Episode 22 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 Cardigan Carnage.

This team all met

while studying for their PGCEs at Newcastle University.

Let's meet them.

Hi. My name's Mark. I'm 27 and I'm a primary school teacher.

Hi. My name's Joe.

I'm 23 and I'm a year four primary school teacher.

Hey, I'm Colum. I'm 27 and I'm also a year four primary school teacher.

Hi, I'm Jack. I'm 22 and I'm a year four and five primary school teacher.

Hi, I'm James. I'm 26 and I'm a year three primary school teacher.

Welcome to you, Cardigan Carnage. Teachers, well, you should do well.

Explain the team name. I don't see a cardigan amongst you.

The thing is, we all live in the same house on a road called

Cardigan Terrace. That's where we got the name from.

Then Carnage is probably the way it's going to go for us.

You mean carnage amongst the Eggheads or you think they'll

wreak it upon you? Oh, among the Eggheads, definitely. Oh, absolutely.

So you all live in the same house? Yeah, that's right. Yeah.

What must that house be like?

Do you have a rota for the washing up and all that?

I wish. What's washing up?

OK. Well, a bit the same in the Eggheads house, I can tell you.

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, Cardigan Carnage, the Eggheads have won just the last game,

so it means ?2,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

Well, teachers, as I say,

expecting you to do well in certain categories. Perhaps our first one.

It's History. Who'd like to play this? History.

THEY DELIBERATE

History, OK. I'll do history.

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

I'll take on Dave. Dave, all right. Let's have Colum and Dave.

For our opening round, it's History

and you both must go to the question room, please.

So, Colum, you're the history specialist, then, is that it?

Or is it just the others didn't want to play it?

I think it's more the others didn't want to play it.

We had a chat about who should be doing what

and it sort of came that I was going to be doing either history or

geography, so it's whatever came up. So here you are.

You get to choose, as the challenger,

do you want to go first or second?

I'll go first, please.

Best of luck, Colum. Here you go.

Lady Jane Grey ruled as queen for a short time in which year?

Erm...

Not sure. Erm...

I'm just going to have to take a guess. Erm... I'm going to say...

1653. No, actually, 1553.

So, you know it well, then, don't you? No. What's the odd century?

Erm, I was thinking because,

obviously, Irish history, there's a lot of stuff around the late 1600s.

To be honest, I sort of know something about the 1600s

and not much about the 1500s, so I'm just guessing with the 1553. OK.

Well, you changed in time and got the right answer. Yes!

All right, Dave.

Many of the towns and cities of the medieval Hanseatic League

were centred around which of these seas?

I think that's the Baltic Sea. Not the Caribbean? No.

Yeah, it is, of course, the Baltic.

All right, well, you're back in, then, Colum.

In which country did Kaiser Wilhelm II take refuge after World War I?

Unfortunately, again, I'm not overly sure on the answer of that. Um...

So I'll just go down the middle. I'll guess Denmark.

Kaiser Wilhelm, Kaiser Bill, took refuge in

the Netherlands. OK, right.

Well, Kaiser Wilhelm taking refuge in the Netherlands.

You didn't get that, so a chance for the lead, here, Dave.

In a suit of armour,

which parts of the body were protected by spaulders?

S-P-A-U-L-D-E-R-S. Spaulders.

Spaulders. I don't know this at all. Not heard of it. Erm...

I'm going to...

..go down the middle with knees.

No, it's wrong. Other Eggheads? Shoulders. Shoulders.

Sounds a bit like shoulders, doesn't it? Spaulders.

Right, well, listen, that's good news, Colum.

It stays all square, no damage done

to you with not getting the second one.

Dave matched that. So, third question each.

Colum, what relation was the Roman Emperor Claudius to Augustus,

the first emperor?

I suppose it's the way the question goes.

Again, unfortunately, I'm not sure. Erm...

So I'll just have to take a guess. Erm...

This time I'll go down the middle again. I'll say second cousin.

Second cousin, OK.

Not second cousin. Dave, do you know?

I'd have gone adopted son.

No.

Step-grandson.

That wasn't your question,

so you might get through to the final round here with this one.

What was the name of the vice president of the Confederate States

during the American Civil War??

Again, I don't know. Erm...

Cos I think Jefferson Davis, erm...

Er...

Again I'll go for Alexander Stephens.

OK, you're going down the middle. And you have found it.

Yes, it is the right answer. I think that was really a round of guessing.

Dave just turned out a bit luckier than you, Colum.

It means you won't be in the final round. Sorry about that. That's OK.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

Well, er, opening round and the Eggheads won that one,

so Cardigan Carnage have lost one brain from the final round.

Second round coming right up. Arts and Books.

Who wants to play this from Cardigan Carnage?

THEY DELIBERATE

Even then, my knowledge of books is limited to primary level.

You never know, it might come up.

Yes, I'll take Arts and Books.

All right, Joe, and which Egghead will you take?

It can't be Dave, but any of the other four. I'll take on CJ.

You quite like that, don't you, CJ?

Joe and CJ, into the question room, please,

to make sure you can't confer.

So Joe, are you a keen reader, painter, what? You like museums?

What is it about Arts and Books? Definitely a keen reader.

I think I think it's really important for the kids to really enjoy

reading, so I think it's good to have a good role model there.

I definitely read, arts maybe not so much.

But I'm willing to have a go.

OK, Joe, do you want to go first or second? I'll go first, please.

First question on Arts and Books to you, then, Joe.

In which Shakespeare play does a central character sleepwalk

while trying to remove imaginary bloodstains from her hands?

Well, I know in secondary school there's a lot of people study

Macbeth, and so as soon as I heard that I thought of Lady Macbeth.

So I'll go down the middle with Macbeth.

Which is the right answer. Well done.

OK. CJ, this is your question.

In 2013 Ralph Heimans' portrait of which public figure was

defaced with spray paint while on display in Westminster Abbey?

I think the picture was Elizabeth II.

Elizabeth II is, of course, the right answer.

Joe, second question.

In which Sussex town did Leslie Evershed-Martin found a festival

theatre which opened in 1962?

Well, I've definitely never heard of Leslie... Evershed-Martin.

No, not a familiar name to me, so this will be a bit of a guess.

Erm...

Chichester is jumping out at me, so I'll go with Chichester.

Yeah, it is right. Yes. Chichester.

The Chichester Festival.

Well done, Joe. You've got two.

CJ's attempt to match that coming up.

Which arts term derives from the Italian for the amount

of painting which could be done in a single day?

No idea. I've not heard this.

OK, let's have a look at the words, then.

Er, giametti doesn't mean anything to me.

Giornata, er...

Nata means birth or new or beginning.

Dano, giordano.

Er, I don't know. Er...

See, I don't know if it's giordano which does mean day, or giornata

taken from the rebirth meaning a whole day, a whole cycle.

I really don't know this.

It sounds more painty to me, so I'll try giordano.

That's more painty, OK. Giordano.

Choosing between the right two, but you got the wrong one.

Giornata is the amount of painting that can be done in a single day.

Well, great news, Joe. Big opportunity here.

A correct answer gets you through to the final round.

Who wrote the poem that features the lines,

"Home is the sailor, home from sea and the hunter home from the hill."

OK, erm...

I don't recognise the poem.

We are studying the Victorians in my class at the minute,

so Robert Louis Stevenson is jumping out to me.

I know some of my children did some research on him.

Hmm.

I'm going to go with Robert Louis Stevenson just

because I recognise his name.

OK. Robert Louis Stevenson...

is the right answer.

I don't think you'll forget that line. No.

That's what's going to stick with you.

It's won you a place in the final round.

No need to put another question to CJ.

Would you would you both please come back and join your teams.

A very even game so far.

Both Cardigan Carnage

and the Eggheads have lost one brain from the final round.

And our next subject, third head-to-head, it's Music.

Who from Cardigan Carnage wants to play this one?

THEY DELIBERATE

I would put James forward. Yeah?

I'm going to take on music.

OK, and which Egghead are you going to take on, James?

Who do you want to choose from?

Dave and CJ have played, so any of the other three.

Can I take on Chris, please? Of course you can.

Let's have James and Chris into the question room, then, please.

James, I suppose there's one thing about your team that's encouraging.

You're all young men who've gone into primary school teaching.

It's often been said that there is a gender imbalance,

that for children in primary schools there's far more women

teaching than men, but is that changing now?

Did you find in your PGCE year there are a lot more men deciding

to go back into primary school teaching?

Yeah, there has been a lot.

There's been a big shift lately for men going into primary school

teaching, which was unusual.

But it's definitely building up and it's getting better,

it's more balanced now. Yeah, well, good luck with it, James,

and good luck with this round here.

Choose for me, do you want to go first or second?

Can I go first, please?

James, first question.

Which of these defined Ernie,

the subject of a 1971 comedy hit single for Bennie Hill?

I genuinely don't know.

I'm going to rule out plumber...just cos I just don't think it's plumber.

Erm...

Ernie the milkman or Ernie the window cleaner.

I really don't know. I'm going to have a guess with milkman, please.

Thank goodness. That's the correct answer.

And I will get Chris there to deliver the immortal line,

please, Chris.

"And he drove the fastest milk cart in the west!"

I knew he'd do it for me. He never disappoints.

OK, Chris, which talent show duo topped the UK album charts

in 2013 with The Impossible Dream?

Simon and Sinitta.

Oh, dear!

I think there's a certain unfairness about the way these questions

fell in that I suspect James would've been much more comfortable

with a question about the charts in 2013,

and you obviously knew Ernie The Fastest Milkman In The West.

It is... James, you tell me. It's...? Do you know? No.

I bigged you up there. Come on.

Richard and Adam. Three you are. It is Richard and Adam.

Listen, you have the lead. That's great news for you.

Concentrate on this, James.

Which member of the Rolling Stones had a solo hit single in 1981

with Si Si Je Suis Un Rock Star?

Erm...

I'm not really sure with this one, either.

1981's just a bit before my time as well.

We're edging closer. Getting closer. Looking forward to the next question.

Erm, I'll have a guess at Ronnie Wood, please. OK, Ronnie Wood.

Si Si Je Suis Un Rock Star.

It's not. It's Bill Wyman.

OK, second question for you, Chris. Chance to draw level.

What did Peggy Sue do in the title of Buddy Holly's sequel

to his 1957 hit?

She didn't take the A train up to Harlem

and she wasn't crying in the chapel,

but Peggy Sue Got Married.

That's right up your street, isn't it? It is the right answer.

So it's all square.

James, the U2 singles All I Want Is You

and Angel Of Harlem are taken from which album?

I can't say I'm a big U2 fan. Erm...

Oh, that's a tough one.

I'll take a guess at Rattle And Hum, please.

Rattle and Hum for All I Want Is You and Angel Of Harlem.

Yes, it is the right answer.

Chris, which composer's sixth and seventh symphonies are

sometimes known as The Tragic and the Song Of The Night, respectively?

Not Carl Czerny, who I've never heard of.

Mahler tended to write things called "Song Of The" whatever,

so it'd have to be Gustav Mahler.

Gustav Mahler it is, yes.

Just that little bit of knowledge got you the point.

It's all square, James.

For the first time in this game we go into sudden death

and remove the options, make it a bit harder and sort out a winner.

Here's your question -

who directed the music video for the Michael Jackson song Bad?

Oh...

I'll have heard of this at some stage.

I genuinely don't have a clue.

I'm sure I've heard of it at some stage but I just can't think.

It's definitely not Steven Spielberg but I'll guess anyway.

OK, Steven Spielberg. Always better to guess.

Pretty good guess, but not Steven Spielberg. Eggheads?

Martin Scorsese.

Martin Scorsese.

And a little snippet about that video - it also featured...

Wesley Snipes. Wesley Snipes. Well done, Dave. My goodness me.

OK, so, Chris, a chance to win it.

Which actor and singer had a UK hit single in 1961

with Pop Goes The Weasel?

That was Anthony Newley.

One time husband of...? Joan Collins. Yeah.

Anthony Newley is the right answer, Chris. You are in the final round.

Bad luck, James. No place for you in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

It's swung the Eggheads' way again.

Cardigan Carnage have now lost two brains from the final round,

the Eggheads have lost one.

So it could be all square still in the final round,

depending on the outcome of this head-to-head, and this is Sport,

which I suspect you'll enjoy, but only Mark or Jack can play it.

THEY DELIBERATE

All right, I think I'll take it on.

All right, Jack, who would you like to play from the Eggheads?

CJ, Dave and Chris have played, so you've got Kevin or Barry.

I think I'm going to take Barry. All right. You can.

Let's have Jack and Barry into the question room, please.

Jack, tell me how you celebrate your birthday? Your sleeping habits.

Well, I have rather a strange one with some of my friends from home.

It originated just, er, it was one of the boys' birthday

and we were just out and he has a big wall at the back of his garden.

It was when we were a bit younger, we decided to climb up it

and we ended up on someone's garage roof.

We just sat there, had a few drinks and it was really fun,

so it's turned into a bit of a tradition every time

it's his birthday we go up on this garage roof.

None of the children in my school knew that,

so they probably won't thank me when they see it,

but, yeah, it's a bit of a tradition and we try and do it every year.

You don't have any sleeping bags there?

One year we went the whole hog with sleeping bags. We did sleep up there.

Sometimes we don't spend the whole night out there

because obviously it can still be pretty cold, even in the summer

when the birthday is, but we have spent a whole night up there before.

It's a nice way of touching base, isn't it?

Yeah, exactly. OK, Jack. Do you want to go first or second on sport?

I'll go first, please.

First question is this, then -

which anniversary did the Football Association celebrate in 2013?

Football should've been my strong subject as well,

but I've got to admit I don't know this. I think...

I think I can...

rule out 100.

I don't think it's 100 because I would've remembered there being

some stuff about it being 100. I'm going to...

It is going to be, hopefully, an educated guess.

I think I'm going to go for 75th.

Oh, no!

75th, OK. It's certainly not the 100th but you went the wrong way.

It's been around a long time. It's 150th.

So Barry, an early chance for the lead, then.

In snooker, a black ball,

a red ball and a pink ball score how many points in total?

Let me think. A black is 7, a pink is 6, which makes 13.

Red is 1 which makes 14.

14. Mm-hm.

That's the right answer. So you got the point.

Jack, let's get you going.

Which former tennis player has coached

Andre Agassi, Andy Murray and Andy Roddick, among others?

Well, my dad will laugh that this question came up

cos he's been hounding me about reading Andre Agassi's

autobiography for the last few years and I've always, erm...

Always steered clear of it cos I'm not a huge tennis fan.

Now I'm wishing I had taken his advice and read it, but...

Erm...

I'm not going to lie to you, I don't really have the slightest clue,

so I'm going to go in the middle.

Nick Bollettieri.

OK, Nick Bollettieri. No, it's not.

It is, Barry?

I'm pretty certain Brad Gilbert coached Andy Murray at some point,

so I'd have gone for Brad Gilbert.

Brad Gilbert. Yes, indeed.

Oh, dear. Well, Jack, your father's going to be saying...

Brad Gilbert, I'm sure,

features largely in Andre Agassi's autobiography.

A chance for the victory, then, Barry.

Named after a former governor, the Ranfurly Shield

is a Rugby Union trophy in which country?

It's R-A-N-F-U-R-L-Y. Ranfurly Shield.

It's definitely not South Africa, and something is telling me,

I think I seem to remember the Ranfurly Shield is the main

Rugby Union trophy in New Zealand. So I'll go for New Zealand.

You've just booted Jack into touch. It is the right answer.

New Zealand is correct. Your dad always knows best, Jack.

I'm sure he'll love that.

He's going to be giving you some stick for that.

OK, well, we close the round down, Jack.

No place for you in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

This is what we've been playing towards.

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

is General Knowledge.

Those of you who lost your head to heads wont be allowed to take part

in this round.

So Colum, Jack and James from Cardigan Carnage,

and CJ from the Eggheads, would you leave the studio, please?

Mark and Joe, you're playing to win Cardigan Carnage ?2,000.

Dave, Kevin, Barry and Chris, you are playing for something

which money cannot buy - the Eggheads' reputation.

And, as usual, I ask each team three questions in turn.

This time the questions are all general knowledge.

Anything can come up and you are allowed to confer.

So Cardigan Carnage, the question is

- are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

Mark and Joe, how do you want to play this final round?

Do you want to go first or second? I think we'll go first. Yep.

We'll stick with going first, thank you.

OK, let's get you started, then.

First question - which car company first produced its famous

E-Type in 1961?

My dad bought this car... It's a Jaguar, I think.

I think it's Jaguar. Do they do E-Type now?

Something type.

I'm 100% sure it's Jaguar. OK, we'll go with Jaguar.

Jaguar.

E-Type Jaguar, yes, of course. You've got it. One to you.

Eggheads, the phrase "salad days" traditionally refers to which

time in a person's life?

THEY DELIBERATE

I think we'll go for youth, please.

OK, youth is the correct answer.

Barry, where does the phrase come from? Antony and Cleopatra.

"My salad days when I was green in judgment."

Very good.

And I won't make any judgment about who's enjoying their salad days

at the moment in this studio.

OK. One each.

Mark and Joe, in France

what would normally be sold in a confiserie?

I imagine medicines would be pharmacie.

Pharmacie. Clothes...

Boutique. I know clothes is vetements. Oh, OK.

So by process of elimination, I think I'm pretty sure

it would be sweets.

OK. Confectionary. Final answer, sweets.

Sweets. Confiserie.

It's the right answer. Well done. You have two.

Eggheads, in Greek mythology, who was the muse of astronomy?

Urania?

That was Urania.

Yes, indeed, Eggheads. They know their Greek mythology.

So, it's all square at two all.

This might just win you the money if you get this right.

Count Arthur Strong is a character created by which comedian?

Have you heard of him?

I've heard of the character but I haven't heard of any of the three...

I don't know those comedians.

For some reason...

What's the name again? Count Arthur Strong. Yeah. I'd be...

For some reason I'm tempted to go down the left,

but I don't know what you think. Steve Delaney. Yeah.

I don't know, just...

We've got no information to go on, really, have we, so...

I'll go with Steve Delaney.

It's a stab in the dark but we're going to go for Steve Delaney.

Steve Delaney. Was it just something in your head? Pure gut instinct.

Just... Yeah. Just thought I'd go with it.

You thought you'd heard of Count Arthur Strong. Yeah. Erm...

Just something in the back, but...

All right.

You got the right answer.

It's three to you.

And the ball in the Eggheads' court. Will they knock it back?

Eggheads, historically the torquetum was an instrument used

in which branch of science?

It's spelled T-O-R-Q-U-E-T-U-M.

Torque, screw...

Yeah.

It's not algebra.

Astronomy has many, many instruments,

but I've not heard of that one.

Anatomy it could have.

It could be some sort of medical device.

Cranking open a rib cage.

Yeah.

I'm sure I would've heard of it if it was astronomy.

It doesn't...

Yeah, I can see that.

I've read too many books on astronomy

not to have come across it.

If it had said "torque technique" or something like that

I might have been a bit worried about algebra, but instrument.

Something to do with turning.

It is, yeah, it is. It's turning.

It may be in some sort of principle as a tourniquet or

something like that, but I...

As you say, with astronomy I...

They only thing you'd want to turn is a telescope mount,

a dobsonian or something

but there's nothing like that, historically, anyway.

There wouldn't have been many historical telescopes that

would turn to match the Earth's rotation.

I'm inclined to go for anatomy.

It seems like the logical one,

which means it probably isn't,

but we don't know it.

You've read a lot of astronomical

and have gotten a hold of most of those instruments there.

I'd be inclined to go with... Anatomy seems the logical...

What about you, Chris?

Yeah, I'd go with...

With you, too. Sounds like something...

Certainly.

Device for cranking open bits of the human body.

It might be used on us if we get it wrong.

Well, as should be fairly obvious,

we don't know it,

and we can't really make a case for it with either of the others.

We can imagine that it could be something

because of torque referring to a turning force

in anatomy, so we'll go for anatomy.

OK, anatomy.

There's an example of this in

The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger

you know that painting?

Oh, yes, there's lots of instruments in that painting there.

Astronomy, then, isn't it?

And as Kevin has...

It has dawned upon Kevin that the answer is astronomy.

Which means Cardigan Carnage, you have won.

Well, well, well, how does that feel? I can't believe it.

Absolutely brilliant. I'm going to wake up in a minute.

Well, hopefully you don't wake up on the roof of a garage like Jack.

It's going to be good, though, when you go into school, isn't it, and...

The kids will be absolutely made up.

You're going to have to tell them the night before that,

right, instead of any homework you're thinking of doing,

at six o'clock have a little look at your teacher.

Maybe the whole school in the hall watching.

Well done, guys.

Congratulations. You have beaten the Eggheads, you've won ?2,000.

You are officially cleverer than the Eggheads.

You've proved they can be beaten.

Do join us next time on Eggheads to see

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

Until then - goodbye.