Episode 44 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 Bucks Quiz.

This team all know one another through Teesside University,

and take their name from the consolation prize they won

at their first-ever quiz.

Let's meet them.

Hello, I'm Matthew. I'm 24 and I'm a retail assistant.

Hi, I'm Calum. I'm 22 and I'm a customer services advisor.

Hello. I'm Kieran, I'm 23 and I'm a graduate of mathematics.

Hi, I'm Jamie. I'm 24 and I'm a support worker.

Hi, my name's Martin. I'm 26.

I'm a psychology and criminology student.

Welcome to you, Bucks Quiz. I take it from that introduction, that's what you won -

-a bottle of Buck's Fizz.

-Yes - a consolation prize

at a quiz we did at a pub.

We played for money - first prize was money,

and the second prize was a bottle of Buck's Fizz.

So we got "quiz" and "bottle of Buck's Fizz"

and put them both together.

A great team name. I'm surprised we haven't had it before.

In terms of that bottle of Buck's Fizz, about a thimbleful each?

THEY LAUGH

I think it's all gone by now.

If you even drank it.

You might be able to afford a few cases of champagne

if you win today, if that's what you want to spend it on.

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

But if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,

the prize money rolls over to the next show.

So, Bucks Quiz, the Eggheads have won the last two games,

so that means £3,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads today.

-Shall we play, then?

-Definitely.

First head-to-head coming up is Science.

Who wants to kick us off with the Science round?

-Martin?

-I'll take that.

Yep. Martin's going to play.

Who would you like to play from the Eggheads?

Any one of them you like, Martin.

They're all very strong at science,

so - cos we're saving Daphne, Chris and CJ for other rounds -

I think Barry or Pat. I think Pat.

I'll go with what you say, then.

Martin's going to play it and he'll play against Pat.

Matthew doing all the analysis there.

Marshalling the team there and marshalling Martin

into the first round against Pat.

So Martin and Pat into the Question Room, please.

OK, Martin - do you want to go first or second?

I'll go first, please.

OK, first on Science.

Off you go, Martin.

What name is given to a new growth of bony tissue

where a fracture has been mended?

I'll think about this.

I'm going to exclude wart.

I don't see why it would be a follicle.

I'm going to guess at callus.

I'm not entirely sure, but that's my final answer.

Final answer, and correct answer.

And your first question, Pat.

In what state does the element zirconium exist at room temperature?

There are only two elements which are liquid at room temperature.

And it's neither of those.

And it's not a gas.

It's a solid.

Zirconium? If you watch those shopping channels

you know that, don't you?

All that zirconium jewellery. A solid!

Takes its name from the Persian for gold, I think.

Zirconium is a solid at room temperature.

That's correct.

And Martin,

agrostolgy

is the study of what type of plants?

Agrostology. A-G-R-O.

Agrostology is the study of what type of plants?

This is going to be a guess as I don't have any idea.

So I can't really rule any of them out,

so I'll guess at grasses.

Good guess - it's the right answer!

Agrostology - the study of grasses.

Pat, a sifaka is what type of primate?

It's a white lemur that lives on extremely thorny plants,

so it's a lemur.

Is the right answer.

The way you hesitated, I thought you would have to guess.

Playing with you, Dermot.

You do like to toy with me, there.

Well, Martin's going really well here.

What type of insects belong to the Coccinellidae family?

I really don't have

a guess again,

so I don't know how I'd exclude one from the other.

I'm going to guess at ladybirds.

Guessing...

correctly!

Have you taught them how to guess as well, Matthew?

Been learning off Daphne.

Ha-ha, you do know this programme very, very well indeed.

Well, you have three,

and may deprive Pat of a place in the final round

if he doesn't get this.

Pat, the reyn , REYN,

the reyn is a unit measuring which property?

I'm not sure I've heard of it.

But there is

a measure in hydraulics - the Reynolds number.

And the "reyn"

comprises the first four letters of "Reynolds".

He was a man who did lots of research into hydrology,

so that looks very promising.

I don't think it's electrical resistance,

and I don't think it's entropy,

so I'll go for viscosity.

Well worked out - it's the right answer.

Yes!

Both going really well.

A little bit of guessing there from Martin,

but we've got you to Sudden Death.

Can you go the whole hog and knock Pat out?

"Sudden Death", Martin -

as you'll know from your masterclasses with Matthew -

means we remove the choices. Just got to hear the answer from you...

from here on in.

Your question is this.

Vitamin B9,

found in green, leafy vegetables, amongst other sources,

is best known by what name derived from the Latin word for leaf?

I don't know. I'm going to guess.

The only thing I can think of with green and plants is chlorophyll.

I don't think it's right, but I have to say something. I'll say chlorophyll.

-Chlorophyll?

-It's not right, I imagine.

It's not. It's incorrect. Do you know, Pat?

It's folic acid...

-I think.

-Yes it is.

It's folic acid.

So nothing there,

and it means that Pat has a chance here.

Pat, which aquatic birds

are the only members of the order sphenisciformes?

S-P-H-E-N-I-S-C-I-F-OR-M-E-S.

I think there are 17 different types.

And they are penguins.

Is the right answer, Pat. Very assured there.

Pat's through to the final round.

Didn't really skip a beat there, Pat.

Martin, you won't be there. Please come back and join your teams.

Pat, with his "17 species of penguins,"

depriving Martin of a place in the final round.

It means Bucks Quiz are one brain down, Eggheads all there

and our second head-to-head, then, is Sport.

I'm sure plenty of you would want to play this,

but who's it going to be?

Pick Calum, save you for Film & TV and Music.

-Save you for the final round.

-And save you for the final round,

and I'll take Politics if it's coming. Calum's going to play.

You have all the contingency plans in place there. OK, Calum -

and choose an Egghead. It can't be Pat. Any of the other four.

I'm sorry, Chris. It has to be you. It's the only chance...

-"You vill also go on ze list."

-THEY LAUGH

And he's not joking.

OK, let's have Calum and Chris into the Question Room, please.

OK, Calum.

Martin did well there - got into Sudden Death,

but couldn't get that question and Pat knocked him out.

Let's see if you can go all the way into the final round.

Do you want to go first or second?

I'll go first, please, Dermot.

OK, kicking off - and best of luck, Calum.

Shamrock Rovers is a football club

based in which city?

Shamrock Rovers is a football club based in which city?

I know them from playing in the UEFA Cup.

They took on Spurs a while back,

and they're from Dublin.

Shamrock Rovers from Dublin is right.

Yes, well done.

And to you, Chris. An international stadium in Hyderabad,

named after Rajiv Gandhi,

is a major venue for which sport?

It wouldn't be motor racing,

cos you have a great circuit for that.

And you don't play cricket in a stadium.

You play cricket at a ground.

So it must be an athletics stadium.

Er, it's cricket.

In a stadium?

What's the world coming to?

THEY LAUGH

Cricket, yeah.

Not athletics, no.

Cricket.

The first questions are quite often

to ease both of you in,

but India? Cricket? OK.

But, no - not identified by Chris.

So, Calum - what an opportunity.

At the 1960 Olympics,

Dorothy Hyman won a silver medal in which events?

I really haven't got the first clue, to be honest.

Athletics isn't really my thing,

so I'm going to have a guess at javelin.

OK, Dorothy Hyman, there -

throwing the javelin, you think.

It's not the right answer.

She was a runner.

Won the 100 metres,

also picked up another medal, Eggheads - do you know?

-High jump?

-No.

-Did she not?

-Maybe did the high jump,

but picked up a medal at those Olympics

in the 100 metres - she also ran the...

-Relay.

-..200 metres. We're getting there in the end.

Won a bronze in the 200, as well.

A chance for Chris to catch up.

For which team did Mark Cavendish race

in the 2011 Tour de France?

-Who's Mark Cavendish?

-LAUGHTER

Um...

They're a Dutch bank, aren't they? Rabobank.

No, not Rabobank.

It is - other Eggheads - Leopark Trek or HTC-Highroad?

-HTC-Highroad.

-HTC-Highroad...

From California.

At the end of the season, transferred to Team Sky.

That means

that you have a chance to win the round

if you get this, Calum.

It didn't matter, you getting that wrong.

Chris failed as well, so here you go.

Who did John Higgins defeat in the final

to win his first snooker World Championship in 1998?

I don't think Selby became a big player

until around 2003/2004.

Ebden won it in about 2002.

I'm not sure if he was ever runner-up.

So I'll go for Ken Doherty.

OK.

John Higgins beating him to take his first World Championship crown -

it's the right answer, yes!

And it also means

you've taken your first Egghead scalp here, Bucks Quiz.

Chris won't play in the final round.

Please come back and join your teams.

Much better for Bucks Quiz - knocked an Egghead out,

but one member of Bucks Quiz, of course, missing as well.

Next head-to-head is Geography.

Who'd like to play this, Buck's Quiz?

Captain Matthew?

Who else have we got - Kieran or Jamie?

-Me or you, Jamie.

-You.

I'm me and I'll place against CJ.

Oh, joy(!)

I didn't think you'd hang around there!

Matthew and CJ playing this one - in the Question Room, please.

Matthew, if we had a round on Eggheads itself,

I think you'd probably be the champion.

Seems you know more about the Eggheads than the Eggheads know about themselves.

Are you a keen viewer, then? Do you try not to miss an episode?

Definitely. I try to watch it every day when I can,

-but if I can't, I catch it up on iPlayer...

-Of course.

..which is very handy.

Indeed. Well said. We like to hear that, as well.

-Do you want to go first or second?

-First, please.

Matthew, first question is this.

A globe on a slanted poll,

a few kilometres north of Alice Springs

marks which line of latitude?

I'll have to think about this one.

I don't think it's the Tropic of Cancer or the Tropic of Capricorn.

I'll have to go with the Equator.

The Equator.

It's not - it is one of the Tropics.

But a lot of people get confused

about which is north and which is south.

CJ, do you know - because it's not the UK?

-It's Capricorn.

-It's Capricorn

HE LAUGHS

Look how assured he is. We'll try and dig out.

Let's hope in this second set of questions he's now facing

there's something more domestic for him. This one isn't, though.

The island of Komodo belongs to which group of islands?

Unfortunately, I don't know where it is. It's not Ionian.

Komodo?

Presumably where the Komodo dragon lives.

I think...

..that's off South America.

I think it's on the opposite side to the Grenadines.

I don't know this, but because I don't think it's the other two,

and I've never heard of it, I'll try Lesser Sunda.

Lesser Sunda is the right answer. Well done, CJ -

worked it out that way.

Komodo dragons, CJ, coming from there? Must be, is it?

-ALL: Yes.

-Indonesia.

Indonesia? OK.

Komodo dragons. Lesser Sunda is the answer we looked for

and got from CJ, so I think you need to get this, Matthew.

The Dales Way

is a long-distance footpath between Bowness-on-Windermere

and which Yorkshire town?

I'm absolutely a sacrificial lamb for this.

I've not heard of two of them, so I'll go with the one I've heard,

which is Selby. I've no idea.

D'you know, CJ - is it Selby?

Don't be ridiculous. HE LAUGHS

-Other Eggheads?

-Ilkley.

-It's Ilkley.

Ilkley. Bowness-on-Windermere to Ilkley.

So...CJ, a chance here for a fairly swift victory.

Following the division of Sudan in 2011,

which country became the largest in Africa?

I'd lake to say sorry, Matthew, but it would be VERY insincere. Algeria.

DERMOT LAUGHS

Ooh, hark at him!

Mr Confidence.

I'd like to say you're wrong,

but the rules, unfortunately, don't allow that.

It is now the largest country in Africa.

Algeria is correct, CJ, which gets you into the final round.

Bad luck, Matthew,

but your analytical skills in terms of the Eggheads' abilities

still required by your team.

Both please come back and join them.

As it stands now, Bucks Quiz have lost two brains.

And the Eggheads have lost one from the final round.

We move on to our last head-to-head before that final round.

This one is Music.

Two of you left - Kieran or Jamie for Music?

Jamie's taking it and he's taking on Barry.

I love the quick decision making there.

Jamie is taking it.

I'll repeat what Matthew said - he's taking on Barry.

Both please go to the Question Room.

OK, Jamie - as you know - Music.

Do you want to go first or second?

I'll go first, please, Dermot.

Best of luck to you, Jamie. Here's your first question.

According to a song which became popular

during World War I,

who was "sewing shirts for soldiers"?

Um, well I haven't got a clue.

Well before my time, that one.

That's for sure.

Before my nana's time as well, I think, that one.

Who was "sewing shirts for soldiers"?

I'll have a guess at Sister Susie, please.

"Sister Susie sewing shirts..."

It was a real tongue twister that, wasn't it?

It is the right answer! Good guess.

Anyone know...?

Well, Chris, you know any more about that?

No. I recognise the song but I don't think I've ever heard it.

As you say, it is a bit of a tongue twister.

Absolutely. OK.

You got it there - had to guess at it but got it there, Jamie.

Well done.

Barry, which song contains the line,

"At the end of the storm there's a golden sky

"And the sweet silver song of the lark?"

It's that wonderful old song from Carousel, You'll Never Walk Alone.

You'll Never Walk Alone is correct.

Back to you, then, Jamie for your second question.

The Musikverein

is the home of the philharmonic orchestra of which city?

Er...

once again, I don't know what it is,

but it sounds a bit German,

so I will guess Berlin, please.

OK, Berlin.

It is a German word, but they also speak German in...

Austria.

..Austria. It's Vienna.

So, Barry -

who sang the song Little Drop of Poison,

which featured on the soundtrack of Shrek 2?

I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan,

and I've never come across that one with either of those two artists,

so I'll go for Tom Waits.

Tom Waits? OK.

Elimination technique.

Don't think it was either of your big heroes there,

so Tom Waits on Shrek 2 is the right answer.

Well worked out. Got that -

and it means you need to get this, Jamie.

In the 1960s, who was the lead singer of the Impressions?

I'm not having much luck with the questions in this round.

All well before my time.

I'm going to rule out Billy Preston. I don't think it's him.

Isaac Hayes or Cutis Mayfield?

I'll plump for Curtis Mayfield, please.

Curtis Mayfield, you think. Lead singer of the Impressions?

With you're guessing, you're making quite an "impression" on us.

It's the right answer. Yes, Curtis Mayfield. Kept you in it.

But Barry has a chance to win the round here.

Benjamin Yusupov's Viola Tango Rock Concerto,

which requires the soloist to play AND dance,

was written for which musician?

What a lovely question!

I've never seen Nigel Kennedy dance,

and I've never seen Anne-Sophie Mutter dance.

I've seen them play on numerous occasions,

so I shall go for Maxim Vengerov.

OK. That's twice in a row you've tried that technique.

Leaving, er...

Leaving, you hope, the right answer.

Jamie hope it's not, but it is correct.

Maxim Vengerov, performing the Viola Tango Rock Concerto.

-Worth seeing that, wouldn't it?

-Yes, I think I'd love to see that.

Dancing and playing at the same time.

Dance back here, Barry, You play in the final round.

Bad luck, Jamie, you won't be there.

Both please come back and join your teams.

So this is what we've been playing towards.

It's time for the final round, which 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 Matthew, Jamie and Martin from Bucks Quiz,

and Chris from the Eggheads, leave the studio, please.

So, then, Calum and Kieran,

you're playing to win Bucks Quiz £3,000.

CJ, Daphne, Barry and Pat,

you're all playing for something which money can't buy -

the Eggheads' reputation.

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

The questions are all General Knowledge, and you are allowed to confer.

Calum and Kieran, the question is,

are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

How do you want to play it, guys? Do you want to go first or second?

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

Kieran and Calum, your first question coming right up.

Here you go.

What is the profession of someone described as "a man of the cloth"?

What is the profession of someone described as "a man of the cloth"?

-Happy with that?

-Clergyman.

Clergyman, Dermot.

Clergyman is correct.

Well done. "Dry cleaner"(!)

OK.

Eggheads, your first question. What is the first name of the sister

of Kourtney and Khloe, who starred with them

in the TV series Keeping Up with the Kardashians?

What is the first name of the sister of Kourtney and Khloe,

who starred with them

in the TV series Keeping Up with the Kardashians?

I'm fairly sure there's a Kim Kardashian.

-She's Kim.

-Kim.

Lots of Ks. Kim Kardashian is correct, Eggheads.

You have one, and back to Bucks Quiz.

The town of Royal Wootton Bassett

is a few miles away from which RAF base?

The town of Royal Wootton Bassett

is a few miles away from which RAF base?

Right, well, Lossiemouth is in Scotland.

I think Wootton Bassett's sort of England.

I thought so.

Leeming's North Yorkshire, isn't it?

-Lyneham.

-Are we happy with Lyneham?

We're going to go with Lyneham, please, Dermot.

OK, Royal Wootton Bassett, not too far away from RAF...

Lyneham.

It's the right answer. Well done.

Eggheads, Royal Wootton Bassett famous for a very sad reason.

And got its "Royal" title for that reason, which is...?

The repatriation of the soldiers.

Yeah. So many soldiers who fall in foreign fields

repatriated through RAF Lyneham,

then used to pass through Wootton Bassett, as was.

Became Royal Wootton Bassett.

So, Eggheads - your second question.

Anna Pavord and Alys Fowler

found fame writing columns on which subject?

Anna Pavord, PAVOR-D, and Alys Fowler

found fame writing columns on which subject?

-They don't mean very much to me.

-Never heard of them.

Nope, sorry.

Oh, dear.

Anna Pavord and Alys Fowler?

Yup.

Of the three, you'd imagine

gardening columns are the most numerous.

That's not very good logic.

Two female writers on motoring? I don't wish to sound sexist, but...

..there aren't that many female writers who write on motoring.

Also, if it was motoring, I hope

they'd possibly pass into my consciousness.

I do read about motoring.

The percentage one is gardening, isn't it?

Probably slightly more likely, I think.

-OK.

-There's not much in it. It's not very sound.

Sorry. Hasn't passed our radar,

even with the name Fowler.

Um, so we're guessing...

at gardening.

Guess at gardening? OK.

You thought unlikely to be motoring writers,

but guessing at gardening from the other two

got them thinking, Bucks Quiz, but they've got it.

-Gardening is correct.

-Oh, dear.

We don't want any more like that.

See if you can put the pressure on them again, then.

Daphne's saying they don't want any more like that.

And your third question, then, Bucks Quiz.

Done really well with your first two.

The designer Marius Sabino worked mainly in which medium?

The designer Marius Sabino -

SABINO,

for the surname there. Marius Sabino

worked mainly in which medium?

-I don't honestly know.

-I don't really know.

I couldn't rule any out.

I'll go glass.

You'd go glass.

I'd have gone paint, I think.

We've just ruled out marble for no reason at all.

Did you say "artist", sorry?

Designer.

Always right to check. I'll read it again.

Notice how the Eggheads do.

You never know - you might miss something there.

The designer Marius Sabino worked mainly in which medium?

Would you associate "designer" more with glass?

That's why I picked it.

I'm happy to go with that, on the basis of that.

We don't really know, Dermot, but we're going to say glass.

OK, don't really know,

and tossing it up there,

as you say, ruled out marble for no good reason.

Then there was a point you were going to go for paint,

and the answer is...glass! It's the right answer. Well done!

Making the Eggheads really work here.

Pressure all on them once again, then.

Eggheads - in international maritime signalling,

which letter of the alphabet

is represented by the Blue Peter flag?

In international maritime signalling,

which letter of the alphabet

is represented by the Blue Peter flag?

Help!

What does it mean, the Blue Peter?

Does it mean, "We're about to sail"?

A ship leaving port is Blue Peter.

D for "departure" - is that any good to us?

My gut feeling is,

because it's a Blue Peter flag, it probably would be a B or a P.

Probably go for that.

Yes, there's some logic to that.

If the flag mean, "We are about to set sail,"

does it mean "departure"? I don't know - it's very tenuous.

Is there another word for "departure" beginning with P or B?

What's the consensus, then?

-D.

-I'd go for D.

Pat?

I really don't know.

What would you go for if it was you?

I'd be very uneasy and I'd go for D.

OK. We've got nothing here, I don't think.

Not really.

You're in with a chance, cos we don't know.

But on the grounds that

a Blue Peter indicates that a ship is about to "D-part,"

we're going for D.

-D?

-Yes.

The Blue Peter representing the letter D.

-Chris?

-Mm?

-Do you know?

Yeah, it originally meant "Sailing on the next tide."

Now it means "About to sail, full stop", and it's P.

It is P, which means,

Bucks Quiz, you've won!

Just checking with Chris, there.

Just to see how crucial your victory was there, Calum,

in that head-to-head.

Matthew - you came, you saw, you conquered.

The plan went brilliantly!

-To get Chris out.

-You did fantastically.

You came to see the Eggheads, and you saw them,

and you've taken them out.

It means you've won £3,000.

Thank you very much indeed for playing,

and playing so well against the Eggheads there in the final round.

Some tricky moments yourself, there,

but the Eggheads were wobbling on their second one

and fluffed a third, which means you are officially cleverer than the Eggheads.

You've proved they can be beaten.

Do 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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