Episode 49 Eggheads

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're the Eggheads.

Challenging our resident quiz champions today are

Nutters With Putters.

The team are all professional mini golf players who met whilst playing

and touring with the British Mini Golf Association. Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Richard, I'm 28 and a project co-ordinator.

Hi, I'm Tim, I'm 48,

I'm a professional crazy golfer and author.

Hi, I'm Andy, I'm 44 and a musician.

Hi, I'm Sean, I'm 41 and a resources manager.

Hi, I'm Chris, I'm 45 and a retail manager.

Well, Nutters With Putters.

Mini golf, I shouldn't laugh, it's a serious business.

-This is crazy golf, is it?

-Crazy golf, mini golf, yeah.

It's a professional sport that we all play.

We tour around the country playing in a number of tournaments.

The World Crazy Golf Championships, British Championships.

We've travelled abroad to Finland to play in the Nations Cup.

You play against a lot of other countries?

I thought it was specific to seaside towns in this country.

There are different types of courses.

Yeah, in Europe there are different types of courses.

They were invented, I think, in the '50s?

Yeah, in the '50s.

An awful lot of thought goes into the design of these courses, then?

A heck of a lot.

I've had the opportunity to design a couple of holes.

There's an awful lot of engineering that goes on to make up a course.

People invest a lot of money

and it's a very big industry in the UK.

Listen, Nutters, let's play Eggheads now.

Every day there's £1,000 up for grabs for our Challengers.

However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,

the prize money rolls over to the next show.

Nutters With Putters, the Eggheads have won

the last 17 games, which means £18,000 says

you can't beat the Eggheads.

The first head-to-head battle

will be on the subject of Film & Television.

Any one of you can play in the first round, it's a blank sheet.

-Who'd like to take this on?

-I think it's got to be...

Unbeaten in I don't know how many years at Film & TV?

I'll take that.

Sean, and any Egghead you'd like?

-Who do you think?

-Who do you think?

Chris?

-OK.

-OK. I'll take on Chris.

-OK, let's have Sean and Chris

into the Question Room, please -

Sean, just to make sure you can't confer with the other Nutters.

Sean, how did you get into mini golf?

The first time I heard of the British Mini Golf Association,

I was playing an online mini golf game,

which I got addicted to in an office I was working in,

with some colleagues.

I found this link for the British Mini Golf Association and entered

the World Crazy Golf Championships, just so we could say we'd competed

in a World Championship.

It's Film & Television and you get to choose -

do you want to start or let Chris begin?

I'll go first, please, Dermot.

The first set of questions are yours, Sean.

What was the name of the character played by Ross Kemp in EastEnders?

Right, erm...

EastEnders, not my favourite of TV programmes.

I'm gonna go for...Grant Mitchell.

It is Grant. It's the right answer.

OK, Chris. Which 1994 film was nominated for seven Oscars

including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor,

but ended up winning absolutely nothing

as Forrest Gump swept the board?

Ooh.

Well, it wouldn't be Braveheart. That's a total travesty.

I think there was a major scandal

because Schindler's List was overlooked,

so I'll say Schindler's List.

Is that right, Eggheads?

-No.

-Shawshank Redemption.

It's the Shawshank Redemption.

That's a prison film, isn't it?

Along with The Godfather,

it's usually ranked as one of the best films of all time.

A very, very good start for Sean.

Sean's second question: Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin

regularly battled which evil organisation in

the 1960s TV series The Man From UNCLE?

Right. Now, I have seen The Man From UNCLE.

SPARROW doesn't seem like a particularly...

evil name, if you're gonna try and overthrow the world.

I think I'm gonna go for WREN.

OK, the men from UNCLE battled WREN?

No, they didn't.

Nor SPARROW, you're right about that. It's THRUSH.

Sean, slipping up there but may hold on to the lead

if Chris doesn't get this.

Which actor played the title role in the US TV series MacGyver?

Saving the world with a paperclip

and an elastic band, it was Richard Dean Anderson.

What's it, kind of '70s, '80s?

-'70s, '80s, yeah.

-OK, well, there we are.

Richard Dean Anderson.

That leaves it all square. You've both got one incorrect.

Sean, which actress won an Oscar for playing Billy Kwan

in the 1982 film The Year Of Living Dangerously?

Right. I know it's not...Linda Blair.

-I'm a pretty sure it's Linda Hunt.

-You're right. Linda Hunt.

Well worked out there.

The right answer, well done, Sean.

Chris, each episode of which US TV series, first broadcast in 1977,

started with the line, "This is the story of two sisters,

"Jessica Tate and Mary Campbell."

The Tates and the Campbells were the two clans in Soap.

Soap it is, that's the right answer.

It's 2-2, we go to Sudden Death and take those choices away.

Just got to hear an answer from you.

No multiple choice.

Which Australian comedian plays Dame Edna Everage?

Barry Humphries.

Barry Humphries it is, yes.

Right answer, well done.

Chris, in which decade was the TV series Doctor Who first broadcast?

'60s. 1963.

That's right.

Both successful with your first Sudden Death questions.

Another one for Sean. "Miss Honey and Miss Galore

"have James Bond back for more,"

was the tag line to which 1964 Bond film?

I'm gonna go Goldfinger.

OK, Pussy Galore is in Goldfinger, yeah.

It's the right answer.

It means Chris has to get this to keep the game alive.

Who was the regular chairman of the TV show Question Time

between 1979 and 1989, after which he was replaced by Peter Sissons?

Was it not David Dimbleby?

-Is that your answer?

-Yeah. David Dimbleby.

-No, Chris, it's Robin Day.

-Oh. He of the bow tie, yeah.

Yes, now I tell you, Robin Day. Great news, Sean.

It means you'll be playing in the final round for £18,000.

Both come and join your teams.

Nutters With Putters have knocked an Egghead out.

We'll play another round.

This one is History. Who'd like to play this?

It can't be Sean, he's already booked his place in the final round.

How'd you feel about it, Andy?

Oh, yeah, I'll be going but with whom? Who do you think?

-So, it's you? All right, OK? Are you sure.

-Who else is good on history?

Who's not good on history?

You're good enough to beat anyone on that team.

So let's go for someone...

-Daphne?

-Could be.

-OK.

-Daphne.

Decided to go for Daphne.

Let's have Andy and Daphne into the Question Room, please.

Do you wanna go first or second?

I will carry on with Sean's trail and carry on with first, please.

Here's your question. Good luck, Andy.

According to the famous though probably apocryphal story,

which historical figure laid down his cloak

so that Elizabeth I wouldn't get her feet muddy?

Looking at the answers, I'm gonna immediately remove

Francis Walsingham.

I think it was Walter Raleigh,

and that's my answer.

Water Raleigh is the right answer, well done.

Daphne, first question.

During which period of conflict did the Battle of Stalingrad take place?

It was World War II.

Stalingrad, yes, World War II, that is correct.

Back to you, Andy, for a second question.

Alfonso XIII was the ruler of which

European country from 1886 until 1931, when it became a republic?

Alfonso makes me think of Spain straight away,

but I'll have a good think about this.

I'd certainly immediately get rid of France.

Might not be the right thing to do.

I'm thinking of when Mussolini took over in Italy.

I have a feeling that was before then. I'd go for Spain,

that's my answer.

OK, it's the right answer.

OK, two to Andy. Here's your second question, Daphne.

In which year did Stephen,

the last Norman King of England, die,

and Henry II ascend to the throne?

1154.

It's the right answer, well done. They know their dates.

Andy, another question for you.

The Confederate States Of America,

who fought against the north in the American Civil War

were comprised of how many southern states?

I'll have a very big think about this.

No real logic to this, I'm afraid.

I will go for 11.

And you've got the right answer, Andy!

11 has given you three.

OK, well, Daphne, this happened to you before.

-I know!

-Here you are.

In the 1260s, when Marco Polo was a young boy,

his father and uncle became ambassadors to the Pope for whom?

That's an interesting question.

It is, isn't it?

It's Kublai Khan.

It's the right answer. Kublai Khan.

-Oh, I...

-You've got it.

We go to Sudden Death again, as you saw, Andy, with Sean.

The multiple choice element now disappears. Your question is this:

The sinking of the Battleship Maine in 1898 sparked which conflict?

1898?

I'm struggling to think of a conflict around there at all.

The Battle of Jenkins' Ear, and I know that's wrong.

Do you know, Daphne?

Yes, it was the Spanish-American War.

Apparently the Maine blew up in the harbour, I think it was Havana,

and the Americans blamed the Spanish, started the war,

and it probably was just a tragic accident.

Out of interest, Daphne did know it

if she'd had the first set of questions, but she didn't.

It hasn't won the game for you,

this will if you give me the correct answer.

Which military engagement took place at a town named after the wife

of the 19th century Governor of Cape Colony, Sir Harry Smith?

Was that the Siege Of Ladysmith?

Yes it was, Harry Smith, wife, Lady Smith.

The Siege Of Ladysmith, the Battle Of Ladysmith is the right answer.

Bad luck, Andy, really good attempt

but as you knew, up against a very good player in this category.

Would you please come back and join your teams?

As it stands now it's all square, both teams have lost

one brain from the final round.

Nutters With Putters, another chance to

eject an Egghead with this one, Sport,

which I'm sure many of you will enjoy.

-Richard, Tim or Chris?

-That will be me, Dermot.

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

Kevin, CJ or Barry?

I'd be tempted to play CJ.

-I think CJ.

-Shall we go for CJ?

-Will it be too easy?

-We'll see. We'll go for CJ.

Gonna be CJ. Let's have Chris and CJ

-in the Question Room.

-Good luck.

-Chris, do you wanna go first or second?

-First, please, Dermot.

OK, good luck, it's Sport, this is your question.

In which country was the heavyweight world champion boxer

Larry Holmes born in 1949?

OK. Well, I don't know many Brazilian boxers so I'll rule that one out.

I don't think he's English, I'm fairly certain he's USA for America.

Larry Holmes, very American.

It's the right answer, yes.

-Born in the USA. CJ.

-What?

You love this. Which footballer who joined Chelsea...

they're a football club...

Which footballer who joined Chelsea in 2006

has lost a European Championships final

and two Champions League finals during his career

and was part of the squad that were beaten in the 2002 World Cup final?

Well...

I'll ignore the rest of that burble you droned on about.

Lampard's English, didn't reach the final of the World Cup.

Didier...

-that chap.

-Drog-ba.

That's the one, yeah. Is he the one who's Ivory Coast?

But Ballack's German.

And I hope that Germany were the losing finalists in the World Cup,

cos I don't think it was an African country or England,

so I'll go for Michael Ballack.

And it's the right answer. Michael Ballack.

So, CJ got that.

There was a lot of information in that question

and he grasped at the one he knew and got the right answer.

So, Chris, second question for you.

Which cricketer who retired in 2001 was dismissed for nought

on a world record 43 occasions during his Test match career?

Sounds like my career in cricket as well!

I think it's around the time Courtney Walsh retired, so I'll pick him.

Courtney Walsh.

It's the right answer.

Still a glorious career.

CJ, second question for you.

The Stormers are a Super 14 rugby union team from which country?

I couldn't begin to have the briefest glimpse of any clue.

OK, it's a one in three blind guess.

Um...

It's the South Africa Stormers.

It's not the South Africa Stormers but they are from South Africa.

Your guess is the right answer.

Lucky, lucky CJ.

OK, Chris, by how many strokes did Tiger Woods win his first US Masters

in 1997, setting a record for the winning margin?

I seem to remember it was quite a few shots, but which one of those...

I'm going to go for 12.

OK. The biggest one. A large margin.

And it's the right answer. Well done, Chris!

12 shots he won by.

You've got to get this, then, CJ, as you well know.

Which American athlete broke the 400 metres world record

in the 1968 Olympic Games in a time

that remained unbeaten for almost 20 years?

I don't know but it's too early for Butch Reynolds.

I have not heard of Lee Evans and that's the one that's annoying me.

I've heard of Quincy Watts

and there's just something nagging me, saying he is later than that.

I think Quincy Watts

is a 400 metres runner, and did run the relay as well,

so I think he's later.

I'm going to have to go for the one I haven't heard of, Lee Evans.

It's the right answer, CJ, and well worked out.

So, every round so far going to Sudden Death.

This is your question, Chris.

In which sport did the Hungarian Karoly Takacs

win two Olympic gold medals

despite having had his right hand completely shattered

by a defective grenade in 1938?

OK. I'm guessing the hand mention...

It might be something to do with throwing with his other hand.

So, I'm going to have to go with one of the field sports.

I shall go for the javelin.

Obviously the hand is involved, but it's shooting.

He lost his right hand and learnt to use his left.

He then became an Olympic champion.

CJ, who became the top try-scorer in Rugby World Cup history in 1999

when he scored his 15th try?

I haven't got a clue. Jonah Lomu.

The answer is Jonah Lomu.

It's correct, CJ!

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

CJ, you will be playing in the final round.

Would you both please join your teams.

Two Nutters With Putters will be missing from the final round.

One Egghead is gone. Let's play our last head-to-head

before that final round.

This one is Food & Drink and Richard and Tim are the available players.

Richard, I think you know what to do.

-Yeah.

-Not much hesitation there, was there?

Who from the Eggheads?

-Kevin.

-Kevin on Food & Drink.

Could I ask Richard and Kevin

to make their way into the Question Room, please?

Would you like to go first or second, Richard?

I think the team tactic is to go first.

OK, Food & Drink. Here's your question.

Streaky and back

are varieties of which form of meat?

OK, I can instantly discount veal and mutton

because the answer is bacon.

OK, well, bacon is the right answer. Good start.

Kevin, first question.

Edam cheese is named after a town in which country?

It's one of the most famous Dutch cheeses, so the Netherlands.

Correct. One each.

Richard, second question.

Which type of alcohol is used in the Scottish dish, steak Balmoral?

Before the answers came up I thought whisky.

It's got the Scottish connection there, so I'll go for whisky.

It would fit. And it does is the right answer.

Well done!

Kevin, "naughty but nice" was the catchphrase used in the 1970s

on British TV to advertise what?

I remember the phrase, obviously, as a...

As an advertising slogan.

Cream cakes seems the logical one and...

It's funny because at the time you heard it everywhere...

And I've rather forgotten what it was for.

I'll go for cream cakes.

Is the right answer, yes.

"Naughty but nice". Correct, cream cakes.

OK, two-all. Richard's third question.

Mahi-mahi, meaning, "Strong, strong"

in Hawaiian, is what type of foodstuff?

You've stumped me on that one.

I'm just going to have to plump for fish.

-It's the right answer.

-Yes!

Strong, strong. Right, that one is fish.

Kevin has got to get this. What is the main ingredient of

the dish known as poor man's caviar?

None of those seemed particularly likely.

-Poor man's caviar?

-Yeah.

I may be missing something obvious,

but I can't tie any of those up with...caviar in any way.

On the basis of the sort of colour, I'll go for aubergine.

Aubergine. Poor man's caviar. Is the right answer, Kevin.

Sudden Death again. Richard, you know what happens.

I have to hear an answer from you.

In Italian cuisine, what is the name of the folded pizza

whose name literally means "trouser leg?"

I'm going to guess. Trompone?

-Trompone?

-Yeah.

It's not the right answer, but it's not that far off.

Do you know, Kevin? It could have been your question.

-I know you're a pizza fan.

-Calzone.

Calzone is the folded pizza

which literally translates as "trouser leg".

The first one incorrect for Richard.

Kevin, Arbroath Smokies are a Scottish delicacy

traditionally made with which white fish

bearing the Latin name melanogrammus aeglefinus?

I'm hoping... I should know this one, really, but...

I think Arbroath Smokey is a haddock.

-So, haddock.

-It is the right answer. Haddock is correct.

Unlucky, Richard.

Very, very unlucky there.

Kevin wobbled a couple of times,

particularly with his poor man's caviar

but he's won out in the end.

Would you please both join your teams.

Poor man's caviar is called such because it was eaten by fishermen -

It was an aubergine puree -

while they were fishing for sturgeon,

which is the source of the caviar.

That's almost interesting.

There you are! This is what we have been playing towards.

It's time for the final round which is General Knowledge.

But those of you who lost your head-to-heads

won't be allowed to take part.

Richard, Andy and Chris, the Nutters With Putters,

and Chris from the Eggheads - the nutter on the Eggheads side -

would you please leave the studio.

So, Tim and Sean,

you're playing to win the Nutters With Putters £18,000.

Kevin, CJ, Daphne and Barry, you're playing

for something which no amount of money can buy,

the Eggheads' reputation.

I'll ask each team three questions in turn.

The questions are all General Knowledge

and you are allowed to confer.

Tim and Sean, first or second?

We've gone first every round, so I think first again?

I agree. First it is.

Good luck, Nutters.

Could be £18,000 at the end of these questions. Here is your first one.

Who sang the first line of the 2004 Band Aid 20 single,

Do They Know It's Christmas?

As you know, I'm clueless on music.

However, my guess...

I would guess Robbie Williams.

-No, I don't think so.

-In that case, I've not got a clue.

When the answers came up I thought it was Chris Martin.

I'm with you cos I know nothing about music.

I would say Chris Martin.

It's the right answer. Chris Martin.

Avoiding a howler on the first question. All-important.

OK, Eggheads' first question.

Gravelly Hill Interchange, nicknamed Spaghetti Junction,

is on Junction 6 of which British motorway?

It's unforgettably on the M6.

The answer is, of course, the M6.

Yes. One to the Eggheads. Nutters With Putters, second question.

The word "nares"

is the technical term for which parts of the human body?

-I'm flaring my nares now, I think.

-Yeah, erm...

-I am really not...

-Right, I think...

Eyebrows is the tricky one,

because what do you call an eyebrow but an eyebrow?

Why would you have a technical name for an eyebrow?

It's between the two, isn't it?

-I'm drawn towards...

-I am drawn towards your nostrils, yes!

-Nostrils, shall we?

-Nostrils.

Yeah.

Nostrils.

It's the right answer.

Two out of two. Getting closer.

Eggheads, the muskrat, a large amphibious rodent

that can measure up to 13 inches in length is native to which continent?

I think North America.

Muskie The Muskrat and Deputy Dawg!

We're all agreed on North America?

We're all agreed on North America.

North America is the right answer.

Muskrats, native to North America.

2-2.

Sean and Tim, good luck with this.

Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd are pseudonyms of which author?

I haven't got a clue.

I just... I think it's John le Carre.

I'll go for that, yeah.

Yep.

John le Carre.

Jonathan Rider and Michael Shepherd are pseudonyms

of Robert Ludlum.

Unlucky, guys. Tim and Sean just have to cross their fingers

and hope the Eggheads miss this.

Atlantic Road, an idyllic eight-kilometre route

that links the islands between Molde and Christiansund

is located in which country?

-Molde is M-O-L-D-E?

-Yeah.

Norway?

THEY CONFER

Also Atlantic.

Just before we rush on to this one,

all the kings of Denmark were either Frederick or Christian.

No, Christiansund is just down Oslo Fjord from Oslo.

Ah! Fair enough. Right, once again we all agreed it's Norway.

Is the right answer. Eggheads, you've won.

Bad luck, Nutters with Putters. That was the only round, interestingly,

that didn't go to Sudden Death.

They were so competitive, the head-to-heads,

and the balance in terms of the final could have been very different

if a couple of questions had gone Andy, Richard or Chris's way...

Off the bar several times or off whatever it is

either side of the crazy golf course.

Bad luck, Nutters with Putters.

The Eggheads' winning streak continues.

I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £18,000,

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.

£19,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.

Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd