Episode 36 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, where five quiz challengers pit their wits

against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain - the Eggheads.

Challenging our quiz champions today

are The Tuesday Club from Skipton. These friends are a sociable bunch

who get together every Tuesday

and like nothing more than good fun, good food and a good quiz. Let's meet them.

Hello, my name's Steph, I'm 50 and I'm a mortgage consultant.

Hi, my name is Alex, I'm 53 and I work in mortgage arrears.

Hi, I'm Iain, I'm 39 and I'm a mortgage underwriter.

Hi, I'm Dave, I'm 51 and I'm a local government chief officer.

Hi, my name's Brett, I'm 31 and I'm a town centre manager.

Welcome, Tuesday Club. Our ears pricked up when we heard you like to quiz. Is it always a quiz, Steph?

No, we like to do all sorts of things. We started off doing quizzes,

but now we meet at each other's houses, we do Come Dine With Me,

-we do murder mystery nights, all sorts.

-Come Dine With Me - you mark each other's dishes?

-That's right.

-Do you have entertainment as well?

-Occasionally, we have a theme night.

-We did a school dinners night.

-And dressed up accordingly?

-I was the headmaster.

-It's only last week for me that I was at school.

We believe you, Brett. OK, let's play. Every day there's £1,000 up for grabs for our challengers.

If they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over.

The Eggheads won the last two games,

which means £3,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

Our first subject is Arts and Books.

Who'd like to take this on?

- Arts and Books? - I'm rubbish at anything like that.

-Who wants to do it?

-I've got an English degree, but that doesn't mean anything, does it?

-We'll put Dave in.

-It's got to be Dave.

-I'll do it, Dermot.

-OK, Dave. Now which Egghead would you like to choose to play?

- Shall we take out Dave? - I think we should take out Dave.

The two Daves, I think.

-Two Tremendous Knowledge Daves.

-Dave versus Dave, Dermot.

Makes my task very easy. OK, let's have Dave and Dave into the Question Room, please.

Well, Tuesday Club Dave. We'll call him Tremendous Knowledge Dave.

You have a place in broadcasting history in that you gave a famous broadcaster his first job.

This keeps coming back to haunt me.

I worked in a hospital radio station in Wakefield before I started working in professional radio

and a 12 or 13-year-old Chris Moyles came along wanting to help out.

-I gave him his first job, although he didn't get paid.

-You unleashed the Moyles!

You're playing Tremendous Knowledge. Do you want to go first or second?

Let's get it out of the way. I'll go first, please.

And good luck.

Here's your first question. What is the title of the popular series of spotters' guides for children

that was relaunched in 2009?

I seem to vaguely remember these from when I was a kid, actually.

I'm pretty sure it's I-Spy.

You remembered them first time round. Yes, well done.

TK Dave,

what name is given to the art of carving shapes from wood using a knife?

I hope it's whittling or else we're in trouble!

We don't want you whiffling. It is the right answer. Well done.

Whittling. Back to Dave.

Riding the Iron Rooster, a travel book set largely in China, was written by which author?

Mmm. I'm kind of thinking it's not Bill Bryson.

He wrote one about travelling around the UK and his native America.

It's one of the other two. Clive James is Australian, but maybe he did do that.

I'll go with Clive James, I think. I don't really know.

It's not Clive James, Dave. No, it is by Paul Theroux.

OK, nothing there for Dave from the Tuesday Club.

Around 1845, who painted Sunrise With Sea Monsters?

Sunrise With Sea Monsters.

1845.

I'll rule out Turner. It doesn't sound like him.

-I'll go Ingres, but I don't think I'm right there. I'll go Ingres.

-OK.

-It's Turner, Dave.

-And I ruled him out!

It's all square.

Tuesday Club Dave, in 1990, Rembrandt's only known seascape, Storm On The Sea Of Galilee,

was stolen from which city?

I'm not very good on art. Literature was my only hope in this round, really.

Let's see what we can rule out.

I'm kind of guessing, really.

I'm going to rule out Boston and say it was maybe in Europe rather than in America.

I'll go with Barcelona, Dermot.

You were never going to get it when you went European.

-That's a long way of telling you it is Boston.

-Oh, well.

Tremendous Knowledge,

Richard Lovelace's poem with the lines, "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage"

is dedicated to whom?

I don't know the answer, but I like the look of Althea.

You like the look of Althea...!

-You don't even know what she looks like, but it's the right answer.

-I got away with that. Sorry, Dave.

Good one for discovering Chris Moyles. We all love him.

You leave the Question Room, Dave,

with congratulations from Tremendous Knowledge Dave, but you won't be playing in the final round.

-Never mind.

-Both please come back and join your teams.

First blood to the Eggheads. The Tuesday Club are missing one brain.

And our next subject comes up as Geography.

Who'd like to take this one on?

-I've travelled through my army career.

-You'll be better than us.

-I'll take that.

-OK, Alex. Take an Egghead. It can't be Dave.

-So who do we think?

-What about Kevin?

-Yeah, we'll go with Kevin.

OK, let's have Alex and Kevin into the Question Room, please.

-Alex, would you like to go first or second in this Geography round?

-I think I'd like to go first.

Good luck, Alex.

First question on Geography.

Which district of Paris has a name meaning Beautiful Town?

Right. French isn't my best. I speak a bit of German, but...

Looking at the answers there, I'm thinking "belle" means good-looking.

I'll go with that one. Belleville.

And town in the "ville". It's the right answer. Well done.

Kevin,

the national flags of the Czech Republic, Armenia and Kuwait have which colour in common?

-I think the only one on all three of those is red.

-It's the right answer.

Back to Alex, second question.

The isle of Portland is linked to the English mainland by which stretch of land?

Right, I've served down in Dorset in my army career.

I think it possibly could be Chesil Beach.

-Yeah, I'll go with Chesil Beach.

-Going for that?

It's the right answer.

Well done, Alex.

And, Kevin, Maus Castle and Katz Castle overlook which European river?

The Rhine is famous for the number of castles along its length.

Less so the Seine and not the Volga, I don't think.

And those sound very Germanic, so the Rhine.

-Isn't it a lovely question?

-Maus and Katz, yeah.

That is the correct answer.

OK, it's all square again.

Back to you, Alex.

Dizin is a ski resort in which country?

Dizin - D-I-Z-I-N.

Right. I think, first and foremost, we can take out Iran. I don't think they get much snow there.

Now with the spelling you've given me, it sounds, with the Z in it, I would go with Poland.

OK, Poland with its ski resorts.

Poland and Chile have ski resorts, but Iran does as well,

which is where Dizin is. OK.

Well, Kevin,

you need to answer this one. The Gakkel Ridge is a mountain system under which ocean?

The Gakkel Ridge - G-A-K-K-E-L.

Never heard of that, I must admit.

Obviously, the Pacific is vast.

But it doesn't... Hmm.

It depends how it got the name. Is it named after a person? Who knows?

I'm...

I'll rule out the Arctic.

When they came up, my first thought was Indian, so I'll stick with that.

-It's not the right answer.

-OK.

-It is the Arctic.

-The Arctic? OK.

OK, we go to sudden death.

Two each.

And we remove the options, as you well know. Just got to hear the answer from you, Alex.

-Sherwood Forest is in which English county?

-Having driven through it down on the A1 a few times,

-I'm pretty sure it's Nottinghamshire.

-It's the right answer, yes!

On surer ground there

than your Iranian ski resorts. And, Kevin,

which country borders Egypt to the south?

Just making sure.

Immediately to the south, Sudan.

It is. That's the correct answer. You're both on surer ground,

so on we go, Alex.

See if you can get another one.

Formerly known as Westlake Park, MacArthur Park is in which US city?

Thinking about the Donna Summer song, I think it possibly could be New York.

-So I'll go with New York.

-New York for MacArthur Park.

It's not. Kevin?

-I think it's Los Angeles.

-It is Los Angeles.

Kevin doesn't get a point.

He needs to answer this one. The Transporter Bridge which spans the River Tees

connects Port Clarence and which town?

Well, I'm hoping it's the one I've been on, making it Middlesbrough.

Middlesbrough?

It's the right answer. Yes, Kevin.

Bad luck, Alex.

Taking Kevin two questions into sudden death, but not to be. Please come back and join your teams.

Well, after that exchange, the Tuesday Club are two brains down. The Eggheads are all there.

Our next subject, then, is Music.

Who wants to play this?

Dave's out of it, so it'll have to go my way.

-I'll take that one, Dermot.

-OK, you can have Daphne, Chris or Barry.

I think we'll give Barry a go on this one.

-We'll give Barry a go.

-OK, Brett and Barry into the Question Room.

-Brett, do you ever have the Tuesday Club round to your place?

-Yeah, definitely. Quite a few times.

Probably because when we were looking at buying our house we saw this double garage

and decided what can I do? I put a hot tub in and it's known as The Groove Lounge. Everybody loves it.

-Can the Eggheads come?

-Any time. Yeah, you're all invited.

Look at Barry's face! He can't wait. Hot tub.

He'll come in fully-clothed, he's so eager.

-Brett, would you like to go first or second?

-I'll follow the team and go first.

Good luck, Brett. I Love To Boogie was a 1976 hit single for which band?

That was the one in Billy Elliot, as I remember rightly as well.

I don't think it's ABBA.

It's definitely not 10cc. It's got to be T Rex.

T Rex is the right answer. I Love To Boogie. OK, Barry.

What is the name of the character who is described in a musical song as "a flibbertigibbet,

"a Will-o'-the-Wisp, a clown"?

Ah, what do we do with a problem like Maria? The answer's Maria.

-From?

-Sound of Music, of course.

-Yep, that's the right answer.

And Brett,

Dooley Wilson, who appeared as a pianist in the film Casablanca,

actually played what instrument in his musical life?

People are probably going to slate me, but I've never actually seen Casablanca. Never...

Well, it's a treat that awaits you.

Yeah, I should have probably watched it.

It's a difficult one.

I'll probably take out drums.

It just doesn't seem to be that sort of instrument.

I'm going to go with bass. I think bass.

OK, bass. Admitting never having seen Casablanca, which gives us an opportunity for Chris

to give us the answer in your best Humphrey Bogart.

AS BOGART: I think he played the drums.

It is the drums, Brett. The drums.

Your second question, Barry.

The so-called Scandal Concert of 1913, conducted by Schoenberg,

which caused a near riot amongst audience members, was in which city?

Ah. I wonder if this is the one where he started using 12-tone music.

That would have caused a riot.

-I'm going to go for Paris.

-OK, Paris.

For the Scandal Concert. It's a scandal you don't know it.

-It's wrong. Other Eggheads?

-Vienna.

-Vienna.

OK, well, it's all square.

Both wrong. So, Brett, The Great C Major and The Little C Major are symphonies by which composer?

I know this. ..No, I don't.

-"No, I don't"!

-Classical music is not my forte.

-Oh, difficult one. I'm going to go with Schubert.

-OK, Schubert.

-Which happens to be the right answer!

-Get in!

Barry, it means you need this.

Which singing star of the 1960s

released a well-received comeback album entitled Back On Track in 2004?

A comeback album.

I wasn't aware Lulu had ever been away.

I don't think it was Petula Clark.

-I'm going to go with Sandie Shaw.

-Sandie Shaw with Back On Track.

-Is Barry back on track, Eggheads?

-I think it's Sandie Shaw.

-Might be.

They're wrong as well. It's Lulu.

YES!

I suspect that cheer made its way into the Question Room.

-It did indeed.

-Brett, you can show some emotion.

Wooo! Get in!

OK, let's have you both back here. Brett, you're in the final round.

Well, a breakthrough for the Tuesday Club. They have lost two brains, the Eggheads have lost one.

Will it be all square in that all-important final round?

This round will decide. It's Sport.

Who's like to play? Ian or Steph?

-You've got a good chance.

-You know nothing about sport.

-So go on.

-Ian's got to take it.

-Give it to Ian.

-OK, Ian.

-That's me.

Choose Daphne or Chris.

-Sorry, Chris.

-You will be, brother, you will be.

OK, let's have Ian and Chris into the Question Room.

-So, Ian, what's your particular sporting passion?

-Football, although I do like several sports.

OK, there's quite often a football question, but a lot of others, too.

-Would you like to go first or second?

-I'd like to go first and continue the team play.

OK, Ian,

on which piece of apparatus did Beth Tweddle win her first Olympic medal in 2012?

I'm not a huge fan of the Olympics,

but I'm fairly sure that was the beam.

OK, the beam.

It wasn't. No, it was the uneven bars.

And, Chris,

the Intertoto Cup was introduced as a summer competition in which sport?

There wouldn't be a special summer competition in cricket.

I've never heard of it in football, so rugby league.

Rugby league.

Daphne, you look shocked!

Football! And I know nothing about football.

It is football, Chris. Stays level at zero-zero.

And your second question, Ian.

Owlerton Stadium is a greyhound racing and speedway stadium in which city?

I'm fairly sure this is Sheffield. It's not too far from Sheffield Wednesday's ground

and they're called the Owls. So Owlerton - my answer is Sheffield.

And it's the right answer, too. Well done.

Chris,

Jacques Rogge, who became the IOC President in 2001, is also qualified in which profession?

If he's an orthopaedic surgeon, he'd be too busy to take on being the chairman of the IOC.

Likewise, with art restoration,

but civil engineers, they work to contract, as and when contracted, so I'll say civil engineering.

Interesting how you interpreted it that he carried on the career while being IOC President.

I'm not sure that's necessarily so.

-He's an orthopaedic surgeon.

-Mm-hm.

Which, in a low-scoring round,

gives you a chance to take it, Ian. What name is given to the banked corner on a BMX course?

I'm into guessing territory here.

Of those three options, baulk seems most likely to me,

so, rightly or wrongly, baulk.

OK. It's back to the Olympics.

Your Olympics viewing seems to have been deficient in the gymnastics

and BMX. If you'd watched closely, you'd have seen them negotiating the berms.

Berm.

A chance for Chris.

Which of the major golf tournaments has Jack Nicklaus won the most times?

Probably since it's an entry level thing, the US Open.

OK, the US Open.

It's the Masters.

I want to see that scoreboard again. I'm loving that.

-With one! Get in.

-One's enough.

You're in the final round, Ian. Would you both please come back and join your teams?

And so we've reached the final round, which, as always, is general knowledge.

But those of you who lost

won't be allowed to take part,

so Alex and Dave from the Tuesday Club and Chris and Barry would you leave the studio now?

Steph, Ian and Brett, you're playing to win £3,000.

Kevin, Dave and Daphne are playing for something money can't buy - the Eggheads' reputation.

Yes, you were wondering, Daphne. I'll ask each team three questions.

They're all general knowledge and you are allowed to confer.

Tuesday Club, are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three?

-Would you like to go first or second?

-Shall we continue?

-We've got to, so first, yeah.

We'll continue and go first, please.

Great stuff.

You really came back at the Eggheads after those first two rounds.

Can you keep the momentum going? The first question is this.

Someone who causes a disturbance or upset is said to put the cat among what?

Someone who causes a disturbance or upset is said to put the cat among what?

-Yeah, it's a well-known saying.

-So we're agreed on pigeons?

-Yeah.

We're going for the pigeons, please.

Making double sure! Yes, it's the right answer. See how the Eggheads do.

What is the name of the family featured in the BBC sitcom which stars Will Mellor as Liam?

-Flynns?

-Yeah, In With The Flynns

or something like that.

Yeah.

-It's the Flynns.

-The Flynns.

We're trying to remember the title.

-In With The Flynns?

-Yeah. All we needed was the Flynns.

That is the right answer, Eggheads. OK, Tuesday Club,

in which country was the tennis player Michael Llodra born?

Michael Llodra. That's L-L-O-D-R-A.

-Michael Llodra.

-I thought Switzerland.

-I'm sure he's French.

-Are you?

-I'd say French for that.

-You're the sport man. I know nothing about sport!

-So we're going to go for France?

-I think so.

-Yeah.

We're going to go for France, Dermot.

-A bit of debate.

-We're not sure.

It's the right answer, yes. Born in France.

Two out of two.

In the 19th century, Michael D Jones encouraged Welsh settlement in which part of the world?

Patagonia's got a lot of Welsh-speaking people.

That was Patagonia.

Patagonia is the right answer.

So it's two each.

Back to you, Tuesday Club. A milonga is a club or event

specially dedicated to which dance form?

-A milonga.

-Milonga.

I really should know this because my wife's a dance teacher,

but...I don't think it's foxtrot. It's 50/50 on salsa and tango.

-Which one to go for?

-I wouldn't have thought there were so many moves

in the salsa. There's all sorts of things in the tango, isn't there?

-My first thoughts were tango.

-Well, go with that.

We're not sure, but we're going to go for the tango.

Tango.

It's the right answer.

Well...

You'll have to change your name to the Milonga Club if you win.

Tangoing in the Groove Lounge if the Eggheads don't get this. All right, Eggheads,

what type of creature is a grackle?

-Bird, I think it is.

-I think a bird.

A grackle is a bird.

You party poopers! It's the right answer.

Bird. Takes us to sudden death.

Going really well, Tuesday Club. The choices go from here on until we get a winner.

In 2012, the musician Marcus Mumford married which actress?

American, aren't they, Mumford and Sons?

I have absolutely no idea.

The American out of Mumford and Sons...

-Do we know any actresses who got married?

-I couldn't even hazard a guess at that one.

No.

I should know this.

-It's not coming to me.

-No. Guess something.

-My mind's gone blank. I cannot think of anybody.

-Why not Kirsten Dunst?

-Yeah, go with her, just for a laugh. Kirsten Dunst.

-Kirsten Dunst.

We're going to say a wild stab in the dark at Kirsten Dunst.

-OK. Marcus Mumford and Kirsten Dunst. It's not the right answer.

-I'm not surprised.

I think you were barking up the wrong tree thinking he's American.

He's British. Do you know, Eggheads?

-It's Carey Mulligan.

-Carey Mulligan is the answer we were looking for.

Not Kirsten Dunst.

The first incorrect answer from the Tuesday Club gives the Eggheads an opportunity.

Who was the leader of the Conservative Party at the 2005 General Election?

-Michael Howard, isn't it?

-He was the last... Cameron became leader after the General Election.

-And then Iain Duncan Smith fell on his sword. Or got kicked out.

-Yeah.

-It's Michael Howard.

-The answer is...Michael Howard.

The leader of the Conservatives at the 2005 General Election

was Michael Howard. Eggheads, it means you've won.

It was a fantastic quiz! I think you'd agree, just in quizzing terms, that was so close.

Look at the configuration. Two each in the Question Room.

And you came back from two-nil down and then into sudden death in the final round.

We have had a fantastic time.

Thank you for bringing the joy of the Tuesday Club to the Eggheads.

And we are all booked in to the Groove Lounge!

Thank you, Tuesday Club, but the Eggheads have done what comes naturally and reign supreme.

You won't be going home with the £3,000. It rolls over to the next show.

Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?

Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers can defeat them. £4,000 says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.

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