Episode 20 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 beat?

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 the Hound Dogs.

This team of colleagues all work for a charity which helps train

assistance dogs that help people with physical disabilities.

Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Andy, I'm 48, and I'm a chief executive.

Hi, I'm Adele, I'm 52, and I'm a PA.

Hi, I'm Dale, I'm 29, I'm a community fundraiser.

Hi, I'm Wendy, I'm 53, and I'm a domestic manager.

Hi, I'm Jim, I'm 62, and I'm a volunteer.

Welcome, Hound Dogs. Tell me about the charity's work.

Sounds like some great stuff. A lot of people know about guide dogs,

but these dogs do something different.

We're a much smaller charity called Canine Partners

and we're helping people with physical disabilities.

Most of them use wheelchairs.

They all have extreme levels of disability

and can't do everyday things like open and close doors,

help themselves get undressed,

pick up items from all sorts of inaccessible places,

and we're able to train dogs to do all of those things.

And a lot more besides, as well as giving lots of companionship

and getting a routine back into people's lives,

so it's really worthwhile.

Interesting what you say there about the companionship,

cos it's not just about what the dogs can do, is it?

There's a bond that you form with a dog, any dog.

It is. It's partly the bond

and it's also partly that feeling of being responsible for another animal.

Lots of our people have lost the ability to do much for themselves,

so now you're responsible for looking after this dog,

loving it, grooming it, walking it, training it,

and that gives you an impetus in life.

A new motivation that can be a real kick-start to new possibilities.

Great to hear about it. Should we play the game?

-OK.

-Let's give it to go, shall we? Try and beat the Eggheads.

Because 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, Hound Dogs, the Eggheads have won the last two games,

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

And let's start the quiz then and our opening round is going to be

Film & Television.

So, who from the Hound Dogs would like to play this one?

Film and television...

I'm wondering if it should be Jim.

Save Wendy in case we need...

-We need her later.

-..one of her other specialities, yeah?

-That's fine.

-We're going to nominate Jim for this one.

-All right, Jim, happy about that?

-Absolutely.

OK, and who would you like to play from the Eggheads?

You have the advantage of starting it all off

by choosing any of the Eggheads you'd like.

I think I might go for Pat.

Happy about that? Pat doesn't have a choice, of course, so...

Let's have you both into the answer room, please.

Pat from the Eggheads and Jim from the Hound Dogs.

Jim, it's Film & TV. Would you like to go first or second?

First, please.

OK, best of luck, Jim. First question is this...

Which TV programme featured characters called

Hunter, Saracen, and Trojan?

I'll give you a clue, it's not Eggheads.

I'm fairly glad about the choices

because I do watch CBeebies quite a lot.

So I'm going to rule out Teletubbies and rule out Fraggle Rock.

I think that must just be Gladiators.

OK, Gladiators is correct.

And you better tell us about your CBeebies viewing.

Presumably it's with someone else.

I intended to watch BBC THREE but I just turned the wrong channel.

DERMOT LAUGHS

Yeah, we believe you. OK, Jim, you've got one.

Right, Pat, in 2013 which singer made a guest appearance

in Downton Abbey playing the soprano Dame Nellie Melba?

I think that was Dame Kiri Te Kanawa.

I think she brought her two dogs along to the shoot with her.

I think I remember reading about her preparations so, Kiri Te Kanawa.

OK, a bit of extra there from Pat.

It is Kiri Te Kanawa. It's the right answer.

And Nellie Melba, is that where we get the desert from?

Certainly, yes. And Melba toast.

Ah, they were some of her favourites, where they?

They were created by, I think it was Escoffier,

who created it for her and named it after her.

All right, OK. More information from Pat there

about Nellie Melba and Kiri Te Kanawa.

OK, second question for each of you.

Jim, who wrote the film About Time,

released in the UK in September 2013?

Well, quite weirdly, I very recently watched the film About Time.

I'm desperately trying to remember what it said on the end credits.

The answer is Richard Curtis.

It is Richard Curtis. Yes, well done.

OK.

Pat, in 2013, who presented the television game show

I Love My Country?

Well, this one has passed me by. I don't think I've seen it.

I'm going to have to guess

because I haven't seen the programme or read about it.

Just because Clare Balding had something of an explosion of work

after she did...had a very good Olympics, I'll go for Clare Balding.

Agonies for the other Eggheads?

-Eggheads in the studio?

-Gabby Logan.

-It's Gabby Logan, Pat.

-Oh. Didn't see it.

-Not Clare Balding.

Didn't see it so it's... Oh, it's going to struggle.

And it means it's good news as it reads at the moment for you, Jim.

You just need this to get into the final round.

The 1970s television series, Justice,

starred which actress as the barrister Harriet Peterson?

Right, this is going to have to be a complete guess.

I don't remember the programme at all.

Um...

So I'm going to go for a bit of eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

And I'm going to say Sylvia Syms.

It's not Sylvia Syms. So, an incorrect answer.

-Do the eggheads in the studio know?

-Margaret Lockwood.

It's Margaret Lockwood.

Margaret Lockwood there, so still might get through though.

Pat needs to get this.

Pat, who were supposed to be the best man at the wedding

of the famous broadcaster, Alistair Cooke, in 1934,

but failed to turn up on the day?

Well, in 1934 there was no problem with the dates certainly for

Chaplain or Hemingway. They were both alive.

I'm reduced to guessing one more time.

This isn't a long-term strategy. I'll go for Charlie Chaplin.

A guess at Charlie Chaplin. Guessed last time and got it wrong.

Got it right this time, though, it is Charlie Chaplin.

OK, maybe something in there.

OK, that means it's all square after three questions each.

Both failed on one so we go to Sudden Death.

Jim, we take away the options, it's a lot harder.

The television series shown in Britain in 2013

under the title The Returned was made in which country?

Again, never seen that particular programme,

so it'll be a complete guess.

I've only got a couple of hundred countries to choose from.

So, um... Let's try Canada.

Canada for The Returned.

It's not Canada. Any ideas, Pat? Just out of interest.

-I think it's France.

-It is France. Yeah, France.

OK, well, a chance for you, then, Pat, to win the round.

Which digital television channel launched in 2002

with the slogan, "Everybody needs a place to think"?

A place to think...

Oh, they are too numerous to mention.

BBC FOUR is certainly...

BBC THREE is popular culture, BBC FOUR is quite cerebral.

It might be right, date wise. I'll go for BBC FOUR.

Yeah, you've work it out well.

You thought that through and got the right answer, BBC FOUR,

which means, Pat, you're through.

At one point staring defeat in the face,

but turned it around and you will be in the final round

depriving Jim of a place.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, in the opening round the Hound Dogs have lost one brain.

The Eggheads are all there.

And our second round, I can announce, is Politics.

Who'd like to play this one?

Well, clearly not you, Adele.

-Or maybe it is you.

-No, it's not.

-We wouldn't ask you for that.

-I think, um...

-Jim.

-Yeah, Jim. Have another go, Jim. No, Jim, you can't.

You've probably gathered that's not gone down incredibly well with us.

So I'm going to sacrifice myself and put myself forward,

not because I know anything about it.

Oh, Andy.

-Oh, who...

-Go in there with some hope. Who do you want to choose?

Just remember, it cannot be Pat.

-Go with your feeling.

-Should I go for CJ?

-Yep.

-Yep.

-I'm going to go for CJ.

-CJ, all right.

Andy and CJ, into the Question Room now, please.

Andy, it's politics. You said you didn't like it. You never know.

Would you like to go first or second?

Frankly, I'd like to have one of my dogs come in

and answer the questions cos I think it might do a lot better.

I'll go first.

OK, you've got the first question coming your way, Andy.

What was the name of the tax that was levied at various rates

on certain goods until 1973 when it was replaced by VAT?

Um, now this is going back a bit... a little bit further than I'd like.

But, uh...

I don't think Saver Tax or Trader Tax ring any bells at all.

I'm not saying that the other one does.

I will go with Purchase Tax.

OK, yeah, it does go back a bit to Britain joining the Common Market

and VAT taking over from...

Purchase Tax, C.

One to you. Well done.

OK, CJ.

Which organisation founded in 1961 was an association of countries

whose members did not ally themselves

with either of the world's superpowers?

I think that's the Non-Aligned Movement.

You'd be right. It is the Non-Aligned Movement. Well done.

And back to you, Andy, for the second correct answer

we're going to get from you. I know.

Here it is - which fictional schoolboy's name

has been used as a nickname for David Cameron?

Uh...

Sadly that's not coming straight to me either.

Bunter, I think, is unlikely.

Weasley, I just think it's got

so many associations with the Weasley family and Harry Potter,

and I think that would be stronger than with David Cameron.

So...

It's a bit of a risk cos I'm going for the right-hand side again

like I did last time, but it just feels...gut feeling, Flashman.

That's a nickname used by his opponents. Yep, Flashman.

Two out of two, Andy.

Not bad for someone who doesn't like the subject. OK.

CJ, whose first speech to the nation as Prime Minister contained

the phrase, "Be men of valour"?

OK, this one I really don't know.

I'll discount Balfour, anyway.

It makes sense that it would be a war speech.

Well, simply on the fact that he was more bombastic

and more determined... I don't know but I'll try Churchill.

You're right. Yeah, Winston Churchill.

OK, well, it's all square. Doing really well, Andy.

Let's see if you can get this and really put CJ under some pressure.

Enda Kenny, who became Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland

in 2011, is a member of which party?

Right, so this is where we really needed someone

who knew something about politics.

Um...

These are not meaning a lot to me

and I think I'm going to have to take a complete guess.

I'm going to go for Fianna Fail, the one on the right.

OK, on the right again, Fianna Fail.

It's not, no. Unlucky.

And it's not Labour, it's Fine Gael.

Enda Kenny's party. OK, well, bad luck.

It's not over. CJ needs to get this right if he's going to remove you.

In June 2013, in order to hear the views

of ordinary people in his country,

the Norwegian Prime Minister worked incognito as what?

He was supposed to be incognito but it was remarkable the number of times

he actually reveals his identity to the people he was working with.

All of his opponents actually dismissed it as a publicity stunt.

He was a taxi driver.

OK. It is the right answer. You clearly know that, CJ.

Taxi driver is correct, which means bad luck.

but, Andy, you know, good performance.

-You were only beaten three-two there.

-Close.

-Yeah, it was close.

That means he won't be playing in the final round, Andy.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

OK, well, that was bad luck for Andy. As it stands, the Hound Dogs

have lost two brains from the final round.

The Eggheads haven't lost any yet.

Let's see if we can get rid of one of them, shall we?

On Food & Drink, our third category today.

Who wants to play this? Food & Drink.

Food & Drink. Well, we're feeling reasonably confident...

No, don't!

-That'll be Wendy.

-OK, Wendy. You know, it's all right.

We'll ratchet down the enthusiasm.

OK, Wendy, choose an Egghead - Kevin, Dave, or Judith.

-I think Dave might be weaker.

-OK. Go for Dave, then?

-Yep.

-OK, can I take on Dave, please?

-Yes, you can.

OK, Wendy and Dave for this one, Food & Drink.

Into the Question Room, please.

Now, Wendy, we like our statistics on Eggheads

and David has 100% record on Food & Drink.

-Did you know that, Dave?

-Yes, I did. And I...

Tell us why.

Well, I've only played it once.

-Yeah, so don't be too scared, Wendy.

-OK.

OK, it's Food & Drink. Would you like to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please.

All right, let's get on with it. Wendy, good luck.

Which of these is a technique for preparing mussels

to be cooked and eaten?

Erm, having spent quite a few years working in a French restaurant...

-Ahh...

-I think... I'm pretty sure that it is de-bearding.

De-bearding is correct. Thank the stars for that, isn't it?

One there to Wendy.

Dave, what's the general term for items such as pita, matzo and aarti?

I'd go flatbread.

Yes, flatbread is correct. Well done, Dave.

Wendy, what flavour is the liqueur triple sec?

I'm pretty sure that it's not...

aniseed

and I don't think that it's coffee, so...

I'm going to have to go with orange.

And you've got it. Yes, well done. Orange.

And, Dave, pieces of pappardelle pasta are what shape?

Can you just spell 'pappardelle', please?

Yeah, pappardelle. P-a-p-p-a-r-d-e-l-l-e.

I've got no idea. Erm...

But I'm going to...

I don't like the look of ribbons or thimbles. I'm going to go bows.

-It's ribbons, Dave.

-OK.

-Pappardelle ribbons. Well.

Wendy, you're leading.

And you silence Dave altogether if you get this.

We won't hear from him again.

Stuffat tal-Fenek, a rabbit stew,

is a traditional dish of which Mediterranean island?

OK. This is going to be a pure stab in the dark

and the only reason I can give you for choosing it is

that I know some Maltese people who used to breed rabbits for eating.

So, I am going to have to go with Malta.

Stuffat tal-Fenek, a rabbit stew is actually...

from Malta. It's correct.

Well done, Wendy. That's a good little link...

you know, through your Maltese friends.

That's giving you a place in the final round.

And, as I say, silenced Dave. Don't need to put another question to him.

Would you both please come back and join the teams?

Well, Wendy hopping through into the final round.

See what I did there, Wendy? You like that?

As it stands, the Hound Dogs have lost those two brains

from the final round, but the Eggheads have now lost one

and it could be all square in the final round

depending on the outcome of our last head-to-head.

This one is Geography.

Two of you remain able to play this, Adele or Dale.

-I think that's probably going to be you Dale. Is that...

-Yep.

We're going to pick Dale for this one.

OK, Dale, who would you like to choose from the Eggheads, then?

-Go for Judith.

-I think we'll take Judith, yeah?

-Yeah, Judith.

Give it a go. Do your best.

I'll take on Judith, please.

OK, let's have Dale and Judith then

into the Question Room to play Geography.

OK, let's get on with this round.

-Dale, do you want to go first or second?

-I'll go first, please.

OK, Geography.

Dale, which long-distance path links Southport

and Liverpool in the west to Hull and Hornsea in the east?

Ooh, OK. Erm...

The Downs, I don't think it's that one.

Ooh, I really don't know.

Is it 'the magic right', it's called when you go down the right?

-I'll try Trans Pennine Trail.

-OK. That's Judith's 'magic right'.

-That's my trick.

-Yeah, you're not allowed to do that. That's Judith's.

-Stole your line.

-You are allowed if it's the right answer.

Yes, it's correct, Trans Pennine Trail. OK.

Judith, how many US states have a border with Mexico?

Well, there's California. So, that's one. New Mexico.

I would have said two, but, erm... I'm not sure four.

I think I'm going to say one.

-Just California.

-OK.

-No, it's not one, so therefore, it is four.

-It's four?

-And the other Eggheads...

-California and New Mexico.

-Texas.

-Texas?

There's a way to remember it from west to east.

It's 'CANT', California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas.

-CJ's given us a mnemonic.

-That's terrible.

-Well, it's not. It's good for Dale.

-It's good for Dale.

OK, Dale, will you streak into two-nil lead?

The bridge of the Slovak National Uprising crosses which river?

Slovak. Slovakia, I guess.

Erm, which I would assume

it's probably not the Seine or the Danube.

So, I'll go for Volga, please.

No. It is... Judith, you'll know?

-Danube.

-The Danube, yes.

So, you got the Slovak right, but wrong river. Volga, Russian. OK.

Judith, Amur Highway is a 2,100 kilometres

stretch of road in which country?

The Indian...

The famous Indian road is the Great Trunk Road, isn't it?

Oh, dear. I have completely lost my nerve now.

Ha! Help. I'm going to say Russia.

Well, your nerve's steadying.

It's the right answer. You got it.

-Thank goodness for that.

-OK.

Well, it's all square and everything to play for.

Dale, Hayastan is an alternative name for which country?

Hayastan, H-a-y-a-s-t-a-n.

I have absolutely no idea. Erm...

I will discount Azerbaijan for absolutely no apparent reason.

Erm, I will go with Albania.

Gut instinct.

Gut instinct. Hayastan.

It's Armenia.

Armenia.

So, you've got a chance to win the round, Judith, here.

In terms of area, what is the largest mainland region of Italy?

Well, Calabria is down the bottom. It's...it's the toe.

Lazio is sort of a round Rome, isn't it?

Erm, I have a feeling its Piedmont

because that is... the 'foot of the mountains'.

It's a plain. So, I think it's Piedmont.

Well, we'll ask CJ cos in a previous game of Eggheads

he seemed to know Italian geography really well.

I think it is Piedmont cos I've just seen Pat nodding.

-DERMOT LAUGHS

-Good technique.

You're right, Judith.

Yes, you got it and you are in the final round, then.

Two-one to you. No place in the final round, Dale.

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

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

Time for the final round, which is - as always - General Knowledge,

but I'm afraid those of you who lost the head to heads won't be

allowed to take part in this round. So, Andy, Dale and Jim

from the Hound Dogs and Dave from the Eggheads,

would you leave the studio, please?

So, Adele and Wendy, you're playing to win the Hound Dogs £3,000.

Judith, Pat and CJ, you're playing

for something which money cannot buy...

the Eggheads' reputation.

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

The questions are all General Knowledge

and you are allowed to confer in this round.

That's why Wendy's victory was so important.

So, Hound Dogs, the question is

are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

And Adele and Wendy, what do you want to do in this round?

-Do you want to go first or second?

-We'll go first, please.

Let's see if you can do it. Good luck, Adele and Wendy.

First question.

Someone with the 'gift of the gab' is particularly good at doing what?

I think we...can do all those, can't we?

-We can do all of those, yeah.

-You can certainly do the baking.

-And you can do the talking.

-I can do the dancing.

-But we can both do the talking.

-Yeah.

-So, we're going to go with...

-I think talking.

-Talking.

-Yeah.

I think we're going to go with talking, please.

OK. You have to really, don't you after that?

At least, it's the right answer. Yes, 'the gift of the gab'.

OK. Eggheads, which of these French phrases refers to something

which is required by etiquette or current fashion?

-De rigueur, yeah?

-De rigueur.

-Yeah?

-De rigueur.

-De rigueur...

is correct.

Well done, Eggheads. OK.

Adele and Wendy, what type of creature

features on the badge of the Lamborghini Motor Company?

A pity you can't get out and have a look at Kevin's car.

It's got to be something fairly fast and furious,

so I don't think it's going to be a cockerel particularly.

Lamborghini...

Goats... No, I don't think so.

A bit stubborn and not wanting to go very far either,

-but a bull I would think is...

-Yeah, I would go with you.

-Yep.

-Go with bull.

-OK.

We're going to go with bull.

Bull for the Lamborghini.

It is the right answer. Well done, bull.

Two-one to the Hound Dogs,

but you haven't faced your second question, Eggheads. Here it is.

Pienaar's Politics and Up All Night

are regular programmes on which radio station?

-I don't listen to them. Do you?

-Hm... I don't know.

-Know this, Pat?

-No, I'm afraid not.

Well, Radio 6 Music possibly not.

It's not ringing any... You know, I may be wrong.

-Radio 2 has got all the politics.

-Yeah, there's not really any...

It has Jeremy after all.

Radio 5 Live does a lot of political stuff.

Cos it used to be just... essentially sports, Radio 5.

It's now crossed over.

-I really don't know.

-Erm...

-I'm not particularly... I just don't know.

OK. All right. Well, we don't...we don't...

-Should we go for it, then?

-Yeah.

-OK.

Erm, we don't know it. We are obviously not...not listeners here,

but we'll go for Radio 5 Live.

Radio 5 Live.

Well, the man who clearly does know is silent in the question room.

He got knocked out, but he's happy. It's the right answer.

Yes, Radio 5 Live.

Ooh. Wobbling a bit there, weren't they?

Knock them back again.

Four square again. Can you take the lead with this?

The travelling salesman Montague Egg

features in several short stories

by which writer of the detective fiction?

-OK. Do you know this one at all? Cos I certainly don't.

-I don't.

I mean, I've got to say, I may be ignorant, but I haven't heard...

The only one I've heard of there is Agatha Christie in writing.

-OK, well I've heard of Josephine Tey.

-OK.

-I think she wrote a book...

A novel about Richard III, which I might've read. Erm...

What's your gut instincts say?

-My gut instinct...

-Help!

-Is that I have no... Absolutely no idea.

-So...

If you're going with what Judith says, you'd go down the right.

Go for Dorothy Sayers.

-Should we know for Dorothy L Sayers, then?

-Yeah.

-Yeah, I'd go with whatever cos as I say I really don't know.

-No. OK.

It would be a complete guess.

OK, so pure guess, erm, I'm going to go with Dorothy L Sayers.

OK. Dorothy L Sayers.

And 'the magic right', as well.

-It's the right answer, too.

-Hey!

-Dorothy L Sayers. Montague Egg.

OK, well, Eggheads.

Will Montague Egg cost you your crown? You need to get this.

Tap Your Troubles Away is a song from which musical?

-Oh!

-Dear.

-I saw Mack And Mabel not too long ago.

-Oh, was it in it?

-Erm...

-I think it's more like Annie.

Troubles sounds good for Annie.

Yeah, I don't think it's Mack And Mabel

cos Mack And Mabel is incredibly downbeat.

Yeah, I don't think it's Mack And Mabel.

And 42nd Street, that's sort of show biz, isn't it?

My instinct is Annie.

I think mine is too when I think about it.

Don't they do a routine together, Annie and the butler?

And he's trying to teach her to tap dance. To tap her troubles away.

All right. That sounds reasonable.

-We'll go for Annie I think, shall we?

-OK.

-Annie.

-Annie.

Annie. Tap Your Troubles Away.

It's Mack And Mabel.

Which means you've won!

-I would have never known that.

-No, I wouldn't have either.

It doesn't matter.

-As I said, Montague Egg has beaten the Eggheads.

-Excellent.

-Well, good guess, Dorothy L Sayers, wasn't it?

-Yeah, it was.

-Very good, yeah.

-But a fantastic result.

-And more to the point, a fantastic charity you work for.

-Thank you.

May we wish you all the best for the future for that

and all the wonderful work you do with that.

But thank you very much indeed for coming along and

-beating the Eggheads today. We liked that, too.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

And join us next time on Eggheads to see

if a new team of challengers will be just as successful.

Until then, goodbye.