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 the team of five quiz challengers pit their wits

against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.

They are the Eggheads. Challenging our resident quiz goliaths

today are the Rough Diamonds.

This team of footballing greats have provided some of the game's

most memorable moments from the past 40 years.

Will they be lifting the cup or taking the proverbial early bath?

Let's meet them.

Hi, I am Alan Rough and I played 53 times for Scotland in my career.

Hi, I am Tony Currie, Leeds United, Sheffield United,

and 17 times capped for England.

I am Frank Worthington. Lots of different football clubs -

Huddersfield Town, Leicester City, Bolton Wanderers,

got in the England team and scored winning goals for England.

Hi, I am Kerry Dixon.

I scored 193 goals for Chelsea and played eight games for England.

Hi, I am Alan Kennedy.

I played for Liverpool and scored the winning goals in the 1981

and 1984 European Cup finals.

Hello there, Rough Diamonds, named after you, Alan. How do you feel about taking on the Eggheads?

How does this compare to some of the big football games you played in?

Obviously myself and most of the guys have played in front of

100,000 people, so I think we will be able to handle that part of it,

but they are fantastic so we'll really enjoy today.

Played in front of 100,000 people. You played in two World Cup finals?

Yes I did. And I enjoyed them, obviously.

We didn't have great results in these finals, but it was fantastic being there.

Fantastic, but the pressure... Did you play Brazil?

Yes I did.

I was hoping you wouldn't mention that, but yes we did.

They were a wonderful side, a fantastic side.

It was great coming up against players of that quality.

Yes. That was the parallel I wanted to make -

although it does not look like that!

We have to have a bit of a jump there in the imagination!

This is the Brazilian team of quizzing.

We will play the game and chat as we go.

Rough Diamonds, great to have you here.

Thank you very much for coming to have a crack at these Eggheads.

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

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

Rough Diamonds, the Eggheads have won the last four games.

That means £5.000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

Let's see what our first category is today. It is Geography.

All well travelled guys, I know.

Geography. Who'd like to play?

-I think this is one of yours.

-Yes.

-Tony is history or geography.

-Whatever.

I'll go for that.

We're going to go with Tony.

OK, Tony, great. It's the opening round. You get to choose which Egghead you would like to take on.

-I think I'll have Barry.

-OK.

Have you done a bit of study, Tony?

Or between you do you know anything about the Eggheads? Do you watch it?

Do you know their strengths and weaknesses?

I have heard he is a Leeds fan so he might owe me one!

-More than one I would think!

-Good thinking.

OK. Let's have Tony and Barry into the Question Room, please,

to play Geography.

Tony, I want to ask Barry first of all, as a Leeds United fan, did you ever see Tony play?

I certainly did. Many times. He played for Leeds in the late 70s.

This is the classic case of the quizzer knowing more about your career than you do!

He can give me the precise dates, all the goals you scored.

There was one goal you scored. I think it was goal of the season and should have been if it wasn't.

It was against Southampton when you took them apart 4-0?

-A curling shot?

-That's correct, yes.

-It won the goal of the season.

-Do you remember it? You scored so many.

-Do individual goals stand out?

-Yes, that one does.

It is part of my collection. We weren't on the TV as much as they are today.

But I have got it on DVD with lots of my goals. That is one of the best.

Do you watch them now and ask who was that kid able to do all that?

Or do you remember what you were thinking at the time?

We do get it out. The wife, when we have somebody round,

she shows it to everybody so I get to see it at least once a week.

OK. Let's play the game. I know you played

on lots of foreign shores as well during the course of your football career.

No doubt travelled plenty since then as well.

That might help with this Geography round. Do you want to go first or second?

First, please.

Here is your question.

The French Riviera stretches alongside which body of water?

Well, I don't think it is Geneva or the Rhone.

I'm pretty sure, I hope, it's the Mediterranean.

The French Riviera is on the Med. Yes. It is the Mediterranean Sea.

Barry, the town of Nuneaton is located approximately nine miles north of which English city?

Nuneaton is in the Midlands

and the only Midland city there is Coventry.

That is the right answer. Yes. No need to deliberate on that.

It is 1-1. Back to you, Tony.

The Nevsky Prospekt

is the main street in which city?

This is going to be a pure guess. I have not been to any of those places.

I've not really heard of that so I'm going to plump for Odessa.

Odessa for the Nevsky Prospekt.

It's the Main Street in... Barry?

-St Petersburg.

-Saint Petersburg, Tony. Not Odessa.

A chance for Barry to take the lead.

Lake Placid, which hosted the Winter Olympics in 1980,

is in which state?

It's in New York.

New York State is the right answer. Well done.

You need this, Tony. Muzo in Colombia

is one of the world centres in which industry?

I know where Colombia is, but that's another difficult one.

I will go for the right wing again and go for oil drilling.

Oil drilling. I don't know if you ever did switch to

-the left to get the ball.

-I'm wrong.

-It is emerald mining.

Bad luck. Two you had to guess at.

They both went awry.

It means, Barry you are through to the final round. You ought to apologise to your hero!

OK. Please come back and join your teams.

It was an emerald mining question cost the Rough Diamonds

one brain in the final round. The Eggheads are all still there.

But we have only played one round

so we will move rapidly on to our second head-to-head today.

This subject is Sport.

Unfortunately, Tony, you are not available. You've played.

Any of the other four guys - who fancies this one? Sport.

They are all looking at me! At the moment it's going to be me to challenge.

All right. Who do you challenge?

Barry's gone, but any of the other four, Pat, Chris, Daphne, and CJ.

I am looking around there

and thinking CJ just that little bit tired so I am going to challenge CJ.

It is Sport then and Alan and CJ

could I ask you both please to go to the Question Room?

Alan Kennedy, great to have you here.

If you were wearing your medals on your shirt I don't think there would be enough room.

Yes. I managed to win all my medals with Liverpool. It was a great time.

-I loved every minute of it.

-It was a legendary time.

-You joined them from Newcastle?

-Yes.

I was a British transfer record in those days.

I came down from Newcastle and played for Liverpool and won 14 trophies

in seven years so it wasn't too bad!

How many European Cups?

I played in two European Cup finals

-and managed to score winning goals in both finals.

-Unbelievable.

-Would you like to go first or second?

-I'd like to go first.

Very best of luck. Sport, and your first question is this.

The skeleton bob is popularly compared to which household item?

-The skeleton bob?

-Yes.

-That's very good(!)

If I knew what a skeleton bob was I'd tell you what the answer is!

I am not quite sure, but I don't think it's carpet sweeper.

I'm not going to go for standard lamp. It can't be that.

I'm going to go for the tea tray.

-It is the tea tray.

-Yes!

-It's in winter sports.

It's the very small one where they slide down at great speeds.

CJ, your first question.

In boxing what name is given to an unexpected punch which catches an opponent off guard?

I think that's a sucker punch.

It is a sucker punch. Yes of course.

You are both off the mark and it's straight back

to Alan for number two.

In 2011 the Britons Chris Adcock and Imogen Bankier reached

the mixed doubles final of which sport's world championships?

My first reaction was to go with badminton.

I don't think it will be curling.

I've a feeling table tennis is not the right answer.

I'm going to stick with my original and go with badminton.

It's the right answer.

-Well done.

-Yes!

-Two out of two.

CJ, the tennis player Petra Kvitova who won the ladies singles title

at Wimbledon in 2011 was born in which country?

Czech Republic.

Oh dear! That's the correct answer.

He doesn't know many sports,

but that is one of them he knows inside out.

That fell very nicely for CJ.

Let's hope this falls nicely for you, Alan. It would be only fair.

Who was playing Italy in a match described by David Coleman as,

"The most stupid, appalling, disgusting and disgraceful exhibition of football"?

Again you go with your first thoughts.

I don't think it would be Argentina.

I don't think they'd be THAT bad, as they say.

Chile or Uruguay? In those days who would be the worst of the two teams?

The dirtiest of the two teams? I am going to go for...Uruguay.

Uruguay. Shut your eyes and hope.

You've hit the post. It is Chile.

-Oh no!

-Were you thinking that as well? Obviously you were

because you ruled out Argentina

-and were tossing up between the other two.

-Yes.

It means, not identified by Alan, so a chance for CJ to win the round.

In the 20th century in which year was golf last played at the Olympic games?

Not 64. My instinct with most of these things

is that it's very early.

Is it as late as 24? A lot of sports had died out by 1920,

that had been played in the Olympics and are now widespread professional sports.

I don't think it was as late as 24. I think it is 1904.

OK.

Pretty early on in the modern Olympics.

1904 is the right answer. Well done, CJ.

-Of course it is coming back, isn't it, Eggheads?

-Yes.

-Do you know when?

-2016.

-2016, yes, it is coming back to the Olympic Games.

But in 1904, after an 112 year gap, CJ identified that. 1904.

That means no place for you in the final round, Alan.

Come back and join your teams.

Bad luck, Alan. As it stands the Rough Diamonds have lost two brains from the final round.

The Eggheads are all still there, but we have two more head-to-heads.

Plenty of chances to try and winkle a couple of them out.

Our next head-to-head is Science.

Who'd like to play this? Is it going to be Roughy, Frank or Kerry?

THEY CHAT OVER EACH OTHER

We're changing the rules! I'll go.

Swap shirts!

-Are you going to go?

-I can't.

-Are you going?

-I'm not allowed.

I'm not a scientist.

We've decided the captain's going to go!

You have decided but he hasn't!

Roughy, who would you like to play from the Eggheads?

Barry and CJ have played so it is Pat, Chris or Daphne.

-I think I'll challenge Pat on this one.

-Pat on science.

Should be a good match. Let's have Roughy and Pat into the Question Room, please.

Alan, we talked about you playing for Scotland during, I suppose, the glory days

when Scotland regularly appeared in major international finals.

Things have changed a lot since then. Do you see those glory days ever returning?

You've got such great fans, they almost deserve it.

I think we were out in the wilderness there for 12 years.

But we're on the right road. We're on a better road than we were on.

We're all hoping.

We just missed it this time, so hopefully the next World Cup

-campaign will be the one that we qualify in.

-OK. Here's hoping.

And here's hoping for victory here.

See if you can captain your way through into the final round. It's Science.

-Would you like to go first or second?

-I'll go first, thank you.

Good luck. Here is your first question.

What name is given to the region of the earth's surface that is frozen throughout the year?

Since my specialised subject was Food & Drink

I'm going to have a guess here at

the Van Allen Belt.

It's not the Van Allen Belt. It is Cryosphere. OK.

Pat, your first question.

For what does the letter M stand in BMJ,

the name of a weekly publication?

I think that is the British Medical Journal so it is medical.

Often reported medical breakthroughs and findings.

It's the right answer. The BMJ.

Back to you, Alan, for your second one.

Which insects transmit the parasitic disease known as river blindness?

Well...I don't think it's lice...

So I'm going for mosquitoes or flies and I think,

er...mosquitoes are too obvious. I'm going for flies.

No flies on him, right answer. Well done.

Yeah, worked it out. OK, well in the game.

Pat, the indricotherium, said to be the largest land mammal that

ever existed, was most closely related to which modern creature?

I think I've seen pictures of the beast.

Um...big, hulking thing.

But I'm not sure I can remember what it's most closely related to.

I'm tempted to say horse,

except that the very earliest horses were pretty small things.

Could they have grown to giant size and then shrunk again?

Possibly, I suppose.

Bears...rhinoceros...

I'll have to go for rhinoceros, but I've lost my bearings on this.

OK, lost your bearings, but found the right answer, Pat,

from the Diamonds' point of view.

The indricotherium was a super-sized rhinoceros or closely related

to the modern-day rhinoceros. Means you have to get this, Alan.

Pauli's exclusion principle relates to which branch of science?

As you can probably tell by the expression on my face,

I haven't a clue!

I thought you talked about it all the time in the dressing room!

So...I don't know why,

but I'm going for quantum mechanics.

It's the right answer! Yes.

Well landed. Kept you alive. But Pat still has the upper hand

cos of that slip-up on the first question.

So, Pat, what is the common name for the bedeguar gall,

a growth found on the stems of wild roses

caused by the larvae of the gall wasp?

I have never heard of this.

Bedeguar gall...

I can't see any particular logical route to an answer here.

A wild rose...

Generally cuckoos are slightly bigger than the other two birds,

perhaps you would be less likely to see a cuckoo roosting in a rose,

but that's not very solid logic.

It's going to boil down to a guess, I think.

I'll go for Robin's pincushion - a complete guess.

It's the right answer, Pat!

Well, I suppose fair in that Alan's last one was a guess,

but, oh dear. I had hopes for sudden death there.

But just didn't get there.

Bad luck, Alan. That first question cost you a place in the final round.

Would you both come back and join your teams.

Well, the luck has gone all the Eggheads' way so far.

Surely that has to change. When you guessed, you landed it,

when the Rough Diamonds guess, which admittedly is most of the time...

..they've missed it. But as it stands,

the Rough Diamonds have lost three brains

from the final round, The Eggheads are all there,

so it's for Kerry or Frank now to restore honour.

Our last subject is music. Which one of you wants to take this on?

We've got Elvis here! Elvis.

-Elvis is in the building?

-Yes.

-OK, Frank,

who do you want to play from the Eggheads?

-It can be Daphne or Chris in the middle there.

-Of course, Daphne.

She's gorgeous.

Of course she is.

Let's have, then,

Frank and gorgeous Daphne into the question room, please.

Well, Frank, it is great to have you here.

You were of that generation of footballers

-that worked hard, but played hard, too.

-We certainly did, Dermot.

And that's when tough tackling was allowed in British football.

Now things have changed somewhat in this modern era

and some of our players, in this modern era,

they'd get a red card in the warm-up!

What about off the pitch?

It was said that you kind of took on the mantle of George Best -

you weren't a stranger to nightclubs.

Of course not, Dermot. George was our icon of British football.

He was fantastic and I wasn't too far behind him

and certainly off the pitch I was having a good time,

just as much as I had a good time on the pitch.

OK, well let's play the music round, then.

-Would you like to go first or second, Frank?

-Yeah, I'll go first.

Right. Got to get you through

otherwise Kerry's on his own in the final.

OK, Frank - here you go. "Now I shout it from the highest hills

"Even told the golden daffodils" is a line from a song in which musical?

"Now I shout it from the highest hills

"Even told the golden daffodils" is a line from a song in which musical?

# Even though...da dum...

# Once I had a... #

-I think I'll go for Calamity Jane.

-Calamity Jane.

Do you do a bit of singing?

That's like the pub singer in Shooting Stars.

Occasionally they get me up

-on the golf celebrity tour and I do a bit of Elvis.

-Fantastic.

OK. Well, you've done Calamity Jane for us

and got the right answer.

It's correct. Daphne, here's your first question.

Born To Do It, released in 2000,

was the debut album by which British singer?

Born To Do It, released in 2000,

was the debut album by which British singer?

You've got me at the first hurdle.

Don't know. Born To...

-Craig David.

-Is correct!

-Oh!

No, the guessing goes on.

Anyway, it's all square and Frank's second question -

what is the surname of the British singer known as Jessie J?

Yes, I'm not too sure about this one, Dermot.

I'd say Cornell relates a little bit to the underworld.

Cornish...Devonish...

-I'll go for Corning.

-Corning, OK.

The surname of the British singer Jessie J is Cornish. Cornish.

Let's see how Daphne does with this.

The Beatles had a UK Christmas number one

in 1965 with a double A-side of We Can Work It Out

and which other song?

I really don't know. I will guess at...

Day Tripper.

Is the right answer.

She does do it time after time, it must be said. Daphne at her finest.

When cornered, most dangerous, I say about Daphne.

Frank, your question, and you have to get this.

Which musician died in 1978 in the same London flat in which

Cass Elliot had died four years earlier?

Well, Moony was a great drummer for The Who

and I don't know too much about Nick Drake,

so I think I'll go for Jimi Hendrix.

OK, Jimi Hendrix died in the same flat as Cass Elliot?

It's incorrect, Frank, it is Keith Moon,

as you mentioned,

drummer with The Who. Keith Moon.

Which means, Daphne...

you have fluked your way into the final round

with a series of informed guesses.

But that's the way the cookie crumbles, as they say.

Would you both come back and join your teams, please.

So this is what we've been playing towards.

Time for the final round, which as always, is General Knowledge.

But those of you who lost your head-to-heads won't be allowed

to take part in this round.

So, Alan, Tony, Frank and Roughy from the Rough Diamonds,

would you please leave the studio now.

So Kerry, you're playing to win the Rough Diamonds £5,000.

CJ, Daphne, Chris, Barry and Pat, you are playing for something

which no amount of money could possibly buy -

it's the Eggheads' reputation.

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

And this time, the questions are all general knowledge.

You are allowed to confer.

We'd like to let you confer - you can talk to yourself, of course!

But the question is,

is your one brain better than the Eggheads' five? And Kerry,

-do you want to go first or second?

-I think I'll go first.

Kerry, we didn't get to talk to you,

you didn't get into the question room.

But thinking generationally,

you must have played against Alan and Roughy as well, maybe?

One or two, of them, yeah, and the other two perhaps not.

The generation before.

Yes, a different Chelsea side there.

And the England career - I think I saw you play once, about '85?

-England-Northern Ireland at Wembley?

-Yes, I remember that one.

I'd prefer to remember the debut against Germany in the Aztec Stadium.

The 0-0 against Northern Ireland was not one of the better games.

I think you had one that just went over the bar.

-Shall we leave it at that?

-We shall leave it at that.

Let's hope you go into the bar after this.

One against the Eggheads, playing for £5,000 for charity.

You've decided to go first. Shall we kick off, Kerry?

Your first question is this.

Fourchette is the French word for which item?

Well, I'm not overly good at French.

But, um, looking at them, and "fourchette" and "fork",

-it seems rather obvious, so that's the one I'm going to go for.

-Yeah?

If you think it's the right answer, it probably is...and it is!

Yes, fork is correct. Fourchette, a fork.

And Eggheads, which character from Arthurian legend shares

a name with an RAF helicopter?

-Do we agree it's a Merlin?

-Merlin.

-Absolutely, yes.

I don't know it, but I can't imagine a helicopter called Lancelot or...

-Not Guinevere, no.

-I've never heard of a Lancelot.

There's the bird, the merlin, so it makes sense.

There was the Merlin engine, We're happy with Merlin?

-Yes.

-It's got to be Merlin, Dermot.

-Yeah, that's right. It is correct.

OK, Eggheads. Back to you, Kerry. Good start, there.

And second question - in the famous

Morecambe and Wise sketch featuring Andre Previn,

Eric Morecambe is trying to play a piano concerto by which composer?

When I Watch Eggheads,

the questions I don't want is anything on composers.

-And sure enough, I get one.

-Well, it is on Morecambe and Wise as well.

Yeah. Um...it's going to be a complete guess.

I'll go down the middle and I'll go with Beethoven.

OK, Beethoven, down the middle.

It's not. Do you know, Eggheads?

-Grieg.

-Grieg No 1.

-It's Grieg. Well, nothing there for Kerry.

Didn't identify Grieg. So, Eggheads, for the lead -

Isaac Bitton, born in 1779, was famous in Britain in what field?

That is Ikey Bittoon,

the famous Jewish bare-knuckle boxing champion, so it's boxing.

-Bare-knuckle boxing?

-Well, it was in those days.

-I suppose, yes. OK.

Is the right answer. Which means you need to get this, Kerry.

In Japan, what are onsen?

Once again, it's question of... Haven't got a clue about onsen,

and it's got to be a guess.

I can't even give you any reason why I'm guessing or not guessing.

Um...onsen?

-Temple bells.

-Temple bells.

Are the bells ringing for Kerry?

They're not! It's the final whistle.

They are hot springs. Which means, Eggheads, you've won.

I just want to say, guys, it wasn't to be in the quiz,

but that's not the point.

The point is that we want to have some fun, ask a few questions,

get a few answers, but have fun and we have had fun today, Eggheads!

Some great stories, great memories,

and some absolutely brilliant players.

Thank you to Kerry and all the guys in the question room.

We are honoured to have had you here today. The Rough Diamonds!

But the Eggheads have done what comes naturally

and they still reign supreme over quizland.

I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £5,000,

which means the money rolls over to the next show.

Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?

Do join us next time to see if a team of celebrities

from the Emerald Isle have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

£6,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.

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