Episode 149 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 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 challenging our resident quiz champions today are:

This team quiz together in the Orrell and District Quiz League

and take their name from the pub where they quiz during the winter,

The Brocket Arms in Wigan.

Let's meet them.

Hello, I'm Paul, I'm 41 and I'm a civil servant.

Hello, I'm Alan, I'm 53 and I'm a bookkeeper.

Hi, I'm Robin, I'm 57 and I'm a former civil servant.

Hi, I'm Dave, I'm 58 and I'm a groundsman.

Hello, I'm John, I'm 53 and I'm a civil servant.

-Paul and team, welcome.

-Thank you very much.

The Brocket Arms is significant, is it?

It's significant in that it's a pub that we enjoy going to.

-And you are serious quizzers, I think.

-No other kind!

No other kind! Good line! Well, we know that here.

You've got a connection with an Egghead. As soon as you say Wigan, I think of Pat.

-Pat, you've run across this team.

-Yes.

-Or run over them, have you?!

My first quizzing was 20 years ago in the Orrell and District,

so I've played in that league for about 20 years

and I've met these chaps.

We've known Pat a while!

-What's he like?

-He's good.

-And getting better.

-It's not encouraging, is it?

-He's beat us for 20 years.

-He's beaten you for 20 years?!

-But today's the day.

Today is the day!

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

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

So, Brocketeers, the Eggheads have won the last three games,

which means £4,000 says you can't beat them today.

The first head-to-head battle is on Music.

Which one of you would like this?

-Do we have a volunteer for Music?

-Who's going to take the hit?

I think I'll go for Music. I'll go for number one.

-John on Music, against which Egghead?

-CJ?

ALL: CJ.

-Fancy that?

-We'll go with that.

OK, John from The Brocketeers against CJ.

-You've very happy today.

-I was until I got picked for Music!

To ensure there's no conferring, would you please take your positions in the Question Room?

I'll ask each of you three multiple-choice questions on Music.

John, you can choose the first or the second set of questions.

If you get knocked out, you're not in the final.

I'll go first, please, Jeremy.

Here we go.

"Oh, my love, my darling I've hungered for your touch"

are lyrics from which popular song?

Right, I think we're going back some years now,

so I think we'll rule out Candle in the Wind, Elton John.

We're going for Unchained Melody.

Unchained Melody it is. And in a famous film, as well.

-Ghost.

-Ghost.

CJ, your question.

"Rockin' All Over The World", "What You're Proposing"

and "In The Army Now" were UK top-five singles for which band?

"In The Army Now" is one of my favourite songs. Status Quo.

-Why's that?

-I just like it. It came out at the time

that I was interested in music, for those two or three years,

and I just really like the song.

Status Quo is the right answer.

Every show we find out something about you, CJ, and it's never what we expect.

"One Rock 'N' Roll Too Many" and "Right Place, Right Time"

are songs from which musical, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber?

Right, musicals, er, I'm not good at,

but, erm...

..I'm tempted to go for Starlight Express.

Yes, Starlight Express.

Starlight Express is the right answer. Well done.

Over to you, CJ.

"You like potato and I like potahto You like tomato and I like tomahto"

are lines from which song by George and Ira Gershwin?

Let's Call The Whole Thing Off!

Let's Call The Whole Thing Off is the right answer.

John, third question for you.

Get this right, put CJ under pressure, watch him sweat.

The rapper Jahmaal Fyffe became famous under which name?

-Jahmaal Fyffe...

-The rapper Jahmaal Fyffe...

Again, rap's a bit too modern for myself. Erm...

I'm going for Chipmunk.

Chipmunk is quite right!

Can you sing any of Chipmunk's songs?

-No.

-No!

-Couldn't name one.

Daphne, where are you on Chipmunk?

-Well, I knew it was Chipmunk, but that was it.

-That was it.

CJ, your question. If you get this wrong, you're out.

Which Russian composer wrote the 1842 opera

Ruslan and Lyudmila?

I should know this straight away because...

..I think I've seen it on a poster recently!

I don't think it's Borodin.

It's the right time for Tchaikovsky, but I don't recognise it amongst his works,

even though I do know the piece.

I'll try Glinka.

Glinka is the right answer.

You're all square. Perfect round for you both so far. Three out of three.

John, it gets a bit harder, I don't give you alternatives. Here we go.

"One Step Beyond" was which group's first single

to reach the top ten of the UK chart?

"One Step Beyond" is going back to my era. We're talking Madness.

Absolutely right. Madness is the right answer.

CJ, which Motown artist released an album of instrumentals in 1968

under the pseudonym "EIVETS REDNOW"?

-Er, spell that for me, please.

-"E-I-V-E-T-S"

and then "R-E-D-N-O-W".

Oh, that's Stevie Wonder backwards, isn't it?

-Stevie Wonder.

-It is Stevie Wonder backwards. Well done, you've got it.

John, your question.

What was the title of the 1992 stage musical by Leslie Bricusse

based on Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol?

Erm...

Scrooge?

Scrooge is correct.

Based on the 1970 film, staged in Birmingham.

Anthony Newley in the title role. I know you love this stuff, Eggheads.

CJ, get this wrong and you're out. "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World"

was a UK number-one single in 1994 for which artist?

"Could you be the most beautiful girl in the world" is the song, yes.

# Could you be

# The most beautiful girl... # I know the song.

Who the artist is, I've no idea.

I've got a name,

whether it's the right one or not, I've no idea.

I've got nothing else. I'll try Terence Trent D'Arby.

It's not, CJ. It's Prince. You've been eliminated, I'm afraid.

It's amazing you can sing the song and not name the singer.

-You could probably sing the whole of it.

-Let's not, though!

John, you're in the Final Round.

Both of you, come back and we'll play on.

So as it stands, the challengers have lost no brains,

the Eggheads have lost a brain - CJ.

The next subject is Sport.

Which of you would like Sport? Is this bad news?!

THEY CONFER

I can't go, Paul, otherwise I would!

You're all looking this way and there's nobody there! It's me.

Paul from The Brocketeers on Sport, against which Egghead?

ALL: Chris?

Chris, please.

-He's having a run of these, aren't you, Chris?

-I have won the last one I did.

-Let's leave it there.

-You won't put us off!

Paul from The Brocketeers against Chris from the Eggheads. The subject's sport.

Please go to the Question Room.

Paul, no plan on Sport, I gather?

There was a plan and it was going to be me.

-Oh, right!

-Yes.

-You are the sporting person.

-I am in that team, yes.

-You could've fooled me! I thought you were really reluctant.

Just trying to put Chris off!

Like one of those free kicks, where they pretend to be arguing

-and then they score a goal.

-Something like that.

Good luck. Three questions. Would you like the first or second set?

It worked for John, I'll go first.

Here we go, Paul.

In which year did Kevin Pietersen first play Test Match cricket for England?

Right, '95, much too early.

I've a feeling it was in the Ashes-winning year...

..of 2005.

That's what I'm going for - 2005.

-2005 is correct.

-Thank you.

-Chris is up against a serious sporty quizzer, I think!

-Mm.

Here's your first question.

Tomas Rosicky, Samir Nasri and Bacary Sagna

all represented which football team during the 2010/11 season?

I know you're a Chelsea supporter, so you'll probably gloat about that.

Erm...

Down the middle, Liverpool.

No. It was Arsenal.

-Dermot's team.

-Arsenal was the answer. Dermot's team.

OK, Paul, which position is most associated

with the New Zealand Rugby Union player Richie McCaw?

Rugby league is more my sport out of the two.

He's a forward, so he's definitely not a winger,

so we can get rid of that one.

I think he's very mobile, so he gets around the pitch.

He's a flanker. I'll go for flanker.

Flanker is the right answer. Well done.

Chris, if you get this one wrong, you will be out of the contest.

Which British boxer regained his WBC super middleweight title

when he defeated Arthur Abraham in 2010?

Matthew Hatton is Ricky Hatton's brother, so I don't think it's him.

I've heard the name Carl Froch, so that's who I'll go with.

-Let's check. Is he right?

-I believe so.

I think Matthew Hatton's a bit too small.

Carl Froch is the right answer, Chris.

Two points to one. If you get this one right,

you can cast Chris into the outer darkness.

What was the real first name of the South African golfer known as Bobby Locke,

who won the Open on four occasions between 1949 and 1957?

Right, I hold my hands up here, not got a clue.

I'm just trying to see which of those names goes nicely with Locke.

Arthur Locke. William.

Phillip Locke.

Billy Locke.

I've no idea, so I'll go with Arthur

and see what happens.

The right answer is Arthur. Well done, Paul!

You've taken the round. You've knocked Chris out on Sport.

-So you're motoring, this team.

-Thank you.

Please come back and rejoin your teammates.

As it stands, the challengers have lost no brains from the Final Round. They're playing well.

The Eggheads have lost two brains. The next subject is Science. Who would like this?

-That's me.

-I think that's you, Alan.

Pat or Barry, isn't it?

-I'm going to take Science.

-You're taking Science. OK.

Against which Egghead? Pat, Barry or Daphne?

I think I might try Barry.

-Try who you want, mate.

-I'll try Barry, if I may.

Alan from The Brocketeers versus Barry.

To ensure there's no conferring, please go to the Question Room.

So I will ask each of you three question on Science.

Alan, you can choose the first or second set of questions.

I've been instructed to go second.

Barry, here's your first question. In medicine, electrocardiography is primarily used

to record the electrical activity of which part of the body?

Well, electrical activity is associated with the brain and heart,

but "cardio" tends to give it away, so it must be the heart.

The heart is the right answer. Well done.

-I bet you wish you'd gone first, Alan.

-I do indeed.

Here's your question. Which branch of scientific study

is concerned with the uses and effects of drugs?

Erm, I would go for pharmacology.

Pharmacology is the right answer.

Here's your question.

James Prescott were the first names of which British scientist?

He's one of my favourite scientists

and his full name is James Prescott Joule.

Absolutely right. Joule is the right answer.

Alan, back to you.

In chemistry, what is the SI unit for amounts of substance?

Weber's a unit associated with magnetism, I think.

Siemens is one of the electrical SI units, so I think this is mole.

Very good. It is mole, actually.

You did that with great confidence. Not an easy question.

Barry, back to you.

What is the approximate melting point in degrees Celsius of pure gold?

3,064 seems much too high.

I think the highest melting point of anything is probably carbon,

which just touches 4,000, but I can't imagine gold is that high.

Lots of these jewellers have these mini kilns where they melt gold

and I can't imagine the temperature would be that high, so I shall go for 1,064.

Very good, Barry, you got it right. Three out of three. 1,064 it is.

Alan, it's your question.

You need to get this right to keep your team on their cracking form.

John Young and Charles Duke walked on the moon

during which Apollo mission?

This is going to have to be a guess.

I think Apollo 9 is too early,

so I shall go for...

..16.

16 is quite right!

You're matching each other pound for pound here.

Barry, Sudden Death now.

-I don't give you alternatives. Ready?

-Yes, indeed.

Turkana Boy, a virtually complete skeleton of early man

was found in the 1980s in which African country?

Er, Lake Turkana is in Kenya,

so I think the skeleton was found in Kenya.

Kenya is right. Well done.

He's ahead, Alan. Don't give up.

Here's your question.

Falco columbarius is the scientific name

for which type of falcon, the UK's smallest bird of prey?

The UK's smallest bird of prey?

I don't think it's the kestrel.

Smallest bird of prey...

-If you get this wrong, you're out.

-I may be wrong in dismissing the kestrel,

but I will go for the peregrine falcon.

No, it's not.

-Anyone know on your team?

-Possibly the sparrowhawk?

-Who is it, Barry?

-Is it the Merlin?

-Merlin is the right answer.

You've been knocked out by a Merlin. Bad luck to you.

Barry will be in the final. Maybe the Eggheads are turning things around.

Come back to us here in the studio.

As it stands, the challengers have lost one brain from the Final Round,

whilst the Eggheads have lost two brains.

The last subject before the final is Politics.

-Who wants this one? Dave or Robin.

-I don't, but I'll go for it.

-Stick with what we said.

-Stick with the plan.

-Pat or Daphne?

-THEY CONFER

-It's you, Robin, is it?

-Yes.

-Pat or Daphne?

-Pat or Daphne?

-Do you want to take Pat?

-Pat.

-Yes.

-OK, then.

You can't come all this way and not play the local guy.

-They want me to knock Pat out!

-OK!

Robin from The Brocketeers against Pat.

-Are you ready for this, Pat?

-I am.

-OK.

To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions.

Robin, I'll ask each of you three questions on Politics in turn.

-You can choose the first or second set.

-I'll go first, please.

Here we go. See if you can knock Pat out.

What nationality is Miriam Gonzalez Durantez,

who married Nick Clegg in 2000?

Right. Erm...

I'm aiming towards, erm...

..Spanish.

I'm not sure why, but I'm aiming towards Spanish.

Spanish is the right answer.

Pat, your question. In which year was Ed Miliband born?

He's the younger of the prominent Miliband brothers, I think.

I don't think he's as far back as 1959,

so I think I have to pick between '64 and '69.

Who is the younger of the Milibands? I really am not sure.

I think it might be 1964.

For the first time in history, all the main party leaders are younger than me,

and when that happens it's devastating,

and I was born in '65. You're wrong, Pat.

-1969.

-That young?

What about this?!

The streets of Wigan are alight!

Robin, your question.

In 2005, Ed Vaizey was elected as a member of parliament for which political party?

I don't know. Erm...

I'm going to go for Liberal Democrat.

No, he's Conservative.

Pat, your chance to come back.

What is the name of the peer

who resigned from his role

as Enterprise Advisor to David Cameron in November 2010

after claiming most Britons had "never had it so good"?

Only one of those names rings a bell as having been in the news

in that timeframe,

er, Lord Young of Graffham.

I don't think it was Earl Howe.

I think I'll have to go for Lord Young.

Lord Young is the right answer. Well done.

Robin,

who was the UK's foreign secretary during the Suez Crisis?

Right. I think I'll discount Alec Douglas-Home.

Erm...

It's a pure guess at... Selwyn Lloyd.

Selwyn Lloyd is the right answer.

Pat, here is your question.

If you get this one wrong, you've been thrown out by a near neighbour.

Which position did George Shultz hold under Ronald Reagan

from 1982 to 1989?

I remember George Shultz.

I don't think he was at the treasury.

I think he was one of the big Defence/Foreign Affairs jobs,

which is either defence or state.

I have a slight inkling it was Secretary of State,

which is effectively their foreign minister.

Secretary of State is correct. Well done.

Once again, we go to Sudden Death. Two each after three questions.

Well done, Robin. Let's see if you can win now.

The headquarters of the World Health Organisation

are in which Swiss City?

I don't really know this. Erm...

My guess would be Zurich.

No, it's not Zurich. It's Geneva.

Pat has a chance to go through to the final.

Pat, which African country was a member country of the G-20

at the 2010 Toronto Summit?

I think there may only be one African country.

Looking at Africa as a whole, the one which is most likely to have the economic clout

would be South Africa.

South Africa is the right answer. You have taken the round on Sudden Death.

-Robin, you've been knocked out. Sorry about that.

-OK.

If you both come back to us in the studio, we can play the Final Round.

This is what we have been playing towards.

It is time for the Final Round, which is general knowledge.

Those of you who lost your head-to-heads

won't be allowed to take part.

Alan and Robin from The Brocketeers

and CJ and Chris from the Eggheads,

would you please now leave the studio?

Paul, Dave and John, you're playing to win The Brocketeers £4,000.

Daphne, Barry and Pat, you are playing for something that money can't buy,

the Eggheads' reputation.

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

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

So, Brocketeers, the question is, are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three?

-Do you want to go first or second?

-We'll go first, please, Jeremy.

Here we go. Good luck.

Which actor has appeared in the films Deja Vu,

Inside Man and The Bone Collector?

Denzel Washington has been in The Bone Collector.

-That's the only one I know.

-Deja Vu...

It's the only one that I had actually heard of.

We'll go for that.

Yes, we'll go for Denzel Washington, please, Jeremy.

Denzel Washington is the right answer.

Could've tripped up on that one. It would've been easy to. Well done.

OK, Eggheads.

Mam Tor in Derbyshire is known as the Shivering what?

It must be mountain.

Tor - mountain.

That's the Shivering Mountain.

That's the right answer. Well done.

OK, one point each. Back to you.

Invercargill is a city in which country?

-That's New Zealand.

-It is.

-I'm convinced.

They play rugby matches there

-when the Lions go on tour, don't they?

-I'm sure they do.

I thought it was in Scotland!

They've probably taken the name from that, like Dunedin.

THEY CONFER

-Go for New Zealand.

-We think it's New Zealand, please.

Straight down the middle and you are right again. It is.

Playing well here.

-Is he the secret weapon?

-Yes. We kept him back.

Dave is the secret weapon!

Eggheads, what is title of the 2010 sequel

to Scott Turow's 1987 novel Presumed Innocent?

I've read Presumed Innocent, as well.

-So have I.

-But I'm not sure of his follow-ups.

-Do you know?

-I don't know. No, I haven't seen it.

-The obvious one is Presumed Guilty.

-I think it is Presumed Guilty.

-I mean, it's going to be a blockbuster book.

-Yes.

Are they going to be subtle? They probably won't.

They'll be trading on the success...

But on the other hand, I don't know.

-I don't know.

-I haven't seen it.

-DAPHNE SIGHS

-Well, we're going for the obvious,

Presumed Guilty.

You're wrong.

-Oh!

-The answer is Innocent.

Oh, well.

So your future is in your hands now, challengers.

Pat will never be able to show his face in Wigan again if you take him out now.

If you get this right, you've won, you've beaten the Eggheads.

The expression "It was Greek to me"

is a quotation from which of Shakespeare's plays?

Greek to me...

-You've got Timon of Athens...

-THEY TALK AT ONCE

It sounds like a form of derision, doesn't it? "It's Greek to me."

-Are you saying it's a Roman?

-I would think...

You wouldn't say Timon?

-Timon...

-"It's all Greek to me."

-That's Greek, isn't it?

-Yes.

-Is Athens Greece?

-Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar...

-That's a Roman and an Egyptian.

Caesar was the main man, the noblest Roman of them all.

Cleopatra was Egyptian.

-Yes.

-JOHN MUMBLES

-I honestly don't know.

-No.

-Gut feeling?

-Antony and Cleopatra or Julius Caesar.

-What do you think?

-All Greek... Greek to me...

-Have we ruled out the Athens?

-I think we have.

If we're going on it's an insult, then... Unless it was someone...

-I don't think Julius Caesar.

-We're tying ourselves in knots.

-We are!

-What do you reckon?

-I'd go with Julius Caesar.

I think more quotations are liable to come from that play

than the other two.

-John, do you want to throw a spanner in the works?

-No. I'll leave it!

Away you go, Dave.

Well, er, Jeremy,

we're not sure...

..so we're...

..haivering towards Julius Caesar.

-So, your answer is Julius Caesar?

-Yes.

If you have got it right, you've taken the contest.

The character who said it was Casca,

-Act I, Scene II. Does that help?

-ALL: No.

The correct answer is Julius Caesar. Congratulations, challengers!

-You have won!

-Well done!

It was little Scott Turow slip and then you were gone.

-This is a good team here.

-Oh, yes, definitely.

-It wasn't a slip, we didn't know it!

-No!

-You didn't know it.

Did you almost go Antony and Cleopatra?

The decision was made because Julius Caesar has probably got more quotations from it.

-Just, you know...

-It was "play the odds".

Captain's privilege, as well.

-And blame it on him if it was wrong!

-He captained it well at the end.

Thank you for playing. Congratulations.

-You have just won £4,000.

-Thank you.

You are officially cleverer than the Eggheads and proved they can be beaten.

-Pat, your response, please, as the Wigan Egghead?

-Desolated!

They've been waiting for years to get one over on you, after all those local quizzes!

Well done again.

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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