24-584: Thiel may refer to: Thiel (surname) , including a list of people with the name Thiel (crater) , lunar crater named for Walter Thiel Thiel Audio , a loudspeaker manufacturer Thiel College in Pennsylvania Thiel Detective Service Company , a private detective agency Thiel Fellowship , a fellowship through the Thiel Foundation for students under
48-399: A chance to win an equal share of the prize fund. The final round starts out with de Mooi answering ten general knowledge questions. The number of questions he gets right becomes the target that the team has to beat. The team can confer on every question. Every wrong answer means that the team loses one of their lives and if they lose all of their lives, they leave with nothing but if they beat
72-404: A commercial broadcaster). Due to social distancing restrictions, the desks were lengthened and perspex screens were added. The first challengers, playing for charity, were Jay's Virtual Quiz , who had become a fundraising hit on social media during the pandemic. An additional Egghead (Olav Bjortomt) was featured on the opening credits and competed from week two. In May 2024, it was revealed that
96-478: A place in the final round, while losing players are eliminated from the game. The final general knowledge round is then played between non-eliminated Eggheads and challengers with a similar question format to the previous rounds, with the exception that if more than one remains on a team they may confer. If the challengers win they take the prize money; if the Eggheads win, the prize money is increased by £1,000 for
120-564: A professional quizzer and regular panelist on UK quiz show Eggheads Lucien Thiel (1943–2011), Luxembourgian politician Marie-Jo Thiel (born 1957), French ethicist Maximilian Thiel (born 1993), German professional footballer Midori Kono Thiel (born 1933), Japanese American calligrapher Otto Thiel (1891–1915), German football player Peter Thiel (born 1967), American entrepreneur Phil Thiel (born 1984), American rugby union player Pieter J.J. van Thiel (1928–2012), Dutch art historian Sten Thiel , Commissioner of
144-429: Is added to the prize fund. If he gets it right, the contestant is asked a multiple-choice question by de Mooi. If they get it right, gameplay continues as normal but if they get it wrong, they lose one of their two lives. If a contestant loses both of their lives, they are out of the game. When time runs out, the surviving players move on to the final round, along with the total number of lives remaining for all players, for
168-585: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Eggheads (TV series) Eggheads is a British quiz show produced by 12 Yard . It was first broadcast in November 2003 chaired by Dermot Murnaghan . In 2008, Jeremy Vine became joint chair, and subsequently sole chair. The show has inspired three spinoff series: Are You an Egghead? (2008), Revenge of the Egghead (2014) and Make Me an Egghead (2016). There have also been episodes of
192-400: Is £75,000, in 2007. Some teams have been reduced to one contestant for the final round, but have still beaten five Eggheads. Occasionally, one remaining Egghead will beat five challengers. Only once have the Eggheads lost four games in succession and only four times has a team of all five challengers won the final round. Since 2021, it has been four Eggheads against four challengers, instead of
216-399: The "Question Room". The challenger is given the choice of going first or second. Both players are asked in turn three multiple-choice questions. If there is no winner, the round goes into sudden death with no choices given for answers. Since the show moved to Channel 5 , there have only been four players per team, and thus only three 'one-on-one' rounds. The player who wins each round earns
240-671: The Svenska Scoutförbundet Tamiko Thiel (born 1957), American media artist Udo Thiel (born 1954), German philosopher Walter Thiel (1910–1943), German engineer Walter Thiel (chemist) (1949–2019), German theoretical chemist Yannic Thiel (born 1989), German footballer Fictional characters [ edit ] Frank Thiel , detective chief inspector in German television series Tatort Münster See also [ edit ] Theil , common alternate & etymologically related variant of
264-496: The age of 23 Thiel Foundation , a private foundation Thiel Mountains of Antarctica Thiel Trough , geographical feature See also [ edit ] Thiel-sur-Acolin , commune in France Thiel–Behnke dystrophy , a rare form of corneal dystrophy Teal (disambiguation) , pronounced like "Thiel" Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
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#1732786680000288-1006: The 💕 Thiel is a Germanic surname. Notable people with the name include: Adolf Thiel (1915–2001), German-American engineer Alvar Thiel (1893–1973), sailor Andreas Thiel (born 1960), German handball player Andreas Thiel (bishop) (1826–1908), Catholic bishop of Ermland Bert Thiel (1926–2020), baseball pitcher Claudia van Thiel (born 1977), female volleyball player Edward C. Thiel (1928–1961), geologist Edwin Thiel (1913–1944), German Luftwaffe ace Ernest Thiel (1859–1947), Swedish financier, art collector, and translator Frans-Jozef van Thiel (1906–1993), Dutch politician Heiner Thiel (born 1957), German sculptor and curator Heinz Thiel (1920–2003), German film director and screenwriter Jana Thiel (1971–2016), German sports presenter and journalist Joachim Thiel (born 1951), German footballer Jon Thiel (born 1975), rugby player Lisa Thiel ,
312-552: The next quiz. There are nine (formerly eight) possible subjects for the first rounds. They are: Music and Film & Television were introduced in Autumn 2008 through a split of the Entertainment category. Subjects can appear in any order, although at least one of Sport, Music or Film & Television will appear in every episode. Despite the splitting of the Entertainment category, Music and Film & Television can appear in
336-406: The previous five. The show is played in five rounds. The first four 'one-on-one' 'elimination' rounds each focus on one subject category (of nine) while the final 'conferring' round tests general knowledge . In the first four rounds, the challengers choose a member of their own team to play, and an Egghead against whom they wish to compete. The players for that round then leave the studio to go into
360-453: The regular series featuring teams of celebrities in their own short series, with their own rolling prize fund. The show began in 2003 with Dermot Murnaghan as the presenter. From 2008, Jeremy Vine presented when Murnaghan was hosting the spinoff series. After the spin-off show finished, Murnaghan and Vine continued to host the series on a rotational basis, with Murnaghan typically hosting the first half of each series and Vine taking over for
384-760: The same episode, sometimes consecutively. In the first eight series, the team consisted of only five Eggheads who each appeared in every episode and did not rotate. At the end of 2008, a sixth Egghead was added and appearances rotated. From series 15, five of eight possible Eggheads appear each episode, and later in 2016, two brand-new Eggheads (one male and one female) joined the panel after a spin-off series entitled Make Me an Egghead . Currently, there are 8 Eggheads (6 male and 2 female): Kevin Ashman, Chris Hughes, Barry Simmons, Pat Gibson, Steve Cooke, Olav Bjortomt, Lisa Thiel and Beth Webster and they currently appear on Channel 5. This chart displays when each presenter and Egghead
408-516: The second half. From series 16, Jeremy Vine became the sole presenter. The series originally broadcast on BBC One at lunchtime beginning in November 2003, and later moved to a primetime slot on BBC Two from 2005 to 2020. On 31 December 2016, the quiz made a brief cameo in BBC One ’s Peter Pan Goes Wrong TV special. On 12 March 2021, after a year's hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic , it
432-476: The second series was won by Pat Gibson and ran from 12 October to 23 November 2009. On 24 February 2014, a new spin-off series of Eggheads was launched called Revenge of the Egghead . It was presented by Jeremy Vine and saw the return of CJ de Mooi, who left Eggheads in 2012. In each episode, de Mooi faced a team of five contestants hoping to win thousands of pounds. The series ran for a 6-week period, between 24 February and 4 April 2014. Lisa Thiel appeared on
456-426: The show as part of a winning team before becoming an Egghead herself shortly afterwards. Each contestant, in turn, is asked a general knowledge question. If their answer is right, £200 is added to the prize fund but if their answer is wrong and de Mooi knows their answer is wrong, he presses a red button in front of him to answer the same question. If he gets it wrong and the contestant gets it right, an additional £100
480-478: The show has been permanently shelved and Vine said that 'he hasn't filmed an episode for over a year'. In each episode, a team of five quiz and game show champions (the Eggheads ) is challenged by a team of five contestants for prize money. If the challengers lose, then £1,000 is added to the prize money fund until the Eggheads are beaten, when the prize will revert to £1,000. The most prize money that has been won
504-554: The surname [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Thiel . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thiel_(surname)&oldid=1245319430 " Categories : Surnames German-language surnames Surnames from given names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
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#1732786680000528-459: The title Thiel . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thiel&oldid=1008713063 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Thiel (surname) From Misplaced Pages,
552-430: Was active. The black bars denote the start of each series. The highest amount any team has won to beat the Eggheads is £75,000 in 2007 (Series 8, Episode 14) by a team of Oxford Brookes University students, Beer Today, Gone Tomorrow . On 20 October 2008, a spin-off called Are You an Egghead? debuted on BBC Two. The first series was won by Barry Simmons and ran from 20 October to 2 December 2008 while
576-400: Was announced on Jeremy Vine's titular Channel 5 programme that the quiz show would be moving to Channel 5 with Vine and the most recent Eggheads returning. The new series premiered on 4 October 2021, and alongside a studio change, only four Eggheads and four contestants now played at a time with a reduction to three one-on-one rounds to accommodate advert breaks (due to Channel 5's status as
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