Episode 91 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 attempt to beat possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.

Their quiz pedigree is well known

as they've won some of the country's toughest quiz shows.

They are the Eggheads.

And challenging our resident quiz Goliaths today are The Cartoonists

and we're very pleased to have them. This team all met through

the Professional Cartoonists' Organisation and as freelance

caricaturists and cartoonists, their work has been making

people laugh for a combined 150 years. So, let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Alex, I'm 37, I'm a cartoonist and a caricaturist.

Hello, I'm Royston, I'm 41 and I'm a magazine cartoonist.

Hi, I'm Robert, I'm 65 and I'm an advertising cartoonist.

Hi, I'm Graham, I'm 50 and I'm a caricature artist.

Hello, I'm Martin, I'm 50 and I'm a cartoonist and a writer.

I know you've drawn something for us so tell us what we are about to see.

We've all done caricatures of the Eggheads themselves.

Do you want to count to three or something, one, two, three.

LAUGHTER

I'm sorry, Chris.

Barry, there you are.

My solicitors will be in touch.

I can't see me there actually, yes, thank you.

Got more hair than I've actually got.

What does mine say?

This one's off the top of my head, Jeremy.

OK, we love them. Are we going to give them to these miscreants here?

-Oh, absolutely.

-Thank you very much.

It will be their consolation prize.

Yes, exactly!

Well, we don't get this every day, it's a treat, thank you very much.

There's a £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs every day

for our challengers, however, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,

as you know, the prize money rolls over to the next show.

Cartoonists, the Eggheads have won the last eight games

which means £9,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Film & Television.

Someone has got to be good at this.

Right, Royston.

-Royston?

-Yeah, we're going to select Royston.

-Pick an Egghead.

-Barry?

-I think we are going to go with Barry.

Royston from The Cartoonists against Barry from the Eggheads,

please take your positions in the Question Room.

Royston, doing art to order is the hardest thing in the world,

because you haven't got a choice, you've got to do a cartoon.

Also the key thing about the type cartooning

I'm doing, it's not just about art, it's about writing as well.

So it's coming up with the jokes and the ideas for the cartoons.

Good luck in this round.

Royston, you can choose the first or second set.

I'll take the first set, please.

Here we go, good luck. Who is the director of the 2008 film Australia?

Right, it's Baz Luhrmann.

It is Baz Luhrmann.

Barry, the fictional spy Harry Palmer, as played by Michael Caine,

is notable for wearing a pair of what?

Spectacles.

Spectacles is the answer.

Back to you, Royston.

Which of the main female characters in the US TV series Sex in the City

earned her living as a lawyer?

Was it...

I think Miranda is the slightly more serious red-haired one.

I am going to say Miranda.

Well done. Miranda.

Cynthia Nixon played Miranda.

OK, over to you, Barry. What type of vehicle is the Memphis Belle

in the 1990 film of the same name?

The Americans were very fond of giving names to their planes,

so the Memphis Belle was a bomber.

Bomber is the correct answer, two points each.

Third question to you, Royston.

What was the name of the character played by Don Warrington

in the TV sitcom Rising Damp?

Don Warrington...

I think Philip was the pseudo-African prince.

Or am I thinking of something else altogether?

I am going to say Philip.

You are good.

Philip is right.

Three out of three. Very good.

It's that attention to detail that cartoonists have, isn't it, Barry?

So it would appear.

Which actor took nearly a ten year sabbatical in India at the height

of his fame in the late sixties?

I can't remember Peter O'Toole ever having taken a sabbatical because

he's produced a string of fine films.

I don't think it was David Warner.

I think it was Terence Stamp.

Terence Stamp did indeed take a ten-year sabbatical in India.

Well done, Barry. Three points each. Scores are level,

we go to Sudden Death.

Its not multiple choice now,

it's that bit harder, Royston. Are you ready?

I think so.

Who played the murderer at sea who torments a married couple

in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm?

I have not really seen him in much

but somehow in my mind I'm linking him with this film.

I am going to say it, because I really haven't got a clue otherwise,

is it Billy Zane?

It is Billy Zane.

Where did that come from?

Somewhere.

Barry, you're up against a pro here.

Which actor, who appeared in EastEnders, starred as

the former naval officer, Mike Nicholls, in the TV drama Harbour Lights?

I am at a disadvantage here because I hardly ever watch EastEnders.

I find it unremittingly miserable.

I have no idea whatsoever, I shall have to pass.

Royston, do you know, by any chance?

I have no idea.

I think you'll both go "aha", when I tell you.

Oh, go on, Daphne.

-Nick Berry.

-Nick Berry.

Barry, you are out of the final round.

Royston, you will be in the final round with The Cartoonists.

Well, done to both of you, please come back to the studio.

The challengers have not lost any brains from the final round,

the Eggheads have lost one brain. The next subject is Science.

Who from the challengers wants this?

We going to select Alex for this one, and we'll go with Daphne.

-OK...

-Alex and Daphne.

Alex from The Cartoonists

against Daphne from the Eggheads, please take your positions.

Alex, you can go first or second.

I think I'll go first,

Very best of luck to you.

What name is given to the chemical compounds that are an important

component of lipids in plants and animals?

Are they...

Ah well, being as I've never heard of fatty fluorides or fatty alkalis,

I am pretty certain it is fatty acids.

Fatty acids is the right answer.

You are on your way. Daphne's quaking.

What common name is given to the set of numbers that identify

a particular computer on the internet? Is it...?

Well, I assume it is the IP address.

You're right, Daphne, it is the IP address.

Question two.

Alex, approximately what proportion of the bones in the human body

are contained in both the hands and the feet?

That's a toughy.

I think it might actually be as many as half.

Half, yes.

Half is your answer, well done. It is as many as a half.

SCATTERED APPLAUSE

Daphne, which species of tiger

can measure up to 13 feet in total length and weigh up to 300kg?

Well, I am going to take an educated guess.

I think the Siberian is the largest tiger so I shall go for the Siberian.

Siberian is correct, Daphne, well done.

Tight game, this is a tight game.

Over to you, Alex.

Of what is dog's mercury an example?

Dog's mercury.

It implies flight.

I have a feeling it is a form of plant.

I don't think it's a bird. No, I am going to go for plant.

Alex, plant it is.

So, Daphne, if you get this wrong you are out of the final round.

The term "event horizon" is used

chiefly in referring to which astronomical phenomenon?

They are in black holes.

Oh, a science one I know.

Black holes is correct.

We have reached an event horizon here

because you are three points each, we go to Sudden Death.

Alex, you have to give me the answer, it's not multiple choice.

The breed of pig known as potbellied

originated on which continent?

If I recall rightly, it's a Vietnamese potbellied pig.

So, it will be Asia.

Asia is correct.

Going well. Daphne,

spirits of salt was an occasional historical name for which acid?

Sulphuric.

The answer is hydrochloric.

Oh, right.

Daphne.

-I'm out.

-You're out!

Well done, Alex. You took on one of our Eggheads,

you emerged triumphant, congratulations.

Please both of you come back and rejoin your teams.

As it stands, the Eggheads are taking a bit of beating here.

You have got a little teaspoon and you're knocking them on the head.

The challengers have not lost any brains from the final round,

the Eggheads have lost two.

The next subject is Geography, which cartoonist wants Geography?

-I'll throw myself as a sacrifice!

-Good man, Martin.

OK, Martin. Against Chris, CJ or Kevin?

-CJ?

-Yeah.

We are going to go for CJ, and hope it's local geography.

Well, yeah, you watch the programme.

He always goes outside the M25 blindfolded.

Martin from The Cartoonists versus CJ from the Eggheads.

To ensure no conferring, please take your positions in the Question Room.

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

-First, please.

Martin, here we go. The Royal Crescent, the Circus

and the Assembly Rooms are attractions in which British city?

The answer could be Chester or Bath.

I don't think it's Birmingham.

I am going to go for Bath.

Bath is quite right, well done.

So far, they haven't got a single question wrong.

Am I right about that?

CJ, your question, the Place des Vosges, in the Marais district,

is a tourist attraction in which city?

I should have known this straight away and I don't.

I am not at all sure, but as I don't recognise it in relation to Paris,

I will try Brussels and hope it's that large square I know

with all the flower markets in it.

What's the answer, Eggheads?

-Paris.

-Paris!

Ah, well.

OK, CJ. This is going to be a tactic from all teams in future,

flash a cartoon of the five Eggheads,

it totally puts them off their stride.

Martin, your question.

Leopoldville is the former name of which African city?

Monrovia is the capital city of Sierra Leone, I believe,

Liberia sorry, Liberia, which had no colonial past because it was

for freed slaves from America.

Lusaka is the capital city of Angola, which is a former

Portuguese colony. And Leopoldville was, of course, named after

the Emperor Leopold who committed unspeakable atrocities in the Congo

and that is now called Kinshasa.

And you have the right answer.

CJ, in which North African country is the port resort of Agadir?

I've been there and it's a dump.

It's in Morocco.

Morocco is the right answer.

Martin, in which US state is Cloud Peak,

the highest point in the Big Horn mountain range?

Is it...?

Big Horn might be a clue because I'm thinking of Little Big Horn.

I am thinking of this tangentially and going round,

not so much geography but history.

I am thinking about Custer's Last Stand.

I am going to go for North Dakota.

-It's Wyoming.

-Bah!

Bad luck, Martin.

CJ, Lord Howe Island in the Pacific is a dependency of which country?

Is it...?

H-O-W-E.

Of course they're all Commonwealth countries,

can't narrow it down that way.

I have got absolutely no idea.

Well, I'll say goodbye and even if I do have to sit next

to Daphne back here it will still be tolerable, I'll guess Australia.

Daphne likes Australia, don't you?

So you can tell me whether Lord Howe Island IS a dependency of Australia.

I think it is.

It is, CJ, well done.

Scores are level,

we go to Sudden Death. Martin, your question.

The town of Banbury, made famous by its cross,

that is mentioned in a nursery rhyme, is in which English county?

Oxfordshire.

Correct.

CJ,

in which country is the city of Peshawar,

at the east end of the Khyber Pass?

Afghanistan.

Martin, do you know this? You probably do.

Well, if it is the eastern end it has to be Pakistan because

Afghanistan is at the western end of the Khyber Pass.

Afghanistan is definitely wrong, Pakistan was right and that means

that you also are not in the final round and our

Cartoonists are doing even better.

Well done, Martin, you took on an Egghead, you emerged triumphant.

Do both of you come and rejoin your teams.

As it stands, the challengers have not lost any brains

from the final round, whilst the Eggheads have lost three brains.

The last subject is Sport, which cartoonist wants Sport?

Ahh. Yes, I think...

I've been... I am the least worst.

-That was our one weak point.

-I did sense you had a plan on Sport.

-OK, Graham?

-Yes, and I think I'll take on Chris, please.

Bolivia, Bulgaria, Constantinople.

Graham from The Cartoonists versus Chris from the Eggheads.

Please take your positions in the Question Room.

Graham, you are known as The Hit Man, tell us why.

I am a full-time professional caricaturist and when I started off

many years ago my early clientele used to arrive at my flat

with a brown paper envelope with photographs of their intended victim.

One of my first clients said "Oh, it's like being an hit man, innit?"

So I thought, well, that's quite an interesting pen name,

so I sort of adopted it and it's followed me ever since, really.

OK, so it's Sport, three questions, you can choose first or second set.

I'll go first, please.

Graham, what name is traditionally given to the area

that surrounds a bowls green?

I don't play bowls but we have one in the village

and it has got a ditch around it full of corks.

Certainly wouldn't be a moat because there's no water in it.

I am going to go for ditch.

Ditch is correct.

It would have been easy to get that one wrong, well done.

Chris, match play and stroke play

are the two widely played forms of which sport?

That's a good walk ruined, as Mark Twain said, golf.

That is golf.

Back to you, Graham.

Which country has produced a record nine individual winners of the

Formula One drivers' championship?

Nine, did you say?

Which country has produced a record nine individual winners

of the Formula One drivers' championship?

I think we have probably produced more than I can remember

but there does seem to be an enormous number of Brazilians

that have done it as well.

So, I think, on this occasion I am going to take a stab at Brazil.

Brazil is wrong, I'm sorry.

It's us, United Kingdom.

Chris, which Italian football team is nicknamed Viola,

after the distinctive purple colour of its strip?

I have never seen any of them play, but I don't think either Roma

or Juventus would play in purple, so it must be Fiorentina.

It is, and you take the lead, Chris, well done.

Graham, you need this to stay in.

In which event did Felix Sanchez win the Dominican Republic's first ever

Olympic gold medal at the 2004 Games?

Was it...?

I will plump for the 400m hurdles, Jeremy.

Yes, you are right, well done, Graham, it is the 400m hurdles.

Chris, by what name is the gap

between the goal tender's legs in ice hockey known?

Well, it could be sarcastically called the Grand Canyon.

I will say the Grand Canyon.

It's the wrong answer, Chris, it is the five-hole.

We go to Sudden Death.

It's that bit harder. Graham, your question.

Fast pitch and slow pitch are the two major types of which sport?

The only phrase that I know that pitch refers to, apart from

the pitch you play on, is baseball, so I am going to go for baseball.

It's not baseball, it's softball.

Chris, your question for the round.

Which was the first horse trained by a woman to win the Grand National?

Escargot?

Wrong, Corbiere.

Corbiere.

Still a chance here, Graham.

In darts, which Asian city gives it name to the feat of scoring

a single, double and treble of the same number?

I am fairly sure that that is Shanghai.

Well done.

The pressure is on you now, Chris.

You are about to go out unless you get this right.

In which month does the Indianapolis 500 traditionally take place?

April?

It takes place on Memorial Day weekend in May. You're wrong, Chris.

Congratulations, Graham.

It was touch and go there for a moment, but well done.

Yet again you took on one of the Eggheads and emerged triumphant.

Please both of you come back and join your teams.

This is what we've been playing towards,

it is time for the final round, General Knowledge.

I am afraid those of you who

lost your head-to-heads will not be allowed to take part in this round.

Only the sixth time in Eggheads history

that we have been down to one Egghead only.

So please, all four of you leave us.

So, Alex, Royston, Robert,

Graham and Martin, you are playing to win The Cartoonists £9,000.

Kevin, you are playing for something money can't buy,

the Eggheads' somewhat battered reputation.

I will ask each team three questions in turn.

This time the questions are all General Knowledge.

You ARE allowed to confer.

Cartoonists, the question is, are your five brains

better than the Eggheads' one brain? Do you want to go first or second?

We'll go first.

Very best of luck to you. What common name is given to the

fruiting bodies of mushrooms that occur in arcs?

Is it...?

THEY CONFER

-Fairy rings.

-Fairy rings, yeah.

Jeremy, we say, do we? Yes, fairy rings.

You're right, fairy rings is the right answer.

Kevin, what informal name is given to a gate set in a U or V-shaped

enclosure allowing only one person to pass through at a time? Is it...?

You probably could do either of the others,

but that's normally known as a kissing gate.

Kissing gate is correct, one each.

Back to you, Cartoonists.

Which US government organisation,

originally founded to combat counterfeiting, is responsible

for the personal protection of the President?

Is it...?

I think it's the Secret Service.

We say the Secret Service.

The Secret Service is correct.

Pressure on Kevin.

A musical based on the life of which famous sportsman,

featuring the songs "What An SMS I'm In" and "Take The Pill"

opened in Melbourne in December, 2008?

Is it...?

I have got an idea, I may be entirely wrong on this,

but the one who was always getting into scrapes of one sort of another,

and hence this "SMS I'm In" - is Shane Warne.

So, I'm going to go for Shane Warne.

Shane Warne, correct.

Two all.

Cartoonists, Plutus was the ancient Greek god of what?

-Wealth, Plutocrat.

-That's good.

-Yeah, we think wealth.

It's wealth.

Jeremy, we are saying wealth.

And wealth is right, well done.

Kevin, here's your question.

The term Cantabrigian refers to a member of Cambridge University

or which American university?

Well, Yale is in Connecticut, and Stanford is in California,

but Harvard is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

So, on the parallel argument, I am going for Harvard.

Harvard is correct.

It was never going to be easy, this, was it?

Still £9,000 we are playing for and you are well in there.

We do go to Sudden Death now.

Here we go, Cartoonists, good luck.

The cover of which 1969 Rolling Stones album features a photograph

of a cake believed to have been baked by Delia Smith?

..I can picture it, just trying to picture the letters on it.

1969 would make sense because

it was their dirty Rolling Stones response to Let It Be.

Let It Bleed - it's the answer?

-Let's go with it.

-Let It Bleed?

We think it's Let It Bleed.

You're right.

Brilliant, who was that, Royston, was that you?

Yes.

Here we are again, Kevin,

on the precipice edge.

Which card game, played with a reduced pack, shares its name

with the surname of a former Brazilian Formula One driver?

I'm actually having trouble now thinking of any

other than a couple of obvious ones like Fittipaldi and Senna,

Brazilian Formula One drivers.

Oh, sorry,

of course, sorry, Piquet.

Piquet is right.

Where does he get it from?

The 1951 classic science fiction film, The Day The Earth Stood Still

was remade in 2008,

with which actor in the role originally played by Michael Rennie?

-Keanu.

-Pretty definite?

-Yes.

The answer is Keanu Reeves.

Keanu Reeves is correct.

Back to you, Kevin.

Excluding the Queen's sons

and Ladies Of The Garter, how many Knights Companion are there

in the Most Noble Order Of The Garter?

24.

It's the right answer.

Still well in there, the money's there, I can smell it.

Which Hindu word also refers to a computer user's virtual

representation of him or herself?

I think it's avatar.

Avatar?

Yes, I think so.

Avatar.

Is correct.

Kevin, which fictitious creature was invented by the US cartoonist

Al Capp, in 1948, and was represented as small,

round and ready to fulfil any material need?

It's a sort of equivalent of genie in the bottle...

I know I know this, but it's not there.

I'm going to have to fall on my sword, Jeremy, I am afraid.

I know what you mean but the name has gone, simple as that.

Give us anything, any guess.

I said it's like the genie of the bottle,

but obviously it's not the genie of the bottle.

Your answer is the genie of the bottle?

It's not the genie, it's the shmoo, you're wrong, Kevin.

So congratulations, challengers, you've won!

Well done.

And genuinely brilliant play.

That is the most comprehensive defeat we have ever had simply because

it has happened this way. They have won all their head-to-heads

and the final as well which nobody has ever done before. Fantastic.

Tell us about the shmoo, it is so funny he goes out on a cartoon.

Completely luck of the draw, he goes out on a cartoon question.

It is part of the mythology of cartooning. We have a little shmoo

on our shoulders while we're scribbling away.

You've proved they can be beaten, so 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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