0:00:04 > 0:00:08These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.
0:00:08 > 0:00:10Together, they make up the Eggheads,
0:00:10 > 0:00:14arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.
0:00:14 > 0:00:17The 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've launched a nationwide search
0:00:28 > 0:00:30to find the greatest quiz brains in Britain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:34By the end of our series, two people will emerge as champions
0:00:34 > 0:00:37and win the ultimate prize for quizzing enthusiasts -
0:00:37 > 0:00:42a place on the most fearsome quiz team in history, the Eggheads.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45- You love that build-up, don't you? - Oh, yes.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47So, let's meet today's contestants,
0:00:47 > 0:00:49both hoping they've got what it takes to become an Egghead.
0:00:49 > 0:00:53Hi. I'm Nancy Dickmann. I'm a freelance author and editor.
0:00:53 > 0:00:54I live in Islip in Oxfordshire,
0:00:54 > 0:00:56but I'm originally from St Louis in the States.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58Hi. I'm Nicola Morgan.
0:00:58 > 0:00:59I'm a former teaching assistant
0:00:59 > 0:01:02and I'm from Hedgerley Green in Buckinghamshire.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04Welcome to you both. Nicola, you start.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06Tell us about your quizzing background.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09My quizzing background. Well, I play in a local quiz league.
0:01:09 > 0:01:14I play in school quizzes and I've done a bit of TV quizzing too -
0:01:14 > 0:01:18Only Connect and the National Lottery quiz show
0:01:18 > 0:01:20- a few years ago...- Right.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22..which was fun, cos we won a lot of money.
0:01:22 > 0:01:23OK. Good.
0:01:23 > 0:01:27And, Nancy, I know your big thing is being Mastermind, is that right?
0:01:27 > 0:01:30Yeah, that's right. I was Mastermind Champion in 2009.
0:01:30 > 0:01:31I've also done Only Connect.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33I've done Brain Of Britain,
0:01:33 > 0:01:35and like Nicola, I play in a quiz league.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38I noticed the American accent. You said you're from St Louis.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Yeah, I'm from St Louis. I've been here about 14 years.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43- Was it love that brought you over or work?- Love made me stay.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45I came over from my job and I met my husband
0:01:45 > 0:01:47while I was over here, so I ended up staying.
0:01:47 > 0:01:48OK. Well, good luck to you both.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51This is where you need to prove that you could be an Egghead.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53Just like on Eggheads, both of you will compete
0:01:53 > 0:01:56over a series of different rounds where your knowledge will be tested
0:01:56 > 0:01:58on the regular Eggheads categories.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01So, the first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Film & TV.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04I'll ask each of you three multiple-choice questions
0:02:04 > 0:02:05in turn.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Whoever answers the most questions correctly wins the round,
0:02:08 > 0:02:10and the prize for winning a round - this is crucial -
0:02:10 > 0:02:13is that you gain an extra brain for the final.
0:02:13 > 0:02:14Not just any old brain.
0:02:14 > 0:02:18You can choose one of the Eggheads to play with you in the final round.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20Now, before the show, we tossed a coin,
0:02:20 > 0:02:21and as a result of that, Nancy,
0:02:21 > 0:02:24you have the option as to whether you want to go first or second.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26I'll go first, please.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32OK, good luck to you both. Here we are with your first question.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34Who wrote the drama series Happy Valley?
0:02:39 > 0:02:41Ooh.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43I didn't watch it. I know what it was.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47I know Abi Morgan is a screenwriter.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49I've never heard of Heidi Thomas.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51I think it might be Sally Wainwright.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54Sally Wainwright is your answer.
0:02:54 > 0:02:55Do you know this, Nicola?
0:02:55 > 0:02:56I think you're right.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58Oh.
0:02:58 > 0:03:00Sally Wainwright is the right answer.
0:03:00 > 0:03:01Fantastic.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03OK, your question, Nicola.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07Who played Private Frazer in the TV comedy series Dad's Army?
0:03:11 > 0:03:14Well, I know it wasn't Clive Dunn.
0:03:14 > 0:03:18James Beck, I think, was Private Walker.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21I'm going to go with the very Scottish John Laurie.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23"We're all doomed."
0:03:23 > 0:03:24John Laurie is your answer.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26- Is it right, Eggheads? - It is.- That's correct.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29Yes. And he is the one who goes, "We're all doomed!"
0:03:29 > 0:03:31"We're doomed!"
0:03:31 > 0:03:33John Laurie is correct. Well done.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36So, one each. Back to you, Nancy.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39Who directed the 1973 film The Exorcist?
0:03:45 > 0:03:47I'm very pleased to see William Friedkin come up
0:03:47 > 0:03:49because I'm just about positive it's him.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51I'm sure it's not Stanley Kubrick.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53Michael Camino is best known for The Deer Hunter,
0:03:53 > 0:03:56but, no, I'm sure it's William Friedkin.
0:03:56 > 0:03:57William Friedkin is correct.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03Nicola, who wrote the musical TV film That Day We Sang,
0:04:03 > 0:04:07first shown in 2014 starring Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton?
0:04:11 > 0:04:15Well, I know Tim Minchin wrote Matilda.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18Peter Kay, I don't think he writes for other people,
0:04:18 > 0:04:21but Victoria Wood is what I'm going for.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24You're playing well, both of you. That's correct as well.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26So, two points each. Victoria Wood.
0:04:26 > 0:04:27Your third question, Nancy.
0:04:27 > 0:04:28In the cartoon series
0:04:28 > 0:04:33Top Cat, what is the name of the pink cat who wears a white top?
0:04:37 > 0:04:41I have not watched Top Cat for an embarrassing number of years,
0:04:41 > 0:04:43probably since I was about six.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47There is one called Spook.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50There probably is a cat called all three of those.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52Spook is the only one I can remember.
0:04:53 > 0:04:57A white top makes sense with Spook. I'm going to go for Spook.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00- The answer is Choo-Choo.- Argh. - You got two out of three.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02So, Nicola, your chance to win the round
0:05:02 > 0:05:05and win the brain of an Egghead.
0:05:05 > 0:05:10In the 1960 film Butterfield 8 starring Elizabeth Taylor,
0:05:10 > 0:05:12what does Butterfield 8 refer to?
0:05:18 > 0:05:20I have read the novel
0:05:20 > 0:05:27and I remember that it is a telephone exchange
0:05:27 > 0:05:30so people could get in touch with Elizabeth Taylor's character.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32A telephone exchange is the right answer.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35Nicola, you've got three out of three.
0:05:35 > 0:05:39Nicely done. Congratulations. You've won the first head-to-head.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45Now, that means you gain an Egghead to help you in the final round.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47You've got five to choose from. Who would you like?
0:05:47 > 0:05:50Goodness. What a choice.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52I'm going to go for the man in the middle.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54I'm going to choose Kevin.
0:05:54 > 0:05:55- Yeah.- OK.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59So, as it stands, Nancy has not got an Egghead to help her in the final.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Nicola has one, and your next category, ladies, is History.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05So, Nicola, you won the last round so you get to decide if you want
0:06:05 > 0:06:06to go first or second.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09I think I'll go second.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15So, Nancy, here is your history question.
0:06:15 > 0:06:21In 1647, Charles I escaped from Hampton Court to which of these?
0:06:25 > 0:06:27Oh. I don't know this.
0:06:27 > 0:06:33Ah. Lindisfarne seems a very odd place to escape to.
0:06:33 > 0:06:38Anglesey. Isle of Wight would be the easiest to get to.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42I will say Isle of Wight. I don't actually know, though.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44- Isle of Wight is correct. - Oh, fantastic.- Well done.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46First question to you, Nicola.
0:06:46 > 0:06:50Which of these rivers was a part of the Mesopotamian civilisation?
0:06:54 > 0:06:56Don't think it was the Ganges.
0:06:59 > 0:07:04The Danube is too European, I think.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08Tigris and Euphrates are coming to mind,
0:07:08 > 0:07:11so I'm going to say the Tigris.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13- Eggheads, is she right?- Yep.- Yeah.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15They all agree. It is the Tigris.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18One each. Back to you, Nancy.
0:07:18 > 0:07:23In the 1930s, which museum acquired The Great Bed of Ware - W-A-R-E -
0:07:23 > 0:07:26a 16th century bed that can reputedly accommodate
0:07:26 > 0:07:28at least four couples?
0:07:33 > 0:07:34Right.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37The Ashmolean is in Oxford where I live
0:07:37 > 0:07:41and I've been there many times and surely a bed that big
0:07:41 > 0:07:42I would've seen.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44I don't think it's there.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46Likewise, I've been to the British Museum a bunch
0:07:46 > 0:07:48and I don't remember seeing it, so I don't...
0:07:48 > 0:07:50The V&A has lots of home furnishings.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53I think they're most likely to have a giant bed,
0:07:53 > 0:07:55and I've been to that only once
0:07:55 > 0:07:57so I wouldn't be surprised if I hadn't seen it.
0:07:57 > 0:07:58I'm going to go for the V&A.
0:07:58 > 0:08:02V&A is correct. Back to you, Nicola.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04Eleanor of Castile lived during which century?
0:08:07 > 0:08:10This is not a period I studied at school,
0:08:10 > 0:08:12so I'm going to have to work it out.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16Eleanor of Castile.
0:08:16 > 0:08:21I am going to say...
0:08:23 > 0:08:25the 12th century.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28- 12th is your answer. - 12th is my answer.
0:08:28 > 0:08:32Now, Judith, you've got a bit of history with Eleanors, haven't you?
0:08:32 > 0:08:35Yes, there are far too many to remember who they all are.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37You've got a favourite Eleanor who helped you win a million.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39- Eleanor of Aquitaine. - Yeah.- She was Henry II.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42- This is not this Eleanor. - No, this is Castile.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44I think it's 13th century.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47- Mm. It is the 13th.- Oh.
0:08:47 > 0:08:48Judith is right.
0:08:48 > 0:08:52Nancy, get this right and you will have the chance
0:08:52 > 0:08:54to choose an Egghead.
0:08:54 > 0:08:58Henry III had a mural painted in his bedchamber
0:08:58 > 0:09:01at the Palace of Westminster that depicted which monarch
0:09:01 > 0:09:07who was said to have died in a room that previously occupied the site?
0:09:12 > 0:09:14Oh.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16Well, it couldn't be Richard the Lionheart, cos he,
0:09:16 > 0:09:20as far as I know, didn't die in England.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23Edward the Confessor was born in my little tiny village
0:09:23 > 0:09:27just down the road from me, but I haven't a clue where he died,
0:09:27 > 0:09:28which is embarrassing.
0:09:28 > 0:09:34Oh, William the Conqueror, he, I believe, died in London.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38I'm going to say William the Conqueror.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41I thought you might. Any way of guessing this, Eggheads?
0:09:41 > 0:09:43Yeah, the only one who died in England.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Richard the Lionheart died in France.
0:09:45 > 0:09:46William the Conqueror also died in France?
0:09:46 > 0:09:48- And he died in Normandy. - In Normandy?- Yes.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50Edward the Confessor, he was the holy one
0:09:50 > 0:09:53that he would've wanted as a mural in his bedroom.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55If I've got a question with Edward the Confessor wrong,
0:09:55 > 0:09:57I'm not going to be allowed to go back to my village.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Edward the Confessor is the right answer.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02You haven't quite clinched it and Nicola has a chance to come back.
0:10:02 > 0:10:07Which Egyptian Pharaoh was the father of Tutankhamen?
0:10:12 > 0:10:14Oh, gosh. Now...
0:10:14 > 0:10:17Can't think of...
0:10:17 > 0:10:21anything that's going to lead me, so I'm going to say Thutmose.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25Sounds similar.
0:10:25 > 0:10:26Thutmose. Eggheads?
0:10:26 > 0:10:28It's Akhenaten.
0:10:28 > 0:10:32- He's right.- Ah.- It's Akhenaten.- Oh.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34- So, Nancy, well done.- Thanks.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37You've taken that round. You've won the head-to-head.
0:10:39 > 0:10:40And that means
0:10:40 > 0:10:42you now gain an Egghead.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44You can't have Kevin, but anybody else there.
0:10:44 > 0:10:49- I'll have Chris, please. - Chris The Locomotive Hughes.- Indeed.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51You've chosen a great fighter there.
0:10:51 > 0:10:55As it stands, Nancy has an Egghead to help her in the final.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Nicola has an Egghead too. Couldn't be tighter.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00And we now go to the last of our head-to-heads,
0:11:00 > 0:11:01and it's Arts & Books.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03So, Nancy, you won the previous round.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06- You can decide to play first or second.- I'll go first again, please.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13And here we go with your first Arts & Books question.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16The South African-born British nun Sr Wendy Beckett
0:11:16 > 0:11:19is best known for presenting television shows on what subject?
0:11:23 > 0:11:25I am just about positive it's art.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28She talks about paintings and such.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31Art is the right answer. Yes, Sr Wendy.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33OK, Nicola,
0:11:33 > 0:11:38Larry McMurtry's 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
0:11:38 > 0:11:42Lonesome Dove is an example of what literary genre?
0:11:47 > 0:11:52I do know this one, although I'm not a massive fan of this genre,
0:11:52 > 0:11:56but I have been told that it's definitely worth reading,
0:11:56 > 0:11:59Lonesome Dove, as an example of westerns.
0:11:59 > 0:12:03Western is your answer, and it's quite right. One each.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06Back to you, Nancy. What is the name of the painting technique
0:12:06 > 0:12:10whereby paint is applied to the canvas in sufficient quantities
0:12:10 > 0:12:13to make it physically stand out from the surface?
0:12:19 > 0:12:22I was hoping that impasto would come up.
0:12:22 > 0:12:26It's definitely not chiaroscuro. That's a style of lighting.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Ooh, sgraffito. Oh.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32No. I have to go with my gut. My gut is impasto.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34That's what I thought before the answers came up.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37Your gut is right. Impasto it is. Well done.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40Nancy, you got two points. Nicola, you got one.
0:12:40 > 0:12:41Here's your question, Nicola.
0:12:41 > 0:12:45Which American author wrote the horror novellas
0:12:45 > 0:12:49At The Mountains Of Madness and The Shadow Over Innsmouth?
0:12:55 > 0:12:58I don't think it was Poe.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02He was more traditional scary horror.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04Fritz Lieber, I don't know.
0:13:04 > 0:13:10My son is a fan of HP Lovecraft. I'm going to go with HP Lovecraft.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13That's very good play. It is HP Lovecraft.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16So, you're level after two. This is tight.
0:13:16 > 0:13:17Back to you, Nancy.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20Trent's Last Case by EC Bentley
0:13:20 > 0:13:23is a detective novel first published in which decade?
0:13:28 > 0:13:31Dear me. I've never heard of EC Bentley.
0:13:34 > 0:13:39I think the 1870s is way too early for that
0:13:39 > 0:13:42cos detective novels were just getting started back then
0:13:42 > 0:13:44with Wilkie Collins.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46EC Bentley.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48It sounds 1950s.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50If you asked me why, I couldn't give you a reason,
0:13:50 > 0:13:52- but it sounds 1950s to me. I'll go with that.- Eggheads?
0:13:52 > 0:13:56- 1910s.- 1910s...- Argh. OK.- ..is the answer.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58All right, so,
0:13:58 > 0:14:01the score is level at 2-2, but, Nicola, you have a chance
0:14:01 > 0:14:03to take the round on this question.
0:14:03 > 0:14:07What name did the American proto-pop artist Robert Rauschenberg
0:14:07 > 0:14:09coin for his artworks made up of such objects
0:14:09 > 0:14:11as Coca-Cola bottles,
0:14:11 > 0:14:14traffic barricades and stuffed birds?
0:14:19 > 0:14:20Oh, goodness.
0:14:20 > 0:14:24They are combinations of things, they are amalgams of things,
0:14:24 > 0:14:27but do they all tie together to a unity?
0:14:28 > 0:14:30Gosh.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32I'm going to go straight down the middle
0:14:32 > 0:14:34and go with amalgams.
0:14:34 > 0:14:38- Amalgams is wrong. It's combines. - Ooh!
0:14:38 > 0:14:41After three questions each, the scores are level.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44Sudden Death. Gets a bit harder. I don't give you alternatives.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47Nancy, Kathakali is one of the main forms
0:14:47 > 0:14:51of classical dance drama of which country?
0:14:53 > 0:14:55I've heard of it.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57I think...
0:14:57 > 0:14:59I think it's India.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01India is right.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03Back to you, Nicola. Sudden Death we're on.
0:15:03 > 0:15:04Third round.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07The Colossus, published in 1960,
0:15:07 > 0:15:10was the debut collection by which female American poet?
0:15:12 > 0:15:14Going by the date...
0:15:16 > 0:15:18I'm going to say Sylvia Plath.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21Sylvia Plath is quite right.
0:15:21 > 0:15:22Back to you, Nancy.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24Which American female writer
0:15:24 > 0:15:28and humorist critiqued Katharine Hepburn's performance
0:15:28 > 0:15:31in a 1934 play by saying,
0:15:31 > 0:15:34"She ran the gamut of emotions from A to B."
0:15:34 > 0:15:35I love this quote.
0:15:35 > 0:15:37I'm just about positive it's Dorothy Parker.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39It is Dorothy Parker. Well done.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41I didn't know that was her. How funny.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44OK, Nicola, to stay in.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47What is the title of the longest book
0:15:47 > 0:15:50in JK Rowling's series of seven Harry Potter novels?
0:15:50 > 0:15:54I can see them all on my son's bookshelf.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix.
0:15:59 > 0:16:00That is the right answer.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05Your question, Nancy.
0:16:05 > 0:16:09Which bestselling novelist was a reporter for Panorama
0:16:09 > 0:16:14and in 1987 became political editor of the Observer?
0:16:14 > 0:16:17Oh, dear. I haven't a clue.
0:16:17 > 0:16:21A bestselling novelist who used to be a journalist.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24I will say Jeffrey Archer. I really don't know. I'm sure that's wrong.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26No, it's Robert Harris.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Oh, of course it is. Argh!
0:16:28 > 0:16:32Nicola, you can take the round with this.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35Gilbert Markham and Arthur Huntingdon are characters
0:16:35 > 0:16:37in which novel by Anne Bronte?
0:16:39 > 0:16:43Well, I think Anne only wrote one -
0:16:43 > 0:16:46The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall.
0:16:46 > 0:16:47Brilliant. You got it right.
0:16:47 > 0:16:51So, congratulations, Nicola. You've won the final head-to-head.
0:16:53 > 0:16:54So, it may give you an edge
0:16:54 > 0:16:58in the final cos you can choose another Egghead for that round.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01Who would you like? Can't be Kevin or Chris.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04Oh, I think a bit of female solidarity here.
0:17:04 > 0:17:08- I think I'm going to go with Judith. - Thank you.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11So, Nancy, you've got Chris in the final round.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13Nicola, you've got Kevin and Judith.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16Why don't we play that final round now?
0:17:16 > 0:17:18So, this is what we have been playing towards.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20It is time to find out who is one step closer
0:17:20 > 0:17:25to becoming an Egghead and who will be eliminated from our search.
0:17:25 > 0:17:29Nancy and Nicola, I will ask each of you three questions in turn.
0:17:29 > 0:17:30This time,
0:17:30 > 0:17:32the questions are all General Knowledge.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35In this final round, you will no longer be playing alone, though.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38You're going to have the backing of the Eggheads that you've won
0:17:38 > 0:17:41over the course of the show, so, Nancy, you'll have Chris, and,
0:17:41 > 0:17:44Nicola, you will have Kevin and Judith back there.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46You'll be able to call on your respective Eggheads
0:17:46 > 0:17:49for advice before giving an answer to a question.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51However, you can ask them for help only once,
0:17:51 > 0:17:53so use them wisely.
0:17:53 > 0:17:54Nicola, you won the last round,
0:17:54 > 0:17:57so you get to choose whether you want to play first or second.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00Seems to be working so far. I'll go second.
0:18:04 > 0:18:06Nancy, your first question. Good luck.
0:18:06 > 0:18:11In April, 2016 what did new dog owners become required to do
0:18:11 > 0:18:14before their animals are eight weeks old?
0:18:20 > 0:18:23I'm sure it's not neuter them cos that's a bit...
0:18:23 > 0:18:25Microchip them. It's definitely microchip.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Microchip is the right answer.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32Nicola, which national daily newspaper closed its print edition
0:18:32 > 0:18:36and went online only in March, 2016?
0:18:40 > 0:18:42Well, as far as I'm aware,
0:18:42 > 0:18:45The Guardian and The Times are still publishing.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48I know The Independent did stop printing.
0:18:48 > 0:18:53Just hoping that it was March, 2016. The Independent.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55The Independent is correct.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57One each. Back to you, Nancy.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00Which of these is the name of a deadly type of mushroom
0:19:00 > 0:19:02found in North America?
0:19:08 > 0:19:12I have never heard of avenging spirit or marauding demon.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15I'm pretty sure there's one called a destroying angel. I'll go for that.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17OK, still not calling your Egghead.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19Playing with confidence.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22You're right. It is destroying angel.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24So, two to Nancy.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27Nicola, which of these cities in Andalusia
0:19:27 > 0:19:30is situated further south?
0:19:35 > 0:19:37I'm trying to picture the map up in my head.
0:19:37 > 0:19:42I think I'm going to call on Kevin's help here.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45I have a feeling it's Malaga,
0:19:45 > 0:19:49but I think I'd like a bit of help, please.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52OK, so, you're calling in one of your Eggheads. Kevin?
0:19:52 > 0:19:54I'm not entirely sure here, I'm afraid.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57It's actually very tight.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59I don't think it's Granada.
0:19:59 > 0:20:03I think that's certainly north of Malaga,
0:20:03 > 0:20:06and I think it's probably, if you draw a line across,
0:20:06 > 0:20:09it's probably north of Seville as well.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12But problem here is between the other two.
0:20:12 > 0:20:17Malaga is right on the coast, but the coast curves.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19- SHE LAUGHS - Gosh, yes.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21That was my logic too.
0:20:21 > 0:20:25And I suppose if it was me, I might...
0:20:27 > 0:20:31I might go for Malaga, but it's... I don't know.
0:20:31 > 0:20:36Let's do it. Let's go with my first thought, which is Malaga.
0:20:36 > 0:20:42OK. Kevin thinks it's Malaga, but really 50-50, Malaga/Seville.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45You were on Malaga at the start actually, in fairness.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48That was your first instinct. Your instinct was right. Well done.
0:20:48 > 0:20:49Malaga is right.
0:20:50 > 0:20:54So, Nancy has two, Nicola has two. Back with you, Nancy.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57Which of these is the name for a small spinning top
0:20:57 > 0:21:01with four or more sides used for playing games,
0:21:01 > 0:21:02especially games of chance?
0:21:07 > 0:21:11Oh. I was hoping dreidel might pop up, but it hasn't.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15Espinole. I have never heard of any of those.
0:21:15 > 0:21:19Cryptoscope, just going from the word origin,
0:21:19 > 0:21:22doesn't seem to have anything to do with a top.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24Espinole...
0:21:24 > 0:21:27A teetotum sounds like one of those funny little made-up words
0:21:27 > 0:21:29for a little thingamajig.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34I think at this stage of the game, I probably better ask Chris.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36OK, Chris. You're being called in.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38Knowing you as I do, I think it's the kind of thing you do know.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41It is the kind of thing I do know, Jeremy.
0:21:41 > 0:21:42It's a teetotum.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45Ah. He reacted with great certainty there.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47You don't have to take his answer. Up to you.
0:21:47 > 0:21:48That's what I was leaning towards as well.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50I'll go with teetotum.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53OK. He's got it right, you've got it right.
0:21:53 > 0:21:54It is teetotum. Well done.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57So, you've got three out of three there, and that puts you under
0:21:57 > 0:21:58a little bit of pressure, Nicola.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01You get this wrong and you are out of the contest.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03In his sophomore year at Harvard University,
0:22:03 > 0:22:09Bill Gates and his friend Paul Allen adapted which computer language,
0:22:09 > 0:22:12then popularly used on large computers,
0:22:12 > 0:22:15for use on microcomputers?
0:22:20 > 0:22:25Oh, gosh. Absolutely not my subject.
0:22:25 > 0:22:30I know that COBOL and BASIC are both programming languages.
0:22:30 > 0:22:31I don't know ALGOL..
0:22:31 > 0:22:33I don't know if this is your thing either, Judith,
0:22:33 > 0:22:37but I'm going to call on you to give me a hand here.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39I'm going towards...
0:22:40 > 0:22:43BASIC...
0:22:43 > 0:22:46..but I'd like your input, please.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50I just wouldn't dare risk having any opinion on this at all
0:22:50 > 0:22:53cos it's absolutely not my territory.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56I think you must go with your basic instincts.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59- Ah. - Is there a clue in the answer there?
0:22:59 > 0:23:02No, that just was an unfortunate slip of the tongue.
0:23:02 > 0:23:07Oh, now, I was watching the film The Social Network
0:23:07 > 0:23:09in which Bill Gates' character
0:23:09 > 0:23:13briefly appears talking about setting up Microsoft,
0:23:13 > 0:23:17and I have a feeling that he mentioned BASIC.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19I'm going to go with BASIC.
0:23:21 > 0:23:22BASIC is your answer.
0:23:22 > 0:23:27If it is wrong, then the contest is over for you.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30- The answer is BASIC.- Ooh! - Well done. You're still in it.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33So, you're level after three. It gets a bit harder now.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35I don't give you alternatives.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38This is Sudden Death in our final round.
0:23:38 > 0:23:39Nancy, back to you.
0:23:39 > 0:23:43In which country did the 1950 Population Registration Act
0:23:43 > 0:23:46classify every person by racial group?
0:23:48 > 0:23:51It sounds like South Africa.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54I'm hoping that's not too obvious an answer.
0:23:54 > 0:23:56I'm just trying to think if there's anywhere else
0:23:56 > 0:23:59that might have been doing apartheid-y things.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03I can't think of anything better. I'll go with South Africa.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06South Africa is correct. It was the beginning of apartheid.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08Nicola, which nation's
0:24:08 > 0:24:13women's football team won its third World Cup in 2015?
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Not a great football fan.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19I know that it doesn't necessarily follow
0:24:19 > 0:24:24that the male dominating teams don't necessarily follow through
0:24:24 > 0:24:26to the women who are good.
0:24:28 > 0:24:32I am...going to say Spain.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37If you've got this right, we play on.
0:24:37 > 0:24:43If you've got it wrong, the contest is over.
0:24:43 > 0:24:44The answer is the United States.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47- Well... - So, I'm sorry, Nicola.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50We say congratulations, Nancy. You have won.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57Well played, both of you.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59Very, very tight game, and congratulations, Nancy.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01- How do you feel? - A bit relieved.
0:25:01 > 0:25:04- I didn't think it was going that way.- Well done, Nancy.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06You've proved that winning comes as naturally to you
0:25:06 > 0:25:07as it does to our Eggheads.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10You are one step closer to joining our quiz Goliaths,
0:25:10 > 0:25:14but your work for today is not quite done.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16We give you three points for each round you've won today,
0:25:16 > 0:25:19so that's three points you've got already,
0:25:19 > 0:25:21and you're now going to get the chance to add to those points
0:25:21 > 0:25:25by answering quickfire questions for two minutes.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27We give you one point for each correct answer,
0:25:27 > 0:25:31and we see where your final score puts you on our leaderboard.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33If you take a look at the leaderboard,
0:25:33 > 0:25:34you're going to be in the top four cos
0:25:34 > 0:25:36- we've only got one other name on it. - Excellent.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39But as we go through the contest, we will see who ends up
0:25:39 > 0:25:41in the top four to go through to the semifinals.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43- All to play for. Are you ready to play?- I'm ready.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45OK.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47Good luck, Nancy.
0:25:47 > 0:25:49Your time starts now.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51In metres, what is the distance of the swimming section
0:25:51 > 0:25:53of an Olympic triathlon?
0:25:54 > 0:25:561,500.
0:25:56 > 0:25:57Correct.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00In 1983, Bonnie Tyler had a UK number one single
0:26:00 > 0:26:02with Total Eclipse Of The...what?
0:26:02 > 0:26:03- Heart.- Correct.
0:26:03 > 0:26:07In 2005, which major sporting event was delayed by 25 minutes
0:26:07 > 0:26:10due to the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles?
0:26:10 > 0:26:12FA Cup Final.
0:26:12 > 0:26:13No, Grand National.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16The island of Penang is a major tourist destination
0:26:16 > 0:26:18- belonging to which country? - Indonesia.
0:26:18 > 0:26:19No, Malaysia.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22In which 1990 film does Tom Cruise play a character
0:26:22 > 0:26:24called Cole Trickle?
0:26:24 > 0:26:25- Oh, Days Of Thunder.- Correct.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28In which decade was the Cricket World Cup first held?
0:26:28 > 0:26:291980s.
0:26:29 > 0:26:30No, 1970s.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33In which Shakespeare's play does the character Caliban feature?
0:26:33 > 0:26:35- The Tempest.- Correct.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38Which shipping area is named after the founder of the Met Office?
0:26:38 > 0:26:40- FitzRoy.- Correct.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42What is the surname of the One Direction member
0:26:42 > 0:26:44with the first name Liam?
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Liam Payne.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48Correct.
0:26:48 > 0:26:49Which English King was defeated
0:26:49 > 0:26:52by Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn?
0:26:52 > 0:26:54- Edward III.- No, Edward II.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57Mr Rochester is the hero of which 1847 novel?
0:26:57 > 0:26:59- Jane Eyre.- Correct.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01For which English football team did Billy Bremner
0:27:01 > 0:27:03make over 580 league appearances?
0:27:03 > 0:27:05- Manchester United.- No, Leeds United.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07Which TV series first seen in 2006
0:27:07 > 0:27:10starred John Simm as a man named Sam Tyler?
0:27:10 > 0:27:11- Life On Mars.- Correct.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14In 1936, what became an official language of Afghanistan?
0:27:16 > 0:27:18- Urdu.- No, Pashto.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21What was the first name of the composer Mahler?
0:27:21 > 0:27:22- Gustav.- Correct.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24Dry ice is the solid form of which gas?
0:27:24 > 0:27:26- Carbon dioxide.- Correct.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29Greta Garbo said, "I want to be alone," in which 1932 film?
0:27:29 > 0:27:31- Grand Hotel.- Correct.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34What colour is the snooker ball that has a value of four points
0:27:34 > 0:27:35when it is potted?
0:27:35 > 0:27:37- Pink.- No, brown.
0:27:37 > 0:27:40What range of mountains and hills is often referred to as
0:27:40 > 0:27:41the backbone of England?
0:27:41 > 0:27:43- Pennines.- Correct.
0:27:43 > 0:27:48The 1969 film Kes was based on the book A Kestral For A...what?
0:27:48 > 0:27:50Boy.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52- No, the answer was Knave. - Knave, that's right.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54So, I can tell you you scored 12 points there,
0:27:54 > 0:27:56giving you a grand total of 15 points
0:27:56 > 0:27:58cos we add in the three points you got from your round.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00Was that pressure there?
0:28:00 > 0:28:03Yeah, it was very reminiscent of being on Mastermind, I have to say.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06You did brilliantly, and you were so focused throughout it.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08Let's have a look at our leaderboard.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11Marianne is there with 20.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13- And on you go just below her...- Ah!
0:28:13 > 0:28:16..in second place, Nancy, with 15,
0:28:16 > 0:28:18and we'll see where you are when we've got all ten names up there.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21- Well, thank you. Thanks both for playing. Cheers, Nicola.- Thank you.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24Lovely to see you both. That was a tight old contest, wasn't it?
0:28:24 > 0:28:27Join us next time to find out who else might have what it takes
0:28:27 > 0:28:29to become an Egghead.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31Until then, goodbye.