Episode 2 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 Psychs Plus from Carlisle.

Everyone on this team works for the local authority in Cumbria.

Let's meet them.

Hi. I'm Joanna, I'm 56 and I'm an educational psychologist.

Hello. I'm Debra, I'm 50 years old and I'm an educational psychologist.

Hello, I'm Hugh, I'm 47 and I'm an educational psychologist.

Hello, my name is Ruth, I'm 57

and I'm also an educational psychologist.

Hello, I'm Linda, I'm 54

and I'm an inclusion support officer.

Well, welcome to you Psychs Plus.

Tell me about the work of educational psychologists.

What difference you can make to a child's life and education?

Well, we hope to make a difference to their education,

also their emotional well-being and their behaviour.

We're some of our members, we're not all educational psychologists,

we work alongside behaviour support people. And Linda's one of those.

OK, very important work. Very important work here though!

-Absolutely.

-Trying to beat the Eggheads.

What on earth do you think you're doing?

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Why did you decide to take on the Eggheads?

We obviously enjoy the show.

We're doing it for a bit of fun and the experience.

That's the point. Hopefully a little bit of cash for you at the end.

That would be a bonus.

There's a bit more than a little bit of cash, as I'm about to tell you.

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

If they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the price money rolls over to the next show.

So, Psychs Plus, the Eggheads have won the last 12 games

and that means, £13,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads!

And we're going to kick off straight away, our first head-to-head battle,

as you try to knock an Egghead out of the quiz.

Our first subject is Film And Television,

and any one of you can kick off.

That's you, Linda.

I knew I'd have to go first.

You are the first.

Who would you like be against?

-I think...

-I think it's up to you, really.

CJ is looking worried.

Yes, he is.

Now he's trying not to look worried.

I think I'll take CJ.

CJ.

CJ. I love the way you're using the psychology there. CJ.

It's my favourite subject.

It was a double bluff, you didn't suss that one out.

Anyway, you'll still knock him out anyway.

Linda and CJ, into the Question Room

just to make sure you can't confer with your team-mates.

Linda, would you like to go first or second?

I'll go first, please.

Film & Television, first question is yours, Linda, and it's this.

Who starred as Elle Woods, a sorority queen who follows her

ex-boyfriend to law school in the 2001 comedy film Legally Blonde?

Legally Blonde. I'm not at all sure on this one.

Erm...

But I think I'll go for Drew Barrymore.

Drew Barrymore.

Of course, it's become a very successful stage musical as well.

Legally Blonde, the 2001 comedy film,

the starring role of Elle Woods taken by Reese Witherspoon.

So, nothing there.

Let's see if CJ's start is hopefully as shaky.

CJ, who was the regular main female host opposite

Chris Evans of The Big Breakfast when it first broadcast in 1992?

Well, Gaby Roslin did host it with Chris Evans.

I've no memory of Katy Hill or Fiona Phillips having done it,

so Gaby Roslin.

Is the right answer, yes,

Gaby Roslin and Chris Evans hosting The Big Breakfast when it started.

So, Linda, let's get you off the mark.

In the TV comedy series On The Buses,

what was the name of Stan Butler's sister, played by Anna Karen?

Well, I'm quite sure that that is Olive.

Am I?

Are you sure now?

Yes, that Question Room does strange things to your certainty,

but it is the right answer, yes, of course.

Olive, well done.

Right, hoping for a slip-up as soon as possible from CJ.

CJ, the 1981 film Raiders Of The Lost Ark is set in which decade?

I'm just checking. It should be the '30s.

It obviously concentrates on the rise of Nazi Germany.

Yes, '20s is too early, '40s is too late, I think it's the 1930s.

Nailed it down there, it's the right answer.

Yes, well done, CJ, you have two, Linda has one,

and therefore needs this.

Linda, Lauren Bacall made her film debut in which film?

Oh, erm,

probably not so much the obvious one that I'm thinking of,

so I'm going to go for To Have And Have Not.

Well done, yeah, right answer.

Fantastic, Linda, you're still in it.

I get confused between them.

Is this the one where, "You know how to whistle," and all that?

"Put your lips together and blow."

Chris, somehow, coming from you, just not quite the same!

There we are, Lauren Bacall's debut in To Have And To Have Not

keeping Linda in it, but she has to hope that CJ fails here.

CJ, in the 1935 film No Limit,

George Formby plays a character called George Shuttleworth

whose dream it is to win which sporting event?

Don't know this. I don't think I've ever seen a George Formby film.

And I don't know this one.

Well, No Limit could, I suppose, relate to speed,

or it could be the name of a horse.

He's English. Grand National is the only one of those

actually in England.

Really don't know this one. I will try Grand National.

Pretty thin reasoning, CJ.

-He's English, the Grand National's set in England?

-Well, it's right.

-It's not right. It is...

-Isle of Man TT.

-The Isle of Man TT race.

Yes, whizzing around the Isle of Man.

So, you're still in it, Linda.

Well done.

You revive from that first question slip-up,

which means we've gone into sudden death.

And just to remind you, Linda, you don't see any choices now,

you've just got to give me the answer.

Here's your question.

What is the subtitle of the Star Wars film

released in 2005 as Episode Three?

Oh. Um...

Are you a fan of the Star Wars films?

No, I'm not, Dermot, actually.

It's not one of my genres that I like, really.

It'll be something along the lines of

To Beyond And Return or something.

Beyond And Return, just as a pure guess.

I think that's better than the real title.

It's not the right answer, though. Episode Three is... Do you know, CJ?

-Revenge of the Sith.

-Revenge of the Sith.

Not identified by Linda.

And CJ did, but it doesn't matter. He's got to get this one to win it.

The US television series Tabitha, starring Lisa Hartman

and first shown in 1977, was a spin-off from which 1960s comedy?

I imagine she was the daughter of Samantha from Bewitched.

Bewitched is the right answer, CJ. You've won. Bad luck, Linda.

You fought your way back into it, came ever so close,

but you're not playing in the final round.

Would you please come back and join your teams?

Well, CJ held off a strong challenge from Linda there on his favourite

subject, and it means that Psychs Plus have lost one brain

from the final round.

The Eggheads are all intact for the time being.

And our second round today, then, and this one is Science.

Who'd like to play this? Can't be Linda, of course.

-Ruth?

-Ruth, yes.

-Who would you like?

Who should I choose?

-They all look as though they know Science to me.

-They all probably do.

-Definitely not Daphne. She looks...

-Barry or Pat, maybe?

-Yeah, Barry or Pat.

-Yeah. Can I choose Pat, please?

-Yes, you can.

You know you can. Let's have Ruth and Pat

into the Question Room, please, to contest this one.

Would you like to go first or second, Ruth?

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

First Science question is yours, Ruth.

Which process explains why a straight object

standing in a half-filled glass of water appears to bend

at the surface of the water?

I do know this one. That'll be refraction.

It certainly will. It's the right answer and a good start, Ruth.

Pat, what name is given to a cord or thread used in surgery,

especially to tie up a bleeding artery?

Um...

The general term is a suture, but I think,

if you were trying to tie up an artery, I think you'd use a ligature.

I don't think it's armature or tablature. I'll go for ligature.

Right answer. Well done, Pat. One apiece.

Ruth, what colour are the legs of the Atlantic puffin?

I'm trying to think of the cover of Puffin paperbacks

when I was a child.

But, of course, was that an Atlantic puffin?

I think I'm going for orange.

Orange, OK. Just waiting for it to light up. Goes orange.

It'll go green now, too. It's the right answer.

Well done, Ruth.

OK, you have the lead. Will it stay that way after this?

Pat, which element has the atomic number 10?

Silver is well down the periodic table.

My first instinct is that it's neon,

but I'll just have to think about it for a moment.

It's neon.

OK, rather appropriate, because it's going to light up green now as well.

It's the right answer - neon.

OK, two-all. And, Ruth, in the eye,

what name is given to the photo receptors in the retina that

function under conditions of low illumination?

I'm thinking about what I know about this,

and I think that it's cones in the middle that see colours,

and it's rods that function for low illumination,

so I'm going to say rods.

It's the right answer. Well done, Ruth.

Knows her stuff. 3-2.

Pat, what term is used to refer to the part of a horse's leg

between the fetlock and the hoof?

Of those three words,

I think I can remember seeing pastern in an equine context.

I think a gaskin is an old-style boot or wellington type of thing,

and I think stifle is just a verb.

Of those three, I'll have to go with pastern.

Pastern because you've heard it...

I think I've heard it in some sort of equine context.

Is it between the fetlock and the hoof?

It is, pastern is correct,

so it's three-all, we go to sudden death again.

Second time of asking, and only the second round,

and, Ruth, in which decade of the 20th century

was Ernest Rutherford awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry?

Erm...

I don't know this, it is a matter of guesswork. Let me have a think.

Ernest Rutherford...

I think it's early on. I'm toying between the 19...

the teens, the 19 teens and the '20s.

I think I'm going to say...

the '20s.

The '20s for Ernest Rutherford, Nobel Prize for Chemistry. It is...

incorrect.

Not the '20s. Eggheads?

First decade.

-First decade?

-I think it was 1907.

No.

8?

-Well, yeah, OK...

-6?

Have ten guesses! It's 1908.

Ernest Rutherford, awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in the 1900s -

to be precise, 1908.

So, the first one either of you have got incorrect.

Pat, which geological period

comprises the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs?

Hmm. I think we're living in the Holocene.

So it's, I think, from the current time, back quite a bit.

I'm looking for a period.

The aeons, eras, epochs, periods...

The trouble with these geological time periods,

there's quite a variety of different entities.

I think the giant one is the Phanerozoic,

but I don't think that's right.

I don't think period is the biggest of the geological divisions.

I'm going to have to have a guess at Quaternary.

OK. Quaternary...

It is the right answer, Quaternary is correct.

The Quaternary period comprises the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs.

-Did you know that, Ruth?

-I have to confess, I didn't.

Well, I don't know, you maybe would have worked it out.

Very good quizzing battle, really hard there, into sudden death,

but the Egghead again has squeezed you out. Bad luck, Ruth,

you won't be in the final round.

Would you both come back and join your teams?

Psychs Plus, I'm a little puzzled after all that.

I mean, two great performances, and yet you're two brains down.

But as it stands, you've lost two brains from the final round,

the Eggheads are all still there.

We've got two more head-to-heads to play. Our next one is Arts & Books.

-That's me.

-Well, you've got this sorted out in advance.

It's going to be you, is it, Joanna?

-Yes, I think so.

-OK, any of those Eggheads in the middle,

because the bookends have played.

Chris? Chris? Shall we go Chris?

Yeah, I think Chris, please.

OK. Could I ask you both to go to the Question Room?

Right, Joanna, I know you're passionate about your job -

are you equally passionate about arts and literature?

I'm certainly a member of a book club,

and, in fact, a book club that's been going a long time,

and I do enjoy some of the other arts as well.

Tell me about the book club, how often do you meet?

We meet about once a month, and it has been running about 20 years,

-so it's one of the original ones, I would think.

-Wow.

Doing the maths, that's quite a few books you've read just in the club!

-Ooh, yeah, lots.

-OK, and who chooses them?

Do you leave it up to individuals, or is there a kind of consensus?

That's the best meeting of the year, we get together in January

and bring lots of books, and have some wine and food

-and choose the books.

-Yes, sounds fun.

Let's hope this is fun for you. Will you go first or second?

I think I'll continue to go first, thank you.

I'm not sure this will have been featured in the book club.

Your first question is this.

The Body In The Library, published in 1942,

is a detective story featuring which fictional character?

Well, it certainly isn't one we've read in book club,

and I have to say, I've never heard of it.

But I'm inclined to think...

I've never heard of Albert Campion either.

It doesn't sound like a Sherlock Holmes-type mystery,

so I'm going to go with Miss Marple.

Miss Marple? It's the right answer,

yes, Agatha Christie, well done,

giving you one on the board.

And Chris, your first question.

Jonathan Buttall is commonly believed to be the subject

of which 18th-century painting?

Yes, he's Master Buttall, isn't he?

He's The Blue Boy. Gainsborough.

He is. That's the right answer, Chris, yes. On to you, Joanna.

What was the title of

the Royal Academy's 1997 controversial exhibition

that consisted of young British artists' works

from the collection of Charles Saatchi?

Right, well, my mother was an art teacher,

so she'll probably not forgive me that I haven't heard of this.

Um... And it's obviously relatively recently.

I think I'll just have to try and eliminate names here

and go for the most likely one.

Scene's perhaps the least obvious, I think I'll eliminate that.

Sensation's maybe a bit too sensational,

so I think I'll go with Spectacle.

Spectacle, for the young British artists of 1997.

And the title of the Royal Academy's exhibition that year...

was not Spectacle, it's incorrect.

Sensation was the title of that exhibition.

So, bad luck, Joanna. Chris, chance for the lead, then.

In the novel The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame,

what is the name of the wood in which Badger lives?

That's where you're told not to go, it's the Wild Wood.

It is. I bet you would've got that, Joanna.

-Yes.

-It's the way those questions fall.

OK, well, you need to get this.

In the Charles Dickens novel A Tale Of Two Cities,

Sydney Carton is killed on the guillotine

in place of which character?

Well, I should know Dickens better than I perhaps do. Um...

I don't think it's Jarvis Lorry,

and giving it the name Charles, as in Charles Darnay,

I think I'll eliminate that one as well, and go for Ernest Defarge.

Ernest Defarge?

Um... It's Charles Darnay.

It's Charles Darnay, which brings the guillotine down,

so to speak, on this round.

It's all over there.

Chris has already got two, you can't match that,

having failed on two out of your three. Bad luck, Joanna.

It means you're not playing in the final round.

Chris, you're there. Would you both come back and join your teams?

Well, I mean, the scoreboard looks worse than the performances.

So you're three brains down now from the final round,

all the Eggheads are still there, but don't despair.

You're playing really well,

you've got a chance now to knock an Egghead out of the final round.

Last head-to-head before that final round now is Politics.

LAUGHTER

And we've got Debra or Hugh available.

-Oh, dear.

-That's Debra.

And do you want to go with...

-Who do you think? What do you think, down there?

-Who should I have?

Daphne's smiling very sweetly, and I don't know if that's dangerous!

I think whichever is going to be difficult.

I don't think there's much to choose between them, actually.

I'll have Daphne, because she's smiling so sweetly.

Yeah.

-It's kind of an assassin's smile, really.

-Yeah.

Let's have Debra and Daphne into the Question Room, please.

Debra, do you want to go first or second?

Erm, I think I'd like to get it over, so can I go first, please?

Yes, you can go first, and this is your first question.

Who announced his resignation as leader of the Conservative party

in June 2001?

Already, I'm not quite sure,

erm...

but I'm going to go for William Hague.

OK. Why so?

-I've absolutely no idea.

-OK!

LAUGHTER

Well, yes, they all have stood down

as leaders of the Conservative Party,

but it was William Hague in June 2001, you're right.

Yeah!

Daphne, in the voting system known as QMV,

for what does the letter M stand?

Hopefully majority?

Yep, majority is correct.

So, it's one apiece.

And Debra, second question,

which French politician caused an upset in 2002

when he beat the incumbent Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin

to qualify for the second round of the Presidential election?

I've absolutely no idea,

so I'm going to do a Daphne,

and I'm going to guess.

-Raymond Barre, if that's how you say it.

-OK.

Well, yeah, Daphne does do a lot of guessing,

but she does a lot of getting it right through guessing,

and you haven't done that.

It's not Raymond Barre. It is, Daphne...?

Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Jean-Marie Le Pen.

So, that means that you've got a chance for the lead here, Daphne.

Who replaced David Lloyd George as the British Prime Minister?

Erm...

Awful, my mind has gone blank.

Right, um...

Oh, gosh! I'm really sorry. Um...

Ramsay MacDonald?

No.

-Is it Bonar Law?

-It is Bonar Law.

I told you!

Good blank!

Right, so, both failing on your second question, stays all square.

Everything to play for.

Debra, in January 2011,

the former Labour MP Oona King was raised to the peerage

as Baroness King of where?

Again, I haven't got a clue.

I'm going to guess.

Um... Just because it's shouting out at me,

for no reason whatsoever, Bow.

Bow? Shouting out to you?

I wonder why. It's the right answer.

Right, well, well done,

well in it now! Got the lead and a potential place in the final round.

Daphne, to stay in the game,

whose second term as the Prime Minister of Australia

lasted from 1949 to 1966?

I think that's Robert Menzies?

-(Yes.)

-Yes!

It is the right answer.

Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia from 1949 to 1966.

OK, well, we go to sudden death. You're familiar with this, Debra.

So, you're question is this.

For what did the letter K stand

in the name of the 11th US President, James K Polk?

I was actually looking at the American Presidents just yesterday.

Well, well, well!

-Did you get to the 11th, or did you get that far back?

-I did.

-Good.

But I was only looking at the surnames.

No!

I'm going to guess Kevin.

OK, well, Kevin, right, in honour of our Egghead who isn't here.

James Kevin Polk.

We have a Presidential expert with us, though, in the studio,

he is Mr CJ De Mooi.

-Knox.

-Knox.

That anything to do with Fort Knox?

-No.

-Right, OK.

Well, a chance for Daphne to go through here.

The PNP and the JLP have dominated which Caribbean island's politics

since its independence in the 1960s?

Jamaica?

Jamaica is the right answer, yes.

-Yes.

-Began with a J!

You probably knew from the J, which is the Jamaica Labour Party,

the PNP is the People's National Party.

I turn to Debra and say really well done,

bad luck, especially having done the study on your American Presidents.

That question didn't fall the right way for you.

It means you're not in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, this is what we've been playing towards,

it's time for the final round,

which, as always, is General Knowledge,

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

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

So, Joanna, Debra, Ruth and Linda,

would you all please leave the studio?

Well, Hugh, when this game started,

it was one of those rare occasions on Eggheads when we had

the perfect gender balance, the men matching the women.

Now you've lost 80% of your team,

we've lost 80% of our female representation.

-Yes, absolutely.

-Ah, it's a real pity.

Some of those head-to-heads were really close there,

but it means, Hugh, you're playing on your own

to win Psychs Plus £13,000.

CJ, Daphne, Chris, Barry and Pat,

you're playing for something which money, no amount of it, could buy -

it is your very reputation.

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

this time the questions are General Knowledge,

and you are allowed to confer.

Hugh, the question is,

is your one brain better than the Eggheads' five?

-And Hugh, would you like to go first or second?

-I'll go first, Dermot.

OK, best of luck, and I'm sure as you are aware,

it has been done quite a few times,

one on their own beating the Eggheads.

Let's see if you can do it and get £13,000 today for your team.

First question, Hugh. Housie Housie is another name for which game?

Well, I hope this educated guess is right.

Er, I think that's bingo.

Bingo? And I'll say, bingo, it's the right answer,

yes. Housie Housie.

And, Eggheads, prior to decimalisation in 1971,

how many shillings were there in a pound?

-20.

-20.

Well, sadly, we all remember this, and it was 20.

CJ COUGHS

Yeah, well, I was just thinking that. It is the right answer.

I was thinking, this is one of those kind of questions

that divides the nation. If you were playing one of those younger teams,

some of those student teams, they may have struggled on that.

It's all square, it's one-all, and Hugh's kicked off very nicely,

easing himself in. Second question, Hugh.

Who took on the role of the Wizard

in the West End production of The Wizard Of Oz

when it opened in 2011?

Again, I'm going to have to guess this one.

Erm...

Michael Ball.

Michael Ball for the Wizard in The Wizard Of Oz...

Was that a groan?

-It's Michael Crawford, I'm afraid.

-It is Michael Crawford,

not Michael Ball.

So, a chance for the Eggheads to go into the lead.

To which island group does Weddell Island belong?

-Weddell?

-It's one of the Scillies, isn't it?

Well, the Weddell Sea is just off Antarctica...

THEY CONFER

The Weddell Sea is just off Antarctica.

-So it's the Falklands?

-I would suggest it's the Falklands.

It might be part of the British Antarctic possessions.

-I would agree with you...

-It doesn't ring a bell with Seychelles.

And I don't think it rings a bell with Isles of Scilly.

Well, we all agreed, and we're going for the Falkland Islands.

Well, you weren't all agreed, initially!

When we discussed it, we were.

Just a few thousand miles apart, but you got it right.

Falkland Islands, the Weddell Island part of that group.

So, need to get this, Hugh.

Which building became the London residence of Princess Elizabeth

and the Duke of Edinburgh in 1949?

Erm...

Again, I'm going to guess, St James's Palace.

St James's Palace?

Well, all those Royal palaces there,

and they've moved them around a bit since then.

Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh,

1949, took up residence in...

-Is it St James's Palace, Eggheads, what do you think?

-Clarence House.

It's Clarence House, Hugh.

Which means, Eggheads, you've won.

Well, Hugh, as you know, the game was up in those head-to-heads,

wasn't it? So close in those head-to-heads,

but they all tipped the Eggheads' way.

Fortunately, it must be said, in some cases, left you on your own

and not much to work on without your team-mates there,

who fought so gallantly in those head-to-heads.

What a sight! Wonderful to see you there.

Joanna, Debra, Ruth, Linda,

thank you so much for playing Eggheads today.

Not to be, but nice to have you here.

That means the Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.

Their winning streak continues.

I'm afraid you won't be going home with £13,000.

That means, of course, the money rolls over to the next show.

Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?

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

to defeat the Eggheads. It's £14,000 that says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.

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