Episode 111 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.

They've won some of the country's toughest quiz shows -

they are the Eggheads. And taking on our awesome champions today are...

This team of friends from London

take part in pub quizzes in and around Fulham.

-Let's meet them...

-Hi. I'm Peter, I'm 28

and I'm a marketing account manager.

Hi. I'm Tim, I'm 29 and I'm a ship broker.

Hi. I'm Rupert, I'm 29 and I'm a solicitor.

Hi. I'm Kit, I'm 28 and I'm a solicitor.

Hi. I'm Kiki, I'm 28 and I'm a commodities broker.

-So, Peter and team, welcome to you.

-Thank you.

-And you're friends

-and you're starting out in the world of work basically.

-Absolutely.

As we heard, solicitor and ship broker and all sorts.

-Yes, varied bunch.

-And crucially, quizzing together.

-Yes, something we enjoy doing.

-In pubs - whereabouts?

Yes, we all live around south-west London,

-so, any pub that will have us around that area.

-Good luck to you.

Good luck. Every day there's £1,000 up for grabs for our challengers.

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

So, Sealed With A Quiz, the Eggheads have won the last 13,

which means £14,000 says you can't beat them - shall we start?

-Yep.

-OK. First head-to-head battle is on the subject of sport.

Why do I think you'll be good at this?

THEY LAUGH

-I think Peter.

-We're going to send the captain in.

-I'm in to bat.

-Against which Egghead?

-Judith always gets picked on,

and I'm afraid we're going to pick on her again for sport.

-Peter and Judith... It's starting, isn't it, Judith?!

-Yes.

The dreaded sport run! Judith, to ensure there's no conferring,

please go to the question room now.

Three questions, multiple choice, on sport. Peter, first or second?

Well, it should be ladies first,

but I'm going to break the habit of a lifetime, and go first.

Good luck, Peter. The hoops on the home shirts

of Celtic FC are traditionally white and which other colour?

Well, I don't think the Rangers fans would be happy if I said blue,

so I'm going to rule that out and I'm going to go green.

Green is the right answer. Judith, your sport question...

Who was the captain of the 2010 American Ryder Cup team?

I know the captain of the European one. Erm...

I think it's Jim Furyk.

It's not Jim Furyk,

it's Corey Pavin.

Peter - which world champion boxer is nicknamed Dr Steelhammer?

Boxing's not...not my favourite area of sporting knowledge.

Never heard of Ruslan Chagaev.

Erm, I know Wladimir Klitschko has a brother...

And I've heard of Nikolai Valuev.

I know Kit will know the answer.

I'm going to go for Nikolai Valuev.

Let's see if Kit does know the answer...?

-It's Wladimir Klitschko.

-Yes.

-His brother... What was it?

-Dr Steelhammer.

-Yeah.

His brother's called Dr Ironfist - it's not very imaginative!

They must be fun to hang out with!

You got that wrong. Back to Judith.

Jonathan Trott performs which main role for the England cricket team?

Oh! Now, this I've been reading lately, and has it stuck?

Erm, he's not a wicketkeeper.

I think he's a... I think he's a bowler. Oh, help, panic!

-You think he's a fast bowler.

-Yep.

-Daphne has her head in her hands.

-Oh, damn!

-LAUGHTER

-What's the answer?

-He's a batsman!

-Batsman!

-Yes. Judith, you should have used the Keppel technique!

-I should have.

All right, so, in this high-scoring round, Peter...

-LAUGHTER

-..it's your chance to take it.

In which year did Lawrence Dallaglio

last play international rugby union for England?

Well, 2001 was before England won the World Cup.

And he was definitely in the team at Sydney,

when we triumphed over the Australians.

I think I know this, I was lucky enough

actually to be at the Rugby World Cup Final in Paris in 2007,

and he was in that squad - so I'm going to go 2007.

Absolutely right, well done, Peter, you've taken the round!

Knocked Judith out on sport. Sorry, Judith,

we don't even need the third question.

Please come back and rejoin your teammates.

As it stands, the Challengers have lost no brains,

the Eggheads have lost one.

The next subject is science - who'd like this?

I think it's Kiki, isn't it?

-No!

-Yes!

-You've always liked it.

-You are strong on science.

-Yeah...

-I think we're going to go Kiki.

Kiki on science, against...

-Who are we picking on?

-CJ or Daphne?

-Or who?

-CJ or Daphne.

-CJ, I think.

-You pick.

-I'm too scared of CJ!

-He's not scary, actually.

-You take him on.

-I think CJ.

-I think CJ.

-If we say it enough...!

-OK, fine.

-OK, so Kiki on science, against CJ from the Eggheads.

Would you please take your positions in the question room?

I'll ask each of you three questions on science in turn -

whoever answers the most correctly wins. Kiki, first or second?

I'll go first, please.

Here we go - in what state does the element

fluorine exist at room temperature?

Oh, god. Erm, it's not a solid - I don't think.

Erm, I'm going to go with gas, because it was my first instinct,

but I... Yeah, gas.

-Gas has gone red. Gas is right.

-Whey!

-Well done!

Well done!

In terms of distance, what is the seventh planet from the sun, CJ?

Er, Venus is second, Jupiter...

er, should be fifth - it's Uranus.

Uranus is the right answer. Did you know that, Kiki?

-Yep.

-LAUGHTER

I did - we practised it on the train! Sorry, but we did!

Good! OK...

Here's your question - on what do graminivorous creatures mainly feed?

It's spelt G-R-A-M-I-NI-V-O-R-O-U-S,

pretty much as you'd expect...

Graminivorous...

I am going to say grass, purely because

the first three letters are the same.

-LAUGHTER

-That is my logic!

Very scientific approach.

Let's check - Judith, you would know this...

-I think it is grass.

-It is!

All right...

CJ, you'll love this - what is the cube root of 729?

Er, well, nine times nine is 81, 81 x nine...

..erm...if my brain would like to wake up,

er, should be 729.

Er, seven times seven is, erm,

49, so nine times seven would end in a three.

One times one would end in a one, one times one would end in a one.

So nine times nine ends in a one and one times nine ends in a nine.

So the only one that can end in a nine is nine.

Well done, you got there. Nine is the right answer.

Kiki - in medicine, what name is given

to the study of the causes of disease?

I've never heard of any of them.

So, I, literally, I have no...logic

in choosing my answer, but last time the middle one worked for me,

so let's go alcology.

What is alcology, Eggheads?

-Study of pain.

-Yes, aetiology is the right answer, Kiki, sorry.

CJ can take the round with his third question - which Nobel prize

was the Briton Robert G Edwards awarded in 2010?

I'm not sure. I worked through these at the time, and can't remember,

but I'm associating his name with medicine, so I'll try that, please.

It's for the development of IVF - CJ, you've taken the round.

Kiki, sorry, he's knocked you out. Was it as bad as you thought,

-up close and personal with CJ?

-Yes, it was really bad.

Both of you, please come back and rejoin your teams.

So, level pegging. The Challengers have lost a brain,

as have the Eggheads - the next subject is

geography - who would like this?

I think it's our Tim.

I think I'm going to take it.

-OK. Tim, against...?

-Not Kevin.

Daphne or Pat.

INAUDIBLE

-Go for it.

-Kevin, please.

Oh...!

LAUGHTER

I think that was sort of muffled disagreement there.

Tim from Sealed With A Quiz against Kevin from the Eggheads

on geography - please go to the question rooms.

-So, Tim, you're on the verge of marriage?

-Yes, that's right.

-In a couple of months.

-And girlfriend's name?

-Olivia.

-Will she be watching this?

Er, I hope...so?!

-If it goes badly...!

-Ask me in five minutes.

OK, all right. So, here we are on geography.

Maybe it'll give you some honeymoon ideas.

Three questions each on geography - Tim, first or second set?

I think I will go second, actually.

Kevin - Sotonian is a term for a person from which English city?

About ten miles down the road from me, Southampton.

Correct. And if you're from Winchester?

Wintonian.

Tim - the town of Cleveleys is located approximately

four miles north of which seaside resort?

I have never heard of Cleveleys, I apologise to anybody from there.

Erm...

It's going to be a guess,

and it will be...Great Yarmouth.

It's not Great Yarmouth, it is Blackpool!

OK. Kevin, your question -

what is the approximate population of Sweden?

It's surprisingly small, when you consider, in European terms,

the size of the country - it's one of the biggest countries in Europe,

but the people are really scattered,

or concentrated in certain places like Stockholm,

but per square mile, it's very low, it's actually nine million.

Nine million is correct.

Tim - Mount Kosciuszko,

the highest peak in Australia,

is located in which major mountain range?

I can't think of any rational reason

why it would be in any one of the three.

I'm afraid it's going to be, erm,

another stab, and I'm going to go with...

..the Great Dividing Range.

You got it right, well done.

Kevin, your third question - get this and you're in the final round.

What is the capital of the South African province of Hauteng?

In the old days, when they had the few provinces,

Bloemfontein was the Orange Free State, and I think it still is.

Durban will be in the, erm, Kwazulu-Natal, but Gauteng

was one of the provinces carved out of the old Transvaal,

-and it's Johannesburg.

-Correct.

Bad luck, Tim, you've been knocked out,

but no shame in being knocked out by Kevin.

Please, both of you, rejoin your teams.

So, the Challengers have now lost two brains

and the Eggheads one, from the final round.

So, this is the one to win before the final, and it's film and TV.

Who would like this, film and TV?

Rupert or Kit?

No, because... I think I could be OK.

-Rupert, OK?

-Yep.

-Against?

It can be Daphne or Pat...

-We'll go with Daphne.

-So, Rupert from Sealed With A Quiz

against Daphne from the Eggheads - go to the question rooms now.

Three questions on film and TV - Rupert, first or second set?

I'll go first, Jeremy.

In a famous line from Monty Python's Flying Circus,

nobody expects what?

Erm, it's not the Cheese Shop.

The Dead Parrot is something different,

I'll say the Spanish Inquisition.

Nice work, it is indeed the Spanish Inquisition.

Daphne - which actor has appeared in the films Boogie Nights,

Three Kings and The Departed?

I haven't seen any of them.

Erm, oh, dear...

Good start, this!

Erm...

Mark Wahlberg.

-LAUGHTER

-Is she right?!

-Yes!

-Yeah, she does do that!

-Mark Wahlberg is right.

-Unbelievable!

I don't know how it works, that,

but nine times out of ten she will get the right answer.

Rupert - Katherine Heigl

has played the character of Izzie Stevens in which medical TV drama?

Er, it's not ER.

I don't think it's House. Erm...

I think I'll go with Grey's Anatomy.

Let's check with the Eggheads...

-Right.

-Yep.

You got it right. Confident playing.

Daphne - what is the first name of Will Smith's son,

who played the title role in the 2010 film The Karate Kid?

He's Jaden.

He is Jaden. Well done. You've both got two points now.

Back to Rupert for the crucial third question.

What is the subtitle to the 2010 Jake Gyllenhaal film

Prince of Persia?

Mmm... I don't know the answer.

But I reckon Kit does. Erm...

I'm thinking Persia, desert, The Sands Of Time is quite good,

At World's End doesn't sound right.

I'll go with The Sands Of Time.

-Do you like that, team?

-Yep.

-They like it.

-It's right.

-Yes!

-Three out of three, that's good. OK, Daphne -

if you get this wrong, you are out of the entire contest.

Approximately how many people watched the 1966 football

World Cup Final on TV in the UK?

There weren't that many television sets, were there?

But you don't know how many people were grouping around them.

I really don't know, Jeremy. Pure guess, erm...

13.

No! You got it wrong!

It's 32 million! Bad luck, Daphne, you're out, and well done, Rupert,

you're in the final!

If you both come back, we will play that final round.

This is what we've been playing towards, the final round,

general knowledge, but those of you who lost your head-to-heads

are now allowed to take part.

Tim and Kiki from Sealed With A Quiz

and Judith and Daphne from the Eggheads,

would you please now leave the studio?

Peter, Rupert and Kit are playing to win Sealed With A Quiz £14,000.

Pat, Kevin and CJ are playing for something money can't buy -

the Eggheads' reputation.

I will ask each team three questions in turn, all general knowledge,

and you ARE allowed to confer. Peter, Rupert and Kit -

are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three?

-Do you want to go first or second?

-Jeremy, we'll go first.

Good luck - playing for £14,000.

Which mythological creature's name

describes somebody who posts inflammatory messages

on Internet chat rooms or forums?

-I don't think it's a gnome.

-The most unpleasant of those is a troll.

-I know trolls are associated with the Internet.

-Is it mythological?

-Yeah, there's never been a troll.

-Yeah, OK.

-Obvious question.

-Shall we go with troll?

Yep, we'll go troll.

Troll is the right answer.

Eggheads - in which year were Bruce Forsyth, Andy Warhol

and Philip K Dick born?

-'28?

-'28, yep.

-1928, Jeremy.

-1928 is correct.

One point each. Battle on.

Which model did the film director Matthew Vaughn marry in 2002?

-Claudia Schiffer.

-Yep. Shall we go for it?

Claudia Schiffer.

Is correct! No hesitation - you know your supermodels!

He does!

Oh, really? Right, OK...

Eggheads - The Devil Rides Out is a 2010 autobiography by whom?

Well, Stephen Fry's new book is The Fry Chronicles.

Paul O'Grady's first volume was On My Mother's Knee,

-and he has issued a second one...

-I was thinking him.

-I'm not sure that's the name.

-Any thoughts on Jo Brand?

-She had Look Back In Hunger.

-I don't know of her writing another one.

Paul O'Grady's written something else. Stephen Fry's 2010 one was

The Fry Chronicles, I think.

-We're not going for anything other than O'Grady, are we?

-We don't know,

-so we're inclined to that.

-We don't know, we'll settle on Paul O'Grady.

Daphne was going crazy back there. She's still going crazy!

It's the right answer.

I think she knew it!

Your question - which architect won the 2010 Stirling Prize

for MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts, in Rome?

It rings a bell. >

-But I don't know the answer.

-No, I haven't got a clue, I'm afraid.

Zaha rings a bell, I'm not sure why.

I don't know why, yes, but I'd be inclined to go for Zaha.

-It rings a bell.

-OK.

-Architects are very international.

-So they go all over the world.

-Yeah, I don't know...

I want to say David Chipperfield, but we'll have to go with the two.

-Do you know what the building looks like?

-Not a clue.

-It's probably quite modern.

-Yeah.

-So we're counting out Rick Maher,

-because we've never heard of him.

-Quite right.

I'm thinking David Chipperfield, but we'd better go with yours.

-Because it sounds like David Copperfield?

-It just rings a bell.

-I'm sure I've seen something.

-I haven't.

-My instinct said...

-We'd better go with instinct.

-You've got to do it.

-Are you happy?

-We'll go with it.

-OK.

Yeah, we're going to go with Zaha Hadid?

-OK, you've got it right.

-Yes!

-Well done!

Rupert, you did very well there.

People sometimes insist, based on an inkling, but you allowed it to go.

So, you've done all you can, you've got three out of three.

And many's the time this lot have slipped up on the third question.

If they get this right, it's sudden death.

If they get it wrong, you've got £14,000.

Eggheads - a stone version of which item

is placed behind the statue of Nelson, on top of Nelson's Column

in Trafalgar Square?

If you get it wrong, they've won £14,000.

Well, if it was... What are you thinking?

I don't think it's a cannon.

I don't actually know it, so if you've got, erm...

It's very faint, though - if anybody's got any better plan...

Well, if you look at Nelson's Column, all you generally see is the statue,

-which makes me think it's something small and insignificant.

-Yes.

-Which rules out cannon and barrel, I would have thought.

-Very good point.

-He was put in a barrel of brandy.

-Yes, his body was brought home

in a barrel, to preserve it, a barrel of brandy or whatever.

-But that is, when you think of what you see...

-Yeah.

But are we just seeing the statue, not what's on top of the column?

If it was in scale and life-size,

it's unlikely to be the barrel or the cannon.

Because otherwise surely we'd be able to picture it.

I can't picture anything that big behind him.

-What do we think, then?

-Well...

-10% hunch it was coil of rope.

-That's...

-Very tenuous.

-That's fine.

-We've got an argument in favour of that - why not?

-Go with that?

-We don't know.

-There are arguments for, well, for all of them.

-Cannon is the most unlikely.

-The most convincing would be for the barrel,

-because of the body, but we'd see it.

-Come on, guys.

-We'll have to go for the coil of rope.

-We don't know.

We've a very faint hunch it might be coil of rope.

What do you think?

-I think it would be coil of rope as well.

-The logic was good, Eggheads,

talking about the fact that you would remember it,

if it was a barrel or a cannon,

but I can tell you the object does come up to the back of his knee,

so...so...

-It was a coil of rope, though.

-Mmm, good.

-It is a coil of rope.

-Nope, can't picture that at all.

They use impeccable logic, but it actually, sort of,

in a way, it isn't the argument, but it was the coil of rope.

-Must have another look at that.

-Yeah, I can't picture it.

OK... I'm sorry to put you through that!

Here we go, sudden death - I don't give you alternative options,

it gets that bit harder. In 2003,

Ed Miliband took a sabbatical at which American university?

-I think Harvard.

-I think so,

-it's the most famous.

-What would he have studied?

-They're well-known for the MBA.

-It's true, the people...

-International relations, maybe?

-Yeah.

All our leaders at work go off for courses in Harvard.

He was at Oxford, so Oxford and Harvard have...

Do they have a strong relationship?

-Yeah.

-OK...

-OK. We're going to go for Harvard.

Harvard is correct. You're playing really well.

Eggheads, your question...

Recovery was a UK number one album

for which American rapper in 2010?

The world's second best-selling album of that year.

-Eminem?

-Eminem.

That's Eminem.

Eminem is correct - Marshall Bruce Mathers III.

OK, back to you.

The Franciscan missionary Louis Hennepin

is best known for his exploration with La Salle

of which continent, in the late 1670s?

-Take your time.

-Right, chaps - 1670s, what was being explored?

Not a clue.

-Columbus would be 1492.

-My initial thing would be South America.

-Yeah, mine's...

-My initial reaction.

-Why, what was going on then,

-in the 1670...whatever it is?

-They were colonising, the Conquistadors,

-from Spain, but La Salle sounds French.

-Too early for Africa?

It's too early for, like, Asia.

Would they have gone all the way to South America?

South America did not... needed to be discovered,

Africa also, they were discovering it.

But La Salle, I don't know...

-My initial thing was South America.

-That's what I thought.

-Let's go with that.

-OK, erm,

we're not entirely sure, but we're thinking South America.

-Let's see if they know.

-It's North America.

North America, it is.

Especially the Great Lakes, in 1679.

Eggheads, if you get this one right, you have taken the contest,

and the money is swept away - which youth organisation

was founded in Glasgow in 1883 by Sir William Alexander Smith?

It's the Boys' Brigade.

-We know this?

-It's the Boys' Brigade.

That's the Boys' Brigade, Jeremy.

If you're right, the contest is over.

The answer is...the Boys' Brigade.

Congratulations, Eggheads, you've won!

You did nothing wrong until the last...

North America, South America, who knows, it's...?

Your logic was brilliant throughout, played really well.

Thank you and commiserations to you.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally,

and their winning streak continues, so you won't be going home

with £14,000 - the money rolls over to our next show.

Eggheads, congratulations - who will beat you?

Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers

have the brains to beat the Eggheads - £15,000 says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.

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