Episode 11 Eggheads

'These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.

'Together they make up the Eggheads,

'arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.

'The question is, can they be beaten?'

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

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

They are the Eggheads.

And taking on our quiz team champions today are Law & Lucre

from Norfolk. This team all met whilst working for

the same law firm in Norwich. Let's meet them.

Hello, I'm Bob, I'm 38 and I'm a paraplanner.

Hi, I'm Nick, I'm 61 and I'm a solicitor.

Hi, I'm Tammy-Lyn, I'm 35 and I'm a paraplanner.

Hello, I'm Peter, I'm 59 and I'm a prorate executive.

Hello, my name's Anthony, I'm 38 and I'm also a paraplanner.

Welcome to you, Law & Lucre.

I know you work for a firm of solicitors.

-What's the Lucre bit about?

-Myself, Tammy and Anthony,

we all work in the financial planning department,

so Lucre, we thought that would be a good name for the money side of it,

-it goes nicely with Law.

-It does.

-So that was the team name.

Nice bit of alliteration. And everyone thinks lucre is slang,

but it's got honourable Latin roots. As the Eggheads will tell us.

Yeah, it is a Latin word, but I don't know the actual detail.

I wish that was a quiz question! One-nil to Law & Lucre.

You're out, Kevin. We have to play head-to-heads for that to happen.

But maybe it will. Every day there's £1,000 of cash up for grabs.

However, if the challengers fail to defeat the Eggheads,

the prize money rolls over to the next show.

Law & Lucre, the Eggheads have won the last 14 games.

You can obviously count. That means £15,000 says you can't beat them.

OK, let's start the game, and the first head-to-head

is on the subject of Film & Television. Who fancies this one?

That was either me...

-You or Peter. One of us three.

-Do you want to take that one?

-Captain up first.

-Leading by example.

One for the team from Bob. And pick one from the Eggheads to play.

-Hm. Do you think Barry?

-Yeah.

-Go for it.

-Yep?

OK, yeah, I'll take Barry on.

OK, Barry. The two Bs. More alliteration.

Bob and Barry, into the question room, please.

So, Bob, do you like your film and television?

Clearly, you're playing the round, but do you have any favourites?

Erm, I'd say I'm fairly good on TV.

Obviously, Eggheads is my favourite programme,

but Match Of The Day, anything to do with sport,

I watch the soaps because my wife will watch EastEnders

and Coronation Street.

But, yeah, films not as much, but a little bit a knowledge, hopefully.

Indeed. Let's put it to the test. Do you want to go first or second?

Er, can I go first, please, Dermot?

OK, first question, Bob. In which 1996 film

does Eddie Murphy play a character called Sherman Klump?

Er, '96, right, OK.

Erm, I'm fairly certain that Eddie Murphy was in Trading Places

and probably Beverly Hills Cop, as well,

but I'm not totally sure on the answer.

Erm, I think, of the three,

I'm going to plump for The Nutty Professor.

OK. He was certainly in all of them and The Nutty Professor is right.

-Well done.

-THEY CLAP

And Barry, in the 1993 film The Fugitive,

Harrison Ford's character is wrongly convicted for the murder of whom?

Oh, I've seen this film, as well. It had Tommy Lee Jones in.

So I'm just trying to remember who he was supposed to have murdered.

I know it was the one-armed man who actually did the murder.

-Er, I'm not sure on this. I'll go for his wife.

-OK.

It's the right answer, yes, his wife.

Bob, the 2012 film Fast Girls,

co-written by and starring Noel Clarke,

is set in the world of which sport?

OK, erm, Noel Clarke I believe was in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet,

so I know who he is.

And I vaguely remember seeing a trailer

at the cinema. Erm...

I'm sure it's not swimming and...

Of the three, again, I'm going to go down the middle with athletics.

Athletics for Fast Girls. It's the right answer, Bob. Well done.

-Go, Bob!

-Barry, your question.

Ooh, I'm sure Bob would've fancied this one.

In 2011, who took on the role of Martha Costello

in the TV legal drama Silk?

Ah, this starred the wonderful Maxine Peake,

who was also Twinkle, I believe, in dinnerladies.

And it also features Frances Barber,

who was on one of our Christmas celebrity shows.

-So it was Maxine Peake.

-Maxine Peake

is the right answer, yes. Well done, Barry.

Makes it all square again, two-all.

Bob, which 21st century Martin Scorsese film

was nominated for ten Oscars but won none?

OK, er, I'm not too sure on this one.

Erm, I believe The Aviator was about Howard Hughes.

Hugo I've never heard of.

Erm... I'm going to go for Gangs Of New York.

Gangs Of New York. Did it win any Oscars?

It didn't. You're right. It's correct.

Barry, in which year was the short-lived TV soap

Eldorado first broadcast?

Oh. I wish we'd had decades on this one.

That would've made it easier. This is tough.

I'm really not sure on this.

It does seem a while ago now.

I'm going to go for the earliest, 1992.

1992. The answer is... 1992.

Yes. Well identified, Barry. It's all square. The first head-to-head

ends level after three so we go to sudden death, Bob.

Just to remind everybody, that means we withdraw the choices

to sort out a winner. So, Bob,

which actor, born in Northern Ireland in 1952,

played Oscar Schindler in the 1993 film Schindler's List?

I can picture him. Erm...

This might not be right, but I'm going to have to go with it

cos I can't think of his name. Is it Ralph Fiennes?

OK, Ralph Fiennes.

He certainly stars in it, as well,

but no, it's not Ralph Fiennes.

-Barry?

-It was Liam Neeson.

Liam Neeson playing Oscar Schindler. So near but not the right answer.

So a chance for Barry. Which actor and comedian

played Jodie Dallas in the US TV sitcom Soap?

Ah, this was the one starring the two families,

the Tates and the Campbells. I think it may have been Billy Crystal.

Billy Crystal is correct, Barry. Just won it in sudden death.

Billy Crystal confirms your place in the final round.

Bad luck, Bob. You won't be in the final round.

Please come back and join your teams.

Well, a great effort by Bob, but came up against an in-form Barry.

Well, they're all in form, as you know by the money that's on offer.

So as it stands, Law & Lucre have lost that one brain from the final.

Eggheads all there. But second round coming up and this one is Science.

-Who'd like to play this? Can't be Bob.

-Do you want me to take it?

-Are you going to go for it?

-Go for it.

-Doesn't matter what I lose on.

-THEY LAUGH Are you happy?

-I'll take it, yeah.

You surprise me. Who should I go for?

-Erm...

-They all look really, really clever today.

-Erm, go for Judith.

-All girls.

All girls.

An all-girl round, so I can deduce from that it's Tammy-Lyn

-and Judith from the Eggheads.

-I'm not here.

-Well, I can't actually see you.

-No, I know.

I just heard this disembodied voice.

But I know you don't have a cloak of invisibility.

Just hiding behind Pat. OK, let's have Tammy-Lyn and Judith

into the question room, please.

Tammy-Lyn, you get to choose. Would you like to go first or second?

Please may I go first?

-How very, very polite! Yes, you may.

-Thank you.

Here you are, first question on science.

What type of creatures are warthogs?

Erm, well, I sort of write out wild horses,

as I know they're small. Well, smaller than a horse.

Erm, so dogs doesn't feel right. I'll go for wild pigs.

Yeah, the hogs might be a clue. It's the right answer.

OK, Judith.

Which term taken from an office environment

is applied to the working space displayed on a computer screen?

I think that might be a desktop.

-Not a windowsill?

-Not a windowsill.

-Imagine that. It's right.

OK, all square. Tammy-Lyn, Project Juno, which saw Helen Sharman

become the first Briton in space,

was a joint space mission between the UK and which country?

Now, I don't know this for certain at all.

I know that China is newer to the space race than everybody else,

although they are very keen, but I don't think it's them.

USSR used to be very, very much in the game.

But again, I don't think they're quite as on the ball as the USA is.

And I know that USA have been pulling back,

so maybe as a collaborative thing, they would want to go in with us,

-so I'm going to go for USA, please.

-OK, USA.

Talking us through the space programmes there.

But it is the USSR.

So, Judith, in degrees Celsius,

what is the approximate melting point of silver?

I have absolutely no idea.

I haven't tried to melt it.

-You just wear it.

-Yes, or eat off it.

THEY LAUGH

-Saved me the job there, Judith! Thank you!

-I thought I would!

SHE LAUGHS

The trouble is, none of those temperatures mean anything to me.

Erm, I'm going to say 960. I think it melts at a very low temperature.

960 degrees Celsius you think will melt silver. You're right.

-Well done.

-Golly.

-So, you have a lead.

And it means Tammy-Lyn, you need to get this.

In geologic time, what is the last period of the Palaeozoic era?

-Right.

-Yes.

-Goody.

Erm...

Nothing is jumping out at me at all. Erm...

The only thing I can think of is that Cambrian and Devonian,

maybe they led to name the areas.

-I'm going to go for Devonian, please.

-OK, Devonian.

The last period of the Palaeozoic era...

..is the Permian. Oh, no, Tammy-Lyn.

Bad luck. Which means, I'm afraid, we end the round here rather early.

Judith has two already and you can't beat that.

You won't be in the final round. Please come and join your teams.

Bad luck, Tammy-Lyn. Those geological periods and eras.

Do you find them confusing, Eggheads?

-Do you have a way of remembering them?

-There was a mnemonic

for remembering them. It was something like this,

"Camels often sit down carefully,

perhaps their joints creak."

And if you want to go on, there's even further bits of it.

OK. And what's the "Camels often sit down carefully" bit?

Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Carboniferous.

"Perhaps their joints creak," Permian, the end of the first era,

then Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous.

You left out the "down". What's the D for?

-Oh, Devonian, sorry!

-Yes, you see?

-On the ball!

-OK, all teams that want to challenge the Eggheads,

get your "Camels often sitting down carefully" right.

Back luck, Tammy-Lyn. As it stands,

Law & Lucre have lot two brains, the Eggheads are all still there.

We've got a third head-to-head coming up.

And the subject is Geography. Who'd like to play this?

Who's that going to be?

-Did you want me to take that one?

-I think that was yours.

It was me as a sort of stand by.

-Yeah.

-Yeah, OK. I'm good for that. Who are we going to go for?

-Which one do you think?

-If you feel confident in geography, take Kevin.

-Yeah, OK. So, Kevin?

-You're going to try Kevin?

-Yeah, we'll go for it.

-OK, so let's have Peter and Kevin

into the question room, please.

So, Peter, as you know, you choose. Do you want to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please.

Geography it is and first question to you, Peter.

Lake Geneva is on the border between Switzerland and which country?

Now, I'm pretty certain that it's not Austria.

Erm... And I'm fairly certain it's in the French-speaking part

of Switzerland, so I'm going to go with France.

France would be the right way to go. Well done, it's correct.

Kevin, in which part of Finland is Helsinki located?

It's actually on the southern coast, so south.

-You been there?

-Yep.

-Any good museums?

Oh, yes. It's a very interesting place, Helsinki. I enjoyed that.

Indeed. Drink it in, did you, all the knowledge?

Er, yeah. I wasn't there for long. I did what I could.

It doesn't take you long to hoover it up. South is the right answer.

OK, Peter.

Which mountain is also known locally as Denali?

Ooh. I think this is going to have to be a guess.

Erm...

It's got an African feel about it, so I'm going to go for Mount Kenya.

OK, Mount Kenya for Denali. It's not. Do you know, Kevin?

It's actually the Native American name for Mount McKinley.

Mount McKinley, and the explanation there from Kevin, as well.

OK, your second question, Kevin.

The official languages of Sri Lanka are Sinhala and which other?

Yeah, the two big population groups in Sri Lanka

are the Sinhalese and the Tamils.

There are others, but Tamil.

That's your answer and that's the correct answer.

OK, Peter, the national flag of Somalia

features of white star on a background of what colour?

Right. I'm pretty certain it's not black.

Thinking of African countries and the predominance of green,

-so I'm going to go with green.

-OK, green.

The national flag of Somalia features a white star

-on a background of... blue.

-Ohh.

Oh, dear, Peter. Bad luck!

Kevin has triumphed and no place for you in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, Law & Lucre have now lost three brains from the final round.

The Eggheads haven't lost any. You're running out of rounds.

This is the last head-to-head, the last chance to knock an Egghead out.

And the subject is Sport.

Who from Law & Lucre wants to carry the colours into battle?

-Anthony.

-Definitely.

-Yeah.

OK, definitely you, Anthony. And two Eggheads remaining.

They are Pat and Chris.

-I'll take on Chris, please.

-OK. No hesitation.

-No.

-I wonder why.

-THEY LAUGH

Let's have Anthony and Chris in the question room right now, please.

So, Anthony, what's your favourite sport?

-I'm a big football man.

-Do you support a team?

-I'm a Tottenham fan.

-I won't hold that against you.

I understand you're a fully paid-up member of our friends down the road.

That's a nice way of putting it. Do you want to go first or second?

I'll stick with tradition and go first, please.

OK, first question, Anthony.

Goalkeeper Joe Hart represented which team

during the 2011/12 Premier League football season?

OK, that's a nice gift to start with.

He's got a Premier League medal now. He plays for Manchester City.

He does. Manchester City is the right answer.

Chris, in which year was the rower Steve Redgrave born?

Well, he's won five Olympic golds, hasn't he?

So that means he's been in five Olympics.

He had a career of 20 years at least.

Er, if he started when he was, say, 15, that's 35, so we'll say 1962.

OK. Well done. Well worked out, it's the right answer, 1962.

OK, Anthony, which role is most associated with

the England cricketer Graham Onions?

OK, well, I know he's a number 11 bat, so that rules him out.

And I'm pretty confident he's not a wicketkeeper, either.

-So I'll go with medium-fast bowler.

-Medium-fast bowler, very good.

-Right answer.

-THEY CLAP

Chris, which left-handed tennis player,

born in Prague in 1968,

won the only grand slam singles title of his career

at the 1998 Australian Open?

Well, Goran Ivanisevic won quite a lot if things, if I remember right,

and I think Marat Safin is a bit later,

so I'll go with Peter Korda, which is a good Czech name.

And it is the right answer, even better. There you are.

Two-all. And Anthony going very strongly here.

Which team won the inaugural Women's Rugby Union World Cup

in 1991?

Which team won the inaugural Women's Rugby Union World Cup in 1991?

Women's World Cup? OK.

I'd be surprised if it was England, so I'll rule that out straight away.

I'd be even more surprised if it's America.

But am I going for the obvious? I might well be.

I'll say New Zealand cos they've got a huge rugby heritage.

Yes, across both genders,

but didn't win the World Cup in 1991.

You will be surprised. It was the USA.

-Anyone know who they beat in the final?

-Us, I think.

That's right, beat England 19-6 in the final.

So, a very strong sport player, we can tell that, in Anthony,

but a chance to take the round, Chris. Which England swimmer

won the World Championship 50-metre backstroke title in 2009 and 2011?

Something is saying to me Liam Tancock,

-so that's who I'll have to go with.

-OK, there's something there.

Not based on any particular knowledge but you've got it right.

It is correct and you have a place in the final round,

depriving Anthony of one. Please come back and join your teams.

And so, this is what we've been playing towards.

It's time for the final round which, 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. So Bob, Tammy-Lyn, Peter and Anthony,

would you leave the studio, please?

So, that leaves you, Nick, playing to win Law & Lucre £15,000.

And Chris, Barry, Pat, Judith and Kevin,

you're playing for something money can't buy, the Eggheads' reputation.

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

This time the questions are general knowledge and you can confer.

So, Nick, the question is,

is your one brain better than the Eggheads' five?

-Nick, do you want to go first or second?

-I'll go first.

Best of luck, Nick. Here's your first one.

In 2012, who won a Best Actor Tony Award

for his role in the play One Man, Two Guvnors?

Well, I went to see this play with my wife at the National Theatre

and it's James Corden.

It is. No arguing with that. Well done.

James Corden there, the wonderful One Man, Two Guvnors.

And Eggheads, first question. In the song Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,

what is the name of the girl who is the singer in the band?

-That's Molly.

-Molly is the singer in a band is the right answer.

OK. Nick, your second question.

How were the English kings Henry I and William II related?

Erm, I'm fairly sure they were both sons of William the Conqueror,

so that would mean they were brothers.

Brothers. Sons of William the Conqueror is the right answer.

Yes, brothers. Well done!

Eggheads, which of the main characters

in the Shakespeare play Othello commits suicide?

Othello himself. Othello himself.

He kills Desdemona and then Iago runs off at the end

and is probably going to be given his just desserts later on,

-so it's Othello.

-Othello.

-That's Othello.

Othello himself in Othello. It's the right answer.

All square. Going really well, Nick.

Get this and the pressure mounts on the Eggheads.

Caballo is a Spanish word for which creature?

Caballero is a cowboy in Spanish,

so I guess it's a horse.

Must be. It's the right answer, yes. Well worked out, Nick.

Well, you have that pressure on the Eggheads.

If they don't get this, you win £15,000.

Who became prime minister of France in May 2012?

Who became prime minister of France in May 2012?

Jean-Marc Ayrault.

-That was Jean-Marc Ayrault.

-Jean-Marc Ayrault is correct.

All square. Three-all. Nick, you're into sudden death.

-Oh, dear.

-Here you go.

Which Edvard Munch painting

was sold at auction for 120 million

in May 2012?

The obvious answer is The Scream.

And I'm going to go for the obvious, Dermot. I'm going to say The Scream.

The Scream, it's the right answer. Will the Eggheads be screaming?

Well, we're not talking about 120 million, but a considerable sum

at stake here. Eggheads, in which decade did British prime ministers

Stanley Baldwin and David Lloyd George die?

-40s.

-40s.

-40s.

'45, '47.

-The 1940s.

-That was the 1940s.

The 1940s. And I heard Kevin giving the dates. 1947, 1945 to be precise.

So, all square still. Nick. You're enjoying this, aren't you?

Yes. THEY LAUGH

-So far.

-So far. OK, yes. I don't want to put you off your stride.

Who was the mother of Lady Sarah Chatto?

Hm.

Who was the mother of Lady Sarah Chatto?

I haven't got the faintest idea.

I've got to give it a shot, haven't I?

I have no idea. Princess Margaret.

-Is that your answer?

-I'm afraid it is, yes.

Princess Margaret you think is the mother of Lady Sarah Chatto,

after a long deliberation, no idea.

-Well, it's the right answer, Nick!

-THEY LAUGH

Yes, Princess Margaret.

OK, well, Eggheads, this to save yourselves.

Which castle, the venue for Madonna's wedding to Guy Ritchie,

is the former home of Andrew Carnegie?

THEY WHISPER

-Is it Skibo?

-Skibo.

-Are you sure?

-Skibo.

-Yeah.

-It's a hotel.

I think that's right. I was trying...

I knew which one was meant and the name just wouldn't come to me

and as soon as you said that, I thought... I think that must be it.

-Yeah.

-We're going for Skibo.

Skibo Castle. It's the right answer, Eggheads. Yes.

OK, on we go. Trying to sort out a winner here.

Cutting through the questions. What a great performance, Nick.

What is the stage name of the pop singer Onika Maraj,

born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1982?

Not really my best subject,

but the only pop singer I can think of that comes from that island

-is Rihanna. So that would be my answer.

-OK.

Rihanna you think. I think she's from Barbados. It's not right.

-Do you know, Eggheads?

-Nicki Minaj?

Nicki Minaj. Well, that's a crack from Nick

and a chance, then, for the Eggheads to win the game.

The photographer Terry O'Neill was divorced from which actress in 1987?

-Hm?

-Faye Dunaway.

-Faye Dunaway.

Yes. Oh, that Terry O'Neill.

Sorry, I was thinking of a different Terry O'Neill.

-Yeah.

-Faye Dunaway.

-Faye Dunaway.

-We think that's Faye Dunaway.

-Faye Dunaway.

Divorced from Terry O'Neill in 1987.

It's the correct answer, Eggheads. You've won.

Well, in the end, Nick, you were just ground down

by the sheer weight of Egghead knowledge there.

-And lack of my own knowledge.

-Well, I think it was considerable.

They were particularly impressed by the Princess Margaret answer.

I don't know where it came from. It was lurking there somewhere.

Well, you'll certainly be the toast of your teammates.

They were also incredibly impressed by what you did.

I was impressed by some of their performances in the head-to-heads.

They just didn't fall their way in the end.

But thank you very much for playing the Eggheads today.

But the Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them

and their winning streak continues. You won't go home with £15,000.

That means the money rolls over to our 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. £16,000 says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.

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