Episode 17 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!

-How's that for a build-up? You like that, do you?

-Yeah.

OK. Challenging the quizzing prowess of the Eggheads are...

Now everyone on this team is surely going to be fighting over

the music category if it comes up, as they are all DJs

at the BBC's Asian Network.

-So let's meet them.

-I'm Noreen Khan and I present the Afternoon Show

on the BBC Asian Network.

I'm Tommy Sandhu and I host the Breakfast Show on the Asian Network.

I'm the only one out of this lot that doesn't get a lie-in in the mornings.

My name is Mim Shaikh,

I present the Thursday Evening Show on the BBC Asian Network

as well as the Weekend Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 1Xtra.

My name's Bobby Friction. I present the Drivetime Show,

I'm a journalist, documentary maker

and I'm in love with the one true religion they call music.

Hi. My name is Guz Khan - stand-up comedian,

radio presenter with the BBC Asian Network.

-Hairy and handsome.

-So, Noreen and team, hello.

-Hi.

-Great to see you all.

And, Noreen, are you actually in charge here?

I am officially the team captain.

-And I know you watch the show.

-I do, yeah, I'm a big fan.

So you're now confronted by the reality of the five.

Absolutely. It's great just sitting here and seeing all the Eggheads.

And in watching it, have you begun to work out a way of defeating them?

-That's the key thing.

-Kind of, yeah, but I've tried explaining that

to the team, but I don't know if they've quite grasped it yet.

-We have, we have grasped it.

-As we go through you can...

Yeah, yeah. Mim, you've got it, you've got a sense of a strategy?

Yeah. I can see, I've made eye contact with a lot of them,

-especially Dave.

-Has he looked away?

-He hasn't looked away yet, so...

-Oh!

-..I'm a bit worried.

Oh, dear. Tommy, what about you, any strengths and weaknesses?

I'm flirting with Judith across the table,

and I'm hoping that's going to work.

Let's have a look. It's working already!

-Yeah, I can tell, I can tell.

-It's working already.

Her film and TV knowledge has collapsed, I can tell.

Bobby, any particular areas you want to be doing?

I want to do music...

-Of course!

-I want to do politics as well, cos I like to think I'm

a Jeremy Vine in training.

Like a kind of disco Jeremy Vine.

-Funky dubby Jeremy Vine.

-Yeah, much more funky than me.

Um, but don't give me sport because I literally can't tell

-a cricket ball from a football.

-Guz, what about you?

Er, I thought we were filming Match Of The Day,

-so I'm confused at the moment.

-So you're ready for sport, are you?

Yeah, I'll get you, I'll get to grips with the sport, yeah.

OK. How do you feel, Guz, about quizzing in general?

Do you do a pub quiz, do you do a BBC Asian music...?

Is there any moment in your life when you go into a quiz zone?

-For me, I was a secondary school teacher till last year...

-I know.

..so elements of quizzing and questions I should be all right with.

-Yes, that's true.

-Now, what subjects were you teaching?

All the subjects which kids really struggle with, which is, like,

a lot of it in the school I was in, so humanities related.

So not science, geography, no, it's more...

-A couple of PE lessons, intermittently, yeah.

-Yeah.

I'm feeling confident, Jeremy.

Tell me, I'm feeling that we've got something here at the end.

We've got something! We don't know what it is,

-but we've got something!

-Can I just share a story?

I met you, and you gave me some advice ages ago

-when I was starting my first radio show.

-OK.

And the first bit of advice you gave me was not to panic,

so I'm going to embody the advice that you gave me, tonight,

-and I'm sure everything is going to be fine.

-I love that.

Definitely don't panic, and good luck, Challengers.

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

for our Challengers' chosen charity.

If they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over to the next show.

OK, now, Faces for Radio, what has happened is that

the Eggheads have upped their game for the celebrity shows, right?

So they've won the last 16 on the trot.

-What?!

-Right.

-I think that's good.

-No pressure.

-That's good, cos every time they win, the money goes up,

so it's £17,000 we're playing for, for your charities,

so the stakes are high, as they say.

And the first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Music.

How about this?

So it's one of you,

Noreen knows this cos she watches,

you choose one to go against either Judith, Kevin, Beth, Barry or Dave.

-OK, so who's going to go from us?

-It's got to be Bobby.

-Bobby's wanted this one.

-I want to do it.

-OK.

So who are we going to choose from the Eggheads?

I can't do chamber music or classical music or Celtic music

-or any other music...

-Don't say that now!

-No, no, no!

-Never tell them that!

-We've got to choose an Egghead.

-OK, all right...

-Who's the weakest when it comes to music?

-I'm thinking maybe Judith?

Judith. Judith, do you like rap music, dubstep, drum and bass?

-Oh, love it, yes.

-Yeah, all right, let's have Judith.

LAUGHTER

Judith thinks dubstep is the bit before your front door at home.

LAUGHTER Hasn't got a clue about that!

So Bobby from Faces for Radio versus Judith from the Eggheads.

-Are they picking on you, Judith?

-Yes! My worst nightmare, this.

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

in our legendary question room.

So, Bobby, your show is the weekday early evening show.

-That's correct, Jeremy.

-And so, for Judith's benefit,

cos I don't know if you're on it every day, Judith,

what sort of music do you play?

Basically a mix of South Asian beats and audio, we'll play Bollywood,

which is very glittery, very beautiful.

I play British Asian artists as well, you know, new genres

evolving in this great island of ours when it comes to music.

And then, on top of that, lots of stuff that's from the fringes

and the left-field, and then lots of just mainstream stuff as well.

It's basically a mixed bag of genres.

And you started, actually, on Radio 1, didn't you?

I did, a Radio 1 DJ for eight years.

-How was that?

-Brilliant. I travelled the world, DJing,

I travelled the world, essentially living a very rock and roll lifestyle.

It was just glorious,

and then I just had to move on, it was too much.

You're in this very small number of people who can work on

Radio 1 and Radio 4, because I know you've had documentaries on Radio 4,

so you've gone across all those different networks.

Yeah. I love Radio 4, I love making documentaries.

I made one recently on the power of social media, and these bubbles that

we're now all living in, and how it's affecting politics and society.

And then, you know, on a Saturday night, it's just about the music.

So let's give this a go.

Bobby, would you like to go first or second on music?

Just bring it to me, Jeremy.

I think that means first.

LAUGHTER I reckon that means first.

Here we go. Here's your question.

Noel Sullivan and Danny Foster found fame as the male members

of which group, formed in 2001?

OK. So S Club 7 were formed,

I assume, I'm thinking before 2001.

I could be wrong, let's just move them to the side.

One Direction, I don't really know all their names, apart from

the brother, Zayn Malik. But I don't think there's

a Danny Foster, so I'm going to go with Hear'Say.

Hear'Say is the answer. Well done, you've got it right.

Yes!

That is... Beware, we do not necessarily do fashionable music

here, that is the trouble, that is the danger.

OK. Judith.

Blue Lines, released in 1991,

is the debut album by which group?

Blue Lines, Judith?

-Why are you laughing?

-I don't know, it's funny names.

I really don't know.

I'm going to go down the magic right and say Elbow.

Elbow is the wrong answer.

-I thought it would be.

-Go on, Bobby, tell us.

The seminal first album from Massive Attack.

Yeah. Massive Attack. The one I've got is Mezzanine,

which is amazing. Well done, Bobby.

Sorry, Judith, you got that wrong.

This is not looking good at the moment.

No, it isn't. I didn't expect it to, though.

All right. Bobby, here's your question.

The American rapper born Cameron Jibril Thomaz in 1987

found fame under what stage name?

All right, so if he was born in 1987 he can't be Snoop or Dre,

because they were already killing it in the early '90s.

It's got to be the man, the brother, Wiz Khalifa.

It is indeed the man, the brother, Wiz Khalifa.

-LAUGHTER See, I'm getting it!

-Yeah.

-You got it, you got it.

-Seriously, Jez, you got this, fam.

All right, I've got this.

-You've got to say you've got this, fam.

-Jez, say you're the man.

You've got this, fam.

LAUGHTER You got it.

OK, Judith. How do I warn Judith she's in danger of going out,

-what do I say?

-Leave it babes, innit?

-Just leave it.

-Leave it babes, innit?

What?

LAUGHTER

OK, that's a way of just saying that if you get this wrong, Judith,

-you will have gone.

-Yes, I realise.

Here it is. Justine Frischmann was a guitarist and lead singer

for which band in the 1990s?

Justine Frischmann.

I have absolutely no idea.

Magic right again, Catatonia.

Dave, you know this.

It's Elastica, because she was well known for, at the time,

also for having a relationship with Damon Albarn from Blur.

-Right.

-But it's Elastica, Justine Frischmann.

OK. The answer is Elastica.

I'm sorry, Judith, that's been a bit of a difficult one for you,

hasn't it? It's the lack of opera, I think, that did it.

Well done, Bobby, you've won, you've won the round, this is good.

-Bobby! Bobby!

-Yay!

So Bobby Friction's in the final, Judith Keppel has been knocked out.

Early days, return to us, please, we'll play on.

OK. Noreen, that was good.

-That was good, Bobby.

-Yeah, well done.

-Thank you, but I want to do politics as well.

-Ah!

-You can't.

I know, because we never have anyone say they want to do politics.

Tommy's doing that. I've decided.

Anyway, all right, so listen, Faces for Radio,

this is an excellent start,

and remember, all the other celeb teams have gone down.

So, in fact, a lot lost in the first round.

So you're doing well, no brains gone so far.

The Eggheads, we're almost starting to feel sorry for, they've lost a brain.

We're not really feeling sorry for them at all, though.

The next subject is Arts & Books.

Who wants this?

-I think...

-This is where the Eggheads may get dangerous.

He's going to be all right. I don't think you'll be all right.

I think Noreen should do Arts & Books.

-What if Sport comes up?

-I prefer sports to Arts & Books.

-Yeah...

-You do it, then.

-Arts & Books, yeah?

-OK, I'll do Arts & Books.

-Great, Noreen!

OK, and which Egghead would you like to take on - so Dave, Barry,

you've got the nearest Egghead Beth, or Kevin.

Think. You know them, Noreen, so think what you want

but I do think that taking Barry down early on is always advisable.

Then they'll all crumble.

I've still got my eyes on Dave, you know.

Dave hasn't made no room for eye contact.

And you know Kevin and Beth, they're both looking at all of us

like, "Just you try it."

Yeah.

-Dave.

-OK, Dave.

All right, good stuff. Noreen from Faces for Radio versus

Dave from the Eggheads. I'm just sensing the seriousness

of this challenging team here.

Please take your positions.

Well, I think you're a musician, Noreen, aren't you?

Well, I did do music for about six years at school.

And it was violin and oboe, and you were in a steel band as well.

Yeah, I was in a steel band for over five-and-a-half years, so I spent

a lot of my school life in practice rooms and playing instruments.

And I did actually make an effort to find Sonik Gurus,

your band, on YouTube, and I failed, but I think I might have looked up

the wrong name or something. But is there evidence there?

There is evidence, yeah.

I actually played at one of Bobby Friction's nights

many, many years ago when I was on keyboards,

so, yeah, I've done a lot of music.

So to go...and I know this is the same at Radio 2, to be

somebody who loves to play music, to go into a station and play

other people's music to your listeners is just wonderful.

It's the dream job, really, I can't complain.

All right, well, let's see how you do here, Noreen.

It is Arts & Books, I know it's not your first choice.

You can choose whether you go first or get Dave to go first.

I'll go first.

So here we go with your first question, good luck.

Which of these Shakespeare plays is considered a tragedy?

I wish I'd paid attention now in A-level English.

Um...

For some reason I'm thinking Twelfth Night,

but not a Shakespeare expert.

I'm going to go with that one.

Let's see if your Challengers know.

-Would you say Twelfth Night here?

-No, we wouldn't.

-I think it's King Lear.

-Love's Labour's Lost is a comedy.

Yeah, Love's Labour's Lost is a comedy.

Twelfth Night, what do we... Is Twelfth Night a comedy?

-No?

-It's kind of comedy.

-It's kind of entertainment.

-Yeah, comedy.

-It's a play.

It's fun, basically.

And Lear is all, well, screaming and gnashing of teeth.

-Oh.

-King Lear is the answer.

Egghead, here's your question.

Where was the poet Dylan Thomas born in 1914?

Dylan Thomas is a Welsh poet.

Wales.

Yeah, Wales is the right answer.

All right. So, Noreen, back to you.

"The stars are not wanted now Put out every one

"Pack up the moon And dismantle the sun"

are lines from which poem?

Going to go for The Raven.

Let's see. Er, Challengers, what do we think?

-We think it's Funeral Blues.

-It just sounded quite morbid, so...

It is Funeral Blues.

Oh, sorry, Noreen.

-Just missed it.

-Bad guess.

It's the one that, cos this is my favourite poem,

it's the one that is famous for starting, "Stop all the clocks,

"cut off the telephone", that was in Four Weddings.

-Ah, yeah.

-We knew that, Jeremy, we knew that.

Yeah. "Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone."

-Got that, blud.

-All right.

So, Dave, you can take the round with this.

I sort of hope you don't, cos you're going to be knocking out

a great fan of Eggheads here if you do.

Which of these famous works of art was created first, Dave?

I don't think it's The Scream.

Sorry, I'm not going to go for the Mona Lisa.

I'm going to go for the Venus de Milo, please.

Venus de Milo's right, Dave.

You've taken the round. Noreen, sorry.

It just didn't fall right. And it wasn't your subject, really, was it?

-No, not at all.

-Well, thank you for playing.

You've been knocked out. It's level.

Please return to us and we'll play round three.

As it stands, Faces for Radio have lost a brain,

now they've lost the team captain. THEY GROAN

It's a blow. We're going to have to get through this.

The Eggheads have also lost one, so it's absolutely level.

No cause for panic yet,

and the next subject, you might like this, actually, Film & TV.

Oh.

Who wants this? No, no, no, no, don't give it out yet.

-He did ask for it.

-I did ask for it.

-You're going to upset him now.

I'm not going to be upset, I'm saying, is there anyone who wants it?

-Do you want to do it?

-I DO want to do it.

I feel confident in it.

But if anybody else thinks they would do a better job...

Can I make a proposal?

I thought you'd also be good at...

That's what I... I did think that as well.

I think... I watch a lot of film and TV, my show ends at ten,

I'm home by 11, all I have is film and TV.

-OK.

-So I can, but...

-OK.

-If it's your thing, it's your thing.

-See what I mean?

-I'm going to make a decision. Tommy's going.

-Oh!

-I feel bad.

-No.

-Are you sure you're all right with that?

-I'm absolutely fine.

-I don't want her to come in between us.

-OK, there's lots of other...

-We've got to decide

which Egghead goes up against you.

OK, so it's going to be Tommy, Breakfast Show DJ.

You can have... It is the three of them in the middle. It is Barry,

-Beth or Kevin?

-Or Barry.

I have a feeling Kevin knows less than Barry.

-Barry knows everything.

-No, Kevin knows everything.

You know what it is? It depends on the film.

It is whatever show it is.

It's like you had One Direction and boybands.

-Shall we go for Barry?

-Shall we try and take out Barry now?

-Tommy, you have Barry.

-Yeah, go for it.

Tommy versus Barry.

-A match made in heaven.

-Brilliant.

Barry likes... He likes to play,

let's put it like that, so he'll be pleased to be called.

Let's see how he does.

Tommy from Faces for Radio versus Barry from the Eggheads,

in the shirt,

and to ensure there's no conferring please go to the question room now.

-How are you feeling, Tommy?

-Yeah, great.

Your team are cheering you on.

Of course they are. I know those guys.

-I'm sure they are.

-And you are...

Let's just get the formalities over with.

You're the presenter of the Breakfast Show on the Asian Network.

-Yeah. That's right.

-So you are starting at what time of day?

Start on air at 6am, till ten, four hours every day.

-Man! What? Five days a week?

-Five days a week.

-20 hours on air a week?

-Yes.

-Oh, my goodness.

And do you find that when somebody says, "Can you come out

"on Friday night?" you're just thinking, "You must be joking"?

We've discovered a new thing. For Fridays

we start at one o'clock in the afternoon, and then we're done

by 9pm and in bed by 10.

So all-day-er sessions, that's the way forward on a Friday.

Cos the Breakfast Show is...

With any radio station, it's the one with the biggest audience always...

-Yes.

-But it's also the hardest, isn't it? It's real stamina required.

Yeah. I don't know what we talk about and I don't know where the four hours go.

People will quote back things you've said on air

that morning and I don't remember. It's like an exam -

once I walk out of the studio, I've forgotten everything.

And you had a break in a really unusual way, which was Blind Date.

-Yeah!

-Tell us about that.

I was at university, the posters were up -

do you want to go on Blind Date?

A mate of mine said, "Let's both go on it,"

and we applied and I was on it.

I was a picker as well,

so off I went to Monte Carlo on a date.

There was no romance. But after that I got the bug, the TV bug,

and I thought, I think I want to be on this stage all the time,

and after that, TV and radio stuff all followed.

Yeah, and was that in the days of Cilla Black? It must have been.

-Miss her!

-Yeah, it was, yeah.

Subsequently Cilla and I became quite good friends

and we went on holiday together,

we were in the music studio together, making music and stuff.

She was a great mentor and taught me a lot of great things about

-being in this business.

-Yeah, cos I know that the team then said,

do you want to do the voice on the show and stuff,

so that was almost the way you got started?

Yeah, that's right. I did a little demo.

I was in the studio making music to Blind Date, they said,

"Put your voice down and we'll hear what you sound like," so I did.

I didn't like the sound of my voice. Nobody ever does when you hear yourself.

They said, "It works and we're going to use it for the show,"

use it for Blind Date, and after that it just kind of carried on.

How fabulous. Here we are, Film & TV.

This could be a decisive moment cos you're equal at the moment.

You've got to win through here, Tommy.

Would you like to go first or second against our Barry?

Well, I think it's only right, in our culture we show respect

to our elders, so, Barry, you MUST go first.

Good luck, Barry. Here we go.

Film & TV, your first question.

Which of these TV drama series was primarily set in Liverpool?

Well, Eldorado was set in Spain.

Crossroads I think was a motel in Birmingham somewhere,

but Brookside was definitely set in Liverpool.

Brookside is the right answer.

Tommy, how old was the actor James Dean

when he died in 1955?

James Dean.

I don't remember seeing a picture of James Dean looking old,

so I don't know for sure,

but definitely not 64.

Very unlikely that he was 44.

Every picture I've seen of James Dean, every T-shirt,

every bit of memorabilia, it shows him looking very cool

on a motorbike, so...

is it 24?

24 is correct.

Absolutely right. Well done.

All right. One point each. Barry, back to you.

Which 2015 film stars, among others,

Samuel L Jackson, Kurt Russell,

Tim Roth, Walton Goggins,

Jennifer Jason Leigh and Michael Madsen?

All those people in...

Well, I am a huge Tarantino fan

and I have watched this film at least five times now,

and it's the wonderful The Hateful Eight.

Yes, you're right. I didn't know there were so many.

I suppose they've got about eight famous people in it, at least.

It's a film of two halves.

The first half is so atmospheric. It is an unmissable film, in my book.

Tommy, back to you. Hang on in there, you're doing well.

This is a big moment. Which of these films was directed by

Richard Attenborough?

If it's Gandhi and I don't get it,

I'm going to so get it from my dad when I get home!

OK, they are all, obviously, epic films.

Richard Attenborough only does epic films.

He could have probably directed all three of those.

As soon as you said Out Of Africa that sprung out to me.

Gandhi or Chariots Of Fire?

I've got to go with my instinct, and I'm going to say Out Of Africa.

Argh!

OK, there's a very animated reaction here.

Challengers, what is it?

I think it's Gandhi. Didn't he win eight Oscars?

I have seen pictures of Attenborough on the set,

-directing it.

-Gandhi is the answer.

-Oh man.

-Man!

Oh, man!

You don't realise the repercussions of that answer there, Jeremy.

Not to worry, but we've allowed the Eggheads a way in here.

If Barry gets this right, because you let him go first,

then the round is over.

Nollywood is the nickname given to which country's film industry?

I don't think the Netherlands or Nicaragua

have a film industry to speak of, really,

but Nollywood is from Nigeria.

Nollywood is in Nigeria.

Well done, Barry. Three out of three.

Sorry, Tommy, no way back.

-Argh!

-Argh!

And, oh, the Gandhi question. Come back to us,

we've got one more round to play.

Tommy, we feel your pain.

It's so... Honestly, I can't believe it.

You're kicking yourself. I feel sick.

Doing the little walk back to this table, I was embarrassed

to look these guys in the eyes. Look at them.

There is no support either, Jeremy.

I'm on my own right now. I feel like going home. I want to go home.

-I feel...

-I want to go home.

I know it's painful. We've to forge on here.

Faces for Radio have lost two brains now in the most terrible circumstances.

The Eggheads have lost only one.

And now is the time to level it up.

The subject is Sport.

-Sport, OK, you two.

-It's going to be Guz or Mim?

Guz or Mim?

-Guz, I think you should go.

-I'm not good at Sport.

-Yeah, Guz...

-Do you know football as well?

-Come on, let's do Sport, then.

-It's going to be Guz.

-Poor old Mim keeps getting passed over.

-Mim, are you sure, bro?

-Yeah, 100%.

Anyone who knows me, I'm not a massive sport fan.

-OK.

-We're going to send Guz through with...

I think Beth.

-Beth.

-Beth.

-Beth, yeah.

-What is it, Beth or Kevin?

-Definitely Beth.

-I think Beth.

OK, Guz from Faces for Radio taking on Beth from the Eggheads.

Right, big moment now. To ensure there's no conferring,

please, for the last time, go to the question room.

Guz, you were a teacher.

-That's correct.

-What was it that caused you to think,

-I've to go into entertainment?

-I just stumbled into it, really.

I was really bored marking books one day and I thought, you know what?

I need to do something else.

And then I started doing a couple of kind of YouTube videos,

a bit of stand-up, and it's all taken off from there, man.

Yeah. I know comedy is your thing, particularly.

You've got a particular character called Mobeen.

That's correct, Jez, my brother, yeah.

We've got Mobeen back up in this, like a Hershey's Kiss,

brown chocolatey goodness, Jezzy, mmm.

LAUGHTER

I have seen quite a lot of Mobeen online, actually.

He's got a friend who's sort of a ginger-haired guy

-who he kind of helps with advice and stuff?

-That's correct.

The character came to life as a representation of inner-city lads

all over the country, really,

and he's kind of a representation of them, and it's nice to see

people in a different light as opposed to the stuff

-that's usually in the media.

-Tell us about your Tuesday night show

-on the Asian Network.

-It's quite good. I've only just started it.

So kind of getting used to it. Again, I'm a radio novice, really,

so I've only been in the game a year,

so I need some advice off you, really, Jez.

I was looking at the stuff you've got on, like the toddler talks thing

and I'm thinking, whenever you have any item

that involves children, it can go wrong. That's my thoughts.

What, they get on the phone and they interview you, or something?

Thankfully it is a pre-record.

They do ask some weird questions, but it's good fun. Kids are fun!

What's happened with that item?

There was one kid that said, "Excuse me, Uncle Guz,

"when you flush the toilet, where does poo go?"

As an example.

-Yes.

-So there is a whole weird load of questions going on, yeah.

All right. So, against Beth, Guz, do you want to go first or second on Sport?

Ladies first.

So here we go with your question, Beth.

Who won their third BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in 2016?

That was Sir Andy Murray.

It is indeed Andy Murray, yes. Sir Andy.

OK, Guz.

Combatants in the sport of fencing

traditionally wear protective clothes of which colour?

It's white, innit?

It's white, well done.

You're straight there.

Now, don't snatch at it, I don't want you to make a mistake.

-All right.

-You've got to give it some thought,

but you were right there. This is Beth's question.

The Welsh rugby union player JPR Williams

typically played in which position, Beth?

Hm, now he was, er...

He's from a little while ago.

Let me think where he might be.

I can remember seeing pictures of him and I do recognise the name,

but I'm not sure of where he played.

I'm trying to think of his stature.

I think he might have been a tall, big chap,

so that would put him... It wouldn't make him a hooker,

cos they are short, square chaps.

Full back or second row.

It's going to be a 50-50 guess for this one

but I'm going to go full back.

OK. Let's check with Dave.

-Dave?

-Yes, she's right.

-Yes, you're right.

Full back it is.

OK, Guz, get this one right to stay level.

In which year was the basketball player LeBron James born?

So LeBron's of the era that I kind of stopped watching basketball,

but I think '94 is too young

cos he's either wrapped up or wrapping up.

'74...

makes him too old. I'm going for 1984.

You've got it right, well done.

1984.

You really used a bit of good logic there.

OK, Beth, your third question.

Which team did Manchester United defeat 2-1 in the 2016 FA Cup final?

I was at the semifinal of Watford, which is my team,

versus Crystal Palace,

where Crystal Palace beat Watford 1-0,

so it has to be Crystal Palace in the final against Manchester United.

You're absolutely right. Crystal Palace is correct.

So she's got three out of three there.

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

The West Indian cricketers Malcolm Marshall and Gordon Greenwich

both played for which English county team?

Jeremy, I haven't got a clue, blud,

so I'm going to go for Judith's special formula

which was down that... Mmm, maybe on the magic right-hand side,

as she was referring to.

Can you repeat the question one more time, please?

The West Indian cricketers Malcolm Marshall and Gordon Greenwich

both played for which English county team?

Take your time. If you get this wrong you're out.

It's jumped out at me, I don't know why,

I think I'm going to say Somerset.

Right. Oof...

-Anyone?

-Hampshire.

-Hampshire is the answer.

Guys, Beth is in the final, well done to our Egghead.

Guz, you've been beaten and knocked out,

so if you come back to us, we will see how the land lies for the final.

So this is what we have been playing towards.

It's time for our final round, which, as always,

is General Knowledge,

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

won't be allowed to take part in this round, so it's Noreen,

Tommy and Guz from Faces for Radio, but also Judith from the Eggheads.

Would you please now leave the studio?

OK, Bobby and Mim, is this big?

Yes, this is very big.

It is big, and he has a big ting on his show,

he has a feature called Mim's Big Ting.

Oh, is this going to be a big ting?

Big Ting is basically my big record that I love

more than any other record.

I feel like this is the biggest ting of all big tings ever,

-combined to make a big ting.

-Well, we're complemented cos...

Me and Bobby have never done a show before but I feel more anxious

about this than if we were to ever do a show.

I think we're going to be fine and also you have to remember, we have

better facial hair than all of those Eggheads.

-Yeah, that's true.

-This is very true, because they have none.

And, Mim, you are on Thursday evenings.

-I am on Thursday evenings.

-And apart from the Big Ting,

-what else is there?

-Yeah, so my show is like a place for young

British Asians to come and debate about issues

that are affecting them, so some debates we've

discussed multiculturalism, we've discussed different ideologies,

we've discussed growing up without a dad, mental health,

loads of issues that I think sometimes young people

are not allowed to talk about, but

I just wanted to make that a place for us to have our opinion shared.

And you are an actor as well, you like to act?

-Yes, I am an actor.

-You have been in a movie?

Yeah, I shot a film last year that's coming out called Two Pigeons...

-Fantastic.

-..which is amazing.

-Everyone should look out for it.

-OK.

Here are the two pigeons playing.

The two competitors we have got now,

playing to win Faces for Radio £17,000.

Is this... Are you ready?

-You're in the zone?

-Totally in the zone,

-totally ready to take them down.

-All right.

Dave, Barry, Beth and Kevin, you're playing for something else,

which is to just keep this run going against the Celebrities,

which I know has become a source of pride to you.

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

They're all General Knowledge and you may confer.

The question is, can your two brains take down these four

in a famous victory?

Mim and Bobby, do you want to go first or second?

-You make the call, Mim.

-We will go first.

OK, General Knowledge.

Challengers, your first question.

Until it was renamed in 1868, what was the name of the city of Tokyo?

OK, Pondicherry is in India.

So it's not that.

Byzantium is the Byzantine Empire.

That was in the Middle East.

I would have said the third one.

I think it... The third one, Edo, sounds a bit Japanese, anyway.

My gut was telling me that, out of all three, straightaway, anyway.

Tell him... Tell him like a samurai.

-Edo.

-Edo.

I'm going to throw this to Barry,

cos we always say Barry has been to every answer.

Barry, are they right?

-Absolutely right.

-Yes, Bazza!

Yes!

Bazza's confirmed it.

Edo is correct.

OK, Eggheads.

In The Owl And The Pussycat by Edward Lear,

which animal officiates at the marriage

of the two title characters?

-Turkey.

-Turkey?

-Turkey, yeah.

-Turkey. That was a bit of a chorus there.

It's the turkey.

Said it in sync, didn't they?

So, how does it go? "The owl and the pussycat went to sea

"in a beautiful sea green... pea green boat."

"They took some money and plenty of honey wrapped up in a £5 note."

And then I get stuck.

I'm not sure. Where does the turkey come into it?

-Later.

-How do you...

How do you know this?

We all have things in our lives we're good at.

-They just happen to be good at...

-Everything.

-..everything.

They know facts.

They know Turkey's in the poem

even though they didn't know the poem. Right.

Your second question. Which British political leader once said,

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile,

"hoping it will eat him last"?

-I know this.

-Who do you think?

It's definitely Winston Churchill,

because he actually went up against the so-called appeasers

who appeased Hitler, pre-Second World War.

Neville Chamberlain was called an appeaser

for coming back with a piece of paper

after visiting Hitler, and Harold Wilson was the '70s.

Yeah. No, Harold Wilson, it wouldn't be.

So you want to go for Churchill?

-The Bulldog.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

Yeah. All right.

Winston Churchill, JV.

Bobby's right in every respect.

It's Winston Churchill. Well done.

Well done. Perfect.

Bang on. You are in the lead against the Eggheads in the final round,

guys, with £17,000 to play for.

This is a moment to treasure.

Now we have to hope something bad happens to them.

Which navigator was the first known European

to lead an expedition across the Pacific?

Was it...?

Magellan. It was Magellan, although he never completed the voyage,

because his deputy, Sebastian Del Cano,

completed it for him.

Yeah, depends how you define Pacific.

They got to the Philippines.

Yes.

Yeah, the other two were much more connected with the Atlantic.

The one who crossed the Pacific most of the way was Ferdinand Magellan.

Magellan is correct.

Third question. You're doing well here,

2-2. This is good. We can relax a bit, but not much.

Get this right, you may not need to do any more work.

Which British composer wrote the 1965 musical Twang!!!,

based on the legend of Robin Hood?

Are we talking about...?

It's "Twang!!!" with three exclamation marks, just so you know.

You couldn't necessarily tell that.

So the title is T-W-A-N-G-!-!-!.

-And what year was it?

-1965, OK?

OK, so I'm sure Stephen Sondheim is American, but I could be wrong.

My gut's telling me Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Andrew Lloyd Webber is the '80s,

Phantom Of The Opera and all that stuff.

-I'm just thinking...

-You think it might be Lionel Bart?

I don't know who Lionel Bart is but then again, Andrew Lloyd Webber's...

This is what he does, but I just...

'65, I'm assuming he would have been really young,

but then maybe he was that smart, he wrote...

Maybe it was his first musical and he wrote it when he was...

Can we have... Can you say the question again, please?

By all means. Which British composer wrote the 1965 musical Twang!!!,

based on the legend of Robin Hood?

So Andrew Lloyd Webber's famous for stuff like Phantom Of The Opera,

-right?

-I hear that.

I've never heard Twang!!!

associated with him but, then again, I don't know about Twang!!!.

And, also, he'd have been really young because he was, I think,

mid-40s or mid-30s in the '80s.

So he would have had to have been 20...

-To make that.

-Yeah, so maybe it was his first musical.

I don't know who Lionel Bart is.

I see the name Lionel and I think of a British guy in the '60s.

I just feel...

I understand what you're saying, but I feel like Lionel Bart

is too old.

You know what? My intuition says Lionel Bart, but I could be wrong.

I think you should make the decision.

I ain't going to hound you,

I'm not going to visit you at your house late at night, one night,

and start shouting at you. You make the decision.

I'm saying Lionel Bart

because I think Andrew Lloyd Webber was too young,

unless it was his first-ever musical.

Can I put that on you? Is that horrible?

It's a lot to put on me.

-What do YOU think?

-I think Andrew Lloyd Webber.

OK.

Yeah, cos he could have been really young.

As I said, he could have been...

He would have been alive in '65, put it that way.

-He would have been really young, though.

-Doesn't matter.

Maybe that was... I just don't remember...

You know, I grew up with, like, Phantom Of The Opera.

I just assumed, during an interview, someone would have gone,

"You wrote Twang!!! - that's what started your career,"

and I don't remember that, but I could be wrong.

I'm saying Lionel and I don't mind.

No, you've got good reasoning.

'65, '85.

It could have been Andrew... Lionel Bart.

Lionel Bart.

We're going to go with Lionel Bart.

Lionel Bart is your answer.

OK. You're a good quizzer, Bobby.

The one thing that might have led you towards Lionel Bart is this.

He did Oliver!, right?

Oliver! is his... And Oliver!

has an exclamation mark after it, as well.

Oh! So Lionel Bart is absolutely the right answer.

-Yes!

-Well done.

-Three out of three.

-Get in!

-Get in!

-Come on, Eggheads.

You did well, cos you didn't...

I could see you were tempted to change the answer.

No, but... Always trust your team.

I was begging you not to change it. Well done.

Well done. You've got a good quizzer here.

Jeremy, all the money Lionel Bart made out of Oliver! -

and he made a big deal of money - he sunk into Twang!!!

and he lost the lot, cos it was a complete failure.

It was a failure. Cos Twang!!! is not well remembered.

It was a good ask because Andrew Lloyd Webber is not beyond

the bounds of possibility, even though it was only...

Because it was only a couple of years after that

that he and Tim Rice did

Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, the first version.

Really? Oh, so it could have been the prequel, almost.

So it wasn't, as Kevin says, beyond the bounds.

Those third questions!

If the Eggheads get this one wrong,

you've become the first celebrity team to beat them and you've won

£17,000, so just hang on in.

Eggheads, third question.

The first reported sightings of

which of these mythical creatures

were in West Virginia in the 1960s?

Is it...?

-I think it's the Mothman.

-The Mothman.

He's in West Virginia, isn't it?

The Chupacabra is sighted in Mexico, normally.

The Thunderbird is American Indian.

-It goes back a lot further.

-In the plains.

It goes back a lot further, yeah.

The Mothman is supposed to be West Virginia.

Yeah, I'm pretty certain it's the Mothman.

OK? Happy with that?

I'm happy, yeah.

It's one of these things...

I mean, just started up, one of these urban legends

about the Mothman.

In fact, there has even been a film called The Mothman,

starring Richard Gere, I think.

Chupacabra is a South American thing.

Thunderbird is an ancient Native American thing.

This is the Mothman.

If this is wrong, they've won.

Do you know the answer?

No, I would have picked the Mothman if I had that question.

West Virginia, 1960s, it was the Mothman.

Well done, Eggheads.

You've got it right. Three out of three for you both.

Ooh, we're tense here.

-Oh!

-So we go to Sudden Death.

Gets a bit harder. I don't give you alternative options.

Oh, man!

Who played Morticia Addams in the 1991 film The Addams Family?

Angela someone... Angela...

No, no, no.

Famous Hollywood royalty.

Say the name again?

-Brisset? Angela Brisset?

-No! Morticia Addams...

-Take your time.

-Not Angela Lansbury.

That's that woman who did...

Are you sure it's Angela?

-I don't know.

-I haven't got a clue.

-Oh, wait, wait, wait.

I've got it, it's just... It's gone.

Like, I know the answer but I can't call her name up.

Angela Brisset? No.

I think she was in a film about the three witches

with Jack Nicholson, as well.

Oh! Something to do with Jack Nicholson.

The Witches Of Eastwick.

She's so famous!

She was so great in it, as well.

1991 - that was the year I was born!

HE LAUGHS

Yeah. Sorry.

Er, I can't...

Honestly, if I had it, I'd pull it out of my head.

What should we do?

Morticia Addams, Morticia Addams, Uncle Fester,

the little girl with the ponytails and...

-It's not going to come?

-Jessica...

I don't think it's Angela. Maybe it's Jessica.

Just say Jessica, even though it needs two names.

Angela Jessica.

And we get best of both worlds, but that is a complete guess.

All right, and I know who you're searching for.

If I were to say the first name to you,

Bobby, you'd get it straightaway.

-Anjelica...

-Huston!

Anjelica Huston!

-Ohhh!

-Argh!

That's it, and it was just...

-As soon as...

-It was right there, on the...

I was thinking, if you say Angela Huston to me,

I'm going to have to say

that's wrong, and that's going to be very painful.

Of course, as soon as you went to Huston,

you would have got Anjelica.

-Man!

-So close!

You were just so certain it was Angela, as well.

-So close, so close.

-You knew it.

OK, you're still in it, though.

Eggheads, you need to get this right to end the contest.

In 1963,

Lee Harvey Oswald was assassinated in the basement

of a police station in which US city?

-Dallas.

-Dallas.

-Assume it's Dallas.

-Has to be.

-Yeah, it is Dallas.

The first murder ever shown...

Live murder shown on TV.

OK?

Well, he assassinated -

it's all still very controversial, of course -

John F Kennedy in Dallas, was arrested the same day, and then,

as he was being taken from the holding cell

for a pre-trial arraignment,

two days later, he was himself shot and killed by Jack Ruby,

so it was all still in Dallas.

-Dallas.

-Your answer is...

-Dallas.

-Dallas. If this is right, the contest is over.

Great contest.

Dallas is the right answer.

We say congratulations, Eggheads.

You have won.

We nearly had you!

We had you right to the end.

-KEVIN:

-I'm sure it was agonising for you,

because you were so close when you were saying Angela.

Old Anjelica Houston!

I was trying to beam Anjelica to you.

As soon as you put the Anjelica, you would have got it straightaway.

-Yeah, of course.

-She wasn't...

By the way, she wasn't in The Witches Of Eastwick,

but she was the head witch in The Witches.

-Oh, The Witches.

-The film based on the Roald Dahl.

So you were exactly...

You knew who it was. Commiserations to Faces for Radio.

Great to see you back there. Don't worry about the Gandhi, Tommy.

Stop thinking... He's still thinking about it!

No, worry about it! Worry about it!

-He should worry about it!

-Still thinking about it.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them,

even if it was hard today.

This winning streak continues.

It does mean the Challengers don't leave with the £17,000

for their charities, so the money rolls over to our next show.

Eggheads, are you going to beat all of these celebrity teams, I wonder?

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

have the brains to finally defeat them, with £18,000 to play for.

Till then, with many thanks to our Asian Network colleagues,

thanks for coming in, and we bid you goodbye.