Episode 48 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

against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.

They are the Eggheads.

Taking on the awesome might of our quiz Goliaths today

are the Bristol Brains.

This team of friends all attend the University of Bristol,

and during their first year

would regularly quiz together at their local, the White Hart.

Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Laura. I'm 21 and I'm a deaf studies student.

Hi, I'm Caroline. I'm 20 and I'm studying civil engineering.

Hi, I'm Fi. I'm 20 and I'm a biochemistry student.

Hi, I'm Ella. I'm 20 and I'm a sociology student.

Hi, I'm Megan. I'm 21 and I'm a sociology student.

Welcome to you, Bristol Brains.

So you started quizzing when you first got together at university.

Did you keep it up, or did you stop after one year?

We started in our first year.

We carried it on throughout the first year,

then we moved away from that pub...

DERMOT CHUCKLES ..but we've been back a few times,

so hopefully our standards are still as high tonight.

What did you win? I mean, did you win that pub quiz at the White Hart?

-Yes, we won.

-Oh, you did. What did you get?

The prizes varied from pints

to desserts such as cheesecake,

or, occasionally, small cash prizes.

But we preferred the cheesecake. THEY ALL LAUGH

The Eggheads are getting their disguises ready now

as they're not really allowed in too many pubs.

But the hats are ready, and the moustaches,

and they're heading for the White Hart, I suspect, after this.

Good luck today against the Eggheads.

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

However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,

the prize money rolls over to the next show.

So, Bristol Brains, the challengers won the last game,

which means £1,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads today.

And our first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Music.

-Who'd like to play this?

-Laura?

Yeah, I'll go for it - I'll do Music.

OK, Captain Laura - straight in with Music.

Choose an Egghead.

Um... What do you think? Judith?

ALL: Judith?

OK. Laura and Judith - into the Question Room, please -

just to make sure you can't confer.

Well, Laura - you get to choose.

Do you want to go first or second against our Egghead, Judith, today?

I think I'll go second, please.

Well, let's see how Judith does then with the first set of questions.

Judith, what is the name of the man-eating plant

in the musical Little Shop of Horrors?

What is the name of the man-eating plant

in the musical Little Shop of Horrors?

That is Audrey II.

It is the right answer, yes. OK.

Laura, you decided to go second, so your first question.

"Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins"

are the opening lyrics to which Beatles song?

"Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins"

are the opening lyrics to which Beatles song?

I'm not a huge Beatles fan myself.

Um...

..I'm going to have to guess this one, I'm afraid.

I'm trying to think of the lyrics to any of the songs there.

But I'm going to have to take a guess at And I Love Her.

OK, guessing at And I Love Her by the Beatles.

"Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins" -

She's Leaving Home.

-Oh.

-She's Leaving Home. OK.

See how Judith does with her second one. Here it comes.

In 1975, Showaddywaddy released a cover version

of which Eddie Cochran song?

In 1975, Showaddywaddy released a cover version

of which Eddie Cochran song?

Um...

Well, I'm trying to think.

I don't really know, so I'm going to have to guess.

Um...

Three Steps to Heaven.

Is the right answer.

Which is bad news for you, Laura - means you've got to get this.

The songs Some of Us Belong To The Stars and Ambrosia

are from the musical Billy

with music by which composer?

The songs Some of Us Belong To The Stars and Ambrosia

are from the musical Billy with music by which composer?

I've never seen that musical.

Although I am usually a fan of musicals, I haven't seen that one.

Um...

(Composers?)

Um...

I'm going to go for Robert Sherman.

OK. Robert Sherman.

Daphne, what do you think?

I've never heard of it.

-Never heard of Billy?

-No.

Well, if you haven't,

I can hold my hand up and say I haven't either, then.

If Daphne hasn't heard of it, it must be rather obscure.

The music is by John Barry, which means...

There we see the scores -

we don't need to put another question to Judith -

she's won it two-nil,

which means you're not in the final round. Bad luck, Laura.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Bad luck there, Laura -

a Beatles song, a musical and a Showaddywaddy guess by Judith

ended your challenge there.

The Bristol Brains are one brain down

from the final round. Eggheads all there, of course.

Second round, then, coming up.

And this head-to-head is Science.

-Who'd like to play this?

-Fi.

-Everyone looking at Fi?

-ALL: Yes.

-Get in there, Fi.

Biochemistry student, of course.

Who would you like to play? It can't be Judith -

any of the other four.

-(CJ?)

-Who?

-CJ, really?

-Yeah.

OK, I'm going to take on CJ, please.

OK, you can.

Fi and CJ - into the Question Room, both of you, please.

Fi, as I said there, a biochemistry student -

so quite a lot of this category covered,

but what about physics and maths -

other areas that come up in this broad category?

Yeah, physics is not one of my strongest.

Maths, I can do bits of,

because obviously it comes up in my biochemistry degree,

but I would say physics would be the weaker in my Science, yeah.

Let's see - do you want the first set or the second?

I'd like the first set, please.

First question coming your way.

What name is given to the stream of mainly protons and electrons

flowing from the corona of the sun?

Well, I've never come across this term before.

I'm going to go with...

solar wind.

And right to do so.

It's off the mark for you. Correct answer.

And, CJ, in the animal world,

what is the meaning of the term "nidification"?

I haven't heard it, but it makes sense it should be nest building.

Um...

"Nidi" doesn't suggest trees to me

and it doesn't suggest colour, so I'll try nest building.

OK - nest building...

is the right answer.

Well done. Both off to a good start. And, Fi -

myosis is a condition that affects which part of the human body?

I have come across this term before, and I believe it's eyes.

It is. It's the right answer - two for you.

CJ - what is the meaning of the term "saurischian",

used to denote an order of dinosaurs?

Spell it, please.

S-A-URISCHIAN.

That didn't help, thanks.

I know there's an order called "lizard-hipped".

I think the Iguanodon's one of those.

Er...

I haven't heard of the other two.

Based on the fact I've just heard the term,

-I'll try lizard-hipped.

-Lizard-hipped?

Heard of "Snake-hipped". A bit like you, CJ.

But lizard-hipped is the right answer.

Well identified by CJ. It's two-all, what a round.

Fi. Third question.

Might win it for you.

NASA's first space flight centre, established in 1959,

was named after which scientist?

OK, with this one, I really have no idea.

I haven't heard about the naming of it before,

but I'm going to go with Robert H Goddard.

The right answer - well done!

Three out of three.

Well, if that was a guess, a very good one.

Potential place in the final round. Next question, CJ

Robert Broom, born in Scotland in 1866,

is most associated with which branch of science?

I've heard of him -

which makes me think it's not microbiology,

because I know nothing about that.

I know something about palaeontology, I know something about astronomy,

so I'm just trying to place him.

My first thought is that it's palaeontology - that he was a...

..a dinosaur hunter.

I can't drag anything else up,

so I'll have to go with my first instinct and say palaeontology.

Two dinosaur questions, then. It's the right answer!

Yes, palaeontology for Robert Broom.

Two very good quizzers here on Science.

It'll take something harder to sort out a winner.

Let's go to Sudden Death.

-It's not my choice, it's the rules.

-HE LAUGHS

It means, Fi, that we remove the options.

You have to come up with an answer yourself -

can't show you any choices. Here you go.

As a result of his detailed observations of patients,

and accurate record-keeping,

the 17th century physician Thomas Sydenham

was given the nickname of "the English..." what?

As a result of his detailed observations of patients,

and accurate record-keeping,

the 17th-century physician Thomas Sydenham

was given the nickname of "the English..." what?

I have never come across him before.

I'll have to pass on that one, I'm afraid.

Medical, yeah - not really your field.

But "the English..." what? Thinking medical...? CJ, you'll know.

Mm-mm.

Other Eggheads will.

So it's what as opposed to who, is it?

So something like "English Hippocrates"?

You're right.

CJ, if you get this right, you're in the final round.

Which mineral has a name derived from the German for "sea foam"?

Oh!

How about meerschaum?

Meerschaum?

It's the right answer.

Meerschaum is correct.

Gets you through to the final round. Bad luck, Fi.

Got very close,

but not there, I'm afraid.

Both please come back and join your teams.

Well, a really good performance from Fi there,

but didn't make it into the final round.

It means Bristol Brains are two brains down from the final round. The Eggheads all still there,

and our next subject today is Arts & Books.

Who'd like to play this one - Caroline, Ella or Megan?

Am I doing it or are you doing it?

I think maybe Megan. Megan's quite good at...

Reads quite a lot.

That's very...

What if Food And Drink comes up?

Yeah, but she can do that.

-OK. That's fine. So, Megan?

-I'll do it.

I think we're going to say Megan.

Megan, you're quite keen there.

THEY LAUGH

Let's have one of the Eggheads out here. Judith and CJ can't play,

so it's Kevin, Daphne or Pat.

-I think they're all pretty good.

-Definitely don't know.

Um...Pat?

I don't mind - what do you think?

-Shall we go with Pat?

-ALL: Yeah.

OK, it'll to be Megan and Pat, then.

You don't fear any of them, do you, Megan?

SHE LAUGHS

Let's have you into the Question Room, Megan and Pat.

Well, Megan, best of luck.

Let's see if we can get you past Pat into the final round.

Would you like to go first or second?

I think I'll go second, Dermot.

'Course you can. That means Pat kicks off.

Pat, your first question is this.

Back From The Brink: 1,000 Days At Number 11

is by which former Chancellor of the Exchequer?

I think it's a modern book,

so I think it's not Denis Healey.

"Back from the Brink" I think refers to the global financial crisis.

But I'm not entirely sure

whether it's Gordon Brown or Alastair Darling.

I'm unsure.

But I think that Alistair Darling's period as Chancellor

coincided with the full fury of the financial crisis.

Could he have done 1,000 days?

That's just under three years

of being Chancellor.

Let me think about that.

Gordon Brown

took over from Tony Blair part-way through a term.

A term is five years, or slightly less than five years,

maximum English term.

If he took over a year, year-and-a-half, two years in,

with Alistair Darling as his Chancellor,

I suppose Alistair Darling could clock up 1,000 days,

so I'm quite unsure here. I'll go for Alistair Darling.

A very cautious Pat there.

Absolutely treading on ice.

Yeah - Alastair Darling.

So, Alastair Darling, Pat crawls to there.

Your first question then, Megan.

The John McEnroe Art Gallery

is situated in which city?

Um, I've not heard of it,

so I'm going to have to go for a guess.

Um...

I'm going to go down the middle - I'm going to go for New York.

A route that John McEnroe very rarely took with his shots,

but it is the right answer.

Yes, New York. Well done.

So, Pat -

second question.

Sold in 2011, Man Posting A Letter

and Man With A Cart are works by which artist?

I link John Piper with stained glass, perhaps incorrectly.

Eric Gill is typefaces and...

..sculpture.

Man Posting a Letter and Man with a Cart.

It sounds like the material...

that LS Lowry used to paint

of ordinary people going around urban landscapes

doing ordinary things.

I think I'll have to go for LS Lowry.

LS Lowry for the imaginatively-titled

Man Posting a Letter and Man with a Cart(?)

Spent a lot of time painting.

Perhaps exhausted when it came to titling them.

LS Lowry is correct, Pat. You have it.

Two for you, and Megan -

Professor Phillip Goodman is the central character

in which 2011 play by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman?

Again, not something I'm familiar with. Um..

I don't know why Ghost Stories isn't sticking out for me.

Obviously, it'll probably be correct now.

I'm going to go for Weird Histories, I think.

OK, Weird Histories

by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, you think?

It's not! It's Ghost Stories, of the other two.

Ghost Stories, with Phillip Goodman as the central character.

A chance for Pat to clinch the round.

"Persons" was the original surname

of which author who died in 1984?

I should know this, really.

But it doesn't ring a bell.

Died in 1984?

Capote...

..was certainly a big society figure throughout the '60s

and some of the '70s, I think, in New York.

I think Henry Miller might be a slightly earlier...

generation of author.

And I don't know a great deal about Irwin Shaw.

"Persons". Truman Capote. Could that be a real surname, "Capote"?

I'm a bit bewildered here.

On the assumption that "Truman Capote" sounds like

a slightly made-up name,

I'll go for Truman Capote.

"Sounds like a made-up name."

Well, you're right - it is.

It's the right answer. Truman Capote.

Pat identified it, which means we end the round there.

Bad luck, Megan.

Sorry - don't get to put another question to you.

Pat's got three out of three.

Both please come back and join your teams.

The Bristol Brains down to two now.

Three of you gone from the final round now. No Eggheads,

so your only chance coming up now to get rid of one of them.

See if you can do it on Sport.

-Oh, dear!

-THEY LAUGH

Caroline and Ella remaining.

OK, guys - what are we thinking?

Who d'you think would be the most confident

on the General Knowledge round, if you get through on your own -

if YOU don't win?

I'll do whatever makes Caroline most happy.

Don't put it on me!

It's really thrown the cat amongst the pigeons.

We've never had a "pass" on taking part.

You might as well try. Which one is it to be?

-Go, Caroline. Take one for the team.

-OK, I'll do it, then. OK.

-OK.

-Yeah.

-Caroline.

OK, Caroline. I think that is the most reluctant contestant...

We've had a few but as I say, Caroline, enjoy yourself.

Who could you enjoy yourself against, do you think?

Kevin or Daphne?

ALL: Daphne.

BOTH: Yeah.

Be gentle, Daphne. Be kind. As you always are.

Caroline and Daphne into the Question Room, please.

Well, Caroline, do you want to go first or second?

I'll go second, please.

-Trying to put it off a bit, eh?

-Yeah!

Daphne, first question goes to you.

The BOA oversees British participation

in which international sporting event?

B-O-A?

Um, Olympics?

-Yes, surprisingly enough(!)

-SHE LAUGHS

Very tentative. Eggheads careful with your first questions

after quite a few losses recently. Right to be so.

British Olympic Association - the "O" there giving the clue away.

OK, Caroline.

Maybe you've done some of this down the pub at university.

Which scoring area on a dartboard

is referred to as "the basement"?

Wow! I have to say I've never even played darts before.

-Right.

-Um...

I'm...

..going to go with double five, I think.

Double five?

Not played darts and not familiar with what's down the bottom there -

-obviously the basement, it's double three.

-Oh!

Double three in the basement.

OK, well...

See what Daphne does with her second one.

What is the nickname of the USA rugby union team?

SHE LAUGHS

Um, I think they're the Eagles.

They are, and you are soaring into a two-nil lead,

which means, Caroline, you need to get this.

Who served as Europe's captain

for Golf's Solheim Cup in 2011?

Wow!

I'm definitely not a big golf fan.

So it's going to have to be a guess again.

Um...

Erm...

I'm going to go with Alison Nicholas.

Hey-hey! You've got it.

Ooh!

There, you see.

-Yeah!

-You're a golfing expert.

The Solheim Cup, Daphne, is the female version of the Ryder Cup?

Yes.

OK.

Alison Nicholas there,

keeping you alive.

But Daphne's got a chance here.

Daphne, Masked Marvel, the winner of the 2011 St Leger

and Duncan, joint winner of the Irish St Leger on the same day,

were trained by whom?

Don't know. Don't really follow horse racing.

Um..

SHE SIGHS

..Barry Hills.

-No.

-No.

Not Barry Hills. Other Eggheads?

John Gosden.

John Gosden, yes. John Gosden, there.

Not identified by Daphne.

Well, well, well, Caroline.

I think you're trying to get this over with quickly as you can,

but you know what? You might need to guess this, you might not.

If you get this, anything can happen.

Who was ITV's main commentator

for the 1966 football World Cup Final?

Who was ITV's main commentator

for the 1966 football World Cup Final?

Um...

Oh!

Definitely don't know this!

Um...

I'm...

..going to go with Raymond "Glennading"... "Glennaning"?

-Glendenning?

-Yep, that one!

Raymond Glendenning, for the ITV's main commentator.

You say you don't know this -

I think a lot of people don't know this,

because the man on the other side came up with the famous phrase

and, as so often with those events,

most people tended to watch it on the BBC.

The other man was Kenneth Wolstenholme,

with, "They think it's all over - it is now."

Who was commentating for ITV? It's NOT Raymond Glendenning.

It's incorrect. Other Eggheads?

-Do you know?

-Hugh Johns?

Hugh Johns - it was Hugh Johns.

But not identified.

Bad luck there, Caroline

Pretty well. You got one right there.

It means, Daphne, you're through to the final round, not Caroline.

Both please come back and join your teams.

So this is what we've been playing towards.

It's time for the final round - as always, is 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 Laura, Caroline, Fi and Megan from the Bristol Brains -

would you leave the studio, please?

Ella, you're playing to win the Bristol Brains

£1,000.

Pat, Judith, Kevin, CJ and Daphne,

you're playing for something which money cannot buy -

the Eggheads' reputation.

I'll ask each team three questions in turn.

The questions are all General Knowledge

and you are allowed to confer.

Ella, the question then is,

is your one brain better than the Eggheads' five?

How do you want to play - go first or second?

I think I'll go second, please.

It's the Eggheads kicking off today.

This is your question then, Eggheads.

What name is given to the pieces of metal

attached to a saddle,

which hold a horse rider's feet?

-Stirrups?

-Yup.

Those are stirrups.

They are stirrups, yes. Well done, Eggheads. Eased in there.

Let's ease you in, Ella, hopefully.

Empire magazine is most concerned with which subject?

Thankfully, I think I know the answer to this question.

I think it's films?

Empire concerns itself mostly with films.

Yes, absolutely right.

OK, so no slip up there.

Solid and assured start from Ella.

Eggheads, in which film do Fred Astaire,

Jack Buchanan and Nanette Fabray dress as babies

and perform a song called Triplets?

-The Band Wagon.

-Yep.

It's The Band Wagon.

It is The Band Wagon, Eggheads.

Next question then for you, Ella.

Boxgrove Quarry,

known for its archaeological site, is in which county?

Um...

I have no idea.

I...

..live fairly near Warwickshire,

outside of term time,

and I haven't heard of it.

I'm not very familiar with the South.

Um...

I'm going to go for Wiltshire.

Closest of those to Bristol, I guess.

HE LAUGHS

Er...

it's not Warwickshire, but it's not Wiltshire.

It is in West Sussex.

Not there for you.

So it means, Eggheads, you win if you get this.

What type of meat is obtained

from a Santa Gertrudis?

What type of meat is obtained from a Santa Gertrudis?

Have a spelling on that, please.

GERTRUDIS.

A Santa Gertrudis.

A "St Gertrude".

It's obviously a breed of some...

It's also Spanish, so it could be Argentinian.

I think Daphne's got an inkle.

Oh, we've got an inkle, good.

Chicken?

I was thinking it could be Spanish, therefore Argentinian,

therefore beef.

I was thinking...

I don't know, but I think I've heard

of a breed of chicken called St Gertrude.

-That's fine.

-But that's...

-Pat, any...?

Well, unless anyone's got anything stronger than a slight inkle?

-No, that's...

-I'm happy with that.

-Yeah?

-Yes.

-I think if Daphne

has actually got an idea...

Well, no - it's more if any of us have got...

Unsurprisingly, we don't know it

but Daphne THINKS she may have heard of it as a chicken.

As a breed of chicken,

-so that's what we're going for.

-Chicken?

Santa Gertrudis.

Rare slip from Daphne.

"Steered" - listen to the word "steer" -

the Eggheads the wrong way,

away from beef.

I thought it was in the net for the Eggheads there,

but, Santa Gertrudis - no.

A Texan breed of cattle.

Great news, Ella.

Get this and we don't know what might happen.

It'll get us into Sudden Death at least,

and we'll take it from there.

So, what was the last novel

completed by Charles Dickens?

What was the last novel completed by Charles Dickens?

I...

..don't know.

I haven't read any of them.

I am going to have to guess.

I think that...

..A Tale Of Two Cities is quite well-known,

and I'm going to go with the logic

that he may have tailed off slightly at the end,

so I'm going to go for one of the others.

And I'm going to go for...

..Dombey and Son?

OK. A Tale of Two Cities rejected.

It's not A Tale of Two Cities.

It's not Dombey and Son, it's Our Mutual Friend.

Bad luck, Ella. It means, Eggheads, you've won.

Tough there, always tough on your own against all those five Eggheads.

Just missed out with your Dickens there.

Thanks very much, Ella, for taking on the Eggheads,

on her own in the final round,

and all the Bristol Brains who went before you

into the Question room there, especially Caroline, I think,

who really was almost dragged

kicking and screaming to play that Sport round,

but got a question right, Caroline. Head held high.

And all the heads held high from the Bristol Brains,

taking on the Eggheads today,

but not managed it in the end.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally

and they reign supreme over Quizland once again.

I'm afraid you won't be going home with £1,000.

That means the money rolls over to our next show.

Eggheads, congratulations.

Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers

have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

£2,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.

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