0:00:05 > 0:00:09These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11Together, they make up the Eggheads - arguably,
0:00:11 > 0:00:14the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:14 > 0:00:18The question is - do you have the brains to join them?
0:00:24 > 0:00:26Hello, and welcome to Make Me An Egghead.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28We have launched a nationwide search
0:00:28 > 0:00:30to find the greatest quiz brains in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32Over the past few weeks,
0:00:32 > 0:00:35we've seen contestants battle it out to win the ultimate prize for
0:00:35 > 0:00:37quizzing enthusiasts,
0:00:37 > 0:00:41which is an actual place here at the desk where the Eggheads sit!
0:00:41 > 0:00:43And they're very precious seats, those, aren't they?
0:00:43 > 0:00:45Yes. They're hard-won.
0:00:45 > 0:00:49Yep. This is our last semifinal in our search to find two new Eggheads,
0:00:49 > 0:00:52so let us meet today's contestants. I'm Nicki Cockburn,
0:00:52 > 0:00:55I'm a broadcast journalist and volunteer radio presenter,
0:00:55 > 0:00:58and I'm from Cardiff.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00I'm Beth Webster, I'm a health and safety advisor
0:01:00 > 0:01:01and I live in Watford.
0:01:01 > 0:01:05Great to see you both back here. Nicki, first of all, you got through the heats, in fact,
0:01:05 > 0:01:08you won all three rounds, didn't you? I did, yes, I was lucky.
0:01:08 > 0:01:12And you then chose, was it Kevin, Dave and Barry?
0:01:12 > 0:01:16It was, yes, and Dave helped me out on a question.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18What was the key moment, do you think,
0:01:18 > 0:01:20in the last bit of that contest? Any key question?
0:01:20 > 0:01:23I think the one about Laura Kuenssberg being the new political editor.
0:01:23 > 0:01:27Because I had two other Eggheads that I could have used,
0:01:27 > 0:01:29and I sort of knew that one.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32And I thought, it's OK because if I needed to answer another question,
0:01:32 > 0:01:34I still had the two Eggheads.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37I didn't need to use them for that round, so...
0:01:37 > 0:01:39Apart from Dave, so... Yeah.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41Well, next time I see her,
0:01:41 > 0:01:44I'll say she was pivotal in getting you to this point!
0:01:44 > 0:01:47She was, thank her for me! She'll be delighted she got it right as well.
0:01:47 > 0:01:49Beth, how about you? How were the heats for you?
0:01:49 > 0:01:52Oh, the heats were good - I was on tenterhooks to see whether I actually
0:01:52 > 0:01:57still remained in the top four. So I'm quite excited to be here now.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00Yes, you won two out of three head-to-heads and then you scored 15 points
0:02:00 > 0:02:02in the Quickfire, which was very good.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05Yes, I did, yeah. Quickfire requires a different kind of skill,
0:02:05 > 0:02:08doesn't it? It does, and luckily,
0:02:08 > 0:02:12my Mastermind experience has stood me in good stead for quickfire rounds.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15Amazingly, you've been on Mastermind five times?
0:02:15 > 0:02:17I have, yeah, once in the semifinal and then...
0:02:17 > 0:02:19Well, five heats and one semifinal.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22And if there is a particular specialist subject from Mastermind that you
0:02:22 > 0:02:27would be willing us to have come up today, what would it be?
0:02:27 > 0:02:30Muppet movies, of course! I thought you'd say the Muppet movies!
0:02:30 > 0:02:33What was the expression on John Humphrys' face when you chose that?
0:02:33 > 0:02:35Difficult to explain,
0:02:35 > 0:02:38and I wouldn't want to be rude about one of your colleagues!
0:02:38 > 0:02:39So, Nicki, how about you?
0:02:39 > 0:02:42You've been on The Chase and Wright Around The World as well.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44Yes. And Two Tribes and Pointless.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47Yeah, so this is a lot different.
0:02:47 > 0:02:52But the pressure is still the same, you still get nervous, but you know,
0:02:52 > 0:02:54it's all the questions on the day, really,
0:02:54 > 0:02:56so you can never really tell how it's going to happen.
0:02:56 > 0:03:00And we met your guide dog, James, last time - he did seem to get,
0:03:00 > 0:03:04at certain key moments in the contest, he does make himself known,
0:03:04 > 0:03:06or felt? He does, yeah,
0:03:06 > 0:03:09I think that's because I was rather vocal in my pleasure of getting
0:03:09 > 0:03:11questions right. So if...
0:03:11 > 0:03:15When I get questions right today, I shall just have to go, "Oh, good!"
0:03:15 > 0:03:18I think my voice was in danger of breaking the windows at one point!
0:03:18 > 0:03:21Because he came out from under the desk to see what was going on?
0:03:21 > 0:03:26He did - he was quite alarmed, yes! OK, well, good luck for both of you.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29Contestants - this is where you need to prove that you could be an
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Egghead. Just like on Eggheads,
0:03:31 > 0:03:34both of you will compete over a series of different rounds,
0:03:34 > 0:03:37where your knowledge will be tested on the regular Eggheads categories.
0:03:37 > 0:03:41So, the first head-to-head battle will be on the subject of Sport.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44I will ask you three multiple-choice questions on sport in turn -
0:03:44 > 0:03:48whoever answers the most questions correctly wins the round.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51That much is obvious. But as you know, there's an extra twist,
0:03:51 > 0:03:54which is that you can then choose an Egghead to help you in the
0:03:54 > 0:03:58final round. Nicki, as our highest-ranked player in this semifinal,
0:03:58 > 0:04:01you have the option as to whether you'd like to play first or second.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03Can I go first, please, Jeremy?
0:04:06 > 0:04:08OK, here we go, Nicki - good luck.
0:04:08 > 0:04:12The Manchester United and Ireland footballer Denis Irwin usually
0:04:12 > 0:04:14played in which position?
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Erm...
0:04:19 > 0:04:22Right, now, I have heard of him, so that's a good start!
0:04:22 > 0:04:26I don't remember when I've heard of him, though.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28I did go through a phase of supporting...
0:04:28 > 0:04:30certain football teams.
0:04:32 > 0:04:36I'm not very sure, so I shall just guess and say...
0:04:39 > 0:04:41Striker. Striker.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43OK, now, I know who to ask about this,
0:04:43 > 0:04:45and that is Tremendous Knowledge Dave.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48This was in the Alex Ferguson years?
0:04:48 > 0:04:49Yes, he was, yeah.
0:04:49 > 0:04:53He joined United, I think, in 1990 from Oldham Athletic.
0:04:54 > 0:04:58Erm, very consistent, played about 600 games,
0:04:58 > 0:05:03but he played as a right-back and a left-back at United - so,
0:05:03 > 0:05:05he's a defender. Defender is the answer.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08A friend of mine, who's a Man U fan, said Ferguson had said,
0:05:08 > 0:05:12"Denis is always the first name on the team sheet."
0:05:12 > 0:05:15Yeah. He was. Whatever you're doing, you always put Denis in there.
0:05:15 > 0:05:20Well, he was a stalwart, very loyal player, never rocked the boat,
0:05:20 > 0:05:22and always consistent.
0:05:22 > 0:05:23Useful qualities.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26Let's see, Beth, if you can take the lead on your first question.
0:05:26 > 0:05:30Who was the winning quarterback at the 2016 Super Bowl?
0:05:35 > 0:05:39I'm exceptionally happy that American football has come up, Jeremy,
0:05:39 > 0:05:42because my husband is a massive American football fan.
0:05:43 > 0:05:47This was the last match of this particular quarterback,
0:05:47 > 0:05:50because he announced his retirement straight afterwards.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53And fingers crossed, I'm hoping I'm going to get the right name.
0:05:54 > 0:05:58The two quarterbacks in the final were Cam Newton and Peyton Manning.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00But unfortunately, Cam Newton was on the losing side,
0:06:00 > 0:06:03so I believe the correct answer is Peyton Manning.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06That's about as much American football knowledge as we've ever had
0:06:06 > 0:06:08displayed in this studio, I think!
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Peyton Manning is quite right!
0:06:10 > 0:06:11Your husband will be pleased!
0:06:11 > 0:06:13He will be, very pleased!
0:06:13 > 0:06:15OK, Nicki, your second question -
0:06:15 > 0:06:19which of these athletics events is part of an Olympic decathlon?
0:06:24 > 0:06:26Ooh, goodness.
0:06:26 > 0:06:31Erm, there's lots and lots in a decathlon.
0:06:31 > 0:06:32I know that they do the hammer.
0:06:34 > 0:06:40Because I think there was a guy called Dean Macey,
0:06:40 > 0:06:43and I don't know whether he was a decathlete.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46But his name has just popped into my head, which doesn't mean anything,
0:06:46 > 0:06:48because I don't even know whether he was in the Olympics.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50So that doesn't really...
0:06:50 > 0:06:53They might have different things in the Olympics.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56I don't know if the ladies do the decathlon.
0:06:56 > 0:07:00I don't think ladies do hammer throws.
0:07:00 > 0:07:01Well, they might do.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03Anyway, I'm just going to guess.
0:07:03 > 0:07:07Because he popped into my head, I'm just going to guess the hammer.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09The hammer is your answer.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12Yes. As decathlon - let's see, anybody here?
0:07:12 > 0:07:15Hurdles. The hurdles is the answer.
0:07:15 > 0:07:16110m hurdles.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20So, if you get this right, Beth, you've taken the round,
0:07:20 > 0:07:22and you get to choose an Egghead.
0:07:22 > 0:07:27Rebecca Adlington won Olympic gold medals over 400m and 800m in which
0:07:27 > 0:07:28swimming stroke?
0:07:33 > 0:07:36I do know... It might have changed now, but at the time,
0:07:36 > 0:07:42the longest distance for a female swimmer was 800m.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44And they would...
0:07:44 > 0:07:46There would be only one stroke competed for that,
0:07:46 > 0:07:48and that would be the freestyle.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51So I believe the answer is freestyle.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53The correct answer is freestyle.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55Beth, well done. You've got it right.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57And no way back for you, Nicki, in this round.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00So, Beth, you've won the first head-to-head.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04So, you gain an Egghead for the final round,
0:08:04 > 0:08:07and you've got any one of the five that you could choose...
0:08:07 > 0:08:10Well, I'm going to take my lucky mascot from the last time,
0:08:10 > 0:08:12and I'd like Kevin, please.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14All right. Kevin, how about that?
0:08:14 > 0:08:17Lucky mascot, yeah! So, as it stands, Beth has one Egghead,
0:08:17 > 0:08:21Nicki so far has none, and the category for you next is Politics.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24And Beth, because you won the last one, you can decide - first or second?
0:08:24 > 0:08:26I'd like to go first, please.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32And here is your first question.
0:08:32 > 0:08:36Caroline Lucas was the only member of which party to win a seat at the
0:08:36 > 0:08:382015 general election?
0:08:43 > 0:08:47Erm, when Politics came up as a topic...
0:08:47 > 0:08:51It's really not my best subject.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53But I do happen to know the answer to this one.
0:08:53 > 0:08:59And I believe Caroline Lucas was voted as a Green Party MP in
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Brighton and Hove, I believe.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04So, your answer is Green Party? Green Party.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06Green Party is the right answer.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Now, in my mind, I had Brighton Pavilion, but I may be wrong.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10Oh, Brighton Pavilion. What is the seat? Yes.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12Brighton Pavilion? Yes, it is. Yeah.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14Nicki, your question -
0:09:14 > 0:09:17which amendment to The Constitution of the United States reads...
0:09:17 > 0:09:22"A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state,
0:09:22 > 0:09:27"the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"?
0:09:32 > 0:09:36Right, well, I think that the first one might be something sort of a bit
0:09:36 > 0:09:41more than that, to do with, you know, more freedom for people,
0:09:41 > 0:09:43maybe speech or something.
0:09:43 > 0:09:48So, without any conviction at all, I'm going to say third.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50No idea. No, no, and this...
0:09:50 > 0:09:54I just like the number three! Although I always say I don't like odd numbers,
0:09:54 > 0:09:55but hopefully it's going to be lucky today.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58Well, on this, it is not, I'm afraid.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01This is the one that we keep going back to because of guns in America.
0:10:01 > 0:10:05And people who bear arms say it is our...
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Second Amendment right.
0:10:07 > 0:10:11They're referring to this. Is that right? Yes.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14Yeah. So, the answer, Nicki, is the Second Amendment. That's OK.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17The right to bear arms.
0:10:17 > 0:10:18OK, Beth, on to you.
0:10:18 > 0:10:24In which year did the Rodney King riots lead to over 50 deaths and an
0:10:24 > 0:10:29estimated $1 billion in damages to Los Angeles?
0:10:35 > 0:10:41Now, I've been watching a popular television show
0:10:41 > 0:10:46about the people versus OJ Simpson.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48And that was around the same time
0:10:48 > 0:10:53or slightly after the Rodney King incident.
0:10:54 > 0:10:57That would put it in 1992.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00So, 1992 is my answer.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Eggheads, do you know? Yeah.
0:11:02 > 0:11:041992 is right.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07So, we go back to you, Nicki, you've got to get this one right.
0:11:07 > 0:11:12How many countries signed the 1957 Treaty of Rome which established the
0:11:12 > 0:11:14European Economic Community and
0:11:14 > 0:11:19later became a principal component of the European Union?
0:11:23 > 0:11:2626 seems far too high...
0:11:26 > 0:11:27for some reason.
0:11:30 > 0:11:31I'll say six.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36Six is correct. Oh, I got a question right! Well done!
0:11:36 > 0:11:39I can relax now. You are there.
0:11:39 > 0:11:41You're on the scoreboard.
0:11:41 > 0:11:42That's great. OK.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45Beth, this for the round.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Who was promoted to the post of
0:11:47 > 0:11:49Work and Pensions Secretary in March 2016,
0:11:49 > 0:11:52after the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith?
0:11:57 > 0:12:01Well, I know that Nicky Morgan is the Secretary of State for Education,
0:12:01 > 0:12:03so it's certainly not her.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07And I don't believe that Oliver Letwin holds this post either.
0:12:07 > 0:12:11And I seem to remember Stephen Crabb was given that position after
0:12:11 > 0:12:13Iain Duncan Smith left it.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15So, Stephen Crabb is my answer.
0:12:15 > 0:12:19Stephen Crabb, who subsequently became a leadership contender,
0:12:19 > 0:12:20is the right answer.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23So, well done. Beth, you've won the head-to-head.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28And you were not going to enjoy your politics, I thought.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31I was quite grateful to win the previous round because I
0:12:31 > 0:12:36wouldn't have stood a chance on Nicki's questions, so...
0:12:36 > 0:12:38There we go. You've done well.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41You gain another Egghead for the final round. You've already got Kevin,
0:12:41 > 0:12:44who would you like? I would like Pat, please.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47So, Beth has two Eggheads to help her in the final.
0:12:47 > 0:12:48Nicki, so far, has none.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51The next category is Film TV and because you won that round, Beth,
0:12:51 > 0:12:53you can choose first or second.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56I'll continue going first, please, Jeremy.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00And here is your first question.
0:13:00 > 0:13:05In 2015, who became the first dancer to win Strictly Come Dancing twice?
0:13:12 > 0:13:15That was 2015, wasn't it?
0:13:15 > 0:13:162015.
0:13:17 > 0:13:21Ola Jordan was eliminated quite early on.
0:13:21 > 0:13:26In fact, I think she was the first...pro dancer to leave.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31Natalie Lowe, I can't actually remember competing in that series
0:13:31 > 0:13:33but I believe it's Aliona Vilani.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37That is the right answer.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39I feel this should be my specialist subject here.
0:13:39 > 0:13:40Natalie Lowe did compete.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43Oh, she did. She was with Ainsley Harriott.
0:13:43 > 0:13:47Ola Jordan went out first with Iwan Thomas.
0:13:47 > 0:13:48The sprinter.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51And Aliona was - you say, Lisa. Who was...?
0:13:51 > 0:13:52Jay McGuiness. Jay McGuiness!
0:13:52 > 0:13:55Of course! Who turned out to be the most amazing dancer.
0:13:55 > 0:13:59So, first one to you and, Nicki, your question.
0:13:59 > 0:14:04Which of these EastEnders characters made a surprise return to the show
0:14:04 > 0:14:05in May, 2016?
0:14:10 > 0:14:15Right, well, in May, 2016, I think dear old...
0:14:16 > 0:14:21..Barbara Windsor, not her, obviously, but Peggy Mitchell died,
0:14:21 > 0:14:26so I'm thinking even though her and Pat were absolute...
0:14:26 > 0:14:30You know, always fighting over "Frank!" Butcher.
0:14:30 > 0:14:34I shall say Pat Butcher only because I think it's the kind of weird thing
0:14:34 > 0:14:38that they would do to have them being together.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40Judith is our person on EastEnders.
0:14:40 > 0:14:41Judith. That's right.
0:14:41 > 0:14:42She came back as a ghost.
0:14:42 > 0:14:46Oh! And had this deathbed conversation with Peggy.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48Not a dry eye, I imagine.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50No. Absolutely - sobs.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52Did you watch it more than once?
0:14:52 > 0:14:54No! Once is enough.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57LAUGHTER
0:14:57 > 0:14:59It's one of Judith's surprise areas.
0:14:59 > 0:15:00She loves EastEnders.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03There we are. OK, Pat Butcher's right.
0:15:04 > 0:15:05Beth, onto you.
0:15:05 > 0:15:10What is the subtitle of the 2016 X-Men film starring Oscar Isaac?
0:15:15 > 0:15:19Well, these are all subtitles of X-Men films,
0:15:19 > 0:15:22it's been a favourite of
0:15:22 > 0:15:26my husband, my son and my stepsons.
0:15:26 > 0:15:27So, first one,
0:15:27 > 0:15:30Days Of Future Past kind of mixed it all up a bit in the middle.
0:15:30 > 0:15:34And I think the most recent one was X-Men Apocalypse.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37Well, your husband is coming in handy. He's very handy, isn't he?
0:15:37 > 0:15:39He's very handy. Maybe he should be here instead of me.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42Apocalypse is quite right.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45No answers wrong in this round so far. Back to you, Nicki.
0:15:45 > 0:15:50Who was the original presenter of the comedy panel show Would I Lie To You?
0:15:50 > 0:15:54before Rob Brydon took over in 2009?
0:16:00 > 0:16:03I love Rob Brydon. He's one of us.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06He's Welsh. And he's lovely, we like him.
0:16:07 > 0:16:11Now, I did watch one of the old episodes and I'm trying to
0:16:11 > 0:16:12remember whose voice it was.
0:16:16 > 0:16:18I'm going to say Dara O Briain.
0:16:18 > 0:16:22I just can't remember their voice at all. I only saw it once and I was
0:16:22 > 0:16:26probably doing something at the time, so I don't really remember it.
0:16:26 > 0:16:27Any Eggheads know?
0:16:27 > 0:16:30Angus Deayton. Angus Deayton was the answer.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33So your third question, Beth, and a chance to take the round.
0:16:33 > 0:16:39Meryl Streep won her first Oscar for her performance in which 1979 film?
0:16:46 > 0:16:50One thing you tend to do is look up things from around the time you were
0:16:50 > 0:16:54born and what won the Oscar when you were born and things like that.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57Um, and in...
0:16:57 > 0:16:58So I was born in 1979.
0:17:00 > 0:17:01Which helps for this question.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06It's a '79 film, so it would have won an Oscar in 1980
0:17:06 > 0:17:09and I think that was Kramer vs Kramer.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11Kramer versus Kramer is correct.
0:17:11 > 0:17:12You got three out of three there, Beth.
0:17:12 > 0:17:16Have you got a question wrong yet, actually, in the contest, at all?
0:17:16 > 0:17:19I don't think so. Nicki, what can I say? She's playing very well.
0:17:19 > 0:17:20Very good, yes.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22She's won another head-to-head.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26And you gain another Egghead. You've already got Kevin and Pat.
0:17:26 > 0:17:27Who would you like now?
0:17:27 > 0:17:30You could have Judith, or Lisa, or Dave in the middle?
0:17:30 > 0:17:33No offence, ladies, but I'd like Dave, please.
0:17:33 > 0:17:37OK. Very good. So Beth has three Eggheads to help her in the final.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40Nicki still is waiting to get her first.
0:17:40 > 0:17:41The next category is Geography.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43And Beth, again, as the winner of the last round,
0:17:43 > 0:17:45you can choose first or second.
0:17:45 > 0:17:48I'll still carry on with going first, please, Jeremy.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53OK, so here we go again, Beth. Your first question.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56Which of these countries shares a border with South Africa?
0:18:00 > 0:18:01Ooh.
0:18:01 > 0:18:06Um, well, I'm immediately taking out DR Congo, cos that's, um...
0:18:06 > 0:18:10quite... Much further north than either of the other two.
0:18:11 > 0:18:15For want of a... I'll go for a more educated guess than anything else,
0:18:15 > 0:18:17I'm going to go with Botswana.
0:18:17 > 0:18:18Nicki, is she right?
0:18:18 > 0:18:20Yeah. Yeah, Botswana it is. Oh!
0:18:21 > 0:18:23OK, your question, Nicki.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25Approximately how many miles are there
0:18:25 > 0:18:29between Southampton and Cowes on the Isle of Wight?
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Oh, goodness me. Um...
0:18:36 > 0:18:39So Cowes is probably on the Isle of Wight,
0:18:39 > 0:18:43so you'd probably have to get a ferry across to it.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45I'm going to go down the middle and say 20.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48Now, this is local for you, Kevin.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50It is, though it's not something I've really ever thought about,
0:18:50 > 0:18:53but I don't see that it could really be any more than 10.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55The answer is 10. Mm-hm.
0:18:55 > 0:18:56So, back to you, Beth.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59The British Overseas Territory of Ascension Island
0:18:59 > 0:19:01is in which ocean?
0:19:04 > 0:19:09Ooh. "Ascension" sounds like it would be nice and hot.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11So, Arctic is out,
0:19:11 > 0:19:16which leaves you the two biggest oceans to go down the middle of.
0:19:16 > 0:19:17Um...
0:19:19 > 0:19:20I think I'm going to go for Pacific,
0:19:20 > 0:19:23cos I think it sounds like it's going to be more sort of...
0:19:25 > 0:19:30..New Zealand-y-ish way than between South America and Africa.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32So, Pacific, please.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34You're going Pacific, so you are employing
0:19:34 > 0:19:36what is known as the Judith Keppel rule.
0:19:36 > 0:19:37LAUGHING: Oh, am I?
0:19:37 > 0:19:39Judith, remind us.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41All islands... Most islands live in the Pacific.
0:19:41 > 0:19:45So if you hear the word "island" in a question... Oh, OK.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47..you go Pacific. Oh, I see. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50The rule is going to have to be rewritten because, Judith?
0:19:50 > 0:19:52It's in the Atlantic? It is in the Atlantic, this one.
0:19:52 > 0:19:54JUDITH LAUGHS
0:19:54 > 0:19:57So you are very much still in it, Nicki.
0:19:57 > 0:20:01Beth has one, here's your second question.
0:20:01 > 0:20:05What is the smallest of the four main islands that make up Japan?
0:20:11 > 0:20:13Oh, I've only heard of one of them.
0:20:15 > 0:20:19Only because the other two ends in "u" and the other one ends in "o"...
0:20:19 > 0:20:21I'm kind of thinking, you know,
0:20:21 > 0:20:23would smaller things have a different ending?
0:20:23 > 0:20:26And only because it's the one I've heard of
0:20:26 > 0:20:28and I don't know whether I've heard of it
0:20:28 > 0:20:31because it might have been an answer to another question.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34What have I got to lose? A lot.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36But I shall say Hokkaido.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38If Barry was here, I would ask him.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40Anyone who's good on our Japanese islands?
0:20:40 > 0:20:42Shikoku is the smallest.
0:20:42 > 0:20:43S for small. Shikoku is...
0:20:43 > 0:20:45Sorry, Judith?
0:20:45 > 0:20:47S for small. S for small? Mm.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49Is that how you remember it? Yeah. Oh!
0:20:49 > 0:20:52S for small. I'll remember that from now on. Yeah, me too.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55NICKI LAUGHS Shikoku is the smallest.
0:20:55 > 0:20:56OK.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59Beth, your question now. If you get this right, you've won the round.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01The village of Geddington,
0:21:01 > 0:21:04site of one of the few remaining original crosses
0:21:04 > 0:21:07erected in honour of Eleanor of Castile,
0:21:07 > 0:21:10is in which English county?
0:21:13 > 0:21:17When I was a child, we used to live in Lincoln,
0:21:17 > 0:21:19and my family were from Lincoln.
0:21:19 > 0:21:23And we used to travel from where we lived at the time in Dover, in Kent,
0:21:23 > 0:21:27up the, um... It's now the A14, but it was the A604 at the time,
0:21:27 > 0:21:29and passed through lots of these...
0:21:30 > 0:21:33Through the Eleanor crosses.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36And the only one we would have passed through during our route
0:21:36 > 0:21:38would be one in Northamptonshire.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40So Northamptonshire's my answer.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43Northamptonshire is the correct answer, as well.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46There we are. No way back for Nicki in this round.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Congratulations, Beth, you've won the head-to-head.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Beth, you gain one more Egghead for the final round.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56You've got three. Who's your fourth?
0:21:56 > 0:21:58I would like Lisa, please. OK.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00So Lisa plays with you in the final.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03Now, Nicki, come on, we need to get you an Egghead here
0:22:03 > 0:22:05for the final round, otherwise the bench
0:22:05 > 0:22:07is going to collapse on Beth's side.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09It will. With five of them. NICKI LAUGHS
0:22:09 > 0:22:12So Beth does have four Eggheads to help her in the final.
0:22:12 > 0:22:13Nicki doesn't have any so far.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16We'll play one more round before the final round,
0:22:16 > 0:22:18and it is Food And Drink.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20So, Beth, once again, you won the last round,
0:22:20 > 0:22:22you can say whether you go first or second.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24I'm going to carry on going first, please, Jeremy.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29Here is your question, Beth.
0:22:29 > 0:22:32The old English dish syllabub
0:22:32 > 0:22:35is typically eaten at which point of a meal?
0:22:39 > 0:22:43Ooh. This is one of my mum's favourite things to make, I think.
0:22:43 > 0:22:48It's quite a sweet thing, I think it was made with whipped cream,
0:22:48 > 0:22:51a bit like a mousse-type, fool-type thing.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53So, it's served as a dessert.
0:22:53 > 0:22:54Dessert is right.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57Nicki, your question.
0:22:57 > 0:23:02The name of the drink vodka is derived from the Russian for what?
0:23:06 > 0:23:08I'm not very good at Russian.
0:23:08 > 0:23:09SHE LAUGHS
0:23:09 > 0:23:14I have a contemporary art degree and a journalism postgrad.
0:23:14 > 0:23:18Um, vodka sounds like "vater"...
0:23:18 > 0:23:22to me. And I think...
0:23:24 > 0:23:26..I'm going to say water.
0:23:27 > 0:23:28I'm glad you did. It is water.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30Ah, yay! Me too! Well done.
0:23:31 > 0:23:36Beth, what type of food are Forfar bridies?
0:23:36 > 0:23:37Are they...?
0:23:40 > 0:23:44When those lists came up and I saw smoked fish,
0:23:44 > 0:23:47it brought the Arbroath smokies to my brain.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50So I wonder whether, in Forfar, they do a similar thing?
0:23:51 > 0:23:54As Arbroath have their smokies,
0:23:54 > 0:23:57I wonder whether Forfar has their bridies.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59So I'll go with smoked fish.
0:23:59 > 0:24:00What do you think, Nicki?
0:24:00 > 0:24:04I might have been inclined to go with pasties.
0:24:04 > 0:24:05Meat pasties is the right answer. Ah.
0:24:07 > 0:24:13So, if you get this right, Nicki, you will take the lead. OK.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Which of these spices, Nicki,
0:24:15 > 0:24:20is derived from a member of the ginger family of plants?
0:24:24 > 0:24:28OK, so, caraway is sort of like a seed-y thing.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32Ginger, you peel.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35And you have to have, like, a sort of peel-y, root-y type thing.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38Just because nutmeg popped into my mind and...
0:24:41 > 0:24:45..I like nutmeg, I think you sort of have to peel it
0:24:45 > 0:24:47and it's kind of, like, in the cinnamon family.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49I think that ginger might be there.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52So, without any conviction at all, I'm going to say nutmeg.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54I just love the word nutmeg. I hope it's a lucky word.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56JEREMY CHUCKLES Nutmeg.
0:24:56 > 0:24:57Let's see, Beth, do you know this?
0:24:57 > 0:24:59I think it's turmeric.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01Oh, dear.
0:25:01 > 0:25:02It is actually turmeric.
0:25:02 > 0:25:03Oh, well, never mind.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06Not to worry, you're level in the Food And Drink round.
0:25:06 > 0:25:08Last round before the final.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10And here's your third question, Beth.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13Which Portuguese wine region is located
0:25:13 > 0:25:17in the extreme north-west of the country, on the border with Spain?
0:25:23 > 0:25:25Ooh. Now...
0:25:25 > 0:25:27I do like my wine.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29But the only Portuguese wine I've drunk is port.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36I'm going to go with Setubal.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40For no other reason than I quite like the word.
0:25:40 > 0:25:41LAUGHTER
0:25:41 > 0:25:42Setubal.
0:25:43 > 0:25:44No, it's Vinho Verde. Oh.
0:25:46 > 0:25:47OK, Nicki, your third question.
0:25:47 > 0:25:49You could take the round with this. OK.
0:25:49 > 0:25:53Semolina is usually made from which type of wheat?
0:25:58 > 0:26:00I quite like semolina. Um...
0:26:03 > 0:26:04I'm going to say spelt.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07But I have no idea at all. No idea at all
0:26:09 > 0:26:10Anyone here know?
0:26:10 > 0:26:11Well, that will be durum wheat. Durum.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14Durum wheat is the answer. Oh, well.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16You're equal after three questions.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18And we go to Sudden Death. It gets a bit harder -
0:26:18 > 0:26:20I don't give you alternative options.
0:26:20 > 0:26:21So we start with you, Beth.
0:26:21 > 0:26:25Which type of soup, typically made with a calf's head,
0:26:25 > 0:26:30shares it name with a character from Alice's Adventures In Wonderland?
0:26:31 > 0:26:34Oh, unless you put the end of that question on,
0:26:34 > 0:26:37I wouldn't have known the answer.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39But I think that's mock turtle soup.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41It is mock turtle soup, you're right.
0:26:41 > 0:26:42I knew that one!
0:26:42 > 0:26:43LAUGHTER
0:26:43 > 0:26:46OK. Nicki, your question.
0:26:46 > 0:26:50A Caprese salad is typically made with which type of cheese?
0:26:52 > 0:26:54Mozzarella, but, no, it's not.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57But, yeah. Mozzarella.
0:26:57 > 0:26:58It's a guess.
0:26:58 > 0:26:59Mozzarella is correct.
0:26:59 > 0:27:00Oh! JEREMY LAUGHS
0:27:00 > 0:27:03OK. Well done.
0:27:03 > 0:27:04Sudden Death.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06Yeah. Toe-to-toe here.
0:27:06 > 0:27:10Beth, which French word, beginning with the D, is the name
0:27:10 > 0:27:14of the mixture of finely chopped mushrooms and shallots
0:27:14 > 0:27:17that is often used in the preparation of a beef Wellington?
0:27:17 > 0:27:19I think that's called a duxelle.
0:27:19 > 0:27:21Duxelle is right.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23Nicki, which herb
0:27:23 > 0:27:26is the primary flavouring of the drink absinthe?
0:27:26 > 0:27:28Absinthe.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31They call it "the green fairy", I think.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36I don't know if it's mint, or if it's fennel.
0:27:36 > 0:27:37Or aniseed, or something.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44Mint.
0:27:44 > 0:27:45Beth, do you know this?
0:27:45 > 0:27:48Well, it used to be made with wormwood,
0:27:48 > 0:27:50but I'm not sure whether it still is.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53No, wormwood is what I was looking for. Mm-hm. OK.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56So, on Sudden Death, we say congratulations, Beth.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58You've won the fifth head-to-head.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03And you can choose an Egghead.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05THEY LAUGH
0:28:05 > 0:28:07Hello, Judith. Hello!
0:28:07 > 0:28:08Judith, our last remaining one to go.
0:28:08 > 0:28:09So, Beth, you have got...
0:28:09 > 0:28:11This is going to test our bench, back there.
0:28:11 > 0:28:15..Kevin, Pat, Dave, Lisa, Judith in the final round.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17Nicki, you're going to go it alone. I am.
0:28:17 > 0:28:18Let's play the final round.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22So, this is what we have been playing towards.
0:28:22 > 0:28:26It's time to find out who is one step closer to becoming an Egghead
0:28:26 > 0:28:28and who's going to be eliminated from our search.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31I will ask each of you five questions in turn.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33This time, the questions are all General Knowledge.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36In this final round, you will have the backing of the Eggheads
0:28:36 > 0:28:38you've won over the course of the show.
0:28:38 > 0:28:41So, Beth, you're going to have all of them, really -
0:28:41 > 0:28:44Judith and Kevin and Dave and Lisa and Pat.
0:28:44 > 0:28:47Nicki, you're going it alone, but it doesn't mean you can't win,
0:28:47 > 0:28:50that's for sure. And you did, of course, top the heats.
0:28:50 > 0:28:53You will be able to call on your respective Eggheads for advice
0:28:53 > 0:28:55before giving an answer to a question.
0:28:55 > 0:28:58You can ask each of them for help only once.
0:28:58 > 0:29:01You can ask more than one of them, though, for any question.
0:29:01 > 0:29:04This is it. If you win this round, you are through to the grand final.
0:29:04 > 0:29:06So, Beth, as you won the last round,
0:29:06 > 0:29:09you get to choose whether you go first or second now.
0:29:09 > 0:29:11Well, going first has helped me throughout the rest of the show,
0:29:11 > 0:29:13so let's carry on with going first.
0:29:16 > 0:29:18And here we go with your first question.
0:29:18 > 0:29:21Which Australian singer released the albums
0:29:21 > 0:29:251000 Forms Of Fear and This Is Acting?
0:29:30 > 0:29:31"This Is Acting"?
0:29:34 > 0:29:38Well, all three of those artists are Australian,
0:29:38 > 0:29:40so that doesn't help me knocking any of them out.
0:29:43 > 0:29:45They're a touch modern for me, Jeremy!
0:29:45 > 0:29:46SHE LAUGHS
0:29:46 > 0:29:50I am actually going to have to call on one of my Eggies to help me.
0:29:50 > 0:29:54Let's ask Lisa whether she can help me on this question.
0:29:54 > 0:29:56Yeah, I think I might have gone for Lisa on this.
0:29:56 > 0:29:59So, Lisa, which Australian singer released the albums
0:29:59 > 0:30:031000 Forms Of Fear and This Is Acting?
0:30:03 > 0:30:05Well, if Beth hadn't already made the decision, Jeremy,
0:30:05 > 0:30:07I'd say you were a fool.
0:30:07 > 0:30:09Yeah, fortunately, Beth... unfortunately, Beth,
0:30:09 > 0:30:11I'm only a year younger than you.
0:30:11 > 0:30:15It makes me too old for this, as well, my dear.
0:30:15 > 0:30:17You know, if it were me and I was on my own,
0:30:17 > 0:30:21I'd probably have plumped for Iggy Izalea, but I really,
0:30:21 > 0:30:23really haven't got a Scooby-Doo. I'm ever so sorry.
0:30:23 > 0:30:25OK, no worries, thank you very much, Lisa.
0:30:25 > 0:30:27OK, you can call in another, if you want.
0:30:27 > 0:30:29Or you can just go for it. I think I'm just going to go for it.
0:30:29 > 0:30:34Unfortunately, Lisa, I'm not going to be taking your learned advice,
0:30:34 > 0:30:38or guessing. Only sensible! I'm actually going to go for Sia,
0:30:38 > 0:30:42because I think those would be titles more along her genre
0:30:42 > 0:30:44than Iggy Izalea's.
0:30:45 > 0:30:46Do you know this one, Nicki?
0:30:46 > 0:30:50Yes. She is absolutely a favourite artist of mine. Love, love,
0:30:50 > 0:30:52love her. YouTube her all the time, got her albums. Sia.
0:30:52 > 0:30:55It is Sia. Oh, wow.
0:30:55 > 0:30:56So, Sia is the right answer there.
0:30:58 > 0:30:59Nicki, over to you.
0:30:59 > 0:31:01The financier Robert Morris,
0:31:01 > 0:31:04a founding father of the United States
0:31:04 > 0:31:06was born in which British city?
0:31:10 > 0:31:12Oh, goodness me.
0:31:13 > 0:31:15Obviously, it could have been any one of those,
0:31:15 > 0:31:18and I'm just trying to think if there's any kind of, like,
0:31:18 > 0:31:23you know, buildings named after him in any of those cities.
0:31:24 > 0:31:27I shall just say Liverpool. I've got nothing to go on,
0:31:27 > 0:31:29absolutely nothing at all.
0:31:29 > 0:31:31Liverpool, OK.
0:31:31 > 0:31:32No reason.
0:31:32 > 0:31:35The correct answer is Liverpool. Oh, OK!
0:31:35 > 0:31:36Well done.
0:31:37 > 0:31:39That's very good.
0:31:39 > 0:31:41OK, second question to Beth.
0:31:41 > 0:31:47The military leader Fidel Ramos was president from 1992 to 1998
0:31:47 > 0:31:49of which country?
0:31:53 > 0:31:55Ramos.
0:31:55 > 0:31:58Could very conceivably be any of these, but I'm going to have
0:31:58 > 0:32:00to call on another Egghead.
0:32:00 > 0:32:02OK. You're calling in another Egghead.
0:32:02 > 0:32:05And I would like to call on Pat this time, please.
0:32:05 > 0:32:08Yeah, he loves his maps, Pat. Yeah.
0:32:08 > 0:32:12The military leader Fidel Ramos was president from 1992 to 1998
0:32:12 > 0:32:14of which country?
0:32:14 > 0:32:16I have a very faint bell saying the Philippines,
0:32:16 > 0:32:18but it's extremely faint.
0:32:18 > 0:32:21Have we room in the Philippines to have a President Ramos?
0:32:21 > 0:32:24Because we've had various Aquinos,
0:32:24 > 0:32:29Marcos before the whole thing started, we've had various Aquinos,
0:32:29 > 0:32:31and several other top dogs.
0:32:32 > 0:32:35I think, if I had to answer, I'd say the Philippines,
0:32:35 > 0:32:37but I'd be a very, very worried man.
0:32:37 > 0:32:41It's not really much of an assistance there, I'm afraid. OK.
0:32:41 > 0:32:44Well, I'm going to take Pat's advice and go for the Philippines.
0:32:44 > 0:32:48As he was saying it, I was thinking Marcos and Ramos,
0:32:48 > 0:32:51they're similar sounding endings of names.
0:32:51 > 0:32:53It is could be feasible that it is the Philippines.
0:32:53 > 0:32:56OK. Philippines is right.
0:32:57 > 0:32:59Thank you, Pat. You're welcome.
0:32:59 > 0:33:01So you've got two answers correct, Beth,
0:33:01 > 0:33:05and you've also used two Eggheads. Nicki, you're still playing alone.
0:33:05 > 0:33:07Not quite alone. No.
0:33:07 > 0:33:08James is there. Yes.
0:33:08 > 0:33:10Here's your question.
0:33:10 > 0:33:14Sir Herbert Read, who died in 1968,
0:33:14 > 0:33:18was best known as a critic who specialised in which area?
0:33:25 > 0:33:28It's very odd to think of someone specialising in furniture.
0:33:28 > 0:33:30I mean, obviously, people do.
0:33:32 > 0:33:34Film, I haven't heard of him.
0:33:36 > 0:33:38I don't really know a lot about film.
0:33:40 > 0:33:44But I know that there are a lot of sort of modern art critics, um...
0:33:45 > 0:33:47..that kind of make people rather cross.
0:33:47 > 0:33:51Unfortunately, his name didn't come up in my degree,
0:33:51 > 0:33:53more's the pity.
0:33:53 > 0:33:56Unless it did and I happened to be not listening at that point.
0:33:56 > 0:33:58But I'm going to say...
0:33:59 > 0:34:01..modern art.
0:34:02 > 0:34:05Yes. Just hope that it's right.
0:34:05 > 0:34:07Modern art is the right answer.
0:34:07 > 0:34:09Thank you. Well done, well done.
0:34:09 > 0:34:11So, two points to each of you.
0:34:12 > 0:34:15And we go back to you, Beth.
0:34:15 > 0:34:19In Ukraine, what are pysanky?
0:34:19 > 0:34:22Spelt P-Y-S-A-N-K-Y.
0:34:22 > 0:34:25P-Y-S-A-N-K-Y. Pysanky.
0:34:32 > 0:34:37My Ukrainian isn't all that, Jeremy, I must say. Pysanky.
0:34:38 > 0:34:44I'm not sure whether they would give their hedges a particular name.
0:34:44 > 0:34:49So, I'm going to knock that one out and stick with the other two.
0:34:49 > 0:34:51I think I might have to call another
0:34:51 > 0:34:53Egghead here. OK.
0:34:53 > 0:34:56And I think it's...
0:34:56 > 0:34:58Kevin's turn to help me out.
0:34:58 > 0:35:02Kevin, I wondered if you were dreading this.
0:35:02 > 0:35:05I was dreading it, yes. It sounds a little obscure, doesn't it?
0:35:05 > 0:35:08In Ukraine, what are pysanky.
0:35:08 > 0:35:11As far as I'm aware, I've never heard of it.
0:35:11 > 0:35:13So, it literally could be anything.
0:35:16 > 0:35:19I can't find a handle onto it, I'm afraid.
0:35:19 > 0:35:22It's one you've either come across or you haven't.
0:35:22 > 0:35:24Well, that's troubling.
0:35:24 > 0:35:27Yeah, that is a trouble. You can use other Eggheads.
0:35:27 > 0:35:29No, I want to keep them.
0:35:29 > 0:35:32OK. I'll use them for my next two questions.
0:35:32 > 0:35:33Erm...
0:35:34 > 0:35:38I'm going to go for decorated Easter eggs.
0:35:38 > 0:35:41Decorated Easter eggs is the correct answer.
0:35:41 > 0:35:43Oh!
0:35:45 > 0:35:47No-one's made a mistake so far.
0:35:47 > 0:35:50Although you're going through those Eggheads. I am, yeah.
0:35:50 > 0:35:52You've got Dave and Judith left.
0:35:52 > 0:35:54Your question, Nicki.
0:35:54 > 0:35:59Who was the voice of Grace Archer until that character's
0:35:59 > 0:36:05untimely death in a 1955 episode of The Archers?
0:36:12 > 0:36:16Oh, I used to share a room with a girl who was a huge Archers fan
0:36:16 > 0:36:19and I remember, obviously, I wasn't at school then,
0:36:19 > 0:36:21but I remember her playing it.
0:36:21 > 0:36:25But she didn't have the good grace to tell me what the lady's name was.
0:36:25 > 0:36:28She just said, "This is Grace dying, isn't it sad?"
0:36:28 > 0:36:34None of those names are any names that I've ever heard of.
0:36:36 > 0:36:38Down the middle. Ysanne Bell.
0:36:38 > 0:36:41Hang on, I want to be sure we're not confused.
0:36:41 > 0:36:44Oh, sorry. Heather Bell, Ysanne Churchman, Bonnie Engstrom?
0:36:44 > 0:36:48Down the middle is Churchman, but you choose. Ysanne Churchman.
0:36:48 > 0:36:49Yeah, Sorry.
0:36:50 > 0:36:52Ysanne Churchman is your answer.
0:36:52 > 0:36:54Yeah. Never heard of her.
0:36:54 > 0:36:57It somewhat evens up the decorated Easter eggs,
0:36:57 > 0:36:58cos it's right. Oh, OK! Yay!
0:36:58 > 0:37:02So you've both had a pysanky moment there.
0:37:02 > 0:37:04Yes! We did. Forever known as.
0:37:04 > 0:37:06That's lovely. Yes, exactly.
0:37:06 > 0:37:09Well done. It's three each.
0:37:09 > 0:37:13And Beth has the advantage, in that you have two Eggheads still.
0:37:13 > 0:37:15Here's your question, Beth.
0:37:15 > 0:37:19The stock sound effect known as the Wilhelm scream
0:37:19 > 0:37:25that has appeared in over 300 films was first recorded in which year?
0:37:30 > 0:37:33I'm so aware of this sound effect, as well.
0:37:33 > 0:37:35It's used in so many things.
0:37:36 > 0:37:38Oh!
0:37:38 > 0:37:42And I'm pretty sure at least one of my Eggheads would have known
0:37:42 > 0:37:45the answer to this and I've already used him.
0:37:48 > 0:37:52I think I'm going to ask Judith this, if I may.
0:37:52 > 0:37:56Judith, the stock sound effect known as the "Vilhelm" scream,
0:37:56 > 0:37:59or maybe "Wilhelm" scream, that has appeared in over 300 films
0:37:59 > 0:38:01was first recorded in which year?
0:38:01 > 0:38:04I haven't the faintest idea.
0:38:04 > 0:38:06I'm really sorry.
0:38:06 > 0:38:08I really don't know. If it were me...
0:38:09 > 0:38:13Because I don't think 300 films is very many to have used it,
0:38:13 > 0:38:18if you think of how many films must have been made since 1961,
0:38:18 > 0:38:20for example.
0:38:20 > 0:38:24I think I'll go for the later date, simply on numbers of films.
0:38:26 > 0:38:28Judith's reasoning is probably similar to mine.
0:38:30 > 0:38:351961, there was more advances in sound technology and stuff by then,
0:38:35 > 0:38:37so let's go with 1961.
0:38:37 > 0:38:391961.
0:38:39 > 0:38:41300 films sounds like a hell of a lot to me.
0:38:41 > 0:38:43Maybe I'm missing something here.
0:38:43 > 0:38:46Do you know this, Nicki? I probably would have gone '51.
0:38:46 > 0:38:47The answer is 1951.
0:38:47 > 0:38:50Oh! So, it's now very interesting,
0:38:50 > 0:38:53because it has got a tiny bit closer than it was.
0:38:53 > 0:38:57Nicki, if you get this right, you've taken control.
0:38:57 > 0:38:59The betelnut,
0:38:59 > 0:39:05commonly chewed as a stimulant in Asia, is the fruit of which palm?
0:39:05 > 0:39:08Now, betel, Nicki, is B-E-T-E-L.
0:39:14 > 0:39:17Right. I'm thinking...
0:39:17 > 0:39:19I'm not thinking raffia,
0:39:19 > 0:39:22because I think that's sort of
0:39:22 > 0:39:24what you spin baskets with.
0:39:26 > 0:39:28I'm going to...
0:39:28 > 0:39:30say nipa.
0:39:30 > 0:39:34The betel nut is the fruit of the areca.
0:39:34 > 0:39:35OK. I'm sorry,
0:39:35 > 0:39:37so you've also got one wrong now. Yeah.
0:39:38 > 0:39:41So, you're equal on three points,
0:39:41 > 0:39:43and this is your last multiple choice question.
0:39:43 > 0:39:48Beth, who is the central character of a novel by Ivan Gonsharof
0:39:48 > 0:39:53whose name has come to represent an inert or procrastinating character?
0:39:59 > 0:40:01Oh, this is...
0:40:01 > 0:40:05I've absolutely no idea, Jeremy.
0:40:05 > 0:40:08You've got Dave still, remember that. I have Dave, I do have Dave.
0:40:11 > 0:40:13Well, I might as well use Dave, as he's there.
0:40:13 > 0:40:16So, please, Dave, can you help me out?
0:40:16 > 0:40:17Dave, I'll read the question.
0:40:17 > 0:40:21Who is the central character of a novel by Ivan Gonsharof.
0:40:21 > 0:40:26whose name has come to represent an inert or procrastinating character?
0:40:29 > 0:40:33Right. I haven't really got an idea.
0:40:33 > 0:40:34It's not a word that I can...
0:40:36 > 0:40:40I'm trying to get to the recesses, as the question was being read,
0:40:40 > 0:40:42to see if any of those words have come up.
0:40:43 > 0:40:45If I had to say something,
0:40:45 > 0:40:49Oblomov sounds just like a word
0:40:49 > 0:40:54that would work, but that is really a 10% basis just on the word.
0:40:54 > 0:40:58I've no idea about the context of the novel at all.
0:40:58 > 0:41:02This is why I wasn't saying which option I'd prefer
0:41:02 > 0:41:05before I ask an Egghead, to see whether they would come down on
0:41:05 > 0:41:08the same sort of reasoning as me, and I was thinking Oblomov.
0:41:08 > 0:41:11It looks like it is sort of
0:41:11 > 0:41:13an obstructive word,
0:41:13 > 0:41:16or somebody that would take their time over things.
0:41:16 > 0:41:18Like, oblong and things like that,
0:41:18 > 0:41:20so Oblomov.
0:41:20 > 0:41:22Oblomov is the right answer.
0:41:22 > 0:41:25Nice play. You're obviously completely in sync, you two,
0:41:25 > 0:41:27cos you made the same case for it.
0:41:27 > 0:41:30So, now, you're on the defensive here, Nicki.
0:41:30 > 0:41:33You need to get this one right. OK! She has used all her Eggheads,
0:41:33 > 0:41:35so if you do get this right,
0:41:35 > 0:41:38you are head-to-head on sudden death
0:41:38 > 0:41:40and it's absolutely even, but you've got to get this one right.
0:41:40 > 0:41:44Right. Which South American president
0:41:44 > 0:41:48became known for his small chrysanthemum farm,
0:41:48 > 0:41:53his old VW beetle, and his three-legged dog Manuela.
0:42:01 > 0:42:02Um...
0:42:04 > 0:42:07I've only heard of one of them but, you know,
0:42:07 > 0:42:09when you're listening to The World At Night,
0:42:09 > 0:42:12the last thing they mention is his three-legged dog!
0:42:14 > 0:42:16Only because I've heard of him, no other reason.
0:42:18 > 0:42:20Which means it's probably going to be one of the other ones.
0:42:20 > 0:42:24I've got absolutely no idea, but I'm going to say Hugo Chavez,
0:42:24 > 0:42:27cos he's the only one I've heard of.
0:42:27 > 0:42:29The answer is Jose Mujica. OK.
0:42:29 > 0:42:33So, we say congratulations, Beth, you've won.
0:42:33 > 0:42:34Well done.
0:42:34 > 0:42:36Wow.
0:42:38 > 0:42:40And that...
0:42:40 > 0:42:43It was just a case of one way or the other there, Nicki, wasn't it?
0:42:43 > 0:42:46Yeah, I mean, if you don't know, you don't know,
0:42:46 > 0:42:48and I wish Beth all the best for the final.
0:42:48 > 0:42:51Thank you, Nicki, you've been absolutely marvellous to play against.
0:42:51 > 0:42:53It's been such a great time meeting you.
0:42:53 > 0:42:55Thank you. So, well done, Beth.
0:42:55 > 0:42:58You've proved once again that winning comes as naturally to you
0:42:58 > 0:43:01as it does to our Eggheads, which means you're through
0:43:01 > 0:43:04to the grand final, and that much closer to actually joining them
0:43:04 > 0:43:06on the rather crowded bench.
0:43:06 > 0:43:09That is it, that was the last of our semifinals.
0:43:09 > 0:43:14We now have our four finalists - Steve, Gerard, Julia, and Beth.
0:43:14 > 0:43:16I wonder who will be triumphant.
0:43:16 > 0:43:20Join us next time for our grand final, when we will find out.
0:43:20 > 0:43:21Till then, goodbye.
0:43:51 > 0:43:54Welcome to this Strictly edition of Pointless Celebrities.
0:43:54 > 0:43:56Got some of the real legends of Strictly here.
0:43:56 > 0:43:58We've also Anton du Beke. LAUGHTER
0:43:58 > 0:44:01What's it going to take for you to win? It's not me.
0:44:01 > 0:44:03I'm really, really good.
0:44:03 > 0:44:04I wish I had danced with Anton.
0:44:04 > 0:44:07Your Strictly Saturday starts with Pointless Celebrities
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