Episode 60 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?

Hello, 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 challenging our resident quiz champions today are the Hotheads.

The team all work together at the Fire Department of Inverness Airport

and if they aren't tackling an emergency,

then they spend their tea-time watching Eggheads!

What could be better! Let's meet them.

Hello, my name is John, I'm 44 and I'm an Airport Fire Officer.

Hello, my name is Bruce, I'm 39 and I'm an Airport Crew Commander.

Hi, my name is James, I'm 37 and I'm also an Airport Crew Commander.

Hi, I'm Sandy, I'm 41 and I'm an Airport Firefighter.

Hi, I'm Jeremy, I'm 33 and I'm an Airport Firefighter.

Welcome to you, Hotheads. Glad to hear about the Egghead addiction!

Hard to get out of your mind!

-Can you believe you're actually here playing the Eggheads?

-Absolutely!

I see these goliaths as excellent!

Goliaths, yeah! When you see them close-up... impressive.

Tell me about the work though,

I mean it's ever such important work, isn't it?

I mean you must just practice, practice, practice

at all times for all eventualities.

-There are so many things, I guess, that could potentially go wrong at an airport?

-Absolutely!

What we have is a structured training programme

that gives us different scenarios

and once a month we practice these scenarios.

We just keep going, all through the year.

Well, listen, guys, let's play Eggheads, shall we?

Let's see if you can win the money.

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

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

So Hotheads, the Eggheads have won the last five games,

which means £6,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

Let's see if it can be done.

The first head to head, then, is going to be Music.

Who wants to play Music?

Do one or two of you like your music?

Bruce for Music, is it? Bruce is gonna do Music.

OK, Bruce, now which Egghead?

As you know, any one of them at this stage - they're all free.

Chris?

Chris, please.

-Chris.

-Oh, fine!

-Fine, exactly, won a few recently.

Let's have Bruce and Chris into the Question Room please then,

to play Music.

OK, Bruce, I take it you enjoy Music,

given you're playing the round?

Yes, I do, yes. It's a big part of my life, music, yes.

OK, now it's always the Challengers' choice.

Would you like to go first or second.

I'd like to go first, please.

Good luck, Bruce. Here's your first question.

First question for the Hotheads.

Where did the band the Bay City Rollers come from?

Scotland, Wales or Ireland?

Where did the band the Bay City Rollers come from?

Well, I do know this one and I can go straight to it...

-They're from Scotland.

-Yeah!

Perhaps not Scotland's finest musical export, but...

Yes, I would agree with that!

The Bay City Rollers are from Scotland!

Fell very nicely there for Bruce, just eased you in there. One to you.

Chris, Shaun Ryder was the lead singer of which band?

The Happy Mondays, the Charlatans or Blur?

Well, it's not Blur. I think that was Jarvis Cocker.

I don't think he's with the Charlatans,

I think he was with the Happy Mondays on the Manchester scene in the '80s.

OK.

The Happy Mondays.

Sorry, Jarvis Cocker again, who does he...?

-Was he with Blur or was he with Pulp, I don't know!

-Not as such.

You're right, you redeemed yourself, Happy Mondays is the right answer.

It doesn't matter about the rest.

OK, Bruce, second question for you.

Appetite For Destruction

is a best-selling album by which heavy-metal band?

Kiss, Metallica or Guns N' Roses?

Well, Appetite For Destruction was actually their debut album.

I know it's not Metallica, it's not Kiss.

It's Guns N' Roses.

Guns N' Roses and a bit of extra information as well thrown in.

Debut album of Guns N' Roses, it's the right answer.

-OK, Chris, which girl group...

-Ooh!

-He hates that sound, doesn't he?

Which girl group had a UK hit single with Girls in 2008?

Girls Aloud, Sugababes or Pussycat Dolls?

Well, the rule of thumb always used to be it's always the Sugababes,

but I don't think it is.

So it's either Girls Aloud or the Pussycat Dolls,

but Girls by Girls Aloud sounds a bit tautologous,

so I'll go with the Pussycat Dolls.

Rule of thumb, Chris!

-Rule of thumb!

-The Sugababes!

-It's The Sugababes!

LAUGHTER

We shouldn't laugh! Poor Chris!

Yes, we should!

You're just gonna have to listen to some of it!

OK, well it's given Bruce a big chance here.

If you get this, you're in the final round.

Who sang with Cliff Richard on the 1989 Christmas Top 40 single

Whenever God Shines His Light?

Is it Chris de Burgh, Van Morrison or Lulu?

Erm...

I'm not too sure about this one.

I'm pretty sure it's not Lulu.

It's either Chris de Burgh or Van Morrison.

I think I'll go for Van Morrison.

It is a strange pairing, Cliff Richard and Van Morrison,

but it did happen with Whenever God Shines His Light,

it's the right answer. Well done, Bruce!

It means you're through to the final round.

Chris doesn't get to face another question.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Flying start by the Hotheads.

Bruce straight through to the final round, the Eggheads one down.

Let's play our next head to head. This one is Film and Television.

Who wants to play this? It can't be you, Bruce.

-I'll go for that one.

-Sandy?

-Sandy.

OK, Sandy, now who would you like to play from the Eggheads?

It cannot be Chris, so it's any of the other four.

Who do you think, Bruce? Do you think CJ looks a bit eager?

Cross CJ off! Anybody but CJ.

Anybody but!

Were you the kind of child at school who just went "Me, me, me! Please!"

I'll try Daphne.

-Daphne! OK.

-No, he'd be better!

No, it's gonna be you, Daphne.

Let's have Sandy and Daphne into the question room then, please.

OK then Sandy, let's get on with it

and see if you can knock another Egghead out.

-Do you want to begin, or let Daphne start?

-I'll go first, please.

Best of luck. Here we go, Sandy.

Which actor played Dr Emmett Brown in the Back To The Future films?

Is it Christopher Lloyd, Andy Kaufman or John Belushi?

I've seen this film and I think it's Christopher Lloyd.

Christopher Lloyd?

It most certainly is.

Dr Emmett Brown in Back To The Future. Correct!

Daphne, who played Rosemary in the 1968 film Rosemary's Baby?

Mia Farrow, Sissy Spacek or Glenda Jackson?

Oh, good! 40 years ago, I might remember that one!

Mia Farrow.

That's the correct answer.

Good start by Sandy. Let's build on it.

Sandy, which comic wrote and starred in the one-off spoof

Britain's Got The Pop Factor And Possibly A New Celebrity

Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly On Ice?

Was it Ricky Gervais, Peter Kay or Chris Morris?

I think I saw this on TV a couple of months ago

and I'm pretty sure it's Peter Kay.

Yeah. It was brilliant, wasn't it! Peter Kay is the right answer.

And gives you a two-one lead.

But of course, Daphne hasn't faced her second question to be fair.

Let's see if you still have that lead after this.

What is the profession of Fitz, the character played by Robbie Coltrane

in the TV series Cracker?

A lawyer, a psychologist or a pathologist?

Now this I did see, and enjoyed it.

He was a psychologist.

Psychologist is correct. Well done, Daphne.

It's two-all, a good round.

Sandy, which Vietnam War film features a famous scene

in which the American soldiers are forced to play Russian roulette?

Is it Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter or Platoon?

I think this was with...

Probably Robert De Niro, I think, was in this and somebody else.

I'm pretty sure it was The Deer Hunter.

The Deer Hunter is your answer? OK.

Deer Hunter it is. Well done.

A Russian roulette scene while they're being held prisoner.

You've got to get this then, Daphne, or another Egghead goes.

Who played Ronnie Barker's son Raymond

in the Porridge spin-off Going Straight?

Dennis Waterman, Rik Mayall or Nicholas Lyndhurst?

Ooh, never saw it!

Nicholas Lyndhurst plays sort of dopey sons, doesn't he!

I'm trying to think when it was.

All right then, Nicholas Lyndhurst.

Nicholas Lyndhurst plays "dopey sons"?

-Yes!

-Or did, earlier in his career, didn't he!

-There was what Butterflies and things like that.

-But...

I'm not sure if he was dopey or not,

-but played Ronnie Barker's son in Going Straight.

-Oh!

It's the right answer, Nicholas Lyndhurst.

Well identified, Daphne.

We go to Sudden Death as you know, being a keen Eggheads viewer.

We've had three questions each you both got them correct,

so we're gonna make it harder

to sort out a winner by removing the choices. Here's yours, Sandy.

Which animated science fiction series

by The Simpsons' creator Matt Groening,

featured a pizza delivery boy who thawed out

after being frozen for a thousand years?

I think the pizza delivery boy was called Fry,

and I think the programme was Futurama.

Is the right answer, yes.

Futurama is correct.

OK, you've gotta get this then, Daphne.

Sue Nicholls, who plays Audrey in Coronation Street

-played Nadia Popov in which children's TV series?

-Oh...

Oh... Was she is in Rentaghost?

-Was she?

-I don't know!

-Is that your answer?

I just think about Popov and ghosts, yeah. I don't know!

-So, what's your answer, I don't know or...

-Rentaghost.

Rentaghost is correct.

"I don't know", yes. But you do!

OK, another question, Sandy.

Who took over from Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show in 1992?

Erm...

I think that was Jay Leno.

Jay Leno? Obviously massive shows,

these late-night talk shows, aren't they, in the United States?

Got a big rival in David Letterman.

Jay Leno took over The Tonight Show, it's the right answer, well done!

Well, another one for you, Daphne.

Which director whose films include Die Hard and The Thomas Crown Affair

was sentenced to four months in prison in September 2007

for lying to the FBI?

Honestly, don't know.

The only person I can think of who has got into trouble

and he's not a director is Wesley Snipes,

and I know it's wrong, but...

OK, yeah.

You never know, he might have directed Die Hard!

He didn't. It's the wrong answer. Wesley Snipes, it's not.

-Other Eggheads, do we know?

-John McTiernan?

-John McTiernan.

-Do we know what he did?

-No.

Why he upset Federal Agents? He apparently misled them.

They were investigating the case of Anthony Pellicano,

a private investigator charged with setting up illegal wire-taps

to pry on Hollywood celebrities.

Well, listen, Sandy, you're through to the final round.

-You had to work hard!

-Yeah.

You deservedly got through. Really strong performance.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

Excuse the pun but the Hotheads are on fire.

Knocked two Eggheads out without reply.

Let's play our third subject today and this one is Food and Drink.

Who would like to play?

From the Hotheads, it's John, James or Jeremy left.

One of the Js!

ALL TALK AT ONCE

All right. Yep.

-OK, James.

-James, and who would you like to play from the Eggheads?

-Judith, Kevin or CJ available?

-Kevin.

I think Kevin is the player I'd like to play against.

Yes, I rather thought that!

-Oh, I probably will!

-So did he!

Let's have James and Kevin into the Question Room, please.

Well, this is getting exciting!

-James, do you wanna go first or second?

-I'd love to go first.

Here you go, James. Pilau is a way of preparing which foodstuff?

Rice, potatoes or lentils?

Pilau is a way of preparing which foodstuff?

We've had quite a long day today

and I've been thinking about my pillow on a regular basis,

but I think this type of pilau is rice.

You've been thinking about a curry after this, it's right. Pilau rice.

OK, Kevin. What name is given to small strips of fish,

typically plaice or sole coated in breadcrumbs and fried?

Is it glace, goujon or galette?

It's a goujon.

I can see a few children eating those right now while we quiz.

It's the right answer, goujons.

OK, James,

lardons is a term for chunks of which type of meat?

Pork, beef or lamb?

Unfortunately for me, I've been a vegetarian for half my life,

so I'm gonna have to make a guess

to say that beef is certainly not one of them,

or the correct answer.

I don't think it's lamb either, so I'm gonna go with pork.

I think pork.

OK, pork, you think fits the bill. It does, it's the right answer.

Kevin, what type of foodstuff was Lymeswold,

launched in 1982 and withdrawn ten years later?

Tinned meat, cake mix or cheese?

It was an attempt to create a new British cheese,

which, well ten years I suppose, but obviously didn't last.

-So cheese, anyway.

-Cheese?

-Mm-hm.

-Was I the only person in the country that enjoyed it!

-I liked it!

Bring it back!

-Not bad at all!

-It's the right answer. Yes, cheese, Lymeswold.

OK, two each.

James, what type of food is the traditional Spanish churro,

often eaten at breakfast?

Is it bacon, doughnut or jam?

I probably should know this because I did study Spanish for a while,

but that was a long time ago!

Did you go to Spain and have breakfast there?

-I had breakfast but it was vegetarian breakfast!

-Oh, yeah.

-So I'm gonna go along the meat option again and go for bacon.

-OK.

Well, no, as a vegetarian you could have had this,

depending how it was fried, doughnut.

It's doughnut, not bacon,

so a chance for the Eggheads to strike back with Kevin.

-In Japanese cuisine, Kevin...

-Oh, great(!)

-I know how you like that!

In Japanese cuisine, usukuchi shoyu and tamari are types of what?

Fish roe, cabbage or soy sauce?

I honestly haven't got a clue,

so it could be any of those, so...

I'm going for cabbage.

OK.

Usukuchi shoyu and tamari are types of cabbage, you think?

Yes, well, like a cabbage...

But they might put this on cabbage, it's soy sauce.

Soy sauce, so a let-off, James.

Both all square.

We go to Sudden Death and that means no choices, just to remind you.

James, what type of fruit is an Egremont Russet?

What type of fruit is an Egremont Russet?

I'm thinking it's either a pear or an apple.

I'll go for apple.

Apple it is, the right answer. Are you gonna take a bite out of Kevin?

Kevin, which revered French chef created the dish, Peach Melba,

in the 19th century?

I think...

Escoffier.

-I need both a first name and a surname.

-Auguste Escoffier.

Auguste Escoffier is correct.

OK, back to you, James.

Which type of chocolate-flavoured biscuit

shares its name with the Royal House of France and Spain?

Do you like a biscuit to dunk with your cup of tea?

I love a biscuit, but not this kind!

-Bourneville.

-Chocolate flavoured biscuit.

-Sorry?

-A Bourneville biscuit.

-Bourneville?

-That's my answer.

Oh, so close, but it's not a Bourneville. It is a...?

-ALL: Bourbon.

-Bourbon.

Bourbon, the Royal House of France and Spain, Bourbon.

OK, Kevin, chance for a win, then.

Which pasta in the form of sheets or wide strips

is believed to have a name from the Latin for chamber-pot?

I'm sorry, the only thing I can think of with sheets is lasagne,

so I'll have to say that.

Lasagne? Apologise to James, because it's correct.

Lasagne is the right answer.

Bad luck, James and it was a great round in the end,

but you just lost out.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

The Hotheads have just lost their first brain from the final round,

the Eggheads are two down, and this is our last subject before the final round.

It's Sport and John or Jeremy remain to play it. Sport.

-I'll go.

-I think John's stronger at sport.

-Yep.

That'll be mine.

John, who would you like to play from the Eggheads?

-Chris, Daphne and Kevin have played, so CJ or Judith?

-Take CJ?

Or Judith.

CJ.

CJ, OK. Judith glad not to play, and you're glad not to play her.

She's been picked a lot for sport but been winning a lot,

so let's see how CJ does.

Can I ask you both please to take your positions in the Question Room?

Okey-doke, John, do you want to go first or second in this Sport round?

I think I'll change things round, I'll go second.

OK, it's CJ first.

Which country was the sprinter Ben Johnson representing

when he was stripped of his 100 metre gold medal at the 1988 Olympics?

Canada, the USA or Jamaica?

Yeah, he clocked a time of 9.79 seconds

and it was considerably faster than anything else at the time,

was disqualified, Carl Lewis got the gold,

and Ben Johnson represented Canada.

Canada is the right answer, CJ, well done. Good start for you.

John, Percy Montgomery, Schalk Burger and Victor Matfield

have all played Rugby Union for which country?

Australia, New Zealand or South Africa?

I'm gonna discount Australia and New Zealand.

I think the names sound more like they're from South Africa,

so I'll go with South Africa.

South Africa, Montgomery, Burger and Matfield.

Yes, it's the right answer.

Good start for you then, John.

CJ, the footballer Dimitar Berbatov who joined Manchester United in 2008

was born in which country?

Bulgaria, Croatia or Israel?

I'm asking you, CJ.

I want to go second!

Er, Dimitar?

Dimitar Berbatov.

Sounds Bulgarian, doesn't it, the name?

Dimitar Berbatov was born in Bulgaria.

OK, you've gone for Bulgaria.

He's from Bulgaria! It's right, Dimitar Berbatov, well worked-out.

CJ worked that out on the name.

OK, John, your second question.

Which British boxer suffered the first defeat of his professional career in September 2008

when he was knocked out in less than a minute

by Colombia's Breidis Prescott?

Is it Joe Calzaghe, Ricky Hatton or Amir Khan?

It's gotta be an educated guess.

I'm gonna have to go for Amir Khan.

OK, Amir Khan... knocked out in less than a minute.

Yes, rather blotted his copybook, it's right. Amir Khan is correct.

Two each. CJ, third question.

Which erratic French tennis player

who lost to Andy Murray in the fourth round at Wimbledon in 2008

is nicknamed "The Microwave",

because of his ability to suddenly produce a hot streak?

Is it Arnaud Clement, Richard Gasquet or Fabrice Santoro?

I have never heard that name!

Fabrice Santoro is too old now, I think he's 36,

he wouldn't reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam.

Arnaud Clement is a former Australian Open finalist, I think in 2001,

but Murray didn't play either of those two at Wimbledon '08.

It was Richard Gasquet.

-Gasquet?

-He was two sets to love down and came back to win in five.

Yeah, it's the right answer. "The Microwave".

That's one of your favourite sporting subjects.

A bit of 'microwavery' from you there, CJ.

It means you've got to get this.

Which English bowler took 189 Test wickets between 1901 and 1914

at an average of only 16.43?

Sydney Barnes, Johnny Douglas or Frank Woolley?

I have to say, it may be sacrilege

but I haven't heard of any of the three of them. So...

Johnny Douglas.

Johnny Douglas.

Erm...

It's Sydney Barnes!

Sorry, John. That really was bowling a googly at you there,

but it's the way the questions fell.

You put CJ in first. I wonder how he'd have done with that!

That's very interesting to think about,

but he got that tennis one, which he did like.

CJ is through to the final round, no place for you, John.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

This is what we've playing towards.

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

but I'm afraid those who lost your head to heads

won't be allowed to take part.

John and James from the Hotheads and Daphne and Chris from the Eggheads,

would you leave the studio, please?

So, Bruce, Sandy and Jeremy,

you're playing to win the Hotheads £6,000.

Judith, 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.

This time the questions are General Knowledge,

and you are allowed to confer.

Hotheads, the question is,

are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three?

Bruce, Sandy and Jeremy, would you like to go first or second?

-First?

-First, please.

First it is, then. See if you can win the money today.

Good luck to you.

Which comedian's act famously included the catchphrase,

"spoon-jar, jar-spoon"?

Bobby Davro, Tommy Cooper or Ken Dodd?

Which comedian's act famously included the catchphrase,

"spoon-jar, jar-spoon"?

I think so, yeah. Go for that, then.

We'll go for Tommy Cooper.

Tommy Cooper, and it applied to any objects really, didn't it!

-Or any object.

-Yes, Tommy Cooper is the right answer, well done.

OK, Eggheads, first one for you.

Alex Curran married which England footballer in 2007?

Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard or John Terry?

Alex Curran married which England footballer in 2007?

ALL TALK AT ONCE

I'm reliably informed it's Steven Gerrard.

It is Steven Gerrard, yes.

Married Alex Curran in 2007, so one each.

Hotheads, where would you expect to find a rood screen?

R-O-O-D. Where would you expect to find a rood screen?

A church, theatre or car?

R-O-O-D for a rood screen?

I think we can rule out car.

-What do you think?

-Church.

-I have an inkling towards church.

Would you have a screen?

Yes, why do you think it would be that?

-It's just an inkling.

-It's just come into your head there, has it?

-Yeah.

-We'll have to go for that, because we don't really know, do we?

Well, after much deliberation we can't come up with an exact answer,

but we shall plump for church.

Church. It's the right answer.

A rood screen in a church.

OK, your question, Eggheads.

What type of geographical feature is Croagh Patrick

in County Mayo in Ireland?

Mountain, lake or forest?

What type of geographical feature is Croagh Patrick

in County Mayo in Ireland?

That is a mountain.

-Mountain?

-A mountain.

It's the right answer, Eggheads, yes.

Two each. Back to the Hotheads.

Lucienne Day born in 1917 is acclaimed as a designer of what?

Pottery, fabrics or shoes?

Lucienne Day born in 1917 is acclaimed as a designer of what?

Pottery, fabrics or shoes?

Shoes comes into my head here.

Yeah, I would say pottery or fabrics doesn't sound quite...

INDISTINCT

Pottery or something like that and I would say for that reason...

-We're gonna have to...

-Guess again!

-Plump for another guess, yeah.

Go for shoes?

Yep, OK.

We'll just go for shoes.

We're having yet another guess and this time we'll go for shoes.

It's not shoes. It's incorrect, sorry.

Do you know, Eggheads?

I was thinking pottery, but I don't know.

It's interesting you don't know. Fabrics!

One out of two there, Eggheads.

You didn't get it so that's interesting,

but the fact is it fell to the Hotheads

and they've posted the X there,

which gives an opening for the Eggheads.

Eggheads, which Secretary of State

was regularly greeted by Nicholas Soames

with a shout of "Mine's a gin and tonic, Giovanni!"

Is it John Reid, John Major or John Prescott?

Which Secretary of State was regularly greeted by Nicholas Soames

with a shout of "Mine's a gin and tonic, Giovanni!"

Is "Giovanni" Prescott?

John Prescott.

And why the shout?

He was a steward on a liner at one point,

and would have been serving gin and tonics presumably.

And Nicholas Soames a Conservative politician.

"Mine's a gin and tonic, Giovanni"

referred to...John Prescott.

It is correct, Eggheads, you've won.

Bad luck, Hotheads.

You were going really well there in those first two head to heads.

I think the game turned on that titanic tussle

between James there and Kevin.

That's the one that led to being equal, I guess,

in the final round and they just pulled it back.

It looked like it was going against you for a while there, Eggheads

but you've done pretty well there, I think, to turn it round.

Thank you very much indeed for playing Eggheads today, Hotheads,

but the Eggheads have done what comes naturally

and their winning streak continues. You won't be going home with £6,000,

so 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.

£7,000 says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.

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