Episode 76 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.

Taking on the might of our quiz goliaths today

are The Intelligent Pigs from London.

Now, this team of colleagues all work for the same oil

and gas engineering company.

So, let's meet them.

My name is Bob. I'm a pipeline engineering manager.

My name is Stan and I'm a pipeline engineer.

My name is Michael and I'm a process engineer.

Hi, I'm Stuart and I'm a pipeline engineer.

I'm Ray and I'm a computer-aided designer.

So, Bob, team, welcome. Good to see you.

And you've got to help us with the pigs thing. Why pigs?

Tools we put inside pipelines our called pigs.

This is because they often make a squealing sound.

If the pigs are fitted with electronic sensors, they are known

as intelligent pigs and it's just an obvious name for us to be called.

So, your pigs which go into pipes and clean them,

do they actually look like pigs in any way, shape or form?

-Not at all. Not at all.

-Do they not have snouts?

No, no snouts at all. They are very boring.

They usually consist of a metal bar with some rubber disks on it

and sometimes electronic sensors. That's about it.

OK, but they... Can you tell me what sound they make? A little impression.

-I can't do the impression, no.

-Can anyone here do...

Can anyone here do the pig in the pipe?

-No-one is going to do it?

-No.

All right, listen, you've got to do it if you win the contest, OK?

-So that will be how we celebrate.

-Deal.

-With the special pig noise.

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.

Now, Intelligent Pigs, I can tell you that they were storming along,

the Eggheads, and they just got flattened in the last contest.

So, at least it proves it can be done.

It means that £1,000 is on the table now to say you can't beat them.

-So, would you like to give it a go?

-Absolutely.

-Good stuff.

The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Sport.

So who would like this?

-That's you, Stuart, isn't it?

-Yep, I think that would be me, then.

OK, Stuart. Against which Egghead? You can choose any one.

They are all sitting...

Chris actually closed his eyes there to stop you choosing him.

That doesn't work, Chris.

No. I have a fairly high blink rate.

-OK, I think I'll play Chris, please.

-That's not my fault, is it?

-No, it's not.

-OK, fine.

So, it's going to be Stuart from The Intelligent Pigs on Sport

against your favourite subject, Chris.

Yeah, well, we'll pump him through the pipe for you, guv'nor.

Yeah, all right.

Just to ensure there's no conferring, please go to our Question Room.

So, Stuart, are you the sporting knowledge man?

I think I was the nominated sportsman, yes, unfortunately.

-So the team has got a plan, I can tell.

-A slight plan, yeah.

I wouldn't call it a fully fledged one, but...

OK, so we are on Sport, Stuart. Would you like to go first or second?

I'll go first, please.

Here we go. Good luck.

In 2015, the rights to broadcast three seasons of live matches

in which sport was sold for a reported £5.1 billion?

Thankfully I know this one, partly because I'm one of the

subscribers that pays a ridiculous amount of money to watch it.

-That would be football.

-Football is correct.

Chris.

How many players are there for each team in a typical rugby league scrum?

Well, there's 13 in a team.

Three is too few for a scrum.

If there was ten in the scrum, that wouldn't leave enough outside

to get hold of the ball and do something with it

when it came out the scrum, so I'll go down the middle and say six.

And you are quite right. It is six. Well done.

Back to you, Stuart.

Which Australian driver joined the Red Bull Formula One racing team

for the 2014 season?

OK, well, joined for the 2014 season, so it can't be

Mark Webber because he left to go do Porsche racing, I believe.

I believe it is Daniel Ricciardo, so I'll go with that.

Daniel Ricciardo is quite right. Well done.

Playing well. OK, Chris, over to you. Sport.

Tony Cascarino played for which national football team?

That name rings a vague bell. Erm...

He played for Wales.

Anyone know on the Challenger's side?

-Ireland.

-Ireland!

-Ireland.

Republic of Ireland, Chris. Got it wrong.

So, get this right, Stuart and you are in the final.

In 1995, which American football team became the first

to win five Super Bowls?

OK, well, I thought

the most Super Bowls that had been won was by the New York Patriots.

The Green Bay Packers have one quite a few.

I thought only about three.

Not sure about the 49ers to be honest.

I'm a Minnesota Vikings fan and they are big rivals with

the Green Bay Packers and I do know that they have one quite a few.

Out of the 49ers. I think a go with the Green Bay Packers,

purely because they are the rivals of the Vikings.

-Eggheads, is he right?

-No, it's the 49ers.

-The 49ers is the answer.

So you've let Chris back in here.

Chris, you do need to get this one right, though.

The first international match in which sport was

contested between Canada and the United States in 1844?

Well, in 1844, neither Association Football

nor Rugby Union had been codified,

but strange to tell back in the day,

they used to plate cricket. So it is cricket.

Yeah. You are quite right. Cricket is the answer.

So you are equal after three questions.

Stuart, we go to Sudden Death. It gets a bit harder.

-I don't give you alternatives, OK?

-Yep.

-Here is your question.

Which British athlete won a men's triple jump gold medal

at the 2001 world championships?

I know we've had a few triple jumpers in recent years.

I think it is too early for him.

I thought it was...too late for Jonathan Edwards but I'll go...

I have to go with him. I'll go Jonathan Edwards.

Yes, it was Jonathan Edwards. Well done.

Chris, to stay in.

Matthew Stevens was runner-up in which sport's World Championship

final in both 2000 and 2005?

World Champion sport. Erm...

Tiddlywinks.

THEY LAUGH

-You are taking the Michael there, aren't you?

-Just a bit, yeah.

-Yeah, that's a pass, Jeremy.

-That is...

Well, I suppose a pass is the same thing as saying tiddlywinks.

One day it will be the right answer but not now. CJ knows this. CJ?

-Snooker.

-Snooker. You were not that far off.

Well, you were, actually. ALL LAUGH

Chris, you have been knocked out. Well done, Stuart.

How about that? Sudden Death.

Sudden Death. Stuart, you'll be in the final.

You took on an Egghead and you won.

Please, both of you, return to your teams and we will play on.

So, Intelligent Pigs have lost no brains from the final round.

The Eggheads have lost a brain.

I'm already sensing these guys mean business over here.

-Don't let it trouble you, CJ. Don't worry.

-Thanks.

The next subject is Arts & Books, guys.

Let's get this pig squealing now.

THEY CONFER

-Go on, Mike.

-Right, I'll take that one.

Mike against which Egghead?

Who do you want?

-I don't know, should I take on CJ?

-Yeah, good.

-All right.

-All right, the Pigs are coming your way, CJ.

-Oink.

Michael from The Intelligent Pigs versus CJ from the Eggheads.

Please go to the Question Room now.

So, Arts & Books, and Michael,

-would you like to go first or second?

-I'll go first, please.

Here we go. Good luck. Your first question on Arts & Books and it is...

In Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, who says,

"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"

Erm...

I might be about to look really stupid

but I suppose the obvious answer that comes to mind is Juliet.

You are right.

I'm so relieved because, honestly, if you had gone the other way...

OK, CJ.

Which of these writers was born in Bombay, the city now known as Mumbai?

Well, I didn't know he was born specifically in Mumbai,

but I knew he was born in India, so Rudyard Kipling.

Rudyard Kipling is correct.

Back to you, Michael.

Katniss Everdeen is the central female character

in which series of books?

I've not read them

but I'm sure I've heard somewhere that it is The Hunger Games.

It is The Hunger Games. Well done.

Is that played by Jennifer Lawrence or...?

Yeah. OK.

OK, two out of two, Michael. Well done. Back to CJ.

Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep

is the title of a popular poem by which woman?

This one I don't know.

Even a title like that sounds a bit too cheery for Sylvia Plath.

Erm... I don't think it's Frye.

I mean, Dickinson's stuff was...

..sometimes a bit weird but it tends to be more upbeat.

She's quite a cheery poet, Dickinson.

Erm...

I don't know but simply

because of the depressing nature of the title I'll try Sylvia Plath.

The answer is Mary Elizabeth Frye.

But you're right, Sylvia Plath, that would have been a cheery one for her.

So, Michael, you are ahead.

All you need to do is get this one right and CJ is for the high jump.

Published in 1953 and much later described by Martin Amis

as the great American novel,

The Adventures Of Augie March was the third book by which writer?

Erm...

I've read quite a bit of John Updike and I don't think it is him.

Kurt Vonnegut, his most famous novel is Slaughterhouse-five, isn't it?

Don't think he wrote that one that you mentioned.

So I'm going to say Saul Bellow.

Yes, Saul Bellow is quite right. Well done. Three out of three.

Good play. No way back, CJ.

Very hard to play against three out of three.

Well done, Michael, you are in the final round.

This is going rather well for you guys, isn't it?

The Pigs in the pipes cleaning out the Eggheads, that's for sure.

Please come back, rejoin your team-mates.

Well, Bob and The Intelligent Pigs, it's going pretty well so far.

We should just capture the moment.

In terms of pipe cleaning,

where would we be in the process at this point?

-Well down the line, I think.

-Yes, I think so.

I think a lot of the pipes have been cleaned.

You've lost no brains but you've scraped a couple of Eggheads out,

that's for sure.

The next subject is Science.

Who would like science?

Who is left? It has to be one of us.

-That'd be me, wouldn't it?

-I think it was you, Stan.

I'll go for Science.

OK. Stan against which Egghead?

You can have Barry or Judith or Pat.

Do you reckon Judith? Yeah, I'll take Judith.

-Judith, can I challenge you, please?

-You can.

-Thank you very much.

-It's good, Science, for you, isn't it?

-Sometimes.

If it's about birds and bees and flowers and things.

-But pipe cleaning, that wouldn't be...

-Pipe cleaning, not so good.

-You've got the opposite to me, then.

-Exactly.

Stan from The Intelligent Pigs versus the highly intelligent

Judith from the Eggheads.

To ensure there is no conferring, please go to our Question Room.

OK, I know the pressure is high here, Stan, isn't it, cos you guys

basically work in science, so what is your strongest scientific area?

Anything but sort of physics or chemistry.

Pipeline engineering would be nice, Jeremy.

Ask a few questions on that.

I should mention that your great-uncle

was the Prime Minister of Poland.

That's right, yeah.

During the Second World War, he was the Polish leader.

Let's see if we've got any Eggheads who can do this for us.

Who was his great-uncle? That would be amazing.

-It wasn't Sikorski, no?

-Yeah, General Sikorski.

Are they right, Stan? General Sikorski?

Well, my name is Stan Sikorski so he's probably doing quite well.

Did you say your surname earlier, Stan, or not?

No, the guys got it. Well done.

So the Eggs got it. Well, what about that!

So, Science, would you like to go first or second?

I'll go second, please.

So, Judith, you are hoping for questions on botany?

And antelopes.

Antelopes and botany.

You'll like this one. The radian is a standard unit of what?

-R-A-D-I-A-N?

-Yes.

Radian, radian... We've got... Oh, dear.

I don't know. Erm...

Radian. Temperature.

-I have no idea.

-Oh, dear. Temperature, no.

Radius would have helped a bit there.

Well, I thought of that and then I thought it isn't radius, so...

Let's ask, Barry will know. Is this degrees basically, Barry?

-Cos angle is the answer.

-Yes.

I think there's two pi radians in a circle.

What's the difference between a radian and a degree?

A radian is, I think, equivalent to 57 degrees. Something like that.

-Sorry, Judith. Pat says a radian is 57 degrees.

-Oh, really?

Yeah, he is showing off.

Stan.

What is the more common name for the constellation Crux?

I've changed my mind, Jeremy. I'll have the first set

-of questions, please.

-JEREMY LAUGHS

-Sorry, Crux, you say?

-Yeah. Crux. C-R-U-X.

Let's go with Southern Cross.

Southern Cross is quite right. Well done.

OK, Judith, see if we can pick ourselves off the floor here.

I know I praised you on science, I know that's what the problem is.

IPCC is the abbreviation for the organisation

known as the Intergovernmental Panel on what?

Well, I think that's got to be climate control.

THEY LAUGH

Oh, no! Damn!

No, I said that wrong. Blast!

THEY LAUGH

Erm...

-Climate change is the right answer.

-Yes, I know.

-I know that you knew as well.

-I know.

-And I think everyone who is watching knows you knew.

-Yeah, good.

I think it was probably you had an attack of the radians.

I was thinking about radian.

All right. So, if you get this right, Stan, Judith will be out.

Ozone is an allotrope of which chemical element?

-That's oxygen.

-OK. It is oxygen.

-And you are in the final. And, sorry, Judith. That's...

-No, my fault.

-Entirely my fault.

-I'm worried I put you off.

No, no, you didn't put me off at all.

It was entirely my fault, all of that.

Well, you have been knocked out. And Eggheads playing a blinder here.

We might have to change the name of the programme if this gets any worse.

Stan, well done. You are in the final.

Please come back and we'll play on.

So The Intelligent Pigs have lost no brains from the final round.

The Eggheads have now lost, ooh, is it three? The next subject is Music.

So, before the final, we do music.

-That's got to be you, Ray.

-OK, Ray.

Against which Egghead? And it can be Barry or Pat.

Barry, please.

So, Ray from The Intelligent Pigs on Music against Barry

who loves his music. Pretty much all of it. You like Katy Perry.

-This came out recently.

-Yes. Big fan.

-Please go to the Question Room now.

OK, well, good luck in this round. Music against Barry.

-Would you like to go first or second?

-First, please, Jeremy.

Here we go.

The singer Otis Redding is most associated with which musical genre?

That would be soul, Jeremy.

Soul is correct. Barry, over to you.

Which of these music magazines was first published in 1926?

Ooh. Right, it certainly won't be Kerrang!

I'll go for Melody Maker.

Melody Maker is the right answer, yes.

I didn't realise it was that.

Wow, they must have changed with the times

cos I was buying it in the '70s and '80s.

-That's amazing.

-So was I.

OK. Back to you, Ray.

A reissue of the Righteous Brothers song Unchained Melody reached

the top of the UK singles chart in 1990,

largely due to it being featured in which film?

I was thinking of the wrong one, then. Erm...

Oh, right. OK. I was thinking more of the Soldier Soldier

with Robson & Jerome but...

It's used in the film Ghost.

-Yes, that scene with the potter's wheel, isn't it?

-That's right.

-Yeah.

And she's contacting him. Ghost is the answer. Good stuff.

Barry, back to you.

Whose acceptance speech did Kanye West interrupt by rushing

the stage at the 2015 Grammy awards?

Ah...

Ah, I wasn't in the country when the Grammy awards were here,

so I haven't seen this.

So, I really don't know.

I don't think it was Sam Smith but I'm not sure between the other two.

I'll go for Beck, but that is purely a guess.

-Beck is the answer.

-Ooh!

OK. Back to you, Ray.

Jack Bruce, who died in 2014,

mainly played which instrument in the '60s band Cream?

Erm, it was Ginger Baker on drums.

Lead guitar would be Eric Clapton, so bass guitar, Jeremy.

-So, lead guitar was Clapton?

-Clapton, I think.

Yeah, bass guitar is quite right. Jack Bruce on the bass.

So, you got three out of three. Doing really well.

Barry, you need to get this one right.

The line "a policeman's lot is not a happy one"

features in which Gilbert and Sullivan work?

It's definitely not The Mikado.

Eh...

I always get confused between this one. Is it Pinafore or Penzance?

Pirates Of Penzance.

Pirates Of Penzance is correct.

-Ooh!

-That's so funny cos I thought that would just be

meat and drink to you, the question. It's your kind of thing.

OK, so three each. Sorry you couldn't shake him off, Ray.

Maybe they are stabilising a bit, these Eggs.

It goes to Sudden Death, gets a bit more tricky

cos I don't give you alternatives.

Jazz musician Charlie Parker's nickname Bird

was itself a shortening of which childhood nickname?

Ohh, jazz is not my strong point. Erm...

I can only think of Birdie.

-Do you know, Barry?

-I think it was Yardbird.

-Yeah, Yardbird.

So, Barry, you can take the round if you get this one right.

According to the title of a 1983 UK hit single by Indeep,

last night a WHAT saved my life?

Something saved my life.

A prayer? A song?

-A song.

-Ray, you know this.

-Yes, a DJ.

Yeah. SINGS: Last night a DJ saved my life.

-No.

-No, nothing?

-Nothing there.

OK, so you are level still on Sudden Death

and we go back to you, Ray.

The 1998 album Twentieth-Century Blues

featured various artists performing the works

of which British songwriter and actor?

Sorry, I can only think of David Bowie.

Twentieth-Century Blues is a song by Noel Coward, and he is the answer.

Noel Coward.

OK, Barry, you can take the round with this question.

Which conductor was born in Liverpool in 1955

and founded the Liverpool Sinfonia early in his career?

I don't know. Was it Simon Rattle?

Simon Rattle is the right answer. Well done, Barry.

On Sudden Death, you've taken the round.

Sorry, Ray, you have been knocked out.

First reverse for your team in this lively contest.

Come back to us and we'll play on.

So, just a little bit of a push back by the Eggheads at the end

there courtesy of Barry, but we'll see what happens now.

This is the moment we have been waiting for, the final round.

As always, it is General Knowledge for you but I'm afraid

those of you who lost your head-to-heads

won't be allowed to take part.

So, we have to say goodbye to Ray from The Intelligent Pigs

and also Judith and Chris and CJ from the Eggheads.

Would you please leave the studio?

Bob, Stan, Michael and Stuart,

you are playing to win The Intelligent Pigs £1,000.

Barry and Pat, you're playing for something that money can't buy,

the Eggheads' reputation

and to get this team back on the road, out of the sidings.

As usual, I will ask each team three questions in turn.

The questions are all General Knowledge.

You can confer with each other.

So, Intelligent Pigs, the question is -

can your four brains inflict a stunning defeat on these two?

And would you like to go first or second?

I think we're going to go first.

So, here we go. General Knowledge. First question.

Gluten is found in which of the following?

-Wheat, isn't it?

-Do we all agree on wheat?

-It's wheat.

It is wheat. You're right.

Eggheads.

Which private investigator is the main character

in Mickey Spillane's novel I, The Jury?

-Mike Hammer.

-It's Mike Hammer.

Sam Spade is Dashiell Hammett from...

Raymond Chandler.

-Mike Hammer?

-Mike Hammer.

-That's Mike Hammer.

Mike Hammer is the right answer.

Back to you. What name is given to a metal ring or cap

placed around a pole or shaft

for reinforcement or to prevent splitting?

I have no idea.

It sounds like a pipeline engineering answer.

Come on, Bob, you are the mechanical engineer.

I'm trying to think... Ferrule, maybe?

Ferrule rings a bell

but I'm not entirely sure.

I don't think it's bandeau.

Ferrule is my first as well.

-Should we go for it?

-What do you think?

-Let's go for.

-We'll go for ferrule.

Ferrule is the right answer.

I thought that really was your question there.

-It's a pretty obscure term.

-Yes, exactly.

It's not got the word pipe in it, that's the problem.

OK, Eggheads. In Greek mythology,

who was the mother of Helen of Troy?

It was Leda, wasn't it?

-Yeah. I think so.

-Yeah.

-Yeah, she was born in an egg.

-Hecuba was...

And Leda will get together in the form of a swan.

-Hecuba was the queen of Troy.

-That's right.

-And Danae was Perseus' mother.

-So it is Leda. Yep.

-Mm-hm.

We are going for Leda.

Leda is the right answer. Well done.

So, over to you.

Flinders Petrie, born in 1853, was a leading figure in which field?

Petrie is P-E-T-R-I-E.

It is still a pretty golden age of archaeology.

Yeah, I didn't... Ballet, I've never heard of him as a poet. Poetry.

Sounds sort of exploratory, doesn't it?

If it was ballet, would there be some sort of concert hall

-named after him anywhere? Can you think of anything?

-No.

-I think we should go with...

-You think archaeology?

-You think archaeology?

-That was my first instinct.

Most people that did archaeology have something named after them.

-I can't think of anything.

-Flinders, it's...

Australia or something?

-OK, that's fine.

-Archaeology.

OK, we are rather guessing here but we're going to go archaeology.

Archaeology, Flinders Petrie.

-Eggheads?

-Totally right.

-Yeah, you're right. It is archaeology. Excellent.

So, get this one wrong and the contest is over.

The actress Charlotte Riley was reported to have married

which actor in 2014?

We can eliminate Damian Lewis.

He's been married to Helen McCrory for quite some time.

That's true, yes.

I have a memory of Tom Hardy and the announcement of a marriage.

I don't know if that's the person he married.

And, of course, Tom Hiddleston

is free to marry, if you wish. It's a bit guess-y.

Well, you've got more than I've got.

Well, definitely, Damian Lewis isn't in the frame.

It's 50-50 and I have heard of Tom Hardy getting married, so...

-All right, let's go with him.

-All right.

We are little concerned but we are going with Tom Hardy.

If you've got this wrong, the contest is over

and you will have lost two in a row.

Well, you're right to rule out Damian Lewis.

And right to choose Tom Hardy. Well done.

Well done. That little flicker, that Daphne-sized glimmer.

Kinkle as she called them.

So, three out of three in the final round to you both.

Some great quizzing we've had.

You are doing really well, Intelligent Pigs.

We go to Sudden Death. Your question.

Who directed the 1970 film MASH?

Any ideas, chaps?

-No idea.

-MASH...

OK, directors of the '70s.

-Kubrick?

-No.

-Yeah, it's not going to be.

It wasn't anyone like that, I don't think.

1970s... Trying to think who starred in it.

Donald Sutherland was in it.

-Alan Alda.

-He was in the TV series rather than the film.

Other directors of the '70s?

Oliver Stone did war films. It's too early for him, isn't it?

Probably too early.

-MASH was a comedy, wasn't it?

-Comedy, Korean War.

I'm just thinking because he did war films.

-Cooper, was he '70s?

-Yeah, but he didn't direct that.

No, it wasn't him.

-I mean...

-Should we try Oliver Stone?

THEY CONFER

-Sure it wasn't Kubrick?

-Definitely not.

Should we throw in Oliver Stone?

-I mean... I have no idea.

-OK, say that.

-It was quite a satirical sort of film.

-It was very satirical, yes.

Possibly it could be him, I suppose.

-Should we try him? Oliver Stone?

-Yes.

OK, we don't know so we are guessing here. We'll say Oliver Stone.

Oliver Stone is your answer. You went through a lot of directors there.

If it's any consolation, the correct answer was never spoken,

-I don't think. I don't think he was. You know who he was?

-Altman?

Yeah, it was Robert Altman.

Well, it's been a hard old run for you, Eggs.

If you get this answer right, the contest is over.

If you get it wrong, we play on. Here's your question.

In September 2012,

which radio DJ made his debut as King Herod in an arena tour

of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical

Jesus Christ Superstar?

-That's Chris Moyles.

-Absolutely.

-I think he did.

-Yeah.

It's Chris Moyles.

OK, we're going to go for Chris Moyles.

Chris Moyles is your answer.

If you've got this right, you've won the contest on Sudden Death.

You've said it with some conviction, I must say,

but my goodness, the damage that the Pigs have done today.

The correct answer is Chris Moyles, so we say congratulations,

Eggheads, you have won.

It shows how resilient they can be, doesn't it,

cos it just almost looked inevitable. But at the end, they pulled it out.

And bad luck.

But thank you for playing such a hearty game

and bringing one of our best ever team names to the table.

No question about that.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them

and they are reigning supreme once again.

I'm afraid it does mean you won't be going home with the £1,000,

so the money rolls over to our next show.

Eggheads, both of you, well done. Who will beat you?

Join us next time to see

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

£2,000 is up for grabs. Till then, goodbye.