Episode 5 Celebrity Eggheads

These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.

Together, they make up the Eggheads,

arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.

The question is, can they be beaten?

Welcome to a special celebrity edition of Eggheads,

the show where a team of five quiz challengers

pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.

You might recognise them, as they've won some of the country's toughest quiz shows. They are the Eggheads.

Taking on our awesome quiz titans are the Olympians.

Just like our Eggheads, this team of

some of the country's top Olympic and Paralympic athletes have trained for years

to reach the very pinnacle of their chosen disciplines.

In fact, the only difference between our well-honed quiz Goliaths and these renowned athletes

is that Kevin doesn't take his top off just as much as Mark Foster.

Let's meet them.

I'm Matthew Pinsent and I competed in the sport of rowing.

I'm Roger Black and I ran the 400 metres and 4x400-metre relay.

I'm Sharron Davies and I swam in the 400 metres individual medley.

I'm Mark Foster and I'm a 50-metre freestyle swimmer.

I'm Ade Adepitan, former Paralympic wheelchair basketball player.

Well, welcome to you, Olympians.

As I said in that introduction, you've taken on the best in the world in the sporting field

and now you're trying it in the quiz field. Why on earth, Matthew? Why?

We were just saying beforehand,

their winning percentage is 92% or something,

so we reckon we're up against it.

But it would be another achievement that we can be proud of,

if we could say we beat the Eggheads.

You've done a bit of quizzing before.

-Matthew and Roger, you've been on Celebrity Millionaire.

-Yeah.

-We did all right, didn't we?

-Went very well. We were lucky.

£125,000, I think we did.

You did, Mark, er...

-Weakest Link, didn't you?

-Yes.

And you won that, did you?

I kind of bribed Anne into the fact that if I made the final, I'd take my top off.

That's the only reason I made the final. My questions seemed easier than everybody else's.

But you've got to do the politics, haven't you? "I won't vote against you, mate".

Then, first thing, you say, "Get your name on the board."

One year, I was on with Steve Backley. We had a bit of a plan, but then I voted him off.

THEY ALL CHUCKLE

But I made the final!

That's all that matters to these Olympians.

We put Matt at the front - four-time Olympic gold medallist.

They're scared, aren't they?

We've got big hitters!

You've certainly got big hitters here. Let see if you're big quizzers, though. Let's play.

Every day, there's £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs for our Challengers' chosen charity.

But if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the money rolls over.

Olympians, the Eggheads have won the last four games,

which means £5,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

And I know which category you're hoping for,

but we've got four to play - four head-to-heads to play -

before we reach the final round. The first one up is Film & Television.

Film & TV.

Who wants to play this?

Do you want me to try it?

There's no trying it - you either win or you don't come back.

-All right. They voted me.

-They all took one step backwards, and you were left as the volunteer.

I was the only one at the front, still.

The advantage is that you get to choose any Egghead you like.

I mean, it's the first round so they're all available.

-Daphne.

-Daphne?

-Good choice.

-That's a nice reaction.

-That's a good choice.

-Lady versus lady.

-She's the Venus flytrap of quizzing, isn't she?

Let's have Sharron and Daphne into the Question Room, then, please,

just to make sure you can't confer with your teams.

-Sharron, you can choose, because you're the Challenger. Do you want to go first or second?

Let's get it over and done with and go first.

Best of luck. Here's your first question.

Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Michael Richards

were regular cast members in which American TV sitcom?

OK, so you have picked the era that I was probably training a fair bit,

and I don't recognise any of those names, so I am going to have...

..a guess.

Er, I don't think it's Friends,

cos, obviously, I ought to recognise some of those names.

I'm going to go with Seinfeld.

Seinfeld?

Sighs of mighty relief from your colleagues. It's the right answer.

-We can go home now, it's been great. Brilliant!

-Sorry, guys!

Best of one. OK.

Daphne, your first question.

Which TV series, first aired in 1981,

dealt with the lives of a group of women interned in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War?

I'm glad I went second, cos I'd have struggled with Sharron's.

But I did watch it, so Tenko.

It is the right answer. Yes, Tenko.

Back to you, Sharron. Second question.

Which singer and actor, who had a UK number-one hit in the 1950s with Singing The Blues,

played a leprechaun called Og in the 1968 film, Finian's Rainbow?

Well, er...

I'm going to go with Adam Faith, cos he was the smallest of those,

and would make a very good leprechaun. Not a very good answer,

-but that's my choice.

-SHE CHUCKLES

Adam Faith because of...yes, his size.

Well, I think, er, Tommy Steele was on the petite side as well,

who did do Singing The Blues.

-It's Tommy Steele.

-I'm sorry, guys.

Tommy Steele, the leprechaun in Finian's Rainbow.

A film that, er, I must admit I've managed to escape, probably thankfully.

Daphne. Who plays Kate Walker opposite Dustin Hoffman

in the film Last Chance Harvey, released in the UK in 2009?

Well, I haven't seen it yet,

but it sounds like my sort of film.

Emma Thompson.

Is the correct answer, Daphne.

Emma Thompson. Last Chance Harvey.

-Last chance, Sharron. You've got to get this.

-Yes.

Which European film director's works include Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!,

Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown, and the Oscar-winning All About My Mother?

Michael Haneke is my guess,

cos I've never seen any of them.

It's not the right answer, Sharron.

Do you know, Eggheads?

KEVIN & DAPHNE: Pedro Almodovar.

Yeah, it's Pedro Almodovar.

So, Sorry, Sharron, it is over.

As you can see, the score 2-1.

I don't put another question to Daphne. No place in the final round.

Both come back and join your teams.

After the opening round, the Eggheads are all still there. The Olympians have lost one brain.

But I know these guys - they love making a comeback.

Our next subject today is Science.

Who'd like to play this? It's Science.

-I watched the show the other day and it was the only questions I could answer.

-OK.

-Can you use the same questions?

-THEY CHUCKLE

-They're all here. They don't change.

-Is this the one you want to do?

-Yeah, I'll give it a go.

-I'll hand it over.

Right. What do we think? We've got Ade going to play it,

but who do you want to take on?

-We'll choose CJ, please.

-OK, let's have Ade and CJ into the Question Room, please.

Tell me, are you still playing basketball, Ade?

-I'm playing a bit of basketball, but I've started playing tennis.

-Yeah?

-Yeah, I've had a go at tennis.

-How does that work in a wheelchair?

Well, you push the chair and you hit the ball.

DERMOT CHUCKLES

Yeah, but do you get a little bit longer? Does the ball bounce a couple of times or something?

You get two bounces.

But I'd say most of the top 20, top 50 players,

they hit 75% of the balls on the first bounce.

Cos by the time it's on the second bounce,

the ball's usually past you or it's too low for you to do anything with it.

Are you getting some coaching or just picking it up as you go along?

I'm definitely getting coaching. I need some.

Probably anger-management coaching, as well.

Trying to hit a top spin and it's ending up in Croydon, you know.

You'll need anger management when you play CJ! Would you like to go first or second?

I'll go first. Put the pressure on.

That's the spirit.

Good luck, Ade. OK, Science, first question.

For what does the letter P stand in the computing and internet term, "IP address?"

Er...

Well, I don't think its performance.

Er...

Er, so, it's between protocol and processor.

I'm going to go for protocol.

OK.

Protocol is the right answer, Ade. Good start. On the board.

And CJ...

In a modern UK 13-amp plug, which wire is coloured brown?

It's not the earth, I don't think.

I think live is either blue or brown,

and I'm hoping it's brown, so I'll go for live.

Live is brown? Yes, you are correct.

You got it, so it's all square.

Ade, second question.

Which scientist and inventor was labelled "a merchant of death"

in 1888, in a prematurely printed obituary in a French newspaper?

Wow!

Er...

This is tough. I reckon it's, er...

It's Mr Pasteur.

Louis Pas... I'm going for a guess here,

and I'm going for Louis Pasteur.

It's incorrect. It is... Eggheads?

Nobel.

Nobel. The inventor, of course, of...?

-Dynamite.

-Dynamite.

So there we have, yes, Alfred Nobel.

A premature obituary in 1888,

described as "a merchant of death."

Well, CJ, you have a chance to take the lead.

CJ, in 1839, vulcanisation was discovered in its simplest form

when Charles Goodyear heated rubber and which other element?

Well, I'm not sure, but I always associate vulcanisation with sulphur.

Obviously, there's a lot of sulphur around volcanoes as well,

so that's my answer. Sulphur.

It's the right answer, yes.

Charles Goodyear. To get the tyres and the rest of it.

Ade. Henry Vandyke Carter created the illustrations

for the first edition of a classic 19th-century manual, now familiarly known by which name?

Well, the Origin of Species is Darwin,

so, er... So, that's not him.

I'm going to go for...

..with confidence, Gray's Anatomy.

Hence the illustrations. It's right.

-Well done, Ade, you worked it out.

-Bring it on!

Yes! "Come on," he says to CJ.

Right, CJ.

If you don't get this, we go to Sudden Death.

Hellas Planitia is a vast crater on which planet?

Well, I haven't heard of the crater,

but...Jupiter and Saturn are gas giants.

They have no discernible solid surface.

On that basis, I'd have to go for Mars.

You lot don't seem to have any visible defects at the moment.

It is right. Worked out cos of his gas giants.

The curse of the second question, again. Happened to Sharron.

Ade, it means you won't be playing in the final round.

-D'oh!

-Would you both come back and join your teams?

The Olympians have lost two brains from the final round. Eggheads have lost none, and our next subject...

-Guess what it is. It's Sport.

-Excellent.

Only three of you can play this,

because Sharron and Ade have played, so, it's Mark, Roger or Matthew.

We know this one beforehand - Mark.

OK. Who would you like to play from the Eggheads? Daphne and CJ have played,

so coming down here, it's Kevin, Judith or Pat.

-We're going to have Judith.

-OK, Judith.

Well, I'd quite like to go home, now.

You can't. You can go into the Question Room with Mark.

-There's some compensation for you.

-Well, that's a compensation.

So, Mark, are you still dancing?

Er, yes. I actually just started a new show called Dancing On Wheels,

so I am still dancing. I enjoyed the experience so much the first time.

I was told I was like John Travolta.

Swimming had finished... Don't make a funny face... You're obviously watching the wrong screen.

And, er, tell me about the shirt bit.

When you were on Strictly Come Dancing, I mean,

did you ever have a shirt on towards the end?

I can't remember you wearing any clothes from the waist up.

I danced one week in a fishnet top, which was very much down to wardrobe.

That was not my choice.

Then... I actually should have taken the shirt off earlier and got a few more votes,

but left it a little bit too late.

When it came to the last show, everyone came in and it was your final dance, your farewell.

A few people were shouting, "Take your shirt off," so I took my shirt off.

It's got to be done. It's what the public want. Would you like to go first or second?

If I go first and get a question right, it might be the only time I'm in the lead.

So, I'll go first.

OK, first question. Here you go, Mark.

Best of luck. What name is given to the part of a racetrack directly opposite the home straight?

Er... Well, as soon as you said that, before the answers came up,

I was thinking of something. It might be a bit too obvious,

but I haven't heard of the others.

I might be wrong but I've heard of "back straight." I'll go for that.

It's got to be, hasn't it? It's the right answer.

Back straight is correct, so one to you. Good start, Mark.

Judith, a grapevine is a move in which sport?

-A grapevine?

-A grapevine.

Well, a vine grows up.

It doesn't twine along the ground.

I would think that's probably basketball.

-OK, a grapevine. You're going for basketball.

-Yep.

-Yep.

Er...wrestling, Judith.

-So, incorrect. You're in the lead.

-OLYMPIANS: Yes!

And not just in the lead because you took the first question.

In the lead because the Eggheads got one incorrect. So, you can go 2-0 in the lead.

In 1958, who became the first winners of the Formula One World Constructors' Championship?

I've never heard of Vanwall. Sorry. It's probably the right answer,

but I'm not going to go for them.

I would have... I think back then, Lotus were a very good racing team.

Ferrari, obviously, nowadays, but I'm going to go for Lotus.

OK, Lotus, the first winners of

-the Formula One Constructors' Championship. Eggheads?

-Vanwall.

It is Vanwall, Mark.

It is Vanwall. So, nothing there but no particular damage done,

and you may still hold the lead after this if Judith gets it wrong.

Judith, who was the first man to swim 100 metres in under a minute?

Help!

-I know this one.

-Tell me! I'll take MY top off if you will.

-THEY CHUCKLE

-Judith!

Judith!

I think Johnny Weissmuller was put in as a sort of red herring.

And Mark Spitz, I think, is too recent.

So, I'm going to say Matt Biondi and hope for the best.

OK, Matt Biondi, who came after Mark Spitz.

THEY CHUCKLE

Yes. Matt Biondi, the most recent of them all.

-Oh.

-It's incorrect.

-Obviously.

-MARK IMITATES TARZAN'S WAIL

-Johnny Weissmuller?

-Is that a clue? Yes, it is.

-Oh!

Tarzan himself, yeah.

There we are. You still have the lead, Mark.

-You win the round if you give me a correct answer.

-Come on, Mark!

In February 2009, the World Cup-winning Rugby Union player Jason Robinson

was confirmed as the new head coach of which Guinness Premiership rugby club for the 2009/10 season?

Shall I do one of the ones where I go through everything

and tell you who's the coach of different teams?

-Nah, just give me the right answer.

-Sale Sharks.

-Hey, he knows it.

-He knows it!

Waving goodbye to Judith.

-Oh, were you?

-He knows it.

Sale Sharks is correct and it's bye-bye, Judith.

-OLYMPIANS CHEER

-I knew it would be.

-Sorry!

It means you're in the final round, Mark. No place for you, Judith.

Would you both, please, come back fully clothed and join your teams?

Taking closer order now, the Olympians.

They've knocked an Egghead out, but two Olympians are missing from the final round so far.

Our last subject before the final round is Geography.

And it's Matthew or Roger to play.

Geography.

-Has to be me.

-It has to be Matthew. He read it at university.

-Don't build the pressure!

Grassing him up there.

Oh, dear!

Now, from the Eggheads, Kevin or Pat?

-Er, we'll go for Pat.

-OK.

Pat, winner of Are You An Egghead? against Sir Matthew Pinsent.

Can I ask you both to take your positions in the Question Room?

Do you want the first question on this, or do you want Pat to face it?

I'll go first.

Best of luck, Matthew.

Here you go.

What are the two main colours on the flag of Portugal?

My straightforward, er...

..mental idea of the Portuguese flag, before you even gave me the options,

was red and green.

-I'm going to stick with red and green.

-OK, red and green.

It's the right answer. Red and green.

Two main colours of the flag of Portugal.

So, good start.

Pat, your first question. Brooklyn Bridge connects Brooklyn directly to which other New York borough?

I think it connects Manhattan to Brooklyn.

Er...Brooklyn Bridge - you're saying Manhattan, yeah?

Yes, Manhattan.

It is the right answer. Well done, Pat.

One each. Matthew, second question.

The southernmost point of mainland Australia is in which state?

I know it's not New South Wales,

because that's further north on the, er...

east coast.

Er, I'm worried, but I'm going to go for Victoria.

A worried man.

-No need to be - it's the right answer.

-Wahey!

-Well worked out.

Look at that satisfaction.

So, Pat...

Die Strasse des 17. Juni is a street in the centre of which German city?

Er...I've been to Munich.

I haven't been...either of the other two cities.

I really don't know, so simply because I like Munich so much,

I will pick Munich.

It's Berlin.

Berlin. So, there you have it.

The opportunity to win the game, here, Matthew.

And you win it on your own if you get this.

The only electric mountain railway in the British Isles

is to be found on which peak?

I'm sure you talked of little else on those training mornings.

MARK AND ADE CHUCKLE

I haven't got the foggiest.

And I can't...

I'll have to guess. I'm going to guess Helvellyn.

Helvellyn. Eggheads?

-Snaefell.

-It's Snaefell.

Snaefell. There we are.

But still might win it, if Pat doesn't get this.

Pat, North Foreland is a headland just north of which town?

Er, Broadstairs is in Kent.

Bridlington is up on the Yorkshire coast, I think,

and Wick is in the very tip of Scotland,

near Thurso.

Wick seems the most likely location for, er...

-such a place. So, I'll go with Wick.

-Wick.

OK, North Foreland is a headland just north of...

Going north and furthest north there is Wick,

but it's the furthest south - Broadstairs in Kent.

-THEY CHEER

-Come on!

A surprise, Pat, there. Matthew, it didn't matter about that third one.

You're in the final. Both please come back and join your teams.

Matthew, congratulations. Not only are you through to the final, but you have the other accolade

of being the first person to defeat Pat since he joined the Eggheads.

First defeat on Celebrity Eggheads there for Pat, so well done there, as well.

It means it's going to be all square in the final. Let me tell you what will happen.

This is what we've been playing towards - the final round, which is general knowledge.

Those of you who lost your head-to-heads

won't be allowed to take part.

So, Sharron and Ade from the Olympians,

and Pat and Judith from the Eggheads, would you leave the studio?

So, Matthew, Roger and Mark, you're playing to win the Olympians £5,000 for your chosen charity.

Kevin, CJ and Daphne, you're playing for something which money can't buy.

The Eggheads' reputation.

I'll ask each team three questions in turn. The questions are general knowledge and you may confer.

That's the big difference. Talk amongst yourselves as much as you like.

Olympians, the question is, are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three?

-Matthew, Roger and Mark, do you want to go first or second?

-It's worked for us so far, so we'll go first.

Let's kick off, then, Olympians.

First question to you.

Ha-ha! Try this one.

Now, where in the UK is the National Indoor Arena?

-This is a nice question to start off with.

-You competed in it!

I've definitely run there in the past.

It's, er... It's in Birmingham.

It's, er, absolutely in Birmingham.

It hasn't moved. It is the right answer, yes. Birmingham.

Birmingham is correct, and fell very nicely for the Olympians there.

Eggheads, your first question.

A 50-metre-high statue of which animal was commissioned in 2009

to commemorate the building of Ebbsfleet International Station in Kent?

It's supposed to be a counterpart of The Angel Of The North.

I think it's Mark Wallinger who's doing it.

And it's a huge white horse.

A huge white horse at Ebbsfleet International

is the right answer, Eggheads.

So, one each. Back to you guys,

Matthew, Roger, Mark.

Anna Livia Plurabelle and Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker

are literary characters created by which Irish writer?

I'm thinking it's not James Joyce.

-I'M thinking it's not James Joyce.

-Right, cos he's serious.

I'm thinking Oscar Wilde would come up with names like that.

I was thinking Beckett. I don't know why.

I think he's older, Beckett.

I was leaning towards Beckett straight away,

only because I don't think of Oscar Wilde as...

humorous, and...

-Why?

-I just...

I thought he was.

Oscar Wilde might have been... He was very, er...

kind of, er...

-wrapped up in the classes and all that.

-Yeah.

So, maybe a double-barrelled name leads me towards Oscar Wilde.

Come on, then. I'll swing back towards Wilde.

-Oh!

-Come on. We're getting to the point where we've got no evidence.

None of us have read enough of their works.

Have we not? We're going to say...

Oscar Wilde.

OK, Oscar Wilde for the wonderfully named characters,

Anna Livia Plurabelle and Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker.

Well...you know what, guys?

You were always barking up the wrong tree

-when you eliminated James Joyce.

-Oh, James Joyce!

-Don't worry about it.

-THEY CHUCKLE

James Joyce.

And they are from which book?

-Finnegans Wake.

-Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.

OK, no chance, then. So, you know, onwards and upwards.

See how the Eggheads do with their second. You'll get a third, anyway.

Eggheads, the fashion designer Cristobal Balenciaga,

who died in 1972, was born in which country?

-KEVIN:

-I believe he was Spanish.

-So, unless he was born in the...

-Yeah, precisely.

Unless he was born in the Spanish bit of...

Morocco. Cos they, you know...

-Ceuta or Melilla.

-I've always known him to be Spanish.

I don't know if he was born anywhere else. We have to go for Spain.

We have to play the percentages and go for Spain. Er, hoping...

I mean, he was Spanish.

So, we just hope he was actually born in Spain.

So, Spain.

I heard you saying there was a Spanish part of Morocco.

There still are. There are still a couple of Spanish territories

on the north coast of Morocco.

He was born, though, in Spain.

It's the right answer, Eggheads.

Trying to worry them. They're not to be worried.

You've got to get this, Olympians. What is the name of the French high-wire artist

who became famous after his walk between the Twin Towers in New York in 1974?

I heard someone talk about this the other day.

They were on about him maybe going from the London Eye to Big Ben.

I can't remember the name, but the only one that rings a bell is Petit.

-This is '74 we're talking about.

-It's the original guy.

-OK.

-Coming back and doing it again.

-OK.

We don't know the answer, but going on instinct,

Mark has an instinct it's Philippe Petit.

Is that your answer?

We'll go with Philippe.

Philippe Petit, and lump it all on to Mark.

THEY CHUCKLE

-It's the right answer.

-Yay!

-Oh, Marky!

-Well remembered, there. Well remembered.

There was a film about it, Eggheads.

Quite recently - Man On Wire. Very good documentary.

So, gives you a chance. Eggheads, though, need to fluff this

to take us to Sudden Death. If not, they do win the game.

Eggheads, which football manager guided Wimbledon to an unexpected FA Cup Final victory in 1988?

It wasn't Lawrie McMenemy. It was Bobby Gould, wasn't it?

-I don't know.

-It was Bobby Gould.

-I don't think it was either of the others.

-I don't know who Melia is,

-but not McMenemy.

-No.

-Bobby Gould was manager of Wimbledon, so...

-For a while, so... OK?

-Yeah.

-Fine.

It wasn't Lawrie McMenemy.

Pretty sure it wasn't Jimmy Melia.

I think Bobby Gould's the one there

who was a Wimbledon manager, so...

I'm assuming he was the manager

at the time they won. Bobby Gould.

Bobby Gould.

-The answer is Bobby Gould.

-Ah!

-You've won.

-Sorry.

Olympians, you've got the silver but I know...

-THEY SCOFF

-..second doesn't count for you lot. I could tell.

Listen, bad luck. There's been one question in it, almost in all the rounds. Certainly in that.

It is, as this man says, just the way the questions fall.

Thank you for playing Eggheads. We really appreciate it.

Not just you three who survived the head-to-heads, but Ade and Sharron as well.

Thank you for playing today. It's been a real joy to have you here.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally, and still reign supreme over quiz-land.

I'm afraid you haven't won the £5,000, which means the money rolls over to the next show.

Eggheads, congratulations.

Who will beat you?

Join us next time to see if a team of Celebrity Mastermind winners

have the brains to defeat the Eggheads. £6,000 says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.

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