Episode 14 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. Have you got the fire on today?

-ALL:

-Yes. Ready for action.

Really? OK,

hoping for the sweet taste of success against the Eggheads today

are Make a Meal of It. Now, everyone on this team

is well-known for their culinary capabilities,

and they have put them into good use

on two of the country's most popular cookery programmes,

the Great British Menu and Saturday Kitchen.

Let's meet them.

My name is Nick Nairn, and some people might say that I'm a chef,

but you might know me from television programmes

like Ready Steady Cook, Saturday Kitchen,

and Paul and Nick's Big Food Trip.

Hello, I'm Matthew Fort, and I'm a judge on the Great British Menu.

I'm Ching-He Huang, I'm a TV chef and food writer,

and you will know me for Trying To Make Chinese Food Easy.

Hello, my name is Enam Ali, MBE,

I'm a restaurateur and founder of the British Curry Awards,

and I am also a judge on the Great British Menu.

Hi, I'm Tony Singh, a chef based in Edinburgh,

and you'll know me from representing Scotland in the Great British Menu.

-So, Nick and team, hello.

-Hi.

-Hi.

-Hi.

Welcome. Thank you for coming in.

We will talk about food later, Nick,

but on quizzing, first of all, have you quizzed?

The last time I did a quiz, it was Call My Bluff.

Oh, right, going back a way?

Yes, indeed, a long time.

And are you able to recall stuff?

No.

I have the answer in my head, it's just getting it out.

Absolutely, we know.

I think the answers are all there, don't you think, Matthew,

to every question, probably?

It's the retrieval system that always breaks down.

Your thing is writing and journalism,

and I'm thinking your retrieval system must be very good.

You can always look it up these days, which is wonderful.

Maybe not, though? Maybe not...

Not today, I know. I'm relying, frankly, on the team around me.

OK. Ching, any particular subjects you love or hate?

Um... Love good and drink.

-Of course.

-Hate geography.

Hate geography?

Yes. Was never really quite good at it at school, so...

I don't know, like you, I'm relying on everyone on the team.

Well, at some point, Enam,

the thing is, it's the solo moment in the booth.

Have you seen the show, Enam?

Yes, I did.

OK, so any areas for you that you would like to come up,

like history or music or art?

-Hospitality.

-Hospitality.

-I can see the theme.

-New category.

I do see a theme, here.

Tony, you've actually been on Celebrity Mastermind,

-and your subject was not food.

-It wasn't.

I was...not coerced, I was suggested for tartan,

which I thought was quite good, and then what a vast subject.

So you had to just spend a load of time mugging up on tartan?

-Yeah.

-And did you get anywhere on it?

-I came third.

-OK.

Out of four.

That sounds good to me. I find that show terrifying.

See when the music comes on, and watching it as a child,

you went in there and...dread, cold sweat. It was hard.

Yeah, the light, the chair.

-Yeah.

-We're a little bit easier on the soul here,

I think, aren't we, Eggs?

We're friendly, but in the end

it does come down to questions and answers,

so I wish you all the best.

Good luck, Challengers.

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

for our celebrities' chosen charity.

However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,

that prize money rolls over to our next show.

So, Make a Meal of It,

I can tell you that the Eggheads are playing so well

against the celebrity teams,

I think that's good cos it means they have won the last 13,

-all of them.

-Oh, my goodness.

Which gives us a £14,000 jackpot for you to play for today.

-Wow.

-Wow.

No other celebrity team has managed to steal the money.

OK, Make a Meal of It.

I have a feeling we're going to make a meal of it!

-Are you ready to go?

-First course.

OK, the first course, the first head-to-head battle,

is on the subject of Geography.

Does that mean it's not you, Ching?

-No, definitely not me.

-Geography.

-Geography...

-Who would like this?

-Nick, maybe it's you.

-Seven years in the navy.

-Yeah?

-Come on.

-Oh, my goodness. Right, OK.

It is the captain's call.

-Yes.

-Yes, captain.

-OK, the captain goes in.

Nick is going in. Choose an Egghead.

You can have Beth, Chris, Pat, Barry or Steve.

Do you know...

Any thoughts on which Egghead is adrift when it comes to geography?

I feel there's a formidable array of armoury there.

-Yes. They're all pretty clued in.

-They all look pretty solid.

They know their north from their south, their east from their west.

-Beth.

-Right.

Oh, dear. That look was not a good look.

Nick from Make a Meal of It to play Beth from the Eggheads.

To ensure there's no conferring,

would you please both take your positions

in our famous Question Room.

Nick, well-known for years on Ready Steady Cook,

but also on an early edition of the Great British Menu.

Yes, I did the first series.

What happened in the first series, I can't remember?

Matthew will know. Oh, yes, I won it.

I won the main course.

And what was the main course,

do you remember, for the Queen's 80th?

It was a banqueting house, an amazing experience,

and it was loin of raw venison with a little crispy potato pancake,

roast root vegetables, game gravy and creamed cabbage.

Oh, I can taste it now you say that.

Mouths are watering.

Of course, when it's on that scale,

all equations are different, aren't they?

You're not cooking a meal for two people in a restaurant,

it is a big number of people.

No, no, it was for 400, 380 I think.

Nick, you're playing Geography now against Beth,

and would you like to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please.

Here we go. Which of these countries is the largest by area?

OK, now, I have been warned

not to go to a snap decision.

So, Italy, relatively small landmass,

very long but I think it's relatively small.

New Zealand, islands, again, long and thin.

I would say it has be China.

Yes, you're right, China is correct.

Yes!

OK, Beth, your question.

Barnsley is a town in which part of the UK?

Barnsley is in South Yorkshire.

South Yorkshire is correct.

Back to you, Nick.

What is the largest city in the US State of New Mexico?

OK, well, it can't be Dallas, cos that's in Texas.

Tucson is in Arizona, so it would have to be...

And I know that from the song, Tucson, Arizona.

I would say it has to be Albuquerque.

Is the song Get Back by the Beatles, is that what it was?

Jojo left his home in...

That's Tucson, Arizona.

Tucson, Arizona, yeah.

And the answer is indeed Albuquerque.

Beth, your question.

Ecuador shares land borders with Colombia and which other country?

-Ecuador.

-Ecuador.

It's on the equator...

I think Belize is on the coast.

Peru...

Trying to place it in my...

..virtual map of South America.

I think it borders Peru.

OK, Eggheads, do you know this?

Yes. It is Peru.

Peru is right.

Two each.

OK, Nick, get this right and put a bit of pressure on our Eggheads.

At approximately 2,800 feet,

what is the highest mountain in Northern Ireland?

Paul Rankin, who's Northern Irish,

and I make a series called Paul and Nick's Big Food Trip,

and the first two series were in Northern Ireland and Scotland.

And we stayed in the Slieve Donard Hotel,

which overlooked the Mountains of Mourne

which, I believe, are the highest mountains in Northern Ireland

at about 800 metres.

-You said 2,800 feet?

-2,800 feet.

Which, in metres, would be about two and a half...

Sorry, about 800 metres to Slieve Donard...

I've never heard of Mount Brandon

and I don't even know how to pronounce Car...rauntoohil?

-Carrauntoohil.

-Carrauntoohil.

I would take a guess that it's Slieve Donard.

All right, well, we met Paul Rankin just the other day,

he played a very good round.

Won his round on Food and Drink with a lot of gusto.

Has he led you up the garden path

with his trip round Northern Ireland?

Was he boasting at the time,

that this is the highest mountain in Northern Ireland?

Was he saying that?

-He was saying they were magnificent mountains.

-Magnificent.

Is that a dangerous exaggeration?

Slieve Donard is the correct answer, Nick, well done.

Nice work. You've got three out of three.

Beth needs to get this right to stay in.

The Ness of Brodgar is an ancient temple complex

found on which island group?

The Ness of Brodgar.

We used to walk our dog around the Ring of Brodgar

when we lived in the Orkney Islands.

Yeah, you lived there, that's very handy,

Orkney Islands is correct, Beth.

Three out of three for you both.

Well, you both had a little personal connection there, Nick,

with the question. It gets a bit harder now.

Challenger, I don't give you alternative options.

Sudden Death we're on. Here's your question.

How many countries have a coastline on the Bay of Biscay?

The Bay of Biscay, which is...

Biscay, Biscay. It's always very stormy in the Bay of Biscay.

Oh, my goodness gracious me, I've sailed through the Bay of Biscay,

so you've got France,

you have Spain,

you have the UK, three.

And would you say the Channel Islands?

-Four.

-Four?

No. Two is the answer.

France and Spain.

Beth, you can take it with this question.

Which London park is bounded by Buckingham Palace to the west

and The Mall to the north?

Buckingham Palace to the west...

and The Mall to the north?

Yeah.

-St James' Park.

-That's very good, Beth.

Well done, cos it's hard to call a map up in your mind like that.

St James' Park is the right answer. You've won it on Sudden Death.

Nick, sorry, knocked out by the Bay of Biscay -

and you sailed there.

Yes. It's just, you know,

I didn't know if it went far enough north

to get the south coast of England and the Channel Islands.

Sure, understood, understood, not an easy question.

Please come back, rejoin your teams, we'll play on.

So, as it stands, Make a Meal of It

have lost one brain from the final round.

The Eggheads have not lost any so far.

Beth won through. The next subject for you, Challengers, is Music.

Who would like this?

It doesn't have to be modern music or... It could be classical music.

It could be.

It could be wide-ranging.

It could... But if it's modern music, then I am stuffed.

-Not to put too fine a point on it.

-Somebody has to do it.

-I'll take one for the team, then.

-Yay!

Very good, Tony. Tony, which Egghead would you like?

You've got four of them there on the left.

-Pat.

-Pat is your choice.

OK, Tony from Make a Meal of It to play Pat from the Eggheads.

Please go to the Question Room.

Tony, you were cooking on the Royal Yacht Britannia

early in your career.

Yeah, I was the first civilian chef when it docked out of commission

in Edinburgh, down in Leith.

So that was, essentially, after the Royal Family stopped using it

to get around the world,

they docked it and it became an amazing place to visit and eat on.

Yeah, it was a fantastic venue.

It was berthed down in my neighbourhood in Edinburgh.

Yeah, so...

And tell us, if we were to sum up your cooking, Tony,

in a couple of sentences, how would you describe it?

Very eclectic and hearty.

Tell me about your experience on the Great British Menu

and what happened.

Well, I represented Scotland three times and I got gubbed,

never got to the finals, but it was a great experience.

The boys I was doing it with were a fantastic laugh, it was really good.

It must be stressful having to do it, A, under pressure

and, B, with the cameras watching you.

I can only speak for myself and the guys at the time,

we had a great laugh.

Pressure, we deal with that every day,

and the cameras didn't bother us, it was just good fun.

You also, in 2013, toured the UK

for a series called The Incredible Spice Men.

Yes, with my friend and partner Cyrus Todiwala.

We went around Scotland, Wales,

England, it was fabulous.

We were revamping traditional dishes that people use,

with just an addition of spice.

When people talk about spice,

they're always thinking about heat and chilli, which is a spice,

but it doesn't need to be used instead of other spices.

Like, vanilla is a spice, people forget about that.

-Do you know what I mean?

-Yeah, actually, I do,

I think I've fallen into that error, thinking spicy means hot,

but you're right, it doesn't.

No, it's aromatic and flavoursome.

It's the easiest way to add drama and colour to dishes.

So we're on Music now, Tony.

I know it might not have been your first choice,

-but would you like to go first or second?

-I'll go first.

OK, let's see if we can get a Challenger through to the final round.

Here we go. Music.

Against Pat. Jimi Hendrix was best known for his skill

on which musical instrument, Tony?

This one I know because I was lucky enough to hold his guitar

down at the Hard Rock Cafe.

He wasn't, presumably, trying to get it off you at the time?

No, that would have been a bit scary.

We got a chance, it was his...

I think it was the most expensive guitar sold in auction,

and the Hard Rock had it, and I got a chance to hold it, it was amazing.

Brilliant, brilliant.

Guitar is the right answer, well done.

OK, Pat, your question.

"I see trees of green, red roses too"

are the opening lyrics to which famous song?

Well, playing those lyrics in my head,

it quickly becomes Louis Armstrong singing them.

Let me just double-check I'm not jumping in.

Yes, it's What a Wonderful World.

What a Wonderful World is quite right. One each.

Tony, back to you. In the first line

of the Elvis Presley hit Jailhouse Rock,

who threw a party in the county jail?

I'm trying to recall the lyrics in my head, not coming.

LAUGHTER

I can see him rocking about.

The person that would have control of it, I would say,

would be the warden.

Yeah.

AS ELVIS: "Warden threw a party in the county jail",

that's the first line.

The warden is right.

That was not my Elvis impression!

That was not it, that was not it,

just a heads-up. Warden is right.

One of the very first songs I heard, but I was born in '65,

I still don't quite understand how that happened. OK, Pat.

Pon de Replay is the title of the 2005 debut solo single

by which pop star?

I don't think it's Lady Gaga.

I think it's much more Rihanna than Beyonce.

I think I'll go for Rihanna.

Rihanna's correct.

Tony, back to you.

Wilder Mind was a UK number one album for which band in 2015?

Wilder Mind.

Wilder Mind.

-Wilder Mind.

-W-I-L-D-E-R, Wilder Mind, two words.

UK number one album for which band in 2015?

2015...

I don't think it's Bastille.

But then, Mumford and Sons,

is that the kind of thing they'd have for their...?

I'm going to go Coldplay...

..because I don't think it'd be a title Mumford and Sons would use,

but it sounds wrong...

It's wrong. It's...

-Sorry, it's Mumford and Sons.

-Ah!

Mumford and Sons.

OK, Pat, for the round.

What name is given to Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.6?

It's rather wonderful, if very sad.

It's Pathetique.

No doubt at all in your mind, is there?

No, I'm confident of that.

You are confident, Pathetique is the right answer.

So, after three questions, sorry, Tony, you've been knocked out here.

It's gone to our Eggheads, and they've won two now.

Please return and rejoin your teams, and we'll play round three.

As it stands, Make a Meal of It have lost two brains now

from the final round,

so the starter and the first course went on the floor.

But you've got to turn it around now, Challengers,

and take an Egghead out.

This is the moment. The next subject is Food & Drink.

Is that good?

-Yeah.

-Who wants this? That's the difficulty.

Matthew, Matthew, yes. You're our strongest for that.

-Matthew?

-Yes.

It's your life. Well, it's all of your lives.

And, against which Egghead?

-It can be Steve or Barry or Chris.

-Oh.

I look deep into their eyes...

LAUGHTER Rather you than me!

It makes no difference! Barry.

Good, OK. Barry will enjoy this.

Matthew from Make a Meal of It to play Barry from the Eggheads.

-A run out on Food & Drink, Barry?

-I love this.

-Yeah.

Against them, though?

-Why not?

-To ensure there's no conferring,

please take your positions.

So, Matthew, I know you're used to being a judge.

HE LAUGHS

Yes, I've done a bit of judging in my time.

Rather awkward being on the other side of the table.

Yeah!

Judge on the Great British Menu since series one,

so you've seen a lot of dishes.

I have eaten, laid down my liver and lights for the country.

And you've also, of course, been a food writer,

and you've written for the Guardian

from the late '80s up until the mid-2000s.

So, you've written about an awful lot of restaurants.

A lot of restaurants, a lot of food.

As I say, I've eaten for England,

and I'm afraid it shows around my middle!

I was reading one of your reviews the other day,

and you were actually out for your birthday with your daughter,

and I was thinking, how do you get the detail of the dish

without taking out a notepad and writing it down?

Because once you do that, they know you're a writer.

After I've eaten a meal,

then I take away the menu with me,

and then immediately I finish, I write down my notes on the menu.

Rather than... I don't want, frankly,

to have note-taking to interfere with the delight of actually eating.

Presumably it all changed for you when you became a TV judge.

You walk into a restaurant to review it

and then they know who you are, so the game's up.

Well, in London they tend to know who you are.

Out in the...

provinces, probably less so.

But, you know, I've always put myself in the position

of someone, anybody, walking in off the street

and sitting down and eating the food...

Choosing and eating the food that's put in front of them,

and I think that's really all a critic can do.

Now, it's very brave of you to go in on Food & Drink

with your stellar company in the Challengers' team,

so well done on that.

And you can choose, Matthew, now

whether you go first or second against our Barry.

I think I'll go second for a change.

OK, Barry, your question.

What are "bear claws",

thought to have originated in the USA in the 1920s?

Goodness. The first question and already I'm struggling.

Bear claws?

I can't imagine they would be fish pies.

I think they have to be pastries.

-What, because they're shaped a certain way?

-Yes, I would hope so.

Pastries is the right answer.

Would you have known that, Matthew?

I would have made the same informed guess!

LAUGHTER

Here's your question. The blend of spices known as garam masala

is mostly used in dishes from which continent?

Well, there is in fact a tradition of using them in southern Africa,

because they've taken on many influences from elsewhere.

I think probably not South America.

So, primarily, Asia.

Let's check with Tony - as if we need to!

-Tony, is he right?

-Yes, he is.

OK. Asia is correct, of course.

Well done. Barry.

Feijoada completa,

a dish of black beans cooked with fresh and smoked meats

and accompanied by traditional side dishes,

is considered to be the national dish of which country?

Well, fortunately, I was in Rio de Janeiro last year,

and, as ever on my travels, I always look on the menus,

and feijoada was very prominently displayed on most Brazilian menus.

So, I'm pretty certain it's the national dish of Brazil.

We know Barry as Barry "He's Been To Every Answer".

That's the nickname for our Egghead here.

Brazil is right, Barry, well done.

Always good to have seen it.

Prime source, seen it in the country itself.

So, to catch up, Matthew, your question.

Which cocktail, said to be created in Puerto Rico,

became its official national drink in 1978?

Oh. Goodness gracious me.

Um...

Goodness knows. I've drunk enough of all three of them,

but I've never actually enquired into their origins.

Um...

I think on instinct, more than anything else, and fuzzy memory,

I'm going to say pina colada.

Barry, what do you think?

I'd be more inclined to go for mojito.

Let's check with your team-mates. Team-mates?

-ALL:

-Pina colada.

-They all like pina colada.

And it's right, Matthew, well done.

Oh, what a relief!

OK, Barry.

2-2. Your question.

The area around the Indian town of Mangan in North Sikkim

is particularly famous for the production of which spice?

Mm.

Now, there are Cardamom Hills in two countries.

I think there's Cardamom Hills in Southeast Asia,

but not in Sikkim.

And saffron is...

Is a very Indian...

Well, saffron and cardamom are both Indian spices.

Sikkim is on the foothills of the Himalayas,

and I'm just wondering if that is too high to grow saffron.

So I shall... On that basis,

I shall discount saffron and go for cardamom.

Cardamom is correct.

Ooh!

He's quizzing well, old Barry, that's for sure.

But then so are you, Matthew.

You need this to stay in.

The bakery products called fat rascals

are traditionally associated

with which historic English county?

Fat rascals. What a wonderful name.

I don't think any other country in the world

would have a fat rascal, would they?

Might have a bear claw, but not a fat rascal.

Um... I know it's not Essex.

And I am pretty certain it's not Cornwall.

So I will say Yorkshire.

Indeed, I think I seem to remember

I've eaten a fat rascal in Yorkshire.

So, Yorkshire is the answer.

You've eaten a fat rascal in Yorkshire, that's handy.

-I know.

-Yorkshire is the right answer.

-Yay!

Chris loves... You love your bakery products, Chris.

-Have you ever had a fat rascal?

-Never encountered one, no.

I quite fancy... I'm quite partial to an Eccles cake.

-Yeah.

-Or even a Chorley cake.

OK. So, after three questions, we're level.

Sudden Death, Barry. We go to you first.

Here we go. Are you ready?

Which cheese-based dish celebrated for its communal nature

takes its name from the French for "melted"?

Oh, I don't know this.

Communal nature?

Cheese-based dish.

The only answer I can come up with is fondue.

Ah! That's obviously the answer, yeah.

From fondre, "to melt".

-Whoof!

-All right, Matthew.

On to you. Sudden Death.

The rare and very expensive black truffle

is often known by the name of which region of France?

Perigord.

Perigord is right.

Cost per kilo, £3,000.

-A snip.

-Barry, according to statistics,

which country became the world's biggest red wine consumer in 2014?

Ah. Now the country that is the biggest producer of wine is Italy.

But who drinks the most?

The world's biggest red wine consumer?

Consumer, yeah.

There are so many candidates, aren't there?

Red wine consumer...

Purely on the size of their population,

I'm going to say the USA.

No, it's China.

-Ooh!

-Ah!

-It's China.

-We guzzle it down.

-Based on the population, Barry...

-Yeah.

Matthew, you've got a chance here to take the round on Food & Drink.

Which French dessert

consisting of cherries baked in a sweet custard-like batter

has a name derived from dialect words

meaning "to cover" or "to fill up"?

I can see it.

Um...

The retrieval is the problem here.

Oh!

Clafoutis.

-Yes!

-You're through!

You got it. Clafoutis.

-Well done.

-Where did that come from?

Well done, Matthew. Barry, you're out.

Food & Drink proved decisive, did it, for our Challengers?

Let's see. Rejoin us. One more round to play.

Well, here's a question for you, Eggheads.

Population of China, 1.37 billion.

Number of bottles of red wine bought by the Chinese in 2015?

-Go on.

-Ten a head.

-So that would be...

-Ten a head.

-Ten of them.

-1.86 billion.

-So it's just a bottle each.

-One and a half each.

-One and a half bottles each.

-Oh, well.

-Well, that includes three-year-old children, remember.

LAUGHTER

Some are drinking a lot.

Someone is drinking a lot, that's exactly right.

So, as it stands, Make a Meal of It have made a meal of Barry.

They've lost two brains from the final round,

the Eggheads have lost one.

And the next subject, which could be decisive here

as you set up the final, is Arts & Books.

So, it's going to be Enam or Ching?

Arts & Books.

-Arts & Books.

-No.

-Who would like this?

-Enam, what about you?

-Should I go?

-Yeah, you go.

-You go.

-OK.

-Enam.

Please go. I'm really bad at Arts & Books.

-I am absolutely...

-No, you'll be perfect.

-Enam, choose an Egghead.

You can have either Chris, or Steve at the end.

-Steve at the end.

-Steve at the end.

-Steve at the end.

So, Enam, from Make a Meal of It

versus Steve from the Eggheads, last round before the final.

Please go to the Question Room now.

Enam, you nearly did a law degree and you nearly became a lawyer.

Yes, that was I thought was to do,

but I end up fall in love with curry and selling curry, I think.

And you had a particular restaurant in Surrey, that's right, isn't it?

Yeah, it is one of the restaurants,

Michelin-rated, first in the country.

-In Epsom, Surrey.

-Called Le Raj.

It's actually very near my childhood home, so I know it.

Indeed, yes, we tried to reinterpret a British curry,

tried to establish in this country British curry's own identity.

Le Raj is actually playing a big part.

And what you've done is, you've, in a way,

opened our eyes to the idea that, A, you go out for a curry,

it doesn't have to necessarily be cheap, low-quality food.

It can be absolutely the top cuisine.

Yes, indeed. I think food is always sold by interpretation

and how you feel.

You can read your food on the plate, what emotions the food has got.

Every chef has got the emotion, their character, their own idea.

And I think Indian food is perfect for that,

playing a part for an individual curry.

I think every restaurant in the country,

they have their own flavour and taste.

Well, good luck in this round, Enam.

You're up against Steve on Arts & Books.

Just tell us if you'd like to go first or second.

I'll go for second.

OK, second. So, Steve, your first question.

According to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream,

what never did run smooth?

Yeah, very true.

It's the course of true love.

-That's been your experience, has it?

-Oh, definitely.

LAUGHTER Should I ask a follow-up?

-I don't think so.

-No.

-Let's move on.

-Leave it there.

-We'll leave it there.

The course of true love is the right answer.

Enam, your question.

Which of these artists was born first?

Well, Pablo Picasso is someone, um...

sounds like to me who was first.

A name...

I'll go for Tracey Emin.

I think she might be younger than me, Tracey Emin.

You were actually there at the start.

Pablo Picasso was your instinct.

And Pablo Picasso is the answer.

OK, Steve, over to you.

Life Of Pi is a bestselling novel by which author?

Well, thankfully, I've read it.

And I can remember who wrote it, it's Yann Martel.

Yann Martel is the right answer. So, Steve has got two.

Enam, you need to get this one right to stay in.

-OK.

-The novel Crime and Punishment is set in which country?

Well, certainly not Russia.

He did it again. That... Come on!

Come on! Russia, like we did clafoutis for you.

We got you clafoutis, now we're going to get Russia.

I will go for Britain.

OK. They were teleporting...

What did you do? What was the French dish?

-Clafoutis.

-Clafoutis!

They managed to somehow telegraph it to Matthew.

And they were trying to telegraph Russia to you here,

because Russia is the answer.

-Author of this?

-Dostoyevsky.

Dostoyevsky is the author, Russian author.

So, really sorry, Enam. I know it's not your subject,

so that was a tough one to go in on, Arts & Books, against Steve.

It does mean Steve has won that round.

And if you come back to us, we will play the final for £14,000.

Well, what a game so far. We've really enjoyed it here.

This is what we've been playing towards.

It's time for our final round.

As always, it 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.

Nick, Enam and Tony, from Make a Meal of It,

but also Barry from the Eggheads,

would you please now leave the studio?

Ching, are you looking forward to this?

-No.

-You've got Matthew there.

-I know.

I feel very honoured that he's here.

I got into one of your TV shows on...

I think it's maybe not been broadcast here,

but it was broadcast in the States, called Restaurant Redemption.

-Oh, that show!

-Yeah, that show. And you go into these restaurants,

and they're basically failing Chinese restaurants, mainly.

And you say, "Look, this is what you need to do."

But they don't always agree with you.

No, they don't. It's a bit of a struggle sometimes.

But it's tough love, you know?

I do it for them,

and try and give my Gordon Ramsay-style of perspective

to the situation.

I think some of them fared quite well in the end.

I'm quite proud of that.

I remember one restaurant manager

just pointing at you, saying, "You are wrong!"

-What can you say to that?

-You handled it well.

But you do have to deal with resistance, don't you?

Oh, resistance is futile.

THEY LAUGH

You've got some people who love their Chinese food over this side.

Because I've been out with, well, a number of them,

to a local Chinese place.

The old lazy Susan turns at quite a speed, doesn't it, Chris?

-Zoom!

-LAUGHTER

So, they love the food.

Good luck. Good luck, Challengers. Here we go.

Matthew and Ching, you're playing to win Make a Meal of It

£14,000 for your charity.

-Let's not make a meal of it!

-There we go.

It's quite a big jackpot, because all the other celebs lost.

So that's good, in a way.

Steve, Pat, Chris, Beth,

you're playing for something that money can't buy,

which is the Eggheads' precious reputation.

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

This time, they're all General Knowledge.

You can confer.

So, talk about it before you answer.

Matthew and Ching, the question is, can your two brains,

with all of your brilliant knowledge,

defeat these four super brains over here?

Good luck, celebrities.

Come on, you can do it. Take it one question at a time.

It's been done many times from this position.

Would you like to go first or second?

We will go first, please.

OK, Ching, Matthew, good luck.

General Knowledge, and here's your first question.

What type of creature was Jumbo,

the famous animal who joined London Zoo in 1865?

It's got to be elephant.

Jumbo the elephant!

-Are you sure you're not thinking of Dumbo the elephant?

-Oh.

Jumbo was an elephant's name.

So, I mean, you say.

Actually, could you please repeat the question again?

I'll stress the name.

What type of creature was Jumbo,

the famous animal who joined London Zoo in 1865?

-Unlikely to be a lion, I think.

-Actually, you're probably right.

-Lion... The options...

-Lion, elephant or gorilla.

I think gorilla.

What do you think?

I would say elephant, myself.

-Elephant?

-But I may be wrong.

-Maybe we should go for that instinct. First.

-You answer.

You're right. I was thinking of Dumbo...the elephant.

-You say Dumbo.

-Was it? OK. Elephant.

-Shall we go elephant.

-Let's go for it.

What have we got to lose?

Elephant.

Elephant is your answer.

I'm glad. It is elephant, yes.

-There was confusion with Dumbo.

-Yes.

Is there any connection between Jumbo and Dumbo?

I think it might have been a pun on Jumbo,

because Jumbo was a famous elephant.

So the people who created Dumbo, the Disney character,

would have known about Jumbo?

Oh, yeah, definitely.

I think Jumbo was the sort of generic name for elephants

at one point.

So, there would be a sort of invention of Hollywood

to call it Dumbo.

There was a major outcry when London Zoo sold him to Phineas T Barnum,

took him to the States.

Right. Jumbo was an elephant.

Well done. Good decision-making there by Ching and Matthew.

Good conferencing. OK, Eggheads.

Which of these is a famous line from the film Apocalypse Now?

-Robert Duvall.

-"I love the smell of napalm in the morning," yes.

Cue the Wagner. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."

That's right. Robert Duvall said,

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."

"You talkin' to me?" was Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver.

What was the other one?

Al Pacino, Scarface.

Al Pacino, in Scarface.

They do know their stuff, don't they?

Yes. Clearly.

All right, General Knowledge. Final round.

Playing for £14,000.

Challengers, what is the title

of the first full-length novel to feature Miss Marple?

-Miss Marple?

-I know it's not The Sign of Four.

Murder at the Vicarage?

No, I think it's The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

-OK.

-But I might be wrong.

-Would you blame me if I am?

-Erm...

You say it.

No, I feel that it's The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

I mean, I have no idea,

so I think that would be a solid guess.

-Spit it out.

-Spit it out.

We're going to go for The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

Actually, I read this, the last summer holiday I was on

because my daughter, who's 12,

has got really into Agatha Christie, so...

Who wrote two of the three here.

And there is no sign of Miss Marple in that.

-Oh, dear!

-It's a very early novel,

and I wonder if it might have even been her first, actually.

-Was Mysterious Affair at Styles her first?

-I think it was.

-May well have been.

-It's the first Poirot.

-Oh, the first Poirot.

-Poirot was in.

-Oh, no.

The Sign of four, Matthew's right,

it was Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of Four.

-Murder at The Vicarage was the answer.

-Oh.

-Oops.

-Oh, dear.

-Terrible title.

-I know.

Eggheads, what name is often given

to an eel that is split and grilled, or fried?

-Spitchcock?

-Spitchcock.

Not stargazey?

Stargazey pie is a Cornish thing.

Syllabub's a dessert, so it's a spitchcock.

That was your question so much, wasn't it? Spitchcock is the answer.

Spitchcock, well done, Well done, Chris.

Now, you've got to get this one right, Challengers,

to keep it alive,

otherwise the Eggheads have won.

Which comic-book character was, in real life,

appointed as a UN Honorary Ambassador in 2016

but was removed from the role only two months later?

MATTHEW LAUGHS

I missed that bit of news.

Passed me by!

THEY LAUGH

-Which...?

-Which comic-book character was, in real life,

appointed as a UN Honorary Ambassador in 2016,

but removed from the role only two months later?

I think it might have been Wonder Woman.

Yeah, I have a feeling it's Wonder Woman.

Because it might be a little bit of a faux pas, you know?

Outfits, I don't know.

Or that sort of thing, you know, it was a joke.

We could give it a go.

Give it a go. We have no idea, so we're going to go for Wonder Woman.

Wonder Woman is your answer.

Eggheads, are they right?

-They are indeed.

-Do you remember why she was removed?

It wasn't portraying women in a good light, apparently.

It was that Barbie-doll physique and everything that people objected to.

-Yeah, the costume.

-The costume, and the idea...

-We knew that!

-The so-called perfect figure.

-Wonder Woman is the right answer.

-Yes!

-Well done, you.

-Two out of three.

-Yes, we're still in!

Really good. Still in.

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

If they get it right, the contest is over.

-Give them something really hard.

-Here we go, let's see.

Which musician was famously heckled and called Judas

during a concert at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1966?

-Bob Dylan?

-Bob Dylan.

-All day long.

He abandoned acoustic guitar.

They're supposed to have tracked the bloke down

that shouted Judas, haven't they?

He shouted back, "I don't believe you."

-Yeah.

-Yeah. That was Bob Dylan, Jeremy.

-Do you think they're right?

-It was.

It was, Bob Dylan is the right answer.

So we do say congratulations, Eggheads.

You have won.

APPLAUSE

On The Mysterious Affair at Styles, so you don't dwell on it too much,

that was a very early one.

I can see the logic totally there, Matthew,

because it was the first Poirot.

That I didn't know, I must say.

-I knew it was a very, very early one.

-Yeah.

The Murder at The Vicarage just seemed to be such a wet title.

It is a bit wet. It's a bit obscure.

I've read all of the Agatha Christies, because I love them.

It is a bit obscure. I can't remember what happens in that.

So, I can see why you went for that one.

Commiserations, Challengers.

Great to see you all at the back, as well!

-Hope you enjoyed that.

-Sorry, guys.

It's what they do, day in, day out.

Someone's got to come in here and stop you wretched Eggheads.

-One of these days.

-One of these days it will happen,

a celebrity will take them down, I'm sure of it.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally, though, today.

This amazing winning streak continues.

I'm afraid you haven't won the £14,000,

so we roll the money over to our next celebrity show.

Eggheads, well done. Looking formidable.

Maybe these celebs get you to raise your game,

you start showing off a bit?

Is that what's happening? Join us next time

to see if a new team of Challengers

have the brains to finally defeat them.

There'll be £15,000 on the table.

Until then, goodbye.