Episode 81 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.

And taking on our awesome quiz champions today

are You've Been Framed from Lancashire.

Now, this team all work together

at the same window frame manufacturers in Darwen

where they like to test their general knowledge

with a lunchtime crossword. Let's meet them.

Hello, my name's Bill and I'm the managing director.

Hello, I'm Jack and I'm an apprentice warehouse manager.

Hello, I'm Terry and I'm a window fabricator.

Hello, I'm Kevan, factory foreman and fabricator.

Hello, I'm Andy. I'm also a window fabricator.

-So, Bill and team, great to see you.

-Good to see you, Jeremy.

-And it's all windows, Bill, is that right?

-It is, yeah.

-We manufacture PVC windows and doors.

-OK.

-And you run the company? You're the MD?

-I am, yeah.

You're basically in a property somewhere

-making these things?

-We are, yeah.

We've got a factory in a small town called Darwen, in Lancashire,

and these guys all work for me.

Just a small company. There's 12 of us altogether, so...

Right, brilliant. Quizzing is the key thing here.

So, you do a crossword, do you?

All the guys in the canteen, every day,

at lunchtime breaks, do a crossword and they just...

Like a quiz, but we've not done any formal quizzing together as such.

All right. Well, good luck to 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, You've Been Framed, they've won the last ten games.

They're on good form, which is a shame,

but it also means the jackpot is high. It's £11,000.

-So, would you like to try and win it?

-Yes, please.

-OK.

The first head-to-head battle is on Geography.

-So, who would like this, Bill?

-Jack, I think,

-is going to do Geography.

-OK, Jack.

-And you're Bill's son?

-Yes, I am.

-Right.

Who would you like to take on?

Any one of the Eggheads, whether they're wearing orange or not.

-I think we'll take Lisa.

-Lisa?

-Yeah?

-I'll challenge Lisa, please.

-Good stuff.

-Yeah, thanks for that, Jeremy.

Just put an even bigger target on my back.

I wasn't trying to be suggestive there,

but there is a lot of orange today, Eggs.

So, Jack from You've Been Framed versus Lisa from the Eggheads.

To ensure there's no conferring,

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

So, Lisa, we think of you as our newest Egghead,

-but it's a couple of years now, isn't it?

-It's a little while, yes.

How many rounds have you done roughly?

I think we must be looking at... Ooh, I don't know.

-130? Something like that?

-Yeah?

-Well, you clocked them up fast.

-Yeah.

Not many games where you're not chosen.

No, no, I am fresh meat, easy pickings, etc.

Is it your impression that the competitors who come in

have worked out strengths and weaknesses?

It's pretty obvious, isn't it? Let's face it.

When it comes to Geography,

it would take a foolish competitor indeed not to spot it.

-Is geography your thing, Jack?

-Well, I've got a GCSE.

I wouldn't say it's my thing, but I do enjoy it, so...

-And you've been to Monaco.

-I have, yeah. It was good.

Just a really random trip

that me and my friend planned in a pub one night.

We decided we wanted to go there, so just thought, "Why not?"

Then booked a ferry, and next thing, we were on our way.

We did ten countries in ten days,

-I think, all across Europe.

-Was it good fun?

It was extremely tiring, but I enjoyed it.

-It was one of the best holidays I've been on.

-Brilliant.

You can't do that when you've got kids and all that, Lisa, can you?

I'm trying to imagine doing ten countries

in ten days with a two-year-old.

-Yeah, that's my new vision of hell. Thanks.

-Yeah, that would be tricky.

So, Jack, Geography. Would you like to go first or second?

I'll go first, please.

Here is your first question.

What is the approximate population of Northern Ireland?

I think the...

England's about 70 million, is it?

Scotland about seven, so I'd have to say...

I know Wales is 1.8.

I have to go with 400,000.

-It's actually 1.8 million.

-Oh!

Lisa, your question.

Taiwan lies approximately 100 miles

off the southeast coast of the mainland of which country?

-That's China.

-It is.

They probably want to be a bit further, don't they?

SHE LAUGHS I think they could be.

-Yes, quite possibly.

-Back to you, Jack.

Which of these is a state in Mexico?

I haven't really heard of any of those.

I...I don't think it's Piccalilli.

I've heard of, obviously, Tabasco sauce,

so that might come from that region. I don't really know.

And I've heard of Habanero,

so I think it's got to be between those two.

I'll go down the middle - Habanero.

You just went the wrong way, I'm afraid. Tabasco is the answer.

Although it doesn't sound right,

-cos we think of it as a sauce...

-Yeah.

-..it's the right answer.

So, Lisa, second question. If you get this right,

you've taken the round.

Which of these shares a border with Morocco?

It ain't Egypt. That's too far over.

Now, I always get this wrong about Tunisia when I look at a map

and I think it's on the right-hand side of Algeria,

next to Libya.

But I think the other Eggheads think

it's on the left-hand side of Algeria,

which would give it a border with Morocco.

Without thinking about the other Eggheads,

I'd have said Algeria.

SHE SIGHS

I don't know whether it's one of those times

I've done all the working

and I've just ignored what I think is right.

Oh, I can't remember. I can't remember. That's irritating.

I'll go for Algeria.

Let's check with the Eggs, shall we? Do we dare?

-Yeah. Yes, fine.

-She's right.

-Eggheads are happy with it, Lisa.

-You can...

-Hey-hey!

-You don't have to look away any more. Well done.

So, Jack, sorry, no way back for you,

and Lisa will be in the final round.

But early days, Challengers. Come back to us and we'll play on.

So, as it stands, You've Been Framed

have lost a brain from the final round. Bad luck, Jack.

The Eggheads have not lost any. Well done, Lisa.

We play on, and it's Sport.

-Who would like Sport?

-Sport.

-You take it, Terry.

-Do you want me to go?

-Yeah.

-Which one do you fancy?

Going with Terry who's going to go...

-I think I'll take this one.

-OK, Terry.

-What did we say?

-Chris?

-Chris doesn't like Sport.

-Yeah, that's true.

-Oh, well, I'll take Chris.

-OK.

-Mm-hm.

-OK, Chris.

He's keeping his temper...just about.

Terry from You've Been Framed

versus the very gently simmering Chris from the Eggheads,

picked for Sport again.

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

-Terry, I know you love a bit of pool.

-Yes, I do.

And you're a local champion, is that right?

-Yeah, I won it a few years ago.

-That's good.

Did you have to practise a lot for that?

I don't practise a lot, no.

I used to take it more serious than I do now.

-It's just social now.

-I know you're an avid sports fan, though.

-Yeah, I like a lot of sports.

-OK.

-I hope this goes well.

Yeah, well, it might.

I'm not sure that Chris watches a lot of sport.

-Chris, do we, really?

-No, not at all.

If you had a sport appear on your TV, what would you do to it?

-Take it to the repairman?

-No, nothing. I'd just switch it off.

Go away and come back when there's something decent on.

There we are, Terry. Would you like to go first or second?

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

OK, but watch out

for him, Terry, cos he can be a good guesser.

Which of these tennis players

won the most men's singles titles at Wimbledon?

I'll have to say Pete Sampras.

Yeah, absolutely.

OK, Chris, according to

the rules of golf, what is the maximum length permitted

for all clubs except putters?

HE MUTTERS, BARRY LAUGHS

72 inches is too much.

Well, 24 inches is two feet and that's far too short,

72 inches is six feet and that's far too long,

so it's got to be 48 inches or four feet.

Yes, 48 inches. Well done.

Terry, which role

did Dennis Lillee usually perform for the Australian cricket team?

It's not my thing, cricket.

Dennis Lillee.

I'll go for opening batsman.

-Let's see. Team, do you know? Challengers?

-No, he's a fast bowler.

He's one of Australia's best ever fast bowlers.

-He's one of Australia's best ever fast bowlers.

-Oh!

Ooh, Terry, I hope that's not an expensive mistake. You can see

Chris sensing blood. He always has that expression.

He looks a bit lively.

Chris, in which sport did Philippe Sella

compete for France between 1982 and 1995?

Well, as you've probably realised, Jeremy, I haven't a clue,

but I'll go for the old faithful, rugby union.

Terry, is he right?

Out of those three, I would say rugby union, yes.

-Rugby union is the right answer.

-Yeah.

OK, so, Chris is in the lead now. You've got to get this one right,

Terry, to stay in.

In September 2015,

which boxer matched Rocky Marciano's record

of 49 victories without defeat?

-Floyd Mayweather.

-You say without hesitation.

-Yes.

-You're right. Well done.

So, you're level, but Chris can take it

-on this answer.

-Ooh!

Chris, which basketball player won the NBA's Most Valuable Player Award

five times between 1957 and 1965?

Didn't he later appear in Airplane?

It was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

-Now, did he appear in Airplane? That's a good question.

-He did.

-But he's not the answer here.

-Really?

No, Bill Russell is the answer, Chris.

Ooh! Terry, a let off.

Goes to Sudden Death. Gets a bit harder.

-I don't give you alternatives.

-OK.

-Here we are on Sport.

In American football, six points are awarded

when a team scores a what?

-I'm not sure of it. A touchdown?

-A touchdown's right.

-Yeah.

Chris,

the cricket umpire Harold Bird is better known by what first name?

-Dickie.

-Dickie Bird is right.

Terry, which French

rugby union club won

an unprecedented third successive European title in 2015?

I'm not sure. It's going to be a guess.

Er, Toulouse?

-Toulon...

-Toulon. Oh.

-..is the answer.

Chris,

for the round.

Which tennis player won his tenth Grand Slam singles title

at the 2015 US Open?

It's got to be Andy Murray, hasn't it?

No, no, no. Eggs, can you help us out here?

-He hasn't won ten, has he?

-No.

-Well, he'd won two up till then.

-He's won two up till then.

-Yeah.

-It's Djokovic - Novak Djokovic - Chris.

-Djokovic. Course it is.

Terry, you're still in it. Get one right

and, possibly, he could fall off the edge.

Your question, Terry. Sudden Death.

The cricketer Graham Garth McKenzie

took 246 test match wickets for which country?

Cricket again. Er, I don't know. I'll go for...

..New Zealand.

It's Australia.

Chris,

Rebecca Adlington retired from competitive swimming

in February 2013

after having won how many Olympic gold medals during her career?

Well, they don't have very long, active lives, do they, swimmers?

So, she was in the 2012 Olympics.

Probably in the 2008s.

Doubt she'd have been in the 2004.

Say, she picked up two medals at each one. Six.

-Two is the answer.

-Oh.

Terry,

Garry Schofield and Denis Betts

have represented Great Britain in which sport?

Rugby...

..union?

-Ooh!

-It's rugby league.

-Oh!

OK,

Chris for the round.

Which British swimmer won a 100m breaststroke gold medal

at the 1988 Olympic Games?

Sharron Davies.

Adrian Moorhouse.

Ooh, we're not really getting here, are we?

OK, Terry, back to you.

What colour medal did Britain's Christine Ohuruogu win

in the 400m at London 2012?

-Gold.

-Silver.

-Oh!

-That was a one-in-three. OK,

Chris.

-This is for the round, Chris.

-I know.

Which test cricket ground is located in Birmingham?

-HE BREATHES DEEPLY

-Deep breath,

chorus of angels, trumpets, foie gras and all the rest of it.

Edgbaston.

You've got it right, Chris!

THEY CHEER Edgbaston it is.

So, on Sudden Death, you're through on Sport.

-There we go.

-Yeah.

-How about that?

-Hallelujah!

-All right, you're in the final round.

Terry, you've been knocked out by our Egghead.

Both of you return to us, and we'll play on.

As it stands, You've Been Framed

have lost two brains from the final round.

The Eggheads are still sitting pretty there.

And the next subject for you, team, is Arts & Books.

Who would like this?

-I think Kevan, reluctantly.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-OK, Kevan.

Against which Egghead, Kevan?

Do you want to take Dave? It's up to you.

-Er, yeah, go on, I'll take Dave.

-OK.

So, it's going to be Kevan from You've Been Framed

versus Dave from the Eggheads. Please go to the Question Room now.

Kevan, I know you're involved in the window making business as well.

-Yeah.

-But your name is K-E-V-A-N, which we don't see very often.

No, it was a bit of a mispronunciation.

My dad was Northern Irish with a very strong Northern Irish accent

in a small town in, you know, Lancashire.

The registrar just didn't understand what he said,

so she just put Kevan

cos it came across that way when he said it,

although it was supposed to be Kevin.

-And he spelt it out, but she thought the I was an A?

-Yeah, yeah.

-How funny.

-So, total, total mistakes.

Then you think, "Well, OK, let's just go with it."

Yeah, but I love it. I love it.

-Individual.

-Yeah, memorable. Absolutely.

Well, there's an MP, I think, who's a Kevan with an A as well.

-Yeah, there's very few around.

-Yeah.

-Kevan Broadhurst.

-I think he played football for Birmingham in the past.

-OK.

-I think he's an A.

-He's an A.

-So, Kevan Jones is the MP, I think.

-Yeah.

And maybe they've all got their individual reasons.

-I don't know.

-Yeah.

Anyway, good luck in this round, Arts & Books, Kevan.

-And would you like to go first or second?

-I'll go first.

Here we go. Which of these fictional characters is a frog?

It's not Babar. That's an elephant.

Er, I'll go for Mr Tumnus.

-Is he right, Eggs?

-It's a faun, is Mr Tumnus.

-A faun?

-Where's Mr Tumnus from?

-The Narnia stories.

-Are they all Narnia? No.

-No, no.

-No, no, no.

Well, all the Jeremys we know have long, gangly legs.

Jeremy Fisher's the frog.

BARRY LAUGHS So, Jeremy Fisher is the frog.

-Oh!

-And remind us where Jeremy Fisher is from.

-He's Beatrix Potter.

-Beatrix Potter.

-Beatrix Potter. OK, Dave,

A Woman Of Substance is a novel by the writer Barbara Taylor what?

I think I'd prefer to go to Telford or Dartford,

-but...

-THEY LAUGH

That's just a go at Lisa and Barry.

I apologise to the people of Bradford

because it's an excellent place to visit, actually.

Barbara Taylor Bradford.

You're right. Bradford is correct.

OK, back to you, Kevan.

In which decade was the novel

Kane And Abel by Jeffrey Archer released in the UK?

Kane And Abel. It's not '50s.

I think it's '70s.

Yes, you're absolutely right. '70s. OK, Dave,

which art collection is the regular home

of David Hockney's painting Mr And Mrs Clark And Percy?

I'm not sure.

I'm going to rule out the Louvre.

Is it in America or is it in the UK?

No, I'm going to stick with the Tate,

but I'm not sure at all.

Your answer is the Tate, and it is the Tate.

OK, back to you, Kevan. How many West End performances

did Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap celebrate

in November 2012?

Right, I know it's supposed to be the longest-running one.

I'm going to go with the highest one - 25,000.

25,000 is right. Two points each. Dave, if you get this right,

you're in the final.

In 1843, who immediately succeeded Robert Southey

as the poet laureate of the UK?

Right.

Bit tough, this.

I'm going to have to go William Wordsworth.

William Wordsworth is correct, so you're in the final, Dave.

Sorry, Kevan, you've been knocked out there.

So, let's see what happens next. Come back to us, please.

So, You've Been Framed have now lost three brains

from the final round.

The Eggheads have not lost any. You're not out of it by any means.

The last subject is Music.

-Who would like Music?

-Definitely Andy.

-We said Music from the beginning.

-Me.

-OK.

-With the monster CD collection, right?

-Oh, yes!

OK, Andy, against which Egghead? You can have either Barry or Pat.

-Either one.

-Not much of a choice, I know.

-Well, take Pat.

-Pat? Yeah?

-Yeah.

-I'll take Pat.

-Good.

So, Andy, from You've Been Framed

versus Pat from the Eggheads on Music.

Please go to the special room now.

So, I gather your music collection is quite big, Andy.

A few hundred CDs.

And I've got a lot of vinyl that when I was like 15, 16...

-I've saved them all.

-Yeah.

-I've got a few AC/DC albums.

-Lovely.

Well, what format do you like, Pat - vinyl, CD or cassette?

I've got all of them.

I do find, though, as the years go by

and you get spoiled by electronic convenience,

that now I find even when they're burned on the PC,

it's been convenient, so I hardly ever put my LPs on.

Just get lazier and lazier.

So, you're streaming stuff, are you?

Well, I watch videos on YouTube, that sort of thing.

I still have my CDs in wall racks right beside me,

so I pull discs out and pop them into the computer and fire them up.

I don't mind.

I haven't listened to my tapes for quite a long time.

I have a nice tape recorder,

but I've hardly played any tapes for years.

Yeah, it's amazing how long cassettes lasted, actually.

So, Music, Andy. Would you like to go first or second?

I'll go first, please.

And here is your question.

Shane MacGowan was the founder and lead singer of which group?

I'll go with The Pogues, Jeremy.

Yeah, The Pogues. Brilliant. Well done.

Pat, Cathy's Clown

was a UK number one single for The Everly Brothers in which year?

I think The Everly Brothers are a pretty early band.

Let me see. I think 1980 is far too late for them,

so it's '60 or '70.

I think most of the footage you see of them

tends to be black and white, so I think I'll go for 1960.

Yeah, 1960 is right. Well done.

Here's your question, Andy.

In The Beatles' song Eleanor Rigby,

what is Father McKenzie doing in the night

when there's nobody there?

Not really into The Beatles.

Paying his bills.

It's darning his socks. Aah!

Bad luck. One in three.

Pat, who composed the Bond theme The Man With The Golden Gun?

I think... I think John Barry has done quite a bit of Bond.

Could it be either of the others? The Man With The Golden Gun.

Could it be Burt Bacharach?

I just don't know. It's obviously a very familiar tune.

I think I'll have to play safe-ish.

John Barry, I think, is synonymous with Bond,

-so I'll go with John Barry.

-John Barry is quite right.

So, it means you need this one now, Andy.

The cellist Jacqueline du Pre was born in which country?

I've never heard of him.

Jacqueline du Pre.

Du Pre, du Pre, du Pre.

It's spelled, by the way, D-U and then Pre - P-R-E with an accent.

I don't know.

America.

-England.

-Oh, I wasn't going to say England!

It's a woman, by the way, Jacqueline du Pre.

Sorry, Andy, you've been knocked out.

And I know you haven't got a du Pre CD in there, have you,

-among your hundreds?

-No.

-So, Pat is in the final.

If you both return and rejoin your teams,

we will play the crucial final round.

So, this is what we have 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 won't be allowed

to take part in this round.

So, Jack, Terry, Kevan and Andy from You've Been Framed,

would you please now leave the studio?

So, Bill, here you are playing to win You've Been Framed £11,000.

Lisa, Pat, Dave, Barry, Chris, all five of you -

you are playing for something that I don't think money can actually 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, but, of course,

-doesn't help you much, that, Bill.

-No.

So, the key question, really,

is whether your one brain can defeat these five.

-And I wish you all the best, Bill.

-Thank you.

-Would you like to go first or second?

-I'll go first, please.

Here is your first question.

John Travolta, Samuel L Jackson and Uma Thurman

were all nominated for Oscars for their roles in which film?

That's one of my favourite films,

so I'm quite lucky here, and it's Pulp Fiction.

It is Pulp Fiction. Brilliant. Well done, Bill.

Eggheads,

from which country do the members of the pop group A-ha originate?

-ALL:

-Norway.

-We were just talking about Norway.

A chorus of Norways just assailed my ears,

so Norway's the answer.

We were talking Morten the other day for some reason, weren't we?

-It was a different Morten.

-The Danish football manager.

Yeah, cos he was Danish. That's right.

But Norway is right for A-ha.

Bill,

the term ermine refers to the winter coat of which creature?

Ermine is E-R-M-I-N-E.

I'm not 100%, but I think it might be stoat.

Stoat is correct. Good stuff. Well done.

Eggheads,

in which activity would a spinnaker be used?

-ALL:

-Sailing.

-Happy with that?

I had the same chorus again for sailing, so that's our answer.

They're all calling out the answer. Sailing is right.

Don't worry. They can be thrown. They honestly can be,

and they're due to be thrown.

Bill, your third question.

Which of these figures was killed first?

Nicholas II was the tsar of Russia

who was killed in the Russian Revolution - 1917.

Rasputin was about the similar time.

And I'm not really sure about Mata Hari,

so I'm going to go for Mata Hari.

-The answer is Rasputin.

-Oh!

1916, Rasputin.

-1917, Mata Hari.

-Oh!

1918, Nicholas II. So, they were close to each other.

Eggheads, for the contest,

the 27th, 28th and 29th US presidents

went by first names beginning with which letter?

Right, well, let's work back from the 35th - Kennedy.

-The 35th is Kennedy.

-24th is Chester A Arthur, I think, so...

-So, if we work back from Kennedy, the 34th is Eisenhower.

-Yeah.

-Before Eisenhower was Truman - 33.

-Yeah.

-32 would be Roosevelt.

-Roosevelt.

-31...

-Would be Hoover.

-Hoover.

-30 - Coolidge.

-Calvin Coolidge.

-29, before Coolidge was...

-Taft? Was it Taft?

-No, cos he's...

I think we're getting nearer because we've got William Taft.

-Warren Harding.

-Warren Harding and Woodrow Wilson.

-We've got them in the mix.

-Are they in the right place?

We've got them in the mix.

-Taft, Harding and Wilson is looking...

-Looking strong.

So, it's William Taft.

William Taft comes in. Woodrow Wilson...

-And Warren Harding.

-..and Warren Harding.

-Yeah.

So, that's the three that we think...

I think I'm happy with...

-Are you happy with that, Pat?

-Yeah, I think that could be right.

-I don't see a C or a J coming in.

-Don't think there's enough of them.

-I think you can name three there. Go on.

-OK.

Well, after a detailed analysis, which I won't repeat,

we're going to go for the letter W.

Well, you got it right cos it's William Taft,

Woodrow Wilson and Warren Harding, so it is W.

And we say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.

Bill, you've definitely got the best team name we've had for a while.

For window makers - You've Been Framed. Thank you.

I know it's not part of the plan to be here on your own

-in the final round, but well played.

-Thank you. Well done.

Thanks for trying to stop this roll of theirs,

and commiserations.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.

This roll continues and we're going to see who stops it.

It does mean the Challengers don't go home with the £11,000,

so we will take that money

and put it up for grabs in the next show.

Eggheads, very well done.

Impressive to get all those presidents' names as well.

I wonder who will beat you.

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

can finally take them down.

£12,000 says they can't.

When are they ever going to lose? Till then, goodbye.