Episode 46 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.

-Raring to go?

-Definitely.

-Of course.

-All right.

Challenging the might of our quiz Goliaths today are Wagger's Wizards.

Now, this team of colleagues from London

all work for the same hotel chain.

Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Grant. I'm a senior hotel concierge.

Hi, I'm Maggie and I'm a business development executive.

Hi, I'm Anass and I'm a hotel concierge.

Hi, I'm Elana and I'm a groups and reservations coordinator.

Hi, I'm Kenan, I'm a director of sales.

-So, Grant, team, welcome.

-Thank you, Jeremy.

-Good to see you.

-Do you quiz together?

-We've started off very small.

-We've done a couple of competitions.

-Right.

-We've done OK.

And Waggers is who or what?

Waggers is a very special guest services agent in one of our hotels.

-He's a little Labradoodle.

-Oh, OK, he's a dog?

-He's a dog.

Will he be watching your performance?

He's monitoring everything we do. Oh, yes.

And do you get time in your working day to see this lot in action?

Oh, yes, quite often.

I was quite ill a few years ago and it became

quite a part of my life.

This is one of the big challenges, to be here now on Eggheads.

-Well, they say it's addictive watching them.

-It is, very much so.

-Good, well, good luck to you and your quiz.

-Thank you very much.

Every day, there is £1,000 worth of cash

up for grabs for our Challengers.

However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,

the prize money rolls over to the next show.

So, Wagger's Wizards, the Eggheads have won the last eight games,

which means £9,000...

-Wow.

-..says you can't beat them.

The Eggheads seem to have those smiles wiped off their faces.

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

-Geography?

-Who would like this?

-Who wants to do that?

-Got to be.

-Anass?

-Yes, yes?

-It's got to be Anass, please.

OK, Anass against which Egghead?

-I'll pick Judith.

-Right.

She hasn't done Geography for a while.

-Oh, well, about five, six days ago.

-Yeah.

-So, our 1,501st show, this is.

-Wow.

Anass from Wagger's Wizards versus Judith who was here

right at the start on Eggheads.

Just to ensure there's no conferring, would you both please

take your positions in our famous Question Room?

All right, good luck on geography, Anass.

Would you like to go first or second?

Can I go first, please, Jeremy?

You can indeed, here is your first question.

Which of these Brazilian cities is located on the Atlantic Ocean?

I'm not quite sure about this question, Jeremy.

But I believe it's going to be Belo Horizonte.

It's actually not, it's Rio.

Rio de Janeiro is the right answer.

Judith, Macedonia is located on which geographical peninsula?

Oh, not Sinai and Iberia is Spain and Portugal. So, it's the Balkan.

Balkan is correct, so one point to our Egghead.

Back to you, Anass.

Canada consists of three territories and how many provinces?

I'm not quite sure again about this question, Jeremy.

I believe it's going to be good if this answer had been answered

by my friend Elana because she's from Canada.

However...

..I'm going to choose the middle answer.

-OK.

-Which is six.

-Six is your answer.

-Let's go to Elana because you are from Canada.

-I am from Canada, yes.

-Is he right?

-No!

-Oh.

So, three territories and how many provinces?

-10.

-10 is the answer.

OK, don't worry.

But, Judith, if you get this right, you're in the final.

The M40 motorway connects Birmingham with which city?

The M40? Well, that goes out past White City.

So it must be London.

London is the right answer, Judith. So, two to Judith.

-Anass, I'm sorry, no way back for you.

-It's all right.

Don't worry at all.

You've been beaten by our Egghead but it's early, early days here.

Return to us, both of you. Rejoin your teams, please.

OK, difficult start for Wagger's Wizards, lost a brain.

But don't worry, the Eggheads have not lost any

but there's much to play for.

The next subject is Film & TV.

Who would like this?

Who's going to do this? You're going to do it, Grant?

-I'll take it if you want it.

-Yeah.

-Yes, I'll go and take it.

OK, team captain Grant. Against which Egghead? Can't be Judith.

It's going to be a dream come true. I'm going to take on Kevin, please.

-All right. So, the Grand Master!

-Well done.

Grant from Wagger's Wizards versus Kevin from the Eggheads

on Film & TV. To ensure there's no conferring,

please take your positions.

Grant, do you want to go first or second on Film & TV?

I'm going to put the pressure on and go first, please.

Grant, good luck. Here's your first question.

In which Stephen Spielberg film does Alfred Molina deliver the line,

"No time to argue.

"Throw me the idol, I throw you the whip."

Right. I don't think it's Jaws.

And I think there's a clue,

or I'm hoping there's a clue in the title there.

So I'm going to go for Raiders Of The Lost Ark, please.

Absolutely right, Raiders Of The Lost Ark.

The idol in question being, I guess, the Ark. Or something like it.

OK, here is your question, Kevin.

Who is the regular host of the daytime TV show The Wright Stuff?

Hmm.

I'm sort of vaguely aware that Ian Wright has got a show

which I think might be called The Wright Stuff.

But I don't know it so I will say Ian Wright

-because I know he's got a show somewhere.

-Ian Wright?

Gosh, that's going to so upset Matthew.

It's, yeah, it's kind of a daytime, I think daily show.

Dave, you tell us.

It's like a chat show magazine type of show

where they look at the newspapers, the daily events,

and then have certain guests in and they have an audience.

And callers. I always think it's a bit like my show on Radio 2

-in a way, but for TV.

-Your show is better than that one, Jeremy.

A lot better. But, yeah, it is

a magazine show just looking at the daily things on Channel 5.

Well, there we are, Kevin.

We discovered that you're not a daytime TV man.

I am not, I'm certainly not, no.

-We'll hit you with a question about Jeremy Kyle one day.

-Oh, great.

Send you spinning. Matthew Wright is the answer.

Now this is looking a bit handy for you, Grant.

He doesn't slip up very often, particularly not on this subject.

So, your question is which former England rugby union player

became a presenter on the TV show Crimewatch in 2012?

OK, erm, I've played rugby quite a lot

and I've loved the England rugby team.

Brian Moore was a forward, quite aggressive

so I don't think it would be him.

Er, Lawrence Dallaglio, that was a captain again, was a forward.

I'm going to have to go for Martin Bayfield, please.

Nicely done, you're right, well done. Good stuff, captain.

Martin Bayfield.

So, Kevin, get this wrong, you're out.

Who was the co-creator and main writer

of the classic sitcom The Liver Birds?

That was Carla Lane.

I knew you'd get that, Carla Lane is correct.

Now you mustn't let him back in here, Grant.

-I'm going to do my best.

-Get this right, you're in the final.

Which character performed the Truffle Shuffle

in the 1985 film The Goonies?

I'm really, really going to struggle with this one.

Erm, and there's not a lot to go on on the question.

So, it's going to have to be a stab in the dark

at Chunk, please.

-Team, is he right?

-Yes!

You're right, Grant, and you're in the final as well. Well done.

Well done to their team captain.

That was well played because with no information at all,

was that just a complete guess, was it?

It was a total guess, it was a lucky guess on that one.

Good for you, I don't know the answer to that question either.

Chunk is right, you're in the final.

-Kevin, sorry, you've been knocked out, my friend.

-OK.

You won't be in the final round. Please come back to us.

Very evenly balanced, let's see what happens next.

Well, Grant, firstly, well done.

That's a seriously superhuman effort and you'll go and watch,

what was that film that we talked about? The Goonies.

-The Goonies, I'm going to go home and...

-Get it out.

Buy ten copies, yeah.

And on Raiders, I shouldn't have got confused between the idol

and the Ark.

The idol is at the beginning, isn't it?

-Yes, that's where Alfred Molina appears.

-Right.

So, you've lost a brain but they have too.

The Eggheads have lost a brain as well.

-It's equal and the next subject is Art & Books.

-Oh!

Who would like this?

-Foregone conclusion.

-That would be me.

-It's you.

-Elana?

-Yeah?

-It's going to be me. Yeah.

-Against which Egghead, Elana?

I'm going to take on Chris.

-Chris?

-Excellent.

Elana from Wagger's Wizards and Canada, am I right?

-And Canada, yes.

-Versus Chris from the Eggheads, and Crewe.

-And Crewe.

Canada plays Crewe. Please go to the Question Room now.

-So we mentioned Canada, Elana.

-Yes.

-When did you move over?

-I moved here last February.

-Oh, so recent?

Yes, have not been a year yet.

And I know you had to struggle with this thing of

do you bring your whole book collection over?

It was quite the struggle because I couldn't fit them all in.

I fit them in every nook and cranny and every single box and suitcase.

I brought over probably about 250 of them between there.

And whenever someone comes to visit,

they have to go bring some more back with me.

Cos it was hard, it was like leaving my babies at home.

Well, I know books are like a signature, aren't they?

-Yes, they are.

-And so, which book could you not be without?

There's a few that I couldn't leave behind.

I read the Count Of Monte Cristo once a year

and Les Mis I read every year.

Plus, I have a really old copy of Gone With The Wind

that I really couldn't leave behind either.

-Wonderful, so classics, really?

-Yes.

Good luck in this round. Arts & Books.

-Elana, would you like to go first or second?

-I'll go first.

And here is your first question, Elana.

Which character in the Lord Of The Rings books

is also known as Strider?

I've actually read the series a few times,

so I'm fairly confident that Strider is also known as Aragorn.

-Yeah. My goodness, you read books twice. That's amazing!

-Yeah, I do!

-That is brilliant. You just must be reading the whole time.

-I do, a lot.

OK, Chris.

Michael Morpurgo's War Horse first appeared in which format?

Well, Michael Morpurgo's a children's author

so presumably, it first appeared as a book.

Yes, it did. It was a book, well done.

Elana, in 2015,

a new entry in the Millennium series of books

was released entitled The Girl In The what?

OK, I haven't read this series yet, it's on my list to read.

But I've seen some books out there.

I believe it's Spider's Web.

Yeah, well done. So this is Stieg Larsson

-we're on here, isn't it?

-Yes!

I've read the three and this is the fourth, Eggheads, isn't it?

It's a writer called David Lagercrantz who was the one

who was selected by Stieg Larsson's family to...

There were issues there.

..to carry on the series.

-Stieg Larsson had originally envisaged a series of about ten.

-Oh.

So he obviously only got as far as,

in fact they'd not been published at the point when he died.

OK, Spider's Web is correct. Chris?

The Master Builder is a play by which writer?

It's a typically gloomy play by Henrik Ibsen.

You are right, Ibsen it is.

So, we're equal here.

Elana, your question.

Wivenhoe Park, Essex, is an 1816 oil painting by which artist?

Wivenhoe is W-I-V-E-N-H-O-E.

More confident with books than I am with art.

But I believe

it's JMW Turner.

I think it might be too early for Turner but let me see.

-When was Turner, guys?

-It could have been Turner, yes.

Because he and Constable are almost exact contemporaries.

So it could have been Turner, date wise.

-But the answer is John Constable.

-No, OK.

OK, Chris has the initiative.

If you get this right, you're in the final, Chris.

Often known simply as Rumi, the great Persian poet

and Sufi master Jalal Al-Din Rumi lived during which century?

Oh.

This is a bit obscure.

The only poet I know from that neck of the woods is Omar Khayyam. Erm...

Probably since it's going, it's obviously from the golden age

of the culture of that part of the world, I'll say 13th.

-Yeah, you just went as early as possible.

-Hmm.

You're right.

-I'm sorry, Elana. You've been knocked out.

-OK.

Chris is through on Arts & Books.

That wretched John Constable painting, hey?

I won't forget that.

So, come back to us and rejoin your teams, please.

OK, Wagger's Wizards have lost two brains now from the final round.

The Eggheads have just lost the one.

And the next subject is Sport.

-Who would like this?

-Er...

-That's going to be me.

-That's going to be Kenan.

-OK, Kenan.

And because you're my father's favourite, Barry,

you're going to be my selection.

I see a similarity between you guys.

So, Kenan from Wagger's Wizards versus Barry,

his father's favourite.

What a compliment.

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

-Kenan, I'm detecting a bit of South African.

-Absolutely, born and bred.

Wow, that accent. And whereabouts?

I was born in Cape Town, born and raised.

But spent many years travelling around South Africa as well,

spent some time in Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth.

-So, pretty much well travelled within South Africa.

-Good stuff.

OK, sport, Kenan, which I know South Africans love.

Would you like to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please.

Good luck.

At which stage, Kenan, was the England team

knocked out of the 2015 men's Rugby Union World Cup?

Group stage it was.

-Yeah, it was painful, wasn't it?

-Absolutely.

-Maybe not for you!

Maybe you thought it was funny.

All right, we better move off rugby.

Barry, which of these Premier League football managers

was sacked in October 2015?

Louis van Gaal at that point was still hanging on

by the skin of his teeth

and Arsene Wenger is a fixture at Arsenal

for more years than I care to remember,

so it must be Brendan Rodgers.

-Yeah, from which team?

-Liverpool.

Liverpool is right, Brendan Rodgers is the right answer, well done.

-Do you follow football, soccer, Kenan?

-No, no.

Rugby and a little bit of golf to an extent as well.

Here's your question.

Which heavyweight boxer finally retired in 1997 aged 48

after his defeat to Shannon Briggs?

I am going to say Muhammad Ali was obviously many, many years ago,

George Foreman likewise.

My answer is going to be Joe Frazier.

As a matter of fact, yes, but this is going back a way,

it's nearly 20 years ago.

It is George Foreman, funnily enough.

All right, so, Barry, you have a chance to take the lead.

Which of these athletics events

features in a heptathlon competition?

Oh, gosh. Let me think. Heptathlon.

I should know this straight away.

And...I can't think.

Ah, it normally finishes with a 1,500 metre race,

so it's 1,500 metres.

Kenan, what do you think?

I've got a feeling it is the 1,500.

-Uh-huh, anyone else? Eggheads?

-The 200.

-The 200.

-This is the decathlon?

-The 400 and 1,500 are both in the decathlon.

This is heptathlon.

Yeah, so the 400 and 1,500 in the decathlon, Barry.

-Ah.

-Says Kevin. It's 200.

-Ah, good question.

So, Kenan, you've got

-a let-off there.

-Phew.

Here's your question, third question, get this right,

put some pressure on Barry the Brain.

Lance Armstrong won and was later stripped of a bronze medal

in which cycling event at the 2000 Olympic Games?

Oh, bit of a tough one there.

Just trying to figure whether they do the road race

as part of the Olympics, which I think they do.

And in that case, I'm going to say

the road race.

It was time trial.

-Time trial.

-Barry, for the round.

By what nickname is the Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi best-known?

Well, the Rawalpindi Express I think is Akhtar, Shoaib Akhtar,

so I'll discount him.

Er, Sultan of Swing or Boom Boom?

I think it's Boom Boom.

If you've got this right, you're in the final round.

Shahid Afridi is best known by the nickname Boom Boom.

-Well done, Barry, you're in the final. Sorry, Kenan.

-No problem.

Two wrong answers cost you there, you were beaten by our Egghead

and as a result, you will not be able to help out

your team in the final round.

If you come back to us, we will play that final.

Here we are, this is what we've been playing towards.

It is time for that 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.

So, that's Anass, Elana and Kenan from the Wagger's Wizards

and also Kevin from the Eggheads.

How often do we see this?

Please leave the studio.

-Well, Grant and Maggie, good luck to you.

-Thank you.

Unusual to have Kevin in the booth over there, exiled.

-Well done, Grant.

-Maybe it's going to go well in the final.

You're playing to win £9,000, OK? So, good jackpot today.

Barry, Chris, Judith and Dave, you are playing to keep this

run of yours going and just build up the Eggheads' reputation.

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

This time, they're all general knowledge

and you are allowed to confer.

So, Wagger's Wizards,

the question is can your two brains defeat those four?

-Would you like to go first or second?

-First?

Yes, we'd like to go first, please, Jeremy.

-OK, Maggie and Grant, good luck.

-Thank you.

In October 2015, large shops in England became required by law

to charge how much for each single-use plastic carrier bag?

5p?

Yeah, I think we know this one.

5p.

-Yeah, 50p would cause riots in the streets, wouldn't it?

-Yes.

5p is right.

OK.

Here's your question, Eggheads.

What type of military machine is the de-commissioned Avro Vulcan?

-It's a jet arrow plane.

-The Vulcan, the triangular thing.

Big noisy thing.

We believe that's a jet bomber, please, Jeremy.

Jet bomber is right.

Over to you, Challengers.

Which of these businesswomen became a Tory peer in 2015?

Erm...

-Deborah Meaden was Dragons' Den, wasn't she?

-Yes.

It's going to be between...

-I really, really don't know.

-Neither do I.

Erm, definitely not Deborah.

So it's a fifty-fifty shot.

Let's go for...

I'm going for Hilary Devey.

-Yeah?

-Yeah, for some reason.

-Fifty-fifty? Go for it?

-Yeah.

-We'll go for Hilary Devey, please.

-Hilary is your answer.

OK. She's the one on Dragons' Den? Is that right?

She was.

-So was Deborah.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-The answer is Michelle Mone.

-Sorry.

-Oh, gone for it.

-I think she's a bra...

-Ultimo.

-She invented a wonderbra.

-She made a kind of a wonderbra.

-Yeah.

-I think.

Michelle Mone is the answer, sorry.

Moaning and groaning there.

OK, Eggheads, to take the lead in this final for £9,000.

Which of these literary characters

was created by the Swedish author Henning Mankell?

-Blomkvist.

-It's Mikael Blomkvist.

-From the Millennium series.

It's Mikael Blomkvist, isn't it?

Hang on a minute.

I thought it was Wallander.

Is it Wallander?

-I'm just having a second thought now.

-Hold on.

-Millennium, Stieg Larsson is Millennium.

-Yes, it's Wallander.

Kurt Wallander is Henning Mankell because he died not so long.

And Harry Hole is Jo Nesbo.

Yes, because Henning Mankell died not so long ago, didn't he?

-Wallander.

-So, it's Kurt Wallander.

-Kenneth Branagh.

-So, we're all happy with that? Kurt Wallander?

-Yes.

We're going to go for Kurt Wallander, please.

Blimey. What happened there?

Well, common sense prevailed.

It's like your electrical circuit started sparking.

Blomkvist is yeah, Stieg Larsson.

Harry Hole is Jo Nesbo.

Kurt Wallander is the right answer. I thought you'd suddenly...

-Did you think that they'd suddenly gone mad?

-I know.

So, they're in the lead

and it means you must get this

one right, your third question.

We're still in.

The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize

was awarded to a group of four organisations

that were central in the attempts to build

a pluralistic democracy in which country after its 2011 revolution?

This is hard. I don't think it's Libya.

-No, I don't think.

-No, I don't think it's Libya.

So, are we going back down to

Jordan or Tunisia?

Shall we go for it? Tunisia?

-Go for it, your call.

-You won't blame me?

I won't blame you, not at all. No, not after Hilary Devey wrong.

OK, Jeremy. We're going to go

for Tunisia.

Tunisia is correct.

-Well done.

-Yes!

-Oh, my God.

-Well done.

-Lucky guess.

Sort of started the Arab Spring that, yes.

Tunisia has put them in contention now

but will you snatch it away, Eggheads?

You get this right, the contest is over.

Crown Prince Philippe became the king of which country in 2013?

Spain.

-Spain.

-Spain. Spain.

Juan Carlos stood down, yes.

-We're happy with Spain, aren't we?

-Yeah.

Yeah, we're going to go for Spain, please, Jeremy.

Queen Letizia.

You're wrong, Eggheads.

-Belgium.

-Ah!

-Belgium.

-We should have asked for a spelling.

-A spelling?

It's doesn't matter, it's all right.

How many ways of spelling Philippe are there?

Well, the King of Spain is now King Philip VI.

-All right. Well, Eggheads.

-We just didn't listen, is the answer.

-No, we didn't listen.

-You didn't listen.

You nearly got the second one wrong as well.

All right, so it goes to Sudden Death.

Keep focused, they've obviously signally failed to do that

and let's see if you can win £9,000.

Gets a bit harder now, I don't give you alternatives.

In October 2015, the pool of numbers for players to choose six from

in the main UK national lottery Lotto draw

increased from 49 to how many?

-59.

-59?

-I'm sure it's 59.

-Go for it.

-I think.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's 59.

-Yes, 59.

-Definitely. 59.

59.

Maggie, you're right. Well done. 59.

Yes!

So, now the pressure's on them,

you may not have to do any more!

£9,000 on the table, you've won the money if they get this wrong.

Sudden Death.

How many knights are on the board at the start of a game of chess?

-Two on each side.

-That's four.

-I don't know.

-Yeah, four, four.

-We're going for four.

-We're being careful now.

We've learned!

We're going to go for four, please, Jeremy.

If you've got it wrong, the contest is over.

But of course, that is the right answer. Four.

I noticed Judith has now decided not to say anything

for the rest of the game.

Just don't shout Spain, that's the main thing, Judith.

That's where it went wrong.

All right, your question, Sudden Death.

Which political pamphleteer was born in Thetford in Norfolk

in 1737 and died in New York City in 1809?

I really haven't got a clue.

-I haven't got a clue.

-I don't know any...

Can't even think a way of guessing or trying to work this one.

Neither do I. I'm really helpless.

-No idea.

-I don't know.

-Don't know.

-We're going to have to pass on that one, Jeremy.

-You sure?

-Yeah, really don't know.

-Don't know.

-Eggheads, do you know this one?

-Tom Paine.

-Thomas Paine is the right answer, yeah. Thomas Paine.

OK, so, Eggheads, if you get this right,

the game is over.

In Greek mythology,

what was the family relationship between Poseidon and Zeus?

-Brothers.

-Definitely.

-Brothers.

Three brothers - Poseidon, Zeus and Hades.

-OK, so brothers?

-Yes.

-Reliably informed that they were brothers, Jeremy.

-Fingers crossed.

Brothers is the right answer. We say congratulations, Eggheads.

You have won.

So, just to be clear, Felipe of Spain came in 2014,

-a different year.

-Right, right.

And is spelt differently so the spelling might have helped there.

We say commiserations, you were only a question away

from the jackpot there.

-Thank you, Jeremy.

-But thank you. And well done.

Yes, it sort of comes naturally most of the time,

I think it's fair to say.

Other times, it's a bit of a struggle.

But this winning streak continues

and I can officially say it's an impressive streak now, Eggheads.

It does mean you won't be going home with the £9,000.

So, the money rolls over to our next show.

Eggheads, very well done.

And how you entertained us today!

Oh, my goodness. Bumpy?

Well, let's see what happens next time.

We'll see if a new team of Challengers can take them down.

£10,000 says they can't. Till then, goodbye.