Episode 7 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 wit against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.

They are the Eggheads!

Taking on our quiz champions today are the Barside Layabouts.

This team of friends from Glasgow regularly quiz

at Booly Mardy's in the city's West End.

Let's meet them!

Hi, I'm John and I'm a cafe owner.

Hi, I'm Mark and I'm a lawyer.

Hi, I'm Iain and I'm a chartered accountant.

Hi, I'm Donny, I'm a dental practice manager.

Hi, I'm Raymond and I'm a restaurant owner.

-So, John, team, good to see you.

-Nice to meet you.

Here we are filming in Glasgow. You've just basically walked around the corner.

20 minutes at the most for any of us.

And you quiz, that's the key thing here. You guys quiz.

Well, we quiz mostly against one another in Booly Mardy's

and we all quiz together in Firebird.

And you used to have a team game that was a bit like your team name today, is that right?

Mark and I grew up in the southside of Glasgow

and Mark was an accomplished footballer

and that was known as the Langside Layabouts, his football team

and we took the name forward from there.

So here are with the Barside Layabouts. It's all falling into place, that's great.

Good luck against the Eggs here.

I just wonder whether there might be a moment coming where

they fall off their perch.

So every day there is £1,000 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

and the reason I say, "I wonder if there might be a moment," is

because they are on quite a streak at the moment.

The Eggheads have won the last 15 games on the trot.

So that means there's £16,000 to win today.

-Would you like to get on and try?

-Yes, please.

-Absolutely.

The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Film & TV.

So Barside Layabouts, who wants to take this.

-John, what do you think?

-I think Raymond, probably.

-Yeah, I'll go with that.

-Good.

-Who are we going to play against?

-Do you want to have a go at Barry?

-Yeah, fine.

-What are you thinking?

He's a little bit impregnable on this one,

-it's not obvious who to choose. You're going for Barry?

-Yes, please.

He's got the full...

He looks like he watches a lot of TV.

But we'll see.

Raymond from Barside Layabouts versus Barry,

the brain from the Eggheads.

To ensure there's no conferring,

please take your positions in the Question Room.

So here we go, Film and TV

and Raymond, would you like to go first or second?

I would like to go first, please.

So here we go, Raymond, good luck.

What type of animal was Babe in the 1995 feature film of the same name?

I think I know this one.

It's pig.

It is pig, very good.

Over to you, Barry.

In the title of a 2012 fantasy horror film,

how is Abraham Lincoln described?

Amazing there, he was a vampire hunter.

I can't understand how the history books seem to have missed that one!

What's the film title, then?

I think it was Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.

Oh, right, I missed the whole thing. Vampire hunter is right.

Raymond...

Aidan Turner starred in a new version of which of these TV

costume dramas in 2015?

I'm looking to the first two.

It's a 50-50 on Poldark and The Onedin Line.

I think they were both out.

I think Poldark, this year. I'll go for Poldark.

Yes, Poldark is right, Raymond well done.

We go to Barry.

Brian Cant, Toni Arthur and Chloe Ashcroft were all

presenters of which children's TV show that ran from 1964 to 1988?

I don't recall them in Blue Peter.

Brian Cant rings a bell for Play School, actually.

I'll go for Play School.

Yeah, completely. Did you not watch it?

No, my children were the wrong age at that time.

OK, Raymond, which British actor played leading roles in the

Shane Meadows films, A Room For Romeo Brass

and Dead Man's Shoes?

I can't believe I got this question.

Dead Man's Shoes is one of my favourite movies

and it's Paddy Considine.

Is that right? You like the film.

You're absolutely right Paddy Considine is right.

So you have got three out of three.

Barry is on the edge.

Which actor played the role of Caecilius in the Doctor Who

episode entitled The Fires Of Pompeii?

Mmm...

I think this may have been Peter Capaldi before he became

the latest doctor. I'll go for Peter Capaldi.

That is a real stinker of a question because they're all doctors.

All Doctor Whos, of course.

Doctor Whos to be or as was.

Peter Capaldi is the right one. Well done.

You're level after three questions and Raymond we go to Sudden Death.

A perfect round so far, gets a bit harder now,

I don't give you alternatives. OK?

For what does the C in the abbreviation BBFC stand?

I'll guess corporation.

No, I think it is the British Board Of Film Classification.

The C is for classification.

They put all the certificates on the movies.

Barry, for the round.

The Scotsman John Anderson acted as the referee on which Saturday

night entertainment show first broadcast in 1992?

I believe that was Gladiators.

Gladiators is right, Barry, well done, you've taken the round

and you will be in the final. Sorry, Raymond, you're knocked out.

But still early days for the Challengers.

Let's see what happens next, do please return to your teams.

OK, as it stands Barside Layabouts have lost a brain.

Don't worry, though, you've got four more.

The Eggheads have still got all five

and we move to our next round which is Music.

Is this good for you?

-Who would like Music.

-Raymond would've liked music!

-OK.

-It was his first choice.

-Shall I do that one?

-I think so.

-I'll play that, please.

-OK, John.

Team captain. Would you like to play? Anyone but Barry.

What's your feelings?

Chris.

-Chris, please.

-Sure thing.

So it's going to be John... You had this before, Music.

-I've had it before, yes.

-I mean, recently.

I got over it.

LAUGHTER

John from Barside Layabouts against Chris from the Eggheads

and to ensure there's no conferring,

please go to our Question Room.

So John you're the team captain, you put the team together?

-That's right.

-But I gather you would rather be snowboarding.

Always.

Tell us where you snowboard?

We snowboard mostly in the French Alps,

sometimes the Italian Alps, sometimes Switzerland.

We try and go away for a couple of weeks every year.

I thought you going to say Scotland and northern Scotland and so on,

-but obviously not so much now. Is that right?

-Not so much no, no.

Mark and I sometimes go up there but not very much, recently.

OK we're on Music, John. I'm sensing you like your music.

Would you like to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please.

Here we go.

Which city did Frank Sinatra sing about with the line,

I wanna wake-up in a city that doesn't sleep?

That would be New York.

If Lisa was here she could sing it.

Judith, you once... Come on.

I know. It's Barcelona. It's Barcelona.

We had a very similar question to this for Judith once

and she answered Barcelona.

New York is the right answer.

-That was very close to your Barcelona moment.

-Yes.

OK, Chris, your question.

The Grammy winning singer,

LeAnn Rimes is most famous for which genre of music?

She could turn her hand to any of those

but she is best known for country.

COUNTRY ACCENT: Yep, with a name like LeAnn.

-LeAnn.

-I think so.

HE CHUCKLES

John, in 2013, which of these artists

started a multi-year performing residency in Las Vegas?

Well I don't really know this one.

I'd like to think Katy Perry was too young to be doing

a residency in Las Vegas and I'm fairly sure Madonna is not

so perhaps Britney Spears was at the right part of her career

and I'll go for Britney Spears.

Yeah. It is Britney Spears.

We think of Elvis when we think of residences in Vegas, don't we?

Very sad, I know what was... There was some amazing contract

Elvis had that almost broke him, I think.

Performing 30 nights out of 31 per month.

Something amazing. Poor guy.

Chris, your question.

Which of these names is given to a type of electric guitar

that has been in production since 1952?

If it's been in production since '52.

That predates Eric Clapton by quite a bit.

He was 1960s.

Buddy Rich is a drummer.

So it has got to be Les Paul.

Yes, have you heard of that guitar, the Les Paul?

-No.

-OK.

Les Paul is the answer, well done, Chris.

OK it's 2-2. It's tight.

Here's your question.

John, Where The Streets Have No Name and With Or Without You

are songs on which U2 album?

-That would be The Joshua tree.

-Do you like them?

-Yeah.

-It's true.

The Joshua Tree is correct.

Well done. You've got three out of three.

It means you're clinging on, Chris, slightly.

If you get this wrong, you'll be out.

After Simon and Garfunkel had split,

what job did Art Garfunkel take up at the end of 1971?

Well, he came back into the business, didn't he,

with Bright Eyes in the mid-'70s?

I don't think he'd go and edit a newspaper.

I don't think he had the qualifications to be an architect.

He'd probably go back as a maths teacher.

He was indeed a maths teacher, so, three out of three again.

And we go to Sudden Death, John.

-It gets a bit harder because I don't give your alternatives.

-OK.

For what does the letter B stand in the name of the '60s band

often abbreviated to DDDBMT?

That would be Beaky.

It is, absolutely. And the band name?

-I'd rather not go there, sorry.

-Anybody give it to me.

-Do you know it, Chris?

-Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch.

That's the one.

OK, Chris, get this wrong and you are bounced out.

"Help me escape this feeling of insecurity"

is the first line of which Take That hit?

Patience.

Well, that is a song by Take That.

But it's not the right answer, it's Relight My Fire,

which was originally a hit for Dan Hartman in the US.

So, Chris, you're gone.

Well done, John, our cafe owner is in the final round.

And Chris, you are not. Please come back and rejoin your teams.

Good round for the Barside Layabouts. They have lost a brain,

but the Eggheads have also lost one now, they've lost Chris.

So let's see what's happens. The next subject is Arts and Books.

Who would like this? Who's well read?

-Mark, are you going to play that?

-Yeah, I'll play that.

-Mark?

-All right for me to play?

-Yeah.

-OK.

OK. Against?

-Judith or CJ, I would say.

-I agree.

-You pick.

-Captain, you've done well.

-OK, could we play against CJ, please?

Yes, you can. Mark from Barside Layabouts

versus CJ from the Eggheads, grinning.

I quite like Arts and Books, which is probably the portent to doom.

This may not only be questions about your autobiography.

In that case, I'm not interested.

To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions.

So, Mark, would you like to go first or second on Arts and Books?

First, please.

Here is your question. Who wrote the bestselling 2015 novel Grey?

I don't know the novel. And I'm going to have a bit of a guess here.

And...

I'll guess EL James.

Yes, that's right because she's 50 Shades Of Grey,

so it was born from that, wasn't it, Eggs? Is that right?

-That's probably the right word, yeah.

-OK, CJ.

The novel Moll Flanders was published in which year?

It was written by Daniel Defoe

who was busy at the beginning of the 18th century, so it's 1722.

He was indeed busy, 1722 is right.

Your question, Mark.

The title character of which Charles Dickens novel is called

Daisy by his school friend Steerforth?

I'm not sure about this. I think it might be...

Oliver Twist.

No, it's actually David Copperfield.

I guess, David, Daisy, similar sounding words

is the only clue there, but I'm sorry, you've got it wrong.

CJ.

A Scottish housekeeper with a first name May appears in literature

working for which fictional character?

Immediately when you said May, I thought

that was Mrs Hudson's first name. I'm just checking if it is now.

Mrs Hudson, I believe, is Scottish in the original books.

I don't think it's James Bond.

There something in the back of my mind

ringing a bell that it is May Hudson, so I'll try Sherlock Holmes.

Wide of the beam.

-Oh.

-A long way wide. James Bond.

-Is it?

OK, so James Bond had a housekeeper called May. Who knew?

OK, your question, Mark.

The writer Maurice Bendrix, Sarah Miles and her husband Henry Miles

are the principal characters in which of Graham Greene's novels?

Another difficult one, I think.

The End Of The Affair, I think it is.

Yes, you're right, it is The End Of The Affair. Difficult.

But good answer. This is an interesting round, this.

CJ, if you get this wrong, you'll be out.

Lisa del Giocondo, the model for da Vinci's Mona Lisa

is believed to have both died and been born in which city?

Well, I knew who she was.

I've got nothing to go on here,

just maybe she just didn't move too far from home.

I'm not aware of da Vinci...

..working particularly, if at all, in Venice or Naples.

So let's just hope she was a local Florentine and try Florence.

You've got it right, CJ, well done, Florence it is.

Good logic, don't do yourself down.

-I don't think I've said that before, have I?

-Thank you.

OK, 2-2 after three questions.

We go to Sudden Death. And it means I don't give you alternatives.

Here is your question, Mark.

This Slough of Despond is a deep bog in which work by John Bunyan?

I don't know. I don't know a guess even, I don't know.

-OK. Eggs?

-Pilgrim's Progress.

-Pilgrim's Progress it is.

What other famous characteristics of the terrain are there?

The Slough of Despond is the famous one.

-He passes through various obstacles, doesn't he?

-The celestial city.

-He goes to the celestial city eventually.

-OK, CJ, it Sudden Death.

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

Which artist, born in 1923, used Ben-Day dots

and speech balloons in paintings such as I Know...Brad?

I'll just have a think, but I'm assuming it must be

Roy Lichtenstein.

I'm just checking if there's anybody else.

Lichtenstein is most famous for using speech bubbles

and certainly used a lot of dots.

I don't think I can name anybody else.

No, I'll go for Roy Lichtenstein.

Yes, Ben-Day dots were named after the illustrator and printer

Benjamin Day, but the artist, you're right, is Roy Lichtenstein.

CJ, you've won the round. Sorry, Mark.

That can happen on Sudden Death, it can be sudden.

You've been knocked out by the grand master here.

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

OK, so Barside Layabouts have now lost two brains.

-No cause for panic yet, guys.

-OK.

Got an alternative strategy?

No, we planned to lose two brains early on.

Yeah, part of the plan, good. The Eggheads have lost one.

That's right, just creep up on them, surprise them, a very good tactic.

The next subject is History.

Who would like History?

-OK, I think Donny is going to play History.

-Donny.

OK, Donny against which Egghead?

You can either have - we're narrowing it down now -

Judith or Kevin.

It's Judith, please.

So it's Donny from Barside Layabouts versus Judith,

-whose patron saint is...?

-Eleanor of Aquitaine.

From the Eggheads, please go to the question room now.

We should probably explain the Eleanor of Aquitaine reference,

Judith, for anyone tuning in.

It was the last question on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

The million pound question, and it was - who was Henry...

No, who was Eleanor of Aquitaine married to?

Was it Henry I, Henry II, Henry V,

-or Richard I?

-And you were just unerring, I remember.

Well, I'd just visited, by sheer chance,

two months before that, I'd driven back through France

and gone to her...where she's buried, where her tomb is.

And there she is lying next door to her husband in a tomb.

And it was sheer chance. Extraordinary, really.

-A lucky moment. Well, you take an interest in history, I know.

-Yeah.

Others might not have glanced.

OK, so that is why, Donny, Eleanor of Aquitaine is Judith's...

What shall we say, guiding star, lucky angel?

-Patron saint?

-She wasn't exactly a saint, I must admit.

Donny, do you want to go first or second on History?

I'd rather go second, thanks.

So, here we go, Judith, your question.

Which of these buildings is often described as

the oldest and largest occupied castle in the world?

I think that's Windsor Castle.

It is Windsor Castle. Well done.

Donny.

The Manchu Empire, also know as the Qing Dynasty ruled lands

based on what is now which country?

-China.

-No hesitation there.

China is correct. OK, they may get harder. Judith,

during the Second World War,

which of these battles took place in India?

Well, not Anzio.

Gosh, I'm not sure where Bardia was.

I think Imphal sounds more Indian than anything else,

so I'm going to say Imphal.

Imphal is correct. Anyone tell us about it?

Chris, you can tell us about Imphal.

Yeah, well, the Japanese had gone rampaging all the way up Burma

and the British Army had been retreating before them

and they made a stand at Imphal, literally at the gates of India.

And they managed to fight the Japs to a standstill.

It's really, really fierce, no quarter,

horrible fighting for weeks on end.

The front line was literally

the other side of a tennis court at one point.

And that was the turning point of the war, where they finally

stopped the Japanese,

and it was sort of all the way back down Burma after that.

OK. Donny, we are back with you.

The Peterloo Massacre of 1819 occurred in which city?

I have absolutely no idea.

I'm...I'm going to guess Sheffield.

Manchester is the answer.

So, Judith has the chance to take the round with her third question.

Cos you let her go first.

Which London building was built between 1675 and 1710

at a cost of approximately £750,000?

-1675?

-Yeah.

-Well, the Tower of London was very much earlier.

Buckingham Palace was later.

But the Fire of London, I mean, St Paul's Cathedral was rebuilt

after the Fire of London, so I think it's St Paul's Cathedral.

You've got it right, St Paul's Cathedral it is.

Donny, sorry about that, you gave her the initiative

and she got all three right.

So you are in the final, Judith.

If you'd both come back to us, we will play the final round.

OK, this is what we've been playing towards.

It's time for the final round. As always, it's General Knowledge.

But those who lost your head-to-heads

won't be allowed to take part in this round.

That is Mark, Donny and Raymond from Barside Layabouts.

And Chris, not a layabout at all, for the Eggheads,

please leave the studio.

John and Iain, you are playing to win Barside Layabouts £16,000.

A really handy jackpot we have now.

Eggheads, you've got to defend that money

cos you are paying for your reputations.

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, Barside Layabouts, the question is,

are you two brains able to take down these four?

Iain, do you want to go first or second?

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

Good luck to you both. Here we go.

What is the weight in grams of a £1 coin?

-OK, well, it's 9.5.

-Yeah.

-Otherwise it would be too heavy.

-OK.

We'll go for 9.5, Jeremy.

Very difficult, weight questions. 9.5 is correct. Well done.

Eggheads, all four of you,

which of these words refers to the sense of touch?

-Haptic.

-Definitely?

-Touch.

Touch is haptic.

Touch is indeed haptic.

Barry, you know this because you've got some fancy watch -

don't mention the make of it -

but it's got a haptic touch, hasn't it?

Yes, it touches me whenever I get a phone call,

which is wonderful, cos otherwise I would miss them.

Isn't that called the haptic?

Yes, it is called the haptic.

-Whatever.

-The haptic whatever. OK, one each.

Your question, challengers.

Snowflakes generally have how many sides or points?

Snowflakes.

I think it might be 10.

I'm not sure.

Um, go with that?

Yeah, I'm happy to go with that.

We'll go with 10, please, Jeremy.

OK. You started on six, you moved to 10, was there logic there?

There was no logic, it was just based on blind intuition.

Barry will know this, you're the science man.

I'm afraid it's six.

And how do we get to six? Is it just a septagon, or...?

The crystalline structure of ice.

But that six can be formed in millions,

probably billions of different ways.

Six is the answer.

-Sorry.

-OK, I wasn't sure.

-OK,

Eggheads, to take the lead now.

The inventor Paul Cornu has been credited with the first

successful example of which device in 1907?

Helicopter.

Yes, I think it's helicopter. Dishwasher was... What was that?

-Was it Cockerell, the dishwasher?

-Are we going with that?

Yeah, yeah. I think that's helicopter.

You think it's helicopter. Where was he from, old Cornu?

-I think he was French.

-French?

-So it's Paul Cornu?

-Yes. I think so.

And it was the helicopteur.

Was it, or is it the guided missile?

No, no, I'm not sure he would have called it that.

I can't move you off that answer.

OK, helicopter is right. Well done.

Well done,

so they have taken the lead now.

You do need to get this one right, gentlemen, to stay in.

Tyson Beckford, Marcus Schenkenberg

and Travis Fimmel are famous names in which industry?

It's definitely modelling. On you go.

We're going for modelling, please.

Oh, you went straight there. So how do you know that?

I could quip away about Iain's modelling career.

Maybe I shouldn't ask.

Well done, modelling is right.

That's good, good play.

Two out of three, may be enough to take us to sudden death,

but let's see. If the Eggheads get this right, the contest is over.

"How does it feel to treat me like you do?"

are the opening lines of which song

which first made the UK charts in 1983?

-It's Blue Monday.

-OK. Thanks very much.

-I've no idea.

-I think we have a definite one

from down the end there that it's Blue Monday.

I thought this was going to stump you. You say Blue Monday.

How so, CJ? You know this song?

-I know this, it's a big, big hit, this one.

-But before your time.

It's one of those songs that...

It's sort of supersedes when it was released

because a lot of people, even if you don't know the song itself,

you know the tune, you've heard it.

Blue Monday it is.

We say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.

-John, you would definitely have known Blue Monday?

-Yes.

Because you've got that pop thing, I can tell.

I'm sorry about that, guys, what can I say?

I feel I'm constantly having to make excuses for this lot.

They just lumber along and then bang.

-Fair play.

-Fair play.

Well, the Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.

This winning streak continues. We are piling up the money.

It does mean our challengers don't go home with the £16,000,

so we take the money and roll it over to our next show.

They're getting more and more exciting, Eggs.

Congratulations. I don't think you can ever be beaten.

I think we've seen the last game in which they lose.

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

have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

£17,000 is on the table for that game.

Till then, goodbye.