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EUREKA! THE BIG BANG QUERY

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Comedy and Science collide as host Neil Delamere puts team captains, PJ Gallagher and Dr Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin and their teams of comedians and science personalities through their paces in this science comedy quiz.

Joining Aoibhinn this week are Zoe Lyons (Mock the Week, Michael MacIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow) and Alun Cochrane (8 out of 10 Cats, Mock the Week) while over on PJ Gallagher’s team, in addition to series regular, Professor Luke O’Neill, is biologist Simon Watt (Inside Nature’s Giants, Ugly Animal Preservation Society).

Quizmaster Neil Delamere is dishing out the points and when he’s not doing that he takes a perilous journey across a rickety walkway, 500ft above the largest radio telescope in the world – a journey that puts him – and his underpants – in mortal danger. This week he’s celebrating Belfast born astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell who discovered Pulsars – the lighthouses of the universe.

Back in studio the teams discuss making contact with little green men and Neil invites them to nominate a Eureka Ugly Animal mascot who they believe should be saved from extinction while biologist Simon Watt makes the shocking revelation that ‘there’s no such thing as fish’.

The Team Captain’s Challenge sees PJ and Aoibhinn go head to head in a game of Foosball – on a table that’s made of 3D printed models of them.

Don’t miss Eureka! The Big Bang Query, Monday May 9th  at 22:25 on RTÉ2.