Episode 4 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.

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 are goliaths in the world of TV quiz shows. They are the Eggheads.

And taking on the awesome might of our quiz goliaths today,

are Last Trump.

The team take their name

from a bridge term, a game they've been playing together for the past 20 years, or so. Let's meet them.

I'm Ian. I'm 48 and I'm a manager of a barristers' chambers.

I'm Jeremy. I'm 59 and I'm a retired electronic systems consultant.

I'm David. I'm 52 and I'm a bridge professional.

I'm Joe. I'm 45 and I'm a software developer.

I'm Stuart.

I'm 53 and I'm a freelance business transformation consultant.

Welcome to you, Last Trump.

So, bridge players, all of you? Yes.

OK. And bit of quizzing in your background, as well, Ian. I believe? Yes, yes.

Well, I've been members of quiz teams with everybody in the team at some time. If it comes to the final round,

depending how many of you are still there, you have had your odd disagreement or two, I believe?

Well, Joe and David and myself did used to spend most evenings, in the 1990s, sitting in pubs, bickering.

But that's, that's what quizzes are there for. Ha! Absolutely.

Well, let's see how you do in Eggheads.

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.

So, Last Trump, the Eggheads have won just the last game, which means

?2,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

And let's get on with it. Our first head to head is going to be

on the subject of Science.

Any one of you can play this, it being the first round.

I think Stuart. You're probably our best bet. Sounds like Stuart to me.

I think so. I've been outvoted. Are you, are you happy to go on, or do you want to...?

OK. Stuart and any Egghead you like.

CJ, I think.

Let's see how you both do, then. And, to make sure there's no conferring,

could I ask you both please to take your positions in the question room.

Now, Stuart is a keen bridge player.

I know the legendary Omar Sharif is keen on it. And you've played him.

Yes, I have.

And gone beyond just playing him?

Yes, he was a good loser.

Oh! Was it for money?

No. Most of our, most of our team, play competition bridge.

So, there's not much money at stake.

Anyway, listen, best of luck in this, Stuart. Science. Do you want to go first, or second?

I think I'll go second.

Second it is then, for Stuart, which means this is your question, CJ.

Plumbum is the Latin name for which chemical element?

Well, the chemical symbol for copper is Cu. And for silver it's Ag.

But lead is Pb, plumbum is lead.

It is. And not a leaden start from you. One, there.

OK, Stuart, first question for you.

By what name is the chemical compound, calcium oxide, better known?

Well, I think brimstone is something to do with sulphur.

I think baking soda is sodium carbonate. So, I'll say quicklime.

Quicklime. Calcium Oxide.

That is correct, as well.

Good start for you both.

CJ, what term refers to the point in its orbit, when the Earth is nearest to the sun?

I think that's the perihelion.

The perihelion, when the Earth is nearest to the sun, is correct.

Well, done, CJ.

OK, Stuart, your second question.

Wave speed is calculated by multiplying the wave's frequency with its what?

Right, let's think about this logically.

Speed can't have much to do with its height.

I think I'm going to say length. OK.

Yeah, that's the correct answer.

Two all. CJ, third question.

The cystic artery provides oxygenated blood to which organ of the human body?

This one I don't know.

I'm going to assume it's not the kidney, I hope.

But as for the other two, I really don't know this one.

If it is the kidney, I'm going to be very angry with myself. But...

and probably Daphne will be even angrier with me.

Oh, dear, I really don't know, but I'm going to go for the gall bladder.

Gall bladder? Yeah, but, it's nothing more than a guess, really.

The guess has landed the right answer.

Gall bladder, supplied by the cystic artery. So, three to you.

Which means, Stuart,

you have to get this, to keep this round going for you.

The atomic number of an element is determined by the number of what in the nucleus of an atom?

Well, in an element, the number of protons and electrons must match.

Because I think they are neutral.

So, I'm going to say neutrons.

The atomic number of an element is determined by the number

of neutrons, you think, in the nucleus in an atom?

The answer is protons.

Not neutrons.

You put CJ in first. He got all three.

No chance for a reprieve for you, Stuart. You won't be playing in the final round.

CJ, you have won this head to head. You'll be there.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

As we stand at the moment, Last Trump have one brain missing from the final round.

The Eggheads are all still there.

We'll play our second head to head now. And this one is Sport.

Who'd like to play this? Can't be Stuart. Any of you other four.

It's got to be you. I really can't play Sport, so...

No, David. I'll do it. David.

OK. David, and which Egghead?

Anyone apart from CJ. Let's try Judith.

No.

No.

No. What a surprise!

OK. Let's have David and Judith, please, into the question room.

David, do you want to go first, or second?

I'll go first, I think.

And it's Sport.

This is your first question then, David. And good luck to you.

Which footballer scored the winning goal for Spain

in the final of the 2008 European championships?

Well, the two I've heard of are Torres and Fabregas.

So, the third one, who I've never heard of,

looks as though he might have scored the last goal.

So, I will go for David Villa.

OK. Villa. Very good player. Scored a lot goals in the tournament.

But not the final goal, for Spain.

The answer is Fernando Torres, I'm afraid. So, nothing there.

OK, Judith, first question for you to take the lead, potentially.

Which athlete was awarded the silver medal, after Ben Johnson

was stripped of his gold, in the 100 metres, at the 1988 Olympic Games?

That means he was third in the original race.

I read the question, Judith.

You do the interpretation.

Well, I'm, I'm just playing for time.

Tony Jarrett.

OK. Tony Jarrett. I don't know. You've gone for that.

Yes, of course he did. They all bumped up one. Yes.

So, yes, you're right. So, yeah, this one was third,

became second and who was third across the line? Linford Christie.

Linford Christie, the Eggheads tell me. Linford Christie.

Who took the gold, then? Carl Lewis.

Carl Lewis.

So, still all square.

David, second question.

Which rugby league team play their home matches at the Galpharm Stadium?

Galpharm?

I confess, I don't think that's a place in Yorkshire -

although it could well be.

Since I don't know,

I'll take a shot at Castleford. Castleford Tigers.

OK. The Tigers at the Galpharm.

It is the Huddersfield Giants, not the Castleford Tigers.

So, nothing there again. Chance for the lead for Judith, again.

Judith, which Scottish golfer fractured his sternum after tripping over a flowerpot,

while sleepwalking, at The Belfry in 1993?

I haven't the first clue.

Sandy Lyle.

No, that's not the answer.

Sam Torrance was the answer we were looking for.

So, it's still all square.

So one correct answer, potentially, could win it for either of you.

David, Kristin Otto represented the former East Germany in which sport?

Ah, the Germans had a lot of swimmers, gymnastics, high jumpers.

Um...Kristin Otto?

Let's go for the high jump.

Kristin Otto represented the former East Germany in swimming.

Swimming.

So, Judith, you can cover yourself in glory...

by getting a question right.

One out of six takes the round.

When Brian Lara scored 501 not out for Warwickshire in 1994,

whose record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket did he beat?

Well, the only one I've ever heard of it, is...

of, is Inzamam-ul-Haq.

And he's nowadays, isn't he? I mean, I think he's still playing.

So, 14 years ago, he might...

He would have been rather young.

Oh, God!

What about Hanif Mohammad?

Is that your answer? Yup.

We're going to sudden death

and neither of us knows one thing about sport. It's too awful.

Going to sudden death...

In actual fact, you're going to the final round. No!

It is the right answer. Gosh! Hanif Mohammad.

Brian Lara's 501 beat his previous highest score, which was?

499. OK.

Well, there we have it.

And high-scoring Brian Lara,

not too high scoring in this round. But we'll gloss over that.

Judith, you're playing in the final round.

David, we will not have the pleasure of your company there.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, Last Trump have lost two brains from the final round.

The Eggheads are all still there. And we move on to our next category.

Next subject is Geography.

Who'd like to play this? From Ian, Jeremy or Joe.

I normally get lumbered with it, so... I don't fancy it.

But I'll do it if you want to save your...

We have another noble volunteer

on a subject he doesn't know anything about.

Joe will play. Joe.

OK, you fancy a go at this one. Well, Judith and CJ have played, so, Kevin, Barry or Chris?

What do you want? Go, go for Barry, I think. I'll take, I'll try Barry.

OK. Let's have Joe and Barry into the question room, please.

Right, then, Joe, let's see if you can turn the luck for Last Trump.

Do you want to go first or second?

I think I'll go first, please.

It's Geography.

You're playing Barry and this is your question.

The islands collectively known as Bermuda

are located off the east coast of the mainland of which country?

Well, I'm fairly sure they're not off the coast of Australia.

They're certainly...

sort of got them in my head as near the Caribbean.

So, given that Mexico seems a bit out, I'll go for the USA.

It's the bigger out the two. OK.

It is the right answer as well, well done. Good start, Joe.

One to you.

Barry, Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, is located on which body of water?

Tunisia's on the Mediterranean Sea. So, that's my answer.

Quite right, too. Good start for you both.

One a piece.

Joe, second question.

The River Vltava flows through which European capital city?

I haven't been to any of those cities.

I don't think it's Prague.

Bucharest...

I'm not sure.

I'm going to go for the one I can't pronounce, which is Ljubljana.

OK.

The Vltava, CJ?

It's Prague.

It is Prague, Joe, Prague. Not Ljubljana.

OK, so, Barry, chance for the lead.

The L is the name of the elevated railroad system in which American city?

I wouldn't imagine they'd have an elevated railroad in Denver,

which is a mile-high city.

You'd probably need oxygen masks there.

So, that leaves us Boston or Chicago.

I'm not sure, but I've got an inkling at the back of my mind

that says it's Chicago. So, for no reason, other than the fact that it

comes to my mind, I'll say Chicago.

OK, Chicago. The L. Chris?

Yup, he's right. And is it called the L because of, elevated?

Because it's elevated. Yup.

OK. The L is in Chicago. Which gives you the lead.

And, Joe, means you've got to get this correct.

What is the name of the Bantu language, spoken by seven million people in South Africa,

which is characterised by its clicking sounds?

Well, I've been to South Africa. And I've got quite a few friends

who speak Swahili, and I've never them heard them click.

So I'm going to rule that one out.

I know Xhosa is a language... an African language.

So, I'm going to go for that. I'm going to go for Xhosa. OK.

Yeah, that's the correct answer.

Well, done.

Is it enough to save you, though?

Barry, third question for you, having got two out of two.

This, of course, clinches the round if you get it.

Barry, what is the term given to the basin like depression,

resulting from the explosion or collapse of the centre of a volcano?

Well, a corrie is a sort of tarn that's up the side of a mountain.

I've never heard of a doline at all.

But a caldera is definitely a collapsed crater of a volcano.

Caldera...

Yeah, it's the right answer, Barry. Congratulations, you're through to

the final round. And your challenge, Joe, has collapsed.

You won't be playing in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, as it stands, Last Trump have lost three brains from the final round.

The Eggheads haven't lost any.

It's your last chance to knock an Egghead out, Last Trump.

This category, our last head to head, is Music.

And Ian or Jeremy to play.

Who's our musicologist?

Well, um, possibly the lesser of two evils, I'll play.

Kevin or Chris?

Chris. OK. Well, let's see how you do.

Could I ask you both please to make your way to the question room.

Right, let's see if Ian can do it for Last Trump.

And double your representation in the final round.

One of you, of course, guaranteed to be there. Ian, would you like to go first or second? I'll go first.

OK, best of luck. It's Music and this is your first question then.

Ian, who became famous as the front man of the band, The Boomtown Rats?

Well, I think that's Bob Geldof.

Bob Geldof, lead singer of the Boomtown Rats.

Yup, that's correct. Course it is. One to you.

Chris, in the musical, Grease, which character sings the song, Hopelessly Devoted To You?

Well, it wouldn't be Danny.

And Rizzo's the leader of the Pink Ladies,

who's far too cynical to sing a song like that. So it's Sandy.

Chris, you seem to show rather a detailed

knowledge of the character and plot.

I do actually quite like the film...

in a strange sort of way.

But hold on, the film's 1977?

Yeah.

It's, kind of, a bit contemporary for you.

I first saw it in the line of duty with the special constabulary

when some of the local faces were creating a disturbance in the cinema.

So, in the line of duty? Yeah. Well, if they were creating a disturbance

in the cinema, why didn't you go in and sort them out,

rather than sit through two hours of musical? Well...

there were about five of us on the van that night.

We all piled in the cinema. There were three regulars and two specials.

And the skipper on the van said to us two specials, "Right, we've got

"the lid on the situation. You two stay here and keep an eye on them."

So, I got to see Grease for nothing. Yeah.

We'll leave it there.

After Chris's outing with the special constabulary,

he's got the right answer. Correct.

All right, second question each.

This one for you, Ian.

Which Beatles album cover famously features the

Fab Four looking down the stairwell, inside EMI London's headquarters?

I've only ever owned two LPs, as we used to call them.

And neither of them were by The Beatles.

But, Abbey Road is people walking across Abbey Road. So, it's not that.

I think it was an early one,

rather than when they got modern.

So, I'll go for Please, Please Me.

Please, Please Me. What were the two albums you owned, Ian?

One was a comedy album, with lots of Benny Hill on it.

And the other one wasn't.

And you're not going any further?

Best not. OK.

Please, Please Me. It's the right answer. Well, done.

So, two to you.

And your second question, Chris. With which genre of music is

Roni Size most associated?

Well, it doesn't sound obnoxious enough to be associated with punk.

And I don't think it's drum and bass.

But he does sound a bit like a blues man. So, I'll say blues.

Roni Size? CJ? I would have gone for drum and bass.

Drum and bass is the answer we wanted. Drum and bass.

Now, this is very interesting.

Ian, this puts you through to the final round, if you get it.

The opera, La Clemenza di Tito, is a famous work by which composer?

Opera, lovely.

Have to be bribed to go.

I enjoy it when I get there, though.

I enjoy it even more when I leave.

If we're going to die, let's die suddenly.

We'll knock out Mozart, knock out Handel and go for Verdi. Verdi.

La Clemenza di Tito

is by Mozart, not Verdi.

So, a let-off for PC Hughes, there.

And it means you can take us into sudden death, if you get this then, Chris.

The Beastie Boys famously wore the badges of which make of car

around their necks, sparking a crime wave, as people committed theft to join in the trend?

They used to go around nicking the badges off Volkswagens. VWs.

Is the right answer, Chris. You have taken us to sudden death.

Ian, we haven't played Sudden Death in this game before.

It means we remove those choices you've seen up to this point.

Just got to hear an answer from you. This is your question.

Which band had a UK Top Ten hit single, in 1982, with Golden Brown?

I think that would be The Stranglers.

The Stranglers, you say?

It's correct, well done.

Golden Brown, by The Stranglers.

So, Chris, "There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold..."

is the opening line of which rock song?

Killer Queen, by Queen.

Yeah, it would kind of work. But what do you think, Eggheads? Is it Killer Queen?

It's Stairway To Heaven. Stairway To Heaven.

Oh. Originally sung by Led Zeppelin.

So, you have made it through, Ian.

Many, many congratulations. Stairway to the final round, for you.

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, as always, is General Knowledge.

But those of you who lost your head to heads, won't be

able to take part in this round.

So, David, Joe and Stuart from Last Trump, and Chris, from the Eggheads, would you leave the studio, please?

So, Ian and Jeremy, you're playing to win Last Trump ?2,000.

Barry, Judith, Kevin and CJ, you're playing for something which money can't buy...

the Egghead's reputation.

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

The questions are all General Knowledge and you are allowed to confer.

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

And Ian and Jeremy, would you like to go first or second?

First, do you think? First. First.

First question, then. General knowledge and good luck to you both.

Irving Stone's novel, Lust For Life, and the 1956 film of the same name,

are concerned with the life of which artist?

Interesting question.

But we've got an ear for this sort of question. It was...

Pathetic, I know. It was, it was Kirk Douglas in the film,

going through agonies, wasn't it? It was Vincent van Gogh.

With Kirk Douglas in the lead role.

Yup. It's the right answer.

Well, done.

Eggheads, your first question.

Who commanded the Mexican army at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836?

I think it's Santa Anna.

But if you think it's Vasco de Gama, go with it. Fair enough.

That was Santa Anna, the Mexican dictator and general.

The Mexican army, commanded at the battle of the Alamo by Santa Anna.

Correct.

So, one apiece. Last Trump, second question.

Sadie Frost split from which actor in 2003?

I think it's Jude Law. Was it the one before Sienna Miller?

Yes, yes. Well, both Jeremy and I scour the gossip magazines daily.

So we're...we're reasonably confident that it's Jude Law.

OK.

Sadie Frost from Jude Law

in 2003. It's the right answer.

So, two to you. OK, Eggheads, your second question.

Which member of the Royal Family has been given the nickname Princess Pushy?

Princess Michael of Kent. That's Princess Michael of Kent.

It is the correct answer, yeah.

Princess Michael of Kent, nicknamed Princess Pushy. So, two each.

Well, this could decide the game, these next two questions.

Last Trump, what kind of animal is Reynard, hero of the Medieval Beast Epics?

Reynard, hero of the Medieval Beast Epics.

My, my colleague here is, is definite that he knows the answer.

So, we'll go for something... No, I happen to agree with him,

so we'll go for fox.

Is the right answer, yup.

Three to you. Right, Eggheads, in the classic TV series, The Prisoner,

which character, ostensibly the village's chief administrator,

changed from episode to episode?

Definitely Number 2.

Number 6 was the prisoner himself. It's Number 2.

Different actor played it in each part.

Number 2, you think, to save it, take us to sudden death.

It's sudden death. It is Number 2.

Last Trump, Ian and Jeremy.

So, no choices, just to remind you.

Which explorer, born John Rowlands in Wales in 1841, described

his most famous journey in a book entitled Through The Dark Continent?

I'm thinking of Speke.

He was a John, wasn't he? Presumably you don't change your first name, if you change your second name.

I'm entirely in your hands. Oh, dear.

Well, I wouldn't have thought it was Mungo Park because he was Scottish. I think Scottish, yes.

You've only got a few thousand explorers to get rid off...

um...

Africa.

Go for it.

I think, well, it's the only one of I can think of. OK.

Well, we haven't got any other answer than John Speke.

John Speke.

It's the wrong answer. It's not John Speke. Right ball park, though, weren't they?

It's Stanley. Henry Morton Stanley. Henry Morton Stanley.

Henry Morton Stanley. Do we know why he changed his name?

He's supposed to have been... He adopted his surname from the man who was his, you know, foster father.

Yeah. Looking for the source of The Nile, weren't they?

Livingston had been. Stanley himself wasn't, as such.

He was looking, he was looking for Livingston and found Livingston.

But, later on, he travelled the entire length of the Congo River.

So, who did the presuming?

Well, Stanley said, "Doctor Livingston, I presume?" Yeah.

Well, there we have it. Henry Morton Stanley, not John Speke.

Eggheads, you win it if you get this.

The characters David St Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel

were members of which fictional rock group, the subject of a popular 1984 feature film?

Great film. Spinal Tap, was the group. The film was called This Is Spinal Tap.

That is everything it says here. Eggheads, that is correct.

You've won.

Well done, Last Trump. You really made a game of it there, in the end.

Ian pulled round those head to heads

after you were 3-0 down initially and won his there.

And that was very, very close indeed.

Thanks very much indeed, for playing the game today. Thanks to all the guys behind you there as well.

David, Joe and Stuart.

But it was not to be for you, Last Trump.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.

They still reign supreme over quizland.

I'm afraid you won't be going home with the ?2,000,

which means the money rolls over to our 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.

?3,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.

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