Episode 57 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 Forty Winks. At one time or another,

everyone on the team has worked

at the Royal Academy of Dance in London,

apart from Chris, who's been recruited by his girlfriend Celia.

-Let's meet them.

-Hello, I'm Mark, I'm 39 and a results officer.

Hi, I'm Gemma, I'm 25 and I'm an admin assistant.

Hi, I'm Chris, I'm 37 and I'm a postman.

Hi, I'm Celia, I'm 24 and I'm a travel consultant.

Hi, I'm Sandra, I'm 31 and I'm an exams officer.

Well, welcome to you, Forty Winks. Talk about dance in a moment or two.

First of all, the team name - is this because you're liable to

doze off during the quiz?

No, probably more likely to doze off at work! But, er...no,

we couldn't come up with a name so we opened the dictionary at random

and the first viable name we came up with was Forty Winks.

-That's it?

-That's it, I'm afraid.

Not a love of a kip every now and again or anything like that?

Oh, I think we all love a kip every now and then, yes.

Don't we all? Now, tell me about the Royal Academy of Dance.

Most of you do work there, have worked there, apart from you, Chris.

What do you do at the Royal Academy of Dance?

Well, we work in the examinations department, which means we basically

set up and administer examinations, ballet exams, throughout the world,

and process the results and send out certificates to the lucky students.

Now, any of you indulge yourself

in a bit of tap, bit of paso doble, whatever?

-Fans of Strictly Come Dancing?

-The ladies are certainly...

-Yeah, I'm a big fan of dance.

-Yeah. I mean, you do participate, do you?

Yes, various things.

Tap, contemporary and modern jazz. Those classes, yeah.

Shall we play the game? Let's do Eggheads, do IN the Eggheads.

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, Forty Winks, the Eggheads have won the last two games,

which means £3,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

Let's see if you can get off to a flying start with our first category today.

This one is Music.

Well, might suit some of you there.

Music and dance, related. Who wants to play?

-Chris'll do it.

-Yeah? Have you decided on it?

Chris.

Dermot, I'll take it.

Chris, you fancy it. And who would you like to play from the Eggheads?

-Daphne? Yeah, Daphne.

-Daphne.

OK, let's have you both into the Question Room,

just to make sure there's no conferring.

Chris, do you want to go first or second?

Er... I was going to be a gentleman,

but do you know what? I'm going to go first.

First question, then, to you, Chris.

The small, rapid fluctuations in pitch that singers often

use as an expressive device to intensify a sound is known as what?

Right, well, I know Allegro used to be a car!

What that's got to do with this...

Not many of them left around now. They've all fallen apart.

Um, for some reason, I'm going to count that out.

Vibrato, something to do with vibration,

so I think I'm going to try that.

Vibrato. Fluctuations in pitch.

Vigorous nodding from other members of your team there.

It's the right answer. Yes, vibrato.

Daphne, first question. According to the words of the song,

Row, Row, Row Your Boat, what is life?

-I know, but I never get past...

-You're singing it, aren't you?

I've only ever heard the first line!

Good! Good, I'm pleased.

Everyone else here is mentally singing it as well,

I'm sure, and has come up with the answer, I think.

But a dream?

Cos that rhymes with stream.

Row, row, row your boat, gently up the stream...

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

It's the right answer.

Chris, second question.

Only The Lonely was a UK number-one hit single in 1960 for which singer?

Right, well, I do know the song.

It's a little bit down-tempo for Jerry Lee Lewis,

but I'm going to go for Roy Orbison on this one.

Roy Orbison on Only The Lonely. It's the correct answer.

Well done, Chris.

Daphne, which band had a UK top-ten single with Love Is Noise in 2008?

Ha-ha! Hoo-hoo! Don't know.

I don't think it's Oasis.

I'm hoping it's The Verve.

-Is it?

-The Verve?

-Yes.

-Love Is Noise? Yes, it is.

It's the right answer, Daphne.

Right, well, Chris,

see if you can get this and hopefully

Daphne trips up on her third one. This is yours.

Murray Perahia is best known for his virtuoso performances

on which musical instrument?

Right, well, for some reason, when people say virtuoso,

they usually mean violin or piano. I'm just trying to think which one.

I'm going to say...piano.

You've made the right decision, Chris. It's correct.

Well done.

Fantastic stuff.

All right.

Well, you've got to get this, Daphne.

Gladys Knight sang the theme song for which James Bond film?

Oh, dear. Do you know, I really don't know, Dermot.

I avoid Bond films like the plague.

For Your Eyes Only.

For Your Eyes Only.

Sung by Gladys Knight, Eggheads?

-Sheena Easton.

-Sheena Easton did that.

-Oh!

-Living Daylights?

-A-ha.

-A-ha.

-Leaving...Licence To Kill. Licence To Kill.

-I told you!

Chris, that leaves you licensed

to appear in the Final Round, playing for the money.

-Great performance.

-Thank you very much.

See you again in the Final Round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well played, Chris. As it stands, the Eggheads have lost

a brain from the Final Round, Forty Winks are all still there.

We play our next subject today.

This one's Film and Television,

Who'd like to play this?

It can't be Chris.

-I'm sure he'd be good at that too.

-Are you happy to do it?

-I'll take that one.

-OK, Mark.

Who would you like to play?

It can't be Daphne. Any one of the other four of them.

I'll take on Judith, please.

Judith. OK, well, let's have you both playing. Could I ask Mark

and Judith to take their positions in the Question Room, please?

Mark, would you like to go first or second?

I'm afraid I'll be ungentlemanly again and I'll go first, please.

Mark, here's your question, then.

Hightower, Tackleberry, Larvell Jones and Commandant Lassard

were characters in which series of comedy movies in the 1980s?

Well, I liked Ghostbusters a lot,

and none of those characters were in that.

Police Academy films, I can't stand, but my father loves them,

and I'm pretty sure it's Police Academy.

Police Academy from your dad watching it!

Hightower, Tackleberry, Larvell Jones and Commandant Lassard

were characters in Police Academy.

It's the right answer. OK, first question to you, Judith.

Noel Edmonds was the host of which TV show from 1976 to 1982?

Well, I think probably not Match of the Day

and I think someone else was the Generation Game.

I think it was Multi-Coloured Swap Shop.

Noel Edmonds and Multi-Coloured Swap Shop is the right answer.

Solid start for you.

Back to Mark. Second question.

What is the first name of the character played by Ricky Gervais

in the comedy series Extras?

-Do you watch it?

-I do and I like it a great deal.

I prefer it to The Office, actually.

I know it's not Gary or Steve. It's Andy Millman, so it's Andy.

Oh, even better. First name AND surname.

Sometimes I require that. Not in this case.

Andy is correct. Well done.

So two for Mark.

Judith, apart from Anna Ford, who was the main female presenter

of Good Morning Britain on TV-am when it launched in 1983?

I don't think it was Anne Robinson cos I think

she was just a newspaper journalist.

I think it was Angela Rippon.

-Angela Rippon?

-Yes.

One of the launch presenters of Good Morning Britain...

is the right answer, yes.

Well done. Well worked out, Judith.

Mark, then, third question.

Which 1970s film starring Warren Beatty

was a remake of the 1941 Robert Montgomery comedy,

Here Comes Mr Jordan?

Well, Warren Beatty was in all three.

The remake, which I think Warren Beatty also directed -

I think he co-directed with Buck Henry - is Heaven Can Wait.

He's good, Eggheads.

That's the right answer.

Well, well, Mark.

That was good. OK. Well, Judith,

you don't want to follow Daphne.

You've got to get this.

Sex And Violence was the title of one of the pilot shows

of which 1970s TV show?

Well, Grange Hill is about a school.

How on earth could it be sex and violence?

I suppose you'd choose the least likely.

Er, I think the least likely is probably The Muppet Show.

-Is she right, other Eggheads?

-Who knows?

I think it's Tiswas, actually.

She is correct.

Judith, well worked out.

-The Muppet Show.

-How very unexpected.

Well, both quizzing really well but, Mark,

here we make it a lot harder

for both of you and remove the choices.

It's all square after three, so it goes to Sudden Death

and I've just got to hear an answer from you.

Who directed the 2005 film version of King Kong?

He's better known for his Lord Of The Rings films.

It's Peter Jackson.

Can't get one past you, can we?

It's the right answer. Peter Jackson.

Judith, which actor played the role of John "Bluto" Blutarsky

in the 1978 film Animal House?

Now, this I don't think I do know.

I didn't see it.

I don't know what... I can't think of anything to sort of...

drag on either.

I don't know. I have to give up.

Mark, just out of interest, do you know this one?

John "Bluto" Blutarsky, that's the character.

-Who played him in Animal House?

-Yes, it's the late, great John Belushi.

John Belushi is the right answer, so doubly through there, Mark!

You didn't need to give me that, but

it just wraps it all up. What a player you've been.

And we will hear from you again in the Final Round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Forty Winks cutting a swathe through the Eggheads at the moment.

Eggheads have lost two brains from the Final Round,

all of Forty Winks are there.

Let's play our next subject. This one's Sport.

Can you knock another Egghead out?

Gemma, Celia or Sandra to play this. Sport.

Maybe we could say Celia...

I think so. Celia.

Lamb to the slaughter.

Sandra is going to...

OK. And who would you like to play from the Eggheads?

It's one of the chaps now - Kevin, Barry or Chris.

I think I'll take on Chris, please.

Let's see how Sandra does against Eggheads' Chris. Could I ask you

both please to take your positions in the Question Room, please?

Sandra, would you like to go first or second?

I think I'm going to have to go with the team, Dermot, and go first.

Your wish is my command. Here you go, Sandra, first question.

The Lesters, inaugurated in 1990,

are awarded annually to participants in which sport?

The Lesters...

I think I'm going to say horse racing.

OK. Horse racing, the Lesters... is the right answer.

First question to you, Chris. Is which sport does high-sticking

incur a minor penalty?

Ah...

Now, it's not ice hockey.

They just belt hell out the puck and get it in the goal.

I'll say curling.

-It's ice hockey, Chris!

-Is it?

Yeah, you know, when they...

-Oh high-sticking with a stick!

-A stick.

-Ah, yes.

-Yeah, you see, you were thinking of sticking on the ice.

-Sticking on the ice, yes.

-No, it's the stick.

In a bit quick there, I thought, Chris.

So a chance, then, Sandra, to take a big lead. Who won the Wimbledon

Ladies' Singles title in 1963, 1965 and 1970?

I'm inclined to go with Margaret Court, but I'm wondering

whether that's just...because I'm quite familiar with her name.

I know she was a very good tennis player in her time.

I think I'm going to go with Margaret Court.

And all your Australian friends cheering along.

She's one of your lot, that's why you've heard of her.

Right answer. Margaret Court.

Margaret Court, well done.

OK, Chris, gotta get this.

Which football manager once said, "If I had an argument with a player,

"we would sit down for 20 minutes, talk about it,

"and then decide I was right."?

Well, it does... It sounds too sort of...

Jack-the-laddish for Jack Charlton.

And I don't think it was El Tel, Terry Venables.

It sounds like the sort of thing Brian Clough might have said.

It's got the sort of sharp staffishness about it

that I associate with Brian Clough.

Yep, that's it. What a great line it is. "Then I decide I was right."

Brian Clough. That's correct. You got the first one wrong. So, Sandra,

get this and you're through to the Final Round.

What is the name of the Rugby Union team made up of players from

Samoa, Fiji and Tonga, who played England in November 2008?

I think I'm going to disregard Pacific Islanders.

Just doesn't really sound like the name of a rugby team.

I think I'm going to go with South Sea Lions.

It just sounds like a really good name for a rugby team.

South Sea Lions - good name for a rugby team. Yeah, it is.

Er...but not the one they chose.

They chose the boring one, the Pacific Islanders.

The other two, far better names.

Not to be there,

but no particular harm done in that

you can't lose if Chris gets this right.

If he gets it wrong, you're still through.

So, Chris, which parts of drivers' cars were painted green for the 2008

Japanese Formula 1 Grand Prix

in order to promote an environmental campaign?

Well, there's not much point in

painting the front left wing green to drive home any message, is there?

If we're talking environment, we're talking gases,

so we're talking exhaust pipes, so they paint the exhaust pipes green.

They did paint the tyre grooves, not the exhaust pipes.

Which means you're through, Sandra!

Another Egghead bites the dust!

Well played, Sandra.

Didn't fancy the category, but you played that really, really well.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

It's time to man the barricades, Eggheads. You've got them rocking.

Forty Winks have knocked three Eggheads out of the Final Round.

They're all still there. Chance for a clean sweep in the head-to-heads.

This is our last one before the Final Round and it's Food and Drink,

and the remaining players on Forty Winks' team are Gemma or Celia.

Food and Drink.

-Me?

-Gemma?

-Yeah? Go for it.

-OK, Gemma. And it's Kevin or Barry from the Eggheads for you.

-Kevin?

Kevin? Kevin, please.

Kevin, there was an inevitability about that, wasn't there?

One of his weaker subjects,

there really is a chance for a clean sweep.

So it's Gemma and Kevin. Could I ask you both, please,

to take your positions in the Question Room?

-Gemma, would you like to go first or second?

Well, I'm not one to break with tradition, so I'll go first.

First question to you, Gemma. What type of meat

is usually coated in egg and breadcrumbs

and fried to make wiener schnitzel?

What type of meat is usually coated in egg and breadcrumbs

and fried to make wiener schnitzel?

I'm going to go with veal

as an educated guess, but I'm not sure, so veal.

OK. Veal as an educated guess.

Very educated. It's the right answer.

Wiener schnitzel.

Kevin.

The lima bean is also known by what name?

Yes, I've learned recently, if something comes into my mind

before the choices come up, I probably ought to go, but I'm...

-What came into your mind?

-Kidney bean, but I'm...

Now that I see butter bean there as well, I'm having doubts.

No, I'm going to have to...

It may be wrong to do this this time,

but I'm going to stick with my first instinct and say kidney bean.

The lima bean is also known...as a...butter bean.

Butter bean. Just goes to show.

Well, a very good chance, then, for you, Gemma.

Duke is the name for a cross between

the sweet and the sour varieties of which fruit?

Er...

I haven't actually ever heard of that.

Er... My instinct would be to go with cherry.

Er... I'm going to stick with my instinct.

-Cherry.

-It's the right answer.

Can Kevin fight back?

Well, it has to start here cos if you don't get it, you're out.

By what name is angel hair pasta also known?

Right, well, I think it must be...capellini,

but I'm just... Hang on.

Cos rigatoni is to do with ridges, the ridges on the design.

Macaroni is another origin, I think.

I can't exactly remember what it is at the moment. Capellini.

-Saying capellini. Was that your first instinct?

-Yes.

-It's the right answer. Capellini is correct.

Just in it, but only just.

Right, Gemma, to put him out,

which foodstuff is deep-fried to create the Latin-American dish chicharron.

C-H-I-C-H-A-R-R-O-N.

It's all one word.

I don't think it's pancake.

Er...

I'm going to go with pork.

Chicharron.

Something's guiding you lot. It's the right answer.

Well played. You're out, Kevin.

Three-times World Quiz Champion, four-time European Quiz Champion

has gone.

Gemma, you're playing in the Final Round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

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 allowed to take part in this round.

And I'm only looking at one team.

Daphne, Chris, Judith and Kevin

from the Eggheads, would you all please leave the studio?

So, Mark, Gemma, Chris, Celia and Sandra, you're playing

to win Forty Winks £3,000.

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

and you, Forty Winks, are of course allowed to confer.

Barry can talk to himself if he likes, but that's all he's got.

Forty Winks, are your five brains better than the Eggheads' one?

And, Forty Winks, would you like to go first or second?

-It's still your choice.

-It's worked for us so far...

-Yeah.

It's worked for us so far. We'll go first.

First question. On a standard UK Monopoly board, which corner

square is diagonally opposite Go?

On a standard UK Monopoly board,

which corner square is diagonally opposite Go?

-Definitely Free Parking.

-Free Parking, everybody?

-We're agreed it's Free Parking.

-Definitely knows it's right. It is.

I'll confirm that. Free Parking, correct.

OK, Barry, cornflower is a vivid shade of which colour?

In this country, on Remembrance Day, we use poppies,

but the French use the cornflower, and it's a vivid shade of blue.

Cornflower is...blue.

It's correct. Well done, Barry.

OK, back to you, Forty Winks.

The capture of which city was the objective of the ill-fated

Battle of the Bulge during World War Two?

Anybody an expert on World War Two?

-CHRIS: I haven't got a clue.

-I wish I was.

I'm drawn towards Antwerp but, again, I don't know why.

I would've said Antwerp but I have no idea why.

-I would've said Antwerp.

-Should we go with the majority, then?

I really don't have a clue, to be quite honest.

Somebody's probably screaming it out. I couldn't tell you.

So we'll go with Antwerp?

We're far from certain about this but...

I could hear that!

We'll go with the majority decision which is Antwerp.

OK, gone for Antwerp. You've come up with the right answer!

It's correct.

Again, Forty Winks in the lead,

and I think you've got to get this, then, Barry.

Who was the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Nike?

Well, Minerva was the equivalent of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom.

Diana was the goddess of the hunt,

but Nike was the Greek goddess of victory,

and the Roman equivalent was Victoria.

Full answer and, more to the point, correct answer. Well done, Barry.

Two each.

See what it's going to take,

Forty Winks.

They're all good, but so are you.

OK, listen to this.

Laura Hollins is the real name of which fashion model?

Laura Hollins is the real name of which fashion model?

I was going to say, Agyness Deyn has an... That's not her real name.

-No, I know.

-But I don't know what her real name is.

I've got a feeling I've read that recently, that that's her real name.

I know that's not her real name.

The others, I'm not sure if they've got fake names.

I've a feeling I've read that that's her real name.

Shall we go with that, then? Agyness Deyn.

We're going to go with Agyness Deyn.

Agyness Deyn. Laura Hollins...became...

Agyness Deyn. It's the right answer.

Barry,

the business giant Standard Oil, which eventually became so big

the US government ordered it to divest itself

of 33 of its component companies,

was set up in 1870 by which industrialist and philanthropist?

I seem to remember that John Paul Getty made his fortune in shipping,

probably oil.

I'm not sure at this moment what Solomon Guggenheim

made his fortune on,

but the first name that came to mind when you said Standard Oil,

which of course is now known as Esso, was John D Rockefeller.

So my answer is John D Rockefeller.

John D Rockefeller.

That is the right answer. John D Rockefeller.

So we go to Sudden Death.

You knew it was going to take

something special to winkle them all out. Let's see if you can do it.

The whole game now could just turn on one question.

OK, Forty Winks, which castle near Deal in Kent

is the official residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.

That's spelt C-I-N-Q-U-E.

I've been... I did Deal Castle and Walmer Castle on the same day when

I was on holiday down there.

I'm assuming it's not Deal Castle because that would be too obvious,

and Walmer Castle...

-Is it a residence?

-..is a little further along.

I can't tell you off hand, but...

I know they're close together.

It kind of makes sense.

-We're going to go with Walmer Castle.

-Walmer Castle.

You've got it again. Walmer Castle

is the official residence

of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.

Well, Barry, got to get this, as I don't need to remind you.

Bimini is a district of which island country?

Bimini - B-I-M-I-N-I - is a district of which island country? Bimini.

I've heard of this before.

I have to go with the one island country

that came to my mind immediately, and again keep my fingers crossed

that I've got the right one, but I'm going to go for Bahamas.

Er, it's the right answer! Bimini is in the Bahamas.

OK.

Well, Forty Winks, which British caricaturist, born in 1792 and noted

for his cartoons of the extravagant foibles of high society, illustrated

the Dickens novel Oliver Twist?

And I will, as normal, need both a first name and a surname.

-Do you have any idea?

-I don't.

I immediately thought Rowlandson.

I can't think.

I don't have any idea.

-You don't have a clue, do you?

-I don't know.

-I don't know any caricaturists, unfortunately.

-I don't either.

-I think, go with your first...

-I don't think we have anything else.

On the basis we don't have anything else,

I'm going to go with Thomas Rowlandson.

OK. Thomas Rowlandson.

It's incorrect.

It's not. It is... Do you know, Barry? Could've been your question.

I think it may have been George Cruikshank.

George Cruikshank. George Cruikshank.

So first opportunity to win the round goes to Barry.

Which king of Crete fought in the Trojan War

and is the central character of an opera by Mozart?

Ah. Well, Mozart operas are one of my favourite sources of listening,

so I think the answer to this,

sadly for the wonderful team over there, is Idomeneo.

Idomeneo...is the right answer, Barry! The Eggheads have won.

Well, I don't need to say it, Forty Winks. I think we've witnessed

over the course of the entire quiz

what a team you are, and I can say,

I think without fear of contradiction,

you're the best team we've ever had who haven't beaten the Eggheads.

And, as you also know, some poorer teams have managed to beat them

with a lot of luck. The Eggheads, though, have done

what comes naturally to them,

and they still reign supreme over quiz-land, but only just.

I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £3,000, 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

can defeat the Eggheads.

£4,000 says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.

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