Episode 20 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. You ready to rumble?

-Certainly are.

-We are indeed.

-Good.

Hoping to put on a classic performance against the Eggheads

are Quizino Royale.

There's no doubting the musical pedigree

of each member of this team, as the majority of them rose to fame

in the groundbreaking classical crossover group Bond.

But will quizzing be another string to their bows? Let's meet them.

Hello, I'm Elspeth Hanson. I play the viola in Bond.

I'm not a frequent quizzer, but I'm very competitive,

so I'm really looking forward to this.

Hello, I'm Tania Davis.

I'm the first violinist in Bond and this is my first ever quiz,

so I hope they're going to go easy on me.

Hello, I'm Gay-Yee Westerhoff.

I'm the cellist of the group

and I write some of the music and I'm beyond excited!

Hello, I'm Eos Counsell. I play second fiddle in Bond

and I also sing and write some of the music too.

I am a frequent quizzer but I mostly bring enthusiasm.

Hi, I'm David Arnold. I'm not in Bond.

I have scored five Bond films, including Casino Royale.

I wrote music for TV's Sherlock

and my specialist subject is pretty much forgetting

everything I've ever learned.

-So, Elspeth and team, hello. ALL:

-Hello!

-Great to see you all.

Elspeth, I know you're in the team captain position there,

so any thoughts of how to beat this lot over here?

I think our main game will be music and film.

We're feeling pretty confident in that, I have to say.

Yes, that more than humanities, but we'll see how it goes.

OK, and you, I remember,

at the start saying you were very competitive.

-That's a key facet of this team, isn't it?

-It is, indeed.

-It is for her, yeah.

-Are you the most competitive one, are you?

I've been told I'm rather competitive, so...

Tania, outside music, anything obvious that you're good at?

-Um... I don't know.

-Quiz-wise.

-Literature?

-This is actually the first quiz I've ever done.

-Right.

So, this should be interesting.

But these guys do a pub quiz and I hear that they're pretty good.

-So, you haven't been to it yourself?

-No, I haven't, actually.

But you've heard reports.

I've been afraid of quizzing, so I'm not sure what I'm doing here.

-You are originally from Australia, right?

-That's right.

And we know, don't we, Eggs, Australia comes up a heck of a lot.

-Oh, OK.

-Australian geography -

I think somebody got caught out the other day on Western Australia.

-Fingers crossed.

-It can come up.

Gay-Yee, any subjects for you that you did maybe at school

-that you enjoyed?

-Well, probably food and drink.

-Yep.

-It's always...

I love food and drink, so I'm hoping for the best.

-Anyone good on sport here?

-Probably Elspeth is...

-Elspeth on sport?

Yes, I enjoy sport immensely, but often those questions are hard.

-Those questions can be quite tricky, so...

-They can be.

Don't know what's going to come up.

David, we're building up a little profile of the team here,

-so what about you?

-Er, I'm more optimistic than capable, I think.

We go to a pub quiz on a Monday night

where I think it's easy enough for you to think you're doing well,

but hard enough for you to not win that easily.

But I find that I tend to remember

-things that are more trivial and useless.

-That's a handy skill.

I've found, as a composer,

the more that I write, the less I retain,

because part of it is emptying your mind

and you have a blank page in front of you

and you kind of wait for something to fill it

so I've found, actually...

My excuse is remembering things is not good for my job.

OK, well, I've never heard that before.

The more you write, the less you remember.

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,

the prize money rolls over to the next show.

So, Quizino Royale,

-the Eggheads have won the last 19 games on the trot.

-Wow!

But that's good because it means

-there's £20,000 for you to win today.

-Oh, my God!

-Do you want to get cracking?

-Yes.

The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Film & TV,

so one of you needs to go in against

either Judith, Chris, Pat, Barry or Steve.

-It's got to be David.

-David.

-I want to go with Chris, actually.

OK, so it's going to be David from Quizino Royale taking on Chris.

-Mm-hmm.

-Film & TV.

-It happens.

Last film he saw was Blazing Saddles in the cinema, wasn't it?

In the cinema, yeah.

Anything I want to see, I wait for the DVD to come out.

To ensure there's no conferring,

would you please take your positions in our legendary Question Room?

David, I don't think we could have a conversation here

without using the word "Bond", can we?

Well, we've got two ways in, haven't we? Films and the band.

-Starting with the first way, Bond, with whom I'm sitting here...

-Yes.

You're working with them on their new album.

Yes, they've got a new record.

I've written and produced two tracks on that record

which I think should be out soon. I met them nine or ten years ago

when I was doing a charity concert, actually,

for CARE International at Brixton Academy

and asked them if they would play at that.

We had Mark Ronson and David Walliams and Duran Duran.

It was a sort of star-studded night

and we were very lucky that they came along and played.

And after that, the Olympics closing ceremony,

playing all the strings for I Am The Walrus with Russell Brand

and it's sort of gone on ever since. It's been lovely.

And your other way in is you've written the score

-for five James Bond films, I think.

-Yeah, five.

The first one was Tomorrow Never Dies in 1997

and then The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day,

Casino Royale and Quantum Of Solace.

And do they all...? When I listen to them,

I always think they contain that note from the Bond original theme.

They have to sort of play off it, do they,

-or is that all gone now?

-Yeah, I think the secret...

The thing that I enjoyed doing most in a way, was Casino Royale,

when we saved it to the very last minute

when Daniel Craig reveals himself at the end,

when he says the words, "The name's Bond. James Bond."

Up to that point, he hadn't been James Bond,

but every time he did something or earned something of the theme -

when he won the card game,

when he wins the Aston Martin gambling,

when he puts the tuxedo on for the first time -

we kind of seeded the idea of that theme in it

and then exploded it out at the end.

I think if you ignore the work that's gone before in Bond films,

you're probably making a mistake.

Yeah, it is one of the most all-time recognisable theme tunes, isn't it?

It's one of those ones where you think if there was one tune

you wish you could have written, that would certainly be one of them.

-All right. I hope this comes in handy for Film & TV, David.

-Me too.

You can choose whether you go first or second against Chris.

I want to go second.

Chris, your question. In which TV series

does Olivia Colman play the role of the policewoman Ellie Miller?

Hmm.

Happy Valley is Sarah Lancashire, of course.

I don't think she's in Line Of Duty,

but she's certainly in Broadchurch, so I'll say Broadchurch.

Broadchurch is quite right.

Over to you now, David, for your first.

Which of these actors played the role of the Doctor

in the BBC TV series Doctor Who first?

Peter Capaldi, of course, is the current doctor.

Sylvester McCoy, I think, was the last of the big BBC Doctors

before they went on a long hiatus.

So, Tom Baker is my answer.

Tom Baker's right.

Well done. Back to you, Chris.

For his role in which 1990s film

did Jaye Davidson receive an Oscar nomination

in the Actor in a Supporting Role category,

a move which may have acted as a major plot spoiler?

Ee...

Surely he was the little boy in The Sixth Sense who sees dead people.

The Sixth Sense.

Yeah, it's a cleverly phrased question

and it's led you the wrong way. Eggheads?

Both The Sixth Sense and The Usual Suspects

have wicked twists in them, but it's actually The Crying Game.

-It is The Crying Game, Chris.

-Oh!

And I don't think I will even say why that spoils the movie,

-if you haven't seen it. You've all seen it, right? ALL:

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-I guess we know now cos we said that it's a male actor but anyway.

-Mmm.

-The Crying Game is the answer, Chris.

-Mm-hmm.

Have you seen it, Chris?

It's mentioned in an episode of Father Ted.

-I'm not going to elaborate.

-LAUGHTER

OK, so we go back to you.

If you can get this right, you take the lead, David.

Who plays the role of the nightclub singer Willie Scott,

the love interest of the title character

in Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom?

I know it's not Michelle Pfeiffer. Is this the Temple Of Doom?

Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom.

And it's the nightclub singer?

Yeah, the nightclub singer Willie Scott.

I'm pretty sure it's Kate Capshaw,

who I think is married to Steven Spielberg.

Kate Capshaw is right. Is she married to Spielberg, Chris?

She is indeed, yeah.

OK, Chris, you need to get this right to stay in.

In which 2016 drama series

does Winona Ryder play the role of Joyce Byers?

Never seen any of them. Winona Ryder...

I think we can discount Mr Robot.

Not inclined towards Bloodline. I'll say Stranger Things.

-Eggheads?

-Stranger Things.

It's right. Stranger Things. So, you're level.

David, you get this right,

you've won the round. Who plays the role of Sheriff Hunt

in the 2016 Western-horror film Bone Tomahawk?

Clint Eastwood, I think, is a little old to be in that movie.

He's directing more. He hasn't acted for a while.

Kevin Costner's been playing a lot of bad guys,

but I think it was Kurt Russell.

You're very good on your Film & TV. You've got it absolutely right.

Kurt Russell is right, David. Three out of three.

You've knocked Chris out. First blood.

First accurate tomahawk thrown by our Challengers. How about that?

Come back to us, please. Rejoin your teams.

What a great start for Quizino Royale. Yay!

No brains down from the final round so far. The Eggheads have lost one.

And the nest subject for you is Politics.

Who would like this?

-I'll have a go.

-Elspeth, brilliant.

-Against which Egghead?

-Go on, Els!

-Choose anyone but Chris.

Anyone but Chris, OK.

I am going to ask Judith if I can face her.

Sounds good. You don't get many runs out on Politics.

-No, I don't, actually.

-Wonderful.

Elspeth from Quizino Royale versus Judith from the Eggheads.

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

Elspeth, we should now introduce everyone to Bond.

You are part of this brilliant group. Tell us about it.

Thank you, Jeremy.

Yes, we are an electric string quartet

and we would be within the classical crossover genre

and so we write a lot of our music

and we bring in a fusion of world music,

classical, pop and anything in between.

And we'll be doing some film music coming up,

so we like to stretch ourselves and try a lot of new things.

And because the word "Bond" connects all five of you,

-the team name is Quizino Royale.

-Absolutely.

We couldn't go any other way.

Yes, it ties in David very nicely, with Casino Royale,

and we thought it was just a bit of fun.

When did you start learning violin, Elspeth?

I started relatively late, at the age of 12,

and I knew that I wanted to play it at that point,

so I had to work very hard and very quickly in my teenage years

to try and catch up, I suppose, with other violinists,

so I put the hours in and did a lot of violining in my break

and lunchtimes and up until about one in the morning, I think.

-Really?

-Yes.

-Why did it catch you in such a passionate way?

I always wanted to learn when I was younger

and because we were moving house a lot,

I didn't get the chance to nail down a teacher and stick at it.

I'd heard concerts by the likes of Nigel Kennedy, Maxim Vengerov

and some incredible violinists,

who really brought out this emotion in me and I just fell in love

-with the violin more than any other instrument.

-Good luck in this round.

Politics is the subject, Elspeth.

Would you like to go first or second?

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

Here is your fist question. Good luck.

In the UK, which of these political parties was established first?

I'm pretty certain it was not UKIP

and the Green Party came a little bit later,

so I'm pretty sure it's Labour.

Labour is correct. Well done.

Judith.

Donald Trump is a noted fan of and player of which sport?

Well, he owns golf courses, doesn't he?

He probably goes to play on them as well.

So, golf.

Golf is right.

Elspeth.

The Pentagon is the headquarters for which part of the US government?

It would not be the Department of Agriculture or Treasury.

It is a part of the Department of Defense.

It is indeed Department of Defense,

spelt the American way, with an "S".

Judith, what was the nickname of the politician David Steel,

who became an MP at the age of 26?

It was because he looked so young.

He was called "The Boy David".

-And he always looked young, didn't he?

-Yes, he did.

-He probably still does, for all I know.

-The Boy David is right.

Elspeth, you're doing well so far.

Try and get this right. Put some pressure on Judith.

Theresa May is said to have been introduced

to her future husband, Philip,

by which woman at a Conservative disco in the 1970s?

I haven't got a clue.

I'm going to have to take a total guess at this one

and go with...

I don't know why, Benazir Bhutto is sticking out at me,

but I can't see her being there.

I'm going to go with my gut, which is saying Hillary Clinton,

but I'm not sure.

But it's Benazir Bhutto, the one that was sticking out.

So, we go back to Judith. You could win the round

-with this, Judith.

-Benazir Bhutto was at Oxford at the same time.

I see, so it was something going on in the university, was it?

-Yes, I mean, they were all at university together.

-Right.

OK, Judith, here's your question.

When John F Kennedy famously said, "Ich bin ein Berliner", in 1963,

many commentators suggested the President was, in fact,

stating that he was a what?

Oh, gosh, um...

Well, he was one of those things. It was something to eat.

I'm not quite sure, actually, which one it was.

Um, doughnut sounds so American.

I think it was doughnut, though - the German equivalent of a doughnut.

Doughnut is your answer.

-So, you think a Berliner is a German doughnut?

-I think it might be.

-Is that right, Eggheads?

-It is, yes.

It is the right answer.

"Ich bin ein Berliner" translates as "I am a doughnut",

or a type of doughnut,

-though everybody pretty much knew what he was saying.

-Yes.

Judith, three out of three. Sorry, Elspeth.

She's knocked you out there, on the third question,

and you won't be in the final round,

but it levels it up, makes it a bit exciting.

Please rejoin your teams. We'll play round three.

OK, so, Quizino Royale have lost their skipper now,

lost a Bond from the final round.

The Eggheads have lost one too, so it's perfectly level.

And this might be good news for you. The next subject is Music.

Who wants this?

THEY WHISPER

-Holy Moley! It's going to be me.

-OK, Gay-Yee, our cellist.

-And who would you like to take on?

-Um...

-Come on, Pat.

-All right.

Gay-Yee from Quizino Royale taking on Pat from the Eggheads.

The last celeb show, you had a historian on History.

-Now you've got a musician on Music.

-I'm a marked man.

-Let's go for it.

Go to the Question Room, please.

-Gay-Yee, you're a co-founder of Bond.

-Yes.

-And what led you to do that?

-We were finishing college

and it was basically two groups of friends

and we were just trying to...

We were just trying to do something different,

where we could further ourselves,

rather than sitting at the back of an orchestra

or playing for other people,

kind of thinking, "How can we play just for ourselves?"

So, we came up with some music and we were...

I think we were in the right place at the right time.

And I know, when Bond launched,

the press said you were the "Spice Girls of classical Music."

I don't know whether you like that description.

Well, it was always a bit grating,

but they were a thing of the moment

and they just kept describing us as that

and I just let them do it

and we'd carry on with what we were doing.

The irony is you played cello for the Spice Girls themselves.

Yeah, and I was in Spice World, the movie, as well,

-back in the day, yeah.

-Who else have you played cello for?

I've played cello for all kinds of people,

from, like, dance things and rock.

People like Primal Scream.

And I've done jazz things and, you know, Sting and Barry Manilow.

But basically, whoever would have me, basically.

Well, you're on a good round here, Music.

-Although I know it ups the pressure a bit.

-A little bit.

So, Gay-Yee, would you like to go first or second

-against Pat the Egghead?

-I will go first.

Here is your first question on Music. Good luck.

The band U2 were formed in which country in the 1970s?

Well, I think this one's a bit obvious.

It's got to be Ireland.

It is Ireland. Well done. Yes, you're off the blocks.

Pat, your question.

What is the title of Girls Aloud's first ever UK number one single?

I think that's Sound Of The Underground.

It is Sound Of The Underground.

Quite a hard question that, actually.

Would you have known that, David?

-Oh, yeah.

-Yeah, of course.

-Yeah, he did.

If there's anything I don't know about Girls Aloud,

it's not worth knowing.

Gay-Yee, your question.

The work by Felix Mendelssohn, known as Fingal's Cave,

is also known by what other name?

Oh, no, my mind has gone blank.

This... My mind's gone blank. It's a complete guess. Sorry, everybody.

I'm going to go with the...

um, Hebrides Overture.

Let see. Challengers, is she right?

Yes, you're right. It is correct.

-Oh, my goodness!

-Hebrides Overture.

Brilliant. OK, Pat.

Stay Another Day, which had a memorable video,

featuring band members dressed in white,

was a UK hit single for which group in 1994?

I think this has a become a perennial video

shown around Christmas time, if I remember the correct track.

I think it's East 17.

East 17 is quite right, Pat.

He's quizzing well, isn't he, Gay-Yee?

So well, but that is to be expected.

It is, so here's your third question.

Put a bit of pressure on him.

Blonde is the title of a 2016 hit album by which performer?

Blonde.

Oh, no! Um...

I don't think it's Drake.

Oh, this... I'm clueless about this. I'm going to go with...

-..Solange.

-Pat, do you know?

-I don't know.

I think I'd be inclined to go for Frank Ocean, but I don't know.

-Frank Ocean is the answer, Gay-Yee.

-Oh!

Let's see if Pat can capitalise

and get his third question right.

Which of these is a famous piece of music by Tchaikovsky?

Well, Ride Of The Valkyries is Richard Wagner.

In The Hall Of The Mountain King is Edvard Grieg.

So, Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker

is by Tchaikovsky.

And you could do this is your sleep, Gay-Yee, couldn't you?

Yeah, what a shame it wasn't the other way round.

Yeah, Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy is the right answer. Pat, well done.

You're in the final. Gay-Yee, sorry,

you've been knocked out.

Are the Eggheads turning the tide?

Come back to us. One more round to play.

So, as it stands,

Quizino Royale have lost two brains from the final round.

The Eggheads have lost just the one.

Let's see if we can level it up now, Challengers.

The next subject for you is Arts & Books.

It's going to be Eos or Tania.

-Yeah?

-OK, I'll do it.

-Eos, OK.

-Eos! Eos!

Excellent. Against which Egghead?

Er...Barry, please.

Barry, all right.

Eos from Quizino Royale to play Barry on Arts & Books.

-You're getting lots of exercise at the moment?

-I am.

I think it's the shirts people go for.

LAUGHTER

To ensure there's no conferring, please go to our Question Room.

Eos, you have to tell us about coaching Sherlock Holmes.

Well, it's been amazing to have been asked to do that.

Yes, so since series two, I've been coaching Benedict Cumberbatch

the violin for his scenes, whenever he's got the violin.

-And it's been a lot of fun.

-I was reading...

You wrote a piece about it on your website and you were saying

how he turned up in a motorbike outfit and a crash helmet.

-It wasn't what you expected.

-No, exactly.

Well, that was the very first time I'd met him.

We were having a practice in AIR Studios

and trying to work out the timing.

We were doing a Bach sonata in G minor and we had to work out,

with a script, with him reading through the script,

at what point we'd get to in the piece in the sonata.

And then at the end, he was, like, "Do you want a lift anywhere?"

I only lived round the corner, but I kind of wanted to say yes anyway,

cos he was there with his motorbike and his leathers.

-That would be so cool but...

-That would be cool!

He'd drop me off at the station and I'd walk back again.

And you are clearly the person they go to,

cos you've coached Tom Hiddleston as well. What was that for?

That was for a film called Only Lovers Left Alive.

And, um, he had to be... He was basically a vampire who had...

He was immortal.

Basically, he'd lived for thousands of years already,

so he was supposed to be an expert at the violin

and everything he turned his hand to.

So, we had two hours to teach him how to play Paganini from scratch.

From playing nothing to Paganini, so that was fun.

You've excited Barry, cos you're a fan, Barry, aren't you?

-Yes, I think their music is wonderful!

-Oh, thank you, Barry.

It's really distinctive, isn't it, Barry,

cos it gives you classical but with almost the power of rock music.

It is. It just has that sharpness and that vibrancy about it.

-You've got to see them live, Barry.

-Mm-hmm, indeed.

-Blow your socks off.

-Thanks.

-There might have to be the St John Ambulance standing by

if Barry ever sees you live. OK, so Arts & Books, Eos.

-Would you like to go first or second?

-Er, first please.

Trying to level it up here for our Challengers.

Eos, your first question.

In which year was the writer Ernest Hemingway born?

Um...

I don't think it was as early as 1699.

Um...

I'll go with 1899.

You're right, he was definitely around in the 1900s.

1899 is correct.

Barry.

Which of these iconic works of art was created first?

Could you just repeat the question, please?

Which of these iconic works of art was created first?

-First.

-First.

-Right.

Well, the last one there was Guernica,

which was Picasso's painting of the bombing of the Basque town.

The Kiss by Rodin was probably around the turn of the century.

So, The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci was created first.

The last Supper by da Vinci is correct.

OK, Eos, your question.

What is the first line of Shakespeare's play Richard III?

I think "To thine own self be true" is from Hamlet.

"If you prick, us do we not bleed?"

I think is what Shylock says in Merchant Of Venice.

So, I think it is "Now is the winter of our discontent".

"Now is the winter of our discontent" is absolutely right.

Well done. Let me just check.

"If you prick us, do we not bleed?" is definitely Shylock, I know that.

-Barry, you'll know "To thine own self be true".

-Yes, indeed. Hamlet.

-It was Hamlet.

-Yeah.

Eos, right on every count

and that'll have rattled them a bit, I think.

The Eggs can panic sometimes.

Barry, to catch up.

An English translation of which famous book features these lines?

"Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading,

"his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind."

Ooh.

Goodness me. Do you know, I've never heard this before.

I can't see it applying to any of the characters

of the many, many characters in Les Miserables,

so I shall put that out.

"Finally, from so much... His brain...

"He went completely out of his mind."

Well, I can't recall anybody going out of their mind in War And Peace.

Er...no.

But Don Quixote certainly had moments

when he wasn't seeing things clearly,

so I shall go for Don Quixote, with my fingers crossed, I think.

Don Quixote is right.

And what was the name of track one, side one,

of Bond's first album, Eos?

-Quixote.

-Quixote.

LAUGHTER

Great coincidence.

OK, here is your third question. Which poet wrote the lines,

"But I, being poor, have only my dreams

"I've spread my dreams under your feet

"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams"?

Um...

Well...

I don't know, so I'm going to guess.

And I'll just go with WB Yeats.

BARRY LAUGHS You're absolutely right.

-Well done.

-Yay!

So, Barry, you need to get

this one right to stay in.

What is the name of the surrealist painting technique

that involves laying a canvas, prepared with a layer of oil paint,

over a textured object and then scraping the paint off

to create an unexpected surface?

Well, it's not a montage

and a collage, I think, is sticking bits and pieces together.

Er, there is a technique called frottage,

which involves rubbing things off

so, on that principle, I think I will go for grattage.

Grattage is right, Barry. Well done.

He knows a lot. Sometimes we think

he knows too much. LAUGHTER

OK, Eos, we go to Sudden Death.

It gets a bit harder cos I don't give you alternative options.

You're playing really well.

Which French impressionist's painting,

Argenteuil Basin With A Single Sailboat, was damaged in 2012

by a man who punched the canvas in the National gallery of Ireland?

We're looking for the name of a French impressionist, OK?

Um, Degas?

No, it's Claude Monet.

All right, Barry, this for the round.

In 2002, Sir Antony Sher unveiled a memorial in Westminster Abbey

to which playwright and poet over 400 years after his death?

2002...

So, we're looking at 1602, or around.

Over 400 years...

Mm... I think Shakespeare died a little later than 1602.

Er... Let's see...

Ben Jonson...

I'm not totally sure on this, but I think I will go for Ben Jonson.

-No, Christopher Marlowe.

-Ah!

Eos, you're still in it. Here's your question.

"A savage journey to the heart of the American dream"

is the subtitle of which 1972 book by Hunter S Thompson?

Oh, um...

I've gone completely blank. Um...

I can't even think of what it could be.

Um...

Catch 22?

I know that's by someone completely different. Joseph Heller.

Catch 22, it's not. Can't remember who wrote Catch 22. Barry?

-Joseph Heller, I think.

-Joseph Heller.

-Joseph Heller, yeah.

-It's Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas...

-Oh!

..which I know you'll know as soon as I say it.

-Yeah.

-OK, Barry, your question.

"Better by far you should forget and smile

"than that you should remember and be sad"

are the closing lines to which Christina Rossetti poem?

Christina Rossetti...

I don't know but it sounds very much to me like Goblin Market,

so I'll go for Goblin Market.

-No, it's just called Remember.

-Ah.

OK, Eos, you're still in.

"Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge"

are lines from a poem by which poet born in 1893?

Sounds like a war poem. Um...

Oh...

I want to say Williams. I can't...

Um...

I can't think of any poets. Um...

Born in 1893...

Just going to say William Thompson.

I think you may actually have the right name and it's sort of echoing.

-Wilfred Owen.

-Oh!

-The poem is Dulce Et Decorum Est. First World War poem.

-How annoying.

You're right, it's a war poem.

OK, Barry, for the round.

VS Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2001,

was born on which island?

I believe VS Naipaul is a Trinidadian.

So the island is Trinidad.

Trinidad is correct. You've taken the round on Sudden Death.

Sorry, Eos, you've been beaten

by our Egghead there and, as a result,

will not be in the final round.

Come back to us, both of you, and rejoin your teams,

and we'll play the final.

So, this is what we have been playing towards.

It is time for the final round

which, as always, is General Knowledge.

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

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

so that's Elspeth, Gay-Yee and Eos from Quizino Royale,

but also Chris from the Eggheads.

Would you please now leave the studio?

Tania and David, you're playing to win Quizino Royale £20,000

and be the first celebs to beat the Eggheads here.

Steve, Barry, Pat and Judith,

you're playing for something money can't buy

which is to just keep this defence of the money

and protect the Eggheads' reputation.

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

They're all General Knowledge and you may confer.

So, Tania and David, the question is,

are your two brains able to defeat these four?

Sure you can do it, wish you well,

and would you like to go first or second?

-Shall we go first?

-No, I think we should go second.

Okey-dokes, let's go second.

Here we go. General Knowledge. First question to the Eggheads.

What is pictured at the centre of the flag of Wales?

-A dragon.

-A red dragon.

-A red dragon.

-Yeah.

I don't think we're being stupid.

Yeah, we're pretty sure that's a dragon, Jeremy.

A dragon is right. Challengers.

A uniped is a creature with only one what?

-It's got to be foot, hasn't it?

-It's got to be foot.

-Yeah, foot.

-So, foot.

Foot is the right answer.

Back to you, Eggheads.

Which of these is an island country in the Indian Ocean?

-Comoros.

-Comoros.

The Grenadines are in the Caribbean

and the Azores are in the North Atlantic.

Again, Jeremy, we're pretty confident between us that's the...

Well, that's Comoros.

-Comoros or Co-MOR-os is the right answer.

-Yeah.

Challengers to catch up.

What is the title of the officious government employee

in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado,

sometimes referred to as "the Lord High Everything Else"?

I'm getting the feeling it might be Pooh-Bah, but is that ridiculous?

Er, well, I don't know

and I am leaning on your considerable classical credentials

-more than my own.

-No, don't!

Gilbert and Sullivan is not my bag, so...

Well, Pooh-Bah sounds like a...

Could be a stagey sort of name.

Sort of Gilberty-Sullivany kind of name, isn't it?

-Yeah.

-At the risk of looking ridiculous.

-Or Panjandrum.

-Shall we say Pooh-Bah?

-Yeah, why not?

-Pooh-Bah?

-Pooh-Bah is correct.

-Oh!

-You're playing well.

You've got two out of two. Well done.

OK, Eggheads.

Which Olympic gold medallist came second behind Andy Murray

in the voting for the 2016 Sports Personality of the Year awards?

-Brownlee went.

-I think it was Brownlee.

-Yes, Alistair Brownlee.

-The Yorkshireman.

-Yep, I saw it.

-Mm-hmm.

-Yep.

-There we are then.

-Nick Skelton was third.

-PAT:

-I'm rusty on this. If you're happy?

-BARRY:

-I'm sure it's Alistair Brownlee.

It's definitely Alistair Brownlee.

-You think so too, Judith?

-Definitely.

Mo Farah wasn't mentioned. It was extraordinary.

No, you're right. Again, Jeremy,

consensus of opinion seems to be it's Alistair Brownlee.

Alistair Brownlee is your answer. It's correct.

So, they've got three.

Because you let them start, you've got to get this right to stay in.

In December, 2016, which Labour MP announced

that he would be standing down from Parliament

to take up a job in the nuclear industry?

-I don't actually know.

-No, I don't know either.

We know it's not Tom Watson

cos Tom Watson's still working for Jeremy Corbyn.

Um, Keir Starmer sounds a bit like a Marvel Comics character.

-Or a Norwegian skier or something.

-No offence. Um...

-Shall we go...?

-Shall we go Jamie Reed?

-Jamie Reed?

-OK.

OK, we'll say Jamie reed.

Jamie Reed is your answer. You're guessing this one a little bit.

You know it's not Tom Watson. You're right - it's not Tom Watson.

Um...

Jamie Reed is the right answer. Well done.

Equal after three.

Couldn't be closer. Sudden Death, we go to.

Eggheads, I don't give you alternative options.

Here's your question.

In internet and tech slang,

what does the abbreviation IKR usually stand for?

IKR? That's a new one on me.

-Is it sort of what you write in a text or something, quickly?

-Yeah.

-So, "I know all".

-It's an abbreviation of something.

-IKR...

-"I know all"?

-It's R, isn't it?

-Oh, "I know are"?

-IKR.

-IKR.

-"I know"... Could it be "I know" something?

-Yeah.

"Really"?

-What would the K stand for? It's sort of the key letter.

-Mm.

"Know" is very tempting. Any others?

-"Key".

-"Key".

-IKR.

-"I keep reading"? "I kept reading"?

-"It"?

-"It"...

-"I"...

"It keeps right"?

-"I know"...

-"I know really".

-That's not very convincing, is it?

-It's not, but what else have we got?

-We haven't.

-Need an answer, please, Eggs.

-Right.

-Shall we?

-PAT:

-We're stuck.

-BARRY:

-We're stuck. Go for it.

As you can probably tell, Jeremy, we've got no idea.

Just basically trying to string a sentence together

that makes some sort of sense,

we'll try "I know really", when, obviously, we don't!

OK, your answer is "I know really".

And that predominantly came from Judith saying IK is "I know".

I heard her say that. And you're right. IK is "I know".

But R is not "really". It's "I know right".

"I know right"? It's ungrammatical.

"I know right"? That's not even good English.

-Honestly!

-Would you have known that?

-He knew it!

-I did know that.

-What does it mean when you say it?

-It's like, "I know, right?"

-I know, right?

It's like saying, "I know, right?"

-It's slang.

-It's not very good English.

-Or is it when someone...?

-It hardy matters, Judith.

-Yes, it does!

So, if someone says, "Isn't the boss awful?"

-and you say, "IKR."

-Yeah, I know, right?

-I know, right.

You bungled it. You got it wrong.

And there's £20,000 we're playing for

and we haven't yet been in this position

where all you have to do, as the celebrities,

-is get the answer right and you've won.

-That's all we have to do.

-Yeah.

And the Eggheads look on helpless.

So, £20,000 and, goodness, you've beaten how many teams?

-19, up to this point?

-Yes.

Bang, bang, great teams simply knocked all over the park,

and here you are, one question away from losing.

Here is your question.

In the formula used to calculate the area of a circle,

pi R squared, what does the letter R stand for?

-Go on.

-It's the radius.

-It's the radius.

-You've said radius.

Radius is correct. We say congratulations, Challengers!

You've won!

How about that? APPLAUSE

How about that? Well done! That's so brilliant, Bond!

What about that?

-We were very, very fortunate.

-19 teams...

The last team we had on came very close, didn't win. Well done to you.

It's proper luck of the draw because if we'd have gone first,

two of the ones you got right, I wouldn't have had a clue.

-You say that but I knew ALL the answers.

-OK.

LAUGHTER

Sure, but you got the Jamie Reed and that was just a bit of an inkling.

Yeah, we guessed twice on that last round.

There we go. That's how it works.

-It's a choice of three, it's a one in three chance.

-Yeah.

-Lucky us.

And tell us about the charity the money will go to.

It's going to CARE International,

which is an international charity

and I'm an ambassador for them

and have been to Rwanda and the Congo with them.

They do amazing work worldwide. They'll be so happy.

I've done concerts for them before, like at the Albert Hall,

and you're very lucky if you raise £5,000, £8,000,

with three weeks of work, so this will make a huge difference.

-That's wonderful to hear, isn't it?

-Yes.

-Well done there.

We were worried we'd get to the end of the celebs

without the money being won, but this is great that you've won it.

-Amazing, thanks, guys!

-Thank YOU so much.

-Wow!

Eggheads, you hung on in for an amazing 19 games

and then, on the 20th, you've gone down.

So, congratulations to Quizino Royale.

You've just won £20,000 for your charity, CARE International,

and you are officially cleverer than the Eggheads.

-Come on!

-You've proved they can be beaten. What an amazing game.

All these celeb games have been fun but this was really special.

-Thank you for playing.

-Thanks.

-Join us next time. Thank you, Bond.

-ALL:

-Thank you!

-See you again.

Join us next time on Eggheads

to see if a new team of celebrities will be just as successful.

Until then, goodbye.