Episode 59 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've won some of the country's toughest quiz shows.

They are the Eggheads.

And taking on our quiz champions today are Full Of Gas.

The team all work for the same gas bottling company in Warwick.

Each year they fill enough gas cylinders to reach from here to Florida. Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Lindsay, I'm 42 and I'm a telemarketing agent.

Hi, I'm Carey, I'm 29 and I'm a sales support clerk.

Hi, I'm Adam, I'm 27 and I'm a customer service team leader.

Hi, I'm Claire, I'm 32 and I'm a customer service agent.

Hello, I'm Barks, I'm 38. I work in telemarking and sales support.

That's a lot of gas cylinders. You must be very busy people.

And when you're not busy working, are you busy quizzing, I hope?

Occasionally, when we can find the right venue.

-How do you on these quizzes? Do you ever win?

-We have done.

-Well, there we are.

-It happens.

-Quiz champions yourself, then.

-Oh, yes.

-Up against the Eggheads. Listen, best of luck, Full Of Gas.

Let me tell you what's been happening.

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.

So, Full of Gas, the Eggheads have won the last four games,

which means £5,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

The first head to head battle is going to be on the subject of Arts & Books.

What's the plan?

-Um...

-We do have a plan.

Um, I think this was going to be you, Adam, wasn't it?

-Was it going to be me?

-Yes.

-Adam's forgotten the plan.

-Yes.

-I haven't forgotten the plan! No, it was, it's not...

-Yes, I sort of volunteered for Arts & Books.

-Yes.

It's going to be me first, by the looks of things.

-Would you have like to have played other categories?

-Science.

Science. And choose an Egghead to play, any one of those five.

Um, who do we think?

-You can choose.

-Judith?

-Judith?

-Judith.

-Yes, I'll play Judith.

I think you'll make Judith very happy,

because you've been playing a lot of Sport.

-Yes!

-You'd quite like to play Arts & Books.

Adam and Judith, take your place in the question room

to make sure you can't confer.

Now, Adam, would you like to go first or second?

I'll go first, I think.

OK, it's Arts & Books.

Here you go. "He was my north, my south, my east and west,

"my working week and my Sunday rest,"

is an example of which literary device?

Um, my wife is going to string me up for this

because she's A-level in English. I honestly would not have a clue.

I don't think it's a metaphor,

because a metaphor tends to be something which means something else

so I think I can rule that one out. So I either have assonance or...

-Onomatopoeia.

-Onomatopoeia.

I'm going to go for the one that sounds a bit more exotic,

so I will say onomatopoeia,

because it's a fairly exotic-sounding rhyme.

Certainly is exotic.

"He was my north, my south, my east and west,

"my working week and my Sunday rest,"

-is an example of - your wife is going to be cross - metaphor.

-Gosh!

It is metaphor.

Right, Eggheads, a chance for Judith to take an early lead.

According to a quote in Alexander Pope's work, An Essay On Criticism,

who, "rush in where angels fear to tread?"

Doesn't have Eggheads there?

Doesn't have Eggheads, but it's the equivalent. It's fools!

-You said it. Fools is the...

-I said it before you did.

Yes, all right.

Correct. Fools.

So, Adam, right, let's get you started.

What sweet is used by the Queen to tempt Edmond in the CS Lewis book

The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe?

-I've never read the book.

-Seen the film?

-I have seen the film.

-Good.

-And I believe, fingers crossed, Turkish delight.

It led to a surge in sales, didn't it?

It's the right answer. Turkish delight.

Much more comfortable with that one.

Good one, Adam, you've just got to hope

Judith slips up on one of the next two.

Judith, Mr Beebe the rector is a character in which book?

B, double E, what?

B, double E, B, E. Lots of Bs and Es. Mr Beebe.

Um, I'm sure it's not Jane Eyre.

The one that sprang to mind was A Room With A View.

A Room With A View, is the right answer. Mr Beebe.

OK, you've got to get this, then, Adam.

Which British artist born in 1962 is famous for his paintings,

often of celebrities, using gloss paint on aluminium?

Again, I don't know any of those names, unfortunately.

Um, so...I have an instinct, whether it's correct or not,

and I'm going to go with the middle answer

because it's staring me in the face, Mark Wallinger.

-Mark Wallinger.

-Yes.

Gavin Turk, Mark Wallinger or Gary Hume, and er...

it's Gary Hume.

So there we are, Judith ahead two one,

doesn't face the third question, doesn't need to.

Adam's been unlucky with those questions.

It means you won't be playing in the final round, Adam.

Would you both come back and join your teams?

Full of Gas have lost one brain from the final round, the Eggheads haven't lost any.

So our second round, coming up right now, is Geography.

Now, who likes Geography?

-It's going to have to be me.

-We're going for you, yes.

-Yes.

-Come on, Barks.

-And who are you going to play?

Who would you like to play?

-CJ for Geography, isn't it?

-Yes.

-CJ, Geography.

OK. Got a mental list there, and CJ you're on it when it comes to Geography.

-I would hope so.

-Let's have you both into the question room.

-Thank you.

OK, then, Barks, now would you like to go first or second?

I'm going to go first.

Good luck, Barks. Here you go.

On which motorway is the Watford Gap service station located?

Right, I don't know the actual answer,

but I'm going to guess Watford Gap

would be one of the first places serviced.

I'm also working on the theory they built them in order of number,

so I'm going to say the M1.

It's the right answer, well done.

Good start.

OK, CJ, which country has the second largest population in the world?

Possibly soon to become the world's largest

in a few years' time. Behind China, it's India.

Is its population curve?

The birth rate projections are ahead of China?

Yes, it's expanding faster than China, yes.

OK, well, India is correct there from CJ, so one each.

Second question now, Barks. Which Venetian bridge

spanning the narrow Rio De Palazzo Canal

connects the old prisons to the interrogation rooms

in the Doge's Palace?

-Ah...

-That didn't sound like a good, "Ah".

Um, I don't even know where the Doge's Palace is.

I'm trying to think Venetian, um...

I think just based on... I can only literally do it

on the sounds of the word, and it just sounds...

The Rialto Bridge, it just sounds more likely,

but it's just literally based on sounds.

Bridge Of Sighs, Rialto Bridge...

-Rialto Bridge.

-Scalzi Bridge.

Rialto Bridge, it just sounds like the...

OK.

It's not the right answer.

It's the Bridge Of Sighs, and that for very obvious reasons, I suspect.

This because you're being taken away for interrogation?

Yes, they sighed as they went over to the Palace.

Yeah. OK. Nothing there for Barks.

Second question for CJ. Which African country

is bordered by Botswana, Zambia, Angola and South Africa?

Now in my mind, that pushes it over to the east of Africa

and Namibia is on the west coast,

it's on the Atlantic coast not the Indian coast.

Mozambique is there,

it's down by Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

I can't place Angola, unfortunately.

I'm going to have to go with Mozambique,

simply because I know that's in the area

of at least Botswana and South Africa.

OK, Mozambique.

We said Angola was the key and it's on the west coast,

slightly above Namibia.

Namibia. So CJ getting his easts and his wests mixed up

and it stays all square, Barks, so a let off there.

If you get this it puts you in the lead

and a chance for victory. Here you go.

What is the name of the clastic material

such as dust and ashes ejected during a volcanic eruption?

Just trying to see if I can work anything out of it.

I really am going to have to go with Hephra,

although I can't actually extract anything out of the answers

or any conclusions for why it should be that.

Um, the answer is Tephra.

Tephra, but nothing there to go on, was there, Barks?

Nothing really to work out there, it just had to be a guess.

Well, a chance for CJ to win the round, if you get this CJ.

In which Australian state would you ride in the West Coast Wilderness Railway?

I don't know it,

but one of those answer seemed to suggest itself as the obvious one

because virtually the western half of mainland Australia is taken up with,

surprisingly, Western Australia,

so if it's western coast that does seem to suggest Tasmania.

On the basis that it's the only one that's going to have a west coast?

It's the right answer. You worked it out CJ, Tasmania is correct,

which means no place for you, Barks in the final round, sorry to say.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

OK, then, Full Of Gas, well, some of it's beginning to seep out a bit.

You've lost two head to heads there, but we've got two more to come,

it can easily be all square in the final round.

Let's see how you do with this third one.

This one is Film & Television,

and I suspect might suit one of the three of you

who are available to play a bit better.

-That's got your name on it, Carey.

-That's Lindsay, Carey or Claire.

-Carey, isn't it?

-Carey.

-It's me.

-Which Egghead would you like to play?

CJ and Judith have played so you've got Daphne, Kevin or Barry.

Barry?

-Yeah, at the risk of our names rhyming, I'll go for Barry.

-Oh, yes.

Carey, Barry. Well, let's have Carey and Barry into the question room, please.

Carey, would you like to go first or second?

Well, as we've got such winning formula, I think I'll go first.

Here we go. Who became the presenter of the TV show Inside Sport in 2007?

OK, well, I hate sport, which is why I didn't want to do it,

but I know that Gabby Logan's into sport presenting

so I think I'm going to go with her.

-Gabby Logan.

-Yeah.

-It's the right answer, well done.

Good start. Barry, which Michael Caine film

was remade in 2003 with Mark Walberg in the lead role?

I believe they were all remade.

I think the remake of Get Carter had Sylvester Stallone in.

I'm not sure of who was in the remake of the other two. So, 2003.

The Italian Job has been remade,

-but I think that was more recent so I'm going to say Alfie.

-Alfie.

You're wondering who was in each.

I saw that, that was Jude Law.

It's The Italian Job.

Great start. Let's reflect on this.

Carey, if you can hold your nerve over the next two questions

you've got a place in the final round.

What is the name of the character played by Tessa Peake Jones

in the TV sitcom Only Fools And Horses?

OK, um, I can't even think who Cherry is in that.

I don't think it's Raquel because, well,

I don't actually know her name.

I don't think it's that, she's been quite a few things.

So I don't know who Cherry is so I'm just going to rule her out

-and I'm going to go Bernice.

-Bernice.

Tessa Peake Jones plays Raquel.

It's Raquel.

Tessa Peake Jones plays Raquel, so nothing there.

Opportunity gone for a bigger lead

but you stay in the lead if Barry doesn't get this.

Barry, for which government agency does Kiefer Sutherland's character

Jack Bauer work in the first series of the TV drama series 24?

I'm ashamed to say I've never watched 24,

despite my son's protestations that it's the best thing on television.

But I don't think it was the FBI and I'm hoping it wasn't the NSA,

but CTU rings some sort of bell, so I have to go for that one. CTU.

CTU. Maybe heard your son talking about it.

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

OK, it's all square, then, so everything to play for.

Carey, in the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind,

which foodstuff does Richard Dreyfuss's character

famously use to sculpt a model of a mountain?

Have you seen it?

-No. No, I haven't see it.

-Oh.

But I'm thinking about

what I would try and make a mountain out of, though.

And, well, ice cream,

I don't think that's practical, it would probably melt.

Butter's kind of a similar kind of thing if it was hot,

so I'm going to go for mashed potato,

I reckon that's the best mountain-making material.

I always say there's always another way of getting an answer.

If you're going to sculpt a mountain and you want to last,

you'd go for mashed potato. It's obviously the character's thinking.

It's the right answer, well done. Well worked out, Carey.

Right, Barry, in which 1953 film did the British actor Jack Buchanan

star alongside Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse?

Hmm, don't think it was Funny Face.

Somehow Royal Wedding doesn't seem right,

but Band Wagon does seem to be the sort of thing that,

title that they would be making in the '50s,

so I shall go for Band Wagon.

I see. So you're using a bit of logic on it. Sounds right.

-I think it does.

-Yeah. Is that right, Eggheads?

-Yes.

-Not the logic but, yeah, the answer's right.

-It is correct.

The Band Wagon is correct, so it's all square

and for the first time in the game we go to Sudden Death.

Well, Carey, we remove the choices

you've been working with pretty successfully.

We've just got to hear an answer from you.

Who famously disrobed to present the all-nude Channel five game show

entitled The Naked Jungle in the year 2000?

Now, you're smiling Carey, do you know?

Yeah, I saw it and it was hilarious. It was Keith Chegwin.

It was Keith Chegwin, well done!

Did you watch it? I must admit I missed it.

-Was it good?

-It was a bit of a shock.

-I wasn't expecting to see that on TV.

-Keith Chegwin, there you are.

Well, it's Keith Chegwin, is that going to put you out, Barry?

Here's your question to stay in.

What was the first name of Rocky Balboa's wife

in the first five Rocky movies?

Oh, gosh. I believe she was played by Talia Shire -

oh, no, Coppola - and something's telling me

she took the same first name, so the only name I have is Talia.

-Talia.

-Mmm-hmm.

-OK.

Rocky Balboa's wife, her first name, and he shouts out her name

repeatedly at the end of the fight in the first Rocky film -

and he shouts out Adrian.

-Adrian?

-Adrian. Adrianna. Adrian.

That's the name. So, well, the name on everyone's lips now is Carey.

Well done to you.

Told you you didn't need to despair after those two head to heads.

You're through to the final round. You've knocked out Are You An Egghead? winner.

Would you both come back and join your teams?

Well done to Carey, there.

Guaranteed to be at least two of you in the final round.

Let's see if we can make it three now with our last head to head

before that round, and it's History.

Who'd like to play from Lindsay or Claire?

-Sorry, Claire, but it's you.

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

I was willing Sport to come up there but, yeah,

it's going to have to be me.

-Who would you like to play from the Eggheads? The choices are Kevin or Daphne.

-Daphne, please.

Daphne, OK. It's a tough choice, both very good at this. I'm sure you are as well.

Claire, go into the question room and prove it for us, will you?

Let's have Claire and Daphne in the question room.

OK, well, Claire, would you like to go first or second?

I'll go first, please.

Best of luck Claire, here you go.

"We are not amused" is a quotation

famously attributed to which British monarch?

I think I'd be leaning towards Victoria.

I'm not too sure why, but that's my gut instinct.

OK, Victoria. It's the right answer.

"We are not amused."

"We are not amused." Got the right answer, there, then.

So let's hope we don't hear the right answer from Daphne.

Daphne, who was king of the United Kingdom during World War I?

That would be George V,

who famously changed the name to Windsor

because of the German connection.

George V is the right answer.

Well done.

Second question coming up then Claire. Good start for you.

Which group of ancient people invaded the Roman empire

in the 4th Century AD and settled in France and Spain,

establishing a monarchy that lasted until the early 8th Century?

Well, I've not heard of Huns.

I don't think it's Visigoths.

I'll say Vikings.

Vikings...invaded a lot of places, but not France and Spain.

It was the Visigoths.

Visigoths. So nothing there.

Chance of a lead for Daphne.

How long did the Hundred Years War between England and France

actually last?

Well, I don't know the exact dates, but it was 116 years.

I expect Kevin knows the dates.

Doesn't trip of the tongue, does it, the 116 years war?

And Kevin, do you know the dates?

Yeah, but I mean, the 116 concerned is 1337 to 1453.

It's the right answer, which means you've got to get this, Claire.

What was the name of the yacht that carried Fidel Castro

and other revolutionaries from Mexico to Cuba in 1956?

Um...

Not much to work on if you don't know it!

-No.

-Well, you've got a one in three chance.

What do you think sounds like a good name for a revolutionary yacht?

Go straight down the middle, Hermana.

Hermana, it does sound like a good name.

It's not, though, the one that carried them from Mexico to Cuba.

-Daphne, do you know?

-Granma.

-Granma.

Well, nothing there for Claire,

Daphne's already got those two correct so it means, Claire,

we draw the round to a close. You won't be playing in the last 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

so Adam, Claire and Barks from Full of Gas,

and Barry from the Eggheads, would you leave the studio, please?

Lindsay and Carey, you're playing to win Full of Gas £5,000.

Judith, Kevin, CJ and Daphne,

you're playing for something which money can't buy -

the Eggheads' reputation.

I'll ask each team three questions. This time, the questions

are all general knowledge and you are allowed to confer.

Full of Gas, the question is are your two brains

better than the Eggheads' four? And Lindsay and Carey,

-would you like to go first or second?

-We'll continue and go first.

Best of luck. General knowledge and, of course, you can confer.

Here we go, first question.

In PG Wodehouse's Blandings Castle books,

what type of animal is the Empress of Blandings?

Have you got any idea?

No. I haven't read any of his books.

No I haven't, no. I only know of Jeeves and Worcester.

-I don't know a pig is very regal.

-I don't know because the only thing

I have heard of is Pigling Bland,

which I don't know is anything to do with this.

Perhaps it's ringing a very vague bell.

What, pig is?

Yeah. It's possibly not connected with this at all.

I haven't got any bells and you've got a little bell

-so we'll go with Lindsay's idea!

-We're going to go with pig.

-Pig.

The Empress of Blandings is a...

-a pig.

-Oh.

-It's the right answer, well done.

You mentioned Pigling Bland, is there any link there?

I mean, entirely different author.

-Beatrix Potter, completely different author.

-Well, got it anyway.

Eggheads, your first question.

Mean Streets is an early work by which film director?

Mean Streets is an early work by which film director?

That's one of the early works by Martin Scorcese.

That is correct. One to you.

Back to Full of Gas, to Carey and Lindsay.

The King Protea is the national flower of which country?

It's King P-R-O-T-E-A.

National flower of which of each of those countries?

I've heard of the Proteas.

-Some connection with sport and South Africa.

-Right, OK.

-Canada's like a maple.

-That's a maple, that's right, yeah.

So it's not them.

New Zealand, that's a fern or something, isn't it?

But I think it's South Africa.

OK, yeah.

-South Africa.

-South Africa is the right answer again.

Well done, you two.

Eggheads, Archibald Leitch

was a Scottish architect most famous for designing what?

-Football stadiums, happy?

-Yeah.

-Yeah, he was a football stadium designer.

-Football stadiums?

-Yeah.

-Is the right answer. Well done, Eggheads.

Right, listen, this is going very well for you Full of Gas.

On what part of the body are geta traditionally worn in Japan?

Have you got...any idea?

-No, I thought it was legs, but they're not there.

-Yeah, I know!

Maybe that's going to lead on to feet.

Do you want to go with feet?

-Yes, we will. Something is drawing us to feet.

-OK.

You're being drawn to these answers, aren't you?

Drawn to pig...

drawn to South Africa, drawn to feet.

And each time it's correct!

It's the right answer.

-Amazing.

-Well done.

It's magnetic quiz answering. There we are, feet.

Are these these kind of wooden type shoes?

Yeah, but with just a thing for your toe, a bit like flip flops.

The two little bars underneath just for walking on.

OK, you've got to get this Eggheads.

Martti Ahtisaari, who was awarded the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize

for his efforts over three decades to resolve international conflicts,

is a former president of which country?

-Finland.

-Martti Ahtisaari, former president of Finland.

It's the right answer. We go to Sudden Death.

You're familiar with that, Carey, know how to handle the nerves!

It means I've just got to hear the answers from you.

Here's your question - the musical star Marie Lloyd

caused controversy with her song, "I sits amongst the cabbages and..."

What's the next word? "I sits amongst the cabbages and..."

I haven't got a clue!

Perhaps it's, "I sits amongst the cabbages and...weed."

Maybe because then she could be weeding the cabbages,

or it could be a double meaning!

-I don't know.

-No, I don't either.

The music hall star Marie Lloyd caused controversy with her song

"I sits amongst the cabbages and..."

-Weed.

-Weed.

Do you know what, you are so close, but it's not the right answer!

You are absolutely on the right track.

"I sits amongst the cabbages and..." You said weed, which is so close.

It's peas! P-E-A-S.

-P-E-A-S.

-Oh.

-Oh, I see yes.

Oh!

That was... I mean, you were on the right track, you were working it.

Oh, bad luck you two. Oh, I thought you were going to get it.

Weed.

It's not over yet. The Eggheads have to get this.

Joseph Smith,

born in Vermont, was the founder of which religious movement in 1830?

-That's er...

-Yes.

The Mormons, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

I was just going to ask...

Yes, I know you were, that's why I thought I'd pre-empt you!

Oh, well, Mormons is correct, Eggheads, you've won.

I'd more or less call it a score draw though after that weed answer!

Bad luck. Thanks very much for playing such a... Game contestants

on Eggheads, even your colleagues sitting back there

in the question room who weren't as successful in those head to heads.

Thanks very much for being here today.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally. They still reign supreme.

You won't be going home with the £5,000,

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. £6,000 says they don't.

Until then, from all of us here, goodbye.

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