Episode 13 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.

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 challenging our resident quiz champions today

are Shampoo Dreams from South Wales.

These colleagues work in health care, and feature

amongst their ranks, three members

who share names with famous musicians.

I can't wait to find out whom,

and also find out why they're dreaming of shampoo.

Well, let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Julian, I'm 40 years old, and I'm a staff nurse.

Hi, I'm Dave, I'm 31, and I'm a health care worker.

Hi, I'm Chris, I'm 34, and I'm a health care worker.

Hi, I'm Brian, I'm 34,

and I've recently become a health care worker.

Hi, I'm Keith, I'm 58, and I'm also a health care worker.

Well, welcome to you, Shampoo Dreams.

Let's talk about the team name first of all.

What's that all about?

The thing is, I like to think outside the box,

and, uh, there's nothing better than the feeling of a nice clean head.

THEY CHUCKLE

So, I like dreaming, and I like shampoo.

Right. OK. So, one of Chris' dreams.

Well, let's move on to the famous names.

Well, we're very informal here in the Eggheads studio,

we all go by first names

but your surnames makes some interesting reading.

We have, um, the lead guitarist from Queen.

-That's you.

-That'd be me.

-Brian May.

-Brian May.

Oh, we've got David Evans.

You're in U2.

Apparently so, yeah.

I've put on a bit of weight since my touring days, but...

-AKA The Edge.

-Yes, that is his real name.

-That's The Edge's real name.

And who else have we got? Of course, Julian...

-Lennon.

-Lennon. Right, OK, yeah.

It's a very, very good job that I'm a Beatles fan.

Just as well. OK, well, good to see you, Shampoo Dreams,

and, uh, let's dream of beating the Eggheads, shall we now?

Every day there's £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, Shampoo Dreams,

the Challengers won the last game, proving it can be done,

but it also means that just £1,000

says you can't beat the Eggheads today.

Our first head-to-head is on the subject of History.

Now, who would like to play this one? Who'd like to start us?

Oh, gosh. Right.

-Keith.

-Yeah, I'll do it.

-It's going to be Keith, isn't it?

-Right, so we'll go with Keith.

-Let's go with Keith.

-Who are we going against here?

-Dave, maybe.

-Dave?

-Yeah, let's try Dave. We'll try Dave?

-Against Dave?

-Go on, then, yeah. All right.

-Yeah?

-OK.

-Keith's very relaxed about who you're taking on.

-You don't care, do you, Keith?

-BRIAN LAUGHS

OK, well, let's have Keith.

And Dave is the selected Egghead.

Into the Question Room, both of you, please.

So, Keith, during the picking process, as I said,

you were remarkably calm there.

You let your colleagues do all the choosing. They even chose you to play.

Are you the historian amongst the Shampoo Dream team?

I try my best.

-DERMOT LAUGHS

-OK.

Well, save the words for correct answers then, eh, Keith, why not?

Um, would you like to go first or second?

I'll go first, please.

First question, Keith.

Which country was effectively governed by hereditary

military dictators called Shoguns

from the 12th to the 19th centuries?

It was Japan.

It was.

Dave...

Give him a round of applause if you like.

-Ya-hey.

-Straight off, yeah.

Um, Dave,

in the mid-1950s, Martin Luther King was minister of which city's

Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?

Oh, erm, I was thinking another city totally, but, erm,

I'm going to go through it.

I don't think it's Omaha, Nebraska.

Don't think it's Washington DC. It must be...

Southern state... Montgomery, Alabama.

Yeah, in the Deep South there. That's the right answer.

What other one were you thinking of?

Erm, I was thinking of Atlanta for some reason.

I was thinking he was more...to deal with Georgia, but...

-Yeah, well, you got it there.

-Got to revise that one.

You got it there with Alabama. OK.

And, Keith, a farmhouse

called La Haye Sainte

played a significant role in which major battle?

Agincourt.

Uh, no, it's not Agincourt.

Do you know, Dave?

-I'll have to go Waterloo then.

-Yeah.

It is Waterloo. And, uh,

any of the Eggheads tell me what significant role

La Haye Sainte played?

It was right in the middle of the battlefield, so, it was...

-Did it change hands several times?

-Um...

I'm just trying to think. There were two main strong points

in the battle. The other was a chateau called Hougoumont.

One of them never fell, the other one did.

But then it was taken back again. It was a swing point in the battle.

OK. La Haye Sainte

in the centre of the Battle of Waterloo

wasn't identified there by Keith.

So, a chance for Dave to take the lead.

In which year, Dave, did FW Woolworth opened his first store

in the UK?

Right, erm...

I don't know the answer straight off but...

if I'm thinking, correctly, in America, it was started

in the 1880s, 1889 maybe.

So, you know, that's a fair shout that it would take 20 years

to get to Britain.

So, 1909 has to be my answer.

OK, 1909...

The start of the 20th century

more or less. First decade.

Um, it is the right answer.

OK, Keith...

In 1940, which British mission to the United States reportedly gave

the US, quote unquote,

"The most valuable cargo ever brought..." to American shores?

I think it's the Whittle Mission.

I'll ask Dave. Do you know anything more about this mission,

and was it the Whittle Mission?

I don't, no. I would have gone with Tizard Mission myself, but...

-Yeah.

-..I don't know anything about the...the Mission myself.

OK, well, let's sort out the correct answer.

It is Tizard Mission, Keith, not Whittle Mission.

Other Eggheads, can you tell me about this?

"The most valuable cargo ever brought" to American shores?

It will be partly to do with, um,

information that fed through into

the Manhattan Project,

nuclear stuff, because there'd been

a lot of research going on

on the atoms

-in Britain...

-I see.

..which the Americans hadn't done,

so it's bringing the two together.

OK. Right, well, we've cleared up the Tizard Mission

and its connections there, with what turned out to be nuclear technology.

Dave won this round.

No point putting any more questions to him.

Already done enough to get through. And no place for you, Keith.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, as it stands then,

Shampoo Dreams lost one brain from the final round,

the Eggheads are all still there.

OK, our next subject is Arts and Books.

Who'd would like to play this from Shampoo Dreams?

Looking at you.

-Well... Looking at me?

-Yeah.

-Jules?

Julian, this is something you normally...

OK, if the... Most logical candidate to do it.

THEY TALK OVER EACH OTHER

Right, against who, guys?

Just because my son's name is Pat, I'll go with Pat.

Oh, right, yeah, so, an easy name to remember then.

Let's have Julian and Pat into the Question Room, please.

OK, it's Arts and Books. And we've got Julian and Pat

playing the round.

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

I'll go first, please, Dermot.

First question, Julian, Barcelona, Malaga and Paris

all have museums dedicated to which artist?

OK.

I think...

my answer...

is going to be...

Leonardo da Vinci.

Um, museums all dedicated to...

Pablo Picasso, in Barcelona, Malaga and Paris.

Nothing there. Right,

let's see what Pat does. Pat, your first question.

The artist Andrea Mantegna was born in which century?

They did some wonderful things.

They found a beautiful painting of the dead Christ

after the artist died at the perfect prospective.

And he's Renaissance Italy,

so that must be the 15th century.

OK, the 15th century for Andrea Mantegna.

It's the right answer, Pat.

OK, Julian, let's get you on the board.

In which role did Hammond Innes achieve success?

Hammond Innes was a novelist.

Right. OK.

The only reason I know is because my mother

used to read Hammond Innes novels.

-Fantastic.

-It's easy if you know the answer.

-Yeah.

Julian couldn't wait to tell me. Hammond Innes

was a novelist. Right answer. OK, you're on the board.

THEY CHEER

Big round for Julian's mum.

Pat, Nightmare Abbey is a satirical novel

written in 1818 by Thomas Love who?

He had one of these great multi-part names like Arthur Wing Pinero.

He was Thomas Love Peacock.

Thomas Love Peacock is correct.

Right, well, Pat got that. That means you need to get this, Julian.

Around 1912, which writer coined the term Orphism

to distinguish the work of Robert Delaunay

and similar artists from cubism?

The only one of those three that even rings a remote bell

is Cocteau.

Just because I've heard of that before.

It's not Cocteau, sorry. Do you know, Pat?

I'd go for Apollinaire.

Apollinaire is the answer we were looking for.

Pat's already done enough to get through,

and no place for you, Julian.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Shampoo Dreams dreaming of getting past an Egghead at this point.

Lost two brains from the final round, the Eggheads are all still there.

Round three is Sport. Now, will this be more to your liking?

Who wants to play this?

David, Chris or Brian?

-Let's choose me.

-Choose you.

-Stay with us, Chris.

I see you're beginning to move.

Cos you've got to choose your Egghead.

-Judith.

-Judith?

-Yeah, Judith.

-Judith it is.

-Judith.

OK, let's have Chris and Judith

heading to the Question Room now, please.

What would you like to do in this round? Go first or second, Chris?

I think I'll go second for a change.

Judith then, this is the first question to you.

What name was given to the International Athletics Meeting

at London's Olympic Stadium in July 2013?

I didn't know it had a name. Um...

Well, I suppose it's probably the Anniversary Games.

It is. That's it.

I was toying with Return to the Games but I think Anniversary Games.

Yep, first anniversary of the 2012 Olympics. Well done, Judith.

One to you. And, Chris,

how many runs does a batsman score in cricket

if he plays a shot that hits the ground before crossing the boundary?

Cricket...

is not my favourite sport.

But I know the answer. I'm going to go with four.

THEY LAUGH

It would be, yes. Four is correct.

Yay.

-TEAM CHEER

-You have one.

-Success.

Judith, in rugby union,

what position is normally played by a player

wearing the number 14 jersey?

Well,

it's got to be right at the back somewhere, hasn't it?

I mean, if, um...

There's only 15 in a side, so I imagine it must be right wing.

Yeah, right on the right wing. It is correct, Judith, well done.

OK. Well, you have two, and Chris' attempt to match that now...

Chris, in Formula One,

the DRS system involves which part of a racing car?

Um,

I'm purely going to have a guess, and I'm going to say brakes.

OK. DRS system involving brakes...

Brakes are on your challenge, it's not.

Judith, you'll know. I know you...keen Formula...

-I think it's the rear wing flap.

-It is the rear wing flap, yes.

OK.

Well, Judith got that but it wasn't her question.

But, if you get this right, you've won the head-to-head.

Which major golf championship,

the only such victory of his career, did Paul Azinger win

in 1993?

Um...

Really, I can't remember that far back.

Azinger, he was captain of the Ryder Cup, wasn't he?

One...one year...

of the US Ryder Cup team.

Um, well, the US Masters is the most glamorous one,

so what about that one?

-It's not the right answer. Other Eggheads?

-US PGA.

-PGA, Judith.

-Huh, magic, right.

OK, right. A chance to draw level and take this into Sudden Death.

Chris, how many FIFA World Cup competitions were played

before any of the national teams from the UK decided to enter?

One. I think it's one.

I'm going to go with one.

OK, one World Cup.

Well, you say one, and

that's what your score's going to stay at, because it was three.

And looking at the scores then, it's 2-1 again to the Eggheads.

You're through to the final round, Judith. No place for you, Chris.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, Chris, bad luck there.

The tactic putting the Egghead Judith in first didn't work for you.

-I just noticed, you're in a band, aren't you, Chris?

-Yes, yes.

What's it called?

Milk Was A Bad Choice.

-THEY LAUGH

-Just explain that.

Oh, it's a quote off one of my favourite films.

-Which is?

-Anchorman. Have you seen Anchorman?

One of my favourites, yeah.

He just lost his job, and it's a boiling hot day,

he's looking a bit scruffy, he's got a big massive beard,

and he's carrying a carton of milk, and he's walking down the street,

he has a drop, and he goes,

HE IMITATES ACCENT: "Milk was a bad choice."

OK, right, well, that means... That round that we've just concluded

means Shampoo Dreams have lost three brains.

The Eggheads are all there, and, rather appropriately,

as we go to round four after the conversation I've had with Chris,

we play a Music round

which, I'm afraid you can't play in,

Chris. Who've we got left there? David or Brian?

Rock, paper, scissors. FISTS BANG

-You're out, you're going.

-Oh.

-DAVE LAUGHS

-..logic.

Great, that's one way of sorting it out.

OK, who would you like to play? It is going to be you then, Brian.

You got CJ and Kevin left.

-I like CJ. Let's do CJ.

-Go for it.

-THEY LAUGH

-All right. "I like CJ." "Go for it."

See if you still like him after the round.

Let's just confirm that then. We've got Brian from Shampoo Dreams

and CJ from the Eggheads. Into the Question Room, please.

All right, Brian, it's Music. Do you want go first or second?

Um, I think I'll go second.

OK, giving CJ the first shot.

CJ, when the band One Direction was formed, how many members were there?

I think it was the same as their collective IQ, five.

Ooh, CJ!

There's so many One Direction fans who watch Eggheads.

And the same applies to them.

-ALL:

-Oooh.

Right, CJ, I will put out

your Twitter address

at the bottom of the screen now.

We await with interest what the response is to that.

Five, though, is the right answer.

Well done, CJ.

And...right,

Brian, your first question.

The city of Paris is the setting for which of these operas?

Aida, I've no idea at all.

However, I do like...

Actually, I used to work with someone called Aida,

so I'm going to say that,

Aida. Aida.

Ah, you've gone for Aida. It is La Boheme.

-Oh.

-The one in French.

THEY LAUGH

I just thought you might have been able to work that one out.

-That's shocking.

-Yeah. OK. Right.

Um, CJ, the famous song O Sole Mio

was written by Giovanni Capurro and Eduardo di Capua

in which decade?

This one, I don't know cos I don't actually know the writers.

Um, 1690s is surely too early.

To me, 1790 seems too early as well, so I'll just try the 1890s.

OK, 1890s for O Sole mio.

Is he right, other Eggheads?

-Probably.

-Yes, you are, CJ.

You have two.

Brian, what was the title of Olivia Newton-John

and the Electric Light Orchestra's 1980 UK number one single?

I have no idea. I don't know.

I'm going to say...

Xanadu.

Xanadu...for Olivia Newton-John

and the ELO...

-It's the right answer. Well done.

-(Yesss.)

Still in it.

Clinging on there but CJ

in the driving seat.

CJ, the Lovebox Festival, founded by the duo

known as Groove Armada, takes place in which city?

I don't think it's London. I think it's one of the other two.

This is little more than a blind guess but I will try Belfast.

OK, Belfast for the Lovebox Festival. What do you think, Brian?

Got a quizzical look on your face.

-I'm just hoping he got it wrong.

-OK.

That's all it is.

Well, he did get it wrong. It's not Belfast.

Do you know where it is then, Brian?

-I think it's probably London, isn't it?

-It is, yep.

London we were looking for, CJ.

Ruled that out first off. Right, well then, that's good news for you.

You are still in it

but you need to get this to take us into Sudden Death.

Your third question, Brian.

Frank Sinatra worked with which music arranger for the albums

In The Wee Small Hours and Songs For Swingin' Lovers?

I've never heard of any of them.

I like the name of the title though, Wee Small Hours. Isn't it nice?

I'm going to say though...

From there, Ray Conniff is ringing a bell. I don't know if that's right.

I'm going to say Ray Conniff.

Eggheads?

-ALL:

-Nelson Riddle.

-It's Nelson Riddle.

-Ah, no.

Ah, bad luck, Brian.

It means, again,

it's 2-1 to the Eggheads.

CJ is through to the final round, and no place for you, Brian.

Would you come back, both of you, and join your teams, please?

So, this is what we've been playing towards.

It's time for the final round, which, as always,

is General Knowledge.

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

won't be allowed to take part in this round.

So, Julian, Chris, Brian and Keith, all from Shampoo Dreams,

would you leave the studio, please?

So, Dave, you're playing to win Shampoo Dreams £1,000.

Judith, Pat, Dave, Kevin and CJ,

you're playing for something which money cannot buy,

your somewhat-tarnished reputation.

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

This time, the questions are all general knowledge, Dave,

and you are allowed to confer.

So, Dave, the question is,

is your one brain better than the Eggheads' five?

Dave, how do you want to play this round?

Do you want to go first or second?

I think I will go first, please. Get it over and done with.

OK, right, Dave. Best of luck. Let's see if you can do it.

First question.

What name is given to the nest of a squirrel?

I don't really know the answer to this.

It's a great question to start on.

But somewhere at the back of my mind

the word drey is sticking.

I'm going to go with that little voice in my head and go with drey.

Drey, OK. First instinct...

Squirrel's drey... It's the right answer.

Well done. Good start.

Um,

Eggheads, which TV antiques expert has the nickname The Duke?

Which TV antiques expert has the nickname The Duke?

-The Duke.

-The Juice. DAVE LAUGHS

-We're happy with David Dickinson?

-Yes.

-Yep.

-He's the orange one.

-We think that's David Dickinson.

-What did you say, Judith?

-He's the orange one.

David Dickinson is the right answer. The Duke. OK.

Good start by both teams.

And, Dave, Jourdan Dunn,

born in London in 1990,

made her name in which field?

Don't think it's athletics but I'm probably going to kick myself

when that comes up as the right answer.

I haven't heard of her on the comedy circuit.

I really want to go with athletics though, but I'm going to say fashion.

-It's the right answer.

-(Oh, get in there.)

OK, Eggheads, the Fleurieu Zone

is an important wine-producing area of which country?

It is spelt, and it's all one word,

F-L-E-U-R-I-E-U.

Sounds faintly South African to me but that's...

Well, there's...

Do they have French vine names?

I know there were obviously a lot of...

-..Huguenots went to South Africa.

-Mm-hm.

-They did.

-And so you've got a lot of French names around.

-Um, but...

-But, yeah...

-There are also places in...

-I don't think Australians...

-They've always...

-Australia and New Zealand happen to have French

-because the explorers who happened to...

-Yes.

I'd...

HE MUMBLES

..nasty idea about Australia but I...

It's... No, it's not strong enough to...

What do you reckon, Pat? Do you think...?

Should we go South Africa on the basis that's the percentage one?

On the basis of the Huguenots.

-I've slightly more preference for it than the others.

-Yeah, that's fine.

I can make a case for South A...

I've no idea why I thought Australia.

I can make a case for South Africa because of the Huguenots and...

They got involved in the wine industry and that, that's all.

OK, we don't know it, so we're going to go for South Africa.

South Africa, you think.

Well, you got the...the French connection there.

Huguenots and all that.

That's where it comes from as we could probably work out

from the spelling and the pronunciation.

Fleurieu was a French explorer, in actual fact,

who explored the areas

south of Adelaide in Australia.

-Oh.

-No.

Australia. So, for victory, Dave,

which should Roman emperor reportedly

said jokingly when he was dying,

"Vae, puto deus fio,"

or, "Oh, dear, I think I'm becoming a god."

Keeping in theme with previous answers, I haven't got a clue.

Well, that's just as well then.

HE LAUGHS Um...

I've only heard of two of them.

So, probably means it's Vespasian

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

..Augustus.

I don't know why...

..but that's going to be my answer, Augustus.

That's your answer, Augustus.

Will you become a quizzing god?

Puto deus fio.

You said the right answer as you passed over, Vespasian. Vespasian.

But, the game goes on.

Still got another chance here.

If the Eggheads repeat their performance

on the second question with this, you've beaten them anyway.

And if not, we go to Sudden Death.

Eggheads, in which country's 2011 election did Harmony Centre

and Zatler's Reform Party become the two largest political parties?

-So, Harmony Centre is as it sounds.

-Yeah.

-And Zatlers Reform Party...

-How do you spell Zatler?

Z-A-T-L-E-R.

-Why is it...?

-2011?

-2011.

Didn't Iceland have an election in 2011?

Or recently?

-Thinking if that was more recent.

-More recent?

I thought Iceland's was more recent, but...

If it's not Iceland, of the others,

Zatler sounds more Latvian, potentially to me.

-Hm.

-Does it sound at all Icelandic to you?

-Well, it doesn't sound Romanian, does it?

-No.

-Fine, OK.

Although Iceland's had an election,

we think that's more recent.

Political parties there didn't have strange names and that anyway,

so we'll...

Latvia.

Latvia.

It is Latvia.

It's the right answer, Eggheads.

Zatler's Reform Party.

Ooh.

Crikey. They're in a mess over there, Dave.

You've really thrown the cat amongst the pigeons.

Nearly did it there.

-Twice, but work to do.

-Indeed.

We are in Sudden Death, and we're removing those options,

so I can't give you anything to have a guess at.

You've just got to conjure something up out of your own brain.

And here's the question.

Syon House in London is the home of which duke?

Syon House in London is the home of which duke?

It's spelt S-Y-O-N.

How many dukes do I know, is the question.

Duke of Cambridge...

HE LAUGHS The Duke of Edinburgh...

..of York.

I don't think it's going to be an obvious duke.

So, I'm now torn between the Duke of York and...

..the Duke of Wellington, if there is a Duke of Wellington.

I think I'm going to go with the Duke of York.

The Duke of York. Syon house in London...

is not the home of the Duke of York. It's not York.

-Judith'll know. You must've stayed there, Judith, many times.

-Northumberland.

It is Northumberland, yes.

Um, Northumberland, but we don't pass it over.

That's not the Eggheads' question. Judith knew it but

they don't win the game on that.

You have to answer this correctly if you are to win, Eggheads.

Graca Machel, who married Nelson Mandela in 1998

was the widow of the president of which country?

-THEY CONFER QUIETLY

-Mozambique.

-Mozambique.

Uh, at last.

We actually know. It's Mozambique.

It is one you actually know. Mozambique is correct, Eggheads.

You've won.

Shampoo Dreams, we want to thank you for keeping us so...

royally entertained during this game of Eggheads.

I mean, fantastic stories about shampoo, Queen,

whatever you want to mention.

But we have to single out Keith, I mean, we couldn't shut him up there.

There was one liners, the anecdotes, the monologues,

I thought it was going to go on forever.

But, thank you all very much indeed, Shampoo Dreams.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally,

and they reign supreme over Quizland once again.

I'm afraid you won't be going home with £1,000,

and that means the money rolls over to our next show.

So, join us next time to see

if a new team of challengers have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

£2,000 says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.