Episode 7 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 have won some of the country's toughest quiz shows,

they are the Eggheads.

And challenging our legendary quiz champions today

are Here's Some You Met Earlier.

Familiar to millions for, amongst other things, their unique pancake tossing skills

and ability to turn everyday objects into something amazing

just with the addition of some sticky back plastic.

Well, this team is made up of some of the many faces

who have presented Blue Peter during its 50-year history.

Let's meet them.

Hello, I'm Peter Purves, I'm a television presenter, an actor,

pantomime director and I presented Blue Peter for ten years

between 1967 and 1978.

Hello, I'm Simon Groom, I presented Blue Peter from 1978 to 1986.

These days I wear two hats.

I am independent producer and also run a farm in Derbyshire.

Very much hoping for questions on Derby County football club 1969 to 1972.

I'm Janet Ellis. I presented Blue Peter between 1983 and 1987, the golden years.

I'm Diane Louise Jordan and I presented Blue Peter between 1990 and 1996, the platinum years.

Hi, I'm Liz Barker and I presented Blue Peter from 2000 to 2006.

I'm now a mum of two and, in true Blue Peter style, a cake decorator.

Well, welcome to you Here's Some You Met Earlier,

what a bunch of familiar faces you are.

Now, I've been thinking that, given your experiences and your skills

and all the things you did between you during those years

on Blue Peter, you're perfect for this game.

If you remember anything you did.

We think so. We think so.

The trouble with a general knowledge quiz is every question's easy unless you don't know the answer.

It sounds stupid and obvious but that's it.

I know exactly what you mean because we get people writing in

saying those questions for the Eggheads seem awfully easy

but they a lot more answers than normal people.

But, you are not normal people, you have done things,

jumped out of planes and climbed towers and been to countries most normal people haven't been to.

What's the most memorable thing?

Well, you have touched on some of it.

The different countries we went to for a start. I went to 27.

It's the sort of experience... no-one can afford to do that,

I was paid to go, it was wonderful, absolutely wonderful.

So, that stays in my mind, all the different places I've seen.

It gives you a totally different perspective on the world as well.

You know what places smell like,

you know what their food tastes like in situ.

Just a totally different impression.

OK, well let's put some of that accumulated knowledge to the test

right now against the Eggheads, the mighty challenge.

Now every day there is £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.

So, Here's Some You Met Earlier,

the challengers won the last game proving it can be done

and it means £1,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

And let's start the first battle.

It's Music, the first head to head,

now one of you has to play this against a chosen Egghead.

Who is it going to be?

I couldn't take on Music because...

Do you want me to have a go, as long as it's '60s and '70s?

You want to choose somebody who is your own age to play against because they won't know what you don't know.

Who might not know music, I don't know.

-Barry or Kevin, I would say.

-Say Barry!

-OK, let's go for Barry.

-Barry.

Going for a dark horse, isn't he?

-Barry.

-Secret raver.

You've got it - you've seen him down the club, have you, Janet?

Because Janet's always down the club.

OK, it's going to be Simon and Barry playing music

and just to make sure you can't confer with your team mates, Simon,

we ask everyone to go the question room, please.

Simon, now we've got two sets of questions,

first set and a second set. You get to choose, you're the challenger.

Do you want to go first or second?

I'll go first then, please.

Best of luck, Simon. Here you go.

Which singer married Sonny Bono in the 1960s and had a successful singing partnership with him?

I am great fan of all these ladies, I have to say.

Gorgeous women, charismatic, wonderful.

It's not Dolly Parton and it's certainly not Bette Midler.

I think it's the lady whom I named one of my sheep after

and this sheep has got a tattoo on its backside even.

It's Cher, the wonderful Cher.

Have you written to her, sent her a picture of said sheep,

I'm sure she'd be truly honoured.

Wonderful idea.

It is the right answer. Sonny and Cher, yeah.

I think that's where that tattoo is, anyway.

I Got You, Babe, and the rest of it.

OK, Barry, first question.

The phrase girl power particularly came to prominence with which girl group?

Having had a teenage daughter,

I understand only too well what girl power means.

But this phrase was associated with the Spice Girls.

Spice Girls. It's the right answer, well done.

OK, it's all square, good start by you both.

Simon, second question.

Parachutes and X And Y were UK number one albums for which band?

You've got me now I was hoping for Gerry and the Pacemakers,

or The Kinks, or perhaps Roxy Music from the '70s.

Um...I can't stand Coldplay,

I can't understand what the fuss is about, I think it's really boring.

SIMON LAUGHS

Franz Ferdinand I think are a bit off the wall

and they sound slightly off the wallish

those titles of those albums.

So, I'll go for Franz Ferdinand.

OK, Franz Ferdinand for Parachutes and X And Y.

It's your favourite band, it's Coldplay.

Ohhh.

-He's gone.

-Come back!

Come back to us, oh, there he is.

OK, no worries yet, Simon.

Still a couple of questions for Barry to face. This is your second.

Which Puccini opera begins and ends in an artist's garret.

# Che gelida manina Se la lasci riscaldar. #

It's La Boheme. That's Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen from La Boheme.

-Oh, that was singing.

-That poor cat.

-Did you stand on its tail?

-Not this time.

La Boheme is the right answer

which means, Simon, you've got to get this.

The buisine was a medieval version of which modern instrument?

I'll spell it for you as well. The buisine. B-U-I-S-I-N-E.

Trumpet doesn't seem quite right somehow.

It doesn't seem medievalish enough somehow.

I think the tuba's too big, so I am going to go for clarinet, please.

Barry, what are you doing with your head there?

I am just laughing because trumpet didn't sound medieval

and I think the answer is trumpet.

Ah, you see, that's the Egghead in him.

It is trumpet, Simon, and Barry knew.

Trumpet not clarinet which means we draw the round to a close.

Barry's already got those two,

it's best of three and you've faced all three.

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

Would you please both come back and join your teams.

Well, as it stands after that one brain gone

from Here's Some You Met Earlier,

all the Eggheads are still there.

Our second round today is sport

and who would like to play this?

All very fit and healthy characters, I know,

with their sporting interests.

-Peter, did you want that?

-Peter, you ought to do it.

-I'm not too bad.

Well, not too bad is better than what we've got down this end.

OK, I'll have a go at sport. Yeah.

Putting you in then, Peter.

Who would you like to play from the Eggheads then and it can't be Barry?

You've got the other four to choose.

It's got to be either, I think, Chris or CJ.

I would prefer to play against CJ.

OK CJ, his two main sports, he says himself, are snooker and tennis.

-Yep.

-OK, right, well might have more bases covered than CJ, let's find out.

In the question room for you both please, Peter and CJ, to play sport.

So, Peter, going back to the early days of Blue Peter,

you were already well known on television, weren't you,

before you joined Blue Peter because of Dr Who?

I suppose I was. I did a year in Dr Who with the original doctor,

William Hartnell, 44 episodes.

That was great fun. That was my last acting job really.

I've hardly done any acting since.

I mean, but if things had been different you might well

have ended up on the stage or on television acting.

Well, believe it or not, I think I was just about on the point

of deciding I needed to do something else, because work had dried up,

there was no acting work coming my way, and out of the blue, without...

I mean a whole range of coincidences,

that had nothing to do with me at all,

happened and I was invited to go and audition for Blue Peter.

I knew nothing about it, it just came out of the blue.

It changed my life, really.

All right, well let's see how you do at sport now against CJ.

Do you want to go first or second, Peter?

I'll go first.

Good luck and the first question is tennis.

What is the name of the tennis shot usually played

when the opponent is at the net which sends the ball high and deep

into the other side of the court?

Well, it's not the smash because that would smash it

to one of the corners and score a lovely point.

It's not a drop shot because that's one that you stun, so it's the lob.

It is the lob, well done. Good start, Peter, one to you.

And also depriving CJ of the tennis question, he would have loved that.

Instead you are getting netball, CJ.

Oh, goody.

Yeah. One of your favourites, I know.

In the game of netball how many of the seven positions

have the word goal in their name?

I neither know nor care.

I don't know. I suppose they have two people at the back as defence,

two on the wing, one in the centre,

which would leave two at the front, so, let's try two.

OK, two. Two positions with goal in it.

So, you've got goalkeeper and what one in the middle.

-I don't know.

-Well, there's goalkeeper, goal shooter, goal attack and goal defence.

Enlighten me, CJ, how many's that?

-Three.

-Yeah, four but certainly not two.

So, a good start, Peter,

you have the lead and can extend it with this one.

Which driver started the 2009 season as Jensen Button's team mate

in the Formula One motor racing team, Braun GP?

It's the middle one of those three and it's Rubens,

Rubens Barrichello.

It is, Peter. Well done.

You have a two nil lead and go through to the final round

if CJ doesn't get this.

When the initial squad was named,

which home nation had the fewest players

in the 2009 British and Irish Lions rugby union tour to South Africa?

I know tennis, I know a little bit about Formula One,

I know nothing about netball

and I know nothing about what I'm assuming is rugby.

That is in the question, so I can confirm that, rugby union.

Ah, that doesn't help in the slightest.

Scotland.

-Is that your answer?

-Probably.

It's the correct answer.

Even the Eggheads are shaking their heads in shame there,

that naked guess.

It's the right answer.

Yes, you've landed it so it means Peter does have to answer

another question but a guaranteed place in the final round

hangs on a correct answer here, Peter.

Which Essex batsman smashed 152 not out of only 58 balls

including a world record 16 sixes during a 20/20 game in June 2008?

Well, they are all extremely good batsmen

and they have all scored rather well in 20/20 and in one day cricket

but it was Graham Napier and it was a fantastic innings, I saw it.

He's good isn't he, he's very good.

It's the right answer. Graham Napier.

Smashed CJ for six there, look at that 3-1.

CJ lucky to get that one.

Well, you're playing in the final round, no doubt about that, Peter.

What an asset you'll be.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

As it stands now both teams have lost one brain from the final round, it's all square.

Our next subject is geography.

Well, subject to our earlier discussion.

All well-travelled who wants to take it on - Janet, Diane or Liz?

Oh, I'm absolutely rubbish but I'll go anyway.

I have no idea. I'm going to be demolished aren't I? Which one.

Shall I take Daphne?

Yes. She's cute.

You know what, it really doesn't matter.

Daphne, you're lovely, let's go.

I can get lost anywhere.

OK, it's going to be Diane and cute Daphne in the question room, please.

Diane would you like to go first or second?

I'll go second.

Daphne, first question, then, is this.

Mupe Bay, part of the Jurassic Coast world heritage site, is in which English county?

How do you spell that?

It's M-U-P-E.

Mupe.

Well, luckily, I know the Jurassic thingy me bob. It's in Dorset

but I've never heard of Mupe Bay.

It is in Dorset, yeah, the Jurassic Coast bit.

I bet you've been down there with Songs of Praise/

We've been everywhere with Songs of Praise.

Good old Dorset. I would have got that one.

Oh, no! Right, you'll get this one then. Try this one.

In which European country is there an international airport named after the late Pope John Paul II.

Well, I am going to guess,

because Rome, Italy, Pope, Italy.

Yeah there is that, but there is Polish, Pope,

Poland and...

very proud of him, first Polish Pope.

That went down really well.

Let's just swap these questions, I should have gone first.

OK, nothing there.

So, Daphne's second question.

On which continent is the Ituri Forest located? Is it...

I can't even pin it down from the name.

I mean, it could be Italian.

Or...I don't know, I'm going to go for Europe.

OK, the Ituri Forest in Europe.

Not the last time we looked.

-What do you think Eggheads?

-Africa.

-Africa.

-Is it?

-Yes. More specific.

-It's in the Congo.

-In the Congo, Kevin thinks, the Ituri Forest.

That's good news for you, Diane.

So, no particular damage done with that first answer.

If you get this it will go all square.

So, Griffith Park, which covers more than 4,000 acres, is a feature of which American city?

I'm thinking, again I'm guessing,

New York probably doesn't have that much green space.

I'll try Los Angeles, I'm going to kick myself.

It is the right answer, yes, Griffith Park, in LA.

So, well done there.

Of course Central Park in New York

takes up most of its available green space.

So, Daphne, your third question.

Sidon is a major city in which country on the Mediterranean.

I don't know why, I think...

I think it's Lebanon.

OK, Lebanon...

Tyre and Sidon.

It is the right answer, Daphne, well done.

Yes, Sidon in Lebanon which means you need to get this, Diane.

The Hohenzollernbruecke, or Hohenzollern Bridge

crosses the Rhine in which German city?

Have you been to any of those?

My husband's lived in Germany for three years

so my humiliation could be complete.

I am going to go for Dusseldorf.

OK, the Hohenzollernbruecke you think is in Dusseldorf.

It's Cologne.

-Oh, crumbs.

-Cologne which means Daphne's taken the round

in spite of getting one wrong there.

No place for you Diane, I am sorry to say, in the Final Round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

Well, as it stands after that Here's Some You Met Earlier have now lost two brains from the final round

and the Eggheads have lost one.

You are guaranteed two brains.

Here's the chance to make it all square in that final round

if you knock a second Egghead out.

And the subject is Film and Television

and two players Janet or Liz to play.

I am going to choose to go for that one.

And I'm going to choose to go against which one.

Chris scares me slightly, so I'm going to go with Kevin.

LAUGHTER

He's a lovely man, Chris.

It's his brain that scares me.

He could have told us all about the Hohenzollernbruecke and the trains that go over it.

But we are going to play this round instead and it's going to be Liz and Kevin playing it.

Both in the question room please.

Liz would you like to go first or second?

I'll go first.

OK, first question for you.

What is the main form of transport hijacked

in the 1992 Wesley Snipes film Passenger 57?

I haven't seen this film, which isn't a good start,

but I'm going to say...

aeroplane.

Aeroplane, it's the right answer, Liz, well done, phew.

Off to a good start.

That's what we wanted. Now, Kevin.

Since 1989, Jon Snow has regularly presented which TV news programme?

Long-running presenter of Channel Four News.

Channel Four News for Jon Snow. Yeah, right answer there.

Liz, your second question and let's build on that great start.

What is the name of Peter Griffin's wife in the animated TV series Family Guy?

OK, I haven't got a clue, it's a complete stab in the dark,

so I'm going to go with,

what name do I like?

Gloria.

Gloria, great name, yeah,

but not for Peter Griffin's wife.

CJ you like this kind of thing.

My favourite show, Lois.

Lois is the answer. Lois, Liz.

So, Kevin's second question.

Which cast member from Only Fools And Horses

played a regular character in the 1970s and '80s Wendy Craig sitcom Butterflies?

Yes, one of his longer-running roles before Only Fools and Horses.

He played Wendy Craig's younger son in Butterflies.

It was Nicholas Lyndhurst.

Once you said younger son

we knew you weren't going for Buster Merryfield.

It's the right answer, yes, Nicholas Lyndhurst.

So, you need to get this, Liz.

Which actress played a character called Domino Petachi

in the 1983 film Never Say Never Again?

I haven't seen it

but I'm going to say Jamie Lee Curtis.

And it's not Jamie Lee Curtis.

-It is, Eggheads?

-Kim Basinger.

Yes, Kim Basinger there. Bad luck, Liz, it was really off the radar.

It means you won't be playing in the Final Round

would you both come back and join your teams?

This is what we've been playing towards -

it's time for the Final Round which is general knowledge.

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

won't be able to take part.

So, Simon, Diane and Liz from Here's Some You Met Earlier

and CJ from the Eggheads would you leave the studio, please?

So, Peter and Janet you are playing to win Here's Some You Met Earlier £1,000 for your chosen charity.

Kevin, Daphne, Chris and Barry you are playing for something which money can't buy.

The Eggheads' reputation.

I will ask each team three questions in turn.

General knowledge, anything can come up. You are allowed to confer.

Here's Some You Met Earlier, the question is are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

-Of course.

-Of course, let's prove it. Now would you like to go first or second Peter and Janet?

We'll go first.

OK, good luck.

It's general knowledge as I said and the first question is this for you.

The fashion model Agnes Dean was born in which country?

Well, that sounds like a trick question to me,

she comes from up north, Agnes, definitely,

as far as I know she was born here.

Going on what I know about her now, I would say UK.

I will go with you. I really don't know.

I'll say UK.

OK UK, no trick questions, Janet, it's the right answer.

UK is correct for Agnes Dean.

Well done, Janet, what did you say, Peter, you never heard of her?

I am sorry, Agnes, I am sure you're gorgeous.

Just as well there were two of you there, then.

OK, Eggheads, your first question.

For what does the letter B stand for in the abbreviation UXB?

Oh, danger UXB, it's an unexploded bomb, I tell you.

Unexploded brains there, one day they might burst

with everything you stuff into them.

It is the right answer. Bomb.

OK, back to you Peter and Janet after that good start.

Second question.

A cuisse is a piece of armour worn to protect which part of the body?

I've got a feeling it might be the shoulder armour that gladiators...

I had a feeling it might be that bit of chain mail

that goes underneath the helmet but...

-That would be protecting the neck.

-Or the head.

I think it's that shoulder piece.

OK, I like the way you wanted that straight away.

It looks a bit like an armadillo's...

-Yes, let's go with that.

-We're not 100% certain but that's what I think.

You think it's the shoulder.

The shoulder.

A cuisse...

protects the thigh, though.

Thigh.

-Does it?

-French for thigh.

-Yes.

-Pauldron for shoulder.

-Frogs legs are cuisse de grenouille.

-Cuisse de grenouille.

OK, well let's see how the Eggheads do with their second one.

In the 1997 film, Bean, the Rowan Atkinson character

is sent to Los Angeles to guard which famous painting?

I've only seen part of it, my instinct is Whistler's Mother.

Yeah, it's not the Hay Wain.

Cos Whistler was American.

I'm not sure.

Wasn't he in France in some of the scenes?

-Yeah, earlier on.

-Yes, so it might have been the Mona Lisa.

I think Whistler's Mother is also in France.

-Is it, I thought it was in London.

-There's more than one.

When the choices came up that was my instinct.

I thought Whistler's Mother.

I've seen part of the film.

-I'll go with the majority.

-I don't know it.

-So, what are we saying, Mona Lisa?

-I'd vote for Whistler's Mother.

Yeah, so would I.

-We think it's Whistler's Mother.

-Think.

CJ knows it but he's not there, silent in the little question room.

Bean, the character, is sent to Los Angeles to guard

Whistler's Mother, it is the right answer.

It's a very funny film. Simple kind of film, slapstick type.

It's one of those films when it's been on TV, I've seen a bit here, it's been on another time

and I've seen a bit there, eventually I'll put it all together.

A bit like The Sound Of Music.

So, it means you've got to get this, Peter and Janet.

Full concentration. What was the first name given

to the future Queen Victoria when she was baptised in 1819?

Marguerite, Roseanna don't sound.

Alexandrina sounds, yes, the Russian link

and also I think it has a church connotation

which the other two don't have.

I'd go with that but we are guessing.

We are guessing.

We think it's Alexandrina.

OK, to stay in the game.

It's the right answer, well done, well worked out you two.

Alexandrina.

Used to call her Drina.

-Drina, is that a nickname or a family name?

-A family name, yeah.

-Queen Drina, wouldn't kind of work would it?

-Not really.

The Drinan era.

I live in a Drinan house.

No, it's got to be Victorian.

OK, right, well played there by Peter and Janet, holding on there,

that second question has left them a bit vulnerable.

I hope the Eggheads don't get this.

Eggheads, Mary Warnock born in 1924 is well respected for her work in which field?

Yeah, she's a philosopher, Dermot. Philosophy.

It is the right answer, Eggheads. You've won.

See what they're like, they strike any moment of vulnerability there.

-Just one in it.

-They do don't they.

-It has been the odd question in it all the way through.

-It's been so much fun having you guys here today.

-We've enjoyed it.

All those memories and meeting all those wonderful faces.

Thanks to you, Simon, Diane and Liz, as well.

Playing so valiantly there in those head to heads.

Our thanks to Peter and Janet for playing that final round.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them and they reign supreme over quizland once again.

You haven't won the £1,000 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 distinguished female journalists and broadcasters

have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

£2,000 says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.

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