Episode 49 Eggheads

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

'Together, they are 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 challengers

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

They are the Eggheads.

Taking on our quiz champions today are Streetwise.

They're all linked to the Street Theatre amateur-dramatics group

based in Street in Somerset. Let's meet them.

Hello, my name's Dennis, I'm 65 and I'm a retired insurance assessor.

Hi, I'm Pete, I'm 44 and I'm a software engineer.

Hello. I'm Eliane, I'm 32 and a recent graduate.

Hello, I'm Patrick, I'm 62 and I work in the construction industry.

Hello, I'm Paul, I'm 55 and I'm a communications consultant.

Welcome, Streetwise, good to see you trying to beat the Eggheads.

Tell me about the am-dram. Do you all act or do different things?

All but one of us either act, direct, produce

or sweep up, whatever.

Apart from Pat here, who's the important producer

because he's Eliane's father.

OK! And what about quizzing?

Is there a quiz at the theatre or do you do any in the pubs nearby?

We've all quizzed individually,

-but I think we've only quizzed together once...

-And we did win.

You did win! Well, let's keep that up and keep the record going.

Let me tell you a thing or two about unbroken records -

every day, there's £1,000 up for grabs for our challengers.

If they fail to defeat the Eggheads, that rolls over to the next show.

The Eggheads have won the last 15 games

and that means £16,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

I hope you'll give it a try. £16,000 at stake.

We start with a head-to-head battle,

where you're trying to knock an Egghead out.

And it's Politics. Who'd like to take this on?

Don't look at me! Yeah, well...

We didn't expect that quite so soon. I think it might be me.

Dennis, straight into battle against which Egghead?

-Ooh, erm...

-Ooh, that's a good one.

-Ooh, ahh...

I'd like to take on Daphne, I think.

-I think Daphne's a good one, yeah.

-You rotter!

It's Politics. You have to go to the question room so you can't confer.

That's Dennis and Daphne, please.

Dennis, let's get you started off. Do you want to go first or second?

First, please, Dermot.

Good luck, Dennis. Politics.

In 2011, Yoshihiko Noda was elected prime minister of which country?

Ooh, I can't say that I've heard of the name.

But then, I haven't heard of prime ministers being elected

in either South Korea or Indonesia,

so I think I'll go for Japan.

Japan for Yoshihiko Noda. It's the right answer.

And you are off to a good start. And Daphne -

during the 1980s, the future Home Secretary David Blunkett

was the leader of the council in which city?

I think that's Sheffield.

Yes, correct. David Blunkett, before he became a national politician,

was leader of Sheffield Council.

Dennis - which of these prominent US politicians

stood as a candidate for the Republican nomination

for the 2012 Presidential election?

Mmm. Sarah Palin stood

as Vice-Presidential candidate

for Cain.

Michelle Bachmann is there at the back of my mind.

I'll try Michelle Bachmann.

Michelle Bachmann. Yep, well remembered, that's right.

Yes... One of those debates -

she shone brightly in one of them and faded away eventually

and, of course, Mitt Romney won the nomination ultimately.

Right, Daphne - at the 2010 UK General Election,

Howling Lord Hope of the Monster Raving Looney Party

polled 234 votes in the constituency won by which politician?

Ah...

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe...

Erm...

-David Cameron.

-Is the right answer.

OK, all square.

Dennis - the 2012 book Last Man Standing

is the autobiography of which politician?

Well, again, not too sure.

But there's a name there

that is at the back of my head.

I'll try Jack Straw.

Well done. You're going really well. Jack Straw, Last Man Standing.

So Daphne knows she's got a fight on her hands and has to make a stand.

In 2009, which African republic became only the second country,

after Mozambique, to be admitted to the Commonwealth

despite having no colonial links to Britain?

That's Rwanda.

It is. All square at 3-3.

Neither player got one wrong yet so we make it harder.

Dennis, I remove the options. It goes to the sudden-death phase.

Who resigned from his position as Defence Secretary in 2011

following a furore over his links to the businessman Adam Werritty?

Yeah, I think that was... I think that was Dr Liam Fox.

Liam Fox is the right answer. Yes, well done.

Dennis certainly knows his politics, but as does Daphne.

Let's see who'll falter first.

Which former British Press Secretary's published diaries

include the volumes Prelude To Power and Power And The People?

No, I...

Jonathan Powell?

My goodness, Daphne, no!

-No! Alistair Campbell?

-Yes, of course!

Jonathan Powell was never a Press Secretary!

My goodness me, that's fantastic news, Dennis!

I was turning around to ask you another question!

I thought Daphne would get that.

Well, that's great news for Streetwise.

You're through to the final round, Dennis. Please come back in.

Dennis, when I said "flying start", I didn't know you'd sprout wings!

Took out one of their strongest players - Daphne's gone.

And Streetwise haven't lost anyone.

Our next head-to-head is Film & Television.

-Given your interests...

-Well, do you want to take...

-You take it in case sport comes up.

-Yeah, all right, go on.

-I'll take it.

-OK, Pete,

who would you like to play?

I'm thinking about Chris. OK, yeah.

OK. I'd like to take on Chris.

OK. Let's have Pete and Chris into the question room now, please.

So, Pete, let's try and keep this momentum going.

Got the Eggheads on the back foot.

-Would you like to go first or second?

-First, Dermot, thank you.

Pete, first question. Victoria Beckham, Naomi Campbell

and Vera Wang have all made guest appearances on which US TV series?

Well...

I'm a fairly keen House fan,

so I'm pretty sure it's not House.

So I'll eliminate that first off.

Now, the other two I've not really watched.

But I think if I was going to go for one,

er,... I think I might follow Judith's line

and go down the right. I'll go with Ugly Betty.

OK, do you know what The Wire and Ugly Betty are about?

I think Ugly Betty's about a production assistant

in a sort of TV company...

Well, no, that's interesting.

I mean. you've given the answer. It's a fashion magazine.

-Oh, that's right.

-Ugly Betty's right, well done.

But without actually knowing that!

If you were an Ugly Betty viewer, that would've been easier.

But you've got it.

Chris - the incompetent vet Matthew Chinnery

and a theatre troupe named Legz Akimbo featured in which sitcom?

Filmed in Glossop, masquerading as Royston Vasey,

it's the League Of Gentlemen.

I didn't know it was Glossop.

-Glossop, yeah.

-OK.

It is the right answer, well done.

All square. Pete continuing that great opening. Keep it going, Pete.

A running joke in the opening theme song to The Muppet Show

involved which character unsuccessfully attempting

to play the final note on a gong or trumpet?

Well, Beaker,

I know he's with Bunsen Honeydew in the Muppet Labs,

so I don't think it's Beaker.

And Animal

was famous for his drum playing

in the opening sequences

and I think pretty much all the way through The Muppet Show,

so I'm going to go with Gonzo.

Wow, that's an almost unfeasibly detailed knowledge

-of The Muppet Show.

-Yeah, I'm not sure what that says!

I was trying to read something into that, but it's the right answer,

that's all that matters. Two out of two. Fantastic stuff.

OK, Chris - the Batmobile

that first appeared in the 2005 film Batman Begins is known by what name?

I've not paid any attention to Batman

since the high-camp series of the '60s with Adam West.

But let's deconstruct this a bit.

The Tumbler - don't think so, not a very suitable name for a car.

The Acrobat, likewise, I'll have to go with The Skipper.

The Skipper for the Batmobile.

Other Eggheads, do you know?

-Guessed at The Tumbler.

-It is The Tumbler, Chris,

the one you first dismissed. Fantastic news, Pete.

I wonder if that momentum's going to carry you into the final round.

In the 1997 film Grosse Pointe Blank,

which actor, who co-wrote the screenplay,

played the professional hitman Martin Blank?

It would help if you've seen it. Have you?

I have heard of the film,

but I've not seen it,

so it's going to put me on the back foot a bit, I think.

Well, both Gene Hackman and... Ray Liotta

are known for playing that type of character.

But, then, John Cusack is maybe ringing a bell

and I know he's done some writing as well.

Yeah, I'm going to go down the middle. I'm going with John Cusack.

It's the right answer, you're in the final round!

Well done, Pete.

Well, look at those scores. Chris, no place for you.

Please come back and join your teams.

Streetwise proving very quiz-wise. Haven't put a foot wrong yet.

Knocked two Eggheads out of the final round. They're all there.

So our third head-to-head today.

This one is Music. Who wants this? Eliane, Patrick or Paul?

Er, I'll do Music.

Who will you choose, remembering that Daphne and Chris have gone?

I think Judith and I could make... We'll take Music together.

-THEY ALL LAUGH

-All right!

We get your drift, Patrick!

Let's have Patrick and Judith into the question room, please.

Well, Patrick, over to you. First or second?

I'll take the first set, please.

OK, Patrick, first question.

The first UK number-one single for The Boomtown Rats had what title?

Erm, I used to take part in a quiz league locally

for the Lions Club

and I remember getting this wrong once

and I think the correct answer is Rat Trap.

OK. Once bitten, twice shy.

And you got it right this time. Rat Trap is the right answer.

Judith - the two characters in the novelty duet

that was a 1961 UK hit single

for Harry Belafonte and Odetta about a bucket with a hole in it

are called Henry and what?

I think it's Liza. "There's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza."

-So Liza.

-Liza is the right answer, yes.

Patrick, second question.

On the cover of their 1966 album Pet Sounds,

The Beach Boys are pictured feeding which creatures?

This is where I wish I'd taken the second set.

Erm... I think...

I'll try goats.

OK. It's the right answer, yes!

The magic right.

-Thank you.

-All seems to be working for Streetwise today so far.

Judith - which of these stage musicals

has lyrics written by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe?

Well, I don't think it's Evita.

Erm... Richard Stilgoe...

Oh, I'm not sure.

Phantom Of The Opera.

Phantom Of The Opera is right, you got it.

All square. And Patrick -

before they had commercial success, which group was called Starfish?

Again, I don't immediately know the answer,

but I can't imagine the Arctic Monkeys

ever having a boring name like Starfish,

but I could be completely wrong on that.

Muse come from Barnstaple in Devon, on the seaside, so I'll go for Muse.

OK, Muse, previously as Starfish?

-It's incorrect, it's Coldplay.

-Yeah.

-Coldplay, you were thinking that.

But a chance for Judith here. Can the Eggheads finally strike?

It depends on this. In the lyrics of a 2007 hit single,

which singer's drunken boyfriend has been sick on her trainers?

What a charming-sounding song.

God, disgusting!

Erm, I have a feeling it's Lily Allen.

OK, Lily Allen. Drunken boyfriend being sick - other Eggheads?

-I think so, but...

-I would go Kate Nash.

It's Kate Nash, as Dave was saying. So it's all square still.

We go into sudden death, then.

Patrick - although not a huge hit in the UK,

Free Bird is a well-known 1970s song by which US rock group?

Now you're talking music, Dermot!

They took their name after a PE teacher, I believe,

that they didn't like. Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Yeah, that's right. Lynyrd Skynyrd. Right answer.

Didn't know that, didn't like their PE teacher.

Judith, you're following the other Eggheads into oblivion

if you don't get this.

Which musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein is based on a play

by Ferenc Molnar, named Liliom?

I think it's Carousel.

Yes, it is, so on we go.

Patrick - which song, a multiple UK number-one single

written by Alex North and Hy Zaret,

lost out on the Best Song Oscar to Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing?

The most obvious multi-successful single I can think of

is Unchained Melody. I'll try that.

You're good. That's the right answer.

Once you get into that comfort zone, you're putting the slippers on

and relaxing into that comfy chair.

Relaxed, wow. Judith under pressure again.

Which group, formed by the German musician Edgar Froese,

came into existence in the late 1960s?

Mm. Erm, something-werk.

Erm...

That's the only one I can think of.

Oh, what was it called?

I think...

I think it's something-werk.

I can't remember, sorry.

Well, it's Kraftwerk you were thinking of.

But it's way too early for them.

Patrick, I bet you know it.

-I'll try Tangerine Dream.

-It is Tangerine Dream!

Just to make it a total wipeout, total victory there.

Judith's not going to be in the final round. Patrick's there too

with the rest of Streetwise at the moment. Please return to your teams.

As it stands, Streetwise all there. Three Eggheads have gone.

And so we reach our final subject.

Our last subject before the final round. It's Arts & Books.

Are the Eggheads shaking in their boots as Eliane or Paul decide

-who's going to take it on?

-Between Eliane and myself,

I'm volunteering to be the sacrificial lamb!

-Well, after what's gone before...

-Not our subject!

-You've got Dave or Kevin to play.

-Well, I want to meet Dave,

so let's go for Dave.

Paul and Dave into the question room, please.

Paul, you know the score - first or second?

Don't want to break up a winning formula - I'll go first.

Paul, here you go. Laurel and myrtle are shades of which colour?

OK, I'm going to have to do an eeny, meeny, Daphne moe.

So, on this one,

I am going to go straight down the middle, I'm afraid,

and go with purple.

You don't choose your own costumes, then, in the amateur dramatics?

-Not at all.

-No, it's green.

Laurel and myrtle.

Green. Well, the Eggheads need a bit of luck

and it might go Dave's way, but it's early in this round.

Which word describes the incident of the dog in the night-time

in the title of a book by Mark Haddon?

I've got to go curious, but I've never heard of the book.

That's quite an admission for an Egghead, but it's right.

OK, "Curious Incident". You're playing catch-up, Paul.

Greg Heffley is the main character in which series of children's books?

Something tells me... I've not read any of these children's books.

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid - I don't think so.

-I'm going with The Spiderwick Chronicles.

-OK, for Greg Heffley.

That luck has evaporated. It's the wrong answer.

-It is Diary Of A Wimpy Kid.

-Oh, no.

But a chance, then, for Dave to close it down very early.

In the satirical novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh,

what is the name of the newspaper magnate who owns the Daily Beast?

-Lord Copper.

-Ah! Have you read it? You just know it?

I think... I've got a feeling

I've seen an adaptation of it, with probably Ben Elton,

but I could be... It's just come from me.

No, it is the right answer.

Dave, you are in the final round. The Eggheads stop the rot finally.

Please come back and join your teams.

Well, this could be interesting.

Time for the final round, which, as always, is general knowledge.

But those who lost the head-to-heads won't be allowed to take part,

so Paul from Streetwise, Daphne, Chris and Judith from the Eggheads,

would you leave the studio, please?

Dennis, Pete, Eliane and Patrick,

you're playing to win Streetwise £16,000.

Kevin and Dave, you're playing for the Eggheads' reputation.

I ask each team three questions in turn, all general knowledge.

You can confer in the final round.

So, Streetwise, are your four brains better than the Eggheads' two?

And, Streetwise, do you want to go first or second?

We'll stick with going first, please.

The athlete Mo Farah, who won two gold medals at the 2012 Olympics,

was born in which country?

Somalia. I'm pretty sure it was Somalia.

Yes, we're pretty certain it was Somalia.

OK, Somalia is the right answer.

Eggheads - the song It's A Long Way To Tipperary

was written just before, and is associated with, which conflict?

-World War I.

-It's most associated with World War I,

written, as you said, just before that.

That'll do. It's the right answer.

Eggheads strike back with a correct answer there.

Streetwise - Jon Arbuckle is the fictional owner

of which cartoon pet?

Well, it's not Tweety Pie because that was a little old lady.

I'm 100 per cent it was Garfield.

-Clifford...

-I watched the Garfield film the other day

and his first name was Jon.

Yeah, it is. Yes, that's Garfield, please.

Garfield is correct.

Eggheads, your second question -

the Norwegian installation named Ekofisk,

which began operating in 1971,

is which type of energy-producing enterprise?

The Norwegian installation named Ekofisk - E-K-O-F-I-S-K -

which began operating in 1971,

is which type of energy-producing enterprise?

-Oil field.

-Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, the Ekofisk is one of the North Sea Norwegian oil fields.

That's correct, Eggheads. All square.

Streetwise - according to the UK Highway Code,

unless another road user poses a danger,

drivers should not sound their horns in a built-up area

after what time at night?

Before the three came up, I was thinking 11 o'clock.

I was thinking 11.30. Well, 11 o'clock's not on there.

-I would say 11.30.

-You'd go that late?

I'm not sure, so I'll go with...

-If you've got an inkling...

-I thought it was 11.30.

I'm happy to go with that.

-Yep.

-OK...

-I have been wrong before.

We're not certain on this one,

but Patrick seems to think it's 11.30.

Putting it all on Patrick, are we?

-THEY LAUGH

-It's better than... I had no idea.

Well, he can take the glory, it is 11.30.

Well done. Well, if the scores remain like that,

it stays 3-2 after the Eggheads answer, you've got £16,000.

But the Eggheads can take us to sudden death.

Operation Thunderbolt was the original code name

for a hostage-rescue mission in the 1970s in which city?

Entebbe airport.

They were all the scenes of hostage rescue or attempted rescue attempts.

This particular one was the Israeli rescue

of passengers who were on the ground at Entebbe.

Entebbe is the right answer. We go to sudden death.

Sudden death for £16,000.

One question can decide it. One pair of questions will decide it.

Will it be this pair?

Streetwise - in 2012, which former US Secretary of State

became one of the first two female members

of Augusta National Golf Club?

In 2012, which former US Secretary of State

became one of the first two female members

of Augusta National Golf Club?

Well, I suppose it could be one of two.

The only one I can think of is Condoleeza Rice.

Ahh, Condoleeza...

-Yeah, try that.

-Yeah, yeah.

We're going to try Condoleeza Rice.

OK, Condoleeza Rice.

It's the right answer. Well done. Eggheads, you need to get this.

Which British architect won the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 2007?

Which British architect won the prestigious Pritzker Prize -

P-R-I-T-Z-K-E-R -

in 2007?

It was either Rogers, Foster or...

Well...

You would suspect it'd be one of those two.

-Is it a European...

-Oh, it's worldwide.

So who's had... more prolific...

-Is it...

-Foster, really, in recent years.

-Yeah.

-But it could be...

Sometimes, a bit like Nobel Prizes,

they catch up later on.

Erm...

I'm just trying to think if I've seen the thing where it's more -

if Rogers has popped up more recently.

I'd be inclined to go for Foster.

-OK, I have nothing to go on.

-It's a 50-50.

-We agree on Norman Foster.

Well, we don't actually know,

so we're assuming...

We guessed that!

It could be somebody else as there are other prestigious architects,

but we're assuming it's either Norman Foster or Richard Rogers

and whichever one we go for, it'll turn out to be the other one!

But we'll try Norman Foster.

You're tossing up between Norman Foster and Richard Rogers.

£16,000 could be dependent on it.

It is one of those two - it's Richard Rogers. You've won £16,000!

Amazing.

Well, it happens quite often in Eggheads

where a challenging team do well in the head-to-heads

and then lose it in the final round. It's keeping that going,

which is what you did spectacularly.

You haven't won the money until the final round - you now have!

Enjoy the money, I'm sure you will!

Don't spend it all on costumes and props!

Congratulations, Streetwise, you've just won £16,000.

You are officially cleverer than the Eggheads. Feels good, I'm sure.

Join us next time on Eggheads to see if a new team will be as successful.

Until then, goodbye.

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