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.

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.

Are you ready for your campaign today?

-Absolutely.

-Certainly.

-Good stuff, we've got some campaigners here.

Facing the might of our quiz Goliaths are Tease and Seize.

Now, the members of this team will be

familiar to many of you for the work they do on

various consumer programmes,

where their reporting results in many wrongs being righted.

I perform a similar role on Eggheads

when Kevin takes part in a Food and Drink round, don't I?

Let's meet them.

I'm Chris Hollins, I'm a TV presenter and journalist.

You've probably seen me on programmes like Watchdog,

and I did a bit of dancing around in sequins - and won, Jeremy.

I hate quizzes. I'm useless at them.

That's why I'm captain.

Hi, I'm Rebecca Wilcox, you might have seen me on

Watchdog and Your Money, Their Tricks.

I'm hugely competitive but without the skill to back it up,

especially since I'm now a sleep-deprived mother of two.

I'm Adam Pearson, presenter, actor and campaigner.

You will know me best from Channel 4's Tricks Of The Restaurant Trade,

where I ruin, amongst other things, coffee, sushi and burgers.

Hi, I'm Jasmine Birtles, I'm a financial expert and TV presenter.

You'll have seen me on various news programmes talking about finance and

economics and giving you the dos and don'ts as to

what to do with your money, taken from my own bitter experience.

And I'm Simon Calder, I'm a travel journalist.

Yes, I spend my entire life

on holiday, pretending to work. You should try it.

So, Chris and team, hello.

-Hello.

-Great to see you, and a reference to the dancing, Chris.

Are you as good at quizzing as you are at dancing?

I'm awful.

-Oh, really?

-Yeah.

-Because we always assume that, you know,

-journalists know stuff.

-That's a good question.

I only thought I was having breakfast with you,

-Eggheads and Jeremy Vine, I thought, "Wow!"

-Oh, right!

-There was a misunderstanding!

-I hadn't really read it. I read the e-mail and now I'm doing a quiz.

And quizzing is a very British thing, I always think, so, Simon,

as a journalist, we know each other and you are very detailed about,

you've got to get the facts and the full stop needs to be in the right place

and that's a quizzer's mind, I always think.

Well, you'd like to think so, except, of course,

we are all kind of specialists in our own way,

so I do a bit on travel,

I can also answer all the questions on pure maths,

so I hope something on catastrophe theory will come up, but I fear,

like last time, it might just be a plain old catastrophe.

Well, you mention last time,

and it's gone down in Judith's own personal history,

because Judith has beaten a scientist on science and

-a sportsman on Sport, and we call you a geographer, Simon...

-Yeah.

..because you travel, and she managed to

-take you down on geography!

-Absolutely!

-How did that happen?

-You're welcome. She was very good.

You're welcome to go for a rematch if it comes up.

-Thank you.

-Good luck, Challengers.

Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs and it goes to our

Challengers' chosen charity when it's a celebrity edition.

However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,

that prize money rolls over to our next show.

Now, I can tell you, Tease and Seize,

the Eggheads won the last four games against the Celebrities,

so there's £5,000 to play for.

-Would you like to try?

-Yes.

-Yes.

-Give it a go.

Good stuff. The first head-to-head battle

is on the subject of Politics.

Now, who would like this? You can choose between

Judith, Kevin, Beth, Steve and Dave.

-Simon!

-Simon!

-Politics?

-You were on BBC Breakfast.

You have a tie.

I've got a tie!

I'm not sure that that qualifies you to...

I'll give it a go, but, honestly, it's going to

be even more of a disaster

-than it was last time I was here.

-I bet it won't.

-It's Simon.

Simon against?

I like, we like the idea of a rematch.

-Yeah.

-Oh, thanks a... Thanks!

Sorry!

No, that's fine, no, Judith, OK.

So, Simon from Tease and Seize goes

in to bat again against Judith from the Eggheads.

A bit of a grudge thing going on here.

Yeah, I know, another one!

Last time it was the geographer on Geography.

Let's see whether you can do it this time, Judith.

To ensure there is no conferring, would you please

take your positions in our legendary Question Room?

All right, so let's see, this is a key thing here.

You've got to level the scores with Judith

after your last outing on Celebrity Eggheads. And, Simon,

would you like to go first or second on Politics?

I will go first, if you will forgive me, please, Judith.

Here is your first question, Simon.

In 2009, which word did David Cameron famously use

to describe his party's policy of reducing public spending?

OK, erm, David Cameron, I remember him,

he was Prime Minister once, wasn't he?

Now, it's not prudence, because that was Gordon Brown's catchphrase.

Thriftiness doesn't sound right,

so I'm going to go for just plain old austerity.

Austerity is quite right. Well done, Simon.

Judith, which of these politicians was born first?

Oh, well, George Osborne is only about 40-something,

Zac Goldsmith is probably about the same.

It must be Jeremy Corbyn.

You should just go for the greyest hair.

-Exactly.

-It's a very good way of quizzing.

-The grey beard.

-Jeremy Corbyn is the answer.

Simon, which of these politicians

was a member of the Watergate inquiry

investigating whether Richard Nixon should be impeached in the 1970s?

Let's have a think.

Barack Obama, far too young.

Dan Quayle could conceivably have been,

but Hillary Clinton may have done it.

It's between those two.

Which is oldest out of Hillary and Dan?

I'm going to go for Dan Quayle.

It's Hillary!

-Hillary Clinton.

-Sorry, everybody.

All right. Not to worry, but it's Hillary Clinton, so Judith

has a chance to take the lead here.

For what does the Government acronym JAM or J-A-M stand in terms of

people who are able to pay their bills, but with little to spare?

Oh, this is Theresa May's thing, isn't it?

It's just about managing.

It is just about managing, well done.

So she takes the lead and it means

you need to get this one right, Simon.

Which Labour MP and one-time member of the Shadow Cabinet was a reporter

and political editor for GMTV before entering politics?

Well, I'm going to go for Gloria.

Gloria de Piero is quite right, you're absolutely right,

she was a great broadcaster and went into politics after that,

so you've saved the day for now,

but Judith can take the round with this question.

Who became the president of the European Council in 2014?

-In 2014?

-2014.

That's Donald Tusk.

Donald Tusk is the right answer, Judith.

Three out of three. Sorry, Simon.

There we are,

she just whistled past you,

I'm afraid, and has left you at the roadside.

Certainly has. Well done, Judith.

Please return to us and we'll play on.

All right, so a little bit of a knock for our celebs here,

Tease and Seize have lost a brain,

they've lost the brilliant Simon from the final round.

The Eggheads are still sitting there and Judith is proving

a little bit hard to conquer, isn't she?

The next subject for you is Arts & Books.

We have two English graduates here, right?

It's one of us. How do you feel, Rebecca?

I feel quite stupid today.

-Good answer!

-You and me both.

Listen, Chris, you've got to decide here.

I am going to go for...

Jasmine.

-Oh, phew!

-OK, Jasmine.

All right, before you get up, choose an Egghead.

Oh, no. I would say Beth because she's a scientist, but that's mean.

That's true, yes.

-My husband's a scientist and rubbish on books.

-Oh, go on, you are all

equally amazing, so I will go for Beth because,

yes, we're hoping that, being a scientist,

that's your strength and not the other, but I bet it will be.

All right, very diplomatic.

Let's see, Jasmine from Tease and Seize

takes on Beth from the Eggheads.

Please, go to the Question Room.

Here we go, Jasmine, would you like to go first or second against Beth?

I think I'd better go first, thank you.

Good luck, Jasmine.

Your first question, which of these was created first?

Well, I think it's going to have to be Shakespeare.

I mean, it was a few hundred years ago, Hockney is still around,

TS Eliot was around last century, so, yes,

I'm going to go for Romeo And Juliet,

both by Shakespeare, thank you.

I was just watching Rebecca's face for if you got it wrong,

I thought that was going to be great! You're right,

Romeo And Juliet by Shakespeare.

They may get harder. Beth,

what is the name of the vampire who is a central character in the

Twilight series of books?

Played by Robert Pattinson in the films and it's Edward Cullen.

Edward Cullen is quite right, Beth, well done.

Jasmine, which artist is often quoted as saying,

"It took me four years to paint like Rafael,

"but a lifetime to paint like a child"?

I really don't think it was Turner,

I'm a big fan of Turner and I don't think you could ever accuse him of

painting like a child.

It would make sense that it would be Picasso,

cos I've seen some of his,

if you like, proper drawings as well as his signature work, so yeah,

I'd go for Picasso.

Picasso is right. Well done, Jasmine, two out of two.

Picasso it is. OK, Beth.

Your question. "I met a traveller from an antique land"

is the opening line of which poem

by Percy Bysshe Shelley?

Oh, I wish I knew the quote better,

but I think this might be familiar to you,

Jeremy, in some form or another.

It's Ozymandias.

Ozymandias is correct, and yes,

I was on Pointless and this came up and I just drew an utter blank on it

so I then went and looked it up.

Ozymandias is right, well done.

Two-two. Right, Jasmine,

in which English city was an offshoot of

the Old Vic Theatre established in 1946?

Um, I would guess...

We definitely still have Bristol Old Vic.

I haven't heard of Exeter Old Vic or Plymouth,

so I'm going to go for Bristol.

Bristol Old Vic is right, well done. Three out of three, playing well.

Your team are excited.

As excited as consumer journalists get!

-Now, so, Beth, you've got to get this right to stay in.

-Yep.

We've got a little bit of pressure on the Egghead here. Let's see if she cracks.

A Good Man In Africa, which won the Whitbread award in 1981,

was the debut novel of which writer?

Whitbread, 1981...

They've all been going a long time.

I know novels by Ian McEwan

and novels by Julian Barnes, neither of...

Neither...

None of them have the title that you mentioned.

It doesn't mean to say that they haven't written a book called that.

I'm going for William Boyd.

-William Boyd is right.

-Hurray!

Born in Accra in Ghana.

So, three questions each, the scores are level.

Sudden Death!

Exactly, Adam, we go to Sudden Death.

You've seen the show. It gets a bit harder, Jasmine,

I don't give you alternatives.

Which French actor and playwright wrote the 17th-century comedy,

The Bourgeois Gentleman?

I think that must be Moliere.

Moliere is correct!

Well done, Jasmine!

-Thank you.

-Beth, to stay in,

a private view of an art exhibition is sometimes called a vernissage.

This being the French word for which procedure?

I think I might be sitting here in the final round. Erm...

Vernissage...

Oh, I don't know. A face-lift.

It's... Face-lift is your answer?

-Yeah.

-It's from when people could come in to see the artist doing the

finishing touches to things that

they were showing off when the exhibition opened

and they were often varnishing, and varnishing is the answer.

-Oh, I see.

-So well done, Jasmine!

Hey!

No doubt about it, that was no fluke, you won.

Well done. You've taken on an Egghead

and you've beaten Beth and Beth is out,

so please return to us, both of you, and we'll play the next round.

Well, well, well, Tease and Seize have lost a brain from the final round

but the Eggheads had a brain knocked out as well,

and the next subject is Sport.

I'm thinking this could be an easier decision for the captain.

Yes.

-I was so fearing that.

-A bit obvious, a bit obvious.

-Go on.

-Sadly, it's me.

I think you're going to be great on this.

Now, what are you going to do?

You've got Dave, Steve or Kevin left,

Kevin known as the Grand Master.

Do you want to hurl yourself at the biggest brain in the world?

Jeremy, I will take on the biggest brain in the history of quizzing.

JEREMY CHUCKLES

In the round of Sport. Kevin, you're mine.

Chris from Tease and Seize takes on Kevin.

A major tactical strike here by the consumer journalists.

Please, go to the Question Room now.

Good luck.

On Sport, Chris, would you like to go first or second?

I'll go first.

Too early for the head in the hands!

Team captain, here we go, your first question, in professional boxing,

cruiserweight comes between light heavyweight and which other weight class?

It's...

..either between middleweight or heavyweight.

Um...

I'm going to say middleweight.

Kevin, can you help here?

It was one that was created quite late in the day, really, as

a way of heavyweights who weren't quite as heavyweight as some others.

It's a good start. Really enjoyed it.

-So the answer is heavyweight.

-Heavyweight is the answer, Chris.

Thanks for getting me on my favourite subject of boxing.

OK, Kevin, your question.

The men's England team went undefeated for the

whole of 2016 in which of these sports?

Well, it's certainly not football.

And...

As between the other two...

No, I don't think they've had the best of years in cricket either,

so rugby union.

Rugby union is correct.

I know you knew that, Chris.

Yep, boxing or that question, what a swizz!

Right, here is your question,

the Russian footballer Lev Yashin played in which position?

Are you serious?

Lev Yashin.

I'm going to say right midfield.

Right midfield, let's see if your team-mates know.

Team-mates?

Goalkeeper, but he actually played for the Soviet Union,

not Russia, at the time.

Yes, but he was Russian.

-OK, right, fair enough.

-The question is the Russian footballer...

-Yeah.

-..Lev Yashin played in which position? Simon does know.

I wanted to say goalkeeper.

-Goalkeeper is right.

-Oh, good. I'm glad I didn't go for that one.

Goalkeeper is right.

OK, well, this is looking a bit sticky here, Mr Hollins.

Kevin, if he gets this right, will be in the final round.

Here we go, Kevin, with your question.

Who was the captain of Great Britain's victorious

Davis Cup team in 2015?

Well, there are a couple of great British

tennis names from the '70s and

'80s there with John Lloyd and Roger Taylor,

but I think that the Davis Cup captain was, uh...

Scot... Leon Smith.

Leon Smith is the right answer.

Sorry, Chris. I'm sorry.

No way back. Kevin, you're in the final round. Chris, I'm sorry,

you've been knocked out. Please return to us now.

As it stands, Tease and Seize have lost

a couple of brains from the final round.

The Eggheads have only lost one.

The next subject for you is Film and TV, so who would like this?

It's between Adam and Rebecca.

It has to be Adam, doesn't it?

He has... He has...

Very much so, yes.

Yeah, let's do this.

Adam against who?

Now, it's Steve and Dave left.

The two on the left.

I don't think you should do Dave.

You instinctively don't think I should do Dave?

-Yeah, I don't know why. I like Dave.

-I'm going to trust your instinct

based upon zero evidence whatsoever.

I'm going to go for Steve.

All right, good, Adam from Tease and Seize

versus one of our newer Eggheads, Steve.

To ensure there is no conferring, please, for the last time,

go to our Question Room.

Well good luck here, It's Film and TV, Adam,

and would you like to go first or second against Steve?

I will go first, please.

Here is your first question.

What is the name of the character

in the TV comedy Fawlty Towers who comes from Barcelona?

That would be Manuel.

It is indeed, Manuel, played by the great Andrew Sachs.

Steve, in EastEnders,

Ian Beale survived a 1996 assassination attempt

orchestrated by which of his wives?

Soaps...

No. Right.

I think Jane might have been more recent,

Melanie I don't even know,

but I do know Cindy was in it for quite a while,

hopefully around that era,

so on a wing and a prayer, I'll say Cindy.

Cindy is right!

Oh, I thought he was going to come unstuck there,

Adam, but he had just enough.

Here's your second question.

Which character in Game Of Thrones is played by Alfie Allen?

I am probably the only person on the planet

that doesn't watch Game Of Thrones.

I'm going to have to guess.

Robb Stark.

Robb Stark is your answer.

Who's the biggest Game Of Thrones fans here?

-Here.

-Rebecca?

Yeah. I would have said Theon Greyjoy.

Yeah, it is Theon Greyjoy.

Oh, sorry!

All right, Steve, to take the lead,

who's been the main presenter of the BBC show Daily Politics since its

launch in 2003?

Erm, a lot of Andrews there.

Well, I know...

Rightly or wrongly, I'm going to discount Andrew Castle.

I think he's more sporting, tennis, that sort of stuff.

I'm going to opt for Andrew Marr.

That must be wrong, then.

What? The answer is Andrew Neil.

-Oh.

-That's handy.

-Didn't know.

Right, focus now, Adam, here we go.

Get this one right, it puts some pressure on Steve.

Who knows? You can level it up going into the final round.

Who is the creator of the TV drama series Cold Feet?

Simply cos the name just rings a bell

and the one that jumped out at me straightaway was Steven Moffat.

I'm going to go with that, final answer, Steven Moffat.

Mike Bullen is the answer.

Oh.

Mike Bullen is the answer there.

Steve, you have a chance to take the round.

Who directed the 1952 film High Noon?

Fred Zinneman.

Is he right, Adam? Do you know this one?

-Yeah, he's right.

-Fred Zinnemann is the right answer,

you're in the final round. Sorry, Adam, you've been knocked out.

Come back to us and we'll play that final round.

What a game. This is what we have been playing towards.

It is time for the Final Round, which,

as always, is General Knowledge,

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

won't be allowed to take part in this round,

so, I'm afraid, Chris, Adam and Simon from the Tease and Seize

and also Beth from the Eggheads, I have to ask you to leave the studio.

Good luck here, Rebecca, Jasmine.

-Thanks.

-You're playing to win for your team, Tease and Seize, £5,000.

Bear in mind other celebs have fallen at this stage

so there's no shame in losing, but I think you can win this.

Dave, Steve, Kevin, Judith, we know how much this means to you,

cos your reputation is on the line.

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

They're all General Knowledge.

You can confer.

So, Rebecca and Jasmine, the question is,

can your two consumer journalist brains defeat

these four, huge egg-sized ones over here?

Would you like to go first or second?

-Do you want to go first?

-Let's go first.

-We want to go first.

-Yes.

Good luck, both.

In 2010,

which DJ took over as the host of BBC Radio 2's

Drivetime slot from Chris Evans?

So, before Jeremy gave the options,

I was going to say Chris Evans!

-Oh, right!

-He's in the question!

Well, Steve Wright is Steve Wright In The Afternoon,

Steve Wright is Steve Wright In The Afternoon,

I'm sometimes on his show.

Zane, I think he's in the morning.

Simon Mayo I know does... after Steve Wright, so yeah,

that must be Drivetime.

-Simon Mayo, please.

-Simon Mayo.

It would be so embarrassing if you got this wrong, but you haven't.

Simon Mayo is right. I mean, not for you,

but I would have to go and explain to him.

First question in the final round to our Eggheads here.

The 2015 hit What Do You Mean was the first UK number one single

for which pop singer?

Justin Bieber.

-Is it Bieber?

-Definitely.

-Have you got the fever?

We've got the fever, here,

for Justin Bieber, please.

-So you are a Belieber?

-No, not at all.

Justin Bieber is quite right.

We go back to our Challengers.

How many countries share a border with Kenya?

SHE LAUGHS NERVOUSLY

-Kenya has a coast.

-Yes, so if you've got Tanzania...

-I don't know.

-I'd say five.

-I'd say five.

Because it's big. Look at my geography.

-Yes!

-It's big and it's on the corner.

I did geography at A-level.

It can't be eight. Shall we just go five?

Yeah, why not? I'm really sorry, my geography teacher.

-Me, too.

-We're going to go for five.

-Five is the answer.

-Yes!

-Yay!

-Well done.

-We knew that,

all that fluffing was just

-for...

-Just fluff, as you say.

-..for entertainment.

OK, Eggheads, here we go.

Which of the Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World

was located in Ephesus?

-Temple of Artemis.

-Temple of Artemis. Happy with that?

-Yeah.

Temple of Artemis, are you happy with that?

-Yep.

-We're going to go for the Temple of Artemis, please.

Temple of Artemis is quite right.

OK, this is great,

you're playing fantastically well. The Latin phrase

used mainly in the US to describe the highest of the three

designations for above average achievement in academic examinations

is summa cum what?

-Laude.

-Let's do it like them.

Laude.

Yeah, we totally know this.

-Laude.

-And then if we are wrong...

Yes! So laude is right.

-Yes!

-Thank you.

-Three out of three.

-Yay!

-Whoo!

-No trouble.

-Are you all proud?

-Well done. Great stuff.

Your third question, Eggheads,

we've got a bit of a history with third questions recently.

£5,000 we're playing for.

In 2015, who became the first man to have been manager of both Newcastle

and Sunderland football clubs?

It's definitely Sam Allardyce, isn't it?

Sam Allardyce has managed both teams.

-Moyes hasn't.

-Moyes hasn't managed Newcastle.

Alan Pardew has just managed Newcastle.

Sam Allardyce has definitely managed Newcastle and Sunderland.

-OK.

-Is that our answer?

-Judith, are you happy with that?

-Yep.

We're going to go for Sam Allardyce, please, Jeremy.

Sam Allardyce is right.

We go to Sudden Death. You know what this is like, Jasmine.

-Yep.

-Gets a bit harder. I don't give you alternatives,

but you can confer, OK?

You've got each other. Here's your question.

After seeing her in a 1946 play,

to which actress did Agatha Christie drop a note saying,

"I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple"?

It'll be Angela Lansbury.

Yes, Angela Lansbury would fit with the timeline.

In my head, it came up as Angela Rippon, which is wrong!

So, yes, who was the more white-haired old lady that did it?

It wouldn't be Margaret Rutherford?

I mean, she played it.

-Did you say Margaret Rutherford?

-Margaret Rutherford.

Definitely, she played it?

-Oh, yes.

-Well, then, shall we just do it?

-Go for it.

-Margaret Rutherford.

OK, let us check with the Eggheads.

-Oh, that means we got it wrong!

-Is it Margaret Rutherford?

I would have said so. I would have said Margaret Rutherford.

I've got a strange idea that

quite early in her career, Agatha Christie looked at Joan Hickson,

and thought, who famously played her for a long time on TV, and thought,

she had the right quality to do it, so I think it's Joan Hickson,

but I'm not certain.

Joan Hickson is the right answer.

That's what Kevin does.

All right, Eggheads, you can take the contest with this question.

In 1906,

the term muckraker for a journalist who exposes the ills of society was

popularised by which US President?

-Teddy Roosevelt.

-1906.

1906, Teddy Roosevelt was...

Theodore Roosevelt was president.

-Let's just go for...

-I think it is, actually.

You think it's Theodore Roosevelt there, because...

I think he's the one who came up with it.

And it's the right time.

Right in the middle of his office.

Because, obviously, he came in in 1901

after the assassination, didn't he?

So, are you happy with that?

-Yep.

-Theodore Roosevelt?

-Yes.

-We're going to go for Theodore Roosevelt, please.

If you've got this right, the contest is over.

In 1906, the term muckraker was coined by Theodore Roosevelt.

You're right. We say congratulations, Eggheads,

you have won!

Oh, wow!

Well, commiserations. Oh, my goodness, I can feel it here.

Tease and Seize have lost, but not really.

They did so well. The Eggheads have, in the end,

vanquished the Challengers, done what comes naturally.

Barely any questions wrong from you, Eggheads,

and you reign supreme over celebrity quizland still.

It does mean you don't win the £5,000,

so the money rolls over to our next celebrity show.

Eggheads, congratulations.

I wonder if you will be taken down by one of these celebs teams?

Who knows? Join us next time to see

if a new team of Challengers can do it.

They will be trying very hard.

Maybe not as hard as this team, who were amazing.

£6,000 will be there to play for. Until then, goodbye.