0:00:06 > 0:00:10These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:10 > 0:00:12Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:12 > 0:00:15arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:15 > 0:00:19The question is - do you have the brains to join them?
0:00:25 > 0:00:28Hello and welcome to Make Me An Egghead.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32So, this is it, we've reached the climax of our search for the
0:00:32 > 0:00:34greatest quiz brains in Britain.
0:00:34 > 0:00:38The hunt is almost over to find two people to take their place
0:00:38 > 0:00:42alongside the most fearsome quizzers in history, the Eggheads.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46And we've assembled you all so we can see the firepower -
0:00:46 > 0:00:48and very impressive it is, too.
0:00:48 > 0:00:52Now we meet the contestants taking part in our first Grand Final.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55Hello, my name's Steve Cooke, I'm a self-employed distributor
0:00:55 > 0:00:58and I come from Bolsover near Chesterfield.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01Hi, I'm Gerard Mackay and I'm an accounts assistant
0:01:01 > 0:01:03from Nesscliffe in Shropshire.
0:01:03 > 0:01:04Gerard and Steve, welcome.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08You've really fought a good fight, both of you, to get here.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11Gerard, what's it been like getting to this point?
0:01:11 > 0:01:12It's been emotional.
0:01:12 > 0:01:13THEY LAUGH
0:01:13 > 0:01:17It's been fun! How about you, Steve? Your semifinal was amazing.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20I just hope I've not used all my luck up before the final.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22You've got amazing quiz pedigree, Steve, Brain of Mensa,
0:01:22 > 0:01:25two-time winner of Brain of Derbyshire, Derbyshire Quiz League,
0:01:25 > 0:01:27you write questions, as well.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29I always think that might help, actually.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31Yeah, well, you say that, I started last year and I was told
0:01:31 > 0:01:34my questions were too hard, so I had to tone them down a bit,
0:01:34 > 0:01:35so how much of a help it will be, I don't know.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37And Gerard, Fifteen to One series champion,
0:01:37 > 0:01:41Only Connect and you've appeared on Eggheads before, as well.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44Yes, and I do write questions, but for myself.
0:01:44 > 0:01:48They'd be too hard to put in a pub quiz, I think.
0:01:48 > 0:01:53And what will it mean to you to join this, this fabled crew over here?
0:01:53 > 0:01:55It would be amazing, and I'm sure, yeah,
0:01:55 > 0:01:59it would make my mum proud, as well. So, yeah, it would be delightful.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02Steve, for you? Well, obviously it's a lot for me, Jeremy.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05I've already discussed about my son, as well, but also this year,
0:02:05 > 0:02:07my dad, he's been quite ill and in fact
0:02:07 > 0:02:10it were quite serious at one point, I thought I were actually going to lose him.
0:02:10 > 0:02:14So I'd just like to do something for him to make him proud.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16OK, and you mentioned your son. Oh, yeah, yeah.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19A lot at stake here, cos your son gets a dog if you win.
0:02:19 > 0:02:20He does, yeah.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22All right, well, this is the Grand Final,
0:02:22 > 0:02:25so the rules today are going to be slightly different.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28Our contestants will compete over two head-to-head rounds
0:02:28 > 0:02:31answering questions from Eggheads categories
0:02:31 > 0:02:34that they have chosen, but unlike in previous shows,
0:02:34 > 0:02:37they are not competing here to win the help of our Eggheads.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40Instead, three points are up for grabs per around,
0:02:40 > 0:02:44they will take those three points through to the final.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47So, the first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Music,
0:02:47 > 0:02:49which was the category you chose, Steve.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51Why did you go for that?
0:02:51 > 0:02:54Erm, I think I've got a decent range and knowledge of music. I mean,
0:02:54 > 0:02:57obviously there's things I don't know, but it's served me well
0:02:57 > 0:03:00so far, so let's try and get three out of three.
0:03:00 > 0:03:04Gerard, where are you on your music? I'm fairly scattered.
0:03:04 > 0:03:10I've got, yeah, I'm not deep in any particular genre, but, yeah...
0:03:10 > 0:03:12I like all music, really.
0:03:12 > 0:03:15OK, well, the Eggheads are watching keenly.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18They recognise large brains when they see them, I can tell you that.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21I'll ask each of you three multiple-choice questions on Music in turn.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24Whoever answers the most questions correctly wins the round
0:03:24 > 0:03:28and you get the precious three points then, for the final.
0:03:28 > 0:03:30Steve, as our highest-ranked player, you have the option
0:03:30 > 0:03:33as to whether you would like to go first or second.
0:03:33 > 0:03:34I'll go first please, Jeremy.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39Good luck to you both.
0:03:39 > 0:03:41Steve, you go first, here's your question -
0:03:41 > 0:03:44at which institution were Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland
0:03:44 > 0:03:46studying in 1996
0:03:46 > 0:03:50when they formed the band that went on to be known as Coldplay?
0:03:50 > 0:03:52Was it...
0:03:57 > 0:03:59I imagine it could be any one of the three,
0:03:59 > 0:04:01because obviously where they're from
0:04:01 > 0:04:04doesn't necessarily mean it's where they studied.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07Rightly or wrongly, I'm going to rule out Glasgow School of Art.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09King's College Cambridge...
0:04:11 > 0:04:13doesn't really appeal.
0:04:13 > 0:04:18Purely on gut feeling, nothing more, I'll say University College London.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20That's the correct answer.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22OK, so first point then to Steve.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25Gerard, Wyclef Jean, rapper,
0:04:25 > 0:04:28producer and member of the group The Fugees
0:04:28 > 0:04:30was born in which country?
0:04:34 > 0:04:38Um, yes, I think I'm vaguely familiar with Wyclef Jean. But...
0:04:40 > 0:04:43all I've got to go on is I feel I might have read it somewhere
0:04:43 > 0:04:45that he's from Haiti.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49So I'm going for Haiti as my answer.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52Haiti is your answer.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54I want to go to Chris on this. Chris?
0:04:54 > 0:04:57Well, Wyclef Jean, Jean of course being French... French, yes.
0:04:57 > 0:05:01..Haiti is Francophone, Barbados is Anglophone
0:05:01 > 0:05:04and Costa Rica is Hispanic, so it's got to be Haiti.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07Haiti's the right answer, well done. Both completely level now.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09Second question to you, Steve.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Which of these musicians was a member of the group
0:05:11 > 0:05:13Buffalo Springfield in the 1960s?
0:05:19 > 0:05:23Right, I'm quite excited, cos I think I know this. Erm...
0:05:24 > 0:05:28Just going to check through my mind, not going to do anything stupid,
0:05:28 > 0:05:30it's Stephen Stills.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32You're right, Stephen Stills, it is.
0:05:33 > 0:05:34Gerard...
0:05:34 > 0:05:38Joe Barry was the name formerly used by which singer
0:05:38 > 0:05:42until the comedian Bob Hope urged him to change it?
0:05:47 > 0:05:48Right.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50So, Bob Hope. Hm...
0:05:53 > 0:05:57I don't have much to... Well, Dean Martin I think was Dino Crocetti.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00I didn't know Andy Williams had any other name.
0:06:01 > 0:06:05I'm going to try Tony Bennett. Kevin, Barry, anyone?
0:06:05 > 0:06:09I'd have gone Tony Bennett. Yes. Tony Bennett's the right answer.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11That's an excellent answer, so you've both got two.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14Couldn't be tighter. Third question to Steve.
0:06:14 > 0:06:19In what year was the famous Montreux Jazz Festival first held?
0:06:24 > 0:06:26Absolutely no idea. Erm...
0:06:28 > 0:06:30it could be any of them.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32I could argue a case for all three, but I don't know,
0:06:32 > 0:06:35I'm going to guess, and it is a guess, '67.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38You're right, 1967.
0:06:38 > 0:06:39Three out of three for Steve.
0:06:39 > 0:06:43Gerard, if you get this wrong, you've lost the round.
0:06:43 > 0:06:47The American father and son John and Alan Lomax
0:06:47 > 0:06:51were renowned scholars and collectors of what type of music?
0:06:57 > 0:07:00Can't get a handle on the surname, Lomax.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02Lomax... Where it must be from, even.
0:07:02 > 0:07:08I don't think soul music is known for its collectors, as such,
0:07:08 > 0:07:10whereas there are lots of collectors of...
0:07:10 > 0:07:12folk music and chamber music.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17I think I'm going to play the odds and say folk music.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20The correct answer is folk music.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22Three out of three to you both.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25Gets a bit harder now, we go to Sudden Death, I don't give you alternative answers.
0:07:25 > 0:07:27We start with you, Steve.
0:07:27 > 0:07:32Do You Want To Build A Snowman is a song from which 2013 animated film?
0:07:32 > 0:07:36Not going to sing it, fortunately. It's Frozen.
0:07:36 > 0:07:37Frozen is right.
0:07:38 > 0:07:39Gerard,
0:07:39 > 0:07:42what surname is shared by one of the Pet Shop Boys
0:07:42 > 0:07:46and an actor who portrayed the Doctor in Doctor Who?
0:07:47 > 0:07:50Well, that's got to be Tennant.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52Tennant is correct, yes.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54Neil Tennant in the Pet Shop Boys
0:07:54 > 0:07:55and David Tennant playing the Doctor.
0:07:55 > 0:07:56Steve,
0:07:56 > 0:08:00Billy Joel had his first UK number one single in 1983
0:08:00 > 0:08:01with which song?
0:08:01 > 0:08:02Uptown Girl.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04HE PART SINGS Uptown Girl is right
0:08:04 > 0:08:07and it's so far his only UK number one.
0:08:07 > 0:08:08Gerard,
0:08:08 > 0:08:12Oh What A Circus is a song from which production
0:08:12 > 0:08:14with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber?
0:08:14 > 0:08:17# Oh what a circus, oh what a show... #
0:08:17 > 0:08:20That's David Essex, isn't it? In Evita,
0:08:20 > 0:08:22playing Che Guevara, I think.
0:08:22 > 0:08:23Evita is right.
0:08:24 > 0:08:25And back to you, Steve,
0:08:25 > 0:08:29which singer launched the clothing line L-A-M-B,
0:08:29 > 0:08:34which is an acronym for Love Angel Music Baby?
0:08:34 > 0:08:36Love Angel Music Baby.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39The one I wanted to say, I can't even think of her name now.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41Erm...
0:08:41 > 0:08:44If I say this, it'll probably be the other one, but...
0:08:44 > 0:08:46I'm going to say...
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Mariah Carey.
0:08:50 > 0:08:54Mariah Carey is your answer, the clothing line L-A-M-B. Anyone here?
0:08:54 > 0:08:58Gwen Stefani. Gwen Stefani. Gwen Stefani is the answer.
0:08:58 > 0:09:00That's the first wrong answer so far.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03Gerard, get this right, you've taken the round.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06Wayward Wind and Confessin'
0:09:06 > 0:09:11were two of the four UK number-one singles of the 1960s
0:09:11 > 0:09:13for which male singer?
0:09:13 > 0:09:15I remember him. Yeah.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17It's Frank Ifield.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20Frank Ifield is right, so on Sudden Death, Gerard,
0:09:20 > 0:09:23and not in the round you chose, you have won.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28So, first head-to-head to Gerard.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31And unlike in the previous heats, I don't give you
0:09:31 > 0:09:34an Egghead to choose, they just keep watching and commenting as they are.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38Gerard, it does mean you've got three points for the
0:09:38 > 0:09:42all-important endgame in which the whole aim will be to get to ten.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44Steve has no points so far.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47Our next head-to-head battle is on the subject of Science.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49And that was your choice of category, Gerard. Yes.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51So why did you go for this one?
0:09:51 > 0:09:55Er, well, I suppose my degree is in maths, but I...
0:09:55 > 0:09:57I did a lot of science subjects at school so I just, yeah,
0:09:57 > 0:09:59I quite like the subject.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02As before, I will ask each of you three multiple-choice
0:10:02 > 0:10:03questions on Science in turn.
0:10:03 > 0:10:07Whoever answers the most questions correctly wins the round
0:10:07 > 0:10:09and as the winner of the previous round, Gerard,
0:10:09 > 0:10:11you get to choose whether you go first or second.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13I'll go first, please.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18OK, so, Science, Gerard starts.
0:10:18 > 0:10:22Which British scientist used his well-known double-slit experiment
0:10:22 > 0:10:25to demonstrate the wave theory of light?
0:10:25 > 0:10:27Was it...
0:10:32 > 0:10:36Yeah, it's called the Young double slit experiment
0:10:36 > 0:10:38so it must be Thomas Young.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40Thomas Young is correct.
0:10:40 > 0:10:41OK, Steve, your question.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44In which part of the body is the olecranon?
0:10:44 > 0:10:48O-L-E-C-R-A-N-O-N?
0:10:48 > 0:10:49Is it...
0:10:51 > 0:10:53I think that's the elbow, Jeremy.
0:10:53 > 0:10:54Elbow is correct.
0:10:56 > 0:10:57Back to you, Gerard.
0:10:57 > 0:11:01Which element did the German alchemist Hennig Brand
0:11:01 > 0:11:06discover in 1669 by boiling a large quantity of urine?
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Well, considering it... It was discovered by brewing urine,
0:11:13 > 0:11:16it appropriately has the chemical symbol P,
0:11:16 > 0:11:17and it's phosphorus.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19Phosphorus is quite right.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22OK, Steve, your question.
0:11:22 > 0:11:26The world's first commercial Maglev train service
0:11:26 > 0:11:29was built for which city's international airport?
0:11:32 > 0:11:34Erm....
0:11:34 > 0:11:36again, it's very tough to rule anything out.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39Erm, I wouldn't imagine it's Birmingham,
0:11:39 > 0:11:41although saying that, it probably is.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44With no conviction at all...
0:11:44 > 0:11:46I will try...Seoul.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48What's the answer? Do we know, Eggheads?
0:11:48 > 0:11:51I have an idea it's Birmingham, Jeremy.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54Chris is right. Mm. Birmingham is the answer.
0:11:54 > 0:11:58So, with this question you can take this round, Gerard.
0:11:58 > 0:12:03The remaining population of the critically-endangered giant ibis
0:12:03 > 0:12:06is concentrated in which country?
0:12:11 > 0:12:12Ooh.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15Now, I associated ibises, I thought they were in the,
0:12:15 > 0:12:19sort of Middle East area, but obviously not.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22I'm going to go for Costa Rica on this one, Jeremy.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24Pat, you'll know. I don't know. Don't you?
0:12:24 > 0:12:26I would've guessed Cambodia, but I don't know.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Why would you have guessed Cambodia?
0:12:28 > 0:12:31Well, I think over in East Asia you get lots of these stork
0:12:31 > 0:12:34and crane-like birds. It is Cambodia. Ah.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38So, you have a chance to pull level now, Steve,
0:12:38 > 0:12:39but you have to get this one right.
0:12:39 > 0:12:43According to the standard model, there are how many types
0:12:43 > 0:12:46of the fundamental particles called leptons?
0:12:49 > 0:12:53Again, any science buff will eat this one for breakfast, but...
0:12:54 > 0:12:57unfortunately, that's not me. Erm...
0:12:57 > 0:12:59I think eight's too many.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02Whichever one I say, it'll be the other one. Erm...
0:13:04 > 0:13:05six.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Six is the correct answer.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09JEREMY LAUGHS Well done!
0:13:09 > 0:13:11You held Gerard in Science
0:13:11 > 0:13:15over three very difficult questions, Steve. We go to Sudden Death now.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17Gets a bit harder, I don't give you options.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19So, Gerard, your question.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22What is 17 x 13?
0:13:22 > 0:13:2417 x 13.
0:13:24 > 0:13:29Well, think about this, then. 17 x 10 is 170,
0:13:29 > 0:13:3317 x 3 is 51,
0:13:33 > 0:13:36so that's...221.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39Think about that, does that sound right?
0:13:39 > 0:13:41Yes. 221, Jeremy.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43221... Yes.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45..is the correct answer.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48OK, Sudden Death, Steve, your question to stay in.
0:13:48 > 0:13:53Which organ of the human body contains bronchi and bronchioles?
0:13:54 > 0:13:57Well, hopefully that's the lungs. It is the lungs, well done.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59OK, Gerard,
0:13:59 > 0:14:03the name of what petroleum product used in jet engines
0:14:03 > 0:14:06and known as paraffin in the UK
0:14:06 > 0:14:10comes from the Greek word for wax?
0:14:10 > 0:14:14Well, yeah, I think the Latin for wax is similar. It's cera, isn't it?
0:14:14 > 0:14:17So it is kerosene. Kerosene is right.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19Steve.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22Buteo buteo is the Latin name
0:14:22 > 0:14:26for which bird, now the most common
0:14:26 > 0:14:29and widespread bird of prey in the UK?
0:14:29 > 0:14:33It's one I always tend to get mixed up, this.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37But I'm going to say buzzard.
0:14:37 > 0:14:38It's buzzard.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40Well done, you got it right.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42Back to you, Gerard. The fundamental
0:14:42 > 0:14:45constant relating to the magnitude
0:14:45 > 0:14:49of electric charge per mole
0:14:49 > 0:14:53of electrons is named after which scientist?
0:14:55 > 0:14:57Coulomb? Coulomb is wrong.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00Michael Faraday is the answer. Oh!
0:15:00 > 0:15:03Steve, you are one question away from winning on Science.
0:15:03 > 0:15:08At a hearing into the 1986 space shuttle disaster,
0:15:08 > 0:15:13which physicist famously demonstrated a fault with
0:15:13 > 0:15:18rubber O-rings by dipping one into a cup of iced water?
0:15:18 > 0:15:21I think that is Richard Feynman.
0:15:21 > 0:15:22You are absolutely right.
0:15:22 > 0:15:25Well done, Steve, you've won that head-to-head.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28You're just reminding us
0:15:28 > 0:15:29why you're both here, gentlemen.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31That's extraordinary play from you both.
0:15:31 > 0:15:35So as things stand, Steve has three points for the all-important
0:15:35 > 0:15:37endgame, Gerard has three points.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39It couldn't be tighter.
0:15:39 > 0:15:40And this is what we've been playing towards.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43It is time for the final round to decide who will become the
0:15:43 > 0:15:45first of our two new Eggheads.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48So, I will now ask you General Knowledge questions
0:15:48 > 0:15:50in turn. No multiple choice.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52I'm just going to need an answer.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54There's one point for each correct answer.
0:15:54 > 0:15:58The first player to reach ten points becomes one of our new Eggheads,
0:15:58 > 0:16:02as simple as that. If both players reach ten points after
0:16:02 > 0:16:05the same number of questions, we'll keep going until we find a winner.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08Steve, as the winner of the previous round,
0:16:08 > 0:16:10you can decide if you would like to play first or second.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12I'll go first, please, Jeremy.
0:16:16 > 0:16:17Steve.
0:16:17 > 0:16:23Who defeated Vishy Anand in 2013 to become world chess champion?
0:16:23 > 0:16:27There's only one name in the chess world that means anything to me,
0:16:27 > 0:16:30and that's Magnus Carlsen.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32Magnus Carlsen is correct.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35So you go to four points.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38Gerard, between 1963 and 1971,
0:16:38 > 0:16:42who was editor in chief of American Vogue magazine?
0:16:42 > 0:16:45The only name I associate with Vogue is Anna Wintour,
0:16:45 > 0:16:47but I thought she was more recent than that.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52I'm going to say Anna Wintour anyway, cos it's the only name...
0:16:52 > 0:16:53That's wrong.
0:16:53 > 0:16:56Diana Vreeland is the answer.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58So you are still on three points, Gerard.
0:16:58 > 0:16:59Steve is one point ahead.
0:16:59 > 0:17:04The international NGO called Medecins Sans Frontieres
0:17:04 > 0:17:06has its headquarters in which city?
0:17:08 > 0:17:14I know they have a lot of different bases in Geneva, so I'll try Geneva.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16Geneva is the right answer, Steve.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18So, five-three.
0:17:18 > 0:17:23Gerard, in mythology, which Greek god was the father of Pegasus?
0:17:23 > 0:17:25Oh, father of Pegasus...
0:17:25 > 0:17:29Pegasus sprang from the blood of Medusa, I thought.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31So who would that make its father?
0:17:31 > 0:17:33I'll go...
0:17:33 > 0:17:35I'll say Perseus because I don't know of any other person
0:17:35 > 0:17:38I associate with that legend. I'm just trying to think
0:17:38 > 0:17:41who our go-to prison is on Greek mythology. Kevin?
0:17:41 > 0:17:43I think it is Poseidon. Poseidon is the answer. Oh!
0:17:43 > 0:17:46So it is still five-three. Steve, your question.
0:17:46 > 0:17:49What is the common name of the tree scientifically called
0:17:49 > 0:17:54Populus tremula that is now known for the movement of its
0:17:54 > 0:17:56leaves in the slightest breeze?
0:17:57 > 0:17:58I'll try aspen.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00Aspen is correct.
0:18:01 > 0:18:03Six-three. Gerard,
0:18:03 > 0:18:05you need to put some points on the board here.
0:18:05 > 0:18:09The International Atomic Energy Agency
0:18:09 > 0:18:12has its headquarters in which European city?
0:18:12 > 0:18:15The only one I associate with atomic energy at the moment is CERN.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17It has nothing to do with... No.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22France is quite heavily into nuclear power, so...
0:18:22 > 0:18:24I'll try Paris for this one.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26Paris... Anyone here?
0:18:26 > 0:18:28Vienna. Vienna is the right answer.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30Back to you, Steve. Six-three.
0:18:30 > 0:18:34Which breed of dog has won Best in Show at Crufts
0:18:34 > 0:18:36on the most occasions?
0:18:37 > 0:18:39Poodle.
0:18:39 > 0:18:41English cocker spaniel. Ha!
0:18:41 > 0:18:42Gerard.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45Which religious organisation was established during
0:18:45 > 0:18:46the First World War
0:18:46 > 0:18:48by an Anglican clergyman
0:18:48 > 0:18:50known as Tubby Clayton?
0:18:50 > 0:18:53This isn't... I don't know, Toc H?
0:18:53 > 0:18:55Toc H is correct, well done.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58You are up to four points. So, six-four. Steve.
0:18:58 > 0:19:02The Susan Constant, the Godspeed
0:19:02 > 0:19:07and the Discovery were the names of the three ships that set sail
0:19:07 > 0:19:11from England in 1606 to found which colony?
0:19:13 > 0:19:16I'll try Jamestown, Virginia.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18Jamestown is the right answer.
0:19:18 > 0:19:22Seven, four. You're getting closer, Steve.
0:19:22 > 0:19:23Gerard.
0:19:23 > 0:19:29With which US national newspaper did The Guardian US share
0:19:29 > 0:19:33a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2014?
0:19:35 > 0:19:36USA Today?
0:19:36 > 0:19:39No, you are not having the luck of the draw here,
0:19:39 > 0:19:40cos it's Washington Post.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43Back to you, Steve.
0:19:43 > 0:19:48Newell's Old Boys is a football club named after
0:19:48 > 0:19:51a teacher from England in which country?
0:19:51 > 0:19:54I know that Lionel Messi used to play for them,
0:19:54 > 0:19:55so hopefully that's a clue.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57So I will say Argentina.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00Yes, you're absolutely right, and he did used to play for them.
0:20:00 > 0:20:01Argentina is right.
0:20:01 > 0:20:02You are on eight points now.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04Gerard is on four.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08Gerard, in which East Sussex town is the modernist building called
0:20:08 > 0:20:11De La Warr Pavilion?
0:20:13 > 0:20:15Lewes. I have no idea.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17Bexhill-on-Sea is the answer.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19We're back with you, Steve.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21Of which country
0:20:21 > 0:20:26was Petro Poroshenko elected president in 2014?
0:20:26 > 0:20:28It's Ukraine.
0:20:28 > 0:20:29Ukraine is the right answer.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32You can come back, Gerard.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34But you've got a little way to go here.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36You're on four points, Steve is on nine.
0:20:36 > 0:20:40Steve is one point away from becoming the newest Egghead.
0:20:40 > 0:20:41Gerard, your question.
0:20:41 > 0:20:45With which Hollywood tough guy is the character played by
0:20:45 > 0:20:52Jean-Paul Belmondo obsessed in the 1960 film Breathless?
0:20:52 > 0:20:57I mean, it's a classic movie. I very much should know that sort of thing.
0:20:57 > 0:21:01I'm ashamed to say I've never seen it, so I don't really know.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03James Cagney.
0:21:03 > 0:21:04Eggheads, do you know this one?
0:21:04 > 0:21:05I think it's Bogart.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07Yeah, Humphrey Bogart. Ah.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10All right, Steve, if you get one more right, you are an Egghead.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13You need to do no more. You've been through quite a process to get here.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15But you have not won yet.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17So take your time, listen closely.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20Sparafucile
0:21:20 > 0:21:24is an assassin in which Verdi opera?
0:21:24 > 0:21:26Can I have the spelling, please, Jeremy?
0:21:26 > 0:21:28Sparafucile, all one word.
0:21:28 > 0:21:32S-P-A-R-A-F-U-C-I-L-E.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35I'll try A Masked Ball.
0:21:36 > 0:21:40A Masked Ball. If that's correct, you are an Egghead.
0:21:42 > 0:21:43Barry?
0:21:43 > 0:21:46I think Sparafucile is the assassin Rigoletto hires to kill the
0:21:46 > 0:21:48Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50Had you said Rigoletto, you'd be there.
0:21:50 > 0:21:54Yeah. OK, we'll play on. Gerard.
0:21:54 > 0:21:59Which term derived from the name of a Roman god
0:21:59 > 0:22:03refers to a word that has two opposite meanings
0:22:03 > 0:22:05such as cleave?
0:22:05 > 0:22:07Right.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10So it's cleave meaning things can cleave together or cleave apart.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12Yeah.
0:22:12 > 0:22:14So a word that has two opposite meanings.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17Well, opposites, yes, it's something to do with Janus.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30I'll just have to try a Janus word, then. Janus word is right.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32That's a really, really good answer.
0:22:32 > 0:22:33So you are on five.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36Steve, you are one point away from being an Egghead.
0:22:36 > 0:22:40According to official figures, which US state experiences,
0:22:40 > 0:22:45on average, the highest number of tornadoes per year?
0:22:45 > 0:22:47If you get this right, you are an Egghead.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49Hm.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52Well... You'd hope it were coastal.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56Eh...
0:22:56 > 0:22:57Do-do-do. Tornadoes...
0:23:01 > 0:23:04According to official figures, which US state experiences,
0:23:04 > 0:23:07on average, the highest number of tornadoes per year?
0:23:07 > 0:23:11But there again, your Dust Bowl, Texas...
0:23:13 > 0:23:14Hawaii...
0:23:16 > 0:23:19It's probably something really obvious that I'm missing here,
0:23:19 > 0:23:21but my brain's turned to jelly.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25I will try Texas.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28Your answer is Texas.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31If you've got it wrong, we play on.
0:23:31 > 0:23:35If you've got it right, you don't need to do any more work.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40The correct answer...
0:23:42 > 0:23:44..is Texas. Steve, you are an Egghead!
0:23:44 > 0:23:47APPLAUSE
0:23:51 > 0:23:53Well done. That was amazing.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56Those questions were supremely tough.
0:23:56 > 0:23:57Weren't they, Eggheads?
0:23:57 > 0:23:59They were the hardest questions we've ever asked on Eggheads.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01We've never asked harder questions.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04And, honestly, to battle through, both of you, as you did, amazing.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06Steve, what an extraordinary performance.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08And you lost the first round as well.
0:24:08 > 0:24:09I were that close...
0:24:09 > 0:24:12I thought, 6-0 down, I can't do it.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15So you're going to have to find somewhere to get this dog from.
0:24:15 > 0:24:18Yeah! Your son's watching... He can have what he wants, now.
0:24:18 > 0:24:22Well, I tell you... And your dad will be watching as well.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25He's going to be... This one's for you, Dad. I love you.
0:24:25 > 0:24:29Well done. Thank you. It'll be great to see you behind the desk.
0:24:29 > 0:24:30Well done. Brilliant.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32That's our first new Egghead found.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34In a moment, you will see Steve take his place
0:24:34 > 0:24:36alongside his new team-mates.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38Bit of history here in the studio.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41It's now time to find our second new Egghead.
0:24:42 > 0:24:43Well, what excitement.
0:24:43 > 0:24:47We've just seen Steve win his place on the Eggheads bench.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50How does it feel there? It feels amazing, Jeremy.
0:24:50 > 0:24:54I think I've just used all my luck up for the next 25 years, so...
0:24:54 > 0:24:56Yeah. Pretty special moment.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59Welcome, not just from me but from all of the brilliant Eggheads,
0:24:59 > 0:25:00I know they're excited to have you.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03Now it's the turn of our next two finalists to battle it out,
0:25:03 > 0:25:06see which of you is going to join them. Let's meet them.
0:25:06 > 0:25:10I'm Julia Hobbs, a question writer from Berkshire.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12I'm Beth Webster, a health and safety advisor,
0:25:12 > 0:25:14and I live in Watford.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17Welcome, Julia and Beth, and Julia,
0:25:17 > 0:25:20getting to this stage was not easy, was it, to say the least?
0:25:20 > 0:25:24No, it really wasn't. I had a couple of close matches,
0:25:24 > 0:25:27so being here is quite a shock, to be honest,
0:25:27 > 0:25:29but actually a very pleasant shock, let's say.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31And how was it for you, Beth?
0:25:31 > 0:25:34Well, it was a massive shock to me,
0:25:34 > 0:25:37because Nicky, my competitor in the semifinal,
0:25:37 > 0:25:40was the top of the leaderboard, and I was fourth.
0:25:40 > 0:25:43So to be sat here is quite something and I am quite staggered.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45Listen, lots of luck to you both.
0:25:45 > 0:25:46Same rules as before.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49Three points are up for grabs per round,
0:25:49 > 0:25:51which you'll take through to the final.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54The first head-to-head battle will be on the subject of Music,
0:25:54 > 0:25:57which was the category that you chose, Julia. Yep.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00Why did you go for this? Music's where I think my strengths lie.
0:26:00 > 0:26:03I've got very, very broad tastes in music.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05Beth, how are you feeling about music? OK, yeah...
0:26:05 > 0:26:09I... I have also a very broad taste in music as well,
0:26:09 > 0:26:12but mine also drifts into classical.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14Oh, we're going to have a good one here, I can sense it.
0:26:14 > 0:26:18I'm going to ask each of you three multiple-choice questions on music.
0:26:18 > 0:26:21Whoever answers the most questions correctly wins the round.
0:26:21 > 0:26:24Julia, as our highest-ranked player, you have the option
0:26:24 > 0:26:25as to whether you want to play first or second.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27I'd like to go first, please.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33So here we go. Good luck.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Kevin Price and Arnold Cunningham
0:26:35 > 0:26:38are characters in which of these stage musicals?
0:26:42 > 0:26:44This is a great start.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Er...
0:26:47 > 0:26:50I don't think they're connected with Hairspray.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56They don't sound like they'd be in The Book of Mormon either,
0:26:56 > 0:26:59so on not a very strong basis,
0:26:59 > 0:27:00I'm going to go for Jersey Boys.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03Jersey Boys is your answer. Let's check with the Eggheads. Barry?
0:27:03 > 0:27:05They're in The Book of Mormon.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07The Book of Mormon is the answer. Oh, dear.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10OK. So, Beth, your chance to take the lead here.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13In which year was the Mozart opera The Marriage of Figaro
0:27:13 > 0:27:15first performed?
0:27:21 > 0:27:25Having said that my taste drifts to classical,
0:27:25 > 0:27:29I must say that Mozart is my least favourite classical composer!
0:27:29 > 0:27:34Er...I think 1806 is a bit late for him.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36Let's go with 1786.
0:27:36 > 0:27:40Now, the dates man here is the great Mr Ashman.
0:27:40 > 0:27:41Can you give us a date on this?
0:27:41 > 0:27:43Yes. Yeah, that's right, 1786.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45Oh! 1786 is correct.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48You've taken the lead. Back to you, Julia.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51"That big wheel spins, the hair thins,
0:27:51 > 0:27:53"people forget, forget they're hiding"
0:27:53 > 0:27:56are lyrics from which song by The Who?
0:28:04 > 0:28:07I'm not familiar at all with Eminence Front.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10I'm trying to sing through Pinball Wizard in my head.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16And I can't... I'm familiar with Baba O'Riley, obviously,
0:28:16 > 0:28:19but again...can't remember the words.
0:28:20 > 0:28:23I don't think it's Pinball Wizard.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26I'm going to say Baba O'Riley.
0:28:26 > 0:28:27The answer is Eminence Front!
0:28:27 > 0:28:29OK, so...
0:28:29 > 0:28:32Beth, you have a chance to take the round with this question.
0:28:32 > 0:28:39Work From Home was a worldwide hit single by which pop act in 2016?
0:28:43 > 0:28:46Work From Home...
0:28:46 > 0:28:50Fifth Harmony sounds like it is a...
0:28:50 > 0:28:56Oh! Actually...they're a female group, Fifth Harmony,
0:28:56 > 0:28:58like the Spice Girls.
0:28:58 > 0:29:02And I believe I might have seen the video for this,
0:29:02 > 0:29:08where they're all dressed as... sort of like construction workers
0:29:08 > 0:29:10or carpenters or things like that.
0:29:10 > 0:29:13And from that alone, I'm going to go with Fifth Harmony.
0:29:13 > 0:29:17Any Eggs? It is Fifth Harmony, yeah, definitely.
0:29:17 > 0:29:20OK. Steve says Fifth Harmony, and he's right.
0:29:20 > 0:29:21Fifth Harmony it is,
0:29:21 > 0:29:24so you've got two points, Beth, you're uncatchable.
0:29:24 > 0:29:27We say congratulations, you've won the first head-to-head.
0:29:29 > 0:29:31If it is any consolation, Julia,
0:29:31 > 0:29:32that is exactly what happened to Steve.
0:29:32 > 0:29:34Exactly! Phew!
0:29:34 > 0:29:37He chose Music, lost it, went on to win.
0:29:37 > 0:29:41I don't feel so bad, now. Don't make it a habit, now.
0:29:41 > 0:29:44Got a precious three points there, Beth, for the all-important endgame,
0:29:44 > 0:29:46from that round. Julia's got no points so far.
0:29:46 > 0:29:50And our next head-to-head is on the subject of Film TV.
0:29:50 > 0:29:52Beth, you chose this. I did, yes.
0:29:52 > 0:29:56Tell us why you chose it. It's where I think all my strengths lie.
0:29:56 > 0:30:01I...read a lot about film, I watch quite a lot of film,
0:30:01 > 0:30:03and having small children, I watch a lot of television!
0:30:03 > 0:30:06So as before I'll ask each of you three multiple-choice questions
0:30:06 > 0:30:07on Film TV in turn.
0:30:07 > 0:30:10Whoever answers the most questions correctly wins the round.
0:30:10 > 0:30:12You've got the Eggheads looking on eagle-eyed here.
0:30:12 > 0:30:15Beth, as the winner of the previous round you get to decide
0:30:15 > 0:30:18if you want to play first or second. Continue going first, please.
0:30:21 > 0:30:22Your first question, Beth.
0:30:22 > 0:30:25What is the name of the owners of the farm
0:30:25 > 0:30:29in Nick Park's animated film Chicken Run?
0:30:33 > 0:30:35I know this answer.
0:30:35 > 0:30:39It's a favourite film of mine. It's Mrs Tweedy!
0:30:39 > 0:30:42Tweedy is correct. Julia.
0:30:42 > 0:30:47In which film did Katharine Hepburn play the journalist Tess Harding?
0:30:54 > 0:30:57I don't think it's... It's not The Philadelphia Story, I'm fairly sure.
0:30:57 > 0:30:59Oh...maybe it is The Philadelphia Story.
0:30:59 > 0:31:02I'm going to mix up my Katharine Hepburn films.
0:31:02 > 0:31:05For some reason...
0:31:05 > 0:31:09Bringing Up Baby is the one that immediately
0:31:09 > 0:31:12was familiar to me with that role.
0:31:12 > 0:31:15But I have no idea why that was.
0:31:17 > 0:31:19I'm going to say Bringing Up Baby.
0:31:19 > 0:31:22That's wrong. Woman of the Year is the right answer.
0:31:22 > 0:31:23OK.
0:31:23 > 0:31:27Beth, on to you. What was the name of the tortoise
0:31:27 > 0:31:30who regularly visited Bill and Ben, the Flowerpot Men,
0:31:30 > 0:31:34in the original TV series that started in the 1950s?
0:31:40 > 0:31:42Ooh.
0:31:43 > 0:31:47I think the answer to this is Slowcoach, Jeremy.
0:31:47 > 0:31:49Slowcoach is the right answer.
0:31:49 > 0:31:51So you have two points.
0:31:51 > 0:31:54Julia, you must get this one right to stay in the round.
0:31:54 > 0:31:59Which writer created the UK television drama series Shameless?
0:32:03 > 0:32:06I watched pretty much every single episode
0:32:06 > 0:32:09of every single series of Shameless - I loved it.
0:32:09 > 0:32:11It tailed off a little bit towards the end.
0:32:11 > 0:32:13And that was Paul Abbott.
0:32:13 > 0:32:16Absolutely right. Paul Abbott it is. Well done to you.
0:32:16 > 0:32:19So Beth, you have two, Julia, you have one.
0:32:19 > 0:32:22Beth, your third question, for the round.
0:32:22 > 0:32:24Who wrote and narrated
0:32:24 > 0:32:28the Oscar-winning 1963 short animation The Critic?
0:32:33 > 0:32:38I don't know the answer to this one immediately.
0:32:38 > 0:32:43Zero Mostel isn't somebody I've heard of,
0:32:43 > 0:32:45it's not come across my radar at all.
0:32:45 > 0:32:47Er...
0:32:47 > 0:32:53It seems to be something that Mel Brooks would do.
0:32:53 > 0:32:57But then equally, it sounds like something Woody Allen would do.
0:32:58 > 0:33:00Er...
0:33:00 > 0:33:03I can't necessarily hear Woody Allen being a narrator,
0:33:03 > 0:33:07and for that reason only, I'm going to go for Mel Brooks.
0:33:07 > 0:33:09You are right. Congratulations, Beth,
0:33:09 > 0:33:11you've won the second head-to-head!
0:33:14 > 0:33:18So Beth has six points for that all-important endgame.
0:33:18 > 0:33:21Julia, you have none. This is what we have been playing towards.
0:33:21 > 0:33:23It is time for the final round to decide
0:33:23 > 0:33:26who will become the second of our two new Eggheads.
0:33:26 > 0:33:30I will now ask you general knowledge questions in turn.
0:33:30 > 0:33:33No multiple choice - I just need an answer.
0:33:33 > 0:33:36There's one point for each correct answer, it couldn't be more simple.
0:33:36 > 0:33:40And the first player to reach ten points becomes the new Egghead.
0:33:40 > 0:33:42Straightforward as that.
0:33:42 > 0:33:45If both players reach ten points after the same number of questions
0:33:45 > 0:33:48we will keep going until we find a winner.
0:33:48 > 0:33:51Do you both understand? Yes. Yes. Good stuff.
0:33:51 > 0:33:53Best of luck to you both,
0:33:53 > 0:33:55and Beth, as the winner of the previous round,
0:33:55 > 0:33:59you get to decide if you'd like to play first or second.
0:33:59 > 0:34:00I'm sticking with first.
0:34:03 > 0:34:05Beth, your first question.
0:34:05 > 0:34:09The 2016 film Love Friendship that stars Kate Beckinsale
0:34:09 > 0:34:12is based on an original story by which famous author?
0:34:14 > 0:34:16I'm going to go with Charlotte Bronte.
0:34:16 > 0:34:18The correct answer is...
0:34:18 > 0:34:20Jane Austen. Jane Austen, oh.
0:34:20 > 0:34:22Julia, your question.
0:34:22 > 0:34:26Which element has the chemical symbol In?
0:34:26 > 0:34:30Something's come straight into my brain. I'm just going to check,
0:34:30 > 0:34:32make sure I'm not confusing it with something else.
0:34:34 > 0:34:38Suddenly don't even know if this is an element. Um...
0:34:38 > 0:34:40Indium.
0:34:40 > 0:34:42Indium is the right answer - well done.
0:34:42 > 0:34:43Beth.
0:34:43 > 0:34:47Which character from the 1993 film The Nightmare Before Christmas
0:34:47 > 0:34:51is known as the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town?
0:34:51 > 0:34:53Jack Skellington?
0:34:53 > 0:34:55Jack Skellington is correct.
0:34:55 > 0:34:57Beth, you have seven points.
0:34:57 > 0:34:59Julia, you have one.
0:34:59 > 0:35:02Before being married to Scarlett Johansson
0:35:02 > 0:35:04and then Blake Lively,
0:35:04 > 0:35:09the actor Ryan Reynolds was engaged to which Canadian singer?
0:35:09 > 0:35:12Well, there's only one I can think of.
0:35:12 > 0:35:15I'm not sure she was engaged to him!
0:35:15 > 0:35:17I don't know this for certain,
0:35:17 > 0:35:21and it sounds really ridiculous. Is it Avril Lavigne?
0:35:21 > 0:35:24How interesting. I didn't think you were going in that direction.
0:35:24 > 0:35:26Eggheads, Lisa will know. Alanis Morissette.
0:35:26 > 0:35:29Alanis Morissette. Really?! That's incredible.
0:35:29 > 0:35:32So, Beth, you have seven points,
0:35:32 > 0:35:33Julia, you have one.
0:35:33 > 0:35:38Beth, the leading Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera
0:35:38 > 0:35:40is based in which city?
0:35:41 > 0:35:43Might as well go for the capital. Rome.
0:35:43 > 0:35:45No, no. Milan. Ah.
0:35:47 > 0:35:49Julia, which Greek deity is the equivalent
0:35:49 > 0:35:51of the Roman goddess Juno?
0:35:51 > 0:35:54Again, one of those facts that I really should know and...
0:35:54 > 0:35:58I pick up lots of information when I'm writing questions,
0:35:58 > 0:36:00about Greek and Roman deities,
0:36:00 > 0:36:02and they all get somewhat confused in my brain.
0:36:02 > 0:36:04But the first thing that came to me...
0:36:06 > 0:36:07..was Hera.
0:36:07 > 0:36:09Hera is right.
0:36:09 > 0:36:12So Julia has two, Beth has seven.
0:36:12 > 0:36:14Beth, your question.
0:36:14 > 0:36:18The ngultrum is the unit of currency
0:36:18 > 0:36:20of which Himalayan country?
0:36:20 > 0:36:24China doesn't recognise... one of them...
0:36:24 > 0:36:28China, Nepal, Tibet...
0:36:29 > 0:36:30Nepal.
0:36:30 > 0:36:32Do you know this, Julia?
0:36:32 > 0:36:35It's not familiar to me. I'd probably say somewhere like Bhutan.
0:36:35 > 0:36:37It is Bhutan, actually, yeah.
0:36:37 > 0:36:38Julia, your question.
0:36:38 > 0:36:43In the USA, Labor Day is celebrated on the first Monday
0:36:43 > 0:36:45of which month?
0:36:45 > 0:36:48I think...it's September.
0:36:48 > 0:36:51September is correct. You're catching up.
0:36:51 > 0:36:53Beth, your question.
0:36:53 > 0:36:55The American group DNCE
0:36:55 > 0:37:00had their first UK top-ten single in 2016
0:37:00 > 0:37:02with Cake By The what?
0:37:02 > 0:37:05Cake By The Ocean.
0:37:05 > 0:37:06Yes, you're right!
0:37:06 > 0:37:09OK, let's look at the scores here. Beth, you've got eight.
0:37:09 > 0:37:11Julia, you've got three. Julia, you've got to
0:37:11 > 0:37:14run to catch up. Two more correct answers, Beth,
0:37:14 > 0:37:16and you are an Egghead. Julia, your question.
0:37:16 > 0:37:19Which actor has appeared in the films Green Lantern,
0:37:19 > 0:37:24Blade: Trinity and X-Men Origins: Wolverine?
0:37:24 > 0:37:27With very little confidence,
0:37:27 > 0:37:30only because I know him, I connect him with Wolverine...
0:37:30 > 0:37:32I don't think he was in...
0:37:32 > 0:37:34Green Lantern, I don't really know.
0:37:36 > 0:37:38I'm going to say Hugh Jackman.
0:37:38 > 0:37:39Hugh Jackman.
0:37:39 > 0:37:42OK, let's have maybe a bit of knowledge from Kevin - do you know?
0:37:42 > 0:37:45I'm just wondering if it's our friend Mr Reynolds again.
0:37:45 > 0:37:47It is our friend Mr Reynolds! Ah! Ryan Reynolds.
0:37:47 > 0:37:50All right, so Beth, you have eight, Julia, you have three.
0:37:50 > 0:37:51Beth, your question.
0:37:51 > 0:37:56Pan paniscus is the scientific name for which type of primate,
0:37:56 > 0:38:02classified separately from the common chimpanzee in 1933?
0:38:02 > 0:38:04Ooh.
0:38:04 > 0:38:08The common chimpanzee is Pan troglodytes if I remember rightly,
0:38:08 > 0:38:11and...until you specified chimpanzee,
0:38:11 > 0:38:13that's where I was going.
0:38:13 > 0:38:16I'm pretty sure chimpanzees don't have tails,
0:38:16 > 0:38:19and the one I was just about to say I'm pretty sure has a tail.
0:38:19 > 0:38:24So it's got to be very close, to be related to...
0:38:24 > 0:38:26So...
0:38:26 > 0:38:30Let's go with a bonobo.
0:38:30 > 0:38:32That is a brilliant answer.
0:38:32 > 0:38:34Bonobo is correct. Well done!
0:38:34 > 0:38:37That is an absolutely stunning answer. Brilliant.
0:38:37 > 0:38:39OK.
0:38:39 > 0:38:41You're not an Egghead yet,
0:38:41 > 0:38:44but Julia, you've got to get seven answers right now.
0:38:44 > 0:38:46Yep.
0:38:46 > 0:38:51Julia. Alec Douglas-Home and which other British Prime Minister
0:38:51 > 0:38:53died in 1995?
0:38:53 > 0:38:58I've got a slight inkling...
0:39:00 > 0:39:04..that that might have been Harold Macmillan?
0:39:04 > 0:39:06Harold Wilson is the answer.
0:39:06 > 0:39:09Beth, you've got nine points. One more correct answer
0:39:09 > 0:39:11and you are an Egghead. Here is your question.
0:39:11 > 0:39:15Which Australian slang word for "intoxicated"
0:39:15 > 0:39:17is also a derogatory term
0:39:17 > 0:39:22for someone who tends towards a socialist point of view?
0:39:25 > 0:39:27I haven't got a clue.
0:39:27 > 0:39:31So I'm going to pick one of the Australian pieces of slang I know -
0:39:31 > 0:39:33drongo.
0:39:33 > 0:39:34Pinko is the answer.
0:39:34 > 0:39:37All right. So Beth, you're on nine, Julia, you're on three -
0:39:37 > 0:39:39you can catch up!
0:39:39 > 0:39:42Julia, the area covered by which US national park
0:39:42 > 0:39:46was known to Native Americans as Pahayokee,
0:39:46 > 0:39:48or Grassy Waters?
0:39:48 > 0:39:55Well, given that it's quite wet and green around Florida...
0:39:57 > 0:39:59..I'm going to say the Everglades.
0:39:59 > 0:40:00Bang on. The Everglades is right.
0:40:00 > 0:40:03You've got four points. This may not be over.
0:40:03 > 0:40:06Beth, you're on the edge of becoming an Egghead here.
0:40:06 > 0:40:09One more point will do it. Here is your question.
0:40:09 > 0:40:14In which year was the Prime Minister Winston Churchill born?
0:40:14 > 0:40:19Now, I know... I'm pretty sure he served in the First World War,
0:40:19 > 0:40:23which would have put his birth date in 1800 and something,
0:40:23 > 0:40:27but he was young when he was in the First World War.
0:40:29 > 0:40:32First year that came into my head - 1896.
0:40:32 > 0:40:34No, you're quite a way out.
0:40:34 > 0:40:371874. Oh, well out, then!
0:40:40 > 0:40:43Julia, from May 1930 to April 1931
0:40:43 > 0:40:46which building was the tallest in the world?
0:40:46 > 0:40:47I think...
0:40:49 > 0:40:51I think for a time it might have been the Chrysler Building
0:40:51 > 0:40:53before the Empire State took over.
0:40:53 > 0:40:55Correct. Chrysler Building, New York.
0:40:55 > 0:40:57So you now have five points, Julia.
0:40:57 > 0:40:59Beth has nine. THEY LAUGH
0:40:59 > 0:41:01It's not over, this!
0:41:01 > 0:41:03Beth is stalled on nine. Yeah.
0:41:03 > 0:41:06OK, Beth, your question. You're one point away from being an Egghead.
0:41:06 > 0:41:09Which director general of the BBC
0:41:09 > 0:41:12was named by Mary Whitehouse
0:41:12 > 0:41:14as the one man who more than anybody else
0:41:14 > 0:41:17had been responsible for the moral collapse in this country?
0:41:19 > 0:41:21So...
0:41:21 > 0:41:24Not very good on my DGs of the BBC!
0:41:24 > 0:41:30I don't even know if this person was a DG of the BBC.
0:41:31 > 0:41:33Lord Puttnam.
0:41:33 > 0:41:35That's the wrong answer. It was Hugh Greene.
0:41:35 > 0:41:37Julia.
0:41:37 > 0:41:41Marian Holcombe and Laura Fairlie
0:41:41 > 0:41:45are two of the central characters in which Wilkie Collins novel?
0:41:45 > 0:41:49I can only name a couple of Wilkie Collins novels.
0:41:49 > 0:41:51At least, I think this is a Wilkie Collins novel.
0:41:51 > 0:41:55Literally everything I know suddenly just left my brain. Um...
0:41:55 > 0:41:56The Woman In White?
0:41:56 > 0:41:58The Woman In White is correct!
0:41:58 > 0:41:59So you have six points now.
0:41:59 > 0:42:03You are just gently creeping up.
0:42:03 > 0:42:05Beth, your question.
0:42:05 > 0:42:09In 1921, which French glassware and jewellery designer
0:42:09 > 0:42:14founded the Verrerie d'Alsace glassworks
0:42:14 > 0:42:18at Wingen-sur-Moder in Alsace?
0:42:18 > 0:42:23I only know one French glassware-maker.
0:42:23 > 0:42:28Er, and that would be Rene Lalique.
0:42:29 > 0:42:33If you've got this right, you are an Egghead.
0:42:33 > 0:42:37If not, we play on. You have been stalled on nine points.
0:42:37 > 0:42:38Mmm.
0:42:38 > 0:42:42You only needed to know one. The answer is Rene Lalique.
0:42:42 > 0:42:46We say congratulations, Beth, you've just become an Egghead!
0:42:46 > 0:42:47EGGHEADS APPLAUD
0:42:52 > 0:42:55Are you OK? I'm all emotional!
0:42:55 > 0:42:56Me too!
0:42:56 > 0:42:58The tension in the air, my goodness.
0:42:58 > 0:43:01I was suddenly starting to think that you were going to catch her!
0:43:01 > 0:43:02Just question by question.
0:43:02 > 0:43:05That answer was so totally certain, it was brilliant.
0:43:05 > 0:43:08Yes. You didn't even have to search for it. No, I'm a fan of his work.
0:43:08 > 0:43:11In fact, my mum has a fake Lalique at home
0:43:11 > 0:43:13that I always call her fake Lalique.
0:43:13 > 0:43:17OK! Well, that is it. We've had, what is it, five weeks of quizzing?
0:43:17 > 0:43:20We've seen 40 contestants,
0:43:20 > 0:43:22and they were selected from an even larger number.
0:43:22 > 0:43:24We get down to semifinals and then to finals,
0:43:24 > 0:43:28and now we have two new Eggheads. What a process.
0:43:28 > 0:43:31We've all enjoyed seeing people come through.
0:43:31 > 0:43:34Steve there, Beth going to sit with the Eggheads
0:43:34 > 0:43:36for the first time as well.
0:43:36 > 0:43:38I hope you've enjoyed it at home as much as we have.
0:43:38 > 0:43:41See you next time, when we'll be putting Steve and Beth
0:43:41 > 0:43:44through their paces, along with these other crazy geniuses,
0:43:44 > 0:43:47against teams of challengers hoping that they've got the brains
0:43:47 > 0:43:51to beat the all-new... Well, mostly new Eggheads.
0:43:51 > 0:43:53Till then, goodbye.
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