Episode 6 Celebrity Eggheads

These people are among 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. They are the Eggheads.

Taking on the awesome quizzing challenge today are...

This team of famous faces share one thing in common with our Pat.

It's not that they know the middle names of everyone who's landed on the moon.

The all hail from the Emerald Isle. Do they share his lust for winning?

One thing for sure, someone on their team will be going for gold. Let's meet them.

I'm Henry Kelly. I'm a journalist and broadcaster.

In the past, I was the quizmaster for 600 editions of Going For Gold.

I'm Zoe Salmon. I'm a TV presenter and presented Blue Peter for four years.

I'm Linda Nolan. I'm an actress and a singer - the talented one in the Nolan sisters!

I'm Shauna Lowry. I'm a TV presenter and probably best known as the animal woman!

My name's Mike Nolan and, no, I'm not a member of the Nolan Sisters.

But I am the original member of the original Bucks Fizz.

Welcome to you all, Irish Ayes.

Thank you very much indeed for coming to challenge the Eggheads.

I want to start with you, Henry. No introduction needed to our Daphne!

Daphne, indeed. First winner, and a very worthy winner, too. Long time ago!

-But wonderful prize! A trip to Seoul Olympics!

-Wow!

That has helped her on Eggheads. You've been into all the Olympics.

-You've had questions about South Korea.

-Yes.

-And the Olympics.

A lot of people said about Going For Gold, was it really fair?

You get a bunch from Europe and ask them questions in English.

-Six out of ten winners did not have English as their native language. Enough said.

-Yeah.

To make it fair, you should have based it in Portugal and asked Daphne questions in Portuguese.

-She'd probably still know the answer.

-That's the point!

Listen, Irish Ayes, we're going to get on with the quiz and chat

as you attempt to knock Eggheads out.

You know how it all works? Daphne will be a pushover, of course(!)

Every day, there is £1,000 up for grabs for our challengers' charity.

If they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over.

Irish Ayes, the Eggheads have won the last five games.

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

Our first head-to-head, the first chance to knock an Egghead out, is on Arts & Books.

You know what happens here.

You pick a player, then pick an Egghead.

-Go on. I'll volunteer.

-Where has the buck stopped?

-With me.

-Captain Henry. Which Egghead would you like to play?

-For old times' sake I'm going to ask Daphne.

Yes! Just what we wanted! Can you turn the tables, Henry? Let's hope you can.

It's Henry and Daphne playing our opening round, Arts & Books.

To make sure you can't confer, we send you into the Question Room. Off you go.

-You choose, Henry, whether you go first or second.

-I'll go first.

Which country is the setting for the Booker Prize winning novel, The God Of Small Things?

It's definitely not Greece.

New Zealand...I don't...think.

So I have to go for India.

India is the right answer. Well handled there.

Always a good idea,

when you're facing the Eggheads to get one up on them, put a bit of pressure on Daphne.

The Frenchman Pierre Dukan has written best-selling books on what subject?

Diet - and it works!

-Does it?

-Yes.

-What does it involve? Eating less, like most diets?

-No. Loads of protein.

-Right. That's the correct answer.

OK, Henry,

your second question.

Which eponymous heroine has an affair with Count Vronsky?

It's NOT Mrs Dalloway.

I think it's Anna Karenina.

And Count Vronsky. Yes, it's the right answer.

Daphne, The Wire In The Blood, used as a book title by Val McDermid

is a quotation from which poet?

I'm...not sure.

But it sounds...like...

TS Eliot?

Yeah. It's the right answer.

I should warn you that Daphne,

when she's guessing, is almost more dangerous than when she knows it.

She seems to land them with unerring accuracy.

But TS Eliot you've got.

So it's all-square, two-all. If you get this, Henry, you might beat her.

Who painted The Seraph's Watch, a painting believed lost but rediscovered and exhibited in 2011?

This is definitely a guess, Dermot.

I'll go for...

-..Millais.

-John Everett Millais, a Pre-Raphaelite.

And it is not Millais. Do you know, Daphne?

-No, um...

-What would you guess of the other two? Makes it easier.

Ford Madox Brown?

Of course it is. You've guessed it so that's the answer.

It's not over, Henry, because Daphne doesn't win

unless she beats your score, so she has to get this one right.

Which George Eliot novel did Virginia Wolf describe

in the Times Literary Supplement as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people"?

Daniel Deronda.

It is not the right answer. Other Eggheads?

BOTH: Middlemarch.

-Well!

-Middlemarch. So it just proves she's human.

We go, Henry, to Sudden Death.

After three questions, we take away the options. I've just got to hear an answer from you.

The dolls' dressmaker Jenny Wren, whose real name is Fanny Cleaver,

is a character in which Dickens novel?

-Little Dorrit?

-Plenty to go for. Little Dorrit is your answer.

It's not. It's incorrect.

-Daphne?

-Nicholas Nickelby?

-No. Other Eggheads?

-Old Curiosity Shop?

-No!

-Our Mutual Friend.

-DAPHNE: Oh.

Will Henry and Daphne

still be friends after this?

The Magic Mountain, the story of Hans Castorp's quest for self-knowledge

while undergoing treatment for TB at a sanatorium,

is a novel first published in 1924

by which German writer?

Thomas Mann?

Is the right answer. Back to form, Daphne.

Bad luck, Henry.

Well done, but Daphne's done it. You're through to the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

As it stands, the Irish Ayes have lost one brain from the final round.

THE brain!

"THE brain", says Linda!

Plenty more quizzing to go.

Three more head-to-heads, then the final round. Our second subject is Music.

You said you'd do Music.

Don't bottle out now!

-I'll do it.

-You want to do it?

-Yeah. I'll do it.

Good stuff. Choose an Egghead.

-It can't be Daphne.

-MIKE: What about Judith?

-Go for it.

-Do you fancy a game, Judith?

Not really. Not my subject.

-Not your subject?

-Fabulous. Judith, then.

-Sounds good.

-That's a con.

-Could be a bluff!

Judith. I'll do Judith.

OK, let's have Mike and Judith into the Question Room, please.

Let's play this music round, Mike. Do you want to go first or second?

I'll be a gentleman and go second.

First question, then, to Judith.

The song A New Argentina comes from which musical?

Well, I think it MIGHT be Evita.

-I can't believe it could be anything else.

-Is that a wild guess?

-It's a wild guess.

-It's right. Let's see if his is equally simple.

In a Beatles song, who "sees the sun going down and the eyes in his head see the world spinning round"?

Right...

That wasn't the Walrus.

And I haven't heard Mr Kite.

So that leaves The Fool On The Hill.

Please tell me that's right.

-Is that your answer?

-Well, it's too late now. It's gone.

You'd be the fool in the question box! Course it's right.

-Thank you. Thank you.

-All-square.

Which Hollywood legend released My Heart in 2011,

her first new album in almost 20 years?

I saw a paragraph or something the other day about Doris Day.

I have a feeling it might be her, but she's about 95 or something.

Anyway, I think it's Doris Day.

-CHUCKLING:

-Not quite in her 90s, I don't think.

It's the right answer. My Heart identified by Judith.

Mike, your second question.

The Pakistan-born singer Sarah Joyce released her debut album Seasons Of My Soul

in 2010, under which name?

SIGHS Right, um...

I don't think it's Nerina.

I'm going to go for Rumer.

-Really?

-Rumer. Yeah.

-Yes, it was. It's the right answer.

-I can't believe it!

Thank you!

OK, Judith.

Who composed When I'm Laid In Earth,

which came first in a 2010 Radio 3 poll to find Britain's favourite opera aria?

I think that's Purcell.

It is. Purcell is correct.

Going well there.

Mike, just held on with the last one.

Would have been out if you'd got that wrong, but you need this as well.

The singles The Promise, The Loving Kind and Untouchable

feature on which Girls Aloud album?

I'm not sure about this one.

I'm going to do what Henry Kelly says.

"If you don't know the answer, go straight down the middle."

So I'll go for...

Out Of Control.

LAUGHTER I'm Irish!

Please tell me that's right. I'll get such a kick if it's right.

-Get ready for that kick. It is right.

-Oh, fantastic!

It DID work! Down the middle. Take the left one!

Fantastic set of answers there.

Three out of three, so we go for Sudden Death.

No options, then, for either of you.

Judith, in 1983, Too Shy became the first UK Number One single for which group?

Absolutely no idea.

-Is that a pass?

-Yeah.

-Mike knows this, I'm very sure.

-Yeah. It's Kajagoogoo.

-Kajagoogoo!

Can you do that again and I'll answer?

If only that had come your way.

You do have a chance here to get through into the final round.

Judith has, as you see, not even attempted an answer there.

If you get this right, you are in the final round.

In the words of the children's song, who "grew whiskers on his chinegan"?

EXAGGERATED IRISH ACCENT: I think that was Michael Finnegan.

-Michael Finnegan is correct!

-It's correct!

-I don't believe it!

-And, Michael Nolan,

you're in the final round!

What a display in there!

You're in the final round. Would you both please come back and join your teams?

It's all-square. Both Irish Ayes and Eggheads have lost one brain from the final round.

Our third head-to-head today comes up as Film & Television.

Something you all should know quite a bit about.

The chaps have played, so it's down to the women - Zoe, Linda or Shauna.

-Do you think I should do it?

-Yes.

-OK.

-If you're happy for me to try.

-You, Zoe?

-Let's do it.

-It's a reverse situation on the Eggheads' side.

All the men HAVEN'T played. Which would you like to choose - Pat, Barry or Chris?

-Let's do Irish with Irish. Yeah, go with, er...

-Pat.

-With Pat.

Zoe and Pat, then, playing Film & Television

from the Question Room, both of you, please.

OK, an all-Irish clash there. Zoe, do you want to go first or second in Film & Television?

Oh! I'll go first!

-Good luck, Zoe.

-Thank you.

In January 2011, who became the first active professional footballer

to sit on the panel of Question Time?

I can't imagine it would be Wayne Rooney.

It's got to be either Robbie or Clarke.

If it was Robbie, I probably would have heard of that. It must be...

I'm going to go with Clarke Carlisle.

It's the right answer.

I think Wayne Rooney would be a welcome addition to Question Time!

Good on you, Wayne. Get your agent on to that.

Clarke Carlisle identified by Zoe. First question for Pat.

Which double act appeared as game show hosts in the 2011 film Horrid Henry?

I saw a little bit of this film with Noel Fielding and Richard E Grant.

I think Dick and Dom surfaced as well.

Dick and Dom is the right answer. Well done.

Zoe, a dog called Reuben became famous for being the on-screen companion of which presenter?

I didn't think Ray had a dog companion but I could be wrong.

Um... So, based on that...

-I'll guess Neil Oliver.

-Down the middle and swerve off!

Should have stayed down the middle. Monty Halls and his friend Reuben.

If Ray Mears had a dog, he'd probably have barbecued it.

Part of his survival skills. Monty Halls there, with Reuben.

Chance for Pat. In 2011, filming of the hospital drama Casualty moved from Bristol to which city?

Several quiz shows went to Glasgow.

And some quiz shows and sports programmes went to Salford.

Did they go the short journey across the Severn Bridge to Cardiff?

I'll have to go with Cardiff, but it's pretty much a guess.

Casualty, the short hop from Bristol to Cardiff? It's correct.

You have it. Cardiff. Means you need to get this, Zoe.

The classic Four Yorkshiremen comedy sketch was originally written for which programme?

A complete guess.

Not Only... But Also?

Not Only... But Also for The Four Yorkshiremen comedy sketch.

It's not the right answer. Do you know, Pat?

-I'd go for At Last, the 1948 Show.

-It's the answer we were looking for.

Which means Pat has won the round.

Sorry, Zoe. Means you're not in the final round.

Pat, you'll be there. Would you both please join your teams?

Balance slightly tipped in the Eggheads' favour. They've lost one brain. Irish Ayes have two missing.

The last head-to-head coming up. Down to Linda or Shauna to balance it up with Food & Drink.

-You said earlier.

-Well, I can't guarantee.

-No.

-But you said you'd have a go.

-Are you happy to do the last round?

There'll be somebody with me then!

Her brother's doing it with her.

-I can't break up the family!

-You'll come back. You'll get this.

-I'll try my best.

Shauna, stay with us and choose an Egghead. One of those lovely pair. Barry or Chris?

-Go Barry.

-Oh, God!

-Well, they're all fabulous, so just go with...

-Barry it is.

Barry it is. Shauna and Barry heading for the Question Room now, please.

Shauna, I loved your introduction, the animal of the team!

Animal Hospital, the chicken and egg question. Did you learn to love animals because you did the show?

You had to do the show if you loved animals. It was just my dream job!

I loved it so much.

The interview process said, "Are you scared of anything? Is there anything you won't do?"

So I have dived with sharks. I have had tigers jump on me. Everything!

There's nothing I won't do when it comes to animals.

-You get to choose. Do you want to go first or second?

-First, please.

Good luck. Which presenter on the Food And Drink programme

was famous for her flowery descriptions of wine?

I'm not sure who Debra Meiburg is, to be honest. Joanna Simon?

No. Jilly Goolden is very famous for Food And Drink.

I think that's where she started

and has gone on to bigger and better things. Jilly Goolden.

"I'm getting gooseberries and smelly socks!"

Jilly Goolden is correct! Well done.

Barry, what type of dish is a bombe, B-O-M-B-E?

Well, I like all of those, but I'm very partial to my sweet tooth.

So I know that a bombe is an ice cream dessert.

-Italian, isn't it?

-French, I think.

French. Mind you...

I have it in Italian restaurants, in me pizza place.

It's the right answer, though. French or Italian.

Shauna, in Mrs Beeton's recipe, essence of what is used to flavour Everton toffee?

Toffee, I haven't made for a while.

Everton being, what, black and white? Is that their team colours?

I'm going to go for...

..peppermint?

-Just because it's kind of old-fashioned.

-And the stripes.

-Yes.

Maybe your knowledge of football's let you down here.

-No?

-They play in blue, which wouldn't have been any help.

-They're certainly not in stripes. It's essence of lemon.

-Sorry, guys.

Always a tough category, this.

-That is hard.

-Let's see if Barry struggles with any of his.

In the 1950s, hotel manager Brian Collins created the Galway Festival which celebrates which food?

Well, I'm rather partial to seafood.

I believe that Galway oysters are one of the finest you can eat.

-I think the answer is oysters.

-The Galway Oyster Festival.

That is right. So it means that you need to get this, Shauna.

Which member of the royal family designed the 2004 Chateau Mouton Rothschild label,

which marked the 100th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale?

Peter Phillips, probably not.

Um... Prince Edward. We don't really know what he's up to at the moment.

So maybe he did it. I don't know.

I'm going to go with Prince Charles, but it's a wild guess.

A wild guess at Prince Charles

with the Chateau Mouton Rothschild label of 2004.

-It's the right answer!

-Yes! Come on!

-Still in it.

But that blot on the copybook

in the middle gives Barry a chance to take the round here.

What drink is taken as a palate cleanser between courses in a traditional Trou Normand?

-Could you spell that, please?

-T-R-O-U N-O-R-M-A-N-D.

N-O-R-M-A-N-D?

Well, Calvados is a brandy that comes from Normandy.

So on that basis alone, I will go for Calvados.

Knows his regional French drinks, and got the right answer.

You're playing in the final round.

I knew that one! Knew the oyster one.

It's the way the questions fell, unfortunately for you.

You won't be in the final round. Please come and join your teams.

This is what we've been playing towards, the final round which, as always, is General Knowledge.

I'm afraid those who lost your head-to-heads

won't be allowed to take part, so Henry, Zoe and Shauna from the Irish Ayes

and Judith from the Eggheads, would you please leave the studio now?

Linda and Mike, you're playing to win the Irish Ayes £6,000.

Daphne, Chris, Barry and Pat, you're playing for something which money cannot buy - it is your reputation.

I ask each team three questions in turn, which you'll be familiar with from the head-to-heads.

But this round you are allowed to confer,

which is why Mike's victory was so important, Linda.

The question is, Linda and Mike, are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

Do you want to go first or second?

Because I am an avid watcher of the programme, I know, probably, it makes no difference at all!

-But people normally go first so we'll go first...

-No. Go second.

-Shut up!

-All right.

First question coming your way

and £6,000, potentially, at the end of these first three questions.

Pointe des Almadies is the western-most mainland point on which continent?

-What's it called again?

-It's called Pointe des Almadies.

-What do you think?

-So, Almadies Point.

-Map of the world.

-I think South...

-I thought South America.

-Not Europe.

-It's definitely not Europe.

-I think South America.

You want to go for South America?

I thought that, but we might be completely wrong.

The western-most mainland point on which continent?

-The Pointe des Almadies?

-South America.

-OK.

-Shall we?

-Go on, then. Do it.

-Don't say it as if it's my idea.

-No, it's OK.

Mike thinks...it's South America.

OK. South America for the Pointe des Almadies.

It's actually Africa.

-I told you that was Africa!

-The French influence in Senegal.

I told him that!

OK, Eggheads, how will you do?

The United States Tennis Association National Tennis Center

was renamed in honour of which tennis player in 2006?

The United States Tennis Association National Tennis Center

was renamed in honour of which tennis player in 2006?

Sounds reasonable.

It won't be Venus Williams. She's still playing.

Or Billie Jean Moffitt, as she was.

Well, we're none too sure.

We don't think it's Venus Williams cos she's still playing.

We don't think it's Chris Evert cos she married John Lloyd,

-an Englishman, and would be seen as a traitor in some quarters!

-What?

We think the person who has acquired elder stateswoman status

is Billie Jean King, nee Moffitt, so we'll go with Billie Jean King.

What reason... What hokum!

What a load of rubbish! Right answer, though.

How they got that! Goodness me!

Let's hope you get better luck with this one, Nolans!

Linda and Mike! I know! Don't worry, Linda!

Try this for size. With which journalist did Germaine Greer have a well-publicised spat,

describing her as having "hair bird-nested all over the place"?

-Eve Pollard.

-I think Eve Pollard. I'd say Eve Pollard.

No disrespect to Eve Pollard's hair.

-Nothing wrong with Eve Pollard's hair.

-I thought Eve Pollard. OK...

Eve Pollard, we're going to go for.

You could imagine the row, couldn't you, between any of them?

All got strong opinions, firmly expressed. Germaine Greer and...

-Suzanne Moore.

-Oh, no!

-Suzanne Moore, oh, dear.

It's not looking great,

it must be said, for the Irish Ayes.

The notorious Burma Railway was built during World War II to link Burma and which country?

-Oh.

-Hm.

-Well, the Japanese were trying to get to India.

Would they have built the railway to link India?

-PAT: They had a grip on Thailand.

-Thailand was neutral, wasn't it?

-I can't imagine...

-Well, Siam was neutral.

They wanted to reach India. They couldn't build a railway there.

It would have to be Thailand.

It certainly wasn't China.

-The bridge on the River Kwai is in Thailand.

-Yes.

Strangely enough, for a railway related question, we're not sure.

I know! Having you, Chris!

-He knows everything about railways!

-Why don't they just get it wrong?

..which was a real thing, is in Thailand so it's got to be Thailand.

Burma Railway was built to link Burma and...

Thailand. It's the right answer, Eggheads. You've won.

-Oh, well.

-Oh, well.

-We're not ashamed.

-We're devastated.

-You never got going.

Two tough questions there, but we just loved having you here.

-All of you.

-It's such an honour to play because I'm such a fan.

-You're all brilliant. I hate you all but...!

-See the maestros at work.

The one thing teams coming up will take away is that new technique of straight down the middle.

-I thought that was good.

-Straight down the middle, pick anything.

The idea is to go straight down the middle and go to the left or right.

Any one of three, then?

Yeah.

-It has been so much fun having you here, Irish Ayes.

-Oh!

-All of you.

And those back in the Question Room.

Those Eggheads have done what comes naturally. Their winning streak continues.

You won't be going home with the £6,000 and that means the money rolls over to our next show.

Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?

Do join us to see if a team of experts from Antiques Road Trip have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

Should be interesting. £7,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.

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