Episode 7 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 The Eggsterminators from London.

This team know one another through their involvement

with Tower Halmets Environmental Health Department. Let's meet them.

Hello, my name's Alkesh, I'm 38 years old,

I'm an environmental health officer specialising in noise pollution.

Hello, my name is Fred, I'm 64 years old,

I'm an environmental health officer and I specialise in housing.

Hi, I'm Rob, I'm 53 years old and I'm a pest control supervisor.

Hello, I'm Ken, I'm 52

I'm an environmental health officer and I specialise in food safety.

Hello, I'm Richard, I'm 61 years old

and I'm a retired local government officer.

Well, welcome to you, Eggsterminators.

After 1,000 shows, I'm surprised we haven't had this team name before.

Very nice choice, and relating to the job, as well.

What made you decide you wanted to take on the Eggheads, Alkesh?

Well, we all like quizzing

and we thought we'd give it a crack.

OK. Have you quizzed together before or anything like that?

Not together, but individually we have the Tower Halmets quiz night.

And have any combination of you managed to win that?

-I haven't!

-No. Nobody else.

OK, well, a bit of a step up in class, even from that,

to the mighty Eggheads. Let me tell you what's been going on.

Every day there's £1,000 of cash up for grabs for our challengers.

However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,

the prize money rolls over to our next show.

So, Eggsterminators, the Eggheads have won the last ten shows.

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

All right. Nice little pot there building.

Let's see if you can get your hands on it.

£11,000. First head-to-head coming up. Film & Television.

Who wants to play this one?

It'll be probably Ken, I think.

-Yeah.

-Happy with that, Ken?

-Yeah, I'll go for it.

-That'll be Ken.

All right, Ken. And any of those fine five you can choose.

-I think you had an idea, didn't you?

-I did. I'll ask for Chris, please.

OK. Ask for Chris. Please! Very politely.

Whichever way you ask, you can have him. You can keep him if you like.

Ken and Chris into the question room so there's no conferring.

So, Ken, I know you specialise in food safety.

You must have seen some sights in your time.

Unfortunately. And all too recently.

Indeed. Does it put you off eating out?

Do you want to have a look at the kitchen and the food storage

-before you go into a restaurant?

-No, you have to keep your eyes shut

-and just go for it.

-Hope for the best. OK.

Glad to know you're keeping us all safe by keeping them up to the mark.

Right, let's play Film & Television.

You get to choose as the challenger, do you want to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please.

Best of luck, Ken. Here you go. The 2012 film Prometheus,

directed by Ridley Scott, examines subject matter

previously explored in which of his other films?

I'm sure it's not Matchstick Men

or A Good Year. I think it's Alien.

Alien, yes, indeed, right answer.

Chris, who played the role of Hobson,

a part originally played by John Gielgud,

in the 2011 remake of the film Arthur?

Oh, that's the butler, isn't it? Erm...

Well, I don't think it'd be Ellen DeGeneres, cos she's too American.

I don't remember Julie Walters being involved. I think Helen Mirren.

It's the right answer, yes. Well done. Back to you, Ken.

Which film features a gang called the Black Rebels Motorcycle Club?

I can't recall it in Midnight Cowboy.

I can't remember watching that film, to be honest.

I know Jon Voight's in it.

Erm, The Wild One I don't know.

Easy Rider's about motorcycling. I think it's Easy Rider.

Easy Rider with motorbikes in that.

And a lot of motorbikes in The Wild One, as well,

which is the answer.

The Wild One, not Easy Rider.

So, Chris, how will he do with his second question?

Who was nominated for an Academy Award

for her performance as the high school girlfriend

of Woody Allen in his film Manhattan?

Hm. I don't think Jamie Lee Curtis has ever worked with Woody Allen.

And I don't think it's Debra Winger,

from An Officer And A Gentleman. I think it was Mariel Hemingway.

Mariel Hemingway is the right answer.

Chris has the lead. Ken, you need this.

In 2010, who wrote and presented the first series of

A History Of Horror for the BBC?

Mark Gatiss, he dealt with horrible things, I think.

Mark Lawson's a big film buff.

But I think so is Jonathan Ross, so I'll go with Jonathan Ross.

Jonathan Ross, A History Of Horror for the BBC.

This is turning into a history of horror for you.

It's not the right answer, Ken. It is Mark Gatiss.

-Oh, dear.

-Wrote and presented A History Of Horror in 2010.

We end the round. Chris doesn't need to face another question.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

Well, after the first round, one Eggsterminator gone,

all the Eggheads still there. Let's play our next head-to-head.

And this one is Music. Who'd like to play this?

-Erm...

-One we hadn't reckoned on.

-It'll be either you or me, Rob.

-Well, it's more likely to be you than me.

-It's me, Dermot.

-OK, Alkesh. And which Egghead?

Can't be Chris. Any of the other four.

I will go for Daphne.

OK, Daphne. Let's have you both into the question room, please.

Well, Alkesh, I know you specialise in noise,

so rather appropriate you've chosen the Music round.

Do you enjoy any particular type of music?

-Heavy metal.

-Oh, right!

-And country.

So do you get complaints from the neighbours?

-Oh, no, Walkman, headphones.

-OK, very good.

So you don't have to call round on your own door

-and say, "Tone it down."

-No.

-All right.

-Would you like to go first or second?

-I'll go first, please.

OK, good luck. Which type of music is particularly associated

with London's Wigmore Hall?

I'm thinking, for classical, it would be maybe the Royal Albert Hall.

Erm... I don't know what grime music is.

And folk, I suppose it can turn up in any pub.

It'll have to be a complete guess, I think, from grime or folk.

And I'm going to go for grime.

Grime. It's not, Alkesh.

It is classical.

So nothing there. See how Daphne does.

The piece of music known as Taps,

which is normally played on a bugle or trumpet,

is particularly associated with which organisation?

That's the US military.

It is. So one to you. Alkesh, second question.

That's Why God Made The Radio is a 2012 album by which group?

Right. I don't think Pink Floyd have made an... album together

for a while.

And I can't remember the Bea... Hm, maybe the Beach Boys did form again,

or reform.

Erm... But so did The Who.

-I think I'll go for The Who, Dermot.

-OK, The Who.

It's the Beach Boys.

You were right about the different line-ups, but wrong band there.

So a chance for Daphne to wrap it up early.

Which American band had UK hit singles with

What A Fool Believes and Long Train Runnin'?

Hm.

Nope. Don't know.

Erm...

The Doobie Brothers.

OK. Why are you saying that, Daphne? Pure guess or bit of intuition?

-Pure guess.

-HE LAUGHS

Oh, look at Alkesh nodding there. He knows if Daphne guesses,

it's in the back of the net. It's the right answer.

-The Doobie Brothers.

-Sorry.

-No, you're not!

-THEY LAUGH

-In all honesty.

That's what you're programmed to do, answer the questions.

And even when she guesses, in they go. Sorry, Alkesh.

Your round is over. Would you both please come and join your teams.

Well, it's the Eggheads at the moment doing the Eggsterminating.

Two members of the challengers missing from the final round.

Let's stop the rot here, shall we?

Our next head-to-head is Arts & Books. Who'd like to play this?

-I think that should be you, Fred.

-Yes, OK.

-I'll have a go.

-All right, Fred. And who would you like to play?

-You've got Dave, Kevin or Judith.

-Erm, I'm going to go for Kevin.

All right. Let's have Fred and Kevin into the question room, please.

So, Fred, decided to go for Kevin. Kevin, that's because you've got

a family connection with these guys' line of business.

Yes, my father for 46 years was a local government officer.

He wasn't on the technical side himself, he wasn't an inspector

or an environmental health officer, but he ran the office

from which they worked for what was Winchester Rural District Council

and then subsequently Winchester City Council.

So yes, he did that for a long time.

OK, well, there's the link,

but we know no quarter asked for or given in quizzing terms.

And, Fred, you get to decide. Do you want to go first or second?

Erm, I think I'll go first, thank you.

Arts & Books, then, and first question coming your way, Fred.

Which of these is an alternative title

for Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick?

Well, I know it's a book about the sea,

so The Kraken, it doesn't ring a bell.

The Serpent, I don't think it was that.

-I think it might have been The Whale.

-Yeah, about the sea,

but more specifically, about a big whale. It's the right answer.

Kevin, in which city was the Curtain Theatre,

the venue for Shakespeare's theatre company before The Globe?

Hm. Well, it was all still in London.

Manchester and Birmingham weren't terribly big in those days.

I think The Curtain was in Shoreditch, if I remember correctly,

but anyway, it's London.

OK. It's the right answer. And a solid start for you both.

Fred, what was the primary subject

of the paintings of the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt?

Erm, I don't recall him doing animals

and I don't recall seeing any of landscapes,

so I feel as though it's the female body.

OK, the female body for Gustav Klimt. It's correct. Well done.

Kevin, in Joe Orton's play Loot, where do the thieves

Hal and Dennis hide the money they've stolen?

I seem to remember that being in a coffin.

In a coffin is the correct answer.

Very good from both of you. Two-all. And straight back to Fred.

Fred, which Roman poet is best known for the influential work

called On The Nature Of Things?

Erm, I'm very poor on my Roman poets.

So, erm... it'll have to be a guess.

So I don't recall a Lucretius.

It's either Ovid or Horace. I feel as though it'll be Ovid.

It's not. It's Lucretius.

Well, is that going to be the crucial stumble? Let's find out.

Which painter collaborated with Walt Disney

on the animated short Destino in the 1940s,

over 50 years before it was eventually completed?

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

I can't imagine it would be Lucien Freud.

He would only have been in his 20s then, anyway.

Erm...

Dali obviously a surrealist artist.

Picasso could actually turn his hand to most things.

It depends when in the 1940s, doesn't it?

With the intervention of World War II,

Picasso was in occupied France.

But it would depend if it was late 40s...

-I'll try Dali.

-OK, Dali. Listening to the workings of Kevin's mind,

-narrowed it down to two, went for Dali and got the right answer.

-Oh.

And has won the round, but only just.

Good player, Fred, but you won't be in the final.

Please come back and join your teams.

So, Kevin, you were wondering about Destino and the year.

Started production in 1945,

-so technically Picasso could've...

-Could have, yeah.

As it stands, the Eggsterminators are three brains down,

the Eggheads are all still standing. We reach our last head-to-head

before that final round. It's History.

Who'd like to play this? Was that going to be Fred?

-Could've been Fred.

-OK.

-So, Al, your decision.

-It's Rob or Richard.

-Yeah.

-What do you think?

-I reckon Richard.

-Richard.

-Cheers, Ken.

-OK.

-Richard, are you OK?

-Yeah.

-We'll go for Richard.

-Oh, right.

OK, Richard. And I'm just looking at the Eggheads.

-You've got Dave or Judith to choose from.

-Richard, you make the choice.

An unknown quantity, but let's test Dave.

OK. He's not known as Tremendous Knowledge Dave for nothing

but they're all good, as you know. Into the question room, please.

Well, Eggsterminator Richard, some eggspectation on your shoulders here

from the other team members. Let's see if we can get you through.

-Do you want to go first or second?

-I'd like to go first, please.

OK, first history question for you, Richard.

Sun Yat-sen was a founding father

and the first president of which country?

It wasn't India or Japan, it was China in the early 20th century.

-OK. China, Sun Yat-sen, right answer.

-Well done.

Dave, "the race to the sea" is a term used to describe

a period in the early part of which 20th century war?

I'll go World War I.

OK, World War I, the race to the sea, is correct.

-Thank you.

-THEY LAUGH

My pleasure. OK, World War I identified by Dave.

And back to you, Richard, second question.

The Treaty of Versailles of 1756,

usually referred to as the First Treaty of Versailles,

was an agreement between France and which other country?

I think that was too late for the war before the...

..Revolutionary and the Napoleonic wars

against Great Britain and others.

I think it was most likely between France and Austria.

It's the right answer. Well done, Richard.

OK, and Dave,

which Soviet leader proposed the part-built Transpolar mainline,

an incomplete Siberian railroad that was also known as the Dead Road?

I don't know the answer.

The only logic I've got is that obviously Stalin

had quite a long reign as leader, so I'll go with Stalin.

OK. The Dead Road, Chris?

Yeah, one of Stalin's "great" projects.

Didn't go anywhere, never ran, and a lot of political prisoners

were worked to death building it. Apparently a lot of it

is still lying around derelict in the wilds of Siberia.

OK. It's the right answer. Confirmed by Chris, Stalin, correct.

OK, Richard, well, this could be a very important question for you.

Which maverick businessman was the surprise Republican candidate

against Franklin D Roosevelt in the 1940 US presidential election?

Landon I'm not familiar with.

I don't think it was Dewey at that point.

I strongly suspect it was Wendell Wilkie.

It's the correct one. Well done, Richard.

And Dave, if you get this wrong, you've lost.

The so-called hut tax war of 1898

was a conflict between British colonial forces

and fighters from which country?

I haven't really got a clue.

Erm, I'm going to go Malawi.

OK, Malawi. And other Eggheads, presumably called a hut tax

-because it was...

-A tax on huts.

-Yeah, a tax on huts.

Self-explanatory. British colonial forces fought fighters from

-Sierra Leone.

-Fair enough.

-Which means, Richard, you've got through!

Well done! Well played. Please come back and join your teams.

Well, what a performance, Richard. Very important for the team.

So well done there. And it brings us to what we've been playing towards,

it's time for the final round, which is general knowledge.

But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads

will not be allowed to take part in this round.

So Alkesh, Fred and Ken from the Eggsterminators

and Dave from the Eggheads, please leave the studio.

So, Rob and Richard, you're playing to win the Eggsterminators £11,000.

Judith, Kevin, Daphne and Chris, you're playing for something

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

As usual, I ask each team three questions in term.

The questions are all general knowledge and you can confer.

The question is, are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

Rob and Richard, do you want to go first or second?

I think we'll stick with first. Yes, we'll go first.

OK, good luck. Here you go.

What name is generally given to website advertisements

that allow users to click through to the advertiser's website?

-Right, Richard.

-Banner ads.

-You've probably got more chance than me.

The one that appeals most to me... Flag ads I don't recall at all.

Desktop... seems a bit vague and general.

Banner. Banner headlines, banner ads seems most likely to me.

-OK, do you want to go with that?

-Yep, go with that.

-We'll go with banner ads.

-Banner ads.

Important to get the first one correct and you have. Banner ads.

Well done. Eggheads,

the Vogalonga is an annual boating regatta in which European city?

-I haven't heard of it...

-The first question, obvious, Venice.

Yeah, if it's not Venice, it ought to be with a name like that.

Yes. Italian-sounding.

-Not Edinburgh.

-Not Edinburgh.

-No, no, no.

-It can't be Budapest because...

-It sounds Italian.

-It's got to be Venice.

-It's got to be, I think.

-We think it must be Venice.

-OK, you think but you don't know.

-Not 100 percent but it's definitely not Edinburgh.

-OK.

It is the right answer, Venice. Correct.

OK, Eggsterminators,

which Premier League football team reported the highest wage bill

for the 2010/11 season, the eighth consecutive year it had done so?

-Football.

-Yes.

-They're all Premiership teams.

-They're all big spenders.

We can't eliminate anybody.

-I don't know from choice...

-Eight years is a long time.

Yes. I suspect... My uninformed choice or guess

would be Chelsea.

Yeah, I'm drawn to Chelsea.

-Yeah? Shall we go with that?

-Go for Chelsea as our answer.

-We'll go Chelsea.

-OK, Chelsea.

Yep, that is big-spending and big-paying Chelsea. It's right.

OK, Eggheads, your second question.

Which English actor co-wrote The Wheat And Dairy Free Cookbook

which was composed of recipes for people with food intolerances?

Which English actor co-wrote The Wheat And Dairy Free Cookbook

which was composed of recipes for people with food intolerances?

-Well, he's very much that way inclined.

-Do you think?

I mean, Ray Winstone, he's a good steak and chips, I would've thought.

Mm.

-Shall we go for Terence Stamp?

-I think he's my favourite, yeah.

He's done precious little acting of late,

so perhaps he had time to co-write a cookbook.

It's me, this, cos the others don't really have an idea,

-but my instinct says Terence Stamp.

-OK.

On your shoulders rests the responsibility.

It's the right answer, Judith. So much patting of the back there.

OK, it's all square. Eggsterminators,

in 1940, Clement Attlee took on which position

in Winston Churchill's first war cabinet?

Well, Richard, history.

My first thought was deputy prime minister, but it isn't there.

Labour, I think, was erm...

..the Welsh...

..unionist, I can't think of his name.

Lord Privy Seal. Foreign Secretary, Winston Churchill...

..removed Halifax,

-Lord Halifax.

-And who did he replace him with?

-I think...

No, I don't think he did initially remove Halifax. Lord Privy Seal.

-You think?

-I hope.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

-You sure?

-No. No, but it's my best bet.

We're going with Richard's knowledge of history rather than mine

and we're going to go down the middle, Lord Privy Seal.

-Lord Privy Seal.

-Richard's knowledge of history.

Well, he showed that in the head-to-head. He's shown it again.

-It's the right answer.

-Oh, well done, Richard.

Eggheads, well, that could win the money for them.

Which architect, who died in 1986,

was the lead architect of New York's original World Trade Center complex?

Which architect, who died in 1986,

was the lead architect of New York's original World Trade Center complex?

-Is it?

-Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's him,

because William Le Baron Jenney

was much earlier, he was involved with early skyscrapers.

-James Hoban is even earlier.

-Yeah.

-He was involved with Washington.

-Yes.

So one of the co-architects was...

-I knew it.

-..Minoru Yamasaki.

-OK.

It's Minoru Yamasaki.

Lead architect of the original World Trade Center. It's correct.

We go to sudden death. OK. Well played, Rob and Richard, so far.

It's getting a lot harder now because we're removing the options

for sudden death to sort out a winner.

In the 1990s, the broadcaster Russell Davies

edited the diaries of which Carry On actor?

-Well, take your pick.

-1990s.

-Kenneth Williams, Sid James.

-Yep.

-Kenneth Williams.

-I'm kind of drawn towards Kenneth Williams.

-Yeah?

-Let's go with him.

-Yeah.

We're going to... We're thinking of Sid James or Kenneth Williams,

but we're going to plump for Kenneth Williams.

Kenneth Williams, whose diaries were edited by Russell Davies.

It's the right answer.

Well, Eggheads, some work to do.

Eggheads, the Gardeners' World presenter Joe Swift

is the son of which prize-winning novelist

and former editor of the Oxford Companion To English Literature?

The Gardeners' World presenter Joe Swift

is the son of which prize-winning novelist

and former editor of the Oxford Companion To English Literature?

-That's Margaret Drabble.

-Margaret Drabble is the right answer.

OK, back to the Eggsterminators.

The birr, B-I-R-R,

is the official monetary unit of which East African country?

-Nothing springs to mind, does it?

-Not immediately, unfortunately.

Erm, right, let's get on the right side.

East Africa. Tanzania.

Work down to the horn of Africa. It's not South Africa.

-No.

-It's not East African.

-What else is up that side?

-Angola.

Tanzania. Kenya.

It's got to be somewhere fairly obscure, hasn't it?

Let's go a bit further up.

Kenya.

Sudan?

-Yeah.

-Somalia?

I've no idea what Somalia's got.

Well, shall we go with that, then?

-Do you think?

-Let's have a punt.

-Probably Al would've known.

Yes.

We're going to go Somalia. Yeah? We're going to go Somalia.

OK, Somalia for the birr. Do you think that's right, Eggheads?

-No.

-Ethiopia.

-It's Ethiopia.

-Ah!

So, five questions in, somebody's going to crack.

But still in it till the Eggheads get theirs correct.

Eggheads, Shakespeare Beach and Shakespeare Cliff

are located in which English county?

Shakespeare Beach and Shakespeare Cliff

are located in which English county?

-Kent.

-Yeah, it's...

-Between Folkestone and Dover.

-Yeah.

I come from Folkestone.

-It's where? In Kent.

-Kent.

-Is it a white cliff?

-Yeah.

-Yes.

It's a white cliff. It's in Kent.

-Daphne comes from Kent.

-Yes.

-Originally?

-From Folkestone.

-Kent is the right answer. Eggheads, you've won.

I'm exhausted and I only ask the questions. That was a great quiz.

Well done. And in particular, we do have to single out Richard there.

A great head-to-head and took the Eggheads into sudden death, as well.

All of you played your part. Thank you very much, Eggsterminators,

for making it such a wonderful show.

But the Eggheads have done what comes naturally

and their winning streak continues. You won't go home with the £11,000.

That means the 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. £12,000 now says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.

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