Episode 61 Eggheads

These people are among 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 the show where a team of five quiz challengers

pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.

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

Challenging our resident champions today are Team Toddlers.

They all attended King David High School in Manchester, and are given special permission to take part

in the school's parents-only PTA quiz. Let's meet them.

Hi. I'm Alex. I'm 18 and I'm a student.

Hi. I'm James. I'm 18 and I'm a student.

Hi. I'm Eli. I'm 18 and I'm a student.

Hi. I'm Edan. I'm 18 and I'm a student.

Hi, I'm Alexander. I'm 18 and I'm also a student.

Welcome, Team Toddlers, our youngest ever team. Tell me about this PTA quiz. Why do they let you in, then?

Just because we felt like quizzing against our fellow school friends.

We wanted more of a challenge so we decided to go for it.

We did OK, I think. We've done two.

We came mid-table in the first one and we came third out of 20 in the next one.

-That's pretty good.

-Did all right.

Is there a teachers' table there?

-Finish above any of them?

-The teachers don't know much!

-You can say that now you've left.

-We can say what we want so we're OK.

Well, plenty of quizzing experience.

Now in the big league, up against the Eggheads. This ain't no PTA!

There's serious money on offer. Every day, there is £1,000 up for grabs for our challengers.

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

So, Team Toddlers, the Eggheads have won the last 22 games.

£23,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads!

Let's get on with it, then. The first head-to-head battle is Film & Television.

Who'd like to play this?

Alex is good.

-Shall we go for James?

-I'd rather Edan do it.

-I don't mind taking it.

-ALL TALK AT ONCE

If Science comes up, I could do OK.

You're all right on books, though.

-I'm pretty rubbish at that as well. Shall I do it?

-Go on. Go for it.

-Yeah. Go on, Edan.

-OK.

-OK, fine.

-Edan, you're going to do it?

-Edan.

-And pick an Egghead.

-Barry?

-Well, he's nearest!

The modern stuff he may struggle on.

You don't want to make him angry.

Am I going to go and scramble that egg there?

-Are you all right with Barry?

-Well, it's a team decision.

I'd say Barry. Yeah, I'd say Barry.

Team decision on Barry, then. Edan and Barry to the question room, to make sure you can't confer.

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

-First, please.

Good luck. First question.

In 2009, who was appointed as Alan Sugar's right-hand woman

for Junior Apprentice and for the sixth series of The Apprentice?

-That's Karren Brady, Dermot.

-It is. Not beating around the bush.

OK, Barry,

which classic children's TV programme featured a round window, a square window and an arched window?

I believe that was Play School.

Started about the time that shirt was last in fashion!

It's the right answer.

-Often presented by Baroness Floella Benjamin.

-Of course!

Back to you, Edan.

Who directed the 1997 film The Full Monty,

starring Robert Carlisle?

Right, well, I was only six when it came out.

Oh, I just don't know.

So I'm going to take... a complete guess

and go for Stephen Daldry.

-Stephen Daldry on The Full Monty.

-Don't know, though.

It's not. Do you know, Barry?

-It was Peter Cattaneo.

-Yeah.

Peter Cattaneo directed The Full Monty.

What is Barry going to get

out of his second question?

Who won a Best Actress Oscar for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's 1941 film Suspicion?

It wasn't Carole Lombard. I think it was Joan Fontaine in Suspicion.

It was. Yeah. Joan Fontaine got the Oscar for that.

You need to get this, Edan.

Sally Field said, "I can't deny the fact that you like me. Right now, you like me"

during her Oscar acceptance speech for her role in which 1984 film?

Um...

I'm going to take another guess at this one. I don't...

I've never even heard of any of the films, or Sally Field.

Um...I think I'll...

go for Agnes Of God.

"I can't deny the fact that you like me. Right now, you like me." Barry?

I think it was Places In The Heart.

Edan, a couple of films there way before time for you.

Sorry, you won't be in the final round. Barry, you will be there.

Would you both please come and join your teams?

Eggheads striking the first blow, knocking one of the Team Toddlers out.

Second round coming up now.

This one is Music. Choose a player, please, guys.

We know who that's going to be!

We knew this before we came.

-It's Eli.

-Eli, the music man.

Eli, the music man!

-Which Egghead? Can't be Barry.

-We could have a go at Kevin.

-Eli, do you mind?

-I don't mind.

-Someone's got to take him on.

-King Kevin.

-King Kevin!

-Yeah.

-"Someone's got to take him on!"

Eli, you must be good at this. Let's prove it in the question room.

Eli and Kevin playing Music.

So, Eli, what music do you personally like?

You probably know a lot about the subject, but what are your personal tastes?

Main kind of things kind of border on 20th-century classical.

That kind of thing. Some contemporary.

-Good, good. Do you want to go first or second?

-I'll go first.

First question, the group The Beautiful South

was formed by two former members of which 1980s group?

I don't think it was The Jam.

I'm going to have to go with, er...

..The Housemartins?

Doubt in the voice there. I'll confirm it's right. Well done.

Good start there.

Kevin, who recorded the UK hit single Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves with Eurythmics in 1985?

I think that was Aretha Franklin.

It's the right answer, Kevin. Back to Eli.

This Ain't A Love Song became the first UK Number One single for which group in 2010?

The Fratellis and Arctic Monkeys had Number One singles before 2010.

I believe the answer would be Scouting For Girls.

Knowing what you knew there made it very easy. It's the right answer.

Which musical featured songs called Light My Candle and Take Me Or Leave Me?

No. I don't know. Could be any of those. I have seen Chicago and...

I don't remember those as being songs from Chicago,

but it's some time since I saw it so I honestly can't remember.

Even though I've seen it,

I'll...

They just don't sound right for Rent, somehow.

And Starlight Express...?

Um...

I'll try Chicago.

On the basis that you were maybe buying an ice cream

while these were on, Light My Candle and Take Me Or Leave Me - in Rent.

You go through to final round, Eli,

if you get this.

And maybe if you don't. In which role has Jane Eaglen achieved fame in orchestral music?

I've no idea, honestly.

"In orchestral music".

The only place for a pianist would be in things like piano concertos.

And I'm not so sure about conductor.

I'm going to have to go for opera singer.

Jane Eaglen, you think, is an opera singer.

-She is. It's the right answer.

-Yes! Yes!

Well done, Eli. Knocked out the World Quiz Champion.

You're in the final round. Would you both please join your teams?

Team Toddlers doing much better, knocking Kevin out. It's all square.

Both teams have lost one brain from the final round. Our next subject is History.

Who wants to play this? Alex, James or Alexander?

We know who it's going to be.

I'm the best of a not that great bunch on History, but...

I think CJ. >

-I'll take CJ.

-There's not much of an age advantage on it.

-Flattering you now!

-Flattering CJ!

-Soften him up!

-CJ. CJ?

CJ.

Alex and CJ playing History. Into the question room, please.

-History, one of your favourite subjects. Do you want to go first or second?

-Yeah, I'll go first, please.

Here's your question. In the third century AD,

Aurelian and Quintillus were rulers of which Empire?

I don't know why, they don't sound Roman to me.

They could very well be Roman, but I really don't know. Um...

Babylonian?

They just don't sort of sound from that sort of ilk -

if that's a word. Hittite?

I don't even...

Not even too sure what Hittite is, which is...

-That's why I'm going to plump for Hittite.

-OK, Hittite.

No. It's the Roman Empire.

-Oh!

-Roman Emperors.

CJ, chance for an early lead.

Thomas Telford built what type of bridge across the Menai Strait in 1826?

I'm not aware of him building a beam bridge or an arch bridge.

The Menai suspension bridge rings a bell, so that's what I'll go for.

Right answer, CJ. We need to get Alex on the board.

In the 19th century, what was built between Hythe and Rye

on the south coast of England as a defence against invasion?

Oh. Not so good for me, either.

I knew CJ's question as well, which... Just one of those things.

The only thing that's sticking with me

is that Britain was big on the navy.

It would make logical sense to go with...canal but...

That still...

I'm not sure if you should go with your logic or not.

I'll go for canal.

-Royal Military Canal. It's the right answer!

-There we go!

Teetering there, but got it. Royal Military Canal.

Well spotted, Alex. You're on the board.

CJ, the illuminated manuscripts the Lindisfarne Gospels were created at which approximate date?

I have heard of them. Um...

One of those dates did come into my head before you gave the options.

-And it was?

-That was 700.

Now, Lindisfarne was invaded by the Vikings in 793, I think.

I'm not sure if much went on there afterwards,

certainly not something as important as the Gospels.

1500 just seems far too late, so it's between the other two.

It makes sense it was done before the Viking invasion.

As it came into my head, I will try 700.

700 came into your head and should stay there. It's the right answer.

You've got to get this, Alex.

What was the furthest south Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops reached in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-46?

This is how little I know. The only logic I can go with is that...

I'm sure that...there could have been a Duke involved.

Then my logic takes me to the grand old Duke of York.

That doesn't mean it was the furthest point south.

That nursery rhyme's probably about something completely different,

but I've got no reason to go with the other two.

York strikes me as the more sort of...

older feeling city with a bit more history than the other three.

Um...

Yeah. I've talked myself into York.

-I'll go for York.

-Talked yourself into York cos it's nice and old!

It's not the right answer, Alex! Got as far as Derby.

Just out of interest for Alex,

Grand Old Duke of York, what does that refer to?

Augustus, Duke of York, a son of George II, I think.

What era is he marching them to the top of the hill and down again?

1750s? 1790s.

I think it was the Flanders campaign.

Took his troops all over the place, not to any great effect.

So that was the idea.

That's cleared that up, but the answer is Derby not York.

CJ, you're in the final round. No place for you, Alex.

Would you both please join your teams?

Up and down performance, Team Toddlers.

You've lost two brains. The Eggheads have lost one.

Our last head-to-head coming up now. It's Arts & Books.

James or Alexander?

I told you you should have done Film & TV(!)

-We know what we want to do?

-But I think we should take on....

Are we saying that James is doing it?

-James, either way we're hoping for a massive fluke!

-Yeah.

-So...

Right. Glad you've laid your cards on the table.

-Take on Pat.

-Why not?

Go for it.

He's surely not going to beat either.

-Who's it going to be and who are you going to play?

-Me playing Pat.

James has decided to take on Pat on Arts & Books. You know where to go. It's the question room.

-James, first or second for you?

-I'll follow the trend and go first.

Best of luck, James.

Which best-selling author published the historical novel The Enchantress Of Florence in 2008?

Well, I don't think Jeremy Clarkson or Katie Price

are best-selling authors.

I have sort of heard of Salman Rushdie, so Salman Rushdie.

Right on that count. Salman Rushdie is correct.

But Katie Price and Jeremy Clarkson are best-selling authors.

-Not novelists.

-True. Exactly.

Historical novel, picked that out.

Salman Rushdie.

So, Pat, what is the title of former US Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's 2009 memoir?

I think she's becoming ever more popular to the right in America,

to the bafflement of the left.

She wrote a book called Going Rogue.

That's right, Pat.

Back to you, James.

The artist JMW Turner was born in 1775 in which city?

Well, I've never heard of JMW Turner

and my 1775 art isn't that great.

It's going to be a complete guess.

I like to think London would be too obvious.

I'm just going to plump for Edinburgh.

Edinburgh for JMW Turner.

Born in 1775 in a city much painted by him.

In London. London.

Thought it was too obvious.

Pat, in the version of Van Gogh's Sunflowers held by the National Gallery,

where has the artist painted his signature?

I think I can rule out on a flower.

On the table, on the vase?

My first thought was that it's on the base of the vase. No...

I can bring the general details to mind.

I'll have to go with my hunch that it's on the vase.

-On the vase, your hunch. You liking that, Barry?

-Yes, I do.

Flowers is a theme of the Eggheads today, floral shirts on display.

It is on the vase. Well done.

James, you've got to get this.

The 16th-century painting known as The Madonna Of The Pinks,

purchased by the National Gallery for more than £20 million in 2004,

is attributed to which artist?

I'm going to have to plump for the one that I've heard, Raphael.

Why have you heard of Raphael?

Um... I don't know. It could be the footballer!

Or the Ninja turtles!

-Yeah.

-It's the right answer, anyway.

-Lovely.

-Raphael. Well done.

But you got that middle one wrong, so if Pat gets this

he goes through to the final round.

The Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Confessions Of Nat Turner is the work of which American author?

I should know this but the answer doesn't spring to mind.

Philip Roth is towards the end of his career,

one of the main figures in American literature.

Styron is a bit less prominent.

Cormac McCarthy has been made into films these days.

Nat Turner?

I'll go for Philip Roth, but I really am just having a guess.

You're guessing Philip Roth. Other Eggheads, is it?

-ALL: Styron.

-They think Styron.

They'd be right. You'd be wrong, Pat.

You're still in it, James!

We go to sudden death as it's all square, take away those options.

You've got to conjure up any answer out of your own head.

A Journey Into God is a spiritual work written by which TV cook?

A Journey Into God?

-A Journey Into God.

-This implies a TV cook that's maybe found religion.

Maybe.

I'm going to go for Gino d'Acampo because...

I think maybe Italians are a bit more religious and that may be why I've not heard of it.

-Gino d'Acampo is your answer.

-Yeah.

-OK.

No, it's not. Do you know, Pat, if you had this set of questions?

No. I don't know.

-Other Eggheads?

-Is it Delia Smith?

Delia Smith wrote A Journey Into God.

Which 19th-century novelist

lived with the journalist GH Lewes

as his common-law wife from the mid 1850s

until his death in 1878?

I think...this sounds like George Eliot.

I think George Eliot lived with a man but was not formally married and it was...

not scandalous but slightly eccentric. I'll go for George Eliot.

George Eliot.

Don't know what GH Lewes's first name was. It's the right answer. George Eliot is correct.

Bad luck, James.

You're in the final round, Pat. Would you both join your teams?

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

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

won't be allowed to take part.

So, Alex, James and Edan from Team Toddlers

and Kevin from the Eggheads, would you leave the studio now please?

Eli and Alexander, you're playing to win Team Toddlers £20,000.

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

I'll ask each team three questions in turn, all General Knowledge.

You are allowed to confer.

Eli and Alexander, the question is, are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

-Do you want to go first or second?

-We'll go first, please.

Best of luck, guys.

Which presenter has regularly appeared on the TV programmes Springwatch and Big Cat Diary?

Which presenter has regularly appeared on the TV programmes

Springwatch and Big Cat Diary?

-Well, I don't think nature programmes are really...

-No!

-..what I'm into.

-Gravitating towards Simon Schama.

-I don't know why.

-The only one I'm familiar with is Simon Mayo.

I'm not so sure about that.

-Do you know Simon King?

-No, I don't.

-I'd probably side with Simon Schama.

-Simon Schama.

-Yeah.

-OK. Simon Schama. Sorry.

-We'll go for Simon Schama.

Simon Schama on Springwatch and Big Cat Diary! Yeah! I'm sure!

He'd bring a new perspective. It's not the right answer, guys.

They are nature-based programmes. Do you know, Eggheads?

-ALL: Simon King.

-On Springwatch and Big Cat Diary.

Eggheads, what term is used

for a human body's hypersensitive reaction to an antigen

sometimes brought on by drugs, insect bites or peanuts?

A human body's hypersensitive reaction to an antigen

sometimes brought on by drugs, insect bites or peanuts.

That is anaphylaxis. Anaphylactic shock.

-Anaphylaxis.

-People who are allergic to peanuts carry around...

-Exactly.

-..pens.

-Or wasp stings.

Anaphylaxis is the right answer.

Team Toddlers.

The island of Aruba is located

approximately 18 miles north of the coast of which South American country?

The island of Aruba, A-R-U-B-A,

is located approximately 18 miles north of the coast

of which South American country?

18 miles north, that's not much at all.

I think they kind of cluster down towards...

-They cluster down to the right.

-..Guyana. There's a semi-circle.

-So is Guyana the right-most of them?

-Guyana's the right-most I think.

-I don't think it'd be Venezuela.

-No, maybe not.

Suriname is, I think, only small.

-Guyana might be on the left.

-No.

-French Guiana's on the right.

You might be confusing that with Guyana.

-No, no.

-Guyana's not to the left?

-I think it's the eastern-most of that.

-Is it east of Suriname?

I think so. Yeah. I'm pretty sure.

I think it's Suriname.

-I just don't know.

-No, I think my hunch...

What was your hunch? Mine was Guyana.

It's Suriname or Guyana.

I just think Suriname is a bit too west.

-Yeah.

-Shall we go with...?

-I think Suriname's west of French Guiana.

-Yeah.

All right. We'll go for Guyana...

-Sur...

-Whoa! Whoa!

-I think Suriname's west of French Guiana.

-What about Guyana?

It would just be weird for Guyana to be next to French Guiana.

Aruba, 18 miles north of the coast of which South American country?

-I just think Suriname...

-Gentlemen, I will need an answer.

We'll go for Suriname, please.

This agonising tossing-up between Guyana and Suriname.

-Do you know what it is, Eggheads?

-ALL: Venezuela.

Venezuela, the one you discounted.

Venezuela it is, for Aruba.

So, Eggheads,

in 2005, which sportsman became the first living person,

apart from members of the royal family, to appear on a Scottish bank note?

In 2005, which sportsman became the first living person,

apart from the royal family, to appear on a Scottish bank note?

-He's on the Bank of Scotland £5 note.

-Is he? OK.

Jack Nicklaus is on a bank note.

-Sure?

-Jack Nicklaus. Do you think?

I think Jack Nicklaus is on a bank note.

-Because he's won the Open more times?

-For general greatness.

-We think it's Jack Nicklaus.

-Jack Nicklaus?

-Yes.

-2005.

On a Scottish bank note.

It's the correct answer, Eggheads. You've won.

Bad luck, Team Toddlers. You see, don't watch enough telly.

-You've been working too hard!

-If we had picked second it may have been different.

You only get one roll of the dice.

It can make all the difference depending on which questions suit you.

You got one big scalp there, the World Quiz Champion sitting in the question room.

Listen, best of luck in the future.

Thank you all, all the guys in the back,

the youngest team to play the Eggheads - Team Toddlers.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.

I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £23,000.

The money rolls over. Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?

Join us to see if a new team of challengers have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

£24,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.

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