Episode 9 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,

where a team of five quiz challengers pit their wits

against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain. They are the Eggheads.

Tackling our awesome quiz titans today - or quiz teddy bears - are...

What brings this team together

is the past and present world of children's television.

Are you sitting comfortably, Eggheads? Then we'll begin. Let's meet them.

I'm Pat Sharp. I hosted the kids' show Fun House for 12 years.

I currently do my radio shows at Smooth Radio, across the UK.

I'm Sarah-Jane Honeywell and I'm a presenter on CBeebies

on Mighty-Mites, Tikkabilla and Higgledy House.

My name's Toby Anstis. I present a radio show on Heart every day.

I've presented various shows on the BBC like Live & Kicking, the Lottery and the Broom Cupboard.

I'm Cerrie Burnell, also a presenter on CBeebies.

If you've got young children, you'll know I present the Bedtime Hour.

My name's Joel Defries. I presented Blue Peter for three years.

Welcome to you, Kids Are All Right.

Obviously referring to the audiences you used to address.

-Pat, do you watch Eggheads?

-I have seen it, but I must admit the other guys are more familiar.

And Joel, he's practically the producer of the show! He loves it!

I'm going to be watching and learning.

We're going to talk as we quiz, but let's get the game started, tell you what the rules are et cetera.

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.

So, the Eggheads have won the last eight games.

Meaning £9,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

Let's play the first head-to-head.

The subject coming up... I suppose a lot of you might like this,

given your current and past jobs. Music.

Brilliant!

Remember, it is a very broad category.

It might not just be the contemporary stuff.

Who wants to play this? Music.

-Pat and Toby, you're geniuses! >

-I'm the oldest.

You'll know more decades.

30 years of music, you've had. This is made for you.

I've been doing it for 30 years on the radio. I may not be able to do anything else, Dermot.

We've got another Pat here. You can choose him or any of the other four.

-Who do you want to play?

-Let's ask Joel.

-What about Kevin?

-Kevin!

-OK, Kevin please, Dermot.

-Kevin.

-Captain Pat against King Kevin.

-Hm!

Let's have you both into the Question Room, please, to make sure you can't confer.

Off you go.

-You choose, as the challenger, Pat. Do you want to go first or second?

-I'd like to go first please, Dermot.

Pat, first question. Good luck. Courtney Love found fame as a guitarist and singer in which group?

That's tricky.

Courtney Love was with Kurt Cobain, who was the lead singer of Nirvana.

I don't think she was in the band. She's definitely not in Garbage.

So I'm going to say Hole, by working it out - as Hole.

Yes! By working it out. It's the right answer.

Good start, Pat.

What material is used to cover the hammers that strike the strings of a piano?

I don't think the other two would do the job. That's felt.

Felt does the job. That answer does the job. One-all.

Back to Pat.

A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste and The Vaults Of Heaven are songs from which musical?

I'm going to go Bombay Dreams, just cos I feel they're quite romantic,

those type of musicals from India.

I'm going to go Bombay Dreams.

I agree, but they're not in Bombay Dreams. Do you know, Kevin?

-No, I don't.

-Daphne, musical expert?

-No!

-That IS a tough question.

-Must be Sunset Boulevard?

Whistle Down The Wind.

It's Whistle Down The Wind. Judith said that.

Let's see how Kevin does with his second one.

Which US artist released her debut album Coco in 2007?

I have to admit that the third choice,

-Colbie "Caillar", or however that's pronounced.

-"Coulay".

Means nothing to me at all, so it'll probably turn out to be her!

I think Carrie Underwood goes back further.

So...I'll try Taylor Swift.

Taylor Swift with Coco in 2007? Oh, no.

-No?

-It's Colbie Caillat.

-I just don't know her.

All-square, Pat.

No damage done.

Who composed the musical score for the ballet Les Noces,

that was first performed in 1923?

-CHUCKLES:

-Do you like ballet?

Er, not particularly, no.

I must admit, not really my thing. I've just no idea about this one.

I'm probably going to go for one either side of Ravel.

-Stravinsky.

-One either side of Ravel.

Gone the Stravinsky side and got the right answer. Well done.

You're in the lead.

A chance of the opening round. Kevin, who was the opening act of the 1969 Woodstock Festival?

I don't imagine it would have been Ravi Shankar, but I don't know.

I'll try Richie Havens. I really don't know.

Richie Havens.

Is the right answer! Both having a bit of a guess.

We open this up now to Sudden Death, Pat, after three questions.

To sort out a winner, we make it harder by removing the choices.

A-herm! So, have a go at this.

In one week in early July 2009, who had 13 of the Top 40 UK singles?

Well, could this be somebody who had passed away, perhaps?

In 1980, John Lennon had many songs in the chart.

Elvis did the same in '77.

2009, ironically, is a lot nearer and I should remember if it is that.

I can't remember anybody in that category.

The guys are going to kill me if I get it wrong, especially if Toby knows it, as he might.

I've no idea. I'm going to say...

Britney. But it's not Britney. It's not Madonna.

-Britney's my final answer, but I don't think I'm right.

-Britney Spears. It's not.

-Do you know, Toby?

-Is it the Beatles, cos they re-released a bunch of stuff in that year?

July 2009?

-I thought it was Michael Jackson.

-Sarah-Jane's got it.

-Sorry, guys.

Might not be over. Kevin needs this.

Which musician, born in 1947, entered into a civil partnership with David Furnish in 2005?

Well, nice straightforward one there. It's Elton John.

Elton John? It is the right answer.

Bad luck, Pat.

A half chance, and failed to pluck Michael Jackson out of the brain.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

I should have awarded half points! Pat, you so nearly got through.

The Kids Are All Right have lost Pat's brain from the final round.

The Eggheads are all there. Our second head-to-head is Arts & Books.

SARAH-JANE: We know who!

I said I would do this one.

I'm really happy to do it, but who am I going to go up against?

-Daphne.

-No! She's...

But I love Daphne.

I think Daphne. I'd be happy to lose to Daphne!

OK, Cerrie.

It's your choice. Cerrie and Daphne playing Arts & Books.

Into the Question Room, please.

Cerrie, great to have you here.

Talking about a quizzing background, you've appeared on the granddaddy of them all, Mastermind!

-Bit of an Egghead yourself.

-Um, no! I came last on Celebrity Mastermind.

-Doesn't matter.

-By one point!

I'd just like to say hello to someone, Daphne's great-grandson, Finley,

who is a big fan of CBeebies, so I just wanted to say hi to him.

-And now you're going to try to knock Great-Grandma out of the quiz.

-She's going to knock me out!

-It's all in the name of charity.

-Exactly.

-Give it your best shot!

-I certainly will.

Daphne gives no quarter nor expects any.

-Do you want to go first or second?

-I'd like to go first, please.

Your first question, Cerrie.

Whitehaven Mansions in London is an address of which fictional detective?

I don't think it's Miss Marple.

-SIGHS

-I don't know who Aurelio Zen is.

I'm going to go for...Poirot.

OK, Poirot in Whitehaven Mansions.

-It's the right answer. Well done, Cerrie.

-Yes! Good guess!

-Good guessing skills!

-You need those as well.

-Talking about guessing skills! Daphne!

-Hello.

-Hello.

Let's hope we have none of that. Well, you can get it wrong.

In Turner's painting The Fighting Temeraire, the old warship Temeraire is towed by what type of craft?

LAUGHS: I can see it, and all I can see is the Temeraire.

-Thames barge.

-A Thames barge towing the Fighting Temeraire.

Off to the knacker's yard, wasn't it?

-Yes.

-That answer should go there, too. Towed by a paddle steamer.

Which is a great start, Cerrie.

If I'd had that question, I wouldn't have got it.

Don't tell us. You're one-nil in the lead and go two-nil up if you get this.

Who foresees his death, according to the title of a poem by WB Yeats?

I don't know. Um...

I'm going to go for an Irish airman.

-OK. Why?

-My mum's Irish!

I thought you were going to tell me Yeats is Irish!

Also, Yeats is Irish!

So I thought perhaps it would be...

Which is the clue, if you didn't know it. It's the right answer.

DERMOT CHUCKLES

Well! Charmed existence!

You may not have to face another question if Daphne doesn't get this right.

Who wrote the Booker Prize winning novel Hotel du Lac?

Anita Brookner.

You know your Booker Prize winners. It's the right answer.

You DO have work to do, Cerrie.

Your progress into the final round is assured with a correct answer.

We don't put another one to Daphne.

Which French painter shared Byron's fascination with the Greek War of Independence

and painted Greece On The Ruins Of Missolonghi in 1826?

I don't know. I've guessed the other two so I'm going to guess again.

I'll go for the one in the middle, Ingres.

-Are you out, Daphne?

-No. It's Delacroix.

-It's Delacroix.

-OK.

-Not Ingres.

-Damn it(!)

A children's television presenter using the D word!

Daphne, you stay in it

if you get a correct answer here.

What is the title of the 1973 work by Michael Craig Martin

that consists of a glass of water on a high shelf plus an accompanying printed text?

LAUGHING: It could be any of them.

Um... A Fallen Hero.

-A Fallen Hero.

-Is it...?

You would have been one if Cerrie had got her last question right.

-It's incorrect. It is An Oak Tree.

-Is it?

-You're out.

Cerrie, well done.

Finley will be so pleased!

Ah! Finley will be happy!

-I've made Finley happy, that's all that matters.

-That's the main thing.

-You've made your teammates happy as well! What a scalp!

-What a surprise!

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

What a brilliant round by Cerrie! Evened it up for The Kids Are All Right.

Both teams have lost one brain from the final round.

We move on to our next subject. The Kids Are All Right can't wait to play the Eggheads again!

It's Geography.

We have Sarah-Jane, Toby or Joel

waiting to play Geography.

That'll be Tobes. I did say if that came up,

that I would have a crack at that - I might regret that.

You've got Pat, Judith or CJ.

I kept saying I wanted to take Judith on.

-You should take on Judith.

-Live the dream!

JOEL: You're going for Judith.

I have! I'll take on Judith.

I like Sarah-Jane there saying, "Living the dream!"

-Living the dream!

-Go and live it together in the Question Room.

So let's do it. It's Geography. Do you want to go first or second?

I will go first, please.

Toby, first question is this.

In which Indian state is the Taj Mahal situated?

The Taj Mahal?

It's such a famous landmark.

A wonder of the world, but in terms of a state, I'm not sure.

I will go with Gujarat.

It's not. No. Judith?

-I think it's Uttar Pradesh.

-Uttar Pradesh for the Taj Mahal.

Chance for an early lead for Judith.

Petaling Street is a tourist destination at the heart of Chinatown in which Asian capital?

I've been to Hanoi, and I don't think it was there. I don't know.

Kuala Lumpur.

-It's the right answer!

-It WAS a guess.

Well, except you had been to Hanoi, so it was a 50-50.

Toby, High Willhays is the highest point in which National Park?

OK, well, I'm...

I'll take Dartmoor out. I don't think it's Dartmoor.

I know south Devon pretty well.

Walked there enough, so I'll take that out the equation.

I'm going to go with... the Yorkshire Dales.

The Yorkshire Dales. CJ, is he right?

-I actually know this one!

-CJ's useless at UK geography!

-Is he right?

-I'm afraid he isn't. It's Dartmoor.

-It's Dartmoor, Toby!

Which gives Judith a real opportunity here.

The port of Cleveland, Ohio is situated on the shore of which Great Lake?

Well, Michigan's the one that's entirely in America.

It's got Chicago at one end.

I have a feeling it's Erie, Lake Erie.

Erie is the right answer. Which means... Look at Toby's face!

-No!

-The dream turned to a nightmare.

I put my glasses on to look more studious and I've let the team down! Didn't work having the specs on.

Let's have you both back from the Question Room, please.

The Kids Are All Right have lost two brains. The Eggheads have lost one.

One more head-to-head to play. Two eligible players on each side.

The Kids Are All Right have Sarah-Jane and Joel, and this category is Film & Television.

JOEL: I fancy Film.

I'm a big film fan.

-Massively nerdy film fan.

-Massively nerdy?

It's going to strike me now! I'll let him do it!

OK, Joel. Choose yourself an Egghead.

You have got CJ or Pat there.

Go with Pat. Pat.

Inscrutable, his love of film.

They all love everything. Joel, you've seen it. Joel and Pat, into the Question Room, please.

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

-I'm going to go first.

In which Australian TV show did Delta Goodrem play a character called Nina Tucker?

Right, one of my best subjects is Neighbours and Home And Away.

So this one is quite easy for me. It is Neighbours.

Delta Goodrem playing Nina Tucker in Neighbours. Good start for Joel.

In the Matrix films, the creator of the Matrix is known by what name?

I think he's the Architect.

Yeah. That's the correct answer. Second question, Joel.

Which actor played Ike Turner in the film What's Love Got To Do With It?

This is actually... I've seen the film. I just don't remember.

Don Cheadle looks like Ike Turner. I'm going Laurence Fishburne.

I thought you were going to go Don Cheadle.

-I lied.

-"Don Cheadle looks like..." It's the right answer. Well done.

You have two! Pat.

In which film does Marlene Dietrich sing See What The Boys In The Back Room Will Have?

We should have Chris here to give us a rendition of Marlene Dietrich.

-Ooh, no! Put that image away!

-Um...

I think it's Destry Rides Again.

What The Boys In The Back Room Will Have... It's correct.

Both showing considerable knowledge.

It's two-all. Third question coming for you, Joel.

Who wrote the sitcom Coupling?

It's a tough one. It's a British comedy.

I haven't heard of Toby Whithouse. I'm going to go Steven Moffat.

You are good. It's the right answer.

You have a place in the final round,

IF Pat doesn't get this.

Bunfight At The OK Tea Rooms is a classic episode from which TV comedy series?

I think it sounds just a teeny bit wacky,

so I'm going to have to go for The Goodies.

Bill Oddie would be pleased, having competed against you lot.

It is the right answer, The Goodies, so we go to Sudden Death.

Nobody blinked, in quizzing terms.

Joel, we remove the choices, just to remind you. Here's your question.

Who directed the Oscar-winning 1942 film Casablanca?

-I have to pass. I have no idea.

-Give us a guess, Joel.

A guess? I'm trying to think.

That era... I'll go Willie Wilder, instead of Gene!

-No, it's not. Do you know, Pat?

-I think it's Michael Curtiz.

Michael Curtiz, yes. With a Z. Michael Curtiz.

First slip-up by any of our contestants.

Let's see what Pat does.

Which actress first appeared as River Song in Doctor Who in 2008?

River Song. Rings a bell.

For Alex Kingston.

Alex Kingston?

It's the right answer, Pat. You're through to the final round.

A really good round!

Hardcore quizzing! Joel, bad luck. You really know your stuff.

But so, too, did Pat, which means you won't be in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

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

But those who lost your head-to-head

won't be allowed to take part, so Pat, Toby and Joel from The Kids Are All Right

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

Sarah-Jane and Cerrie, you are playing to win The Kids Are All Right £9,000.

Pat, Judith, Kevin and CJ, you're playing for something which money can't buy, the Eggheads' reputation.

I ask each team three questions in turn, all General Knowledge, and you are allowed to confer.

Which is why your victory, Cerrie, was so important.

Sarah-Jane and Cerrie, the question is, are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

-Do you want to start or let the Eggheads begin?

-I don't really like to go the traditional route.

So I want to go second.

First set of questions, Eggheads. A dibble or dibber is a tool used in which activity?

-Are we happy with gardening?

-Yeah.

It's a tool you use to make holes in the ground. Gardening.

-Holes for seeds?

-Yeah.

It's the right answer. Gardening.

You put it off for...

about 30 seconds, but now you face a question! Good luck with this.

Which element of the London 2012 Olympics designed by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby

was unveiled in 2011?

-It wasn't the logo.

-Torch or medal.

-What do you think?

-Torch.

-OK.

-The Olympic torch, please.

-The Olympic torch.

-Is the right answer.

-Yes!

-Good start!

-Amazing!

Compose ourselves.

Well, Eggheads, your second question.

In 2011, a statue to which fictional character was unveiled in Dumfries,

acknowledging the inspiration given by the town to its creator?

Moby Dick, he was American, wasn't he, the writer? Herman Melville?

Yes, he was American. Yes.

Jane Eyre?

Well, Yorkshire.

JM Barrie was Scottish. Maybe he came from Dumfries.

No, he came from further up in Angus.

-I just think the fact that JM Barrie's Scottish.

-Yeah.

I just wonder what the Dumfries connection could be.

Time's up, Eggheads. I need an answer.

Puzzling there. High hopes for an incorrect answer!

Fingers are crossed.

We have a couple of tenuous,

-very tenuous reasons to guess at Peter Pan.

-Peter Pan.

It's the right answer, Eggheads!

Bad luck, from your point of view.

That would have been a real opportunity. You've got to get this to catch up with the Eggheads.

According to the RSPB,

what is the only species of bird in the UK that is endemic and therefore

found nowhere else in the world?

I think it's either got to be

the Scottish crossbill or Dartford warbler.

-Yeah?

-Well, it's a guess.

-Manx is my nickname so I'm drawn to that.

-Go with that one!

-Go with it!

-Ooh!

But Shearwater sounds as if it's living on the water,

travelling a long distance.

I think the Scottish crossbill.

Because...it's so far north.

OK, let's go with that. Yeah.

Yeah, Scottish crossbill, please.

-Scottish crossbill. What was your nickname Sarah-Jane?

-Manx.

-You were going for that.

-Don't!

-The Scottish crossbill is the right answer!

-Amazing!

Thank goodness you didn't go for Manx.

You have two out of two.

If the Eggheads slip up, an opportunity to beat them.

Which American businessman said,

"The only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history that we make today"?

-Sounds like Ford.

-Well...

-I thought he said...

-"History is mostly bunk."

-So he's done his history quote.

-Was that the follow-up?

-Oh, yes.

Can't really see it being Kellogg.

-I'd be surprised.

-It's most likely to be the follow-up.

-I think what you said.

-I think that's the percentage.

It sounds like him, doesn't it?

It sounds like the sort of thing he said.

Maybe it was a follow-up to his famous quotation,

"History is more or less bunk." We will try Henry Ford.

Try Henry Ford? Fumbled through the last question.

Are you going to stall with Henry Ford?

You haven't. You've got it, Eggheads. Henry Ford.

Bad luck, you two!

In the sense that you'd be facing a question now for victory.

Get to Sudden Death and you never know what can happen.

What French word is the title of a painting in the Tate's collection by the artist Walter Sickert

from around 1914, of a young woman and an older man in a small room?

-I don't speak French!

-I don't.

-But Triomphe...

-A triumph.

-Yeah.

-Bon means "beautiful".

-Yeah. Or "good".

-A young woman.

-Yeah. Go with that one, I think.

-Yeah?

-Yes.

I don't even know if I can say it!

Point at it or say the first bit of it!

LAUGHING: It's like ordering from a menu. We'd like...

We'd like to go to "Bonheur". Bleugh!

Or just shout loudly in English!

The one beginning with B, please.

OK, going for Bonheur.

It didn't help you not knowing French. You've got two happy ones.

"Triumph", as you identified, and "Happiness" with Bonheur.

Ennui is "Boredom" and, er... that's what it is.

A young woman and an older man in a small room is Ennui.

Which means, Eggheads, you've won.

How well you performed! I'm thinking of the guys who went before you and failed.

Fantastic performances from Joel and Pat, who just missed out.

Toby, of course, got lost in the mists of Dartmoor!

What a performance by you two in the final round.

The Eggheads at sixes and sevens with a couple of their answers.

Thank you very much indeed for coming to play the Eggheads for charity.

It's great to see you here, and best of luck in the future.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally and their winning streak continues.

You won't be going home with the £9,000. The money rolls over to the next show.

Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?

Join us to see if a team of TV scientists have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

£10,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.

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