Episode 6 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 were 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're the Eggheads. Going head to head against our awesome quiz champions today are...

Featuring a plethora of the nation's best acting, presenting and now, it would seem, quizzing talent.

This team of celebrity Mastermind winners simply by virtue of their proven quizzing prowess

can surely lay claim to being the very definition of the phrase, Celebrity Eggheads. Let's meet them.

Hello, I'm Shaun Williamson. I'm an actor, singer and all round good egg.

Hi, I'm Kaye Adams. I'm a presenter and journalist

and wondering what I'm doing here.

Hi, I'm Spoony. Broadcaster, club DJ and I crack eggs.

Hi, I'm Jan Ravens.

I'm an actress and comedian

and hoping to do a wicked impression of a complete brain box.

I'm Paul Ross, broadcaster and bighead.

So, Egg Masters, welcome and thanks for having a go at the Eggheads today on this celebrity edition.

But you've all done this kind of thing before by being on Mastermind.

Shaun, how does that compare? You haven't done this yet.

I don't know, they were both nerve-wracking, really.

I chose Richard Burton as a topic and managed to get 17 out of 17,

but I hung on for grim death on general knowledge, really.

I slumped across the line at the last gasp victory.

-It's pretty formidable those five. It's like a firing squad.

-OK, then,

let's play the game and thanks once again for coming along.

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

However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads the prize money rolls over to the next show.

Egg Masters, the Eggheads have won the last five games,

which means £6,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

Let's set about that task.

The first head to head subject is going to be film and television.

There'll be a charge to play this one!

Film and television, any one of you can play it.

Who wants to take it on?

-I'd love to do it if nobody else wants to do it.

-Go on.

-It's right down his street. Paul, any Egghead you like. It's the opening round.

-The big fella.

I'm going to pick him off early. He's got loser written all over him. Chris. It's you and me.

-OK, then.

-As once before, Paul.

SPOONY: He's jealous of your hairstyle.

Let's have Paul and Chris into the Question Room just to make sure you can't confer with your teams.

Paul, I sit at the feet of the master when it comes to presenting quiz shows and games shows.

Have you kept a list of how many of them you've done?

I can't honestly remember how many I've fronted

but I know I've made something like 1,000 episodes of different game shows.

I should have got a better lawyer, shouldn't I? Got a better brief.

The repeat fees. Somewhere on Challenge, you're on.

Somewhere in this country, in one of the many micro channels, you can see my ugly mug, sadly.

Even in the days when I had a quiff and hair. Going back to the late '80s.

Even on film, I remember you were in Bridget Jones' Diary. That was a good spoof one, that one.

That was quite good fun although - I'd never acted in my life -

and I found myself getting hurt cos they cut me out. You can hear my voice, and I'm a cardboard cut out.

And I sulked and then I thought, I'm not an actor, I was lucky to be there.

When I got the script they said to me, "We've a tiny part for you".

I looked right down the list of characters and at the very bottom it had 'slimy TV presenter'.

"That'll be me."

OK, Paul, you get to choose, you're the Challenger.

-Do you want to go first or second?

-I'll go first, please.

First question coming your way, Paul.

Which Coronation Street character is the mother of daughters called Rosie and Sophie?

She's the mother of Rosie and she's a bit of a blonde minx

and she's had a chequered past and she is working

in the Underworld factory making underpants

and its Sally Webster, Dermot.

It is Sally Webster.

One on the board, straight away.

And Chris, your first question. What's the surname of Patsy,

played by Joanna Lumley in the TV sitcom Absolutely Fabulous?

A bit of a pun going on there, I think she's Patsy Stone.

-Without the "d".

-Without the "d".

It's the right answer. Well done, Chris. Back to you, Paul.

Which actor has starred in the films, Tropic Thunder, The Heartbreak Kid and Along Came Polly?

They're all great comedy actors and great serious actors.

This guy is a great director as well.

His father's a great actor and, of course,

he stars in Night In The Museum 1 and 2. It's Ben Stiller.

It's Ben Stiller. It's the right answer. Two to you.

Chris,

Which former England cricketer became a regular

team captain on the TV show, A Question Of Sport in 2008?

I think we've seen him doing rabbit impressions. It's Phil Tufnell.

Yes, the previous edition of Celebrity Eggheads.

It's the right answer. Phil Tufnell.

We won't go there with his bunny rabbit act.

Paul, third question, could win the round if you get it.

Anna Maxwell Martin won the Best Actress award at the 2009 TV BAFTAs for her performance in which drama?

This is going to be a complete guess.

Because, not for the first time, I've gone blank.

I'm going to go middle for diddle,

I'm going to take a complete punt and say Poppy Shakespeare.

Probably an informed punt, I suspect. It is the right answer.

Anna Maxwell Martin winning a BAFTA for that.

It means you've got to get this, Chris.

What's the name of the character played by Tom Cruise in the 1993 film, The Firm?

Ah.

Is that a law firm or a gang?

Cole Trickle strikes me as a completely joke name.

If he's a lawyer, I don't see him getting very far

being called Mitch McDeere.

So, good solid, boring lawyer's name, John Anderton.

John Anderton? It's Mitch McDeere.

Is it?

But it means that was your question, Chris,

you didn't get it. Paul, you're playing in the final round for the money today.

Would you please both come back and join your teams.

As it stands, Egg Masters have knocked out one Egghead from the final round.

We play our next round today.

This one is history.

Who wants to play this? It can't be Paul. Any of the other four. History.

-Want me to go for it?

-Yes, good man.

Well, I've been nominated by popular...

-That's very decent of you, Shaun. No-one else would do it.

-..vote.

As you can see, I'm ecstatic.

You can do a lap of the studio. Do that when you win the round.

Which Egghead would you like to play? It can't be Chris so any of the other four.

Don't take Daphne, she's mine.

I think I will take Daphne, actually.

Thwarted, Kaye.

It's going to be Shaun and Daphne playing history. Could I ask you both please

to head to the Question Room.

OK, Shaun, let's play the round.

History, do you want to go first or second?

I'll go...

first, please.

All right then, off we go. Your first question, Shaun.

Which English monarch, born in 1533, was known as the Virgin Queen?

It certainly wasn't Anne, she had 17 children. 14 died

stillborn and I think three died before the age of two.

Victoria had, I think, 9 to 13 children

so it's definitely Elizabeth I.

You've left out immaculate conception, though.

Elizabeth I is the right answer. Well done, born in 1533.

Daphne,

who was President of the United States

at the outbreak of World War Two?

That was Franklin D Roosevelt.

It's the right answer. Franklin D Roosevelt.

Your second question, Shaun.

What was the real name of Bonnie Prince Charlie,

leader of the unsuccessful Jacobite rebellion of 1745-1746?

Of course, he was from the line of Stuarts.

The reason why he never got to the throne was because they desperately

wanted a Protestant on the throne

which is why they brought in the Hanoverians, starting with George I.

He was, quite rightly, in line to the throne

so it was Charles Edward Stuart.

Charles Edward Stuart is correct, Shaun.

You have two and Daphne, your second question.

The Suez crisis occurred in which year?

Well, I'm old enough to remember it.

It was 1956.

Suez Crisis, 1956. Correct, Daphne.

Well, all square after two. Let's see if you get this, Shaun, and hope Daphne slips up on her third one,

like Chris did.

"Put your trust in God but mind to keep your powder dry"

is a quotation attributed to which soldier and statesman born in 1599?

I'm positive John of Gaunt and Robert de Ufford were well before that time

and I think I remember the phrase being accredited to Oliver Cromwell.

Oliver Cromwell, "Trust in God but keep your powder dry"

is the right answer, yes.

You've got to get this, Daphne.

What's the name of the Dutch admiral who, according to tradition,

hoisted a broom to the masthead of his ship to declare he had swept

the sea clean of his enemies in the first Anglo-Dutch war during the 17th century?

He was Admiral Von Tromp.

Yes, he was. It's the right answer.

It's three all. So, Shaun, we're going to go to Sudden Death.

Make it harder by removing the options. I've just got to hear an answer from you.

Which ancient city was founded as Qart Hadast, literally meaning

"new city", in approximately 814 BC by Phoenician traders?

That's just not my bag at all.

I could only assume, I remember in the Punic Wars, Carthage

fought against Rome and that's the only thing I could think of.

Because it's almost an amalgamation of those two words. Is it Carthage?

It is Carthage. Well done, Shaun.

Work it out like an Egghead.

He nearly is an Egghead.

Daphne, the site of the battlefield of Bannockburn is in the southern outskirts of which Scottish city?

I'm torn between two.

What are they?

Edinburgh and Stirling.

But Sterling wasn't a city then, so...

Bannockburn...

I don't know why but I'm going to say Stirling.

Because it's the right answer.

I say programmed to get the answers.

Kaye, we can almost hear you going, "Think Edinburgh, think Edinburgh!"

Right, Shaun, another Sudden Death one.

In 1258, which English king agreed to share power with a permanent

council of barons according to the Provisions Of Oxford?

It was something that was thrust upon a king by Simon de Montfort.

And it was...

He was the father of...

Edward I, Longshanks.

I think it was Henry III.

Spoony saying, "No way can he get that right".

-I'm going home if he does.

-Bye bye, Spoony. It's Henry III.

-THEY ALL WHOOP

-We're not worthy!

Astonishing.

OK.

Well, Daphne,

you were rocking and rolling and reeling on the last one, can you get this to stay alive?

During the 20th century, which country built the Mannheim Line to defend its territory?

Finland.

..Is correct.

Finland and Henry III.

What a pair of answers. Fantastic stuff.

Shaun, what name, thought to be derived from the Spanish word,

"cimarron", meaning wild or untamed, was given to the runaway Jamaican

slaves who fought two guerrilla wars against the British authorities in the 18th century?

I don't know. They weren't called the cimio, C-I-M-I-O?

C-I-M-I-O, from cimarron.

They weren't, Shaun, it's the other bit of it, it's maroons.

The maroons.

A chance for Daphne.

Who was the last of the Julio-Claudian dynasty of Roman emperors?

Nero?

It's the correct answer, Daphne. You have won the round.

One of the most competitive rounds we've ever had on Eggheads

but in the end, you've just shaded Shaun.

I don't know how. Shaun, tremendous quizzing but it means you won't be in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

It's all square in terms of the teams, both the Egg Masters and the Eggheads have lost one brain.

Our next subject is sport.

Who wants to play this?

I'd love to do it, let me do it, guys. All right, you do it!

THEY ALL LAUGH

It's unfair of them, Kaye, isn't it?

It is definitely Spoony's gig, sport.

All right, Spoony. Chris and Daphne have played so you've got CJ, Kevin, or Judith.

OK, I think I'm going to go for C-Judith.

C-Judith, that's a good one.

-Judith it is then.

-No, go for CJ.

I think it's you, Judith. It's Spoony and Judith, heading for the Question Room.

Well, this will be quick, anyhow.

Spoony, do you want to go first or second?

It should be ladies first but I'm not a gentleman so I'm going to go first.

OK, good luck, Spoony, first question.

What's the surname of the two brothers that represented England in the 1966 football World Cup final?

A nice gentle one to start, Dermot.

I'm going to go for Charlton.

And you'd be right to. That is correct. Nice and gentle.

Judith, in boxing, what item is traditionally thrown into the ring to signal defeat?

I think that would be towel.

-Have you got one there?

-Yes, ready to throw in. I can tell you.

It's the right answer. Spoony, second question.

Which snooker player won his third World Championship title in 2009?

I've a little bit of a passing interest in snooker because someone

I went to school with, Peter Ebdon, is also a former World Champion.

-Good player.

-Yes, very good player.

But just because of my passing interest, I don't think it's

Stephen Hendry because he won most of his stuff pre that date.

I'm going to go for John Higgins.

John Higgins, third World Championship in 2009, it's right.

Two to you.

Now, Judith, in 1980, Seve Ballesteros became

the first European winner of which of golf's four major tournaments?

It could be any of them.

The most prestigious one is the Masters, isn't it?

I think I'm going to try that one.

-The Masters?

-Yes.

Spoony, I'm sure knows this. And he knows that's right.

It is right, good.

The US Masters, won by Seve in 1980.

Third question apiece.

This one for you, Spoony. In which position did the former England rugby union captain,

Bill Beaumont, play for the majority of his international career?

Now, rugby isn't

one of my biggest sports.

I do know that big players tend to play around the prop position.

So, I'm going to go for prop.

No, he wasn't. He's a lock.

The back of the scrum.

Bill Beaumont was a lock.

So, how did we get to here?

Judith a chance to win sport round.

Well, a chance I say. Let's see how you do.

One in three chance, I guess.

Which female American athlete won gold medals in the individual 100 metres

at both the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games?

I've never heard of any of them.

-So, it's a guess.

-Is it, really?

And, funnily enough, I had a long time in Eggheads when I was

very lucky going down the right-hand side.

Si I'm going to say Gail Devers.

I nearly let out an expletive.

-It is the right answer.

-JUDITH LAUGHS

Sorry, Spoony.

Gail Devers won the 100 metres in 1992 and 1996 Olympics.

I'm really sorry.

Judith, how do you do it? It means, Spoony, somehow unexplainably you're not in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

Well, the balance has swung in the Eggheads' favour. Only just.

They've knocked two Egg Masters out.

One Egghead has gone and the last chance for any player to be knocked out now.

The last head to head is Food & Drink.

Kaye or Jan to play.

What do you think?

You're both too skinny to do food and drink.

I think you should do it, Kaye.

-I should go?

-Yes.

-I'll go.

Don't go yet.

You've got to choose an Egghead.

Those two in the middle. CJ or Kevin.

It's your choice, Kaye. From watching the show,

Kevin is very good but his weaknesses, I reckon, are Science and Food & Drink.

So, it's your call, I would swerve CJ and go for Kevin. If I were you.

-Kev, let's you and me do it.

-Kev, very familiar.

Two K's.

Let's have Kaye and Kevin into the Question Room, please.

Now, do you want to go first or second against,

as Paul identified, one of the weaker subjects Kevin has in his armoury.

Don't build it up like that!

I'm going to go first. I want to get this over with. Get going.

OK, first question, Kaye.

What name is commonly given to a globular glass used for drinking good brandy?

It's not bubble, she said with some confidence,

I don't think it is bubble.

I think it's balloon.

Balloon it is. Good start.

Straight off.

Kevin, which popular kitchen implement resembling a lever-type nutcracker consists of a receptacle

with a perforated based on one arm and a piston on the other?

It doesn't sound as though it's going to be

anything to do with fish scaling but who knows?

It sounds as though...

It's obviously some kind of

action involving pressing if a piston is...

pushing something through into a base.

I can't even get a handle properly on the description,

I'm not sure I've ever seen one. I'll say garlic press.

Is the right answer.

Yes. He's not making it up, Kaye, he's not making it up.

He is having a laugh.

He genuinely isn't.

You should see the questions he's got wrong in that subject.

I've never pressed a garlic in my life or done anything else to one.

OK, it's all square,

only just. Kaye, your second question.

French dishes cooked with cream, apples, cider and Calvados are described as what?

I think the question is where does Calvados come from?

Is it from the Alsace

or Normandy?

I think Alsacienne is right but for some bizarre reason

I'm going to for a la Normande.

It's correct.

You were right identifying the apples, apple cider and Calvados.

All apple-based.

That's Normandy for you. Well done.

Kevin, Mahmut Aygun, who died in January 2009 at the age of 87,

was the inventor of which dish?

It's a Turkish-sounding name.

So, on the basis it's a Turkish name, I've got to say doner kebab.

Doner kebab is correct.

He worked that out from

Mr Aygun's name. Third question, Kaye.

In Spanish cuisine, Cabrales is a type of what?

Right, Cabra...

I don't think it's wine.

I think it's blue cheese.

It is blue cheese. That's the correct answer.

Three to you. Well, Kevin,

what is the name of the mixture made from olive oil, garlic, lime juice,

cumin and other spices that's often called the Cuban national sauce?

I'm tempted to go for Mojo but maybe that's too close to Mojito,

which is another Cuban thing.

So, Boho, Gogo.

I have no idea so I'll say Gogo.

You went from the correct answer to the wrong answer.

It's Mojo. Boho, Mojo or Gogo and it is Mojo which means you go-go.

Kaye, you're playing in the final round. I bet you didn't expect that.

-Well done, Kaye!

-Woo-hoo!

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

That's great head to heads but now we've reached what we've been playing towards.

It's time for the final round which, as always, is General Knowledge

but I'm afraid those of you who lost your head to heads

won't be allowed to take part.

So, Shaun and Spoony from the Egg Masters, and Kevin

and Chris from the Eggheads, would you leave the studio, please.

Kaye, Jan and Paul. You're playing to win the Egg Masters £6,000.

Judith, CJ and Daphne, you're playing for something which money can't buy. Oh no.

The Eggheads' reputation.

As usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.

This time the questions are all general knowledge

and you're allowed to confer, that's the big difference.

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

And Egg Masters, you get to choose, as the Challengers, do you want to go first or second?

First, please.

Yes, very decisive. Let's have a decisive answer to this one.

In Roman numerals, what number is represented by the letters XCVII?

X-C-V-I-I.

The X's were before so it's 10 off 107...

Because IV is four, so XC must be

10 off, erm...

You're right, IV is four.

So I think 97.

-Are we all agreed?

-Yes.

-Should we hold hands?

-Yes.

We think it's 97, Dermot.

It wouldn't make it any less wrong by whispering it. It is correct.

Gee!

You horrible person!

Yes, you knew it, you've done your maths very well. XCVII - 97.

-I'd have got that wrong.

-Eggheads, first question to you.

According to the quotation attributed to the Dutch humanist, Desiderius Erasmus,

"In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is..." what?

The one eyed man is king.

Correct answer, Eggheads, King. Back to Egg Masters.

Who wrote the 16th century poem, Venus And Adonis?

Who wrote the 16th century poem, Venus And Adonis?

I'm pretty sure it's Shakespeare.

Kaye, what do you think?

Yes.

We're pretty sure. I don't think Webster wrote too many poems,

he wrote lots of Jacobean plays.

John Donne was Dean of St Paul's but I think he wrote metaphysical

poems, I don't think he wrote Venus and Adonis. We think it's...

-Shakespeare.

-Yep.

Shakespeare it is, correct answer Egg Masters. So, you have two.

And, Eggheads, what was the last year in the 20th century that Mount Vesuvius erupted?

I think it was quite recently, like '84.

I have to be honest,

I thought it was an early '80s as well but I'm not at all sure.

I have no idea.

I have a vague feeling.

I don't think it was '44.

No, because it would have been during the war.

I think it was 1984. Instantly.

Both Judith and I had an instinct that it was in the early '80s.

As far as I'm aware, only one of those dates is in the '80s.

-We don't know it, but we going to go for 1984.

-OK.

No, you don't know it, it's 1944.

Really!

Vesuvius, remember.

Etna has had loads of eruptions.

I just remember in the papers.

-Vesuvius.

-Yes, Vesuvius.

Etna you'll have read about.

Constant lava flows.

So, there we are.

Fantastic scoreline for you, which means fate in your own hands.

One correct answer here and you'll become the first celebrity team to beat the Eggheads.

Which US state, divided by water into a two large

peninsulas, shares land borders with Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin?

A peninsula is surrounded on three sides by water.

So, Michigan is the one with the Great Lakes.

-And that's fairly north, isn't it?

-Yes, it definitely north.

So, Iowa can't be peninsula because it's landlocked, isn't it?

-Where is Iowa?

-Iowa's in the Midwest, isn't it?

-Midwest?

-Yes, but it hasn't got any coast, has it, Iowa?

And your first thought was Michigan?

I was terrible at geography.

I also, for some reason, thought Michigan but I've

barely got geography O level. Should we go for Michigan?

-Yes, let's go for Michigan.

-Michigan.

OK, going for it. Michigan.

The answer...

Is Iowa. Well, Kaye with "I think this is wrong, this is right".

It's the right answer. You've beaten the Eggheads.

THEY ALL CHEER

My heart, it's beating like a drum.

Oh my God, in your face.

THEY ALL LAUGH

I don't know how you worked that out!

In the end, you did get it. First celebrity team to beat the Eggheads.

We had a series last year, they were unbeaten.

You are the first team to take the crown and take the money.

Tell me about the charity that's getting the money.

It's called Changing Faces and it works with people with

facial disfigurements who have to cope with that.

It helps them psychologically and in all sorts of ways

and it also helps the rest of us deal with facial disfigurement

and tries to increase awareness and just get everyone a bit more tolerant about it

and help people who have it to deal with it physically and emotionally.

It's fantastic stuff, and great to hear that the money is going to a great cause.

Congratulations once again to the Egg Masters. Great to see you, what a fantastic team.

Join us next time on Eggheads

to see if a team of former Blue Peter presenters

will be just as successful. Until then, goodbye.

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