Episode 63 Eggheads

These people are among 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 our champions today are...

This team of friends have a strong quizzing pedigree,

and recently came fourth out of nearly 100 teams in the Hereford Quiz League. Let's meet them.

Hi. I'm Katy. I'm 19 and I'm a politics student.

Hi. I'm Shaun. I'm 22 and I work in IT.

Hi. I'm Emily. I'm 19 and I'm an office assistant.

Hi. I'm Martin. I'm 26 and I'm an accountant.

Hi. I'm Emma. I'm 20 and I'm a criminology student.

-Katy and team, welcome.

-Thank you.

You're friends, you're all in Hereford and you hang out together?

Yeah, well, myself and Emma are at university.

The other three all work in Hereford.

-Have you worked out who's doing what subject and all that?

-Yeah.

We haven't over-thought it, though. It'll come naturally.

Who does the alphabet backwards in five seconds?

-Do this and that might throw them.

-Oh, OK.

I used to do it in five seconds. It's not as quick as it used to be, but I'll give it a go.

RECITES ALPHABET BACKWARDS

-Brilliant.

-LAUGHTER

-Can you see they all got confused?

-It's supposed to freak you out!

I have a note that says you were voted the most likely to be Prime Minister, Katy, by your class!

-That was at high school, yeah.

-Are you on the way?

-I'm doing a politics degree, but I'm not sure I'm on the way to being Prime Minister.

-Does that help?

-It might be a hindrance.

-Good luck with that and with this.

Every day, there is £1,000 up for grabs for our challengers.

If they fail to defeat the Eggheads the money rolls over to the next show.

So, The Only Way Is Hereford, the Eggheads have won the last nine games.

£10,000 says you can't beat them today.

-Shall we start?

-Yes. I think so.

The first head-to-head battle is on Food & Drink.

It's you or Emily, isn't it?

It's got to be you. You think it's me. OK.

-Emily?

-Yeah. We'll have Emily.

-We know who she's going to meet.

-Kevin.

-And HE does.

EMILY: I'm going to be taking on Kevin.

You obviously watch the programme.

So, it's Emily from The Only Way Is Hereford versus Kevin,

the Egghead who's famously a little bit on-off on his food and drink.

To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions in the Question Room.

-Emily, you're an office assistant but your main interest is modelling, is that right?

-Yeah.

I recently won a local competition where I've been modelling for a local clothes store.

I was also a hair model and I did a bit of catwalk in London, so that was pretty cool.

How does it work? Do you try to get an agent or get photos together?

I have been trying to, but Hereford's not huge for stuff like that.

I need to be down south in London or somewhere bigger.

And do your mum and dad say, "That's not the career for you"?

Gosh, no! They love it.

-They've covered the house in photos of me. It's crazy.

-Well, good luck.

-Ever thought about modelling, Kevin?

-I'm not sure modelling what!

JEREMY CHUCKLES

Three multiple choice questions on food and drink. Not Kevin's favourite subject.

-You also have the advantage, Emily, of choosing the first or second set.

-First set, please.

Good luck, Emily.

What type of foodstuff is muscovado?

Muscovado. I'm not 100% sure.

I'm not into cooking that much.

Muscovado? Doesn't sound like a sugar. Um...

Or a flour.

There's loads of types of vinegar, so I'm going to go for vinegar.

-I'm worrying now. Katy, do you know the answer?

-Yeah.

-I think it's sugar.

-It is sugar, Emily. I'm sorry.

Kevin, over to you.

In the French dish of Boeuf Bourguignon, in what is the beef braised?

I know you were expecting the answer "saucepan".

Well, yes. That's lateral thinking, though.

Well, it's Bourguignon because it's Burgundy. It's red wine.

Red wine is the right answer, Kevin. How many times have you made that?

-Mm.

-Lost count, haven't you?

-Tricky. Something around the region of zero.

-But I have eaten it.

-Emily, your second question.

The word "ajo", as part of an item on a Spanish restaurant menu,

indicates that the dish contains what ingredient?

Oh! Again, I'm not 100% sure.

Thinking about Spanish food, though, I'm going to disregard ginger.

It's going to be a pure guess and I'm going to go garlic.

Great. You got it right. Well done. Garlic is the right answer. Kevin.

A Belle Helene dessert comes with ice cream and what flavour sauce?

It uses pear as the centrepiece of fruit.

It's not butterscotch, but for some reason I found myself torn.

I... I think the original Belle Helene was chocolate.

Chocolate is the correct answer.

I thought he was going to skid there.

-Me too.

-But not so. If you get this one wrong, you're out, I'm afraid.

Which soup is often garnished with a julienne of prunes?

Prunes? Um... I don't think it's clam chowder.

I don't think prunes would go with clam chowder.

Again, I'm not too sure.

I'm going to swerve to the right and go for vichyssoise, maybe?

It's not the right answer, Emily. It's cock-a-leekie. I'm sorry.

That was an inconvenient question.

-It's all right!

-Kevin will be in the final on Food & Drink, which he'll be quietly pleased about.

If you both join your teams, we will play on.

Bad luck, Emily.

-Food & Drink your thing, normally?

-Not really. Film & TV, really.

But the best man won, so not too bad.

One round has happened and it didn't go fantastically well, but plenty of time.

The Challengers have lost one brain. The Eggheads have lost no brains. Film & TV is the subject.

Oh, I'm so sorry, Emily!

-Emily's first choice, so it's Emma.

-Who wants this?

Yeah. I'll take this. Emma, definitely.

And against which Egghead? Can't be Kevin.

-Judith, maybe?

-Yeah.

-Fine, yeah.

-Judith.

Right, Emma from The Only Way Is Hereford versus Judith from the Eggheads on Film & TV.

To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions.

-So, Film & TV, Emma.

-Yeah.

-You're studying what at university?

-Criminology.

-With a view to becoming a police woman?

That's... Yeah, I'd prefer to do that.

It depends on my second year. I'm going to do criminal psychology.

I might prefer to do something with that.

-Is that the whole Cracker thing?

-Mm. Kind of. Yeah.

It's exciting the careers people have access to, isn't it, Judith?

It really is. I wish I could start again.

-There's so many things that women can do now.

-Right, we're going to do Film & TV.

Three questions. Emma, you can choose the first or second set of questions.

I'd like to go first, please.

Here's your first question.

Good luck. Which character from the Shrek movies starred in his own feature film in 2011?

I think I know this one.

I was going to go to the cinema to see it, but didn't get time to.

I don't think it's Gingerbread Man or Donkey. Puss In Boots.

Puss In Boots is correct.

I took my little girls to see it.

I'm just bowled over by how brilliant these animations are now.

-Extraordinary!

-I took my daughter to see it and I fell asleep.

LAUGHTER

-Who do we blame for that?

-Well, yeah. You make your own mind up.

Judith, your question. As what did Christian Jessen and Pixie McKenna find fame on TV?

Well, I haven't heard of them as professional dancers.

Thinking of Strictly and things.

Pastry chefs - Lorraine Pascale, isn't she called?

I think they operate on their own more.

I'm going to risk it and say doctors.

Doctors is the right answer. Well done.

Emma, your question.

Which actor from the Harry Potter films stars in the 2012 movie The Woman In Black?

Again, I know this one.

Again, I was going to go to the cinema to see it!

I know it's not Emma Watson or Rupert Grint.

I think it's Daniel Radcliffe.

Daniel Radcliffe is quite right. Well done. Good play.

Two out of two. Over to you, Judith.

What is the subtitle of the 2011 Alvin and the Chipmunks film?

It was on in my local cinema for weeks on end.

And I managed to totally ignore it.

I don't know. Chipmates.

Chipmates. You walked past the poster every day and did not stop?

Well, it was on the thing above... You know, in the cinema.

No, and I didn't stop.

I wondered how long it would last. It seemed to be there for ever.

When would it make way for something better?

-You got it wrong, I'm afraid. It's Chipwrecked.

-There you are!

Here's your question. If you get this right, you've knocked her out.

For which organisation did Patrick McGoohan's character John Drake work in the 1960s' TV series Danger Man?

I'm not really sure about this one, so I'm going to have to guess.

Um... And I'm going to go for MI5.

I'm afraid you're wrong. NATO is the answer.

Judith has a chance to come back.

If you get this wrong, Judith, you will be Chipwrecked!

In what capacity has Thelma Schoonmaker worked on most of Martin Scorsese's films since Raging Bull?

God! I don't know! Absolutely no idea!

Perhaps she's the casting director.

Casting director is your answer.

And we say, "Well done...Emma!" Cos it's wrong!

Editor, Judith.

Emma, you are in the final round.

You've beaten our Egghead. Well done. Please, both of you, return to your teams.

-Katy, whatever you did there, adjustment you made to the team, it worked.

-Yeah!

The Eggheads are all primed. The challengers have lost one brain. They've also lost one brain.

It's getting quite exciting, and our next subject is Music.

Who wants this?

-It's supposed to be Emma's round!

-You're one behind.

-Are you going to take it, Shaun?

-Yeah.

-We'll have Shaun on that one.

-Shaun on Music, against which Egghead?

-Do you think Chris?

-Yeah, I think Chris.

-Chris, how are you feeling about that?

-As long as it's not rap.

Shaun from The Only Way Is Hereford against Chris, "No rap, thanks" from the Eggheads on Music.

To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions in the Question Room.

-Shaun, your team is The Only Way Is Hereford.

-Yeah.

-Is that based on the TV programme?

-Yeah. It's one of Emily's favourite shows, apparently.

She can't get a question right on them, but that's where it's from.

-Emily raving on about it all the time.

-Chris, are you aware of the programme he's talking about?

The Only Way Is Essex? The only way to eternal damnation is Essex!

-Have you watched any of it at all?

-No!

-None of us have!

-Have you, Shaun?

-Not at all. No.

EMILY: I don't like it that much. I think it's a good name, quite witty.

So, three questions on Music in turn.

-Shaun, you can choose the first or second set.

-First, please.

Here we go. What term was used to describe the large number of rock and roll groups from the UK

who became popular in the US during the mid 1960s?

Music's not great for myself.

But...

England attack sounds a bit...rough.

So wouldn't really go with that one.

Alien landings is a bit vague. British invasion, please.

British invasion is quite right. Well done.

Chris, your question.

The song If I Were A Rich Man is a solo for which character in the musical Fiddler On The Roof?

As memorably performed by Topol, it's Tevye, the village milkman.

-Yes, it's a brilliant song and it is him.

-Yeah.

-Back to you, Shaun.

The jazz singer Nina Simone was also a performer on which musical instrument?

Instruments definitely not my thing.

Couldn't play a recorder or anything - just a xylophone.

I'm going to rule out piano.

I'm going to go for violin. Please.

-No, she was piano, Nina Simone.

-Oh, dear!

Chris, your chance to pull into the lead.

The parts of a guitar known as machine heads are designed to be used for what?

We're talking about an acoustic guitar, are we?

Amplifying the notes, the sound box does that.

Muffling the sound, there's no point with a guitar.

Tuning the strings, you've got the little worm screws at the top.

It's tuning the strings.

I like the logic, and you're right. You sound like you're a guitarist.

-No.

-You play it at all?

No. I have a yen to buy myself a banjo and learn how to play it.

-Guitar, I've never played.

-You don't do any air guitar to Meatloaf?

Meatloaf's a singer! His backing group does the accompaniments.

That's true.

Shaun, he's pulled ahead. Try and bring it back.

"London to Jamaica", "LA to Africa" are lines from She Makes Me Wanna,

a 2011 UK Number One single by which act?

Yeah. I know this one. It's not Maroon 5.

It's not One Direction.

It's gonna be the boys from JLS.

Yes, it is the boys from JLS. Well done, Shaun.

If you get this, you're in the final round.

Let's see, though.

The 2011 album Watch The Throne is a collaboration between Jay-Z and which other rap superstar?

Know you love your rap.

P Diddy's more into producing these days.

And Snoop Dogg tends to be a bit of a lone wolf.

-So I'll go with Kanye West.

-Is he right?

-Yeah.

-You're right, Chris.

-You always say you hate rap music.

-I do. Loathe it.

-You have been mugging up, haven't you?

-Not so's you'd notice.

Bit of Eminem, bit of "Jay-Zee", bit of this...

Jay "Zed", as I keep telling people.

You've taken the round. Sorry, Shaun.

-He's knocked you out.

-Expected.

-Not at all. Your team can still win.

But you won't be in the final round and Chris will. Please both come back to us here.

So, the challengers have lost two brains and the Eggheads have lost just the one from the final round.

The last subject before that final is Politics.

A-ha! A politics student, surely.

It's not going to be her. No chance. It's going to be Martin.

-I'll be taking that one.

-Not you, Katy?

-They're not letting me do any head-to-heads.

-General knowledge.

-You're being held in reserve.

-Yes.

-So, Martin against which Egghead?

Dave in the middle or Daphne?

I think we'll try Dave, the unknown quantity.

Unknown quantity. That's right. It's only his third game with us. We haven't done Politics yet.

Martin playing Dave from the Eggheads. Please both of you go to the Question Room now.

Martin, you've been bounced into Politics?

-Yeah. I'm happy with Politics. I'll give a good go at it.

-You're an accountant?

-I am, yeah.

-Training or working now?

-I passed all my exams in 2009.

So I've just started an accountant role then see where that goes.

-What was your profession, Dave? Or just constant quizzing?

-Oh, no.

Well, I dealt with employment law and health and safety.

Also did a bit of quiz writing in my early days as well.

Nothing too exciting!

So, three questions for you. The subject is Politics.

-Martin, you choose the first or the second set.

-Can I go first please?

Good luck to you.

The Electoral Administration Act of 2006

set the minimum age of candidacy in the UK at what age?

I remember that Act but I've totally forgotten what age it is.

I'll go for the middle one, 18.

18 is right. Well done.

Over to you, Dave.

Which senior judge chaired the 2011 inquiry

investigating the role of the press and police in the phone hacking scandal?

I'm glad the options came up.

Obviously, it's been high profile for some time,

involving high-profile victims.

It's Lord Justice Leveson, I believe.

It is, indeed, the Leveson inquiry. Well done. Martin.

During whose premiership was the Child Support Agency created in the UK?

I THINK I remember this being introduced.

I think it was during Tony Blair's premiership.

There was certainly a lot of ruckus about it under Mr Blair.

But it wasn't him who introduced it. It was John Major. It was 1993.

You got it wrong. I'm sorry. There's no easy way to say that.

Dave, you can go into the lead. In November 2011,

Community Secretary Eric Pickles made news when it was suggested

he and the government would be championing a college to teach people to make what?

I've got no idea at all.

I can't imagine it's curries or cupboards.

Er... I'll go quilts and just hope for the best.

No, quilts is wrong. It actually is curries.

Martin,

in 2011, the Italian financier Mario Draghi

became president of which organisation?

Ah! The name's so familiar.

I THINK it's the European Central Bank.

You're playing well. It's right. European Central Bank it is.

So you have two and David has one.

-Let's see if David can stay in.

-Yeah.

The government position of Minister for the Cabinet Office

is disparagingly known in Whitehall as the Minister for... what?

Again, I've not heard this phrase.

All feasible.

I'll go the Stationery Cupboard.

Stationery Cupboard it is not. The Today Programme is the answer.

So, Dave, you've been knocked out.

-First time on Eggheads...

-Fair enough.

-..you lose your place.

-Martin, well done. You'll be in the final round.

-Thank you.

-Come back and we'll play that final round.

So, this is what we've been playing towards, the final round, which as always, is General Knowledge.

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

won't take part in this round, so Shaun and Emily from The Only Way Is Hereford,

and Judith and Dave from the Eggheads, please leave the studio.

Well, Katy, Martin and Emma, you're playing to win The Only Way Is Hereford £10,000.

Kevin, Daphne and Chris, you're playing for something that money can't buy, the Eggheads' reputation.

I will ask each team three questions in turn, all General Knowledge. You are allowed to confer.

So, The Only Way Is Hereford, are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three?

-Fairly evenly matched.

-Yeah.

-Do you want to go first or second?

-We'd like to go first, please.

Good luck. It can be done! No question.

In 2011, Andre Villas-Boas became manager of which Premiership football club at the age of 33?

-I think it's Chelsea.

-I think we know that.

All quite big football fans. We'll go for Chelsea.

-Chelsea is the right answer. And was deposed in 2012!

-Yes.

OK, Eggheads.

What type of creature is a hart? H-A-R-T.

What type of creature is a hart?

-A deer.

-Yeah. White hart, the pub sign.

That is a deer.

-Deer is the right answer. Is a hind a deer as well?

-Yes.

-One's male, one's female, I think.

-The hart is the male.

You're learning all the time here. I am, anyway.

Here's your second question.

What does somebody suffering from hyperhidrosis do more than normal?

-"Hyper" means "a lot of".

-Yeah. "Hydro" is water.

-So, sweat.

-The obvious one is sweat.

Blinking moistures the eyes.

You could be blinking because your eyes are watering, couldn't you?

My instinct is sweat.

-That's what I'd go for.

-Shall we go for that?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

We're not 100% sure, but I think we're going to go for sweat.

Sweat is your answer and it is...correct.

You got it right.

The Ibex 35 is the main share index of which country's principal stock exchange?

Is that I-B-E-X?

I-B-E-X. The Ibex 35...

-Iberia.

-Yeah. That's the logical thing.

It's not Germany, anyway. No.

That's the DAX.

KEVIN: It's got to be the Iberian Exchange.

That's Spain.

You've got it right. Spain is the right answer. Two each.

If you get this one right, they could just blow a gasket, then you get £10,000.

Who won the Palme D'Or at Cannes for his film Kagemusha?

-Well...

-I've no idea.

-Yeah. I don't know.

Hang on. Do we know who John Woo is?

Yeah. I've heard of Ang Lee and John Woo. Not the third one.

-But aren't they...

-Wouldn't we have heard?

-..actors?

-That's what I'm thinking.

-They could make films as well.

-Yeah.

-Then we'd hear if they won the Palme D'Or.

-Yeah.

-Do you think, go for the third one?

-Yeah.

-Do you think so?

-Yeah.

-We don't know.

-OK. Are you sure? I don't...

-Yeah. I'm happy to go that one.

-None of us are sure about this.

We're going to go for the third one, Akira Kurosawa.

OK, you'd heard of the first two, but you veered.

I thought they were actors, so we would have heard, maybe.

-Kevin?

-Yes, it's Kurosawa. Yeah.

It's the right answer. Well done. Three out of three!

Anything more you can tell us, Kevin?

The idea is that the leader of a clan involved in warfare in mediaeval Japan gets killed.

He has a double who is used to appear and rally the troops.

-He then finds himself in the position of having to lead.

-Interesting.

If you get this one wrong, Eggheads, you've lost the contest

and £10,000 goes to our challengers, who are playing so well.

The line "To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield"

comes from which work by Alfred Lord Tennyson?

Ulysses.

"Though much is taken, much abides; and though

"We are not now that strength that in old days moved earth and heaven

"That that we are, we are.

"One equal-temper of heroic hearts Made weak by time and fate

"but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find

"and not to yield." Ulysses.

Well done!

It would be one of the great moments in television if you got that wrong.

It is, indeed, Ulysses. Well done, Chris!

Love a bit of poetry!

I'm sorry. I feel I've let you down. I was hoping they were going to keel over, but they didn't.

To be honest, they rarely do. We go to Sudden Death. A bit harder.

I don't give you alternatives. Take your time. Here's the question.

The coastal fortification Fort Sumter,

which saw the first shots of the American Civil War,

is located in the harbour of which South Carolina city?

-Anyone got any ideas?

-No.

-Do you know any South Carolina...?

-No!

-They have lots of cities named after English cities, don't they?

-Hm.

Also after Presidents. Does anyone know any?

-No.

-Not a clue.

Go for it.

This is a complete...

I've no idea. Jefferson? A complete guess!

-It's not Jefferson. Anyone?

-Charleston.

-Charleston.

Charleston is the answer.

If you get this right, you've taken the contest.

Which world famous performance troupe's shows have included Alegria, Quidam and Dralion?

-Cirque du Soleil.

-Cirque du Soleil. Yeah.

Yeah.

Do you want to say it?

It's the French-Canadian outfit Cirque du Soleil.

Cirque du Soleil, formed in Canada in 1984, is the right answer.

We say congratulations, Eggheads. You have won.

-Quite close boxing there at the end.

-Yeah. We knew that question as well.

Yeah, they just... Particularly those three work well together.

There's not a lot of dissension going on,

which is where it goes wrong.

-Have you enjoyed it?

-Yeah. Very much.

-It's great to see you.

Commiserations to you. The Eggheads have done what comes naturally, and their winning streak continues.

That means you won't be going home with the £10,000, so the money rolls over to our next show.

Eggheads, many congratulations. Who will beat you?

Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

£11,000 says they don't. Till then, goodbye.

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