Episode 6 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.

And challenging the quizzing prowess of the Eggheads today are...

Now, not wanting to put pressure on them,

but this team is striving to uphold the quizzing reputation of the BBC's

Children's Department, in particular two stalwarts of the schedules,

Blue Peter and Newsround - and they have promised not to utter

the words, "That's a bit before my time, Jeremy."

Let's meet them.

Hello, I'm Katie Thistleton.

I'm a presenter and author, and if you're a child, you'll probably

know me from the bits in-between the shows on CBBC,

and I occasionally do some presenting on BBC Radio 1 as well.

Hi, my name's Radzi Chingyanganya and I'm very proud to say that I'm

a Blue Peter presenter, and when I'm not doing that,

I'm either presenting in sport or Songs Of Praise.

Hello, my name is Hayley Hassall. If you're under the age of 12,

you probably know me from Newsround on CBBC.

Otherwise you may have seen me

reporting for Panorama or The One Show.

Hello, I'm Martin Dougan, and I'm a children's BBC presenter.

You'll see me on programmes like Newsround and The Let's Go Club.

Hi, I'm Ayshah Tull.

You might know me from Newsround, I'm one of the presenters.

If I'm not doing that, then I'm out travelling or playing netball.

So, Katie and team, hello.

-Hello.

-Hi.

-Hi!

-Good to see you.

Katie, you're leading a serious team here, I can see.

Yeah, I don't really know how that happened.

I don't feel like I'm the leader. But, yeah...

-You are now.

-Yeah, you are.

-As the skipper,

have you got some kind of battle plan or something like that?

Erm, no, I would quite like to do music, I think,

but we'll have to fight over that one.

I think we all sort of want music and film and TV,

and none of the others, basically, so we're going to have to fight.

Yeah, cos I'm thinking, Radzi,

that some of the stuff that you guys will be very good at,

which is probably music in the last ten years,

is a bit exposing for them, actually.

Yeah, I think we've got a lot of specialist knowledge,

but that's around a very, very small gamut of information,

so if that comes up, I think we're going to smash it,

but we're not feeling too confident, to be honest.

But good early use of the word "gamut", that's good.

He always comes up with random words like that!

Radzi, have you watched the show before?

Do you know what you're dealing with here?

Absolutely, and I'm looking over at Kevin because this man is the

greatest quizzer on the planet, and so we're going to take him on!

Radzi really wants to take on Kevin because I think

Radzi's probably the most competitive out of all of us,

he's the sporty one, he likes a challenge,

so I think you want to take on Kevin, don't you?

You've got to take on the greatest.

It's like, if I'm going to do the 100 metres, take on Usain Bolt!

It's a great team, thank you so much for coming in,

it's great to see you, very exciting for us, actually.

Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs for our

Challengers' chosen charity.

However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money

rolls over to the next show.

So, Big Kids, the Eggheads have won the last five games

against the celebrities,

which sets you up in some ways rather nicely, looking on the bright

-side here, cos it means they've built up a jackpot of £6,000...

-Wow!

..which you can steal from them by defeating them today.

Simple as that.

The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Sport.

-Ooh...

-So, you need to choose one of yourselves to play,

and then you play against either Judith, Kevin, Beth, Chris or Dave.

-OK, well, I think, did we say Radzi or Martin for this?

-Radzi, Martin.

Radzi, I think perhaps you're going to take this on.

-Aye, Radz, I think you've got it.

-I'm up for this, yeah, bring it on.

-I'll take this on, please, Jeremy.

-Radzi, straight into the breach, OK.

Well, I think we do know who you're going to pick, do we?

-Yeah, we know already.

-It's going to be the great man. Kevin, please.

I love that you love the show, it's brilliant.

Radzi from the Big Kids is going to take on the grand master,

as we call him, Kevin from the Eggheads, on Sport.

To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions now in

the legendary Question Room.

OK, Sport, Radzi, good luck here, really rooting for you.

-Do you want to go first or second?

-Erm, I'll go first, please.

And here we go.

Which tennis Grand Slam tournament is played on a clay surface?

Radzi, is it...

So I know the US and the Australian Open are played on hard courts,

Wimbledon's grass, so the French, which I think is called the

Ronald Garros, is played on clay, so I'll go with the French Open please.

Quite right. French Open, well done. Good stuff, Radzi.

OK, Kevin, over to you.

How many other people were in his boat when the rower

Steve Redgrave won the fifth Olympic gold medal of his career?

Right, so that's, obviously being the fifth, that's, erm,

the sort of end of his run there,

and by that stage, he was part of a pair, so the answer would be one.

-No, Kevin.

-Mm?

-No. Have I misunderstood something here?

Well, I think you've misrecalled something.

-Dave was shaking his head.

-Dave?

Yeah, well, the fifth one was in 2000 in Sydney,

and he was with three other people. It was the coxless fours.

-It's the coxless fours...

-Ah, OK.

-..Kevin, 2000 in Sydney.

-OK, misunderstood.

-Game on, Radzi!

-Yeah.

JEREMY LAUGHS

I've gone 1-0 up

and if that's all I get, I'll take it at this point, Jeremy.

Listen, get the next two right, you knock out Kevin,

and they could go down like a pack of cards.

Here's your question.

Which of these golfers, born in 1955, spent a total of 331 weeks

as the world's number one ranked male golfer in the 1980s and '90s?

So golf isn't one of my areas of expertise, it has to be said.

It's not Tiger Woods because he was late '90s, early noughties,

You mentioned two decades, I think it's going to have to be a great.

So I'm going to go, with hesitation, with Jack Nicklaus.

It's Greg Norman.

Sorry, you got it wrong. We go to Kevin.

The Nigerian-born Herbie Hide is a former world champion in

which sport?

Er, he, I think he... was based in East Anglia

if I remember correctly.

Anyway, he was a boxer. He was a heavyweight boxer.

Boxing is quite right. So, let's see, level after two.

Third question now.

Lucy Bronze, who featured on the 12-person short list for

the 2015 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award,

is a famous name in which sport?

It's amazing being here.

All of a sudden, all knowledge just escapes the brain.

I know it's not athletics.

She doesn't ring any bells in cycling.

I'm pretty sure the answer's football.

If I was sat at home in my armchair, I'd be 99% it's football,

so I'm going to go football.

I love the way you just put yourself in

a different place there to focus the mind.

Football's right, Radzi. Well done.

-Yay!

-Really good. That's a very tough question.

Get this wrong, Kevin, and you will have been knocked out.

In 2014, which rugby league player became the first man to be

sent off in a Super League Grand Final?

No, that one's got me, I'm afraid.

Rugby league is not a...particular speciality.

I honestly don't know,

so I'm going to go down the middle with Ben Flower.

-Dave?

-Very happy with that. Yeah, it was Ben Flower.

Ben Flower is the right answer, Kevin. Well done.

After three questions, the scores are level. Oh, Radzi!

-You ran him so close there!

-I've had Yoda on the ropes, but I'm happy.

-I'll be honest, I'm happy.

-Well, look, it's poised now.

Sudden Death, we go to. Gets a bit harder.

I don't give you alternatives.

In 2016, England's one day international cricket captain

Eoin Morgan made the controversial decision not to take part in

his team's tour of which Asian country?

Cricket is not an area of knowledge for me.

Probably that and golf are my two worst,

so I'm now trying to think where the one day internationals would

even happen at and...India, Pakistan, Bangladesh,

are ringing a bell, Sri Lanka maybe.

Um...

Going to go for...

..India.

-Kevin, do you know?

-I think it's Bangladesh.

Bangladesh is the answer.

-OK.

-For security reasons. Kevin, to take the round.

From 2004 to 2008, which male tennis star set a record

of 237 consecutive weeks as the world's number one ranked player?

Well, if it's between 2004 and 2008,

it was towards the end of that period

that Rafa Nadal started to come in and contest it really,

but from 2004 onwards, and I think he won his first Grand Slam

maybe in 2003, I think it would have been Roger Federer.

So, Roger Federer.

For the round. Roger Federer is the right answer. Well done, Kevin.

Sorry, Radzi. Played well there.

-I enjoyed it.

-We got a couple of your blind spots there, didn't we?

Absolutely. That's what this game's all about though.

I took on the great man and I lost,

but hopefully I gave him a good fight.

That's very sporting of you. Well done.

Come back and we will play Round Two.

So, a little bit of early trouble for our celebs.

The Big Kids have lost one brain from the final round.

They've lost Radzi.

The Eggheads are all sitting there, a little bit too smug, I think.

-The next subject is Geography.

-Oh!

-Who's the traveller?

-Oh, no!

Ayshah, we said you'd take this one for the team!

-This is my worst nightmare.

-Ayshah, is it you?

-It is, unfortunately, me! I'm going to have to.

-You or Martin.

You've got a geography degree, haven't you?

I do have a geography degree. That doesn't necessarily help.

And in fact, it makes it more embarrassing if I get it wrong.

I can see my geography teacher going, "Are you serious?!"

Yes, I know what you mean cos that does put the pressure on,

but anyway, if it's you, do you want to choose somebody?

Anyone but Kevin.

-I choose Judith.

-You may.

-I haven't done Geography for ages.

-You like a little jaunt.

Yes, I like a little jaunt!

That's made me feel worse for my decision, but, yeah.

Ayshah, from Big Kids,

playing Judith from the Eggheads, on Geography.

Let's see what happens. Please take your positions.

Good luck in this round, Ayshah.

Geography. We'll pass over your degree in geography.

I don't want to put the pressure on you.

-Do you want to go first or second?

-I'll go first.

And here we go. Good luck against Judith.

Exmoor National Park stretches from Somerset into which other county?

Um, this is where being a Londoner really doesn't help,

in not knowing much outside the M25.

It's going to have to be a complete guess. And I'll say West Sussex.

OK.

-It's Devon.

-Oh, how annoying!

-I know!

-How annoying!

-I'm so annoyed with Devon now.

OK, Judith, your question.

Which body of water separates Hampshire from the Isle of Wight?

That is the Solent.

It is the Solent, Judith.

I thought you were going to slip up on that.

Ayshah, which of these volcanoes is on an Italian island?

Um, I would have thought Hekla doesn't necessarily sound...

Italian. I would've...

My instinct was Stromboli, but I'm not sure.

I'm going to go with Stromboli.

I'm so glad you did. Stromboli is the right answer. Well done.

That's good.

OK, Judith. Melbourne is the capital of which Australian state?

I'm so bad... Well, it's definitely not Tasmania cos that's Hobart.

Um, well, Melbourne was a great favourite of Queen Victoria.

I think I'm going to say Victoria.

-On the basis that Queen Victoria liked Melbourne?

-Yes.

That's good enough for me. Victoria's right.

-Oh, thank goodness for that!

-Ah!

All right. You can pull back with this question.

Ayshah, which of these countries is the smallest by area?

I would have thought Sudan's quite big by area, from what I know.

Ah, it's between Spain and South Korea really, I think.

I'm going to say South Korea.

Radzi, do you like that?

-I think so.

-Radzi likes it and it's right. South Korea is correct.

-Yes!

-Good!

Two out of three, well done. OK, Judith.

If you get this wrong, Judith, we go to Sudden Death.

The town of Stroud is in which English county?

The dreaded Devon again. Um, it's in Gloucestershire.

My daughter-in-law lives in it.

-She lives in Stroud?

-Yes.

-Gosh!

-Lucky!

-That is so annoying! LAUGHTER

That's really annoying!

So there's no doubt here, is there?

I can't even do any tension moment here.

Gloucestershire's the right answer, Judith. Well done.

You're in the final round. Sorry, Ayshah, but you played well.

It's funny cos in a way, the easiest one was the first one

and you got the two harder ones right, so well done.

Come back to us, rejoin your teams. We'll play Round Three.

OK, as it stands, the Big Kids have lost two brains from the

final round, the Eggheads have not lost any, so now's the time.

This is the moment for the comeback now.

-Come on!

-Come on, guys! The next subject for you is Science.

-I said I'd take one for the team with science.

-OK, Katie.

But I'm not basing that on anything.

Hayley, do you think you'd be better than me at science?

No, of course not! You're wonderful!

-I don't know anything about science, but none of us do.

-OK.

So you've had a bit of battle planning.

So, Katie, the team captain, goes into the breach,

against which Egghead?

And it can be any of the three on the left there.

Dave and I are both from the same neck of the woods,

-so I was thinking we could have a bit of a Manchester off.

-Yeah.

Mancunian versus Mancunian.

-So, yeah, Dave?

-I'll go for Dave.

-All right, good.

Katie, from the Big Kids, versus Dave, Tremendous Knowledge Dave,

as we call him, from the Eggheads.

To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions.

All right, good luck on science, Katie.

You can choose whether you go first or second.

Let's hope you can turn it around here.

I'll go second and see how that works out for me.

Dave, your first question.

What common name is given to the sac that encloses the human heart?

Sac is S-A-C.

That's the pericardium.

It is the pericardium. All right. Katie.

For what does the first S stand in the name of the respiratory

illness known as SARS?

S-A-R-S.

Well, I want to say severe.

I'm going to go with my gut instinct and say severe.

OK, let's check with Beth cos she will know this. Beth?

Yes, it is severe. It stands for severe acute respiratory syndrome.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome, says Beth. Well done, Katie.

-Thank you.

-OK, Dave, your question.

"I have not failed 10,000 times.

"I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work,"

is a quote attributed to which inventor?

I'm not particularly sure about this,

but I've not heard of that from James Dyson.

I'm going to discount Henry Ford and go for Thomas Edison.

And you're right. Well done. Thomas Edison.

Katie, here's your question.

Which breed of dog, famous for having loose wrinkly skin,

has a name from the Chinese for sand skin?

Hm, I know a shar pei does have very loose, wrinkly skin.

I think a chow has more sort of fluffy fur.

I'm not really sure about saluki,

although they all sound like they could be...right.

I think I'm going to go with shar pei.

Your dog knowledge has stood you in good stead. Shar pei is right.

-Well done. Two out of two.

-Thank you.

Dave, the British doctor Sir Ronald Ross received the Nobel Prize

in 1902 for his work on which disease?

Always get these confused, but I'm going to go, in this case,

for malaria, please.

Malaria is quite right. OK.

3-2, cos you let him go first, Katie.

So the pressure's on a little bit.

You need this right to stay in.

Cytology is the scientific study of what?

I don't really know. Could be any.

I'm going to just go for cells, please.

-Do you like that, team-mates?

-Yes!

They like it, you're right. Well done!

-Three out of three for you both.

-Yes!

-Right, OK, Dave, we go to Sudden Death. You go first.

-Yeah.

And it gets a bit harder.

There are two elements in the periodic table whose names

begin and end with the letter N.

Neon and which other?

Nitrogen.

Nitrogen is quite right, Dave.

Katie.

Sudden Death.

The subfamily of birds called Picinae, known for their loud

drumming, are more commonly known by what name in Britain?

A woodpecker?

-Woodpecker's right!

-Yes!

Great!

OK, Sudden Death. Equal.

Back to you, Dave.

What is the atomic number of Oxygen?

Oh, I could get this wrong.

It's one of two.

No, I'm not going to change my mind. Eight.

Eight is right.

So, Dave has got it right. It's Sudden Death we're on.

Katie, in 2016, which country launched the spacecraft

Hitomi to observe X-rays in space?

It's H-I-T-O-M-I.

H-I-T-O-M-I.

Is it Russia?

Hitomi is Japan.

Oh, I was going to say Japan!

-I'm gutted!

-Oh, Katie!

Oh, Dave is through to the final round, but well done.

-Thank you.

-Well played.

-You've done really well.

Beaten by our Egghead, so as a result, not in the final.

One more round to play. Please return to us.

OK, Big Kids have lost a third brain now from the final round.

The Eggheads are still all there.

The next subject is Film & TV.

-There we go.

-Oh, nice one. Now we're talking.

-Do you want me to go?

-Just win it for me.

-I'll go. I'll take the Film.

-I'll take Film & TV.

-OK, Martin.

Newsround presenter. Against which Egghead?

-And you can have Chris or Beth.

-I'll have Chris, please.

OK, so Martin from the Big Kids,

taking on Chris from the Eggheads. Film & TV the subject.

For the last time, please go to the Question Room.

So you've been watching the team going in to bat here, Martin.

What's been going through your mind?

I'm hoping... I really want to win. I'm getting quite competitive.

All right, brilliant.

Film & TV, Martin. Do you want to go first or second against Chris?

I'm going to go first, please.

So, good luck getting yourself in the final, so Hayley's not alone.

Here's your question.

The Pontipines and Wottingers are characters in which

children's TV show?

I just know for a fact that my six-year-old daughter Jessica

is screaming at the TV right now. She's like, "Daddy! I know this!"

I don't think it's Justin's House.

I don't think it's Peppa Pig because the amount of Peppa Pig

I've watched over the last six years is unbelievable.

I could be wrong. But I'm going to say In The Night Garden.

That was my initial thought

I don't know where it's coming from, but I hope I'm right.

-You are right. In The Night Garden. Well done.

-Ah!

Well done. Well done. You can go home.

Your daughter will be proud.

Chris, which film studio made the 2016 animated film Finding Dory?

That is from Pixar.

It is from Pixar. Have you seen it?

-No, of course not.

-No. Not yet.

-Silly question.

OK. Back to you, Martin.

Which real life figure has been played on screen by, among others,

Kurt Russell, Bruce Campbell, and Don Johnson?

Is this...?

Um, and I don't why but I can just see Kurt Russell playing

Elvis Presley, so I'm going to go straight down the middle,

and I'm going to go Elvis Presley.

Elvis Presley is correct. Well done.

Chris,

the Back To The Future films are set in which town?

Ah, well, tautology, it's Hill Valley.

-It is Hill Valley.

-Mm.

Martin, over to you.

You're doing well. Two out of two. Your third question.

Which TV drama series won a record breaking 38th Primetime

Emmy Award in 2016?

Um, I don't think it's House of Cards.

Something's pulling me towards Downton Abbey.

But it could be Game of Thrones.

But again, for the third time,

I'm just going to go with my instinct and go with Downton Abbey.

Downton Abbey.

-It's Game of Thrones.

-Argh!

So, Game of Thrones is the answer.

It's 2-2. Chris has a question in hand. Chris, your question.

Who plays the role of Carol Vanstone in the 2016 film

Office Christmas Party?

Sounds like the sort of thing Jennifer Aniston would do,

so I'd say Jennifer Aniston.

Jennifer Aniston is the right answer, Chris.

-You got three out of three. Sorry, Martin.

-Oh!

Knocked out. I'm so sorry!

Return to us and we will play the final.

This is what we have been playing towards,

it is time for our final round. As always, 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.

And they're all from the Challengers' side.

So it's Katie and Radzi and Martin and Ayshah from the Big Kids.

Would you please now leave the studio?

OK, Hayley. How are you doing there? I know this wasn't quite the plan.

This is the worst thing that could have ever happened.

Right now, I'm living it.

-Nightmare.

-No, but in a way, it's the moment, isn't it?

Because they've all been in the booth and this is your solo moment.

I'm trying to get the positivity out of that, Jeremy,

-but I'm not getting anything.

-I'm trying to help.

You are playing to win the Big Kids £6,000.

Dave, Chris, Beth, Kevin, and Judith, you're playing for

something that money can't buy, the Eggheads' reputation.

So, as usual, I'm going to ask each team three questions in turn.

They're all General Knowledge.

You can confer. Sorry, that doesn't help you on your own.

Hayley, the question is, can your one brain defeat these five?

I bet it can. Would you like to go first or second?

I'll go first, please, Jeremy.

-OK, good luck, Hayley.

-Thank you.

The city of Reno, famous as a centre for gambling, is in which US state?

Is it...?

Gosh!

I've been to Nevada.

I can't remember it being there.

I want to say North Dakota.

I'm going to say North Dakota, but I have actually no idea.

OK, North Dakota.

Now, I'm just thinking here, you went to Las Vegas, did you,

-in Nevada?

-Yeah.

-Is that right? So, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Is Reno near Las Vegas or not?

-It's in the same state.

-Same state.

-Oh!

-It is in Nevada.

Argh!

Nevada is the answer, Hayley.

Eggheads, your question.

Which 1991 Nirvana album featured the song Smells Like Teen Spirit?

-Nevermind. Nevermind.

-Nevermind. Nevermind, definitely.

-Are we all positive?

-Yes, I think so.

-That's Nevermind, Jeremy.

Nevermind is the right answer.

-Now, I knew that one!

-I know. I know you knew that. I know you knew that.

OK, here's your question.

A shot of which spirit is drunk alongside or added to

a beer to make the drink called a Boilermaker?

I've no idea, but I'm just thinking that a Boilermaker would be hot and

hard-hitting, so I think whisky is the sort of thing that you

associate with warmth and strength, so I'm going to go whisky.

-Whisky is the right answer, Hayley.

-Wahey!

-Well done.

Good stuff. OK. Because it would be easy to go wrong on that one.

You did well. So, Eggheads, which British Overseas Territory

has the top level internet domain code .KY?

Hm, KY. Any immediate thoughts?

-No.

-No. Not yet.

-Nothing?

It's not the Channel Islands.

Do you think it's an alternative spelling for Cayman?

That's the closest thing I can come up with.

Maybe there's already a CY.

Chris is saying that Channel Islands is CI.

But why wouldn't that come under UK, .co.uk?

Would they have separate ones for Jersey and Guernsey?

-Yeah, they would, yeah.

-I don't know, but...

Yeah, is CY Cyprus?

It could well be, yeah.

-Could CY be Cyprus?

-They're quite arcane, the domain names.

KY could be the Cayman Islands?

CI, that would be Cote d'Ivoire, for instance.

Yeah, KY. Yeah, that sounds -

-that's as good as we've got really.

-Makes sense.

I can't see a reason why it would be the Falkland Islands.

-So far.

-OK. So, we eliminated Channel Islands cos it's not

a British Overseas Territory.

So that means we were left with the Falkland Islands and the

Cayman Islands. And going from the linguistic clues with the K,

we are going with the Cayman Islands.

.KY is the Cayman Islands, well done, Eggheads.

A little bit of careful work there.

-So, third question. You need to get this one right, Hayley.

-Right.

-No pressure.

-OK?

Which work of 19th century literature is largely

narrated by the characters Nelly Dean and Lockwood?

Wuthering Heights does start with the woman in the kitchen, talking.

So I'm going to say Wuthering Heights.

-Is she right?

-Mm.

-You're absolutely right. Well done.

-Oh, phew!

It's nerve-racking!

Yeah, and the funny thing was I'm sure you knew the Nevada in

-the back of your mind.

-Mm.

-Because of the Nevada answer earlier,

-they have a chance to win it on this question.

-Oh, of course.

If they get this wrong, we go to Sudden Death.

Playing well, Hayley. Don't worry. So, Eggheads, your third question.

For the contest.

The 2015 Kate Winslet film The Dressmaker is mainly set in

which country?

-It's Australia.

-Australia.

-Have you seen it?

-Yes.

Erm, this is a film based on a novel and it's set in Australia.

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

The correct answer is Australia.

We say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.

But the four of them in the back and you here alone doesn't do justice to

your great performance, cos round by round, they've really punched hard.

-Yes, very unfortunate.

-So, bad luck, Hayley and team.

-Thank you so much for coming in, everybody.

-Thank you.

Really enjoyed it. Seeing the Big Kids. Commiserations, players,

the Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.

This winning streak continues.

I'm afraid you haven't won the £6,000,

so the money rolls over to our next show. Eggheads, congratulations.

Will a team of celebrities one day undo you?

Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers

have the brains to defeat them.

£7,000 says they won't. Till then, goodbye.