Episode 33 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 the might of our quiz goliaths today

are the Bright Sparks from Leeds.

This team of colleagues all work for the same energy firm

apart from Eoin who's been drafted in by team captain, Guy.

Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Guy. I'm 34 and I'm a customer service advisor.

Hi, I'm Eoin. I'm 33 and I'm a college lecturer.

Hi, I'm Louise. I'm 29 and I'm a customer experience advisor.

Hi, I'm Jim. I'm 44 and I'm a customer service advisor.

Hi, I'm Alex. I'm 26 and I'm a technical support advisor.

Welcome to you, Bright Sparks.

So quizzing, Guy, have you done much in the past?

Not a huge amount.

We've been to a couple of work pub quizzes in the past.

We did all right the first time round where we won that one,

not quite so well the second time.

All right, well, we want you to do well here today.

And you've brought in Eoin there as the ringer, is he?

Erm, yeah, he's our secret weapon.

OK, we'll wait to see him unleashed.

-No pressure, obviously.

-None at all.

OK, every day there's £1,000 worth of cash

up for grabs for our challenges.

However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,

the prize money rolls over to the next show.

So, Bright Sparks, the Eggheads have won the last ten games.

That means £11,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

Let's set about the task, shall we, with our opening head-to-head.

This is Film & Television.

Who would like to take this one on?

I'm quite good on Film & Television

but, I mean, do you want me to stick out

-for something like Arts & Books?

-Would you like to take it on?

I'm happy for you to go for Film & Television.

-I'd actually quite like to try Film & Television.

-Go for it, Guy.

I'll take Film & Television.

All right, Guy, and which Egghead will you take?

-I'd actually like to try against Barry, to be honest.

-Well, you can.

Let's have Guy and Barry into the question room to make sure

neither of you can confer with your teams.

Well, Guy, let's see if we can get the team off to a flying start.

It's Film & Television. Do you want to go first, or second?

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

Good luck, Guy, your first question is this.

Who became a new judge on the panel of Strictly Come Dancing in 2012?

Well, I probably shouldn't admit it

but I'm actually quite a fan of Strictly, so I know the answer.

It's Darcey Bussell.

No harm in that, you're in very good company.

The company of millions. Darcey Bussell is the right answer.

OK Barry, your first question.

In the 2001 film, Amelie,

what is the occupation of the title character played by Audrey Tautou?

This is a lovely film.

I've not seen it but it's about a girl who goes around doing

nice things for people, I think.

I don't think she's a dental receptionist.

I don't think she's a librarian. I think she's a cafe waitress.

Cafe waitress is the correct answer, Barry.

So you both have scored with your first questions. Back to Guy.

The 2008 Swedish film, Let The Right One In,

is about a young boy who befriends what type of supernatural being?

Again, I have to say I do like this film, as well. I like it a lot.

Erm, actually, it's in vampire.

A vampire, you like the questions so far.

-That's right, yes.

-I'm getting on well with them, I think.

Right up your street. You have two and Barry...

The first three episodes of which sitcom were entitled

Downsize, Work Experience and The Quiz?

Ah, it wasn't Gavin & Stacey.

It could be either The Office or The IT Crowd.

I never really watched many episodes of The Office

but I think it is The Office, though. I'm going for The Office.

OK, The Office.

It is The Office, you've got it. Well done, Barry.

And, good quizzing from both players.

Guy, the children's TV series, Pingu,

about the adventures of a young penguin

was originally made in which country?

Erm, I think you've got me on this one, to be honest. I've seen Pingu.

It one of those lovely little things but, erm...

Lovely little kids show but I...

I'm not sure. Erm...

I don't think it's Swiss, which obviously leaves Poland and Germany.

Erm...

I've seen the credits and I think they are in Polish.

I'm going to go, Poland.

OK, Poland for Pingu.

It's Swiss. Switzerland.

Let's see what Barry does with his third question.

Barry, the 1982 film version of the Dennis Potter play,

Brimstone & Treacle starred which performer?

I seem to remember Sting singing in this film.

That obviously leads me to think it's Sting. Yeah, it's Sting.

-They've all been in films, though, haven't they?

-Oh, gosh, yes.

They probably all sung in films, as well.

Sting, though, is the right answer. Barry's got it. Bad luck, Guy.

You're obviously very good at that category.

It means you're not going to be in the final round.

Would you come back and join your teams?

The Sparks shining just a little bit less brightly after

the ejection of Guy. The Eggheads are all still in it.

We've only played one round. Our next subject is Science.

Who'd like to play this?

ALL SPEAK AT ONCE

OK, that'll be me, Dermot.

All right, Louise, and pick your Egghead. It can't beat Barry.

-OK, I would like to take on Dave, please.

-Dave, OK.

Let's have Louise and Dave into the question room, please.

Let's see if we can get you through. Would you like to go first or second?

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

OK, good luck, Louise. First question is this.

Which of these is the name for any flat-bottomed cylindrical

container, usually made of glass,

and with a lip for pouring that is

often used in laboratory experiments?

OK, I don't think it's a mug

because that's the sort of thing you would have cup of tea in.

A flagon I associate with beer.

So, I'm going to go for a beaker, Dermot.

Beaker is the correct answer, yes. Well done, Louise, good start.

Dave, necking is an aggressive form of behaviour by which animals?

Necking, I've not heard of it.

Erm, but...

I'll have to go for giraffes but I've never heard of it.

Yeah, neither have I, not in that...

Let's say, not in that context. It is giraffes, yes. Necking.

And, erm, we go back to Louise.

The Radarange was the first version of which kitchen appliance

to be demonstrated for commercial use?

OK...

I'm thinking "Rada" may be radio waves.

I don't think it's a refrigerator.

I'm going to go, microwave oven.

Yes, you've deciphered it, it's the right answer, well done.

You have two.

Dave, the circadian rhythm is a cycle of biological activity

found in many living things that roughly corresponds

with which time period?

I should know this.

Erm... And, I don't, precisely.

Erm... I'm going to go for the day, but no surety at all.

The circadian rhythm roughly corresponds with a day.

It's the right answer.

Well, it all square, Louise going well here.

Let's get this on the board and put the pressure back on Dave.

Cloudy Wing Virus

is a disease which particularly affects which insects?

OK, well I don't think grasshoppers have wings.

Erm... So it would be bees or ladybirds.

Erm, I'm going to go bees, but I'm not sure.

OK, not sure. But you've got it. Sure now.

Bees is the correct answer.

You have three.

Meaning Dave needs to match that with this one.

Dave, in which scientific field was James Edward Keeler

an important name?

Mmm, not heard the name before.

So, could be over and out with this one.

Erm, I'm going to go astronomy.

OK, astronomy for James Edward Keeler. It's the right answer.

-Oh, right.

-Well done. It's all square. Louise, you've got three

but we now then make it harder. Because you're so good

we're going to put you into Sudden Death to sort out a winner.

You're not going to see any more choices. Here you go.

The Clarendon Laboratory, named after the first Earl of Clarendon,

is part of which British university?

OK, well, I'm from Leeds

and I know the hospital has a Clarendon Wing.

-So, I'm going to guess the University of Leeds.

-OK, right.

Well, a Clarendon Wing.

It's not though. It's not Leeds. Do you know, Dave?

Well, I was tossing up between Oxford and Cambridge.

I'd probably slightly go Cambridge.

-Well, it's Oxford.

-So I would've got it wrong as well.

OK, let's see how Dave does.

Dave, which gas makes up approximately 95%

of the atmosphere of the planet, Mars?

I don't know. I should know.

Which gas? Erm...

Erm...

Carbon dioxide.

Oh, you can tell by Barry's response.

It's the right answer, Dave, carbon dioxide.

I feel very sorry for Louise.

She's got a lot better scientific knowledge than me.

I feel a bit of a fraud getting through that one.

You are through and, yes, I'd endorse that.

Yeah, quite right, Dermot!

Louise did really well there and I don't know whether that wing

in Leeds Hospital is named after this first Earl of Clarendon

but that just lead you astray.

It means you won't be in the final round. Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Really bad luck there for Louise. I can't believe this score.

The Bright Sparks have lost two brains, the Eggheads are all still there.

Rather riding their luck the Eggheads today but let's see

if you can get rid of an Egghead, then, Bright Sparks,

with this next category, it's Music.

And we've got Eoin, Jim or Alex available.

-We've discussed...

-Yes, we have.

-Yeah, I'm going to do Music.

-OK, now, choose an Egghead.

Dave and Barry have played so Kevin, Judith or Pat?

I'm going to take on Judith.

All right, let's have Alex and Judith into the question room.

OK, Alex, would you like to go first, or second?

I'll go first.

OK first question on Music to you, Alex.

The phrase, "tickling the ivories" refers to the playing

of which instrument?

Well, based on the fact cello is a string instrument,

saxophone I believe is part of the woodwind family,

erm, obviously, ivory keys. I'm going to go for the piano.

The piano, yes, of course. Well done.

Ah, now, just reading this question to myself in advance.

Judith, I apologise for putting this question

to a woman of your culture and breeding but here we go.

After a televised audition for Popstars The Rivals,

which duo had a hit in 2002 that was subtitled Touch My Bum?

DERMOT LAUGHS

I'm glad I prefaced that with my apology to you, Judith.

Well, I wonder if it was reflected in their name?

The Cheeky Girls.

Now, come on, Judith, I know you're pretending

you've hardly ever heard of it.

You and Daphne performed it at the last Eggheads Christmas party.

That was supposed to be a secret, Dermot!

-You're not supposed to say that out loud.

-Don't be shy.

It was fantastic, if only we'd recorded it.

It is the right answer, The Cheeky Girls.

So, all square

and we go back to you, Alex.

The violinist Andre Rieu had a UK hit album in 2010 with what title?

Erm, I wouldn't say this was my strong point at all,

being slightly classical.

Erm, based on his name, I'm not sure it would be Forever Athens,

being Greek, or...

I'll go for Forever Vienna. I think...

Forever Vienna? It's the right answer! Good guess.

Judith...

Which of these was a 1977 hit in which each of four singers

introduced himself with his star sign, his name

and a description of his ideal woman?

I don't know whether all those Drifters, Floaters, Coasters

are real.

I've heard of The Drifters. Erm...

The Drifters one.

-OK, Drift On by The Drifters?

-Yes.

-I think they're all real, actually.

-Are they?

-They are.

Dave's shaking his head there. Dave, what do you think?

It's Float On by The Floaters.

-Float On by The Floaters.

-Oh.

Which means you have a chance here, Alex,

to get into the final round.

The comedy song popularly called Let's Do It,

written by the Victoria Wood has what full title?

Erm, as you might be quite aware I've probably got no idea at all.

Erm...

It's going to be a stab in the dark.

I'm going to go for A Love Song for Roger and Judith.

OK, one of them is real, of course.

We've cleverly woven in in the other options the names of other Eggheads.

Brilliant question. Not a brilliant answer, though.

It is The Ballad of Barry and Freda.

You didn't get it so Judith is still in the game,

but does still need this to survive.

Oh, this will redress the balance after The Cheeky Girls question.

In its first few years from 1934,

the Glyndebourne Festival Opera concentrated almost

exclusively on staging the works of which composer?

I think it was Mozart.

OK, Mozart.

Is the right answer. Yes, well done. Well, your challenge is revived.

We go to Sudden Death again.

Alex, in the titles of songs that were hits in the 1950s,

1960s and 1970s respectively,

what is "a many splendid thing,"

"all around" and "in the air"?

I think I know this.

Erm...

I'm going to go for love.

Love, that's all we needed. Yeah, that's the right answer.

Well done, yeah.

Judith, the 1967 hit single for Petula Clark was

Don't Sleep In The what?

Don't Sleep In The Daytime.

Don't Sleep...

Gosh, I don't know.

Er, Don't Sleep In The Daytime, I don't know.

JUDITH GIGGLES

Don't sleep In The Daytime, it's incorrect.

The other Eggheads will now instantly supply it for me.

-Don't Sleep In The Subway, Darling.

-Thank you, Barry.

-Don't Sleep In The Subway.

-Oh, Don't Sleep In The Subway.

-I never would have got that.

-OK, you know what's happened.

It means, Alex, you are through to the final round.

Well done and Judith, you're not.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

Well, the Eggheads sustaining some damage there.

As it stands now the Eggheads have lost that one brain

but the Bright Sparks have lost two.

Our last head-to-head is Arts & Books.

Who would like to play this one from Eoin or Jim?

That would be me.

OK, Jim, and which Egghead would you like to play.

-It can be Kevin or Pat?

-I'd like to play Kevin, please.

Let's have Jim and Kevin into the question room.

Well, Jim you choose. Do you want to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please.

OK, here you go. According to the Oxford English Dictionary,

which word for a literary style was first used in a 1960 article?

Well, it's going to be a bit of the guess.

I'm going to discount Pinteresque, because I've not heard of it.

Ortonistic, I'm going to discount that.

As I've heard of Alan Ayckbourn, I'm going to go for Ayckbournian.

Ayckbournian, it's not the right answer.

No, do you know, Kevin, of the other two?

-I think the genuine one there is Pinteresque.

-Yeah, you're right.

Pinteresque is after Harold Pinter. Erm...

Your question, Kevin.

The 17th-century painting, Samson and Delilah

by Peter Paul Rubens features which utensil?

Well, in the biblical story Delilah sapped Samson's strength

by cutting his hair,

so that would seem to imply a pair of scissors.

The other two don't really bear thinking about.

-Or what she might have done with them.

-Well, no, don't go there.

OK, it is a pair of scissors, yes, identified why Kevin.

OK, Jim. See if you can get this one to get you started.

In 2000, Tracey Emin's artwork, My Bed,

was bought for £150,000 by which art collector?

Well, I've actually seen this

and I'm quite confident on the answer.

-I'll go for Charles Saatchi.

-Much better. Yes, that's right.

OK...

Kevin, The Good Soldier is the title of a 1915 novel

by which writer?

Er, yeah, came more into vogue because a TV serialisation

was made of Parade's End, which was a sequence of novels.

It's Ford Madox Ford.

That is the correct answer. So you need this, Jim.

The artist born Robert Clark in the mid-western USA in 1928

became famous under what name?

Again, I don't know the answer to this one, like the first question.

I'm thinking mid-western...

I think they're probably all mid-western.

So, I'll go for Robert Iowa.

Robert Iowa. No, it's not.

-Kevin, any idea?

-Indiana. Robert Indiana.

Robert Indiana, which means, Kevin, you are through to the final round.

Bad luck, Jim, you won't be there.

Would you both come back and join your teams.

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 able to take part in this round.

So Guy, Louise and Jim from the Bright Sparks

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

So, Eoin and Alex, you're playing to win The Bright Sparks £11,000.

Barry, Pat, Kevin and Dave, you're playing for something which

money can't buy, the Eggheads' reputation.

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

This time the questions are all General Knowledge.

You are allowed to confer, so, Bright Sparks, the question is

- are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

-Eoin and Alex, would you like to go first or second?

-First.

-We'll go first, please, Dermot.

-Definitely first.

Off we go, then. And the first question is this -

President John F Kennedy was often referred to by what name?

INAUDIBLE CONFERRING

It was Jack.

Jack Kennedy? Yes, it is the right answer, well done.

Eggheads, Operation Deepscan, in 1987 was a search using sonar

equipment for which legendary creature?

You wouldn't need sonar for...

Yetis, or Beasts of Bodmin, so land creatures,

so Loch Ness Monster sounds...

That's the one you think would require sonar?

We think the only one of those which would really require

sonar would be the Loch Ness Monster.

OK, the Loch Ness Monster, and Kevin there saying that the Yeti

and the Beast of Bodmin are land creatures, so you believe in them?

It does rather imply that, doesn't it?

No implication should be taken.

Loch Ness Monster is the right answer, well done.

And over to the Bright Sparks again.

The Duchess of Gloucester, who was a daughter-in-law of George V

and lived to be 102, became known by what title?

I've heard of a Princess Alice.

Saying like, Princess, it could be kind of like...

INAUDIBLE CONFERRING

And now we're a bit stuck.

Well, if you think...

I can't see it being Countess Elizabeth.

Shall we go for Princess Alice?

-It rings a slight bell. More than the other two.

-Right.

Something about Princess Alice rings a bell,

so we will say Princess Alice.

OK, Princess Alice is the right answer, you got it,

well done, you have two.

Eggheads, the words lemming, ski and fjord all come from which language?

I'm sure that's Norwegian.

I thought it was Norwegian.

OK, we think they all come from Norwegian.

It's the right answer, Eggheads, it's all square again.

Back to the Bright Sparks.

Which of these is the name of the award-winning industrial

heritage museum in Blaenavon, in South Wales?

Again, I would say it's going to be Big Pit or King Coal.

-Big Pit sounds a bit more Welsh Valleys, doesn't it?

-Potentially.

Shall we go for...

-I'd go for Big Pit.

-It's on you.

-I like the sound of it.

-Yes, all right, cool.

Another one of which we have no knowledge,

but, of those, the one that sounds like it would be an awesome

museum title would be Big Pit, we'll go for Big Pit.

And it is Big Pit, it's the right answer. Well done.

So, Eggheads, you need this, then.

The colourful character who, in the 1920s, styled himself

as the Abyssinian Prince Monolulu became familiar in the UK as what?

"I've got a tip," - racing tipster.

He did the Grand National, didn't he?

"I've got a tip, I've got a tip," - he would turn up at the meetings.

He was a racing tipster.

"I've got a horse."

-Yes.

-"I've got a horse, I've got a horse."

It's the right answer, yes. Racing tipster, Eggheads.

OK, we go to Sudden Death.

And, going really well there, Eoin and Alex.

Here you go.

Douglas Fairbanks, Gene Kelly, Michael York

and Gerard Depardieu have all played which fictional character on film?

At least two or three of those, I know, were in

films of The Three Musketeers.

Right.

My goodness, that's tough, that's tough.

-That's the best I can come up with.

-The Three Musketeers?

Michael York was in the Three Musketeers films

-and played D'artagnan.

-Right.

I've got to be honest, I have absolutely no idea,

so if you want to go with that?

We're not entirely sure...

Well, that's been the case with the last two, anyway!

-However, we're going to say D'artagnan.

-D'artagnan.

Is the right answer.

Phew! Well done.

Look at the relief on your faces.

Well done, well worked out. Yes, Three Musketeers. D'artagnan.

Well done. The Eggheads need to get this.

Well, chance for the money here.

Eggheads, the organisation known as Age UK was formed in 2009 when

Age Concern England merged with which other charity?

-Help The Aged.

-Help The Aged is a possibility.

-Because that is no longer...

-Can we think of any others?

Because Help The Aged isn't around any more, is it?

It's the logical...

Yes, it is. I can't think of anything else.

I'd stick with that.

Stick with that?

We're not certain of this but we're going to go for Help The Aged.

Help The Aged.

It's the right answer, Eggheads, on we go.

You did fantastically with that last one. Try this one.

Sadat and Nasser are stations on the underground system of which city?

-Well, they're both very famous Egyptian presidents...

-Yes.

I can't imagine that any other Egyptian city

but Cairo would have an underground...

-So, Cairo?

-Cairo, go for it.

As they're both famous Egyptian presidents,

we think that the answer is possibly Cairo.

OK, Cairo is correct, well done.

And Eggheads, you need to get this one right.

In 2005, the use of the terms spinster and bachelor on UK marriage

certificates was discontinued in favour of which word?

I got married in Australia, so that doesn't help?

Single, maybe?

Unattached?

Spinster... maybe, simply, unmarried?

Hmm. Unmarried, single, unattached.

"Unattached" sounds like a rather funny word to use in that

formal context, but I haven't got the faintest idea...

-It is a legal sort of issue, isn't it...

-Yes.

So what do we think?

Unattached, single, unmarried.

-Unmarried looks the...

-Looks the one.

-Does it look the more solid?

-Yes.

-I'm happy with that.

I suppose single is a possibility, isn't it?

Do we fancy it?

Unmarried. It could be unmarried or single, but... OK.

OK, we'll go with that, then?

We're torn between two options, we're going to go for "Unmarried."

OK, spinster and bachelor on UK marriage certificate replaced as...

"single," which means, Bright Sparks, you've won the money!

GASPS

DERMOT CACKLES

You should see what's going on behind you, turn round

and have a look!

DERMOT LAUGHS

How does that feel?

-I feel ill.

-Unreal.

He feels ill.

You did fantastically, I mean you worked, we saw you working,

we heard you working, especially with that D'artagnan question.

The Eggheads were working hard and you outworked them.

I thought they were going to go for "single"

but they talked themselves out of it.

But that's fantastic, you did really well.

I think that's the first thing I've ever won!

I possibly won a pencil once in a competition when I was about eight.

Well, thank you very much for coming along and taking all that money

home with you. £11,000. Fantastic performance today.

Spectacular, in the final round, which means you've proved the Eggheads

can be beaten,

you are officially smarter than the Eggheads for today anyway.

Do join us next time on Eggheads to see if a new

team of challengers will be just as successful.

Until then, goodbye.

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