Episode 7 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 - here they are.

The Eggheads. You feeling hungry for this, Eggs?

-Ravenous.

-Ravenous, they say.

Facing the unenviable task

of trying to topple our quiz geniuses today are...

This team is looking a bit tasty, and rightly so,

because they are drawn from the delicious world of food and drink.

Whether their quizzing is as good as their cuisine,

we shall have to wait and see.

Let's meet them.

I'm Oz Clark, I'm the wine man.

Or the beer man, or the gin man, or the cider man, or the whisky man.

Whatever you can drink, I should know the answer.

I used to spend my time on BBC Food And Drink,

telling the nation what to drink,

and more recently I've been hanging out with my hooligan friend

James May on Oz And James Drink To...

The World.

Hello, I'm Ed Baines, I'm the chef and co-owner of London's infamous

restaurant Randall & Aubin,

and best-known for judging on the cookery show Britain's Best Dish.

Hello, I'm Reza Mahammad, I'm a television chef.

You may have seen me in A Place In France,

Spice Prince Of India, and in Delhi Belly.

I'm Paul Rankin, a chef from Belfast.

I do a bit of telly sometimes.

Hello, I'm Jonathan Phang,

and I'm a food and travel writer and broadcaster.

You may know me from shows like "What's Cooking?", Market Kitchen,

and Gourmet Trains.

Oz and team, hello.

-Hello.

-Great to see you.

Oz, have you had some sort of battle-plan strategy session here?

Yeah, I've got the pints lined up in the nearest pub,

as soon as we finish.

We do have a round called Food & Drink.

I have no idea whether it is coming up,

so has there been a decision about who does that, for a start?

-They are going to do it.

-Oh, OK, somebody else.

It's... Everyone is saying, "Oh, I think I'll give it to someone else."

Good luck, Challengers.

We are already looking forward to this.

A great team of Challengers we've got here.

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

charity, however if the Challengers fail to defeat the Eggheads,

that prize money rolls over to our next celebrity show.

So, Bake That, the Eggheads have beaten the last six celebrity teams,

which could be good, in a way,

because it means the jackpot is £7,000 today.

-Would you like to try and win?

-Indeed.

-Good. Fantastic.

I'm rather relieved about that.

The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Arts & Books.

You can choose between Judith, Chris, Pat,

Steve, and Lisa on the far end.

-Who wants Arts & Books?

-Shall I do it?

-Go on.

-Reza. OK.

Have you read a book?

-No!

-I think he has!

I think he's going to be quite good.

Cookery books, yes.

Is there anyone you would like to take on?

-Steve.

-OK.

Reza from Bake That versus Steve.

To ensure there is no conferring,

would you take your positions in our legendary Question Room.

Good luck in this round. It is Arts & Books,

and you can choose now whether you go first or second against Steve.

I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.

And here is your first question.

Which of these fictional characters appeared in print first?

Well...

David Copperfield, obviously is older.

Miss Marple came much later.

Atticus Finch, I'm not quite sure.

If anything, I'm going to go for...

David Copperfield.

David Copperfield is Dickens. You're quite right.

That's the right answer. Well done, Reza.

Yo!

The Challengers have started.

There we go. The hob is on.

Steve, which novel by Stephen King

features a town that is infested with vampires?

That is Salem's Lot, Jeremy.

Have you read them all?

-Pretty much.

-Salem's Lot is the right answer.

They do know stuff, these Eggheads.

You want them to pause and look uncertain,

but sometimes they don't even do that. Reza.

The Card Players is a series of paintings by which French artist?

Oh, gosh. I should know this.

The Card Players.

OK, I'm going to take a guess, and I may be completely wrong.

I'm going to choose... I'm going to go in the middle.

Renoir.

I think, and I don't know why I'm thinking it's Renoir,

but I may be completely wrong.

Cezanne is the answer, Reza.

Is it? Oh, no.

Terrible.

I should have known.

No, don't worry.

It's early days, it's early days.

Here we go. So, Steve, your question.

Who illustrated David Walliams' book Mr Stink?

I don't actually know this, but EH Shepard must be long gone by now.

He did the Winnie The Pooh stuff.

But I've got a feeling it might be Roald Dahl's old mate,

Quentin Blake,

so I'll say Quentin Blake.

The correct answer is Quentin Blake.

Well, it's not torn it, Reza, but it's looking awkward.

-I know, it's not looking good.

-Get this one right to stay in.

Come on. You can do it.

Which famous poem ends with these four lines?

It matters not how strait the gate

How charged with punishments the scroll

I am the master of my fate

I am the captain of my soul.

I feel it's Invictus by WE Henley.

That is the answer which I think.

It's not If-. Because Rudyard Kipling...

"For all the men about to..."

Oh, I can't remember the end of it.

Um...

I think it's Invictus.

I feel it's Invictus.

You are absolutely right. It is Invictus by WE Henley.

Well done, Reza.

I knew it.

Beautifully done.

OK. Steve.

You can take the round with this question.

In which Shakespeare play

are the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune mentioned?

Famously from the soliloquy, that's Hamlet, Jeremy.

Oh, you didn't even pause.

You know that's right, Reza.

It is, absolutely.

Hamlet is the right answer, Steve, you've taken the round.

Sorry, it's that one question, Reza, tripped you up.

Good play, though. Come back to us, both of you,

and we'll see what happens next.

OK, so Bake That have lost a brain from the final round.

The Eggheads are still all there.

Can you take one of them out?

Let's see. The next subject is Food & Drink.

Oh, my goodness!

-How did that happen?!

-The responsibility...

You got me to do Arts & Books! I'm out of it!

What do we do here? Oz, you are the captain.

You decide.

I'm tempted to see whether Rankin can put his foot where his mouth is.

-OK.

-I'm perfectly capable of putting my foot where my mouth is,

thank you very much.

All that yoga.

Are you able to actually walk the walk as well as talk the talk?

I'll have a go.

-I think you should.

-OK, Paul.

-Let's go for Paul.

Great stuff. Now, Paul, who would you like to choose?

Just wondering what's going to happen here.

I think Chris. I'll take Chris.

He looks like he likes a pork pie or two.

-Is it pork pies, Chris?

-Pork pies, sausage rolls. Yeah.

Yeah. Bit of carb.

So, Paul from Bake That versus Chris from the Eggheads,

and just to ensure there is no conferring,

please go to the Question Room now.

Food & Drink, Paul.

It's either very good or very bad,

but it is the chef on Food & Drink.

I think this is a really bad idea.

Would you like to go first or second against Chris?

I'll go first.

All right, here we go with your first question.

Which of these is a main ingredient

of a standard tequila sunrise cocktail?

Tequila sunrise.

It's tequila, obviously,

the sunrise comes from a bit of grenadine going in there.

It's got a cherry in it.

And the other ingredient is orange juice.

Orange juice is correct. Well done. Chris, over to you.

-Yes!

-Yes!

That's it.

Chris, what is served with chips in the classic

Belgian and northern French dish called moules-frites?

They smother their chips in mayonnaise

and serve it with mussels.

Mussels is right. Back to Paul.

Richebourg Grand Cru,

reported to be the most expensive wine in the world in 2015,

is from which wine-producing region of France?

Well, Richebourg Grand Cru. I tell you, I would love to taste that,

because my favourite wine-growing area in the world is Burgundy

and that is where it is from.

-Yes!

-Yay, you're right.

Oz. We must bring Oz in on that.

Have you tasted it yourself?

The '15s are still in barrel and people queue up with teaspoons

to get a tiny sip of it. And it's sensationally good.

(Not worth the money, though.)

OK, Chris, back to you.

What name is given to a smoked and dried jalapeno pepper

as used extensively in Mexican cuisine?

Mole surely is guacamole, which is mashed up avocado and what have you.

A taco is one of those shell things filled with whatever you can put

in it. So dried pepper's got to be chipotle.

Chipotle, chipotle, correct.

2-2. Paul, back to you.

Comber, which is spelled C-O-M-B-E-R,

is a variety of which foodstuff?

Oh, I don't know this one. Let me think.

Comber's in Northern Ireland.

Where am I from again? I'm from Northern Ireland.

It could be coconuts, it could be apples, it could be strawberries,

but it's not. It's potato.

Potato is the right answer.

Three out of three. He's playing well, but then he is a chef.

Chris, Food & Drink, your question.

In which English county is the restaurant called L'Enclume,

which topped the Good Food Guide for Best Restaurant for the fourth

consecutive year in 2016?

It's not Suffolk, I don't think.

I don't think it's in Hampshire either.

I think it's... It's up in the fells somewhere, in Cumbria.

-Is he right, Paul?

-He's absolutely spot-on, unfortunately.

Yeah, Cumbria is the right answer.

So, 3-3 after three questions.

OK, so we go to Sudden Death, Paul.

This is actually good. Gets a bit harder, though.

I don't give you alternatives.

-Mm-hm.

-Which dish consisting of a savoury custard tart has a famous

variety named after the Lorraine region of north-eastern France?

Um... That is a very famous dish, of course.

It was probably most British people's first taste

of foreign food. It is, of course, a quiche.

Quiche is right. Quiche Lorraine.

Chris, right, you need this to stay in.

Gressingham and Barbary are types of which fowl?

Is there a Barbary turkey?

Maybe.

I'll go with turkey.

Paul?

-It's a duck, mate.

-It's a duck. You've been knocked out.

Knocked out by a duck, Chris.

Well done, Mr Rankin.

How dare you call me a duck!

You are through to the final round on Food & Drink. There we are.

We've spared any humiliation there of the chef losing on Food & Drink.

Stakes were high.

And you've won through. Please rejoin your teams.

So, Bake That have struck back.

Thanks to Paul there. They have lost a brain from the final round,

but the Eggheads have lost a brain as well.

And the next subject for you is Music.

So, who wants Music?

Jonathan, no?

-Oz, no?

-I don't know anything about pop.

My popular music knowledge ends at about Elvis Presley.

-JONATHAN:

-Shall I just take it, guys? I'll take it for the team.

-Jonathan is volunteering here.

-Yes, and I'm... It is better

you know in advance that I'm not going to do very well in it.

-I don't mind taking it.

-Take one for the team, big fella.

-I will take it for the team.

-Take it for the team.

-Brilliant.

Jonathan, against which Egghead?

Now, you can't obviously have Chris or Steve.

Why did I do this?

Lisa, please.

So, it's Jonathan from Bake That versus Lisa from the Eggheads.

To ensure there is no conferring, please take your positions.

Here we go, then. We're on Music.

Would you like to go first or second?

Well, I'd like to go first, but I say ladies first.

So I will go second.

Lisa Thiel, your question on Music.

The story of the stage musical Miss Saigon begins during which war?

Do you know, I've never seen Miss Saigon.

But I think that would be the Vietnam War.

Yes, it is the Vietnam War.

You would have got that, Jonathan?

Easy.

Here's your question. Who's been the lead singer of the rock band

The Who for over 50 years?

HE LAUGHS

I think it is Roger Daltrey.

It's OK, you're fine. Roger Daltrey's right.

I was worried for Paul's health for a second there.

It's OK, we came close to disaster there.

-Well done, Jonathan.

-Thank you.

Lisa.

"When the sun shines, we'll shine together

"Told you I'll be here forever

"Said I'll always be a friend

"Took an oath, I'ma stick it out till the end..."

are lyrics from which Rihanna hit single?

# When the sun shines, we shine...

# Told you I'll be here...

# Took an oath...

# Stick it out to the end

# Now it's raining more than ever

# Darling, we'll still have each other

# You can stand under my umbrella

# You can stand under my umbrella, ella, ella... #

Yeah, enough of that. Umbrella.

Umbrella is right.

OK, don't worry, Jonathan, so far you've scored a perfect round.

Which member of the group One Direction was born first?

Based on nothing, how about Louis Tomlinson?

Louis Tomlinson. Let's check with the Challengers. Is he right?

I think it's Zayn.

They would have gone for Zayn, so it's inspired to put you in there

because it is Louis Tomlinson.

-Well done.

-We love you!

Well done, Jonathan.

Wow, who knew?

This is good now.

OK. This could be the turning point in the entire contest,

the One Direction question. Your third question, Lisa.

The main musical theme of the film Jean de Florette,

also used in a series of beer adverts,

is based on a piece of work by which composer?

Right.

Why don't I know this?

This is a terrible gap in my education.

Tough call, tough call.

No, I don't like this. I don't like this at all.

I'll try Puccini.

Puccini is your answer.

Let's see, do you know, Challengers?

I have a feeling it could be...

I think it's Verdi.

I can't remember the music now.

He has no idea!

No, he's right, it's Verdi, and you're wrong, Lisa.

Right, this is now interesting.

Yes, Jonathan! Come on!

Don't put any pressure on me, you lot.

This is really important now.

Jonathan, get this right and you're in the final.

Here is your question.

Which of these people died in 1931 from septicaemia,

possibly contracted following an early face-lift operation?

OK, well, it's definitely not Mahler.

Um...

I don't know who Wilhelm Furtwangler is.

But the face-lift could have been invented in Germany.

I'm just going to say...

Nellie Melba.

If this is right, you're in the final.

Jonathan, the answer is Nellie Melba. Well done.

Team hug, team hug!

Sounds like a girl that would want a face-lift.

Strategic brilliance from Oz there.

Just the feint...

Well done, Jonathan.

-Thank you.

-Does that feel good?

It feels fantastic.

OK, Jonathan, you're in the final.

Lisa, you've been soundly knocked out there over three questions.

Please come back to us. One more round to play.

So our celebrity team have lost one brain from the final round,

the Eggheads have now lost two,

and this is getting more and more interesting, isn't it?

The next subject is Film & TV. Last one before the final.

So who's going to go for this? Film & TV.

-Either Oz or Ed.

-No?

-It's not one of mine.

-Not one of yours?

-No.

You're an actor, for goodness' sake!

-Not one of mine.

-Musician and an actor.

I'm still waiting for geography, science and sports.

-Time has run out.

-I've been shoehorned in, so I'll take it.

Ed against which Egghead?

-Pat.

-OK.

Ed from Bake That versus Pat from the Eggheads.

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

Good luck in this round, Ed.

-Thank you.

-Film & TV. Would you like to go first or second?

I'll go second, actually.

So here we are. Pat, your first question.

Which Strictly Come Dancing judge announced in June 2016 that they

would be stepping down from their role at the end of that year?

I'm familiar with these people from the programme and I can recall,

I think, that Len Goodman stood down.

Len Goodman is the right answer. Well done. Lovely guy.

OK, on to you.

Your first question on Film & TV, Ed.

Which actor has played the character Ricky Butcher

in the TV soap EastEnders?

I don't know who Scott Maslen is.

It's certainly not Ross Kemp.

So, Ricky, I believe, was played by Sid Owen.

Sid Owen is right. Well done.

Well done, indeed. OK, Pat.

In 2005,

which comedian became the host of the TV panel show

8 Out Of 10 Cats?

All three of these people feature heavily on television.

I don't think it's Stephen Fry.

I don't link him with that programme.

And of the other two, I have a preference for Jimmy Carr.

So I'll go with Jimmy Carr.

Jimmy Carr is correct.

OK, Ed.

The actress Rosamund Pike was nominated for a BAFTA,

a Golden Globe,

an Oscar and a Screen Actor's Guild Award

for her performance in which 2014 film?

I haven't seen Birdman or Interstellar.

I have seen Gone Girl.

She was very convincing in it.

I have no idea whether she won awards for it or not,

but on the basis of her really pulling it off, I'd say Gone Girl.

CHEERING Yes, you're right.

They love that here. Gone Girl is right.

OK, Pat. Your third question.

Who directed the 2016 film Cafe Society starring Jesse Eisenberg and

Kristin Stewart? Is it...?

I have a memory of Woody Allen directing Eisenberg

in a film around that time.

In the absence of any more solid recollections,

I think I'll go for Woody Allen.

As so often, you are right. Woody Allen is correct.

So you've got three out of three there.

OK, Ed, pressure on a little bit here.

Well, quite a lot, actually. You've got to get this right to stay in.

In which Bond film does Julian Glover play the villain

Aristotle Kristatos?

OK, on the basis of elimination,

Kristatos sounds like a Russian surname.

I'm going to say Moonraker.

For Your Eyes Only is the answer. For Your Eyes Only.

So, I'm sorry, no way back for you, Ed.

Beaten by our Egghead.

Well done, Pat, you're in the final round.

If you return to us, gentlemen, we'll play that final.

So this is what we have been playing towards.

It is time for the final round.

As always, it's General Knowledge.

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

can't take part in this round. So, Ed and Reza from Bake That,

and also Lisa and Chris from the Eggheads,

would you please now leave the studio.

Oz, Paul, Jonathan, you're playing to win Bake That £7,000.

Steve, Pat and Judith,

you're playing for something which money can't buy -

the Eggheads' reputation -

and to keep this roll against the celebrities going. As usual,

I will ask each team three questions in return.

They're all General Knowledge. Gentlemen, you can confer.

So, Bake That, the question is,

can your three brilliant cooking brains take down these

three brilliant quizzers?

Let us see. Would you like to go first or second?

I think we'll go first? What about you guys?

-I'm happy.

-Yeah.

-We're gonna go first.

So, good luck.

General Knowledge, final round.

£7,000.

Here is your question, Oz and team.

The 1970s TV police drama The Sweeney

was mainly set in which city?

-London, wasn't it?

-I thought it was Birmingham.

The point is Sweeney Todd, flying squad.

-Oh.

-..is Cockney rhyming...

And Cockney rhyming is London.

I was very young in the '70s,

but I do remember watching it and it looked like a familiar landscape.

Wasn't it people like Dennis Waterman and John Thaw?

-Yeah, yeah.

-They act Londoners.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-We think it's got...

It seems to have London written all over it.

The actors in it, the Cockney rhyming slang.

So I think we're going to go for London.

London.

London is the right answer.

Sweeney Todd, flying squad, London. Well done.

OK, Eggheads,

for what does the letter A stand for in the acronym BARB,

the organisation responsible

for gathering television ratings in the UK?

Audience.

It's something like British Audience Research Board.

British Audience...

-Ratings Board.

-Ratings.

-It's something like that, yeah.

-You sure?

-Yeah, it's definitely audience.

It's definitely audience.

Steve says it's definitely audience.

Audience is the right answer.

Your second question.

Robert Alan Zimmerman was the original name of which

singer-songwriter born in 1941?

-Zimmerman.

-It's not Bobby Darin.

It's not Bobby Womack.

Bob Dylan...

I think it's Dylan. '41.

And certainly his sort of sense of humour.

That sort of East Coast American,

cynical, tortuous sense of expressing yourself.

We think that it's the Nobel laureate.

He probably could have got a Nobel laureate called Zimmerman

in something like molecular science.

But he changed his name to Dylan and got it for communication.

Bob Dylan is absolutely right.

-Phew.

-There we go.

Eggheads, which unit of measurement is said to have originated

as the typical area a yoke of oxen could plough in one day?

-I immediately went to acre.

-I think it's an acre.

That's what came into my mind.

A square metre would be a depressing output

from your oxen in an entire day.

It's a recent measurement anyway, isn't it?

Hectare is metric.

A hectare is foreign.

A hectare is Napoleon, or something.

We think it's an acre.

Acre's correct. 2-2.

Baines is a middle name of which US President born in 1908?

It's definitely Johnson. Lyndon Johnson.

The other two just simply don't sound right

with Baines in the middle of them.

But Lyndon Baines Johnson sounds pretty serious,

and that's what our answer is.

Lyndon Baines Johnson. You're quite right.

Three out of three. Well done.

Eggheads, which comedy song features the line,

"Paint your left knee green?"

The Chicken Song consists...

It's random things, isn't it?

"Form a string quartet, pretend your name is Keith."

And all that sort of stuff.

"Skin yourself alive, learn to speak Arapahoe

"Do a jumbo jet and then bury all your clothes."

I can't hear him saying, "Paint your left knee green."

But it scans well with the rest of the song.

-Chicken Song?

-Paint your left knee green.

-I...

# To the left, to the right, jump up and down and... #

-Chicken Song?

-Yeah.

OK, we don't seem to know for definite.

But we'll say The Chicken Song.

The Chicken Song is the right answer.

THEY GROAN

-I'm so sorry.

-That's as close as we'll ever get.

No, don't say that. Don't say that,

because you're going to get even closer now.

We go to Sudden Death. It gets a bit harder.

I don't give you alternatives. Here's your first question.

The word marmoreal refers to things

that are made of or compared to which substance?

Marble. Memorial.

Burial.

That's mausoleum. It is possible.

"Mar" might imply sea.

But hang on, substance.

The sea is not a substance.

-It's water.

-I know. Sand?

Sand underneath, lying on the bottom, like a dead...

-We need further... Do that again. Very nice.

-A dead thing.

Well, it could be seaweed and stuff like that, but I don't think so.

Have we got anything further than that?

No.

To be honest, I'm thinking it's jaws.

We're going to go for sand.

Sand.

HE LAUGHS

Yes, give it to us.

The thing is... Firstly, you're wrong.

You actually said the word during the conversation.

-Not marble?

-Marble was the answer.

-Oh, it WAS marble!

-Oh, that's too obvious!

-That was the very first thing we said.

I think was you that said it, Paul?

Straight away, the first thing he said was marble.

Yeah, it was marble.

Things that are made of marble or compared to marble are marmoreal.

Now, listen, the Eggheads have got a chance to take it now.

They've got that steely look about them.

What is the more common one-word name

for the Akkadian people of the USA,

descended from the French-Canadian settlers of the 17th century?

The Akkadians?

-Well, they're Nova Scotia.

-Are they the people who settled in...

-Nova Scotia.

-And then had to leg it down to Louisiana?

-Yes.

-The Cajuns.

-Are they?

-Yeah.

-They're called Cajuns now in Louisiana.

-And I think originally they came from...

-They came from Nova Scotia.

-..the Maritime provinces in Canadian.

-Yes, they did.

-I think England pressured them to move on.

-And they had to move on.

OK, Cajun.

-Cajuns.

-We think they're Cajuns.

Cajuns is your answer.

If it is correct, you have won the whole contest.

I guess they would been Akkadians, then Akkajuns, then yes,

it was contracted and it became Cajuns.

You're absolutely right. And on Sudden Death. We have to say

congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.

You did brilliantly, thank you so much.

I mean, look at this, the final round, 3-3.

We say commiserations, but you played so well, Bake That,

Oz and team.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.

This winning streak over the celebrities continues.

It's looking quite persuasive now.

It means that you haven't won that £7,000,

so we're going to take that money,

roll it over to our next celebrity show

and see if the next team can do it. Well done, Eggheads.

Can you be stopped?

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

have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

It's going to be £8,000 for these celebs to play for.

Until we quiz again, goodbye.