Episode 32 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 pit their wits

against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.

You might recognise them,

as they are Goliaths in the world of TV quiz shows.

They are the Eggheads.

And challenging our resident quiz champions today are the Leekensians.

The team are all friends and family from Leek in Staffordshire

and have been quizzing together for over ten years. Let's meet them.

Hello, I'm Eddie, I'm 59 and I'm an accounts clerk.

Hi, I'm Rose, I'm 58 and I'm a supply teacher.

Hi, I'm Nick, I'm 22 and I'm a change control co-ordinator.

Hello, I'm Christine, I'm 56 and I am a school librarian.

Hello, I'm Roger, I'm 58 and I'm a tourist guide.

Welcome, Leekensians.

And this is the phrase for people from Leek, is it?

Yes. People who are born or work in Leek and have family in Leek.

-So you all qualify, clearly.

-Yes, we do.

Talking about family, there's three of the same family here. Mum, Dad...

Yes, my wife, Rose and son, Nick.

Christine and Roger, how did you get involved?

Through quizzing, really.

We've formed various quiz teams over the years

and that's how we really know each other.

Ten years of quizzing, not bad. That's almost Eggheads standard!

Well, let's see how you do against the Eggheads today, the big test.

Every day there is £1,000 up for grabs for our challengers.

If they fail to defeat the Eggheads,

the money rolls over to the next show.

So, Leekensians, the challengers actually won the last game,

proving it can be done.

That means £1,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

And our first head-to-head battle today

will be on the subject of film and TV.

Who would like to play this? Film and television?

-I think, Roger, you should.

-OK.

-Who is he going to go against, though?

-Any Egghead you like.

-Shall we go for Barry?

-Who is it going to be?

-Roger against Barry.

Roger against Barry, the battle over film and television.

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

just to make sure there is no conferring.

Would you like to go first or second, Roger?

I'll go first, please.

Good luck. Here's your question, then.

What was the title of the 1999 ground-breaking TV series

which used computer graphics and animation

to create a portrayal of animals in prehistoric times?

I didn't watch it, but I do like those kind of programmes.

I don't think it was Spying On Dinosaurs.

I think it was Walking With Dinosaurs.

Walking With Dinosaurs.

That's the right answer, well done. A good start, Roger.

Barry, who became the regular male co-host

of The One Show in August 2006?

Well, it wasn't Jonathan Ross and I believe it was Adrian Chiles.

The host of The One Show. Yes, it's the right answer, well done.

Roger, "The heat is on", is a tag line

from which 1984 Eddie Murphy movie?

Well, I think The Heat Is On is actually a song as well

and I think it's featured in Beverley Hills Cop.

OK, Beverley Hills Cop, The Heat Is On,

it's the right answer, yes.

Two to you. Barry - Perkin, Posie and Pootle

were regular characters in which children's TV series?

I don't recall them in The Clangers, that had The Soup Kitchen.

Perkin, Posie and Pootle doesn't ring any bell there.

I'm certain they weren't in The Moomins,

so I will go for The Flumps, because it sounds so lovely and fluffy.

The Soup Dragon, The Clangers.

-Yeah. Not kitchen.

-Oh, did I say...

That's where you'll be heading for if you lose again, Eggheads.

Perkin, Posie and Pootle are in The Flumps. Well done, Barry, yeah.

It's two each. It's all square as we go into the third question.

Roger, what was the name of the butler

in the TV series The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air?

I think this was the programme with Will Smith as the star.

I don't... I think it's Geoffrey.

Geoffrey in The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air is the right answer, Roger.

Barry, you've got to get this.

How many characters are named after colours

in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 film, Reservoir Dogs?

Oh, ten is too many.

Let's see if I can remember them.

Mr White, Mr Pink, Mr Blue, Mr Yellow. Eight just seems too many.

No, I'm going to go for six.

Six, the lower number.

It's the right answer, Barry, yes, six.

We go, Roger, to sudden death,

which means, as you know,

those choices go now and I've just got to hear an answer from you.

Here you go.

Who played Lady Evelyn Baggley

in the 1970 film, Carry On Up The Jungle?

I must admit, I get the Carry On films a bit mixed up,

but they do all have regular casts that are the same.

I would say Joan Simms.

-Is that your answer?

-Yes.

Joan Simms is the right answer!

Well done, Roger.

Wow, wow, wow! Back to you, Barry.

In which 1983 film did Barbra Streisand play a Jewish girl

who pretends to be a boy in order to enter religious training?

She wanted to play a boy who...

because only a boy was allowed to enter Yeshiva,

and the film was called Yentl.

Yentl is the right answer, Barry, well done.

OK, on we go.

Roger, wow. Who won a Best Actor Oscar

for his performance in the 1944 film, Going My Way?

Um, I think he played a priest in that film,

and I think it's Bing Crosby.

That is correct, Roger!

OK, Barry, you've got to get this, then.

Jo's Palace and Capturing Mary

are television dramas from which writer and director?

I'm trying to think of somebody who was both a writer and a director.

I'm struggling on this.

I should be able to come up with lots of names now,

but a writer and a director?

Dennis Potter, possibly?

No, I don't think he directed.

I shall try, without any great degree of confidence, Derek Redmond.

Derek Redmond. Joe's Palace and Capturing Mary are television dramas

from the writer and director...

..Stephen Poliakoff.

Which means it is a defeat for you, Barry.

Roger, you're in the final round.

Would you both come back and join your teams.

As it stands, the challengers haven't lost any brains

from the final round, the Eggheads have lost one

and we play our next head-to-head. This subject is science.

Who'd like to play?

It can't be Roger again, but any of you other four.

-I think Dad.

-I thought we'd agreed on Eddie, had we?

-We had, yes.

-I'll go for that, Dermot.

Who would you like to play from the Eggheads? Anyone apart from Barry.

I'd like to go against Judith.

OK, let's have Eddie and Judith into the question room, please.

-OK, Eddie, do you want to go first or second?

-First, please.

Best of luck, Eddie. Here you go, it's science,

first question - the warthog is native to which continent?

Well, I can't see the warthog being in any of the countries in Europe,

nor can I see it in Asia.

I do think Africa is the continent for the answer to

which continent is the warthog in.

OK.

And the answer to which continent is the warthog in,

it's Africa! It's correct.

Let's cut to the quick there. It's correct.

Judith, in which part of the body are the pectoral muscles located?

I think they're in the chest.

They are in the chest, it's the right answer. Well done.

OK, Eddie, which medical prefix

is derived from the Greek word meaning beneath or under?

It's definitely not hypno

and as I suffer from slight high blood pressure which is hypertension,

I think the answer is hypo.

Hypo, not hyper,

is the right answer, well done.

OK, Judith, snow leopards are native to which mountain range?

They're in the Himalayas.

Himalayas is correct. Well done, Judith.

OK, well, look at this,

another good round of quizzing shaping up here, 2-2.

Eddie, which epoch is defined

as lasting from around 1.8 million years to 10,000 years ago?

Of all the epochs,

the most recent is the...Pleistocene era epoch,

so I'm going to go for Pleistocene.

Is correct again, yes!

Leekensians haven't got a question wrong yet, Eggheads.

Judith, what is the name of the paradox first described

by the science fiction writer Rene Barjavel

in his book, Le Voyageur Imprudent,

that argued time travel to the past was impossible?

Sorry, I'm thinking. I'm supposed to be talking.

-I'm really sorry.

-No, no, thinking is allowed, it's a quiz.

I can't think why it should be The Uncle Paradox. I just don't see why.

The Brother Paradox doesn't seem to indicate

any going backwards or forwards in time,

so I think it probably is The Grandfather Paradox.

Well, it is the right answer, Judith. Well, worked out.

So, 3-3.

Well, on we go into sudden death again. It seems almost inevitable.

Eddie, a pizzly, P-I-Z-Z-L-Y,

is the name given to the offspring

of a male grizzly bear and a female what?

I think it's got to be in the bear family

and I'm just going through the type of bear

that would mix with a grizzly bear,

so I'm looking at the brown bear as an answer.

OK. A brown bear and a grizzly bear, not the right answer.

The first one incorrect from the Leekensians. A pizzly.

-Polar bear.

-A polar bear, yeah, that's the P. Polar bear.

Well, a chance for the Eggheads to win a round so far.

Which breed of deer with the Latin name Capreolus capreolus

became extinct in most of England during the 18th century,

but was successfully reintroduced in the 19th century?

Well, I don't think red deer have ever died out.

Um, I don't know about roe deer dying out.

I can't think that roe deer... I'm sure red deer have never died out.

I'm going to have to say roe deer

because I can't think of anything else more likely.

-OK, roe.

-Yeah.

It's the right answer, Judith. You've won the round and it means,

well, I didn't think it was going to happen there.

You were going so strongly, Eddie, but sudden death,

Judith played well. You won't be in the final round, Eddie.

Would you both come back and join your teams?

Well, the Eggheads don't stay down for long.

Struck back there, both teams have lost one brain from the final round.

Our next subject today is geography. Who would like to play this one?

-It's Rose, Nick or Christine.

-Do you want me to go?

-Yes, please.

I'll go, but I'm really bad at geography.

We'll try and get you a bad one, then.

Chris, Daphne or CJ are left, Christine.

What do you think?

-CJ.

-Yeah.

-CJ.

-That'd be the one!

Let's have Christine and CJ into the question room, please.

OK, and Christine, do you want to go first or second?

Well, geography is not my specialist subject,

so I'll definitely go first and get it out of the way.

Christine, what name is given to an area in a desert

that has water and is fertile?

I don't think it's a reef. My husband does a lot of scuba diving

and he usually likes to go on reefs.

I don't think it's a delta, I think it is an oasis.

In the desert, an oasis. Yes! Well done, Christine.

There you are. One to you.

CJ, Canvey Island is situated in which body of water?

So this is British geography, isn't it?

-Now, we've talked about this before, Dermot.

-We have.

And I've heard many, many wrong answers from you before on it.

Canvey Island.

I think...

Oh, Lord.

I think it's in the Thames Estuary.

-Is that your answer?

-Yes!

Of course it is, yes.

Christine, New York City is composed of how many boroughs?

Right.

Um...

I don't think it's three. Um...

This will be a complete guess,

I'm going to go for seven.

OK, seven boroughs in New York.

You didn't think it was three.

It's not three, but it is five.

Five boroughs in New York. Eggheads? Quick as a flash.

-Queens, The Bronx, Long Island... sorry.

-Not Long Island.

Staten Island, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and The Bronx.

There we are. Right. We'll absorb that and put another question to CJ,

your second question.

Eritrea is bordered by Sudan, Djibouti and which other country?

The further we move away from Britain, the happier I am.

It's all these border disputes with Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is correct, CJ. He was happy with that.

It means you've got to get this, Christine.

In 1956, what became the first place

to be designated an Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty?

I haven't a clue.

I don't think it's the Tamar Valley.

I don't really know about the other two,

-but I'm going to go for the Gower Peninsula.

-The Gower?

-Yeah.

It's the right answer, well done, Christine!

But CJ wins it if he gets this.

The Tassili Plateau is located in which desert?

I haven't heard of it, but, to me,

the word sounds slightly more central Asian that African.

And as two of those deserts are in Africa and one is in central Asia,

or central to east Asia, I'll go for the Gobi.

OK, the Gobi Desert.

The Tassili Plateau is in the Sahara.

So, it's all square and we go to sudden death, Christine,

as you've seen in the last two rounds.

Achaia is a historic region of which Mediterranean country?

A-C-H-A-I-A, Achaia?

I've never heard of that word at all,

which is why geography is not my specialist subject.

You're doing all right so far, Christine - sudden death.

It's going to be a complete guess.

I'm going to go for Italy, I don't know why.

Achaia...

It's not Italy, Christine, sorry.

Do you know, CJ, if this had been your question?

-I don't, no.

-Other Eggheads?

-Greece?

-It's Greece.

You win it, then, if you get this, CJ. Which strong wind takes its name

from the Provencal word for, "Masterly."

This is one of those that just seems so obvious, doesn't it?

I'll have to go for mistral.

-Mistral. Judith?

-Well, I think it must be mistral.

It's the right answer.

Well done, CJ. Yes, the mistral, the Provencal word for "Masterly",

which means the Eggheads really are fighting back.

CJ you're in the final round. Sorry, Christine.

You did well, what do you mean, you don't know geography?

Into sudden death! Bad luck, you're not in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

See how dangerous they are when they're behind.

They're not behind now. The Eggheads have lost one brain

from the final round, the Leekensians have lost two.

And our last subject before the final round is sport.

You can level it up if you're not going to go out on this.

Mum turning to Nick and saying, "It's you."

-No question there.

-Rose or Nick?

-Yeah. It's me.

-OK, no question about that then, Nick.

OK, who would you like to play from the Eggheads,

-it's Chris or Daphne?

-I'm going to play Chris.

-Chris, OK, it's sport.

Quite keen, you decided as soon as you knew you had to play.

Let's have you both into the question room.

Nick from the Leekensians and Chris from the Eggheads.

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

-First, please.

Good luck, Nick. Here's, your first question.

Which legendary sportsman announced his comeback in September 2008,

three years after winning the last major title of his career?

I'm fairly sure it's not Michael Jordan,

because he already had a subsequent...

he came back to the sport after he retired from the Chicago Bulls.

And I'm pretty sure it's not Lennox Lewis, he's too old, I think.

I'm pretty certain it's Lance Armstrong.

-Lance Armstrong?

-Yeah.

It's the right answer, well done. Cyclist, Lance Armstrong,

who won the Tour de France in 2005.

Chris, first question to you.

Which country won the most gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games?

Well, the USA got fairly well humiliated, if I remember.

And Russia is not really up there any more with the greats.

It was the host country, China.

China, the hosts, yes, it was.

Well, done, Chris. China is the right answer.

Nick, which football team were knocked out of the 1992,

1996 and 2000 European Championships on penalties?

Well, as far as I'm aware, England weren't in the 1992 championships,

so it can't have been them.

Although they do often get knocked out in penalties.

And Italy won the Euro 2000, so I'm going to go for Holland.

Holland, the Netherlands...

is the right answer.

I'm not sure Italy did win.

That was France, because they won the World Cup

and then the Euro Championships in 2000.

Reasoning not correct there, but answer is.

It's not how you get there.

Absolutely. OK, Chris.

The golfer, Bobby Lock, who won four Open Championships

between 1949 and 1957, was born in which country?

I don't think he was South African.

I've an idea at the back of my mind he was a New Zealander.

I've got relations in New Zealand,

I think they've mentioned him once or twice.

OK. New Zealand, Bobby Lock.

Four Opens between '49 and '57.

And Eggheads? A Kiwi?

-South African.

-South African!

He actually beat my dad's cousin

into second place in the British Open.

What year?

-I think...

-Some time between '49 and '57.

I think it was 1949. Harry Bradshaw.

-Was your dad's...

-Cousin.

-Cousin?

There we are. And a link to one of the Eggheads.

And a chance for Nick to get into the final round

if you give me a correct answer here, Nick.

Which legendary West Indian cricketer

was born in 1936 with six fingers on each hand?

He was born in 1936.

I think Viv Richards is slightly too young for it to be 1936,

and similarly Clive Lloyd, so I'm going to go for Gary Sobers.

OK, you know your dates, you see.

And you've got the right answer, Gary Sobers.

Let's confirm it, Nick, you're in the final round.

No place for Chris.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

So, 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 Eddie and Christine from the Leekensians

and Chris and Barry from the Eggheads,

would you leave the studio, please?

Rose, Nick and Roger, you're playing to win the Leekensians £1,000.

CJ, Daphne and Judith,

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

the Eggheads' much-tarnished reputation!

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

The questions are all general knowledge

and you are allowed to confer.

Leekensians, are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three?

Rose, Nick and Roger, would you like to go first or second?

Shall we stick with first?

-Yeah, we'll stick with first.

-We'll go first, please.

OK, sticking with first, let's see how you do. First question, then.

Dienstag is the German name for which day of the week?

I'm pretty sure it's Tuesday.

-If you're happy, I've no idea.

-Yes, we're pretty sure it's Tuesday.

Who is the German speaker there?

Erm, I did a GCSE!

Did a bit of it, yeah. Tuesday, Dienstag, is correct.

Yes, well done. OK, a question for the Eggheads.

Corriere Della Sera

is the best-selling broadsheet in which European country?

That's Italy.

It's the right answer, Italy is correct.

OK, second question apiece.

Leekensians - The Fight,

which chronicles Muhammad Ali's famous Rumble In The Jungle

with George Foreman, is a 1975 book by which writer?

It's Norman Mailer.

-Yeah. OK, are we happy with that? Go on, you say it.

-Norman Mailer.

OK. Norman Mailer, you're going for.

It's the right answer. Well done.

Very sure about that.

OK, two to you.

Eggheads - which singer won three awards, including Best Video,

for Piece Of Me at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards?

That's the comeback kid herself, Britney Spears.

That's what you lot are trying to be now, isn't it?

Britney Spears is correct, Eggheads.

Two each.

Leekensians, in which city is The House of the People

purported to be the second largest

administrative building in the world?

-You've been to Prague, haven't you?

-Well, I've been.

I don't really remember it, I was mostly drunk.

Sounds very socalist, The House of the People.

-Yes.

-But they're communist-type countries.

-Yeah. Oh, dear.

-I don't know.

-Which is the biggest city... in terms of size?

-I don't know.

-It's going to be a guess, isn't it.

-Yeah. Where's Sofia?

-What are we going to go for?

-Let's hope it's one of them countries.

-You pays your money, you takes your choice.

-What are we going for?

Sofia or Bucharest?

But Romania is quite... they used to have, what's his name?

-Ceausescu?

-He was pretty independent.

-All right, then.

-He was a dictator, wasn't he?

-Do you want to go for that?

-We'll go for that.

We'll go for Bucharest.

OK, Bucharest. I heard you mention Ceausescu and his ambitions,

and The House of the People.

Is it Bucharest? It's the right answer.

You worked it out. Well, kind of.

A bit of a guess. Which means, Eggheads,

you lose again if you don't give me a correct answer here.

Which author, whose novels include The Dress Maker

and Every Man For Himself, has been short-listed

for the Man Booker Prize on five occasions but never won?

-I've never heard of Every Man For Himself, but...

-Daphne knows.

Every Man For Himself was about the Titanic and it is Beryl Bainbridge.

It is the right answer, Eggheads, yes. Beryl Bainbridge.

We go to sudden death, which you know all about Leekensians,

so many of those head-to-heads ending up that way.

OK, Leekensians, which horticultural market moved from central London

to Leyton in east London in 1991?

-I don't know.

-Is it, erm, something Lane?

Was it Petticoat Lane?

-That's not horticultural, though, is it?

-Oh, no.

I can't think of a single horticultural market.

-Covent Garden, wasn't that...

-It's still there.

-Is the market there, though?

-Oh, maybe.

Covent Garden is a tourist area now, isn't it?

It's the only one I can think of.

-Shall we say that?

-I don't know any thing else, do you?

-Go on.

-Try that.

-We're just guessing, Covent Garden.

It's incorrect. It's not Covent Garden.

It's Spitalfields.

Eggheads, a chance for victory.

What is the name of the warehouse near Heathrow

from where three tonnes of gold were stolen in 1983.

The Brinks Mat warehouse.

Brinks Mat, Eggheads, is correct. You've won!

Well, what a bit of quizzing that was!

Absolutely level pegging right throughout the game.

Bad luck and really, really well played.

On another day, with a following wind,

I'm sure you'd take these Eggheads, but not today.

It's been great to see you.

You've covered yourselves in quizzing glory.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.

They reign supreme over quiz land once again,

they'll be relieved to know.

You won't be going home with £1,000, 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

has the brains to defeat the Eggheads. £2,000 says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.

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