Episode 154 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 pedigree is known - they've won some of the country's toughest quizzes. They are the Eggheads.

And tackling the Eggheads today are the Marketing Mix.

This team all work together

at the marketing department of Swansea University. Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Caroline. I'm 37 and I'm a student recruitment officer.

Hi, I'm Chris. I'm 37 and I'm a copywriter.

Hi, I'm Lynne. I'm 37 and I'm a communications assistant.

Hi, I'm Steve. I'm 36 and I'm a student recruitment officer.

Hi, I'm Sally. I'm 37 and I'm an alumni officer.

Welcome, Marketing Mix. Welcome, Caroline and colleagues.

-Tell us what you all do then.

-We all work in the marketing department in a variety of roles.

-So, telling people how great the university is?

-Absolutely.

-How great is it?

-Oh, fantastic. It's right on the beach.

It's got great community. It's really lively. It's fantastic.

So, you're called Marketing Mix because that's a bit of advertising jargon, is it?

Ah, yes. That's right. Marketing Mix is a phrase that describes how you

would go about marketing something. And it comprises the four Ps.

-The four Ps?

-Product, price, place and promotion.

How would you market this lot, if you had to?

Oh, that's a challenging one.

-Yes, that's what we think, yeah.

-No offence meant.

I'll leave you to think about that.

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 rolls over to the next show.

So, Marketing Mix, the Eggheads have won the last 32 games.

Which means £33,000 says you can't beat them today. Do you want to try?

-We'll have a go.

-First head to head battle is on the subject of History.

Challengers, which one of you wants to play this category?

And which of the Eggheads do you want to take on?

OK, it's History.

How do you feel about doing History?

-Yeah, I'll play.

-OK.

And who do you want to challenge?

-Steve against...?

-Judith?

Yup, whatever. Yup. So, Steve against Judith.

Steve from Marketing Mix, Judith from the Eggheads. Please take your positions in the question room.

-Steve, your choice. Would you like the first or the second set of questions?

-I'll play first.

Here we go. Your first question. Good luck.

Which famous naval battle began with Admiral Pierre de Villeneuve

trying unsuccessfully to slip his ships quietly out of Cadiz harbour?

Battle of the River Plate, Battle of Jutland or Battle of Trafalgar?

Well, the Battle of the River Plate was in South America.

Battle of Jutland, Northern Europe.

And for those reasons, I will say the Battle of Trafalgar.

Battle of Trafalgar is the correct answer.

Great knowledge there. Absolutely unerring.

Straight through.

Judith, your question. From around the 18th century onwards,

what was the title given by foreigners to the Emperor of Japan,

that literally meant "Exalted Gate"?

Judith, was it Mikado,

Matsumoto

or Heika?

I think that's the Mikado.

Mikado is the right answer.

-Yeah.

-So, your second question now, Steve.

In February 1900, General Sir Redvers Buller's British Army Forces

famously relieved which Southern African town besieged by Boers?

Durban, Winterton or Ladysmith?

It's not a period of history I'm that familiar with.

I think... I'm a big believer in gut instinct on this one.

So, I'm going to go for Winterton.

Not Winterton actually. Any takers?

-Ladysmith.

-Ladysmith was the answer.

OK, Judith, this to take the lead.

What was the commonly used name of the Royal Palace in London,

demolished in the 17th century, that was the birthplace of Henry VIII in 1491?

Was it the Royal Palace of Fremantle, Palace of Placentia,

or St Augustine's Palace?

I thought something else was going to come up. Placentia...

that sounds rather strange. I have a feeling... Oh, dear, I don't know.

I'm going to say St Augustine's Palace.

You think the commonly used name of the Royal Palace, where Henry VIII

was born, was St Augustine's Palace.

-It was the strange-sounding one.

-The Placentia one?

-The Palace of Placentia.

-Oh, never heard of it.

Reference to his birth? No.

Really not.

We may never know. Steve, your third question.

Here it comes.

From the 1920s through to the end of the 1940s, the Kuomintang

which translates as "National People's Party"

was a major force in the history of which country?

Was it Russia, China or Indonesia?

Well, I'm fairly confident it's not Russia.

So, that leaves me with two options.

The Chinese Revolution

doesn't seem to fit with those dates.

So, on that basis I'm going to go for Indonesia.

That's the wrong answer. Sorry, Indonesia's wrong.

China is the correct answer.

So, Judith, if you get this one right you have taken the round,

and will be in the final. The year 1521 saw the end of which empire?

The Holy Roman Empire, the Aztec Empire or the Mongol Empire?

Well, not the Holy Roman Empire.

I... I think it's probably the Mongol Empire.

We've got signs of severe pain and agony on the Egghead side. CJ?

-It's the Aztecs.

-The Aztecs.

-It's the Aztecs.

-It's the Aztecs.

I thought it was too early.

Scores are level at one point each.

And we go to sudden death. Steve, it's a bit more difficult, this.

We don't give you alternatives. You have to give me the answer.

Here's your question. Steve, what name is given

to the proclamation made by the US President on the 12th March 1947,

stating that the US would support Greece and Turkey with economic and

military aid, to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere?

The only answer I can come up with is The Marshall Plan.

That's the wrong answer.

This is the Truman Doctrine.

Named after the then President.

Judith, if you get this right,

you are in the final.

The Riot Act of 1715, Judith, from which the expression

"to read the riot act" derives, was drafted in response to disturbances

following the coronation of which King of England?

Well, I think it must be George I.

The arrival of a non-English-speaking German on the British throne

was not popular with the ordinary people.

Yes, it was George I. Judith, well done.

After sudden death the Eggheads have triumphed.

Sorry, Steve, you were beaten by our Egghead.

And as a result you can't play in the final round.

Judith will be there. Please, both of you come back

and rejoin your team mates.

As it stands, the challengers have lost one brain from the final round. The Eggheads have lost no brains.

Very early days. The next subject is Arts and Books.

And you can't have Judith on that. Who would you like?

Shall we... Shall we deviate massively from the plan?

-Why not? Why not? Yeah.

-Unless you want to do it, Sal.

-No.

-You go, you go.

-Yeah.

Who? And who do you want to take on?

-Chris.

-Do you want to take on Chris?

-We'll take on Chris.

-The two Chrises, I think.

-So, Chris from Marketing Mix and Chris from the Eggheads.

Arts and Books. Please take your positions in the question room.

Chris, would you like the first or the second

-set of questions?

-I think we'll go first, please.

Let's see how you do, and very best of luck to you.

What is the name of the travel writer

and novelist who is the father of the TV presenter Louis Theroux?

Is it Paul Theroux, James Theroux or Marcel Theroux?

Not sure about any of them, to be honest.

But the first name that came to mind was Paul Theroux.

So, I think I'll go with my gut instinct and say Paul.

-Is he right?

-He is. Marcel, I think, is Louis Theroux's brother.

So, yes, it's definitely Paul.

Paul is the right answer. Caroline agrees with you.

Chris, what genre of play is William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night?

Is it a tragedy, history or comedy?

Well, it's not exactly a barrel of laughs. But it's classed as a comedy.

Comedy is correct.

Although when I played Toby Belch

it was quite amusing.

Chris, who wrote the 2006 play Frost/Nixon?

Was it Harold Pinter, Peter Morgan or Tom Stoppard?

I ought to know this.

I'm going to say Peter Morgan.

For no good reason apart from it's gut instinct again.

Well done. Peter Morgan is correct. Your gut instinct is good.

Chris, from the Eggheads. Diana and Action is a 16th-century painting

by which artist?

Titian, Caravaggio or Raphael?

Ah. It's a classical subject, so...

I don't think it's Caravaggio,

and I don't think it's Raphael. I think it was by Titian.

Because he painted all those women with the long flowing red hair.

And I think that's Diana in the painting. So, Titian.

Titian is the right answer.

Two points each. Chris, other Chris, back to you.

In September 2008, it was announced that which writer

had been commissioned to write, "And Another Thing..."

a new instalment in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series of books?

Was it Eoin Colfer, Sebastian Faulks or Charlie Higson?

I think Sebastian Faulks was commissioned to write

a new Bond novel.

Charlie Higson I think writes the early James Bond novels.

So, I'll go with Eoin Colfer.

Eoin Colfer is the right answer.

Good stuff.

-He's good. You need him in the final.

-Oh, yes, we do.

Chris, if you get this wrong you won't be in that final.

Disturbing The Peace, The Easter Parade and A Good School are 1970s

novels by which American author?

Richard Powers, Richard Yates or Richard Ford?

I've never heard of any of them. If in doubt, go down the middle.

-Richard Yates.

-Is correct.

Ha! Life is unfair.

Sudden death now. So, it's a bit harder.

Chris from Marketing Mix, here's your question.

Which Tennessee Williams play centres on Amanda Wingfield

and her two adult children, Tom and Laura?

Unfortunately I think I only know one Tennessee Williams play.

So, I'm going to have to say Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

It's not that. It's The Glass Menagerie.

Chris, your question. You get this right you're in the final.

Which Nobel Prize-winning Russian novelist spent eight years

imprisoned, and a further three years in exile, after criticising

Stalin in a private letter in 1945?

That must have been Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Who died in 2008. Yes, it was. Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Chris, you have taken the round. So, Egghead Chris will be in the final.

Marketing Mix Chris, you were beaten. You won't be in the final.

Please, both of you, rejoin your team mates.

As it stands the challengers have lost two brains from the final round. The Eggheads have lost none.

The next subject is Sport.

Which of you would like Sport?

Can't be Chris or Steve.

-It's going to be Lynne.

-It'll have to be me.

-Lynne.

-Who do you want to take on?

-And I want to play...

Take on, take out?

-Kevin, please.

-Oh.

Lynne from Marketing Mix, Kevin from the Eggheads.

Take your positions, please.

Lynne, would you like the first or the second set of questions?

I'd like to go first, please.

Good luck. Sport against Kevin. Here we go. Lionel Messi,

Samuel Eto'o, and Carlos Puyol

all represented which football club during the 2008-9 season?

Was it FC Barcelona, PSV Eindhoven or Glasgow Rangers?

I'm not really sure but I'm going to plump for Barcelona, please.

Has she got it right, team mates? Well done. You're right.

Barcelona it is.

Kevin, here's your first question.

The England cricket team were bowled out for 51, in the second innings of a test match,

against which team in February 2009?

Was it India, Australia or the West Indies?

That's the West Indies.

The West Indies is the right answer.

Over to you, Lynne. Sebastian Coe won Olympic silver medals in 1980

and 1984 in which event?

Was it the 400 metres, the 800 metres or the 1,500 metres?

OK, I know it was a long distance.

But I'm not really sure which one.

But I think... I don't think it's 400 metres.

800 metres?

1,500 metres seems a long, long way.

So, I think I'm going to go for the 800 metres.

Great stuff. You're right. 800 metres.

Which cinematic nickname was given to golfer Colin Montgomerie

by American fans at the 1997 US Open?

Was it Tootsie, Mary Poppins or Mrs Doubtfire?

Now that I don't know.

I bet CJ knows this.

Now is it going to be a reference to him in some way appearing feminine?

Or is it going to be something to do with anger?

He's famously short-tempered.

The '90s... when did Mrs Doubtfire come out?

Mary Poppins was back in the '60s.

Tootsie was in the early '80s.

Mrs Doubtfire was in the...

I don't think it was '97...

but it was in the '90s. I'm going to go for Mrs Doubtfire.

But without any, any particular confidence at all.

Mrs Doubtfire is correct.

-Mrs Doubtfire... CJ, why?

-I think it was for his appearance, actually.

His hairstyle and, shall we say, his rather more corpulent figure

than most of the other golfers.

Plus he's Scottish, as was Mrs Doubtfire.

There we are. Two points each. Third question to you, Lynne.

Which American football team won a record 6th Super Bowl in February 2009?

Was it the Pittsburgh Steelers,

the New England Patriots or the San Francisco 49ers?

I'm really not into American football at all.

So, this will just have to be a complete guess. I really don't know.

San Francisco...

I think I'm going to go for...

San Francisco 49ers.

Yes, stick to that for no particular reason. Just don't know.

Caroline, do you know?

-I think it's the Pittsburgh Steelers.

-Pittsburgh Steelers. Sorry, Lynne.

In addition to winning gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games,

Steve Redgrave won a bronze medal in the coxed pairs in which year?

1988, 1992 or 1996?

If you get this right, you're through to the final, Kevin.

I'm...

I don't know this. I should do. I don't.

So, I'm going to have to make...

I mean, his gold medals were won through...

sort of up to and including 2000.

So, that's 2000, '96, '92, '88.

'84 would have been the first one.

Yeah, my logic is that he came

to concentrate more and more on the coxless pairs

and he would probably have spread himself around earlier in his career

amongst different events. So, I'll go for '88 as the earliest of those.

1988. That's the correct answer.

Well done, Kevin. You will be in the final round. Lynne,

I'm afraid you were beaten by him. So, you won't be helping your team in the final round.

Please both of you come back to us. So, as it stands the challengers have lost three brains

from the final round. While the Eggheads still have not last any.

-Our last subject is Film and TV. Good?

-Who's it going to be?

-Me or you?

-I will be hopeless.

-Sally or Caroline?

-So, I think it's going to be Sally.

And who are you going to take out?

-Try Barry?

-Yeah, I think Barry. Yup, Barry.

-Sally's going to play up against Barry.

-When Sally met Barry.

Sally from the Marketing Mix versus Barry from the Eggheads.

Please take your positions in the question room.

-Sally, do you want to go first or second?

-I'll

go first please, Jeremy.

All the best. Michelle Dotrice played the long-suffering wife

of which TV sitcom character?

Was it Rodney Trotter, Norman Stanley Fletcher or Frank Spencer?

That was, I'm pretty sure, Frank Spencer.

Yes, it was. Well done.

Barry, who played the title character in the 1962 film

Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?

Was it Marilyn Monroe,

-Bette Davis or Katherine Hepburn?

-That was Bette Davis.

Bette Davis is the right answer.

Back to you, Sally. What is the profession of Tom Cruise's character

in the 1992 film A Few Good Men?

Sports agent, lawyer, or hit man?

I believe in that film, he was a lawyer.

That's my answer. Lawyer.

Lawyer is the right answer. Well done.

Barry... "He pulls a knife.

"You pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital.

"You send one of his to the morgue.

"That's the Chicago way..."

is a famous quotation from which 1987 film?

Is it The Untouchables, Full Metal Jacket or Lethal Weapon?

This is without doubt my son's favourite film.

-It's The Untouchables.

-The Untouchables is the right answer.

Over to you, Sally. Get this right.

Put a bit of pressure on. You never know.

Which actor has played the roles of Luke Morgan in Hollyoaks, Kyle Pascoe in Footballer's Wives

and PC Will Fletcher in The Bill?

Is it Jeremy Edwards, Will Mellor or Gary Lucy?

Trying to think whether Will Mellor,

or Jeremy Edwards have been in The Bill.

I think that is Gary Lucy.

Nice one. Yes, it is.

Three out of three for our challenger. How about that?

Couldn't ask for more. So, Barry, you get this wrong,

you're not in the final. And they've got a little chink of light.

According to the lyrics of the theme song to the TV sitcom Dad's Army,

Mr Brown goes off to town on a train at what time?

8.21, 8.23, 8.25?

Mr Brown goes off to town... 8.21.

-How does it go? Mr Brown goes off to town?

-I don't know.

But 8.21 came into my mind immediately so...

# But he comes home each evening and he's ready with his gun. #

That's it, of course. "8.21" rhymes with gun.

Barry, well done. You got it right.

So, three points each. We go to sudden death.

Which is a little bit harder as we've seen already.

No alternatives here.

Sally, your question. Who plays the role of Atticus Finch

in the 1962 film version of To Kill A Mockingbird?

Atticus Finch.

I've seen the film. I can picture him in my head.

And I'm trying to remember his name.

Atticus Finch.

I'm going to say Cary Grant.

It's the first name that's came into my head.

-It's the right kind of idea. Who was it?

-Gregory Peck.

-Gregory Peck.

-Gregory Peck.

One of the great Titans of Hollywood.

Barry, get this right, you're in the final. The long-running series

Heartbeat is set in which fictional village?

-It's set in Aidensfield...

-..is the correct answer. Well done, Barry. You've won on sudden death.

You will be joining all the Eggheads in the final. And we'll see a rather

slimmed down Marketing Mix when the final round comes.

Sally, Barry, come back to us here in the studio.

So, this is what we've 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-heads won't be allowed to take part in this round.

So, Chris, Lynne, Steve and Sally

from the Marketing Mix, would you please now leave the studio?

Well done, Caroline. You've survived.

This is no reflection on Swansea University at all.

You're playing to win the Marketing Mix £33,000.

Chris, Barry, Judith, Kevin and CJ... All five Eggheads here,

you're playing for something which money can't buy, which is your reputations.

As usual I'll ask each team three questions in turn.

This time the questions are all General Knowledge. You can confer,

as if that helps.

Caroline, the question is, is your one brain better

-than the Eggheads' five? Would you like to go first or second?

-I'll go first, please.

We're playing for £33,000 here. So, good luck.

In which American state is the university known by the initials

UCLA located? Is it California, Louisiana or Alabama?

I believe... I could be wrong...

but I believe it's in Los Angeles.

Which would make it in California.

California is correct. University...

University of California in Los Angeles.

Eggheads, which team did Manchester United defeat to win the Carling Cup Final in 2009?

Was it West Ham United, Fulham or Tottenham Hotspur?

-Not that we'd like to mention it but it's Spurs.

-You should answer this.

Just tell me again which, which team lost there, Kevin?

-Just.

-Speak up, Kev.

-Just, just lost.

It was Tottenham Hotspur.

We think that was a narrow defeat for Tottenham Hotspur.

Tottenham Hotspur is the correct answer. Well done.

Caroline, El Gordo, which paid out the equivalent of approximately £2bn

in prize money in December 2008,

is a lottery held in which country?

Mexico, Spain or Cuba?

Right. My first instinct is that I haven't got the faintest idea.

The fact that it's got "el" in it suggests it's of Spanish origin.

But of course in all those countries they speak Spanish.

So, it's going to have to be a guess.

And I'm going to guess at Mexico.

Mexico.

-Which country is it, Eggheads?

-Spain.

-..they all say together.

Sorry. So, they have the chance to take the lead.

Eggheads, what is the common name for the plant genus myosotis?

-Is it forget-me-not, carnation or laburnum?

-It's forget-me-not.

-Absolutely.

-Definitely.

OK, I hope we've all remembered that that's forget-me-not.

Forget-me-not is correct, CJ. You did not forget.

So, you go ahead.

Marketing Mix, you need to get this question right. Which alcoholic spirit is the base

of the cocktail known as a Pimms No 1 Cup?

Is it gin, whisky or tequila?

Now, of course I've heard of Pimms and drunk it from time to time.

I don't know if the No 1 Cup means it's different from

other flavours of Pimms.

I don't think it's tequila.

So, my instinct is telling me it's either whisky or gin.

Because it's quite fruity I'm going to go with gin.

Which is quite a fruity flavoured liqueur...

Yeah, alcohol. So, I'm going to say gin.

-Gin is correct. Well done.

-Phew!

Your team can be grateful.

Now we need them to get this one wrong.

If the Eggheads get this right, they've won.

And the £33,000 will be rolled over to the next show.

Here's your question.

In Puccini's opera Turandot, what is the name of the character

who sings the aria Nessun Dorma?

-Is it Altoum, Parpignol or Calaf?

-Calaf?

-Calaf?

-It's Calaf, yeah.

-Everybody, Calaf?

Sorry, Caroline, it's Calaf.

Don't you wish they'd just look uncertain occasionally?

-It would be nice.

-Calaf is right.

Congratulations, you have won.

Played well. And your team took them to sudden death a number of times.

-So, well done.

-We're not too ashamed.

Not at all. Well, thanks for coming.

-Thank you.

-To play Eggheads today.

They've done what comes naturally to them. Their winning streak continues.

I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £33,000. That means that

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.

£34,000 says they don't.

Till then, goodbye.

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