Episode 47 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 have won some of the country's toughest quiz shows.

They are the Eggheads. And taking on our quiz champions today

are The Fir Trees 5 from County Tyrone.

The team quiz together each week at the Fir Trees Hotel in Strabane

where team member Mickey sets the quiz. Let's meet them.

Hello, my name is Paddy.

I am 39 and I'm a retail salesman.

Hello, my name is Mickey. I am 45 and a driving test examiner.

Hello, my name is Daryl. I'm 21 and I'm a software engineer.

Hello, I am Sean. I'm 43 and I'm a civil servant.

Hi, my name is Declan. I'm 48 and I'm a storeman in a coffin factory.

Well, welcome to you, Fir Trees 5.

It sounds like a kind of rather not very good tribute band, or something like that.

No, of course you're very good.

The Fir Trees, is it more of a bar than a hotel, or do they take paying guests?

It is a hotel, so it is. It has guests, yeah, and then each Thursday night we all attend the quiz.

Mickey, he's the quiz master.

So, we go up and, hopefully, he gives us some answers!

The other way round.

I'm sure he doesn't. I am sure it's as well policed as Eggheads is.

-How do you do in it, the quiz?

-Aye, not too bad. We do all right.

We've won the odd case of beer. Every now and then.

Strabane is part of the world I know. The Murnaghans come from around there.

There are Murnaghans in Strabane.

Yeah, Walter Murnaghan was a solicitor in Strabane for years.

Well, listen, no quarter given here, I'm afraid.

Strictly impartial.

Now, every day there is £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, Fir Trees 5, the Eggheads have won the last 15 games

which means £16,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

It's more than a few cases of beer, there!

THEY LAUGH

OK, the first head-to-head battle is going to be on the subject of music.

Any one of you can play. Who would like to play and take on?

-Music.

-Who do you want to go?

-I think I can go for that.

-Aye.

Aye, you go then.

-I will go for that one, Dermot.

-OK, Mickey. Question-setter Mickey.

Who would you like to play? Any one of them.

-I will take on Judith.

-Judith.

To make sure you can't confer with your team-mates,

would you take your positions in the question room?

So, Mickey, what's your favourite type of music?

Mostly late '70s, early '80s.

You are talking post-punk rock bands, in and around there.

-Well, let's see if any of them come up. First or second set of questions for you, Mickey?

-I'll go first.

OK, good luck. Here you go.

Who replaced Pete Best in the Beatles line up in the early 1960s?

It definitely wasn't John Lennon

because John Lennon was one of the founder members, if not the first.

I think he met up with Paul McCartney.

Then George Harrison joined after that.

So, Ringo Starr was the last one to leave...

Or the last one to join, so I will go for Ringo Starr.

Ringo Starr replaced Pete Best

is the right answer. Yes, well done.

Good start, Mickey.

OK, Judith, first question.

Tina Barrett and Bradley McIntosh were members of which pop group?

I don't think it's Hear'Say.

I think it's S Club 7.

S Club 7...

..is the right answer and a good start for Judith.

Back to Mickey for a second question.

Mickey, White On Blonde was a UK number one album

in 1997 for which group?

It wasn't U2. I think I know all the U2 albums and White On Blonde

was not one of theirs. So, it's either Beautiful South or Texas.

-I will go for Texas, Dermot.

-Texas.

White On Blonde was a UK number one album in 1997 for Texas.

That is correct, Mickey. Two for you.

Judith, second question.

What name is traditionally given

to the musical part of the liturgy of the Catholic Church?

Well, Evensong is a service and it's an Anglican service.

In the Catholic Church, you said. Swansong, I mean, is... I mean

it's... The swansong is the last thing you do, isn't it?

So, it must be Plainsong.

Is correct. Well, done, Judith. Well, worked out.

Two-all. OK, Mickey, third question.

The Walt Disney Concert Hall

is home to the Philharmonic Orchestra of which US city?

Disney.

I don't think Disney had any connection with San Francisco.

I am inclined to go for Los Angeles because of...

Disneyland in Los Angeles, so I will plump for Los Angeles.

OK the Philharmonic Orchestra of...

Los Angeles, yes! The Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Work it out, the film connection, of course.

OK, Judith, which punk band's 1970s' hits included

Hurry Up Harry and If The Kids Are United?

I have no idea.

Sham 69.

-Are you keen on your punk?

-No.

I don't know a thing about it.

You do now. Sham 69, Hurry Up Harry and Kids Are United

are amongst their hits. It's the right answer.

Landed a lucky one there, Judith.

And we go to sudden death, Mickey.

You know what that means, I have got to hear an answer from you. This is your question.

Which Oasis song

did the rapper Jay Z famously sing at Glastonbury in 2008?

It's not the big combination now, Jay Z and Oasis.

Oasis...

probably their most famous song, I will go for it, maybe.

Wonderwall.

Wonderwall will be the answer.

Wonderwall...

is the right answer, Mickey.

Well, you've got to get this Judith.

The music to the classic songs Smoke Gets In Your Eyes and A Fine Romance

was written by which composer?

I don't know.

I suppose it's probably Cole Porter or Jerome Kern or Irving Berlin or...

I'm going to say Jerome Kern.

Jerome Kern?

It's Jerome Kern!

It's the right answer. Well done, Judith.

You worked that one out.

Mickey, right, I wonder if you know this given your love of post punk?

Here you go. Mike Score was the lead vocalist

with which group that had a UK top 10 hit single in 1982

with Wishing If I Had A Photograph Of You?

Yes, I think I know this one.

This is the guy with the funny hairstyle.

What, CJ?

No, it was worse than that.

-A Flock Of Seagulls.

-It must have been bad!

-A Flock Of Seagulls.

-A Flock Of Seagulls. I remember it.

It's kind of... A bit like the upturned wing on a 747, wasn't it?

-Correct. Yeah, yeah.

-A Flock Of Seagulls, right answer.

CONTESTANTS APPLAUD

OK. Well, Judith, you've got to get this.

Put On Your Sunday Clothes and Ribbons Down My Back

are songs from which musical of stage and screen?

Umm...

Put On Your Sunday Clothes...

Umm...

-Annie.

-To stay in it.

-Annie.

-Coming up with Annie.

Put On Your Sunday Clothes and Ribbons Down My Back.

That's the wrong answer.

-Other Eggheads?

-Hello, Dolly!

-Hello, Dolly!

Hello Dolly! which means hello, Mickey,

you are playing in the final round for £16,000. Well done.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

So, as it stands after that,

The Fir Trees 5 haven't lost any brains from the final round.

The Eggheads have lost one. We go to our second round today.

This one's science, who'd like to play?

It can't be Mickey. Any of the other four Fir Trees 5.

Do you want to go or do you want me to go?

-I would have a stab at it.

-Science.

-I'll have a blatter. I'll have a go.

You seem keen, Sean.

OK, who do want to play from the Eggheads? It can't be Judith.

-We'll try Barry.

-Try Barry out on science. Chomping at the bit there, Sean.

Into the question room, please.

Sean, would you like to go first or second?

I think I'll go first, Dermot.

OK, Sean, it's science. First question is yours.

What collective name is given to the branch of very large herbivorous

dinosaurs such as the Brachiosaurus or Diplodocus?

Well, I've seen Jurassic Park

and I know the raptors are the wee small boys that do all the fighting.

I think a Ceratops

has humps or things on its back, so I am going to try a Sauropod.

Sauropod, a herbivorous dinosaur and the rest of it...

the right answer, yes! Good start.

Barry, Pinus sylvestris is the scientific name for which tree,

one of the most widely distributed conifers in Europe?

Well, of those three

I'm sure the Scots Pine is the most widely distributed,

so that will be my answer, the Scots Pine.

The Scots Pine, Pinus sylvestris, is correct.

One each. Sean, second question.

Which light-sensitive cells in the human retina

are associated with perception of colour and fine detail?

I don't know this one, but I'm not sure if it's cones.

Rods, I don't think there are any rods in your eyes,

so I am going to try domes because of the light aspect of domes.

OK, domes.

They are called...

cones.

-Close.

-Oh, well.

A chance for Barry, then. Barry, in 1959 the Soviet satellite Lunik 3

took the first pictures of what?

If I am not mistaken there was an album by Pink Floyd with this title,

but it was the far side of the Moon.

Lunik 3 took the first pictures of the far side of the Moon.

That is correct.

-<

-It was Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd.

CJ is just correcting you,

the Dark Side Of The Moon for Pink Floyd.

But that was not the question.

So, it means you have got to get this, Sean.

Spy hopping and tail slapping

are behaviours associated with which type of creatures?

I don't think it's a vulture,

nor a kangaroo, but I have seen whales on those natural programs,

whales slapping their tails when they go underwater,

so I am going to try for whales.

Whales. I have seen that slapping.

It's the right answer. Yes, well done.

Barry, here's your next question.

"How extremely stupid not to have thought of that,"

were the words of the English scientist TH Huxley

on reading which publication?

Well, TH Huxley is always associated with Darwin

because he was known as Darwin's Bulldog,

so on that basis I will say On The Origin Of Species.

Darwin's Bulldog. That's the link.

It's given you the right answer. Well done.

Well, there we are, TH Huxley, On The Origin Of The Species,

"How extremely stupid not to have thought of that."

The Eggheads say that when they get a question wrong.

That means, Barry, you are through to the final through. No place for you, Sean. Just the one wrong there.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

As it stands, both teams now lost one brain from the final round. Let's play our third head-to-head.

This one is film and television

and who would like to play from the Fir Trees 5?

Go on ahead.

Dermot, I would like to play.

OK, Paddy. Who would you like to play from the Eggheads?

Barry and Judith have played, so Kevin, CJ or Daphne?

I think we would like to try Daphne.

OK. Paddy will play Daphne on film and television.

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

OK. Now listen, Paddy, do you want to go first or second?

-With the rest of the boys going first, I'll go first also.

-OK.

Film and television, first question.

Who was the regular presenter of the long-running TV quiz show 15 To 1?

Well, Bamber Gascoigne I can remember from University Challenge.

Jim Bowen was famous for years for doing Bullseye.

And I would say that William G Stewart

would have been the presenter of 15 To 1.

-That's my answer.

-Is he right, Daphne?

Oh, he is.

How many times were you on it?

I did seven straight series.

I had the second-highest score ever, which actually is on YouTube now.

Well, the answer is of course William G Stewart

presented the long-running 15 To 1.

Daphne, first question. Who played the title character

in the 2001 film Donnie Darko?

Oh, dear. I expect CJ knows.

Come on, give me some vibes, CJ! Oh.

Jake Gyllenhaal.

Has his head hit the desk?

-No, he is grinning like a monkey.

-Is he?

-Yeah.

-Is it right?

It's the right answer. Jake Gyllenhaal.

OK. Well, it's all square. Paddy, second question.

Natalya Simonova and Xenia Onatopp

are the names of Bond girls in which 007 film?

Right.

It's not Casino Royale, which just was released in the last few years.

I don't think it's Licence To Kill.

I'm nearly sure that Pierce Brosnan in GoldenEye,

it's a Russian name, so I am nearly sure it's GoldenEye.

-I'll go for GoldenEye.

-OK, GoldenEye.

That's correct! Well done! Well worked out there. Two to you.

"Nice planet. We'll take it!"

is the tagline for which science fiction film?

Again, I've got no idea.

I mean... Oh, crumbs.

Come on CJ, work it again!

Men in Black.

OK, Men In Black.

I don't know.

I was beginning to worry if there was some kind of physic link

I was going to get you a lead-lined question room IF you got that,

-but you didn't.

-Oh. Mars Attacks?

It's not Men In Black, it's Mars Attacks.

Mars Attacks, "Nice planet. "We'll take it!"

Well, you can take the round then, Paddy,

if you just give me a correct answer here.

Agnes DiPesto and Herbert Viola were regular characters

in which US TV series?

I do know this one, simply because I met Curtis Armstrong,

the actor that plays your man.

It was a Moonlighting, so it was.

-How did you meet Curtis Armstrong?

-I just happened to be in Florida

one time just at Disney and just he was on a boat beside us,

and I happened to meet him.

So, that's why I always knew Curtis Armstrong, and it was Moonlighting.

That's like one of those Egghead coincidences,

they store away the knowledge.

You stored it away and stored a place in the final round.

It's the right answer.

You are playing for £16,000 today, Paddy.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, Fir Trees 5, you are grinding those Eggheads down.

It's guaranteed to be at least all-square in the final round.

This last head-to-head before that final round

might tip the balance in your favour.

It's geography and who'd like to play, Daryl or Declan?

-Well, we're going to take Declan.

-OK, Declan.

And I know you know who is available there, it's CJ or Kevin.

-What do you think?

-We'll try CJ.

-CJ, please.

OK, let's have Declan and CJ into the question room, please.

OK, Declan, how do you want to play this?

Do you want to go first or do you want to let CJ begin?

Well, the rest of the team's went first,

so I'll go first as well, please.

This is your first question. Good luck with it.

The administrative district of Thanet

lies within which English county?

It will have to be a pure guess here because

English counties would not be our strong subject, obviously,

not coming from England.

So, I don't think it's Norfolk anyway.

So, I am torn between Kent or East Sussex. So, I'll go for Kent.

Not your strong suit, as you said there, English counties,

but you've got it! Kent is correct.

CJ, here is your first question.

The Gulf of Guinea is part of which larger body of water?

I think that's off the west coast of Africa,

so it would be the Atlantic Ocean.

It would be, is the right answer.

There was just a moment there when I thought,

is CJ going to struggle with that?

No, it's far enough away from wherever you live.

The further away the better.

OK. Declan. Bundaberg and Rockhampton are coastal towns

in which Australian state?

Have you been to Australia?

My sister'll kill me. She's married to an Australian.

-Does she live there?

-She lived there for a few years.

Rockhampton...

Bundaberg and Rockhampton.

I don't think it's Tasmania. So, I will have a stab at Queensland.

And where is your brother-in-law from?

He's from a place called Echuca.

Where's that?

It's in the centre of Australia somewhere.

It's Queensland, it's the right answer!

Bundaberg and Rockhampton.

OK. CJ, which Spanish city's main airport is also known as El Prat?

Spell El Prat, please?

El and then another word, P.R.A.T.

Well, I've never heard this.

I'm going to make try to...

make some attempt to work it out.

Well, I have been to Madrid and Barcelona...

..and the problem is I can't remember what the airports were called,

but I don't think it's anything relating to that,

but I don't think it's Seville. This is the problem!

It's Barcelona.

Well, stat me! So it is. It's the right answer.

El Prat de Llobregat is, of course, the nearest town to the airport,

somewhere outside Barcelona. OK.

Declan, the fishing ground

known as Grand Banks is located off the coast of which country?

I don't think it's Scotland or New Zealand.

I've heard vaguely of something, Banks around Canada.

So, I will have to go for Canada.

Canada is correct!

Well done, Declan.

So, three out of three. CJ has got to get this.

CJ, Inchon, Pusan and Taejeon are all cities in which Asian country?

Oh, come on.

I know Inchon and Pusan. Come on!

What is wrong with my brain today?

Don't answer that!

Cambodia.

It's South Korea, CJ.

Great news for The Fir Trees 5 and, of course, for Declan.

You are through to the final round, Declan, playing for the money with your teammates.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

It is now what we have been playing towards.

It's time for the final round which, as always, is general knowledge.

Those of you who lost your head-to-heads

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

Sean from The Fir Trees 5, Judith, CJ and Daphne from the Eggheads,

would you leave the studio now, please?

So, Paddy, Mickey, Daryl and Declan, you are playing to win The Fir Trees 5 £16,000.

Barry and Kevin,

you're paying for something money can't buy, the Eggheads' reputation.

I will ask each team three questions in turn.

The questions are all general knowledge and you are allowed to confer.

Fir Trees 5, the question is, are your four brains better than the Eggheads' two?

Fir Trees 5, would you like to go first?

I think we'll go first. Will we, yeah?

I think because we've went first, Dermot, we'll go first.

Best of luck to you, Fir Trees 5.

The abbreviation CBI stands for at the Confederation of British what?

The abbreviation CBI stands for the Confederation of British what?

Paddy, what do you think?

-It's industry, yeah.

-It is industry.

-It's industry so it is, yeah.

CBI, yeah.

Dermot, I do know the answer.

It is the Confederation of British Industry, so industry is the answer.

CBI is the Confederation of British Industry, correct. Good start.

Eggheads, which comedian used the catchphrase "Rock on, Tommy!"

-It was Bobby Ball.

-Bobby Ball.

It was Bobby Ball of the inimitable Cannon and Ball.

Yeah. Bobby Ball, "Rock on, Tommy!"

There we go, it's one-all.

Fir Trees 5, Reg Gutteridge was a renowned former

TV commentator on which sport?

Reg Gutteridge was a renowned former TV commentator on which sport?

-It was ITV boxing.

-What are the other two?

-Football...

-Or cricket.

It's definitely not cricket. There's not...

-Boxing?

-And football is your obvious...

-We would know the football.

-You're happy enough with the boxing?

Dermot, we think the answer is boxing.

Reg Gutteridge, commentator...

..boxing is the right answer!

Well, done, Fir Trees 5. Two to you.

Eggheads, which post-war Home Secretary is sometimes called

the architect of the permissive society

due to the radical social reforms of his tenure?

It's not Whitelaw, obviously. It's one of the ones from the '60s.

-Roy Jenkins?

-Was my first thought before the choices came up,

but Callaghan was also Home Secretary in the '60s as well.

I mean, we both thought Jenkins.

I think Jenkins seems the more obvious choice.

-Yeah, yeah.

-Although you are right about Callaghan.

Yeah, I think we will go...

OK. Well, both... It's not Willie Whitelaw.

Both Roy Jenkins and Jim Callaghan were Home Secretaries

in the Wilson Government in the '60s,

permissive society and all of that.

We think of the two, our instinct, both our instincts,

were for Roy Jenkins, so we'll go for Roy Jenkins.

Roy Jenkins...

is the correct answer, Eggheads.

You've worked it out.

Two-all. OK.

Next question for you, Fir Trees 5.

The Swing, the well-known painting

in the Wallace Collection in London of a girl in a pink dress swinging

high up over a young nobleman is by which French Rococo painter?

Well, the only one that I have heard of is Eugene Delacroix.

-I don't know whether he...

-Who?

-Eugene Delacroix.

-Yeah. You are happy enough them, yeah?

None of us are quite sure on the answer, Dermot,

but we're going to go with Eugene Delacroix.

OK. Delacroix, The Swing.

Young girl in a pink dress swinging high above

a young nobleman is by...

..Fragonard.

Jean Honore Fragonard.

Are you familiar with the painting, Eggheads?

It's one of my favourite paintings.

Absolutely exquisite work.

Fantastic quality of detail.

OK. Just checking if you would have got it if you had been put in first,

but clearly would have done.

Eggheads, The Phantoms Of Paradise,

Childhood's End and Rendezvous With Rama are novels by which writer?

The Phantoms Of Paradise,

Childhood's End and Rendezvous With Rama are novels by which writer?

The, well, still relatively recently deceased Arthur C Clarke.

Arthur C Clarke is the right answer, Eggheads, you have won!

Well played, Fir Trees 5.

It just shows the four of you sitting there how well you did

in those head-to-heads. Really put the game to the Eggheads there,

but they buckled down, dug in

and fought back in the final round and kept that record going.

Thank you very much for playing Eggheads today, Fir Trees 5.

-Thank you.

-The Eggheads have done what comes naturally and their winning streak continues.

You won't be going home with the £16,000, 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

have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

£17,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.

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