Episode 79 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 you're still the greatest, Eggheads, aren't you?

-Yeah!

-You silver-tongued devil, you!

Challenging our resident quiz champions today

are Ferry Useful from Norfolk.

This team of friends are representing the Ferry Inn pub

in the small village of Stokesby.

Carol and Tanja work in the pub

and the rest of the team all take part in the Sunday quiz night,

-so let's meet them.

-Hello, I'm Rob and I'm a property developer.

Hello, I'm Carol and I'm a publican.

Hello, I'm Tanja and I'm a bar manager.

Hello, I'm Hilary and I'm a library assistant.

Hello, I'm Stuart and I'm a company director.

So, Rob and team, welcome. Great to see you.

-ALL:

-Hello!

-Tell us about the Ferry Inn.

Well, it's a lovely little riverside pub in the Broads.

It's only a small village that we live in

and we have a quiz there every Sunday night that we all attend.

And the Broads - my parents used to go boating on the Broads

when I was small. That's very popular still, isn't it?

Very. It's lovely.

I have a note that says you were in Japan, Rob,

and ate a 17-course chicken meal.

We were guests of some long-standing friends of ours

and my ears perked up at the thought of a specialist chicken restaurant,

but when two of the courses were chicken feet and raw chicken hearts,

sadly, my appetite waned somewhat.

Well, I hope you can make a meal of these five today.

Take them one at a time and any entrails and so on,

we'll dispose of later. LAUGHTER

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 our next show.

You know that. Ferry Useful, what you may not know is that the Eggheads

have won the last three games, so there's £4,000 to win today.

Shall we crack on?

-Let's do it.

-Yes!

First head-to-head battle is on the subject of Music.

Who wants to go for this?

-I think you.

-Me, yeah?

-Yeah.

-We go for it?

-Got to be Tanja.

-Tanja on Music. Against which Egghead, Tanya?

You can have any one of the five.

Look at them, whistling like criminals at the scene of a crime.

I'd like to take CJ with me.

You mean out of the studio and away?

LAUGHTER We'd love that.

We would love that, yes.

Tanja from Ferry Useful versus CJ from the Eggheads on Music.

Please take your positions in our Question Room.

-So you like music, Tanja?

-I do. I absolutely love my music.

-What's your favourite kind of...?

-OK, so, The Who, Led Zeppelin,

oh, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, quite eclectic.

Where are you on Led Zeppelin, CJ, these days?

Is that some popular beat combo that I don't know of?

Probably the greatest rock with a capital "R" band of all time,

-would you say, Tanja?

-Oh, most definitely, most definitely.

-Oh, CJ, the blanks, honestly.

-Sorry.

I just don't do music.

I've never listened to it, I've never bought it,

-just really no interest in it.

-OK.

If Led Zeppelin sang a song about you, would you be interested?

-You mean they haven't?

-THEY CHUCKLE

OK, Tanja, you can see what you're up against. Good luck on Music.

Would you like to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.

And here we go with your first question. Good luck.

Which of these musical instruments is commonly fitted with a tremolo arm

or a whammy bar?

Well, I should know this, as my son plays

and he's an exceptional player.

It's the electric guitar.

Electric guitar is quite right.

OK, CJ, swing music evolved from which of these musical forms?

Who writes these options?!

I hope swing came from jazz.

I wish it were not so, but you are correct.

Jazz it was, not thrash metal.

OK, Tanja, what was the birth name of Stevie Wonder?

Was it...

OK...

I'm going to have to take a guess on this one, Stevie Wonder.

I'm going to say Stevland Hardaway Judkins.

That definitely sounds like the least made-up.

-The least made-up, yeah.

-And it's the right answer as well.

-Mr Judkins.

-Well done.

CJ.

Stay With Me was a 2014 UK hit single for which singer?

I think this was one of the massive hits for Sam Smith.

Sam Smith is correct, well done.

OK, so, two each.

It's tight. Tanja, who composed the song Walking In The Air

for the 1982 animated film The Snowman?

Is it...

Oh, my goodness. Um...

Absolutely love the film.

Absolutely love the music, but composing it, I've...

I'm going to go with Howard Blake.

-Eggheads?

-Yes.

Yeah, you're right. Well done, Tanja.

CJ, back to you. Pressure on - get this wrong, you're out.

Which Spanish city is the setting for the opera Carmen?

My immediate instinct is Seville.

Um, I don't think it's set in Madrid

and I don't think it's set in Barcelona,

so I'll have to go with Seville.

Seville is the right answer.

Well done, three out of three for you both.

Oh!

-Tense, eh, Tanja? Goes to Sudden Death.

-Oh, yes.

-So you have to give me the answer, I don't give you alternatives.

-OK.

Which American singer, born in 1946,

was accused of miming during her performance

at the 2014 Glastonbury Festival?

Oh, my goodness, 2014.

I've got to think back.

'46...

Uh, Cher.

No, it's was Dolly.

Oh, Dolly Parton, of course!

But she did deny it, though, and I watched the performance -

I didn't think she was miming, I must say.

You can usually tell when people are miming.

CJ, for the round,

who sang with Barbara Dickson on the 1985 UK number one single

I Know Him So Well?

Well, I've been out to dinner with her and Tim Rice,

so hopefully I should know this one.

I think it was Elaine Paige.

From the musical Chess.

I love the way you name-drop.

Is there anyone else who's been mentioned in this round

that you've met and had dinner with?

-Dolly Parton, or...?

-I've not met Dolly Parton yet.

Sorry, Dolly Parton's not met me yet.

LAUGHTER

From the musical Chess, Elaine Paige is the right answer, CJ.

Well done, you took the round on Sudden Death. Sorry, Tanja.

It just slipped past you there. A helpful dinner party.

Often happens with CJ, actually.

So CJ will be in the final. Please, both of you rejoin your teams.

So as it stands, Ferry Useful have lost a brain from the final round.

The Eggheads have not lost one yet.

You've got plenty of time, but I think maybe now is the moment

to rev the motor on the boat on the Broads.

THEY CHUCKLE The next subject is Geography.

Who would like this?

Oh! I said I'd do it.

-Do you want me to go, guys?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Stuart?

-You happy for that, Stuart?

Yeah. Well, I've got to go with one.

THEY LAUGH

Company director Stuart against which Egghead?

-It can't be CJ.

-Guys...

-Who do you think?

-Who do you reckon?

-Pat?

-Pat?

-Yep.

-Mm-hm.

Everyone thinks Pat.

OK, so it's going to be Stuart from Ferry Useful

versus Pat from the Eggheads on Geography

and just to ensure there's no conferring,

please go to our Question Room.

So we're on geography.

Pat, what's the furthest you've ever been from Wigan?

-Uh...

-Bolton?

-I've been to Malta and Estonia.

Not terribly far, really, by modern standards.

-You've not gone Australia, you've not gone USA?

-No, I haven't.

OK, well, what about you, Stuart? Can you compete with that? Malta?

Erm, last year I went to Bali

and we had a four-day trip over to Australia.

I was scuba diving in Bali

and we swam in the sea just off Perth for a little while.

We were mindful of the great whites,

cos they do get shark attacks out there.

-I think he's probably trumped you there, Pat.

-I think he's won.

-LAUGHTER

-I think he's won.

The story of this year's holidays.

So, OK, Stuart, you sound like you're in a good position on Geography.

Would you like to go first or second?

Uh, I think I'll go first.

And here we go with your first question.

Uruguay borders Argentina and which other country?

Erm...

I think I'll go with Chile.

Chile is your answer. Have you been to South America at all?

No, it's one which I'm not too sure of.

I haven't been either. Can you help us here, Pat? Is he right?

I think it lies just south of Brazil.

Yeah, Brazil is the answer. Brazil's got lots of...

Well, it's a huge country, so it tends to be the border with..

All but two of the countries there.

All but two of them? OK, usually Brazil, apparently.

This is the quizzers' experience here.

They see Brazil, they say Brazil.

Whatever the question.

Pat, the port of Zeebrugge,

which has a daily ferry service with the UK, is in which country?

I think that's on the North Sea.

It's a Belgian port, it's in Belgium.

Belgium is correct.

So back to you, Stuart.

Dunstanburgh and Warkworth are medieval castles

near the coast of which English county?

Erm, we live near Suffolk and I can't think that they're Suffolk.

Again, I'm not too sure.

But I think I'll go to Northumberland.

Yes, you are correct.

Well done, Stuart.

You're on the board now. Let's see what Pat does.

The Gateway of India is a ceremonial arch overlooking the Arabian Sea

in which city?

I think they built it...

Maybe George V, maybe Edward VII, but for the visit of an English king

and it's near the waterfront in Mumbai.

Mumbai is the right answer, well done.

OK, Stuart, back to you.

The city of Hartford is the capital of which US state?

Is it...

Again, America, not too sure on this.

Um...

I'm just going to have a guess at this one.

I'll got for Connecticut.

Carol, I know you've been to the States a lot.

-26 states, you've been to.

-Yep.

-Have you been to Connecticut?

I've been to all three of those, actually.

-And is he right?

-Yes, he is.

You're right, Stuart, well done.

Two each, but Pat has a question in hand.

The Ring of Gullion is an area of outstanding beauty

in which country of the United Kingdom?

Is it...

The Ring of Gullion, G-U-L-L-I-O-N.

Well, I'm not sure.

It could conceivably been in somewhere like County Down

or County Antrim, they've got lots of rural scenery.

For some reason, I'm not inclined to pick England,

so I think I'll pick between Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Could possibly be in Northern Ireland. I'll have to have a guess.

On the basis that Scotland is so much larger

and has so many more places to hide

a Ring of Gullion, I'll go for Scotland.

Who knows this? Is it Scotland?

I'm not sure.

I thought Ireland some way before the choices came up,

so I think I'd probably have gone for that,

but with that sort of name, again,

it could even be somewhere like Cornwall,

but I'd say Northern Ireland.

You're wrong, Pat, actually - it is Northern Ireland.

So how about that, Stuart? You're back from the brink here.

We go to Sudden Death, Stuart.

It gets a bit harder, I don't give you alternatives.

What is the only US state that begins with the letter U?

Um, I went there skiing last month and I believe it's Utah.

-That's very handy. Yes, Carol, is he right?

-Yeah.

-He is right.

Utah.

OK, Pat, your question to stay in.

Jomo Kenyatta International Airport serves which African capital?

Well, let's see.

Jomo Kenyatta I think was a key man in the history of Kenya.

So what's the capital of Kenya? It should be Nairobi, shouldn't it?

Kenya's Nairobi.

I think that has to be Nairobi.

Nairobi is the right answer. Yes, in Kenya.

Stuart, Majorca, Menorca, Ibiza

and which other are the four largest of the Balearic Islands?

It's just not coming to me, I'm sorry. Um...

No, it's just not coming, sorry.

-I'll pass, I'll have to pass on that one.

-OK.

-Anyone?

-Formentera.

-Formentera is the answer.

-Argh!

Pat, for the round, then.

What is Britain's most northerly national park?

Let's see, we have, um...

We'll be in Scotland, for starters.

There's the Trossachs.

I think the Cairngorms became a very large national park.

Anything up further than the Cairngorms?

I don't think so.

I'll go for the Cairngorms.

Cairngorms is the right answer, Pat, well done.

The Trossachs, are they up or down, or sideways?

Sounds very painful.

Well, yes, yes.

If you get a cold wind blowing through the Trossachs, that's not...

LAUGHTER

Stuart, I'm sorry, you've had the cold wind

in the Trossachs yourself there

and Pat is a great white shark who's just taken a nibble.

Pat will be in the final and you've been knocked out.

Please, both of you return and we'll play on.

As it stands, Ferry Useful have lost two brains from the final round.

Is there any change of tactics now, Rob?

Well, we've got the spreadsheet out last night

and were working it all out

and that's now well and truly in the bin, so...

THEY CHUCKLE

-..we're shooting from the hip now, I think.

-OK.

Well, that's not bad, people have won like that.

The Eggheads have not lost a brain. Try and get one out in this round.

It is History.

Which of Ferry Useful would like History?

Is that you or me? Me?

-Go on.

-Me?

-Yes, go.

-Carol?

-That would be me.

-All right, and against which Egghead?

We've got Lisa, Dave or Kevin to offer.

-Can I take Dave? Would that be all right?

-Yeah?

-Can I take Dave, please, Jeremy?

-You may indeed, yes.

Carol from Ferry Useful versus Dave from the Eggheads on History.

Please go to our Question Room.

So History, Carol, and would you like to go first or second?

Oh, I'll go first, please, Jeremy.

Good luck to you, here we go.

Whilst he was Prince of Wales,

the future George IV was known by which title

during the period of his father's insanity?

Is it...

I can't see it being Prince Regent,

cos I think that would be the husband of the current queen.

So I think I'll go for King Prince, please, Jeremy.

-It is actually Prince Regent, in fact.

-Oh!

Dave, your question.

What name was given to the army created by the Parliamentary faction

during the English Civil War?

Was it...

One of my favourite groups. It's the reason I know this.

Er, yeah, Vengeance and all that.

The New Model Army.

-I've never really got into the New Model Army, are they good?

-Very good.

-Right, I'm going to look them up.

-Yes.

-This will confuse people watching now, won't it?

-Yes, it will.

But the originals were indeed the New Model Army.

-Fantastic name.

-Yeah.

OK, Carol, which name is shared by ancient cities

both in Greece and Egypt?

I don't think it's Luxor, I think that's just in Egypt.

I will say Sparta.

It's not Luxor, but it's also not Sparta.

-It's Thebes!

-I'm sorry, it is Thebes.

Just unlucky there so, Dave, if you get this right,

you've taken the round.

Who was First Lord of the Admiralty, blamed for the failure

of the Gallipoli Campaign in the First World War?

Is it...

I don't think it's Montgomery.

I don't think it's Churchill, I think it's Lord Kitchener.

-Oh, oh, oh, dear.

-Oh!

Even I know this.

Is it Churchill?

-Yeah, it is very much Churchill.

-Oh, jumped in.

-Blurted.

-So who's going to fill us in? CJ, do you know the story here?

He planned the whole Gallipoli Campaign

and it was an absolute disaster and because of this,

he retired from... resigned from the job.

These days, if you'd done that, you'd never be in public life again,

-but he bounced back.

-He sort of had another career, didn't he?

-He did.

Can't remember what it was,

but he definitely did reappear in public life, Winston Churchill.

He had his wilderness years, then he came back.

Commanded a battalion on the Western Front.

Oh, so he came back in at a lower level, effectively?

Well, he used his connections

to actually join the army and go

and be in battle

on the Western Front.

-A sort of self-punishment in a way.

-Penance?

-Yeah, that's right,

but then he came back to his political career after that.

-Fascinating. There we go, Dave.

-Yep.

-We both learned something there.

So, Carol, that's good, isn't it?

-Sort of.

-He messed one up.

-You have to get this right, though, to stay in.

-Right.

In 1775, which American frontiersman led a gang of workers

to build the Wilderness Road,

which ran from eastern Virginia into the interior of Kentucky and beyond?

Was this...

Just a bit before my time.

Erm, I'm going to once again, another guess, and I will say...

Kit Carson.

Familiar name, is it the right name? Who was Kit Carson, Eggs?

He was a scout in the West.

-He was a scout in the West. It was Daniel Boone who did it.

-Urgh!

So, sorry, you've drawn a blank there

and Dave with his point is through to the final round.

You've been knocked out, Carol.

Let's see who your team do in the last round before the final.

Please come back and we'll play it.

It's not a crisis yet.

-THEY CHUCKLE

-It's getting there!

It's getting there a little bit, a little bit.

You've lost three brains from the final round, Ferry Useful.

People have won from this position.

It would be handy, though, to win this next round.

-It would.

-And it is on Sport.

So who's your Sport person?

THEY CONFER QUIETLY

-Yeah, I'll take this one.

-Rob? OK.

There's a certain resigned air to your answer there.

Who would you like to take on? You can have either Kevin or Lisa.

I'd like to take on Kevin, please.

Right. It's going to be Rob from Ferry Useful

against Kevin on the sailboat, doing the Sport.

Yeah, well, I think I'd probably lose if it was on a sailboat.

THEY CHUCKLE

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

So Sport, Rob, and would you like to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.

Here is your first question, good luck.

Who was the head coach of England's 2003

World Cup-winning Rugby Union team?

I'm a very keen rugby fan, even though my roots lie in Wales

and I was supporting the opposition, but I know for a fact on this time,

great achievement - Sir Clive Woodward.

Indeed, Clive Woodward is the right answer, well done.

I'm not a big rugby fan, but even I remember -

-that was the Jonny Wilkinson drop kick at the end.

-That's right.

-Early one Sunday morning.

-Yes, I got up to watch it.

Got up to watch it.

OK, Kevin, a match in which of these sports begins with the umpire

bouncing the ball high into the air?

I think that's how you start off a game of Aussie Rules Football.

Which then just gets harder from that point, so yeah.

Aussie Rules Football.

Yes, you're right. That's a hard question, actually.

Australian Rules Football is correct.

Back to you, Rob. For which English football team

did Patrick Vieira play from 1996 to 2005?

Well, I know for a fact he played for Arsenal

and I'm pretty sure he didn't play for the other two, so Arsenal.

Yes, great midfielder, well done. Arsenal is the answer.

OK, Kevin, in which year was the athlete Carl Lewis born?

I might have this wrong, but I think he famously shared a birthday,

possibly, with Princess Diana.

Um, so it's 1961.

-You mean not just a birth year, but a birthday?

-I think.

-Born on the same day?

-I'm not certain about that.

We'll check that out, but that's interesting.

'61 is the right answer, well done.

Is he on your huge list of birth years

and death years that you keep in that massive brain of yours?

Uh, yeah, well, I left that behind somewhere, but it's...

Yeah, dates are one of those things where some lodge and some don't.

Most do, but for some reason, some don't.

There's no rhyme or reason to it.

Probably needs to be analysed by laser or something like that.

What, you can give your body to science, you mean?

Not the rest of it.

I don't think they'd be very interested in the rest of it.

Anyway, you are correct.

Just to let you know that Princess Diana

and Carl Lewis were born on the very same day.

-Mm-hm.

-Do you know the date?

Was it 1st July?

Correct, well done. He knows... There is nothing he does not know.

OK, Rob, your question, after that slight detour.

Which golfer won the US Open in 1973 and the Open Championship in 1976?

I have to say that golf is not my strong suit.

So it's going to be a bit of a guess.

I'd like to think it was a slightly educated guess

and I'd like to go for Lee Trevino.

Now, let's see, is Lee Trevino that kind of era?

-Yes.

-Yes, he is?

He won much more than that.

He won much more. It was Johnny Miller.

Aww!

So a chance for Kevin to take the round.

Kevin, randolphs, rudolphs and adolphs

are manoeuvres in which sport?

Is it...

That's actually one of those quiz things, really, I have to say.

It's trampolining.

It sounds like it should have ice in it,

I must say, cos of the kind of wintry feel to those names,

but you're right, unless there's ice on the trampoline.

Trampolining is the right answer. That's a quiz thing, is it?

Over the years, I've heard that one a few times.

Do you know what a randolph is?

I used to, but to be honest,

I've lost track of what the different manoeuvres are.

Obviously, it's a bit like diving,

in the sense of involving different twists

and combinations of manoeuvres,

but I've forgotten exactly which ones are which now.

Presumably, one of them is jumping up and down waving, shouting,

"Hey, y'all, watch this."

Um... Maybe that's freestyle, probably.

Well done, Kevin, you've taken the round. Sorry, Rob.

You were beaten by our Eggheads, you won't be in the final.

You're down to one in the final. Let's see what happens.

Return to your team-mates and we will play the last round.

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

It is time for the final round. It's General Knowledge as always.

I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads don't take part

in this round, so I have to look to our challengers.

Rob, Carol, Tanja and Stuart from Ferry Useful,

would you please leave the studio?

-So, Hilary, you're a part-time library assistant.

-I am, yes.

-Surrounded by books all day - handy.

-Exactly, yes.

-And you set questions in a quiz?

-I do, yes.

Mainly just fundraising for the local village hall

and last November, I did one for the Macmillan nurses.

Great. I hope this is a perfect CV

-for the situation that you find yourself in.

-Let's hope so!

On your own here playing to win Ferry Useful £4,000.

And as for CV and Pat and Lisa and Dave and Kevin, yes,

you're all together, but my goodness, if you all go down together,

it's going to be absolutely humiliating

and it happened not so long ago.

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

This time, the questions are all general knowledge.

You are allowed to confer.

I'm sorry, that doesn't help you very much, Hilary.

So the question is, Ferry Useful,

can you with your one brain defeat these five?

Would you like to go first or second, Hilary?

I think I'll go first, thank you, Jeremy.

And here is your question.

Chestnut and russet are shades of which colour?

Definitely not grey.

Neither yellow, so it must be brown.

Brown is the answer, well done.

Eggheads, the supermodel Kate Moss was born in which decade?

-'74.

-Yeah, turned 40 not so long ago, that's right.

-I think so.

-Yeah, it'll be 1970s, yeah?

All good? Cool.

That's the 1970s, Jeremy.

'70s is right, well done.

Your question, Hilary. Ancoats is an area of which English city?

Ancoats, all one word, A-N-C-O-A-T-S.

Well, I don't know the answer.

But something is drawing me to Liverpool.

So I'll say Liverpool.

That's going to hurt Dave.

It's going to hurt me, yeah. It's not Liverpool.

It's not far from the city centre of Manchester,

not far from where I live.

OK, Manchester is the answer.

Eggheads, your question to take the lead. Which of these is a flat fish?

Brill.

Brill's flat, isn't it?

-Brill's flat.

-A coley ain't.

-A pollock isn't.

-A pollock ain't either.

Yeah, I think...

So it's a brill.

A brill.

That's a brill.

Brill is the right answer.

Well done.

Back to you, Hilary.

In Greek mythology, which creature was the husband of Echidna

and the father of Cerberus, the Chimera, the Hydra and the Sphinx?

Is it...

I don't know.

But...

..I think I'll eliminate Triton.

And go Talos.

Let's see - Eggheads?

-Typhon.

-Typhon.

Sorry, Hilary, Typhon is the answer.

That means we have to say congratulations, Eggheads,

you have won.

I'm sure you are a very handy quizzing team, you Ferry Usefuls.

We maybe didn't see the best of you all today.

-Thank you for playing.

-Thank you.

-And anyone passing the pub?

-Yes, definitely.

-They love a quiz, as you can tell.

-Yes.

Thanks, Hilary. The Eggheads have done what come naturally to them.

They do reign supreme over Quizland, getting a bit of a run together.

I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £4,000,

so the money rolls over to our next show.

Eggheads, well done. All five of you as well.

Good play today. Who will beat them?

Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers have the brains

to defeat the Eggheads and walk away with £5,000.

Till then, goodbye!