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.

Tackling our awesome quiz Titans today are...

As I'm sure this team of sporting greats will testify,

celebrating a victory in sport is a marvellous feeling,

running a lap of honour, twirling your shirt above your head,

spraying champagne over your teammates.

That's how Judith celebrates a victory in Sport! Let's meet the team.

I'm Gareth Chilcott. I'm from the world of rugby - Bath and England.

I've played with and against boys on my team.

My name is Eddie the Eagle Edwards.

I plummeted to infamy at the Calgary Winter Olympics in 1988.

I'm Scott Hastings. I used to play rugby for Scotland and the British and Irish Lions.

Two of my teammates I played against, but they're on my side today.

I'm Richard Pitman, a former steeplechase jockey

and for 35 years on the BBC horse racing televised team.

My name's Jeff Probyn, from the world of rugby. I played for England and Wasps.

I played with guys on this team, with them and against them, and I'm looking forward to today.

Welcome to you, Sporting Leg-Ends. We are so excited to have you here. Fantastic to see you.

How did you decide, after so much success in your sport, you could take on this lot in quizzing?

That's a very good question. We're like coiled springs.

We're a bit of a mismatch - a few rugby, horse racing and skiing.

But we've come together as a team and we are confident...

confident that we may do all right.

That's how you used to give team talks? Something like that. Let's get on with the quiz.

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.

Sporting Leg-Ends, the Eggheads have won the last five games.

Which means ?6,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

Our first head-to-head battle will be on Film Television.

Who wants to kick us off?

Right, lads, Film Television. We need a captain's decision.

Captain's decision? Yes.

Richard, you've been on the BBC for so long,

get out there boy and perform.

Richard, choose an Egghead.

They all look very good, but I'm going to go for Judith.

It's going to be Richard and Judith heading into the Question Room, to make sure you can't confer.

Off you go, please.

Richard, we are so excited about having you here.

I wanted to talk to you about horse racing - 470 winners?

It's pretty pathetic by today's standards.

They race seven days and evenings, so things have changed.

Richard, you've committed one of the most selfless acts I've ever heard.

You've donated a kidney to a stranger.

It's the most useful thing I've done in my life.

I'm ashamed it didn't occur to me earlier.

I had a friend who wouldn't take a live one and I saw him dying.

Luckily, he got one and he was flying within a fortnight.

He went from dying to flying. I thought if it can do that for him, I can do it for someone else.

How are you as a result, for anyone contemplating it? Does it affect your health?

I'm dangerous, I'm that well. DERMOT LAUGHS

That's what we want, dangerous, as you go into Film TV against Judith.

Do you want to go first or second? The challenger gets to choose. I'll go first.

Which film features a scene in which a hitman, played by John Travolta,

resuscitates Uma Thurman's character with a shot of adrenaline?

Well, I haven't seen Fight Club and my memory isn't very good.

But I am going to go...

Can I just put my thinking cap on? Sorry.

I'll just think for a second. LAUGHTER

I'm going to go for Pulp Fiction. DERMOT LAUGHS

Was that donated by Daphne? Is that one of her spare ones? Oh!

This is all my own! I know, Daphne. Of course it is.

Maybe better leave the thinking cap on. It is the right answer.

All right, Judith.

First question.

Which cast member of the TV comedy series Not The 9 O'Clock News

went on to become a professional clinical psychologist?

Oh, I think that is Pamela Stephenson.

It is, indeed, Pamela Stephenson.

All-square, and Richard...

In 2002, the writer and broadcaster Jonathan Meades

was the first winner of the celebrity version of which show?

The only Jonathan Meades I know grows turnips for a living!

I'm going to have to guess.

I will say...

..Come Dine With Me. OK. What do you think, Judith?

Mastermind. It is Celebrity Mastermind.

A chance for Judith here.

The fictional location of Tuscany Valley in California was the setting for which soap opera?

I thought they were all in the same place.

I think the only clue is if you watched it.

I'm going to go down...the middle.

Knots Landing is a pure guess.

Which I think was a Dallas spin-off? DAVE: It was.

Gary Ewing moving his family out to California.

Our soap expert! Which is it, Dave?

It's Falcon Crest, cos it was based around wine producing. Ah!

Tuscany Valley, yeah. It's Falcon Crest.

I should have gone down the magic right. You should have done.

In the 1994 film Forrest Gump, the title character ostensibly inspires

the lyrics of a famous song while appearing on a TV chat show alongside which musician?

SIGHS

It's not John Lennon.

I'm going to go for David Bowie.

OK, David Bowie is incorrect.

The answer is John Lennon.

That means Judith has a chance

to wrap up this round.

In the Hitchcock thriller Dial M For Murder,

the plot to kill the Grace Kelly character is foiled when she stabs her assailant with which utensil?

Oh, dear. I haven't seen that either.

Grace Kelly and knitting needles don't seem to go together very well.

Or carving knife. I think it might be a pair of scissors.

A pair of scissors... Yeah.

..was the implement used in that stabbing scene.

It is the right answer, Judith.

You are out, I'm afraid, Richard. Would you both please come back and rejoin your teams?

Well, the Sporting Leg-Ends have lost one brain from the final round.

The Eggheads are all there. We've only played one round, so let's play another - Geography.

All very well-travelled

during your careers and subsequently, so who'd like to play this?

Well, boys! Who's done the most travelling? Probably me.

That doesn't mean anything. I think you. Shall I do it?

Go for it! Get me out the way? Be brave!

I'll take it. OK, Gareth. Choose an Egghead.

I'm going to have to have a Somerset final. Come on, Daphne.

That's what we want! Let's have Daphne and Gareth into the Question Room, please.

Let's establish the Somerset links. Daphne, Weston-super-Mare.

Where are you from, Gareth? I'm a Bristolian, but I'm south of the Avon.

I'm very much a Somerset cricket man, a Bristol City man,

and Bath, which is Somerset affiliated.

What's happening with you and rugby?

Well, apart from being an armchair supporter, I do a bit of radio, this and that.

I'm very much on the hospitality side, but still an active follower.

Back to Daphne. You're sporting "leg-ends". Is she a "leg-end" in Weston-super-Mare?

Do they speak of Daphne's awesome quizzing ability?

Everybody in Somerset loves Daphne. She's a bit of an icon.

That's what I wanted to hear. We all love her.

You're going to try to knock her out! She doesn't mind! She won't take it personally.

Will you go first or second? I'll go first.

The first question to you, Gareth, on Geography.

In which city is the luxury hotel and casino called the Bellagio,

which opened in 1998 and is famous for its choreographed fountains?

I think it's all about luck of the draw in questions.

I was in Las Vegas for the Sevens only last year.

Vegas is a party town and one of the parties I did go to

was in that particular hotel, so I'm thankful I've got one right!

I'm going for Las Vegas! DERMOT CHUCKLES

Well done. You have one on the board. Your first question, Daphne.

Grafton Street and Henry Street are two main shopping thoroughfares in which city?

Um... I think it's Dublin?

Is the right answer. Well done. And Gareth...

we might ratchet up the difficulty level a bit here.

West Kalimantan - K-A-L-I-M-A-N-T-A-N -

is a province on which island in southeast Asia?

Dermot, it's no good spelling it to me. I can't pronounce it.

Timor, I think, is farther north. I... Ooh.

I'm going to go for Borneo.

It's the right answer. Well done, Gareth!

Good one!

Second question for Daphne.

Juba is the capital city of which African country?

That is the capital of South Sudan.

It is! That is the right answer.

Back to you, Gareth.

Great performance so far. Put the pressure back on Daphne.

The city of Pokhara is a popular trekking destination because of its proximity to which mountain range?

The city of Pokhara - P-O-K-H-A-R-A.

Right, well, the Atlas mountains I know are in north Africa

and that don't sound particularly a Moroccan type...name.

I might be wrong. I'm completely guessing here.

And I only know...

I've only heard of the third one, so I'm going to go for Annapurna.

It's the right answer. What a performance!

You're guaranteed, at least,

to take Daphne to Sudden Death.

You get a place in the final round if you don't get this, Daphne.

What is Norway's second largest city in population?

Mm! OK.

Complete guess.

Trondheim.

It's not! No!

DAPHNE LAUGHING It's Bergen!

It's Bergen. He's beaten me! Gareth is stunned.

Look at his face! I'm unbelievably stunned.

So sorry, Daphne.

You will be! LAUGHTER

We'll bring the lights down in the Question Room

and Gareth will be carried out on a stretcher in five minutes!

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

Well, as it stands, both teams have lost one brain from the final round.

Let's see if we can send an Egghead off in a subject that better suits the remaining three of you - Sport!

Eddie, Scott or Jeff?

There's only one person, Scott, and that's our Scottish maestro.

Let's try that. Scott Hastings! Every faith.

OK, Scott, choose an Egghead. Remember that the two women have played - Judith and Daphne.

Kevin will be my choice. I'm going to go at him.

I see you choosing a good old test, there.

Let's have Scott and Kevin into the Question Room, please.

Scott, I want to know what it's like being back with these guys.

You toured with Gareth in the Lions.

A few old tales to tell, I suspect. Yeah.

Once upon a time, wearing the blue jersey of Scotland

against the white of England, there was massive rivalry,

especially when we played for the Calcutta Cup.

But we went on tour together, 1989, on the British and Irish Lions tour.

It's funny, while you have that rivalry, you then suddenly develop great friendships.

I've known Gareth for many years and every time we see each other I try and give him a big cuddle.

One of the great characters of sport. He certainly is.

Well, it's Sport. It's going to be a good tussle, I'm sure.

Do you want to go first or second? I'm going to go first.

Best of luck. Here's your question to kick us off.

In which of these field events are athletes NOT required

to throw projectiles from a round area known as the circle?

The answer is javelin.

They have a nice log run-up, don't they? It's the right answer.

And Kevin...

In women's golf, all four majors in 2012 were won by players from which continent?

The South Koreans, in particular, but also other Asian countries,

have been coming to dominate more and more in recent years.

It's Asia. Asia is the correct answer.

Both off to a solid start.

Scott, your second question.

In 2012, in a transfer reportedly in the region of ?33 million,

the Croatian midfielder Luka Modric left Tottenham Hotspur for which club?

That's a different-shaped ball to the one I'm used to!

Just because of the sheer total of the transfer deal,

I'm going to go for Real Madrid. That's a good clue.

A mighty club like Real Madrid - it's the right answer.

In 2011, which racehorse trainer, having won 25 domestic classics, was honoured with a knighthood?

Well, I think... Yeah. I'm sure Henry Cecil is Sir Henry Cecil.

It's just a question of when he got his knighthood.

Sir Henry Cecil, I'll try. Sir Henry Cecil, right.

You're just wondering when, and if any of the other two have them.

Is he right, Richard? He is correct.

Is it the right answer.

Scott, your third question.

The American David Boudia is an Olympic champion in which sport?

B-O-U-D-I-A - David Boudia.

It's a tough one.

I was going to go diving, but his name doesn't resonate with me.

I'm going to try and eliminate between fencing and sailing.

I'm going for the sport that doesn't get as much coverage - sailing.

If you don't know, it could be any of them. It is diving.

The one you first thought. A slip-up there.

In which of these Olympic sports does the goal measure six feet wide by four feet tall?

That's quite small. Feet? Yes. Six feet wide by four feet tall.

That's quite small, I think because it's in the water.

I think it's water polo.

It's not. Isn't it?

No. The answer is ice hockey.

Six by four. OK. I've gone wrong somewhere in my mental calculations.

Leapt in too soon. Sorry. Doesn't happen too often.

Clear your mind. We're into Sudden Death.

It's a lot harder because we're taking away the options to sort out a winner.

Ramon Sota, a successful golfer,

was the uncle of which Major-winning Spanish golfer, who died in 2011?

Severiano Ballesteros.

Right answer, yes.

Alexander Lyons are the middle names of which British Formula 1 driver born in 1980?

I think it's got to be Jenson Button.

Putting Jenson Alexander Lyons Button together? In terms of age.

Well, it is the right answer, whichever way you got it.

Let's not mess around!

Back to you, Scott.

How many times did Red Rum take part in the Aintree Grand National?

Oh, Richard, Richard, send me some signals.

Red Rum won three, anyway, so...

Did he enter three, win three? Something suggests that he didn't.

I'm going to go... We're just going to go three.

The three times you know he won it.

Was it three in a row, or was there a gap of a couple of years, Richard?

He was second twice as well, to Rag Trade and L'Escargot in between.

OK. It's five times. Kevin, a chance,

to wrap up this round.

In a Canadian football team, how many players take to the field at any one time?

Canadian football is similar to American football.

One distinction is that instead of a team of 11 on the pitch, they have 12.

So it's 12.

He knows them so well. It's the right answer, Kevin. You're through.

Scott knows that, in THIS field,

he was beaten by a very good player.

This is a four-times World Quiz Champion, Brain of Britain, Mastermind, so well played.

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

As it stands, the Sporting Leg-Ends have lost two brains.

The Eggheads have lost one, so a chance for it to be all-square.

It's our last head-to-head. It's Politics.

Jeff or Eddie remain to play.

Right, then, as captain, this is going to be an interesting decision.

Go on, one of you step up to the mantel.

LAUGHTER

It's not my, um...hottest subject, but...

Go on, Eddie. I've got faith in you.

LAUGHTER

Jeff, is that opting out of selection?

I'm going for Eddie. Sorry, the rugby boys just...

Go on! Eddie, you stay and choose your Egghead - Pat or Dave?

Pat or Dave? I think I'll have a better chance, if any chance at all, with Pat.

Right, Eddie and Pat, into the Question Room, please.

Eddie, are you still involved in the winter sports?

I still ski, ski-jump occasionally, but mainly ski.

I do the odd promotion and charity event abroad.

I'm just as excited to put a pair of skis on now as when I first started 30-odd years ago.

What do you think of all that, with the Eddie the Eagle...

not finishing in first place, and holding up the rest of them?

We don't have a great tradition of ski-jumping, do we? We don't.

I was really proud to be Britain's first ever ski-jumper.

I was only jumping for two years when I went to Calgary. Everybody else had been jumping for 20 years.

There was no way I was going to beat anybody but it was great.

I was flying the flag, Britain's first ski-jumper, and I was very proud.

Have we got any better at it? Well, I got better.

I came out of retirement in '95 for the '98 Olympics, was jumping a lot better,

but still couldn't qualify cos they made these new qualifications for the Olympics.

Eddie, do you want to go first or second? I'll jump in first!

Here we go. Suits belonging to which politician were sold at Christie's for ?73,000 in 2012?

Um...

I'm going to take a total guess and go for...

Margaret Thatcher.

That'll be the one. Well done.

Pat, first question.

What phrase is used to refer to the surplus of wine produced in the European Union?

I think they keep all their surplus wine in a lake.

Is the right answer.

Eddie, what is the first name of the lady who married Mitt Romney in 1969?

I'm going to go... Total guess. ..for Ann.

Ann Romney. That's correct. SCOTT: Well done. Good guesswork!

Which amendment to the US Constitution protects the right of the people to peaceably assemble

and to petition the Government for redress of grievances?

Well, the 5th Amendment is normally noted for the right to silence

and to avoid self-incrimination,

although I'm sure there's more to it.

18th, I think, is the repeal of slavery.

I think this is 1st Amendment.

Right up there in the 1st Amendment. It's the right answer.

Another great round.

Eddie, the holder of which position serves as the chief legal advisor of the Crown

and its Government in England and Wales?

Um...

Master of the Rolls, I think.

It's not the Master of the Rolls. Pat, do you know?

I'd have gone for Attorney General. It is the Attorney General.

I thought it was that. Ah!

Chance for Pat here.

At the 2010 UK General Election, which party won the most seats in Northern Ireland?

I don't think it's the Alliance. SIGHS

It should be the DUP, really.

I think it must be the Democratic Unionist Party.

DUP. Yeah, it's the right answer, Pat.

Bad luck, Eddie. Just missing out.

No place in the final round. Would you both please join your teams?

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

I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-head

won't be allowed to take part so, Eddie, Scott and Richard from the Sporting Leg-Ends,

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

Gareth and Jeff, you're playing to win the Sporting Leg-Ends ?6,000.

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

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

So, Sporting Leg-Ends, the question is, are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

Do you want to go first or second? We've not had much luck going first. I think we'll go second.

Hoping for an early slip-up by the Eggheads.

Eggheads, what name is given to the section of the Scout Association

that children become eligible to join in the three months leading up to their sixth birthday?

Beaver Scouts. Yeah. Beavers. Yeah

I think that's Beaver Scouts, Dermot.

That's the correct answer, Eggheads.

First question, Gareth and Jeff.

In astrology, what sign of the zodiac is represented by a ram?

In astrology, what sign of the zodiac is represented by a ram?

Um... We agree on this, don't we? Aries.

Either of you two that sign? No.

I'm a Taurus. I'm a Scorpio.

Thank you for that! It is the right answer.

Eggheads, in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream,

who falls in love with an ass-headed Bottom after receiving Puck's love potion?

It's Titania. Yeah.

Titania.

Titania is the right answer. Second question for the Leg-Ends.

In the music hall song When Father Papered The Parlour,

what is thought to be "behind the paper Pa stuck on the wall"?

Music hall, it won't be radiogram.

No. We can take radiogram out cos, as you said, music hall.

I reckon the piano. GARETH HUMS

That was supposed to be the tune. Was that what you were doing?

I actually... I don't want to...

I would go for chaise longue. Chaise longue? But you're skipper.

It's a difficult one.

I think it's piano. It's a cheeky song, isn't it?

It wouldn't be the piano. Chaise longue.

I think chaise longue wouldn't go.

What can you rhyme with chaise longue? OK. Yeah.

Piano.

It's the right answer. Well done, Jeff. Never in doubt.

LAUGHTER

Don't want this to end. Eggheads, third question.

The Australian Gina Rinehart, one of the world's richest people,

made her fortune in which industry?

Her father was Hancock, the huge iron ore man.

Yeah. Mining. Yeah, it was mining.

All agree mining?

We're all agreed that's mining, Dermot. Mining...

is the right answer.

The Eggheads didn't falter.

You're under a lot of pressure, but you can handle it.

If you want to pick two guys to handle pressure we'd go for you!

Hombro and spalla are the Spanish and Italian words respectively for which part of the body?

I don't think it'd be cheek. No. We can take cheek out, I think.

Famous last words!

Shoulder? Ankle?

Ankle? Ankle?

Ankle.

We'll go for ankle. Ankle. Hombro and spalla.

It's actually shoulder.

Which means, Eggheads, you've won.

Whatever's happened, we have had a fantastic time here today.

Didn't want it to end. It's been such good fun with you two and, of course, with those three.

But the Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them

and their winning streak continues.

I'm afraid you haven't won the ?6,000. The money rolls over to our next show.

Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?

Join us to see if a team of former Apprentice contestants have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

?7,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.