Episode 5 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 country's toughest quiz shows. They are the Eggheads.

And challenging our quiz champions

are Work IT Out. The team all work within the IT department

of a computing firm in Surrey

and they quiz together every week at The Crab And Dragon in Camberley. Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Jeremy, I'm 32 and I'm an accountant.

Hi, I'm Ed, I'm 25 and I'm an IT services co-ordinator.

Hi, I'm Graham, I'm 29 and I'm a business analyst.

Hi, I'm Dom, I'm 36. I'm an education partner manager.

Hi, I'm Graeme, I'm 45 and I'm an IT systems manager.

Welcome to you, Work IT Out. I see the "IT", very nice play on words.

It took a while to work that one out.

Tell me about The Crab And Dragon. Is it a new one, an old one?

-It's a new pub. It's just been refurbished.

-It's changed hands and names many times.

What's the quizzing like there? How competitive is it?

We've got our arch-rivals there and it seems to be between us and them most weeks.

It gets pretty heated, the jackpot gets quite high, so it's fiercely fought.

Let's play Eggheads then. Good luck, Work IT Out, good to see you.

Every day, there is £1,000 up for grabs for our challengers.

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

Work IT Out, the Eggheads have won just the last game,

so £2,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

Our first head-to-head battle is Film & Television.

Any one of you can play.

-I'm sure you have a couple of visual arts experts.

-I think Doc is the front-runner.

-You'll take it?

-Yeah.

-Who's it going to be?

-Our resident Film & Television expert, Graham D.

OK, Graham D. And who would you like to play from the Eggheads? Any one of those five available.

-Judith?

-Yeah.

-Yeah, Judith.

-I'll take Judith.

-OK, Judith.

Let's have Graham and Judith into the question room to make sure you can't confer with your teams.

-Graham, would you like to go first or second? The challengers always choose.

-I will go first, please.

All right, good luck, Graham.

First question of the game. Which EastEnders character made a dramatic comeback at his own memorial service

in February 2009?

-The crucial question is, do you watch EastEnders?

-I used to.

I sort of tailed off a bit probably about two years ago.

And I know Ian Beale is still in there.

Garry Hobbs is the only one I don't recognise

and I'm pretty sure I would have heard if Ricky or Ian had

because they've been long-serving people. I'll go for Garry Hobbs.

Judith, you are a keen EastEnders viewer. Do you know this?

-Yeah, he's right. It was Garry Hobbs.

-It's Garry Hobbs. Well worked out.

And also very good foresight taking the first set of questions, I think.

Judith, what was the name of ITV and Channel 4's forerunner of teletext,

which ran from 1974 until 1992?

Well, Oracle would make sense because you ask Oracle things.

So I think it's Oracle.

Teletext took over from Oracle. Well done.

So, one each.

Graham, who was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her role as the suburban housewife Cathy Whitaker

in the 2002 film Far From Heaven?

This was Julianne Moore.

She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in the same year.

It's only happened twice, along with Sigourney Weaver. Julianne Moore.

Right answer and very impressed with the background there. Well done.

Is that the case? I'm going to check that with the Eggheads, Graham.

-She was nominated as well that year for The Hours.

-Very good answer.

Two on the board for you.

The US TV show The Wire is set in which city?

I've never watched it. I tried watching it the other day.

Someone said it was very good, but I was not in the mood.

I have a feeling it's Baltimore.

It is. Baltimore is correct. Well done, Judith.

Back to you, Graham.

Who starred as the father Peter Manson

in the controversial 1970s TV drama Bouquet Of Barbed Wire?

Right, OK, now I am stumped.

It's '70s. I know Ralph Bates was quite popular.

He did a few Hammer Horrors as well, didn't he?

I've never heard of the other two, to be perfectly honest.

I have absolutely no idea. I'll go for Frank Finlay. Complete guess.

It's the right answer. Yes, Frank Finlay.

Well done. OK... Well, Judith, you've got to get this.

Johnny Depp made his feature film debut in which 1980s horror film?

I'm going to have to guess too because I don't know.

1980s, he must have been very young then.

I don't know. An American Werewolf In London.

An American Werewolf In London, Johnny Depp... Is that it, Eggheads?

-A Nightmare On Elm Street.

-Nightmare On Elm Street.

-I nearly said that.

Graham had a good guess there at Frank Finlay,

although he used a degree of logic.

Your guess didn't land there with An American Werewolf In London, so, Graham, you're in the final round.

Would you both come back and join your teams?

First blood to Work IT Out. Judith will not be playing in the final round.

Let's play our next head-to-head on Arts & Books.

Who'd like to play this?

-Dominic?

-Really?

-Yeah.

-It's got to be.

We had this one worked out already, Dermot.

-LAUGHTER

-Which is why Dom is hanging his head, yeah!

-Very brave.

-The short straw!

-Your time has come.

You can play any Egghead you like apart from Judith.

-Pat?

-Pat?

-Yeah.

-You'll go for Pat?

-Yeah, we'll go for Pat.

Pat, the winner of Are You An Egghead? Let's have Dom and Pat into the question room.

Dom, you get to choose as the challenger. Do you want to go first or second?

I think I'll go first, actually.

OK, Dom, first question to you.

The art movement called Impressionism started in which century?

Blimey! This is going back to my schooldays, to be honest with you.

I think Impressionism was...

This is a bit of a guess between the 17th and 19th.

Impressionism, I think, was actually in the 19th century.

Yes, it is. It's the right answer. Well done.

In Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, through what does Alice enter Wonderland?

I think it was inspired by the landscape around Ripon,

which has deposits of gypsum,

effectively like large rabbit holes

where the water has washed tunnels into the gypsum,

so I think it's a rabbit hole.

It is the right answer. Well done, Pat.

Back to you, Dom. Second question.

What was the second name of the Victorian writer Elizabeth Gaskell?

Elizabeth Gaskell...

Again this is going to be a bit of a guess, to be honest with you.

Cloddipole...

Doesn't sound quite right, to be honest with you.

So I think between Claypole and Cleghorn...

I think I'm probably going to go with Claypole.

-Elizabeth...Cleghorn Gaskell.

-Oh, Cleghorn.

-Cleghorn.

So, nothing there. Let's see how Pat does with his second.

"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

"To the last syllable of recorded time" is from which Shakespeare play?

I think it's a soliloquy by Macbeth.

I could be wrong, but I think it's Macbeth.

Macbeth is correct, Pat. Putting Dom under pressure. You must get this.

What pen name did the American William Sydney Porter choose for his writing career?

Um, OK, um...

Maybe this wasn't the best category for me to have chosen.

Now you say it!

OK...

So it's America. I'd probably rule out the middle, EL Doctorow.

JD Salinger or O Henry...

I've not really heard of O Henry really writing anything.

One name that springs to mind is JD Salinger,

so I'll have to go JD Salinger.

JD Salinger for William Sydney Porter. Eggheads?

-O Henry.

-O Henry.

-O Henry.

-Oh, Dom!

-Oh, well!

-Oh, dear!

-I tried.

-You tried, but you could not find a way.

-No.

-Bad luck, Dom. It wasn't really your category, was it?

-Not really.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Let's get on with the next round. It's all square in head-to-heads.

The Eggheads have lost one brain from the final round and Work IT Out have lost their first brain.

Our next subject is Sport

which I'm sure all of you enjoy. Three of you can play -

-Jeremy, Ed or Graeme.

-Definitely Ed.

-Without a shadow of a doubt, it's you, Ed. Who would you like to play? Kevin, CJ or Daphne?

-Daphne?

-Daphne, yeah.

-I'll face Daphne.

Let's have Ed and Daphne into the question room, please.

-So, Ed, would you like to go first or second?

-I'll put Daphne into bat and I'll go second.

Daphne, here's your first question.

Guus Hiddink was confirmed as the temporary manager

of which Premiership football club in February 2009?

Well, I hope it's Chelsea.

Chelsea, it is.

Guus Hiddink took over at Chelsea for half a season and did very well.

OK, Ed, Craig McDermott and Jason Gillespie

took a combined total of 550 Test wickets for which country?

Yeah, both formidable bowlers.

Gillespie made his name in the Ashes when he came over in '97.

He had a great series. Of course, being the Ashes, that was Australia.

Fell very nicely for you. That is the right answer - Australia.

The World Cup-winning rugby union player Neil Back is best known for playing in which position?

My grandson's going to kill me because I haven't got a clue.

Um...

I really don't know.

I will say, um, prop.

-Prop?

-Yeah. Sorry.

-Doesn't really have the physique of a prop.

Big, strong and muscular, but very fast, which made him a flanker.

A flanker, Neil Back. Not a back, a forward.

That means you have a real chance here, Ed.

Which gymnast was nicknamed the Munchkin of Munich at the 1972 Olympic Games?

OK, well, the two names I've heard of are Nadia and Olga.

I believe they're older gymnasts as well,

so I can eliminate the first one.

Olga Korbut, that rings a bigger bell.

I'll go with Olga Korbut.

-Olga Korbut, the Munchkin of Munich, is he right, Eggheads?

-Yeah.

It's the correct answer, Ed. Well done.

All right, you have the lead, Ed, and you've worked hard to get it.

Daphne, over which distance

did the Mozambique athlete Maria Mutola win three outdoor World Championship gold medals

between 1993 and 2003?

She ran both the 800 and the 1,500.

I'm really not sure, but I'll go for 800.

800... You stay in the race.

Yeah, that is correct.

Maria Mutola, three World Championship golds

in that ten-year space.

So, Ed, you've got to get this. If you do, you're in the final round.

In February 2009, who became the first female British tennis player

to break into the top 50 of the world rankings since Jo Durie in 1993?

They've all had recent success at Wimbledon in the last few years.

Elena Baltacha was a few years ago, I think.

Laura Robson is the young girl who's coming through the youth ranks

and has had a lot of success, but I think the answer is Anne Keothavong.

Yeah, she broke through a few years ago, so Anne Keothavong.

Daphne knows her fate already because she's nodding.

That is correct. Well done. You're through to the final round.

Congratulations, Ed. Come back and join your teams.

This is great news for Work IT Out.

As it stands, the Eggheads have lost two brains from the final round and Work IT Out have lost one.

Our last subject before the final is Music.

And Jeremy or Graeme, you to play.

Jeremy, what do you reckon? It's 50-50.

-My music knowledge is too narrow.

-It's folk music.

-It's going to have to be you.

-Really?

-Yeah.

-You've got a broader knowledge than I have.

-Regrettably, I'm going to take this one.

-That's the way the chips fall.

-Yeah, a team captain playing a captain's role.

-You've got to play Kevin or CJ.

-Kevin?

-I'm happy with that.

-Yeah.

-I'm going to take my chances against Kevin, I think.

-Kevin.

OK. Four times World Quiz Champion, reigning World Quiz Champion, in actual fact, at this point.

Could I ask you both to take your positions in the question room?

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

-Let's get this over and done with. I'll go first, please.

All right, here you go.

Which stage musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber features the cast performing on roller skates?

Hmm.

Right, musicals are not my favourite.

But, um, Cats on roller skates?

I'd love to see it, but probably not.

Aspects Of Love, no. I'm pretty sure it's Starlight Express.

Starlight Express is the correct answer, yeah.

And Kevin, which group had a UK No.1 hit single in 1978 with Three Times A Lady?

I would love to have heard Slade doing that.

-It's The Commodores.

-Commodores is correct. Well done, Kevin.

Who is the lead singer of the band The Killers?

I'm in a bit of trouble here, Dermot.

I've got a feeling that Jack White is in The White Stripes.

Jake Shears, I think, is the Scissor Sisters.

I've not heard of the guy, but I'm just going to go for Brandon Flowers

and hope for the best.

Yeah, well, it's the right answer. Well worked out. Brandon Flowers.

Not feeling overly confident, but worked it out very well, Jeremy.

You have two on the board. Kevin, your second question.

Which band had UK No.1 albums with Different Class and This Is Hardcore?

Ah! I'm not too sure. It's one of the two British... It's not Nirvana.

It's one of the two British bands.

It's gone 50-50. I can't distinguish, so I'm going to go for Pulp.

OK. Yeah, you're right.

Pulp is correct. Well done, Kevin.

It's all square.

Jeremy, your next question now.

Which pop star opened Paisley Park Studios in suburban Minneapolis in the 1980s?

OK, so...

I'm really not sure on this one, Dermot,

but for some reason I've just got...

I've got an inkling about Prince.

I'm going to go with Prince.

Don't ask me to justify it cos I don't really know why, but Prince.

You've got the right answer. Yeah, Prince.

I think Minneapolis is the key.

-Isn't that his stomping ground?

-Yes.

Kevin, you've got to get this.

Which composer wrote the work Seven Last Words Of Our Saviour On The Cross,

composed originally to accompany The Good Friday Meditations in Cadiz Cathedral in the 1780s?

I've never heard of this.

I know more about Mozart than the others

and I've never heard of this in relation to Mozart.

Haydn was...

..working for the Esterhazy family

and was very much confined to the Austria-Hungary area

and came to London and did lots of different vocal work.

I just don't know it,

so I'm going to have to take a relatively informed guess

and go for Haydn, but I really don't know.

All right, a scrap of information there and you've got it again.

Correct. So the points tell us it's all square. We go to sudden death.

It gets even harder. You don't have any choices to look at. I've just got to hear an answer from you.

Jeremy, which Motown artist released an album entitled The 12-Year-Old Genius Live

in 1963?

Not my strongest area of music.

But...

I've got a feeling I somehow remember recalling hearing Stevie Wonder play

when he was really young.

So...

I'm not completely comfortable with it, but I'm going to go with Stevie Wonder.

I'm very comfortable. It's the correct answer.

Whatever happens in this round,

you've just put in a storming performance for the man that didn't want to play.

OK, Kevin, Charly, Everybody In The Place

and Out Of Space were UK hit singles in the 1990s for which Essex dance band?

No, it doesn't mean anything to me at all, this.

No point working around it. I just...

Um...

Prodigy.

Is correct.

-How do you do this?

-I knew they were an Essex dance band.

If you choose an Essex dance band, go for Prodigy.

I'm apologising on his behalf.

Jeremy, keep it up. You are playing fantastically. Here you go.

Which British band famously performed in front of a picture of the darts player Jocky Wilson

when performing a single on Top Of The Pops?

OK, I think I've got a recollection of actually seeing this on Top Of The Pops,

so I think I've got an idea with this one.

I'm going to go with Dexys Midnight Runners.

OK, Dexys Midnight Runners. It's correct, Jeremy. Well done.

Another great answer, Jeremy. Kevin, if you get this question wrong, you've lost the head-to-head.

Which band's singles covers have featured such luminaries

as Pat Phoenix, Truman Capote, Shelagh Delaney and Candy Darling?

This... It rings a bell somewhere that there's somebody who's had these,

whether I've ever heard it as a question before or something, but I really do not have a clue.

I'm going to have to throw my hands up on this one and say something. I'll say Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

Frankie Goes To Hollywood... That is incorrect.

-It is...?

-Is it The Smiths?

-It's The Smiths.

-I wouldn't have got it.

The Smiths, not Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

Which means congratulations on a truly magnificent victory.

Jeremy, very, very well done.

Come back and join your teams. You're playing in the final round.

If the final round is as good as that last head-to-head, we're in for a real treat here,

Jeremy taking Kevin out at the end of sudden death.

This is what we've been playing towards, the final round, which is General Knowledge.

But those of you who lost your head-to-heads

can't take part in this round,

so Dom from Work IT Out and Judith, Kevin and Daphne from the Eggheads, would you leave the studio, please?

Jeremy, Ed and the two Grahams there, you're playing to win Work IT Out £2,000.

Pat and CJ, you're playing for something which money can't buy - the Eggheads' reputation.

I'll ask each team three questions in turn on General Knowledge and you are allowed to confer.

Work IT Out, the question is, are your four brains better than the Eggheads' two?

-Would you like to go first or second?

-First.

-We're going to go first, Dermot.

Let's get on with it.

Try this for size. First question.

Which expression is often used when each person pays their own expenses on a date or outing?

We're pretty happy with this one. We'll go Dutch, Dermot.

You'll go Dutch and you'll get the right answer. Well done.

Good start. One to you.

Eggheads, who was the Liberal Democrat nominee for the 2008 London mayoral election?

Well, Brian Paddick certainly stood.

2008?

Did he stand in '08?

-I don't fancy Vince Cable for it.

-No.

I think he's a permanent Parliament man.

So it's either Brian Paddick or Chris Huhne.

I think Paddick might have been an independent. He's an ex-policeman?

He is. Lib Dem is the only party he'd be associated with.

But I think he was independent.

I don't know if he stood in '08. I think he stood in the earlier one.

-Out of those three, I'd go for Chris Huhne.

-I'd go for it as well.

-I wouldn't be confident, but I think I'd go for it.

-We don't know it.

We're hoping it's Chris Huhne. We think he has stood.

So we're hoping he was the Liberal Democrat candidate in '08.

These head-to-heads were very interesting.

What would you say to that answer, Kevin?

Brian Paddick, which it is.

Brian Paddick stood against Boris Johnson who was elected in 2008.

Brian Paddick, not Chris Huhne.

So, confusion amongst the Eggheads.

It means you have the lead. Two more questions to beat the Eggheads.

Here you go. What name is given to a Scottish parish minister's house?

What name is given to a Scottish parish minister's house?

-I know it for certain.

-What is it?

-It's manse.

-Are you sure?

-I'm absolutely certain. It's where I'm from.

-We're confident enough.

-We're going to go with the Jock.

-Given my cultural origins, the answer is manse.

-Manse is right. Well done.

2-0 lead. Eggheads, you must get this.

The word "sylvan" pertains to what kind of landscape?

-Woodland?

-Woodland.

-Yeah. It's woodland.

The word "sylvan" pertains to woodland. It's the right answer.

But have you come back into the game too late?

If you get this question right, Work IT Out, you have beaten the Eggheads.

Listen carefully. Who was Chairman of the National Coal Board

during its bitter fight with the striking miners in 1984?

Who was the Chairman of the National Coal Board

during its bitter fight with striking miners in 1984?

-Take your time.

-I'm 100% on this.

-Which one?

-The answer is Ian MacGregor.

-Are you sure?

-I'm absolutely 100%.

I remember driving against coal trucks going down to Ayrshire.

-Ian MacGregor.

-You owe us two grand if it's wrong.

-I'll pay it to you personally.

-Did you hear that?

-Have you got your chequebook with you?

-I haven't, but I can run fast.

-On that basis...

-What are you going for?

-Ian MacGregor.

-Ian MacGregor.

Graeme, you were certain about the last one.

Certainties can disappear under the pressure of the lights.

And the prospect of the money. The answer is...

-..Ian MacGregor. You've won!

-Yes!

May I say, brushed them aside there in the final round!

-I can't believe that.

-Didn't even break sweat. Well done!

Fantastic performance. I think all of you performed really well today,

but it was Jeremy's role in that head-to-head against Kevin

because the game would still be going on as Kevin knew that first question definitively.

I think the other two did as well, but the two that were left did not know it.

You did such hard work. It's ended up with the money. It's yours and the crown. Congratulations to you.

Join us next time on Eggheads to see if a new team of challengers will be as successful. Until then, goodbye.

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