Eggheads

Eggheads is a television quiz, which on weekdays, broadcast by the BBC. In the quiz play two teams of five people. One team is a team consisting of five of the best quiz players from the United Kingdom, called theEggheads. This team is each episode challenged by another team. The show is presented by the BBC since the start in november 2003-newsreader Dermot Murnaghan. Since 2008 the presentation also regularly in the hands of Jeremy Vine.

The quiz consists of five laps. In the first four rounds is there every time a onderwerpgroep, after which the challengers both from their own team as a player from the team of the Eggheads that that round plays.The same player should not be chosen 2 times. Each of these two players get 3 multiple choice questions, each with 3 options. If that is inconclusive, there ' sudden death ' played, in which the players open to answer questions until 1 of both triumphs.

In the fifth round is there with both teams (not per Challenger) played; the players who lost their own round may not participate. Of each team are there so at least 1, up to 5 players left. They may consult to play in a round similar to the first 4, but now always on the subject ' general knowledge '.

The team that wins the fifth round, the winner of the quiz. If the challengers win, is there a price of 1000 pounds per broadcast ready. That amount is each time the challengers did not win, roll over to the next broadcast, and thus counts the amount each time to win on. In september 2007 the Eggheads were defeated after a record series of 74 victories, and the winners received £ 75,000 paid therefore.

Since the beginning of the show is the permanent team Eggheads from multiple world and European champion Kevin Ashmanquizzes, CJ's Beautiful, Daphne Fowler, International Mastermind ChampionChristopher Hughes and Judith Keppel. In 2008, the heats Are You an Egghead? to find a sixth Egghead, which eventually turned out to be the strongest Barry Simmons . The seventh Egghead, Pat Gibson, won the preliminary rounds in 2009. Since december 2, 2008, there are six Eggheads, and since 7 december 2009 seven, from which a team of five players in varying composition against the challengers.