Episode 11 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?

Hello and welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz

challengers pit their wits against the greatest quiz team in Britain.

You might recognise them as they've won some of the country's toughest

quiz shows. They are the Eggheads.

And taking on our quiz champions today are the Beatheads. The team

are a group of friends who've come together through beatboxing websites

and conventions. Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Ollie, I'm 23.

I'm a French and business student and a beatboxer.

Hi, I'm Dan, I'm 20. I'm an engineering student and a beatboxer.

Hi, I'm Cal, I'm 20. I'm a politics student and a beatboxer.

Hi, I'm Tony, I'm 21. I'm a shop assistant and a beatboxer.

Hi, I'm Dan, I'm 22. I'm a data-entry clerk and I'm a beatboxer.

Well, welcome to you, Beatheads. Now, for the uninitiated,

tell us what beatboxing is.

Beatboxing is essentially...

the art of losing your inhibitions

to the extent whereby you can make any sound, albeit a violin sound,

a drum and percussion sound, even siren sounds. In fact,

there are people like Michael Winslow in Police Academy,

that are doing electric guitar sounds at this point in time.

This is just using your vocal cords and your voice box. That's it?

-Nothing else?

-Vocal cords, lips, nose.

Can you give us a demonstration?

I'm sure we can work something. A bit of freestyle, boys?

-Over to you.

-Up for that? OK.

HE BEATBOXES

Beatheads!

OTHERS ALL JOIN IN

Fantastic!

I was mystified there. Who was doing the trumpet sound? The high one?

That was me. HE IMITATES TRUMPET SOUND

Fantastic stuff. Thank you very much indeed, Beatheads.

OK, well, let's play Eggheads now and see if you can BEAT them.

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

for our challengers. But if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,

the prize money rolls over to the next show.

So, Beatheads, the Eggheads have won the last eight games

which means £9,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

And the first head-to-head battle will be Film and Television.

Who'd like to play this?

-Tony's got the skills to play the bills.

-So it's on you.

-Right, first up.

-Big guns, mate.

-Who do you reckon I should take on?

-When have you seen Daphne do Film and TV?

-I haven't.

Then I'd feel bad about taking her on. She looks too innocent.

-THEY SPEAK AT ONCE

-Daphne innocent?

I've heard her called a lot of things, but never that!

-What were you saying?

-Daphne might be a good challenge. OK.

-Right, Tony versus Daph.

-Tony against Daphne.

Could I ask you please to take your positions in the question room?

Tony, would you like to go first or second

in this Film and Television round?

I'll take second. Ladies first.

OK, Daphne, first question to you, then.

Who played the title character

in the TV series Chef about a tyrannical and obsessive cook?

That would be the lovely Lenny Henry.

So say all of us. Yeah, lovely Lenny Henry is the right answer.

Chef. Tony...

what was the name of the lion cub raised by Joy and George Adamson

in the 1960s film Born Free?

This is one I haven't actually seen,

which is...always a bit annoying.

Erm...

I don't think it's Ellie. That sounds more like a dog's name.

Elsa just sounds weird, so I'll go with Ella.

Ella, the lion cub.

Nearly. It's Elsa.

Elsa is the lion cub in Born Free.

Daphne, your second question, then.

Who starred as Dave in the 2008 sci-fi comedy Meet Dave?

I haven't got a clue!

Erm...the last film

I actually went to the cinema to see was the first Harry Potter...

-I thought you were going to say it was Born Free!

-No, I saw that!

-Erm...

-The first Harry Potter, so that's a while back.

Yes, it is, isn't it? Erm...

Oh, dear, I don't know.

Eddie Murphy.

You've got to, er...

I was going to say you've got to get out to the cinema more,

but you might as well not bother. It's the right answer.

Eddie Murphy is Dave in Meet Dave.

Well, you can always have a guess at these multiple-choice ones,

and Daphne has managed to land that, so it means

we've got to get you off the mark, Tony, or the round is over. Tony...

Patty Simcox and Cha-Cha DiGregorio are characters in which film?

I can't stand musicals, so this is...

For a musical man, I'm surprised to hear that!

Wow. Could you repeat the names again, please?

Yes, Patty Simcox, Cha-Cha DiGregorio.

Characters in which film?

I don't think it would be Dirty Dancing.

Erm, Pretty In Pink...

..that sounds more like a night out to me than a musical.

I'll go for...

I'll say Grease.

I'll say Grease. Go Grease.

OK, gone for Grease with no degree of confidence there at all,

-I can tell!

-I'm totally confident. It's Grease.

Good man. That's made it the right answer. It's correct.

-Yeah. See, I know these things!

-Yeah, that's better.

Patty Simcox, Cha-Cha DiGregorio, minor characters.

Not amongst the leading parts, no.

OK...but Daphne, having got two correct,

can win it with this.

Got to hope, Tony, she doesn't get it.

What was Richard Attenborough's first film as an actor?

Ah.

I think that was...

In Which We Serve, because that was during the Second World War.

I think he was a sailor in it.

I think Brighton Rock was later.

Definitely not The Great Escape, so In Which We Serve.

Richard Attenborough's first film as an actor.

Of course, still continuing with his directing and acting.

It's In Which We Serve. It is correct, Daphne.

Bad luck, Tony. We don't get to know whether

you'd have got your next one correct so there's no need to put

one to you. Daphne's already got those three out of three.

It means you won't be playing in the final round. Daphne, you will.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, the Beatheads have lost one brain from the final round,

the Eggheads are all there. We'll play our second round,

and this subject is Science.

-Who'd like to play? Can't be Tony.

-Nature boy Dan himself.

-Mr Engineer, let's go.

-All right. I'll be doing that one.

OK, Dan, which Egghead would you like to play?

Possibly Judith? Maybe...

-Yeah, Judith.

-Yeah? Yeah.

Maybe go with Judith for the Science.

-Judith.

-That's all right.

-You happy with that?

Well, let's have Dan and Judith into the question room, please.

So, Dan, when you're not beatboxing, what do you do?

Well, I'm at student at Newcastle, so I'm maybe out socialising or...

-Studying?

-Yes, sorry, studying.

That's what I meant. Mixed up my S words.

Yeah, I do a lot of sports and things.

-What subject are you studying?

-It's mechanical engineering.

Could fit into this category, some of that.

-Hopefully.

-Let's see how you do. Do you want to go first or second?

I'll try with first.

Good luck. Here you go. First question, then.

What type of shape is an ellipse?

What type of shape is an ellipse?

E-L-L-I-P-S-E. Ellipse.

Well, luckily I know this one.

I think it's oval.

Ellipse is oval-shaped, yes, correct. Good start.

Judith, the ASCII code is used in which field?

The ASCII code is used in which field?

It's an acronym. A-S-C-I-I.

ASCII. The ASCII code is used is which field?

I don't know, but I think, as there's a C in there,

and there aren't Gs or Ps, I'm going to say computing.

OK, computing. Computing it is.

Well done. Any Egghead, or all the Eggheads,

able to tell me what it stands for precisely?

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

-So no "computing" in there at all? So it was a lucky guess!

-Lucky.

"Code" was in there. OK...

it's all square. Dan, back to you.

By what term is the medical condition prepatellar bursitis

more commonly known?

Well, it ends in "itis"

and I'm thinking that's some sort of a swelling.

Erm...so Tennis Elbow or Housemaid's Knee.

I think Trench Foot is some sort of an...infection, I think.

Maybe. Erm...

I'm going to go with...

Tennis Elbow.

Tennis Elbow.

OK, tennis elbow for prepatellar bursitis.

Unlucky. On the right track.

It is Housemaid's Knee, the patellar being a clue there.

-The kneecap.

-It's the kneecap. Prepatellar bursitis.

So...right analysis, wrong diagnosis in the end.

Chance for Judith to take the lead. Which mainly insectivorous

marsupial of the family Peramelidae with a long pointed muzzle

and large ears is native to Australia and New Guinea?

Well, I don't think an armadillo is a, erm...

Did you say marsupial?

-Marsupial is in there, yes.

-I don't think an armadillo is a marsupial.

I thought a cavy was a kind of rabbit.

I don't know.

Erm...I'm going to say bandicoot.

Isn't it a great word? Bandicoot.

And it's a great answer, too. It's correct. Yes, the bandicoot.

Surely she's played the computer game Crash Bandicoot?

Which is how YOU would've known it?

-Yes, that's how I knew that a Sonic was a hedgehog.

-Right!

OK, well, it's put you in the lead, so you've got to get this then, Dan.

-Pressure's on.

-It certainly is.

Which precious metal has the atomic number 79?

Well, 79, that's pretty heavy. Erm...

If I remember rightly, gold's heavier than silver...

I think. I hope. And, er...I've got a feeling platinum's heaviest.

I'm going to go with...

platinum. I'm going to go with platinum.

-Platinum for the atomic number 79.

-Yeah.

-It's the other one. It's gold.

-Oh, no!

-You were thinking about it.

It was a real toss-up for you, wasn't it? Platinum or gold.

It turned out to be gold.

Do you Eggheads know the other atomic numbers?

-I think platinum's actually 78.

-Is it? Next-door neighbour.

-Silver's 47.

-Silver's 47.

OK, well, nothing there, and indeed the end of the round.

Judith, you are through to the final round.

Clinched it there with your second question. It means you won't

be playing in the final round, Dan. Would you both please come back and join your teams? Well, after that,

the Beatheads have lost two brains. The Eggheads haven't lost any,

but we've got two more head-to-heads to play for a chance to knock two Eggheads out.

So let's see how you do in this one, Beatheads.

This subject's Geography, and it's Ollie, the other Dan or Cal to play.

I've been talking about this subject and revising quite intensely.

Now that it's come up and Arts and Books hasn't come up just yet...

-Let's get the team leader out.

-Who's gonna go?

-We know the answer.

-I've been heading towards Mr Smug himself,

-Mr CJ de Mooi, so...

-When you said that, I thought you meant Kevin.

-What do you think? That's who it's going to be?

-CJ. Me versus CJ.

Ollie and Mr Smug, let's have you both into the question room, please.

OK, Ollie, would you like to go first or second?

I think I will plump for first, please, Dermot.

Best of luck, Ollie. It's Geography. This is your first question.

Approximately how tall is the Great Pyramid at Giza?

See, I don't think it's 145 feet

and I don't think it's going to be as big as...1,450 feet,

so I'm going to plump in the middle for B and I'm going to go 450 feet.

That's the Eggheads' second option as well.

If you don't know the answer, get rid of the two

you don't think fit, and you've got the right answer.

Well done, Ollie.

450 approximately.

So, CJ, Nairobi is the capital city of which country?

Hold on, I'm just waiting for my brain to catch up.

Yes, sorry, I'd just turned round to ask Ollie his next one. Nairobi.

Erm...

-it's Kenya.

-Yes, it's Kenya. Yes, Nairobi is the capital of Kenya.

After my last head-to-head, I've just lost confidence!

Oh. Which is some hope for Ollie. OK, Ollie, what is the name

of the triangular peninsula, part of Croatia and Slovenia,

that extends into the north-eastern Adriatic Sea

between the Gulf of Venice and the Bay of Kvarner?

Venice. Italian. Dan's the man for Italian,

but I'm sitting here knowing some Spanish.

Lustica, Istria sounds very Italian-Spanish based.

Split definitely ruled out.

I don't know the answer. With the fact that I've gone B once,

I'm going to go B again on the basis of randomness for the questions.

So I'm going to plump for B, Lustica.

Down the middle, Lustica. Erm...

It's not Split, it's not Lustica, it is Istria.

Istria. Part of Croatia and Slovenia.

So nothing there.

Let's see how CJ does. Second question to you, CJ.

The St Gotthard Pass, over 2,000 metres long, lies in which country?

-Spell Gotthard, please.

-G-O-T-T-H-A-R-D.

Haven't heard of it. Presumably it's to do with the Alps. Erm...

Doesn't sound right for Austria to me.

Um, haven't heard of it, but I'm going to go for Switzerland.

The St Gotthard Pass.

-Other Eggheads?

-Switzerland.

-Switzerland.

-Switzerland is correct.

Well done, CJ. OK, you've got to get this, then, Ollie.

Pandokrator Mountain

at 906 metres is the highest peak on which island?

It is spelt P-A-N-D-O-K-R-A-T-O-R.

906 metres is not very tall.

My parents went on honeymoon to Corfu. Corfu's quite a small island.

I know Cyprus is massive.

Cyprus is so much bigger than the other islands that I think

for some reason it's going to have the mountain on there. The bigger...

All right. Taking Cyprus. So bigger, but you started off saying

that 906 metres, in terms of these things, wasn't really rather big.

It's Corfu, I think the one you first thought of!

Where your parents went on their honeymoon, yes.

The highest peak Corfu is Pandokrator Mountain,

which means it's all over, I'm afraid, Ollie.

You're not playing in the final round. CJ, you'll be there. 2-1.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

The challengers have lost three brains from the final round.

The Eggheads haven't lost any. This is your last chance to knock an Egghead out, Beatheads.

This category we're about to play is Sport,

and that leaves Cal or Dan to play.

-Go on, Dan.

-Dan's the man for sport.

-It's right up your street.

-Who are we feeling for...?

It's Kevin or Barry.

We should try Barry, see what you can do.

-Give it a shot.

-Yeah, OK, I'm going to take on Barry.

OK, let's have Dan and Are You An Egghead winner Barry to play Sport.

Could I ask you both please to take your positions in the question room?

Dan, let's see how you do in this Sport round.

Really got to hope you'll put Barry out to give you a bigger chance

in that final round. Would you like to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please.

Good luck, Dan. You're going first. Here's your first question.

Which London football club plays its home games at Stamford Bridge?

I'm not really a lover of this team, but I know the answer is Chelsea.

Chelsea is the right answer. Of course it is.

OK, Barry, the F1 race track at Hockenheim is used

for the Grand Prix of which country?

That's used for the German Grand Prix.

That's correct. Well done, Barry. Back to you, Dan.

Which golfer married the tennis player Chris Evert in 2008?

I'm not really sure.

Erm...

I'm just going to take a guess at...

OK, the first one looks the best so I'm going to say Phil Mickelson.

Phil Mickelson? OK, Phil Mickelson, Chris Evert tied the knot in 2008.

No, I'm sorry. Eggheads?

-Greg Norman.

-Greg Norman.

Married in 2008.

OK, Barry, chance for the lead, then.

Which boxer ended his 11-year partnership with trainer

Billy Graham in July 2008?

I really should know this cos this was quite a public falling-out,

but for some reason my mind's gone blank.

I don't think it was Danny Williams.

Let's see if my guessing is as good as the other Eggheads.

I'll go for Ricky Hatton.

Fortunately it is, yes. It is the right answer.

Your guessing is as good as well. It was Ricky Hatton,

although you were guessing one from two there, I guess.

You discounted Danny Williams, parted company with Billy Graham,

which means, Dan, we'll part company with you if you don't get this.

Which English cricketer won his 100th test cap in 2005?

OK, erm...

Don't think it's Graham Thorpe cos I know he's been playing for years.

Nasser Hussain, Michael Vaughan.

I'm going to eliminate Michael Vaughan.

I'm going to say Nasser Hussain.

Nasser Hussain, 100th test cap in 2005.

Yeah, Graham Thorpe has been playing for years, and it was in 2005

when he passed the 100 mark.

100 test caps, Graham Thorpe,

which means, Barry, you're through to the final round.

I'm afraid, Dan, we won't be having the pleasure of your company there.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

This is what we've been playing towards.

It's time for the final round which 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, Ollie, Dan, Tony and

the other Dan from the Beatheads, would you leave the studio, please?

So, Cal, you're playing to win the Beatheads £9,000.

Barry, Judith, Kevin, CJ and Daphne, you're playing for something

which money can't buy - the Eggheads' reputation.

I'll ask each team three questions in turn.

The questions are general knowledge and you are allowed to confer.

Cal, is your one brain better than the Eggheads' five?

Cal, do you want to go first or second?

I'll go first, please.

OK, you've chosen to start, Cal.

Good luck. Just before we do, I must ask you, what's with

-the braces all of you are wearing?

-Er, I have no idea. We thought...

I thought it was to keep you up straight, help the beatboxing.

Oh, definitely. It's all about the acoustics.

We thought it'd be a bit quirky, a group of beatboxers on the show

and, er...yeah, so...

-Beatboxers in braces.

-Why not? Why not?

Keep us wondering why. Now we know. OK, Cal, are you ready to play?

-I am.

-Good luck.

See if you can do it. First question, then.

General knowledge, remember.

Which ancient culture revered the cat as a sacred animal,

devoting religious cults to it?

Which ancient culture revered the cat as a sacred animal,

devoting religious cults to it?

Er...

I don't think it was Roman or Greek.

Er...thinking about it, Egyptians, they're... I'm...

Don't they usually have animal heads on human bodies?

I'm probably about 80% sure it's Egyptian.

I think Greek and Roman gods are more...

more... No, yeah, it's definitely Egyptian, actually. I've decided.

"Definitely" after all that!

-80% has gone up to what - 95% ?

-81% now.

Pushed it over the level there.

I can now put it up to 100.

That's correct.

Egyptian cat cults. Yes, Daphne.

In ancient Egypt, if your cat died, you had to shave off your eyebrows

-as a sign of mourning.

-Really?

-What happened if you had six cats? You'd never have any eyebrows.

-They still shaved off both eyebrows.

So there we are. Egyptian cat knowledge shared with the Eggheads.

Your first question, Eggheads.

In which year did the television channel MTV begin broadcasting

in the United States?

In which year did the television channel MTV begin

broadcasting in the United States?

It's 1981, Dermot.

1981...

is correct. Yes.

One to the Eggheads, and back to you, Cal.

What is the official national gemstone of Australia?

What is the official national gemstone of Australia?

Right...I don't actually know this one. Erm...

Working through it, er...

I don't...I don't think...

I don't think it's the ruby.

I'm tempted to say that there's an island somewhere

that's...the ruby of somewhere.

Er...

Likewise with opal, actually.

I'm tempted to go with pearl.

Er...a pure guess, but...

yeah, I think I'll go for pearl.

Pure guess. Is this the pearl in the oyster for you?

The official national gemstone of Australia is the opal.

Sorry, Cal, it's the opal, not the pearl.

-Australia has the largest opal mine in the world at Coober Pedy.

-Ah.

Hence they're rather keen on opals.

It accounts for a great deal of their national income, I suppose.

Have you seen any opal mines during your travels there, Daphne?

No, but I haven't got it on, but I've got the most gorgeous opal ring

that I won on a quiz show in Australia.

-It's like a knuckle-duster.

-You travel the world doing quizzes?

Do you go to Australia cos they don't know you?

It was quite a long... 20 years ago.

You're a kind of quiz hustler.

Oh, I like that!

OK, well, it gives you a chance for the lead, that slip-up by Cal.

This is your question, Eggheads. According to the jazz standard made

famous by Duke Ellington, what train must you take to get to Harlem?

According to the jazz standard made famous by Duke Ellington, what train

must you take to get to Harlem?

OK? Hoping he didn't change his transport arrangements,

the famous Duke Ellington standard is Take The A Train.

-The A train?

-Yeah.

The A train is correct, Eggheads.

So it means you've got to get this, Cal.

Which saint, as a mark of humility when he was dying,

asked to be buried out of doors

where his grave would be rained and trodden on?

Which saint, as a mark of humility when he was dying,

asked to be buried out of doors where his grave

would be rained and trodden on?

Again, a question I'm not too knowledgeable about, but...

In fact, the only actual saint I know well out of them is St Patrick.

Erm...

That's gone a bit commercial now, so I think it wouldn't really be

about St Patrick with all the association we have today.

It doesn't sound like something you'd want to commercialise

too much, but I'd say, er...

another pure guess, St Francis.

OK, St Francis, as a mark of humility, asked to be buried

out of doors, I suppose rather than in some abbey or cathedral.

Um...you think St Francis. Eggheads, is it St Francis?

-No, St Swithin.

-This one's local to me.

-St Swithin.

There's that St Swithin's Day rhyme about rain. Is that related to it?

They moved him.

Eventually they decided to move him indoors and to have a proper shrine,

and the origin is supposed to be, if it rains on St Swithin's Day,

July the 15th, it's then supposed to rain for 40 days and 40 nights.

The origin of that is his curse, because they moved...

-Contrary to his wishes, they moved him indoors.

-Into Winchester?

Inside the cathedral. They built... They moved him inside

and built a shrine, which was dissolved at the Reformation.

Uh-huh. Well, listen, bad luck, Cal. It's not St Francis.

The answer is St Swithin, which means, Eggheads, you've won.

Bad luck, Beatheads, to Cal and the other four Beatheads behind you.

As I said, the story of today's game really seems

to have been the guesses that landed from the Eggheads, and the guesses that didn't from you, the Beatheads.

We'll keep the Eggheads behind after the programme and you can give them a beatboxing lesson

and then we'll have a contest. I know who'll win that one!

Thanks for playing today. Very good to see you.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally. Their winning streak continues.

I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £9,000 which means

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

Who will beat you? Join us next time

to see if a new team of challengers have the brains

to defeat the Eggheads. £10,000 says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.

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