Episode 112 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

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

They are the Eggheads.

And taking on the awesome might of our quiz Goliaths today

are Made in Belfast. This team of friends

are all students at Queen's University in Belfast

and they regularly attend the Monday night quiz at the House Bar.

Let's meet them.

Hi. I'm Katy.

I'm 20 and I'm a modern history and English linguistics student.

Hi. I'm Keith. I'm 21 and I'm a computer games student.

Hi. I'm Samanda. I'm 21 and I'm a biomedical science student.

Hi. I'm Nik. I'm 21 and I'm a medical student.

Hi. I'm Kerri. I'm 21 and I'm a zoology student.

-So, Katy and team, welcome.

-Thank you.

-Hi.

-So, students together at the same university.

-Yes.

But I notice you're all studying very different things.

Yes we all are studying very different things.

We've got a medical student and a computer games student.

-A computer games student? Right.

-Mm-hmm, that's Keith.

And then I'm English and history and we have a biomedical scientist

and a zoologist as well.

-So you've got almost everything covered here.

-Hopefully.

Are we missing anything? We've got arts and books.

-We've got sport?

-We've got sport with the boys.

-Sport with the boys, OK.

-Missing politics perhaps.

Politics, no politics student.

-We need a computer games category.

-Yeah.

-Don't we?

Keith, I have to ask you, do you just play them all day or...?

-I make them too.

-You get asked that the whole time, don't you?

-Yeah.

-I can tell. Good luck.

Every day there is £1,00 in 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, Made in Belfast, I can tell you that

the Eggheads have won the last 22 games.

-So £23,000 says you can't beat them today.

-Woah.

-It would be worth having a go, wouldn't it?

-Yeah!

All right, let's get cracking.

The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Film and TV.

-Who wants this?

-That's Kerri.

-That'll be mine.

-We'll go for Kerri.

Right, so, zoology student.

I'll get my head round that in a minute.

Against which Egghead, Kerri?

-Who do you think?

-I was thinking Chris.

-Do you want to go for Chris?

-Yes. We'll go for Chris, please.

Kerri from Made in Belfast versus Chris from the Eggheads on Zoology.

No, on Film and TV. To ensure there is no conferring,

please take your positions in the Question Room.

So, Kerri, you're studying at the university of Belfast?

-I'm studying zoology.

-OK, and we had it all planned out.

Zoology, medicine, etc, etc,

and then you go for Film and TV. I was trying to work that out.

You're studying zoology but you're answering questions on Film.

Yeah - there's quite a few scientists in our team,

so I opted for them to have that as long as I could have TV and Films

cos I do watch a lot of TV and films.

Good luck against Chris.

Three multiple choice questions on Film and Television,

and whoever answers the most correctly goes through to the final.

The other person is knocked out.

I'm sure you know that, Kerri. Who would you like to go first?

-Yourself or Chris?

-I'd like to go first, please.

Kerri, your first question, good luck.

In the TV series Murder She Wrote,

what type of novels does Angela Lansbury's character,

Jessica Fletcher, write?

I have actually watched this TV show quite a lot in my younger days

and I'm going to go for mysteries.

Mysteries is the right answer.

Well done. Your team are politely applauding.

It will get wilder.

Chris, what is the name of the girl who falls in love with the beast

in the 1991 Disney animation Beauty And The Beast?

It's a literal translation from the French, a beauty. It's Belle.

And Belle is the right answer.

Kerri, one point each.

The Last Man On Earth is a 1964 film adaptation of a novel

that was later readapted as which movie starring Will Smith?

It would be between Hancock and I Am Legend.

I have seen them both and I am 70% sure that it's I Am Legend.

-70%, not 75?

-No, just 70.

Very scientific answer. I Am Legend is right. Well done.

Chris, onto you. Which of David Lynch's films

is set in the town of Lumberton?

Ah.

Now, Wild At Heart's a sort of road movie, isn't it? With Nicholas Cage.

Don't think it's Eraserhead, which is a sort of a drug-fuelled thing.

I think it's the rather sordid goings-on in Blue Velvet.

Blue Velvet is the right answer.

2-2. Your question, Kerri.

Which actor's directorial debut

was the 1955 film The Kentuckian, in which he also starred?

I would have to take a complete and utter guess at this one.

It's a one in three chance I'm going to get it right,

so will go for Kirk Douglas.

No, Burt Lancaster in fact.

Burt Lancaster. That's a long time ago.

Chris, in the 1969 children's animated television programme

Chigley, what did Cresswell's factory make?

If you get this, you're in the final.

Chigley. I'll have to dig deep on this one.

Ah...don't think it'd be boots.

Buckets doesn't ring any bells,

but they always used to have a dance at the end of work, didn't they?

And they were all sort of wearing white overalls and headscarves,

which would suggest biscuits to me, so I'll go with biscuits.

I can see from Daphne's face that you've got it right.

Biscuits is the right answer, Chris. Well done.

Three out of three. Sorry, Kerri.

You've been knocked out by our Eggheads.

But your team can recover.

You won't be in the final - Chris will.

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

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

and the Eggheads have lost no brains.

The next subject is History.

Which of the challengers would like History?

ALL GROAN

-What do we do?

-Do you want to do History?

-No.

Nik's better at History than me.

Ironically, the medical student's better than me.

-I think you should do History.

-I'll go for History.

OK, I'm loving this. The medical student does History.

So it's Nik against whom?

-We could try Dave.

-Tremendous Knowledge Dave.

Tremendous Knowledge Dave, yeah.

Although that does not instil much confidence.

-It's the Tremendous Knowledge bit that's alarming.

-Yeah.

-What do you think of choosing Daphne?

-Daphne knows everything though.

Go with Tremendous Knowledge Dave.

OK, I love the discussion process here. It's really democratic.

So, Nik from Made in Belfast

versus Tremendous Knowledge Dave from the Eggheads.

And to ensure there's no conferring,

would you please take your positions in the Question Room?

All right, here we go. Three questions on History in turn

and Nik, you can choose the first or the second set.

OK, I'd like to go first, please.

Here's your first question, Nik. Good luck.

For what did the abbreviation ARP stand

in relation to the system of preventative measures

set up during World War II?

I'd love it to be Anti-Rat Patrol,

but I'll go for Air Raid Protection.

Air Raid Protection is right. Well done.

Anti-Rat Patrol - someone's got a sense of humour upstairs.

Dave, your question. In which decade

were GCE O-level exams introduced in England?

I think it came in after the war.

Or after the Second World War, I should say.

I don't think it's 1910s or 1930s

just because of the nature of school in those days.

I'd go for the 1950s.

1950s is the right answer. Well done, Dave.

Nik, your question.

What were Anglo-Saxon laws known as?

I'd rule out duffs and have it between dooms and damns.

But none of them are particularly striking at me.

I'll have to guess at dooms.

For a medical student, you're very good at history.

-Dooms is right.

-Yes.

-Well done.

Tremendous Knowledge Dave.

Who was the first British monarch to fly in an aeroplane?

Very good question. All around the same time.

So if we're talking the first Louis Bleriot in 1909.

Right, so George VI, Edward VIII. I would...don't really know,

but I would guess it's still in the timescale of George V.

George V is your answer. Actually, it's wrong.

-It's Edward VIII.

-Fine.

-So a bit later.

-Fair enough.

So, Nik, you are ahead. And if you get this one right

you've gone through to the Final Round.

OK, everyone's fingers are crossed here.

Cheops is an alternative name for which Egyptian pharaoh?

Again, it's going to be a complete guess.

I'll go for the third option

if I can pronounce it. Neferka then.

Neferka is wrong. Sorry. It's Kufu.

-So, Dave, if you get this wrong, you are still out.

-OK.

In 1919, the third Afghan war began

when Afghan forces invaded which country?

Right. Erm...

I'm just going to try and think about the geography of things.

Could they have invaded Russia? Surely not.

I will go Persia.

But Russia's still causing a problem to me. But I'll go Persia.

So you think it's Persia. Anyone know here? Is he right?

-Nik, do you know?

-I don't know - I'd have guessed India.

Yeah, funnily enough, you'd have been right. Dave, you're wrong.

-Yeah.

-Been knocked out on History.

-I've been knocked out.

-Yes!

Tremendous Knowledge Dave is out. Lots of excitement here.

-What can you do?

-Well done, Nik.

You are through to the final, and not your strongest subject.

That's a good, good move for your team.

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

So, the challengers have lost one brain

and the Eggheads have also lost a brain from the Final Round.

Level pegging. The next subject is Arts and Books.

-That's me.

-That's you?

-I'm going to have to take it.

-Katy, OK.

-Yes.

-Against which Egghead?

It can't be Chris or Dave.

-Judith, do you want to take?

-I'll take Judith. Yeah.

So, it is Katy from Made in Belfast against Judith.

-You like this subject.

-I do.

But I hate saying that cos it puts a jinx on it.

Yeah. But it's not Sport, that's the most important thing.

-We don't mention that.

-Don't mention Sport. Sorry.

To ensure there's no conferring,

would you please now take your positions in the Question Room.

-Katy, you're a singer.

-Yes, it's true.

And are you hoping to do that professionally or not?

No, just for a bit of fun. I don't think I'll be a professional

but I do really enjoy it. I love it.

OK, Katy, good luck against Judith.

She does like arts and books, but let's see how you do.

Would you like to go first or second?

I think I'll just follow the general trend and go first, please.

OK, here we go, your first question.

Claude Monet's series of paintings entitled Nympheas

are images of which flowers?

I would have to be taking a complete and utter guess here.

I don't actually have any knowledge in this area

so I'm going to have to just take a complete and utter guess

and I'll go for water lilies.

-And water lilies is the right answer.

-Oh, yes!

You can clearly visualise that painting -

it's on so many greeting cards, isn't it?

-The painting of the river with the water lilies on top.

-Oh, yeah.

OK, Judith, the verse form known as Terza Rima

comprises stanzas of how many lines each?

-Terza Rima?

-T-E-R-Z-A, Terza.

Rima, R-I-M-A.

Well, it sounds like three.

It is three. Well done.

One each. Over to you, Katy.

Wyrd Sisters, spelt W-Y-R-D,

is a novel by which writer?

I don't seem to be doing a great job for myself here in arts and books.

Again, something I've never heard of, the novel.

So again I'm going to have to just take an absolute wild guess

-and I'll go for John Wyndham.

-Do you know, Judith?

I thought it was John Wyndham too.

-That's interesting, it's Terry Pratchett. Terry Pratchett.

-Oh.

Is that written after he's been diagnosed with his illness, no?

-No, it goes back a bit.

-It goes back a bit?

There we are. Terry Pratchett is the answer, Katy.

Judith can take the lead.

What creatures are the focus of Gavin Maxell's book

Ring Of Bright Water?

-It's otters. It's an absolutely heavenly book.

-Why is it so nice?

Well, it's just enchanting. It's all about otters in Scotland.

Otters is the right answer, Judith. Well done.

Over to you, Katy. You need to get this one right

or you're going to be out, I'm afraid.

Charles Dickens' unfinished novel The Mystery Of Edwin Drood

is set in a fictional version of Rochester known as what?

Yet again, it's going to have to be a wild guess.

This is probably not really my thing, even though I do English.

But I'm more focusing on language,

so it's a bit different, the literature side.

But I will take a wild guess and go for Cloisterham.

-Cloisterham is right.

-Oh! Wild guess has worked.

Here's your question, Judith. If you get this one right,

you're through.

The Turner Prize-winning artist Tony Cragg

is best known for his work in what medium?

Oh, Gosh! I don't know.

I've rather abandoned the Turner Prize.

Tony Cragg.

Video.

-No, sculpture.

-Oh.

You sounded almost beyond despair when you said that.

Well. I've rather abandoned noticing who wins the Turner Prize.

All right. So you've got two right, and well done, Katy, so have you.

We go to Sudden Death.

You're hanging on in there against this Egghead.

And this is one of her strongest subjects as well.

So it's a bit harder now - I don't give you alternatives, OK?

Star, Dolphin and Marigold are characters

in Jacqueline Wilson's book The Illustrated...what?

Oh. Oh! I read this book and loved it.

-The Illustrated Mum, I think?

-Yes!

-Yes!

-The Illustrated Mum.

-Thank goodness.

Apparently Marigold is the heavily tattooed

bipolar mother of Star and Dolphin.

-Yeah.

-Yeah, you remember? OK.

-Uh-oh.

Judith, if you get this wrong, you're out.

The Velazquez painting, Las Meninas,

depicting a scene at the court of Philip IV,

is housed in which art gallery?

I should think it's probably in the Prado.

It is in the Prado.

-Where's that? Barcelona?

-In Madrid.

-Madrid.

-Yeah.

Well done - the Prado is the right answer.

-I thought that you were going to get that wrong.

-Why?

-Have you ever seen it?

-No, I've never been to Madrid.

OK, Katy, your question. Keep on pressing.

Andrew Newport is the name of the title character

in the 1720s novel

Memoirs Of A Cavalier, by which author?

I have no idea.

I can't even think of anything at all.

I haven't ever studied literature from that era

so I don't even know...can't even take a wild guess.

I think I'm going to have to pass on that one.

-Let's see if Judith knows.

-I don't know.

Daniel Defoe. Daniel Defoe is the answer.

This is your question now, Judith. If you get this one right,

you're in the Final Round.

Guy Crouchback is the hero of a trilogy of novels

set around World War II by which writer?

-Evelyn Waugh.

-Evelyn Waugh is the right answer. You're in the final.

-Sorry, Katy.

-It's fine.

You fought her to a standstill and she just came past you

and she is in the final and you're not.

Please, both of you, come back. Rejoin your teams here.

OK, the challengers have lost two brains now.

The Eggheads have lost just the one from the Final Round

and the last subject before that final is Geography.

-Keith. This is a good, strong subject for Keith.

-Keith?

-Yeah.

Which Egghead do you want? It can be Keith...sorry. Which Egghead?

ALL LAUGH

-Kevin or Daphne?

-Daphne.

-Yeah, why not?

-Daphne.

-I think I'll take Daphne.

-Are you trying to avoid Kevin?

-Yes.

-Is that what's happening? There's no way.

Despite the attempted switch of identity.

So it is Keith from Made in Belfast against Daphne from the Eggheads.

Please go to the Question Room now.

I will ask each of you three questions on Geography in turn.

Keith, would you like the first or the second set?

I think I'd like to go first, please.

Here we go. Good luck, Keith.

Which two colours are found on the Israeli flag?

I'm pretty sure that it's blue and white.

Blue and white is the right answer, well done.

Daphne, the shoreline of the Cote d'Ivoire, or Ivory Coast,

lies along part of which major body of water?

The Atlantic.

-You sounded uncertain.

-I was, I suddenly thought.

I think it's on that side, isn't it?

-Am I wrong?

-No, you're right. It's just the way you said it.

The way you said it, you looked as if you were in

a state of near-panic.

OK, Keith, your question.

Cap de Creus is the easternmost mainland point

of which European country?

I really don't have a notion for this one.

So it's a complete and utter guess.

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

Anyone know if he's right?

-Don't know.

-Playing well - Spain is the right answer.

-Well done indeed.

-Going well.

Daphne, what is the capital of the Caribbean country of St Lucia?

It is Castries.

Castries is the right answer - well done.

Keith, the leu, L-E-U,

the main Romanian currency is divided into 100 what?

-The leu was that?

-The leu, L-E-U, the main Romanian currency.

Again, I'm not too sure on this one.

And I'm going to have to take a guess, I think.

I think I want to say koruna.

-Let's see if an Egghead knows this. Anyone know?

-It's bani.

Bani. 100 banis make a leu.

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

Carrowmore, an extensive megalithic burial site

is located in which Irish county?

Could you spell it?

Carrowmore, C-A-R-R-O-W-M-O-R-E. Carrowmore,

an extensive megalithic burial site is located in which Irish county?

I don't know.

I think...

I think I'll try Sligo.

Let's see if the Northern Irish team-mates can tell us?

-Is she right?

-We think she might be right - not sure.

It would have been between Sligo and Clare.

All I know about Sligo is it's where Yates was born, isn't it?

-It's Yates country.

-Yeah.

-Daphne, you're right.

-Oh.

-I don't know how you do it.

On just the little tiny fragment of something remembered, is it?

-Yes.

-Something, a glimmer somewhere?

-Yes, definitely an inkle.

-An inkle.

-Yes.

Which is how Daphne takes so many rounds. She's in the final.

Sorry, Keith, you've been knocked out and,

if you can, please, both of you, rejoin us here in the studio.

So this is what we have been playing towards.

It is time for the Final Round,

which, as always, is General Knowledge.

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

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

So, Katy, Keith and Kerri, all the Ks from Made in Belfast.

And Dave from the Eggheads, would you please now leave the studio?

-So, Samanda and Nik. This is the moment.

-Yep.

Good luck in this. It's a big jackpot today.

You're playing to win Made in Belfast £23,000.

Judith, Kevin, Daphne and Chris,

you're 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.

You are allowed to confer. So, Samanda and Nik, the question is,

are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

And would you like to go first or second?

I think we'll go first please.

Here's your first question - good luck.

What type of establishment is a trattoria?

Trattoria is spelt T-R-A-T-T-O-R-I-A.

What type of establishment is a trattoria?

-Trattoria.

-It sounds Latin, doesn't it?

It does sound Latin, and I study Latin

and it's not ringing any bells. I don't think it's a gym.

And you wouldn't get a restaurant in Latin, would you?

Trattoria.

I think you would have heard what a library is in Latin.

-I'm thinking library.

-I'm thinking library.

Do you want to go for library? OK.

We're not entirely sure, but we're going to go for library, please.

Library is your answer.

It's restaurant.

It's actually, it's Italian?

An Italian restaurant. Yeah, so you see such and such trattoria.

It's a sort of Italian equivalent of a bistro, I suppose.

Would be that sort of thing. Cafe-cum-restaurant.

-Between sort of cafe and restaurant.

-Yes.

-Oh, right, OK.

I've always wondered actually.

Eggheads, your question. In finance, what term is commonly used

to describe a recession followed by a shallow recovery,

which is in turn followed by a further recession?

-Double-dip.

-That is a double-dip.

Double-dip is the right answer.

What was the great joke about

the Greeks have stopped making hummus and taramasalata?

It's a double-dip recession.

I can't believe you haven't heard that joke before, Judith.

-That's amazing.

-No, I haven't.

OK, your question, guys. £23,000 to win. You can still win.

We need them to slip up.

Whose final words upon his death in 1891 were reportedly,

"How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden?"?

I don't have a notion.

I would say Rockefeller though.

Can you repeat the quote that he was said to say again, please?

Whose final words upon his death in 1891 were reportedly,

"How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden?"?

-There's the Rockefeller Center, isn't there?

-Yeah.

-In New York.

-We'll go for Rockefeller.

We're not entirely sure again,

but we think the answer is John D Rockefeller.

-It's not John D Rockefeller.

-Oh.

It's PT Barnum. Who was the circus guy.

Was he American? I always thought he was British.

No, he was American.

So he was on his deathbed and he wants to know

-how the circus is going?

-Yeah.

I suppose it couldn't be George Gershwin

cos there would have been no receipts if he was on his deathbed.

He wouldn't have died in 1891 either - he was much later.

-He wasn't even born then.

-OK.

And John D Rockefeller while you're at it? Banker?

He had the Rockefeller Center, didn't he?

-How did he make his money?

-Oil.

-Oil.

Eggheads, here's your question. If you get this one right,

you've taken the contest.

The opening bars of the theme tune

to which TV comedy series

is the title of the series spelt out in Morse code?

OK. So it must be a short one.

Spell out The Good Life, for example, in Morse.

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, there's three dots for S.

What's M?

M's only got two, hasn't it?

OK, well what's the theme to The Good Life?

It's something played on a xylophone.

-It's that bird circling the sun.

-Yeah, a bird circling round.

It's not Are You Being Served?

Do you know the theme tune to Are You Being Served?

Well, it's the one that's got all the list of departments, isn't it?

-The theme tune has?

-Yes.

Yes, so you've got the woman speaker.

-It sounds a bit long for Morse code.

-What do you think, Chris?

I think it's Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, actually.

Cos it has that kind of beat.

# Do-do-do-do...#

It just sounds right, doesn't it?

-Do you think?

-Yes.

-I've no idea.

I think it sounds...

I hope we're not getting them mixed up. But it sounds right, doesn't it?

-Do you reckon?

-Yeah. Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.

Not too sure, but we will try Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.

Pretty interesting listening to you there,

cos you sort of were circling around.

They were able to get the tunes and all that.

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em is quite a long title, isn't it?

And how you would spell that out in Morse code.

But then Chris came up with the tune.

# Do-do-do-do...#

-Does that sound like Morse code?

-Yeah.

The correct answer is Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.

Very well worked out, Eggheads.

And we say congratulations, you have won.

Would you have guessed that one, Samanda and Nik?

-Well we would have gotten the first one - we knew the double-dip.

-Yeah.

-We weren't sure, it would have been a guess with that one.

-That was tricky.

-It's interesting watching their brains work. They are good.

-Yeah.

So there's absolutely no shame in losing.

-And thanks for being such a great team.

-Thank you.

Commiserations to the challengers.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.

Their winning streak continues.

That does mean you don't go home with the £23,000 -

sorry to rub it in. 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.

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

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