Episode 6 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 the might of our quiz goliaths today

are the Bootcamp Brainiacs.

This team are all associated with

the same military-style fitness group based in Glasgow.

Let's meet them.

Hi, my name is Donald. I'm 47 and I run military fitness classes.

Hi, I'm Cate. I'm 28 years old

and I'm a forensic toxicology lab assistant.

Hi, I'm Phil. I'm 46 years old and I'm a chartered tax advisor.

Hi, I'm Alan. I'm 36 years old and I'm an accountant.

Hi, I'm Stuart. I'm 43 years old and I'm a credit systems consultant.

Welcome to you, Bootcamp Brainiacs.

Well, sound a bit tough. I take it, Donald, you're one of the trainers.

Yeah, it's my company. I run the company.

OK, and is it based around that military fitness...?

Military-style fitness classes, which we do in the parks in Glasgow.

Tell me a bit about them. Do you start terribly early in the morning

with a bucket of cold water?

No, not quite, but we do work them in the morning early

and in the evenings as well, so it's all through the day.

OK, and are these all some of your clients?

These are all some of our clients and one of our instructors as well.

What a transformation you've made!

Looking on the other side of the studio,

do you think there's anyone there might benefit from a bit of your...

We'd certainly love to get them along.

LAUGHTER

I tell you what, if they beat you, we'll send them along.

-Fantastic.

-You can have your revenge.

-That's a date.

OK, well, the date at the moment is playing a quiz for money.

The bootcamp perhaps comes later.

Every day, there's £1,000 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, Bootcamp Brainiacs, the Eggheads have won the last six games.

That means £7,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads today.

Let's start. Our first round is Music.

First head-to-head. Who wants to play for the Bootcamp Brainiacs?

-OK, who wants music?

-Who wants music?

-Me.

-Donald, do you want to go first?

-I think that's yours, Donald.

-Yeah, I'll go first.

-Take it.

-OK.

-I'll go first, yeah.

-You're taking Music.

Well, take an Egghead into the Question Room with you.

-Who do you want?

-Kevin?

-Yeah.

-Go for Kevin.

-We'll go for Kevin.

-Wow.

Does he have to do press-ups and star jumps when he gets there?

Absolutely.

OK, well, this should be interesting.

Donald and Kevin, first off on the Music category,

both of you into the Question Room, please.

So, Donald, chosen to play the Music round.

I thought if Sport came up, you might go for that. Why Music?

I just thought I'd give it a go!

I'm not too bad with music as well, hopefully.

What about music when you're training people?

Do you allow them to have the earphones in

-or do they have to take them out so they can hear you shouting?

-No, no.

It's just the sounds of my dulcet tones. That's all they get to hear.

Dulcet tones? What is it, gentle encouragement?

-That's exactly what it is, yeah.

-Yeah, I can imagine.

OK, Donald, you get to choose, you're the challenger.

Do you want to go first or second?

I'll go first, please.

And here we have it. First question on Music to you, Donald.

Which band's 1980s hits included Notorious, New Moon on Monday

and Save a Prayer?

I think that was Duran Duran.

OK, Duran Duran...

is the right answer. Well done, Donald. Good start.

And Kevin, the songs Dirty Diana and Man in the Mirror

originally appeared on which Michael Jackson album?

Ah...

Yes, I think I've had...

Not a Michael Jackson fan. I think I've had problems with him

in the past in terms of which album things are on.

I don't think they're on Thriller.

I think Off the Wall was earlier,

Bad was later than...

Bad, I think, was late '80s. I'll...

I'll try Off the Wall.

Off the Wall for Dirty Diana and Man in the Mirror.

Willing you along here, wishing he was playing this round so far, CJ,

what do you think, CJ? Is he right?

He's not. It's Bad.

-It's Bad, is it?

-It's a very bad answer, and Bad is the answer.

Yeah, that's great, though, very good from Donald's point of view.

Right, can you streak into a two-nil lead here?

Edward Elgar named his Pomp and Circumstance marches

after a line in which of Shakespeare's plays?

Erm... I don't have a clue about this at all,

but if I was to hazard a guess, I would go for Hamlet.

OK, Hamlet for Pomp and Circumstance.

It's not, Donald, I'm sorry.

Do you know, Kevin?

-It's Othello.

-It's Othello.

OK, let's see if Kevin capitalises

and draws level. Second question.

Which band topped the UK album chart in the summer of 2013

with the album 13?

Yeah, which I assume is their 13th album, I think that was the idea.

It's Black Sabbath.

It is Black Sabbath.

It's all square again. OK, well,

still everything to play for, then. Third question each.

Donald, in 2000,

who paid £1.45 million for the piano on which John Lennon wrote Imagine?

Erm...

I don't think it was Cliff Richard,

-so I'm going to go for George Michael.

-OK, George Michael.

-You've got the right man.

-Yes!

-That's correct!

Yes, back on track,

and would have knocked Kevin out if you got your middle one,

but let's see if he goes anyway. He's got to get this.

Kevin, the theme from which 1968 film was used as the backing music

for Simon Bates' regular Our Tune radio feature?

Well, I don't know it,

but there's obviously supposedly a romantic aspect to that, so I...

Romeo and Juliet had a very lush romantic score.

I can't really think why it would be Also Sprach Zarathustra,

and as for the music from If, I'm not too sure about that.

I'm not...not bringing that to mind at all.

I would go for Romeo and Juliet.

OK, and right to do so.

You got it, so it's all square

and we head into Sudden Death.

Donald, that means, as I'm sure you know, we remove the options

to try to sort out a winner, so just got to hear the answer from you.

Which English rock'n'roll star,

who had a number of hits in the 1960s,

was born Ronald Wycherley in 1940?

Cliff Richard?

Cliff Richard?

Would fit, but it's not Cliff Richard, no.

Do you know, Kevin, just out of interest?

That was unlucky because Cliff Richard was born in 1940.

-This is Billy Fury.

-Billy Fury,

so yeah, as you heard there from Kevin, Donald, very unlucky,

but Billy Fury born Ronald Wycherley,

so Kevin has a chance to win the round.

Kevin, the song I've Had The Time Of My Life,

famously used in the film Dirty Dancing,

I know it's one of your favourites,

is a duet between Bill Medley and which female singer?

I can hear it.

I'm just trying to remember who actually had that hit.

I think it might have been Jennifer Warnes, but I'm not sure.

I think Jennifer Warnes.

-Jennifer Warnes?

-Mmm.

Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes,

it's correct, Kevin.

Bad luck, Donald. Really good attempt to winkle out Kevin there.

APPLAUSE

But just lost out in Sudden Death.

I'm afraid you won't be in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, what a great opening round.

I thought Kevin was going to lose out again

after he messed up his first question, but not to be in the end,

and bad luck to Donald there with a valiant attempt,

but as it stands, the Bootcamp Brainiacs are one brain down.

The Eggheads are all there, and let's play our second round today.

This subject is Science.

Who fancies this one?

LAUGHTER

-Cate, you're playing this.

-Toxicologist!

-Uh-huh.

-OK, that's why the gasp came out.

-Yes, a little gasp, yes.

As if Donald had asked you to do a bleep test or something.

OK, Cate, choose an Egghead. Can't be Kevin. Any of the other four.

-Who do we think?

-What about CJ?

-I say CJ.

-I think CJ.

OK, we'll pick CJ against CJ.

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

All right, Cate, I won't call you CJ or we'll get terribly confused.

Cate, would you like to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please.

OK, off we go, on Science. First question.

What is the term for a regular polygon with 12 sides?

Right... I think it's dodecagon.

Only because a decagon would be ten

and "do" on top of that would be two,

-so dodecagon.

-OK,

and I'll give you one tick.

It's the right answer, yes.

Good start!

CJ, the European MetOp satellites

are primarily used to provide information about what?

I haven't heard of them,

but why there would be satellites to tell you about time or radiation

I don't know, so I'll try weather.

And that would be the right answer. OK, CJ, you've got one,

Cate's got one, and second question.

What is the usual habitat

of the bird whose common name is the stilt?

Hmm. Well, I'm thinking that something that's called a stilt

will probably have longish legs,

so you wouldn't necessarily need one of those in a garden or a woodland,

so I think I'm going to go with shoreline.

OK, shoreline, logic leading you there,

and logic not leading you astray.

-It's correct. Shoreline.

-Yes!

Two out of two. Can CJ match it?

In May 2013, the Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield performed a cover of

which David Bowie song while aboard the International Space Station?

Well, I don't know this one.

You'd assume it was either Starman or Space Oddity, wouldn't you?

But Space Oddity is rather downbeat, isn't it? It's not...

..not a happy, optimistic song.

Heroes is fine, but it's not really spacey.

Unless he was making reference to himself being odd, I'll try Starman.

Starman? You'd say at least two of those would fit what he was doing.

-It was a huge internet hit, wasn't it?

-Yes, it was, yeah.

And Chris Hadfield performed Space Oddity.

Picked the wrong one there, CJ.

Well, that is very, very good news.

Look at the way the scores are poised right now.

Well, Cate, you finish the job if you give me a correct answer here,

you go through to the final round.

Launched in London in 2008, the Bloodhound Project

is a proposed scheme to build a car capable of exceeding what speed?

Um, well, I'm thinking that 100,000 mph might be a bit ambitious.

I know that obviously the land speed records and stuff,

a couple of hundred miles per hour for a car.

1,000 mph would be...

That's my answer.

-OK, 1,000 mph.

-Uh-huh.

Well, yeah, I mean, 100,000 mph, that's kind of warp speed!

10,000 mph, yeah, that would probably get you into space as well.

You've got the right answer. You're in the final round.

No need to put another question to CJ,

you're playing for £7,000 today, Cate.

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

Well, Cate, what a performance.

-Probably earned you a free lesson, I bet, after that.

-Hope so!

As it stands, the Bootcamp Brainiacs

have still lost that one brain from the final round,

but the Eggheads have also lost one as well.

And round three, our third head-to-head, is History.

Who would like to play this one?

-One of you two.

-What do you think? Alan?

-Do you want to go for it, Alan?

-I'll take History, Dermot.

Which Egghead would you like to play?

Remembering that Kevin and CJ have played, so it's Dave, Pat or Judith.

-I don't know. I'm thinking maybe Judith.

-Judith?

-OK.

-Unless... Yeah, I think Judith.

-You're the man.

-OK, Alan and Judith, into the Question Room, please.

So, Alan, do you want to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please.

Best of luck, Alan. First History question coming right up.

In World War II, a government campaign encouraged people

to make do and...what?

Well, I think despite the posters that we see everywhere at the moment,

I don't think it's "Carry On".

And I don't think it's "Calm Down".

I think it's "Make Do And Mend".

"Make Do And Mend" is the right answer, yes.

Judith, in the 16th century,

which English hero singed the King of Spain's beard

in a successful attack on Cadiz?

I can never remember what Walter Raleigh did

and what Francis Drake did.

I think it's Francis Drake.

OK, is she right, Eggheads?

-Yeah.

-Yes, it's the right one.

-Phew!

King of Spain's beard singed there.

OK, Alan, second question.

The Peter's Pence Act of 1533

allowed which public figure to confer a Lambeth degree?

I don't know the answer to this one.

Sounds a bit early to be the Prime Minister.

I think judging by the area,

it might be more to do with London,

so rather than Prince of Wales,

I'm going to go with the Archbishop of Canterbury.

OK, Archbishop of Canterbury. Yeah, you were right about the area,

but it's not just London. It's Lambeth, Lambeth Palace,

the residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

You've got the right answer.

Well done, Alan. And, Judith, in 1791,

which US state became the 14th state in all,

and the first to be added after the 13 colonies?

Oh, dear. This sort of thing I really don't know.

Erm, 1791, so,

after the war,

erm, and they were going west, I suppose.

I think it might be Iowa.

All right, Iowa for the 14th state in the union.

-Mm...

-No?

-Well, they were adding those nearby actually

I think at the time. Er, CJ?

-It's Vermont, I'm afraid.

-Vermont, yeah.

Yeah, I thought Vermont would already have been one.

Yeah, I see what you were thinking.

-Yeah.

-But it's very, very good news for Alan.

If you get this, like Cate,

you ensure your position in the final round. So, Alan,

forces from which empire triumphed at the Siege of Jaffa in 1799?

I'm not sure about the answer to this one.

Erm, my gut is telling me it's not French

so I'm going to rule out French.

The Dutch were certainly active around the spice area,

and I'm thinking oranges and China,

so I'm going to go for Dutch, rightly or wrongly.

OK, Dutch. Er, forces from...

-..the French Empire.

-Ah, oh, well.

It means your campaign isn't concluded but it could be

if Judith doesn't get this one right.

Judith, the Italian monk Luca Pacioli, who was born

in the 15th century, is regarded as a founding figure of which trade?

So, born in 14-something. Erm...

I can't believe he could have been an estate agent.

Well, I don't know, I think

they were sort of sorting money out very much in those days.

I mean, the bankers and so on.

I think maybe he might have invented an accounting system or something.

So I'm going to guess at accounting.

It is accounting, you've done it, Judith.

You've saved the round so far. It means we go into Sudden Death.

Alan, gets a lot harder. You won't have any choices to look at.

Can you tell me which 20th century American president was born

Leslie Lynch King Jr in 1913?

Erm, I'm going to go for Roosevelt.

-OK, you'd better be specific on Roosevelt.

-Er, Franklin.

-Er, I don't know why I made you do that cos it's incorrect.

-Right.

Gerald Ford. Quite a difficult one to identify, of course.

His parents split up shortly after his birth

and he took his stepfather's name.

Judith, well, what a turnaround for you if you get this.

You've got a chance to win the round here.

Which leading American army general died in December 1945 as a result

of injuries sustained in a car crash while on a hunting trip?

I don't know. Erm...

-Patton.

-OK. Do you know the rules of Eggheads, Judith?

-Have you ever played the game?

-Yes, I do. Erm, what the hell is his...?

I think he's called George.

So what's your answer?

-George Patton!

-OK!

-JUDITH LAUGHS

Right, er, the American army general died,

not on military duties but while on a hunting trip, 1945, was...

George S. Patton.

It's the right answer, Judith!

Oh, bad luck, Alan.

You thought you were going to make it there

but Judith has revived her challenge.

What interesting head-to-heads we've had so far.

It means no place for you in the final round, Alan.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Well, what an interesting game this is turning out to be.

As it stands, the Bootcamp Brainiacs have lost two brains

from the final round, the Eggheads have lost one.

Let's hope the luck goes with you in this last head-to-head

before the final round, and it's one I'm sure you'll enjoy, it's Sport.

And, Phil or Stuart, either of you two can play it. Sport.

-Stuart?

-I'll take it.

-You want to take it?

-I'll take it, definitely.

OK, Stuart, which Egghead would you like to play?

Kevin, CJ and Judith have played

-so you've got Dave or Pat.

-I'll take Tremendous Knowledge Dave.

OK, let's have Stuart and Dave in the question room

straightaway, please.

Stuart, here we go.

I'm going to ask you now, d'you want to go first or second?

I'll go first, please.

OK, good luck, Stuart, first question on Sport.

Who did Andy Murray beat in the final of the Men's Singles

at Wimbledon in 2013?

If I remember correctly, Nadal was out injured after the French,

and Federer got knocked out relatively early on,

so I'm going to go with Novak Djokovic.

You'd be right to, yes, it's the right answer.

What a game it was.

OK, Dave, the Epsom Derby is usually run in which month?

Er, not February, not April, it's June.

It is June, yes.

Right answer there, Dave.

And, Stuart,

the Kenyan athlete David Rudisha

won the gold medal in which event in the 2012 Summer Olympics?

I think Phil will kill me if I don't get this one right.

Erm, it comes up quite a lot at our running club on a Saturday morning.

It's 800m.

OK, 800m.

What, do you try to beat his time or something, David Rudisha's time?

We do have an exercise called the Rudisha Romp.

Really? What does that involve?

It's 800m round a set course in Queen's Park.

OK, what kind of time are you aiming at?

-Yeah, nowhere near David Rudisha's!

-No, OK. The Rudisha Romp.

OK, well, you've romped to the right answer there, it's two to you.

Dave, in June 2010,

Neil Lennon was appointed manager of which Scottish football club?

Better not say too much about it considering where I am,

but, er, it's Celtic.

Neil Lennon, appointed as manager of Celtic in 2010.

Right answer, two each. OK, Stuart, third question.

In motorsport, which country won its sixth consecutive

Race of Champions title in 2012?

Now, I'm not too sure on this one.

All three have got good drivers across varying disciplines.

I'm going to take a guess at France.

OK, France for Race of Champions title.

It's not, it's incorrect.

Dave, of the other two...?

I would have said France myself, actually, but I'll go Spain.

OK, well, that's interesting.

It's Germany.

Oh, right, would not have got it.

-Well, it wasn't your question, fortunately for you, Dave.

-Yeah.

Which means you can win the round if you give me a correct answer here.

Mickey Arthur was dismissed from his position

as coach of which country's cricket team in June 2013?

Let's get rid of New Zealand for a start,

but there is a story to this, cos he's South African,

but, erm, just before the Ashes series

he was replaced by Darren Lehmann as coach of Australia.

Australia's my answer.

You seemed to know that inside-out.

Er, it is, I'm sorry to say from Stuart's point of view,

the right answer.

It is correct, which means you've just snuck into the last place

in the final round, which means, Stuart, no place for you, sorry.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

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

time for the final round now,

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, Donald, Alan and Stuart from Bootcamp Brainiacs,

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

So, Cate and Phil, you're playing to win the Bootcamp Brainiacs £7,000.

Judith, Pat, Dave and Kevin, you're playing for something

which money cannot buy, the Eggheads' very reputation.

So, as usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.

This time the questions are all general knowledge

and you are allowed to confer, which means your victory was

very important, Cate, otherwise Phil would be there all on his own.

So, Bootcamp Brainiacs,

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

Cate and Phil, how d'you want to play it?

D'you want to go first or second?

-Go first, yeah.

-First.

-OK, we'll go first, please.

£7,000 at stake. First question to the Bootcamp Brainiacs.

In the Middle Ages, the act of "winning one's spurs"

was associated with joining which occupation?

I'm kind of thinking it's...

Spurs are obviously what you use, an item you use

-when you're riding a horse. What do you think?

-I think so, yes.

-Can't really see how that's related to a priest.

-No.

-Or a blacksmith.

-So, what do you think?

-I think, yeah, knight, I think.

-Dermot, going to go for knight.

-Knight, winning your spurs.

Yes, it's the right answer, well done. OK.

Eggheads, your first question.

Which nautical term is used to hail another ship or attract

someone's attention?

-Happy with Ahoy, then?

-Ahoy?

-Ahoy, yeah.

-Ship Ahoy.

Er, that's Ahoy, Dermot.

I can hear you, Pat.

OK, it is the right answer, yes, Ahoy.

And we bring you

another pair of questions.

Second question for you Bootcamp Brainiacs.

In 2013, who succeeded Mervyn King as Governor of the Bank of England?

So, I think he was a Canadian. I think he previously did the job...

-Uh-huh.

-..the same job in Canada.

-Yeah.

-I don't know, just,

Mark Carney just kind of leaps out at me.

Greg Clark and Jim O'Neill just aren't familiar,

-so, I'm kind of thinking we go for Mark Carney.

-Mark Carney? OK.

OK, Dermot, we're going for Mark Carney, please.

OK, Mark Carney, you're saying, Canadian?

It's the right answer, yes.

Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England from 2013.

Eggheads, your second question.

The central office of the National Trust is in which town?

-Swindon, yeah, it's in Swindon.

-Fanciful building, isn't it?

Yeah, that's right, it's called Heelis.

-OK.

-Where is it? Bognor Regis?

No, the building is called Heelis.

-Oh, in Swindon?

-Big modernistic building.

-We think that's Swindon, Dermot.

-And you've gone for Swindon.

Well, it is the right answer, Swindon is correct.

OK, listen, this is shaping up really well here.

This could win you the money - "could" I say -

but it means you've got to get it right, obviously.

Who was Prime Minister

when Britain declared war on Russia in the Crimean War?

OK, Crimean War...

Er, sort of 1800s kind of rings a bell, that time.

I rather suspect that he'd have gone by another name,

that the "Lord" is a title as such.

I don't know about you, I'm kind of drawn to Lord Grey.

What do you think?

I'm not sure, to be honest with you. I'm sorry.

OK, Dermot, it is a bit of a guess, er, but we're going for Lord Grey.

OK, Lord Grey, Prime Minister

when Britain declared war on Russia in the Crimean War.

-It's not Lord Grey.

-Ah.

-It's incorrect.

Eggheads, do you know?

-Aberdeen.

-Lord Aberdeen, not Lord Grey.

So a chance for the Eggheads.

Which writer was the co-author of the original book

for the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes?

Definitely not Noel Coward. PG Wodehouse?

Hm? For Anything Goes?

-What do you think, is it Noel Coward?

-I don't think Coward...

-I had Wodehouse in my head.

-Yeah, so did I.

-I had Wodehouse in my head.

Yeah, I don't think Coward worked with Cole Porter in that sense.

-Nor do I.

-No, I think it's Wodehouse.

-So do I.

-I had Wodehouse in my head, just as it came up.

-Not HE Bates.

-PG Wodehouse I had.

-OK, we're going for PG Wodehouse.

OK, PG Wodehouse.

I think there were some crossed wires in that conversation.

Judith was always saying PG Wodehouse and you were saying

PG Wodehouse, and they're saying, "No, Judith, I don't agree."

I know. I said "Not Noel Coward."

Yes, that's right. Pity you didn't go for Noel Coward

cos PG Wodehouse is the correct answer.

Eggheads, you've won.

What can I say, Bootcamp Brainiacs? You know the way that went.

There were so many of those head-to-heads where there was

just the odd question in it.

There was a guess, you had opportunities to win a couple

of them and the guesses just went astray, because, inevitably, I think

you do have to guess a little bit in Eggheads, but not to be on the day.

But as promised, what is it?

-4am with their trainers in the park tomorrow morning.

-Yep.

-See you there.

-Good luck with that.

For Eggheads Bootcamp, that'll be worth watching.

I'll be in bed, by the way.

OK, well, congratulations to you, Bootcamp Brainiacs,

for a great performance, but the money is not yours, I'm afraid.

Because the Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them

and their winning streak continues.

I'm afraid you won't be going home with that £7,000.

That means the money rolls over to our next show.

Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?

Join us next time to see

if a new team of challengers have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

£8,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.