Episode 7 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.

Challenging our legendary quiz Goliaths today are...

When I heard we were having a team of Apprentice contestants

it got me thinking there's one Egghead who reminds me of Lord Sugar -

well-travelled, gets driven everywhere and loves the Spurs.

Kevin, it's you, of course - or should I call you Lord Ashman?

-You can if you want to!

-Surely only a matter of time!

Put the suggestion out there, maybe someone will pick up on it! Fine by me!

Before he fires me, let's meet the challengers.

Hi. My name's Adam Corbally, series 8 Apprentice finalist.

I'm a market trader and I speak in schools promoting enterprise.

My name's Laura Hogg from series 8 of The Apprentice.

I was fired week eight, and I'm owner of Laura Reece Bridal in Glasgow.

I'm Tom Gearing. I was in series 8 of The Apprentice.

I finished runner-up. I currently run a fine wine company.

Hi, I'm Katie Wright. I was fired in week six.

I'm currently business development director at Liberata, a public sector specialist.

My name is Stephen Brady. I navigated my way to the penultimate week on The Apprentice.

I've got a couple of businesses,

one of which is a patented packaging solution suited for the retail market.

Welcome to you, Sweet Without Sugar, enjoying the team name.

How hard was it, compared to thinking up whatever teams you formed in The Apprentice?

-Phoenix was one. What was the other?

-Sterling.

-We were working on Team Phoenix.

Sweet Without Sugar seems the obvious choice. We're all doing OK since the process.

We're looking forward to taking on the Eggheads.

-Don't tell me you didn't enjoy it? You're not traumatised by the treatment?

-No! We loved it!

It's as nothing compared to what the Eggheads are going to attempt to do to you.

They're going to try to fire you. You're going to try to fire them.

You can get rid of them in the head-to-heads.

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.

Sweet Without Sugar, the Eggheads have won the last six games.

Which means £7,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

So, our first head-to-head battle is going to be on Sport.

Who wants to start us off

and take this one on?

Stephen, that's yours. I feel confident with that.

-Who do you want to take on?

-That's the most important question.

-I'd say Judith.

-Adam, I agree with that. I'll go with Judith.

Stephen and Judith playing the opening round, Sport.

You both have to go to the Question Room, so you can't confer with your teammates.

Stephen, great to have you here. Great to have you all here.

I always love The Apprentice when it starts

and they show you all marching around the City of London

looking butch and business-like.

I always remember the phrases you come out with. Do they ever embarrass you?

"Enthusiasm is a huge asset of mine. I believe it's caught and not taught."

-Do you really think that?

-Actually, I do believe that if you're enthusiastic

it does influence other people, so I'd stand by that remark.

Although there are other things I probably wouldn't stand by!

I just love that! So, what's been the experience after The Apprentice?

It's a good platform, it gets your face out there, but you've got to do your own thing.

-How have you been thriving?

-Absolutely, Dermot.

If you can look silly in front of millions of people on TV,

you lose the fear of making mistakes, so I've started a couple of businesses.

It can't get much more stressful than being in the boardroom.

It's given me a fearless approach. I'm happy to go out and make mistakes, so I've got a lot from it.

Well, those words you said there could be perfect for what you're about to face.

Have no fear and try and beat Judith on Sport.

-Do you want to go first or second?

-I'll go first.

Best of luck. Off we go. First Sport question to Stephen.

Which colour ball is worth six points in a standard game of snooker?

I play a lot of pool. Well, down the local I'll play a game of pool.

Snooker, I've watched a few World Championships.

I know the green is not a high-scoring colour.

Blue's in the middle of the table.

The pink and the black are near the reds.

They're the high-scoring colours, so I'll go for pink.

Pink for six, or one in your case. It's the right answer.

And Judith.

Andy Murray won his first Grand Slam singles title in 2012,

when he defeated which tennis player at the US Open?

I think that was Novak Djokovic.

Yes, it was. A famous victory there for Andy Murray and a point for you.

Switzerland's Nicola Spirig beat Sweden's Lisa Norden

in a photo finish in which event of the London 2012 Olympic Games?

I have to be honest, I don't know the answer. This is a difficult one.

I watched the Olympics. The British athletes stood out, the names.

This event. I'm going to go, probably...

quite a random sport, based on the fact that I have not got a clue.

I'm going to go for... Purely a one-in-three.

I'm going to go for BMX, but that's a stab in the dark. Let's see.

Could be a photo finish in any of them, if you didn't see it.

BMX, it's not. Do you know, Judith?

-Triathlon?

-Yes, it was.

I remember watching it,

thinking it was a dead heat, I don't know how they separated them.

In 2012, which Formula 1 driver caused a pile-up at the Belgian Grand Prix

and became the first driver to be banned from a race

since Michael Schumacher in 1994?

Um, I'm not quite sure.

Funnily enough, I did read this, or I saw it on the telly.

And, of course, it hasn't stuck.

I have a feeling it's Grosjean.

-Romain Grosjean is the right answer.

-Oh, it did stick.

It stuck you into the lead.

You get through if Stephen doesn't give me a right answer here.

In which of these sports might competitors execute a Statue Of Liberty play?

I'm just trying to use logic here.

Statue of Liberty would suggest a straight formation, maybe,

with...a striker or somebody playing up top.

It's a difficult one.

I'm going to rule out ten pin bowling, based on that formation.

I've watched a bit of American football

and have not heard that terminology used in any of the play.

Based on that logic, right or wrong, I'm going for water polo.

-Again, not 100% sure.

-A Statue of Liberty play?

Water polo, American football, ten pin bowling. It is...

not water polo. Judith?

-American football?

-It is. Wow! You're on form today!

And that has taken Judith into the final round. Bad luck, Stephen.

No place for you. You are fired! Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Your task is to put together a team to try to beat the Eggheads.

So far, you're not doing well, missing one brain from the final round.

It's only one round, though. Let's play a few more. The next one is Film & Television!

Well, you've all been on it.

There's only one man for it. I think, Adam.

-Skippy's choice.

-OK? Captain?

-Yeah. Make us proud.

-Who would you like to play?

-I would like to play the original Egghead himself, Chris, please.

Both into the Question Room, Adam and Chris.

OK, Adam. "I get too excited, but that shows my passion, it shows my drive

"and it shows my ability."

That kind of happened to you in The Apprentice. You did get excited.

Absolutely, I got excited and it was contagious. We had a ball. We had a good time.

What about life after it?

-Much in demand, aren't you, on the public speaking circuit?

-Yeah.

Promoting enterprise and starting enterprise on a shoestring budget,

which is what I did back in the day.

Life's good at the moment.

-Do you want to go first or second?

-I'll go first please, Dermot.

Adam, good luck. Floella Benjamin found fame as a presenter of which children's television programme?

That was Play School, Dermot.

-A silence and then the right answer. Well done, Adam.

-Thank you.

First question to Chris.

What type of natural disaster features in the 1969 film, Krakatoa: East Of Java?

One of the great blunders of film publicity!

Krakatoa's in the Sunda Strait, west of Java!

It's a volcanic eruption.

It should have been Krakatoa: West Of Java?

But it is a volcanic eruption.

-That actually happened?

-Oh, yeah. 1883. Yeah.

It's the right answer.

Adam, the farmer Arthur Hoggett is a character in which film?

I've no idea, Dermot, to be honest. I've never heard of Seabiscuit.

I've heard of Babe, which is about the pig.

I don't know who the farmer was in Lassie.

As I say, I've never heard of Seabiscuit.

Hoggett, I'm thinking on the basis that hog is like a pig,

Babe was a pig, so I'm going to say Babe.

"That'll do, pig."

That's the right answer. Wasn't that his phrase, "That'll do, pig"?

Yeah.

Chris, which actress first presented the TV series Restoration Home, in 2011?

< Not Pauline Quirke.

Caroline Quentin's done a series on Cornwall.

-So Restoration Home must have been Fay Ripley.

-OK.

-Restoration Home 2011...

-Mm.

-It was Caroline Quentin.

-Oh.

-Not Fay Ripley.

This is good news.

That means that if you add one more to the two you've already got,

you are guaranteed a place in the final round.

It might happen without getting this, but this is the insurance.

Chris won't face another question if you get this.

The Oscar-winning French film La Nuit Americaine has what English title?

I'm going to... I've got to go for what seems like the obvious answer.

-Night Into Day.

-OK, "night" on "la nuit".

But, of course, it's in two of the possible answers there.

It's the other one. It's Day For Night.

A chance for Chris to level it up.

Chris, who starred as Wade Hatton in the 1939 film Dodge City?

Dodge City?

It's obviously a western.

Because it's a western and he specialised in westerns,

I'll have to go with Gary Cooper.

I thought you'd go that way. Coop? No!

-Errol Flynn.

-Swashbuckling Errol Flynn

with the six guns in this one, Dodge City.

Which means...

Adam, you got through anyway! You're in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

A positive response means, as it stands, both teams have now lost one brain from the final round.

Third subject today is Music.

Three players left from each side.

Who wants to take it on from Sweet Without Sugar?

-It has to be me.

-Tom's got so many strong subjects.

Unfortunately, he's only into his funky house and dance nights!

-Katie, if you're happy?

-I will give it a go. Great.

-Take your time and good luck.

-And choose an Egghead.

Judith and Chris have played, so it's the three in the middle - Daphne, Dave and Kevin.

I would go, as crazy as it sounds,

I'd go Dave because he's the youngest out the three that are left.

Daphne and Kevin will know more...

My dad said, "Don't take on Daphne cos she's a robot! She gets everything right!"

-Dave! Yes.

-It's your choice, in the end.

While you go to the Question Room, we'll check Daphne's robotic circuits there!

Katie and Dave to the Question Room, please.

First question. Who said this? "I would call myself the blonde assassin.

"I let people underestimate me, so I can blow them out of the water."

Can't imagine anyone with any intellect would say that(!)

-Dave's not going to underestimate you.

-Not at all after that!

Blonde assassin's coming looking. Oh, yeah.

-Would you like to go first or second, Katie?

-I will go first.

What describes "all things" in the third line of the hymn All Things Bright And Beautiful?

I have a horrible urge to start singing,

-which wouldn't benefit anyone.

-Feel free!

-It is "all things wise and wonderful".

-Yes, it is.

Which kind of describes

the members in the studio here today, on both sides.

Your first question, Dave.

What is the name of the world tour on which Lady Gaga embarked in 2012?

I hope it's the Born This Way Ball or I'm in big trouble.

-Born This Way Ball.

-You're not in trouble. It's the right answer.

You're off to a solid start.

Which of these was the title of a UK top ten single for Diana Ross in 1980?

I don't know.

My Old Man was not sung by a woman,

as far as I can remember, so I'm going to rule that one out.

I don't think I'm going to get further

by trying to use lack of common sense to apply here.

I'm going to go with My Old Home.

My Old Home... It's not. It's incorrect. Dave?

-My Old Piano.

-It is My Old Piano.

Nothing there for Katie.

How will Dave do? "Who broke my heart? You did, you did.

"Bow to the target, blame Cupid, Cupid"

are lyrics from which 1980s hit for ABC?

The soundtrack to a lot of my life.

The Lexicon Of Love was the album in 1982.

Shoot that poison arrow through my he-e-eart.

-Poison arrow.

-OK, it's the right answer.

Katie, you need this.

Which British composer dropped the Von from his name during World War I

possibly due to anti-German sentiment?

Well, um... Gustav doesn't sound like a very English name,

so I'm going to rule that one out!

-I'm going to go for Edward Elgar.

-OK.

Edward Elgar is not the right answer.

I think the mistake you made was thinking that one wasn't British.

They're all British.

It's the one you identified as sounding Germanic.

-It is Gustav von Holst.

-Never would have got that.

I'm sorry, Katie. No place in the final round.

Dave's already got two and you can't get up to that level.

-That's all right.

-Would you please come back and join your teams?

As it stands, two members of Sweet Without Sugar have gone and one Egghead.

Let's see if it's going to be level with our last head-to-head, Food & Drink.

Tom or Laura remain.

- Who feels confident? - Tom's in the wine business.

- Tom, surely. - It's got to be Tom.

Yeah, but I...

I don't want to put myself on his level,

but me and Tom were talking and he's a drinks guy, I know about food.

And I do like a good drink, so that's going to come into play.

You've got to think of going into the last round.

-I'd rather be sat here with Tom.

-I'm putting my head on the chopping block.

We're behind you.

But I think we're best having Tom with you...

-Yeah and you! So you go up now.

-LAUGHTER

I'm acting defeated already!

Who do you want to knock out?

-I think Kevin.

-I do.

I'm going to send you off to the Question Room, Laura and Kevin.

So, Laura, you were going to be one of Scotland's next big exports.

-Turned out you weren't! You're thriving in Scotland.

-Um, yeah.

That was a grand statement, but there is life after The Apprentice

and we're all doing not too badly, including myself.

-Well, good luck. Do you want to go first or second?

-Let's keep with the trend and go first.

Laura, first question on Food & Drink.

A traditional strudel consists of various fillings wrapped in what?

You're being kind to me on this one. It's pastry.

It is the right answer!

And Kevin.

What is usually added to plain flour to make it self-raising flour?

That would be yeast.

Kevin, the curse of Food & Drink!

-Don't tell me!

-It's baking powder.

-Didn't listen.

I was turning round to put the next question to Laura already.

First question, you normally slot those home!

Great news for you, Laura.

Kevin on the back foot. Get this and he is really under the cosh.

Popular in the Middle Ages, what was "hippocras", named after the Greek physician Hippocrates?

OK.

Don't think it's grilled beef.

I think that's probably more popular now than...back then!

So that's my first one that I'm going to eliminate.

I mean, it is a guess, at the end of the day.

Let's go for...

-the bread, let's do that.

-OK, the bread for hippocras.

I think the clue to it is the healing idea of Hippocrates,

Hippocratic oath and all that.

The great belief in the healing power of alcohol. It's spiced wine.

-Mm. Never mind.

-So, chance for Kevin.

You're still in the lead. If Kevin shows his normal assured touch at Food & Drink...

-LAUGHING:

-..you'll stay in the lead!

OK, Kevin. Food writer Claudia Roden was born in which country?

I don't think it's Lebanon.

But slightly torn between the other two.

My first thought, though, was Egypt so I'll go with that.

Egypt for Claudia Roden. You're back in the game.

Everything to play for, Laura.

Adobo, A-D-O-B-O, a stew of meat or fish,

marinated and cooked in vinegar and garlic, is a national dish of which country?

OK.

Two rather random key ingredients minus the fish or meat,

so I was just trying to...

It's not like there's a particular spice in there

to try and connect it to one of the places.

-I'm going to go with Nepal.

-Nepal for this stew, Adobo,

a stew of meat or fish marinated and cooked in vinegar and garlic.

It is...not the right answer. Kevin, do you know?

-It's the Philippines.

-And you knew that one. OK.

It's very interesting the way this round has swung.

Kevin has a chance to take it.

Which confection was reportedly first made at the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago,

when the chef was asked to make something that ladies could eat whilst attending a local fair?

If they're attending a local fair,

presumably they're walking about.

I take that implication, anyway,

they're probably walking about from stall to stall,

if by "fair" we're talking about a fete type of thing.

Banoffee pie might be a bit tricky for balancing, sort of thing.

It could, technically, be either of the others.

You could do that.

But "ladies"? Cupcake sounds the most likely, so cupcake.

Cupcake, the Eggheads agreeing,

but it is chocolate brownie.

He got two wrong, but so did you, Laura.

So this round's still alive. It's all-square and we go to Sudden Death.

We're going to remove options, so I just need to hear the answer.

Laura, best of luck.

What type of food are the Norwegian Smultring and the German Berliner?

Oh! You know what?

It really could be anything.

Let's go for...a casserole.

OK, casserole.

No. Doughnut.

-It's doughnuts.

-I had no idea.

Another chance for Kevin.

Pissaladiere, a dish from the south of France similar to a pizza,

traditionally contains which fish?

I think it's one that I hate - anchovy.

Anchovy.

It's a bit Marmitey, the anchovy. You either love it or hate it.

You might like it now. It's the right answer.

Bad luck, Laura.

Thought you were going to do it when Kevin messed up his first one,

but he fought back and cost you a place in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

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

But those of you who lost your head-to-heads

will not be allowed to take part, so Laura, Katie and Stephen from Sweet Without Sugar

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

Adam and Tom, you're playing to win Sweet Without Sugar £7,000.

Judith, Kevin, Dave and Daphne, you're playing for something money can't buy -

the Eggheads' reputation.

I'll ask each team three questions in turn, all General Knowledge,

and you are allowed to confer in the final round.

So, Sweet Without Sugar, the question is, are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

-Before we get started, do you want to go first or second?

-First.

-We'll definitely go first, please.

Good luck. Time for your first question.

Which TV pub has been managed by characters with the surnames Gilroy, McDonald and Walker?

-It's not the Queen Vic, cos I watch EastEnders.

-Yeah.

It's 100% the Rovers Return.

It is the Rovers Return, of course. Nice start there.

What is the name of the title creature who speaks for the trees

in an early 1970s children's book by Dr Seuss?

That's the Lorax.

The Lorax is the right answer, Eggheads.

Back to Sweet Without Sugar.

Adam and Tom, the word "stogie",

derived from the name of a town called Conestoga in Pennsylvania, is a term for a type of what?

I'm fairly certain on this one because Darren Clarke

has sometimes been smoking a few stogies on the golf course.

-I'm going to go with cigar.

-"Smoking" is the key there!

It wouldn't be a biscuit or a hat. It's the right answer.

Eggheads, what is the predominant colour of the gemstone carnelian?

C-A-R-N-E-L-I-A-N.

-That's red, Dermot.

-Red is the right answer.

Good final round shaping up here.

Keep up the pressure, Adam and Tom.

Florence Balcombe, who was once romantically involved with Oscar Wilde, later married which writer?

I haven't got a clue, mate.

-Bram Stoker did Dracula.

-Yeah.

Never heard of George Bernard Shaw. Never heard of James Joyce.

I know James Joyce. I haven't heard of George Bernard Shaw.

Who'd have been alive at the same time?

-All I'm thinking, Florence Balcombe, the name...

-Yeah.

..sounds like it might come from the same country as Bram Stoker.

Balcombe, Bram. That's all I can...

That's a very tedious link, but I'm just...

trying to put this girl with one of those three.

I was kind of against Bram Stoker because...was it vampire or Dracula?

-He wrote Dracula.

-How long ago was that, though?

When Dracula came out, it was about, the film...

-It is a book, though?

-It was Bram Stoker's...

-But if...

-I don't know. I made it...

-Difficult, isn't it?

-Agh!

-Ain't got a clue.

-You're captain. What do you reckon?

Mate, I've made the decisions all day.

We've got a third chance. I'm behind you.

-We'll go with James Joyce.

-James Joyce for Florence Balcombe.

Married, you think, after an involvement with Oscar Wilde?

Eggheads, what did you make of all that?

-James Joyce?

-He's the one it's not.

I'm not sure about the other two.

-It's probably Shaw.

-I'd have gone Bram Stoker.

Bram Stoker. It is Bram Stoker.

You're right about Dracula.

Didn't get it there.

It's a crucial point at which to falter.

The Eggheads have a chance to win the game.

What is the capital of the Cayman Islands?

< Plymouth's Montserrat and Hamilton's Bermuda.

-George Town.

-So it's George Town.

Well, Hamilton's the capital of Bermuda.

Plymouth is the capital of Montserrat.

Ergo, George Town.

You're doing it by elimination but you knew it anyway, I suspect.

-Yes.

-It is the right answer. Eggheads, you've won.

Bad luck, three-two, no disgrace against the Eggheads. Thank you very much for playing.

We're nice to you. We don't say, "You're fired."

We say, "Thank you very much." We're "sweeter" than Lord Sugar.

Thank you in the Question Room for trying, but ultimately failing, to beat the Eggheads.

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

You haven't won £7,000, 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 comedians have the brains to defeat our Eggheads.

£8,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.