Episode 93 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 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.

Tackling the Eggheads today are Ocean's Five from County Down.

The team all quiz together

every Tuesday at the Ocean's Drive pub in Donaghadee.

They've known each other for about 15 years,

and have become great friends through attending quizzes in the area. So, let's meet them.

Hello. My name is Owen, I'm 56 years old and I'm a teacher.

Hello. I'm Sarah, I'm 55 years old and a retired bank official.

Hello. I'm Gerry, I'm 55 and I'm a teacher.

Hello. I'm Dianna, I'm 53 and I'm a musician.

Hello. I'm Derek, I'm 47 and I'm a civil servant.

Welcome, Owen and your team.

Thank you, Jeremy.

If we're looking at Northern Ireland and it's a hand - where are you?

We are on the...

-..little finger, the top of the little finger.

-OK. So on the sea.

On the sea, yes. On the northeast coast of County Down.

-You must be near Strangford Lough.

-We are approximately five miles from the tip of Strangford Lough.

-Immortalised in a Van Morrison song, I think.

-It is indeed.

-And he's local, isn't he?

-He's very local.

He's even immortalised my home town, so he has, in the same song.

I was originally living one mile from Coney Island.

Coney Island is mentioned.

Well, it's great to have you here and good luck.

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

However, if they fail to win, the money rolls over to the next show.

So, what happened in the last game was the Eggheads lost. They lost the one before that as well.

So, we are offering £1,000 today, but it does prove

they CAN be beaten.

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

Which one of you wants this?

-Sarah?

-I think it has to be me. Yes.

And who will I beat...?

-Who shall I beat today?

-That's good. That's confident talk.

Erm...

I'll try Barry.

So, Sarah from Ocean's Five against Barry from the Eggheads,

and so there's no conferring, step into the Question Room.

Three multiple choice questions on Film & Television in turn.

Sarah, first or second set?

I'll go first, please.

What was the expression of delight used by the cartoon characters

the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?

Mmm...

Yabba Dabba Doo, I think

might have been Fred Flintstone.

Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, I just remember from the song from the film

Song Of The South. I think it's Cowabunga.

They did indeed, you're quite right. Well done.

Barry, here's your question. In 2008, which Wimbledon tennis champion took part in the TV series

I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here?

It was Martina Navratilova.

She did very well, she finished second.

Martina is the right answer. One each.

Your second question, Sarah.

What type of animal was Gentle Ben in the 1960s children's programme?

"Genkle Ben", as my daughter used to say, was a big brown bear.

And she was absolutely right, well done.

Barry, which British actress won two Golden Globe awards in January 2009?

Oh, it was the lustrous Kate Winslet.

She is even more lustrous now than she was then.

Kate Winslet is correct, well done.

Get this right, the pressure's on Barry,

and at the moment with these Eggheads, anything can happen.

Who played the role of "Doc" Holliday

in the 1946 John Ford film My Darling Clementine?

Er... I've never seen that one. Erm...

So...

I think Victor Mature's too young. Or maybe WAS too young.

Erm...I think I'll go for Burt Lancaster.

Now, Burt Lancaster is the wrong answer. It WAS Victor Mature.

Barry, your question to take the round.

Quentin Tarantino directed an episode of which US TV series in 1995?

I've heard this.

I don't think it was The X-Files or Law & Order,

I think it was ER.

If you're right, you take the round.

Barry, you have got it right, well done. You do take the round.

Sarah, you were beaten by our Egghead.

Did well though, but you won't be in the final round today.

Barry, you will. Please both of you come back and rejoin your teams.

As it stands, the challengers have lost one brain from the final round,

the Eggheads have not lost any brains.

Next subject is Arts & Books. Who wants this?

It has to be Dianna.

You do a lot of reading.

We are doing ladies first, aren't we(?)

Seems very unchivalrous!

OK. And will I take on...Chris, do you think?

I think that's a good choice. Yep.

I'll take on Chris, please.

Brilliant. Dianna from Ocean's Five versus Chris from the Eggheads,

and to ensure there's no conferring, take your positions in the Question Room.

Well, we're on Arts & Books, and you get to choose, Dianna, first or second set of questions?

I'll go first, please, Jeremy.

Here we go. Silas, the albino monk, is a character in which bestselling novel?

Well, I've read The Da Vinci Code, like a lot of people,

and I seem to remember a monk in it.

I don't know anything about The Bourne Identity,

and er...The Pelican Brief I think is a John Grisham book.

So I shall say The Da Vinci Code.

The Da Vinci Code. Anyone on your side...?

She's got the right answer? Yes, they're all certain here.

You're right.

Chris, the title of the sequel to Roald Dahl's book

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory is Charlie And The Great what?

Oh, yeah, cos at the end of the film with Gene Wilder

they take off in this glass elevator.

So logically the sequel

would be Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator.

Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator is correct.

Now you, Dianna.

In which DH Lawrence novel is Ursula Brangwen

nearly run down by a stream of galloping horses?

Mmm... I don't think it was Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Cos that was Constance.

Er...it could be Sons And Lovers or The Rainbow. I'm going to...

..say Sons and Lovers.

Sons and Lovers. I heard a gasp or a sigh on your side.

-Why was that?

-It's The Rainbow.

They're right - it is The Rainbow, Dianna, sorry.

Next question to you, Chris.

Get this right, you take the advantage.

Who wrote the restoration comedy The Country Wife,

about a naive country girl, Margery,

trapped in a loveless marriage to Pinchwife,

a jealous and possessive older man?

Ah.

Now, the only restoration comedy I ever did in my acting career

was The Beaux' Stratagem and that was George Farquhar.

But er...I think The Country Wife was William Wycherley.

It was indeed William Wycherley. Well done.

Dianna, get this right to stay in.

The 14th-century painting of Richard II being presented to the Virgin and Child,

which hangs in The National Gallery in London, is commonly known by what name?

Well, I've never seen the painting. Erm...

I don't know who the artist is.

But...I think

by the name it sounds like it's in one section,

so I'm going to go for the Stonor Altarpiece.

It's actually not the Altarpiece. It's the Wilton Diptych.

So, I'm afraid there's no way back for you there, Dianna.

Brave attempt.

You were beaten by our Egghead so you won't be in the final round,

and Chris you will be. Please both of you rejoin your teams.

So, as it stands the challengers have lost two brains from the final round

whilst the Eggheads have not lost any brains.

The next subject is Sport. Who wants this?

Do you want to try it? Which of you two would be the best?

- Will I try? What about you, Derek? - I'd be happier if Gerry did it.

OK. I'll have a go.

Er... Oh, dear.

-Kevin or Judith?

-We'll try Kevin.

-Aye.

-Might as well, sure.

-Have a shot.

So, Gerry...

-I'll try Kevin.

-Against Kevin.

Gerry from Ocean's Five, Kevin from the Eggheads...

may battle commence.

Three questions on Sport.

-Do you want the first or second set, Gerry?

-First, please.

Which second-row forward

was named captain of the England rugby union team in November 2008?

It's not Danny Cipriani as far as I know,

because I think he's an out half.

Erm...

I don't know.

I think I'll go with Steve Borthwick.

That's the right answer! Well done.

Kevin, Cesc Fabregas, Robin van Persie and Emmanuel Eboue

all represented which Premier League football team

during the 2008/9 season?

Yes, OK. I'll have to say it. It's Arsenal.

Does it pain you?

Well... I can overcome that, it's OK.

-As a supporter of?

-Spurs.

Oh, Spurs!

Well done. Level pegging.

Gerry, the Nordkurve, Parabolika and Sachs

are features on which Formula 1 motor racing circuit?

It's...try...

Erm...

I don't know,

it's not particularly a sport that I'm interested in

although I recognise that Lewis has done pretty well for...

recent years.

Erm...

I don't think it's Monaco because the words don't sound French.

I will go with Hockenheim.

For no good reason.

No, the reason is good cos it's the right answer, Hockenheim.

Kevin, your next question to catch up.

Which cricket team completed a 2-0 victory over Australia

in November 2008,

the first time Ricky Ponting's side had lost a Test Match series since the 2005 Ashes?

Er...yes, I think subsequently they lost to South Africa as well,

and that was at home, which went back even further.

And er...this was India.

It was India. Well done, level pegging.

Third question.

Gerry, how many Grand Slam singles titles

did Ivan Lendl win during his career?

Now, Grand Slams... He never particularly performed too well,

to my memory, on grass.

He was a good all-rounder... I think he won the French a few times.

I'll try the middle number, 6.

I am afraid it's 8.

Successful tennis player.

Fair enough.

Kevin. To take the round.

Which future British world champion boxer

suffered the first loss of his professional career to Carl Thompson in 2004?

Mmm. Well, I'm not sure about this one at all.

I'm trying to remember which weight Carl Thompson boxes at.

It's obviously one of the heavier weights, but then these are, so...

2004 somehow...I don't know, somehow seems a bit late for Audley Harrison.

Cos he won gold at 2000, but then...

..the professional career never really took off terribly.

Our future world champion... Yeah, I'll eliminate Audley Harrison.

Er...

I'm inclined to think it might be David Haye, because...

I don't know, I just think I'd know it was Maccarinelli.

As he had such a successful run.

They've both subsequently become champions at different weights...

-I'll have to go with David Haye, I think.

-David Haye is your answer.

It's the right answer, Kevin, well done.

You've won the round.

Gerry, you are also out of the final round, I'm sorry.

Please both of you rejoin your team-mates.

So, the challengers have lost three brains from the final round,

the Eggheads haven't lost any brains.

The last subject is Music.

Who from the challengers wants to play on music?

-You love your music!

-I'll take that on.

-Derek. Fantastic.

-Who do I take?

-Daphne and Judith...

-I'll take Judith.

Derek from the Ocean's Five against Judith from the Eggheads.

So there's no conferring please go to the Question Room.

Three questions, then.

Derek, you can choose the first or second set on Music.

Well, the rest of my team have been going first tonight. I'm going to continue the trend.

Here we go. "Some boys kiss me, some boys hug me, I think they're OK.

"If they don't give me proper credit I just walk away"

are the opening lines to which Madonna hit single?

Sounds like lots of girls I've met.

I believe it's Material Girl.

I'll go for Material Girl.

Great! Material Girl is right, well done.

OK, Judith.

Which woodwind instrument from the oboe family

has a distinctive bulbous bell at the bottom end?

I thought cor anglais was one of those erm...twirly ones.

I don't know what a celesta is.

So I'm going to say flugelhorn.

-Hope for the best.

-Flugelhorn is your answer.

I don't know how many twirls there are in a cor anglais,

-but there is a bulbous bell at the bottom end as well.

-Oh, dear.

You're ahead, Derek, already.

Kevin Godley and Lol Creme were in the original line-up of which band?

Well, ELO was formed by Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne.

Genesis, one of my all-time favourite bands,

had all sorts of people in it, Phil Collins and so on.

And Godley and Creme were founder members of 10cc.

So, I'll go for 10cc.

You're right, they were. Well done, two points.

Over to you, Judith.

Who had a number one single in 2008 with If I Were A Boy?

I've read this, too.

I don't think it's Duffy.

I think its Beyonce.

-You've been mugging up on music?

-Well, I try and read the 2008 hits,

there's a rather good site on the Internet somewhere.

You wouldn't consider listening to them or anything like that?

Well, I haven't got time, have I? JEREMY LAUGHS

-So you read them.

-I have to read them.

So if I say what's this record like, you wouldn't have a view.

Not a clue, no.

But it was Beyonce. Well done, Judith.

Question three.

If you get this right, Derek, you've taken the round.

What is the title of the second opera

in Richard Wagner's Ring cycle?

Oh... I wish I had had a better classical education. I'd know this.

Erm... I'm really not sure of the answer here.

I'll try and see if I can apply some logic.

Er... The Ring cycle is I think three operas, it may even be four.

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

I'm going to have to plump for one here,

and I apologise to my team if I'm wrong.

I think it's Die Walkure.

Absolutely right. You've got it right, Derek, well done.

So, Judith, you can't come back from there. It's the end of the round.

Derek, you've booked your place in the final round.

We're going to be an Egghead down in that final round,

but it's good news for the challengers. Please come back to us.

This is what we've been playing towards - the final is General Knowledge,

but I'm afraid those of you

who lost your head-to-heads can't take part.

So, that's Sarah, Gerry and Dianna

from Ocean's Five, who become Ocean's Two,

and Judith from the Eggheads, please leave the studio.

Owen and Derek, you're playing to win Ocean's Five £1,000.

Daphne, Chris, Barry and Kevin, you are playing for something

which money can't buy - the Eggheads' reputation.

Just trying to begin rebuilding it now.

As usual I will ask each team three questions in turn.

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

So Ocean's Five, the question is,

are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

Owen and Derek, would you like to go first or second?

I think we should continue, and go first.

We shall continue the trend and go first.

If you beat them, that really would be something. Three in a row.

What are you said to have "cast before swine"

if you offer something of quality to an unappreciative audience?

-Do you know this one?

-I think so. I don't think it's diamonds.

It's definitely not gold.

I believe you cast

pearls before swine.

I think that seems...

-That sort of rings a bell.

-Only one that makes sense.

-Are you happy with that?

-Yep.

OK. From that choice

we shall go with pearls.

Pearls is the right answer. Well done.

Eggheads, in a traditional Punch and Judy show,

what does the crocodile usually try to steal from Punch?

It's the sausages. Yes.

Oh, I've watched lots of Punch and Judy shows

-cos they used to have them on the seafront at Weston.

-Really?

And it's the sausages.

Sausages is right, the string of sausages.

Ocean's Five,

what is the popular girls' magazine

which ran from 1964 to 1993, famous for its romantic photo stories?

Embarrassingly, I know the answer to this.

Because when I was at school

every girl in my class read this.

And it was definitely Jackie.

Olivia Newton-John used to write in it as an agony aunt.

I should have read it more often, she was one of my pin ups.

We should go for Jackie.

Due to Derek's very cultured upbringing, we are going for Jackie.

JEREMY CHUCKLES

You're quite right, Jackie is the right answer.

Eggheads -

get this wrong, you fall behind.

The cedilla, sometimes written below certain consonants in French and Spanish,

is represented by what?

-Hook?

-Yeah.

Having done French, it's a hook.

-A hook.

-Yes.

Well, Judith, you're virtually French. Is it a hook?

That's it! The hook. Well done, Eggheads.

Third question.

Joseph Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI in 2005,

was given which nickname when he was a Cardinal?

-I know this.

-I think I do as well.

And it's not a very pleasant nickname to give to anyone.

-Once again it's the last one.

-It's the last one, God's Rottweiler.

I think we're both happy with that.

We'll go with the last one again, God's Rottweiler.

It looks made up, but it's not,

God's Rottweiler is what he was.

Eggheads,

if you get this wrong, you're going to be in counselling for weeks.

Which British cartoonist, born in 1757,

is famous for his incisive satires,

particularly those directed at the foibles of George III and Napoleon?

Gillray?

Yeah.

-It's not Hogarth.

-Definitely, Kevin?

Yeah.

Rowlandson was a similar time but...

That was James Gillray.

It was James Gillray. Well done.

So, three points each.

It goes to Sudden Death now, gets that bit harder cos it's not multiple choice. Are you ready?

In the widely used abbreviation for the basic elements of a primary school curriculum,

the phrase "the three Rs"

refers to reading, writing and what?

You're a primary teacher - if you don't know this you can't go home!

I should know this one. And I will not go home if I don't know it.

It's arithmetic.

Correct. Because it originated from someone called Sir William Curtis,

who was an illiterate alderman and Lord Mayor of London,

who said "reading, writing, and 'rithmetic". He hadn't realised there was an A.

Eggheads,

we're on the cliff edge.

Which stiff fabric, historically used to line garments,

takes its name from the Italian for "horsehair" and "linen"?

Get this wrong, it's three in a row.

Oh, my God...

What's that thing that made women's dresses go out, in the 19th century?

Farthingale, bustle.

A stiff fabric?

-Yeah...

-Crinoline?

-..I mean, horse is "cavallo", I don't know if that...

-Pardon?

-Horse is "cavallo".

- Yeah, but it's horsehair. - I know, it's horsehair.

-I can't think of anything that you would...

-No.

You starch things...

Let's look at another way, what are the rough fabrics that we know?

Muslin...

It's not hessian, cos that's from Hesse.

-That's from the German state.

-KEVIN: It can't be fustian...

-Got nothing.

-I can't think of any others.

-What about...

-< Just can't think of anything.

-Cheval...

-That's French.

-Yeah.

-It's definitely not crinoline?

-No.

What about grogram?

That's rough.

-Shall I go for grogram?

-Go for grogram, yeah.

- It's not right. - It's not. Neither's anything else.

I'm... Well! I think we've just set the record. Three losses in a row.

-You haven't lost yet.

-Well, we are going to go for,

and we're sure it's wrong, "grograim?"

"Grograim?"

-Yeah. Grogram.

-Grogram, is your answer.

-Eggheads, you've got it wrong.

-Oh!

Three times you've lost. Well done, Ocean's Five. You've won.

So, the correct answer there was crinoline.

-Oh...

-And when Barry raised it, somebody said "No, no, no, no..."

I didn't hear him, unfortunately.

-How are we feeling, Eggs?

-Angry... Frustrated!

Three in a row.

-Ocean's Five, well done.

-Well done!

-Thank you.

-Really sure-footed at the end there, as well.

We also thought about crinoline, but I thought it couldn't possibly be.

-And if I'd heard that...

-Look at this, recriminations starting now.

-Does that feel good?

-It does indeed.

So, £1,000 going back with you to beautiful Northern Ireland. Tell us what you will do with it.

Well, I think we'll have to stand the locals a drink in the Ocean Drive pub on Tuesday night.

-And the rest, we'll...

-Just squander on drink.

They're watching now, so locals, the drinks are on them.

And you're officially cleverer than the Eggheads,

whose whole psychological breakdown continues before our eyes.

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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