Episode 133 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 champions today are Olympic Legacy.

Now this team all met in February 2011 whilst interviewing

potential volunteer Games Makers for the London 2012 games,

how interesting.

Their personal Olympic legacy is to remain the best of friends forever

and to beat the Eggheads of course. Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Madeleine, I'm 62 and I'm a career transition consultant.

Hello, I'm Bernadette, I'm 59

and I'm a retired trade union personnel manager.

Hello, I'm Judy, I'm 62 years old and I'm a retired English teacher.

Hello, I'm Judith, I'm 68 and I'm a retired economics teacher.

Hello, I'm Ann, I'm 66 and I'm a retired teacher.

-So, Madeleine and team, welcome.

-ALL:

-Thank you.

-Good to see you.

So you interviewed the people who became the Games Makers,

-is that right? The Olympic Games?

-That's right, yes.

Everybody had to go through a selection procedure

and the final element of that was coming to an interview

so the biggest selection centre was in London which was where

we were all based and we used to meet up every Tuesday afternoon

and meet some very interesting people from all over the world.

And how did you choose the eventual, the winners of these jobs?

That was out of our hands, I'm glad to say.

We just had to do the interviewing.

OK, so you asked some questions about what kind of thing

-they were interested in, all that.

-We had a whole series of questions

that were the same for absolutely everybody, had to be asked in the

same order in the same way and it was looking at their competencies

in things like teamwork and customer service for example.

OK, you became friends just by being in the same place during that?

-Absolutely.

-It was a magical time, wasn't it?

-It was fantastic.

And I must say as much as you helped choose the people who did it,

-those Games Makers did a fantastic job.

-Yeah.

They were absolutely at the heart of it.

-And we were Games Makers ourselves, all of us.

-Right.

At different locations in the Olympics and Paralympics.

-All right, well, all the best to you. Good luck.

-Thank you.

Hope you enjoy it, I'm sure you will.

Every day there is £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, Olympic Legacy, the Eggheads have won the last two games

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

-Get a nice lunch if you win that.

-Yeah.

More than one!

The first head-to-head battle will be on the subject of Science.

-You have to interview each other now.

-Yes!

-Oh, no, we don't.

-I believe that's you.

-I am the volunteer...

-Ann, OK.

-Or the one who is going to

fall on the sword and be sacrificed.

All right, so, Ann, you can choose any one of these five Eggheads here.

-My colleagues will make the choice.

-All right, what do we do?

We're going to volunteer Ann to play Dave.

OK, so, Ann from Olympic Legacy versus Dave,

-Tremendous Knowledge Dave, we call him.

-Absolutely.

-I know.

And to ensure there's no conferring,

would you please take your positions in the Question Room?

So, Ann, we're on Science, do you want to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please.

Here we go with your first question, good luck.

The name of which of these conditions

comes from the Latin for "to ring"?

I'm going to go straight for Tinnitus

because that's ringing in the ear.

In my book it's ringing in the ear.

Let's hope your questionnaires are the same.

Yeah, you got it.

Tinnitus it is.

Dave, a barophile is an organism that thrives under which conditions?

Barophile. Don't think it's altitude.

Erm, I don't think it's temperature.

Going off barometer, I would go high pressure.

High pressure is the right answer, well done.

Back to you, Ann.

TurboChamp was a program written by Alan Turing

intended to enable a computer to play which game?

Well, as they all say, I haven't got a clue.

Turbo...I can't see anything there that's very charged

so I'm going to do a Judith and go down the right.

Backgammon.

I'm afraid it's taken you in the wrong direction.

-The answer is chess.

-Oh, right.

-Chess is the answer.

Good old Mr Turing, eh?

OK, Dave.

What colour does uranium glass glow under an ultraviolet light?

I don't really know. Erm...

I'll go red, but, erm...

Because I just associate uranium with red

but I don't really know the answer.

-You got it wrong, Dave.

-Yep.

-It's green.

-OK.

-So you're still equal, Ann, this is good.

-Yeah.

-This is good.

Better, isn't it?

Get this one right and put some pressure on Tremendous Knowledge.

In the 2010 BBC documentary How Science Changed Our World,

who presented his top 10 scientific breakthroughs of the past 50 years?

I've got two.

And I'm not doing a Judith, I'm going to do a Brian Cox.

-Judith, should she have done?

-I don't know,

I have a dreadful feeling this time she should've done.

The thing about the Judith method as we call it,

-is that it has to be applied constantly.

-Oh, no.

Because then it sometimes works.

-Robert Winston is the right answer here.

-I nearly did that. Thank you.

-I would've guessed the same as you though.

-Would you?

-Oh, yes, I would.

-Thank you.

-Definitely.

Dave, for the round, Alpheratz is the traditional name

for the brightest star in which constellation?

I'm not sure on this at all.

Should've got my constellations sorted out.

I'm going to avoid Perseus and Andromeda and go for Cassiopeia.

-You've got this wrong as well.

-Yep.

Cassiopeia is wrong, it's Andromeda.

OK.

So one out of three for you both, we go to Sudden Death, Ann.

For goodness' sake.

-I don't know if you were expecting this, OK.

-No, I wasn't.

-So...

-Hello.

Here we go then, it's Sudden Death and it gets a bit harder

-because I don't give you alternative answers.

-Yep.

Which chemical element at number 96 in the periodic table

is named after a married couple?

I played hangman at the back of chemistry lessons

and you're asking me for a chemistry...chemical element.

Number 96, after a married couple.

Adamesseve.

Adamesseve, brilliant.

-Come on, somebody on your side has got this.

-Curie?

Yeah, Curie is the surname of the married couple.

-Marie and Pierre. And the element, Eggs?

-ALL:

-Curium.

-Curium.

Dave, your question for the round.

Which decimal number is written as 111 in binary?

Should know this straight away.

-I'll go what's on my mind anyway. Erm...111?

-Yeah.

I'll go seven.

On the basis of what?

Well, it's 1 with...the way I look at it, is 1...

Binary system is based on 0 and 1, so 1 would be at the end,

the second 1 would be for 2 and then the other 1 would be for 4.

Yeah, and that's completely right.

Well done, it's seven so you've taken the round on Science.

-Sorry, Ann, you've been knocked out by our Eggheads.

-Thank you.

Dave will be in the final and you will not.

Please, both of you, rejoin your teams.

So as it stands, Olympic Legacy have lost a brain from the final round,

the Eggheads have not lost any so far.

The next subject is Politics.

-Oh, that's me.

-OK.

Madeleine on Politics against which Egghead?

-Go for it.

-Can I play Chris, please?

-Chris?

-Yep.

Madeleine from Olympic Legacy versus Chris from the Eggheads.

Do, please, go to the Question Room now.

OK, would you like to go first or second on Politics, Madeline?

I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.

Here we go, Madeleine, good luck to you.

Ehud Barak served as the prime minister of which country

from 1999 to 2001?

-Er, yes, just say the surname again, please, for me?

-Barak is B-A-R-A-K.

So Israel.

Israel is the right answer, well done.

Chris, which of these terms refers to the cultivated adulation

of a political leader?

Well, it's something we don't have much of on Eggheads.

-It's the Cult of Personality.

-Ooh!

Interesting.

What does that answer hint at?

Cult of Personality is quite right.

Madeleine, Nick Clegg represented

which constituency at the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004?

Now if you asked me which constituency he represents

in Parliament now, I'd be fine.

Er...this is a bit more difficult.

I actually don't know the answer for this

but I'm going to go for Hampshire West.

Yeah, it's a tricky one this.

I think Hampshire West one could rule out on the basis that it

sounds more like a Westminster constituency and the...

-Well, maybe not.

-No.

-You know, they usually do hold counties for Europe,

-don't they?

-Yes, there's regions.

-No, regions.

-Regions!

-So Hampshire West would be a bit small, would it?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

What about Northumbria, could you go for that or is that defunct?

-Think it's North-east.

-Oh, again, too small.

So you have to look for the biggest land area...

-Right.

-..to get this answer and it's East Midlands.

Chris, in 2013 which politician's campaign to improve the fitness

of his country's children was aided by the actor Steven Seagal?

There's a thought.

Not likely to be Vladimir Putin.

They'd probably have much the same problems with obesity and what

have you as we do in Ireland so I better make it Enda Kelly.

-Vladimir Putin is the answer, Chris.

-Really?

-Obviously brought him over.

I think Putin may be the hard man.

Ah, because Putin has got a bit of a thing about martial arts, hasn't he?

-Yeah, Seagal a martial arts person?

-Yeah, he was originally.

-Was he?

-Yeah.

-Like Chuck Norris?

-That sort of thing, yeah.

So Vladimir Putin means a wrong answer from you, Chris.

-Back to you, Madeline.

-Yeah.

Michel Debre and Maurice Couve de Murville both served

as Prime Minister of France under which president?

I'm trying to remember exactly

when Couve de Murville was Prime Minister.

Erm...

It's either Pompidou or de Gaulle.

I'm going to go for de Gaulle which was my first instinct.

Excellent, you got it right. Well done, de Gaulle it is.

So, Chris, under a bit pressure now.

You have to get this one right, Chris.

Stenbock House is the seat of the Government of which country?

Well, it's not Finland because I've been to Helsinki

and seen the Finnish Parliament building.

Stenbock doesn't sound Polish either so...

..it'll be Estonia.

Yes, you're right. It is Estonia.

So you're both equal after three questions

and we go to Sudden Death again!

-Madeleine...

-Yeah.

-..I don't give you alternatives now.

The Palazzo Montecitorio,

which houses the Italian chamber of deputies, is in which city?

Well, I think I'm going to go for the obvious answer

and hope it's right and I'm not being totally deluded here and say Rome.

Rome is right, well done.

Your question, Chris.

Which company employed Bob Diamond when he was named the highest paid

chief executive of any FTSE 100 company in 2011?

Bob Diamond....

Halliburton?

Oh! What an interesting answer.

-Halliburton?

-Yeah, the US oil...

-No, no, no,

it's so interesting when, take nothing away from your

brilliant knowledge but sometimes a gap appears

and it's always fascinating to see where the gap is.

It's Barclays. Chris, you are out, you're not in the final round.

Well done, Madeleine.

You are in the final where you'll be able to play for your team,

both of you, please, come back here.

So as it stands Olympic Legacy have pulled one back.

Well done, Madeleine.

They've lost a brain but the Eggheads have also lost a brain.

Now the next subject for you is Sport. Is that bad?

-Yes.

-Ironic, Sport because...

-I know, I know, we weren't doing the sport!

What one of us is going to do it?

That's going to be tricky because it clearly can't be either of us,

-it's got to be one of you two guys, I'm very sorry.

-Toss a coin?

-Oh, I'll go.

-You want to go?

-Yes.

-Judy's going to take it on.

Judy against which Egghead? You can't play Dave or Chris.

-Judith, please.

-Predictable but...

Judy from Olympic Legacy, Judith from the Eggheads,

please go to the Question Room.

-Judy, you've got a bit of a sporting history, I know.

-Yes, I do.

Go on, tell us about that. Don't be modest. Not allowed to be.

Well, a long, long time ago,

I played lacrosse for Great Britain but that was many years ago.

I play some tennis now and I played some tennis in my youth.

-And you were a county player?

-I was.

-Did you play tennis at any level, Judith?

-Well, not at a level.

I played tennis at school and I was tennis captain two years running.

Oh, well, great. So we've got two tennis players.

-I wasn't very good, though.

-You could take each other on on court.

-Later.

I think she would beat me definitely.

All right, but you're up against each other here and the subject is

Sport and, Judy, you can tell us if you want to go first or second.

I'll go first, thank you.

Here we go, what is the surname of the champion golfer

known by the nickname Double D?

I have no idea. Erm...

..but I'm thinking he must be an American.

So I might go to Donald.

Duval is the right answer, Judy, not Donald.

OK, Judith, your question.

Which Japanese city hosted the 1998 Winter Olympic Games?

Well, I don't think it's Tokyo because...

I think it might be Nagano.

Nagano is correct, so you're ahead. Back to you, Judy.

When was the tradition of tennis players bowing or curtseying

to the Royal family on entering or leaving Centre Court

at Wimbledon discontinued?

The only exceptions being for the Queen or Prince Charles.

2003.

You're right. 2003 is correct.

OK, Judith, in 2009, Roberto Martinez became

manager of Wigan Athletic, having previously managed which club?

Roberto Martinez. I'm going to say Swansea City.

-Dave will know this.

-Yes, she's right, absolutely right.

-Swansea City.

-Swansea City is the right answer. Well done.

-That was good luck.

-I didn't even mention that it was football,

-I assume you know the question was about football.

-Yes, I did.

OK, so she has two and you have one, Judy,

which means you must get this one.

The first Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix was held in 1985 in which city?

I don't know again but I'll go for Brisbane.

Anyone on the team know? Challengers?

-I'd guessed at Adelaide.

-Why so?

-Because it's ringing a vague bell.

-Because it's a guess!

-Just a complete guess?

Well, they're guessing the right answer here, Judy, it's Adelaide.

So I'm sorry, you've been knocked out by Judith

but that will give Judith a big confidence boost on Sport

which is sorely needed, believe me, in this studio day after day.

Judith, you're in the final round, well done.

Judy, you've been knocked out,

please, both of you, return to your teams.

So as it stands,

Olympic Legacy have lost two brains from the final round,

the Eggheads have still just lost the one,

and the next subject is Music.

That's yours, that's you.

-So that's going to have to be Judith.

-Yes, I'm taking it.

-The other Judith, OK.

-The other Judith.

-Who shall I have?

-Kevin.

-OK, Kevin.

-All right, so...

But Kevin knows everything so I don't know why I'm bothering.

-Well, we've found out he has his moments.

-Yeah, I do.

-Judith versus Kevin...

-Let's hope he doesn't have one now.

-..on Music.

Please go to the Question Room.

All right, so would you like to go first or second, Judith?

Oh, I'll think I'll go first, Jeremy, thank you.

"I may not always love you",

are the opening words of which Beach Boys song?

I...

Oh...

I think it might be God Only Knows, so I'll go for God Only Knows.

-You're so right, well done.

-Thank you.

Kevin, who released the album Girl Who Got Away in March 2013?

Did this one pass me by?

Maybe it's slightly further back, but I...

seem to remember Dido making a little bit of a comeback

because she'd been away for a while.

It could...I'm not sure on this at all, it could be...

I'll go with Dido but not much confidence.

I just seem to remember something about her making a comeback

when she hadn't done an album for some years.

Dido is correct, well done.

Back to you, Judith.

Tradition, Miracle of Miracles

and Anatevka are songs from which musical?

Well, I think the last one sort of gave it away

and I think it's Fiddler on the Roof.

It is Fiddler on the Roof, well done.

Kevin, which of these men won an Oscar for his music

for the film Yentl?

Now, that I don't know.

Who would've done the music for that?

I can't really see it being Michel Legrand.

I'll have to go for Elmer Bernstein but I have no idea.

-Elmer Bernstein is wrong.

-There you go.

-Michel Legrand.

-It was Michel Legrand? OK.

It was indeed so you can knock Kevin out here, Judith,

if you get this one right.

Having sat here a number of times, I would suggest you do that

because if you let him back in, he can be a monster.

Here's your question, which British opera singer

preformed at the wedding of Prince Andrew in 1986?

I've really no idea. Erm...

And I'm absolutely certain that Judy's sitting there knowing this.

Erm...

I'm just going to guess Gwyneth Jones.

Judy?

-Well, I was going to go for Gwyneth Jones too.

-OK, Kevin, do you know?

I think I might've gone for that myself.

Felicity Lott is the answer.

Felicity Lott is the answer, so Kevin has a way back in here.

Kevin, which ballet scored by Aaron Copland

features a famous hoedown section?

All Copland ballets, of course.

And I can't remember which one it comes from.

I mean, obviously a hoedown being a communal dance...

..small American communities, it could actually fit any of them.

Let's say that they're having a gathering

because it's the spring, spring has come so it's Appalachian Spring.

I think Daphne will know this.

I thought it was Rodeo

-but it was only a guess.

-Hmm.

We don't often see Kevin only getting one out of three.

That's what's happened, it's not Appalachian Spring,

Daphne's right, "Ro-day-oh" or Rodeo...

-Yeah, it could have been any.

-..is the answer so hey, Judith,

well done.

You swung your lasso and you've pulled Kevin off his horse,

how about that? And you're in the final round.

If you both come back to us, we will play that final round.

So this is what we have been playing towards.

It is 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 in this round so that's

Judy and Ann from Olympic Legacy and Kevin and Chris from the Eggheads.

Would you please leave the studio?

So, Madeleine, Bernadette and Judith,

you are playing to win Olympic Legacy £3,000.

Judith, Dave and Daphne, you're 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

and you are allowed to confer, OK?

So the question is, can your three brains overwhelm

the Eggheads' three over here in a truly Olympic way?

-Unlikely.

-Absolutely.

-Unlikely!

Would you like to go first or second?

We'll go first, please, Jeremy.

OK, Bernadette and team, good luck to you. Here we go, final round.

Which of these words has been used as an informal term

for an Australian or New Zealand soldier?

-I don't know...

-What do you think?

-..but I would lean towards Digger

-which is...

-I would think Digger...

-Yes.

..it's just an Australian term I've heard but I don't know.

-Go with that, on the end.

-Yeah.

We're not certain, but we're leaning towards Digger, which is our answer.

Digger is the right answer, well done.

That's an important one to get right. OK, Eggheads,

the first four children of which television celebrity

are named Poppy Honey, Daisy Boo, Petal Blossom Rainbow

and Buddy Bear Maurice?

-I believe it's Jamie Oliver.

-Jamie Oliver has a...

-You certain?

-..Buddy, yeah.

-It's Jamie Oliver, isn't it? Daisy Boo.

That is Jamie Oliver.

Jamie Oliver is correct.

Back to you, ladies from the Olympic Legacy.

In correspondence, to what does the Latin word "ultimo"

sometimes abbreviated to "ult" refer?

-It's Previous Month.

-Yep, yep.

-It's Previous Month.

We laugh,

we have a Latin speaker.

Well, of sorts. It's Previous Month.

Previous Month is correct.

OK, Eggheads, the action of which

play by Eugene O'Neill takes place over a few hours in August 1912?

-It's Long Day's Journey Into Night.

-OK.

-Trust me?

-Yep, I trust you.

-Yeah.

Yeah.

It's Long Day's Journey Into Night.

Long Day's Journey Into Night is the right answer.

Well done, you Eggheads.

OK, Olympic Legacy, this can often be the important question,

the third question, keep your brains focused here,

see if you can take them apart, I'm sure you can.

What type of food is Dumpsie Dearie?

-Can you spell that for us, Jeremy?

-Yeah, two words.

Dumpsie Dearie almost as you'd imagine.

D-U-M-P-S-I-E and then D-E-A-R-I-E.

-No.

-I have no idea.

But it sounds like a kind of comfort food.

-Oh, I see so you're going for soup.

-Like a soup, do you think?

No, I'm thinking bread pudding.

-You're thinking of bread pudding?

-I have absolutely no idea.

-Is that what you're thinking, a pudding?

-Yes, Dumpsie Dearie.

-Sounds like a suet something...

-Yeah.

-Served with custard.

Yeah, maybe it's just a comfort food, I don't know, just a guess.

Well, as you can probably tell,

we don't know, but I'm thinking Dumpsie Dearie sounds

something like a comfort food so I think we're going for bread pudding.

My granny would've known this, she made quite a lot of it.

-Fruit jam.

-Oh.

-No, never would've known this.

Fruit jam is Dumpsie Dearie.

-Never heard of that.

-No.

So, Eggheads, if you get this one right you have ended the contest.

Which American architect is credited with designing the

Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London?

Yes.

Yes, afraid we know this. Robert Venturi.

-You're certain, are you?

-Yes.

When I was asking the question I could see your eyes light up,

Daphne, which is always extremely frightening.

Robert Venturi is the right answer

so we say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.

Dumpsie Dearie.

It's made, in case you ever want to make it...

-Thank you.

-..windfall apples and plums.

-Oh!

I suppose that's the dumpsie bit.

-Thank you for playing...

-Thank you.

-..hope you've enjoyed it.

-We've enjoyed it very much.

-We have enjoyed it.

The Eggheads are, they are good, even when they're down to three

and you did brilliantly to reduce them that far.

Commiserations though to Olympic Legacy

so the Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them, beginning to

build up a winning streak, reigning supreme over Quiz Land once more.

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

so the money rolls over to our next show.

Eggheads, congratulations, who will ever beat you?

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.