Episode 13 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?

Well, 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 challenging our resident quiz champions today

are Hooked On Bowls, from Hampshire.

Well, this team all know one another through Hook Bowling Club.

Let's meet them.

Hello, I'm Irene, I'm age 67, and I'm a retired nurse.

Hi, I'm Kathy, I'm age 66, and I'm a retired practice nurse.

Hello, I'm Tony, I'm age 69, I'm a retired civil engineer.

Hello, I'm Elaine, I'm 66, and I'm a retired bank manager.

Hello, I'm Glenys, I'm 66, and I'm a retired legal cashier.

Welcome to you, Hooked On Bowls. I'm liking the pun.

I'm hoping you're also hooked on quizzing, though, as well.

THEY LAUGH

Do you do a bit of it? Do you have a quiz down at the bowling club?

-Oh, yes.

-Yes, yes, we do. We run two quizzes per year.

We invite other people from the village to, you know,

come into the bowls club, and they're usually very successful.

We've all had some success, haven't we?

-Yeah.

-Some.

-Some, yeah.

And we do go and do other quizzes - Townswomen Guild,

-and I do the pub quiz in Hook, sometimes.

-Yeah.

Yeah, well, I mean, you're about five steps up in class, as you know.

Let's see if you can do them.

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.

So, Hooked On Bowls, the challengers actually won the last game.

That proves it can be done,

but it also means £1,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

And let's see how it goes. Our first head-to-head battle starts now.

It's going to be on the subject of History.

Who likes their history?

-Right, who wanted to take History?

-Oh, good question.

-Did we look at Elaine?

-Think it was Elaine!

Would love to say it's Glenys, now!

-Ah, lordy, lordy.

-Elaine, is it?

-Yes, yes.

As you know, any of the Eggheads available at this stage.

Who do you reckon? CJ?

Yeah, CJ's willing for History, aren't you, CJ?

I'm willing for anything.

TEAM: Woah-h-h!

-I think that's an offer, Elaine.

-It's the best I've had today.

Let's have Elaine and CJ into the Question Room, please,

just to make sure you can't confer.

You're the lead, Elaine, and it's History.

-Would you like to go first or second?

-First, please.

Here you go. Good luck, Elaine.

Emperor Jimmu is regarded as the first Emperor of which country?

Ah!

I don't think it's Brazil.

My inclination is...

Japan.

Inclining to Japan.

And you're right to, it's the right answer. Emperor Jimmu of Japan.

CJ, in the 19 the century, what name was usually given to ships that were

overcrowded with passengers and crew and often had a high mortality rate?

Now, I haven't head this term,

and coffin ships is fairly obvious, isn't it? Erm...

Evacuation ships, concrete ships...

I haven't heard this, but I have to go for coffin ships.

Surprised you haven't heard it. It's the right answer, coffin ships.

OK, Elaine, in 1966, an American hydrogen bomb lost after a military

air accident earlier in the year, was found in which body of water?

Ooh, erm...

I'm pretty certain it's not the English Channel.

I think that would've stuck in my mind.

Mediterranean Sea, I can't really envisage...

Yes, being an air accident, I don't think it's Mediterranean.

I think it was South China Sea.

It's not the South China Sea.

It is...CJ?

-Don't know. Never heard it.

-OK, other Eggheads, it's the...?

-Med.

-The Med. Off Spain, wasn't it?

-Off Spain, yeah.

Nothing there for Elaine. Let's see what CJ does here.

In which decade of the 20th century was the Arab League formed?

This is annoying, cos it wasn't that long ago I was reading about it.

I don't think it was as early as the '40s.

-I'm not at all sure, but I'm going to go for the 1960s.

-OK.

Right at the wrong end of the scale. The 1940s.

Anyone give me a precise date, Eggheads?

-It was 1945, but don't know about a precise date.

-OK.

End of the Second World War?

Must have been after. It could have been before or after. Yeah.

All right, all square, then, Elaine.

No damage caused by your slip.

And, third question, the Cyrus Cylinder

displayed in the British Museum

is a historical artefact from which Empire?

My inclination is...

Syria.

And looking at Persian.

-Is it S-I-R-U-S?

-You're right to check the spelling.

It's C-Y-R-U-S. The Cyrus Cylinder.

-I'll still go for Persian.

-OK, Persian.

Your instinct leading you there, and it's an assured instinct.

It's the right answer, Elaine. Well worked out. Two to you.

CJ, what was the name of the courtier who famously

rode from London to Holyrood to communicate the death

of Elizabeth I to James VI?

Oh, dear, do any of those names ring a bell?

I've really got no idea. I'll try Robert Carey.

Robert Carey is correct.

We go to Sudden Death, then, Elaine. As you're probably aware,

in the rules of Eggheads, it means we're going to remove the choices

just to sort out a winner, so nothing to look at.

I'll read the question for you as often as you like,

and then you've got to give me an answer.

In which country is the port city of Veracruz,

which was besieged by the United States in 1847 and again in 1914?

I'm thinking of South America somewhere.

Um...

I can think of the American film.

Vera Cruz. Erm...

-And you want more than the country?

-No, I just want the country.

In which country is the port city of Veracruz,

which was besieged by the United States in 1847 and 1914?

Oh! Let me think... Mexico.

-Yes! See, you were on the right track there.

-Yes.

I was trying to think of the cowboy film.

OK. It means CJ's got to get this.

Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington, was born in which city?

-I think I know.

-Do you want to share it with us, CJ, or have you...?

I think it's Belfast. He's certainly Irish.

I'm just hoping it's not Dublin.

Erm, I think it's Belfast.

OK, Belfast.

It's certainly in Ireland, but it's Dublin.

It's Dublin.

Well, there we are.

CJ, really all over the place, it must be said there.

Admitted he didn't know most of those questions

that came his way and certainly didn't know that.

He confused himself, tied himself in knots, all to Elaine's benefit.

And you untied yourself as you were getting into knots

on that Mexican answer.

Means you're in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, great start for Hooked On Bowls, all still there,

one Egghead gone. And our first round over,

we move on to our second head-to-head today, Arts and Books.

Who would like to play this, Hooked On Bowls? Can't be Elaine.

-Any of the other four.

-I'd better take that.

-Yes, I think so.

Yeah, it's got to be me to take that.

OK, Irene, now, which Egghead would you like to play?

Remember, CJ's out of it, so any of the other four.

I'd like to play Daphne, please.

Daphne? Let's have Irene and Daphne, then, playing Arts and Books

from the Question Room, please.

Irene, here's hoping you can follow Elaine's lead into the final round.

Do you want to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please.

Very good, best of luck, Irene, and your first question is this -

how is Count Ladislaus Almasy known in the title

of a Booker Prize-winning novel?

I don't know this one.

Right.

And I can't see any logical way of eliminating any of them.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to go for the English Patient,

and I'm sorry team, if I'm wrong.

No need to be sorry, it's right.

Irene, yes, he is better known, I guess, as the English Patient.

And of course, the famous film as well.

Daphne, in the 1960s, which artist made a film called No. 4,

more commonly known as Bottoms,

which showed a number of people naked from behind?

-Scandalous!

-Yes.

I thought, what? But then the options came up and it's Yoko Ono.

Yeah, I've got that image of her. Wasn't she in it?

Her bottom was in it too, I think, wasn't it?

-No, her and John Lennon posed naked.

-Yes.

And let's just confirm, Yoko Ono is correct, of course.

Well done, Daphne.

Back to you, Irene.

A Game Of Thrones, part of a larger series,

entitled, A Song Of Ice And Fire, is a work by which author?

I don't know this one either.

Again, I can't see any logical way of eliminating any of them.

Again, this is going to be a pure guess,

and, again, I'm sorry if I'm wrong. It's Ian Livingstone, I will say.

OK, Ian Livingstone for A Game Of Thrones,

A Song Of Ice And Fire. Daphne, is that correct?

No, it's George R R Martin.

It is George R R Martin.

You know, in the dark there,

if you haven't read them. Two novel based questions coming your way so far.

Let's see, a book question for Daphne here. See what Daphne does.

Which American author's first book consisted of a Novella

and five short stories, was called Goodbye Columbus?

I think that's Philip Roth.

Philip Roth for Goodbye Columbus is correct, Daphne.

You have a 2-1 lead and Irene needs to get this.

Which artist painted the well-known work, Drowning Girl in the 1960s?

The only one I've heard of is David Hockney.

Oh... Sorry, I'm going to have to go for David Hockney.

OK, because obviously you've heard of him.

Drowning Girl in the 1960s is David Hockney, Daphne?

Do you know, I don't know. I'd probably go for Lichtenstein.

I really don't know.

Interesting because Hockney is incorrect, it's Roy Lichtenstein

Oh...

Sorry...

Which means it's all over

and it's evened the game up. Would you both please come back

and join your teams. Irene, you won't be in the final round.

As it stands now, it's all square.

Both teams missing one brain from the final round.

Our third head-to-head, it's Sport.

Well, I wonder if Hooked On Bowls are going to enjoy this?

Three of you available now to play.

There's Kathy, Tony or Glenys.

I think it'll be me. As long as it's on bowls we'll be all right.

Well, yes. Six bowling questions, or three bowling questions for you.

I don't think it will be like that.

I can pretty much assure you it won't.

Tony, which Egghead would you like to play,

remembering that CJ and Daphne have already played

so coming on down from CJ, you've got Kevin, Judith or Pat?

-Judith, I think, please.

-He's got to pick Judith.

"Oh dear," says Judith.

Maybe good for Tony. Let's have you both into the Question Room, please.

Very good for Tony.

Tony, how do you want to play this, do you want to go first or second?

First, please, Dermot.

OK, Tony, first question for you.

The Formula 1 driver, Paul di Resta was born in which country?

I will...

Rule out for Scotland, for no other reason. I feel it's not Scotland.

So I'm left with India or France.

-I will go for India, please, Dermot.

-OK, India.

Paul di Resta born in India, you think.

You ruled out the wrong first, from your point of view,

-it's Scotland.

-Typical!

And your first question, Judith.

Which country won the men's football gold medal

at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics?

Well...

Erm, I don't think it was Nigeria.

So either Argentina or Spain.

I... I don't know.

Eeny, meeny... Spain!

-Argentina!

-Oh!

DERMOT LAUGHS

Bad luck, Judith.

It's a tough one, Spain.

Really coming into form round about then winning the...

Won the European Championships, of course, in 2008

and went on to win the World Cup in 2010.

You know, no dishonour in going for them but it was Argentina in fact.

One of those consecutive gold medals at the Olympics.

So next question for you, Tony.

In 2011, which British island was the venue for the 14th Island Games?

Well, obviously, they're all islands.

The question is, the Highland Games would be called the Highland Games

so I'll rule out Shetland on that basis.

The Isle Of Man is well known for its motorcycle racing.

The Isle Of Wight, I know that people sail around the Isle Of Wight.

Having ruled out Shetland, I'll go back to Shetland and say Shetland.

OK, we're back to Shetland.

All right, we've gone for Shetland on the Island Games.

I'm mystified by why they could be in Birmingham.

I mean, Great Britain's an island!

-That's true.

-Australia... There!

Yeah, that's an island.

The Island Games, it's a revelation to many of us

there are islands games and this is the 14th iteration of them,

-were held in the Isle Of Wight.

-Isle Of Wight.

Judith, your second question, see if you can get on the board.

In 2011, a plaque to commemorate the 2010 match between John Isner

and Nicolas Mahut was unveiled at which court at Wimbledon?

It doesn't bear any relation to which court they played on, does it?

I thought they were either number one or centre court.

So...

It's just, I mean, eeny meeny again. I've no idea.

Erm... 16.

So 14, 16 or 18 - you've got for 16.

And the answer is 18.

It's nil-nil after four questions.

I think one should do it.

Tony, what was the last year in which the summer and winter Olympics

were held in the same country?

Well, it's the sort of thing if you know the dates

and know where they're held, you'd know immediately.

I'm sure the Eggheads have got this straight off.

-Licking their lips.

-I'm sure they are, no question about it.

I'm going to make... I've absolutely no idea.

I don't think I can work it out.

I'm going to make a guess, 1956.

OK, '56 which I know the summer Olympics were Melbourne.

Oh, the winter one, yeah.

So the winter one would have been a bit tricky.

DERMOT LAUGHS

-Correct.

-So not 1956. The Eggheads, can you tell me?

-'36.

-'36, yes.

-Where were they?

-Berlin and Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

-OK, Garmisch?

-Well, Garmisch, just call it Garmisch. It was Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

The German Olympics in 1936 held in the same country.

OK, and it means Judith, a real chance to get through here.

The Solomon Trophy is regarded as the Ryder Cup of which sport?

I don't think it's squash.

The Ryder Cup is golf so I presume it's played on turf.

I just don't know.

It's another eeny meeny.

I think I'll go for the nice irony about it and say, bowls.

OK, the irony. I'm going to look at our bowlers here, Judith,

and see if there's a flicker on their faces.

They're going, "No, we would have ruled it out but we don't know what

the other one would have been."

You're right about the grass, but it's croquet.

-It's croquet.

-Tony knew. If only the questions were the other way round.

We go to Sudden Death.

The tennis player, Ivo Karlovic,

who broke the records for the world's faster serve in March 2011

was born in which present day country?

Well, I would have thought,

with a name like that, he's probably from Yugoslavia

but that's not a present country, is it?

-Present day country.

-Present day country.

Well, erm...

No, I'm afraid, Dermot, I've not idea.

Erm... Slovakia?

Erm, you were on the right track with your first thoughts

but didn't follow it down. If I gave you another go and said

it was one of the former Yugoslav republics, would you get it?

-No, I'll leave you to it.

-OK, well, we'll give it to CJ, he knows.

-It's Croatia.

-It's Croatia.

-Croatia.

And the speed?

It's either 156 or 158, I can't remember.

Very good, 156, your first answer,

beating the record previously held by...

-Andy Roddick.

-At?

-155.

-He's good on his tennis.

If only there was just a tennis round. CJ would never be beaten.

There we are.

Well, we're still on the hunt for a tick.

A little, green tick is all we want.

Judith, the younger brother of Amir Khan represented which country

in boxing at the 2010 Commonwealth Games?

Well, if he didn't represent England

I imagine he must have represented Pakistan.

-Is that your answer?

-Yeah.

-Pakistan...

..is the correct answer!

-Wow!

-You're through!

There we are, four questions apiece and one of you got one right.

Erm, should have tossed a coin.

Erm, Tony you were unlucky to be fair.

-No, I wasn't, I was rubbish!

-You weren't.

You more or less worked Croatia out, then didn't say it.

It means you won't be in the final round. Judith you will be there.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

Well, er, it's swung back in the Eggheads' favour here.

The Hooked On Bowls have lost two brains, the Eggheads' have lost one

and we get to our last head-to-head before the final round

and this one is Music.

Who have we got left? Kathy or Glenys,

who would like to play this, Music?

-What are you on music?

-You're better.

-No, you go for it.

-OK, I'll go for it.

-OK, Kathy, choose your Egghead.

There's only two of them left and they're Kevin and Pat.

-I think I'll choose Pat.

-Pat.

Let's have you both into the Question Room, Kathy and Pat.

Well, Kathy, let's put your music knowledge to the test against Pat.

Do you want to go first or second?

I'd like to go first please, Dermot.

Best of luck, Kathy, here's your first question.

"What good is sitting alone in your room, come here the music play"

is a line from a song in which musical?

Er, I don't think it's something they would have sung in Mary Poppins.

Erm...

..and not Guys And Dolls, I'll go for Cabaret.

Yeah, and obviously with the smiling there,

it's the right answer. Yes, Cabaret.

Pat, what was the name of the song

that was a number two single in the UK, in 1964,

for the Jamaican singer, Milly Small.

I'm not sure. My Boy Lollipop rings a bell.

Erm... I think I'll go for My Boy Lollipop.

My Boy Lollipop, right to stay with your first instinct. It's correct.

And, Kathy...

Which English actor released the 2011 Blue's album, Let Them Talk?

Er, I can't imagine Hugh Lawrie singing it,

I don't think it's his style.

I think it's a toss up between Ray Winstone and Rupert Everett.

I think I'll go for Ray Winstone.

Ray Winstone? OK. Yeah, that's a thought to conjure with.

It's not Ray Winstone.

It's not Ray Winstone. It is the one you first rejected, Hugh Laurie.

Oh...

This is your second question, Pat.

Do It Like A Dude, was a UK Top Ten single for which singer in 2011?

I think that was a breakthrough hit for Jessie J.

It was. That's correct, Pat.

You have the lead and you need to get this, Kathy.

Which member of a rock band would be most likely

to use a Fuzz Face effect.

Yes, I've never played any of those instruments.

So... I'm going to have to guess, I'm afraid.

-Guitarist.

-Is right!

-Oh!

-Yes.

Guitarist... Fuzz Face.

It's almost onomatopoeic where we can imagine what the effect is.

Well done.

You've saved yourself but maybe only for the time being.

Pat wins if he gives a correct answer here.

Pat, in India, what type of instrument is a bansuri?

I don't know.

And India has so many languages, even if I was well informed in them,

there's such a variety of languages it would be hard to track down.

A bansuri?

I really don't know so I'll just have a guess, flute.

I really have no idea which it is.

You do now, it's a flute.

-Oh.

-It's the right answer. Lucky Pat.

Sorry, you haven't got to apologise for him, Kathy, but he's guessed

his way through to the final round. Bad luck.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

This is what we've been playing towards, time for the final round,

which, as always, is General Knowledge.

But those of you who lost your head-to-heads

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

So Irene, Kathy and Tony from Hooked On Bowls

and CJ, from the Eggheads, we lose you all.

Would you please leave the studio.

Elaine and Glenys you're playing to win Hooked On Bowls £1,000.

Pat, Judith, Kevin and Daphne

you're playing for something which money cannot buy,

it is the Eggheads' reputation.

As usual I'll ask each team three questions in turn.

This time the questions are all General Knowledge,

you are allowed to confer.

Elaine and Glenys, the question is, are your two brains

better than the Eggheads' four?

And, do you want to go first, or second?

We'll go first, Dermot.

First question to Hooked On Bowls,

in the Star Wars series of films, what is Darth Vader's original name?

In the Star Wars series of films, what is Darth Vader's original name?

Well Obi-Wan Kenobi

is a different character.

Erm, Skywalker...

Is the other lead, but is he Anakin?

-I haven't heard the other name.

-I haven't.

Which I'm inclined to say is the one, Boba Fett.

-Boba Fett?

-Yeah.

-Fett, is it?

-Yes.

Erm, we don't really know, Dermot.

Neither of us have seen the films but we'll go for Boba Felt. Fett.

-Boba Fett?

-Yeah.

-As Darth Vader's original name,

I heard you saying from your knowledge of it.

One crucial bit of information you've missed in Star Wars

is the dramatic scene where Darth Vader says what to Luke Skywalker?

-I'm your father.

-Luke, I am your father.

It's Anakin Skywalker. Then he turns bad. Oh, how bad he turns.

Erm, right. Nothing there and Eggheads, your first question.

The expression "red mist" is most associated with which emotion?

The expression "red mist" is most associated with which emotion?

Erm, when the red mist descends, that's anger.

Anger is the right answer.

Yes, the red mist there.

Right, Hook on Bowls,

you've got to concentrate on this and try and get it right

to keep your hopes alive.

In 2011, Yingluck Shinawatra became the first female prime minister

of which country?

In 2011, Yingluck Shinawatra became the first female prime minister

of which country?

Could you spell the name?

Oh, here we go...

DERMOT LAUGHS

Yingluck, Y-I-N-G-L-U-C-K.

Surname, Shinawatra, S-H-I-N-A-W-A-T-R-A.

It doesn't sound Malaysian.

-No.

-Because they have Wang Sings and...

-It doesn't sound Thailand.

-It doesn't.

-To you?

-Not to me, but...

We'll go for Vietnamese. I haven't got a clue.

We're guessing.

We'll go for Vietnam.

Vietnam, a guess there with Yingluck Shinawatra,

the first female prime minister

-of Thailand.

-Oh.

-Relation of Thaksin Shinawatra.

-Sister.

-Sister.

Thaksin Shinawatra, also, former prime minister.

Right... It means the Eggheads can win it

if they get this one correct then.

Eggheads, in which decade did the Speaking Clock

begin operating in Britain?

In which decade did the Speaking Clock begin operating in Britain?

-The '30s.

-'30s or '50s.

-DAPHNE:

-'30s.

-Daphne thinks 1930s.

We'll go for the 1930s, Dermot.

-1930s, as early as that?

-Mm-hm.

It's the right answer, Eggheads. You've won!

Well, er, 1936 to be precise on the Speaking Clock,

-which I'm sure you would have known.

-We knew that.

-It's the way those questions fell.

-I'm nudging.

They were off the radar with the Star Wars films.

Thank you very much, indeed for playing us, Hooked On Bowls

and back to the bowling green.

-And, happy quizzing there, as well.

-Thank you.

Thank you for taking on the Eggheads today.

They've done what comes naturally to them, those Eggheads

and they reign supreme over quizland once again.

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

the money rolls over to our next show. Eggheads, congratulations, who will beat you?

Do join us next time to see if a new team of challengers

has the brains to defeat the Eggheads, £2,000 says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.

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