Episode 28 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 challenging our resident quiz champions today

are Glevum's Glorious from Gloucester.

This team of colleagues

all work for the same healthcare firm

and take their name from the Roman name for Gloucester.

Let's meet them.

Hello. I'm Russ. I'm 54. I'm a customer support manager.

Hi, my name's Al. I'm 43. I'm the warehouse manager.

Hi, I'm Emma. I'm 44. And I'm a graphic designer.

Hi, I'm Paul. I'm 51 and I'm a technical director.

Hi, I'm Mark. I'm 38 and I'm an IT director.

Tell me about the team, Russ.

You've hand-picked them here

because of their ability with your question of the day.

-The world-famous daily calendar quiz question.

-Ah.

-It, er...

It started off five, six years ago.

It's a tear-off calendar -

someone gave it to me for a Christmas present -

-with a general knowledge question.

-Yeah.

-And, er...

Al works in the warehouse the other end of the building,

so he said, "Could you e-mail me the question?"

So I e-mailed him the question

and it's now grown to over 50 members in the company

and it also goes outside the company,

to our other factory over in Lincolnshire.

In Boston, Lincolnshire.

And that's how it's come about

and the team today are probably the best ones.

-As long as they weren't cheating!

-OK. Well, I was going to say that.

You say it's been going for several years.

Once they work out which calendar you buy,

they could be ahead of you.

The calendar's finished now. I make up questions every day

and I sometimes pinch your questions from here.

LAUGHTER

All right. Well, well practised,

and know the way of the Eggheads as well.

Let's play the game, shall we?

Glevum's Glorious, very good to have you here.

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, Glevum's Glorious, the Eggheads have won the last five games,

which means £6,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads today.

Let's start, then, with our first head-to-head

and, oh, it's come up as Film & Television.

Who'd like to play this round, the opening round?

It's got to be you, Russ, hasn't it?

Yes, we've got a preordained plan and that's for me.

Oh, OK. Straight in, then, Russ.

And choose any Egghead you like.

-Go for Barry?

-Yeah, go for Barry.

-Go for Barry? Go for Barry, please.

Russ will carry their baton into battle

and taking on Barry from the Eggheads.

Would you go to the Question Room, please?

So, Russ, Film & Television, then?

Is this your favourite subject?

Or you just decided to do the captain's job

and nobody else wanted to play it?

No, this is the one I wanted to do. This is the one I prefer to do.

Good, good. OK. Do you want to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please.

First question then, Russ.

In 2013, which of these rejoined the judging panel of the X Factor?

Er, it's not a programme I normally watch

but it's in the papers all the time.

Pretty sure it's Sharon Osbourne.

Yes, it is. Sharon Osbourne. Well done.

Barry, which actor provided the voice for the Genie

in the 1992 Disney film, Aladdin?

Well, they all have lovely voices, especially Morgan Freeman -

I love his deep, resonant tones.

But I believe the genie in Aladdin was played by Robin Williams.

Yes, that is correct as well. It's one apiece.

And Russ...

the popular 1960s television show, Daktari,

was largely set on which continent?

This programme is about lions,

so my answer will be Africa.

Africa?

It's the right answer. Yes.

OK, well, you got that, Russ, so you've got two.

Barry, Freddie Young, who was born in London in 1902

was a three-time Academy Award winner in which category?

Don't know this one. I don't think it was costume design.

There are other names that come to mind for that.

Editing or cinematography.

Not sure but I'll go for cinematography.

OK, not sure.

But you have got it.

And both going really well here.

It's two-all

and, Russ, your third question.

Which English actor made his big-screen debut

playing Lord Adrian in the 1982 film, Privileged?

It's not a film I've seen.

I'm going to struggle with this.

I'm going to go...

Julian Sands.

OK, Julian Sands for Lord Adrian in Privileged.

It's the wrong answer, it's the first one you've got wrong, Russ.

It's not Julian Sands. Barry, only two to choose from there.

I thought it was Hugh Grant.

Yeah, Hugh Grant is the right answer.

A little bit early for Steve Coogan, of course.

But Hugh Grant making his big-screen debut there,

not Julian Sands.

So, Barry, can you get through on this question?

Who is the director of the films

Slacker, Dazed And Confused and School Of Rock?

Oh. School Of Rock, I've come across.

I haven't come across the other two, unfortunately.

I'm really not sure. I'm going to go for Paul Thomas Anderson.

Paul Thomas Anderson.

-What do you think, Eggheads?

-Linklater.

Linklater, they're all saying.

That's because it's the right answer.

A let-off, Russ.

You fight on but you fight on

in the Sudden Death phase now of this round.

We are taking those options away.

I know you're very familiar with Eggheads,

so you know what happens here.

We are not going to give you any choices.

Who played Robin in the 1990s films Batman Forever and Batman & Robin?

I can picture his face. Um...

No, it's gone. I...

I can picture his face but I can't under his name, sorry.

Yeah. That's why Sudden Death is so much harder.

I'm sure you would pick this name out of a list. Barry, do you know?

I'm in the same position.

I, too, can see his face and I can't recall his name!

Well, I can see CJ knows.

-Chris O'Donnell.

-Chris O'Donnell.

That's the one.

Yes, the light bulbs going on in the Question Room there for both of you.

But, unfortunately, Russ, it was your question,

so we put a big X

beside your score sheet

and Barry has another chance to get through.

Barry, who played the lead role in the 1996 film The Nutty Professor?

The Nutty Professor. This is another one I've seen.

I believe that was Eddie Murphy.

It was Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor.

Bad luck, Russ. It means you won't be in the final round

but, of course, you're coming back, I know,

to continue to guide and lead your team there.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

As it stands, Glevum's Glorious have lost one brain from the final round.

The Eggheads haven't lost any. We've only played one round.

Let's play another one, shall we? And our next head-to-head,

it's going to be on the subject of Science.

Who wants to play this from Glevum's Glorious?

-I think that's going to be Paul.

-Has to be Paul. Yes.

-I'll take Science, Dermot.

-Has to be Paul.

-All right, Paul.

And choose an Egghead, remembering that you can't pick Barry.

My decision would be...Dave.

Oh, Dave? OK.

The captain has nominated that I take on Dave.

-OK, and you're happy with that?

-Well, I'll have to be!

Is this team rules?

Or else you'll get a terrible question at the next daily quiz!

All right, it's going to be Paul and Dave playing Science.

Into the Question Room, both of you, please.

So, Paul, what's your scientific background? I know you like fishing.

Yeah, fishing is one of my favourite hobbies

but, um, I actually graduated as a chemist,

so chemistry is my background

and I've worked in labs at the company we all work for.

And I've sort of progressed through the company

and now in charge of the department.

All right. Well, well-suited for it.

What set of questions? First or second for you?

I'll go first, try that one again.

Paul, first question on Science.

What name is given to the branch of medicine

that deals with disorders of the nervous system?

OK. Cardiology, I know, is to do with the heart.

And I'd guess that of ophthom... opthalomogy... thomology...

Shall I say that one again?

It's hard to say. The one in the middle!

The one in the middle is, um...

to do with the eyes

so, by process of elimination, I'll go for neurology.

Yeah, neurology and the nervous system go together.

It is the right answer, of course. One to you.

Dave, a real tester.

The acorn is the fruit of which tree?

The acorn is the fruit of which tree?

Will he know it?

Oh, I don't know(!)

Oak.

HE CHUCKLES

The acorn is the fruit, I can confirm, of the oak.

Well done. Right.

OK, both off the mark.

And, Paul, second question.

The Dexter, introduced to England from Ireland in 1882,

is a breed of what type of farm animal?

It doesn't sound like a pig, I must admit. Um...

So I'll eliminate that one. So I'll go sheep or cattle. Um...

Cattle, I think. I'll go for cattle.

-OK, cattle.

-Mm-hm.

-The Dexter.

It's the right answer, yes, well done.

Dave, second question.

An Appetite For Wonder, published in 2013, is the first volume

of which scientist and thinker's autobiography?

Trying to think if Stephen Hawking's had anything out recently.

Um, or Dawkins.

I'll go with Stephen Hawking but no...

No real... Mm.

I'll go Stephen Hawking.

OK, Stephen Hawking for An Appetite For Wonder.

-It's got a lot of the same letters in it but it is...

-Dawkins.

..Dawkins, yes.

Richard Dawkins with An Appetite For Wonder.

OK, well, this is looking good at the moment for you, Paul.

But, to seal the deal,

a correct answer here takes you through to the final round.

The Alvarez hypothesis is concerned with which of these?

I must confess that I've not heard of it.

So I'm going to have to try

and put some logical thinking together on this one. Um...

They're all things that have a hypothesis

but I think I'll eliminate solar flares.

I'm going to go down the middle, Dermot,

and go for the dinosaur extinction.

OK, dinosaur extinction for the Alvarez hypothesis.

It's the right answer.

And you've just extinguished Dave's challenge

to get into the final round.

It's confirmed your place in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, a GLORIOUS performance from Paul

means both teams have now lost one brain from the final round.

And our third subject...

it's Sport.

Who wants to play this?

-It is your moment now.

-Me, nominated for sport.

OK. Prearranged, is it?

Al, who would you like to play from the Eggheads?

Dave and Barry have played, so it can be CJ, Kevin or Pat.

I'm not sure whether CJ shaking his head is meant to be putting me off

but it's not going to work.

I'm going to take CJ for sport, please.

He's been practising, I bet.

No, that was genuine. He really didn't want to play it.

OK, let's have Al and CJ into the Question Room, please.

So, Al, are you a sports fanatic?

I do watch a lot of sport.

I used to participate a little bit more than I do nowadays

but, yeah, I can watch bought all day long.

Sitting on a nice sofa, big HDTV and I can watch anything.

OK, well, give this one a go. Do you want to go first or second, Al?

I'd like to go first, please, Dermot.

First set of questions, first one of those.

When asked in an interview

who he would support at the 2006 FIFA World Cup,

who jokingly said, "Anyone but England."

I do remember this. Um...

I think he got quite a lot of bad press because of this

but I do think he did say it jokingly.

There's three famous Scotsmen there

but I think the correct answer is Andy Murray.

Andy Murray, "Anyone but England."

It's the right answer, yes.

Well identified, Al.

CJ, which American golfer won the 2013 US PGA Championship?

That was Jason Dufner.

Yes, it was.

Jason Dufner picked out there by CJ. One apiece.

Al. In 2013, the Englishman Darren Barker

became a world champion in which sport?

Not heard of the name.

I think if he'd been a world championship boxer,

I probably would've heard of him.

I think I'll go for bowls.

Bowls for Darren Barker.

No, it's incorrect. Sorry, Al.

Eggheads here in the studio?

-Boxing.

-Boxing. It is boxing, Al.

Right, well, nothing there. Will CJ take the lead?

Josef Craig won a gold medal at the 2012 Paralympics in which sport?

J-O-S-E-F.

Josef Craig.

I mean, I haven't heard of him.

But, playing the percentages,

the one that has the most categories,

the one that has the most competitors is swimming.

Ah, the Eggheads at least know their percentages

and you've got the right one. Yes, swimming.

I wonder if any of the other Eggheads

can tell me more about Josef Craig.

-Not from where?

-Not other than the fact that he's British.

-British, OK.

-But which event or anything like that...

I remember the name from the Paralympics but...

OK, well, CJ did get it, though,

and it means you need get this, Al.

In darts, a checkout of 138 is named after which world champion?

Um, I do watch a bit of darts. It is strangely compelling television.

It is, isn't it? Yeah.

Um...138.

It's going to have to be a bit of a guess.

I'm going to go down the right for Jocky Wilson, please, Dermot.

OK, Jocky Wilson for a 138.

I'm sure they all achieved that

but it's named after one of those world champions.

And it is not Jocky Wilson. No. Do you know, CJ?

Before the options came up, for some reason I thought Keith Deller.

Yeah, it's Keith Deller with the 138.

-Anyone tell me why? Presumably it was...

-'83, he won the World Champ.

He beat Bristow, and I think that's what he finished on.

Finished in 138?

Yeah, which is the right answer.

Wasn't he known as The Milkman as well?

Didn't he like a pint of milk, whereas the rest of them

-were drinking other kinds of pints, and many of them.

-Absolutely!

OK. It is Keith Deller with the 138, which means CJ hits the bull's-eye.

He's going through to the final round.

No place for you, Al.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

So, as it stands, Glevum's Glorious

have lost two brains from the final round.

The Eggheads have lost one

and we reach our last head-to-head before the final round

and this subject is Politics.

Who'd like to play Politics?

-Great(!)

-Two of you left. Emma or Mark?

It's, I'm afraid.

Ugh.

You look pleased about it, Emma. That's good.

SHE LAUGHS

Or is it just nerves? I don't know.

-It's horror!

-Horror? OK.

Well, choose a horror to take with you.

-The horrors left are Pat and Kevin.

-What do you think, boys?

-Er, Pat.

-Go for Pat?

-Can we have Pat, please?

He's not a horror. He's lovely, isn't he?

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

All right, Emma, you're playing the Politics round.

Would you like to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please.

Here you go.

Dan Quayle served as Vice President of the USA during what term?

Right, I know the name, which is helpful.

But I'm trying to think of the years.

I don't think it was '77-'81.

I'm going to go for '89-'93.

'89-'93.

-You've got it. Well done. Yes.

-Wow!

Under the first George Bush, George Bush Senior.

And your first question, Pat.

Who became Prime Minister of Australia in September 2013?

Er, they've had a bit of to-ing and fro-ing,

Prime Minister-wise, in recent years.

Um, Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.

But it was the Mad Monk, Tony Abbott,

who has been elected.

Yeah, and you haven't called him that.

You'd better just explain that, Pat.

When he was a young man, I think he seriously considered the priesthood.

-OK.

-I think he went some distance along the path

before electing for the more honourable profession of politics.

DERMOT CHUCKLES

Yes. OK, it's the right answer.

Well done, Pat, you have one.

Good start by Emma.

Second question, Emma.

In 2010, the MP Julie Morgan guided a Private Member's Bill

through Parliament, outlawing under-18s from doing what?

Well, I don't think it's using nose trimmers. Um...

I don't know how you could stop people using Facebook because...

my son, he's only nine,

but he's addicted to all sorts of things on the computer,

so I think maybe it might be using sunbeds.

Yeah, I mean, the elimination technique will work there

if you don't know it.

It is the right answer, yes.

And, Pat, in 2013,

Matthew Barzun was appointed United States Ambassador to which country?

I think this chap is married to a woman

who is the heiress to the company

that makes various big whiskey brands.

I think he is the Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

That is the right answer, Pat. Ambassador to the UK.

And, Emma, everything to play for.

Here you go.

What government position did Peter Thorneycroft hold

between 1957 and 1958?

Ooh, er...

OK. Um...

Right, let's rule out Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Um...

Thorneycroft. Ugh.

This is going to be...

between Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary.

I think I'm going to go Home, so can I have Home Secretary, please?

It's not Home Secretary. Do you know, Pat?

I would have guessed at Chancellor.

It is Chancellor. So...

an opening for Pat.

Pat, which politician wrote the 1952 book, In Place Of Fear,

regarded as one of the most important

socialist books of its day?

I think Gaitskell was still alive, early '50s.

I think he died late '50s.

I'm not sure about Bevan's dates, or Attlee's. Um...

I think Bevan and Gaitskell are the two men noted for...

..for thought, in the sense of theory. Um...

I'm going to have to just have a pick.

In Place Of Fear.

Bevan or Gaitskell?

Gaitskell.

No, Pat. Not Gaitskell. Other Eggheads?

-Bevan?

-Bevan, yeah. Aneurin Bevan.

I mean, you know, Gaitskell...

I don't think he really was noted for being on the left of the party.

Bevan clearly was.

You live to fight another day, Emma. Great stuff.

-Second chance!

-But it is in Sudden Death.

So let's hope... As I say, I can't offer you any options.

So let's hope you know this.

In the 20th century,

the Beagle Channel dispute was an ongoing territorial dispute

between Chile and which other South American country?

I'm going to pick Argentina

cos they always seem to be in dispute with somebody or other.

It's probably not even close, sorry. So I will go Argentina.

Argentina, OK. Well, we're taking that.

You can't change your mind, Emma.

-Sorry.

-Oh, dear.

SHE LAUGHS

-It's the right answer.

-No!

SHE LAUGHS

Yeah.

And Eggheads will tell me the Beagle Channel, named after...?

-HMS Beagle.

-Which was?

-Darwin.

-Well, the ship on which Darwin travelled as a scientist.

-OK.

It means you need to get this, Pat.

Last time you were answering a question, it was to win the round,

this to stay in it.

Issued in July 1945, the Potsdam Declaration

demanded the surrender of which nation at the end of World War II?

July...

Well, the Japanese bombs were August.

Had Germany surrendered by July '45?

It's going to be Germany versus Japan.

I think I'm mangling this. I'm going to say Japan.

OK, Japan.

It is the right answer, yes.

Japan. The Potsdam Declaration demanded the surrender of Japan

at the end of World War II.

OK, Emma, another question.

Of which country was Jacques Santer - S-A-N-T-E-R -

Jacques Santer Prime Minister in the 1980s and 1990s?

Jacques Santer. He sounds French. I think I'm going to go for Canada.

I know it's really random but they've got French speakers there.

-Maybe Canada?

-OK, yeah, it's perfectly plausible, of course.

Remember Pierre Trudeau and plenty of French-sounding names there

-but, no, it is European.

-Oh, never mind.

I mean, this... He'll be familiar to, I think,

a lot of our viewers as well because he went on to become

President of the European Commission.

But he was Prime Minister of this country. Do you know, Pat?

-I think it's Luxembourg.

-It is Luxembourg.

Unlucky, but a chance for Pat then, again.

Richard Daley served over two decades as mayor of which US city,

from 1955 to 1976?

This is the famous "Boss" Daley.

And I think his son, Richard Daley,

had another tour of duty as Mayor of Chicago.

Chicago?

It's correct, Pat.

You have just got into the final round.

Well, Emma, I think you covered yourself in glory there

but it wasn't enough, unfortunately,

to get you through to 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 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 Russ, Al and Emma from Glevum's Glorious

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

So, Paul and Mark,

you're playing to win Glevum's Glorious £6,000.

Pat, Kevin, CJ and Barry, you are playing for something

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

So, as usual, I'm going to ask each team three questions in turn.

That stays the same.

The differences are, the questions are all General Knowledge

and you are allowed to confer.

So, Glevum's Glorious, the question is,

are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

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

Do you want to go first or second?

We'll go first, please.

Good luck to you both. And here's your first question.

Which member of the Royal family

founded the Prince's Trust in the 1970s?

Which member of the Royal family

founded the Prince's Trust in the 1970s?

(Prince Charles.)

-Yeah.

-Yeah? Go with that?

-No argument.

So, yeah, Prince Charles.

Prince Charles, straight in there

with the right answer, yes. Well done.

And, Eggheads, the Carbuncle Cup

is awarded to particularly bad examples of work in which field?

The Carbuncle Cup is awarded to particularly

bad examples of work in which field?

-We think that's architecture.

-Architecture?

It's the right answer, Eggheads, as you know.

CJ, just explain that - "monstrous carbuncle".

The monstrous carbuncle, yeah. Was it the Barbican?

No, it was an extension to the National...

A proposed extension to the National Gallery.

Which Prince Charles wasn't overly fond of.

And used that phrase.

And there we have the Carbuncle Cup, as CJ says,

making those pair of questions well-balanced.

Both of you getting the right answer.

So second question for you, Glevum's Glorious.

Justin Welby, who officially became Archbishop of Canterbury in 2013,

was previously Bishop of which diocese?

-When it came up...

-yeah?

When he said his name, for some reason,

Norwich just popped into my head.

-Well, let's go with instinct.

-Yeah.

Norwich, please.

You think he was Bishop of Norwich

before he became the Archbishop of Canterbury?

His diocese was...

-..Durham.

-Sorry.

THEY CHUCKLE

Bishop of Durham. So a slip there. Will the Eggheads go into the lead?

Eggheads, the Pink Floyd album Dark Side Of The Moon

celebrated which anniversary in 2013?

The Pink Floyd album, Dark Side Of The Moon,

celebrated which anniversary in 2013?

Early '70s.

That's 40th, 1973.

It's the right answer, Eggheads. So you have that lead.

Which means, Paul and Mark, you need this one.

Who wrote the 2012 novel Two Brothers

about the lives of a pair of boys raised as twins during World War II?

Can't see it being Andy McNab myself.

-No, cos he's all sort of soldiers and...

-Yeah.

Ben Elton does quite a diverse range of topics.

And he's been the bane of my life, sharing his surname,

so we'll go for it.

Ben Elton.

Ben Elton. OK, this coming from...

We've just got the one name there on your badge, Mark,

-but it is Mark Elton.

-Yep.

-No relation.

People keep asking you, "Are you related?" and things like that? Yes.

I'm not asking you.

And maybe you'll like a bit more now, cos it's the right answer.

Ben Elton wrote Two Brothers.

OK, well, fingers-crossed time.

Eggheads, the site of the ancient city of Byblos

is located on the coast of which modern-day country?

The site of the ancient city of Byblos

is located on the coast of which modern-day country?

-Lebanon.

-Lebanon. Lebanon, yeah.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

That's on the coast of Lebanon.

Lebanon?

It is the right answer, Eggheads. You've won.

Well, bad luck, Glevum's Glorious.

Thank you very much indeed for taking the Eggheads on today.

-You see what they're like.

-Close but no cigar.

Yes, one slip-up and you said it there, Paul.

But some GLORIOUS performances to take home with you.

Yours, Paul, of course, and Emma there,

although she's sitting in the Question Room.

Some very memorable performances.

Thank you very much for taking on the Eggheads today.

But they've done what comes naturally to them,

and they still reign supreme over Quizland,

I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £6,000.

And that means the money rolls over to the next show.

So, Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?

And join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers

have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

£7,000 says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.