Eggheads pub quiz team becomes first ever to get all questions correct

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It is one of the most difficult quiz shows on television, and for 16 years the contestants always got at least one question wrong.

Critics have often complained that the show has become too difficult, and that contestants are often annihilated with ease by the expert team.

Finally, a formidable pub quiz team from Suffolk has comprehensively bested the elite "eggheads" and answered every single question correctly.

For the first time in almost 2,000 shows, the challenger team achieved an unbeaten streak and took home a prize of £11,000.

The Shotley Open Spacers also became only the fourth team ever to get all their players into the final round.

On the BBC Two show, a group of novice quizzers is pitted against the country's most experienced quiz team, called the "Eggheads". There are then multiple rounds in which a challenger is pitted against an Egghead, and they are quizzed on a certain topic, such as sport or politics.

The winner of each round goes on to the final, in which the remaining members of each quiz team are pitted against each other in a group format.

This time, they were tested on sports, science, film and television and geography. Questions spanned diverse topics, from the invention of lamps to key moments of sporting history and the names of Christmas songs.

The battle was so fierce that the rounds went to sudden death - because the challenger and the egghead drew - twice.

Both times, the challenger beat the egghead, getting all the questions correct.

The host asked for the secret of their success, and team leader local Derek Davis, a local councillor, quipped: “A few beers and a quiz game on the train coming up.”

Speaking afterwards he added: “It was great fun and we were amazed to be told we were the first team ever to answer every single question correctly.

“We went there to promote the Shotley peninsula and highlight the good work Shotley Open Spaces does for our community.

“It has been purgatory waiting for more than a year not being able to tell anyone how we got on, but now I hope everyone enjoyed watching the show and will be inspired to give it a go themselves.”

The group consists of Derek Davis, a freelance sports journalist,Gary Richens, a retired electrical engineer, Marian Pugh, a retired primary school teacher, Shane Rolin, a business consultant, and Ian Peters, a retired retail manager

The team don't even take part in quizzes on a regular basis, but occasionally enjoy local quiz nights at their favourite pub the Bristol Arms and Shotley village hall in Shotley, Suffolk.

When they aren't quizzing, the team volunteers in their local area, keeping the open spaces tidy and clearing brambles from paths.

A show spokesman said: "They got everything right and yes it's the first time it has happened in almost 2,000 episodes."

Jeremy Vine told the Telegraph: "I love it when challengers beat the Eggheads! It makes my day — it makes everyone's day. The problem is, the Eggheads only get more vengeful afterwards, and then they go and win ten on the trot!”

​Additional reporting by Korbinian Vielmeier​