Episode 72 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.

Challenging our resident

quiz champions today are...

Now, this team of Challengers

all volunteer at

Durham Hospital radio station.

Let's meet them.

Hello, I'm Terry,

I'm a retired sales representative.

Hello, I'm David

and I'm a retired civil servant.

Hello, I'm Nikki

and I'm a retired teacher.

Hi, I'm Colin and I'm a translator

and proofreader.

Hi, I'm Peter,

I'm a heavy goods driver.

So, Terry and team, welcome.

Good to see you, thanks for coming.

Thank you.

And we have

a bit of a connection, don't we?

We do indeed, Jeremy.

We used to be at Durham University

in the mid '80s, I think it was?

And I was desperate to practise

radio or do anything,

and in those days there was very,

very little radio anywhere.

And I thought I'd walk up

to the hospital

and I got a lovely welcome

and they gave me a little show.

Oh, did they?

Was that your first one?

At this time, thank very much...

It's taken me about 30 years

to thank you.

But I'm very grateful, yeah.

I think you actually went onto

the wards and collected requests.

I did, that's true, that's true.

Cos someone said to me that

there's no point in doing a show

unless you are prepared

to meet your listeners,

and I thought that was very,

very good advice for life, actually.

And do you enjoy it?

Absolutely.

I think we can all say we enjoy it,

otherwise I don't think any of them

would do it. We're a great team.

The Hospital Radio is a little bit

threatened at the moment, isn't it?

And people saying,

"Do we really need it?"

So, you have to make the case

for it.

It's got to be sold, yes.

But the team do that very well,

and the main connection

is getting onto the wards

and maintaining that personal touch,

it makes it what it is.

Well, good luck today, you can guess

who I'm going to be rooting for

in today's contest.

Sorry, Eggs.

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, Durham Radioheads, the Eggheads

have won just the last game,

they had a little bit of an awkward

moment a couple of games ago.

So, it's £2,000 to play for today.

Do you want to get cracking?

CHALLENGERS:

Yes, we do.

Good stuff.

OK, Terry and team,

the first head-to-head battle

is on Geography.

Who would like this?

I think it's got to be you, Colin.

Are we agreed on that?

Try and get off to a good start?

PETER:

Yeah, go for Colin.

Yeah.

OK, Colin?

I'll do that, Jeremy.

Yeah, translator and proof reader.

Against which Egghead?

Any one of the five.

Any one of the five.

Is Judith any good at this?

That's what I was thinking as well.

Are you happy to go with Judith?

Judith?

More to the point,

is Judith happy to go...?

I have no choice.

I think she will be,

I think she will be.

Colin from Durham Radioheads

versus Judith from the Eggheads

on Geography, smiling...

Yes.

..cos it's not Sport.

It's not. Exactly,

you've missed a trick there.

You've made her day.

To ensure there's no conferring,

please go to our legendary

Question Room.

What made you be chosen

for Geography, Colin?

I studied languages at university,

so I've travelled about

a little bit.

If I can turn every Geography

question into a languages question,

that's fine by me.

OK, so, would you like to go first

or second?

I will go first, please.

Colin, which major river runs

through the city of Rome?

Having spent a bit of time in Italy,

I really ought to know this.

I know it's not the Danube.

I'm being attracted to the Po,

so I'm not going to talk myself

out of it and I'll say Po.

No, it is the Tiber.

Tiber is the answer, Colin, sorry.

Judith, which of these volcanoes

is on Sicily?

Well, it's definitely not Krakatoa,

and Vesuvius is just outside

Naples,

so it's Etna.

Yes, it is Etna. Where is Krakatoa?

In the East somewhere.

Indonesia?

I'm not sure Krakatoa exists any

more, they're just a little stub

which they called Anak Krakatoa,

which is sort of a successor.

In Indonesia or something?

Indonesia, right?

It's on the strait.

OK.

Just doing a bit of volcano

research there, Colin.

Your question.

What is the unit of

currency in Malaysia?

Is it...

Well, if I'm perfectly honest,

not one of those three

rings any bells at all.

I'm not even sure this

can be an educated guess.

So, I'm going to have to go straight

down the middle and say ringgit.

Ringgit is correct.

I'm pleased for you.

Thank you.

Judith,

which of these types of cloud

is found at the highest altitude?

Oh, right. Well, alto means high.

What does cirro mean?

I think it must be altostratus,

because alto is to do with altitude

and all that, so it's got to be

altostratus.

Barry?

I thought it might be cirrostratus.

It is cirro, but why cirro?

Those types of clouds are on a very

high altitude. Long, thin...

little strips.

The answer is cirrostratus, Judith.

Oh, well, that seems

to be very unjust, really.

Isn't the world unjust?

Isn't the world unjust?

The Unfairness Of Clouds.

That could be the title

of your autobiography.

My... Well, it's one of them.

OK, that's quite good, Colin,

cos it's made up for your slip

earlier, so you're level.

Colin, what is the capital

of the US state of Iowa?

Well, if I'm honest,

I've never heard of Boise,

so I don't know where that is,

reasonably sure that Richmond's

in Virginia, whether it's the

capital or not, I don't know.

But Des Moines, I will say,

is my answer.

I've got Boise, Idaho,

in my mind, is that right?

EGGHEADS:

Yes.

So, it's not in the same state.

Richmond's Virginia,

Des Moines is right, well done.

Des Moines, Iowa.

Judith,

which peak overlooks the town

of Keswick in the Lake District?

Well, I don't think

it's Scafell Pike,

because I think Scafell Pike

is one of the highest points,

it's sort of in the middle,

in the Pennines.

So, it's either...

I've never heard of Haystacks.

I'm going to risk it

and say Skiddaw,

Skiddaw is right.

Oh, thank goodness for that.

Two points each

after three questions.

We go to Sudden Death, Colin.

You couldn't shake her off

that easily.

It gets a bit harder,

I don't give you alternatives.

Paris, Marseille

and which other French city

are divided into arrondissements?

I'm torn between Bordeaux and Lyon,

actually, if I'm honest.

And there's something...I've

been to both, I should know.

Something's nagging at the back

of my mind.

I'll say Lyon.

Lyon is correct.

OK. Here's your question

to stay in, Judith.

The Ural River rises in

the Ural Mountains

and flows past Magnitogorsk

and Orenburg before emptying

into which body of water?

I should think it's the Black Sea.

Eggheads, is she right?

I think it's the Caspian.

Caspian Sea is the answer.

Well done, Colin.

Not an easy round.

What happened there, Judith?

I should have thought

of the Caspian.

He capsized in the Caspian Sea.

Yes.

OK, and you've been knocked out,

Colin's in the final,

come back to us and we'll play on.

So, Durham Radioheads have not lost

any brains from the final round,

while the Eggheads have lost one.

The next subject is Sport.

Who would like Sport?

I'm looking at David, you were

just smiling.

No pressure.

No pressure on you, I think

it's your turn.

Go on, David.

Is it you, David?

Yeah.

Sunderland supporter, I know.

Yeah.

Against...

Who does not look sporty here?

I'd like to take Chris on.

OK.

Oh.

So, David from the Durham Radioheads

versus Chris.

A quiz show without pity.

Sorry, Chris.

Chris on Sport. So please go

to our Question Room now.

David, I mentioned

you were a Sunderland fan.

I am for me sins, yeah. I've

missed, what, two Sunderland

home games in 38 years

and follow them away as well.

Lifetime of misery.

Oh, wow.

And why did you miss the two games?

One I was in California

and the second one

I was in a wedding in Ireland.

I can imagine you almost decided to

go back for it?

Yeah, just about.

So, Sport, David, would you like

to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please,

Jeremy.

Here we go, David, good luck.

The footballers Olivier Giroud

and Aaron Ramsey

played for which Premier League

team during the 2015/2016 season?

It's Arsenal.

It is Arsenal.

OK, Chris,

how many men's singles

did Novak Djokovic win

at the 2015 Wimbledon

tennis tournament?

Well, it's got to be an even number,

hasn't it?

So - final, semifinal,

quarterfinal...

and...something eight.

I'd say ten.

No, it's seven.

This is really interesting. Now,

I'm thinking maybe Barry

would know this.

Does that mean they started

with 124 if it's seven matches?

So, you get 124... No, hang on.

128.

128.

128, 64, 32...

16.

16.

..16...

Eight, four, two, one.

..eight, four, two... Yes.

One.

Cos I remember seeing Wimbledon -

more than 100 names at the start.

That's the answer, Chris...

OK.

..seven.

OK, David.

Larry Holmes was

a world boxing champion

in which weight division?

Tough one.

It's definitely not flyweight.

It's between middleweight

and heavyweight.

I'm just trying to think

of which other heavyweight

he took on at the time.

I'll go for heavyweight.

Yeah, you're right.

Bang on. Heavyweight.

Chris, in which city

did Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell,

Marlon Devonish

and Mark Lewis-Francis win

4 X 100 metres relay

Olympic gold medals?

It sounds like some of the massive

medal haul of Team GB in London.

Do you know this, David?

I think it's Athens.

Yes, it's Athens, Chris.

I'm sorry, you've been knocked out.

I can see David's got some good

sport knowledge there.

Well done, David,

you'll be in the final round.

And we didn't even have to ask you

about Sunderland.

That's just as well, I think.

So, come back to us, both of you,

and we'll play on.

So, the Durham Radioheads

have not lost any brains

from the final round.

Eggheads, you've lost two.

The next subject is Arts & Books.

So, who would like Arts & Books?

That's an easy enough choice.

OK.

Nikki it is.

Nikki? OK, good stuff.

Nikki against...?

And you can have Pat,

Kevin or Barry.

So, the three slender gentlemen

on the left.

Thank you.

I would be tempted by Kevin,

of the three that remain.

I don't know. Take your time.

Kevin, please.

So, Nikki from the Durham Radioheads

versus Kevin from the Eggheads.

Please take your positions.

So, you're a retired teacher, Nikki?

Yes, that's right, Jeremy, yes...

I gather Arts & Books

is your favourite subject?

Well, it's the subject

I've chosen to take.

So, let's hope it is.

All right, good luck against Kevin.

Would you like to go first

or second?

I'd like to go first, please.

OK, in which work by Rudyard Kipling

does the story

of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi first appear?

Um...I think it's The Jungle book.

It is The Jungle Book, well done.

Kevin,

which famous fictional

female title character

has a brother known

as Prince Oblonsky?

Yeah, it's actually

the Russian-sounding one -

it's Anna Karenina.

It is indeed Anna Karenina.

Nikki,

which Dickens character,

on learning that her husband

bears legal responsibility for his

wife's actions, says the line,

"If the law supposes that,

the law is a ass"?

Well, I don't think it's Mr Bumble,

that's Oliver Twist.

I don't recall it

from David Copperfield,

so I'm going to go for Mr Fezziwig.

Kevin, is it right?

I think it's Mr Bumble.

Sorry, Nikki, Mr Bumble

is the right answer. Kevin.

What was the first

middle name

of the writer Oscar Wilde?

First of all, I'll get this

in the right order,

the answer is Fingal.

I think he was...

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie

Wills Wilde.

So, the first one is Fingal.

Fingal's right.

Nikki, to catch up.

Who won the Best Actress award

at the 2015 London Evening

Standard Theatre Awards

for her role in Photograph 51?

Well, I'm afraid

I haven't really got a clue on that,

so, I'm going to have to guess.

I'm going to guess Nicole Kidman.

Good, you've got it right.

CHALLENGERS:

Well done.

Nicole Kidman.

Kevin, to win, Grayson Perry won

the Turner Prize in which year?

I should just know that,

but it's not as far back as 1989.

I may have gone adrift here,

but I think...

..I think it must be 2003. 2003.

2003 is correct, Kevin.

Well done, three out of three.

Sorry, Nikki,

beaten by our Egghead,

the very best of them as well.

And as a result, you won't be able

to help your team

in the final round.

Please, Nikki and Kevin,

return to us.

So, the Durham Radioheads have

now lost a brain from the final,

but the Eggheads have still lost

two, you're still playing well,

Terry and team. Keep it up.

This can be a key round now,

the fourth round, and it's Music.

Who wants Music?

Right, is it going to be me

or is it going to be you, Peter?

I'd say his general knowledge is

better than his music knowledge.

We think Peter's general knowledge

is better than his music knowledge.

Are you happy taking Music?

It's up to you.

Well, I'll take the Music round.

OK, Terry. Never know

where it's coming from.

And you've got either Barry or Pat.

What do you reckon, gents?

I'd vote for Barry.

Yeah, I think I'd go with Colin.

I like to take on Barry,

please, if I may?

So, Terry from the Durham Radioheads

versus Barry The Brain.

to ensure there's no conferring,

please go to our Question Room.

So, Music, team captain,

would you like to go first

or second?

I'd like to go first, please,

Jeremy.

Here we go and good luck.

What was the title of Status Quo's

first UK number one single?

I don't think they ever recorded

Up Up, as far as I can recall.

I do happen to know that... I

think it's their only number one

single was Down Down.

Yeah, Down Down is right. OK, Barry.

Lionel Richie was the lead singer

of which group?

Oh, Lionel Richie was the lead

singer of The Commodores.

He was - Three Times A Lady.

Terry, they may get harder.

Which of these pieces of music

is part of the opera

the legend of Tsar Saltan?

I think I'm going to go down

the right

and say the Ride Of The Valkyries,

but I'm not 100% sure.

I know that was composed

by Wagner, but...

I'm having a niggling doubt now,

but I've got to stick with it,

because that's what I've said.

Yeah, it's wrong.

It's Flight Of The Bumblebee.

Rimsky-Korsakov.

Barry, your question.

How many members were there

in The Wanted when the band had

their first UK number one single

in 2010?

That suggests

somebody may have left.

Four.

Five. Sorry.

OK,

so, here's your third question.

Donna and the Dynamos

is a girl trio in which musical?

I don't remember

Donna and the Dynamos in Mamma Mia!

Oh, this is a 50-50 for me.

I'm not 100% sure.

I think I'm going

to have to go with Chicago.

I think it's more likely

to be an American...

Although...Sister... All right,

I think I will stick with Chicago.

No, it's Mamma Mia!

All right, Barry,

this for the round.

Who of these found fame

as the drummer in Coldplay?

Oh, goodness.

I listen to Coldplay a lot,

but I couldn't name who the drummer

was, so, I'm afraid

this will be an absolute guess.

None of the names

mean anything to me.

Oh, I do apologise to Coldplay,

because I think they're

an absolutely wonderful band,

but I'll go for Nick Banks.

No, it's Will Champion.

So, he's let you off the hook again.

You've made

the right choice there, Terry,

by going for Barry on Music.

And we go to Sudden Death.

It gets a bit harder,

I don't give you alternatives.

The 1982 hit

I Wanna Do It With You

was the first single

by which American singer

to reach the British top ten?

I'm not sure about this,

but I think...

Was Hazel O'Connor American?

I'll try Hazel O'Connor,

that's the only answer

that's coming into my head.

It's Barry Manilow.

Back to the other Barry,

For the round.

The words of a poem called

The Defence of Fort McHenry

when later set to music

became better known

as which patriotic song?

O say can you see.

It's the Star-Spangled Banner.

It is the Star-Spangled Banner,

Barry. Well done,

you've taken the round.

Terry, sorry,

you've been knocked out.

Levels it up, though, for

possibly a very exciting final.

So, this is indeed what we have

been playing towards.

It's time for the 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 is Terry and Nikki

from the Durham Radioheads and also

Judith and Chris from the Eggheads.

Would you please now

leave the studio?

And we wish you well,

David, Colin and Peter,

you are playing to win

the Durham Radioheads £2,000.

Pat, Kevin and Barry,

you're playing for something

that money can't buy,

which is just gently

beginning to restore,

the Eggheads' reputation after

the terrible thing that happened

that we mustn't talk about.

As usual, I will ask each team

three questions in turn.

This time, the questions

are all General Knowledge.

You can confer, guys. OK?

So, Durham Radioheads,

the question is, can your three

brains defeat these three over here?

Would you like to go first

or second?

I think we'll go first,

please, Jeremy.

And here we go. What term

is used to refer to a young eel?

Elver is the only one

that jumps out at me.

Eldin, the last one,

that was like...

I've not heard of either of the

other two, to be quite honest.

I don't know,

so if you've got any...

If I was on my own, I'd say elver.

That's the one that

jumped out at me, elver.

Well, go with that.

If you look at it, elver's probably

the nearest you'll get

to eel, isn't it?

Could be a trick thing.

Who knows, but... Right?

Happy to go with that?

Elver?

Go with elver? Yeah?

Yeah.

We think it's elver, Jeremy.

Elver is correct.

Good.

Well done, Peter. Well done, team.

Back to you, Eggheads.

October the 21st, 2015,

was referred to by what name?

Back To The Future Day.

Back To The Future Day?

Yeah, well, because that's the...

2015 was in the film, wasn't it?

He comes forward to October 21st,

2015.

OK, happy with that?

Yeah, Back To The Future.

We think

that was Back To The Future Day.

Back To The Future Day is correct.

Your question.

In British history,

Edward VII succeeded

to the throne in which year?

Edward VII.

Did he follow Queen Victoria?

Cos Queen Victoria died in 1901.

Well, wasn't 1936 when...

No, Elizabeth came on after the war,

didn't she?

'53, '52, '53.

Elizabeth's dad was first,

then it was her brother?

There was a George before.

George VI was before Victoria,

but not for that long.

I would not go with 1936.

Right.

Right.

That's one out then.

Was it Edward VII?

OK.

Was it Edward VII?

Can we have the question again,

please, Jeremy? Sorry.

In British history, Edward VII

succeeded to the throne

in which year?

I would say 1910. Not convinced,

but if I had to choose,

I'd say 1910.

Looking at that, yeah,

I'm thinking that.

Yeah, 1910?

1910, Jeremy.

1910. OK.

Let's just get our...work

our dates out here.

The abdication crisis

involved Edward VIII, correct?

That's right.

And that was the year what?

1936.

So, that would rule that one out.

The king - the first king or queen

after Victoria was...?

Edward VII.

Is it this one here?

Hm-mm.

Right, and therefore the year is...?

1901.

1901.

Sorry, guys, you got it wrong. 1901.

OK, Eggheads.

In computing, what word

usually refers to a unit equal

to 1,000 million bytes?

Well, a million bytes is normally...

A million bytes is a megabyte,

so 1,000 megabytes is a gigabyte.

1,000 gigabytes is a terabyte.

Shall we get it again,

just to make sure...?

Yeah.

Can we have it

one more time, please?

In computing,

what word usually refers

to a unit equal

to 1,000 million bytes?

Gigabyte?

Gigabyte, yes, cos a

terabyte's 1,000 gigabytes.

OK.

We think that's a gigabyte.

Right, so,

a kilobyte is 1,000 bytes,

a megabyte is a million bytes?

Broadly speaking.

1,000 megabytes is a gigabyte and...

1,000 gigabytes is a terabyte.

Got it.

And then we keep going

to petabytes and exabytes.

So, you're quite right,

it is gigabyte, well done.

I know you knew that one.

We'll say yes.

You've got to get

this one right.

The character Lee Nelson is

a comedy creation of which comedian?

Simon Brodkin?

Simon Brodkin.

Yeah.

Simon Brodkin.

Bang on. Simon Brodkin.

Two out of three. Not bad going.

See if the Eggheads get this wrong.

If they're right here,

the contest is over.

Which 39-your-old Indian batsmen

retired from Test cricket

in 2012, having scored over

13,000 runs, including 36 centuries?

Eggheads, is this...

I'm not sure at all on that.

13,000 is... Well, what's the max?

That's quite a lot.

15.

15, so it's nearer the max.

My first thought is Dravid.

Is it?

Well, I don't know. Sehwag.

Do you think it's Ganguly at all?

I really don't know.

I would be very surprised

if it was Ganguly.

But I may be wrong.

So, to amass that number of runs,

you'd have to have a long test

career. Wouldn't you?

Well, Dravid and Sehwag

stand out for me

as the highest-scoring batsmen.

It's slightly more recent, isn't it?

Is Sehwag retired?

That's what I'm trying to remember.

2012... Jeremy, wasn't it?

2012.

Just trying to remember whether

Sehwag has been playing

more recently than that.

He was impossible to get out,

wasn't he?

He was The Wall,

Rahul The Wall Dravid.

Yeah.

Sehwag had some spectacular,

high innings scores.

Yeah, I'm coming round

to your...your view there.

I'm not very confident at all.

I know he's a big name

and I know he had a long career.

I don't know,

but I'm coming round to...

My initial thought was Sehwag,

but I'm coming round to Dravid.

My inclination would be Dravid,

but I really don't know.

I'm not certain at all.

Yeah.

I think it's a bit of a risk...

It's a risk, whichever one, yeah.

So, even stevens again if we

get it wrong.

OK, happy with...?

Yeah.

Yeah.

OK.

We'll go with Dravid.

We're slightly concerned that

we can't pin down all the details,

but we're going to go

with Rahul Dravid.

Rahul Dravid is your answer,

if you've got it right,

the contest is over.

The correct answer is Rahul Dravid.

We say congratulations, Eggheads,

you have won.

Commiserations. You knocked them

about a bit in that game,

my goodness.

We tried.

And three-three in the final

is no mean feat. DAVID:

No.

I'm sorry you've lost.

And, Eggheads, you've done what,

I like to say, comes naturally...

Sometimes.

You're rebuilding.

You reign supreme

over Quizland again.

It does mean you're not going home

with the £2,000,

so the money rolls over

to our next show.

Eggheads, congrats,

who will beat you?

Join us next time to see

if a new team of Challengers

have the brains

to defeat the Eggheads.

£3,000 says they don't.

Till then, goodbye.