Episode 27 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.

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 Window Box.

Now, this team regularly quiz at the Boot and Shoe pub in Ackworth

and take their team name from the place in the pub

where they always sit.

Let's meet them.

Hello. My name is David. I'm 68 and I'm a retired private hire driver.

Hello. I'm Graham. I'm 43 and I'm a police inspector.

Hello. I'm Paul. I'm 46 and a volunteer basketball coach.

Hello. I'm Tony.

I'm 64 and a semi-retired photographer.

Hello. I'm Jeff. I'm 67,

and a retired paint and wallpaper shop owner.

Welcome to you, Window Box.

No windows in this studio, I'm afraid,

so you don't have to eject anyone from your favourite seats.

Is that what you do if there's some stranger, like the Eggheads,

-sitting there, would you eject them?

-Certainly.

-Politely.

We ask them politely to go and sit somewhere else.

It doesn't always work!

They know their place!

What about the quiz there, is it a good one, a hard one?

-We do all right, most of the time.

-Do all right?

-Yes.

-Don't you win it most of the time, and save up the winnings?

Well, 50-50. We save up the winnings, yes,

and go out every Christmas for a slap-up meal somewhere.

I'm surprised you're not barred if you keep winning it.

Give someone else a chance?

We let other teams win now and again,

just to keep it fair and square.

-You let them win.

-We let them win, yes.

I know you're not going to do that today,

you're going to give the Eggheads a run for their money.

But as you know, no quarter given or asked from the Eggheads,

so this should be a great quiz. Let's see how it goes.

Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs

for our challengers. If they fail to defeat the Eggheads,

the prize money rolls over to the next show.

So, Window Box, the Eggheads have won the last four games,

that means £5,000 says you can't beat those Eggheads.

Let's get our first head-to-head under way.

This subject, to kick off, is History.

Only one of you can play this.

I think we've decided.

-It's got to be David.

-I think so.

I'll have history, Dermot.

All right, straight in there. David, you like history.

-Who do you think doesn't from the Eggheads?

-Er...

I don't think there is one of them that doesn't,

-but who might be beaten?

-I think they all like history.

-Do you think so?

-Yes.

-I think...

-Who will be the weakest?

-Go for the good-looking one.

I think we'll avoid Judith because she was very good on history,

-wasn't she?

-Yes.

-So...

-I don't know.

-Shall we get rid of Pat?

-Judith, then?

-Yes, yes.

-Judith, please.

-Oh, Judith? I thought you were...

-Yes.

Tony was advising, stay away from Judith,

but it's your choice, you're the captain.

-So, it is going to be Judith.

-Yes, he was overruled.

-Oh, right!

It's going to be David and Judith, then, contesting the opening round.

It's History. Could I ask you both to go to the Question Room

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

David, Tony was warning you before you decided to take Judith on

there that she's pretty good at history.

And, wow, she's really been on form.

29 times, you've won 28 out of those 29.

Fantastic record. Have I just put a hex on it?

Yes!

-Thanks(!)

-All right.

Well, I hope I have put a hex on it,

from David's point of view. David - do you want to go first or second?

Er, first, please, Dermot.

Good luck, David. Here you go, then -

which title was given to the rulers of the Ottoman Empire?

Well, the Pharaohs were Egyptians, the Rajahs were Indians,

so the answer is Sultan.

It is, yes, Sultan, of course!

Well done, David.

Judith - historically,

where did a scullion work?

Oh, scullions worked in the kitchen.

-Is that where we get scullery from?

-I suppose so, yeah.

Erm, how many have you still got?

Oh, dozens, of course.

Playing along with us there, and getting the right answer.

Kitchen is correct. David -

the Punch cartoon captioned, "Dropping the pilot"

illustrated the departure of which politician?

Er, I would say, well, it's not...

I'll discount Bismarck. I don't think he was a pilot, really.

Erm...

De Gaulle, no.

I would think the pilot would be, in Punch terms, Winston Churchill.

Churchill for Punch, "Dropping the pilot."

But it's not Churchill. It IS Bismarck.

And I can vaguely recall seeing it.

I mean, pilot, we're talking

-in shipping terms...

-Ships, yeah.

..steering the good ship Germany.

Right, well, nothing there for David. Judith -

Godfrey of Bouillon and Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy,

were two of the leaders of which campaign?

I wonder if Robert was William the Conqueror's younger...

or brother?

Because I know one of his brothers became or stayed Duke of Normandy,

but William was Duke of Normandy.

So, erm, it could have been a Crusade.

I don't know where Bouillon is.

But he wouldn't have been Duke of Normandy at the time

of the Conquest, so I think you have to rule out Robert.

So I think probably the First Crusade.

Well worked out, that's the right answer, Judith,

and the lead for you.

It means you need to get this, David -

in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,

John Arbuthnot Fisher was a senior officer

in which of the Armed Services?

Right, well it wouldn't have been the Royal Air Force, I don't think, at that time.

So it's the Army or the Navy.

Well, with a name like Fisher, I'll go for the Royal Navy!

And you're right to do so. It is correct.

Made it a 50-50 for you there, working out that the RAF

weren't around in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Judith, you've to answer a question. If you are to get through, you've to answer it correctly.

Which 1895 treaty ended the first Sino-Japanese War?

Um, I really don't know. Um, let's try Tientsin.

Tientsni. Eh, Treaty of Tientsin.

-Was it, other Eggheads?

-No.

Go on Daphne. Shimonoseki.

Shimonoseki was the treaty we were looking for.

So, well survived those early exchanges, David.

Both making one mistake and taking us into sudden death.

Just to remind you David, taking away the choices.

The 1950 battle of Chosin Reservoir took place during which conflict?

1950 - I would think that could be the Korean War.

-Is that your answer?

-Yes.

-It's the correct answer, yes. Chosin Reservoir, the Korean War.

Judith, the area of the ancient Roman province of Tarraconensis -

T.A.R.R.A.C.O.N.E.N.S.I.S.,

Tarraconensis, is in which modern country?

I really have no idea. Um...

Tarraconensis?

(Ta-ra-con...)

-I don't know. Um, Turkey.

-Turkey?

-Hm.

So large, the Roman Empire but you've got the wrong end of it.

-It's Spain.

-Oh, Spain. I thought of Spain.

I was wondering because you were playing with sounds in your head.

-Tar-a-con, Aragon.

-I was just saying Tarragon hoping it meant something.

-Yes, whatever, Judith, you didn't get it right!

-No.

I knew you'd put a jinx on it.

-Well, we have, haven't we?

-Yeah.

So that's 28 out of 30, just ruined the stats ever so slightly.

We're not concerned about that. David, you're in the final round.

Great stuff. Would you please come back and join your teams?

Well, first blood to Window Box.

One Egghead missing from the final round.

Our next head-to-head today is Arts & Books.

Who wants to play this?

-It has to be me. Me, Dermot.

-All right, Tony.

And which Egghead would you like to play, anyone apart from Judith?

-I'd like to play Daphne, please.

-OK, Daphne.

-You said that, Tony, with a certain degree of admiration in your voice.

-Absolutely.

OK, let's have Tony and Daphne into the question room, please.

Tony, do you want to go first or second?

I'll go first, please, Dermot.

OK, first question then, Tony.

Cecelia Ahern is most associated with which genre of fiction?

Oh, dear! The only Ahern I know is Caroline Aherne,

who is of course a comedy writer.

Erm...

I wouldn't know what chick lit is anyway,

but, however, I will consider it.

I guess she's a crime writer, Dermot.

OK, Cecelia Ahern, most accociated with...

it is chick lit, not crime.

And your first question, Daphne.

In the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland,

an 1863 photograph by George Washington Wilson

shows a horse, Fyvie, held by John Brown and ridden by whom?

Well, if it's John Brown, it's got to be Queen Victoria.

It does indeed, yes.

John Brown and Queen Victoria.

OK, well, you need to get off the mark, Tony.

Here's your second question.

The phrase "Nature, red in tooth and claw"

first appeared in a poem by which writer?

It's very descriptive.

"Nature, red in tooth and claw."

I'm going to go for Milton.

Milton for "Nature, red in tooth and claw."

Yeah, could easily have been, but it wasn't.

Not Milton.

-Daphne?

-Tennyson.

Tennyson is the answer.

Your question, though, crucial one for you and of course for Tony.

This will end the round for him if you get it correct.

Which novelist was appointed

a Deputy Lieutenant of Edinburgh in 2007?

Haven't heard this.

I mean, if I was choosing one of them,

then, I'd choose Ian Rankin, cos I LOVE his books.

I've read them all.

-So that's your answer?

-Yes.

So you mean, if it isn't Ian Rankin,

your word out to the authorities in Edinburgh is, "Appoint him now".

They've already done it. It is the right answer.

Yes, Ian Rankin is correct,

which means, as I was warning you there, Tony,

nothing you can do about it, of course,

after getting those first two questions wrong.

It's all over for you, you're not in the final round, Daphne is.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, the game's see-sawed so far.

Window Box and the Eggheads have both lost one brain

from the final round.

Third subject, third head-to-head - Sport.

Who wants to play this one?

-Paul or Jeff?

-Paul?

-It's got to be you, Paul.

-Yeah, I think so.

-Yeah, come on, that's what you came to do.

You know more sport than anybody else, I think.

-They're putting you in there for Sport.

-Yeah.

-And pick an Egghead.

Remember, Judith and Daphne, the women, have played,

so one of the boys - CJ, Kevin or Pat.

I'll take on CJ, seeing as he knows a lot about snooker.

-Let's hope there's three snooker questions.

-And that's your lot!

-And tennis!

-Oh, tennis!

There's a lot else in these Sport categories, as in all categories.

OK, then, it's going to be Paul and CJ.

Into the Question Room, both of you, please.

Paul, do you want to go first or second?

I'd love to go first, please.

Good luck, Paul, first question is this -

which piece of sporting equipment takes its name

from the Spanish meaning "diving board"?

Well, I'm just going to disregard shuttlecock and probably javelin.

I think, probably, trampolining, as they practise on it

for diving off the springboard. Trampoline.

Yeah, it's the right answer, but I never knew that.

It's the Spanish for "diving board."

So, a good start.

And CJ, in which sport has Natalie du Toit

represented South Africa at both the Olympic and Paralympic Games?

I think she was the first Paralympian to actually compete

against able-bodied people in swimming.

Swimming is correct. Well done, CJ.

Good, solid starts from both players. And back to you, Paul.

The golfer, KJ Choi, was born in which country?

Well, he plays a lot on the American golf circuit,

and I'm absolutely certain... I think it's South Korean.

It's South Korea.

South Korea, certain about that.

Yeah, it's correct. Well done, Paul. Two out of two.

CJ, which tennis player won the women's singles

at the French Open in 2000?

I think it's Mary Pierce, but let me just check.

Marion Bartoli's never won a Grand Slam.

Amelie Mauresmo won Wimbledon.

Now, she did win one other Grand Slam,

but it wasn't as early as 2000. It's Mary Pierce.

Mary Pierce...

is correct, yes. Two apiece.

Paul, going very well.

Which boxer was the Olympic heavyweight champion

in consecutive summer Games in Munich, Montreal and Moscow?

Well, I think it's too late for Joe Frazier.

I think he'd turned professional by then.

So, I think, it's Te-leffo Stevenson.

Let's just call him Stevenson.

It's the right answer, yes. Well done!

You have three.

CJ, in which year was football's Scottish Cup final

played for the first time?

Well, 1854 would be very early. That's before the FA Cup.

So let's rule that one out.

I think the FA Cup is about 1881,

so on the basis that the Scottish one came after the English one...

I don't know, but I'll guess 1894.

1894, first Scottish Cup final.

No, it's 1874!

1874.

It means, Paul, you're through to the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, the balance now tips back towards Window Box.

Two Eggheads missing from the final round, one member of Window Box,

and our last subject, our last head-to-head today, is Music.

And who would like to play? There's two players available,

-it's Graham or Jeff.

-I think...

-That's Graham.

-Graham, is it?

Yeah, I think it would have to be Graham. It's not my subject at all.

And which Egghead would you like to take on - Pat or Kevin?

-Pat.

-Don't take any notice...

No, don't. Don't take any notice of us.

-On advice, I'll go for Pat, please.

-OK, on advice.

Graham and Pat, then, on this one.

Into the Question Room, both of you, please.

Well, Graham, would you like to go first or second?

I'll go second, please.

All right, then, Pat, that means you face the first set of questions,

and the first one is - a chandelier crashing from the ceiling

is a famous special effect in which stage musical?

My first thought is The Phantom Of The Opera.

It sounds like the place you would have a chandelier

and it sounds like the dramatic sort of effect you might have.

I'll go for The Phantom Of The Opera.

It is Phantom Of The Opera, Pat.

Phantom Of The Opera is correct.

And Graham, what was the name of the song with which Jedward

represented Ireland in the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest?

I'm sure you're a great Jedward fan(!)

I'm thinking it's going to be either Rouge or Lipstick. I can't remember.

I can remember them doing it, but I obviously didn't...

Did you watch it with your children?

Well, no, I don't think I watched it.

I think it was on, but I wasn't watching it, if you know what I mean?

-Yeah.

-For some reason, I'm thinking Lipstick, so I will go for Lipstick.

OK, Lipstick, on in the background.

It stuck in the brain, it's the right answer!

Well done. OK, even-stevens after first question apiece.

And Pat - which comedian had a UK top ten single in 1988

with Stutter Rap as a member of Morris Minor And The Majors?

Morris Minor And The Majors.

I really don't know.

It rings a faint bell, the track, but I'm not too sure who sang on it.

I really don't know.

I'll guess at Craig Charles. It's just a guess.

OK, Craig Charles.

It's not. It's incorrect.

It's Tony Hawks.

Tony Hawks there with Stutter Rap, as Morris Minor And The Majors.

Well, really a big chance, Graham.

Which children's television programme

had a dedicated concert during the 2011 BBC Proms season?

I think ChuckleVision... I think I'm going to discount that one.

I don't think that it would be that.

I don't think it would be Shaun the Sheep.

I'm going to go for Horrible Histories.

I just think it might be that one.

OK, whittled it down, the other two didn't sound likely,

and ended up with the right answer. Yes, Horrible Histories.

And a lead, which means alarm bells ringing for Pat.

You need to get this.

Which city is the setting for Richard Wagner's

first successful opera, Rienzi?

I think it was based on a real historical figure,

and I think he's linked with Rome.

-So I'll go for Rome.

-Rome.

It's correct, Pat. Still in it.

Work to be done, then, Graham, if you are to get into the final round.

What type of instrument is the Mexican vihuela?

V-I-H-U-E-L-A.

The vihuela, often seen in mariachi bands.

Well...

thinking of Mexican marching bands,

what they would sound like and look like, I'm going to discount keyboard.

So it's between wind and string.

I'm going to go for wind. I'll keep that at wind.

OK, a wind instrument. Yeah, the mariachi bands, wind or string.

-And it's string.

-Ah-h!

-Oh!

Just picked the wrong one there.

So, Pat survives by the skin of his teeth.

We're in Sudden Death, anyone can win the round,

and just to remind you, Graham, once again, we remove the choices here.

And Pat, the actor Max Beesley and the pianist Peter Donohoe

were both pupils at which music school

situated in the centre of Manchester?

Well, I can think of two Manchester music schools.

There's the Royal Northern College of Music, and there's Chetham's.

Chetham's is bang in the centre of Manchester.

I don't have any more specific information to go on,

so I'll go for Chetham's.

OK. Chetham's is...

the right answer. Yes, well done. Chetham's School of Music.

And you need to get this then, Graham.

Bit of a turnaround. Last time you were facing a question,

it was a place in the final round. This is to stay in this round.

Which Dusty Springfield song opens with the lines,

"When I said I needed you/ You said you would always stay"?

Oh, I'm trying to get it. Is it...?

SPEAKS UNDER HIS BREATH

-Is it You Don't Have To Say You Love Me?

-Is that your answer?

I think so, yeah, I think those lyrics are in the song.

I think I'm going to go with that one.

It's the right answer! You Don't Have To Say You Love Me. Correct.

Well done, Graham. Well pulled out there.

And you've got to be careful with those song titles, haven't you?

Pat, what is the name of the music lover who built an opera house

at Glyndebourne, his home in East Sussex,

and in 1934 founded an annual festival of opera there?

I think it's something like John Christie,

but I'll just have to mull over it.

Is he Christie?

John Christie.

I think I'll have to go with that. John Christie.

John Christie is the right answer, yes. Well done.

Graham, if you get this wrong, you've lost the head-to-head.

In 1988, which singer won an Academy Award for Best Original Song

for Let The River Run?

Well, it's sort of my preferred era of music, really.

But I can't remember that song, Let The River Run. Let The River Run.

I'm just going to have a total shot at Tina Turner.

Tina Turner for Let The River Run.

Yeah, I could see that fitting.

It's incorrect, though. Do you know, Pat?

It's got something to do with the film, Working Girl, I think.

It has. It was from the film Working Girl.

It wasn't Lily Tomlin, was it?

Carly Simon.

Carly Simon, but not Tina Turner, which was the answer Graham gave us,

which unfortunately, has cost you a place in the final round.

Bad luck, Graham, very, very close on several questions there.

Particularly, of course, your mariachi band.

But you're not playing in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

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

Time for the final round which, as always, is General Knowledge.

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

can't take part in this round,

so Graham and Tony from Window Box,

Judith and CJ from the Eggheads, would you leave the studio, please?

So David, Paul and Jeff, you're playing to win Window Box £5,000.

Pat, Kevin and Daphne are playing for something money cannot buy -

the Eggheads' reputation.

As usual, I ask each team three questions in turn.

The questions are, throughout this round, all General Knowledge,

and you are allowed to confer.

So, David, Paul and Jeff, the question is,

are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three?

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

I think we'll go first, please, Dermot.

Well, good luck, guys. First question to you -

the term ro-ro refers to what type of transport?

It's a ship, we have decided. Roll on, roll off.

-That's it. Ship, yeah.

-Ferry.

-Ferries, yeah.

Roll on, roll off. Correct.

Well done, and a good start.

Eggheads, according to the popular phrase originally used to control

hysterical music fans, which artist "has left the building"?

-Do you think it's Elvis(?)

-I think I'll stick with Elvis, shall I?

Yes, we get this all the time ourselves, of course,

but it's Elvis. Anyway...

"Elvis has left the building" is the right answer. Well done, Eggheads.

1-1, and back to you then, Window Box.

In 2011, which character in The Archers

was killed off by plunging from the roof of his stately home?

I have a feeling it's Nigel Pargetter,

but I wouldn't want to be...

certain. Might have to put it down as a pure guess, I think.

I don't listen to The Archers, but sometimes it just trickles through.

And I think... if they've got a stately home,

I think Nigel Pargetter, probably, is more likely to be the candidate.

For falling off a stately home.

-Is that your answer, then?

-Yeah.

-Going for Nigel Pargetter.

It's the correct answer.

Oh! Very good.

OK, Eggheads, your second question.

Fescue belongs to which group of plants?

-It's grass.

-Grass, yeah. That's a type of grass.

Is the right answer!

Eggheads, 2-2.

And your question, then, Window Box.

Which European city was formerly known as Reval?

-Ooh, boy!

-Reval.

-Minsk.

-Minsk.

Which one of those is likely to have changed their name?

Well, all of them.

-Tallinn looks as though it could be...

-I would go for Tallinn.

-Estonia. Capital of Estonia.

-Yeah, changed its name.

-Yes.

Yes, Dermot, Minsk and Vilnius sound as though

they've probably been there for quite a while under that name.

Tallinn looks as thought it could've been made up quite recently.

-OK.

-So we'll go for Tallinn.

-Could have been made up quite recently?

Yeah.

It's the right answer, well done! Got it!

Eggheads, you need to get this.

The Dagda is a father-figure in the mythology of which country?

That's Ireland.

Is the right answer, Eggheads. Well done.

OK, we go to Sudden Death as you know,

as you've seen in those head-to-heads.

Window Box, your question.

The name of which US state ends with three consecutive vowels?

Mississippi, Missouri...no.

Good heavens!

-(Carolina.)

-Hawaii.

-No.

-Yeah. Haw-a-i-i.

-Yes, yes.

-Isn't it?

-Yes.

-Yeah.

After due consideration,

we've decided that the only one we can think of is Hawaii.

And I like the way you took to count up the vowels.

You're going "Haw-a-i-i."

-Yeah, of course!

-It's the right answer, yes. Of course it is.

When you think of it, Hawaii, three consecutive vowels on the end.

And Eggheads, then, the phrases ante meridiem and post meridiem

originated in which language?

-Sounds like Latin.

-I thought it was Latin.

-Latin?

-Yeah.

Latin.

They are of course AM and PM.

Latin is the right answer. Well done, Eggheads.

And back to you, guys. Well, this is high-quality stuff.

The magician and illusionist born Stephen Frayne came to fame

performing under what name?

-I think it's Harry Houdini.

-You think so?

-I'm certain.

-It's not anybody earlier?

-No.

David is certain... I'm going to lay this one on David, cos I don't know.

..that it's Harry Houdini.

Harry Houdini, Stephen Frayne.

It's incorrect. It's not Houdini. No.

Eggheads, do you know?

Erm, is it Dynamo?

-It is Dynamo, yes.

-Well done.

Well, the first chance occurring in the game to the Eggheads,

as we're well into Sudden Death. Eggheads, in The Iliad,

which character quarrels with Agamemnon

over the slave girl Briseis,

and withdraws from the fighting to sulk in his tent?

-Achilles.

-Achilles, yeah?

-Uh-huh.

-It's Achilles.

Achilles is the right answer. Eggheads, you've won.

What a close-fought game that was!

Just found your Achilles' heal there with Dynamo, but great quizzing.

A real tribute to the quality of the quiz there in the Boot and Shoe pub.

Thank you very much indeed, Window Box, for playing against us.

I don't think ANYONE will ever try and take your seats ever again!

Maybe the Eggheads could,

just to sit down for a moment or two when they come along.

Well, thank you very much indeed for taking on the Eggheads today. Not to be, though, on the day.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them and still reign supreme over quizland.

I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £5,000.

That means 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. £6,000 says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.

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