Episode 27 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 taking on the awesome might of our quiz Goliaths today

are Now Museum, Now You Don't.

This team of colleagues all do part-time work

at the world-famous Science Museum in South Kensington.

-Let's meet them.

-Hi, I'm Jack. I'm 22 and I am an art history student.

-Hi, I'm Saam. I'm 26 and I run a music reviews website.

-Hi, I'm Vanna.

-I'm 25 and I am a community engagement officer.

-Hi, I'm Ali.

-I'm 21 and I'm a bio-medical science student.

-Hi, I'm Kyle.

I'm 25 and I'm an English student.

Well, welcome to you, Now Museum, Now You Don't.

What a mouthful, and what an awful pun.

-Who came up with that one?

-Sorry. That was mine.

-It's the main reason I joined.

-It was the only reason he joined.

-Oh, I see.

-Hangover moment.

-Tell me about the Science Museum.

It must be one of the most visited in Britain, is it?

It is very busy. It is great. Fun working there, obviously.

Yes, and we just have a laugh. We do work as well. Sorry.

You'll be hoping... would you be hoping for a science round to come up?

Is that the kind of thing you're expecting? History, I guess.

We're playing our cards close to the table for now.

OK. Don't reveal them to the Eggheads. Let's play the game.

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, Now Museum, Now You Don't, the Eggheads have won the last four games.

That means £5,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads today.

And let's see what comes up for our first head-to-head. It's History.

-Who'd like to play this?

-God. Big ones. Not really my thing. Kyle.

-I can't.

-I think we should try and keep Kyle to the end.

-I can take it.

-Ali.

-I'll give it a go.

-OK.

Ali's going to be the lamb to the slaughter.

-I'll take the History category.

-Good man, Ali.

And choose any Egghead you like. All five are available.

-It is the opening round.

-Kevin.

-Who would you recommend?

-Go for it.

-Yeah. I'll go for Kevin, please.

-All right.

OK, Kevin, one of his favourite subjects, of course.

Ali and Kevin into the Question Room, please,

to make sure you can't confer.

So, Ali, you've got a black belt in some martial art?

I started Tang Soo Do, a form of karate, when I was about seven years old,

and I continued until I was about 15. I managed to achieve a black belt.

Fantastic.

-And is it true you practised on your mother at one stage?

-Yes.

It was a really funny story.

We had a parents' day at our karate and I was sparring with my mum,

and accidentally I took it a bit too far, did a roundhouse kick

and hit her in the head.

I don't think she has been the same ever since.

DERMOT LAUGHS

The Question Room is fairly compact. Don't try a roundhouse kick.

You might catch Kevin. Do not. Maybe if he beats you. All right.

Ali, do you want to go first or second on this History round?

I'd like to go first, please.

Good luck. Here you go.

In British history, Queen Anne was the last monarch of which royal house?

OK. I'm not too sure of this question.

Most of the history I studied was after the 19th century.

I'm going to eliminate Plantagenet.

I'm not going to go for that one.

Between the two, I'm not too sure but I will go for the Stuarts.

-OK, Stuart is the right answer. Well done.

-Yay, well done, Ali.

Good start, Ali.

Kevin, construction of which of these ships was started in 1510?

The other two are both considerably later. It's the Mary Rose.

Mary Rose is the right answer for Kevin. Right back to you, Ali.

Second question. Formed in the 19th century,

the Okhrana, or Okhranka, was the secret police force of which country?

The Okhrana. O-K-H-R-A-N-A.

Okhranka. Much the same. O-K-H-R-A-N-K-A.

I'm going to try and go from how I think the word sounds on this

one, so I don't think it will be France.

I feel like if it was Russia, I might have heard of it,

so I'm going to go for Germany.

OK, Germany for 19th-century secret police.

It is incorrect. Kevin.

-It's the Russian.

-It is the Russian, which I suspect was the second one,

or one of the ones you were considering.

OK, Kevin, your second question.

Sir Alexander Mackenzie, born in Scotland in the 1760s,

is best known for his exploration of which continent?

It is principally what is now north-west Canada.

He found a route to the Arctic, along the Mackenzie and other rivers.

-It is North America.

-You know that well. It is the right answer, Kevin.

You have two and a must-get one for you, Ali.

Susan B. Anthony was a famous name in which of these fields of reform?

The name is ringing a bell, so I'm going to go with my gut.

-I'm going to go for women's suffrage.

-Women's suffrage. That's correct.

-Still in it.

-What a gut!

OK, a fighting chance,

but Kevin needs to fail with this for you to continue in the round.

Kevin, which city was given the nickname the Great Wen by the

political writer William Cobbett in the 19th century?

It is spelt W-E-N. The Great Wen.

He applied this to London.

London, the Great Wen.

It is the right answer, Kevin, which means you have won the round.

Bad luck, Ali. Just that one in the middle has cost you a place there.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

After the first round, Now Museum, Now you Don't

have lost one brain from the final round.

The Eggheads are all there. Our next subject is Art & Books.

-Who from the team would like to play this?

-Jack, I guess.

-Am I going for it? OK.

-What if music comes up?

-If music comes up, someone will do it.

-I'll go for Arts & Books.

-All right, Jack.

-You're an art history student?

-I am an art history student.

Who would you like to choose from the Eggheads?

It'll be embarrassing when I lose. Let's... I don't even know.

-Let's go...

-CJ?

-OK, CJ.

-Let's do it.

-You've got similar shirts.

-Might get confused.

Let's have CJ and Jack into the Question Room, please.

Now Museum, Now You Don't, I'm just loving the stuff you

have chosen to tell our researchers about yourself.

Ali accidentally kicked his mother in the head and Jack,

-you've got a webbed foot?

-I do, yes. Well, a couple of toes on one foot.

-Does it make you a good swimmer?

-Awful, atrocious swimmer.

Doesn't make any difference at all. Oh, dear. Let's play Arts & Books.

-Would you like to go first or second?

-I'll go first, please.

And your first question, Jack.

What is the first name of the heroine of the book 50 Shades Of Grey?

Have to admit I've never read it,

but something in my gut is saying...

-I'm going to go for Anastasia.

-Anastasia, it's the right answer.

-Well done.

-Jolly good.

-Such a fan.

-He's read it, you can see it in his eyes.

-CJ.

Sergeant Buzfuz, Dick Swiveller

and Sir Mulberry Hawk are characters created by which writer?

I don't know, but you've got to assume they are all Dickens

characters. They sound like it.

Having "Sir" as one of the characters makes you assume

it's English rather than American, so I'll go for Charles Dickens.

Charles Dickens. Sounds something like characters in a Carry On film.

Dick Swiveller. I can see Sid James as that any time.

It is Charles Dickens. Right answer, well done, CJ.

OK, Jack, second question.

Which of these musical instruments is depicted in Holbein's

painting The Ambassadors?

Last thing I want to do is embarrass myself here.

Not bagpipes.

-I'm... Straight down the middle, lute.

-Lute.

-It is the right answer.

-Yeah!

-Two out of two.

-You have got two out of two. And, CJ.

Plain Tales from the Hills is a collection of short

stories by which author?

Well, of those, the one who's most known for short stories is HG Wells.

I don't think it was Kipling.

I don't associate short stories with Kipling.

I don't know, but I will try Wells. HG Wells.

HG Wells for Plain Tales from the Hills.

It is not HG Wells.

-Other Eggheads?

-Kipling.

-It's Kipling.

-The clue there in the "Hills," the hills of colonial India?

-I think so.

OK. Kipling there. So, far from embarrassing yourself, Jack.

You're sailing into the final round at the moment.

If you don't stumble on this you're guaranteed a place in the final.

-The last hurdle.

-Indeed. If you get over this, you are there.

Josiah and Thomas, the sons of the potter Josiah Wedgwood

financially supported which poet, giving him £150 a year?

-For a place in the final round.

-Wow. Tall hurdle.

Because I don't know it. I am...

I can't even eliminate anyone in my head.

I'm going to go for Robert Southey.

Robert Southey, you think.

I'm afraid I have to dash those hopes. It is incorrect.

-Do you know, CJ?

-Just on the dates, I've gone for Coleridge.

Coleridge it is. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

So, a chance for CJ to get back in it.

CJ, the former home of which English artist is now

a museum in Holland Park in London?

I don't know, Dermot.

Well, apologies to Mr Leighton

but I've never heard of Frederic Leighton. I know the other two.

No, I really don't know.

Apologies to my erstwhile team-mates,

but this is going to be a blind guess, a one in three.

I'll go for Edward Burne-Jones.

Edward Burne-Jones for his house in Holland Park.

Now a museum in London. Do you know, Jack?

Maybe you visited it as part of your studies.

I haven't, unfortunately.

I know Leighton House is a big site.

I would have gone for Frederic Leighton on the basis

-that Leighton House is in the back of my mind.

-OK.

Far from embarrassing yourself, because it is Frederic Leighton.

-And you are in the final round.

-Thank you.

-Even better.

-Fantastic.

-They you are.

OK, let's have you both back in the studio.

Now Museum, Now You Don't, we will be zee... I can't do that.

"Zeeing" Jack again. We'll be seeing Jack again. It just doesn't work.

It really doesn't. We will be seeing Jack again in the final round.

It means both teams have lost one brain from that final round.

Let's play our third head-to-head and the battle goes on

with the subject of Sport.

Who'd like to play this?

-That will be you, Saam.

-Definitely can't be me.

Who should I take on?

-Ali said you'd take Judith.

-Yeah.

We'll take... I'll take Sport and I'll take on Judith.

So, it is going to be Saam from Now Museum, Now You Don't

and Judith from the Eggheads playing Sport.

Into the Question Room, please.

-Saam, would you like to go first or second?

-I think I will go first.

OK, Saam, first question.

Which male tennis player won the French and US Open titles in 2013?

I'm pretty sure del Potro and Murray haven't won the French title...

..just yet.

And Rafael Nadal had a really good comeback year,

so I'm going to go with Rafael Nadal.

You know your tennis. It is the right answer.

And, Judith, the Peter May stand is a feature of which sporting venue?

Well, Peter May was the captain of England cricket team.

So, I imagine it is the Oval.

It is the right answer. Well done, Judith.

One on the board for you. Saam. Which city is home to the

Luzhniki Stadium?

-Could you spell that for me, please?

-L-U-Z-H-N-I-K-I.

The Luzhniki Stadium.

I'm kind of siding with maybe Moscow or Helsinki.

I had a bit of a gut instinct that said Moscow,

-so I think I will go for Moscow.

-Moscow. Dave.

-Yes, it is where United won the 2008 Champions League final.

-OK.

The Luzhniki stadium, which Dave remembers well... In Moscow.

It is the right answer, well done.

Judith. Manuel Pellegrini, who became manager of Manchester City

in 2013, was born in which country?

God, I thought he might have been born in Italy with a name like that.

Could have been born in any of those.

-Mexico.

-Mexico.

Manuel Pellegrini was born in Chile, Judith. Chile, not Mexico.

So, nothing there and a great opportunity, Saam.

This ensures you a place in the final round, if you get it correct.

Greyville is a major racecourse in which country?

Greyville. G-R-E-Y-V-I-L-L-E.

I'm really not sure about this one.

Not really familiar with racecourses,

so I'm kind of, for some reason I decided to discount New Zealand.

I feel like South Africa might have more of a pedigree for that

-kind of thing, so I'm going to go with South Africa.

-South Africa.

Well, some quizzing pedigree, here. Saam, it's the right answer.

Whoo!

Say no more - you know what it means.

You're straight through to the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, it just got a lot better for Now Museum, Now You Don't -

they have lost one brain from the final round

but the Eggheads have lost two.

Will it be more? Our next subject will reveal it.

It's Music. Who'd like to play that?

It's Vanna or Kyle?

We had a plan and this is plan B.

This is plan B.

Music, I'm really weak on, so...

I can go for music...

All right, Kyle. And you can chose from Pat or Dave.

I don't have a Scooby...

They're saying Dave, so..

It's you and me! See you back there, Dave.

All right, Kyle and Dave, into the question room, please.

So, Kyle, you've got an extensive

collection surrounding polar exploration.

I do, yes.

I first read Captain Scott's autobiography a few years ago.

It's just something that I've been very interested in since then.

That's a fine moustache you've got there - could have been

on one of Scott's expeditions or Shackleton or something like that.

That would have been...

Maybe when they perfect time travel, we'll see how it goes.

Did it take you long to grow that?

Just a couple of months.

-You're joking?!

-No.

-It's luxuriant.

-Thank you.

-Lovely 'tache.

All right, Kyle, let's see how you're going to do on Music.

Do you want the first set of questions or the second set?

I'll take the first.

Best of luck, Kyle, here's your first question.

The opening lyrics of the Whitney Houston song

The Greatest Love Of All suggests that what are our future?

My wife will absolutely kill me if I don't get this,

which is quite likely.

I would have to guess that it would be children,

cos the other two don't seem too likely.

No, not social networking sites then?

It is the right answer of course. Yes, children - well done.

Avoiding the wrath of your wife there.

OK, Dave.

The folk song Kalinka is a traditional song from which country?

-Can you spell it for me, please?

-K-A-L-I-N-K-A. Kalinka.

Right, I've never heard of it, but I'll have to go Russia

on that basis - just on the spelling.

Yeah, it is Russia.

Kyle, second question.

Who formed the band The Blue Moon Boys with Scotty Moore

and Bill Black in the 1950s?

Should know this...almost embarrassed not to.

I know Johnny Cash did work with two other people in Sun Records,

so I would guess Johnny Cash.

Johnny Cash, a guess at that.

It's not. Do you know, Dave?

-Elvis Presley.

-It is Elvis, Elvis Presley.

Way back when - Scotty Moore and Bill Black, The Blue Moon Boys.

Dave, your second question.

The Snooker Song, used as the theme to the TV game show Big Break,

comes from a musical based on which work?

Oh, dear!

Erm... Don't believe it's The Jungle Book.

Erm...

Wind In The Willows? No, not for me.

I'll have to go The Hunting Of The Snark, but...

Yes, I've got to go The Hunting Of The Snark with that,

but I don't like the question at all.

OK. But it is the right answer, Dave.

You've got it, you worked it out -

Hunting Of The Snark for the Snooker Song.

Right, well, you need to get this, Kyle.

The songs The Muleteer's Serenade

and The Millwheel, thought to have been lost but announced

in 2013 to have been discovered, were written by which composer?

I think I did better with the Whitney Houston question actually.

Go back to that!

Yeah. No, these aren't mine at all.

I'm going got have to take a wild stab at that and just say Elgar.

A wild stab at Elgar...

And you've got the right answer.

That'll do.

A stab's fine.

But you've got to sit this one out and hope Dave doesn't get it.

Dave, which French composer wrote the suite Gaspard de la nuit,

considered to be one of the most difficult solo piano works?

Well...

Not heard of the work.

Got to go with the first instinct cos I...

Satie's in there, but I'll go Claude Debussy.

OK. Claude Debussy.

As I was playing it to you the other day, Eggheads,

showing you how difficult it was,

do you remember I told you who composed it?

Ravel. We did remember, you see.

It is Ravel. Maurice Ravel.

Ravel - the one I wouldn't have gone for.

OK. Well, Ravel, not Debussy, which is great news, Kyle.

We're going to go to Sudden Death - we need to sort out a winner.

It's all-square after those first three questions

with multiple choices in there, so we're taking those away.

Which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical was

banned in South Africa during the 1970s?

I genuinely can't even think of one.

Oh, I do know...

I've remembered one, so I'll say the one I've remembered -

-Jesus Christ Superstar.

-OK.

And it's the right answer!

Jesus Christ Superstar.

OK, Dave, your question to stay in it this time.

Which band released the single Best Song Ever in July 2013?

I'm going to have to have a guess.

There's only one thing coming into my head

and I haven't got a clue really - One Direction.

One thing came into Kyle's head and he got it,

and one thing came into your head and you have got it too.

It's the right answer.

One Direction.

Kyle, another question then.

Corynne Elliot is the real name of which rapper,

who won the Mercury Prize in 2009?

First name is C-O-R-Y-N-N-E.

I don't follow this sort of thing at all.

I think the Mercury Prize is British...

And...2009...

I know...

British rap... Dizzee Rascal.

No, it's not Dizzee Rascal.

Do you know, Dave?

-Can't remember, no.

-Other Eggheads?

-Speech Debelle.

-Speech Debelle.

CJ got it, Kyle - Speech Debelle.

OK, but Kyle has the comfort of saying, "Never heard of it."

Chance again for you to win the round, Dave.

Which composer, who died in New York in 1945,

was given a state funeral in Budapest in 1988?

Thinking of the dates there,

but all that's coming into my head is Bela Bartok.

Bela Bartok...

It's the right answer, Dave, you are in the final round.

Clawed it back there - Bela Bartok.

Dave, you've made it through to the final round.

Sorry about that, Kyle, you won't be here in the final round.

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

And so this is what we've been playing towards,

it's 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, Ali and Kyle from Now Museum, Now You Don't,

and Judith and CJ from the Eggheads,

would you, please, leave the studio now.

So, Jack, Saam and Vanna,

you're playing to win Now Museum, Now You Don't £5,000.

Pat, Dave and Kevin, you're playing for something that money

cannot buy - the Eggheads' reputation.

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

differences are they're all General Knowledge in the final round

and you are allowed to confer.

Now Museum, Now You Don't, the question is,

are your three brains better than the Eggheads' three?

-Hope so!

-We hope so too!

Jack, Saam and Vanna, would you like to go first or second?

We'd like to go first, please.

General Knowledge, £5,000 up for grabs and your first question,

Now Museum, Now You Don't.

Who played Mrs Slocombe in the TV comedy Are You Being Served?

-JACK AND SAAM:

-Any ideas?

-Has anyone ever seen it?

-Yes.

I've seen it. For some reason, I'm feeling Mollie Sugden.

-What do you think.

-It's ringing a bell.

-I think we should go...

-I think just on our sort of gut...

Two to one.

-Yeah.

-Sugden?

-Sugden.

We're going to go with Mollie Sugden.

OK, Mollie Sugden for Mrs Slocombe in the TV

comedy Are You Being Served?

It's the right answer, yes indeed.

Right, one to you and well done.

Eggheads, which of these terms is the British

equivalent of a bachelorette party?

I hope it's a hen night.

Doesn't fit specifically with either of the other two.

Hen night, well, bachelor party.

Baby shower's after the event.

We're going with hen night.

OK. I think we've got the better term there -

hen night as opposed to bachelorette party,

is the right answer. Well done, Eggheads.

It's all-square and, Now Museum, Now You Don't, second question.

Bishopthorpe Palace is the official residence of which clergyman?

Bishopthorpe Palace.

Thorpe is near Staines, isn't it?

Yes.

So, we...

Those locations aren't that close.

I'm just saying.

No, fair enough.

Extreme logic.

I grew up not far from Bath.

I don't think it's the Archbishop Of York. Cos that's too...

-He is...

-Do you think it's like a double-bluff?

Do you think it could be Salisbury?

Yeah, if that's what you're feeling.

Yeah. I'll leave it with you.

I like Bath.

You do? I'm not sure about Bath.

-Id probably go Salisbury.

-OK. Let's go Salisbury.

OK, we're going to go for the Bishop Of Salisbury,

but we're not particularly confident with this.

OK. And you said you grew up near Bath.

Oh, no!

It's all Vanna's fault if it's wrong!

Bishopthorpe Palace - is it Salisbury or is it Bath?

York.

It's York. So some comfort there.

OK, good.

Right. OK. Nothing there for Now Museum, Now You Don't,

so will the Eggheads take the lead?

Which actor was Humphrey Bogart's rival for the affection

of Audrey Hepburn in the film Sabrina?

-Holden.

-William Holden.

Definitely. He was the, erm...

..more vain person, wasn't he?

Were they brothers?

Yeah. Well, something like that. There was a relationship there.

They were brothers, cos one was a boffin

and one was more of a rough diamond.

It's William Holden.

OK. We're going with William Holden.

William Holden,

Humphrey Bogart's rival for the affection of Audrey Hepburn...

It's the right answer, Eggheads.

You have that lead and you need to get this, Now Museum, Now You Don't.

Here you go - the dalasi is the unit

of currency in which African country?

D-A-L-A-S-I.

I've got not a Scooby - I've got nothing.

I've got absolutely nothing on this.

Not doing too well on this.

-Kyle - we needed you, Kyle.

-Can we have Kyle back?

-Ghana?

-That is actually what I was kind of...

I only know. I know someone from Ghana,

and I was trying to think of the sounds of his name.

His name's Kama Antwi.

Does that sound anything like...?

No, it sounds like another currency!

-To be fair...

-That's all I've got. Should we go Ghana?

We don't have a wide enough Ghanaian population to...

No, one guy.

Yeah, we happy? Well... Will we go with that?

I think that cards haven't really fallen in our favour for this,

but we're going to go with Ghana.

Why do think Kyle would know?

None of those countries are anywhere near any of the polar regions.

He was our geography man.

-He's cultured.

-Yes.

-Yes, we can tell that.

OK. Ghana, you say, for the Dalasi.

Do you know, Eggheads?

It's The Gambia.

It is The Gambia, which means, I'm sorry - Eggheads, you've won.

Bad luck, Now Museum, Now You Don't. You summed it up, Vanna -

the cards just didn't fall for you in the final round.

-No, unfortunately not.

-Some questions you had to have a real guess at.

Thank you for taking them on today, Now Museum, Now You Don't,

and telling us all about all the

weird and wonderful facts behind your lives.

When we see you at the Science Museum, do say hello,

but avoid giving them any facts that they may use against teams

that play against them in the future.

-Best of luck, thank you very much.

-Thank you!

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them

and they still reign supreme over quizland.

I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £5,000,

that means the money rolls over to the next show.

Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers have

the brains to defeat the Eggheads - £6,000 says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.