Episode 46 Eggheads

These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.

Together they make up the Eggheads,

arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.

The question is, can they be beaten?

Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers

pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.

They are the Eggheads.

And taking on the might of our quiz champions today are...

Now, this team are some of Britain's top international pistol shooters,

and between them have won a variety of Commonwealth medals

and other trophies.

Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Ian, I'm 46 years old, and I'm the airgun captain for Wales.

Hi, I'm Nicola, I'm 32, and I'm an international pistol shooter.

Hi, I'm Victoria, I'm 21,

and I am both an international pistol shooter and biology student.

Hi, I'm Nick, I'm 40 years old, and I'm an international pistol shooter.

Hi, I'm Gorgs, I'm 26, and I'm also an international pistol shooter.

Welcome to you, Targeteers.

I know no strangers then to winning things, but perhaps not quizzes.

But tell me about the pistol shooting.

There must be so many different varieties, different weapons and different distances.

Well, we use a variety of different pistols.

Obviously, some we have to store abroad and some we use over here.

-But primarily, the ones over here are air pistols.

-I see.

We shoot over ten metres.

I mean, you mention, I know, because of our strict,

and rightly so, gun laws, you have to practise abroad quite often.

Is that why they're stored abroad?

A lot of people in our group,

you know, shoot abroad and they practise abroad,

-it means a lot of air travel and that sort of thing. But, yeah.

-All right.

We'll talk as we target the Eggheads today, taking aim.

Eggheads in your sights. I can hear all the...

Get them out of the way now, these puns.

Every day, there's £1,000 up for grabs for our challengers, however,

if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,

the prize money rolls over to the next show.

So, Targeteers, the Eggheads have won just the last game,

and that means £2,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

So, let's get on with it then. Let's see if you can

get a few of them out here during the head-to-head rounds.

And the first one is Arts & Books.

-Who fancies taking this one on? Arts & Books.

-Arts & Books.

-A difficult one.

-One of our least favourites!

-Nobody's favourite.

-Shall I take the bullet for the first one?

-Yeah, team captain.

-Yeah, go for it.

-Shall I take the bullet?

-I think you should!

-It's going to be me. It's going to be me.

Stealing my lines there, Ian.

Ian's going to start, and which Egghead would you like to play? Any one of them.

It's very difficult. They're all brilliant.

-They are.

-Can I choose Barry, please?

Barry, OK, for the shootout at the OK Corral.

OK, it's going to be Barry and Ian contesting this one.

Ian to the Question Room, please,

so you can't confer with your team-mates.

And I'm going to give you the option, Ian,

-do you want to go first or second?

-I'd like to go first, please, Dermot.

Arts & Books as you know then, Ian.

First question to you and good luck with it.

In Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, what is the name of Hamlet's mother?

Shakespeare. I'm not a big Shakespeare reader, unfortunately.

But there is one name that's sort of sticking out. I'm not sure.

I'm going to rule out Miranda, cos I think that's wrong.

Erm, Cordelia sounds like a very oldish-type name,

and it's the sort of name I think Shakespeare might go for.

So, I think Cordelia.

OK, Cordelia.

They're all Shakespearean names,

but Cordelia not in Hamlet, no. Barry?

Gertrude, I'm afraid.

-Gertrude.

-It was Gertrude.

You were thinking it. Let's see how Barry does.

Barry, the original version of Gustav Klimt's

famous painting The Kiss is permanently housed in a gallery

in which country?

Well, Gustav Klimt was a member of the school called Vienna Secession,

and I believe he was Austrian, so my guess would be Austria.

Pity that's turned up there then, isn't it? It's the right answer.

Pity from Ian's point of view. OK, you have a lead

and, Ian, let's get something on the board here, then.

"On either side the river lie,

"Long fields of barley and of rye,"

are the opening lines of which poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson?

Ooh, again, another writer I'm not familiar with.

Unfortunately, mine's more modern literature. Erm...

Ohh! It would basically be eenie, meenie, miney, mo. I think...

The Lady Of Shalott.

OK, Lady Of Shalott... is the right answer.

Oh, wow! Fantastic.

-If you got that wrong, I'd say, "That's Shalott!"

-"That's Shalott"!

So, Barry, second question.

Kathryn Stockett's bestselling 2009 novel The Help is primarily set

in which part of the USA?

This novel is about the disgraceful treatment of black ladies

who helped bring up white families' children,

and therefore I believe it must be set in Mississippi.

Mississippi is correct. Well done, Barry.

You have the lead back and, Ian, it means you've got to get this.

Quality Street is an early 20th century play by which writer?

Again, it's one I'm not familiar with. Erm...

Again, a big stab in the dark, I'm going to go with JM Barrie.

JM Barrie.

-Well done!

-TARGETEERS CHEER

You've got it. So, doing rather well,

but got that one mistake giving Barry an opening here.

Barry, Sahara, Iceberg and Inca Gold are books by which adventure writer?

Well, I don't believe they're Alistair MacLean,

which leaves Wilbur Smith or Clive Clust... Clive Custer.

I think Wilbur Smith mostly wrote stories with a South African theme,

-so I shall go for Clive Cussler.

-Clive Cussler.

You were calling him Custer there.

Is it going to be your Last Stand?

No, it's not, it is the right answer. Clive Cussler.

With Sahara, Iceberg, and Inca Gold.

Bad luck, Ian. Well played, it must be said,

but those score sheets like the ones you get in shooting, aren't they?

You can see the target you missed.

It means that you're not in the final round, Barry is.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, Barry faster on the draw there,

which means Ian will be missing from the final round, I'm afraid.

So, let's move on to our next subject. This one is Science.

Second chance to get rid of an Egghead. Who wants to play?

-Can't be Ian.

-I think we know who is going to go for it, don't we?

I do believe I have to try this one!

-You do, Victoria.

-Definitely Victoria. Definitely.

-I don't know, who should I take on?

-Kevin?

-Judith?

-Kevin.

-Take Kevin.

OK, I will try.

-We're going to go for the biggest gun.

-Yeah.

-Kevin.

I'll try and take on Kevin.

OK, right, well, why not! Victoria and Kevin, then, playing Science.

Please, into the Question Room.

Well, best of luck to you. Your target today of course is Kevin.

Let's see if you can knock him out.

-Do you want to go first or second?

-I'll go first, why not?

Here you go then, and best of luck, Victoria.

What name is given to the study, especially the microscopic study,

of the cells and tissues of plants and animals?

Cells and tissues of plants and animals?

Yeah, cells and tissues of plants and animals.

Well, osteology to me sounds a bit like bones.

Osteopath, you would go to see with bones.

I'm not really sure about... Is it trichology?

So I would personally go for histology.

OK, histology of those three.

And it is the right answer, yes. Well done.

Osteology, bones, trichology, hair.

-Hair. Mm.

-Hair.

OK, right, Kevin's first question then.

Mn is the chemical symbol of which element?

Now, that particular one is manganese.

Manganese is right. No beating around the bush there from Kevin.

And back to you then, Victoria.

Prospero, Caliban and Sycorax are moons of which planet?

Erm, I have to say, this is going to have to be a guess.

I'm going to go for Jupiter.

OK, Jupiter for Prospero, Caliban and Sycorax.

It's not the right answer, Victoria. Kevin?

The one I always pronounce is Ur-anus.

-Right...

-I think that's the right pronunciation, but there you go.

Do you? Well, OK, yes.

Well, yeah, when I was studying at school and things like that

that's what we always used to say to great titters from the back.

But now it seems to be more common to call it Uranus, doesn't it?

Yeah, it is now.

Well, whatever it is, Victoria didn't tell us, unfortunately,

and nothing there for you, Victoria. Kevin, your second question.

What type of creature is a waterbuck?

What type of creature is a waterbuck?

I would imagine...

It sounds very much as though it's an antelope. Yeah, it is.

A waterbuck is an antelope.

Waterbuck is an antelope. You have two.

Victoria, we need you to get this for us.

Which 1987 international agreement called for the phasing out

of chlorofluorocarbons considered damaging to the ozone layer?

Ah! Right, again, I know of it,

but I'm just trying to remember.

I don't know.

I'm drawn to the Montreal Protocol.

So I'm going to go for that one.

It's the right answer. Well done, back on track.

But have you got back on track too late?

Kevin can knock you out if he gives me a correct answer here.

Kevin, which sign of an inflamed gall bladder

do medical practitioners test for by pressing under the ribcage

whilst the patient inhales?

No, never come across that.

So, I mean, this literally is a one in three guess,

because I don't think I've ever heard of that.

No, I mean, presumably, it's named after the physician who first

identified it as a technique, I would assume.

Since I have no idea who that is, we're back to a one in three guess.

I'll try Frank's sign.

Frank's sign.

It's not!

-No.

-Other Eggheads, do you know?

I would go for Mulder's myself.

No, it's Murphy's sign. Murphy's sign.

Ooh, well, Kevin.

A slip-up then.

It means that we go to Sudden Death, and in Sudden Death,

just to explain it, Victoria, we take away the choices

and that means it's a bit harder. Hopefully not too hard.

And this is your question.

Amedeo Avogadro, the physicist from whom Avogadro's Law takes its name,

was born in which modern day country?

To be honest...

I'm going to guess...

on how the name sounds, and I'm going to go for Italy.

OK, Italy...

is the right answer. Well done!

Avogadro's Law. Anyone tell me more from the Eggheads?

Equal volumes of gases under the same conditions of temperature

and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules. Something like that?

Did you write that down here, Barry?

That's exactly what I've got written here!

Avogadro's law. We didn't need that from Victoria.

All we needed to hear was Italy, and we did.

So, it means you've got to get this, Kevin.

The colourless gas, ethane, which occurs in natural gas,

is a compound of carbon and which other element?

It should be hydrogen. Hydrogen.

Is the right answer. Yes, hydrogen is correct.

OK, well, back we go to you, Victoria. Going well now.

Which Polish-born British mathematician brought science

to a wider audience with his 1970s television documentary series

The Ascent Of Man?

I can't think. Erm...

I've got something in my head, and I know he's not a mathematician,

and I'm pretty sure he's not Polish-born.

But...

I don't know. I think...

I'll just go with Richard Dawkins, just for fun.

-Yeah, and not to pass.

-Yeah.

-You never know.

It's not Richard Dawkins but, you know, good to have a guess.

And I am sure Kevin knows it. Kevin?

-That's Jacob Bronowski.

-Jacob Bronowski.

Does that ring any bells, Victoria?

No, now the name's been said,

but I wouldn't have been able to pull that out.

It's not over yet, because Kevin has to get his correct to win.

Kevin, the chemical element which has the symbol Fm

is named after which scientist?

It's fermium, which is named after Enrico Fermi.

Is the right answer, Kevin. You've won the round.

Enrico Fermi and fermium

as Kevin identified. Bad luck, Victoria.

Kevin has just squeezed through after Sudden Death.

It means no place in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, certainly not firing blanks there, Victoria,

but didn't make it against Kevin.

Which means the Targeteers have lost two brains now from the final round

and the Eggheads are all still there.

So, let's get another round out quickly.

Film & Television, this one. Who wants to play this?

Who would like to have a go?

Nicola, Nick or Gorgs?

-You like movies.

-You like movies, don't you?

-Yeah, I'm not very good at...

-Yeah? Go on.

OK, I think that's going to be me.

-Stay with us, Nicola, because you need to choose an Egghead.

-Oh, yeah!

-THEY LAUGH

-I was off on my own then!

That would be an easy round! Who then from the Eggheads?

I think Chris.

I think probably Chris.

-Yeah, yeah, yeah, hopefully...

-No way, he's brilliant at TV & Film.

You must be joking!

-Go for who you want to go for.

-Who do you want to go for?

-Judith?

-Judith, please.

-OK, Judith, right.

Trying to force you into Chris there, and you've gone for Judith.

-No, I didn't fancy Chris.

-It's your choice.

Nicola and Judith, then, into the Question Room, please.

Well, then, Nicola, we heard you like your films.

Let's hope for plenty of those type of questions for you.

-Would you like to go first or second?

-I'll go second, please.

Off we go. Judith, then, gets the first set of questions.

Who played Truly Scrumptious in the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

Erm, help! Chitty Chitty, that's the one about the car, wasn't it?

Oh, dear!

I don't think it was Julie... Or was that...?

First question, obvious answer.

The awful thing is, I don't think I ever saw it,

but it's not Petula Clark, anyhow.

-Julie Andrews.

-Julie Andrews.

-Yes.

Right up her street, isn't it? But no, it wasn't.

-It was Sally Ann Howes.

-Oh, dear!

-Dick Van Dyke in it, too, as well,

with the Julie Andrews connection there, obvious.

But Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious

in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. That's what you wanted, isn't it, Nicola?

That's the Eggheads slipping up.

-Now, to capitalise on it, you need to give me a correct answer.

-Yeah.

I know you're thinking, "Easier said than done!" Here's the question.

In which country is the 2011 sequel The Hangover Part II mainly set?

-Did you see it?

-I haven't seen it yet, no. I've seen the first one.

But I thought they went to Europe, so I'm going to say France.

Oh, such a pity you didn't see it. It's not the right answer.

-Ah-h!

-No, they went further afield to Thailand. Thailand.

It stays all square. Not too much damage done, though.

Both getting your first question wrong. And, Judith,

which character is played by Blake Harrison

in the TV comedy series The Inbetweeners?

I know you're a great fan of it.

Every time I try and watch it, one of my grandchildren,

my grandsons watch, and say, "We don't think you'd like this."

So I've actually never seen it. So I don't know.

So, it's got to be a pure guess.

-OK.

-So, I'm going to go down the lucky right and say Neil.

It is the lucky right. It's the right answer, yes.

Nicola smiling there, she knows it. She's seen it.

Yeah, I think you actually ought to listen to your grandchildren myself.

Perhaps not for you. Maybe.

So, it means you're behind, Nicola.

Second question for you.

In which year were the films Air Force One, Conspiracy Theory

and Con Air released?

Erm...

..Con Air is a film I've seen loads of times.

I think it was out when I was, like, a late teenager.

I'm going to say 1997.

Well done, you. That's the right answer, 1997.

Con Air, that's good. OK, well, matching each other. And, Judith,

who won Oscars for both Best Director

and Best Adapted Screenplay for the 1979 film Kramer Vs Kramer?

I remember the film. I did see that.

But I wasn't...

an Egghead at that time,

so I didn't notice who directed and wrote it or anything like that.

Do you do that now? You can't go to a film without staying

to the end credits and remembering the titles?

Exactly. You have to try and remember now, and I never used to.

So, it's a guess again.

William Friedkin.

OK, William Friedkin.

No, it isn't. Other Eggheads?

-BARRY AND CHRIS: George Roy Hill.

-Robert Benton.

Robert Benton. It was Robert Benton.

Most of them going for George Roy Hill,

but a voice piping up from the end there with Robert Benton.

Right, well,

an opportunity at last for the Targeteers,

and in particular, for Nicola.

You go through if you give me a correct answer here.

Which British pop star made a guest appearance

on the Australian soap Neighbours in 2009?

I think...

I'm going to go for Lily Allen.

OK, Lily Allen.

-Is the right answer!

-That was a complete guess, I've got to admit.

Well, that's fair.

Judith had a complete guess at The Inbetweeners,

so that's evened it up and got you into the final round. Well done!

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, much better for the Targeteers now.

Knocked an Egghead out, but you've got two brains missing.

Will it be all square in the final round?

This head-to-head will decide that. This is Sport.

And two of you left to play - Nick or Gorgs.

-We'll go for Gorgs.

-Yeah, I'll go for it.

-100% Gorgs.

-All right, Gorgs.

And who would you like to play from the Eggheads?

Remember that Barry, Judith and Kevin have played,

so you have got Pat or Chris.

-I don't know anything about who's best.

-Pat or Chris?

Chris or Pat. Either, I think, cos they're...

-Shall I take on Chris?

-Yeah, take on Chris. Yeah.

-Go on.

-Can I take on Chris, please?

-Yes, you can.

Gorgs and Chris into the Question Room.

He's delighted, really. Always does that.

Into the Question Room, please.

-So, Gorgs, do you want to go first or second?

-Can I go second, please?

Chris, in which position did Paul Robinson, born in 1979,

earn over 40 caps for the England football team?

Born in '79, he would be on top of his game about '99, 2000.

Erm, not heard of him as a striker,

don't think he was a goalkeeper, so he's probably a winger.

The assured touch of Chris on Sport(!)

-No, Paul Robinson is a goalkeeper.

-Is he?

-Yes.

Yes. Gorgs, in which year did the rugby union player Martin Johnson

make his first full England test debut?

Well, it's not 2003, cos he captained the England rugby team.

And...

I want to say 1993.

Yeah, well, having established 2003 when he captained England to that

magnificent World Cup victory,

unlikely he would have been playing for 20 years.

So, you're right with 1993.

Yes. Correct.

And Chris behind then.

Chris, the British athlete Mo Farah won a gold medal in which event

at the 2011 World Championships?

Well, Paula Radcliffe has got the marathon pretty much sewn up.

10,000m, 10km,

seven-and-a-bit miles, too far. 5,000m.

5,000m.

I don't know what Paula Radcliffe has got to do with Mo Farah.

They're different sexes. Did you know that, Chris?

-Oh, are they?!

-Yes.

-Mo, short for Maureen? Come on!

-Not as such, no.

-Oh.

-No.

-LAUGHTER

When you said that, everyone in the studio is looking at each other,

going, "Eh? What?"

But you've got the right answer! You lucky, lucky Egghead.

-DERMOT LAUGHS

-5,000m.

Just goes to show, doesn't it? Well, he got it,

so this question NOT potentially the clincher

for you, Gorgs, but it will ratchet up the pressure if you get it.

Which England batsman was named ICC Cricketer Of The Year in 2011?

I really should know this, but cricket is not my strong forte.

I'm going to go with a guess at Jonathan Trott.

Is the right answer!

THEY CHEER

OK, well, getting closer to the final round.

You get into it if Chris continues

with his sparkling form there with this one.

Bjorn Borg won his first-ever Grand Slam title in 1974

at which tennis tournament?

Yeah, he was still a bit green in '74,

so wouldn't have won Wimbledon. Erm...

Don't think it would've been the US Open.

They let anybody into the French Open,

so that's what I'll go with. French Open.

I'm loving the asides. The commentary.

"Well, the French Open is easy." You probably won it then, Chris?

Really, anyone can have a go. Is that it?

Oh, I'll knock a few balls around on some clay.

It is the right answer, the French Open.

Oh, my goodness me!

We all apologise for him, Gorgs. He's always like that.

Well, you can silence him if you get this right.

Which US female golfer, who died in 2006,

won a record 15 major championships?

OK, I can safely say I have absolutely not a clue on this one.

Golf is... I enjoy watching it.

The ladies game, I don't know much about,

but I'm drawn towards Patsy Berg for some reason,

so I'm going to go with, on the right-hand side, Patsy Berg.

OK, PATTY Berg I think it is, but we know who you're talking about.

And it is Patty Berg. It's the right answer!

Well, Chris landed a couple of lucky ones there, so that's fair enough.

You're in the final round. Well done, Gorgs.

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, and as always, it's General Knowledge.

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

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

So, Ian and Victoria from the Targeteers

and Chris and Judith from the Eggheads,

would you leave the studio, please?

So, Nicola, Nick and Gorgs,

you're playing to win the Targeteers £2,000.

Barry, Pat and Kevin, you're playing for something which money can't buy

- it's the Eggheads' reputation.

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

This time, the questions are General Knowledge,

and you are allowed to confer.

So, Nicola, Nick and Gorgs, the question is,

are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three?

And how they want to play this? Do you want to go first or second?

Well, it's been lucky so far.

I think the lucky second, yeah. We'll go second.

Electing to put the Eggheads in first.

First set of questions then coming your way, Eggheads,

starting with this -

Chevon is the name given to meat from which type of animal?

-Hmm.

-Well, my first thought was goat.

KEVIN: 'Yeah. Presumably.'

There is a sort of connection there with deer as well, isn't there?

-What's a "chevre" in French?

-Yeah, that's goat.

-That's goat.

That's goat, yeah. So I think it's logical that it's goat.

Yeah. It could be a trap with deer, but goat seems like the logical one.

I'm happy with goat.

-We're going with goat.

-Goat.

You asked about chevre. Goat's cheese, isn't it?

Erm, goat is right, yes.

Well done, Eggheads. Glad to avoid that one?

-DERMOT LAUGHS

-Let's see what you get, then!

Your first question on the second set here.

Turkmenistan is bordered by which body of water?

I don't think it's going to be the Mediterranean.

-No, I was good to say, not Mediterranean.

-Not Mediterranean.

Caspian, Black Sea...

Don't know about the Black Sea. The Black Sea is...

-Actually, it might be the black sea.

-I thought it was the Black Sea.

-We'll go Black Sea.

-I think the Black Sea.

-That's in that region, isn't it?

-Yeah, I think so.

-Not sure about the Caspian Sea.

-I don't know where that is.

I'd go for Black.

I think... Yeah, I think we'll go for the Black Sea.

OK, Turkmenistan is bordered by...

-the Caspian Sea.

-THEY GROAN

Didn't know where the Caspian was,

but not the Black Sea.

So, Eggheads, second question for you.

Who was named as the new Commissioner

of the Metropolitan Police Service in September 2011?

-EGGHEADS: Bernard Hogan-Howe.

-Yeah?

-Definitely.

-OK.

That's Bernard Hogan-Howe.

Bernard Hogan-Howe is correct, Eggheads,

-which means, Targeteers, you need to get this.

-Come on.

For how many years was James I king of England?

It's going to be 32 or 22.

22 years? I don't think it can be 32 years.

-I'm behind you. Two little ducks, 22.

-I have no idea, so...

We need this one, obviously.

Don't shoot me down, though.

-Shall we go for 22?

-Yeah, let's do it.

-OK, we're going to for 22.

-22.

Nick saying, "Don't shoot me down," if this is wrong.

You need this one. You certainly do.

-And you've got it.

-Yay! Well done, Nick.

Well done. But you've got to hope the Eggheads don't get this.

OK, Eggheads, the actress Kate Hudson had a son in 2011

with the lead singer of which band?

It's Matt Bellamy.

Matt Bellamy from Muse.

She had a son with Matt Bellamy who's the lead singer of Muse.

Muse is the right answer, Eggheads. You've won.

Can't put another question to you, Targeteers.

Bad luck in the final round there.

That tactic of going second, well, it worked so well for two of you

in those head-to-heads. Didn't work in the final round, but thank you

for playing against the Eggheads today, Targeteers.

And best of luck with the shooting in the future.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them,

and they still reign supreme over quizland.

I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £2,000.

That means the money rolls over to the next show.

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.

£3,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.

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