Episode 30 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?

A big 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 Leeds Infomaniacs.

Now, this team of colleagues

all work for the same tourist information office

and say they regularly set quizzes for each other

to keep their minds sharp.

That's what we want to hear. Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm John, I'm 41, and I'm visitor centre manager.

Hi, I'm Mike, I'm 63, and I'm a visitor centre supervisor.

Hi, I'm Kris, I'm 31, and a visitor centre assistant manager.

Hi, I'm Jacob, I'm 19, and I'm a tourism information assistant.

Hi, I'm Duncan, I'm 55, and I'm a tourist information assistant.

Welcome to you, Leeds Infomaniacs. So, I like that introduction.

You've got lots of information crammed into your brains.

But is it just about Leeds? It might be a bit narrow.

No, we think we cover a wider area than just the city of Leeds.

We cover all of Yorkshire.

And in fact, people ask us about everything in the country.

OK, so it's for the whole of Yorkshire.

Cos I was going to say there's a lot of competition

in Yorkshire, isn't there? I mean, you've so much there to see.

It's a beautiful county,

something of which we're all very proud to belong to.

As you rightly say, there's so many beautiful attractions

from the dales, to the coast, to the moors

and to obviously our very great cities.

And a very great city of Leeds

-which I know one Egghead will agree with totally.

-Absolutely!

Ask them a fact about Leeds, Barry, that they might not know.

Let's have an impromptu quiz here. No points for this one.

Something they might not know. Try to catch them out.

Mm... Who took the first photograph ever on Leeds Bridge?

That was Louis Le Prince.

They're good. They're good.

DERMOT LAUGHS

We'll just continue. I'll throw away the questions.

We'll just do it that way until you catch them out.

Unfortunately, the quiz isn't just going to be about Leeds,

or indeed even.

It's very wide ranging as you know. Let's play it.

Every day there is £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, Leeds Infomaniacs, the Eggheads have won the last seven games,

so that means £8,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads today.

All right, first head-to-head battle.

First attempt to knock an Egghead out of the final round. It's Music.

Who'd like to play this? Music.

-Well, we said that...

-It was going to be me.

-You, Duncan?

-Yep.

-It's going to be me.

-OK, Duncan. Now, choose any of those Eggheads.

-Um... Should we go for Chris?

-Chris?

-Go for Chris?

-Yep.

-Go for it.

I'm going to go for Chris.

Checking carefully there, but Duncan,

it's all agreed that he will play Chris from the Eggheads on Music.

Would you both go to the Question Room, please?

Just to make sure there's no conferring.

So, Duncan, give me the five second pitch on Leeds.

Say I arrived there, I'm off the train. I know about the bars,

the restaurant, all the wonderful sport, the football, the cricket...

What else should I do?

Well, some of the great attractions are to be found in the city centre

including the Royal Armouries Museum

which is one of the most impressive collections of armour

and armour you'll find anywhere,

not only in Leeds, but in the country, if not the best.

OK, right, well, thank you very much for that I'm booking my ticket now.

OK.

All right, now Duncan, it's Music. Doing to go first or second?

I'll go first, please, Dermot.

Good luck. Here's your first question, Duncan.

Which male singer had a UK number one single in 1987

with I Just Can't Stop Loving You?

I don't think it's David Bowie.

I do like David Bowie a lot and I don't recollect him

singing that song.

And...

Don't think it's a Michael Jackson song,

so I'm going to go with Phil Collins.

OK, Phil Collins for I Just Can't Stop Loving You.

It is in fact a Michael Jackson song. It's the wrong answer.

It's Michael Jackson.

OK, missed that one. Right.

Chris, who is the original third member of the group Bros

with the twins Matt and Luke Goss?

Yeah, I think it was Craig.

Do you remember them, Chris?

I remember them, held them in boundless contempt,

and erased the tapes ever since.

Boundless contempt...

Right, well, Chris, that is the right answer.

As you've seen it's gone green and you're one up, then.

OK, Duncan, your second question.

This Nearly Was Mine is a solo song for which character in a musical?

I haven't the foggiest on this one, so it's going to have to be...

..something of a guess on this one.

And I will go with...

Emile de Becque.

OK, Emile de Becque. I think you're doing the same thing as I was.

I obviously can see the answer here

but not familiar with it in Grease or The Sound of Music,

so it's got to be whatever Emile de Becque is in.

I think you don't know either. It is the right answer.

-Let's ask the Eggheads.

-South Pacific.

-South Pacific.

This nearly was mine. Give us a few bars, anybody?

# This nearly was mine. #

Right. OK. Reasons to go to Leeds and reasons not to go to Leeds.

You might just bump into Barry singing one day.

All right. Well, you're off the mark. That's great news, Duncan.

Second question for Chris.

The aria with the French title

Votre Toast, Je Peux Vous Le Rendre

sung by Escamillo is from which opera?

Well, I don't recognise the title in French,

but Escamillo is a bullfighter in Carmen.

So, Carmen is the answer.

Yeah. Carmen's right.

OK. Right.

Duncan, you need this then as you can tell from the scoreboard.

What is the real first name of the singer Emeli Sande?

Again, I don't know this one. I have, of course, heard of Emeli Sande...

I...I'm going to eliminate Adele

and I'm going to pick Florence.

OK Florence. Florence Sande.

No, it's not the right answer.

It's Adele.

Adele Sande, which means, yep round's over there.

Chris has already amassed a mighty two points.

You've only got one, which means you won't be in the final.

You will be there, Chris.

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

OK. Well, the Eggheads out of the blocks first.

As it stands, the Leeds Infomaniacs have lost one brain

from the final round.

The Eggheads haven't lost any yet.

And our second head-to-head is Sport.

Now, I know a lot of you enjoy sport including you, Duncan,

but you've already played, so you're not eligible for this one.

Who'd like to take it on?

-Oh, it's going to have to be me.

-I think it needs to be Jake.

-Jacob.

OK, Jacob, choose an Egghead.

It can't be Chris, any of the other four.

-Choose Judith.

-Yeah, Judith.

-Go for Judith, yeah.

-Judith.

OK. Two J's. Jacob and Judith into the question room,

please, to play the Sport round.

So, Jacob, are you a very sporty type?

Erm, like to think so, yeah.

Let's see how you do in this round.

Would you like to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please.

All right. First question for you, Jacob.

The former England manager Sven Goran Eriksson

was born in which country?

Erm, I'm not 100% sure, but the name sounds pretty Swedish.

So, Scandinavian area, so I think I'm going to have to go for Sweden.

It is, yes. Sweden is the right answer.

Judith, which of these tennis players

made it to the last 16 of the ladies single tournament

at Wimbledon in 2013?

I think, erm, it was Laura Robson who did rather well in 2013.

She did! And you've done very well with your own question.

Right up your street, that was, a little bit of tennis.

That's the way you like to start, Judith.

And, Jacob, your second question, then.

Which county cricket team have a test ground in Chester-le-Street?

Yeah, well, Yorkshire play at Headingley

and Surrey play at the Oval, so erm, it's going to have to be Durham.

Yeah, it is Durham.

Everyone cheering before because we all know it

and it was always a 50-50 for you with Yorkshire in there.

And Judith, your second question.

South Korean sportswoman Inbee Park

found fame as a leading competitor in which sport?

I...I don't somehow think it could be darts or snooker,

so I think it's most likely to be golf.

Yeah, logic dictates and it's the right answer. Well done, Judith.

Two each. OK.

A third question for both of you. This is yours, Jacob.

The Formula One scoring system introduced for the 2010 season

awards 25 points to the winner

and how many points to the driver in second place?

Well, erm, I'm not sure,

but before you said the answer I thought 18 in my head.

So, I'm going to have to go with 18.

OK. Do you watch a lot of Formula One?

Not really. It bores me a little bit, to be honest.

Well, 18 is right for second place.

Right, well, Judith, you need to get this as you well know.

Judith, what with the nickname of Jim Wicks,

who served as the manager of boxer Henry Cooper?

Absolutely no idea.

Erm...

Perhaps, he's called The Bishop.

-OK. The Bishop, you think, other Eggheads?

-Think so.

-Yeah.

They're agreeing. It is the right answer.

-It is the Bishop? Oh, well...

-Well done, Judith.

Very good scoring by both of you.

It's all square and three ticks each.

So, it means we go for the first time in this game, Jacob,

to sudden death and remove the options you have been looking at.

So, can you tell me without any choices

in which sport did the Romanian Daniela Silivas

win six medals including three golds in the 1988 Olympic Games?

Erm, a bit before my time.

Erm... High jump.

High jump. No.

Artistic gymnastics.

OK. Your question, Judith.

The writer Henry Chadwick, who was born in Exeter in 1824,

is often referred to as 'the father'

of which popular North American sport?

Erm, it's not basketball because that's someone else.

I don't know.

I was going to say rounders. Erm, baseball.

Baseball... It's kind of a form of rounders.

Erm, Henry Chadwick...

-Other Eggheads?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-It's the right answer, Judith.

-It isn't?

-It is. It's right. It's correct.

-Well, that is a miracle.

Baseball is correct.

And that takes you through to the final round, Judith.

No place for you, Jacob. I'm sorry.

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

Well, Judith winning that Sports round,

which means that Leeds Infomaniacs have now lost two brains

from the final round and the Eggheads are all intact.

Time to start knocking some Eggheads out, Infomaniacs.

So, let's play our next subject. It's Science.

Who'd like to play that one? Science.

CHATTER

OK, Chris, we've got you. Who'd you like to play from the Eggheads?

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

-I'm going to take Kevin on, I think. Yeah. Kevin.

-Go for it.

OK, let's have Chris and Kevin into the question room now, please.

All right, Chris. Do you want to go first or second?

I'll go first, please.

All right. Best of luck, Chris. Here you go.

What name is given to large-scale processes

affecting the structure of the Earth's crust?

Well, as a geology graduate,

hopefully I should get this one right.

Erm, it's not trajectories.

It's not the second one, so I'm going to go for tectonics.

OK. Yes. You are right as I don't need to tell you.

Kevin, which of these is a stage in the life cycle of the mealworm?

Hm.

Not actually made much of a study of mealworms, to be perfectly honest.

I certainly... I mean, I'll dismiss drone.

-I...

-HE SIGHS

Well.

I'd have to go with hatchling.

OK. Hatchling, a life cycle of a mealworm...

-It's pupa.

-Is it? Well...

OK, well, this is interesting.

But, lots of quizzing to do in this round.

Let's see if you can get through, Chris.

Correct answer here would really increase your chances.

In chemistry, what is a substance

that measures greater than seven on the pH scale?

OK. Well, neutral is seven.

An acid is less than seven, so that would leave alkali.

Full answer and correct.

Again, you that inside-out. So, two-nil, Kevin.

Here's your next question.

What colour is the mineral lazurite?

What colour is the mineral lazurite? L-A-Z-U-R-I-T-E.

Well, lapis lazuli is a colour

much prized in painting in days gone by and that's a blue colour.

So, I think I'll have to go for blue.

Yes, that is correct, but is it too late?

Two-one.

And a place in the final round awaits you, Chris,

with a correct answer here.

Which of these is another name for the creature known as a teledu.

T-E-L-E-D-U.

That is a tricky one. I'm going to have to...

going to have to have a guess there.

Not heard of a Javan stink badger.

Not saying it doesn't exist,

but it's...it's not something I've heard of.

Erm... I'm trying to think

what would people come into contact with the most

and give it a name...

I'll go for New Guinea toothless snake, please.

A New Guinea toothless snake.

A teledu is...

a Javan stink badger.

The one you hadn't heard of.

So, missed it there.

Well, will Kevin be in forgiving mode

or is he going to draw level and take us into sudden death?

Kevin, E621 is the reference number given to which food additive?

I don't know this.

It's not a number that I'm...

You know, that I've seen and I...

I th...

I think I've seen the ones for both tartrazine

and monosodium glutamate.

And that's not ringing any...

..any bells. I think one of them is 102 or something. I can't...

I may be completely off beam here,

but I think I'll have to go for aspartame.

OK. Aspartame. Chris, you looked down there. Do you think it is?

I think it is as well.

Oh, well, it's not.

Yes!

-It is monosodium glutamate.

-Ah, OK.

I thought you knew, Chris. Doesn't matter.

You knew more than he did during those first three questions.

You knew two, he only knew one.

Takes you through to the final round. You've knocked Kevin out.

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

Well, what a performance there. Chris, brilliant stuff there.

You were wondering. I'm just laughing.

You were wondering about the Javan stink badger.

I wouldn't recommend you trying to find out a bit more

up close and personal to one of them

because, apparently, I'm just reading here,

they can asphyxiate dogs.

They smell so bad.

More closely related to skunks than badgers.

All right, Chris, well done there.

You have knocked Kevin out,

which now means the Leeds Infomaniacs

still lost of those two brains from the final rounds.

The Eggheads have lost one.

And so on to our next subject. It's Arts and Books.

Last chance to knock another Egghead out. Who wants to play it?

All right. I'll go.

-It's going to be Mike.

-OK, Mike.

And who'd you like to play from the Eggheads.

You can play CJ or Barry.

-CJ, I think.

-CJ.

OK, Mike and CJ, into the question room, please.

So, Mike, I hear you've met some of the theatrical greats in your time.

Yes, I have. I was house manager at the Royal Court Theatre

-in London for quite a few years.

-Wow!

-And...

So, I did meet sort of...

In fact, Laurence Olivier gave me 10 cigarettes at the stage door

for getting a taxi for him once.

I never smoked. I kept the cigarettes for quite a while, so...

So, Lord Olivier. Who else?

Ralph Richardson, Gielgud, Paul Scofield, Ian McKellen...

My goodness me!

Also, people like Lauren Bacall I met there. Albert Finney.

Well, wonderful memories. Would be great

-if we had a question involving...

-Yeah, well, I'm hoping.

And would you like to go first or second?

I think I'll go second, I think cos everybody's going first.

So, I'll try going second.

That means, CJ, you get the first question.

What was the middle name of the Irish poet Yeats?

William Butler Yeats.

I'll take it you're going for Butler, then.

It is the right answer. Yes, Butler.

And Mike, your first question, then.

Which of these paintings is approximately 3 meters tall

and eight meters in length?

Right. I was hoping it wasn't going to be a art question.

It was going to be books or the theatre.

Erm, it is a guess, I'm afraid.

I'll go with Girl With A Pearl...Pearl Earring, I think.

OK. Girl With A Pearl Earring...

No, Mike. It's not. CJ?

-It's Guernica.

-It's Guernica. OK.

Well, let's see how CJ does with his second question.

Will he extend his lead?

Theodore Boone, a kid lawyer,

is the first in a series of children's books by which writer?

I have absolutely no idea.

However, you always look for a clue in the question

and when you see 'Grisham' and 'lawyer' together

that's always a fairly good indication, isn't it?

Let's try John Grisham.

OK. It is the right answer. Well worked out, CJ.

Two-nil lead. OK.

Alarm bells ringing. Mike, you need this.

What are the last words spoken by Romeo before his death

in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet?

I'll go with thus with a kiss I die.

Thus with a kiss I die.

I suppose you didn't put on a lot of Shakespeare, did you?

-No, no, I'm afraid we didn't.

-OK.

-It was very a...

a writers' theatre and not Shakespeare, I'm afraid.

OK. Thus with a kiss I die, though you have identified it. Yes.

Romeo's final lines.

But CJ has an opportunity to close the round down here.

CJ, who wrote the play Dancing At Lughnasa?

I'm afraid there's not much to say. It's Brian Friel.

Ah... OK. It is Brian Friel.

Theatre question. I'm sure you would have loved that.

I knew... I knew that one. Yes, I did.

But that's the way the cookie crumbles.

It means you won't be in the final round. CJ, you're there.

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

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

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

is General Knowledge, but I'm afraid, those of you

who've lost your head-to-heads won't be allowed to take part

in this round. So, Mike, Jacob and Duncan from the Leeds Infomanics

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

So, John and Chris, you're playing to win the Leeds Infomanics £8,000.

CJ, Barry, Chris and Judith,

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

The Egghead's reputation.

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

This time the questions are all General Knowledge.

And you are allowed to confer, so Leeds Infomaniacs,

the question is are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four?

And John and Chris, do you want to go first or second?

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

Let's get on with it, then. First set of questions

for the Leeds Infomaniacs. Good luck.

Eurostar trains from London terminate

at which major railway station in Paris?

-It's...it's not Marne-la-vallee. I think it's Gare du Nord.

-I was...

I was going towards Gare du Nord.

Not 100%, Dermot, but we think it's Gare du Nord.

Gare du Nord.

Is the right answer, yes. Well done.

Eggheads, according to the proverb 'an army marches on its...' What?

-Stomach?

-Stomach probably.

I think this is one of Napoleon's famous remark and it's so true,

but an army marches on its stomach.

It is the right answer. Well done, Barry. Stomach.

Well done, Eggheads. Back to you, Chris and John. Second question.

In 2010, Ruth Wilson took on the role of Alice Morgan

in which TV drama series?

I have not watched any of those.

I don't want any of those programmes, but...

-Have you got an idea?

-I would probably edge towards Luther.

He thinks Luther.

-Right. I've got nothing to go with.

-Well... I don't know.

I've not watched any of those programmes, I'm afraid.

Erm, again we are not 100%, Dermot,

but we're going to plump with Luther.

OK. Having to guess. £8,000 at stake.

It's the right answer.

Well done.

-Well, something there in the back of Chris's mind.

-Yep.

Getting the answer there.

OK, Eggheads, which Scottish-born chef opened a Chelsea restaurant

in 1998 that received a third Michelin star in 2001?

-Gordon Ramsay.

-Richard Corrigan is Irish.

-Gordon Ramsay.

I thought Gordon Ramsay straightaway.

-Does any body think anything different?

-I'm not going to argue.

I'm not going to argue either.

-I don't think Nairn or Corrigan have got three stars, have they?

-No.

And Corrigan is Irish, yes.

Oh, OK. Well... Oh, yeah, Corrigan... Would make a good point.

OK then. Well, we're pretty certain Richard Corrigan is Irish,

so we'll discount him.

And we think the Scottish-born chef is the great Gordon Ramsay.

Gordon Ramsay with three Michelin stars.

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

Third questions each. Well, this could decide where the money goes.

Whether it rolls over or whether you get it.

Here you go, Leeds Infomaniacs.

Carolingian minuscule was a style of what

as developed at the Emperor Charlemagne's court?

I'll spell 'carolingian' for you. C-A-R-O-L-I-N-G-I-A-N.

Carolingian minuscule.

-Minuscule which suggests it's sort of small.

-I think it's handwriting.

It's like one of the fonts that you pick, I think.

Carolingian font?

-Yeah.

-It'd be a guess again, but I'd go for handwriting.

I've got nothing to suggest it's any of the other two, so...

-I think it's our best guess there, isn't it?

-Yeah.

Erm, I think, Dermot, we're plumping...

Edging towards handwriting.

Handwriting. Barry, you like handwriting. It is correct?

-It's a beautiful calligraphic handwriting.

-Yes!

-Correct.

You have three.

And you could lose this winning run you've been on

if you don't get this.

Eggheads, Charles Curtis was vice president of the United States

during the administration of which president?

-This is one Kevin would know instantly.

-Yep.

I was hoping there'd be a bit more further... Space than that.

-Three in a row, isn't it?

-Yeah.

-I'm inclined to go for Hoover.

-I've got no feelings about anything.

-I'm happy to go for that.

I think we'd have heard of him if he was Wilson's vice president.

-Yeah.

-The First World War.

-It was the First World War.

Yes, and I think we might have heard of him with Coolidge...

Yeah, it would have been CC CC, wouldn't it?

-That would stick in somebody's mind somewhere.

-Hoover was only one term,

-OK?

-OK.

Well, we're really feeling the absence of Kevin on this one,

who would have of course known this instantly.

We're not really sure on this,

but we feel that if he was Wilson or Coolidge's vice president,

we might have heard of him a little bit more

and it might have stuck in our consciousness.

So, on that rather spacious premise, we're going for Herbert Hoover.

OK Herbert Hoover.

And just nod if you know the answer, Kevin.

Kevin does know the answer, but you know the answer, too. It is correct.

Herbert Hoover. Oh, guys, yeah. Yeah...

Just put that out of your mind, it's now down to sudden death.

We've played earlier on.

Here's your question.

In Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures In Wonderland,

which fictional creature performs the dance known as

'The Lobster Quadrille' with a mock turtle?

-It's not a real animal.

-It's a fictional creature.

-So, it's something like a unicorn or...

-It's a unicorn or a...

-What else is there?

-There's a Griffin.

-What else had they got made up?

-Erm...

It was a turtle. It's a dance of a turtle.

Yeah...

Was it a sea...

A mer... No, a mermaid, no.

Would you call a mermaid a creature?

A fictional creature.

-Could be.

-I don't remember seeing a mermaid...

-No.

-..but I haven't seen a unicorn either.

-No.

-I'll have to go for unicorn because I can't think of anything else.

-Yes.

Yeah. We're not sure, Dermot, again, but we...

going on the character...fictional character. We're going with unicorn.

Unicorn.

And the mock turtle.

I'm afraid it's not right. No. And you said it.

-A Griffin.

-It is a Griffin.

I said it!

You did say it. You passed through it and unfortunately, in the end,

went for the unicorn.

So, Eggheads, chance to win the game.

What was the title of the 1980s TV comedy series

in which Bill Maynard starred as Fred Moffat?

What was the title of the 1980s TV comedy series

in which Bill Maynard starred as Fred Moffat?

-I think it's, oh...

-No. He was Selwyn Froggitt in that.

-Bill Moffat, he was The Gaffer.

-Yes. Yes. The earlier one.

-It's called The Gaffer.

-Yeah, I like that. I like that. Yeah.

Well, I'm reliably...reliably informed by Chris

that he was called The Gaffer.

Fred Moffat, Bill Maynard playing him...

known as...

The Gaffer. It's the right answer. Eggheads, you've won.

Couldn't have been closer.

We had the griffin versus The Gaffer at the end of two. Geez.

Well, listen, bad luck, Leeds Infomaniacs.

Thank you very much indeed for playing the Eggheads.

And Chris, well done, you, for knocking that man out as well

sitting silently in the question room.

Not to be on the day,

but best of luck for the future.

Thanks once again for playing the Eggheads,

but they've done what comes naturally to them

and their winning streak continues, I'm afraid.

You won't be going home with the £8,000.

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.

£9,000 says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.