Episode 69 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 toughest quiz shows.

They are the Eggheads.

And taking on our quiz champions today are Sally Warboys.

The team is formed from two separate quiz teams - Mrs Warboys and Spirit

of Sally, who regularly quiz against each other at their local pub,

the Sir Charles Napier in Brighton. Let's meet them.

Hello, I'm Colin, I'm 46 and I'm an insurance service consultant.

Hello, I'm Keith, I'm 50 and I'm a retail manager.

Hello, I'm Marian, I'm 54 and I'm a Specialist Nurse.

Hello, I'm Liz, I'm 45 and I'm a charity manager.

Hi, I'm Mike, I'm 38 and I'm a project manager.

Welcome to you, Sally Warboys. You've got a lot of team names to explain here.

The amalgamated Sally Warboys, the Spirit of Sally and Mrs Warboys...

They're all a little unusual. How did they come about?

Tell me the origins of the Sally and the Warboys?

The "Sally" part comes from the Spirit of Sally which is

the three members of the team on the far left,

and the Spirit of Sally which pays tribute to a late member of the team

and the "Warboys" parts are myself

and my brother on my left here which pays homage to

Mrs Warboys from One Foot In The Grave.

Ah! Right, I see.

So you get together with Sally Warboys! What a great name!

How do you do in the quiz? You quiz against each other.

Who normally wins, the Sallys or the Warboys?

Well, yes, there are other teams involved, obviously, but we're quite

-keen rivals, so it's quite level-pegging I'd say, overall.

-OK.

Best of luck to you today, Sally Warboys, and this is what's been happening so far.

Every day there is £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, Sally Warboys, the Eggheads have won the last two games

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

Our first head-to-head battle today is on the subject of Music.

Do you have a jukebox in the Charles Napier?

EVERYONE TALKS AT ONCE

-Who wants to play?

-I think it's either Keith or Mike.

-Do you want to stay in case it's sport?

-Are you OK to go, then?

-OK.

THEY CONFER

OK... All right, I'll play Chris.

OK. Mike'll take this on and has chosen Chris to accompany him

into the question room...

Just make sure you can't confer with your team mates.

Do you want to go first or second, Mike?

First is the tradition. I think I'll do that.

Off we go and good luck, Mike.

A metronome is used to help musicians keep to a certain what?

A metronome is used to help musicians keep to a certain what?

That sends out a beat, so that would be tempo.

It would be the tempo. That's a good start.

One to you, Mike.

A round of applause ripple. Where is Elvis Presley referring to when,

in one of his most famous songs, he sings,

"Bright lights city gonna set my soul, gonna set my soul on fire"?

That's Las Vegas, baby!

Not bad, come on, it's not bad is it? It's the right answer, yes.

Mike, "Halfway Down The Stairs"

which reached number seven in the UK charts in 1977

was a song sung by which character from the Muppet Show?

It was a young frog, I think. I think it was Kermit's nephew, Robin.

You seem to know quite a lot about the Muppets!

-That's my era too, I guess!

-It's the right answer, yes.

Halfway Down The Stairs.

Chris, Big Willie Style

in 1997 and Willennium in 1999 were hit albums for which artist?

Well, I don't think it's Will Young.

It'd hardly be Willie Nelson. It seems a sort of...

flip, hip sort of thing that Will Smith

would do, so I would say Will Smith.

Will Smith? Willennium, Big Willie Style, it's the right answer, yes.

I just wanted to say that again! Will Smith, 2-all.

Mike, this might win you the round.

Which composer's works can be identified by a

standard classification system known as BWV numbers?

-I was hoping they'll only be one B in there!

-Names, if only so simple.

-BWV?

-Johann... BWV.

Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig Van Beethoven, not sure about Brahms.

I'll say Beethoven.

BWV numbers refer to...

Bach. Nothing for you, Mike and

it means Chris has got a chance to win the round.

Chris, in 1966, Neil Hefti won a

Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Theme for which TV show?

Well, it wasn't Tarzan and I don't think the

Star Trek theme was by Neil Hefti.

I think it's...

the Batman theme, so it's Batman.

It's the right answer. You worked it out. Neil Hefti, yes,

wrote the Batman TV show theme tune and there you have it.

You're through to the final. Bad luck, Mike, you're not in the final.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

OK then, that's 1-nil to the Eggheads. Mike will be missing from

the final round. We'll play our next head-to-head now. This is Sport.

Who likes Sport? Colin, Keith, Marian or Liz?

That will be me, then!

-It's like a schoolboy dragged into school!

-By default, it's me, then.

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

It can't be Chris, any of the other four.

-Judith, please.

-Judith then for Sport.

-Much joy and celebration!

-LAUGHTER

Are you sure? She's a formidable player. She's been winning a few and

losing the odd one, but winning more than she loses, that's for sure.

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

OK, Keith, what's your favourite sport?

-That would be football, Dermot.

-Brighton and Hove Albion?

Not so much these days, more Arsenal.

Good man! Good man!

Find three Arsenal questions for me and I'll be all right!

Fantastic stuff! OK then.

-Would you like to go first or second?

-I'll go second, please.

OK, second, so here's your first question.

Judith, which racecourse is home to the Irish 1,000 Guineas and

the Irish 2,000 Guineas and the Irish St Ledger?

I thought all the Irish

-classics were run at The Curragh. That's my answer.

-OK, The Curragh.

Yes, that's the right answer. Well done, Judith for Curragh.

Keith, in snooker,

what is the maximum number of points a player can gain from a foul?

I'm not 100% sure, but I would guess it would be a foul on a black,

and a black's worth 7 points, so that would be my answer.

7 for a foul on the black is the right answer, yes. One a piece.

Judith, which Spanish football team did Juande Ramos manage immediately

prior to becoming the manager of Spurs in 2007?

I'm sure I read this too, because

that was when I began to read the sports pages.

My instinct...

is twanging on Sevilla.

-Is that what you're going for?

-Yeah.

-Instinct?

Yes. It has to be.

-Twang?

-It's not knowledge.

Juande Ramos, yes, became manager of Spurs in 2007.

Before that, he managed Sevilla.

Well identified, Judith. I'm sure remembered that more than instinct.

So Keith, your second question.

Thomond Park and Musgrave Park

are the two home grounds of which rugby union team?

I really don't know a lot about rugby.

I don't think it's Edinburgh for some reason.

Toss up with the other two. I'll go Munster.

It is Munster, it's the right answer, well done.

You picked that out well.

So 2-all, hoping Judith doesn't get this.

Judith, the British athlete Greg Rutherford reached the finals

of the 2008 Olympics in which athletics event?

Well, he didn't get a medal, so I don't think I'll know which one...

in what competition he was in.

I'm going to say...

Pole Vault.

-It's the Long Jump.

-Oh, dear!

Greg Rutherford is a long-jumper. So chance to win it then, Keith.

Julio Cesar Chavez, a world-champion boxer at several different weights

during his long career was born in which country in 1962?

I've never heard of him, but that name could be any of those

countries, but I know they've got longevity at boxing, I believe,

and they've got quite a history of boxing, so I'm gonna guess Cuba.

OK, Cuba, yeah of course, what a boxing pedigree they have.

But do you know what? He's not Cuban.

He's Mexican.

As you said, it could have been any of those. You just had to know that

or get lucky with the guessing which you didn't. So we go to

sudden death and first question in sudden death goes to Judith.

We remove all those choices you've seen up to now, as you know.

Judith, Peter Fleming won

four men's doubles titles at Wimbledon with which partner?

Peter Fleming won four men's doubles titles at Wimbledon

-with which partner?

-This I really should know.

-You like tennis.

Of all sports you loathe, this is one you like?

I do.

I can't remember. I'm not very good on doubles, frankly.

Pete Sampras.

Pete Sampras and Peter Fleming,

would have been a great pairing...

-but wasn't!

-But wasn't!

No, but this was a great pairing as well.

Any idea, just out of interest, Keith, if you'd decided to go first,

a lot of competitors do, but?

-Complete guess, McEnroe.

-It is John McEnroe! There we are!

Oh, dear, if only I could pass them over, you'd be through. John

McEnroe and Peter Fleming won four men's doubles titles at Wimbledon.

OK, it wasn't your question there, Keith.

Another chance to win the round.

The Warwickshire Bears and the Leicestershire Foxes are

professional teams in which sport?

I think that's a bit more up my alley, hopefully.

I believe it's cricket.

OK, cricket, you think?

It's the right answer, Keith, yes.

You're through to the final round. Would you both please come back

and join your teams.

That makes it 1-1, both teams lost one brain from the final round.

We go to our next head-to-head now and this one is Science.

Who would like to play this? Colin, Marian or Liz, Science?

I'm not so bad on natural history but not physics and...

Do you want me to have a go at Science?

Do you wanna go?

Oh, well!

-OK.

-It's gonna be me, then.

Who did we decide about the Egghead?

Judith and Chris have played, so it's Kevin, Daphne or Barry.

Daphne's giving me a very direct look.

Is this an attempt to encourage me to pick somebody else? I don't know!

-Bluff, maybe it's a double-bluff!

-Shall we go for Barry again?

Shall we go for Barry?

It's worked, Daphne, I'll go for Barry!

OK, let's have Marian and Barry into the question room, please.

Marian, which bit of the sciences do you prefer?

Well, being a nurse, it'll be human biology, of course,

is my preference, but...

spectacularly failed physics 'O' Level at school...

But that doesn't mean I don't remember some of it!

Exactly, but you want to avoid those type of questions.

Do you want to go first, or second?

Well, I think, looking at who's been lucky and unlucky so far, I'm gonna

follow Keith's lead and go second.

Barry, which electrical component is used to oppose the flow of either

direct or alternating current

in order to protect, operate or control a circuit?

Well, it's not a capacitor, because that stores electricity.

I'm pretty certain that a diode

actually alters the flow, but that's only for one

type of current, so on that basis alone, I'll go for resistor.

OK, resistor...is the right answer, Barry, well done.

I think you're glad you swerved it, Marian, aren't you?

-That's the kind of question...

-I'm actually not.

-You did know that, OK!

-That was one of the few things I remember

from 'O' Level Physics. There we are!

But you mentioned your nursing and I think this one might suit you.

In radiology, patients are often required to drink a liquid

containing which compound to enhance the quality of the X-ray images?

Yes, thank you very much, yes!

I think lithium has an entirely different action on the human body,

calcium would show up but it would get confused with bones I'm sure

on an X-ray. Therefore my answer would be barium, barium sulphate.

Barium sulphate...

Absolutely sure, it's the right answer, yes, well done.

OK, Barry, approximately how far above the earth does

the Hubble Space Telescope orbit?

Well, 3,600 miles seems far too far above the Earth,

as space is supposed to begin about 100 miles above the Earth,

which makes 36 miles too few, so my answer would be 360 miles.

360? It's the right answer, Barry, yes, well picked-out.

OK, just looking at your next question, Marian. I wonder

if you'll enjoy this one, too.

Phlebology is a branch of medicine

concerned with which aspect of the human body?

Well, yes, thank you again.

-It'll be the P-H Phlebologist, won't it?

-Yes, yes, P-H, yes.

And a phlebotomist is...

on the wards are well-known by the patients as "Dracula" because

they come round and take blood, so therefore it will be the veins.

The veins, OK, known as Dracula! It is the right answer.

-Yes, you've chosen the right set so far, haven't you?

-Lucky!

Well, let's hope it keeps going for you.

Barry, what type of creature is Phobaeticus chani which went on

display at the Natural History Museum in London in October 2008

and which at 56.6 cm long is thought to be the world's longest insect?

I actually went and had a look at this

and occasionally I'm still shuddering because I did do so.

It was a stick insect.

Went to see it - can't argue with that! it's the right answer.

Stick insect is correct.

So, Marian, you need to get this.

What did the German scientist

Karl Frederick Gauss call the Queen of the Sciences?

Well, if he's looking at something being the Queen of the Sciences,

then that would be something that is attached to all sciences or at the

head of all sciences, or involved...

and I can't see how astronomy would fit that.

I could see it applying to physics and to maths.

I'm going to go with mathematics.

And it's the right answer, well done, Marian.

Well worked out, there.

We go to sudden death then, Marian.

We remove those choices and this is Barry's question.

Which 18th century American scientist is credited

with inventing bifocal glasses?

Well, mine are actually bifocals and I believe he also invented

the lightning rod and it was Benjamin Franklin.

Benjamin Franklin is the right answer.

Well done, Barry.

OK, Marian back to you. The 16th century Italian

astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei was born in which city?

I'm certainly not confident.

I'm going to...

having looked at the alternatives,

I'm going to stick with my first thought which is Verona.

It's not Verona, it's incorrect, Marian. Do you know, Barry?

-I think it was Pisa.

-It's Pisa.

It is Pisa.

Well, it means you don't get to face another question.

Barry is through to the final. No place for you, I'm sorry.

Good quizzer, I can tell.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

Well, the game has turned a bit against you, Sally Warboys.

You're two brains down,

the Eggheads have lost one brain. Another chance, a last chance,

to knock an Egghead out for you, Sally Warboys.

This category is Politics.

-Who would like to play from Colin or Liz?

-How do you feel, it's not my...

-It's not mine, either!

-..subject.

-I'll go if you really want me to.

Are you sure?

-OK.

-Who are you gonna play against, then?

-Erm...

Either one of those pushovers...

-Kevin or Daphne.

-Daphne?

-I've always liked the idea of

-taking Daphne on, so I'll have a go with Daphne.

-You've got your wish!

-Long-held fantasy!

-You're only gonna be in there once - why not!

Could I ask Colin and Daphne to take their positions in the room.

Do you wanna go first, or second, Colin?

Can I go first, please.

Here you go, good luck. What nickname was famously

given to Prime Minister Harold McMillan by the cartoonist

Victor Vicky Weiss?

I think I can vaguely recall seeing a cartoon

of Harold McMillan with his head transposed onto Superman's body,

so I'll go for Supermac.

It's the right answer, yes, Supermac.

Daphne, in which year was Barack Obama born?

-Oh, gosh!

-Which year was Barack Obama born?

Well, '61, that would make him 47, wouldn't it?

Because my eldest is 47.

He's not 37, no - it's 1961.

1961, yep, that's correct.

OK, Colin, second question.

Which Conservative former cabinet member made his fortune

from the Haymarket Publishing Group which he co-founded in the 1960s?

Well, I haven't heard much about where either Nigel Lawson

or Geoffrey Howe made their money,

if they have any, but I seem to recall Michael Heseltine

being involved publishing, so I think I'll choose him.

Michael Heseltine...

co-founder of the Haymarket Publishing Group...

It's the right answer.

2 out of 2. Daphne, in a 1988 US Vice Presidential debate, to whom

did the Democrat nominee, Lloyd Benson, utter the withering line

"Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy?"

1988?

Yep.

Jack Kemp.

-Jack Kemp?

-Yeah, I'm sorry, I just can't think.

With the Jack Kennedy Airline...

-No, I don't think it's right.

-It's not. Dan Quayle.

OK, well that's great news for you, Colin.

You've been playing really well, get this and you're

through to the final round. Give Me Ten Seconds,

published in 2001 is the memoir of which political journalist?

Give Me Ten Seconds,

published in 2001 is the memoir of which political journalist?

I've read one of John Simpson's autobiographies and it wasn't called

that... It was something about Questionable People, I think.

Jon Snow's I have never seen.

John Sergeant I think retired about that time from being

a political correspondent so,

with no certainty at all, I'll guess John Sergeant.

OK, John Sergeant.

Did he write "Give Me Ten Seconds" published in 2001? Yes, he did!

You're through to the final round!

Well played there, Colin!

I think you're hiding your light under a bushel about politics!

Fantastic performance!

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,

Those who lost your head-to-heads

cannot take part in this round, so, Marian and Mike,

from Sally Warboys and, Daphne and Judith, from the Eggheads,

would you leave the studio, please.

OK, Colin, Keith and Liz you're playing to win Sally Warboys £3,000.

Chris, Barry and Kevin, you play for something money can't buy...

the Eggheads' reputation.

I'll ask each team three questions in turn.

The questions are General Knowledge and you are allowed to confer.

Sally Warboys, are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three?

Colin, Keith and Liz, would you like to go first or second?

-Shall we go first, get it over with?

-Yeah.

-We'd like to go first, please.

OK, kicking off. Good luck, Sally Warboys. Here's your question.

The central characters of which TV series worked for

the Secret Service organisation CI5?

The central characters of which

TV series worked for the Secret Service organisation CI5?

The Champions were Nemesis,

the Persuaders didn't work for anyone, so it must be...

-The Professionals.

-The Professionals, yeah.

-Yeah.

-We think The Professionals.

I see you working through there. You know The Champions, The Persuaders.

-Gordon Jackson, wasn't it? The head of CI5.

-Oh, yes.

Bodie and Doyle, wasn't it?

CI5, The Professionals is the right answer.

OK, Eggheads, which Mediterranean

country is known as a Hashemite Kingdom?

Which Mediterranean country is known

as a Hashemite Kingdom? Spain, Croatia or Jordan?

It's car number plates, the designation is there.

It's HKJ which stands for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Jordan, it's the right answer.

OK, Sally Warboys, second question for you.

In the British Army, which rank comes between

Major General and General?

In the British Army, which rank comes between Major General

and General?

It's Lieutenant General, do you wanna say it?

I'm reliably informed it's Lieutenant General.

OK, Lieutenant General, between the Major General and the General.

It's the right answer, so two to you.

Well done, Sally Warboys. Eggheads, the theme song to which

US TV show began "Here's the story of a lovely lady who was bringing up

"three very lovely girls!"

The theme song to which US TV show began "Here's the story of a lovely

"lady who was bringing up three very lovely girls".

The Brady Bunch?

The Brady Bunch.

-How did it continue?

-Ask Chris!

I don't know!

It's the Brady Bunch. We'll stop it there, "the story of a lovely lady".

The Brady Bunch. OK, it's 2-all.

The game could be won and lost on the next couple of questions.

Here you go, Sally Warboys.

Which US historian is famous for his recordings and books of interviews

with the famous and the anonymous,

including the 1984 Pulitzer prize-winning work The Good War -

An Oral History of World War II?

-I think it's Studs Terkel... he's just died, hasn't he?

-Yeah.

Yeah. We think it's Studs Terkel.

Studs Terkel, who, I heard you saying there, passed away in 2008.

It's the right answer, well done. Three to you, then.

You've got to get this, Eggheads.

Originating in Korea in the Middle Ages, what is Five Field Kono?

Originating in Korea in the Middle Ages, what is Five Field Kono,

K-O-N-O?

I've never heard of a martial art.

There is a Japanese version of 'Go',

which is played where the object is to get five stones in a row,

I'm wondering if it's a board game and it's something similar to that.

Just to muddy the waters further,

-I thought there might be a form of wresting called Kono.

-No.

But why Five Field?

I don't know, I don't know.

I'm inclined towards board game,

because I can visualise where you'd have...

five areas on a board, and possibly counters,

sort of like 'Go', you know,

Just win territory and the object is to get presumably the whole

of them on the five fields.

I don't think it would be a game.

I don't think it would be counted as fields. I'm inclined to change

my mind and go with the martial arts with you.

All right.

Do you wanna?

So you're voting for board game, Chris?

I will stick with board game, but if you two guys think martial art,

we'll go for it, majority decision.

Right, I need an answer. Five Field Kono originating in

Korea in the Middle Ages, if you get it wrong, you've lost again.

I think, well... All right, OK.

-Martial art.

-Martial art?

Yeah.

Five Field Kono...

So, just listening to that conversation, you originally

thought it was a board game, Barry.

Kevin's instinct was martial arts.

You switched your vote, Barry,

to martial arts, and joined Kevin in the...wrong camp!

-It is a board game!

-Sorry, Chris!

It is a board game, which means, Sally Warboys, you've won!

How does that feel, Sally Warboys, taking some

mighty big quiz scouts here!

We're still trying to believe it, Dermot!

And you should see behind you there, as well!

-You know, they contributed as well. Marian and Mike played really well, didn't they?

-Yeah, they did.

The head-to-heads just didn't go with them.

That's really got the Eggheads on a back foot. They've lost again!

You are officially cleverer than the Eggheads. You've just won £3,00 and

you've proved they can be beaten!

Join us next time on Eggheads to see if a new team of challengers will be just as successful.

Until then, goodbye.

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