Episode 3 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 awesome quiz champions today

are The Festival Five.

This team of friends are all associated with

the Cheltenham Festivals, a series of music, literature

and science events that take place each year in Gloucestershire.

Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Lauren, I'm 26 and I'm a marketing executive.

Hi, I'm Phil, I'm 29 and I'm a festival manager.

Hi, I'm Leksi, I'm 31 and I'm a festival manager.

Hi, I'm David, I'm 28 and I'm a digital marketing manager.

Hi, I'm James, I'm 27 and I'm a marketing analyst.

Well, welcome to you, Festival Five.

I've got high hopes for you today, given the range

of subjects that the festivals cover.

You must have so many different expertises.

You work on them, do you get to go to any of the events?

You must do.

We try, yeah, we're pretty busy during the festivals,

but we do try and get to as much as we possibly can.

We've got jazz festival and music festival representatives here,

so fingers crossed.

Is that it? You don't have the literature side?

Well, the rest of us are marketing,

so hopefully we've got the rest covered between us.

Well, what better place to put your expertise to the test

than against the Eggheads, for quite a lot of money?

Let me tell you about it.

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, Festival Five, the Eggheads have won the last three games,

and that means £4,000 says you can't beat them today.

First head-to-head battle,

it's going to be on the subject of Food & Drink.

Who'd like to play this one? As you know,

any one of you can come in to bat on the first round.

OK, I think I'll tackle Food & Drink.

Leading the charge.

Team captain Lauren, who would you like to play from the Eggheads?

-Do you think Pat?

-Yeah.

-We're saying Pat.

I'd like to play against Pat, please.

-How do you feel about that, Pat?

-Tip-top, yes.

-Tip-top!

-Tip-top.

-OK.

-Let's have Tip-top Pat and Lauren

into the Question Room then, please, to make sure you can't confer.

OK, Lauren, playing the first round, it's Food & Drink.

You don't have a food festival at Cheltenham, do you?

We do have one in Cheltenham, it's not one of ours, actually,

unfortunately!

But I'm a big fan of food, and drink,

so fingers crossed I'll be able to

pull a few right answers out of the bag.

Some good restaurants there in Cheltenham.

Yeah, lovely, actually, and some good watering holes.

And some varied cuisine, because this really is

an international round, we've found in the past.

Mmm. Yes, we'll see how I get on.

We will indeed.

Would you like to go first or second, Lauren?

I'll go second.

OK, hoping for a slip-up then from the Egghead.

That Egghead today is Pat. First question to you, then.

What name is given to a lamb or pork dish consisting of ribs

arranged in a circle with the bones pointing upwards?

I think I can remember a long time ago

on the cover of a Woman's Weekly - my mother used to get the magazine -

and I think it's a crown roast.

Don't lie to me, you subscribe to it,

I know, Pat, I saw you reading it the other day.

-You said you wouldn't tell, Dermot.

-Yeah, you lent it to me.

It's the right answer, crown roast.

OK, Lauren,

your first question -

which Italian dessert is made from sponge fingers soaked in coffee

and liqueur and topped with mascarpone and cocoa powder?

Well, I'm a big fan of all three of these desserts, actually.

I'm a big fan of Italian cuisine in general.

I think I know the answer to this one.

I'm pretty sure it's not semifreddo.

Zabaglione, I don't think it's that one either,

so I'm going to go for tiramisu.

Tiramisu...

is the right answer. You haven't missed that one.

One each.

And safely off the mark for Lauren.

Pat, cantal is a cow's milk cheese made chiefly in which region?

I've heard of the cheese, I don't think I've ever eaten any.

Those three places are,

respectively, France, Spain and Italy.

I've a feeling it's a French cheese, so I'll go for Auvergne.

You got it, yeah, it's the right answer, it is French.

OK, well, you've got the lead back,

see if you can catch him up, Lauren.

Which of these culinary terms can refer

to a savoury mixture baked in a cup-shaped mould?

I'm not sure about this one. Erm...

I'm going to go for timbale, just cos it sounds like

more of that kind of shape. I'll go for timbale.

OK, timbale, cos it sounds like it's right,

and it is right.

Well done, and it's all square and, Pat,

hachiya and fuyu are astringent

and non-astringent varieties of which fruit?

Pineapples generally are sweet,

I'm not sure you would have an astringent variety.

The names sound Japanese, quite Japanese.

Of those three fruits,

the one that would strike me as most Japanese is persimmon.

I think they grow persimmons. I'll go for persimmon.

OK, and you've got it, it's the right answer, Pat

in the lead again. Good round.

Now, a point of danger for you, Lauren,

you need to get this one or you won't be in the final round.

The production technique called carbonic maceration

is part is particularly associated with what type of drink?

Goodness, I've never heard of that in my life.

Carbonic, so I presume it's carbon,

so I'm kind of thinking about fizzy drinks from...

From that I'm going to have to go with champagne, I think.

It's not the right answer, it's incorrect, Lauren.

Pat, do you know?

Well, Beaujolais is made very quickly, so maceration

is a sort of cutting up of the fruit, so I'd gamble on Beaujolais.

Red Beaujolais is the answer we were looking for,

it means no chance for a comeback there.

You were hoping for Pat to slip up, he didn't, you have,

which means no place in the final round, Lauren, I'm sorry about that.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Bad luck to you, there, Lauren.

Always difficult, the first round, first into battle

and bravely tried to dislodge Pat there.

Just didn't work in the end, which means the Eggheads are all there

and the Festival Five have lost one brain from the final round so far.

Our next subject today then is Music.

Well, Music. Plenty of you here would like to play this,

it can't be Lauren, who wants to take it on?

-I feel good about this, I'm going to do this.

-You sure?

Yeah, I'm going to do it, I'll take this one.

He's confident, "I feel good about this," says David.

Who do you want to feel bad about it from the Eggheads?

Pat can't play, he's already participated,

so any of the other four.

-Chris.

-I would go for Chris.

I think I'm going to play Chris.

David has decided to play Chris at Music,

could you both please go to the Question Room?

OK, David, you get to choose, you're the Challenger -

do you want to go first or second?

Well, I think the captain showed us how it was done by going second,

so I'm going to actually go first, please.

And, David, first question then -

which handheld instrument takes the form of a frame

hung with pairs of small metal discs?

The fact that it's discs suggests it's not a triangle.

And our music festival managers would probably kill me

if I don't get this right.

I think it's tambourine.

Yeah, the description makes you think, doesn't it?

It is the right answer, of course, yes, tambourine.

You got that, well done.

Chris, the Parisian electronic duo

known for wearing robot-like headgear is called Daft what?

They're called Daft Punk.

Or "Punk Daft", in French.

Yeah, I was going to say, a French accent will do.

It's the right answer either way. Daft Punk.

OK, David.

The singer Tony Bennett was born in which city?

So, I think I'm pretty sure he has a song about San Francisco.

I don't think it's Philadelphia, but he's kind of got that

New York thing about him when you hear him speak,

he's got that kind of erm...

Yeah, that kind of...

I'm going to go with New York, I'll try that.

Going for New York and Tony Bennett.

You've got it, it's the right answer, well done.

Well worked out.

Tony Bennett was the first person

to appear in The Simpsons as himself.

Oh, they're... They're cartoons.

Yes, well done.

-Voicing himself.

-OK, thank you.

And he was singing on a street corner in Capital City,

which was taken to be a metaphor for New York.

-Ah, that's how YOU would have got it.

-That's how I knew it.

Right, pressure is on Chris, then.

Which lyricist won an Oscar and a Grammy

for the song A Whole New World?

Bernie Taupin mostly writes for Elton John,

Don Black writes for anybody who'll pay him,

but I think A Whole New World was written by Tim Rice.

Tim Rice for A Whole New World.

An Oscar and a Grammy, a good haul for it.

It is the right answer, it is Sir Tim.

Both going really well here.

And third question, David.

Who's second solo album was released in 2009

with the title Further Complications?

Well, I know that Damon Albarn has done a lot of work outside of Blur

with various different bands,

but I'm not too sure about his solo work.

I know Brett Anderson is the front man of Suede

and he had a break recently to do some stuff.

But, just given the title and given the man,

I'm going to go with Jarvis Cocker.

You're doing well, it's correct! Yes!

Right,

all three there. Chris needs this.

Chris, what does the title

of Puccini's opera La Rondine mean in English?

The Swallow would be "la hirondelle", so it's not that,

The Magic Flute is "die zauberflote" in German,

so it's The Merry Widow.

"Lustige witwe" in German.

OK, The Merry Widow, Puccini's opera La Rondine.

CJ, you don't look happy.

Merry Widow was written by Franz Lehar.

I think it's The Swallow.

The Swallow, Chris...

..is the answer we're looking for, not The Merry widow, which means...

..you're going to have to "swallow" the bitter taste of defeat.

Well done, David, that was a very assured performance,

bring that form into the final round in a little bit.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, David in blistering form there means it's evened it all up.

Both teams have lost one brain from the final round.

Very excited about the next round,

I want to see if you can keep this up, Festival Five. It's History.

Who are you going to put in for this one? History.

-Ooh.

-It's one of the two of you.

I don't mind doing it, if you want.

I mean, I'm not massively confident, but I'll give it a go.

-I think you'll be better.

-Yeah? I'll do it. Yeah.

-We're going to go with Phil.

-You've got Phil.

OK, Phil, from the Eggheads, remember Chris and Pat have played,

so you can have Judith, CJ or Barry.

I think CJ's our best bet.

Yeah, do it.

I don't think I've got a chance either way, but...

Yeah, we'll go CJ, please.

CJ, OK.

So, on History it's Phil from Festival Five

versus CJ from the Eggheads.

To ensure there's no conferring,

would you please take your positions in the Question Room?

-So, Phil, you work for the jazz festival, right?

-Yeah, that's right.

And you play a bit of jazz, as well?

Well, I did used to. I have less time for that now,

now I actually work organising jazz events,

so I haven't played for a few years properly, really.

But you go and listen to some of the greats, do you, at the festival?

Yeah, well, I try to get to as much as I can at the festival,

but, as Lauren said, we're quite busy a lot of the time.

But I get to get around and see things elsewhere, as well,

as part of my job, which is great.

OK, History you've chosen.

Do you want to go first or second?

Well, following Dave's lead, I think I'll have to go first.

First question then to you, Phil.

Under the Treaty of Versailles after World War I,

which country was required to pay the Allied powers

£6,600 million approximately?

OK, well, World War I, there's an obvious answer there,

but looking at the options, I'm sure it's not Japan,

I'm not even sure if they were involved in that treaty.

Russia probably had some involvement,

but obviously revolution during the war.

I think it's Germany, I'm fairly sure it was Germany.

OK, the obvious answer, but it's the right one,

yes, and a lot of essays been written over the years

about whether those reparations in the end led to the Second World War.

OK, and first question for you, CJ.

The Hearth Tax levied on every fire hearth in Britain

was abolished in 1689 and later replaced by which of these taxes?

It led to a lot of houses just bricking them up,

it was the Window Tax.

Window Tax.

Is that why, I mean you still see it on some Georgian buildings,

you still see what looks like

it should be a window but it's bricks?

Just bricked up, yeah, just to save money.

OK.

OK, all square after the early exchanges.

Phil, second question.

In which year did Henry VIII

begin and end his marriage to Anne of Cleves?

OK. I'm not certain on this one.

It's something I know roughly when it was,

but "roughly" isn't any of those options.

Um... I'm going to go down the middle with 1530.

OK, 1530 for the short-lived marriage between Henry VIII

and Anne of Cleves. CJ,

no, you're shaking your head.

1540.

1540, we wanted there,

so nothing there for you, Phil.

OK, CJ, your second question.

In April 1242, the Russians, under Alexander Nevsky,

defeated the Teutonic Knights on what type of battle ground?

Um, it's not a beach.

I think the Nevsky battle was very far north.

Uh...

I always associate Nevsky with very cold places,

so I'll try a frozen lake.

Frozen lake, OK, well, it could be a pine forest,

and indeed, sandy beaches,

but it is a frozen lake. It's the right answer. Well done.

So you have a lead, and alarm bells ringing

for you, then, Phil. You need this.

The stately home known as Castle Howard was built

for which member of the nobility?

Castle Howard...

I'm 80% sure I know where this is,

but I'm probably wrong, knowing my luck so far on my last question.

So, it's just working out, based on the locations of those...

Hereford...

I'm going to say, probably foolishly,

it's not Hereford.

I'm going to go with Earl of Carlisle.

OK, must-get question.

Phil going through agonies there.

Castle Howard. You know where it is? Where do you think it is?

-I think it's in the North, in Yorkshire.

-OK.

No, I'm not twisting the knife. I'll put you out of your misery.

-It is the right answer, Phil!

-Well done!

DERMOT LAUGHS

Thought I was being mean to you. No, not at all!

-Is it in Yorkshire, Barry?

-North Yorkshire, yes.

-North, whereabouts?

Between York and Scarborough.

Oh, OK. So you were right about that as well, Phil. It's in Yorkshire.

Can't give you two points, though, but that was a crucial question,

as I say. You've got to hope that CJ doesn't get this, though.

He still has the whip hand.

CJ, what was the official stance of Great Britain

during the American Civil War?

Ah.

Now, there were secret...

..missives and approaches made,

some of them by Victoria, which were pro-Confederate,

but I don't think that was the official stance.

I think the pro-Confederate messages that were sent

were done very secretively.

But purely because there was so much secretive stuff going on,

I will plump for neutral.

You've got it, CJ, you worked it out. It is neutral.

Officially Great Britain was neutral during the American Civil War,

which means we can't remain neutral any more

in judging this round. The scores tell us, Phil, it's over for you,

I'm afraid you're not playing in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, that was a competitive, and indeed an information-rich round,

which CJ won through on, which means the balance of power stands as this.

The Festival Five have lost two brains from the final round.

The Eggheads have lost one brain, but it could be all square

in the final round, depending on the outcome of our last head-to-head.

It's Arts & Books.

Well, these are falling nicely for you, Festival Five.

-Definitely you!

-And who wants to play?

It's going to be me.

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

-Judith.

No, no, go for Barry,

because if he's left to the end...

We'd rather not have Barry, in my view.

I think it's going to be Barry.

You sure about that?

No!

Well, do you want to think again?

-No, I'm going to go for Barry.

-OK, you've said it now.

Let's have Leksi and Barry into the Question Room, please.

OK, well, you get to choose, Leksi. Do you want to go first or second?

I'm going to go first, get it out of the way.

Good luck, Leksi. First question -

how many individual novels

first published between 1995 and the year 2000

comprise the Philip Pullman series known as His Dark Materials?

I do actually know the answer to this.

They're all set in Oxford, just up the road,

and there are three of them.

-Have you read them?

-I have, yes.

That's good, and you've got it right. First question to you.

Three.

And Barry, what is the first name

of the title character of a 19th-century novel

who is the daughter of John and Joan Durbeyfield?

This is one of my favourite Hardy novels, and the title character

is the inimitable Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Ah, yes, OK. Worked that out.

It's right, yes, by Thomas Hardy.

Back to you, Leksi. Which Latin phrase describes paintings

and symbols that are intended to remind viewers on their mortality?

Well, very many years ago, I did take Latin as a GCSE.

I remember that "mori" is death,

so I'm going to go with Memento Mori.

Whoa, that'll do! Yes, well remembered. It's the right answer.

Barry, in the early 20th century, which country was

the centre of the avant-garde art movement known as vorticism?

Vortice pictures, they're all swirling shapes in brightish colours

and they were centred on Britain.

-Really?

-Mm-hmm.

Yeah, can't put you off, can I?

It's the right answer, yes.

Two each.

Leksi, going well, keep it up here.

What is the title of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2002 novel

by Geoffrey Eugenides?

This one is going to have to be a guess.

Norfolk is slightly standing out as a possibility.

I'm going to go for Norfolk, but I'm not sure.

OK, Norfolk.

It's Middlesex. It's not Norfolk.

There we are. Right, well,

it means you can win the round with this, Barry.

Who wrote the novel The Awakening,

that ends with the line, "There was the hum of bees

"and the musky odour of pinks filled the air."

It's a novel from a fair while back, and I think

Edith Wharton and Kate Chopin are both from that sort of period,

but I seem to recollect

that The Awakening was written by Kate Chopin.

It is correct. Barry, you're through to the final round.

Bad luck, Leksi. So unfortunate,

there, just on the last question.

It means Barry has deprived you of a place in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

So we've reached that point, what we've been playing towards.

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

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

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

so Lauren, Phil and Leksi from The Festival Five,

and Chris from the Eggheads,

it's time for you all to leave the studio, please.

Right, well, David and James,

you're playing to win The Festival Five £4,000.

CJ, Barry, Judith and Pat,

you're playing for something money can't buy.

It is your very reputation.

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

This time the questions are all General Knowledge,

so anything can come up and you can confer in the final round,

so, Festival Five, the question is,

are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

David and James, what would you like to do? Go first or second?

-First?

-Yeah.

-We'll go first, please, Dermot.

Let's get on with it, then. Can you win the money today? £4,000.

The first question in the final round is this.

Who played Dylan Sanders in the 2000 film Charlie's Angels?

I don't know, but you're pretty good at films, so...

DAVID LAUGHS

Well, I think...

Uma Thurman wasn't in that film.

-Very true.

-Um...

Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu,

it's between one of those two.

I'm sure they were both in it.

-Drew Barrymore?

-Do you feel good about that?

-Yeah.

-Do it.

We'll go for Drew Barrymore, please, Dermot.

Drew Barrymore as Dylan Sanders in Charlie's Angels.

It's the right answer. Well done.

Good start.

And Eggheads, which Liberal Democrat MP

became Energy and Climate Change Secretary in February 2012?

-Davey.

-Ed Davey.

-Which Liberal Democrat MP

became Energy and Climate Change Secretary in February 2012?

OK, Ed Davey was made Secretary...

What was he the secretary of?

Energy, energy will do.

Secretary for Energy in 2012.

OK, yes, because who had to resign?

-Was it Chris Huhne?

-Oh, yes, he went to prison, didn't he, Chris Huhne?

-Yeah, well, he resigned originally to fight the charges in 2012.

-Yes.

-Fought the charges and lost.

-Yeah.

The answer is Ed Davey.

It's the right answer. Well done, Eggheads.

And second question to you, David and James.

What was the name of the vessel launched in 1944 that was

the last battleship to be built for the Royal Navy?

I think Vanguard's quite recent.

-Yeah.

-I've heard of it a lot more recently, I would say.

I would definitely rule out HMS Kelly, I would say.

The one that screams out to me is Ark Royal,

and it's the one that I've heard of.

When the answers were said, that was the one that felt good to me.

Shall we go with it? You happy to go with it?

-HMS Ark Royal, please, Dermot.

-OK, Ark Royal

launched in 1944,

the last battleship to be built for the Royal Navy.

It's incorrect. It's not HMS Ark Royal.

-Eggheads?

-It's HMS Vanguard.

-It's Vanguard.

I'm like the lads there,

not very good with my classes of vessel.

When I said 1944 for the last battleship

to be built by the Royal Navy -

it's all how you class them.

-Ark Royal is, of course...

-An aircraft carrier.

An aircraft carrier. It's Vanguard,

the last battleship to be built for the Royal Navy in 1944.

So, a chance for the Eggheads, then.

In cricket, which off-spin bowler

is credited with pioneering the doosra?

D-O-O-S-R-A.

I've a feeling it's Mushtaq.

I think it came from the subcontinent.

Yes, I'm pretty certain it came from India.

Tradition of mystifying deliveries.

OK, shall I say Mushtaq?

We think it's Mushtaq.

Saqlain Mushtaq.

How did you deal with that delivery? You smashed it over the boundary.

It is the right answer, Eggheads,

and puts you in a very good position,

and a perilous position for David and James.

You need to get this.

Yohji Yamamoto,

born in 1943, found fame as a designer

in which field?

So...

I don't... I'd be guessing.

When I was at uni, I wrote a paper on production techniques

and it was to do with building cars

and that name...

somewhere maybe links to that.

It could be... I could be totally wrong.

I'm happy. I haven't got an incling towards furniture or fashion.

-Can we just thave the name again, please?

-You can.

It's first name Yohji, Y-O-H-J-I.

And then Yamamoto, Y-A-M-A-M-O-T-O.

-We're going to go for cars, please, Dermot.

-OK, cars, on Yojhi Yamamoto.

Is it cars, Eggheads?

Fashion designer.

He was from Hiroshima.

It is fashion, which means it's incorrect,

and it means, Eggheads, you've won.

Bad luck, guys. That set of questions

just didn't suit you at all, did it? You were whittled down.

I don't know how your team-mates would've done

if they'd managed to make it through to the final round.

They're shaking their heads. There's some consolation there.

It's been great to see you.

Listen, best of luck with all that work,

and I know how hard you do work keeping those festivals going

and keeping Cheltenham thriving.

You've been, well, not quite thriving here today

but kept the Eggheads going,

gave them a bit of a run for their money

in some of those head-to-heads. But not to be, in the end.

And those 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 £4,000.

That means the money rolls over to our next show.

And, Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?

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

have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

It's £5,000 that now says they don't. Until then, goodbye.

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