Episode 22 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 our quiz champions today are the Shelford 5.

This team of colleagues all work for the same commercial property firm,

and take their name from the area of Cambridge where their office is based.

Let's meet them.

Hello, I'm Ben, 35, I'm chief executive of a property development company.

Hi, I'm James, I'm 34, and I'm a property surveyor.

Hi, I'm Jeff, I'm 35, and I'm a property director.

Hi, I'm Chris, I'm 35, and I'm also a property director.

Hi, I'm John, I'm 30, and I'm an associate director.

Well, welcome, Shelford 5,

and thanks for coming to play the Eggheads today.

-You're busy guys, do you get to quiz together and socialise together much?

-Not very often.

We've got a few experiences of entering quizzes, but we've never actually won a quiz.

So, how did you do in these few experiences?

Well, some of the guys go to pub quizzes,

and they usually finish seventh or eighth out of ten.

Occasionally, er, one of our colleagues was

University Challenge, but didn't actually make the TV element of it.

So we're looking to win our first quiz today.

If you're going to start winning quizzes, this is the place to do it, against the Eggheads.

Nice to see you, Shelford 5.

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, Shelford 5, the Eggheads have won the last two games,

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

And our first head-to-head, a chance to knock an Egghead out, is on the subject of History.

CHALLENGERS LAUGH

-Who likes History?

-I'm Entertainment.

-You up for it?

-I'm up for it, yeah.

OK, great. Chris is going to go for History.

OK, Chris. Now, do you want to play your namesake from the Eggheads, or any of the other four?

-Do a Chris-off.

-Oh, really? We'll have a Chris-off.

-A Chris-off!

I like that, it makes it nice and easy for me.

Could you both head off to the Question Room, the two Chrises.

That's to make sure, Shelford Chris, that you can't confer with your team-mates.

-Shelford Chris, do you want to go first or second?

-I'll go first, please, Dermot.

Yeah, and our first question, then, is this.

By what method was Archduke Franz Ferdinand killed in 1914?

I'm a big fan of the band,

that's the only reason I might know some of this answer.

I think, Dermot, I'm going to go for shot.

OK, shot. Which is correct, I'll confirm that.

And Egghead Chris,

tell me the significance of the death of the archduke?

Well, it ignited a war, basically, between Serbia and Austria,

cos he was heir to the Austrian throne,

which led to Balkan entanglements,

which led to entanglements with France and Russia,

which led to the First World War.

Yeah, seen as the incident that started the sequence that led

to the First World War, as Chris was telling us.

Your question.

Caledonia was the Roman name for which part of the world?

Yeah, that was northern Scotland, Dermot.

Certainly was. Caledonia. Bit of a clue, there.

And back to the Shelford 5's Chris.

For how many years was Henry I the King of England?

I have to say, this is absolute guesswork, no more than that.

I'm going to go for...

25.

25. OK, quarter of a century for Henry I.

-Egghead Chris?

-I think he was there for a long time. I think it was 35.

It was 35. And, right, chance for the lead, then, for the Eggheads.

Chris, the 2nd Baronet William Congreve, who died in 1828,

was particularly known for his inventions in which field?

He was the inventor of the Congreve Rocket, so it's weapons.

What did the Congreve Rocket do, precisely?

Well, it was a type of artillery.

Imagine a huge version of the bottle rocket we all know about.

He invented an iron firing frame, and you could use those

as an artillery barrage.

They were wildly inaccurate,

but they were good for putting the wind up the enemy.

OK, well described, and the right answer.

And has put the wind up the Shelford 5. Chris, you've got to get this.

The physician Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

became the first woman in England to be elected to the office of mayor

when she became the mayor of where?

I don't think it's Aldeburgh,

therefore I think it's either Leamington Spa or Truro.

And...

Given Spa in the name, I'm going to go for Leamington Spa.

Leamington Spa?

Do you know, Chris, is it Leamington Spa?

-Change at Saxmundham for Aldeburgh.

-It is Aldeburgh.

So, nothing there for you.

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

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

Eggheads have struck the first blow. The Shelford 5 down to four.

Let's play our next head-to-head. This one is Arts & Books.

Who'd like to take this one?

It can't be Chris, of course, he's just played.

It's going to be me.

It's going to be you. John then is going to take this on.

You can't play Chris because he's just played. Any of the others?

I think it's irrelevant, actually. I'm going to go with Daphne.

Daphne! OK, it's going to be John and Daphne contesting this one.

It's Arts & Books. Into the Question Room, both of you, please.

-Do want to go first or second, John?

-I'll go first.

First question.

Eclipse was the third title in which popular series of books?

Er, I think the answer to that is Twilight, Dermot.

The only reason I know that is, I've seen the films advertised.

-I haven't read the books.

-That will do. It's the right answer anyway.

Twilight.

Daphne, which writer coined the phrase, "Good riddance"?

Gosh! I've not heard this.

Oh!

Shakespeare.

That's the correct answer. OK.

Well, a good start there from you, John. Your second question.

Jazz, Paradise and Love are novels

by which Nobel prize-winning American writer?

Dermot, I've got no idea.

I will go for...Toni Morrison, as a guess.

Toni Morrison. Like Chris, you've got the first one right.

Unlike him, you've got your second one correct as well.

Toni Morrison with a guess there.

Doesn't matter.

-You're playing against a woman, who's no stranger to world of guessing, are you, Daphne?

-No.

The Spanish romantic writer, Corin Tellado, who died in 2009,

sold approximately how many books during her lifetime?

Mmm. I have never, ever heard of her.

If she writes romantic fiction,

and she sounds Spanish, 400 million?

Er, you're thinking of the Spanish-speaking world.

The potential size of the market. It's the right answer.

A pure guess.

Like Daphne, I hadn't heard of her.

Other Eggheads, have you? Kind of Barbara Cartland.

If you haven't heard of her,

you have to assume she's the Spanish equivalent of Barbara Cartland.

Think of the Spanish-speaking world, massive.

And, er, that's what Daphne did and got the right answer.

John's got two as well.

John could potentially get into the final round if you give me a correct answer here.

Which American artist, born in 1938,

completed his Cold Mountain series of paintings in the early 1990s?

Was it...?

Dermot, you won't be surprised

when I tell you that I don't know the answer to this.

Um, and I will go for Jasper Johns for the obvious reason.

Jasper Johns, why the obvious reason?

Sorry, because it's my name.

Oh, OK. John, right.

It's a bit of a leap. You're not called Jasper.

I'm with it now.

Jasper Johns is not the right answer.

Do you know, Daphne, from those other two?

No. I've never heard of Brice Marden.

That's who it is. Brice Marden.

Cold Mountain paintings. You didn't need that. You need this if you want to get in the final.

Le Bateau Ivre, or The Drunken Boat,

is an 1871 work by which French poet,

who stopped writing at about the age of 20

-and spent the rest of his life travelling?

-Is it...

Um, I know it's not Apollinaire.

I always get the other two muddled up.

Um...

-Rimbaud.

-Rimbaud.

When Daphne does that, I'm not sure,

I was feel the knife about to be plunged in.

It has gone between the ribs. It is the right answer.

Rimbaud. Daphne with a guessette.

Choosing between Verlaine and Rimbaud. Getting it right,

which means it was the wrong answer from your point of view.

It's ejected you from the game. You're not in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, five now become three.

The Shelford 5 have lost two brains.

The Eggheads are all still there.

Is your statement, Ben, at the start of the quiz,

becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy, not doing too well? Two head-to-heads to go.

It could be square, if you knock an Egghead out on this round, which is Music.

Who'd like to play this? Who's left?

James, Jeff or Ben?

Stay in. I'll go. I'll take it.

From the Eggheads, Chris and Daphne have played,

so you've got Barry, CJ or Kevin.

Despite my better judgement, I'll take captain advice

and go for Kevin.

Yeah, it's easy for you to say, Ben,

but James has to answer the questions.

-I'll challenge Kevin.

-OK.

Right, well you've underlined it.

Let's have James and Kevin into the Question Room, please.

Well, James, I can see the team is building here.

Chris got one question correct, John got two.

Now, if you get three,

that guarantees you at least a sudden death play-off against Kevin.

It might get you into the final round.

That's what we're aiming for here. First or second?

I'll definitely go first.

First question is this.

In which musical does the central lady sing,

"I'm in love with a wonderful guy."

Is it...

Er, a complete guess. Unfortunately, I only know one musical.

Not my strongest suit, so I'll rule out The Sound Of Music

and go with My Fair Lady.

-OK, which musical is it you know, James?

-The Sound Of Music.

Oh, right. So you could rule that out.

-Hopefully.

-Quite right.

It's South Pacific.

It's the other one of those two.

OK, Kevin.

"Look into my eyes. You will see what you mean to me."

The opening lines of a UK number one for which singer?

I must admit that's not ringing any bells at all.

It doesn't sound like Meatloaf,

but... I don't recognise the lyrics.

Maybe with some music behind them,

you're going to have to work on the delivery, Dermot, definitely.

Um...

I'll try Bryan Adams but it could be either.

-I don't recognise the lyrics.

-Bryan Adams is correct.

-It is?

-I wondered if it was that.

-You don't remember the lyrics.

I'm not going to sing it for you. It would only make it easier.

Everyone would say, "He's better than Bryan Adams! Sign him up."

-That was what it was!

-That's why I won't sing it.

Kevin has forged into the lead after the first exchanges.

James, let's get you moving.

What was Bruce Springsteen's first UK number one album? Was it...

I just don't know the other albums.

Probably I'll go with Born In The USA.

You'd be right to do so. It's the right answer. You are on the board.

Kevin, the American rapper, born Tremar Dillard,

became famous under what name?

I don't recognise it at all, so...

On the basis I don't think

I've ever seen Pitbull's real name

and I think I have seen the real names of the other two,

I'll go for Pitbull. But I've no confidence whatsoever.

Pitbull. It's not. Daphne, you're holding your head.

-Flo Rida.

-Flo Rida.

-It is, OK.

It is all square.

So, chances perhaps for James.

James, can you get this?

The prolific German composer, Georg Philipp Telemann,

whose work included a huge number of church compositions,

was born in which century?

I really don't know.

But the earlier the better, I would imagine.

I'm certainly tempted by the 17th, but I'm going to go with the 18th.

Uh! It's the 17th.

You said it, you said it. The earlier the better.

I thought, you're going to go straight in on the 17th.

Then you shifted up the odd 100 years

and went for the 18th. Kevin...

Do you know when he was born precisely?

Er... 1685?

1680s. We'll give you that.

It is 1681.

Doesn't matter. Not your question.

But, you have slipped up.

James is still hanging in there. You need to get this to win.

The jazz musician, Clifford Brown,

who died at 25, was best known for his expertise on which instrument?

Is it...?

Clifford Brown.

There are so many jazz sax players.

So many jazz piano players,

for that matter, may be fractionally fewer,

but trumpet as well, so...

I'll try piano.

Piano.

It's not, Kevin. It's incorrect.

Other Eggheads? Anyone?

-Trumpet?

-Trumpet.

-It's trumpet.

-OK.

Oh! James,

if you'd gone for the 17th century

with Telemann, you would be in the final round

but that's the ifs and buts. This is the here and now.

We are in Sudden Death for the first time in the game.

That means, James, we remove those options

so if you need to guess, which I suspect you might...

THEY BOTH LAUGH

..it's quite a lot harder.

I can't give you anything to have a look at. Here's your question.

According to the lyrics of Johnny Cash's song

Folsom Prison Blues, in which US city

did the narrator shoot a man just to watch him die?

Let me think. I'm going to have a complete stab.

Just...

Harlem?

Harlem?

It's not, but correct to have a guess.

I'll go to our karaoke king here, Chris,

because it's a bit of a karaoke favourite, isn't it?

-(DRAWLS)

-# I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. #

There, you've got it. It's Reno. Reno, Nevada,

where the narrator says

he shot a man just to watch him die.

OK, well, it's Kevin's chance now to take the round as he's had before.

Kevin, which band, formed in Dublin,

reached number two in the UK singles charts in 2008

with The Man Who Can't Be Moved?

Another one I don't know

so, um...

Try a recent Irish band, I'll try The Script.

It's the right answer, Kevin.

The Script is correct.

Oh, dear, James!

So close. But not to be.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, a really unlucky James there, with his 17th and 18th century.

No doubt you'll be looking at the works of Telemann

with a new interest after that. It just didn't happen for you

so the Shelford 5 have lost three brains from the final round

and all the Eggheads intact.

Our last head-to-head before the final round is Sport.

I know you were hoping that would come up, guys.

Jeff or Ben there can play it. Sport.

-Go on, Ben.

-Yeah, go on, Ben.

I'll have a go at that.

Who would you like to play from the Eggheads?

The remaining players there are CJ or Barry.

Let's take CJ down.

Take CJ down!

Oh, so some confidence now! Here we have it.

-Not really!

-Ben and CJ, then, into the Question Room, please.

Ben, as I was saying before you went into the Question Room,

good to see a bit of bite now there, a bit of confidence building.

Let's put it to the test with this Sport round.

-Do you want to go first or second, Ben?

-I'll go first, please.

This is your first question, Ben.

Clive Woodward first played test match rugby union

for England in which year?

I think he's in his 50s

so he probably played about 30 years ago

so I'm going to go for...

1980.

1980.

Yes, and we all know what he did on his retirement,

capturing the World Cup as he coached England,

but played for them first

in 1980, it's the right answer.

And CJ, the Brazilian footballer Ronaldo, born in 1976,

is most associated with which position?

If he's the one I'm thinking of,

he looks weird and he's got an unfeasibly attractive wife.

So I'm going to guess at striker.

OK, well, if this ever makes it in front of Ronaldo,

our apologies for CJ's physical descriptions of you

but it is the right answer. Yes, striker is correct.

And over to Ben.

Jade Dernbach has represented England at which sport?

I've met him, actually, so I can say with confidence that it's cricket.

Very good! Where did you meet him?

We were at a corporate cricket day at the Oval.

I think I might have got him out.

LAUGHTER

I say, you're very different from your team-mates there.

-It's all false.

-Well, it doesn't matter.

You're doing really well. Two out of two. CJ's second question.

In which sport did Jen McIntosh

win two gold medals for Scotland at the 2012 Commonwealth Games?

I haven't heard of her, I'm afraid.

But I'll rule out gymnastics.

Um...I think the Scots have a good Olympic history of shooting

so I'll try shooting.

Shooting is correct.

Good Olympic history. Good Commonwealth Games history too

so landed that, CJ.

It's two-all. And Ben.

In 2011, who became the first female jockey

to win a Group One race outright in Britain

as she landed the July Cup at Newmarket on Dream Ahead?

Well, not too far away from you in Newmarket, is it?

It's not, no, but I'm not massively into my horse racing.

I've a sneaky suspicion it's Hayley Turner, though, so I'll go for that.

Hayley Turner...

is the right answer!

Right, well, as I said to James,

if you do that, you're guaranteed

at least a round of Sudden Death

but perhaps a place in the final round,

depending on the answer I receive here.

CJ, the British athlete

Chris Tomlinson is a leading name in which field event?

He's a long jumper.

He is! All right, you knew that

so we are into Sudden Death. It's all square.

Neither player has blinked, so to speak,

and Ben, you know what Sudden Death means.

Which football team defeated Manchester United

in the 2011 Champions League Final?

I think that was...

Barcelona.

Barcelona treated us

to a masterclass in 2011, it is the right answer, you are correct,

defeating Manchester United there

to take the Champions League trophy.

And CJ, the cricketer Gary Kirsten

played 101 test matches for which country?

It's going to be one of the big three.

We're going for South Africa, Australia or New Zealand, aren't we?

Guess Australia?

Daphne?

South Africa.

South Africa, CJ. South Africa,

which means you've done it, Ben!

Whoa!

The very last round in the head-to-heads.

You've made it through. You're playing in the final round.

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

won't be taking part in this round.

So James, Chris and John from the Shelford 5

and CJ from the Eggheads,

would you leave the studio, please?

So, Ben and Jeff, you're playing to win the Shelford 5 £3,000.

Kevin, Daphne, Chris and Barry,

you're playing for something which money cannot buy.

It's the Eggheads' reputation.

Now, as usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.

The questions are all general knowledge and you may confer.

That's why your victory was so important, Ben. Ben and Jeff,

the question is, are your two brains

better than the Eggheads' four?

Do you want to go first or second?

We'll go first, please, Dermot.

Ben and Jeff, first question.

Tom Pellereau found fame in 2011

when he won the seventh series of which TV show?

Didn't a girl win The Apprentice?

I can't remember. I didn't watch this one.

Or is it The Apprentice?

I think it might be, actually.

Yeah, I think you're more likely to win fame on The Apprentice.

I think it's about seven years old as well.

Hmm. Yep.

Yep. We'll go for The Apprentice

as we think it's about seven years old.

OK, doing it by that route,

can't actually remember that series, wondering if a woman won it,

but you're right.

It was Tom Pellereau.

Well identified by the guys there,

The Apprentice, a win for Tom Pellereau in 2011.

And Eggheads, what game is being played

by the little girl Carole Hersee and her companion Bubbles the clown

on the famous BBC Test Card F, first used in 1967?

Oh, the hours we've all spent staring at that screen

when she was playing noughts and crosses.

Noughts and crosses is correct.

It's all square. Well,

back to you, Ben and Jeff.

In 1972, John Betjeman revived the tradition of the Poet Laureate,

receiving what in addition to a small salary?

I don't think it's a jar of honey.

Dunno why. I haven't got an intelligent reason.

My gut feeling was barrel of sherry.

That would be worth winning, as well.

-Shall we go for barrel of sherry?

-I think so.

Er, Dermot, it's a guess, to be honest.

We think it's a barrel of sherry.

A barrel of sherry.

It's the right answer.

-Yes!

-Well done.

All right. Your question, Eggheads,

second question.

The Tudor mansion Sutton Place near Guildford in Surrey

was from 1959 until his death in 1976

the home of which American industrialist?

The interesting thing about Sutton Place was,

it was owned by Jean Paul Getty,

who was just about one of the richest men in the world at the time,

but he had payphones installed.

Because he didn't like his guests having free phone calls.

Is that the truth?

-Yes.

-That's a great story.

So you're going for Jean Paul Getty

and it is the right answer. Well done, Eggheads.

Well, quizzing really well here, Ben and Jeff.

It's two-all against the Eggheads. What will happen after this answer?

The father of which British Prime Minister

was well known as a writer

and had success with his publication Curiosities Of Literature?

The father of one of these guys.

I would, um...

If I was sitting here on my own, I'd guess Disraeli.

-Would you?

-Disraeli, yeah.

I haven't got a gut feel at all, so if you've one, we should go with it.

A minor gut feel, but we may as well have a crack.

Dermot, you won't be surprised

to hear that we're having a guess at this one.

Disraeli.

Disraeli.

-Very good guess. It's correct.

-Well done.

It wasn't really a guess.

Disraeli. Not really a guess.

Of course, you knew that

and Disraeli, the Prime Minister Disraeli, of course,

a novelist of some note himself, wasn't he?

-Yep. This was his father Isaac.

-Isaac Disraeli,

identified by the Eggheads there. You didn't need to do that

but Eggheads, you need to get this or Ben and Jeff have beaten you.

Cyclone: My Story is an autobiography by which boxer?

Cyclone: My Story is an autobiography by which boxer?

Well, Barry McGuigan was known as

the Clones Cyclone

so it has to be Barry McGuigan.

Barry McGuigan is correct. We go to Sudden Death.

You know what that means.

No more choices to look at. Ben and Jeff, can you tell me,

in May 2009, who, at the age of 65,

became the oldest Briton to climb Mount Everest?

I think it's Ranulph Fiennes.

But I don't know. I know he did it earlier.

Dermot, we think it's Ranulph Fiennes.

Ranulph Fiennes

is correct, yes! Well done, at the age of 65.

Give me his full name, Eggheads.

Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes.

You've done it, yes!

Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes.

Topping Mount Everest there at retirement age.

And Eggheads, you need to get this, then.

The footballer Peter Crouch married which model in 2011?

This...

Wasn't this one where the engagement was almost called off?

Got any idea, any Christian names?

I'm thinking... She may be one of the others, I don't know,

-but I'm thinking some Abby something, but I...

-Ah.

Abby's right.

But I can't remember the surname.

Oh. Abby is right, I remember, that's the first name.

Oh, gosh.

-I can't come up with it. Sorry.

-Me neither.

-I can't come up with a surname.

-No.

We're pretty certain her first name was Abby

but none of us can recall her surname, so...

-Try...

-Abby Turner.

-Try Jackson.

-Abby Jackson, then.

-What's your answer?

-Abby Jackson.

Abby Jackson.

The answer is...

-Abbey Clancy.

-Clancy.

-Ah!

Abbey Clancy, which means,

Shelford 5, you've won!

Well, well, well.

We have to think back just half an hour

to the opening discussions we had in this show

where you came along with expectations at rock bottom.

You've won £3,000.

You are officially cleverer than the Eggheads!

You've proved they can be beaten.

Join us next time on Eggheads

to see if a new team of challengers will be just as successful.

Until then, goodbye.

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