Episode 68 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. Looking lively.

-Hello.

-Hi.

-Good stuff.

Challenging our resident quiz champions today

are What's My Line? from Nottingham.

This team are all members of the

Burton Joyce Players Theatrical Society

and they often quiz together at their local, the Wheatsheaf Inn.

Let's meet them.

Hi, I met Tom and I'm a shop supervisor.

Hi, I'm Gren and I'm a retired fireman.

Hi, I'm Liz and I'm a retired primary school teacher.

Hi, I'm Patrick and I'm a retired psychology teacher.

Hi, I'm Alistair and I am a dentist.

-So, Tom and team, welcome, great to see you.

-Hi, Jeremy!

Tell us about the amateur dramatics then, Tom.

That's where we all met. We do three shows a year.

And we're currently rehearsing for our pantomime.

And we've got actors here and people who do other sorts of things?

Yeah, we've got Liz, does front of house sometimes.

-Patrick directs sometimes and does backstage work as well.

-Brilliant.

-Alistair has been acting with us and my dad helps out here.

-Good.

-I act as well.

-Fantastic. Well, you've got all angles covered.

Just about, yeah, you could say that.

Hopefully in the quiz as well, that's the key thing.

-Good luck to you guys.

-Thank you.

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, What's My Line?,

the Eggheads have won the last five games.

-Ooh.

-They're on a bit of a streak,

which means there's £6,000 for you to win today.

-Would you like to try?

-Indeed.

-Yes, please.

-Absolutely.

All right, the first head-to-head battle

is on the subject of Geography.

Who would like this?

OK, I think Liz.

Who's going?

-Liz, do you want to take that one?

-OK.

Happy with that? Yeah.

OK, Liz, before you go, Liz, who would you like to take on?

-I think Lisa.

-I think we said Lisa.

-Lisa.

-Lisa, why not? Good choice.

-Lisa, Jeremy, please.

-There's a kind of inevitability about this, Lisa.

Yeah, pretty much.

Liz from What's My Line? versus Lisa from the Eggheads.

To ensure there's no conferring,

please take your positions in our legendary Question Room.

So, Geography, Liz, would you like to go first or second?

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

Here we go, good luck.

Himachal Pradesh is a mountainous state

in the north of which country?

I've heard of this.

I don't think that it's Mexico.

Nor do I think it's Italy.

I think my answer is going to be India.

India is the correct answer.

Lisa,

the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin was based on the design of

the entrance to which famous structure?

When you say based on, I assume the original didn't have a

great big horse on the top and everything else.

The Acropolis.

Yes, it is Acropolis.

OK, Liz.

Vientiane, the capital of Laos, is situated close to the border

with which other country?

I'm struggling a little bit with this.

And I'm thinking between Vietnam and Thailand.

I'm going to say Vietnam, Jeremy.

I'm really sorry, you've gone the wrong way.

Thailand is the answer.

Lisa,

Parana is the name of one of the 26 states

of which South American country?

-Can you spell Parana for me, please?

-Yeah, P-A-R-A-N-A.

I can't even work out which one to guess. This is really bad, isn't it?

I don't know, Argentina.

-No, it's Brazil.

-Ah, well!

So, you're level.

Liz, third question.

What name is shared by a district of Liverpool

and a peninsula in County Kerry in Ireland?

I'm going to say straight away that it's Dingle.

Dingle is correct.

OK, your third question, Lisa.

Which of the following do xeric shrublands lack?

Yeah, so the ic bit is to do with the lack, like anaemic,

I guess, and I think an X-E-R is usually something to do with water.

So, I'll try moisture.

Excellent work, it is moisture.

So, you're level after three questions.

We go to Sudden Death, Liz.

-Oh, dear.

-Don't worry!

It gets a little bit harder, though,

because I don't give you alternatives.

What is the name of the city in Saskatchewan, Canada,

whose residents are known as Saskatonians?

Saskatchewan.

-No, it is not, it's Saskatoon.

-Oh!

Lisa.

Hainan Island,

the main island of China's Hainan Province,

is located in which sea?

Yeah, I love bodies of water. They cause me so many problems.

I don't know, South China Sea.

Yeah, Hainan literally means south of the sea.

South China Sea is correct.

Lisa, on Sudden Death, you've taken it. Sorry, Liz.

-OK.

-Knocked out by our Egghead.

Return to us, both of you, and we'll play on.

OK, as it stands, What's My Line? have lost a brain

from the final round, the Eggheads have still not lost any.

All five of them sitting there and they're on this streak as well.

See if you can stop it. Challengers, the next subject is Music.

-That'll be me.

-That will definitely be you.

OK, Tom?

-Yes, that was my strongest subject.

-Who are you going to take?

-Against?

I'll go with Judith, please, Jeremy.

Right, so Tom from What's My Line?

versus Judith from the Eggheads on Music.

Please go to the Question Room.

So, Music against Judith.

Tom, would you like to go first or second?

I'd like the first set of questions, please, Jeremy.

Here's your question.

In which decade did The Kinks have their first UK number one single?

Well, I know they were big in the '60s.

So, I'll go straight down the middle, the '60s.

'60s is correct.

Judith.

How many copies of Adele's album 25 were sold in the UK

in its first 24 hours of going on sale in November 2015?

Well, I know she has sold probably millions by now,

so I'm going to go for 300,000.

300,000 is correct.

Tom.

Which of these would one normally use to play the musical instrument

known as the rubab?

I've never heard of that instrument before.

I'm going to go down the middle again, Jeremy,

I'm going to go for bow.

And bow is correct.

Hooray!

OK. Judith,

Penthouse And Pavement and The Luxury Gap

are the titles of the early 1980s albums by which British pop group?

Well, I've never heard of them or any of those pop groups written up.

I don't know, Heaven 17.

That's the correct answer, Heaven 17.

Tom,

the lyrics of Ian Dury And The Blockheads' song

Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick include a mention of the vineyards

of which French wine region?

I'm singing it in my head now, embarrassingly.

I'm going to go down the left, Jeremy, at Provence.

-Provence is the wrong answer.

-Is it Bordeaux?

It's Bordeaux, it's the vineyards of Bordeaux.

"Eskimo, Arapaho"?

Move your body to and fro.

-"Move your bodies to and fro," yeah.

-Oh, no.

So, it gives Judith a little in here.

Adam And The Ants achieved their first UK number one single,

Judith, with which song?

Stand And Deliver was their most famous one, wasn't it?

I'm just going to say Stand And Deliver.

-Yeah, you've got it.

-Hmm.

You're right, it is Stand And Deliver.

So, you've got, Judith, three out of three.

Tom, sorry, you've been knocked out by Judith

and you won't be in the final round.

But come back to us and we'll play on.

So as it stands,

What's My Line? have lost two brains from the final round,

the Eggheads have not lost any and the next subject is Arts & Books.

Who would like this?

-We said Liz. Liz could do that.

-I can't do it.

-Oh, you're done?

-I've gone.

-You've gone, haven't you?

-Arts & Books.

You or me, then.

-Me?

-Yeah.

-Patrick will be good, yes.

-I'll go.

-I think Patrick.

OK, Patrick, against which Egghead?

I think...Dave.

I don't like the way he nodded there, though.

No, well, that can make any thing, to be honest.

Patrick from What's My Line? versus Dave from the Eggheads.

Please go to the famous room.

-Patrick, you were a psychology teacher.

-Indeed, yes.

And I gather your students voted you the funniest teacher?

-Funniest teacher two years running.

-Oh, brilliant.

And also the teacher who most resembles an animal?

I'm very proud of that particular award, yes.

-And did they say which animal?

-A mole.

-OK.

-That's kind of a conversation stopper, isn't it?

-Sort of, yes.

All right, Arts & Books, good luck. Against Dave.

-And would you like to go first or second?

-I will go first, thank you.

And here we go with your first question.

In writing, Patrick, what name is given to the attribution

of human characteristics to something non-human?

That would have to be, I think... It can't be alliteration

because that's repeating a letter or a sound over again.

Repetition is obviously repeating something,

it's got to be personification.

Personification is correct.

-Dave?

-Hmm.

Complete the title of Michael Rosen's children's book

We're Going On A...

I've never heard of it.

I've got to go Bear Hunt, but I've never heard of this.

Yeah, it is Bear Hunt. Lisa, it is quite a famous book, isn't it?

It's fairly famous. It's about 25 years old.

And the riff is "We're going on a bear hunt,

"we're going to catch a big one,

"what a beautiful day, we're not scared."

And they go through improbable things like giant snowstorms

and huge forests and stuff.

And eventually, they're confronted with a bear

-and immediately leg it.

-Yeah!

-So, it's a pretty rubbish bear hunt, really.

-OK.

So, Patrick.

Which a real-life actor does the character Bridget Jones interview

in the 1999 novel Bridget Jones - The Edge Of Reason?

Never read the book, never saw the film, so I have absolutely no idea.

I don't know why, but I'm drawn to Daniel Davies.

It's a wrong, I'm afraid. It's Colin Firth.

OK, Dave.

PL Travers, the author who created Mary Poppins,

was born in which country?

Well, she was the one who famously had the arguments with Walt Disney.

Yeah, I've got to go Australia.

Must go Australia on that. Australia.

Australia is correct.

So, Dave is ahead.

And, Patrick, that means you need to get this one right.

The Cross In The Mountains painted in 1807

is the first important oil painting by which artist?

1807? That's very early.

I'm trying to get something from the names.

Unfortunately, I don't recognise any of the names.

I will go straight down the middle, Matthias Grunewald.

-Let's ask the Eggheads. Is it right?

-No. It's Friedrich.

Friedrich is the answer, Caspar David Friedrich.

Oh, right.

And that means there's no way back

for you, Patrick, I'm afraid.

David, you've beaten our Challenger and you will be in the final.

Please come back, rejoin your teams. We'll play on.

What's My Line? have lost three brains from the final round,

the Eggheads have not lost any. And our next subject is Film & TV.

-Who would like this?

-Right.

-Is that you? That's you, yeah?

-I'll do it.

-Yes?

-Alistair.

-Alistair, OK.

-Yeah.

-Against which Egghead?

-I'll take on Kevin.

-Yeah, well done.

Alistair from What's My Line? fearlessly to going into battle

with Kevin from the Eggheads, the Grand Master.

Please go to the Question Room now.

OK, so Film & TV, Alistair.

Would you like to go first or second?

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

And here is your first question.

Which TV sports programme, usually broadcast midweek,

ran from 1968 to 1997?

Well, I remember watching this on my old black and white television.

I remember the theme tune as well.

So, I'm going to go straight down the middle and say Sportsnight.

Very good, it is Sportsnight.

Over to you, Kevin.

Which comedian

and actor played an older Peter Pan

in Stephen Spielberg's 1991 film Hook?

I believe that was Robin Williams.

Yes, Robin Williams.

Alistair, your second question.

Which of these TV adventure series was created by Terry Nation

in the late '70s?

Well, Space - 1999 was a Gerry Anderson production.

Because I was a big fan of his work, like UFO.

Battlestar Galactica came from America.

Terry Nation was famous for devising Blake's 7.

So, I'm going to go for Blake's 7,

although Blake wasn't in quite a lot of this series.

He disappeared halfway through.

Impressive, you're right. Blake's 7. Very good.

This is your round.

Kevin, who was co-hosting the BBC Six O'Clock News

with Nicholas Witchell in 1988

when the studio was invaded by protesters live on air?

I don't think it was, I don't think it was Anna Ford.

I had a sort of first instinct about Jan Leeming,

but I'm leaning more and more towards Sue Lawley now.

I'll go with Sue Lawley, take a chance.

-Yeah, it was Sue Lawley.

-Yeah.

-So, two-two.

And back to you, Alistair.

A rocking horse called Dapple appeared occasionally

on which children's television programme?

Well, Tiswas was more about custard pies than anything else.

But Play School occasionally did have a little rocking horse

that was a Dapple Gray, so I'm going to go for Play School.

Your knowledge is amazing. You're absolutely right.

Very impressive

TV round here.

OK, Kevin. This to stay in.

Which actor received Academy Award nominations for his roles

in the films The Kids Are All Right and Foxcatcher?

Well, I think the only one there who was in both of those

and a very good actor is Mark Ruffalo.

Mark Ruffalo it is.

OK, three-three.

Alistair, we go to Sudden Death.

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

TIM was the name of the computer in which children's

television adventure series first broadcast in 1973?

I am going to go for a science fiction programme

because it was a 1973 computer children's programme,

I'm going to go for something called The Tomorrow People.

-You've got the right answer.

-Whoo!

Kevin, to stay in.

In 1987, who became the first host of the UK quiz show Chain Letters?

Not something I watched.

I'm going to have to, no,

I'm effectively throwing my hands up because it could be anybody,

so I'm going to have to say a name and it may...

Roy Walker.

No, it's not.

-Jeremy Beadle.

-Ah.

Well done, Alistair, great round.

You have knocked out Kevin and you will be in the final.

Please return to us and we'll play that final round.

So, this is what we have been playing towards.

It is time for our final round and, as always, it 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, that is Tom and Liz and Patrick from What's My Line?,

but also Kevin from the Eggheads.

Would you please leave the studio?

Gren and Alistair, you're playing to win What's My Line? £6,000.

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

that money can't really buy, which is the Eggheads' reputation.

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

This time, the questions are all General Knowledge.

You are allowed to confer.

So, What's My Line?,

the question is are your two brains able to defeat these four?

And would you like to go first... Don't say no!

Do you want to go first or second?

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

OK.

The often considerable terminal payments

made to businesspeople whose services

are prematurely dispensed with are known colloquially as what?

-I've never had one, but it's a golden handshake.

-Yeah, definitely.

-Shall we go for it?

-Yes, after much deliberation,

we think that's a golden handshake, Jeremy.

Golden handshake is right. Well done.

Eggheads,

what name is given to a year between secondary

and further or higher education

when some school leavers travel or work before resuming their studies?

Gap.

-Gap year.

-Yes. Gap year.

-We're happy with gap?

-Think so. Gap.

That's a gap year, Jeremy.

It is indeed, gap year.

Your second question.

What word follows Falklands in a phrase used to denote

the effect of the 1982 Falklands War on the popularity

of Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives around that time?

Factor?

Well, it trips of the tongue much more, Falklands Factor, doesn't it?

-Yeah.

-Alliteration.

-We think that was the Falklands Factor, Jeremy.

Absolutely, was the Falklands Factor, well done.

Eggheads.

What name did the ancient Romans give to the region of Western Europe

that was inhabited by Celtic tribes,

including present-day France, Luxembourg and Belgium?

Gallia.

Gallia, it is.

-"Divisa in partes tres" and all that.

-And parts.

-It's Gallia, Gaul.

-Yeah.

-It was further down, wasn't it?

-Yes.

-Gallia.

-That was Gallia.

Gallia is correct. So, two-two.

This is interesting.

Third question can be crucial.

The new British Army raised to fight in the First World War

was given a humorous nickname based on that of which

theatrical producer and impresario?

-Yeah.

-I've heard of Fred Karno's Circus. Does that sound right?

-No.

Fred Karno's Army, yeah. Pretty sure it was.

I've not heard of the other two.

Yeah, pretty sure that was Fred Karno's Army.

Fred Karno is right, well done.

OK, Eggheads.

If you get this wrong, £6,000 goes to our Challengers.

The term nurdle, meaning to tap the ball unadventurously,

comes from which sport?

It's cricket.

Basically, I'll just explain what you do.

You're nurdling a run.

Rather than trying to hit boundaries,

you're nurdling the ball just to go for singles to change the strike.

I've heard that term definitely used in cricket.

-We're happy with cricket?

-Yes.

Going for cricket, Jeremy.

Cricket is the right answer. Well done, Dave.

Very certain play, we go to Sudden Death.

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

The Musical Honk by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe

is based on which story by Hans Christian Andersen?

-Honk?

-Something to do with cars. Honk, it's got to be a duck.

-Hans Christian Andersen, was it a goose?

-Ah, yes!

-The Ugly Duckling, that sounds right, doesn't it?

-Yeah.

-Honk, do you think it's about cars instead?

-No.

We don't think it's cars, we think it's animals.

It's The Ugly Duckling.

The Ugly Duckling is right.

Sudden Death.

Eggheads, what does the M stand for in the acronym

of the opinion poll organisation MORI?

-Is it market?

-I think market.

-Market Opinion Research Institute. I think it's market.

-Market?

-I think we've got to go market.

-Go with it.

-We all happy with the market?

-Yeah.

-Go with it.

-OK, we're going for market, Jeremy.

-Market is the right answer.

Well done, guys.

Challengers,

in November 2015, the Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal

pulled out of the race for which political party's nomination

for the US presidency?

Well, all the...all the news is about the Republican Party.

My gut feeling is Republican,

only because there's been a long list of candidates.

-Yeah.

-But it could be either, I really don't know.

I've not been keeping up with American politics.

Well, we're not sure, Jeremy,

but we think probably Republican.

Because there's been so many runners gone in and dropped out.

Republican is correct.

Sudden Death.

What marsupial lends its name to the British Parliamentary procedure

whereby in the report stage of a bill, the speaker selects

the amendments to be debated rather than having all of them discussed?

I think it's kangaroo.

-Yeah?

-I'm pretty sure.

-Pretty sure you've heard it?

I've heard of it I'm sure in parliamentary...

It immediately came to mind, yeah, kangaroo.

-OK, is everybody else happy with that?

-Yes.

We're going for kangaroo, Jeremy.

-Kangaroo is correct.

-Well done.

Challengers, which physicist,

a Nobel laureate, had a son who was himself awarded

the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1975?

-'75?

-'75.

So, we're talking a physicist, probably might have won

in the '40s or '50s.

-Yeah.

-So, it will either be someone like Rutherford.

What about the physicists...?

Crick and Watson, they weren't physicists as such, weren't they?

-Or were they?

-No.

-No.

-Let's go for Ernest Rutherford.

Yeah, we'll go for Ernest Rutherford, Jeremy.

That's the wrong answer. Do you know the answer?

Sounds like Niels Bohr and Aage Bohr.

Yes, exactly, Niels Bohr.

Niels Bohr is the answer there.

Gives you a chance to win the contest.

Which country singer born Ingram Cecil Connor,

died on a visit to the Joshua Tree National Monument

in 1973 at the age of 26?

-1973?

-Gram Parsons.

-Yeah, it is Gram Parsons, definitely.

-Ingram would have to be Gram, wouldn't it?

-Ingram.

it is Gram Parsons.

I believe that's right, yeah. It's around that time. Yeah, definitely.

OK, we're going for Gram Parsons.

Well, if you've got it right, you've taken the contest. Do you know?

-We think that sounds right.

-We think that's probably right, yes.

The Gram, the Ingram. Does help.

The answer is Gram Parsons.

We say congratulations, Eggheads. You have won!

Wow!

-You guys were amazing.

-We tried.

-We're exhausted.

And we don't often get a situation

where Kevin is knocked out like that.

-So, commiserations, What's My Line?

-Thank you.

Really well done to you.

The Eggheads have ploughed through and won.

And this winning streak continues.

I'm afraid you won't be going home with the £6,000,

so the money rolls over to our next show.

Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?

That was a bit of a rough-and-tumble there, wasn't it?

-Playing a great team here.

-Great team, great team.

-Thank you.

-So, join us next time to see

if a new team of Challengers will be just as good as this one.

£7,000 says they can't beat the Eggheads. Till then, goodbye.