Episode 52 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 taking on the awesome might of our quiz goliaths today are

Dynamo Smorgasbord from London.

The team are all former Edinburgh University students who remained

friends after graduating and now play football together.

-Let's meet them.

-Hi, I'm George.

I'm 23 and I'm a recent graduate.

Hi, I'm Johnnie. I'm 24 and I'm a law student.

Hi, I'm Charles. I'm 24 and I'm a recruitment consultant.

Hi, I'm Toby. I'm 23 and I'm a financial advisor.

Hi, I'm Harry. I'm 23 and I'm a recent graduate.

And that's the name of the team is it, Dynamo Smorgasbord?

That's right, yeah.

And any Swedish connections, or Dynamo Kiev connections?

When we were setting up the football team in Edinburgh, Harry and I and

-another friend of ours were in Sweden having a smorgasbord for supper.

-Ah.

And we just decided that all the different shapes and sizes,

you know meat from the cheeses,

reminded us of our football team, a bit of a mishmash.

-Did you quiz at university and now?

-We quizzed a lot at university.

There was a once a week quiz at our local pub.

-Been doing any practicing for Eggheads?

-Certainly, yeah.

-Yes.

-Watching Eggheads, thinking who's good at what.

-Oh, absolutely, we've got a strategy.

-Let's put it into play right now.

Every day there's £1000 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 Dynamo Smorgasbord, the Eggheads have won the last

20 games which means £21,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

Our first head-to-head battle will be on the subject of Film and Television.

Who'd like to play this?

Former students - television, never seen it.

Personally I think this might be Charles's chance to shine.

-Yeah, I think so too.

-Yeah, I'm very happy to do my best.

Who would you like to play against?

Judith, please.

Could I ask Charles and Judith to take their positions in

the question room please to play film and television.

Charles, now do you want to go first or second?

I'm happy to go first.

And off we go.

Which government operative played many times onscreen

by Desmond Llewellyn provides 007 with his various cars and gadgets

in the Bond films?

I'm pretty confident that's Q.

He actually, like myself, is an old alumnus of Radley College and

I think, in quite a few of the films,

you notice him wearing his old house tie which isn't the same as mine

but I'm pretty sure it's Q.

You see that's a sign that we wouldn't have noticed.

What's it? Radley College?

Exactly, yeah.

Q is correct. Desmond Llewellyn and the gadgets and the rest of it.

OK Judith, first question.

Who played the role of Colonel Nicholson in the 1957 film

Bridge On The River Kwai?

I think that was Alec Guinness.

Alec Guinness is the right answer, yes.

Bridge on the River Kwai, Colonel Nicholson. OK, back to you, Charles.

Both given me correct answers there so a good start.

Which actor won a BAFTA award in 2007 for his involvement

in a TV series that investigates gang culture around the world?

All former Eastenders actors but it's Ross Kemp from the series Ross Kemp

On Gangs where he went round the world trying to find the most vicious

sects from those countries and, yeah, I'm very sure that's Ross Kemp.

-Ross Kemp where he went round looking hard.

-Looking very, yeah.

As opposed to other series where he goes around the world looking hard.

Ross Kemp is the right answer, well done.

Judith, "we're doomed", is a well-known catchphrase

of which character in Dad's Army?

Well, not Sergeant Wilson and not Captain Mainwaring,

but Private Frazer, who was an undertaker.

Extra knowledge.

That's right, Private Fraser, "we're doomed".

Two each. Well, next question apiece could sort out a winner.

Charles, in the 2006 film The Last King Of Scotland

who played the personal physician to the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin?

That was James McAvoy who I think played a Scottish student who was

after some excitement and got, I think it's fair to say,

into the wrong crowd when he got out to Uganda.

But yes, definitely James McAvoy.

Is the right answer. Well, done.

James McAvoy in The Last King of Scotland.

OK, Judith, Woodentop was the name of the 1980s pilot

for which TV police drama?

Oh, heavens.

Well, I don't think it's Prime Suspect or Inspector Morse and

I really don't know why but my instinct would be The Bill.

Is the right answer, The Bill.

And a former woodentop, Chris?

Never a woodentop as I was a special not a regular,

but it's what the CID used to call uniform, woodentops.

-Is this because of the hat?

-Yeah.

Three questions have gone, you're all square, we go to

sudden death so I'm taking away the multiple choice, just got to hear an answer from you.

Charles, which 1940 Disney film features animated sequences set to

classical music and includes Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice?

I believe that's Fantasia which I watched when I was younger.

I think, I think that's right. Fantasia.

Fantasia is your answer, it's the correct one, well done, Charles.

Got to get this. What was the name of the controversial late night

show hosted by Terry Christian and others that aired on Channel 4

between 1990 and 1995?

It wasn't just called the Late Show, was it?

The Daily Mail did call it at the time a haven of filth,

therefore driving hundreds of thousands of teenagers to watch it,

-and it was not called the Late Show, it was called, Eggheads?

-The Word.

-The Word.

-The Word?

-The Word.

Close but not correct. Charles, you're through to the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

One nil then to Dynamo Smorgasbord, knocked Judith out of the game.

Our next head-to-head is going to be on the subject of Music now.

This should suit some of you too I'm sure.

Can't be Charles, any of the other four to play. Music.

-Johnnie...

-What does everybody think?

-I think it's going to have to be you.

-Got to be me.

-Got a good iPod selection.

-Shall I take it?

-Yes, I think so.

OK, Dermot, I think I'm going to accept this one.

Step up to the plate. Who do you want to play? It can't be Judith.

I think I will go with Chris if that's OK by you, Chris?

It's OK by me, as long as there's no rap involved.

Just don't give me no rap, man.

Can't guarantee it Chris, as you know.

Let's have Johnnie and Chris into the question room please.

Johnnie, do you want the first set or the second set of questions?

I'll take the first set please.

OK, Johnnie, your first question.

Good luck with it. Which type of music is radio DJ and presenter

Tim Westwood most associated, hip hop, jazz or classical?

Well, Chris said he was hoping that no rap questions would come up,

it seems one has fairly early on and luckily it's come to me because,

of course, Tim Westwood is most famously associated with hip hop.

Nice of you to take the bullet there for Chris as well there.

I know. I'm a kind-hearted guy.

It is hip hop. Right answer.

Well done. Good start. One to you.

Chris, which Irish singer born in 1927 is

famous for his jumpers and singing whilst seated in a rocking chair?

Sounds like Delaney's Donkey. Yes, it's Val Doonican.

-Paddy McGinty's Goat.

-Yeah.

Another classic.

-Mmm. Walk Tall as well.

-I'll bring the album round.

-Do that.

-It's the right answer.

OK, Johnnie, second question.

What term is used to describe the quality of a musical note or sound?

Now this isn't something I'm 100% about by any means, seeing as,

I did actually try and do the piano for a number of years and

and was useless, never even got past Grade One,

so I'm not too up to date with my musical terms.

Range, I believe, is more to do with, kind of, octaves that...

that a note be able to hit or a singer might be able to hit,

whereas timbre I know is something to do with the quality and

almost of the tenor of a note so I think I'm going to go for timbre.

Timbre, quality of a musical note or sound is the timbre,

it's the right answer.

There we are, two for you. So, Chris, second question.

Who had a 1980s UK hit with the instrumental Crockett's Theme?

That was from Miami Vice, wasn't it?

I don't know, can't call it to mind at all except to connect it to

Miami Vice but I'll take a punt at Jan Hammer.

Nailed it. Jan Hammer, that's right.

Well done. Two all.

OK, Johnnie, third question.

Who had a UK number one hit album in 2008 with We Started Nothing?

I'm pretty sure I can rule out Girls Aloud as they have had a new album

fairly recently but I don't think it was called We Started Nothing.

The Ting Tings who had big hits over the last, kind of, year or so

with That's Not My Name and another one that doesn't spring to mind,

but yeah, I'm pretty sure that it is, that's their album,

We Started Nothing. So Ting Tings.

Ting Tings, We Started Nothing.

Chris, again thanking his lucky stars, you've taken the contemporary

one and got it right.

It's the right answer, Ting Tings.

It really does seem to be split,

I wonder how you'd have done with each other's questions.

Chris, which composer has won four best music Oscars for films

that include My Fair Lady and Gigi?

Hmm. Can't remember what Bernstein did in the film line.

Not much I don't think.

I think Andre Previn was a little bit later than the film of Gigi

which was quite a long time ago, about early '50s, I think,

so I'll go with Dimitri Tiomkin.

-The composer is Andre Previn.

-Ah!

Another Smorgasborder goes through! Look at the smile on Johnnie's face.

I say, that really was a battle of the generations,

we stuck there religiously to different sides of the age divide.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

Well, it couldn't be going better could it, Dynamo Smorgasbord?

This must be beyond your wildest dreams.

You're guaranteed at least parity in the final round and if

it continues this way there'll be five of you and one of them there.

Let's see how it continues.

You've knocked two Eggheads out so far, two out of two,

our third subject is Arts and Books. Who'd like to play this?

George, Toby or Harry remain.

-Looking down the line it's got to be Harry.

-Yeah, I think Harry.

You're a well-read man.

-Who to take on?

-Who do you want to play, Harry?

CJ, Kevin or Barry?

Let me have a go with Barry? I don't know.

Yeah. Barry.

All right, we'll go Barry.

OK. Harry and Barry.

-Into the question room, please, for both of you.

-Good luck.

Harry, they said you were good at literature, is that what your

degree's in, English Literature?

Yeah, I did a degree in French and Portuguese so it had quite

-a strong literature element.

-OK.

-So if we could keep it foreign that would be a help.

-OK!

French and Portuguese literature.

Well, we get the odd one like that coming up, who knows.

Would you like to go first or second?

Well, it seems to be working for us so far, so I suppose I'll go first.

Here you go then, Harry, good luck. The balcony scene is a famous

feature of a second act of which Shakespeare play?

Really hope I'm not going to get this one wrong.

I'm pretty confident, pretty sure I did it at school

and I'm pretty sure it's Romeo and Juliet.

The balcony scene is in Romeo and Juliet.

It's correct.

Barry, the phrase to tilt at windmills, meaning to embark on a

foolish quest, is derived from which 17th century work of literature?

It's derived from the Man of La Mancha himself, Don Quixote.

Don Quixote is the right answer,

and why tilting at windmills? What did Don Quixote do?

He mistook windmills for enemy knights.

The book is still very relevant today because a lot of phrases that

have come into the English language

-were first found in Don Quixote.

-Well, we've got that. What else?

The "haves and the have nots", "make hay while the sun shines".

-Are they? They're all from...

-They're all from Don Quixote.

One each. Good start for you both.

Harry, in which country did the art movement known as De Stijl

or the style originate?

First word D-E.

Second word S-T-I-J-L.

Really, really hope it's not France.

Um...sounds pretty Germanic and the J in it is tempting me

towards the Netherlands. so I think I'll go for the Netherlands, please.

The Netherlands is correct. Well, done.

Correct answer, Harry.

OK, question for you, Barry.

The Old Devils is a 1986 work by which writer?

It was Kingsley Amis.

That is correct, so it's two each.

Harry, which author won the 2008 Man Booker Prize?

Right, perhaps not my strongest side of literature is the contemporary.

Um...I'm going to plump for the one in the middle, Amitav Ghosh.

OK, down the middle, Amitav Ghosh.

It's not the right answer.

-Is the first question the entire team's got wrong.

-It is, yeah.

So far it's been going so well for you.

There it is, an incorrect answer.

But do you know, Barry, of the other two, was it Barry or Adiga?

Aravind Adiga with The White Tiger.

There we are, you did know it if you had been put in.

Adiga, there, the Man Booker prize winner in 2008.

So, Barry, which British artist created the collage entitled

Just What Is It That Makes Today's

Homes So Different, So Appealing,

featuring a bodybuilder holding an ant-sized lollipop?

It's supposed to be the first example of pop art in Britain

and all three are pop artists but the artist that created that collage

was Richard Hamilton.

Richard Hamilton. Very assured, Barry, it's the right answer.

You're through to the final round.

Bad luck, Harry, just the one wrong,

the only one wrong so far from Dynamo Smorgasbord.

It means you won't play in the final round.

Would you both come back and join your teams.

Well, as you found out there, Dynamo Smorgasbord,

Eggheads dangerous when wounded.

Fought back there and could make it all square in the final round.

You'll to try and prevent that,

well George or Toby are, with this category, it's Sport.

Who wants to play it?

You, George or you, Toby?

-Here we go, Tobes.

-This one's with you, Tobes.

Right. Dermot, do you mind if I have a crack?

It's not up to me.

-And, um...

-And it's Kevin or CJ.

I think I'll have a crack at CJ, if that's all right.

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

OK, Toby, would you like to go first or second?

I'll go first, please.

Here you go then.

In American football what name is given to the period of action that

starts when the ball is put in play and ends when it is dead?

Well, um, Johnnie on the team's a very... He used to live in America,

he's a big American sports fan,

so having spent a bit of time with him he's sort of got me going

on American sport and you get four of them and you have to go ten yards

and then you get another four if you go ten yards. They call it down.

Yeah, it's the right answer. Down is correct.

So CJ, your question, Ken Barrington, Raymond Illingworth

and Dennis Amos have all represented England at which sport?

What was the second name?

Raymond Illingworth.

I think Ray Illingworth was something to do with cricket

so that's what I'll try.

Cricket. Three names there to work with, you've got Ray Illingworth,

it's the right answer. Well done.

OK, second question apiece.

Toby, the international coach Fabio Capello won four Serie A

titles in five seasons in the 1990s with which Italian team?

Is it AC Milan, Roma or Lazio?

Um, Capello's...ah, was the English coach now and he came from

Real Madrid where he won the league.

He'd actually had a very successful stint at, um, Juventus...

and I think he was Roma in a more...

sort of, later on...

so I'm going to go AC Milan.

Mighty AC Milan is the right answer. Well, done.

CJ, second question then. The 1,000 and 2,000 Guineas

classic horse races are both run over which distance?

I don't know.

Have a guess then.

I mean most horse races are run over one and a bit miles, aren't they?

I mean even three miles seems a bit long to me.

But is that what makes it a classic because

it's more of an endurance race?

I'm sorry, I don't know, if it's a classic it goes on

for a bit because it's more interesting, it's three miles.

These thoroughbreds knackering themselves...

-Yeah.

-..for three miles.

That'll learn 'em.

It's a mile.

Yeah, a mile there, CJ, so great news for Toby.

Who was the world darts champion in 1979, 1987 and 1993?

Well, I am very much a recent darts fan and I follow the PDC,

which is... I know this was for the old BAA, and Phil Taylor.

-I know he's been on Eggheads.

-I've had him sitting this close to me!

-Yeah, he lost.

-Well, he didn't.

-He didn't do very well.

Where George is sitting now.

I think he might have taken on CJ.

And...he lives near where I was born.

Jocky Wilson won it three times.

OK. Jocky Wilson. He certainly was world darts champion but this

is one thing CJ knows about, was it in '79, '87 and '93 Jocky Wilson?

Jocky Wilson did win it three times, I don't think he won it that late.

-I'd have gone for John Lowe.

-John Lowe, the diplomat of darts.

There we are. So a chance for CJ to redeem himself, keep the game alive,

but you still go through, Toby, if CJ doesn't get this.

In which Olympic sport did Felix Savon win three consecutive

gold medals between 1992 and 2000?

I'm picturing someone in my head

and I hope I'm...just hoping I've got the right person.

Um...

I'm hoping he was the Cuban boxer

but I'm just going to have a think about it...

I don't think it's swimming and I'm just trying to think of a gymnast...

But to win a gymnastics gold at three consecutive games

would take some doing.

I could have the wrong person entirely in my mind here

but I'm going to go for boxing.

-Boxing.

-Mmm.

CJ's picked himself up off the canvas, the game's alive,

it's the right answer.

Well, staring defeat in the face

but Toby missed a chance there and CJ's back in it.

We go to sudden death. It's all square.

Toby, Boo Weekley, born in Florida in 1973,

is a famous name in which sport?

Boo Weekley, he is, um, he won, he represented

America in the 2007 world cup, they lost to Scotland in the playoff,

and he's famous for wearing, he loves his hunting,

he wears, sort of, canvas overalls.

And he famously started a chant at the 2008 Ryder Cup, "Boo SA"

and, ah, so Boo Weekley plays golf.

Golf's the right answer.

Golf, but a lot of information there about Boo Weekley. He's a golfer.

CJ, which driver won his first Formula 1 Grand Prix with Ferrari

at Hockenheim in 2000 after 123 starts?

His first Grand Prix win,

Ferrari 2000, so he would have been the co-driver of Michael Schumacher.

Was that Rubens Barrichello back then or was it still Eddie Irvine?

I think it's too late for Eddie Irvine. I'll try Rubens Barrichello.

Rubens Barrichello. It's the right answer.

Rubens Barrichello. Well done.

All square still. Back to Toby for another question.

In which sport does a team member called a gregario sacrifice their

individual performance to help a team mate?

I'm...I'm going to sort of angle,

I think if you sacrifice for someone else then you're probably something,

maybe fighting, you sort of take the hit or something? I don't know.

I'm going to go for wrestling.

Wrestling. Tag wrestling or something like that? A team member.

It's not wrestling though, no.

-Do you know, CJ?

-Some form of cycling?

Yeah, cycling will do. Yeah, cycling.

So a chance again for CJ.

Which tennis player won his only grand slam singles title

with his famous victory at the 1983 French Open?

Yannick Noah.

Yannick Noah is the right answer, CJ.

You're through to the final round, you've done it again.

You did this last time with sport, questions wrong all over the place.

Bad luck there by Toby, a couple of ones you didn't fancy

and that's the way it's going to be.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

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

Those of you who lost your head-to- heads won't be allowed to take part.

So Toby and Harry from Dynamo Smorgasbord and Chris and Judith

from the Eggheads, would you all leave the studio now, please.

So George, Johnnie and Charles,

you're playing to win Dynamo Smorgasbord £21,000.

Barry, Kevin and CJ, 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

and you are allowed to confer, that's the big difference.

George, Johnnie and Charles, do you want to go first or second.

-We'll go first.

-It's worked for us so far.

OK then, best of luck. Can you win the money today?

£21,000.

In terms of gentlemen's grooming what is a Pancho Villa?

Anyone had the pleasure?

No I haven't indulged in Pancho Villa.

I've got a feeling it's a moustache.

-South Americans I think.

-They like moustaches don't they.

Down in South America.

I think that's the most likely of the three.

-Do you think we ought to go with that?

-Yeah.

-Style of moustache.

Pancho villa, a style of moustache.

Yeah you got it there. It's a kind of a...

-Yeah, Jason King.

-Mexican style.

A style of moustache is Pancho Villa.

OK, Eggheads, your first question.

Which London landmark was home to the revolving Top of the Tower

restaurant until 1971 when it was closed after a bomb exploded there?

That was the Post Office tower.

Post Office tower.

-Top of the Tower restaurant.

-Yeah.

Is the right answer, Eggheads, yeah.

One each. So second question for each team.

Dynamo Smorgasbord, in which modern European country did the Teutonic

tribe called the Lombards eventually settle in the 6th Century AD?

Sweden, Italy or Spain?

Yeah, I reckon Italy because Lombardy is obviously a northern

Italian state and Milan's in Lombardy, I think.

Charlemagne's empire always had problems with the Lombards.

THEY CONFER

-So, Italy.

-Happy with that?

Italy is the right answer, yes.

Italy. Well done.

Eggheads, Delftware,

first manufactured in the 17th Century is a type of what?

Jewellery, woodcut or pottery?

From Delft in the Netherlands, it's pottery.

Delft in the Netherlands, pottery. It's the right answer, Eggheads.

Two each.

OK, good luck with it, guys.

The painter Cavaradossi is a character in which Puccini opera?

Been to the opera recently?

-No.

-Can't say I dropped in recently.

Well, La Boheme means the bohemian

which has something to do with art...possibly.

-Yeah.

-So shall we maybe...

Manon Lescaut - I don't know and I know nothing about Tosca.

But I'm tempted to just do it as we've nothing better to reason with.

-La Boheme?

-Yeah, I mean there's nothing else that sort of...

-I'm more inclined for La Boheme than Tosca. Do you think Tosca?

-I...I

-Yeah, I'm... I don't know...

-Well, this is a bit of a stab in the dark

but I think through a process of reasoning rather than...

Team skipper, go for it.

OK. We're going for La Boheme, hopefully rather than optimistically.

Went for La Boheme, were they right?

-It's Tosca's lover.

-It's Tosca.

-It is Tosca.

-Although there was a painter in La Boheme, Rodolfo.

Rodolfo. So it means, Eggheads,

at this point, it's always a crucial point the third question.

They've got a chance to win the game.

Eggheads, an Ocker is an informal term for an uncultured person

mainly used in which country?

Encountered a few of these at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

It's Australia.

You've had experience of Ockers in Australia.

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

Well, bad luck Dynamo Smorgasbord.

There were only a couple of questions in that.

You didn't get a question wrong, until the third round,

that was when you got your first one wrong and really going very well

in that final round,

and kind of, talked yourself out of Tosca.

Not keen opera-goers I take it?

No.

Well, bad luck. Thanks very much for being such good contestants today.

Very, very close to getting one over on the Eggheads but not to be.

Might be different if we played it again. Thanks to Toby and Harry.

Could have been different in their head-to-heads.

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

I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £21,000 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.

£22,000 says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.

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