Episode 5 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 the Wiltshire Warriors.

This team of colleagues all work for the same IT recruitment company

based in Hemel Hempstead and the fact they've all been

allowed to have the day off work having anything to do with

their team being named in honour of their boss is pure speculation.

Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Stephen. I'm 57 and I'm a finance director.

Hi, I'm Neal. I'm 23 and I'm a recruitment consultant.

Hi, my name's Steve. I'm 39 and I'm a sales director.

Hi, my name's Charlie. I'm 27 and I'm a recruitment consultant.

Hi, I'm Steve. I'm 38 and I'm a senior IT recruitment consultant.

So welcome to you, Wiltshire Warriors.

As I say, based in Hemel Hempstead so the Wiltshire not a reference

to where you're based clearly, even I can work that out.

No, absolutely. It's the surname of our managing director.

Unfortunately he was unable to make the team for a number of reasons

-and he didn't really want to be on TV.

-OK, the boss.

-But he's going to be watching.

-Yeah.

So we'd thought we'd honour him in making that our team name today.

-So, OK, this is for Mr Wiltshire. Does he have a first name?

-He does.

-Are you allowed to use it?

-Yes, fine, Peter Wiltshire.

Peter, OK and is he a good quizzer?

-We seem to be talking about him but he's not here...

-Well...

-Would he be an asset to the team?

-We're not so sure actually.

We think probably, it's probably better we left him behind.

-Better he's inspirational.

-Absolutely.

-OK, and given you the day off.

-Yeah.

All right, well, best of luck, Wiltshire Warriors.

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,

Wiltshire Warriors, the Eggheads have won the last five games,

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

Shall we begin?

-Yeah.

-Absolutely.

-Yup.

-Why not? Let's play our first round.

It's Film & Television and any one of you can play this opening round.

-I would say...

-I'll go first.

-I'll say Steve.

-He's clever.

-Film and TV...

-Who shall we go for?

-I reckon Judith.

-Judith, please.

-Stick on Judith, please.

-Steve at the far end there.

-Yep.

And Judith pretty close to me at this end of the Eggheads.

Let's have Steve and Judith into the Question Room, please,

just to make sure you can't confer.

So Steve, I hear you've got the odd DVD or two?

Yeah, I've got roughly about 1,000 DVDs

so I'm a bit of a movie buff you can say.

-OK, we can see why you're there then.

-Yep.

-Do you want to go first or second?

-Yeah, I'll go first, please.

Best of luck, Steve. First question,

which creatures threaten the survival of man

in the 2013 film World War Z?

Well, I've not seen it yet.

It's on my list to get on DVD but I think maybe the Z gives it away.

I think it's zombies.

Ah, yeah, OK. Yes, it is. I didn't get that.

It's the right answer, yes, zombies.

Thanks for explaining that, it's the right answer, yeah.

World War Z to us but World War Zee to the people who made it.

And Judith, The Karate Kid, Part II

and The Karate Kid, Part III were released in which decade?

-Absolutely no idea.

-Sure you were a big fan of that franchise.

I've no idea about Karate Kid I, II or III, or any of them.

I don't know, '80s.

-It is the right answer, yes, well done, Judith.

-That's a pure guess.

Karate Kid II and III, was Karate Kid I made in the '70s then?

-'80s as well, I think. '85 I think.

-OK.

Right, Steve, second question.

Who won a Best Director Oscar in 2013?

Well, I'm a big fan of the Oscars

and I...

Probably go Ben Affleck, for Argo I think the film is as well.

OK, the film did very well, did its director?

It was Ben Affleck that directed it. No, it's not Ben Affleck.

-Ang Lee for Life Of Pi.

-Ang Lee, there we are from Judith.

What about Argo? Tremendous film, Eggheads. What did it win?

It won Best Picture

but controversially Ben Affleck wasn't nominated for Best Director.

OK, well, memory deceiving you there, Steve.

Chance for Judith to take the lead then.

Judith, which Downton Abbey character was

killed off in the 2012 Christmas special?

Matthew Crawley.

-You must be a big fan, aren't you?

-I do like it, yes.

But it's like a documentary to you really, isn't it, Judith?

Of course.

-Except it's about 100 years out of date.

-Yeah, well.

OK, Matthew Crawley, a fan of the show,

of the series, Judith's got it so you have that lead.

And it means you need to get this, Steve.

In 2013, the model turned actor Jamie Dornan appeared as a

serial killer in which television drama?

Er, I don't think it's The Fall,

I watched that series.

Er, it's going to be Line Of Duty or Luther.

-Er, at a guess, I'll go Luther.

-Luther for Jamie Dornan.

-It's The Fall.

-Ah.

It's The Fall and that, I'm afraid,

makes you the fall guy in this round.

We don't need to put another question to Judith, she's already

beaten you 2-1 which means you won't be playing in the Final Round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, bad luck there, Steve.

You've run into an on form Judith, she's on fire at the moment

despatching all who come across her at the moment in that Question Room.

It means you've lost one brain from the Final Round,

the Eggheads are all still there.

Our next subject then is Arts & Books today,

who'd like to play this one? Arts & Books.

-Right.

-Charlie.

-Charlie's going to take one for the team.

-Lamb to slaughter.

And I'm glad Judith's taken a subject because she's

brilliant at Arts & Books, we'll go for Tremendous Knowledge Dave.

-Dave.

-OK, I'll take on Dave, please.

OK, Charlie and Dave, you can test the Arts & Books round.

Into the Question Room both of you, please.

-So Charlie, have you read a book?

-No, not many.

If it hasn't got a picture

and a couple of lines underneath it then I haven't read it, I'm afraid.

-OK, well, really well qualified.

-Yeah.

Well, listen, look, you know, Steve said he had thousands of DVDs

and didn't manage to get through the Film & Television round

-so maybe this will be good for you.

-Yeah, maybe one book.

Yeah, might just be the one the question comes up about.

-Do you want to go first or second, Charlie?

-I'll go first, please.

OK, best of luck, here's your question, your first question.

"If you can make one heap of all your winnings

"and risk it on one turn of pitch and toss"

is a quotation from a poem by which writer born in 1865?

As I've been the lamb sent to slaughter here,

it's going to be a total guess.

Erm...

-Let's go right down the middle, let's go Ted Hughes.

-OK, Ted Hughes.

You're risking your winnings on one question there,

you haven't got any winnings yet. It's not Ted Hughes.

Dave, this was voted in one poll, wasn't it?

-The nation's favourite poem?

-Yeah, it's Rudyard Kipling.

-Yeah, and it's all in the first word. If.

-If.

"If you can make one heap"..., so many if's there by Rudyard Kipling

so nothing there.

Dave, which of these is a novel by Charlotte Bronte?

Let's see if we can get all these right.

Mill On The Floss is George Eliot otherwise Mary Ann Evans.

Vanity Fair I think is Thackeray, William Makepeace.

-Yeah, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre.

-OK, show off.

It's the right answer, well done, just got to let the knowledge out,

you see, it's probably bursting his head.

Right.

You need to get this I would suspect.

Charlie, Helen Mirren won Best Actress at the 2013

Olivier Awards for her performance in which play?

Again not my strongest subject this.

-At least I know who Helen Mirren is, it's a start.

-That is a start.

Er...

I haven't seen any of these at all. I'll go...

-..The Audience, please.

-The Audience. Why did you go for that?

-It's down the middle again.

-Oh, I see. It's that technique.

It worked well for me the first time so.

OK, well, it has worked for you this time, it is the right answer

and Dave will tell us a bit more about it.

Dave, it's Helen Mirren once again playing Her Majesty, isn't it?

Yeah, Her Majesty I think is entertaining all the

Prime Ministers during her reign from Churchill to the present day.

OK, right, well, you got that. That's very good, Charlie.

Dave, your second question.

Horatio is a close friend of which Shakespearean character?

I don't know. Erm...

Should know.

-I'm going rule... I'm going to go for Hamlet.

-Hamlet.

Yeah, they like sharing a cigar or two.

Tumbleweed. Thank you, Eggheads.

It is the right answer, Dave, well done.

Dave's laughing, good old Dave.

OK, you have the lead and it means, Charlie, you need this.

What is the title of the third book in EL James 50 Shades trilogy?

Er...

Think my wife's been reading these.

Why, have you noticed?

I haven't unfortunately, no, I think maybe I should.

Regretting not picking these up. Erm...

Let's go for 50 Shades Freed, please.

Say you need this,

you've got it, it is the right answer.

Well, a recovery there in Charlie's fortunes.

Got his last two correct but, of course, slipped up on his first one

which gives Dave this opportunity to clinch the round.

Dave, in May 2013, Gerhard Richter's painting, Domplatz, Mailand,

Cathedral Square, Milan it translates as,

broke the record for a work sold at auction by a living artist

when it was sold at Sotheby's, New York for what price?

I don't know, it passed me by, this.

Erm...

Let's have a think.

It's one work because I think collections have sold for 50...

I'm going to go and regret this,

and I'm going to go 37 million.

-37 million?

-Yeah.

-Is that how much you paid for it, Judith?

-No, I paid more.

-Oh, OK.

Well, it obviously wasn't you then because it is 37 million, Dave.

It is correct which means, Charlie, you won't be playing for £6,000.

Good recovery as I say but couldn't recover from that first slip up.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, you're getting closer to knocking one of them out,

Wiltshire Warriors, but not quite yet. The Eggheads are all there

and you've lost two brains from the Final Round.

We play on and our next subject,

this might suit you a bit better, it's Sport. Who'd like to play this?

-There are three of you left.

-I'll take this.

-You'll do it?

-Yeah, I'll take it.

-You've got to win it, though.

-Yeah, I'll take it.

It's going to be you, Steve H, now.

-Which Egghead would you like to play?

-Chris.

-You know already?

Sorry, Chris.

Don't get me going on the opening, brother!

Oh, that's right.

Steve and Chris, into the Question Room both of you, please.

So Steve, what are your sporting likes and dislikes?

I like football.

Basically most sport, Olympics

and I don't really like fencing

so I hope a fencing question doesn't come up.

OK, we won't ask Chris his likes and dislikes

because it's universal on the dislike side.

OK, Steve, would you like to go first or second?

I'll follow the team and hopefully this will be a winning one,

we'll go first.

Here you are, your first question then.

The footballer Terry Butcher who represented England

between 1980 and 1990 usually played in which position?

Erm, good question.

Erm, I remember him with a big headband on one of the games we

played for England, big stout centre back so he's got to be a defender.

He certainly has, that's a right answer, good start.

Chris, the former middleweight and super-middleweight

world champion boxer Steve Collins was born in which country?

Well, the name Collins...

..suggests a link to Michael Collins,

the Irish Republican statesman,

otherwise known as the big fella.

-Erm, I'll go with Republic of Ireland.

-OK, Republic of Ireland.

They're going on a rather tenuous Irish link.

It is the right answer, you've worked it out.

Any link? I mean, Collins is quite a common name in Ireland,

but is there any link with Michael Collins?

-I've no idea whether he's linked with the...

-No.

OK, Steve Collins born in Ireland so you both got your first ones right.

Steve, second question,

how many times did the golfer Harry Vardon win the Open?

I'm going to disregard six because the name's not familiar to me

so sorry for all you golfers out there.

So I'm going to go for one or three. Harry Vardon.

They say things come in three so I'm going to go one.

OK, well it was neither of those.

It was six.

Which was the number of shots he rarely took at a hole.

Right, Chris, chance for the lead.

What was Colin Jackson's personal best test for the 110m hurdles?

Right, well, the best sprinters are now doing the 100m in about

nine and a half seconds.

110m is further than that plus it's hurdles

so it's unlikely to be 10.91 seconds which is a bit too fast.

14.91 seconds...

It's a bit slow all things considered so I'll go 12.91 seconds.

OK, well worked out, it's the right answer, yeah.

So a bit further than the 100m and a bit of jumping to do in-between,

-that's how you worked it out?

-Yeah.

-OK, well done, Chris.

Well, you have the lead and it means you need this, Steve.

In 1979, Formula 1 driver Niki Lauda left the sport for

two years to own and manage what type of company?

Lauda, Lauda, well,

he obviously had enough money to retire or to obviously venture out.

-I'm going to go for bank.

-Bank, OK.

-I'm going to go for bank.

Right, run a bank. Own a manage a bank you think. Niki Lauda.

No, it's not a bank. Chris?

He started up his own little airline.

-Lauda Air, wasn't it called?

-Yes.

OK, but it is an airline which means we are going to examine

the scores, read it there,

Steve and it tells you you're not in the Final Round

and Chris has won yet another Sport round.

It means, you're not playing in the Final Round, Steve.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, now, three of the Wiltshire Warriors have gone into joust

so to speak and I suppose three have returned to camp with broken lances

which is a roundabout way of saying you've got three brains

missing from the Final Round. The Eggheads are all still there.

So last chance to knock an Egghead out in this round,

it's Geography and we've got Neal or Stephen left.

-Geography.

-It's going to be you, Neal, isn't it?

-Yeah.

It's going to be Neal?

-OK, and who we going against?

-Erm, take Kevin.

-I'll do Geography.

Neal's going to go for Geography.

-OK, Neal, and you've got Pat or Kevin there.

-I'll take Kevin.

Kevin, OK, right, let's see if we can get rid of Kevin.

Let's have Neal and Kevin into the Question Room, please.

OK, Neal, we've got high hopes here.

It's Geography, do you want to go first or second?

I think I'll stick with the team, I'm going to go first.

OK, let's get this first one on the board.

What colours are the stripes on the flag of Uruguay?

OK, I'm not great with flags but I am pretty sure,

take this back if I'm wrong, but Uruguay, it is blue and white.

OK, blue and white, it's the right answer, yes, you are on the board.

Nice, steady start.

Kevin, which of these is a major city in Montenegro?

Think it's the capital. That is Podgorica.

And the answer is Podgorica, it is correct, Kevin. That's one each.

Neal, what's the approximate population of Zimbabwe?

Wow, OK. Erm...

I don't know.

-I think I'll go lower end, I'm going to go with 13 million.

-13 million?

-Yeah.

-Kevin nodding, it is the right answer.

Yes, well done, well identified there, Neal. You have two.

Kevin, the official languages of the Philippines are Filipino

and which other?

Well, they came under the American rule for a long time

before independence. Previously to that they were Spanish.

So it would be English.

It would be. That is the right answer, Kevin.

Two each, going well, Neal.

Let's see if you can keep the pressure up on Kevin.

Which US states shares borders with Oregon to the west

and Montana to the east?

OK, again, I don't know. Erm...

Just relevance, just because of something that I think I've

-heard roundabout the area, I'm going to guess at Idaho.

-A guess at Idaho?

-Yeah.

-Chuckles from the Eggheads in the studio.

-Yeah.

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

Well, I think the team deserved a bit of luck.

You have three and well, is Kevin going to go? We'll see about that.

I'm sure Kevin's saying that to himself.

Your third question, Kevin.

Approximately how tall in metres is Aconcagua,

the highest mountain in South America?

Yes, of course, it's, I don't do metric being old-fashioned.

-Good, Kevin, that's good.

-Yeah, I know.

Let's just add to the pressure, you've won your last, just looking

at your record, you've won your last two dozen, 24 Geography rounds.

-Yeah.

-Only lost four in the entire history of Eggheads, Kevin.

-Not putting any pressure on you at all.

-No, not at all, not at all.

You lost a bit, Neal?

I'm trying to remember roughly how many, how many feet it is.

It's not the higher of those three figures,

I know that because it's in the low twenties in terms of feet.

I think I'll have to go for the middle one, 7,960.

So I think Aconcagua was about 24,000ft or thereabouts

so that's my calculation but basic maths may be failing me.

OK, gone for 7,960 multiplied by what? About three and a bit,

is that what you're...?

Roughly, roughly, yeah, just how I see it, I've probably gone,

-maybe gone too high so.

-You have.

-Yeah.

Because three and a bit times nearly 7,000 would've got

-you into the low twenties.

-Yeah.

And three and a bit times nearly 8,000 is too high

-which means you're through, Neal. You have knocked him out.

-Fantastic.

That is just,

I mean, that's as good in terms of your performance in this game

but as I quoted those statistics to Kevin there about his performance.

That is a remarkable performance on its own in the history of Eggheads.

Well done, Neal.

Come back with your head held very high here

and play in the final round for £6,000.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, if you're watching, Mr Wiltshire,

-pay rise for Neal I think after that one, eh?

-Guess so.

Not often you see the mastermind, the world quiz...

I mean, how many titles he's got? It's as long as your arm,

..knocked out of Eggheads. Well, this is what

we've been playing towards.

It's 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 Steve H, Charlie

and Steve S from the Wiltshire Warriors

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

Well then, Stephen and Neal,

you're playing to win the Wiltshire Warriors £6,000.

Chris, Judith, Pat and Dave, you're playing for something which

money cannot buy, it's the Eggheads' reputation.

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

this time the questions are all General Knowledge,

you are allowed to confer so Wiltshire Warriors,

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

And Stephen and Neal, do you want to go first or second?

I think we'll stick with what we've been doing so far, we'll go first.

OK, right, we'll try this for size. First question.

Is £6,000 coming your way?

Which rock band was a headline act at the 2013 Glastonbury festival?

Which rock band was a headline act at the 2013 Glastonbury festival?

It's not going to be Queen, is it?

Because you wouldn't have a stand in act for Freddie Mercury, would you?

I can't remember.

I think, see, it's either Led Zeppelin or The Rolling Stones

-but I have a feeling I've heard it somewhere.

-You going to go Stones?

The Rolling Stones, I think they all got back together, didn't they?

-And did a few things.

-Yeah.

I think it's a guess still, we're not 100% sure but that's my inkling.

-Shall we go The Rolling Stones?

-Yeah, let's do it.

We'll go on the basis that Led Zeppelin, we're not sure

if they even reformed to be honest

so we'll go with The Rolling Stones as our answer.

OK, The Rolling Stones is the right answer, yes, well done.

-Well done there, yes, after a bit of consideration.

-Yeah.

Got The Rolling Stones there at Glastonbury in 2013.

OK, Eggheads, your first question.

What type of diet does a cheetah have?

What type of diet does a cheetah have?

-It eats meat.

-Carnivorous.

It's a meat eater so it's a carnivorous diet.

Certainly is,

it's the right answer, Eggheads.

OK, back to Neal and Stephen, second question.

Which of these entrepreneurs was a co-founder of Yahoo?

Which of these entrepreneurs was a co-founder of Yahoo?

-Erm...

-Do you know?

-Well, I have no idea, I'll be honest.

-No, I haven't.

Erm...

I haven't heard of any of the names either as entrepreneurs that

really spring to mind that they've done other things.

I'd really be taking a guess but I would say

-because of Yahoo beginning with Y, Jerry Yang?

-Yeah, yeah.

That's about the nearest clue and guess to anything I could go for.

-Yeah, I haven't heard of any of them either to be honest.

-Yeah, neither.

Yeah, we're not going to carry on thinking about this for too long.

-We don't really have too much of a clue.

-But we'll go for Jerry Yang.

OK, Jerry Yang. A list there of some of the richest men in the world.

Few billions washing around between them.

You haven't heard of any of them?

I'm sure a lot of people that you recruit have in actual fact.

I'm sure they have, yeah.

But you've got it, Jerry Yang, yep,

one of the founders of Yahoo.

So you have two.

OK, Eggheads, which mountain range in Kenya is named after a man

who served as president of the Royal Geographical Society

and as a British Home Secretary?

Which mountain range in Kenya is named after a man who

served as president of the Royal Geographical Society

and as a British Home Secretary?

I think they have an Aberdare range in Kenya

but I've never heard of the other ones.

We think there's definitely a Aberdare range in Kenya

so we're going to opt for that. Aberdare.

OK, you're doing it from the geography side of it rather

than Home Secretaries and presidents of the Royal Geographical Society.

It is the right answer, Eggheads, Aberdare range. It's two all.

It's getting very close.

You've done really well, guys. Can you keep it up?

In which country was the model Helena Christensen born in 1968?

Which country was the model Helena Christensen born in 1968?

-Christensen, well, we could've guessed...

-Well, it had to come

-out of those three.

-..Scandinavian sort of area or something like that.

Helena Christensen.

Erm, any country that's well known for shipping models out other

-than Sweden?

-No.

I'm going with Sweden or Denmark for some reason.

-I don't know why, Denmark just rings a bell but...

-Helena.

Helena does sound more, I don't know. Helena.

-I'm not going to get bogged down.

-Shall we go for Sweden?

Yeah, we'll go for Sweden.

Yeah, again we're going to go with, we don't know,

they're the three countries you'd probably come up with

if you didn't know it so we'll go with Sweden.

OK, Sweden, tossing it up between Sweden

and Denmark in the end there and it's Denmark.

-She's Danish.

-Yeah.

Well, Eggheads,

chance to win the game.

The actor Hank Azaria was briefly married to which of these

Oscar winners?

The actor Hank Azaria was briefly married to which of these

Oscar winners?

No idea.

Nothing's ringing any bells at all.

Do you know him as an actor?

I think age wise, I think he's a bit older than Hilary Swank.

So maybe age wise that doesn't really hang together.

My first reflex though was Helen Hunt

but I can't really back it up at all. I can't back it up.

-No, I can't either.

-Bit of a guess, slight preference for Helen Hunt.

Yeah, yeah, go for that. You've got the inkle.

OK, we don't know this, Dermot. Very faint preference for Helen Hunt.

OK, you've gone for Helen Hunt.

Briefly married to...

Helen Hunt, it's correct.

Eggheads, you've won.

Well done there, Eggheads.

Tight Final Round, some of the head-to-heads weren't

-but, of course, with one notable exception.

-Yeah. Well done, Neal.

That man Kevin sitting there on his own in the Question Room.

Well done, Neal but bad luck in the Final Round, Wiltshire Warriors,

not to be on the day. Thank you all for playing the Eggheads today.

But those Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them and their

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

That means the money rolls over to our next show.

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.