Episode 98 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.

Taking on our quiz champions today are Warwick's Got Talent.

This team became friends during their first year

at Warwick University and during term time,

they test their combined quizzing skills at The Duke pub.

Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Alf, I'm 21 and I'm a classics student.

Hi, I'm Gemma, I'm 21 and I'm a history and sociology student.

Hi, I'm Rob, I'm 21 and I'm a biochemistry student.

Hi, I'm Imogen, I'm 20 and I'm a history and politics student.

Hi, I'm Tom, I'm 20 and I'm MORSE student.

Alf and team, welcome.

I have to ask - Alf is an unusual name for a girl.

Yeah, it's my initials, short for April Louise.

Alf, OK. Tell us about your quizzing.

Well, we quiz together quite often, once or twice a week.

We normally do quite well.

We've known to win on occasion when we've been lucky.

Can I just check, Tom, your subject is MORSE?

-Yes.

-Can we have an explanation?

It stands for Maths, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics.

-Did they have that in your day, Kevin?

-No, not as far as I know.

-Operational research is what?

-Not sure yet. I'm in my third year.

They tell you halfway through the third year?

Something like that.

-Maybe this is it.

-Maybe you're on an operation right now.

So, good luck. Every day 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.

Warwick's Got Talent, the challengers won the last game,

proving it can be done,

which means £1,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads. Are you ready?

We're ready.

Here's the first head-to-head subject, it's Politics.

-Is there a politics student here?

-We have one.

-Imogen against?

-Chris.

-I'll take Chris, please.

Imogen from Warwick's Got Talent on Politics against Chris, our Egghead.

Do, please, take your positions in the question room.

Imogen, it was always going to be you on politics, wasn't it?

Yes, unfortunately.

Three questions, multiple-choice and you can choose, Imogen,

-the first or second set.

-I'll go first, please.

Here we go. What is a diplomat said to have

if they're not subject to the laws of the country

-in which they're living and working?

-Is it...

I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this one.

If I get it wrong, I think I might look a bit stupid,

but I think I am going to go for diplomatic immunity.

Diplomatic immunity is right. Well done.

Chris, your political question.

The Highway code for England, Scotland and Wales

falls under the remit of which government department?

Hmm.

It used to be Her Majesty's Stationary Office,

but there's no such thing any more,

but since it deals with road traffic law,

rather than transport per se, it's certainly not

culture, media or sport, it must come under the Home Office.

Any Eggheads want to answer that?

-Transport.

-Transport is the answer, Chris.

Home Office is the wrong answer.

Well done, Imogen. You're ahead.

Who was the only woman of the final five candidates

in the 2010 Labour leadership election?

I thought I knew this before it came up,

but then when Margaret Beckett came up,

I know that she's quite big in the Labour Party as well.

But I think...she is quite left-wing

and I think I'm going to go for Diane Abbott.

Diane Abbott is quite right.

Chris, your question to get a point.

From 1999-2004 Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg

was a member of which legislature?

It's not the Scottish Parliament.

He's not Welsh, so presumably he's an MEP, European Parliament.

European Parliament is correct. He was an MEP, so you have a point.

Imogen, see how you do on your third question.

You get this one right, you're through to the final round -

there's no point going back to Chris.

In 1993, Simon Hoggart became a parliamentary sketch writer

for which daily newspaper?

I have definitely heard his name before.

But I'm not sure in what context.

I don't think it's the Daily Mail,

so I'm torn between the Guardian and the Times.

Um... I think I might go for the Guardian.

If you've got it right, you're in the final.

-Simon Hoggart writes brilliantly for the Guardian.

-Yes!

So, well done. You are in the final, Imogen.

Three out of three for you.

Chris, you've been knocked out.

Please both of you come back and rejoin your teams.

Nice work to Imogen and the team. The challengers have lost no brains,

and the Eggheads have lost one brain from the final round.

Our next subject is Science.

So who would like to do Science?

-It's got to the me, hasn't it?

-Only one option.

-You're the biochemist.

-Yeah.

-And against which Egghead?

-I think Judith.

-Yeah. Go on, then. Judith, please.

Rob from Warwick's Got Talent against smiling Judith.

Smiling Judith, yes.

-Happy to be doing Science and not Music.

-Yes, very.

To ensure there's no conferring,

would you please take your positions in the Question Room?

-Rob, right up your street.

-Yeah.

I couldn't have got a better category.

-Biochemistry, that's what you're studying.

-Yes, so it covers a lot of stuff.

What you want to do when you leave university?

Hopefully keep going with it and work in a lab somewhere.

All right, see if you can beat Judith on Science. Good luck.

Three questions on Science in turn.

Whoever answers the most correctly is the winner.

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

I'll go first, please.

Here we go.

The Big Dipper is another name for which group of stars?

I think it is what the Americans call the Plough.

The Plough is the right answer. Well done.

Judith, which word describes a chemical compound

that contains no water?

Well, anything with "hyd" in it means something to do with water.

Hydra. So I think it's anhydrous.

Anhydrous is the right answer.

Rob, which gland in the human body secretes growth hormone?

Well, the adrenal gland secretes adrenalin.

And I think it is the pituitary gland that is involved

in growth problems, so I think it could be the pituitary gland.

Pituitary is the correct answer. Well done. Two out of two for you.

Judith, to keep up,

what type of creature is the Asian dhole?

I'm not quite sure. I have heard it. I'm trying to think where and how.

I think it might be a wild dog.

Very good. It is wild dog. OK.

Over to you, Rob.

Pulpotomy is a procedure

that is performed in which branch of medicine?

P-U-L-P, as in "pulp", and then "otomy".

I am not too sure at all.

But I think...

I can't really get anything from the word,

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

-Any Egghead help us here?

-It's dentistry. Teeth contain pulp.

Yeah, teeth contain pulp. It's dentistry, Rob.

Judith can take the round on science

if you get this one right.

Often experienced during or after exercise, what is hyperpnoea?

And it's spelt H-Y-P-E-R-P-N-O-E-A.

I think it might be... "hyper" is... I think it might be deep breathing,

just from the word.

Deep breathing is the right answer.

Well done, you have beaten the biochemist on his own territory.

Takes some doing.

The Egghead will be in the final, and Rob, you won't be.

Please come back and rejoin your team-mates.

The challengers have lost one brain from the final round.

The Eggheads have lost one brain, so you're doing fine.

Hang on in there. The next subject for you is Film & TV.

Who would like this?

-Gemma, do you want to do it?

-Yes, I think it's got to be, hasn't it?

-I will go, yeah.

OK, Gemma against?

-Yeah, Daphne.

-I'll go against Daphne, please.

Gemma from Warwick's Got Talent against Daphne from the Eggheads.

Please go to the Question Room now.

All right. I'll ask each of you three questions on Film & TV in turn.

-You can choose the first or second set.

-I will go first, please.

Here we go. Which character left EastEnders

with much fanfare in September 2010?

I've watched EastEnders. I don't watch it regularly.

But I remember there being quite a big deal

about Peggy Mitchell leaving.

So I will go for the second answer, Peggy Mitchell.

Peggy Mitchell is right.

Daphne, in the 1940 Disney film Pinocchio,

who acts as the title character's conscience?

Um...Jiminy Cricket.

Jiminy Cricket is correct.

I've watched it so many times with my granddaughter.

Gemma, in which film does Edward Norton play an ex-FBI agent

alongside Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter?

I've never watched Silence Of The Lambs.

I've seen Hannibal.

I can't remember seeing Edward Norton's face,

and I haven't seen Red Dragon.

So it's a bit of a guess, but I'll go for Red Dragon. I can't be sure.

-But Red Dragon.

-Nicely done. Red Dragon is the right answer.

Daphne, your question.

Which 1970s TV drama serial was remade in 2010

with Trevor Eve and Imogen Poots?

Bouquet Of Barbed Wire.

Bouquet Of Barbed Wire is correct. Well done.

You're playing well, Gemma.

In the 1942 film Casablanca, which actor says the famous line,

"Round up the usual suspects?"

This will be a complete guess.

I'll go for the middle one, Peter Lorre, as a guess.

It's not Peter Lorre. It's actually Claude Rains

who says, "Round up the usual suspects."

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

What is the title of the film for which Sofia Coppola won

the Golden Lion at the 2010 Venice Film Festival?

It's Somewhere.

It is indeed Somewhere.

So you've taken the round, Daphne, with three answers correct.

Gemma, you were beaten by our Egghead. As a result,

you won't be of help your team in the final round.

Would you come back and join your teams?

So, as it stands, the challengers have lost two brains

whilst the Eggheads have lost one brain.

The last subject is Arts & Books.

All you students.

-This must be perfect.

-Oh-oh!

-You take it!

-Yes, Tom.

-Do you want me to?

-Yeah, I'll do it. I will take one for the team.

-Tom. OK.

-MORSE is not the arty subject.

-It's not, no.

-Which Egghead?

-Don't know.

-Just pick whichever you want.

-I'll take CJ, please.

-All right.

Tom from Warwick's Got Talent against the legendary

CJ from the Eggheads. Please take your positions in the Question Room.

-CJ, Arts & Books?

-Don't mind it.

-Do you read a lot?

-I read constantly, but I never read fiction.

-OK.

MORSE does not include Arts or Books. That's fine.

-It won't be useful in this.

-You never know.

I'll ask each of you three questions on Arts & Books in turn, and, Tom,

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

I'll go second, please, Jeremy.

All right, CJ, starting with you,

what is the theatrical slang for when an actor forgets lines?

I have done it myself more than once. It's drying.

Drying is the right answer. You been in panto recently?

I've done a couple of pantos. I've done theatre and a couple of films.

-Films, really?

-Yep.

-What parts were you playing?

In one I was the lead called The Man.

In another one, I was a corrupt policeman.

Are these films on general release, or straight to VHS?

-They're for the film festivals, thank you, Jeremy.

-OK.

Your question, Tom.

Which Shakespeare play begins and ends in ancient Egypt?

Um, it's not me just being silly,

but I think I'm going to try and go for the obvious one.

I'm pretty sure it's not Romeo and Juliet.

I'll go for Anthony and Cleopatra.

Nice one.

Anthony and Cleopatra it is.

CJ, the American author

Damon Runyon who died in 1946 is best known

for his colourful stories of underworld characters in which city?

I knew what sort of genre he was associated with,

I didn't know it was one particular city.

Certainly, the underworld was well-established in New York

for the preceding decades.

I'd be surprised if it was Detroit.

Although that was coming into its own as the motor city then.

I don't know it,

but I'll just have to go for New York.

New York is the right answer. Well done.

Tom, a tondo is a painting on a canvas of what shape?

Spelt, T-O-N-D-O.

Tondo. Erm...

Can't say I've heard of it.

I can't imagine it being a diamond.

Erm...

Tondo.

Let's go for circle.

Well done, circle it is. Playing well, isn't he?

Good stuff. CJ, over to you.

A famously iconic photograph taken on 23 February 1945

by the American Joe Rosenthal shows US troops raising

the Stars and Stripes on which island?

It's the date that's doing it for me.

There is the famous photograph

of them raising the flag on Iwo Jima.

Erm, but there were a lot...

There was a famous campaign in Guadalcanal as well.

It's not Guam, I don't think.

I don't know the photographer.

The problem is, I'm unsure with the date.

I should just know the date straight away.

The most famous picture

is them raising the flag on Iwo Jima

so I'll try Iwo Jima.

Iwo Jima is the right answer.

All right, Tom, your question

to stay in the contest.

Our Kind Of Traitor is a 2010 thriller by which author?

I haven't heard of it.

I can't remember seeing it in a bookshop that I've been in

or seeing it on the bestsellers list.

Erm, it's going to have to be a guess.

James Patterson, prolific.

I'll go James Patterson.

Unfortunately, you've gone to the wrong person.

It's John le Carre, actually. Our Kind Of Traitor, he wrote that.

Tom, you've been knocked out by CJ. CJ, you will be in the final.

Please, both of you, come back and let us play the final round.

So this is what we've been playing towards.

It is time for the final round

which, as always, is General Knowledge.

Those of you who lost your head-to-heads

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

So, Gemma, Rob and Tom from Warwick's Got Talent

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

-Good luck to you both.

-Thanks very much.

Alf, you study classics? Yes. Which includes an awful lot?

Literature, history, culture, religion, ancient Greece and Rome.

-And, Imogen, you've got the politics covered?

-Yes.

-Sport?

-If we get sport...

-We don't know anything.

-..we'll fall apart.

-Well, it's general knowledge.

Let's see how we do. Alf and Imogen, you are playing to win

Warwick's Got Talent £1,000.

Judith, Kevin, CJ and Daphne, you are playing for something

that 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, Alf and Imogen, the question is,

are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

-I hope so.

-You don't need to answer that one.

-Warwick's Got Talent, do you want to go first or second?

-I don't know.

-Shall we go first?

-Yeah, OK.

-We'll go first, please.

Here is your first question. Where on a ship is the prow located?

-I think it's the front.

-That's what I thought at the start but...

I'm pretty sure. Well, not 100% sure but I definitely think...

-The bow is the back.

-Yeah, it must be the front.

-OK.

-The front.

-The front is the right answer.

Eggheads, what name is given to fabric

woven with a pattern of diagonal parallel ribs?

Twill is a material, isn't it?

We will go for twill there, Jeremy. Thanks.

Twill is the right answer.

Over to you, Warwick.

Which duo featured on the Royal Mail's 2010 Christmas stamps?

-I have no idea.

-I think it was Wallace and Gromit.

I think I've seen them, but that might've been a different year.

-I'd say it's not William and Harry.

-No.

-Probably not.

Do you want to go for Wallace and Gromit?

I don't think it's the Two Ronnies if only one of them is alive.

-Shall we go for Wallace and Gromit?

-Yeah.

-OK.

Wallace and Gromit, but we're not sure.

Wallace and Gromit is correct. Nice work. Two out of two

in the final round. Eggheads, back to you.

During World War II, which section of the German Armed Forces

was known as the heer?

Spelt H-E-E-R.

It's the Army. It's the Army. Heer is the Army.

Why is heer the Army?

Well, it was the German word.

When the OKH, OK is Oberkommando,

so the one for the overall Armed Forces was OKW,

which was Oberkommando der Wehrmacht.

OKH, Oberkommando des Heeres, is the Army.

-Do you think he's right?

-Probably.

Eggheads, Army it is.

Two points each.

This is the one not to fall down on, if you can.

Just keep the pressure on them and it could go your way.

Originating in the Canary Islands, what is a timple?

Timple is spelt T-I-M-P-L-E.

-Do you know?

-I have no idea.

What do you think?

-I don't know. I don't think it's a plate.

-I know.

-I'd probably go for instrument or dress.

-Yeah.

Is instrument too obvious?

I thought instrument,

but I think that's cos it sounds like timpani.

-It does. I know. What do you think?

-I don't... I have no idea.

It'll be a complete guess, whatever we go for. What do you think?

-Shall we just go for instrument?

-Yeah.

-Yeah? Complete guess.

Stringed instrument.

Complete guess and completely right. Stringed instrument it is.

Here's your third questions, Eggheads.

If you get this wrong, they've taken the money

and a bit of pride as well, I suspect.

The American football linebacker Dick Butkus played for which team

from 1965 to 1973?

-No idea.

-Anybody?

I think this is yours, Kevin.

Hm.

-Is it his name that's passed into the language?

-Yes.

-I think so, yeah. I don't think...

-What was the name?

-Dick Butkus.

-Butkus means nothing, zero.

-Yeah. B-U-T-K-U-S.

-Presumably in the sense that nothing would get past him.

-Oh, right.

So during that period, which were the most famous team?

The most successful?

During that period.

It's just before the Cowboys' best era. I...

It may be a completely wrong thing, I've just got the tiniest,

tiniest thing in the back of my mind that says it might be the Bears.

Well, none of us have got anything. If you've got a slight inkling...

Yes, it is only slight. It's only slight.

Well, it's more than any of us have got, so go for it.

We're ruling out the Vikings, are we?

Yeah, I'm not associating anything with that at all.

And I can't really associate him with the Cowboys in my mind, but just...

I'm not sure.

Yeah, so he wouldn't have been in the Dallas Cowboys.

I don't think so.

-If it's all you've got, we'll go for it.

-I don't know, but the only...

It could be completely wrong, I've got a tiny instinct

it's the Chicago Bears, so we'll have to go for that.

Your answer is Chicago Bears. You lost the last game, didn't you?

-And the one before that.

-And the one before that!

Ooh, dear, Eggheads.

-So what happens if you're wrong now?

-Lose again.

Three in a row!

You've squeaked the right answer from the recess of Kevin's brain.

The Chicago Bears is right. Big sigh of relief here.

Not over yet.

Not by any means. Gets a bit harder now. We go to Sudden Death. No multiple choice.

I don't give you the options. I need the answer from you.

See how relieved they are over there!

What is the capital of the US state of Indiana?

-SHE WHISPERS

-Oh!

-I don't know. That's what I would assume.

I literally have no clue. I'm rubbish at capitals.

-What if we're wrong?

-Well, I don't know any better.

-OK, shall we go for it?

-Um, hang on. Can we think of any other...?

-I don't know any other towns in Indiana.

-Well, if that's a town...

-It does mean "town of Indiana".

-That sounds good.

OK, we're going to have a go at Indianapolis.

Indianapolis is right.

Well done. You're doing all you can.

You're pressing them brilliantly.

Eggheads, Sudden Death.

Which educational institution was founded in 1895 by,

amongst others, Sidney Webb and his wife Beatrice?

-It's the LSE, isn't it?

-Yeah.

-Webb.

-London School of Economics?

-Oh, yes. Absolutely.

They got involved in the setting up of that.

Unless there was something else. We know they did that.

Webb and his wife did it. Is the date right?

1895.

Well, if they... Um...

Well, what else could it be?

-I think that sounds about right.

-Well, we know they set it up.

-Yeah.

We have to go for it.

We know the Webbs were involved in the setting up of the LSE,

London School of Economics, so we'll have to go for that.

London School of Economics is the correct answer. Well done, Eggheads.

OK, Sudden Death, back to you.

Which British star who won a Best Actor Oscar for a 1958 film

served in the Commandos during World War II?

-I have no idea.

-I don't.

-Who that long ago would have won an Oscar?

-I can't think of anyone...

-I can't even think of any actors that...

Um...what's his name? Sidney? No...

-I literally have no idea.

-Humphrey Bogart.

-That's the only person I could even think of remotely.

-Exactly.

-Shall we just go for it?

-Yeah. I don't know.

We have no idea, so we're going to have a guess at Humphrey Bogart.

It wasn't Humphrey Bogart. It's not an American. It's a British star.

David Niven.

David Niven.

OK, Eggheads, if you get this right, you've won the contest.

By what name did the 20th-century English ballerina Lillian Marks

become better known?

-Alicia Markova.

-Alicia Markova. She was Alicia Markova.

The 20th-century English ballerina Lillian Marks

was better known as Alicia Markova.

Congratulations, Eggheads, you've won.

Commiserations, cos you were so close.

I thought the Chicago Bears was going to elude them.

We hoped it would!

-Did you feel you were just on the edge of beating them?

-So close.

Yeah. So bad luck. Commiserations.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.

I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £1,000.

That means 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.

£2,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.

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