is over and Gerard has won.

If you've got it right, we play on.

You can't consult Kevin, because you've already used him.

You said Couvade, I wonder if

anyone knows on the Eggheads side over here?

Yes, it is definitely Couvade. I've heard of Couvade, yes.

Yeah, Gerard as well, they all confirm it. Couvade is right.

So, well done, you've got three points now.

Just one behind Gerard.

Gerard, you're on four.

You can clinch it now with your fifth question.

And you've still got Lisa.

Where on the human body can the tragus be found? T-R-A-G-U-S.

Tragus...

I have a feeling it is part of the ear,

it's where the workings of the outer...

It's part of the outer ear that hangs down, I think,

from the top of the lobe.

It's something like that.

So, no, I don't think I need to use the Egghead, I'll try ear.

Ear is your answer.

You don't need to go to Lisa on this?

No, I'm pretty sure that tragus is part of the ear. OK.

Confident play. Lisa, what would you have said?

I would have said A, that it's this little bit here, I believe,

is your tragus, and B, that he's absolutely right.

OK.

If you've got this right, you've won.

Gary, the doctor - is he right?

He's absolutely right.

And, Lisa, you're right, it is that part of the ear.

So, the ear is the correct answer, we say congratulations,

Gerard, you have won!

With five out of five and using only three of your four Eggheads.

Well played! Thank you.

Were you playing above your normal game or just within it?

Pff! Well... You know that much, don't you?

I... I know some things...

You know a lot. I knew everything there.

How was that, Gary?

He was unbeatable today.

I couldn't do very much there, could I?

You played well too, but he's very, very good.

Is he Egghead good? We shall see.

Congratulations, Gerard, you've proved once again that

winning comes as naturally to you as it does to our Eggheads,

which means you are through to the Grand Final and that much

closer to becoming an Egghead.

Just one more match could see you get a permanent seat at that desk.

Join us soon to find out who our next Grand Finalist will be.

Until then, goodbye.

You see clips of a pile of bricks causing anger in a gallery.

And a pickled shark floating in a tank.

Then a voiceover asks you...

"Is art just an idea?"