Episode 43 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 and 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 awesome

quiz champions today are the Monkeys from Lincoln.

The team are members of the Monks Road Working Men's Club where

team captain, Dennis, is the president.

-Let's meet them.

-Hello, I'm Dennis.

I'm 74 and I'm a retired salesman.

Hi, I'm Tim. I'm 31 and I'm a handyman.

Hi, I'm Stuart, I'm 33 and I work in retail.

I'm Neil, I'm 45 and I'm a factory supervisor.

Hello, I'm Gary. I'm 41 and I'm a general assistant.

Welcome, Monkeys. Dennis, shall I call you president, Mr President?

HE LAUGHS Just call me Dennis.

That will do. How long have you been president,

and do you have a fixed term?

Well, I've been president for a couple of three years now.

I was the secretary prior to that.

I retired, but I got a bit bored.

What goes on there? Quizzing, clearly.

Well, yes, quizzing, we have football teams.

We have dominoes. We have darts competitions.

We have a big concert room.

We have live acts on Saturday nights,

sometimes on Sundays and other special occasions.

So, we're always doing something.

Good to see you Monkeys.

Let me tell you what's been going on in Eggheads. Let's play.

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

If they fail to defeat the Eggheads

the prize money rolls over to the next show.

Monkeys, the Eggheads have won their last 11 games, which means £12,000

says you can't beat the Eggheads. Let's start.

This is our first head to head, chance to knock an Egghead out.

It's Food & Drink.

-Go on, Tim, you take it.

-You want me to go for it?

-Yes, please.

-I'll do it.

-We're gonna take Tim.

OK, Tim, and who would you like to play from the Eggheads?

-Any one of them you like.

-I will take on Barry.

Barry, OK. Let's have them, Tim and Egghead Barry into the question

room please to make sure you can't confer with your team-mates.

Tim, do you want to go first or second?

I would like to go first, please.

Food & Drink, Tim good luck with it.

Beluga is an expensive form of which delicacy?

Actually I know it because I actually quite like it.

Because it's on the menu at the old working men's club?

-THEY LAUGH

-I wish!

No, my girlfriend absolutely hates it, it's caviar.

-Caviar?

-Yeah.

It is indeed. Beluga caviar, well done, good start.

Barry, in which type of restaurant are breadsticks often served as an appetiser?

In which type of restaurant are breadsticks often served

-as an appetiser?

-Breadsticks are often served in Italian restaurants.

They are! That's the right answer. Well done, Barry. OK, Tim...

What is the term for a wide, deep bowl used for serving soups?

Not a strong subject for me this.

It would be a guess.

It's the only one I've heard of, which is a tureen.

I'm going to say tureen.

A tureen, is for serving soup, yeah, right answer. Well done.

Two out of two.

Barry, Olifants River

and Piketberg are wine producing regions in which country?

Olifants River and Piketberg

are wine producing regions in which country?

They're certainly not Bulgarian.

I think I know the wine producing areas in New Zealand and those

don't ring a bell, so I shall say South Africa.

Yes, it's the right answer. Well done.

Tim, in which country did the alcoholic spirit Jenever originate?

It sounds Geneva,

my geography is not up to much and I'm not sure where Geneva is.

I'm eliminating Greece.

I'm going to say the Netherlands.

OK, do you think Geneva is in the Netherlands?

-I'm not sure.

-THEY LAUGH

-Well, I think Geneva is in Switzerland.

-It's a random guess.

-But it's the right answer.

-Oh, excellent!

THEY LAUGH

In other words, just as well you didn't know where Geneva was.

Yes, just as well I didn't know where Geneva was.

You were barking up the wrong tree with that.

Barry, Pave d'Auge from the northern part of France is a type of what?

Pave d'Auge. Hmmm.

France is famous as General De Gaulle once said,

"How can I govern a country with 246 different types of cheeses?"

I'm hoping it's one of those 246 types of cheese.

Yes it is! Well done, Barry.

Well worked out. Pave d'Auge.

OK it's three all. Great quizzing from you both.

Tim, we go to sudden death now.

We're removing those choices that you've been working

so well with, especially that last answer.

Just got to tell me straight, without a look at any choices.

If you have to guess it's a lot harder.

Here you go, you won't have to guess this. For what does

the letter T stand for in TVP,

the name of a commonly used meat substitute?

It's TVP, what does the T stand for?

It's a meat substitute?

The only meat substitute I actually know is tofu.

I'd guess at tofu.

It's a good guess. It's not the right answer, Tim.

But tofu,

not unreasonable to think that.

Do you know Barry, because I'll always ask you first, you could

have had this question if Tim had put you in first.

It stands for textured vegetable protein.

Textured vegetable protein.

So nothing there for Tim, but it's not over, Tim.

Barry has to get this if he is to win the round.

Barry, what is the name taken from the French verb to preserve

for duck or other meat cooked

very slowly and stored in a pot covered in its own fat.

I didn't know that came from

a French verb to preserve, but meat stored in its own fat is a confit.

It is confit,

it's correct which means, Barry, you've won the round. Bad luck, Tim.

Good quizzing, as I said there.

Good guess at TVP. Just didn't land it,

which means Barry is in the final round and no place for you,

sorry to say. Would you both please come back and join your teams.

After that round, one Monkey down, no Eggheads gone yet.

Second round coming up.

This one is Music.

Who wants to play? Can't be Tim.

-I think that's you, Neil?

-Yeah.

-Neil.

-Yep, Neil.

OK, Neil, and which Egghead would you like to play, it can't be Barry.

Any of the other four you like?

-I think I'd like to take Chris please.

-Chris, on music, OK.

Let's have Neil and Chris into the question room then.

Neil, first or second, do you want to kick

-off or not?

-I'll go first, please.

Good luck, Neil.

First question then, what word is used to describe the speed at which

a piece of music should be played?

The clef is a sign at the start of a piece of music, I seem to

remember that from school.

I believe the pitch is the height of the tone, so I would

-think it's got to be tempo.

-Tempo?

Right answer, yes, good start.

Chris, Club Tropicana was a UK hit single in the 1980s for which duo?

I can't see it being Bros.

Surely it wasn't Erasure.

It must have been Wham! George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley.

Wham! it is, well done, Chris.

Back to you, Neil.

In 1972, Virginia Plain became the first UK hit single for which group?

I'm pleased it's a '70s question because I do quite like the '70s.

I know it wasn't 10cc.

I think it was a little early for Genesis.

I would assume it would be Roxy Music.

It's the right answer, yes, Roxy Music.

Chris, who had a UK top 40 hit single in 1975 with Stand By Me,

originally a hit for Ben E King in 1961?

It wouldn't have been John Lennon, surely.

It does sound a bit more like Elton John, so I'll say Elton John.

OK. It's not Elton John. It's John Lennon.

Stand By Me in 1975, a cover of the Ben E King song from '61.

Neil, which American singer was born Henry John Deutschendorf Junior?

I can understand why he changed his name.

It doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, does it?

I think I'll go with Pete Seiger.

OK, Henry John Deutschendorf Junior, well he kept bits of it in the name,

he kept middle name, John Denver.

OK, well, you still win if Chris doesn't get this though.

Chris, the Canticle Nunc Dimittis is also known by what other name?

Lord now let thy servant depart in peace.

It's not the Song of Solomon because that's a book of the Bible. I don't

think it's the Song of Sarah, so it's got to be the Song of Simeon.

Nunc Dimittis is also known as the Song of Simeon.

It's the right answer, Chris.

So we go to sudden death as you saw happened to Tim there, Neil.

I can't offer you any more choices to look at. Here's your question.

Which opera by Wagner set in the 13th century features

the Roman Goddess Venus and the Pope?

Right...as soon as you said the word "opera" I froze.

Not my style of music, I'm afraid.

Erm...

Tosca, how's that?

Tosca, it's an opera, not the answer though.

Our Wagner correspondent, Chris, will no doubt furnish the answer.

-It's Tannhauser.

-Tannhauser,

that's correct but no points for it because it wasn't your question.

OK, Chris, which Austrian American composer created a new method

of composition based on a row or series

of 12 turns, a method known as atonality?

That was Arnold Schoenberg.

Arnold Schoenberg is correct, Chris!

You're through to the final round.

Bad luck, Neil.

Great performance, took him all the way, but he got you in the end.

It means you won't be in the final round. Would you both please

come back and join your teams.

Monkeys as it stands now, you've lost two brains

from the final round. The Eggheads haven't lost any.

The next subject is History.

Who'd like to play this? Dennis, Stuart or Gary?

-I'm playing it.

-OK, Stuart,

who would you like to play from the Eggheads?

Chris and Barry have played so Daphne, CJ

-or Kevin?

-I'll take Kevin.

-Kevin, OK.

-Brave man.

Kevin, three times world quiz champion and Stuart

into the question room, please.

Stuart, would you like to go first or second?

I would like to go second.

OK Kevin, the Mitsubishi A6M, a single seat fighter aircraft

used to great effect by the Japanese

in World War II was commonly known to Allied forces by what other name?

It was the main fighter for the Japanese, it was called the Zero.

OK , Mitsubishi A6M, otherwise known as the Zero is correct, Kevin.

Stuart, your first question. The 1777 Battle of Brandywine occurred

during which period of conflict?

It's a bit too early for the Napoleon wars,

it was after the War of Spanish Succession, so I'm going for

the American War of Independence.

Good stuff there Stuart, it's the right answer.

Well done, American War of Independence,

the Battle of Brandywine. Kevin, second question.

Whose theological college for poor students received

the endorsement of Pope Alexander IV

in 1259 and was the core of what would become

the University of Paris?

That part is still called the Sorbon.

It's Robert de Sorbon.

Robert de Sorbon is the right answer, Kevin. Yes.

Two to you.

Stuart, from the mid-1930s to 1945,

what role did Albert Speer fulfil for Adolf Hitler?

He wasn't his speech writer.

He certainly wasn't his scientific advisor.

He was his architect for all his designs for Berlin in the future,

so I'm going for his architect.

Architect, yes! It's the right answer, well done.

Kevin, what was the code name of the war rooms located

in Dollis Hill in North London, which were an alternative meeting

place for Winston Churchill's Government during World War II?

I don't actually know this one.

But there is one of those that...

sort of jumped out at me as ringing a bell of some kind.

Of course it could be in relation to something else.

It's not Poplar. It could be Pilgrim, but I'm going to say Paddock.

-Paddock?

-Mmm.

That's the right answer! Paddock, yes.

Well you've got to get this then, Stuart.

In June 1886, who married Francis Fulsome and thus became

the first US president to have a wedding in the White House?

American presidents aren't my

best subject.

I'm going to go for William Howard Taft.

I'm afraid we have to end it.

It's not correct. It's Grover Cleveland, Stuart.

Would you have been all right with that one, Kevin? Did you know that?

-Yes.

-If you had been put in second just out of interest.

American presidents catching Stuart out, very, very strong player there.

Stuart you came up against Kevin, unfortunately,

and have come off second best. You won't be playing in the final round.

Would you both come back and join your teams.

OK well as it stands now the Monkeys have lost

three brains from the final round, the Eggheads haven't lost any.

Our last subject is Arts & Books.

Can they knock an Egghead out on this?

Can, more specifically, Dennis or Gary do it? Arts & Books.

This is going to be me. We're going keep Gary back for the last round.

-He's the strongest player on general knowledge.

-OK, all right, then.

Dennis, who would you like to play from the Eggheads?

The only two that haven't played so far are Daphne or CJ.

-I'll take CJ.

-OK, let's have President Dennis

against Egghead CJ. Into the question room, please.

Dennis, let's play Arts & Books.

Do you want to go first or second?

I'm going to get it out of the way and go first.

Good luck.

Which literary character creates a poem that starts,

"How sweet to be a cloud floating in the blue,

"every little cloud always sings aloud?"

I'm going to discount the White Rabbit,

that's from Alice in Wonderland.

Never read Winnie the Pooh, but it sounds as though it

might have been Jemima Puddle-Duck.

Its author is Winnie the Pooh.

Winnie the Pooh.

So, nothing there for Dennis.

Over to CJ. "Now I shall go to sleep, good night" were reported to

be the last words of which English poet before his death in 1824?

I'm trying to do this on the date,

I don't know the quote.

-Byron.

-Byron, "Now I shall go to sleep, good night."

It's the right answer, CJ.

You've got it. Dennis, good luck with this one.

Who wrote the 1949 novel about drug addiction,

The Man With The Golden Arm,

which was later adapted as a film starring Frank Sinatra.

I'm looking at the names and they're looking back at me

and I'm not actually filling myself with any confidence here,

but I think I'm going to go for Nelson Algren.

OK and that's the right answer, well done, Dennis.

You needed to get that.

CJ, which French painter is buried on Hiva Oa,

one of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia?

I presume it's Paul Gauguin seeing as he

lived so much of his life in Tahiti?

Gauguin, that is correct, CJ,

which means, Dennis, you need to get this right.

At the beginning of Shakespeare's Macbeth,

Macbeth returns from defeating the forces of which country?

-Yes...

-HE LAUGHS

As you can gather it's not

my strongest subject, by many a mile.

I'm leaning towards Denmark, but

something tells me I'm leaning the wrong way.

So I'm going down the middle and going for Norway.

Something told you you were leading the wrong way and you've given me

the correct answer!

Good instinct there, Dennis, but

just that shaky start has given CJ a gap here.

He can exploit it and get through to the final round if he gets this one.

Which writer won a second Booker Prize

in 1999 for the novel Disgrace?

Well, I should know this straight away and I don't.

Coetzee certainly won more than one booker.

I should be able to remember the titles and I can't, but I know

Coetzee won more than one, so I will go for JM Coetzee.

JM Coetzee is correct CJ. You're through to the final round.

Dennis, you were just getting into your stride there.

We bid the President farewell. Thanks for playing,

but you're not in the final round.

Would you please come back and join your teams.

This is what we've been playing towards. Time for the 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.

Dennis, Tim, Stuart, and Neil from the Monkeys,

would you leave the studio please.

So Gary, you're playing to win the Monkeys £12,000. Kevin, CJ, Daphne,

Chris and Barry 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.

You are allowed to confer.

Gary, the question is, is your one brain

better than the Eggheads' five?

-Do you want to go first or second?

-I'll go first, please.

First question, good luck.

Odie is the name of a pet dog in which American comic strip?

Erm, it's not Peanuts, I'm sure it's not Peanuts.

I'm sure it's Garfield.

I'm going to go for Garfield.

Garfield, it's not a common comic strip in this country, is it?

There's been a film, have you seen the film?

-No.

-No.

It's the right answer anyway.

Odie is in Garfield.

So Eggheads in which city is Robert Gordon University based?

In which city is Robert Gordon University based?

That's Aberdeen.

Aberdeen? It's the right answer.

Yes Eggheads, one to you.

Back to you then, Gary. In which 1950 film does the character

Lin McAdam, played by James Stewart,

shoot a stamp attached to a coin during a competition?

Westerns, erm...

-Not keen on Westerns?

-No.

If my dad was here, he was the reserve, it would be him.

His favourite subject. But I've got a feeling it's Winchester 73.

Is that your answer?

It's a pure guess.

Yeah, Winchester 73.

It's the right answer, Gary! It is correct. Well done.

Something must have stuck there.

-Winchester 73 is a gun.

-A rifle.

-I think that's what it must have been.

-That's it, well worked out.

Eggheads, you're behind.

The Gordon Bennett Cup, first held in 1906,

is an event in which activity?

The Gordon Bennett Cup, first held in 1906,

is an event in which activity?

That's hot air ballooning, Dermot.

That is correct, Eggheads. Do they call it the Gordon Bennett Cup

because when you get up so high you look out and say "Gordon Bennett?"

No Gordon Bennett was a newspaper proprietor who put the money up.

OK.

Gordon Bennett Cup, hot air ballooning, so it's two-all.

Gary, you've got to the point at which you win the game if you get

this correct and the Eggheads get their third one incorrect.

So it could be worth a lot of money this question. Here it is.

What two words are used in marching to describe the alignment of one

person with the person to the side and their alignment

with the person in front?

What two words are used in marching to describe the alignment

of one person with the person to the side and their alignment

with the person in front?

There are the choices.

I should know this, I was in the Army cadets for a while.

You must have done your fair share of marching.

Yeah, they did.

Chain and border, don't sound right.

Flank and ladder..

Well, I've got a feeling it's dress and cover.

-Is that your answer?

-Yes. I'm going to go for that.

Something stuck there from Winchester 73, something stuck here

again from all that marching, dress and cover is correct!

Gary, great performance.

Well, Eggheads,

Gary gets the money, the Monkeys get the money if you don't get this.

In the game of Scrabble, what is the term for when a player uses all

seven of their letters in one go, thus earning an extra 50 points?

In the game of Scrabble what is the term for when a player uses all

seven of their letters in one go, thus earning an extra 50 points.

-There's only one Scrabble term there.

-Yeah, OK.

-Bingo.

-Bingo is the right answer, Eggheads.

So you're not saying bingo yet, Gary, but we go to sudden

death as you saw your friends go to in those head to heads they played.

So here you go. Your question, which French term translates as

black beast and refers to someone or something that is strongly detested?

French for black is noir. Beast?

I'm getting the French for black, noir,

but nothing is going with it.

-HE SIGHS

-Somebody strongly detested.

Someone or something that is strongly detested.

I really can't think of anything other than

malaprop, so I'm going for that, I don't know why.

OK, malaprop, I see you getting mal, yeah,

bad, but it's not the right answer, Gary.

It is bete noire.

Bete noire. Direct translation.

Beast - bete, noire - black.

But, listen, it's not over, the Eggheads HAVE to get this correct

to win the game. If not we play on.

Eggheads when given to a member of the Army, the Medal of Honour,

the foremost US military decoration, comprises in part a bronze star,

suspended from a bar bearing what word?

Is it silence?

The V on the Victoria Cross is for Valour.

It's one word.

The VC stands for valour, I can't think of anything else,

so we'll just say valour, spelt the American way of course.

THEY CONFER

I honestly don't know.

We'll go for that.

We will go for valour.

It's the right answer, Eggheads. You've won.

Oh! Sorry.

Talking of medals, doesn't Gary deserve one for that performance?

So, so close. Three out of three,

into sudden death and just went blank there really on bete noire.

Gary, hold your head very, very high, sir.

You played really, really well, as did the other Monkeys.

There were some great head-to-heads there from all the guys there in

actual fact. It just didn't go for you on the day. Thanks very much

for coming down to tell us all about the Monks Road Working Men's Club.

You'll let us in at the door if we're not members

if we're passing through Lincoln?

Yeah my dad's on the door, he's the doorman.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.

Their winning streak continues. I'm afraid you won't be going home

with the £12,000, which means the money rolls over to the next show.

Eggheads congratulations, who will beat you?

Do join us next time to see if a new team of challengers have the brains

to defeat the Eggheads, £13,000 says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.

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