Episode 3 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, welcome to Eggheads,

the show where a team of five quiz challengers

pit their wits against possibly 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 LEGI Heads.

The team either work for Leeds City Council or Leeds Chamber of Commerce

as part of the Local Enterprise Growth Initiative.

In 2006 some of them won the hotly fought City Council quiz!

Let's meet them. Hi, I'm Neil.

I'm 32 and I'm a Local Authority Officer.

I'm Gillian, I'm 30 and I'm an Operations Manager.

Hi, I'm Simon. I'm 45 and I'm a Programme Manager.

Hi, I'm Katie. I'm 31, I'm a Local Government Officer.

Hi, I'm David. I'm 46 and I'm a Marketing Manager.

Welcome to you, LEGI Heads.

I'm working it out, LEGI, Local Enterprise Growth Initiative. Yes.

So we've got that. Who was on the team that won the quiz in 2006?

Katie and I were on the team.

Two of you remaining, the other three are relatively new to quizzing

or do you do quite a lot of it? Relatively new, I'd say.

But you do a bit. You say you have these training days

when you always make sure there's a quiz?

Yeah, if we have an away day there's always a quiz during lunchtime or whenever.

You talk about enterprise growth and encouraging economic development.

Let's encourage you to develop yourselves economically here and win the money off the Eggheads again.

Every day there's ?1,000 worth of cash up for grabs for challengers.

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

So, LEGI Heads, the challengers won the last time out, proving it can be done,

but it also means that ?1,000 today says you can't beat the Eggheads.

Our first head-to-head battle today is going to be on the subject of food and drink.

So who's the quizzing expert on food and drink, LEGI Heads?

Katie. Are you good for that, Katie? Are you gonna go?

OK. Yep. Might as well give it a go.

Katie, which Egghead? Any one of those lovely Eggheads for you.

Kevin. Kevin? Yeah, Kevin.

Kevin. Kevin. Yes, trying to find the Achilles heel

of our former world quiz champion there.

OK, let's have Katie and Kevin into the question room please

to make sure there's no conferring.

So, Katie, I believe you're the bookworm of the team, and you enjoy reading books and discussing them?

Yes, that's right. In a book club?

Yes. I'm in a book group with a group of friends.

So why then have you gone for food and drink?

It wasn't one that I'd particularly identified as a strength

but when we did the audition I seemed to do quite well on that food and drink round

so I just thought, right, I'll just go for it this time.

OK, and as a team you've done your research

and worked out that Kevin has an odd struggle or two with food and drink.

Look at him, inscrutable there.

OK, would you like to go first or second, Katie? I'll go first please.

OK, first set of questions for you and the first question in that set.

Which spirit is used to cook Bananas Foster

before the dish is served with ice-cream?

Which spirit is used to cook Bananas Foster

before the dish is served with ice-cream?

I don't think it's vodka.

I just think that sounds horrible, so I'll take that one out.

Then it would be between whisky and rum.

And...I think I'm gonna go for rum on that one.

Rum. Bananas Foster with rum. You should try Bananas Hughes,

Chris does them for you, done in lager.

LAUGHTER Lovely.

Bananas Foster,

rum is the spirit. Yes, well done.

Kevin, the nut Carya illinoinensis,

native to temperate North America and often used in pastries,

is more commonly known by which name?

Two words, Carya, C-A-R-Y-A,

illinoinensis, I-L-L-I-N-O-I-N-E-N-S-I-S.

As in the state. I don't think that's walnut.

So, um...

I'm inclined towards pecan because that is obviously used

in various pastries of fruit and such like.

Pecan, I'm going for pecan.

Pecan, a North American nut.

Correct, well done. One all.

Katie, which term is used in the United States for offal?

I really don't know the answer to this one.

I think I'm gonna say choice meat, please.

Choice meat, offal.

It's not choice, Katie.

Wrong choice there. Kevin, do you know of the other two?

Yeah, usual American use of euphemisms, variety meat.

Yeah, OK.

It is variety meat, I'm afraid, Katie, not choice meat.

So nothing there. Kevin, second question for you.

Which dessert wine is a famous product of South Africa?

Tokay is from Hungary.

Madeira is from Madeira,

so Constantia, which is an area in South Africa.

It is indeed. That is the right answer.

So two to you and you've got to get this, Katie.

Made from chicken broth, lemon juice and egg yolks,

the soup called # is from which country?

Well, it's certainly not familiar, whatever it is.

I think it doesn't sound Spanish, so I'll take that one away.

Um...

I think it doesn't sound particularly Danish either

although I'm not very well versed with Danish cookery

so I'm gonna go for Greece. Greece.

A good way of doing it if you don't know the answer.

You've eliminated the other two and it's the right answer.

Yes, well done, Greece. Well done, Katie, you kept yourself in it,

but Kevin has a chance to win the round.

Kevin, which seafood is a main ingredient in the sauce Nantua?

I don't think it's clams.

I have heard of the sauce.

I think it's a kind of a tomato base in it.

I'm slightly torn between the other two but...

I'm not sure. I'm not sure between the other two.

I'm going to go for crayfish.

You're not sure. You seem pleased, Daphne.

It's the right answer!

It is the right answer. Kevin, you've won the round.

You're through to the final round. Bad luck, Katie,

just the one incorrect, so often is the case in this game.

And Kevin playing very solidly in this round.

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

Come back and join your teams.

So, as it stands, one LEGI Head gone, all the Eggheads still there.

Now we play our next subject today, this one is music.

Who'd like to play this? It can't be Katie, any of you other four.

One of you two. Go on, Gillian, you do it.

Shall I do it? Yep. That'll be me, Dermot. Gillian.

OK, now which Egghead would you like to play, but it can't be Kevin.

I'd like to play Barry, please.

OK, let's have Gillian and Barry into the question room, please.

So, Gillian, I believe

geographically you crossed the great Pennine divide, did you?

I did, yes. I moved over to Leeds about seven years ago

and it gets worse, previously to that I actually lived in Manchester!

Ooh! So how do you get on with these Yorkshire folk?

The Yorkshire folk I can live with, they're all very nice.

I'm engaged to a Yorkshire man so I can't complain too much.

It can't be all bad then, can it?!

Would you like to go first or second?

I'd like to go first please, Dermot.

Best of luck. Music. First question to you, Gillian.

Which singer's albums include

Diva, Medusa and Songs of Mass Destruction?

I don't think it's Cyndi Lauper.

I don't know why but my gut tells me that it's not her,

which would leave me with Annie Lennox and Chrissie Hynde.

I seem to remember Diva was something to do with Annie Lennox.

That's my first instinct so I'll go with Annie Lennox.

The answer is Annie Lennox, well done. A good start.

OK, so one to you, Katie.

Barry, which band had their first UK number one hit single in 1964

with It's All Over Now?

I remember dancing, or what passed for dancing, to this song.

Amazing. It's the Rolling Stones.

Bet you would've given Mick Jagger a run for his money then.

Possibly not in economics though.

Is this a reference to that he was at the London School of Economics?

LSE, yes. I'm trying to stay with you there, Barry.

Clinging on to the coat tails. The Rolling Stones is correct.

Their first UK number one. OK, Katie, second question.

Which note is usually called an eighth-note in the United States?

I'm not sure about this.

I'm afraid my classical music knowledge isn't what it should be.

Um...

I'm gonna go for quaver

just because the other two don't really ring any bells with me.

So I'll have a stab in the dark and go for quaver.

Quaver for the eighth-note.

Eggheads, do you know?

Confounded the Eggheads. Defied them and got the right answer.

Well, done, Gillian, quaver. They didn't know that.

Barry, second question to you.

What type of music is the piece entitled Tales From the Vienna Woods

by Johann Strauss the Younger?

Well, if it's Strauss, it's indubitably a waltz.

You hear Strauss and you say waltz?

He did write other things but he's most famous for writing waltzes.

We're learning some basic quizzing techniques here, are we?

Strauss, waltz, you're generally correct

and this time you are as well. OK, two each.

Waltz is the right answer. Gillian, third question.

Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion

are all members of which band?

Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion

are all members of which band?

I feel like this is one that I should know and I really, really don't.

Um... I don't think it's Coldplay,

which leaves me with Travis and Radiohead.

I also don't think it's Travis,

so I will go for Radiohead.

OK, Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion

are members of...Coldplay.

Oh. Oh, the one you got rid of first,

which means Barry

can take the round.

Jascha Heifetz was one of the 20th century's leading soloists

on which instrument?

It certainly wasn't trumpet

and I'm reasonably certain I have some music by him in my collection

so I'm going to go for violin.

Violin for Jascha Heifetz.

Just looking at the other Eggheads. Yes. Nodding sagely.

It's correct, yes, violin, Jascha Heifetz.

Which means we bid you farewell, Gillian, I'm sorry to say.

You won't be in the final round. Barry, you'll be there. Come back and join your teams.

So, two LEGI Heads gone as it stands and all the Eggheads still there.

We move on to our next subject today. This is history. Who'd like to play this?

It's either Neil, Simon or David.

Simon, do you want to?

I'll give it a go, yeah. All right, yeah. OK, I'm gonna have a go, yeah.

OK, Simon, and who would you like to play from the Eggheads? Judith, Chris or Daphne?

It's a lottery. Judith, I'll have a game with Judith.

Have a game with Judith? Yeah.

She'll be glad of it. Let's play the round.

OK, Judith and Simon, into the question room, please.

I'm getting confused by you, LEGI Heads, and your tactics.

Katie was the book-lover and played food and drink.

We've got Simon in there, the music lover

let Gillian play the music round. Why didn't you play music, Simon?

Well, I only know music from before about 1975

so usually what I find in quiz programmes

is I don't have a clue because it's all too modern for me.

OK, so before '75, that's about 30 or 40 years before Chris anyway.

Let's see how you do on this one, history.

Would you like to go first or second?

I'm gonna go second, see if we can get change of luck.

Change of luck, put Judith in.

OK, Judith, first question is yours then.

Ned Kelly was a famous rural outlaw

in the 19th century in which country?

He came from Australia, or he was in Australia.

Australia? Yeah. Notorious criminal, wasn't he?

Notorious criminal. And Mick Jagger played him.

A link there with what Barry was saying.

A relative of yours, I'd guess.

Who, of mine? Mmm. Why?

Criminal background. Oh, Dermot. Sorry, Judith.

Ned Kelly... I don't quite see the link.

..famous rural outlaw. Well, you know...

What's my criminal background? Where do you get that link?

That's very far-fetched.

Well, they always do say about the aristos, don't they?

No they don't!

Somewhere there's some dark deed gone on there, hasn't there?

Mine didn't get there that way. Didn't they? No. No?

OK. We won't continue.

Ned Kelly is, yes, Australia.

First question to you then, Simon.

Which royal house came to power in England in 1485?

Which royal house came to power in England in 1485?

1485.

Right. Let's have a think about this.

Um...

I'm...

I think the Stuarts are a bit later than that

and the Hanovers definitely are. So I'm going to go Tudor.

It's the Tudors, yes. So it's one-all. Second question each.

Judith, who started as a wig-maker in the 18th century

but moved into textiles and patented the water frame for spinning cotton?

I always get very muddled up with these.

I think it's Richard Arkwright.

Hudson must've been Hudson and furs in Canada,

and Matthew Boulton I think was later,

an industrialist of some kind. I think it's Richard Arkwright.

Richard Arkwright.

Water frame for spinning cotton.

Eggheads? Yeah.

It's the right answer. Well done, Judith. Two to you. OK, Simon,

the abbey at St Albans was the home of which monk,

whose writings are an important source

of 13th-century European history?

Right, the Venerable Bede was a Geordie, wasn't he?

So it's not him.

Matthew Paris or Piers Langtoft.

I think it was Piers Langtoft.

Piers Langtoft, the abbey at St Albans.

It's not the right answer. Judith, do you know? Is it Matthew Paris?

It's Matthew Paris, yes.

13th century European historian and monk at St Albans.

So it means, Judith, you win the round if you get this question.

The so-called Addled Parliament met for only eight weeks

during the reign of which English monarch?

The so-called Addled Parliament met for only eight weeks

during the reign of which English monarch?

Oh, Lord.

I don't think there was a formal parliament in Edward I's reign. Yet.

The Addled Parliament, I don't know.

I'm going to have to guess between James I and George I.

It might be George I.

Or it could be James I.

No lights going up.

You make it sound as if I've got the button here.

I think you might have under your desk. I might ask for it, actually.

Um...

I don't know. I'm going to have to guess.

I think I'm going to say James I after all.

OK, you've gone for James I. I've got to go for one or the other.

Eggheads, first, why Addled Parliament, were they drunk?

No. It was a chaotic state of affairs with the handover

from Elizabeth I finally dying and the Stuarts coming in.

It was just a mess basically.

Addled was simply because they didn't pass any legislation

during the whole time they sat. I see.

All right, they have confirmed that you got the right answer.

James I, the Addled Parliament met for only eight weeks

during the reign of James I.

And it means then, looking at the scores,

Judith, you've won the round, you're in the final round.

Bad luck, Simon, you won't be there I'm afraid. Come back and join your teams.

Well, three LEGI Heads bitten the dust so far and no Eggheads.

Last chance to knock one of them out

in our last head-to-head before the final round.

This one is arts and books.

Who'd like to play, Neil or David? One for me, I think.

Yeah. Who you gonna have? Who do you think we should take?

Er... Daphne or Chris?

Chris, we'll take Chris. Chris.

Let's have you both into the question room then please, David and Chris.

OK, David, what do you want to do?

Simon decided to switch the order

and take the second set of questions.

Do you want to do the same or go first again? I'm gonna go second.

Hopefully Chris will trip himself up and I can overtake him.

OK, Chris, first question for you on arts and books.

Which term is used for words that are the same in sound and spelling

but different in meaning - acronym, paronym or homonym?

This is the Greek root, isn't it? Homonym.

Homonym is the right answer.

Good start, Chris. OK, David, first question for you.

The art of decoupage involves decorating an object with what?

OK. I don't think it's beads.

My partner's father has a jewellery business

and I don't remember anybody

buying goods from him for decoupage.

Coloured wax doesn't ring any bells with me

so I'm gonna go for paper cut-outs.

OK. Decoupage is paper cut-outs.

That's the right answer. One each.

Chris, the novel Quentin Durward, set in 15th-century France

and Burgundy is a work by whom?

It's by Walter Scott.

You've gone for Walter Scott.

It's the right answer. Yep, two to you.

OK, David, second question for you then.

Chris not tripped up yet.

In which Charles Dickens novel

is brimstone and treacle famously served?

OK. I must admit Charles Dickens is not my favourite author.

It's a very long time since I've read any of these.

Oliver Twist would be just too easy.

Nicholas Nickelby, I'm not sure.

I'm gonna go for David Copperfield.

David Copperfield, brimstone and treacle.

Oliver Twist, well, he wanted more but it wasn't brimstone and treacle.

No. It was some kind of gruel.

Not Oliver Twist, but it's not David Copperfield, it's Nicholas Nickelby.

Dotheboys Hall. Dotheboys Hall. Brimstone and treacle.

What's brimstone then? It's an often-used phrase.

Sulphur. Sulphur. Which means Chris hasn't tripped up.

David has and Chris takes the round if he gets this.

Chris, which Renaissance artist was the son of the painter

and writer Giovanni Santi?

I don't know. It's not Michelangelo.

Hang on, wasn't that Raphael's family?

Yeah, Raphael.

Renaissance artist,

the son of the painter and writer Giovanni Santi...

is Raphael. It's correct, Chris.

You have taken this round

and a clean sweep for the Eggheads in the head-to-heads.

Which means, David, I'm sorry, you won't be playing in the final round. Come back and join 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 you who lost your head-to-heads

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

So, Gillian, Simon, Katie and David from the LEGI Heads,

would you leave the studio please?

So, Neil, you're playing to win the LEGI Heads ?1,000.

Daphne, Chris, Barry, Judith and Kevin, you're playing for

something which money can't buy, the Eggheads' reputation.

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

This time the questions are all general knowledge, Neil.

And you are allowed to confer, Eggheads.

That doesn't apply to Neil on his own there.

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

Neil, what do you want to do, would you like to go first or second?

I think I'll get it over and done with, I'll go first.

It didn't quite work out for Simon and David, going second there.

But you never can tell. You've decided to go first and get it over with.

Well, let's hope you've got it over with by winning it.

You could be just two or three questions away from that money. Here's your first question.

Best of luck, Neil.

What is the first name of

the younger brother of rugby international Gavin Hastings,

who also played more than 50 times for Scotland?

You've given me three quite Scottish names to choose from.

I did suspect it was Scott before you gave me the options

so I'm gonna go with Scott.

So you're saying in this case the options

have probably been less use to you

than if it had been a sudden death question.

Well, you've stayed firm and got the right answer.

Scott Hastings, brother of Gavin,

capped more than 50 times for Scotland.

So, first question for you, Eggheads. The Canadian-born actress

Linda Thorson played the character of Tara King

in which 1960s TV series?

That's The Avengers.

The Avengers? Yes.

Yes, Linda Thorson, Tara King, right answer.

Neil, second question for you. Well negotiated that first one.

Let's see if you can keep it up. Who played the character Ward Abbott

in the films The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy?

Have you seen them, Neil? I have seen them.

Good. That's a start, right.

I don't remember seeing Anthony Hopkins

or Ben Kingsley in them.

I'm just trying to think, is Ben Kingsley in there somewhere?

I don't know who Brian Cox is but he's gonna be my answer.

Good old elimination technique again, it's the right answer.

Brian Cox takes the role of Ward Abbott

in the Bourne Identity and Supremacy. So two to you.

Eggheads, which writer is know for his series of books started in 1951,

on The Buildings of England?

That's Nikolaus Pevsner.

Pevsner. Yes.

Still pretty standard reference books, aren't they?

Still going, yes. They're gradually being updated by later writers

but yeah, still the standard work.

Pevsner is the right answer. Well identified, Eggheads.

Two each and a good round.

Well done, Neil, two good answers, let's make it a third.

In 2004 John Scarlett became the head

of which of these security and intelligence services?

I haven't got an idea.

It's gonna be a total guess. Um...

For some reason I don't think it's MI6.

I'm going to go with MI5.

OK, MI5.

Not GCHQ, not MI6. A guess, says Neil.

MI5, Eggheads?

MI6.

MI6, which I bet you were toying with because you mentioned it.

The difference between MI5 and MI6, Eggheads?

MI5 is within the UK, MI6 is abroad.

There we are. John Scarlett, head of MI6 appointed in 2004.

Which means that's the third question,

therefore if you get this correct, Eggheads, you've won the game.

Eggheads, Ponta Delgada is the largest city in which group of islands?

That would be the Azores.

(Sorry.)

It's the right answer. Ponta Delgada means Eggheads, you've won.

Bad luck, Neil, and all the LEGI Heads there.

You ran into the Eggheads after they'd suffered a loss.

Sometimes they wobble after that

but I could see a steely determination in them today

not to falter and to re-establish that reputation again.

So thanks very much for playing to you, Neil, and all the LEGI Heads.

Such a valiant performance there, Neil, in the final round.

It wasn't to be on the day.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.

They reign supreme over quiz land once again.

You won't be going home with the money which means it 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.

?2,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.

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