Episode 88 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 pedigree's well known - they've won the country's toughest quiz shows.

They are the Eggheads.

And challenging our resident quiz champions today are...

This team of friends and family share a passion for animals,

in particular, team captain Tom, who works as a pet detective.

-Let's meet them.

-Hello, I'm Tom, I'm 37 years old and I'm a pet detective.

Hi, I'm Rachel, I'm 34 and I'm a former pet detective.

Hi, I'm Sue, I'm 62 and I'm a pet detective's mum.

Hi, I'm Graham, I'm 48 and I'm an IT network analyst.

Hi, I'm Henry,

I'm 66 and I'm a commercial consultant in the energy industry.

-Tom and team, welcome.

-Thank you.

-And pet detective means you go out searching, does it?

-Absolutely.

We do missing pet searches

rather like the police would for a missing person.

So, people say they've lost a cat or dog

and describe it and then you go out and look?

Yes, we have a lost and found website

and people put photos of lost or found pets on the website.

Do you wear a uniform for that?

We do for the search team.

It's uniformed, in marked vehicles, like the police, so its high-profile

and people ask us what we're doing

and hopefully, tell us where the pet is.

And you sometimes even succeed in reuniting the pet with the owner?

I'm pleased to say we have a 65% success rate,

better than half, so we're pleased.

Do you carry magnifying glasses?

-Not quite. Torches, maybe.

-Torches? All right.

Good luck, whatever you need to use against the Eggheads is fine.

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

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

So, Pet Detective & Co, the Eggheads won the last two games.

That means £3,000 says you can't beat them today.

First head-to-head battle is on the subject of Science.

Science, eh? Who'll take that, you or Henry?

Depends what the questions are going to be on the others, doesn't it?

I don't mind doing that.

-I think Graham or Henry.

-Graham, then.

-Yeah, Graham.

That'll be me, Jeremy.

You started with nobody who could do science,

then there was three of you.

-We used a scientific method!

-Against which Egghead?

I'd like to go against Judith, please.

OK, Graham, from Pet Detective & Co against Judith.

-You up for this, Judith?

-Well, have I got a choice?

You like your science. Judith from the Eggheads.

To ensure there's no conferring,

would you please take your positions in the Question Room?

So, I'll ask each of you three multiple-choice questions

on Science in turn and Graham,

you can, of course, choose the first or second set.

I'd like to go second, please, Jeremy.

You said that in a particularly scientific way,

if I may say so.

Judith, first question.

The term haematophagy

is used to refer to the nature of some creatures to feed on what?

-Well, I think that's blood.

-Blood is the right answer.

-Vampires.

-Blood is the right answer.

Over to you, Graham.

In the human body, what is the name of the flap of cartilage

that prevents food and fluid from entering the windpipe during swallowing?

Pretty sure the palate is part of the mouth itself and I'm not sure

what a spiracle is at all, but I'm fairly sure it's the epiglottis.

They like your answer here. Epiglottis is right, well done.

-One each.

-OTHERS CHEER

You're on your way, Pet Detectives. OK, second question, Judith.

What was the name of Marie and Pierre Curie's daughter,

who won a Nobel Prize for chemistry

with her husband, Frederic, in 1935?

She probably took her husband's name, didn't she?

She wasn't called Irene or Francine or Helene Curie

when she won the prize.

Helene, Irene... I think it might be Irene.

-Why do you think that?

-I don't know

Usually you go "right" when you guess.

Should I have gone "right" again?

We've taken Irene as your answer, but it's right.

-Oh.

-It's correct.

-It's instinct.

I liked how you did that.

Graham, Morganite is a pink variety of which mineral?

I don't think it could be diamond.

I'm fairly sure that's either, well, always transparent.

I'm going to go straight for quartz, that's usually fairly colourful.

Quartz - anyone want to guess?

-Diamond's clear.

-I thought quartz.

Your team thinks it's quartz.

Actually, Eggheads?

-Do you know?

-We'll go for quartz.

OK. I've got Beryl.

-Beryl is the answer.

-Unlucky, Graham.

Morganite is a pink variety of Beryl.

Judith, your question to take the round.

What do flowers are known as "anemophilous" use

to move their pollen from one plant to the next?

Well, I immediately thought wind,

because anemones can also be called wind flowers.

Ane...whatever the word is,

is sort of wind-loving, I think, so, wind.

Good logic. Wind is the right answer.

Judith, you've taken the Science round.

Graham, you got knocked out by our Eggheads

so Judith will be in the final and not you.

Do both of you please come back and rejoin your teams.

Bad luck, Graham.

That can happen. Never mind, it's early days.

As it stands, the challengers have lost one brain from the final round.

The Eggheads have lost no brains so far.

Next subject is Sports, Pet Detectives.

-Sport, I'm happy with sport.

-Yeah, I think it should be you, Tom.

I think it should be Tom. You all OK with that, yeah?

Tom from Pet Detectives against which Egghead?

I think Chris or Barry, shall we go with Barry?

Barry, I think, yeah.

-Yeah, go with Barry.

-Barry, please.

You've made Chris a very happy man, I must say.

Tom from Pet Detective & Co against Barry from the Egghead.

To ensure no conferring, please take your positions.

So, Tom, you run Pet Detective, as you were saying.

You used to be a policeman yourself?

Absolutely, yes, I served in the West Midlands Police.

OK, and you wanted to start prosecuting pets instead?

Well, doing something that was much more rewarding

that I could be the boss of.

Do you have your own pets?

Yes, a dog called Paris, named after the city I got engaged in.

And you also have a pet degu, I heard?

A degu, that's right, a little hamster-type pet

that was handed to us after being found in the garden,

lucky to be alive

and Lucky, as we call him, is still with us a year on.

-It's a hamster and something else?

-Hamster and gerbil.

-Hamster and gerbil combination?

-From Chile.

-Right.

That's unlikely to come up in the Sport round

but we'll see what happens.

Three questions, multiple-choice, you can choose first or second set.

I'll go first, please.

Here we go, best of luck to you.

In which sport is an Eskimo roll most likely to be performed?

Roll... I know in wrestling, you roll about a lot.

Figure skating, it's not.

Er, wrestling...

No, I'll go for canoeing.

Do you think he's right?

Yes, you're right, well done. Canoeing it is.

Barry, your question.

In shooting, what term is used to refer to the internal diameter

of the barrel of a firearm?

The internal diameter must be the calibre of a gun.

The calibre is the right answer.

Over to you, Tom.

According to the World Federation rules,

badminton matches are usually won, barring ties,

by the side that is the first to score how many points?

Well, I'm not sure

whether there's more than one federation or governing body,

but I know 21 is a figure I've heard when I've played

with my mum in my garden and she used to beat me to 21.

So, not nine. 15, it could be, but 21, I think.

-21 is absolutely right, well done.

-Thank you.

21 is the right answer.

OK, Barry. The 2010 Tour de France started in which city?

I missed the start of this.

I'm pretty certain it was in Belgium,

so I think it might have been in Rotterdam.

Well done, Rotterdam is correct.

Hang on, Rotterdam's not in Belgium.

The Netherlands.

-It's in the Netherlands.

-Oh!

-Can you say that one again?

-Why should you?

Tempted as we are to remove your points, we can't do that.

He'd make a great pet detective, wouldn't he? Amazing logic.

As long as he was only in the UK.

OK, Tom, your question, to keep the pressure on Barry.

Which footballer was elected as the female FIFA Player of the Year

in consecutive years between 2003 and 2005?

Football isn't my strongest subject but female football...

Birgit, I've heard of her, Birgit Prinz.

But I'm going to go for the first, Mia Hamm.

You've heard of Mia Hamm as well?

I believe so, I think she was the lady in question.

-I think it was Birgit Prinz, actually.

-Ah!

The little glimmer you had was there to be seized on.

Bad luck, Tom.

Barry, your question to take the round.

What name is given to the hairpin bend

at the French Formula One track Magny-Cours?

I don't know this at all.

I'm tempted to go for Eleanor

because that's Judith's favourite French name,

so I shall go for Eleanor.

He's not right. It's Adelaide.

So you're equal and we go to Sudden Death.

This is exciting now, Tom.

It gets a bit harder, I don't give alternatives.

Your first question...

What is the maximum number of points that can be awarded

for a foul in snooker?

Maximum number of points for a foul in snooker,

I believe it's down to

the highest-scoring colour.

I'd say seven, which is the black, from memory.

Seven is the right answer, well done.

Barry, in 2002,

the first people inducted into

the National Football Museum Hall of Fame as managers

were Matt Busby, Brian Clough, Alex Ferguson,

Bob Paisley, Alf Ramsey and which other?

Oh, there's a plethora of fine managers to choose from

and I shall go for the great Bill Shankly.

Bill Shankly is the right answer.

OK, Tom, your question.

Which former England Rugby Union player resigned from his position

as Director of Rugby at Harlequins in August 2009,

after a one-year ban was given to Tom Williams

for faking a blood injury in a Heineken Cup match?

I remember the incident

because the doctor came on and cut his lip or something like that.

But I must admit,

it's going to be a guess.

Will Carling?

-It was not Will Carling, it was Dean Richards.

-Ah!

Barry, to take the round, here we are, Sudden Death.

Which Australian fast bowler retired from Test cricket in 2010

after taking 310 wickets in 76 matches?

Oh, I know this, why won't this come?

It wasn't Shane Warne, who obviously took more wickets than that.

I'm sure his name begins with M.

Oh, gosh! This is painful! I know this!

Let me think, er...

Why won't it come?

No, it's just not going to come. I'm afraid I'm going to have to pass.

Brett Lee is the answer.

Oh! I wasn't thinking of Brett Lee at all.

-OK.

-Come on, Tom!

Tom, back to you, which British athlete

broke the 1500m, 2000m and mile world records

Now, these were races I would've watched.

I was into athletics myself then. I did the 800m.

But I'll say all that and get it wrong probably.

But I knew it was... Someone like Sebastian Coe or Steve Ovett.

I'm going to go for Steve Cram.

Steve Cram's the right answer.

So pressure on Barry now. Here we are. Sudden Death.

If you get this wrong, you're not in the final round.

The Louisiana Superdome, one of the largest indoor stadiums in the world,

opened in 1975 in which American city?

Ooh... Louisiana Superdome.

Er...

I'll try New Orleans.

New Orleans is the right answer.

Tom, your question.

In which year did the Italian footballer Paolo Rossi

win the Golden Boot trophy at the World Cup?

World Cup, so it's going to be...

..one of the ones recently. I'd say...

..2006.

No. 1982.

Ah!

Barry, in which sport that made its first Olympic appearance

as a medal sport in 2000

do competitors wear a dobok?

Dobok.

That sounds Asian and I think taekwondo came in around them.

I'll go for taekwondo.

Taekwondo is the right answer.

Barry's won the round on Sudden Death! Tom, well fought.

What a struggle. Barry will be in the final and Tom, you will not be.

Both of you please come back and rejoin your teammates.

So, the challengers have lost two brains from the final round

whilst the Eggheads have lost no brains.

Our next subject is Film & TV.

Who fancies this?

-Who's good at this?

-It's got to be Rachel.

-Go for Rachel.

Rachel? OK. Against which Egghead?

It can't be Barry or Judith.

-Go for Chris.

-Chris?

-Shall we go for Chris?

-Yeah.

-Chris.

-Yeah?

-Yeah. We'll go for Chris.

Can I try Chris?

OK, no problem. Our Pet Detective against our Egghead, Chris.

Please both, if you can, go to the question rooms now.

So Rachel, you love your painting, I gather.

I do, yes.

Do you paint and sell what you paint?

I have sold prints of some of my work.

I'm a member of the Gloucestershire Society of Artists

which has been amazing.

We're based in a place called Nature In Art in Twigworth, Gloucestershire.

It's just absolutely fabulous.

Anybody that's into art should really check it out.

OK. Good luck. Three questions, multiple choice. Film & TV.

Rachel, you can choose the first or second set.

I'll go first, I think, please.

Here we go, good luck.

Which TV sitcom ended in August 2010 after 37 years?

37 years is a long time, so I would say probably

My Family and Keeping Up Appearances haven't been going that long.

I'll go for Last Of The Summer Wine.

That's the right answer. Well done.

Back on track. Chris, your question.

Who directed the 2010 film The Expendables?

Well, they're all in it, aren't they?

Sylvester Stallone's got into directing lately

so it's got to be Sly Stallone.

It is Sylvester Stallone

-although he's the only one who's in it.

-Is he?

Your memory played you false but you got the right answer.

What is the name of the butler played by John Gielgud

in the 1981 film Arthur?

Right, well I don't know that one at all.

It's going to have to be a guess, I'm afraid.

For some reason, I'm going to say Gibson.

It's not Gibson. Anyone?

-Hobson.

-Hobson is the answer.

Chris, who played Alex P Keaton

in the US TV sitcom Family Ties, which started in 1982?

It's '82. Johnny Depp would've been a babe in arms then.

It's got to be Michael J Fox. He's the only one who's old enough.

Michael J Fox is the right answer.

Two points to Chris and one to you, Rachel. You need this one.

In the original Tom and Jerry cartoons,

what was the name of the son of Spike the Bulldog?

Right, I know the term "little tyke" is used a lot.

I don't think it would've been Mike. Pike, I'm not sure.

OK, well, again I'm afraid it's going to have to be a guess.

I think I'm going to go for...

Tyke.

It is Tyke.

-Oh!

-Brilliant!

Brilliant! Little Tyke! Nice one.

So she's drawn level with Chris.

Chris, if you get this wrong, we go to Sudden Death.

Which gangster was played by Christian Slater in the 1991 film Mobsters?

Bugsy Siegel was behind the development of Las Vegas, to a large extent.

I don't think it was Al Capone.

Mobsters. Bugsy Siegel wasn't really a mobster,

he was a racketeer. Slightly different.

I'll go on a punt with Lucky Luciano.

If this is right, you're in the final.

The answer is Lucky Luciano. Well done. Rachel, bad luck.

Chris will be in the final. Rachel, you won't be.

The comeback needs to start now.

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

OK, is the strategy going to change?

We've got something up our sleeve.

Oh, OK. Good! We look forward to seeing that.

The challengers have lost three brains.

The Eggheads are still intact.

-The last subject is Politics.

-Oh, my God.

-What happens now?

-Oh, politics!

-What shall we do?

-Henry or Sue?

Do you want to take it or shall I?

We need Henry in the final round, Mum, so you'd better go.

We definitely need Henry in the final round.

-It'll be me, Jeremy.

-OK, Sue. Against which Egghead?

Oh, dear, it'll be Pat, please. I don't want Kevin!

Sue from Pet Detective & Co versus Pat from the Eggheads.

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

Good luck on this. You're playing Pat.

It's three questions on politics. Sue, choose the first or second set.

I'll go second, please, Jeremy.

Here we go, good luck to you both.

Pat, the memoirs of Tony Blair were published in September 2010

under what title?

He could've used all three titles with varying degrees of irony,

but I think that book was called A Journey.

It is A Journey.

It started of as THE Journey, and he changed it to A.

Oh.

He felt that "the" was a bit too Messianic.

Sue, who was the British Prime Minister

when the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place?

Hmm...

I should know this, obviously.

I know that Winston Churchill was Prime Minister during the war,

but whether or not he was still Prime Minister in 1953...

I'm going to plump for Winston Churchill.

With no confidence whatever!

-Winston Churchill was the right answer.

-Oh, good.

Because - help us out, Eggheads -

he lost after the Second World War. No-one can quite understand.

-And then, what, in '51...

-Yes, he got back in.

-It was Atlee in between.

-Your question, Pat.

Andrew Bonar Law was the British Prime Minister during which decade?

Andrew Bonar Law.

I think he's... Is he the forgotten Prime Minister?

Possibly forgotten by me, as well!

I don't think it's 1930s.

1910s - we have Asquith and we have Lloyd George.

Did Bonar Law sneak in towards the end of the '10s?

I should know this straight away, so it's a bit of a lapse, really.

Andrew Bonar Law...

I'll have to go for 1920s, but I should know this straight away.

I'll go for 1920s.

It was 1922 to 1923, so you're right. It was 1920s. Well done.

Sue, back to you.

Miss Lillian was the nickname of the mother of which US President?

Hmm. Now, then. I don't recollect any of their mothers being about.

Um...

Well, um, number three did it for me last time,

so I'm going to go for Ronald Reagan.

Ronald Reagan is wrong, I'm afraid.

Jimmy Carter, it was.

The Southern... He was from Atlanta,

was he, or...?

-He was a peanut farmer.

-From Georgia.

-Peanut farmer, yeah.

OK, Pat, your question, to take the round.

In the 2010 General Election, which constituency had voting postponed

due to the death of one of its candidates until 27th May?

They're all in the North Yorkshire/Lincolnshire area.

Thirsk and Malton rings a bell,

but I'm not sure it's because it was delayed.

Selby and Ainsty... Sleaford...

Thirsk and Malton rings a distant bell, for some reason.

Perhaps it was because it had a delayed result.

So I'll go for that.

Thirsk and Malton is right.

Well done. It's a tough question, as well. Sorry, Sue.

Didn't quite make it there.

Pat is going to be in the final and, Sue, you're not,

so please both of you come back and we will play that final round.

-So it's not gone quite to plan.

-Not as we intended, but we're...

-Plan B now. Plan B.

-It's the pet equivalent of losing about 50 cats.

A 5% success rate, remember.

You could still win. This is what we've been playing towards.

It's our final round, which, as always, is General Knowledge,

but those who lost your head-to-heads

won't be allowed to take part.

So, Tom, Rachel, Sue and Graham from Pet Detective & Co,

would you please now leave the studio?

-So, Henry, you're all alone.

-It seems that way, Jeremy.

-It wasn't supposed to happen.

-No, this wasn't the plan.

We discussed it last night over a glass of wine,

and this wasn't meant to happen.

What sort of wine? That could be material to this.

-A nice Australian shiraz. The wine was good, anyway.

-OK. Good start.

You're playing to win £3,000. Chris, Barry, Pat, Judith and Kevin,

you're playing for something 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, Henry, the big question is,

is your one brain smarter than the Eggheads' five?

Am I allowed to confer with the Eggheads?

You can't even confer with me. Not that that would help.

Pet Detective & Co, as I will now call you,

-would you like to go first or second?

-I'll go first.

Good luck.

Henry, the city of St Davids is located in which National Park?

Well, as I come from Hereford, I'm close to the Brecon Beacons,

and it's not there.

It's not in Snowdonia, so it must be the Pembrokeshire Coast,

and it is the Pembrokeshire Coast, because I've been there a few times.

Very good logic. It is the Pembrokeshire Coast. Well done.

OK, Eggheads, your first question.

Which member of the Royal Family took Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park

as their residence in 2004,

following the death of its previous occupant,

Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, two years before?

It's definitely not Prince Charles.

-But Prince Andrew did sell Southfork, or whatever it's called.

-Yeah.

After the divorce.

Prince Edward, the Count and Countess of Essex -

-that's Bagshot Park, in Surrey.

-Yes.

-I think it's probably Prince Andrew.

-Yeah. So it seems.

-Yeah.

-Seems plausible.

-Right, OK.

-Yeah.

We'll go for Prince Andrew.

Prince Andrew is correct.

Your second question, Henry.

Which pop group took their name from a 1960 film

starring Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood?

I vaguely remember the film Fine Young Cannibals.

I think that was about that time.

I don't think it's the Belle Stars.

I'm going to go for Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

It's not that. You had a glimmer of Fine Young Cannibals but it receded.

-Not enough of a glimmer, clearly.

-Not enough of a glimmer. OK!

The right answer is Fine Young Cannibals.

So the Eggheads have a chance to go ahead.

The term "alevin" is used to refer to a young what?

-A-L-E-V-I-N?

-Yeah.

-Oh, yes.

-It's a fish, isn't it? Yeah.

-I think it's a fish.

-It's fish, Jeremy.

The right answer is fish. So you're ahead, Eggheads.

Henry, you need to get this one right

or they have taken not just a round but the contest. Good luck.

"When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?"

are words attributed to the radical priest John Ball

at which historic event?

I don't think that priests were particularly featuring

in the Peasants' Revolt.

I'm not sure they featured very greatly in the Battle of Bosworth.

But then, is it the sort of thing he would have said

in the Third Crusade?

I'm going to go with my glimmer, Jeremy, of the Battle of Bosworth.

Let's see if the Eggheads know.

It's the Peasants' Revolt.

The answer is Peasants' Revolt,

which means there is no way back for your team,

so we say congratulations, Eggheads, you've won!

-And it is hard not being able to confer.

-You wouldn't let me!

No, it's against the rules.

Commiserations. The Eggheads have done what comes naturally.

They still reign supreme over quiz land.

I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £3,000,

so the money now rolls over to our next show.

Eggheads, very well done again. Who will beat you?

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

have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

£4,000 says they don't. Till then, goodbye.

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