Episode 114 Eggheads

These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.

Together may 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 challenges

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

They are the Eggheads.

And taking on our awesome general knowledge geniuses today are...

..from Cardiff.

This team of friends are all associated with their local

football club - Grange Harlequins AFC.

Let's meet them.

Hi. I'm Steve.

I'm 61 and a part-time Business Development Director.

Hi, I'm Terry. I'm 64 and a retired telecommunications engineer.

Hi. I'm Ken, I'm 65 and I'm a part-time engineer.

Hi. I'm Neil. I'm 55 and a retired Post Office worker.

Hi. I'm Malcolm. I'm 61

and an operational manager in local government.

-Steve and team, welcome.

-ALL: Hello.

-Good to see you.

Tell us about the Quins, Steve.

Well, the Quins were a local Cardiff side who played their football

on Saturday afternoon parks and managed to move their way

through the pyramid system right to the top division in Wales.

They're no longer in the top division, sadly,

but we've spent a lifetime playing or supporting them.

-And it's gratifying to go and cheer them on, still, is it?

-It is.

Although sometimes there is not too much to cheer, but on a good day,

there's plenty to cheer.

Now, I gather you are not quizzers in the sense that you quiz

together a lot, is that right?

We've quizzed once, Jeremy, just once.

I have looked at all your biographies

and you have all got passions, actually, haven't you?

There's a Squeeze fan down here somewhere, just like me.

Let's hope they come up!

-So, you've got different knowledge, different address.

-Yes.

Well, good luck. Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash

up for grabs for our Challengers, however if the fail to defeat

the Eggheads, the prize-money rolls over to the next show.

So, Quins Crafty Quizzers, the Challengers won the last game which

proves it can be done

and that means £1,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

-Do you want to start?

-Yes, please, Jeremy.

OK, the first head-to-head battle is the subject of Geography.

So, Quins, who would like this?

Who's going to be the first sacrificial lamb, then?

-Looks like you, Terry.

-Jeremy, we're going to put our star on first.

-We are going to have Terry on first.

-Terry on Geography.

You can choose an Egghead. Here they all are. Grinning madly.

-I think Daphne.

-You're pretty sudden about that.

-You're definite about it.

-Definite.

No matter what happens, I was going to pick Daphne.

-It's his ambition to play against Daphne!

-His ambition!

Geography has got nothing to do with it! OK.

Terry from Quins Crafty Quizzers versus Daphne from the Eggheads.

To ensure there is no conferring would you please take your positions

in the Question Room?

-So, Geography, Terry. Are you ready?

-I'm ready.

Any particular places you've loved visiting in the world?

Grand Canyon, Canada,

I'd like to go to Australia, but I haven't been there yet.

-But you love North America, do you?

-Yeah.

-What was great about the Grand Canyon?

-Everything.

But especially when I flew over it in a plane.

-And what is it, everything you imagine?

-Even more.

You read about these places and until you actually visit them,

you don't know how inspiring they are.

-A photo doesn't really do it, does it?

-No.

-Daphne, have you been to the Grand Canyon?

-Yes, twice.

-Once on my honeymoon and we went again in 2004.

-Yes.

-It's awe inspiring, isn't it?

-Yes.

-Good luck in this round.

Terry, you can choose. Would you like to go first to second?

I would like to go first please, Jeremy.

Here we go with your first set of questions. Good luck.

The Scottish town of Perth was reinstated as a city to

commemorate what event?

I'm thinking...

Not too sure of this one at all

but I'm thinking it's the millennium.

-Daphne, do you know?

-It's the Queens Diamond Jubilee.

Yes. It was. The Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

OK, Daphne. New Zealand takes its name from a region of which country?

That is the Netherlands.

Yes. I see it now. I never knew that. Netherlands is right.

Terry, try and catch up now.

Which city was the capital of the traditional French

province of Limousin?

I would...

Once again, I'm not too sure of this,

but I think it would be Limoges.

-Is the right answer. Yes. You've got it.

-ALL: Well done, Terry.

Hang on, we've got a Prefab Sprout fan here.

You know the connection?

-No.

-This is a very obscure thing.

Their first single was called Lions In My Own Garden Exit Someone.

And that's because he liked going to Limoges

-and those were...

-Really?

-Yeah, yeah.

So, always when I see Limoges, I think Prefab Sprout.

And I saw that you were a Sprout fan.

-Lions In My Own Garden.

-Obviously not as big a fan as you, Jeremy.

I'm a big fan, big fan.

OK, Daphne. Ithaca, New York is the home of which US university.

To take the lead.

I think Brown is Rhode Island.

And... Princeton...

I think it's Cornell.

Cornell is the right answer.

This is the disadvantage of playing Daphne, Terry.

You're seeing right now. There are many advantages.

The big disadvantage is that she tends to get the answers right.

So you need this one. Which of these US states has a border with Canada?

Once again my first inkling is for Vermont.

So, I think I'll go for Vermont.

Yeah, brilliant. You got it right. All that American travel helped you.

Vermont is right.

So, Daphne, if you get this one right you are in the final round.

Olkhon Island with an area of around 730 square kilometres is

the largest island in which lake?

-Could you spell it?

-Yes. O-L-K-H-O-N.

O-L... yes.

I think that's Lake Baikal.

The correct answer is Baikal.

Well done, Daphne. Terry, sorry.

You were beaten by our Egghead

and as a result you won't be able to help your team in the final round.

Terry and Daphne, please return to us.

So, as it stands Quins Crafty Quizzers have lost one

brain from the final round whilst the Eggheads have not lost any.

So any thoughts on strategy, Steve? You're a football supporting team.

Maybe you want to change positions?

We actually set Terry up as a sacrificial lamb

because the other four are going to cruise it now.

-I think that's the tactic.

-OK, maybe five in midfield...

-Maybe. Yes.

-Stop their attack.

-Stop the attack. OK.

That's always hard to do with this team over here,

but let's see how you go. The next subject is Film and Television.

So, who would like this? Film and TV?

Go on, you do it.

-I'll take it, Jeremy.

-Neil. Against anyone but Daphne.

THEY CONFER

OK. We will take on Chris, please.

Chris, how does that feel?

It feels better than Sport!

Neil from Quins Crafty Quizzers versus Chris from the Eggheads and

to ensure there is no conferring would you please

take your positions in the Question Room?

So, Neil, Film and Television for you.

Any particular programmes you love?

I like a bit of the American drama series more than most. You know.

-That's what I like.

-So, The Wire and all that kind of stuff?

-Yeah, that type of thing. Anything criminal.

-Criminal.

JEREMY LAUGHS

What about you Chris on those American ones - Six Feet Under,

-The Wire, Sopranos, all of those?

-Used to watch The Sopranos.

Don't watch any of the others.

I mean, my current American weakness is actually The Big Bang Theory.

Tell us about that.

It is a comedy basically about four postgraduate geeks

and, you know, it's a frothy American comedy but quite good fun and of

course all the scientific jargon they come out with is not gobbledygook.

-It's proper scientific staff.

-OK, let's see how you do.

Film and Television. Neil, you can choose the first or second set

-of questions.

-I'll go first, Jeremy, please.

Here we go.

Rachel Stevens, Anita Dobson and Felicity Kendal have all

appeared as contestants on which TV show?

I think that's Strictly Come Dancing, Jeremy.

Strictly Come Dancing is the right answer. Well done.

Chris, your question.

Joshamee Gibbs, James Norrington and Tia Dalma

are characters from which film franchise?

Ah...

It is not Indiana Jones, is it?

And it's not Toy Story so it's got to be Pirates Of The Caribbean.

Pirates Of The Caribbean is also right. One each.

Neil...

Joaquin Phoenix was nominated for a Best Actor

Oscar for his role in which 2012 film?

I know it's not Django Unchained.

I do believe it's The Master, Jeremy.

You think it's The Master. I think your team disagree here.

-What do you think, guys?

-I thought it was Django Unchained.

-That's what I thought.

-Yes. Team, I am glad you're not in there.

Neil has got it right.

-The Master is the right answer!

-ALL: Well done, Neil.

Minority of one, but right - how rewarding.

Chris, which character from Little Britain has the catch phrase

"I'm a lady"?

Yeah, that's David Walliams as Emily Howard.

It is indeed Emily Howard.

"I'm a lady."

-You can do it better than me, can't you?

-No.

-Go on.

Yes, well, I'm a lady.

Right, so two each.

Neil, who played the title role in the US sitcom According To Jim?

Ooh...

It was definitely a James...

I think I'll go for James Belushi.

James Belushi is right. Well played.

You're on the edge here, Chris -

if you get this one wrong you're not in the Final Round.

Angela Lansbury received her first Oscar nomination for which film?

Was she in Samson And Delilah?

Victor Mature.

The Harvey Girls, that's a fairly lightweight musical...

..about setting up restaurant cars in Santa Fe.

Don't think she was in Samson and Delilah, but I've no idea if she

was in Gaslight, which is a drama and might well have attracted awards.

I'll say Gaslight.

Gaslight is the right answer.

Very good logic there.

Three questions each, the scores are level -

we got to Sudden Death.

Neil, I don't give you alternative answers, OK?

Yep.

Jeremy Piven took on the title role in which TV drama series,

first shown in the UK in January 2013?

I don't even think I can give you an answer for that, Jeremy.

No, I'll pass. I can't even think of one.

Not even a guess?

-No, sorry, Jeremy.

-OK, it's a pass.

Mr Selfridge is the answer.

Here we go, Chris, your question for the round.

Which American sitcom starring John Lithgow featured four extra

terrestrials who pretended to live as a family on earth?

This was great fun, it was one of my favourites.

It's Third Rock From The Sun.

Third Rock From The Sun is the right answer.

Well done, you're in the Final Round.

Sorry, Neil, just at the very end he pipped you there.

You've been knocked out as well.

Please, both of you, come back and join your team-mates.

As it stands, Quins Crafty Quizzers

have lost two brains from the Final Round.

The Eggheads are still intact. The next subject is Arts & Books.

Who would like this?

THEY TALK OVER EACH OTHER

It's either me or Malcolm.

Haven't got a clue.

It'll have to be me, I suppose - the sacrificial lamb.

Go on, then...

OK, I'll take it on, Jeremy.

OK, Ken, anyone but Chris or Daphne, so who would you like?

I'll take Dave, please.

OK. Ken from Quins Crafty Quizzers versus

"Tremendous Knowledge" Dave from the Eggheads.

Please, go to the Question Room now.

Ken, I'm thinking you want Charles Dickens to come up.

It would be something I might stand a chance with, Jeremy, but I'll

just wait and see what you throw at me and just hope for the best.

Read a lot of Dickens, have you?

I watched a lot of the Dickens

and I've started reading Dickens to my grandchildren,

to try and get them interested in books.

OK, Ken, good luck.

Arts & Books, would you like the first or second set of questions?

I'll go first again, please, Jeremy.

Here we go, good luck.

William Wordsworth was appointed Poet Laureate in which year?

It was definitely not 1943.

And I'm thinking that 1743 is a bit early,

so I'm going to plump for 1843.

1843 is the right answer.

Well done, Ken.

Dave, in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, Jean Valjean is

given a prison sentence for stealing what?

I don't know. Erm...

I'm going to have to go loaf of bread, but no certainty about it.

Les Miserables is not something that I've got into at all.

Let's go to our musicals correspondent Daphne Fowler...

-Yes?

-Was he right?

He's completely right.

You would have been in pain if he got that wrong?

Loaf of bread is the right answer.

I will go and see the film now.

-Go with Daphne.

-Will do.

Ken, the Welsh-born artist Barry Flanagan who died in 2009 was

best known for his series of large brass sculptures of which creatures?

This is one that I don't really know.

I'm trying to think logically what you would sculpt.

I can't see...hares being...

I would go, and it is a total guess to be honest,

but I would go for badgers.

It's not badgers, actually.

It is hares!

Large brass sculptures of hares.

Dave, to take the lead -

the Diagram Prize is awarded to books with what type of title?

I need a diagram to...

It's either oddest or longest, I would have thought, but...

I'm just thinking, the longest title'd be hard to quantify.

Erm...

People could just write something with 100 things.

I'll go oddest, but no, no certainty on this at all.

Oddest is the right answer.

-Oh, wow.

-The Diagram Prize - oddest titles.

Ken, you need to get this one right.

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, which character says,

"This above all to thine own self be true"?

I'm no great shakes on Shakespeare...

Erm...

Again, I'm going to have to have a guess.

Obviously, I recognise a few of the names there.

The one that I'm looking at is Polonius,

so I'm going to go for Polonius.

Polonius is correct.

Well done, Ken.

OK, Dave.

The Rhyme royal, a stanza with seven lines,

was introduced into English poetry by which writer?

Rhyme is spelt r-h-y-m-e?

-Yeah.

-Rhyme royal.

I'll go Alexander Pope.

Eggheads don't like that answer.

Which is it?

-ALL: Chaucer.

-Chaucer.

-Chaucer.

The stanza with seven lines was Geoffrey Chaucer.

Sorry, Dave, you got that one wrong.

It does mean you're level, though, so we go to Sudden Death again, Ken.

-I don't give you alternatives, OK?

-Yeah.

The Munch Museum, dedicated to the life of the artist Edvard Munch,

is located in which city?

Erm...

I've got a feeling that he was Norwegian,

so I'm going got plump for Oslo.

It's very good, you're right.

Oslo is the right answer.

And if you'd got it wrong you could have done The Scream.

I'm doing it anyway.

Dave.

Kazuo Ishiguro, author of the novels Remains Of The Day

and Never Let Me Go was born in which country?

Japan.

Japan is right.

OK, back to you, Ken.

The Twelfth Day of July is the first in a series of books featuring

a couple called Kevin and Sadie, during The Troubles in Belfast,

by which Scottish author?

Oh, gosh.

Scottish author?

I'm struggling to think of Scottish authors.

The name that is coming into my head is Iain Banks,

but I know it's not Iain Banks,

but I got nothing else to offer so I'm going to have to say Iain Banks.

It's not Iain Banks, it's Joan Lingard.

This for the round, Dave.

A 19-year-old Yorkshireman named William Fisher is the title

character of which 1959 comic novel?

Billy Liar.

Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse is the right answer.

Well done. Dave, you're in the Final Round.

Sorry, Ken, you've been knocked out.

Played well though, but you won't be in that final.

Come back and we will see what happens next.

As it stands, Quins Crafty Quizzers have lost three

brains from the Final Round - gulp -

whilst the Eggheads have not lost any so far.

But there's still hope. You can win, for sure.

The next subject is sport.

Who would like this?

I think, Malcolm, it has to be you.

I want to see you back with me.

Who are we going to play with?

Erm...Barry?

Barry, OK.

Barry, please.

OK, so Malcolm from Quinn's Crafty Quizzers versus

Barry from the Eggheads on Sport.

And to ensure there's no conferring, please, go to the Question Room.

Malcolm, you've got an unusual taste in sport.

Yeah, I actually like American baseball.

My other half has a girlfriend in Baltimore

and we've been going out for the last ten or 12 years,

and girls, as girls do, go shopping and me

disappearing off to baseball for two and half, three hours

with a beer and some popcorn is rather good.

So, I'm a converted Baltimore Orioles fan.

That's just fantastic.

Do you manage to watch them when you're back in the UK,

-or is that a bit difficult?

-That's a bit more difficult,

but one of the first jobs in the morning is actually to go

online and find out how they've got on the night before.

The bad news is, they lost 4-3 last night, so they're now 3 and 3.

Well, we do occasionally have baseball questions coming up,

-don't we, Barry?

-We do indeed, yes.

You're looking nervous now, Barry.

-We shall see.

-Let's see what happens.

Sport, Malcolm, would you like to go first or second?

I'll go first, please.

In 2009, which tennis player became father to the twins Mile Rose

and Charlene Riva?

Well, it certainly isn't Andy Murray.

Now, Roger Federer or Jo-Wilfried...?

I think I'm going to go with Roger Federer.

It is indeed, well done.

OK, Barry.

At the 2012 London Olympics, Jessica Ennis broke the UK national

record for her performance in which discipline of the heptathlon?

I believe this was the 100m hurdles.

100m hurdles is the right answer.

Second question to you, Malcolm.

The Brazilian footballer Givanildo Vieira de Souza, who signed

for Zenit St Petersburg in 2012, is usually known by which nickname?

Definitely not Ronaldo.

I'm...

It's either Kaka or Hulk.

I think I'm going got go with Hulk.

Hulk is correct.

OK, Barry, your question to stay in contention.

Which Australian rugby league team beat

Leeds Rhinos in the 2013 World Club Challenge?

Do I have to say the answer to this question?

It pains me immensely to say this,

but unfortunately it was Melbourne Storm.

Melbourne Storm is right.

Was that painful for you, as a Leeds person?

It is indeed.

And unfortunately, they were worth the victory as well.

-Where did that take place, that match?

-It was at Headingly.

-Did you go?

-No, unfortunately, I couldn't make it that night.

-OK.

-Just as well.

Melbourne Storm is right.

We didn't know you were going to play this round

so nobody's teasing you, I promise.

Malcolm, who was the trainer of Shergar

when he won the Epson Derby in 1981?

Ooh, blimey.

1981.

Shergar.

Michael Stoute was about, certainly Vincent O'Brien was.

Dick Hern...

I think I'm going to go for Vincent O'Brien cos

somewhere in the back of my mind, he was the most successful of the lot.

-Anyone know?

-It was Vincent O'Brien.

-You all think so?

-Yeah.

-How interesting. Do you think so, Barry?

-I thought it was Vincent O'Brien.

-It's not - it's Michael Stoute!

Oh, right.

If it's an consolation, Malcolm, all the Eggheads agree with you,

-and they're all wrong too.

-And all the Quins.

How unfair is that? You all agree too, do you?

All the Quins as well.

Barry, if you get this right you're in the Final Round.

In which sport is the Espirito Santo Trophy played for every two years?

It's certainly not table tennis.

I don't think it's ice hockey. I believe it's golf.

Golf is the correct answer, so you have three points.

Malcolm, you have two

which means Barry has gone through to the Final Round.

You're going to be reduced to one in the final, Quins,

but let's see how you do.

Please, come back, and we'll play that Final Round.

Steve, what happens now?

Well, Jeremy, it reminds me

a bit of the Randy Newman album Lonely At The Top.

So I'm in it on my own but who know?

Who knows?

This is what we've been playing towards, it is

the Final Round which is, as always, General Knowledge.

I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-head won't be

allowed to take part, so, Terry, Ken, Neil and Malcolm

from Quins Crafty Quizzers, would you, please, now leave the studio.

Steve, you are playing to win Quinn's Crafty Quizzers £1,000.

Dave, Daphne, Chris, Barry and Pat, you are playing for something

that money can't buy - the Eggheads' reputation.

As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn, this time the

questions are all General Knowledge, you are allowed to confer.

I'm sorry that doesn't help you.

Steve, the question is, is your one brain better than the Eggheads' five?

Would you like to go first or second?

Jeremy, I think I'll go second cos it'll take me

longer to get the answers wrong, so I think we'll go second.

OK, good luck to both teams, but especially to our challenger.

Eggheads, what is the English meaning of the Latin phrase

"Deo volente"?

That's "God willing", Jeremy.

God willing is the right answer.

Steve, your question.

Who released the 2012 album Take The Crown,

which reached number one in the UK charts?

Well, it certainly wasn't Robbie Williams,

so I'm left between Justin Beiber and Olly Murs.

I'll go for Olly Murs, Jeremy.

Actually, you know what? It was Robbie.

-Was it?

-It was Robbie Williams.

Robbie Williams is the right answer.

Eggheads, what is the name of the Radio 4 programme which is broadcast

regularly at five o'clock on weekday afternoons?

DAVE: PM

BARRY: PM.

I'm assured with confidence that it's PM.

You don't know yourself, Pat?

No, it means nothing to me.

-Not a Radio 4 man?

-Not really, no.

-More Radio 2, I'm thinking.

-Radio 3.

-I'm hearing Radio 2.

-Radio 2, sorry!

PM is the right answer.

Steve, in which country does the annual

Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show take place?

And you need to get this one right to stay in the contest.

Now, where might there be a Westminster amongst that lot?

Probably everywhere, I should imagine.

Erm...

I will go for, and it's a complete guess, I'll go for...

USA, Jeremy.

I'm so glad you did - it's right.

USA is the right answer.

So the score is two the Eggheads and one to the challenger.

As you let them go first, if they get this one right, it is curtains.

But they can get things wrong and it's really funny when they do.

Which British scientist helped Christopher Wren rebuild

London after the Great Fire and is thought to have worked

on designs for the Royal Greenwich Observatory and Bedlam Hospital?

DAPHNE: Robert Hook.

I think it's Robert Hook.

BARRY: I think it's Hook too.

He was involved with the monument of Christopher Wren.

PAT: The dates are entirely wrong for Davy.

THEY TALK OVER EACH OTHER

We're going to go for Robert Hook.

Well... They do look certain, don't they?

They look certain.

And they are right, it is Robert Hook.

So we say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.

So what you going to do now?

Every time you walk past a shop or a car, Robbie Williams' music -

hands over the ears?

I never did like Robbie Williams and I can't stand the man now,

so, no, I don't think so.

Well played, Steve. Well played, team.

Sorry you were left on your own there, it does happen quite a lot.

Commiserations to Quinn's Crafty Quizzers.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them

and they reign supreme over quiz land once again.

I'm afraid it does mean you won't be going home with the £1,000,

so the prize 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 - £2,000 says they don't.

Till then, goodbye.