Episode 6 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.

Taking on the might of our quiz goliaths today

are the British Beekeepers' Association.

The team might look familiar to some,

as they've appeared on a previous series of Eggheads.

On that occasion, we asked the question,

In 1979, who became the first western rock star to play in the old Soviet Union?

Despite it being widely reported

that Elton John is the correct answer,

some fans of Cliff Richard informed us that Sir Cliff actually played there first, in 1976,

a full three years before Elton John.

Because of that error, it only seemed fair to invite the Beekeepers back on, so let's meet them again.

Hi, I'm Kerry.

I'm 29 and I'm a cheesemaker.

Hello, I'm Chris, I'm 56 and I'm an IT architect.

Hi, I'm Val, I'm 56 and a retired teacher.

Hello, I'm John, I'm 58 and I'm a retired computer scientist.

Hello, I'm Frank, I'm 69 and I'm a retired chartered engineer.

Well, this is a first for Eggheads. Nice to have you back,

with an addition down the end there, Frank.

Glad to have you on the team here. Kerry, things have been a bit different for you, haven't they?

I have my own addition, yes!

I've got a little two-month-old baby called Bede.

Congratulations. Thank you very much. And I know you keep cheese...

Kerry, I know you keep bees and make cheese!

I do keep cheese as well! How are the two going?

Well, it's quite hard for the bees this year.

The weather has been a bit of a challenge for us,

and the cheese is going fairly well.

My husband's having to work hard now I've got the baby to look after. Well, best of luck.

Let's have a reprise. Let's see if you can beat the Eggheads this time.

Every day there's ?1,000 worth of cash up for grabs

for our challengers.

But if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over to the next show.

So, British Beekeepers, the Eggheads

have won the last three games, which means ?4,000

says you can't beat the Eggheads.

The first head to head battle will be on the subject of music.

British Beekeepers' Association, who'd like to play this one?

Nobody was particularly keen, were they? No, I think Chris.

I think it has to be me.

OK, Chris. For no apparent reason!

Do you want to take on your namesake? All the Eggheads are available. You did last time.

Well, we did, didn't we? Let's go with that.

OK, yes. Chris. OK.

Two Chrises, once again, into the question room and playing music.

Chris, would you like to go first or second?

Good luck. Here's your first question.

Now, yes...very good.

One of my brothers was an officer in the Merchant Navy for some time,

and he has a charming wife and children, so it's a sailor.

Egghead Chris. What was the title

of Simply Red's best-selling 1991 album?

I don't care for Simply Red at all.

You say that with a certain amount of venom!

You want venom? You've come to the right place!

Straight down the middle... Planets.

not Planets! Well, good start for British Beekeeper Chris.

so I'm going for Showaddywaddy.

were by...

Darts, so Egghead Chris,

in which city was the soprano Maria Callas born in 1923?

She was of Greek extraction, born in New York.

Yes, she was! It's the right answer, so all square.

Beekeeper Chris, who wrote the opera Pilgrim's Progress, based on the allegory by John Bunion?

A fine selection of English composers.

Any of them, I think, could have done.

It doesn't sound like Elgar's style.

Vaughan Williams wrote a relatively small amount of opera as I remember,

but Benjamin Britten did...

I think it's Benjamin Britten.

OK. Pilgrim's Progress, written by...

Vaughan Williams, so after that good start,

two wrong, meaning Egghead Chris can win the round if he gets this.

The French Cornemeuse and the Italian Zampogna

are related to and most closely resemble which musical instrument?

Well, the French Cornemeuse,

the word corn is sort of like horn, as in Cor Anglais, so it's

a wind instrument. The banjo is strings, the Bodhran is percussion,

so it's got to be the bagpipes.

The bagpipes, it is correct.

What a turnaround in that round.

It means Beekeeper Chris,

I'm afraid you won't be in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

In the battle of the Chrisses,

the Egghead win means one British Beekeeper will be missing at least from the final round.

We play our second head to head now. This one is science.

Who would like to play this?

It can't be Chris. Any of you?

I think Kerry needs to do this one.

My team is so good to me! Yet again, they're giving me science!

You did well last time!

Which Egghead would you like to play, Kerry?

It can't be Chris. I'm very scared to, but I'll take on Daphne.

Daphne. So let's have Kerry and Daphne into the question room, please.

OK, Kerry. Would you like to go first or second?

Please can I go first, Dermot?

Good luck. It's science. First question.

What type of creature is the South American Hoatzin?

I'm thinking about South America.

I visited Brazil once,

and I was really impressed with the amazing birds there.

I'm going to go for bird.

The South American Hoatzin... is a bird. Well done!

A difficult one to negotiate to kick off with.

Daphne, the White Wagtail is the continental variety of which British bird?

The only one I've heard of is a Pied Wagtail, so that's the one

I'll go for. Pied Wagtail is correct.

Well done, Daphne.

Kerry, second question.

What is the atomic symbol for the element Chromium?

C is for Carbon,

Co is for Cobalt

and Cr is for Chromium.

Can't argue with that! Well done! Correct!

Two to you. Daphne,

which scientist was president of the Royal Society from 1703 to 1727?

Ooh! You're doing this on the dates?

Um...I really don't know.

I'm gonna have to guess at Humphry Davy.

Sorry, folks, but...

CJ far from wagging his tail!

Isaac Newton died in 1727.

It's wrong, incorrect. All right, Joseph Lister.

CJ's shouting at you, Isaac Newton died in 1727.

All right, OK. While he was President of the Royal Society, then!

Isaac Newton is the answer we were looking for so, Kerry,

you win the round if you get this.

What geographical features are associated with or induce orographic thunderstorms?

So with graphic, you think of pictorial type things.

Oro...

I'm sure everybody else's understanding

of the language and where things come from is much better at this than me.

I would think it would be unlikely

that a lake might induce a thunderstorm.

I wonder if something to do with the heat of the deserts might, or...

I'm going to go for deserts.

Kerry struggling there, Eggheads, with the Oro.

Is there a linguistic route there? Yes, the Latin. It's mountains.

Latin for mountains. So a chance for Daphne. I thought you were looking

at a mountain to climb there!

A chance for you to take us into sudden death, Daphne

The curved ridge on each ventricle of the human brain known as

the hippocampus is widely believed to be central to which process?

My mind's gone absolutely blank.

Hippocampus...

I ought to know this.

I'm absolutely struggling.

I used to know this.

Um...processing memory.

Processing memory, you say?

Yes!

I thought your hippocampus was letting you down!

That is the right answer,

processing memory. Well developed, of course, in all the Eggheads,

the hippocampus, so it's all square again.

Sudden death, Kerry, as you know,

means that we don't see any more choices for either of you now.

We've just got to hear an answer from you, and this is your question.

Which word from the Latin for worm is used to refer to parasitic insects such as lice,

or animals such as foxes or rodents

that are difficult to control and are considered to carry disease?

My Latin's not too hot, but I understand the need to control vermin

so my answer is vermin.

We could do with some pest control around here some days, I can tell you!

Vermin is correct, yes.

So your Latin working that time, after the Oro let you down.

OK, well, Daphne,

got to get this. What name is given to the study of sound and sound waves?

Acoustics.

From the... Greek. Greek.

Very good, Judith. Acoustos. All right, then.

Well done. You've got that, so we have another question each.

The chemical element, Kerry, with the symbol RF was named after which

New Zealand-born scientist? I'll need a first name and a surname

I can't even think which element has the symbol RF.

I have Rutherford in my head, but that would be a bit of a ridiculous name to have

called the element after if you haven't got an F in your name.

We want the name of a New Zealand-born scientist. We need a first name and a surname.

I'll invent a name... Ian Rutherford.

Ooh, she's so close!

Oh, Kerry! I didn't get the first name, did I?

No! I don't know his first name.

It's Rutherford, yeah. It's Rutherfordium is the element, but...

What's his first name?

Eggheads? Ernest.

Oh! Ernest Rutherford.

Well, Daphne, to win the round, what name is given to a plant

that flowers and dies in its second year, but doesn't flower in its first?

A biennial? Are you a gardener? No, no, no!

No, my husband is.

Biennial is correct, Daphne.

You have scraped through.

So close, Kerry! I'm sorry, you won't be playing in the final.

Please come back and join your teams.

Still reeling after that round with Kerry and Daphne,

but it does mean the British Beekeepers' Association

will be missing two brains from the final round.

The Eggheads are all there. And we play our next subject, then.

This one's geography.

Who'd like to play? Would you like it, Val?

Val will do it. Val will do Geography.

OK. Well, Daphne and Chris have played, so CJ, Kevin or Judith?

What about Judith! Isn't she good at geography? They're all good at everything!

They're all good! I would go for CJ, actually. Are we agreed on that?

Big decision, yeah, CJ, then.

You were going to choose Judith, weren't you? I was.

But the instinct is that CJ...

by my team! We're going a lot on Kerry's instincts today!

Kerry was good when she was in the question room.

Let's see if it works with against CJ, Val.

Would you both please take your positions in the question room?

Geography, do you want the first set or the second set, Val

I think I'd better go first, please. Off we go, then. Good luck!

El Nino is a weather phenomenon that occurs in which ocean?

Right. I know it is the southern part

of the hemisphere and I'm pretty sure it's not the Indian Ocean.

I think it moves across the Atlantic.

I think I'm going to have to go with my instinct and say Atlantic.

It's the Pacific! Pacific, Val!

So, CJ with an early opportunity.

CJ, Ilkley Moor, celebrated in the famous song about not having a hat,

is in which county of England?

I haven't got the blindest idea!

Isn't Ilkley Moor near Bradford, and why have I got that in my head?

Bradford is in...

West Yorkshire, I think, but don't hold me to that...

or is it in North Yorkshire? I don't know.

I think it's around that area,

so I'm going to rule out Cumbria and I'm going to go for West Yorkshire.

West Yorkshire?

Most viewers are howling at the screen.

It's the right answer, yes, and Val...how you would have loved it!

I should have gone second, shouldn't I?

Oh, dear me! Well, it's given CJ, somehow, the lead.

Val, your second question. The towns of Uberlingen, Friedrichshafen

and Lindau are situated on the shores of which body of water?

Right, well there's a German sound to those names. Friedrichshafen...

It sounds like a harbour.

I don't think they're Lake Constance.

I'll go for the Baltic Sea.

The Baltic, Uberlingen,

Friedrichshafen and Lindau, are they on the Baltic, CJ?

It's what I'd have picked,

but I'm not sure. From the names, I'd have gone for the Baltic.

It's Lake Constance. Oh, no!

Dear me! The first one I've ruled out again!

CJ, then, actually to win it, bizarrely!

How did that happen?

CJ, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is a feature of which US city?

New York, Miami or San Francisco?

It's in New York.

Yes, American geography and history and politics, he knows a lot about.

It is the right answer, CJ.

Apologise to Val!

No! You are through to the final round.

Bad luck, Val. Would you both please come back and join your teams?

So, as it stands, the British Beekeepers have lost three brains

from the final round. The Eggheads haven't lost any. Our last subject before that final round

is food and drink, and it's John or Frank to play.

Is this Frank's topic? Yes, Frank's gonna do this.

Who do you want play, Frank? It's Judith or Kevin.

Would you like to take Kevin on?

I think... Kevin, please.

Can I ask you both, please, to take your positions in the question room.

Frank, do you want to go first or second?

I'll go second.

Putting the three time World Quiz Champion in to bat.

Kevin, which word normally indicates

I wouldn't like to try it if it was calcified! It's carbonated.

Carbonated is correct.

Frank, your first question.

What colloquial name is given

to strips of bread or toast that are dipped in a soft boiled egg?

Well, I would like to think that it was policemen, but I have to admit

that it's almost certainly soldiers.

It is indeed, yes, soldiers there, one each.

Kevin, which type of pastry derives

its name from the French for cabbages?

The French for cabbage is choux, so choux.

Choux is correct.

Two there, then.

Frank, the Blue Lagoon cocktail

consists of lemonade, blue Curacao and which alcoholic spirit?

Well, it sounds a bit Caribbean,

so I suppose it isn't vodka.

I'm trying to work this one out

because I'm not sure, so it's a toss-up between tequila and gin.

I think I'll go for tequila.

It's actually vodka in a Blue Lagoon.

So is the decision to put Kevin in first going to backfire?

Kevin, as what is lecithin primarily used in the food industry?

I don't think it's an artificial colouring.

I'm just trying to remember as between...

or at least I don't think it is.

No, it's something to do with... actually making things set,

I think,

but does that make it...

Mmm, I'm torn between the other two now.

I'm going to say preservative.

Eggheads, what do you think? Emulsifier. Emulsifier, Kevin.

Well, good news for you, Frank. Get this and we go to sudden death.

What is the meaning of the word "seco"

when found on an Italian bottle of wine?

Well, I'm sure it's not rose,

I'm doubtful that it's sweet, and since "seco"

sounds like the French word "sec",

which is dry, I'll go for dry.

And you'd be right, too. Yes, well done.

Dry takes us to sudden death.

One wrong apiece there in the multiple choice.

Kevin, your sudden death question.

What's the name of the American round sweets with the hole in the middle

originally produced in peppermint flavour

by chocolate manufacturer Clarence Crane in 1912

to sell in the summer when chocolate sales declined?

Well, I'm not gonna hang about on this one, because I can't think of anything else.

The thing that polo mints were eventually supposed

to have been based on... shouldn't advertise, I know...

but I think they were called Lifesavers, so I'm going for Lifesavers.

Is the right answer, yes.

Well, it means you've got to get this, Frank.

In food preservation,

for what does the sterilisation technique HTST stand?

Well, the H is almost certainly going to be high, I guess the first T is going to be temperature,

I'm hoping that the S is sterilisation

and I'm praying that the final T is treatment.

High Temperature Sterilisation Treatment.

It stands for High Temperature Short Time. It's not the right answer.

It means, Kevin, you have made it through into the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

So this is what we've been playing towards.

It's time now for the final round, which, as always,

is general knowledge, but I'm afraid those of you who lost

your head to heads won't be allowed to take part, so Kerry, Chris, Val and Frank

from the British Beekeepers' Association,

would you leave the studio, please.

So John, you're playing to win the British Beekeepers' Association ?4,000.

Judith, Kevin, CJ, Daphne and Chris,

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

the Eggheads' reputation.

As usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.

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

John, is your one brain better than the Eggheads' five, and would you like to go first or second?

I'll go first, please, Dermot.

First it is for you, John. Best of luck, and this is your question.

Who was the manager of Crewe Alexandra Football Club between 1983 and 2007?

That's not a football club that I tend to watch,

but I'm just looking at the three answers there.

The only one I've heard of who has done managing is John Lyall,

so all I can say is, I'll go for John Lyall.

John Lyall, you think, a very long reign there at Crewe Alexandra,

whoever it was.

It's not, John. It's not John Lyall. Do you know, Eggheads?

Dario Gradi.

24 years in charge of Crewe Alexandra. So, nothing there.

Eggheads, your first question.

Ozymandias was a ruler of which country in the 13th century BC?

Everyone happy with Egypt? Egypt.

OK, all happy?

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings".

I think it was either Babylon or Sumeria.

He was seen in Egypt.

"Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair".

But he was dug up in Egypt, wasn't he?

My instinct was Egypt. I remember reading it.

Keen debate amongst the Eggheads, there.

It doesn't sound Egyptian to me...

A nasty question. I'm gonna need an answer...

I remember being surprised it was Egypt. Go on, then.

We have to go for that.

Ozymandias was the ruler of which country in the 13th century?

We'll go for Egypt.

OK, with rather an amount of doubt and so on, Egypt.

Egypt? The answer...

is Egypt!

So, we need to get you off the mark with this one, John.

The NASUWT represents workers from which sector?

I should know this!

W...

And yet, sitting here...

I don't think it's policing. I'll go for education, working

on the assumption that the T is something to do with teaching

at the end, but with no great confidence.

That's all I can say, I'm afraid.

Education?

Looking at Val, a former teacher,

nodding along. Yes, I don't know if you'll remember...

it's the right answer, education.

What does it stand for, Eggheads?

National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers.

The Kid Brother and Hot Water

were silent feature films of the 1920s starring which comedian?

Charlie Chaplin was The Kid,

not The Kid Brother. I mean, Stan Laurel did do it... Ollie.

Hot Water sounds like Harold Lloyd.

It sounds like his sort of style, doesn't it?

The Kid's Brother, I think, rings a little bell

in relation to Harold Lloyd,

but I'm not certain. It could be. I don't think it's Chaplin.

It's not Chaplin. I don't think it's Laurel... I think it's Harold Lloyd.

We'll go for that. Yeah, go for that. Harold Lloyd?

Kid Brother, Hot Water? Are you going to be in hot water?

More debate? We think it's Harold Lloyd.

Harold Lloyd? Kid Brother and Hot Water starred...

Harold Lloyd, yes, you got it!

It means, John, you must get this.

Of what is scansion the analysis?

Another interesting question!

I'd be fairly confident it's not money.

I can't ever remember coming across it when I was studying physics

many years ago, so I'm going to go for poetry.

Poetry. Scansion? It's the right answer.

But...because of that slip-up on the first one, John,

means the Eggheads do win it if they get this.

A rigadoon is a type of what?

Apparently, it's a French Folk Dance.

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

Well, they have done it again to you,

British Beekeepers, but thanks very much for coming back.

I hope we've made amends.

Oh, yes, thank you for letting us come back. It's been most enjoyable!

Well, best of luck to you all and thank you very much for playing Eggheads today.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally.

They still reign supreme over quiz land.

I'm afraid you won't be going home with the ?4,000, which means

the money rolls over to our 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.

?5,000 says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.

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