Episode 56 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.

Taking on the might of our quiz Goliaths today

are the M62s.

This team of friends share three things in common.

A love of quizzing, of course,

a job in healthcare, and, as their team name suggests,

a motorway that links all of their home towns.

Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Farrah. I'm 28 and I'm a GP.

Hi, I'm Aseea. I'm 28 and I'm a dentist.

Hi, I'm Kaz. I'm 28 and I'm a doctor.

Hi, I'm Ballal. I'm 28 and I'm a pharmacist.

Hi, I'm Omair. I'm 28 and I'm a doctor.

Welcome to you, M62s - that being the motorway in question.

I got the first two there, but love of a motorway -

because it connects you all,

-so you're different sides of the Pennines?

-Yes.

-Yes.

Who's the Yorkshire side?

-The best side.

-DERMOT LAUGHS

I don't want to sow dissent amongst the team,

the other three on the Lancashire side.

Did you all meet at university or medical college?

Well, we kind of all met

cos we were working together when we were at medical school, as well.

And also, just through mutual friends, as well.

The most important part,

apart from the coughs and splutters the Eggheads have -

they'll be coming to see you for a consultation afterwards -

is the quizzing experience. What's that like, then?

Very extensive.

I can see you're lying!

THEY LAUGH

No, we've won a few quiz machines, haven't we?

We have human quiz machines here, but they don't pay out.

We pay out if you beat them, in actual fact. Let's see if you can.

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

for our challengers.

If they don't defeat the Eggheads,

the prize money rolls over to the next show.

M62s, the Eggheads have won the last two games.

That means £3,000 says you can't beat them.

-Wooh!

-Wooh.

-"Wooh!" Very nice.

We ought to institute that.

I suspect Science might be a round, if it comes up, which suits you all.

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

-Who likes their music and who'd like to take it on?

-Me.

Ballal, it would be you.

-Wasn't it me?

-Farrah.

Farrah or Ballal, wasn't it?

Shall I...? Do you want to go?

Erm...

-OK, I'll go.

-Do you want to go?

Yes, I'm very musical.

I love your poker face. Very good, Ballal.

-Lady Gaga.

-Well, there we are - there's a musical reference.

Which Egghead would you like to play?

Why don't you go for Kevin?

-Just go for Kevin.

-Just go for Kevin?

Right, I'm going to try and take Kevin out of the competition early.

Right, now would be the time. This is early. This is the start of it.

Let's have Ballal and Kevin into the Question Room - that's to make sure

you can't confer.

Ballal, trying to take Kevin out early.

Let's see how the project works.

Do you want to go first or second?

I would like to go first, please.

OK, Music round. First question to you, then.

Here it is. In the song Do-Re-Mi from The Sound of Music,

what is described as,

"a drink with jam and bread"?

Right. Erm...

I'll be honest, I'm not into a lot of musicals,

but...that's not a surprise.

I think, with jam and bread,

the drink that you're most likely to have would be...

Erm, milk.

I'll go for milk, because cocoa you wouldn't have

-with jam and bread.

-OK.

And tea, it's a bit too hot for jam and bread,

so I'm going for milk.

-OK.

-Yes.

Do you know the song - "Doe, a deer, a female deer.

"Ray, a drop of golden sun"? And on we go.

-Erm, no...

-No?

-No.

-OK.

Then they go to "ti" and defined it as "a drink with jam and bread."

-Oh.

-Tea.

-Damn.

Not knowing the song didn't help. That was the problem.

OK.

Kevin, which children's TV characters performed at Glastonbury

in 2011?

Strangely enough, I didn't see this.

Erm...

I don't know it.

I think the ones who've had a little bit of a renaissance recently

are the Wombles.

So I'll say the Wombles.

"A bit of a renaissance"?!

Maybe "renaissance" is pushing it a bit in cultural terms...

Who can ever forget, "We wish you a Wombling Merry Christmas"?

-That was a cracker(!)

-Classics, yes(!)

Remember You're A Womble?

Erm... I'm struggling now with Wombles songs.

-HE LAUGHS

-So how did they play a whole set?

Somebody who was there can tell us, cos they did play

at Glastonbury in 2011.

It's the right answer, Kevin, so you have a lead.

Right, Ballal, let's get you going.

Which rapper born in 1968

fought in Operation Desert Storm

while a member of the US Marines?

Right, Shaggy is Jamaican,

so I don't think it's him.

Coolio's too cool to be in the army,

so I don't think it was him, either.

But I've seen Ice Cube in Three Kings,

so I think it's Ice Cube.

-You know the film?

-The film Three Kings, yeah.

George Clooney and all.

But it's not.

-It is Shaggy.

-Shaggy?!

-It is Shaggy.

Oh, dear. Well, a chance for Kevin to take the round here.

According to the lyrics of Labelle's version of Lady Marmalade,

which city was the site where, "He met Marmalade"?

I'm afraid I don't know the lyrics of this.

So it's going to be a guess.

I really don't know, so I'll try New Orleans.

They know it. It's the right answer, Kevin.

-New Orleans.

-Maybe there was something there, I don't know.

Something there, I suspect, with a brain that size.

There usually is.

e don't get to test your brain

any more, Ballal. I'm sorry, the round's over.

You're not in the final round.

Both please come back and join your teams.

As it stands, only one round gone there,

but one brain gone from the M62s,

and three more head-to-heads coming up.

The next of which is this, it's History.

Who'd like to play this? History.

-OK. Who do we think should go for...?

-Kaz should play History.

THEY DISCUSS

It's up to you, Aseea, if you're confident.

-Are you feeling historical?

-I'm not confident, but I'll do it,

if Kaz wants me to do it. Kaz wants me to go. OK.

We are giving Aseea to you.

-SHE LAUGHS

-OK.

-Handing me over.

They'll hand you on, Aseea, to one of the Eggheads

to take to the Question Room.

Choose almost any of them. It can't be Kevin. One of the other four.

Chris or CJ?

-They all look really good.

-Aseea, who do YOU want to choose?

-Aseea, would you like to choose?

-No, you help me decide.

I decide?! Farrah, you're the team captain - you decide.

I'm really confused.

-OK, shall we go for CJ, then?

-OK.

ALL: CJ.

OK. Very careful considerations. There in the end.

Ended up with CJ. It's going to be Aseea

and CJ, then, heading for the Question Room.

Aseea, I seriously hope

you get better luck in the Question Room than Ballal.

Would you like to go first or second?

I'll go first, please.

Let's get you off to a good start, then. Try this,

Which two words make up

the only entry on Sunday 3rd September 1939,

in Neville Chamberlain's diary,

which went on display at the Imperial War Museum

in 2009?

I have absolutely no idea.

Erm...

I'm torn between "England expects"

and "War declared".

I'll go for "War declared", please.

Thank goodness. It's the right answer.

THEY CHEER

It was that momentous date, 3rd September 1939.

Start of the Second World War.

So, your first question, CJ.

The philanthropist Robert Raikes

is best known for his promotion of what?

Well, "philanthropist" and "promotion"

pushes me towards Sunday schools. But it could be vaccination.

I don't think it's votes for women,

simply from the wording of the question.

I hope I would have heard of him if it WAS that.

Erm...

I really don't know.

It could be somebody who gave a lot of money

to try and develop vaccinations,

but most of those were developed independently.

The word "promote" makes me think it was possibly educational.

I will guess at Sunday schools?

OK, a guess

and a silent clap from Daphne, there. Not overwhelmed by it,

but glad you weren't caught out.

It's the right answer.

All square.

Back to you, Aseea.

Which explorer helped the Belgian king Leopold II

develop an interest in the region which became known

as the Congo Free State?

Erm...

I'm afraid I haven't heard

of any of those three.

Erm...

This will just have to be a lucky guess.

Well, I hope it's lucky.

I'll go for...

I'll go for Emin Pasha.

Emin Pasha

and King Leopold.

It's incorrect.

No, sorry, Aseea. CJ?

On the geography, I'd have gone for Mungo Park.

What?!

-Oh, well!

-It's some comfort I suppose, Assea,

to know the Egghead didn't know the answer, either.

We don't need to put it to the other Eggheads -

it's Henry Morton Stanley, although they did know that.

It wasn't your question, CJ, and this IS.

Which historical region roughly corresponds

to modern Moldova and parts of Ukraine?

I haven't actually heard of "Bessarb..."? Bessarabia?

Bessarabia.

Not heard of that, but Transoxiana is definitely down in that region,

so Transoxiana.

OK. Transoxiana

-is incorrect!

-Oh, dear.

It's not right.

It is Bessarabia.

Well! Oh, dear!

No damage done to your cause, Aseea, because CJ got that wrong,

but you would have had a shot at victory with this one.

But this will still put the pressure if you get it.

St Peter is traditionally believed to have been executed in Rome,

during the reign of which emperor?

Erm...

I have heard of them - of the answers - but erm...

I'm afraid I'm not very good with Roman history.

I'll go for...

Caligula?

-Eggheads?

-Nero.

It was Nero. Another baddie.

But nothing there, and a chance

for CJ to take the round.

CJ, the Second Punic War

was ignited in 219 BC

by dispute over the city of Seguntum,

which was located in which modern-day country?

I really don't know this at all.

Erm...

I would surprised if it was Spain.

That seems a little remote for...

generally where the battles took place.

But it could, of course, be.

If I'm ruling out Spain, I'll just guess between the others.

I'll try Croatia.

Daphne, come out from under the desk.

SHE LAUGHS

-Spain!

-It's Spain.

-Well...

-She's not enjoying this.

-Whereas I am, really(!)

-You're loving it(!)

-We are!

-DERMOT LAUGHS

We go to Sudden Death, Aseea. You're still very much in it.

It's almost as if we're starting all over again,

but it could all hang on one question.

In Sudden Death, there's no choices to look at.

So, here you go.

From the 15th century until 1912,

Albania was part of which empire?

Erm, I think I'll go for the Ottoman Empire.

It's the right answer!

And it's in Sudden Death.

So a lot of pressure on CJ now.

CJ, the current church of St Martin-in-the-Fields

in Trafalgar Square,

designed by James Gibbs,

was completed in which century?

I've walked past it thousands of times,

but I've never been in.

I'm thinking it's either

the 18th or the 19th.

Don't know.

Guess at the 19th?

OK, the 19th.

Looking at Daphne. Happy or sad?

I don't know.

-Oh!

-18th.

-18th.

It's the 18th century, CJ!

So they're sad. Well, well, well, well, well, Aseea,

have you surprised yourself getting through there? I think a little bit?

Definitely, yes! SHE LAUGHS

You really got into it when we got into Sudden Death.

You're through to the final round.

Both please come back and join your teams.

To use the medical parlance, a real shot in the arm

for the M62s, from Aseea's great victory over CJ.

It means both teams have now lost one brain from the final round.

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

Who'd like to play this?

These are difficult.

Who've you got left? Kaz, Omair or Farrah?

Omair, what about you?

-I think Kaz.

-I think Farrah will have the best chance.

Do you think so?

Probably our best chance. I think we should save her to the end.

-Do you want me to go?

-I think Kaz should go.

OK, Dermot, I'm going to volunteer myself for this!

Volunteer yourself or be volunteered.

I'm not sure which it is.

You have any of the two women -

Daphne or Judith - or Chris.

I think I'd like to try Judith.

OK. Try Judith, then.

Let's have you both, please, into the Question Room -

that is Judith and Kaz.

Kaz, do you want to go first or second?

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

Good luck, Kaz. First question for you.

What general term was coined

to describe books that describe the author's

triumph over adversity, particularly in childhood?

I think I'm going to go for the middle answer there -

the tragedy tale.

I don't think "misery memoir"

sounds too appealing as a book to read,

and I think "bad news biography"...

No, I'm going to go for the middle answer.

It's not. It is misery memoir.

Misery memoir.

OK, Judith,

the bestselling collection of inspirational short stories

and anecdotes compiled by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen

and first published in 1993,

is called "what" For The Soul?

I think I would have called it "Chocolate Mousse For The Soul",

but I don't think they did.

I think it's Chicken Soup For The Soul.

Chocolate Mousse, it wasn't. Chicken Soup, it was, which you got.

So you have the lead. Kaz.

The novelist Harriet Vane

features in the works of which detective author?

The only author that I've actually heard of is Agatha Christie.

I don't think it's probably Agatha Christie,

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

This is going to be a total guess.

I think I'm going to go for Margery Allingham.

OK.

Margery Allingham... No! It's not.

You're right about Agatha Christie, so therefore

I won't ask anyone else - it's Dorothy L Sayers

who created Harriet Vane.

A chance for victory, Judith.

Which London station is depicted

in William Frith's painting,

The Railway Station?

Oh, gosh.

Don't light anything up.

Waterloo immediately came to mind and now I'm doubting...

Erm..

I can see it in my head, too.

Erm...

I'm going to go first instinct, and Waterloo.

Hope for the best.

Obviously, we're going to check this out with Chris.

I suppose you have prints of it?

No. I know the painting.

The station hasn't changed that much since Frith painted it,

except the broad gauge has disappeared. It's Paddington.

It's Paddington.

Oh, it's Paddington. The other I'd have said was Charing Cross!

So I would never have got it.

Well, you're still in it, Kaz. Let's get on with this, shall we?

You've got to get this, though.

Yep.

Which novelist was a co-founder

of the Orange Prize for Fiction?

Erm...

This again, Dermot, is going to be a complete random guess.

I think I'm going to go for Pat Barker.

Gone for Pat Barker. Co-founder of the Orange Prize for Fiction.

It is...

Kate Mosse.

-Oh, dear.

-Kate Mosse.

Game over. Kaz, you won't be in the Final Round. You're there, Judith.

Both please come back and join your teams.

That means the M62s have lost two brains

from the Final Round. The Eggheads have lost one.

We reach our last head-to-head before the Final Round.

Two players remaining on the M62s - Omair and Farrah,

and one of you faces Geography.

-Who wants to play it?

-Farrah.

I'm not hot on it, but...

Farrah, how do you feel about Geography?

Well, I got an A in my GSCE.

All right, don't boast on TV.

-Please.

-Farrah, I think you should go for it.

-Do you want to go, or shall I go?

-I didn't even do Geography.

-Shall I go?

-I think we'd have more of a chance of winning with you,

-so you go for it.

-OK. I'm going to go, then, Dermot.

You dropped yourself in it, didn't you,

mentioning the A-level?

Who would you like to play from the Eggheads?

Judith and Kevin have played.

There are two remaining - Chris and Daphne.

Who do you think?

-I think...

-I think Chris.

Chris, I think.

-No, Daphne.

-Daphne?

She's smiling there - let's go for Daphne.

She's always smiling.

-Shall we go...?

-Go for Daphne.

Daphne? OK, I'll compete against Daphne, then.

It's going to be Farrah and Daphne.

Into the Question Room, the two of you, please.

Farrah, as you know, a victory here would make it all square,

in terms of numbers in the Final Round.

Do you want to go first or second?

I think I'll go first, Dermot.

It's Geography, and first question to you, then, Farrah.

Lake Marathon, created by the construction of the Marathon Dam,

is in which country?

OK, so...

I've been to Greece and I've never heard of the Marathon Dam there.

I'm not very sure about whether it's in Turkey.

I think I'll go for Syria.

All right. Syria. Lake Marathon is in...

It's in Greece!

Marathons and Greece kind of go together, don't they?

OK!

Daphne, first question. Knoxville and Clarksville

are major cities in which US state?

Gosh.

Doesn't sound like Utah.

Erm... (Clarksville?)

Tennessee?

It's the right answer, Daphne!

Yes!

Well, you got it.

Farrah, let's see how you do with this one.

Burnham Beeches is an area

of ancient woodland in which English county?

OK.

Just trying to think of my...

geography...

of down south.

I think I'll say Lincolnshire.

-You're going for that?

-Yes.

Burnham Beeches, in Lincolnshire. Daphne, what do you think?

-Buckinghamshire.

-It's Buckinghamshire!

Bucks, not Lincs.

A chance for victory, then, Daphne.

What is the Riesenrad -

a famous tourist attraction in Vienna?

Could you spell it - slowly?

R-IE-S-E-N-R-A-D.

Erm...

Well...

It didn't help very much.

"Riesen..."?

A Ferris wheel?

We could hear the wheels going round in your head, almost, Daphne,

as you thought it up.

It is the right answer. Is this Orson Welles...?

-BOTH: Yeah.

-The Third Man.

-There's some scenes shot on it, aren't there?

-Absolutely.

As a tourist attraction, you can go round on it.

And you can hear the music.

Oh, they play the music, that distinctive zither music, isn't it?

Ferry 'Cross The Mersey - same idea.

Now you're familiar with it, Daphne,

-when we mentioned The Third Man.

-Yes.

OK, Riesenrad, Ferris wheel. And you've fallen off it, Farrah.

You're not in the final round.

Both please come back and join your teams.

This is what we've been playing towards. Time for the final round -

as always, 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.

Farrah, Kaz and Ballal from the M62s

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

So, Aseea and Omair,

you're playing to win the M62s £3,000.

Judith, Kevin, Daphne and Chris.

You are playing for something which money cannot buy -

the Eggheads' reputation.

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

The difference is the questions are all General Knowledge,

and you are allowed to confer.

So, Aseea and Omair, the question is,

are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

M62s, would you like to go first or second?

Apart from Aseea, I don't think going first has worked for us,

so we're going to go second.

Putting the Eggheads in first, trying that tactic.

This, then, is your question, Eggheads. Carol Cleveland

is best known for her association with which comedy group?

Carol Cleveland

is best known for her association

with which comedy group?

We're all agreed - Monty Python?

Yep. She was the only genuine lady

in Monty Python's Flying Circus.

The right answer, Eggheads.

You're off to a FLYING start.

Your first question, M62s.

The broadcaster Evan Davis

found fame as an expert on which subject?

Erm, I think that is economics.

It is indeed.

Yes, indeed.

You have a point. One each.

Eggheads, an exhibition devoted to the life and career of which singer

opened at the V&A Museum in London in September 2011?

I think it might be Diana Ross,

because of the clothes.

A flamboyant dressiness. It wouldn't be Annie Lennox, would it?

The V&A's very hot on clothes.

It wouldn't be George Michael? No.

We're agreed on Diana Ross?

Do you want to think a bit more?

I don't know. I've just got a slight inkling

about Annie Lennox.

-Annie Lennox?

-She's had a career in other fields, as well.

-I think maybe a bit of...

-In what sort of fields?

Photography, maybe, a bit of that. That sort of thing.

I'm trying to think if I've seen anything.

Because she's British.

Do you think that's more likely

than Diana Ross?

It's more likely in that sense, yes.

Are we coming round towards Annie Lennox?

Eggheads, I'm going to need an answer.

I'll take it on me.

I'll say Annie Lennox, yeah.

Well, yeah.

We've come to a conclusion. Kevin thinks it's Annie Lennox.

That's who we'll go for - Annie Lennox.

Cos you were diving in on Diana Ross.

Very close to going for that.

Kevin's had a good think, and got the right answer!

Well done!

-It was Annie Lennox. Well!

-Ah!

Oh, no!

It would have been a great result for you. But still in it.

Need to get this, though.

Roy Plomley and Nick Clark

have been hosts of which radio quiz?

I don't know what to think.

Never heard of either of them.

I've heard Quote... Unquote.

Erm...

The News Quiz?

I'm not sure about...

What do you...? Have you...?

Shall we go for Quote... Unquote?

We're leaning towards Quote... Unquote.

It's not the right answer. Do you know, Eggheads?

-ALL: Round Britain Quiz.

-Course you would!

I would have expected you to get that.

It means the Eggheads now have a chance to win the game

if you get this. Which country won the Rugby Sevens gold medal

when it was first played at the Commonwealth Games in 1998?

-No idea.

-I don't know.

I'm just thinking that

obviously the percentage one on this is New Zealand,

-because of their rugby pedigree.

-Good at sevens.

They're very good at sevens.

-Samoa play rugby, as well, pretty well.

-Erm...

The other real sevens specialists, I suppose, are Fiji,

who aren't there.

I would have to go for the percentage, which is New Zealand.

But without any confidence.

You all happy with New Zealand?

-Without any confidence.

-We can't have.

-I've no idea.

I'm happy with any of them.

Kevin thinks it's New Zealand. That's good enough for me.

-I don't know, Chris. I really don't.

-OK.

We don't know, Dermot, but we're prepared to go for New Zealand.

New Zealand?

-Again on Kevin's advice.

-Yup.

It's right again! Eggheads, you've won.

All hinged on that man the end -

I think the other Eggheads will agree.

New Zealand won it then and every time since, as well.

Did they? All right, then.

Oh, no, I've told you something you might use in future quizzes!

So, all hinged on that round between Ballal and Kevin.

A large part of it, anyway.

Let's not take away from our players in the final round -

Aseea and Omair. Well done, you two.

Thank you for taking on the Eggheads.

And to all who went before you,

and unfortunately lost out. There they are!

Got the lovely smiles. Lost out in those head-to-heads, though.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally,

and they still reign supreme over Quizland.

I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £3,000,

and that means the money rolls over to the next show

Eggheads, congratulations.

Do join us next time to see if a new team of challengers

have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

£4,000 says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.

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