Episode 4 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.

Tackling our awesome quiz Titans today are...

This team of medical

and scientific experts will be familiar to you

for lending their know-how to all manner of programmes.

They're never short of a word or two on what makes us sick and what makes us tick.

Will they be able to diagnose and analyse the Eggheads' weaknesses?

Should be a good battle. Let's meet the team.

Hello. I'm Dr Rosemary Leonard.

I'm a GP in south London and I also appear regularly on BBC Breakfast.

I'm Dr Yan Wong. I'm an evolutionary biologist and scientist.

You may have seen me on Bang Goes The Theory.

I'm Dr Ian Campbell.

I'm a GP and obesity specialist and resident doctor on The Biggest Loser.

Hello. I'm Dr Ed Coats. I specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology.

You may remember me from On Thin Ice, when I raced across Antarctica with James Cracknell and Ben Fogle.

Hello. I'm Dr Kevin Fong.

I'm a consultant anaesthetist in London and a science presenter for BBC Horizon.

Welcome to you, Doctor & the Medics. I'm puzzled by the name. I like it.

I'm getting the references, Spirit In The Sky.

But you're ALL doctors. How are you Doctor & the Medics?

In fact, the medical doctor is a courtesy title.

We have one proper doctor with us, who has a PhD, next to me here.

If you have a PhD, you're a proper doctor, but actually, I'm not,

strictly speaking, a doctor.

So, Yan, what's your PhD in, then?

I'm an evolutionary biologist.

So, what MADE us, rather than what makes us tick.

OK, so you're a doctor and there's the medics.

With that amount of scientific knowledge, you'll look forward to a Science round.

I'd bet you'd like it five times,

but I know you've also got many other interests.

Who's into their rock music...?

I suppose that's supposed to be me.

-LAUGHTER

-Oh, dear!

We've got sports and all other kinds of things covered.

We'll talk about them as we find out what categories come up.

Let me tell you what has been happening.

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

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

Doctor & the Medics, the Eggheads have won the last three games.

Which means £4,000 says you can't beat them today.

The first head-to-head battle... Oh, it's Music.

Well, we've just mentioned that.

Who wants to play? Will it be Kevin?

LAUGHTER

It doesn't seem fair, somehow. Um...

I think that's what we decided would be your forte!

I don't remember that conversation!

Look... Why not?

Well volunteered!

Choose your Egghead. Who do you think you can knock out on this round?

We're thinking maybe, possibly Pat. Pat.

Looking inscrutable there, Pat.

It's my job, Dermot, to look inscrutable.

-Yes. "Inscruting"!

-Yes.

-All right.

It's going to be Pat and Kevin, then, kicking us off with Music.

Could I ask them both to go to the Question Room, so you can't confer?

Kevin, you're still mystified about how you were chosen and when that discussion took place!

Er... I'm pretty sure it DIDN'T take place.

Well, you're there now.

Tell me about the astrophysics side of it and human space exploration.

A lot of people, perhaps, don't know that about you, apart from To Boldly Go.

Do you see a time when there will be more manned flights to terrestrial bodies?

I think this isn't the end of human space exploration.

I did the astrophysics before I studied medicine,

got to spend a bit of time with NASA.

I think this is just the beginning.

I think we'll carry on boldly going for as long as we can think.

It's Music you're playing here.

Do you want to go first or second?

I'll get it over and done with and go first.

Have a go at this one. First question.

What nationality was the composer Franz Schubert?

What nationality was the composer Franz Schubert?

Going to have to go for Austrian on that one.

A little tentative there, but it's the right answer!

Good start.

Pat, how many strings does a traditional banjolele have?

Well... A banjolele? I think that's what George Formby played.

He's spoken of as playing a ukulele, but I think he played a banjolele.

Gosh, two isn't very many.

I have heard people play guitars with four strings removed

and just played on two, but it's pretty unusual.

I think I'll go for four, but it can easily be wrong.

It is four strings. You got it, Pat. You were in trouble.

Being the Egghead you are, you narrowed down the options

and managed to get it - it's all-square.

Kevin, second question. "Breaking up is never easy I know, but I have to go"

is a line from which 1977 hit single for ABBA?

Um, OK, so...

-I am not a massive ABBA fan.

-Oh!

-You haven't seen Mamma Mia?

-I wasn't a great student of Mamma Mia. No.

But I'm going to have... I'm trying to sing these in my head!

SOS, Knowing Me Knowing You. Um...

I reckon it's The Name Of The Game.

-It's not The Name Of The Game.

-Oh!

-It's Alan Partridge's favourite.

-Knowing Me Knowing You.

-Oh, dear!

-A-ha.

Right, a gap there

in your musical education, which is too late to rectify now.

Pat, Round Round was a UK Number 1 single for which girl group in 2002?

I think I'll discount All Saints. I don't think it was them.

I think it's a wall of sound sort of track.

Either of the two girl groups, Sugababes and Atomic Kitten.

I just don't know.

-I'll just have to pick one.

-Indeed.

-I'll pick the Sugababes.

-Obviously, we check with Chris. He's wrong, isn't he, Chris?

-Huh!

My rule of thumb is it's ALWAYS the Sugababes.

-In fact, it is the right answer.

-CHALLENGERS GROAN

It's the Sugababes.

Chris has been caught out once or twice by those music questions.

It means you need this, Kevin.

Which band appeared on Sesame Street playing a song called Furry Happy Monsters,

a spoof version of their 1991 UK top ten hit?

1991...

Furry Happy Monsters. I'm thinking...

Shiny Happy People.

And I'm thinking that that has got to be REM. I'll go for REM.

-LAUGHING:

-You got it. Yes. Well done.

Shiny Happy People - Furry Happy Monsters.

I'd like to hear that.

But your ABBA gap means that Pat has a chance to clinch the round.

Which American composer was Oscar-nominated for his scores

for the films Michael Clayton, The Prince Of Tides and The Fugitive?

I think Henry Mancini is possibly a little bit early for those films.

I'll have to go for James Newton Howard.

For that clutch of films and others. Oscar nominations.

I nominate you for the final round. It's the right answer.

Bad luck, Kevin.

-I mean, ABBA, for goodness' sake!

-I'll have to swot up for next time.

Bad luck. Would you both please come back and join your teams?

The opening exchange has led to one casualty amongst the Doctor & the Medics.

Missing one brain from the final round, but we've hardly started.

Let's play our next subject. It's History.

Who wants to play this one?

Four of you left. History.

-One of us was up for History.

-I think it was me.

-It has to be you.

Oooh!

-History!

-History. Help!

-Pick an Egghead to play, Rosemary.

-Who are we going to have?

You might find that Chris is a good one to go for.

-We're going to go for Chris.

-Chris, a good one to go for.

-Right!

-Let's have Rosemary and Chris into the Question Room.

Rosemary, all those years we used to sit beside each other on the Breakfast sofa.

You'd be discussing bunions or whatever it was.

-I didn't realise you were a secret historian.

-I'm not!

-Oh.

-I'm not.

-SHE LAUGHS

-I just got landed with this one.

-You must have an interest in it.

-I have an interest in the Arts & Crafts movement.

I don't suppose for one minute I'm going to get a question on that!

It's a little narrow. We tend to be a tad broader in the category.

-Would you like to go first or second?

-I want to go first and get this torture over with.

Rosemary, what was the official stance of Switzerland during the Second World War?

It was neutral.

Of course it was - neutrality, preciously guarded.

Chris, Hatshepsut was a ruling Queen of which ancient civilisation?

Hatshepsut was Queen of Egypt, so it's Egyptian.

Yes. If she was in Egypt, it would be Egyptian.

Rosemary, back to you.

In which war did British forces take part in storming the fortresses of Badajoz and Ciudad Rodrigo?

Rodrigo sounds Spanish,

but I didn't know that British forces were involved

in the Spanish-American War.

So... I'm going to go for the Crimean War.

Well, you did all the work, Rosemary.

You got the Spanish side and British forces in the Spanish-American War.

Ever thought of the Iberian...?

-Peninsular.

-Peninsular War.

A chance for Chris

to take the lead.

British place names ending in "by" such as Selby or Whitby,

indicate likely historical settlement by which group?

You find "by" endings all over Scandinavia, so it's the Vikings.

Huh, yes, it is. Not the Egyptians, then?

-Not them. No.

-We didn't have that on the list.

You need to get this then, Rosemary.

Which Scottish royal was married at the age of four

and in 1329, succeeded his father Robert the Bruce as King of Scots?

Well, I haven't got a clue.

The only name that looks vaguely Scottish to me is Malcolm.

I'm going to go with Malcolm II.

Malcolm II. It's certainly Scottish. Um...

No! Well, it is over quickly. At least you have that, Rosemary.

It's David II. David II there, married at the age of four.

Chris, you're into the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

If it goes on like this, it'll be Doctor & the Medic!

You've lost two brains, two medics, from the final round.

Eggheads are all there. Let's play our next round. I wonder what...

No-one's going to be able to answer any questions. It's Science!

Who wants to play?

-That will have to be me.

-Ah! Now we get the doctor. OK.

Who would you like to play from the Eggheads?

Chris and Pat have played. You can have Barry, Judith or Kevin.

Tempted to go for Barry. He's an all-rounder.

I've been recommended Barry might be good. I'm happy to do that.

Let's have Yan and Barry into the Question Room.

Yan, I'm fascinated in this research you've done into the evolutionary aspects of human dance.

Is that just "why do humans dance?"

Well, yeah, I've been looking at that on my computer on the way up.

I think it's to do with what we communicate to each other when we dance.

We've got all these people dancing that we've recorded.

We're going to show them to other people and see what they make of it.

Yan, it's Science, a subject about which you might know one or two things.

Would you like to go first or second?

I would like to go first. If I get it wrong, it's going to look pretty bad on me!

Yan, first question then, for you.

-The inferior vena cava...

-Ooh!

-..is a large vein

that carries the oxygenated blood to which part of the body?

Ooh, so, the vena cava, I think, is the main vein...

"Inferior" means it comes down.

Um... So...

it carries it to the heart, sorry.

If it's a vein, it's got to carry blood back from things to the heart.

So it carries it to the heart.

Good. Yeah, I'm expecting you to tell me.

It is the right answer, yes.

I'm feeling a bit embarrassed

asking all these Science questions in front of these doctors.

Barry, foul marten is another name for what creature?

It's M-A-R-T-E-N. Foul marten is another name for what creature?

They're called foul martens cos they exude a musk which is foul smelling.

-They're polecats.

-Polecats is the right answer.

Well done, Barry. Second question.

Yan, the Holger-Nielsen method is a technique in what?

One of my books I remember reading was about physiology,

and the person who published that book was called Nielsen.

But I have no... Really, I would be taking a complete guess at this one.

No, I really don't know. I think I'll go for...

-..artificial respiration.

-Yes!

Artificial respiration is correct. Is it the first aid technique?

I think Holger Nielsen was the precursor to modern day

cardiopulmonary resuscitation, so yes.

-What precisely do you do?

-Do you know what? I can't remember.

It's before the stuff that we do now.

I think that's great! Well, not precisely clear what it is.

But it's involving artificial respiration.

Yan JUST got that!

But you have two. Barry needs this to level it up.

Trees of the genus Carpinus that are noted for their hard timber are known by what general name?

They're definitely not sycamore. That's quite a soft wood.

Larch is the only deciduous conifer, so I don't think that's a hard wood.

-I think they're hornbeams.

-Well worked out. It's the right answer.

A very interesting round

shaping up here.

Right, Yan, how much honey does the average worker bee produce in its lifetime?

Ooh, well, you have to work that out by a process of deduction, I guess.

I haven't kept bees before.

I don't know how many pots of honey you get off a hive.

I'm assuming it's a good number of jars.

Maybe we're talking about tens of jars. Maybe 20 jars or something.

So almost certainly either a cupful or less than a teaspoon.

You can't get much nectar out of a plant, can you, really?

How much can you suck out of a plant? I'll go for a cupful.

OK, a cupful. What do you think, team?

We're thinking less than a teaspoon.

-Less than a teaspoon is the answer.

-Yeah. Yeah.

Not a lot.

You've got a chance here, Barry.

In his early career, which Scottish engineer enjoyed commercial success

with his invention of a thermal undersock?

That's something you would need up in Scotland!

It wasn't James Watt.

I think John Logie Baird's too late.

I have a strong suspicion this was one of the things

that Alexander Graham Bell, who was famous for inventing strange things,

came up with - Alexander Graham Bell.

And his thermal undersocks. Yeah.

-It's not right.

-Oh!

-It is John Logie Baird.

-Ah!

So we go to Sudden Death

after three questions, and remove the options, so it becomes perhaps harder or perhaps not.

Yan, Grus grus is the Latin name for which tall long-legged, long-necked bird,

noted for its elaborate courtship dances?

Herons obviously have long necks and long legs,

but I didn't think that they did elaborate courtship dances.

The obvious elaborate courtship dance are things like greater crested grebes, er...

and...er...

there's some other famous...

Quite a lot of sea birds do elaborate courtship dances.

I'm having difficulty thinking of... Oh, storks, maybe?

Storks do that beak clattering, don't they? Or cranes!

So there's two... Yeah, it'll either be a stork or a crane.

I'm going to go with storks, I think, actually.

No, all that work. It's wrong.

-It's the crane.

-Ah! ALL GROAN

Barry, which scientific indicator takes its name from the old Norse for "dye" and "moss"?

Well... Litmus paper is made of lichen.

That sounds very norse to me, so I shall go for litmus.

It's the right answer. Oh, dear!

-Barry, you've done it!

-Sorry.

-There we go.

-Bad luck, Yan.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Doctor & the Medics have lost three brains from the final round. The Eggheads have lost nobody.

So, your last chance to knock an Egghead out and it's Sport.

It's Dr Ian or Dr Ed?

-We've deliberated on this.

-Yeah.

And I think, as a former elite sportsman, it's you.

-No pressure(!)

-No pressure.

Dermot, I'll take sport.

OK, Ed, and you can choose from either Kevin or Judith.

I'll challenge Judith in Sport.

Let's have Ed and Judith into the Question Room, please.

It's Sport, and we have a decathlete as well!

Former decathlete, that's right.

I wasn't amazing, but I did represent Great Britain a few times.

We're talking ten years ago. I'm not in that shape nowadays!

Would you like to go first or second?

I think I'll boldly go first. Foolishly, possibly.

OK, Ed. First question is this.

Which female British swimmer set a new world record for the 800 metres freestyle in August 2008?

I think that's Rebecca Adlington, Dermot.

That is the right answer, Rebecca Adlington.

Judith, which of these racecourses is in Scotland?

I think that must be Hamilton Park.

Hamilton Park is the right answer. Hamilton Park in Scotland.

Second question after that good start.

The Albert Park Circuit is a Formula 1 venue in which Australian city?

SIGHS I watched Grand Prix many years ago.

I think the current Australian Grand Prix is in Melbourne.

-I'm going to go with Melbourne.

-Melbourne is correct.

And Judith.

In September 2012, the mascot for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil

was revealed to be a representation of which creature?

Gosh! I'm sure it's not an anteater, which is not a glamorous animal.

Alpacas do come from South America.

I think alpaca.

-Alpaca?

-Yeah.

It's not the right answer.

-Is it an armadillo?

-It is.

-Is that a South American animal?

Yes, indeed it is. And it can roll up into the shape of a football!

-Oh, yeah. So it can.

-I don't know.

It is armadillo, not alpaca.

Which is great news, potentially, for Ed and Doctor & the Medics.

A correct answer here takes you through into the final round.

In a match against England in 2012,

who became the first South African cricketer to score a Test triple century?

I follow a little bit of cricket,

but I wouldn't say I'm exceptional at that subject.

Don't think it's Hashim Amla.

That doesn't sound like a South African name.

Which leaves me with either Colin Ingram or Jacques Rudolph.

I'm going to go with Jacques Rudolph and guess.

Will this take you into the final round?

No! It won't! It is Hashim Amla.

-OK.

-Triple century against England.

Judith can revive her challenge if she gets it right here.

The Scottish rugby union player Andy Irvine, who represented his country over 50 times,

was best known for playing in which position?

I have absolutely no idea.

Um... Fly-half.

-It's the wrong answer.

-Oh.

He was a very famous and multi-scoring full back.

Which means you are through, Ed.

Doesn't matter about that slip. Please come back and join your teams.

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

Those of you who lost those head-to-heads

won't be allowed to take part, so Rosemary, Yan and Kevin from Doctor & the Medics

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

So, Ian and Ed, you're playing to win Doctor & the Medics £4,000.

Chris, Barry, Pat and Kevin, you're playing for something which money can't buy -

the Eggheads' reputation.

I ask each team three questions in turn, the same as those head-to-heads,

but this time it's General Knowledge and you are allowed to confer.

Which makes that victory very important that Ed achieved.

Doctor & the Medics, the question is, are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

Would you like to go first or second?

Seeing as going first hasn't been too successful, we'll try second.

First question goes to you then, Eggheads.

What was the title of the third film in the Matrix trilogy?

-I only recognise Revolutions.

-Revolutions.

Happy with that? Yeah?

We think that was The Matrix Revolutions.

Matrix Revolutions is correct, Eggheads. You have one on the board.

Over to Ian and Ed,

or looking at the name badges, it's Drian and Dred!

-LAUGHING:

-If you run them together. You know what I mean.

Right, your first question.

The Lindy Hop is a dance named after whom?

-Any idea?

-Any good at dancing?

-No.

I don't think it's Linda Ronstadt.

I've never heard of a dance associated with Linda Ronstadt.

Charles Lindbergh, Jenny Lind.

-Charles Lindbergh's a flier, right?

-Mm-hm.

-Have you heard of Jenny Lind?

-No.

-We're going to have to guess.

-We don't guess as doctors, do we? We use scientific reasoning.

-We do.

-We believe you(!)

-So, we can scientifically deduce...

-that it's one of those three.

-What kind of dance is it?

-It's a hop.

-It's a hop?

-Mm.

Yeah. Jenny Lind?

Jenny Lind. Let's go with Jenny.

-We think it's Jenny Lind.

-Jenny Lind for the Lindy Hop.

Not Linda. You've got "lind" in Lindbergh as well.

It's named after...

Charles Lindbergh. Charles Lindbergh!

Eggheads, in what year was US President James Garfield assassinated?

In what year was US President James Garfield assassinated?

-We're all agreed on '81?

-Yeah.

1881.

-1881?

-Yeah.

Is the right answer, Eggheads. They know their dates!

You need to get this one, Ed and Ian.

In the name of the activity BASE jumping, BASE is an acronym

for "buildings", "antennas", "spans" and what?

-It would be "elevations", wouldn't it?

-It's not "engines".

-They're not high enough.

-You're jumping to the Earth.

What does B-A-S stand for again?

"Buildings", "antennas", "spans" and...?

They go off cliff edges, don't they?

Yeah. I think we have to go for "elevations".

Elevations. "Buildings", "antennas", "spans" and...?

It is "Earth", not "elevations".

Which means you've come down to Earth with a crash!

Eggheads, you've won.

Thanks very much on my behalf and on behalf of the Eggheads

for playing the game today.

It's always nice to take on such TV talents.

Bad luck you lot.

If it had fallen different ways, you might have been able to help here.

-We would have been...

-Of course, yeah, yeah, yeah! Those Pinocchio-like noses growing!

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally and they reign supreme over Quizland.

I'm afraid you haven't won the £4,000, which means the money rolls over to the next show.

Congratulations, Eggheads. Who will beat you?

Join us next time to see if a team of celebrities captained by the legendary Lionel Blair

have the brains to defeat our Eggheads.

£5,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.

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