Episode 146 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 Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz Challengers

attempt to beat possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.

Their quiz pedigree is well-known

as they have won some of the country's toughest quiz shows.

They are the Eggheads and taking on

the awesome might of the Eggheads

are the College Graduates from Wales.

This team regularly quiz at the Old College Inn in Barry.

Any prize money they win is saved up to fund a trip away and they must do

quite well because so far, they've sampled the delights of Torquay,

Dornoch in Scotland and Blackpool.

-Let's meet them.

-Hi, I'm Elaine, I'm 50 and I'm a Payroll Administrator.

Hi, I'm Dave, I'm 55 and I'm a Weigh Machine Technician.

Hello, I'm Lyn, I'm 58 and I'm a retired Clinic Co-ordinator.

Hello, I'm Dave, I'm 43 and I'm a Sales Rep.

Hi, I'm Terry, I'm 40 and I'm a Civil Servant.

Welcome, College Graduates, welcome, Elaine.

So you've put a bit of money together and you travel?

That's right, yeah. Whatever we win in the quiz, we save it up

and go a weekend away together.

Great idea.

-With our partners as well.

-Sure!

So, Torquay, Dornoch and Blackpool and maybe, if you win today?

We want to go to Ireland.

-A bit further afield?

-Yes.

Wait until you find out how much money is available today.

You might even want to go further than that!

-Oh, right!

-Every day there's £1,000

worth of cash up for grabs for our Challengers. However, if they fail

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

College Graduates, the Eggheads have won the last 24 games,

so you will win £25,000 if you beat them.

Do you still want to go to Ireland?

No!

The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of History.

Here we go. Who wants this?

It's going to be you, Dave.

Dave C? Against?

CJ, yeah?

-Shirts together?

-Shirts together!

Right, you've got the shirts, clashing shirts,

or non-clashing shirts, so it's Dave C from the College Graduates,

I might just call you Dave, versus CJ from the Eggheads.

Two players, one shirt!

To ensure no conferring, please go to the question room.

I'll ask three multiple choice questions on History

and whoever answers the most questions correctly wins

and, Dave, you can choose the first or second set.

Second, please.

CJ, we go to you.

How are you today?

I'm well, thank you, Jeremy! How are you?

Great! Lawrence of Arabia achieved fame

for his exploits during which conflict?

Do you know, my mind's completely gone!

I know this perfectly well, I've been to his house.

World War I.

-You went to his house?

-I hope so!

-And something there reminded you?

-I hope so!

World War I is correct, CJ, well done. We got there!

That all goes well,

if his brain is not working at the start of the show!

Dave, your question, the period of scientific advancement

known as the "Age Of Enlightenment" began in which century?

13th.

13th is unlucky.

17th. It's a bit later.

Follows...what? What did it follow?

-Renaissance.

-The Reformation

and the growth of liberal thought.

So Renaissance, and then enlightenment?

CJ, see if that brain is in first gear or second.

In which modern day country is the town of Balaclava,

the site of the infamous battle of 1854?

It's not as far as Austria.

I mean, most of the Crimea is in Ukraine.

Yeah, surely, I mean, I'm not sure, but the vast majority of the Crimea

was in Ukraine, so Ukraine.

Ukraine is your answer...

and it is right, well done!

Balaclava.

And the balaclava head gear was worn there originally, was it?

Raglan sleeve and the cardigan.

All that came out of the Crimean War, didn't it?

Really? Your question, Dave C.

What was the first name of General Batista, the leader of Cuba,

prior to Fidel Castro seizing power?

Right.

Gerardo.

If you get this wrong, there will be no way back.

No.

It's actually Fulgencio.

Sorry, Dave, you've struck out, there.

CJ, after a sputtering start,

overwhelmed you on history, so CJ will be in the final.

Dave C, I'm afraid you won't be, but it's early on.

Please both of you come back and rejoin your teams.

So, as it stands, the Challengers have lost one brain

from the final round, the Eggheads have lost no brains.

The next subject is Arts and Books.

Who wants this and against which Egghead?

Elaine?

OK, are you all right with Arts and Books, then?

Right, who do you want to take on?

Which one looks like he can't read?

Not Daphne, not Judith, not Chris, so...

Do you want me to take Barry?

Elaine from Barry will take on Barry.

Elaine from the College Graduates versus Barry from the Eggheads

on Arts and Books and please go to the question rooms now.

Elaine, if you win I reckon you want to go to Graceland?

-Graceland, yeah.

-Because you're a very big fan of...?

Big fan of Elvis.

And you've not been?

Not been, no.

What makes Elvis still so great?

Just his music, you know, it was revolutionary at the time.

Somebody said recently that on present trends, by the year 2070,

one third of the people in the world will be Elvis impersonators!

Really?

That's why statistics are always misleading!

OK, well, good luck,

Arts and Books it is and we're trying to get you all

to go to a very exotic location with the prize money.

Three questions and, Elaine, you can choose the first or second set.

I'll go first please, Jeremy.

Here's your question.

Which Parisian museum and centre for the visual arts

often referred to as an "inside-out" building

famously has its pipes and utility ducts built on the exterior?

Well, I was in Paris recently and I think that's the Louvre.

The Louvre.

Actually, do you know, it's not.

-It's not, is it?

-But I understand why you've gone for that.

-It is the...

-Pompidou Centre.

Who is it designed by?

Rogers and Piano.

-Rogers and Piano.

-And they also did what,

-the Lloyd's building?

-The Lloyd's building.

-In London?

Pompidou Centre is the correct answer. Elaine, sorry about that.

Barry, your question.

The Exorcist is a best-selling 1971 book by which writer?

Erich Segal wrote Love Story, Mario Puzo, of course, was The Godfather,

but The Exorcist was by William Peter Blatty.

William Peter Blatty is the right answer.

Back to you,

Elaine. Who wrote the novel, The Stars' Tennis Balls?

I didn't know Bill Bailey had written anything,

but I know Stephen Fry and possibly Clive Anderson have.

But being as I've discounted Bill Bailey,

I think that's the one I'm going to go for, Bill Bailey.

Bill Bailey is wrong.

Actually, you're not having much luck here, you College Graduates.

The guessing has just gone awry.

Stephen Fry is the answer, Stephen Fry which means

that Barry, if you get this right,

you are in the final.

Which city is home to America's National Gallery Of Art?

What an interesting question, because I've never heard

of America's National Gallery of Art!

Which could it be?

Working on the assumption that the national capital is Washington DC,

and I've been to Los Angeles and New York

and don't recall it from either place, I shall go for Washington DC.

OK, if you get this right, you're in the final, Barry.

Let me try the Eggheads.

Is this part of the Smithsonian stuff?

No. I think it was founded by Andrew Mellon.

I think his collection started it off.

-Where is it?

-It's in Washington.

Washington DC is the right answer, Barry.

You are in the final. Elaine, sorry,

you were beaten by our Egghead and as a result,

you won't be able to help your team in the final round.

We need you to get a point soon.

Would you please come back, rejoin your teams.

So, as it stands, the Challengers have lost two brains

from the final round. The Eggheads have lost no brains.

Eggheads looking a little bit confident.

-Always!

-Never!

-Always never!

They can't agree, these two! They've never agreed on anything!

-Never.

-Next subject is Sport.

Is this one better for you?

Sport.

Can't be Dave C or Elaine.

-I'll take Sport if you want.

-Terry then, is it?

Do you want Sport and leave Terry to the end?

No, let Terry go for Sport.

Do you want Terry to go?

-Yeah, I'll take on Judith, please.

-Do you want Judith, yeah?

All right, so Terry, then, from the College Graduates,

versus Judith from the Eggheads and to ensure there's no conferring,

please go to the question room.

-You're part of the pub quiz team as well, Terry?

-Yes, I am.

-And a civil servant?

-A civil servant.

-I work for the Welsh Assembly.

-Now, tell us about your guitar picks?

I've got a big collection of guitar picks.

We call them plectrums over here

and I've got a collection of over 500 with all different

-bands' names on it.

-What do you do?

-You go to the stage and...

-Yeah.

The front of a concert and wave?

Yes. You can catch them at concerts.

You can buy them off people, you can trade them

as there's people that collect them as well.

Judith, would you like to go and see Terry's collection of plectrums?

-What do they look like?

-You know what a plectrum is.

-Yes.

But they're different colours, right, Terry?

Yeah, and they've all got bands' names on them

and signatures on the back.

It's a way of getting an autograph?

I'm sensing, Judith, that you're going to make an appointment

-to see Terry's plectrums!

-Yes!

I think you're planning that?

-It's his line. "Come up and see my plectrums!"

-Yes!

THEY LAUGH

Three questions on Sport in turn and, Terry, this is not plectrums now.

-Do you want the first or second set of questions?

-I'll go first, please.

Here we go.

Vincent O'Brien, Martin Pipe and Fred Winter

are all famous names in which sport, Terry?

Well, with the Cheltenham Festival,

I think it's got to be horse racing.

-Horse racing is the right answer.

-Ooh!

Well done, Terry.

Over to you, Judith.

How many stumps are there in total on a cricket pitch in a regulation game?

Well, now I'm wondering. I...

The three at the batting end,

I don't know if this is little boys' cricket,

but there's only one at the other end.

I think there are three at each end. Six.

THEY SNIGGER

Well, there's laughter here

because I think we were worried for you if you said 8 or 4.

Well, no, I think I was thinking

of sort of the cricket you play on the beach where there's three stumps

at one end and one at the other end.

That would be four, yeah, but it's a regulation game.

-Six is the right answer.

-Yes.

-Yeah.

Terry.

Which England footballer, who played at the 2002 World Cup,

has Ivanhoe as a middle name?

I really don't know this one...

and I've got a funny feeling it could be Emile Heskey,

so that's what I'm going for.

How interesting! Well, you've got Emile Heskey out of almost nothing?

-Um...yeah.

-Just a funny feeling?

-Yeah.

-Emile Heskey is the right answer.

Judith, over to you.

What colour medal were the first place finishers awarded

at the 1896 Olympics,

the first of the modern Olympics?

I wonder why they didn't have gold!

Perhaps they could only afford bronze!

I can't think why it should be black.

But it seems so unlikely so it might be the answer.

On the other hand, bronze could look more like gold than...

I just don't know. I think I'm going to say...

bronze.

Right. You went black and you've gone bronze and...

Well, I have absolutely no idea and I can't think of any reason

why any of them... for any of them being instead of gold.

-Would it be fair to say you're all over the place?

-Yes, it would.

-It's silver.

-Honestly!

-Sorry!

Terry, that means you're in the lead.

Here is your question

and you can take the round and that would be...

Well, that would be a good start. That would be progress

for our brilliant College Graduates. Here's your question, Terry.

Which snooker player won the Masters Tournament

traditionally held in January for a record five consecutive years

between 1989 and 1993?

I don't think it's John Parrott.

I can't remember him ever winning five tournaments on the trot,

so it's between the two Stephens...

Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry.

I'll go for Stephen Hendry.

Your team are going to be so pleased with you. It's the right answer!

-Woo!

-Well done to Terry. There we are.

Hasn't won it since, though!

-Has not won since?

-No.

Won it five times and that was the lot.

Judith, sorry, Sport is...

-Not my thing!

-I know. You'll have to start reading the back pages.

Terry, you took on one of the Eggheads, you emerged triumphant.

You will be supporting your team now in the final round.

Judith, you won't. Please come back and rejoin your team mates.

-Looking better now, isn't it?

-A bit better!

-Yeah?

The Challengers have lost two brains from the final round.

The Eggheads have lost one brain. The last subject is Music.

So it's got to be Lyn or Dave?

Well, I think we need you for the end, so...me!

Lyn against...

-Daphne or Chris?

-Chris.

Chris, please.

-Chris.

-OK.

-All right.

-I bet the Sugababes come up!

-Bring it on!

Sugababes, rap music, whatever!

Lyn from the College Graduates versus Chris from the Eggheads,

please take your positions.

Chris, you seem to be in a good mood today?

I'm reasonably upbeat, Jeremy, yeah!

And thinking about your favourite music?

Yeah, yeah.

Which is, remind us?

Wagner, a bit of country and western now and again,

decent classical music of all sorts. Anything, except...rap,

with a letter missing on the front of it, and possibly girl bands

and boy bands!

OK, so we know what we want to come up here.

It's quite clear...not Wagner.

I will ask each of you three questions on Music in turn.

Lyn, would you like the first or the second set?

I'd like to go first please, Jeremy.

Here's your question.

In which present day country

was the violinist and composer Paganini born?

I think I'm going to have to guess this one, so I shall try Italy.

Italy is right.

That's good. They're turning the corner,

aren't they? Chris, your question.

Whose only UK number one hit single was Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick?

That's an extremely strange song by Ian Dury And The Blockheads.

Ian Dury And The Blockheads is the right answer.

Lyn,

in Fame The Musical,

which city is home to the High School For The Performing Arts?

I used to watch Fame as well.

I know New Orleans has quite a lot of jazz,

so I'm going between New York and Detroit.

New York seems a bit obvious.

I'm going to go iddle, diddle, down the middle, Detroit.

-Do you know, team mates?

-New York.

-100% New York.

Yeah, New York it was, Lyn.

Down the middle didn't work there.

So Chris, you can take the lead.

In which stage musical does an evil corporation called Globalsoft

rule the world?

Ah...

Now some time back we had a team on from the cast of Avenue Q

and I don't think Avenue Q has anything to do with Globalsoft,

and of course Wicked is the sort of prequel to the Wizard Of Oz,

so We Will Rock You, the music of Queen, I think is set

in some sort of alternative reality ruled by Globalsoft,

so it's got to be We Will Rock You.

We Will Rock You is the right answer,

so you've got that right, Chris.

We Will Rock You and you're in the lead

and that means, Lyn,

-you need to get your third question right, OK?

-Yes!

-Here it is.

Which band released their third UK hit album entitled Slipway Fires

in 2008?

Just my era, 2008, I don't think!

I'm going to go for The Zutons.

OK.

That just led to The Zutons by...guesswork?

If it's right, it's educated guesswork!

-It's wrong!

-Oh!

-It's Razorlight, Slipway Fires.

That's it, I'm afraid for you, Lyn.

Chris will be in the final and you won't

because you were beaten so please come back

and rejoin your teams.

So this is what we've been playing towards.

It's time for the final round which as always is General Knowledge,

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

can't take part in this round.

Elaine, Lyn and Dave C from College Graduates

and Judith from the Eggheads, would you please now leave the studio.

Dave and Terry you're playing to win the College Graduates £25,000.

CJ, Daphne, Chris and Barry,

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

the Eggheads' reputation.

I'll ask each team three questions in turn.

This time the questions are all General Knowledge.

You are allowed to confer, so College Graduates,

the question is, are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

Dave and Terry, do you want to go first or second?

First, we'll go first, please.

All the best to you, good luck. Who was the Roman counterpart

of the Greek goddess Artemis?

Artemis...

I think it's an aftershave, isn't it?

That's Aramis.

I haven't got a clue,

-but I would go for Minerva.

-Minerva.

We'll go...

-I can't offer any better, so, OK, we'll go?

-Yup!

As it's not our subject...

-..we'll go for a non-educated guess which will be Minerva.

-Minerva...

Let me ask the Eggheads. Do you know who this is?

-Yes.

-It's Minerva.

-Minerva is the right answer.

-It's Diana. Artemis is the...

-They're agreed and they're wrong.

-Artemis is the goddess of the hunt.

-I'm joking!

Artemis is the goddess of the hunt.

Diana!

-It's Diana?

-Yeah.

Why did you say Minerva?

Oh, because I got it wrong!

-OK, you got it wrong and he got it wrong, but...

-So we're even!

Yeah!

Minerva is wrong. Diana is the right answer.

Of course it is!

It doesn't help that Barry didn't know. Eggheads, your question.

What type of business was founded by the German-born PJ Reuter

in the 1850s in London?

-A news agency.

-It's a news agency.

News agency... so I've got this one right!

Yes!

Jeremy, we all agree it's a news agency and I seem to remember

they started off with carrier pigeons taking the news.

-Did they?

-Mmm, am I right?

-You are right.

-Yes.

Reuters was begun as a news agency, you're right, and still is.

To get back in it,

you really need a correct question here, guys.

Which city has been home to the finals of the World Series Of Poker

since the event first took place in 1970?

1970... 1970...

Las Vegas was more popular... earlier than that. You know.

Which one are you leaning towards?

-Atlantic City.

-I don't think it's Monte Carlo.

-No, no,

not Monte Carlo, I wouldn't have thought.

-What do you think? Las Vegas?

-Yeah, I think it's Las Vegas.

-We're going to stick with Las Vegas.

-I know when I see poker

on the computer, they've got stuff...

-Yes, it's advertised... Yeah, we'll go Las Vegas.

-We'll go Las...

Las Vegas is the right answer, well done.

-Still in.

-Every year they have

the big final tournament, but there are satellite tournaments

throughout the world that you can enter

and 9,000 people take part in the final tournament,

including a lot of Hollywood stars.

Ben Affleck is a regular participant.

Amazing! Is poker easy to learn?

Well, the version they play is Texas Hold 'Em.

which I think is the easiest version to learn, but the hardest to play.

Here's your question. The Stanley Gibbons Company,

established in 1856 is best known for trading in which commodity?

I think that's stamps!

-Yeah, yeah.

-Yeah, stamps.

I think a long time ago, we actually had a team on

and they were philatelists and they collected stamps, and apparently,

they're advocating stamps as a very good investment these days.

Are they, now?

-What's your answer?

-Stamps.

Stamps?

-Stanley Gibbons.

-The answer is stamps.

Were they for collection purposes?

-Yes, collecting.

-Investment purposes.

For investment?

Reclusive millionaires will pay through the nose for rare stamps.

Well, it is stamps.

Well done, Eggheads, you got it right.

Which means

you've got to get this right and they've got to get theirs wrong.

Here's your question. Which British fashion designer

was appointed Head Of Haute Couture at the French fashion house,

Givenchy in 1996?

I don't think it's Stella McCartney.

I don't think it's McQueen, either. I think it was...

-Galliano, do you think?

-Galliano, yeah.

I'll go with...

Between McQueen or Galliano.

Yeah, I'll go with you on this.

Galliano, I think we'll go for.

Galliano is your answer. If you've got this wrong, the contest is over

because they'll be no way back.

We have £25,000 that we're playing for here.

John Galliano is...

the wrong answer, I'm sorry. Alexander McQueen, yeah,

you had the second choice was correct. Alexander McQueen.

College Graduates, it's bad news for you.

Eggheads, congratulations, you've won.

Commiserations to you. The Eggheads have done

what comes naturally to them, their winning streak continues.

I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £25,000 so we won't need

to discuss where you would go with that money.

The money now rolls over to our next show, as you know.

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.

£26,000 says they don't.

Till then, goodbye.

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