Episode 10 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 with our two new arrivals on the end as well. Fantastic.

Beth and Steve.

Taking on our awesome quiz champions today are Peter's Griffin.

This friends-and-family team quiz together every week

at the Griffin pub in Bowdon.

Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Kari,

I'm an employee services officer.

Hi, I'm Phil and I'm a graphic artist.

Hi, I'm Steve, I'm a retired chartered accountant.

Hi, I'm Roger, I'm a retired council worker.

Hello, I'm Robin, I'm a retired police officer.

-Kari and team, welcome.

-Thank you.

-Nice to see you.

And Kari, first, tell us why the word Griffin is in the team name.

We play at the Griffin pub in Bowdon.

But it's also our... Pete is our quizmaster at the pub.

And Peter Griffin is Family Guy, which is one of my favourites.

-Oh, lovely, so it locks together.

-It all locks together.

And the Griffin pub is roughly where in the country?

-Bowdon is... I'm not Geography.

-Shropshire?

-Just south of Manchester.

-South of Manchester, OK.

But your accent is not from there.

-I'm very good with accents, I can tell that's not Manchester.

-Wigan.

It's the Wigan area, OK.

THEY LAUGH

But it's great you're all quizzers.

Have you got different categories that you're good at?

We do really well on our team

because we each have categories

-that we're really good at.

-Brilliant.

So we do well.

Say no more about them, keep them under your hat for now.

Good luck, Challengers.

Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs

for the team that comes in.

But if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,

the prize money rolls over to the next show.

So, Peter's Griffin,

the Eggheads are on a bit of a roll at the moment.

They've won the last three games, so you need to stop them,

and there's £4,000 if you do.

-Would you like to try?

-I think so.

Fantastic. The first head-to-head

is on the subject of Sport.

Is this good?

It is...?

-I think it's you.

-Robin?

-Robin.

-OK, Robin.

Retired police officer. And who would you like to arrest?

-We're going to go for Judith.

-Oh, OK.

She's having a bit of a run, isn't she?

But she knows her sport, I think.

Can I try the new young lady at the far end, please?

Yes, you swerved that, Judith, brilliantly.

So, Beth, you'll be very popular with Judith now,

you got her out of doing Sport.

Robin from Peter's Griffin versus the newest Egghead, Beth.

Please go to our famous Question Room now.

Beth, I'm thinking you haven't done a head-to-head on Sport yet.

-No, not yet.

-OK, good luck.

Robin, Sport, do you want to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please.

All the best, here we go, Robin.

In athletics, the 10,000 metres race involves running around

a standard Olympic track how many times?

Certainly not five. 400 metres.

15...

25 laps.

25 is quite right, well done.

Beth, your question.

The Norwegian Ronny Deila managed which football team

between 2014 and 2016?

Well, the...

The Paris Saint-Germain manager is not that.

I know the Celtic manager has just changed to Brendan Rodgers,

so I'm going to go with Celtic.

Celtic is quite right. Well done.

Back to you, Robin.

Which former world champion snooker player

announced his retirement from the game, aged 58, in 2016?

Ray Reardon is older than that.

Parrott, Parrott, Parrott, Parrott.

I think it's Steve Davis.

Steve Davis is correct.

All right, Beth, your question.

At the 1990 Grand National, which horse recorded

the fastest-ever winning time,

finishing in 8 minutes 47.8 seconds?

Ohh.

I'm not sure about that one. It could be Mr Frisk or Ballabriggs.

Ben Nevis isn't a horse I've heard of.

Ballabriggs may have been a little later.

Let's go with Mr Frisk, though I've got a horrible feeling

that was slightly later in the '90s.

Eggs, can you help us here?

-That's right.

-They like it.

-Well done, Beth.

-Hurrah!

Anything else we know about Mr Frisk?

An amateur rider? Marcus Armytage,

but the others are both winners.

Right, and we come back to you now, Robin.

Doggett's Coat and Badge

is one of the world's oldest races in which sport?

Rowing. I'm going for rowing.

Right, now, I think Judith knows this.

I think it's rowing too.

Yes, Judith agrees with you.

-Oh.

-Which is always a good sign.

-Well, we hope.

-In Sport.

In Sport, yeah.

Right, Beth,

your question, to stay in.

Which country has won tennis's Davis Cup tournament on the most occasions?

Now, Great Britain most famously won it for the first time

in a very long time back in the end of 2015.

So, USA or Australia.

Both have excellent tennis players.

It's going to be a process of elimination, this one, Jeremy,

because I don't actually know the answer, but let's go with the USA.

Brilliant, you got it right, well done. USA it is. 3-3.

She's hard to shake off, Robin,

-isn't she?

-She certainly is.

You're playing well.

Gets a bit harder now, Robin. We go to Sudden Death,

so I don't give you options.

Which comedian received a special award

at the 2009 Sports Personality of the Year awards

to acknowledge his marathon-running efforts for Sport Relief?

He dresses up as a woman.

Eddie Izzard?

Eddie Izzard is right.

OK, your question, Beth.

What two-word name is shared by the home grounds

of the Somerset and Derbyshire county cricket teams?

It's not somewhere that they play a lot of Test matches,

England Test matches, so it's not one that's immediately on my radar.

County Ground is probably shared by quite a few,

so it's going to have a separate name.

Like Trent Bridge or...

..something like that.

For want of nothing better,

and it's the first thing that came to my mind,

the Rose Ground... or Rose...

The Rose Bowl.

-Rose Bowl.

-Yeah.

Do you know this one, Robin, by any chance?

I know it's not the Rose Bowl, that's Southampton.

But I can't remember, and I've been to the Derbyshire ground.

Yeah, it's funny, you said the answer earlier, Beth.

-Did I?

-Yes, the answer is County Ground.

-Oh, you're kidding!

Robin, well done, you're in the final. Well done!

Sorry, Beth, you've been knocked out on the County Ground.

Please return to your teams.

So, as it stands, Peter's Griffin have not lost

any brains from the final round

and our newest Egghead has just been knocked out,

knocked round the County Ground.

The next subject is Film & Television.

Film & TV.

-Who'd like this?

-I think this is me.

-Roger.

-Against which Egghead?

Shall we try Steve, the new one?

Yeah, that sounds good to me.

He might know a lot, he might know nothing, but let's find out.

Roger from Peter's Griffin is going to take on Steve.

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

I'm glad you're with us, Roger,

given that when you were a baby you were stood on by an elephant.

Well, that's not quite right, I was stood on by a baby elephant.

Oh, I see, so the elephant was the baby.

-The elephant was a baby, yes.

-OK.

-It was about three months old.

You're up against Steve.

Film & TV, would you like to go first or second

against one of our newest Eggheads?

I'll go first, please.

Here we go. Which singer's acting credits include the films

Cadillac Records, The Fighting Temptations

and the 2006 version of The Pink Panther?

I don't think I saw the first film.

I do remember The Fighting Temptations.

So I'm going to go for Beyonce.

Yes, Beyonce is quite right, well done.

OK, Steve.

Back In Training and Assignment Miami Beach are subtitles

of 1980s instalments in which film series?

Yeah. Comedies without the jokes.

They were Police Academy.

OK, not a winner in your household, clearly.

Police Academy is the right answer.

Back to you, Roger.

Broadcast in the UK in the late 1950s,

what kind of television programme was "Oh Boy!"?

Late 1950s, I would probably be about nine or ten years old.

I have a feeling, and I'm going to go with it,

that it was a live music show.

Live music show is right.

OK, Steve, your question.

Who plays Detective Inspector Geordie Keating

in the TV drama series Grantchester?

I've got a little rhyme to help me remember things like this and

it starts eeny meeny miny moe.

I know Robson Green is in that Wire In The Blood thing,

so rightly or wrongly...

Obviously he can appear in more than one thing.

I'm going to rule him out.

James Nesbitt, I know he's in something as well

that's a bit detective-y, but is it that one?

Grantchester? So...

It's a bit of a guess and I'll guess at...

Max Beesley.

I know about Wire In The Blood

because I'm reading the book at the moment.

And that is Robson Green,

-but this is also Robson Green.

-Oh.

-Yeah, in Grantchester.

-Right then.

Oh, how interesting.

So, you've got a chance,

Roger, to knock out another new Egghead.

Who directed the classic 1953 film noir The Big Heat?

Joseph Losey, I think, is, or was, a British director.

Billy Wilder...

I don't think that was really his style.

Fritz Lang was working in Hollywood at the time,

I'm pretty sure.

-Yes, I think Fritz Lang.

-OK.

-Steve?

-Definitely Fritz Lang.

Fritz Lang is right.

Well done, Roger.

Three out of three.

Well done, Roger, you've beaten an Egghead, you will be in the final.

Steve has been knocked out as well.

This is not going well for the Eggheads at all, is it?

Rejoin your team-mates and we'll play on.

As it stands, Peter's Griffin are still all sitting there,

poised to play the final and take you lot down.

The Eggheads have lost two brains, my goodness me!

The next subject is Science.

So, which one of you would like Science?

Steve, you're in the chair.

It's great having no friends, isn't it?

-OK.

-Who would you like to take on, Steve?

You can have either Kevin, Barry, known as The Brain,

or Judith, known as The Rocket.

Barry, please.

OK, so Steve from Peter's Griffin is going to play Barry on Science,

and please go to our Question Room now.

So, good luck on Science, Steve.

Would you like to go first or second?

I think first, Jeremy, please.

Here we go.

Native to Central Africa, what kind of animal is the basenji?

Well, goodness me! I've never heard of that in my life.

Can I try and do what the Eggheads do and guess sensibly?

Difficult.

Dog? Well, there are dogs there.

Goats, I guess there are goats there. Frogs?

Well, it's a pure, pure guess. I'm going to go for dog.

OK, Barry's laughing. Why, have you got one at home?

Well, I haven't got one at home, but it is a dog,

but it's unique among the dogs of the dog world

because it's the only dog that is unable to bark.

OK, that's right. How interesting.

You've done really well there, Steve.

Well, I just can't believe it, Jeremy, I cannot believe it.

Barry, your question.

In terms of radio, what does the abbreviation DAB stand for?

Well, everybody who couldn't get DAB had to get a new radio

when we moved into the digital age, so it's Digital Audio Broadcasting.

Digital Audio Broadcasting is quite right.

OK, Steve, which mammal,

previously extinct in the UK for over 300 years,

has established a breeding colony in the Forest of Dean

after escapes and illegal dumping in the last 20 years?

Well...as far as I know, we don't have any wild bears in this country.

Again, I could be wrong,

but I don't believe there are any wolves either.

So I'm going to go for, Jeremy, wild boar.

Yes, you're absolutely right.

It's not! It's not right!

-No, it is right.

-Wow!

-100%.

-Wow!

OK, Barry. Where do branchiopods live?

I was hoping you would say brachiopods

because that might be a tad easier.

-Branchio.

-Branchio.

I've never heard this word at all.

Pod... Pod is from the Latin, it's taking me to earth,

so I'm going to say in earth.

All right, I know what you mean.

Steve, on your logical analysis you probably would have gone trees,

would you, cos it's got the word "branch" in?

-I would have been as simplistic as that, Jeremy.

-Yes.

But both are wrong. It's water, Barry.

-Oh. Didn't know.

-There we are.

-Eggs?

-They're very small organisms, water-dwelling organisms.

OK, when you say very small, do you mean a grain of sand or smaller?

No, not that small. I mean, they are very small things,

but they're not actually microscopic.

Here's your question.

In the human body, hyaline, fibrous and elastic are types of what?

As the one with the science background years ago,

I'm somewhat disappointed that I'm guessing at all my questions.

-But that's how it cuts sometimes in Eggheads, isn't it?

-Yeah.

I'm going to go for muscle, Jeremy.

-Muscle is your answer, but it's wrong this time, it's cartilage.

-OK.

So we go to Barry. Get this one wrong

and the round is over for you.

In physics, what name is given to the branch of mechanics

concerned with the forces that act on bodies at rest?

I'm on much safer ground now.

Bodies in movement is dynamics and bodies at rest is statics.

Exactly. A description of the Eggheads.

Statics is right.

So, three questions each, the scores are level.

-You're taken into Sudden Death, Steve.

-OK.

And I don't give you alternatives in this part of the round.

Which colourful member of the crow family has the scientific name

Garrulus glandarius?

I don't know.

So I will make a guess.

I know it's wrong - raven.

It's not raven, I've got jay. Eggs?

Jays supposedly chatter a lot

-and that's where we get the word garrulous.

-Oh, I see.

Garrulus bit comes from the jay chattering.

-Ah, all right.

-OK, thank you, Kevin.

Useful. So, Barry, your chance now

to take the round.

In medicine, the abbreviation NSAID,

which is N-S-A-I-D,

stands for non-steroidal anti-inflammatory...what?

Oh, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory...

Well, I'm tempted to say drug, but let me just think about this.

No, I can't think of anything else, so I'll go for drug.

Yeah, it really is. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug.

You've taken the round on Sudden Death.

Well done, Barry. Sorry, Steve,

beaten by our Egghead. Let's see

if the Eggheads are mounting some kind of comeback here.

Rejoin your teams and we'll play the last head-to-head.

So, a little bit of an Egghead comeback going on here maybe.

Peter's Griffin have now lost a brain, the Eggheads have lost two.

Let's see what happens next with Politics.

Who would like this?

-It's going to be you.

-What can I say? It'll have to be me.

-OK, Phil.

And which Egghead? It can either be Judith or Kevin.

Let's go for Kevin, please. Thank you.

All right, so, Phil from Peter's Griffin

trying to take out Kevin from the Eggheads on Politics.

Please go to the Question Room now.

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

I'd like to go first, please.

OK, let's see if you can knock out Kevin here,

that'll be very handy for your team.

The name Conservative Party was first used as the name

of the political party in the UK in what year?

1730 is too early.

I'll go for 1930.

-Any of your team-mates know?

-1830.

Yeah, it's 1830.

-OK.

-Phil, bad luck.

Over to Kevin.

In 2007, at Westminster, the post of Lord Chancellor

was combined with that of the Secretary of State for...what?

Yeah, it's because the Lord Chancellor has legal functions,

it's Justice.

Justice is right.

Back to you, Phil.

During the mid 2000s, the Division Belles,

that's B-E-L-L-E-S, a group of female UK parliamentarians,

met regularly to take part in what activity?

Never heard of them.

Um...

It's not going to be tap dancing.

I can't see it being synchronised swimming.

I'll go for rhythmic gymnastics, please.

Tap dancing is the answer.

-OK.

-Phil, tap dancing.

I wonder who they were.

OK, over to you, Kevin,

and with this you can take the round.

Nigel Lawson, now Baron Lawson of Blaby,

was from 1966 to 1970 the editor of which magazine?

Well, it's not...

I'm pretty sure he wasn't involved with The Economist.

And The Listener is obviously, or was,

more involved with the media world.

But in terms of political/commentating magazines,

and it's one that's produced a few Tory politicians over the years,

and others as well, it's The Spectator.

It has indeed. The Spectator is the right answer.

Kevin, you've taken the round. Sorry, Phil. But don't worry,

cos the context is that your team's played very well up to this point.

Phil, you've been knocked out. Kevin, you're in the final.

Come back to us and we will play the final round.

So, this is 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 in this round.

So, Phil and Steve from Peter's Griffin,

and Beth and Steve from the Eggheads,

would you please now leave the studio?

So, Kari, Roger, Robin,

you are playing to win Peter's Griffin £4,000.

Barry, Judith and Kevin,

you're playing for something that money really can't buy,

which is just to protect that precious Eggheads reputation.

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

This time they're all General Knowledge. You can confer. OK?

So, Peter's Griffin, the question is,

can your three brains defeat these three super-brains over here?

-Would you like to go first or second?

-First, please, Jeremy.

OK, Kari and team, good luck,

and here we go with your first question.

On Twitter, what is reposting someone's message

so that your own followers can see it known as?

-Retweeting.

-It's retweeting.

-It's retweeting.

-Retweeting is the right answer, of course.

OK, your question, Eggheads.

Which of the following is a term for playful repartee?

-Badinage.

-Badinage, absolutely.

-Badinage?

-Badinage.

-That's badinage.

That's what we have all the time.

We have quite a lot of badinage, don't we?

Badinage is right.

OK. Back to Peter's Griffin.

Which writer is widely credited with coining

in 1973 the word factoid,

meaning unreliable information

repeated so often it is believed to be true?

-1973?

-Yeah.

-It's a little bit early for Stephen King.

-I think Norman Mailer.

I don't think it's Fay Weldon.

-Norman Mailer, that kind of...

-Norman Mailer sounds like...

I'd say Norman Mailer.

-OK?

-Norman Mailer.

Norman Mailer is right. Well done.

Who wrote, do you remember...?

Oh, gosh. I know... See? Now I can't think.

Because I had to read it at university,

-I remember The Naked And The Dead.

-Oh, yes.

-Maybe about Vietnam, was it?

-The Second World War.

The Second World War.

OK. Eggheads, to draw level.

Which part of a car would be most directly involved

in reaching a biting point?

It must be the clutch. When you do a hill start,

-you reach the biting point...

-Yes, that's true.

..to make sure you've got enough power to stay level,

but be able to get off straightaway, so it's the clutch.

I think it probably is the clutch.

You let the clutch in.

I don't drive, so I don't know.

OK. We'll say clutch.

-Clutch is your answer. Kevin, you don't drive?

-I don't drive.

Have you ever had a car?

Yeah, OK, in a technical sense,

I've twice won cars.

-What do you do with them when you win them?

-Sell them.

Right. OK.

Biting point is the clutch.

Well done. All right, so, 2-2.

Challengers, get this right and who knows? The wheels could come off.

Kevin doesn't even have any wheels. Here's your question.

Haiphong is a port and major industrial centre

in the northern part of which country?

I think I remember there's a connection with the Vietnam War.

-The Vietnam War? Haiphong.

-Bombed it, didn't they?

I think they did, yes.

We think definitely Vietnam?

-Not definitely, but...

-Say, 90%?

-90%.

-90%.

So, shall we go Vietnam?

We think it's Vietnam.

Vietnam is your answer, because, Robin, you remember

-it being bombed, is that right?

-Somewhere in there, yes.

That's good enough, Vietnam is right.

Well done.

So, Eggheads, get this one wrong

and I don't even want to think about what happens.

A journalist named Chris Evans was in 2014 appointed

weekday editor of which national newspaper?

-Ah.

-So, if the Sun doesn't have a...

I mean, there is... I don't know this, I have to say.

But my thinking would be the word weekday is significant there

because there's the Sun On Sunday,

which is the thing that more or less replaced the old News Of The World.

-There's the Sunday Telegraph.

-There's also the Sunday Telegraph.

And there's the Sunday Mail too. The Mail On Sunday.

It is the Sun On Sunday, but it's sort of officially called the Sun.

So there's obviously a clear distinction

between the Daily Mail and Mail On Sunday.

And between Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph.

But not between Sun and Sunday Sun.

Hence the significance of the word weekday.

-I don't know, I don't know this.

-Well, that's what...

I picked up weekday.

I mean, weekday editor must mean

the actual editor of the...newspaper,

so I don't think that's the name of the Daily Telegraph's editor.

And the Daily Mail, I don't think it is either.

I think that's Paul Baker.

I can't remember who the Telegraph editor is.

I'm inclined to think... I don't know that it's the Sun,

but I'm inclined to think it is.

Shall we just go for the Sun?

I think we'd be tying ourselves in knots

-if we did anything else, really, on this one.

-Yeah.

OK, I'm happy to go with it

as we don't know for sure.

All right, we're not entirely sure,

as you can see,

but we'd like to go for the Sun.

The Sun is your answer.

I guess it's the industry I work in

and I would not have known this.

-Do you know this?

-No.

-No idea.

So they all have a weekday and a Sunday operation.

Paul Baker, it's true, is the editor of the Daily Mail.

So we're down to the Sun and the Telegraph.

And it's true, the Sun obviously has a Sunday edition

that replaced the News Of The World,

so they are a seven-day operation.

But you've gone the wrong way,

the answer is the Daily Telegraph.

We say congratulations, Challengers, you have won.

Yes, what about that?

Well done, that's how it works, you know.

And you got all your questions right, which was necessary.

Your Vietnam answer was brilliant there.

What can I say, Eggheads? There we are.

Congratulations to Peter's Griffin, you've won £4,000,

you are officially cleverer than the Eggheads

who slipped up on that journalism question.

You've proved they can be beaten for sure

and they were just getting themselves back together.

Oh, well, never mind.

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

will be just as successful. Until then, goodbye.