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.'

'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.

Challenging our quiz goliaths today are the Podium Paddlers.

I'm not sure our team of brilliant Olympic watersports medallists know,

but one of the Eggheads took part in the Opening Ceremony of London 2012.

You remember the bit - we see a film of the Queen

being escorted to her helicopter by James Bond,

as it flies over the Olympic stadium.

We then cut live to pictures,

and right on cue, a stunt double of the Queen jumps into the night sky

and - whoosh! - the stuntwoman's Union flag opens to the strains of the James Bond theme.

-We all remember that. Daphne, just tell us how you did it!

-Oh! No. State secret.

Well, let's meet the team.

Hi. My name's Alan Campbell and I won a bronze medal in the Men's Single Scull.

Hi. My name's Sophie Hosking and I won gold in the Lightweight Women's Double Scull.

Hi. I'm Pete Reed and I won gold in the Men's Coxless Four.

Hi. I'm Heather Stanning and I won gold in the Women's Pair.

Hi. I'm Jon Schofield and I won bronze medal in the Men's Canoe Sprint 200m Doubles.

Welcome to you, Podium Paddlers. We are so excited!

-We are over the moon to have you here, aren't we, Eggheads?

-(ALL) Absolutely!

Did you have any idea, as you were winning those medals,

the impact it was having on the country at the time?

There was nothing that could have prepared us for the day after our finals.

We'd trained for four years,

dedicated a huge amount of time and effort towards those performances,

and that's really all we were focused on, erm...

but if you'd have told me in the last 250 metres I'd be on Eggheads,

I would never have believed it, so...

This is living the dream, as such, and we have been treated so well ever since the Olympics,

and, erm, I think it has been a real boost for the country

and it's been great going into schools and talking to kids

and showing our medals - our show-and-tell, as such...

And, you know, just the impact that it's had this summer,

just on the British public.

Before we start, we're going to chat individually as you quiz.

Have you got the medals with you? Could we have a little peek?

-There we go.

-You seem to have a smaller one, Pete, as well. Oh, that's Beijing.

Yeah, I won in Beijing as well, in the Men's Four again.

Same race, so it was great to defend my title. I'm pleased to bring that along as well.

What a lovely sight. Are you allowed to put them round your necks?

-Oh, go on.

-Don't worry.

Just to intimidate the Eggheads a bit.

Read 'em and weep.

You mentioned it, Alan. And Sophie, it's the effect on younger people, isn't it,

when one of you Olympians... And I know you're all doing your bit

to spread the sporting word to the younger generation.

If anything means legacy, that's it.

It's that sense of satisfaction you get of passing things on.

Yeah, definitely. It's so exciting when you go into schools

and see the kids' faces light up,

especially when they get to touch the medal.

I think that is the most important part of the legacy -

you know, spreading on the message of the Olympic Games

and also showing the kids that we're not... we're just normal people,

and they can achieve everything that we have, if they work hard at it.

Yeah. Very, very, very hard.

Do you tell them about the training regime?

You don't really talk about that too much, but, er... Yeah.

Okay, let's play the game and, as I say, we'll chat as we go along.

So, Podium Paddlers, every day there's £1,000 cash up for grabs

for our challengers' chosen charity.

But if they fail to beat the Eggheads,

the prize money rolls over to our next show.

The Eggheads have won the last four games

and that means £5,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

And our first Head-to-Head battle will be on the subject of Science -

something I suspect quite a few of you know quite a bit about.

Science. Who wants to play?

-Sophie, you're definitely the best at science.

-All right. I'll do it.

Who do we wanna take on? Who do YOU wanna take on?

-Um.

-It's a hard one.

-Take on Daphne.

-Really?

-Yeah.

-Okay. Okay, great.

-Okay, yeah.

-So, Sophie's gonna play against Daphne.

-Right!

Okay, let's have Sophie and Daphne, straightaway into the Question Room, so you can't confer.

I'm not sure we've got time for this quiz. I've got a million questions about the Olympics, rowing...

First, how did you get into rowing? It was quite a natural path for you,

because your dad was a world champion, wasn't he?

Yeah, he was, in 1980, in the Lightweight Men's Eight.

-But I actually started at school, when I was 14.

-Uh-huh.

Rowed through school and university, and made it onto the national team by the time I'd graduated.

So I thought I'd give it a shot, going full-time.

Fantastic. Listen, put in a fantastic effort here.

And we give you the choice as the Challenger. Do you want to go first or second?

Er, I... I'll go first.

Okay. And used to finishing first, I know!

Let's see how you do. It's Science, first question.

Hydrology is the name given to the science or study of what?

Um, I think I'd like to go with water.

Water - that's rather appropriate, given what we've been discussing.

It's the right answer. Yes. Well done.

Hydrology. Listen, with all your skills, do you still fall in every now and again?

Um, well, that's a funny story, actually.

Me and my partner Cat fell in on the training camp

about a week before the Olympic Games.

Um, so that was really embarrassing, but quite funny in hindsight.

-DERMOT LAUGHS

-So, you can fall in at any time.

Probably a lucky omen, that one.

Well done. You've got the first one on the board.

And Daphne, your first question.

For what does the letter D stand in the acronym D-A-T,

DAT, used in sound recording.

Is it double, dulled or digital?

Um, it's digital?

Digital is the right answer. Digital Audio Tape.

Sophie, in what state does the chemical element arsenic exist at room temperature?

Um,...

I think I'm gonna go with liquid.

Arsenic at room temperature...

-..is solid.

-Ah.

-Ah. Well, I didn't know that.

-It's a light powder,

that the Victorians fondly named "inheritance powder"

for obvious reasons!

Very well put.

Okay, well. Solid at room temperature.

And Daphne, your second question.

In which part of the body is the trapezoid bone located?

Sorry, Dermot, could you spell it? Slowly?

T-R-A-P-E-Z-O-I-D

-Oh.

-Trapezoid.

-The wrist.

-Trapezoid bone is in the wrist.

So you have a lead and Sophie - you need to get this, then.

-Yep. Pressure's on.

-We know how you react to pressure.

The radius of the sun is approximately how many times greater than that of the earth's?

I'll go with 100.

Right answer. Well done.

Yeah. Pulling back up. Right.

We're into the last 50 metres.

(ALAN) I was way off!

Okay. Daphne. Who wrote the 1968 book "The Double Helix"

about the discovery of the structure of DNA?

It's not Rosalind Franklin. Um, Francis Crick?

-It's not!

-It's James Watson?

It's James Watson. Whoa!

You really are...

Do you like coming back when you've lost the lead,

do you find you've got something to aim at?

We were down at 500 metres gone,

-so, yeah, I like coming back from behind.

-Right!

-Go, Sophs!

This is the quiz equivalent, we hope. We go to Sudden Death here.

It gets a lot harder, we take away those choices

and this is some maths for you.

What is 60 per cent of 80?

-48?

-It's correct, of course. Yes. Well done.

-DERMOT CHUCKLES

-And you're in the lead now.

But Daphne has her first Sudden Death question coming up.

Parus major is the Latin name for which bird -

the largest member of the tit family, found in the UK?

Oh, dear!

I think she's, um, passed me.

Parus major.

Um, I really don't know, Dermot.

Um,...

Well, I can only think of a Blue Tit.

So that's my answer.

Parus major is the Latin name for...

..the Great Tit.

Oh, right! You've won. She's won!

And I won't say anything about that.

Yes. Great Tit. You didn't get that.

-Alan just likes saying it.

-LAUGHTER

-I'd proud to be beaten.

-So you should be. What a comeback by Sophie

-You're in the final round.

-Great.

-You play again when we get to the money part of the game.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

First blood to the Podium Paddlers,

as Sophie powers into the final round and Daphne exits it -

a roundabout way of saying you're missing one brain, Eggheads, from the final round.

Second Head-to-Head coming up now.

-And this one is Music. Like to play this?

-Alan, I reckon you.

You listen to weird music all the time on the ergos.

Unless you guys feel particularly strong?

-No, I think...

-Yeah, go on, Alan.

-You love it.

-Go on, then. I'll do it.

-Yeah?

Okay. And from the Eggheads? Any of the other four apart from Daphne?

-< Go for Pat.

-I'm gonna go for Pat.

Okay, it's Alan and his weird music taking on Pat and his lovely beard.

Two red shirts, anyway. Could you both go to the Question Room?

That's Alan and Pat.

Alan, tell me about the music you listen to while you're training.

Basically, in the summer I've been known to be listening to Christmas music.

In fact, the last song I listened to before the race was "Wonderful Christmas Time" by Paul McCartney -

one of the all-time best Christmas tunes.

Yeah, it's got a certain ring to it.

It's got the children's choir in there. It's got a Beatle as well.

It's got all the top ingredients you need for a classic tune.

I see what you mean!

Paul McCartney's had quite a few Christmas tunes, hasn't he?

That's right. But I always love his Mull of Kintyre.

Still one of the only Number One songs to have bagpipes in it.

I hope that's one of the questions.

Yes, we might be giving something away here. You'd better choose.

-Would you like to go first or second?

-I'd love to go first.

Right. Hoping for weird Christmas songs. Here we go.

Who represented the United Kingdom

at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2012 at the age of 76?

It's, er, Engelbert Humperdinck.

-Definitely.

-Yeah, it is definitely him.

-Didn't do very well, though, did he?

-No.

Okay. Good start there for Alan.

Pat, what was the title of the Top Ten single for the B52s in 1990?

These are one of the lesser known bands from Athens, Georgia.

And they had a big hit with Love Shack.

Love Shack is the right answer. Well done.

All right. It's all square and back to Alan.

Who composed the score for the 1968 film Wonderwall,

which provided the name for the 1990s Oasis track?

Um, I'm thinking it's James Last.

James Last. Are you a fan of James Last and his orchestra's works?

Yeah, I've heard some of that and he's known for his composer work.

-So, hopefully, that'll be the right one.

-Okay.

It's incorrect. No. Do you know, Pat?

Well, I'd be drawn to George Harrison because of the Oasis link.

It was George Harrison, yes.

But, look, that's exactly the point where Sophie stumbled and recovered.

Let's see what happens here. Pat,

which heavy-metal band has a mascot called Eddie,

who appears on their album covers?

He's a long-running mascot, he's won some polls for heavy-metal band mascots.

And it's Iron Maiden.

Iron Maiden is the right answer.

Okay. So, work to do, Alan.

Smokey Joe's Cafe is a musical, based on the works of which songwriting duo?

Uh, there's only two names that ring a bell

and that's Rodgers and Hammerstein.

So I'm just gonna have a guess and go for Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Okay, Rodgers and Hammerstein, it's not!

It is... Pat, do you know?

I'd be guessing at Leiber and Stoller.

It's Leiber and Stoller. Smokey Joe's Cafe.

Bad luck, Alan, but it means you have been beaten by Pat.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Fascinating tussle so far. We've two teams separated by very different disciplines,

but united by one desire - the will to win!

And as it stands, it's all square,

both teams have lost one brain from the final round.

Okay, Podium Paddlers, let's see how you do with your next Head-to-Head.

This one... Well, well, well! It's Sport.

Any of you know anything about that?

-Not us.

-Not much.

-Who'd like to play?

-Jon.

-I think Jon.

-Fingers crossed.

-Good man.

-I know you can.

Okay, Jon, you've got to pick your Egghead. Barry, Chris or Dave?

I think... I've heard, I've been tipped off, actually.

from somebody on Twitter, so it's not validated,

but maybe Chris isn't that strong in Sport.

Well, it's no bad thing if it's on Twitter, so...

And he's so good at General Knowledge, that it'd be good to take him out early on.

I can do this. It'd be an honour.

-Can I nominate Chris to challenge, please?

-Okay.

And at this moment, Chris is thinking "Curse you, Twitter!"

-TEAMS LAUGH

-Is that true?

Okay. Let's have Jon and Chris into the Question Room, please.

Jon, we should make it clear, you're not a rower. It's very different - kayaking.

Yes. We're facing forwards and we go the correct way.

DERMOT LAUGHS

-So you regard yourself as a superior being?

-Not at all.

-Not at all.

-Just tell us about that race.

You were with Liam Heath, your partner.

Yeah, I was in the 200m Doubles.

It's a new distance to the Olympic programme,

you're talking a 31- to 34-second race, so it's just...

-It's a mad dash.

-As a spectator, you feel "Oh, please, let it go right."

Because one mistake and all that training is for nought.

Ah. Yeah, and we felt like that, exactly like that.

It's bringing it all back, but you just...

Whether you win a medal or not, London 2012 would've been the experience of a lifetime.

You just want to have done yourself justice.

We did everything we could've done,

so we were really happy to come away with a medal, but also, done ourselves proud.

You certainly did. Do yourself proud right now.

-Do you want to go first or second?

-I'll go first, please, Dermot.

Good luck, Jon. First Sport question, then.

The swimmer, Adrian Moorhouse, won an Olympic gold medal in which decade?

Um, I'm pretty sure he's not that old, so I'll say the 1980s.

Okay, go for the latest one there.

And you're right. It was in Seoul, of course. 1988.

Well done.

And Chris - what is a sportsperson said to do

if they fail to perform effectively at a decisive moment

due to nervous tension?

Well, you wouldn't choke, would ya?

Erm,...

I don't think it's a cough. I think it's a splutter.

We're all spluttering here.

Chris, no, it's the incorrect answer.

It's the very subject I was just discussing with Jon there.

I'll allow Jon to administer the coup de grace.

I'm afraid it's known as choking,

-and that's what we've managed to avoid!

-Exactly.

Choke. Well, that's a great start, Jon.

But... always dangerous, these Eggheads, when they're behind.

So can you go two-nil in the lead? Do your best with this.

In which sport would competitors be most likely to employ the Seemiller grip?

Ah, I'm not too sure on this.

Um, not sports that I know a particular amount about.

It sounds a kind of a Dutch, or something like that, kind of word.

I think they like their table tennis, so I'll go for table tennis.

-Table tennis - I see, on the basis this is someone's name who developed the grip.

-Yeah.

I like your reasoning. I hope it's...

It doesn't matter. It's the right answer. Well done!

You go straight through to the final round if Chris doesn't get this.

Which national football team did Raymond Domenech manage from 2004 to 2010?

Not Germany. Not France. Down the middle, Switzerland.

Down the middle, out the door. It's wrong.

-HE CHUCKLES

-It's France, Chris.

It's France. And it's all over!

Whoo! Well, how hard was that, Jon?

Not as hard as I expected. Thanks to whoever tweeted out that advice.

Yes, there's an anonymous tweeter who you're very thankful for,

for tipping you off about Chris, who had a bad day in the Question Room.

He won't be in the final round, you will be. Please come back and join your teams.

Well, it's swung back in favour of the Podium Paddlers.

The Eggheads have now lost two brains from the final round.

The Podium Paddlers have lost one. How will it shape up for that final round?

Our last Head-to-Head will decide. It's History.

Who wants to play? It's only Pete or Heather available.

-History.

-I mean, I'm out. It'd be a joke if I had a go at it.

-I'm terrible at history as well.

-If you want, I'll sacrifice myself...

You're probably better in General Knowledge, so...

-What do you want? I'll..

-We'll save you for the next round.

-You'll jump on the grenade for us?

-I'll take one for the team.

The Army doing it again.

Very decent, Heather. And you can choose from Barry or Dave.

-I think I'm gonna take on Dave.

-How do you feel about that, Dave?

Excellent. Well, you know, the first Team GB gold medallist of 2012,

and I'm in a Question Room with her. Well, life does not get any better.

-Well said.

-Thanks.

-Hear, hear. Dave and Heather into the Question Room.

So, Heather, great to have you here. Dave put it so well.

The honour of having you here, the lift you gave to the nation.

I remember that point in the Olympics when the muttering was just beginning to start,

saying "How are we gonna do in these Olympics?"

Were you aware of any of that, you and Helen, as you prepared for the race?

We were aware of it, but tried to block it off.

We'd stopped watching the TV the day before,

because our race was getting closer and we still hadn't won a gold

and we didn't want extra pressure.

And when you did win, did you think "Crikey, what have we achieved?"

I suppose, soon as you got out, when everyone fell upon you, you knew.

When we crossed the line, I remember looking at the crowd, thinking "Oh, goodness, what have we just done?"

You could see all the cameramen down the side of the lake

and that's when it dawned on us what we'd achieved.

Fantastic, but listen, it's History.

-First or second for you, Heather?

-I'm gonna go first, please.

Best of luck. First question for you, and here it is.

According to a World War Two propaganda poster,

what might loose lips do?

I'm gonna take a complete guess at this, but, um...

Loose lips is something to do with chattering,

so I'm gonna go with provide tips.

It is to do with that, but it's sink ships.

"Loose lips sink ships."

Okay, well, it's early days.

Dave, which coastal area is said to be the site

of Francis Drake's famous game of bowls

before he sailed to engage with the Spanish Armada?

I'd struggle on Beachy Head having a game of bowls, personally!

Lizard Point? No. It's Plymouth Hoe.

Bet Pete knows as well. Naval man.

-Absolutely. Plymouth Hoe.

-Plymouth Hoe is correct.

Of course it is. Francis Drake and his game of bowls.

Sorry, putting you on the spot, Pete.

Let's get you off the mark, Heather.

Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, is believed to have become, in 1896,

the first person to be charged with which offence?

Goodness. Um,... I'm ruling out speeding,

because in 1896, if someone's done for speeding...

I'm gonna have to go with... libel?

Walter Arnold, of East Peckham in Kent,

was charged with...

-It IS speeding!

-Oh, no!

Speeding. 1896.

So, not gone your way so far. You've gotta hope Dave doesn't get this.

The San Francisco Peace Treaty, signed in 1951,

is also known as the Treaty of Peace with which country?

I'd have to go Japan in this case

-because I'm just thinking the...

-HE MISPRONOUNCES WORD

The Pacific. So I'll go Japan.

It is the right answer. 1951. The Treaty of Peace with Japan.

Which means, Heather, bad luck.

Nothing there for you, but I know what you athletes are like.

You dust yourself down and get back up again.

I feel terrible, Dermot, you know.

One of our national treasures. I feel bad now.

I'm sure your apologies are accepted but you're only doing what comes naturally to you, Dave.

Programmed to quiz.

It means you won't be in the final round, Heather. Please come back and join your teams.

Dave, Dave, Dave. How could you?

-I don't know. I'm still there.

-National treasure!

I know. It's terrible.

-Hanging my head in shame.

-Well, so you should.

Well, it's time for the final round which, as always, is General Knowledge.

Those who lost your Head-to-Heads won't be allowed to take part.

Alan and Heather from the Podium Paddlers

and Daphne and Chris from the Eggheads,

would you leave the studio, please?

Sophie, Peter and Jon, you're playing to win the Podium Paddlers £5,000.

Dave, Barry and Pat, you're playing for something money can't buy -

the Eggheads' reputation.

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

They are all General Knowledge, so anything can come up.

And the big difference now is you are allowed to confer.

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

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

I think we'd like to go first, please.

Winners on the water, can you be winners against the Eggheads?

Let's hope you can. First question, Podium Paddlers, is this -

fell running is the sport of running on what?

-Hills.

-I think everyone's happy. I've even done this myself.

Er, it's definitely running on hills.

Indeed, and you know it's the right answer, then. Good start.

Hills, there. Eggheads -

what is one said to do to one's lid when going into a rage?

-Flip.

-I would've said that.

Are you flipping your lid?

As long as we don't choke, we think we will flip our lid.

Ooh!

-Sorry, Chris.

-Chris is going to have words with you.

I'll leave it between you boys.

Flip is the right answer. It's all square.

Second question coming your way, Podium Paddlers.

In late 2011, Michael D Higgins became President of which country?

Right, team, I don't know.

-Do either of you know?

-I'd plump for Canada.

-I'd say Canada as well.

I'd punt at Canada, but only because of the initial.

And I know they sort of like the initial in the middle.

-I spend a lot of time in New Zealand

-They've got a female...

-I think they have got a woman.

-It isn't Ireland. I think Canada.

-Shall we go with it?

-Canada.

-Yeah?

Okay. That's enough for us. Fingers crossed behind us.

We'll go for Canada, please.

Michael D Higgins became President of...

-..Ireland.

-Oh.

-Oh.

-Ireland.

Remember Sophie's recovery from a mistake on her second question.

Let's see how this pans out.

Eggheads - what type of creature was World Cup Willie,

the mascot of the 1966 World Cup?

-Lion...

-What type of creature was World Cup Willie,

the mascot of the 1966 World Cup?

I got confused with Pickles,

but yeah, it's a lion.

-Of those three, I'm sure.

-Yeah.

World Cup Willie was the old British lion.

And very well he did, indeed, in '66.

1966 and it was a lion. It's the right answer.

Well done. Well, I say well done. I'm not very pleased about that.

It means you've got to get this, Podium Paddlers. Best of luck.

Which national newspaper has had a daily opinion column called Lex since 1945?

Guys, I don't know,

but there must be some sort of clue in the question somewhere.

Or... which is the oldest?

I think I might have come across it in the Daily Telegraph.

But the other two, I'm less likely to have...

-You think it's one of the others?

-Yeah, I might have seen it.

It's not the Financial Times, is it, because it's an opinion column?

-No, it could still be in there.

-Really? Oh.

-I wish I knew.

-That'd be nice.

-Either of you have a gut?

I wanna say... The Observer, but I don't really know why.

I'd probably go Observer or Financial Times.

You're the Captain, Pete.

Okay, well, this is gonna be a guess, then.

I wonder if they know behind us, if they're nodding.

And... I'll go for the Observer.

Okay. The Observer.

It's not The Observer. It's incorrect. Do you know, Eggheads?

I think it's The Telegraph. Daily Telegraph.

-No! It's the Financial Times.

-Didn't know that.

Well, they didn't know it either, but it wasn't their question.

And I'm afraid that means, Eggheads, you've won!

Listen, guys, bad luck on that, but in all honesty,

it was just great to see you here.

It was fantastic to talk and hear all those tales.

It was even Stevens until the final round.

A lot of teams don't achieve that, so thank you very much for doing it.

Congratulations for whatever else you do in your careers

and I know you've got so much more to achieve.

Thank you so much, from me and the Eggheads, and everybody watching,

for all the joy you've brought us and the joy and success to come.

-Thank you very much indeed for playing Celebrity Eggheads.

-(TEAM) Thank you!

But the Eggheads have done what comes naturally and they still reign supreme over Quizland.

You haven't won the £5,000 so that rolls over to our next show.

Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?

And join us next time to see if a team of sporting greats, captained by football legend Rodney Marsh,

have the brains to defeat our Eggheads. £6,000 says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.

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