Episode 69 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 menacing.

-Yes.

-Hope so.

-Good. I know they like to menace.

Hoping to get one over on our quiz champions today

are Rose And The White Horse. Now, this friends and family team

take their name from the emblems of their home counties -

the rose of Hampshire and the white horse of Kent.

Let's meet them.

Hello, I'm Roger, and I'm a retired naval warrant officer.

Hi, I'm Chris, I'm a retired IT technician.

Hi, I'm Christine, and I'm a retired teacher.

Hi, I'm Tim, and I'm a university tutor.

Hello, I'm Lin, and I'm a donor carer.

So, Roger, team, welcome.

-Friends and family?

-Yes, yeah.

-And you quiz together?

We've never ever quizzed together as a complete team,

but we all like quizzing, in either sort of groups or couples.

And we've actually quizzed in a few unusual places.

Lin, last week, was actually quizzing in Finland.

-And we've quizzed in places like on the Nile River...

-Right.

..on the Rhine, in New Zealand, China, places like that.

And, in fact, Chris and Christine actually organise and run quizzes

for a group that they work for.

Well, that's absolutely fascinating. Thank you for that, and good luck.

-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, Rose And The White Horse,

the Eggheads have won the last six games,

which means £7,000 says you can't beat them.

So, they're on a bit of a streak,

-and would you like to get cracking? ALL:

-Yes.

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

-Who would like this?

-I think that's going

-to be me.

-I think it is.

-Lin?

-Yeah, Lin.

-Like a lamb to the slaughter. Erm...

Which Egghead looks unmusical?

I'm going to be very brave and I'm going to take Kevin, please.

Lin from Rose And The White Horse versus Kevin from the Eggheads.

And to ensure there's no conferring,

would you please take your positions in our famous Question Room?

Lin, would you like to go first or second?

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

So, here is your question. Good luck.

How many of the Spice Girls had the first name Emma?

-I'm going for one.

-Can you name her?

-Emma Bunton.

-Yeah.

-Yeah, Baby Spice.

-Yeah, Bunton. Yeah, Baby Spice. One is right.

Kevin,

Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, the Welsh national anthem,

translates into English as Land Of My what?

That is Land Of My Fathers.

It is indeed.

Lin,

which animals are mentioned in the lyrics of the carol

Away In A Manger?

It's definitely not sheep.

I can't think of any camels being mentioned.

I think it was the cattle that were lowing.

Cattle is right. Well done.

Kevin,

what name is given to a comic song in an opera,

such as the Major-General's song in The Pirates Of Penzance,

the effect of which depends on the rapid delivery

of strings of words?

That's called a patter song.

It's called a patter song. Well done.

Two-two after two questions.

Lin, hold him off.

Which of these composers was born first?

I'm not very good on actual dates.

Erm, I'm going to go for...

-I'm going to go for Schubert.

-OK.

I don't know why, but I've just got a hunch.

-You've got a hunch?

-Mm-hm.

OK, Kevin knows the dates, I bet.

Yeah, that's right. He was 1797,

Liszt was 1811 and Brahms was 1833.

So, well done. You got it right, Lin.

That's good. Three out of three. Kevin,

which UK number one single for ABBA features the recurring line,

"Cos somewhere in the crowd, there's you"?

Hmm. No, I don't recognise the line, unfortunately.

Is there a line in Super Trouper that's something like,

"I'm going to find you"?

-HE HUMS

-"I'm going to find you."

That would fit.

-So, I'll say Super Trouper.

-JEREMY CHUCKLES

-Lin, is he right?

-He is, yes.

-I can't...

Can you sing it? I haven't got the voice for it.

-Lin?

-I can't sing it, no.

# Somewhere in the crowd, there's you

-BOTH:

-# And like a super trouper, lights are gonna find me... #

-It just sounded better with the rhythm, yeah.

-Yeah.

OK, anyway, three-all. Sorry, Lin.

It goes to Sudden Death, OK?

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

In 2000, Mark Elder became music director of which British orchestra?

I'm not 100% sure.

I'm going to go for the Royal Philharmonic.

No, it's the Halle Orchestra.

Kevin, for the round,

which actress had parts of her singing

dubbed by Leona Gordon in The King And I

and by Betty Wand in West Side Story?

In relation to the films, I can't think of anybody who was in both.

I'm all over the place with this. I'll have to say Rita Moreno.

You got it right. Well done.

Well,

respect to the grandmaster there.

-How you did that... Lin, I'm sorry, but there we are.

-It's OK.

You've seen him working up close. It's quite impressive, isn't it?

Please come back and rejoin your teams.

So, Rose And The White Horse

have lost one brain from the final round,

-but you did well getting to Sudden Death.

-Thank you.

The Eggheads have not lost any. And we play on, and it's Sport.

Who would like Sport?

-I think Tim?

-Yeah, I think I'll take Sport.

-You happy with that?

-Yeah.

-OK, yeah, we'll have Tim.

-OK, Tim, university tutor, against which Egghead?

-Chris? Chris?

-Happy to take Chris?

-Yeah.

-Yeah? OK, Chris, then, please.

OK, Tim from Rose And The White Horse,

Chris from the Eggheads, please go to our Question Room.

Tim, let's see if you can pull one back for the Challengers.

Would you like to go first or second against Chris?

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

So, Sport, and here is your question.

Which Leicester City footballer

scored in 11 consecutive Premier League games

during the 2015/16 season?

Erm, well, OK, I think that he beat Ruud van Nistelrooy's record

of ten consecutive games, so I believe it's Jamie Vardy.

Jamie Vardy is correct. For which team?

-You said in the question. It's Leicester City.

-I did, sorry.

LAUGHTER Yeah, for Leicester City. Well done.

OK, Chris,

in which year did Mexico City host the Summer Olympic Games?

That one's going back a bit.

1968.

1968 is correct.

Tim, in rugby union,

what is awarded after an unintentional knock-on

in which the ball remains within the field of play?

I believe that's a scrum.

It is a scrum. Well done.

Chris, which tennis player

won a record fourth straight ATP World Tour Finals title in 2015?

Well, I think the days of Federer are past, to a certain extent.

Andy Murray, of course, won Wimbledon.

But I think the current number one sort of hotshot

is Novak Djokovic.

Novak Djokovic is the right answer.

Two-two. Your question, Tim.

Which of these is an American football team

playing in the NFL?

Right. Well, it's definitely not the Pittsburgh Pirates.

I think they're known as the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Erm, and the New Orleans Saints are one of my favourite teams,

so I believe that leaves

Carolina Panthers as the correct answer.

It does. Really good quizzing. Well done. Carolina Panthers.

Three out of three for our Challenger.

Chris, can you keep up?

In which weight division did the boxer Anthony Crolla

win a world title in 2015

less than a year after suffering a fractured skull

when confronting burglars at a neighbour's house?

Er...don't think he's a lightweight if he went tackling burglars.

There aren't that many cruiserweights about,

so I'd say he was a middleweight.

He can't be lightweight cos he tackled burglars - I love that.

-But he can and he was.

-Oh.

Lightweight's the answer. Tim, you're in the final.

-Well done.

-Thank you.

-Please come back to us. We'll play on.

Nice work by Tim.

Rose And The White Horse have lost a brain,

but the Eggheads have lost one now as well,

and the next subject is Science.

-Who would like Science?

-That'll be me.

-We've only got one person on the side.

-Chris?

Against which Egghead?

-Can I take Judith?

-Yes, you can.

So, Chris from Rose And The White Horse

versus Judith, who once knocked out...

-A rocket scientist.

-..a rocket scientist on Science.

But failed on a nuclear physicist just the other day.

That would have completed the set. You're right.

Please go to the Question Room now.

All right, game on. Chris, do you want to go first or second?

First, please, Jeremy.

And here we go.

The term Wasserstoff,

literally translating as water substance,

is the German name for which element?

Well, given that neither argon nor helium are

constituent parts of water, I'll go for hydrogen.

Hydrogen is right. Wasserstoff. Didn't know that.

OK, Judith, which of these is a condition affecting the gums?

I think blepharitis is something to do with your eyelids,

and bursitis is sort of housemaid's knee or something like that.

I think it's gingivitis.

It is gingivitis, yes.

OK,

back to you, Chris.

The French bacteriologist Albert Calmette

and the veterinarian Camille Guerin

are best remembered for their discovery of a vaccine

first used on humans in 1921 for which disease?

Now, my father suffered from tuberculosis,

and they treated him with antibiotics in the '50s

that hadn't long been discovered,

so I think I'll rule tuberculosis out.

Smallpox, I think, was...

..originally treated with something that was derived from cowpox.

I think I'll go for measles, Jeremy.

-Do you know, it's tuberculosis.

-Oh!

-Yeah.

Judith,

what name is given to the jar, invented in the 18th century,

used for storing electric charge?

Um, I think it's the Leyden jar.

It is indeed. Brilliant.

Back to you, Chris.

In geological time,

which period immediately follows the Silurian period?

From what I remember of the Silurian,

there were some fairly hefty animals around then.

And the other period that I associate with

that kind of life would be the Devonian, I think.

I'll go for Devonian, Jeremy.

You're playing well. Devonian is right. Well done.

Now we see if that TB answer will cost you. Judith,

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

The astronomer Tycho Brahe was born in which century?

I have a feeling it was...

I think it was the 16th century.

15-something.

-16th is correct.

-Yeah.

-Well done.

You've won on Science. Sorry, Chris.

Beaten by our Egghead, so you won't be able to help out in the final.

Please return to us and we'll see what happens next.

So, as it stands, Rose And The White Horse

have lost two from the final round. The Eggheads have just lost the one.

Another round before the final, though, and it's Politics.

-Roger, who wants this?

-I think

-our Christine will take that.

-Christine.

-Are you happy, Christine?

-I'm happy to do that.

-OK.

-Against either Dave or Barry.

-Dave?

-OK, against Dave, please.

-Dave.

Right, so, Christine from Rose And The White Horse

does Politics with Dave from the Eggheads.

Please go to the Question Room.

So, on Politics, Christine, would you like to go first or second?

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

Here we go. Good luck.

The full title of the role

to which Philip Hammond was appointed in July 2014

is Secretary of State for Foreign and what Affairs?

Well, it's certainly not relationships,

although that's a nice idea,

and business is separate, so it's Commonwealth.

Commonwealth is correct.

Dave,

James K Polk served as US president in which century?

Yeah, erm, James K Polk was a 19th-century US president.

19th century is right.

OK, Christine,

which of these couples met

whilst working at the law firm Sidley Austin?

Well, it's not Dave and Sam Cameron

because Samantha Cameron isn't a lawyer.

It could be Bill and Hillary Clinton.

But Michelle Obama, I think, was also a lawyer,

so I'd go for Barack and Michelle Obama.

It's the Obamas. You're right.

Dave, who served as the Prime Minister of Jamaica

between 1972 and 1980, and again from '89 to '92?

Erm, I think his father was also prime minister.

That's Michael Manley.

Michael Manley is quite right.

Christine, the Prisoners - Temporary Discharge For Ill-Health - Act

of 1913,

passed to deal with the problem of hunger-striking suffragettes,

was also known by what name?

Well, this was the act where they released suffragettes

so that they could rebuild their health

and then they came back in,

so it was known as the Cat and Mouse Act.

Cat and Mouse Act is correct.

Dave, to stay in,

Rancho del Cielo near Santa Barbara in California

served as a vacation home for which US president?

The one US president out of those three

I would associate with California

is Ronald Reagan, so that's my answer.

And Ronald Reagan is correct, so, equal after three questions.

We go to Sudden Death,

Christine. Here's your question.

The Broadcasting Act of 1980

started the process for the creation of which TV channel?

Channel 4 started in 1982, so I would say Channel 4.

Channel 4 is correct.

Dave,

in 2006, who became the youngest person

and first woman to be elected Governor of Alaska?

I've got some mad things coming into my head,

but Sarah Palin.

Sarah Palin is right.

OK, your question, Christine.

Who did Michael Martin succeed

as Speaker of the House of Commons in 2000?

That would be the first female Speaker of the House of Commons,

Betty Boothroyd.

Yes, indeed. Betty Boothroyd.

So, Dave, to stay in.

Mm-hm.

JBM Hertzog was prime minister of which country

between 1924 and 1939?

15 years?

I'll have to go Germany, but I don't believe it's right.

-No, South Africa is the answer.

-Oh, right. Yeah, sorry.

South Africa. Christine, you're in the final round.

-Well done. Well played.

-Well done.

-Very good quizzing.

Come back to us, both of you, and we will play that final.

This is what we've been playing towards.

It is time for the final round,

which, as always, is General Knowledge.

But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads

will not be allowed to take part in this round.

So, Chris and Lin from Rose And The White Horse,

and also Chris and Dave from the Eggheads,

would you please now leave the studio?

So, Roger, Christine and Tim,

you are playing to win Rose And The White Horse £7,000.

Judith, Kevin and Barry, you're playing for something

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

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

This time, they're all General Knowledge.

You can confer. So, Rose And The White Horse,

the question is, can your three brains defeat these three?

And would you like to go first or second?

We'll continue as we've gone on and we'll go first, please, Jeremy.

Here we go with your first question, Challengers. Good luck.

What type of creature is The Beano character Biffo?

-Bear. Bear, isn't he?

-I've no idea.

No idea? Was it not your era?

I don't think he was in it when I read it.

-THEY LAUGH

-I just don't know.

-He was...

-No, it was Biffo the Bear.

-Was it?

-Yeah, definitely.

-Go with you, then.

-We'll go with you.

Our answer is bear, Jeremy.

Yeah, bear is right. Well done.

Eggheads, which model

is the mother of Rod Stewart's children Renee and Liam?

Oh.

-Not a good start, is it?

-Well, Penny Lancaster's his current wife.

-Rachel Hunter was...

-Well, he's had...

Well, did Britt Ekland have any children...?

I don't think he had children with Britt Ekland.

Well, then, I think it's Rachel Hunter.

What do you think, Barry?

Well, I know he's got one with Penny,

-but I think that was rather late, so...

-OK.

My feeling is maybe Rachel Hunter.

-And my instinct is Rachel.

-OK.

So, shall we go for...?

-I think we'll have to.

-All right.

Well, as you gather, we're not really certain on this.

We don't think it was Britt Ekland,

but we're going to go for Rachel Hunter anyway

-and keep our fingers crossed.

-OK.

Gosh, you got stuck on the first question here.

He has had two with Penny. Their names are Alastair and Aiden.

You got it right. Well done. Rachel Hunter.

Phew!

Rose And The White Horse, in the Greek alphabet,

which letter immediately follows iota?

-Kappa.

-Kappa, isn't it?

-There's no J, so it's got to be kappa.

-That's it. I was thinking kappa.

-Happy with that?

-Yeah, absolutely.

-Yeah, go for kappa.

Er, that sounds to me

as if it's going to come earlier on in the alphabet.

Pi and sigma are further along,

so we're going to go with kappa.

Kappa's right. Well done.

Eggheads, who designed

the London Underground maps

resembling electrical circuit diagrams

that were first published in 1933?

-All happy with Harry Beck?

-Harry Beck, yeah.

-Yes, this is

as chestnut of a question as you possibly could have,

so we definitely know that it's Harry Beck.

Harry Beck is right.

Challengers, which prime minister

does Alec Guinness play in the 1950 film The Mudlark?

-What does Alec Guinness look like? That might help me.

-Alec Guinness...

-Describe him to me.

-He's...

-Dark hair.

Yeah, but he can play so many characters.

He's a brilliant actor.

I wouldn't have thought... I would like to rule out Robert Peel.

-I don't think it was that.

-OK.

The Mudlark seems to me as if it's more of a sort of...

..a naval type film.

-Perhaps I'm getting it mixed up with something else.

-What, The Navy Lark?

Yeah, but the mudlarks are...

The mudlarks were

a group of youngsters

who used to dive for money

in the mud in sort of Victorian times.

So, we're getting rid of David Lloyd George, then?

Get rid of David Lloyd George, and I think, out of the other two...

Victorian? Disraeli?

So, you're going for Disraeli?

Well, if I had to choose now out of the three,

I would go for Disraeli,

but that's only loosely based on what I know about mudlarks,

and so that might be something totally different to the film.

If I had to put money on it,

-I would say Benjamin Disraeli.

-Let's go with you.

I think you've got more idea than we have, so let's go with that.

-I don't know about that.

-Let's give it a go.

Let's give it a go.

As you can guess, Jeremy, we don't really know about this,

and The Mudlark is possibly different

to what I was thinking about with mudlarks.

Having said that, we will go with Benjamin Disraeli.

You got the right answer. Well done.

You're doing really well there.

Eggheads, to stay in,

in mythology,

Lavinia was the wife of which Trojan hero?

Oh, gosh, this is another one we should know.

I'm no good with mythology.

-Doesn't come immediately to mind.

-Lavinia?

-Lavinia?

-Lavinia.

-Well, Paris was a bachelor, wasn't he?

-Yes.

-With the Judgment.

I don't recall Paris having a wife before they abducted Helen.

I'm a bit...

I thought Hector's wife... Was Hector's wife Andromache?

Who was Aeneas's wife?

I'm trying to remember her name now.

I don't think it was Hector.

I still think it's Aeneas.

-I think Hector is Andromache.

-I think Hector is Andromache.

Ah, I'll tell you what it is with Aeneas

and why I was getting confused there.

His Trojan wife, his first wife, she...

-His Roman wife?

-..dies in the process.

-Yeah, that's right.

-Cos Lavinia's a Roman name.

It's The Aeneid. So, when they get to Italy,

he marries the daughter of the King of Latium, I think it is...

-Ah.

-Who's called Lavinia.

-..and that's Lavinia.

-So, she wasn't his only wife...

-Ah, yeah.

-..but she was his wife later on.

-Second wife.

-He lost one wife in the Sack of Troy.

-OK.

-So, we're happy with Aeneas?

-Yeah, it's Aeneas, yeah.

-All right, well,

we don't think Paris had a wife,

we think Hector's wife was Andromache,

so we're going to go for Aeneas.

Didn't you have problems with a mythology question the other day?

-We certainly did.

-Yeah.

-It lost something for us the other day, yes.

Well, this one, you've got right. Well done.

-Well done.

-Aeneas. Well done, Kevin.

That came together. Isn't he amazing?

-They all are, really.

-Yeah.

Got the whole story there.

So, three each after three questions.

We go to Sudden Death.

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

In the US sitcom The Golden Girls,

what was the first name of the character played by Betty White?

-Don't know why you're both looking at me.

-No.

-Never watched it.

-Before my time.

-Have you seen it?

-No.

-See, I don't even recognise the name Betty White.

-No.

-Do you know any of the characters from The Golden Girls?

-No.

No, that's just what I was thinking. I don't know any of them.

-If we're thinking of sort of that...

-That era.

So, we're looking for older names, older girls' names.

What decade are we looking at?

We're looking at... Well, they would have been...

We're talking probably about the sort of...

-That was in the '70s, '80s?

-Yes.

And they were golden girls then, so we're probably talking...

-'60s, '70s themselves.

-Yeah.

So, we're probably looking at people born

in the first ten to 20 years of the 20th century.

So, looking at popular girls' names from then.

But because they were also girls with a bit of go...

-Yeah, no, no, you're right.

-..they've probably been given names

that weren't sort of considered flat and dull in the '70s.

-So, they might not have been Dorises or Ednas.

-No, no, no.

-So, they might have been...

-So, like, a Marilyn or something?

-Marion came to my mind, actually.

-Marion or Marilyn?

-Something like that.

-Marion? Jane?

-I think something with a bit more...

-Marion?

-Yeah, something with...

Marion actually sounds that sort of era,

-but I think it's a pure guess.

-Yeah.

It's a pure guess cos we have no idea.

Marion. That's what came to my mind as soon as they said it,

-and I've never seen it.

-OK, OK.

-Really?

-Yeah.

Jeremy, you've realised that we...

-I don't think any of us have seen this.

-Yeah.

So, we're just trying to...

We know roughly the sort of era

-and we're trying to work out names based on that.

-Sure.

I don't think we've even heard of Betty White,

so we're just going to have, unfortunately, a stab in the dark,

and we're going to go with... Marion?

-..Marion.

-OK.

-Let's see if the Eggheads know.

-I've been trying to remember this.

Been running through the character names.

-There's a Rose.

-There was one called Dorothy,

-one called Rose.

-A Blanche.

-There was a Blanche.

Rose is the one I'm inclined to at the moment.

-Yeah.

-But there's a name missing because there are four of them.

Is Sophie one of them? Sophia?

-Oh, was there a Sophia?

-There might have been.

-So, you would have gone...?

-Possibly Rose in the end, but...

-Yeah, Rose is the answer.

-Oh, it was Rose.

-Rose is the answer.

Your inklings, Kevin.

You're amazing today, Eggheads. Up against a very good team as well.

So, your question, Eggheads,

will take the contest if you get it right.

Sierra Leone has a coastline on which ocean?

-Atlantic.

-Atlantic.

-Yeah.

-Yeah?

-Yes.

It's the Atlantic. It's West Africa. It's on the west coast of...

Sierra Leone is on the west coast of Africa,

which puts it on the Atlantic Ocean.

I won't dilly-dally. Atlantic is the right answer.

We say congratulations, Eggheads. You have won.

And I know you knew that last one, of course.

THEY LAUGH But well played. My goodness.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.

This winning streak continues. Well done, Eggs, as well.

It does mean you won't be going home with the £7,000,

so the money rolls over to our next show.

Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?

Join us next time to see if a new team of Challengers

have the brains to defeat them.

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