Episode 36 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 challenging our resident quiz champions today are 10:18.

This team of friends take their name from the time the train left

to whisk three of them off on a memorable

lads' holiday back in 2004.

Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Paul. I'm 31, and I'm a sports lecturer.

Hi, I'm Chris, I'm 31, I'm a building surveyor.

Hi, I'm Stuart, I'm 31 and I'm a scientist.

Hi, I'm John, I'm 30 and I'm a lecturer in sports psychology.

Hi, I'm Matt, I'm 23, I'm a sports science lecturer.

Welcome to you, 10:18. It must've been a fantastic holiday

if you remember it all these years later.

Want to tell us what went on, or is it

a case of what goes on tour stays on tour?

It was a very good holiday, an exceptional holiday.

Chris met his wife, his future wife.

It was just a great holiday away.

Everyone seems to remember it quite well.

Yeah? What about the quizzing in your background?

We've quizzed a couple of times, but not as a full team before.

We've had the odd Trivial Pursuit game against each other,

which have been quite competitive.

I can imagine.

Well, this is more competitive - this is Eggheads.

The creme de la creme of quizzing sitting there.

OK. Well, let's play the game, then.

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

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

the prize money rolls over to the next show.

10:18, the Eggheads have won the last five games.

That means £6,000 says you can't beat them.

Our opening round is Arts and Books.

Who'd like to play this? It can be any one of you.

-Matt?

-Matt, yes.

I believe that's you.

Matt's looking delighted about that, isn't he(?)

-You can choose any Egghead you'd like.

-Who should we go for?

I think we should maybe go for Barry.

-Yeah. Can we take on Barry?

-Yeah. Of course you can.

OK, Matt and Barry contesting this opening round, Arts and Books.

Matt, you need to go to the Question Room, of course,

where you cannot confer with your team-mates.

Well, Matt, Arts and Books. I thought Sport was more your bag?

Yeah, I think I've had it just forced upon me, to be honest.

I really do.

I think the rationale was, I've got an A-level in English Literature,

which, obviously, quite logically, I should be OK.

But if you knew the amount of books I read to pass that course,

you wouldn't have much confidence in me!

Don't tell!

OK, do you want to go first or second?

Oh, first, let's get out the way, let's do this.

First question, Matt.

Which character does Rhett Butler marry in Margaret Mitchell's novel

Gone With The Wind?

I only know the title of the book, and that's about as far

as my knowledge goes for this, so it's going to have to be a guess.

I'm going to have to guess.

I'm just going to go with Scarlett O'Hara.

Scarlett O'Hara...

is the right answer. Yes, well done.

Um, Barry, first question.

The fairy known as Tinkerbell is

associated with which fictional character?

I think in the film Hook, she was played by Julia Roberts.

But she's the fairy in Peter Pan.

Peter Pan is correct.

Our legions of children viewing out there got a question right

there in Eggheads.

And, erm...

..Matt, your second question. Monica Ali's novel Untold Story is

based on which real figure?

Again, I've heard of the title. Erm...something...

I keep thinking, familiar answer,

something to do with some sort of secret.

I don't know where...

The name Anastasia just popped into my head there.

I'm going to go with Grand Duchess Anastasia.

OK, Grand Duchess Anastasia? It's not.

Barry, do you know of the other two?

Was it Diana?

Yeah, Diana, Princess of Wales.

Barry, the full title of Elizabeth Gilbert's

best-selling 2006 book is Eat, Pray, Love:

One Woman's Search For Everything Across Italy, India And where else?

I didn't read the book, but I did see the film.

I believe part of it was set in Indonesia, so we'll try Indonesia.

Indonesia is the right answer, Barry. I saw the film.

-Are we back to Julia Roberts again?

-No, not this time.

-It is.

-Is it?

Maybe you just have that image of her as Tinkerbell?!

-I was just looking at the beautiful countryside!

-Yeah, sure you were(!)

OK, Indonesia, though, you got. And it means you need to get this, Matt.

The painter Atkinson Grimshaw,

famous for his moonlit townscapes, was born in which city in 1836?

Again, a guess.

I'm sorry, team.

I'm going to go with...

I'm going to go with Bristol.

OK, Bristol.

What do you think, Barry?

You don't expect me to get this one wrong, do you? Leeds.

Leeds.

Atkinson Grimshaw from Leeds, which means, Matt,

you're not playing in the final round.

Barry's already through with those two correct answers.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, an early strike for the Eggheads.

10:18 have lost one brain from the final round.

Let's move on straightaway to our next subject,

and this subject's Geography.

Who wants to play this?

-That's me.

-Right, John. And any Egghead apart from Barry.

-He's just played, of course.

-Would you like to take on CJ?

-Can do, yeah.

-Are we happy with CJ, team?

-We'll go with that.

-Yeah, we'll take on CJ, please.

OK, going to be John and CJ.

When Geography comes up, I always think it's going to be CJ.

Your defensive frailties on UK geography are well-known now.

I've no idea what you mean(!)

Well, go and prove us all wrong, then, CJ.

CJ and John, into the Question Room, please.

All right, well, John,

an attempt here to get into the final round on Geography.

Do you want to go first or second?

Um, I'll stick with the losing formula and go first, please.

Let's hope you turn it into a winning one.

First question, John. The Bay of Biscay is an arm of which ocean?

OK. That sounds like something I definitely should know.

Um... Fairly...

Fairly... Ooh.

I'd like to think, because it's well-known,

it's unlikely to be Arctic.

I'm going for...

the Pacific.

The Bay of Biscay is far enough away, just, CJ, for you to know?

Just! The Atlantic.

It's the Atlantic. And a chance for CJ, then, for an early lead. CJ.

The wetland area called Romney Marsh is on the coast

of which body of water?

I think it's the Wash, but let me just... Oh, lordy!

I'm just going to go with my initial instinct and say the Wash.

You are 'aving a laugh!

You're an Egghead, CJ!

Are you by any chance trying to give me

a subtle hint that it's not the Wash?

It's not the Wash. It won't wash!

Of course it's not the Wash!

Not far from where I was brought up, Kent!

On the English Channel.

Kent, on the English Channel, from Daphne there.

Well that's sort of near where the Wash is.

Not far(!) No, not far(!)

Wouldn't take you any more than four hours!

Well, well, well! What a start there,

from both of you!

Great(!)

Well, erm, John, your second question.

We'll start from here, shall we?

Pretend those first two didn't happen.

Wester Hailes and Little France are parts of which city?

I've not heard of them. Erm, I did study in Cardiff for a year.

Which means if it is Cardiff

and I haven't heard of it, that's quite ignorant of myself.

I've been to York several times.

Absolutely no knowledge, but because I've never heard of them,

and I've been to Edinburgh the least,

I'm going to go for Edinburgh.

OK, the old elimination technique there,

and ended up with Edinburgh,

which is the correct answer.

OK, well, CJ, let's have your next question.

What term is used to refer to each layer in a vertical profile

taken through a soil?

I don't think it's horizon.

Uh...

You hear them just called layers or strata, don't you?

So what's the actual term?

Don't know this, I'll try floor.

Floor? Um...

Floor. Other Eggheads know?

-Horizon.

-It is horizon.

The one you discounted, horizon.

Well, a place in the final round on the horizon for you, John,

if you get this.

Hypsography is the branch of geography

concerned with measuring what?

Glaciers, river discharge or land elevation?

Hmm.

With geography, I was hoping for more flags and countries, you know,

things that I know from sporting knowledge.

Hypsography I can't say I've heard of.

I'm trying to think, hyps, hyps...

Erm...

Hmm.

Complete guess really but it sounds like it could be related...

I don't know...

It sounds icy-like to me so I'm going to go for glaciers.

OK. Hypsography sounding icy. And going for glaciers.

It's not, John. That is incorrect. Do you know, CJ?

-Is it river discharge?

-No!

It therefore is land elevation and a tough one there for John,

not identified and a chance for CJ to take us into sudden death.

CJ, what is the capital of the German State of Schleswig-Holstein?

I'm not even sure which area it's in.

Potsdam is not that far from Berlin.

I don't even know where Kiel is.

But on the basis I don't think Potsdam's too far from Berlin

then I'll assume that Berlin's the capital

of whatever State that is.

I don't know at all where Kiel is or, I'll try it, Schwerin.

LAUGHTER

It's not, is it?

You should just see Daphne's face!

She goes, "Oh, for goodness' sake!"

LAUGHTER

It's not Schwerin.

It is, other Eggheads?

-Kiel.

-It's Kiel.

The one you ruled out so not just the UK

failing to come across your radar.

It's not the right answer, CJ.

So, as you can see, John has stormed to a win there. 1-0.

APPLAUSE

John, you're in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

OK, well, CJ is going to be sent to Romney Marsh now

by the Eggheads to find out we're it is and marooned there somewhere.

As it stands, both teams have lost one brain from the final round.

10:18, we move on to our next subject today, this is music.

Which one of you would like to play this? Music. Can't be John or Matt.

I would say you, yeah.

Can I take that please, Dermot?

Going to be you, Paul. And choose an Egghead. Can't be CJ or Barry.

So, Chris, Daphne or Kevin.

-I think we should take on Daphne.

-Yeah.

-I think that would go well.

Can we take on Daphne, please?

OK, yeah. Are you keen on that?

You think Daphne is the one you've got to winkle out here?

-I'd like to think it's one of her weaker subjects if I dare say that.

-OK.

-Ooh.

-Sorry.

-You'll find out.

Paul and Daphne into the Question Room, please.

Paul just got a bit better there from the point of view of the team.

Let's see if it improves any more. Do you want to go first or second?

Can I go first, please, Dermot?

Good luck, Paul, it's music and your first question is this.

What type of musical instrument does a flugelhorn most closely resemble?

Erm...I'm not entirely sure about this one. Erm...

I think I'll go for a cor anglais.

It's not I'm afraid. It is...Daphne?

-A bassoon?

-No. It's a trumpet. Interesting. Interesting.

Would have caught you out.

Well, getting his first one wrong, didn't affect the outcome for John.

Let's see what Daphne does, then. This your question, then.

Which TV talent contest winner

had a UK number one album in 2011 with Echoes?

Is it Steve Brookstein, Leon Jackson or Will Young?

That's where his number one charity came from and it's Will Young.

No flies on you. It's the right answer, yes. Will Young. OK.

To get you going, then, Paul.

Which British singer had the Billboard

Hot 100 Song Of The Year for 1967 with To Sir With Love?

Again, it's going to have to be a complete guess with this one. Yeah.

I'm going to go with Lulu.

-Lulu. To Sir With Love. Is he right, Daphne?

-Yes.

Was, erm...was from a film, wasn't it? Sidney Poitier?

-Yes.

-Called To Sir With Love.

Right, well, well identified there, Paul.

Generationally very tricky for you, there.

But got it and, Daphne, your second question,

what type of instrument is a goombay?

I drum, a keyboard or a harp?

No. Don't know.

Heard of...

a goombay orchestra.

Erm...pure guess.

I think...a drum.

I smile when you say it's a pure guess.

I think, "Here comes the right answer."

Yes, it is correct.

Yes, a goombay is a drum which means you need to get this, Paul.

Which female artist's 2008 debut album

Alas I Cannot Swim was nominated for a Mercury Prize?

Again, a complete guess.

I think I'm going to go for Laura Marling.

It's the right answer, yes. Just look at your team-mates -

some of them knew that so you have two but you have that blot

with your first answer and that gives Daphne this opening, then.

Daphne, who had three UK top 10 singles in the 1970s and '80s

with Bang Bang, Knocked It Off and To Be Or Not To Be?

Don't know anything about the '70s. Erm...

BA Robertson.

-Is that a guess?

-Yep.

Then it's right, of course.

-Is it?

-Yes.

-Oh, I...my apologies!

Daphne, Daphne, Daphne. Next time you're doing the lottery...

LAUGHTER

It's so lucky, though. BA Robertson. Bad luck, Paul.

As I say, just got that first one wrong

and really revived the challenge but not enough to see off Daphne.

You're not in the final round. Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Two members of 10:18 now missing from the final round,

one members of the Eggheads.

Chance for it to be all square in that final round

with our last head-to-head.

And this one is sport.

Let's play this, 10:18.

All your sports specialists have played, haven't they?

Chris is, I think, the original sports person.

-Is it going to be you, Chris?

-A fountain of knowledge.

-Yep.

-Fountain of knowledge, Chris?

-LAUGHTER

-Not quite!

Who do you think isn't quite the gushing fountain over on the Eggheads side?

You, of course, can play your namesake, Chris, if you like, or Kevin.

-I say Chris.

-You think?

-Yeah.

-Yeah. We'll take on Chris.

Two Chris's. Could you both go to the Question Room, please?

OK then, Chris from 10:18 which is how I'll refer to you

so there's no confusion.

-Do you want to go first or second?

-I'll go first, please.

And best of luck. Here's your first question, then, on sport.

In 2011 which tennis player defeated

Andy Murray at the French Open, Wimbledon and the US open?

Er, tennis isn't my strong point but my mother-in-law is very much

into it so sometimes forced to watch it when we go for Sunday lunch, etc.

Yeah, I'm sure it's Rafael Nadal.

Yeah? Rafael Nadal? Three defeats there in 2011

in those major tournaments by Rafael Nadal, well done.

Chris from the Eggheads,

Rae's Creek is a famous feature of which golf course?

St Andrews, the Augusta National or Valderrama?

Well, it's not St Andrews. Because a creek would be a burn in Scots.

Valderrama I don't think so

but because it's got the word creek in it which means a small stream

in American usage I'll go with Augusta National.

OK, worked it out, yes, Augusta National there.

One for you and back to 10:18 and your Chris.

In which sport do competitors often wear

one rubber soled shoe and one Teflon soled shoe?

Not really any mainstream sports there

so I'm not really sure - this is a complete guess.

Pure guess. Fencing.

Gone for fencing, it's not. Chris, it is? Eggheads Chris?

It's curling so they can get a grip to throw the thing

and then slide after it.

Yeah, grip on the Teflon soled side.

And, um, I'll see if you take a grip on the round,

Chris. The England cricket captain,

JWHT Douglas won an Olympic gold medal in which sport in 1908?

Let's analyse...

He's a cricketer.

Fairly athletic sort of chap.

Archery's not that athletic.

Boxing's a different sort of athleticism.

Given that cricket involves running around a lot, I'd say long jump.

Long jump?

Yeah, I can see that but it's not the right answer.

-Other Eggheads?

-Boxing.

-Boxing.

OK, well, it's all square still.

No damage done by either Chris in the second question.

Third question for 10:18 Chris.

In 2007, which motorcycle racing team won the Moto GP Constructors

World Championship, becoming the first non-Japanese manufacturer

to win the premier class constructors title since 1973?

I've no idea. Erm...

Complete guess again. A recurring theme with our team today.

Norton.

Norton?

Taking the constructors title in the Moto GP World Championships.

No!

Chris?

-Ducati?

-Ducati.

One out of two. So, chance then for the Eggheads, Chris,

to win the round.

In France, in which sport

do teams compete in the Coupe de France Lord Derby

in order to win the Lord Derby trophy?

Well, I don't see croquet being a big enough thing.

It's very much a minority interest.

I don't think the French go in for showjumping much.

They are not great equestrians.

But they do play rugby league, so I'll go with rugby league.

You worked it out. It's the right answer. Yes, rugby league

for the Coupe de France

Lord Derby which means out-quizzed their Chris from 10:18.

You won't be in the final round. Would you both please come back and join your teams?

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

It's time for the final round which as always is general knowledge.

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

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

So, Paul, Chris and Matt from 10:18

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

So, Stuart and John, you're playing to win 10:18 £6,000.

Kevin, Daphne, Chris and Barry, you're playing for something which money cannot buy -

the Eggheads' reputation.

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

this time the questions are all

general knowledge and you are allowed to confer.

So, Stuart and John, the question is,

are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

How do you want to play this? Do you want to go first or second?

I think we'll change tactic and we'll go second.

OK, putting the Eggheads in first and, Eggheads,

Lincolnshire sausages are made from pork

and are traditionally favoured with which herb?

-Sage.

-Sage.

-We think that's sage.

-Sage?

Of course that is what you all are.

Like that? It's the right answer. Sage is correct. And 10:18...

sure you would have got that

but you're on the second set of questions and this, your first one.

Who was the editor of the Daily Mirror from 1995 to 2004?

Who was the editor of the Daily Mirror from 1995 to 2004?

-The controversial editor.

-Yeah, spent lo...not long in the position.

-Yeah. Piers Morgan?

-Yeah, Piers Morgan.

Piers Morgan is the right answer, editing the Mirror from '95 to 2004,

so we go to the Eggheads for the second question.

Titmice and chickadees

are members of which bird family?

-Columbidae are doves.

-Definitely.

-Strigidae, owls.

-Owls.

-Yeah.

They're finches, aren't they?

-I thought they were...a chickadee was a cuckoo.

-Yeah.

Trying to visualise, visualise a titmouse.

-I can't see them being doves or owls. So I'd go for paridae.

-Paridae, yeah.

-Shall we go for paridae?

-Yeah.

-We'll try paridae.

-Try paridae? Because I heard the thinking there.

You think you know what columbidae and strigidae are, doves and owls.

But you don't know paridae, so, Eggheads a little bit worried there.

It is the right answer, Eggheads.

You just like to be extra certain

but got that and, 10:18,

your second question.

The ancient Roman clothes called subligaria

were the equivalent of which modern items?

-All I'm thinking... I don't know but if it's sub.

-Below?

-Yeah.

-It's underneath.

-I'm thinking it's something you wear underneath.

-That's what I'd guess at.

-Which means your pants.

-Stand out there, don't they?

-Yeah. That's...under your robe. Yeah.

Having an educated guess.

Educated guess, we'll go pants.

Underpants? Eggheads?

-Sounds all right.

-Yeah.

It's a right answer. Yes. Good reasoning there. The underpants. OK.

And, eh, Eggheads, third question.

In New York the large bronze sculpture by Arturo Di Modica...

that symbolises the city's financial district is known by which title?

Well, I have seen a large bull

when I was on Wall Street,

so I guess this must be the one.

-I've got a mental picture of a bull.

-I'm pretty certain it's a bull.

-Well, market.

-Absolutely. Yeah.

We think that's the Charging Bull.

And you've got the right answer, Charging Bull.

It means you've got to get this, then, 10:18,

the hopeful slip by the Eggheads hasn't occurred - not yet.

Let's see if you can get them into sudden death, then.

A correct answer here will do that.

The Gunwinggu people are native to which continent?

I will spell it for you.

Gunwinggu. G-U-N-W-I-N-G-G-U.

Native to which continent?

Australia's got such a known history, are we going to rule that one out?

Yeah... I'm just thinking of the small islands in the Pacific.

You know, tribes on small islands.

I'd maybe rule out Asia.

-I just think the spelling doesn't quite seem...

-Not much in Asian.

Doesn't seem right for Asian.

What's your gut?

-Asia.

-Really?

-Yeah.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

-Whereabouts in Asia?

I don't know, it's a guess.

-Gunwinggu?

-Yeah.

Hmm...

-I can still it being some sort of Pacific Island.

-Do you think?

I mean, I might be completely wrong, of course.

-Let's go Australia.

-To stay in it?

We'll take Australia.

Australia?

Real debate there between you guys.

-It's Australia, it's correct.

-Well done, well done.

I think not Pacific Islands,

one of the Aboriginal people of Australia?

-Yeah.

-So, wrong reasoning, but the right answer, John.

-Well done.

OK, well, into Sudden Death, Eggheads.

You see no choices, I've just got to hear the answer from you.

Jason Statham had his first film role as a character called Bacon

in which 1998 movie?

The only thing I... Well, any thoughts?

None at all, I'm afraid.

It may be too late, I don't know, but Lock Stock, he was in that.

He was one of the leads in that. Don't know, but...

Nothing else to offer.

Well, we've nothing else, just go for it.

We've got nothing else to offer

other than Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

-Is that your answer?

-Yeah.

It's correct. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

Jason Statham there as Bacon - and has saved their bacon!

Excuse the pun. And 10:18, your question is this.

Fashion model, Marie Helvin, was born in which capital city?

Stockholm.

Yeah? Scandinavia's a shout. Scandinavia.

Marie? Helvin - yeah, it sounds Scandinavian.

Now you've come up with Stockholm,

we'd be kicking ourselves if we change it and it's Stockholm.

-We'll go with Stockholm.

-Stockholm for Marie Helvin.

It's incorrect, it is not Stockholm. It is Tokyo.

Born in Tokyo, which means, Eggheads, you've won.

Great play there, guys,

just not happening for you in the final round.

Boy, oh, boy, you gave the Eggheads a run for their money there.

Well done, guys. Two of you against four of them and into Sudden Death.

It took a pair of very difficult questions

to sort out a winner there.

Thank you very much indeed for playing the Eggheads today, 10:18.

Don't know what train you're getting back down - should be a bit later than the 10:18.

Great to see you. Thank you very much indeed for taking on the Eggheads today.

Those Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them and their winning streak continues.

I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £6,000, and that means

the money rolls over to the next show. And, Eggheads, congratulations.

Who will beat you? Join us next time

to see if a new team of Challengers have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

£7,000 says they do not. Until then, goodbye.

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