Episode 157 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.

Their quiz pedigree is well known, as they've won some of the country's toughest quiz shows.

They are the Eggheads.

And taking on the awesome might of our quiz Goliaths today are Haven't A Clue.

This team of friends all live in or around the south coast town

of Havant and are connected to the Havant and Emsworth Quiz League.

Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Chris, I'm 58 and I'm a materials planner.

Hello, I'm Jenny, I'm 49, and I'm a voluntary worker.

Hello, I'm Alan, I'm 56, and I'm a product safety engineer.

Hi, I'm Andy, I'm 46, I'm a client manager.

Hello, I'm Jim, I'm 67, and I'm a retired shopkeeper.

So, Chris and team, welcome. Great to see you. Tell us about the quiz league.

The quiz league, Jeremy, has been running for roughly 21 years.

Two or three pubs wanted to challenge each other.

They've had darts, they've had fishing, football,

they wanted to do something different, so they decided

to have a quiz challenge to see who is the most knowledgeable team.

And that's how the league's been going for the 21 years.

OK, so they'll all be tuned in to see how you do today, good luck.

-Yes!

-Everyday 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, Haven't A Clue, the Eggheads have won the last seven games,

which means £8,000 says you can't beat them today.

-Do you want to get cracking?

-Yes, please.

-Absolutely.

OK, the first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Film & Television.

Who would like this?

-That's me, Jeremy.

-Andy, OK.

-Which Egghead, Andy?

-Um, I'll take Chris, please.

All right, so it's Andy from Haven't A Clue

versus Chris from the Eggheads, and to ensure there's no conferring

please take your positions in the Question Room.

I'll ask you three questions, multiple-choice, on Film & TV,

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

I'll go first, please, Jeremy.

Here we go, good luck to your team.

The 2010 film TRON: Legacy is a sequel to the original TRON movie

that was first released in which year?

OK, Jeremy, well, on the process of elimination,

I think I can take out 2002.

And I think I saw this film when I was at university,

so I'll go 1982.

1982 is the right answer.

OK, Chris, your question.

Who was the winner of the 2010 series of The Apprentice?

Oh, ho, ho. I don't watch The Apprentice.

I have an idea it was Paloma Vivanco.

I'm afraid you're wrong.

Daphne, who was it?

Stella English.

-Did you watch it?

-No.

-No!? How do you know that?

Well, that's what you do when you're an Egghead,

-you find out who wins all these.

-You remember it, that's amazing!

Yes, we don't watch them.

I watch them, they were fantastic.

OK, Barry watched it, Barry is a normal person.

OK, Andy, your question.

In 2007, Christina Hendricks started playing

a character called Joan in which TV drama series?

I've got this vague recollection that she may be

the actress that plays, er...

..a lady with quite a good sense of style in Mad Men, I think.

Mad Men is your answer, you're right.

"Quite a good sense of style" is a very,

very gentlemanly way of describing Christina Hendricks.

Chris, who won an Academy award for his supporting role

in the 1953 film From Here To Eternity?

Oh, yeah, that was,...

..Burt Lancaster and Deborah Carr rolling around in the sand.

The best supporting actor was Frank Sinatra.

Frank Sinatra, well done, you've got a point.

Even so, if Andy gets this one right, he's knocked you out.

Here we go, Andy.

Which director made the 1970 film Myra Breckenridge,

and had also recorded a 1962 UK number one single?

OK, looking at the options there,

I don't know Peter Collinson, I know Mike Sarne did Come Outside

with Wendy Richards, I think it'd be about 1962.

I don't know him as a film director,

but just going on that basis I'll go with Mike Sarne, please.

Well played, sir. You've got it absolutely right.

Very, very good quizzing.

Yeah, Come Outside, well done, Andy, you knocked Chris out,

Chris is not in the final, he will be in the sin bin for the final round -

Andy, you'll be there. If you both come back to us, we will play on.

As it stands, the challengers have lost no brains from the final round,

the Eggheads have lost one brain.

The next subject is Politics. Who would like Politics?

None of us, really.

That was going to be my... I was down for both of those.

Oh, dear.

-So it's down to you two.

-I'll take it, Jeremy.

Alan, OK. Which Egghead, Alan? Can't be Chris, obviously.

I think Daphne, please.

So, Alan from Haven't A Clue versus Daphne from the Eggheads,

please take your positions now.

OK, so we're on Politics now, and you get three questions, multiple-choice.

If you win the round, you're in the final, you know that.

Would you like the first or the second set of questions?

The first set of questions, please, Jeremy.

OK, Alan, here we go.

Edward Balladur was Prime Minister of which country in the 1990s?

Well, Balladur, it doesn't sound like a German name,

it doesn't sound familiar to me.

I'm going to go for France, Jeremy,

simply because it sounds a more French-sounding name.

France is the right answer, well done.

Daphne, the installation of a new holder of which UK political office

is accompanied by a traditional show of reluctance?

Um, that's the Speaker of the House of Commons,

when they have to drag him to the chair.

That is quite right, Speaker of the House of Commons.

Alan, the book Beyond The Crash,

published in 2010, was written by which former Prime Minister?

Right, well, I don't think Gordon Brown would have had enough time

since he stopped being Prime Minister.

Tony Blair has written a book about...an autobiography,

so my guess would be John Major.

No, it's actually Mr Brown. Bad luck.

OK, Daphne, your question in 2010, the singer Wyclef Jean

announced his attention to run for president of which country?

I think it was Haiti,

I think he was disqualified for some reason or other.

Haiti is the right answer, Daphne, well done.

OK, she is in the lead, Alan,

you've got to get this right. Your third question

which former president represented the Progressive Party

at the 1912 American presidential election?

Right.

Grover Cleveland was president twice,

he was the 22nd and 24th president, as I recall.

I'm going to go for Grover Cleveland, Jeremy.

I think Barry will know this.

It's Theodore Roosevelt.

Theodore Roosevelt it is, sorry, so you've got that wrong,

and as a result, Daphne, you are in the final round. You've beaten Alan.

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

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

the Eggheads have also lost a brain. The next subject is Sport.

Have you got a plan here?

-Was that yours, Alan?

-It was indeed.

-Oh, dear!

-I have been mugging up for weeks!

-It's going to be mine, Jeremy.

-OK.

So, it's going to be Chris against which Egghead?

I think Barry.

OK, so Chris from Haven't A Clue versus Barry from the Eggheads.

And to ensure there's no conferring, please go to the question room.

OK, so Sport, and you've got three questions.

Chris, you can choose the first or the second set.

I'd like to go first, Jeremy.

Here we go, good luck.

Phil Tufnell usually performed which role for the England cricket team?

I don't believe it's a spin bowler.

Um...

I'm going to go for - it's not particularly my main sport -

opening batsman.

I'm afraid Alan is wincing,

because it is spin bowler.

-He was an offy, yes.

-Left.

OK, Barry, your question.

How high in metres was the men's high jump world record

set by Javier Sotomayor in 1993?

I think it's somewhere around eight feet,

so 4.45 metres would be far too high,

and 3.45 metres would also be too high,

It must be 2.45 metres.

2.45 metres is correct, Barry, well done.

OK, Chris, your question.

In 2007, racing driver Lewis Hamilton announced he would move to live in which country?

I can't see why he would pick Fiji.

I think it's Switzerland.

You are right, Switzerland is the right answer.

What is the reason for that? You obviously know your sport.

-Was it taxes?

-Must be tax, yeah.

OK. So, Barry,

your second question to take the lead.

In 2005, Phil Neville left Manchester United

and joined which other Premier League club?

Oh, gosh.

I remember reading about this, I remember reading that he left,

I can't remember reading which club he joined.

I don't think he joined a London club,

which would rule out Spurs,

and I don't think it would be a Liverpool club,

which would rule out Everton - I think it was Aston Villa.

No, no, no, Barry, it was Everton.

Ah!

So, Chris,

the Tooting Bec Cup is awarded for an outstanding performance

at which leading sporting occasion?

Well, being a fan of tennis, Jeremy, I would have remembered that one.

Golf I don't think so.

I think it's the Henley Rowing Regatta.

That's the wrong answer, anyone know about this?

It's the Open Championship.

And what's it given to or for?

I'm not sure, it might be performance by an amateur,

I'm not sure.

It's the British or Irish golfer

with the lowest score in a single round.

The Tooting Bec Cup.

So, you've got one point each,

Barry, if you get this right you're in the final.

The Australian-born winger Brian Bevan

scored a record 796 tries, including 740 for which Rugby League club?

I think it was Widnes.

I think it wasn't, it was Warrington.

So, you're equal after three questions,

and we go to Sudden Death - how about that, Chris?

-I thought you were going to be knocked off your perch.

-I would have got that.

It's a bit harder now, I don't give you alternatives, OK?

In which decade were yellow tennis balls first used at Wimbledon

in order to make visibility easier for TV viewers?

I think it is going to be the '70s, Jeremy.

I'm looking to see what your team-mates think.

I'd have gone' 70s, as well.

Yeah, it's funny, I probably would have - '86.

It's the '80s, later than we thought.

Ha-ha! So, Barry, you can take it with this question.

The 2010 Tour de France route included two ascents

of the Col du Tourmalet in which mountain range?

Col du Tourmalet...

The Pyrenees.

The Pyrenees is the right answer, Barry, you have taken the round

on Sudden Death, bad luck to you, Chris,

you've been knocked out.

So, are the Egghead's turning things around? Let's see.

Please, both of you, come back and rejoin your team-mates.

As it stands, the challengers have lost two brains from the final round whilst the Eggheads have lost one.

The last subject before the final is Food & Drink.

So, who would like this?

-I think this is me.

-Jenny, OK. Against which Egghead?

-It can be Pat or Judith.

-What do you think, chaps?

-Judith.

-Judith, possibly.

-I think Judith knows everything about food and drink!

-Pat?

-Go for Pat, then.

-I think Pat.

Pat. We think Pat.

Any good food and drink experiences recently, Pat?

-Breakfast.

-Breakfast, yes.

-Breakfast!

ALL LAUGH

OK, so Jenny from Haven't A Clue versus Pat from the Eggheads.

To ensure there is no conferring, please go to the Question Room now.

So, Jenny, you work as a classroom assistant?

A voluntary classroom assistant

with a Year One class who are all very sweet.

Good. They're not out of control? They're fun?

-Oh, they're lovely, they're lovely.

-Brilliant.

Well, good luck keeping Pat under control here.

He's a bit beyond... He probably is Year One in Egghead years, actually.

I'll ask each of you three questions on food and drink in turn

and if you get the most right, you go through to the final.

-Jenny, you can choose the first or second set.

-I'll have the first, please.

Here we go. What is the traditional flavouring of a Nice biscuit?

Oh, we always used to have these when I was a kid. It's coconut, Jeremy.

Coconut is the right answer, well done. Oh, delicious.

They are nice, aren't they?

-Mmm.

-Oh, my goodness. OK, Pat, your question.

In Yorkshire, what name is given to the leftover bits of fish batter

often given away at fish and chip shops?

I think all those little specks of batter are referred to as scraps.

Scraps is the right answer, well done.

OK, Jenny, your question.

What is the name of the Scottish speciality resembling haggis

but made with fish liver?

Um...

The sackie one sounds a bit as if it would be inside...

..a casing like a haggis is.

Or maybe haggamuggell. Haggamuggie.

-No, I think I'll go for haddiesackie, but it's a total guess.

-OK.

Anyone want to have a...?

-Haddiesackie?

-It's haggamuggie.

-Is it?

-Haggamuggie.

-Oh, well.

OK, Pat, your question.

The French red wine from the Loire Valley called Bourgueil

is predominantly made from which variety of grape?

A red wine? Syrah is definitely a red grape.

But, of course, the others could be as well. Tough one.

I've no idea at all.

I'm completely stumped.

I think... I know that Syrah is a red grape so perhaps,

on that basis, I'll have to go for Syrah.

It's not Syrah, it's Cabernet Franc. So you're equal after two questions.

Jenny, back to you. To take the lead -

the broad green leaves known as callaloo in Caribbean cooking

are more widely known by which name?

Well, mooli, I think, is a sort of radish used in Asian cookery

so I'll discount that.

I think chard is more grown for the stems than the leaves,

so I think I'll go for amaranth.

Amaranth is quite right. Well done.

You've taken the lead here.

You're about to go out of the contest, Pat, if you don't get this one right.

The suet pudding known as Heg Peg Dump

comes from which part of England?

Gosh.

Puddings. Hmm.

It could be absolutely any of them so I'll just have to have a...

Pin the tail on the donkey, just pick a county.

-I'll go for Gloucestershire.

-Oh, I don't believe it. You're right!

It's Gloucestershire.

JEREMY CHUCKLES

OK. So, Jenny, we go to Sudden Death.

It gets a bit harder now, I don't give you alternatives. So here's your question.

Noma, which was named the best restaurant in the world in 2010,

is in which country?

-It's just spelt N-O-M-A.

-Um... I have heard of it.

I really can't remember. Um...

France has a reputation for good cuisine, but...

..it might well not be.

Um...

I'll say France.

-It's not France, it's Denmark, actually.

-Oh.

Pat. If you get this right,

you're in the final.

What alternative name for the fruit often called a persimmon

comes from the plain in Israel where it is grown?

Hmm.

My first thought was kaki, but I don't think that's right.

Persimmon. There is a Sharon fruit. That sounds good for Israel.

Plain of Sharon rings a bell.

No, I'll have to go for the Sharon fruit

because I think there's a plain of Sharon in Israel.

You've got it right. Good quizzing, Pat.

Sharon fruit is the right answer. I don't know how you did that.

Your brain, it's not like other brains.

It's very well stored, isn't it? Where did you get that from?

A Dewey Decimal System of some sort.

Yes, there is some sort of interesting colour coding

or whatever, I don't know.

Jenny, I'm sorry,

-he's knocked you out there.

-Mmm.

-Playing well, as well.

So Pat will be in the final. Please, both of you, come back and rejoin your teams

and we will play the final round.

So here we are. This is what we have been playing towards.

It is time for the final round, which, as always, is General Knowledge.

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

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

Chris, Jenny and Alan from Haven't A Clue,

and also Chris from the Eggheads, would you please leave the studio?

Andy and Jim, you're playing to win Haven't A Clue £8,000.

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

the Eggheads' reputation.

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

This time, the questions are all general knowledge and you are allowed to confer.

So, Andy and Jim, the question is,

are your two brains better

than the Eggheads' four? Would you like to go first or second?

-I think we should go first, don't you?

-We're going to go first, Jeremy, please.

OK, all the best to you.

Which singer who had a UK number one single in the 1960s

married the songwriter Tony Hatch in 1967?

Tony Hatch used to appear on New Faces, didn't he? And I'm sure...

And he did the theme tune to Crossroads.

-Married to Jackie Trent?

-I'll take your word for that.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

I'm informed Jackie Trent.

-Jackie Trent is the right answer. Good knowledge.

-Well done.

Eggheads, what terms is used to refer to an organised body

of hired applauders in the theatre?

ALL: Claque.

-That's a claque.

-Claque is the right answer.

Your question, Haven't A Clue.

In the 19th century, Hippolyte Bayard was a pioneer of which technology?

-In the 19th century?

-The 19th century.

-Yes.

-Well, he's French, by the sound of it.

-Yes.

-Photography was developed in the 19th century.

-So was vaccination.

-Early 19th century.

-BOTH: Heavier-than-air flight.

The balloons were the Montgolfier brothers, weren't they?

-18th century.

-So photography or vaccination.

I'm inclined to go for photography. What do you think?

That's the way I'd be inclined. Yeah.

-Bit of a guess, really, isn't it?

-It is.

Well, as you've heard, Jeremy, we're struggling on this one

but we're going to plump for photography.

Photography is your answer. Do you know, Eggheads?

I'd have gone for heavier-than-air flight.

-We thought it was heavier-than-air flight.

-Ah.

-The answer is photography.

-Oh!

-Well done.

-Good guess.

Maybe this contest

is going to be tricky for you, Eggheads.

Johan Zoffany became famous in England during the 18th century

in which profession?

-He was a painter.

-He had an extraordinary life story.

-Painter.

-He was a painter.

-Painter is right.

Well done. So two each.

The all-important third question.

Get this right, puts them under pressure, anything can happen.

Which American writer is best known for his 1930s novel Anthony Adverse?

Um...

-We're both struggling on this.

-Yeah.

-My inclination, I don't know why...

-Yeah?

..would be Oliver La Farge.

-Well...

-No idea why I say that.

I can't really give you a steer for or against,

so I'm happy to go with you on that.

-Well, I think Pat called it pinning a tail on the donkey.

-OK, OK.

Let's see if...

We'll try and put a tail on the donkey

and we're going to try Oliver La Farge.

It's not. I'm afraid it's not. It's Hervey Allen.

BOTH: OK.

So that gives the Eggheads a chance

to take the contest with their third question, and here it is.

Which mediaeval monastery was located in the Vale of the Deadly Nightshade?

-BARRY SIGHS

-Never heard of it.

-No.

Oh.

They're all genuine abbeys. In fact, they're all,

I think, Cistercian abbeys.

I'm not sure we... There's no real...

Unless you know it, it's hard to see a logical way of tackling this.

If we went for the least known...

Maybe that would be a good bet.

I think that's a good suggestion, myself.

The Vale of the Deadly Nightshade, it's such a lovely descriptive term

-that we should know it about some of the other ones.

-Yes.

-Shall we go for Meaux or whatever it's called?

-If you wish.

-We're just a bit stumped, I think.

-Why not?

We're totally stumped so were going for the one we know least about,

which is the one in the middle, I'm not sure how you pronounce it,

Meaux, or Miux, or whatever.

OK.

-You've got it wrong, it's Furness Abbey.

-Oh.

So you're level after three questions.

You live to fight another day. And we go to Sudden Death.

It's harder, I don't give you alternatives.

An 1897 speech by Adelaide Hoodless

given in Canada to a group of farmers' wives

is regarded as the beginning of which international movement?

1897. Farmers' wives. Canada.

-Um...

-A movement.

-A movement.

-It could be the temperance movement.

-Nah.

Is that too late? It had already started by then?

Yes, the temperance movement got going in Britain before Canada.

So, 1897, in the Edwardian times, there was a lot of suffragettes,

so was that the thing that started the suffragette movement?

I don't... What's the...?

-The Women's Institute?

-The Women's Institute.

-That's a world movement.

Is it a movement or an institution?

No, it's a...

I would have called it a movement.

I feel the Women's Institute was probably founded in England.

You think it's more British? I would have thought that could be...

I'm just wondering if it's a women's movement of some sort.

We'll say suffragettes?

Yeah, we'll go for suffragettes.

-Bit of a guess, though, isn't it?

-If it's Women's Institute, then...

We're struggling, Jeremy.

We're going to try the suffragette movement.

-Oh, you feel their pain.

-Yes. It's the Women's Institute.

Sorry.

You discussed it really well there.

So you can win the contest now, Eggheads,

with this question.

In 1974, Roy Strong became director of which London museum?

-V&A.

-The V&A, yeah. I've got his lovely...

-ALL MURMUR

-It's definitely the V&A.

Yeah. It's the V&A.

The Victoria and Albert Museum.

The Victoria and Albert, or V&A Museum, is the correct answer.

Congratulations, Eggheads. You have won.

Well, I'm sorry to see you go like that, but that's the way it goes.

-WI.

-We enjoyed it, Jeremy. Thank you.

-I am so glad to hear you say that.

Thank you. Commiserations to the challengers.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them and their winning streak continues,

although you wobbled a bit, didn't you?

I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £8,000

so 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 defeat the Eggheads.

£9,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.

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