Episode 70 Eggheads

These people are among 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, where five quiz challengers

play against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.

They are Goliaths in the world of TV quiz shows. They are the Eggheads.

Taking on their awesome might today are...

Team captain Chloe

spent many months sourcing the perfect team,

but looked no further than her nearest and dearest.

Her husband, sister, mum and friend. Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Chloe. I'm 30 and I'm a learning and development manager.

I'm Orion. I'm 30 and I'm a product manager.

Hi, I'm Regine. I'm 59 and I'm a modern languages teacher.

I'm Saskia. I'm 28 and I'm a product development manager.

I'm Lisa. I'm 28 and I'm head of education for a cancer charity.

Welcome to you, Pinheads. Chloe, tell me how you assembled this crack quiz team!

I tried to get my work colleagues originally.

No-one volunteered, so I applied without asking my family. Luckily, they went along with it.

-You put their names down? You knew nothing about it?

-No.

Why wouldn't your work mates play? Are they scared of the Eggheads?

They were worried that they might humiliate themselves.

-My family don't mind.

-They'll do anything for you!

Well, let's start playing.

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

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

Pinheads, the challengers won the last game, proving it can be done.

£1,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

Let's kick off. Our first subject today is Geography.

Who wants to play?

-I think Orion.

-I think so, too.

-Do you think so?

-Yes.

-I think Orion.

Who do you want to play from the Eggheads?

I can't play Kevin early doors. Sorry.

-Judith?

-Judith. Yeah.

-I'll take Judith, please.

-Couldn't face Kevin first off?

-It's a bit early.

-Orion and Judith into the question room, please.

To make sure you can't confer.

Orion, interesting first name. How did that come about?

Um... Hippies for parents!

-You can't avoid it.

-They were staring at the stars, were they?

I was born in January. It's the biggest thing in the sky.

-You're Capricorn, then?

-Aquarius, by cusp.

By cusp!

-That's, what, 21st?

-22nd.

-Yes.

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

I think we'll have to go first, please.

OK, Orion. Good luck.

Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Coldwater Canyon Park

are features of Mulholland Drive in which American city?

Well, they all sound familiar from TV, apart from anything else.

Seattle's not on TV much.

New York, I'm not sure, but it sounds like Los Angeles.

-Going for that?

-Yeah. Los Angeles.

It's the right answer. Well worked out and a good start.

What is the geographical term for an extended fracture in a rock formation caused by displacement?

CLEARS THROAT

-What?

-The clear of the throat,

rather than an instant answer makes me think there's cogitation.

There is a bit of cogitation.

I was just hesitating by the slip, a kind of landslide.

-So I think it must be a fault.

-Fault?

-Hmm.

It's the right answer, Judith.

The seaside resort of Camber Sands is in which county of England?

It's got to be south coast, so it won't be Essex. Near Rye.

I think... Is that Camber Sands?

If it's near Rye, which I think it is, but I'm not 100% sure,

-East Sussex.

-East Sussex?

-Where do you live, Brighton?

-East Sussex.

-Better get this, then.

It's the right answer. Yes.

PINHEADS GIGGLE

Ascension Island is located in which ocean?

It's not the Indian Ocean.

I'm not quite sure. Too awful. Where is Ascension Island?

-I think it's the Atlantic Ocean.

-Is that what you're going for?

-Yeah.

-It's the right answer, Judith.

-Thank goodness for that.

Ascension Island in the Atlantic.

The city of Cordoba is in which autonomous Spanish community?

Um...

I would have thought Cordoba's in the middle somewhere...

..which would take Catalonia out. That's where Barcelona is.

I think. >

Andalusia's in the south, I believe, which is where Malaga is.

I'm going to have to guess Castile-La Mancha but I don't know.

Castile-La Mancha.

You misled yourself. It's Andalusia.

So, a chance for Judith.

The Bolan Pass is located in which country?

The Bolan Pass - B-O-L-A-N.

The famous pass is the Khyber Pass, which I think is in Afghanistan.

Bolan Pass, it doesn't sound like any language.

It could be in Scotland for all I know.

There isn't a clue in the way that it's spelled. So it's a guess.

I think it might be in Pakistan.

-I like the way you eased that out in case it's wrong.

-Yes!

It's right. It is Pakistan. The Bolan Pass is in Pakistan.

So, bad luck, Orion.

You were playing well. Judith on good form means she's in the final round. No place for you.

Please come back and join your teams.

First blood to the Eggheads. Pinheads lost a brain in the final round.

Our second head-to-head is film and television.

Who'd like to play? Can't be Orion.

What about Chloe? Do you want to do that Chloe?

-I think I'm going to do it in case something else comes up.

-OK.

-Who wants to play?

-Saskia.

-Yes.

-Who do you want to play from the Eggheads?

-Chris.

Let's have Saskia and Mastermind Chris into the question room.

-Saskia, do you want to go first or second?

-I'll go first.

Good luck, Saskia. Your question is this.

What type of creature is Willy in the 1993 film Free Willy?

I haven't actually seen the movie

but I do know that it's not a leopard and not a kestrel.

I'm definitely going to say killer whale.

Free Willy is a killer whale. Yes.

Chris, first question,

Linda Barker and Anna Ryder Richardson appeared on which programme?

It's not Ground Force. That was Charlie Dimmock.

And I don't think it was Masterchef. It must be Changing Rooms.

It's the right answer. Second question each.

Tony Stoneam, Saskia, played by Nicholas Hoult, is a character in which teen drama series?

I know Britannia High and Skins. I think they're both teen.

Oh, gosh! I think I'm going to go with Skins.

OK, Skins.

Skins is the right answer.

Chris...

The 1979 Franco Zeffirelli film The Champ

is about the character Billy Flynn's comeback in which sport?

I thought Billy Flynn was in Chicago.

Um...

< The Champ?

Short for "champion".

You don't have champions in baseball. That's a team game.

Obviously, "champ" is in everyday usage in boxing.

-It's got to be boxing.

-Is he right, Eggheads?

-JUDITH: Yes.

-You're right, Chris. Boxing.

Playing well, Saskia.

In the 1997 film Spice World, who plays the band's manager Clifford?

-Where you a "Spicie" in your youth?

-Of course.

I was, actually. I was a fan of the Spice Girls!

I do know that because I have seen it.

-It's Richard E Grant.

-I've seen it, too. It's quite good.

I like Richard E Grant in it.

It's the right answer. Well done.

Chris, you've got to get this, then.

In the 1976 science fiction film Logan's Run,

at what age are citizens required to undergo the ceremony of rebirth, carousel?

It's a euphemism for euthanasia in Logan's Run.

-You don't get to live past 30.

-You'd have a few years left, Chris.

I'd be on me second wind by now!

30 is the right answer, yes, in Logan's Run.

So, we go to sudden death.

We take away those choices. Just got to hear an answer from you.

The actress Joely Richardson is the daughter of which Oscar-winning actress?

I actually can't... I don't know. Um...

-Joely Richardson's mother? I don't know. I'm sorry. I'm not sure.

-OK.

-Chris, do you know?

-Vanessa Redgrave.

Vanessa Redgrave.

You win it if you get this, Chris.

The film editor Roderick Jaynes - J-A-Y-N-E-S - Roderick Jaynes,

is actually a pseudonym for which famous brothers?

It would help if I knew if he was British or American.

The Coen brothers?

It's the right answer.

Ethan and Joel Coen.

Which means there's no place for you in the final round.

Both please join your teams.

Two Pinheads down now but no Eggheads gone.

Two more head-to-heads coming up.

Let's see if you can knock an Egghead out with arts and books. Who'd like to play?

You go, Chloe.

-I think she should do it.

-It should be Regine or Chloe.

-Maybe Chloe.

-I think I should go. OK.

Do I detect a bit of buck-passing? It's bounced back to Chloe, pass the parcel.

Who would you like to unwrap from the Eggheads? Barry, Kevin or CJ for arts and books.

-I think CJ!

-CJ. Yeah.

-CJ.

-Seeing as they lumbered you with it, you can choose.

Chloe and CJ into the question room, please, to face arts and books.

-Chloe, do you want to go first or second?

-First, please.

Off we go, Chloe.

What is the term for hardening clay by heating it in a kiln?

What is the term for hardening clay by heating it in a kiln?

It's not baking or searing. They're to do with only cooking.

It's firing.

Firing is correct. Well done.

Your first question, CJ.

What type of coat does Paddington Bear usually wear?

What type of coat does Paddington Bear usually wear?

It helped Judith win an awful lot of money, this question,

based on this place in Belgium.

-Duffel coat.

-What question was that in your progress to the million?

-64.

-Did you get asked about where these coats...?

Which country produced the Duffel coat?

-The answer was Belgium.

-Duffel coat is the right answer.

Back to you, Chloe.

"And we are here, as on a darkling plane,

"swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight

"where ignorant armies clash by night."

The closing lines of which poem by Matthew Arnold?

I'm not fully sure of this one.

I'm not a great lover of poetry, like CJ.

I'm going to rule out Southampton Beach.

I can't think of any wars or battles that were fought there.

My first instinct was Dover Beach,

but I'm torn between Dover Beach and Hastings Beach.

I think I'm going to go for Hastings Beach.

Hastings, another East Sussex question for you.

It's Dover Beach.

Matthew Arnold, is he referring

to any specific battle or campaign?

No, it's a metaphor for the ebb and flow of the tide...

CJ, who wrote the book How To Win Friends And Influence People published in the 1930s?

This is annoying. I was reading about this.

It's just been made into a film with Simon Pegg.

There isn't the slightest chance I remember who wrote it.

Thomas A Harris doesn't ring a bell. Thomas Harris writes fiction.

That could be an entirely different person. I don't recognise John Gray.

I do recognise Dale Carnegie. I've no idea where from.

I'm hoping it's a tiny remembered scrap of information.

I'm digging myself into a deeper hole. I'm going for Dale Carnegie.

You don't know how big a hole! One of the worst answers I've heard.

-It's right, then?

-Ending up with the correct answer.

Your logic, appalling! The film with Simon Pegg

is the Toby Young spoof, How To Lose Friends And Alienate People.

-That's the name I wanted.

-How To Lose Friends And Alienate People,

about his time in the '90s with Vanity Fair.

The title's spoofed on this

by Dale Carnegie, you lucky old CJ, you!

He's got the right answer.

Back to you, Chloe. Graham Greene's novel The Comedians

exposes the horrors of life under whose political regime?

I'm not fully sure of this one, either!

I am going to go for... Colonel Gaddafi.

OK. Colonel Gaddafi of Libya.

Papa Doc. Papa Doc, the former Haitian dictator.

Eggheads, Juan Peron is...?

ALL: Argentina.

Which means an awful thing has been visited upon you in the form of CJ.

Bumbling his way through that second question!

He doesn't need another question. You are through to the final round.

Chloe, no place for you, I'm sorry to say. Please come back and join your teams.

Pinheads, you've lost three, The Eggheads are all still there.

Let's get one of them out, shall we? Can you do it on our last head-to-head, sport?

LAUGHTER

I can see your faces! It's Lisa or Regine.

I'm going to take one for the team!

Take one for the team, Lisa! Hold on, let's see who you're going to play from the Eggheads.

-Barry or Kevin.

-LISA: I think Barry.

Why not?

Our new Egghead winner Barry and Lisa to the question room, please.

-Lisa, do you want to go first or second?

-I'll et it over with as quickly as possible and go first.

Cathy Freeman, winner of the women's 400 metres at the 2000 Olympics, was born in which country?

I'm wondering whether this is too obvious to be true.

She represents Australia.

But that doesn't necessarily mean she was born there. Um...

But I'm pretty sure that she was so I'm going with my instinct,

which is to say Australia.

It's the right answer. Cathy Freeman darling of the 2000 Olympics.

-She carried the flame, didn't she?

-She lit the flame.

-LIT the flame.

Barry, which eccentric boxer is renowned for his love of jodhpurs,

gold-topped canes and monocles?

I can't quite manage the lisp... Maybe I can.

-The answer's Chris Eubank.

-It's the right answer.

Makes it all square. Good start, Lisa.

Let's build on that. Which World Cup winning rugby union player

knocked out his Wasps and England teammate Danny Cipriani during a training ground bust-up in 2008?

Do you remember hearing about it?

I vaguely recall something.

And...I'm trying to think of the name of...

Zara's rugby playing partner, who I think might be Mike Tindall.

If that had happened with him there'd have been more publicity.

I don't think it was Josh Lewsey.

I've no idea what teams these people play for.

So this is really quite difficult.

Was Paul Sackey in the World Cup squad?

Paul Sackey?

I know Josh Lewsey has played and Mike Tindall.

My first instinct was to say Paul Sackey so I'm going with that.

Paul Sackey. Lisa's done a reverse CJ there.

All the correct reasoning and the wrong answer.

He wasn't in that World Cup winning squad.

Josh Lewsey was and he's the one that thumped Danny Cipriani.

You did all the work!

Let's see how Barry does with this.

Other than France, who is the only international football team

to have been World Cup and European Championship holders concurrently?

Holland and Spain, to my knowledge, have never won the World Cup.

-The answer must be West Germany.

-Simple question if you know it.

It's the right answer. So Lisa, got to get this.

Which golfer won the 2008 European Tour's Order of Merit?

Which golfer won the 2008 European Tour's Order Of Merit?

Lee Westwood, that sounds like probably an English name.

I don't remember too much in the papers about a home win.

Um...

I'm going to go with my strategy I use

when picking horses at the races,

which is to choose the name I like the most.

And so I'm going to go with Sergio Garcia.

I feared that, the name you like the most. Look at that analysis!

Lee Westwood would have made more of a headline. Robert Karlsson.

European Tour's Order of Merit 2008.

Which means we close the round here. Sorry about that.

No place in the final round. Would you please join your teams?

What we've been playing towards, the final round, general knowledge.

Those of you who lost your head-to-heads won't take part.

Chloe, Orion, Saskia and Lisa from the Pinheads,

would you leave the studio, please?

Regine, you're playing to win the Pinheads £1,000.

Chris, Barry, Judith, Kevin and CJ, you're playing for something money can't buy, the Eggheads' reputation.

I'll ask each team three questions in turn, all general knowledge.

And YOU are allowed to confer.

The question is, is your one brain better than the Eggheads' five?

-Regine, first or second?

-I'll go first, please.

First question, then. In which year was Sydney's famous Opera House opened by Queen Elizabeth II?

Well, 1953 seems quite early to me.

And I think it might have happened before 1973.

I think I will go for 1963.

'53 you're ruling out.

Too early. Just on the throne then, Queen Elizabeth, yeah.

It's not 1963. It's 1973.

It is the latest, 1973 the Opera House opened

by Queen Elizabeth II.

Eggheads, Which instrument represents the cat in Prokofiev's Peter And The Wolf?

Which instrument represents the cat in Prokofiev's Peter And The Wolf?

That's the clarinet.

# Bom bom bom-bom-bom-bom... #

-Thank you very much, Barry!

-KEVIN: Goes something like that.

Clarinet's the right answer. OK, Regine.

Let's get you off the mark.

In which fictional town is Hilary Briss and Son, butchers, located?

This is going to have to be a guess.

-And I think I will go for Royston Vasey.

-Royston Vasey.

It's the right answer. Well done, Regine! Bit of a guess.

Can we identify those towns?

-Llareggub is...?

-Under Milk Wood.

-By...?

-Dyland Thomas.

-Walmington-on-Sea...?

-Dad's Army!

-Royston Vasey...?

-League Of Gentlemen.

Well identified there, Regine. It's never easy on your own.

In the abbreviation OG, indicating the likely strength of a beer, for what does "G" stand?

-Gravity.

-Gravity.

-What does "O" stand for?

-CHRIS: Original.

It's the right answer, Eggheads. Two to you.

Susie Cooper, born in 1902, was famous as a designer of what?

I'm not sure.

I don't think it's shoes.

I think it's going to be choosing between ceramics and fabrics.

I think, possibly, ceramics.

-Is that your answer?

-Mm-hm.

You're doing well, Regine.

It's the right answer. The girls cheering you on. "Come on, Mum!"

The Eggheads have a chance here.

In Greek mythology, the Maenads worshipped which god?

In Greek mythology, the Maenads worshipped which god?

They were followers of Dionysus.

Used to become all frenzied and tear animals to pieces

and such fun activities.

-CJ: Like us, after the show.

-Dionysus.

It's the right answer. You've won.

Be-devilled by bad luck, Regine.

Well played to you there, apart from the opening slip-up which meant you were playing catch-up.

You were doing really well there.

-You can forgive Chloe for bringing you.

-It's been a nice experience.

You've been a great team. We've had some great discussions.

Thank you very much for playing.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally and reign over quizland.

You won't be going home with £1,000. It rolls over to the next show.

Eggheads, congratulations.

Join us to see if new challengers have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

£2,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.

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