Episode 2 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.

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 country's toughest quiz shows.

They are, of course, the Eggheads.

And taking on the awesome might of our quiz goliaths today are

Cobbled Together.

The team have been literally cobbled together by

team captain Jane from the pick of her quiziest friends and colleagues.

-Let's meet them.

-Hello. I'm Jane.

I'm 61 years old and I'm a London cabbie.

Hello. I'm Rob. I'm 62 years old and I'm a retired London cab driver.

Hello. I'm David. I'm 48 and I'm a telecom's project manager.

Hello. I'm David. I'm 52-years-old and I'm a commercial manager.

Hello. I'm Nick. I'm 57-years-old and I'm an ombudsman from Essex.

Welcome to you, Cobbled Together.

-And Jane, you've done the cobbling.

-Yes. I have.

I wanted to be on the show for quite a while and I'm a cab driver with Rob and the two Davids. We quiz together

-sometimes, and Nick's a friend of Rob's, so we've sort of cobbled ourselves together for this.

-I see.

It wasn't people who were in the back of your cab and you turned round and said, fancy a go?

No. I think we're all keen quizzers in different directions.

One thing's for sure, I'm sure it's going to be a good old quiz.

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

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

So Cobbled Together, the Eggheads have won the last 35 games

which means £36,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

And our first head-to-head battle will be on the subject of film and television.

So Cobbled Together,

it's your choice who wants to play and who would you like to take on?

OK. I think we've decided then on...

-Me?

-Nick...going on, Film & Television.

Who do we fancy playing on this one?

-Maybe Chris.

-Yeah. OK.

-Yeah. OK.

OK. Like to challenge Chris.

OK. Chris...

international Mastermind against Nick. Film & Television.

So could I ask you both to take your positions in the question room

just to make sure you can't confer with your teammates.

So, Nick, do you have a particular passion for film or television, or both?

Both, really. I've enjoyed watching television for many years.

And I've been going to the cinema with my children and my family

for as long as I can remember, so, yeah, both really.

OK. Well, we'll put that to the test right now.

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

-I'd like to go first, please.

Good luck. Here you are. Who played the King of Siam in the 1956 film musical, The King And I?

I actually remember the film version of this.

Yul Brynner because he was bald

and I thought it was very strange to have someone who was bald.

Now I recognise that I've joined those ranks.

-So Yul Brynner.

-I don't think you're in Yul Brynner's league yet, Nick.

Yul Brynner is correct. Yes. Well, done. The King And I.

OK. Chris.

In which Sam Mendes film does Kevin Spacey have a vision of

Mena Suvari lying on his ceiling, covered in rose petals?

Well, it wouldn't be Road To Perdition

because that's a '30s depression gangster thing.

It's not Revolutionary Road because

that's a sort of urban terrorist, urban paranoia type of film.

So, logically, it should be American Beauty.

-American Beauty. Is it, Eggheads?

-Yes.

-Yes. It is. The midlife crisis.

American Beauty is correct. OK. Nick, second question.

Marcus Bentley has been the voice and narrator of which series since it began broadcasting in 2000?

I don't think it's Strictly Come Dancing.

And I'm sure it's not Who Do You Think You Are?

The name rings a bell because he has a very distinctive voice

-and I think the answer is Big Brother.

-Big Brother.

A distinctive Geordie accent... is owned by Marcus Bentley.

Yes. It's the right answer. Well done.

OK, then. Chris, who co-starred with Jack Nicholson

in the 2008 film, The Bucket List?

-Good question.

-Glad you like it.

Ah, The Bucket List. The list in a bucket.

-Just on a gut feeling, I'll say Mike Myers.

-It's Morgan Freeman.

-Is it?

-Yeah. Morgan Freeman in The Bucket List, with Jack Nicholson.

So here you go then, Nick. Knocking a big Egghead out here

if you get this right.

Which interviewer and broadcaster

did Kenneth Williams once refer to as a north country nit?

Doesn't sound like Alan Whicker.

I think several people fell out with Russell Harty.

No. I'm going to stick with Russell Harty.

OK. Russell Harty... a north country nit.

No. It's Michael Parkinson.

Fell out with Parky, or maybe he was just teasing him.

Chance for Chris to level it up and take us into sudden death.

Chris, who received the first ever academy fellowship from BAFTA

when the honour was bestowed in 1971?

Well, I don't think it will be Charlie Chaplin, who did most

of his work in America,

although he did fall out big time with the McCarthyite regime.

I don't think they'd have given a fellowship to Alec Guinness

who was an actor rather than a producer.

I think Hitchcock was dead by then, so yeah, I'll go back

on what I've just said and say Alec Guinness.

It is Alfred Hitchcock, Chris, which you had worked out but

then talked yourself out of. But great luck for you, Nick.

Means you don't need another question.

You're through to the final round, playing for £36,000.

Would you come back and join your teams, both of you.

Well, Jane, don't know where you cobbled him from.

Nick played very well there. Knocked Chris out.

Means you're one ahead in the head to heads. We've only played one.

And we move on to our second round today and this one is Science.

Who'd like to play this? Can't be Nick.

Sure you're good at that, as well...

but you're ineligible until the final round. Who wants to play?

-Who do you think?

-Shall I go?

-I think Rob should do this.

-I think so. Yeah, yeah.

Can't be Chris, remember. He's out.

-I think Pat.

-Pat. Pat.

-Pat.

-Yeah.

-Pat, now why have you chosen Pat?

-He's an unknown quantity.

Unknown quantity. You'll soon find out what a good quizzer he is but you know that already, don't you,

because he wouldn't be on that team if he weren't.

OK. Let's have Rob and Pat into the question room, please.

-OK, then. Rob, do you want to go first or second?

-I'd like to go first, please.

Good luck, Rob. Here you are. First question.

Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space in 1963

when she was launched in which spacecraft?

The name doesn't sound American.

So, one would look towards the Russian space programmes.

So I would say Vostok six.

Once you're going Russian, you can't choose the other two.

And it's the right answer. Well, done. Vostok Six. OK.

Right. First question for you, Pat.

A barium meal is given to patients before being x-rayed in a procedure

commonly used to determine the existence or extent of problems with which bodily system?

Well, it's a milky, I think milky fluid and it's swallowed.

And it makes its way through the digestive system.

And is tracked with scanners.

So it's the digestive system.

Digestive is correct, Pat. Yes. A solid start from you both.

Back to you, Rob. Second question.

The numbers 496 and 8,128

are the third and fourth numbers in which sequence?

I don't think it's a prime number sequence.

So I'm left with the choice of perfect or pyramid

and I will try for pyramid.

Pyramid numbers. 496, 8,128... are perfect numbers.

Not a perfect answer. It stays all square after that

and a chance for the lead then, Pat.

In mobile phone technology, for what does the letter G stand in 3G?

I think it must be generation. I've never given it very much thought.

But 3G in the world of technology

frequently refers to third generation of various technologies.

It could conceivably be global or grade, but I'll go for generation.

3G is, yeah, third generation.

It's the right answer.

So you have the lead, Pat.

That means you've got to get this then, Rob.

Ichthyosis is a family of disorders that affects which part of the body?

Ichthyosis. I-C-H-T-H-Y-O-S-I-S.

I have a feeling I've heard of it and I think it's related to the eyes.

-So that'll be my answer.

-Ichthyosis.

Do the eyes have it?

No, they don't. It's skin.

Ichthyosis relates to a disorder of the skin. Any more specifics on it?

-Scaling, like a fish.

-Yes. I thought ichs had to do with fish.

So not eyes, it's skin. Which means I'm sorry to say, Rob,

you're not playing in the final round. You won through, Pat.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

The Eggheads have levelled it up.

It's now all square. Both teams have lost one brain from the final round.

Our third category today, I can announce, is arts and books.

Who'd like to play, Jane, Dave or David?

I think David's the one for that.

-It's my category, isn't it?

-I think it is.

-I'm on my way.

-OK.

Well, you've got to take an Egghead with you, David.

Who would you like? It can't be Chris or Pat.

Not Judith. I think she's too good at that. So Barry, maybe?

Let's have a crack at Barry.

-Yeah.

-Have a crack at Barry. Why not?

OK. Let's have David and Barry into the question room, please.

Do you want to go first or second?

I'll keep with the tradition we've set. First, please.

Right. Best of luck. First question on arts and books.

In publishing, what term is used to describe fiction written for

and marketed towards younger women, usually in their 20s?

There's a bit of innuendo going on here.

I've heard of men's mags but never girlie rags.

I've never heard of a femme book, either.

But chick lit kind of fits the zeitgeist, doesn't it?

So I think it's chick lit.

Most certainly is. Good start. Correct. Chick lit. OK, Barry.

Which fictional detective died

in the story entitled The Adventure Of The Final Problem,

but was later resurrected through popular demand?

It was Sherlock Holmes,

who was supposed to have died at the Reichenbach Falls.

But there was such an outcry over his supposed death

that Conan Doyle had to reinvent him again.

Yeah. Sherlock Holmes is correct. Well done, Barry.

All square. David,

who was the sponsor of the Turner Prize between 1991 and 2003?

I had a number of other possible answers in my head

and frankly, it was none of those.

I can't imagine Ronald McDonald being associated with the Turner.

And it's a very British institution, isn't it,

which takes us back to Channel 4 and British Airways.

British Airways was stretched enough in its sponsorship in those days.

-So I'll go for Channel 4, if that's all right.

-OK.

Working the logic like an Egghead to get the correct answer.

Yes. Well done, David. Two to you.

Sponsor of the Turner prize between '91 and 2003.

Second question, Barry.

In Alexander McCall Smith's novels,

The Number One Ladies Detective Agency,

what's the name of Botswana's first female detective

who founded the agency?

Grace Makutsi played her secretary who got 97% in her typing exam.

But Botswana's detective was Precious Ramotswe.

And you know that Grace got 97% in her typing?

She was very proud. It's in all the books.

Yeah. OK. It is the right answer.

Well done, Barry.

No disputing that. OK. It's 2-2.

Both doing really well. Get your third question right, David,

and you might be playing for the money.

In Elizabethan times, a white flag raised

outside Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

indicated that audiences could expect to see which type of play?

This is lucky dip for me, I'm afraid. Um...

There's nothing I can latch on to that gives it any logic at all.

So I'm going to plumb for comedy.

Comedy. So your first proper guess... ie, you didn't have a clue.

It's the right answer. Yes. Well done.

So, it means that you might be about to lose, Barry,

if you don't get this. During World War II,

paintings in the National Gallery

were evacuated to which part of the United Kingdom?

I seem to recall they were evacuated to somewhere that had deep caves.

The one that has the deepest caves would be Snowdonia.

So I will go for Snowdonia.

Yeah. Well, or remote.

But that answer, not remote, it's correct.

It's 3-3. We go to sudden death.

And David,

just to double-check, you won't see any more choices.

Just got to hear the answer from you until the completion of this round.

Which Dutch painter moved to London in 1873 to live in Brixton?

You've thrown me a curve ball there, um...

because I'm aware of a Dutch painter who lived in Isleworth.

-Who was that then, David?

-That was Van Gogh.

So he may have been in both, so I'm going to go with Vincent Van Gogh.

OK. Van Gogh. Isleworth.

And I'm sure Jane and Rob can find us

the quickest route from Isleworth to Brixton...

although I wonder if Van Gogh took cabs between the places.

It is the right answer.

Yes. Vincent Van Gogh. Well done.

Very good, that. I mean, Isleworth, Brixton,

do we know any more about his time in London?

-Not really. No.

-Oh. OK. Thank you, Eggheads.

Kevin probably would if he was here.

If you don't know this, Barry, you won't be playing in the final round.

Which 20th century novel is set in the year 632 AF?

Well, the AF part of the number means after Ford.

And it was a novel after the supposed Industrial Revolution caused by Ford

and it was Brave New World.

-Correct. By?

-Aldous Huxley.

Brave New World is correct. Well done, Barry. It's all square.

Two great quizzers here.

David, The Idiot, The Gambler, and The Brothers Karamazov

are novels by which Russian author?

I said before I came on here

that as long as it wasn't Russian literature I'd be all right.

One of the few things I know is Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote those.

That's your answer?

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

-It is absolutely correct.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author of The Idiot, The Gambler, amongst others.

So, got to get this again, Barry.

Guy Debord was a leading light in which revolutionary art movement

who thought that art should be made out of life?

Now, I'm struggling on this one.

He obviously sounds French so we have to take a French movement.

I really don't know this, so I'll have a shot in the dark with the Barbizon school.

The Barbizon school. Guy Debord.

It's incorrect, Barry. It is...

-Anyone know?

-Is it Dada?

-No.

Guy Debord, leading light in the Situationists.

Situationist International. Well, the situation is

Barry will not have a chair for that final round.

You'll be playing for £36,000 today, David, in that final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

As it stands, the Eggheads have lost two brains from the final round, Barry and Chris.

And only one brain gone from Cobbled Together. That's Rob.

So let's play the last subject now. This one is politics.

And it's Dave or Jane to play.

-Politics.

-How do you feel on this, Jane?

-Not too good.

-Oh!

How are you on it? Are you happy to go ahead?

-No, but it's better if you're in the general knowledge so I'll take this.

-OK. Nice of you.

-Going to be you then, Dave.

-Yes.

One of our female Eggheads then.

Daphne or Judith remain.

-Who do you reckon?

-Don't know. Your choice, really.

-Let's go with Judith.

-Judith.

OK. Let's have Dave and Judith into the question room then.

Dave, let's see if you can build on

that great performance so far by the team.

Would you like to go first or second?

I'd like to go first please, Dermot.

Good luck, Dave. First question.

What name was applied to the confrontational

and often unstable relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union

that lasted for much of the 20th century?

That was characterised as the frosty relationship

between the two leading candidates, so that'll be the Cold War.

Cold War, it is. Good start. One to you. Judith,

who became the leader of the Socialist Labour Party

when it was re-established in Britain in 1996?

Well, David Owen was a Lib Dem, wasn't he?

Or whatever they were. SDP or whatever they're called.

Dennis Skinner is very red but I think he was

just an ordinary MP in the Commons. I think it's Arthur Scargill.

The Socialist Labour Party re-founded by Arthur Scargill

is the right answer. Well done, Judith.

OK. 1-1. Dave.

Gaston Eyskens served as prime minister of which country

three times in the 20th century?

And I'll spell the surname

in case my pronunciation isn't as spot on as it should be.

E-Y-S-K-E-N-S.

It sounds like it's a French base

so I would say either France or Belgium.

I'm not sure I've actually heard of him.

I think it's Belgium actually. I'll go with Belgium.

It is the right answer.

Well done. Gaston Eyskens.

And second question to you, Judith.

Who was appointed leader of the House of Commons in June 2007?

I think that was Harriet Harman.

-I think it was.

-Going for that. Harriet Harman.

Yes. Leader of the House.

Appointed in 2007. Well done.

2-2. Dave...

Richard J Daley and his son Richard M Daley

have both been mayors of which American city?

Oh, dear.

Can I change the question, Dermot?

Too late now.

I was hoping this one wouldn't come up.

Have I heard of New York? No.

I'm thinking Chicago for some reason,

but other than that, it's a complete guess.

Chicago, it is.

You can breathe again, Dave.

-It was a good guess.

-Going out on a limb.

There must have been something there.

You seemed fairly assured in the end.

So it's three to you.

And if it stays that way after I hear the answer to this question, you're through.

Judith, what was the first name

of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's wife,

who also served as a first deputy prime minister of the country?

Elena Ceausescu. Natalia. Galina.

Elena, I think, but it's a bit of a guess.

I mean, just sounds right.

OK. Sounds right. Elena Ceausescu, also first deputy prime minister.

It's correct. Yeah. 3-3. We go to sudden death again.

Well, great round last time.

David managed to come out on top.

Will Dave match that? OK. Your question, Dave.

Who was the leader of the Liberal Party

from 1956 to 1967 and again, briefly, in 1976?

Briefly after '76.

That would have been after Jeremy Thorpe, wouldn't it?

-Was it Jo Grimond?

-Is that your answer?

That's my answer.

Jo Grimond.

And '76, Jeremy Thorpe and all the scandal surrounding him.

It's the right answer. Yes. Jo Grimond.

And well pulled out there. And of course, the reason in 1976,

as you said, was after the resignation of Jeremy Thorpe.

He stood in as caretaker. Leader, very briefly.

So, you're in the lead.

And Judith needs to get this.

The French Senate or Upper House of Parliament,

sits in which building in Paris?

I really should know this, shouldn't I, since I lived there.

The Elysee Palace is the President.

The Quai d'Orsay, that's the Foreign Office, isn't it...

in Paris.

I have absolutely no idea. I don't know.

I'm going to say Quai d'Orsay, just in case they sit there, as well.

-OK. Quai d'Orsay.

-Yeah.

-Eggheads?

-Luxembourg.

-Luxembourg.

-Right.

-I never would have got that.

-No. OK.

It's not the Quai d'Orsay.

I've had a correct answer in Jo Grimond from Dave.

Which means you're through to the final round.

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 and what an exciting final round it promises to be.

It is general knowledge,

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

won't be allowed to take part in this round.

So Rob from Cobbled Together, and Chris, Barry and Judith,

three Eggheads, would you leave the studio, please.

So, Jane, Dave, David and Nick,

you're playing to win Cobbled Together £36,000.

Daphne and Pat, you're playing for something which money can't buy,

the Eggheads' reputation.

As usual, I'll ask each team three questions.

The questions are general knowledge and you are allowed to confer.

So, Cobbled Together, are your four brains better than the Eggheads' two?

And Jane, Dave, David and Nick,

would you like to go first or second?

-We'll stick with first, I think.

-Stick with first.

-Stick with first.

Here you go. Best of luck. They're general knowledge.

In computer security, what term is commonly used for

the fraudulent process of trying to attain sensitive information

by masquerading as a trusted source?

In computer security, what term is commonly used

for the fraudulent process of trying to attain sensitive information

by masquerading as a trusted source?

I'm not very au fait with computers at all but I'm told it's phishing.

Phishing with a Ph. It is. It's right.

Good start. Phishing.

OK, Eggheads.

Which part of the body

is sometimes informally referred to as the phizog?

Which part of the body

is sometimes informally referred to as the phizog?

It's the face.

-The old phizog.

-Yeah.

Face. It's the right answer. OK.

Well, back to you, Cobbled Together.

In which country did Elvis Presley

spend his military service from October 1958 to March 1960?

In which country did Elvis Presley

spend his military service from October 1958 to March 1960?

There's not much American military service in Poland or Mexico.

-It's got to be West Germany.

-Yeah.

-It's West Germany.

-Of course it is.

Well done. And of course, as a result of that military service,

it led to his only appearance in the United Kingdom.

-Yes. In Preswick, I think.

-Preswick Airport.

A stopover I think, on the way to or from West Germany. So there you are.

You've got two. And Eggheads.

Which popular website was co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg

when he was a student at Harvard University?

-MySpace, I think, is somebody else.

-Yeah.

-Facebook.

-Facebook?

-Yep.

-You on it, Daphne?

No, but apparently somebody pretending to be me is.

But she ain't.

Who could pretend to be you, Daphne? The inimitable Daphne Fowler.

Right. Well, Facebook is the right answer anyway. So there you are.

It's 2-2. It's the third question for each team.

Your question is this, Cobbled Together.

After departing Southampton on her maiden voyage, on 10th April 1912,

what was the first port at which the Titanic stopped

to pick up more passengers?

I thought it sailed from Liverpool, didn't it?

Cobh would be the right direction to go in.

It's on the south west of Ireland.

I've a feeling there were lots of Liverpudlian accents.

It sailed to Liverpool first and then set off.

-I'm good with that.

-OK.

Right. We think it's Liverpool.

Liverpool. So your routing is going Southampton, Liverpool.

And you were thinking of Cobh there, That's Southern Ireland, of course.

No. It's not that. It's Cherbourg.

Cherbourg, which I guess would have been the last on your list.

It means the Eggheads have a chance to win the game if they get this.

Who had a top five hit in 2003 with the single Hey Ya?

Who had a top five hit in 2003 with the single Hey Ya?

-DAPHNE WHISPERS I think it's OutKast.

-Yes. Yep.

-We both agree it's OutKast.

-Hey Ya.

2003 top five hit is by...OutKast.

Eggheads, you've won.

All that hard work, gone on one question.

It's the way Eggheads goes. It swung on the one question.

All that great work by Dave and David there and Nick in those head to heads.

I think that's a moral victory. Unfortunately,

we can't give you the money unless they have a whip round which I suspect they won't!

Great performance.

You'd done everything you could to win and got caught out on that Titanic question.

Thank you very much for being such a fantastic quizzing team today.

-It's been a real pleasure.

-We've had a lovely time.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally. That winning streak continues.

You won't be going home with the £36,000 which means the money rolls over to the next show.

Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?

Quite a streak at the moment.

Join us next time to see if a new team have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

It's £37,000 that now says they don't. Until then, goodbye.

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